Paul Rudd & Nick Jonas Interview Each Other | PEOPLE — Transcript

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1. 0:00If you were writing a song about our
2. 0:01friendship, what would it be called?
3. 0:04>> It would be called
4. 0:06I Got a Question
5. 0:08based on this game.
6. 0:10>> Hey, something like
7. 0:13I got a question
8. 0:15and you got the answer.
9. 0:20God damn.
10. 0:24>> What did you know about me before we
11. 0:26both joined this project?
12. 0:27>> Wow. Danny Wilson,
13. 0:29>> you were great up there. Come with me.
14. 0:31>> I knew a lot about you. I'd seen you in
15. 0:33films. I knew your music. Uh you're a
16. 0:36big deal, Nick. And so I was uh and I
17. 0:40also because we have some mutual
18. 0:42friends. I was excited to to meet you.
19. 0:45And I I knew that uh you had a kind of a
20. 0:48tweaked sense of humor because some of
21. 0:50the stuff that our friends were saying,
22. 0:52I found that to be the case.
23. 0:54>> And you knew that I was a big fan of
24. 0:55yours.
25. 0:56I just assumed.
26. 0:57>> Yeah, you just assumed.
27. 0:59>> Um, what do you remember about first
28. 1:01meeting me?
29. 1:04>> We were in the the suite in the movie uh
30. 1:08Power Ballad. It was our entrance into
31. 1:11the suite and there was like these big
32. 1:13curtains and I remember you just sort of
33. 1:15appeared out of the curtains, just
34. 1:17arrived into the scene and um it was a a
35. 1:21really quite a movie star entrance. Um,
36. 1:25and I was I was struck. And then we
37. 1:27talked about my my favorite movie of
38. 1:29yours that came together, which I have a
39. 1:32a signed poster in my home. Um, because
40. 1:36one of our mutual friends, Jack McBrier,
41. 1:38arranged this for my birthday on my I
42. 1:40think it was my 30th birthday to get you
43. 1:42all to sign it. So, thank you.
44. 1:43>> That blew me away because Jack did he
45. 1:45came to the set. He said, "This is for
46. 1:47Nick's birthday." Uh, and that you loved
47. 1:51that movie.
48. 1:51>> What are you doing here?
49. 1:52>> I'm a regular here. see a regular bean
50. 1:55bag. I was like, he knows this movie and
51. 1:59um I was really touched by that.
52. 2:01>> What is your favorite Jonas Brothers
53. 2:03song and why
54. 2:04>> jealous? I mean, come on. Why? As if I
55. 2:08have to explain.
56. 2:14>> Technically not a Jonas Brother song.
57. 2:16It's it's a solo song, but yeah, we'll
58. 2:18still take it. And
59. 2:19>> you're Jonas to me, baby.
60. 2:22What sort of songwriting experience did
61. 2:24you have before this movie?
62. 2:26>> None. Songwriting? None. Um,
63. 2:28>> have you ever improvised something in a
64. 2:29movie that was a that was sort of a
65. 2:31song?
66. 2:32>> Yeah. Yeah.
67. 2:34>> Slap the bass kind of.
68. 2:35>> Yeah. Slap the bass, mama.
69. 2:38>> Slaping the bass, mommy.
70. 2:39>> There you go.
71. 2:39>> Slap that bass, mama. I slap the B.
72. 2:43>> Please don't do that. and role models.
73. 2:46Uh, I sing Beth from Kiss, but I changed
74. 2:50the words.
75. 2:57>> I had to write the lyrics out because I
76. 3:01was trying to revise it and stuff, but
77. 3:04it was about the writer strike was
78. 3:06happening and so all of these rules of
79. 3:08what you're not allowed to do. Mhm.
80. 3:11>> And um so I'm like, can I improvise? I
81. 3:15don't know what like which I would do
82. 3:16sometimes just acting. I did a take uh
83. 3:20and I was kind of freestyling
84. 3:23>> and you crushed it.
85. 3:24>> Well, that's Thank you. I did. I don't
86. 3:27know. I don't think I did, but I was
87. 3:28also like what's legal to do? That might
88. 3:31be totally legal. I might have just
89. 3:32outed myself to the writer's guild.
90. 3:35>> And I miss you so much.
91. 3:38your beautiful smile and your positive
92. 3:42attitude and your whispering eye.
93. 3:44>> This is a great question. What's the
94. 3:46most taken from your life pop star
95. 3:48moment in this movie?
