Will Forte: One Cool Kid Away

21:30We're just going to shelve it. We're going to take a, you know, for the tax write-off. But the movie had been completed. and was testing very well. So it made no sense to any of us. And it was so frustrating. We had even gotten to see it.

21:50Rob Lowe:Wait, you had seen it or you hadn't seen it? Yeah, so the timeline was, I was called by one of the producers, and they said, we're so excited to finally show you the movie. Come in next Tuesday, and the whole cast is going to come and watch it. And then the very next day, I got a call from my agent manager saying, okay, are you sitting down? This movie's not seeing the light of day. And we were shell-shocked. So they still said, you can come in and see the movie the next Tuesday. So what had turned into this joyous celebration was now more of, I think they called it a funeral screening. Yeah. And in that six days, I was thinking, okay, well, the movie can't be that good like maybe they were just excited about it it's gotta it's gotta kind of suck i guess what why would border brothers do that so i show up the next tuesday get to see this movie and i was blown away and it was the set it was so frustrating because you're like how how are you not releasing this movie it was i mean i've done so many dirty little movies in my life, MacGruber and all this.

23:04I just started having kids. So I was like, oh, finally something that my parents can tell their friends about, that my kids, I won't feel guilty about having them watch. And it was just never going to see the light of day. So for years, it just seemed like it had gone away. And then somehow out of nowhere, about a year ago, this place, Catch-Up Entertainment came in and Warner Brothers sold it to them. So thank you, Warner Brothers, for letting go of it. Because I just thought it would never see the light of day. Because if it came out and did very well, maybe people would question Warner Brothers' decision.

23:49So I just thought, oh, it's not going to happen. So it is so exciting. And we just started releasing the trailers. and it's coming out in like three or four months. But this just, it is the most exciting thing. I thought this movie would never see the light of day and now it's going to come out and I'm so proud of it and excited for people to see it.

24:11Rob Lowe:I was bummed. I was bummed when I was looking for, I knew of it and was obviously it was a big news and all over the entertainment media when that happened. And I was like, this is the greatest. It's such an obvious, a layup. What a great, what was it like? How was Wile E. Coyote to work with? He was fantastic. He was good? He's a man of few, a coyote of few words. A coyote of few words. Well, it was a lot of like acting with a tennis ball. There's the tennis ball where his, sorry, but there's this amazing guy. Wait, wait, wait, okay, wait. There's a tennis ball where his ears are or where his eyes are?

24:49So it's just like one tennis ball. What they would do, the director, Dave Green, had this great idea. There's this master puppeteer, Dave Barkley, this British gentleman who's done so much puppeteer work. He did that big Venus flytrap. He was one of the people on that in Little Shop of Horrors and a bunch of Fraggle Rock type stuff. And I may have even been one of the Yoda people. I forget. He's just got this extensive list of amazing puppetry credits. And so he would come in with an actual Wiley puppet and we would work through the scene in rehearsals and then do the first couple takes with the actual Wiley puppet.

25:39Oh, wow. Then they would take him out and it would be replaced by a tennis ball where the eyes were so I would know where to be looking and they'd simulate the movement. So it was... Wiley doesn't talk anyway. He just holds up cards. So, didn't throw me that much.

25:57Rob Lowe:How was he as a client in a deposition? That would be a long deposition. He's squirrely. Mr. Coyote, did you really think that this bird seed would be explosive? No. Holds up a sign. Is that what it is? He is, you know, that's the journey of the movie. It's like we have to learn to trust each other. and he's a little squirrely at first, but then we kind of come together. I don't want to give away too much of the movie. So good. But it is interesting because the whole movie mirrors what happened to it in reality. It's all about the injustices of the Acme Corporation. And so a lot of that stuff bore out in real life with what went on with Warner Brothers.

26:54And I got to say, I don't know the business side of stuff, so I have no idea. It was upsetting to me. I feel like I have the right to be mad about it and mad at them. But at the same time, who knows how, maybe this is how it was supposed to happen. And certainly, there is now an interesting story behind it, and it might even get more eyes on the movie because of the situation that happened with Warner Brothers. So, you know, maybe I should be thanking Warner Brothers. Certainly, I have to thank them for ultimately releasing the movie to catch up. Yeah.

