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Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde face off in a game of Lie v. Lie, trading wild celebrity stories, convincing half-truths, and outright lies to see who can fool the other the most. From getting "fun psychosis" high with Willie Nelson to Seth turning down a hot air balloon ride with Puff Daddy, the co-stars swap outrageous stories from across their careers, daring each other to separate fact from fiction.
Did Olivia really almost drown for a role? Was Seth actually asked to stick his hand in a toaster during a photo shoot? Between awkward run-ins with Pharrell, Jeff Bridges' unusual acting technique, mushroom-fueled neighbor emergencies, and the coolest party tricks that never happened, the pair keep each other guessing—and fall for more than a few lies along the way.
Did Olivia really almost drown for a role? Was Seth actually asked to stick his hand in a toaster during a photo shoot? Between awkward run-ins with Pharrell, Jeff Bridges' unusual acting technique, mushroom-fueled neighbor emergencies, and the coolest party tricks that never happened, the pair keep each other guessing—and fall for more than a few lies along the way.
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00:00Me and my wife were at the French Laundry,
00:02and at the table beside us was Puff Daddy.
00:04And Puff Daddy came over to me and my wife,
00:07and he said, well, if you have time,
00:08would you like to come hot air ballooning with me?
00:12And I said, no.
00:14The last thing I need in the world
00:16is a photo of me on a hot air balloon alone
00:18with Puff Daddy waving.
00:24Seth, do you swear to tell the truth,
00:26the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
00:28and so help you Instagram?
00:30I do not.
00:32Not even a little bit.
00:33Bump, bump, bump.
00:34Are you a good liar, Olivia?
00:36Yeah.
00:36Yes.
00:37The best.
00:39We'll see.
00:39We'll see.
00:43Who's the most famous person you've gotten high with?
00:46Oh, wow.
00:47So weird that I've never gotten high with you.
00:49Yeah, I know.
00:51Oh, you know what?
00:52I once got way too high to the point
00:57of, like, psychosis with Willie Nelson.
01:00Wow.
01:01I bet that's true.
01:02That's true.
01:03That's true.
01:03It was fun, though.
01:04Fun psychosis.
01:05That's a good one.
01:05Fun psychosis.
01:07Great time.
01:08What is your most memorable elevator story?
01:12My most memorable elevator story, once I was a writer on a television show, and every single
01:22writer crammed in an elevator to go from one floor to the other to do a table read, and
01:27we all got stuck in the elevator together.
01:32No.
01:33Oh, God.
01:34For, like, 45 minutes.
01:35Oh, that's got to be true.
01:37It is true.
01:37Oh, no.
01:37Because it's too traumatizing.
01:39It was quite bad.
01:39Oh.
01:40Did any just great ideas come out of it?
01:42No.
01:43Everyone, at first, some people joked around.
01:44One person then had, like, a full-on panic attack.
01:46That lasted for, like, quite a while, as everyone else was like, what do we do?
01:51What show?
01:52It was undeclared.
01:53Yeah.
01:53So it was 25 years ago.
01:55Yeah.
01:55That was when elevators were hand-cranked.
01:57Elevators, there was a guy.
01:58The guy in there wasn't helping.
02:00He wasn't there.
02:00All right, your turn.
02:01What's something you're glad you did once but will never do again?
02:05I'm a snowboarder, but I once did helleboarding, and that was...
02:09Where they, like, drop you off on the top of the mountain?
02:10And they were like, do it.
02:11And I did it, and it was really bad and scary, and I don't ever...
02:15Nope!
02:16Live!
02:17Whoa!
02:18Crazy.
02:19You're insane.
02:20Imagine that.
02:21I bought it.
02:22What is the strangest thing you've seen another actor do on set?
02:25And don't count my stuff.
02:26Okay.
02:27My stuff's off-limits.
02:28I...
02:30Your stuff is the weirdest thing.
02:32I know.
02:32That's why you can't bring it up.
02:34Jeff Ridges had a thing on Tron that he would do this thing that he would, like, gag to be
02:44emotional.
02:44Like, it was like a physical thing where he would go, like...
02:50I think it's true.
02:52I think it's true.
02:58Very hard not to laugh.
02:59Very hard not to laugh.
02:59Very hard not to laugh.
