"Brian Cox"

We’re living in a wonder-world with the great Brian Cox. Tempura salad, resting bewildered face, and doing it like a goose. Is it the AC? Nope. It’s an all-new SmartLess.

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• 0:00Sean Hayes?

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• 2:56Jason Bateman?

  You know, Will, I'd love to do a podcast with you today.

• 3:01Will Arnett?

  I'd love to do a podcast.

• 3:02Jason Bateman?

  But I'm a little sore about something. You know, I've noticed in the past, you know, you do like a fake countdown for stuff.

• 3:09Will Arnett?

  Yep.

• 3:10Jason Bateman?

  And you will stop after three and you won't go all the way.

• 3:14Will Arnett?

  We've been through this before. We did it on a previous cold open.

• 3:17Jason Bateman?

  I don't think I've ever mentioned this to you before.

• 3:18Will Arnett?

  And at five.

• 3:19Jason Bateman?

  It may have come up on a cold open once.

• 3:21Will Arnett?

  Welcome to Smartless. And now I'm, no, I'm going silent from four down.

• 3:26Jason Bateman?

  Welcome to Smartless.

• 3:45Jason Bateman?

  How did everybody sleep? We just saw each other 10 hours ago.

• 3:49Will Arnett?

  Really well.

• 3:49Jason Bateman?

  Good.

• 3:50Will Arnett?

  Oh, good.

• 3:50Jason Bateman?

  Why? Do you have a story about your sleep?

• 3:54Sean Hayes?

  No, I was good. It was, it was okay. It was okay. No, but I-

• 3:58Jason Bateman?

  Wait, did you have the mask on last night?

• 4:00Sean Hayes?

  No, I don't sleep with a mask.

• 4:02Jason Bateman?

  Oh, you don't do the hose, the hose and the?

• 4:04Sean Hayes?

  No, I stopped that. It didn't really work. Don't cover your mouth when you sneeze.

• 4:07Will Arnett?

  I'm by myself.

• 4:09Sean Hayes?

  I know, but just practice.

• 4:11Will Arnett?

  No, because then, because then I just get my sleeve dirty.

• 4:13Sean Hayes?

  Oh, because you're gonna be on camera.

• 4:14Jason Bateman?

  It gets all over the Laura Piana, huh?

• 4:16Will Arnett?

  Beautiful, beautiful cash.

• 4:18Jason Bateman?

  Beautiful Laura Piana.

• 4:19Will Arnett?

  No, but I did see- Laura Piana sent me this beautiful jacket.

• 4:22Sean Hayes?

  I like them, actually. I, or him, or whatever.

• 4:24Will Arnett?

  Do you?

• 4:25Sean Hayes?

  I, um, I did take a valium to sleep like a cup. Look at him go.

• 4:28Will Arnett?

  I don't know.

• 4:29Jason Bateman?

  Will, did you get into the bottom of a bag last night? Um.

• 4:35Jason Bateman?

  Are you all out? You have somebody on their way over?

• 4:37Will Arnett?

  It's, I don't even know. It must be the A.C. in this room or there's something. Is it the A.C.?

• 4:46Will Arnett?

  We got a whole junket to get. When was the last time you guys saw Don in New York City? I tell you, it's amazing. It's just so full of promise this city. Don in his van? Yeah.

• 4:57Will Arnett?

  I love having, going out for beers for breakfast.

• 5:01Sean Hayes?

  Oh, my God. I can't.

• 5:03Jason Bateman?

  Sean, what did you do last night?

• 5:06Sean Hayes?

  Um, Scotty and I, oh, I, I ran the show. I, I have to run the line, so that kicked a couple hours. And then, um-

• 5:13Will Arnett?

  And then he did about a pound and a half of sloppy joes.

• 5:16Sean Hayes?

  By the way, I totally had a sloppy joe.

• 5:19Jason Bateman?

  Higher.

• 5:19Sean Hayes?

  At 10 o'clock. That's crazy. You just said that.

• 5:21Will Arnett?

  It's not much of a, it's not much of a stretch or a leap for me to go to a sloppy joe.

• 5:25Sean Hayes?

  I really did have a sloppy joe at 10 p.m.

• 5:26Jason Bateman?

  Did you put it together yourself or was it leftover from the, um, the-

• 5:30Sean Hayes?

  It was leftover.

• 5:30Jason Bateman?

  Kitchen help you have?

• 5:32Sean Hayes?

  It was leftover. But it's funny that you say that because I, um, remember yesterday when I was like, I'm eating lunch at 2:30, 2 o'clock or 2:30. So that's why I had a sloppy joe at 10 o'clock.

• 5:41Jason Bateman?

  But then what did you, what did you have at your 2:30 late lunch?

• 5:45Sean Hayes?

  I had a fried chicken salad.

• 5:48Will Arnett?

  You had a chicken salad?

• 5:49Jason Bateman?

  No, no, fried chicken salad.

• 5:50Will Arnett?

  Fried, oh, fried chicken salad. So they took what? They took the lettuce and the chicken? They threw it all in the fryer? What happened? Everything gets fried in that scenario? Even the bowl or? And then, and then Now we call it tempura. So you had the fried, you had the fried chicken salad. Tempura salad. Right, Sean, you had this, you had this snickerdoodle at 11:30. Yeah, I did. Right, the big one. Yeah, because I knew. That you kept going in and out of the bag to keep it fresh was your logic? That's exactly right. While you're eating it. And the fried chicken at 2:30. So then at 2:30, you have the fried chicken salad with, what did you drink? What was your beverage at that lunch? Milk with every meal. At the lunch? Yeah. At the restaurant? No, no, it was here, it was here. And did they look at you, did they say, did they say, is there a child coming to this lunch?

• 6:32Will Arnett?

  No? It was here at home. We don't see the, we don't offer stuff, we don't have a kids menu. Yeah, but here are the crayons. But, yeah. So you have that at 2:30, and then you're trying to tell us, you're trying to tell us that you have the fried chicken lunch, fried chicken salad, and that nothing, you had nothing else until you had the sloppy joe. At 10:30. Uh, yeah, that's true. No dinner. Nothing, nothing, no snack? Uh, no, nothing. No candy? You didn't, you didn't graze, go by the candy jar? I don't think I did. Candy bowl, there. Wait, I don't, this is, I don't think I did is, is a real soft way, it's a, it's an entry into, you know, actually, what was it?

• 7:13Will Arnett?

  Just be honest. No, maybe I just a milky way. I maybe had a couple of starbursts. A couple of starbursts, there we go, so you wanted to get some plastic in there.

• 7:22Will Arnett?

  Shut his door, all the sloppy joe. He needs some binding, something to bind up that sloppy joe. Yeah, forget about rice. Wow. Uh, anyway, anyway, what? And you're, and you're like, I can't, I can't figure it out, I don't feel it. I'm so tired all day. I don't know what's going on. My sleeve's fucked up, it's so weird. I don't know, what, what'd you have, let me run you through it, and none of it adds up, let me run you through it.

• 7:48Will Arnett?

  I'll tell you what, though, Sean, I'll tell you what does that up. Oh, yeah. The acclaim for our guest, he has been nominated for four Golden Globes. Oh, is that right? And he's won one. Oh, okay. And he's been nominated for countless SAG Awards, I think like seven, won a couple of those, won an Emmy nominated five times, BAFTA's, he's been nominated like seven, eight times, won two of those. This is a qualified guest. This is a very qualified guest, this is a guy who, his list of performances, is one of those guys that has its own page, you know what I mean, and has nothing to do with the length of time he's been on this planet, but just about the amount that people want him to be in their projects. I love that. I love him from everything. He is. He's one of the guys you're gonna say, we'll guess it if we.

• 8:33Will Arnett?

  You're gonna guess if I say. He is the original Dr. Hannibal Lecter. He's got a brave heart. He knows a little bit about the Bourne Identity. And he's also in line for succession. It is the one and only Mr. Brian Cox.

• 8:47Speaker 03

  Good lord. This is a guest. Hello, sir. Good morning. Hello, Jason. Hello, Sean. Well done, Will. Nice to see you all.

• 8:57Will Arnett?

  Great to see you, Brian. Plus, I should mention also, Brian, that your new film that you've directed, Glenrothen, releases on April 17th.

• 9:06Speaker 03

  What's the name of it again?

• 9:07Will Arnett?

  Glenrothen?

• 9:08Speaker 03

  It's called Glenrothen. It's about a Scottish, it's about two brothers who are, they own this distillery. But one, the younger brother, who's played brilliantly by Alan Cumming. He's the one that was the real talent in the family. And I also play Sandy, the oldest brother, who is just a plotter. You know, he's just a manager. That's what he does. And the other brother has had a bad relationship with our father. And I actually cast my own son as my father because I wanted him to see what it was like being a father.

• 9:46Will Arnett?

  Oh, that's wild. That's wild.

