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THE BAD GUYS 2 stars Natasha Lyonne (Doom) and Sam Rockwell (Mr, Wolf) visit WIRED to offer up answers to their most searched for questions on Google. How did Natasha Lyonne begin acting? Can Sam Rockwell do the splits? What's his favorite song? Can Natasha Lyonne sing? Why was Sam Rockwell on The White Lotus? What accent does Natasha Lyonne speak with? Answers to these questions and many more await on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview of Natasha Lyonne and Sam Rockwell.THE BAD GUYS 2 is in theaters August 1, 2025 https://www.thebadguysmovie.com/Director: Lauren ZeitounDirector of Photography: Dominik CzaczykEditor: Paul TaelLine Producer: Jamie RasmussenAssociate Producer: Brandon White; Paul GulyasProduction Manager: Peter BrunetteProduction Coordinator: Rhyan LarkTalent Booker: Meredith JudkinsCamera Operator: Jon CorumSound Mixer: Gray Thomas-SowersProduction Assistant: Lauren Boucher; Abigayle DevinePost Production Supervisor: Christian OlguinSupervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo; Erica DeLeoAssistant Editor: Billy Ward
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00:00Is this on? Are we taking a bail?
00:02I'm Sam Rockwell.
00:03This is Natasha Lyonne.
00:05Yes, and that's Sam Rockwell.
00:06And this is The Wire what?
00:08The Wired Auto Complete Interview.
00:10I'll buy that for a dollar.
00:12We're in, baby.
00:16It's quite a monologue.
00:17Would you say that any dark, dirty stuff happens in there?
00:20Yeah, yeah.
00:24Hey! Okay, Sammy.
00:26How did Natasha Lyonne start acting?
00:29I see what the game is.
00:31My parents wanted me to start acting, so I did.
00:34And lo and behold...
00:35There you go.
00:36Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, first gig, Heartburn.
00:39Wow.
00:39And then Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
00:41Ah, legendary.
00:42Can Natasha Lyonne sing?
00:46Depends what you like.
00:47Johnny Thunders, no problem.
00:49Okay, what about opera?
00:51I'm gonna go a hard pass, and you, Sam?
00:55No, no opera for me.
00:57No?
00:57I like to listen to it.
00:58Ah, one thing we don't have in common.
01:01That's not true.
01:02I like it funny.
01:03Is Natasha Lyonne funny?
01:06Are you kidding?
01:07Really funny.
01:09Not today.
01:11But sometimes...
01:13Who is Natasha Lyonne in Scary Movie?
01:17I know the answer.
01:18Do you?
01:19No.
01:20I don't.
01:20Linda Blair.
01:21Oh.
01:21The Exorcist.
01:22Is that right?
01:23Yes.
01:23No kidding.
01:24Can you say this, Unwired?
01:25Your mother sucks cocks in hell?
01:27Sure, why not?
01:27I had to say that in a movie.
01:28It's a famous line.
01:29I didn't write it.
01:30Yeah.
01:30Billy Friedkin.
01:31Not my best work, but I'm proud of it.
01:33Does Natasha Lyonne speak Russian?
01:38Kogdila.
01:39That's about all.
01:41Nostrovia.
01:42Okay, here we go.
01:44Can Sam Rockwell do the splits?
01:47You know, if I'm warmed up, I can do the splits.
01:49There's no way this baby can't do the splits.
01:51That's Bob Fozzie.
01:52Come on.
01:54What is Sam Rockwell's favorite song?
01:56I have so many, but I'm going to go with Gotta Give It Up, Marvin Gaye for now.
02:02And maybe Toots and the Miles, 52.
02:0752 is my number.
02:08Oh, 52 is my number.
02:09That's a great song.
02:10That's a great song.
02:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:11I'm just going with that for now.
02:12Sort of a modern hit.
02:13Really came up.
02:14Yeah, it is.
02:15Yes.
02:15This is England made it famous.
02:16A song of the summer.
02:17I was listening to Marvin Gaye this morning.
02:18Oh, yeah?
02:19I've been watching Sammy Rock's dance since 1996.
02:23Why is Sam Rockwell in White, always?
02:28Sam, why?
02:30Good question.
02:31Probably Leslie Bibb and Walt Goggins and Mike White, yeah.
