hollywood, but he s always kept that small town he s a small town guy. he had been in a bunch of pilots, all of which had failed. people talk about that as if that means clooney wasn t that good. if you keep getting pilot deals at a network, it means they know you re a celebrity, and they re just waiting to find the right thing for you. a decade after he moves there, the city erupts in violence. the lessons learned from his father in kentucky are not lost on clooney in l.a. i got my friends, i said, let s buy some brooms and buckets and let s go down and help put out some fires. i think that was the first real sense of, where you could rally some troops together and get a lot of people and they ll show up, that was important. after the riots subside, clooney shoots the pilot for a new medical drama called er . i credit a lot of the shows
on his friend s couch and worki working his way through hollywood. he s a small town guy. he did a bunch of pilots, all which failed. people talk about that as if that means clooney was not that good. if you keep on getting pilot deals at a network, that means you are a celebrity and they are waiting to find the right thing for you. a decade after he moves there, the city erupts in violence. the lessons he learned from his father in kentucky are not loss on clooney in la. i said go buy some brooms and buckets and help with some fire. that was the first real sense of where you can rally some troops together and get a lot of people and shathey ll show up. after the riots subside, clooney shoots the pilot for a new
bottom and success eludes him for years. here s a guy from kentucky, sleeping on a friend s couch, trying to make his way in hollywood. he s a small town guy. he had been in a punch of pilots, all of which had failed. people talk about that as if clooney wasn t that good. if you keep getting pilot deals at a network it means they know you re a celebrity and they re waiting to the find the right thing for you. a decade after he moves there, the city erupts in violence. the lessons learned from his father in kentucky are not lost on clooney in l.a. i got my friends, i said, let s go buy some brooms and buckets and go down and help put out some fires. i think that was the first sort of real sense of where you can rally some troops together and get a lot of people and they ll show up. i thought that was important. after the riots subside,
larry: all right. i always forget what s in the box. me and my two buddies, akiva and norma. larry: did timberlake go for it right away? immediately, yeah. larry: it s a lot about him. yeah, for sure. he was down here blocking the scenes. and we started writing it. and thought, this will be good. we knew he had already been up for doing a song. because he liked the ones we had done with natalie portman. larry: how did you come up with the whole idea of digital shorts? there s a long history of short films on the show. larry: i know. when we came in, it was something we were well versed in. because we had our own group and we had our own website, and we had had a couple of small pilot
are we were well versed in. we had our own group and website and a couple of small pilot deals. we kind of spontaneity lot of time making short films and specifically short music videos. so, but we didn t get hired for that. i got hired off my audition. they got hired on the writing pact. when we got here we suggested, you know, we do this kind of stuff. is there a place for it. we talked to some of the producers about it and they said yeah lauren would love that. we look for something to play while we change sets. so we went off and shot one on our own, the first one was called lettuce. it aired. if you want to do another one give it a shot. we tried one more dhant work. the third one we tried was lazy sunday. larry: lauren, is there someone upstairs at nbc who blew