"Rose Byrne"

0:28Hey guys, good to see you. Sweet looking. Smart. Less.

0:37Smart. Less. Hey, Sean. Do you have an understudy? I do. He's great. Max Roll. He's amazing. Now, have you given Max a chance to get up there and do his thing? Yeah. One time. Well, so one night, remember, I chain smoked, right? I chain smoked on stage. Right. and it made my vocal cords just massively inflamed and I couldn't barely talk. So I missed one show and he went on and he was fantastic. Oh, my God. So now I took out all this stuff from the cigarette. So now it's the vape pen that lights up when you suck in, but it's just air. So I took out all this stuff. But you're still sucking. I'm still sucking.

1:21I just wanted to get that audio clip. And guys, can you copy and paste that And then the file that I've got going of these guys saying stupid shit. Is that a sound meme? I'm really punchy today. I took a Valium last night just so I could sleep. And I was like... Are you still up? Did it not work? No, it worked. But I'm just like, hey, how's everybody doing today? So wait, you just have like a loose bottle of Valium hanging around? Well, I don't understand. Is there like Uber drugs that you just pop over? Do you not understand how prescriptions work? Yeah. No, I take one every few weeks. What's the prescription look like on that?

1:59What do you mean? It's a Valium. Yeah, but why do you have it? Because if I have trouble sleeping every several weeks, I take one every couple months just to get back in the sleep habit. That's a sleep aid, huh? For me it is. Do you know what a sleep aid is, JB? Yeah, it's called, what's it called? Gummy. Ganja? Ganja, gummies, Ambien, Xanax. I had not heard of the Valium. I thought Valiums were pain. Last time I talked to Jason after 7 p.m., he was like, Irie, man. That sounds Irie. Let's talk tomorrow. Greetings in the name of the Semperer. I'm like, buddy, can you play golf tomorrow or not?

2:40No, Jay, Valium is the same family of Xanax and all those. That's a real fun family, by the way. It's like the Manson. It's the only family that would accept me. Oh, we're saving a seat for you, Sean. Oh, Shani. Good luck, buddy. Hey, listen, I'm feeling really punchy today, too. It's so hot out here on the East Coast. It's unbelievably hot. Can you get it cooler before I get out there, Willie? I don't know, man. It's so hot. Is it thick? Very thick. And I was just riding my bike into town, and I was like halfway there, I was like, this is a bad idea. It's really hot today. but anyway I'm really excited though to be back here to be back inside to be talking to our guest I'm excited our guest I am such a I'm such a fan of our guest and I'm also a personal fan of our guest this is a funny person well she is, she's both she's very classy and she's very funny and I think that she started much more sort of serious just based on her credits and the movies she did and the shows she did, and then started to get into comedy, and it was just an absolute home run when it comes to comedy, but then can kind of flip back and still do the serious stuff, which is really, if it wasn't so admirable, it'd be annoying, you know what I mean?

4:00Double threat. All the while being like a really cool person. We've never really worked together, except for we did represent a country once together, and I'll explain that in a second. So she's Australian. She's Australian. She's the pride of Australia. We know her from so many shows. I love Rose Byrne. It is Rose Byrne. I love Rose Byrne. Got it. Hi, Rose. How's it going? Look at you. Is that a cute short haircut? Or we got it all up in the back? No, no, I'm just like a top knot. Well, look how good you look in a bob. Yeah. You look good in a bob. It does look like I've got a bob on, doesn't it?

4:37How's it going? Hi, how are you? I haven't seen you for so long. Rose Byrne, where are you right now? Hi, friend. I'm in Brooklyn. Oh. Brooklyn, New York. Yeah, Brooklyn, New York. I'm on the East Coast. Yeah, I just got back from Australia, the country we both represent. Sure, yeah. How'd that come about? Can we stop there for a second? Well, she allowed me to come along for the journey. She was really representing. Well, tell people what you're talking about. Rose, there's no shortage of really talented, handsome, funny men that are actually Australian. So how far down the list do you go before you hit American and then to get to Will Arnett on the American list?

