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So, welcome to all of you on what is known by many as Panicking Saturday, the day that traditionally precedes Mothering Sunday.
Jack Black discusses Kung Fu Panda 3, martial arts, and shares funny moments on The Jonathan Ross Show.
Key Takeaways
- Jack Black is deeply involved in Kung Fu Panda 3 and passionate about martial arts.
- The interview blends humor with insights into Jack's personal and professional life.
- Jack Black values family and shares amusing stories about his children.
- The show balances promotional content with entertaining and candid moments.
- Jack Black respects martial arts masters and enjoys playful demonstrations.
What the video covers
- The show opens with humorous commentary about Mother's Day and gift ideas.
- Jack Black is introduced and talks about his role as Po in Kung Fu Panda 3.
- Jack describes the plot of Kung Fu Panda 3, including meeting Po's biological father and teaching baby pandas Kung Fu.
- He shares his extensive martial arts background and demonstrates some moves humorously.
- Jack recounts meeting Jackie Chan for the first time during the film's promotion.
- Discussion about Jack's family life, including his two sons and their martial arts interests.
- Jack jokes about hanging out with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt during Easter.
- The video includes a clip from Kung Fu Panda 3 and audience reactions.
- Jack shares lighthearted banter with Jonathan Ross, showcasing his comedic personality.
- The interview touches on current events and Jack's humorous political commentary.
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That's right, it's Mother's Day tomorrow, and at the very least, if you haven't done it already, you've got to get something. You've got to get your mom a card at least. That's not too much to ask, is it? And you can get them all
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over the place. Here's one I got from the nearby garage. Look, it's some lovely little pretty picture of a bear for a very lovely mom. However, I would not recommend you buy this one that I saw posted on Twitter that was found in
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a shop in Glasgow. Here it is. [laughter] MILF, my mommy is hot. I get the feeling you know what MILF means.
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I had to look it up on the internet. I didn't know. Jack, are you aware? Do they have that term in America, MILF?
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It's mother I'd like to No. Jack, it's Mom, I love you forever. What's wrong with you?
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That's what it is. WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO SAY? UH I can't think of one ad word that's quite inflammatory.
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Well, do you do you buy your your mother SOMETHING ON MOTHER'S DAY'S MOTHER'S DAY. AM I RIGHT, GUYS?
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I LOST IT FOR A SECOND THERE. JACK, I've surpassed myself this year getting I got a gift for Mother's Day that she's never going to forget.
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I got a Richard Gere. [cheering] Where's the mom? Okay. I don't see the mom.
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[laughter] I'm going to wrap you in a ribbon and you're going to her house in Hitchin later on, straight after the show.
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So, get my first guest out, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. HE IS THE KING OF COMEDY FROM School of Rock to Tropic Thunder and now Kung Fu Panda 3, it is the TENACIOUS JACK BLACK.
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[cheering] [music] [cheering] [music] [cheering] [applause] JACK, IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK. Great to be here.
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How you? You doing well? I'm doing very well, yeah. Flying around, talking about my panda.
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Okay. Well, here's the deal. Kung Fu Panda I did Did you go and see Kung Fu Panda 1 or 2 OR BOTH?
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YES! THANK YOU. But huge success they've been for you, haven't they? Yeah. It's It's the only sequel I've been a part of, you know. There There was a lot of love for the Kung Fu and the Panda, but the combination of the two
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It was irresistible. Forget about it. Yeah, yeah. Uh so the character you play is Po.
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Yeah. Po the panda. What happens to Po in 3? What's happening in Po's life in 3?
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A lot is happening. He meets his biological father. Wow. And his adoptive father is not too happy about that. That's some comedic friction there.
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Uh he also has to become a teacher. He has to to teach these a whole neighborhood of baby pandas how to do Kung Fu in order to protect themselves from this new evil villain from another dimension.
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Who's my favorite villain so far? Donald Trump. Just kidding. It's okay. IT'S OKAY. REMEMBER HE'S SCARY?
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IT'S YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S actually On that note, what is happening in your country?
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We Listen, he's not elected yet. Yeah, yeah. We have, you know Yeah. I have faith in the uh in the voting public of the that with no with no conviction whatsoever.
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[laughter] Yeah. Come on, Hillary. So but there there were more There were more pandas.
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And I He Or Bernie. Sorry. Anyway. Anyone but that dude. She's going to take him down.
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She's tough. But Jack, if she doesn't Yeah? Are you going to move to Canada?
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I am going to move somewhere. Or I'll have to stay there and mount the resistance.
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Wow. So [laughter] There were more pandas. He thought there were no pandas. He thought he was the last panda, didn't he?
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Oh, yeah. So, yeah. He thought he was the last panda on Earth. Turns out there's a whole secret village of pandas.
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In the In the mist. Pandas in the mist. Which he's [laughter] It's like gorillas in the mist.
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Uh why don't we enjoy a clip of Kung Fu Panda 3? Love to. Okay, here we go. It's out this Friday.
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I saw it. It's It's hilarious, but also it it will probably make you cry at the end as well. Have There you go. Kung Fu Panda 3 OPENS EVERYWHERE FRIDAY.
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[applause] JACK, YOU YOU'RE YOU'RE you've always been a well-covered guy. Yeah. What do you mean?
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But But I've seen you live. I've seen you with your band. I see that you're fit guy.
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Oh, really? Yeah. You have fit. Uh deceptively fit. Yeah. Now, but can you do any other Kung Fu?
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Yeah, sure. Have you mastered any of the moves? I've got lots of martial arts in my arsenal. I mean, since I was a little kid, I did karate, I did judo, I did Kung Fu. I I yeah. The answer is yes.
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Wow. [laughter] It would feel then churlish of me to ask for a demonstration, I feel.
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Oh, you want a test? NOT NECESSARILY. [cheering] WELL, YOU KNOW. [applause] NOT THE KARATE, it's pretty boring, but you know, the karate, it's just The secret is if you twist the fist at the last second. ICHI NI SAN SHI
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WOW. GO ROKU ICHI HACHI KU JU WOW. THAT'S counting to 10 IN JAPANESE. [cheering] UM THE JUDO, THE JUDO is strictly defensive move. I can't show you a move unless you attack me, but then I flip you.
