Austin Butler talks ELVIS, DUNE, Timothee Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio!

hey guys thanks as always for watching the YouTube channel you never know who you're gonna get here one week it could be Adam Sandler another week it could be this guy Mr Austin Butler hey Austin hey man good to see you it's great to see you uh Austin and I are gonna have a little chit chat about his career about Elvis about a great many things remember to hit the Subscribe button so you don't miss a thing Mr Austin Butler uh this it's time man the Deep dive look we had I've been wanting to do this for a while it's so good to see you I'm so happy for everything happening in your life um thank you I think back to being in my early 20s doing interviews with you and I'm I've been such a huge fan of yours I always love talking to you thanks buddy it's it's fine I always say it's really fun one of the benefits of sticking around is to go on the journey with Folks at different parts of their career and to see you I remember seeing you at Sundance with yoga hosers I remember seeing you at Comic-Con with Shannara um and all exciting projects in their own way but then to see like this is what you're digging into right now this is the juicy stuff this is this is what it's all about man so I hope you're I know you're busy but I hope you're taking a moment to enjoy this this crazy ride you're on right now yeah I am I feel so grateful I really really do I um yeah I mean I just came from set right now hence my just trying to keep warm in my freezing cold house in Cincinnati but I uh yeah it's it's been such a cool time right now so we're gonna dig into a bunch a lot of Elvis but some other stuff too you're right now though I do want to mention you are taking some time out from your busy schedule shooting a film I'm very excited about um Jeff Nichols I am all in for take shelter mud night special all of it uh not to mention this cast man can we can we can we rattle them all for a second Jody Comer yeah Norman Reedus Tom frickin Hardy yeah and my spirit animal I don't know if he started because I know he's doing a play here Michael Shannon right Shannon yeah he's the other night I was watching him act and Tom turned to me afterwards and he just it doesn't get any better than that it was it was just I felt so privileged to just get to yeah this two-page monologue and I just we were just sitting around just watching him it was it you know when you watch close-up magic and you can't see where the seams are that's how it feels when you watch him it doesn't feel like you're watching acting at all it's just a master class it's so awesome so can you hint a little bit about what this is have you just started like this is as a title I rap this next week no get it yeah yeah so so Mike's already finished um Tom finished last week and and uh yes we're we're almost we're the finish line is inside um but it's based off there's a wonderful photographer named Danny lines who who took photographs of these motorcycle clubs in the 50s and 60s and uh and he interviewed them as well and so it's inspired by their stories and and the amazing photographs that he took and um yeah so that's that's basically what it is and do you ride did you ride before this I wrote a bit but I trained a lot for this and so so I I was I was trying to train in the midst of doing Dune and uh yeah so I I had a little uh you know I I we've got an amazing guy out here named Jeff Melbourne who provides all the motorcycles and so he and I would just go out and we'd ride for six hours and um and just go every day and and uh so we trained a lot amazing writing old Harleys as well so it's all like 1965 Harley is what I'm is what I'm writing so they're they got drum breaks rather than disc brakes so um so they're they they're it's like trying to stop a train they just they don't want to stop so they're tricky in the beginning but but the skill set that's expanding the last couple years thanks of this diversity of roles is extraordinary I mean we can rattle off all the stuff you had to pick up on and really excel at in Elvis I can only imagine what Denise put you through to get in shape physically etc for Dune now add this this is I mean this is like this is the fun stuff this is like why actors do what they do it's uh I I gotta pinch myself every day and just go this is my job I get to ride motorcycles all day today or on with Quinn you know I'm riding horses every day and it gives you an excuse to learn all these things it's really such a privilege so so let's take a second I I you know I intimated how much of a kind of a Groove you've fallen into the last few years which is so exciting the last five filmmakers that you have worked with and I'm not even talking about the big TV series also that's going to come next year with from which sounds amazing too uh Quentin Tarantino Jim jarmouche baslerman uh denevil nove and Jeff Nichols God you might as well like write like my five favorite interesting filmmakers working today like it's like you can't write this any better well I guess my question about that Beyond just like noting the that that awesomeness is like um it must be really exciting to like give yourself fully to a filmmaker and to have the confidence that you can do that because a lot of actors early in the career they're working with different kind of filmmakers and you must have to like protect yourself to a degree but like everyone I just rattled off like you can feel the confidence