Drama Actors Roundtable: Pedro Pascal, Evan Peters, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris & More

you Google your name and daddy 1.5 million things come up you seem to be having fun with it uh yeah I am having fun with it it seems a little role related I think the Mandalorian is very Daddy to Baby grogu Joel is very Daddy to Ellie these are daddy Parts yeah that's what it is I'm not a daddy I'm not gonna be a daddy I'm a Daddy nobody likes my daddy [Laughter] oh [Music] hi and welcome to the Hollywood Reporter Roundtable I'm your moderator with Lacey Rose thank you for being here yeah all right we're going to be here I'm going to start with what I hope is a is an easy question when a fan comes up to each of you on the street what are they likely to know you from and what do they typically say like what's the thing you get the most the new one which is weird people feel like they can touch me oh hey man hell yeah that thing what is that a stroller and the guy just grabs and does one he's like hey man love your show and I said no touchy and that was that was like as aggressive as I could be no touchy I could have defended my kids a little bit better than that but I'm apparently married to everyone I'm apparently everyone's husband how does that get presented exactly hey husband oh dinner's ready yeah and then they follow me and then I need to jump in the SUV and throw out yeah I get that one all the time too I remember early because of Game of Thrones and uh the way that my character died speaking of touching people were super into taking selfies with um their thumbs in my eyes uh yeah that's a lot of trust and at first it was a stranger and it was it and at first I was um I was so kind of earnest and and and happy about the success of the character in the show and I uh would let them in New York and um you would let them go like all places and uh and I remember getting a little bit of an eye infection and then I was gonna say it's like a thing that's a thing it had yeah it was so you didn't ask someone it's coming back hence the glasses right yeah exactly protection all right Jeff what do you get what if it's a dig Lebowski it's such a good movie it is great isn't it just those brothers that know how to do it put all of those things together like this the quote from that movie it's a very quotable movie but for some reason the one that I've extracted I use a lot because there's never a context for it is nice Marmot it feels like there's some alone in the conversation at this point that somebody's plant or something nice seriously all right Evan what about you yeah mostly American Horror Story and like what do they say can I take a picture I've seen your show yeah that's fully creeped me out nice Marmot thank you very much just very nice and just wants a photo and do you take pitches do you always do you guys always take pictures I have a rule now when I'm with my kids okay well now the whole fan thing is a different deal I mean when I huh is it I mean now it's a pro that's a pro thing because they collect them and sell them and it's a way of making money and people don't differentiate between who's doing that they tend to go like this I've noticed like that's like they see you and then they do like the grab the phone and try to take a picture and if I'm with my kids I get angry and I'll just be I'll go like that's rude and they'll be like ah yeah I'm like no it's actually very rude these are my children they're like imagine if I went to a playground started taking pictures yeah no freaking weird I just don't want that interaction like yeah add that one when I'm by myself I just leave it Michael what do you get I get the dude which I don't understand because I wasn't in the movie and I'm not Jeff Bridges no um The Sopranos for a long time until this last year and then a lot of people from White a lot of young people from White a lot of young people like you know that some people want to take a picture with me pretending I have a gun to their head and I never will do that good okay I don't do that I'll strangle them but not for the gun there's the line okay uh sometimes they do they ask yeah put like pretend you're shooting me like no man I'm like I'm weird that's horrible that's a bad Vibe yeah nope I would say that's fair okay so you're all here because of of these projects that that have really broken through and are phenomenal I'm curious and and be honest here if anyone had any sort of hesitations reservations going into them I I definitely I didn't want to play any more bad guys I was like not doing that anymore and then of course I read the scripts and uh I don't know I just I I felt I didn't first of all I didn't know the story and then the case of Jeffrey Dahmer and uh I I think I was just yeah I was pretty upset about uh just the the the amount of times that the police department and the justice system failed to stop him um because of racism homophobia Prejudice uh it was just uh it was too much it was it was way too much and so I was really compelled to try to push myself and try to dig in into that and see um really just give it 120 you know uh and and it was going to be an incredible challenge but I felt like the message of the the piece was was worth it to do that that idea of like not wanting to play any more bad guys why not what does that do to you why not yeah oh they're just um it's just it's it's just incredibly difficult I mean you guys I mean you guys characters are all um even even you Karen you know it's incredibly dramatic and sad you got the things that you guys are going through so um yeah I'm I'm curious Jeep with you guys but can I ask do you find that it's easy for you to like pop in and out of that like at the end of the day like you you're doing a difficult scene as Jeffrey Dahmer and then go all right I'm gonna go home and have some soup shower is it easy no no it's it's it's no it's it's really difficult and how long was the shoot like that it was it was like six and a half months that's six and a half months of that sort of hanging over you yeah plus prep which is another several months of oh geez yeah it was about four months of prep and you're wearing weights on your hands and yeah it was it was it was um yeah I watched the um I watched The Stone