Aaron talks about his kids, his son’s godfather being Bryan Cranston, people yelling Bitch at him on the street, his high school naming the theater after him, being a procrastinator in school, working as a pizza delivery guy, his new movie Ash, the director Flying Lotus who is also a musician, stealing his space suit, if he would go to space & Jimmy gifts him with something for his three-year-old.
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00:00Our first guest tonight is a three-time Emmy winner
00:02and the pride of Idaho with a new sci-fi thriller called
00:06Ash.
00:06It opens in theaters Friday.
00:08Please welcome Aaron Paul.
00:10Wow.
00:28How are you?
00:29I love it here.
00:31It's funny, because I remember a time when you were
00:34sneaking into our green room.
00:35I would sneak in here before I.
00:37For free drinks.
00:38Yeah, it was great.
00:39It's easy to do.
00:40Now you're here with the family.
00:42Now you've got, are both of your kids here?
00:44No, my baby girl is here.
00:46My baby boy just turned three today.
00:48He was a baby.
00:49Today is his birthday.
00:50Yeah, today is his birthday.
00:52Happy birthday, Rydan.
00:54He was meant to be here, but he skipped his nap.
00:56And it's utter chaos at the house right now.
00:59You've got to have the nap.
01:00You've got to have the nap.
01:01And so we had a full-blown meltdown,
01:03and so decided to leave him back home with mama.
01:05Meltdown is a word that you'll only use with kids now, right?
01:08And nuclear situations.
01:10Right.
01:10So you left him at home.
01:12Left him at home.
01:13We had a little party planned for him here.
01:14Oh, he was so sweet.
01:16I walked into the green room.
01:17You guys are just the best.
01:19Well, that's my cousin Mickey, really.
01:21Thank you, Mickey.
01:22Love you.
01:23But there was balloons everywhere, lots of gifts,
01:26and it's just over the top.
01:27Your daughter's story is how old, you say?
01:29She's seven.
01:30My story, she's backstage.
01:32She's watching.
01:33Nice.
01:33Oh, that's fun.
01:34That's exciting.
01:35Seven is a great age.
01:36My son is seven years old.
01:37It's the best.
01:38Yeah, it's the funniest age.
01:40Oh my god.
01:40And then the dynamic between?
01:43What is the dynamic between them?
01:44Because I'm curious, because I know the dynamic between mine.
01:47Yeah, it's a love and very frustrated relationship.
01:51Exactly the same.
01:52They're obsessed with each other,
01:54and then the little one starts screaming and hitting
01:57and biting, and it's just a lot.
02:00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:01And I have the same thing.
02:03Not as much biting, because my daughter is 10
02:06and my son is seven.
02:07Right.
02:08And she will clobber him if he bites him.
02:10There's a little bit of that going on.
02:12And your godfather, your son's godfather,
02:17is Bryan Cranston, right?
02:18Yeah.
02:19Yeah.
02:19So is he, I would imagine that Bryan
02:24would be a great godfather, is he?
02:26Oh, he's just the best.
02:29Well, you know him.
02:29He's the most immature person I've ever met in my life.
02:33You know what I mean?
02:34He really is.
02:35He's just the best.
02:36But my kiddos call him Monkey Man.
02:38Oh, really?
02:39Monkey Man?
02:40Yeah.
02:41From the one and only Ivan movie
02:43he did with the giant gorilla.
02:45And they just call him Monkey Man.
02:47My son, I don't think he even knows his name is Bryan.
02:51He's like Monkey Man.
02:52He's Monkey Man, all right.
02:54Well, it could be Heisenberg, so that's probably for the best.
02:56It could be, yeah.
02:57It's better.
02:58Are people still yelling bitch at you,
03:00Jesse Pinkman style?
03:01Because I remember that was a problem
03:02last time you were here.
03:03It's still very much a problem.
03:05Yeah, yeah.
03:06I mean, it's so wild, because the show
03:07has been done for so long.
03:09But a lot of people are being introduced to it now.