5:16Uh-huh. So do we just go through? Well, being Canadian. Canadian. It's a spot that you both did, a commercial that you did for travel to Australia, right? It was a campaign for tourism in Australia. Thank you, Sean, just in case our audience was confused. Who gives a shit if they know what we're talking about when it comes to this? They don't need to know everything. How do we cast Will Arnett in that, Rose? Well. It was just my voice. Yeah, it was playing an American. The character is, you know, this foreign American who comes in. Oh, God. And it's just, he's a unicorn. Yeah. Yeah, truly? I am.

5:51And my character is too, yeah. So you play an animated American unicorn. What a commercial. That's true. Do you do an Australian accent, Will, at all? Yes. I mean, I don't really. I don't. I'm very good one. Nye. Nye. Can you do one? You probably can. Aluminium. Yes, he does a very good one. Do it. Just a little. Give us a little. Come on, you're in front of the green screen. There's a... Oh, that's a knife. You love doing the knife one. Oh, yeah, that's not a knife. This is a knife. Yeah, that whole thing. That's not bad. I mean, I get into... But then it becomes a whole thing about the dingo and it ate my baby and all this sort of stuff.

6:30And I don't want to get... I don't want to get off track here, you know. Because then... Wait, what movie was that from? Wasn't that Nicole Kidman? No. No, Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep. Meryl Streep said with a straight face. There's a really famous but very infamous case in Australia about a woman who was jailed for murdering her child, Lindy Chamberlain. And she tried to blame it on a dingo? Yeah. Yeah, well, and they didn't believe her and it became this sort of national kind of witch hunt for her and then she eventually was acquitted many years later. But it was a famous film with Meryl Streep.

7:02And that big line was in her big defense. And the big thing is, yeah, defense was a deal. A cry in the dark. Yeah, a cry in the dark. That's what it was called. It was sort of an Australian equivalent of where's the beef, I think. So it was not a comedy? It was not a comedy. She said that seriously. Oh, she found the laughs. Meryl found the laughs. But it was a very serious case, and we're not downplaying the seriousness of what happened. No, no, no. So again, spare us your letters. We don't want to hear it. We were just joking around. So Rose. So that's where Rose and I met, and I was just, I was absolutely immediately delighted to work with Rose.

7:39She's so professional, but forget the word. She's such a cool, you're such a cool, fun person. And so exactly what I hoped you would be, which is like super down to earth and cool, and I was like, and super talented. And you're like, wow, some people got it all. And then, you know, I work with these guys, and some people have none. so but the point is uh it was just such a delight to get to know you and i'm such a fan of everything you've done which is a lot and when i start to go through all your credits i'm like except for no i was gonna so what happens is when i was getting new that you were coming on today and going through all this stuff i'm like oh yeah roses in that oh yeah roses in that i mean you have made countless films yeah and television making the hay guys making the hay you gotta Gotta keep dancing.

8:29Gotta just crunch it up. So what was the first one? What was the big, what was the first professional gig that you can remember? The first job I got paid for, I did this movie called, pretty strange little movie called Dallas Doll. Not to be confused with Debbie Does Dallas. No. Or North Dallas 40. Yep. Dallas Doll. I'm seeing a pole. It's a gold pole. It's shiny. No? No, it was a cool little script and I play, Sandra Bernhard came out to do it to Australia in like the early 90s and I auditioned and got this part. But I had started acting classes like at a youth program here in Sydney when I was like eight years old and then a casting agent came to one of my classes and cast me in this movie.

9:23So you had this, and you ended up going to, you did this acting class. Did you end up going and studying acting as well? Like in like an academy? Well, I didn't get into NIDA, which is like the sort of, you know, most sort of well-known Australian, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, which has, you know, very famous alumni. But I didn't get in, guys. Didn't get in. Oh, there was. So I just. By the way, they're kicking themselves now. And by the way, if you know in Australia, they kick themselves the other way. Yeah, they kick the other way. Not a lot of people know that. Not a lot of people know that.

