- It was so cute, y'all walking out.
(crowd screaming and applauding)
Oh my gosh!
I feel like it was like a commercial,
like all the, like it was just generational.
It was very cute, y'all walking out.
- I like that, our first guest is 106 Years old.
(Kelly laughs)
- No, no, no wait, but happy new year!
I wanna, I wanna say happy new year to y'all.
Do y'all make resolutions, does anybody do that?
- I try to make myself do better in school
and read more books.
- Oh, good on you. - Wow.
- Did your mom tell you to say that? - [Kelly] Good answer!
- No. - Read more books.
- He's like, "My mom is watching".
(Ben speaking over Kelly)
- He's like "I'll tell you my real resolution later."
- I'll make up something.
(Kelly laughs)
- So they said they were gonna ask me about it so...
(Kelly chuckles)
Did you get into it?
- You know, I used to, and then I felt it was,
you know, I was always the guy who was like,
"Let me get the gym."
I bought the gym membership. You know what I mean?
So was like 199 for the year
- [Kelly] And you'd go in January?
and at the end of the year you're like,
"I went four times."
So that adds up, so I feel like the,
try to do the everyday type of thing rather than a year,
'Cause it doesn't, it's hard to maintain the whole thing.
- [Kelly] Yeah!
Oh commitment, yes.
( Kelly mumbling)
Anyway, Tye, what about you?
Do you do any resolutions?
- No, I kind of have the same philosophy.
Why do you have to wait till the end of the year
to decide you wanna do something?
If you wanna do something, you should do it.
- Oh, y'all are so good, okay. (audience applauding)
I'm the loser that like makes them and it's like,
I make some list and I'm very excited
about my paper and pen that I write it on.
- I just feel like it's just gonna be a list of my failings
at the end. - That's what I was saying.
- What else didn't I get done?
- So I still don't know Spanish.
- Oh good to remember that.
Yeah, exactly.
Take that Italian class.
- Yeah, that's fun.
Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination.
That's so cool. (audience applauding)
I have to say,
Snoop announcing it was my favorite part.
I want you to see it unless you missed it.
- [Ben] That was nice yeah.
- Ben Effleck,
Ben Affleck, my fault.
(Snoop chuckles)
Sorry about that Ben.
(Kelly laughs) (audience applauds)
- He got the embosses a little off.
- He did get the embosses a little off. Yeah.
It's funny because I always grew up
and I thought like 'Affleck',
what an incredibly ugly name.
Now it sounds like the duck commercial.
- Affleck. (mimicking duck)
- Affleck.
Yes, yes I know. Isn't that funny. Ha ha.
- You're the first person to say it.
(Kelly chuckles)
- When I was a kid, my parents, I always remember them.
Like the old days when people would call you up for like a
magazine subscription or something and they'd go like
A, F as in Frank, F as in Frank.
And I was always like, "why did we just do that?"
And I realized, as I started looking through the mail
we would get and always be like, Mr and Mrs.
A S S L I C K. And I was like, "ah, I see."
- Oh my God. - You hate to have that-
- You hated, you hate to see it.
Love that you didn't say it on daytime TV.
(Kelly chuckles)
- Spelled it out because people can't read.
- Yeah. Read it aloud to yourself. Yes.
( Kelly chuckles)
So wait Tye, I'm so excited.
I said, when you walked in,
I always love having Texans here.
So is it true that you
and this is so Texan of you by the way,
especially a guy from Texas,
cause y'all are always into all the sports balls.
Is it true that you literally,
like you became an actor because one weekend you had off
from ballgames, is that true?
- Pretty much. Yeah. Well, I didn't really have,
I was about Daniel's age when I first started getting into
acting and then I was playing sports year round.
I was a big baseball player and
I guess me and my parents,
I got sent home with this invitation to come to an audition.
And my parents said, "why don't you go?"
You know, you can tell people
you auditioned for a movie one time
and you don't have a ball game or anything
so I went to the audition.
- I thought you got in trouble
and your parents, like
"You get another bad grade,
you're gonna have to go to another audition."
(Kelly chuckles)
- [Tye] Exactly.
- I love that.
That's kind of awesome that it happened like that
and then all of a sudden it turns into this dream
you didn't maybe know you had.
- Yeah, I think I was always in love with storytelling,
but I had no idea that
- Most kids are, it's just called lying.
(Kelly chuckles)
- Yeah. I did some of that too.
- So how did you get into acting Daniel?
You're so young.
- My mom recorded a video of me cursing,
"what the (beep) lockdown"
(Kelly and audience laughing)
- So, there's the late night TV and-
- No, no we'll believe it.
Yes buddy, oh my God, you're so funny.
- It's the truth.