that like I can give everything and they're gonna take care of me and they're gonna make me look good yeah that's so so true it's it's um you know to have trust when you're on set and like baz was saying something the other day about how he feels one of his main jobs is to eliminate fear you know fear will always be there when you're on set but to but to create a space where you're not you're not afraid of the of failing so you can push yourself right to the edge and you can so I mean even today with Jeff you know we try to see in so many different ways and I could trust that at the end of the day I I could I could go and just be free and he's he's got me so you're so true about that and when you have somebody like Quentin or or whoever and they're they're an amazing writer on top of that Jeff is such a great writer so um then then you're held by his words as well and yeah it's amazing is there okay so so segwaying into Elvis this epic undertaking in all respects is there ever does that fear ever go away entirely um I mean yes baz is a very comforting confident great guy to be around but you must feel at times like you're out on a limb and just teetering on the edge of greatness or horrible next I don't know you tell me yeah it's it I mean I I often have to remind myself of that the the intensity of what the fear actually was because it's it was such a huge responsibility and it could have gone so wrong you know there's so many traps to fall in there's the tightrope that you walk in the of uh you know what wanting to have his soul but then also somehow managed to find all the meticulous things that that make Elvis Elvis and um but if you focus too much on either then you lose the other so you gotta walk this fine fine tightrope and um I really I mean I truly mean it I I had that feeling of if this doesn't go well I'll never work again you know because because so much Faith had been put in me you know by bazz and by the studio and by all these people that believed in man so those first I mean the first couple weeks on set were incredibly nerve-wracking and it never fully went away but once you start getting some stuff under your belt that that you feel that you were able to capture something that maybe you didn't expect or um or or you just feel that the truth of a moment yeah um then then you end up having a little bit more confidence but I really couldn't sleep the whole time because I was just terrified well I mean that that's that's a very honest and and answer that I would expect because I mean what you said is very true like it's and we can laugh about it and smile about it now but if this didn't work I mean look you're this you are leading a very big movie and actors don't get a lot of shots at that and if you if this movie doesn't work box office critically we don't know if you get another shot like this to be honest you could have a great career in many different respects obviously but this kind of career you're having right now probably not yeah it's true that's so true that's so true and it really I guess you have to just like you can't let that could just destroy you that could eat you up inside you have to let go of that completely you you know and um usually for me it was it was the fear all the way it was a fear when I woke up in the morning it was fear when I'm you know leading up to any any moment but once once I was on set and I was able to just live in that yeah then then the fear got transferred into something else it becomes energy in a different way yeah yeah but it I mean I I'm yeah it was the time of my life like I had I had so much fun and I looked back on it was so much fondness uh but but that type of fear is something I never experienced before talk to me a little bit about let's talk about bats because baz is like no one else and to be in his world in his orbit is so special he makes you feel like the most special person in the world I I he was on the podcast recently and I went over to his townhouse in New York and just to like be there for a little bit is it really yeah and as you know what'd you do it were you upstairs in his office space he gave me the whole tour I was in his little elevator he was like running the elevator in this cramped space with him and I'm like how did my life I'm sure you had the same experience like how did I get here what is happening yeah um and yes no I think we did it downstairs in like a screening room and um but it it feels so of a whole of him um talk to me about the world that he creates the environment that that he very uniquely creates Quentin creates a very unique environment but baz is also very unique in many respects how would you define the bass hormone experience remarkable because he doesn't have a there's no real demarcation between his life and art right you know there's there's this sort of endless poetry of his existence that is amazing to be around um and so he he really he CR and and it goes down to even even the space that he created that that was what we call the dojo which was my spot where I rehearsed and stuff and so they had an entire Sound Stage and when I showed up in Australia they'd already decorated it they made it into it felt like I was in the 60s and uh and so he just makes it a great it's it's just a great Vibe everywhere that you go and it you know it's it's not like sometimes you'll shoot and and then you walk offset and then you feel the sort of um it's like you're breaking the fourth wall and suddenly you cut back into