Dave Franco: Blunt Rotations, Body Counts, & Bad Meat

0:02What is up daddy gang? It is your founding father Alex Cooper with call her daddy. Dave Franco, welcome to Call Her Daddy. Thank you so much. How are you feeling right now? I'm feeling pretty good. How are you feeling? I feel like this is kind of like a random matchup. Tell me. Tell me why. I mean, I usually interview more women. Oh, okay. I do enjoy interviewing men. I feel like we haven't obviously like crossed paths ever. And I remember when I was talking to my team, I was like, I think we could do something interesting here. I agree. And I just want to start by saying, first off, everything you're saying is accurate.

0:45But I did watch your documentary, which I absolutely loved. Oh my God, thank you. And it was just me at home by myself, just crying my eyes out. And what I want to say is, I actually think we have a lot in common. And this is just kind of what I took, and please tell me if I'm wrong. But I think just kind of how you approach work, I really relate to it in the sense that it just seems like um you're almost incapable of doing anything half-assed um you everything you do you want it to be unique and original and surprising uh it seems like you love being a leader but you also really appreciate and respect everyone around you and recognize this is a collaboration and also you work with your partner and you guys just build each other up in such a sweet way and i relate to all of that dave how am i supposed to now go and roast you like i thought i was like all right dave now you're you're i'm about to start crying no i really appreciate that because obviously i know you and we're gonna get to that work with your wife and which i like respect so much and i always think it's so funny when people like how the fuck do you work with your partner i know everyone asks it and they ask it in that tone and i'm like no no no you're projecting on me because you're thinking about what it would be like working with your own partner like this works don't put that on us wait like you guys have your own shit over there but we couldn't be happier exactly it's the easiest part of my job it really is yes okay thank you for saying that though because you know how it is when you put out a piece of work and you're so anxious of course and wanting people to enjoy it but then you also have to stay true to yourself and make sure that creatively even if people don't like it like this is what i want to do and this is what I'm going to do.

2:22And so it was a risk, but I'm happy you liked it. 100%. And I feel like one thing that I have gotten better at over the years is really holding on to that idea where if I make something that I am genuinely proud of, of course, I want it to resonate with audiences. Of course, I want people to see it. But at the end of the day, it's like, I wouldn't have done this any differently. And so I got to be happy with that. So true. I mean, it sucks when it bombs, but you So you're like, OK, maybe I do need to go a little bit more mainstream on that next time. But it's very humbling. OK, usually when someone comes and sits down with me, I stalk them on social media just to catch a vibe.

2:59You don't have social media. That's correct. Yeah. Are you a very private person? I generally am, which makes kind of doing like promo for any movie a little strange because it's not like it's not me in my element. But at the same time, I've also gotten much better at this where I recognize this is a big part of my job and I'm just going to lean in and I'm going to do my best and I'm going to be as vulnerable as we as I can be. But yeah, I'm not on social media and I it kind of comes from a place of being a little scared of it. I think I've gotten to a place in my life where I've surrounded myself with really kind people who I love and trust.

3:40And so I have my like really warm little bubble. And I know that if I'm on social media, it's like no matter who you are, you're going to receive some hate every single day. And I just didn't want to invite that into my daily life. Everyone's watching like, yes, Dave. Preach Dave. Same Dave. Okay, how do you get intel on people? Like on. If you're like, I guess you're a guy. You don't even want the drama. I don't. I don't. Do you know what the team means? You know what the team means. Of course. I'm not that old. Do you know what the renegade is? no i am that old it's a trend on tiktok what is it tell me it's a dance okay charlie d 'amelio was like really known for it do you know who that is i was i was hoping you weren't gonna follow up with that question sip of water i'm getting parched hold on dave is literally like i'm gonna just say yes to things but then when she asks me like explain you're gonna be like so no but you know what tiktok is of course do you ever take thirst traps like just for yourself uh what do you mean take thirst I know what a thirst trap is, but what do you mean to take one?

4:42Like, do you ever just like, you know, take like a dashing selfie? Oh, oh, just for me. No, I'll do it for Allison every once in a while. That's cute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. How do you feel about opening up to the daddy gang today? I feel pretty good about it, actually. I, you know, since watching the documentary, since listening to some episodes, I just I feel like I feel comfortable with your energy. And as you said, when I got here, you got me and I trust that. We're not going to fuck this up. Yes. Has there ever been a time, though, that you've done an interview or just like in your life that you've overshared and then regretted it later?

