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Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer, and Seth Rogen visit WIRED to offer up answers to their most searched for questions on Google. How was Keanu Reeves discovered? Who wrote Keke Palmer’s new film “Good Fortune?” What is Seth Rogen’s gamertag? What band is Keanu in? How old was Seth Rogen when he made “Knocked Up?” Was Keke Palmer awarded Entertainer of the Year? Answers to these questions and many more await on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview of Keanu Reeves, Seth Rogen, and Keke Palmer.
Director: Kristen DeVore
Editor: Samantha DiVito
Talent: Keke Palmer; Keanu Reeves; Seth Rogen
Creative Producer: Justin Wolfson
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Production Assistant: Jayden Bier
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Director: Kristen DeVore
Editor: Samantha DiVito
Talent: Keke Palmer; Keanu Reeves; Seth Rogen
Creative Producer: Justin Wolfson
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Production Assistant: Jayden Bier
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
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00:00You're not saying my name?
00:01No, no, no, I didn't say our own name.
00:03Hi, I'm Keanu Reeves.
00:05I'm Seth Rogen.
00:05And I'm Kiki Palmer.
00:06And this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview.
00:12Oh my gosh, shout out Canada.
00:15Sorry.
00:16How to?
00:18That was better than your Australian exit.
00:24All right, so this is the prompts.
00:26Yes.
00:27How was Keanu Reeves discovered?
00:30Ooh.
00:31What does discovered mean?
00:33Like for what?
00:34You were unearthed.
00:35I was unearthed.
00:37You know, I've had a bunch of discoveries,
00:39but I guess what's a discovery?
00:41What was the first discovery?
00:43I don't know.
00:43I got an agent from doing community theater.
00:47Okay, that's a discovery.
00:48I was playing Mercutio and Romeo and Juliet.
00:51Oh, wow.
00:52And they were like, hey, do you want to have on an agent?
00:54And I was like, yes.
00:55Absolutely.
00:56So that's discovery.
00:57I think that would be it.
00:58That's cool.
00:59Who is Keanu Reeves in cyberpunk?
01:03Who is Keanu Reeves in cyberpunk?
01:04You're the star of cyberpunk.
01:06Well, no, I'm not the star of cyberpunk.
01:08You're not.
01:09No, but I play a character named Johnny Silverhand.
01:14That's a pretty cool name.
01:15It's a good one.
01:16Why is Keanu Reeves?
01:18So fine.
01:20So nice.
01:21Oh, so nice.
01:22So nice.
01:23So nice.
01:24I can't read.
01:25Why are you so nice, man?
01:26You really are nice, though.
01:27What's your problem?
01:28Everybody's nice.
01:29Everybody's not nice.
01:30Nice is nice, right?
01:32Nice is nice.
01:33Nice is better.
01:33Nice would be nice.
01:34Nice is better.
01:35You feel better being nice.
01:36You do.
01:37Does Keanu Reeves do his own stunts?
01:41Ooh.
01:42No.
01:43Stun people do stunts.
01:46You do a lot of the fighting, though.
01:47I do action.
01:48Yeah, you do action.
01:48You were so incredible at it.
01:51Oh, that's kind.
01:52Did you learn how to nunchuck?
01:54Yes.
01:54Oh my gosh.
01:55Do some nunchucks.
01:56So cool.
01:57That's a dream.
01:58Really?
01:59Yeah.
01:59When I was a kid, my dad bought me real wooden nunchucks,
02:02and I cracked my head open with them.
02:05Yeah, I was just like, whack.
02:07Did you ever get hurt learning doom?
02:09I did that.
02:10I hit the coconut.
02:13Keanu Reeves, Matrix.
02:15That's it.
02:16Is that a question?
02:17That's the tab line.
02:17That is the whole question.
02:19Keanu Reeves, Matrix.
02:20Yes.
02:21Yes, the answer's yes.
02:22Yes.
02:23That says it all.
02:23Keanu Reeves, Matrix.
02:25Okay, Seth, you're up.
02:27I'm up.
02:28Seth Rogen, Beastie Boys.
02:32I was in the Beastie Boys music video, where I got to play a Beastie Boy.
02:36It was directed by a Beastie Boy, and all the Beastie Boys were in the video.
02:42And we shot it for three days, and it was honestly some of the greatest three days of my entire life.
02:47I got to rap into the fisheye lens.
02:49Oh my god.
02:50It was really, really, really fun.
02:52And me and Danny McBride and Elijah Wood played the Beastie Boys.
02:56And then Jack Black and Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly played the older Beastie Boys.
02:59Oh, that's so cool.
03:00We were all pissing in each other's faces.
03:03We had these rigs where we could pee in each other's faces.
03:05You could control the pressure of the pee.
03:07Oh, did you open it up?
