00:00Hearing you do all those different voices made me just think, like, when are you going to host SNL?
00:04Like, I mean, I keep saying that, too. I really I would love, you know, if you got Lauren's number,
00:09man, you call him, you call him, you let him know. I'm gonna work on this. Yeah. Yeah. This is put
00:14Audrey to the task. When he sees this, he's gonna be like, oh, wait, that guy's got voices. We got
00:20I am in service business.
00:21Well, I was I was wondering if you got involved with writing this specifically
00:32because you were eager to showcase your range in that regard.
00:36None of these none of these characters were cooked up before we we created this script,
00:41like the real Gary Johnson, you know, in the Texas Monthly article is this really fascinating guy.
00:47You know, he's a he's a psychology professor who moonlights with the police department.
00:52He's he's he, you know, ends up becoming sort of what they called the Lawrence Olivier fake
00:57hitman, where he looked across the table from whoever was trying to hire someone to murder
01:02their husband or their wife or their business partner and would become that fantasy.
01:06And that was such a like a compelling idea. So that's where it started off.
01:09So it's not like I had any of these characters in my arsenal
01:12until like a couple of weeks before shooting. This was this was all sort of how Gary did it,
01:16which is on the fly. But it was always a joy because because we were also running so short
01:20on time that I was never really able to show Rick these characters before we were able to
01:24shoot them. So it was all very last minute, but a blast.
01:27Because I had to go to Andorra right after filming, you know,
01:30I was kind of shot out of this and we shot our part fairly quickly.
01:36And then I went straight to London to start Andorra. So I didn't see any of them,
01:41nor was I around really. All I saw was teeth laying around in his house when we would go in
01:47for rehearsal, because that's where we would rehearse the three of us. And it would just
01:51be like random teeth or like random little objects. And he would hide them from me.
01:55He really didn't want me to see anybody or he didn't want to ruin the illusion of Ron
02:01that he was creating for me. This is serious.
02:04So, yeah, so when I watched it, I was so surprised, but also so impressed of
02:11his ability as an actor and his range. And I was I was just kind of blown away by
02:18by him. And it felt like a very different movie than than I had been a part of, for sure.
02:24Did you see him performing all these various personas,
02:29or did you see it for the first time when you screened it?
02:31First time I screened it.
02:33Was that a choice?
02:34Yeah, because I didn't know, you know, I thought, you know, Glenn's a good actor,
02:38but I just thought he was that was the handsome guy. And he's like, no, he's going to play the
02:42guy with the terrible teeth. He's going to play the guy with the terrible hair.
02:46He's going to play the guy who's, you know, kind of a jackass and and full on.
02:51So I would I really enjoyed seeing that.
02:54Yeah. Also, the main character, Gary, that's not Glenn.
02:59Right. It's really not.
03:00So even that is a departure from the real Glenn Powell.
03:05The real Glenn Powell is much cooler.
03:06Almost like an actor playing an actor and that whole meta thing.
03:10You know, there's levels of performances going on in here.
03:13You know, I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
03:17We're sort of deconstructing the hitman
03:20genre, you know, or are debunking maybe is the word just, you know, it's a it's a pop culture
03:27myth, basically this notion of a retail hitman.
03:31You know, it's a comment on consumerism, maybe that you could just buy someone's life.
03:36You know, it's ridiculous.
03:37You know, this whole thing, there's a certain, you know, artifice to so much of this
03:44as there are the genres we're operating in.
03:46So it was kind of an interesting headspace to be in.
03:49Remember, the lady came in trying to have her husband killed that we let go.
03:52Yeah, her husband was just found dead.
03:54I'm sorry, what happened?
03:59You know, you just got done with a very successful
04:03rom-com that comparatively is a little more wholesome.
04:08Were you like my next onscreen romance?
04:11There's going to be murder like we got to get it darker.
04:13We shot this before.
04:14We shot this before, anyone but you.
04:17Oh, yeah, that's right.
04:18Yeah, yeah.
04:19So we actually right before, really?
04:21Actually right before, really?
04:23Yeah.
04:24Yeah.
04:26Yeah, because that was the next movie up.
04:28I think, no, I mean, like the crazy part about those two movies is they really just exist
04:35in completely separate universes.
04:37Like they really couldn't be more different.
04:39And I think what you take away from them, those movies are very, very different.
04:43At the end of the day, like, you know, I'm obviously, you know,
04:48blessed to share the screen with two wonderful co-stars.
04:51I will say that this movie in particular is really interesting because, you know,
04:58that was a Shakespeare adaptation.
05:00Our entry point into this movie was very, very different because it was really taking
05:07the premise of, you know, it was a really contemplation of identity and passion.
05:10You know, there's a much more Linklater cerebral aspect to this one that was just,
05:17it's just different.
05:18You know, it's just a different beast completely.
05:20And just, I would just say the nature of how Rick works, you know, is, he's just his own
05:27beast.
05:27It's his own ecosystem and how you bring people together and bake it up.
05:31So again, I'm proud of both movies in their own right.
05:36But yeah, if we had murder in Anyone But You, I think it would have really changed the whole
05:41vibe.
05:42How did you see him change as an actor since Everybody Wants Some?
05:48That feels like it was yesterday, but it was eight years ago.
05:50You know what I mean?
05:51Yeah, we shot it coming up on 10 years ago.
05:54Um, you know, it just deepened.
05:58He hasn't changed.
05:59He was always the smart, funny, you know, hardworking, charismatic guy, you know, same
06:06guy.
06:07But, uh, I don't know, a little experience.
06:10You know, you learn from everybody.
06:12Glenn's an absorber, a learner.
06:15So, you know, that much more experience, that much, you would say, tools in the toolkit,
06:19you know, in a good way.
06:20Some actors get worse because they protect themselves in weird ways.
06:24They're less open for things, where Glenn was more open.
06:28He was really pushing himself and not afraid.
06:31So I don't know.
06:32It was cool to work with him, you know, as always.
06:37Do you think this movie has a villain?
06:41Yeah, Jasper.
06:43Yeah.
06:44Yeah, Jasper's not a nice guy.
06:46Cop or no cop?
06:47He's still a jackass.
06:48I thought you guys are going to be like, no, that's a good question.
06:53Oh, no, we, I think we took on what our characters felt.
06:58We, you knew they did not like Jasper.
07:01So he is the villain, you know?
07:03He's that guy at work that you just, you don't want to be stuck at lunch with him, you know?
07:09By the end of the movie, Gary has become something he couldn't have fathomed at the
07:13beginning, you know?
07:14He even said it in the dialogue and he's incapable of being that guy.
07:19But by the end, you know, mix in some passion, some sex, some romance, take him on this ride.
07:24It's like, oh, okay.
07:26Don't be so sure what you're capable of or not capable of.
07:28I think we all are.
07:29We're all contradictions and you can't really say what you're capable of.
07:34I like the idea that you could consciously dial up something that you want in your life
07:42that you think is there.
07:43You're just not, you know, the as if principle that's stated in the movie.
07:46So that's interesting to me.
07:49My name is Gary Johnson and my simple question for you is, who is your hitman?
08:03We'll see.
08:05Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood.
08:10Who knew that a meet cute could be so romantic when the premise of it is plotting a murder?
08:16You know what I mean?
08:18What's meet cute?
08:18A meet cute?
08:19So it's like in a rom-com.
08:20It's like how the two people that you want to fall in love like meet for the first time.
08:24Oh, okay.
08:25On my first dates, we talk about who we're going to murder.
08:28But you know, it's just weird to see it in a movie.
08:29Yeah, man, you got to get off those apps, man.
08:32That's what's going on.
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