 What do directors Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam, and Kenneth O'Hanagan all have in common? A 19-year-old actor whose name is Lucas Heges, he is an incredible talent, and he's sitting with me here today. If you could take one guy to an island with you and you knew you'd be safe, if it was between me and your father, who would you take? My daddy. There have been a lot of films about grief. What do you think makes Manchester by the sea a unique experience? It's about a place in Massachusetts and a place in America that I think does a good job of representing how men in this country, how we're raised to deal with our emotions. It can teach us a lot about how crippling it is to deny ourselves the right to cry when we lose someone. Why do you think humor is such an important part of this film? So this is something Kenny and I talked about a lot. If you have a really great comedy, it has to be rooted in some dramatic truth. And it's the same exact thing for a drama. No great dramas are purely dramatic. We're not going to be here that much longer. I'm not moving to Boston, ugly. Yeah, I don't want to talk about that right now. You said you left your money so you could move. Yeah, that doesn't mean. Anyway, what's in Boston? You're a janitor. So what? You could do that anywhere. There's plenty of toilets and clogged up drains all over town. I don't want to talk about it. All my friends are here. I'm on the hockey team. I'm on the basketball team. I got to maintain our boat now. I work on George's boat two days a week. I got two girlfriends, and I'm in a band. You're a janitor and Quincy. What the hell do you care where you live? I've tried to put it into words what Kenny gave me on this film. And I find it difficult only because it's hard to describe how much he was there for me and how in between every single take, it was almost as though he was going through the character's journey with me and for me and just to support me. I never, for a single second, felt left behind by him. And I feel that I felt that way about directors. I feel that some directors are just waiting to finish the scene so they can move on and don't really feel like protecting their actor's performances. Matt was telling a story the other day that I thought was interesting, which was about Robert Duvall and how Robert Duvall said to him when he was on one of his first films, like play the contradictions. If it's a happy scene, go into the scene sad. Like walk into the room sad so that you have a place to go. And also just like when you have to cry in a scene. And when we cry in life, it's not because we want to cry. It's because we resist the crying. Manchester by the Sea is devastating and beautiful. And you can see it. It's coming to a theater near you very soon. For more of Lucas' hedges, please keep coming back to uprocks.com and fandommonium.