Matthew Maher (Air); Broken Lizard & Adrianne Palicki (Quasi)

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,580 In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with Matt and Mar from Air, and the broken 2 00:00:05,580 --> 00:00:10,060 lizard crew about their new film Quasi, Let's Go! 3 00:00:10,060 --> 00:00:14,920 Welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from My Heart Radio. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:21,160 Your Pop Culture News, views, reviews, and celebrity interviews on all the movie's TV 5 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,000 music and pop culture you crave weekly. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,840 Here's Kyle McMahon. 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:36,880 And welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. 8 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:40,120 I of course, and Kyle McMahon. 9 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:45,160 We have an awesome episode for you today, and I'm really, really excited about it. 10 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:50,520 There's so much going on, and there's so much for me to tell you about, and that's 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:55,680 why we're everywhere you are, whether it's video or audio, the podcast on the 12 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:01,640 radio, wherever you're listening around the world, blogs, social, you know, we got 13 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:02,640 you covered. 14 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,040 So I just try to put out as much as I can everywhere to get you all the news that you 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,760 need in Pop Culture. 16 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:14,960 So this week, I've got some awesome interviews. 17 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:20,320 Air, which you saw my review about, and I love that film so so much. 18 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,520 It's such an incredible film. 19 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,320 I talk with Matt Mar from air. 20 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,360 He plays Peter Moore. 21 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:36,520 He is absolutely incredible in the film brilliant, in fact, and I have a feeling he'll be up 22 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:43,960 for a best supporting actor award for awards season from everywhere, just a hunch that I 23 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:46,520 get just because he's so awesome. 24 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,560 And he's such a great guy. 25 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:56,200 So I talked to him, and then I talk with the cast of broken lizards, quasi, this film is so 26 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:57,200 funny. 27 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,240 If you like super trooper, super troopers too, club dread, you'll love quasi. 28 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,240 It's really funny. 29 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:07,640 It's more historical than stuff they've done before, which is really interesting in my point 30 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,360 of view. 31 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,360 And I asked them why that is. 32 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,840 And so they talk about that and so much more. 33 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:22,600 So I talk with Adrian Policki, who stars in the film, along with the broken lizard guys. 34 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:32,080 Jay, Shandra Saker, Kevin Heffernen, Steve Lem, Paul Soder, Eric Stahlhonsky, and as I 35 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,520 said, their new film out quasi is really, really funny. 36 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:44,160 It's streaming right now on Hulu in celebration of Ford 20, which is, you know, you know, 37 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,200 Ford 420 is we all know what Ford 20 is. 38 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,600 International pet year bunny day. 39 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,720 So let's get right into it. 40 00:02:53,720 --> 00:03:02,880 Oh, let me also tell you, you know, I people ask me what sources do I read, you know, or 41 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,400 get I guess consume. 42 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,840 I get my info from everywhere, Twitter. 43 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,240 I mean, obviously also my friends and contacts in the industry, I get press releases 44 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,800 sent to me. 45 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,680 I'm, you know, I'm obsessed with pop culture just as you are. 46 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,920 So I'm also on Twitter and Reddit and Apple news and Google news and everywhere. 47 00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:25,200 I also love variety. 48 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,800 That's an incredible website billboard or music. 49 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,400 Obviously it's the industry Bible. 50 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:31,400 Deadline. 51 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,040 I love Deadline. 52 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,360 Absolutely love Deadline. 53 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,760 Deadline is, you know, they've got your TV, your film, theater. 54 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:42,880 It's just breaking Hollywood news. 55 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,200 So I love them. 56 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,160 And we will be working with Deadline. 57 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:49,720 I'm really, really excited about this. 58 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,880 They have got some awesome talent over Deadline. 59 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,880 Obviously, that's why they've been around since 2006. 60 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,880 And I'm going to have some of the editors start coming on. 61 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:04,480 Probably once a month or so, we'll just talk about, you know, what's going on in this 62 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,560 industry that we love so much. 63 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,880 Whether, you know, it might be a special event that's going on. 64 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:13,720 It might just be the state of whatever summer content, whatever it is. 65 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:21,360 So one of their great podcasts that I really, really love is called 20 questions on Deadline. 66 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:28,120 And it is literally, you know, every episode, a star reveals their toughest moments, their 67 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,840 best advice, biggest fears, it's 20 questions. 68 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:36,880 It's hosted by Antonio Blife, who is Deadline Senior Awards Editor. 69 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,360 And they have some awesome, awesome, awesome guests. 70 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,960 So if you like the guests, we have you'll love the guests that they have over on 20 questions 71 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:44,960 on Deadline. 72 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:51,840 I think last week was Ralph Machio, you know, they've had Gary Oldman, Jason Seagull, Jenna 73 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:55,880 Ortega, lots of great, great artists. 74 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,960 I highly, highly recommend that you go and check it out. 75 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,400 I will have 20 questions on Deadline in the show notes. 76 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,000 So you can check them out as well. 77 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:11,200 And of course, Deadline.com, they are breaking news throughout the day. 78 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,400 I mean, 24/7, you know, they're breaking news. 79 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:14,400 I love Deadline. 80 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,400 All right. 81 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:19,560 So let's get into, oh, I cannot forget this. 82 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,400 How could I freaking forget this? 83 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:30,760 I'm giving away two tickets to see Taylor Swift on the Aeros Tour in Philadelphia. 84 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,200 It's right. 85 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,760 She's doing three sold out shows in Philly and I have your chance to win. 86 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,760 Obviously, we're not providing transportation. 87 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,560 So you gotta get here yourself. 88 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,440 But go to the website, pop culture weekly.com. 89 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,520 And it'll redirect you to my national site. 90 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,400 Then on that page, you'll see promotions. 