- I feel like this was one of our better chats.
- Do you Josh?
- No, I don't.
(Josh and Chris laughing)
(mellow music)
Hey guys.
My guest today loves slaying dragons,
he loves acting, he loves singing.
He's my personal fashion and style icon.
It's the one and only star of "Dungeons and Dragons",
it's Chris Pine.
Hey Chris.
- Hey, man.
God, you're very mellow, this is nice,
keep on talking that way
- The soothing voice of Josh Horowitz for change.
- Hey, it's so nice.
- Okay, how do we sell this one?
Is this the funniest episode of "Game of Thrones"?
- No, I think the way that I like to describe it is
as a child of the 80s?
It reminds me of "Goonies" and "Princess Bride".
There's a little bit of "Willow",
there's a little bit of "Monty Python, the Holy Grail".
- Is traditionally, is fantasy your bag?
Could you name the "Fellowship of the Ring"?
How many of the fellowship?
- That's the "Lord of the Rings"?
- Okay, this is not a good, that's not a good sign.
- The hobbits and stuff, I don't know.
- Yeah, hobbits and stuff, that's a half point
- Frodo, yeah, Frodo.
What I found about is I never played Dungeons and Dragons,
but my nephew is a huge player.
He writes his own campaigns, he draws his own maps.
It's like an improv class,
it's like, this is what's going on,
this is who you are, now go and play.
- Here's your motivation,
you just happen to have a battle ax.
- Yeah - Exactly.
This is what we do for a living.
Do you feel like you have what it takes to survive
in fantasy days of yore,
do you need indoor plumbing?
- Yeah, I'm pretty bougie that way probably.
Yeah, I could do a couple of days,
but if there's good masseuses.
- Right.
Did you spend more time for this one in the gym,
or practicing your looting skills?
- Really neither.
I memorized my lines and showed up on time.
- Are you ready to go one-on-one?
Your loot versus Lizzo's flute?
It feels like a pay-per-view event in the making.
- Huh, who's Lizzo?
Who are we talking about?
- Who's Lizzo, you don't know Lizzo?
Okay, it's good.
It's okay, you're in a safe space.
- All right.
- You know I like to talk about your fashion sense.
I'm gonna present you some options,
DnD-inspired fashion options. - Sure.
- You tell me if you could make this fashionable,
if this would work for you.
- Great. - Okay.
This we call the classic warrior look,
could you rock it, how do you feel?
- What (beep) picture did you pick up my face dude?
It's awful, we're not talking about that one,
because you've already lost me and made me angry.
- (laughs) Okay, next one, all right.
- Wow, you are really just trying to **** me off,
aren't you?
- What do you mean?
That's a heroic look, that's you as a dragon.
Let's move on, let's get to a better photo.
Look at that, the Alchemist.
Look at, you could rock that beard,
I've seen facial hair from you.
- Oh, I'm into that, a little Nostradamus.
- A good roomy hat, right?
- I'm into that, that's very cool.
- This is your Orc look.
- Oh yeah, that's cool.
- See?
Are we friends again?
- No, not even nearly, it's still pretty awful,
like I got a giant murky face tattoo.
- Okay, go to this one, I like this one.
This is a shaman, yeah, come on.
- Abso (beep) lutely (laughs).
Look, the cuddle factor is great,
just in my ice cave doing Wordle
with a giant dead bear on my back, sure.
- We're gonna end strong.
(Chris laughing)
- That's funny man, that's pretty funny,
that's pretty stupid, I like that one.
- All right, next challenge for you my friend,
if you are still my friend, which I doubt.
In the spirit of Dungeons and Dragons,
I'm gonna ask you to choose a weapon or strategy
in this predicament, okay?
I'm your dungeon master here.
You're facing a dragon, atop of pile of gold,
you can summon an animal to help you.
Do you summon a wooly mammoth or a cocaine bear?
- Oh, look at what you did there, very cute.
I'm gonna go wooly mammoth,
because cocaine's going to be a great idea
for about five minutes and then...
- Right.
- Who knows what's gonna happen to the bear.
- Thank you for giving serious thought
to a very stupid question, I appreciate that.
An Army is invading your castle,
you must quickly assemble your own army
to protect you and your kingdom.
Do you bring in the cast of "Star Trek"
or the cast of "Princess Diaries 2"
to help protect your lot?
Basically Zachary Quinto or Julie Andrews,
who can help fight the battle better?
- I love Julie and I love Anne,
I don't wanna put them in danger,
I'd have to bring Zach with me.
- You use him as a human shield basically,
is what you're saying?
- I didn't say that at all, you said that.
I said I wouldn't want to put Julie Andrews
and Anne Hathaway in danger.
I'm gonna pick my buddy and we'll be brave.
- An angry ogre bursts through your door and says,
"You have to produce and star in my screenplay."
Do you summon a sword and face the ogre and battle,
or do you agree to produce and star
in said Ogre's screenplay?
- Absolutely the latter,
it's a great business opportunity and the guy's passionate
- Even Ogres are creative.
- Sure.
- There's a story in there, right?
- Sure, absolutely.
- I feel like this was one of our better chats.
- Do you Josh?
- No, I don't.
(Josh and Chris laughing)
- Look, I'm always here for you,
get better pictures next time.
- Okay, okay.
- I'll always play ping pong with you, pal.
(mellow music)