00:00Congratulations on this project. You said that you made this movie for your kids.
00:04Did you get to bounce any ideas off of them while making this?
00:07And what do you hope that they take away from watching this movie?
00:11I bounced so many ideas off of them. I pitched them the idea of the script.
00:14I pitched them, I showed them all the drawings that I did while I was writing the script.
00:17I'm a terrible artist, so I had to walk them through that.
00:20They told me what was cute about certain ifs, what wasn't cute, they wanted to change.
00:23But then also their ifs are in the movie. Their imaginary friends are in the movie.
00:26So Allie, the pink alligator, is one of my daughters, and the other one's the flaming marshmallow.
00:31Yeah, so it's a family affair. And my wife's the unicorn, so come on. We're all involved.
00:37Well, you also had a little bit of an office reunion with Steve Carell.
00:40How did you rope him into getting into this movie, and how did you choose what character he was going to play,
00:47and directing him as well, which is a first?
00:48Well, the last time I wrote a part for someone was for her in Quiet Place, and I was too nervous to tell her about it.
00:53And the same thing happened with Steve. I was writing Blue to be Steve because of his sense of humor,
00:58and how sweet he is, and how incredibly vulnerable, and also how big, open-hearted he is, and he gives great hugs.
01:05So I was like, if he doesn't do this, we're in trouble.
01:07And as soon as he said yes, it was like a family member giving you that love and support that I needed.
01:10And so as soon as he jumped on, I knew we were off to the races.
01:13And very quickly, your beautiful wife, how did you pick what part she would play, or did she get to just sell herself?
01:19I sort of had in mind that she would be an amazing unicorn, because she's kind of a unicorn, let's be honest.
01:24And she thought, yes, I'm up for the task of playing a unicorn, so she did it.
01:28I love that. Also, very quickly, if you had to have someone in Hollywood voice your real-life, if, character, who would it be?
01:35Man, that is tough.
01:36Maybe Gosling. Gosling can do, he can do it all.
01:42He can do it all. He can be Ken, he can be Fall Guy, and he can be my F.
01:46Yeah.
01:47Well, he's the last one left that wasn't part of this film.
01:49Right, I don't want him to feel left out. Yeah, that's the truth.
01:52Well, thank you so much for stopping by. Congratulations again.
01:54Thank you so much.
01:55Congratulations. Thank you very much.
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