B-Roll – Shots of Liza Lapira’s Dress.

Sound bites: Liza Lapira – Something about gambling that you didn’t know (talking) that might help you win. It’s kind of depressing. It’s not going to help you win it’s going to make you want to go home. The odds favor the house, they just do and the um, the odds favor the house and the only way, oh and the only game with a memory is Blackjack. So if there’s if there’s one thing you can conceivably cheat at, obviously it’s it’s 21, it’s blackjack.

Sound bites: Liza Lapira – Oh you know what can I, can I tweak that question? Can I just say um and there’s also a theater union called actors equity and they’re SAG and AFTRA. Once, uh the first time I ever got insurance as an actor I felt like I had made it. Like I maybe had a hundred dollars in the bank but I was a bonifide success in my mind because it ligitamized the job like I can go to the dentist based on the fact that I can act and it filled me with pride and thank god I I have an union and thank god I am doing what I love. Thank you enjoy the movie.

Sound bites: ? – About my what? (talking) What movie was this? (talking) I think you’re thinking of, I don’t know who you’re thinking of. I mean that’s a, I mean I filmed the movie where I said ask me about my weiner but that was in the privacy of my home.

Sound bites: ? – There was one night where I was, I’m not a big gambler, I’m really not, I like to keep the money that I’ve earned, crazy. And uh one night we were uh it was me a couple of my cast mates Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth and Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti , the producers, and we were out um at the um Palms, and so were, were, were, throwing down and were throwing down and I’m like, I’m like I got a hundred dollars I’m going to play a hundred dollars, they’re like you play that hundred on one hand at this table so I’m like this is all my money, so I put it in and I’m like oh this is going to be a bad night, got a hundred. And I’m like okay I’ll put another one down, got another hundred, this went on, I got a thousand dollars and I was like this is unbelievable, this is crazy I’m a like I’m a gonna do this. And then one of my fellow cast mates who apparently dosen’t like me was like put it all on one hand double or nothing, so I’m like okay yeah. Gone, no more predume, nothing. I lost everything that night, yeah.

B-Roll: Shots of the Red Carpet.

Sound bites: Michael De Luca – We staked them, we staked them a little bit the first thing that Dana and I did when the whole cast was assembled in town was take them around and get them really comfortable with the blackjack table so just in the beginning.
Dana Brunetti – With some of the team the real guy Jeff Ma, he went out with them a few times, he was actually out with them last night. They, they’re not, they’re stills taying in character.
Michael De Luca – Right I know.

Sound bites: Dana Brunetti – That we made it out alive. I don’t know, um that we were able to shoot in Vegas and no one got killed, no one died, no one went to jail, and uh we pulled it off.

Sound bites: Michael De Luca – Oh no Ben’s great I mean it was it was awesome having him on set, he was kind of like an unofficial uh you know kind of watch dog for some points in the story.
Dana Brunetti – Yeah part of the process we always wanted to keep him involved all the way through and I’m producing all of his following books as well so we have a very good relationship and he loves being around and being on set it’s like he’s like a kid in a candy, he’s like the guy that can’t get passed the velvet rope.
Michael De Luca – I’ll tell you this when he plays black jack he does surrender, like he surrenders his bet and it’s a pussy move, so I just wanna go on record of saying that, the guy who wrote this book does surrender and its not cool. Never surrender, and never take insurance and always split 8’s and aces. And that’s that.

B-Roll – 21 Premiere – Ben Mezrich

Sound Bite: aussie douche
I want you to ask one of the Producers, he’ll remain nameless how much money he was losing per hand at a certain night at the Belagio and I’m going to leave that to you as an investigative journalist to find out. (talks)

Sound Bite: Kevin Spacey – SAG
Yeah uhm you know it was a great sense of pride to be first of all to be paid as a professional and to join an organization that you know as a young actor growing up you know Screen Actors guild was a big, big deal, it still is a big deal, its got some problems but it still is a big deal and uh my hope is that excuse me we’ll celebrate settling soon.

Sound bites: Kate Bosworth
The producers, the producers put down so much money, it gives me anxiety and its not even my money I mean that’s, I mean ask them their crazy, they’re crazy. I play it pretty safe (talks) Channel. (Shot of her dress)