03:00You're like...
03:00Very hard not to laugh.
03:00Oh, we got a big scene coming up?
03:01One second.
03:04Okay.
03:06Talk about a time when there was something in a script that you refused to do or say.
03:10Right.
03:10Whoa.
03:13Um...
03:13I was doing a photo shoot just two days ago, and the guy was like, stick your hand in this
03:16toaster.
03:17It'll be funny.
03:18Oh, no.
03:18And I was like, that's f***ing stupid.
03:19What was the idea?
03:20Like, oh, it's so goofy.
03:22It was just like...
03:22Yeah, the guy, like, clearly wasn't happy, but I was just sitting there.
03:25Comedy props are tough.
03:25Yeah, and he was like, there's a toaster in the kitchenette.
03:28What if we use this?
03:29I was like, are you the carrot top of photographers?
03:33That's true.
03:33My pelvis is just nodding.
03:36I believe that.
03:38That was...
03:39It was just two days ago.
03:40Talk about a time when a party game went off the rails.
03:43Oh.
03:45You need to talk about a time.
03:49Um, well, one time the party game was to jump from the roof of a house onto a trampoline
03:55into a pool.
03:57This is a lie.
03:59This is...
04:00Oh, man!
04:01No!
04:01You didn't do that.
04:02But you know what?
04:03You know what?
04:04It was based in truth, so it's like this.
04:07It's like that?
04:08You were talking about maybe doing that?
04:10It's one of these.
04:10Other people were doing it, and I was too much of a nerd to do it.
04:12And did they get hurt?
04:13No, they were like, look really cool.
04:15They had a good time.
04:15Talk about your most bizarre encounter with a neighbor.
04:18I had a neighbor call me on a lot of mushrooms.
04:24The neighbor was on mushrooms?
04:24The neighbor was on a lot of mushrooms, and he needed me to...
04:28Help him?
04:28He needed me to go into his house to walk.
04:30He needed his dog walked.
04:32And it was a giant Great Dane.
04:34Like a massive dog.
04:35And he was like, I need you to go into my house.
04:38And he had to explain a key box thing to get me the...
04:42Was he in the house?
04:43No!
04:44I'm hiding.
04:45He was like, on vacation.
04:46Oh, wow.
04:46And he was like, I need you to do this for me.
04:48And then at the end of the conversation, he was like, I don't know how to find the door
04:51out of this conversation.
04:53He was that high.
04:54And I was like, okay, but he had given me all the wrong information.
04:59That's true!
05:00That's true!
05:01That's true.
05:01That was a weird one.
05:02That is a weird interaction with your neighbor.
05:04Yeah.
05:04Did you do it?
05:05Did you walk the dog?
05:05No, I couldn't get in.
05:06Oh, no.
05:07Oh.
05:08What is the most surprising proposition you ever received?
05:11Be in the invite.
05:13Please, Seth.
05:14Yeah.
05:14A proposition.
05:16An exciting, is that the word?
05:18Exciting proposition?
05:19What was it?
05:19Surprising.
05:20Surprising proposition.
05:22And I'm glad I didn't do this.
05:24Many years ago, me and my wife were at the French Laundry.
05:27Uh-huh.
05:28One of the fanciest restaurants in the world.
05:31Sure.
05:31And at the table beside us was Puff Daddy.
05:36And Puff Daddy came over to me and my wife, and he said, what are you guys doing tomorrow
05:40morning?
05:40And we said, we're here actually scouting wedding locations.
05:44We weren't married yet at the time.
05:46And he said, well, if you have time, would you like to come hot air ballooning with me?
05:53And I said no, which I'm very happy about, because the last thing I need in the world is
06:01there's a photo of me on a hot air balloon alone.
06:04Waving?
06:04Of Daddy waving and smiling.
06:06Holding glasses of rose.
06:11But that is the...
06:13Oh, that's tough.
06:14That could be...
06:15The strangest proposition.
06:17I...
06:17I'm going to say it's true.
06:19It's 100% true.
06:19Oh!
06:20Oh!
06:21What's the most unusual skill you've had to learn for a role?
06:25Oh!
06:26Oh!
06:28Um...
06:28I had to learn how to free dive.
06:31Like hold, go down holding your breath?
