00:00Crazy. You are really ageless, I tell you what. You haven't aged a day, baby doll.
00:0520 years and 10 year anniversaries, that's the way you learned. Crazy.
00:10Papa Doc is like we shot that last week, right? That's certainly a thing.
00:13Tupac yesterday, don't worry about it.
00:21Now, I love that each of these games has its own flavor.
00:25And my personal favorites are Black and Twisted Metal 3.
00:27I think the energy of those games is amazing.
00:28Is season two like the games where it evolves and has a different flavor to it?
00:32It does evolve hugely.
00:34We kept calling season two level two because it really opens up a ton of new stuff.
00:40New places, new faces, new worlds, more cars, more everything.
00:46And did you have a favorite experience leveling up to two?
00:48Did anything feel different?
00:50You know, I really enjoyed the idea of how the characters have changed
00:54and what they end up at by the end of the show.
00:57I feel like it's a good progression.
00:59I think if you look at season one, where John Doe started, where Quiet started,
01:03and seeing where they are at the end of season two, they're very different people.
01:09Not characters, but people.
01:10But you can see the progression of their personality through the course of the season
01:16and everything that happened, as opposed to it being a new season.
01:19And it's like, who is this dude?
01:21Like, why is he goth now?
01:23You actually get to see the arc of the journey.
01:25I got you.
01:26There's a reason.
01:26You actually get to see him break into a store and be like, whoa, black actually looks good on me.
01:30Then he walks out in all black.
01:31Next thing you know, he's wearing goth.
01:33I'm buddies with Aaron and Justin.
01:34They talked a lot about how much you love psychology and like diving into the character.
01:37And I love that these games focus on psychology, even when the car gets affected
01:41and the music drops and things are really psychological in the games.
01:44What car do you think you would personally have?
01:47And any needle drop for you, for each of you, for your journey, if you were playing in real life?
01:51Oh, F350 King Cab Long Bed Dually.
01:54No question.
01:55Beautiful.
01:56I want the seven-foot bed.
01:57I want a five-inch lift kit.
01:59I want air suspension.
02:01I want two turbo thrusters on my engine.
02:04I'm going to need five gallons of death fluid in my tail bed because I'm getting active.
02:10The man has thought about this.
02:11He was prepared.
02:12I respect that.
02:12He went home.
02:13He wrote it down.
02:13A needle drop for you.
02:15What's going on?
02:15What's playing in that 350?
02:16Oh, man.
02:17So for me, in the apocalypse, I feel like with this show, every scene you watch, everything
02:22John Doe does, Busta Rhymes is playing in his head.
02:26Yes.
02:26Like every Busta Rhymes song, no matter what it is, that's John Doe.
02:32It's crazy.
02:33Stephanie, this feels like it's got a backstory.
02:35It feels like it's written.
02:35Are you as prepared?
02:36Do you have a car?
02:37Yeah, 808.
02:39Bippity bop boo.
02:41Skidoo.
02:41With one of those Jim Jams on the top and then a bunch of hoo-hahs.
02:46Season three Jim Jam confirms.
02:47I respect that.
02:48I respect that.
02:49There's nothing that brings me pleasure like seeing Stephanie's face when I talk about cars.
02:53Every time cars come off, she's like, you've got that actor notebook and she's like, I am
02:59very happy to be here and it's 9 a.m.
03:01At Comic-Con, I'm not sure what you watch.
03:02Some people's hobbies are reflected in their work in some of their projects.
03:10Exhibit A.
03:11I see the passion.
03:13100%.
03:14100%.
03:16So it's like, if you were to do a voiceover movie, is there a specific microphone or a
03:23specific studio you use?
03:25No, but I like it to be in the dark.
03:27Well, that's specific.
03:28It's dark and I can close my eyes and I can just see all the images come to life.
03:33So you have a script in front of you.
03:36I've memorized it.
03:36Ignore it.
03:37You've learned your lines.
03:38Honey, I've memorized it.
03:39You've learned your lines.
03:40That's how good I am.
03:42That's crazy.
03:43All my lines for voiceover, I know.
03:45That's why we don't talk about Bruno, because she's got them.
