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Brenden McKenzie

Brenden McKenzie
Patrick McDonaldDebut: #40 St. Patrick's Biopic1 appearance
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"writer and director of "Luck Just Ran Out""

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13:42 (1m 16s)
ESCALATION

The Creative Choice to Give St. Patrick a Hallucinated Family

Director Brenden McKenzie explains the 'twist' ending where St. Patrick's wife and child are actually just hallucinations inside his brain, which the cast argues isn't a spoiler.

"I thought it was really exciting that he had a wife and a kid inside his brain."

"I don't want to spoil it, but at the end, what happened was they don't exist."

"I feel like this is the biggest twist of the movie."

#Screenwriting#Spoilers#Creative Direction
21:00 (2m 30s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Cast of 'Luck Just Ran Out' Introduces Their St. Patrick Biopic

The panel introduces a revisionist St. Patrick biopic featuring a romantic lead, a lost daughter, and a director who lost creative control to the studio.

"I played the romantic lead. I am an executive producer as well on the film, Luck Just Ran Out."

"I'm the writer and director of Luck Just Ran Out, originally just titled St. Patrick's Day."

"I played the miraculous St. Patrick himself."

#Biopic#Film Production#Revisionist History
9:26 (1m 20s)
CHARACTER_INTRO

The Cast of 'Luck Just Ran Out' Introduces Their St. Patrick's Day Biopic

The panel introduces the cast and crew of a new St. Patrick's Day biopic, featuring a romantic lead for the saint and a daughter who is also the lead actress's real-life child.

"I played the miraculous St. Patrick himself in the movie Luck Just Ran Out."

"I pushed very hard to have my real child in the movie because I believe that my real child is a talented actress."

#Biopic#Nepotism#Film Production
23:30 (2m)
ESCALATION

The Venereal St. Patrick and the Rights to Valentine's Day

The cast discusses St. Patrick's legacy, accidentally calling him 'venereal' and explaining why they couldn't use the title 'St. Patrick's Day' due to legal conflicts with the movie 'Valentine's Day'.

"The venereal St. Patrick. I loved him so much."

"The lawyers have decided it was too close to Valentine's Day."

#Legal Rights#Malapropism#Hollywood Logic
28:30 (2m)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

The 35-Year-Old Daughter and the Legal Disowning

Brenden reveals he legally disowned his 35-year-old daughter, Tethany, who is still an acting student at a Burbank studio.

"It's a shame that you signed that paperwork that says that she is legally no longer your daughter."

"She's 35, but she's studying there. I love that."

#Nepotism#Acting School#Family Drama
41:45 (2m 25s)
ESCALATION

The Clinically Large Mouth Representation

Tethany Bubble discusses her struggle as an actress born with a clinically large mouth and her desire to represent 'Bammers' in Hollywood.

"I also got this movie for representation for people with big-ass mouths. You are seen and you are loved!"

"Her father, my husband, has the biggest mouth I've ever seen. It weighs as much as a car."

#Diversity & Inclusion#Hollywood Casting#Physical Traits
47:40 (1m 55s)
ESCALATION

The Venereal Saint Patrick and Title Rights

The panel discusses the 'venereal' nature of St. Patrick and the heartbreak of not being able to name the movie 'St. Patrick's Day' because it was too legally similar to 'Valentine's Day'.

"The venereal Saint Patrick, I loved him so much, and I think that he needed his story to be told."

"The lawyers have decided it was too close."

#Intellectual Property#Biopics#Legal Disputes
11:10 (1m 4s)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

Cecelia O'Donnell's Mathematical Approach to Acting

Cecelia explains her STEM-based acting theory where performance is a series of equations and gears, claiming that if a performance is hard to watch, it deserves an Oscar.

"Acting for me is a series of gears that are moving and moving and moving."

#Acting Theory#STEM#Method Acting
39:55 (1m 45s)
BACKSTORY_REVEAL

The Lord of the Rings Music Rights Battle

Brenden McKenzie reveals the production had a lengthy legal battle to use the Lord of the Rings score for their St. Patrick's biopic, ending with a taunt toward Peter Jackson.

"Suck it, Peter Jackson! Suck it! Suck it!"

#Music Licensing#Copyright Law#Film Production

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