how you doing i'm good how are you fine thank you very much i uh saw this film uh i got a guy that
just did that was that the whooping i feel like a guy just went whoo well you know my age i'll take
anything i can i can't speak for you exactly but uh so i go to the uh the the the movie and
i understand you had the screening last night i didn't get the invitation of the screening
but that's all right but i really was in los angeles so was it really so you came in last
night after the screening well i mean you so you wouldn't have made it so but somehow you made it
i uh i own a delorean
anyway um owen's a delorean
i ask people this all the time uh it would be wildly uncomfortable for me if i was the star of a
feature-length motion picture in a big screen theater with thousands of people
are you uncomfortable it is wildly uncomfortable what do you what do you do when you get there
uh well for this for this screening um i i wouldn't have stayed but i had basically uh
like 40 friends who came uh to the movie so i felt like friends in in show business friends
from no no like actual like you know guys like actual actual friends not yet the ones the ones
that would still take you to the emergency room uh uh even if they had an audition yeah
those those guys no the guys you watch football with on sunday and and um
you know i felt like it was the first time they really were genuinely uh wanted to see me in a
movie and not mila kunis or cameron diaz yeah well there's nothing wrong with that i mean you can't
hold that against me no no i i certainly didn't um but nevertheless i i felt like i had to sort of
how did it go do you have to say something before the show starts no we just kind of
walked in and and they and they and they played the movie and um i sweated a lot
i remember that and had you seen the film before you must have seen it before last night i saw
i saw bits and pieces but i hadn't seen it totally mixed and you know looking uh uh as good as it did
yeah so for me uh not being in movies thank god i can i can sit there and and say any any kind of
thing i want because you know i don't know most of the people in the movies when you're sitting
there looking at yourself what kind of stuff runs through your head um not good stuff really um
like like what i mean are you hyper critical of your appearance of your performance of your
wardrobe what well um you're definitely critical of of your performance right always but i find the
same with music too i if a song of mine comes on the radio um which sometimes it still does
really uh well that's good too it's been a minute um no but i find that i just i naturally want to
change the channel because and i find that i you know you you listen to something that you did
as well or you watched something that you did and you you pick it apart so any scene
that we may see in the movie perhaps it's one of four or five takes maybe one of 20 takes
is that about what it is uh well uh it mostly depends on the director right yeah david fincher
who directed the social network um which i thought was a fantastic movie
he uh he's no he was notorious so i mean we would do for each setup but we'd end up
doing 70 80 takes no is that right well with different you know when you punch him for
close-ups and it all would add up so now you in your mind i know this sticks with a person
you could be looking at that and you think oh damn why that one does that happen that happens
yeah and and can you can you lobby can you go to the guy and say i think that take number 42
was better than the bunch it's all out of your hands not after the premiere yeah well no yeah
he's making changes yeah you can you can lobby but it's i don't think it's gonna i think it's gonna
make a difference it's a great story for a film is is it based on a book it's what it feels like
is it it's uh it all came from the fantastical weird cerebral mind of andrew nicol uh who had
gattaca um he wrote the truman show um and yes so it all came from uh from his weird brain it's it's
a it's a fascinating combination of stuff and what i like maybe i can't say this but you see a thing
on your wrist can i say that yeah you can see this the thing in your wrist and when you're acting i i
i came here to talk about it so oh okay yeah well i don't know some sometimes people say whatever
you do don't bring up the oh oh right right right thing on the wrist i'm happy to spoil all of it
well there's a thing on your wrist that shows you it's the running amount of time a person
has left right now i know that you don't have one of those on your wrist so when you're acting
what are you looking at just oh yes so that that's basically uh the extent of the computer graphics
that are in the movie is this ticking this green digital ticking club kind of a thing or something
yeah yeah and so we just had to look at dots uh they were just dots and they did these sort of uh
they scanned our arms it's amazing what they can do with technology
um but they scanned our arms and and uh so they could you know lay the effects
in in post but when you're actually doing the scene you're looking at five uh black dots with
a sharpie but now do you have to be careful the position of your specifically a sharpie
product placement but do you have to be careful with the position of your arm for that uh for
well you mean like for close-ups no if you've got a thing on your arm and later they're going to put
the deal in there it can't be here it's got to be there it's got to be um do they always okay yeah
that's why they scan your arm so hopefully if it is move they scan it in 300 you know
the full uh i'm going to sound really stupid right now um i i think i've i think i've let us down a
dead end i'm sorry i'm the king of the conversational cul-de-sac but so anyway
the full the full uh but here if you wanted to the full girth of your if you wanted to give transfer
time to me you would do it like this right you would yeah you saw it be with your right hand and
so if i'm on top i'm taking time and and if you're old that's how that works oh okay and and how
you know i i have found it to be true that if you're on top you better take your time
way back yes well it's it's uh it's a fascinating and a fun movie and and you you talk about uh
but could you you couldn't have sung in the movie
right that would have been silver yeah that would have been silly
but would you i mean do you do you uh do you ever think oh i want to be an actor more than i want
to be a musician or can you can you can be both right i you know i grew up my idols are sinatra
and you know dean martin gene kelly the yeah wow the guys that's pretty good so the guys who
kind of the guys who in the sort of height of their era did it all and and that it was kind
of they were kind of required to be able to do it all and i don't know i just people are always
begging you to do some kind of a musical aren't they they want you a musical a musical film yeah
yeah that's that's been discussed have you found anything that you would be comfortable in
not really yeah but it doesn't mean it couldn't happen no no i i i would love to do a musical
uh one day i think there there might be a way to sort of redefine what that could be for this
this arab that's not specific at all is it well that's fine i i know what you're thinking because
when i think of musical it's like a uh sound of music and and i don't think you'd well my pro
my problem with musicals uh you know at least today the music man was one of my favorite
musicals because all the music yeah all the music was uh these people are older than i am
god you know i mean how about oklahoma
but you know it's it's it's you know you it's like my problem with
with musicals and i think that my generation probably feels this way too is we're sitting
here having a conversation and uh all of a sudden we're singing you know time stops it's like you
know what are you drinking in that coffee mug dave what is he drinking in that coffee mug
now that was that was weird no the movie opens on uh friday and probably will be one of the
the early big holiday blockbuster films don't you think i i hope that you're correct yeah
way to sell those tickets that was terrible wasn't it well no it's just just a little
wishy way go see the movie yeah there you go what is the what is the clip gonna be here
uh i i think that this is a clip of uh one of the more um um aesthetically
uh jolting parts of the movie where i'm introduced to uh uh amanda seyfried's character's
father and their house and we should probably roll it because i'm really not explaining it well
you're walking in a circle there and the camera is also it's like a geosynchronous orbit it must be
a little cat and mouse if you yeah is it hard to act when you're walking in a circle
in the camera and walking around like it's just as long as no one asks me to sing it
see that would have been the perfect setup for a song the beautiful settings lovely
woman easy to get to know you it doesn't make it easy to get to know you it doesn't make you
know you got to get to know you we gotta get to know you again we love you too
thank you very much the movie uh in time in time opens friday nice to see you again