Austin Butler, Michael B. Jordan & Paul Mescal Watch Iconic Videos

Vanity Fair

What do Austin Butler, Michael B. Jordan &amp; Paul Mescal like to watch on the Internet? From the anime My Hero Academia to Season 2 bloopers from The Office, find out what the boys really like to watch when they're just hanging out.   Director: Claire Buss Director of Photography: Donny Johnson Editor: Cory Stevens; Jordan Calig Talent: Austin Butler; Michael B. Jordan; Paul Mescal Producer: Madison Coffey Senior Producer: Benjamin Whitley Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi Associate Production Manager: Elizabeth Hymes Global Head of Talent: Alison Ward Frank Camera Operator: Jacqui Sharah Gaffer: Matt Bohun Audio Engineer: Greg Scholes Production Assistant: Bella Fullard; Jake Grainger Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Post Production Coordinator: Stella Shortino Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo Assistant Editor: Billy Ward Senior Manager; Creative Development: Hannah Pak Director; Creative Development: Claire Buss Director; Content Production: Lane Williamson Senior Director; Programming &amp; Development: Ella Ruffel Executive Producer: Ruhiya Nuruddin

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00:00Have you not seen the bloopers of this?

00:01Oh, the Masters?

00:02The Minty Cools.

00:03Oh, the Minty Cools, yeah.

00:05I like Cools.

00:08The minty flavor.

00:10you.

00:17This is the greatest thing.

00:24Hey, I'm Paul.

00:25I'm Michael.

00:26I'm Austin.

00:27And we're going to watch some YouTube videos.

00:29Yes, we are.

00:30Anybody that knows me knows I love anime.

00:32So this is My Hero Academia's season seven.

00:36It's a death of a beloved character

00:38that you got a chance to know throughout the last, like,

00:40you know, six years or so.

00:43And this is kind of this epic, you know,

00:45moment of almost self-sacrifice in a way.

00:48So when I go to watch this entire series,

00:50this will have spoiled.

00:51No, no, no.

00:52That's it.

00:53I ruined it for you right here.

00:54No, but it's an iconic moment in a turn for him

00:58because this moment kind of embodies who he who he was

01:01throughout the entire show.

01:02Right.

01:02He's like, he's always at odds with the main character.

01:04This guy here.

01:05Yeah, to the left.

01:05Right, right, right.

01:07He's at odds with the main character.

01:09And this is like the main villain that they've been fighting

01:12throughout.

01:13This guy.

01:13Yeah.

01:14Wow.

01:15Wow.

01:21And he admits like this glycerin from his skin

01:24that he can ignite.

01:25And this gets him.

01:26Yeah.

01:27And he's like moving.

01:28He's been getting.

01:30So he's fully just sacrificed himself.

01:32Big time.

01:33But he actually thinks he's got them figured out right now.

01:36And like, he's just kind of like in a flow state.

01:39Japanese culture, their themes of like friendships, bonds,

01:42and promises and being sometimes the odd one out,

01:46you know, that the one that doesn't belong,

01:47the one that society cast as the outcast

01:50is usually the one that that is is like the hero,

01:53the one that has to kind of go against all odds to like,

01:55you know, make his dreams come true to never give up.

01:57It kind of runs through a lot of of their of their anime.

02:01And it's just like it's something, I don't know,

02:03empowering about it and very emotional, you know,

02:05and a lot of the noble big time, big time.

02:08And a lot of things that I personally kind of connect with.

02:10So you'll see similar themes throughout most of their series

02:14and with the action, too, as well.

02:16And it's very visual, you know, and the design of it's crazy.

02:19Big time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:20And you can tell, like, you know, certain scenes

02:22or certain parts of it that are like,

02:24okay, they saved the budget for this one.

02:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:26Animation is crisp and some things

02:28a little more, you know, gritty.

02:30So it's fun.

02:30Do you find in films that you're either acting

02:33or direct that you take inspiration from certain anime?

02:36Oh, big time.

02:37With Creed III, the first film that I directed.

02:40Which was amazing, bro.

02:40Appreciate you, bro.

02:41Appreciate you, man.

02:42There was a lot of fight moments

02:44that I've seen throughout anime that I was like,

02:47okay, cool.

02:48It'd be great if I could actually incorporate

02:49or get this feeling of this sequence.

02:51Or how do you achieve this in animation

02:54that feels so supernatural?

02:55How can you put that in like-

02:56You know, like different media.

02:57Different media.

02:58Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:59So have you watched any?

03:01I think this is the first.

03:03I've never sat down and watched like a show.

03:06Okay, okay, okay.

03:07What about you?

03:07I've seen Perfect Blues, Paprika.

03:09Those are great ones.

03:11But I haven't seen any of the TV.

03:13TV stuff, yeah.

03:14Dragon Ball Z.

03:15Dragon Ball Z, yeah.

03:16So you've seen Dragon Ball Z.

03:17All right, that's an OG pillar.

03:19That's like an OG.

03:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:21That's a great one.

03:22This looks unbelievable.

03:24It looks so cool.

03:24This is a good one.

