00:00You're in the middle of a double date just being like, please let these people get divorced.
00:04Please let us never have to be subjected to being with these two people in the same place
00:09ever again for the rest of our lives.
00:11Hello, this is Penelope Cruz.
00:13I'm Olivia Wilde.
00:14And I'm Seth Rogen.
00:16And this is the New Yorker mini interview.
00:22Ooh, this little tiny one.
00:25What is something a neighbor has done that annoyed you?
00:28A neighbor.
00:30I wish I'd had neighbors having loud, hot sex above me.
00:33That's never happened.
00:35Interesting.
00:36You don't wish that also?
00:38But in a hotel, you have experienced that too?
00:41I've had a lot of times.
00:42That's great.
00:43I've got to stay at your hotel.
00:44Taylor Sheridan was my neighbor for a while.
00:47We shared a wall in a shitty apartment complex in West Hollywood.
00:51And he did an acting class out of his apartment, which actually was incredibly annoying.
00:55Because I could hear everything that happened next door.
00:58So much sigh.
00:59Not to knock his writing or television making.
01:02But as an acting coach, I could always tell they were acting.
01:05I was never like, oh no, there's an act.
01:07I was never like, there's people arguing next door.
01:09I was always like, there's people pretending to argue next door.
01:12An acting class next door would be the worst.
01:22If you could invite three people to dinner, living or dead, who would they be?
01:26And how do you think it would go?
01:28We have to go dead again.
01:30Gotta go dead.
01:30Gotta go dead.
01:31Gotta go dead.
01:32If you're able to have dinner with dead people, what asshole picks a living person?
01:35Yeah.
01:36You got the candy.
01:37I would invite Truman Capote.
01:40Good one.
01:41I would invite Audrey.
01:44Yes.
01:44I would invite Jean-Jeanette.
01:48I want all people less interesting than me so I can dominate.
01:51I want three dummies from 1750.
01:53You won't believe what we got now.
01:57Okay, let's do more.
01:58What is your favorite work of art?
02:00Could be film, literature, music, etc.
02:03About a dysfunctional marriage.
02:06Oh, wow.
02:08I mean, I think that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is my favorite film and play about a dysfunctional marriage.
02:16Yeah.
02:16It Wasn't Me by Shaggy.
02:19Also, yeah, as in for...
02:21Maybe one of the greatest.
02:23Because one of the better works of art about a dysfunctional marriage.
02:27For me, I would say Eight and a Half because...
02:29That's a good one.
02:30It's my favorite movie, maybe of all times.
02:33But also, it is about...
02:35It's about many things, but also a dysfunctional marriage because it's such a liar.
02:40That's what that's about.
02:41Yeah.
02:41That's what that movie's about.
02:43Uh-huh.
02:43Okay.
02:44Okay.
02:45Oh, it's just so small.
02:47Oh, share your worst or best double date.
02:54I feel like you guys probably go...
02:55I feel like both of you probably go on double dates.
02:59We go out with other couples.
03:00Because people have very cool parties.
03:00I wouldn't say they're dating.
03:02I don't know if they're...
03:02Is it a date if it's another couple that's been married for 20 years?
03:06Yeah, that's a double date.
03:07I would call it couples.
03:08Yeah, I guess it's a double date.
03:09Yeah, two couples having dinner.
03:10That means you're dating that couple.
03:11I remember one that was very hardcore.
03:14I cannot say who it was with.
03:16And it's actually people that I care about and like.
03:19But at that point, everything started very quiet.
03:23And it became such a huge fight.
03:25Yes.
03:26About like, are people supposed to die for art or not?
03:29I went crazy when they defended that people are supposed to be okay dying for art.
03:35And I lost it.
03:37And they probably know when they see this.
03:40They know who I'm talking about.
03:43If they're willing to die for art, odds are who watched The New Yorker.
03:48They will see this.
03:51That's who watches this.
03:54Do you have a worst one?
03:56Yes, I have a few really bad ones.
03:59Name, names, name, names.
03:59I can't.
04:00They don't watch this.
04:01It's the worst are like, are people I know who are now divorced, who are not yet divorced when we
04:07had these dinner, these double dates with them.
04:09And you're in the middle of a double date just being like, please let these people get divorced.
04:14Please let us never have to be subjected to being with these two people in the same place ever again
04:19for the rest of our lives.