91 00:05:52,400 --> 00:06:00,720 Click on that Taylor Swift picture for your chance to get to Taylor Swift tickets for 92 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,120 the Aeros Tour brought to you by pop culture weekly. 93 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,600 I'm really excited about this. 94 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,160 This is an awesome giveaway. 95 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,840 And the contest is on right now. 96 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:15,720 There's rules and all that stuff, which I'm sure you know. 97 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,200 But you'll see all the rules and all that good stuff. 98 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,600 You'll see it before you register to win. 99 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,120 So you know what you're getting into. 100 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:27,040 Phoebe Bridgers is opening up for her for the Philly shows. 101 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:32,120 So it's May 12th, May 13th and May 14th are the Philly shows. 102 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,200 Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 103 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,800 So I'm really excited for this giveaway. 104 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,240 So go register to win. 105 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:43,080 I hope you win. 106 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:44,080 Good luck. 107 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:49,680 And please, I've gotten already a gazemillion messages, emails, angry tweets saying, 108 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:50,680 please pick me. 109 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:52,320 I don't pick it. 110 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,600 I don't pick it. 111 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:55,160 I only see the winner. 112 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,600 It's a software that does it. 113 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,200 They don't allow me to touch the software. 114 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:00,400 So it's fair, which I love. 115 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,320 So I don't even see the names of people who's registered. 116 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,600 I heart, you know, does it? 117 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:07,840 They send me the winner. 118 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,360 I get to deliver the good news. 119 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,960 That's my extent of picking a winner. 120 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,960 I don't. 121 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:13,960 Okay. 122 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,080 So good luck to all of you. 123 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:16,680 I'm really excited. 124 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,760 And I'll see you there too. 125 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:20,760 I'll be there myself to see. 126 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:23,040 Tate on the Ares tour. 127 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,200 All right. 128 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,280 So let's get into my interview with Matt Mar. 129 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,160 You know, I loved air. 130 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:30,160 I love air. 131 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,600 It is one of the best films I've seen in a while. 132 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,480 It really, really is an incredible film. 133 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:36,640 You may have read my review. 134 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:43,560 If you haven't got a pop culture weekly dot com and read my review on it, it's a really, really, 135 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:44,680 really good movie. 136 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:47,320 The performances by everybody, the writing. 137 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,640 I mean, you already know how it's going to end and you're still on the edge of your 138 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:51,640 seat the whole time. 139 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:52,840 It's so good. 140 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:56,640 Matt Mar is a big part of that. 141 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,120 So let's get into my interview with him. 142 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:02,600 Here he is. 143 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,600 Matt Mar. 144 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,800 Thank you for joining me. 145 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,520 I really do appreciate it. 146 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,960 I absolutely love air. 147 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:11,680 It is so good. 148 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:16,440 I have got to say, I'm not a huge sports guy. 149 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,960 And that doesn't matter with this film at all. 150 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:26,760 It's done so beautifully in every single way from the writing, the directing, the soundtrack, 151 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,000 the performances right down to you. 152 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,280 And so kudos on that. 153 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,280 Thank you. 154 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,280 Thank you so much. 155 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:36,280 I'm glad you like it. 156 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,280 I'm not much of a sports guy either. 157 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,280 Or a sneaker guy. 158 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,280 OK. 159 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:41,280 Yeah. 160 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,680 I mean, I wasn't hardly at all. 161 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:46,720 My brother, my brother, my brother, co-actor, Air Jordan. 162 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,240 But I was never a guy into it. 163 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:54,040 But so I came into the experience really clean. 164 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:56,320 But I really enjoyed working on it. 165 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:57,640 It was really fun. 166 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:58,640 Yeah. 167 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:04,480 It seems like one of those films that at least as a viewer, you can tell sometimes when people 168 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:05,840 really click. 169 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,840 And it seems like all of you guys really, really clicked in this film. 170 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:10,840 Yeah. 171 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:12,840 It was really-- 172 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:19,160 I was such an easy environment. 173 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,760 You just walked right in like-- 174 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,960 I had gotten some research, obviously. 175 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:32,680 And he had just passed away, Peter Moore, just passed away when the offer came. 176 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:34,040 So I wasn't able to meet with him. 177 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,960 But I did a bunch of research. 178 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,280 And so I had these ideas. 179 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:44,120 But then it was very important to ban, I think, to create new characters, like to honor 180 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:45,520 and to people. 181 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,720 But also make a movie based on these people. 182 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,120 But it's going forward and making interesting new people. 183 00:09:54,120 --> 00:10:01,960 And so suddenly, Charlie's his costumes. 184 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,960 And I had this big beard, which I had fully intended to shave off. 185 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:08,760 And he could speak to more. 186 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,880 And then he was like, no, I love to be a green beard. 187 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,520 I was like, OK. 188 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:17,200 And Charlie's had this such a specific visual idea. 189 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,600 And I just looked like, oh, I have this-- 190 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,720 as soon as I got there, the characters were came together. 191 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:29,000 And I was like, I such a clear vision of a guy who lives in suburban-- 192 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:34,600 the suburbs of Washington and where's weird sweaters and has his thoughts. 193 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:37,440 And it's hard to articulate. 