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Jake Johnson & Rosemarie DeWitt Talk 'Digging For Fire' Film

Jake Johnson & Rosemarie DeWitt Talk 'Digging For Fire' Film

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Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt stop by the YH studio to discuss their new film 'Digging For Fire'! The stars snack on jalapenos, sun chips and beer, all while revealing which movies inspired them to start acting!

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I am here with Rosemarie DeWitt and Jake Johnson and Jake has the most fantastic idea for the Young Hollywood Studio. Would you like to just kick it, you know, kick it off for us? Sure. So, here's what I'm thinking, and this is to the people watching at Young Hollywood. If you guys want to stay at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills for two nights in the Young Hollywood Suite where you get to hang out with all this stuff. You get to sit at that bar over there, which you can't see. You might be able to do that for the price of $10,000. You just oversold it. Like $5,000. Let's go a little lower. Why don't they just win it? Why do they have to pay for it? We don't give things away around here.

We don't know. Actually, we give away Young Hollywood hats. You're free to have one, if you like one. So $10,000 in Young Hollywood. Because we're Young Hollywood is about that business. They're not giving stuff away. Anyway, welcome. Thank you for that fabulous idea. Yeah, I'm excited about it. I'm just to set this up, we don't just always bring in jalapeños and SunChips and have drinking beer. Um, it's only because, you know where, where I'm going with this. I believe so, yeah. Well, I did some digging, in the spirit of digging for fire. I'm going to have some fun today. Please, please. Go ahead. I want some. I did a little digging, and Mike Birbiglia? Is that, is that my friend?

Your co-star in the film, number one, said that to get into character for this film, all you had to do is eat SunChips and drink beer. That's really funny. That's true. So, we brought you that. And then Max Greenfield, your co-star on that little show New Girl. He put it out on Twitter that your trailer smells like jalapeños on a continual basis. So, this is why he's so dumb. And it has led to jalapeños entering my life. I called him a mayo man one day, to be mean to him. I said on Twitter, "Would you please send photos of Max Greenfield with jars of mayonnaise." So that his Twitter thing was filled up with it.

And then he took the game to the next level and tweeted for a while about how much I love jalapeños. And so there was, one day I checked my Twitter feed, and it was all me, photos of me as a jalapeño. They're like, "Now whenever I like go do a press event they'll be like, "Here you go, Jake. We have your jalapeños." And I'm like, "You mean we're not original here?" "You're not going to eat it?" "Well, we might have to eat some jalapeños." I said, "We." We. I'm game if you're game, but wait, I've never actually eaten a jalapeño before. Do you have to, like, Is it really? Do you just like eat them like chips? Let's see. You eat one and let's see what happens to you.

It depends on the, yeah, that's right. It depends on the jalapeño, of course. Would you care to test out how our jalapeños are? Let's do it. Do it. So. Oh, I like that you're doing it as a topping. You have to. You have to do it right. Okay. You go like this. If these are not really hot, you guys are the worst people on earth. We don't even know, that's the thing. They're Four Seasons jalapeños. Son of a bitch. Harley? No, it's a good jalapeño. Oh yeah. It's a good one. Is it? We also do a game. Have a sip of beer. Do you need one? Should we all cheers? Cheers. I'm going to cheers with my iced coffee. Jake, you're coming in. Sure. Thanks for having me. Thank you. All right.

So that was the eating jalapeños. Well done. My first here at Young Hollywood, by the way. So, guys, in the spirit of the film. I'm going to play, I'm going to do another pun. Great. Would you, are you most likely in life digging for information, digging for a compliment, or digging yourself out of a hole? And not literally, because I know you really are digging yourself out of a hole right now. I'm digging for information. This is so boring. I mean you're not boring, I'm boring. Digging for research. What are you digging for compliments? I'm always digging for compliments. I know. So all three of us are digging for different things. Yeah. Digging for different things.

Research, getting out of trouble, and compliments. Is So you're digging yourself out of a hole? Yeah, usually. Yeah. Yeah. But it's working for you really well. Thanks, somewhat. For now, it's going to turn quickly. I've made some really bad financial investments. Did you? Are you getting Jurassic World money now? Like, are you? No. There's no Jurassic World money for a character who plays Larry. The nerd in the control room. You don't get like points on that. You get like four back end points. You don't. No. I would love that. You get like a shirt and a thumbs up. You get the Jurassic Park shirt. Yeah. I get the Jurassic World shirt. Department took that back. Did they take it back?

I go to like a shop and buy a Jurassic World shirt. Oh my gosh. But that was fun. Um, but digging for. I didn't want this movie to end. I want there to be like a reality show, Digging for Fire. I just want you guys to keep going. I didn't want it to actually. I loved it. The slice of life, it was absolutely fantastic. Wow, thanks so much. I want to know how you get in this club because it's like there's like a little world. And you know how there's like the six degrees of Kevin Bacon? People to.

I think there's like a six degrees of Mark Duplass, or I don't know, somebody that you guys have all sort of like, I know you worked with Ron, your husband, on an Untamed drinking buddies, I know Sandra. Anna Kendrick. Duplass could be the Kevin Bacon of our lives. He really could. I think he links a lot of us up together. The six degrees of Mark Duplass for indie viewers. We should start playing that as a drinking game, see how far we get. Somebody asked you guys what the first movie you guys watched was that wanted, made you want to be an actor. And I think you said Star Wars and you said ET. Yeah. We did. I don't know. Yeah. ET was a movie that meant a lot to me.

