Please welcome Ben Falcone.
Hello, Ben.
You're down in Australia--
Hi.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thanks.
Good.
You're in Australia.
We spoke with Melissa last week.
She's nervous about all the critters
there that can kill you, because everything that can kill you
is in Australia.
So you posted a video.
Is this like-- this is the Huntsman, right?
Yeah.
I posted a video, because I'm--
yeah, there he is.
Yeah.
Just
Just in your house?
It's about this high--
yeah.
He was roughly the size of a small dinner plate,
and I was obviously really scared of this guy.
And what I've learned is that Australians actually
like these spiders, because although they're very deadly,
they kill even more deadly spiders.
So they're like a spider bodyguard almost.
Wow.
I've heard a lot about them from Portia.
Melissa said that you think you have gout.
She says you don't have gout, but you're a hypochondriac,
and you admit to that, right?
I do.
And you know the jury's still out on whether or not
I have gout.
I mean, if you want I could show you.
And by the way it is--
I learned recently it's called the disease of kings.
Oh.
No wonder you want it what.
But does it look swollen?
I don't know, because I don't see the other foot.
I can't compare it without--
well, they're separate now.
There.
Let's see.
Here's this one.
All right.
This is a good one.
OK.
Does this one look swollen?
Not at all.
Well, that's good news.
Maybe I don't have gout.
All right.
Well, good.
Yeah.
You don't have gout, and you can't be saying things
like that about yourself.
If you have a crush on Harry Styles,
he's not going to like--
you're going to turn him off.
Right.
Harry Styles probably doesn't want to see my feet.
I shouldn't have done that.
Yeah.
Now what was it about when-- did you meet Harry,
or you just from a distance have a crush on him?
Well, our daughters started listening--
Viv and George started listening to Harry Styles,
and we all love the music.
So then I sort of took the reins and started
listening to so much Harry Styles
that my daughters were like, Dad, Enough
with the Harry Styles.
And they loved him.
And Melissa takes that to mean that I have a crush on him,
which who knows?
Maybe I do.
Right.
Well, as I say, everyone has a crush on Harry Styles.
Yes, he's a very special guy.
Nothing wrong with having a crush on Harry Styles.
So let's talk about Super Intelligence.
You directed it, you act in it--
you watch your wife make out with people.
This is clearly-- you're the director.
You wrote it.
You clearly want to watch her make out with people
all the time.
Well, actually our friend Steve Mallory
wrote this particular one.
I will say that I feel like I'm analytical,
but I maybe don't think things through enough.
Like when I was sitting in that window with Sam Richardson--
tremendously funny guy--
I realized-- I was like, my job today is to, as an actor
and as a director, watch my wife make out with Bobby Cannavale.
Which is just like the dumbest thing I could imagine.
Like why would you-- why would you do that?
Look how great he--
I mean, he's a great guy.
He's a great looking guy, and there
was a moment in the movie where Melissa has to give a monologue
and say, you know, but I do--
I really love George.
And she kept saying, you know, but I do.
I really love Bobby.
So that's not great.
No.
No that's not great.
She clearly is in love with Bobby
and will leave you soon, Ben.
Yeah.
She might.
Yes, and you have gout.
All right.
For the movie, you launched a 20 Days of Kindness campaign--
$20,000, 20 charities in 20 days.
I think that's such a great thing y'all are doing.
Oh, thanks.
Obviously, these are tough times out there
for many, many people, so any little bit
that we can try to give to people out there
who are making a difference and being so inspiring-- we're just
so happy to do it.
And to put that in a movie campaign
seems like a really good idea.
And we think we'll just try to do that sort of thing
moving forward.
I think every movie should do that.
I think that's a fantastic idea.
It's called Super Intelligence.
It's going to be available on HBO Max Thanksgiving Day.
Ben, great talking to you.
Stay safe there.