What governors Punkahs number eight sixty four! This is the first nervous describing a little confusing but you're smart people, so I feel, like your brains, will be able to absorb this quickly and easily. This is the first nervous podcast that is actually be full on edited audio of talking with Chris Hardwicke Guest Eliza. What our very first episode! I hope it's a good idea to feel like it's a good idea to do this, Katy two posts. So it's an editor It is an edited, so it's like you, so much of the conversation gets cut out to like to slap it into a thirty eight forty one, forty two minute time, time crunch and this can interesting to hear what did could gets cut out or how how stuff was moved around to make sure that the conversation flowed, but nothing but a bit so your you'll hear some differences in the Annetta daddy, which I just think is fascinating. If you have any interest in broadcasting your homework, but nothing was ever

edit it in a way that changed what a conversation was. Things may be moved around or cut down, but it wasn't it Ok, we took about one sentence from one thing and pasted it with another sentence from another thing to create false illusion of one slash three idea. It was just. It was just as kind of give you some back a bat back story about how things Barbie, no shutdown ended for television, so watch the video version please, so I can continue making him from. Please support that and then also you can in the end it at an audio here, and then you know if you sit in traffic or on a treadmill or job that you're not super enthused about, but Eliza, who was just on the nerves bike not that long ago, but by sea. Learn stuff about him that I didn't didn't know before and he's just such a great guy in such a wonderful, operational assistance and really smart. So it was great to have him on an honour to have him as the first episode of talking with Chris Hardwicke, which are Sunday night, at eleven p M on AMC,

and then we're finding out where else digitally that will be available for he was well. He is promoting. I don't feel at home, world anymore, which is a fucking great movie. If you haven't seen you watch it, Melanie Lynskey is it? Who just so. She such an incredible and they are fantastic together, so check that out, That is on Netflix right now and if you want to watch full, so the online get more short exclusive of talking with precise, go to AMC, Dotcom, slash talking his nerves, Pakistan Array, sixty four. Finally preside over the logical and Katy Levy, enrolling nor me nervous dot com.

Tonight, how the programme, I guess, can accomplish actor. You gotta started eight years old when he was basically just up a pair of big, eyes and you probably recognize them. Instead, then even always him he appeared in films before he started traipsing around middle earth with a bunch of habits. He spent a lot of time. By with a human size dog named Wilfred and is currently preparing for a season to return playing the elect the reluctant assistant to the holistic. Detective Dirk gently, I've known alive for a handful of years. He's a terrific human being is always a mercenary self and amazing creative endeavours. Princesses cofounder befell production company speculation, which is creating a space for horror, films which pushed

Andrews. What horror can be a horror? Fanatic turned me onto a lot of great whore he's half the music loving dual called a wooden wisdom who get to try, the globe dj in his latest film. I don't feel at home in this many more got the grand jury prizes. Sundance is a fantastic movie. I just saw its on Netflix. You should watch it tonight. Eliza Wood is talking with Hardwicke drew to you the way you ve reached out to us in droves, twitter, Instagram, Facebook, using at talking so to be chatting with a large to kick the conversation, but then we're gonna, weaving your questions and comments requirements. If you will we're going show you some video I suggest that you sent in four Elijah would plus people here the studio you're gonna get a people. The audience are going to get a chance to ask questions, COMECON style, but first it's my turn. So, let's, let's get started.

As I said in the intro, you ve been doing this almost. I think you almost did fatally that's not true. I started when I was eight and thirty six now. So what is that long time. Twenty eight years ago, twenty eight is doing is spent almost thirty years. Yeah. That's how that's where I know I've thought about tat bats. Rarely disturbing! There's a nunnery broke Eliza word because he just realized, oh my god, when you're we'll go you're, gonna watch. I worked for twenty eight years and they gave me a gold watch. And now I can say things like the words that you're the blog. I know exactly. Where is gonna gold ring l of gold ring their eyes true, but so the first time and I didn't realize it was- you is the- and I don't think you guys realise this cause you're all millennials for but back in the nineteen hundreds there was a former show host named Paul Abdul, who was a was a musician and

He had a video called forever your girl, that's right, and you were in that video and who the director of a video David Finch, how grave crazy, therefore, he started making movies. Or is it immediately by David Finch underwrite? Do you remember anything about their video? Do I mean I remember, meeting her issues a big deal at the time, so super excited to meet her. I remember I don't know I was. I was on a film set for the first I'm. So it was all kind of surreal. I just remember being really excited. I play a young executive whose, like distraught, presumably over like a broken relations, some sitting at a desk and I like break a pencil in in pain, and I run my fingers. Do my hair and look out the window like really kind of heavy destroy

thing for an eight year old sort of try and convey I'm gonna guess the relationship they work out because you were eight actually live. Animals considerably are two younger than me young for this year. I should have realised this before we started dating, but now it's gonna have to end. Do you feel like you broke up with her or she broke up with you who? Well I I sort of feel like he broke up with her or I broke up with her and then regretted, gotcha gotcha, that's just my its thirty six year old brain telling my eight year old brain that that's what it is now. You know that may not have been my motivation Navy now, but to go out on a limb and say I think you could probably get it back. I think. Maybe now is the time of year. Everyone now I'm kidding whether we have, as that would be amazing, but So how did you get involved in this in the video? In the first place? Would you wouldn't was acting that you wanted to do or was it just kind of an accidental thing, so this

