Becky welcomes back Hanging with Becky producer, Kyle Reardon to talk about a smaller film they're especially excited to champion: THE SCOUT.

Written and directed by Paula González-Nasser, THE SCOUT follows Sofía, a New York City location scout played by Mimi Davila, as she travels from apartment to apartment searching for the perfect spaces for a television pilot. Along the way, she gets brief glimpses into the private lives of the strangers who open their doors to her — while quietly beginning to question the direction of her own life.

Kyle is the perfect person to join Becky for this one. In addition to being a filmmaker, he has worked extensively in film and television locations, giving him firsthand experience with everything from scouting spaces and working with property owners to figuring out how an entire production can move into a real location and leave it exactly as it was found. And according to Kyle, THE SCOUT gets that world remarkably right.

Becky and Kyle dig into the film's beautifully observed encounters between Sofia and the people she meets — an older woman missing her grown children, an uncomfortable new father, a stranger eager to break into the film business, an old friend, and a fish store owner who turns a desperate location search into one of the movie's funniest and most awkward detours.

They explore how those seemingly small interactions become the heart of the film, revealing entire lives through apartments, conversations and fleeting moments between strangers. Kyle also shares what location work is actually like — from convincing people to let a film crew invade their homes to protecting those spaces once dozens of cast and crew members arrive.

The conversation also gets into the less glamorous realities of working in film: impossible schedules, parking tickets, changing plans, demanding bosses, the pressure to solve problems that technically aren't in your job description, and the expectation that you give so much of yourself to making someone else's project happen. For both Becky and Kyle, that makes Sofia's journey surprisingly universal — whether you've ever worked on a movie set or simply found yourself wondering what comes next in your own career and life.

They also celebrate THE SCOUT as an intimate New York character study and a reminder that some of the most rewarding movies don't need enormous stakes — sometimes a day spent driving around a city, meeting strangers and looking through their doors can reveal something profound about the human experience. Becky and Kyle both agree that this is exactly the kind of independent film they're happy Hanging with Becky can help champion.

And then the doors close, the sun goes down... and the boogeyman comes home. With Halloween just a few weeks away, Kyle takes on The Becky Challenge: The Night He Came Home — 25 questions covering Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, Dr. Loomis, Haddonfield, filmmakers, sequels, alternate timelines and nearly five decades of HALLOWEEN franchise history.

Kyle has already established himself as one of the strongest Becky Challenge competitors. Can he survive Halloween night and earn the ultimate title of The Shape?

Host: Becky D'Anna

Guest: Kyle Reardon

Producer: Kyle Reardon

Produced and Edited By: KPR Media

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