A SIMPLE FAVOR interviews - Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, Paul Feig

from the oopsie jar I love that love that bit in the movie I'm curious when you guys were kids did you have any type of cursing jar and when you were around like as a kid did you ever have to see they could put money in it at all yeah my parents cursed class that's great no my parents actually never cursed so it was just like it just was not an option really like I told her yesterday my mom called my dad a jackass and I just like stopped I was like the world is over oh yeah oh yeah she's very like she's very closeted right weird for you to be cursing as much as you are in the film than your parents to watch it oh it's great I like love it when it's just like it's so freeing because I see it again lost my mom well my mom was an extra in a movie why and they were like the directors like kick your mom's chair and then and then Elaine tell her to like you know just you know stop and everybody sleeping on the bus at my mom turns around goes oh my god whole life for this moment it was like oh so I need to get a guitar for my mom's that is absolutely amazing characters filmmaking question it might be a dumb question but you take a photo of Blake in the film you make her delete it does the photo actually get taken in real life and does it really exist did you really delete that set okay I was watching the blooper reel which will probably be on the DVD and I'm getting so frustrated because the camera won't take the phone and it was one of those things were like if we just were like miming the photo I wouldn't have been like getting annoyed with it but I was supposed to be like hearing the click and yeah so I was taking and deleting photos I think I was deleting them we need to get that one photo out out definitely took vote yeah I was just curious about that but the one thing I love the obviously the aviation gin thing is really cool to see but I think Paul does a great job because doesn't feel product placement at all I think that wasn't at the time it wasn't it's like half responsible for my husband Jen was a big part of this movie and at the same time Ryan was like obsessed with this Jen in Vancouver he was having this love affair and I said to Paul hey what if we put this Jenna's thinking that maybe we could get free cases of Jen and then like that sort of just like tumbleweed it into like this you know this whole tumbleweed that is the coolest shot everyone you get a horse and then the Hello Kitty umbrella goes by and slow-mo that was some bad ass I was born into this when I watch a movie sometimes you hear a character say the title of a film you actually say it in this movie they can I have a simple if I have a simple favor I always find that interesting I'm wondering when you say it as an actress do you kind of in the mind and your back your money go there's the time strange that always the worst yeah sounds very natural yeah and there's off camera I don't know you know it's always like really intimidating yeah want me to live what this movie is to me this the range that you both show in this film with actresses is incredible I mean like your arc is amazing just everything that happens with your characters um and you have a great moment at the con the Couchman you say what's the wildest thing you've ever done I'm not gonna ask what the wildest thing we're done in your life is about wondering what's the wildest thing you've ever done to play a role like to get into a character what is the craziest thing you've ever had to do to play a role just something that was like maybe like abnormal or strange to get into a character well that was the thing I was talking about yesterday and I'd completely forgotten about it when I was doing end of watch it was kind of hard to we didn't want to rehearse much because like we wanted to be really fresh on the day but um David Ayer the director wrote a scene that was my first date with Jake Gyllenhaal's yeah sure because you don't see the first date in the movie he just introduces me and it's like oh I've been on we've been on some dates and they went well so we like rehearse to the crap out of a scene knowing that it was never gonna go in the movie but it was actually really cool because we like we didn't just like create a backstory and talk about the back story we like acted out the back story for you anything kind of like that was like strange like that um recently I did a film where I played a heroin addict and and I spent a lot of time doing ride alongs with the cops and then going in and you know as they were doing drug bust I would like sit and watch them and hear them talk about it and then I just spent a lot of time like just literally like walking through alleyways talking to people from like teenagers to people in their 60s about like their addiction and how it started and why and it was just like it was one of the hardest most emotional things I've ever done but it also like gives you like such a responsibility to to tell the story accurately and not just like you know write them off like Society has that's really cool that was probably not the answer my wife told me tell you she loved all I see is using thank you so quit me from oh you use your natural accent in here and also crazy irritation that's right oh yeah is it easier to act when it's your real accent I might imagine like my friend thing my American accent sucks really so bad we have a hard time with just everything about it just just naturally sort of like it takes a little bit of thought process I think it takes obviously practice since yeah but my accents kind of like worn down through the years from being away from the UK but and and my wife has like this international kind of American accent so my my a is kind of strain or but but you know luckily you know these we didn't have to change that for the both of us once I'm wondering like after like now this film crazy adhesions are gonna be big films for you you're probably getting a lot more roles coming in so you're gonna so are you are you thinking of like what the American accent might be like I'm gonna I'm gonna talk myself in some space right in the middle of America and just like force myself to go to coffee and in the accent and know I'm definitely gonna work on I think you know it's it should be a tool that all actors sort of have otherwise it's it's gonna be an English character the entire time well you know we're watching the film we we there's a lot going on specifically Blake's tattoos now those get explained somewhere but your tattoos were interesting as well I don't remember there being a specific backstory there I'm wondering for your character for you personally what did you build in as to why he had those tattoos I think for him it really is kind of like a side of Shawn you know Shawn's gone through some dark times like he had the success of this book that went global and and he was the talk of the town and then nothing for like ten years and you know and and sometimes that harbors kind of these feelings and and I think tattoos are a way of kind of imbuing yourself with with more of what you hope for and what you aspire to so I think that's definitely something you were sitting here doing press for a simple favor right now as we sit here crazy British agents is becoming number one of the box office yeah this is absolutely surreal I mean I know you've been asked this question a lot but does it feel like for you any of you had a specific fan moment that is kind of like blowing