27:41Rob Lowe:That's a miracle because you're right. If this movie comes out and crushes, without a doubt, people are going to go, what were they thinking? Of course they are. That's why it's so rare when you have a script and people end up not making it. It's so rare that anybody lets you take it anywhere else because they don't want it to be a hit. Like, there's the famous story that I don't remember the details of is, you know, whatever. Somebody thought the script of Star Wars was ridiculous and was like, who will ever make this? But they let Fox, I think, make it and it became Star Wars and they're embarrassed forever.

28:14Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, there are probably millions of stories like that. But it's, wow. It's just fascinating. It is, God, I could talk about this for so long.

28:29Rob Lowe:Is Wiley the only cartoon in the movie? No, there are a ton. Bugs is in it. Daffy, Porky Pig. Wiley is for sure the most prominent of the characters. But it is such a delightful mix of animation and live action. And this guy, Dave Green, the director, and the DP, Brandon Trost, who I've gotten to work with. He did MacGruber back in the day, and I've worked with him a bunch of times. They worked it out in such an incredible way. There were so many complicated things where like a piano, an animated piano falls on a real car. And so they have to figure out how to make this car implode without, because they don't actually throw a live piano and then substitute an animation piano in there.

29:28They just had to figure out how to capture this car collapsing. And then they animate it. It's just every day was filled with stuff where you just knew that it took months and months and, well, years to plan this whole thing. So that's what made it even more upsetting was I knew how much time Dave specifically had put into it. So I'm so happy for him that it's coming out. And it really is like the whole story is about this underdog, Wiley, against this big corporation. And that kind of is what the movie is. You know, it's this little underdog movie that I'm hoping can somehow succeed. And show these big corporations what they're missing.

30:15Rob Lowe:Don't fuck with the Wileys of the world. Oh, yeah. Don't do it. Just don't do it. Yeah, it's a good rule of thumb. Good rule of thumb. So you're working on Huntington's Disease Awareness Month. You're raising awareness. My brother-in-law, Douglas, and my father-in-law both have Huntington's disease. So when I met my wife, her father was still alive. He was kind of toward the end of his journey with Huntington's disease. and then he passed a couple years later. Then we found out that her brother had it. So I got a real crash course in Huntington's disease. It's this awful disease. I don't know.

31:05Do you know anything about Huntington's? No, I know of it,

31:08Rob Lowe:but I literally have no concept of what that entails. So the way that it was described to me, which really registered, is it's like having Alzheimer's, ALS, and Parkinson's disease at the same time. Oh, no. You know, so there are all these, everyone knows about those three diseases. Yeah, Huntington's, which is so many people, I think it's like 41 ,000 people have it. But people don't know about it. So we're just trying to, I'm working with Teva to try to get the word out through Honestly HD. And if you want to find out more, honestlyhd.com. But it's, you know, it's just this horrible disease.

31:58I had to see my father-in-law succumb to it. And then my brother-in-law is battling it right now. And it's, you know. Is it, so it's genetic, is it passed down genetically?

32:10Rob Lowe:It's a hereditary brain disease. If your parent has it, you have a 50-50 chance of having it. And it's like, I think the main, 90 % of people who have Huntington's develop this thing called Korea, which are these involuntary, sudden movements that, it's tough. My brother-in-law, he goes around now. We were flying to New York a couple weeks ago, and he was on the plane. And, you know, people were, he just makes these movements. And people don't know what's going on because you can't just go around telling everybody, oh, he's got Huntington's disease. He's got Huntington's disease. So people were like, they're talking to the flight attendant.

33:02You know, what's going on with this guy? And I think people thought he was drinking. or, you know, and it's, it's, he, it's, it's tough. It's tough because he's having to, he feels like he's under this microscope and people are watching him all the time, but there's nothing he can do. It just happens and, and slowly it will get worse and worse. And, and it just robs you of your, your motor skills and your cognitive and, and, and it affects you emotionally too. So we're trying to do whatever we can to get the word out so we can just increase awareness. Yeah.

33:45Rob Lowe:And so what is the current state of – what would be the current treatment for people with it? It's on meds or they don't really have a treatment? Sounds like they don't really have one. There are – there's not much. I know there was some miracle thing that just happened a while ago, but I don't know what, that gives a lot of people hope. But right now, there's not much you can do. I think there are various things you can do to treat the symptoms.

