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Ninja or No-Go? with the Cast of Ninjago

Ninja or No-Go? with the Cast of Ninjago

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Young Hollywood catches up with the cast of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie' at LEGOLAND®, including Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, Olivia Munn, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Peña, Zach Woods, and Abbi Jacobson. The stars play a game of 'Ninja or No-Go', discuss their voice acting experience, and reveal what element they would control. They also show off their LEGO minifigure versions.

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YH is at LEGOLAND® with the cast of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie', including Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, Olivia Munn, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Peña, Zach Woods, and Abbi Jacobson, where they show off their own LEGO action figure versions of their characters and reveal what element they'd love to control in real-life! Plus, they play a few rounds of "Ninja or No-Go"!

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Young Hollywood

Hey, guys, it is Audrey at Legoland with the stars of the Lego Ninjago Movie, playing a little game of ninja or no-go.

Jackie Chan

Yeah.

Young Hollywood

At Legoland with the entire cast, well, almost the entire cast, of the Lego Ninjago Movie. Thanks, you guys, for being here. So, I have a game called Ninja or No-go. So I'm gonna dish out a couple of things and you tell me if it's ninja or no-go. No, not yet. Okay. All right. So the first one is, is this a ninja or a no-go? Doing Zumba?

Guest

No-go.

Guest

Ninja.

Guest

No-go.

Guest

No idea what that is, so it's

Young Hollywood

It's like a dance

Guest

It's like dance.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. And so would ninja be yes?

Guest

Yes, a ninja would be yes.

Guest

Sure, ninja. Let everyone People should do what they want. I I'm the I'm

Guest

Yes, I've always said that, people should do what they want.

Young Hollywood

Okay, you're at a house party and you have to do a number two. I'm already a ninja. Would you go for it? Ninja or no-go? You have to do one. You got to drop a deuce at a house party?

Guest

No-go.

Guest

No-go.

Guest

I feel like I would I would ninja that. I would ninja that. I would, yeah, I would travel size pooperie that.

Guest

You travel size what's that mean?

Guest

Travel size pooperie. She brings She brings a little

Guest

The pooperie, yeah, you spray it into the bowl.

Guest

Oh, yeah.

Young Hollywood

Do you have that on you at all times? Is it in your pocket right now?

Guest

It's in my giant bag now.

Guest

I say no-go. I say no-go. No. There's too many variables that can go wrong.

Young Hollywood

And lasting, saving the city of Ninjago from your diabolical dad. I mean, come on.

Guest

Ninja.

Guest

Ninja.

Guest

Ninja.

Guest

You ready for me to conquer Ninjago?

Guest

Oh, I'll be waiting.

Young Hollywood

So most of this was, I mean, this was all voice acting for you guys. How did that experience line up? Because aren't you by yourself usually?

Jackie Chan

Yeah, but you know, they did have actual stunt people in China, Jackie Chan's stunt team actually did stunts and they filmed them and then they animated over it.

Guest

That's true.

Young Hollywood

But you didn't have to do the stunts.

Guest

No, I sat down and talked.

Guest

No, we say not. We wouldn't.

Guest

The chair, I didn't even stand. They want you to understand that I was like, no, I'm going to I'm going to sit when I talk.

Guest

Yeah. We sat and said words.

Young Hollywood

So, do you have a go-to Lego Ninja move? That's not just sitting.

Guest

everybody specs out.

Guest

No, mine was sitting. Yeah. Mine was sitting. Sitting, sitting, sitting.

Guest

Abby, Abby had the

Guest

Oh, Abby has the bar. Oh, I was like, no one said it yet. I'm not going to say it.

Young Hollywood

Well, now you have to, you have to tell us what it is.

Guest

She has an actor's bar. She gets really intense into it. The sound studio that I go to in New York has this really cool bar, so when you are up at the mic, you can kind of like really get into it because you're holding on to the bar.

Young Hollywood

Are you doing like, are you hanging on to it while you're recording or like, how? Doing push-ups? Like what are we? What are we talking about here? Physical was this?

Guest

Well, I mean a lot of the movie's very it's very action centric, so it's like we're like fighting and running and moving a lot, so you kind of have to try your best or I thought to move while you're saying the lines in a lot of it.

Guest

When we watch the movie, it's going to feel like we're all sitting. I'm the only one

Guest

She's wrestling a bar.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. Now in the movie, uh, the ninjas can control an element. So if you could control any element, what would it be and why?

Guest

Uh, traffic. That's an element. Yeah. That's a good one. Okay. Don't go that way. I'll come around this way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Guest

Time. I would control time. Slow it down.

Young Hollywood

You're talking about like the ancient elements of water, wind, fire.

Guest

Yes, the ancient. Earth. Well, there's earth. What are the other ones? Water, wind, fire. Earth, wind, and fire.

Guest

I would want to control the band, the brass section of Earth, Wind and Fire. It's like my dad would call me back sometime.

Young Hollywood

Next question.

Guest

Yeah. Not that not too much. Too much. Too far. You are done. Done. No. No.

Young Hollywood

And you have the Lego versions of yourself. Can we Can we see these for a second, please?

Guest

Mom and son.

Guest

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There we go. That's what mom and son's doing. I'm changing your diaper.

Guest

Inappropriate.

Guest

Yeah, nobody's 16 years old. That's cool.

Young Hollywood

Uh, what about you guys? Let's see. Let's let's see Lego versions of yourself.

Guest

Right here. Nice.

Guest

Wait, they talk, right?

Guest

I have the wrong weapon. This is not my weapon. That's my weapon.

Guest

What is that?

Guest

Yes, that's the hammer of Thor. No, it's a video camera. My

Guest

You're like video camera.

Guest

It is. It's a news video camera. And it's like, yeah. And there's one like that right there. That's the most dangerous weapon of all.

Guest

Oh, that is true.

Guest

A selfie stick.

Young Hollywood

Yeah. So what was your reaction when you first saw the Lego version of yourself?

Guest

Well, the first time, like, to be honest with you, my my kid actually bought like three of them. And he he thought that it was so cool. He was, do you know that yours is the rarest? I'm like, why is that? He's like, cuz yours cost $200. You know, you got to buy the set for 200 bucks. I'm like, don't buy that, dude. You say the most expensive.

Young Hollywood

How old is your kid?

Guest

He's 200 bucks. He's nine. He's nine. It's 200 bucks and nine years old. So you're trying to get me to spring for. My son is a white-collar criminal.

Young Hollywood

Thank you so much, you guys. We love you. We can't stop. You guys We met you guys are very cool.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Audrey

    Host of the interview

  • Dave Franco

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Fred Armisen

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Olivia Munn

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Kumail Nanjiani

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Michael Peña

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Zach Woods

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Abbi Jacobson

    Cast member of 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie'

  • Jackie Chan

    His stunt team worked on the movie

FAQ

Who was interviewed from 'The LEGO Ninjago Movie' cast?+
The interview included Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, Olivia Munn, Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Peña, Zach Woods, and Abbi Jacobson.
What game did the cast play?+
The cast played a game called 'Ninja or No-Go' where they decided if certain scenarios were 'ninja' (yes) or 'no-go' (no).
What elements did the cast want to control?+
One cast member wanted to control traffic, another time, and one joked about controlling the brass section of Earth, Wind & Fire.
Did the cast perform their own stunts for the movie?+
No, the cast primarily did voice acting, while Jackie Chan's stunt team performed the physical stunts which were then animated over.

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