Relive some of the best moments from Know Their Lines featuring Hollywood's biggest stars like Ryan Gosling, Scarlett Johansson, Zac Efron, Willem DaFoe and many more.
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00:00I'll never forget that line.
00:01I said this.
00:02Oh, f***.
00:03I'm gonna get all these out.
00:05Next.
00:06Am I talking about actual f***ing?
00:08Oh, God, I hated this line.
00:09Who's naked in a movie with me?
00:11I could do this all day.
00:19Okay.
00:20Awesome.
00:21Oh, wow.
00:21Like, totally freaked me out.
00:23I mean, right on.
00:23I mean, come on.
00:25It's like, it's classic.
00:27Bring it on.
00:28Classic.
00:29Awesome.
00:30Oh, wow.
00:30Like, totally freaked me out.
00:32I mean, right on.
00:33We did extensive dance rehearsal, which I loved.
00:36I was a cheerleader in eighth grade.
00:38That's why I did the movie, because I wanted to see this movie.
00:42In eighth grade, I was a bass, so I was not a flyer.
00:46And so I did fly a little in Bring It On, which made me a little nervous, not gonna lie.
00:49My best friend broke her arm when she was a flyer,
00:52so that was always in the back of my head, like, please catch me.
00:56But that movie was really a surprise to all of us, the success.
00:59We were just off in San Diego doing, you know, having fun.
01:03I mean, I wish it was a producer on it.
01:05They made so many afterwards.
01:06I'm like, Rihanna was in one.
01:09So, yeah, they really brought it with that.
01:12One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man.
01:15I'm talking about lemba spread in The Lord of the Rings.
01:19In The Fellowship of the Rings.
01:21One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man.
01:24The hobbits are complaining about not having, you know, 50 meals a day or something.
01:31And I'm like, well, lemba spread.
01:34Legolas was this remarkable character to play.
01:37Obviously, I felt huge pressure, because the character I knew
01:40was very beloved within the books,
01:42one of my favorite characters in the books when I read it.
01:44So I had this sense of, like, you know, wanting a deep desire to be loved.
01:49Wanting a deep desire to land the character correctly,
01:52at least for the fans of the books.
01:54I had auditioned to play Faramir.
01:55I think they were probably just sifting through London,
01:58all the cities around the world to try and find these characters.
02:01And I guess I probably fit the, you know, the blurb of Faramir at the time.
02:06And then I got a callback to put myself on tape initially for Legolas.
02:11And then I got another callback to meet Peter and Fran, who had come to London.
02:15And then I waited, and I was at drama school, and yeah, the rest is history.
02:19Next one, okay.
02:22Oh, gosh, well, Ditto.
02:25We know that one is pretty easy.
02:28That one is, dare I say it, has an iconic resonance from Ghost.
02:36I've always loved you.
02:39Ditto.
02:41You know, the beautiful thing is that this film
02:44stepped into the world of the afterlife
02:47and really bringing forward the awareness
02:50that a lot of people hadn't explored for themselves
02:56that it doesn't end when the physical body has come to completion.
03:01That, in fact, those people that we might lose are still with us.
03:05And so, for me, the really meaningful part
03:09is having people come up who they still do,
03:12saying how much it helped them through a loss,
03:15how much it gave them a sense of hope and connection.
03:19And that, I feel like, is the greatest gift we could have ever given.
03:23I thought you wanted to be my bitch.
03:27I thought you wanted to be my bitch.
03:31Oh, wow.
03:34That was Gigli.
03:37I said that to Ben.
03:39I thought you wanted to be my bitch.
03:41The first time meeting him on that film was at the read-through.
03:45They did a read-through of the whole thing,
03:47and I remember kind of just walking in,
03:48and I think he was outside smoking a cigarette,
03:52and I saw him, and we just talked for like a minute,
03:54and then I sat down, and we did the read-through.
03:57I don't remember a whole bunch more about it,
04:00but I remember being on the set with him every day and loving it.
04:03Okay.
04:05I work like a dog, day and night,
04:09living off a coffee from a pot.
04:12None of you want to...
04:12Yes.
04:14Hidden Figures, Katherine Johnson.
04:16That is a very still viral video.
04:20And I work like a dog, day and night,
04:25living off a coffee from a pot.
04:27None of you want to touch...
04:29No one knew about these women.
04:31I didn't know. Hidden Figures.
04:33Like, I had no idea.
04:34I remember when Ted Melfi sent me the script, the director,
04:37and I read it, and of course, it's a beautiful story,
04:40and I just thought, this is not real.
04:42And I asked him, I said, is this a true story?
04:44He said, absolutely.
04:45And I almost fell out.
04:46I was like, it's a true story?
04:48And I was like, well, are any of these women alive?
04:50I said, is Katherine still alive?
04:52And he was like, yes.
04:52I said, I have to go meet her.
04:53I have to go meet her.
04:55So I went and spent time with her and her family.
04:57You know, if you're playing a real person who's still alive,
05:00you want to get it right.
05:01So it was important that I go meet,
05:03talk to her and the family,
05:05and just, wow, what an extraordinary story
05:07that we had no clue about these incredible women.
05:11But now we do.
