I'm here with the fabulous cast, writer, director of adult beginners. Great to see you all.

All right, thank you.

Right. Right and early in the morning.

Mhm.

I haven't interviewed any of you before but the last time I saw Nick we fed each other chicken wings.

Yep.

I don't want to make you feel less special but that's a prerequisite for every interview I do.

I was going to say, did he do that on set? Is that, was there any chicken wing feeding on set or or did he pull a pretty below tee? Because if he did then he should have.

Did I feed you guys chicken wings on set? I feel gipped. I didn't get any chicken wings.

There was no chicken wings on set. We did a chicken finger but there was no buffalo sauce involved. It was

The day when there was no breakfast. Remember that? And Nick lost his mind.

We were in a swimming pool.

Oh, man. Yeah. We were in a swimming pool in the dead of in the dead of winter.

It always is, isn't it? It's never a warm day.

Yeah. And the heat broke in the pool and there was one little hot hot like um hose that you would like sit with and sort of try to like cover yourself with.

I did

Oh, that's Bruce Willis, his new hot young wife. This Jen's adult beginners. If you want Teddy to have confidence in the water you need to have it too. We're very confident. Thank you. Why are you holding on to me? I'm not entirely comfortable here.

Me neither.

We all look like we're really afraid of water.

We do. Actually, that's you didn't. Yeah, it works really well. It's I wanted to make the method.

Did you do that on purpose? Did you shut the heat off?

Shut the heat off. Yeah.

You did. I knew it. I knew it.

It's kind of like they did with The Abyss. That's kind of what we did here.

Right. And then you got that nice genuine hug because you were genuinely cold.

Yeah, exactly. Oh, there's a there's a two little girls in that and their mouths are blue, you can see. It was like the anyway, yeah. They they noticed then.

Girls are cool.

Little girl. Yeah, yeah.

Inspiration for writing this film was something about changing and seeing a niece or a nephew diaper inside out and backwards and upside down and on the head or something. Yeah. Um how are your diaper changing skills now after doing this film? Did you go method on that?

Well, I just don't change diapers. I don't think until you decide to create a life that you have to change someone else's diaper. It should it should that should be like illegal or something. You shouldn't change anybody's diaper who's not yours. I mean,

Exactly. I changed my own diapers and that's all I'm responsible for.

That's a great that's a great concert.

Hello. Dude. Hello. Paul Regio. Wonder's how I was with you. Oh, right. So, what are you up to now, man? Come on, give me the rundown. Make me jealous. Um You can basically take the last three years of my life and light them on fire. I lost all of my money and a lot of other people's money. You can hear in my voice how pissed I am. So, my sister is pregnant. So, I'm like helping her out a little bit. Kids. Yeah, they're the future. We'll see but no, they are. They will be. We'll see. No, it's undoubted that children are the future.

Because this film is called Adult Beginners when at what moment in your lives did you first feel like I'm an adult?

For me it was when I had my kid, I guess. That was pretty young. I was 24, 25 and and um and that was like and then I was like, wow. Yeah. You're real. This person looks like me. So, um and then uh and then yeah, speaking of the diapers, yeah, you just all of a sudden you're just kind of thrown to it. You don't really practice that, you know. And then you're just there and you're cleaning things. There should be there should be a warning or warning label or something or a little introductory.

Did it ever just like shoot right up the back?

He peed all over my face one time. And it is wild though. I mean, like, you know, you never think you're going to go like like that to anybody. Yeah. Oh, yeah, clean.

Yeah. I felt for the first time like an adult when Bobby had a kid.

Did you feel like an adult this morning when you put that beard on you? When you glued that beard to your face.

This is this is an expensive piece. I had to bring I had to Yeah, well, I had to and I had to fly my beard guy in. It was It's very expensive but I'm really happy with it. Big Texas is a sort of a masculine place. So, it's been very helpful.

The marfa, right?

What about for you, Rose?

Oh, gosh. I don't know. I think I'm still waiting for the moment probably. I think I've got arrested development.

signing leases and taxes. All those things are so boring but you do kind of, you know, anything like you start with those sort of stuff and you're pretty adultish.

What about you, Ross?

I'm taking over. Do it.

Mikey, um I I still don't feel like an adult.

You are wearing like a like a very preppy boy shirt.

With the pink, yeah, with the pink alligator.

I'm going to play on the word beginner. Beginning in acting. Any crazy stories? Any like horrible audition stories when you were first starting out or starting out? I know you're a PA when you started.

I was. I was a grip on Reservoir Dogs. I was so excited just to be on a movie set and the yeah but you were on such a stinker. I know. I know that that guy's going nowhere. And uh I was carrying a piece of equipment, dolly track and uh I was so excited that Quentin remembered my name on the third day of shooting that I turned and I smacked the dolly grip in the head with the track and he fell down and just kind of said, don't talk to me for the rest of the shoot. Yeah, it was a rough way to start.

I was a PA, my first like gig out of college wanting to get into was a PA on a commercial and I was driving the director and cinematographer to like to a location scout and I was driving like a big van in the city, took a corner and hit a car and nailed it and cracked the window with like everyone running the entire and I was the worst PA.

I did a really bad television show in Australia, I shouldn't say that. Well anyway, you know, a cheesy kind of teen drama and I was still young 15 or something, 14. And I had to do this scene where I was like, you know, we're going to go to the shop, okay? I'll see you there. Something like that, you know? And so we did the scene. I was like, see you there. And then I just went And the director was like, can't you went you've got to keep acting until I tell you to walk away. You know what I mean? I was like, oh, okay. So, it's like I didn't have much to follow through with the character.

I like that delivery though. You got to bring him back. Yeah.

Okay. I've pretty much always been pretty professional.

How long do you need to stay?

Three months.

Three months?

I need to talk to Danny. Like ask him permission. Like have a conversation because he's my husband.

Need to stay here for a few months?

I'm sure. I haven't had a chance to talk to him yet.

Can you play brother and sister and I know you're a couple playing husband and wife in the film. Just sort of how how those dynamics work together and going to work together, you know, in the morning.

Well, that helped them out a lot. Um we both we we just both read the script at the same time and just really love the script.

Wait, I want to do it. See, I want to do it. I want to do it. And well, let's do it together kind of thing.

She she'd read it first actually, right? And you were like, maybe you should look at this. This guy reminds me of you. And it was written and then you evidently you knew Liz, Play, Heim, and

Yeah. It's flattering being a part written for you. I mean, I know when you pay your dues in Hollywood and you've worked all those years. Not only not having to audition but having a part written for you.

Yeah, it's nice. I mean, the nice thing about um especially when it's good.

Yeah, especially when it's good. Yeah. And that's really nice whenever you get work that way.

When Rose and I sat down, I think there was an immediate ability to connect on just sib just siblings and and it's such a universal quality to to be able to sink your teeth into and working with both of them was so fun and and easy as both just to hang out and genuinely like do the scenes that was um really cool.

Well, great chatting with you all. Congrats on the film.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thanks.