Dan Fogler

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Up close with the well-rounded actor and wack-a-mole enthusiast
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Even this is cool, like, you know, you have kind of an audience right here, you know, you feel it, right?
I feel it.
You never know what's gonna happen next. Boom. Whoa, what happened there? I'm Oliver Trevena here at the Young Hollywood Studio with this hilarious man. Dan Fogler, how are you?
I'm great, brother. How are you? Done. And now we're finished. And scene. And done. We're done. We're done. We're done.
Love that accent. That's What other impressions have you got in the bank?
Me, you mean voice impressions? Yeah. Um, well, I don't know. I got Thor different thing. And then uh, what about what about like, hey, yeah, you doing. Oh, I'm oh, hey, how are you? I like that one.
You like that? Yeah, I like that one. Hello, how is that stuff, isn't it? I'm doing a very stuffy business person and I was brilliant. Yes. Amazing. Amazing. And I think you're up for an Academy Award for Mars needs Moms. Am I supposed to say Moms, right? Mars needs Moms.
Moms.
Mars needs Moms. So the aliens were stealing them from Earth to raise their own kids.
Who mothering was so hard.
Very funny. Um, we're Seth Green playing a nine-year-old.
Yes he is. Yes. Very well. Disturbingly.
Yeah. Quite worryingly. He's a good actor. Yes.
I went to the same screening with my family. Okay. And afterwards my mother was like balling. You know, she's like, this is the greatest gift you could have ever given to me. And I was really like, yeah, I was like, awesome, mom. Save you lots of money on future Christmas and birthday. I know. I'll just be like, here's another DVD of Mars needs Moms, Moms. And she's like 89. What's wrong with you?
Brilliant. Yeah. It was quite interesting for making it, right? It used all the advanced like cameras and Velcro suits and yeah.
Hell yeah. Velcro suits. That was it, wasn't it? Run up the wall and just go
Yeah. And that was it. And that was it. And they made the movie. It's amazing. Go, let me guess. Maverick. Wolfman? No. Iceman? No. Did you see Top Gun?
It's Mylo. I better call you my brother. Check it. Scooby Scooby suits to like not Velcro. I mean, I guess you can Velcro stuff to it, you're
You're a fan. Yes, keep it. Yeah, you got it. You got it. Yeah, you're right. And then there's sensors all over it. Yeah. Got a helmet on with mandibles, cameras. That you're this room like if we were doing it in here, like every inch of it would be cameras focused at you. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. It was like a theater. High-tech theater. Very strange. And you come from theater.
I did.
That was your Tony Award from the God of Theater. The God, the man of theater from far beyond. And now he's here. I love theater. It's live. It's, you know, but even this is cool. Like, you know, you have kind of an audience right here, you know, you feel it, right?
I feel it. I love it. It's live. We're just We're we're we're like We're standing for fans. I love it. I love it. You never know what's gonna happen next. Boom. Whoa. That happened there. Who knows? Who knows? There be people popping up from everywhere.
Um, what else are you doing in your life right now? Talking about popping up from everywhere. I don't know quite why why that's a segue, but we're here.
Well, I invented a new kind of Whac-A-Mole games. Talk about popping up from everywhere.
You're quite into sculpting and stuff and that. Is that right? Well-rounded. Yeah.
Yeah. I've got a graphic novel. Well-rounded. Yeah. Moon Lake graphic novel. I directed hysterical psyche. I'm directing another movie now called Dumb Paleoli. Um, I'm I'm got a play coming out soon. I'm I'm a I'm a Renaissance man.
Love that. That's how it goes. Mm.
I'm a Renaissance man. That's more it now. I'm like addicted to comic books.
Who's your favorite superhero or comic character of all time?
I guess of all time would be like uh Wolverine cuz uh he's my favorite when I was a kid. Nice. But I'm I'm branching out, man. I'm going back and I started looking at Sin City, uh, um, Yeah. And that's just delicious. That's just poetry. Yeah. Visual and verbal poetry.
I'm going to steal that later when I'm out at a bar. He knows. And this is you doing it later. Yeah. It's It's visual and verbal poetry. There you go. Let us just record you and go. Okay, go. Ready? It's visual and verbal poetry. That was good. Well, he's having my accent. I'm loving his humor. I'm loving everything about him, really. I've got a lot of love, man love in this room. On that note, we're wrap it up. Man, your chakras. Your heart chakra is mad. See that? I got so casual as well. Boom. Like that. Yeah. Your heart chakra. It's like eating, man. I love it. That's awesome.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Oliver Trevena
Host of the interview
- Dan Fogler
Guest being interviewed
- Seth Green
Voiced a nine-year-old in 'Mars Needs Moms'
- Wolverine
Dan Fogler's favorite superhero as a kid
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