34:26But it's tough. There's not, you know, it's, he's, he's, sadly, you know, the, you know, the best thing that we can do is just, just try to let, you know, try to be as present as possible with him and as communicative as possible. because you don't know what to say. It's like, oh, he has this thing that is slowly robbing him of his life. And you just don't know what to say. Sometimes you don't say anything because you don't want to say the wrong thing. But then you realize he loves to talk about it because it helps him kind of... Just communicating about it helps him feel... supported and cared about.

35:20And I think that that's a big thing about what we're trying to do is not just like spread awareness, but also create a community around, you know, just spread a supportive community because that's so valuable to everyone affected by it, not just the people who have it, but to the people who are the caregivers, because it really is, it's, you know, To make them feel as supportive as possible, that's one of the main things that can help at this point.

35:52Rob Lowe:And also, the more awareness that gets out there, the more funding you can get, the more research, then the more information. I have a good friend who has Parkinson's and was just with him at dinner two nights ago. And they now suspect that it's like Huntington's. There's a genetic component. The way he put it was your genes load the gun, but then some sort of exposure to something fires the bullet. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, and he was saying he worked, this is really weird, he worked on some production in a particular soundstage in Vancouver for a number of, for quite a while. And 13 people who worked on that production, like in the teens, I don't want to overstate it, came down with Parkinson's.

36:56Rob Lowe:Oh, wow. Wow. And then he was saying that, do you remember, were you smoking pot in the era where people knew about Paraquat? You've heard the phrase Paraquat before? There was a famous DJ. Wait, wait. There was a DJ in LA called Paraquat Kelly on KMET. And that's where I heard Paraquat. But it has something to do with, I think they either sprayed it on pot as a herbicide or they sprayed it on pot to make it last long. But it had to do with pot and it was a chemical. And they now think that paraquat exposure has a component. So there's a lot of – it's super interesting. Well, I don't know anything about that as far as Huntington's.

37:44I think it really is just a – I don't know about the trigger thing with Huntington's. I believe if you have the gene, it is going to come out. It's just a matter of when. And I think for most people, it kind of gets in there when you're somewhere between 30 and 50. And there are certainly juvenile cases that come earlier. And it's just a horrible disease. So thank you for letting me talk about it.

38:17Rob Lowe:No, I'm always happy to do sort of awareness around stuff like that. I do a lot of work in the cancer field, so I know what it's like to be out there banging the drum, trying to get people's attention. Super important.

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40:46Rob Lowe:Let's go back to something funnier. And that would be, I want to hear more about SNL. I have a lot of folks on the show over the years. And you talked about it briefly, the Lorne documentary. I just saw him. I literally just saw him last week at the Polo Lounge. He loves the Polo Lounge, yeah. And I said, Lauren, I'm with my friend. And I said, we're going to eat at the Polo Lounge and then I'm going to take you on the Lauren Michaels walk. Because, you know, Lauren has the famous walk. Oh, yeah. I've done the walk. And I said, you know when you go on a movie studio in the old days, Warner Brothers, I think, is the one where the guard gate would be like, I'm Will Forte.

41:41Rob Lowe:I'm going to building 211C. And they're like, yeah, follow the blue line. And the blue line goes to the, and there's like a line you follow. It's on the ground that takes you to different buildings. There should be a line in through Beverly Hills. That's the Lorne walk. I kind of, I think I call it the Three Amigos walk because he, I know he's been doing it for a long time, but I know that he had a lot, there was a lot of Three Amigos thinking, taking a break from writing and going and just kind of hashing it out in his brain as he was walking. But it was, oh man. Three amigos watched. I forget that he wrote that movie.

42:24I just know him as my boss at SNL, first and foremost. But really over the years, he's kind of switched over into another father figure. As I've had kids, he's been so sweet. He always wants to see pictures of the kids. That's rare. But he's, and I can tell he means it. He really, he's a great dad. Yeah, but he is, that time at the show was, I have to, I mean, I would be doing none of this if it wasn't for Lauren letting me go to SNL. And every opportunity I've had since then, it comes directly from him taking a chance on me.

43:19Rob Lowe:Do you remember any particular pithy... I wanted to do a coffee table book of Lauren-isms. And when I was on Parks and Rec, Amy and I, very seriously, Polar, thought about doing an anonymous, it was then Twitter, an anonymous Twitter account as Lorne. And doing just observations that, and then people would have to figure out whether it was fake or real or what he said. Because the reason I bring it up is he gave me great advice when I was naming my second son. and because he loves, you're right, he loves family. And I was like, you know, I'm having another boy. Boys' names are hard for me because, you know, they have a lot of baggage.

