THR Full Comedy Actor Roundtable: Anthony Anderson, Kevin Bacon, William H. Macy, & More!

I was following the rules, that's why when I see ads before a movie and because I bought this time, you can sell it to someone else my time, okay, and I thought they were overlooked, it has nothing to do with what they said, so yeah , it's complicated, it's audience time, the applause is your time to speak to say, okay, everyone be quiet while we give our opinion on something I thought was wrong. I think it's complicated because when we do the Book of Mormon and what we talked about and what we said and how we know it and also do you know that Broadway cares?

So at the end of the speech you know HIV/AIDS is funny or whatever and it's a little bit different, it's a little bit different, but it's like you know, I think because of what Hamilton had become and what Hamilton was saying and in that place I feel like when you go to a certain theater to see a certain show you feel like you're with like-minded people like you, like you're sitting with people who may have the same sense of humor as you. They're probably theatergoers and they understand this universe, so I think when they made that speech, I think they thought, you know, here we are with this audience that's here, that's with us, you know what this musical is. about them being with us and then I guess then pens will come in which I guess they thought was the complete antithesis of that mmm-hmm because what they said I didn't think was out of line, I don't think anything They said it was out of line Brandon Victor Dixon did a great job with what he did, but I thought, you know, I guess at some point you can get by without saying anything, especially in a place like him, where it's about politics and all that and The Judges that happen, how you can't say something yes, because ultimately it ends up being and it's not talking specifically about the Hamilton situation, but it ends up not being constructive because what it does is, and I feel like sometimes, sometimes, just the people who listen to you ?

There are people who already listen to you and the people who disagree with you are upset about what you said, so I don't know if they say that, it would be a great story, but then where is the line because that's the way it is? Like, where's the line? because he was so terrified of our episode where I'm on the panel, yeah, and I have to go. I thought no, this is what this is everything he said was misinterpreted from a tweet of yours. right, and so it's that weird, scary line of figuring out how you say your convictions and your beliefs to people who may have supported you, maybe they may believe the same things as you, but then all of a sudden it changes and they're like oh no, no, no. we do it with that guy like I said that and with the strange place that you're in, I just think part of the complicated part of what's happening now is that the White House is such a shiny object and in just every five minutes of do something that makes us all go and the news focuses on it, meanwhile the Senate and Congress the believers are very busy doing exactly what they told us for years that they wanted to do while we all watch, I mean Trump, some things we all care about desperately are happening mm-hmm so yeah what I'm trying to do is not look at you and turn that channel wish him the best please don't blow up focus on the house yeah no I think that's important, again to you, my letter, turn, no, that's very good, I mean, that's the right thing for us to be here for

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in this era, we better not apologize for it, because At the end of the day, someone is going to identify with what I say and this is funny, you know what a word is called, man, a man that probably means hand in Latin, but I say no for the purpose of argument, word of consolation handled, man. and they really Elaine my name I mean Malcolm you too Martin you know what I did to him they killed him they didn't make him Malcolm or another law they say that but no one has seen a body cool sister that's how funerals work Alfred you're already Malcolm okay, you got it what you really need is a quiet joker someone it's all about the money the chance of who can play both sides i needed

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than my favorite moment that lanta was the one i thought was so pointy and the money era, there's a police shooting shoots a black person and then everyone says they just go about their day like it's completely normal, which is such a strong statement without saying it directly yesterday.

What can be difficult on that day was really fun because we're No because I went to college in Atlanta, so I know that city. I remember telling them when we first got together to go to the production office because I had to drive to the set and I thought, who's going to catch me when they stop me? I'm going to get a profile. He was like everyone else. Just I like it. I just want you to know that I'm creating a profile. So who's got me? and they are like buying from them. His kidneys will be fine and that day, that same day, episode 10.

