"Charlize Theron"

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Speaker 1 Hey, how was the golf vacation? How was your golf trip?

Speaker 1 It was good. It was really really good you really missed one there Arnett that's okay I was working I was working you were busy providing I thought you guys went together I couldn't go I had to work

Speaker 1 I tried I tried I was with your wife last night Jason

Speaker 1 sorry I hung out with your wife last night there we

Speaker 1 love yeah she's pretty great

Speaker 1 my um so that was a 10-year-old that's Maple the 15-year-old Franny had her sweet 16 this weekend I know I i love that no kidding she did um and it was the boyfriend back to back were you back for it i came back just in time to drive to where she was having it uh to uh kick them all out and lock up

Speaker 1 and um and it was uh

Speaker 1 it was it was great i was i was ready to see things that i wasn't ready to see

Speaker 1 And I didn't see anything that I was worried about. It was very, I mean, there was like bowls of chips and Oreo cookies laid out on trays.
You weren't like sweeping up vape cartridges. Exactly.

Speaker 1 At least I didn't find any.

Speaker 1 But like just sweeping up Oreo cookies and stuff. And where was the party? Was it at Sean's house?

Speaker 1 There were a lot of Cheetos and

Speaker 1 cookies and

Speaker 1 it sounds like my 51st.

Speaker 1 Sean, what was the last big party you threw, Sean? For yourself? For myself or just in general? For yourself?

Speaker 1 I don't know. Years and years and years ago.

Speaker 1 Why don't you treat yourself?

Speaker 1 Well, didn't you guys come to that? Remember that poker party that I had? I don't. I did.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Sean, that was 2004.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm not kidding.

Speaker 1 I was in the fall of 2004 in your backyard. I was there.
I don't even remember the year. You know, we used to play a lot of poker, Will.
Why don't we start playing poker again? We talked about it.

Speaker 1 We've been threatening. I guess we could do it over here at my house.

Speaker 1 Why don't we just do it? Be fun. Hey, I texted Will yesterday if I could wear these shoes with the suit pants.

Speaker 1 Now, are you wearing them on the flight, too?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Wait, wait, wait.
What do you mean, flight? What do you mean, suit pants? Oh, right. You're taking off today.
He's going to an event. Yeah, why are you wearing suit pants?

Speaker 1 And who says suit pants? Aren't they called slacks?

Speaker 1 Who says slacks? Who says fucking suit pants, bro? Here we go, guys. Here we are.
Suit pants versus slacks. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 Let's go back to the socks. Get back up and let's question the socks.
Yeah. Aren't there like little faces on that? Yeah, what are you doing? What is that? No,

Speaker 1 they're just checkers. Are they fun? They're hound's tooth.
Do you like people who are like, I'm going to wear fun socks today?

Speaker 1 And I hope that people notice my fun socks and they go, oh man, you must have a real sense of humor because I just noticed your socks.

Speaker 1 This really shows that you've got a real sense of humor.

Speaker 1 You've got a lot of character. Wow, you've got a lot of character.
Look at this. Where are you going, Sean?

Speaker 1 I'm going to an event tonight, an award ceremony in Chicago for theater. Uh-huh.
Is the events tonight, Sean? The events tonight, yeah. Wait, what time do you land?

Speaker 1 Are you nominated or are you presenting?

Speaker 1 I'm nominated, and Good Night Oscar The Show is nominated, and Emily Burgle, who plays my wife, is nominated, and the writer is nominated, Doug Wright, and Lisa Peterson, who directed, is nominated.

Speaker 1 Amazing.

Speaker 1 Are you not nominated?

Speaker 1 No, I am nominated. Oh, my God.
Such an honor. Are you also presenting? No.

Speaker 1 What time do you get in? You're leaving.

Speaker 1 I literally land and have to go straight there.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, this feels like poor planning. Do you have, do you have an acceptance speech written? I mean, just in case I have ideas of just who you want to thank.
Will you be

Speaker 1 looking at Sean showed me a copy of his acceptance speech, and he actually crossed out Scotty?

Speaker 1 He crossed it, he'd had him in, and then he crossed it out. Did you guys get in a fight last night? Yeah, a little bit.
Wait, I want to go back to the socks for two seconds.

Speaker 1 Let's not talk about the Scotty fight.

Speaker 1 No, I want to talk about Furlen Oreo at him. No, no.

Speaker 1 I think the socks thing is because we don't, as guys, don't get a lot of, and as far as fashion goes, a lot of room to play with, like it's always just a suit. Opportunities for heights with clothes.

Speaker 1 I think you're going to say it's always just a hoodie.

Speaker 1 Do you have another hoodie on? Yeah, I do like to accessorize a little bit every once in a while.

Speaker 1 I don't have the moves that Will does because you're not afraid of a scarf or something like that, are you, Will? Or a cravat. No.

Speaker 1 What's a crave? Yeah, what is a cravat? Ascot, I guess. I don't know.
You know, I get.

Speaker 1 I see the way he was so like trying to have patience with us Philistines that don't. Well, what can I do? I mean, you know, I get roasted for it if I just, you know, just for my common parlance.

Speaker 1 That's why I texted you because of the three of us, you probably dressed the best. You really do.
Thank you very much. Thank you for saying that.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I really take that as a compliment. And I did say to you, yes, I mean, I think that those shoes are okay.
Yes. I said, give me the context where it is.
And he said, it's this thing.

Speaker 1 It's not a big deal. And it's in Chicago.
And I said, then it's fine. Yeah, it's a big deal.
All you heard was Chicago, and it's good then. Yeah, when it's in Chicago, yeah, it's fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was fine in Chicago. So they're tennis shoes.
I'm just kidding. All my friends in Chicago, it should be noted, love Chicago.
We had a great time in Chicago. The three of us did.
We did.

Speaker 1 And we love it. But, Shawnee, those are tennis shoes you're wearing with a suit? Or am I looking at the full outfit right now? Is the hoodie part of the suit?

Speaker 1 No, no, the hoodie is just for the airplane. But

Speaker 1 what is your opinion, Jason, about gym shoes with a suit as opposed to like dress shoes?

Speaker 1 Those aren't gym shoes, though.

Speaker 1 Stop saying gym shoes and suit pants. They're like, you know,

Speaker 1 they're

Speaker 1 give like rich guys a problem. Sorry, we'll be right with you, guys.

Speaker 1 Those are like adult contemporary.

Speaker 1 I call those adult contemporary shoes. I'm a rich guy with a yacht.
Yeah, no, I'm a finance guy, and I'm trying to be cool. And so my wife got me some Tom Ford sneakers.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, hey, look, I'm hip. I don't have time to think about it.
I'm worried about numbers all the time. And then I'm wearing jeans and I'm wearing these kind of sneakers kind of thing.

Speaker 1 And it's like, hey, listen, I'm wearing this suit jacket, but then I'm jeans under the desk and I've got these fucking cool sneaks. Like, okay, just fucking do it or don't.

