What's up, guys? Leslie Robbins here. Young Hollywood back on Broadway in New York City. I'm about to take you backstage of the biggest musical production of all time. Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. Reeve. Spider-Man, do I call you Spider-Man? I mean, two and a half years you've been playing the role. I think you've earned that right to be called Spider-Man.

It's I'm definitely grateful to have been able to play this particular role for so long, because I think any role you play as an actor, part of it becomes ingrained in you, or it's a part of you that already exists on some level. And so when you have to sort of amplify that aspect of yourself every day, it becomes a part of your life, sometimes off-stage as well, more than it would otherwise.

That's deep.

I I that's the way I prefer it, I guess.

I must talk to you about I Knew You Were Trouble.

Oh, yeah, that was so much fun.

Hello, co-star with Taylor Swift in her new music video. Now, Taylor's such a lovely girl, and she, um, her pure tone is beautiful. Just, you know, it's exactly what you'd expect, which sometimes you never know with with people who in the in the world of modern technology. Well, you play a bad boy in the music video. Are you a bad boy in real life?

Yeah. Well, I think like everything that I do, I have a little bit of that in me, but you as a person, every day you get to choose who you wanna be, and so I think it's nice to have the outlet of acting to let some of those things out.

So, what do you have in you that's like the rebellious side?

In some ways, I'm I'm definitely, uh, my mom always said I was ornery, or a rascal, and I'm I'm a bit of a prankster, too.

I heard you were a prankster.

Oh, you did?

I did, and I was gonna ask you like some of your epic pranks.

Oh, man, you know what? If I told you some of my epic pranks, it would ruin some of them because the pranks that I've pulled that have been the most epic, it's the people still don't know that that they were done by any they think that they were real.

How do you come up with the ideas? Let's let's go there.

I have some help from my friends, but um, but some of them I come up with alone.

Interesting, and you have no remorse whatsoever.

They're harmless. I mean, they're nothing that, you know, it it doesn't permanently harm anyone. Really, what I the thing I like about pranks, it has the intention of making them ultimately smile, and and that's the end of it, doing. I just don't want them to know that it was a prank because then it kind of takes some of the energy away from it.

So, you've obviously been in the show since the very beginning.

Yes.

The stops, the starts, the injuries, the revamping of things. How do you stay sane through all of that?

I usually try to avoid reading about myself. In hindsight, I realized there were a lot of negative things written, um, a lot of people who didn't want this show to succeed for whatever reason, but but we did, and I'm I'm glad that we did. I'm gonna get ready for a show now, but you know this guy, uh, Jake, I'm gonna pass it on to you.

Thanks, Reeve. Passing along the baton. Jake, the last time I saw you was on a national tour, Green Day's American Idiot. You taught me a little guitar. But you're making your Broadway debut. I am actually so proud of you. I saw the show, and you were incredible. Second guest: Thank you so much.

Tell me the journey from going from a tour, maybe not working, to now, hello. Second guest: It's been the the weirdest, uh, few months. I, you know, yeah, I was unemployed. I was I was out of a job, and I I came here, moved to New York and started auditioning for stuff. Two months later, I was rehearsing to be Spider-Man on Broadway.

Tell me about the audition process for this. Second guest: Sure. Uh, I like any other audition, I got a a call to come in, and so I got the audition and started listening to a lot of U2, and, uh, did my my first round for the director, and they said, "We're we're giving you a call back." Um,

Wait, so Bono has approved you? Second guest: He's approved I haven't met him, but.

The Edge has approved you? Second guest: The Edge has approved Bono and the Edge have approved me, but I have on my wall, um, after my call back, there was a I had a a permission thing saying that Bono and the Edge were filming this for them to see if they approve you. So, I was like, whether or not I get this, like that is cool. That is so awesome. Then, they strapped me in a harness and flew me around the theater, and that was part of the audition, was seeing like how your body moves, and if you're freaking out or not, and I survived. And and then here I am.

Well, it's real. It's happening. You're wearing the costume. Second guest: I'm wearing the tights, yeah.

Show me what you got over there. Second guest: Uh, well, these are these are the tights. Um,

So, a unitard, to be honest with you. Second guest: It is a it's a onesie. It's a total you get zipped up in the back. This is the mask. Let's see. Gotta put it on. It's Wow. There it is.

It's slightly sexy. I'm sorry. I see some gloves. Should I can I try these on? Second guest: Yeah, go for it. These are your gloves. These are the Spidey gloves.

Spidey glove. Second guest: Yeah. Yeah, and there's a whole, like there's a whole thing they actually like there's this thing that kind of pulls up like there's like layers of the costume that you put on. But this is good 'cause it's got a bit of grip, 'cause there's a lot of grabbing the the rope and the harness. For a lot of the the show, I'm wearing a really tight harness like around my my, you know.

Your. Second guest: My, you know. And, uh, they're

Thanks for shutting down. Like, if you weren't a tenor before the harness, you will be when you're strapped in. Second guest: you get up there. So you get a little help. It just kind of helps you a little bit, you know?

And what about when you're hanging upside down and on the sides of the walls? Second guest: Then it's just about like figuring out where the hell the audience is, 'cause you're like, "Does it matter?" Well, as long as you're facing the right direction, which has happened in rehearsal. But yeah, as long as you're facing the right direction, then you're like, "Okay." Actually, the less thinking, the better. The more thinking it's you can screw yourself up.

Well, let's not think. Let's walk and you'll give me a tour. Second guest: Okay. Okay. This, as you can see, is the Green Goblin costume. Pretty crazy, pretty scary when it's on Robert Cuccioli on stage. This is the PT room, 'cause people, uh, get hurt. Lots of equipment just to keep your body strengthened and keep your core nice and strong so that you can properly do all the flights without hurting your back. These are the the Sinister Six costumes, the some of the villains in the show. Um, this is Swarm. This is, um, Kraven the Hunter, which is actually my favorite villain. All right, let's keep going. These are the masks. That's kinda cool. All right, so this is, um, we're underneath the stage right now. Um, there's tons of hydraulics and lifts and stuff that happens, and, um, it all happens around here.

This is pretty exciting. I feel like I'm underneath the circus. Second guest: It is like the circus right here. So, we're in the the the, uh, theater right now. Um, there's 2,000 seats behind me in the Foxworth Theater.

You hang from that up there? Second guest: I totally hang from that up there, and I land on the first balcony, and I land on the second balcony.

Just insane. Dream come true. Second guest: Total. Okay, Leslie. So, about six months ago, uh, when I was on the American Idiot tour, me and Van Hughes gave you a guitar lesson. So, I I have, uh, I found a guitar in the building, 'cause I wanna check up and see how your guitar playing's going. So, I just I just wanted to see. Yeah.

Somewhere over the rainbow, in a sky. Yeah. In a singing and never last. Wake me up when September ends.