By my estimation, I have three options--
Don't brush up and down. Brush in circles.
How can you tell how I'm brushing?
I'm in your electric toothbrush.
Ew.
Oh, get it out of my mouth.
This Super Intelligence follows a very unremarkable woman,
played by Melissa McCarthy,
as it decides whether to destroy or save the world.
So, as I was saying, I have three options--
one, I can save mankind, end war, poverty, disease,
fix global warming, and establish peace throughout humanity.
Okay. Well, let's-- let's do that one.
Right? That sounds good.
Pay attention, Carol.
Next, I can enslave humanity.
(spits) Wait. What?
The second that the Super Intelligence became aware,
it put itself in everything.
Could you please take me off your call list?
I'm very busy.
You are lying in your bed. You are not busy.
All of a sudden, her things in her apartment are talking to her,
and she's freaking out.
Your almond milk was delivered yesterday, Carol.
(yelling)
So the Super Intelligence does what it thinks is the smartest thing to do,
which is it takes the voice of her favorite person.
Thanks so much for being here, Carol.
Let's jump right into it.
Wait a minute. I know that voice.
My first question was,
"How many times have you rewritten this
with someone else's voice?"
They swear to me that they didn't,
that it was always my voice.
I still don't really believe them,
but I'm flattered nonetheless.
I mean, if you're gonna have a voice,
it should be Octavia Spencer.
For me, personally, James Corden is more interesting vocally.
-Octavia Spencer has an Oscar. -Uh, not in her mouth.
Sorry to interrupt your slumber-party chitchat. Can we get back to it?
So the Super Intelligence is very much its own character.
It's just essentially stolen my voice
and, at various points, my face and being.
I freaked him out. I freaked myself out. I'm gonna go home.
I don't think you freaked him out.
Did you see the way he touched your hair?
Here's the thing. I've been the one acting with Melissa.
Through monitors and, like, every place she looks,
she's listening to me either on an earpiece or--
I've literally walked behind her with megaphones,
or there's been speakers.
Who are you and what do you want?
A lot. Why don't you wrap your head around it's 7:46 a.m.?
Well, luckily, Melissa and Steve are really close,
and Steve's a really good performer.
So I think as far as a stand-in for James,
we, um-- we're in luck.
I'm really glad Steve Mallory's doing the voice while we're here shooting
because obviously James can't be here every day.
Out of everybody in the world, why me?
Oh, Carol, you are exactly the right person for this.
It was really challenging.
There's so many scenes where it's me,
and there's nothing else there.
like the first three days, I was completely by myself,
and I was just talking to, like, smoke detectors and TVs.
This could all be tricks.
You know, you're probably some cyberpunk hacker
making shapes on my TV. Ooh.
And because it's all voiceover later for the Super Intelligence,
there are many, you know, infinite versions of how we could do it.
Get in there and ask him out for coffee and empanadas or whatever you humans do.
Just maybe this is a teaching moment,
but coffee and empanadas is, like, that's a real--
that's a dicey intestinal situation.
Get out of the car, Carol.
Doing the voice after the film's been shot,
you just have the luxury of, like, you can try something,
you can try something here, you can have a look down a road
and, "Nah, that's not quite right. Maybe it should be more like this."
And then you leave and come back six weeks later,
and some of it worked and some of it didn't,
and you try it again. It's--
I find it quite a fulfilling sort of way to work really.
I love Jerry Orbach. I've streamed his episodes four trillion times
over the last three seconds.
I know. Remember that Halloween you went as Scary Orbach?
-Triumph. -Fantastic.
-Is that it? -They kill me.
That's it. Thanks very much.
-Great job. Much appreciated. -Oh, come on, man.
Oh, man, I love you so much.
It's a really nice way
for me to still use my acting muscle somehow.
I mean, it was lovely. I had a really nice time.