-How are you? -I'm great, man.
How you going? -Good.
I want to, as always, ask about "This Is Us,"
but I want to talk about your movie.
For those who might not have noticed --
-Those are real puppies. -Those are real puppies.
[ Laughter ] -Real puppies.
-And the real voice of Kevin Costner.
-The real voice of the one and only Kevin Costner.
-It's like his inner thoughts. -Yeah.
-This is not a -- -That was -- yeah, Parker.
Parker's like, "Oh, my God. Kevin Costner's in my head?"
-I know. Imagine being a dog that young,
and your first role in a movie,
Kevin Costner is your voice. [ Laughter ]
-I mean, I think he should quit. -Probably his last movie.
-Yeah, exactly. -Did you -- What has --
So, in the course of the movie --
And again, this isn't a film where you're
having a conversation with a dog,
but you do want to hear what the dog is saying.
Like, Kevin Costner wasn't on set,
like, standing behind the dog. -No, no.
I met Kevin on Thursday. [ Laughter ]
I made the movie last year. -Gotcha.
-Yeah, no, Kevin wasn't on set.
I didn't even really need to hear
what the dog was thinking because everything going on,
the narration, was in the dog's head.
-Right. -All in the dog's head.
So, for me, it was kind of like, work with the dog, say a line,
and then I'd hear Simon, our director's like,
"Okay, pause, please."
I'm like, "Interact with the dog, interact with the dog."
And then -- then like, "Okay, and action."
And then I say my line. -Right.
-It was all, like, there's someone back there
with a clock, going, "And Kevin's talking,
Kevin's talking. Kevin's gonna be talking,
and done. Milo, go."
-That is -- that was the first time you ever met Kevin
was on Thursday at the premiere? -Yeah.
-He's a good guy. -Dude, he's awesome.
-Yeah. -I was mildly shell-shocked.
Just like, "He's Kevin Costner. I mean, I've been a fan
of everything that he's done for years."
But he was so warm and so lovely and supportive of the film.
-And it's pretty great, for him,
you just realize the kind of star he is.
You had to work months on that movie.
He probably knocked it out in a day.
-Two days. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
He didn't even have to, like,
match a talking dog's mouth or anything.
-No. No, no, no. None of that.
-He was living his best life, yeah.
-I mean, I got to get some of those jobs.
-You play a racecar driver in the film.
We've talked in the past that you love motorcycles.
-Yeah. -Did you have to do any thinking
about what made a good racecar driver for this film?
-You know what? I kind of equated acting --
I kind of, like, took racecar driving as, like,
laid it right over being an actor.
You have the same focus, have the same determination.
You kind of have that human spirit to, like, do good.
So that part was easy.
For me, it was more like, "Hey, let me focus
on being a father, focus on being a husband.
Let me focus on being a best friend
to this four-legged pooch." -There you go.
That works. -Yeah.
-I know we were just talking backstage.
You just started shooting this season of "This Is Us."
You had a little bit of time off this summer.
Did you travel at all? -I did.
Man, I kind of circled the globe.
I went -- I was in Japan, riding motorcycles with a buddy.
-Wow. And so when that -- Excuse my ignorance.
Do you just rent a motorcycle when you go to Japan?
-Oh, they rented one for me. -Okay, gotcha.
Yeah. -Yeah.
Who's "they"? Like, you just show up in Japan,
it's like, "Here..." [ Laughter ]
-Actually, I went and rode motorcycles with Norman Reedus.
-Oh, all right, Norman Reedus from "Walking Dead."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
He's got a TV show where he talks about, you know, like,
brings his friends to exotic places to ride motorcycles.
I don't if I was allowed to say that, but I said it.
[ Laughter ]
-Now, "Walking Dead" and "This Is Us."
Are either of those shows big in Japan?
Like, are you guys recognizable fellas?
-People still freak out when they see Norman.
Still freak out when they see Norman.
And, like, for me, it was like, mildly like a lot of bowing.
