- Hi, I'm Cobie Smulders.
And I play Dexedrine Parios on "Stumptown".
- My name is Jake Johnson, and I play Grey.
- Hi, I'm Michael Ealy and I play Detective Hoffman.
- My name is Cole.
I play Ansel.
- I'm Camryn Manheim.
I play Bobbi Cosgrove.
- I'm Tantoo Cardinal.
I play Sue Lynn Blackbird.
- Hi, I'm Adrian Martinez and I play Tookie.
- And this is about our firsts.
(Jake clapping)
First role you really wanted but went to someone else.
There's been so many.
(laughs)
I was driving down to do a test for "The Aviator",
yeah starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
I got rear-ended.
The car was totaled.
I was in a neck brace.
I was stuck in Medford, Oregon
and I could not go to the test.
- I got very close to playing the bad guy on "The Sitter"
which was a Jonah Hill movie.
A comedy that David Gordon Green was directing.
And then flew me out to New York,
and I read for it in his apartment on a Saturday.
And I thought like,
yeah I'm in his house.
This is happening.
- Yeah.
- We're shooting on Tuesday.
Jackey J is here!
- I'm here I'm-- - I'm in the house!
- I'm right here.
- And then Monday, Tuesday came and I didn't get it.
And Sam Rockwell got the job and.
- I mean.
- Look where he ended up. - They did pretty good.
- Yeah, look where he ended up.
- A nobody.
- Yeah.
- It was the role in "2 Fast 2 Furious".
I auditioned for the role of Tej
which Ludacris ended up playing.
What's interesting and what hurts about it is that
Tej has gone on to be in I don't know,
nine of the "Fast and Furious" movies.
- Right, yeah, yeah. - And I have not.
So you know, that one still hurts a little bit.
- First big audition.
- This one, "Stumptown".
- This a great one to be your first.
- Yes.
- I know.
Mine was obviously "The Practice".
The worst audition I've ever had in my life.
And as I was getting up to leave,
I noticed he had a cribbage board.
I just said, "David, do you play cribbage?"
He kinda scooted up and he went,
"You know I do, but I don't think
"you wanna go there with me."
So I said, "I challenge you to a duel.
"If I lose I walk out, I never see you again.
"But if I win I walk out with the script."
Obviously I got the role,
and I have a check with his name signed on it.
So I'm just saying.
- There was a movie I did.
I had a horrible experience on it.
When it was done I literally prayed and I said,
"Dear God you really have to give me a sign
"if you want me to stay in this business."
And next thing I knew I was auditioning for this movie,
"Focus" and I booked it and I thought,
"Okay, I got the sign."
- I hitchhiked to go and audition for
a movie called "Death Hunt".
And I go into the audition hall,
and there's all these girls sitting around
in their very brown makeup,
and they were all white girls.
With their turquoise jewelry.
With all of their Indian stuff.
I got the job.
- First incorrect rumor you read about yourself.
- It was on the bathroom stall in elementary school,
and it said "Cobie Smulders has a big butt".
That's not true.
I've always been quite lean.
- Then why did you write it? - Genetically blessed.
- I did an interview.
It was when "New Girl" first started.
They said, what's one thing you don't like
about being recognized?
And I said jokingly, I get hugged by a lot of men,
and I'm not a touchy guy.
And so it's a lot of like,
men's ears touching my ears when we do a hug.
(Michael snickers)
It was in passing.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It was not something I thought about.
And then on Yahoo I was checking my email and it said,
"'New Girl' actor to male fans, 'Don't touch me!'"
and I thought like, "Oh, Zooey's screwed."
You can't say something, they're gonna hate you.
Midway through after the comments of how much they hated me,
I was like, "Oh that's a rumor".
- Right.
'Cause I didn't quite mean that.
- Yeah.
There was a rumor that Ciara and I had hooked up
in a New York club one night.
- Yeah.
- And I had never met her before ever in my life.
- How come you're not being honest right now?
