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Charly Clive and Phil Dunster bring their hilarious, offbeat chemistry to this episode of “Inquiring Minds.” The ‘Rooster’ co-stars swap stories about working with Steve Carell, revisit Phil’s favorite lines from ‘Ted Lasso,’ and weigh in on the best Bill Lawrence shows. As the two debate who from ‘Heated Rivalry’ they’d bring to the cottage and explain how Charly’s trailer turned into a full-blown hot dog museum, they prove no topic is too ridiculous to take seriously.

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00:00A job you'd be terrible at.
00:01Kissing.
00:03Hi, I'm Charlie Clive.
00:04I'm Phil Dunster, and this is Inquiring Minds with Esquire.
00:09You can go first.
00:10I'll go first.
00:11Yeah.
00:11Okay.
00:12What's the last fad you participated in?
00:15Oh my God.
00:16Hated rivalry is the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thing I think of
00:19when I go to sleep.
00:20Would you choose Elliot or Shane?
00:22Poor dude, that's crazy.
00:24And that's the cruelest question you could possibly ask.
00:27I think if I was going to the cottage with one of them, it would be...
00:31Or Kip or Scott.
00:33It's got to be Scott for me.
00:34Elliot, too intimidating.
00:37Shane, too reserved.
00:39Scott, just right.
00:40That's my Goldilocks.
00:42He's the Goldilocks.
00:43And Kip's just not.
00:44Oh my God, I love Kip.
00:45Kip's there to kind of like make us smoothies.
00:47But he doesn't say the night.
00:49You kick him out.
00:50Bye-bye.
00:51Like, we're all good friends, but he sleeps on the couch.
00:55What's your favourite line from Ted Lasso?
00:57I really enjoyed saying poo-pah.
01:04Yeah, James.
01:05Surrounded by poo-pah.
01:07But really, my favourite line of the whole thing is when Nick, Mohammed's character, Nate, they sort of reference him.
01:13They look down the line at him and he's just kicking some dog poo off of the pitch.
01:18And he goes, someone's like that dog do a poo here.
01:20Someone's been walking the dog here.
01:21Found another poo.
01:24I don't know why, but that cracked me up.
01:28I think he's the funniest.
01:29Nick, Mohammed is the funniest man.
01:30He's just like, he has no ball skills at all, no football skills at all.
01:35So he's there like, kicking off like this.
01:35He's a joyful, joyful person.
01:38Which actor would you drop everything to work with?
01:41Actually, right now, it would be Kirsten Dunst.
01:44Really?
01:45Yeah.
01:45I think she's completely remarkable.
01:46I think if you look at her career, it's kind of no skips for me.
01:50Really?
01:51She's made such cool choices.
01:52She can do the full spectrum of human emotion.
01:56I just enjoy her performances so much.
01:58And I think if she's in a film, I'm like, oh, it's probably going to be really good.
02:00And I think she's a real safe pair of hands.
02:02What is your biggest pet peeve in life?
02:04The thing that's really getting my goat at the minute is when people misuse the 10 out of 10 system.
02:12Oh, elaborate.
02:13They have a meal and that was like, that's 10 out of 10.
02:16That was amazing.
02:17That's the perfect meal.
02:19What's the pain threshold of that?
02:21I'd say I'm about a nine at the minute.
02:22One more and that's it.
02:23Right, so one more and then it's sort of...
02:25Then you're going to die.
02:26You die in agony.
02:27You're going to become dust.
02:29Here's the thing.
02:30I think that we need to reclaim the term satisfactory because it is just that.
02:34It's good.
02:35It's fine.
02:36It'll do.
02:36That's so English.
02:38If someone was like, time spent with me was 6 out of 10, I'd be like, great.
02:44Good.
02:45Fine.
02:46Can I be honest?
02:47Time spent with you, 7 out of 10.
02:51What surprised you most about working with Steve Carell?
02:55I was surprised that he was exactly who I sort of dreamed him to be.
02:59Yeah.
02:59One of the first conversations I had with him, he was like, do you like ice hockey?
03:04I've got tickets.
03:05You should go.
03:05He's a great guy and he loves to give his hockey tickets away.
03:08Yeah, he does.
03:09Who's been the best co-star to go on a press tour with?
03:12Probably going to be Charlie Clive.
03:13I'd agree.
03:14And the card says, elaborate on that.
03:16Okay.
03:18Any room that she walks into, she will see where the hot dog related paraphernalia is.
03:23There's a hot dog in every room in the world.
03:25And if you can't find it, I can.
03:26When did this start with hot dogs?
03:28When we were filming, I bought a blanket for my trailer and it happened to have some hot dogs on
03:35it.
03:35Happened to.
03:36As if it wasn't a plan.
03:37And then people started to notice I had this hot dog blanket and I think they thought,
03:41this sweet little English girl loves hot dogs.
03:43Yeah.
03:44And so people kept buying me hot dog things for my trailer.
03:47And by the end of the shoot, after four months, it was sort of a museum to hot dog memorabilia.
