"Hi, everybody, this is our commentary." " So we're here with Michael." " Hey." "I'm Pete Sollett, the director." " This is Ari Graynor." " Hi, guys." " And Kat Dennings." " Hi, guys." "Thanks for buying the DVD or renting it." " There's the Mandate little girl who's..." " That's my daughter." " Creepy." " Such a pleasure to work with on this." "She did it for scale, I'd like to remind everybody." "This is a passion project for her." " Pete, where was this filmed?" " So cute." "Where?" " Good place to start." " This was filmed in Staten Island." " New York." " Is this room in an actual house or did you build this on the sound stage?" " Mike built this house in his house." " Oh, my God." " With his own two hands?" " This is a real house in Staten Island." "And we..." " This is a real house." " We decorated it to look..." "It sounded like This Old House." "These posters and everything weren't really in there." "That was all stuff from the movie." "And we weren't really the people that lived in that house, but..." " No." " All this stuff was reshoots." "Everything up until the club scene when Rafi Gavron takes his shirt off." "I feel everyone should know that this was reshoot." "Yeah, all done later." "Later after..." "Like, six months after we shot the other part of the movie." "That's an interesting tidbit." "There's some reshoot stuff in the club scene too, huh?" "Oh, yeah." "All throughout the movie, there's kind of reshoot stuff, right?" " Yeah." " Throughout the whole..." "You can't tell." "Our haircuts are the same." " Oh, yes, we have one of these..." " The first..." "You guys." " Yeah." " You guys." "Yes." " Shut up." " You guys." "You guys." "Omega." " when you broke up with me, you know and everything, on my b-day." "Also, that mix CD that I left on your doorstep was the last one that I'll be making for you." "More or less." "Anyway, give me a call." "I'm doing very well." "I hope you're great." "Have a great weekend, and do something fun, you know." "Just get out there." "Call me, though, when you get a chance." "All right." "Bye." "Message has been deleted." "Fuck." "To re-record your message, press one." "Norah." "Norah." "I didn't have any songs in my headphones or any song in my headphones." " Really?" " Nope." "What were you listening to then?" "In my head I was listening to Bloc Party..." "You can tell you're listening to something." "Were you just...?" " Nope, she was acting." " I was acting." "You lied to the movie-going public." " Your face is a lie." " By the way Michael did not make that cover art on that compact disc." " This whole movie is one big lie." " It totally is." "You're one big lie." "Also, it's a lie that I know how to open a locker." "Remember?" " I couldn't get the locker." " Homeschooled Sally." " Yeah, Homeschooled Sally." " Kat had never seen a locker before." " I've seen a locker, I hadn't opened it." " Or a CD." "You didn't know what to do." "No, in homeschool club, you get tapes only." " So you never had a locker?" " No." "Or I got..." "I felt embarrassed." "That's kind of the best part of high school." " Having a locker?" " Yeah." " I never used my locker." " You see it on Saved by the Bell." "I don't know if they can clear that, can they?" " Can I say Saved by the...?" " Saved by the:" "Yeah, you could say that." " This is amazing." " This is the greatest van in the world." " A lot of good times went down there." " A lot of mold." " Yeah." "Lot of memories." " Joseph Middleton." "Here's a tidbit nobody knows, including you guys." "Joseph Middleton was my first casting director audition in Los Angeles." " Really?" " Probably my last." " Was it for this?" " Because it's offer only after that." " Oh, yeah." " Good one." " Good one." " And Aaron Yoo was deathly ill here..." "Oh, my God, yeah." "He could hardly stand up." "Yeah, poor Aaron showed up for this, just out of the hospital." "He flew into town that morning with stitches in his side." " He had surgery on his abdomen." " He looks healthy as a horse but it's just good acting." " He's doing an amazing job." "He's in agony right there, right?" "Like, he can hardly stand." " Yeah, we set up, like, a cot for him." " The deck chair." "I use the "we" term liberally, because it wasn't any of us here." " Right." "Yeah." " I brought him Jell-O." "I specifically remembered making sure that he had a cot." "I think he made that up, I think he wanted the attention." "He totally did, he's such a drama queen." " He was a trouper, though." " I don't know how he did that..." "I think it really hurt him to sit and stuff so when he's sitting in the van, you know..." "But he never really complained." "But look at the energy, just..." "I mean, when I'm in agony, I don't do stuff like that, normally." "When I'm in agony, I make sure everybody knows that I'm in agony." "Absolutely." "Rule number one." " Hey, I'm in agony." " Sympathy." " put on some pants." " I like this tune." " Yeah, put on some pants." " I like this tune." " Yeah, put on some pants." " Ari, we are adorable." " Shut up, there we are." "This is still all reshoot stuff." " All reshoots." " Oh, my gosh." "Did you guys have to revisit anything to get back into character six months later?" " No." " All me and Kat had to do is look deep into each other's eyes and then we were back." "All we had to do was..." "There's some creepy old men teachers, like, going in and out of the hallways." "Remember, when we were waiting to go outside?" "That was all we needed." " Alexis, in that outfit, is so adorable." " She's adorable in any outfit." "She is." "Damn her." "I looked like..." "I literally look like a man who is..." "Like a man who's..." "A big man in this school uniform." "I don't know what you're talking about." " Who invented that?" " You're nuts." " Ari, you look adorable." " Oh, thank you, honey." "And I look like crap." "Fluffy." " Fluffy." "Fluffy." " Fluffy." "Fluffy." " Here we are, two girls..." " Exuberant." "...off into the night." "You just came out of that door looking like you're surprised that you came out of that door." " How did you achieve that?" " What does that mean?" "You came out of the door like you didn't expect to." "Maybe one of the one of the ADs just pushed me out." " Oh, right." " I didn't realize that we were rolling." "Is it true that there's only, like, a few Yugos in the world?" "Here's a story:" "I hit my head here really hard." " It hurt." " Oh, Mike." " You'll see my head..." " There we go." "You can hardly tell, but I thought..." "When it happened, I was like, "Great, that'll look like I did that on purpose."" "And then you can't tell." "It looks like I have a spastic neck movement." " Tom Richmond." " Tom Richmond." "It hurt though, really." "I think I was bleeding." "I was actually bleeding from that." "They had to put makeup on it." " Yeah." " Mike." "For the rest of the movie, whenever you see me, I had makeup on." "No, that's not true." " It's horrible." " Oh, God, that was real vodka." " It's a controversial shot." " Whose voice is that, Pete, yelling?" "That's Myron Kerstein, our editor's voice heckling Ari." "Those are good names there:" "Adam Brightman, Nathan Kahane, Joe Drake." " We love Nathan." " All those names are good too." " Good names." " New York, we love." " That's a good couple of names." " Look how cute..." "Mike." "I did not really drink alcohol in that previous scene." " I just want that to be known." " You did." "You did." "Okay, this is sexy." "This was the original beginning of the movie." "Right." "This is how the movie was gonna start before we shot..." "Yeah, this was the opening scene." " Look at Rafi go." " People went bananas for Rafi." "That's really Rafi's voice too." "That's him singing." "Although, we're not playing those instruments." "He is the only one who's really doing it." "I'm playing an instrument." " The love instrument." " Your body is your instrument as an actress." "When we rehearsed this scene, before we started shooting it in Don Hill's and we were listening to that song, it was one of the most exciting moments of all..." "People love this song and they would, like, sing it between shooting it." "This was the first few days of shooting in here." " Why isn't this on the soundtrack?" " This was the first week of shooting." " We were all strangers." " It's not on the soundtrack?" "It's on iTunes." "I'm gonna buy it." "So, what are you talking about, Pete, with the stars in the sky or something?" "Well, in the title design, they drew little squiggles and stuff in the sky." "I was waiting for it to happen, it already happened." "If you squint really hard and do like this, you can see." " Okay." " It's similar." "I don't think I ever closed my mouth in this movie." "It's hard not to laugh when you're standing next to me with your mouth open like that." "It's such a good choice though." "This is the first thing we shot on the movie, this performance." " That's right." " The second thing was this scene..." "And then Rafi normally comes down and kisses a guy." "It just cuts away right when it happens." "And that guy was so excited." "He had to kiss that guy and it didn't make it in." " They kissed a lot." " That guy was so excited when..." "We couldn't stop them from kissing after a certain point." "Mike, I love your face when you do that." "Your were so pissed." "I like the Jerk Offs sign in the back." "That's Lite-Brites." "Those were some of my favorite things." "Dave Doernberg, our production designer, dug out the Lite-Brite." " I love Lite-Brite." " He doesn't do that for every motion picture he works on." "This is the first thing of our friendship that we ever filmed." "Yeah." "Watching this scene, like, this is where we all got to know each other." "This is where l..." "I hadn't ever met Jonny or seen him in anything." "And he didn't say a word in this sequence." "He's standing in the crowd staring at Rafi, but I learned so much about him just watching him from the stage." " But you met him at rehearsals, right?" "Yeah, I mean..." "But still, you know, it was kind of..." "We were just acquainted." " Ari, look at us becoming BFF's." " I know." " I love that it's capsulated on film." " It's on film for..." " That's an attractive looking face." " You're drunk." " Good look." " You're beautiful." "Ari, when