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Speaker 3: Welcome to Das Show. My guest tonight as an award
Speaker 3: winning actor who is starting in the horror film Maxine
Speaker 3: and Beverly Hills cop axel F Please welcome Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 1: Nice, nice, nice, nice, Well, all right, lady.
Speaker 3: Dare I say okay, okay, okay, that that dare I say? Beloved?
Speaker 3: That's what that sounded like. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1: It's nice. It's nice to be loved. You know.
Speaker 4: It's funny people talk about what a pain in the ass.
Speaker 4: They ask about what a pain in the ass it
Speaker 4: is to be famous? Yeah, and I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 4: it's the greatest thing. People will stop you on the
Speaker 4: street and say I love you, and you go, who gets.
Speaker 1: That in life? Yeah? You know what I mean. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I never take that for granted. So thank you, you're very.
Speaker 3: My first question, is it a pain in the ass
Speaker 3: to be famous? Did go? Oh, yes, yes, it's funny
Speaker 3: watching that clip, right, there you get to be a
Speaker 3: bad guy in the new Beverly Hills copy, and then
Speaker 3: also in Maxine you get to be a bit of
Speaker 3: a scumbag in that as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, Erry, real scumbag.
Speaker 3: What demons are you exercising?
Speaker 4: You know what, It's funny you say that, because I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm not afraid of being a bad guy in the movie.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a lot of people that go, that's
Speaker 4: like a gross thing. I don't want to do that
Speaker 4: because they think it's going to somehow reflect on them personally.
Speaker 4: And I've always thought they're just going to, like the
Speaker 4: work speak for itself, you know. I mean, I'm an actor.
Speaker 4: It's not about me being me up there. It's always
Speaker 4: about me trying to walk in somebody else's shoes. So
Speaker 4: when I look at these two guys, they're completely different men,
Speaker 4: the character of Maxine and the character in Beverly Hills Cops.
Speaker 4: So to me, it's just great parts and I just
Speaker 4: want to I just want to be them, and I'm
Speaker 4: exercising some demons.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Yeah, that's where you were.
Speaker 1: Going from a darkness there, right? Yes?
Speaker 3: Is that something you had to grow into, like when
Speaker 3: you start out acting. Were you comfortable taking those roles
Speaker 3: or were you in your head about how you.
Speaker 1: Would be perceived. I was never in my head about that.
Speaker 4: I was always about like I just I just was
Speaker 4: always about doing something that.
Speaker 1: Was edgier and darker and more of a stretch.
Speaker 4: And listen, it's it's like the greatest thing because you
Speaker 4: live your life and then you get to pretend to
Speaker 4: you know, hate somebody without hating them, or kill somebody
Speaker 4: without killing them, or you know, do like questionable things
Speaker 4: and then just go back and live a you know, hopefully,
Speaker 4: you know, a decent life.
Speaker 3: We should get more people sitty things to do on
Speaker 3: the camera.
Speaker 1: Maybe, yeah, you might be on this upthing there.
Speaker 3: You get to work with Eddie Murphy on this You
Speaker 3: never worked with that, never work with Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 4: And it's really cool because you know, he's just I mean,
Speaker 4: he's just Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: He's just that guy.
Speaker 4: You know, he's so he's so great, he's so cool
Speaker 4: the way he comes on the set. And you know,
Speaker 4: the other day, I was on the flight flying back.
Speaker 4: I can't remember where I was coming from, but I
Speaker 4: was watching YouTube and a clip from one of his
Speaker 4: comedy Specials popped up, and I don't know if you
Speaker 4: ever had this experience on a plane where you're laughing
Speaker 4: so hard at something you feel bad for the people
Speaker 4: around you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I was literally trying to tamp it down and
Speaker 4: tears were rolling down my face. I mean, he's just
Speaker 4: he's great, and so to be on camera with him
Speaker 4: and to be in a scene like that was just
Speaker 4: so much fun.
Speaker 3: Usually for me on the plane, I'm weeping.