05:12For me, it was her mannerisms, and it was her messaging.
05:15Something about her was very regal.
05:17When you're that brilliant,
05:18you kind of levitate above it all.
05:20Not in a pompous, conceited way,
05:23but your brainwave is just different, you know?
05:27And her love of math.
05:29For me, it wasn't about her smarts.
05:31It was about how she can share her smarts with someone else
05:34and get you to have that aha moment.
05:36And that's what I remember the most
05:39about that conversation with her
05:41and how she kept saying, we, we, we, not I, I, I,
05:44when she could have,
05:45because she's the one that produced the numbers
05:48to get him to space.
05:49So those are the things that I really picked up on.
05:52And just, she was very soft and demure.
05:56I know that's the saying now,
05:58but I mean that in all seriousness.
05:59She was just, you know, women in that era
06:03just carried themselves in a different way.
06:06So you met my nurses.
06:07They cleaned the copper out of my blood.
06:09I know what this is.
06:11This is speed two.
06:13So you met my nurses.
06:15They cleaned the copper out of my blood.
06:17Speed two, a lot of people give me a hard time about that.
06:19They teach me about the size of my performance,
06:22that it was over the top.
06:24But I swear to God, I stand by that performance
06:26because there was no other way to do it.
06:29I've got a pretty flexible face and expressive face
06:32and I don't censor it.
06:33I let it do its thing.
06:35I don't put on faces, but I know for a fact
06:39that my face can do some really extreme things.
06:42And so when you freeze it into a meme,
06:44yeah, you can get a lot of laughs out of that.
06:47That's for sure.
06:48Sometimes you do things and people just aren't ready
06:50for them or it's the wrong time
06:53or the context is wrong.
06:56Maybe I misread it, but for my money,
06:58I stand by that movie.
07:01Ah!
07:01Okay.
07:03You went upstairs.
07:04You went upstairs.
07:05Oh my God, why didn't you just crawl into bed with her
07:07and ask for a bedtime story?
07:09Devil Wears Prada.
07:10You went upstairs.
07:13You went upstairs.
07:14Oh my God, why didn't you just climb into bed with her
07:16and ask for a bedtime story?
07:18I didn't know enough in any way
07:21about the fashion industry going into that movie.
07:23I didn't quite realize how intense it was.
07:28It was, and friends of mine who've worked
07:30in the fashion industry say that that film
07:32does manage to capture that.
07:35But I think it was a bit of a voyage of discovery
07:38for me in every way.
07:39Like not just about the industry itself,
07:41but about style and the art of it
07:43and like how important it is.
07:44And I think I'd just been dressing
07:47like a teenage boy until that happened.
07:50And I learned a lot.
07:51You want to be worshiped?
07:53Go to India and move.
07:56Wow.
07:57You want to be worshiped?
07:59Go to India and move.
08:02Comedy?
08:05Transformers?
08:06Comedy.
08:08You want to be worshiped?
08:10Adam Sandler comedy?
08:11What'd I do?
08:12Wait, Unstrung Heroes?
08:15No.
08:16I mean, what'd I do in 94?
08:18Oh wait, it can't be Quiz Show.
08:20It was Quiz Show?
08:21That's 93.
08:22He's ruing me off there.
08:22You want to be worshiped?
08:23Go to India and move.
08:26Yes, Herbst Temple.
08:27You want to be worshiped?
08:27Go to India and move.
08:29Even though I missed that line,
08:31I loved doing that movie
08:32and that was a big experience for me.
08:35I used to do this warmup on the set.
08:37Go like this.
08:47So I could sustain talking, you know,
08:51in a higher register.
08:53But when I heard him talk the original time,
08:55I was like, oh my God.
08:57I was like, this guy's, he's fantastic, you know?
09:00Okay.
09:03Oh, I know this one.
09:04Who, who, what are you, a fucking owl?
09:06Who is she?
09:08From Wolf of Wall Street.
09:09Who, who, who, what are you, a fucking owl?
09:12Who is she?
09:12I wouldn't even know how to say this
09:13without the accent, it's so ingrained.
09:16That actually was not in the script.
09:18That was on the day.
09:19I find a Brooklyn accent far easier to do
09:23than other American regions
09:25because dropping the R is something we do
09:27in Australian as well.
09:29And actually hitting a really hard R
09:30is hard work for my mouth.
09:32Doing like the accent I did in I, Tonya,
09:35really, really strong R's.
09:37Like, I'm not a girly girl.
09:39It's like R on the R's.
09:41Whereas like in Wolf of Wall Street,
09:42she's like Jordan.
09:43She doesn't even do an R.
09:44It's not Jordan.
09:46So I found it much easier.
09:48That's why I love doing a Brooklyn accent.
09:49I do a Brooklyn accent for Harley Quinn as well.
09:51And I love it.
09:53We kind of have to work together.
09:54I'm America's best figure skater.
09:55I never act in my own accent.
09:57I actually don't even know if I could now.
09:58It'd be so weird.
10:00I'd feel like I'm just playing myself, I think.
10:02The audition process for Wolf of Wall Street,
10:04they didn't need a known actor for that role,
10:07which at the time, not being a known actor
10:10is like the most exciting thing you can hear
10:12because everyone in town in my age demographic
10:15was like, oh my God, we can audition for a Scorsese film.
