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John Krasinski chats with The Hollywood Reporter at the 'IF' premiere and shares how his children helped him create and develop the movie. Plus, he dishes on how he wrote the character Blue based on his 'The Office' pal Steve Carell.

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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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