Da'Vine Joy Randolph and John Early sit down with Melissa Nathoo to talk about new film Eternity, residuals from movies and where Da'Vine keeps her Oscar. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00I'm like, freeze, I'm like, hold it, and then I get in the car.
00:05I mean, not like right now, but you're amazing, and I'm having a blast with you.
00:09I want to do a birthday movie.
00:12Every day.
00:14Devine, we're getting into holdover season.
00:16Every time we get into Christmas, it's like one of my favorite films.
00:19It's one of my favorite films ever.
00:22I feel like every time we get to Christmas, I tell everyone, I'm like,
00:24have you watched the holdover season?
00:26Please tell everyone.
00:27It's the best film.
00:28I want to buy a car.
00:28Is this the second Christmas?
00:33Second Christmas.
00:34So now the residuals are coming in.
00:37Well, they will.
00:38I haven't seen that check yet.
00:40Yeah, yeah.
00:40It's going to be big.
00:42It is.
00:43It's so good.
00:43That's the key, though, as an actor.
00:46Get a Christmas movie in rotation.
00:49Absolutely.
00:49That was not why I chose holdovers.
00:51Or a Christmas song.
00:53Yeah, like I was in a not so great Christmas movie.
00:57Yeah.
00:57It paced me so well.
00:59Wow.
01:00And that was one of my first movies.
01:01Well, I want to do a birthday movie.
01:04Right.
01:05Every day.
01:06Every day.
01:06Every day.
01:07Literally.
01:07Perfect.
01:08You should take everything off.
01:09It's called Happy Birthday.
01:10You've got an afterlife one done.
01:11I don't know how that fits into the whole scheme.
01:14We'll work it out.
01:15Exactly.
01:15Maybe nursing homes will play a lot.
01:18But you know what I'm finding?
01:19It's actually younger people like this more than older people.
01:23I don't know if that for older people.
01:25Yes.
01:25At least in the States.
01:26It's too close to home maybe for older people.
01:27That's what I thought.
01:28That it was like, whoa.
01:29Oh, but for the States at least, the younger the better.
01:34Hey, I mean, I like to think I'm still young.
01:36Absolutely.
01:37You see yourself.
01:38So there we go.
01:38Oh, bless you.
01:40Thanks, babe.
01:40Your looks in here, Devine.
01:42Like, you just, no, I don't mean like you looked gorgeous, but the way that you just look.
01:48Oh, oh, yeah.
01:48Oh, oh, oh.
01:49And you can tell.
01:50She made my facial expression.
01:51Right?
01:52Oh, oh, okay.
01:52Do you practice those in the mirror or does that all just come naturally?
01:56It's too effortless.
01:56Right?
01:57It's natural.
01:58I'll answer for you.
01:59I'm just, okay.
02:00It's complete ease, flow, state.
02:03It's so natural.
02:04But it only happens when I feel comfortable.
02:06Yeah.
02:06Like, I feel very comfortable with him.
02:09Yeah.
02:09And so I think because of that, because even when I watched it the first time, I was like,
02:14what are you, shut up, what are you doing?
02:15Like, all.
02:16About you?
02:16Yeah, all these little, like, I wasn't even aware, honestly, that, like,
02:22my face are these little, like, like, these little sound effects that I make.
02:26That I was like, is that real life?
02:27Wow.
02:28Meanwhile, I'm, like, in the mirror.
02:29I'm, like, I'm, like, freeze.
02:31I'm, like, hold it.
02:32And then I get in the car.
02:33I'm, like, where's the car?
02:36And then they, like, bring me out.
02:38I'm in hair and makeup.
02:39And they bring me out.
02:39And I'm, like, and action.
02:42And you nailed it.
02:43I saw that exact look in the film.
02:45It was great.
02:45It was great.
02:47John, you as an AC, you described Elizabeth's character as
02:52smart, passionate, and decisive.
02:54So if you two were each other's, AC, what would you describe the other as?
02:57A free spirit, full of love.
03:01Full of love, you are.
03:03That's true.
03:03That's true.
03:04So kind.
03:05Has such a beautiful, beautiful heart.
03:08And really cares about others.
03:11That is so sweet.
03:12No, it's true.
03:13That is cute.
03:14Kind, genius.
03:18Thanks.
03:19And really, a really underrated comedic force.
