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OK, here we go‐‐
"Palm Springs."
Uh‐oh!
Here we go!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
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There's the title.
Love this song.
There's a goat.
There she is.
(SINGING) Like a movie sun.
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
Uh, didn't actually shoot this during an earthquake.
Movie magic.
We talked about waiting for an earthquake,
but then decided that we didn't have
the budget to wait that long.
Oh.
Yeah.
That was real at the end, though‐‐ the glowing lights.
Look at those peepers.
That really happened.
Good morning!
We're gonna start off pretty racy here.
Uh‐oh!
There's history here.
That's a good leg.
For all those kids out there, "Brooklyn Nine‐Nine" fans
probably don't wanna watch this.
You don't know that.
Are you close?
I really can't start sweating, babe.
Yeah.
I'm working on it, darling.
OK.
OK, I'm sorry.
I have to get ready.
I'm so sorry.
It's so bright in here, too, it's just‐‐ and your sweat.
I'm sorry.
You can watch me, though.
Watch me!
OK, that's romantic.
What the hell?
Oh, my god.
Shit, shit‐‐ shit.
Oh, my god, shit.
The sound design here is not distracting
while trying to talk.
[LAUGHTER]
I'm finding it's helping.
Shit.
No offense, Ny‐Ny, but‐‐
OK, also let's give a shout‐out to the brilliant Meredith
Hagner.
Such a G.
The best.
So funny.
Definitely my favorite‐‐ definitely my favorite person
that was in the movie.
Yeah, me, too.
It goes Meredith, JK, June, Peter.
Yeah, yeah.
For me, it's you and Meredith tied.
Oh, interesting.
But it's OK.
OK, yeah.
You kill me.
Nyles, look‐‐ I know weddings make you super weird,
super uncomfortable.
But, please, I'm begging you to not bring our drama here, OK?
Because this is truly a sacred day.
I will note‐‐
Yes?
‐‐that Nyles sitting spread eagle on the bed
was in the script.
That was not an acting choice.
OK, cool.
You gonna be happy?
Are you gonna be smiling?
So what early clues kind of hint that he's in a time loop?
Well, for one, I mean he says it very
clearly to Jerry in the pool.
You know, today is yesterday.
Today, yesterday‐‐ it's all the same.
To him, it is all the same.
But to Jerry in the pool at that moment, he doesn't know it.
Got Tongayi.
The best.
Wonderful actor, lovely dude.
Today, tomorrow, yesterday‐‐ it's all the same.
I was gonna say that house was owned by an optometrist.
Talk more about that.
Right?
That's it.
That's all I got.
Nice try, though.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Even the worst hipster would not just go to a nice wedding
in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts.
So why would one do that and crack
a beer during the ceremony?
Nyles is not a bad guy, so that is a clue that something
else is going on.
But, no, seriously.
OK, guys, we're all part of this gorgeous tapestry.
No, come on.
Throw me a bone.
This isn't the day for moderation.
It's not good wine.
I don't care.
It was about 30 degrees during this scene‐‐
It was.
‐‐is my memory.
And we put in some nice work in post getting rid of the bug‐‐
bug apocalypse that was happening.
Yeah.
We happened to be‐‐
The bugs that come out during the cold.
Basically, there was like 700,000 bugs
just hatched, right where we were shooting
a lot of this wedding stuff.
Yeah.
And they were flying in and out of frame.
But luckily, it was dark out.
If you looked at any one of the big lights
that we had lighting the whole scene,
they were like covered in bugs, almost like it
was a beehive but grosser.
Yeah.
I also remember shivering so hard for all
of this, all of these scenes that the next day, my back
hurt.
You're the maid of honor.
It's your main job.
(WHISPERING) She's been drinking, Howard.
(WHISPERING) Sarah.
Bonsoir, mi familia!
Et ta mich.
Who is that?
(WHISPERING) Nyles, what are you doing?
Going in for the save, babe.
I'd like to share my thoughts on love.
The original movie was constructed for,
like, all the clues kind of to be in the wedding speech
and dance.
So the wedding speech, you kind of hear a longer version.
But he, like, starts calling out family
members and things that he knows about certain family members.
He's kind of speaking directly to Sarah, because he knows,
you know‐‐ he knows more about Sarah.
He knows more about Sarah's family.
He knows a lot about everyone at this wedding,
and you start to see that he is kind
of a master of the universe.
Their selflessness‐‐ it's in their blood.
And Tala, there's something that a lot of people
here don't know about you, but they should.
I hope you don't mind.
It's not just time and money that Tala has given
to so many charitable causes.
She has also donated‐‐
This speech got cut down a lot in the end.
It sure did.
And there's some real tidbits, actually, to be
dropped here in this scene.
There was a segment of the speech where we introduce Nana.
Right.
And Jerry, and explain the back story there.
Yep.
And it explains sort of loosely why they all shukran.
Right.
Which is to say that Nana has dedicated a lot of her life
to helping people that have been displaced.
So Jerry, I believe, has been adopted into her family.
Right.
Into the Schlieffen family.
We may be born lost, but now‐‐
So what were you thinking in this scene?
Were you like, ugh, I gotta pretend like he's interesting
and not a butt ugly weirdo.
Oh, my god.
This dance, this song‐‐
immediately, like I go into how many
times we rehearsed this song.
I know.
I mean, the dance to this song.
I know this song well now.
Conner O'Malley!
This part‐‐ he made me laugh so hard in this,
I can't believe you guys got a take.
Well, we actually stole some of the footage of you
laughing at Conner and put it later
in the movie for other reasons.
It's mostly background actors.
During the dance scene, there are some plants
that are actually dancing‐‐
Yeah, there are a couple of professional dancers.
‐‐that were involved in our rehearsals.
Yeah.
The guy that I, like, do this behind,
he's incredible and helped with the choreography.
Yep.
The bigger gentleman‐‐ taller, I should say‐‐ who is very drunk
in the scene is one of them.
The guy who slaps my butt.
That move when I slap my hands over my head
made me, like, lightly hurt my schlong.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Yeah, that sounds better.
Yes, thank you.
Yeah.
I think we did five total takes, maybe, of this?
This first dance?
Astonishing.
We didn't have a lot of time.
So this is their first meet.
We had Nyles sniffing at the top.
You know, for someone who's already seen the movie,
you can maybe guess he thinks he can smell
Roy somewhere in the brush.
That's very weird.
Well, I know my hair mist.
I dated a girl who used to bathe in it.
Also important to clock the Orchid Explosion by Fournier,
a brand that was made up, and that there
were many conversations about what the title was gonna be.
I believe I pitched some things, none of which I remember.
They were funny, though.
We probably had like 20 to 30 options.
Yeah.
And that was one of our few rehearsal days
when you came to our office, Cristin,
and we were running this scene.
And we were like, what should it be called?
Yeah. Nyles.
Hi.
And ended up with Orchid Explosion by Fournier.
That's right.
It definitely felt like the one.
Yeah, it was.
The scene with June Squibb‐‐
June Squibb is such a G. We shot this at 5:00 in the morning,
this little thing right here.
Yeah.
5:00 in the morning.
It was about 30 degrees out.
We'd been shooting for hours, and we were all freezing.
And it was like a damp cold.
And then June Squibb was like, where do you want me?
And then came and just, like, nailed it.
We also added a whole scene on the spot
that ends up later in the movie, and she was like, OK!
I know.
Yep.
And was great.
Which we got two takes for.
Yep.
You're right.
I remember being apologetic to June,
being like I'm so sorry this is taking so long.
She was like, I don't care.
Yeah.
Like, yeah, you're a real deal actor.
