-So you were in a fantastic film that got wonderful reviews.
"Columbus." -Oh, yeah. Thank you.
-And that must´ve been -- that you shot that
down in Columbus, Indiana. -That´s correct.
-I remember you were off to shoot it
last time you were here. -Last time, yeah.
Yeah, it´s a very good movie about two people
that meet in this town called Columbus, Indiana.
Because of this industrialist that lives there,
Joseph Irwin,
he just decided out of civic pride
that they needed to have world-class architecture.
So it´s just one after the other,
from churches to the fire stations
to the elementary schools to the libraries.
It´s just one masterpiece after another.
And these two people bond over their love of architecture.
It´s a fantastic film. -Congratulations.
And, also, I´ve heard tell you had a bit of a nude scene.
-Yes. Yeah. [ Audience "oohs" ]
-Thank you. Correct response.
[ Laughter ] -No, thank -- thank you.
-Correct response, yeah.
Correct response.
-[ Laughs ]
It was from the back.
-Uh-huh. -But...
[ Laughter ]
No. [ Cheers and applause ]
Incorrect response. [ Laughter ]
God. [ Laughs ]
I did not see that coming. I should have. [ Laughs ]
But, yeah, it was from the back.
It was this very beautiful shower,
and they came to me and said, "Would you be willing?"
And you know what I decided, Seth?
I couldn´t think of an Asian male butt
in American cinema, and I said,
"Somebody has to do it."
-Oh, that´s fantastic. So you broke --
[ Cheers and applause ]
You broke the butt line. -I broke the butt barrier.
-Yeah. You broke the glass underpants?
[ Laughter ]
But you -- so you have a --
I did not know this from our time working together.
I guess one of the reasons I didn´t know this
was we were on such a low budget film,
we did not have trailers.
-No. [ Laughs ] -But you have a tradition,
during lunch,
that you do not like to wear your character´s costume
during lunch. -I don´t.
So I do get down to my skivvies at lunch in my trailer.
-And what is it -- is it psychologically
you just want to -- are you worried about spilling
or do you want to, like, leave the character?
-Mostly I just want to be myself.
And then I just feel like, you brush your teeth
and you put on your costume,
and then it´s basically 8:00, and the show is starting.
-Yeah. -And so I get undressed.
Sometimes they leave the microphone on,
so I´m just in my underwear and an ankle pack.
Microphone on my chest.
But that´s how I eat lunch.
So you´re welcome, any time you want to drop by.
-And then do people -- [ Laughter ]
Do people ever walk in on you?
Is that something that ever happens?
-I get the knock, and I just --
you know, I do one of --
-Okay, gotcha. -Answer the door like that.
-Yeah, so they can´t tell that you´re eating.
-That was miming. -That´s very good.
Your kids are 9 and 14?
-9 and 4. -9 and 4.
Right. No, 14 wouldn´t have made sense.
[ Laughter ]
But you -- how is their Halloween planning going?
-There is -- I don´t think I´m going to be there,
but there´s costumes being purchased over the Amazon.
-Do they come to you for counsel?
Do they want your take, or are they very much single-minded
about it? -No, you know,
my boy in particular just dreams up crazy outfits.
-So, like, not, like, existing characters.
-Non-existent. They don´t shop.
And he´s always been like that,
and because his mother is an angel, she just executes.
-Oh, so he goes to her and says, "This is what I´m thinking."
-"This is what I want. Let´s make it happen."
-Yeah. What is -- like, what sort of thing?
-Well, I think, his first Halloween,
he said, "I want to be a Wii-U controller."
-Oh. Okay. [ Laughter ]
So he wanted to be a video game controller.
-Remote. Yeah. And so that was --
So there was just -- there was a panic.
Boxes were purchased. -Yeah.
-Paint was bought. -Because that is
that true white-hot panic
of you can go to Amazon and you can´t find it.
-You can´t find it. Yeah, so. -So, is your wife craftsy?
Can she kind of, like, put it together?
-Yeah, I mean, enough.
It was pretty easy to impress a 5-year-old.
-Yeah, that´s true. That´s great.
It would be a bummer if he´s like,
"Oh. I was hoping for a little, uh,
more accuracy."
-[ Laughs ]
-Well, that´s very exciting.
And always so exciting to have you here.
Really appreciate it, John. -Oh, man, always.
-Such a pleasure. -Thank you so much.
-John Cho, everybody.