10:18I did a tape like everyone else.
10:19Never expected Scorsese himself to see it.
10:22I just wanted Ellen Lewis, the casting agent,
10:24to like the tape and remember me for future things.
10:28But I never did the tape
10:29considering I'd actually get the role.
10:32You know, I got a call a while later saying,
10:35Scorsese's watched your tape
10:37and wants you to come in in person
10:39to read with him and Leonardo DiCaprio.
10:41It was so much fun.
10:42It was my first movie in America
10:45and quite an introduction to the industry, obviously.
10:48It was a wild and incredible film.
10:52And the set was wild and incredible as well.
10:54And everyone was just trying to one-up each other,
10:57do something crazier than the last person.
10:59And every scene would just escalate
11:01and get bigger and crazier and crazier and crazier.
11:03And I think Marty was really like
11:04fostering that atmosphere on set
11:06because he knew that's what this movie
11:08needed to be infused with,
11:09this idea of something spiraling out of control
11:11and the decadence getting even more crazy and insane.
11:14So on set, we had a bit of that vibe, which was so fun.
11:18Watch yourself.
11:19Show me what you're working with.
11:20Okay, this is an easy one.
11:21This is from About A Boy.
11:22This is when Marcus, my character,
11:23is walking down the hallway
11:26and he's listening to Mystical's rap album
11:28that he's just been gifted.
11:30Shake your um.
11:31Watch yourself.
11:32Shake your um.
11:33Show me what you're working with.
11:34That was one of the first rap albums I ever listened to.
11:37And I did listen to that album quite a lot.
11:39I can't remember what the album's called,
11:41to that Mystical album,
11:41but I know a lot of the lyrics to it.
11:43Step two, there's so much we can do.
11:46This is not from my movie.
11:48This is a New Kids on the Block lyric.
11:51What the heck?
11:52Step two, there's so much we can do.
11:56Fuck no, I don't miss any.
11:58I just had to sing Paul Walter Hauser
12:00and I had to sing this Gautier song together.
12:03Somebody that you used to know?
12:04Holy shit, I had to go in the studio
12:06on a Saturday in Australia with Peter Farrelly and him
12:09to sing the song.
12:10And we have to sing it at a party with Sacha Baron Cohen.
12:14You know, we were much more into hip hop
12:16and break dancing and stuff like that.
12:19Once we started working with Maurice Starr
12:21and we were kind of like, basically cast,
12:25we started recording in the studios
12:26and little rap songs and stuff.
12:28And he was like, hey, by the way,
12:29we're gonna send you the vocal lessons.
12:30And I was like, that was not my thing.
12:33And I wasn't very good at it either, so.
12:35Okay.
12:36I'm out.
12:37How many rounds you got?
12:38Oh.
12:41I have no idea.
12:42What is that about?
12:44Oh, so it's Mission Impossible.
12:46Wow.
12:47I'm out.
12:48Epic gun battle scene.
12:50Epic.
12:50Oh my God.
12:51First of all, Tom Cruise does most of his own stunts.
12:55So because they're seeing his face, I got to do it too.
12:58Like jump out of a building that's about to explode,
13:01landing on top of a van as it pulls away.
13:05And he goes, listen, if we're jumping down
13:07and your hair catches on fire, just shake it out.
13:09I was like, okay.
13:14Really?
13:15P.S. I have a lot more hair than he does.
13:18I think it was around this line.
13:20Tom is supposed to look at me and then like in slow motion,
13:23chuck me like a mag.
13:24It goes.
13:26And then I catch it or chuck me a gun.
13:28I don't even know.
13:29And then I catch it and then go.
13:32Some badass move.
13:33JJ said, no, no, no.
13:34So what you're gonna do is he's gonna pretend to throw
13:36and then we'll superimpose like something CGI.
13:39And so just make your hand like that.
13:40And Tom goes, no, no, no, she can do it.
13:42And I was like, Tom, I can't.
13:45So he's like, we're gonna do one.
13:46We're gonna do one.
13:47See if she can do it.
13:48Did it.
13:55It was so cool.
13:57I thought you were my friends.
13:58Win together, lose together, teammates.
14:02High School Musical?
14:04Nice.
14:06First one?
14:08They're all similar dialogue.
14:09I don't know.
14:10I thought that you're my friends.
14:11Win together, lose together, teammates.
14:14The cast and the group of people making that movie
14:17was just magical.
14:18There's a time and a place for everything
14:20and everything's, you know, happens for a reason.
14:22And that's High School Musical
14:23is like the prime example for that.
14:25I've never had so much fun, maybe a few times,
14:28but it was still to this day,
14:30maybe one of the most fun experiences of my whole life.
14:33And it just shows on camera.
14:34The whole first movie,
14:35we practiced those dance routines like once or twice.
14:38We just get up there and do it.
14:41So I couldn't believe you got your head in the game.
14:42I couldn't believe we got a clean take of that.
14:43The first like couple of takes,
14:45there were basketballs flying everywhere.
14:47It was chaos.
14:48We were like, we're never gonna get this.
14:50And then everyone just nailed it.
14:51It changed, changed everything for me.
