- [Josh] What's less stressful for you right now,
promoting a movie or taking care of a newborn?
- I don't know, they're both,
they're both kind of a joy.
I don't mean to sound,
you know, I don't know if that sounds disingenuous.
But, they're both my babies.
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I guess what I'm asking
is am I just the glorified excuse
to get out of diaper changing for half an hour?
- I mean, listen, it's a pleasure to be working.
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You know, here I am.
Closing the door. Going to work. Nobody disturb me.
Daddy's at work. [laughing]
- How have the last few months been,
pop culture-wise, for you?
Have you gone down any rabbit holes?
What have you guys been watching?
- That's a nice question, I like that.
We've been doing 'The Vow.'
- I was just talking about 'The Vow.'
Adam, I'm obsessed.
Do you like it? - Yeah, yeah.
I like it. [laughing]
We like it. We like.
You know, maybe it's making light of a serious subject,
and I'm happy that this thing is busted up,
I'm happy that these people are free,
I'm happy that it's exposed.
But, I try to always ask if my wife is at cause.
I try to always make sure she's using the tech right.
Make sure she's not exhibiting any inhibiting beliefs.
- Are you exchanging scarves?
Are you wearing -
- Well, we are both flying up the stripe path, sir.
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Anything else? - You know,
I would say half the stuff I end up watching
is kids movies or movies I'm revisiting from -
that are appropriate for the youth
'cause I watch a lot of stuff with my daughter.
And, I will tell you, having a daughter,
'cause I didn't have any sisters,
so I wasn't really exposed
to more female-centric, centered stories growing up.
- Yeah. - And, yeah, by and large,
they're at least, I think, better. Or, if not better,
better in the sense of like, more productive for society.
And you know, all this stuff that I loved, I'm like,
"God, it's all so violent." [laughing]
So, I've been doing that.
And anime has really been a happy place.
- I would venture to say, man, the last couple of years,
you've really hit your stride in the film work.
Honestly, the last few films that I've seen you in,
'Ready or Not,' the cool little role in 'Shazam.'
I've seen 'Promising Young Woman,'
- Oh, cool. - which opens later this year.
That's a great one. - Yeah.
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Any rhyme or reason to why you feel like
you've hit a new stride in the film work?
- Honestly, I think it's like, opportunity,
just kinda luck. I think like, cyclical.
I'm the same actor I was five years ago, and even ten.
I mean, I've learned more.
I'm wiser, I think.
Maybe I have an extra layer,
but by and large,
you know, one has helped me get the other,
has helped me get the other.
You know, it's a popularity contest,
and what you did last week really helps get the next thing.
- Right.
- And so, being visible is very good for business,
and it's also very satisfying in a,
you know, I'm performing, I'd love for people to see it
and enjoy it.
And so, it's been an honor and a thrill,
and I'm ready for it.
But, no, it's honestly, it's been a lucky few years.
- Is there something also to the fact that like,
you know, I've talked to many
an actor who's like, made a name
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And like, you know, it's been,
it's been a minute now for you?
- Yeah. - And like,
it takes a while for the industry, I feel
like, to catch up and to say like,
"Oh wait, you're at a new stage now."
- Yeah.
- 'Cause I mean, the blessing for you is like,
you've looked youthful all your life.
[laughing] You could still pass younger.
But, at a certain point, it's like,
"OK, it's time to give this guy grown-up roles."
- Right, right, right. - And to be men and fathers,
and really like, play your age as opposed to playing -
- Yeah. - 25-year-olds.
- Well, that's the thing you always wanna do.
You know, I mean, even, I guess
I even had a little bit of a chip on my shoulder in 'The O.C.,'
because I started at 23 and I was like,
"I'll do the high school show,
"but I don't want -
"You know, you got Ryan Gosling over here
"playing like, fathers of three,
"and he's like, 25." You know? [laughing]
Which is what the cool,
you know, that's the dream
is you can be -
But, that's a testament to that guy's, you know,
maturity that he could pull that off.
And so, you know, in some ways
I've been chasing more adult roles,
you know, my whole career. But,
you know, they'll come sooner or later
'cause, you know, age comes for us all. - Right.
- And also, they just get more interesting.
I mean, not just for the bragging rights, or whatever,
of getting to pretend to be a man.
But, it's just like, the roles get more varied.
Let's just say that. - Yeah, yeah.
- There's also a sense of like,
if not security, I think not -
you know, I'm as insecure as anyone.
But, still like, a sense of confidence or security in going,
"I've done it so long and I've got such a, sort of, long resume at this point
"that no one role is gonna speak for it."
You know, and the total speaks for, you know, itself.
And there's a sense of security in that.
And even just going like, "Wow."
Like, "I'll probably get to do this
"for, you know, forever.
"And I've been doing it a long time,
"and I'm getting older, and still around,
"and I've probably earned a spot for the next,
"you know, couple decades, I hope." So.