96. 3:51>> There's quite literally some footage
97. 3:53that they repurposed
98. 3:56uh from my actual life as the character
99. 3:59Danny Wilson. Um so much so that I'm
100. 4:01wondering if if they got approval for
101. 4:03that cuz
102. 4:04>> I'm guessing no.
103. 4:05>> I'm probably not.
104. 4:06>> I think they probably just lifted it.
105. 4:07>> Yeah. And it's, you know what, it's out
106. 4:09there in the world
107. 4:10>> belongs to them. They can take it. Uh,
108. 4:12but that and then I would say I've had a
109. 4:14lot of nights kind of similar to our
110. 4:16characters first night uh meeting and
111. 4:18hanging out where, you know, there's a
112. 4:21few drinks and ideas being thrown
113. 4:23around. And that's kind of the the fun
114. 4:26of the setup of this movie, I think, is
115. 4:27that that's how it really can happen.
116. 4:30And it's easy to to see a scenario in
117. 4:33which someone could say, "Oh, a week or
118. 4:35two later, I remember this idea I had
119. 4:37the other night," not remembering that
120. 4:38it came from a sort of drunken weed
121. 4:42smoking night and and then all of a
122. 4:45sudden there's this this crazy conflict.
123. 4:46So, luckily, I've never had that
124. 4:49experience, but certainly uh you know,
125. 4:52that songwriting process.
126. 4:53>> What was that like when you So, like
127. 4:54when you're writing with your brothers,
128. 4:55when you were young and first starting,
129. 4:57you guys were writing together. How did
130. 4:59that happen? Were you like just like,
131. 5:00"Oh, let's we're all in let's meet
132. 5:02Nick's broom. Let's how to
133. 5:04>> It was in our our basement in New Jersey
134. 5:06to start. Um, we would go down there
135. 5:10just a couple guitars, maybe keyboard,
136. 5:12and just hours and hours just kind of
137. 5:15like trying to get the song right. And
138. 5:16then eventually when we were on the
139. 5:18road, it was a hotel room, back of cars,
140. 5:21like just wherever we could. Now, you
141. 5:24know, I think because we're traveling,
142. 5:25so we have our families, everything, we
143. 5:27we kind of set aside time to do it. Um,
144. 5:30for instance, next next week, we have a
145. 5:32a bunch of songwriting sessions set up.
146. 5:35And it's kind of a better better
147. 5:36structure for for life to happen and to
148. 5:38to get the best song.
149. 5:39>> Cuz every song I ever wrote,
150. 5:45>> it's about you.
151. 5:50>> So good. Were you nervous about singing
152. 5:52in this movie?
153. 5:54>> I was. Yeah, I was nervous. Like I said,
154. 5:57I've sung in movies before, but it's
155. 6:00always silly. And when you're doing
156. 6:03something kind of funny, you're given a
157. 6:04lot of leeway. I was going to be doing
158. 6:06it with you and John Carney, who's, you
159. 6:09know, a musician in his own right. And
160. 6:12so this job is always nerve-wracking.
161. 6:15Acting, singing, doing anything. you're
162. 6:18kind of putting yourself out there and
163. 6:19you just kind of, you know, close your
164. 6:21eyes and jump in the deep end. So,
165. 6:23that's what I did. But, uh, yeah,
166. 6:25there's a little a little bit of a
167. 6:27nervousness for sure.
168. 6:28>> Yeah. Well, you blew everybody away on
169. 6:30set.
170. 6:30>> Thank you, Nick. Thank you.
171. 6:32>> So, uh, do you have a bridge yet?
172. 6:33>> No, man. That thing's dogged me for
173. 6:36years.
174. 6:37>> We could finish this right now.
175. 6:38>> I wish. No, I can't. I got to go. My
176. 6:40daughter has got to get to school.
177. 6:42>> Wait, wait, wait.
178. 6:43>> My wife has work. What song is the
179. 6:46hottest toddler jam in your house right
180. 6:48now?
181. 6:49>> Ooh,
182. 6:51well, she's she's four. Her daughter's
183. 6:54four and she's she's got a a pretty wide
184. 6:57range in in, you know, music that she
185. 7:00likes. Recently, she was introduced to
186. 7:03country
187. 7:11>> and she's been singing it non-stop. And
188. 7:13there's nothing cuter than a little
189. 7:14four-year-old singing that song.
190. 7:16>> That's pretty cute.
191. 7:17>> Yeah. Uh, speaking of parenting, as a
192. 7:20fellow girl dad, what is the best piece
193. 7:22of advice you'd give me?
194. 7:26>> Well, I think you'd probably doing a
195. 7:28good job. And I would, as far as advice,
196. 7:31I'd say uh just just be there, right?