14:53I had just a really great group of friends.
14:56It was fun to be out there doing really exciting, fun,
15:00music forward work.
15:01It wasn't so serious.
15:02Definitely made me very popular.
15:04So that was interesting.
15:06I remember I could afford to move out of my house
15:09and live in LA.
15:11Everything got really interesting from that point forward.
15:15Zoology, bitch.
15:17Sorry, I scared you.
15:20Jumanji.
15:21Jumanji.
15:24Great line too.
15:26Improv line.
15:27Zoology, bitch.
15:30To do a movie of that size
15:31and have the cast at the table that we had,
15:35you're very secure in your partner.
15:38You're very secure
15:39in the approach to the performances.
15:41There is no worry.
15:42There is no, oh my God, that's too much.
15:44Over the top, under the, like it's,
15:46we were all very much very secure
15:49and knowing, oh, I can't wait to see
15:50what you do with this character.
15:51I can't wait to see what you do.
15:53You do.
15:54No, you do.
15:55Like everybody's idea on take was spot on.
16:00The human spider, that's it.
16:01That's the best you got.
16:03That is from the Amazing Spider-Man.
16:07The human spider, that's it.
16:08That's the best you got.
16:09A little known trivia, as the ring announcer,
16:12it seems like I have a small cameo,
16:15they used to call him, a little throwaway role.
16:17Well, I named the character.
16:19I renamed him the Amazing Spider-Man.
16:23So if my character wasn't in that movie,
16:26this billion dollar franchise
16:28would be called the human spider.
16:30So let's never forget the power of a strong cameo.
16:35There's more to it though,
16:36because in the second Spider-Man,
16:38I play an usher, a snooty usher.
16:41But Peter Parker shows up late to see Mary Jane in a play,
16:45her first Broadway play, but he's late
16:47and I won't let him in because it spoils the illusion.
16:50I'm the only character who has ever defeated Spider-Man.
16:53Oh, well, the fourth one, well, it's not Spider-Man movie,
16:56but it's in the Doctor Strange oeuvre.
16:59I play the Pizza Papa, but ask yourself,
17:02really, in the timeline, in the Marvel timeline,
17:05I'm just a Pizza Papa?
17:09Please don't kid yourself.
17:10My contract is that thick for that movie.
17:13Do you think I'd sign a contract that thick
17:15for that simple little throwaway character?
17:17What did I do in that movie?
17:18I delayed Doctor Strange.
17:21I didn't defeat him, we didn't fight.
17:24I delayed him from what?
17:26Did I just save Doctor Strange's life?
17:28The Marvel world really is just starting,
17:30and again, I can only comment so much.
17:33Okay.
17:33Do you remember when I've come to bargain with him?
17:36Doctor Strange, the first film.
17:37Oh, Mamu, I've come to bargain.
17:40I can't remember how many times I said that
17:43in different setups, how many times I died.
17:48A lot was taken over by DG Doubles,
17:50but I was in all sorts of rigs.
17:51It was the same space rig as Sandra Bullock
17:54in her acting as well, but it's putting up with that.
17:56It was unbelievably good fun
17:57for the first sort of couple of rides,
17:58and then it was just, it was really hard.
18:01Very odd strains on the body in a weird way,
18:03and I like that kind of work.
18:04I like the physical aspect of my work,
18:06but I think there was a bit of that
18:07involved on the same set, and just coming up
18:08and saying it again and again and again as he dies.
18:11Where's Dormammu out in this trap of repeated time?
18:14Next.
18:16Okay.
18:18I'm just a fucked up girl
18:19who's looking for my own peace of mind.
18:21I'm not perfect.
18:21That's Clementine from Eternal Sunshine,
18:23and that line is quoted to me all the time.
18:26I'm just a fucked up girl
18:27who's looking for my own peace of mind.
18:29I'm not perfect.
18:30I actually saw someone on a subway
18:32who had it tattooed on the outside of their forearm.
18:35So, and I even, people put it on T-shirts, everything.
18:38So that has actually strangely become
18:41really quite a famous line, in my life anyway,
18:43because people say it to me a lot.
18:45My two older children, Mia and Joe,
18:47when they were in their teenage years,
18:50they and their friends very much discovered
18:52Eternal Sunshine and the soundtrack in particular,
18:55and so I would hear their friends
18:57saying these lines all the time,
18:58and I was like, God, I didn't,
19:00kind of didn't anticipate that that would happen
19:01because my son, Joe, wasn't even born
19:03when we made the film, and Mia was only two.
19:06So, yeah, that's become quite a key line in my life,
19:09actually.
19:10Okay.
19:12I don't use deodorant, and I only take bubble baths.
19:15This is Connie the Hormone Monstress.
19:17My dear, dear Connie from Big Mouth.
19:19I don't use deodorant, and I only take bubble baths.
19:23That was actually the first day
19:24that we even created Connie.
19:26I think that was the line,
19:27and then we knew how she spoke
19:30because I was just recording the show
19:32because I played Nick's mom, Diane,
19:34and Fred Armisen is his dad, Elliot,
19:37and we were his mommy and his daddy,
19:39and it was very sweet and very fun,
19:41and then, like most animated shows,
19:44they said, we're gonna do this character.