Yeah.
Not give a what.
I just can't handle that right now.
And what would Misty think about us running off together?
I have a feeling she'd be OK with it.
Oh, my god, we're so bad.
Mm‐hmm.
We're so bad.
Mm.
(WHISPERING) Oh, my god!
I can't say I ever liked her.
Yeah, she has her moments.
But this one hurts.
(WHISPERING) Why don't you go in there and stop them?
Trust me, there is not a world where these two‐‐
When he brings Sarah to‐‐
to spy on Misty, on Misty's tryst through the window,
that is another big clue that he knows what's going on.
And especially when he's like, you know,
I don't need a leg up.
When he says that line to Sarah, timed perfectly where
Misty says hold my leg up‐‐
everything in there is intentional,
and I think those are just some of the clues.
Of course, you can.
You don't need a leg up.
Hold my leg up.
[MOANING]
That was weird.
This is so fucked up.
So fucked up.
It's kind of hot, though.
Don't you kiss me.
Don't you tell me what to do.
[MOANING]
[OWL HOOTING]
Oh, spicy!
Yeah, we know how to do it.
We know how it physically works.
Right before we got on those rocks to make out,
a snake wrangler poked a couple of the rocks and was like,
I think it's good.
And then we laid down on the‐‐
Yeah, I think you're giving his tone more credit.
It was more like, I think it's good?
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, yeah.
Let's get it started.
Man, was I waiting on this.
In a lot of ways, this was the moment
in the script‐‐ when I was first reading the script‐‐
that I was like, oh!
Yeah.
I might have to do this.
I know.
Getting shot with an arrow right there.
This is like my favorite misdirect.
If you're like, what is this movie?
It's a wedding comedy.
Oh, no!
Perhaps a little zanier then first thought!
Yeah.
Is what you said.
That's right.
That moment in the writing of the script kind of
came in late.
The Roy character was kind of one
of the last things we added.
And once we kind of realized that and figured out that,
you know, Nyles would get hit with an arrow
at the beginning, that would be kind of the biggest
twist in the movie so to speak.
You think you're in one movie, and then you‐‐ he
gets hit with an arrow, and you're like,
oh, this is not what I thought I was watching.
Keep running, shit bird.
I will always find you.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
This scene is shot at Bronson Caves.
It is.
Which is where "Batman" was.
The old "Batman," yes.
The old "Batman," not your Christopher Nolan "Batman."
No.
And many other things.
It's a much used cave area.
That cave is dope.
(WHISPERING) Wake up!
Good morning!
That's a good leg.
OK, fine, but we have to be fast.
We started this in 2016, November 9th‐‐
the election, all the values that we had kind of grown up
seemed to be just not important anymore.
And that's only accelerated, but it
was a very confusing world where nothing
seems to be concrete or real.
You?
Today's young.
Ask me again at the end.
Anything can happen.
(GROWLING) You!
What the fuck did you do to me?
(SINGING) What the fuck did you do to me?
We have a "Zero Dark Thirty" scene with the torture stuff.
We have our "Saving Private Scene" with beer cans.
When Sarah comes out and Nyles jumps in the pool
and she throws beer cans in the pool,
like those should be really flying
through the water the way that those bullets do when
they're storming Normandy beach on D‐Day
in "Saving Private Ryan."
That could be our "Saving Private Ryan" scene.
For sure.
What the fuck is going on?
(YELLING) You're a sick fuck, Roy!
[TENSE MUSIC]
(WHISPERING) Nyles?
Nyles!
No, stop.
Don't come in here!
Are you OK?
(YELLING) Don't come in here!
Hello?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
(WHISPERING) What the fuck?
How many times‐‐
This was the first day of shooting.
Yeah.
How many wake‐ups did you do, would you say?
How many takes?
It was our first day, so we overshot.
And there were a ton of days that we needed.
Ironically, these were the most takes I ever got for anything,
I would say.
Yeah.
I bet you we did 30 takes.
I mean, not of the same waking up,
but of like sitting up in bed.
Yeah.
Right?
At least.
We spent about the entire first half
of the first day shooting you waking up and your eye opening.
Yeah, yeah.
Are you all right?
Oh, my god, look at everybody.
Gallagher.
You must have gotten up early.
Love the detail of him having the wet towel around his neck.
I know.
Was that his idea?
I almost feel like it was practical, like he was like,
would anyone care if I did this with my character?
I'm very hot.
I don't understand your question.
This‐‐ this day already happened.
I just think you're the coolest, Cristin.
Way to go, man.
Andy, you too, man.
Can you believe we did this?
We made this.
It was, like, really‐‐ it was really hard.
Threw it together.
It looks like a breeze when you watch it.
I know.
So this was a very, very intensive scene to shoot.
This is the second time we're showing it.
But obviously, showing above pool and under pool
with time in between to dry us all off, to start over
takes and stuff. Right.
It took a very long time.
Oh, my god, that's right.
Sarah, oh, my god!
What are you doing?
Oh, my god, Camila crushed it.
That was so funny.
So funny.
And she had a really cool, bad‐ass stunt lady who came in.
Pretty much broken off.
There's one full canine.
This is like a big day for everyone!
This is a big day for me, too!
The wedding is today, in six hours.
(YELLING) Sarah, why are you standing there like a freak?
Why were you in the pool?
This scene was a blast to film.
I was very, very adamant that I be allowed to throw up.
Yep.
It was one of the few things I took
a stand on, where I was like, I will be
throwing up in the teeth scene.
Couldn't respect it more.
I respect you very much.
There it goes.
There it is.
Sarah, no!
Guess you followed me.
What's going on?
Well, the beer is a fictional beer
that Max and Andy Siara and our production
designer, Jason Kisvarday, came up with together.
It's got a hidden message on it, kinda.
The tortoise that's on it is representative
of a myth about all of the universe and such.
Yeah.
Did you keep any?
No.
I mean, they're filled with water.
I think Max and Andy each have a couple of them.
That's cool.
I keep wanting a beer company, even if it's a small one.
I'm appealing to anyone out there who's a beer company.
Yeah.
To give us a call and be like, I wanna make that beer for real.
Yeah.
But just know‐‐ just know that it's not gonna
be like a super dense IPA.
It's gotta be like a really light, watery summertime beer
that you just want ice cold.
You don't wanna go there.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
So here is Cristin pretending to be really hot in the desert‐‐
temperature.
He means physically.
I know he means physically.
He said it, and it's on‐‐ it's on film.
No, temperature hot!
Yep, he said Cristin is in the desert pretending to be hot.
I have no opinion one way or the other
on your physical appearance.
It was purely about temperature.
Where‐‐
I told you, you gotta wait.
No matter what we did, it would never
be completely different from things like "Groundhog
Day" and "Edge of Tomorrow."
And now we have wonderful new stuff
like "Russian Doll" and "Happy Death Day" and all that.
So, you know, in a way we use that to our advantage,
I like to think.
And Andy Siara, especially when he was writing it,
did, where we just kinda gave the audience
the credit of assuming they have seen those
and know how it works.
Tried to sort of skip past a lot of the setup parts of that
and start a little deeper in.
And certainly with my character, he's
been in it for a long time, which
we felt like was a nice twist on it
and allowed for a lot of different kind
of comedic bits and different dramatic dynamics.
Goes back to the start.
But will this day end if I go in there?
Sure, for you.
You're wasting your time!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
It's gonna be a beautiful wedding.
(WHISPERING) Wake up!
Good morning!
[MUSIC PLAYING]
This is some of our first really awesome
scoring, music score made by Matthew Compton,
also known as Cornbread.
