00:00It's probably a good thing we don't have human children because we probably would spoil them silly
00:05and so we get to just put a lot of that energy into our cats and so I just want
00:09them to have
00:09the greatest lives ever. That movie was so big that people recognized me on the street and they
00:15started screaming you know why don't you your pants again and I realized in that moment I was
00:19like oh I need to keep working or I'm gonna be boy for the rest of my life. I absolutely
00:25loved
00:27poppers. Amazing. I think it's already got like a solid place in the sort of Pixar legacy. That's
00:32awesome to hear. The magic of all Pixar films like they tell very human stories even if the characters
00:37are you know toys or monsters or animals or whatever. Now your character Titus the insect king
00:43he's on the more extreme scale of Pixar villains I think. Yes. How do you play that in a way
00:49that sort
00:49of makes him feel grounded so the audiences will still connect to him? You know when I first saw
00:55the drawing of what he looks like I was like oh this this is a spoiled evil diabolical little brat
01:02and I was like okay this gives me a lot of leeway to just go nuts and go really big
01:08and have a lot
01:09of fun with it and so I would tell the director I was like please reel me in if I'm
01:14going too far
01:15and more often than not he was like go crazier go bigger but there was a moment where we realized
01:21we're like okay the character is a little creepy it's he's a little scary he might scare some kids
01:26like have we gone too far and the only moment that they realized it was too far was they without
01:32giving too much away they animated a moment where my character did a like do you know from the exorcist
01:38the backwards walk down the stairs yeah they had my character doing that and they were like okay this
01:42is not only scaring the kids it's scaring the adults we gotta take that out so that was one
01:47step too far I understand you what you doing like I don't know how aware you are of the kind
01:52of pixel
01:53deep cuts what do you mean the early test animation for toy story oh Woody was like a villain you
01:59weren't thinking of flying were you well you know Andy loves toys that can fly that can't be true he
02:05was like a mean spirited sort of tyrant come on and then he became the nicest guy in the world
02:10but flawed because he's like got this like real jealousy like running through him oh he's kind
02:15of like the flawed hero interesting okay okay yes so I'm fascinated by like the sort of evolution of
02:20the of the character I don't think it changed much not a huge arc like from moment one you're like
02:26oh
02:26this is a bad dude this guy's a yes but what's great is like even bringing up toy story I
02:32think a
02:33great animated movie needs a really good genuinely creepy villain you think about sid in toy story
02:40that's a scary character and it stays with you like when you see that as a kid that character
02:44stays with you these are characters that are just so rich and evil and they really stay with you and
02:51so that that was my bar all of those characters were my bar the process of like voicing a character
02:58in an animated film I find it so fascinating compared to live action oh okay yeah and obviously
03:02you've done you've done voice work yeah yeah it's a film so like was the process for this different in
03:07any way like in terms of did you get to interact with any other actors in the booth or was
03:12it just
03:12you on your own like no clue how this is gonna it was just me it was just me they
03:16told me going
03:17into the process they were like Meryl Streep is playing your mom and I said that is incredible
03:22still haven't met Meryl to this day you haven't met Meryl no when when are you gonna meet who knows
03:28you put it out into the universe I hope it happens soon Meryl come I mean Meryl watches all of
03:32my
03:32it there we go there we go their territory ends here now let's squish the humans Hoppers is about
03:40the ability to communicate with animals you yourself are a proud cat dad um actually anointed
03:46by people's magazine last year's sexiest cat dad big honor big congratulations yes yes my whole life
03:51has been leading to that if you could ask your cats anything what is the first thing that you would
03:55ask them oh gosh um I would ask them gosh I mean we spoil them we spoil them so much
04:05and I just want
04:07to ask them like is there anything else you could ever possibly need from us because whatever it is
04:12we will give it to you whatever you need it's probably a good thing we don't have human children
04:19because we probably would spoil them silly and so we get to just put a lot of that energy into
04:24our cats
04:24and so I just want them to have the greatest lives ever yeah you just want to know like are
04:29you happy
04:29it's just like we're spending so much on your food but you need better food like whatever you want you
04:35can have it I mean I am a proud dog mom yes to a psychotic border collie okay and I
04:41just want to ask
04:42it like yeah yeah yeah yeah and what can I do to help I know there's something going on like
04:48I want to be
04:48there for you Pixar like is it gives us our favorite childhood films and it really shapes
04:54a lot of us and our sense of humor and who we are yeah what are some of your favorite
04:58childhood films
04:59so I grew up with um two older brothers who are five and seven years older than me so my
05:04youngest sibling
05:05youngest of three youngest of three me too so I was introduced to things probably way earlier than I
05:10should have so like my childhood films were like the lost boys and stand by me and the goonies I
05:16was
05:17seeing like Candyman when I was like seven years old so I think this really informed my sensibilities
05:22where I like things that are really aggressive and go for it and like push the boundaries which is why
05:29when I'm doing an animated movie I have to kind of turn off the r-rated side of my brain
05:34and I'm like
05:34okay you cannot swear in this movie um but also like I I was given a gift to be kind
05:40of like the evil
05:41over the top guy so I feel still feel like I was able to kind of put my sensibilities into
05:46this role
05:46I watched Goodfellas when I was seven years old there you go exactly I wasn't aware that a guy was
05:50gonna get stabbed there you go there you go yes I can't not ask about some of your films in
05:55your
05:56back catalog you have been in almost every single one of my favorite high school and like college
06:01movies oh that's awesome I honestly I think I quote a line from at least one of them once a
06:04week
06:04what are we talking about were we talking jump street and neighbors or what jump street neighbors but also
06:09super bad super bad oh wow that was that was one of my first roles yeah there are so many
06:16iconic
06:16lines and like there's of course such good rewatch value and they're so quotable are there any lines
06:20in it that people still shout at you to this day oh yeah I mean when I did super bad
06:25I'm only in one
06:26scene but that movie is so iconic that people remember it and so one of the lines that Jonah Hill
06:33yells at me in in super bad is why don't you go your pants again hey Greg why don't you
06:37go your pants
06:38again and so that movie was so big that people recognized me on the street and they started
06:44screaming you know why don't you your pants again and I realized in that moment I was like oh
06:48I need to keep working or I'm gonna be boy for the rest of my life
06:53do you respond in kind that was like eight years ago that's all I don't think I've
06:57like eight years ago you should I should I don't know if I've ever actually come back
07:02with that but like gosh that was just off the top of the head quick I told you it's yeah
07:08it's
07:08it's literally the way I communicate people don't forget but like that was one where because I was
07:12only in one scene in my head I was like they're probably gonna cut this out and so I actually
07:17didn't tell any of my friends that I was in the movie and then again it was so big that
07:21they all went
07:22and saw the movie they're like what are you doing I was like I don't know I'm just happy they
07:27kept me
07:28in oh my god that's incredible thank you so much this has been such a such a pleasure to talk
07:33to you
07:33appreciate you
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