so let's talk about Swiss army man let's
do it this is oh all right tell me about
the movie yeah I want to hear you to
describe the movie and then what do you
think it means okay so the movie are the
my sort of very quick pitch for the
movie is that it's a body comedy
adventure movie in which one of the
bodies is dead every be you that would
be me
I am the dead body you're the corpse I'm
the core what a magical corpse he is
he's a magical dead guy that's the term
we sort of started using for him instead
of zombie because there's no kind of
zombie horror Toumani like he's a dead
person that happens to be coming back to
life but he's not like twenty your brain
is no he doesn't need brains there about
our sweet and yeah he's really sweet and
so that's sort of the broadly speaking
that's that's the quick pitch but I
think it's a movie about accepting our
own weirdness and being kinder to each
other it's actually got a very sweet
message that I think is is it's about
the idea that sort of shame or is what
keeps us from love and and finding
self-acceptance and in doing that you'll
be able to find you know love and
happiness it's like those are the themes
of the movie they're just dealt with in
a kind of anarchic you know way that
people might have heard about online
paul dano is stranded on a desert island
he's about to commit suicide yeah when
he sees the corpse walk up wash up on
the beach and really takes to this
corpse which has these magical powers
you must have felt by the end of it like
you and paul dano had been lovers
because they so much of the emotion
depends on one hit the physical contact
between the two of you yeah there's
there's a lot of it there's a lot of it
and it started off really like day one I
think what day one of us he was carrying
me for some parts of it and Paul really
did like I mean again 99% of the movie
he really is carrying or dragging me
rather than the dummy they had made just
because I think a dummy was only about
like 30 or 40 pounds lighter than me
and he was rather well I'll just have
the real thing it's fine and but then
like there was a the one power that
Manny has that I suggested was the I
suggested that Paul should use my teeth
to shave so like on day one or two of
the job he's like open my mouth and like
dragging like thanks daddy
cheek and then there's a scene on the
bus where I'm getting excited he's he is
talking me through the process of human
excitement and what it is to get excited
by something and and he says and then
your heart's beating really fast and
then like you start sweating and he
spits on his hands to simulate sweat and
just like rubs it on my face so that cuz
I'm dead I can't produce way he's like
this is what sweat feels like for a
person and doing that shot was like I
don't think I think there was I think
the one take that is in the movie is the
only take they had available to them
that I did not laugh like it because
that was a boy whatever or throw up
no that's the thing like I was I guess
like had going into I'm not Precious
about so I was like yeah it's fine it's
slated spit it's not going to kill you
but then like but I was on like I level
with like I pulled behind me doing that
and then you are our camera operator
Larkin who is also like losing hit
laughing and so it's yeah was it was an
incredibly fun shoot just because it was
it was insane every day and and again
just a joy to work on there was no like
hierarchy the the crew and everybody was
just we're all in it together and yeah
it was wonderful a lot of sets I've been
on actors are very conscious about there
are always breath mints around because
actors are in each other's faces and I
thought you and Paul Dano must have gone
through so many breath mints in this
movie I think we probably did yeah I
yeah I think that there was a lot of a
lot of that well we also do kiss at one
point in the movie underwater that's an
important breath mint right there yeah
exactly that's you know you want to be
very conscious of that but yeah I think
but I think Paul and I just reached an
acceptance very early on of like we're
gonna get super intimate physical with
each other on this film there's also
this very weird
uh like incestuous triangle thing that's
happened now we have Paula nice
girlfriends I'd like cuz my girlfriend
Aaron played Paul's wife in love and
mercy and Paul's girlfriend Zoe was with
me and what if and now Paul and I have
also kissed on-screen so it's a very leg
it's sort of a Bob and Carol and Ted and
Alice sort of situation right yeah it's
a very it's a very warlike Caligula's
Rome yeah like the late Roman Empire
yeah that's what I'm going for am I
correct the last days of Rome
you