I'm driving at 8 a.m. in the morning by Bankhead, which is a little bit unsafe part of the coast of Atlanta, it's 8 o'clock, the horn goes off and I'm lost and I'm driving a Honda, a sonata, I have no class, man. Like I had a sonata, I was sailing and I thought I was. I got lost and I remember calling the ad and it was like hey, I don't actually know where I'm going GPS, it's completely screwed. I thought: get the police! Behind me now the police are behind me. I was like just stay on the phone with me and for 10 minutes this car followed me for a minute and when they finally stopped me and I thought the music I'm listening to is so random, I think it was like listening to Meghan Trainor and he comes up and says, " ok, hands on the wheel,” I was like, “ok, oh, ok,” and he said, where are you going?

I was like, oh my god, thank you, I'm so lost. man, I'm doing this show right now. I was like you. I thought I need to find the base camp and he says, "Okay, do you have weapons in the car?" ha ha, and at 8:00 in the morning like 8 o'clock they don't, I don't have them. anyway and anyway he didn't want anything, he just gave me my license back and in the end I thought, sir, where am I going and I thought, oh my God, he never gave them to me. Any help so here's the set and I'm here and I'm doing my makeup and they're like, Brian, don't you say, are you okay?

I was like, what are we filming today? What are the things? and I look at the cost. It looks perfect, come on, come on, and the whole day was like filming that scene. I was like, well, it was like I was already on it, yeah, very ridiculous, but you gave a sewing permit to someone else. Someone else's show was that. that you were both touched, but I'm personally curious, it sounds like maybe you won a shameless scene, that you were

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proud of the writers in a cool way, that my character was so despicable and unpredictable and so horrible, and then there's These moments of humanity sneak in for me and you see that Frank Gallagher is actually a real guy, usually involving some kind of loss, but there were a couple of those where we did this thing where I was dying of liver failure during the entire season we continued. on a diet I lost a billion pounds and spent much of the entire season on a stretcher listening to people talk and anyway I kept saying I want to go to the bar I want to go to the bar and they said you can' I didn't go to the bar, Frank , so they brought the bar to the house and it just killed me and it was so strange seeing all these guys that I only saw in that bar for the first time in the house and I just started crying here baby and Mark, my son, was leading and It just ran the camera forever until it was empty and then I saw the thing and it's two seconds of a white man, but they all ran away, we talked to actresses recently who talked about the A kind of fear of being unpleasant or taking on a character that is unpleasant is something that you love, you love it, you think about your concern for using freedom, you have carte blanche, yes, yes, because people already have their noses about what they think you are.

It's going to be anyway, as you know, the truest gift is when you take that person and show them their humanity, you know what I mean, like at the end of the day they got out of bed, something took them there like they didn't they did it. wake up or like it was going to be a piece of someone took them to that place that you know and you can't, the most important thing is that you can't judge them at all like you can't when your plant you can't judge them at all like even the outfit is a little piece is such a petty person but I was like, but any day as a guy I get that, I totally get it for you, man, I totally get how you want to slap people all the time for things.

That's what they say and they want to point a gun at someone, I get it, so yeah, I love it, it's the juiciest thing, obviously, your character at the end of the season you learn something, you know, a big revelation about the character, how important that was knowing that. and if you hadn't known that, it would have changed the way you play the character. I was complicated, you know? We wanted people to watch 13 episodes and not understand it, yeah, so I literally never had a private moment where I would say something to someone, they would walk away and have a moment, which is what humanizes people.

Hello, we have a category 55 emergency apocalyptic crisis. Category 55 emergency apocalyptic crisis. Sorry, what is it? Category 55 imagines an apocalyptic crisis. It's nothing, it's a A little inconvenience, Donny, buddy, could you show us a private room where no one can see or hear us, even if I scream really loud for fear that you would show up with me talking and come out because I was only supposed to be there in people's house? People, other people's point of view, otherwise the gag would be revealed, so I watch and sit there. This is really good, it's the worst thing I've ever done in my entire life, so it was a little disconcerting and this year it's a lot more.

It's fun to see behind the curtain. You guys like to know where your character is going. It is so important? Yes, I like it, I would like to know, but it doesn't always happen. They know I love cocks. They know I had to pilot. and he I'm sorry, what is the name of this program. I loved it, okay. Wow, oh yeah, it was a disaster. Wait, what did he just say? Yeah, okay, and he was a certain kind of person in the pilot, you know, he's kind of nice. of a misogynist and he despises this woman and she looks at him as an icon and some kind of object, he is very objectified.

