- I lady-teabagged you, bye.
(laughter)
Nice delicate lady-teabag for the kids.
- So, you literally jut came here
from recording VO for Archer.
- Yeah.
- [Simone] And by the time this is out
season 10 of Archer is going to have started.
- [Aisha] I just recorded the last episode
of the upcoming season, yeah.
- Was that really emotional for you?
- No, I'm dead inside
so not really. - That's cool.
It's really funny actually.
I've been doing this show for a decade now.
I've been doing it so long that
I'm both like deeply emotionally invested in the show
and also just kind of like eh,
and today when we started,
I said, guys, like what episode is this?
I had no idea and they were like, it's the last one.
I was like, oh all right.
- It'll happen outside the show.
- Yeah, yeah.
- You didn't have time to get emotional about it.
You didn't have time to get in your head.
- No, I haven't had time to urinate or shower for years, so
- That's great.
Yeah, exactly.
(laughter)
It's just a big, kinda smelly blur.
- Let me start over.
My name's Archer.
- Lana Kane.
- And I'm sorry, but have we met?
- If we had, you'd remember.
(comedy punchline rimshot)
- I think that's one of the things
that's so interesting about how Archer has developed,
is like it had that original constraint
of being secret agents and then it was like,
no, throw it out the window!
- Right, right, right.
- I'm done writing this.
- And fans do struggle with that.
I think there are fan who really love it.
I think there are fans that have struggled with it.
What's exciting about our show is that it's dynamic for us.
What people don't understand
is making the same show for 10 years
is not interesting to the people on the show.
In fact, my favorite episode
was that one where we were coke dealers.
I'm really hoping we go back to doing that.
Also, I wonder for super fans,
at what point does it get old for you as a viewer?
You know what I mean?
So, for us on Archer, the whole thing is like
how do we keep making this feel dynamic,
and new, and fresh, and different,
and still make sure that there's something to discover?
- [Simone] I imagine you don't have a lot of time
for like fun and relaxing. - Yeah, super beautiful.
I think one thing about play,
especially anything that has like a strong narrative
or like really, really robust campaign,
is like I wanna live in that game
and then you can't sit down
and play a game like that for 45 minutes.
- So, you need something shorter.
- I either need something shorter
or I need my life to change.
'Cause I used to love coming home at like eight o'clock
and playing until three or four in the morning.
I just can't do that and also function in my work now,
and there nothing less satisfying
than just playing to a checkpoint
and then putting the controller down.
- Is that why you made this cocktail line
that you have now?
Bottled cocktails 'cause you don't wanna
take the time to - to drown my feelings?
mix an actual drink.
No! (laughs)
- To drown my feelings and sorrow
for not being able to game.
Bye, feelings.
Yes and no.
I think it's like part of a larger philosophy
about trying to make life easier.
I just started batching cocktails myself,
and just keeping them in the fridge
so I could just pour out two ounces
and like go sit on the couch.
- Yeah.
- And then I thought it would be great
if you could buy these in the store.
- Well, we're gonna take some time now to actually,
we're make you sit down and play a game.
- Oh, no.
- Hope that's okay.
- Okay.
- We're gonna play Rainbow Six: Siege.
- We're gonna play Siege.
I love this particular franchise.
I've played so many hours of Rainbow Six: Vegas,
and I loved that game
'cause I really like cooperative play a lot,
and I like strategy and I like stealth.
I'm crawling up the stairs.
(laughter)
I'm so sneaky.
I'm sneaking up on ones and zeros.
- You have a big like missal launcher
if you press right bumper.
- Do I?
Fun.
- [Simone] Hell yeah.
Oh, no!
(laughter)
- That was great!
- Why?
(laughter)
[Aisha] That was so funny.
I did it again! - Ah, Aisha! (laughter)
Yay!
You're a liar!
You lied to me!
- I'm sorry I lied to you!
(laughter)
How do I switch guns?
- Oh my god, that was so entertaining.
Okay, wait a second.
- I'm turning bright red!
(laughter)
- [Simone] Caught on camera
lying to Aisha Tyler.
- [Aisha] Oh my god, that was really entertaining.
- All right.
- I feel like maybe the explosion
might've attracted some attention.
- [Simone] This is suffering.
- [Aisha] This is suffering, isn't it?
- [Simone] Oh, he's still alive.
- Oh, he's a (bleeped out)
(laughter)
You guys will bleep that out, won't you?
You'll bleep that out for the interwebs.
- I'm a bad feminist because every time that word is used.
- No, you're a great feminist.
- I think it's the funniest fucking in the world.
- You're a great feminist because you don't let language
dictate how you feel about yourself and the world, man.
I use that word to show a motherfucker
you can't shit on me.
You can't weaponize a goddamn thing.
- I think you took out the missal launcher again.
I just want you to be aware of that.
- Oh, that I (mumbles)
- Before you.
- Before I shoot it at a wall, - Yes.
and then back into my own mouth?
(laughter) (upbeat music)
- [Announcer] And it's normal to experience
feelings of anxiety around this stage, you know?
- I'm not going to relapse.
- [Announcer] You're at a critical juncture in your life.
- [Simone] You are moving
in a big way towards directing things?
