-Our next guest is a talented actor
you know from the movies "Buddy Games,"
"Win a Date with Tad Hamilton,"
and the "Transformers" franchise.
You can catch him in the new show "Jupiter's Legacy,"
which is streaming now on Netflix.
Let's take a look.
-What is wrong with you?
We don't kill, ever!
-He was gonna detonate, Dad.
He was gonna take you out and half the state.
-Then you disable his systems.
You -- You send him into space.
There's a million things you could've done.
You took the easy way out.
-Did that look easy to you?!
-Sheldon.
-Go.
Go wait for me at The Union.
[ Air whooshing ]
-Please welcome to the show Josh Duhamel.
How are you, Josh?
-I'm all right, Seth. I'm all right.
This is a big deal.
I put my suit on and everything for you tonight.
-You look really -- Now, I'm sure that's probably
the best dressed you've ever been in your own kitchen.
-Well, at least in the last year.
This is a good excuse for me to, you know --
I didn't -- I mean, I didn't go all the way.
-Sure. Thank you for your honesty.
We do appreciate your honesty.
Josh, this is your first time on the show,
but we have been co-stars in a major motion picture.
We were in the 2011 film "New Year's Eve."
We did not have scenes together, which I think is probably
one of the reasons the film did not make its box office numbers.
-No. -But, did you enjoy --
I've often talked on this show with other people in that film
how much fun it was to work with Gary Marshall.
-Gary was amazing. And although we didn't --
we didn't have any scenes together,
I did feel your vibrations... -Thank you.
-...on the set well after you'd gone,
so, in a way, we did work together.
At least, I was inspired by what you left behind.
-I'm glad you got those. I did leave those for you,
and I'm happy to see they hit their target.
-[ Laughs ] -You -- I want to ask
before I ask about "Jupiter's Legacy,"
true story -- is this a true story,
that in 1997, you won Male Model of the Year,
and runner-up was Ashton Kutcher?
-T-That's a fact, Seth. -Wow.
-That is a true story.
It was -- It was 1997, like you said.
I went to New -- My first time ever in New York.
I was not far out of North Dakota.
I think I'd left maybe a year earlier.
And found myself in this competition.
I'd been living in California and flew to New York for it.
It was probably the most pivotal moment of my life...
-Sure. -...beating Ashton Kutcher.
You know what I mean? I mean, the whole week
was about, you know, who's going to win?
I heard that there was, like, this --
The word on the street was that it was between me,
this kid from Cedar Rapids, and some other kid.
The kid from Cedar Rapids was Ashton, obviously.
Well, then, we get up on stage at the end of a week long of,
you know, swimsuit runways, and high-fashion catwalking,
and all that kind of stuff, which I'm sure you can find
on YouTube or anywhere on the Internet, really.
And so we're sitting up there, and it's fifth runner-up,
fourth runner-up, third runner-up.
Second runner-up is the kid from I can't remember where,
and then first runner-up was Ashton Kutcher.
So, which meant I win this thing.
I mean, I might have won, you know, Miss Universe.
I was so -- They lifted me up,
I had the sash, the crown, tears were flowing.
It was -- It was beautiful.
-Did you have -- was there one strength of yours
as a male model that you feel like elevated you up?
Was there one part of the competition you feel
you were dominant in?
-It was definitely my walk. -Yeah.
-I had the -- My walk was fierce.
-In the late '90s, I mean, the walk
was a whole different thing.
-Geez, I was trying to forget about this,
but I appreciate you bringing it back.
[ Laughter ]
-You -- We both have -- Yours is a little older.
We both have sons named Axel. Did you --
Did you get to have good father-son time
over the course of this last year?
-I didn't know you had a son named Axel.
-Yeah, I got an Axel, too. -Wow! That's cool.
Yeah, we spent a lot of time --
I have a cabin deep in the woods in Minnesota,
and it was really just an opportunity to,
you know, do a bunch of the stuff that I never
would have otherwise been able to do.
You know, I got a tractor out there.
I've got boats and Jet-Skis and stuff.
And we just -- you know, I mostly did work,
taught him the things that -- I mean, I grew up out
in the middle of the woods in North Dakota,
and so it was a good way for me to sort of relive my own youth
through him and show him the stuff that I grew up doing.
And, you know, again, that was stuff that I don't know
he would have otherwise been able to do
just living in Los Angeles,
so it's been great having that place out there.
-So, this is interesting to me, because I feel like
a kid that age, even though they've got a dad
who's in show business, a dad who is currently playing
a superhero, I bet at the end of the day,
they're more impressed that you have a tractor.
