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00:05From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, it's Late Night with Seth Meyers.
00:12Tonight, Amanda Peay, star of Daredevil Born Again, actor Vincent D'Onofrio.
00:18An all-new Wolves or Look.
00:25And now, Seth Meyers.
00:28Good evening, everybody. I'm Seth Meyers.
00:30It's Late Night. We hope you're doing well.
00:31And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:34During today's cabinet meeting, President Trump complained that you can't find gold paint that looks like real gold.
00:40Oh, yeah, buddy, we noticed.
00:44During the same meeting, President Trump said that he's the only president to have taken a cognitive test and aced
00:50it three times.
00:51That's not good, though.
00:54That's like bragging that you're the only bus driver in the school district to take three DUI tests.
01:01President Trump said yesterday that he may call up the National Guard to help with airport security.
01:05I don't know.
01:06I think having ice there is already putting a tremendous strain on the airport Wi-Fi.
01:14That's right.
01:15President Trump said yesterday that he may call up the National Guard to help with airport security.
01:19Dude, just fund the TSA.
01:21You're running out of people to send.
01:24For real.
01:26This time next week, we're going to have Melania yelling, everything in the bin.
01:33Laptops need to be out.
01:35No, belt is fine.
01:38Belt, you need to pre-check, belt is fine.
01:43I put very little work into that impression.
01:47After one of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen's sons told President Trump this week
01:52he has never been more impressed with anybody than his father,
01:55Trump asked him, quote,
01:57Wow, Trump has this amazing ability to make me feel grossed out
02:01and also feel sorry about him at the same time.
02:04It's like seeing a dead rat on the subway tracks.
02:06You're like, ooh, but also, aww.
02:12During the Republican Congressional Committee's fundraiser dinner last night,
02:15House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that they've created the new America First Award
02:19and presented it to President Trump.
02:20But I think they made that up in a hurry
02:22because it was just a desk lamp with a bunch of Sharpies taped to it.
02:31During the same dinner, President Trump complained that the Democrats
02:34did not react to a State of the Union
02:36and said that they were, quote,
02:37sitting like dead people, like dead, no movement, no heart, no anything.
02:41Wow.
02:42Can you imagine?
02:44Anything else you want to criticize?
02:46Maybe they're also known to be unfaithful?
02:50During a briefing yesterday, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
02:53said the Vice President J.D. Vance is President Trump's, quote,
02:57right-hand man.
02:57Oh, come on.
02:58He's not that gross.
03:04Nobody's just right...
03:06His right-hand man is like, oh.
03:09How long does he have?
03:13Authorities in Florida arrested a man this week
03:15after he allegedly broke into the restaurant where he worked,
03:18stole $500 from the cash register,
03:20drank a bottle of rosé,
03:21and took a nap on the couch before fleeing,
03:24which in Florida means six more weeks of summer.
03:30A North Carolina woman was recently bitten by an otter
03:34while watching a marathon,
03:36said her friend,
03:37just say you don't want to come to my party, okay?
03:42And finally, a video has gained attention online
03:45of a gray squirrel in London carrying a vape pen.
03:49So congratulations to the very first squirrel in history
03:52to figure out a way to relax.
03:56And that was a monologue, everybody.
03:58Oh, we've got a great show for you tonight.
04:01You know it from Brockmire, Dirty John,
04:04films such as Something's Gotta Give,
04:06The Way, Way Back, and The Hole, A Nine Yard.
04:08She's starring in Your Friends and Neighbors,
04:10whose second season premieres April 3rd on Apple TV
04:13and also Fantasy Life, which is in theaters this Friday.
04:16Our friend Amanda Peet is back on the show.
04:20He's a tremendous actor you've seen in Law & Order, Criminal, and Ted,
04:24a godfather of Harlem,
04:25and iconic movies like Full Metal Jacket and Men in Black.
04:28He's back as kingpin in season two of Daredevil Born Again
04:32with new episodes Tuesdays on Disney+.
04:34Vincent D'Onofrio is joining us.
04:37I'm so excited to talk to him before.
04:39We get to all that.
04:41Donald Trump got yet another made-up award
04:44and revealed the mystery present he got from Iran.
04:46For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
04:53The nation is at war,
04:54and Americans are overwhelmingly against it, but don't worry.
04:57Today, the president held a cabinet meeting
04:59and spoke directly to the concerns that are on everyone's mind.
05:03See this pen right here?
05:04This pen is an interesting example.
05:06It's the same thing.
05:07So this pen is very inexpensive.
05:10But it writes well.
05:12I like it.
05:12And there were $1,000 apiece.
05:15Beautiful pen, ballpoint.
05:17$1,000.
05:18It was gold, silver, gorgeous.
05:19But I'm handing it out to kids that don't even know what to do.
05:21What is this, mommy?
05:22And I had another problem.
05:23They didn't write well.
05:25So I take it out.
05:26And I saw it, and there's no ink.
05:28I said, I'd like to use your pen,
05:29but I can't have a gray thing with a big S on it.
05:32And I could even paint the White House on it, sir, if you like,
05:36in gold.