19:46Can you add this voice?
19:47You know, they always have you do other stuff,
19:48and Nick already was doing a hormone monster,
19:51so I tried to find a female version.
19:54I remember that day when I came down
19:58into the words bubble bath,
20:00we were like, oh, yeah, that's it.
20:02That's who she is.
20:03You're probably just having a midlife crisis.
20:05Did you buy a Porsche yet?
20:11Lost in translation?
20:14You're probably just having a midlife crisis.
20:17Did you buy a Porsche yet?
20:18That set was the Park Hyatt in Tokyo.
20:22It was a fully functioning hotel.
20:26It felt like very much we were doing
20:28a kind of guerrilla-style filmmaking
20:30because we were a small crew.
20:32We just were capturing what we could
20:34wherever we could get it,
20:35and it was a really quick shoot.
20:37My experience shooting it
20:38sort of mirrored my experience in the film
20:41because I felt so out of my element.
20:43I was also 17 when we made it.
20:45The character, Charlotte,
20:46is kind of in that headspace, too.
20:52Whoa.
20:54Take care of her, it's a beautiful fire,
20:56but it's a little too hot.
20:59Yeah, this is from,
21:01this is from 355.
21:03Take care of her, it's a beautiful fire,
21:05but it's a little too hot.
21:07It's actually like the most international film
21:10I've been involved with, I think, so far,
21:13or one of the most internationally,
21:15kind of international films in the sense
21:17that there's so many different languages
21:18being spoken in the movie.
21:20And Simon Kinberg knew of my Romanian background
21:22and he just wanted me to get one line in there
21:24in my native tongue.
21:26Here we go.
21:27Okay.
21:29Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
21:31God, who said that?
21:34Prince Philip.
21:35No.
21:37Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
21:39Was it the doctor?
21:41It was the doctor and he said it to Amy Pond.
21:46He said it to River Song, Alex Kingston.
21:49He said it to an alien.
21:50It was from A Christmas Carol
21:52and I said it to Katherine Jenkins.
21:53To Michael Gambon, of course.
21:57Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
21:59Try it.
22:00The great Michael Gambon, by the way,
22:01what an absolute joy it was to work with him.
22:03He was just incredible.
22:04So I just, like many of us in England,
22:06he's sort of been a hero of mine.
22:08And it was a coup that we got him in Doctor Who.
22:10I just have such great fondness about that whole part,
22:12really, and that moment in my life
22:14and getting to know Karen so well,
22:17who I love, Karen Gillan, the legend that is.
22:19Okay, bye.
22:21Did you know that it takes men an additional
22:23seven seconds to perceive,
22:25this was a mouthful at the time,
22:27a woman as a threat compared to a man.
22:30Did you know that it takes men an additional
22:32seven seconds to perceive a woman as a threat
22:33compared to a man?
22:35Yeah, I remember saying that.
22:36That was from a little film called The Charlie's Angels.
22:40It takes men an additional seven seconds
22:42to perceive a woman as a threat compared to a man.
22:45We wanted a strong opener, you know?
22:47We wanted to really broadcast what the movie was about.
22:50It was a good idea at the time.
22:56I hated making that movie.
22:58I don't know what else to say to you.
22:59Honestly, the three, you can't touch,
23:01like Cameron, Lucy, and Drew.
23:04I love that movie.
23:05I love that movie, if that says anything.
23:09I never did it with baked goods,
23:11but you know your Uncle Mort,
23:13he pets the one-eyed snake five, six times a day.
23:16American pie, of course.
23:19But you know your Uncle Mort,
23:20he pets the one-eyed snake five, six times a day.
23:22These were all improvised lines in American Pie.
23:25We had had a session a week before the shoot
23:28because I wasn't crazy about the lines
23:30that I had been given initially,
23:33so we came in and improvised.
23:35And then when I got to set, I was looking for the sides.
23:37You normally get some sides that have the lines on them
23:40for the day and there weren't any sides.
23:42They said, oh, we didn't have them.
23:43We thought you'd remember what you did last week.
23:45That was really a lot of fun doing that movie.
23:50I thought it was kind of raunchy when I read the script,
23:53but it turned out to be an unbelievable classic.
23:57Oh yeah, I know this.
23:57I cry all the time, more than any woman you've ever met.
24:00That's the holiday.
24:02I cry all the time.
24:03You do not.
24:03Yeah, I do.
24:05More than any woman you've ever met.
24:07You hope that what you make appeals to people
24:09and you hope what you make finds an audience
24:11and finds its way into people's heads and hearts.
24:15But for it to be returned to so frequently
24:17and really to become a sort of store
24:19for people's celebration every year at Christmas
24:22is a wonderful thing.
24:23People assume that I've had this career of rom-coms
24:27and this is really one of maybe two
24:29that I've done in 30 years.
24:31I avoided them for many, many years
24:33because I felt like it was gonna lead me down a path
24:36where I became that guy who does those films.
24:39And then I was intrigued to do one.
24:42I sort of wanted to go there and test that muscle.
24:46And Nancy talked about all my favorite rom-coms
24:49that she desperately wanted to sort of emulate.
24:52Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace,
24:55His Girl Friday, films like that.
