Hypothetical Speaking with The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
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00:00 - Oh, that's good.
00:00 - Peter Dinklage. - Peter Dinklage, yeah.
00:02 No doubt about it.
00:03 - Yeah, Peter Dinklage is my president.
00:05 - Yeah, Peter Dinklage.
00:05 (laughing)
00:06 (upbeat music)
00:10 - Hi, we're the cast of The Hunger Games,
00:11 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
00:13 - And this is Hypothetically Speaking
00:15 with Entertainment Weekly.
00:17 - I would choose Hunter 'cause she would dress me
00:19 really nice.
00:20 - That's true.
00:21 - You know?
00:21 - But would that make you survive?
00:23 Would that get you through the games?
00:24 - Well, you know, I feel like my Hunger Games strategy,
00:25 as I've told you before, is to perform for people.
00:29 Because there is no way I stand a chance,
00:30 physically, in the ring.
00:32 - Mentor, mentor, mentor.
00:34 - I think Peter.
00:36 - I would choose Peter.
00:37 - Oh, so true.
00:38 - Yeah.
00:39 - So true.
00:40 Or Viola.
00:42 - I think Peter would be mine.
00:44 - Yeah?
00:45 - He's got this--
00:45 - I'll go with Viola.
00:46 - He's got this thing about him.
00:47 - But I also feel like you and I do a pretty good job
00:49 in the movie, so.
00:51 - Yeah, we do, yeah.
00:52 - I would also pick you, don't worry, Tom.
00:54 - Okay, I would not pick you, no offense.
00:56 I would pick Viola Davis.
00:57 - So pick me.
00:58 - I'm gonna go, I'm changing my answer.
01:00 Jason Schwartzman.
01:01 - Jason Schwartzman.
01:02 - Because even if I go down, I'm gonna go down laughing.
01:05 - Probably you.
01:06 - Why?
01:07 - I think you.
01:08 - Why?
01:09 - Everybody loves you.
01:09 (laughing)
01:11 - What?
01:12 No, I mean, I don't know.
01:15 I think in terms of talent, like, in the,
01:18 Rachel Sainz.
01:19 - Yeah, she be singing.
01:20 - Like, she be, yeah.
01:21 - That's true, yeah.
01:22 - I'm gonna say Josh, 'cause he's charismatic.
01:26 - He's charismatic, yeah.
01:27 - I appreciate that.
01:28 - No, you're a great singer.
01:30 I mean, you're just like Lucy Gray.
01:32 You sing, you're fierce.
01:33 I think it would be you.
01:34 - Okay, I'll take it.
01:35 - Yeah, I think it's you.
01:36 - I think, I would pick Josh, I think.
01:38 - She's being humble, is her.
01:39 - No, I would pick Josh.
01:40 He could just, like, really tell some jokes
01:43 and get the camera and everybody.
01:43 - Yeah, he's fun, he's fun.
01:44 - They would come flying in.
01:46 (laughing)
01:47 - Ooh.
01:48 - Jason.
01:51 - Definitely Jason Schwartzman.
01:51 - Jason for president.
01:53 - Jason for president.
01:54 - Yes.
01:55 - Yeah.
01:56 - Oh, that's good.
01:56 - Peter Dinklage, yeah, no doubt about it.
01:58 - Yeah, Peter Dinklage is gonna be president.
02:00 - Yeah, Peter Dinklage.
02:01 (laughing)
02:02 - We both figured out that neither of us are gonna
02:04 archery. - We're not, we're not.
02:05 - Good, we got it.
02:06 - Tom seems-- - I'm trying to feel like Tom.
02:07 - Tom seems dexterous.
02:09 - Yeah.
02:10 - So, I actually played, one of my first ever roles
02:13 as a child, not as a child actor,
02:14 but as an actor when I was trying to make it,
02:16 was feral child number three or something
02:19 in Scott's Robin Hood, and I got bow and arrow training.
02:22 I wore these fake prosthetic--
02:23 - No, no, no.
02:24 - Yeah, I never told you this story.
02:25 - No, I know this.
02:26 - You did?
02:27 - Yeah, 'cause Oscar's in it.
02:28 - Yeah, Oscar Isaacson, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:28 When we met, we had a quick chat about it.
02:31 - Yeah.
02:31 - He didn't remember me, obviously.
02:32 - He was like, "Oh no, feral child number three."
02:33 - Yeah, he was like, "Feral child,
02:34 "that was a great performance, man, really, yeah,
02:36 "one of the standout performances."
02:38 (laughing)
02:38 No, but I wore prosthetic feet,
02:40 and I ran around the woods, and I had to shoot a bow and arrow.
