WEBVTT - Ep67 - Tye Sheridan / "Ready Player One" 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:18.720 M you're listening to playback a Variety I Heart Radio podcast. 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.120 I'm your host, Variety Awards editor Chris Tapley. This week, 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.240 I'm talking to Ty Sheridan, the twenty one year old 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.440 star of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, which opens tomorrow. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:31.760 You've seen tie in films like Terrence Malix, The Tree 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:34.879 of Life and Jeff Nichols Mud. He also stars this 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.839 year in X Men Dark Phoenix, reprising the role of 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.879 Cyclops that comes out later in the fall. So sit tight, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:58.640 this is playback. Yeah, okay, can I move? This? Is 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.280 that all right? Yeah? You're fine right now? Yeah? Okay, okay. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.560 So you were just in Europe? Yeah, I was just 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:08.360 in London. How's that? We It was good, it was 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:14.440 it was super cold when we got in it was snowing. Yeah. Um, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.200 so I haven't seen snow. I finally did for the 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.560 first time in a long time when I went to 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.880 Sundance this year. Oh yeah, how was that? I haven't 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.160 seen no one forever. Other than that. You see a 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.720 lot of movies, So I saw a lot. Actually I 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.440 went for the second half with everything had cleared out, 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.200 you know, all the people had cleared out. How what's 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.039 he done? I guess he'll done. So we just were 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.520 a rerecording. We are recording, and I want to just cool. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.320 I don't think i've ever done a podcast. Oh sweet episode, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.119 premiere episode. Yeah, sorry, I'm a little under the weather. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.560 So sorry from not my feeling best. Been one of 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:52.120 those years everybody's got every other week. And how many 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.920 podcasts are you doing per week? Okay, so it's just 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.920 one a week? Actually your coach? I love that guy. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.080 What's called the Mountain? Yes, if you talk about it 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.000 a little bit at the end, what did you say, Uh, well, 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.919 you know, Jeff, it's just kind of yeah, it was great, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.120 and there's a young actor or we did that kind 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.519 of thing pretty much. It sounds like a wicked movie though. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:23.720 It's it's yeah, it's it's crazy. Um, it's I'm yeah, 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:27.160 I'm super excited about it. So Rick Alverson, I don't 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.880 know if you're familiar with his work. He did interrupted. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.000 We're sitting here today with Ty Sheridan, the star of 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.320 Ready Player one. No worries, I was. I was not sure. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:39.079 I don't know if you're familiar with Rick Alverson, Um 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.360 the filmmaker. He did a movie we did a movie 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.000 together actually called Entertainment. He saw that with Greig Turkington, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.919 Tim heideckers in it. But his movies are crazy and 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.840 I have a lot of fun working with him. And 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.280 so we made a movie together with Jeff Goldblum and uh, 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.960 that was in November and December, and that was a 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.639 hoot for sure. Jeff's fun. Man, that's a whole energy. 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.800 It takes you like a half hour to shake it 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.160 after you've hung out for a little bit. No, he's 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.120 he's a lot of fun. I love that guy. Well, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.680 like I said, the movie that you're kind of promoting 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.240 right now is already Player one Steven Spielberg. It's about 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:17.040 as big as it gets massive. It's not quite summer, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.280 but it's essentially a summer blockbuster. Uh. What I wanted 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.639 to ask you, you you know, you live in Austin, you're 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:24.400 from Texas. What was it like to premiere this movie 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.560 at south By Southwest? And yeah, I know it was 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.480 the It was the coolest actually because we have been 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.040 you know, for like a year or maybe even over 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.680 a year, we have been talking about having the movie 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.360 that's south By Southwest because it's really a perfect kind 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.600 of place for it. Because you know, it's film meets um, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:47.200 you know, interactive in tech and um, this movie, you know, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.800 takes place in two thousand forty five and in the 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.520 future where people spend most of their lives in a 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.960 virtual world called the Oasis. So, uh, it kind of 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.880 made sense for the movie to be there. And you know, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.120 I think it was a lot of it was just 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.920 about whether or not we could convince Stephen and whether 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.560 Warner Brothers could convince him to to actually play the 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.520 movie there. But because he'd never I don't think he'd 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.720 ever done that. He's definitely never had a movie at 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.280 south By Southwest. And uh, so I had all my 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.120 family because I lived there. I had all my family 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.200 come down. They're all up in East Texas, so they 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.640 came down. I had my parents, my grandparents, my little sister, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.480 my cousin's best friends, like everyone. So it was so special. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.080 I mean, it was a crazy weekend. I was a 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.800 little overwhelmed, um, because you know, when you have that 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.200 much family and no one, you know, you gotta like 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.360 it's like hurting a bunch of sheep or something like. Um. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.080 But it was good. You know, I got really excited 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.160 as we were backstage about to show the movie, and 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.719 I knew they were all out there about to see 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.920 a film, Steven Spielberg, movie that I've worked on. So, 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.160 I mean it was a pretty pretty cool feeling. But 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.719 I wasn't there, but I certainly saw in the reports 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.960 it seemed like he was very touched. Did he seemed 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.120 very nervous backstage, you know, right before he was about 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.279 to unleash this movie. I think so, I mean he was, 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.200 you know, I don't think so, because he had made 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.440 his decision and he knew what he was getting himself into. Um, 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.880 He's very rational in that sense, so he, uh, he 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.640 did get I mean, everybody got a little flustered because 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.800 at the most climactic part of the movie and then 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.760 in the third act, um the sound went out. Actually, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.800 and they had they had installed they had installed a 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.080 new Adulby sound system so that we could play the 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.039 movie at the Paramount Theater that night. Um, so when 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:36.839 the sound went out, it was you know, yeah, yeah, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.200 my my heart kind of stopped. And I was looking 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.640 around the executive producer, Christafarian, the producer Donald's line, We're 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.159 sitting like right next to me. We're all kind of 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.800 looking at each other. And and then they started. So 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.760 they played the movie again and at the same moment 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.040 the sound went out again. Um. And then they did 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.320 it again the same thing. Sound went out and they 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.240 were like, Oh my gosh, so this is not this 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.520 is this is this is terrible. Um. And then the 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.680 third time they tried it, it worked. The third time 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.040 was a charm and then the crowd just it was 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.120 crazy because the crowd just went nuts. Yeah, because it 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.280 was the It almost like helped build up the that 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.360 moment in the third act where um, you know, I 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.800 can't say what happens, but on the totally yeah, I 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.039 heard they were kind of supplying their own soundtrack even 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:31.600 whenever it was silent up on the screen. Uh. I'm 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:36.200 always curious with Mr Spielberg because we all know him obviously, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.960 his spectacle is considerable in the canon of film and 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.840 and his place in that spectrum. I'm always curious to 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.640 talk to actors who've worked with him, how he works 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.800 with actors, because I think it's, you know, kind of 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:52.440 an underappreciated element of his repertoire. Frankly, yeah, I mean sure, 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.120 I think a lot of people, you know, we look 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.000 at Steven Spielberg films and we think like adventure and 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.000 you know, I know he's made a lot of history 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.520 rcle dramas, uh lately like Lincoln and The post or Um. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.320 But we look at his movies and we think like, 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.160 you know, big and scope, big and scale, like really fun, 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:16.200 family kind of oriented films sometimes. Um, but I think 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.400 we you know, sometimes we don't isolate or single out 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.760 the performances. But you know, there's that they make those 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.560 type of movies though. That's I mean, I think that's 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.840 the glue that kind of you know, and you see 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.640 such a great, such a great camaraderie amongst like young 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.800 characters in his movies, like whether it's Et or even 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.440 films that he was you know, he produced, like the Goonies. Um. 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.240 I think a lot of that stems from him, you know, 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.920 having being a child on set, Like he's just he's 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.120 like a big kid and he's like the biggest film 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.640 nerd I know, and he just gets so enthusiastic and 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.200 he's he's nervous every day before he goes to work. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.160 And that's something that you you know, is you share 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.520 with him. Um. You know, obviously working on a Steve 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:02.840 Spielory movie, there's you know, some you you you don't 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.880 want to let the man down. So I think that, Yeah, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.080 I mean he's he's incredibly engaging and I don't think 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:14.239 i've ever we shot in this movie in motion capture, So, um, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:16.360 he was you know, he's literally right. You know, I 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.400 was doing a scene with Olivia Cook. He was like 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.000 right in between the two of us and talking to 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:25.880 us through the scene. He was there with us, almost 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.400 like he was performing as well. But um, and I 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.520 think that's you know, that does as as an actor. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.720 I think psychologically it gives you that extra you know, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.800 whatever it is to keep to push the performance even 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.880 you know, to the next step and elevate it even more. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.800 And um, so I think he's really great with actors. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.240 He's incredibly patient. You never feel like, you know, he 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.959 might give you two or three takes to to kind 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.000 of settle into the scene before he starts giving you 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.520 big notes. Um. And that was something that I really, 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.400 you know, I really admired his his his supportiveness and 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:09.480 like he makes you believe and understand and field confident 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.240 in playing your roles because he's you know, he will 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.760 say to you, you know, I chose you because you're 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.160 the one person that is supposed to play this role 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.640 and uh so knowing that and even like him vocalizing that, 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:29.800 UM was super comforting and honestly, like I just you know, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.520 this is the best, I think, the best learning experience 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.200 I've ever had. I mean, I've learned more on this 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.480 movie than I have on any other film in the 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.280 past that I've worked out for sure. How long was 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:44.840 the shoot? Shot? For? Four months? How long that was? 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.240 That was some performance captured? Yeah, so, I mean of 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:54.439 our production schedule was motion capture, I believe. Yeah, we 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.040 shot over the course of the first eight weeks that 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.520 was all motion captured. What do you think of that? 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.440 I mean, I've never done it before, So it was 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.679 a it was a great crash course, you know, I was. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.320 I learned so much and to be at the cutting 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.840 it because Ready Player one was really pushing the envelope 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.360 with you know, what we were doing on on set, 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.280 and you know, we were doing things that hadn't been 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:20.040 done when you know, to to to date. Um. You know, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:23.680 for instance, we had you know, I LM and Digital Domain, 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.839 who are the visual effects companies who kind of brought 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:30.160 this this world together and created this world, spent a 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.400 lot of time in pre production building these environments, these 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.000 three dimensional environments, so that when we were on the set, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:41.240 we could see although we were in a motion capture volume, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.720 we could see ourselves driving our avatars and walking around 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.400 in those environments. And we can even take it. We 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.920 could even take a step further and put on a 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.920 a VR headset that was tethered. Um, it was spatially tracking, 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.880 so we could walk around the environment to have a 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.600 three dimensional perspective on the environment. So it really helps you. Yeah, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.079 it really helps you understand because just a blank root, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.240 it's just and there's no and it's you know, there's 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.800 a white carpet and scaffolding with a bunch of lights 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:09.520 and infrared sensors and and you're wearing like this, you know, 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:14.240 thick onesie with these tracking markers all over you and 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:18.840 and at helmet with four facial capture cameras um and 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.200 polka dots all over your face. So it's kind of 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.320 a crazy, kind of a crazy thing, like you know, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.680 you feel completely stripped down and there's there's nothing except 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:32.520 for you and the other performers around you. So um, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.839 and for that aspect, I mean I loved it because 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.800 it allowed me to revert back to that place where 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.120 when I was eight years old, you know, pretending with 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.920 my friends and recreat and creating a scene in a 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.880 magical place. It was literally felt like that. You know, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.680 all a lot of it was left up to your imagination. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.480 You know, you could jump into the r world and 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.679 taking the environment. But then when you when it came 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:56.440 time to perform, obviously you had to take it off. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.080 And so, um, that was a great tool to help 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.439 us kind of get into it. Um, and then everything 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.559 else was just you know, you're purely collaborating with your 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.319 cast and the rest of the crew and you the 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.480 visual effects supervisors and Stephen and um, so everybody's you know, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.760 ideas and visions. It all kind of comes together to 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:19.880 create one and um, you know it was this this 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.600 movie is The visual effects are like just incredibly stunning. 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.679 It's insane. You were talking, uh, you were talking earlier, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.680 you know, just about just the world split Spielberg has 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.080 given us, obviously, and that he's the biggest kind of 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.640 movie dork movie nerd you've seen. Uh, do you share 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:39.480 that quality? I mean, did you grow up? I Mean 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.760 that's kind of silly question, probably, but you grew up 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.000 on these movies, right, Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean I 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.640 told him the first time I met him, because I 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:46.920 didn't know if he was gonna cast me in his 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:51.360 movie or I said, Um, Mr Spielberg, I just want to, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.199 you know, thank you for all the films that you made, 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.960 because without et that, you know, that movie played a 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.200 hundred times, hundreds of times during my childhood. With out 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.080 that movie, you know, or any of your movies, I 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.520 feel like I would be a different kid in some way, um, 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.040 a different storyteller at least. And and so you know, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.520 I really i'd like to to think that I took 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:17.520 advantage of the opportunity case. You know, like there were 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.480 times where we would just sit around and he would 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.880 do this you know, dolly shot and catch up, you know, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.200 and I would ask him why we were doing that, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.080 why this camera moving this? And then he would get 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.120 so enthusiastic about and you know, talking about filmmaking and 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.800 what and you know, on this great shot and in 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.280 this movie, and he could just reference films. He's like, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.760 you know, encyclopedia on that stuff. So um, but all 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.520 like that, do you have like a deep historical context 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.079 for I know, I wouldn't say so not near. I mean, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.400 not nearly as good as that guy. Um. I mean 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.600 I like movies and sometimes like I know, weird facts 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.920 about obscure movies. But I would say there's a lot 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.800 of people that I worked with in I mean much 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:05.680 more um like as far as just like an archival 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.319 a collection of movies in their head. I think that, 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.520 you know, not that impressive. It's always interesting just to 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.320 see how people respond. I mean there's famous, famous actors 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:18.240 that literally just have no desire to learn a ton 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.200 about you know, film history or anything that like that, 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.720 and and obviously there's plenty who just are immersed in it. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.360 So it's just always interesting to find out, you know 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.920 what you know. Yeah, And I think for me I 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.360 was I was always really like interested in the technical 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.560 aspect of filmmaking because that helps me do my job 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:38.200 better in front of the camera, believe it or not. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:42.280 I mean, if I understand the you know, the frame, 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.400 and I understand how I fit into that frame, and 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.840 now you know how how close I can we're close 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.640 focuses and how close I can come to the camera, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.160 like all that all that stuff really um helps me 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.800 do my job better. So I feel like a lot 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.880 of those questions are you know, one because I aspired 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:03.120 to and all aspects of filmmaking and and behind and 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.800 in front of the camera, but also because you know, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.160 it does help me do my job better. It's great 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.440 to be able to give the cameraman something, you know, 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.440 like the gold. Speaking of him, I've never seen a 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.600 guy give the photographer so much in a photo session, 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.440 just you know, giving him all these looks and all 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.680 these like he's basically singing and humming. He gets everybody 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.480 so much, very generous. Uh. You probably have been asked 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.080 this a bunch on this particular tour. But where you 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.920 much of a gamer growing up? Are you a gamer? Um? 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.160 On the gamer? I mean not I wouldn't say like 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:38.400 I'm an avid gamer, but I mean I grew up 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.360 playing some games we were, but it was typically I 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.960 mean gaming for me was something that was social and 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.000 something I wanted to do with my friends. And even now, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.240 you know, like I think there's only handful of games 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.440 that I really play, the only games I actually played 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.200 by myself or like VR games. You know, I know 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.800 you can do multiplayer and VR and the same as 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.280 you do like online with people when you're playing PS 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.360 four or whatever. But um, yeah, so for me, I 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.600 mean I like to get with my friends and black FIFA, 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.400 but first person shooters and stuff like that. Like I think, 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.760 even like our our our movie is largely a reference 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.080 and pays on Launch two. You know, games from the 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:25.480 nineteen eighties and where the Atari um even arcade games. Um, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.520 I think that you know, the the eighties arcade games 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.040 I was familiar with on I'd never actually played in 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.240 Atari when it came time to shoot this movie, and 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.080 so there's a there's a scene in the movie which 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.680 is a really prominent scene actually, where my character plays 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.320 an Atar game. Uh. And so I mean I've done 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.040 I've done like as much research as I possibly could 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.880 without actually getting to play the game. I've seen videos 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.000 of people playing it. I read up about the game, 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.640 and so when when we you know, I was nervous 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.600 when when it came time to shoot the scene because 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:59.040 I'm going to look out of place playoff game. And 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:00.720 so I had to pull Stephen over to the side 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:05.480 and say, you know, Stephen, I don't know, can you 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.679 teach me how to hold the Atari control? Because I 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.040 want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. So I 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:14.360 got Atari lessons from Steven Spielberg and Zach pent Our screenwriter. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.760 Well that's awesome, Yeah, pretty awesome. That's something you talked 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.399 about the Yeah, I guess you were you know a 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:21.840 lot of that's before your time. I mean you were 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.640 born when the Nintendo sixty before was coming out. So yeah, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:28.000 which just makes me feel we've played. We played Nintendo 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.600 sixty four a lot in my cousin's house. I mean 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.720 I was over at their house, like you know, every day, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.879 here my child and there they're you know, my cousin Austin. 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.680 My cousins, Austin and Allison had an older brother, Christopher, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.080 who had a Nintendo sixty four, and he would just 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.919 set us up and you know, we blow in the 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.800 cartridges and camm in and rock on the Nintendo sixty four, 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:54.840 all those antiquated techniques. Um. I met your parents I 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.600 think at Sundance from when you were there with Mud 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.800 and the dinner at some upstairs at some restaurant, and 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.919 I remember sitting I guess I was sitting there with 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:06.919 your dad or something. But very cool family. And I'm 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.439 just curious what they think of your career. I mean, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:12.680 you kind of well I mean, they're obviously proud and supportive, 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.680 but they've always been even when you know, after I 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.040 did my first movie, which I kind of just randomly 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.520 fell into. I never really had thought about acting or 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.080 or working in movies when I was eleven, and you know, 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:27.639 when I was eleven years old, which is when I 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.879 got cast in that movie. But you know, it was 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:31.720 something that intrigued me and it was something that I 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:35.160 wanted to kind of see through. So there were three 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:39.840 years where my mom would help me send in audition 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.920 tapes on and she would take me over and over 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.200 and over and I would never get anything. And they just, 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.840 you know, we're so supportive for three years when I 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.960 didn't when I couldn't get it, when I wasn't getting 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.919 any callbacks, and I know I was young, and you know, 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.639 but they were you know, if I if I told 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.640 my parents that there was something I wanted to do, 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.399 they would go to the end of the earth to 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.400 help me achieve that. And uh So without that love 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:12.800 and support from them, you know, I wouldn't I wouldn't 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.920 be here obviously. I mean, they're they're like my rock, 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:19.000 my everything, and uh yeah, and they're now, you know, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.840 like it's nice to be able to have them come 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.520 down to things like south By Southwest and you know, 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.200 to see the Ready Player one that was really cool 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:32.119 for them. Um, just to trip up the interstate. Yeah, 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.800 it's absolutely, but it's now it's now become like a 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:37.640 you know, I have a hard time explaining to them 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.520 what I'm doing or what you know, and they have 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:45.320 a hard time keeping up and you know, it's uh, 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:46.919 but it's good when something comes out and they can 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.520 see it and they can do something tangible they can 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:53.000 kind of sink the teeth into. But incredibly supportive. Even now, 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:59.040 my dad says, you know, that's great that you know 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.960 you're doing what you're doing, and I'm so happy that 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.280 you're you know you're doing you're being successful at it, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.720 and um, but you know, beyond that, I just care 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:10.560 that you're being a good person and you're treating people 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.040 the way you want to be treated. And he said, 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:16.200 that's that's what success is to me, and that's what 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.800 makes me happy. And so as long as you're you know, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:21.840 a good human and you've got a good heart and 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.320 you never lose that about you, then I think you're 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.240 you're always going to be successful. So my parents thought. 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.200 You know, especially in this this industry, can be kind 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.159 of crazy and you can get uh, you know, I 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.120 think a lot of people can get jaded, and uh, 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.320 is that why you're staying in Texas? Um? You know, 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.600 I have a I think I just have a really 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.919 interesting relationship with l A. And it's not Oh, please 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.960 expand that I thought, because I probably feel the same. 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.359 But I'm curious. Yeah. I mean I would say I 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:55.560 respect the city much more than uh, I love it, um, 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:57.880 because I could say I have a love hate relationship. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:20:59.240 But I don't hate the city. You know, It's just 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:01.439 it's a tough stay. Yeah. I think it's can be 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:03.760 very lonely at times. You know, you don't have people 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:05.800 drive around in their cars. They sit on the freeway 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.800 and you're in this You're in your tiny little bubble 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:11.280 in your own world, and you know, you don't really 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.800 walk anywhere you don't, you know. And also like people here, 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:16.720 I know a lot of people moved to l A 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:21.159 to to secure in or to achieve a goal that 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:25.800 they set out and that you know, that's understandable. I 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.640