• 9:50Speaker 03

  So we did that. And he was very good. He was very tough and very scary as well. Brian, this can't be the first time you've directed something, is it? No, I directed in the theater, but this was my debut as a film director. Okay. How did it go? What were you surprised with? I was surprised that I made it. I don't mean I made the film, that I made it through the whole shoot. It was a bit scary. And it was a very odd situation to be in, you know, because I came from an egalitarian viewpoint. I wanted everybody to do their best work. You know, we've all suffered at the hands of various directors over the years and their conceptions that they wanted to include us. And I just want them to fuck off, really, basically.

• 10:36Speaker 03

  You know, fuck me about with all that shit, all your ego stuff and control. And I really, some directors I really like. I've worked with some really good ones. But a lot of the time you go, the best director I ever worked with unquestionably on film was Lindsay Anderson. You know the director, Lindsay Anderson? I don't, no. You don't know Lindsay Anderson? No, no, I should get to know it. God almighty, it's just appalling. You young people, what you don't know. Click and then you just hang up. You know, you, you live in a wonder world. I don't know, anyway. Man or woman? Uh, man, Lindsay's a man. He was a, he directed a very famous, well, he directed a series of films. The first film I ever saw was a thing called Disporting Life.

• 11:21Speaker 03

  Oh, sure, I heard of that. With Richard, with Richard Harris. Okay. It's about a rugby team set up north, written by wonderful David Story, who's a great, well, he's passed away now, a great writer. And, uh, yeah, I mean, he, he, he was just. What made him great? What, what, what did you like about his style? Because he just gave you the right note. He gave you the right note. I mean, he would, uh, he would come up with scenes, he would do a scene and he, I went, I, the, the play I did was with Alan Bates. Do you remember Alan Bates? It's a half a good name. Alan Bates, the actor Alan Bates. Yup. Sean, you know who the actor Alan Bates is? Yes, of course. My god, you guys need some training, you really do.

• 12:02Speaker 03

  Anyway, Alan Bates, uh, who was famous in Sorba, The Greek, and, you know, he did a lot of movies, Alan. And, uh, he played my elder brother and I played the younger brother. And Lindsay would come up with, he said, he would come in and he would go, "Ah, it's good, it's good, but there's a little bit of attitudinizing in the scenes. Can we kind of remove the attitudinizing and just play the scene?" I mean, that's a simple thing, a simple note where you go, "Ah, I see what you mean. I'm striking an attitude that I try to hold on to throughout the scene." Yes. Actually, the scene reveals itself and the attitude reveals itself. And he was the first director to understand. Now, most directors wouldn't know what the fuck he was talking about. Right, right. You know, they just don't have a fucking clue, you know? Sorry, I mustn't be too.

• 12:45Speaker 03

  Had, had Lindsay ever done any acting? Do, do you know? Uh, no, he, he, he started a magazine, uh, with a guy called Gavin Lambert, called Sight and Sound, which was big, was with the big first film magazine that was made really after the war. Because he was, he was a war, you know, he was, he was at university, did post-war. Yeah. And, um. It was just extraordinary. I mean, the other thing he did was a film called If. I don't know if you saw that. That was a film with Malcolm McDowell, which is set in a public school, boy, a school, a public school. And then, and he did a film called Oh Lucky Man, which was the follow up to that. So, catch up, guys.

• 13:27Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 13:28Will Arnett?

  I know.

• 13:29Speaker 03

  Of Lindsay Anderson.

• 13:30Will Arnett?

  I know. I feel like I've, I feel like I've seen If. Uh, wait, uh, Brian.

• 13:34Jason Bateman?

  You're thinking of the, um, Ryan Reynolds, uh, John Krasinski vehicle. I was just gonna say that.

• 13:38Will Arnett?

  You're right, maybe.

• 13:39Jason Bateman?

  Imaginary friend.

• 13:40Will Arnett?

  That was a lot of fun. That was a lot of fun.

• 13:42Jason Bateman?

  Good fun.

• 13:43Will Arnett?

  Brian, did you have, so when you ended up making your, uh, uh, feature film, uh, debut, directorial debut, did you find that it shifted? Did you sort of retroactively, like, go back and kind of shift your opinion of directors? And did it, did it, did it sort of even anything out?

• 14:02Speaker 03

  Well, I had, I had more sympathy for them.

• 14:03Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 14:04Speaker 03

  But I still think a bunch of them are twats.

• 14:06Will Arnett?

  Yeah, sure.

• 14:08Speaker 03

  I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I must be too.

• 14:10Jason Bateman?

  It's great.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  But I think you all agree with me. I think you've all been through that as well, you know, those guys.

• 14:15Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's always interesting, like, you know, a director definitely needs to have a plan and, and, and pardon the term, a vision and all that stuff. But when it comes to performance, you realize that they think they can control it, but it is like one of the, one of the few lanes in making something that you can't control. You can't control performance, you can't control music. Like, everything else, you can kind of get in there and make a decision on. But performance and music, there's stuff that happens in between action and cut that you just can't micromanage. It's gotta live, it's gotta breathe. And that character is the actor's character. It's not the director's character or the writer's character. Like, you have to own it. And to be able to give the actor the kind of latitude

• 14:57Jason Bateman?

  to really feel like it's theirs, I think that frees up a really exciting performance as opposed to trying to get them to do the version of the character you always saw in your head.

• 15:07Speaker 03

  Right, absolutely, absolutely. Well, you know, I've suffered under that for the last fifty years. Or even sixty years, God.

• 15:13Jason Bateman?

  Well, you pushed through it very, very successfully. My God, the performances I've been able The watch you do, Brian, it's just, uh. It's an incredible career. Let me just say thank you.

• 15:24Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I, I, you have done so many and, and you know, uh, these guys know, I, I go on and on about my, some of my favorite films, uh.

• 15:33Jason Bateman?

  And you have one of the, one of, one of Will's favorite quotes, too. About, uh, what, what is it? I'm gonna paraphrase it here. I'm too old, too rich and too famous to give a fuck.

• 15:44Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 15:44Speaker 03

  Something like that. I'm too old, too tired and too talented to give a fuck.

• 15:49Will Arnett?

  It's so good. Brian, I love that so fucking much.

• 15:53Jason Bateman?

  That is really good.

• 15:54Will Arnett?

  I just fucking love it. I love how you don't, and I'm, in the best way, you don't give a shit. But I know you do about the things you do give a shit about.

• 16:04Jason Bateman?

  Just the silly stuff.

• 16:05Speaker 03

  Exactly, exactly. Well, the, the thing I was determined to do with the movie was to give, uh, get everybody give their talent. You know, the, the costume department, the wardrobe department, the, the, I mean, that's the same. And the, the, the design of the film and the, and the DP. And you know, you, you just want people to do their best work, not to say, do it this way.

• 16:26Jason Bateman?

  Right.

• 16:27Speaker 03

  Cause once you say, do it this way, you're, you've immediately put a block up for them to go, oh, I've gotta do it this way. I can't do it. So I, I didn't do any of that. I just said, give me what you're giving me. Tell me what you want me to do. Tell me what you want to, in the, in the design department, tell me what you want to achieve. And, and therefore one had an incredibly happy crew. Probably a terrible film, but we had a happy crew.

• 16:50Will Arnett?

  No, but it's a true collaboration. I mean, you hired those people for a reason because you like what they do.

• 16:57Jason Bateman?

  Provide an environment where they feel like they can.

• 16:58Speaker 03

  That's exactly right, Will. That's exactly right. And, and not enough of that goes on. We don't trust. We really don't trust. We don't trust nearly enough. And if somebody comes on and says, um, this is the design, you just say, well, let's see what you do and do what you wanna do. Do what you feel is right. And of course, you can modify and all that, but at least you're not impending them. You're not stopping them from being creative.

• 17:20Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 17:21Jason Bateman?

  Wait, so for Glenn Roth and is it, did that, did you find the project or did the project find you? How did that happen?

• 17:26Speaker 03

  Well, it was a, it was, I didn't find the project. It's written by a guy called David Ashton. I, I do, you know, we still do radio back, would you believe? I don't, you know what the radio is?

• 17:39Jason Bateman?

  Sure, sure.

• 17:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, sure.

• 17:42Speaker 03

  We still, I still do radio back in the old country. And I've been doing a series for 20 years, which I go off and do for three days. And it's a series about an Edinburgh detective called McLeavy. And it's been very popular. We get about a million listeners.

• 18:00Will Arnett?

  Wow.

• 18:00Speaker 03

  And that's, and David wrote this. And he, they came to me and a guy called Neil Zager, who's also a pal. And Neil said, you're going to be directing this film. And I've never directed a film. And I said, what? He said, you're going, you're going to direct the film. And I, and they, and they said, and you could be in it. I said, oh, that's kind. And thank you for letting me be in it.

• 18:24Will Arnett?