06:33Yes, and to go into tunnels and hold my breath for a ridiculous...
06:37Minutes upon minutes.
06:38For what?
06:39To go in a movie that I know you and everyone have seen and you appreciate and you love called
06:45Taristas.
06:46Taristas go home?
06:47Taristas go home!
06:51And it was...
06:52We had to go down into this tunnel and I got lost.
06:57That was terrible.
06:58It's a job a stunt person should do.
07:00Yeah, they shouldn't have an actor do that.
07:01And you have to suck down little bubbles of air that look like little mercury pods.
07:07That are like at the top like little fish.
07:09Yeah, but it's dark!
07:09At the top of the thing, yeah, but it's dark.
07:11And you can't open your eyes, really.
07:13You can't see shit.
07:14And, so I did that, obviously sucked out a bunch of water.
07:17Then, also you were like, you've come down on a scuba tank.
07:20Like you're not, it's not like...
07:20Oh, so they like, they take it out and push you out.
07:23Oh wow, so you're down there.
07:24You're down there.
07:25Wow.
07:25And then, my character was supposed to be drowning.
07:28Yeah.
07:28So when I started drowning...
07:29To actual drown, they were like, she's nailing it!
07:31They were like, all right, finally a little bit of...
07:33Yeah!
07:34She's nailing it.
07:35She finally got there.
07:35She locked in.
07:36And the cameraman dropped the camera to grab me.
07:40Whoa.
07:40Because he was like, she did.
07:42He knew.
07:42He knew something was wrong.
07:43Yeah.
07:43Is it in the movie?
07:44Yeah.
07:45Whoa.
07:46But you've seen that, because you've seen the movie.
07:47I've seen Dries as well.
07:49A lot of times.
07:50I didn't know if that was the take.
07:53It was the only take, so it had to be...
07:55Because they had one take.
07:56Yeah.
07:56Do you think it's true?
07:57I think that's true.
07:58It is true!
07:58Better be true.
07:59That'd be sociopathic for you to come up with that level of detail.
08:02Such level of detail.
08:03That's the thing.
08:04That's how you know.
08:05What's the most awkward moment you remember from a dinner party?
08:09Awkward moment I remember at a dinner party.
08:13There's a lot.
08:15Once I was at a dinner, and I had made the Lion King movie, and I sing in the movie.
08:25And I'd been doing interviews, and I'd been talking about how Pharrell Williams got really frustrated with my singing.
08:30And then I was at a dinner, and Pharrell was there, and he was like, hey, I don't like how
08:35you suggest that I got frustrated with your singing.
08:38And I was like, you did.
08:40And he's like, I don't like you suggesting that I...
08:43Feel frustration.
08:44That I feel frustration.
08:45I'm the happy guy.
08:45And I'm like, you're feeling it right now for me.
08:47It's happening.
08:49It's happening at this dinner.
08:50I'm gonna give that a true.
08:51Yeah, that happened.
08:52It is true!
08:53I'm gonna make you lie about something.
08:56Talk about a time you cooked for company, and the unexpected happens.
09:01Oh, no.
09:03Ooh, okay.
09:05I mean, I cook, like, I cook for, like, my family. I do Thanksgiving.
09:09Oh, yeah?
09:10And one time I cooked, I told my mom, like, I've got it.
09:14There's 30 people coming, and I will do it. I've got this under control.
09:18And so she was like, okay, I'm gonna let you be in charge of this.
09:22And so I did cook everything.
09:26And then my dog at the time...
09:29This is true!
09:31It's true!
09:32Even if you think it is, it's not.
09:36Paco stood on the table and ate the turkey.
09:38Your dog ate the turkey?
09:39He ate the turkey.
09:40That's pretty good.
09:41He ate it all.
09:42And I then had, like, taken on this big responsibility.
09:45I mean, I understand why you thought it was a lie.
09:48Because I was saying it in, like, a weird, halting manner.
09:49You were saying it like it was a lie way.
09:51And it also, like, it reeks a bit of, like, 90s, like, kids' movie a little bit.
09:56It also sounds like I'm trying to, like...
09:57Like a scene out of Beethoven.
09:59It is.
10:00What's something that someone did to impress you?
10:02I can't think of anything.
