Great news.
You're going to be Spider-Man.
I was like, I know Kevin.
You put it on Instagram.
Like, I'm 20.
Do you really think I'm not going to find it?
I think Chris Hemsworth was like-- wasn't he
bolted into his, I feel like?
Perhaps.
But when you're in your entire situation,
you can't do anything.
Correct.
Yeah.
So I would say probably his has got to be the worst.
Oh, probably.
He's saying and I just kind of do a little soft shoe.
Like--
It's not intentional.
I grew up-- I grew up doing that.
And it's really not on purpose.
I'm glad we're talking about it, though.
No, it's one of my favorite things to watch on set.
Let's talk about Spider-Man.
So were you a fan growing up?
A huge fan.
A huge, huge fan.
Yeah.
And how did you find out you got this role?
That's, a huge thing to get this role.
I basically had been auditioning for about five months.
And after my final audition, they said,
you'll find out tomorrow.
Fast forward six weeks, I was still waiting, still waiting.
And one day, Marvel just posted on their Instagram,
go to our website to find out who the new Spider-Man is.
And that's it.
I just found out online.
They didn't call me up or anything.
So I ran downstairs.
I was going ballistic.
My poor dog Tessa was terrified.
And my brother Harry, who's pretty savvy
with technology and stuff was like,
dude, they've probably been hacked, bro.
They would call you, right?
They would let you know.
And so I called my agents.
They were like, oh, this is amazing.
And then Kevin Feige finally rang me and said,
I've got some great news.
You're going to be Spider-Man.
I was like, I know, Kevin.
You put it on Instagram.
I'm 20.
Do you really think I'm not going to find it?
Congratulations.
Thank you.
That's very exciting.
It's a really big deal for anybody,
but especially if you're a fan growing up.
Did you learn-- what is this called?
Kung Fu?
Did you learn stuff?
Just a lot of Muay Thai and stuff like that.
And basically, we just spent six months learning fights
and filming them and then forgetting them
so we could make room in our brains for more fights.
And there's a lot-- well, you guys all saw it.
There's so much action in the movie.
It's just nonstop action.
It's crazy.
And the costumes.
Who had the most uncomfortable costume?
I feel like Tom's costume was really, really bad.
Tom Hiddleston plays Loki.
Tom Hiddleston.
Yes, Loki, perhaps.
He wears an entire other-- there's like a whole crane
on top of his head, like a whole giant--
If you don't recall him, he's the one
that Tony calls Reindeer Games.
Yeah.
So he has something really, really heavy
that he's got to balance?
I think that thing was 20 pounds or something.
It was just this massive headpiece that he wears.
And yeah, look at it.
It's crazy.
And it really went far back.
You just could not stand behind him at craft service.
It was a bad idea.
It was a liability, but--
Who had the one that was the hardest to get out of
to go to the restroom?
I think Chris Hemsworth was like-- wasn't he
bolted into his, I feel like?
Perhaps.
But when you're in your entire situation,
you can't do anything.
Correct.
Yeah.
So I would say probably his has got to be the worst.
Oh, probably.
You weren't sure there for a minute, were you?
Well, see every time I look at you,
you're wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt.
And then all of a sudden, I forget all the work
that you have to do outside.
Well, I've done a bunch of these movies.
So every time we do a new one, I say,
do I really have to wear it?
Can't you just paint it on later?
Yeah.
They can do so much with CGI now.
But when you fell, they said you can't--
if you go to fall, you can't put your arms out,
you'd break your arms?
Correct.
Why is that?
Because you'd be locked into the suit.
And then the suit would kind of be OK,
and your arms would break inside it.
Can you imagine the idea?
You're thinking about falling, and so instead you go--
And did that happen?
Not to me, but to one of the stunt guys who did.
I felt like it happened to me.
So you get this gig in the Guardians of the Galaxy,
the first one, as a raccoon.
Yeah.
You're a raccoon.
A raccoon.
And then that comes back and you're now a raccoon again.
That's right.
And I really, if I didn't know it was you,
I would never recognize that voice.
Oh cool.
It's a different voice.
Yeah, we came up with a totally different voice.
Yeah.
How did you decide to come up with a different voice?
I worked with James Gunn who's the director, writer,
who's incredible.
And I came with him much more like Daniel Plainview.
I don't know if you know--
Daniel Day Lewis's character in There
Will be Blood talks like this.
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And he was like, no, I don't think so.
And then we started to do this-- it was like Gilbert Godfrey
meets Joe Pesci.
That's sort of what we came up with.
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What's a raccoon?
Yeah, just kind of started like that.
It's fantastic.
And he's adorable, too.
But when you're in the booth--
You know like when you have a pet
and the pet starts to look like you?
What was that, anthropomorphizing?
Yes.
