My dude, it is a pleasure to meet you.
Thank you so much for being here in person.
Thanks, man.
Thanks for having me.
It's really nice to be somewhere in person and not--
Absolutely.
--on Zoom, right?
100%.
It's nice to--
Oh, man.
And also, you're here for a great day.
You're here for the Father's Day show, man.
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We're really excited you're here.
Now, I know you are married to singer Lily Allen,
and you're also helping to raise her two girls, right?
Now, how is that going?
How is that intro into fatherhood,
and how is that going, man?
Yeah, I'm a stepfather.
They have a wonderful father who's
a great man who they love very much.
And I am a stepfather.
And I think anybody who has kids--
it's like, they are incredible, vulnerable, beautiful.
They'll break your heart in a second.
Absolutely.
And also, it's just so much work,
and they just don't do what I want them to do any time.
They never do what I want.
Absolutely.
So it's almost like you become a master at checking your ego,
right?
You're checking your pride and your ego,
because as boisterous and hardbody
as you try to be, sometimes them little bodies can look at you
and be like, nah.
And you've just got to deal with it.
Yeah.
I don't know if you have this experience, but I'm used to--
I like to feel like I'm a good guy in the world, you know?
And then they don't care at all.
They don't think I'm important or interesting in any way.
In fact, one of the great things-- on the show Stranger
Things is that one of the little--
they're eight and nine, so it's very young for them
to like the show.
But the nine-year-old really likes the show.
And I'm like, yeah, your stepdad is one of the--
and she's like, yeah, but everybody
likes all the other characters.
They don't really like you.
So yeah.
I get it a lot.
Yeah, exactly.
Expert at being humble, right, man?
But you've got to tell us about this wedding, man.
You guys got married in Vegas.
And you did it in a proper Vegas style, right?
Yeah.
The pandemic was going on.
They're British, so we were trying to get over from London.
It was such a pain.
And so we had to get married very quickly.
And New York was terrible.
London was terrible for marriages.
So the only place you can really get married quickly
and effectively is Las Vegas.
Wow.
So we went to Las Vegas for a day and a half.
And we were like, if we're going to get married,
we might as well do it with royalty.
So we got married by the king himself,
who is still alive and performing weddings in Vegas.
Now y'all-- that's amazing.
And then tell us where the reception was after.
I think this is probably my favorite part.
Where was your reception after?
Yeah, we had a beautiful reception
catered by In-N-Out Burger.
It was at the local In-N-Out Burger.
Love that picture.
Man, I love this, because it's also--
it really does-- I think that family life, life with kids,
really just brings such richness to life.
And something that really speaks to that
is this video that was posted of you and the girls--
I think it might have been the other day or a couple weeks
ago-- of the girls kind of dancing around and jumping
on you and stuff like that.
I am a big-- they're British, and I'm
this big, cheese-fed American man.
And they really do like the fact that they have an extra jungle
gym, kind of.
Right, right.
I don't know if your kids-- but they just crawl all over me.
Absolutely.
100%.
They make it their job to--
Absolutely
--try to hurt me as much as they can.
My low back-- destroyed.
Yeah.
But you just-- you power through it,
because also, you secretly love it, though, too, right?
You love it--
Of course I love it.
--right?
Anything I say about them, it's like--
100%.
I've never experienced this kind of--
I was always a single guy.
I'd been a bachelor for a long time.
I've been an artist.
I wanted to travel the world and do my work and stuff like that.
And I never really wanted to have kids.
And then I get it, now, why everybody has kids,
because it's kind of like the meaning of life.
It's like, you pass the torch to these other individuals.
And--
Absolutely.
--you love them more than you could ever love yourself.
Absolutely.
And I never thought that was possible with anyone.
Right, right.
I love myself a lot.
But it's really-- yeah, it's such a beautiful thing.
My heart is just broken wide open.
And I have a new--
Absolutely.
-- a new love that I never had.
I love that, man.
I love that.
Now, please, we have to talk about Black Widow, man.
All right.
And I know you're under the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
so I know the lips are going to be sealed.
Yeah.
But what can you tell us about the movie and who you play?
All right.
I play the Red Guardian.
He's this guy-- Alexei Shostakov.
And he's this superhero, in his own right.
But he's a lot past his prime.
He's been very beat up by life.
And so he's still trying to tuck himself
into his super suit with all that extra flesh.
And he's struggling.
It's a great movie.
It has all the classic things that Marvel movies have.
It has all this action and these great, huge set pieces.
But it also has this real beating heart
at the center of it, which is this weird family
that Natasha Romanoff had before the Avengers, in a sense.
And so--
That's amazing.
--you'll get to see what that contributed to who she is.
And it's-- yeah.
Man, I love that.
And it's--
Yeah, yeah.
Man, I cannot wait to see it.
And I know I'm not alone in that.
We sure cannot wait to see that.
Yeah, I know.
And we've got to take a break.
When we come back, we're going to play a game.
But I just want to slide this in there, too.
I know you can't say too much, but Stranger Things--
Yeah.
Just blink twice if we can see something in the next couple--
in the next couple--
Just blink twice.
It's all right.
We'll go to break and then you'll tell me--
We'll be back for more with David after this.