So good.
He really did a great job.
There's a lot of debate about how long
Nyles and Sarah have been stuck there at any given time.
Certainly, he's been there an insanely long time.
We've never‐‐ we've never fully said for sure, you know?
There's times where people were like, it's like 50 to 70 years.
But then it was also like, but maybe like 150 to 300 years.
Yeah.
And then at other times, it was like there's a chance
it's been like 1,000 years.
Yeah, I know.
I like that we don't know.
I agree.
I think it helps to not know, because you
just fill in the blanks with your imagination to fit‐‐
Yeah.
‐‐you know, how it feels to you.
I think with Nyles, it almost doesn't
matter as long as you know it's been a super long time.
Because at a certain point, he gave up‐‐
Yeah.
‐‐and has been drifting for‐‐
you know, if it was 50 years of doing nothing
and the same thing every day of just floating and drinking
beer, or if it was 1,000‐‐
Right.
‐‐nothing internally and emotionally and spiritually has
changed for him.
He's just broken and drifting.
We've been saying‐‐ I like between 40
years and 40 million years.
That's like the sweet spot.
But I will definitely say it's long enough for him
to remember.
And he also drinks too much, so that
does something to your memory.
But long enough for him to forget who he was,
in large part, in real life.
We never‐‐ we never mapped out.
I know there was‐‐
and I think that's something I loved, too, about the movie.
There are a number of days that pass,
but also it's very episodic in that you're cutting in and out
of time, into different scenes, and there's no real explanation
for how much time is passing.
You goof.
Wait, what?
I don't know what it is.
It could be life, it could be death.
It might be a dream.
I might be imagining.
You might be imagining me.
It could be purgatory or a glitch in the simulation.
This is when we started‐‐
we did days of just the two of us in this car‐‐
Yeah.
‐‐which were some of my most‐‐
like, my fondest memories.
Same.
It was when we started‐‐
Just being in that dusty car together.
‐‐getting into it.
It was some real acting going on, you know?
Nothing matters.
Well, then, what's the point of living?
Well, we kind of have no choice but to live.
So I think your best bet is just to learn
how to suffer existence.
So we can't die.
No, the loop just starts over.
There might be some way to kill yourself,
but I haven't figured it out.
And I've done a lot of suicides‐‐
so many.
No‐‐ no, I'm gonna get out of this.
Suit yourself.
What are you doing?
Bracing for a quick death.
I mean, we can't die, but pain is very real.
There's nothing worse than slowly dying in the ICU.
This is another scene in the script that
made me want to do the movie.
I just love that whole convo.
We could just skip this whole phase.
That level of‐‐ of having given himself over to it.
Whatever.
[HORN HONKING]
See you tomorrow.
(WHISPERING) Wake up!
Yeah, that‐‐ that is definitely Nyles' escape,
and it's kind of a nice microcosm.
You know, it kind of reaffirms when we meet him,
he's the master of this universe at the wedding.
But we're really not quite sure what's going on.
So when he takes Sarah to the bar and is able to kind of mess
with Darla and take the guy's hat, it kind of just
hammers on that idea that this guy has been here way too long
and knows kind of how everything plays out in the universe.
That's the first film Andy Siara and I made together
in film school, actually.
It was set at a dive bar as a hurricane was passing through,
and everybody was kind of taking refuge.
So maybe that's an enduring setting and theme for us.
It just is‐‐ if you go to a good dive bar, there's endless‐‐
I feel like there's stories about those characters,
definitely Darla, within that dive bar.
There's just endless stories.
So it's a great setting for color
and also just that idea of running a dance number
through there seems so outrageous,
but I think that's what made it fun.
Cousin of the Schlieffen clan.
That's about all I know about the dude.
Yeah, but why was he trying to kill you?
One night, a very long time ago, I partied with Roy.
This was back in the early days before I'd really acquainted
myself with everyone.
I was just feeling my way through it.
That tuna?
Yes, sir.
I know you know, but you don't know that I know.
Or do you know?
Do you ever wonder if people think you're boring?
(WHISPERING) What?
Are you being a dick to the bartender?
I would like a Moscato, please.
Sure.
What might have been and what has been point to one
end, which is always present.
Second thought, make that two shots of bourbon, please.
This moment was improvised between JK and myself.
I like your hat.
Of course, you do.
There you go.
I like you're hat.
Of course, you do.
Oh, man, I love him.
Here they are!
So JK Simmons, obviously, is a national treasure.
I worked with him on the film "I Love You, Man."
He played me and Paul Rudd's dad‐‐
name drop.
And we have stayed in touch and our friendly, and I love him.
And when we were thinking about casting,
we were all holy shit‐‐ what if JK would play Roy?
That would be pretty much the greatest
thing that ever happened.
So I was all, hey, man, do you think you'd ever
want to do another indie, dude?
Hey, man, you like making movies?
You like shooting in the cold desert?
You like shooting in a hot desert?
You can have both on this.
Hey, man!
(WHISPERING) We're in the shit, we're in the shit.
We are the shit, we are‐‐
we're alive.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Shooting that stuff with JK was the best, man.
Part of, I think, why he wanted to do the movie‐‐
it's that montage and then, you know,
the scene at the end, the find your Irvine and all
that I think really moved him.
But when he told me he was thinking about it,
he said he sent moments from that montage to friends of his,
to be like man, I think I gotta do this movie.
It's so nuts!
And certainly, for me, I just loved
knowing that it would be he and I. The fact that
were already kind of buddies‐‐
it adds an element of fun to it, of him,
like, torturing me and making me miserable
and shooting me with an arrow while I
run naked through the desert and that kind of stuff.
It just made it funnier to me, for some reason.
And especially just somebody like him
who has so much gravitas and, like, people know
he's such an esteemed actor‐‐ seeing him really get loose
and doing something kind of so dark and silly was exciting,
I think.
That was a mistake.
When Roy found out about his new life,
he did not take it lightly.
Luckily, he lives in Irvine and wakes up there every day,
so he only comes around once every few days.
Or weeks, I don't know.
My sense of time is a little fuzzy.
But what does he want?
I think he thinks‐‐
Yeah, I went full butt.
We shot the running away and getting shot with the arrow
naked thing with one of my stunt doubles,
Seth, who has a significantly better looking butt than me.
And then we shot mine, just in case you could tell.
And you couldn't totally tell, but my butt was funnier.
Amen to that.
I tied my tubes at 40.
Yeah.
You have to confront him, right?
I mean, you cannot keep running from this person forever.
What are you talking about?
Of course, I can.
Come on.
Burrito truck just opened.
That's for you.
Keep the change, OK?
But you have to promise me you're
gonna spend it all today.
Any time anything gets too serious,
it's like I have the tendency to just
push it to the other direction.
So if anything sounds a little too pretentious, I will‐‐
it's good to, like, throw a banana peel out there
and have a person slip on the banana peel.
So nothing gets too, too serious.
Max and I would always talk about having
one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave,
so that you go from moments of slapstick to, you know‐‐
trying to touch on something that is maybe
under the surface a little bit.
Daisy, the bar keep.
So the last thing we actually shot of the movie
was Jena Friedman, who plays Daisy the bartender‐‐
their moment together in the car, Nyles and Daisy.
We let the camera roll and did like 15 minutes of improv.
That was really fun.
All the‐‐ all the sex flashes when Nyles is describing
his hookup history within the bubble
were very fun to go and shoot, just because you got to squeeze
in a little intimate moment with Peter Gallagher, you know,
one day and then Tongayi.
Jerry Schlieffen?
Well, he fucked me.
He put his penis in my butt hole.