Speaker 5: Is that?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Okay, it could be a comedy or a tragedy. I'm weeping,
Speaker 3: and I'm not trying to hide it from other people.
Speaker 3: I'm looking for any kind of comfort I can get.
Speaker 1: Fear of flying, fear of just fear of.
Speaker 3: Facing my own in personal demons and emotions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe you should take on some bad guy parts.
Speaker 3: You know what, if they would offer me any single role,
Speaker 3: I would say, yes, they're afraid to let me even
Speaker 3: walk on to most rolls. They're just like, you know what,
Speaker 3: stick behind that desk and talk about politics, shall you.
Speaker 3: It's different because Beverly Hills Cop came out. The last
Speaker 3: Beverly Hills Cop movie was thirty years ago. How do
Speaker 3: you think, I mean, how do you think gen Z
Speaker 3: is going to relate to a movie like this. A
Speaker 3: lot of these folks didn't come up with the Beverly
Speaker 3: Hills cop franchise.
Speaker 4: Okay, this is going to tell you how old I am.
Speaker 4: Remind me thirty four thirty four, No, remind me what
Speaker 4: gen Z is. What gen Z is post millennials.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what a millennial. Oh, by jeez,
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm seriously, I don't. It's the phone generation, a generation
Speaker 3: that came up always knowing the Internet.
Speaker 4: What are they going to think of the movie? I
Speaker 4: think I think the movie is is really fun and
Speaker 4: really cool, and I would think that, you know, it's
Speaker 4: there is a certain amount of nostalgia in it, for sure,
Speaker 4: but probably with a with a franchise that's that well known,
Speaker 4: you've probably heard your parents or maybe your grandparents talk.
Speaker 1: About it and and and.
Speaker 4: You know, maybe you go back and watch watch the originals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I love it. Now you're also Maxine a
Speaker 3: great horror franchise. It's the third Yeah, it's compelling to
Speaker 3: go back. You Friday the thirteenth, it was one of
Speaker 3: your first roles. It was second role. I believe you
Speaker 3: have a great death where I think you get knifed
Speaker 3: while having sex and the knife goes through your neck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, awesome, man, Yeah yeah, it was great.
Speaker 4: It was great because you know, horror movies, especially back then,
Speaker 4: were often kind of thinly veiled morality tales. They it
Speaker 4: was a way to pick whoever were the type of
Speaker 4: people that somebody decided should not should die, and those
Speaker 4: people were usually people that did drugs and had.
Speaker 1: Sex, right, and so I did, but that's why I
Speaker 1: wanted to die. I was like, how dare you exactly?
Speaker 4: And you know, the funny thing is is that in
Speaker 4: those days, like those were those are the cool people,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, But those are the ones
Speaker 4: that always had to die in the in the in
Speaker 4: the horror movies. And so I had, you know, the
Speaker 4: one to the one two punch had Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: I had sex. I got sad sex first and then
Speaker 4: and then smoked the joint and then the arrow went
Speaker 4: through the throat.
Speaker 3: If you gotta go pick it that way, can I
Speaker 3: tell you something word?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 4: Every sometimes you know, there's people that have photographs that
Speaker 4: they want you to sign, you know, right, and the
Speaker 4: number one photograph that I'm asked to sign is me
Speaker 4: dead with an arrow sticking out of my throat. Really yeah,
Speaker 4: And I'm always like, don't you have anything of me?
Speaker 1: A lot?
Speaker 3: That's the image? Is that your fear that at the
Speaker 3: Oscars in memoriam, that's the image that they show.
Speaker 1: My fear is that I don't make the end memorial.
Speaker 3: Oh, Kevin Bacon, judging by the reception that you had,
Speaker 3: you are going to be there, you think so. And
Speaker 3: they're not going to show you dead. They're going to
Speaker 3: show a picture of you having sex at the end
Speaker 3: of You deserve it.
Speaker 1: You deserve it.
Speaker 4: I listen hopefully that's how I die.
Speaker 3: Hopefully you go out.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to segue into your marriage. But
Speaker 3: it feels weird.