this fluorescent lit room or something but with with uh even even the space he creates us that way but but it's it's how he lives his life and I asked him about things like how do you how how do you balance having a life and a family in the midst of wanting to you know the obsessive nature with which you create your art uh because that's been something I've struggled with a lot you know it's um when you when you obsessed to the point that I I wouldn't talk to my family I wouldn't talk to you know I would kind of just be so it's all encompassing and and he said you you've got to bring everybody into your art or they will just fall by the wayside and so he he does that with his friends he does it with his family he does it with um he's just it just you end up getting in the orbit of him in that way which is which is really beautiful it also feels like it's like a world of what's like endless possibility and and artistic expression in every way where it's like oh we're gonna hang out tonight is Jay-Z and Leo just gonna like be on the couch when I'm like when I walk into his living room I mean that probably doesn't that's probably not too far off from reality right like um yeah I mean it's it's wild uh he'll tell you stories about you know he used to have a film club with David Bowie where the two of them would just watch films together and then take their dogs for walks and um yeah I mean he's amazing in that way but I really another quality about him is I never I never heard him say no yeah I'm on set it was never some people will lead with negative reinforcement he does the complete opposite where no matter who had an idea he would say you know what I like about what you're saying and then he would lead into something that then aligns with the vision that he's having but and and he could make you feel like your idea was his idea even though now you're going along more so maybe with his vision in that way but that's what's so beautiful is there's never this quality of anybody feeling like they were going to do the wrong thing right um which is which is wonderful it's so interesting because look you lived this for a couple years and now it's the worlds right like you have to kind of give it up and you're always going to have this experience but it takes on a different life now doesn't it where you're seeing it filter to the eyes of millions of people coming up to you and and it's now their experience yeah has it has it changed your perspective on what what was once must have been felt very intimate and personal and now is a different thing a beautiful thing but a different thing yeah yeah I remember before it came out even before I saw the film right I sometimes had moments where I thought did we get it did we you know I remember filming it but I don't I don't know what the movie is really and then when I saw it and then suddenly the world saw it um it was such an intimate thing and we were also there in Australia when when the pandemic hit and I stayed in Australia that whole time and so it was this it was this world that we created and then and then suddenly now it's it's a it's a thing that people can you know hold on to as their own and um I'm just I I've just been um so moved by how there's there's you know there's an eight-year-old kid that I see who's watched it 17 times and he's he's wearing a jumpsuit or there's an 80 year old woman that I meet who was a huge Elvis fan and now she wants to give me a hug because she feels a connection in that way and um I I just feel really blessed to be uh sort of included in Elvis's Legacy in that way and not to mention and I know you're a big movie buff and I want to talk about her our interests and where they coincide her or not but like I was looking at like the top box office of the year and the top of the top there's only one movie in the top 12 U.S box office that is not and I love comic book movies don't get me wrong but it's not based on existing IP SQL Pixar or something and that's Elvis and that's amazing it's it's proof that there is an audience still for a big swing of an adult drama that can still play to different audiences as you just said but I mean that's cool yeah so uh are you are you now forever forbidden from doing Elvis at karaoke that you have to like your friends say Austin sorry I yeah I I I don't really I don't do karaoke anyway really I get really shy in that way but uh I I think I sort of yeah I I don't know we'll see maybe in like 20 years or something like that I can wrap it up but I think it's too soon all right guys let's talk about security specifically vpns our sponsor this week is nordvpn by now I hope you guys know what a VPN is it's of course a virtual private Network it's a service that protects your internet connection and privacy online it creates an encrypted tunnel for your data protects your online identity by hiding your IP address and allows you to use public Wi-Fi hotspots safely so nordvpn is the one to use because it's so easy to use you connect with one 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buddy Timmy chalamet where there is an energy around an actor where it is not it it's just I don't even know how to define it but I'm seeing that I'm feeling that for you and I'm just curious like you're in the eye of the storm and look you're in the eye of the storm that's like a a house in Cincinnati so it's not like you're walking in the middle of New York or L.A so I guess I'm just curious like do you still have a sense of