Speaker 1 All right, let's get back to

Speaker 1 you.

Speaker 1 You know, Jason gets it. You know, I'm not mad.
I just get worried about it. No, you're not mad.
I know you're not mad. I know you're about to get real pleased.

Speaker 1 Today, we have a guest that is all things. She's an actor.
She's a producer. She's a mom, a model, an Academy Award winner, a united nations messenger of peace

Speaker 1 and a friend of ours she's been in 50 films but is younger than all of us let's find out how she gets it all done today on smart list shall we gang please welcome the one and only charlize theon oh my gosh yeah

Speaker 1 hi charlize

Speaker 1 she's got a cute haircut and a cute sweater on cute haircut i do it's a grow out i don't think it's a haircut it's it's a growout

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's a growout.
And it's dark, listener. It looks real good dark.
Yeah, it's super cute. Have I ever seen you dark?

Speaker 2 I think so.

Speaker 1 Or brunette. What do we call it?

Speaker 2 Whatever you want. I mean, I'm not that picky about it.

Speaker 1 It's just cute as hell.

Speaker 1 She just put it right back into your court, JB. Yes, she did.

Speaker 1 She's got a sweater on that I think I wore in 84. She wears it real well.
Let's bring those back. Yes.
What about socks, Charlie's are you a socks?

Speaker 1 Let me see. Here she goes.
Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah. Nothing.
No socks. No socks, no shoes.
But you got a couple tats on there. No socks.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 Sean, quick eye there, you noticed, huh?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Fast, I'm fast.
How many tattoos do we have today? I have two. I'm proud to say.

Speaker 2 You have a tramp stamp?

Speaker 1 That's amazing. It's right on the small of my back.
It just says breathe. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What does it say? Breathe.

Speaker 1 Breathe.

Speaker 2 So it's working.

Speaker 1 So it's like a PSA for whoever you're with.

Speaker 1 Sean, Will. Any tattoos from you two?

Speaker 1 That's hysterical. Sure.

Speaker 1 Sean's laughing because it's an idea.

Speaker 1 No tattoos. Right.
No tattoos from Will, Sean? No, I've always wanted to get one. When I was young, I wanted to get one on my bicep.
My what? My bicep.

Speaker 1 And then what happened? It went away, so you had no place to put it.

Speaker 1 I wanted to get Wendell Carter.

Speaker 2 It would be one of those when you're waving, it speaks.

Speaker 1 It's like

Speaker 1 that's what's happening to me now. At 53, I'd like, I don't like to show my tattoos because both are on the girls' names on the inside of my arm there.
I don't notice how I don't say bicep.

Speaker 1 And then when I show it to somebody, when they ask, and then that little bottom part of the arm just starts to wave at them, it's not good.

Speaker 2 I have my girls' middle names on my arm, too. Do you? Oh, that's it.
And charcoal gray right here.

Speaker 1 On your, but on your forearm.

Speaker 2 On my forearm, yes.

Speaker 1 Okay, so let me ask you, actors with tattoos, do you have to go through makeup when you're doing a movie to get it? Like, is it a pain in the ass? Yeah, you got to get it covered up.

Speaker 1 I did for the first year of Ozark, and then I said, enough. Let's say my guy's got tattoos.
Who cares? What about you, Charlie?

Speaker 2 I did this in charcoal gray, so it doesn't really photograph. It's super light.

Speaker 2 And so it doesn't, you don't really, you don't pick it up. And I have found as a producer that when they're light like this, it's easy to take them out in the DI.

Speaker 2 You don't have to put a ton of makeup. It's almost easier to just leave it alone if it's a light tattoo.

Speaker 1 But there's also

Speaker 1 that I think it started with Mike Tyson and

Speaker 1 Hangover 3, right? Where you have to get the approval or the sign-off of the person who does the tattoo, otherwise they can sue you.

Speaker 1 The artist, yeah, or they can sue you later for like showing a painting that you haven't bought the license for or something like that. Yeah, really?

Speaker 1 This world where it's like, like playing a song, you got to pay for it.

Speaker 2 It's kind of hard to do. Remember when shit was free?

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Just remember when people didn't stress about shit that was stupid?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I do.

Speaker 1 Oh, I didn't know that we were all drinking. Sorry.

Speaker 1 Sorry, gang.

Speaker 2 All right. It's nice to see you guys, by the way.

Speaker 1 It's been a while.

Speaker 2 It's been a long time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Many, many years. Many years.
I saw you. Remember when she was on arrested development, Sean? What was your favorite? Sean, remember when she was on arrested development?

Speaker 1 What was your favorite mindset? Oh, God. It's one of my favorite episodes.
When she came in,

Speaker 1 he's never seen arrested Charlie's. It's a point of contention.
She played a character named Rita. Rita.
Who was

Speaker 1 she?

Speaker 1 Charlize, were you? I bet you don't even remember either. I don't.
You were a spy.

Speaker 1 Or we thought you were a spy.

Speaker 2 We thought I was a spy, yes, because I had a very interesting British accent. I sounded very smart.

Speaker 1 Did you have a growing up in South Africa, did you have an accent as a kid and got rid of it? Or what happened? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, I didn't speak English really until I was like 19.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 I grew up in an area.

Speaker 2 Yes, I grew up in an area where

Speaker 2 that's fucking terrible.

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, wait, wait. Come on, Bruce.
Come on, Bruce. Come on, Bru.

Speaker 1 I know, it's terrible. It's a very difficult accent to South Africa.
Very, very difficult.

Speaker 2 Anyway, yeah, I didn't speak it. So

Speaker 2 I had it as an as a second language, but nobody in my neighborhood spoke English. But I went to Ballet and

Speaker 2 it was the Royal Academy of London. And so we had these teachers from London, and they couldn't speak Africa.
So that was the only English I ever really heard was these two Brits

Speaker 2 yelling at us. And I would do exams, not even knowing I was doing exams because I didn't understand what they were saying.
So when I came here at 19, it was really kind of like learning the language.

Speaker 2 And that's why it was easy for me to drop the accent because I was really learning English from scratch.

Speaker 2 I think English-speaking South Africans have a harder time because it's an ingrained accent that they're trying to break. I didn't have that.

Speaker 1 So, Afrikaans is a completely different language.

Speaker 1 It's not a

Speaker 1 severity of accent.

Speaker 1 This is new information for you.

Speaker 1 Wow. And it is a combination of

Speaker 2 44 people still speaking it. It's definitely a dying language.
It's not a very helpful language.

Speaker 1 Do we know what it is a combination of?

Speaker 2 Yeah, Dutch. I mean, we, yeah.
So

Speaker 2 we at pretty much all of Europe try to come in and

Speaker 2 take over. So, but the Dutch language is predominantly what it's based on.
And then there's some German in there, and then we've bastardize it. So if I

Speaker 2 understand Dutch, but when I speak Afrikaans, a Dutch person will be like very hoity-toity about it. And they'll be like, I don't know what you're saying.
Cause we've kind of bastardized it.