10:01They kick the other way. But you know, I've worked with Jason too. I've worked at two out of three of you guys, which is pretty cool. This is where I leave you. Yeah. Oh, this is where I leave you. That's so nice. How long ago was that now? That was the comedy about sitting Shiva. Yes. That's right. With Jane Fonda. The Sean Levy vehicle. Sean Levy, the great Sean Levy, Adam Driver, Corey Stoll, Tina Fey. Amazing cast, wasn't it? Yeah. That is an amazing cast. Yeah. We had a great, great time. So you guys, so to go back, so you go back, you get this movie with Sandra Bernhardt. She flies all the way to Australia.

10:36You do this movie. Then what happens? That movie comes out and you're like, I'm set. Dallas baby, what's it called? Literally just stared at the phone. Ready to roll. um then no like I finished high school and I started I started auditioning for other tv jobs and stuff in Australia and I got a few bits and pieces and then when I was 18 I got cast in this film called Two Hands opposite Heath Ledger directed by this wonderful writer director Gregor Jordan and that film was a really big hit in Australia and that was like you know a sort of turning point I suppose for me back home so that was in like 99 98 or something I was like pretty young.

11:18So I was Heath who was like teenagers. So you have this big hit in Australia and you're like, I'm out of here. I know. Then I did the classic thing of going to L.A. to just try to audition for years, like trying to get an agent. I remember I got my first agent and I was so excited. I was like, I'm all set. I've got this agent. She's really great. She's got a great client list and she signed me off the movie and went back to Australia. Never heard from her again. never heard name her right now name her right now where's the great Bobby Cannavale this morning Bobby he's well he's unpacking he's cause we just got back so he's like in the trenches with the kids unpacking but he says hello to all of you yes and Bobby Cannavale who was on Will and Grace forever playing Will's boyfriend yes and we played he played he played my superhero boss or super villain boss that's right in the thing with Melissa McCarthy where I had crab arms How did you guys meet?

12:17Bloody funny. We met through an actor called Tate Donovan. Yep, sure, of course. Who was on Damages, which is a TV show I did with Glenn Close. Yes, you did. For a long time. Yes. And Marty Short was on that. And Glenn Kessler. Yes, yeah. And Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zellman. Dan Zellman was one of the creators. Deborah Messing used to be married. Look at all these connections. Look at all the guys. We're just crunching it out. Look at this. Now, where are, is Bobby juggling that you have two young boys, right? Yes. Yeah. And he has a third boy, Jake, who is 28. Yes. Oh, my God. So he's got boys, boys, boys.

13:01Yeah. How do you guys do it? You guys both work so much. I mean, I'm sorry if you get this question a lot, but it is just, I don't know how people do it, where you got two young kids and both parents are working all the time out of town. It must be tough. But are they both now in kindergarten or first grade? Yeah, they're both like sort of in, but they've been, it's like I've had a job. It's harder, right? It's hard, yeah, because then they're in school. But it's a little bit case-by-case basis. I don't know about you guys with your families and children and stuff, but a little bit case-by-case, just do your best, like trying to trouble it.

13:34Right, sometimes in the summer they can come, but yeah. A little bit. And they've gone to schools in L.A., on and off, you know, so it's like a little bit of that. But it gets older, it gets harder, pardon me, as they get older, right, Will? It does get harder. It does get harder. And it's a lot more of a negotiation. And because what happens is they have friends. Jason knows this too. They have friends and they're like, you're like, hey, we're going to do this. And they're like, no, man, I want to be with my buddies. Right. And we don't care about your thing. Yeah, craft service is great, but.

14:02I know. That's such a door card, right? They love that. They talk about that. They just go, I want to go back to the table with the snacks and things. I'm going through a thing right now where my 14-year-old is on a trip and I haven't talked to him for three and a half days now because he's not allowed to use his phone. And I am suffering. Yeah, I bet. He's having a great time and I am going crazy. Wait, Will, you have no idea, you have no way to check in with him yet? Don't they have like a chaperone? When he got there, when he got there, he was able to check in and he FaceTimed, I FaceTimed him and it was great.