02:35Mm-hmm.
02:36Anything else you'd like to confess to about your inner nature, Sam?
02:39Um, no.
02:42Seems like we all learned a lot about you.
02:46Wild beast that you are.
02:48Where does Sam Rockwell want to live?
02:51Existential Sammy.
02:53Um, where the heart is.
02:56How are you, actually?
02:57We spend a lot of time over the last 20 years or more running into each other.
03:01In the East Village, yeah.
03:02Yeah.
03:03Tompkins.
03:03I own Tompkins.
03:04They don't know me.
03:04You own Tompkins, yeah.
03:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:06You should have told me.
03:07Remember that play, um.
03:08I'm going to get more clout over there.
03:09Lie of the Mind?
03:10Yeah, of course.
03:11I always loved that title.
03:12Yeah.
03:13For some reason I thought of that when you said, in the heart.
03:15Yeah.
03:16One from the heart or something.
03:17That's right.
03:17One from, that's another great title.
03:19Coppola.
03:20Yeah.
03:20Here we are learning.
03:21This is called Free Association.
03:23Yeah, this is us on a bench in Tompkins Square Park.
03:26What does Sammy Rocks know Kung Fu?
03:30It is Shaolin season, folks, if you haven't been paying attention.
03:34Wu-Tang Clan is for the children.
03:35And we're tech available.
03:37I do not, but I did briefly mess around with Eagle Claw Kung Fu.
03:42It didn't last long.
03:43Now, Sam, I'm going off book because what else are we doing with our lives?
03:47Should we get involved in, like, Tai Chi or something when we get back to New York?
03:50I think it's good for you.
03:51I mean, and then you can speed it up and, like, you know, fuck somebody up.
03:55Are you open to that?
03:56Because I need a Tai Chi part.
03:57Oh, thank God.
03:59Wired.
03:59Bad guys, too.
04:00I like yoga.
04:00Why wouldn't I like Tai Chi?
04:02Easy on the yoga.
04:03We're Tai Chi people now, Sam.
04:04I've recently written a film.
04:06It's called Sammy Rocks is Tai Chi.
04:09And I'm so excited that you agreed to it.
04:12So you're going to have to go into immediate training.
04:14Serious.
04:14You'll see us in the park.
04:15You're going to have to go all in.
04:17All in.
04:17All in.
04:18I'm talking more than poor Jodorowsky's son prepping for Jodorowsky's doom.
04:23And that's how all in we're about to go on this.
04:26We're going to start right now in the parking lot of the Four Seasons.
04:29We got more?
04:30Oh, gosh.
04:31We were just riffing.
04:32We were like a jazz album that never ended.
04:34Okay.
04:35What movie made Natasha Lyonne famous?
04:37Slums of Beverly Hills.
04:38Slums of Beverly Hills.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Great movie.
04:40Great performance.
04:41Tamara Jenkins.
04:42There you go.
04:43Kevin Corrigan.
04:43Yeah.
04:44Alan Arkin.
04:45Carl Reiner.
04:45Rita Moreno.
04:46Forget about it.
04:46The Hits Keep Coming.
04:47Anna Farrell.
04:47Marissa Tomei.
04:48Marissa Tomei.
04:49There you go.
04:49Crumholtz.
04:50Jessica Walters.
04:51What is Natasha Lyonne's accent?
04:55I'm a born and raised New Yorker.
04:56Why do I talk funny?
04:57I've seen too many old pictures.
04:59I think I'd seen, I don't know, Rocky and The Godfather and Scarface.
05:03Kathy Moriarty.
05:04Maybe like 40 times each by the time I was 10.
05:08And then also old timey stuff like, weirdly like Bette Davis and stuff.
05:12So I think I just assumed that people talk funny.
05:15As I move through the world, I can now see it's weird.
05:19But it's too late to stop.
05:21Also, I get nervous.
05:22And so it gets weirder all the time.
05:25I'm not doing it on purpose.
05:26If it's any consolation, I'm sorry for it.
05:28Actually, you know, my dad is Bugsy Siegel.
05:31So that might be what you're hearing.
05:33I would buy that.
05:34Does that mean if I want to play Bugsy Siegel, I have to go to you for the rights?
05:37Listen, baby, if you want to do the Bugsy Siegel Tai Chi picture, we can talk about it.