194 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:44,040 But suddenly, he just became a new character, as soon as I arrived on set. 195 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:46,720 And I was like, this character make perfect sense to me. 196 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,000 And all I need to do right now is just 197 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,560 get your out and how to say these lines. 198 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:51,880 And it just worked out. 199 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:53,840 And then was like, that's great. 200 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:59,720 You know, it's very not all created processes or like them. 201 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,320 You can't even try for a process like that. 202 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,680 You just everyone's going to wild happens. 203 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:07,880 And you're just grateful for it. 204 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:08,360 Yeah. 205 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,320 And I'll tell you, as a viewer, I'm grateful for that process, too, 206 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,400 because it really, really is. 207 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,720 I was crying in the theater at the film. 208 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:18,760 It's just so good. 209 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:23,720 And for me, it's really-- I lost my mom two years ago, 210 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,840 most of the day to pancreatic cancer. 211 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:33,200 And this really for me is a story of a mother's love. 212 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,480 And on one side, and then on the other side, 213 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:43,480 on how really thinking outside of the box and being 214 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,480 nimble, which is a word I hear buzzword, I hear a lot, 215 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:52,840 can sticking to your vision and your dreams 216 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,640 can really get you somewhere. 217 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,640 And that's very representative of, in my opinion, 218 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,440 Michael Jordan's life as well. 219 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,520 Yes, totally. 220 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:05,280 But I think it's so interesting. 221 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,320 And what's the prize? 222 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,560 My wife actually saw the movie, which 223 00:12:09,560 --> 00:12:11,280 hadn't really put in for me. 224 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,320 I was thinking of it in terms of my own character, 225 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,440 which was going through a midwife crisis. 226 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,720 And not himself very athletic. 227 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600 And he's just like his own process 228 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,960 and this moment presents itself in suddenly 229 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,200 there's a way out to where he feels stuck. 230 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,160 And I think the reason what makes his successful 231 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:38,960 is that there is a connection between these eternal people, 232 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,800 these characters that Michael Jordan or Patrick 233 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,080 Ewing, where we are like, these are like, 234 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,880 secular dogs, people are like capable of great things. 235 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,200 And we love them so much, because we ourselves 236 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,840 are getting older and we're getting weight. 237 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,400 And our lives are complicated. 238 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,480 And sad, and they're not there's joy. 239 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,120 And then there's also like, deaf, and all these things 240 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,400 are happening. 241 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:14,080 And I just thought, well, people get really into sports 242 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:20,400 because it offers them a respite from thinking about, well, 243 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:21,880 their own mortality. 244 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:24,760 And I thought a movie has like, oh my God, 245 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,480 the movie is absolutely a hundred percent about that. 246 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,240 And that's like, and the speech match speech at the end, 247 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,320 which they sort of have worked on in shape, 248 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,040 just like really just said that. 249 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,640 And I think that that is one of the reasons why people 250 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,680 are connecting so deeply to it, 251 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:45,520 is because it actually leaves room for our sadness 252 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,960 at our life and the joy at the same time. 253 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:52,080 And the correct guys is that joy and sadness 254 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,040 are the same thing. 255 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:57,280 And people who real sportsman, I think, actually, 256 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:58,160 understand that. 257 00:13:58,160 --> 00:13:59,000 Yeah. 258 00:13:59,000 --> 00:13:59,840 Yeah. 259 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,880 And I've been working on this show since my mom 260 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,120 passed called Deathgreaf and other shit we don't discuss 261 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:06,720 where I went around the country. 262 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:12,360 And interviewed all different subject matter experts 263 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,640 on the various facets of death. 264 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,280 And so ultimately life. 265 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,280 And I think one of my biggest takeaways 266 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,760 from doing that limited series is that you can't have 267 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:26,040 happiness without sadness. 268 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:27,040 You can't have. 269 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,800 So I'm putting it in terms of my mom. 270 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:32,800 I think about this a lot. 271 00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:37,800 Would I, going through, it was horrible what she went through. 272 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,960 And then what we went through, 273 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,040 would I change any of that? 274 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:50,880 If it meant that I got to live the life that I did, 275 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,160 previous to that with her. 276 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:54,480 And I wouldn't. 277 00:14:54,480 --> 00:15:00,520 I couldn't have all of those happy loving years. 278 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:04,360 You know, I wouldn't be going through the sadness so intensely 279 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:07,640 if it wasn't for all of those happy moments. 280 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,880 And that lifetime of love that was giving you have to have 281 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,840 won in order to have the other. 282 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:14,520 Yes. 283 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:15,040 Yeah. 284 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:17,800 And like, my, yeah, I walked my father. 285 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,120 I'm so sorry. 286 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:23,760 Yes, likewise, to use well and before my kids were born, 287 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,160 he was T pass way in 2016. 288 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:29,840 And my first kid was born in 2019. 289 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,920 And my second, just like eight months ago. 290 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,720 And my love for them, their both boys, 291 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,880 is like when I'm really contemplated, 292 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:43,680 I cannot contemplate it without also being sad 293 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:44,840 that my dad is not there. 294 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:49,840 Like they cannot, one cannot, they're enjoying. 