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Episode #511 · Ken JeongMay 2013 · 00:05:09
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0:01You have this strange email to think it might be from Chow. Daddy, I'm close by. Tell no one. Chow. This says Chow. How did you not know this was from Chow? At the time, I thought it was Chow like goodbye. You know, like Chow, Riva Durg, Jay, Papa John. Ah! Hey, fast stuff. Quick, do me some sugar. Mm. Did he just kiss him? What are you doing here? Fame all the same, oh. Ooh, I got the cock fighting. Oh, cock fighting. That sounds wonderful. Ah! Stay still, it's trying to help! Oh, are you out here? Thanks for being here. Thanks for being here. Thanks to meet you. Diet Coke, I was just talking about this Diet Coke as a doctor that interests me. Not with the asper to be a role. Let's start with that anyway. Diet Coke, you're a doctor, you should know these things. Well, I mean, you know, I drink, if you do anything in moderation, it's good.
0:50And I like, I love, I mean, Diet Coke is throughout residency in med school. That's what kept you up. Kept me up, kept me up. Everything in moderate, the opposite of Chow. And I'm the Coke Zero spokesman, so I do something. Okay, so you have to drink it. I love Coke Zero, yeah, I love it. So you said, we'll just talk about the movie. This is the best thing I've ever done. I think it was on Leno last week, you might have said that. Yeah, yeah. Why? Todd Phillips really guided me through such a layered performance tip. For Todd Phillips to extend what really essentially is a four-minute character in the first movie to a character, was really kind of the backbone of the story for the third movie. I was, for him to guide me through that and for me to have the biggest role of my career.
1:38And he knew exactly when to give me latitude and let me be myself and let me do my thing. It would be also when it would rain me in, kind of like keep me focused on the tone of the story. And it was the best experience I've ever had as an actor because I became a better actor out of it through working with Todd and the WOLPAC on it. So I learned so much. I really just learned a lot of things about myself that I didn't think I could even do as an actor and to have this kind of support from, I mean, there were just times where I was doing some scenes and Bradley Cooper, one of the best actors alive right now, telling Take Me and Maria's Wing saying, dude, that was a great take. That was a great take you just did. I mean, I guess I don't tell everybody, just to have that kind of support from your peers and your friends.
2:23It meant everything to me. You kind of alluded to doing that 30 foot drop off Caesars. Yeah. That was actually you. Well, 30 foot drop at another point in the movie. So yeah. Oh, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. And so that was all me. That wasn't a stuntman. That was. Is that your first time doing that kind of work? Yeah. I'm massively afraid of heights. I don't do harness work. I've never done a 30 foot, I mean falling down 30 feet without any parachute, you know, it's like free fall. It was insane. So you're going to become Ken's stuntman? I'll become Ken's stuntman. It was actually that stunt coordinator, Jack Hill, you know, coached me through that. He desensitized me basically. He like once a week for like six weeks, I would be in a harness at 10 feet to get used to that 15, 20, 25, 30, so on.
3:08Yeah. Did it cure your fear fights? It did. Really? Yeah, it really did. Jack really. It was like, yeah, I got a cure out of this. So it's great. Yeah. It works. Yeah. What was this ATM story? I was at an ATM. I was, there was a middle-aged white man in a convertible that stared at me and for the longest time. And as he drove away, he said, toodle-loo mother, you know, and then, and not the beauty of that, it didn't only happen once. It happened twice at that same ATM a few months ago. Another middle-aged white man, another convertible said the same thing toodle-loo mother effort and then like drove away. And I'm like, is this, what does, this Wells Fargo ATM dispense magic or is this, is this
3:54like Groundhog's Day meets a bank? I don't know what's going on. You know, it was insane. I got to let you go. So we do something called five questions. Five quick questions. One more answers. Yeah. Script or improv? Script. Leninger McCartney. McCartney. Bangkok or Vegas? Vegas. If you could be in a freaky Friday moment and switch to a different Wolfpack member, which would it be? Uh, Alan. And in one word, the hangover three. Epic. We can't be friends anymore. When we get together, bad things happen and people get hurt. Yeah, that's the point. It's funny. It's all nice tonight. It's all right. I believe I can fly. Hungry. Mom, I'm with a customer. She's rude. You hear that mom? Nobody likes you.
4:40Yeah, keep your mouth shut. Oh. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
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