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Wow. Uh and the Kung Fu, it's it's more like a spiritual practice than really uh a self-defense technique, but it's the martial art of the moving of chi.
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And if you see the hands, it's kind of like the infinity symbol. And the flow. If you can CREATE THE FLOW.
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[cheering] IT SEEMS PEACEFUL, GENUINELY, BUT THEN at the last second you tear out the heart.
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[applause] NOW I'M WINDED. DO YOU HAVE ANY ANSWERS HERE? YEAH. That was genuinely one of the most beautiful things I've seen in my life.
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That was just a little test. Yeah, wow, that's pretty good. Uh you have in the film with you a great cast, okay? From day one there's been a great cast, Angelina Jolie.
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Yeah. Isn't it? She's the the tiger lady. Yeah. And you you hang out with the Pitt-Jolies every Easter, is that right?
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It's true. They invite us over to party on Easter Sunday. But you are Jewish, though.
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I'm a Jew, but when the Angelina and Brad invite you over for an Easter egg hunt, you go, "Yes, Lord Jesus Christ, LET'S DO THIS." HE HAS ARISEN AGAIN.
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[laughter] UH and then you got Jackie Chan. Yes. The master of kung fu. The incredible Jackie Chan, who weirdly, I've been doing this franchise for 10 years, I had never met Jackie Chan until just a few weeks ago. In in China we
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were I'm still out of breath from my my martial arts. I'm out of breath from watching you.
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JUST CUZ I'M out of breath doesn't mean I'm not dangerous, though. I could I could get up and do a lot more martial arts right now.
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But anyway, back to Jackie Chan. Yeah. So, we're we're in Shanghai, or was it Beijing, doing a junket for for the movie, and uh someone [snorts] comes up and taps me on the shoulder and says, "Mr. Chan would like to meet you." I was
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like, "Whoa, Mr. Jackie Chan is in the house?" So, he takes me up and I meet the man, the myth, the legend. And uh you know, I've been watching his movies for for decades now. He's a personal hero of mine.
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Was he aware that you were a master of so many forms of martial arts?
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Uh it didn't come up. I didn't You didn't open with that. That's not something you want to brag about to an actual master. [laughter] Okay.
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Now you're a you're a dad, you have two young boys? Yeah. Okay, Sammy and Tommy, is that right?
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That's right. Okay, one of them does martial arts, is that right? Yeah, my little boy Tommy, there's Tommy.
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He wanted to he wanted to to come to the premiere in in his in his kung fu gi.
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Aw, that's pretty Yeah, he's in a little class at school called Young Ninjas or Little Ninjas.
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And unfortunately, they haven't taught him not to use it on his father's genitals. Once in a while there will be a surprise attack to the groin.
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Uh That should be the first thing you learn with the martial arts is only use it when you really have to.
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need to. Don't go for dad's jewels. And But it's good, it keeps me on my toes.
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Yeah, I can imagine it does. my own personal case. So I love that picture. If you look at that picture there, you can see they're so used to you acting like that in public.
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They're both thinking one thinking I'm not with this guy. [laughter] And the young one's going again? Rea
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Uh now, you mainly I think when we think of Jack, we think of you in comic roles.
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Yeah. Is there inside of you this I was wondering, have you ever wanted to do something which didn't get the laughs?
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Uh yeah, you know, I before I I hit it big, I was doing all kinds of different roles in theater and school and and I I dabbled in the drama. And I still am and drawn to the dark side occasionally.
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Some of my roles that you may not have heard of I I yeah, I've done some different things.
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Because you have a quite an evil face, I think. Do you know what I mean? I mean I know. I guess that's a compliment.
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Well, you know, those eyebrows can do evil. That's That's what I'm Look at that.
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NO, THEN IT BECAME COMIC AGAIN AT THE END. YOU SEE, YOU can't resist it.
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Okay, so there's one scene in Kung Fu Panda 3 Yeah. in which Po is kind of showing off, but he's also just painting at the gallery.
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He's having fun. And he's showing off how many dumplings he can stuff in his mouth.
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Yeah. He gets 22, I think. Yeah. Uh I don't have any dumplings here. [laughter] Good.
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It's the first time I've said that and people have moaned. They were all looking forward to me stuffing dumplings in my face.
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Sorry guys. But we do have dumplings. [cheering] What? But we DO HAVE SOME WHAT?
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WE DO HAVE SOME MARSHMALLOWS. [applause] DO YOU WANT TO SEE HOW MANY YOU COULD PUT in your mouth?
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That's not what a Hollywood legend does. Angelina isn't here. I Listen, I'll stuff some I'll see if we can break the record. I'm positive I cannot do 22.
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Okay. Okay, do you want me to You know what? I'm going to challenge you to this.
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Oh, we're going to both going to do it? YEAH. LET'S GET LET'S GET IT STARTED.
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HANG ON. [applause] GROUND RULES. OKAY. UH YOU DON'T have to consume you don't have to swallow the marshmallow.
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In fact, you can't you're forbidden. Yeah, so we see how many we can You could You could do infinity.
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Okay. Okay, you ready? Yes. And shall we begin? Yes. We go at the same time?
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GO. EVERYBODY WAS [cheering] [music] [music] [applause] WE DID PRETTY GOOD. THAT WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIBLE.
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It's good when you don't swallow though. You just get a bit of the residue.
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Yeah. [laughter] That's not the first time you've said THAT TO ME. [laughter] HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY. HAPPY MOTHER'S [music] [cheering] [cheering] WELL, LISTEN. THAT'S That's an exciting uh That is an ex- a fantastic crowd. What a What a What a a warm reception you have.
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crowd, too. It's like a crowd of David BECKHAM-LOOKING LIKE PEOPLE. HE IS GORGEOUS, BY THE WAY.
