-How is everything going? -Good, really good.
-What's new? Are you enjoying the summer?
-Yeah, yeah. It's good.
I don't seem stressed. -No, you look fantastic.
-I seem relaxed. I'm a little stressed.
I have -- in a couple of weeks, I've got,
over the course of four days, about 96 hours,
I have my wife's birthday,
I have a 20-year anniversary,
I have my mom's 85th birthday.
I have my oldest daughter turning 16
and my youngest daughter turning 10.
-Holy mackerel.
-Can I borrow some money from you?
[ Laughter ] -Oh, my God. Wow!
I know that you have three daughters.
We were talking about that.
I met your beautiful wife backstage.
What do they do in the summer? Because they're 10 and --
-Yeah, 10 -- well, they're 10 --
Hold on. They're 10, 13, 16.
There you go. And, you know, we're busy.
It's busy times. Summer, running around --
-Vacation? -No, just taking them
to activities, museums, a little bit of travel.
-They don't go to camp or anything?
-They don't do camp.
I -- in fairness, I made a terrible mistake
regarding camp.
I told them my own camp story, which was a bad move.
Okay. That was a mistake.
I told them about -- I went to this Camp Tippecumseh
in Virginia when I was a kid, and...
-Ooh. -...just your --
[ Laughter ]
-There's an owl, there's an owl.
-I slightly changed the name to avoid a lawsuit.
So you did not go to Camp Tippecumseh.
-No, no, they're being supportive.
They're like, "I almost went to that place."
[ Laughter ]
No, actually it sounded like one owl was loose,
and it was like, "Ooh!" [ Laughter ]
It wasn't a full, committed "Whoo!"
It was like a -- -It was an animal call.
-Whoo. Yeah, it was.
-I guess it's a camp story, so it's fine.
-Yeah, yeah. They probably went to camp.
-So, at any rate, thank you for setting the mood.
So I'm at Camp Tippecumseh, and it's a pretty much
standard camp.
You know, you go into these little cabins,
and kids are all -- you got your friends
and meet some other kids and there's always
one resident pain in the ass.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -A little smartass,
other than me.
And there was this kid, Chizzy,
and he -- there was a counselor,
a guy named Clay who's kind of the, you know,
buffed-out counselor.
-Now are you changing all the names?
-No, I'm not. I'm back on -- I'm back on facts.
-So there are two real people named Chizzy and Clay?
-Chizzy and Clay were real names.
-Wow, I'd see that movie.
-Tippecumseh was a slight change.
-"Fast and the Furious: Chizzy and Clay."
-They're not getting along -- there's a lot of antag--
-Now, who's Chizzy again? -Chizzy's the kid.
Clay is kind of the counselor with the cheesy mustache
and the frizzy hair who's like, "Man, there's chicks
on the other side of the lake, man."
-Yeah, yeah. -He's that guy.
-I love that guy. -You know, yeah.
You would like him, you would have fit right into cabin six.
[ Light laughter ] So we're there.
Everybody's doing their thing but I can tell
there is a relationship here between these two
that is headed for trouble.
And the days go by, you do the flag football, capture the flag,
and one day, we are doing archery.
Clay is teaching us how to shoot bows and arrows.
-Sure. -And Chizzy's not around.
And Clay's upset and he's like, "Has anybody seen him?"
Da, da, da, da, da. He's getting a little worked up.
And sure enough, about a half mile away,
over the ridge comes this little dot of a person,
and he's screaming, you know,
"Clay, you're an idiot," you know,
"I'm going to report you to the counselors."
It's little Chizzy, and he's coming toward us,
and Clay takes a bow
from the kid next to him and an arrow --
-Oh, gosh.
-And he pulls it back about as far as he can
and he just lets it go.
And I don't think he was trying to actually --
I don't think he's trying to do anything.
I think he's just trying to send out
kind of a warning flare, if you will.
-Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, yeah.
-And I'm only 11 years old and I'm watching this thing,
and I don't know anything about aerodynamics,
but I'm like, "That's got good trajectory."
[ Laughter ]
-It's got some heat on it.
-And it proceeds to soar through the air,
and just in one of those moments where the world stops
spinning on its axis -- whew --
the arrow goes through this young man's arm,
little Chizzy. [ Audience "oh"s ]
Yeah, yeah. He pulls up the arm.
The arrow has gone through it. He's fine, he's fine.
The kid is fine. -Yeah.
-But moments later, all of the children
were collected from camp, and that was pretty much
the end of my camp experience. [ Laughter ]
-Wow. -So --
You told it to your daughters. -Yeah.
[ Applause ]
-No camp for them.
-I don't know that that deserves an applause.
That is an absolute true story. -It's a great story.
But then, you come from hanging with, you know,
the events with hanging with Chizzy,
and you end up being a big-time actor,
and you're in this new film here.
This is a segue. [ Laughter ]
Uh...
-Smooth. -Thank you very much.
This is -- [ Laughter ]
This is called -- -Seamless.
-Thank you. "Brian Banks."
"Brian Banks," the story -- it's a true story.
-Yeah, it is.
-Tell me who you play in this.
-It's actually an incredible story.
Brian Banks, who's a football player,
16 years old in high school
who had Pete Carroll scouting him.
He has an amazing football career ahead of him,
and was accused of a crime that he didn't commit,
and the criminal justice system kind of scooped him up.
He spent six years in prison.
It's a very rare -- very rough story.
Aldis Hodge, who's a wonderful actor,
plays him in the film, and I play Justin Brooks,
who is a real-life guy -- in fact, both these guys --
obviously a very true story.
Brian sought out the help of Justin Brooks,
who runs the California Innocence Project,
which has exonerated over 30 people
and kind of gotten these people who are in prison,
sometimes, 10, 20, 30 years, gotten them out.
-For stuff they didn't do, yeah. -For stuff they didn't do.
And it's not technicality stuff.
I mean, these are real people
who just flat out didn't do it.
And he -- you know, Brian, who is an incredible advocate
for himself and kind of a larger-than-life,
very positive person, he was the one
that pushed this along, and he got this organization
that Justin started to support him
and ultimately got this case overturned,
and his dream to play in the NFL was ultimately realized.
It's an incredible -- -He actually ended up doing it.
-Yeah, the way that it finishes up is pretty great.
-Wow. -Yeah.