Yeah, I know how it works.
I really thought I'd try it.
He's a sweet guy.
Nice shot.
And that's it?
That's all you got?
Oh, your dad.
What are we doing?
I don't know.
No, I'm just kidding.
Oh, my god.
I got you, though.
You did.
What about you?
What's going on with your sex life?
This thing started out of film school,
us just wanting to go make something together,
taking a trip out to the desert, coming back
with the idea of Nyles being in the throes
of a very busy wedding season.
Me feeling, at the time, very uncomfortable with commitment,
and Andy having just gotten married in Palm Springs.
And then, I think, kind of staring down the barrel
at the rest of his life and grappling with what
that kind of commitment meant.
And us in a room working on this idea of developing it,
pushing through drafts, kind of acting as each other's
therapists.
That's, I think, where that emotion comes from.
And Andy it's just so emotionally honest and talented
and funny that it was about throwing all of ourselves
at each other, every idea that we ever wanted
to see in a movie at the wall, while figuring out who
these two principal characters were that allowed us to kind
of mine those emotional depths.
(WHISPERING) Oh, my god.
Maybe it's a karma thing.
What is?
Yeah.
What if it's like, to get out of this you have to be selfless,
and then you're free?
It's about $100 a candy bar, and I'm still here.
Yeah, but not like that‐‐ like real acts of selflessness,
like the bone marrow shit that Tala does.
You know, look‐‐ what if‐‐
oh, my god, what if life just keeps going for everyone else?
Everybody kind of inherently understood what
the North Star tonally was.
So because of that, we just tried
to play every moment as straight as possible,
especially because the time limit
concept was so heightened.
So it was always about keeping it grounded
and kind of telling the human story within this world.
That being said, you do one take with a certain energy,
and you get something that feels offbeat and right.
You'll try a different take that is completely
a different emotion to kind of then
give yourself options in the cutting room, to calibrate
a happy moment or a sad moment or a slapstick moment or kind
of a more downbeat moment.
It's all about getting everything
that you can to then give yourself
options to construct a moment to fit
what you want people to feel.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I‐‐ I do think what makes this movie so good
is that I would probably‐‐
like you would just bang your head against a wall.
You would do all the same things.
You would attempt to try to kill yourself to get out of it.
You would attempt to do every drug.
You would eat everything you want.
You would try to sleep with people.
You would just‐‐ it would be madness.
I don't know.
I mean, this is my nightmare, to get stuck in a time loop.
Honestly.
I should never have left the Great Lakes!
This place is a nightmare!
It's all right.
It's all right, Randy.
Everything is great.
Sorry!
I would try to leave, if I could.
Well, yeah.
I would probably idle there for a few years
and, like, catch up on all the shows.
What the hell did you say to her?
Sister stuff, but I think I'm good.
But are you stuck in the time of the shows?
No.
I mean, like, all the TV shows and movies that I've
always wanted to watch.
But, like, what year is it?
This year.
This has been great.
Well, you know, not great.
I know.
As soon as I asked, then I realized it wasn't‐‐
I'd be, like, man, I'm just gonna watch‐‐
My argument was built on two things.
Yeah. I'm gonna watch all of "MASH."
Or what?
I'll watch all of "MASH."
All of "MASH?"
Yeah, just now, like‐‐
That's what's gonna get you to stay in the time loop?
Oh, my god.
They've got, I remember‐‐
Good luck.
‐‐rogue episodes from when I was younger on syndication.
But I'll be like, you know, why don't I
sit down and watch "MASH?"
But you can just watch "MASH" outside of the time loop.
Re‐watch all of "Alf."
"MASH" isn't time loop‐‐
it's not contingent on the being in a time loop.
Well, yeah.
No, but if I spend my time now watching all of "MASH,"
that's time I can't get back.
You know?
I'm serious!
But you clearly seem to have such
an affinity for "MASH" that you wouldn't
even want that time back.
I could have said anything!
Like "Mork and Mindy," "Cheers," you know?
"Mork and Mindy?"
I haven't seen all of "Better Call Saul."
I would catch up on that.
You know?
Or re‐watch all of "The Simpsons."
It's like 30 seasons.
Let's waste some time.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(SINGING) Sinking in a funny way.
Hey, who's the mustache?
Prick my wife ran off with.
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
I loved filming the deaths over and over again,
because they're humorous deaths like falling
out of the top of the car.
The plane was a blast.
That was so much fun.
I remember really, really having quite
a time in that little plane.
Agreed.
It's very much wish fulfillment, you
know, getting to sort of try anything without any fear
of repercussion.
Yeah.
It also felt like‐‐
it felt like we were doing like cartoon deaths.
Yes.
It felt‐‐
They felt, like, very Wile E Coyote.
I was gonna say the same thing.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, early Road Runner vibes.
Yeah, strong Road Runner vibes.
Yeah, I think that was also part of what was a blast.
We were also able to, like, be live action human cartoons.
I think it goes without saying that dancing
replaces all iconic dance scenes from now on.
"Dirty Dancing," "Pulp Fiction," "Billy
Elliot," "Fame," "Flashdance."
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Those dance rehearsals were so much fun.
Do you remember when you dropped me?
You took it quite well.
Yep.
I still feel bad about it.
You shouldn't, you shouldn't.
Here's the thing.
My arms are weak and floppy like a baby calf, you know?
Baby calves don't have arms, Andy.
Get your shit straight.
What if you count‐‐
if you count their front legs, if they were‐‐
by the way, could.
If they chose to stand up on their hind legs.
If they chose to‐‐
you're right.
It's an issue of choice.
Sarah, where have you been?
Tala's pissed.
I missed you.
What?
I want you to meet me in the bathroom.
I like to give the actors freedom
to improvise and find things, so there are
flourishes within every scene.
Andy was constantly inventing moments within scenes
and finding stuff.
It's what‐‐ those are the surprises that I
think make a script better.
And it was already a super strong script,
but I think the only fully improvised scene, so to speak,
was that tattoo moment within the montage.
So we stole those tattoo shots.
The sun was setting, but Milioti and I both
really wanted it in the movie.
Just taking a breather to snuggle.
This was what I was looking forward
to most when we were shooting.
Yeah.
Milioti insisted on the hook hand and the eye patch,
and we obliged, of course.
Yep.
That hook hand is on my mantle.
Prove it.
Ugh, goddammit.
I know, but I'm like stuffed in these jeans.
Hold on.
Prove it!
Damn, check out those jeans!
OK, here's the hook.
Yeah!
Yeah, here it is.
I kept it.
It was the only thing I asked to keep.
I asked to keep two things‐‐ this hook and my dignity.
And I was only given one.
No one walks away from an indie shoot with their dignity.
[LAUGHTER]
Ta‐da!
Wow.
You kind of feel that they're falling in love.
That's what that was about, bringing
color into that moment.
And we also‐‐ there's a special on Cristin's slow‐mo
when the confetti is falling to help it.
But there's like a more kind of orange‐ish glow,
which is about‐‐
orange, in the movie, kind of is like‐‐
it's the color of the tent in the desert, too.
It's kind of that‐‐
and the glow in the cave, obviously.
It signifies intimacy.
Everything in this void, the space
where the candy bar once was but is now in my stomach,
is the past.
And everything that's remaining is the future,
encased in chocolate.
I have no interest in this emptiness.
You know, the who, what, why of your past.
You got here.
That's all that matters.
But if you really want to know someone deeper, it does matter.
It does.
You have to know the whole package.
I disagree.
This‐‐ the next bite‐‐
that's all that matters.
I was married for two years.
I knew it wasn't gonna work.