  You can cast yourself, yeah.

• 18:25Speaker 03

  Well, you know, you know, it's a wonderful, wonderful. There's a great comedian in Scotland called Stanley Baxter. And there's a great scene which he used to do when he played a little boy, you know. And also he had, his grandfather's dying. And his grandfather's looking out the window and saying, son, one day, all this will be yours. From the hills to the river and all that land out there. And he goes on and on and on. And the wee boy says, you know, grandpa, that's an awfully big job for one wee boy on his own.

• 19:02Speaker 03

  So that was, that's what I was reminded of, how an awfully big job it is for one wee boy on his own.

• 19:07Will Arnett?

  Well, it's, it's funny, it's funny you mention that one wee boy on his own. Because I was thinking about, you're, you grew up in Dundee, born and raised in Dundee, Scotland.

• 19:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:17Will Arnett?

  And, and now, and now you're a sort of, forgive me, a sort of a world famous actor, reclaimed actor. How did you go from that to that? What was that leap from your, what I, what I've read, very, very humble beginnings?

• 19:35Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah. Well, my, my, my dad died when I was eight. And my mom had a, uh, he was only fifty-one, he had pancreatic cancer and he died when I was at, and I had three elder sisters, I was the youngest, and a, and a kind of crazy brother who used to go off and disappear, and he was, he was nine years older than me, and I was the baby. And my dad died, and then my mom had a series of terrible nervous breakdowns, which resulted in her having electric shock treatment, which, I mean, she lost about sixty pounds in weight. I mean, she was unrecognized, I mean, she was a little overweight to start with, but she was underweight. So, I had no parents for most of my, I had my sisters, and I didn't realize it, but it

• 20:19Speaker 03

  was the best thing that ever happened to me. It's a tragedy, in one sense, losing your mom and losing your dad, certainly, I was heartbroken, but I was liberated. No fucker was telling me what to do. No fucker was, no parent was giving.

• 20:34Jason Bateman?

  How, how old did you, you were eight years old when your dad passed?

• 20:36Speaker 03

  Eight, eight.

• 20:37Jason Bateman?

  And then your mom, and how old were you when your mom?

• 20:40Speaker 03

  Well, she died much later, but my mom went into almost immediately, she had, she had a huge breakdown, and she was just hopeless. And also, we were, we were sending my youngest sister, actually, my youngest of my older sisters, you know, she's twelve years older than me, and there were my two older sisters who were married, had children, I mean, I was, they were amazing, they were just amazing what they did, but they didn't, they didn't look after me, but they looked out for me, which was better than being looked after. They made sure that I was okay.

• 21:08Jason Bateman?

  Did you find that you were making a lot of really good decisions, or did you make some bad ones and learn from those?

• 21:14Speaker 03

  Well, you just learn, you know, you learn, you know, I mean, I made good decisions and I made bad decisions, you know, but I made, but at least I could get the lay of the land, you know, what was going on.

• 21:25Jason Bateman?

  But I imagine that Dundee's Scotland at that time was a, was a tough place to grow up, yeah?

• 21:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, it wasn't easy, you know, and it's a lot tougher now because we have the You know, don't get me started, but they, we have, um, sorry. I wanted to be more humorful on this, but I'm in here.

• 21:44Will Arnett?

  It's your fitting right in.

• 21:45Speaker 03

  No, what, what happened is that we have the highest heroin addiction in Europe, in my hometown.

• 21:51Sean Hayes?

  Oh, in your hometown?

• 21:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, because of the poverty, and it's all about poverty. And it's what makes me a socialist. Socialists, I mean, what I can't stand about this country we're in is how they confuse communism with socialism.

• 22:06Will Arnett?

  Sure.

• 22:07Speaker 03

  Socialism is not communism. Socialism is social welfare, taking care of the people. Communism is a dictate. So, you know, and I wish Americans would understand that, what the difference is.

• 22:18Will Arnett?

  Good luck.

• 22:19Speaker 03

  What a socialist is, you know.

• 22:21Will Arnett?

  As a Canadian, as a Canadian, let me say good luck to you trying to explain it to them, Brian.

• 22:25Sean Hayes?

  Well, they figured it out in, in New York.

• 22:26Speaker 03

  Well, the Canadians seem to understand it rather well.

• 22:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah. We've got a pretty good understanding.

• 22:31Speaker 03

  No disrespect to either Jason or Sean, but, you know, Americans don't get it. They just, they just don't get it.

• 22:39Will Arnett?

  Well, they don't understand, and I'm not, I, I don't consider myself really anything, but I do understand that we ha, we have to take care. We're only as strong, the idea, we're only as strong as our weakest link. And that there has to be a net, because once you, if, if there is not a sort of a social net, then the whole thing falls apart. And it sort of decays from underneath. If you have extreme poverty, which we do in this country, then, then the entire thing is resting, the, the, the foundation of the, our society is rotted from underneath, you know.

• 23:08Will Arnett?

  So anyway.

• 23:08Sean Hayes?

  So, Brian, growing up there, you said it wasn't as bad, but what gave you the hope or the courage to seek something better?

• 23:16Speaker 03

  Well, I had two teachers. I mean, my education was a disaster. It was a technical education. I was supposed to be, I was trained to be a bricklayer, really was, was what I was trained to be. I mean, I never laid a brick in my life, but, or, you know, but that's, that was supposed to be my destiny. And I thought, fuck that for a game of soldiers. I'm not doing that. I'm not playing him in that way. And I just wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be an actor since I was three, you know, and that was my desire, just to act.

• 23:44Sean Hayes?

  Where did that come from? Where, did you watch a lot of TV or?

• 23:48Speaker 03

  Oh, I, we had 21 cinemas in my hometown.

• 23:51Sean Hayes?

  Wow, wow, that's a ton.

• 23:53Speaker 03

  Before the war, we had 42 cinemas, but after the war, we had 21, and now there's about four. And I visited every single cinema. And where I lived, there was a right angles to where I live up from up the street. There was something called Astor Stone Terrace. And there was my church, the library, the Broadway cinema. And opposite that was the Royal. And it was double features. So you'd go in at six o'clock and you would get out at 11. So I used to go there all the time.

• 24:25Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 24:26Speaker 03

  In fact, I'm surprised that my, when they were alive, that they even noticed I existed, my parents, because I was in the cinema most of the time.

• 24:35Sean Hayes?

  Was it a form of escapism? Is that what brought you into the theater initially?

• 24:39Speaker 03

  No, I don't think it's escapism. It's just joy.

• 24:43Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 24:43Speaker 03

  It wasn't, I mean, I just got so much joy out of it, you know? And you live in Dundee, which was pretty heavy going, you know, in those days. I mean, it's a great community. I mean, that, but the city fathers always make a balls up. You know, they took people out of the town and they put them in these schemes, which is why they're still paying for it now. In fact, the Lord Provis said to me, you know, we're trying to get people back into the city. I said, you should never have taken them out of the city in the first fucking place. I said, that's so important. That's who they are. They're from that, and then you put them, you isolate them without any, any proper conditions, you know? And therefore the heroin, the drunks, the whole thing just spirals out of, you know? And this is something that really gets me more and more and more.

• 25:28Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 25:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:31Sean Hayes?

  We'll be right back.

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• 27:08Will Arnett?

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• 28:16Sean Hayes?

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• 29:29Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 29:32Will Arnett?

  So then you have this love of cinema. You go into the theater all the time. And then you went to, if I'm right, you went to theater school in Scotland?

• 29:41Speaker 03

  I went to Lambda.

• 29:43Will Arnett?

  Oh, you went to Lambda. Okay.

• 29:44Speaker 03

  Yeah. What was wonderful was I was, there was a guy called Bill Davis, who ran, there was a series of directors at Dundee Rep. And the last guy was a Canadian called Bill Davis. Now, Bill is a director and a writer in his own mind. He lives in Vancouver. And also, he's part of that Davis, you know, the famous Davis family, who run a lot of theaters in Canada. And Bill was great. And he said, he invited me. I was, I think I was just 16, if that, anyway. Yeah, I was just 16. And he invited me to a voice class. And I'd never been to a, I didn't even know what a voice class was. What's a voice class? He said, "Come along to a voice class." And I went along. And there was this, he said, "We've got this young woman who's coming up from London.

• 30:29Speaker 03

  She's just taken over now because the previous voice teacher, who was a genius, died. And this lady's taken over." And I said, "Who is this?" She says, "She's called Kristen Linklater." Have you heard of Kristen Linklater? No, you see?

• 30:43Will Arnett?

  See, we don't know anything.

• 30:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:45Will Arnett?

  We're smartless.

• 30:46Speaker 03

  I'm surprised at how really ignorant you both are. Except the Canadian. I find the Canadian isn't ignorant at all, but you two guys are really deeply fucking ignorant.

• 30:53Will Arnett?