05:38Almost real gold.
05:39So the guy said to me,
05:41you don't have to pay me, sir.
05:43I'll give it to you for nothing.
05:44I said, no, I don't want that.
05:46Let me pay you.
05:47I want to pay you.
05:48He said, what would you like to pay?
05:49I said, how about five bucks a pen?
05:51He said, that's all right.
05:53Whatever the hell we agreed to.
05:55Peanuts.
05:55They're better pens.
05:56It's a business story.
05:58No, that's not a story.
06:01That's a symptom.
06:04That felt like it went on for two days.
06:06And considering the war in Iran is costing a billion dollars a day,
06:09your pen savings aren't making up the difference.
06:12I have so many questions about this story,
06:15but I have to go back to this part.
06:16I'm handing out to kids that don't even know what they're doing.
06:18What is this, mommy?
06:19I'm sorry, you think a kid doesn't know what a pen is?
06:23They're kids, not aliens.
06:24They're in school all day, and that place is lousy with pens.
06:28I have three kids, and they sure as know what a pen is
06:30because that's where the ink on the walls comes from.
06:35Also, why mid-war is this guy so obsessed with office supplies?
06:38Today, it's pens.
06:39On Monday, he regaled the press with a super accurate history of the paperclip.
06:42You know the story of the paperclip?
06:44182 years ago, a man discovered the paperclip.
06:48It was so simple.
06:49And everybody that looked at it said, why didn't I think of that?
06:52I'm sorry, did you just want to be president
06:54because you thought it would look good on your application to Staples?
06:58Why would I be a fit to the Staples team?
07:00Well, for one, I'm a people person.
07:03Obviously, the real crisis we're facing is not over pens.
07:06It's the war in Iran.
07:07Now, you might think the war is still going on,
07:09given the fact that the president recently threatened
07:11to obliterate Iran's power plants and unleash hell on the regime.
07:14But actually, you guys, good news.
07:15We've already won.
07:16We've won.
07:16Let me tell you, we've won.
07:19You know, you never like to say too early you won.
07:21We won.
07:21We won the best.
07:22In the first hour, it was over.
07:24We've won this.
07:25This war has been won.
07:26Woo!
07:27We won the war.
07:27Pens for everyone.
07:28Just make sure the cheap kind.
07:30We're not doing...
07:31We're not doing the high-end pens.
07:33Also, if you won in the first hour,
07:35why are you waiting until three weeks in to let us know?
07:37And why is the Strait of Hormuz still closed?
07:39And why does it seem like you're constantly changing the subject
07:42by talking about office supplies?
07:44We won in the first hour.
07:45It was a military victory that will be discussed for centuries.
07:48But before I get to that,
07:49who knows the history of the binder clip?
07:53Let's talk about the binder.
07:54We know.
07:55We love the binder clip.
07:57It's interesting, because you press down on this side,
08:00and the other side opens up like a mouse.
08:02No one knew you could do it.
08:03They said, well, there's no way to get it open.
08:05And I said, what if you press down,
08:07and then it opened right up?
08:09And we had a secret.
08:10The secret was, I'm going to hold your papers.
08:15But whatever, fine.
08:16The point is, we won.
08:17Boom, mic drop.
08:18We crushed it.
08:18America doesn't need anybody's help.
08:20We came in.
08:20We kicked ass.
08:21It is over.
08:22We're very disappointed with NATO,
08:25because NATO has done absolutely nothing.
08:27I said 25 years ago that NATO's a paper tiger,
08:30but more importantly,
08:32that we'll come to their rescue,
08:34but they will never come to ours.
08:36And I want you to remember that we said this.
08:38They didn't come to our rescue.
08:40Again, this is making me feel like
08:41we didn't win in the first hour.
08:43Because why would we need to be rescued if we already won?
08:46The only ones who need to be rescued
08:47are us from your pen story.
08:54We started it.
08:55We started it.
08:56So now we need to be rescued from our own war?
08:59You're like a five-year-old.
08:59Insists he can dress himself
09:01and then gets trapped inside a sweater.
09:02Help!
09:04Hey, I put my head in the sleeve
09:05and I can't get out.
09:06Dad!
09:08So now Trump wants a speedy end to the war he started,
09:10but he can't figure out how to achieve that.
09:12He won't even say who he's negotiating with.
09:14And Iran says they're not negotiating directly with us,
09:18which is why Trump ends up saying weird, vague stuff like this.
09:22They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
09:24They gave us a present,
09:27and the present arrived today.
09:29It was a very big present,
09:31worth a tremendous amount of money.
09:34And I'm not going to tell you what that present is,
09:36but it was a very significant prize.
09:43It was a very significant prize,
09:45worth a lot of money.
09:46I can't tell you what it is,
09:47but let's just say you can buy four of them with a 20.
09:52Did you see that beautiful gift binder clip?
09:55I did.
09:57It's all right.
09:58It's all right.
10:02But today, Trump revealed what the present was.
10:06And you guys, it's something really rare and special.
10:08I'm just kidding.
10:09It's oil.
10:10You know, I told you about a present, right?