05:42I know it seems crazy.
05:43Did Bugsy do, we got more questions.
05:45Don't put that down.
05:46As it was, sir.
05:46We're tech avail.
05:47What series was Natasha Lyonne in?
05:51Co-created Russian Doll.
05:52That was a big one.
05:52Russian Doll.
05:53The big East Village one.
05:54Orange is the New Black with Danielle Brooks.
05:56I directed an episode of Awkwafina's show.
06:00Russian Doll is closest to my heart.
06:02Yeah, that's the one that I got most lost in the sauce in the edit and Pink Floyd and What's
06:07It All About?
06:08And you got to shoot it in the hood.
06:09You got to shoot it in the East Village.
06:10I do like walking to work and night shoots.
06:13You like night shoots.
06:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:15What are you, a fucking vampire?
06:16I don't understand.
06:17Did you play Fossey?
06:18You didn't play Fossey.
06:19Sam, what's going on?
06:20That's an act.
06:21Listen, ever since you accepted the role of Bugsy Siegel is Tai Chi, I just feel like
06:26you've changed them.
06:27I hope there's not a bunch of night shoots for Bugsy Siegel Tai Chi.
06:30I can't help it.
06:30I hope there's splits.
06:31Okay, we'll make some splits.
06:32Because Papa likes to go to bed early.
06:34I know you're a night owl.
06:34If baby warmes up and baby does his splits, we'll shoot splits.
06:37Okay.
06:38What is Natasha Lyonne natural hair color?
06:42Oh, let me just take these off.
06:44I have no problem.
06:45I suffice to say the curtains match the drapes, kids.
06:48Hey.
06:49She's here every Tuesday, everyone.
06:51Try the veal.
06:52You know, I'm sort of a strawberry blonde, let's call it.
06:54Okay, and with that.
06:57Yes, Sam Rockwell, cap, movie.
07:00What does that mean?
07:01Is that a question?
07:02Well, it's sort of like they ran out of room.
07:04I think they gave up around now, Sam.
07:06They were like, we've done enough.
07:07What does that mean?
07:07Have I played a cop?
07:09I think they're talking about three billboards.
07:11Ah, yes.
07:12Let's go billboards, baby.
07:14That was a fun role.
07:14There's a lot going on with that role.
07:16He's a bad guy, and then he learns the path to sort of, I don't know, spirituality.
07:20Did you love Martin McDonough?
07:22I loved Martin McDonough.
07:23Francis McDonough.
07:24I love Francis McDormand.
07:25Did you get an Oscar for that?
07:26Shoko Ivanovic.
07:27I got, yes, I got the gold, the gold dude.
07:30I know, I'm so sorry.
07:31Where is that Oscar right now, Sam?
07:32Do you have eyes on it?
07:33I tie it to my toothbrush so that I never get-
07:36Oh, God, that seems sensible.
07:37Yeah, yeah.
07:38I'm never without it, so I'm always reminded.
07:40Much deserved.
07:41Well, it feels like you should have at least six or seven by now.
07:44Sam Rockwell, bad guy.
07:45Just another sort of missing-
07:46A strange question.
07:48Sort of a non-sequitur.
07:49Yeah, they're just kind of free associating now.
07:51I like bad guys.
07:52I like the franchise.
07:53I'm a fan.
07:54You are so good in this movie.
07:56You're so good.
07:57That's very nice of you to say.
07:58I'm all right, but I mean-
07:59You're so good.
08:00You are so cool in this movie.
08:01You're pretty cool yourself.
08:03Well, you know-
08:03Thank you for saying that.
08:04Holistically.
08:05We didn't get to work together in this one.
08:07Well, we have our whole time.
08:08Cheap we did.
08:08You're going to have to do a Tai Chi rom-co.
08:10Yes.
08:11Bugsy Siegel meets Bugsy-
08:14Malone.
08:15Malone.
08:15Yes.
08:16Cracked it.
08:17Sam Rockwell Gong Show.
08:19I love you in this movie.
08:20I love you in this movie.
08:21Professions of a Dangerous Mind.
08:22George Clooney directed the shit out of that movie.
08:24God, you're so good in it.
08:25Clooney gave me a video camera.