24:56So I was in and we had a great time making it.
24:59It took a long time to make.
25:02Nancy likes a lot of takes.
25:04You hit a guy, aha!
25:06I know this one.
25:08I can say this one in the character.
25:10And it's like this.
25:11You hit a guy with glasses.
25:14Well played.
25:16That's King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph, aha!
25:20You hit a guy with glasses.
25:21That's well played.
25:23This was the first time I worked for Disney.
25:25Someone was supposed to do the reading, another actor.
25:29And they fell out, something happened.
25:31And my agent said, hey,
25:33I got another actor over here named Alan Tudyk
25:36and he can do it.
25:37They said, can he do an Ed Wynn accent?
25:38Ed Wynn was a vaudevillian actor who did Mary Poppins
25:41and did Matt Hatter.
25:43And she said, Alan is so good at that accent.
25:47And they said, okay, we'll fly him up to Pixar
25:49in San Francisco with the whole cast, really.
25:52She called me and said,
25:53can you please tell me you can do this accent?
25:55Because she had just promised it before she knew.
25:57But I could.
25:59I loved Ed Wynn.
26:00And then I went up and did it.
26:01And then John Lasseter said,
26:03hey, it's really nice to meet you.
26:06And then I've been in every one since.
26:08Oh, I hope she'll be a fool.
26:10That's the best thing a girl can be in this world,
26:12a beautiful little fool.
26:14It's from The Great Gatsby.
26:17And I hope she'll be a fool.
26:20That's the best thing a girl in this world can be.
26:22It was a bizarre thing
26:24because I went from sort of low budget indie films,
26:27lots of British TV and theater,
26:29and then went to Sydney and made this enormous film.
26:33But I remember thinking that Leo was so lovely.
26:38I love him.
26:39It didn't matter where the camera was,
26:41he was still incredible.
26:42I sort of thought, well, when the camera's not on him,
26:45he doesn't really do anything as Leonardo DiCaprio.
26:48And every time it was on me
26:50and he was like next to the camera or behind the lens,
26:53he was just so, it was as good as it was
26:55the other way around.
26:56I thought that was so generous.
26:57And it was all just mad.
26:58It was such a mad sort of Baz Luhrmann sort of circus.
27:02It was just so much bigger
27:03than anything I had been in that point.
27:05I felt like the casting process
27:07was sort of like winning American Idol.
27:10It was all so kind of big, you know,
27:12but I loved it.
27:13It was a blast.
27:14Okay, here we go.
27:16I've always hated that chair.
27:18Oh my God.
27:19Like I'm getting old.
27:21I don't remember things that I've done.
27:26This was Avengers.
27:28Oh my God.
27:29Yes, yes.
27:30She's talking about her dad.
27:32Yeah, I've always hated that chair.
27:34I always hated that chair.
27:36I wish I can go back and reshoot
27:40what Gamora was going through in the Avengers movies.
27:44I don't think I was quite understanding
27:45what the Russo brothers were excellent filmmakers.
27:48And the opportunity that they gave me was of a lifetime
27:52to highlight Gamora in such a way in their films
27:55is something that I will forever be grateful.
27:58I wish I can go back and redo it
27:59so that I can push a little harder
28:01because it was such a great opportunity
28:04to play sort of like a daughter having issues with a dad
28:07and whether or not she's having this opportunity
28:09to reconciliate or to heal or to repair
28:12or simply just walk away from this person.
28:16That would have been a great opportunity
28:18had I, you know, been a little more aware of it back then.
28:21Oh, what is this one?
28:22Put them in the wash, they'll be grand.
28:24Okay.
28:25Just because of the wording, I'm thinking it's leap year.
28:27Okay, good.
28:28Good, good, good.
28:29Okay.
28:30I was like, they'll be grand.
28:31That's gotta be Irish.
28:32Yeah.
28:33Put them in the wash, they'll be grand.
28:34I worked in Ireland on a couple of things,
28:36but most recently on Disenchanted
28:38and I worked closely with a young woman named Eve
28:41and she's like, don't, just don't.
28:43Please don't do it.
28:44It started because I was saying things like
28:46about the crack or the crack and she's like,
28:48just don't, don't try to do it, Amy.
28:51Yeah.
28:53When I found out the patriarchy
28:55wasn't just about horses, I lost interest.
29:00Oh, barbing.
29:02Nailed it.
29:04When I found out the patriarchy wasn't about horses,
29:05I lost interest.
29:06I got the script and there was my name.
29:09It said my full name as Ken.
29:11And the first line was, if I wasn't severely injured,
29:15I would beat you off right now.
29:16I was like, okay, how am I gonna do this?
29:19I know I have to, but how is this gonna work?
29:22I just Ken'd as hard as I could.
29:24I had to get new sheets because of all the fake tanner
29:28and just looked like a crime scene in my house.
29:31Just terrifying handprints on the wall.
29:33If you didn't know,
29:34you would just think that was very disturbed.
29:37Person was living there.
29:39She's got a great ass and you got your head
29:41all the way up it.
29:42This is Al Pacino in Heath.
29:44Cause she got a great ass.
29:48And you got your head all the way up it.
29:51Al always is very consistent.
