Emily Blunt had to step in and save Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming movie after a massive miscommunication
"I had just watched Uncut Gems in 2019 and I went to Benny and I said, 'Hey, I got this idea called The Smashing Machine... I think you'd be great at directing this and writing it.'"
"Unbeknownst to me, Benny... finds the sweater online, XXXL, sends it to me with a written letter and said, 'I'm going to be so honored to work with you... here's your inspiration as an actor.' Well, I never got the sweater and I never got the letter."
"He thought I ghosted him and he's like, 'God, DJ's such an asshole.' And then I never heard from him again, I was like, 'Wow, what happened?'"
"Low and behold, he's working with Emily Blunt on Oppenheimer. She asked me, 'Are you guys working together?' She connected us via text."
"She connected us I was like, 'Brother, I never got the sweater.' He's like, 'I don't know what happened to it, but let's do this together, Smashing Machine.'"
Mark Wahlberg says he almost replaced Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic after asking James Cameron to drive his Hummer
"He actually recommended me for that part, and also recommended me for other parts as well."
"He and I met during The Basketball Diaries, we became fast friends, and he actually recommended me
"I met on Titanic, I never got an offer on Titanic, all I wanted to do, I don't think he took me serious because I was like, 'Is that your Hummer outside?' He was like, 'Yeah.' I was like, 'Can I drive that?'"
"He recommended me to Paul to play that role, and he was always a big advocate for me after we worked together."
Andrew Garfield reveals SpiderMan: No Way Home had no script for the 3 Peters
"Getting to work with Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Emma, Rhys Ifans, Jamie Foxx, and Dane DeHaan, it’s a really great group of people."
"Coming back and doing that third one with Tobey and Tom felt like a closing of the circle for me. It was really special for each of us to honor our own tenure, but also each other, and find a genuine brotherhood there."
"All of that sequence was improvised talking about and comparing notes. The idea was like, 'You just want the three Peter Parkers to talk about their experiences and compare notes. Let's just do long takes and see if there's any gold in there.”
"Hearing it from Tobey, who was my Spider-Man growing up, it was all just so meta, so personal and perfect. I was very happy to just be a part of the legacy."
"It's like a torch being passed. It's not personal, you're part of something much greater than you. If I hadn't had that perspective, I might have gone a bit mad."
John Leguizamo says kids are more likely to see a talking animal in a book than a Latin child
"Less than 5% of children's books are about Latin kids, you're more likely to see the face of an animal than a Latin child."
"We're 30% of the US population in public schools, so what does that do to a child's self-worth and self-validation?"
"Five years to write 26 pages, you have to compress entertainment, fun, storytelling, and all that like in one sentence."
"To all the kids who felt unseen, unheard, and ostracized, and had to make themselves small. This book is for you, hoping it lets you feel large and concrete."
Mark Ruffalo says Kieran Culkin intentionally sabotaged his live play by tricking him into smoking an actual joint on stage
"In the beginning of the play, the first scene, we have to pass a joint around"
"In real life, you take like two puffs and you're so stoned. But when you're in a play, you're just killing that thing, and it's a long scene"
"I'm like, 'Man, I am really in the moment. I'm so in the pocket, I'm really feeling this tonight.' And then I look down, and I realize it's a real joint"
"I look backstage, and there's that little nice guy. Kieran Culkin, behind the drapery going [giggling]"
"They literally wanted to close the play down!"
Mark Ruffalo says be almost quit acting forever over a single scene in 13 Going on 30
"I almost like quit cause I realized that I had to learn the Thriller dance, and I was so scared"
"when she dragged me out there, she was literally dragging me out there. Like that was not acting at all"
"Jennifer Garner is unbelievable, there's nothing she can't do. She learned the dance in like 30 minutes, and I was there for 6 hours"
"I won't do a movie now unless I can dance in it"
"I danced in Poor Things, I danced like a fiend"
Channing Tatum admits that he was forced to strip completely naked in a Toys 'R' Us after his director suddenly had "no plan" on how to hide it in 'ROOFMAN'
"This movie is really, really, really special. Derek Cianfrance, he's a masterful filmmaker. Movies are like two-dimensional now, this thing has everything"
"There's a scene where you're basically living in a Toys 'R' Us, and you have no clothes on, and you're running through the aisles"
"I don't care what you feel about how confident you are with everything going on, it's the ultimate worst nightmare"
"Usually I have like a thong on, or underwear on, or a sock or something, no, this one, I show up on the day and I'm like, 'So how are we gonna film this?'"
"I was like, 'There's gonna be a plan for that, they're gonna shoot it above the waist.' He’s like, 'I don’t know.' And I’m like, 'What? What do you mean you don’t know?' And he said, 'Yeah, we’ll figure it out'"
Marcello Hernandez says Kevin Hart was the perfect casting choice because the movie is about an older man trying to stay young
"I want you guys to look at these photos and not tell me that Kevin was perfect for this role"
Outfit 1:"He’s 50 years old. Doesn’t this photo just say like, 'Hey make sure you get this for me real quick, let me post this on the Instagram' ... his caption is 'the kid.' If you're over 40 calling yourself 'the kid'..."
Outfit 2: "This is give your son the phone and be like 'Let me get you, let me get me. Did you get it? Did you catch it? Make sure you get the boots in it.' Caption says 'lil swag' hashtag 'the kid'. He's still using hashtags."
Elevator pose: "I love that this is his new pose. He's pushing himself up a little bit."