5:20Oh, man. I'm sure. Oh, God. I mean, whatever it is, I probably don't want to bring it up again now. I'm sure I want it to be buried. But my wife is a massive oversharer. She would admit that herself. You meet her and she will whatever you want to know. You're like, babe, babe. Truly. No. And she's like, one second, Dave. Anyway, so our family drama. And you're like, what the fuck are you saying? She's talking about my dick all of a sudden. I'm just like, babe, Jesus Christ. Did you tell anyone in your life that you were doing this day? And like, what were their thoughts? Of course, yeah. And the honest truth is that like, you know, my publicist, my the distributor of this film, all they want to know is about is when are you doing color?

6:09When are you doing color daddy? Color daddy. And I was like, guys, chill and stop putting pressure on this. I'm dead. But yes, everyone loves you and is very excited about this. Okay, so do you want to start with your sex life or your childhood trauma? Jesus Christ. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm obsessed. We're going to start easy. Okay. I'm going to literally just like give you a few things and you're just going to tell me your first reaction, how you feel about them. How do we feel about Zins? Oh man, I don't know what that is. I'm so sorry. Can I guess what this is? Yeah. I think, is it like dip?

6:46Yes. Oh good. Okay. Oh, I do know this. Okay. What is your vice? Like, do you don't do Zins? I definitely don't. My vice, oh my God. I mean, I'm the guy who the guy who's getting frisky when he like splits a second glass of wine with his wife at dinner. That's so fucking real. How old are you? I'm 40. I just turned 40. Oh, my God. That no, that tracks. I feel like once you hit 30s, 40s, you're like wine. I am insane. Like I'm starting to feel that way getting into my 30s. Now I'm like, I just had two glasses of wine. I'm like at the club. I'm sitting in my kitchen. But I feel like I'm at the club.

7:27You know what I mean? Totally. Yeah. It takes you out for the next week. Week. Week. Emphasis on week, not day. Okay. How do you feel about the term short kings? I'm okay with that. I'm not trying to lie and pretend like I'm not what I am. I think I've embraced this many years ago. And it's funny because like, you know what? It is what it is. And I think people like try to come at you for this thing that I can't even control. and I'm like it's fine like I you know I guess the main thing is my wife's down with it and she's a little bit shorter than me so that's good too and she's stunning gorgeous successful smart all the things so like you're doing something right okay magic tricks um I assume you bring this up because I've been in three magic movies yes um I feel good about it I uh I weirdly am like very good at throwing cards um it's like kind of what my character does in the movie and i remember on the first one when i was learning how to do it i had like stacks and stacks of cards and it was just me in my apartment in new orleans throwing cards against the wall until my arm went dead but now i can like cut a banana in half and people are like do you quit so do you carry cards with you everywhere and i'm like no i also i'm not going to be the guy who shows up at a party and it's like hey guys check this that's literally almost as bad as the guy that like pulls out his guitar at a party and you're like yes it's it's worse john stop like you're not john mayor shut the fuck up totally dude okay but do you feel like people at parties are like looking for you to do party tricks now it comes up but again no one has a deck of cards on them so i get out of it pretty easy that's fair yeah there you go okay men with cats i mean yeah if there was anything that defined me um you know when i when i met allison i was the single guy with two 18 pound cats and i know as you can imagine we call them the panthers and um as you can imagine that kind of weeds out the dating pool a bit um not a lot of girls are down with that wait rewind yeah yeah eight to 18 pound cow yeah yeah what when how why you know a lot of people are like did you overfeed them were they fat no they were big proportionate cats they just had big heads and their bodies followed suit what and did you get them at the same time yeah they're brothers why did you decide cats were for you we grew up with cats okay yes yes i assume um with your tonality that you did not well no and i maybe this is me being like so this is this is definitely a sexist comment but like i don't think of men and cats sure as much it's more of like a female thing which is like so fucked up to say but i'm gonna say it um it's not that bad and you know like internet chill we don't need to cancel me over saying and don't go with cats that well but cats okay and did you think about your dating life when you got the cats no no the cats came first uh and they were gonna decide who i should be perfect perfect and i was in love them so you were fine yes and what ended up happening was um we had been dating for a few months and i was spending most nights at her place and um the cats were feeling neglected and so at one point i said to her i was like hey I'm not asking to move in but is it cool if my cats move into your place because we're over here all the time no so we moved my cats in technically before I moved in you bring the litter box truly yeah that is I love that for you Dave thank you okay how do we feel about crying during rom-coms oh yeah all about it I love a rom-com um the second movie I directed was a rom-com favorite rom-com oh i mean gosh the first ones that come to mind notting hill when harry met sally classics um uh sleepless sleepless in seattle oh my god i remember what's yours oh i would have to say sleepless in seattle growing up but then the proposal with sandra bullock yeah so fuck yes yes um okay keeping your childhood nickname i mean that's my life yeah let's talk about it okay yeah okay so what is your childhood nickname well uh davy um and most people in my life still call me davy really yeah does your wife call you davy what does she call me i guess she calls me babe okay yeah yeah she rarely i feel like sometimes matt calls me alex i'm like am i in trouble definitely because he never calls me alex then i'm like what did i do i know i know and so my my real name is david but no one has ever really called me that and when i was a kid my brother had a had this kid in his in his class named David that he hated so he said you're not gonna be named David that's how I became Davey and I guess you know the people that know me well most people call me Davey so Dave is almost like formal for you a little bit this is like this you're yeah you're like Dave Franco here sure but then Davey at home by the end of this interview you'll be calling me Davey perfect perfect okay one of your first roles was in Superbad.