Can it goes? I was born in Iowa raise their. My mom saw a commercial when I was around five and she saw this commercial. She thought it was a lot of energy. It is solely a really great outlet for his energy, but there is no kind of outlet for that in cedar rapids. So she put me in modeling school, which was kind of the. What is this thing to king? They supposed shirt, and so I actually did some like runway modeling malls at look, and I did some print photography. Work is well actually have photos of myself like walking down run way in a mall with like sunglasses honour, like a bathing suit sort of situation. Nice shorts sure so did that for a bit and then that particular school did have like an acting element to its. It would do like monologues things like that. My brother, who seven years older than me, had a vested interest in acting. He was doing it

cool also went to the same kind of modelling school and then they ended up going out and representing some of their students at a thing. In L, a cop I am today, which is the international modelling and Talent Association Hooker, so not their end, like competed competitive modeling, while it was, there are all these different categories as some sort of thing about next so long ago. But I am one of the things that one of the competitions was like a singing competition actually saying, don't worry, be happy, isn't it We are talking about here, you're a big deal, the time since nineteen. Eighty eight. And so that the story behind that's kind of funny. I went out to sing it and the people were clapping so loud that I couldn't hear the backing track. So I like lost my way and which was the most embarrassing horror of qualifying thing ever and I had to try and find the rhythm again- and I never quite found it, but they gave me an honourable member mentioned because I just stuck

just gave at the six with thing was. He was in it very much as it could possibly be it. So while I was there, I met a talent manager who asked me if I wanted to be an actor and I'd never really thought much about it, but the idea of it will you hadn't thought but anything. What are you six at the direct we're we're out of seventy seven, but I was the idea was thrilling. You know, to California. I was so excited about being in California for the first time, and so we were like what are we just come out to allay four five six weeks, out here to audition, get an agent and see where it goes for fun and then, within the first six weeks of thing. I got this policy Abdul job and I did a number of commercials and then I got a rolling back to the future. To oh, I remember that actually deteriorated you're. Why the little kids, where he's playing the game, the Atlanta based on dutch company, shooting the exactly and the other kid goes. That's like a baby toy that should have been your line,

should it was I like working with the methods at you know eight or nine members amicus honestly, I do remember Michael J Fox, I was a huge fan of the original film and being on that set was completely mine blowing to me, because I knew that film and I knew its hill Valley right than yet So I knew the town architecturally from the original films are seeing it in the future was crazy. Seeing all these futuristic cars, I mean it was a proper giant film production- and I was this child that was in some sort of fantasy land. It was amazing, dear retorted, Michael J, Fox like years later. Did he remembered him again really never met him again now, I'm a huge fan of is that I think, is extraordinary. So what happens after back to the future because What I feel like is happening now is Eliza. Wood is taking hold of Hollywood in Hollywood, is saying, hey Eliza would, with those Your blue eyes have like they were scooped out the crust of Superman's home planet Krypton, just those.

Lowing, blue orbs that you have so easy to get lost. What what's happening like? Is it in your family, saying? Ok, I guess we here now, and we make this. That's essentially what happened like after the after getting a couple of jobs, it seem like us Annabelle reason to move to California, and I think my mom also wanted to break our horizons and move the family out to another place that wasn't Iowa anyway, just for new experiences, so my dad sister state and I were while we kind of like got things situated in. It seemed like a reasonable moment to move, because I was working. My brother also was starting to work as well do and commercials soberly moved out here and within that first year I got a couple of roles and films back to the future, to being one of them and their small role and internal affairs, and that I did a movie called

along with the first is about ever role very Levinson. Exactly moves the first proper role, I hadn't film with actual dialogue and a kind of character arc, and I loved it. It was it's a bizarre thing to think about now, cause I'm so deep in it and I'm an adult and I've. I have a life that has sprung from this, but at the time I was a child kind of going with the flow and always loving it in, and I could have came up and learned how to do what I was doing. I didn't have any training sure it was all kind of instinct tool in the air and I kind of learned as I went. I suppose why so I guess that- and you know I apologize. I assume this is a question that you must get all the time, but it's

so I'm always fascinated by people who grow up in the business from childhood and when they not advisable when the dolphin doesn't work out. Oh, I know that's what you know. The fact that you didn't you know like knows dive into work into a pot. Full a crack is like a great you know. Everyone is always like, like black people, who make this tough enough to make it through youth and t airs, just like not being in this business, you around. The sort of the plasticine sheen. That is this town in every add above. But the fact that you know you grew up to such a like a normal nice dude with you, no good value. You know, you're nice to people, and I do know that that is competitive. So how did you not implode? It is weird that being nice, I hear that a lot like you're, just some nice as if that is an accomplishment,

just how you're supposed to be. I know that for most of America right, you know we're in such a quick, crazy bubble. Here we are we're in a weird industry. I mean I, I credit all of that to my mother, who I think was very conscious of the fact that I could and ultimately did endure a great deal attention, and I think she immediately saw where that could go, that you know I could only to find myself by what it was that I was doing or the perception of who I was or special treatment like she. Never let me extend except special treatment. That was a huge thing. She drilled humility, me provided a very real sense of life outside of the work that I was doing and never really allowed for me to over inflate my sense of importance, and since that I have that from such a young age that

came, who I was so I never. I always had perspective provided perspective and a sense of that's the work that you do and you also have a relatively normal home life that is totally separate from this weird industry that you're in, but did you go through a period of I mean it's look, it's a very it's an exceptionally difficult business, which is not only a tracks, a certain personality type that can skew a little insecure need for attention mean opening performers, but then also that's completely preyed upon by a business that is, you noticed, wrought with rejection and judgment in and harshness, and you know, and so did you ever experience a period of I do not really work and are getting really close on stop like did you ever feel like lean periods, or maybe I'm not doing. The right thing I mean was that something that you had to navigate indefinitely and that kind of happened posts Lord of the rings, actually, maybe a little bit, I think,