Yeah, I look at him now.
I'm like, yeah, it's me.
Yeah.
I don't know why.
I see it now, too.
Yeah.
Actually.
Maybe because it's true.
Yes.
Maybe with the beard, it's starting to look more and more,
I think.
It literally is starting to look--
I was passing by today and there was
a billboard of Guardians of the Galaxy and it was raccoon.
I got so excited and I took a photo.
I was like, oh, my God.
I'm on a billboard.
He was like, no, bro.
It's a raccoon.
Oh, my God.
And like, you haven't been on a million billboards.
For some reason that was the one.
I flipped out.
You're in a booth and you're not just mostly--
like, when I did Dory, I'm just in the booth doing a voice.
But you, because it has to animate you,
so I think we have b-roll or a clip.
They were not looking at you funny.
You got anger issues.
Mature yourself.
Yeah!
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I’m gonna--
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There was this-- there was this viral video that
was going around of Hugh Jackman as Logan.
And they were showing him doing the climactic scene
at the end when he's running to save his daughter.
And it was so badass.
And I thought it'd be great to do one of me doing that
and then you just pan up and it's raccoon.
It's Rocket.
That's almost the energy that you were using.
Exactly.
You haven't seen it yet?
No, we've been doing the press tour.
And everyone's like, tell us about the movie.
And we're like, we cant.
We can't tell you anything.
And it's funny, I've never had more of a--
I feel like a fan of this whole thing
as much as anyone else and interested
to see if I live or die or what happens to me.
Yeah.
So you really don't know if you-- yes,
you would have had to--
I have a rough idea of what happens,
but no, I have not seen the film.
And I do not really how it ends.
Because there was-- we shot the number three and number four,
Infinity War and this over eight months
and back and forth from both films and overlapping.
And in the end, it was just like--
and it was being written while we were shooting
and the other one was being edited and so on.
And so by the end of that period, it was just-- oh,
it's during it--
It was just-- I just OK, whatever am I saying today?
This is cool.
And I'll trust the directors have us in the right place.
This is-- what's it, 22 films now across 10 or 11 years?
And I don't think there's anything in cinematic history
that's ever been building to a film like this kind of journey.
Now do you think this will be--
obviously, if you're killed, it'll be your last.
But you don't know if you're killed or not.
But if you're not, do you think you'll do another one?
Look, as far as-- this is sort of Marvel's Phase III
wrapping up a culmination of all this journey.
Whether or not they go off and then shoot other things
or do prequels or sequels or whatever they can do.
I mean, Loki my brother's come back nine times.
Every time he dies, he just keeps appearing.
So who knows what's in store for anyone?
Me, personally, it's the best fun I've ever had.
And I'd be happy to do more if they wanted me, but--
Yeah.
Well, then I think they will.
More than happy.
OK.
Yeah.
Can I be in the next one?
Absolutely.
I'd like to be in the next one.
You and Eduardo.
OK.
Yeah.
You're lumping me with Eduardo, now?
Behind you.
I see.
OK.
So I'm behind you and he's behind me.
Yeah.
OK, great.
I was envisioning a bigger role, but OK.
So it's you, it's Lupita Nyong'o, it's--
Michael B. Jordan.
Michael B. Jordan, my pal.
Yeah.
Do you train with him?
No.
Did he tell you I trained with him?
No, I'm just messing with you.
Oh, no.
But he looks--
I wanted to know if you were holding pads for Creed.
No, he's-- he's really in good shape for this movie, though,
huh?
Yeah.
I was texting with him the other day
because I thought I was going to get to see it.
There he is sparring with you.
Both of you-- not too bad a shape, both of you.
Do you work out with him?
We had to work out together a little bit for the movie, yeah.
Who's stronger?
We didn't test strength.
No?
It was--
Endurance?
It was--
There must have been a--
It's fight training.
Fight training.
I see.
Whatever.
But it's a big deal.
Do you feel pressure that it's the first big major all Black
cast and Marvel comic movie?
Not now.
I felt pressure when we were filming it.
I think everybody felt a certain amount of angst and tension
because this was something that you hadn't experienced before.
Everybody's had special moments on films,
but this was one where we were like, this
is something entirely different that any of us have ever done.
So I think every actor that came to work every day
brought that to the table.
Yeah.
Well, like I said, it's a great cast.
And everybody has got such high anticipation for it.
Did you see your action figure yet, by the way?
Is this the Jesse Williams one?
The one that looks like Jesse Williams?
Does it?
I don't think it does.
No.
They never look like--
It never looks exactly like you.
No.
It kind of does look like Jesse, now that you mention that.
Yeah.
But that's quite an outfit.
Yeah.
Does that intimidate you that your body
should look like that?
Because it's like solid muscle.