what I'm talking about of like the energies that has shifted around you these last few months or are you just so in the work that it's like that sounds cool Josh but I'll take your word for it whoa I I Feel It In In Pockets you know I I've I felt it uh you know I feel it at Q and A's or that sort of thing I really haven't I've just been working so I I've it's kind of been glorious because I just I just I'm on set and I and then I've got something that I'm really focused on and it's probably healthier this way frankly just to like in this period of time right you want to enjoy it but you don't want it to somebody with your head acting is that way where you're only as good as you are in that scene so you've got to just put your nose to the grindstone and just work as hard as you can so it's it's keeping me from any you know from ever you know kind of getting caught up in that yeah um but but it is I I've been surprised actually like in Budapest when I was there there there's these really sweet people outside the hotel every day that were you know they're in Budapest and they had seen a film 30 times or something you know and that that was actually surprising to me I wasn't I wasn't expecting that um over here in Cincinnati the same thing and so so kind of just seeing uh that's that's where I've seen it I haven't spent much time uh elsewhere but um after after this I hope you do yeah I know you you did pop up I think at the governor's Awards which was like the place where like everybody comes out was that did you get to meet any I mean look you've been you've been celebrity adjacent for many years you know folks you've been around but like where did you meet anybody that night that blew your mind that was that's a complimentary thing Robert Downey Jr uh we actually I mean there was pictures that we we took together uh but he yeah he came up to me before we were sort of waiting in the line to get on the car up and he came up and said really nice things and I'm I'm such a huge fan of his work and uh and so it was that was really surreal and um I got to meet his wonderful wife and and then we we um and then we were on the carpet and he he kind of stepped where the photographers were and he said he said let me see how Butler does it and so I did some poses and then I said okay Danny let me see how you do it and I watched him do his and and then he said get in here let's let's give him our best blue steel and so then we did our blue steel pose and we did that that was these are the moments that are very surreal to me amazing so wait what is your blue steel do you have a default look for it yeah just you know I don't know just just try to think what would what would Zoolander do that's a good default in life that's usually what I do on the carpet amazing um he's by the way the new Doc he just did about his dad is amazing if you haven't checked it out it just dropped on Netflix it's amazing amazing I I heard great things about that I can't wait to watch it so let's talk a little bit about movies growing up what who helped Define what you loved about acting or filmmaking do you remember did you have a was it your mom who I know you were very close with was it a friend or a sibling how did you kind of Define your own taste early on it was my dad really and then I had people when I got into acting who were mentors to many older people that that I was around that that turned me on to certain films but my dad was a huge classic movie fan I mean he still is and uh and you know talked about how he always had Turner Classic Movies on it was right I was thinking about it the other day the first movie I ever my I have a vivid memory of being I must have been like four or five years old laying on my dad's chest like he was like asleep on the couch and I was I was laying there like sort of laying sideways and watching The Good the Bad and the Ugly I mean that was the first film I ever remember seeing um so it was that and then and then it was a lot of like my Dad loved De Niro so it was it was watching taxi driver and mean streets and king of comedy and Raging Bull and all of that and then East of Eden was was really impactful to me and Rebel Without a Cause And um so a lot of a lot of those classic films on the waterfront It's always important to see like because some of the things you said it's like wait should a kid be watching it but it's always important to see it like two or three years before you actually should be watching it I feel like that sweet spot yeah totally yeah it's like it opens your eyes to a bigger world for me I was I was too young to probably be saying Pulp Fiction but I was 11 or something like that and right I just became obsessed with the writing and I printed out the script and totally were you what about a genre kind of stuff like you just finished doing and I'll pick your brain about that but like were you into comic books or or superheroes or Star Wars or all that or not really I mean when I was a kid I I remember one birthday I had a Spider-Man birthday cake so I I liked I liked Spider-Man and I I you know I liked I liked comic book but I never read comic books right I didn't really grow up watching I wasn't a big comic book or watch her you know but I always enjoy them when I when I see them I I know you've talked about as with many young actors um they put up folks like De Niro but for the Next Generation it was it was DiCaprio and the way he carried himself and the choices he made Etc everything about it the