00:00I do love that the movie he didn't remember
00:03is The Hunger Games.
00:05-♪♪
00:07All righty.
00:08This look familiar to you?
00:10It does. I'm so glad it does,
00:12because this whole idea made me so nervous.
00:14But I have seen this before.
00:16Where have you seen it?
00:17In a movie where my co-stars were dinosaurs.
00:22Am I right?
00:23That is correct.
00:25Okay. That is one of my first memories
00:27on set of that movie.
00:28That's amazing.
00:29Wasn't as scary as you'd think in the moment.
00:33Well, first of all, it is supposed to be Costa Rica,
00:36but that is Kauai, Hawaii,
00:39and very memorable with those mountains.
00:43That was early on.
00:44It was one of the first scenes
00:46we're supposed to look down at the same moment
00:49when we hear the first roar in the movie,
00:54because it's early on,
00:55and it's supposed to be, like, a distant sound,
00:57and we're supposed to all look at the same moment.
00:59Like, what the hell was that?
01:00And we couldn't all look at the same moment.
01:04And finally, we said to Steven Spielberg,
01:06we need a sound so we look at the same moment.
01:10It's not working.
01:11And he's like, okay, I got it. I got it.
01:13And they said, action.
01:14And then it was really quiet, and we're all looking down,
01:17and suddenly, with a megaphone, he goes,
01:19Roar! Roar!
01:22And we all start cracking up.
01:23We're like, if that's the dinosaur sound
01:25we're going to get on this movie,
01:27we're in huge trouble.
01:28Okay.
01:30Yep. Yep.
01:32That's a bar in New Orleans
01:35from a film called Expendables 2.
01:38You are right.
01:39I was shooting with Sylvester Stallone,
01:42Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture,
01:44Jason Statham was there that night as well.
01:47Oh!
01:48You know, all the Expendables, yeah.
01:49My God.
01:50We're shooting this scene in this, you know,
01:52this kind of a divey kind of bar in New Orleans.
01:54Had a bunch of guys that looked like
01:56they know how to handle themselves
01:58that were, you know, kind of background and whatnot.
02:00I remember this one guy saying to Randy Couture,
02:02do you ever get into a bar fight?
02:03And it was the best response I ever heard,
02:05and Randy Couture was like,
02:06I've never been in a fight that I didn't get paid for.
02:08I was like, you're fucking, I was like, you legend.
02:10I was like, that's the best response ever.
02:12This guy was kind of sizing him up a little bit.
02:14He's like, you ever been in a bar fight?
02:15That's genius.
02:16But then me and Sylvester Stallone
02:17had a scene out in front of that bar, and...
02:20He was so great to me.
02:21He was?
02:22Yeah, he was wonderful.
02:23Like, he really took me under his wing
02:24and talked about his career
02:26and different things that he's done throughout his life.
02:28He's such a legendary director,
02:30and it is crazy that I feel like
02:32for the next generation,
02:34they know him as an iconic persona,
02:37but I hope they know what a master director he is.
02:41Yeah, no, he's great.
02:42I had all these voicemails on my phone
02:44from Sly at that time.
02:45He'd call me and just be talking about the script.
02:47And then I came to his house one time.
02:48He's just so great.
02:49Like, he taught me so much,
02:50and it was a real kind of open book relationship with him.
02:53Like, whatever I needed,
02:54like, he was always there and so good.
02:56It sort of just helped me through the whole thing.
02:58I love that.
02:59I love that he was so generous to you.
03:03Ooh, this looks like a difficult one.
03:05What's this?
03:06Is this ringing any bells for you?
03:08Is that...
03:10Now I'm scared.
03:12Is it Marriage Story?
03:14It is.
03:15You got it.
03:16Beautiful production design,
03:17and I only remember it
03:18because of this pink kind of velvety chair,
03:20which felt very like the attorney I played.
03:23It's the first time you meet.
03:25Nicole and Nora meet for the first time in Nora's office.
03:28Nicole opens up about her marriage.
03:30We shot in Century City.
03:32And it is, in fact, the divorce lawyer building of L.A.
03:36A lot of divorce lawyers are in that building.
03:38And I meet people who come up,
03:40and they're like,
03:41oh, my God, I saw your movie,
03:42and my divorce lawyer is actually in that building,
03:45and I could barely watch.
03:46It was so hard for me.
03:47I was like, okay, well, sorry, and thank you.
03:51Anytime you're in an office like that,
03:54and the person across from you that's at the desk
03:57says, trust me.
04:00Trust me.
04:01You're pretty much in trouble.
04:03This...
04:06It's upside down.
04:07Oh, this is upside down.
04:10I know you're not going to remember this,
04:12because I think this is a little project you worked on.
04:16That a lot of people haven't seen.
04:18But in the world of independent cinema,
04:21I think it's one people should catch up on.
04:23What do you think?
04:26It's not ringing any bells.
04:28Well, it's a small film based on a tiny book.
04:35There might be more than one book.
04:37Is this from The Hunger Games?
04:38Yeah.
04:39It doesn't look familiar at all.
04:41Or Jurassic Park.
04:42It could be from...
04:43Actually, I think this is true.
04:45I feel like nature and I'm panicked.