Speaker 1: Now, does it. Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know why it feels weird because married people don't
Speaker 4: have sex. That's why it feels weird because that's the
Speaker 4: overall perception.
Speaker 3: It is the overall perception. Yes, I will say why, Like,
Speaker 3: you're you're all over TikTok Instagram. You look like you're
Speaker 3: living the best life. I will say, you and your
Speaker 3: wife kiers Edgwick. Yeah, you're singing, you're dancing, you're playing
Speaker 3: with alpacas and goats. Yes, it feels like you hacked it.
Speaker 3: I'm curious, what advice do you have for somebody who
Speaker 3: wants to be successful on TikTok and also save their marriage.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a heavy lift. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Listen, I never give marriage advice because it's just we
Speaker 4: don't know, man, We're just marriage doesn't work. Let's face it,
Speaker 4: how many people stay married? It makes no sense. Nobody's
Speaker 4: the never one gets to You should think of it
Speaker 4: as something that you're just doing for a while, and
Speaker 4: then if you turn around and you know, thirty six later,
Speaker 4: thirty six years later, you're still doing it for a
Speaker 4: while or whatever, you know.
Speaker 1: Then we'll you keep doing it for a little while longer.
Speaker 3: So switch the vow. So not till that there was part,
Speaker 3: but till till maybe September.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 4: Don't put too much pressure on the whole idea of
Speaker 4: like that. That's why when people ask ask both of
Speaker 4: us about it, we're like no, no, no, no, we're
Speaker 4: not we're not going there.
Speaker 3: Do you get that?
Speaker 1: Like did you get instantly?
Speaker 3: Is that right?
Speaker 1: Yes? How do you do it? How do you do it?
Speaker 1: How do you do it?
Speaker 4: And not just in the in the public situation or
Speaker 4: in a press situation from like, you know, genuinely young people,
Speaker 4: especially young actors in relationships, who are looking at the
Speaker 4: idea of two actors being in a relationship, and and
Speaker 4: and you know, is that is that going to be hard?
Speaker 1: And I really I just don't have any advice.
Speaker 4: My one piece of advice that's silly is my one
Speaker 4: piece of advice that we usually give is just don't
Speaker 4: take advice from celebrities on how to stay married.
Speaker 3: All back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is
Speaker 3: an actor and physician whose new album is called Chaos
Speaker 3: Angel and she stars as Anxiety in Inside Out to
Speaker 3: Please Welcome Maya Hawk. She is, okay, so an inside
Speaker 3: Out too? You play anxiety? Am I pronouncing that right?
Speaker 3: I've I've never heard of anxiety before.
Speaker 6: It's a very sophisticated name. Not a lot of people
Speaker 6: know about it. But yeah, that you're pronouncing it just right? Yes, yes, anxiety? Anxiety?
Speaker 3: Is that right? Yes, that's exactly on anxiety. How do
Speaker 3: you go about playing anxiety? You're channeling essentially an idea
Speaker 3: and a general emotion.
Speaker 6: Yes, well, it's interesting because they're both ideas and general emotions.
Speaker 6: But also they're really well rounded characters. For example, within
Speaker 6: the movie, Joy, played by the fabulous Amy Poehler, cries.
Speaker 5: You know, Joy cries. So Joy is a full character,
Speaker 5: and so are all the other characters.
Speaker 6: So it is kind of a single emotion, but it's
Speaker 6: also a whole person, which is a very weird thing
Speaker 6: to play. But basically, what I did is that in
Speaker 6: my own personal life, I have a voice in my
Speaker 6: head going at all times telling me all the things
Speaker 6: that I'm doing wrong always one hundred percent, and all
Speaker 6: the things I'm worried about in all the ways that
Speaker 6: maybe I could improve the things that I'm worried about
Speaker 6: and kind of correct the trajectory of my crashing plane.
Speaker 6: And I just kind of tapped into that voice and
Speaker 6: put it into the character.
Speaker 5: So I didn't do any research.
