- I'm getting, like, pop quiz anxiety. What happens if I get them all, well, I can't them all
right, but what happens? What do you get out of the anxiety I'm feeling right now? Good comments on YouTube. Okay. Okay. (casual upbeat music) "Honestly, I don't know
if I should help you "or I should euthanize you." Already I don't know. "Honestly, I don't know
if I should help you "or euthanize you." "Nice Guys"? (buzzer buzzes) (Ryan grunts) (snaps fingers) "Crazy Stupid Love". (bell dings) Yes. - Honestly, I don't know
if I should help you or I should euthanize you. - My first job in Hollywood
was with Steve Carrel, and we both had sort of small parts. We didn't have any scenes together, and then I went to set to watch him work, and he was so funny that the boom operator had to throw down the
boom and hold his ribs. That's how hard he was laughing. It was the first time I had seen that, or even thought that that was possible. I knew I had to sort of up my game. I didn't get to work with him in that, but when I did finally get
a chance to work with him, I wanted to be prepared. "I'm jacked. "Jacked to the tits." (Ryan laughs) Um. Hmm. Is that, um, (snaps fingers) "Big Short"?
(bell dings) - I'm jacked! I'm jacked to the tits! - I remember who I was playing, a lot of things had to
get condensed in the movie just to be a movie, and there were things that he, and rightfully so, would say, but that never happened. I wouldn't get key cards
for somebody at a hotel. Someone would do that for me. Why am I getting the key cards? - Chris, give him the key cards. Do you even know which key
cards you're giving out? - We just decided that I
would look at the camera and just say, "I would never do this. "I would never get key cards." We would just say it on camera, and that's like the best we could do. - I get it. I could feel you judging me. That's palpable. - It ended up being kind of like a fun way to still do what you needed to do with the narrative and the film, but also be able to sort of acknowledge some of the indiscrepancies
of how that works. "How much money do I make? "About 40 cents an hour." Oh my god. "How much money do I make? "About 40 cents an hour." I have no idea. "How much money do I make? "About 40 cents an hour." (laughing) How much money, what? I don't know.
(buzzer buzzes) - How much money do I make? - Mm-hmm. - About 40 cents an hour. - It's funny because when we made it, I remember having a
conversation with Sam Shepherd, and we loved making it,
but I remember both of us being like, "Well, no
one's gonna see this one." Okay. "I guess I'll see you in the movies." "La La Land"?
(bell dings) - Guess I'll see you in the movies. - So many people could
relate to that film, even if you weren't in LA, sort of obviously about having a dream, pursuing that dream. How important it is to have someone that believes in you. I think I definitely connected to it on those levels. (soft piano music) Justin's score was so beautiful. You know I had to spend
like months and months playing the same little piece, it was like glad that it was so beautiful, because I never really got sick of it. I spent months learning
pieces of those pieces, and then as soon as it was over, (snaps fingers) it was gone. But I like working with music on film. When there's music, it's
like (snaps fingers) we all know, that's the tone, that's what we're doing. Especially if there's choreography to it. It's a great feeling, because you feel like everyone's aligned,
and there's no confusion, and you're all working
towards the same goal, and so it feels exciting
to just be in sync with that many people. "I have memories, but they're not real. "They're just implants." "Blade Runner".
(bell dings) Yes. - I have memories, but they're not real, they're just implants. - Yeah, the original is just, it's iconic. It's such a classic. Another film that I love is
Coppola's "One From the Heart", and apparently Coppola
sold all of his neon for "One From the Heart" to Ridley, and a lot of the neon in "Blade Runner" is from that film. Man, I think working with Harrison, they say don't meet your heroes, but I would say unless
they're Harrison Ford. He lives up to the hype. "Who are you, my fairy godmother? "No offense, I thought", hmm. That's not, hopefully
that's not how I said it. "Who are you, my fairy godmother? "No offense, I thought
you'd look different." (playful music) Why can't I remember any of these? "Who are you, my fairy godmother? "I thought you'd look
different," I don't know. (buzzer buzzes) - Who are you, my fairy
godmother? (laughing) No offense, I thought
you'd look different. - The Russos, they had set
up their whole video village with the greatest snacks
you could imagine. You'd almost have to
move all the chocolate and stuff out of the way
just to look at the monitor. They would order pizza to their tent. One time they had hamburgers in Prague, a huge bag, and they were
throwing them out to the crew. It was fun. They sure know how to do it. "When I found out the patriarchy
wasn't just about horses, "I lost interest." Um. Oh, "Barbie".
(bell dings) Nailed it. - When I found out the
patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest. - I got the script, and there was my name. It said my full name as Ken. And the first line was, "If
I wasn't severely injured, "I would beat you off right now." I was like, okay. How am I gonna do this? I know I have to, but
how is this gonna work? I just Kenned as hard as I could. I had to get new sheets
because of all the fake tanner, and just looked like a
crime scene in my house. Just terrifying hand prints on the wall. If you didn't know, you would just think that was very disturbed
person was living there. "Change moves in spirals, not circles." "Half Nelson".