12:15Yes. And Jonah Hill calls you out for pissing your pants. Correct. Looking back, what was one of the most embarrassing things that ever happened to you in school? Ooh, okay. While I think about that, let me just talk about that scene in Superbad real quick. Okay. So I had a journey with that scene in and of itself where I only have a few lines in this movie, but the movie was so big that people did recognize me on the street and they were yelling at me, why don't you go piss your pants again? And I quickly realized like, I got to keep working and get more jobs so I'm not piss boy for the rest of my life.

12:51That is so real. It sucks my life. Okay. So I guess on theme with that, okay. I remember going to a party in high school. I was probably a junior and this like cool senior guy comes up to me, this like football player. And he And he says, we're going to sit down and we're going to share this fifth of vodka and we're not leaving until we finish it. And I'm like, cool. Perfect. You know, he's a big guy. He can handle his alcohol. I am not a big person. I was even smaller then. But I was trying to fit in. He was like the cool older guy. So we do it. And I black out. And my friends, you know, tell me after the fact that people are sticking pens down my throat to get me to throw up.

13:33uh cut to a couple hours later i wake up on the floor of my friend's bedroom i don't know where i am i have pissed myself i waddle to the bathroom to try to clean up i turn on the lights and look in the mirror and i have penises drawn over every inch of my face i know so so i don't have the energy or the strength to wash it off i just want to get home to my bed so i finally make it home I get in bed and almost immediately my mom comes in my bedroom. And before she says anything, I say, I have penises on my face. She says, I can see that, honey. And my sweet mom, she lets me sleep it off. But I have not.

14:13I wouldn't say I have not drink, drank vodka since, but I despise vodka. I was going to ask you, like, is there an alcohol? Because for me, I cannot even smell fireball. Like, I will fucking projectile vomit. So yours is vodka. Yes, and in college, God, what was the really cheap stuff? Pop off? Pop off? Oh, no. Wait, what the fuck is that? I'm old. No, no, but pop off. Pop off. Pop off. Pop off. Pop off, Dave. I mean, you popped off. Okay. So that was your no, no, no, never again. No, no, ever again. Yeah. I thought you were going to say, and then from then on, I never had penises drawn on my face again.

14:48Oh, I'm wondering if that ever happened again. Okay. I can't say no, but nothing comes to mind. Okay. that is really sad and I I now need to know like what was young Dave like like did you go through an awkward phase um I was I was debilitatingly shy um I was the kid who said like six words out loud in middle school I was just so quiet and you know I remember I had I had a crush on this girl in sixth grade and I heard that like maybe she might sort of be kind of interested and I was okay, I'm going to seal the deal. I'm going to get her a present. So I went to 7-Eleven and I got her like a big bag of candy.