295 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:50,840 No meal. 296 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:55,400 Joy at my kids and the sadness are not having my dad. 297 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,680 They're the same. 298 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,000 They're resting in the same place. 299 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,040 You know? 300 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,760 And both are get bigger and more real. 301 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,520 And more comforting in a way. 302 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:09,320 Because even then the sadness feels like, 303 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:15,000 I mean, you know, what I've been saying for years 304 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:19,400 about both losing a parent and having kids 305 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,160 is that they're two craziest things that can happen to you. 306 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,440 And it's insane that they happen to 307 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,600 that losing a parent anyway happens to actually everybody. 308 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:32,760 Every single person loses parent. 309 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:36,280 If you're appalling that like everybody is going through this 310 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,040 in some way, it's insane to contemplate. 311 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,040 Like God, I can't get through my head. 312 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,880 That the one thing that I went through in my life 313 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,560 got was the most difficult thing. 314 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,520 And also, you know, because sad is thing, 315 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,240 was also the thing that literally I haven't come with 316 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,880 every other person on earth. 317 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:57,240 It's crazy to me. 318 00:16:57,240 --> 00:16:58,840 I can't cross that side. 319 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,360 And if people are saying, "I'm not having kids, 320 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:02,280 "not everybody has kids." 321 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:05,960 But it's crazy that we just have kids. 322 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:09,880 We're in charge of like raising them and making them better. 323 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,680 It's so difficult. 324 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,560 And so spend almost all the time 325 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:17,800 wonderfully and hard that like, "I'm like, 326 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:22,920 "this is common, like all these people are walking around having babies." 327 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,120 It's boggle-semane. 328 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:28,120 You know? 329 00:17:28,120 --> 00:17:30,600 So yeah, anyway. 330 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,840 Just when far afield from what you're saying. 331 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:39,960 But I connect with what you mean, a good joy and a sadness. 332 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:45,400 And I do think that God sends a joy and sadness, 333 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,280 especially as it connects to middle age, where I am personally. 334 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,840 You seem like a younger man. 335 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,000 That's part of why people are really loving the movie. 336 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,360 Yeah. 337 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:58,360 Yeah, I mean, it really does. 338 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:03,720 It gives me a kind of, as I'm sitting there in this theater, 339 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:07,480 which is what great art does in my opinion. 340 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:11,080 It kind of made me think as the credit started rolling. 341 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:18,280 I need to, I see Ben's characters, his kind of life motto for the business on the wall. 342 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,880 And I'm like, "I need to write mine down." 343 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,840 Just all of these things that I'm like, 344 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:29,960 it's just such a great movie on every single level. 345 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,680 And it's in my opinion a very, very special film. 346 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:39,800 Before I went into it, you think, "Oh, it's going to send around Michael Jordan and all that sort of thing." 347 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,160 As I heard that it was being made and all. 348 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:47,720 And I love what the way that they handled that, 349 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,520 that it's almost secondary. 350 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,720 And then we all know the outcome of the film, 351 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,240 what the ultimate ending of the film is going to be. 352 00:18:57,240 --> 00:19:00,200 But it has us on the edge of our seats the entire time, 353 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,840 which is such a special thing to do. 354 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 355 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,080 It's very, it's very clever, got way. 356 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:12,760 Actually, it's, I mean, a lot of sports movies are based on true stories 357 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:17,640 that where you end up sort of reliving this event. 358 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:24,200 I mean, when I watched the last dance, I was like, "Oh, there's no way the bulls are going to win a scour." 359 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,600 I don't mean that you're possible. They should go away. 360 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,200 Yeah, but God is the key. 361 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,840 Or like, in theater, you know, tragedy, like a ham, whatever, 362 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,880 a dollhouse where like, "I think we got to be in." 363 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,360 Like, when it's well done when you connect on a human level, 364 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:47,640 or when I think it's done with heart. 365 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:53,880 And I think Matt and Ben engaged in this movie. 366 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:59,400 You know, I don't know the deep, well, keep, but they brought to it a lot of 367 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,800 bare own heart, you know. 368 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,200 And it's worth, I always thought, one thing I did think we're going into is 369 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:10,280 like, "These events were occurring when I was in high school, 370 00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,680 when we were on, we all went to high school together, 371 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:13,880 and gay wearing high school. 372 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,320 And that is just right, right around the time in their life. 373 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,320 Like, gay, we're like, "I have a thing that I want to do." 374 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,120 And I'm going to risk everything to do it. 375 00:20:24,120 --> 00:20:29,480 And I think it is crazy that they did it. 376 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,040 You know, like, it really did it. 377 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,880 Like, they have had dreams of becoming gay, much actors. 378 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:40,600 And gay did it, like, more than most other gay, much actors. 379 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:45,960 You know? And I think God is also kind of a crazy thing that happened to you. 380 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,760 You know, to get everything that you want. 381 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:54,520 And to become an iconic figure in your own field, you know. 382 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:59,320 I think that's almost in its own way kind of traumatizing this wrong word. 383 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,160 But you mean, I think they're still working through in some way. 384 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,320 The fact that they were dreaming in the same period of time, the community said, 385 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,760 there's like really big dream. 386 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,000 And decided to gamble a lot to make it happen in that may go. 387 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:20,680 And I think like one thing, gay of toxicists or an interviews or to me. 388 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,960 But my theory I have is that they're working through those feelings. 