you..." " Okay." " I love this." "Have you been looking at me?" ""I've been looking at you guys." "Have you been looking at me?"" "A lot of good practice." "Flirting in college." "It really helped a lot." "And look at Jonny's bone structure." " Yeah." " Jonny has the greatest face." " Look at that." " Oh, mama." "He's creepy." "People keep asking me if Jonny's related to Josh Hartnett." " Oh, my gosh." " Really?" "I don't even really know the answer to that, I assume not." "I don't think he is, but I can see why they're asking." " Just because they look...?" " What is that?" "Yeah, they have similar bone structure." " came all this way to see me." "Dude, don't give into temptation..." "I love your use of slow-mo, Pete." "Good job there, Mike." "That's not slo-mo, that Alexis' performance." "Oh, God." "You think it's easy to achieve that?" " Damn." " Slo-mo acting." "Damn lady." "I just wanna say I feel like we set a ridiculous pace for this commentary and now we're all finding it hard to keep up." "We realized this is gonna go on for two hours." "It's a good thing that we have Pete's list of questions." "My coffee is starting to wear off." "Oh, my God." " This was shot in the studio..." " Stage." "This was the very last thing we shot." "Actually, the very last thing we shot on the movie during principal photography was the moment..." "Was your orgasm." " The overhead shot on the couch." " Oh, that." "But that morning, on day 29 of shooting, we shot this." "I remember sitting there watching this because it was beautiful." " So this wasn't a reshoot." " Were you wrestling?" " No, this is principal photography." " Right." " Were you really tickling each other?" " Yeah, that was real tickling." "I love this song, by the way." " This song by The Submarines." " The Submarines." " Great song." " It's a great song." "I'm seeing some of the faces in the background and remembering all these people that we spent, like, two weeks with." "There was one female extra that had a thing for Kat." " One female extra?" " Just one." "One that came up and said something, but half a dozen had their eye on you." "A little, like, "Oh, yeah."" "There was one female extra, blond girl in a hat, female extra who worked her way into every shot in the first third of the movie." "Really?" "You know what, I have to say it was a point of frustration." "Because I felt like every shot we cut to, she'd snuck in there." "We should call Rafi and see if he has anything he wants to say." "All you have to do is put an ADR..." "Put an ADR line like, "Oh, the O'Malley triplets are here tonight."" " Jeez." " They're all over the place." "This moment was reshot." " Yeah, this was reshot." " That thing that just happened." "Oh, yeah." "Now, Pete, did we use the reshot kiss or the original kiss here?" " We reshot the kiss." " The reshot kiss." " Okay, because there were a few..." " Why did you reshoot the kiss?" "Because Rafi wasn't handsome enough in the background." "If you look now, look at the face he makes." " Not handsome." " It is stunning." " Everyone's..." " I mean, look at that." " He's all I can look at right now." " Look at those eyes." " Oh, yeah." " There we go." "I love how my head is 800 times the size of your head." " That's a beautiful shot." " This is love." "Love happening." " It is." " Look at those eyes." " Thank you, Tom Richmond." " Thank you, Tom." " Was that the blond girl?" " She just walked by." "Oh, man, I missed her." "We go to the same dentist together." " Zac Booth is also very handsome." " Yeah." " It's true." " Everybody's handsome." " All the guys are handsome." " Good-looking group." " Zac Booth has incredible hair." " Yeah, he does." " I mean, a great guy too." " Look at that." "It's kind of..." "See, there's no Rafi, because they knew that if you were on-screen, it'd be distracting." "Look at your punim." " Oh, squeeze it." " Stop it." "I wanna mention that Rafi tried to do a mean thing to me in Toronto." " Do you guys remember?" " He did." "That was uncomfortable." " Yeah." "On-stage." " But I stopped it, didn't I?" " There we go." " Yeah, he was trying to get me back..." "Oh, my gosh." " But, Mike, I averted your..." " Yeah, you did." "We were on stage doing a QA in Toronto and Rafi said:" ""Mike, sing that song that you always sang to me on set."" "And he was getting me back because of this prank we had played on him in Toronto." "He was getting you back for the $20 prank?" "Yes, exactly." "Oh, I felt..." "I was really..." "That was not a good moment." "And he looked at me, like, the most sadistic look." "Well, and then he got his, like, Rafi little-kid thing of like:" ""Mike, you did it to me."" "Hilarious." "And then I played, like, mom." "I was mom there." "I was like, "No." "Michael does not do it."" " Yeah, that was nice." " Here we go." "Bishop Allen." "Oh, Mike." "Oh, yeah, here we go." " Bishop Allen." " Tilt up." "Tilt up." "There they are." " Those guys were great." " I say hi and then they say hi." " This song was stuck in my head after." " Yeah, I love this song." "It's a great song." "It's a great song." " This is one of my favorite..." " Is that her?" " That was the girl in the background." " It was?" "Here's one my favorite Ari Graynor moments." "Here it comes." "What?" "Can we get a ride?" " Oh, that's..." " That's you." "Is that "we"?" "Here it comes." "Sorry, Tris, the car's full." " It is full." " Is she gonna hiccup or something?" "Are you mad at me?" "What I love about that is the gum that's..." "The gum is just about to fall out of your mouth." "You look so messy." "It's like Andy Capp." "Remember the impossible, like, cigarette dangling?" "That's like you and the gum." "Remember Dan Aykroyd in Ghost Busters with that cigarette?" " He does that scene." " It's hanging vertically." "I know exactly what you're talking about, when he finds Slimer." " How'd he get that cigarette to hang?" " It's incredible." "I'm glad that my life's insecurities of thinking people are mad at me got put to good use in this movie." " Yeah, it was such a good choice." " Oh, Ari." "I've been thinking that a lot lately." "The phone rings and, "Hey, we need to talk about something."" "I always have the impulse now of saying, "Are you mad at me?"" "If I had a dime for every time I say that in life, I'd be a rich woman." "You haven't said that to me." "You've only been like, "Do you love me?"" ""Do you still love me?"" "The answer is always yes." "That's a pretty good one too, right there." "Oh, my gosh." " That's hideous." " We were laughing filming this." "Right?" "For some reason?" " We were giggling." " Why were we laughing?" "Oh, it was when we were doing that shouting thing, which I can't say..." "I can't say because it's a bad word." "Remember the high-pitched shout?" "Oh, yeah." "Wait, I thought that was in the van." "I think this is where it became invented." "Unfortunately." " You off-duty?" " This isn't a cab." "Are you off-duty?" "I had laryngitis, remember?" "I was sick this whole time." "You didn't sound like you during this." " During this stuff?" " Yeah, during all this stuff." "Aaron Yoo was really driving that van, by the way." "Confidently." " It doesn't sound like I have laryngitis." " I don't think you sound that different." "It's because Self, our PA from heaven, used to bring me hot beverages." " We miss you." " I love Self." " you two might get stuck." "Having some trouble?" "Hey, I bet that wasn't looped." "I was with Jonny..." "I was with Jonny during that moment." "ADR." "Whatever." "I'm not trying to show off, I'm just saying." "You know what though?" "This is bad because I'm loving watching this and not saying anything interesting." "Don't look at it." " Yeah, look away." " I can't look away." "Hey, I think I should..." " This was freezing." " This is from cold." " This awkward..." " It was really cold." "It was, like, October, November in New York." "We were all in these huge warming coats when we weren't shooting." "Which almost made it worse because you'd get warm and take it off." "That's true." "Sometimes I'd try and not put it on to get used to the cold." "This van smelled not like muffins." "Oh, I liked the smell in that van." " It smelled awful." " It smelled like home." "Like sad..." "It smelled like home when someone vomits in your living room and pees all over your carpet." "Sometimes there would be phantom wet spots on there." "Yeah." "Well, there'd be, like, just a Coke can." "Like, a renegade Coke can just standing there." "Was that you?" "Just laying down your:" "Staking your territory?" "It's behind us now, we can talk about it." "Ari, you're the cutest..." "Everyone I talked to says that you just steal everything and that you are just the best drunk anyone's ever seen." "And that you are gorgeous and luminous, which is all true." " I look like a man." " A lot of extras." "If you say that one more time, I'm gonna slap you across that face hard." "Do it." "There's no time like the commentary." "Rafi and I were talking, like, kind of inappropriately." "We didn't realize everyone was wearing their headphones between takes." "Wasn't there a funny thing, when you first shot that scene that Pete didn't specifically say, like, don't lift up Kat's shirt." "Oh, my God." "When he thought there was a shirt under it." "I totally remember that." "Rafi thought there was a shirt under my shirt when we were rehearsing and lifted up my hoody, and there wasn't a shirt under my shirt." "I have to say, though, they don't..." "Should I have to say, in a scene, that you should not pull up a girl's shirt?" "Don't pull up Kat's shirt in this one." "I mean, am I supposed to say that in every scene?" "I made it seem like it was Pete's fault, but it wasn't." "At least I was wearing a brassiere." " Rafi was hoping to catch a glimpse." " No, I don't think he was." " Rafi blamed it on his character." " Can I, like, reveal a secret?" "He was in character." "This is embarrassing, but I wanna say it because you guys are here." "After that happened, I re-created my crouch in my trailer pulled up my shirt to see what I look like." "Re-created your what?" "I was, like, "I need do some crunches."" " Oh, my gosh." " You are so much." " Oh, no." " That's what you do in your trailer?" "That's what I..." "I know, it was really insecure of me." "I