03:08We all opened it up on each other, and we were told to.
03:11And to this day, one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life was Will Ferrell getting
03:16four piss streams in his eyes at the same time.
03:20As he was laughing so hard, he was crying.
03:22And he really looked like a nine-year-old kid just at a park playing with his friends.
03:30It was wonderful.
03:31Anyway, what is Seth Rogen's favorite strain of weed?
03:36Ooh.
03:37I smoked a sativa strain.
03:38I actually don't.
03:39I don't want to say what that's.
03:40The strain I smoke is pretty hard to find, as it is.
03:43I don't know if I want to turn everyone on to.
03:44What was that shit you had me on the movie doing?
03:47Man, we did another movie together.
03:49We did another movie where we actually, the only time I've ever actually smoked weed in a
03:52scene really was with you when we shot that scene.
03:54Because we were like, the fake weed is really weird, and I knew he had some good stuff.
03:59Yeah.
04:00But by the end of the scene, man, I didn't even know if I was Keke Palmer or you were.
04:03I didn't know what was happening.
04:04We smoked like so many drinks over there.
04:05That was crazy.
04:06That was a lot.
04:07That was a lot.
04:08That was why you don't smoke real weed.
04:09Me and you, I was glad it was you.
04:10Yes.
04:11I was glad it was you.
04:12Anyone else that would have really spun me out, I think.
04:15Seth Rogen Gamer Tag.
04:18Gamer Tag.
04:19I don't have a Gamer Tag.
04:21Seth Rogen Houseplant.
04:22Houseplant is my home goods company that is, you know, kind of catered for people who
04:29smoke weed.
04:30We have beverages.
04:31We sell ashtrays, lighters, things like that.
04:33They're delightful.
04:34That was what you did with them nails when you had them nails on.
04:36Yeah.
04:37Exactly.
04:38I had a gloopy nails.
04:39Anyway, that was my thing.
04:40Oh, you got two on yours.
04:42Who wrote Kiki Palmer new movie?
04:47A new movie.
04:48I mean, which one?
04:49Good Fortune was written by Aziz Ansari.
04:51There you go.
04:52Kiki Palmer works.
04:53That is an incredible brother.
04:54So, if you say new Kiki Palmer movie, there's 17 movies that you could be referring to.
05:00Eyes tied, boss.
05:02Kiki Palmer, jammy eggs.
05:06So, I found out about jammy eggs, baby, and it's the best thing you can do.
05:11Seven minutes in the boiling, you know what I'm saying?
05:13But you take them out real quick, put them in cold ice bath.
05:16That way that they don't get too hard on the inside.
05:18And they're sort of running on the inside.
05:19You get what I'm saying?
05:20Yeah, yeah.
05:21Crack them over anything you want.
05:22Wow.
05:23A little rice.
05:24A little spinach.
05:25I would call that a soft boiled egg.
05:27No, no, no.
05:28No, no, no.
05:29But wait.
05:30How does this become...
05:31Did you do something sharing how much you love it?
05:33I did.
05:34You had a famous jammy egg moment?
05:35For that to be a question?
05:36Yeah.
05:37I was talking to my boy, Scott Evans, and literally, I just, you know, everybody started
05:40to realize, jammy eggs is the shit.
05:42It is.
05:43Jammy.
05:44Jammy.
05:45And you just gave the recipe.
05:46I sure did.
05:47And you can do anything with them.
05:48I mean, not that.
05:50Well, you need something to do.
05:53I mean, it depends on what you're in.
05:54It depends on what you're in.
05:55Forge a meaningful lifelong relationship.
05:58Who was Kiki Palmer?
05:59I guess you could.
06:00Sorry to.
06:01Okay.
06:02Who was Kiki Palmer sorry to?
06:03This is from the sorry to this man moment that I had.
06:06You had a lot of moments.
06:07A lot of viral moments.
06:08And I don't know how the fuck it happens.
06:11You're just an inherently funny person.
06:13Sad.
06:14It's true.
06:16I received that.
06:17I was saying sorry to Dick Cheney because I didn't know who he was.
06:20Yes.
06:21He could have been walking down the street and I wouldn't have known anything.
06:23He could have had a heart attack in front of you.
06:25And I would have been like, oh my gosh.
06:26He notoriously had a lot of heart attacks.
06:28You're kidding me.
06:29He's gotta lay off the beef.
06:31He's gotta.
06:32That's what'll do it, I've heard.
06:34Lay off the beef.
06:35Try a jammy egg.
06:36Try a jammy egg.
06:37Jammy egg is better.
06:38Next time you're reaching for beef.
06:40But not too much because cholesterol.
06:42Does Kiki Palmer get the job in one of them days?
06:49So you didn't watch the movie?
06:51She gets the job.
06:52It's in the movie.
