Jennifer Jason Lee

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); The Player (1992). Count them as actor (7 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as recast what-if (Bonnie): Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as recast what-if (Bonnie): Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as recast what-if (Bonnie): Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as recast what-if (Bonnie): The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as recast what-if (Bonnie): Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they were tied to as recast what-if (Bonnie): The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (7) everyone in acting

Other (2) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Jennifer Jason Lee → Single White Female. Single White Female was the closest Lee came to a movie-star moment.
    “That was the closest maybe she ever came to like having a movie star thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:04:26 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jennifer Jason Lee → Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. Her hot 90s run included Georgia and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
    “She had that hot 90s early, like where she's in like Georgia and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 1:04:55 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Jason Lee → The Player. Bill says the Bonnie part, instead of Cynthia Stevenson, has Jennifer Jason Lee written all over it; the others disagree.
    “it just has Jennifer Jason Lee crying all over it.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:19:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Jason Lee → In the Cut. Jennifer Jason Lee in the lead would also have been accepted, as an art house movie.
    “And by the way, I think they would have gotten it with Jennifer Jason Lee.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 0:27:33 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

None.