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HE'S SO GORGEOUS. He's like he's not even my type and I'm thinking Yeah. You know, I don't know. I went in for a kiss and I licked his cheek. He tastes good as well.
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I'm sure he does. Let me guess. An essence OF CINNAMON. YES. YES. YOU'RE GOOD. [laughter] Um so, listen.
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It's Christmas is nearly here. I'm very excited. I hope you're excited, also. [laughter] He is really sad that he decided to come tonight.
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He's got so much to give. Yeah. Um [laughter] Uh so, Christmas is coming. You have three young children. This is correct, I'm I do. I have three young children.
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Mathias, Magnus, and Axel. Now, they must be going crazy. They must be bouncing off the walls with this stuff.
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for this time of year. Um it's uh it's the best time of year for children cuz they get presents.
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Whether they deserve them or not. And then you but you have your wife who is Swedish.
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She is. She is. And uh so we kind of have a special uh different a different bent to our Christmas. We uh we have a Swedish Christmas party every year. Which is called a a a Yule Fest.
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Yule Fest? Yeah. Well, we have the word Yule. Oh, okay. Okay. So, it's not that not that special.
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But what What what do you do at the Yule Fest? Fest we uh we we drink aquavit which is like a Swedish vodka.
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I've heard of this. Yes. Have you had AQUAVIT BEFORE? YES. [cheering] IT GOES DOWN SMOOTH.
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WELL, shall we send out Let's send out and see if we can get some aquavit you said?
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Oh, please. out and get some aquavit and if we can get some in we'll do we'll have a drink and we'll have a a song Okay. Okay, great. [laughter] Um let me ask you about Anchorman.
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YES. OKAY. [cheering] OKAY. HOW EXCITING ANCHORMAN 2 is going to be out uh next week, ladies and gentlemen. I'm very excited. 18th of December.
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December 18th. Okay. Anchorman 2. Where is Ron now uh as we begin the second movie? Where is he placed? How do we uh how do we find him?
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Ron is now um it's 10 years later. It's the year is 1980 which uh was the beginning of 24-hour news. And uh so Ron and his team are scattered about doing various things. Ron is announcing the the dolphin show at
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uh at SeaWorld in San Diego. A little bit drunk. Yeah, he's I'm not going to lie to you.
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Uh and he's very down and out. And he gets a second chance uh with going on GNN which is the the brand new cable news station. And [snorts] uh and and we see that you know Ron and the guys who have not evolved in
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in any way, shape or form, are completely overmatched by what is modern news. So, look, this is and how excited are you for Anchorman 2, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN?
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IT OPENS NEXT WEDNESDAY, UH DECEMBER THE 18TH. Here it is, Anchorman 2. I've already had the Old Spice, so Okay, so The Old Spice isn't a traditional Swedish drink.
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It's not usually. Okay. So, if you run out of the aquavit, you go to the Old Spice.
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So, now here's what I've read about Sweden and I did some study and we'll see whether this is true or not cuz you know, you're well placed to Yes. Yeah.
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During the festive period, every house puts a candle in the window. Yes. Why is that?
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Uh because they they still don't have electricity. Okay. Christmas is celebrated on the 24th of December.
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You usually open your presents on Christmas Eve. Why? Why are they so impatient? They just they want it because they're such rapid consumers and they really want to get to their gifts.
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The traditional Christmas dish is lye treated codfish. Lye treated codfish. They I think they eat that every day.
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And they have goose blood soup. Goose blood soup. Where is your Where are you getting your information?
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From IKEA. It comes in a pack, but I assembled it myself. I might have put it together incorrectly.
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So, what are we So, we're going to sing Will's going to teach us a Swedish Christmas What is it Is it called a jul song? Jul Yeah.
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Jul time. Yeah. Okay. Jul There we go. Hej longour, sjung hopp faderallan alla hej.
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Hej longour, sjung hopp faderallan alla hej. This part I don't know. Hej. HEJ LONGOUR.
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WOAH. WOAH. WOAH. AND THAT'S NOT BAD. Schong hopful a hala hey. [singing] Which in English is drink the whole thing down even if you're vomiting.
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Drink the whole thing down. Even if you're sick up on your shoes. Hey. And if you don't drink the whole thing down, you won't get a half of one later.
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So drink the WHOLE THING DOWN. I PULLED SO I WAS THINKING, UH YOU WERE BORN IN THE US. I think New Jersey, is that right? Okay, but your parents are both from here, aren't they?
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That's right. Both in the UK. Uh so you must have a Do you have a fondness for the UK because of that? Do you get to visit often?
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Absolutely. I've been coming here my whole life. Uh I have dual citizenship. Wow. Um and I just, you know, it was tough to get any uh real good chocolate and candy and all of the, you know, good stuff
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here in the Midwest. So we would always have relatives send it over. And so I have such a warm you know, warm feeling uh for England.
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So relatives would send food parcels of chocolates over to you. Yeah. Yeah. Crunchie bars, you couldn't get them where I lived. You couldn't get uh round tree fruit gums, which were my dad's favorite. He loved the fruit gums
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that would take your teeth out. when you said round tree fruit I found that I I I didn't realize everyone's like, "Oh, the pastilles." The pastilles which are great, everyone loves, but my dad uh loved the the gums.
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Yeah. The ones that take your teeth out. Yeah. Yeah. And nobody seems to like them.
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based on that reaction. Um you're part of the uh the big new Ghostbusters movie.
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Mhm. NEXT EXCITING MOVIE. [applause] BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, this is not the only franchise cuz of course you are Ant-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. WHICH IS AMAZING.
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[applause] I LOVE THOSE MOVIES. OH, GREAT. I love those movies, I really do. What's it like filming them because they're huge in scale, aren't they?
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Yeah. And you filmed that one here, I think. That's right. Yeah. The last one we filmed here. The other The first two we filmed in Georgia.
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Right. Um all set in San Francisco. [laughter] Uh but this one Yeah, this one we we filmed out here.