I look a lot younger than I am so do you and I think that that I was now. I don't look at a younger than twenty nine, my age, I ll, never forget being at that COMECON, thirty six, what an old man why around Go for this not like me, millennia go very well references. What what what happened COMECON so We had a panel and I thought you were a lot younger than oh. You did our anywhere like dude. I hosted singled out this clearly go. Oh yeah. That was a habit tat. It was that it was a habit panel and you just happened to be there and you came out. I had a very strange experience with with the invocation there

What does that mean? Well get our minds out of it. I mean don't get me wrong. I thought the shit out of it, but I do it wasn't that I really It is a legit by that, but you know I was so we're out, or are the parent weren't haulage holly to seven thousand people? You know it's such a it's an incredible experience. If you ve never been in San, Diego and you know you were so charming on the panel in years of course times, and so then I'm as I do that thing? Mistakenly? My moderated can, I think, all we're friends. Now you know I can talk to so I go so backstage we take the picture of the panel and then I turn to talk to him and then at that point as my parent legs and that's what I think, we're buds. Now, so I go. Oh, my god. It was so great to get a chance to and then just you

we were just shut up in a goes yes right and then just walked totally like you totally royal Take me- and understandably so you know fine, but it just copy. I've got like mad we're not gonna, be on a yacht. Clinking. Glass. That's a shame. There was, but he said but it's, but everyone seemed in general. Everyone seems pretty pretty great and he is great he's great. It may have been that they were russian. Mondo, another thing rushing in Heaven besides very slowly, he just needed to be so says wrought rights as high as a person's chin can be he's. A very humble person is a lovely human, but maybe

just you didn't, want, wasn't making excuses for imbalance, riots and then, when you next time, you guys talk. If he s about me, tell me tell him I've just recovered yeah. You tell me if I'm doing ok, but I know this, you know a lot of people have Lord of the rings, questions for you. What was part of the expense since you just gotta go there. Scores. Yeah you know was that it was that strange. So surreal I mean going to the Oscars I'd never been before outside of presenting some things that the notion of being there is mentioned in the law, film, and we were all there together and to be there and see all of these incredible people who were a part of making those films come to life one after another accept these awards was just completely surreal. An extraordinary do you, people come up to people come up to you that freak you out, I mean, like a really famous people, come on, go my god. I know who you are, and I love this moving and always freaked out. By that I mean I still get. I still get freaked out by meeting people

that I admire. So I always I thought came from review. Told me this way heard this- that the japanese examples in writing. That's amazing. I had a conversation, that's very surreal added cumbersome. Jack Nicholson where he said I am going to do. The impression is setting love the film and he's like, but there are too many endings he's like. I left two, the first ending this web and is great and Rwanda, that light will jack. That's the book, Meda they had to tie up. These stories, Mister Jackson, where are your better? I did help barely amazing Lord of the rings reactions more action were an internet June. Booger J says allow Sherwood with the heart throbbed with or the rings, trilogy right or my remembering that wrong move over Orlando bloom real anniversary on Twitter, says. If I go to Sea Eliza Woods DJ said he does a remit.

Lord of the rings theme I'm Peter you're gonna be sorely need ever happened. I feel it should still be ok. Amelia Divine says morbid watching Lord of the rings and the habit for about the fifth time, and I still love you guys. Eliza is back just some of that terminology that US millennials like to use through I'm just bay and all their all day, long direct Dominic Monaghan said. Oh, you have to ask in Niger about the time he faltered coming down the hill, and I what it worth. That's all he said he said that you would fill in the gaps are so diverse. They have filming Lord of the rings. It's it's the four harbour, rolling down the hill and ending on the wooded road and then hiding behind the tree is the ring with combined. Yes, so did that over the course of two days and the first thing we did was like rolling down, hill and on one either on a take or in a we rolled down,

and just in, and it was an impact for you know like, and it was loud and everyone in the foreground. The shy mean that experience tat. You know you say you and I for twenty eight years, but that that you know how many years of your life was Lord of the rings it was for all and all for we we shot. The principal photography was over the course of eighteen months, so we lived in New Zealand, shooting all three films. At the same time, which is a herculean efforts, mean there were literally six or seven units concurrently shooting right.

To make sure that we can finish at all. And then we went back every year for each individual film as they were kind of cutting them and put them together, and we would shoot additional footage as they were kind of fine tuning in tweaking. So we actually have the opportunity to come and go back and fine tuning tweak each individual firms. So for years of our our lives were those movies. I mean it's it's it's hard to imagine, but in the night the nineties we're still a rough time for film and then coming into the early two thousands even hearing while they're gonna do Lord of the rings. What how are they going to do that because we just films just won't made on that scale with that many effects, but then they all the sudden around the same I'm you have some raymie spider man. You have brain singers ex man, you have a lord of the rings coming out which really to utter Harry, potter yeah? So you have all these films that are effect heavy, these epic movies, that not We changed the way film is made, but also necessary for

better. Not always that always always Bulgaria but elevated you know, are subset group of nerd them into more of mainstream culture at very true and at the end that all happened around the same time and it sort of it. It broadens the scale and scope of comecon as well and Nerd Cult In general, yes, which is really kind of exceptional, had not really thought about that. The timing of all those things convergent do that bother you because it so that it does bother some of the protein needs. That COMECON like to say, comic con is what you thought of. Comics anymore, it's about pop culture and there's more fringe people, and I was just going to feel like I was feeling. Well, that's good, it's more inclusive. You does it bother you that it so pop culture driven? I will. I wasn't COMECON devotee prior to going there for Lord of the rings. So I wasn't a comic book. Lecter or someone. That was a purist that could be upset about it, but I mean it always a little bit

setting when you see you see this film festivals to wear giant tv networks are bringing their things to film festivals, nearly all what place does it have a film festival right? You know there is definitely a cent. Of the big corporate machine kind of jumping in and capitalizing on, phantom bread, but at the same time it's all its all about generating positively and excitement over the things that people mutually love. So I don't know it doesn't it doesn't bother me. I think it gets a little corporate and there's a lot of money being thrown out of the end of the day. It's still a place for people to be who they are and express themselves under the part of COMECON that I love the most that it's. You see people that have been working on cosplay all year and there they are able to express that thing that they're interested in and it still works for them and as long as that spirit is there at New can destroy what makes