Phillips Dateline interview of him and and that was sort of when I saw that and and the way that he spoke I was like oh my before it even decided to do it I was like I have to start working on this now um to to try to figure out how he spoke the accident he moved weirdly he very straight back he doesn't move his arms when he walks he's just a very odd man uh so I wanted to try to work on that um for as long as I could because that's the thing you only get one shot at it you know and then it's done and and uh terrifying it's terrifying so I just tried to spend as much time as I could every waking moment working on it working on it working on it before we started shooting and even while we were working on it um yeah the question you just asked is a really sort of poignant one I mean for the recipe these are dark places that you're inhabiting when at the end of the day can you go have your soup and be you or are you and and how does that sort of weigh on you something that I've actually found strange to discover later in life the fact that it does weigh on you in the way that it can because I have always felt like um uh forced myself to not be romantic about the process and um and that doesn't mean to not take it totally seriously but like I can't leave it at home and it's like bad guys are fun you know and um uh I love exploring that kind of stuff but I've realized the older that I get that it doesn't matter really what you do you you it's stuff is going to um come home with you um yeah yeah even if it's not you like like you're physically going through something so your body has some sort of sense memory there's something going on it was a strange yeah nothing it just I just felt like I was really naive about it in the past and or that it was a decision it was a choice like I refuse to sort of indulge that these boundaries get blurred and um and and there isn't really a way to um keep that from happening I've discovered um yeah I was I remember sometime we do 10 episodes for my show and in this last season um I was hitting a block right I was like oh I'm not doing it right right so I went in the corner and then I was looking at the wall and I was like come on devil come on devil right come to me like come to me because I had to do something like crazy right had nightmares for a month so it does come after like I had nightmares every day like I just felt I felt that energy oh interesting you know and I had to pray and do all this stuff to like get rid of it and you know you call your mom up and you're like bring me back to life and that stuff is real that stuff really is real I think I was kidding myself as well I think you know when I see my kids that's off it's gone and you know bath time bedtime all the stuff and then they go to bed and they're like I'm not sleeping well or there's something you know did you what did you learn something out of that like what were you left with that was something positive that you might use down the line for something I think I don't know I think ultimately I learned well certainly the the case changed the way I looked at the world and our society but but I think for me personally I think it was it was uh I kind of learned what I could do what I what I can't do and what I need to work on um in terms of also sort of being uh because it was such a massive collaborative effort I mean like everybody worked so hard on on this thing to try to deliver that message that was such the intention going into it and like really you know our DP was incredible all the directors were incredible and it was just such a um a great community and one thing that I learned um actually this was working on on mayor of East Town I Kate Winslet Kate Winslet is a is a [ __ ] incredible person I mean an amazing actress but also just what a leader I mean she leads the set she talks to everybody she's compassionate towards every [ __ ] person on that set and I really looked up to that you know so I tried to carry that with me throughout shooting that and I think when you're working with a huge group of people like that with it with the same goal in mind it just it it becomes an amazing team and I think it's it's it's important to um I don't know to help be a good leader during that and and uh but at the same time the characters isolation right so yeah just for the process I mean having to tell someone how your weekend was when you're trying to get into a place well that's the thing it's an interesting thing to navigate energy when you're working especially because of the social construct of like making any a television show or a movie and in terms of like you're all together in in a social experience but there's so much of it as far as like you know concentration right frankly right is that like what'd you do this week people coming up and trying to joke I'm trying to remember my lines right now so much of it you can snap in and snap out and snap in or before the question before the trailer you think there's like some conscious preparation that you're not even aware of you know I mean like I mean I hope so to me I always hope to kind of you know take yeah take me now do the work do you date me man what do you want me to do you know well first of all I want you to prepare man make me good but you know that but finally at the end it's like you were talking about praying you know I'll pray before I feel a big scene I'll say you know I know I you know not to who I've conceive it to be but just let me do your work man what do you want me to you know yeah I mean yeah and I think that same guy that whoever that thing is out there is kind of prepping me all the way along you know you think about it and sometimes you can bring it like it sounds like you were doing you bring it into your conscious self and you can put that's where we imagine [ __ ] man we're powerful yeah you can use anything I've used [ __ ] that I would never tell anybody in mind what's going on in my mind we gotta get hit we we need to get you like just a really light fluffy rom-con um there's gotta be this is for any of that or are you not like uh yeah pigeonholed yeah I'm just I'm interested in exploring the light yes so we'll we'll get you some like a little break I like that um damson and and Karen you obviously have just come