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And a huge scope of sets, I imagine. Great scale. Enormous. And I mean, to be a involved in one of those productions is uh is really astounding. And this one was really unique because they built this thing called the volume,
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Right. which is like a screen that an LED screen that wraps around a an entire uh sound stage. They brought out dirt on the floor to make it look and feel more realistic.
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So, you're in a huge sound stage with dirt everywhere. Pretty much. Although it wasn't actually wasn't dirt. I think they got a deal on the dirt because it it turned out to be manure.
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Wow. [cheering] And we filmed uh in the summer. [laughter] You know, what's what strikes ME AS BEING WEIRD about that, I would imagine the dirt would probably be cheaper than manure.
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You would think. Can you imagine the tomatoes they grew when you were gone? It's true. Um what are the fan base like cuz Marvel fans, and I am one of them, they're quite kind of obsessive is the wrong word, but they you know, big on
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the details. They love looking at the characters, the changes made from the film from the comic books. Do you have much interaction? Have you ever been to conventions to meet the fans of those films?
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Um I have I went to one of those Comic-Cons. The very first time Ant-Man was announced, I went to the big Comic-Con. I'd never been to one before.
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Diego. Yeah. And uh it was interesting because they I was part of the Marvel panel and uh I went out with the Avengers, which is a really interesting way to go to a Comic-Con.
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I've described it as going It's like going to a music convention with the Beatles.
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Yeah. That'd be the only way to go to Comic-Con. It was really It's like, "Oh, well, this has kind of ruined it for me now." There's thousands of people screaming, going crazy. It was pretty wild.
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Frozen Empire, the new Ghostbusters movie, out now, and it's a great fun family film. Um and what's amazing though, and I would imagine this was amazing for you. For me as a fan, it was great to see you on screen with the
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original, those who are still with us, the original Ghostbusters. Yeah. How was that? Yeah.
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Surreal. Yeah. It didn't make any sense whatsoever. It's very hard when you It was super cool to put on the flight suit and the proton pack and shoot ghosts. I felt like I was 10 years old. But then to
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kind of look over and see Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd doing the same thing. Uh I immediately forgot I was actually filming the scene. I just looked AT THEM GOING, "WHOA, THERE THEY ARE. There they are." Uh it was very exciting and a real
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honor yeah. Did you, uh being a fan of it and having that incredible moment, did you take anything home from set? Were you allowed to keep your suit, a proton blaster, the car?
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[laughter] I uh I I kept my suit. Yeah. Yeah, which was pretty great. Yeah.
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And I took a couple of things. I just just took them. I didn't tell anyone. I don't think I was supposed to.
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I take things from set as well. best Why work on anything if you can't steal from the set?
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Are they fans of your work? Do kids like seeing their dad? No, they could they could care less.
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Yeah. It's great. But at the end of the day, they're just I tell them their dad, I'm not cool. And if they ever think that I If they ever think that I'm getting too big for my britches, they'll just say, "Hey, you
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know, you're not Black Panther." Which is actually something my son did say to me. He actually did say it.
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[laughter] Well, I hope you don't mind if I ask. I want to ask you about one of my favorite scenes in recent comedy cinema history, which you were there for the film love you on screen in it, the scene in 40
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Year Old Virgin, uh where they wax Steve Carell's chest. Right. Yeah. That must have been quite a day at the office.
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Yeah. That was uh that was They had about five cameras set up because once he got waxed, he couldn't you couldn't do it again.
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Because he really got he really got waxed. You can't unwax him, eh? You can't You can't go back. Once you're waxed The spy what the karate kid told us.
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[laughter] Yeah, yeah, I know. It's wax wax wax on, wax off, stays off. And that girl and woman who was the waxer The waxer?
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The waxer. I remember when she came in and was talking about it. She said her family owned a salon. This This is what she did.
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But I think it's like Sometimes you know when you're looking for a job and can you ride a motorcycle?
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Sure. [laughter] motorcycle or I could uh yeah. She went to do it. She put glue on it.
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Actually one of the crew guys said, "No, no, no, no, no. You have to put um oil or something on his nipple. Otherwise you're going to rip the whole thing off." Yeah, it did bleed, I think.
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Yeah, he really did bleed. Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. He he he bled. Um [laughter] I mean But it was something else. It was really to be in the room.
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Previously I thought he was a great actor. Now I'm thinking he just had to suffer.
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Very very little acting required from Steve in that scene. Wow. Have you ever been waxed?
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I've never been waxed. Well, this evening WE'VE DECIDED LADIES [applause] [music and cheering] [cheering and applause] [cheering] [applause] UH YOU KNOW PIERCE A BIT SOCIALLY I BELIEVE, DON'T YOU, ADAM?
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WELL, Pierce and I both have places in Hawaii that we've been going for years and years in Hawaii. And so Pierce I mean, Pierce, you're like the mayor of Kauai.
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I don't know. That's a very kind thing to say, Ben, but I think you've taken over now, really.
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No, no, no. But we Neither of us are the mayor of There's an actual mayor.
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[laughter] And Adam, you've worked together as well, haven't you, I believe? Yeah, well, I was I had a tiny part in The Matador.
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Mhm. And I don't know if Oh my god. everybody's seen The Matador, but this is an incredible piece of writing and performance.
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role, yeah. Yeah. And Adam, I can't believe you're in that movie. I am in that movie, yeah.
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so many things. I mean, have you seen The Matador and you just didn't know he was in it?
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forgot he was in it. Wow. It was a memorable performance. Yeah. Let's talk about Severance, though. What a hit it's been, what an amazing show.
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Uh and fans like myself, we are very devoted to it. But for those who might not have seen it, of course there's so much TV these days, how would you explain the premise? And I'll go to you, Ben, because you directed many episodes
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amazingly. Thank you. And I mean, you did them amazingly, not amazing that you were allowed to do them.
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Well, it was amazing that I was allowed to direct them. And you co-produced the show as well, haven't Yes.