15:26And so I come to lunch the next day and I had this whole like thing in my head. It was going to be this big romantic gesture. And when I was kind of confronted with the moment, just the anxiety took over. And so what happened was kind of saw her from a distance. She was under this tree with her friends and I started running at her. And when I got close enough, I threw the bag of candy and continued running away without breaking stride. You literally did a hit and run. And safe to say we didn't end up together, but that's a good representative of who I was at the time. That's so innocent and pure.

16:06And like, you can't even go up to her and give her candy. Truly, truly. Why do you think you were so shy? God, I don't, I don't know. I really don't. I mean, I kind of, I got out of my shyness towards the end of high school, but, you know, I was just a really sensitive kid. Like, I was the guy who was listening to Goo Goo Dolls and Counting Crows and, like, the first John Mayer album, Room for Squares. And, like, you know, I actually did. I had a longer-term girlfriend in high school, and I would, you know, again, I was writing her poetry. And like I but it was like it was the type of poetry like my process at the time was I would write everything out like in very simple terms.

16:55And then I would get a thesaurus. And with every word in the poem, I would find like the most flowery version of that word. And so these poems were like, you know, consistent of words like, you know, bespoke and languid and chartreuse. And did your girlfriend love these? I don't know. I might have forced this on her. Holy shit. You like playing like Iris in the background like, and I give up forever to touch you. And you're like, my dear lover. Absolutely. That is so fucking amazing. Were you bullied at all? You know, I wasn't. That was the thing. I wasn't the shy kid who got bullied. I was just left on his own.

17:43But I did have good friends, I will say. I had really great friends. But we had kind of the group who we weren't the most popular. We weren't unpopular. We were just kind of there. We were playing ultimate frisbee at lunch. that is so that really really paints the picture okay yeah the guys in high school that were playing ultimate frisbee i'm trying to think yeah okay that tracks within like the poems sure and the two 18 pound cats it's all it's all lining up but that i feel like is when women look back they're like and that is who i should have fucking married but instead i talked to the fucking douchebag that made me cry my eyes out every five fucking seconds sure sure that makes sense um i think a lot of people in the beginning of your career were always like okay this guy is always playing kind of like a high schooler yeah and it almost is like he's aging backwards yeah yeah dave talk to me about the skincare routine oh wow um you know the skincare routine is basically allison's skincare routine i've stolen everything from her why wouldn't i she looks incredible so fucking real men have no idea what they're doing that matt says the same thing to me he's like what's that you're putting on under your eyes shy to be doing that and i'm like matt what he has one lotion yeah he puts on his body and his face and i'm like interesting honey but you gotta start early before it's too late you gotta get that sunscreen in your daily moisturizer are you messing around with like snail mucin yeah no yeah you're like allison do we have snail mucin yeah yeah honestly not no but i can't confirm for sure you don't even know what's going on your face.

19:19How many steps are in the routine? How about that? Ooh, I'm going to say like three or four. Have you heard of like the salmon sperm that people are putting on their face? Go on. Would you try it? Tell me more. It's very hydrating. Okay, do you use it? I've tried the snail mucin. I haven't tried the salmon sperm. You were just selling it hard. Well, I've heard Kim Kardashian has put it on your face. So I'm like, ooh, should I try this? You're open to it. I'm open. Dipping a toe in. Would you be open? If Allison does it, I'll do it. Okay, perfect.

20:07Okay, high school drug dealer in 21 Jump Street. What was the most trouble that you ever got into in high school? Oh, God. Not much. Not much. You didn't like get arrested? No, no. Ooh, my brothers both got arrested. And I think because of that, and they're five and seven years older than me. And I think because of that, my parents, they were just very tired by the time I came along. I was definitely a mistake. My mom says that the best mistake she ever made. but they kind of let me do my thing because they just didn't have the energy and I think because of that I didn't feel the need to rebel and so I was a pretty good kid that makes so much sense because I feel like if you have wilder older siblings like my older siblings were not wild yeah so I was like the one truly wreaking havoc in my house where my mom was like okay Alex like we can do this what was the worst type of thing you would do oh my god like i literally ordered like a fucking at that time there was an amazon so i ordered like this like retractable ladder off of ebay and i tried to figure how to put bolts into the bottom of my room and then i would flip it over my window so i could climb out to go see my boyfriend who had a dui at the time and when he picked me up he was had like literally the backwards hat the earrings and he was like driving so fucking slow to his house and i was like wait why are you driving so slow my parents are gonna be home so we have to get home he's like oh no like i have a dui so Like I can't like I'm driving on like I don't have a license right now.

