-Congratulations on the film.
Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination.
-Thanks so much. -For those who haven't seen,
this is one of the great stunt driving films of the modern era.
And is it true that you did some of the stunt driving?
-Yeah, I did all -- No, I did some of it.
[ Laughter ]
They didn't let me do that much stunt driving.
-So what would they let you do, like, parallel park?
[ Laughter ]
-No, they did not -- definitely did not let me parallel park.
No. Just regular parking.
The problem -- So, I did like 10 stunt driving classes.
And I actually learned how to drive most of the stuff.
-This is before the movie started, you put the work in.
-I put the work in. I wanted to know how to drive like Baby.
-Yeah.
-But then when I actually got on set,
I was like, "Okay, what are we doing?
What are we doing?"
They said, "You're not doing anything."
"We got Jamie Foxx in the car and Jon Hamm in the car.
You're not doing anything." -Right.
-You know what I mean?
And then when Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm weren't in the car,
then they let me do stuff.
-Oh, interesting. -Yeah.
-So they didn't want to risk the whole cast?
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, just me.
-Just part of it, yeah. -Yeah.
-And, well, it certainly paid off.
You actually kept the car. Is this true?
'Cause I don't think -- I've never heard of this.
I feel like in the "Fast and Furious" movies,
they don't get to keep the car.
-Really? You don't think Vin Diesel has a garage of like,
a hundred of the "Fast and Furious" cars?
-Of course he does. I don't know what I'm thinking.
-Totally does. -Of course he does.
Oh, no, I saw Vin Diesel on the bus.
Yeah. I don't think -- [ Laughter ]
So you got to keep your car. -Yes.
-What kind of car is it? -It's a Subaru WRX STI.
It's the one from the opening scene.
-Gotcha.
-And I just kept begging for them to let me have it.
Then I said, "I'll buy it. I'll do whatever."
And I just kept following up and e-mailing.
That's how -- if you want something in life,
you just keep following up. [ Laughter ]
-Go get 'em. -Yeah.
I kept e-mailing the producers and saying,
"Hey, how about that car?
You know, I'm willing to pay for it.
Let me get that car."
And then months later, when it was my birthday,
about six months later, they gave it to me.
-You wore them down. Congratulations.
-Yeah, exactly. -That's really nice.
-Perseverance. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Now, so that -- For fans of the film,
it must be an interesting thing to see you
in the car from the movie.
-Yes.
-I mean, you know, you don't see Christian Bale in the Batmobile.
-No. [ Laughter ]
-Now, my other question is do people also --
Has anybody picked up on calling you Baby yet?
Because that is obviously a unique name
for a main character in a film.
-Yeah, it's a little odd because people do call me Baby now.
There's this deli around the corner of my house in Brooklyn.
And the guys are nice and they were always nice to me
for the first two years that I've lived there
and gone in there.
But now, I walk in there
and this dude from Yemen is like, "Hey, baby!"
[ Laughter ]
"What do you want? You want the halal over rice, man?"
You know?
"Hey, Baby, come on. Make a halal over rice for Baby."
[ Laughter ]
-Nothing would make me happier than if you found out
he's never seen the film. [ Laughter ]
He just -- That after -- [ Cheers and applause ]
Basically, like, hey, you know...
Anyone -- it turns out anyone that goes there for two years,
he just feels comfortable enough with them
to finally start calling them Baby.
-Yeah. Could be.
-Jamie Foxx, one of your cast members --
cast mates of the show -- uh, film.
He would deejay on set. This film is so tied to music.
But he would actually deejay in between takes.
Is that when he would do it? -Yeah.
So, Jamie does deejay.
And he wouldn't have turntables on set.
But he would connect his boom box to his phone
and start playing music between takes.
And the whole crew loved it,
especially on, like, late night shoots.
It would be 4:00 A.M.
and people are tired and it keeps the energy up.
-And he's good at it? He's a good deejay.
-He's great. And he also -- you know, he sort of ad-libs too.
-He does like the, "Yeah, come on!"
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, right. He's his own hype man.
-Yeah, he hypes up the whole crew.
It was really fun.
So, then I figure, like,
that was a great thing to do on a set.
And the next movie I did after "Baby Driver"
was this movie called "Jonathan."
And the first day we were in a bar,
so I actually found, like, these turntables and a cord
to plug my phone in.
And I figured it would have a great sound system.
And I thought, "What would be a fun song to play for the crew?"
And this is a morning shoot,
so it's a little early, about 6:00 A.M.,
and I decided to play Haddaway, "What is Love?" You know?
♪♪ What is love ♪♪ -Yeah sure.
♪♪ -Baby, don't -- ♪♪ So I plugged that in,
and I didn't quite turn the sound down right away.
And it blasted ♪♪ What is love ♪♪
And the whole crew starts looking, like,
"What's going on?"
The first A.D. is like, "Where's that music coming from?
Where's that music coming from?" [ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Oh, it's me. It's me."
They're like, "Can you turn that off?"
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "I'm not Jamie Foxx."
-I think, yeah, in general, for people like you and I,
don't ever try to do the things Jamie Foxx is good at.
-No. I mean, I try. -Yeah.
-I will continue to try to do everything Jamie Foxx does.
-Hey, you gave six months and you got that car.
Keep at this, too. -Yeah.
-I'm doing to deejay on every set I'm on.
Eventually it will work.