00:00Hearing you do all those different voices made me just think like, when are you gonna host SNL?
00:04I keep saying that too. I really would love to see you do that.
00:08You know, if you got Lorne's number, man, you call him. You call him. You let him know.
00:12I'm gonna work on this.
00:13Yeah, yeah. This is, put Audre to the task.
00:15When he sees this, he's gonna be like, oh wait, that guy's got voices. We gotta, we gotta get a lot.
00:20I am in service business.
00:21Well, I was, I was wondering if you got involved with writing this specifically because 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 the, what they called the Lawrence Olivier fake hitman,
00:58where he looked across the table from whoever was trying to hire someone to murder their husband or their wife or their business partner and would become that fantasy.
01:05And that was such a, like a compelling idea.
01:08So that's where it started off.
01:09So I had, it's not like I had any of these characters in my arsenal until like a couple of weeks before shooting.
01:14This was, this was all sort of how Gary did it, which is on the fly.
01:17But it was always a joy because, because we were also running so short on time that I was never really able to show Rick these characters before we were able to shoot them.
01:24So it was all very last minute, but a blast.
01:27Because I had to go to Andor right after filming, you know, I was kind of shot out of this and we shot our part fairly quickly.
01:36And then I went straight to London to start Andor.
01:38So I didn't see any of them, nor was I around, really.
01:43All I saw was teeth laying around in his house when we would go in for rehearsal, because that's where we would rehearse, the three of us.
01:50And it would just be like random teeth or like random little objects.
01:54And he would hide them from me.
01:56He really didn't want me to see anybody or he didn't want to ruin the illusion of Ron that he was creating for me.
02:03This is serious.
02:04So, yeah.
02:04So when I watched it, I was so surprised, but also so impressed of his ability as an actor and his range.
02:15And I was, I was just kind of blown away by, by him.
02:19And 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 or did you see it for the first time when you screened it?
02:31First time when we screened it.
02:33Was that a trip?
02:34I was, yeah, because I didn't, you know, I thought, you know, Glenn's a good actor, but I just thought he was, I was the handsome guy.
02:41And it was like, no, he's going to play the guy with the terrible teeth.
02:44He'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.
02:55Yeah.
02:55Also the main character, Gary, that's not Glenn.
02:59Right.
02:59It's really not.
03:00So even that is a departure from the real Glenn Powell.
03:04The real Glenn Powell is much cooler.
03:07Almost like an actor playing an actor and that whole meta thing, you know.
03:10There's levels of performances going on in here, you know.
03:13I'm the dude playing the dude disguised as another dude.
03:17We're sort of deconstructing the hitman genre, you know, or, or debunking maybe is the word.
03:24Just, you know, it's a, it's a pop culture myth.
03:28Basically this notion of a retail hitman, you know, it's a comment on consumerism.
03:33Maybe that you could just buy someone's life, you know, it's ridiculous.
03:37You know, this whole thing, there's a certain, you know, artifice to so much of this as there
03:44are the genres we're operating in.
03:46So it was kind of an interesting headspace to be in.
03:49Remember the lady came and trying to have her husband killed that we let go.
03:52Yeah.
03:52Her husband was just found dead.
03:56I'm so what happened?
03:57You know, you just got done with a very successful rom-com that comparatively is a little more
04:09wholesome, but were you like my next on-screen romance, there's going to be murder.
04:14Like we got to get it darker.
04:15We shot this before.
04:16We shot this before anyone but you.
04:18Oh yeah, that's right.
04:19Yeah.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Yeah.
04:21So we should actually write before really.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Yeah.
04:24You, um, yeah.
04:26Cause that, yeah, that, that was the next movie up.
04:28I think, um, no, I mean like the, the, the crazy part about those two movies is they really
04:34just exist in 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 at the
04:44end of the day.
04:44Like, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm obviously, you know, blessed to share the screen with, with,
04:49with two wonderful co-stars.
04:51I will say that, that this movie in particular is, is really interesting because, you know,
04:58that was a, that 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, there's a much more Linklater cerebral aspect to this one that, that, that
05:17was just, it's just different, you know, it's just, it's just a different beast completely.
05:20And just, and just, I would just say the, the nature of how Rick works, you know, is,
05:25is, um, he's, he's just his own beast.
05:27It's his own ecosystem and how, how you bring people together and, and bake it up.
05:31So, um, again, I'm, I'm proud, I'm proud of both, both movies in their, in their own
05:36right.
05:37But yeah, if we had murder in anyone, but you, I think it would have really, uh, changed the
05:41whole vibe.
05:42How did you see him change as an actor since everybody wants some, that feels like it was
05:49yesterday, but it was eight years ago.
05:51You know what I mean?
05:51Yeah.
05:51We 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 guy, but,
06:07uh, I don't know, a little experience.
06:10You know, you, you, you learn from everybody.
06:12Glenn's a, 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, they protect themselves in weird ways.
06:24They're, they'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, um, to work with him, you know, as always.
06:37Do you think this movie has a villain?
06:40Yeah.
06:42Jasper.
06:43Yeah.
06:44Yeah.
06:44Jasper'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.
06:50Isn't it?
06:51Oh, 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?
07:04He's that guy at work that you just, you, you don't want to be stuck at lunch with him,
07:08you know?
07:08By the end of the movie, Gary has become something he couldn't have fathomed at the beginning.
07:14You know, he, he 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 that you think is there.
07:43You're just not, you know, the as if principle that's stated in the movie.
07:46So that, that's interesting to me.
07:49My name is Gary Johnson.
07:50And my simple question for you is,
07:52who is your hit man?
08:03We'll see.
08:10Who knew that a meet cute, uh,
08:13could be so romantic when the premise of it is plotting a murder.
08:17You know what I mean?
08:18What's meet cute?
08:19A 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,
08:23like meet for the first time.
08:24Oh, okay.
08:25On my first dates,
08:26we talk about who we're going to murder,
08:28but you know,
08:28it's just weird to see it in a movie.
08:30Yeah, man.
08:30You got to get off those apps, man.
08:31That's, that's, that's, that's what's going on.
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