Speaker 6: It's no homework, no scientific follow ups, no consultations with specialists, specialists,
Speaker 6: just listening.
Speaker 5: To the guy in my head was like, Oh no,
Speaker 5: it's not gonna be okay. You're gonna be bad. You're
Speaker 5: gonna do a bad job at the show.
Speaker 6: And I, Oh, yeah, your coult's weird.
Speaker 5: You're weird. It's going to go.
Speaker 3: Really, you're doing great, But you. You really brought that
Speaker 3: character out.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, some of us.
Speaker 5: Have to do homework. Some of us are naturals. I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 3: You just find the voice within and you let it
Speaker 3: out there exactly. You're playing anxiety and inside out too.
Speaker 3: And your new album is called Chaos Angels.
Speaker 5: That's true?
Speaker 3: Is everything okay?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a sleepy, you're a sleepy.
Speaker 3: You're dealing with a lot of open emotions. I feel like,
Speaker 3: does the idea of your album is very personal? Yes,
Speaker 3: and releasing it that sounds it gives me nothing but nightmares.
Speaker 3: The idea of releasing something so personal like that, does
Speaker 3: that give youth out.
Speaker 5: Your edited journals?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 3: Is only is that how you view it?
Speaker 5: I mean kind of, I mean edited and obscured.
Speaker 6: But yeah, but no, it doesn't really give me anxiety
Speaker 6: because I am not like you know, I'm not like
Speaker 6: making the There's no like public scandal that's being revealed
Speaker 6: by my record, and it's not like.
Speaker 3: It's like about a flaw. Do you wish you hadn't
Speaker 3: you wish?
Speaker 6: I'm actually if anyone's interested or open to offering me
Speaker 6: a public scandal to incorporate into the lyrics, of my
Speaker 6: next song, I'd be very open. But no, so it
Speaker 6: doesn't make me that nervous. I have always been pretty
Speaker 6: open with my emotions as a person. That's a that's
Speaker 6: kind of a mainstay characteristic of my crazy inside out
Speaker 6: house that's going on up here, my headquarters, so to speak.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I'm just I'm open with my emotions. I'm
Speaker 6: very happy to talk about things, and so I really
Speaker 6: I'm just feeling very proud and grateful to have gotten
Speaker 6: to make a record that is coming out and to
Speaker 6: get to be in a movie this cool and like
Speaker 6: this kind of double rainbow of both popular, good and smart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well said, I mean it is. It is
Speaker 3: a remarkable thing to be able to both to act
Speaker 3: and also to do music at the same time. You
Speaker 3: you grew up in a an artistic household.
Speaker 5: I agreed, it is remarkable.
Speaker 3: It's remarkable, Maya, how do you do it?
Speaker 6: I mean, it's just I don't know, an extra lobe
Speaker 6: in my brain, it's extra lobes.
Speaker 3: I know, did you ever growing up in a household
Speaker 3: that has so much art? An artist? I follow your
Speaker 3: dad on Instagram when I feel like he's constantly telling
Speaker 3: me how to be a better artist.
Speaker 6: I love the vibe of his Instagram. He has transitioned
Speaker 6: from actor to guru.
Speaker 3: Yes, what is he going to tell me to do today?
Speaker 3: I know, did you ever growing up in that household
Speaker 3: feel the rebellious spirit to go against the grain and
Speaker 3: become like an actuarial scientist?
Speaker 6: No, no, no, I mean I think the weird thing
Speaker 6: that people misunderstand about rebellion, And there are a few
Speaker 6: counter examples to this, but like people don't normally rebel
Speaker 6: against fun stuff, like like it does happen, okay, but rarely,
Speaker 6: Like it's only the really weird brother who's ever.
Speaker 5: Like, yeah, my dad was so fun.
Speaker 6: He took us the trampoline park all the time, and
Speaker 6: all he wanted to do was talk about rock.
Speaker 5: Music and trampolines. And so I became an accountant, Like
Speaker 5: that's an unusual thing. It's usually like the accountant's kid
Speaker 5: who's like, I'm the trampoline guy.
