Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. HEA's welcome Daniel Caluya, Daniel calluja,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Daily Show. What should I say?
Speaker 1: Oscar Winner, come on, Daniel coming, welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Daily Show. Thank you for having me having thanks for
Speaker 1: having me, Thanks what ya? Thanks for having me? Come on?
Speaker 1: This is this is like you Dandon, thank you. If
Speaker 1: you're not Jerry, you'd be like, I'm supposed to be here,
Speaker 1: I'll be like you're welcome. Yeah. I would love to know.
Speaker 1: How do you stay motivated after an Oscar I'm struggling.
Speaker 1: I stay movie made. I think it's not about that.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not I'm not like I'm appreciate that
Speaker 1: it's a blessing. But I feel like it's just like
Speaker 1: I see it like a master's if you get a masters,
Speaker 1: you know I've got masters, Well you can do with it,
Speaker 1: saying that's how I see is that when I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do with this? So like all right, so it's a key,
Speaker 1: all right? When king what kind of key is that?
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm kind of key is that
Speaker 1: you know what you are using it? This this movie
Speaker 1: and people you know obviously played the trailer and it
Speaker 1: was just a little piece of the movie there. But um,
Speaker 1: nobody knows what this movie is about. Like there are
Speaker 1: times when you didn't really know what was happening. I
Speaker 1: didn't know you're looking up in the sky and then
Speaker 1: they're clearly there's no I can't say it, but there's
Speaker 1: no thing in the sky. Is You're like sixty said
Speaker 1: in the film, like there's nothing there. So you're like,
Speaker 1: and you know, what's it gonna like? And then then
Speaker 1: they'll show you some like Skelettle kind of, but so
Speaker 1: you kind of have to like imagine it. And then
Speaker 1: like you have to trust Jordan's that's a big thing
Speaker 1: he you know, he I'm sure you have seen. He
Speaker 1: loves you so much, you know, he just he just
Speaker 1: he feels like you're the greatest actor that he's ever worked.
Speaker 1: He says, in many ways you're his DeNiro, which is
Speaker 1: a huge compliment, you know, because because the relationship you have,
Speaker 1: the special I remember when I remember when I realized
Speaker 1: there was a there was a scene to give me
Speaker 1: the keys, scene to get out, Um that was improvised,
Speaker 1: and yeah, there was a whole scene that was written
Speaker 1: and I'm like, instinct she was like, So I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't, this isn't. He's gotta get out because like,
Speaker 1: what's he talking about? Get out? And then and then
Speaker 1: I was like, it's not working. It's not working. And
Speaker 1: he just removed all the lines and he said, just
Speaker 1: ask her for the keys. Just ask for the keys.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, but he knows that she's he knows
Speaker 1: that she's not just asking me, just ask the keys.
Speaker 1: And I realized in that moment because oh, I trust you.
Speaker 1: And then so then I just did it. So I
Speaker 1: did it. There was no like, there's no back and forth.
Speaker 1: I just don't give me the keys. I just shouted
Speaker 1: at Alison, give me the keys game, the keys game,
Speaker 1: the kids game the keys And that was what was stating.
Speaker 1: That was that was one of the most powerful scenes
Speaker 1: in the film. That's what I feel like you have.
Speaker 1: It's like exactly what you're saying. It's instinctual. You know,
Speaker 1: like even when I when I think about your journey
Speaker 1: in acting and who you are, You've always had this
Speaker 1: um It's it's it's an uncanny ability to understand not
Speaker 1: even who the character is on the page, but who
Speaker 1: the character is inside of you. You know, like I've
Speaker 1: always wanted with any amazing actor, are there parts of
Speaker 1: the character that you keep with you or or are
Speaker 1: you able to just like turn it off and then
Speaker 1: and then you're done after the project. No, it stays
Speaker 1: with you. It stays and you have to kind of
Speaker 1: like you have to, you have to, like so that's
Speaker 1: why I usually go away for a week by myself
Speaker 1: and you have to kind of get back to yourself
Speaker 1: and go, what were my habits? And because you're doing
Speaker 1: his habits and you are your habits. So you're doing
Speaker 1: this person's habits for like four months and then you
Speaker 1: but you then you you're not you're away from yourself.
Speaker 1: You're here, so you have to kind of go travel
Speaker 1: back to yourself and go, oh, I want to watch
Speaker 1: this YouTube video about silly stuff and I want to
Speaker 1: It's Instagram video about Lebron James saying something like and
Speaker 1: you get back to yourself, you mean, so yeah, this
Speaker 1: is this is one of those movies that has, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the best costs that out there, that is
Speaker 1: out there. I'm not gonna lie, you know, I love you.
Speaker 1: But Kicky Palmer, like she's just amazing, She's just amazing.
Speaker 1: I feel like you two have become best friends. Everywhere
Speaker 1: I've seen you together every it feels like you like siblings.
Speaker 1: Now essentially's deeply annoying. Yeah, that's my girl. No, man,
Speaker 1: that's my girl. But she knows how to plash my
Speaker 1: buttons and she's like, it's funny. It's like we have
Speaker 1: like we call it a siblance. That's like that, so
Speaker 1: that we have a brother and sister kind of that
Speaker 1: dynamic me and key. When you're working with somebody like that,
Speaker 1: you know again trust comes and it comes into the picture.
