"huh, interesting. he just told the mickey rourke to simply get up and fight back with ferocity after being pummelled to the ground with a very real bloody ear and that was the best take i saw him do." i love the idea of it going to back then, let's go with that! i know aronofsky does master classes, q&a's, things like that, and actually poached a writer he now frequently works with from a master class so similarly to that, they could've met in a different editing room or a studio where they were both using and struck up a conversation from that?