- Moving in a direction was just a function of nerd-kid me,
who used to pay for like one ticket at 11 o'clock
and then sit in the movie theater until 10 at night,
going from movie theater to movie theater.
Just like consuming as much movie as I could
and playing video games on the breaks.
Those are my most formative,
kind of creative and psychological years.
I just love movies first
and I think if you love films,
you wanna understand them better
and then you wanna try to make them yourself.
- You talk about like being a kid,
and loving movies and loving games,
and when I look at your career,
you've worked on a lot of things
that you originally loved as a fan.
Was there a moment where you kind of
chose movies over games,
or was it always like,
okay this is my hobby
and this is what I wanna make. - Oh, interesting.
I've been in three games.
- Yeah.
- That was really fun
'cause that just also came out of fandom.
I will say this about being in a game,
sorry to all the people out there who love video games,
it's not that fun being in a game.
It just really isn't that fun.
It seems like fun for you because you're playing me,
but I was just shrieking in a sound studio
for 11 hours and losing my voice,
and like trying to die 43 ways.
- Yeah.
Did you have to do a bunch of like
the screams? - For Reach,
we did like 111 death rattles, man.
I was so tired.
- [Stefan] I can't even get my head around this.
- [Aisha] What if i forgot the pill,
then I'm just locked out of my entire digital life?
- I wanna talk about your directing though
'cause you have a new film that you're going to direct
which is tentatively called Vigilante.
- Yeah, yeah.
- It's an Irwin Winkler production.
- Yes, yeah.
- What drew you to that project?
- The movies that I loved most
when I was a kid were genre films.
I'm a huge action fan and this is an action piece.
The only movie that I loved when I was a kid
that had like a female star in it,
was the Terminator franchise.
Sarah Connor for the first Terminator movie's great,
but T two when she's doing
the pull ups on the bed turned sideways.
I've seen that movie like 50 times now.
- [Simone] And it's still a perfect movie.
- I just wanna make movies like the movies that I loved,
with people that recognize, and that look like me,
and that look like people that I know,
and then feel different and fresh.
It was an opportunity to kinda like lean into a genre
that I've always really had passion about.
- Your first film was shot in a week,
and it was all inside a car.
Is there a similar challenge with this upcoming film?
- This one is not that limited, no
but there's some signature stuff of mine in this movie
because I really like silence and containment.
Those are my things,
is like forcing the audience to be inside the movie
and I love claustrophobia.
I love panic.
Aye, yai, yai, yai, yai, yai. - Ah!
What I like about me is that
I sound like an adult when I play this game.
Did you just throw a fucking grenade at me?
You prick?
That wasn't a good throw either.
- [Simone] Oh no, oh no!
Yeah, I killed myself. (laughter)
- [Simone] It's okay, you're not dead.
It's just a flash bang.
- Just blinded for life.
There we go. - Hell yeah, you did it.
Are you kidding me?
- I think he's down.
- No, I don't think he is.
- [Simone] Oh, he's not, damn it.
- [Aisha] Nope, nope, nope, then I died again.
- [Simone] Why is he awful?
- Good times.
Good times, guys.
Let's turn this into like a death litany
of like video hot cuts of me dying.
'Cause apparently that's why I came.
What's this 25?
Is that my health?
- [Simone] Yeah, yeah.
- Somebody do something.
(laughter)
Somebody get me a bandaid.
Are there band aids in this game?
- [Simone] Maybe in the kitchen,
maybe there's like a junk drawer, you know?
- [Aisha] Is there, is there?
- Maybe in the bathroom.
- Are there med packs in this game?
(laughter)
- No, I haven't seen any.
- Fuck off.
- Aisha, I'm sorry.
- This is bullshit.
Come on, let's go.
- [Simone] Hell yeah.
- [Aisha] Let's go!
- [Simone] Bitch, come on!.
Thank you.
(laughter)
That was my fuckin' opinion too.
- You made me say it?
- Yeah, I did make you say it.
- God.
They're gonna be maybe to your.
Ah, they're right there!
- Oh, snap!
I should've used her as a human shield.
- I'm so sorry we like brought you here
and then stressed you the fuck out.
- You know what?
Actually, that was wildly entertaining.
(laughter)
I just spent a lot of time dying.
It was very relaxing.
You know, dying is very relaxing.
You're like eh, I don't have to try anymore.
Most of the time I think gaming
is always like a big stress relief.
I will say that like the first Walking Dead.
- [Simone] Clementine, yeah.
- Yeah, with clementine I just cried hysterically
at the end of that game,
and I remember people were like,
you're gonna cry.
I was like, pfft.
I don't cry, man.
I don't cry.
Look at me.
Do you think I cry?
And I was crying and my friend was like,
just finished the game?
I was like, yes I did.
Yes, I really, really did.
Yeah, and then Telltale went away.
- Well that's a good ending.
- Guys, I like to end things on a high note.
(laughter)
First Clementine died, and then Telltale died
and then I died.
- We're just gonna play this backwards, we're gonna start
on the low note. (laughter)
(upbeat music)
So for you, like the career that say
the guys who have been working on Supernatural
for the last 50 years.
- Who are also completely dead inside.
- So, you don't want that at all.
- No.
- You like to do a ton of different things.
- Look I mean I'm not gonna kick
Supernatural out of bed for eating crackers.
(laughter)