10:12Steve, can I reveal the present?
10:14They said to show you the fact that we're real and solid,
10:21and we're there.
10:22We're going to let you have eight boats of oil.
10:25Eight boats.
10:25Eight big boats of oil.
10:27Okay, so to show us that they're real,
10:29and that they're solid, and that they're there,
10:32could you tell us their name?
10:33Oh, I would love to tell you their name.
10:35It's John Boatman.
10:39Also, they're not letting us have free oil.
10:41They're letting oil tankers pass through a strait
10:43that they were already allowed to pass through
10:46before you started this war.
10:48Seriously, is there anything else you can say
10:50that we got out of this otherwise pointless war
10:53beside eight oil boats?
10:54And they said, we're going to send two more boats.
10:57And it ended up being ten boats.
10:59All right, so this is clearly some teenagers
11:01who got the White House's number.
11:04Oh, yeah, just so you know we're real,
11:06we're going to let eight boats through.
11:09That's very kind of you.
11:11Tell him two more.
11:12What?
11:12Tell him two more.
11:13Oh, actually, you know what?
11:15Let's make it ten.
11:20So master negotiator Donald Trump is bragging
11:22about a few boats of oil during a pointless
11:24and unpopular war he started
11:25that has sent gas prices for Americans soaring,
11:27which, of course, means Republicans are giving him
11:29a special award.
11:30President Trump became the first recipient
11:32of the America First Award
11:34at a fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C. last night.
11:38Congressional Republicans created the award
11:40to honor strong leaders in the United States.
11:43Tonight, we have created a new award.
11:46He is the suitable and fitting recipient
11:48of the first ever America First Award.
11:52It is our honor on behalf of all House Republicans,
11:56all of you here and all patriots across the country,
11:58present the very first America First Award
12:02to the 45th and the 47th president
12:05of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
12:08Oh, my God, that's so great.
12:09He can hold it with all of his other fake awards,
12:11the FIFA Peace Prize and a crown from Burger King.
12:15How many fake trophies that were made specifically for him
12:18is this guy going to get?
12:20First the FIFA Peace Prize, now the America First Award,
12:22and he's neither America First nor Pro-Peace.
12:24He's getting a participation trophy
12:26for something he didn't even participate in.
12:28When Mike Johnson handed it to him,
12:30I bet Trump said, what is this, mommy?
12:32These guys, so out of touch.
12:35They're giving Trump a special made-up award
12:37while Americans struggle with soaring prices
12:39caused by a war they overwhelmingly disapprove of.
12:42And meanwhile, Trump's just droning on
12:44about office supplies, telling a story about pens
12:46that feels like it started.
12:48182 years ago.
12:49This has been A Closer Look.
12:55We'll be right back with The Man to Beat.
13:03For more of Seth's closer looks,
13:04be sure to subscribe to Late Night on YouTube.
13:14Our first guest tonight is a very funny and talented actress.
13:17You know from shows such as Brockmire,
13:19Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Dirty John,
13:22as well as films like Something's Gotta Give,
13:24The Way, Way Back, and The Whole Nine Yards.
13:25She stars in the second season of Your Friends and Neighbors,
13:28which returns to Apple TV on April 3rd,
13:30and Fantasy Life, which is in theaters this Friday.
13:32Please welcome back to the show.
13:33One of our favorites, Amanda Peet, everybody!
13:37Thank you!
13:51Welcome back, friends!
13:53Thank you!
13:54We are friendly, and we know each other,
13:56and I know because we know each other,
13:57you get nervous doing this,
13:59but come on, it's your fifth time, you love it.
14:00I would get nervous doing it, even if I didn't know you.
14:03In fact, it might be worse.
14:04I don't know, I can't decide.
14:05I would hope it's better because we're friends.
14:07I'm wasted, so I don't know.
14:08Okay, you're wasted.
14:10You wrote a beautiful New Yorker piece
14:13that I highly recommend people read.
14:14It's very sad and heartbreaking.
14:17It's very funny,
14:17but it is about you receiving a cancer diagnosis
14:20at the same time that both your parents are dying.
14:23It's a laugh riot.
14:24It is.
14:26There are funny moments in it, but it's heavy.
14:28And I'm wondering, like, what has the response been?
14:32I mean, because I imagine for a lot of people,
14:34it is things they're going through
14:35and things they probably don't read about that often.
14:38Yeah, I think it's, first of all,
14:40it's been just so lovely and surprising.
14:43And, yeah, I had no idea that people would read it.
14:49And I'm glad.
14:51And if it's a source of comfort for anyone, I'm glad.
14:53Yeah, we don't really talk about giving birth
14:58or death very much in this country.
15:01No, we really don't.
15:02And you obviously had to, we lived through it, obviously.
15:06And certainly with our parents, it's particularly hard.
15:08I don't want to make this about your husband,
15:11but...
15:13Because obviously this is your burden,
15:14but your husband is a, you know, he's a writer.
15:17David is a writer.
15:18And I'm just wondering how he's coping
15:19with finding out that you're better at it than he is.
15:24It's so...
