Dax Shepard

0:01Hank Palmer. Hank, Sheriff White, it's regarding your father. Biggest mistake of your career, and you just happen to run him over? Forensics found traces of blood on your dad's car. I sat on the bench of that courtroom for 42 years. This was an accident period. We need to establish a firm defense. There's no way here, Henry. I wish I let you more. I can't stay. You're a lawyer, he's your father. You leave now. You are a grand. You're a shined up wooden nickel, Mr. Palmer. I'm going to impale your client on the first degree murder charge. You get a front wrist suit. My father's a lot of unpleasant things. Your murder is not one of them. So you might have the only special effects in this movie with your vomiting? You know what's funny is, yes and no.

0:49Okay. So you're not, as I found out, you're not. They won't actually let you throw up. I go to... Did you do that? Yeah, absolutely. Because I think there's no mistaking in real throwing out. You reach an octave that can only be done by actually vomiting. So we did a few takes where I was playing by the rules, and then I really did make myself throw up. And I think those are the ones that are in the movie. And down he thought I was a complete idiot. He's like, I just don't understand your obsession with needing to actually throw up. I'm like, because it's different. You can tell. It's like fake crime. There's only a few things that can't be faked. My opinion throwing up is one of them. You see the guys in Jackass Throwup? You go, those guys just really threw up. And it means more. That's a good point. Yeah. But I guess because of the airborne pathogens, not advice on a set and the insurance people

1:35don't want anything to do with that. I don't know how I'm going to say what it is, but how to hit... I'll would to anyone. I don't know. Thank you. How did Hit and Run change the way you approach a role or approach the way you enter a set or any of that kind of stuff? Did it? Well, Hit and Run, the beauty of that for me was I had so much of my plight, both from the action sequences, the driving, directing my own wife, my own best friends, that my performance never... I'm not kidding. It wasn't until long after I finished editing the movie where my pretty easy partner, Penaigos, hey, you're really good in this movie. It's one of your better acting things. I was like, oh my God, that's right. I was in this movie. It just never was on my mind, which is a really good thing. Like Bill Murray was on Letterman a few years back and Letterman said, how do you do it?

2:22Like, what's the secret? How do you do it? And Bill said, well, if I can just relax and breathe. It'll all happen. Like, it'll just happen. I just... All I have, my only job is I gotta relax and breathe. And I think weirdly having all those other things that I was concentrating on allowed me to relax and breathe and then act without thinking about it. So... Interesting. Did that make any sense? Yeah, kind of. Point is if I'm so distracted, I'm liable to accidentally give a good performance. I gotta let you go in a minute, so we used to have five questions. Luckily, someone just turned the heat on. Yeah, it's very hot in here. It's just a proper break. Quick questions, one word answer. Before I catch on fire, I tried to get three out. That'll be how we close the day. There's all some fire. I think I'll burst into flames. This'll be great.

3:07Okay. Script or improv? Ah, script. Stage or screen? Screen. Hitchcock or Kubrick? Hitchcock. Lenna or McCartney? Oh, Lenna. In one word, the judge. Redemption. That's a good one. Has it already been used? No. Is it on the poster? Okay, it's original. It just said redemption. I'm gonna steal it and use it for the commercial. Redemption, man. Thanks, Dax. Yeah, thank you. Cool. That is the heat, right? Yeah, oh yeah.