like this part, Ari." "We should talk about this stunt, Ari." " Oh, God, is this the...?" " I didn't not..." " Well, I accidentally hit it once." " You hit your head once." " But there was padding on the door." " Should we talk about where this is?" "It's, like, Ludlow and Stanton." "I didn't realize that my ass was gonna be..." " Ari, your ass." " There it is." "It's so beautiful." " Goddamn you, Kat." " Does she say, "My ass is in the air?"" "I remember you saying that." "You really, really look like you..." " Jesus." " You guys, I'm fine." "That was like a big stunt, right?" "The timing of that was tough." "With them pulling the door, and didn't it..." "It was tough and Ari ate that door a couple of times." "Yeah." "You're dedicated to your art." "Was that a take where she actually hit her head?" " I don't think so." " Looks pretty convincing." "I think it's just the sound effect that makes it so powerful." " There they are, off into the night." " I'm actually driving." " Yeah, and..." " It died a bunch of times." "Do you have any assemblies of those takes in the blooper reel at all, Pete?" " Of Mike stalling the Yugo?" " Yeah." " No, I don't have them." " The Yugo just slowing to a stop." " No." " Are you doing, like, a blooper reel?" " Yeah, we have a great blooper reel." " My God." "I wanna see it so badly." " Click on over." " Stop this commentary immediately." " Hey, that was my hand." " Kat Dennings does her own inserts." "Because nobody else can do it right." "I don't think that my hand acting in the scene with the toilet ended up in there, right?" "That was cut?" " No, your hand is..." " When she looks in the hole and my hand goes over it." " No, that didn't make it." " They cut that out." " That didn't make it." " God, your fault, so hard." "If anyone's gonna get raped in that van..." "And this is so..." "This gets a huge laugh." "Sorry, I told you I didn't think that rape line was gonna work." "Yeah." "No, it's fine." "Did you tell me that night?" "Yeah, because you guys started bringing the scene in..." "You started to re-create the scene and it was going really well but then that rape line I thought was never gonna work." "It was never gonna play funny." "But it's one of the biggest laughs in the film." "I think that some people definitely won't like it." "So I think your instinct was..." " I was playing it safe." " Well, rape isn't a joke, Michael." " What'd you say?" " Rape isn't a joke." " No." " It is in this line." "It gets a big laugh, though." "Hey, we're about to do..." "Oh, no, we're not." "This, you're being pulled by a, whatever that's called, a dolly rig." " These guys are towing the..." " Not actually driving." "Is this the night...?" "Oh, no, that's gonna be in another scene." " Is this a real or fake background?" " This is all real." " We're really being..." " That's 1 st Avenue." "I don't think we had a fake background in the Yugo, did we?" "No." "Oh, except when I'm, like, driving into the city." " In the van we had a fake thing." " Seth Meyers." " And Lorene Scafaria, the writer." " Our writer." "Screenplay writer." " She's so hot." " These guys were great." "Some people don't realize that that's Seth Meyers, right, Mike?" "Some, yeah." "A lot of people, actually." "I've mentioned:" ""Yeah, Seth Meyers was the guy in the back."" "They're like, "No way, that was him?"" " Wait, what were they like?" " This was awkward." "Like, "Wait a minute, no way." "Seth Meyers?" " That wasn't him."" " Their mouths were making noises." " I'm like, "Why are you telling me?"" " They totally made out, like, for real." "This was an interesting biological experiment, to have them making out in the back of that Yugo for a whole night." " I think that's fake." " Yeah, they committed." " Something came over them." " Did they get pregnant that night?" "Their characters did." "The characters got pregnant." "Their characters did, they did." "Sick." "Was it awk...?" "Did they...?" "Like, when you guys would cut in between would, then, they sit on opposite sides?" " No, we were all talking." " They were chilling." " Or were they still making out?" " They were friends before this." "So it was more comfortable than it would've been, I think." "I don't think they were friends in italics." "They weren't friends afterwards." "No." "Bet she was pointy." "It was fun, though." "I remember laughing a lot this night." "And we went really late this night." "I think we went till, like, 6 or 7." " Was this where you got carsick?" " I think it was." " What do you mean?" " Pete got really bad..." "Well, on this night we were towing the Yugo, and I was facing the Yugo." "So I was driving backwards outside." "It was about 15 degrees." "And you had some bad food." "It smelled like gasoline." "And I think I ate some bad flan." " Yeah." " Bad what?" "You know, it's the old bad flan." " Flan?" " Yeah." "You never had flan?" "Flan like the pannacotta kind of flan?" "It's like the Mexican dessert." "It's just like lard." " It's just like caramel flavored lard." " No, it's not." " It's like custard." " It's cream." " Yeah, it's delicious." " It's a damn flan." " I'm not saying that it's not good." " Okay, so did you get all...?" "I threw up on the process trailer, is what happened." " You did." " And I didn't finish the day." "Christo Morse, our AD, saved me." "He directed the last quarter of the day." "Felt so bad." "But, Pete, you were a trouper, though." "Yeah, you lasted a long time, considering." "I made it look..." "I puked with authority." " I thought it was directorial." " I thought it was good." "Was it projectile, like that time when we put that hose up next to my face?" "If you look carefully at the windshield of the Yugo, I did hit it." " No, stop." " Pete, tell me what..." " We should talk about this." " That look you tell me to talk about all the time, now you say it." "This is one of my favorite moments, you're looking at each other with that song before the moment's broken by Mike's voice in that CD." "But you were getting to know each other." "This was day six of shooting." "Is that right?" "You have an incredible track of it all." "I can't believe you know what day is what." " Yeah." " Sorry to interrupt." "I wanna hear what you were gonna say about the look and stuff." "So you guys were still getting to know each other and so, what I did was I asked Kat, who was off camera, to..." "I didn't tell you about this, Mike but I asked Kat to put her hands on your legs but I asked Kat to put her hands on your legs and tell her how adorable she thought you were in Superbad." " Did you put your hands on my leg?" " I can't remember." "I couldn't tell if you did." "I assumed you did because you did the rest of it." " I couldn't tell where your hands were." " I probably poked it." " I don't wanna know." " Didn't know where your hands were?" "I remember something like that." "I like to poke Michael, because..." "You're so cute when you flinch." "When you recoil with horror." "Poke, poke, poke." " Here's some hotness." " These guys are good." " Sexy." " Great chemistry." "I don't know why, but these guys..." "They, like, auditioned together, right?" "Norah!" "Norah!" "Norah!" "Oh, my God, Pete." "This is that crazy shot where they had like..." "They put the wall back, remember?" "When it goes all the way around, someone was putting the wall back." " Really?" " Yeah, it was like a 3-D shot." " Oh, my gosh." " This one was..." "This was cake icing on my hand." " It was?" " Yup." " It looked like paint." " Have a sweet dessert." " After this, you licked your fingers?" " I licked that wall." "Check out Mike's performance here." "Oh, well, there's a..." "What?" " Total shock, which I love." " I'm like, "Wait." "What?"" " What's happening?" " Wait a minute." "What?" " "Why are you grabbing on me?" - "What's going on?"" "There was previously a scene there with Mike and a transvestite." " You can catch that on the DVD too." " Oh, yeah, I forgot about that." " In the deleted scenes." " That's what I was recovering from." "Are most of the scenes that are deleted on there, or did you pick and choose?" "We got a great scene with Kat and Jesus." "We've got Trannie Tris." " Thank God." " Trannie Tris." " All the oldies but goodies are there." " Do you say:" " "When I say 'Jesus' you say 'Christ"'?" " That's in there." "Yes." " That was fun." " Yup." "Do you have the bathroom scene at the?" "In the Catholic school." "Is that in there?" " No, I'm afraid not." " No." " That was kind of omitted, right?" " Oh, God." " That was fun." " That was funny." "Remember how much fun we had because we weren't outside for once?" "And we were just all girls for once." " It was the only day off that I had." " I know." "That was great." "It was the only day I could kind of walk around." " What'd you do that day?" " I slept late because I was on the weird night schedule." "So I slept basically half a day away." "And then got up and maybe got some food or something." "I think I hung out with my friends." "If you really wanna know, she actually supported our music and our band when nobody else did, not that that's any of your business." " Okay, forget it." "I can't do this." " Do what?" "Just make a U-turn and take me back to Ludlow." "I'll find my own way." " Perfect." " I refuse to be the goodie bag at your party." " You don't have to yell." "It's not a train station." "We're in a car." " Just drop me off." " I will." "Oh, my God!" "Are you crazy?" "Mike, is this the night somebody confused you for...?" " Denzel." " Denzel Washington." " That's right, that's the night." " What do you mean?" " You don't know that?" " Oh, my God." " I don't think so." " You tell the story." "It was just someone driving by and went, "Denzel."" "A car full, of..." "No, there were like six people." "They were like, "Denzel."" "And they were drunk." "This was probably a Friday." "I remember a lot of people getting out of bars this night." "Friday night, 7th Street, Avenue A." " Yeah, at like 1 a.m." " We're in the middle of the action." " Did you happen to think...?" " Hello." "Not a real punch." "Oh, I was so terrified I would hit you by accident." "There was a take where you were supposed to, but you didn't." "Pete asked me to slap you and I couldn't do it." " I started to cry a little bit." " I