What would you do?

How would you defend yourself if I tried to strike?

You hear?

How would you?

What kind of move would you do?

Um, if I went like that punch in the stomach.

Let's try this.

So what if I went like this?

What would you do?

It was a terrible He's a wrestler trying to get some moves, huh?

You Have you ever seen the movie?

What's called?

Give me something.

Give me something.

Yeah.

Yeah, I did have the rest of this.

Okay, this like that.

I like it, But that's not really a wrestling a little bit.

Now, that's that's just like a second Napoleon Dynamite move that's in the rock.

But you're doing like I have the pants.

You don't like arm locks and shit like that.

Well, it's a center of gravity.

You know where you're trying to put you trying to get someone off balance, you trick them and then just, you know, shoot.

That's hot.

I like it.

So, how long have you been wrestling?

Three years old.

My dad was around three years old.

Yeah, three years old with my dad.

Uh, he was an Olympic wrestler for Team Canada.

So, uh, I think I kind of just fell into it.

Now, I don't think I had a real choice, but it's my favorite sport.

So it's cool, man.

Prepare you for acting that part of your It's I think, if you can laugh last nine minutes in a wrestling ring, uh, where you want to dry heave afterwards.

I think you can do lots of stuff, although some acting stuff can be quite try.

So when you guys were ever to motive roulette with Sam Rockwell, well, you could take May know he bought He punched me in the face because he's a boxer.

So I punched you in the face.

Really?

Would country Oh, no, I'm not a boxer.

I can throw a combo, but I'm not a boxer is boxing.

So how do you guys work together when you get this?

I mean, obviously have a script on something like this.

But are you figuring out the relationship ahead of time or you just, um I sing around like this and you go exciting ones, or I think, uh, Sam really helped me to feel really comfortable right off the bat.

He he introduced me to boxing.

Actually went We need a little bit shadow boxing and also lots of things.

I mean, you just hang out.

He's an easy guy to hang out with this really nice and fairly fairly.

I mean, well, you know, Yeah, you know, Then there's other times.

Yeah.

No, I think you know that.

You wanna have the time off camera.

Also kind of generate some energy for the time on camera, you know, You want it, want it to be, huh?

A parallel each other, I think a little bit.

Did you have much time off camera on this?

Well, sure, there's a lot of waiting around and stuff like that, but what I mean is, I guess, way we want to bring this sort of looseness the relaxed nature we had off camera into the into the scenes so that we, you know, get some of that realistic energy in there.

And of course, we got to go down, slides together.

We boil all the water park stuff.

That's so we just go to work every day and kind of blow off all the scenes and just going.

Yeah, basically.

So did you have when the script came to you.

You go.

Okay.

I'm now Bill Murray is essentially, That's pretty much right away.

I mean, you could just tell that that's kind of what it waas and whatever my version of that is.

So Yeah, that's that was it was pretty instant.

I just looked at it and it was like, Yeah, okay, what's the what?

I'll do it.

Is there a Sam Rockwell thing now?

Do you feel like they're getting God?

I hope not.

Both scripts?

God, I hope not.

I hope it's hope I change it up enough, but I don't know.

You know, people love to type.

Type you.

You know what?

I I hope we change it up a switches.

We can.

Yeah.

And he actually gave me the movie meatballs on the film.

Hey, actually, you made me watch.

You have to see it.

I never seen you.

I gave it to you.

I don't know for a fact I gave you a couple of movies.

Yeah, gave me, um, way would be taught to Time machine because that's Rob.

Rob.

Yeah.

Yeah, I've seen hard time machine before, but Talladega nights you've had that Talladega Nights.

My beloved Leslie Bibb is in Talladega nights.

Forgive you that I live a couple other great ones that he had this whole list 100 movie we're writing down.

We're all, like taking a collection Everything everybody was putting in movies that he needs to see.

So we wrote down all kinds of movies.

Have you seen Badlands yet?

No.

Have you seen one?

Flew over the cuckoo's?

Yes, definitely.

Okay, that's good.

That's a step in the right direction.

Yes, definitely.

Have you seen?

We're not ready for you.

Ready for it already For the Deer Hunter.

Everything.

The Deer hunter?

I have not seen it.

But maybe wait a couple years.

Yeah, I My dad said I should watch it.

He said he was one of his.

All right, So you're ready for it, then?

If you're dead says you're ready, then check out The deer hunter was just moving summer movies.

It was all kind of getting his, uh, his film encyclopedia upto to park below average.

Yeah, I get it up.

I see.

I've seen a lot of movies, actually, uh, great movies Before I met Sam at the Green Mile.

If I don't know if you've seen it.

It's one of the greatest movies all time.

Look, it's a pretty, pretty darn good movie.

Yeah, and here's this guy Sam, right?

Yeah, he did.

No, he's amazing.

Like seven foot three months.

Jeffrey Demand.

Very Pepper.

David Morris, Tom Hanks Scream The late, great Michael Clarke.

Duncan.

Michael G.

The late, great Michael Jeter was in that.

What kinds of good actors?

Graham Greene.

Yeah.

So how was this for you?

Well, you get Dragon got auditions or you get dragged in, get dragged into this.

I got the script and I put it on tape for them, and they asked me to come up to Los Angeles and I die.

You shouldn't.

