Nerdly » The Filmmaker’s Podcast #410: ‘Bad Monkey’ writer & exec Bill Lawrence and actress Michelle Monaghan

19th Aug2024

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #410: ‘Bad Monkey’ writer & exec Bill Lawrence and actress Michelle Monaghan

by Phil Wheat

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #410: Ted Lasso, Scrubs and Bad Monkey writer & exec Bill Lawrence and actress Michelle Monaghan

Actress Michelle Monaghan (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Mission Impossible) & writer and exec producer Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso) join Giles Alderson & Dom Lenoir to talk making their new series Bad Monkey. Michelle talks acting, improv, working with Vince Vaughn, the difference between directors and how to cope and gives some great acting advice. Bill Lawrence goes deep into why he writes, his process, why he got fired from writing on Friends. We talk Ted Lasso, Scrubs and what it takes to make a hit TV show. And we talk with both Michelle and Bill about Bad Monkey, Apple TV’s new comedy starring Vaughn as a former Miami detective investigating the mysterious appearance of a severed arm.

Bad Monkey is out now on Apple TV.