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Okay. So, how would you describe a show as difficult to describe as this? I mean, the concept of the show is that Adam plays a guy who gets a job at a company where they put a chip in your head, and when you go to
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work, you go down an elevator and the chip activates and you forget everything about your life on the outside, and then you work all day, and then when you leave, you forget everything that happened on the inside. So, you have
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your outie and your innie. And [snorts] he's decided to do this because he's going through a loss in his life. He's lost his wife, and he wants to forget.
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And so, I think the show is a lot about that, you know, about sort of grief and also the weirdness of what's going on at this big corporation, Lumon, that sort of is doing something we don't quite know what they're up to. And also the
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weirdness of this world where these people don't know who they are, what what they're doing, or why they're there, but they're just having this sort of like office life that, you know, might resemble something like The Office or Parks and Rec or something.
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[applause] Amazing show [cheering] from Apple TV Plus. Uh there are so many great shows, but this is one of the best. Season 2 of that is out right now. So, you can watch both because season 1 came out about, I
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think, 17 years ago. Yeah. So, we were waiting for season That No, that was quite a long wait.
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We had a long wait. Yeah, I mean, that's I'm so happy that the audience from season 1 stayed with us and then we got a bigger audience for season 2 because we had a 3-year break, which was not
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intentional. We had a writers and actors strike that kind of hit us in the middle and it just was much longer than we thought.
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And so, presumably then we can expect season 3 any day now? Uh next week.
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You are working on it though, are you? We are We're definitely working on it and hopefully it'll be, you know, it's it's not going to be 3 years.
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Yeah. Here's the thing I want to pass to you is so many, because it's a much-loved show and it's a kind of a kind of like witch and layered show, there are so many theories, fan theories online about
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what's going on. What are the strangest theories you've heard about it you've encountered? Um well, the I mean, there's theories that one of the characters on the show is actually a goat.
Speaker A
Oh, yeah. Well, goats figure heavily in this show. There are a lot of goats.
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In the You must have spent quite a lot of time working with goats on the show then. How How was that as an actor's experience?
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[laughter] Terrific. Way easier than acting with Adam. That's right. That's right. Was it always your goal to direct though? Cuz I know obviously I knew you first as an actor, great comic actor and actor as well. First time I saw you on
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screen though, you were being directed by the great Steven Spielberg. I saw you in Empire of the Sun.
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had a little part in Empire of the Sun. He came to a play that I was in, first job I ever had. He saw the play and then he called me in for a meeting and yeah, there I am in the
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window with my Yeah. Hand up. Yeah. Um I'm so Yeah, I'm like 20 A baby.
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Yeah. And he I had a meeting with him and he said, "You're going to play these prisoners of war in this story by J.G.
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Ballard, Empire of the Sun, this great novel." And uh it was really though like a an amazing experience to be working, you know, with your idol.
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And you presumably you were you were because you had a in mind that one day you'd like to direct, you were watching what he did. You were studying his technique.
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Yeah, and I'd made a short film that I showed to him. I had a video cassette of it and he watched it and he, you know, gave gave me some feedback on it and there was one scene where there was like
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a really long steady cam shot where I had like one line and I think my line was like, "Hey kid, have you got a Hershey bar?" And then I realized I screwed it up and I said, "Oh, cut." Oh.
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[laughter] And then I like there's silence and then after like a couple seconds I hear Steven SPIELBERG GO, "WHAT?" [laughter] I'M SAYING I'M SORRY. I JUST I SAID, you know, I I just screwed it up. He goes, "You never yell cut
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[laughter] if you're an actor." And I was like I just turned white cuz I knew I knew it was really And but did you ever work in a Spielberg film again?
Speaker A
No. [laughter] But your parents I wouldn't imagine they were the caravanning type. Would I be right? No. No. My parents were actors, comedians. Yeah. So we were always kind of going on the road with them whenever they'd go perform in Las Vegas. They
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were did they had a comedy team they were called Stiller and Meara and then my dad went on to do, you know, Seinfeld and other shows and my mom Yeah, they both were great and so yeah, our life was sort of revolved around
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showbiz and just being around them and yeah, and I loved it. We loved it as kids to go they go out to L we lived in New York and we go out to LA and they would do game shows in the 70s and or
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sitcoms and it was so much fun for us. As late as like 2010 I think. I mean they were doing it for almost all their life. They must have been pretty old by then. Yeah. Yeah. No, they they were
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they were married for 60 plus years and they just worked together for that long and then worked together separately and I've been working on a documentary about them actually.
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Yeah that's going to be coming out later this year and it's been really interesting process of like kind of going through home movies and and footage of them on talk shows back in the 70s. That must have been quite emotional for you as well, I
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would have thought, to look back on. Yeah, it's been a 5-year process since my dad passed away and I've gone through sort of times when I like embraced it and other times when I sort of pushed it away.
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And then we finally got to a point where like, oh, this is actually a movie where it felt like, oh, this could be a movie for, you know, people to see who didn't know my parents and then I started to
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feel better about what we were making. But I think and then it started to get more emotional at the very end. And I think now I'm kind of going to that part of it where I was like, now I'm going to
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let it go. And so I'm glad I had something to kind of, you know, help, I guess, process the, you know, I can't wait to see that. I hadn't seen so much of your mom's work, but your dad's work I just adored. You work,
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speaking of working with family, you work with your wife occasionally and she's a producer, I believe.
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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where this story might lead, but I've been told there's there was some incident involving prosthetics from working together.
Speaker A
Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. That was on a a movie we made called The Overnight that I was acting in and and we were both producing together and there was I had to wear a prosthetic penis in the movie. In the movie Jason
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Schwartzman and I both uh wore pros- prosthetic penises. His was enormous and mine was like teensy-weensy.
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And [laughter] so So how did your wife get producing this? My wife is producing it.
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Is this her getting revenge for something at home or That's right. [laughter] Funny how she cast me in this.
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But so when we were shooting these scenes, it had to be applied, it had to be put on and we weren't going to ask the makeup department to help me out with [laughter] this.
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So naturally my wife, the producer, would come in and help me get the prosthetic penis on.
Speaker A
It was so small. [laughter] How does that work? Because presumably it can't be smaller than the actual item. Then it can't go over the top.
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[laughter] So presumably the original is kale. And then it's just plunged on top like a pimple.
Speaker A
That's right. That's right. It's sort of a a situation where you're like just pressing down and and there's no way to innie or outie?
Speaker A
[applause] I think this was closer to an innie. [cheering] [applause] It's great to have you Kevin. It's so exciting to have you back on the show.
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Kevin Hart ladies and gentlemen. THANK YOU KEVIN. IT'S GREAT to have you. I'm such a big fan of yours. I'm so pleased you're here.
Speaker A
Thank you. You've known each other for a while. I know this is the first time you've actually starred together but you you met years ago. How did you first meet each other?
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Uh Tiffany and I first met actually at what a comedy club too? Yeah we met at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood.
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Laugh Factory in Hollywood. Uh at the time I wasn't I wasn't like the uh You was broke. You was broke.
Speaker A
Well I don't we don't need to we don't need to put an exact He was struggling. He was struggling. We was [laughter] both We was both both on struggle mode.
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Just let me let me give my version. I was very much still a big deal. Um Tiffany wasn't. Tiffany wasn't at the time.
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Oh I was popping in the hood. But not not when we first met. When I saw you I said yo you're talented extremely talented.
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the same to you. Gravitated towards you. She was actually homeless at the time. Nobody knew but I found out.
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Yeah. And because I'm such a good person hence the last name Hart I I dug in my pocket and at the time I gave her all the money that I had and that money ended up doing a lot for you
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without me even knowing it. I used that money to put like a down payment on an apartment and got me a place to live and um you told me to make out a list of goals like what I want out
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of my life, what I want to do with my career, and I made that list, and I have tackled that list, and we are sitting here today all the way in Europe. I FEEL LIKE I'M DOING BIG THINGS.
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[cheering] [applause] THANK YOU. THAT'S AMAZING. THAT'S A THAT'S A TRUE STORY. That's a true story. Yeah.
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Just something I wanted to ask you about the film because the film, called Night School, very funny as you would expect with these guys in it. It focuses on your character, and I don't want to give too much away here, but he
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has learning difficulties. Yes. Yes. What amazed me though was cuz then reading your book after I saw the movie, so I was like you you had had I don't know if it was learning difficulties, but you couldn't read
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until you were 14, 15? 15. Yeah. Well, I was I was I was able to read, but just things that you could see like in commercials and stuff like you see McDonald's, you know that's McDonald's. You see certain things, you
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know that's what it is. words. Yeah, I recognized words. I didn't have like a really good comprehension or being able to, you know, I couldn't write a story or anything. I cheated a lot through school, and I had a drama
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teacher who figured it out, and she sat me down. She made me come to her classroom every day during lunch, and she would make me read to her, and she taught me techniques in order that I could read better. So, that's how I'm
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sitting here today and being able to read anything is because that teacher cared enough and she invested the time.
Speaker A
Once again, that's what I'm saying, what an amazing life story you've had. And at school you were the mascot for the sports team.
Speaker A
Yeah, I was I was a school high school mascot. I was a conquistador, so I was a Spanish soldier. So, I was an African-American woman playing a Spanish man.
Speaker A
[laughter] I did an awesome job at it. I was the only talking mascot in the whole school district, and I would get on the megaphone and I'd be like El Co. I went to El Camino Real High School, and I'd
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be like El Co what? And the audience WOULD BE LIKE ME NO. AND I'D BE LIKE EL CO WHAT? AND THEY'D BE LIKE ME NO. WHO NO? WE NO. BABY.
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WOW. [applause and cheering] HOW OLD WERE YOU THEN? I WAS I was 16. Wow. I think we've got a picture of you in the uh there you go. So that's the Oh my god.
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SHE'S A BABY. ALL ALL THE BOYS LIKED ME but just cuz I had like hype energy but they didn't like me like me. They just like have a boyfriend. You had a husband.
Speaker A
No, I didn't have no husband. No, of course you didn't have a boyfriend. What girl being a mascot got A BOYFRIEND? NO.
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I HAD A BOYFRIEND FOR LIKE 1 MONTH AND HE WOULD CARRY my bag for me and they would they would make fun of him and call him the mascot assistant and he broke up with me cuz he didn't want to
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be the mascot assistant. But guess what? He hit me up just recently on Facebook.
Speaker A
[laughter] Okay, there you go. That's the Are you ready TO ASSIST ME? ARE YOU UH ARE YOU A ARE you a single woman now then? Are you single?
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single. Uh I and what do you think of being here in the UK? What do you think of English men?
Speaker A
I feel like I feel like it's nothing but opportunity here in the UK. I love I love the accents. I feel like it's a lot of history. I feel like it's a lot of men here that have inheritances. I would
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love to be with a man with an inheritance. She's way too aggressive. She's way She's way too aggressive.
Speaker A
It's not aggressive. I just know what I want. It's so aggressive. It's so aggressive.
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It's embarrassing. Like if we go out, you know, I'm here with Tiffany. I've been here. I feel like the UK's a second home. We go out to places. I take Tiff to dinner. The first man she sees, she
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says hello. He says hi back. She goes, "You want to have a baby?" No, I don't say that. Yeah, you do.
Speaker A
Yeah, you do. I ASK THEM I SAY, "HOW MANY BABY MAMAS DO YOU HAVE?" YEAH, that's so fast.
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different question. Now, there's one thing I loved in the film and a very funny scene, the principal who runs the night school, who was a guy who you went to your character went to school with.
Speaker A
Yes, yes. And you you had butted heads. You had sort of bullied him a little bit back in the day.
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I did. Back in the day he and I we had a little rough path. I was the guy that picked on him. I made his high school rough and he has the opportunity to return the favor by making my night
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school time as rough as possible. There's a scene then which you talk to him and uh you upbraid him a little bit for talking black.
Speaker A
Yes. You say which is kind of like I guess his black voice you say.
Speaker A
Yeah, I caught him talking in the black voice. Okay, now now so explain this to me.
Speaker A
What is it Is this when someone like me for example would say to you someone like I'm looking after my business?
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Yeah, that's like I would I would go wild if you say that. So that would be a wrong thing for me to say.
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Well, it's not that it's wrong. I would just say you're you're you're talking in the black voice. You're trying to So so can I Could I say like damn she thick? Would that be a No, that's not Cuz I hear the kids say this and I want
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to join in. But you can't like that's cuz I know you don't say that on a regular. If I If I knew that you said that on a regular basis then it's fine. But if you talk and you're having a regular
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conversation. It's like It's like talking to somebody that does radio and they're talking to you in a normal voice and then as soon as they go on air they're like welcome to WZ [laughter] 100.
Speaker A
What just happened man? That's not how you talk. I should just be aware and be conscious.
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So I if if Tiffany says something I shouldn't go oh no she did. No, you shouldn't.
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I shouldn't do No, you shouldn't say checking where the line is. I WOULD HAVE BUT I WILL I WILL SAY THAT YOU NAILED the damn she thick. It was very good the way you said it.
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[laughter] I mean if he came at me and was like damn Tiffany you thick I'll be like oh my goodness.
Speaker A
IT WOULD BE A LITTLE SHOCKING THE WAY you would have to accept it. Well, now I'm even more confused.
Speaker A
Uh in the film yeah people always mention your your size to you comically in the movies there and you seem pretty comfortable about that. But you get called a lot of names in the film and I can't help but think some of these must
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be hurtful to you. Someone calls you a burnt leprechaun. Yeah. Yeah, yeah that's uh that was Tiffany.
Speaker A
Tiffany. I mean did you come up with that? I MADE THAT ONE UP. YOU KNOW I'M PROUD OF THAT ONE. HE WAS WEARING GREEN AND that's what I saw. I was like he looked like a leprechaun.
Speaker A
No, that was that was one of the ones where I actually yelled cut. I was like hey wait what what [laughter] What was that Tiffany? She said I thought it was good. I thought it Uh but the cool thing is you know these
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things they're sort of jokes in themselves in the film but you because you own it yourself and And don't care about it and it gives them no power.
Speaker A
When you were a kid, did you did you have this sort of thing at school though? Did you suffer these sort of nicknames?
Speaker A
Well, no. See, what people don't understand, as a kid, I was a sex symbol. The The thing about me in my younger days, I had choices, you know? I chose comedy, but modeling chose me. And this was a
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[laughter] You know, the walks down a hallway were long walks because it was always runway like. Um there was a moment where I remember uh kids were yelling like, "I wish we could be like you." Um and I said, "Maybe. Maybe you could."
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Tiffany, I told you about this, how popular I was. Yeah, you did. Yeah, I guess so. When did your life change? It was Was it Girls Night that that really kind of you you followed me with?
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called Girls Night. It's called Girls Trip. Okay, I apologize. I apologize. sassy she get? You see how sassy she get right there?
Speaker A
I didn't get sassy at all. It got very sassy. I helped him like be careful too. I was not being sassy.
Speaker A
It got a little sassy. No, this is sassy. All right, okay. All right. Okay.
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You two should be in a relationship. I mean, I guess you are, but you you seem like a married couple to me.
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no way. Tiffany, we're just kidding now. If you were both Were you single? If you were single again, would you do you THINK HELL NO.
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WHY NOT? CUZ SHE WAS A MASCOT. I AIN'T GOING TO BE WITH CUZ WE WERE THE MASCOTS? NO.
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NO WAY AT ALL. OKAY. [applause] [music] [applause] [applause and cheering] [applause] THANK YOU BOTH FOR BEING IT'S GREAT TO HAVE you both on the show. Um Rebel, since I last saw you a few years ago, your life has been through some big
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changes. You are now a married person. Oh, yeah. Yeah, [applause] taken. Married to I got married in Sardinia. It was beautiful. It was gorgeous and yeah, very very happy to be married.
Speaker A
And didn't you didn't your sister marry you? Is that what this is? Well, my sister she has a side hustle as a wedding celebrant. So she actually did the kind of for show wedding was in Italy and then we got legally married in
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Australia and then my sister she had a busy week cuz she married me and then she married my mom the next day.
Speaker A
Wow. Yeah. Was that like a that was like a two for one family deal?
Speaker A
We didn't pay her and she's really like upset about that. [laughter] Uh but also you become a mom as well.
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Yes. Yes. So I have a I have a daughter. [applause and cheering] How lovely.
Speaker A
That's a lovely picture. Her name her name is Royce and I probably shouldn't have named her after British luxury car brand because she turns out she's a bit high maintenance.
Speaker A
[laughter] She's kind of conned me into massaging her feet before she goes to sleep. And sometimes it's not like two minutes.
Speaker A
It's like 45 minutes of baby foot massage and I was doing it last night for like almost an hour and I said I should have called you Volvo.
Speaker A
Are you and Rebel have something in common? I don't know if you know this. You have both sung in musicals.
Speaker A
Yeah. What? I'm not even surprised have you sung in? Fat Friends. Oh. I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN THAT. YEAH. YEAH.
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YEAH. I'll tell you what, I ruined it. [laughter] It's worse when you see the audience laughing and as soon as you start singing and then the audience are like he's going to sing here. He's not pitch perfect. It's terrible.
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But that happened to me when I started acting. I thought I was going to be a serious actress and I went on stage and then from the first line people started laughing.
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[laughter] I just went with it. Yeah. What were you doing? You were doing like big roles like Shakespeare or something like Oh yeah. I mean back in the day I did like the classics like Shakespeare and Marlowe and not Home and Away. Not that
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classic. Rebel, this one is like you. If you're a fan of Rebel as indeed I am, has a new musical film coming out.
Speaker A
Yeah, speaking of Shakespeare, yeah. Speaking of Shakespeare, it's in cinemas on the 11th of June. And but it's a flip on what you might think cuz it's not Romeo and Juliet, it is Juliet and Romeo, a bit different.