Speaker 2 We flatten it out a little bit.

Speaker 1 They might even say that's a terrible. terrible accent like you said to me

Speaker 1 wait i'm an idiot did you did you ever play a part where you had to do a South African accent?

Speaker 2 I did, yeah. You did, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Really super famous movie, and I'm a dumb-dum.

Speaker 2 No, it's not, actually. It's uh, yeah, it was a film called The Last Face.

Speaker 1 Uh-huh. Okay.
Because I could talk to you for nine hours about Alien Prometheus right now, but because it's one of my favorite movies. I love that.
You loved NQ Scotty.

Speaker 1 Scotty's creeping in in the background for some time. It did look like the door was opening.
Oh, it's the dog. It's the dog.
If it was Scotty on all fours, just coming to listen.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, okay, so then you said you came here at 19.

Speaker 1 Charlize, let's go back.

Speaker 1 So we're in South Africa. We decide to go to

Speaker 1 now ballet was not first, was it modeling in Milan?

Speaker 2 Well, I started dancing when I was really young, and then I went to an art school for dance. And that's really what I wanted to do with my life.
I just, I fell in love with dance. And

Speaker 2 I mean, really what I fell in love with was storytelling, but I didn't know it then. Because technically, I was never the strongest dancer.
But

Speaker 2 when I was Swan Lake, I would fucking die on the stage. And so I always got work because I couldn't.

Speaker 1 Stop nodding, Sean. Oh, okay.
Sorry. I mean, he's eagerly nodding.
But yeah,

Speaker 2 that's what I wanted to do with my life until I kind of couldn't. And I had to kind of rethink my life.

Speaker 2 And my mom was the one that pointed out that it was maybe more the storytelling aspect of it that I loved than the dance.

Speaker 2 And so she was the one that kind of put it together together that maybe I should go and try acting, which was like

Speaker 2 the most stupid, ignorant. Like, we knew nothing, nothing about how you would even go about to be an actor.

Speaker 1 So, how did you?

Speaker 2 A one-way ticket to Hollywood.

Speaker 1 Oh, really?

Speaker 2 She literally bought me a one-way ticket to Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 And I got off the plane, and I had nowhere to stay. I mean, I just had no plan.
I stayed at the farmer's daughter because the cab dropped.

Speaker 1 On Fairfax.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and now it's cute. Back then, it was like a by the hour.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I bought a bottle of bleach right across from the Vaughns and started cleaning that bathroom. And I stayed there for like six months.

Speaker 1 I stayed there for an hour once. Hey yo.
Now, did you take acting classes right away?

Speaker 2 Not right away. I had a very strange experience where

Speaker 2 kind of like the Lana Turner, you know, soda fountain story where I was at a bank trying to cash a check from New York, which was an out-of-state check, and I couldn't cash it.

Speaker 2 And this guy was trying to help me cash it, and he ended up being a manager.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 he signed me on, which is just weird because I could barely speak English. And that tells you everything about how we find our actors these days.
But anyway,

Speaker 2 he told me about an acting class, and I started going there like once what I could afford, which was like once a week at that time. And that was helpful because I knew nothing about acting.

Speaker 2 I knew nothing. I didn't even know who actors were.
Like I loved Tom Hanks movies without knowing his name was Tom Hanks.

Speaker 1 Oh God, there's so much in there. How long was he your manager, this guy?

Speaker 2 He was my manager for about four years.

Speaker 1 You're so lucky you found the actual manager that says, hey, young lady, I'm a manager. Like you found a real one.

Speaker 1 I mean, instead of like in my office,

Speaker 1 is in my van.

Speaker 2 Yeah, everybody said that. They were like, this guy, this is what happens to everybody.

Speaker 2 Like, you're gonna end up in a ditch and then somebody actually knew him who was in my car his card was in my car for like months and they said yeah he represents john hurt and i was like well that's a real actor okay so i called him wow

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Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 so when you started going to these acting classes and you didn't really know what acting was, you said, was

Speaker 1 your experience with it and it's starting to become comfortable to you, did you have the sense like, oh, well, they just kind of have a name for all these things that I'm just kind of naturally doing anyway?

Speaker 1 In other words, did you find a very natural approach to acting or were you studying sort of like the technique and like going kind of dot to dot about how to act?

Speaker 1 Or did it just kind of come naturally to you? Because you're so good at it and you never really see you acting. It seems like it's very natural for you.

Speaker 2 Oh, thanks, Jason.

Speaker 2 I think it was a natural ability. It's easy for me to escape.
Like I think I used it in my childhood. It was a way for me to survive and it's where I've always found solace.

Speaker 2 And I think of it as this, you know, amazing opportunity that I get to go and do whatever it is at that time, material wise, that I just get to dive into completely. And I love that aspect of it.

Speaker 2 And that is easy for me.

Speaker 2 But I didn't know how to break a script down. And I didn't even know how to read a script.
And I didn't know about an arc necessarily, you know? So, all of that stuff, I had to learn.

Speaker 2 And that's what this class was really helpful for. Because

Speaker 2 they didn't just have actors, they had writers, they had directors. So I was around people and I could see kind of, you know, it from a little bit higher in the ground.
That's so.

Speaker 1 Did you have

Speaker 1 an early experience with a with an actor or a director on a job where you saw them uh with the actor maybe breaking down their script or a director sort of did anybody was anybody a real helpful influence for you like actually at work as opposed to on a uh or in a class oh yeah i mean i think

Speaker 2 Yes, this class was helpful, but really ultimately, I became a student as I was working. I mean, I think that's always the best way to work.
And I look at all of my experiences early on.

Speaker 2 I found great mentorship with producers and directors and writers and actors who really, you know, really just took me under my wing.

Speaker 2 I'm here because of the grace of a lot of those people and kindness of a lot of those people because I was so eager. And so, you know, I think they were entertained by me.

Speaker 1 Did you have a moment with one of them, though, where

Speaker 1 that you remember now that you kind of go back to and go, that was a powerful moment, somebody that I worked with, director, writer, actor, early on?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I worked with this writer-director, John Hertzfeld. It was my first film that I ever did.
And he, and he was very kind. You know, he was very patient.
I had to do a lot of stuff with

Speaker 2 James Spader, who's lovely, but like, he's a pro, you know, and he like shows up and he's ready to rock and roll. And I think I was, you know, like 19 at the time.
And

Speaker 2 there were moments where John really kind of like helped me, I think, get through a shoot that could have been tough because I was so inexperienced, you know? So I'm grateful to him always.

Speaker 2 But then I got to work with Tom Hanks right after that. And he was just fucking lovely because with him, it was just all about the joy.
He was just like, lean into the joy, the joy, the joy.