15:30I mean, because it's really, I mean, it's, I mean, again,
15:33like, it's so well done.
15:34And it is a competition.
15:37Good.
15:39There's a very funny observation, not observation,
15:41a story about your mother and going to one of your early premieres.
15:46Yes.
15:46Which I think if you share will actually prove to people
15:49that it is very funny as well, this piece.
15:51Well, I was extremely close with my mom.
15:55Like, we were thick as thieves.
16:00And anyway, but she wasn't really, she didn't know any famous people.
16:05She wasn't connected to Hollywood at all.
16:07And maybe in the beginning didn't really want me to be an actress
16:11and understandably for many reasons.
16:13And when I, one of the first movies I got was a Sarah Michelle Gellar movie
16:19called Simply Irresistible that, no offense to anyone, but it was just terrible.
16:24She's lovely, but it just was one of those movies that just was a...
16:28Some of them don't work.
16:29Yeah.
16:29That's why we're so impressed with good movies.
16:33And, um, we were...
16:37We were at the premiere.
16:39My mom was between me and my agent.
16:41Wow, I'm suddenly really drunk.
16:46And I looked over and she was like this.
16:52I swear on my life, mouth wide open.
16:56And, yeah.
16:57Was she, after something like that, would she fake that she liked it?
17:01She seemed like a straight talker.
17:02No, no, no, a straight talker.
17:03Yeah.
17:04She, um, I mean, she wasn't mean by any stretch of the imagination,
17:08but she would, you know, neither of my parents watched Jack and Jill,
17:13which was the first series I did.
17:15You're all too young.
17:16Uh-huh.
17:17On the WB.
17:20Um, sometimes I think it was because they couldn't find the channel.
17:23Yeah.
17:24Um, so it's hard to say.
17:26Yeah, at that point it's on the WB.
17:27You know what I mean?
17:28Yeah, it was...
17:29Like, we gotta spread the blame around.
17:31Were you, at the time, were you cognizant of the fact that they weren't watching it?
17:35Like, did you have an expectation that they would?
17:38It was, I...
17:40I'm sure it hurt my feelings a little bit,
17:42but on the other hand, now that I'm old...
17:44Yeah.
17:46Um, I really understand.
17:49I mean, I don't know why my dad would really want to watch a romantic comedy on the WB.
17:57Right.
17:58I think there is something nice to be like,
17:59one day, hopefully, I will make work that we will all agree that, you know,
18:03is, is, you were the audience for, but we're not gonna force it.
18:05That was a really good little speech.
18:07Like, he could have given me that speech.
18:08One day, you'll make something that...
18:12I might...
18:13That's what I say to my kids every night before bed.
18:15I'm like, and remember, as you lay your head on the pillow,
18:18one day you'll make something I'll be interested in.
18:23Um, your dear friend, and mine, but yours more than mine,
18:27Sarah Paulson's your BFF.
18:28And, uh, she, uh, did the audio version of, uh, this story...
18:33She did.
18:33...on The New Yorker that you can listen to.
18:34Um, you, you were there when she recorded.
18:37And I'm just wondering, are you wearing a blanket for sound reasons?
18:41Or is, was this a fashion choice?
18:43She wore the button-down shirt, and we were told it was too noisy.
18:48I see.
18:48So we got naked, but I didn't show, I didn't bring you the pictures of us.
18:52That's, I, I understand that, yeah.
18:53Because last time I was naked when I was here in the picture that you showed...
18:57Yeah.
18:57...that Sarah Paulson took.
18:59That's right.
18:59But again, you're, I want to make it clear, like, I don't, I don't, like, have these pictures.
19:04Amanda brings these pictures.
19:07I mean, I love these pictures, but I don't have them.
19:10Alexi, I love you.
19:11I'm sorry.
19:12Oh, my God, don't ruin it by mentioning my wife.
19:19Hi, Alexi.
19:21Hey, I want to ask you about you.
19:22You have more with Amanda right after this, everybody.
19:38Let's get very, very, very drunk.
19:42Okay.
19:44Okay.
19:56Did I interrupt that?
19:58Not at all.
19:59Sitting here drinking Negronis, you're looking to get laid.
20:01Not my type.
20:02Bulls***.
20:04I would do her.
20:06Hey, welcome back.
20:07We're here with Amanda Peet, everybody.
20:08That was a clip from your friends and neighbors.
20:12A very, a very honest and authentic moment happened when the clip started playing.
20:17You went, oh, interesting.
20:20Like you'd never seen the show.
20:21Oh, no, it was because she says, or whatever, my character says, let's get very, very drunk.
20:27Ah, so it was like...
20:28People are going to be concerned after this.
20:32Congratulations.
20:32This is the second season.
20:33You already know you're doing a third season.
20:36That's very nice in this day and age.
20:37Congratulations on the job security.
20:40It's great.
20:41It's a great show.
20:45Wonderful act, Jon Hamm.
20:47Our friend Jon Hamm is in it.
20:48And it feels like the intensity of your character, is it safe to say, is amped up in season two?
20:55Well, yes.
