- Do you know how excited I am,
on a scale of one to ten to meet you actually?
- No.
(chuckles)
- Do you want to know?
- Yeah, I do.
- Out of one to ten, I'm an elephant right now.
- That right there. - Wow.
- [Josh] I don't know how to take that.
- Natalia, how should I interpret that?
- [Natalia] I think you should definitely
just take it as a compliment.
- I'm very excited about your movie.
"Velvet Buzzsaw," this is from the crazy mind of
Dan Gilroy.
That's the selling point.
That's the beginning and the end of the conversation,
I would think.
Dan Gilroy has a new script.
I'm excited.
- I would agree, yes. - Yeah, exactly, 100%.
- That's what got me on board.
Reading it, was exciting.
Cause, you were just like,
what the hell is wrong with this guy?
His head's all over the place.
- So how did it?
Does it read like a conventional narrative?
Because all we've seen right now,
as we sit here,
is the crazy trailer,
which has me very interested.
But it looks all over the place
in the best possible way.
- No, I think it was very linear,
story-wise.
- Yeah, it's just crazy stuff.
- It's just crazy, yeah.
But grounded, character.. - But grounded,
and it's in crazy circumstances,
what makes it really like, "whoa."
But yeah, the script's great.
- How would you describe to a friend
what movie you were shooting?
- I'm shooting this new Dan Gilroy movie,
and it's about dot, dot, dot.
- (razz) it's about dot, dot, dot.
That's how I would describe it.
- You got it, he's describing it as the best movie ever.
(laughter)
That's his pitch right now.
Yeah, it was just an absurd.
He actually,
it's a satirical thriller, he used.
- Thriller.
- It's just these real people,
in heightened, crazy circumstances.
- Yeah; I think there is really deep, deep thoughts.
You know, it is funny and dark.
And there's kind of crazy things going on.
But I think the overall idea is something that
you can really chew on.
- Totally.
- It does feel like it's also an early contender for
the WTF movie of the year.
The one that's going for broke.
- I hope so. (laughter)
- Right? - I hope so.
And that's kind of what you want.
I also feel like you can tell something from,
just like, when I was looking at the IMDb,
and the list of the character names.
(chuckles) - Yeah.
- Like Jake's, Morph.
Morph, morph..what I...
- Just leave it there.
- Yeah, yeah just leave it there.
(laughter)
- I remember shooting a scene where I had to say his name.
And like, I couldn't get through it,
cause it was like, Mort? Mort? What is it?
- Meanwhile, you're Bryce, and you're Coco.
- Yeah, that's pretty, that's pretty easy.
(laughter)
- Are so, are your characters..
I mean, you were kind of alluding to this,
are your characters like extreme,
or is the world around you kind of a bit
heightened and extreme?
- For my character, at least,
she's not, she's just kind of getting into it.
She's a pretty normal human, I think.
Which was, you know, God,
cause some of the characters people have to play
are really intense.
But, yeah, she's just kind of encountering
all of these, personalities and people, and you know,
getting a little like, what is going on here?
- Yeah. - You know?
- I'm curious also, like seeing just a little bit
that I have, Jake Gyllenhaal, always goes for broke.
- Yeah.
- This guy just always, doesn't do anything half-assed.
Is he doing that?
Is he doing Morph off camera, too, or..?
- I would say the car is on, but it's not in drive.
- Mm. - Does that make sense?
Right? - Yeah.
- Looking ahead, I am excited about a lot of stuff
that you guys are up to.
You shot "Aladdin." - Yeah.
- Working with Mr. Guy Ritchie, amazing.
- Unbelievable.
Really great guy.
- Yeah, a big personality, too, and very talented.
New character in "Aladdin."
So what can we expect out of this character,
this take on the story?
- I don't know if I can say anything.
(laughter)
I don't know.
I just know, again, what's the story of "Aladdin."
It's someone believing,
it's a fictitious lie that I need these wishes,
to be something special,
and in reality, it's yourself,
yourself is what's special. - Right.
And like, if you share that message, that's where
the magic is.
And I'm just so proud and thankful to be a part of it,
and to spread that message.
- Yeah, and I'm sure that, again,
Guy's take is not going to be,
he's not going to like the boring safe route.
- I just, I did roll up to a set,
and there was Agrabah.
I like roll up, and I just see Agrabah.
And I was like, wow, this is a city.
- Yeah.
- This is a city, that they built.
- Yeah. (laughter)
- That was intense.
- I'm sure, I'm sure.
Speaking of intense, "Stranger Things,"
the thing that you can't talk at all about,
- I so can't, so don't talk anything, nothing.
(laughter)
- But, we know it's going to take place
in the summer.
We know it's coming July 4th.
- Yes.
(laughter)
- Check, check, I'm in it. - Yes, you got one left.
(laughter)
- Can you tease anything about sort of
what we're going to see in this one,
versus the last couple of seasons?
- It is set in summer. (laugher)
It's in the 80's. (laughter)
- How does the threat compare this time to demogorgon.
- It does, it does feel bigger.
Just filming it, I haven't, obviously,
haven't seen any of it.
But it does feel bigger,
darker,
scarier,
(laughter) It's I mean, you know,
all those things.
But it really does, it felt like
they noticeably bumped it up
to a different level this season.
- Yeah.
- So I'm excited to see it, too.
We've put in a lot of,
a lot of work.
Because it takes, it takes a long time to make that show.
You know? - I'm sure.
But I think the people are great.
The story is,
great.
I don't know how they do it, the brothers.
But, yeah, I'm excited.
- Like, who in your life knows
like anything about, like, the new season?
Do you not even bother to tell friends and family?
- Castmates.
No, not, honestly,
a lot of them haven't even seen the show.
- Really? - Yeah, no, really.
(laughter)
I love it. - It's so true.
That happens all the time.
- Yeah, there just like, "I can't, I just can't watch it.
I can't watch you do that, I don't.."
Also they think it's scary, which that's, that's..
- It's valid, it should be.
- Yeah I think, Yeah, I don't know.
I don't, I'm biased.
So I don't get scared by it.
(laughter)
But, no it's kind of nice that they don't,
don't watch.
- Yeah, you're not like,
"Guys, you should really care about about
the show I'm on".
(laughter)
- Have you seen it?
- I can't wait till a moment when we
can talk about it,
but for now I'm very excited about this one, guys.
Enjoy your Sundance,
- Yeah.
- Back at you.
- Thanks so much.