  You're right on. You're right on the money. You're right on the money.

• 30:57Speaker 03

  You know, you sit there and wonder going, oh.

• 31:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. Great. We're here to learn. Little baby boy.

• 31:06Speaker 03

  So anyway, she was, well, look up Kristen Lake, because she was, she's sadly passed away. Her son is an actor called Hamish Linklater. I don't know if you've come across him. And she, no, you don't know him. What about like Taylor Swift?

• 31:22Speaker 03

  Anyway.

• 31:24Will Arnett?

  They think that you're making these names up.

• 31:26Speaker 03

  I know, I know.

• 31:27Will Arnett?

  Oh, wait, yes. Yes, I know Hamish Linklater.

• 31:29Speaker 03

  They resonate, but.

• 31:31Will Arnett?

  You guys know Hamish Linklater. I know, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, yes.

• 31:36Speaker 03

  God, the Canadian, he's so sensible. What is wrong with you two others?

• 31:41Will Arnett?

  My Google's faster, but.

• 31:45Will Arnett?

  I know exactly Hamish Linklater. So, so anyway, so, so that happens.

• 31:49Speaker 03

  So I go to, I go to Dundee. My first day in Dundee was a very funny day because I went up for my interview. And I went up to the front of the theatre and this woman in a very broad dandora, and I said, what you want, son? I said, I'm, I'm here for an interview. So I said, ah, you can't get into the front for the front. You've got to go in the back to get to the front. You can get to the front for the back, but you can't get to the front for the front. So go in the back and then you can get to the front. I said, okay. So I went round the back. And as I walked in, there was an almighty row, a fight going on between an actor. Now, I'm gonna say an actor's name and you probably don't even know who the fuck he is, but anyway.

• 32:25Will Arnett?

  There we go. We've been pretty good so far.

• 32:28Speaker 03

  You've scored brilliantly. Anyway, this actor was called Nick Williamsen. Oh, yes. Nickel. If I had a nickel. We've struck gold at last. Anyway, so I'm, this Nick Williamsen, and I'm always like that, and he's not gonna, you fucking, I'm making money. That is a great impression of him. You fucking man, I'm making you, I'm making you. And I'm trying to get past them to get up for my interview and I'm, and I'm 15 and I've never been in a backstage before. So I'm, I'm getting up and I'm climbing up the stairs. I get past them finally. And I'm standing on the landing and there's a wonderful actor called Don Grange who's smoking a cigarette. And he looked at me and he said, are you all right, darling? And I went, that man just called me darling.

• 33:13Sean Hayes?

  Right.

• 33:14Speaker 03

  I have never been called darling before in my life. This is clearly where I must be. I have to be in this place.

• 33:21Sean Hayes?

  Right, that's great. Well, I have to ask you, because I'm the person that always asks this. What's your favorite stage show you've ever done? And what's the worst thing that's ever happened on stage in love theater?

• 33:32Speaker 03

  Well, the worst thing that ever happened, and actually, one of my favorite shows I did was I did a show by, do you know who Conor McPherson is? No, there you go. He's a very famous Irish playwright. And he's had a few plays on Broadway, and I did a play of his called St. Nicholas, in which I played a theater critic. It was a one-man show. It was a wonderful show, really, very, very funny, very inventive. And it's about this theater critic who becomes obsessed by this actress, and he becomes obsessed by her, and he follows her. And to, he follows her, he gets, the place he's in, he gives a bad review to in Dublin. And in his persona non grata, because of his terrible review, having flirted with this actress.

• 34:15Speaker 03

  And finally, he goes, he follows them to London, and he follows them to their home. And he nearly rapes the girl, but he doesn't. So he ends up being kicked out, and he eventually goes to work for vampires. He meets a vampire on Crystal Palace Hill, and this vampire says, if you could bring people to our house, and, you know, we like to suck blood, but we never kill, we just only suck, we don't kill.

• 34:39Sean Hayes?

  It seems reasonable.

• 34:41Speaker 03

  And I said, that seems reasonable to me. But the idea was, he would allow me a space so I could write. And the whole point of it is the fact that he's wanting somebody to write the story. So I did this play, which was a really good play. So I, one night, I come on, and I start, I start the play, and I look to my right, and there's... My ex-girlfriend.

• 35:04Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 35:05Speaker 03

  What is she doing here? And then I carry on and then I turn over and there on my other side was my ex-ex-girlfriend. And they're literally sitting opposite one another.

• 35:15Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 35:17Speaker 03

  And I'm completely thrown. And I just say to the audience, I said, I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but I'm gonna have to start again.

• 35:24Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 35:25Speaker 03

  Yeah. I said, I'm gonna have to start again because this is, this is, uh, I, I can't explain what it is, but really just please trust me, I, I will be better second.

• 35:35Will Arnett?

  No way.

• 35:36Sean Hayes?

  Did you see them, did you see them after the show?

• 35:39Speaker 03

  I did.

• 35:40Sean Hayes?

  Oh my god.

• 35:41Speaker 03

  I did.

• 35:43Speaker 03

  And what happened was that after the show, they came on and they said, oh, that was lovely. We enjoyed it. Oh, and tremendous. And I said, why were you sitting to, to one of the girls, I said, why were you sitting opposite Arena? And, and she said, I wasn't. I said, you were. She said, well, I never noticed. I said, well, I noticed.

• 36:00Sean Hayes?

  Right, right, right.

• 36:02Speaker 03

  And you're literally sitting right opposite. And I said to Arena, I said, did you not, no, I never noticed. And I, so I went through agony for no reason.

• 36:09Will Arnett?

  And they had no, yeah.

• 36:11Speaker 03

  And then that was it.

• 36:12Will Arnett?

  But that's the, Sean, I mean, it makes me think, Sean, you're about to do, uh,

• 36:17Sean Hayes?

  A one-man show.

• 36:17Will Arnett?

  A one-man show.

• 36:18Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 36:18Will Arnett?

  Sean is, Sean opens, well, it'll be on now, I think, uh, by the time this airs. But Sean's doing a one-man show, uh, off Broadway.

• 36:26Sean Hayes?

  What's it called, Shawnee, and what theater will it be in? It's called The Un, thanks, you guys. It's called The Unknown and it's at Studio Seaview, which is, um, Forty-third and Eighth Avenue. It's a, it's a, yeah, it's.

• 36:39Will Arnett?

  But Brian, you'll understand, having explained, like, doing a one-man show, and I was talking to Sean as he's been preparing for it this fall. And, and just getting off book, just learning the fucking, the way of.

• 36:51Speaker 03

  That's another story.

• 36:52Sean Hayes?

  Still not off book totally and it's been three months.

• 36:55Will Arnett?

  You're pretty, you're pretty good.

• 36:55Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, decent, yeah.

• 36:57Will Arnett?

  He runs the show every day. He ha, you have to, right?

• 37:00Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's scary. I'm scared shitless. I mean, we're, we're recording this and I haven't opened yet. By the time this comes out, I'd have it opened. So if I, if I'm alive, I'll let you know. But, um, but isn't it hard?

• 37:10Speaker 03

  Send the postcard.

• 37:11Sean Hayes?

  Yeah. But Brian, I mean, like, the, the one-man show thing, it's just, it's, it's colossal, isn't it?

• 37:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, it is, it is, it is. I mean, I remember I came on one night and a guy, I walked on and a guy, it's like, came on, he opened his program and he went, And I took the program out of his hand.

• 37:29Sean Hayes?

  Throw it away?

• 37:29Speaker 03

  I just took the program out of his hand.

• 37:31Sean Hayes?

  You don't need it. But I mean, yeah, but isn't it, I mean, did you ever go off? Like, go up on the line? I said in rehearsal, I was like, can I please have the script just offstage for emergencies? If I can't remember where I'm at, I just have to, I'm just gonna, there's nothing you can do. You just gotta walk off.

• 37:50Will Arnett?

  So you're just gonna dip offstage and take a look?

• 37:53Sean Hayes?

  What are you gonna do? I mean, you know, I don't know what else to do.

• 37:56Speaker 03

  Well, I tell you what's great now, I mean, because I'm a considerable old age now. Well, I don't, I don't really think about that, but other people tell me I am.

• 38:04Will Arnett?

  No, no, no, you wear it well, you wear it well.

• 38:06Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 38:07Speaker 03

  Earpiece.

• 38:08Sean Hayes?

  I know, I know, but I, but I don't know, I can't, I can't imagine somebody talking to you while you're talking.

• 38:14Jason Bateman?

  But only if you go up, maybe if you, only if you go up, do they then talk to you, right?

• 38:17Speaker 03

  The earpiece, I've done the earpiece a few times. And the thing about the earpiece is don't think about it as learning lines. Think about it as volition in the play, that you wanna keep it moving. So you wanna keep it moving in a certain way. So this, because when you get to my age, and you know, you go, your brain isn't working in the same way. It's a little slower.