saw you two having that discussion." "I was like:" ""She's gonna hit me." "I'm ready for it."" "It's gonna be cool." "It'll be a good reaction." "That was the only time I started to cry a little because I felt like..." " You actually started crying?" " I was hiding it." " At the thought of hitting me?" " Just the thought of hitting Michael without him knowing." "Or just hitting Mike." " It's like hitting a puppy." "You cannot..." " But we were in character." "I know, but..." "It would have been so Of Mice and Men." "I didn't do it." "But back to the Denzel story somebody thought Michael was Denzel." "Did you ever think that maybe Denzel was just standing behind you?" " We looked to make sure." " They were looking at me." "I looked around for Denzel, because I love Denzel." " But there is no Denzel." " No, it was me." "Did we have any celebrity sightings on the shoot?" " I don't..." " Wait, wait." "Yeah, we..." "Oh, God." "Well, now I forget." "Remember there was a guy near Don Hill's who was crossing the street and I was like, "That's the guy from..."" "Really?" "He's in a band, remember?" "He's handsome." " Was it Mayim Bialik?" " I forget." " Maybe." " Mayim Bialik." " Could be." " I love Mayim Bialik in Blossom." "I don't remember." "Mayim Bialik was, like, head of a Yiddish singing group." "Last I heard." "True story." " Oh, this was so cold." " Yeah." " It was raining too." " Look at those boys." "How can you just not love them and wanna hang out?" "Jonny's beatboxing was really funny." "This was when the "let me show you my balls" thing happened." " Yeah, that was that night." " Right there." "A guy wanted to show us his balls." "Didn't get to." "So a guy on our movie or some other dude?" " A drunk guy that was stumbling..." " A guy tried to show us his balls." " Christo handled it perfectly." " Christo and Self handled it." " What did Christo do?" " Christo handled his balls." "Christo is our first AD, who is..." " Handsome." " Handsome." " Hand me some of that." " And so sweet." "Gorgeous." "Ari." "By the way, this pregnant lady actually threw up like in the left over where the chairs were, before we started shooting." "Threw up everywhere in between her legs and then just proceeded to sit there for 20 minutes with her and her boyfriend and nobody cleaned it up." "I feel like that was a good omen." " This is the greatest..." " Ari." " You are amazing." " I feel like you can tell that I tried to spit my gum out." " Such a terrible actor." " Oh, my God." "I love the audience, like, reaction whenever Ari does something gross." " It's so amazing." " People really get vocal." "Okay, this is my favorite thing, right here." "Sounds like fun, right?" "Not always." "Scary." " That is a genius, genius line." " So good." "Genius." "Ari." "And that was all you." "You made all that up." "You guys are so supportive." "I love you." "I guess Jonny looks a little like Josh Harnett." " I can see it." " He's just so chiseled." " But I don't think that they look..." " So chiseled." "He's angular." "I love the end of this scene what you guys do, what Mike and Kat do." "You're relating to each other silently for one of the only times in the movie." "And there's this whole thing, Mike, where..." "Now you decided you gonna be on her side and not on your friends' side." "Right." "If you watch carefully, you do this gesture that's like..." " We're a team." " It seems to say ignore these guys, I'm with you." "Well, it's not Nick and His Friends' Infinite Playlist." " Right." " Oh, that's sweet." "I say we do a drive-by." "No." "Absolutely..." "I was loopy there." "I think it was pretty late." "Pretty early." "You can normally tell by our eyes." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You didn't CGI out any of the red in some places." "I'm sure it was..." "Or maybe you did." "No." "I took some of the red out of your cheeks in the exteriors because you looked cold." " Oh, my gosh." " Hey, did you have to take out some of our icy cold breath coming out of our mouths?" " No." "We just didn't use..." " No?" "Look at that face." "Look, they were falling in love." "You see a bit of breath in this movie, don't you?" " Well, this is worth talking about." " Okay." " Okay." " Kevin Corrigan." "Ari, tell us about your evening this night." "This was, like, 3:00 in the morning and we were supposed to shoot a whole other scene." "I was supposed to see a guy and think they were twins." "And about a day before, you, Peter, came over and said that you couldn't decide how to shoot it so we weren't gonna do that scene but we had Kevin Corrigan and what do we wanna do." "And I have a thing with turkey sandwiches so we talked about it and we talked to Kevin who in a really, like, intense way decided that he wasn't gonna say anything during the scene." "Yeah, that's kind of..." "Turning the scene on its head." " Last minute." " Hilarious." "I was like, "Oh, my God." "He's not gonna say anything." "What am I gonna do?"" " Oh, Ari." " I'm sure everyone was freaking out because it was so late and there was no script." "I was just babbling about a turkey sandwich for like hours." "I would love to see Kevin Corrigan get some kind of award for this scene." "He's so genius." "His face..." "I wish..." "I wish at some point in the DVD you can put a thing of him flipping his hat over." "Remember, when he would like do this huge body twitch and his whole hat would flip?" "Oh, my God." "Ari, you..." "You two." "I'd love to see it in the movie with these characters." "I think the two of us should write something." "Caroline and Silent Guy's Infinite Evening." "Ari, this right here, when you almost throw up a few times I don't know how you freaking do it, but it's so disgusting and so accurate." "How do you...?" "How do you...?" "How do you make a noise every time?" " How do you?" " I don't know." " It's one of those hidden talents." " It really makes you, like, squirm." "So good." " Oh, my God." " I love Kevin Corrigan." "Okay, Englewood." "Okay." "Well, the last bus to Englewood left seven minutes ago." "You see?" "She's fine." "Let's go." "No, just because there was a last bus doesn't mean she was on the last bus." " You and your logic." " I'm trying her again." " Oh, no." "Don't throw up." " Oh, God." "The thing that's too bad is that there were many other throw up scenes in the original and now there's..." "No, I mean, that's a good thing." " I don't..." " Remember, there were like...?" " We shot four other throw-up scenes." " On the bus." "Remember?" "With the projectile, with the tube hooked up to your face." "Yeah." " Norah." " Caro..." "Oh, no." "This was like a river, a river flowing." "Oh, God." "And it's so hard to sync it up with your mouth." " It seemed all so unreal." " That's so disgusting." "Yeah, people really get wound up when they watch this." " I just laugh." "I think it's funny." " That's not real vomit." " It was real." " It's real." "No." "But it's like..." "What I keep saying is if you put crushed graham cracker cookies and ginger ale or ginger cookies or whatever and you hold it in your mouth and spit it out." "It doesn't matter that it's not real, it's just disgusting." "It's just as vile." "This woman coming through, do you remember when her line was:" ""Hell no." And she did it, "Hell no."" " Oh, my gosh." " No, that's not real." " Yes, it is." " She..." "All the takes of her saying that line are on the DVD." "Ari, your face..." "Right here." "Right here." "Oh, ashamed but happy." " Guilty pleasure." " I think that was the last thing I shot." "That was the..." "Yeah, that was the last thing you shot." " That was your last day." " It's like a little private shame that you share with yourself." "Fine, let's go to Brooklyn." "Aaron fell down, one of those takes." " Oh, he did?" " Yup." "I love this." " Ari, you look sexual." " You were right there the whole time." " We were so close." " You really do." " We were so close." " You really do." "You look drunk but great." "Pete, you can really tell how much you love New York with these shots." "And it's sexy." "Sexy at the same time." " NY." " Sexy NY." "I do love New York." "I think it's part of what makes the film, you know, special." " Absolutely." " Or specialer." "But look at these shots, you can tell you're a New Yorker and you love it." "Does anyone remember this reference?" " No." " It's the fifth lady." " What?" " What is that?" "Wanna know what that's a reference to?" "Sex and the City, when it was over all the girls, they were always talking backstage about the show." "And they were like, "New York, it's the fifth lady."" "Didn't Kim Cattrall play New York?" "But it is." "It's like in this." "New York is, like, the biggest character." "That's true." "That's true." "Mike and I got a lot of:" ""So, the music's really a character."" "Yeah, the music's a fifth character." "New York's a character." "Yugo's a character." "Gum is a character." "Yeah, the gum is a character." "The Yugo's a character, you know." "I'm not gonna lie, I felt important while this was happening." "I was going in front of the line, doing what I want." "So we're going into one of my favorite scenes in the film." "Mike and Kat, you did an amazing job with this dancing." "And I was worried about how we were gonna do this." "Yeah, this was one of the most tired days of the shoot." " Remember?" " This was when we switched to days." " This was our first day." " That's right." "We had been on the night schedule so we had not enough sleep." "I love your dance because it's so you two." "And only the two of you would do that." "And only, I think, after hours of..." "I mean, not being able to sleep for days." "You can tell we were desperate for sleep." "Yeah, I don't know what I'm talking about." "What am I saying?" "I have a stomach ache from fatigue at this point." "But when this was written, it was like "Norah and Nick get up on Beefy Guy and Dev's shoulders and do a dance."" " It was so terrifying." " I didn't trust Rafi to hold me at all." "I didn't trust anyone to hold me." "I'm unholdable." "It was just too scary." "Like you're a Bruce Willis movie, Unholdable." "This is..." "I think it's terrific." "Try and get as close to my hands as you can without touching them." " It's so good." " But this is my favorite." " This is one