197. 7:34>> Yeah.
198. 7:35>> Let them know that you're This is like
199. 7:36I'm not gonna give parenting advice for
200. 7:38this is
201. 7:40>> I'll tell you.
202. 7:41>> No. No. Well, I'll tell I'll I'll I'll
203. 7:43we'll talk about it later. I'll give you
204. 7:45a crib sheet that I filled out. I always
205. 7:48I have it m I on my fridge.
206. 7:50>> Perfect.
207. 7:51>> I'm like, wait a minute. Should I uh
208. 7:56again, I'm going to stop this line of
209. 7:57jokes before I start it. The way my
210. 8:00brain works is to immediately think of
211. 8:03the most uh unsayable,
212. 8:06horrible,
213. 8:08dis like dark, disgusting joke. And
214. 8:14the pauses that I take and I take a lot
215. 8:16of pauses you as you can tell
216. 8:18>> is me doing the math in my head as to do
217. 8:22I say it or how like do I back up back
218. 8:24up and it it's usually a long pause
219. 8:27because it's like oh no, I got to keep
220. 8:28backing up. I'm not even gonna say it.
221. 8:30>> That is why we love you.
222. 8:31>> Oh, no. That specifically.
223. 8:33>> It's
224. 8:35Well, then I'll tell you uh my sick
225. 8:38jokes when we're done filming. What's
226. 8:39the best parenting advice you received?
227. 8:42>> Was it my
228. 8:45>> do when you think you should say you
229. 8:47shouldn't say something, just back it
230. 8:48up.
231. 8:48>> Just back it up cuz you don't
232. 8:50>> It's not advice that I've received. It's
233. 8:52it's what I've observed from my own
234. 8:55parents and and you know my my brothers
235. 8:58and the people I respect. Um in the same
236. 9:01way that it's it's awkward I I agree to
237. 9:03give someone
238. 9:04>> right
239. 9:04>> parenting advice. Um because everyone
240. 9:06has their own journey with it and it's
241. 9:08it's a very personal thing.
242. 9:11I've I've been fortunate enough to get
243. 9:13to watch the people I love raise their
244. 9:16children and and and you know raise me
245. 9:18and my brothers and and that is just in
246. 9:21action and the what they've done and who
247. 9:23they are. That is the best advice I've
248. 9:25I've taken in.
249. 9:26>> Yeah. You kind of know it when you hear
250. 9:27it, don't you? I mean like
251. 9:30>> I just read this thing the other day
252. 9:32where it's like you got to be it's
253. 9:34really important to let your kids make
254. 9:36mistakes as a parent. You want to get in
255. 9:37and kind of fix everything and make sure
256. 9:40everything's okay. But they really need
257. 9:41to figure out how to negotiate
258. 9:42disappointment and these kinds of
259. 9:44things. And it's important to back off.
260. 9:46>> Yeah.
261. 9:47>> And I remember once reading something
262. 9:48that Julia Roberts said that I was like,
263. 9:50"Oh my god, that's of course she's so
264. 9:52smart." Uh she said, "The best thing
265. 9:54that I can do for my children is to love
266. 9:56their dad."
267. 9:58>> It's beautiful.
268. 9:59>> Yeah. Julie Roberts.
269. 10:01>> Julia Roberts.
270. 10:02>> No, she gets it.
271. 10:04>> In this film, we have a physical fight.
272. 10:06think it is easy to turn a song into a
273. 10:09>> What do you remember from shooting that
274. 10:11scene? And who do you think would win if
275. 10:13we actually fought?
276. 10:16>> Um, well, I remember a lot from when we
277. 10:19were filming it. One, it was cold and
278. 10:21>> and you had wet and you were in your
279. 10:24underwear.
280. 10:25>> I negotiated to get a hoodie on because
281. 10:27otherwise I would have been truly just
282. 10:28>> it was it was it was terrible. Um, but
283. 10:31you threw yourself into it and it was
284. 10:32you were you were it's very impressive.
285. 10:35You were great in that scene and um
286. 10:39completely raw and emotional and I I was
287. 10:41kind of knocked out um both physically
288. 10:44and in terms of your acting ability. If
289. 10:47we got into a fight, I think just the
290. 10:49very nature of who you are and the
291. 10:51nature of who I am, we uh we wouldn't
292. 10:54ever even bring ourselves to do it.
293. 10:56>> Yeah. Just be like, you know what?
294. 10:58>> Let's just stop. What are we chilling?
295. 11:00>> I'm sorry.
296. 11:00>> I'm sorry, too. You're the best.
