Emmy-Winner Jeff Daniels Talks Netflix’s ‘A Man in Full,’ Lions & More w Rich Eisen | Full Interview

man in full available uh next week starting Thursday May 2nd only on Netflix 6 episode limited series on The Late Tom Wolf novel Jeff Daniels starring in a fantastic cast also three episodes directed by one of our favorites Regina King as well and it that that was fun just to watch that the whole thing was fun you were laughing during that just watching yourself because I remember the day we had Tom Pelfrey who was there and Bill Camp who I've known forever and it was just the three of us and I said to the guys I said I'm going big I'm going out on a limb with this don't leave me out there and they went with me and it was it was great fun it was great fun so I I'll be straight up with you I mean I had not thought of a man in full in a while I mean I read it a long time ago so how did this come about for for a man in full to be put in Netflix and in front of you uh DAV Kelly uh wrote all six episodes I've heard of him Regina yeah Regina King was directing along with Tommy schamy and um and so right there you got the people yeah and they they came to me and said we're doing this I was unaware of the book so once I said yes I grabbed it and read it um it's relevant to today um Charlie kroer who is a bigger than life real estate tycoon in Atlanta this is in the late 90s but we've kind of updated it to now mhm basically builds buildings on the bank's money and he owes about $800 million in loans and things like that but he keeps buying a private plane and buying a quail PL Plantation and spending way too much money on other things and the bank basically which is what the season you know part of that that scene was was they uh they call them in they go we're calling the note you owe 800 Million by Tuesday and so then we then that over the six episodes we find you know Charlie just scrambling to uh you know justify the fact that he's worth as much as people think he he is which is story is today making a note and stuff like that just generally speaking ripped straight from the headlines in a way and so uh again that's on Netflix which is available right here on Roku Jeff Daniels here in studio and for full disclosure um you're here in town doing some work and um you have to stay in town this week because originally we were SL slated to have you on our show in Detroit which I was really looking forward which Ian we as well because I mean an NFL draft in Detroit Michigan as the lions are seemingly a rocket ship I wouldn't say cresting because that would mean that there's Maybe no higher Peak than the one that they currently have but it's going to be great I'm looking forward to it I Detroit first of all Detroit is so cranked for the draft they they are rolling out the red carpet they are I mean beautifying the city they are everybody's going to be there I got you know a son-in-law and my my boys are going we should go down for the draft you know go down and just experience it I mean it's it's going to be a great thing for the city Detroit is a football town at the end of the day I mean the Tigers the Red Wings the Pistons yes but the Lions and you saw it last year the frenzy around the Lions success and that buildup to getting into the playoffs and then going into the playoffs a little deeper I mean we were out of our minds and it's and I I I know Sheila Hamp a little bit and I I said when you guys get there mhm it's going to be unlike anything that any of the other teams have done uh it's going to overtake us because it's it's it's a football City at the end of the day I think the roar has been restored I think we can at least say that at this point in time Campbell and and Dan Campbell and Brad Holmes and and what Sheila has done uh they have really just turned that organization upside down over the last three years and the success they had last year was I think a year earlier than they thought uh but they are they are on a long range plan of being one of those teams that stays good just doesn't have a year and then they're gone I mean I that's what I see is that they are really trying to you know be good for five or longer years well I mean it's kind of fitting that the dra a draft is in Detroit uh based on what you just said Jeff because the year early I think arrived because of how well they drafted last year and jir Gibbs and Jack Campbell and that I still people screaming about Gibbs I can still hear him screaming you did what I know you did what and apparently they they beat several teams to the punch on drafting him that there were a couple others that were just like okay he's going to drop he's going to drop because everybody's talking about bejan Robinson and he's going to just fall to us and the Lions beat a haunted teams to the punch and he is just unbelievable I watched I i' I've been I was at the last uh playoff game the Tampa Bay game and I was watching and they got it out to Gibson the flat and this happened he got it and he was over here mhm he was 10 yards that quickness of speed and the defender was waving he was certainly in a defensive position to get him and then he was over there MH it it it was was something that kind of speed and quickness so how loud was it in that building cuz that's all everyone was talking about is how crazy it was in Ford Fields this playoff games I you know it's been loud but in the Tampa Bay game the game we won before we went to San Francisco that last minute and a half uh Baker Mayfield had the ball on his 15 or something made a completion okay and then he threw the interception was it blades I think made the interception that basically sealed for us when he caught it it was like a movie on Q I want all 65,000 of you to scream the word yeah that and I I was actually had my phone and I was going well this will be fun I'll put it on voice memo and just record the last two minutes audio just for me yeah and when that happened it was if someone had queued the entire Stadium to say that word go yeah