of my favorite moments." " We did a lot of versions of this." " What's that?" "What?" " This." "Look at us go." "I don't remember any of this." "It's one of the few times in the movie where you were improvising." " And I..." " Yeah, I guess so." "I don't think you know where it's going." "Usually, when you improvise, you have a sense of where you're gonna land." "Yeah." "But in this case you didn't, and I think that the way you were feeling that really makes that special." "It makes it what it is, because it's so in the moment." "And it's really cute." "I'm not gonna lie." "Baruchel." "Slow down the sexy bus." "It was really fun." "It was good having Jay around." "I would like to..." "I would like to also tell people that Jay didn't smoke cigarettes this day and put candy in his mouth because I'm not a smoker." "And it was very sweet of him." " What a pro." "What a pro." " I didn't ask him to do that." " He's aces." " Yeah, I know." "I didn't ask him to do that." "He just did it." "Really thoughtful." " He was hilarious." " I didn't dislike smooching Jay." "It's hot." "I'm just gonna say it." " Just, you know, say it." " Just gonna say it out loud." " that gay band We're Gay." "It was great because..." " We're Gay." " We're Gay." "We had been shooting for a while when he came in." "And we had all gotten pretty tight pretty fast and it was just cool." "He came in and was just so awesome." " Yeah, he jumped in." " Just jumped right in." "Oh, man, do you remember Rafi put a bunch of Babybel..." " You know, the Babybel cheese things?" " Oh, yeah." "They come wrapped in wax and Rafi got a bunch of those and balled them up and put them in the back of Jay's jacket as a joke." "And Jay was okay, but the wardrobe lady was not pleased with it." "Oh, man." "I won't name names, but she was angry." "What happened?" "Did they melt all over the place?" " I mean, it's not good for clothes." " It's just cheese." " It's wax." "It's, like, balled up wax." " Oh, the wax." " I love the happiness of that moment." " Yeah." " Look at Jonny's face." " Yeah." " John Cho." " Holla back." " I love that shirt." " I bought that from the wardrobe sale and gave it to Eddie, a.k.a. Jesus Christ." " Oh, really?" "You did?" " Yeah." "The hype man knows what you want but he's not sure if you want it enough." "Do you really want it?" "Do you really want it?" "This was funny." "So you just randomly picked this extra to be, like, the guy who loves the band, right?" "I didn't even pick him." "Our AD, Christo, picked him." "He said, "You okay with this guy being the fan of the band?" I said, "Yeah."" " Then the backflip." " All of a sudden, he can do a backflip and no one knows it." "Right." "And it was just something he just did, right on a whim?" "He said, "Can I dance?" "Can I do whatever I want?" I said yes." " Look at this." " And then he threw in the backflip." " These were all his decisions?" " Yeah." "We just gave him the stage and he ran with it." " I hope we got his business number." " So good." "Project Jenny, Project Jan is this band here." " This guy was so good." " By the way Jeremy who plays Randy, when we made out in the first club scene and we made out for a while, and he was getting married the next day." "It was like a really funny thing." "It felt like I was his bachelor party." "I didn't find that out until the end of the day." "I felt guilty that I asked him to do that when he's getting married the next morning." "It's a hell of a bachelor party." " It's all acting." " Yeah." " He was in character." " He's a cool guy." " Look at his guy." "Look at his guy." " This guy, I mean..." " Look, he's shameless." " Somebody get this guy a show." "And then all of a sudden, "Hey, I'll blow their minds real quick."" "And then all of a sudden, "Hey, I'll blow their minds real quick."" "The shot looks like it was orchestrated to highlight the backflip." " But it wasn't." "It was just in there." " It was the master of the scene there." "This was the coldest I've ever been in my life." "Ever." "Ever." "Ever." " Pete?" " Yeah, this was cold." " This is pretty rough." " I can see the rosiness..." " I almost didn't give you my jacket." " Yeah, just to be a douche." " Just because I was so cold." " I thought you would have to have some major, like, Lord of the Rings CGI on my nipples because it was..." "It was like..." "Nipples isn't PG-13." "They were like..." "I got to the point where I couldn't feel my extremities." "I mean, it was so cold." "I was in a damn T-shirt, you know?" "T-shirt." "In Lord of the Rings, are they known for their nipple CGI?" "Yes." "What do you think?" "Of course." "Oh, awkward pause." "Anyway..." "That jacket, by the way, the jacket that I put on you which is a jacket that we actually wore in like..." "It kind of provided a bit of warmth, but not as much as you'd think." " No, it was like..." " Like a thin cotton." " It was like wearing a plastic bag." " Yeah." "Actually, wearing a plastic bag would've been warmer." "Look at all this." "Okay, so let's talk about..." " Tension." " The time where they had to stop the van short and I flew back and I, like, landed on my bad wrist that I had a minor surgery and stuff on in the exact spot, like on a metal drum pole." "Oh, man." "I freaked out and thought I was gonna have to get my tendon resoldered, but it didn't happen." " You can't fool around with that stuff." " No." "Didn't mean to." " I think this was a reshoot day." " No." "Didn't we...?" "Didn't we reshoot the...?" "Oh, it's a different moment in the van." "It's when I'm looking out the window at Tris on the car." " Yeah, that was a reshoot." " That was a reshoot." "Because I remember..." "Remember Raf and I were giving each other a hard time this day." "Do you remember?" "It was the reshoots and I was a little scared." "I was like, "Oh, my gosh." "He's really getting angry." I think I was making fun of his accent." "That's the way to get him mad." "Michael would make fun of Raf." "He'd be like:" ""Oh, later on, Rafi Gavron."" "Rafi's from London." "You can't tell by the movie, but he's English." "Oh, and Ari this is the best deli." "Remember?" " I wasn't in this scene." "I came to visit." " Yeah, but you came to visit us." "We got Tony, our script supervisor, a cake because it was his birthday." "Of course." "I remember that." "This was one of the craziest days of my life." " I don't know if you guys recall." " Yeah, I remember that." "Yeah." "You guys were shooting without me, so I had..." "I was..." " Oh, this was the day." " That's a great story." " Yeah, but there's not enough time." " It'll take all day to tell." " Michael had a crazy adventure." " I did, yeah." "Because I thought I was coming in to work at 6." "That's what I was told." "And then I didn't end up coming until 2." "And anyway, there's too much to say." "Too much." "But Devendra Banhart is in this scene." " Right." "That was cool." " Later on." "And your friend Kevin, right?" "Kevin and Devendra Banhart are in the scene we're about to see." "And..." " Kevin visited a bunch of times." " This is a sweet scene." " This is the handholding scene, right?" " Yeah." "I remember Aaron and I were talking about..." "He was really nervous before shooting this scene because this was his audition scene." "And I had said my import authority..." "The part at the window that was my audition scene and I had freaked out." "It's scary." "When you worked on a lot, that's when people are like, "It's good."" "Then you do it and you're like..." "It's so great, though." "It's such a sweet, sweet scene." "And I like what's going on with Jonny and Raf in the background there." " I didn't see it." " It's very sweet." "They're just kind of canoodling." "That broccoli she just put in her mouth was saturated with, like, lard oil." " Oh, man." " We were trying to..." "She was trying to pick the healthiest thing to eat off of there, but..." "Yeah, it was pretty gross." "I feel bad." "Norah never had an orgasm." "I love that whole..." "I love that whole shtick." "Norah never had an orgasm." "See, look at this, I mean..." "We filmed about three minutes of them canoodling." "It was very sweet." "I couldn't say "cut" because it was kind of adorable." "This is really cute too." "Was that a real couple?" " It's a couple of extras." " A couple of extras." "They're good then." "I felt..." "I felt really nervous doing this bit about orgasms." "Didn't the guy there say something about getting, like, a pocket rocket?" "Yeah, something about dildos and then I felt..." " The vibrating egg." " What is that?" " A large vibrating egg." " Yeah." " What?" " What's that?" " Annie Hall." " Yes, of course." " Devendra Banhart." " "We used a large vibrating egg."" "Look, I'm just afraid that if he gets with you and nothing happens his self-esteem could really go through the crapper, you know?" "This is Tris." "Devendra was so sick this day." "He showed up, walked off the plane from Barcelona and he couldn't swallow." " Look at how tense he is." " Look at him." "He is dying." "I fanned him with a paper plate and we've been friends ever since." "That's the way great friendships are formed." "It's good at breaking down walls." "I did..." "Yeah." "Ari." ""Jesus."" " Eddie Kaye Thomas." " Eddie Kaye Thomas." "This is exciting, we got to be to be on film together." " You ever work together?" " We met doing a play." "This is the first time we've been on-screen together." " That's the best cigarette flip too." " How did he do that so well?" "I mean..." "This was also..." "We shot that, like, right before Thanksgiving." " There's your ass again." " Ass again." "But you look really cute there." "Hey, look at this ridiculous bedazzled phone that Tris has." "It's a really revealing prop." " I love the bedazzled phone." " It's pink and it's sparkly." "Oh, yeah." " Oh, my gosh." " Psycho." "This is an exciting commentary." " I think so." " Oh, yeah." "She's got the best mean looks, but she's such a sweetheart." "She is like the sweetest lady." " Hey." " Hey." "You all right?" "Is she okay?" "We should talk about commentary pet peeves." "What's one of your?" "When people are watching the commentary, they're like:" ""I love this scene." And everyone goes quiet and listens." "But when you're listening to a commentary, it's quiet." "You can't