you away like is there has there been a moment if someone said something to you that really kind of hit you hard I think Chris Pratt just tweeted this morning and he's like I didn't know what to expect but this is one of the best movies I've seen in the longest longest time that for me is just like and then yesterday the rock posted up something on Instagram tagged my little name in there and I was just like oh my god he thought my name maybe you didn't even write the text but but like it's it's amazing that the outreach that people in the industry have sort of giving they're really sort of behind both the movies so I can't wait for for everybody to see myself in in in cra but but then see me and it's so divinest all together yeah with a simple favor so that that for me is really exciting because the last thing I wanted to be was were sort of typecast in that romantic kind of need romantic comedy role I want to sort of build a body of work that explore all dimensions because we see what's on screen and we see your tattoos that you mentioned what is there are there things that you build in these characters that we may not know I do you ever like like do you build in things to Sean here that maybe you only you know that help you get into the role I kept my wedding ring on that's what you really think that was my real wedding ring they they were like oh we'll replace it in case we lose it and I was like no no no I think yeah send sentimentally like I think it it is so much more meaningful when something like that it's it's so iconic and attaching that with Blake and her character of Emily you know it's something that I didn't take off so you know I was in in that relationship so it helps you sort of keep it keep keep you there yeah and last question for you obviously this is an amazing moment right now in your career I'm wondering do you do the characters ever stay with you like are there parts of Nick are there parts of Sean that are kind of still with you as you sit here as you leave the project yeah I think it it always does I think you you always so like oh you know what would Sean do in this situation what would Nick do in this situation there with you for life you you know you concentrate so much with within this or three-month period of getting into the character doing the script justice you're living this out day to day it's hard not to it's like you you take you you go to a beautiful sort of a holiday and you remember it for the rest of your life you remember what it smells like what it feels like what it tastes like to be there same thing for a character yeah well you do a great job I'm so honored I'm very interested in how sometimes trailers present the filmmakers name this says from the darker side of Paul Feig yeah I thought was awesome I'm curious was that something you wanted in there did they decide to put that in there I thought that was a cool idea no Lionsgate put together this campaign and one of the first things they had was that title in there and then when they did the spot it wasn't in I was like oh can you put their bags I was really I like that I like like they did the darker side appalled me too I'm the dark made exactly now one of the cool things about the movie obviously you incorporate the Aviation Jin from Ryan's company and there's great scenes where they're drinking but I also thought it was bad anyhow you shot those moments because sometimes if you deal with product placement are things like that in a movie it could be shot in a certain way where it takes you out but you actually have moments where there's logo sometimes but then other times the bottles turn the other way of old flakes pouring it is that done on purpose not to overdo the logo or do you do that yeah you never want to like China a spotlight on anything like that and honestly one of the main reasons I put that that in is because I think that bottle is so beautiful yeah you know and it was a you know Blake it said only have you want to use you know this gin that Ryan's now bought into the company I was like well cool cuz you know I'm a big gym fanatic and obviously you know as you can see there's pretty much martini porn now there's a great moment where a kid drops an f-bomb and I always wonder oh yeah there's a couple of them but I'm wondering as a filmmaker when you have a kid do that are the parents unset is that weird to say that hey your kid's gonna pop a Teflon well it was actually part of the audition scene so the kids coming in you go like okay at least they know we're not hiding it from the parents and but it's very interesting and disturbing they have five year old so they had one after another interest drop the f-bomb that needs to be in the credits at the end of the film we're just a bunch of that like at the montage the audition Montez I corrupt the youth you know one thing I interesting is when I watch a movie I always wonder like sometimes the title of the film will be said within the movie and Blake actually says I can I ask you a simple favor and I always found that interesting when you when you direct a moment like that when the title is being said do you kind of like take a step back go that's our title is that a little strange it's it's funny you hear it I'm friends with Penn Jillette and he used to tell me about in the old days of New York they used to go to Times Square and go to see movies and they had a game whenever somebody in the movie would say the name of the of the movie they would all cheer so and so that I saw every time somebody says the name of the movie as we're shooting it I all I hear is like people cheer yeah so you know yeah it's weird it kind of goes by and you're like anyway that's the movie but it's like the old George Carlin joke when like you're in a movie theater and somebody says a date and it's your birthday do you want to go hey that's my birthday I'm gonna yell it out so um but one thing I loved was the slow-motion walk out of the car in the rain as you had that tumbleweed umbrella kind of go by I was curious how that shot worked what you did for the film making of that how did you get that to kind of go by like that and what was that like a rain machine how did you do that scene well we first of all John Schwartzman is was my cinematographer on this and he's shot a bunch of Victoria's Secret commercial oh so he's always I said there's our Victoria's Secret Show but we you know I really it was important to have this Hello Kitty uh umbrella tumbling through so we had all these tests we did I've just had a fan off to the side or just like blow that thing through so it normal speed it looks funny because she's just walking unless something goes like right through but thank goodness for slow motion because he made it look magical do you direct her to walk differently in slow I'm sorry I was gonna say like when she walks like that do you have to tell her to walk differently no just walk yeah regular and then slow motion does this does the jobs cool great job to you congratulations thank you

Channel: FOX 5 Washington DC

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Keywords: Blake Lively, Aviation American Gin, Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, Crazy Rich Asians, Paul Feig, Ghostbusters, Ryan Reynolds, Helly Kitty, Gin, Emily Nelson, Age of Adeline, End of Watch, Michael Pena, A Simple Favor, A SIMPLE FAVOR, Interview, Kevin McCarthy

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Length: 13min 14sec (794 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 27 2018