and it just you felt the roof lift was so and it was you know you've heard people scream and and you know generically and a whole bunch of but the one same word 65,000 people that happened it's better it's probably better than the word that you used to say in unison in that Stadium right or all those years in the silver room I've heard that too I'm sure it 65,000 all at once yeah yeah or probably 880,000 or probably eight I remember some of those days lot of decades where that was the lead word which is why everybody was just sort of exhaling at the same time last year I think it was Derek Barnes who was the one who came up with that pick because he's the one who whiffed on Dak Prescott in that Dallas Cowboy game that everybody thought was the one that screwed the Lions out of their best chance to get to where they eventually wound up he atoned he redeemed himself totally redeem yourself I mean he did he did he did it so still there still there that's amazing Jeff daniels's here giving the people what they want on the Rich Eisen show greatly appreciate that yeah and so what what is it like though watching Dan Campbell makes some of these decisions well it's what got us there you know going forth and fourth down and you're not going to hit them all but he's always at spinal tap 11 here you know what I mean like like we could find a different volume you know what I mean like you could dial it down to nine okay yeah I know I I don't know enough about football to know what the percentages are of going for it now but um yeah I mean we're all just I mean when he's going you know and he's going for it and you're up off the couch and you're walking and you're way you're doing this you know you're doing all that but look he's dangerous if you're the opposing team the opposing coach yeah he's dangerous and um other coaches have followed that you know I mean I come up in the air on fourth down going for it no never ever now everybody does it it's kind of crazy and I think Dan's kind of you know led the way on that um well he did it in the opener in Kansas City in his own end I believe on like the second possession of the season in mahomes's house they just raised the banner so there is a track record understood yeah you know but that's got to be it's got to be just cool just seeing the team the way it is right now you know I'm so hopeful uh um when they went to San Francisco my theory is at halftime if they had been I think they were up 10 14 mhm if they had been tied or down three or down seven they'd have stayed there but I think they came out of the locker room and that's when they realized um they're 30 minutes away from the Super Bowl and it's not fear of failure I thought it was fear of success you think so huh yeah yeah I mean look well I mean look they they immediately tightened up and next thing you know we're tied and well that also that play where it got popped up I think that was blades right the one was popped up in the air and went right to auk yeah I mean there's that in the Playbook I don't see that there's a photograph that we we had I don't know if we uh where I that yeah we'll be try to call it up where the ball was actually surrounded in the arms of the the Lions Defender and it mind it's mind-blowing that that winds up in the arms of auk not to S to go down see those those are the players that was vildor that's right I mean like I don't know how that doesn't hand that's the moment there's all of that but I I I don't think it's like oh and then we're crushed and now we're just going to be a mediocre team I think the guys don't had to go through that right and now when they get there again it's not going to be the first time or even the second time it's going to be we know how to handle it now it's like Broadway when you have an opening night and it's your first one it's the Super Bowl it's the ACT stage actor Super Bowl and you try to survive it and you know that all the critics are out there and all the whatever are out there and you get through it and then the second opening night on a different production yeah keep up it is it is you keep up with me and now that's the second one you can't do it on the first one right but the second one I'm hopeful that that Campbell and Company and and the players in particular you know they're young will go we've been here before we're not going to let it slip away again mhm that's you know I'm a lions fan that's what you hope for well I got Jeff Daniels here on the rich Oden show again a man in full available for streaming next week on Netflix 6 episode limited series so one of the things I love about the draft traveling is you go to different towns and when the rivals of the local Town gets put on the clock there's booze now back in the day when it was in Radio City Jets or the Giants or the hometown so when the Eagles run the clock the Cowboys run the clock Lusty booze which team when they go on the clock in Detroit will get the loudest booze do you think Jeff Daniels what do you think certainly everybody in our division but which one which one do you think will have the the well which one the Brio the particular Brio from now which one is the threat I mean the Vikings are do they have quarterback uh they have Sam darnold again but I'm I'm with you outstanding do they have um do they have the Bears uh we're giving up on Justin Fields we're going to draft a rookie and so they're you know are they really uh who else is the Packers and the pack the Packers I I think it's the Packers not just because of Aaron roders whom we beat on his way out of town a couple seasons ago thanks enjoy the Jets see you later um but uh um Jordan loves playing and and they're I think they're ruin your Thanksgiving and uh and so close to playing them in the playoffs too yeah I think that's the Rivalry just because the Packers feel like the team that's closer to having turned it around post Aaron Rogers and are going to be a factor next year so I'm going to say Packers Packers on the clock that'll be the loudest