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Glen Powell, Josh Brolin and Lee Pace star in Edgar Wright's remake of Arnold Swarzenegger action flick 'Running Man.' We quiz the three stars on which films Glen's parents make cameos in, Lee's education at Juliard, and how Josh feels about remakes of 'The Goonies.'
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00:00And I was listening to my mom moaning.
00:02Spielberg came up and he said,
00:03this is costing money, so please stop laughing.
00:07How many hours are you getting out of a day?
00:14Who would survive the longest on The Running Man in real life?
00:25Wait, I'm taking my time.
00:30Oh, is she not writing The Running Man?
00:34She can be.
00:36I'm sorry.
00:36It's hurtful.
00:38Who did you write?
00:39You.
00:40Really?
00:41Okay, sorry.
00:42Rules are simple.
00:43Survive 30 days with the entire nation hunting you down.
00:48And get your family out of slum side for good.
00:50I sprinted every morning.
00:52Before work.
00:53Before work.
00:54Before work.
00:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:55As a grown man, you don't sprint a lot.
00:57No.
00:57Like, you forget that, like, you know, you can, like, work out, but you don't really,
01:01like, run for your life.
01:02No, no, no.
01:03You know?
01:04And you can pull things later in life if you don't warm up.
01:08Most of my day is spent trying to figure out a way to not have to run.
01:12What?
01:13Yeah, yeah.
01:13I don't want to run.
01:15Figure out a way.
01:15Yeah.
01:15And to not have to run.
01:16How can I not do that?
01:17You know, relax, sleep longer.
01:20Also, like, really running is like, you're right, it gets dangerous really fast.
01:23Yeah.
01:24You know, so, anyway.
01:25I just pulled out of a movie based on that.
01:27Really?
01:27I don't want to.
01:29I just don't want to run.
01:30I don't want to run.
01:31Um, wait.
01:32What's, what's, so what's the answer?
01:35That's, uh, Josh Brolin's career.
01:39Who listened to music the most on set?
01:41I'm going to, I'm going to, the first offer for Running Man, um, still hurtful that they
02:01went with a, a bigger name, Glenn.
02:03Yeah.
02:03They went Glenn Close for Killian.
02:06I'm here to get her.
02:06They got me, sorry.
02:08He listened to a lot of Lady Gaga before he would do, like, action, which I still can't
02:13figure out.
02:14Gets me angry and sassy.
02:15Yeah.
02:15And he would demand that it was on set, so everybody had to listen to it, which I think
02:19Lady Gaga's great.
02:20I just think at that extreme is a little much.
02:23I mean, it's an Edgar Wright movie.
02:24Like, the music is such a big part of it, right?
02:27Edgar had a killer playlist.
02:29There is, yeah.
02:30It's got a lot of soul in it.
02:32A lot of Sly and the Family Stone.
02:34The needle drops are.
02:35Yeah.
02:36Are great.
02:36He sent me a, what was it?
02:39He does it for his girlfriend once a year, I think, a playlist.
02:43It's for, he sends it out to, like, all of his buddies.
02:46That's right.
02:46Like, at the end, it's like a Christmas, like-
02:48An amazing playlist.
02:50Sick playlist.
02:50Yeah.
02:51So he understands, he understands the viscera of music.
02:53What a skill.
02:55Yeah.
02:55Yeah, yeah.
02:55Seriously.
02:56Edgar would be the guy that listens to music the most on set.
02:59Because also, like, even in the opening when I'm, like, walking to the network building,
03:02you know, he had a metronome in my ear.
03:04He was so focused.
03:06Seriously?
03:06No, I'm not kidding.
03:07He was so focused.
03:08I had an earpiece.
03:09And he was so focused to make sure that I was walking and I wasn't ruining his soundtrack
03:13that he hired a choreographer to make sure I knew how to walk on time.
03:17That's cool.
03:19What's one note Edgar Wright likes to give on set?
03:22Hmm.
03:33Is that real?
03:34Yeah.
03:35Really?
03:35Obsessed with blinking.
03:37No way.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Don't blink.
03:39Don't blink?
03:39Yeah.
03:40Wear a mask.
03:40Wear a mask.
03:41Wear a mask.
03:42Wear a mask.
03:43Be better.
03:44Be better.
03:45We need better.
03:46Be better.
03:46Wear a mask better.
03:47Wear a mask better.
03:49The blinking, Edgar, is, I mean, obviously, especially.
03:54It's sort of annoying.
03:55No, it's, well, you know what it is?
03:56He's obsessed.
03:57He's obsessed with.
03:59Now I can't stop.
04:00Now I can't stop looking at you guys, your dry ass eyes.
04:03Edgar is, is, is like, he's obsessed.
04:06The blink tells you when to cut and he's obsessed with a cut, right?
04:10So all of his shots are specifically designed so that he has like a cut point.
04:15And if you blink, it says to the audience that the shot's over.