the acting but also the way you create crafted a career um did was I I guess when did you guys because you've connected obviously thanks through Quentin Etc is he somebody that you can lean on can In This Very pivotal time in your career that you can kind of pick the brain of yeah I mean he I just say like when I was when I was you know starting around 14 and I'm acting Leo was the guy he was the guy that I looked at and I just thought he's done this flawlessly to be able to transition you know in making Gilbert Grape and Basketball Diaries and then moving forward and Romeo and Juliet and all the films he's just you see how much work he puts into everything that he does and he never it's it's as though he never takes his foot off the gas he gives it 100 every time I respect that so much about him and it was learning that he you know around the time of aviator he started working with this acting coach Larry moss and so when I was 15 I wrote Larry a letter and I said yeah I would I would do anything to work with you and it was it was a couple years later I did a play in L.A and I I finally got to work with Larry for the first time um but Leo's been you know it's been I've had a lot of really special moments now like like the night that I saw Elvis for the first time he he was there and and uh and he sort of snuck in in the back and then and then we got to see each other afterward and and we and we just talked for for a long we talked for a long while and and um yeah it's moments like that that you know to be able to to pick his brain and yeah he's he's just he's very generous and he's he's also he's he's somehow I I mean I I I'm so impressed with he's he's remained very humble and and knows how how uh lucky we are right you know I mean that's that's something he told me one night we're we're so lucky in this industry just to get an inch and and so we are so fortunate and never lose sight of that and uh and so that type of thing you know I think that's what what gives you long uh longevity in that way because then you don't take it for granted well and he knows like you do because he he's been acting his entire life and he had he was the the kids star on the sitcom and everything and that's a path and it's fine it's great it can be rewarding in its own way and I'm sure the stuff on Nick and Disney you enjoyed and you wouldn't trade that in but not a lot of people are able to make that transition and it's it's just like it and it seems like from the outside looking in the pivot point for you and it's a really admirable thing that you did I mean like on paper it looks like why wouldn't you do that but a lot of actors wouldn't is working on Iceman Cometh and going and and making a point of like trying to do theater trying to do Broadway and taking on something like that um does that in retrospect feel like maybe the biggest pivot point in the career 100 that that changed everything for me and it changed it internally and externally you know in other people's minds but kind of the most valuable thing was proving to myself yeah um because the way that I I sort of didn't you know I in the same way with Elvis I had something that was in front of me and and I some an acting teacher told me years ago they said Eugene O'Neill I mean especially the Iceman Cometh is like the Everest of theater and I mean it's a four-hour play we had three intermissions it's it's it really it's uh the subject matter the the amount of text that you have with it and so I I I I just saw it as this incredible Challenge and um and so it's proving to myself that but then that then it was getting to be in the rehearsal room with Denzel and just see how he works and I mean he's my hero and and he's just so incredibly hard-working and um and doesn't rest on his Laurels and it doesn't rest on if the last night went very well for a certain reason he doesn't try to recreate it he's newly alive that night right and uh there's so many of those things that I learned from him and and and just you really I I I know that I'll go back to theater it really is where you where you learn yeah because because you you keep digging deeper every night and uh and you'll have a night where it really doesn't work and and you got to go back home and and it's so humbling and then you go okay how can I see this scene differently how can I dig deeper into the truth of this and um so is that but but then it was also during that time is when I got the audition for Quentin's film and uh and so I I flew back on my one day off to go meet with him and and I wasn't then an LA actor I was the guy who was on Broadway with Denzel coming flying back on my day off to meet with him so even just perception wise that shifts things um but also you know I didn't know what part I was auditioning for when I showed up to meet him and I hadn't seen any material and uh but when he ends it to you and you're doing eight hours on stage on Saturday you know well it kind of it's like lifting weights all day and then or working out the weight vest and then you take it off and it makes everything else a little smoother I mean it look it's it's it's it's it's hard to pop off a screen when you have the likes of like you know Brad Pitt and Leo on it but you make more than an impression in that film's text in your few scenes um he shot a lot of that movie like isn't it was there was there a lot more that you shot were there other scenes of text or was that basically what we saw in the Finish film yeah we shot a lot