to the end of these you know wildly powerful successful sort of career defining roles for you guys and I'm curious sort of what how have you sort of coped with or maybe or coping with you know finishing that chapter and then also thinking about what's next because I imagine moving on is not is loaded and and challenging and also exciting what stage yeah okay well I mean my I'm you know it's TV so it's people kind of jump between different Realms today you know you would film you do a plate or whatever so I'm I'm the next thing I'm going to do is the films playing a Formula One driver but it's that it's like I think it's this if you if you see characters that force you to transform then you're kind of going to be fine because you could like you say you can go towards the light and so that's just it for me I played a drug deal I'm definitely not going to play a drug dealer again for a long time you know it's like when you left The Sopranos you were like man I'm probably not going to touch this again you know what about you Karen what's what stage of grief are we in it I feel like it hasn't even been two months since we finished shooting in the show still airing so I don't really know what the what the feeling is but um well I'm sure it's a lot of feelings well it's like yeah it was an amazing show to work on really incredible I'm a little bit scared of what the next job may be because of the freedom we were given and the way that we worked and I'm I felt very spoiled so I don't really know what that looks like that's scary it's scary but it's maybe that's a good kind of scary but I would have liked more but yeah I also I feel really good with what we've done I feel proud of the work and you know you work on a film and then it's just behind you and then months later you've got to talk about it and you're like oh yeah I missed that that was great that's where I think I am now is we did this for a few years and it's over now I can sort of talk about it and enjoy it I'm not in it uh-huh I have a question for you because the shows had such success from one straight to four have you ever got to a place where it's like man we killed it last season like we got all these Emmys like we absolutely destroyed it how do we top this like do you lose energy that's none of my business so that's theirs that's their business I show up and do the work isn't it great that it's none of our business I I love that's the best bit yeah it's like not my fault show up do the work go home yeah and I'm curious Michael for you I mean you've been in in their shoes I'm do you a have any advice based on what you did or perhaps didn't do I think it's it's good not to think of things in terms of career moves you know like just look at what's the next interesting part you know um I think people make mistakes when it's especially in Television right so you get on a show that's a hit and say oh now the next thing I have to be the star or the next thing is God's got to be hit you know if you start thinking that way I think you really can get in trouble starting to help people are going to perceive you as opposed to like picking the work yeah it's kind of yeah I feel like it's always been after whatever job it is it's always like back to the drawing board oh like my whole life has been done but it's interesting because I've heard you talk about sort of your post-oprano's trajectory and I think you know every profile that's written the the journalist seems to be surprised as as I am and you've said I'm going to quote you um where you said it's not like I have Hollywood ringing my phone all the freaking time I've worked consistently luckily but it's not like all the top directors are calling me and want me in their stuff it still always feels like a battle which surprises me you were on one of the greatest shows of of all times what was the feedback um and and did it surprise you is it much as it seems to surprise people like me um not necessarily you know Charles Grodin wrote a book right and the title of it was it would be so nice if you weren't here because that was the feeling the feeling he had when he would go into casting offices for auditions he always felt that's what they were thinking you know you go through all this rejection you're so insecure and I think I I've internalized that like my whole life and it always feels like a miracle when I get a job it still feels like that yeah it's very strange I think kids need to know that they want you to win like I learned that really late like oh when you walk in like they actually want you to kill it yeah that's true and they don't want you to fail you know they're trying to find a guy to cook stick him yeah so that's that's interesting too I like back to the drawing board I don't know about you I don't if I knew what my next two or three jobs were I that gives me panic attacks I don't like that I like the job being done and then there's nothing and then there's something that's so interesting yeah really yeah I have a mortgage there's another thing you talked about not not too long ago I guess it was a few years ago where uh you were talking about how you and Idris Elba would text about uh perhaps the fate of your character and I think he gave you some advice uh based on personal experience was which was make sure they kill you otherwise you're going to walk around in your whole life people are going to be like you should bring stuff all back yeah well spoiler alert that's not what happened yeah so a are you prepared for for that question being asked yeah already what you got already and what were those conversations around that well you know the drug dealer advisory goes to jail right yep so it was like oh what if like he loses everything and he's just wondering into the abyss which is what happens to Franklin saying you know and it's it's synonymous to so many people of that world you know it just played Stringer and then he was able to just go off and do whatever he wanted because it's like you can't bring him back from the dead so I think it's when you close the story The Right Way um it works but there's just so many shows today where it's like hey we're gonna get a spin-off and yeah you know so and then and the money like TV probably pays more than films these days you know so is