even hear it and you're like, "Why aren't they saying anything?"" "But this could lull some people to sleep." "I watch these things to go to sleep." " Oh, that's sad." " Is it?" "You guys, nobody better fall sleep watching this commentary." " Let's talk about this damn church." " This is one of my favorite churches." " That's like Broadway, right?" " Andy Samberg is genius." " Famous street in New York." " Yeah, but it's..." "Mike, why don't you talk about what it was like to film this?" " How did you...?" "Yeah, you guys..." " This was very late." "I remember it was the last thing in the night." " Andy was around for hours, though." " Yeah." "In fact, this was the same night as the convenience store thing." " Right." " So this was, like, 6 in the morning." "We started shooting the next scene at about 5, 5:30." "Yeah." "And we had to finish before the sun came up." "Yeah." "And we had to finish before the sun came up." " This..." "That." " That." "Let's talk about that." "That is so good." " It's so frigging good." " Let's talk about it." "Let's discuss that." "When you push those doors and you say, "Yeah."" " Yeah." " Yeah." "Was that...?" "Was that a conscious choice?" " I'm gonna dig into you." " I think so." " I think I remember being..." " I love Switzerland." "I think I remember saying it." "It's just..." "Like, yeah." "Well..." "Of course, those aren't gonna work." "And then Andy said a lot of funny stuff here." "He gave that guy a lot of funny names like Cheddar and..." "What were the...?" "The names were:" "Switzerland, Steinbrenner." " Cheese." " Cheese." "T-Bone." " T-Bone, yeah." " Michael." " And he said a lot of funny stuff." " Your tighty whities are visible." "Yeah." "Kat made me have the most uncomfortable meeting with Andy Samberg." " I didn't mean to." "I was so 7th grade and embarrassed." "I didn't mean to." "You were gonna meet him that night or you weren't." "I was like, "Oh, Andy's here?" "Hey, I wanna meet him."" "And Kat's like, "All right, I'll go introduce you." "Come on."" " Oh, my gosh." " I never met him either." "Andy was talking to somebody and then Kat goes:" " "Andy, this is Ari."" " Oh, man, that is so funny." " Great." " I couldn't help it." "This is at The Box, which is an amazing space." "This was amazing." "This was..." "Yes." "Yes." " This was a really fun day." " They did that how many times?" "Like 10?" "Upwards of 10 probably, right?" " Yeah." " This is one of my favorite days." "We're all, like, hanging out in there." " My parents were here this day." " Yeah, your parents were there." "I love everybody's different faces." "Look at this." "Bewildered." "This was originally slow motion, right?" "Or I guess we shot it regular." "It was, but we realized the song wasn't long enough for us to play it in slow motion." " Right." "Oh, man." "This is a dream come true for me." " Yes." " Blue balls." "They also cut out the cucumbers in there." "I was thinking that." "There was the biggest cucumber you've ever seen." "They cut that out?" " I mean, you guys cut that out?" " Oh, yeah." "You know how you popped out of that tree and said a dozen different things?" " We have all those on the DVD." " Oh, there you go." " My favorite..." " And they're terrific." " he came to rescue me." "You look like you have the little Charlie Brown tree on your head." "You look like you have the little Charlie Brown tree on your head." " Oh, yeah." " Cutest." "I love when you say, "This tree is drunk."" "I'll text you." "Okay?" "Poor Gary." "He eats shit all night, he doesn't get anywhere with Tris." "He's a sympathetic character." "But it's incredible because he hangs in." "That's Sunshine Theater." " He's the new Nick." " He is the new..." "Exactly." "In a few weeks, he'll be going through what Nick's going through." "That..." "This was the night when friendship was truly solidified." "Because at the beginning of this scene, I'd thrown up into a plastic bag but still had to hold the gum in my mouth, and then gave the gum to you." " So you had..." " And I put it in my mouth." "You had my ABC gum that had been sitting in my mouth with fake throw up." "With fake barf and then I put it back in your mouth because we realized, that once it lost its flavor it was better that way." " Of course." " This is so sweet." "This is the..." "People go... when they see this." " No joke." " I'll do it." "We had Chinese food, like, three weeks ago..." "Oh, Chinese." " Oh, I love Chinese." " There it is." " There it is." " These kids are so adorable." "God." "Let's talk about something, like..." "What's on your little paper, Pete?" " A reference paper for stories." " Yeah." "Yeah, let's whip it out." " What's it say?" " Does anyone wanna talk about..." "Talk about the gum." "When you guys shared the gum." " We just did that, Mike." " Okay." "About Mike and Kat living in New York for the first time?" "This was the first time that me and Kat lived in New York." " Yeah." " The end." "And the last." " Anyone wanna talk about auditioning?" " Oh, God." "Oh, yeah." "Remember, there was that huge to-do about my hair and my makeup and all that stuff on my last audition." "Remember, Pete?" "Remem...?" "Somebody went..." "Did you go shopping for clothes?" " I went shopping for clothes." " You brought options." " I bought 800..." " That was the first time we met." " That's right." " We read together." "Pete and Kerry Kohansky gave me pointers and really helped me out, you know." "Was this something I shouldn't talk about?" "Never mind." " That was all a lie." " We should talk about..." "Let's rewind and..." "Wait, seriously, should we go redo that?" "No, it's okay." "Oh, shit." "Should we talk about that today is September 24th, 2008?" " It's one week till the premiere." " What's today?" "One week from the premiere, today." " We have one week till the premiere." " That's exciting." " Countdown to show time." " Yeah." " Wait, seriously." " Look at your little face." "Are you sure?" "This is for posterity, you know." "Okay." "Anyway, here's my face." " There's Ari's face." " I love..." "This is why I love Norah and Caroline, because they love each other." " It's very sweet." " We love each other." "That's a cool shot." "It is rare that you get real female..." "True female friendship in movies right now." "Because usually what we get is, sort of, mean girl behavior." " Yeah." " It's so true." "Even, you know..." " I'm sorry, you go." " No, you go." "No, I was just gonna say that with Tris, too I feel like even though she come..." "In certain moments, she comes across as being like you know, antagonistic to Norah or whatever." "But she's just as vulnerable as Norah and Caroline and just wants to be..." " She's human." "...accepted, like everybody else." " That's pathetic." " She does..." "It's not like they're never gonna see each other." "I mean, they all go to school together." "Caroline and Tris are friends, sort of." "And Norah doesn't despise Tris." "We spend a lot of time trying to define the relationship between the three girls." "Because that idea of, like, "frienemyship" is hard." "And so there's like a lot of debates, like, figuring out how mean they were to each other versus how friendly they were versus how passive-aggressive." "There was a lot to figure out." "And I..." "Here we go." "Here it is." " Here it is." "Here it is." " Michael, you stop doing that." "Wait, watch for it." "There was no cut when we did this." " Okay, I'm gonna call my boyfriend." " This is the gum." " It looks fake." " It looks fake." " It looks like a skillful editing trick." " Like someone passed me a new..." " No." " No, that's dirty gum." " That is tainted gum." " It's all spitty and..." " That is tainted gum." " It's all spitty and..." "And, also, I should point out that I think Alexis and myself and Ari decided that we had all been friends since babyhood, basically." " That's why we all tolerate each other." " Right." "I figured that about me and Raf and Aaron too." " We all grew up together." " Stop trying to copy our ideas." "No, it's the same with us." "That was our back-story, not yours." " Get your own." " Get your own back-story." " Get your own." " We just met this night, earlier this..." "Ari, what is your feeling about this running gum gag now that you've seen it played to an audience, because you..." "It's funny, things that you don't think about when you're shooting." "Like, I was obviously very aware of the fact that we had to always be on top of the gum situation." "When we were doing press in Toronto all the gum and all the throwing up questions I didn't realize that it was such a thing, kind of." "You know?" "But I think it's funny." "God, I don't know..." "Do you...?" "What do you think about it?" "I mean, I love the reaction that it gets in the theater." "And I think it's funny." "I don't think that thing is for every film or every story." "But I think it helps add some levity and lets..." "It lets air out of the dramatic balloon when we need to in this movie." "You were a little bit resistant to it at first." " I was?" " Yeah." " Was I really?" " To the gum or the vomit?" " What did I say about the gum?" " To the..." "I think you weren't sure about how far we were taking it." "Well, because we've had these debates about, like, the whole kind of bathroom-humor joke." "Like, Pete always wanted us..." "Do you know that thing where we were all smelling stuff?" " That's out of the movie." " Every take he wanted us to think that we were smelling something gross." " Or he wanted us..." " Oh, man." "I remember that." " He made me..." "I smelled something." " Everyone had to do it." " We all had to do it." " That's so right." "And then, like, there were times where in the bathroom scene you were like, "Girls, it's a great opportunity for like bathroom humor."" " Oh, my God." " And we were all like, "What?"" "It was 5 in the morning and the three of us looked at you:" ""No, we're not gonna do that."" "I think it's relatable to an audience to witness someone else smell something bad." " Oh, God." " It is." "Think about it." "I remember talking to you about this when you're like:" ""Why is it my instinct to make someone else smell something bad?"" "Right." "And then inevitably somebody says, "Here, smell this."" "Speaking of smelly things." " How did