21:40And I literally was like so hot. Like Alex, wake up, honey. This is not hot. This is problematic. But at the time, I just was like a little rebellious with boys. Sure. But you were like sitting in your room writing poetry. Exactly. You weren't getting in trouble. No, this is OK. Yeah. You said that you got cast in 21 Jump Street because of the sketches that you were doing on Funny or Die. First of all, can you explain to people that may not know what that is? What is Funny or Die? Oh, my God. Wow. I know. I'm sorry. You're like, okay, Alex, remind me one more time. No, no, no. Okay, Funny or Die was basically a comedy sketch website run by Will Ferrell, Judd Apatow, and Adam McKay, who were and are some of the best comedy people ever.

22:26Anyway, I started making videos for them with one of my closest friends who I grew up with. and basically it was kind of my film school. We were writing these videos. We were acting them, directing them, editing them. And, you know, we were making some weird stuff. This was like where we figured like, let's push the boundaries. Let's try things. And worst case scenario, no one sees them. But best case scenario, if a video hit on Funny or Die at the time, that website was so big that like more people could see it than if you did an independent film. And so the stuff that we were doing, Oh my God.

23:04What? Kind of bringing it back to 21 Jump Street. So with 21 Jump Street, that audition process was very arduous. I went in like six or seven times for that movie. And towards the end of that process, I put out a video on Funny or Die where me and my good buddy, Chris Mintz-Plos, we made a video called You're So Hot, where we basically told each other in vivid detail how much we wanted to fuck each other. and uh after i landed the role in 21 jump street the directors told me they were like part of the reason we gave this to you is because we saw that video and we recognize that this guy understands comedy oh my god but believe it or not that's not the weirdest video we put up um i put up a video called go fuck yourself where it's it's me and a girlfriend at the beginning um we're breaking up And as she's leaving, she says, why don't you go fuck yourself?

23:55And so then it cuts to me in a bar and I end up meeting another version of myself. And you can kind of see where this is going. But we it cuts to us on the beach. We're having this like very cute beach day together. It's two versions of me. We're flying a kite. We're pushing each other on the swings. And then it hard cuts to me fucking myself so hard where the top version of me is like flexing. and I remember sending the first cut to Funny or Die and let's say the video is like you know two and a half minutes I think like 45 seconds of that was me fucking myself and they were like okay this is pretty good but um you know maybe make this sexy in like three seconds you don't love this this is incredible to be fair three seconds was like probably still too gratuitous you're like I thought it was like cinematic history Meanwhile, they're like, can you cut it to a third?

24:53That is. Okay. Well, that really paints the picture. But while you were saying that, I couldn't help but think also like, where did you grow up? I grew up in Palo Alto in Northern California. Okay. So obviously you had family that was in the industry, like your brother was getting into it. And you say you're a shy kid. Yeah. How did you know you even wanted to get into this industry? You know, when I was 14, I worked at a mom and pop video store. and it was actually legal for me to be working there at that age and so they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted and it was the year 1999 which is now regarded as one of the best movie years ever and it's like all these seminal films like The Matrix, Blair Witch Project, American Beauty, American Pie, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, like all these amazing films that have kind of like formed me ever since and so that was that That was like the perfect time to be working there and just got me into movies in general.

25:49And I was like, I just want to be a part of this any way I can. And so when I came out to I'm going on a tangent now, sorry, but I came out to L.A. originally to go to school. I was going to USC. And when I came down here, my brother's manager, he kind of forced me into this acting class, but I had never performed in any way. And again, I was very shy. And I remember being in this class and I was I hated it at first because I was just like every time I was on stage, I was so nervous. But in the back of my head, I was like, this is a path into this business and I want to stick it out. And over time, I really do think that helped bring me out of my shell a little bit.

26:29And it's kind of led to this like amazing thing now where, of course, I've like grown to really love acting. But now I'm lucky enough where I get to do some stuff behind the camera, too, where I get to kind of go back and forth and do a little bit of everything that I've always wanted to do. Wow. That's really cool, though, to hear, like, knowing your childhood and being like you were like more introverted. You're writing. You're not as, you know, social. And then I do feel like I've talked to enough actors that were like a lot of us are we're like considered like maybe like the weirder kids or we were shyer.

