Hi, Dennis.
Hi, Ellen.
Hi, Dennis.
All right.
We have shown this clip so many times.
But I've never watched it with you sitting next to me.
And if you're one of the people on this planet who has not
seen this yet, we sent Dennis to the Starbucks
here on the lot, put an earpiece in his ear.
And I was sitting here telling him
and he had to say anything that I told him to say.
In Starbucks, we had hidden cameras.
And let's enjoy together.
Dennis Quaid is here.
Say it loud.
Dennis Quaid is here.
[LAUGHTER]
Wow.
Dennis Quaid wants a coffee.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm going to go have--
what kind of coffee do I want?
I want a spice latte decaf.
[LAUGHTER]
Can I get some water?
Dennis Quaid wants water.
When you get the water, take it, gargle it, and spit it back in.
I need to change my order, though.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, gargle that.
[LAUGHTER]
Now--
You know what I would like is--
my next film is I would like to have you in my ear
the entire time just to throw me lines.
OK, I would love to do that.
Let's do that.
Let's do that to the director Do you--
you've gotten some reaction from that I hear?
That's the biggest thing of my entire career.
[LAUGHTER]
Like when you walk into a Starbucks?
Well, I do go into Starbucks over in the Palisades mostly.
And when I walk in, it's usually at 6:30 in the morning,
because I get up early because I'm a dad.
They say Dennis Quaid is here.
[LAUGHTER]
And it's--
[CHEERING]
So Dennis Quaid wants his banana and his coffee Americano
with foam.
You're so good at it, too.
And I didn't know this.
You started out in stand up.
And that's why you're so-- it's so easy for you
to do things like this.
I don't know if it's easy.
Stand up is the hardest thing.
You have obviously know that.
But I did stand up when I think--
I was 16 in Houston, Texas at the Tropicana Hotel,
where my uncle played the piano and had a band.
And I used to do really bad impressions
of current American presidents, this was back in the late '60s,
and take off on comic book ads, and things like that.
And people would laugh, but it wasn't necessarily
because of my jokes.
It was because of the 16-year-old kid
up there who was making a fool of himself.
And is this picture we have, is this when you're about 16?
[LAUGHTER]
That's it right there.
You look like that doing the stand up?
This is a corn ball rube.
Wow.
Wow, that's amazing.
And how are your babies?
They just-- they're twins, right?
They turn two?
Yeah.
Well, T Boone and ZG.
Yeah.
Just walking around the street.
They're bonded.
Oh, they're cute.
Yeah.
And how are they?
They're doing great.
She's just like-- she's a little fashionista.
She has been since she was like three months old.
So it's incredible how girls are different.
She's so particular about what she wants to wear.
She changes 12 times a day.
She does, really?
Yeah.
And he just-- he never has a bad day.
He's just as happy as can be.
We were in Montana over Christmas holidays.
And T Boone is in love with numbers.
He can count up to 13.
And--
Really?
Yeah.
He was-- for a minute there was like, where's T Boone
and walk in.
And he's just like hanging up the telephone.
And so we discovered that his favorite numbers are 911.
[LAUGHTER]
Because 30 minutes later this cop car
pulls up from the Sheriff's Office with a little
the light going and thought something was going on.
He was just mumbling in the phone
or he was just calling and hanging out?
I don't know what he did.
But I'm sure his sister told him to do it.
That's all they do.
I'm sure.
Let's talk-- I like scary movies.
So let's talk about this movie.
So the world is ending, is that right?
Is that what the movie is about?
The world is ending.
But it's going to have a new beginning here.
There's a war going on between heaven and earth.
And we have angels in our movie which
aren't your Christmas angels or your Victoria's Secret angels.
They're more sort of dark angels I would say.
And it's-- I went to this diner in the middle of the desert.
And a strange thing started happening like you saw,
what I was trying to get American Idol on the TV
out there.
Yes.
And then the phones go out.
And the radio doesn't work.
And then this little old lady walks in.
And she's the sweetest little grandmother you ever saw.
And she's not so sweet.
And she's not that sweet.
Oh, don't give it away.
Don't give it away.
Things start happening from there.
But it's scary, little scary.
But it'll turn around and make you laugh at the same time.
Oh, good.
I like it.
That's what I like about that.
Do you like scary movies?
If they're scary.
What do you-- what are you scared of?
What scares you?
I'm scared of bats.
Bats?
And rats.
And snakes.
Yeah, snakes I think because people don't really see
expressions on snakes faces.
But rats, what scares you about rats?
I guess it's in my genes.
Yeah.
Uh-oh.
That would be bad.
There's no one there right now.
Yeah, right.
But let me check.
What if it was a cute rat?
What if it was like a really--
A cute little white mouse.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]
That was the best reaction.
[LAUGHTER]
Watch that.
What if it was a cute rat?
What if it was like a really--
A cute little white mouse.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
[CHEERING]
And that was over.
You're not scared.
I meant to do that.
Yeah.
You'll edit that I'm sure--
All right, yeah, I'm sure.
--for my image.
I'm sure.
But you know.
That was cute.
Now your fear is gone.
All right, we're going to take a break.
And this-- we're going to put Dennis in his dressing room
and try it again.
We have a hidden camera.
We have a food delivery guy bringing Dennis his food.
And we're going to see what happens.