- My name is John.
I'm a private investigator in Los Angeles,
and today I'm privately investigating two truths and a lie.
Let's find out who's lying!
(tense upbeat music)
- I'm Shiquita Williams,
and I played soccer with actor Boris Kodjoe.
- I'm Julian, and I ran into Gerard Butler
at a restaurant in New York City.
- I'm Nate, I got stuck in an elevator with Seth Rogen.
- Shiquita, let's talk. - Oh, lord. (laughs)
- Soccer, huh? - Yes.
- When was this?
- In 2017.
- Where at? - Atlanta.
- And what's the circumstance?
Were you in a league, or...
- It was like a corporate team.
- Okay. - Yeah.
I worked with a small production company.
We were producing a movie of his,
and his movie was in post.
I got to work with him a bit,
and then he joined us for a game of soccer
on our corporate team.
- So, explain to me the corporate team, I don't--
What corporation? - It's like... (laughs)
Well it's a corporate team.
We weren't a corporation.
We went through this company that puts the games together,
and then they match the companies
to play against each other.
- So it was sort of like a league then, right?
- Yeah. - Okay.
And they just let this guy,
this hulking, perfect specimen of masculinity
just walk on to a team?
- Basically, yeah.
We had an extra shirt.
So when he got there we just gave him a team shirt.
- Huh.
all right so he played in one game?
- Yeah. - Okay.
And when you were on the pitch with him,
what position were you in?
- Shoot.
I suck at soccer, I don't know what I did.
I just ran around the floor,
and tried not to get hit by the ball.
- Are you sure you weren't playing dodge ball?
(all chuckling)
Like where was the field?
- Oh, it was indoor!
And it was at a church.
- Now, this is an interesting soccer game.
- (laughing) Well the church was like
it had a lot of buildings,
so I guess whatever company was that put the games together
would go and find gyms for us to play in,
and that church had a gym.
- all right.
So we're in a church gymnasium, very specific about that.
Boris just popped in for a game.
How many games did you play?
- I played at least like five or six games before I quit.
- Okay. - Yeah.
- How often?
- Every Sunday.
- Sunday soccer at the church?
There's not church going on on Sunday's?
- It was after church.
It was like late or early evening time most of the time.
- Okay, all right.
I gotta simmer on this Boris Kodjoe story.
This is almost too fantastical to believe.
(Shiquita chuckling)
Nate, right?
- Yeah. - Okay.
Elevator with Seth Rogen, huh?
Okay, when was that?
- This was last year.
- Under what circumstances, where?
- It was in Burbank, and I had an interview.
We just happened to be in the same building,
and then our elevator broke down.
- Okay, what building?
- I don't remember the name of it.
I was in there just for a quick interview,
and I didn't do super well.
- Oh all right, where at?
With a company or what?
- Yeah, it was with a production company.
- Okay, what street was the building on?
- Brand Boulevard, I think.
I was doing a bunch of them at the same,
so it was just another one that didn't go well. (laughs)
- Okay, just him?
- Yeah it was just he and I in the elevator.
- What was he wearing?
- He was like kind of formal.
- I was like in a suit,
and he was dressed worse than I was, I guess.
- Worse than you were? - Yeah.
- Okay, so he's just a slob--
- No! (laughs)
- He's just a total slob-enly pile of garbage,
is that what you're telling me?
- That's not what I'm saying.
- Okay, that's not what I'm saying.
(Nate laughing)
Can you do describe that semi-formal.
What does it mean?
- He had a nice shirt on,
but it wasn't buttoned or tucked.
It's just like his clothes were nice.
- So what's your first reaction?
- I was not in a great mood,
'cause I think I really bombed the interview.
And then he walked in, and I was like,
is this Seth Rogen?
I was really like thrown off by that,
and then almost instantly after he gets on
it like crashes on the next floor.
So we both just kind of like,
we hadn't said anything at that moment.
We look at each other, and then we kinda realize
"Oh dang, we're stuck in here now."
So that's when we started talking.
- So I mean like, what did you talk about?
What did he say?
- He made fun of my clothes. (laughs)
- But you were dressed better than him?