10:05Off the top of my head.
10:06It didn't have to have worked.
10:07They didn't have to ultimately impress you.
10:09I'm easily impressed.
10:10Let me start by saying that.
10:11I bet people try to impress you all the time.
10:15Yeah.
10:15Like, weed or cars or...
10:18I feel like these are the things that people...
10:20Sometimes...
10:20But what happens a lot is people will try to impress me, try to, like, smoke weed with me.
10:24And then they'll literally, like, pass out.
10:27Yeah.
10:27And you're like, there you go.
10:28You brought that on yourself.
10:29Yeah.
10:29Yeah.
10:30So that is the weirdest thing that happens when people try to impress me.
10:32Is they try to get high with me and then they knock themselves unconscious.
10:35And you're like, okay.
10:35Here you go.
10:36And we gotta call paramedics.
10:37Oh, no.
10:38That's definitely true.
10:40That is true.
10:41I feel for that.
10:41I've had to call several paramedics.
10:44Yeah.
10:45Talk about the wildest thing you've done to impress someone.
10:48So many things.
10:50Which one is the wildest?
10:52The wildest thing I've done to impress somebody.
10:55I once, when I was younger, thought it'd be cool to stick my hand in, like, a fan in
11:01the ceiling at a party and I did and I really hurt myself pretty badly.
11:08Oh, no.
11:09That has to be.
11:10It's sort of true.
11:11I did it but just alone.
11:13Not even.
11:14The party.
11:15That's funny because the party part was the part that felt like a lie.
11:17Yeah.
11:18No, yeah.
11:18But then the hand and that felt real.
11:20Yeah.
11:20You did it alone.
11:21I just did it alone.
11:22To impress yourself.
11:23To just see what that felt like.
11:24And it hurts, huh?
11:26Really, really, really hurt.
11:29Did you, what did you think was gonna happen that you'd like swing along with it?
11:32I had no idea.
11:32I thought it would just stop.
11:33I honestly thought it would just stop.
11:35Like, I thought it would stop much easier than it did.
11:38And it was like, it really hurt my hand.
11:40Physics weren't your thing.
11:41It like chunked like a big chunk of skin off my finger.
11:44Like, it didn't just hurt like in a bruise, like, it almost felt like it broke my hand.
11:49But I was like bleeding profusely after it happened.
11:51And you had to say to your mom like.
11:52No, I was like 30.
11:54I had to go to my wife and be like, she was like, what the did you do to yourself?
11:58I was like, I stuck my hand to the fan.
12:00She was like, why?
12:01This was only okay if you were 11.
12:04No, I was like a grown man.
12:06What's a risk you glad you took even if it didn't work out?
12:10Let's see.
12:10Even if it didn't work out.
12:13I don't know if the question suggests it has to be a risk.
12:15Oh, okay.
12:16Just like a risk.
12:17What's a risk I've taken?
12:18Could be one that worked out.
12:20Could be one that didn't.
12:21Boy, I mean, I could go so many ways with this.
12:25Every day is a risk.
12:25Every day is a risk.
12:26Right now you're risking it.
12:27This is a risk.
12:28Putting yourself out there.
12:29I mean, acting in this movie.
12:33Acting in your own film.
12:34Could have gotten real bad.
12:36It could have been bad.
12:37It could have been.
12:38You know what's funny?
12:38I showed Jonah Hill the movie.
12:40And he was like, this was my favorite of you.
12:43He was like, this movie was either going to be like one of the best movies I've ever seen in
12:47my life.
12:48Or one of the worst things ever.
12:50He's like, you guys had to nail it or else this is truly the worst movie of all time.
12:53If it's bad, you're really stuck in a room with us for the duration of a movie.
12:57If you don't like that vibe, it would be oppressively bad.
13:01If you don't like us, bad.
13:02But luckily he was like, this is really good.
13:04But it worked.
13:04So that was a huge risk.
13:06Yay!
13:07True!
13:08I think it was a tie.
13:09I forgot we were competing.
13:10I'm really sweaty.
13:11I am too.
13:12That's perfect.
13:12I promise to be honest with you from here on out.
13:14From here on out.
13:15Sweat swear.
13:15Truth only.
13:16We sweat swore.
13:17We sweat.
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