COMECON special anything has it have you ever had your mind, completely melted out of your head, seeing a Frodo, cosplay walk up to you and go. I am you, I mean so strange that is strange, but it's also, but that it is strange. But you know it's it's funny being a part of something like Lord of the rings. What you immediately accept as a part of the new reality, for instance, like I'd, never been a part of a film that had a giant billboard on the side of the building where we run sides of plain that was ridiculously massive in terms of scale and promotion it's amazing how quickly you can compartmentalize. Then we, like all it's a part of this thing right so to that point like going to comical in seeing someone dressed his Frodo, didn't really freaked me out because it it's all within the context of that sort of thing. What freaks me up more is more obscure thing,

like I did a many series, animated miniseries called over the garden wall. Firm cartoon network and I see character, people dressed up as those characters, and I think that's all that's insane. Fuckin insane yeah that's a thing? That is what it is popular they showed every year, but it's also to its smaller audience right so to see people dressing up as those characters on my holy fuck We know it's great about the actual Wilfred two or Wilfred, for instance. What it's what's great about it is that you know like those sort of and that's when and kind of, looping background. That's why I say to people like you ever need to be upset that nerd culture as being to call up did because there are still need trenches, always that the truest nerds be the only ones with the diving gear to swim down to its true. You know so though, people who cause play is that or something wrong they really really really specific. Like there's, there is room for everyone totally and end the bigger that Marvel

What do you see Disney get the more these things will be expressed as well, because that stuff is so fuckin, cuff, perfect, yeah, yeah yeah, it's hard to be, even if he were a pre existing, well, then I would imagine I wasn't a huge marble fan, but it's hard to be a fan when it's just so covered for you right. You know the main yeah, it's more fun. They get into things that are a little bit smaller and obscure and strange and an express things that are being expressed on the wider scale. Yes sort of like you know. Well, yes, olive star wars, but you know my favorite droid- is our five before it gets again. I know everyone loves our duty to everyone loves Ethiopia, but you know I love you. I love you. I love the failure. Drawing like he's my favorite he's also enjoyed it is. Is it being the eight but be eighty that that's it? Yeah yeah yeah, maybe eight the little by little soccer ball. Oh no! No! What's the landing of he's also he's adroit, but he's a bounty hunter tall. Oh, I e g, eighty, eight news, an idiot when really surprised

in the audience, knew the answer. It is our duty to urge you to look into the buggy to love you a larger word. What do you know that I know I was cool that sort of like the best way to fuck with nerds, is to assist those pictures gives they do those those incorrect, mash up, Pictures Serbia, picture of Patrick Stuart and then a quote that says used Force Harry Gand off. You know, but it's better, sir, where we live the rings. Finally, wrapped up after this epoch experience value. What was you know saying goodbye to it was such a significant part of your life. So how do you? How do you set?

say goodbye to that it was really hard. It was really hard. I mean we had become a family over the course of making them. I often say that it was like making the world's largest independent film, because we were tucked away in New Zealand and a thing to remember to, as this is really pre internet. If it was internet times, but the sort of fervour by which there are multiple fan sides Associated This thing we social media to totally so the work eyes on us, the way, the their eyes on things now, so you very much on the world, and there was this. There is very much a kind of key. We ingenuity of everybody, just kind of does multiple jobs to get the job done. So there was this rate sense of it feeling small. Even though the scale was big and it was extraordinary and we all became the best of friends and had an

an unbelievable journey that was, unlike anything, you'd ever experienced and then into the the principle of tug if he ended, and that was really hard. But then we were like we get to go back every year, so we went back. We kind of got lulled into this false sense of security, which is going to be doing this for ever, and it was the last time that we went back that it became real for us that we wouldn't ever kind of be there and under these auspices again and work with these people. In that way it was very hard. It was hard as well to understand what your life meant again. So you know when you spend that much time working on something which none of us have. I'll, never forget getting home, the first time, actually after principle, photography and kind of not knowing what to do with myself. You know when your life is essentially scheduled and you're. You ve got this responsibility of bringing this character to fruition over the course of a year and a half, and then you're just dropped off at home. I don't know what to do. I don't know what my daily

life was it was. It was a very bizarre, unsettling feeling, because it it was our life. We all have Is there we had routines outside of the that we are doing a lot of the ring so an end. I was eighteen, so I came up in inner in some ways it sort of felt like a tour of duty or go into university, potentially in the sense that that's the time that you go away from home and you have this format of experience and that's what that was for me to leave that, especially at that age was confusing and hard to to deal it took about six months to wake up. I was that tired too seriously like so exhausted, because we are working. Sixteen weeks for a majority of the film sixteen seventeen hours days, and that was the kind of bulk of it so getting home. I was like I was a dead at my feet for a while, but you also said when you got back, there was a kind of a strange period were you

felt? The gap of all men are gonna work anymore. What's going on, and I just I just that guy who am I, who am I in what might especially age. You were at two: that's what you do naturally, but are you really have your identity tied to what you're doing and a career, and so how did you navigate? I was very cognizant of it that those films were going to be the primary thing and people's purview for a long time. Certainly three years I remember feeling I I immediately wanted to do something really small for two reasons: one it would only it would take half the time or even a fraction of the time, the idea of doing something massive on a large scale, wisdom they did not want to do just cause. I'd come from something that took of my time and then also something small and intimate, so I could just do different work that was completely different to what Lord of the rings was, and that is sort of how I went for a while and in terms of that identity I always felt like

