Kyle.
Hello.
How are you?
I am great.
How are you?
Good.
Long time no see.
I know, it's been a while.
Where are you right now?
Where are we?
The Rock Springs, Wyoming.
At the base of the Rockies, Ellen, at the base
of the Rockies.
Wow, and because you're traveling in an Airstream,
right?
Yes, I'm on a secret mission, which is not so secret now.
But I have to take--
I have to go visit my daughter out
in Oregon for some very important--
it's an important delivery.
She needs her skateboard and her guitar.
That's essential.
Yeah.
So you're driving cross-country because you live in Texas,
right?
Yes, I do.
And we choose to wear masks and be safe during our journey.
Good.
That's a good choice.
That's a very good choice.
How did you fare during the winter storm in Texas?
It was pretty bad.
Wasn't so bad.
I wasn't home.
I've been away for about a month and a half.
I'd been in Toronto.
I went through my first quarantine,
which was interesting.
And I was shooting a film and that
happened in the midst of that.
So Kathryn was home with the animals,
and then the neighbors moved in with their animals.
And we lost electricity, I think, for about 36 hours.
So they had the fire was going, and they
were melting snow in the fireplace,
and doing what they did.
Look, what was great about it, I felt horrible actually
being away because the strain on me was pretty intense.
Because they were doing what they're doing.
But still I had to still manage to rustle up
room service and stuff.
It wasn't easy to me.
That's horrible.
Yes, but they did a great job.
And truth be told, Jason and Todd McMullen
and my buddies in the neighborhood who
all came together in our neighborhood
to help each other out, it was incredible.
It really, truly was.
And just the other day, I got home.
And we had a big fire outside, and we did a special dinner,
and I was able to say thank you to everyone.
So it was pretty impressive.
Yeah, that is the one good thing that comes out of situations
like that is it brings people closer together
and we realize how much we need and depend on one another
in times like that.
Absolutely.
So you have a lot of--
I think about this, of course, I think about the people.
But I think of all the animals when it gets down
to like 9 degrees or however it got so freezing,
and you have a lot of animals.
And how did they fare during that?
Due to my wife, they fared very well.
I mean, she brought the donkeys in the house,
so they stayed in the kitchen.
And then with had the dogs, and they did everything--
I'm just kidding.
She didn't bring the donkeys in the house.
She was going out to breaking up their water
and take them water every day out to the barn
and keeping them warm with the heat lamps
when we had electricity and just doing what she needed to do.
Oh, we're showing all kinds of pictures of dogs.
How many dogs you have?
We have four of them now.
Yeah.
When you don't see it right there
is we've got a pandemic dog.
This dog does tricks.
This is incredible.
Watch this.
Come on down from up there.
Come on.
Easy.
Come on.
Did you see that?
Wow.
You let him-- oh, he just--
no, you got to pull him down.
You don't want to do that.
This is Hiccup.
He's a dog we got like around December, I think.
Hiccup.
It's a good name.
Hiccup.
It sounds like he has the hiccups.
He's a great dog.
Hey, I should congratulate you because it's a big deal.
You're in People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.
Here in every age section.
That's where you are, in the every age section.
So you're sexy at every age.
I know.
Look at that.
Congratulations.
I can't wait to call George Clooney up and tell him.
Sorry about that.
He's also a watch dog.
He's won Sexiest Man Alive twice.
Yes.
But here I am.
Here I am.
I'm catching up.
Yeah.
I'm catching up.
Points rising up.
Yeah, but he's the Sexiest Man.
Your Sexiest Man at every age.
No, you know what?
He wants to be back on TV.
Why don't you give that little dog
a taste of being on television.
They want to get back on television.
That's OK.
That's all right.
All right, we're going to take a break.
We're going to come back.
We're going to play a game.
We'll be back.
We'll back with Kyle Chandler.
Who are you saying hi to?
I can't read that the writing.
It's Sydney and Sawyer, my daughters.
Hi, Sydney and Sawyer.
All right, we're going to talk about the movie,
and then I need more answers about this road
trip you're taking.
So Godzilla vs. Kong.
Tell everybody-- I assume it's about Godzilla versus Kong,
but tell people what it's about.
That's good forethought right there.
It's about Attila and King Kong.
Yeah.
No.
This is the first time that Godzilla and King
Kong have met on film.
It's the first time ever.
And now listen, I've dealt with this King Kong
before because I was in the original King Kong--
not the original original, but the one with Peter Jackson.
So this is my second time around with him,
and this is my second time around with Godzilla.
Now I'm not going to pick favorites on this.
But I do want to say that Godzilla has got some very
special attributes that normal mammals don't, primates don't.
But King Kong's got this--
the opposable thumb.
Yeah.
And none of us would do anything without that.
So it's going to be a battle galore.
Yeah.
That's all I've got to say about that.
So the thumb against fire, shooting out of a, that's--
OK.
We'll see what happens.
Yes, you will.
All right.
The power of the thumb.
Who knew.
So how long have you been on the road?
Just a couple of days now.
I just did get back from Toronto three days ago.
On the next day, we packed up and off we went.
OK, and you're with?
Who are you with?
Your wife?
Yes.
And your dog.
Yes, my wife and Hiccup.
Yeah.
And Hiccup.
And what kind of cool things-- are you
seeing things that-- have you done this before?
A road trip?
I drive cross-country a lot.
Remember, I was on the motorcycle last time.
I usually ride a motorcycle.
But this time-- you know, the pandemic brought our family
together so close for about that 10, 12 months.
And then within a month, we all split across
across the world-- one to college, one to London,
I am in Toronto, Kat's at home.
So now to be able to come back home
and for her and I to be together and then do this road trip,
it's pretty fantastic.
And we're great travelers together.
That's how we met.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I had a big Aspencade motorcycle back in the 90's, and we
used to travel on that all up and down the country,
up and down the West Coast.
And we pretty much fell in love on that motorcycle.
It has one of the big gold wings and a tape player in it.
You know, the quadrophonic sound.
And we do all kinds camping with it.
And it was just a lot of great fun.
That sounds fantastic.
That sounds like so much fun.
And how many more days will you be on the road
until you get to deliver the skateboard and the guitar?
Well, I think we'll probably get to Sawyer in about six days.
Oh.
And then we'll take maybe between 7 and 10 days
to get back.
I guess, it's sort of like me being cheap
and this is our second honeymoon.
You're not just sexy.
You're clever.
Really smart.
Anything to save a penny.
It's great talking to you, and I look forward
to having you in the studio whenever
we're able to have people back.
I'd love to see you again, and thanks a lot.
Thank you so much.
And Thanks to the virtual audience.
All right.
They're from all over the world today.
They're all saying hello and thank you.
Godzilla vs. Kong will be in theaters and on HBO Max
on the March 31st.
We'll see how strong that thumb goes.
And we'll be back.
Thanks, Kyle.