-You're a stud. Yeah, number one.
Not too shabby, huh? Congrats.
You wear number one pretty well, bud.
Yeah. -Thank you. Thanks. Yeah.
It's nice.
My first New York --
It's my first number one anything.
-Is it really? -Yeah.
-Before we talk about "The Watcher,"
we had your fantastic spouse, Rose Byrne...
-Yeah, yeah. -...on the show two nights ago.
And she was saying how into Halloween the family was.
-Oh. It's October, right? Yeah.
We've been at it since July.
Oh, is that right? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My kids are just like -- They wear costumes almost every day.
So Halloween is like an affirmation for them
that, "This is what we should be doing all the time."
-Yeah, just wearing costumes all the time.
What is everyone going as again?
-This year, we're going as Hulk. -Yeah.
-Rose is Wonder Woman.
Rocco is Darth Vader.
And the other one is -- Rafael is Jafar.
-Jafar? -Jafar from --
You know, the villain from "Aladdin."
-Yeah, exactly. -With the parrot
and the beard and the thing, yeah.
-I love it. I love it. That's so --
-We love it. We love it.
That's -- it really is -- it's their favorite holiday.
And, you know, we -- you know, we do the pumpkin patches.
We do the corn mazes and the cannons.
And, you know, we go through, like, four versions --
four pumpkins that rot
because we've been putting them out there since August,
you know, just getting ready.
-So you already had four rotten pumpkins.
Now, finally, this is the weekend.
-This is finally happening, so we're really excited.
You were telling me backstage, by the way,
that you just finished a movie with Robert De Niro.
-Yeah. -I worked with De Niro before.
Is it -- It's just amazing to be next to that guy.
-It is. It is.
But I don't, like -- I don't notice it
when I'm doing it with him, when I'm acting with him.
I mean, I'm very aware that I'm working with a very good actor
when we're doing it,
but I don't really -- I don't really take it --
-That it's Robert De Niro? -I don't make it a big deal
in my head, and it's not,
but it hits me every time, like, later, when I'm at home.
Like, this last time,
I worked with him all day one day in a car,
and we were like, "We've got to do a fight
in the middle of the street."
"You know...you," you know, screaming at each other,
and then, like, a big dramatic scene.
And I kept it together all day.
And then I was taking out the garbage that night
and literally, like, had to stop --
it all hit me like a ton of bricks.
I had to sit down.
I was a little emotional about it.
I was like, "I can't believe the day I just had,"
like, you know, if the 10-year-old me
could see what was happening that day.
-I mean, Robert De Niro. He's a legend.
-Yeah, he's pretty great.
-I mean, you're pretty great, too,
but I mean, you guys together.
But I mean, I love that that's what made you --
You're just taking out the trash and you're like,
"Wait. Hold on a second." -Oh.
-"I had the most amazing day." -I had to sit down.
Like, I was putting the trash out.
-And go -- and get emotional and go, "Wow,
I can't believe I was just acting..."
-Yeah, I was outside for a long time.
-..."with one of the greatest actors of all time."
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Robert De Niro. -Yeah, you gotta, right?
You have to, at some point, you know, really take it in.
-Take it in. -I can't do it
while I'm acting with him or else, you know, I'm dead.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He won't respect you, yeah.
-Yeah. -Yeah, no, no, no.
He's the greatest.
-Let's talk about "The Watcher."
Congrats on this.
-Thank you. -As I said, number one.
-Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Number one drama series on Netflix for a while now.
-Ryan Murphy.
-Dude, is it Ryan Murphy?
-Ryan Murphy knows what's up.
-Did you have any idea it would be this big?
-No.
I mean, no, you can't predict these things at all.
I mean, I've been in things that I thought
were going to do better commercially, and they weren't.
And you just -- you just never know.
You only can tell -- Like, I've been doing this a long time.
I could tell if something's big
by how I'm treated, like, at the gym.
You know what I mean? [ Laughter ]
Everybody wants to spot me, you know what I mean?
Like -- -They all know you there.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, they'll always look -- the eye contact.
And the like -- you know, people don't bother me too much.
But, like, now, you know, they're just there.
Like, "That ending, bro."
-[ Laughs ]
-Or they want like -- Yeah, yeah.
-"That ending, bro. I don't know.
We've got to talk about that." -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
People -- People will come right up to you
and tell you what they thought of the ending.
-But do you know the story and hear about the story,
and were you spooked when you heard even about the story?
-You know what?
I think that story's really cool.
And, you know, it's just that one story
in "New York Magazine."
-Yes. -Is the source of this.
And it's been read so many times.
So, I think, like -- there's something about it --
I think it's really about fear and about powerlessness.
And, like, I think the actual event, to me,
isn't that interesting.
They never found out who did it,
but yet, people are obsessed with it.
I think they're obsessed with it
because that feeling of powerlessness, of being --
having something taken away from you
and not knowing who's doing it is frightening.
-It's frightening. -It's terrifying.
-What would you do in that situation?
-I was interested in that.
-Would you ever be in that situation?
-I would never be in that situation.
-No. [ Laughter ]
-Well, first of all, I would never live in, like --
I just wouldn't live like that.
I need a lot of people around me.
I can't live out -- -You mean, like, in a house?
-Yeah. Like, in a house with a big property.
I like to have -- I like sharing walls.
I do. I like having --
-Such a New Yorker.
-I believe in safety in numbers.
I like having a lot of people.
-A lot of people around. -Yeah, I do.
-Yeah, witnesses. -City person.
-Yeah, they know exactly what happened.
-Yeah. -For people that haven't seen
"The Watcher" yet, can you set up
for everybody what it's about and who you play?
-I play -- I play a guy that runs around the house a lot.
[ Laughter ] I play -- I play a guy who --
his family, they move in.
They -- you know, they buy their dream home.
-Aww, that's so cute. -They -- they put --
they spend all their money that they've got from this house.
And the moment they move in,
somebody starts sending creepy, horrible letters to them.
And -- And they're sort of --
And then I do a lot of running around the house looking scared.
-Yeah, getting letters from someone called "The Watcher,"
and they're saying, "I'm watching you."
-Yeah. -"Just letting you know.
Welcome to the neighborhood."
-Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
[ Laughter ] -What?!
-"We noticed -- We noticed that you've got young blood."
I have two children in -- in this thing.
They refer to them as "young blood."
-Oof.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Bobby Cannavale in "The Watcher."
Take a look at this.
-I am pleased to know your names now
and the names of the young blood you have brought me.
You certainly say their names often.
Ellie, Carter.
Ellie is a lovely pianist with delicate fingers.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Door opens ]
657 Boulevard is happy you're here.
♪♪
It's been years since young blood
ruled the hallways of the house.
Have you found all the secrets it holds in it?
Will the young blood play in the basement,
or are they too afraid to go down there alone?
I would be very afraid, if I were them.
It is far away from the rest of the house.
If you were upstairs, you would never hear them scream.
-What's going on?
-"What is going on?"
[ Cheers and applause ]
Bobby Cannavale, everybody.
"The Watcher" is on Netflix right now.
Congrats, buddy. -Thanks, buddy.
-Couldn't happen to a better guy.