389 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,600 And some of the go-go-go-working crew got event. 390 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,080 And like, the most human way possible. 391 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:37,160 You know, by focusing on like human beings who are basically already failed a lot already, 392 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,000 but we're going to even come to this moment. 393 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,320 Yeah, I love when people say talk about overnight success. 394 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,320 You know, somebody we were talking about my show and they were, you know, they were like, 395 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,880 oh, it's all happened so quick for you with the show. 396 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,960 And I'm like, no, it didn't. 397 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,000 You know what I mean? 398 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,800 I failed so many times before it started getting traction. 399 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,920 And you're seeing, you know, that part of it. 400 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,920 But you weren't seeing the years of, you know, my old show. 401 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:09,400 And, you know, retooling and me working until 3 a.m. 402 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:15,560 You know, five nights a week trying to perfect everything and that overnight success is like, 403 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,480 doesn't really exist. 404 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,240 You know, people just see, oh, the movie stars, Matt and Ben. 405 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,800 And then don't see all of the heartache and tears and blood and sweat. 406 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:30,440 And yourself as well, where, you know, you worked so hard for so long 407 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:36,600 that then when it happens, it is nacing, you know, 408 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:42,760 to some that it's kind of this overnight thing or whatever, but it really is a lifetime's worth 409 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:44,600 of work into that. 410 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,080 Yeah. 411 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,600 And success is complicated, as failure. 412 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:55,800 You know, in a way because I was talking about this trick with a friend, a friend just around 413 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:02,440 the success of a movie where you're always like, oh, god, I really just want to, you know, 414 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:09,960 one of the goals is an actor to be in a hit movie, you know, and I've done TV and I've done, 415 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:16,040 I've been in other things and a lot of theater have done very very well, but this 416 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:21,080 we look like a particular like this movie is going to be a really big hit. 417 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,000 And it weirdly is like great. 418 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:31,320 It makes, I feel happy as long as I think about Matt and Ben and how hard they work. 419 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:38,200 And got how present they are in their own achievements. 420 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:38,920 You know what I mean? 421 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:45,240 I know, I've known them for decades and I just feel particularly happy for them. 422 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,280 Even though they have many other successes, I just feel happy for all of their successes 423 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:55,080 for something I just feel like, wow, I'm very warm feeling for them around this movie. 424 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:02,280 You know, they've been working hard for decades, really trying, putting their heart into their work 425 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:09,720 and they have found again after, you know, a trick away of putting their heart out there and 426 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:15,480 people are connecting to it. And that, I think, is very meaningful. And I'm able, it's easier for me 427 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:20,680 to be happy for them and be happy for me because when you're inside of it, you know, 428 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:28,600 people coming up being like, air, it's amazing. Hey, hey, and I'm like, yeah, I mean, I just got up 429 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:34,680 six this morning with my kids and I returned to me. Like, my life is sort of the same, 430 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:42,200 you know, it's a success that you sort of abstract thing in terms of like, you know, 431 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,440 I had a really good time working on the movie. That was it's main, it's main role, 432 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:52,120 main role, the main reward, you know. Yeah, I, I, I love that and I love that you're in touch, you know, 433 00:24:52,120 --> 00:25:03,400 with that. Did you feel any responsibility to, you know, playing a, a real person, yeah. 434 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,960 You know, I, I did, I did at first. It was the first time playing a real person. 435 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:16,040 The, it was the first time I ever played a real person. And so, um, I was like, oh, shit, you know, 436 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:23,160 this is, oh, I'm sorry, but you're totally fine. I was like, this is a big deal. And then, 437 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:28,200 I, I looked at documentaries. I'm like, I really looked at much, I Peter Moore, you know, 438 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:37,000 and then, but like, I've heard, okay, okay, you know, Matt and then want me to be in this movie, 439 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:42,120 we met, why me being in this movie, and so, whether it doesn't matter. And then I showed up, 440 00:25:42,120 --> 00:25:48,920 on set, and I had this kind of big beard. And I assume I was going to shave it off, I didn't want 441 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,360 to shave off until I got to set. So if I could do whatever I want. And then, I was like, I love 442 00:25:54,360 --> 00:26:01,400 the beard. Keep the beard, I love it. And I'm like, okay, there's nothing beard like about Peter Moore. 443 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:09,160 And then Charlie's like, like, hooked up, all these like hilarious, these like awesome costumes, 444 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:15,880 these sort of prints, sweaters. And suddenly, this whole new character, so it was like appeared, 445 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:22,120 like around me, uh, of course, like, I was saying before, like, it's sort of suburban, 446 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:31,720 a centric suburban dad type, who's like, you know, uh, we're like a very specific Northwest sort of 447 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:37,160 brainy guy who lives in like an ice house through this life and has this whole life, but it's 448 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,720 in God secretly. Like, because I walked into the thing, because he's always been obsessed with 449 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:48,920 basketball shoes, and now he designed basketball. And like, and that there's that idea. And so Peter 450 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,880 Moore, the real person who was a genius and did many great things, and then there's Peter Moore, 451 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:59,800 the character in this movie, who was potato playing a particular role in the narrative, you know. 452 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:07,400 So it's like Dick Sunny Vicarro, like, was he contemplating his own mortality when he signed Michael Jordan? 453 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:16,600 Who knows? And the movie is doesn't care. You know, like, uh, I mean, the, maybe the closest 454 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:23,320 person, the closest performance, like, closest real life is by with Iowa Davis, as the Laura's, just because, 455 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:30,360 you know, she is like speaking, she sort of almost seems to be in her performance, and when she's written, 456 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:36,440 like, speaking from the real world. You guys are having a feeling, but I am in the real world. And 457 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:44,120 Michael Jordan is actually my son. And we're talking about actual business decision. And, um, 458 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:55,080 and God, I think it's also a very clever choice. But in general, even her, I think, uh, 459 00:27:55,080 --> 00:28:01,000 we're characters in a movie. And story, you got banned, is really interesting and telling. 