Is that accurate? -Yeah.
Yeah, to Julianna's point, he doesn't really care.
I mean, he loves superheroes. Don't get me wrong.
That is what he talks about 90% of the time.
But, you know, to me, it's --
I'm just his dad, you know?
And I think that it's almost more distracting for him
to be able to watch it and be like,
"That's not you. That's just a suit
with a wig and a fake beard. What are you --
You're no superhero. Superheroes are Superman."
-Yeah. And, by the way, Superman,
the actual Superman doesn't get a muscle suit like this.
It really makes the job a lot easier, let's be honest.
-Yeah, I was pretty proud of that.
Look how Jacked I look there.
I wish I could do that in real life.
-They're really good. When you see it there,
you realize, "Oh, they figured out how to do this."
Like, the superhero era we're living in
in film and television has figured out
how to do muscle suits. -Yeah, they certainly have.
And it's so depressing having to take that thing off,
because you realize what you actually look like
underneath it. -Yeah.
'Cause this is like you, 1997, sash on, and then...
[ Laughter ]
One of the cool things about this,
you do play a superhero over the course of a hundred years,
which is --
And I should note that this is a graphic novel
that I've read and that I really enjoy.
And there's some real depth in this character.
Are you enjoying it?
-I had a great time. I really did.
It was one of those jobs --
It's one of those jobs as an actor you dream about
because, you know, there's a whole origin story
that we start with and sort of cut back and forth from,
you know, current time back to the '30s.
And so I got to play this guy sort of on top of the world,
then loses his father in a really sort of tragic way.
And then he goes into this mental sort of breakdown,
and he goes crazy, really.
And so it's this journey that he takes
following these visions that he has,
which ultimately leads him to get these powers.
But then you see, 90 years later,
what the repercussions of that are like.
It's like 90 years of, you know, the responsibility that it takes
to be this guy is what we really examine.
And that's what I loved about it.
And how does that affect the way you raise your kids.
You know, this guy can fly around the world
and shoot laser beams out of his eyeballs.
But he can't -- he's powerless when it comes
to connecting with his 20-year-old daughter.
You know, so he literally goes to therapy
because he doesn't know who to talk to
because he feels like he's losing --
you know, he's losing them.
And so I love that they sort of examine
the psychological aspects of it.
-It's a really cool story, and I'm so glad it's on screen.
I want to finish by asking you,
you have a celebrity doppelganger.
He is a friend of the show.
He's a handful. Timothy Oliphant.
[ Laughter ]
And I -- When I look at this photo,
it's like, "Oh, yeah. Son of a gun."
You guys look alike. And you have crossed paths
and agreed on this assessment by others
that you are spitting images of one another.
-Yeah, I couldn't wait to meet him because all
I ever hear was, "You look just like Timothy Oliphant."
In fact, I went to a -- I went to a charity
ping pong event that Clayton Kershaw
was putting on here in Los Angeles a few years ago.
And they do it right on the outfield at Dodger Stadium.
it's one of the most fun events.
And so I go, they had, like, this blue-carpet thing.
And I go, you know, I'm talking to the reporters
and stuff before we go in.
And the "L.A. Times" was there, and they start talking
to the dude for like 10 minutes.
And at the end of the interview, he says, "So how --
what was it playing so-and-so from 'Justified'?"
I said, "Wait a second. You think --
Wait. You think that I'm Timothy Oliphant."
10 minutes we talked and he thought that I was this dude.
So, I go into the thing, and sure enough,
Timothy does show up later to this event,
and I finally got to meet him.
And we talked, and we laughed about all the --
you know, all the -- all the times we each
get sort of, you know, taken for the other, for each other.
And he goes, "Here, come here, take a picture with my family."
So, I'm like, "Okay." He had his wife and I think
his three kids, maybe four. Can't remember.
And we all take -- He actually takes the photo,
so I'm sitting there with his wife and his kids.
Well, come Christmastime, I get an envelope
with a Christmas card in it with me and Timothy Oliphant's
family saying "Happy holidays, the Oliphants."
[ Laughter ]
I mean, I thought that was pretty brilliant of him.
And, you know, I was looking around for the photo,
so I could -- I could, you know, send it to you guys,
but I couldn't find it anywhere. But he's a good dude.
-He is a good dude. A handful, but a good dude.
Hey, thanks so much for being here, man.
It was a real pleasure talking to you.
And congrats on the show. -Thanks so much, Seth.
-"Jupiter's Legacy" is streaming now on Netflix.
We'll be right back.