This was one of my favorite scenes
to shoot in the whole movie.
It was awesome to be shooting by firelight, obviously.
Yeah.
And everyone was really far away.
And we also shot it over two nights,
because the first night we were shooting,
we had done a lot of it.
But then there was a sandstorm.
Yes, and rain.
So we had to cut bait.
And rain, that's right.
We were hiding under a tarp for a while.
Yeah.
In the middle of the desert.
And then, we came back and shot it
the night after, which was the last night of shooting, right?
This is the last thing we shot almost?
This is the last thing we shot.
Oh, my god.
This was so great.
It was good because we were already kind of emotional
about the shoot ending.
And it was also great because we had run this a ton,
so we really knew the scene well.
And I think the second night, we were able to really get loose
with it.
Yeah.
And take it down into the old dirt, which was good.
Yeah.
I honestly can't remember.
We really knew who the characters were by then.
Yeah!
And we were just sort of like left to our own devices.
So that's a long time.
These are fantastic mushrooms.
(WHISPERING) Yeah.
Too bad we're doing them in such a shit hole, though.
I am not a fan of this magical desert.
Well, then I just feel sorry for you.
Yeah?
Oh, wow.
And, you know, we needed to make sure
that we got a bunch of pertinent information across, but also
certain energy.
So we lost runs that were a lot more philosophical.
It's the same way that I would say that I
feel sorry that, you know‐‐
One of the things when I signed on to this movie‐‐
that scene was like one of the most‐‐
I didn't know how you guys were gonna do it.
I didn't know, like, how it was gonna be shot.
I didn't know what the effects were.
But I remember reading the script and being like,
oh, this is so beautiful and strange that they
would see these dinosaurs.
And, like, it was one of the things that made me‐‐
that solidified my decision to be like yeah, I'm doing this.
Yeah, I also love it.
Obviously, that whole scene builds
to them suddenly seeing dinosaurs,
and it's indicative of Siara's writing.
And it's part of what he does that I love so much, where you
really feel it, and it's intentionally ambiguous
because they're tripping.
It's so much more just about their wavelength and the fact
that they're connecting on this deeper level.
It really works both as a magical fun thing to watch
and as a symbolic moment and totem
of like what's happening between the characters, which is just‐‐
Yeah.
‐‐very beautiful, I think.
You have two characters who don't believe they could love
and who, more importantly, don't believe they
are capable of being loved.
These things are impossible.
And in this moment, maybe they're
crossing that threshold.
They are feeling something that is impossible.
So therefore, I felt like they should
see something that is technically impossible to see,
which is dinosaurs.
Night.
It was always about‐‐ what was really exciting was telling
this emotional story, this love story
but between two people who had kind of given up on themselves,
in a way.
There is purpose in caring.
In a meaningless world, there is purpose in caring.
And you have to find that, whatever that means.
And for these two people, I think
it's kind of the consistent thing
that we can all adhere to.
Love is the only kind of transcendent truth,
in a meaningless world, that cuts through everything‐‐
your connections with people.
So that's‐‐ that's what it's about, to me.
Taking that profound plunge into real commitment
is a beautiful thing.
It can be so transcendent.
That's what the movie is about, to me.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Every wake‐up is different emotionally,
so we want to visually reflect that with camera height
and lens choice and movement.
It kind of became this acting exercise, in a way,
to kind of know where you were within the loop.
Dial it in emotionally according to that.
They're just so talented on a performance level
that you could really tell them to do anything,
and they'll be able to get it.
That was another thing in the script, when I
read it, that I really loved‐‐
that she has committed this huge betrayal of her sister,
and it's such an awful thing to do, but it's so human.
And you also understand this person who's
filled with such self‐loathing and sort of sabotages so much
in her life, she's like torn apart by the fact
that she did that.
But she's not like self‐aware, and she's
just sort of like at the whim of her own pain.
Both of the two main characters are flawed,
and we don't shy away from it.
This is such a turning point for her,
because she realizes that she has to repeat one of the worst
days of her life for infinity.
And actually, no matter what, if she
has to keep waking up with that same shame every single
morning, she's gonna go insane.
There's no running from it.
She's reached such a breaking point that‐‐
yeah, she has sort of veered into the more
Nyles territory, where you find him
in the beginning of the movie‐‐
where she's realizing that if she
has to relive this same horrible event every day, then
what's the point of any of it?
Then, just chaos reigns, and she's gonna cut
herself off from any caring.
Also, she's genuinely has developed
an incredible connection with Nyles,
and I think she's terrified.
It's definitely the moment it flips.
He has completely given himself over to it.
And now, after not caring about anything for maybe hundreds
of years, really cares about something
and immediately gets slapped down for it.
Yeah, yeah.
For something having nothing to do with him, but of course,
he doesn't understand.
For miles, right?
Do you wanna talk about it, or‐‐
The cop?
No, the fact that we had sex last night.
You said we should have sex, then we had sex.
What's there to talk about?
During the kind of long development process‐‐
long writing of this movie where I was trying to find it‐‐
I got married at a lovely wedding in Palm Springs.
And I think it was this‐‐
and the world was changing around this time,
too, drastically.
Like a big pivot point in history.
And you know, 2015, 2016, 2017, when a lot of this
was constructed, it was a kind of search
for meaning underneath all of the noise of the world.
And finding‐‐ I don't know‐‐
joy and beauty and magic and kind of the more mundane,
routine aspects of life.
(SCREAMING) He's trying to kill me!
He's trying to kill me‐‐
he's trying to kill me.
Sir, step out of the vehicle with your hands up.
Thank you, thank you.
Is that‐‐
Sir, if you do not comply, I'll have no choice
but to remove you by force.
Uh, OK!
I'm coming out!
Sorry about that, Mr. Policeman.
I thought you were someone else.
Should always go with that first instinct, shit bird.
And obviously, throwing JK into the mix at the end of this
was so much fun.
Yeah.
And we got incredible ad line‐‐
suck my dick, officer bitch.
You call for back up?
Dude, what the fuck are you doing?
Oh, come on, relax.
I just‐‐ I just clipped him.
You did not just clip him!
Well, he's a fucking sadist!
I was just saving you.
You should be thanking me.
He was gonna kill you.
OK, well, no thank you.
Freeze!
Put your hands above your head.
Suck my dick, officer bitch.
There it is.
Leave us alone.
If I'm ever lucky enough that someone makes
a montage of my work, I would like
it to either begin or end with suck my dick, officer bitch.
Or both!
Or both. Bookend it.
Yeah.
This whole stretch from the campfire scene through to them
on the side of the road, arguing‐‐
I remember reading that and like salivating
over getting to do that.
Nothing matters, right?
Those are your words.
No, pain matters.
What we do to other people matters.
Being a source of terror is not fun, OK?
It's not fulfilling.
I know this from experience.
Near the tail end of the shoot, and aesthetically as the movie
went on, it was always about going
like a little more hand‐held and loose as they kind of broke out
of the monotony of their days and connected with each other
and started getting real with one another.
And that was fun to be out in the desert, hand‐held,
kind of letting the actors run around
and roam free a little bit.
And again, much like the tooth break and the taser,
it's just one of those things that both Andy
Siara and I just find endlessly funny,
that kind of physical comedy.
And that's the Andy Samberg special.
You know, I think he got that on the first take, just, you know,
the shock.
Something that you clearly know nothing about.
If I had known that I was going to be stuck
with a pretentious sad boy for the rest of eternity,
I would have stayed so far away from you.
And I sure as hell would never have fucked you.
Oh, please, you fucked me 1,000 times.
What?
It's a look at marriage.
It's a look at commitment.