29:53He always, his best takes are always five, six or seven.
29:56It's never the first two he's experimenting around.
29:59And then after five, six or seven,
30:01maybe it's a small change,
30:02but the best ones are five, six or seven.
30:04And then after he would deliver a take that was fantastic.
30:08We both loved it.
30:09He'd say, let me do a wild one.
30:10Sure, go ahead.
30:11What that meant is that he'd be completely unplugged,
30:14have absolutely no idea what he was gonna do
30:17and just let it.
30:18Sometimes it was brilliant.
30:19And sometimes it was absolutely terrible.
30:22Often it was hilarious.
30:23Usually were great.
30:25And Azaria, this was his first day on the set.
30:29We were three quarters of the way through shooting.
30:30I neglected to tell him that we had this habit
30:32of doing this.
30:33So none of this was written.
30:34And then Al flipped this guy down in a chair, cut loose.
30:37Hey, I don't know who the fuck you guys think
30:40you're pushing around.
30:41And that look of shock and amazement on Azaria's face
30:43is cause we're going completely off the script
30:46into something, you know, totally wild.
30:48He has the powerful energy
30:50and it's the key component in his character.
30:52But the specific visual of him doing some blow off a dagger
30:57he carried in the small of his back was too strong
31:00a message and detracted from that energy
31:03and that kineticism that he had naturally.
31:06So that's why I got rid of it.
31:07We shot it.
31:08I just took it off.
31:09And every little monster agreed.
31:10He was the best show and tell surprise ever.
31:17This is the school of roars.
31:21I love that you put this in.
31:23And every little monster agreed.
31:25He was the best show and tell surprise ever.
31:30The school of roars people
31:33is a children's animated series
31:36in which I play the narrator.
31:40And I also play one of the teachers who's called Mr. Marrow.
31:44I think he's called, he's a dinosaur.
31:46He's a teacher and they're all little dinosaurs
31:47who go to school.
31:48And it's called the school of roars.
31:49I mean, that's just makes me want to eat my own fist.
31:51It's so cute.
31:53And it's absolutely exhausting to do it.
31:57Yeah, because you have to be really, really
31:59because it's for four-year-olds.
32:00And so if you're speaking like this,
32:02the four-year-old's like,
32:02well, who's that scary man?
32:05So you have to be.
32:09And at the end, you're so tired.
32:12And when you're doing it in a booth, there's no air.
32:14So you're like, oh, and then you also do roar.
32:18That's the other thing.
32:19Because you're playing a dinosaur.
32:22The things that are exhausting.
32:24It's not playing Hamlet.
32:25It's this motherfucking thing.
32:26She's like, don't say that.
32:27But you know, yeah.
32:29Yeah, school of roars.
32:30Love it.
32:33If you want to win, you got to be like this.
32:36Tight.
32:37Pat Riley in winning time.
32:39You want to win.
32:41You got to be like this.
32:43Tight.
32:45And then I proceeded to punch a chalkboard,
32:47which they had tethered to the ground
32:50with a lot of sandbags so it wouldn't go flying.
32:52And it didn't move.
32:54And I practically broke my knuckles.
32:57Sort of the double.
32:58We both ended up with like ice packs.
33:00It was kind of the invention and birth
33:03of celebrity athletes and the power that they had
33:07and the allure that they had
33:09and the cultural significance of that
33:11and how it's shaped a lot
33:13of how athletes are idolized today.
33:16It was a wild time.
33:17It was a much more wild time.
33:19A much freer time.
33:20So definitely very entertaining.
33:23This ain't the farm and these ain't no crop dusters.
33:26I'm not playing chicken with you.
33:29I think that's exactly how I said it.
33:31This is Pearl Harbor.
33:34This ain't the farm and these ain't no crop dusters.
33:35I'm not playing chicken with you.
33:37I love Ben.
33:38I think everybody's quite aware of this now,
33:40but he's an incredibly intelligent guy.
33:41And at the time, they always thought that Matt
33:43was like the brains behind the operation.
33:45And he had like this just incredible capacity
33:48to do like 50 things at once.
33:50He was producing a film at the time.
33:52He was like, always had his little crossword.
33:54He was working on his crossword.
33:55He was doing like, I don't remember who he was dating
33:56at the time, but he was constantly on the phone with them.
33:59Whenever I see him, we're friendly with each other.
34:01But we're not, you know, we're not super close.
34:03And I don't know if you know,
34:04The Onion has an article about us being like,
34:07you know, remembering our time at Pearl Harbor,
34:09which my friends send to me all the time.
34:11I don't know why.
34:11But unfortunately, Ben and I,
34:14we don't get together and discuss
34:16the trauma of Pearl Harbor.
34:18One bag of ketchup.
34:19Now ring me up.
34:20Yeah.
34:22Carol and Company.
34:23And it was a housewife who was going crazy
34:26because of being in this grocery store.
34:28That I remember, yeah.
34:33One bag of ketchup.
34:35Now ring me up.
34:37That was where I was talking to Terry Kaiser.
34:40It was in a grocery store and he was a clerk.
34:42And there was some kind of a limit
34:44on how many pieces of grocery or whatever that I had.
34:48And so I took the tomatoes.
