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Actor's 'hospital shadowing' was 40 minutes. Of a sandwich.

Busan title 'Selvi' turns a nurse's working hours into an endurance…. The whole segment, as it aired. Guests who wandered in, and the anchors who let them.

On air
Chip Darnell, with Zephyrine Ogunquit (Actor and Wellness Founder)
Aired
on BBN Tonight
Length
2:09
“Forty minutes. Fine. I stayed forty minutes, and I've never felt so seen by a stapler.”
Zephyrine Ogunquit

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Transcript

What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

  1. Chip DarnellOur guest is an actor and wellness founder, starring in the new drama Hush Hour. Zephyrine Ogunquit, welcome to the show.

  2. Zephyrine OgunquitThank you, Chip. I'm just so grateful to be here, and to be rested, which is a choice I make daily.

  3. Chip DarnellVariety reports that Selvi, from filmmaker Sailesh Rathnakumar, premieres at Busan, about a homecare nurse whose day stretches from twelve hours to seventy-two.

  4. Zephyrine OgunquitSeventy-two. In my process, I once worked a fourteen hour day, and I can tell you it changes a person.

  5. Chip DarnellAnjali Patil plays the title role and also produces. What do you make of an actor taking on both jobs?

  6. Zephyrine OgunquitExhausting, and I respect it. In my process, I've produced my own smoothies for sixteen hours straight.

  7. Chip DarnellSmoothies.

  8. Zephyrine OgunquitKale is a commitment, Chip. Anyway, my new project is Hush Hour, where I play a woman who sleeps professionally.

  9. Chip DarnellSleeps professionally. And how long did the preparation take?

  10. Zephyrine OgunquitIn my process, twenty-two hours of lying still. I came out of it a different woman, and also a little sore.

  11. Chip DarnellHere's the tough one. Selvi is about real exhaustion. Is it fair for a film about a sleeper to sit near it?

  12. Zephyrine OgunquitI think what matters is that we are all tired in our own way. Next question, I have a lanyard to show you.

  13. Chip DarnellYou skipped the question, and the lanyard is from a single day of hospital shadowing, correct?

  14. Zephyrine OgunquitIt was a very full day, Chip. They gave me a sandwich and I cried in a supply closet. In my process, forty-eight hours.

  15. Chip DarnellForty-eight hours?

  16. Zephyrine OgunquitForty minutes. Fine. I stayed forty minutes, and I've never felt so seen by a stapler.

  17. Chip DarnellThank you for that. Lightning round: favorite shift of the day, morning, evening or night?

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