14:40And then he checked in again later. He was like, hey, we got to give up our phones now because the deal was on this trip that everybody gives up their phones and that these guys, these sort of counselor guys take them. And so we're like, yeah, this is really good. Meanwhile, my ex and I were like, this is great. This is great for him. And now three days in, she and I are texting each other. We're like, how do we? What about the chaperone? Can you text the chaperone? I mean, we can. We know that he's okay. We've gotten word and stuff. He's fine. And right before he gave up his phone later of the first day, I tried to FaceTime.

15:15I tried to cram another FaceTime in. Bless. And he was like, Dad, I can't pick up the phone. What are you doing? And I was like, sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Just making sure. Oh, Will. I know. I know. That's a little Archie. Aw. Guys, Will's sweet. I know he doesn't seem sweet, but this guy got a real soft, chewy center. You're all sweet. My Rose, what's going on this summer? do you have any time to take any family trips aside from Australia well this was a pretty big one it was like a month I was in the outback Will I thought of you were you in Uluru we went to Uluru which is this gorgeous I mean incredible very sacred spiritual site out in the middle of Australia it's wild if you ever get a chance to go any of you please do go So what's so funny is when Rose and I did this thing, we actually had this friend of hers who directed it, did all this, shot all this incredible footage all over Australia.

16:15And so, and then we kind of narrated our way as our characters went through with this great footage. So it feels like Rose and I have been on a tour of Australia together before. So that's why she's like, we were in... I know, I was like, remember when we went there? Remember when we went there? Do you, I have dumb, dumb questions. Do you miss it when you're not there? Like, do you still have family? Do you still go back a lot? Oh, I do, yeah. Have you ever been? I've never been. I want to go. I never dragged you out. Oh, Sean, you've never been to Australia? I've never been. It's a very long flight.

16:46Have you, Jason? I have a bunch of times. Yeah. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. I love it. I love Australia. I would love to go there. I will say, though, and this might be controversial. When you fly that long, you would love for it to be, you would like the distance you would like the difference of the locale to be equal to the distance of the flight. You know what I mean? In other words, it's very similar to the US in that people speak English and they look sort of Anglo and they're all kind of except they drive on the other side. It's a little bit like Canada. To me. Which is great. I love Canada. I can get there in an hour.

17:29I can go north into Vancouver. I feel you were underwhelmed. I'm getting a feeling you were underwhelmed. No, but I guess in fairness, I was in Melbourne and in Sydney a lot. But I haven't been to the Outback. I haven't been up in Brisbane. I haven't been to Surfer's Paradise. You were in the city, and that makes sense. Look, this is a problem that we have in the world in general, which is all the cities have become. So it's the same stores in every city, right? Like you can go to Paris or you can go to Tokyo or you can go to London or you can go to St. Louis, and there's a Fendi store. Yeah. You know what I mean?

18:00And Sean, good news, there's a theory there and a couple of shins. Oh, fantastic. I'm in. I don't mind the flight. There's a Vince. So wait, Rose. You can get into a Vince. Go ahead, Sean. I have never seen a Vince in Australia. I don't know. That's a stretch. We'll be right back. All right. Back to the show. um but rose like like when you go when you go there and come back what is the what is the culture shock when you first moved like what is the difference between i mean we'll still go in other vids what is the thing that you notice the most what are the differences you notice the most about australia and the u.s well australia is a little more laid back i think in general the people are probably a little bit more laid back and it's just a bigger it's a bigger this place is just you can't compete with the scale and the amount of people and things like Australia feels it's just a smaller population.

