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James Franco & Scott Haze

Actors James Franco (Child of God, Pineapple Express) and Scott Haze (Child of God, Midnight Special) chat with Matt Schichter in New York.

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Episode #685 · James Franco & Scott HazeJuly 2014 · 00:03:56

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0:09So what's your plans? What sort of maintenance have you got laid out for next? Now this is not your life! So the choices you guys made, I don't like the booger stuff. You don't see that on film. I don't know who's like, who's idea that was or how that... This is happening. Why did you have so many, so many snuck? I think he was just so cold out. And it was just freezing out there.

0:55I don't know, but there was a lot of snot. And the way your eyebrows moved and tilting your foot. I don't know how you find them. I'll tell you another snot scene. Okay. I like the winning. Which one? Russell Crowe and his wife dies and he finds her dead in gladiator. A lot of snot. Okay. A lot of snot. That's not a snot. Okay. It's not about this movie. I'm trying to figure out. You said that there wasn't so much boogers, but there are some boogers. But it's cool to see because it's disturbing, but it's disturbing in a weird way. The snot. Maybe just to me, I don't know why. Well, it's so close. I mean, and the character is at an extreme emotional state at that point. So he's mentally and physically falling apart.

1:41When I was watching some interview, you guys did a Venice or something, you were talking about trying to hide the body in the attic. That scene, when you read the book, you were like, oh, that's sold me. So talk about shooting that scene. We only have a few minutes here. Oh. Well, one of the... Yeah. I mean, there's some thing, you know, we tried to be very loyal to the book and the spirit of the book. And then there are some amazing images in the book, as you've seen. And one of them that just stuck with me is this guy alone out in the woods in a cabin trying to hide this body. And he's so good at some things. He's so adept with his rifle. But when it comes to hiding this body, it's almost like a chaplain movie, how he bungles

2:32it. And so I just thought that it seems, on one level, it's kind of silly and a little goofy. On another level with, you know, it's incredibly important to this movie because you need a little relief from the darkness in this movie. And so scenes like that go such a distance in varying out the, you know, what you're watching and allowing you to kind of go along with the character a little bit because it shows a more vulnerable side of him. The rifle scene too, I almost laughed out loud in a movie where I wouldn't expect it to laugh. Where he was, oh, the rifle scene, that's very vague. I just realized with the card, with the red, a little bit of red.

3:19Yeah, it's very, yeah. Don't have much time. I think I let you go. So we do some called five questions. Five quick questions. One word answers. Script or improv? Improv. You both... Oh, improv. Stage or screen? Tough. I don't know. Leonard McCartney. What was that? Leonard McCartney. What was that? Leonard McCartney. Leonard. Hitchcock Kubrick. Kubrick. Kubrick. In one word, child of God. Scott. Lester. That's good. Thanks, guys.

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