Probably Did you want to be Elliott? Did you drive around in your bike and pretend you were Elliott with like a little hooded thing in the front of your basket? Absolutely. That movie was very important, but I don't remember watching it when I was like five and being like, I want to be an actor. I wanted ET in my house. Yeah, of course, of course. Um, but yeah, I loved that movie. Were you a big Star Wars fan? I remember standing on line at the mall for like three showings. You know, like getting there like 10:00 in the morning, but getting in at like the 7:00 p. m. showing. My mom went, Oh. I'm super excited for the new Star Wars. Who's your favorite character? Princess Leia.

I was going to say, you would actually make a great Princess Leia. I am, back in the day with the braids. Did you do the buns? Did you do the whole bun? I didn't have long enough hair. My used to my dad used to take me to the barber shop and give me the Dorothy Hamill. Great. But I wanted the. I wish. Oh, no. So tragic. You mean the bowl that we all got? I got the bowl too. Um, somebody called this film like a modern day Eyes Wide Shut. So you two are now like Tom and Nicole. Wow. I see that. Do you? Yeah. Um, making this film, I know you're, you're a writer on this. Well, we had an outline for it. So you call it an outline more like more than a script. Well, because it is an outline.

Give yourself some credit for it. It's not a script. There's not a script. It's not a whole script. No, that's what I mean. We had a three page outline. So I was a writer on this film too. Technically, yes. Hell, we all were, man. Let's call the union. Uh, no. Joe and I came up with an outline for this movie where we knew how it started, we knew the middle, and we knew the end. Maybe because it was partly based on your life? Well, the digging for the body was. Okay. So for people who don't know this, this is fascinating. Well. Sintilating. It is sintilating. It's a better word than fascinating. So, I was digging in my, about five years ago or longer than that now.

I was digging in my backyard. We were going to, my wife and I were going to put a garden. So we were going to take it out all. I'm glad you said you were going to put a garden, because when we do press, we always, "Well, me and my wife were digging in our backyard." You never say to put in a garden. I'm like, "Yeah, don't we all just go back and dig?" Me and the woman were digging in the yard. Just looking for trash and stuff. And when some bears had eaten some SunChips. And I found a rusted gun. And I found a bone that was about A femur. Well, maybe. I'm no doctor. About yay big. I found license plates. I found garbage. I found a plastic bag full of like marbles and chopped up bones. And.

Was there a carpet like? There was a carpet like. Horizontal, you mean? Well, there was a carpet about five feet into the ground. Or I mean, this is vertical. I've heard vertical. Yeah. But it was. But there was a carpet we found. All we could get was trash out of it. So we called the LAPD, and the scene that happens in the movie when I call the LAPD is exactly what happened in real life. And so that was the inspiration for the movie and then everything else was fiction. So the LAPD, if I have the story straight, told you to not bother them with digging up your backyard and your trash to let them know when you find the body. They said, "It's not our job to dig out."

I don't even know if they said, "Let us know when you find the body." But they were like, "I mean if if the call was there's a body, they would come out. But they're like, "If you got a bunch of garbage, we're not digging in your backyard for it." Right. Can we go and dig, I want to finish digging. I want to find out if there's a real hand. I didn't feel like First of all, Jake does some amazing back acting in that scene where you you see the hand, and your shoulder go, he gets like a huge laugh from like your right shoulder. Well, I spent three years in university studying back acting. Did you? Oh, you did. Okay, well, that explains it.

These are things that people, you know, they think it's just easy to be an actor. They don't realize what goes into it. Oh, it does. All the years of theater that we spent together. You and I? Yeah. Yeah. Just go with it. I want them to think that about me. That's how we came up together. Rose and I, in theater companies. Yeah. Go on, tell everybody. Steppenwolf. Steppenwolf, yeah. That's what it was. Yeah, for sure. That was one of the theaters. I wish that's what it was. That would be awesome.

Um, one of the themes of this film is about you and you know, growing up and sort of doing your taxes on time, which I completely relate to having like the the receipts all over your table that it just never gets done. But if you guys, because I feel like everybody has an age they don't mature past. Do you have a mental age? Growing up at 35? It's weird. I want to say 22. And then at the same time, I feel like I was born to be the age I am now. I was sort of always an unfortunate younger person. You know what I mean? Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know. Like I don't know.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Rosemarie DeWitt

    Co-star of 'Digging for Fire'

  • Jake Johnson

    Co-star of 'Digging for Fire'

  • Mike Birbiglia

    Co-star in 'Digging for Fire'

  • Max Greenfield

    Co-star on 'New Girl' and Twitter prankster

  • Larry

    Jake Johnson's character in 'Jurassic World'

  • Kevin Bacon

    Referenced for 'Six Degrees of' game

  • Mark Duplass

    Referenced as indie film connector

  • Ron

    Rosemarie's husband, worked on 'Drinking Buddies'

  • Sandra

    Mentioned as a collaborator

  • Anna Kendrick

    Mentioned as a collaborator

  • Joe

    Co-creator of 'Digging for Fire' outline

  • Tom Cruise

    Referenced in comparison to 'Eyes Wide Shut'

FAQ

What film are Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt promoting?+
Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt are promoting their new film 'Digging for Fire'.
What snacks are mentioned in the interview?+
Jalapeños, SunChips, and beer are mentioned as snacks in the interview.
What inspired Jake Johnson's character preparation for 'Digging for Fire'?+
According to Mike Birbiglia, Jake Johnson's character preparation involved eating SunChips and drinking beer.
What inspired the plot of 'Digging for Fire'?+
The plot of 'Digging for Fire' was inspired by Jake Johnson's real-life experience of finding a rusted gun, bones, and garbage while digging in his backyard.
Who did Jake Johnson write 'Digging for Fire' with?+
Jake Johnson co-wrote 'Digging for Fire' with Joe, starting with a three-page outline.
What movies inspired Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt to act?+
Jake Johnson was inspired by 'Star Wars', and Rosemarie DeWitt was inspired by 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'.

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