I think you just have to let it go I've accepted that that show and and that character belongs to the people now and it doesn't belong to me you know I I finish a part I take an exotic trip to Trinidad and Tobago and I leave the character there and I come back and I start again see him but for in between seasons did you sort of feel that way as well or were you carrying it the whole oh man I definitely carrying it it was man you talk about stuff we put in that we don't need to put yeah I remember being in London talking in character and my mom's like what are you doing home yeah you know so it's but some people do need to you know and in some instances I needed to and I didn't and yeah whatever works I admire the people who I remember um sir Ian McKellen he was like I'm not a wizard I just I just walk into it right and I wish I could do that like I wish a little bit it was very good maybe it is in me those are the actors I kind of admire most the ones that can just like do it and then turn it off and just be themselves right after and go home and then he fledging was like that everyone thought he was like playing The Joker and he was just like in that mode all the time but I heard he was like chilling having coffee he was like hey how was your weekend it's really interesting I'm curious what doors these current projects have opened for you I'm looking at you because it feels like this is because it feels like this is been such a sort of you've been at this for a very long time and yet there's this sense of you are all of a sudden there's so many opportunities there's so much excitement around around your career I don't know if that comes with a sort of pressure to to strike while the iron is hot and how you sort of think about that navigation my glasses are starting to fog right it's like my body temperature just went up I've had the interesting experience of and the fortune really to be a part of um jobs that are have these kind of franchise size kind of successes you know and there's something that is um you're very taken care of in Terms of its level of exposure and if you can be a part of elevating that or or nurturing that in in any way with your with your acting um that that's been very lucky for me but they've all felt like these kinds of big machines you know and um and so it would be really interesting to see what happens if I can step into uh something that uh is more of a risk as far as uh how big the project is where it would be more uh story not to say that it's not because of the stories that these things that are in grander scale work um do you see that fogging they're [ __ ] but don't you think wouldn't you say that there's a lot of risk in doing something that's maybe so beloved and people are really expecting like there's a huge fan base yeah it's a video game totally scary I was I was I was really really scared I think before and it's it's the funny thing of compartmentalizing your feelings about stuff and kind of dealing with um the amount of pressure that you put on yourself the amount of pressure that that is actually out there I have this sort of psychological game where I'm like it's no big deal right right nobody cares nobody gives a [ __ ] you know what I mean I do that too and this time around I was scared I was so scared yeah because it's the kids man the kids are watching that because there was a kind of there was more of an exposed silhouette I would say similar kind of like silhouette of of of of coolness maybe that um that that an expectation to be met as far as what people's immersive experience of the story was and to disappoint them in that regard felt like it would be I you know you don't want to let people down but it you also kind of um nobody's impervious to disappointing people you know what I mean like you you I want people to like me [Laughter] no that's fine leave me alone but but just in terms of the kind of they're really fogging this time they really are they are yeah they really are yeah she's talking with you before but you know what that's actually you know what I'm saying I do which is why you asked it is and but then specific question and maybe you'll find this to be annoying to answer but like who's running this interview and I'm so happy about it exactly um did you play the video game or like I played it after I didn't know it existed when I got the job and I found out immediately what it was because it was such a big deal my nephews were teenagers um our teenagers and uh they freaked out and and then I saw I I always knew that there was so much creative like um uh ground being broken within the world of video games I had known that that was happening but I just didn't have the discipline or the skill to think God to go along thank God because I wouldn't I'm capable of a real give me a reason to not leave the house for sure that game is a good reason too so you played it after you filmed it or I tried to play it I can't play it okay what game what games it's called The Last of Us because I got sucked into a video which one prom that Tron of course one of the original video game adaptations right man that movie came out when there were arcades in the cinemas are there still arcades shot at 70 millimeter black and white all hand tinted by these ladies in Korea the director Stephen lisberger who wrote it and everything first time that was his first movie he lined the sound stages with video games yeah you know first time director because you can imagine everybody's like you know get to work I'm prepping man I'm prepping from my scene yeah oh my God I grew up in the arcade Generation Um is is that a real thing yeah you know man well that's pinball in terms of the I mean so now that you've done uh White Lotus do different doors start opening do other do is Hollywood sort of seeing you in a different way now do you feel that you start getting invited to a lot of parties and events and stuff which I hadn't in a long time I did for a while and then you did so how does it feel now on this side um no what's good is uh the the White Lotus has a lot of young fans and a lot of people who maybe never watched The Sopranos or maybe that's too violent I don't know so it's a it's a different fan base which is really cool talk talk a little bit about Mike white