02:42 None of it even made it into the film, but I did learn.
02:45 - Then I'm gonna vote Tom.
02:46 - I think I'd be pretty good at the bow and arrow.
02:47 - I'm sorry, feral child number three.
02:49 - I'm gonna vote feral child number three.
02:51 - Maybe still Tom.
02:53 - Yeah, Tom's a smart cookie.
02:56 - Ooh.
02:57 - That's tricky, 'cause then we have to pick someone
02:59 who's like, kinda a naughty kid.
03:02 - Oh, I was gonna say like, who's really smart,
03:04 'cause she'd want also like, a really smart person.
03:05 - She'd want someone savvy.
03:08 - Yeah.
03:08 I don't know, I don't know.
03:11 - Who's, who's like, future game maker?
03:14 - I'm gonna say like, Zoey Renee.
03:16 - Zoey.
03:17 - Yeah.
03:18 - Zoey, Zoey's Lissy in the movie.
03:21 She's Jessup's mentor, and every time I talk to her,
03:25 I'm just like, you are so wildly intelligent.
03:27 - She is, that's true, yeah.
03:29 - I'm gonna go with Zoey.
03:31 Also because she loves Viola so much.
03:33 - She does love Viola.
03:34 I'm gonna go with Mackenzie, who plays horrible.
03:37 'Cause she's just, she's wily.
03:40 She's got that thing about her.
03:40 - Yeah, she's cunning.
03:41 - Yeah.
03:42 - Oh man, both of them suck.
03:44 - They both suck.
03:45 - Both of them do terrible things.
03:46 - You both have to do some pretty horrible stuff.
03:48 - I'd say probably a mentor,
03:50 just because then at least you're trying
03:51 to help someone survive.
03:52 - Yeah.
03:53 - It's like the opposite.
03:54 So yeah, for me a mentor.
03:55 - I guess a mentor.
03:56 - Yeah, game making could be fun though.
03:57 - Yeah.
03:58 - If you're having a bad day.
03:59 - But if I had to be a game maker, I would be Plutarch.
04:02 - Plutarch, that's cool.
04:03 - Yeah, I would be Philip Seymour Hoffman.
04:05 - Yeah, he's, the OG is the best.
04:07 - Yeah.
04:07 - I was thinking like, as a game maker,
04:09 you could like, you have more power
04:12 to make things kind of easier,
04:13 but then also like, everybody's still
04:15 gonna meet the same fate.
04:16 So then, I guess a mentor,
04:18 'cause then there's just like a little bit of hope
04:21 that you can, I don't know, that's a tough one.
04:23 - If I could have a neutral,
04:25 if I was in game making, just in charge of like,
04:29 making the trees and the berries and stuff,
04:32 I would be that, yeah.
04:34 (upbeat music)
04:36 - I think me.
04:39 I have a great taste in music.
04:41 - I'm about to say me.
04:42 (laughing)
04:43 I feel like everybody is gonna be like me,
04:46 because everyone loves their own music.
04:48 - Of course.
04:49 - I don't know if y'all would like my music, though.
04:49 - But mine is funner.
04:50 Mine is very fun.
04:53 - I don't know, mine is pretty fun, too.
04:54 - But can you, but it's a lot of like,
04:56 probably techno now.
04:58 - I mean, sometimes.
04:59 - Which is fun, which is fun,
04:59 but can you sing along to techno at a riot?
05:01 - I have variety, though.
05:03 I don't only listen to techno, I'm not crazy.
05:06 - I've been on plenty of road trip with Josh,
05:07 so I'm gonna have to go with him, yeah.
05:09 But I do like your taste in music as well,
05:11 because Tom used to pick the music in the makeup trailer.
05:14 - I guess I did.
05:15 - Yeah, because you were always getting your wigs on.
05:17 - Usually I was the first in,
05:18 because I had the layers of bald caps and wigs.
05:20 - Me too, yeah.
05:21 I would say you.
05:24 - Oh yeah, thank you, that's very nice.
05:26 I would say Jason again,
05:27 because Jason is a musician, a great musician,
05:30 and has really good taste.
05:33 - Jason has really good taste in movies.
05:34 - Yeah, actually.
05:35 - Jason's seen everything.
05:37 - Actually, you're probably Jason.
05:38 I'd want to sit through a movie marathon with him
05:41 that you'd pick, that would be the most interesting.
05:42 - And I'd also like to sit through a marathon
05:44 of his movies with him.
05:45 I feel like Jason probably has a crazy film repertoire.
05:50 - I bet it's all over the map.
05:52 - Yeah. - Yeah.
05:53 I'm gonna say Jason.
05:54 - Yeah.
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