you feel about this foot..." " Oh, God." " Nice one." " Oh, Alexis' foot, doesn't..." " She's an extremely pleasant..." " That's her real foot, right?" " That's a stunt foot." " Right." " No, that's really Alexis' foot." " That's an Alexis foot." "I love this scene." "You're terrific in it." "It's almost one take." " Oh, really?" " Yeah." "One-Take Cera, huh?" "One-Take Cera showed up." "No, no, no." "We did multiple takes." "But what I mean is it's one angle." " This was like..." " Almost one take." "There's one cut." " I love that part." " Me too." "One-Take Cera..." "Did One-Take Cera show up?" "Because One-Take Dennings never showed up." " One-Take Cera did not show up." " Okay." "But that's because One-Take Sollett was not on the premises." "I don't even think One-Take Graynor has ever been uttered before." "I used to say before we started to shoot a scene:" ""This is One-Take Dennings." "One-Take Dennings."" "And I thought maybe I would get it in one take, but it never happened." "In ADR, One-Take Dennings maybe showed up once." " There you go." " She did show up." " In post." " She showed up for post." "She was in L.A. the whole time." "Yeah, One-Take Dennings stayed behind while I went to New York." "Yeah, One-Take Dennings stayed behind while I went to New York." " There you go." " Handsome." "He is." "What, do you want me to lie?" "You want me to make this commentary a sham?" "What?" "You didn't have to get me any present." "So the history of the name, Oz-rael..." " Look at that betrayal on my face." "Yes." " I want a poster of that." "I actually..." "I got a little copy of it." "Of course you did." "You have a copy of this CD?" "No, I have like the JPEG." "Just because it's funny." "Yeah?" "Serious?" "Oh, that means so much." "That means so much." "Thank you so much." "Really?" "Really?" " This was Jay's last day, huh?" " Oh, was it?" "Look at the way he's looking at you." " Yeah, it's all fake." " Jay showed up this day having been in Hawaii shooting..." " Oh, right." " Tropic Thunder." " Shooting Tropic Thunder." "He was like, "You won't believe where I've been."" "He said, "I've been in the jungle holding my guts and carrying my intestines over my shoulders through the forest."" "We're like, "Yeah, right, buddy."" "Well, now I know what he means because I've seen the film." "This was such a different role for him." "Didn't he keep saying..." "Kept being like, "I'm not really an asshole."" "Like, "I'm not really like this." He was so good at it." "He kept saying he felt really bad because he was manhandling me and being so..." "It's a pretty obnoxious character." " But he's so not anything like that." " He did it really well." "I felt like the fattest girl in this fake club here, because I was." "That's so stupid." "Look at how gorgeous you are." "Well, because I was..." "My face was completely obscured in shadow just then." "This was, like, the coldest night ever." " This is as bad as it got." " Poor Alexis..." " It's true." "...who has, you know..." "Weighs, like, 5 pounds and didn't have any clothing." "Also, we were like on..." " We were near the bay." " And on the water." " You were right on the Hudson River." " Hudson River." "It was, I don't know, 3 or 4 in the morning and it was probably about 5 or 10 degrees." " This was the day..." " It was so cold." "She has a funny story about the dance." "I can't remember what it is." "But, like, it was a dance that they used to do in 8th grade or high school or something." "No." "You know, what she did was she went back to Tawny Kitaen's choreography in the Whitesnake video." " Oh, my God." " And she copied some of the moves." "Yeah, because in that video, basically it's Tawny Kitaen dancing on the hood of a Trans Am or something." " I don't know what it was." " She looks great." "I mean..." " She modified it for the Yugo." " She did." "Look at that wind." "That wind doesn't even..." "That jacket just goes the other direction." "And they had these huge heater-tunnels things that blew hot air on you." "It's great because it's so sexy, but so hilarious at the same time." " It's so cheesy." " It's so Tris." " Cheesy dance, but she looks fantastic." " It's so painfully cold right now." "Look how cute she is." "What were you thinking when you were watching this take after take?" "I think I was thinking I'd rather be somewhere warm and "Does she really need me to be here for this?"" " Oh, my God." " Look how cute she..." "Look how just..." " She's so adorable." " Oh, Mike." "It looks like there's a wind machine, it's so perfect." " But there's not." " This is my favorite move coming up." "Wait, right..." "Coming." "No." "No." "No." " That's a cool shot." " This." "Here it comes." " Now." " Bingo." "I love that." "I love that so much." "That gets a huge..." "People will really laugh at that too." "That lipstick on the windshield thing took us a long time." "I know." "I know it." "Yeah." " I had to be in a very specific spot." " Yes." " Mike, you're thinking about me here." " Yeah." " Were you thinking about Kat here?" " No." " He was thinking about..." " Food." "I forget what I was thinking about, it wasn't Kat." "I don't think it was to do with the movie." "It was probably, like, "Why"..." "You were thinking about seeing No Country for Old Men." "I was thinking, "How am I gonna back up?"" "I don't even know how to drive forward on a stick shift." " I can't believe you left her there." " I can." "Good." "I think that's the first time anyone's sympathized for her character there." "People cheer." "I love how she checks her boobs to see if there's something wrong." "Her boobs must be misaligned, that's why he backed away." " That's so funny." " It's so sweet, though." "That's so funny." " Mike, you're..." "This is terrific." " This is a great moment." "This is really late." " Oscar." "Oscar." " Right?" "Really late." " Yeah, it's probably 5:30, 5:45." " Well, maybe a Golden Globe." "Look how great." "That was really me doing that." "I really actually did that." "Mike, you're a handsome act..." "Good actor." "I just want to sum this up." "If you wanna give us any compliments, feel free." " Yeah, go for it." " You guys are handsome." "You're so good." "I was really eating this, because I use..." "I remember I said that I thought when girls ate in movies it looked fake and like they weren't swallowing." "Like they were just gonna throw..." "Like, barf it into a thing after." "Because usually they give you a bucket to spit stuff out." "I hate when I see it in movies where they're not eating and not swallowing." " It does get disgusting." " Yeah, it was gross." "And I regretted it." "I skipped lunch that day and went and..." "I did a scene once where I ate a fig per take." "And we did it like all day and I was like, "Why did I do this?"" "Because you can't get out of it once you've started." "And drinking stuff too." "It's hard too." "Like, if you have a lot of beverage." "Don't get me started about drinking things." "God." "This is a real phone." " Oh, boy." " And in the background..." "There were people in the background, like Rachel Cohn, who wrote the book." "And David Levithan." "Yeah, where are you?" "Did you leave the city?" " I'm at Veselka." " What are the cross streets?" "Second and Ninth." "Okay, well, don't leave." "I'm gonna come over, okay?" "In the meantime, could you pass that message on?" "I'm happy about something." " Because you're gonna see your man." " This is the romantic part." "Listen to the sound effect, I love it." "It's one of my favorites." " Which one?" " This Yugo taking off." " Oh, man." " That's good." "All right, listen." "That's really, really good." " It sounds like those little fans." " That's the real sound of that." " That's what it sounded like." " We never got to hear that sound because the Yugo would never take off." "Here come Rachel and David." " Do they walk in?" " No, they're sitting right behind Kat." "Authors of the book coming up in a moment." " Wrote the novel." " Stay tuned." " There they are." " There they are." "Hey, what, are they writing a book back there?" "Yeah, they are." "Those guys are so cool, they're both great." "I think it was really surreal for them to, like, be in Veselka with Nick and Norah in the movie." "Yeah." "Because Veselka is actually mentioned in the book, isn't it?" "Yeah." "This was one of their spots when they were writing it, probably." "You look so beautiful." "I love you guys in this scene." "I just think this whole sequence, you guys, just..." "It's just really beautiful." "This is one of my favorite parts of the script, actually." "Because I feel like you'll never see young people talking the way you guys talk, you know." "Just about real stuff and not..." "About real feelings and thoughts and ideas." "This isn't like fluffy, quippy teenage dialogue here." "This is, you know, people talk." "Did you already say the thing about being lonely with people or is that not in the movie?" "It's coming up, right?" "That's about 10 seconds away." "Oh, wait, "lonely"?" "What do I talk about?" "That sometimes you're lonelier being with somebody else than you were by yourself." "Oh, you know what, I think I don't say that anymore." " You don't?" " I think we changed that into..." "I think I might've." " Forget it." " Mike said, "What are the..."" ""He's a friend with benefits, but what are the benefits?"" " Right." " And then you said..." " Don't know." " "I've been wondering that myself."" "I changed some shiz up." " Man, my eyeliner's..." " We got to eat some free pastries." "Yeah, they gave us free pastries." " Stuff that you'd never tried." " Veselka?" "Delicious." "Yeah." "I got one of those thingies." "I wanna give a shout out to Little Poland right now." " Yeah, let's do it." " I love Little Poland." "Veselka's the right time and it's like a historical place but I'm gonna give a big shout out to Little Poland because I think their pierogies..." " Give a big one." "Here you go." " Good too." " I'm Polish." " Let me say if you'll go to Veselka, get the vegetable soup." " Dill, huh?" " It's got a lot of dill in it." "It's really good." "Go to Little Poland for pierogies, that's all I'm saying." "Fried onions or sour cream on your pierogies?" "I like the sour cream and apple sauce." " Yeah, me too." " Sometimes