man Mike White artist and uh wow autor he wrote all the episodes and directs them all and it's very collaborative you know like wants input and takes input but has his point of view and I love that if he disagrees yeah and very kind I never heard him raises Voice once Sunset I never saw him lose his cool at all very respectful to the crew it's too good to be true but that's the tone he sets and he's just um and he's apparently uh really really really fast like yeah from what I heard is they want HBO wanted something they could shoot during the pandemic right because nothing was shooting oh yeah so they were saying does anyone have something that's like a self-contained thing he's like well I got this Hotel thing I'm thinking of and he wrote it in like he's never like two months or something and for the second season too like he's really really second season you were supposed to do something you were supposed to do this one weren't you maybe yeah the the scheduling didn't work out I was devastated can you go to Thailand let's go in Sicily he was going to be in season which character um Ethan Ethan yeah Ethan yeah it's will sharp on a plane and was Aubrey pauses that's right husband but that was did did Dahmer like kind of was it on the heels of that yeah yeah you needed some yeah so when casting directors call all of you guys what do you tend to hear and what's the thing where you're like not doing that again like I'm I'm I'm good you mean like mobster uh caretaker of cargo um annoying annoying keep going keep going I'm reluctant to play myself I think that's something new characters that are closer to yeah like a British guy from Southeast London right here oh interesting I'm not interested at all I think there's a million actors out there who could just go and do that you know and this opportunity for someone else to step into it I want to transform like uh when you look at when I look at myself on a screen I don't want to see myself I'm like one of those people like I hate the sound of my voice despite the fact that I'm talking about right now well I think everyone needs this out of their voice people when you were shooting your show I think did you say for the first whole season nobody even knew you had an accent yeah like like I I was really fortunate is why I'm asking you about like the show getting all this press and stuff like and then you having to like go back because for me if I was on all those doing all that press and stuff like that and everyone's like oh it's British I almost feel like it'll like take them out of when they watch me I had a weird way of thinking back then but um but no it was for me like I honestly enjoyed it I enjoyed the whole process of where the show got to six seasons took eight years to do it because of covid and the first pilot that we recast so I think it it worked out perfectly in the end and Petra you're you have two shows going on at once presumably you don't necessarily always have to be there for the Mandalorian correct ah that can just be a voice over yeah um for a lot of it yeah really yeah Oh I thought that was you there were lies it's all a lie I kept thinking that guy's really good we expect oh why now you know it's better let's get him here um there was a there was a there was a there was an extended amount of experimentation like being in the suit for for for for a lot of it and frankly you know my my body wasn't up for the task as far as like you know the four months of it but um I was in it I was in a significant amount elastic amount um but now we've figured it out it's super cool and and amazingly it gave me the opportunity to be able to go and and do something else that's good do you ever feel that like like I have a question sorry I'm serious do you ever like watch it go like oh I wouldn't have done that he like leaned on the thing that's not this do you ever had like a sense of ownership of like I should have been in the suit are you like no this is good um I think it's great great I don't know I think that there are things that that that you have to let go of in terms of um what can be uh an OCD level of uh attention to detail um because you know because we're making a call we're part of a collage man you know even so much but even so much as wanting your component of that collage to fit perfectly into the collage give it give it all up you can know too much sometimes too like for the last two seasons of my shirt it made me a producer and like everything was changed like I wasn't I didn't feel like to get that Insight right yeah did you like that or was that too much it was a lot I mean prior to that I'd get an episode script probably a week before I did it so there was that mystery but now it's like I know exactly where I'm going I know exactly where I'm going to end up and it was it was it was interesting yeah doing that and a lot more actors are doing that yeah they're heavily involved in the process so that's an awful minute so self producing hats yeah all that sort of stuff scares me but like on our show like we wouldn't get a script till like two or three days before shooting yeah but you I've heard you say you can memorize things I memorize fast it's like yeah so that's sort of like yeah and people hated you because of it some people yeah because you get like a new speech like that morning cards you never would have expected with cards with cards behind the guy's head so one of my when I didn't jump when I was 18 we did a scene with Gore Vidal who wasn't an actor and uh is me and Susan Sarandon with him and he just didn't he's not an actor you didn't know but he had a lot of dialogue so she just like let's get cue cards it was her idea and she sat there and just did this with him and it was like great it was like that's cool I was so excited to work with Tommy Lee Jones one of my favorite guys the come the big the NC you know we all agree the writer who you know and the director says it's not working I say okay you gotta write the damn thing on the lies and you know and I took a picture with my one like a camera of them writing it on the thing because that's one of my favorite pictures but then that it's tough yeah there's all these weird my brother Bo was doing a thing with Brando oh Brandon Austin said can I write my line I want