04:49Actually, I think because of Hunger Games,
04:51I do panic in nature now.
04:53I used to love nature.
04:54It's a dangerous place.
04:55I'm sure people are after me.
04:56Watch your back out there.
04:57Yeah.
04:58This rings no bells.
04:59I don't remember...
05:01Let me tell you.
05:02Where this fence came from.
05:04Maybe it's a district boundary fence.
05:07Is it a district boundary fence?
05:09I don't think I ever saw it.
05:10This must be from the first film, I'm guessing,
05:13which was...
05:14How old am I now?
05:1534?
05:16It's like 14 years ago, I think, when we shot this.
05:18How was making those films?
05:20So much fun.
05:21So much fun.
05:22From Jennifer Lawrence to Josh Hutchinson to Woody Harrelson.
05:25We had such a great cast that everyone got along
05:28and we all hung out all the time.
05:31It was such a wild experience for all of us at that time.
05:33You were babies.
05:34Yeah, we were so young and trying to find our way in the world
05:37and got to share that experience together.
05:40All those films were such a great experience.
05:42We do these press tours together.
05:44In any normal circumstance, you're doing a press tour
05:46of that size on your own at that age
05:48and you haven't had experience in it.
05:49It's fucking scary.
05:51We were lucky enough to have each other to bounce off
05:53and go through that whole time together.
05:56I miss those guys and I miss shooting those films with those guys.
05:59It was such a great time.
06:01I remember seeing one of your earliest interviews
06:04and seeing you guys together.
06:07I don't think I've seen actors laughing that hard in an interview ever.
06:11It made me so happy.
06:13It's tough to get things done.
06:16I do love that the movie you didn't remember is The Hunger Games.
06:22This is from the movie Home Alone.
06:24Isn't it?
06:25No, it's not.
06:26You weren't in that movie.
06:28This is a movie I'm in?
06:31I don't know what that is.
06:33Oh, yeah, I do.
06:35Wait, is that snow?
06:37I hope it's Little Women.
06:39It's Little Women.
06:40I was like, it's a house in the woods.
06:43Yeah, that's Little Women shot in Concord, Massachusetts.
06:46That's one of my favorite locations I've ever been on, actually.
06:50Really? Why?
06:51We lived in that town for four or five months, all of us together,
06:55and it really became family.
06:57I had just made Marriage Story with Noah,
07:00and then we went there and I made Little Women with Greta,
07:03and Noah came, so I felt like I basically spent a year with them,
07:06which was so special.
07:08And Walden Pond is in that amazing town,
07:12and it's just this radical gift to American literature.
07:17Some of our greatest novelists in American history
07:20all wrote within the same year or two of each other,
07:24living there at the same time, blocks from each other.
07:27Thoreau, Emerson, and, of course, Louisa May Alcott,
07:30all at the same time, so wild.
07:33But it was just beautiful,
07:34and I lived in this little guest house in a farmhouse
07:37and had to learn how to really make a serious good fire for myself,
07:41which I had never learned because I'm from Santa Monica, California.
07:45Okay, my turn.
07:46Yeah, okay.
07:48Looks a lot like the moon.
07:49It does, right? I was going to say, space, right?
07:51Yeah, now I can see that ship.
07:53This is from Independence Day Resurgence.
07:56Yes, I remember this very well.
07:59Actually, me and Jeff Goldblum were sitting in there.
08:01I was going to say, that's a perfect segue.
08:05The ever-entertaining Jeff Goldblum.
08:07What can I tell you about the day?
08:08It was shot on the moon.
08:10We shot it on the moon, for real.
08:12It was the only production ever to shoot on the moon.
08:14What was it like walking on the moon?
08:16It was not as cool as you'd think it would be.
08:18Really?
08:19Yeah, kind of difficult.
08:20Did you have your whole getup?
08:23Yeah, I did.
08:24Once I got out of that spaceship,
08:26me and Jeff Goldblum were wearing astronaut suits.
08:28We were shooting in New Mexico at the time, actually.
08:31Wait, I thought you said you were on the moon.
08:33New Mexico slash the moon.
08:36Similar landscapes.
08:38We had these big astronaut suits on.
08:40It was really hot, so they gave us this extra suit
08:44to wear underneath the astronaut suit,
08:47which had cold water flowing through it.
08:49But you had to connect up to a machine,
08:51and you couldn't sit down in these suits.
08:53You had to lay down.
08:54So me and Jeff would go and lay on these beds next to set
08:58and then get attached to the machine.
09:00That's better.
09:01Oh my God, that sounds horrible.
09:03Yeah, that was a good time.
09:05This one.
09:06That looks familiar.
09:07Is it to you?
09:09Nope, not really.
09:11I think that's where I spent months
09:14with Liam Hemsworth in Morocco, in the Atlas Mountains.
09:18Yep.
09:19There's our car that we drive around in.
09:21We drove all over Morocco in that.
09:24Did a bit of running up maybe that hill there.
09:27I was sleeping somewhere down there.
09:29Didn't you shoot up there?
09:30Yep, shot up on that roof.
09:32We found out that it wasn't quite a load-bearing roof.
09:36Probably shouldn't have been up there.
09:38That's another story.
09:41What film is this?
09:43This is Lonely Planet.
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