27:01And then this kind of like brought a side out of you. um okay we're gonna do a little hard pivot here okay i'll talk about surprise parties okay you've done some research i need you to talk about the time that your wife tried to throw you a surprise party you need to tell us a story let me drink some water to get into this take a drink because i think the daddy king needs to hear this because i think this also does kind of paint more of the picture of you yes yes okay so so allison and i had been together just for a few months and my birthday was coming up and i will preface this by saying everything she did was coming from such a sweet place she was really trying to do something kind for me but we just didn't know each other that well yet and so in her mind she was like i'm gonna throw my surprise party i'm gonna invite all these people it's gonna be incredible not knowing that like my perfect birthday is going out to the middle of nowhere just being with her i don't want anyone to talk to me don't look at me just want to be in nature just by ourselves so um basically what happens is i i come home one day and i open the door and it's a bunch of people not only is this a surprise party but it's like a um i think it was a back to the future themed party so they everyone was dressed up and they had a little marty mcfly outfit for me and i'm looking around and some Some people are my friends, but some people I haven't talked to in many, many years.

28:32And there was a reason for that. And so I decide to cope with this. I need to take or I need to consume a weed cookie. And I ended up having the first panic attack of my life. And just to kind of like just to kind of like give you the picture of how many people were there and how random this was. um uh my mom so my mom was there um she she flew out for it but like she went to the 101 cafe the next morning and the waiter at the 101 cafe comes up to her and he's like hey I'm so sorry this is so weird but are you Betsy Franco and she's like yeah he's like oh sorry sorry I just I almost went to your son's surprise party last night no no random guy at the 101 cafe was almost there I'm remembering someone was dressed up as cocaine uh it was it was a whole thing and so we we still talked today we we survived the surprise party we can survive anything but every birthday since has been us in the middle of nature okay hold on yes how the fuck did she come up with the list of people she was inviting what ended up happening was she went to two of my friends that she had met who i adore these people but i would not assign them to make the guest list for my surprise party so they started adding people those people started adding people you know my manager's assistant's best friend's sister was there it just it got weird picturing you thinking like i'm gonna take this edible because this is gonna put me right where i need to be and then what are you like in the bathroom or in your bedroom uh eventually eventually i was downstairs and i was like everyone needs to leave and of course the guy dressed as cocaine would not leave no no that's so real you're like bro get the fuck out of my house that is wow okay so now she's never done it again and now you guys just chill go to nature yeah what is it about being the center of attention that makes you uncomfortable it's funny saying this on this podcast right now but I don't love talking about myself and I think part of that is um as as much as I think I um have gotten over my shyness to a certain extent I think my um just my natural being is I still am an introvert.

30:46And also like, I know everything about me and I'm bored of me and I'm a very curious person. And I tend to ask a lot of questions. If you talk to anyone who knows me, like some people call me 20 questions. And so I'm more like, I want to know more about other people than continuing to talk about myself. Okay. Well, that's a great quality to have. At least you're not like a narcissist and self-centered. I hope so. This is good. This is great information, Dave. See, this is, this is it all, it feels like it's all lining up. Yeah, yeah. There's a couple outliers, but like. It's very cohesive. Yeah.

31:15And the cats are the main grounding point. I agree with that, actually. Okay, so you end up dropping out of college. Yeah. And you go to do a horror movie. Uh-huh. That never made it to theaters. Let me tell you about this. Yeah, tell me everything. Okay, so I got a month away from graduating. Okay. And I got this, my first lead role in a project. And I was telling my teachers, like, please let me finish from online. somehow let me do this from afar it's only a month left and they were like no you have to be here so i was like all right i'm this is what i want to do i'm gonna go do this movie so i drop out uh i go to winnipeg canada winnipeg um yeah uh yeah my husband's made movies there okay yeah yep so we were there in the dead of winter staying on what they considered the windiest corner in all of canada very brutal conditions um it was this very physically demanding shoot so i got very hurt on this one as well.

