📚 2 Books mentioned in "1/31/22: An Interview with Adam Mckay | SmartLess w/ Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett" of SmartLess
Podcast: SmartLess
Episode: 1/31/22: An Interview with Adam Mckay | SmartLess w/ Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett
Published on March 11, 2022
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Showtime
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So if you're a great player, you have to go there, so we're in this rare— they're going to eventually create other leagues, but anyway, Lakers came from, there's a great book by Jeff Perlman called Showtime, and I'm, as Will just said, I'm a crazy hoops junkie.
Adam McKay refers to the book 'Showtime' by Jeff Perlman while discussing basketball history and its significance in his project about the Lakers, emphasizing the insightful details the book provides.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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And I got lucky to some degree; it was The Big Short when I read that book, I had one of those weird moments where I just knew how it should look and I knew that I was going to break the fourth wall.
Adam McKay discusses how the book 'The Big Short' influenced his vision for the movie adaptation, sharing that reading it sparked a clear idea of how the film should be presented.