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00:00Whoa, yeah, yeah, I know this one.
00:04Whoa.
00:08This is not from my movie.
00:15Well, I mean, once this is quoted by Obama, it's pretty easy to recognize.
00:20It says, yes, I'm the guy who does the job, you must be the other guy.
00:23That is the departed.
00:25Oh, who the fuck are you?
00:27I'm the guy who does his job.
00:28You must be the other guy.
00:29I'm the departed.
00:30My dad, God rest his soul, had never come and seen me on a movie set,
00:34but he came the day that I was shooting with Jack Nicholson.
00:38He wanted to see Jack, and he was also very curious about seeing
00:42if movie teamsters actually really worked or what kind of work they did.
00:46My dad was a teamster, but he drove a truck and, like, long distances,
00:50and so he didn't, uh, different from being on the movies.
00:54My dad loved the cinema.
00:55He was not impressed with any of my other work until I started acting.
00:59And then even with the departed, he said,
01:01now you can call yourself an actor.
01:03I'm not impressed with the paycheck.
01:04I'm impressed with the performance.
01:07Whoa.
01:08Yeah, this one's pretty obvious, too.
01:09I don't think there's going to be any difficult ones.
01:11We're starting off with this.
01:12Fuck you, Thunder.
01:14You can suck my dick.
01:15You can't get me, Thunder, because you're just God's farts.
01:18Is that Father Stu?
01:20I think that's Father Stu.
01:21No, that's Ted.
01:23Fuck you, Thunder.
01:25You can suck my dick.
01:26You can't get me, Thunder, because you're just God's farts.
01:30Can you fucking sing the Thunder Buddy song?
01:33Kids come up to me to sing that song.
01:35I mean, that and, you know, You Got the Touch or Boogie Nights
01:38are, like, my biggest, you know, movie hits.
01:40I've sung in a couple movies, so.
01:42Seth was kind of at the monitors, and he'd have a microphone,
01:45and, yeah, we'd play.
01:46I don't think anything was, like, over the line or anything,
01:50but the rules were different then, too.
01:52Okay, yeah.
01:53Hey, you promised me a shitload of fish.
01:57Perfect Storm.
01:59Hey, you promised me a shitload of fish.
02:01Oh, I remember the entire film, working with Wolfgang.
02:04It was such an amazing experience.
02:06It was kind of centered around this tragic event,
02:09and I remember living at the crow's nest
02:12and spending time with the Shatford family
02:15and going fishing with my character's brother
02:18and, like, really trying to immerse myself in that world,
02:22but also paying the kind of respect
02:24that I felt was necessary to the people
02:27and ensuring to them what our intentions were
02:30and that we were trying to make something
02:32that would honor their loved one's memory.
02:34My mom came to the set and met George and got a picture,
02:37and she had it on her wall.
02:39I think she liked that picture
02:40more than she liked the picture of her own kids.
02:43Oh, he likes me a lot. He loves me.
02:45He told me he wants to go out with me.
02:47I had told him I couldn't, but yeah.
02:49Yeah, she was convinced that he was, like, hitting on her.
02:52I said, I don't know about that, Mom.
02:54No, no, no, no, no, he told, trust me.
02:57I said, well, fuck it, have a baby with him.
02:59I want a little brother.
03:00You know, George could be my stepfather.
03:02It's all good.
03:07I'm the one fighting, okay?
03:09Not you, not you, and not you.
03:11You know why I know this one?
03:12Because fucking Paul Walter Howser says this
03:14about fucking three times a day
03:16on the movie that we're shooting right now.
03:18Yeah, The Fighter.
03:20I'm the one fighting, okay?
03:22Not you, not you, and not you.
03:24I trained for five years carrying around a,
03:27like, you see these crates to carry the lights and stuff?
03:30I was carrying speed bags and double-end bags and shit.
03:34We had the movie was a go at Paramount at a big budget,
03:37and then it fell apart, and then we lost Aaron Aronofsky,
03:40and we lost Brad Pitt, and we lost Matt Damon,
03:42and then it became an independent film
03:44with David O. Russell and Christian.
03:46The way we ended up making it, it took five years, on and off.
03:49But the thing with the boxing is, it wasn't like, okay,
03:52I could just, I trained for the five months,
03:54leading up to the initial production schedule,
03:56it fell apart, and then once we finally got the green light,
03:59I could just kind of pick up, either pick up where I left off
04:02or kind of, you know, retain those skills.
04:04So the only good part about that length of time
04:07was it allowed me to be that much more believable
04:09as a guy who could win the Welterweight title
04:12versus an actor who you've seen many times looking like,
04:15well, he probably has never been in a real fight,
04:17but, you know, I think we could shoot here, here, here,
04:20and lots of editing, so, because we shot all the fights in real time,
04:23and we tried to make it as real as possible.
04:26No, it was a lot of, a lot of training.
04:28All right.
04:30Oh, shit, I see your mother driving up and down the street looking at me.
04:33I'll be your stepfather in about a week.
04:35It's by the weekend, I think.
04:37But, yes, this is all improvised.
04:40This is pain and gain.
04:42This is me and that little boy on the street, my little crew.
04:45All that shit, most of that we improvised.
04:48Don't eyeball me, boy.
04:50I see your mother driving up and down the street looking at me.
04:52I'll be your stepfather by the weekend.
04:54This is when Michael Bay and I was our first film together.
04:56He and I met, I was about to do another film,
04:59and I was like, no, no, no, you gotta let me tear it up on this one
05:02and let me go, which is how Transformers kind of happened.