04:19So he's like, please don't blink because it, it makes people bored of my shot.
04:23Which famous singer is Josh's stepmother?
04:26Oh God.
04:26I know this one.
04:27I love this one.
04:27I love this one.
04:27I love this one.
04:33I actually don't know how to spell that.
04:37I know, me neither.
04:38I'm going to do.
04:41I don't know if it's with a Y or not.
04:44So dumb.
04:48Babs, baby.
04:50Very good.
04:50Super weird.
04:51Nobody talks.
04:52Everybody's quiet.
04:54Nobody has an opinion.
04:57Not one.
04:57What is Glenn's major in college?
05:02Oh, man.
05:03I had a pre-major and a post-major.
05:06Like I had to transfer.
05:08Which one are we doing?
05:09Okay, okay.
05:12What is that?
05:13That's funny.
05:14What is this?
05:18Poli-sci.
05:19Poli-sci?
05:20No, I was actually an econ major initially.
05:23And then I had to transfer so I could finish up.
05:25I transferred to radio, television, film.
05:27But yeah.
05:28Where'd you go?
05:29University of Texas.
05:30Oh, no way.
05:31Welcome to Warren's.
05:32E-cons, that's cool.
05:33That's actually a good major.
05:35And then you choose.
05:35That's like a real major.
05:37Majored in looking good?
05:37Yeah, it is.
05:39McConaughey majored in looking good at Texas, yeah.
05:41Hey, you guys want to come to my graduation?
05:43Are you serious?
05:44Yeah.
05:44Spring, 27.
05:46Are you serious?
05:46Serious.
05:47Do you have enough credits?
05:48Are they honoring you?
05:50No, no, no.
05:50I have enough.
05:51I'm finishing properly.
05:52I'm not doing the honorary degree.
05:53How many hours are you getting out of a day?
05:56Because I'm only getting 24.
05:57No, no.
05:58I'm taking six credits a semester.
06:01So I will finish in spring 27.
06:04Wait.
06:05You're taking six credits a semester for every semester?
06:08Right now.
06:08Like I'm taking right now.
06:09You're doing it now.
06:10You are the busiest person I know.
06:13I am enrolled at the University of Texas right now.
06:17So yeah, like it's, yeah, it's been nuts.
06:19I don't even know how to react to that.
06:21I'll throw a graduation party if you guys want to tear it up and off.
06:24Absolutely, man.
06:25All right, let's do it.
06:26Lee was born in Oklahoma, but spent several years growing up in which country?
06:31Wow.
06:32That's really.
06:33In which country?
06:35For how long?
06:36Until I was in the second grade.
06:40Why would you be there?
06:42That would be weird.
06:44Wait.
06:45Is that right?
06:46No.
06:47Wait, I'm going to.
06:49Wait.
06:50Is it that?
06:52Huh?
06:52There's no way.
06:53There's no way.
06:54I keep this, you know, very secret.
06:58I never, I thought that's what I was like.
07:00I never knew that story.
07:01My dad worked for the oil business.
07:03Oh.
07:03And we were, yeah, we were out there for, yeah, my whole childhood really.
07:07So you're second grade.
07:08That's a great fact.
07:09I don't, I didn't learn any, any Arabic.
07:12No, no, no.
07:13We sit on like American compounds.
07:15We lived in Bahrain for a while and there would be just like fields of like the burial
07:19mounds and you'd go out there and my dad would like grab little geodes, crack them open on
07:24the pavement on the side of the road and it would just be crystals in his hand.
07:27And he was a part of this running group called the Hash Hound's Harriers where people just
07:32get stoned and run through the dunes and we'd all, and the family would all be waiting
07:35by a big fire.
07:37That's amazing.
07:38That's on fire.
07:39It was a crazy way to grow up.
07:41Josh made his film debut in a 1980s adventure movie.
07:45What was the name of it?
07:46I've misspelled it.
07:52That thing you spelled, right?
07:54Yeah, that's right.
07:55Did I misspell it?
07:58That's the movie I did afterwards.
08:00What's it called?
08:01Nobody knows.
08:03Laughing, ruining a half day of filming because I was laughing so hard because I was so nervous.
08:08And then Spielberg came up and he said, this is costing money, so please stop laughing.
08:14I did.
08:14That's when they keep, the rumors that they keep trying to bring it back, circle about
08:19every year.
08:19Oh my God, dude.
08:20Every year.
08:21Every year.
08:21Every year.
08:22When are you doing it?
08:22And then finally one year I said, we're doing it.
08:25And they were like, oh my God, I got the exclusive.
08:28I said, yeah, we're doing it.
08:29We actually finished it with Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman.
08:33And they were like, and they were so stoked.
08:35And then I avoided that person because I thought I was going to get killed.
08:39They were so angry.
08:40Yeah, they were like, I have a full career now.
08:43I hope it never happens.