03:12And I can confidently say I've been called bitch more
03:15than anyone in the world.
03:17It's true.
03:18It's true.
03:19Yeah.
03:20Yeah.
03:25And do the kids ever hear this?
03:28Sometimes.
03:29Yeah.
03:30Yeah, they have no idea what the word means.
03:32Yeah, not yet.
03:32They don't.
03:33Yeah, not yet.
03:34But I feel like my character kind of made it more of,
03:37like, a term of endearment a little bit.
03:39Yeah, yeah, it was, kind of.
03:41It was just kind of part of your, like, lingo.
03:43It wasn't necessarily, like, an insult.
03:45Right.
03:46Towards women.
03:46It was just bitch, yeah.
03:48It was like the period at the end of the sentence.
03:50Exactly.
03:51But I will tell you, my seven-year-old just, yes,
03:53just last night was making a card for his older sister.
03:57And he spelled out the word B-I-T-C-H.
04:02Why, I'm not exactly sure.
04:04That's so funny.
04:05Yeah, they have a weird sense of humor.
04:06Interesting.
04:07Yes, they do, yeah.
04:09Did Bryan Cranston, the monkey man, get Ryden a gift, or?
04:12You know what, he hit us up.
04:14We were on our way to Legoland, and he
04:16wanted to see if him and Robin could drop off presents
04:19for the kiddo.
04:20But so he has gifts waiting for us, but.
04:23You haven't opened them yet?
04:25No, I don't know what they are.
04:25We have a gift for you, actually.
04:27And this is something that, when my kids were three years old,
04:30this is something that they love more than anything.
04:33Guillermo.
04:34Yeah, Guillermo, put that down.
04:36We didn't wrap it, because, well, you'll see what happens.
04:39Oh, yeah.
04:39I'm so happy for you, man.
04:41I love you.
04:41I love you, too.
04:42Wow.
04:43I think it's nice that you hug Guillermo.
04:44I just want you to know he had nothing to do with this.
04:48All he did is bring it out.
04:49Wow, this is so nice.
04:50Yeah, yeah, you want, would you?
04:52I mean, I would love to open it.
04:53Open it, and hopefully it won't be too difficult to open.
04:56And I think you'll understand what
04:57it is when you open it, because there's, now.
05:01Oh, wow.
05:02There's nothing kids like better
05:06than an empty cardboard box.
05:09Wow.
05:10Wow.
05:10Wow.
05:11Wow.
05:12Wow.
05:13Wow.
05:15My kids are going to be obsessive.
05:16Bring that home.
05:17Yeah, I think they're going to like it.
05:19This is their favorite thing, as always.
05:21You got quite an honor.
05:23This is a pretty cool thing, I have to say.
05:26At your high school, the theater program
05:30named their theater after you, the Aaron Paul Theater.
05:34Oh, my god.
05:35They did, yeah.
05:37I mean, it's so sweet.
05:40I mean, it's crazy.
05:41It's got to be strange.
05:42Is this the same theater you were?
05:43Yeah, that's the theater that my teacher, Mrs. Link,
05:47Nancy Link, she was the one that encouraged me to move out to LA
05:52and do this for a living, you know?
05:54Did she try to get you to leave while you were in school,
05:56or did she wait till you were gone?
05:58Yeah, oh, look at this.
06:01I mean, this is right when they walk into school.
06:02So unfortunately, I mean, they get to see
06:06me every time they walk in.
06:09Yeah, I mean, it's pretty classic.
06:13That's very strange, isn't it?
06:15Yeah, it's very strange.
06:16Yeah.
06:18Yeah, well, that's exciting, though.
06:19Were you like in, what plays were you in?
06:22Were you in plays and stuff like that?
06:23I was in plays.
06:24It was a lot of just like original plays.
06:27Oh, really?
06:28Yeah, because we couldn't really get the rights
06:30to like the bigger production.
06:31Oh, wow.
06:32I guess you have to have rights.
06:34Yeah, you have to have the rights.
06:35Yeah, they make you pay, even if you're in high school.
