- When a part speaks to me,
it's telling me about these kind of micro details.
And as I've evolved Greg, it, you know,
they become like little obsessions.
Like, I can't leave my trailer
unless my tie is like the perfect length.
I'm in the hair and makeup chair
and I can't do anything until my part is
at the right part of my, like forehead and things like that.
For me, like when you bring Greg's part over an inch,
like you see a part here,
it's a more confident person than a part here.
You know, it's like literally that difference
where you part your hair can be the way
that I look at you and see you can change.
So I get obsessed with these little things and it's all,
it's my only job is to like, think about Greg.
So as deep as I can go into it in choosing costume
and choosing the colour of the tie and choosing the quality
of the tie, the price of the tie, price of the suit,
the brand of the suit.
Would he even know about this brand?
Like if the costume designer presents a certain brand,
it's like, is Greg at a point where he knows that
or is he still buying Calvin Klein suits?
'Cause he knows that brand.
So yeah, those kinds of things help me feel good
and help me feel like more confident walking into a scene.
- You're mean, you're mean, you're a mean old man.
You're a mean old bastard
and you scare the life out of folks.
That's your thing.
You're scaring me right now
and that's why I don't even know how what to do.
That's the way that I find characters
is in those little details.
Mostly like physical details.
Like in Zola, I wanted kind of like rashes around my nose
and like, I've had them put a little couple lesions
in certain places on my arms.
It's those kinds of things that maybe no one notices,
like a hole in my sock, like a hole in,
you know, in the toe.
So you can see this toe and is lying down on the bed.
But it's those kinds of things that can maybe help me
in a moment, and it can maybe help an audience
understand the guy just a little bit more, you know?
Studying chin strap beards and how thick they should be.
Like I met a guy when I was filming a movie
in Kentucky before that
that had this amazing chinstrap beard
and I didn't know I was gonna play Derrek.
And I got Derrek and he was like, a chinstrap would be good.
Oh yeah, that guy.
And I found his Facebook page.
He was just a guy, a truck driver
in Kentucky that I ended up hanging out with a couple times.
- Yo, yo, look.
What the fuck?
- I've seen this one.
- Yo.
What the fuck?
This dude is crazy.
I was gonna do this movie called Shitheads
and my character along with a couple others were,
we were like Juggalos
and we were gonna kidnap Tracy Morgan or Luke Wilson
or both of them.
So I wanted to really know what that was all about.
And I watched some documentaries, I learned a little bit
of it and the lingo and you know,
there's a few good documentaries about Juggalos out there.
- Gathering of the motherfucking Juggalos.
I love this place
and I love you guys and you guys and you guys.
We have alcohol and we've got explosives.
Let me show you how great we are.
- I knew going to the Gathering of the Juggalos
would be a great place to find out more.
And it happened to be like two weeks
after I got the part.
The last night of the festival, Insane Clown Posse,
ICP, played and at the end of their show
I guess they do like a baptism
of their fans with Faygo.
So they get like hundreds and hundreds
of huge two-litre bottles of Faygo and they shake 'em up
and they launch 'em out into the crowd, and then
the crowd swarms the stage while they're still rapping
and then everybody somehow gets two-litre bottles of soda
in their hands and they spray it all over each other.
And so everyone's drenched in soda, Faygo soda.
And so that was informative somehow to the character
but mostly just an incredible memory.
And I didn't take a shower,
so the next day on the plane I just smelled like shit.
I just like, root beer and orange soda like in my shoes.
Like, like I was like sticky and wet still.
Anyway, I don't know where I'm really going with this,
but I like to do these things
and maybe there's something to get outta that.