Speaker 3: Like, I don't know, Like.
Speaker 6: It's mostly rarely does one rebel against fun stuff.
Speaker 3: That's true, That's true. I usually shied away from it
Speaker 3: in high school, but that was mostly because that was
Speaker 3: fun stuff, risky stuff. I was a nerd in high school.
Speaker 3: So the idea of drinking or doing drugs or actually
Speaker 3: having a sustained relationship with somebody was very scary.
Speaker 5: Too, very What about a brief relationship.
Speaker 3: I had a brief relationship and then I had a
Speaker 3: very long relationship, Okay, which I think is what happened.
Speaker 3: This is too much about me, Jesus, I'm hearing that
Speaker 3: anxiety in my voice. Now you're like, you're bringing it up.
Speaker 3: You're bringing it up. You're bringing it up, Jordan.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: The first song on your album, Yeah, Black Ice has
Speaker 3: a very interesting moody beginning.
Speaker 5: It does.
Speaker 3: Yes, can you tell us a little.
Speaker 5: Bit about Oh my god, Yeah, it's so weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 5: I'm worried for some reason.
Speaker 6: I've now like, like the first one was like no really,
Speaker 6: but now I'm talking about a lot, and I'm worried
Speaker 6: it's going to come back to bite.
Speaker 5: Me in the butt somehow.
Speaker 6: But I was taken to see a psychic because I
Speaker 6: had depression as a child, and the psychic was like
Speaker 6: a magical psychic who like laid crystals around you and
Speaker 6: helped you talk to your spirit guides.
Speaker 5: Yes, it was a very normal childhood.
Speaker 6: In case anyone got the wrong impression from everything else
Speaker 6: about me. I had a really conventional childhood. And so anyway,
Speaker 6: this psychic did this kind of long session with me
Speaker 6: at the end, and there were like two dogs there
Speaker 6: and like three women, and they helped me I talk
Speaker 6: to my inner spirit guides and remove my shield that
Speaker 6: was over my heart and do all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 6: And I have a recording of it, and the recording
Speaker 6: I only heard like fifteen years later and was really
Speaker 6: taken aback by it because it was both extremely positive
Speaker 6: and I was like, Wow, I'm so lucky that I
Speaker 6: got to like have this kind of help as a
Speaker 6: kid and help through my anxious teen years, you know,
Speaker 6: kind of like the way that did Inside Out is
Speaker 6: focused on. But I was also like, you freaking weird,
Speaker 6: Like why are you telling me that I am an angel?
Speaker 5: I am not and will never be. I am a.
Speaker 6: Disgusting little gremlin and have been an always movie.
Speaker 5: And so it was like, because these these.
Speaker 6: Women were really being like, you are an angel and
Speaker 6: human form, You are perfect.
Speaker 5: Your job in the universe is to make.
Speaker 6: Other people around you feel happy and good. And I
Speaker 6: listened as an adult and I was like, I don't want.
Speaker 3: Them to be my job, which is go away this time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, I guess you have an experience like that. You're like,
Speaker 3: I need to become an artist and put this into words. Suppose,
Speaker 3: So yes, I hang in there. It feels like it
Speaker 3: feels like a gift to a friend.
Speaker 5: That is basically the idea I like. I've heard two
Speaker 5: different takes on the song.
Speaker 6: I like the idea that it's either a present to
Speaker 6: me singing to a past me comforting the past. So
Speaker 6: it's like you're comforting yourself or me singing to a
Speaker 6: friend of mine.
Speaker 3: The first one sounds cooler.
Speaker 1: I should have said the first one.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I like both.
Speaker 6: I like both, and I will not reveal which one
Speaker 6: it is or else I offer up the opportunity to
Speaker 6: accidentally reveal who the bad guy in the story is.
Speaker 3: Well, I want to know.
Speaker 5: No, I can't tell you this is the scandal you
Speaker 5: are looking for. I know, I know, but it's not
Speaker 5: the scandal that the people want.
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