Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway say Christopher Nolan has no chairs on set.
Brittany Broski: Are there any rules everyone abides by?
Matt Damon: Thou shalt work hard.
Anne Hathaway: Wow. Thou shalt not wear Uggs.
Matt Damon: Oh yeah, that’s a good one. He hates Uggs. I think they just symbolize leisure in a way that he’s not comfortable with.
Anne Hathaway: That’s not why.
Matt Damon: Um… Thou shalt not sit down.
Brittany Broski: Okay.
Matt Damon: There are no chairs on set.
Brittany Broski: Copy that.
Matt Damon: Yeah. Uh…
Anne Hathaway: Thou wilt be fed. However, lunch shall not linger.
Matt Damon: Thou shalt not watch playback, because there shall be none.
(Laughter)
Anne Hathaway: Thou shalt feel tremendous gratitude. That’s not a commandment, it’s just something that happens.
Brittany Broski: It’s a byproduct.
Anne Hathaway: That thou art there. (Laughs) Thou art there.
Brittany Broski: I appreciate abiding by the structure of the question. I really do appreciate that.
Tracee Ellis Ross says she believes she’s a good example for young girls.
Tracee Ellis Ross: I don’t know what other people’s thoughts are. I mean, I was scrolling because I was looking for something I did, and I don’t really understand TikTok. I like TikTok, but…
Keke Palmer: The UI is a little bit tough for me. It’s also just bam, in your face.
Tracee Ellis Ross: It screams at you.
Keke Palmer: Yeah.
Tracee Ellis Ross: And sometimes when you open it, it feels like it punches you, you know what I mean? But I’m in there sometimes. I saw this thing where you get those first few seconds of a video. It said, “Tracee Ellis Ross is a bad example for young girls.” I was like, “Ooh, scroll!” Then I thought, “I don’t know. I feel like I’m a good example.” I don’t know what you think, but to each his own. I don’t have to be everybody’s cup of tea.
Mark Ruffalo reveals he had to lose a fight to a stuntman while filming The Hulk.
“I’m in my little suit, and we go to what they call a volume, which is a space that has cameras all over it. You learn all the choreography, you learn the fight, and then you go in there.
I wasn’t doing it with Josh. I was doing it with a stuntman. I had to get beat, and he’s never been beaten before, so…” laughs “…that’s how you do it.
I’m in my little leotard, that guy’s in his little leotard, and we’re throwing each other around in a black box.”
Anne Hathaway says pop music wasn’t considered “real music” in her house growing up.
Anne Hathaway: Pop wasn’t, uh, especially now the way that I appreciate it… pop wasn’t rated in my house growing up. Like, real singers did Broadway.
Jon Caramanica: Yeah.
Anne Hathaway: And that was… so much of my early musical exposure was theater-based. My older brother was super into rap, then he got into straight-edge hardcore. Obviously, I loved my older brother, so I was listening to that.
Joe Coscarelli: A real tri-state kid.
Anne Hathaway: (laughs) Absolutely!
Jon Caramanica: Don’t watch the show. We have a lot to learn. (laughter)
Anne Hathaway: Then when I was in high school, that was when the pop princesses happened, and TRL was huge. My stop after school was always going home and watching TRL. That was such an amazing music video era. I felt very confused because I knew that I loved Britney Spears so much. I couldn’t stop singing “…Baby One More Time” or get it out of my head.
[Music Clip: “…Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears]
Give me a sign… Hit me baby one more time.
Anne Hathaway: But I had this voice of my parents in my head saying, “But Stephen Sondheim is real music.”
[Music Clip: “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim]
Where are the clowns…
Jon Caramanica: That’s real.
Anne Hathaway says she turned down similar roles after The Devil Wears Prada.
Anne Hathaway: I just remember thinking to myself, “That’s the way you are seen. That is what you have to resist right now.”
Interviewer: Mm. Interesting.
Anne Hathaway: And so I actually chose not to pursue… I actually did walk away from that because I thought, if you do that, you’ll have a really wonderful career for a few years.
Interviewer: A predictable, one-note career doing the same thing over…
Anne Hathaway: Yeah. And you’ll have a great time, and you’ll make the movies that, you know… but I also saw that it could be a case of diminishing returns, you know, because I just got so lucky with those two. They were such high watermarks.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Anne Hathaway: That I thought, if I make others and they’re sort of the ersatz version of that, how am I going to feel? So I thought, “Okay, we’re going to engage the full brake system.” And you’re just going to focus on directors. That’s it.