The screen icons are starring in a Netflix meta meditaion on movie stardom, but did it leave them feeling relfective about their own journeys? Report by Nelsonj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00When you were in Caddyshack, what were you doing?
00:04What were you talking like that for?
00:05The snake is still alive.
00:07Well, they live a long time, those snakes.
00:08Careers have been built on those nipples.
00:10And you can hang things on them.
00:12Gents, great to see you.
00:13Me too, good to see you.
00:14I've got to say, I was watching the Charlie Sheen documentary the other day,
00:18and he starts talking about Grizzly 2, The Revenge.
00:20And there's you, Laura Dern, and him, first movies.
00:23And then, didn't think about it.
00:24Then I was just into Conan O'Brien, Charlie Sheen pops up again,
00:26talking about the same movie.
00:27Then I get a call to do this, and I'm watching this last night,
00:29and you and Laura Dern are up there.
00:31And all I'm thinking is, God, I need to watch Grizzly 2, The Revenge.
00:34I would not do that.
00:35If you want to have any kind of...
00:38You should have any respect for me,
00:39but if you want to have respect for Laura Dern, I would not watch it.
00:41Okay, okay.
00:42Guys, my respect for you guys is unquestionable.
00:45It was the beginning.
00:46It was the beginning of...
00:47It was early in the career.
00:48Yeah, she was 15 of them.
00:49Bloody hell.
00:50We've got to start somewhere.
00:52Right then, this movie, J. Kellett, starts with a Sylvia Plath quote.
00:55It's a hell of a responsibility being yourself.
00:56It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
01:00I wondered, has that quote ever rung true for you guys?
01:03And if so, do you feel a lot more kind of comfortable in your own skin,
01:08your own identity at this stage of your career?
01:09I'm finally getting to be all right with myself.
01:11I don't really know who I am right now, to be honest with you.
01:13I don't know who you are either right now.
01:14I'm with this whole film.
01:15Many fastest.
01:16Many times.
01:17I mean, I used to know who he was.
01:18He's very different now.
01:19Well, the more you do in life, the more compliments you get.
01:23You change into it.
01:25No, but I seriously, I look back at some of the things I've done over the years.
01:30Looking back when I was young, I was like, what were you doing?
01:34What were you talking like that for?
01:35Nothing.
01:36I don't.
01:37We're figuring it out still.
01:38I guess it's hard for you guys because you've lived your lives on camera in a way.
01:42So a lot of people, we look back and go, I was this person back then and this person.
01:45But with you guys, a lot of it, I know you're playing characters, but there's elements of yourself, breadcrumbs throughout the last 30 years.
01:49Yeah, but you also get to reinvent yourself a lot, too, which is part of the fun of it.
01:53I've been, you know, I'm not a guy in a rubber suit with nipples anymore, you know.
01:58Hey, you were for a fleeting moment a couple of years back.
02:00I was, wasn't I?
02:00I enjoyed it.
02:01I made that franchise what it is today.
02:03Absolutely, absolutely.
02:05Careers have been built on those nipples.
02:08And you can hang things on them, which is awesome.
02:10Absolutely.
02:11You grow a bum.
02:12One other thing I like in the movie is there's this kind of defining moment.
02:15You look through Jay's career and there's this, like, pinpoint that you can see where his life and career kind of diverged.
02:21And there's kind of a romantic feel to that.
02:24But I wondered, is that something that you guys have felt has been the case in any way in your lives?
02:29Can you look back at a moment in your life and career where it was like, that's where I am now?
02:34That's why I am who I am now?
02:35Or do you think it's a lot more complex than that?
02:37Well, I'll tell you, I do remember meeting my wife.
02:40I remember, I remember when I met my wife, I was probably a month away from showing The Waterboy for at a screening.
02:52Wow.
02:52And she came to me.
02:54I don't know if you've seen it.
02:55I've never seen it.
02:56I hear it's a really, really adequately almost funny film.
02:59I really heard it's almost funny.
03:01It's on the spectrum.
03:04I still have Henry Winkler's butt cheek ingrained in my mind.
03:08See, Ben?
03:09He's like, well, mother, don't know.
03:10I love that one.
03:10Don't hurt her.
03:12Finally, something I enjoyed, and I know we've finished already.
03:16Don't end this.
03:17One thing I really enjoyed is that kind of sort of clip show of George's career at the end, Jay's career.
03:23Oh, yeah.
03:24And it reminded me also of the quote early on in the film when the guy on the train is like, I've seen your life.
03:29I see my life through your movies kind of thing.
03:32And then I look back to The Waterboy as a kid and watching like Three Kings and then like, oh, brother, where art thou when I was in high school and all the way up to being an adult and Uncut Gems and all these things.
03:41And I wonder, from each other's movies, do you have a film that kind of takes you back to a fond memory in your own lives that you had because of each other's work?
03:54Okay.
03:54Well, when you were in Caddyshack, I remember just, I was just starting out in my career.
04:01Yes, yes.
04:02And I thought, I was the Ted Knight.
04:05No, I will tell you, it's a funny thing.
04:07I do believe there is, it's like music.
04:10If you hear a song or, you'll hear it and it'll remind you of a moment in time.
04:15And I have that with films a lot.
04:17Sure.
04:17And I could talk about so many of Adam's films at certain times in my life that were, that will remind me exactly where I was when I saw them and how much fun they were and how much, because, you know, you weren't watching them at home then.
04:34You were going to a movie theater.
04:35We had a good time then.
04:36And comedies, in particular comedies, comedies in horror films, really need to be in an audience.
04:43And so, I remember so well seeing, you know, Waterboy's actually a perfect example, with an audience and everybody laughing and that feeling of, like, everybody in the room having the exact same experience, which was fantastic.
04:55I remember seeing, uh, what's, uh, that Rodriguez directed with you?
05:00Oh, uh, I remember seeing that in the theater.
05:04I seen it and how badass you were in that.
05:07And I was like, that was cool as shit.
05:09That was cool.
05:10Yeah.
05:10And Salma Hayek with the snake.
05:12She was great with the snake.
05:13She was good with the snake.
05:14Still has that snake, you know?
05:15Yes, that snake is still alive.
05:16Yeah.
05:17Well, they live a long time, those snakes.
05:18Oh, wow.
05:18He must be living quite a life.
05:20Of all snakes is born in the desert and dying.
05:22He gets to live with Salma Hayek.
05:23He stays more with Francois.
05:25I bet.
05:26Oh, yes.
05:26Gentlemen, well, thank you for the memories.
05:28Thank you for the movies.
05:29Good to see you, brother.
05:29Thank you for all the moments that I've enjoyed over my, uh, of my life.
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