• 38:37Sean Hayes?

  So, but Brian-

• 38:37Speaker 03

  By the way, Sean, I just, I just wanna say, I saw your show in London, by the way, and I thought you-

• 38:42Sean Hayes?

  Oh, I didn't know that, thank you.

• 38:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, I did, I just saw it, and you were absolutely brilliant. That was an amazing show. But there is, I do have a funny story about it, and please don't be offended by the funny story, but anyway. So I'm sitting there and I'm watching this amazing evening, and I stood up and, you know, I kinda went, oh, Christ! Because it was so extraordinary.

• 39:01Sean Hayes?

  Thank you.

• 39:02Speaker 03

  And the guy later on, the guy said, he said, "That was a wonderful mime." I said, "What do you mean?" I said, "The guy, the way he mimed to the piano." I said, "That was him for real, you fucking idiot."

• 39:14Sean Hayes?

  You know, people have said that, and it's like, if I were to mime it, or like, I'd have to imitate it perfectly with all the notes. So why not just play it?

• 39:22Speaker 03

  Exactly, exactly.

• 39:23Will Arnett?

  By the way, by the way, it would almost be more impressive if it was a mime.

• 39:29Will Arnett?

  That's almost harder than playing it.

• 39:31Jason Bateman?

  Was there ever that discussion, Sean, to turn the piano such that the audience, some of the audience could see the keys?

• 39:37Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, well, oh, I thought you were gonna say the other thing that they couldn't so that, because I did, I panicked before we opened, talking about Good Night Oscar.

• 39:45Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 39:45Sean Hayes?

  And talking before, I panicked, I was like, if something, if I hurt my hand, or I can't do it, or like, or I get scared, and I can't, I've been playing it too many times, can we just run a tape and I'll just fake it with the keys facing a wave, you know?

• 39:57Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 39:57Sean Hayes?

  And the director's like, you're gonna be fine. I'm like, but you don't understand.

• 40:00Will Arnett?

  No, but you did record it, though. You did have it recorded.

• 40:03Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, yeah, just in case, and I never used it.

• 40:05Will Arnett?

  Just in case, right, but you never, you never had to use it.

• 40:07Speaker 03

  No, I mean, clearly, your, your command was just dazzling.

• 40:11Sean Hayes?

  Well, thank you, that's very nice.

• 40:13Speaker 03

  I said, I said, you know, what have I been doing for the last 60 years? I'll be fucking about.

• 40:16Jason Bateman?

  Well, Will and I went, uh, Will and I were crying at the end of it.

• 40:19Will Arnett?

  Jason and I were crying, and we were crying.

• 40:21Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, I was crying too.

• 40:22Will Arnett?

  A, how beautiful he was, and how talented he was, and B, how talentless we are, compared to him.

• 40:30Speaker 03

  Yes, I, I felt distinctly talentless, having watched that film.

• 40:34Sean Hayes?

  Did you see Black Rabbit? Did you see Black Rabbit?

• 40:36Speaker 03

  No.

• 40:37Sean Hayes?

  That's okay.

• 40:38Jason Bateman?

  Pushing through.

• 40:39Sean Hayes?

  Fantastic, pretty fantastic. And, or is this thing on with Will or not, and Lord knows, amazing.

• 40:44Jason Bateman?

  He'll get around to it all.

• 40:45Will Arnett?

  Uh, so, wait, Brian, I wanted to talk to you, I wanted to get in before, because this is one of my favorite films and, and, uh, film series, and I love the character of Ward Abbott, from the Bourne movies. I, I didn't know, A, I thought, I think the people thought I was gonna mention, uh, uh, uh, playing Hannibal Lecter, which you, again, you are the original Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter, which I saw in the theaters.

• 41:08Jason Bateman?

  Great movie.

• 41:08Will Arnett?

  Uh, in the 80s, I fucking loved that movie, and you were brilliant in that, really brilliant.

• 41:14Jason Bateman?

  Chilling.

• 41:15Will Arnett?

  And, and I'm not just saying that, but I lo, I'm such a Bourne fan, um, and I loved Ward Abbott, and because there's a scene that you, there's so many great scenes, you're so great in those movies.

• 41:25Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 41:26Will Arnett?

  But there's a scene where the kid, where the kid finds out that it's you that's done it, and he takes you down, and he says, I figured it out, and then what they did was they have a light switch and blah, blah, blah, and the guy, and you go, okay, yeah, you go, okay, run it for me again, and he does it again, and then you kill him. In the most brutal way. And it's one of my, I remember the first time I watched it, I'm like, oh my, it was so shocking. You know, so to walk me through the Bourne movies, if you can, just a little bit, did you have a great, was it a fun experience? Did you like?

• 41:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was great. I mean, I, I mean Doug Liman is probably the most eccentric director you could ever meet, you know? He flies a plane like this.

• 42:02Sean Hayes?

  Right, yeah.

• 42:03Speaker 03

  He's, he's extraordinary eccentric, uh, but gifted, you know, just like he's got these flashes, like there's a, you know, I, I can't remember which film, I think it's the first one, there's a sequence where, where Jason Bourne falls, it's a, it's set in Paris and he falls off and it looks as if he was going to kill himself, but he, the, he falls onto another actor who goes down and that breaks his fall. Do you remember that?

• 42:29Will Arnett?

  Yeah, of course.

• 42:29Speaker 03

  That was Doug's idea. That was Doug said, why don't we do that?

• 42:32Will Arnett?

  That was in the first, that was the first one, in that stairwell, in that huge stairwell in the middle of the.

• 42:37Speaker 03

  Exactly, exactly. And it was amazing. I was, I just couldn't believe it when I saw it and I, and I thought, my God, but, you know, because it was very brave of, um, of, of Matt to do it, but it worked like a dream and it was wonderful.

• 42:50Will Arnett?

  Yeah, there's such a great series of films. I just had to bring those up because I love them so. So, so much. And, and of course, because I don't want to run out of time, and I know that people, because this, this is a big area and people are gonna, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention it, and so forgive us for, uh, hopefully, uh, bringing up Succession, which was, which was, has been so beloved around the world. And talk him a little, I mean, first of all, how did that come into your orbit, the, the success?

• 43:21Speaker 03

  I, I just got a call one day, uh, to say that, uh, Jesse Armstrong was thinking about this piece and he would like to talk to me. So I got on the phone with Adam McKay and, who was one of the executive producers and, and, uh, and he, I mean, Jesse always wanted me to play the role and I knew that, I thought this is going to be a hit. I just knew it was great.

• 43:48Sean Hayes?

  You know, it's so funny to hear you say that because we ask everybody, did you know it was going to be a hit? And people are like, you've never, you never know, but I love that you just said, I knew.

• 43:55Speaker 03

  I knew, I just knew, I knew this was gonna be one of the biggest shows of all time. Wow.

• 44:00Will Arnett?

  Because, because the material was so strong?

• 44:02Speaker 03

  Yeah, and also, you know, just the part, I thought, wow, this is a great part, because it's, it's so, it's so, it's a received part, you know, he's not, he just comes in at the right moment. And, and, and then you've got this kind of real, kind of intellectual, kind of bandit that he is, you know, and it was just an extraordinary, but the cast, I mean, the cast was amazing, I mean, and to watch all the actors grow through the whole show and, and see the lovely Sarah Snook, you know, Roman, you know, I can never remember the names of the actors, but they're all so good.

• 44:43Jason Bateman?

  How did you like, how did you like the schedule of that? Was it, was it, was it, did it seem just sort of relentless? Or was it, since it was an ensemble, the workload was all shared and no one ever really got gassed?

• 44:55Speaker 03

  No, no, no one really, it didn't become heavy in, in any way, and when it was a heavy episode, usually you weren't in it, you know, which is what was quite good, you know, like Kendall's birthday party, I wasn't in that episode at all. And, no, it was, it was very, it was very relaxed, and such great players like Matthew McFadyen, you know, who's just a wonderful actor, you know, and all of them, they were all great, even Jeremy Strong.

• 45:21Will Arnett?

  Yeah, sure, sure, and you were...

• 45:23Speaker 03

  Stop it now, John, behave yourself, please.

• 45:28Jason Bateman?

  I'd like to deliver.

• 45:29Speaker 03

  I have a reputation, you know, I've gotta think about it.

• 45:31Will Arnett?

  Wait, so you find, so you do, so you get this material and you're like, okay, I think this is gonna be hit, you liked the party, it's a great part, it's a great, great part, and then you, what, you shoot the pilot? Do you guys shoot a pilot or do you go straight to series?

• 45:45Speaker 03

  You know, that's a very good question, I can't remember, I think we went straight to...

• 45:49Jason Bateman?

  Adam McKay directed the pilot, yes?

• 45:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, he did, I think we went straight to series.