08:45Which famous performing arts school did Lee graduate from?
08:48Oh, wow.
08:52Guys, you've got to know this if you didn't get a Saudi Arabia.
08:57Exactly.
08:59The Performing Arts College of Saudi Arabia.
09:03I know this is wrong.
09:06I know this is wrong.
09:06I know this is wrong.
09:09Was it in the States?
09:10Yeah, yeah.
09:11Oh, son of a bitch.
09:13I knew it.
09:13I knew it.
09:15No.
09:15You got it right.
09:16Oh, really?
09:17Dang, dude.
09:19I was a child.
09:20I was 17 when I went.
09:21I don't definitely, I mean, it wasn't a real education like you got.
09:25There wasn't.
09:25What are you talking about?
09:26That's like the best performance of the world.
09:28That's the crème de la crème.
09:29It was a wonderful experience.
09:30I mean, you learn about Shakespeare, you learn about Chekhov, you learn, you get to like
09:33do plays.
09:35You did a ton of plays.
09:35Do plays all the time.
09:37You know, do plays, talk about acting, you know, and be a kid there.
09:41You know what I mean?
09:42And just kind of get like the knowledge about Shakespeare.
09:45Like when do you learn about that?
09:47No, you don't.
09:47So like the experience of that is what it was, but I wouldn't say, you don't learn
09:52how to do the job.
09:53Yeah.
09:54No, yeah, yeah.
09:54It's like the experience is the experience.
09:56And then your first job was at 21, you said?
09:59Yeah.
09:5921.
10:00Yeah, yeah.
10:01But it was a play, you know.
10:02It was a play.
10:02Off-Broadway.
10:03It was so much fun.
10:04Crazy.
10:04You know?
10:05What a great time, huh?
10:06Yeah.
10:06It was a fun time.
10:07That's cool.
10:0916 people.
10:10I'm humbled.
10:1116 people.
10:11Anthony Mackie.
10:13Wait, Anthony Mackie was in your class?
10:14Yeah, yeah.
10:15Wow.
10:15Did you have any scenes with him in Avengers?
10:17No, no, no.
10:18I didn't.
10:19But he, back in school, absolutely brilliant.
10:22And to like see him, you know, do his thing.
10:26Incredible.
10:26Yeah.
10:27Like he's like such a talented human being.
10:30Very talented.
10:30Very, very talented.
10:31Nice to hear.
10:31We'll be a privilege to see that then.
10:33Glenn's parents make a cameo in which of his movies?
10:39Oh, man.
10:43In which of his movies?
10:45Okay, what'd you write?
10:57All of them.
10:58All.
10:59Is it all?
11:02All.
11:03This is Spike is three.
11:04Every single movie.
11:05Actually, you know what?
11:06There's one movie they're not in.
11:08It's Sandcastle, which I shot in Jordan.
11:10And it was a really dicey time, and I wouldn't let him come to Jordan.
11:14You wouldn't let him show up?
11:15I wouldn't let him show up.
11:15It's one of the things that gives me joy.
11:17Like we build their visit to set around whatever their cameo is going to be.
11:22Are they easy to work with?
11:23Or are they?
11:23They're terrible.
11:24Are they really?
11:24Yeah.
11:25Terrible people.
11:25My mom had a really great scene in Chad Powers.
11:28She plays the moaning woman in Chad Powers.
11:31Like killer role.
11:32She practiced for weeks.
11:35That's not true.
11:36I'm not kidding.
11:37My dad thinks it's the funniest thing because she doesn't have any apparent injuries, but she's moaning.
11:41She's in a hospital waiting room.
11:43And so I just told her, I said, hey, mom, just make sure you show up prepared.
11:47So she was moaning for weeks.
11:49Right.
11:49But she's sending me videos.
11:50Doing different moans.
11:52Yeah.
11:52She's like, is this like the type of moan I should do?
11:54Is this the type?
11:54So she's sending me videos.
11:56That's so scary.
11:56And there was one time I was walking along the street and my mom sent me like saying,
12:00is this type of moan?
12:00And I was listening to my mom moaning on my phone.
12:04And somebody like looks at me and I was like, oh, no, it's like this is my mom mom.
12:09I'm like, what?
12:10It's like a lose-lose.
12:11Yeah, it's like, oh, I don't want to explain this.
12:13I'm sorry.
12:14It's my mom.
12:15No, they have great, great cameos.
12:18By the way, you know what I just realized about Glenn Close?
12:20What?
12:20Get this.
12:21What?
12:21Edgar, whenever he would give me a note when he told me I wasn't doing enough with my thoughts,
12:27he said, Glenn, this isn't Glenn Wide.
12:29This is Glenn Close.
12:30That's what he would say.
12:33He's like, no, no, no, not Wide.
12:35Not Glenn Wide.
12:36Glenn Close.
12:36He's in Glenn Wide.
12:37Glenn Close.
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