44:13Rob Lowe:That name reminds me of the bully in seventh grade and that name reminds me of a dick that I didn't like or whatever. And this name sounds like a wimp to me and there's all that stuff. And I'm going on and on and he goes, right. I think the king's names work best. And, you know, he has Edward, Henry. Oh, wow. I didn't even, that did not register until right now. King's names. Yeah. King's names. I mean, that's good. That is good advice. And I know those pitfalls. It is really tough because there are so many names that I steer away from. but my friends don't know the people who were assholes in high school i know so every once in a while they'll they'll name their kid one of these names that is a forbidden name to me and then if that if that name is if that kid is cool it just erases that name and it becomes now a cool It's like every name, I think, is a cool kid away from being a great name.

45:26You know, any name.

45:27Rob Lowe:I mean, there are a couple. By the way, that's Aloranism. Every kid is, what did you, how did you say it? That was so pithy and great. Every name is just one cool kid away from being a good name. It just needs to be the most recent kid. And then by the same measure, every name can be ruined again by some asshole. And then there are names that are in the dustbin of history that you can't, that are forbidden. You can't, nobody's naming their kid Adolf. I, yeah. That wouldn't, that wasn't in our, in our group of names. And I don't think that's one cool kid name away from being anything. I don't think so.

46:09Rob Lowe:I think that's over. That one's, that one's, yes. Right? Gone. Seal it up in a, you know, yeah, just send it to hell. Did you ever think about the new iteration? Because like we all see like celebrities will name their kids crazy names. As do regular people. It's not just celebrities. Celebrities are just the ones you hear about. Yeah. And you go, really? And then, of course, it's that thing of, of course, that's a great name. Once you know them, what other name could they be? They're that person. Yes. It never doesn't not work. Yeah. You become that thing. Yeah. It was, and I, like, so many people get so weird about names.

46:59They're like, oh, don't tell anybody the name that we're, and we didn't, my wife and I didn't really care. We had two girls, and the first one was Zoe, and we told everybody, yeah, we're going to name her Zoe. I mean, I think we started saying that, you know, with four months left. And then the second one, we tested it a little bit because we were thinking originally, it was another girl, and we somehow fell in love with Ralphie. And we were, Ralphie was almost, we just kept saying Ralphie, and we got some pushback from family. but we ended up naming her Cecilia because my mom's middle name is Cecilia but like it was interesting to go down that you know it was I think there were a lot of people who thought oh that's really cute but then there were a lot of you know a lot of people really they people just feel very comfortable shitting on on potential names yeah oh it's unbelievable isn't it it's like I just say like I love it that's what you're gonna name your kid

48:03Rob Lowe:I love it yeah, what do you, yes, but people definitely, definitely get, what was the thing, what was the straw that broke the camel's back for Ralphie? Well, just toward the end, I mean, even with Zoe, we were like, okay, Zoe's the front runner, let's see if we can beat it. And then at the very, we had, we had named our daughter Zoe Douglas Forte, because that's the name of my, my wife's father and brother. So a tribute. And then we thought, oh, we should get Cecilia into the second name somehow. So Cecilia was going to be the middle name. And then for some reason, when we were trying to think of names, seeing if we could beat it, the name Rose came up.

48:56And then we thought, oh, what if we move Cecilia to the front and then Rose was the middle name and it just kind of popped in our brains. And we're like, oh, we got to do this. Because we also had, I had Aunt Rose too. So it seemed like, I don't know, it just happened. And you're, aren't you a fourth? I'm a fourth. My name is, my official name, well, it's Lord Orville Willis Forte IV, although the Lord is somewhat unofficial. My sister, there's this charity thing, I think it's in Scotland, where if you are a landowner, you are a lord. And so it was like this little charity thing where you can buy the teeniest little speck of dirt in Scotland and you are officially a lord.

49:43So I do claim that title. I don't get upset if people don't use it, but yes, Lord Orville Willis Forte IV. Have you visited your speck of land in Scotland? I go and I tend to it. I make sure that I'm doing whatever I can to plant sustainable crops. Oh, good. Crop.