- I have seen this video
and I really need to meet your mom.
I wanna show you the video now.
- [Daniels Mom] Next weekend, It's gonna be so nice.
Like 60, 65, like that we could sit outside on the porch.
- A lockdown is when you sit (beep) inside
not (beep) outside. Do you know what a lockdown is (beep).
- It's like watching Al Pacino as a child.
- It's gonna start a craze of like,
"Oh, I can get discovered at six years
old by swearing to my mother." Yeah.
- I know. It was just so funny.
- All these other kids just record cursing videos.
(Kelly chuckles)
- You started a trend.
So, are there any new curse words Ben that you learned
from Daniel while working with him?
(Kelly chuckles)
- Quite a few interestingly enough.
Yes, he's very well versed.
- He's creative.
- No, the truth is he's such a like,
firstly he's a great actor.
Both these guys are terrific.
I think I have such a lovely,
he's also originally from a place closer to where the movie
takes place, so I think everybody,
as you can do very authentic,
lockdown (mimicking Daniel),
you know what I mean.
We had to take it back from Virginia
but he was always somebody he can be like,
"Oh, I wonder how this should sound, hey Daniel,
how would you say?" you know,
and it was like, perfect.
So he's kind of a defacto acting coach.
- I love it. You were very,
you're going to be , you're a leader.
You were born a leader in that video. It was awesome.
( crowd applauding)
So let's talk about the movie, Ben, I'll start with you.
Can you tell us what it's about
then let's hear about your characters.
- It's based on a memoir that a guy wrote from Long Island,
and it's about how both, you know,
through this relationship with his mom and this guy,
uncle Charlie, and his crazy grandfather.
It's kind of about how it
doesn't really matter what the
constellation of your family is,
because it can take all kinds of forms that, you know,
the being present and loving children
and letting them know that they're worthwhile
and good and that they can do hard things
like, we'll help them grow and be healthy.
And ultimately, I won't give anything away,
but it's about how this guy becomes that guy and about how
that guy then, you know, is able to do really difficult
challenging things and kind of become the person that-
- [Kelly] Becomes himself. Yeah yeah.
So wait, so who do you play Daniel?
Don't y'all play,
are you the younger version, right?
- A younger version of him. - Yes.
So it's based on a memoir and
I grew up without a father, a single mother and the,
I take a liking to the uncle, which is this guy.
And he like becomes my father figure in the movie
and they do everything together.
And he became like my real uncle in real life I feel like.
(audience gasps)
- [Kelly] I think that-
And it always impresses me,
a person of such a young age to
go through such a huge. And I know, first of all,
I'm not saying like, I think children are very empathetic.
I think you feel so much
so I'm not taking away from that,
but to play those scenes out where
I don't wanna give away the movie,
but there are parts in the movie that are really intense for
a little person to feel. Was that hard for you to play that?
You lean right in? Okay.
- The first scene, I was kind of nervous
so it was a little hard,
but then after I filmed that scene bang! I got it.
- I love it! I love it!
(audience applauding)
- I'm telling you, I really learned a lot
about acting from him.
Yeah, because, but the thing is like,
I think we tend to over-complicate things sometimes in life.
- Yeah.
- And he just was comfortable.
- What? - Yeah, right.
And didn't think about it anymore.
And there's such a valuable lesson in that.
Like it's going to be okay, it's going to be what it is,
what it is. I'm going to do my best.
And here we go.
And he had such a lovely freedom about,
and I'm like, why am I like ang sting around about.
- I know, but as an adult,
like watching a child go through that on TV.
And like, it's a real thing that happened to this person,
Oh my, I'd cry.
I'm like, I can't take little kids or grown men crying.
(Kelly chuckles)
- Was it hard to be in scenes where your character
was disappointed and stuff or hurt? No?
- Easy. - I love it.
He's like challenge, hurdle, challenge, over it.
I love it.
So did you, did you ask Tye advice for, you know,
anything like acting and everything, anything in the,
in the movies like with the role and everything?
(guests speaking over each other)
- I was, I think I was learning more from you
than you were for me probably.
We only got to do one scene in the movie together because-
- Which was the best scene in the movie by the way.
- Well because it's kind of difficult.
I guess why I'm asking is you play the same character,
just in different ages.
So do y'all talk at all, to play off of each other or
watch each other?
- No.
- Not really.
There was a lot of overlap in the schedule.
He would come in and shoot in the morning or
I would come in and shoot in the morning.
- And then if we both had free time,
I would go in his trailer, have lunch together.
We have phones too.
- Play some video games.
- Oh my God. You're so cute.
- [Male Guest] Which just shows what a nice kid he is
'cause Tye's trailers are experimental.