03:24Oh.
03:25Although maybe you've done tons of comedy stuff.
03:28But you know what?
03:28When I first...
03:29When you win the Oscar for a kind of dramatic role, people maybe forget.
03:35They do.
03:36Yeah.
03:36Promise you, they do.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Mm-hmm.
03:38I've literally...
03:39There's been certain parts where they're like, can she do comedy?
03:42No problem.
03:43I promise you.
03:44Yeah, interesting.
03:45But it's funny because when I first moved to LA, when I first started auditioning, people
03:50were like, UCP?
03:52And I was like, no.
03:54No.
03:54Yeah.
03:55No.
03:56And I don't know.
03:57Maybe I should take a class there.
03:58No, you're great.
03:59No, but I'm saying, like, do you know what I mean?
04:01Make them see this film.
04:03Okay, that's true.
04:04And then they'll see it, right?
04:04That's true.
04:04That's it.
04:05Apologies if you've been asked this a million times.
04:08You have amazing brows, by the way.
04:09Sorry.
04:10Oh, thanks.
04:10I try to draw them on every day because I over plucked them in the 90s.
04:13And now they're just trying to throw them back.
04:15They don't come back.
04:15They don't come back.
04:15Oh, really good.
04:17Sorry, I got distracted.
04:18That's okay.
04:19From one brow girl to another.
04:20What era of your life do you think you would manifest yourself in the afterlife if you came back?
04:26So obviously you go back to the time when you were happiest.
04:29Yeah.
04:29The period that I may be the most nostalgic for, I don't know if that actually means I was the happiest.
04:33Sure, sure.
04:34That's valid.
04:34That means the opposite, probably.
04:36Yeah.
04:36But like is this like kind of when I was hosting this variety show in New York with one of my best friends.
04:42And it was like just like a really gorgeous time.
04:45And I would make a little short film for each show.
04:48And so it just it had a nice little shape.
04:50You felt like in your creative bag.
04:51Yeah.
04:52It was.
04:52Yeah.
04:53Mid-20s?
04:54Yeah.
04:55Nice.
04:56That's nice.
04:56But there are so many things about that time that I also would hate to read.
05:00Of course.
05:00Yeah.
05:00But if you had that one moment, that's all it is, isn't it, right?
05:03Yeah.
05:04It's that one moment.
05:04Yeah.
05:05How about you, Davide?
05:06Be real.
05:06I don't hate this.
05:07Be real.
05:08It's now.
05:09I mean, not like right now.
05:10But you're amazing and I'm having a blast with you.
05:13But like my life now.
05:15And it's not because of the obvious reasons.
05:16It's not because of the awards.
05:17It's on a more personal level.
05:19I think because people have been like, oh my God, since the Oscar, like what?
05:24And I've been honest and been like, it's just, they asked, how has your life changed?
05:28And I said, it has dramatically.
05:30And the biggest reason is there's just more.
05:34But there's more of everything, right?
05:37Like all the things that come with being an actor, the high and lows, it's like times 20.
05:43There's just more.
05:44But what I like most is the person that I am now in the midst of all the more that I'm like, okay, we're okay.
05:52We can handle things.
05:54And I like that I'm still growing and becoming myself.
06:01I think prior to, I let my career predicate my feelings and how I live my life.
06:07And I'm enjoying that I'm like, enjoying me in spite of or in addition to my career.
06:14It's hard being an actor or like an entertainer, a comedian, whatever.
06:18It's sometimes it feels like in order to be successful, we have to devote an extreme amount of time and focus.
06:28That, at least for me, in order to have done so, I had to miss out, or I chose, let's be honest.
06:35I chose to miss out on a lot of life things.
06:38And I don't want to do that anymore.
06:40And so I'm in that journey of that.
06:43And I'm already noticing like positive, you know, stuff from it.
06:48Where is your Oscar?
06:49So people were talking about it too much and I was getting embarrassed because I was telling people that the truth, because I don't lie, that it was in a storage box.
06:59But it's because we had the fires.
07:01Oh, Jesus.
07:02Yeah, we had the fires.
07:03I had just left to go film a movie in Paris and I was like, you put them in a box.
07:09Yeah.
07:09Put them all in a box.
07:10And I got really scared and so it was in a storage unit in a box.
07:14Thanks for asking an extra question because I was wrapped.
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