I'm here at South by Southwest with Simon Baker. Great to see you.

Yeah, good to see you, too.

So, first of all, congratulations on the Walk of Fame. Is it strange? I mean, is it What kind of

You know, it crept up on me in a weird way when I was there. You know, I had a lot of friends there that I've known for a really long time and um there's not many opportunities you get in your life where you have a free sort of five minutes to thank all the people that have been there and acknowledge them and it was weirdly kind of uh moving for me. Yeah.

Is it Are you next to anybody good? Who are you next to?

I don't know who I'm next to. Everyone's sort of

Who are you next to? Michael Jackson or something? I who are you next to? I don't know. And you're also the face of Givenchy. How are you as a model?

Oh, kind of embarrassed.

Shy as a model?

No, I'm not. No, I'm not.

I mean, you certainly have the looks for it. I mean, you certainly You know, that part

I feel a little embarrassed about that. It's the first time anyone's ever mentioned it. You know, you make me make me feel a little sort of blush.

I've made him blush. I love it. Um, okay, so I give it a year. Hmm. The movie's about a a newly married couple. It sort of like starts out at the end of a romantic comedy, a typical, and you sort of It's post-modern romantic anti-romantic comedy. So you sort of watch the demise. The director sort of co-wrote, did he co-wrote for

He co-wrote for it and he directed this film. Yeah, Dan has worked a lot with with Sasha Baron Cohen over the years and Yeah. Dan Mazur, yeah. For a long time. But yeah, this is very different. I would say it's different tonally, but there's still obviously a lot of gags and it's very funny movie.

Cuz there was a lot of improv, wasn't there? I heard. Was there a sort of Cuz you come across to me as like quite a gentleman. Right. Did any of the humor, did you go, no, I'm not I I can't. I can't go there or something. Cuz it's pretty He can be pretty raunchy, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and there's certainly some stuff that didn't even make it in didn't make it into the movie that would have It would have been X-rated. That was very very graphic. If someone shows you a Justin Bieber video when you're in the office and you know all you can then think about is that.

Isn't he like 15?

Oh, he'd know what to do. I'd ruin Bieber. Yeah, I do play the more civilized character in the piece and

And in the beginning, you're led to believe that you're like this obnoxious American

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So can you give me your favorite American in an American accent, your favorite American expression?

My favorite or my or my favorite by the fact that it is my least favorite.

Exactly. That's exactly what I'm looking for. That's what I'm looking for.

The thing that always confuses me is when you say thank you to anyone in America, they go, mmm. Or um, this business is Oh, let's put it this way. That's pretty interesting. You know, That is so not where I'm from in my life. What do blokes do in Australia? But now I do because my kids do it. My wife and I even do it every now and then. It's like, what has happened to me?

Um, and in the film, you're sort of trying to woo Rose Byrne at one point and you have this overtly, what I would call a cheesy romantic gesture, where you bring in doves under a tray and you have the violins playing. What's the most sort of cheesy romantic thing you've ever done for a woman?

Uh, I wrote a a love letter to a girl on the school bus. Well, I actually, I wrote it at home and my plan was to slip it in her schoolbag on the school bus. And she got off a couple of stops before me on the way home and I slipped it into her bag. And uh, I never heard a word from her until I met her again. I ran into her again. She was married.

Oh, no!

I was married with two kids. And I mentioned it to her. And she said, yeah, I remember that. I got that. And I said, you never said a word. She never said anything. So that was uh, that was probably it, yeah.

So we have a game for you, actually. It's called I Give It a Year in the spirit of the movie. You know, sometimes people, you know, when they're at weddings, they sort of go, oh, yeah. I give it a year. It's like that that saying. So we're gonna give you a series of maybe pop culture things or people and you tell me whether the popularity is going to uh, give it a year or here to stay.

Oh, this this could be nasty.

So give it a year or here to stay. The iPhone 5. We're gonna start out light.

I haven't given it five minutes yet. Okay. But uh, my my thing with technology is generally I give it a year, but that probably means it'll be here forever. Yeah, okay. Okay. You know, I sort of said Twitter, I give it a year. It's still going. It's still

Okay. Give it a year or here to stay. Kim and Kanye.

I'm an optimist. I'm in a I'm in to give them uh, I'm in a give them a bit of promise. More than a year.

He's a romantic. I love it. Okay, gluten-free diets.

You give it a month and then, okay. A month on, a month off. You know, I give it a month and then uh, I give it a month back on.

Jay Leno's retirement.

I give that a year.

Okay. He's coming back, you think? 50 Shades of Grey.

Yeah. Yeah. I think with books, it's that's pop culture. I mean, I think that's gonna be probably a year and a half.

A year and a half. I love it. Okay, the Harlem Shake.

I give it a year.

Do you know the Harlem Shake?

Mm, no, I don't actually know the the original Harlem Shake, what the dance is, but I know what everyone's doing on YouTube.

Right. I mean, we could always demonstrate, but you're probably not gonna get it in the shot, but No, I don't. Hold on. Thank you very much. Thank you, Simon. Thank you for kicking it off.