50:07Rob Lowe:It's more crop. And you do have any serfs or vassals working on your mini kingdom? No. That's all weird insurance stuff. There's legal stuff involved. So we're figuring that out. But no, no vassals yet. That, you know, the vassals, they're hassles. And assholes. Are you, let me ask you this. Are you, if you had to live somewhere else besides, you live in Santa Barbara, right? I do. Yes. Oh, heaven up there. I love it. That's the best. If you had to live somewhere else, what country would you move to if you had to? Oh, you know, I've thought about that.

50:58Rob Lowe:honestly, I think it would probably be us other than the South of France. Right. Yeah. It's this, here's, here's, here's my candidates. Yeah. It South of France and Australia. Where in Australia would you go? I mean, it could be, I love Sydney if you want the cities, but I could, I could live up on the Gold Coast and just be surfers, divers, paradise and be perfectly fine. The only I love Australia. The only thing is you really do. When they named it Down Under, they knew what they were doing because it's the weirdest thing is you feel I felt so at home there. It has everything I love. The people are great.

51:51Rob Lowe:it checks every single possible box for me other than, and this could be a good thing, you feel like you're on fucking Mars in terms of the world. You are way the fuck away from everything. That could be a good thing. I mean - Yes, that's what I'm saying. By the way, my two would be Ireland and Australia. I got to work there like two years ago. I'm going to Ireland in 48 hours. Oh, you are? Where are you going to go? Limerick. I'm going to Limerick and I'm going to learn some Limericks. I shoot the floor, my game show. Oh, wow. We shot in Dublin every season up until this season. And we've moved to Limerick.

52:44Rob Lowe:I'm not sure why, but I'm excited because it gives me a chance to see another part of Ireland. Yeah. You got to go out and do this. You're right over by the, kind of close to the Ring of Kerry. You got to go to Dingle. Have you been to Dingle? No. Oh, good. Is that the ruins? Is it the ruins? No, it's this peninsula. It's just delightful. It's right above, right above the Ring of Kerry. And then there's this thing called the Ring of Barra, which is right below that, which is no slouch in the ringing department. So yeah, oh man, I love it so much. I've done that whole wild Atlantic way. So it's between that and Australia for me too.

53:28Although I've only been to Sydney, but it just feels like home to me because I grew up, the harbor side feels like San Francisco to me. And then just like right over Bondi Beach feels like down here in LA or Carmel. It's kind of a mixture of LA and Carmel. So, oh, I might join you down there.

53:47Rob Lowe:Yeah. Hopefully, we do second, third homes there. We could do that. Let's do it. That's when on your points. Is this leading to us co-owning a home? I think it is. I think you and I are going to co-home. How old are the kids? I can be Grandpa Rob. Or they're five and three and a half. No way, dude. Dude, you were in the thick of it. I really am. Oh, my God. Those are great ages, though. Yeah. Yeah. I started late. But those are so good. But you still have your energy. Yeah. You're not one of those checked out dads. You know the types. Checked in. You're plugged in. I don't know if they agree with that yet.

54:37One day, they'll appreciate me. Right now, I'm just like the guy who gets their sick popsicles. Yeah. Give me a, there's this, we get those, what do they call it? Pedialyte popsicles. And now they've turned into a thing where it's not just for sick. It's just like, we just, they are constantly being opened up. What a great bit.

55:00Rob Lowe:What a great bit for a character, for a grown person to suck Pedialyte popsicles. I love them. They're great. You should check it out. And I'm not paid by the Pedialyte Corporation. This is just insaneness because I love them so much. I think I need to do an ad read for Pedialyte Popsicles on this show. Yes. Hey, if you're dehydrated and you like sugar, we've got you covered. Well, Mr. Forte, we need to figure out a way to work together again. I think we truly do. Yes. I want to it has not come to me the other name it was Rad and

55:52Rob Lowe:Moonbeam City and we had Kate Mara was on our show was on Moonbeam City with us that's a sick cast I was Rad Cunningham You were Dazzle Novak. You were Dazzle. That's right. And now it's all coming back to me. We were rivals. Yes. Yeah. I think so. Dazzle. You were too rad for me. Rad Cunningham and I was Dazzle Novak. Wait, it might even say it here. Let's see. Yeah, we were rivals. I remember now. I didn't like you. Yeah, I was your rival on the force. Fuck you. You don't mean that. Come on, Dazzle. Oh, Dazzle. Oh, Rad. I would love to work with you again. Let's do it. Let's figure out. You're the writer.

