Bruce Campbell guesses lines from 'The Evil Dead', 'Bubba Ho-Tep', and 'Spider-Man' and talks his future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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00:00You're going beyond the golden moldies here.
00:02Oh, nice!
00:04That draws a big blank.
00:05I should just get, like, $1,000 cash for answering this.
00:08♪♪
00:12Okay, here we go.
00:14Variety says, well, hello, Mr. Fancy Pants.
00:18That's from Army of Darkness.
00:19Ash is talking to King Henry the Red.
00:23Well, hello, Mr. Fancy Pants.
00:26Hello, Mr. Fancy Pants.
00:27You ain't leading but two things right now.
00:30Jack and shit, and Jack left town.
00:32So it's a classic, you know, Midwest, snotty response.
00:35Army of Darkness is pretty quotable.
00:38It got pretty high on the quote factor.
00:40Give me some sugar.
00:41There's a lot of stuff from that movie.
00:43Half of it, Sam, you know, we all made stuff up on the fly,
00:47so a lot of this stuff was not scripted.
00:49We coined the phrase splatstick from Evil Dead 2.
00:52It's horror and comedy, but it's a tricky dance.
00:55We only got into comedy, adding it to horror films,
00:58because we were tired of seeing people faint
01:00at the first Evil Dead.
01:01I mean, there's some nasty stuff in that.
01:03It's an unrated movie.
01:05And so we thought, is that us?
01:07We're horror guys for the rest of our lives?
01:08But we were huge fans of the Three Stooges.
01:11So we thought, let's start putting some of that in there.
01:14Stuff gets too serious.
01:15Writers get too serious.
01:16They get too serious about their own words.
01:18Don't change my perfect words.
01:21Some of the best lines of dialogue
01:22were never written in a screenplay.
01:25The human spider, that's it, that's the best you got?
01:28That is from The Amazing Spider-Man.
01:32The human spider, that's it, that's the best you got?
01:34A little known trivia, as the ring announcer,
01:37it seems like I have a small cameo, they used to call him.
01:41Little throwaway role.
01:42Well, I named the character.
01:44I renamed him The Amazing Spider-Man.
01:48So if my character wasn't in that movie,
01:51this billion dollar franchise
01:53would be called The Human Spider.
01:55So let's never forget the power of a strong cameo.
02:00There's more to it though,
02:01because in the second Spider-Man,
02:03I play an usher, a snooty usher.
02:06But Peter Parker shows up late to see Mary Jane in a play,
02:10her first Broadway play, but he's late
02:12and I won't let him in because it spoils the illusion.
02:15I'm the only character who has ever defeated Spider-Man.
02:18Oh, well, the fourth one, well, it's not Spider-Man movie,
02:21but it's in the Doctor Strange oeuvre.
02:24I play the Pizza Papa, but ask yourself,
02:27really, in the timeline, in the Marvel timeline,
02:30I'm just a Pizza Papa?
02:33Please don't kid yourself.
02:34My contract is that thick for that movie.
02:37Do you think I'd sign a contract that thick
02:39for that simple little throwaway character?
02:41What did I do in that movie?
02:42I delayed Doctor Strange.
02:46I didn't defeat him, we didn't fight.
02:48I delayed him from what?
02:50Did I just save Doctor Strange's life?
02:53The Marvel world really is just starting,
02:54and again, I can only comment so much.
03:01I was just wearing a disguise.
03:03You guys are stuck looking like this.
03:08Ah, boy, that's, now you're starting to,
03:11you're going beyond the golden moldies here.
03:14I was just wearing a disguise.
03:15You guys are stuck looking like this.
03:17That's a typical line, I would say.
03:19You gotta help me on this one.
03:20Oh, oh, oh, uh, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball.
03:25Oh my God, Cars 2.
03:28Okay, yeah, that was a small little cameo.
03:32I didn't even change history with that part.
03:34I was just wearing a disguise.
03:36You guys are stuck looking like that.
03:39It was a bummer that I died,
03:40because those are great for residuals,
03:42so you really wanna live in an animated movie,
03:45because kids will watch an animated movie a thousand times.
03:48They pay you $12 to record it.
03:51You don't do it for that.
03:52You do it for the seven years of residuals
03:55you're gonna get from little Billy,
03:56going, I gotta watch that again.
03:58Have I watched that this week?
04:01There we go.
04:03Don't make me use my stuff on you, baby.
04:06That is from Bubba Hotep, spoken by Elvis Presley.
04:11Don't make me use my stuff on you, baby.
04:13So the story was, what if Elvis was still alive,
04:16he swapped with an Elvis impersonator years ago,
04:19because he could see where this was going,
04:21and it wasn't gonna go good.
04:22He just wanted to go play little gigs like he used to,
04:25swap with an Elvis impersonator,
04:27fell into a hospital.