19:00It looks hotter. And it's hotter. It just looks hot. Yeah, it's hot. But only during our winter. It can be. But also like the people, like there's just in that same sort of way that the English have the same sort of thing. And I think Canadians have this a little bit as well, maybe a Commonwealth thing. there's just people have a better sense of of taking the piss out of each other and themselves they don't take themselves as seriously as americans do yeah yeah on the whole and i know that that's a very sweeping generalization so again hold back your fucking letters but i i think i think that there is that thing about you don't take yourself too seriously and that's fun there's a kind of it's very fun all the people i know in australia i guess a lot of them are sort of actors and comedians and etc but it there is that kind of fun vibe do you feel like they're more a united uh uh uh country than we are oh that's a good question oh look it's definitely why'd you get real with her dude because it's smaller and everything you're saying will i just thought like i was gonna i was gonna say though it sounds like there's a lot more common sense sort of uh policies and and way of living there than than perhaps there we get into here just because of the the opposite sides of things.

20:20It's very separated here, at least right now. Yeah, I think the vision here at the moment is pretty extraordinary and pretty like it's not as extreme. Australians are used to government in their life a lot more than Americans are. So, for instance, you all have a speed limit. Everyone took the vaccine without any problem. Things like that. There's just more use to that involvement. You know, health care is free, all those sorts of things. So it's just a very different mentality of government in your life. Very similar to Canada. Rose Byrne, by the way, I saw you and you can't take it with you.

20:51Oh, you did? You were fantastic. Yeah, I love that show. It was my first show I ever did in high school. Oh, really? That's what everybody would say to me. They're like, I did this in high school. Yeah, but to see it professionally done like that, it was fantastic. James Earl Jones, it was such a great cast. You've done a lot of theater, in fact, and you and Bobby did Medea at BAM. We did. to great acclaim. And do you have any great theater stories? Sorry, Sean, I'm stealing your thoughts. Yes, yes. Yeah, I want to know what went wrong and you can't take it with you. Say favorite color for Sean.

21:26Go ahead, Rose. And also your favorite color. My favorite. That's what my six-year-old asks me. My five-year-old, sorry. Sounds about right. God, any theater stories? I mean, I've had that person, like, you know, have a heart attack in row three, you know? No, really? And the paramedic, this was in Australia, and I was doing a play, and they had to come in, and we were still doing the scene. It was Three Sisters, the Chekhov play, and then somebody, you know, all of a sudden, the person just starts going, like that. No way. And just bumps over, and the paramedic. And did you have to go? We kept going.

21:56It was really weird. Yeah, I was going to say, do you finish the show? It was so weird. Get that bloke out of here. We didn't stop. Keep going. We didn't stop the scene. It's Australia. They're like, unless you're bitten by a snake, you just keep going, right? it's the snakes that stop things in Australia not the hardest most powerful but did you keep going with the play we kept going we kept going and this poor older gentleman I think yeah they came in and they took him out and everybody stood up and they put him on the stretcher and took him out sure did they check him for an overdose of Vegemite because I know that it's that that can be sometimes high sodium content do people still say fair dinkum I mean I don't think so.

22:41I mean, I'm sure they do. It used to be a big one, right? Yeah, it's a little bit dated, the slang. What does it mean? Fair dinkum means like, really? Or is that right? Isn't that a replacement for that? Remember, Rose, when we did that thing, we did that Q &A and they asked me some Australian, they asked me fair dinkum. And I said that fair dinkum is a term that's used to describe like somebody who's okay to hook up with. It's a fair dinkum. You know what I mean? that i've never heard but i like it uh i thought the dinkum was like early 80s yeah like more like oh do you yeah it's a little 80s probably a little bit it's a little bit dated i got a rose i got a good one for you yeah i think i told these guys um what do you call chickens who's what do you call a chicken staring at lettuce what chicken sees a salad yeah i've been using that the last 48 hours and getting a lot of folks rose jesus will do you have any dad jokes i i don't have any dad jokes not right now i'll have more by the end mine are more just in the moment like just but here's how great sean is sean just facetimed me uh in the middle of the day or night the other day i couldn't tell um and uh i was like okay i'll pick up the facetime i know And people on FaceTime.