It's a look at how scary it is to take a giant leap in life.
But to some people‐‐ not to everyone‐‐ like taking
that leap can be a profound experience.
And taking a major step‐‐
be it having a kid or getting married or buying a house
or getting a new job‐‐ and how these these moves can be scary,
but they also can be rewarding, too.
So I didn't, OK?
I'm getting out of this day.
Look, Sarah‐‐ I'm sorry, OK?
[HORN HONKING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, Pia.
For some reason, I rolled up one of my sleeves,
and then we couldn't get out of it.
So that was a real lesson.
Shouldn't have done that.
But, you know, I was like he was just waking up,
and his sleeve got rolled up in his sleep.
I don't know.
It was a terrible choice.
So did anyone actually see her sleep in there last night?
She wakes me up every morning, guys,
so she's gotta be somewhere.
Nyles, what are you doing?
Sarah!
Come on out, come on out.
(WHISPERING) Wake up!
You know, these are just kind of fun montage pops.
You know, we picked them up at sort
of every location we went to so we had stuff to throw in there.
I love this overhead shot of the pool so much.
That's Max and Q really killing it there.
Nice call back here.
You know we've learned from the time loop formula
it's great to hit the same moments
and change them as you go, to signify time passing.
But you recognize them.
This is our awesome indie film shot, making you know
that you're in an indie film.
(WHISPERING) Wake up!
This is all improvised.
We asked Conner to throw some stuff at us,
and I found this kind of late in the editing process.
And it got a great laugh at the test screening,
so we were really happy with that.
I don't feel safe anymore.
Yeah.
Just picking off shots here, knocking them out.
(WHISPERING) Wake up!
Air Force Reserves, I ate three whole pizzas.
Randy, you have the best stories.
I know.
Hey!
Oh, my god!
The wedding guy's here!
I need a breather.
Can I‐‐
Oh, please, go for it.
I bought it for you, man.
Misty's boyfriend, are you in on this?
That's a hard no.
OK, all right.
Don't mind if I do.
This is Nyles' big realization, which
was an interesting thing to try and play because the audience
already knows.
So we're trying to bring you back into his POV a little bit.
Even gave it a little like moment of discovery music cue,
that Akiva and other people made fun of me
for liking because it was like straight out of the "Goonies."
It's very Amblin, twinkly sound.
But I like it.
I thought it conveyed what we needed.
And then, you know, this is the big fight, big confrontation.
I have to say, every time I watch this scene,
I just feel so horrible for Tala.
Abraham boned each other.
She wakes up with him every single day,
and then probably sneaks out in the morning.
God, no wonder she hates herself.
Here, smell this‐‐ from Abe's room.
Shut up and sit down.
You're drunk.
Nyles, what are you doing?
Just shut up and go fuck Trevor.
That isn't true, is it?
What?
No‐‐ no!
This guy's been drunk all day.
That may be accurate.
However, if you do smell the pillow,
you will recognize the distinct scent of Orchid Explosion
by Fournier, the hair mist you got for Sarah on her birthday.
Does anyone else here wear Orchid Explosion by Fournier?
Oh, my god.
I didn't think so.
Get the fuck out of here, OK?
Abe, let's take a walk.
You don't actually believe this guy, do you?
You cheated on your fiancee the night before your wedding?
It was awesome doing a fight scene with Tyler
because he's done so much of it.
But also, we had rad stunt guys doing
a bunch of the crazy stuff and crashing through things.
The fork moment‐‐ when we first saw it,
we definitely were all like yeah,
that's how we imagined it‐‐ super gnarly and, like,
you could be all‐‐
[IMITATING SPRING] That whole fight, I really enjoy.
It was fun.
Love it.
But the fork‐‐
He just got forked in the face.
It was a close up of Tyler's face, fork in it‐‐
it was a shot that I designed.
We wanted it to be a close up, so then you
could match cut back to him the next scene
and the next shot when everything would reset,
with his face all normal.
Maybe get a laugh across the cut there, like Nyles can't even
win the fight that he wins.
Tala, you know that I'm not great with words.
But I do love you more than anything.
So we're going to perform a number that I sung to Howard.
It was great.
I love that night.
I remember it very clearly, because it became‐‐ it was very
stressful, but it became very fun
when we were racing to the finish line
and doing all this crazy stuff.
It felt like team sports or something.
Everybody was on the same page and hustling to get it done.
(SINGING) That pause softly on the meadow.
When Sarah goes missing, or when she's gone,
I think what was really important to us was that‐‐
at least in the writing of it‐‐
I wanted Nyles and us as an audience
to maybe think for a moment that she
actually did get out of the time loop, that she found a way out.
And so, what would that be like?
If the person you spent however much time
we believe they have spent together up to that point,
and now all of a sudden, this person that you got very
close to just leaves for good.
Where does that send you spiraling?
And I think that was a big‐‐
we wanted to capture that feeling.
I don't know if we did.
I don't know if it was successful at all,
but we were aiming for that feeling.
What that would have done to Nyles right at the start
of the movie versus where he is emotionally
at that point in the movie‐‐ because
at that point in the movie, we've now seen his more nothing
matters mindset be challenged.
And we start to see him go the other way,
onto Sarah's side where everything matters.
My nephew‐‐ thanks for your concern.
You cannot be here.
Who is that man?
(WHISPERING) Fuck! Oh!
Hey, hon.
This is‐‐
(WHISPERING) Nyles.
‐‐Nyles.
He's an old friend.
Tuna will be ready soon.
I am adopted and don't really have a relationship
with my birth father.
But I met him one time, and I was in his backyard.
And it was kind of a profound moment and an emotional moment.
And I remember sitting there, and he had a son who at that
time was about two years old‐‐
half brother, I guess, of mine.
And as I was having this conversation
with my birth father, this kid was out in the yard
just watering dog shit.
And I just remember thinking, that's so funny.
He looked like I did at that age.
He was just running around with a hose,
just pointing dog shit out and watering it.
And I just remember thinking, this is surreal.
This is the stuff of life that gets seared into your memory,
but also we need to use that in something at some point.
So that's where that came from.
Little Joey is watering dog shit.
It's weird, but it's beautiful.
One of the things that I think everyone who
worked on it was drawn to was the comedy
goes real big and real hard.
But it also doesn't shy away from some
of the more philosophical and emotional
conversations and moments.
One of the biggest, and certainly
one of my personal favorites, is this scene between Nyles
and Roy, where Roy sort of talks about coming
to peace with his situation.
And it obviously all works as a metaphor for what we're all
going through and what to do with the time
that we're given in this life.
And at a certain point, you gotta stop swimming
upstream and just appreciate what you have
and really relish it.
And I don't know.
No one could have pulled it off quite like JK.
I guess I had my head up my own ass.
I mean, I didn't really comprehend.
And so Roy really represents one of those journeys.
He's completed a version of this arc.
Roy discovers how to articulate in his way that he has found,
you know, the kind of beauty in the mundane,
in the routine of life.
And to him, where at one point at the start of the movie,
when he first goes to that wedding,
we see he used this wedding as a way
to escape family duties for the day.
He's like, I'm gonna go out to this wedding in Palm Springs,
because I don't really wanna be at home
with the family in Irvine.
And he has a long night of partying with Nyles
because of this feeling.
Then, he gets pissed off that he's been trapped
in this world with Nyles.
He goes through all of that only to realize that by getting
trapped in here and by living the same
day over and over again‐‐ all the things
that he was running from‐‐
he realizes that he was running based out of fear.
Well, at least you have each other.
That Irvine scene was also just incredible, to see
those two guys act together.