eye contact see I don't think yeah on his forehead index cards I mean does the line change he Brandon had fired from the James Mason uh told me once he goes I think I would actually he goes I think I might actually be a good actor if I could just learn the damn lines he never knows he's at his in our show he always has his prop phone because he has his lines on it he just can't learn them he says he's always been that way that's not like I'm shocked to hear that you would get Pages last minute for something that comes across that's well it's typical from like that's typical on a different kind of show at least in my naivete the way I understood it in in did Sopranos like shock me no it came it came a couple of weeks before because we shot we would finish shooting before it aired all right it wasn't like it's also crazy that we're all here and uh part of different television shows because The Sopranos broke the wheel as far as what could be done I mean at the time did you have a sense for that you know um when it when it started airing yeah but before you know when when I got the pilot script I was like I had never really done television I was I mostly did movies in mostly independent movies so I wasn't really looking to tell me like an HBO series that's kind of that was kind of like The Bargain Basement of Television that was not Prestige at all the idea of a cable series was like oh God this probably isn't gonna go no one's gonna watch this and then you know here we are it turned out yeah it was pretty good wow but when the first season when it went on the air it caught on really quickly and you knew something was happening yeah how good are you guys at predicting are going to actually work when you're in them nope no idea truly no idea yeah but there's that thing I think this is kind of what I I keep coming back where you have high expectations and then the way they put the collage together exceeds your expectations totally better than you thought oh interesting what happens oh that's so wonderful it's all tool you like with too I mean like I was working with John Singleton so it was like oh yep you know yeah like that that's an interesting aspect of it where it's like oh look this could work you know but you don't think man yeah you kind of don't want to think about that stuff this show was the first time that I actually had that thought because I this is my first time doing a TV show so it's just a movie to me it's finished it's none of my business if it's like good or bad or how well it does it's just it's done now I finished that I'm doing the next thing so this time I was a little I had a little bit of investment interest I hope I hope it's good I kind of hope people watch it yeah and I I remember feeling like while we were shooting it I'm like okay I can tell this is sort of good quality but I'm sort of this who the hell is going to want to watch the show and then about halfway through I remember coming home and my wife asked how work was like I think it's I think the show's good I think it's good and I had that since while we were shooting it and then while watching it I had sort of had the same sort of feeling and it was reassuring to know that that was sort of what the response was was a little bit slow at the beginning and then people sort of connect feverish yeah and I feel like you're experiencing the same thing and you seem from the outside and this may it may be off but you seem to be having a lot of fun with it I mean you sort of engage with the dialogue I I truly don't understand the I don't have a good handle on the whole daddy thing you may yeah like what what is that exactly and and do you you Google uh yeah husband daddy with me I think one is like young old but you Google your name and daddy 1.5 million things come up but my question is like you seem to be having fun with it uh yeah I am having fun with it um I think that it it uh it it seems a little role related I think there was a period where um uh the Mandalorian is very Daddy to baby grogu um Joel is very uh Daddy to Ellie um these are daddy Parts yeah that's what it is I'm not a daddy I'm not gonna be a daddy I'm a Daddy nobody likes my daddy what did you just say nobody likes nobody likes my daddy part they like your daddy parts we were talking about how these parts sort of bleed into your lives um you obviously filmed the old man and and what was going on off screen was was sort of Darker and uh harder than anything I presumably you were doing in in your stunts and in your life as you return to a show which is about sort of aging and mortality and all of these things did you have a different perspective on the other side of of everything you went through yeah yeah it wasn't it wasn't too different it was like kind of more in Focus you know it was basically the same thing and it's the love thing you know you know that it's a chance when you in that kind of situation when you're dancing with your mortality you know you've realized how much you love the people that love you and you feel that love and just intensifies all that and then coming back to work after two years of being sick like that and it was so uh kind of psychedelic because uh all the same people you know the same crew the same cast was like we had a long weekend yeah and I felt like saying you know I had to wear this drain right because it went boom you know and that's the other thing that it brings to how fast all of this is going on man jeez one of the great things about what we're up to you know Pretenders basically right uh I love this thing I'm looking at uh Pedro there this is about the distance and right at the table when I first met you that's right that Reading Man and um and I felt that would ever hearing all you guys boom boom like we're in like a return is it a fraternity or you know there was a woman actress said she'd been but the club I was saying that uh Evan it's like and you come on do a set and you're doing a movie you only got a certain amount of time to kick ass and you want to be relaxed and you want to let everyone know hey we're in this together man love we love here we are love let's do what the love wants us to do and you know I got to say one thing about the reference you just ended up sitting at the table because I think that