- Yeah, but he didn't like my tie. (laughs)
- What was on your tie?
- It was just like a blue tie,
but I was wearing a gray suit with a blue tie.
He just kept making fun of me for it.
- Okay. - He just didn't like it.
- So if this story is true,
Seth Rogen finds himself in this extreme circumstance
and feels the need to degrade the other person
in the elevator with him?
And then what's the resolution here?
- As soon it broke down the lights got all weird,
and a little voice came from the elevator
like a little automated message?
We just sat in there for a while,
and then after like a half hour or so
it just came back on, and then we got out.
- All right.
Thanks, Nate.
Julian, talk to me. - Yes.
I was in New York City with a friend of mine,
and popped into a restaurant.
When I walked up to the host table
I thought Gerard Butler was the host.
So I asked him for a table for two,
and he just laughed at me.
Not in a real rude way kind of thing,
just knew like I didn't know who he was
I guess or whatever, and then he kind of walked away.
- That was the breadth of the entire interaction.
- That was the breadth of the encounter.
- Okay, what was the restaurant?
- Oh man, I don't know.
It wasn't a dive-y kind of place,
it was one that had fancy cocktails and stuff
like in their menu.
- Okay, what kind of food did they serve?
- I guess I would call it modern American.
I think I had like chicken and waffles,
kind of brunch-y kind of meal.
- Okay what time of day was this?
- Early afternoon.
Probably somewhere between noon and two o'clock.
In that kind of time frame.
- What time of year?
- It was winter.
It was not like the dead of winter, but it was cold.
I remember noticing his jacket.
He sat a table just a couple tables away from us.
I remember his jacket being this
like brown, suede, clearly very expensive kind of jacket.
- And what day was it?
- It was probably a weekend.
- Who was he with?
- It was a table for four.
It was him and a male friend,
and two female friends I guess.
- So when he sat down and you sat down,
how close were you by that point?
- It might have been about 15 feet away.
It was not like he was at the next table,
but it was just a couple tables away.
- That's pretty close though. - Yeah.
- I mean that'd be awkward.
After getting blown off by the guy,
to then being like in his peripheral eye line.
- Yeah I mean we definitely had a clear view of him.
- What did you say you ordered?
- I think it was like a chicken and waffles kind of thing.
- What did he get?
- Oh, I don't know.
- So what was he doing at the maitre d' table then?
Or at the-
- He must just been asking a question,
I don't know.
He might've just been there as we walked up,
and the host I guess stepped away or something.
So, I think it was just like a timing thing.
- And who were you with?
- My friend, Alyssa.
- Okay, what's her story?
What's her deal?
- College friend.
- Alyssa, she sounds suspicious. (Julian laughs)
All right, well I've asked a lot of questions.
I think it's about time I make a decision here.
So I know you're an actress and a model,
but you mentioned you were producing in Atlanta.
So I get the feeling
maybe you're a producer here at BuzzFeed.
- Post.
The editing side.
- Still counts.
(all laughing)
- Down in Atlanta, 2017.
Growing film industry down there now.
Moving on to Nate.
Nate I believe is somewhat involved in the animation game.
And so is Seth Rogen.
I tried to dig into the geography
of where this meeting took place.
Now your story is you were on so many interviews--
- Yeah.
- You just can't remember where any of them were.
In an elevator, starts making fun of you, okay.
I buy that.
- Julian, you're in New York.
Gerard Butler.
It's a random celebrity.
I mean he's done some good work,
I've got nothing against the guy.
Now the thing with Julian, doesn't remember the restaurant.
Says it's probably a weekend.
Everybody's got some good stuff.
I get the feeling like Nate's story is true.
I'm just gonna say that for the time being.
I'm just gonna put that on the shelf.
I think Julian's lying about Gerard Butler.
That's your final answer?
- Yeah.
- I am not lying about Gerard Butler.
- I don't believe it.
(all laughing)
- No, none of it was true.
- Right on, good job.
You fit all the details and it sounded reasonable.
I guess we're in LA,
so it's not a stretch of the imagination.
You know like I said
my guess would be that's so unbelievable it's gotta true.
It's hard.