David Fincher forcing Marc Maron to hold release of their two-and-a-half-hour podcast

WTF, indeed.

Marc Maron, host of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, let it slip during his Feb. 15 episode with two-time Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster that acclaimed director David Fincher wasn't pleased with his previously recorded but never released WTF episode.

"I did a two-and-a-half-hour conversation with [Fincher], and he didn't think it was right, so he wouldn't let us release it," Maron revealed around the interview's 61-minute mark. "So, I'm sitting on this two-and-a-half-hour conversation with David Fincher. He's like, 'I don't know; let's hold off on it. I think I could do more.' He seems to be this perfectionist, tormented guy.

Foster, who worked with Fincher on 2002 thriller Panic Room and is currently starring in The Mauritanian, laughed and added: 

"He is, and he's really funny, and I love him. He just makes me want to put my arms around him and tell him, 'You know what? It's gonna be OK. It's really gonna be OK. You need to, like, chillax.' And I love him for it. I love that he is so committed, and he gives 100,000 times more than anybody else on that movie, and he can do any of our jobs better than we can. I mean, he's a better actor than I am. ... But it's hard to be David Fincher. I wouldn't want to be him. He doesn't drive me crazy. I love him. He makes me laugh. It's true that it's annoying that you have to do as many takes as you do."

Fincher's perfectionism evolved into a distinctive directorial style, and fellow filmmaker Judd Apatow poked fun at it during a Variety "Directors on Directors" session with Jason Bateman last week: