Haunted Mansion's Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish & More on Paranormal Events
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00:00 [knocking]
00:02 [door creaking]
00:04 Wait!
00:05 I should warn you, before you step inside the house, this could change the course of your entire life.
00:10 I'm not afraid of a couple ghosts.
00:12 You say that now.
00:24 I think it's got all the things, besides all the Easter eggs. I like joking that it's got more Easter eggs than a Taylor Swift video.
00:30 But, um, I think it's got a lot of heart.
00:33 You know, people are definitely going there for the jump scares and the spookiness and the scariness, actually, that it's elevated to.
00:39 Um, and the comedy and all of that stuff.
00:41 But there's just such a richness of history and culture and spirituality and just these conversations around chosen family and grief and mourning
00:51 and just processing love in all of its stages, you know, and I love the maneuvering of it.
00:56 Like, you know, you're tearing up at one point and then you're guffawing at the next and I think it's cathartic.
01:01 It felt cathartic to do and it felt cathartic to watch and I think we all need that right now.
01:06 Well, we had a great time making it, but you're kind of aware with a movie like this that you sometimes don't have with other projects
01:13 where it's a little bit of a, you know, responsibility because people love this attraction and they're so familiar with it.
01:21 So I think the movie does a good job and Justin did a good job on sort of delivering what people love about that ride and that experience.
01:30 And there's just something in us that we like to be scared.
01:33 You're not that scary. You're really not.
01:36 You're pretty terrifying.
01:38 Can you turn around just while I finish this? Thank you.
01:40 It's nostalgic. I mean, it's the ride that everybody knows, I think.
01:45 Why do you think they're going to do it?
01:47 Oh, I think it's if you say what's your favorite attraction at Disneyland, most people will say Haunted Mansion.
01:54 And what's great about it is it's nostalgic.
01:57 There's this great feeling of knowing the story, knowing what it feels like, and then a very modern kind of spin on the whole thing.
02:08 Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Haunted Mansion.
02:13 You ready to have your mind blown?
02:15 We have 999 happy haunts, but there's room for more.
02:21 We could be trapped here forever, which offers you this chilling challenge.
02:25 Is anybody else seeing this?
02:27 To find a way out.
02:29 I can show you, but it will cost you three dollars.
02:33 What? It's a hiring and robbery.
02:34 Who said that?
02:35 Obviously, people have been asking me that today. Do I like to be scared?
02:38 And I said, yeah, I do like to be scared.
02:40 But then I think about times where, you know, my son or I just mentioned my friend Woody Harrelson will kind of, you know, they like to scare you.
02:48 And I don't like getting scared that way.
02:50 I guess in the sense of like the idea of ghosts, like I do like the idea of there being something sort of supernatural and unexplainable.
02:59 I would like to believe in a world that has, you know, something like that.
03:03 And I don't know why I just tend to always think I don't think of ghosts as being, you know, negative.
03:09 When I say I like to believe in ghosts, somehow I see them as friendly.
03:13 Yeah.
03:14 Things are about to get weird.
03:19 Hauntings just keep getting worse and worse.
03:23 You're going to scare us.
03:24 No, we're going to scare you.
03:26 I really wanted to achieve a certain kind of performance in a role that I was doing.
03:33 So I just I called him my brother who I lost a while back, some years back.
03:40 And I just asked him to guide me and help me.
03:44 And I didn't know if I'd be able to get to this point, if I would be able to surpass myself.
03:48 I'd never done anything like it.
03:50 And right when I thought I couldn't do it, it was very strange.
03:54 It just happened.
03:56 I did what I was trying to do in the performance.
03:59 I didn't know how to cry on cue.
04:01 It was a hard thing.
04:03 And it just happened.
04:06 Ever since that moment, I realized, oh, he's with me in these challenging times.
04:11 And he's there supporting me.
04:13 And it's real.
04:14 And I feel it.
04:15 And, like, I can talk to him and talk to him in dreams and stuff.
04:18 So it's a beautiful thing to be able to have that kind of communication and know that it exists.
04:23 And it is something that's really kind of hard to explain.
04:26 But it's there.
04:28 We all grew up going to the Haunted Mansion as an attraction.
04:32 So we know already, welcome, foolish mortals.
04:37 We know what it's like to see the crystal ball and understand that there are people who believe deeply in the mystical world.
04:46 You know, for the research for this movie, okay, I spent about $3,000.
04:50 That's tax write-off because it's research for the movie.
04:52 And I hired different types of, you know, spiritual workers, if you will, to teach me, to guide me, to show me what they do.
05:02 Maybe I could tap into myself.
05:03 But what I realized is I have intuition, which is, I think, more powerful than all of that.
05:08 And you know what I noticed?
05:10 Other people can see things coming for you more than you can see things coming for you.
05:14 You know, like she said something to me one day, and I was like, what?
05:17 And then, bam, she was right.
05:19 Because she got experience.
05:21 I'm old.
05:22 We find someone who can communicate with these ghosts.
05:25 People used to eat here.
05:30 Told you she's good.
05:32 It's a dining room.
05:33 Now, let me tell you something.
05:34 I just got a house, and it's going to be 100 years old in, like, three years.
05:39 My house is also 100 years old.
05:41 Yeah.
05:42 I don't have any ghosts.
05:43 Now, I don't -- at first, when I first went into the house, I thought, oh, man, something's not right in this house.
05:49 Is there a ghost in the house?
05:50 And then I realized.
05:52 You're a ghost.
05:53 I was hearing scratches.
05:54 I was hearing things.
05:55 And, like, stuff was moving in the kitchen.
05:57 What?
05:58 It was a rat in the house.
06:00 Uh-oh.
06:01 Not today, Satan.
06:03 You know, Danny, I love working with Danny DeVito just because I've, you know, admired him for so long.
06:09 You know, he has a great sense of humor.
06:11 And it's also nice to see someone who, you know, has, you know, done so much great stuff who still seems kind of excited and enjoys the process.
06:20 It was just such a great band of people that were, like, always doing interesting things and keeping things light and fun.
06:28 And I think my -- the relationship that I was able to develop with Chase Dillon, who's a young actor, was something I found very valuable to cultivate during this experience.
06:40 And to meet Danny, who is, like, you know, I've been watching him since I was, like, little, watching VCRs.
06:47 If y'all know what those are.
06:49 So I used to be rewinding him on the VCR as the Penguin a long time ago.
06:53 Yes.
06:54 So I never think I would ever be on a set with him.
06:56 So then, like, meeting him was just really -- he was much bigger and more glorious than I could have imagined that he would be as a person.
07:03 Just this, like, big force of a man who I really appreciate.
07:08 And, you know, getting to work with Jamie again, it was a dream.
07:12 Rosario is just an amazing, like, light-hearted, real genuine person that you don't always meet in this business.
07:21 And so it was amazing.
07:23 Oh, don't forget Owen.
07:24 I think one of my favorite things about Owen was finding him for the scene.
07:28 Because he would constantly just disappear from set if there was a cut, if we were moving on.
07:33 He'd be like, "Where is he?"
07:35 He's, like, he's wandering out of the stages.
07:37 "There's a deer. Did you know there's a deer?"
07:39 Yeah, he picked his deer over there.
07:41 You're like, "Really, Owen? Cool, cool, cool."
07:43 He had a little bike. He'd just be going on the bike.
07:45 Like, "Where's Owen at?"
07:47 I got footage. I finally got footage.
07:48 It was hard to catch him, but it was just, like, to see him in his whole look.
07:51 So funny, that dude.
07:53 Just, like, naturally.
07:54 He'd just, like, go from riding the bike to jumping on set and instantly be funny.
07:57 I'm like, "How are you?"
07:58 Incredible.
07:59 God, give us a break.
08:00 There's so many bad people in the world.
08:03 Haunt them.
08:04 Amen.
08:05 (upbeat music)
08:07 (upbeat music)