03:53And since then, I find them wherever I go.
03:56They're sort of, for me, they're the good omen.
03:57If I see a hot dog, I'm safe.
03:59You likened it to that guy on Lost who didn't see numbers.
04:02Yeah, with the numbers.
04:03Fingers crossed.
04:04Uh-oh, I don't have the same fate.
04:08What's something you're shamelessly competitive about?
04:11This is mortifying to admit.
04:13Escape rooms.
04:16If someone's like, oh, I have this idea.
04:18I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
04:19Oh, okay.
04:20I have to kind of team lead an escape room.
04:22Stay in your lane.
04:23So, bit of fun.
04:25What's one film or TV show you wish you starred in?
04:28Every TV show I've ever auditioned for that I didn't get.
04:31Ooh, yeah.
04:33I hold deep resentment.
04:35God, I feel you on that.
04:36The amount of shows I can't watch because I'm so jealous.
04:40Besides Rooster, what's your favourite Bill Lawrence show?
04:43Watch Scrubs every day after school.
04:44Two, right.
04:45Two episodes of Scrubs, two episodes of Simpsons, two episodes of Friends.
04:48That explains it largely.
04:49Doesn't it?
04:50Yeah.
04:50But actually, I'll say my most re-watched show,
04:53Cougar Town.
04:54Is it really?
04:55It is.
04:56It's Cougar Town.
04:56What's the secret sauce with it?
04:58Courtney Cox, Busy Phillips.
04:59And it's women drinking wine and hysterically trying to avoid men.
05:03It's really funny the lengths they will go to to avoid conversations with men.
05:07So, Scrubs was in there, Cougar Town was there,
05:09and Ted Lasso wasn't in there.
05:11That's good.
05:11Good to know.
05:12You want to hear what I think about Ted Lasso?
05:14I don't.
05:15Ten out of ten.
05:16Name one fashion trend you can't get behind.
05:20I mean, I'm really showing my age here,
05:22but the tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny sunglasses.
05:26Sorry.
05:27Crazy thing about that is, you'd look great in them.
05:31What was the last show that made you laugh out loud?
05:34Or, as they say on the internet, LOL.
05:37LOL.
05:38Somebody Somewhere on HBO.
05:39Oh, yeah?
05:40I'm obsessed with it.
05:41I think it's the most beautiful show.
05:43Every episode makes me laugh out loud.
05:44Every episode makes me cry.
05:46You know when you're on your own and you laugh out loud and you sort of...
05:49Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:50You go...
05:50And there's an English person and you go, sorry.
05:52Yeah.
05:53What was the hardest scene you had to film in Rooster?
05:56There's a scene that you and I have where Archie's really trying to justify some terrible behaviour.
06:02You know when you feel like your mouth sort of lets you down whilst you're talking
06:06and you were saying a little gobbledygook?
06:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:09That was pretty tough.
06:10It's hard saying words.
06:11Bloody heck.
06:12Pretending to be other people and saying words that are written down.
06:14That's pretty tough.
06:15How was the fight scene with Steve Crouch?
06:18Like a fever dream.
06:19There's a scene in which I'm in my pants, or as you guys would say, underwear.
06:24We wrestle, and he got very, very close to my nether region.
06:28It's real balls-in-face stuff, if that's okay to say on Esquire.
06:32They broke a four-poster bed, and that made it into the...
06:35That did, yeah.
06:35And it's so funny.
06:37Who's the last person to leave you starstruck?
06:41Yesterday, I met Natasha Beddingfield.
06:44Previously to that, meeting Connie Britton was a big one.
06:48I heard her before I saw her, and my whole body sort of froze, and I was like, what do
06:51I do?
06:52You just got good, off-the-cuff chat.
06:54So, yeah, it's Natasha, it's Connie, it's always Steve Carell.
07:00And now it's time for the rapid round.
07:03On the rocks or neat?
07:04On the rocks.
07:04Movie you quote too much?
07:06Grand Budapest Hotel.
07:07Song that gets you on the dance floor?
07:11Dancing in the Moonlight, Top Loader.
07:13The Office, US or UK?
07:15US, every day.
07:16A job you'd be terrible at?
07:17Kissing.
07:19One thing you spend way too much money on?
07:22Clothes.
07:23Comfort TV show?
07:24Parks and Rec.
07:25One note you never want to hear from a director?
07:28You're terrible, get out of here.
07:30One topic you dominate in trivia?
07:32Verbs.
07:33Verbs, wow.
07:34That's it, bro.
07:37I'll pick those up, don't worry.
07:40Sorry about that.
07:42Oh, what a great time we've had.
07:44Guys, thanks for watching.
07:45This has been Esquire.
07:46I've been Phil Dunster.
07:47I've been Charlie Glive.
07:48And you guys should go and watch Rooster.
07:51It's on HBO Max.
07:52Love you.
07:53Love you, bye.
07:53Bye.
07:54Bye.
07:55Bye.
07:57Bye.
07:59Bye.
08:00Bye.
08:03Bye.
08:04Bye.
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