more in the car you know the car scene was was I'm trying to remember now what other stuff we shot he did shoot a lot more uh of other things and but particularly the car I remember there was there was things that I love that we got to do but I you know that that was also my first time shooting on film and so being in the car and hearing the the the sort of Prayer of the film and yeah uh and and Quinn doesn't watch on a monitor so he's right there just watching you and uh it was so it was so special no cell phones allowed right the whole thing yeah you give them up yeah yeah yeah what's the Mantra like why do we do this because we love making movies how great is that so great and so true it's a good reminder so true all right guys I'm gonna be real here I can't drink alcohol and feel great the next day like I used to it's just not a fact of my life and what happens is I end up being the guy at the party then that just doesn't shrink or I don't even go to the party I just skip out all together it's not worth the trouble but I've tried something recently our sponsor this week zbiotics pre-alcohol probiotic and it's helped me and I think it's the answer that we've all been looking for it's the world's first genetically engineered probiotic it was invented by PhD scientists to tackle those rough mornings after drinking let me tell you how it works when you drink alcohol gets converted into a toxic byproduct in the gut it's this byproduct not dehydration that's the blame for your rough 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and try zebiotics when I last spoke to you you were about to shoot Dune and I and I think Timmy and everybody I think they just wrapped I think the last day was I think today or yesterday so this movie exists or it will exist I couldn't I could not be more excited for you um so look I'm not going to try to get like the spoilery stuff but just in general terms first can you just tell me like how it happened like did you did you have to audition or did uh you know miraculously no I I uh I just uh Denise was in town I was in LA at the time and and uh and then he just asked to meet for coffee and so we met we met for coffee and we really hit it off and we uh we just talked a lot about how we like to work you know and and um talked about the you know the part and how I would approach it and that sort of thing and um and then he said you know I'm going to dream on this and then and they called me a week later and he said I would love for you to join me on arakis um yeah um can you say anything about what the prep was like what the approach was to a character like fade is a it's kind of a son of a man that guy's uh he's a tough tough cookie cunning Counterpoint to Paul in many respects yeah I mean I um how much am I allowed to say um oh I mean I I will say I I trained I trained a lot for four months both both just to get my just kind of for whatever may be thrown at me you know uh you know just to get my my body into a place where I could be a sort of uh physically imposing presence um and uh and then and then trained a lot in Budapest as well once once we kind of knew more of what was going on and um and yeah yeah I don't know how much more I'm allowed to say but we haven't seen the look of it yet um are we going to be or do you like the look that uh you arrived at for this character I I think it's it's gonna be yeah it's gonna be great okay one last thing let me ask you this just working with Timothy I'm just curious who's so freaking talented I adore that guy I don't know if you knew him prior to this yeah no no we've never met before and um I we bonded immediately I really love him a lot and uh I I've been a huge fan of his work and then and then you know getting to be out there and there there weren't a lot of people our age necessarily and so uh so we we stuck together and um yeah he feels like a brother now and uh we had he's he's uh he's amazing I really enjoyed my time amazing well fair warning I'm going to be pestering you with questions the next year every time I see you we'll talk and then I'll I'll keep finding out more and more little little drips and drabs you can give them let's give you a little bit each time a little bit it's easier but I can take it um can you uh Leo we've been talking about Leo and Timmy said this that the the advice that Leo gave him was no superheroes and no hard drugs [Laughter] did he give you the same advice and where are you where are you at on I'm not gonna ask about the drugs I mean that's a no-brainer but the uh but superheroes is that like I mean he found a path where he didn't have to do it he found his own path he really did and and you know I'm sure there's a there's a way um you know I thought what Patterson did with with the Batman was I I thought he was fantastic and um and there's there's many elegant exciting ways of doing that yeah [Music] um I'm I'm really just I'm driven by filmmakers and by characters you know so uh yeah that's that's what's that's what's driving me right now is there well can we rattled off the recent filmmakers you've worked with is there I don't know who who have you been obsessed with in recent years like who's is it the same short list everybody would have like who yeah I mean Paul Thomas Anderson is the top of the list for me you know I just thought it would be my dream um I adore him uh Magnolia I've seen probably more than any Magnolias epic punch drunk love you know you just had Adam on and you know I I got to meet