08:28He told me to go follow Chuck Beres around, and I basically, practically lived with Chuck
08:32Beres and his wife.
08:33And what's the movie?
08:34Edgar Howard was in that movie.
08:35I got to work with Edgar Howard.
08:36Oh, from Blade Runner.
08:37Howard.
08:37Yeah, along with Drew Robertson and Drew Barrymore.
08:40Oh, and she's so great.
08:41Okay.
08:42Sam Rockwell.
08:44Iron Man 2.
08:45Two.
08:46Yes.
08:47Fun, fun gig.
08:48It was like making an independent movie, actually.
08:50Me and Mickey Rourke, we were oddly shooting it in sequence.
08:54So we'd be like, let's add Mickey's parrot.
08:56He said, I want my parrot in the movie.
08:58He always wants his parrot.
08:59Don't make it.
08:59That's Mickey.
09:00He wants his fucking parrot in the movie, so we put the goddamn parrot in the movie.
09:01Yeah.
09:02I heard Darren Aronofsky had to cut the parrot out of the entire wrestler, shot by shot.
09:05They spent the entire budget on him.
09:07The fucking parrot was wrestling, for fuck's sake.
09:09Look at him.
09:09On steroids.
09:10I mean, come on.
09:11The guy's good at what he does.
09:12Jesus Christ.
09:13But I wouldn't be in that movie if it wasn't for Justin Theroux and Jon Favreau.
09:17Yeah.
09:17I was texting with Justin.
09:18You know, he was on Poker Face recently.
09:20I was texting with him.
09:20Oh, he was?
09:21Yesterday, and he was talking a lot of shit about you, Sam.
09:23He was?
09:24Yeah.
09:25He was saying, what'd he say?
09:26He said, that guy can't do splits, never spent not one day with Chuck Beres.
09:29What a Tai Chi, his ass.
09:31You're gonna.
09:32Getting him back.
09:33Oh, flingsy-wingzy.
09:36Natasha Lyonne have Instagram?
09:39Me have Instagram?
09:40Big time.
09:41On there, 29 hours a day.
09:43See me there.
09:44Who does Natasha Lyonne play in New Girl?
09:48I remembered Gretchen.
09:50Next.
09:51Okay.
09:51Can Natasha Lyonne swim?
09:53Why would you want to know this?
09:54Okay, first of all, nobody loves swimming more than me, other than Burt Lancaster in the swimmer.
09:59Ah, good reference.
10:01I got some more.
10:02Natasha Lyonne, voice acting.
10:05Well, bad guys, too.
10:07And now in theaters.
10:08Bada bing, bada bang.
10:10All right, here we go.
10:11Boom.
10:12What is Sam Rockwell's three-week rule?
10:16I see my beloved Leslie Bip every three weeks, hopefully.
10:20Oh, really?
10:21Sometimes you have to break that rule, yeah.
10:22That's actually really smart.
10:23Yeah, yeah.
10:24What is Sam Rockwell's monologue?
10:27We're talking about White Lotus?
10:28It's quite a monologue.
10:30Check it out.
10:31Would you say that any dark, dirty stuff happens in there?
10:34Yeah, yeah.
10:35What does Sam Rockwell dance to in Charlie's?
10:40Ah, well, gotta give it up, Marvin Gaye.
10:42Yeah, Charlie's Angels, that's right.
10:44Okay, well, mission accomplished there.
10:46There you go.
10:47I see, Angels was here at the bottom.
10:49I thought maybe Charlie's was a dive bar.
10:51No offense.
10:52What is Sam Rockwell like in?
10:55Real life.
10:56He's a real bimbo.
10:58That is not true.
11:00Sam is one of the, I mean, he keeps.
11:02He's a real dummy.
11:03He keeps our community together like nobody else.
11:06Although Sammy Miles.
11:07That's a nice thing to say.
11:09It's true.
11:09I'm gonna get shy and put my sunglasses on.
11:11Oh, and I guess I'll get shy and just, you know, find mine.
11:15That's a very sweet thing to say.
11:17You keep us grounded.
11:19Keep it about to work.
11:19I will take the job.
11:20Yeah, you are.
11:21You've got the job.
11:22I'm taking the veil.
11:24I hope you've enjoyed.
11:25Yes, it so much.
11:27This Tai Chi interview.
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