56:52Rob Lowe:I'll leave it up to you. We'll go buy a house in Australia and we'll brainstorm down there. And how about a reboot of Last Man on Earth, but it's Last Man Standing on Bondi Beach or Last Man. on Mars. I would love, it was such a wonderful group of people that I got to work with on that. I would love to be forced to spend more time with them. You were great, and I just remember you worked your ass off on that show. You were doing it all. You were literally the last man standing on Earth. You were the last man standing on the soundstage, last man standing in the writer's room, last man standing in the makeup trailer, last man standing at craft service.

57:35Rob Lowe:It was really all of it. Oh, yeah. I was at that craft service for sure. I kept putting on like 40 pounds over the each season. I just didn't have time to exercise and I was constantly tired. So I would just get all the donut energy that I could. Here's another Lorne, Lorneism. Rob, when you're on TV regularly, you will either be losing weight or gaining it. Who loses the weight? a man. No, no. Oh, what do you mean? Dude, how about, how about Will Arnett in that sitcom? He lost all the weight. It does happen. It's rare. It's more common than people put on the weight, but you will see it. One thing is true is no one stays the same.

58:20Rob Lowe:No one is either bigger or smaller. That is true. Yep. That's my, by the way, that's a really insight. You do bigger? Yeah. Yeah. I think I do smaller actually because I avoid the craft service. I don't know where it is. I don't want to know. I purposely never know where craft service is set up on any of my sets. Because if I know, I'm off the rails. Yeah. I won't be walking past this Pop-Tarts. Well, that's why when you go work, like when you go do the show in Limerick, the floor, it's so different craft services there. It's like they don't have coffee. It's just tea. And they have a couple old apples.

59:04I'm not trying to shit on Ireland. I love it there so much. I feel such a connection. But I will say they have some work to do in the craft service area.

59:16Rob Lowe:And then you go on shows where the best ever was Parks and Recreation. Maybe that was Amy Poehler or Mike Schur. But that craft service, you know why? because they had 70s discontinued candies. Ooh. Wait, what was like a, what is it? Like a whatchamacallit? You'd have like, oh, what was the one I love? The, oh, caramel. Toffee fame? Yeah, the caramel with the sugar daddies. Oh, okay. Right, like I'd have a sugar, I'd treat myself to a sugar daddy. Yeah, you're right. I don't see those anymore. No, you don't. No, it's all that stuff. Like Pez. Oh, yeah. You know, of course, Red Vines, but they still are around.

1:00:05Rob Lowe:Yeah. You know the whole thing about Red... Okay, hang on. It's Chris Pratt, the fucking guy.

1:00:16Rob Lowe:Pratt, where's your face? Oh, fuck, I'm driving. They won't let me do it. I can see your face, though, and you're handsome as hell, but I guess because I'm driving, you can't see mine. I can't see yours. What are you doing? Because I'm in my car. I disable that feature so people don't run people over, I guess. I'm talking to Will Forte on my podcast. And I can hear you, so don't say anything mean. Currently right now? Currently right now. You're now... That's so... What a coincidence. I'm not kidding you. Ten minutes ago, I just watched the Acme vs. Coyote trailer. Coyote vs. Acme trailer. See, we've just been talking about how amazing does that look?

1:00:58Rob Lowe:I mean, and you're, dude, you're Mr. I mean, you're the you're the king of that genre. So does it have your blessing? I'm telling you, oh my God, of course. Well, you know, Julie, my manager, Julie Darmody, who knows Will, and it was like the biggest travesty of all time that that movie got shelved. It was so stupid that that movie, which everyone's testing great, everyone freaking loves it, and then they shelved it. It was the dumbest thing in the world. I'm so grateful to see that it's going to see the light of day, and I think it's going to be a smash. It looks so funny. I'm down for literally anything Will Forte does from, you know, the last man on earth to, I mean, I literally, I showed Jack, uh, MacGruber on the plane to Tokyo the other day.

1:01:39I love Will Forte. He's the, he's maybe the funniest man in the world. And so, yes, it has all of my blessings. I'm so stoked for it.

