-I love finding out about your history
and different things I didn't really know about you.
And so I did not know about this thing.
One of your first gigs was in a video, a Lady Gaga video.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
-Yeah. Yeah.
-But that's -- How did -- This was for "Paparazzi."
Yeah. -That's a giant song.
But how did you get -- How do you get involved?
-Well, I was -- I was in L.A.,
shooting one of my first jobs,
which was season one of "True Blood."
-Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I loved "True Blood."
Absolutely. Yeah.
-Yeah, it was -- -That's where I knew you from.
-But it was the very beginning, so the show hadn't aired yet.
And my friend Jonas Akerlund, a Swedish guy,
he's a director, and he was gonna direct the music video.
And he called me and asked if I wanted to play the boyfriend.
And I said, "Boyfriend?"
I didn't know who the girl was. Lady Goo Goo?
I was like, "Yeah."
-Yeah. You never heard of Lady Gaga?
-No, this -- I think it was her first album.
-Yeah, that was her first one.
-I'm not sure, but I didn't know who she was.
And I said, "Well, what are we doing?
Like, walking down the beach, holding hands?"
He's like, "No, it's -- Hear me out."
He was like, "You wear an eye patch,
and you throw her off..."
-Right there, I would have been like, "Sold."
-Yeah, I was like...
-"I'll do it. What do I have to do?"
-I'm a pirate. -Yeah, you have an eyepatch.
What's the plot?
-Well, then he just briefly like --
He said, "Well, the plot is you try to kill her.
You throw her off a balcony of a beautiful mansion in Malibu.
She doesn't die.
She comes back, and she poisons you."
And I said, "That's a -- That's a beautiful, beautiful story."
-You can do that in three minutes?
-Yeah. -And he did.
And here's a picture of you, eyepatch and all,
from the "Paparazzi" --
Not bad, dude. That's pretty fantastic.
-So, that's me. -Yes, of course.
That's you, yeah. And that's Lady Gaga.
The video has gotten over 200 million views.
-I'm a very popular guy, yeah. -You really are.
I saw a picture of you at this press event the other day,
I wanted to ask you about.
'Cause I was like, "What's going on?"
And you were bald for a movie, but is this real or --
-You got a lot of good stuff here today.
-I do, yeah. Are you playing Ron Howard in a film?
Is that what's happening?
-I -- -What was this?
-I was...
I don't remember. -Yeah.
-I was shooting a movie up in Montreal called
"The Hummingbird Project," and I decided to shave my head for it.
-You really went for it. -Yeah.
Well, I wanted to be bald.
And then I thought for some reason it'd look more natural,
instead of doing a bald cap, to just really shave it.
-Is that the truth?
-Well, I didn't realize
that it doesn't quite look real, natural.
You can see the hairline. It doesn't quite work.
-You didn't want to just wear a hat or anything?
Could have just done that. Right?
-No, well, they -- Well, first of all, like,
we were shooting -- It was winter up in Montreal.
We were out on set.
So for three months, I didn't have a social life.
I had one weekend off.
I went down to New York for this event,
and when they came to fit the suit,
they asked -- They saw me.
I hadn't told them that I was bald.
They saw me, and they were like,
"Oh, uh, do you want a little hat or something?
A fedora or...?
Well -- -You don't need it.
-These guys look amazing in hats. Like, musicians.
I just feel like I don't really wear a fedora in a suit.
It doesn't -- It's not really my style.
-You should have just went like that.
-I should have just painted my head.
-That's good. That's good. Get a Sharpie.
-Yeah. -You're a good-looking guy.
You can get away with that.
-Well, the great thing was when I stepped out of the car
and there was this press line with photographers,
and I stepped out, and I'll never forget the sound
when they all saw me, 'cause they all went, "Aww."
-They felt bad for you?
-Someone was like, "Is he okay? Is he okay?"
'Cause they thought I had a meltdown and shaved it off.
-Yeah, yeah. No, no. Exactly.
No, he's totally -- This is what he does for his craft.