00:00I like goobers because they're the chocolate-covered peanuts.
00:03You like the Raisinets.
00:05I like Raisinets, too.
00:06It's the same thing.
00:07You know, I'm a Dodger fan, you're a Yankee fan.
00:09Oh, no.
00:09Oh, I'm only kidding.
00:10Excuse me.
00:11Pardon me.
00:12Oh, take that back 100%.
00:15She's a diehard Dodger fan.
00:27This is so great.
00:28Yeah.
00:28Being in the Egyptian theater?
00:30Well, it's a classic Hollywood theater.
00:33It's a real deal.
00:34Yeah.
00:34I read somewhere that, like, they had the first premiere here ever.
00:38You mean, like, a Hollywood premiere?
00:40A Hollywood premiere.
00:40The first premiere ever was Douglas Fairbanks' Robin Hood.
00:45Wow.
00:45Wow.
00:46And it's where the red carpet.
00:47Oh, yeah, became the red carpet.
00:49Became the red carpet, yeah.
00:50This is Hollywood.
00:51This already means a lot more to me.
00:52I thought it didn't know it meant a lot.
00:57Well, I always thought when I was a kid that it was an escape.
01:01Every weekend I went into the movies when the lights go down and then you let yourself go.
01:06And it's just the most, I just love the experience of going to the movies.
01:10Yeah, I love it, too.
01:11I remember the first time I got here, like, to California, I wanted to see Hollywood and I went immediately
01:16to Hollywood and Vine.
01:18And then the second thing I saw was, I think, this beautiful Egyptian theater.
01:23Because it was so iconic, I mean, and you walked in and it had all these palm trees.
01:29On the street, there's also, like, man's Chinese theater.
01:32Chinese theater down the block.
01:34Yeah, with the handprints and the sheet prints.
01:36Yeah.
01:36What a street.
01:37What a street.
01:38It's a great street to go to the movies.
01:40Movies, in general, were just, like, a big part of our lives growing up and going to the theater together.
01:47Oh, yeah.
01:47We came here a lot.
01:48Oh, yeah.
01:49We went to go see The Departed for, like, opening weekend.
01:54And it was before there were assigned seats.
01:57I think they oversold it or something.
01:59But I remember sitting on the steps.
02:01With me.
02:01With you.
02:02Yeah.
02:02Just watching the whole movie from, like, the aisle.
02:04Wow.
02:05Yeah.
02:05Just, like, how exciting it was to be there with, like, so many people seeing that movie for the first
02:11time.
02:12And Matt Damon saying, The Departed.
02:14Yeah, Departed.
02:17And then, yeah, going to, like, your premieres.
02:20Yeah.
02:21I remember you did Batman.
02:23At the Chinese.
02:24Yeah.
02:24At the Chinese.
02:25Probably.
02:25Yeah, yeah.
02:25That was fun.
02:26One theater that I hope gets renovated or just comes back is the Cinerama Dome.
02:33Oh, yeah.
02:33I'm wearing my Roger Rabbit shirt because I saw that when I was a kid at the Cinerama Dome.
02:40I happened to be at the Vista when they were playing one battle after another.
02:45And, oh, my God.
02:47I think that's the best movie of the year anyway.
02:49But that's how I found out it was the best movie.
02:52Everything was great about it, you know.
02:54And you just get so sucked in.
02:57You don't want it to be over.
02:58It's so cool when you have, like, the right sound and the screen and it's dark and you're
03:04not, like, tempted really to look at your phone.
03:07Oh, boy.
03:07It's great to watch a movie the way that it's meant to be watched.
03:12I shot a scene in From Mama from the Train in the Vista with Owen watching Strangers on
03:19a Train.
03:19Oh, yeah.
03:20Didn't you guys film in there for Get Shorty?
03:22Yeah.
03:23I think we shot in that movie theater a lot.
03:25It's a real landmark and a great, great theater.
03:28Like, here, you've got the whole new sound system and everything.
03:31It's a beautiful green.
03:33It is.
03:33I love it.
03:34I'm going to come back quick.
03:35What's playing tonight?
03:36We'll see.
03:38Yeah.
03:41I also like the idea lately of the thing where you can go in and have a cocktail.
03:47I don't know.
03:48I mean, when I was a kid, it was like, you know, it was juju beads and milk duds.
03:54Well, don't knock juju beads.
03:55No, I like juju beads.
03:56I'm not going to juju beads.
03:58No, you can do like the classy experience.
04:01Come on in.
04:01Yeah.
04:02Get a little bucket of wings.
04:04Yeah.
04:05The first movies I ever saw were in Coney Island where my grandmother lived.
04:10And almost every week would be another Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movie.
04:14I don't know how they made so many movies.
04:16And I'll tell you the truth.
04:17I think they were all the same.
04:19I thought they were hysterical.
04:20Like, I remember when Godfather 1 was in New York.
04:24Oh, God.
04:24And Rhea and I stood in line in the rain, pouring rain for like, it had to be an hour.
04:30Oh, yeah.
04:30But we got in there.
04:32We actually watched Don Corleone while we were sopping wet.
04:37It was like a great experience.
04:39I was shooting Megan Matilda.
04:42I think I was Megan Matilda.
04:43We get home and the kids say, hey, Dad.
04:45We just saw the greatest movie we ever saw.
04:47And I said, oh, good.
04:48Where'd you go see?
04:49They said, Usual Suspects.
04:52My 12-year-old, my 10-year-old, this is the greatest movie they ever saw in their life.
04:57With Kaiser Soce, you know, blowing everybody up.
05:00It was a great movie.
05:03You got good taste.
05:04Yeah, it was great.
05:09When we first came here, I had an apartment in New York and I didn't want to give it up.
05:13Once I was here for a certain amount of time, I became a Los Angeles person.
05:19It swallows you in a good way.
05:21It makes you feel like this is home.
05:22I'm always really proud to say I was born in L.A.
05:25Yeah.
05:26This is a great place to raise a family.
05:28We have three wonderful children and now two grandchildren.
05:31And it's a really cool, it's a cool place to live.
05:35This is a great, great city.
05:38It really is.
05:39And movies is the basis.
05:41It is the foundation of it in a way.
05:43The experience going to the movies is like supreme.
05:46Once people get that experience and know how exciting it is
05:50to be in a room with 300, 400 people, the scare hits, the laugh hits, the intensity is so great.
05:58So what we have to do is like regenerate that interest.
06:01I think we've got to like all get together in the movie industry and do this.
06:06Let's revamp these theaters, put them on their feet and allow people to get that visceral, wonderful experience
06:14and get into a habit of going to the movies with their families and with their friends.
06:18Coming together for an experience is one of the most special things that you can do for community,
06:25for feeling like filled in your life.
06:28We all have to come together.
06:31Family.
06:32Yes, yes.
06:33Let's go to the movies.
06:33Mm-hmm.
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