• 45:53Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 45:54Speaker 03

  We did, I mean, no, I think we did the pilot and then it was literally like, I don't know, a month, and then we went on, did the series, but we kind of knew we were gonna be doing the series.

• 46:02Will Arnett?

  Right, right, right.

• 46:03Speaker 03

  I think so, I may have got that wrong.

• 46:04Jason Bateman?

  Were you living in New York the whole time?

• 46:07Speaker 03

  Well, no, I was living in London to start with. And then I, I, yeah, I was, oh, I was cross living, yeah. Because I live between London and, and, and New York, yeah.

• 46:16Sean Hayes?

  How do you like, how do you, how do you like living in the States versus London? What, what's, what, what's the pluses and the minuses?

• 46:22Speaker 03

  Oh, God.

• 46:23Will Arnett?

  Where to start, where to start. Be careful, because we don't want you to get stopped at the border.

• 46:27Speaker 03

  No, no, no, no, I know, no.

• 46:28Will Arnett?

  We live in funny times.

• 46:30Speaker 03

  I don't want any ice agents suddenly peering in my hotel door. Um, it's difficult. It's very difficult. I feel very sympathetic towards Americans and, and where they're finding themselves in, in, at this time.

• 46:43Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 46:44Speaker 03

  And it's, in, in many ways, it's a very exciting time, but it's also in many ways an acutely depressing time, you know? Uh, and I find that, I, I'm more, I go more to the depressing side than the exciting side.

• 46:55Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 46:56Speaker 03

  And I just find it extraordinary because I've, I love this kind. When I was a kid, you know, you know, when I, when I, when I was 15, I, and I so wanted to be an actor, but, but I realized I wanted to be an American actor. Because I never wanted to be Kenneth Moore or Bogart or any of those English actors. That just had nothing, no connection. Oh, God, I'm leaving.

• 47:24Speaker 03

  You're being pernicious, Jason, absolutely pernicious.

• 47:29Sean Hayes?

  And we will be right back.

• 47:33Sean Hayes?

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• 48:14Sean Hayes?

  And now, back to the show.

• 48:17Will Arnett?

  I understand that too, though, Brian, as a Canadian, I also the same, and I'm very proud of being from Canada, and I love it, but as a, as a sort of a newer American of almost 20 years, I always wanted to come here too. I always had that thing like, this was the place, this is, it's such a great country, the US, and there's so many incredible talents, and there's so much opportunity to do so many different things. I think that was it, do you know what I mean?

• 48:41Speaker 03

  And also, the history of cinema. I mean, cinema is an American invention, you know, you can't deny it, and, because my great passion is, in fact, my wife is so pissed off at me, because I spend my days, and I've been working really hard, I've done four plays, I played Bach, I've done a play about the financial crisis of 2008, which I played Adam Smith, you know, the history of, do you know who Adam Smith was? No problem, no, because of his education. Anyway, so, and I did that, I did that, and, and, no, it was great, but I, and I, I realized

• 49:21Speaker 03

  that I wasn't American, and it was very depressing when I realized, what was I gonna do?

• 49:27Sean Hayes?

  Well, I always say this to us, you had to leg up being British, because, or Scottish, whatever, because...

• 49:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, yeah, I did, but, just in terms of where you were gonna go with your work, and it was, it was just a very odd feeling, and then I was walking down the hill town of my hometown, and there was a film on called Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. You probably haven't heard of that film, either.

• 49:52Will Arnett?

  Sean's favorite.

• 49:54Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you just watched it last night.

• 49:56Speaker 03

  It's Albert Finney.

• 49:59Will Arnett?

  Love Albert Finney.

• 50:02Speaker 03

  And when I saw Albert Finney, I thought, I'm saved. If he can do it, I can do it.

• 50:10Speaker 03

  That guy from Salford, Manchester, can do it, I can do it, and also, Albert and I, subsequently, he was a bit older than me, but, we worked together a couple of times, and I remember we did a play at the Royal Court, the Royal Court's a very famous theater in London.

• 50:23Will Arnett?

  Yes, of course.

• 50:25Speaker 03

  Sometimes it's really hard. Anyway, I look at these, you can't, the audience can't see, I look at these bewildered faces, particularly the two on the bottom here.

• 50:38Will Arnett?

  That's just their resting face. They have resting bewildered face.

• 50:41Speaker 03

  But Albert Finney, he changed my life. He just realized, I said, I can, I can, that's, that's my path. And of course, it was the time of, which was an amazing time in the UK of the beginning of the, what they called the free cinema. And it was Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, who you didn't know, John Schlesinger, who you probably have heard of. And.

• 51:01Will Arnett?

  I put him in the same category as Lindsay Anderson, to be honest.

• 51:05Jason Bateman?

  But Brian, you know, you have, you have such an incredible, you're very funny, you're very charismatic. You remind me of another Scottish, one of my closest friends, Patrick Doyle. Do you know this composer?

• 51:17Speaker 03

  Oh, yes.

• 51:18Jason Bateman?

  Yeah?

• 51:18Speaker 03

  The composer?

• 51:19Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 51:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 51:20Jason Bateman?

  He composed Harry Potter and Cinderella.

• 51:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's a great friend of the Irishman, what's he called? Oh, I forget his name. Jesus. Ken Branagh.

• 51:28Jason Bateman?

  Oh, yeah, Ken, he does all Ken Branagh stuff. You remind me of him a lot. I just didn't know if you knew each other, but.

• 51:33Speaker 03

  No, I don't. We've never met, actually, ironically. We've never met.

• 51:37Jason Bateman?

  You know what I want to ask you about? I want to ask you about, you know, Will and I moonlight a little bit with, with voiceover work sometimes. And I love the stuff that you do for McDonald's.

• 51:50Will Arnett?

  For McDonald's, I know.

• 51:51Jason Bateman?

  And I want to, how did, how did that come your way? Is that something that, that you, is that something that you enjoy? I mean, I imagine it gives you some very handy pocket change.

• 51:59Will Arnett?

  He's loving it.

• 52:00Jason Bateman?

  It pays for a lot of stuff.

• 52:01Speaker 03

  It pays for a lot of stuff. I'm not complaining.

• 52:03Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah.

• 52:04Jason Bateman?

  How, how often do you find yourself in the booth recording new stuff?

• 52:08Speaker 03

  Well, it, it took a while, you know, because I'd been here for, I mean, I'd been here for nearly 30 years on and off, you know?

• 52:15Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 52:15Speaker 03

  And I, you know, I, I, I had a huge voiceover career back in the UK, which I couldn't keep up. And that, that was before they, they do things down the line, you know, which they didn't do in the early days because it was too expensive. So I had a great voice career. And when I came here, it stopped. I'd lost my voice career. And then I had this agent guy called Steve Arcieri, who I would recommend to anybody. He is a brilliant, brilliant agent. He's in New York. And he'd, he'd been watching out for me for, for a few years. And he just came at me at the right point and said, and it was McDonald's. And that was it. And then I did Uber Eats, you know, have you seen my Uber Eats commercial?

• 52:55Will Arnett?

  I don't know if I have. I think I did.

• 52:57Speaker 03

  Oh, you gotta watch that. You gotta watch the Uber Eats.

• 52:58Will Arnett?

  Yes, I have, yes.

• 52:59Speaker 03

  That's, that's, that's, that's very funny.

• 53:01Will Arnett?

  Is that on camera or is that voiceover?

• 53:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's on camera. It's about, it's about, it's about a, I play a sort of belligerent character who's going back to university in order to get Uber Eats because it's free.

• 53:14Will Arnett?

  Yeah, it's so good.

• 53:15Speaker 03

  So the whole thing is a series of vignettes, yeah. And we, it won an Emmy, that whole, and so I've got that as well. I, I love ads. I love them. I do.

• 53:23Will Arnett?

  Well, we do too, but I, I, and I kinda wanna sort of, uh, um, piggyback on what Jason was saying, because we do, as Jason said, we, we, we both have sort of moonlight sometimes and, and get to do these, uh, voice gigs, uh, but you have such great, uh, command of your voice and, and.

• 53:41Speaker 03

  That was Kristen Linklater.

• 53:42Will Arnett?

  Was it? Ah, there you go.

• 53:44Speaker 03

  That was Kristen Linklater. That's when I found out, that's why I went to Lambda. And then, blow me, but six weeks after I got to Lambda, she left and came to America. She taught at Columbia for a long time.

• 53:54Will Arnett?

  Oh, wow. But it's just, it, it, like, even in something like the, the McDonald's ads, you brings, you, you, you, you understand such a way of bringing, uh, bringing something to the voice in a way that is outside the norm, uh, you, you know, it, it, and with, with, with no disrespect to anybody who else who does voiceovers, I've done it for a long time and there's so many talented people out there. You mean like me? Cause you've never said that to me. I'm just saying that Jason's never done that. I mean, Jason sounds like, talk about phoning it in. I, I mean. He does it on his phone. Do it on my phone. It's like leaving a voicemail message. And did they say do it at a higher octave? I don't, I don't understand. Buy a Hyundai. It, it's a great car. There it is. There it is. Just speak it, you know?