having been sort of chasing jobs for so many years of my life and and jobbing and no matter what it was whether it was a beer commercial or a play at Second Stage or whatever there's a lot of a heartbreak and a muscle gets kind of built around um you know making the assignment right and uh and then I get this job and you are one of my favorite actors and I grew up watching your movies and I uh have to do this I'm sorry but I got a job and one of the earlier days of the experience was sitting at a table with uh Jeff in kingsman the Golden Circle and I got to sit and watch you work and work things out and there was all this interesting stuff that you wanted to do with the um with the whiskey and and uh uh use it as mouthwash but you wouldn't drink you wouldn't swallow and you'd spit it into a thing and it was like with working with all that and I it was such an incredible school and it was also as if as if it was one of your earlier jobs in terms of the amount of that was my first time after I was sick man was it oh yeah I was in such and I had no idea God damn you look great oh and you were so just the you just I was taking you there and you were working here never forget to care this much about whatever you're doing never forget to care as much as this because this guy is you know it's what happens when you really care and you're really into it and then you you do that thing that we all do which you're you're on your way home and you're like [ __ ] why did why did I do that thing I should have done that no no no no no no no no no let's not even talk about that why do we got to go there now I know what to do now I know what the scene's about yeah [ __ ] it's what you deserve for getting into this in the first place we did it to ourselves you practice letting go this is something about how I'd go with that and what does that practice look like breathing has a lot to do with it you know I don't know you guys are into Wim Hof yeah I've been pushing a lot of stuff I'm in the Wim Hof too oh you are yeah should we do it yeah it might pass out but let's do it you know it's a cool thing but that would but that would help you right during the months yeah you know like when you're acting and you say oh you're you're still you got enough let me one more take please no we got to move on oh man no and yeah you look at it and you say oh yeah the guy was right you know or the other the opposite which is the worst feeling when you say after a take I kicked ass and they're like I kicked ass then you go see the dailies and it's a piece of crawfish what is it doing the hardest thing about it all really at the end of the day is what your relationship is to yourself that's right and you know what and that's not small to go into that conversation with yourself so that you can be fulfill something and and and and and for it to be on camera or in front of an audience um is it is a psychologically crazy thing to do to kind of be like sometimes you just walking oh yeah yeah and but you and yeah like all the time if you're me yeah and you're just like wow I remember there are so many instances where I'm I'm sort of like in that moment I'm like can't be good for you and it's not and it's not a matter of like the fact that I'm living you know the apocalypse for 12 months or or somebody who's terrifying and and and or like incredibly toxic never annoying never annoying toxic family Dynamics um but yeah no kidding it it can feel like it can feel like a crazy thing therefore I feel like the one thing to that you have to that we deserve is to actually let go what's left on on your sort of bucket list your professional bucket list are there things that you'd still very much like to do when we can manifest them right here right now I would like to be in an ensemble of uh it's cool I I uh keep resisting things and I keep kind of popping up and I you know resist and so what are you resisting right now what are you resisting right now but it is [Laughter] so good no I mean like with the old man I really resisted meetings uh you know John uh Steinberg because I knew you can eat with a creative person another creative cat man it's fun and you're jamming and you're in the world yeah that's what happened so I resisted man what about the eleven what's up what have you not done that you just love to do uh cartwheels car wheels I'd like to do a play yeah have you ever I've done a couple but nothing um as I was older you know so that'd be kind of kind of craving that yeah yeah that'd be great I'd love to see on stage I'd like to play Someone tall okay good um good just to see what that's like yeah no I don't I never like a boring answer I don't that's okay I have no idea until like the whirlpool right now no idea are there careers that you that you guys look at people and say like wow that would be cool you know working with uh Murray Abraham was pretty amazing you know he's when we were shooting he I think he was 82. he probably was the best actor I've ever worked with and is so on every his energy is like somebody physically like somebody half his age literally but also his um love of everything and just being so on it as an actor with his choices with all to the fullest expression of the art you know in his early 80s I was like wow that's very impressive that gave me a a perspective that I hadn't had before to be honest yeah I did this film called farming and it was like a real person it was a director of his story and I that bug I kind of caught of just like playing real people I think that's just I mean that's it's just so much fun um so I'd love to play a musician I don't know there's a saxophone in my living room that's been sat there for two years like during covet I was like I'm gonna learn the sacks and I'm gonna learn Spanish and fast forward a student take that saxophone out and get it on a piano wire don't put it in the case see that's the you got to open the case huh mine's just hanging on like oh God yep yes that's good but one even one step if you hang up by a piano wire right at the thing right you're where you have so you can just go and then you're swinging there you know don't you think [Applause] [Music] yeah I love it I love it um well thank you guys all for uh for being here you survived uh it was fun thank you [Music]