20:55So my boss, who I love so much, Jonathan Tropper, the brilliant Jonathan Tropper, decided to write a menopause story
21:03for my character.
21:05And I was like, what?
21:10I'm sorry.
21:13Yeah, you can't.
21:14If you can't confidently end the back half of 30, they know.
21:17That's how they know.
21:18Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:20So after I got over that, I was very excited because, you know, she gets up to all sorts of
21:26antics, almost like an adolescent.
21:29Like, because, you know, with menopause, you guys are all way too young.
21:33But if you watch Jack and Jill.
21:40Wow.
21:40So, yeah, you can get really hormonal.
21:43And Jonathan Tropper wrote a story, a storyline where she's just basically has impulse control issues.
21:50And so we get up to all sorts of stuff.
21:54And it's really funny.
21:55And I think.
21:56I mean, I'm just going to say, like, you know, we were talking earlier about your essay, right?
22:00Like, we don't talk about birth.
22:01We don't talk about death.
22:02And we really don't talk about menopause that much.
22:04Well, I think now that Naomi Watts and others are coming out and talking about it and normalizing it now,
22:09we don't feel quite as much like, you know, the old hags that we are.
22:13Well, I want to say, like, I do consider it like a public service because I think, you know, one
22:18of the things about when, for whatever reason, like, we don't talk about these things in pop culture, like, no
22:22one knows about it.
22:23And then, you know, people like me would love to be, like, hip to it.
22:30You, you.
22:32No, for real.
22:32I'm not.
22:33I know.
22:33Like, you know what I mean?
22:34Like, because otherwise you've got to, like, you know, read a book.
22:41I'm just saying.
22:43I got to go to the library, which is where I get all my books.
22:46Um, no, it's good for, um, for someone in, in your situation who's married and you're not there yet, but
22:54it's good for you to have a heads up.
22:56Yeah.
22:58You know.
22:59Thanks in advance.
22:59You're welcome.
23:01Um, there's a, there's also, it's not just a menopause storyline.
23:05Uh, there's also, you're having.
23:07What else is there?
23:07You're having trouble with the neighbor's dog this season.
23:09Well, yeah, but then I get really angry.
23:11Yeah, you get a little angry, yeah.
23:12Yeah.
23:12Are you, there's a lot of, uh, fake, uh, dog excrement in this season.
23:16Can we not just say poop?
23:18Well, we definitely can say poop, but we're, like, not nine, you know?
23:25There's a dog excrement story.
23:28I don't know.
23:28Dog s***.
23:29Let's just say dog s***.
23:30It's a dog s*** story.
23:31There's dog s***.
23:31Um, uh, what is, what did they use for it?
23:34Because this is basically, like, that's what I care most about in television.
23:37Same.
23:38Yeah.
23:38And same with my 11-year-old son.
23:41He just wants to know.
23:42He just lit up.
23:43He was like, can I come to the set that day?
23:45Oh, he wanted to come on dog s***?
23:46Yeah, he wanted to come and see them make the dog s***.
23:49Wow.
23:51He did.
23:52He really did want to come?
23:53I mean, I'm thinking about it.
23:54I'm like, if I told my kids, I'm like, there's a day.
23:56We're just doing fake dog s*** today.
23:57They'd be like, we're coming.
23:58Yeah.
24:00Obviously, we're coming.
24:00So what, can you give, uh, can you give out the secrets?
24:03It's, it's, uh, um, one of those bars, you know, the, the, like, the, like, health bars
24:09that are, have a lot of, like, seeds.
24:13Like a, like a Clif bar?
24:14Yes.
24:15Oh, my God.
24:16Yes.
24:16And then it's...
24:17They're, they were a sponsor.
24:28Sorry.
24:28They're very healthy, but I can also believe, like, yeah.
24:32Oh, healthy.
24:32Yeah, really good.
24:33I mean, this is, we're not going to get them back as a sponsor, but yeah.
24:36So, but is it just a regular old...
24:38And then it's like, they, you know, they wear gloves and they mush it and mush it with water.
24:43Uh-huh.
24:43And then some, you know, there are, like, 40 crew people around being like, more mushy
24:48and wetter.
24:49It's not wet enough on her shoe and, um...
24:51And on days like that, are you just like, oh, my God, show business is everything I thought
24:55it would be.
24:55Yes, I, I, I think maybe my dad will give me that speech on this one.
24:59I'd be like, you finally did it.
25:00Yeah, you finally made it.
25:01Uh, hey, thanks so much for being here.
25:03Congrats on another season.
25:04We love having you.
25:06Amanda Pete, everyone.
25:07Second season, you're friends and neighbors.
25:09Come here's April 3rd.
25:10Fantasy Life is in theaters this Friday.
25:12Stick around.
25:12I'll be right back with Vincent C'mon.
25:32Our next guest is an Emmy-nominated actor.
25:34You know from his work on Law & Order, Criminal Intent, and Godfather of Harlem, in addition
25:39to his roles in movies like Full Metal Jacket and Men in Black, he returns his kingpin in
25:44season two of Daredevil Born Again.
25:46New episodes premiere Tuesdays on Disney+.
25:48Let's take a look.