Speaker 1: You know, you're performing together, you you're spending so much
Speaker 1: time together you does do you think it improves your
Speaker 1: relationship when you're in a tough situation acting or does
Speaker 1: does your relationship improve the situation that you're in? Like
Speaker 1: which way does it go? Because I know you don't
Speaker 1: always meet the actors beforehand. Sometimes you beat on set,
Speaker 1: so you see, you see a person's character and when
Speaker 1: you're like going up against them, you see how generous
Speaker 1: they are, You see how much they see how much
Speaker 1: how much they are there for themselves and they're there
Speaker 1: for the script. What you see who they're serving, because
Speaker 1: sometimes they're just serving themselves or sometimes they're serving it direct,
Speaker 1: sometimes they're serving script. So you see some see stuff
Speaker 1: as a person, so you would see that in life anyway.
Speaker 1: So it kind it's just a mirror everything. It's like
Speaker 1: what coming first, a chicken or the egg. But I like,
Speaker 1: especially if you have a close kind of relationship with
Speaker 1: a character, spending time with him beforehand and just going
Speaker 1: out and just being silly and just rolling out. She
Speaker 1: took me to a house part It was fun, man,
Speaker 1: it was cool. It was a good house. But I
Speaker 1: want to ask you what happened there. But I want
Speaker 1: I've been lucky enough to know you, you know, across
Speaker 1: the years, and you have maintained that sense of self.
Speaker 1: You have maintained that generosity. You have kept Daniel intact,
Speaker 1: which is not easy in the industry that you're in.
Speaker 1: I not just recently that you joined Instagram, And what
Speaker 1: fascinated me was the fact that you're such a private
Speaker 1: person you've always been. How do you see you sharing
Speaker 1: a piece of your world as someone who's extremely private.
Speaker 1: I'm still figuring that out because I just I just
Speaker 1: feel like I'm trying not to overthink it. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is what doing today like but I kind of like
Speaker 1: using the platform to show joy in it because I
Speaker 1: feel like, all right, cool, like let's show people have fun,
Speaker 1: like we have fun like that, and like it's a platform,
Speaker 1: so then you create more fun in your life and
Speaker 1: then put there's that, then it contributes to your life,
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, cool, I'm gonna go to a
Speaker 1: theme part today and then how can we do that.
Speaker 1: Let's let's show that. That's I don't know, that's I'm
Speaker 1: still figuring out. There's no like m O. But I
Speaker 1: realized I wanted a direct relationship with the audience, like
Speaker 1: I care like I care about the audience. I just
Speaker 1: just busy playing. Other people are just in my head.
Speaker 1: I was just like I was going in a number
Speaker 1: one number one. I don't know that. Why don't you post?
Speaker 1: Who am? I? Like? I don't know what am I
Speaker 1: com post about? I shot a police officer this morning
Speaker 1: and I'm on the run, and I said like, like
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. So then now I'm like a
Speaker 1: bit more into myself. I'm like, cool, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: what I do. I do this a little bit that,
Speaker 1: but I'm still figuring that out. Before I let you go,
Speaker 1: there's one question I've been dying to ask you, and
Speaker 1: this is from the Oscars. You know when you when
Speaker 1: you accept your reward in your speech, you said, I
Speaker 1: want to thank my mom and dad for having sex.
Speaker 1: You're the only person. You're the only person has asked me.
Speaker 1: The only personers as like the question you like that
Speaker 1: was it was a really fun moment and you were
Speaker 1: joyous and you were thanking everyone even thinking like you're
Speaker 1: your favorite rappers from from the UK and if it
Speaker 1: was like such a joyous moment. But I didn't notice
Speaker 1: your mom was there in the audience, and you you
Speaker 1: she was in London, which is probably why I did it. No,
Speaker 1: but who's an audience? They cut your mom in the audience, right,
Speaker 1: so she's in the audience, and then you go on
Speaker 1: to thank my mom and dad for having sex and
Speaker 1: they cut to her and your mom is an African mom,
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, your mom was like this did
Speaker 1: this guy just say I have sex? On TV? So
Speaker 1: from one African to another, I would like to know
Speaker 1: how did you avoid the volcano that comes? Does she
Speaker 1: say anything to you? But it was months later, it's cooking,
Speaker 1: it's still cooking, right, decide that but but like I
Speaker 1: was like, I've got your personalities. But yeah, it was interesting.
Speaker 1: I FaceTime the right after. I was like, my mama,
Speaker 1: mama joking, it happened, but I'm joking. But I'm like
Speaker 1: we were asking, like why did you say that? I
Speaker 1: was like, how did you get here? Like how did
Speaker 1: everyone get here? Like you have a mom and dad
Speaker 1: that's sex Like you mean, it's like it's African. Parents
Speaker 1: are like, we know how we got here, but we
Speaker 1: don't talk about it. You don't need to talk about it. No,
Speaker 1: I'm a renegade, you know what. Daniel, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being on the show. Thank you for joining me,
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