• 54:39Will Arnett?

  But do you, and do you sense, I, I, I wonder also if you have that thing, which after years of doing voiceovers, uh, where you understand, where you can look at a script. I have this thing where I can look at copy that they send me and they'll, and I'll go, uh, and I'll go, uh, see the timing and go seven, seven seconds and then I'll go like, yeah, I can prob, I can probably do that in, I can probably do that in six and a half seconds. Yeah. Like, do you have that thing?

• 55:05Speaker 03

  Similar, similar thing. I mean, usually the scripts are so good and so tight. And that's the great thing with McDonald's.

• 55:11Will Arnett?

  They've timed it out already, but.

• 55:12Speaker 03

  They've already timed it out, so I don't have to worry. All I have to worry about is the performance, you know, just getting the, getting.

• 55:18Jason Bateman?

  Well, can't you, can't you just like say if you did it took too lo, if it took too long, you can't just, wouldn't they just say, can you read it faster?

• 55:26Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah, yeah. They, they would tell me to hurry up, but I, I like to get out. We have a great expression in Scotland, which is get on and get off, which means get on and get off. And with, with voiceovers, I like to get on and get off and not hang about on them. Because that's the other thing. If you hang about too much, they don't, they, their density doesn't, it doesn't support you. And with voiceovers, you have to drive them through. You have to do them, you know, and just be abandoned to them rather than sort of, because otherwise, you know, you lose the job because you've only got an hour

• 56:00Will Arnett?

  to do. I, I find myself getting kind of ornery where the, where I'll go, I'll be doing something and they'll, they'll say, you'll do a take and you'll go through and you'll get a perfect take. It's really good. You go, you'll lay it down and blah, blah, blah. And then they'll go, that's great. And they'll say, let's get one more for safety. And I go, safety? It's, it's digital, right? What are you worried about a hair in the gate? What are you talking about? You got it. Like, now, if you want me to do it differently or you have a thought, great. But otherwise, we're good.

• 56:25Speaker 03

  Yeah, I, I couldn't agree with you more, Will. I mean, there's, you know, but again, we have director problems.

• 56:32Jason Bateman?

  Now, Brian, was, was it a gentle pitch that they made to you when they asked you to do the iconic little jingle at the end there? The ba da ba ba ba?

• 56:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 56:44Jason Bateman?

  Did they, but was that, I, I, like, if I had to pitch Brian Cox, hey, listen, we'd like for you to do this, I'd be scared shitless to ask you to do that. Or was that your idea? Was it in the copy?

• 56:55Speaker 03

  No, no, they, they just wanted me to do it and I did it, you know.

• 56:58Jason Bateman?

  It's so good.

• 56:59Will Arnett?

  If I, if I know Jason, Jason would be like, you know what? That's a different pay rate.

• 57:04Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 57:04Will Arnett?

  If you want me to sing it.

• 57:06Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, sing is a different rate.

• 57:08Will Arnett?

  Sean, am I right? Would JB hold them up for weeks on that?

• 57:12Jason Bateman?

  Sure, yeah.

• 57:13Will Arnett?

  I don't know.

• 57:14Sean Hayes?

  I'll call you back. I'm not gonna shut up. No, but what about, I auditioned for the voice of Aflac, for that duck that goes, "Aflac," right? Yeah. And, right. Didn't get it, huh? No, it was between me and Gilbert Gottfried who got it. And I go, I remember the audition, I go in there and I had no idea what it was for. And through the glass, you know, I had my headphones on, and they're just, "Read the copy there." And I'm like, "Aflac?" Like, I don't understa- And they're like, "It's all it says on the-" I was like, "That's all it says?" Like, "Yeah, just do it." And I'm like- Do it like a goose. Like a goose. And I'm like, "Aflac? I don't understand. I didn't understand what you want me to..." And then, and they're like, "Great, thanks." And I'm like, "Well, I didn't know that I was supposed to sound like an actual animal."

• 57:56Will Arnett?

  Do you feel like your lack of intellect has held you back in other ways?

• 58:01Sean Hayes?

  Or creative impulse?

• 58:06Speaker 03

  It can be tyrannous, these situations, but you've got to... It's a question of just moving it, you know. I love it. I love the discipline, you know? I love the discipline of the voiceover, you know? And it's just, it's just a great thing to practice your craft, you know?

• 58:21Will Arnett?

  I agree, and I like that it's a tight space. I like that you only have a finite amount of space in order to get this point across. Often, it's not a lot of time, and there's something about that that I find really- GMC Sierra.

• 58:39Will Arnett?

  Are you talking about professional grade? Professional grade GMC Sierra. We are professional grade.

• 58:43Speaker 03

  Will, you're blessed with a very fine voice. I mean, your voice is very- I remember when I saw you in that wonderful film that you did with Brad, and I thought, "Your voice is very strong. It's a very, very good voice."

• 58:56Will Arnett?

  That's a compliment coming from you, so I appreciate it. Thank you very much.

• 58:59Speaker 03

  No, you've got great clarity, and that was what was so wonderful about that part you were playing. Because he was, you know, he was on the run, but the clarity was so strong, and I was very, very impressed.

• 59:11Sean Hayes?

  If he ever wins an award, the first person he's gonna thank is cigarettes. Yeah.

• 59:18Will Arnett?

  They're the only ones who have never let me down, Sean.

• 59:22Will Arnett?

  They've never, they've never let me down. They've never not returned a call.

• 59:29Will Arnett?

  They've always been there for me. So Brian, you've done, it's so funny, you go back and you've done theater, you've won Olivier Awards, you won BAFTAs and Emmys and Golden Globes and all of it, and film and television. Now you've directed your film. It is one of these, you know, we ask people all the time, like, what is the thing that you'd like to do? You've seemingly done, again, at risk of embarrassing you, it all. So what could, what gets you up in the morning of like, now that you've directed this film, what's the next thing that kind of, you're excited to get out of bed to do sort of creatively?

• 1:00:00Speaker 03

  The next job.

• 1:00:01Will Arnett?

  Okay.

• 1:00:02Speaker 03

  The next job.

• 1:00:03Jason Bateman?

  Do you have anything left that you're curious to see if you can handle?

• 1:00:07Will Arnett?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:09Speaker 03

  It only comes when it comes, you know, I can't, it's, you know, you can't do over contemplational, what if I, what if I, what'd I do, how, you know, just do it.

• 1:00:21Jason Bateman?

  But like you guys were talking about a one man show, like I literally turned down one a couple of months ago because I just didn't think that's something that I could really enjoy doing.

• 1:00:30Will Arnett?

  No, because you're not a one man, you're not a full man, that's why.

• 1:00:33Jason Bateman?

  That's it, that's it.

• 1:00:35Will Arnett?

  If they said a half man, if they said a half man show.

• 1:00:40Will Arnett?

  A half man show you could do, you could do a half man show, for sure.

• 1:00:43Jason Bateman?

  Well, like, I gotta, I gotta get some theater under my belt before I take something like that on.

• 1:00:49Will Arnett?

  Why don't you?

• 1:00:50Jason Bateman?

  No, no, I'm dying to do that, but like, there are things that I am, I would, I would love to challenge myself, that's one of them. I can't imagine there's a whole lot left on your list to challenge yourself with, is there?

• 1:01:01Speaker 03

  No, it's, I don't even see it as a challenge, I just see it as the work. It's part of the work, it's part of the job. And Jason, you're a very fine actor, I mean, you are.

• 1:01:10Jason Bateman?

  No, no, thank you.

• 1:01:11Speaker 03

  You are, and I've, I mean, you've done the Ozarks, the work you've done. I think sometimes you don't trust yourself nearly enough, Jason.

• 1:01:19Speaker 03

  Let's get into it.

• 1:01:20Will Arnett?

  I like this, keep going, Brian.

• 1:01:21Speaker 03

  I think that's your problem. I think you really, you're very contained. And you're contained in a way it says, if I move too fast, I'll fall over.

• 1:01:30Jason Bateman?

  Oh, look at this guy.

• 1:01:32Will Arnett?

  Great note.

• 1:01:33Speaker 03

  And I think that that's you're just let yourself go.

• 1:01:37Jason Bateman?

  You'd like to see me cut it loose. You'd sound like my wife.

• 1:01:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, cut it loose, because you're so gifted, you're so talented. And you should trust your talent more than you do.

• 1:01:47Will Arnett?

  Well, he did a very fine performance in this program, The Black Rabbit.

• 1:01:53Jason Bateman?

  Brilliant.

• 1:01:53Will Arnett?

  He's brilliant in, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, and he is much more.

• 1:01:57Speaker 03

  He's a wonderful actor.