Andy Samberg‐‐ my favorite part of his performance in the movie
comes in that Irvine scene.
We hold on it in the movie, when he's kind of rejected.
He can't stay for dinner, and he has to go back.
He's kind of getting kicked out of Roy's house
because he's freaking out his kids.
And Andy delivered this expression
that was kind of every single emotional shade
of the movie from, you know, frustration
to sadness to disbelief to regret.
And that was so fun to watch.
I mean, it was just such a blast to make.
I think a lot of people would choose an arrow
through the chest over sitting through traffic
all the way home from Irvine.
When he first pulled that bow back
and we're so close together, everyone just started laughing.
It was like, oh, yeah, this is working.
This is why we're making this.
I'm getting out of this day.
Look, Sarah‐‐ I'm sorry, OK?
Sarah, Sarah!
It's gonna be a beautiful wedding.
Fun little tidbit‐‐ the moment where Abe‐‐
Tyler, who we love‐‐ comes in shirtless, in some
of the early screenings we did to sort of test the movie out,
his body was so incredibly, beautifully ripped
that it was distracting people.
I didn't know that.
So we actually had to‐‐
we knocked it down in the color correct
so it wouldn't be pulling focus so much
from the drama of the scene.
Did that happen in the scene when
I had to take my shirt off?
Just curious.
Uh‐huh!
Yep.
Yeah, I figured.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
There's only one possible future given the laws of our‐‐
Yeah, but it would allow‐‐
We had the goat on set a couple of days.
But seeing Cristin, I just remember
lining up the shot when she was bringing
the goat into the cave.
And just‐‐ it was one of those casual moments on set
when you're not rolling or anything,
but people are just kind of standing by.
And I just remember looking over and seeing Milioti just
with this goat, talking to the goat, getting acquainted
with the goat.
And again, it was what I was mentioning earlier.
It's like, oh, this is the chance to be really special.
We're doing so much weird shit.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Wake up.
Hey.
You're here.
Yep.
Wow.
It's good to see you.
You look‐‐ you look great.
Yeah, well, can't age.
Right. [KNOCKING AT DOOR]
Let me in, Sarah!
You can't lock me out of my own room.
Nyles!
Ugh!
So how have you been?
Oh, so bad.
I mean‐‐ no, yeah.
Really, really bad.
But can I just say something?
The journey of this movie has been‐‐
I don't know‐‐ a long, joy‐filled experience that,
from the beginning, Max and I, the director and I
first headed out to Palm Springs to talk about this back
in summer of 2015.
You live with a script or an idea for so long,
and you just hope you get to make it.
And you hope when you make it that people
are gonna come on board and make it even better.
And that's what we were lucky enough to get.
The movie doesn't work without Nyles and Sarah‐‐
you really believing that they could fall in love,
but also that there's just comedic chemistry there.
And it needed to feel electric, and Andy
and Cristin had that in spades.
It was incredible.
I remember the first time that we all sat together,
Becky Sloviter, our amazing producer, and Andy, Cristin,
and me‐‐ just when Cristin was in town
and we were all kind of meeting before, we
would start prepping stuff.
And I remember Becky and I just sat there,
and Andy and Cristin talked for like two hours.
You couldn't get a word in, because they just‐‐ you know,
they were so on the same wavelength
in terms of creativity and taste in music
and film and life stuff.
And I think that really carries over into the movie.
It just was super special.
Do we, though?
I mean, I don't want you to set yourself
up for disappointment again.
Remember the whole karma thing?
This is different.
I tested it.
Tested it how?
Spuds' goat.
I sent her into the cave, and I blew her up.
I don't know where she went, but she's not here anymore.
Can you zip me up?
Wait, the goat is gone?
Mm‐hmm.
It's crazy, right?
So I think that we just get through the rest of today,
we don't do anything too nuts.
And then tonight, we peace the fuck out of this shit hole.
Well, I mean‐‐ you sure you don't wanna run
some more tests or something?
What?
No, what are you talking about?
Well, just, the cave's not going anywhere.
What's the big rush?
You know, in case something actually does happen.
Holy shit.
Are you scared to leave?
What?
No, not at all.
I just don't want to leave.
There's a difference. Oh, yeah?
What's the difference.
I wanna stay with you.
Look, I love you, OK?
How about that?
What?
I love you.
You‐‐ how can you even know that?
I am literally the only other human
being stuck in here with you. No.
What about Roy?
I don't love him.
Oh, my god, Nyles.
So you are saying that out there in the real world,
with the millions of other people to choose from,
you would still choose me?
Yeah.
But why would I want to go back there anyway, you know?
It's a world of death and poverty and debilitating
emotional distress.
At least in here, we get to be together.
You have lost your mind.
Is that so bad?
That's what love is all about.
Don't be so afraid of it.
This isn't real.
Nyles, everything that we are doing in here
is fucking meaningless.
So what?
I mean, it's not like things were going so great for you
out there.
Look, I know about you and Abe, OK?
And if your plan works, that's a whole other mess
you're gonna have to deal with.
How do you know about that?
Orchid Explosion by Fournier, but it doesn't matter.
I don't care about that stuff.
That's like my whole thing.
I can't keep waking up in there.
Just ignore it.
I need my life back.
And I am asking you if you want to leave this place
and come with me.
And I'm saying no, but I'm also asking you to stay.
You know, the whole thing was just kind of a treat to make.
It was that rare instance of everyone
truly loving and believing in the material.
No one was there doing it for the paycheck.
It was all just for the love and, dare I say, for the art.
(WHISPERING) Sarah‐‐
Nyles, what the fuck was that?
We should break up.
What?
You don't like me.
I don't like you, but I don't think we should break up.
What?
People don't break up with me.
This is so fucked up.
OK.
I'm breaking up with you!
I had the idea first!
(SINGING) The blind may see, but stay behind the reeds
of all liability.
And there's nothing more you need.
Thank you.
You have beautiful skin.
I love your haircut.
Me, too.
Without further ado, let me bring
up the actual maid of honor, the big sister of the bride, Sarah.
Good luck, girl.
Thank you, Misty.
When I was 12, I had just started at this new school.
And I was truly terrified of the world,
and I kept having these really awful nightmares.
And then one morning, I woke up after a full night of sleep.
And I find Tala asleep next to me, holding me.
She'd heard me crying in my sleep,
and she crawled into my bed to snuggle me because she
thought that might help.
And she was like five years old.
Yeah, I think that she's finally accepted herself.
And also, I think knowing that this is like maybe the last
time she's ever gonna see her family possibly‐‐
because she doesn't know what's gonna happen‐‐
that she's able to like release and give her sister the wedding
that she should have given her.
Yep.
And the speech that she should have given her.
Big sisters are supposed to teach baby sisters,
but I will today and forever‐‐
and ever, ever‐‐ be learning from you.
Four nights?
That sounds right. Is that right?
Three to four nights of shooting the wedding,
all of the wedding stuff.
Can't stress how much we were rushing.
We had a real breakneck pace on this thing.
Every scene at the wedding was like, I think,
two takes except for the dancing, which was five.
By the way, I think that's also maybe
why we haven't busted out any bloopers yet, because we're
using like every shot frame.
Right.
Many, many things re‐appropriated
to fit different scenes they weren't meant for
and reaction shots from totally different scenes.
(WHISPERING) I love you.
I love you, too.
So hopefully, you get this.
And sorry about that, again.
And I hope to see you soon.
OK.
That was a lovely speech.
So a lot of questions about this scene.
A lot of people want to know if Nana knows.
Does she know about the loop?
Is she just kind of sensing that something's up?
I don't want to answer what I think.