as long as I continued to work and do things that were so different from Lord of the rings. Explore different character is contagious, myself I be able to keep working and it was until I was sort of in my men twenties that actually had a about a year and a half hour. I didn't work at all, and that was the first time where I was kind of like us. I thought I'd already because there's this thing with child actors, where they talk about this notion of sort of bridging the gap between being a child actor in an adult actor, and typically there from when you were a child, you get for thirteen years and then, when you are in your twenties, you sort of done that if you're still working right so by and large, the narrative was that I've done that, like I've gotten over, that I was in my twenties, and that was the working and it's sort of didn't that period of awkward didn't really come until I was in my mid too late twenties, where I I sort of did have a period about of about a year. I didn't work. It was interesting but so humbling and could like I kind of loved

the opportunity to submit, reflect and think about where I was in my life and who I was and also sort of briefly timed out right before I turn thirty eight? I was therapy for about a year. I had never been do a therapist and It was just a really interesting time to sort of be self reflective and look at the last number of years of my life as I was about to turn thirty two, which would be the next chapter of sheriff, and the timing of that worked out beautifully so all of the things in terms of not being able to work for a period and not quite or what I was doing all ultimately kind of imbued me with a sense of wanting to understand myself more to then figure out what the next chapter was Well, then, what we want good without getting to personnel so that period of time, we're yourself reflective inherent therapy in tripping over. You are. What did you come out with like? What did you? What did you land on the other side with will ultimately what I found the therapy

the step he was so interesting because it was the first time ever done that and I it was definitely never a thing that I was opposed to, but I never felt like I needed it in all kind of time. That with this thing is starting to be help, reflective and realizing. I suddenly had patterns looking at those things ultimately laughing at myself, a shit tongue at just the constructs that we make for ourselves the sort of self abuse things that you know, standards that we create for ourselves that are impossible to region all these little things that that were, ultimately all a part of me not taken good care of myself. So I figured all those things out and then just timing was things started to find the place. They don't know if it's related necessarily, but I've felt better as a whole.

In which all timidly is always the best placed to operate from and then Wilfred came about, and I started DJ more and I was also starting a production. Companies is suddenly all these things that I wanted to be doing or that I dream dreamt about doing. Certainly the production company wanting to get behind movies that I love and also playing music, more all kind of started, the fall into place and that kind of very clearly defined various paths that that would sort of bees. I will explore over the next number of years. Well, there's a lot of stuff so that I wanted to talk long answer everyone's, but it was a good answer because it it kind of blends it bleeds nicely into the idea that you know one of the reasons. Why has one of the many reasons? Why have a lot of respect for what you do is that I love watching people who go here. I have a lot of options, but these are the things that I really care about, and these are the things a minute pursue Syria talking about speculation. Your company or you're talking about dj or you're talking about taking a project like Wilfred, so I do what I want to get all that and I definitely want to talk about horrible ethical,

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Who am talking Jonah make sure that you are all apart. The conversation mobilise you, wouldn't we come back on talking with cross border, I guess Eliza would talking. Would I guess is so hopping think it says about it than talking hardware. To be honest, though, in the same family arnwood character, getting everyone shares Aachen, hard wood is a totally different show it built Google that you will be sorry you did, but the new film is, I don't feel at home in this world anymore, which one these Indians Grandpa Jury Prize and eyes by wife when I watch the movie the night and it is spectators Netflix and you think it's gonna- be this kind of Corky comedy between these two characters or to find each other, and it gets so fucked up in the movie in such a fantastic way gets really fucked piazza. What? How did you get involved in what was the movie for you, so making Blair, whose the writer director of the film

he's in it briefly near the beginning, the film he isn't a movie called blue ruin and analytical green room, both directed by Jeremy, solemn, yet huge, huge rooms are right to buy the waiting crammed yet, and I just felt with making and his work, and I met him at a film festival in Austin, fantastic fast that idea every year and he was like here I've written this thing. Would you care to take a look at it, there's a character that I'm interested knew for, and I was like holy shit making. Where wants me to rediscover wrote, I was really excited, so read the script and it was best thing. I'd read in so long: it's the movie! If you see it is very funny, it's also got a lotta heart to it between these two characters that melody thy play and it also correct, devolves and pretty fuckin, gnarly John or if it, because all these things a kind of working in tandem that worked really well and I'm just you have a site that at all kind of worked out that Netflix picked it up and he got to make the movie that he wanted to make. But there is this underlined.

A switch and also Melanie Linsky is such a phenomenal act or she's. So incredible, really nice to she's very, very sweet, but the. But this idea of I just don't want people to be assholes is really a sort of the. This through line of Alien ire movie. It totally is- I mean the movie is about her character, Ruth and her essentially existential crisis of. Why is the world fill with assholes? Everyone treats people with this? and it just one thing after another and the kind of causes a break or she's like programme. Take things in my own hands when her laptop and her grandmother silver stolen and she goes on this sort of mission, ultimately to get her things back. But then it's about we'll know I'm going to find the perpetrators and it's so low stakes. It's about, like anything for you it is not about going to kill them. It's about literally to be able to confront them and be like you,

soul and yes, shouldn't do that. Judges do that two people. Only so that's her! That's our planet, nonsense. This really tiny leg, crime caper, but with super loose. But the new play her neighbor. I play our neighbour com Tony, who is a weird where did yeah he's gonna rat tale the retail! I grab my beard for what little I can grow and he's just a is this guy that is like and with. I think we ve all that people like this people that are super into their thing, that their into it happens to be martial arts for him and heavy metal and fantasy novels so none of the laws of all these things and he gets its that thing of getting a little to site where China puts people off and he's probably not actually isn't very good at martial arts, but he thinks