• 1:01:58Will Arnett?

  He's a wonderful actor. I've had the misfortune, the, sorry, fortune of working with him many times. But I will say, Jason has, and I always say this to Jason too, and this is the great thing. He is so funny, as Sean Ullot says, he's the funniest person.

• 1:02:14Jason Bateman?

  Ever.

• 1:02:14Will Arnett?

  His timing is absolutely impeccable, that you cannot teach. And I say to you, Jason, all the time, I wish you'd do, get back and do a couple of straight comedies. You're so fucking good at comedy.

• 1:02:25Jason Bateman?

  Well, if they're still made, I might do them.

• 1:02:27Will Arnett?

  But you're denying us of comedy. Why are you denying us?

• 1:02:31Jason Bateman?

  They just don't make them anymore.

• 1:02:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah, well, make a show. Do his eight-episode comedy show.

• 1:02:36Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, I'd love to if they made those.

• 1:02:39Will Arnett?

  They do.

• 1:02:40Speaker 03

  But you said that you wanted to do some more theater, is that right?

• 1:02:43Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, yeah, I'd love to do that. And I would love, and I would love to do some more sort of acting. I just haven't, I just haven't felt like, I don't know, it's a whole different subject about. I've enjoyed playing characters that aren't that character-y.

• 1:03:00Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:03:00Jason Bateman?

  For lack of a better term. I kind of got turned off to watching actors act. So I kind of like playing the straight man and the talent in doing less. But now I'm starting to think, I might want to take on some other characters and sort of do bigger, broader acting swings.

• 1:03:18Speaker 03

  I think you can, I think you've earned the right to risk it.

• 1:03:21Will Arnett?

  Yes.

• 1:03:22Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, it's not a question of risk or trusting talent, it's just a question of not, I haven't. The roles that I've been attracted to, I would be overplaying them if I, if I did, if I ran instead of walked.

• 1:03:35Speaker 03

  Jason, I can't see you overplaying anything. I agree. To be honest with you. Thank you. Because your taste is exquisite. Well, you are very kind, sir. All you guys have got that. Thank you. And that is what is so good about you. So trust yourself a bit more than you do. Maybe we should have a private session.

• 1:03:53Will Arnett?

  Yeah, that's a good idea.

• 1:03:54Speaker 03

  Side text.

• 1:03:55Will Arnett?

  I would fuck, I'd pay handsomely just to be able to witness it and be a part of it. I'd love to have a session with Brian and Jason. Oh, my God, Sean, how fun would that be?

• 1:04:05Speaker 03

  We're halfway there. You know what's got to be figured out?

• 1:04:08Will Arnett?

  God, Jason, this is what you need. You need a mentor. You didn't even fucking know it.

• 1:04:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:04:14Will Arnett?

  Brian, you have mentored us all with your talent for so many years. We are so grateful for you coming on here. We're so, we wish you just continued success and a lot of success with Glenn Roth and your film that you've directed. Congratulations.

• 1:04:32Speaker 03

  I can't wait to see it.

• 1:04:32Will Arnett?

  Brian Cox, you are an absolute legend and icon, and thank you for being part of our show today.

• 1:04:38Speaker 03

  Well, this was an, I mean, this is an honor, to be honest, to talk to you three guys of such incredible talent. It's an honor. It's been an honor. So thank you. Thank you, darling.

• 1:04:47Will Arnett?

  There we go. Thank you, darling.

• 1:04:49Speaker 03

  Thank you, Brian. Thank you, buddy.

• 1:04:51Sean Hayes?

  Thanks, Brian.

• 1:04:51Will Arnett?

  Thank you, Brian. The great Brian Cox.

• 1:04:53Sean Hayes?

  See you, bud.

• 1:04:54Speaker 03

  Bye, pal.

• 1:04:54Will Arnett?

  Amazing.

• 1:04:55Speaker 03

  Have a good day.

• 1:04:55Will Arnett?

  Bye, bye.

• 1:04:56Speaker 03

  Bye, bye. Bye.

• 1:05:00Sean Hayes?

  Wait, you know what? First of all, he's an absolute delight. Like, I had no idea he was so funny and like breezy, you know, like light and breezy.

• 1:05:10Will Arnett?

  I had the opportunity, I said this to Brian, he came to a screening of our film a few months ago, and I got to talk to him afterwards, and he, like, 30 years ago, he was friends with somebody I knew, and I was out here, it was one of my first times in California. They said, we're gonna go by Brian Cox's renting house in the Hollywood Hills, and...

• 1:05:33Will Arnett?

  We're gonna go watch the Oscars.

• 1:05:35Sean Hayes?

  At his house?

• 1:05:35Will Arnett?

  At his house.

• 1:05:36Sean Hayes?

  Okay.

• 1:05:37Will Arnett?

  That he was renting. So I went up, it was like one of my first time ever like doing that thing, you know, you've come from not here and you go up into the Hollywood Hills to a house and you're like, "Oh my god, look at the lights and everything." And then you go in and here's this guy who's this working actor, acclaimed working actor, and going to his house, and I was about, you know, 25, and going into his house and just, and just being, and he was, you know, just sort of blown away, not knowing what to say and, you know, and all you wanna do is get a job. And he was so kind and so gracious. I was just some stupid ass kid. I'm not much different now, but he was, I'm some stupid ass kid, and he was so welcoming and generous and, and, and made me feel, and I was like, "What a fucking great dude."

• 1:06:20Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you can tell.

• 1:06:21Jason Bateman?

  Yeah, class act.

• 1:06:21Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, what a great dude. Why don't you, you should've told him that story.

• 1:06:24Will Arnett?

  Cause I didn't wanna cry.

• 1:06:27Sean Hayes?

  Oh, Will.

• 1:06:28Will Arnett?

  Yeah, okay.

• 1:06:31Sean Hayes?

  Or have him say, "No recollection."

• 1:06:33Will Arnett?

  Yeah, I don't.

• 1:06:35Sean Hayes?

  Turn the tables on us.

• 1:06:36Will Arnett?

  Did I? No, it doesn't sound like me. Doesn't sound like me.

• 1:06:39Sean Hayes?

  Willie, you need to do, what about you doing theater too? I think Jason would be fucking brilliant in a play, and so would you.

• 1:06:45Will Arnett?

  I don't know if I have the character for it.

• 1:06:48Jason Bateman?

  Or the voice.

• 1:06:50Will Arnett?

  Or the voice.

• 1:06:53Jason Bateman?

  You've gotta reach the back row with your pipes.

• 1:06:55Sean Hayes?

  Yeah, you gotta reach the Italian guy in the back.

• 1:06:57Will Arnett?

  You know, you always wanna, you're like, "Oh, whatever you do, do not take the Lessington bus" and then go across out and then cross, like a Neil Simon play, you know what I mean?

• 1:07:08Sean Hayes?

  Well, he was delightful. I love that guy.

• 1:07:09Will Arnett?

  He is a delight.

• 1:07:10Jason Bateman?

  He really, really was. What a great, great actor. What a great career, my god.

• 1:07:15Sean Hayes?

  And he doesn't sound like he's gonna slow down at all.

• 1:07:17Will Arnett?

  No.

• 1:07:18Sean Hayes?

  Waiting for the next gig.

• 1:07:19Jason Bateman?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:20Will Arnett?

  And I love that he's doing like radio plays and it's just, ah, god, he just does, kinda does it all.

• 1:07:26Jason Bateman?

  The good way, Sean is just making us hang here, making us come up with a buy. Usually Sean is coming.

• 1:07:34Sean Hayes?

  I got one. I got one that may or may not have just popped up.

• 1:07:37Will Arnett?

  Oh.

• 1:07:37Sean Hayes?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:38Will Arnett?

  Oh. Oh, you know, wait, Sean, I have one. Wait, no, no, sorry, I have one.

• 1:07:42Sean Hayes?

  Oh, okay, what's yours? What's yours? Well, you know, it was great. And what a great, simple name to remember. You know, if you can't remember his name, you could always recall.

• 1:07:52Will Arnett?

  Oh, yeah. What's his, what's his name?

• 1:07:54Sean Hayes?

  Brian Cox.

• 1:07:56Will Arnett?

  Bye.

• 1:07:59Jason Bateman?

  Wait, I don't get that.

• 1:08:02Jason Bateman?

  I still don't get it.

• 1:08:03Will Arnett?

  Bennett said it's all of us, and it said Brian Cox.

• 1:08:06Sean Hayes?

  It says Brian Cox.

• 1:08:07Jason Bateman?

  I still don't get it. What is it?

• 1:08:09Sean Hayes?

  Instead of Brian, Brian.

• 1:08:11Jason Bateman?

  Oh.

• 1:08:16Will Arnett?

  His music.

• 1:08:18Will Arnett?

  Smart. Less.

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• 1:08:42Will Arnett?

  Smart. Less.

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