297. 11:02>> You're the Let's get a beer.
298. 11:04>> Technically, you could say no and we
299. 11:05would win, but I like to look at it as
300. 11:07uh we
301. 11:08>> we both won.
302. 11:08>> We both win.
303. 11:10>> Violence. Violence is you never It
304. 11:12doesn't solve anything except in the
305. 11:15most extreme circumstances.
306. 11:18as a former sexiest man alive. It makes
307. 11:20it kind of like as a former as you're as
308. 11:23a as a
309. 11:24>> for by the way it's not wrong
310. 11:28>> as a person on former
311. 11:30>> as a sexiest man alive.
312. 11:32>> Yes.
313. 11:32>> Person. What is your advice? For me,
314. 11:37>> what is your advice for me? Nick Jones
315. 11:38to be more sexy is the question.
316. 11:40>> Oh Jesus Christ. I don't think I don't
317. 11:44think you have any trouble there, Nick.
318. 11:46Uh,
319. 11:47just let him out.
320. 11:51Let him hang. Let him hang, bro. By the
321. 11:53way, and that's that's the G-rated
322. 11:55version of that joke. Let him
323. 11:57>> Let him out.
324. 11:57>> Let him h get in some air.
325. 12:03>> And I didn't specify what. I don't know
326. 12:06where your sick minds were going.
327. 12:09>> Yeah. Could be my my teeth.
328. 12:11>> Yeah. You've got a gorgeous smile. It's
329. 12:13It's so It's timeless. It's so sexy. Get
330. 12:17them out. Show them.
331. 12:20Un unzip those lips and flash them.
332. 12:25What's the biggest difference between
333. 12:27leaving your trailer for a scene versus
334. 12:30hitting the stage for a set?
335. 12:32>> I mean, it's the same It's the same
336. 12:34thing at the end of the day. You're
337. 12:35you're you're
338. 12:37putting on a performance. you're you're
339. 12:39you know opening up the walls of of your
340. 12:42sort of personal life and experience to
341. 12:45everyone else to kind of engage with.
342. 12:47The only difference is and this is
343. 12:48actually not all that interesting but
344. 12:50the only difference is before a show I'm
345. 12:52relaxed. I might have a little cocktail,
346. 12:55get the vibe right. For a scene I'm not
347. 12:57doing that.
348. 12:58>> Right. Right.
349. 12:59>> I'm not doing that.
350. 13:01>> No, of course not.
351. 13:02>> Of course not. We never did that.
352. 13:04>> No,
353. 13:04>> we never did. But that's only because
354. 13:06it's really hard to find alcohol in
355. 13:07Ireland.
356. 13:10>> What's the fanciest or most luxurious
357. 13:12item on your rider?
358. 13:15>> Ants on a log.
359. 13:18>> That's a real thing. You really
360. 13:19>> I really have that on the rider.
361. 13:21>> It's not luxurious or fancy, but it is
362. 13:23to me. It's celery,
363. 13:26almond butter, peanut butter, and and
364. 13:28raisins.
365. 13:29It's delicious. It's good protein. Gets
366. 13:32me jacked before the show.
367. 13:35jacked. You know, it's funny. I don't I
368. 13:38don't have a rider. There's nothing I
369. 13:40don't demand, but there are some things
370. 13:41I like to have. I like to have gum. I
371. 13:45chew a lot of gum,
372. 13:46>> which is kind of gross.
373. 13:48>> But, uh, when I was when I started doing
374. 13:53those Marvel movies and I just was on a
375. 13:55very strict diet and I wasn't eating and
376. 13:57I thought, so I chewed gum and then I
377. 13:59never really kind of like stopped. Um,
378. 14:03>> I'm an Altoids guy.
379. 14:05>> Great.
380. 14:06>> I mean,
381. 14:06>> great.
382. 14:07>> Just pounding the Altoids on set.
383. 14:13>> I also love mushroom chocolates.
384. 14:17Is there a song that you are
385. 14:18professionally jealous of that was
386. 14:20almost yours or a song that you really
387. 14:23wish you had written?
388. 14:25>> There's plenty of songs I wish I had
389. 14:27written and I' I've kind of mentioned a
390. 14:28few of those. going back to things like
391. 14:30a Beatles classic or things like that to
392. 14:33more recent things like
393. 14:35uh attention by Charlie
394. 14:37>> Puth
395. 14:42Wish we had that song but there there
396. 14:44are a few and I don't want to name them
397. 14:46because
398. 14:48they are with those other artists now
399. 14:49and they're their songs but songs that I
400. 14:51cut vocals on that then went a different
401. 14:53direction. It's kind of like almost like
402. 14:55an audition. This is a thing that
403. 14:59some actors have to do. Not not you
404. 15:00obviously, but you have to go in and
405. 15:02audition for the director.
