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00:00He's an angel. I'm no angel. He's an angel.

00:10You know, when Keanu's name came up, they were like,

00:14hey, what about Keanu? And I was like, Keanu Thompson?

00:16Who are you talking about? There's no way Keanu Reeves

00:19is a possibility, right? They're like, no, he'll be with you.

00:24And I was like, that's incredible. And I told you the story

00:28the night before we met. I looked at the script

00:31and I was kind of reading it with Keanu voice in my head

00:34and it really made me laugh. And I revisited his films

00:38and went back to the comedies like Bill and Ted

00:41and Parenthood. And I saw Keanu's performances

00:45in those and I was like, oh, whoa, he could really knock this out of the park.

00:49He'd be perfect for this. And we had a meeting and we got along well

00:52and Keanu read the script and it somehow

00:55came together and now we're sitting here doing junkets.

00:58It's, what a life.

01:00I thought it was so lovely. I thought that the journey of the character is very sweet

01:24and something that I think people can relate to in a way of just, you know, wanting to do more

01:31and to be better and be in the circumstances that they're in

01:36and try and kind of improve them.

01:39And I think that motif is throughout all of the characters in the film

01:43and I think it's a really cool message and entertaining

01:48and it was done in such a fun way.

01:50I always wrote the movie thinking about L.A.

02:00I was spending time in L.A. when I was writing the movie

02:03and, you know, shooting in L.A., it's difficult

02:06but you get the best technicians in the world

02:10and if you can pull it off, it's such a beautiful place to be able to film

02:14and it's definitely a love letter to L.A. of sorts and a specific L.A.

02:20the places we chose to shoot and everything

02:22there were specific neighborhoods we wanted to highlight

02:25and, yeah, I feel really fortunate we were able to film in L.A.

02:29and I had a great time.

02:30Yeah, I mean, he's trying to be a better person

02:33and trying to be and help.

02:36Probably Gabriel's probably, you know, he's an angel.

02:39I'm no angel. He's an angel.

02:41Yeah, and when you look back at older films from the 30s and 40s

02:46when there were similar issues of wealth inequality

02:49and class issues, there were a lot of films that dealt with it

02:53with comedy, movies like Sullivan's Travels

02:56or My Man Godfrey or It's Wonderful Life

02:58and so the idea of taking that kind of movie

03:01and making it with today

03:02and, you know, the specifics of today

03:06felt like a fun world.

03:11So sweet.

03:16So sweet.

03:18Yeah, and all the cameras over there.

03:20Yeah, and all the cameras over there.

03:22That's great.

03:24That's his son of a ghost.

03:26Yeah.

03:27Task rabbit I couldn't do

03:28because I couldn't go into someone's house

03:30and put together their desk.

03:31They'd be like, you're Aziz.

03:32What are you doing?

03:33But DoorDash I could do

03:34because you don't often interact with people.

03:36And so I did DoorDash with this guy for a day

03:39and that helped me write the scene

03:40where Seth Rogen's character with him goes and does DoorDash.

03:46Do you think you'd be good at TaskRabbit

03:48if you were down on your luck, so to speak?

03:51I would probably call another TaskRabbit

03:53to come do the task for me

03:55because I'm not good at any of that stuff.

03:58What about you, Keanu?

03:59No, I'm not the person.

04:00I'm not the person.

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