-Hi! -Hi! I'm Melissa.
Sorry about the pee break.
That's ok, everything always goes so much better after
-you've emptied that, it's fine -Move your hand. No, no, no, all the way,
all the way
Guys, Paper Towns
-Wooo! -It's amazing how you've managed to make people
think this is a real thing
Yes we've done a great job of uh, creating uh...
-Wait what? -A fictional movie that doesn't exist.
No, but the movie is real.
The Paper towns?
The idea of Paper Town
-The idea of Paper Towns? -Yeah, so uhh...
The idea of Paper Towns is uh, this thing that has been going in map making for thousands
of years where people put fake cities on their maps
They don't put whole cities on there do they?
-Yeah they do. Sometimes it's streets, sometimes it's cities
-They put like streets and stuff.
Paper streets, paper bridges, all kind of paper things, but with google maps still did
this.
In fact they put a town in England as a paper town and they got outed a few years ago
There you go...Now listen as guys, you need to help me out with this
What is it about boys that makes them fancy their mate's mum
-Seems to be a thing that happens with all guys!
-It is a thing. -Can you explain what it is about hot mums?
Now you can't get out of our-
I don't really fancy, I don't, I don't, well the thing is I don't really, I don't really...
I don't really fancy my friend's mums.
Because they're mostly in their 80s.
That was more a question for you, I think.
I actually tend to fancy John Green's friend's mums.
I thought you were gonna say my wife and we were gonna have a straight argument.
-How would I have brought that up? -Because she's somebodies mum.
Oh...No.
-Did you forget that my wife is also a mother? -Yeah but that would of been so weird.
It would of been super weird, but I thought that's what you were gonna say.
-Um, no I mean -Are you saying that you don't think Sarah's
pretty?
-Oh my god... -We, we should...We should leave that one...
Sarah is, is really really great and she's a great, she's, she's...
We should move on.
Basically, um...I can understand, Y'know the lady who played my mum in that movie was really
beautiful and I can understand, y'know?
-She's awesome -Why they felt that way
But at the same time, it was so fun to play um...To do that scene where i'm like,
It was just, when he's like "Let's take a bath"
-Wanna take a bath with her? -Yeah and he's like
"I just wanna treat her right!"
Saying that, there was a lot of moments that kind of had a...Cringing, laughing, I mean
in the car...
-With the pee. -Yep.
We could of had that scenario here if you guys hadn't
-taken your loo break. -Yeah
There's a lot of moments like that which will probably surprise people. Was that what you
were going for?
Yeah I mean I...I wanted in the book for it to be not just a comedy and not just a drama
or mystery or romance but to be many things.
Um, just to be a coming of age story about friendship and learning what love really is.
Um, and I think they did amazing job job with that in the movie, I think Jake and Nat and
the director and Nat and everybody in the cast did an amazing job of making a movie
a movie that um, you know doesn't have just one tone, it doesn't have just one genre and
I feel like that's a little bit rare these days uh, I was really grateful for to them
for doing that
I'm sure people are asking you about the pranks because it starts on very
-prank heavy. -Yeah
John, i'm assuming you must of got those ideas from somewhere and Nat
You must of done pranks in your time, which you can share with me.
Well, I went to boarding school, and uh...The way that like, justice was meted out was via
pranks so
We usually didn't go to the, y'know the teachers or whatever to get people in trouble, we usually
just got people back through pranks.
So a lot of the pranks in the movie I have done, and my wife who also went to that school
helped me out a lot as well.
Um...Your wife's getting a lot of love in
-this interview. -I dunno! She's a cool lady!
Uh, I guess you know the prank that I would do, if I was gonna pull a prank on somebody
now, I think I would probably do the fish in the closest one because that one was so
fun to do movie
that'd be the one I would for.
Yeah, yeah, I can get that. I was gonna ask you what you do that makes you feel alive.
Oh that's a great question. Um...Honestly for me, the thing that makes me feel alive
is going uhh...
Going on walks with my kids, they're so incredibly observant. They just pay so much attention,
I can be like
"Look at this beautiful river Henry" and he'll be like
"Dad, this little piece of moth is really cool!"
And it just, it just shows me that if you pay attention, you know, the world is a very
beautiful place.
-Yes it is -Um...
Yeah I feel like honestly doing stuff like uh, acting and a movie like this with all
these amazing new talented people, this is kinda what I live for and uh,
play music with my brother, those are the two things that I like more than anything
in the world, just doing the work.
Nice one, nice one. Alright we'll leave it there you guys.
-Thank you very much. -Thank you!