06:53I got a job.
06:56It's obscure.
06:57The lady comes back, you know, and she wants me.
07:01So I think I get the job.
07:02But I guess you're gonna have to see one of them days too.
07:04Coming out in 2026.
07:06Nice.
07:07I'll let your girl.
07:09All right.
07:10What, what band is Keone Reeves in?
07:15I'm the bass player for a band called Dogstar.
07:19Ooh.
07:21Can Keone Reeves.
07:24Surf.
07:25Surf.
07:26Badly.
07:27Badly.
07:28I mean, is there really bad?
07:30Because like any day.
07:31If you can get up.
07:32You can always get wiped out.
07:33You're gonna have a good day.
07:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:35I've never tried surfing.
07:36But if you're really good.
07:37You always have a good day?
07:39No, then you want the waves.
07:40Oh.
07:41Ooh.
07:42But that doesn't mean that you would be a good or bad surfer.
07:45Anyway, okay, sorry.
07:46Can Keone Reeves really fight?
07:49Depends what's going on.
07:51I love that answer.
07:52Depends what's going on.
07:53Depends what's going on.
07:54Do you think it's made you, like, you must have been in situations now as a man who's played
07:58some, like, are you like, if this, if something happens.
08:01No, I'm really nice.
08:02Yeah, but if something happened to you, like, due to my John Wick training, I could, like,
08:07I once learned how to, you know, I learned how to cook chicken for a movie once.
08:10Oh, wow.
08:11So now I know I have that.
08:12You can roast the chicken.
08:13Yeah, so now I know if I encountered a chicken, I could cook it.
08:16Wow.
08:17If you were to encounter many armed men, do you think?
08:19No, but that might get me in trouble.
08:20Yeah.
08:21You can start thinking that you know anything.
08:22You don't want to think like that.
08:23You know anything?
08:24Yeah.
08:25But it depends what's going on.
08:26It depends on what's going on.
08:27I know, that's right.
08:28He said I'll whoop your ass if you need your ass.
08:29It depends what's going on.
08:31I like that.
08:32What's going on and find a way.
08:35What's Keanu Reeves' favorite food?
08:37Who cares about this?
08:38I don't know.
08:39Whoa.
08:40No favorite food.
08:41I mean.
08:42You probably got a lot of favorite foods.
08:44Yeah.
08:45Yeah.
08:46Yeah.
08:47It's hard to pick one.
08:48No favorite food.
08:49Right.
08:50But I view it as a lot of favorite foods.
08:51You view it as a cornucopia.
08:52That really is an interesting.
08:53It's a cornucopia.
08:54It shows our different perspectives on life.
08:56Can Keanu Reeves speak multiple languages?
09:01Oh yeah.
09:02No.
09:03But he wishes he could.
09:05Wishes he could.
09:06Never too late.
09:07It seemed like he was going to be.
09:08Never too late.
09:09You could learn.
09:10What would you learn?
09:11I'm like handing this to somebody who's not there.
09:12If you could learn another language, what would it be?
09:14Today I would like to speak, what do I, Latin.
09:17Ooh, wow.
09:18A dead language.
09:19I'd like to be able to speak and read Latin.
09:21That would be cool.
09:22I mean that would be very cool because it's like, I'm unique.
09:24Yeah.
09:25No, it's just because there's so much source from the language.
09:27There's cool stuff written in language.
09:29Yeah, yeah.
09:30You know?
09:31And that might be a bridge to the other ones.
09:32Yeah.
09:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.
09:34Then I'd pick up the room.
09:35Anyway.
09:36Yes.
09:37All right.
09:38Okay.
09:39How old was Seth Rogen during Knocked Up?
09:43I loved this movie.
09:44I guess we made it in 2006, I think.
09:47I was born in 1982, so I was 24, I guess.
09:51Incredible.
09:5224.
09:53I was 24 when we made Knocked Up.
09:54And Pineapple Express and Superman.
09:56I think we made all those movies in the same year.
09:58So cool.
09:5924 in all those movies.
10:00What were you freaking thinking creating such cultural classics?
10:03It was stuff we had written.
10:04They just made it all at once.
10:05It was stuff we had written for years and years and years and years.
10:08It was just, once they made our movies, they like, we made them in a quick succession
10:13because we were afraid they wouldn't keep letting us make them.
10:16So we made Knocked Up, Superbad, and Pineapple Express in like one 12 month period of time,
10:21basically.
10:22While I was 24 to 25, I guess.
10:25Incredible.
10:26There you go.
10:27How did Seth Rogen wrote Superbad?
10:31How did Seth Rogen wrote Superbad?
10:33Better than you wrote that question.
10:35I wrote it in high school, mostly, with my friend Evan, who I made in bar mitzvah class
10:40when we were 12.
