Young Hollywood, I'm here at South by Southwest.

I am the luckiest person, uh, alive for most of you, because I am here with none other than Mr. Josh Duhamel.

What's up, my friend?

That was an amazing intro.

Well, I see every week, you know, man crush Monday and it's like Duhamel, Duhamel, Duhamel.

It's never me.

Oh, man, you are a flatterer.

I will take it.

I will take it.

I will take it, and, uh, you know, it's it's all fleeting, my friend.

Yeah.

You're a handsome young man.

I've I've jacked his style today.

I'm telling you.

I'm telling you right now, this is going to start happening, it's going to start falling out.

Speaking of, uh, absolutely nothing relevant to what we're supposed to be talking about.

Okay.

You're here to rep your film that deals with reality TV and how terrible it's gotten and you guys kind of faced that in a different way, huh?

Well, it's not really about how terrible it's gotten.

It's just more of a a commentary on how we're influenced by, uh, TV, media, in general, and whether or not that's a good thing.

But basically, the whole idea that reality TV is very impactful on society and maybe not in the best way.

It is.

It is very impactful and it's and it influences people and what I loved about this character, more than anything, was the fact that he he decides that he's just he's done with it.

What am I doing?

Why am I even hosting this shit?

And decides that's it.

Well, then he gets offered this other show, which is even more crazy.

It's about people coming on and taking their lives on national TV.

What?

It's yeah, it's crazy as that sounds.

Is it really that crazy?

Because it it it doesn't seem that far from the truth or that far into the future.

And so he does this show under the premise that he's going to do it not because he wants to do it for the shock value, but because he's he's going to teach people to appreciate life.

It's not about death, it's about appreciating life.

And so he gets into it for the right reasons, but ultimately gets caught up in the money, in the power, in the fame.

He gets caught and in in intoxicated by it all and ends up, you know, becoming the thing that he was speaking out against.

And what does that all mean?

I guess that, you know, there is this addiction to fame and money and power that we all have.

And are we using these shows to feel self-value in some way?

I know that's all deep, but, you know, at the end of the day, people may watch it because they want to see some dude take an arrow through the middle of his head.

Just the instant fame culture really is driving us to probably seek more real truth.

So people have to go further to expose themselves on TV.

Well, people need, they they feel like, you know, how many people are following me on my on my social media?

How many, you know, how many people see my my YouTube video that I made?

That's their sort of validation or that that feeds their self-value.

When really, it shouldn't be about that.

It's about, um, everything but that, really.

So, I know that you're a golf buff, huh?

Yeah.

What what what what kind of, you know, average do you run with?

Depends on the day.

Uh, That's the game of golf.

I I can shoot anywhere from a 75 to 105.

Wow.

Yeah.

Uh, and I've done that recently.

Uh, so, you know, I I mostly play the game.

I don't take the game that seriously.

I love it.

I love being outside.

I love being sort of like my it's a way to meditate in some ways.

It's the way for me just to get out in a nature and just be, you know, at peace for a little bit.

And I'm competitive and I like to play, but I don't I'm not grinding over putts.

Who who is the worst, most famous golfer you've golfed with?

The worst, most famous golfer that I've worked with?

Uh, Or played with?

Played with.

Let's see.

Uh, Put someone on blast here.

Let's see.

I've played with Sam Jackson quite a bit.

Don Cheadle, they're both good golfers.

Worst, Chris Berman's pretty bad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I love the man, but he's not a very good golfer.

All right, well, Well, he'd be the first one to admit it.

Um, they said that you chased a girl up north and then you took a bunch of odd jobs to carry yourself through.

Did I do that in real life?

I Okay.

So this is what I did.

I mean, I moved from North Dakota.

I think you just sort of like taking facts and just throwing them in a pot and mixing it, and that's what the story is.

Kind of.

Kind of.

I moved from North Dakota to California, met a girl, worked a whole bunch of crap jobs.

What was the crappiest of the jobs that you worked?

I worked overnight in a warehouse taking apart boxes of hardwear supplies and putting them in the boxes so the next morning, the people could come and fill orders for the hardware stores.

Uh, I dug I I used to take out fuel tanks.

Get old gas stations, and they had to replace the gas tanks.

We would take out all the sort all the contaminated soil.

It was like drenched with old gasoline.

Don room at the gap.

I did a lot of things, but I tell you what, those jobs make me appreciate what I get to do now.

And I think everybody should have to do that stuff.

Anything you want to tell our fans to look out for this film?

Yeah, I mean, it's it's one of the more provocative films.

It's the most provocative film I've ever done for sure.

Uh, and and that was the idea.

We wanted this thing to be We wanted it to to, you know, smack people across the face a little bit.

Yeah.

And and I think it will.

I mean people will love it or people will hate it, but it will it will generate some sort of reaction for sure.

All right.

Well, guys, I wish I could hang more, but uh, I just I think I'm his doppelganger for the day.

Twinsies.

Twinny.

All right, guys.

Josh Duhamel, go see it.

It's called This Is Your Death.

That's right.

I got that fact, right?