Well, the body is in there, but that's also the suit, as well.
Oh, the suit makes it.
No.
The body-- my body is-- it's shaped after me.
The last time you were here, you were just
about to do that big fancy movie Captain America, right or--
Marvel?
Exactly.
Captain Marvel.
Thanks so much.
I don't know if that was a joke or not.
It's hard to tell with comedians.
Oh, God.
And it made a billion dollars.
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A billion dollars.
Woop.
It's so funny.
I just think that number is so funny.
I feel like $1 billion is something you say in hyperbole.
I'm like, it made like a billion dollars.
It's like, it made a lot of money,
but no, it actually made a billion dollars.
But it did make a billion dollars.
And you actually shot this one first though, right?
Yeah.
She came on the set while they were still--
I don't even think there was a script for Captain Marvel,
but they were shooting it like, tomorrow basically, which
is kind of the MO over at our--
At our home?
At our hometown, Marvel Land.
Yeah.
And it was-- but I think it kind of worked for the--
it worked for us, anyway.
It probably didn't work for you very well.
I was very stressed about it.
We were like, oh, who's the new girl?
Because I showed up and they were like, so,
what are your powers?
And I was like, I don't know.
I'm not sure where I end up at my origin story.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, how could you?
Because you hadn't really--
it was backwards, sort of.
The premiere is--
That looks serious.
Yeah.
Super intense.
And everybody is in it, like, everybody.
Yeah.
It's like every movie from--
there was a shot, I don't know-- do
we have that shot available of the overhead of all
the trailers?
Where?
It's-- look at--
That's Roberts camp.
And then where's ours?
That's crazy.
Yeah, that is crazy.
Yeah, it really is.
And you like you were saying, have you
seen the movie or you're seeing it tonight for the first time?
Oh, yeah.
We were seeing it tonight.
We will be seeing it tonight for the first time.
Yeah, with the whole--
there's going to be-- they built this crazy theater
in the convention center here in LA.
And there's going to be 2000 fans.
And it's going to be bananas.
Yes, it is.
Because people have been waiting for a long time.
And people go-- there's tattoos--
I know that y'all have given yourselves tattoos
for the-- right?
Well, minus Mark because he chickened out.
Yeah, that's right, Mark.
You chickened out.
But it's like-- they're kind of like an Avengers symbol
with a little kind of in it.
Whose is that?
That's Robert's, I think.
Is that a pile of hair above--
that's gross.
What is that?
Yeah, why does it--
Ew.
Way to take that picture.
Why did he have so much hair on the inside of his forearm?
That's a lot of hair on the inside of the forearm.
So you do something during takes that Elizabeth told us about,
which is--
Well, he does it in his own little world
where he's dressed up in his suit.
And he just very casually and quietly and calmly is
working out tap moves.
It's not even a very performative thing.
As Captain America?
Yeah.
And it's always kind of a resting thing.
It is a strange collision of worlds,
but it's not intentional.
There's people who-- guys I've seen
do those little golf swings or pitching.
And I just kind of do a little soft shoe.
It's not intentional.
It's just I grew up--
I grew up doing that.
And it's really not on purpose.
I'm glad we're talking about it, though.
No, it's one of my favorite things to watch on set.
I'm glad we're making this permanent.
Forever.
All right.
So The Avengers, this is your first time in one
of these movies, right?
In a big collective movie like this, yeah, the big ensemble.
And how was it for you?
It was weird.
I mean, fantastic, daunting.
My first day on set was with two icons with Iron Man and Robert
Downey Jr. And that's kind of unnerving, especially
because this character has to stand beard-to-beard
with another egotistical narcissist in the MCU.
And I have a similar status in the story.
So that was a weird thing to pull out
of a hat on the first day on set with Robert.
But he's fantastic, as you know and very good.
Did you know anything about--
they're so secretive, though.
Did you know anything about the script?
I did, as has been much talked about.
And I think yeah, it's invoked a bit of jealousy.
I did read the script, yeah, I did.
How was that possible?
This is your first--
I just took the pages and--
No one else got a script.
I don't have glasses yet, but I just cast my eyes--
No, how did you do that?
I read words.
But no one else got scripts.
I know.
And it was a hard copy and it was
sort of chained to a person that then
was taken back on some kind of police transport over there.
Wow.
No, you have to understand nobody
in the cast got a script.
No one.
It was a super privilege.
But when it was pitched to me, what he
does in this film and Strange kind of guards
the brackets of reality.
So that kind of covers quite a lot of territory.
And I thought I need a little bit more than my scenes.
I need to know what else is going on.
Well.
So wait and see.
Then you got it.
That's how you do it.
You say I need more.
That and really good reps.
Yeah.
Clearly.
Those other people are changing their reps right now.
They need to go to my agent.
For sure.
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