- Well, like I said at the outset,
'The Kid Detective' is a great piece of work, honestly.
It's an impressive piece of work from a first time feature
writer and director. It's a bit unpredictable.
I mean, I'm curious, did it play for you
the same way it was for me?
When I watched it,
it kinda starts out as one thing.
It's like, OK, this kinda quirky,
black-comedy kinda thing.
And by the end, it's like 'Chinatown.'
[laughing] - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's crazy dark and amazing.
Talk to me about, did you go on that same ride
when you encountered this material?
- Yeah, very much.
Evan, the writer and director approached me
like, seven years ago at Sundance, I believe.
And he had a -
He was very involved in editing, producing,
writing a movie that won Slamdance called 'The Dirties.'
That's a special movie that also walks a tonal tightrope,
and starts in one place and ends in a place
that you couldn't believe. And it pulls it off.
And so, I was like,
"Oh wow, he's really talented. So, OK, great."
And then he shared with me the first act
and didn't know where it was supposed to go after that,
but I loved it. I loved his voice.
Then, disappeared for a year,
came back, had the whole script, and I was -
I kind of thought it was a masterpiece.
I just believed in his voice and talent so much,
and it's so apparent from one page in,
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It does a lot of things,
you know? It's dryly
and darkly comic throughout.
It, I think, delivers on a detective premise.
But, even though it's a detective story,
- Yeah. - it's kind of through the lens of
of a sharp indie-comedy.
But, I think that, even though
a lot of the humor comes from the characters',
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there's a dark undercurrent,
you know, with some of the humor.
And certainly with the subject matter
of a murder and a kidnapping.
And by the end, you kinda have to pay your due, you have to pay that,
both as a character and to truly deal with it, you know?
And the reality and the repercussions of those things.
So, although it ends in a place that,
on one hand, you don't see coming,
you can look back and go, "It always had to be that way."
- Right.
- All it is, is taking it pretty seriously.
- Is it fun to play somebody that kind of like,
doesn't have to look so great?
Doesn't have to be so overtly charming?
'Cause, you know, traditionally,
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And he's like, so dry and so beaten down by the world?
- Well, it's a treat to play the boozy, voice-over, sleuth
like, detective.
I mean, that is an archetype.
I wanna play that more than a superhero.
You know, like that is just- - Yeah. Totally.
That's like, the Humphrey Bogart "on."
Like, it's classic. - Yeah. I mean,
what an actor's dream.
What more could I wanna do in a film?
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the last piece of the puzzle,
we had this movie for so long, trying to get it made.
And then, finally, we're getting it made.
And then like, two weeks before, all of a sudden, we're like, OK,
we're going, "What does he look like?"
And one of the things we went with,
he gets beat up in the early portion of the movie,
and we had a real question of how long
do we want this bruising to last?
And somewhat, in a nod to 'Chinatown,'
it just cemented the character. We were like,
"It should lasts the whole [beep] movie."
And that just like, told you everything,
you know? - Yeah.
- Guy got beat up, you know?
And he looks it the whole movie.
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It's a signature look, and it tells a sad, pathetic story.
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- Are the parallels,
and maybe this is too big a jump,
but like, obviously, this is a character
that's kind of living down the past, right?
They peaked at 13 when they achieved this notoriety
as this kid detective.
Obviously, you're always gonna have 'The O.C.'
conversation with people.
You hit that when you were in your early 20s.
Is that a connection at all
that you made between the character?
Like, "That's a shadow for me
"that I have to, kind of, always deal with in a way,"
much like Abe has to deal with this fame
that he achieved in his early life.
- I mean, a little bit.
I certainly, I think in general -
more generally, I think as an -
you know, the adulthood is humbling in a lot of ways.
Reality hits and very few of us
are where we thought we'd be,
whoever you are.
You know, I did have that success early, in my early 20s,
but I still related it more to like,
if you were a kid actor. - [Josh] Right.
- You know, I transpose that kind of idea,
but more on- Certainly a kid actor
is very relevant to this.
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I mean, I've had to contend with like, yeah, like, "Wow."
At 33, I didn't have this.
I had plenty of opportunities,
but maybe not the same that I had at 23.
- Sure. - And 24.
And that's, you know, that's a humbling experience.
But, it wasn't a real weight
that I've carried around with me.
I mean, that show gave me a lot of opportunities.
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or slowed down by it.
And I felt like I'm able to, you know, carve my own path.
- It does feel like you,
and I've had the same kind of conversation with Ben,
Ben McKenzie in recent years. - Yeah, yeah.
Like, you know, you guys have both gone on-
It's a complex journey for somebody
to kind of reconcile it.
And it's totally understandable to have
that kind of like, moment, or year,
or whatever, where you're like,
"We don't need to talk about it anymore."
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kinda came, at some point, around to the other side
where it's like - - Yeah.
- "I get it. It's always gonna be a part of me.
"Let me deal with it.
"I know it means a lot to you. We can have that conversation."