is right, so he's totally accident not afraid to kick people if he feels it. That is all very at all and he's not good. He does successfully kicks someone in the fact that there is a lot of to him, but he's also kind of isolated like Ruth is isolated. Well make the kind of worked well together. It was just fund a play, a character that is so different from me and so weird and any as is arguing. Kevin would have the right spectacular, yet odds with human. Are they represent a dog named sky? for many years Scott. So I'm a very much I'm very much on board, but you know, but this feels like I completely understand like watching this. And just knowing what I know of you I go. This is this. Is such a perfect thing for you cause it's? It does right those lines between silly and then super fucked up. Yet at the same time totally do is there. I know you and me

you're. The one who told me about shudder, which is the on demand, horror service. You can subscribe to it so Graham and it's so great because it in and not try to make this commercial for shudder, but but they carry so well like everything is really like, very specific genres of horror and also you know what what is the darkness that beats within you like? What is what is the draw for you, to work as my wife and I watched every here and there a big horrify, India. So what's what? What is it for you? It such an interesting question is actually a documentary called. Why horror that asked that very questions. I don't think it's an easy one to answer. For me. It's a little nostalgic cause. I with it. So I have a brother that seven years older than me, and he would show me movies. I wasn't supposed to see so there's that taboo element of getting to see you know migrant, I'm sure we dream warriors when I was six up or a directive Hs movie called through the day, which remains one of my favorite films, so I had that and that this kind of thing-

the forbidden fruit of getting to see something that I'm not supposed to, and then it stuck with me. I think I, like the field, There's a there's, a sort of tone, and in essence to horror that feels good and fun, and it doesn't scare me, but I find it- energy around it fun, and I think I like this- that acts of them. I think they can be oftentimes beautiful. You look at a movie likes a superior. The others is a beautiful piece of art divergent. Everyone. It entails a very, very good, some people new should the water, the italian horror I like them reasons I, like, I, like the site, psychological aspects of them where you ve got a movie like the thing which, even though its

can get grows its ultimately about paranoia, and I love that, but I can also watch a bee grade fucked up thing, just as its super fucked up right. So I kind of love the spectrum by its. It is not an easy question to answer, but Spectre vision so is, is better risen, holiest focused on horror or just spend any kind of subsets genre film. It's what we started out, premier we focused on her with the interest at the time we started. The company is about six or seven years ago. We felt- and it was true there- weren't there wasn't A company consistently making. What we felt were was elevated. January in the U S, most affirms that were being made that we loved at the time were being made in european terms tories things like let the right one in right. The orphanage Spain bright, those kinds of films that sort of took this subject matter. Seriously were more about character than they were about the genre elements. In some ways you can

We always say the best horror. Films are the ones where you can take the genre elements out and still have the compelling story of its really there's something at the core and I still drags now work in the kind of risk. Sounds like there are so many companies doing this, but that was our. That was our intent in or create a space to make these kinds of horror, films that our character and story driven and also pushed the bounds of what people consider horror to be that don't play the same notes that were used to the problem with war. Is it's it's. This weird kind of like degraded step child. You know, like it's kind of a malign, generates often relegated to the bee gray in terms of people's perception. In other there's, an interview on the actresses dvd, making with bloody and freed can we're. Both of them were adamant that the exercise is not a horror film bullets,

physically a horror films, but that- and I think their line of thinking is more of its not a be great movie right, and that- and I think we wanted to change that perception to and sort of make films that are clearly artful and care be ready in a received as beautiful piece of work and are also in the horizontal, looks very difficult to navigate the horizontal, because it's a genre where there is a potential it's their sort of a lottery with horror where you know it's a John: where were you can you can make something really cheaply and especially with Fuckin found footage like if I say fuckin found footage of ugly someone or that what you're just like you would turn up. Bucking camera, at that point. I know there are very few examples and found footage that work. In wreck already see the this: oh yeah, yeah yeah. Of course such networks. The latter works good railways. A reason to film but, like you said the when they're using it as a device- and I think you know like we know what sort of an age

I'm house now and been Bauhaus House is really interesting, because glum house will make some of the best and some of the worst, because their sort of operating on a numbers they are very machine yet and so you, you know you get somewhere. Israel guards Gruber teenagers with a wager board, but then you also get you know. Jordan, peels get out. Yeah I saw was exceptional till you get you get like you get in the car imbalances and conjuring as well. So they make the amazing movies, but because there and a numbers game you get a bunch of them that they are so great either, but we watch all Are there any right now, particularly that you're into my thought, get out was very special event. That is an important film. I think you know I'll never forget seeing that movie in the theater, because that movie is it so subversive. You know it's a movie that is essentially taken You know, I guess he's coming to dinner, sort of and turning it into a genre film statement about our case.

That's a very relevant chain, genuinely making a statement about black culture in our culture and elevating the genre at the same time its exceptional and sit in a predominantly why audience and watch white people get killed and people cheer That is an amazing moment here. That's going to have you seen trained Hassan would not, but I hear that's incredible. Redesigning movie on its own adrian korean rate, reinforce the which is still one of my favorite movies last year. Really you, like the idea, are you fucking bleeding? This is just a little bit I'll. Tell you why I'll tell you why I tell you why ok lag? and then. Finally, at the end, you know when everything kind a rather like, ok. Well, that's it! You know like I get you here is a question of the arms folded. I see defensible and then finally, at the new. No, when everything caught a rather like, ok,

that's it you know like I get have you been here, is a question of the arms folded. I see defensive bypass, ok, ok, I see rocking motion through it, but who is a thing without film that Movie Premier act? Sundance rightly was others are wasn't there. Wasn't it wasn't alpine? Maybe it was south by I can remember, but anyway there was buzz after the film had premier church all this buzz about how it just ordinary this movie was and by the time I saw a screen or of it and then saw again with an audience at fantastic, fast and some of my friends who had built up all this anticipation for right, we're disappointed and I think that they had assumed or were told that it was the scariest movie of all time, which is, true right and that they were expecting some kind of gnarly movie that it is not it? were they setting or character. Yes, that's what I was expecting an aid, so I think that hurt people's perceptions. I didn't like it. I really did I just I was you know from people who you know so well.

