00:00Gentlemen, let's talk about the big thing Ryan said to you.
00:03Take money out of his paycheck to have you guys working on set.
00:06How does that feel, just as friends?
00:08Oh, it was very rewarding.
00:10The best.
00:11You know, we've known Ryan for 15 plus years.
00:13He's family to us.
00:15We're one, you know, big, fucked up, dysfunctional family.
00:21And it means the world to us.
00:24Riding for day one for this film to getting together and ideas,
00:29did you push the line as far as possible and say,
00:32let's see where we can take this line?
00:34Absolutely.
00:35I mean, it was almost like there were too many choices.
00:37Paul compared it to going to the Cheesecake Factory.
00:39There's too many things on the menu.
00:40You don't know what your line is.
00:41You can never decide.
00:42Never.
00:43It's like, are we doing Chinese or Mexican or American or what?
00:48It's all there for the taking.
00:49And it really wasn't until Hugh committed to the movie, decided to do it,
00:52that things narrowed and our focus narrowed.
00:55And suddenly we had these two voices in our head
00:57and it was going to be a movie about two, you know,
01:00mismatched, you know, quote, unquote, friends, frenemies, I guess,
01:04out on the road together.
01:06And then it gelled like crazy after that.
01:08Inspired by movies that we loved from childhood,
01:11the planes, trains and automobiles, 48 hours, midnight run.
01:16It was just, you get these mismatched characters together
01:20and it just, we hate to say it, but it writes itself.
01:24When Hugh texted Ryan and said, I'm in,
01:27did you just hit Control-Alt-Delete on what you already had prior to him confirming it?
01:31We didn't have a script up to that point,
01:32but we had a lot of beat sheets and outlines and explorations of different things
01:36and we tossed it right out the window, truly.
01:38I mean, it just, it became, it became a Hugh and Ryan movie.
01:41And almost within a week and a half, we had the full outline.
01:44It was like the seas parting.
01:46It was like Moses in the Red Sea when Hugh came aboard.
01:50Now, after working together with them on screen and seeing, I'm sure,
01:54how easy it was to work, do you start getting ideas of other projects for these two?
01:59Oh my gosh, they're magic together.
02:01I mean, they're such good friends, so they have their own shorthand.
02:04So working-wise, it works beautifully.
02:06But I think their chemistry on screen matched that.
02:09I don't think they'd ever worked together before this except doing like viral videos.
02:13Oh, origins. Wolverine origins.
02:16Actually, you know what, let's not speak of them.
02:18We don't speak of them.
02:19But do you think there's any regrets?
02:20Because without it, we wouldn't be here today, though.
02:22It's true. It's true.
02:23It all came down in a certain way, so here we are.
02:26Question of the night.
02:27Will you be having popcorn out of Hugh's mouth tonight?
02:30Well, here's the dirty little secret.
02:32Rhett was saying how he was going to try and get the Wolverine popcorn bucket home.
02:40And he said, oh, I'm going to wear it on the plane.
02:43And I was like, what exactly does that mean?
02:47I don't know.
02:48I didn't think it through, clearly.
02:50You know what the Wolverine bucket is, right?
02:53Like, so you're going to wear that?
02:56Like, where are you going to wear that?
02:59Did you see many iterations of that bucket before it became?
03:02Oh, no.
03:03Look, I had many in my imagination because I had a pretty good sense of what they were going
03:06to try, but it exceeded even that.
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