25:49As you know, months ago, there was an attempt on my life by the masked vigilante known as
25:56Bullseye.
25:57We have reason to believe that Matt Murdoch, the lawyer from Hell's Kitchen, survived the
26:03attack on his apartment.
26:05This is important.
26:08Because Matt Murdoch is...
26:15a hero.
26:17Please welcome to the show, Vincent D'Onofrio, everybody.
26:35Hi, man.
26:36I'm so happy you're here.
26:38Yeah.
26:39Here I am.
26:40Now, you know, so initially you did gain weight to play Kingpin.
26:44When we did a Netflix show, yeah.
26:46Yeah, so that's almost 10 years ago now.
26:48And so you played this role for a decade over a lot of different shows.
26:52Is it crazy to have been playing it for this long when you started it, when you embarked
26:56on it?
26:56Did you have any expectations?
26:58Well, we never thought we'd be doing it this long.
27:01Once it got pulled from Netflix, we weren't sure whether it was going to come back at all.
27:07Charlie was less sure.
27:10Charlie Cox, who plays Daredevil, yeah.
27:11That always accuses me of being a bit delusional, because I always said it was going to come
27:16back.
27:16But I just thought, you know, we knocked it out of the park with the Netflix show.
27:19Yeah.
27:19And they bring it back.
27:20But eventually they did.
27:21It's, you know, when I did Law & Order Criminal Intent, I did that for 10 years, nine seasons
27:26for 10 years.
27:27So I haven't played a part this long before.
27:29But this guy is, he's a nut job.
27:32He's a different cat.
27:33And also, I will, I mean, so many compliments, too, because now you are wearing like a body
27:37suit, because obviously you're, I mean, I was surprised when I saw how svelte you are
27:42in real life.
27:43I'm like, oh, they're doing a great job.
27:45Because you do not look like a healthy man on screen.
27:48And you look very fit now.
27:50Yeah.
27:50Yeah.
27:51Yeah.
27:51Do you enjoy wearing the, I mean...
27:53I do not enjoy it.
27:55But I guess it's still better than having to carry it around all day in real life.
27:58That's, that's very true.
28:00Colin Farrell and I actually became friends over wearing these suits.
28:04Right.
28:05Of course.
28:05Because Penguin, that's a real, yeah.
28:07Yeah.
28:07And so we are able to talk about the hatred we have for them.
28:13And how we love to play the characters at the same time, which makes our lives miserable.
28:19They are both characters who have, I, you know, I think they're both born of some self-hate.
28:23I don't think you turn into Kingpin or the Penguin without some self-hate.
28:26Do you think it helps you as an actor?
28:27I do, yeah.
28:28Yeah.
28:28I do, yeah.
28:29Yeah.
28:29There's that and then there's some acting techniques, I guess.
28:34But it's mostly the hatred.
28:35It's not just the suit, guys?
28:36You're also bringing something to it?
28:38No, I would say it's 99% the suit that brings forward the hatred.
28:42You get to be, you're the mayor this year as a lifelong New Yorker.
28:47Do you enjoy getting to also play the mayor of the Big Apple?
28:53I sort of feel like Kingpin feels, when I think about it, like it's not something I would prefer doing,
29:00but I think I have to.
29:02Right.
29:02Yeah.
29:03That's a very good way of looking at it.
29:04Yeah, no, he's doing it just to get his stretch across the world a little further.
29:10You know, his plan is to take over every port in the world.
29:14That's some good old school stuff when you take over ports.
29:17Yeah.
29:18So you gained a lot of weight for the initial role, but this was, I would imagine, harder and maybe
29:23more satisfying.
29:24You actually, these are your real arms.
29:27There was a boxing scene.
29:29And so, I mean, that's impressive work.
29:31Bravo.
29:33Yeah.
29:34Give it up for the guns.
29:36So you guys are, you're applauding my arms.
29:40I appreciate that.
29:42No, I think, so we had this boxing match thing to do, and I wanted to, I didn't want, in
29:48the show, I'm always completely clad because of the fat suit, so it goes from my ankles to my wrists,
29:52you know.
29:53But I wanted to show, at least if he's in a boxing ring, to show his shoulders and his arms.
29:57So we still had to use the stomach part, and I had to make my upper body, I had to
30:02work out hard, make my upper body look like it was in proportion to the rest of the body, but
30:07with muscles, so.
30:08That's very impressive.
30:09Yeah.
30:09And where the guys who made the body suit, did they have to tip their cap and be like, all
30:12right, we underestimated you.
30:14You could do it on your own.
30:16You could do it on your own.
30:17I've had a career made up of underestimation.
30:21All right.
30:22So another role that you had to gain weight for, Full Metal Jacket, an incredible, iconic film.
30:28Leonard.
30:32First, you're so, you know, again, so perfectly cast in this film, but the way it came about
30:38was sort of a little unnatural.
30:39How did they, how did Stanley Kubrick find you for the part of Leonard?
30:43I didn't, I didn't have an agent for film.
30:46I had a theater agent, small little agent, Anita Castle, I'll never forget.
