David Benioff, D.B. Weiss & Alexander Woo opened up about their new Netflix show '3 Body Problem' during a game of "The Last Time I..." with The Hollywood Reporter on set of their cover shoot. The trio also shared the last television shows they watched that inspired them. Plus, Benioff and Weiss revealed when they stopped googling themselves and 'Game of Thrones,' as well as the last time someone quoted the iconic series to them and when they last re-watched an old episode. '3 Body Problem' premieres on Netflix on Mar. 21, 2024.
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00:00 The last time I googled myself was season two of Game of Thrones and I've never done it since.
00:05 And apparently everyone loved it from then on so I'm happy.
00:08 The best of mine.
00:10 That's what Dan told me.
00:11 Hi I'm David Benioff.
00:12 I'm Dan Weiss.
00:14 And I'm Alex Wu.
00:15 We're here with The Hollywood Reporter and we're gonna play The Last Time I...
00:20 The last time I wrote a script I was proud of would be the season of Three-Body Problem.
00:27 I would say the same.
00:29 Yeah I mean for all of us I think the last time I wrote a script I was proud of was on this show.
00:36 I hope others agree.
00:40 I don't think there's anything quite like our show.
00:42 There's so many different strands and different worlds at play.
00:46 Different characters not just in one place but across different times and different
00:52 sort of realities almost.
00:54 I'm proud most of all of I think the way that we just tied those things together into what I hope
01:01 is a coherent kind of unified viewing experience.
01:05 Yeah I'm really excited to share with everyone things they have never seen before.
01:11 Things that we've never tried putting on screen.
01:14 Things that no one has ever put on screen before.
01:17 The last time I googled myself was season two of Game of Thrones and I've never done it since.
01:23 It's a cold turkey experience.
01:25 No more googling yourself.
01:28 And apparently everyone loved it from then on so I'm happy.
01:31 To the best of my knowledge.
01:32 That's what Dan told me.
01:33 The last time I watched a TV show that inspired me was last night watching Adventure Time with
01:39 my son which I watch with him every night and before I watched it with him I watched it with
01:44 my two older daughters so I've now probably watched every episode of that show five times
01:49 at least and yet it constantly surprises me if I could take part in something that was half as good
01:54 or half as memorable I would be a happy man.
01:57 Most recently I finished What We Do in the Shadows.
02:00 It's a show that I never thought had a reason to exist because it came out of a perfect little
02:06 like gem of a movie and I really really enjoyed everything about that.
02:12 And the new show that I have only two episodes three episodes into
02:18 thinking about science fiction which is what we're doing here it's called Scavenger's Reign
02:22 and it's an animated show and it's really kind of beautiful and wild and just very
02:29 unusual and I've been really enjoying that as well.
02:33 The last time I saw a show that really inspired me is either the rehearsal because of what you
02:41 can do with the medium and I don't know if it inspires me but I do obsessively watch
02:46 a British show called Taskmaster which is kind of a comedy game show but it is an oddly sort of
02:54 serialized game show and after you know three or four or five episodes you really think you
02:59 know these people and in a completely different way you know that's what we're doing you know
03:07 with the one hour drama is you know getting the audience to build a relationship with
03:13 characters over time.
03:15 The last time somebody quoted one of my shows to me my kids paraphrased Lannisters always pay
03:22 their debts to me because they were pissed off at me about something or other and like
03:27 telling me that I was going to get mine sooner or later so we'll see.
03:33 We went to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl it was Ramin Djawadi our composer the composer from
03:38 Game of Thrones and also Three Body Problem was playing the Game of Thrones score and
03:44 we went and we went with another friend of ours Michelle and and and Chell said we kept
03:51 seeing people walk by with t-shirts that said "I drink and I know things" which is a Tyrion
03:57 Lannister line that Dan wrote and I said to Chell I'm jealous because all these people are wearing
04:02 these shirts with Dan's line.
04:05 I'd never watched it when it was on TV because by the time it got on to the TV I had already
04:11 seen each one a hundred times and I was I was good but my kids got to an age my son turned 13
04:18 and I figured well that's okay I can I can show them this and I figured I would watch the show
04:23 one time again in my life all the way through and that would probably be it so I watched the
04:29 whole thing with my family with my wife and my kids it was really nice to sit back and know there
04:38 was nothing you could do to change or affect anything but it was all there and you could
04:43 just sit and watch the whole thing and seeing it through their eyes was was really great I
04:49 enjoyed that a lot.
04:49 Thanks for watching us on The Hollywood Reporter.