Because, as you know from when we did press together for this,
I don't like answering any of these things
because I think that's what makes the movie so great.
No one knows.
Yes.
I have my own opinion about it.
That's for me.
I don't even tell Andy what I think.
The truth is‐‐ and I know this is not
necessarily what people want‐‐ but I
think maybe deep down it is.
There's no definitive answer to a lot of these questions,
because a lot of different people
working on the movie in a creative capacity
think different things.
So it actually is meant to be what
you think it is, is what it is.
And that's the correct answer.
Up for interpretation, Thomas.
Yes.
Oh, Thomas.
[MUSIC ‐ LEONARD COHEN, "THE PARTISAN"]
Love the song.
This was your pitch, using this song.
When we were driving to Joshua Tree
one day to shoot in the car‐‐ me, you,
and our wonderful producer Becky Sloviter‐‐
and you said there was a moment in the script
you always imagined this song was playing.
That's right‐‐ Leonard Cohen's "The Partisan."
Yes.
And it was actually the scene right after this scene.
And we tried it there, but then we reshuffled it and ended
up using it inside the bar.
It works beautifully.
So thank you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
[TIRE BLOWING]
No‐‐ no!
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
(YELLING) Dammit!
[GUNSHOTS]
What?
Don't shoot, don't shoot!
It's fun seeing‐‐
I love‐‐ this was always, always a part of the script.
There's actually‐‐ yeah, some people have been like, wait,
what's the deal with Spuds?
Is he really his dad?
And I'm always confused.
It's just, Nyles knows everything about Spuds,
so he tricks them in this moment into giving him a ride.
So, sorry to anyone who wanted that to be a real thing,
that Spuds was Nyles' dad.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
(YELLING) Sarah!
Sarah, wait‐‐ wait!
I get it now.
You were right.
I was scared.
But I'm not anymore.
Look, Sarah‐‐ from the first time that I saw you‐‐
No, stop.
Stop it.
Nyles, I don't want another one of your speeches, all right?
You get one more sentence.
OK, OK.
Even though I pretend not to be, I've realized that I
am completely codependent.
But I'm cool with it, because I think
that life should be shared now.
And I need you to survive.
OK, that's your one sentence.
I need you to survive, comma, but it's
so much more than that.
Colon‐‐ I know you better than anyone knows you.
And remember that night when we saw the dinosaurs?
You said it yourself.
I just like that this was‐‐
this scene was always really true to who she was,
that she doesn't become like a completely different
person after this connection.
She still is able‐‐ she still expresses love in the way
that Sarah expresses love, which is,
I think, through a series of‐‐
I don't think she's very comfortable being vulnerable.
And, you know, that's one of the things that ties them together.
But I like that there wasn't suddenly a shift,
and she was like, oh, my god.
You're right‐‐ I love you!
Like it was just like, all right come on.
The challenge of it was making it feel like a payoff,
and like you were rooting for them
and seeing that they really cared about each other
without betraying who we were telling you
they were the whole time.
Exactly. It's very true to who they are.
Tried to undercut it a bunch of times with little details
and not having her be like you said, just fully giving it up.
It's a rom‐com!
I'm hoping it didn't distract from my point too much.
I mean, an emphatic period is just‐‐
it's an exclamation point.
I didn't want to seem desperate.
What if we get sick of each other?
We're already sick of each other.
It's the best.
I can survive just fine without you, you know?
But there is a chance that this life can be a little
less mundane with you in it.
Yeah, less mundane.
That's super low bar.
That's a great place to start.
OK.
Come on.
Let's see if we blow up and die.
OK.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
So is the whole go disappearing thing for real?
Oh, Kate Bush.
This‐‐ oh, yeah.
This is your idea?
The first meeting I ever had with Max and Andy,
I said I feel like we should have a scene where they go
into the cave and blow themselves up,
and Kate Bush is playing and it's this song.
And they were like, love it!
It's so good.
Oh, I love this part.
Love how it looks.
Everyone did such a nice job.
Yeah.
[MUSIC ‐ KATE BUSH, "CLOUDBUSTING"]
(SINGING) We've been cloudbusting, daddy.
(SINGING) Yeah‐yeah, yeah‐‐ oh!
There are clues throughout the entire movie that
can point you to one ending.
However, it shouldn't matter.
What truly matters in the movie is that they
walk into that cave together.
They embrace the unknown, but they do it together.
Here's the ending.
No one knows what it means.
No one knows.
And I actually had my own opinions,
and I would never share them.
Yeah.
They're different than yours.
I know what yours are.
Now what do we do?
Look, it's the same thing that we
were saying before earlier, about Nana
and about the dinosaurs.
There are certain things in this movie that are not meant
to be known with certainty.
Like the thing we talked about a lot was the movie kinda
could've ended when they walk into that cave
and blow themselves up, because they've
both decided that they're in and they're gonna take the leap.
And that's sort of‐‐
that's the arc, you know?
What the fuck are you doing in our pool?
Also, the family there is our producer, Becky Sloviter‐‐
our amazing producer and that's your husband and kids,
which I love.
They drove a very long way to do that one
shot for like two seconds.
[MUSIC ‐ HALL & OATES, "WHEN THE MORNING COMES"]
(SINGING) I went downtown to see my lady.
She stood me up, and I stood there waiting.
It'll be all right.
Aw, I love this part where you see the dinosaurs.
Do you see them, do you see them?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, maybe you do.
Maybe that's them there on the horizon.
(SINGING) When the morning comes.
Way to go, Max.
Way to go, Siara.
Way to go!
Yay, Andy!
Nice job.
Well produced, well produced.
Yay!
Hey, shit bird.
I got the message from your girlfriend last night.
That is a pretty crazy theory.
You really think it could work?
We leave a little bit of a breadcrumb trail
of hope for Roy.
We weren't gonna leave him high and dry.
Hi.
No way.
Wow, Daisy I'd like a‐‐
lots of alcohol, please.
Nice to meet you.
Yeah.
(SINGING) When the morning comes.
It was a blast.
I mean, the movie was a complete romp, as designed and written.
And that's kinda what the shoot felt like, too.
We shot in 21 days, so there wasn't a lot of time.
But everybody came inspired and prepared,
and it was just‐‐ you know, it felt like a fun party
that you hoped would last forever,
but it had to end at some point.
But it was a total blast.
It was a dream come true.
(SINGING) Standing here, waiting on you.
It'll be all right when the morning comes.
[VOCALIZING] When the morning comes.
[VOCALIZING] It'll be all right when the morning comes.
[INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE]
[VOCALIZING]
(SINGING) When the morning comes.
[MUSIC ‐ SE ROGIE, "MAN STUPID BEING"]
(SINGING) Let me give you a little experience of
some young chickens out today.
I'm gonna give you a little experience of
some young chickens out today.
They are full of disappointments.
They are never, never on time.
They don't keep to an appointment.
They don't let you catch their lie.
They will tell you this when they mean that.
I wish I could keep them apart.
But ask your mom, how can I?
These women‐‐ necessary evil.
Oh, man‐‐ oh, man.
Yes, man stupid being.
[INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE]
(SINGING) Yeah, 5:00 PM is 10:00 AM on the East Wednesday.
And when you try to taste heaven,
they'll never come your way.
The only time they keep to an appointment
is when in desperate need.
They will tell you all sorts of lies
just to get what they need.
And man, being so stupid, will give them all they need,
forgetting all the disappointments
and all their previous lies.
And man‐‐ oh, man, yeah‐‐
man needs help.
I say, man stupid being.
[INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE]
(SINGING) Man stupid being.
Man stupid being.