(Kelly and crowd laughing)
Brought it from Texas, you know what I mean?
He bought this for 400 bucks, it was.
- Oh my God I love Air streams. It was an Airstream.
I love that. Okay,
so I have to ask you, did you ever ask him about Batman?
'Cause I would've.
- Oh yeah!
- And I'm 39.
(Daniel chuckles)
- The first scene I filmed with him
when they were like rereading the cameras or
stuff like that,
I was sitting right next to him in a chair as,
so we were leaning forward because
the camera was like right here.
I was like, so how's playing Batman
and he just told me all about it.
He said, he said we had to wear this suit,
it was sweating, he was sweating and it was heavy.
I was like sounds-
- [Ben] Sounds so fun huh?
- [Kelly] Sounds not fun.
- [Ben] Don't give away too many secrets.
(Kelly and crowd chuckling)
- Yeah. It doesn't look like it breathes well.
I just thought it was so cool
like to be able to sit by Batman.
I know my kid met Aquaman once and he like,
it's like the coolest thing he's ever done.
So I just thought He was-
(Daniel chuckles)
Yeah! He was-
but it's so funny how your kids become like
you're, you seem like you do well in this situation.
My kids, all of a sudden, like
the loudest kids on the planet will like not speak.
- [Ben] They clam up.
Yeah I'm like, what's happening to you right now.
- I took my daughters to meet Taylor swift.
And then, it was about time,
we came all the way here to meet Taylor Swift.
Say something!
- You look like a liar.
- I'm telling you they're fans, you know what I mean?
You feel like, yeah-
- You look like a liar!
You're like I swear they know your songs.
- They know who you are, yeah.
(Kelly laughs)
Then of course. George was always trying to make, you know,
I was Batman too.
(Kelly chuckles)
- Which one is the better Batman?
Oh, it's a tough question.
- Don't put me on the spot like that.
(Kelly laughs)
- You're probably too young. I was going to say
you're probably too young.
- Yeah. That was way before you're-
- You're alive. Maybe. Yeah, I was going to say.
Was there any advice that Ben maybe gave you Tye?
Like with acting.
- Oh yeah. I think it was mostly, you know,
learning from Ben by watching him, you know,
he's, I remember reading the script and thinking, Jesus,
I'm glad I'm not playing uncle Charlie,
because he's got a lot of dialogue,
but you know what, I learn.
And, and, and he, and he does it effortlessly.
He comes to set. He knows all of his lines.
He knows your lines.
- Yeah I was going to say he knows your lines too.
- Yeah, you knew my lines too and you weren't shy about it.
"that's your line you forgot right there!"
(Kelly laughs)
- Thank you.
- Yeah. No, that's the whole, the whole set was full of
just professional people,
including this young man right here.
I was, in the scene that we did get to do together.
He's, we were three weeks into production.
He's never worked on a film before and he's resetting the
props and, you know,
gotta make sure this matches the master shot, you know,
put that there and do this there. I'm like,
who is this kid?
- You picked up so fast. Yeah.
- Well Ben you've said that the Tinder bar is
a nod to single moms and I've seen it
so I love that.
There was one part where I went through things
as a kid that your character goes through.
I'm not going to run it,
but it was really cool how Christopher Lloyd's character
steps up. And I love how it,
it presents the fact that I think a lot of us are like, oh,
they were from a broken home.
You can be from a family as family. Like, and I love that.
that's what it represents.
Like people can take on these roles and they don't have to
necessarily be like, you know, the, the norm,
like this is my father, this is my mother.
- You don't have to look like the right family
cause it looks like this. There's no right family.
- They all look different (beep) village raises children.
- Yeah. Everybody does their job.
People do their best.
- I love that the movie does that. It's really cool.
- I agree. And I think it's like, you know,
they do it and it is about how, like, if you have two moms,
many of my other, two moms, two dads,
a fabulous job of parenting right.
It's not about gender.
It is however about if you have a
biological parent that you feel
is absent, children don't understand, they can't go well,
that person's advocating their responsibility.
They inherently blame themselves, or they go,
something must be wrong with me, they don't love me.
And if you internalize that sense,
it can be crippling and devastating.
- And maybe you end up in therapy.
- Well , maybe. - Maybe. I don't know.
- Or in prison.
And so that's why it's such an important thing.
And if that's not taking place and listen,
I don't have to bash dads. I know a lot of spectacular dads,
a lot of them raised their kids on their own.
The point is that responsibility is really meaningful.
It's absence is really significant because children
obviously need different kinds of support as, as they grow.
And the, you know,
the defining responsibility for those of us, you know
who are adults, who either have children or
have children in our lives, is to,
to really do the work, to figure out how best to,
to be in their lives and support them.
(crowd applauds)