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A bit different. So what's the difference? What have they done differently this time? Because it's a it's They've flipped it a little bit. It's I mean it's kind of got all if you love the classic love story, you've got that.
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But it's kind of it's a pop musical take as well on Romeo and Juliet. So if you've got kids and they like movies like The Descendants on Disney, you know, it's it's kind of got these pop songs that that are like that. But it's
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set in 13th century Verona. And we shot in real medieval castles. And it's an amazing cast.
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Yeah, Jason Isaacs who's who's here tonight is in it. Like that was so cool to work with him. I'm like, "Oh my god, he's from Harry Potter." [snorts] [cheering] WHAT A GOOD LOOKING MAN RIGHT NOW. MARLON, THANK YOU FOR LETTING
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ME KNOW. GOOD TO GO. [cheering] MARLON. IT'S VERY HANDSOME. MARLON. MARLON, I'm so excited you're on the show.
Speaker A
I'm I'm excited you're here. [cheering] I'M EXCITED YOU'RE HERE. AND LET ME JUST ASK, what's that in your hand? It's not like a comforter blanket, is it? It's not something you've had since you were a baby, is it?
Speaker A
No, this is black men sweat. Okay. And so this is for when I sweat I could do this. If you ever watch all every black man in suits, they sweat. Obama after speeches, if you watch him, he's got a little towel. He just Yeah.
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PREACHERS, AND THE LORD SAID YEAH ACTUALLY. SO [applause] IT GOES WITH THE TERRITORY. OKAY, now before we talk about your movies, which I'm a fan of, you come from a very very large family, don't you? The Wayans. There there were there
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10 kids, isn't in a fam Yeah, it's 10. It's not in a family no more. We're We're considered a population. It's like The Chinese are getting really scared.
Speaker A
Like Too many I always want my sisters to stop reproducing. It's like, "Look, you guys it's getting even bigger cuz you're not working and we got to take care of it. I I I'm tired. I just at this point
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you got I got 45 nephews AND NIECES." WOAH. WOW. YOU you see I'm too young for this. You know what I mean?
Speaker A
Y'all making me feel old. Like my We got so many kids in my family my father got stretch marks.
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But why was it broke cuz growing up you were you were not an affluent family.
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Wasn't a well-off family. So you were you had a fairly poor upbringing, didn't you?
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Is that English for broke as [ __ ] Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a very proper way to put it.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yet you all went off into these kind of stellar careers most of you in media big big careers. Now where did that come from? How how come your family in particular did you?
Speaker A
Um I think poverty you know some people had you know when when you're in the ghetto you have you know there's a couple of things that get you out either you stay in school and you work hard and
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you become like a lawyer or like a doctor. We ain't that smart. Um or you're athletic and you you you become a basketball player. My whole family got flat feet. Um Jokes was what we do. We just look at
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life and go instead of crying about like the things in our life we always said what's funny about it. What's funny about poverty? What's funny about you know funerals? We go to cuz you know in the projects a lot of people die. So we
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go to funerals and be like, "What's funny about this funeral?" And it's just the way our sick mind works. Like my I'm serious like I I went to my cousin's funeral and my auntie dressed him in some jeans and some Air Force Ones in
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the casket. So he's sitting in the casket like this and me and my brothers is like, "If there's a guest list in heaven city ain't getting in." If there's a dress code he ain't getting in with them jeans on.
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St. Pete going to be at the gate like, "I'm sorry city man you can't get in with them jeans." Hey now I have a picture here of you there's a selfie. You like taking selfies when you're out and about. We've
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only spoke We have some pictures, but there's this one here. Let's see the one This was taken at a funeral, I believe.
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You took a selfie. my cousin's right there. No, oh, that's one That's my auntie's funeral. Yeah, that one. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
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I don't know whether that's a He said you're having a beautiful Yeah, yeah, you look like you're having a good time at that funeral.
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Oh, well, we have a blast at every funeral. And most funny about that funeral is my cousin I did like a eulogy and my cousin they so ghetto they went and um they sold the eulogy the special appearances by the Wayans family.
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And they sold the funeral like in the streets like a bootleg. I'm dead serious and I like we made up I so we and my brothers we made a flyer for like the after party like at Mo'Nique's death funeral come party it
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up with our Mo'Nique. [laughter] WE'RE JUST A SICK TWISTED FAMILY, but it's good. Uh okay, let's talk about 50 Shades of Black. Were you a fan of 50 Shades of Grey the book, 50 Shades of Grey the movie? Were you a fan of either of those
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before you came up with the idea for this? Well, I started reading the book because um all like I seen women on the plane, you know, and they were like girls love the book. Like they were hot and
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bothered. You know a woman's into a book when she curls up like this here.
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[applause] And so initially I read it because, you know, I wanted to add to my You can never be too good in bed. So I started reading the book and I started laughing at page like five and I just
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was like this is because he was taken so serious. I was like this is funny. So I originally was going to write my first parody book and then I seen the movie and I said [ __ ] the book.
Speaker A
[laughter] I was like I got to do the movie. And you met E.L. James who wrote the Yes, she's a sweetheart.
Speaker A
You met her, didn't you? Did she know you were doing this? Yes, one of my buddies introduced me with that Chateau Marmont and he goes, uh, "E.L. James, this is Marlon Wayans.
Speaker A
He's the guy that's making fun of your movie. Bye." And so we sat, we had some cocktails. I just want to tell you guys right now, E.L. James can drink.
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[applause] 50 Shades of Black. Wow. Well, you are I guess you would say you are ripped. You are hunched.
Speaker A
Yes. I figured if I was going to be naked for three quarters of a movie, the least I can do is have a six-pack. Cuz when you get like 40, something happens where you can't get the whole thing. You
Speaker A
just get the top two. Yeah. And it's weird. Or either that, when you get all six, you get Harvey Keitel abs.
Speaker A
You know, the abs with the belly underneath it. You know, like the still Sylvester Stallone now abs. And so I really worked hard cuz I I wanted to look good.
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