30:50She got me my first, or helped me get my first show, Broadway, it was on Broadway.
30:56So I was just doing that, and I had no idea that they were making that movie at all.
31:00And then a friend of mine, Matthew Modine, who was on hiatus from the movie for a couple
31:04of weeks, he was back in New York.
31:07And I was working at the Hardwreck Cafe when it used to be on 57th Street.
31:11And him and his wife were walking by, and I went up to him and asked him, you know, what
31:15he was up to, because we had, we'd known each other from class, acting class, and also
31:19auditions and stuff.
31:20And he said, there's, I'm doing this Stanley Kubrick movie.
31:23I'm like, wow, okay, cool.
31:24You know, he started before, I think he did like four or five films before my career started,
31:28Matthew, but we were always been good friends, and we are to this day.
31:31He said, here, you know, this is the address you should send.
31:34You know, there's thousands of people sending stuff, but you should send stuff.
31:37And so I did, and I got a week, about a week later, I got a call from somebody who
31:45I thought
31:45was one of my bouncer friends giving me a hard time.
31:48So I hung up on them.
31:51And, and, because they all knew that I was trying to be an actor, and they were all like
31:55firefighters and cops that used to kind of moonlight and work a second job.
32:01So they were always giving me a hard time about being an actor.
32:04So I, but eventually they called right back.
32:07And, and, and the first thing, Leon Cataly, who was his right hand man, said, don't hang
32:14up.
32:14Stanley Kubrick wants to talk to you.
32:16Oh my God.
32:16Okay, great.
32:17It is really funny to think of a off-duty fireman calling you up and pretending to be
32:21Stanley Kubrick.
32:22Yeah.
32:23Well, the thing is, is that, is that, um, I thought that Stanley Kubrick was British.
32:31I didn't know that he was from the Bronx.
32:33Oh yeah.
32:35Yeah.
32:35I think I, um, you know, I'll, I'll own that too.
32:38I think if I got a Bronx accent being like, I'm Stanley Kubrick, I'd be like, no, you're
32:41not.
32:41No, exactly.
32:42Yeah.
32:43And that's exactly what I said.
32:44No, you're not.
32:46Can I add, when you say you sent stuff to an address, like in that era is, are you just
32:50sending like headshots or you put yourself on tape?
32:53No, we look, it was very expensive at the time.
32:55The cameras, video cameras were like this big, right?
32:58And they were, you know, and then the deck was like the size of a Volkswagen, you know,
33:04and you had to wear the deck.
33:05Anyway, my friend and I, we spent like 60 bucks or something like that we didn't have
33:11rented a camera.
33:12I sat on a stoop on 10th Avenue and 21st street, I believe it was.
33:16And I did a, uh, a monologue from a play and we put it on tape.
33:20I had a friend that was at NYU who was, um, learning to be a filmmaker and an editor.
33:25And I brought, we brought the big disc, you know, the cassette was like that.
33:30Yeah.
33:31Brought it to him.
33:31And he, he edited out one of the takes for us that we thought it was the best one.
33:35And then I sent it.
33:36That's unbelievable.
33:37And then you, uh, is it true that you would sit with, uh, Stanley Kubrick while he was
33:41directing in the scenes you weren't in?
33:44Um, I, yeah, before I started, I got to sit with him when he was shooting some of the
33:48Vietnam stuff and just watched the whole thing.
33:50That was fascinating.
33:51Uh, he was sort of famous for a lot of takes.
33:53Yeah, he was.
33:56What's the most?
33:57I mean, the most I did was nine takes for this.
33:59There's a scene in this show called The Blanket Party where they beat up my character.
34:03Yes.
34:03And we did that nine times.
34:05That was the most we ever did.
34:07But I was around for a longer amount of takes watching other people do them.
34:11What's the most you saw him make an actor do?
34:16Um, so sad to talk about.
34:18Um, like somewhere around 60.
34:23Yeah.
34:23Yeah.
34:24That's a lot of takes.
34:25Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:25And do you feel like, I mean, again, he, uh, obviously, whatever he chose was right.
34:30You know, the, the evidence is on screen.
34:32It's a classic.
34:33Did you feel like when you were watching, you're like, I think he got it.
34:37Actually, no.
34:38Really?
34:39Yeah.
34:40That is, now it is really sad.
34:41It's just my heart sunk every take, you know, because I knew that as the takes went on,
34:46you know, as an actor, you get more and more pressured and it was just, you know, yeah.
34:50How is a, is this an old school?
34:52How is he communicating from behind the camera to an actor?
34:55Like, is it a megaphone?
34:57Oh, like an old school megaphone?
34:59Yeah.
34:59Like 40 feet away.
35:01Yeah.
35:01You know.
35:02Yeah.
35:02You screwed up.
35:06Take 72.
35:07This is Stanley from the Bronx.
35:09That's not the Bronx, but.
35:10It's close though.
35:11That was a little, it was a little too Chicago, but, uh, um, uh, but also this was not, uh,
35:16so you put yourself on tape, but you were not, you were not big.
35:19Like, what's that?
35:20I'm not even sure it was Chicago.