24:01And he said, I picked up, hello. Hey, so just real quick, just for a quick, quick joke. And then he tells me that joke, and I laugh, and he hangs up. That's right. That's the kind of socializing I enjoy. That's right. It's a little hit and run. And that's exactly right. I know you. That's so good. I love you, Sean. We came up the other day with, I told Sean this, that somebody who's had just a little bit of, just a little bit of surgery done to them, you know, just a little bit of work done. Somebody? Just anybody. Anybody who has, you can just go, we look over there and go, they've just said, oh, somebody had a visit from the youth fairy.

24:35Yeah, see, I like that. Just a nice little visit from the youth fairy. Maybe got bit by the youth fairy. But here's the thing. Rose, what do you use on your skin because you look like you're 12 years old? Yeah. Your skin is flawless. Wow. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, you look great. Thanks, guys. Congratulations. What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Do you do all the scrubs and the peels and the thing and the thing? I think it's the lighting in here. I'm not trying to be. I think it's all lighting. It's all lighting, buddy. He wants to know the name of your toner. You go to sleep early. You eat right.

25:07You kind of do all that stuff. I mean, all those boring things, I guess. But it is very dark in here. It is dark. It's got a soft light. It's a really soft light. What do you pig out on? What do you just love to pig out on? Drinking this. Look at this. Same. Look at this. They're both having Coca-Colas. But this is because I got food poisoning on the plane on the way back. Nothing a Coca-Cola can't solve. Filthy, so I got the black doctor. Don't name the airline. I know, I know. Did you guys go through, did you stop in LA? We just stopped in LA. We changed planes and then on the way from New York to JFK.

25:44Just recently, just yesterday you got food poisoning? Yesterday I got in last night, but I was like throwing up the whole time. Last night? I know. Oh, how do you feel today? I can't believe you're doing this. Oh, no, I feel okay. Yeah, I feel okay. Yeah, I feel okay. but it was so gross, like the tiny bag on the plane. Oh, no. I know, it was so gross. Food poisoning is the worst. Food poisoning takes over your whole brain and your body. It's amazing, yeah, it's like quite, it's like your whole body. And you guys had the kids with you as well. It was you and Bobby and the kids. They were asleep, though, because it was the last leg of the flight, so it was okay.

26:17I've just never had it on a plane before. Yeah. How much longer have you got left, Sean, of the show? How long has it been? August 27th is our last day. Oh, wow. Okay. August 27th is the closing night. And how do you guys know each other? Like, how do you all know? 23, 24 years ago. I was his acting teacher. Wait, how? No. Yeah, and I still go to him. I'm still working on it. No, we used to play poker. I met Will actually before the poker thing, but we didn't get close until we all started playing poker, like, regularly every week. And then with Jason and with everybody and with blah, blah, blah.

26:56And then, yeah, we were just. Years and years ago. Years and years. And in that time, we've done two shows together. Sean, we never even talked about it. We've done two shows together. Isn't that wild? We did Up All Night on NBC with Christina Applegate and Maya. And then we did The Millers on CBS. Oh, cool. Remember, Sean, we went on that trip. And then Sean, like a week later, called me back. He was like, I think I'm going to do the show with you next year. And I was like, oh, my God. Isn't that wild? Sean, did I see that you've got a compression sleeve on your right arm? I'm both, yeah. Oh, from playing piano?

27:28Yeah. Wow. No, from lifting weights. Yeah, exactly. Did you lift up a heavy egg salad the other day? Did you, but it's not, how are the wrists? Your wrists? The wrists are decent. They're decent. Do you still have to ice your hands at the end of every show? Ice them before and then twice after every day. Oh, my God. Are you a piano prodigy? Sure, no. No, I started playing when I was five, and then I thought I was going to be a conductor and compose music and be a concert pianist, and then I got the acting bug early on, and then I became a music director out of college. That's what gave you the food poisoning, right?