04:21So, yeah, I had a few.
04:22I've had a few of those.
04:23And thank God they're divorced now.
04:27Okay, what is your most obscure interest or hobby?
04:31Oh, I'm very curious.
04:35I, it's not that obscure.
04:37I love miniatures.
04:38I'm a maniac.
04:40Yeah, that's what we're called.
04:42Like those little, like kits, like the little kits, like a, like a tea bar, like a, like a, Lauren
04:48does, but my wife does those too.
04:50He's one of us.
04:51And you make like every little flower and you make every, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:54Yes, I like to see those.
04:55It's pretty insanely complicated.
04:58Have you done ones with like electrical wiring where you turn on the lights and stuff like that?
05:02Yes, I have one of those.
05:03I have the entire, I have the original Seinfeld set in miniature with everything, everything turns on.
05:11I have, I have a lot of weird mini things.
05:14I have like mini extension cords.
05:16I have mini, like if you want like weird things, it's not like,
05:20it's not like doll furniture.
05:22You are a maniac.
05:24Um, so this bag.
05:27This bag really is ticking a lot of boxes for you.
05:31Ticking a lot of small boxes.
05:32Do you have obscure interests or hobbies?
05:35Well, I have something that for me is normal, but when I say it, people are like very shocked.
05:41Maybe it's weird.
05:42I don't know.
05:42I, for the last 12 years, I study medicine every night of my life.
05:48You're an amateur doctor.
05:49You're like, you're studying to be a doctor.
05:51No, no, no, no, no, no.
05:53It's my hobby.
05:55I like online.
05:56Like you watch videos on YouTube.
05:57No, no, no, no, no.
05:58Like very like, um, books that are this thick, but the endocrine system and stuff like that.
06:07You talk about it in the movie.
06:07So happy, so happy and every night, probably, I don't know, five, six days a week for the last 12
06:14years, I've been reading that for hours every night.
06:17Wow.
06:17And I love it.
06:19And I cannot explain why I love it.
06:21Maybe you have another whole career as a doctor that's way different.
06:25No, I mean, if I would have started.
06:27When I was a little girl, I was always playing, pretending to be a doctor.
06:31I would inject the dolls with the insulin, insulin and eels from my grandmother.
06:36And that was the game for me.
06:39So maybe too maniac here.
06:41Yes, that's right.
06:43That crosses over into maniac territory.
06:45You have a lot of weird, will you?
06:47I do pottery.
06:48Is pottery weird?
06:49You and your weird pottery.
06:50Kind of normal.
06:51It's pretty normal.
06:52I don't have that many weird hobbies, I guess.
06:55Okay.
06:57Ready?
06:58Ooh.
06:59It's a question for me.
07:01Olivia, what was your favorite part of directing this film?
07:04Penelope and Seth, what was it like being directed by her?
07:07It was like the true collaborative experience I'd always hoped Hollywood would provide,
07:13but I'd only had that maybe in my dreams, my fantasies.
07:19So you guys became, my fantasy came to light.
07:22And for us, it's what did we love about working with you, being directed by us?
07:28Oh, every single thing.
07:30I was a huge fan of your work before as a director and as an actress.
07:35Also your level of generosity, that you were very, very sure and confident about what you
07:41wanted to do, but you were really listening to all of us.
07:45You were not pretending and you were not threatened by us having a lot of opinions and feelings.
07:50And the reason why I love this profession so much is when we can work together as a team.
07:56And if the director doesn't allow for that, it's not going to happen.
08:01You don't have to talk.
08:02I mean, I can't beat that.
08:04Why would I try?
08:05Come on.
08:06Hey, thanks for watching us talk.
08:09Yeah.
08:10If you're Penelope's friends who think you should die for art, we apologize.
08:16Don't unsubscribe from the New Yorker as a result of this.
08:19But if you need medical advice.
08:21Yeah.
08:21But if you do decide to die for art and you regret it, she can help save you.
08:25Yeah.
08:26As long as you, it has to do with the endocrates.
08:29Exactly.
08:30Yeah, that's my specialty.
08:33Dr. Cruz.
08:34Dr. Cruz.
08:34Dr. Cruz.
08:34Dr. Cruz.
08:34Dr. Cruz.
08:35Dr. Cruz.
08:35Dr. Cruz.
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