460 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:10,280 For you, finally, um, you know, trying to be a spoiler-free as possible at your character, 461 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:19,960 really many of the characters, there comes a point where, um, this, you realize that this is your chance, 462 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,600 this, you know, this is your opportunity to really go all in and it could change your life. 463 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:32,040 What was that moment either personally or professionally for you and your life if there has been one? 464 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:42,360 I think, you know, there goes moments, it's cyclical. Go moments sort of come for me like every few 465 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,680 years where it's just like, Matt, okay, what are you thinking about this? Okay, so, 466 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:53,160 Matt, this is what you want me to do it. And for me, it was moving to New York. You know, in 2020, 467 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:59,880 and then a few years later, it was like quitting my day job. You know, after I had some success in 468 00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:05,000 theater, I was like, well, if I want to start doing more TV movies, you're not just like tiny parts, 469 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,640 I'm going to have to become available and not have like this office job, which I actually really enjoyed. 470 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:16,200 Left-acto and dang it. Are you going to go to LA? And so then, if you were to get our 471 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,080 one to LA, and then, you know, nine months after God, you're like, are you going to get the 472 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:27,000 fuck out of LA? Can you hate it here? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you'll go back to New York and 473 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,440 Recommit. And then it was, you know, are you, are you going to have children? Are you going to 474 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:41,480 have, you know, can Recommit to this thing that you want? Like, so, it goes never one moment. 475 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:47,560 Goes, specific moments really. Those are some specific moments where you just have to 476 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:54,200 where you are going along, going along, and you become aware of like, what it is you have already been 477 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,640 going and just like, okay, so are you going to be consciously doing this thing and really do it 478 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:06,120 with your whole self or you're going to kind of bone it in. And so, I've always been like, 479 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:12,840 okay, stopping going in. Make the difficult choice to try and honor these decisions that you 480 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:18,440 are kind of already making. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, that's so beautiful. Matt, thank you 481 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:23,800 so much for speaking with me. I could talk to you forever. Air is absolutely stunning. You 482 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:32,440 know, your performance is is so amazing. And I, you know, you deserve all of the success and more. So thank 483 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,640 you so much. Thank you so much. I really enjoy talking to you. Me as well, please come back for your next 484 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:46,600 project. Okay, I will. I will. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome guy. Isn't he such a nice guy, such an 485 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:53,320 incredible actor? I can't wait till his award till, you know, he gets his flowers, this award season, 486 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:59,640 because I'm telling you, Mark my words right now. He is going to be nominated for everything. All right, 487 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:05,480 we're going to go to break, which allows me to continue delivering this show. We'll be back in one moment. 488 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:12,600 All right, next up. So quasi, he heard me talk about it before such a really funny movie. It's 489 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:21,640 outstreaming right now on Hulu. And if you love broken lizards, like I do, you will love this film 490 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:27,800 quasi. It basically follows a hunchback who is looking for love, but he gets himself in the middle of a 491 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:35,720 deadly feud between the Pope and the King of France when they kind of order to kill each other. So it's 492 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:45,240 really, really funny. You know, broken lizard, the comedy trope, they formed their comedy trope at 493 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:53,480 Colgate University back in 1989. And you know, would just do skits and sketch comedy around campus. And 494 00:31:53,480 --> 00:32:01,240 they all were members of the same fraternity beta theta pie. And then they started doing short videos 495 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:08,040 under the name Chargus Peak, which, you know, they now are known as broken lizard. And then they went on 496 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:13,880 to produce all kinds of stuff. You know, they have puddle cruiser super troopers club dread, which I love. 497 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:23,080 It's like a take on the kind of harsh horror genre. Dukes of hazard, which Jay directed from 2005, 498 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:28,440 that starred Johnny Knoxville, Sean Williams, Scott and Jessica Simpson. And of course, all of the 499 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:32,840 broken lizard trooper did cameyers in the film. They did beer, fast love that movie. The slamming 500 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:42,040 salmon, super troopers too back in 2018 and now quasi. So I'm really excited for this interview. 501 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:47,960 We're going to start before we talk to broken lizard. We're going to start with Adrian Pelickey. She plays 502 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:54,120 the queen in the film. She plays the queen in the film. Has sterically funny. I love her in this. She of 503 00:32:54,120 --> 00:33:01,800 course she was Miss Perkins and John Wick. She played Lady Jay and Jay Joe retaliation and for a very long 504 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:13,560 time. She was she starred as Tyra Colette in Friday night lights. Also for you fellow MCU fans, she was 505 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:21,400 Bobby Morris, aka a mockingbird in agents of shield. And for you sci-fi and comedy fans like myself, 506 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:29,800 she plays Commander Kelly Grayson in the Orville. So she's awesome. Let's get right into my interview 507 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:36,360 with Adrian Pelickey. Thank you so much for joining me on I Heart Radio's Pop Culture Weekly. I really 508 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:45,240 appreciate it. I love the film. I think it's hysterical and you are great. The whole cast is great. 509 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:54,920 But I got to ask you what was it like to do quasi? It was, it was honestly one of the most 510 00:33:54,920 --> 00:34:02,120 amazing experiences of my entire life. Wow. It was so fun. I was petrified going in. You know what? 511 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:06,520 I mean I'm walking into the den of these guys who've been working together forever in our hilarious 512 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:12,680 and already have this relationship and feel comfortable with each other. From the moment I met them, 513 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:19,320 it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, chemistry. They made me feel like I had been with them the whole time. 514 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:27,320 You know, and it went itself to make this really fun movie that I literally at night didn't want to go home. 515 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:33,320 I wanted to keep, I wanted to keep, you know, doing shit. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's, you know, 516 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,520 you can't, it's hard to call it. Where it's, I feel like the same doing my job. Like it's hard to call it work. 517 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:45,240 When I love what I do. Exactly. Exactly. It makes such a big difference. I got to dress up 518 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:52,200 and I got to live out my childhood dream of being Princess Buttercup. So it's like, you know, 519 00:34:52,200 --> 00:35:00,040 absolutely. And speaking of that, your character is very much a centerpiece of this film. 520 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:06,200 As you're reading the script, where you, you know, where you, like as you said, you know, it's, 521 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:13,720 it's a, there's a lot of history to, to her in many ways in, you know, kind of the lens of, 522 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:17,960 of the historical part of this film. Was that like, as you're reading this, or you're like, 523 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,160 oh my god, this is so cool. Like, where you're like fanboying out? 524 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:28,200 Totally. I was like, this is, this is what I'm in my dream. Also, these guys can really write for a woman, 525 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:32,760 which is awesome shocking because not a lot of people, that meant not many here. 526 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:39,720 So I love that she's always as smartest person in the room. She's like, come on, guys. Come on. 527 00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:47,080 Let's do this. I know I'm a woman, but, you know, she tells it like it is in that like her. 528 00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:56,360 Yeah, she is awesome. And, you know, as I talked to the guys earlier, and they were telling me how 529 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:03,160 they originally saw themselves as a money python, as a money python, as group, where I didn't 530 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:09,880 realize that a few of them are actually, were actually history majors. And so they were interested in telling, 531 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:15,720 like, you know, a historical story that they never were able to get greenlit before. And now they're 532 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:23,720 able to do that, you know, from you being kind of the quote, outsider of broken lizard in that regard, 533 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,920 did you see that with them? We're like, they're like, nerding out to to finally get to do this, 534 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:33,240 like, passion project. Absolutely. And even when I got the phone with them, I was like, I was like, 535 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:39,160 it feels like mine python, which I grew up loving, like Holy Grail was, you know, a staple in my home. 536 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:45,640 So seeing it and just reading it, and like this is what they're tapping into, and they were so 537 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:50,280 excited that I got it. But also, I didn't realize that they had written it the same time they 538 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:55,560 written super-tubers. Like, that's how long ago. And this is how, like, this is their passion project. 539 00:36:55,560 --> 00:37:01,720 And seeing them all just to play different characters. It was just so fun. There's the best people in 540 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:06,600 the world. They don't fight. They don't argue. I mean, they, my bigger, like, brothers, but 541 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:11,240 they just have this great feeling about them. Like, all the people that work with them, like, 542 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:16,200 the crew, and then working with them for years. And there's some of them are family members. Like, 543 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:22,360 it just feels like you're just playing. Yeah. Thank you so much. And right now, I can't 544 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:35,080 people even get to do this. Did you, you know, they have a very successful niche, particularly with 545 00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:43,240 their improvisation. Did you get the chance to do that as well? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 546 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:48,760 And how was that? I feel like it was always like a prerequisite. But that was that was the thing that 547 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:57,800 was I walked into petrified about the fear of like, I would have had to done this in years. And again, 548 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:03,320 just that comfortability, the way that they just bring you in and make you feel like it's a big 549 00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:09,480 warm hug and your safe. And so, you know, it was like, after day one, I was like, all right, 550 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:17,880 here we go. That's cool. That makes you feel good. You're like, okay, I can do this. This is 551 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:24,600 so cool. And how do you, you know, I was wondering, how do you like on a film like that where you 552 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:30,360 have a script, how do you improvise like for you in particular? Like, are you just whatever kind of 553 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:36,120 comes to your head that you just kind of say or how does that work? I feel like I would be so nervous 554 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:41,240 that I want to rehearse my improvisations. You know, I mean, absolutely. But, you know, I think 555 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,400 that's the thing with comedy, especially that kind of thing. If you overthink it, it feels 556 00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:51,320 stale. I mean, we shot everything that was on the paper on the page. But then it was like, okay, we got that, 557 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,040 let's play. And sometimes I'm like, you're reading it. I'd be like, okay, that might be a funny 558 00:38:56,040 --> 00:39:00,920 thing to say there. But most times it was just about listening because you know what they were going to 559 00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:06,920 do. So it's like, you know, okay, all right, I can play with this, you know what I mean? They say something 560 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:12,440 and it's like, okay, just just listen and instinctually, don't think about it. It's like, just 561 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:20,520 lead. I really love that. And you know, so I was talking to Nick Cannon the other day who I admire 562 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:27,160 greatly for all of the different kind of things that he does. And as him and I were talking, 563 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:33,800 I'm like, wow, I'm like, you know, I'm interviewing somebody on my show that kind of does something 564 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:40,520 that I aspire to do, you know, and all the, he's so successful and so many of the various things he does. 565 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:46,760 For you, you know, I was thinking about this. For you, when you're with this, you know, these 566 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:55,000 comedy, you know, I mean legends in so many ways where, you know, they've done all these great projects 567 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:03,480 super troopers and club dread and I did you kind of find yourself like, you know, kind of taking notes 568 00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:12,840 at some of their comedy style or, or what have you? Absolutely. Absolutely. The thing to about 569 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,720 the way that they work is every time there would be changes in the script, whether it was like one 570 00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:23,480 joke, two jokes, whatever. We have another table read. So it was so fun to get to sit and watch them go 571 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,680 through their process. And then they would sit there and they'd riff and they'd be like, okay, well, 572 00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:30,760 maybe this will be funnier here. Maybe this will be funnier here. And so that happened constantly. 573 00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:39,080 And I think that was probably why I felt so comfortable by the day I walked on set to say, like, whatever, 574 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:43,240 you know, I mean to have that in frog moment because that we're watching their process, 575 00:40:43,240 --> 00:40:48,600 watching how they work and getting a sense of that already, kind of play the end all that 576 00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:56,040 comfortable. I love that. And you know, and it is, I always enjoy the process of seeing other 577 00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:02,680 people that do what I do, watching them, just because, you know, I can always learn something. And 578 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:10,600 and I love that they because it seems to be from my understanding kind of rare that that if you're not 579 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:18,440 one of the writers to kind of be in that situation, and it seems awesome, you know, as an actor, and especially 580 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:24,040 successful one like yourself, to be able to then kind of go in that other side if you will, 581 00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,760 and take part in that part as well. Absolutely. And that's a great way to put it because yeah, 582 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,360 like actors don't tend to be in the writers or in the writers will be there to be able to read to take notes 583 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:37,480 and make the changes, but there's not, they're not talking about it there. And because they're the 584 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:44,920 writers, directors, producers, actors, all of them in the movie, I get to be privy to to see 585 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:49,480 the making of how it all goes down and how to make it better. And actually be a part of it. 586 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:55,560 You're like, I haven't been saying that thing there. Yeah. And will you take that to your future 587 00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:02,040 projects? Like can you see some, you know, some of what you learned in doing quasi, can you see yourself 588 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,440 making any, you know, things that you kind of picked up that you like that you're like, you know what, 589 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:14,360 I'm going to do that for my next project. I mean, maybe, you know, I've written a couple of scripts 590 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:20,760 with my writing partner and whatnot. They're not common to yourself. So that, you know, a little different. 