yeah you won't be able to hear them announce whoever the hell they're picking CU we don't care at the end of the day anyway I love it man fantastic so uh I've asked you this before but I'll ask it again because it's the first time that you're here in studio when you walk around and people see you which is the movie or play or anything that you get from like depends on the person okay uh certainly Dumb and Dumber is a is a big hit okay uh you know internationally and uh pick an airport oh my God Dum a dum oh my God yeah um uh you know and there's Newsroom and there's Gettysburg and you know you get those people uh uh you know because of wind Dixie which is a little family movie that I you know uh was very happy to get paid for sure um was going wind Dixie was my God I grew up on that I'm going okay how about speed speed yeah yeah yeah did you get that a little bit a little bit I mean I was the guy back in the office you know going speed I I I uh I remember getting the script and they said um and I died on page 22 I died in the Elevator Shaft oh and I I I said you know the career is in trouble but it's not in that much trouble I'm going to pass so and the agent said hang on there's another draft coming you die later I said okay and and it did it came in about you know page 80 oh so you gained 60 something pages I did well okay all right I'll do it and Keanu and Sandy bulock and you know it was like okay uh happy to do it uh and I get into that house and I've we're in somewhere near here I think somewhere south of LA and uh and I've got I've got full SWAT gear on yeah you know it's like 80 pounds of whatever and I got to crawl in through a little window and look like Harrison Ford doing it and i' catching on the window frame and all that I finally get in and this this the moment in speed is I've got to turn and look at the thermostat and understand that that's not a thermostat that's a timer for a bomb and it's 3 2 1 and about to blow up and so I'm going How am I'm going to do that I'm not going to do I make faces do I you know what do I cry do I what do I do and and I remembered an interview that Roy shider did for Jaws and they asked Roy that moment Roy when you saw the shark my God I mean one of the the great acting moments in cinematic history how did you do that and Roy said well I looked down and when I looked over at the shark I made sure my cheeks muscles were a little up and then I just dropped them so I said that's what I'll do so I looked at the thermostat cut lunch lunch and I have gotten critics that moment moment and speed Jeff I mean I get emotional talking about it you know yes yeah well I Roy shider I love that story great story oh my gosh and it's funny you say it was right around here cuz the 105 is right up uh it was somewhere some little house that they rented cuz the 105 Freeway was just it wasn't completed yet and that's when right here this freeway that's right here it was one that was used in speed yeah yeah oh my gosh uh and Jack Nicholson just turned 87 Yesterday by the way God bless that man did you have any interaction with him on the set of terms little yeah he he was so uh uh nice to me um when we did Terms of Endearment we got Jack and that legitimized the whole movie and I remember on the set and being the last actor to walk over and meet him Deborah said you have you met Jack no I'm I'm 28 years old I don't know anything he go come here she dragged me over over and she Jack Jeff Jeff Jack Jack said uh what have you done well you know I've done done some uh Broadway some Off Broadway and uh you know and he was very kind he said well this ain't Broadway this is the Pro game no he didn't yeah and I'm thank you what what would you like in your coffee so I I but he was right in that M the money involved the that can happen um when they put the camera on you at 4 in the morning and it's your speech and we're losing light you got to hit it all of that that was the great light you don't get eight shows a week to refine it and all that it's now so that made sense decades later I'm doing God of Carnage which was a play on Broadway with James gandalfi and hope Davis Maria Garten we were the hit of New York and Jack came huh and he came backstage and he Saidi can't do what you guys are doing really yeah which was a very humble thing for him to say and I thanked him for coming and all of that and then we did got to Carnage again out in La about a year or so later at the omnison theater and same cast and he came again and he came backstage and and we talked a little bit and then he was leaving and he turned around and he said uh I'm proud of you left come on yeah that had a really hit home yeah I think you know and I had done interviews where I said you know this the pro game I had told that story but Jack coming back and saying to me meant the world it's it's the review you hope to get from somebody that actually matters Jack yeah one of the few people you say his first name you know exactly what you're talking about yeah fantastic Jeff Daniels you're the man uh thanks for coming here today congrats in advance of a man in full again check it out starting next week right here on the Roku platform through Netflix six episode limited series Diane Lane Tom Pelfrey who's been here as well uh he's awesome Lucy Lou just to name some in the cast Regina King directing David E Kelly showrunner and the writer and the executive producer Thomas schamy also directing congrats brother thank you thanks again what a great uh opportunity to have you here and I will say hello to Detroit for you enjoy Detroit they're waiting for you are your family members going to go to the draft are they going to do that I believe there's talk yeah okay this chatter they just chatter at this point but they might very good well if they if they if they well we'll we'll talk about it but uh hope to see them and great you can get them parking no that's Monopoly sir okay this is 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Published: Wed Apr 24 2024