406. 15:03>> Oh my gosh. Yeah. Not I'd do that, too.
407. 15:06Yeah.
408. 15:07>> Yeah.
409. 15:08>> I mean, rarely, but I do do it.
410. 15:11>> Um, but yeah, I lost those songs and
411. 15:13that was a bummer cuz you hear on the
412. 15:14radio and go, that should have been me.
413. 15:16>> I could tell within 2 minutes of meeting
414. 15:18you, you are not just some boy band guy
415. 15:21>> and you are too good for that wedding
416. 15:23band. I learned that you could be an
417. 15:25incredibly talented musician and still
418. 15:28be like the coolest, nicest guy. Uh,
419. 15:32Nick, that is you. You have a real way
420. 15:35of conveying um emotion and showing
421. 15:39exactly what your character is thinking
422. 15:41without saying anything, which is just
423. 15:44the best thing to be able to do when
424. 15:47you're acting. Um, so I I uh I was
425. 15:51really impressed.
426. 15:53I know how to do that, too. So, I didn't
427. 15:55really learn it from you, but uh but I I
428. 15:59did I I'm only kidding. I was like,
429. 16:02really good at that. And uh I got to I
430. 16:05got to try that. I got to steal that.
431. 16:08>> That's very kind. Um as far as what I
432. 16:11learned from from you on set, um
433. 16:16there were so many things. I mean, one
434. 16:17of the the most exciting parts of of
435. 16:21stepping into
436. 16:23this this film with you, but but
437. 16:25specifically just any acting projects
438. 16:28I've been fortunate enough to do is
439. 16:30>> you you kind of do learn something from
440. 16:32everybody and you mentioned some stories
441. 16:34about be with Jack Nicholson, other
442. 16:36people you work with, but it's just so
443. 16:37cool to see that even at your level and
444. 16:40with your experience that there's still
445. 16:42that ability to to kind of be a sponge
446. 16:44and I I tried to do that with you so
447. 16:45much so to the point where on my latest
448. 16:48film that I just finished, White
449. 16:49Elephant, with another co-star of yours,
450. 16:52Kathern Newton.
451. 16:53>> Yeah.
452. 16:53>> I was talking about little things I saw
453. 16:55you doing and I actually found myself in
454. 16:57one take doing something that was like
455. 16:59something you might do.
456. 17:01>> Um, and I was like, you know, what a
457. 17:03cool thing to get to just be that sponge
458. 17:05and and continue to to learn and grow.
459. 17:07So, thanks,
460. 17:08>> man. Thanks. I back back at you, dude.
461. 17:12There there is there were things that
462. 17:13you would do. Um
463. 17:16and now I feel bad that I was even
464. 17:18making a even a silly joke about I don't
465. 17:20know how to do that because I really
466. 17:21don't. Um no there are things you do. Uh
467. 17:25that was really amazing that I think oh
468. 17:28I I would like to learn that but I can't
469. 17:31because I think it's God-given. It's
470. 17:33innate. And you know when we would do
471. 17:36the song and I would listen to you play
472. 17:40it and then I listen to you sing it.
473. 17:47>> You did things with like phrasing and
474. 17:50the way because I recorded a version of
475. 17:52it too and it's like okay well this is
476. 17:54how you record this song. This is how
477. 17:56this song goes. Obviously, you can make
478. 17:57things your own and all of that, but you
479. 18:00you did something with the song and this
480. 18:04phrasing that I was like, "Oh my god,
481. 18:06that is so good." My brain just would
482. 18:09not work that way. And so, it's like I
483. 18:11would like to I would like to learn have
484. 18:14the courage to at least attempt
485. 18:16something like that, but I wouldn't have
486. 18:17the ability to do it. So, uh that is
487. 18:21honestly, uh something that I think
488. 18:25about every time I hear it. Actually,
489. 18:26when I hear in the movie and I hear I'm
490. 18:27like, "Wow, that's really cool." That's
491. 18:29the difference between somebody who's
492. 18:31like kind of singing and playing music
493. 18:33and then an actual musician and uh you
494. 18:36brought au authenticity to it. So, um to
495. 18:40the entire proceeding to the movie. So,
496. 18:42that was kind of cool to be around.
497. 18:43>> That's very nice of you.
498. 18:46>> I'm having a heart attack, by the way.
499. 18:47That's what you're coming for me.