Speaker 2 And then I also had like, you know, counter experiences. Like, I love Taylor Hackford.
I did a film called

Speaker 2 Devil's Advocate with him with Al Pacino and Kiana Reeves. And that was a really big movie for me.
And

Speaker 2 he, he loves, he really encourages method. And so everybody just, you don't really have a choice.
Like, that's just kind of like how he makes, I don't know now, but that was back then.

Speaker 1 So explain for like for Tracy,

Speaker 1 the non the non-entertainment people,

Speaker 1 what method is.

Speaker 2 It's basically immersing yourself in the character in the world. 24 or 7.
And so you're never, ever out of it. You stay in it.

Speaker 2 Your director will call you by the the character name. You just, you're kind of immersed in it the whole time.

Speaker 1 And those people are super fun to hang out with.

Speaker 2 That's exactly it. So, I realized on that film that that was definitely not a process that was going to work for me.
There was something so exhausting about it. My life was miserable.
I wasn't happy.

Speaker 2 And then, of course, you worry because you're like, well, if I don't do that, then maybe I won't be as good as the Marlon Brandos and the Monty Cliffs. And you read all these biographies.

Speaker 2 And then

Speaker 2 I did some work non-method and I was actually really happy with the work.

Speaker 1 And I think you could pop in and out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I, for me,

Speaker 2 having the energy to be able to go

Speaker 2 a lot further in darker material is way more helpful than being exhausted. When I'm exhausted, I'm a little bit, I'm just too tired.
Like, I almost don't want to go into the dark room.

Speaker 2 But I think when I,

Speaker 2 so I made it a real discipline, I think dance really helped me with this.

Speaker 2 I work and I leave it behind, and I come home and I pick up my dog shit and I love my kids and I make pasta and drink a beer and like life is good.

Speaker 1 Well, you're so goddamn funny.

Speaker 1 I wish you'd do more comedies.

Speaker 1 I'll bet it's, I bet they just don't come your way, right? I mean, is it just a question of like them not sending you a bunch of comedic stuff? Are you talking about Sean?

Speaker 1 Charlize, we'll be with you in one second.

Speaker 1 Like, you know, there, it's like, well, maybe you wouldn't mind being immersed in, in, well, I guess it depends on what sort of comedic character it would be, but going method on a comedy would not be as painful, I would suppose.

Speaker 2 I think comedy is, you know, it's very much like a taste thing. Like, I think you love, you love comedy because you find something funny.
And I think that's where I struggle sometimes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's certain kinds of funny.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So like for me, the reason why, you know, I had just won the Academy Award for Monster and the first job I did was working with you guys on Arrested arrested development because makes sense to me

Speaker 2 I just thought this is such an opportunity to work with these geniuses that I you know might never get again

Speaker 2 and then they were the geniuses weren't available so you came and worked with us but you know Mitch was amazing and kind of like approaching me and saying like do you find this funny like let's

Speaker 2 If you find this funny, we can figure something out. And that's kind of the comedy that I'm, I don't want to, I don't think I can do comedy that I don't myself find funny.

Speaker 2 Like I loved working with the Point Gray guys and Seth Rogen on Long Shot. Like, that was a movie that I really loved.

Speaker 2 I would make that movie over and over and over again because it was just hands down, one of the best experiences.

Speaker 2 Jonathan Levine kind of shepherded that thing, and everybody was just, I find them very funny.

Speaker 1 How great is Seth, too? He's pretty good, too. Hilarious.
I remember how our minds were blown that you were coming to do the show. Remember, Will? We were just like, wait, what? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Charlie's Theron's coming here? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 it was difficult i was so nervous i'm gonna tell you guys right now i don't think we were petrified i would say that's like my top five most nervous jobs i've ever done because people don't think of me as funny so there's this version of like

Speaker 2 oh here comes the dramatic you know no but

Speaker 2 that's gonna like come and our show up yeah you were just playing this great character you know like it wasn't funny to her you know that was that was that brand of humor yeah and that's i think that's the humor that i like but i do feel pressure some like not pressure but you guys are so good.

Speaker 2 So I look at you guys and I go, I, I, I, when I watched you two and that whole cast, I have to say, it's effortless. But I also know you guys had been on the show for a while and you get into a thing.

Speaker 2 It's like, there's nothing worse than being the new kid on the show, like when you show up and it's like.

Speaker 1 Right, but hopefully you saw how quickly we were all morons and it was just this big dumb family.

Speaker 2 Idiots. No, I found you guys very impressive, actually.
Very impressive.

Speaker 1 We were very, I remember just being like, what

Speaker 1 i have a question

Speaker 1 you turned into george michael i really did i did well i but i embarrassing but what's kind of mind-blowing to me just hearing your story about coming here at 19 and not speaking english you just kind of it's kind of mind-blowing that you jumped into these films like with these huge successful people right away where most actors stories are like i did this commercial and then i tried to get a tv show i couldn't do that you know your your journey was so quick no i did that i did that i went to just skipped over it.

Speaker 1 I did it.

Speaker 2 I did like Ross Dress for Less commercials.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Okay.

Speaker 2 And by that, I mean, I was like an extra in the back, you know, like not featured. But

Speaker 2 no, trust me, I was an extra in Children of the Corn 3.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 I, I didn't, no, it was definitely not like, oh, here you go, you know. There you go.

Speaker 1 And what about like roommates? Did you have to find other actor rooms? Like, how was the living situation growing up? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, I lived in a loft um with uh two other girls right next to the big five down in san vicente oh sure and lived there for years and it was a you know like a one-bedroom loft just it was just a room and a bed you know coming out of the wall and three of us lived there for for years the bathroom was literally right next to the kitchen and i just i would look at that toilet from the kitchen sink and I just said to myself, let this be the motivation.

Speaker 2 Let this be the motivation. We need to live somewhere where our toilet is right, not next to the kitchen.
That was like that was a huge motivation.

Speaker 1 Do you still talk to me? Sean, didn't you and Scotty put a toilet in the kitchen just

Speaker 1 to cut down the commute?

Speaker 1 Just to cut down the commute. You can only put so much sloppy joe in your face before you know you just can't make it.
They did the math, they did the math on how much time they waste.

Speaker 1 They sat down, they had a meeting with their business, with their business manager.

Speaker 1 The truth is so funny sometimes.

Speaker 1 You're right. Carlise is still trying to catch a breath.
We'll wait. We can trim it all out.
I'm literally crying.

Speaker 1 Jesus Christ. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 By the way, I've made these guys slappy jokes a couple times now. So maybe that's why.

Speaker 2 Well, I've heard about your Swedish fish.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I've listened to the show.

Speaker 1 The plug that a Swedish fish and a piece of sloppy joe can make.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 Charlize,

Speaker 1 the cushy

Speaker 1 shooting situation there at 20th Century Fox when we were doing Arrested is nothing compared to the grueling location of, say, a Mad Max, right? I mean, walk us through.

Speaker 1 Was it as tough as it looked out there doing Mad Max out in the middle of an Australian desert? I love that movie. Or was there something really cushed just behind camera?