Channel: The Hollywood Reporter

Views: 1,855,700

Keywords: thr, the hollywood reporter, hollywood reporter, entertainment, hollywood, thr roundtables, the hollywood reporter roundtable, drama actor roundtable, Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, Damson Idris, Michael Imperioli, Pedro Pascal, Evan Peters, Pedro Pascal Last of Us, Pedro Pascal The Mandalorian, Michael Imperioli The White Lotus, Jeff Bridges The Old Man, Damson Idris Snowfall, Damson Idris Swarm, Evan Peters Dahmer, Kieran Culkin Succession, roundtable pedro pascal

Id: GuqnPFL8-E8

Length: 50min 29sec (3029 seconds)

Published: Wed May 24 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/Manny-Both-Hanz]

Can't say I've seen a lot of Evan Peters' work but I'm surprised how soft spoken he is.

[u/zedarecaida]

Roman asking if the Mandalorian would be his daddy is an insult to Logan Roy on so many levels

[u/hazychestnutz]

Putting Jeff Bridges aside into the "more" category :(

[u/smindymix]

How tf are Jeff Bridges and Michael Imperioli “& more”? I know they want the TikTok crowd to click, but damn.

[u/Carsoninthehouse]

I’m really happy to see Damson there, even though he seems to not even be in the discussion for a nomination, which is ridiculous.

[u/cellexo]

Evan Peters look dead inside.

[u/SuicideSkwad]

Kieran low-key forgot he was in Fargo lol, called Succession his first TV show

[u/Melodic-Ask4545]

Anyone got an ID on the shirt that Kieran is wearing??