32:09I dislocated my shoulder. I lost my voice a couple of times from screaming so much bruises all over my body, but I was having the time of my life. I'm like, I'm doing the work. I'm really doing this thing I want to do. So there was two weeks to go in the movie. And I remember I had the day off and the main girl, she, she knocks on my door and I'm like, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be on set. And she's like, shit's going down. So we find out that they hadn't been paying the crew for weeks. We find out they have no money left. That'll do it. Yeah. So we all go home. We're waiting for the call for them to be like, we spent millions of dollars.

32:40Let's come back and finish these final two weeks. We never go back. So I was devastated. I dropped out of school for this. I dislocated my shoulder for this. This was my first lead role. In hindsight, probably best that it fell apart. So this was a it was a B horror movie called Bad Meat. And the tagline was, it's the meat. It's bad. uh stop stop so what i found out recently uh this is many years ago but i found out recently is they actually brought in an entirely new cast to fill in the scenes that we didn't shoot and they put together this like weird you know jigsaw puzzle of a movie and just last week me and my friends watched it for the first time and the worst part about it i mean it's terrible but the worst part is that i was the lead of this movie we didn't finish the movie we didn't give them enough footage and somehow they still cut out half of my scenes that's how bad i was in bad me dave my friends are watching this movie almost embarrassed being like dude you're not even in this now i need to go and watch it now the whole daddy gang please don't please watch together before you watch fucking watch all of a sudden it becomes the number one trending movie wait dave i know that is such a fucking ego hit too you're like all right let's tune in you're like where am i you're like wait i did all this shit in fucking winnipeg for this i know i know and did they ever like send you guys an email about it or no you know i can't even tell you how i found out but it took about 15 years for me to find out that is beyond humbling that is it's nice to have those moments yeah yeah you're like all right brought me back down to earth okay let's talk about neighbors you shot with Seth Rogen I have to know have you smoked weed with Seth oh god I must have but like no epic smoking session comes to mind that said I might have been too scared because like i did smoke a lot of weed in college but since then it just hits me too hard and i feel like i'm i would have been maybe a little too scared to smoke with seth knowing how strong his stuff probably is uh that's how i felt when i interviewed with khalifa okay dave i was like okay i can't be a fucking bitch like i gotta did you smoke with him during the interview how'd it go well so i i think he thought it was fine and i think i was fine but i'm a control freak yeah and so i had never like really really smoked in an interview before except i did with chelsea handler but like chelsea was mainly taking it and i was just like i took a baby hit okay yeah but whiz i was like trying to impress him like i was like okay dave i not kidding you after like one big hit because I was trying he was smoking and then I was trying to match his energy we were making eye contact I'm like yeah oh yeah I looked down in my cards and then I forgot like did I speak what was I saying what was I doing I couldn't remember if I was like engaging with him I look back thank god it was funny I was gonna say do you do you re-watch some episodes sometimes I edit my episodes oh there we go oh that's right bitch and so then I was like editing a little tighter like sometimes my pauses were like whiz and then I was like let's cut that gap where I I just stared at him blankly for 10 fucking seconds.

36:07Did it create this kind of different energy than most of your episodes, though? Yes. Yeah, that's fun. Then we started talking about the randomest shit. Like I was asking about camping. Like we were on a different trajectory. I like that. It was fun. Give a little different flavor. But I was going to say, I want to know who your dream blunt rotation would be, even though like I'm assuming you don't smoke much because I feel the same way. If I was in a room with Seth Rogen, I would be fucking terrified that I was going to be a little pussy ass bitch and I couldn't keep up sure so talk to me if you had to feel well I mean good the you know the guys on on Mount Rushmore are our Seth Snoop yep who to I've also worked with Snoop just a quick side story about that uh we did this movie with Jamie Foxx called Day Shift and we went on this like crazy press tour as you can imagine very fun but I ended up getting COVID and I missed the LA premiere.

37:00And so I was in bed. I was like really bummed that I couldn't be there. And I get this FaceTime call from a number I don't know. And I'm feeling like shit. And I was like, I don't want to talk to anyone, but definitely not someone I don't know. So I ignore it. I immediately get a text from a number, that same number saying it's Snoop, pick up. I was like, Jesus Christ, I'm about to fucking FaceTime with Snoop when I'm feeling like dog shit. So I do. And he was just the sweetest. He's like, hey man, you know, I heard you're not feeling well. We got you. You're, you know, you're here in spirit. And all of a sudden I just realized I'm like, oh, Snoop is the cure for COVID.