That's not enough.

I need more back in.

Yeah.

No, I came on us.

And one of the best auditions, I think most enjoyable, I think for me, because Nat and Jim were both there, and they're laughing up a storm and just really made me feel comfortable enough to do whatever I had to do with the character.

I think not nervous at all.

So yeah, I really thank them for that.

I think they help me to get the part by being so down to earth.

So was it scary to carry this much of the movie?

Uh, when I I worked every day, I worked on the film and I remember before anticipating it, be anticipating that what was gonna happen, you know?

No, no, I I don't think I ever felt never have you been doing You've been doing that TV show for a while.

Yeah, I've been acting for about 56 years now, so I kind of knew a little bit what to expect.

But I never had a role.

This'll lead role before, But I hope that if any acting jobs in the future would be as enjoyable as this one because I worked five days a week, but it felt like it's seamless.

I was working in a water park and the beach in some of the funniest people on our foot earth were there, so I was never unhappy.

It was never stressed out.

Really.

I just had a great time.

So the emotional stuff come easily to you because you're, like, kind of straight man in this show.

Really?

Yeah.

I mean, it's it could be quite.

You have to really think about it.

And you have to really think about what's gonna make sure that it's gonna get there.

I think one of the great scenes one of the great memories I'll have with me and Sam film the scene on top of the water slide after the party.

And I tell him all about what's happening at home and yeah, and he just went above and beyond with being so generous and just helping me out with all that stuff.

And I think it really, really helping out.

So you're You're great.

In that scene, we shot a couple different ways that seem that work you guys are doing together in the moment between takes.

So are you doing it before you get to the set that well, we ran the line.

We would run the scenes, you know, before just on our own.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I can't remember specific examples, but I just remember that that he was just He was there to push me in the heat.

You say you push, push me Night crab.

Yeah, that's right.

Get your energy up.

And so the ST John to tour it took me that you kind of push up.

You kind of like, Yes, sure.

You put put your hands like, like, you kind of get your and then gets your blood flowing a little bit.

Yeah, so that's a good energy trick.

Yeah.

So I'm very lucky.

Spacey and they were hot.

Hot sun, too, were in the hot sun so that it'll tire you out, too.

You have energy issues or because you're always gets people expect you to be up.

Not at all.

Uh, no.

I mean, I think you know, I'm pretty good, you know?

You know, we we work out right way of good energy, like Alison.

Jenny was saying it was like, exhausting playing her character because it was, like, so intense in the she's not really that intense, but sure, sure.

Yeah, Shoes of.

She's a whirlwind.

She's a tornado in that in the movie.

But you are, too.

Yeah, I was too.

I had a lot, a lot of text.

I just spit out a lot of dialogue, you know, that was that was, uh that was challenging.

I had to Really, You know, those lines, backwards and forwards.

And they were walked and talked a lot of walking talks, you know, we're the whole big god.

Yeah, that was called The Wonder of Goodfellas.

They called the get Where introduced the big fall where they just follow you around the whole park.

And he died holding.

And then and then later, Dunkin kind of does the same thing for Hiss for his.

Yeah, and there were a few of those kind of walk in talks with lots of dialogue.

Yeah, man.

And I had to spit it up pretty quickly, so that was that was challenging you.

Is that the fun of it?

Maybe read a script like, Is that what's gonna be the Yeah.

I mean, the fun of it is is, um I think it is creating this character and having those that stuff come to life, you know, and really breathes life into it and and make it feel spontaneous.

That's always He did it 100 different ways.

He did a every man there.

Everyone was hilarious.

And I think there's 11 story we wanted to share when he he's yelling on the loud mike.

Something but herpes.

And And while we were filming and any I don't know, woman tell her story.

She Yeah, she was She, like, one of the She was one of the heads of the park, right?

Yeah.

She's got very upset.

Understandably, we had to abide.

Apologize.

Uh, when I was just trying to do stuff to make us laugh, You know, um, and I forgot that there were kids there a trying todo their time in the water park.

And all they hear is yeah.

Yeah, that was That was You know, I sometimes wanted to do the radar version, but that's all right.

They always they pulled me.

They pulled me back.

Do they?

Did you ever missed you?

Is that part of your work is that I'm always raided our people to put take me into the PG room.

I most often rated X.

I'm I'm definitely, like, always going in that direction.

And I have to sort of tone it down.

Sometimes you go too far with comedy itself, with stylized things Are you know, I always want to keep it rial.

You know, even if you're goofing around, I like to have it rooted and grounded.

You know, I don't want it to be Oh, I don't want I hate overacting, which I've done some of that.

I've smacked it a lot in my lifetime, but I try not to and try to keep your real one of the things in, like, seven psychopaths, where your character has to keep it close enough to the reality that's a theatrical person, like he's a theatrical character.

Great.

No, just like Kathy Bates in Misery is kind of a theatrical character.

Or, you know, Peter O'Toole.

And my favorite year is a theatrical character, you know?

But yeah, yeah, and so is Owen.

Yeah, one's a bit theatrical.

Do you like playing those guys better than playing the quiet ones or is very well, you know, there's more to chew on.

I guess.

I like the quiet ones, too.

You know, I like Like that.

Did a movie called Single Shot.

It's more of a quiet kind of thing.

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