him recently and we've been seeing each other around and yeah I'd Circle her Fanboy moment with him because punch drunk loves one of my favorite movies of all time so I was just talking to him about that those scenes with him on the phone with Philip Seymour Hoffman and he somehow Phil who's of course like one of the five greatest actors of the last hundred years and somehow Adam is like almost out acting [Music] yeah I mean I could go on and on about PTA um yeah but I have you met him yet or has he have you crossed paths yeah and he's so lovely and um I met him because Gary getzman who did masters of the air right it's the inspiration for inspiration for yeah so so uh so I was very fortunate to get to to meet him through Gary but um yeah you know what else I just saw the other day was triangle of sadness oh it's on my list that's all I pile over here I need to watch it yeah moving on this one is doing I'm just obsessed with him it's so good um you gotta tell me yeah like I I will text me afterwards let me know what you think I'm really curious to pick your brain about that one I will um but yeah yeah um so you're I'm always fascinated I'm catching you in the middle of a shoot like what do you what is life like now I know you're towards the end of it but like if I wasn't talking to you would you just be going straight to bet like would you turn on a movie like how do you and I guess it's different on each project but like what keeps you going in the middle of a shoe what do you like during a shoot you're talking about like how you weren't so great with like figuring out family and everything like can you have friends and family in your life when you're shooting or is that just off limits at this point in your life I I have a hard I have a hard time so I have to I have to make it a conscious thing yeah it's got to be it's it's like I've got to create a structure where on my day off you know right now we're shooting six day weeks yeah so so tomorrow's my day off so I've got certain people that are at the top of my list of family and friends and even if it's just sending a text usually I'll FaceTime um that type of thing keeps me grounded in that uh I I do watch a lot of films you know and I find I'll go through periods where I don't because I I'm only focusing on the scripts and on on maybe something that's that's purely for inspiration for a particular scene or something but every time that I and right now I'm in a period where I'm watching a lot of films and I just get so inspired by it because it reminds me of why you do what you do and um because you know it can especially right now I've been flying back to LA every weekend and uh you know and on those flights loading up on the on the flights catching up on everything just just to impress and then and then I fly back yeah so I usually try to sleep on the flight but I am but it's it's that thing where you you can get exhausted you know you kind of burn the candle at both ends and yeah but every time I watch a film then I'm I'm pumped up and I'm I'm really excited and yeah I just love watching movies so I'll let you go on this we were talking about fear early on um I don't know if there's fear involved but you're going to be hosting Saturday Night Live soon there's so much fear yeah I I'm I I've picked a lot of people's brains about it already you know I I when I was trying to decide if I was actually going to say yes to it I because it it just felt so much easier to just go no no you know but I watched SNL with my mom almost every week when I was a kid it is it's such a I feel so uh I don't know just honored and and and kind of amazed that that I'm even in that space and uh but I've I've loved it for so long so I asked the first one of the first people I asked was I mean I asked Timmy about it and then I asked Christopher Walken and Chris just told me you got to do it and so you know Chris all Chris Hawkins the emperor oh my God he's the emperor he said more cowbell just give him more cowbell and yeah so I uh yeah so I eventually yeah now now once I sort of uh committed to that then I've just been so excited and we've got the yeah yeah yes I'm a huge fan of theirs yeah uh I'm ready to just it's you know I was so shy when I was younger and I still am but now I just have tools to sort of deal with it but I would break out of my shell when I would make my grandma laugh or my mom laugh and just do silly voices and faces and just uh some kind of like it's it's you know it's going back to that I feel like it's going to be like one of those like Adam Driver moments where like we've never seen this side of an actor before I can't wait just give yourself over to it enjoy it like we said like the bottom line is you're super talented and look if you can pull off four hours a night doing Eugene O'Neill you can handle 90 minutes of SNL you'll be you'll be good yeah it'll be fun it's gonna be amazing um again man I really appreciate it I know like you're you're a busy dude and I really appreciate you making the time but this was one I'm so excited for you're you're so amazing in this movie man I'm so happy for you and and like I said it's just like I feel like my my faith was validated I was like that guy has something and then here we are so thanks buddy you're a good friend and and I really love talking to you always

Channel: Josh Horowitz

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Length: 44min 37sec (2677 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 08 2022