04:28Long story short, now he has to save the hospital
04:32from a soul-sucking mummy,
04:33and so you're not gonna see a movie like that every day.
04:36I got a replica of his ring, his TCB ring.
04:41It was probably the real design,
04:43because it was kind of cheesy,
04:45because I think Elvis went,
04:46look, man, I just want some diamonds and shit,
04:49and put a couple of lightning bolts on either side,
04:51put a TCB, but the way they did the letters,
04:54it looks like CTB, it doesn't have a flow to it,
04:58so that's how I think it's authentic.
05:00I think they were just spitballing that shit
05:01in the back of a limo.
05:03We need rings, man.
05:05You're my posse, we need some rings, baby.
05:07And then capes, when did the capes come in for Elvis?
05:10That's when you knew the end was near.
05:12What?
05:15Now you're throwing stuff at me?
05:16Okay, okay, this is really obscure,
05:19and you should be punished for even asking this question,
05:22because of how obscure it is,
05:24and I should just get like $1,000 cash for answering this.
05:27This is from the movie Congo.
05:32What, now you're throwing stuff at me?
05:35Written by John Patrick Shanley,
05:37who had it in his contract,
05:39we think that you're not allowed to change your dialogue.
05:42I did a take, and the script supervisor came up to me,
05:44and she says, you added a um, and a well, and a huh,
05:49and I thought she was kidding.
05:51I was like, who sent you up here?
05:52Are you being funny?
05:53So this great line, now you're throwing stuff at me,
05:56was written by John Patrick Shanley,
05:57and don't you change it.
05:59People, they go, that was kind of a crappy movie.
06:02I'm like, okay, let's play the game then.
06:03Let's play the Congo game.
06:05You're an executive, I'm gonna pitch you a story.
06:08It's a best-selling novel by Michael Crichton,
06:11produced by Steven Spielberg, edited by Anne V. Coates.
06:15She edited Lawrence of Arabia.
06:17Photographed by Alan D'Avio.
06:19He shot E.T.
06:21Would you make that movie?
06:23Yes, yeah, congratulations, you just made Congo.
06:25So on paper, some things sound good.
06:30What a beautiful blue eye, shame he only has one.
06:33That is from Escape from L.A.
06:36with the great Kurt Russell.
06:38Beautiful blue eyes, shame he only has one.
06:42It's funny, when I met Kurt Russell,
06:44the famous Kurt Russell,
06:45the first words out of his mouth to me are,
06:48say workshed.
06:50You wanna talk trivia, I go, what?
06:54I mean, I knew what that word meant,
06:56and I think I'm the only person in the entire country,
06:59aside from Sam Raimi, who knew what that meant.
07:01His son Wyatt was a huge fan of People Dead 2,
07:05and there's a line of dialogue we added in the movie
07:07to help clarify something.
07:09Ash is struggling with what to do,
07:10he looks around, he thinks to himself, workshed.
07:14I'll go to the workshed,
07:15I'll get some tools in the workshed.
07:17So we put it in the wrong place,
07:20and we had it a little too loud,
07:22so it comes like this, ah, ah, ah, ah, workshed.
07:25Ah, ah, ah, workshed.
07:28It comes out of nowhere, and it's a loud,
07:30okay, it's lousy, so his son thought
07:31that was the funniest thing ever,
07:33and his son told him to tell me to say workshed
07:36when we met.
07:37Then I worked with Wyatt on Lodge 49,
07:39and got to slap his little face.
07:47Ah, nice.
07:50I want, you know, these are tough.
07:53I want about 2,500 bucks.
07:55Still drinking the blood of children,
07:56that is Sam Axe speaking to Larry,
08:00who's a spy in Burn Notice.
08:03Still drinking the blood of children?
08:05The guy's a creeper, so I haven't seen him in a while,
08:07and when I see him, he comes to our door,
08:09I go, oh, hi, Larry,
08:10you still drinking the blood of children?
08:12So yeah, that's a good line, the great Matt Nix.
08:15I miss Sam Axe, it's time for Sam Axe to come back,
08:17because there's lots more creepers in the world
08:20that need to be taken down internationally.
08:23And don't forget, Michael Weston had a lot of enemies.
08:25You can tell how long someone watched the show
08:28based on how many seasons they think it was.
08:31And I get this one all the time.
08:33So, Burn Notice, yeah, five seasons, that's a lot.
08:37I go, well, it ran seven seasons,
08:39but I guess you missed those last two.
08:41Oh, yeah, right.
08:45Normal life, family, that's all I ever wanted.
08:48Okay, I want $500 for this one, too.
08:51X-Files, he's the demon with a heart of gold.
08:54I think his name is Wayne or something.
08:58Normal life, family, that's all I ever wanted.
09:03He was a demon who just wanted a suburban life.
09:07And I get X-Files on the last season that they're shooting,
09:10and yeah, they were over it, but here we go.
09:14Television is absurd.