He was talking to Jill Soloway, who along with Sarah Gobierna created it, and I said, you know, I really love it. This pilot I think the characters are great, it's hilarious, but I hope we finally get to see a real man. All it took was the desired cock. There would be 12 amazing films made by women filmmakers, but no, unfortunately, most films made by women are not that good. I think it's pretty rare for a woman to make a good movie because she has to work from behind her oppression, which makes for some annoying moves. Sally Potter Jane Campion Chantal Akerman, excuse me, she had nothing but fair confidence in that.

They were going to get it to be their game and you just have to cut it because not only do they not necessarily have a script but it's kind of an organism that changes over the course of the season, you know things work better than they don't work, you know? the characters are reaching the top and the stories and the people are like and in the novel, you know, I was very happy because in 6, 7 and 8 we have these 8 episodes, you start to see something about this guy, you have the layers and I was like thank you, thank you, thank you, so you know, but it's, it's a, you have to trust it until a certain point TV like you see it on TV the night the characters develop, yeah, the way that you know I had to find out what the arc was.

I was where. You may not necessarily know where you end up, but where you are going. I'm curious to have had the experience as a writer and created your own story. Like now? Going back to Silicon Valley when it's someone else's words, has your process changed at all? relief, but it's a little because in our movie you know there's a lot of emotional drama, eh, well, eh. I didn't have a gauge for that one

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ever made, so you know my gauge was: I'll do a scene if it feels funny. that's successful it doesn't feel funny that's a failure I'm making this movie it was kind of like well that didn't feel funny but it's not meant to be funny so then how do I measure it?

I feel sad, I think success is like that or angry or whatever, so it was great to come back to the show and then go back to that indicator of whether it's funny or it's not funny, but you know the writers are very good at putting to these new characters and situations, so this season my character becomes the boss. Do you think I have to whisper honesty into my hair? No, I think you should use more. What are you saying that because you think I look ridiculous and you want to look even more ridiculous next time?

Which answer will make you get more of that stuff in your hair, we'll be watching. That's why I have Emily channel Anna, a big change for a company that wasn't exactly on the rise, oh she was elevating Emily right into a clogged toilet so that was coolwork it out. to see how, oh, this is the same guy I played for four years, it put him in a completely different situation, what happens to this guy, it was really exciting to be able to play the same person for years, it's such a great thing. . and you find new new levels and new layers and you discover that you know new things about it.

Sometimes, going back to your question, I find it comforting to not necessarily know where we're going because I'm your basic, you know 5050 I'm going to be good at something because there's every direction everywhere, believe me, every acting trap known to man in the one I fall into every day, whatever it is, hope

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y they'll fix it, but with the sociopath that I hurt and I would play, they were so struggling with the writing that you never got the completed script in time, so you almost showed up and tried it and You play a scene where you were being very sweet to this little boy.

And then a week later you film a scene where just before you killed his mother, Rizzo, you know, then you're the perfect sociopath, yeah, but not because I acted him, while I had no idea he used to do what John Wells did. Could you get a basic idea of ​​the season if you asked me to go out to lunch with John and he told you where he was going to go for the last two seasons? I haven't asked you, uh, I don't know where he's going. That's why you play it for what it is, yes, yes, a pound of high-quality meth, which is clearly worth $10,000 on the street if you want to destroy the inheritance that your mother poured a lifetime of blood, sweat and tears.

Go ahead, you have your pound, she probably stole it from you Frank, what you do with your pound is your choice, but this is not a dictatorship Fiona, this is America and in America we like democracy, everyone gets a vote, gimme freedom or give me trouble, sometimes you think this. All that we do the peace arc, I don't know if that's an

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's job, it's more of a director's job, yes, but the truth is, or work at this moment, I think that's the difficult part because the next one was the first series I did, so I was so used to movies where I would know what I had, you know, if I didn't know, I thought I was going to have the opportunity to do my basically, I mean, it's like I'm going to get to the scene now.