37:36I feel immediately better. Let's go. You're like, Snoop, I'm on my way to the premiere. Oh my God. That's so funny though. You have to like turn it on immediately. But then you're like, I actually feel completely fine now that I'm talking. Then you hang up and then you're like, okay, I feel like. What a sweetheart. Okay. So who would you want to smoke with? I'll tell you mine. Tell me. To like warm us up. Please, please. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. because I was thinking about that Seth Rogen thing. And I was like, obviously, like anyone's dream is to smoke with Seth. But I was like, I, my personality when I smoke is like, I want to be alone.

38:06I agree with that. And I don't even want to smoke. I want to take a little edible. Yep, me too. And then I want to lay in bed next to my husband and I want to watch a show. And then I want to fade off into the distance. We're on the same page. So I need to feel really comfortable. Yes, yes. And I want to feel cozy and I want to feel like I don't really have to do much. So here's my dream blunt rotation. Number one, Jane Goodall. oh wow okay oh yeah yeah yeah we're starting strong cozy comfortable she's gonna just her general demeanor and that like calm energy she's gonna keep us right where we need to be okay no one's having a panic that makes a lot of sense right actually she's gonna be there through thick and thin yes if we're having a panic attack she'll be the one to be like darling you're gonna be fine look how she is with the apes how do you think she's gonna be with you then we need someone that is gonna be calming wise insightful that's gonna like kind of start a conversation because we're not all in bed together we're sitting around david letterman oh interesting i've been thinking about this too a lot lately yeah yeah why i don't know um i feel like he would be chill as fuck but he would really bring the wisdom that we all are just i could be lockjaw just quiet and listen to him i hear what you're saying spew wisdom is he known to be a smoker i have no idea continue number three ah you've thought about this who is generating the vibes though okay he can't be so serious and so downer who's bringing the music rihanna okay that little round table right there i picture them in my living room david sitting in the like the club chair jane and rihanna are on the couch i'm on the other couch feet up fuzzy socks on candles lit vibes let me ask this though okay they're all coming in with very different energies absolutely which energy one has to kind of overtake the other i think david's leading the conversation okay i like that i like that because i'm just picturing i'm mute yeah yeah yeah not there jane's bringing the calmness rihanna's bringing the vibes david's just kind of like ushering us through this he's just like he's doing most of the talking we're just sitting back we're just taking in the stories yes he's kind of like our shaman like he's leading us down wherever he wants us to go this all makes a lot of sense he's talking about life yeah he's talking about life yeah yeah okay hit me talk to me through just names that come about god um i feel like the the real answer and the shortest version of this answer because i think i'll just stumble for a while if i don't just cut this short okay uh and the cheesiest answer is allison is awesome to smoke with and the reason is um she it doesn't affect her like you wouldn't know if you're around her and she was stoned you wouldn't know but what it does to her she never loves me more than when she's stoned it's it's and like we have you know we're very um you know cohesive and it's just it generally works overall but when she's stoned whatever i do is the sweetest thing whatever i say is the funniest thing but it's all it's in a subtle way it's subtle but like it's awesome being around her that is you're right That is an incredible answer.

41:10Okay, good. Like, she's just looking at you like, babe, you are. And you're like, I did nothing. To the point where I'm like, you need to relax. That was not funny what I just said, but I appreciate you. That's amazing. Like, post-fight, you're like, should we smoke a little weed? He's like, Dave, shut the fuck up. Okay, that's a great answer. Okay, Zac Efron said he ended up breaking his hand filming a scene with you where he grabs your penis. That's true. Can you please explain how this resulted in injury, Dave? It's a really good question. I'm trying to remember. It definitely wasn't because my penis was hard.

41:47But it's good to clarify. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm trying to remember if I was wearing a cup and he came in just really strong. I think it was a dislocated thumb, to be fair. But it happened. There's a scene where I think we're both grabbing each other's crotches at the same time. And I just think he came in with enough force from the wrong angle. And it's a nice little anecdote now. It's a beautiful anecdote. I agree. I think most people would be like, oh, wow, like Dave's just randomly hard on set. Sure. I think this was a good moment to clarify. Yes, yes. Because the character actually, now that I think about it, not to walk through the whole synopsis of Neighbors in this interview, but he grabs my crotch and we're both holding on like who's going to let go first.