How do you all? Nikki Novak here for Young Hollywood in Austin, Texas. We are here at Troublemaker Studios and we are going to chat with director Robert Rodriguez and the fabulous cast of From Dusk Till Dawn. Welcome, welcome. You gave us your personal invite.

I did, I did.

You know, you didn't. I didn't. I just walked in and here you are. No, I have to ask you because I've been in Austin for about a week now and I already feel like the barbecue and the food, whatever. How are you keeping this physique?

Cuz we're working really hard and a lot, long hours. So, you feel like every time you see the brisket go by. Somebody pulls you away and throws you on set.

Hey, so on From Dusk Till Dawn, is is is craft services? Is it barbecue? Or they love.

One of the best parts about working with Robert, who's an amazing chef, cook himself and shooting in Austin and shooting in Texas is the fact that you're in barbecue central. So every time there's a meal, we have like full full spread of barbecue. Basically, every meal.

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay, so you have all the secrets.

Quite it down. You're distracting me.

So you're an LA boy?

Uh, yeah, I'm from Vancouver originally, but I've grown up.

Oh, really? Yes. How crazy. Usually, Vancouver, for people don't know, like it's like LA, New York. We're like, you're one or the other, you know? Oh, you're a Vancouver person?

Only Robert Rodriguez can get away with blank. On set.

It's on set. I mean, honestly, anything. It's his set. You know what I mean? So Robert, uh, this season he's got, you know, he's, he's an avid musician. He's got a band that he's playing with all the time. They played here a couple times. I do like to have, you know, the guitar on set, you know, just to show that we're always creative either when we're on and when we're off the set and in between takes to just to keep a flow going because this is movies that are very fast-paced when you're doing TV. And everybody just has to be on point creative point because you have to make last-minute changes and come up with things and be inspired. Right. And sometimes go off the script to just like make something work. And if everyone's always in a creative mode, it's not like, okay, action. Now be creative and then go sit in your trailer and not be creative. You know, you got to keep in a flow. Robert just is so calm and is in his element and free and everybody and that kind of ends up affecting everybody on set and makes them feel that way and lets everybody do their best work.

This studio has a vibe. It's cool, right? Yeah. I mean, I kind of peeked in his office. It's kind of, I won't say it aloud, but it's kind of badass. It's like mess.

Cut to footage of you actually peeking.

You brought tacos from your own place to set, which is so nice of you.

Yeah, these are great. And he has the Jimmy, uh, Kimmel Taco he made for him. What's it called?

El Yimi.

See, you say that way better than I could. I think he's good at everything, actually.

Yeah. He's a great painter, great, great artist, um, great director. He's, uh, great cook. He, he has us over to the house and makes us pizza.

Oh, we talked about his famous pizzas. Is it that good? Because he said he made it for Francis Ford Coppola. Now that's a lot of pressure for making it for an Italian. But Coppola said that it was great. He did, didn't he?

Yeah. Yeah.

So since we were in his famous Troublemaker Studios growing up, were you a troublemaker or a good boy?

Ah. Both? Yeah. Yeah. Happy medium, I guess. I had like two phases. You know, I had two phases.

What what age was the troublemaker phase?

Troublemaker phase was like, I'd say like nine to nine to 17, nine to 16. I prefer not to say.

Really? I guess I mean you did not like I figured Canadian boys are usually just, you know.

Yeah, but I was already living in California. You know, so I kind of went from being a nice Canadian guy to All hell broke loose. Yeah. Growing up in LA, you know, what's going to what could happen? Oh, yeah. I messed a lot of things up for myself, but, um, but I I cleaned up pretty good. I I figured out what not to do and and uh turned myself around.

Yeah. You turned out all right. You did fine. We all come in for South by Southwest, but you as a tour guide because this is your home, something that we got to do if we're in town. What's the one thing? If we got 24 hours that you where are you bringing us?

You have to go to my museum that I have that has the Frank Frazetta collection, which you won't see anywhere else in the world. And it's a really awesome art done by some of the actors who've painted, who are some from his this set, painted portraits of themselves with me for the of the characters they play, but also famous art from other big artists like Frank Miller and Drew Struzan and of course the Frazettas. And it's awesome. Tons of people have been coming in because we've promoted it more this year.

You guys have you gotten a chance to to get into Franklin's at all? No. What's the secret to getting into Franklin's?

You knock on that door and ask Robert to make a phone call for you. Because they have lines lines from like around the block. Yeah. They they rent out chairs that people take because the line takes so long and it doesn't guarantee that you're actually going to get in and get food. It's that good.

But is it that good?

It's that good. It's that good. We uh Robert was kind enough to hook us up so we could actually sneak in there one time.

You're so you're sort of known for creating iconic characters. Who are the sort the most iconic characters to you when you think about, you know, film and whether it's your own or or other filmmakers?

No, I just saw I just saw The Road Warrior, so so Max. Mad Max is one in the theater. I saw part of the screening here at South by Southwest. Snake Plissken, um, the man with no name. Dirty Harry. All the kind of anti-hero characters or

Impossible question. Uh, you know, I got to say I was, uh, the one that's on my mind fresh. I just saw Robert and I went to go watch George Miller screen, uh, Road Warrior, uh, in a fresh 35 print on the big screen. And it was the first time I've seen that movie on, uh, on the big screen and it was amazing. Oh. Oh.

Um, you know, cut out all this. No. Right? No. It's going to go. We're going to my, who's been the most outrageous? The outrageous one?

Oh, Quentin, probably. Yeah. Always Quentin, right?

I'm still I'm still young enough really to have seen uh, Sin City in the theaters. I love Mickey Rourke's character. I I like all of Mickey's stuff, to be honest. Mickey's one of my one of my favorite actors.

Three of your juiciest words to describe the show that you can come up with.

Bloody. Nice. Um, witty and, uh, Explosive action. It's a it's a compound word. I'll give you four. I'll give you four. Give me give me four. Because when Robert shoots the action, there's usually an explosion tape to it.

This show and this character is I feel like the best thing that I've done, so to have that, of course, of course, I'm going to be grateful and want to continue to do my best and and make sure that we get to keep doing it. No one gets to take Quentin Tarantino characters that we all love these iconic characters and live with them outside of the movies as long. And nobody gets to do the same with Robert Rodriguez characters in that world. So just as a fan of those guys, it's just fun to stay in the world, you know. Nothing looks like a Robert Rodriguez film. His eye is cooler than anybody else's. His angles are cooler than anybody else's. You know, he shoots movies hardcore, badass, old school, the way that, the way that classics are made. He still does it.