Speaker 2 No, we shot it in Namibia, actually. We were originally going to shoot it in Australia.

Speaker 1 Ask him where Nibibi is. Just ask him what side of Africa it's on.

Speaker 2 Do you know where Namibia is?

Speaker 1 That's over there

Speaker 1 on the left side, if you're looking at it from

Speaker 1 the north. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, it was a 50-50 chance. Yeah, we'll see the way I confuse you with the left and the north.

Speaker 2 It's a beautiful place, Jason.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's really beautiful. It's where it's what it's the only place where lions and whales meet like you'll see lions walk on the beach and eat um

Speaker 2 you know discarded whales or no way yeah it's really it's a magical place the there's places called you know skeleton coast and it's like it's pretty magical it has like like like dunes like it's just like yeah sand dunes everywhere yeah i mean the desert is unbelievable and we went there because

Speaker 2 there was a flood there was like a rain monsoon that hit Australia right before, as we were in pre-production. And the whole red desert in Australia just ended up being wildflowers.
So not very.

Speaker 1 How long of a shoot was that? Like, how many months?

Speaker 2 Oh, I just want to listen to this. So we had 140 cars that were made in Australia, and they had to ship.
They put them all on a boat and drove them on the water. What is that?

Speaker 1 Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Sailed?

Speaker 2 Sailed them on the water all the way to Namibia. Anyway,

Speaker 1 what were you asking, Sean? I was just saying, how long? The reason why I know how long it is,

Speaker 1 you have to gear up mentally to be out of your house and your comfort zone because

Speaker 1 when I hear about these year-long shoots, I was like,

Speaker 1 it so uproots your life. Obviously, we're all doing what we love to do, but it's how are you? How do you cope with that, with the uprooting?

Speaker 1 I just started to think about the lit, what would the list look like in order of heartbreak of the things you would be missing, Sean, from home if you had to be shooting in Namibia?

Speaker 1 Like, what would be number one? You'd be like, gosh, I just don't know when I'd get my next well, my bed. It's my bed.
My bed is like, you know, for the sleep.

Speaker 1 Like, you want to sleep in your own bed and you want to sleep. You have to bed with your fan.
And what do you like when you sleep? You need a fan running and whatever. I need a fan.

Speaker 1 I need a pillow between my legs. I need two pillows, like a hard and a soft pillow in the thing.
Like, you know, there's a

Speaker 1 bowl full of three musketeer minis with the bus.

Speaker 1 Well, I got to wake up in the morning. It gets me going.

Speaker 1 He's got to be within reach at any time.

Speaker 1 It can't be a king-size. We're not going to get into Sean's rider right now.
The point is.

Speaker 1 But the point is, like, you have to be. And that's hard going away from

Speaker 1 leaving town.

Speaker 2 It's really hard. I had my first kid.
She was,

Speaker 2 she was literally, I think, six weeks old. And

Speaker 2 I got on a plane with her as a baby. I was a new mom.
And I was, I mean, I know Namibia a little bit because most of my family was from Namibia.

Speaker 2 Namibia used to be part of South Africa, and then in the 90s it became independent. So Namibia was kind of familiar to me,

Speaker 2 but not that familiar. But I also, I mean, it was crazy.

Speaker 1 And Jason, don't get me started because I know.

Speaker 1 I know what has to be done for you to go away. Yeah.
I would not, I would have packed you. I can back you on that.

Speaker 2 I've been a part of it. It's fucking pathetic.

Speaker 1 So Jason, Jason can't even move to the valley. No.
Who are you fucking kidding?

Speaker 2 Trust Trust me, we had to shoot in the valley a couple of times, and it was rough.

Speaker 1 It was rough for him.

Speaker 1 Nuh-uh. He says it works.

Speaker 2 But it was definitely long and it was the same scenery every single day. It wasn't as long as it went way longer than we thought.

Speaker 1 So do you have to like mentally prepare? Like, okay, I'm going to be gone for this long. I need to be, this is what, this is how it has to go.

Speaker 1 Whatever my, what's in my room, and like, you know, just so you can make it home because it's going to be your home.

Speaker 2 I don't need a lot. I just, like, I think for me, it was important just to know that I was safe because safety is a bit of an issue there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And I had a new baby and that became the biggest issue. You know, I was, it was just me and Draxon in the house and I got broken in like, you know, three in the morning, like five times.

Speaker 2 And that was really scary.

Speaker 1 Over there?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Broken into while you're sleeping.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You can hear, like,

Speaker 1 where were you staying, like a tent?

Speaker 2 No, I was staying at this really nice house. Like, they have all these beautiful coastal homes, like, right on the water, and and they're gorgeous.
I mean, it puts Malibu to shame.

Speaker 2 But unfortunately, you're bringing in a big production. There's money and you were dealing with people who are living way below poverty.
And so it's just, it's a recipe for disaster.

Speaker 2 So that part of it was my biggest concern.

Speaker 1 And the people that you would ostensibly hire for security would be

Speaker 2 local. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 2 they were kind of part of the problem. Yeah, I ended up feeling really safe because

Speaker 2 if you know the movie, The War Boys, the majority of the War Boys were actually real military, Australian military that George brought out.

Speaker 2 And so they.

Speaker 1 Not to be confused with hot cops, Will.

Speaker 1 Got it, got it, got it, got it.

Speaker 2 Sorry. But I would text them when I would hear something, I would text them.
And literally, like

Speaker 2 three minutes later, I would see their flashlights coming in. And I just kind of relied on them and they kept me safe the whole movie.

Speaker 1 Right. Oh, wow.
And then you wake up. I mean, that was a very physically grueling part for you as well.
Like that hot and dusty. Yeah.

Speaker 2 right? It was actually cold, really cold.

Speaker 1 It looks hot.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was freezing.

Speaker 2 We had a lot of cases of hypothermia, especially the young girls who only wear like bandages.

Speaker 2 A lot of them got hypothermia.

Speaker 2 I was freezing just because when you don't have hair on your head, you forget.

Speaker 2 It's like a heat releaser. So it was really cold, actually.

Speaker 1 Now, I'd rather freeze than sweat. So that sounds good to me.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. Would you have been happier if it was 110?

Speaker 2 I like it when I'm, when i have to do like action i like colder better right yeah yeah right for sure it's harder for me to have a lot of a ton of energy to like do fight scenes when it's like i just did this movie in rome and it was one of the hottest summers it was 115 degrees every single day

Speaker 2 i and i i had to do these fight scenes out in like these Roman streets and I it was just like you couldn't keep fluid in your body.

Speaker 1 And were you wearing clothes and playing a character where you weren't supposed to be sweating? Like that, that, that's, that's when the, the heat is dragging.

Speaker 2 I mean, I, after a while, I'm just like, I have, that's like the last thing I'm fucking thinking about. I'm just

Speaker 2 cramping. Yeah.
I'm like, that's like the last of my, I'm like, can I just be able to walk? Like your feet start cramping because you just have no fluid in your body. And

Speaker 2 so yeah, I definitely prefer a little colder.