05:06You know, he liked what I did in Pain and Gain,
05:08so he was like, hey, come and do this.
05:10Bay-oss, all the Bay-oss, craziness.
05:14But super talented, has smarter guys,
05:17and, you know, technically, wow, the craft.
05:22Talented guy, learned a lot about filmmaking.
05:24Dwayne.
05:26I would say he spends more time in the gym,
05:28but I'm more efficient with my time in the gym.
05:32I am Queens Boulevard.
05:35Yes, this is Entourage.
05:38You kidding? I am Queens Boulevard.
05:41I mean, I remember the pilot, couldn't get anybody to want to do the pilot.
05:46And, like, begging people, calling for favors,
05:48everybody was like, you're doing a show about guys in the business?
05:51That's so stupid.
05:53It took, of course, everybody begging to be on the show
05:56and wanting to do cameos and willing to do anything to be a part of it.
06:00It was kind of loosely based,
06:02and we couldn't find four guys from Boston,
06:05so they found, you know, guys, they sent it to New York,
06:09and then you couldn't find a guy who was already
06:11kind of like an established actor or a star,
06:14so we found Adrian Grenier.
06:16He wasn't, like, the kind of physical rough and tumble,
06:19but definitely believable as the movie star,
06:21wonderful in the part, he did an amazing job.
06:24All the guys were fantastic.
06:26You know, it was the best Wish Fulfillment show of the last,
06:29I mean, it's as long as I can remember.
06:31Walter Housen just said this to me the other day.
06:33Yeah, I'm a peacock, you gotta let me fly.
06:35Well, I was 100%.
06:38The other guys.
06:40I am a peacock, you gotta let me fly!
06:43You know, I had met with a bunch of different people,
06:45and we wanted to do comedy.
06:47There's been comedic elements in performances,
06:49but never, like, really taken a swing at, like, full-blown comedy.
06:52I met with some other people, and I was like, oh, well, I don't know.
06:55And then I met with Will and Adam.
06:57We went to have dinner, like, two blocks from here.
07:01Sat down, started talking for, like, 10 minutes,
07:04just about whatever at the time, and I was like, I'm in.
07:07They were like, in what?
07:09I was like, if you guys want to do a movie, I'm in.
07:11They were like, well, we have an idea, we haven't even told you the idea.
07:13I go, I don't care, I'm in.
07:15And then they were like, okay.
07:17Then they said, do you want me to tell you the idea?
07:19I said, absolutely.
07:21They told me the idea, that was the other guys,
07:23and then three months later we had a script,
07:25and then, you know, with Daddy's home,
07:27and he and I got some other things cooking, hopefully, so.
07:31How often is it you run into your high school sweetheart after 25 years?
07:35That would be the union with Hallie.
07:37How often is it that you run into your high school sweetheart
07:39after 25 long years?
07:41You know what, the chemistry is off the charts.
07:43I mean, you've seen these kind of movies before.
07:46It is a great twist on, you know, the whole kind of spy movie.
07:50We started out as a conversation saying, okay,
07:53would I ever get off with James Bond?
07:55It might be difficult, right?
07:57I might not get the first call, right, from Barbara Broccoli.
08:01I might not get the call.
08:03But what if we had our own blue collar?
08:05You know, James Bond, a guy who's plucked from obscurity
08:09and thrust into this world.
08:11That was the idea, right, that we came up with,
08:14and then, you know, it slowly grew into what the union has become.
08:18What sets it apart from everything else
08:20is that the chemistry is off the charts between us.
08:23Step two, there's so much we can do.
08:26This is not from my movie.
08:28This is a New Kids on the Block lyric.
08:30What the heck?
08:32Step two, there's so much we can do.
08:36Fuck no, I don't want to sing.
08:38I just had to sing Paul Walter Hauser
08:40and I had to sing this Gautier song together.
08:42Somebody that you used to know?
08:44Holy shit, I had to go in the studio on a Saturday in Australia
08:47with Peter Farrelly and him to sing the song.
08:50And we have to sing it at a party with Sacha Baron Cohen.
08:53You know, we were much more into hip-hop and breakdancing
08:56and stuff like that, and then, you know,
08:58once we started working with Maurice Starr
09:01and we were kind of like, you know, basically cast,
09:04we started recording in the studios
09:06and little rap songs and stuff, and he was like,
09:08hey, by the way, we're going to send you the vocal lessons tomorrow.
09:11I was like, that was not my thing,
09:13and I wasn't very good at it either.
09:15Whoa, yeah, yeah, I know this one.
09:17I want you to know that I plan on being a big star,
09:20a big, bright, shining star.
09:23Big, bright, shining star.
09:26Yes.
09:28That's, um, The Happening.
09:30No, Boogie Nights.
09:32I want you to know I plan on being a star,
09:35a big, bright, shining star.
09:37I was terrified because it was like,
09:40the pitch was tough, right?
09:43It's like Ted, you know, a guy and a teddy bear smoking weed.
09:46That doesn't sound very appealing, right?
09:48Or a porn star. I was like, ah, I don't want to do that.
09:51I had just come from Calvin Klein and all that stuff.
09:54I was trying to get away from all that.
09:56Showgirls had just come out.
09:58That movie was not successful.
10:00I had never met PTA.
10:02I didn't see Hard 8 or Sydney,
10:04but everybody was telling me how amazing it was.
10:06So I read 25 or 30 pages of it, put it down,
10:09waited till I met with him.
10:11And then I finished the script.
10:13I was cast in the part.
10:15You know, we were both 25 at the time.
10:17It was wild.
10:19I said, wow, that movie ain't getting made today.
10:21Not in the studio.