It is beyond exciting having you both here. Thank you. Thank you. Beyond. Beyond. Beyond excited to be sitting here with you. And you got the stance, I love the stance.

I noticed that I look better when I sit like this.

Do you prefer it that way?

If you don't mind, I'd like to do the whole interview like this.

No, you could. You could. You could stay that way. Whatever makes you happy here at Young Hollywood.

I'm so happy right now.

Are you?

Yeah. The ocean and the sun. Both beautiful. Both deadly.

Stacy. Honey. Good. Dude, yeah. What's up? I came here to get you to come to our high school reunion. This reunion is for everybody. It's for all of us. Not just him. You're acting so weird. I'm going to use a bad word.

You guys acted out of this movie. Thank you. Thank you. Another half up. I'm loving it. I'm loving it. Um one thing I wanted to point out, you guys kinda have a reunion. It's like art imitating life because you guys worked on Touched by an Angel together in the 90s.

Yeah. We did. Do you know, Touched by an Angel, in fairness, I didn't even remember that we had done that. Like I had blocked that out until we like got to set and then someone said, "You know you guys worked together on Touched by an." I was like, "What?"

It took that long to all the way to set?

Took that long to all the way to set. I don't remember exactly when it came back to me but it was a part of my life that I had forgotten. On purpose. I tucked it away in a, in a drawer. But yeah, Touched by an Angel. We did that. Yeah.

Yep. I remember. And then when I, you know, when I went back and watched it, I mean it's a hot blast of cheese. But I thought we were pretty good. We had some good chemistry. You could tell we had some, uh, we had some, some work. We, we had some work in our future.

I got us a couch.

Yeah, let's hit the bar.

Oh! He's the banana boat guy. Banana boat. That guy is this guy and this guy is that guy.

Speaking of your past, did you guys, because you have your, your claim to fame in this movie is that you did the banana boat commercial. Yeah. Any commercials, national commercials that you guys did on your sort of rise to Hollywood stardom?

I never booked any commercials. You know what? No. I went on tons of auditions and they just didn't like me.

I booked my first job was a, a national commercial for, uh, I'm going to date myself here but do you remember Atari? Did you ever have an Atari? Before you were born. And, uh, there was a game called Pitfall. And it was like a jungle game. And, uh, you would like swing through the vines and jump over alligators and get to the gold. And, uh, yeah, that and I was 13 years old.

What were you doing in the commercial? Were you just playing the game as a?

I was wearing a safari hat. It's only like three seconds. I go, "Just last night, I was lost in the jungle with Pitfall Harry." You never forget your first gig.

Yeah, but I wouldn't forget Pitfall. I grew up on Pitfall.

Yeah, it was a.

Probably because of you and your safari hat.

You don't even remember but yeah, I was probably doing that. It sold it.

What was your first gig?

I had two lines on the pilot of The Nanny with Fran Drescher.

What were the two lines? You gotta remember those.

I was caught kissing the daughter on the balcony at a dinner party. And I was asked to leave the party. And I say, "But, but we were just." And he goes, "You were just leaving." And I'm like, "Yes, sir." And I leave.

And we're taking a muscle relaxant before. Down the old hatch. There he is. What happened in LA? That's in the past. Man, I don't know how you did it, man. You bailed yourself a good one. Something changed that I'm not aware of? I mean, maybe we should talk about it. Oliver! What do you want to talk about, Dan? Oliver! Wait, why did the music stop?

Um I know that these were first time directors on this film. And there was a little, you did a meeting with them, a little, sort of like you tested them out. You asked them who their favorite directors were, favorite films. You said you eyeballed them a little bit. You didn't them eyeball.

I did. I gave them a little. Yeah. I loved the script and they said they wanted to direct it. And I was like, "Hmm, okay. What have they directed? Nothing." Okay, then I got, I got to meet them and, and, uh, run them through the, uh, the vigorous Jack Black test. And I was like, "Uh, what, what, uh, directors do you like?" And then they said the direct, said a couple directors. I'm like, "All right, good. Let's do this." That was it. I'm not a very good tester. But, uh,

Well, I'm going to, I'm going to test you guys.

Oh! You're good testees. But if they had said like a director that I didn't like, it was going to be off.

We're good testees.

Testees, testees.

But if I'm asking you guys, favorite directors, favorite films, I'm putting you guys on the test.

I mean it's going to be so boring 'cause it's going to be like, "Yeah, Kubrick." Duh. It's The Godfather. Coppola. Spielberg. I mean I grew up on Spielberg. Tops. Little bit. Jaws. Jaws. Jaws is my favorite movie. Ones with Richard Dreyfuss. I like, I like my Richard Dreyfuss Spielberg. You know what I mean?

I agree. That era. Yeah.

Um, I like the guy that did Terminator. That. Oh, James Cameron. Cameron. Here's another one. Scorsese.

May I speak with Jeff Saltzman, please? Yes, it's that time. Jeff, Dan Landsman. Dan, from high school. We want to talk reunion with you. 20 years, can you believe it? That's not very mature. I thought if I could deliver Oliver Lawless, I'd be a hero. Singlehandedly saving our reunion. How about this? D-Nice. What? Have people just call me that from now on?

In the beginning of the film, there's a cute scene where you say you flip, you know how to flip a no into a yes. You said you can flip yeah? Have you guys ever in Hollywood, turned a no into a yes?

Um, interesting. But you know, I have a festival, a comedy music festival that I curate every year. And it called Festival Supreme. If you don't mind me plugging another project.

Of course.

Take it out to sale now. And we are constantly trying to get like the most awesome musicians and, and comedians and yeah, sometimes they'll be on the fence and I'll squeeze their lemon in the perfect way to get them to flip it to a yes. That's right. For your fest. I send a really pretty provocative email. It's hard to say no to me. When I send you the magic.

Really? Is it dirty?

No. Sorry. But I mean, you know, it, it gets intimate, but not dirty.

Back to the pose. It's hot. You turned every no into a yes ever? Have I?

Yeah. I don't know, this town is like you say no and it becomes a yes. Are we talking about sex? I can't tell.

I know. And last but not least, um, you're kind of a sycophant in this film for Oliver Lawless. Um, one person you guys in your lives been, you know, felt that way about.

I was really into Radiohead, so I I was kind of a sycophant of that dude, who's that dude? The Radiohead dude. Thom Yorke. That's the one. The guy you're sycophantic about. Can't remember his name. Such a bad man.

How about you?

Uh, I don't really have one. Kurt Cobain?

we all. Didn't we all want to be Kurt at one point?

Sure. Can't think of one.

What about you? If I tell you, it's going to sound really bad. Tell. Oh, that's a good one. Say it. Am I allowed? You have to now. Let's see. No, it was me. Oh my God. And Bob, I'm going to make your dreams come true. You just flipped a no into a yes.