03:47We don't need to.
03:48That's my thing.
03:48The guy who plays Sweet Tooth, right?
03:50So Will Arnett does the voice of Sweet Tooth, but he does all of the physicality and emotion.
03:56Right?
03:56Some more joke.
03:57But he learns the lines.
03:59So when he comes to set, he gives us all the lines.
04:01The full performance.
04:02The full performance.
04:02The full performance.
04:03The full performance.
04:04Fully realized, gorgeous.
04:05That's amazing.
04:06And that is why.
04:07Like Sean Gunn is Rocket and then Bradley comes in.
04:09So you've got like both energies.
04:10That's incredible.
04:11I think it's why it feels so seamless, because Joe is giving a fully realized performance
04:17and then Will is taking that and layering his own creativity on top of it.
04:21And then you get to see two takes on the day.
04:23It's really awesome.
04:24That's beautiful.
04:24The whole first season, my face was like, every scene we had.
04:27Every time we were like, whoa.
04:28It was like, cut.
04:29Anthony, close your eyes.
04:31Remember when he jumped off of the stage onto that table?
04:34They were like, oh, we only have props.
04:35I was very nervous.
04:36Yeah.
04:37Like, we only have one or two of these tables.
04:39And Joe was like, well, it's fine.
04:40I've got it.
04:42Did it in one take.
04:43One take.
04:43And does he have the same intimidating physicality as Sweet Tooth as a person?
04:47Or does he like a total sweetheart after?
04:49He's a teddy bear.
04:49Yeah.
04:50The nicest dude, man.
04:52That's good, dude.
04:52The nicest.
04:53Literally just like.
04:54The funniest.
04:54Just the kindest person.
04:55Happy to be a dad.
04:56And, you know, his concern in life is, you know, being able to buy enough groceries to feed his kids.
05:04Like, every time we talk.
05:05How not Sweet Tooth?
05:06Okay.
05:07Now, in a death match situation, in a tournament, I've been wondering, who would win the match for each of your biggest characters in my experience?
05:14And I wanted these to actually pit each other.
05:15So, for you, Mirabelle from Encanto, Carla from In the Heights, Rosa from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or Quiet, and how would they win?
05:22Absolutely quiet.
05:24Carla!
05:25Okay, no, no, no, I love.
05:26Carla couldn't tell her watch.
05:27I don't know.
05:28She doesn't know whether to scratch or watch or whine her butt.
05:31I feel like there's some intuitiveness there that she would just click in.
05:35Trapped inside of all the hair.
05:36Oh, there's something in there where she would be like, give me a bobby pin and some gasoline.
05:42I think it would be quiet.
05:43Okay, I love that.
05:44Quiet is pretty ruthless in terms of, like, she will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, which is ultimately, like, equality and freedom for everyone.
05:53World peace.
05:53What an altruistic vengeance you have.
05:55I think it really is, though.
05:56Like, in season two, when this tournament is introduced to everyone, the prize of the tournament is your greatest wish.
06:03And, like, that's what quiet wants.
06:05She wants all the walls to come down.
06:06That's why you're so likable.
06:07It's beautiful, but it's a hell of an altruistic violence.
06:10It's truly, truly something.
06:12It's like a means to an end for her.
06:14Yeah.
06:14And I had to go military for you because I feel like I want them violent.
06:17I'm still thinking about Carlin.
06:19I bet you are.
06:20Yeah.
06:21That's my little boo.
06:22So, I'm going JT Sanborn from Hurt Locker versus, obviously, John Doe.
06:27But then I'm throwing in Adrian from Pain and Gain.
06:29Ooh.
06:29And then a personal favorite, because I feel like he's crafty after the loss, Papa Doc.
06:33Oh.
06:34Papa Doc.
06:35Well, no, no, no.
06:37No, no.
06:39Dear God, no.
06:40Not.
06:40I would say Sanborn, man.
06:42All right.
06:42Yeah, Sanborn had a beautiful nature and wisdom about him that he could live with the world in front of him.
06:50And I think in an apocalypse setting, you need to see the world in front of you.
06:54You can't let anything get behind you.