1:01:49Rob Lowe:He's blushing. If only you could see him, only you could see him blush. Um, I, I, I'm going to, I'll, I will, I'm going to finish this podcast. Then I'm going to call you and we're going to talk golf. We're going to talk all good, all good stuff. I'm so excited for our little trip together. It's going to be so sick. Yeah. Thanks Chris. Yeah. I got like 4 million questions. So call me back to put me at ease. I'm going to go, I'm heading up to, to work out some things on the range right now. Just tell me real quick, the distance, what's the, give me two distances. Oh, I'm, I've been, I've been working on my one 45 shot.

1:02:22Rob Lowe:Cause that's the, the 12, I'm in corner is, is, is, uh, one 45. Five. Okay. So I've been all the five. All I give a shit about is that hole. All right. Close to the pin, baby. Hey, tell Will I'm so stoked to see the movie. And, uh, I think it's going to be huge and that I think he's fantastic. And I love him. All right. He's, he's sending love back. All right, brother. I'll call you. I'll call you in a few. Bye. Um, golf. He is such a nice guy. He's the nicest. I, I've He's the best What an experience I mean that that you know Parks and Rec what a what a wonderful collection of people everyone was so nice I got to do one of the episodes just one episode but it was so nice to have that energy that week Everybody on the show everybody Yeah We all love each other You guys still keep in touch You guys do any reunion dinners Oh yeah We have we're still on our text thread that we've had for a decade now.

1:03:30Rob Lowe:Oh, that's awesome. It was, the only problem with Parks and Rec was that you never felt like you were working. Like I was like, I gotta get a job. I gotta go back to work. And they're like, wait, no, you're on a television show. But it never, because it never felt like work. Yeah. It just felt like being with people you loved, being easy, being fun. All we did was laugh. All we did was laugh. And to get to do that on a show that is of the highest quality too. I've had fun experiences on shows that just turned out to be dogs or shows that maybe not as fun experiences on shows that I was proud of.

1:04:09But to get to have both combined in one, oh, so lucky.

1:04:15Rob Lowe:I know, it's true. Some of them, I've also been on shows that were miserable, miserable experiences and the shows were fantastic. fantastic yeah and so when when the the good people line up with a with a good show it's it's it is the best but but we'll have clearly he will be in what we're gonna write together he's down he's in so okay is it three's company are we doing are we doing the male version of three's company together it sounds like we're doing i think we are in in a an apartment on Bondi Beach? Thrawley's company? Thrawley. I gotta work on my accent. I gotta work on my accent. No, you don't.

1:04:58Rob Lowe:No, you don't. No, no, no. My brother-in-law is Australian, so I feel like that is the one word. It feels like when he says no, it includes every vowel sound. It's insane. The word no is really and truly, that's how Like people go, I don't understand how people can confuse a British accent with an Australian accent or a South African accent. None of them are alike. I did have a problem. I now see the light. Now I get it. I can pull apart the Australian, New Zealand, South African. But there was a time when I didn't know. I did a Scottish I was supposed to do a Scottish accent I was supposed to do Irish and I did Scottish at SNL We can't have that I was just a dummy I didn't know I could have just done the teeniest bit of research This is before I had ever gone to Ireland so I just didn't know Nigh You did nigh Yeah Okay This has been amazing I'll see you on You know what Who said this to me once Talking to a fellow actor Who like we didn't really know each other But we liked each other And we really wish we could Had more time together But who knows if we ever crossed the paths The goodbye was See you on campus Oh That's nice Isn't that a good one?

1:06:38I like that Yeah

1:06:40Rob Lowe:So we're going to see each other on campus I bet I see you within the next two weeks I just feel like it's going to happen. Okay. Let's conjure it. Yeah. It's manifested. Well, have fun in Augusta. I almost said Augusta. I hit that too hard. Augusta. Yeah. Believe me, I'll be bragging about it. I already am bragging about it. I haven't even gone there yet. I'll be bragging about my score, hopefully. Well, I wish you - All right, I'll see you soon, my good man. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me on.

1:07:15Rob Lowe:All right, that's all we got for Literally with a surprise appearance with Chris Pratt. You never know who you're going to get. You never know who you're going to get. This is the only podcast out there where that kind of stuff goes on once every four years. And I'll see you next week right here on Literally. you've been listening to literally with rob low produced by me sean doherty with help from associate producer sean calvano research by jeff fox engineering and mixing by joanna samuel our executive producers are rob low for low profile and nick leow adam sax and jeff ross for team coco booking by katherine cook music by devin bryant special thanks to hidden city studios Thanks for listening.

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