00:00When you were preparing Uncut Gems, how much research did you do?
00:08Of course, I spent a lot of time on 47th Street.
00:10I gamble in the movie a lot, so I spent a lot of time with a lot of gamblers who had
00:15bad problems and lost a lot of things and lost their lives because of it.
00:19The gamblers you met, who most surprised you?
00:23Well, the Safti brothers, the guys who did the movie, they did the research and met a lot of
00:29the guys who were willing to sit down with me and talk.
00:31It was nothing, it's just their lives get thrown away and their family lives get thrown away
00:38and it's about where they are right now and they discussed what the highs and lows were
00:44and why they couldn't stop and that kind of feeling.
00:48And then the guys on 47th Street, he's a jeweler in the movie, everybody.
00:53And so all these guys on the block let me in their shops and I got to sit with them and watch them
01:00and they taught me about the jewelry and about selling and I watched them all day long
01:05and it was a lot of fun, a lot of, it felt neat to learn this.
01:10It wasn't boring.
01:11Well, no, not at all. It's good to learn something.
01:14I walked away thinking I knew everything. Right now, it's a year later, I'm like, I forgot so much.
01:19I wish I did.
01:26What's been your toughest moment professionally?
01:29This cool thing where Oliver Stone opened up, it was, you know, this any given Sunday thing
01:34which was more dramatic and so I said, man, let me try to get in that.
01:40I don't know if that's a tough thing, but it was just like, man, let me go get with him.
01:44Let me go get with him and it was an incredible, it opened up a whole another thing.
01:48And then the tough part was getting back to being funny.
01:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:52Yeah, cause like, you know, like the young folks, they see me like, oh, here's this dude using Django.
01:56Right, right, right.
01:57Now I'm doing jokes, man, why Django being funny like that?
02:00So it's like, so now I have to try to get back to, um...
02:03What about you?
02:04Do you find that hard too often?
02:06I've done so many comedies.
02:08I have so many comedies on TV, I don't have a hard time getting back into that.
02:12People are just, when I get to do something like this, like Uncut Gems and I haven't done that many dramas.
02:20Maybe I've done like six or seven, over 30 years worth.
02:24I'm always excited doing them.
02:26It's a different excitement for me cause I'm not sure of myself.
02:29I get, you know, when you do comedies, you kind of, I mean, you grew up doing them.
02:33Shia grew up as a kid being in, in, uh, comedies.
02:36It's a different lighter feel on the set.
02:39It's exciting.
02:40There's nothing better for a comedian than going home and go, oh, I think we killed that scene.
02:45That's going to be funny as hell.
02:46Audience is going to like that.
02:48But this, um, a drama man, getting it right and feeling like you gave it your all and that
02:54excitement of reading, uh, script and going, oh, that scene's going to be incredible.
02:58Then actually shooting it and it comes out the way you want it to, or maybe not exactly the
03:03way you want it to, but something happened big for you.
03:05That's, that's as good as it gets.
03:07Are you hard on yourself when it doesn't come out that way?
03:09Do you go ahead and torture yourself?
03:10Yes.
03:11Oh my God.
03:12There's something great written that, that, that, uh, I don't think I get, I, I got to
03:17where I was supposed to get.
03:18I'm really mad at myself.
03:19You too?
03:20Yeah.
03:26Last question for all of you.
03:27If you could go back to your younger selves, what piece of advice would you give him?
03:33I was thinking, cause, uh, uh, I should have stretched more.
03:37Stretched.
03:38I have a very bad, uh, back.
03:41I can't get out of my car.
03:42No, that's like the floss answer.
03:43I should have flossed.
03:44I should have flossed more too.
03:45I thought you meant metaphorically.
03:47No, no, no, no, no.
03:49I'm fine with all that stuff.
03:51But I really can't get out of my car when there's a loose ball on a basketball court.
03:55I cannot get the ball ever.
03:57Everyone else grabs it before me cause I can't bend.
03:59So that, uh, and, and my coaches always growing up were like, always talking about stretching.
04:05I never did it.
04:06I never did it.
04:07I always jumped.
04:08I just jumped right into the game.
04:09Did you stretch before playing?
04:10No, not too much.
04:11See?
04:12No, I don't.
04:13But that three ball was wet though.
04:14I got to take it.
04:15Yeah.
04:17Not as wet as it used to be.
04:18That's it.
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04:22Okay.
04:23You hate it.
04:24Okay.
04:25All right.
04:26Well you know.
04:27Yeah, sounds love it.
04:29This is영ac Meyer.
04:30Let's go see.
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