06:38Were you a good student?
06:40I think so, a little bit.
06:41Grades-wise?
06:43Grades-wise, I was pretty decent.
06:45I mean, I graduated, you know, over a year early,
06:47and I bounced when I was 17 in LA.
06:51But I was, you know, I was a procrastinator in school,
06:56as all of the teachers would say.
06:58Oh, you were known to be.
07:00It was a whole thing.
07:00The yearbook ended up doing a story about, OK,
07:05who is the biggest procrastinator in the school?
07:08And so they got the teachers together to like vote on.
07:12I mean, can you believe this?
07:14This is awful.
07:15They're like, OK, what student is the worst?
07:18And I got the most votes.
07:20And so thank you very much.
07:22You were the procrastinator.
07:24And so they're like, you've got to give us
07:27your biggest procrastination story.
07:29And I was just thinking, and then I just kept thinking,
07:32and then I kept procrastinating on that.
07:34And then I never ended up doing it,
07:36so that ended up being the story.
07:37Oh, yeah, that's cemented is really what happens, yeah.
07:40Did you have a job in high school?
07:42Did you work?
07:43I did, I had multiple jobs.
07:45You know, I worked at a Pizza Hut, you know,
07:47a delivery boy.
07:48Oh, you did?
07:49What'd you do at Pizza Hut?
07:49I just delivered pizzas.
07:50Oh, you delivered the pizzas?
07:52Yeah, yeah.
07:52Was that an interesting experience, delivering pizzas?
07:55Oh my god, the people you would meet.
07:56I delivered pizzas too.
07:57You did?
07:58Well, you're a big pizza guy.
08:00Yeah, well, yeah, I would give them away.
08:01Well, I would sell them to people.
08:02Yeah, I delivered in Las Vegas.
08:05What was it like delivering pizzas in Boise?
08:07It was great.
08:09It was everything that you would expect.
08:10I mean, there was this one time I delivered pizza
08:13to this woman just after the holidays, after Christmas.
08:17And she answers the door.
08:18She's in her robe.
08:19And then she tries to get me to come in to help set up
08:23the kids' PlayStation.
08:25Oh, really?
08:26And the robe just kind of got a little loose.
08:28Like the movie.
08:29She was being extremely flirtatious with me
08:33and wouldn't let me leave.
08:34And it was just very.
08:36Can I tell you something?
08:37Yeah.
08:37Nothing like that ever happened to me.
08:39Yeah, I felt a little trapped, to be honest.
08:44One time, a guy offered me a cigarette.
08:46That's the closest I ever got.
08:48But I only did it for, like, five years.
08:49Yeah, yeah.
08:50Aaron Paul is with us.
08:51His new movie is called, Ask, and we'll be right back.
08:55Ah!
09:00Who are you?
09:01Who are you?
09:02What the f***?
09:14It's me.
09:16Brian.
09:18Brian Cardwell.
09:20That is Aaron Paul and Ava Gonzalez in Ask.
09:24Which was really, really good.
09:28Oh, thank you, man.
09:28I mean, so well done.
09:30Unbelievable.
09:30Tell the story of what happens, because it's mysterious.
09:34Yeah, so it's directed by this brilliant man,
09:38visionary of Flying Lotus.
09:40The man's name is Flying Lotus.
09:42Yeah, Flying Lotus.
09:43You call him, like, hey, Flying Lotus.
09:45What do we have him for lunch?
09:47I call him Fly-Lo.
09:48Fly-Lo, OK.
09:49Yeah, people call him Fly-Lo or Flying Lotus or Steven.
09:52Yeah.
09:54He's just the best.
09:55But it's all about, so Ava Gonzalez,
09:57she plays this character, Ria.
10:00The moment the movie starts, she's
10:02blacked out on a space station floor.
10:04She has blood everywhere.
10:06And within 30 seconds of the film starting,
10:11she realizes that her entire crew has been massacred.
10:14And she's just trying to figure out what the hell is happening.
10:17And she also has no idea who she is or where she is.