03:25So what I'm gonna share is Monica Martin and James Blake

03:29performing this song called Go Easy Kid.

03:32It's a live performance and they're stunning.

03:34Her voice is out of this world.

03:35Yeah.

03:36And James Blake's one of my favorite musicians.

03:38But the lyrics to it,

03:39any time that I'm taking things too seriously, you know,

03:42but it also makes you wanna-

03:43Cry?

03:44You know, take, no, just make them realize

03:47that you get one life instead of go out there and live it,

03:49you know?

03:50I just feel like anything with James Blake

03:52makes me wanna cry.

03:52Yeah, it'll get us.

03:55His piano is amazing.

04:06I commit myself to sabotage.

04:12See, I can get what I want,

04:14then I'll make it hard to hold on.

04:18Beautiful voice, right?

04:20When was the first time you heard the song?

04:22I, it was, I don't know, a few years ago, I think.

04:26Hmm.

04:27It's this line, it's go easy, kid.

04:29It's only rock and rolly.

04:30Hmm.

04:31Ah, go easy, kid.

04:33It's all of a sudden, right?

04:34It's just like locked in.

04:35Right.

04:35It's just like listening to each other.

04:39In their element.

04:40Yeah, totally.

04:41Totally.

04:43And the simplicity of just a micro going on the piano, you know?

04:46One camera catching them both.

04:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.

04:48There's this line at the end where she says,

04:50uh, 20 years from now, you wish you'd grabbed it all by the throat

04:53and said, fuck it, it's only rock and roll.

04:55Whoo!

04:56That's strong, right?

04:57Yeah.

04:58I feel like crying is appropriate to that.

05:00To that, right?

05:02And the idea that we'll blink our eyes

05:03and it'll be 20 years from now, you know?

05:04Yeah.

05:05It's a constant, it's a human emotion, right?

05:07That we're always feeling of like, damn,

05:08I wish I did this yesterday or I wish I did that.

05:10Just go out and do it.

05:11I know.

05:12Strong.

05:12You're kind of like a human emotion.

05:13Slightly miss the mark in terms of like,

05:16hearing both beautifully speak about like your relationship.

05:20I've gone for some like.

05:22Break it up.

05:22I've gone for like the U.S. bloopers, like.

05:25Let's go for it, of The Office.

05:27Of The Office, yeah.

05:29Which is my favorite show ever.

05:31I can go back to that.

05:32I love it.

05:32Joe, just get some rest, we'll see you Monday,

05:34unless you're still sick.

05:36Um, all right, we'll have a great long weekend.

05:39I'll probably be just sleeping.

05:47Isn't it just so comforting?

05:48Yes, it is, it is, it is.

05:49Something so joyous about how old she is.

05:52I'm going to have kids, and I'm going to get married.

05:54Not necessarily in that order.

05:56What if she's 55?

05:57And they are going to live here.

05:58What?

06:01It's the best when you see him try not to hide.

06:03I know, they just keep the camera rolling.

06:05Yes, yes, yes, yes.

06:06I was just talking about that.

06:07I think, I think he's one of the funniest men to do like.

06:09Are you kidding me?

06:10He's one of the funniest people there at all.

06:12Oh my God!

06:13And I am praying that I find this heinous culprit.

06:18Heinous culprit?

06:19I would pray to Thor.

06:21I will pray to Thor himself.

06:24You know he spoke there.

06:26Now you know that that might be for him.

06:28It's going to be better.

06:29It's usually the most, the serious,

06:30the most serious moments are the ones that you end up laughing the most about.

06:35Cause it's so, it's so intense that it's ridiculous.

06:37Yeah.

06:38You know, like yeah, during Sinners, it was pretty crazy.

06:40Like, you know, like how does a vampire sound?

06:43And then you start, then you hear yourself doing it.

06:45When you're having to do the opposite.

06:46Yeah, then it's over, then it's over.

06:47You got to walk away.

06:48You're vulnerable at that point.

06:50Everybody, the crack is open.

06:52Most of mine exists generally if I'm doing like a sex scene or I'm scantily,

06:55like scantily clad.

06:58How often are you scantily?

06:59It's just making me speak like that.

07:01Cause those positions are just so like you're being witnessed by everybody

07:05that you're normally with a friend.

07:07You're like, what the fuck is that?

07:08So, so you bring bloopers back.

07:11I would love to bring bloopers back.

07:12Yes.

07:13Bloopers were my favorite thing.

07:14Big time.

07:15But then the movies after the credits and just like run the bloopers.

07:18That's, that's, yeah.

07:19I used to, every time I would travel, I would bring the DVDs is before streaming.

07:24So it's DVDs of the office.

07:26And that was my comfort food.

07:28I'd be off the 16 years old on location somewhere.

07:31And I, I put it on DVD.

07:33They're just the greatest kind of timeless.

07:35Would you guys hang out and do this again?

07:37Absolutely.

07:37I would love to get some anime recs, listen to some sad music,

07:44and then finish it with some, with some often.

07:46Yeah.

07:47Perfect.

07:47There we go.

07:47Yeah.

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