Cooper Raiff on making "Hal & Harper" after "Cha Cha Real Smooth"

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00:00Cooper, I'm also interested in kind of a business perspective as well, like this is what you're

00:06making after Cha-Cha gets sold or acquired for $15 million.

00:11What does that actually, like a number like that, actually mean for a creator and getting

00:16your next project made?

00:21It makes you too confident.

00:26Because of that, I thought that, well, let's just do it with TV and that's what I told

00:31everyone and it sounded, on paper it feels right, why not just do it with TV, but the

00:37past year has been hard realizing that this is not, it's a model, but we're really braving

00:48the storm with it in a way that you can't afford to, like Cha-Cha was sold on the backs

00:55of so many indie movies and this, we're trying to sell this show and it hasn't really been

01:02done before, so it has to be this undeniable thing to these streamers or networks and so

01:09it made me too confident, but yeah, no, it just, it made me, I'm really so grateful that

01:15it happened because it gave me the freedom to make something that I really wanted to

01:20make, the passion project that I always wanted to make.