Speaker 1 So many action films. I mean,

Speaker 1 you must have been injured beyond any

Speaker 1 ability to recuperate and keep schedules going forward. I mean, are there any stories of you you just saying, all right, that's it.

Speaker 1 We're down for a couple of weeks

Speaker 1 with an injury, no?

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's stupidity or if it's just a high, I have a high, maybe a high tolerance for pain, but I, I, on the first old guard, I tore this, the tendon off this bone on my thumb.

Speaker 2 Um, it got stuck in a, in a, in a guy's, um, like his, um, yeah, and it just, he moved and he ripped my whole thumb backwards.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 And I, I, I mean, it was really painful.

Speaker 2 And I i just kind of you know when you have an injury you just kind of don't use it so much and so i just didn't use it so much but i had to do like three weeks uh of a big action sequence on a horse where i was riding with that hand and fighting with the right

Speaker 2 and so i was just in denial and then i came back and uh and had surgery it was the it was just floating there was like nothing holding it

Speaker 2 and i just finished the second one now i just came back uh like 10 days ago and i just had shoulder surgery two two days ago

Speaker 2 Surely

Speaker 1 you're not you're not you're not old, but you're not 50.

Speaker 2 No, I'm not, but you know, I recover really fast and I my body is in great shape. These are all just like superficial injuries.
Like I actually, my shoulder is actually great. My knees are great.

Speaker 1 How's your stunt doing?

Speaker 1 Huh? How's your stunt double doing? Yeah. I mean, I bet you have to do that.

Speaker 2 I mean, listen, she does, she does, she does like, you know, I'm not going to do stupid hard falls down a staircase or like, you know, falling from a second. I don't do stuff like that.

Speaker 1 But she is. Is she still okay?

Speaker 2 Yeah, she's, she's fucking 24. I mean,

Speaker 2 nothing hurts at 24.

Speaker 1 What about Liam Neeson's stunt double? He must be all banged up. My God.
That poor bastard.

Speaker 2 It's fun to do this stuff. I like it.
I really love it.

Speaker 1 You need a nice sitcom. You need a nice sitcom? No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I don't, I think I'm not quite ready. I think like another, maybe in another 10 years.
Yeah. There's something so fucking invigorating about hanging off the side of a helicopter.
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 Well, what about, didn't you? Kind of got injured when you put on all that weight for Sully, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I had more injuries on that movie, yes, just from gaining weight. I herniated a disc in my lower back because I just had that happen.

Speaker 2 Well, I gained like 50 pounds, and then I had to wear a pregnancy belly that Jason Reitman, the director, thought would be a good idea to make the actual size, the weight of an actual.

Speaker 2 So it weighed like another 40 pounds. And then he put me in a fitting and I had to put shoes on over and over.

Speaker 2 And just, you know, from bending and putting on shoes, I herniated a disc in my lower back. And that's been the worst injury I've ever had.
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Speaker 1 Can I tell you something? This is a true story. Okay.
First of all, we're going to listen harder. Thanks for stop lying.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, John.

Speaker 1 This is a true story. I was sitting there watching, because you have this

Speaker 1 unbelievable ability to, like we spoke about earlier, to lose yourself in every character you play. It's very rare that, you know, there's Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was just like transformative.

Speaker 1 There's you, who's always transformative.

Speaker 1 It's just an incredible feat so i'm sitting there with scotty my husband watching bombshell i swear to god i'm not making this up and like half hour 40 minutes in i'm like i thought where the fuck is charlie staron i thought she was in this movie and he's like

Speaker 1 what you idiot that's her and i'm like as megan kelly i'm I was blown away. I mean, you look like her.
You sound like her. It was so funny, you guys.
I think it's like amazing.

Speaker 2 Don't fuck them. I'm enjoying this moment, Charlie.

Speaker 1 I'm just looking at your screen right now it's just me and you i that's all i wanted to say i remember a question i was just like i really truly was like i thought charlize was in this movie oh that's nice that's her it is pretty impressive i mean it was mind-blowing what about this new thing the uh school for good and evil uh what are you doing in that and what why'd you want to do it what what what about it was was it paul feeg because he's a good dude Yeah, he did our, he did a couple of episodes of our aggressive development.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, he's such an amazing guy.
I also just, you know, I I have two young kids now, seven and ten, and they're going to have to be like at least, you know, 52 to see any of my work.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 2 there is a level of wanting to make stuff for them because they, they love this world, this kind of fantasy world. And

Speaker 2 it was also, oh, fuck, man, it was like towards the end of our lockdown and I was going stir crazy. I was.

Speaker 2 homeschooling the two of them and I obviously couldn't take a job because I didn't want to move them, you know, it just wasn't the right time to move a whole family somewhere.

Speaker 2 So it was a two-week job up in Belfast and they got me back in 14 days and my mom took the kids. And so that was nice too.
But yeah, mostly I did it for them.

Speaker 2 I want, you know, there's something, I don't know, there's something about, you know, kids that no matter who you are, you want to impress them. Like they're not impressed by Megan Kelly.

Speaker 1 Like they're not impressed. And it's also proof of like, well, this is, you know, mom is busy, but I swear I'm busy doing stuff.
I swear it. Like here's what you can see.
It's proof.

Speaker 2 Well, they see the posters when we drive to the bus. They never see the movies, right? But they always see the posters and they spend time on set and things like that.

Speaker 2 So they think they know what the movie is. And it's really funny when they're like, they see the poster and they just go, oh, I don't know if that.
is the movie that I saw you make.

Speaker 1 How do you manage to do all of this work and still be such a great mom? Because I know you put in incredible time and focus to being an incredible mother.

Speaker 1 And I know that you've got incredible help from your mother, who is an incredible woman.

Speaker 1 But like, but as I said in the intro, 50 films, like it takes a few months to do a movie, especially when you're the lead, like you always are. Like the math doesn't even work out.

Speaker 1 I don't know how you've gotten all that done and still been, you know.

Speaker 2 Well, I've been producing for, you know, close to two decades now. And I think that's really helped, just taking some agency and making my own schedule.

Speaker 2 And so I really don't make anything like, I don't make any big movies unless I, you know, I push it into the summer where I can take my whole family. Like we all went to Rome for four months.

Speaker 2 And, but, you know, I get my kids back for school. But you're right.
I can't do it without my mom.

Speaker 2 And I'm always very vocal in acknowledging that I am co-parenting with her. And so that's kind of unusual for people to hear, but that is the truth.
She really is very much a co-parent. I got that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's amazing. I'm so lucky.
I'm I'm so happy.

Speaker 1 How much of, how much, because your mom's been there, obviously, the whole time, and

Speaker 1 you are so close to her. How much do you talk to her about

Speaker 1 what choices you make as a, you know, sort of artistically, as a producer or as an actor? Do you have a relationship like that at all? Do you go like, hey, I'm thinking about doing this thing.