09:16I ran into David Duchovny.
09:17He had a fart prop that could make fart noises.
09:21And so we were on a flight together,
09:23and we were the lead into X-Files,
09:24my show, The Adventures of Briscoe Connie Jr.
09:27He was very funny.
09:28He goes, when you go and do these interviews,
09:30like, what are you supposed to do?
09:32I go, what do you mean?
09:33He goes, are you supposed to be funny?
09:34Serious?
09:35I go, why don't you just be you?
09:37He goes, whatever.
09:40And so we practiced farting on the plane.
09:42That's how I know it, with a fart cup.
09:45Watch clips, Leslie Nielsen had one, too.
09:47And he would do this interview,
09:49I would be farting through the whole interview,
09:50and I wouldn't let on to the fact that I had a thing.
09:53And he was an older guy at that point,
09:55and you would be too embarrassed to say, are you okay?
09:58Okay, you bastards, why are you torturing me like this?
10:03Why?
10:05Evil Dead.
10:06You bastards, why are you torturing me like this?
10:09Why?
10:10Evil Dead II, we had 10 times the amount of money.
10:14We had 350,000 for the first one,
10:17three and a half million for the second one,
10:19and 13 million for the third one,
10:21and then it bombed and killed the franchise.
10:25Happy memories.
10:26I mean, it got me into the film business,
10:28so you can call me whatever you want.
10:30Hey, Ash, hey, it's okay.
10:32It's all good.
10:33Just send the checks.
10:35It's only after doing about three or four movies with Sam,
10:37I was like, oh, these are hard.
10:39These are hard,
10:40because I'd go and do other movies with other directors.
10:43And you go, well, why is this so easy?
10:46It's because Sam is a very ambitious director.
10:49You know, we would work on the first Evil Dead
10:51for 12 hours and get one shot.
10:53That would mean it would take 12 hours
10:55to get this conversation.
10:58What do we got?
10:58Ah.
11:01I tried to stop her, but she had a gun.
11:06Man, that's just, I'm pretty good.
11:08That draws a big blank.
11:10Tried to stop her, but she had a gun.
11:14It's so generic.
11:16Maniac Cop?
11:17Were there any memorable lines in that movie?
11:19I tried to stop, this is the only one.
11:20See, this is the only one you could pull.
11:22I tried to stop her, but she had a gun.
11:24That's how memorable Maniac Cop was.
11:27I tried to stop her, but she had a gun.
11:29The guy who wrote this movie, by the way,
11:31Larry Cohen, I think is his name,
11:33wrote a bunch of exploitation stuff.
11:35And he claimed that his dialogue was actor-proof.
11:39No actor, his dialogue was so good,
11:41no actor could screw it up.
11:43I had a different take.
11:45Your dialogue is so bad, it's actor-proof,
11:47because no actor can say your dialogue.
11:50Thanks for playing, Larry.
11:52I made him kill me on the second one.
11:54They were like, hey, come on back.
11:56And I was in the middle of a divorce.
11:58Never catch an actor in the middle of a divorce,
12:01because they don't care about life anymore.
12:04I said, give me this number or kill me.
12:08And they went, okay, we're gonna kill you.
12:10Last but not least, I hope I get it.
12:12Then smackers, let's grab a highball.
12:15The highball line is from Hutzucker Proxy.
12:18With Jennifer Jason Leigh, I play Smitty in the newsroom.
12:21It's fun to be in movies where they have a budget.
12:24Then smackers, let's grab a highball.
12:27I mean, they didn't fake much of that movie.
12:29They have 100 desks in a room,
12:32with 100 people typing.
12:34And Joel Silver, the producer,
12:36who usually does like die-hard movies,
12:39hey, I wanna make you a picture.
12:41I'll get you the money.
12:42So he was able to get them the money
12:44that they needed to make that movie,
12:46because it was huge sets, and I mean, it was amazing.
12:49I mean, I didn't see green screen anywhere.
12:52So I've never been more terrified
12:53than working with Jennifer Jason Leigh.
12:55They had me come in for rehearsals,
12:57not because I had a big part.
12:59They said, look, when you're not playing Smitty,
13:01can you read all the other parts,
13:03just so we can rehearse?
13:05I was like, gee, let me think about it.
13:08You know, the blast is watching how these people work.
13:10Jennifer Jason Leigh, we came in
13:13for a two-weeks rehearsal in December.
13:14We didn't shoot it until the following spring.
13:16She knew every line of dialogue in December at rehearsals.
13:20You think I had dialogue?
13:21Watch the movie and watch her dialogue.
13:24Oh my God.
13:26So I went, oh my God, I'm acting opposite a robot.
13:28She's never going to screw her lines up.
13:30So it's good though, because it makes you, you know,
13:33really get your act together.
13:35And so it was very satisfying work with her,
13:38and she was absolutely delightful, but it was terrifying.
13:41♪♪