(bell dings) Yes. Okay. - [Dan] Change moves in
spirals, not circles. - I did a lot of movie
drugs in that movie, and I don't know what
they put in movie drugs, but it's powerful stuff. I remember just the
incredible Shareeka Epps. She was amazing. And working so much without permits, and having to steal stuff, and working with Ryan and Anna, it was such a gift, that movie, to get to work on that
film with those people. I'm a lucky guy. "He can get his own girl and his own kid. "That's every man's right." Um, "Place Beyond the Pines".
(bell dings) - He can get his own girl and his own kid. That's every man's right. - Working with Derek Cianfrance, it's such a special experience. He really makes you live the
experience of the character as much as you can. For instance, I get
arrested and put in jail in the film, and so he would have you go through the process
of getting arrested, go through the process of getting booked, sit in jail all day, wait
for your one phone call. I remember I had one phone call, and I called Ben Mendelsohn. Unless I could convince
him to come and get me, Derek might just keep me there all night. I don't know. He had music on so loud
he couldn't hear me, and I was trying to explain to him, I'm in jail, I need
you to come get me out, and he just was like, "I can't hear you. "Call back." And that was it, that was my one call. And then I think Derek just
put me back in the cell for a little while as punishment, because I couldn't make that work. "I give you five minute," oh. Like, uh.
(playful music) "I give you five", (laughing). "I give you five minutes
when we get there. "Anything happens in that
five minutes, and I", I wouldn't get the part right now. I wouldn't even get a callback for this. "I'll give you five
minutes when we get there. "Anything happens in that five minutes, "and I'm yours, no matter what." "Drive".
(bell dings) - I give you five minutes
when we get there. Anything happens in that
five minutes, and I'm yours, no matter what. - Those are Nick Refn movies, and the way it all came about was we actually had a bad meeting, it felt like we weren't
gonna work together. I drove him home 'cause he doesn't drive. I was playing REO Speedwagon on the radio. And I heard sniffling, I
looked over, and he was crying, and he said, "This is
it, this is the movie." And it was this moment for him of driving around LA
just listening to music. And I worked with this great stunt driver named Jay Frye. We would just go to a parking lot, and we would run this car
until it wouldn't run anymore, and then they'd tow it away, and when it was fixed, we'd come back, and we'd keep going, and it was kind of the most fun prep for
a film I've ever done. "In my experience, the prettier a girl is, "the more nuts she is." Oh, um. "Blue Valentine"?
(bell dings) - In my experience,
the prettier a girl is, the more nuts she is. - Michelle is brilliant, and gave so much to that role, that it was
inspiring for all of us, and just trying to meet
her level of commitment. And I think she was
involved even before I was, and I had been involved for a long time. One thought was because I
was too young at the time to play the older part of the storyline, to play the father, that we
would shoot the first part at that time, and wait five or 10 years, and then shoot the second half. Of course nobody would finance that, and we couldn't make that happen. But we ended up spending so much time trying to get the financing that I was old enough to do it finally. But it was years. "Let me get this straight. "You made a porno film where
the point is the plot?" Oh. "Nice Guys".
(bell dings) - Let me get this straight. You made a porno film where
the point was the plot? - Russell was so helpful. The first time we really worked was in this bathroom stall scene where I'm on the toilet, and I was trying to work out this way to work with the door and the gun, and I had a cigarette, all these things. I didn't know Russell,
and I just knew his work, and I knew that he was
a very serious actor. At one point, a door opened, and he was standing
there, and he was smoking, and he was staring at
me, and I thought, oh no. He hates it. And he was like, "If you want the door to bounce, "you have to hit it with your heel, "and if you want the
cigarette to hit the thing, "you gotta do", and he knew immediately what I was trying to do. - Hey. No. - He stepped right in
and helped me so much, and so I knew right from that moment on I was gonna have just the best partner. "Well actually, me and
Justin were wondering "how you guys got the name
for your band Xscape?" Oh. "Mickey Mouse Club"?
(bell dings) - Well actually, me and
Justin were wondering how you guys got the name
for your band Xscape? - I don't even remember
about the audition. I don't know, I was dancing
in a little dance troupe in my hometown. All the girls were going
to audition for this show, so I went too, and I don't know, somehow I ended up in a trailer park in Kissimmee, Florida. (laughing) Shooting the Mickey
Mouse Club for two years. Working for Disney and on that show, it trains you to be professional. Everyone on that show, besides myself, was some kind of a child prodigy. But I also think that they, and that experience really
kind of taught everybody a kind of work ethic or something that helped going forward. (bright upbeat music)