591 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,200 But even just the directing style is somebody who'd wanted to direct at some point, you know, 592 00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:32,440 watching have, he's so amazing. He's so put together. He has it all, you know, he is funny as 593 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:38,520 that guy is. He was really like, he kept things in motion. And there were a lot of moving parts. 594 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:41,560 And the guys don't have to get changed back and forth sometimes twice in a day. 595 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:49,960 So to see how all that worked and how he did it with such grace. I'm like, okay, those are things that 596 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:55,640 I'm going to take. Take in the future. That's awesome. Thank you so much for speaking with me. I can't 597 00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:04,680 wait till everybody sees quasi, which streams exclusively on Hulu on April 20th, which is of course 598 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:12,360 National, I love donuts today. So of course. Yes. Thank you so much. 599 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:18,360 Adrian Polickey love her. She is great in this film. She's great. And everything she does. 600 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:26,040 But she's especially funny and quasi. All right. Let's get into it. Right. Let's just jump right into it. 601 00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:37,480 Broken lizard troop. Here they are. Jay Shandra Saker Kevin Heferman. Steve Lamm. 602 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:46,040 We're Lemme. Paul Soder and Eric Stohansky. Broken lizard. Thank you everyone for joining me. I really 603 00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:54,520 appreciate it. I love this film quasi. And I've got to ask Jay. I'll start with you. What? 604 00:43:54,520 --> 00:44:01,000 When you're trying to decide it's topic, as you're writing, what drew you to this? 605 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:09,080 Well, we were, you know, some of us were history majors. And so we also thought at the time, 606 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:14,280 which, you know, we wrote this very early in Broken Lizards existence, like three or four years into it. 607 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:21,240 So we thought we would be more like money Python. We thought we'd make a money Python style. 608 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:26,600 Louis, so we set it in France and we did the whole thing. But if the budget of it was always too high 609 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:33,560 for us to ever, you know, raise the money privately. And so a no studio was like willing to do it until we 610 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:39,240 eventually fox search. I do make a lot of period pieces said, oh yeah, we'll make this movie. 611 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:44,600 I mean, it was kind of, it's been like 30 years in the making. I love that. And Kevin, for you, 612 00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:50,040 when you, I mean, obviously you guys have all worked together for a long time. But when you have a cast like this, 613 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:58,920 you know, what is it like as a director on that side of it to kind of wrangle these guys together for 614 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:04,360 their various roles? Well, I mean, we've been doing together for so long that there's just a second hand, 615 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:08,840 you know, communication. And we've gone to the point where we're so comfortable with each other, 616 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:14,760 that it makes it simple to improvise and to, you know, do fun things on the set. So it is also kind of a 617 00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:20,760 support group, you know, in the sense that, you know, everyone's got your back, you know, there's no wolves on the set, 618 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:25,000 you know, everyone, we're all friends. So it just makes it a very comfortable atmosphere to work in. 619 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:29,800 You never have to tell the actors what their characters, I mean, the revolution was just like, 620 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,560 yeah, no shit. Dude, I wrote it. Yeah, so we're trying to get it. Yeah, yeah. 621 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:40,680 Yeah, and there's not many, you know, there's not many groups that really can't are able to say that 622 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:48,680 for films, especially regularly like that. How do you guys, how do you find, you know, especially as we 623 00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:54,040 said, you're working, you know, so closely with each other for such a long time, do you do ever find yourself 624 00:45:54,040 --> 00:46:00,920 just, you know, unable to reign yourselves in or is that not a, not a problem? 625 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:07,160 You know, it's not a problem. In fact, it's, in the beginning of our careers, when we made our first 626 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:13,240 movie, we were shooting on film and we had no money, we had like one or two takes. And so it was, you know, 627 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:17,240 almost no improv. And if you were going to improvise you better be damn sure that's good. 628 00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:23,240 And as our careers have gone on and we've, you know, gotten bigger budgets and now, you know, 629 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:28,040 we don't shoot on film anymore. It's actually nice because all the pressure is off. You can just 630 00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:34,840 roll and you can improvise and you can riff and have fun to do whatever you want and then figure it out 631 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:39,880 in the editing room. So it's actually, I think it's pretty liberating that. But there's still a, you know, 632 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:46,520 an attitude of trying to improvise within the character within the seat, rather than just saying any 633 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,840 old thing. Yeah, also get what's on the page first and then you can riff after that. 634 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:58,760 I love it. It obviously is working, you know, both on both ends for you guys and for viewers like 635 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:06,280 myself, I can't wait every, for everybody to see quasi exclusively on Hulu on 420, which of course is 636 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:13,720 as everybody knows National Dog Day. So thank you all and thanks for joining me today. 637 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:22,280 Thank you. Have a good day. Broken lizard. Love those guys. Love their work. Love quasi. 638 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:28,600 It is available right now on Hulu exclusively. Go watch it. Let me know what you think. 639 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:37,480 And, you know, in celebration of 420 International Pet Aboney Day, go pet a bunny and watch it and believe 640 00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:42,680 me, you're going to love it. Then let me know what you think. Send me your bunny petting. 641 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:48,120 Send me your tweets after you've watched it and you're all bunny petded up. 642 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:55,400 All right. That is our show for today. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for hanging out with 643 00:47:55,400 --> 00:48:04,120 me and always being awesome. I love you. I can't do pop culture weekly without you. You make this show. 644 00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:10,440 What it is. All right. I'll see you next week. I love you. Oh, no. Not next week. There's another 645 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,800 special episode. I'm sorry. There's another very special episode coming out right away. Very soon 646 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:27,960 with the cast of the evil of evil with the cast of evil dead rise. Love that movie. Oh, my God. 647 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:33,560 It is brutal in a really good way. All right. I love you. See you next time. We are. 648 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:39,560 Thank you for listening to pop culture weekly. You're all the latest and pop culture weekly.com. 649 00:48:52,360 --> 00:49:00,600 Makes me happy. My heart is true. You're planning to come for the dumb.