00:00It is bigger and better in every way.
00:03And I'm in it!
00:11Well, I think it's a lovely kind of reminder of innocence and, you know, there was something sweet about this movie.
00:17The first time around, you know, there were people that looked at it and went like,
00:20I don't know, it's a kid's movie, do you really want to do a kid's movie?
00:23And I went, well, yeah.
00:25And, you know, because kids appreciate movies like nobody else.
00:29But first of all, there was something sweet about it.
00:32At the heart of it, you know, I play the contrast to this incredible innocence.
00:37You know, I play the evil 3.0 quantum version of Robotnik in this.
00:44And there's no limits to my powers.
00:48I'm a demigod of evil.
00:50And it's all in service of showing you, again, what matters.
00:56Which is that, you know, at some point of our lives, we were these innocent, non-skeptical beings
01:03that enjoyed everything that popped up in the zeitgeist, you know?
01:07And it was innocent and beautiful.
01:10And you didn't care, you know, what the bubble gum was going to do to you.
01:14You just chewed it up and blew a bubble, man.
01:17You know?
01:18You didn't look at the ingredients.
01:21Yeah, it's like, I hope it's fun for the audience to see this sort of transition that's going on
01:25from the first movie to the second film.
01:27And the first movie was like, Tom and Sonic were buddies.
01:30And, you know, they kind of ate chili dogs together and hung out.
01:34And now it's like, I think they're both feeling the word responsibility, right?
01:38Like Tom's feeling a certain responsibility, and Maddie,
01:41for sort of guiding him through his life and raising a kid.
01:45And they weren't ready for this, really.
01:47He's having to learn about responsibility.
01:49And with his great powers come that responsibility.
01:52Nice.
01:53But yeah, I mean, you know, it's like that parental thing of, like,
01:57you can't be their best friend, but you've got to teach them and guide them.
02:01But you can still have a good relationship, I guess is what I was trying to say.
02:07Great sentence, terrible landing.
02:09Great point, terrible way to end it.
02:11I didn't go to a screening of that film,
02:15but the people that sent me videos of their theaters exploding was just overwhelming.
02:21Who knew that that would happen?
02:22I had no idea that that would happen.
02:23I knew people liked Tails.
02:24I knew people loved Sonic.
02:25But universally, people were screaming in the theaters.
02:32It was amazing.
02:33It was so freaking fun.
02:35I don't know if you can say freaking, but yeah.
02:37I said it twice.
02:38But it was that much fun, you know?
02:41Working with Natasha, who's an incredible artist in general all around,
02:45and to collaborate with her and to just have fun, that's the juicy part, right?
02:51To leave it all on the table and do all the things that weren't in the script
02:55and it made it, and you're like, oh, that's cool.
02:58That's the stuff we live for.
03:00So for me, that was one of the most exciting parts.
03:03When I do comedy scenes, I always liken it to tennis.
03:07And sometimes it's playing tennis with drapes and you hit the ball
03:11and it hits the drape and hits the floor and you've got to chase it.
03:13And that's a hard joke to make fly.
03:15But then sometimes you're across from Venus and you get to play
03:21and it's just so much fun.
03:24Character is so important, and that's specific to all movies.
03:27It's not something that's just video game adaptations.
03:31Whether it's a comic book, a video game, a short story,
03:35no matter what the source material is, it's always going to come down to character.
03:38It's always going to come down to the audience falling in love with those characters,
03:41rooting for them, whatever journey they're going on.
03:44So it's so important, and we work so hard,
03:47especially bringing in new characters like Knuckles and Tails in this film,
03:50that you really are rooting for them and you're invested in them.
03:54The family too, just to speak to that.
03:56It got bigger. We have Knuckles, we have Tails joining.
04:02The family is getting more interesting and more fun and dynamic,
04:06and I think audiences are really going to enjoy it.
04:09And Shemar as well.
04:11I think the job was more trying not to be too conscious of fabricating anything
04:17to try and one-up what we had in the first movie.
04:20And I think what worked so well in the first movie that ends up working out
04:24even better in this one is just keeping it authentic between Stone and Robotnik.
04:30How do they engage with each other? How does Stone engage with other people?
04:33In this day and age, whatever reason we can have,
04:36because everybody's in their own little rooms and their own little spaces,
04:39and they've got their video chairs and they've got their whatever,
04:42and they're kind of lost in their own little cliques that they create online or whatever.
04:48And this is an actual thing that physically pulls families together
04:53and allows them to sit together and enjoy something in common,
04:58which makes me happy.
05:00And if I can give a little bit of that back to the world, that'd be great.
05:04Was the Jean-Ralphio line improv, or was that in the script?
05:07Okay, so what happened was, the reason that happened was,
05:10we did this scene, and so I'm reacting to what's on television.
05:13It's a movie, and we're trying to find clearances for different films.
05:16And I did a joke line for three or four different movies,
05:19and then in the end we couldn't get them.
05:21And it was one of the last things we recorded.
05:23They're like, well, what if we didn't make fun of the movie itself,
05:26and what if you just did, and then Jeff and Toby said,
05:28what if you did like Jean-Ralphio's, one of his quotes?
05:31And I did it, and I did it in the booth, and they filmed me doing it,
05:34and they animated it like Sonic doing Jean-Ralphio,
05:37which means Jean-Ralphio is canon in the Sonic universe,
05:41which means Sonic 3 could just be Sonic and Jean-Ralphio saving the world,
05:48which I think nobody is asking for.
05:50But there was one other Jean-Ralphio reference in it.
05:54There was a Don't Be Suspicious reference,
05:56and we cut it because we decided that more than one Jean-Ralphio reference
05:59is way too many Jean-Ralphio references.
06:01No, never connect too many. No.
06:03Oh, my gosh. Well, we got to do so much cool stuff with this film.
06:06I mean, when you watch it, it's not going to look like the studio said no to anything,
06:11which is why it's so great and such a big, fun movie
06:15that I'm so excited for people to see in a theater on a big screen.
06:19No, we really got to go big on this one.
06:21And, of course, there's stuff that we saved,
06:25not because it was too big, but just for the story.
06:29Everything had to fit. It had to be right for the story we were telling.
06:32But there's 30 years of this character, of Sonic,
06:35and there's so much great material.
06:37So, yeah, it's exciting that there's so many characters,
06:40so many storylines to kind of pull from
06:42as we continue to kind of craft our movie storyline.
06:45There's more action, more adventure,
06:47and since I have an agent now, there are perks.
06:50I have four words for you.
06:52Contractual chili dog breaks.
06:55Sayonara!
06:58I put a little Tremola on there, but I'm definitely in the wrong key.
07:03You're unskilled.
07:05Hang on!
07:06Untrained.
07:10Unworthy!
07:15You forgot one.
07:17Unstoppable.
07:20Unstoppable.
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