#bill: leans back to laugh exposing his fucking chest in that white shirt

[skinks]

how was the superbad livestream? i missed it bc i was in class :(

It was actually really fun!! I’m sorry you missed it but yeah, for me it was worth staying up til 3:30 in the morning. Surely not me getting butterflies about being in the same weird virtual space as Hader at the same time... surely not... 👀

So, Bill was either far away from his computer or didn’t have a good mic because he was way more quiet-spoken than everyone else. This might have just been because he’s a relatively subdued guy anyway, but when Apatow was making everyone’s introductions Bill just waved, and I think Seth Rogen was like “we’re gonna have to be more enthusiastic than this” and Bill said that he was doing the stream while sitting at a table with some people eating dinner lmfao. He was probably waiting to put his kids to bed or something 🥺

THRILLED TO BE HERE

You couldn’t really hear the movie but that was ok because it wasn’t the point, it was nice to just hear a group of friends reminisce about the movie-making process. Bill would occasionally try to interject something but there were so many people talking at once, and fucking Jonah Hill kept barging right over everybody so most of my time was spent wistfully gazing at Billiam’s little square and hoping he’d speak up. But he’s just... not a pushy dude, so he’d acquiesce.

HE DID LAUGH A LOT THOUGH!!! every time he’d lean back and start cackling and clapping an angel (aka my heart) got its wings (aka flew right out of my body via my coochie)

Look at him go :’) that top left one is when he snorted and tried to cover it up :’))) [wind beneath my wings plays faintly in the distance]

A few times he did manage to speak up though, and it was great. He talked a lot about how he and Rogen would just endlessly tease Christopher Mintz-Plasse, because he was 17 and it was his first film and he had to do schoolwork and have his mom on set etc. Like, they pranked him a lot on the promo circuit too, that was funny, they told him to ask some PR assistant lady for drugs while they were at an event, convinced him some movie I can’t remember was based on a real thing, told him to say random lines that wound up in the final cut, things like that.

He talked about how he couldn’t get through the scene where he and Rogen walk in on McLovin having sex without breaking, and kept laughing through telling it too fjkshfkdhf. ALSO that he’d never worked with someone who was so new but so confident, because he is INCAPABLE OF NOT PRAISING HIS COWORKERS AT ALL TIMES ugh... humble king... cock

OH he kept doing impressions too!! He’d tell stories and slip into a Rogen or Mintz-Plasse or Apatow impression like it was nothing, everyone would laugh, and every time people laughed he got this pleased little look 😔 never wanted to suck a dick so bad in my life never I swear et cetera et cetera

Anyway, Emma Stone was the real MVP bc she was always the one who was actually listening when Bill tried to say something, and Bill said that the first, last, and only time he’d actually seen Superbad is when he went to some opening night with Emma Stone and her mom??? So that was already adorable but he also kept on talking about the technical stuff, praising the editing etc. As if I wasn’t whining like a desperate dog enough he had to go and be a film nerd live through my headphones

ARM.......... SMILEY MAN.... DID HE EVEN BRUSH HIS HAIR FOR THIS??? I like him so much what the fuck

Finally, the thing that made me tenderest of all was when... ok they were talking about how there was a trailer with a kind of small home cinema set-up to screen the dailies? And someone, I think it was Seth Rogen, asked Judd Apatow AND BILL if that was common practice, like asking him showrunner/director-specific questions, and it really drove home the fact that this movie was 14 years ago and he’s managed to do so much since then. He’s become a director like he always wanted to, on Barry, got all these accolades for his work and yet he’s still just this quiet dude snort-laughing at his friends and clearly exhausted because it’s past his 9pm bedtime. Don’t look at me

So yeah, it was very chill and they barely bothered to read out any of the audience-submitted questions which was probably a good thing because any more exposure to his stupid 5 o’clock shadow and soft quarantine bod and I would have been sending propositions