- Why are your hands blue?
- [Iris] I was wondering that.
- Look at his hands, are they gray or blue?
Are you okay?
- I'm having a stroke right now.
(upbeat music)
Hi everybody, it's Judd Apatow,
and this is the cast of "The Bubble."
And this is our comedy roundtable,
where we will discuss comedy.
Now Leslie, you didn't really mean to go into comedy,
you went into drama and got pulled into comedy,
would you say that's correct?
- Mm-hmm.
- Everyone just kept on laughing
when you were trying to do serious scenes.
(group laughing)
- That's basically what happened.
They just kind of giggled at me,
and I didn't understand what was going on.
I was being very serious and doing my best accents,
and they thought it was really funny.
- I think Leslie and I share the same destiny.
I always considered myself as a dramatic actress.
(group laughing)
- She was being serious the whole movie.
- [Karen] That's so funny.
- When we met Harry,
Harry was doing comedy on his Instagram.
- I was.
- And this is the first movie that you did.
But what were you trying to do on your Instagram?
Did you think that it was gonna lead to anything,
or you were just a madman in your house, amusing yourself?
- That's the one.
(group laughing)
It was because I didn't have representation
or anything like that,
and I knew that I liked writing,
and I knew that I liked kind of sketches and comedy,
but the idea of doing standup comedy
was the scariest thing in the world,
so I was like, I won't do that.
And so I just started doing stuff online,
and then lockdown happened,
so people were just kind of trapped
in front of their screens, so I was like mua ha, ha.
- What were you doing during the pandemic
when you were alone?
- Sobbing gently, many, many hours.
No, I was doing a lot of online tutoring.
- I think you were still doing some tutoring during shoots.
- Yes, oh my god! I forgot that.
Right, 'cause I got this job kind of out of nowhere,
but I'd kind of signed up for this longer tutoring
so I'd be in my trailer-
and I felt so bad saying no,
so I'd finish, in between takes,
and I'd do this 45-minute tutoring.
And being like, "So this is how you use an adverb,"
and just having to do it in between takes.
- I should've used you as my tutor.
- You would not have passed.
(group laughing)
- Sam, what was the hardest thing to do in the movie?
- One of the scenes was with Leslie,
who kept making me cry with laughter.
They were like, "Action!" I'd turn around,
and Leslie's crying.
I'm like, yo!
I can't do this.
We started shooting, and then we'd turn around,
and I could just feel her behind me, just cackling,
and I'm just like this, "Help me!"
(Leslie laughs)
I've lost the accent, I've gone all cockney.
I'm like, "Leslie, stop fucking about."
(group laughing)
It was wicked.
- And Iris, you had to dance.
What was harder, shooting the dances
or having to rehearse with everybody?
- Rehearse, 'cause I would get hot flashes from panic.
You always talked about how you drink a lot of Coca-Cola
on set because it helps you get your energy up,
so I was like, okay, I'll do that.
- Oh god!
I'd be like, "Don't copy me."
- And then I did copy you,
and I just drank an entire Coca-Cola,
and I was just like walking on set,
and I was like, this is gonna do it!
There's a certain point of obvious panic,
when you rehearse really crazy dances like that.
I wanted you guys to think I was talented,
so I was really going for it.
(group laughing)
- Maria, what was your favorite scene in the movie,
when you watched the movie?
- You know when we were talking about David and Leslie,
remember in the beginning when they were like, "Stop it..."
In the very beginning, it was like, okay, I'm sold.
- Stop it.
- Stop...
- You know when we're all dancing,
in the background everyone's dancing to "Ladies Night,"
there's this one bit where you called from over the system
to say, "Okay, Maria, go over to Pedro,"
and Maria just kind of like danced.
(group laughing)
And you had to call over the system
like, "No, Maria, just walk...just walk."
(group laughing)
And Maria was like...
(group laughing)
- [Sam] That's hilarious.
- How was it for you, Karen?
There's a lot of improvisation.
Have you ever worked that way before?
- Never, this is my first experience of improv,
and I was terrified.
- [Harry] You were so good.
- Oh, thanks.
But you make it easier
because I feel like you don't just leave people out there
on their own.
So it's like, I think if somebody's struggling,
you're gonna give prompts and stuff,
and then you know when to let other people go,
like if it's Harry or Samson,
so it's like- I actually felt totally fine with it
on the first day.
I was like, ah.
And now I don't wanna work any other way.
Like, I don't wanna go back to normal, I love it.
Freedom is the fuck out of here!
- That's the cocaine talking.
- Are you just riffing on "Guardians of the Galaxy"
every day now? - Yes, I am.
Yeah, and he's embracing it.
- Oh, that's good.
- That's dope.
- I've never done that before.
- We changed Marvel forever.
- Yeah, who knows if it will make the cut,
but I'm doing it.
- They're like, "Go for it, Karen!
Stop rolling..."
- Yeah.
- Who was the easiest to improvise with?
- Keegan is up there,
because he's such a yes and-er in life and on camera.
He's just like, "Yeah, I'm here for you, let's go,"
so you feel quite safe around him, I would say.
- Yeah.
- Everyone, to be honest, was really great at that.
- Fred Armisen was fun to watch.
- Oh yes.
- There would be something really funny
for Fred to improvise,
a lot of times, I just wouldn't cut,
only for my own amusement.
I was past the point where anything would be usable
other than I just wanted to see where he would go
if I never, ever said "cut" for another 10 minutes.
- There was a scene where you did exactly that
and you was like, to Fred, "Just keep saying,
'It's gonna be great,'" and Fred was like,
"Yeah, it's gonna be great. (giggles)"
- Oh, the giggle!
- And he just looked around again, (giggles)
and you could hear Judd go, "All right, cut."
- We'll put a cut together, it's gonna be great!
We're not done!
They'll probably come back.
- I got kicked out of a scene once
because I was crying of laughter.
I remember doing the speech and I was just like...
- Well usually, if someone's laughing,
if I say, "Seriously, don't laugh,"
they get shamed, and they almost chemically
stop laughing, and you-
- [Karen] Not this time. - [Judd] You laughed.
It didn't matter what I said-
- No respect there.
- You kept laughing at Fred,
and I was like, "You're ruining the movie!"
and then you didn't care, you just kept laughing,
and then I was like, "Get out of the room!"
and I thought you'd get mad that I said that,
and then you just laughed as you walked out of the room.
(group laughing)
And Iris was supposed to be not a good actress
in "Cliff Beasts," in the beginning.
And so we always tried to ask you
to emphasize the wrong word.
- Yeah, I love how that one, "That ain't no baby!"
is in the trailer.
That ain't no baby!
- My favorite is, "Global warming, my ass!"
- Oh yeah. - Yes.
- My favorite is, "Who did this?"
But the emphasis is on such a weird word.
- "Who did this?"
(group laughing)
- My ass.
- It's so subtle and funny.
(group laughing)
- Did it make you wanna do a real dinosaur movie?
- Yeah.
- [Karen] I think we should make one.
- [Sam] It just makes sense.
- [Leslie] It makes sense.
- Could we make "Cliff Beasts" for real?
- (all agreeing) Yeah. - Yes.
- I think we should.
- Done.
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