10:21And all of a sudden, a bang on the outside of the space
10:24station door happens.
10:25And then that's when my character shows up.
10:27And so they're both trying to figure out
10:28if they can trust one another.
10:31And when someone, a director whose name is Flying Lotus,
10:34approaches you, are you skeptical at first?
10:38No.
10:38You know what, I've been such a huge fan
10:40of his music for so many years.
10:42Yeah, he played on our show, Thundercat, here.
10:45Just brilliant.
10:46Why should he be good at music and this?
10:48I don't like that.
10:49And every single thing he releases, it's just so,
10:53it has his own voice, his own stamp.
10:55And it's just so uniquely his.
10:58And it's just so out there.
10:59This film is just so out there.
11:02And I'm just so happy that it's getting such praise and love.
11:05Yeah, it is getting very good reviews.
11:07I still wonder, though, because even like liking his music,
11:10like, I mean, it's great.
11:11But like, you know, if Huey Lewis called me and said,
11:15I'm directing a movie, I'd say, I'm not going to star in it.
11:17No.
11:18Yeah.
11:19He just crushed it.
11:21And I think he's going to really have a moment after this.
11:23Yeah, yeah.
11:24So now you've worked in a hazmat suit and a space suit.
11:27Yeah.
11:28Which is less comfortable?
11:30The space suit is definitely less comfortable.
11:32It takes a while to get in.
11:34But any time that Aza and I were in the space suit,
11:37we just were like giddy little school kids
11:40running around the planet, taking photos, videos.
11:44I stole my suit.
11:45I love it.
11:46You have to.
11:47Of course, you have to steal the suit.
11:48I mean, you saw the suit.
11:50It must be a little bit weird that this movie is coming
11:53out on the same week as those astronauts,
11:57the man and the woman, landed here on Earth.
12:00I saw you talking about it.
12:02Is that?
12:03Welcome back.
12:04Welcome back.
12:05I mean, they were meant to be gone for a week.
12:07They were meant to be gone for a week.
12:09And they've been gone for nine months.
12:10Nine months.
12:10And you know what?
12:11That actually happens more than you think.
12:15It happened to me three times.
12:17Weird.
12:20First time I was a kid.
12:22Yeah, yeah.
12:23When you go into space, I've been seeing, like,
12:25Gayle King or Katy Perry's going into space.
12:28Have you been asked to go to space?
12:29I have not been asked to go to space.
12:32I used to think I really wanted to go to space.
12:34But now having kiddos, I'm happily married,
12:38madly in love with my wife.
12:39And I'm just going to hang here.
12:41I think that's a good decision.
12:42You know what I mean?
12:43I mean, this planet.
12:45There's a lot to see here.
12:46This planet's pretty nice.
12:48You know, we should protect this planet and focus on this.
12:52Just saying.
12:52I think you're right.
12:53I think, yes.
12:54Until you've seen all of this planet.
12:57Right.
12:58Like, if I were to see everything on this planet,
12:59maybe I might go, OK, now I'll check out space.
13:02But until that happens, I'm staying right down here.
13:04Staying right here.
13:05Yeah.
13:06I agree.
13:07I think that's a very smart move.
13:09And in fact, I'm going to call Gayle King and Katy Perry
13:12and tell them not to go into space.
13:13Yeah, you should. You should.
13:14It's a terrible idea to go into space.
13:16It's a terrible idea.
13:16Don't anyone go into space.
13:18Stay here.
13:19Well, it is great to see you.
13:21And congrats on the movie.
13:22And tell Flying Lotus he did a great job.
13:25I will. I will.
13:26You're the best, ma'am.
13:27The movie's called Ash.
13:28It opens in theaters Friday.
13:29Aaron Paul, everybody.
13:30We'll be back with Bert Kreischer.
13:33Guillermo, do you know how many subscribers
13:34we have on YouTube now?
13:3620 million.
13:37That's right.
13:38Yeah, that's why we're wearing these glasses.
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13:41If you're not, help us get to 20 million and one.