-Yeah. [ Light laughter ]
-Well, with Norman, they freak out 'cause they think,
like, if he's here, zombies are close.
-Totally. If I'm here, it's like, you know,
you're gonna get triplets. -Yeah.
Or, like, "Oh, no, he's here.
Something devastatingly sad is about to happen."
[ Laughter ]
-They just start crying.
-I want to ask again about
when you ride your motorcycles in Japan.
Like, what do you --
How much of the day is spent on the motorcycle?
-A lot. I mean, we were kind of down
near Osaka and Kyoto and Nara, and so we'd kind of ride around.
But also, really, what Norman's out to do is just kind of like
experience the cultures.
So I had a bunch of friends in that part of Japan,
and so I introduced him to my friends.
And my friends had friends,
and before we know it, we're at, like, a furniture maker's shop.
-Wow. -And I'm looking at chairs,
and I'm picking them up while cameras are rolling.
I'm like, "Can I get four of these?"
-I can't decide if that makes total sense or no sense
that you would start on a motorcycle
and end up at a furniture shop. [ Laughter ]
It maybe makes total sense. -Yeah.
-It seems like people who would want to tinker around
with motorcycles might also want to, like, make a table.
-Yeah. I think so. I mean, woodworking and grease.
-Exactly. Do you ever --
Are you somebody -- Are you ever going at a speed
in which we should be fearful for you?
-Yes. -You do?
-Yeah. -See, that's why --
I don't -- My wife rides a motorcycle, and I don't.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
I don't even like going on a bike downhill.
[ Laughter ]
-But see, here's the thing, Seth -- bikes, to me,
feel more dangerous than motorcycles.
-Uh-huh. [ Laughter ]
-Listen, I can't convince you otherwise.
-Yeah, that's why people on regular bikes
wear those giant helmets. [ Laughter ]
-I think they should. -Yeah.
-They should totally wear the big giant, like,
can't see me, don't know who I am.
-How much thought do you put into, like, the --
And, again, this is no judgment zone --
the outfit on your motorcycle.
Are you, like, somebody who wants to look --
like, match as cool as the bike is?
-No, I don't care about how it looks.
I'm all about safety. -Okay.
-As I just admitted that I speed.
Which I don't entirely all the time.
-Gotcha.
-No, for me, it's always full sleeves, full face helmet,
boots, some kind of like jeans or denim or something.
And, like, take your time. -All right, gotcha.
So the first time you're riding a new kind of bike,
do you have to be careful with it,
or are they sort of all the same?
Okay, gotcha. -No, they're all different.
They're all different.
Your bike kind of becomes an extension of you.
Like, that's the thing. So when I was in Japan,
and I was riding with Norman, it was like -- they put me --
I'm like, "Please just put me on a Harley-Davidson."
I really just wanted to be on a Harley-Davidson,
because that's what I'm familiar with is with Harley-Davidsons.
So, they put me on a Harley, but still, it was just --
It was just different.
-Right, because of the exchange rate.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Yes.
The exchange rate. That's exactly --
-Yeah, I'm sort of a -- I'm a grease guy, too.
-Yeah, totally. [ Laughter ]
-You know how it all ends with "This Is --"
Do you know how this season ends,
or do you sort of know the whole --
-I know, like, the far off -- -You know the far off, gotcha.
-But it's also, that's what I've been told.
-Right, so it can change. -Things can always change.
It's a newspaper.
You got to wait and see what's gonna happen.
But what I do know? I mean...
-Do you -- [ Laughter ]
-It is really, truly beautiful.
-Do you like having the burden of knowing a thing that's so --
Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-Who does? -Yeah.
-It's like carrying, like, you know, the nuclear football.
It's like, this is the thing that destroys the world.
-Yeah. And obviously, one,
I would assume there's so many people
who want to get it out of you. -Yes.
-And, two, there would be so many people
that would be furious at you if that's how it went down.
-Yeah, probably, so I'm just gonna shut my mouth
and not say a word. Actually, I don't know anything.
I'm just gonna play, like, stupid actor.