[CRACKLING]
MAN: You have been told many lies of Middle Earth.
HOST: What was the moment where you feel really
connected to your character.
I don't think it fully hit me that we
were really doing Lord of the Rings until Hall H yesterday.
It was the moment where you were immersed in people who
love Tolkien as much as you do.
And then, all of a sudden, it just kind of
slaps you in the face.
For me, there's before Hall H and after.
HOST: What surprised you about that Hall H reaction?
How loud it was.
[LAUGHS]
And the fact that--
I mean, we had--
Colbert moderated.
So as a Tolkien expert, to have his blessing
was really special.
One of the first one was when I
had my ears for the first time, and my entire, like, costume.
It was one of the most special ones,
to be able to have this lifelong childhood
dream of being an elf, and seeing yourself as one
was very deep.
HOST: What was your reaction when you saw those ears
for the first time on you?
Tears.
I do a lot of that.
[LAUGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
ISMAEL CRUZ CORDOVA: This is something that is bigger
than any of us, and that also came to my consciousness
yesterday at Hall H. I felt that I was part of something bigger,
but then I was seeing it and feeling
that energy yesterday as well.
So it was a proud moment, number one of thousands.
When I first met Megan and Daniel and Dylan and Sara
and all the cast members that I had
the privilege of working with.
I think that's when I felt most connected because they were
so believable and so present.
And so that helped me feel like I had to be
and I had to embody--
and hopefully embody them as truthfully as they did.
So that was a really important part of it.
And I couldn't have done it without them.
It's been multiple layers of, aha-moments,
of this is really happening.
There's stepping into your costume for the first time.
There's showing up to the set for the first time,
and you're looking around you and being
transported to Middle Earth.
Getting on a helicopter to go to location because you can't get
there any other way, watching the screening as a cast,
and cheering my colleagues on-- my friends on,
and geeking out as a fan, and then
Hall H and Stephen Colbert.
I'm like a kid.
This is the best life.
My inner kid is just gleeful right now.
Together we can survive this.
HOST: If there were one movie to rule them all--
Oh.
HOST: --what would it be?
Guys, that's so hard.
It's impossible.
It is hard.
I mean, from my top-- go ahead.
You seem sure.
Parasite-- it functions on so many levels.
I mean, you could almost make the case that it's
a genre movie if you wanted to.
But it has suspense, humor.
It's constantly taking turns in--
you think you know where it's going.
You feel invested in everyone.
Everyone gets a fair shake in the film.
And I've just never seen anything like it.
I haven't seen anything like it in a long time.
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
I'd say Nightmare Before Christmas, actually.
Yeah, that's a movie that I keep coming back to-- that it has,
like, the elements of beauty and art and all that stuff,
but it always brings you back to that cozy feeling as an adult.
I feel like, the older I get, the more I
crave that kind of feeling.
And as an actor as well, you're kind of doing this--
being dramatic, et cetera, et cetera.
So I want to go home, take a shower, AC up, bowl of cereal,
and kind of watch Nightmare Before Christmas.
And Jumanji is a close second, the original one.
[LAUGHS]
Thanks, I've seen it.
I just recently watched Gaslight,
the 1944 Ingrid Bergman film, and I fell in love with it.
And for that era, I'm just blown away by the filmmaking,
the acting, all of it.
Always.
Oh, my dear.
I'll say Shoplifters because you have no idea where it's
going to go from the start.
I remember being in the cinema watching it,
and I'll just never forget the feelings that I had after it.
[SPEAKING JAPANESE]