Speaker 1 What do you think? Do you take, do you sound stuff off of her in that way too, or no?

Speaker 2 So when I started, she was definitely,

Speaker 2 she was way more opinionated. I I mean, she definitely, she's very direct.

Speaker 2 Jason, you've met her.

Speaker 1 She's very funny.

Speaker 2 She's very direct. She's kind of, she's a broad.
She's very,

Speaker 2 very brassy and loud, and she loves to swear, and she's just very honest.

Speaker 2 So in the beginning, when I started, there was a lot of like wanting her approval, but she would go and see some of my movies and just be like, that's a piece of shit.

Speaker 1 Before you've been out of the theater.

Speaker 2 Yeah. And I was like, you should come out.
You could just tell on her face. She was like, that is not good.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 But I appreciate it so much from her. It's kind of our relationship.
I remember as a dancer too, when I was little, like I would have a competition or something.

Speaker 2 She was never the parent that would sugarcoat it.

Speaker 2 She wasn't like abusive about it, but she was very honest. I knew that when she said something was good, I was like, fuck, that was, then that was really good.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 You know, like I really believe that more than the negative stuff.

Speaker 1 It becomes like a real barometer for you.

Speaker 2 Exactly. I can really trust her.

Speaker 2 So it's not so much, I mean, I tell her, obviously, because she's part of it, I have to like clear her tennis and golf schedule out here so that she can like, you know, pack up and move with me. But

Speaker 2 yeah, she likes a lot of stuff. I mean, she loves, she loves like the long shots.
She likes those kind of movies way more. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But she loved this movie, this, this fantasy movie, this, um, the school for good and evil. She really loved it.

Speaker 1 I don't wait to see that. She is a big golfer.
She's a big golfer. We need to double back to that.

Speaker 2 She's a big golfer and a really big tennis player. She's She's super athletic.
She's going to be 70 next year, but she plays with 30-year-olds. I mean, she's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 She hikes every morning at 5 a.m., three miles, every morning with six dogs. She takes my dogs and her dogs.

Speaker 2 Then she goes and she walks 18 holes and then she plays tennis.

Speaker 1 No golf, no tennis for you?

Speaker 2 I only play golf with her and usually just on Mother's Day. But I love tennis.

Speaker 2 But tennis is like a later sport that I just learned because I had to find something for cardio because I couldn't really run anymore.

Speaker 2 And so I found tennis and I was like, this is great cardio and I enjoy it. Tennis is great.

Speaker 1 What about the great pickleball? I'm not playing a lot of golf. Jason and I played it.
No, not pickleball. I'm not picking.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, isn't that like what old people play? Yes, I think so.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 sweeping the nation just because it's easy. It's really sweeping.

Speaker 1 Americans really love to fucking glom.

Speaker 2 Do you guys play pickleball?

Speaker 1 I have played. Sean's got a pickleball court and a toilet right in the middle of the court.

Speaker 1 I'm up for pickleball. I would love to learn.
I've played before. I've played pickleball before.
It ruins your tennis game. I don't advise it if you like tennis because it engages the wrist too much.

Speaker 1 I like ping pong. I used to play paddle a lot.
Anybody like ping pong?

Speaker 2 Oh, I love ping pong. I have a ping pong table in my back.

Speaker 1 Are you trying to just bring up stuff that you don't have to move at all? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just my opera box. Xbox.
What about that? I've played Xbox. TV.
I like watching TV.

Speaker 1 Now,

Speaker 1 you seem like such a brave person.

Speaker 1 What scares the hell out of you? What are you most afraid of? What's like your coquette? That's a great question.

Speaker 2 You do seem like a very brave person yeah she is but earned earned bravery though you know it's not fake kind of threw up in my mouth a little bit there yeah spit it out i mean moving when you're 19 you can't speak english you're making that like yeah i mean a lot of that when i think back and now that i have kids i'm like that was just I feel like I, you know, if I didn't come out of the circumstances that I did, no, my mom would have never done anything like that.

Speaker 2 And I don't think I would have done anything like that. But I came out of very complicated circumstances.
You know, I didn't really, there wasn't a lot of choice. It was like swim or drown.

Speaker 2 Like, what are you going to do?

Speaker 1 Stay in there. Yeah, you're tough, though.
You seem very, you're very tough. Like, you have this, you can kind of see it.
You have this kind of resolve, this inner resolve that come for me anyway.

Speaker 1 I've felt like it's always shone through. And you seem, I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, she's on top of her shit.
She's very, but like, but like, don't talk to her. Well, yeah.
Well, what about like bees?

Speaker 1 Because like bees, bees will turn me into somebody I don't want to be seen.

Speaker 2 I think I've seen you like scream like a girl around a bee.

Speaker 1 I think I have, yeah. And I'll just run.
I'll just I'll just disappear like with like a rocket flare like a cartoon character just

Speaker 2 I'll tell you I saw a cockroach yesterday and I did not handle it well yeah I'm not good with those kinds of things I did not handle it well I really could not I didn't know what to do with it I didn't want to kill it but I also didn't want it to live I was really I was very really torn and then I just

Speaker 1 the idea of stepping on it oh I couldn't it was like what's what did you do then I made somebody else do it yeah you called somebody and did you and did you did you instruct them not to kill it

Speaker 2 This was one lady who was really brave. She just, she stepped on it.
She took her shoe off and just did it.

Speaker 1 I was very grateful. Yes.

Speaker 1 Is there anything within sort of what you, the realm and the bigger scope of what you do?

Speaker 1 So again, as a sort of, as an actor or a producer, a writer, director, whatever, is there anything that you can think of that you think,

Speaker 1 that seems scary for me to do?

Speaker 1 Would you dance or sing?

Speaker 2 I mean, I would dance. I would love to dance.
I don't know. I don't think I would sing.
I'm a terrible singer.

Speaker 2 Me too. Yeah, and I'm very uncomfortable singing.
Like, I break out in hives.

Speaker 2 That's why Jason Reitman always makes me sing in his movies because he just loves torturing me.

Speaker 2 But I don't know. I mean, listen, I was really,

Speaker 2 I was really worried, scared. I was scared of doing Megan Kelly.
I really,

Speaker 2 you know, it's one of those things where

Speaker 2 you're like hoping for the best and you try and do as much work as possible, but there's no guarantee, right?

Speaker 2 And it's like you go, you're like four or five weeks in and you still don't sound like her. And I did the first round of prosthetics and I looked like Glenn Close.
Like it was weird.

Speaker 1 Like I was like, I don't know if this is going to work out. And so you feel like, you kind of feel like you're out on a limb and you're yeah, I was like,

Speaker 2 this can definitely go very wrong. Like, I definitely felt that.

Speaker 1 How about when in Prometheus, when you just lit some guy up on fire? That was like, you had like a fire machine and the guy was standing. A flame

Speaker 1 Was it a fire machine, Chunky? Or whatever it's called.

