- I'm like a major hugger.
- You and me both. This is hard for the both of us.
- I know. It's, you don't realize
how much human contact feels good.
- I know.
- Um, but Happy New Year.
- Oh, thank you, thank you. - Yes
Are you having a good new year so far?
- Yes. Much better now, are you kidding?
- Yeah. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
- Oh, stop it. - Yeah, it's so great.
Sorry we couldn't have people.
And I just found this out about you,
I didn't even know, but your dad is Cuba Gooding Jr.
I had no idea before last night.
- That's dad.
- And I was like, I didn't know that was your dad.
- Yeah.
- Well, wait. So since you grew up around it, like,
did you want to act always or?
- Well, we actually had a rule in my family
that we weren't allowed to pursue acting until I was 18.
- I like, I respect that rule.
- Yeah. I had some sort of head on my shoulders
and I turned out decent,
and uhm, I get a new tick to take over the bad,
but, I was much more into like, video games and anime.
Most of my friends were animated.
So it helped to kind of disassociate myself from reality.
- That's a movie. - I would hope so.
- That could be a movie.
- Retroactively make myself feel better I suppose.
- That's amazing.
This is what I found funny.
So, you apparently wrote a college paper,
cause you now in Scream,
and you wrote a college paper about Scream.
- Yeah.
- Did you, did that help you get the role?
Did you send that to them
whenever you came in for the audition?
- Well I can say certainly I didn't think it would do
anything when I wrote it in college.
I figured cramming a night and turn a paper in
and you'd actually have some sort of, you know,
passing grade out of it.
- Yeah.
- I didn't think I'd have to answer for it five years later,
but, in sending it to the directors,
hopefully it had some sort of leeway,
but all I can say is, I'm in the movie
and I'm grateful for it.
- Oh my God.
- And whether or not I deserve it
is up for everybody else to decide.
- Well, I need to know, like, what was the paper?
What was the thesis?
Like, why did you have to write? Why did you pick Scream?
It says a lot about you.
- Damn right. No.
Well, you see, I can see the future.
I have super powers.
- No it's truth and honest, I like it. Cool power.
- No I, I am a big film and horror nerd.
And at the time the prompt had something to do
with discussing the nature of film
as it relates to media now versus maybe at a time before.
- Yeah.
- I think, and my thesis was that Scream
in this current landscape or 2018, 2017,
was maybe the one franchise right for revival,
given the push for sequels and rebooting a franchise.
And then randomly, it got me a job.
- What kind of manifest. That's your superpower.
- That's right. - Manifesting.
- Manifestation.
- Yeah
- Manifest man. I'll take that.
- That's amazing and true.
- I hope so. Listen.
- Yeah. Well done, it worked.
So wait, is there anything that really does scare you
since you're like, I'm, I cannot,
horror movies, like I will pee my pants.
Like I get so scared so easily.
I don't like to be jumped out at, like all the above.
Like so is any, you're obviously not that person.
So does anything scare you?
- Well, I mean, first of all,
well that's what I love about horror movies,
is the excitement of being scared.
So I actually can be, I'm with you in that boat,
but in real life, I, I.
There's no way to make this sound cool.
There's no way to, I have trypophobia,
which is
- What? Did you just make that up? What?
- I, it sounds like it, right?
No, it's, it's a fear of like, organized organic holes.
And, don't laugh. Dude, it's totally normal.
See their faces are saying everything.
There is something unsettling about natural holes.
- I have so many jokes that are on Daytime right now.
- No, that's not
- Oh my God. I have so many jokes.
- My dating life isn't a joke, so that's okay.
We're gonna live there as much as we want.
- That's amazing.
So wait, so was something like this, was this terrifying?
Was this, did you watch? - No! Geez!
- You didn't like SpongeBob? - No, no.
- I've heard them all.
- Everyone likes SpongeBob.
- Everyone likes SpongeBob,
but now that we're talking about the holes,
that's maybe the one thing about SpongeBob
I don't love that much.
- Yeah. I think that's incredible.
Do you freak out around cheese?
Does Swiss cheese just throw you?
- Cheese is certainly my least favorite of the fromages.
- Oh my God. I love cheese.
- Really?
- Yes!.
- Oh, see I'm lactose intolerant.
- I'm lactose intolerant too, it's rough.
You gotta choose your moments.
- That's right. You pick your battle.