We'll stop afore. I did like ah fuck this book, a movie. Then I thought: the goat? Ok, you know anybody, but I live. I really did like It's in the rosemary baby tradition, where right, there's not a great deal that happens but tension and this sort of tightening of that tension as the film gets get railing and the ending so satisfying yeah who their partner, it was blank. Philip man, black yes Black, Philip than other just really quickly. Another will be the girls. All the gifts is really gray had not see me. I see it it's that it's a fantastic zombie movie, but just like haulage we're going to have this is our fan, interaction, question of the show portion of the show, just like college we're gonna, have some folks come up and ass our own questions,

well come on up and ask your question Elijah? What is here, what is your name names, Katy Canines, your question for a larger. Would out of all the projects that you ve worked on? What is the most awkward seen you ve had to film? Oh good question. It did not involve farting most awkward well. I had to I d make out with Christina reaching at the bottom of the pool, from what we called the storm, and my mother was present watching and it wasn't like make out in a kind of truth, In a way it was like to people that didn't know what they're doing sticking there Hungary is far down their throats as possible, so that was the end that was pretty awkward near. The storm was a huge,

I would imagine that will be was a turning point for you was whirled turning point. That was a critical, a critical and commercial success yeah, and it was also for me as an actor it. It put me into work and material that I'd. Never expect before it felt really challenging and more adult than a lot of the films that I've been a part of before and to get a chance to work with an Lee was so exceptional in that cast and the work that we did leading up to it. We all got these package information on and then eighteen. Seventy is the sort of familiarize ourselves with the era, q and aid for each characteristic out about our relationships to herbs, things who we are ass humans and then we read them allowed to ANG into each other, It was just a really involves creative process that was, unlike anything I've experienced. I ever have a special treat for you. You have to put my pants down like these are like these are like dress. Yoga pants, just otherwise they just ride up a kid.

Hey, you're, old grandpa. Scottish candidates varies so these are signed by Elijah. We have video question role in let's roll it might have recently. He fancied he Australia. I've been a big fat Since I was nine years old, my question is: if you could play any super here which super here. Would you pick and why severe? There was a bit o cod thanks for that question. Lucy is losing losing their with Lizzie Lizzie, lucid from Australia, lazy

I don't know, that's a tough question or of a well. You can really become a post growing up really what kind of powers the like. You must have a superhero dream like I always do. I would have thought I'd want the Superman dream. I always have the spider man dream about, climbing up walls and shooting shit yeah. I ask that we are so what about you dude flying dream, your flying GS line dreams. I don't know superhero, oh, why am I forgetting the name of it? Super man? No wonder that one of the greatest graphic novels of all time than the watchman right, so it would probably be worse. Shack, Rochelle! I just think the watchman is incredible and I love that character. Not a thing suburban. I was always Batman was always my favorite because he didn't have superpowers and he was terribly conflict.

Individual and that just made interesting not as played by George Clooney? He was super like everybody. That is true. I was it as in York havoc on one year and he was on a panel and without really catching myself. I go hey sweet, Bruce Wayne Cosplay to George cloning and end in front of everyone, like all. What could I just say any getting stop presenting us have Rwanda I want to apologize. For that to do so. You guys know like apologize for its purpose and in that regard, we have time for another question from the audience of anyone. Else wants to get up What is your name and what is your Christ, I'm tired and when shooting Wilfred, how did it? How did you get used to shooting with a man and a dog costume? It's weird? How quickly that I took it for granted

I live. Like my character, I sort of immediately got super used to like it became a new normal. What became difficult overtime was just trying not to live. Because Jason Hannah so fucking funny and the things that he would come up with on a daily basis where ridiculous and amazing, and always so different and surprising. So that was the biggest challenge I got really used to seeing a minute on customs. I have a special praise where it we are seeing him out of it. This is a very sad. A present, for you say: Elijah's sign that on the side of a second at a video question, being I've been going around here, would you consider doing a musical since you like both acting and music, would you consider doing a musical. I did actually yeah. I would I don't know if I'm gonna grow

singing voice, I think it's kind of fine, maybe audition for one. I have audition for one hour addition formal alone What are you crazy, because the audition, is singing and I'd. Never experience out before us actually took voice lessons for like a week or two before the audition, and I think I did I did some classic like sometimes on. I can't remember what it was embracingly unlike The audition was a mix of performing as an actor like a scene and then to psalms landed like sing and dance wow level. We didn't get an obvious when you were doing when I was terrified, did you feel weird about it when it was happening, or did you feel I fully committed, because I think in that moment, if you feel awkward like it will show- and it's just all gonna be pear shaped, but did you gotta do right? You have decided to go for it again, as I was. You have read it for musical on that shit. Let's take a few card question this really quickly.