35:23Hey, you don't have to do me my Stanley Kubrick.
35:25Got it, got it, got it.
35:25Okay, great, great.
35:26Um, great.
35:27Did you, uh, but you put on, uh, uh, weight for this role as well.
35:3080 pounds, yeah.
35:3080 pounds.
35:31Yeah.
35:31And, uh, do you feel like that was, uh, was that the request as well?
35:35I mean, obviously Leonard was that sort of soldier.
35:37He said, he said, you're going to have to put on some weight.
35:40We didn't know it was going to be like 80 pounds.
35:42Right.
35:42But I just, I went over there and I put on like 30 or 40 pounds and I just looked
35:46like I could kick everybody's butt.
35:47Right.
35:47So that didn't work.
35:48Yeah.
35:49So we had to keep adding it and adding it.
35:51And then eventually it went up to like, I think I went from 210 to.
35:57To like 290 or something.
35:59Wow.
35:59Yeah.
36:00I mean, again, uh, I, I can't imagine that was fun to do, but, uh, I, I feel like it
36:04was essential to the part, the way, the way it, the way it endures.
36:07I don't think I'd be here talking to you right now.
36:08If it wasn't for that, uh, I feel like, uh, I think everybody, uh, knows that was you.
36:12I sometimes forget, uh, and my kids just watched it for the first time, uh, Men in
36:17Black, uh, this is you in Men in Black.
36:21Sort of unrecognizable.
36:23Based on, based on how you feel about the fat suit, I'm guessing you didn't love getting
36:27in makeup for this every day.
36:29I actually, I don't mean to be so obstinate.
36:33No, no.
36:33Every time you, I think you're going to zig.
36:36You like, but you like this.
36:39I did because it was with Rick Baker, who was like one of the, you know, and he, we, you
36:43know, I, you know, I, I don't know what I can tell you about that time, but we spent
36:47very, uh, we were a bit high sometimes.
36:54Okay.
36:54And, and you really, you buried the lead and now I think everybody knows why you were
36:58hesitating and why you enjoyed this.
37:00Yeah.
37:01And so the, the, the thing would last from the, the sessions, depending on where the
37:06character was, what stage he was in, would last somewhere between three and nine hours.
37:10Wow.
37:10We just liked each other, each other so much, uh, Rick and I, that we just loved hanging
37:14out anyway.
37:15And he would just paint, like you're literally, he's painting your face.
37:19Right.
37:19And it was just this thing.
37:21It was amazing.
37:23No, I, I actually, it was okay.
37:24I mean, I'm again, will you like, you know, sometimes you're just lucky to work with people
37:28who are the best in the world at something.
37:30And so time with them is pretty special.
37:32Yeah.
37:32Exactly.
37:32Yeah.
37:33Like we, I used to get called in at like 3 AM.
37:36We would start the makeup.
37:37I'd do the makeup for however many hours, as soon as we were ready.
37:41Cause the makeup back then, he, he invented all the stuff that's basically used now, you
37:46know, that they've gotten better at.
37:48But we, I would go in, I would, I would do makeup for as long as it took.
37:52We would shoot one scene.
37:54That's it.
37:54And then I would go home.
37:56So I'd be home by like nine o'clock in the evening to go to sleep in time to wake
38:00up
38:00three in the morning the next day.
38:02Unbelievable.
38:02Yeah.
38:03I want to ask about this.
38:04We, my brother and I were talking to you on our podcast about when you were a young man,
38:09you had the obsession with magic and you were, you're actually good at magic.
38:13Yeah.
38:13You know, it's funny.
38:14You know, it's funny.
38:14You should say that.
38:17All right.
38:18Here we go.
38:19This is very bold.
38:24So I, I don't know if this is going to work.
38:26Okay.
38:27It's been a long time.
38:28Got it.
38:29Um, I, I find magic to be really boring.
38:35That's great.
38:36You, what a, it's such a, it's so heartbreaking that you have the gift of magic and you also
38:40find it boring.
38:42Yeah.
38:42Um, I'm going to ask you to pick a card.
38:45Okay.
38:45All right.
38:46So, um, it's, this is a pretty simple trick actually.
38:50It's, it's, it's, I figured we'd do the fastest one we could do.
38:54Okay.
38:54So you got to tell me when to stop.
38:55Okay.
38:56Say stop.
38:57Okay.
38:57Stop.
38:57Right there.
38:58Take it.
38:59Make sure you know what it is.
39:00Okay.
39:00Right.
39:01You got it.
39:01Yeah.
39:02Okay.
39:02You sure?
39:03Yes.
39:03You got it in your hand.
39:04I do.
39:05Yeah.
39:05Okay.
39:06There's somebody in the audience that has a piece of paper that was given to them.
39:10Okay.
39:10Is that correct?
39:11Yeah, that's correct.
39:11Can you open that piece of paper up?
39:15Yeah.
39:18And can you say what it is?
39:20King of hearts.
39:27It's not boring.
39:29Magic isn't boring.
39:30You're a witch.
39:32Thanks for being here, man.
39:33You guys, that's Vincent Denavrio.
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