10:41And we're still, we still work together to this day.
10:44We made the studio together and we directed and wrote that together.
10:48But yeah, we wrote it in high school based on our own high school experiences.
10:52As boys in Vancouver, British Columbia.
10:55How do Seth Rogen laugh?
10:57I don't know.
10:58I just do it.
10:59I wish, I don't know.
11:00I'd rather, I'd rather know how to not Seth Rogen laugh.
11:03You would?
11:04I mean, it's not.
11:05Stop the music.
11:06Stop the laughter.
11:07I, I, I.
11:08The day Seth Rogen stopped laughing.
11:10Stop laughing.
11:11It's a dark day.
11:12It is.
11:13Well, in public a lot, a lot of people come up to you and are like,
11:16I didn't know it was you and then I heard you laugh and then I realized it was you.
11:19So, and not that I mind people coming up to me, but I feel like maybe less people would
11:22if I didn't laugh as loud as I do.
11:25Did you have that laugh when you were six?
11:27I always had this laugh.
11:29Uh, people used to say I laughed like Beavis and Butthead.
11:31That was a big thing in the nineties.
11:33I don't mind my laugh.
11:34And this is how to Seth Rogen laugh.
11:36Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
11:37And you wanna, ha, you kinda gotta catch your breath again and then ha, ha, ha, ha.
11:41Wait, what laugh is that?
11:42I've never heard that laugh.
11:43That was a, that was a technical version of it.
11:46Oh.
11:47That was more it.
11:49Does Seth Rogen fall in every episode of the studio?
11:54I don't fall in every episode of the studio.
11:56But I fall in most of the episodes of the studio and I view the episodes that I don't fall as real failures on my part honestly.
12:04Cause I love a guy falling down.
12:07It's a good physical comedy and you can't get away from it.
12:09There's very few funnier things in the world than someone falling down.
12:12I was a big fan of America's Funniest Home Videos growing up.
12:14Oh yeah.
12:15And I think ultimately I'm just trying to capture the magic of, of that show.
12:19Um, a great comedy.
12:21That was a good show.
12:22Great show.
12:23Thank you, sir.
12:24How did Kiki Palmer get started?
12:27Um, I got started in Chicago.
12:30My first audition was like Chicago theater with Lion King playing Nala.
12:34I didn't get the part.
12:36Fuckers.
12:37But I turned it all around.
12:39You turned it all around.
12:40And you're nervous and you're over.
12:42Not at all.
12:43I mean, it's not like I went to the studio over there and just said, yeah, bad show.
12:47But you know, you live and you learn.
12:49I grew and now I'm here.
12:51How old was Kiki Palmer and True Jackson VP?
12:55Aww, True Jackson VP.
12:57Man, I was the new VP.
12:59Um, 15.
13:00I was 15 when it started.
13:01Yeah, 17 when it was over.
13:03It was good times.
13:05Why is Kiki Palmer Entertainer of the Year?
13:08Good question.
13:09Why am I Entertainer of the Year?
13:10You're seeing it.
13:11You're seeing it live.
13:12You know?
13:14Well, you know, I would like to believe it's because I have fun.
13:16I like to do many things.
13:17I like to entertain.
13:18You know, if Cedric didn't take the name, it'd be Kiki Palmer.
13:20The Entertainer.
13:21Kiki the Entertainer.
13:22Kiki the Entertainer.
13:23He'll die one day.
13:24And I'll just swipe it right off.
13:26He'll take it.
13:27Okay, Kiki Palmer.
13:29Giants.
13:30Oh, yes.
13:31So I did a Legacy, the League of Legends game.
13:35I did.
13:36I was a part of a group that they made in that meta world.
13:38Like, I was a part of this really cool group.
13:40It was honestly the most wicked thing I'd ever been to.
13:43Going to see everybody.
13:44Like, it's like thousands and thousands of people in an arena.
13:48Watching people game League of Legends.
13:50It's the coolest thing ever.
13:51That is kinda cool.
13:52It was really dope.
13:53I like doing the concert and being a part of it all.
13:55And yeah, shout out to the gamers.
13:58I see you.
13:59We see you gamers.
14:01I'm shocked Beastie Boys.
14:03It's heartening to know that whoever's using Google was looking up Beastie Boys stuff.
14:08Are you surprised at the proliferation of jammy eggs?
14:11Yeah, jammy eggs became, you know, jammy eggs.
14:14I knew they were special to me.
14:16How they become special.
14:17You didn't realize it resonated.
14:18You didn't realize it resonated.
14:19And so I'm just happy about that.
14:21You know what I mean?
14:22Can I do any?
14:23No.
14:24Nope.
14:25Apart from the cards.
14:26That's what you expected.
14:27Everything was what I expected.
14:29Canna Googles himself a lot, so he knows.
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