From at Honey Assad on Twitter. How often do people ask you to be ring bear at their wedding? I was once once I was once someone got married in the Alamo Draft house. In Austin, Texas and I came over. I think it was doing, but never thought of you ever heard of, but I've heard about number thirty, two great twenty four hour film Festival, Harry, knows of Anna call NEWS programmes Harry great, it's great, its awesome so to people who I think that at but none of them got me. But never thought, and I was the ring literally. They do is like a who is a whole plan thing and they were like. Doesn't it have a ring in a It was great, it was great, is the I mean I definitely have had that question before, not from friends or anything but differently from other people like friends, I suppose but excellent branded Europe, and we want more card questions. Should we go to

What does the voice the voice? The voice says, set fire to all of you. Nor must obey the wise but we're gonna break now. Why don't you guys know the extended uncut version of this chat is available as a nervous, podcast so that's the plan. Yes, so that people can work TV show they gonna get the edited visual version of the thing and then turns can put out the unintended audio is an artist, but can I can hear, as Curse Lincoln here say everything they can to hear you make your filthy little talks not a young man. So please, go to slash, dragging proponents, clips exclusive content and links to depart gas for every one of these episodes, mobilise you, wouldn't

that will be right back in time and profoundly time, precisely because we can start with preserving fixable purpose and they never gonna get used to sing when even the third person listen. Just a few kind, a rapid fire questions, my chemical dead on Instagram. Do you have a favorite meme, a favorite moon? I don't do ok, That's a fair answer? That's affair answers my chemical dad, the poor guy anger. Instagram says what is your favorite video game to waste time with for wasting time, public gta finds nice, nice and then dream beans unread? It surprised you ve, just one phronsie ticket to the most amazing concert, all time which constitute Jews, God, probably Nirvana during the

to her tat. I must I messing about good. You, kids, don't remember Nirvana they smell like T spare We like that that this is a o. This one's was quick and easy. Mackay Smith on Twitter, hey due to have a strange question wondering if you could send me a picture of you flipping the camera off. You wanted to slip off can this one, I mean answer Kosovo arrogance, that, might be perfect and then Rosa really turns it was a kind of girls wearing Phronsie cigarettes. Due to a strange question, you get up Caitlin Smith, one on Instagram. If you can go back and do something differently in any film, what would it be back and do something differently in any film. No, that's a really good

question, and I guess I just me a man. You are perfect, I don't know, do you know? if I M showing warnings that way, though some people don't watch things that way, like sometimes zero percent, when you're done you like. Well, that's what that was in moving onto the next they kind of yeah I don't get overly critical. Ultimately, when I see something for the first time that I worked on and not real. Looking at myself and looking at the whole thing and how the whole thing came together and I dont get, I dont want to micromanage. My own performance are critique it in that same that way, I certainly am critical of my work, but I don't get overly kind of caught up in it, so you think when something is done and I can sort of acknowledged, like yeah yeah, your name, if I feel good or bad about it, but that sort of it we have time for another question from the audience

What is your name, and what is your question I haven't? I could hear the audience was appreciated EU much. What what's my name is there? Sarah welcome when I questioned oh. Thank you my question for years, since you found the Lord of the rings on location and New Zealand, what was the hardest or even scariest, part of shooting there for you, while the hardest part was probably just endurance, long hours long days. You know sixty weeks, just tryin to kind of get used to that amount of work and not getting a lot of rest. Thankfully, the hardest part of it, and the scariest I mean There is nothing ever really truly frightening, but we we went to some wild locations that run tops of mountains, and things like that that, were, I suppose, treacherous to sell,

But I was never scared. It was always super exciting because we got to sort of have these experiences that were so far beyond anything that we never done before and find things and helicopters I loved it shone asked and was really nervous, though I remember one and so he was always so concerned about safety, even though they had it under controls cause. You know they think about those things and reproduction but one day there were in it. We had like four different helicopters that were each landing and like dropping people, often picking them up to take them to a location or back from it. Asian, and so there was a sort of row of like four different helicopters and he got out of the one that had trends have any sort of stands, Baroness, like pointing to the guy

Can you see I've got helicopters behind you, and it's like, I know, should do about sir. How sorry job over various raises very funny, I'm very special present for you. This is some Lord of the rings script page assigned biological world. Thank you very much and then you, I didn't really have a question, but I gotta this guy made an error. You gotta stay indicted, video reassured American. You guys. Can you look look at this shirt here. So this is a picture of me and then this is agitated superimposed. Yet, with a picture of you- and I remember- I was at some kind of convention and this girl asked- if I would I would happen or back- and I was like the live special thing for you. I want to give out the latter has actually major gangsterism. There's no way you did you made this

Can I give you my dear that's amazing? Oh my god, you may be sure you wouldn't have. Thank you. So much does FED testing how you know before we. I think I think I know how and the show by the way, I think I know how foreshadowing maybe a little bit, but before we go we're gonna wrapping this up, and I want to thank you so much for all your time and insight in and also just are being a good guy that I've got to know these past few years. Do have any sort of parting wisdom for people like you know you now that now the czech authorities- exhibit a business for a while. You know as someone who's done really well. Followed their passions. John. So successfully you know what would what are you? What do you say

people who, who maybe it's not like acting advice, just tiny any kind of creator. Oh man, I don't know the thing. That's become more important to me. The older I get is it's very simple, but integrity that cases that we make the reasons why we are making the choices that we're making and that can apply to anything, not doings. Things simply because you think of what it's gonna get you or how it's going to elevate you, but rather what? What? At the core of the thing that you're doing? Do you connect with connect you ear, regardless of whether or not it something that will be digested by people were we'll make you famous are all these sort of ancillary things that come along with artistic endeavours, but how does it? How does it connect to your soul? That's that's what you should follow, not anything else

so integrity, is the most important thing making those choices based on a heart response and a purity of the love of the thing that it is that you're doing, because I think you you you'll ten to head down the wrong path. If, ultimately, the thing that you're trying to achieve is for the wrong reasons, You know it's not about fulfilling yourself internally, but rather these sort of artifices bullshit associated with various artistic endeavours, alleged what I wanna thank you so much for being here. My guess today, on the first episode of talking with Chris Hardwicke, would violate your integrity. Ended the show recreating this pose. No, this is going to happen and you're doing like that is a good living, yeah yeah. So

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