Speaker 2 Well, I didn't really do that, but

Speaker 1 oh, you didn't? You had a fire gun. You had like a fire gun.

Speaker 2 No, they actually, that one did light up minus, like, there was nobody in front of me, but it did light up. I think they did one where it kind of lights up a little bit.

Speaker 1 And that wasn't you just like blowing him to bits like that, lighting him on fire. No, they added that later.
Oh, wow. I'm so sorry, Charlize.
Holy fucking.

Speaker 1 I love that movie so much. You do? That's so sweet.
Oh, my God. Welcome to Fan FanFest.

Speaker 2 I love that you go between Megan Kelly and that.

Speaker 1 I've seen Prometheus like 10 times. I love it.

Speaker 1 And you know what's going on?

Speaker 2 I mean, that classbender is pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 I did a deep dive on YouTube about it because the engineer, I don't know, never mind. These guys explained

Speaker 1 Fannie.

Speaker 1 I want to know

Speaker 1 what I'm doing. I don't know if this is true or not because Ridley Scott had.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's true, but I heard that he had this original script that explained kind of the whole, they gave this engineer this dialogue that explained the whole movie, but he cut it, which was

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 in the Bible, when Jesus wasn't there for however many years, because you know, the Bible cuts from when he was a kid to 30, that these engineers, these aliens came, picked him up, brought him to their planet, taught him how they should teach humanity, brought him back, and then that's what he tried to do, but they failed.

Speaker 1 And that's why these aliens want to come back and wipe it out because it's gotten so bad.

Speaker 2 And you heard this where?

Speaker 1 Online, somewhere. Wow.

Speaker 1 I can't verify that that for you.

Speaker 2 That's really interesting.

Speaker 1 It's fascinating, isn't it? And if it's not true, it's a good idea. It's a great idea.
The world is round too, Sean. It's round.

Speaker 1 It's where.

Speaker 2 But anyway. I think some listeners right now are

Speaker 2 touching themselves. Like, you know, people really appreciate that kind of knowledge.

Speaker 1 So thank you for sharing. Oh, I thought they'd been touching themselves.
Like, am I fucking here? Is this

Speaker 1 actually

Speaker 1 just pass out? What am I? Did I, yeah.

Speaker 1 I didn't know if you knew, if you heard that, if that was true.

Speaker 1 No, you know why? Because she doesn't spend her time on Reddit with you and Scotty

Speaker 1 going, fucking putting in Prometheus fucking theories.

Speaker 1 In the chat room. Scotty, we should get to bed.
It's 4 a.m.

Speaker 1 Look at this thread. Look at this fucking thread.
Fucking fuck, man.

Speaker 1 That stuff is fascinating to me. I know, Angel.
I know. All right.

Speaker 1 Charlize, you're the greatest. You're the best ever.

Speaker 2 Guys, guys, I really love the show. Congratulations.

Speaker 1 I listen to it all the time when I'm stuck waiting to pick my kids up.

Speaker 2 It's a joy to listen to you guys. You're really funny.

Speaker 1 Thank you. Thanks, Villa.

Speaker 2 And thank you for having me. I guess you ran out of people

Speaker 1 every time I would listen to it.

Speaker 2 I thought, yes,

Speaker 1 we're on the show.

Speaker 2 Between Jason and Ville.

Speaker 2 Between both of you, I couldn't wait.

Speaker 2 Vill, that's how we said in African.

Speaker 2 I was like, wow. I'm like, you guys must have really cleared your list.
Even you, Sean, I know you too. Like, what the fuck happened?

Speaker 1 Can I tell you something? What is happening? Can I tell you something right now? 17? What do you think? Can I tell you something right now? You've been on my list since day one.

Speaker 1 Obviously, Jason, you were on Jason's list as well. Yeah.
And I was like, no, I get it.

Speaker 2 So, Ville is the one that we

Speaker 1 have a different list than it. And then it just, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I didn't have a pen. I didn't end up having a pen.

Speaker 2 Well, thank you for having me, you guys.

Speaker 1 Yes, we love you. Have a great rest of the day.
We'll love you right back. You guys do that.
Thank you for doing this. all right bye bye bye bye

Speaker 1 that was so funny um well i love that what is that theory for prometheus that is that is that really what it was about well i mean if there's this one guy's thing he said he got a copy of the script and like that that the whole point of the aliens wanting to wipe out earth is because we're not getting it right we're making the earth worse why why do you encourage me to tell it again

Speaker 1 repeating what he's just fascinated that you just like go in and look for meanings of like when you saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Speaker 1 Did you do a deep dive for the meaning of the movie? That's pretty much straightforward. That's just from the book.
That's one of my favorite movies. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? The original.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
I love that. I love that movie, too.

Speaker 1 Great get. Now, that was just great to have our buddy Charlize on.
How do you know her, Jason? I didn't know you knew her so well. Just from Arrested.
In a movie. Can you guys make a movie together?

Speaker 1 Oh, that's right. And we also did.
Wait, did I do Hancock before or after Arrested? After. After.
After, yeah. After.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was really, really fun. That was my first, maybe only,

Speaker 1 big budget movie. That was pretty impressive seeing that whole big

Speaker 1 superhero. Yeah, there was a huge movie that you did.

Speaker 1 But yeah, she came and did five episodes of Arrested Development, something like that. The most Canadian pronunciation of five.
I ran into her at the airport when she was nominated for Monster.

Speaker 1 She was making the rounds, and I was doing Press 2, and there was this room.

Speaker 1 What what were we doing press for sean will and grace or something and um and we had just done oprah like the same day and i saw her at the airport and i did this big dance for her and she looked at me like i at the airport you did yeah just trying to make her laugh and she was like what's wrong with you like she

Speaker 1 did you have time to get into it

Speaker 1 did you have time to get into what was wrong with you no no if you were if you were late for a flight you must not have had time to get to answer that oh right

Speaker 1 what's wrong with you but remember she had so she did the show we had and we had also had um remember we had patty jenkins the year before who directed monster oh yeah directed uh she's great

Speaker 1 yeah she was awesome wait patty jenkins directed arrested development too yeah who went on to do the wonder woman films and etc yeah who's amazing yeah yeah he just had great directors we sure did the rooster

Speaker 1 what's the name of the show oh man oh my god it's so

Speaker 1 Should we come over?

Speaker 1 We should come over. Will, we'll go over to Sean's house.
We'll watch some arrested development and then you come over

Speaker 1 to one of our houses. We'll watch Will and Grace together.
We'll watch Will and Grace. That sounds like a fun.
We'll make a new podcast out of it. Yeah.
You know, a little watch through. And

Speaker 1 we'll sign a contract that we each, we're all going to watch it, and that contract will be binding. Binding.

Speaker 1 Binding.

Speaker 1 Binding. You guys, I fucking, I was crying laughing so hard.
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