Celebrity True or False: Did Justin Long Nearly Die While Making "Dodgeball"? | The Rich Eisen Show

I've got some questions for you on your career called Hollywood true or false here on the Rich Eisen first one up for Justin Long in dodgeball a true underdog story when the first French made of rubber was thrown at you it actually cut you open on your eyebrows that true yes it did it did it was that our director was a guy named rawson thurber mmm who played Division three football he was a quarterback and so he would do a lot of the off-camera throwing so fruit for the so it was never it was not ripped torn throwing it at you know does make sense though right rip was no that's in the best a longer story ripped got very upset with me once for doing that that seemed okay he thought I spoke he thought I said something at which you're not you know supposed to do it because it it interferes with the other actors dialogue and and I was on the ground kind of doing the motion of ganna having gotten hit with the mmm with the wrench and he said and I could tell he seek a tional II would forget his lines and he said dodgeball was invented by the what's he doing I was dance monkey monkey and I thought I was the moment where I thought oh maybe he's just improvising because you know Benny no were you bleeding profusely at the time this was another referred to you as a monkey now this is when I was doing off-camera for him when it was his coverage okay so when I was doing my coverage day yeah so Ross and there hurtled and my and it was it was like a blip blip kind of thing and they tried to close it up quickly and we just in have the time so that was I think the first and only take maybe there was another day where they didn't want me to drive home I remember was we did a montage where I was just getting pummeled with with balls that were coming out of a I guess pitching machine dry and you know I was trying to get it to hit me in because we call these the comedies now you want to get a close shot of it really the comedy zones the genitals and the head well it's also the strike zone yes if you will yeah okay I'm in a different line of the strike zone true so it hit me so many times I they didn't let me they said you know they said how are you feeling just and I said good and they said you okay to drive and I said ok and then I remember that the the pitching machine was set to the whatever they were sending the dodge balls out of and then Vince Vince Vaughn had to shoot his stuff next and it hit him in the chest and it came off really hard he goes what's going on that's way too hard that's going way too Frank you know he got really there's such a moment for me because the whole crew is like Justin's been getting pummeled in the head for the last 20 minutes second one for you Justin Long you are the recipient of Britney Spears first onscreen kiss in the 2002 classic crossroads classic yeah thanks rich you're welcome yeah that's true it's a truthful thing uh was I her first I don't know that she died on screen kiss I guess oh I don't know it's her first movie sorry sir first movie oh you're right I don't know she could add a video before then announce lawyers I think that is sure she was very sweet um she I remember at one point our legs we were in bed in bed and our legs were kind of like intertwined and you know getting ready to do this this the scene and and she said I'm sorry my legs are a little prickly yeah and I said whoa what are you talking I had these grossed you can sort of see him have a whole mouth gross hairy yeah like spider legs and I was like and I was feeling so self-conscious about how I looked because she was so pretty and and I was like oh no they're they seem fine I'm sure they're fine you know and she's no no feel and she took my hand and put it on her thigh and it was like a thought it was like the smoothest thing to this day last one of celebrity true or false is Justin Long you appeared in ads for Apple back in 2006 so Chirag enya and all that is it true that you have a 15% discount on Apple products for life no false not for life I think that's right now I don't well in I haven't tried to use it since then but I think it was just while they were running the commercials running I was gonna ask you for help with the Genius Bar appointment that's not gonna do it yes I took it the other day and not that they they gave me less dispensation but it sort of felt like that because I I was used to going to the Apple store and it was never like oh look who's here it was like because they those the people who worked there would watch those commercials on a loop all day you know so they I was always met with like a mix of maybe there was a little excitement mixed in but it was mostly god this guy again like I'm so sick of this face that's how I interpreted their look to me for more of the Rich Eisen show tune - audience Channel 239 on DirecTV for free on VR live or download the Rich Eisen show app

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Length: 5min 39sec (339 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019