Of course, it could always be cut, but at least you had an idea. I want to make sure you get the

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picture, but when I first came to television, I had a very, very difficult time, we say I am. I'm really going to have a chance to say no, I think I'll know, I want to just break the script down into a question that we normally ask women because I think it's important to ask, which is what's the most overtly sexist thing? It happened to you who work in Hollywood Wow mmm sexy sexy sexy things ah so I'll tell you exactly what yes I think this I think this qualifies as sexist I don't know you I decide that you could decide how women decide that because I think that's something that women Women understand much better, let's face it.

I was ready for a little movie called Footloose, yeah, and part of it was gasping. The head of this tank, the head of the studio was a woman, yes, and the director and the producer wanted it. I for the role and she said: I don't want it, he is not mm-hmm also about you, who have you ever been more than Kevin, yes, it was not to his taste for some reason, but they answered me that it was. the exact one, yeah, well that's the world, hey, hey, were you Bilal in the movie? Well, there you have it, there you share it.

I don't know if it's sexist or ageism or one of those things. Okay, I figured it out. on the set we all make jokes and we are kind of gypsies, you know, men and women, if it's a good set as friends, men and women are just obscene and come closer, it's not sexism where you offend the people and they do it again, yes, I've realized that what I used to say and come home, Ted is now ooh old, suddenly I can't do newbies, I lose Janna, dear, you're very dirty to me, yes. Yes, we qualify as sexist.

Don't know. What's hard for you to think about in a sexist moment is that there are X bad guys right there letting out that type of music or more horrible comments. that you guys have been in an audition or when you're up for a role, can you get over not being my agent? They called me. He was nominated for a film with Franco Zeffirelli. Right and they didn't understand it. Yes. They really understood it. close tight, oh well, I hung up the phone, call him, can you tell me why? I felt really good about the audition.

Franco didn't like your nose. You have the perspective. If I heard a sound, they decided to go in there. more all-american direction every time cats, australian guy, i think i know what this means, aha, i thought you told me it wasn't funny enough for some ho oh yeah, well yeah, but it wasn't funny , It was not. funny and they went and gave it to a literally that was not funny at all. I don't remember a horse, but I remember seeing Frank. I thought this was supposed to be yes, I'm serious, character oh, do you see things?

I don't understand that thing I did, yeah, for the most part, no I don't, and I've had good luck and a lot of the things I really wanted didn't turn out to be really bad, huh? and I'm rude to him again. I'm not like that. I'm glad he turned out. I'll be like no. I hope I haven't seen the things I don't understand. I was able to monitor well the last time you went. confused with another

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oh my god they confused me that week they confused me with Hasan Minhaj appears on the Daily Show Kunal Nayyar who is in Big Bang Theory hmm Karan Sony Ghostbusters this was one way versus one week and this week was like a month ago because that's all I was doing.

It just hadn't happened in a while. I feel pretty good and literally people were saying, I love you on The Daily Show. I'm not on The Daily Show and then them. You're great on Big Bang Theory I say no, not on Big Bang and then they made a Deadpool reference and I thought that was current sanity, no, it happens to me, it all sounded like yes, for some strange reason. it stopped the last couple of years, but there's a permanent part of it, especially in New York, I could be walking down the street and someone says, hey, Tony, let's say I keep talking to be, hey, Tony, and I keep walking.

Oh, what, hey, oh, Tony, Danza, you will be. on The Damned, yeah, I get it, there's nothing to that difference, this is nothing, just a name, every name I get, which is crazy 'cause it comes from my own community, uh, Tyler Perry Ice Cube, oh , and Ruben Studdard. Oh, copy it and call me. I lose the window and the roof is my son, be dolls like normal boys, they will never be on The Biggest Loser, so let me lose this weight right now, right here, Tyler before Tyler Perry, really just blow mom, huh, I don't give that much, well, no one really.