34:51I think I put them in a plastic bag and hit it back.
34:54And made ketchup out of it and said, now ring me up.
35:05We had auditions and I was, you know,
35:08there when people came in.
35:10Terry Kaiser and Richard Kind.
35:12Megan Faye.
35:13Peter Krause.
35:15Anita Barone.
35:16Yeah, very good cast.
35:18Very versatile.
35:19We did an original script every week.
35:23So it was kind of tantamount to doing a pilot every week.
35:26With all different characters and different stories.
35:29It was quite challenging.
35:31I can't concentrate on anything you're saying
35:34until you cover your junk.
35:36Oh no, I thought I would be good at this game.
35:38Damn it.
35:39It has to be like a raunchy comedy.
35:41Is it Mike and Dave?
35:43Is it Mr. Right?
35:45Oh no, what is it?
35:47Who's naked in a movie with me?
35:49Oh my God.
35:50Now I feel dumb.
35:52You have to audition for the Bellas.
35:53I can't concentrate on anything you're saying
35:55until you cover your junk.
35:56When I'm saying cover your junk,
35:58I'm unfortunately picturing male genitalia.
36:01I say this in the shower to Brittany Snow.
36:04Cause we did have like the least sexy.
36:07Although then it ended up being kind of sexy.
36:09Like while we were shooting it, I was like,
36:11this is the least sexy shower scene
36:13that's ever been committed to film.
36:14This is so funny.
36:16Yeah, apparently it was kind of sexy to some people,
36:20which makes me happy.
36:21I do wish that B'Chloe would be like living
36:25on a tiny cottage together already.
36:28I did always think like, if there ever were another one,
36:31it would be like,
36:32can we just have them get together already?
36:33Like, what are we doing?
36:34This is madness at this point.
36:36Different things can be sad.
36:38It's not all war.
36:40I adore Saoirse.
36:41Yeah, or Timothy either.
36:43I got to work with both of them again
36:44and I hope I get to work with both of them again
36:46in the future.
36:47Saoirse, I just actually got to see her two nights ago.
36:51Two nights ago, we were at an event
36:53and she saw me across the room.
36:55And then we, I think we spent the rest of the night
36:56holding each other.
36:58We love each other.
36:59She's such an extraordinary talent,
37:00but also I feel like a kind of like a mother hen.
37:06I never wanted the throne.
37:07I only ever wanted to be your equal.
37:09This is Loki in Thor.
37:12I never wanted the throne.
37:17I only ever wanted to be your equal.
37:19How would I describe the relationship
37:20between Loki and Thor?
37:21Enormously complex and deep.
37:25Yeah, how long have you got?
37:27It's been a journey, a journey of a thousand miles.
37:30I've been in the dark for a long time.
37:32I've been in the dark for a long time.
37:34It's been a journey, a journey of a thousand miles.
37:37Two brothers in the palace of Asgard,
37:40very close at the same time opposite.
37:43I think they probably define themselves
37:44as brothers as opposites,
37:46but have grown up with great trust and affection.
37:50And the heartbreak of the emotional fallout
37:54between Thor and Loki is that actually as brothers,
37:56they were great friends
37:58and they're separated by circumstance.
38:00That circumstance initially is Loki's discovery
38:03that he is not in fact Thor's brother.
38:05He was adopted and was an orphan who was left to die.
38:10And I think Loki feels stricken with grief about that.
38:15I was cast in 2009 when I was 28.
38:18So it's been 15 years for both of us
38:21and it's been such a pleasure to sit alongside him
38:28on the rollercoaster of this journey.
38:31Being cast as Thor and Loki changed our lives forever
38:36in the most extraordinary and unexpected ways.
38:38To have someone who was going through the same experience
38:41has just been such a comfort actually.
38:44Over the years, we've shared so much.
38:45We've shared so many memories.
38:47We've made the films in different locations,
38:49different cities, different states.
38:51We're good old mates.
38:54Oh shit.
38:57No, I need to be my L on someone's T's.
39:01That is from Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
39:03That was an improv in a scene with Bill Hader.
39:08I'm still really proud of that one.
39:10I need to be my L on somebody's T's.
39:13That's disgusting.
39:15There was a lot of improv in that scene and in that movie.
39:18Yeah.
39:19We cast the funniest people that we could find.
39:21Bill is as funny as anyone on earth
39:24and so he made everything funnier.
39:27In my country, when a man gets down on one knee,
39:29it's because he either wants to get married
39:31or he's been shot.
39:33Sometimes he's been because of both.
39:35That's Gloria too.
39:37That's not Gloria?
39:38Oh my God, I play the same characters.
39:42Is this, I don't know, is this Titi?
39:47Are you sure it's not Gloria?
39:49It's a movie.
39:50The Three Stooges?
39:53Okay, what is it?
39:54Yes, oh my God.
39:57With that director, Gary Marshall,
40:00I mean, that was an amazing, amazing project for me.
40:04In my country, when a man gets down on one knee,
40:06it's because he either wants to get married
40:08or he's been shot.
40:10I was talking to Bon Jovi.
40:12All my friends from Colombia went crazy
40:15because that was our love.
40:19But that's not true.
40:20That's not our love.