- I'm Octavia Spencer.
- And I'm Melissa McCarthy.
- And we're here to interview each other for BuzzFeed.
- It's true.
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- Melissa, do you remember
- Yes?
- Do you remember how we met?
- We met because the magical Tate Taylor
at the Groundlings theater.
I think you had just kind of moved out to Los Angeles,
this is like 25 years ago.
And you would come to see our Sunday shows
and your laugh was so amazing
in the audience that it made other people laugh,
so I'm pretty sure that they weren't really laughing
at us as much as they were laughing because of your laugh.
So we would call always called Tate and be like,
is Octavia Coming?
it was like we met, and then we were always together
in that group, right?
- Yep, that's exactly it.
- Did you have, out of all the stuff we shot
for Thunder Force, what was your favorite scene?
- There are so many amazing, fun moments that I couldn't
just pick, just one, the overall experience of
A, getting the call from Ben saying,
Hey I'm writing a superhero movie for you and Melissa.
And it's always been a dream of mine to want to do that.
And then that we would actually get, you know,
to play together.
The overall experience was just, it was amazing to
to come to work everyday and work opposite you,
and laugh and watch you do stunts.
You know what?
I, I can't boil it down to one moment, but I will
boil it down to watching Melissa McCarthy,
get in a harness and do all of these crazy stunts.
That was money in the bank.
- I have to agree, and I'm not just saying it like,
to get that much time with Octavia seems like,
like a fever dream to me. There was something
about the convenience store scene.
You screaming in Ben's face and
Ben's screaming in your face.
Every time you did it, it was such a funny visual.
And at one point you're both gentle people,
so sometimes you actually look like
you were jarring each other
which only made me, cause I'm an an awful person,
laugh harder.
There was something so warped about it that I just loved it.
- What was your favorite behind the scenes moment
in shooting Thunder Force?
- I have one specific and one thing we did every day.
The specific was the weird ASMR video.
We did afterwards, because neither one of us really
knew what it was, but we both weirdly enjoyed doing it,
and we're like,
(whispering)
This is very soothing.
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That was so weirdly fun.
And then my favorite thing is
we had our little camp, we always set up, we always
had our chairs together and we have like a
plastic folding table and we would have our iPads there
and we that's where we'd have lunch together.
And it literally was like we were sharing
a little tiny plastic desk, it like became our hub
- A lot of actors go to their trailers,
and it just made my whole life that
Melissa liked to be on set.
The only time we ever really left set was to go
to the bathroom and we'd go like,
Oh you got to go to the bathroom?
I'm going to your bathroom.
So we could go at the same time.
- We were never in our trailers that was
like for the bathroom to get dressed.
And then we were like
I have to get to that gorgeous plastic table.
Rock, if you were a superhero,
what would your super power be?
- I would want the power of, of speed.
I thought I was a quick person like getting from
to and from places, but now I really like
- In a car?
Are you referring to up in a car?
- No! I mean like, walking, I want to be fast.
- I would want to be able to like
control the time continuum.
That's what you'd call,
I want to be able to go backwards and forwards
in time at any moment I wanted to like go back
and see my kids at a certain age,
meet my mom at 12, and then always come back
but have the ability to go backwards and forwards.
- If I were to choose between wanting super strength
like Lydia or having the power of invisibility, like Emily
I would want invisibility.
- Why?
- I love going shopping and just walking around and
I miss it for real now, nobody can do it.
And then, you know, to be like, go in and save the world,
but for selfish reasons to like, shop
- I just want to wander around Big Lots.
I think maybe I want to take super strength.
I'm always like, I'll do it, I'll move it.
Like, so I figured it would come in handy.
I love the thought of being able to show up in my 5'2 self,
I would like to go up against all the police
and be like, what did you say?
Oh, I don't think so.
What is the best acting advice you've ever been given?
- I guess, to listen.
You don't have to act if you're actively listening.
- That's a good one.
I was lucky enough to study with Michael Harney,
who's a great actor, does a ton of stuff
but he always said, nobody wants to watch an actor
watch themselves.
If you're busy, enjoying your own performance
and watching yourself, it'll never be good.
To this day, I'm always like,
don't watch yourself and you've got a shot.
- Melissa would you like to explain the raw chicken?
What were you eating?
- The raw chicken was actually raw pork.
No, I'm kidding.
Oh my God, this poor woman spent like
a month and a half trying to figure out, first of all
just explaining to her why we needed something to look
like raw chicken that I was going to consume.
At first, she made something out of like,
mung bean that did look good,
but it was very tricky to get down.
Then another thing they were like, we sous vide
the chicken, actual chicken breasts
at such a low temperature and over such a
long period of time, it is technically cooked,
but it still appears and handles completely raw.
To which I said, no, thank you.
And then the third one, what we actually used in the movie,
it's Asian pears. But it's like peeled a certain way,
and there was an enzyme bath, and the bit,
they did all these crazy, there was all these steps
to get it, to break down to look like that for my character,
it was still pretty amazing,
cause when they brought that plate over I did not think
boy, look at that plate of pear.
That's it for now, I hope you enjoy Thunder Force!
I don't know why I ain't shouted it.
- Thank you, BuzzFeed
Thunder Force.
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