They still don't know who I am, but I like it when they make mistakes in my profession. That is what i like the most. What do you believe? One time I was on a flight to Cleveland. I'm sitting next to a very sweet white lady and she states the obvious. She asks what sport you play, it's all an obvious move. I understand, I understand that my profession is what I review has been a little bit Chuck, yeah, I thought, uh, I mean, yeah, because I'm like I'm bigger for Cleveland, so "It was like that, what an omen to keep pitching.

I wanted to know that I wanted to go fence. That's what happens. I was on a plane once and Chauncey Billups was on the plane and I thought, "I have to make sure I can't just walk up to a black man and be." like you're in the NBA and you're wrong about me having a rating, this is totally, this is totally, he hangs out with me, but it was him, but it was one at a time when I was leaving a parking lot and this. woman said to me, aren't you MacGyver? And I said, Donna, she says, "Oh, no, no, no, no, you're hunter, hunter." an assistant principal and I kind of modeled him after the assistant principal I had at school, who was just a terror anyway.

There was a room full of twelve year olds and I walked in and mr. Holland had lost control so I stopped him in his tracks and I heard a really loud voice and I scared them and someone started laughing and I said, "You think this is funny" and then these girls go and go, are you really vice principal? oh no, no, I'm not and they said: Oh, what are you doing? If we could trade places with anyone in Hollywood for a day, who would you trade places with? The rock, tanners. Oh my God, I did what I knew.

Yeah, maybe Jennifer Lopez, uh-huh, sorry, that was easy,

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-head, oh yeah, Kevin Bacon, you know, let 'em know, they call me MacGyver Ruben Studdard just so people can get close to him. Hey, I think we're all very happy. Yes, of course, the last one I'm going to ask you if you were to write a memoir, what the title would be, maybe it's my office, but with the title babe I have a 114 success rate because that was the corner where I grew up in the projects. from Nickerson Gardens, we literally grew up, what are you in a corner?

Yes, Nickerson and Nikki kie RSO. I know Nickerson's outfielder in watts and we literally grew up in the hundred and 14th corner and success. I always said that would be the title. of my Ithaca my one-man play and book of my memoirs because I look at my life now and I look at where it would come from where I come from yes notice that I as a bag would be mine he would be a bag yes because I must tell everyone in my life that really I love eating a bag of dicks once a day all the time.

I feel like this. My goats like it anytime. I really have nothing to say. I thought like you got yourself a son. So I learned to like it. I learned that you can't tell too many people in too many places. Just go suck some cock. Yeah, just shorten it to Yes. So it was like, "Oh, your bag would probably have a cover, yeah." I didn't really have much of a deck. I just wanted to be like a bag with steam coming out of the fork, like you know, like a sommelier's smoke ball, there are all kinds of things, we have to give the same brand to that. ideas well, trust you guys, more Rouge.

I was thinking something like I don't think it's just a pimple if there was a biopic who would play them mmm the guy who thinks okay guys Christeson oh I have no idea you know this way I thought. was going to be in trouble Hi, Doody's not a real guy, so no, yeah, we offered to play Aziz, but he turned it down. I bet mine would be someone as incredibly random as someone like that. Sorry not to say it's incredibly random, but look at it. be like Malcolm Jamal Warner like yeah that's it, how cool is that, it's like when Flex Alexander played Michael Jackson, man you never know, a man like IIIi would love it to be someone like Eid hrus driving someone distinguished, but yeah, but I love Morgan Freeman. to play my role hmm I want you to say my son just go with the best actor yeah well apparently the only dish at the party how about Nathan Nathan and Nathan Louise Anderson yeah guys I think he'll pick up where he left off leave?

Wow yes. On that note, thank you all for being a part of this conversation when we talked about editing the first five minutes. Yes, God, I can't record it internally. I want those eleven herbs and spices. Great talking to you. Yes, thanks. Prepare together. You can make a movie together, we should, who would do it? haha this is the new Ocean's eleven right here hi I'm Ted Danson Kamel you're making tea for that hey I'm Anthony Anderson I'm Kemal Nanjiani thanks for watching The Hollywood Reporter wait on YouTube make sure you subscribe to watch more videos and find me in my user camp.

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