- Yeah.
- I'm being totally honest.
- Sure! - We never hooked up.
- The weird thing is--
- Different guy on camera, different guy off camera.
- Yeah and okay.
- Next question.
- The weird thing is, is that was me.
- First time you were starstruck.
It's happening!
(Cobie and Michael laugh)
All right, first time you were starstruck.
(Michael yells)
- Sorry I keep snorting.
- My first starstruck was I met A.C. Green.
He is so tall, and I'm the shortest one ever.
- You're gonna have to tell me who A.C. Green is.
- He's a basketball player.
He used to play for the Lakers.
- I was doing "The Practice".
I got invited to a very shi-shi Hollywood party.
I had one minute, I was talking to Meryl Streep.
I couldn't even believe I was talking to her.
And all of a sudden my eyes started to glaze over,
and I was like, "Meryl,
"I cannot concentrate on a thing you are saying right now.
"Mick Jagger is standing right behind you."
So I was starstruck once and twice all in the same moment.
And then she was like, "Really? To my left or to my right?"
So even Meryl Streep was starstruck.
- Do any of you guys know who Lee Marvin is?
He was stepping up these stairs, and then he stops.
And the Rocky Mountains are behind him.
And I say, "You look like the Rocky Mountains."
(Adrian laughs)
And he looked at me,
didn't say a word and just turned around.
- Aw!
- I was at a table read for a movie called "Morning Glory"
and Harrison Ford was there.
I walked up to him and said, "Excuse me Mr. Ford?"
and he's like.
"I just want you to know you were really important to me
"growing up, and seeing your movies."
And he just kinda like leaned forward a bit, humbled too.
And he said, "Thank you so much, that means a lot to me."
Any other "Saved by the Bell" fans?
- Yes. - In the house.
- Yes. - Zack Morris.
I saw him at a party, at a Hollywood party.
And my husband kind of was like,
"You gotta go and like say hi."
And I just totally froze.
I think pretty much left.
Like I left five minutes later 'cause I just like
I couldn't get past it.
Because I was very much in love.
- Yeah.
- I had a big crush on DJ Tanner from "Full House" as a kid.
- Oh yeah!
- If you could say anything to Zack Paul now?
- I'm a big fan and I think you're really talented,
and thank you for years of entertainment.
- And?
- Do you think when you had a crush on him?
(Jack laughs)
- There it is!
Finally the truth!
- There we go!
And it's innocent!
- Just one!
- Just one! - It doesn't count!
- How does it feel? - It doesn't count!
- Let the girl have a little fun!
- It doesn't count! - How does it feel,
that you got it out of your system?
You got it out of your system right?
- I got it out of my system. - You feel good now.
- I'm ready to go back to my marriage.
- There you go. - Okay.
- My first time was Magic Johnson.
I remember I was on a red carpet for a movie he had produced
called "Brown Sugar".
And I was at the premiere and I was answering questions,
and the biggest hand in the world came into my view.
And I was like, what is that?
I was like that.
And I looked over and the next thing I looked up,
and it was the most massive man I had ever seen.
And instead of shaking his hand,
I literally hugged him in that moment.
- I got an NBA one that doesn't have a cool ending.
I went to a game and Tyson Chandler.
- Yeah.
- I was a big fan of from Chicago.
We drafted him.
I followed his career.
And my buddy Eric Edelstein, who's an actor,
snuck us into the family section after the game.
And I had an outta body experience 'cause
Tyson Chandler was standing next to me.
I swear on my life I don't remember doing it.
I was not conscious of it.
But my buddy Eric goes, "Hey, hey!"
And my hand was right at like the small of his lower back,
and I was going to touch him.
But it wasn't aggressive.
It was just like, wow I've watched you on.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Playing games for so long.
I know your whole story, you're here.
So I was just going like this.
And he goes, hey.
- Was it like you had to see if he was real?
Like a tangible thing?
- There was no thought, but it was a gentle touch.
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