Millie Bobby Brown's 'Stranger Things' Co-Star Matthew Modine Officiating Her We
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00:00 >> I'm excited about this.
00:02 Welcome back.
00:03 Our next guest is starting so
00:04 many projects that we love from
00:06 Oppenheimer to stranger things.
00:07 >> Please welcome to the show
00:08 our friend Matthew Modine.
00:10 Looking so cute.
00:11 >> My man.
00:12 And I got to talk about this
00:14 because we were just talking
00:15 about it off air.
00:16 But we're kind of from around
00:17 the same neighborhood.
00:18 I'm from chula vista and your
00:20 parents own a Mexican restaurant
00:22 in chula vista.
00:23 >> They do.
00:24 >> Oh, my god, that's crazy.
00:26 >> Is it still there?
00:27 >> No, it's still there.
00:28 >> It's gone.
00:30 >> It's gone, right?
00:31 But it was there forever.
00:32 Going up, oh, my gosh.
00:33 I used to think that was a
00:34 rumor.
00:35 But they really did because he's
00:36 from imperial beach, which is a
00:37 little town right next to
00:38 chula vista, like neighboring
00:39 cities.
00:40 So that was the biggest thing
00:41 down there.
00:42 >> That's the coolest thing that
00:43 Matthew Modine down there.
00:44 >> So cool down there.
00:45 >> It's funny because when you
00:46 say you're from San Diego, it
00:47 sounds posh.
00:48 >> Right.
00:49 >> But chula vista and I.B.
00:50 >> No, we're border town.
00:51 >> Yeah, it's not --
00:52 >> I love it.
00:53 >> Every time I see you, I bring
00:55 up vision quest and I know it's
00:57 Mario's favorite movie, too.
00:59 When you were making it, did you
01:01 know what this movie was really
01:02 going to mean to so many people?
01:04 >> You never do.
01:05 But the lesson is that you
01:06 always have to do your best
01:07 because you don't know.
01:09 So every project, every time you
01:11 sit down to have a conversation
01:13 with somebody, be the best you
01:14 can.
01:15 Do the best you can.
01:16 And, you know, just show up and
01:18 do the best you can.
01:19 So that's how I've approached my
01:21 career and just do the best you
01:23 can because you never know
01:24 what's going to be successful.
01:26 >> Loud and swaying.
01:27 You were so great in that.
01:28 The soundtrack was incredible.
01:29 >> There was never a better
01:30 soundtrack.
01:31 >> I'm getting ready to show my
01:32 kids to watch it again.
01:33 That's how you know it holds up.
01:35 By the way, speaking of holding
01:36 up, congratulations, you were in
01:38 Oppenheimer, of course, which is
01:40 in one best picture.
01:41 What did you do on Oscar night?
01:44 >> Oh, on Oscar night, I was
01:46 watching the New York knicks and
01:48 the Philadelphia 76ers.
01:49 >> Look at your court side right
01:51 there on Oscar night.
01:52 That's great.
01:53 That is fantastic.
01:54 >> That's Caleb from
01:55 "Stranger things."
01:56 He loaned me those glasses.
01:57 He said, you got to look fly.
02:00 >> It worked.
02:01 >> Look fly.
02:02 >> We loved you on "Stranger
02:04 things."
02:05 I did not like that.
02:06 That doctor was a nasty, nasty
02:07 doctor.
02:08 Is it true you're going to
02:09 officiate Millie Bobby Brown and
02:11 Jake Bon Jovi's wedding?
02:12 >> I am.
02:13 I have one of those licenses to
02:15 get people married, and Millie
02:17 thought it would be great, and
02:19 then Jake said it would be a
02:20 great idea.
02:21 So I wrote the wedding vows, and
02:23 they love what I wrote for them
02:25 to join hands and become a
02:27 husband and wife.
02:28 >> That's hilarious.
02:29 >> Yeah.
02:30 >> Have you done this before?
02:32 >> I've done it one time before.
02:34 Yeah, during COVID.
02:36 In upstate New York.
02:37 It was an outdoor wedding, and
02:39 it was weird.
02:41 But it's such a beautiful thing
02:43 to be able to join two people in
02:46 holy matrimony, you know?
02:48 It's a special -- I've been
02:50 married 44 years.
02:51 >> Wow.
02:52 And in Hollywood.
02:53 >> It's amazing when it works.
02:55 >> It's awesome when it does.
02:57 That's cool.
02:58 You're like a veteran now.
02:59 >> Veteran.
03:00 >> But officiating these
03:01 weddings now, that's fantastic.
03:03 Speaking of stranger things, is
03:04 there a way to fit you into this
03:06 next season?
03:07 People can come back.
03:08 You're always in the flashbacks
03:09 too.
03:10 >> Yeah, that's right.
03:11 I think the interesting thing
03:12 about Dr. Brenner is how did he
03:14 get that job?
03:15 How do you go to the government
03:16 and say I want to do these
03:18 experiments with young kids?