06:56And his ability to assess the situation and make a decision would be the most important aspect of his personality.
07:06That's beautiful.
07:07Yeah.
07:08Yeah, I like that.
07:08I almost went like half Nelson because I love that performance.
07:10I don't think you do well.
07:11That guy would make it five minutes in and be like, that's not it.
07:14That's not going to work out.
07:15I realized Paul Jenkins wrote on Twisted Metal Black, and Paul Jenkins invented the century.
07:19So the guy that invented the century that just got all of his time in Thunderbolts was a writer on Twisted Metal Black,
07:24but most people don't realize he crossed over into video games for a while.
07:27Like, very specifically crazy.
07:28He's having a summer.
07:29He's having a hell of a time.
07:30That is a good rabbit hole you went down.
07:31Yeah, so Paul Jenkins, like, flowers to him.
07:34Is there any performance of yours or movie or project you want to highlight that you feel like needs some love after some time,
07:39like half Nelson, 20 years next year, 10 years since the night before, which is crazy, crazy.
07:43You are really ageless, I tell you what.
07:46You have an age today, baby doll.
07:49I will say this.
07:50My very first movie was very important to me for many different reasons.
07:55It made me a better human being.
07:58It was a beautiful story, and I feel like I wasn't tainted in a way where I would affect the performance today,
08:03and I was able to be naturally that character as opposed to putting my beliefs and my social awareness on that character.
08:12It was called Brother to Brother.
08:15Like, that movie was very important to me for many different reasons,
08:19and not because it was my first job and it paid my rent, but because, you know, that $500 a month was breaking the bank.
08:30But, you know, thinking about it now, 25 years later, looking at the kid I was at that time,
08:37I'm very proud of what I was able to do with that performance and with that character and present in that movie.
08:43That's beautiful.
08:44Do you feel like you'd play him differently now, or would you try to fall back into that beautiful innocence?
08:48Hopefully we'll get back to that.
08:49He would look exactly the same.
08:51Yeah.
08:52Apparently, that's what we've learned.
08:5320 years and 10-year anniversaries, that's what we've learned.
08:56Go back and look at the pictures.
08:57Crazy.
08:58Papa Doc is like we shot that last week, right?
08:59That's certainly a thing.
09:00Tupac yesterday.
09:01Don't worry about it.
09:02And for you, any highlights?
09:03Anything you want to highlight?
09:04It's so weird to, like, talk about your own work.
09:06Well, it's so specific that it's like, well, I'm proud of that, but I want to be that person.
09:10Show off a little.
09:12Come on.
09:12But I think people should.
09:13I mean, like, there's so much.
09:14The work that is so hard to get.
09:16I was good in this.
09:17You know, I'm really proud of Short Term 12.
09:21I had a very small role in it, but I'm really proud of it.
09:24It's such an important film.
09:25I think the performances in that film, Lakeith Stanfield, Brie Larson, Rami Malek, you know,
09:31Caitlin, like, all of them are just, like, phenomenal in that movie, and I was really
09:34lucky to just even be a part of it.
09:36And I learned a lot by watching everybody.
09:37I haven't done very much yet.
09:39Yeah.
09:39I had done so little that I couldn't.
09:41My continuity was so bad that they had to cut my big scene.
09:43It was terrible.
09:46I could, I could, you, one thing.
09:48My continuity's good now, though.
09:49No, I'm about to say, one thing you are is a person who learns, watches, and adapts.
09:56Because if you watch something and you're like, nope, don't like the way my face looked
10:00with that, you will never make that face again.
10:02Watch out.
10:03You're right.
10:04You're right.
10:05I did learn, I learned a big lesson then.
10:07I was like, well, you're doing an independent film.
10:09You only have, like, a couple minutes to get the scene, and then you've got to move on.
10:14You are both part of so many generational projects, and I really appreciate it.
10:17And bringing something like Twisted Metal that I've loved my whole life to the screen,
10:19I really appreciate all your work.
10:21And that's why I wanted to highlight some.
10:22So thank you very much.
10:23Thanks, man.
10:23I appreciate it.
10:24Check out Twisted Metal.
10:25It's something special.
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