- Yeah. Very much.
But that's it right there.
It interests me, as a part of my life,
it interests me less creatively.
Like, I haven't seen the show in 15 years.
I don't know. - Right.
- But, as a piece of pop culture,
and as a part of my history, and my persona,
like, it's interesting.
I mean, it's not that I can't talk about it.
But, yeah, for a while,
yeah, I didn't want it to dominate everything
I did. Just like,
you know, I mean, to a lesser extent, like,
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- No, totally.
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I see it with 'The Office' and 'Friends,'
it's like, "When's the reunion?"
Every single interview, you get that question.
And it's like - - Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. [laughing]
But, I was much more concerned with it at the time.
- Yeah. - At the time,
I felt like, "OK, I'm doing the show."
And, like I said, I'm already started at 23,
and I was already like, "All right, this is cool.
"It's an opportunity.
"I like it, but I'm gonna try and now carve a path
"of being an adult actor.
"And not do anything related to this.
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the more separation, it doesn't feel like it,
you know, it swamps my professional life in the same way.
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- In that same note, I mean, you guys are smart
and I admire that you value your privacy
as much as you do.
But, when you and Leighton became a couple,
did you have the conversation like, "When this becomes public,
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"have a moment. They're gonna need a moment."
Or did it surprise you when it became a thing?
- It didn't surprise me.
I mean, it made sense.
But, it was kind of unsaid.
And that stuff comes in waves,
you know? One day there was,
you know, when we were a couple, OK, there's
some photographers for a while, and then they go away.
Then, we got engaged.
And then, you know, "OK, alright they're here for a little bit,"
and then go away. And then,
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you know, we got a new kid,
so they've been around. And I assume,
hope, that, you know, they'll kinda leave us alone soon.
I suspect they will.
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So, it's like, I don't know how profitable that's gonna be.
- They're charting the growth of the beard.
- Yeah. - They just wanna see how much it comes in.
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So, yeah, we don't discuss it too much.
And honestly, it's not that big -
Mostly, it's like our lives are free of that.
- Yeah. It was fun to see you pop up in 'Shazam,'
and what's gotta be like, any actor,
no matter how old you are,
to don that kind of crazy costume
and be in something like that.
- Yeah.
- And I know you like that kinda stuff.
- I do. - Can you feel cool
when you don a superhero costume?
Or is there the moment of like, "Oh my god,
"I look like an insane person right now?"
- Maybe you can feel cool. I don't know about those ones.
[Laughs]
But, fortunately,
we got to embrace the goofiness of it by playing kids.
So, it works perfectly,
you know? More than feeling cool,
what you wanna do is start messing around right away
and flexing and just like, making jokes.
And that's what we got to do, so it worked well.
- Like any cinephile worth their salt,
I will forever be obsessed with the lost George Miller
'Justice League' movie,
in which you were gonna be Flash.
- Yeah.
- Armie Hammer was gonna be Batman.
I've talked to like, all of them.
I've talked to Armie about this,
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- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Who were you excited,
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Was there one personification of a superhero
that got you excited?
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you know, like Armie Hammer. I liked him playing it.
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And then, also, I liked, in the script,
if I remember correctly, like, he got really messed up.
He got like, a lot of bones broken in it somewhere.
So then they had some Alex Ross inspired stuff of where he's in
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You know? - Come on.
[laughing] - And, yeah. So, I thought that was cool.
And then, you know,
I think, tonally -
I know I'm in the DC Film family now,
so I gotta be careful. [laughing]
But, I think, tonally, it had it-
You can do a dark 'Justice League.' Of course, you can.
But- But,
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Like, there's also an inherent
childhood,
you know, youthfulness to it. - Yup.
- And I thought that, that script really embraced that
in a way that was also gonna be action-packed and affecting.
I mean, I know it built to a dramatic climax,
my character died.
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But, it also just like,
I don't know, it's like it's not trying so hard
to be so gritty. It was embracing its colorfulness.
And obviously, even I didn't know-
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And I was happy to be working
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But, even I had no idea
how sharp he was still, you know?
'Cause he hadn't made a live-action movie
in over a decade at that point.
And it's like - - No. Totally.
No, 'Fury Road' shocked all of us.
It was like, "What the hell?" - Yeah. Everyone was like,
"Who's this kid? [laughing]
"Who's the new guy?" - Exactly.
Yeah. - And so, in hindsight, everyone's like,
"Oh, it was a masterpiece that never got made."
[Laughs]
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You got to be
in the Flash costume, too.
That's pretty cool.
It's been a minute since we've had a chance to catch up.
I'm glad 'The Kid Detective' gave us an excuse, man.
Congratulations on - - Likewise.
- On the new kid. - Thanks.
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Congratulations on the new film,
and enjoy the holiday season.
I know "Chrismukkah" is gonna be very special
for you this year. Enjoy it.
- Already putting up the decorations. Yeah.
[laughing]