- Give me the elevator pitch,
'cause this one is an interesting,
I mean, we were talking yesterday--
- How slow is this elevator? (Josh and Paul chuckle)
- It's a freight elevator, so really take your time.
(singing in foreign language)
- First of all, the casting.
Blake and Anna, of course.
But then bringing you, Mr. Feig, into the mix.
Your comedic skills are well-known
but it looks like this is a mix
of some different things going on.
- We got a lot going on in this.
It's a straight up thriller but it's a fun thriller.
A friller, as I call it because--
- It's not catching on.
- It's not, I keep trying!
- It's not happening.
- Ugh, no, a happy thriller.
A hap-iller.
But it is really fun.
You get everything you want out of a thriller.
There's twists and turns, you don't know what's happening
but you get two amazing performances,
led by this fantastic lady--
- Ha! - -right here!
See how I threw it back? - I didn't even see you there.
- See how I threw it back?
- What's the indelible memory of this shoot for you, Anna?
What's the one that's gonna keep you up at night
20 years from now?
- Keep me up at night?
- (chuckles) In a good way, maybe.
- I mean, can I talk about working with the kids?
- Yes, you can. - JK, JK, they're angels.
No, I mean, honestly, I feel like my,
the thing that's actually gonna keep me up at night
is me being like, "Oh my god, Paul Feig must hate me."
Every morning, I was like,
"Paul, here are my 30 questions about
"this scene we're about to shoot."
I got real Tracy Flick about it
because it genuinely, it's hard because we can't
give away too much but there are so many twists and turns.
There are twists on twists on twists.
There are more twists than a gin martini, baby.
- Did you guys see that? - Look how I did that.
Tagline.
It's gonna catch on more than friller.
- Dammit! - It's too soon to say.
We don't know.
- But I did.
There we so many moving pieces and, of course,
you're shooting it out of sequence.
And I was like, okay, now, wait.
We're shooting day 14 so what do I know
but am I pretending that I know?
And I felt like I must have driven this man
absolutely up the wall.
- This is why she's great.
Because she knows how to be in it
and to keep track of it in a way
that even I can't because I'm not acting in it.
- I'm gonna be really pedantic
and keep everybody on their toes.
- She's great, she's great.
- Let's talk a little bit about the casting here.
We've talked before about the films that you--
- Let me be your mic stand.
Yes Ms. Kendrick, yes Ms. Kendrick.
- It's like we're leaning in for really intense harmonies.
♪ Ah ♪
- [Josh] Have you karaoked together yet?
You don't want to go toe-to-toe with this one.
It's a losing proposition.
- I just dance, I'm her hype man.
(Josh and Anna chuckle)
- But in terms of casting,
some delightfully talented women on screen together.
You are no stranger to that.
You enjoy that process, thankfully.
Talk to me about what you saw in
bringing this combo together.
Box your ears up, Anna.
Anna and Blake, what are you trying to get at?
What's the je ne sais quoi about it?
- I wanna work with the most talented
lovable people I can,
and these two just embodied these parts so well.
And the part that Anna plays, Stephanie,
is a really difficult part because this mom is very earnest,
she's got a mommy vlog, but she's--
- She's very irritated. - She's kind of a nerd.
Exactly. - She's very irritated.
- A lovable nerd. - She's the mom
who's trying to make you feel bad
that you're not mom enough to be a mom.
You know what I'm saying?
Do you know what I'm saying?
- But in a lovable way.
She cares. - Alpha-mama a little bit?
- But I still had to make her likable,
which was like, "How?"
- Oh, that was really hard to make you likable.
And then Blake is this creature
that comes into her life who is
not like any other mom she's ever met.
And then it all goes from there.
- It's so annoying to talk to Blake for
extended periods of time because
you want to not fall in love with her
but she seems to be like the perfect human specimen.
- It would be great if she was a bitch, wouldn't it?
- I know, it would make like so easy.
- [Josh] Right but she's not, is she?
- No. - It's really annoying.
- She's like an earth mother.
She's like everybody's mom.
Yeah, she's the greatest. - Yeah.
- It's disgusting. - What a bitch.
- Well, we counteract that because we're awful people.
- I was gonna say, you're in the right place.
The city of sin.
- I did actually like the fact that
I'm playing someone who doesn't drink
and loves kids and doesn't curse
and is very sweet.
And Blake has kids and doesn't drink,
and I'm like, "This fucking day.
"No, give me another fucking drink because I swear to God."
- Yeah.
- I wasn't gonna say it but yes,
they could easily switch roles.
- I think your table of margaritas is actually waiting.
- You know what buddy? - Oh no.
I know that voice all too well.
It's good to see you both.
I can't wait to see what you do.