-Our first guest tonight is an Emmy, Golden Globe,
and Tony-nominated actor.
You know from his work on the award winning series,
"Fargo" and "Angels in America."
He stars in "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,"
which is in theatres and on HBO Max now.
Let's take a look.
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[ Growling ]
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-Grab his arms.
Don't let go.
-[ Growling ]
-Save your servant.
We trust in you, my God.
-Please welcome back to the show, Patrick Wilson.
[ Applause ]
Hi, buddy.
-Super funny. -Welcome back. Thank you.
-Super funny.
I love your my pillow guy.
-Oh, thank you.
A lot of work went into it. a lot of work.
Welcome! It's so nice to have you here.
-Thanks, Seth. Ah, it's good to be here.
-Now based on the clip, this is a movie about being
with your kids during the pandemic, right?
-It is, it is. That's exactly. -[ Laughs ]
-"Conjuring: The Pandemic Made Me Do It."
-This is -- it's very exciting to have movies back in theaters.
-Yeah. -But this particularly is
the kind of movie that I think we most lost
the joy of being around other people.
-It's so true.
I went to a couple screenings on opening weekend last Friday
and I sat in the theater, and to hear the sound,
to hear the audience screaming and crying
and doing all that they do.
Not crying, I don't know why I said crying.
Weeping, really. It's a sad, sad tale.
-Do you -- are you a screamer
in horror movies, historically, yourself?
-No. I go the other way.
I'm the worst audience 'cause I just --
I get very stoic.
And, you know, if it's a friend of mine's movie,
I'll kind of laugh. Like, "Oh, good. You got me."
I'm the worst. I'm terrible.
-I think -- no, I like -- I think that thing
of like laughter in a horror movie is also a wonderful thing.
-That's true. -When you laugh at
the appreciation of how much you were just got.
-Yeah. Well, you know what's also funny?
I feel like there's a -- there's a --
trying to create a great comedy and a great horror movie,
it's so technical, it's so similar with just
being done in the editing room and really understanding
tone and the edit.
-Yeah, and timing. You're so right.
It is. They are very similar.
Now, this is something that, I mean, when you got involved
with the first "Conjuring," you could never have predicted.
-[ Laughs ] No idea. -I mean, it's so popular.
-I totally knew. -You knew in the beginning?
-Yeah, yeah. -You basically went into
the audition and said pick me and we're gonna make
a billion dollars.
-I did. I did a song and dance.
It was wonderful audition. No.
I thought if we got it right, we'd be back for one or two.
I did not see all the tentacles, all the spinoffs.
-Yeah, because this is a franchise in it's own right.
-It's gigantic.
We're the number one horror franchise in history.
We're $1.8 or $1.9, it doesn't matter, billion.
-Right.
-So it's crazy. It's crazy. It's good.
-And are they fun? They must be fun to make.
-It's super fun. It is. We have the best time.
Vera Farmiga and I, who I adore, we have the best time doing it.
So, that's a bonus. -And do you -- have you,
the longer you do this, because of course now it's stopped being
one film, do you and Vera, do feel like
you know more about the devil?
-Oh, yeah. Oh no.
I'm convinced that I could give an exorcism.
-Really. -Yeah.
And it's complete crap,
but I really feel like, we both feel like
we have this authority, based on nothing.
Just really based on reading the lines.
But I feel like, I'm good.
Like, if you have a ghost in your house, call me.
-I mean, I think celebrity exorcisms, on it's own,
could just be a really big deal.
-You know, if it doesn't work out, that may be the way to go.
-Another franchise,
a franchise with tentacles as well.
-Oh-ho. -"Aquaman." Look at that.
-Oh. -I didn't even plan that.
-A little reference. -I'm just very --
but you're doing that this summer.
You're gonna -- -Yeah, yeah.
-And when we last saw your character,
you were in water jail?
-In Atlantean jail, heading off to Atlantean jail like one does.
-You can't, obviously, no one lets you say
anything about these movies.
-I'm in jail. -But how -- you're in jail.
How much -- how much training do you have to do,
and how much of it is water based?
-[ Chuckles ] Interesting.
Everything is water based. My paints.
No, I --a ton of training, yeah.
But I made a pact with myself
cause that's who you make pacts with.
-Yeah. -Last time, you know,
four years ago, I had to gain, I don't know, 15, 20 pounds.
And I was like, "I'm not going through this again"
'cause it was just way too much food.
So I've actually tried to maintain
the weight and all that, so this was much more --
This is so boring. [ Snoring ] -Right, cause it's not just --
No, but like, I think it's important to note.
It's not just, like, gaining 15 pounds.
-Yeah, yeah. -It's like gaining
the hard 15 pounds. -Yeah. No no, that's true.
That's true, 'cause for "Watchman,"
when I did "Watchman." I just ate like a madman.
-That's like one of the few...
I mean, when you think about it, you played one of the few
super heroes ever where the goal was to be a little pudgy.
-The goal was to be pudgy, like trying to get
my stomach, and trying to get a gut.
It's so lame, but it's true. -Yeah.
Well, that's very nice that you
at least made that deal with yourself.
Your -- Obviously, your kids are --
What are they? They're almost -- both teenagers.
-Yeah. 14 and 11, yeah.
-Okay, so I know that you are very musical with your siblings.
-Yes. Yes, yes. -Are your kids?
Have you roped them into it? -No.
They both are great at their instruments.
They will not play together.
-No jam sessions? -No. It's the worst.
It's really -- -Will they play with you?
-It makes me sad. Not so much.
-Okay.
-They will when we have concerts
'cause they like getting up in front of people.
-Gotcha. Well, you actually do have a band.
-Yes, we do. -The Van Wilson, is it?
-The Wilson Van. We like to switch it around.
-The Wilson Van, gotcha. -Yeah, It's the Wilson Van.
-But it's a Van Halen cover band?
-Yeah, yeah. -Okay.
-About half our set is old Van Halen tunes,
and that's actually been one of the frustrating,
you know, parts of the pandemic,
not being able to play, you know, concerts.
So we'll schedule another concert
after I shoot "Aquaman," so...
-And then also -- I mean, is this something that when
you grew up with your siblings, were you guys
always playing music together? -We were.
My -- our middle brother is Mark,
who's a TV anchor in St. Pete in Tampa Bay.
He's just an unbelievable guitarist,
and we all grew up, me and my older brother Paul
and Mark, the three of us always playing.
And it really, honestly, when he turned 40,
now a long time ago, Mark, cause you're old.
No, that's terrible.
When he turned 40, we said we should get a big party together
and play cause we hadn't played together in years.
So what it became, honestly, is this, you know,
annual event for to us get together,
not around his birthday anymore, but we have these concerts.
It's all for charity and we start a foundation,
the Wilson Family Foundation,
so it goes to all these local charities down there,
and we just get to go have fun.
-That's really awesome. Yeah.