03:19 >> I think it's a great question.
03:20 I think it's a great question.
03:21 I think it's a great question.
03:22 I think it's a great question.
03:23 I think it's a great question.
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03:38 I think it's a great question.
03:39 I think it's a great question.
03:40 I think it's a great question.
03:41 I think it's a great question.
03:42 >> You didn't think it would be
03:43 that easy, did you?
03:44 >> Yeah.
03:45 >> I thought that was opening
03:46 the door to a possibility that --
03:48 >> I have a little more sympathy
03:50 for the bad doctor.
03:51 >> I always assumed that the
03:53 government just recognized that
03:54 you had a talent or a special set
03:56 of skills and then they tapped
03:58 into that.
03:59 >> You scared me.
04:00 >> It's ambiguous.
04:01 I love it.
04:02 >> Was it the bunny or the cat?
04:04 >> He's doing real work over
04:05 there.
04:06 Speaking of which, tell us about
04:07 -- you've got a new movie now,
04:09 "Hard miles."
04:10 Tell us about that.
04:11 >> "Hard miles" is based on a
04:12 true story about a man named
04:14 Greg Townsend who -- he was a
04:16 bicyclist and he thought if he
04:20 could take these four troubled
04:22 youth and teach them how to weld
04:24 their bikes, build their
04:25 bicycles, that they'd be making
04:27 something that they'd be proud
04:28 of and then take them on this
04:30 long ride, 762 miles from Denver,
04:34 Colorado, to the Grand Canyon,
04:36 that he'd be able to help them
04:37 see that the world is bigger
04:39 than the troubled home that they
04:42 were in, the gang that they were
04:44 in, the eating disorder that one
04:46 of them has, and help them --
04:48 like when you put a horse and
04:49 they put the blinders on the
04:50 horse, it blocks out their
04:52 peripheral vision.
04:53 So by taking these kids on the
04:55 ride, he helped them to see that
04:57 it was -- the world was much
04:58 bigger and much better and more
05:00 beautiful than they ever
05:01 imagined.
05:02 And he subsequently taken
05:03 thousands of kids on rides
05:05 across the United States.
05:06 So it's based on a true story.
05:08 >> That's awesome.
05:09 >> Kind of vision quest-esque
05:10 what wrestling did to save --
05:12 I'm serious, like the focus on a
05:14 sport to get you out.
05:15 >> This guy I'm playing is kind
05:16 of like what if Louden Swain
05:18 grew up and became a guy working
05:19 in a place like that.
05:20 >> That's cool.
05:21 >> That's inspirational.
05:22 >> How much riding have you done
05:23 prior?
05:24 >> When I moved to New York
05:25 City, I couldn't afford a subway
05:27 token, so I was selling lemonade
05:29 one day on the street, and this
05:31 guy rode up on a Raleigh beach
05:33 cruiser and threw it on the
05:34 ground and ran.
05:35 I had five gallons of lemonade
05:37 to sell, and I said if I finish
05:39 selling my lemonade and the bike
05:41 is still here, the bike is mine.
05:43 So that bicycle got me from --
05:45 instead of doing two auditions a
05:47 day, I might have been able to
05:48 do five because I could get
05:49 around really quick on the
05:50 bicycle, and I didn't have money
05:52 for a subway.
05:53 So that bicycle might have been
05:55 the thing that was helpful in me
05:57 having a career.
05:58 >> I love that you were selling
06:00 lemonade in New York City.
06:01 Who stopped for you, Matthew?
06:03 >> Full circle right there.
06:04 42nd Street and Lexington.
06:06 >> That's a great area, too,
06:08 right there.
06:09 We actually have a clip of the
06:10 movie, so let's check it out.
06:11 >> I thought you had a clip of
06:12 me selling lemonade.
06:13 >> I want that.
06:15 >> You think I don't know what's
06:16 going on inside your head, huh?
06:19 Right now you feel helpless.
06:20 You think this is all pointless.
06:22 You think this is all a big
06:23 joke.
06:24 You want to get in the van, go
06:26 ahead.
06:27 It's right there.
06:28 You can limp across the road
06:29 right now, and none of this will
06:32 have mattered.
06:34 Or you can set a goal.
06:36 You can set a goal today and
06:38 know that nobody told you what
06:40 you could or couldn't be.
06:44 >> I'm in it.
06:45 I love these.
06:46 >> I'm fired up right now.
06:47 >> I am, too.
06:48 >> It's so awesome.
06:49 >> We did some hard miles.
06:51 >> I bet.
06:52 You have no choice but to get in
06:53 shape right there.
06:54 >> Ice cold lemonade on your
06:55 next visit, my friend.
06:56 >> We got that for you.
06:57 Be sure to check out "Hard
06:59 miles" that's going to drop in
07:01 theaters nationwide in April.
07:02 >> I'm going to go get my
07:03 coffee.
07:04 >> I'm going to get my coffee.
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07:11 >> I'm going to get my coffee.