I go ketchup." " Whatever, please don't judge me." " Oh, my God." " Whatever, please don't judge me." " Oh, my God." "The arugula and goat cheese pierogies they were the pierogies of the month." "Oh, my God, ridiculous." "I hope that they were so popular that they made them a regular pierogi." " I could only hope." " You think they're ready for the show." " I'd like pierogies now." " They're ready to take the main stage." "I love how you added the car horns going by." "That wasn't in real life happening there while we were doing it, you know what I mean." "Kat, look at how natural and good you look behind the wheel." " I know." "It looks like I'm really driving." " Kat Dennings does not drive." "Does not have a driver's license." "Look how good she looks." "She could rock the speedways." "Ten and 2." "Are my hands at 10 and 2?" "Yes." "Kat, you look like you could drive a car." "That's the only beef I have with Kat in life." " I know." " It's her inability to drive." "Yeah, well, you know what, I drove for a movie, and I really drove..." " This movie?" " No, not this, a different one." " This is a movie." " Yeah, but it was a different movie." " We need to be clear." " I drove and I did a good job." " And I'm starting to drive." " I'm so proud of you." " I can't drive to your house." " You can do it, Kat." "It's easy." "I know it is." "Well, it's not that easy." " Look at this." " It's easy." " Hell, no." " That wasn't supposed to happen." "Happy accident." "Hey, is this movie almost over?" "This is depressing." " Oh, I can't wait to watch you O-gasm." " O-gas." "Didn't you text me during my orgasm?" "You texted me that day." "You were like: "I can hear you from all the way over here."" " Not to make you feel self-conscious." " No, I wish you were there, Ari." " It was a rough night." " Yeah." " That jacket wasn't really..." " Kat was a trouper, though." "So that wasn't Jimi Hendrix's shirt." " I thought is was, and I..." " No, it's a replica." " It's a replica." " It's a duplica." " Who is...?" " Who's that guy?" "That was Alanis Morissette." " Billy Joel." " No, but who plays Mr. Silverberg?" "That's a good question." "He's an actor that we cast and photographed." "Jeez." "Remember this scene?" "I've never met the man, I have to tell you." "We cast him off of this photograph since that's what he's there for." "This scene, remember, took literally..." "We had no minutes left." "We had about eight minutes to shoot that scene." " And it got done." " We got three whole takes in." "Yeah." " Well done." " Three-hole punch." "I like to always just look at Jonny sometimes even when he doesn't have any lines." "There's always a lot going on in there." "A lot in that noggin." "That handsome noggin." "Jonny was great and so was Aaron and so was Rafi." "They're so handsome." "Jesus." "They just..." "All of them have such good chemistry togeths." "Yeah, well, didn't Aaron and Rafi, like, audition togethers?" " "Togethers"?" " Togethers." " I was gonna say "together," so they..." " You could say "togeths."" " You can take our lingo." " Togeths." "Just do it." " I didn't mean to say togethers." " Did you keep those rings?" "No, because they didn't have doubles." "I loved them so much." "And you know what, I think I saw him, like, on a street, selling them in SoHo." "But I was running late and couldn't stop and get them." "Song titles." "Do we know songs with numbers in the title?" "It's a address." "Fifth Avenue, 68th Street, New York, New York 10021." " It's an address." "It's an address." " Turn!" "And they really did this too, didn't they?" "Oh, yeah, mine were." " Oh, that's all real." " I love this when they go, "Left, right, left." Yeah." "I'm gonna show you where I fall in love with Caroline all over again." "It's right here." "It's coming up." " I can feel it happening." " Here it comes." "Oh, yeah." "Oh, my God." " You can't get this girl down." " That's awesome." " No." " That is awesome." " No." " That is awesome." " Everywhere you are, Magic Mountain." " This room was really warm." "If any who are watching and thinking, "I wonder if they are comfortable."" " Yup, this is Electric Lady land." " It was really warm." " I love this whole sequence so much." " Yeah, this is the real deal." "The real place." "In that room..." "Who recorded what in that room, Denning?" " David Bowie." " Oh, David Bowie and John Lennon." " "Fame."" " Yeah, did "Fame."" "Jimi Hendrix did everything in there." "Yeah, a lot of good songs." "I would sweep my hand casually over every surface thinking that I might accidentally get pregnant with David Bowie's baby magically." " Wasn't there a plaque?" "A plaque with everything that had been recorded?" " I think so." " I can't speak." "That was good." "There was a huge mural, I don't know if you can see it." " But it was really cool." " Yeah." "She loves music." "You know what she means." " I like you chomping on that gum." " Hey, remember, Pete?" "Sometimes you'd forget that I had gum in my mouth." "Remember?" "Accidentally, there'd be no gum." "We had to have people, like, on constant gum patrol with everybody." " Tony." " Tony had the gum patrol." " Ton." "Tony." " Ton." "Tony Osso." "Oh, my God." "When there are song lyrics written into, like, dialogue you can't not sound like a douche bag quoting them." "What do you mean?" "It's very sweet." "Well, you got it." "You coaxed a normal type of performance out of me." "But, like, it's really daunting to see, like:" ""The way you were moving in your sleep."" " Yeah." " It's just..." "But it's like you're so..." "That's what's so great about your naturality and..." "It's not like somebody that's looking deep into someone's eyes being like:" ""The way you look in your sleep."" "Yeah, that would've been tough to swallow." "Pete, that's why you're great, because you made me feel comfortable." " This guitar is left-handed." " Could've gone wrong easily." " It could've been like..." " Is there a guitar in the background?" " Yeah." " So there's two guitars in there." " Yeah." " So there's two guitars in there." "This one was..." "I'm right-handed and it's left-handed, which is why it looks so unnatural." "There's the mural." "Right, we made a replica of the guitar that Hendrix played at Woodstock which looks just like that." "Man." " The Jewess in me loves your..." " Hey, didn't a microphone go missing from Electric Lady land?" " It did?" " I remember that being something." " Is that what's in your pocket?" " Does anyone else remember?" " It was like a $ 15,000 microphone." " No." " Does anyone remember?" " No." "Have you guys seen my new car?" "Your car's shaped like a microphone?" "That white piano is really Jimi Hendrix's white piano." " You played that, Mike?" " Sure." "And if you look at the mural behind Mike that was commissioned by Hendrix as well." "And there are words on it." "I don't remember what it says but they were amazing." " Yeah, it was poetic." " Yeah." "Well, if you..." "Those are..." "That..." "Those are Martians flying towards the Earth in a spaceship." " That's what that mural was." " Yeah." "I didn't know how to say "tikkun olam."" " I was just like, "Takin olum."" " Takin olum." "I was like, I don't know how to say this." " Tikkun Norah." " I was like:" ""Did anybody have bat mitzvah?" "Does anybody know what I'm supposed to say here?"" " You didn't have a bat mitzvah?" " No." " Will you have a belated bat mitzvah?" " Maybe." " Will you have a belated bat mitzvah?" " Maybe." "Like James Franco." " You should have a bat..." "He had a..." " He had a belated bar mitzvah." " Is he Jewish?" " I think." "Yeah, he must be." " No." " He is." "Isn't that crazy?" "Isn't he Italian?" "Isn't "Franco" Italian?" " He's half-Jewish." " His mom is Jewish." " It's "Frankel." It's really Frankel." " Frankelstein." "Frankel." "I am Jewish, but I don't know how to say anything besides, like, "shalom."" " That sounded good." " Kugel." "Kugel." "How did you...?" "What did you think of this when you saw this?" "Because it was not easy." " You were..." "It was..." " Oh, I thought it was sweet." "What was?" "Watching it?" " No, shooting this was..." " Shooting it." "I think you guys were a little bit unsure of it when you were doing it." "Which was good because it feels like..." "I'm unsure of it." "I'm still unsure of it." " I think it's beautiful." " Is it too late to take it out?" " Let's cut this out." " It's gorgeous." "It's beautiful when you guys were..." "Because you were feeling a little..." "Slightly sort of self-conscious or something." "Well, in the scene, it's really..." "This was the last..." "Or not quite the last thing that we shot this night." "But it was like..." "We did everything else and saved it, right?" " I'm really..." "I mean, you know." " Isolated it." "It's very sweet." "There was nothing really in the script that..." " They were like: "They kiss."" " It's outright romantic, I mean." " You just can't..." " But it's so great because it's, like, the nervousness is perfect, you know." "It should be nervous." "I'm not gonna compete with her, okay?" "I wanna take off my headphones right now." "Also, the whispering part that's all improvised, right?" " Yeah." "That might be my favorite part." " I love it." " It's very..." "I mean, you know..." "You know, this is, you know..." "Oh, boy." "God." "This is about the time where in Toronto I told my mom to cover her ears." "I was like..." "She's like, "No, I don't want to." "Stop it." "Leave me alone."" "I was like, "Mom, please cover your ears." "Please."" "And then she did." "Out of respect." "It's weird to be with your parents when you watch a scene like this." "I saw..." "I don't even know if we can say other movie names." " Sure you can." " A History of Violence." "I don't know if you've seen that." "There's a very gratuitous sex scene." " You watched that with your mom?" " On the stairs." " That's uncomfortable." " Not on the stairs." "When she's dressed as a cheerleader." "But the stair one was no picnic either, let me tell you, sitting next to my mom." "And you're in the theater, so it's just like:" "Yeah." "You just have to avoid eye contact at all cost." "Hey, it's over." " Hey." " Was it...?" " Good job." " There you go." "Yeah." "We distracted ourselves long enough." "Remember when I looped that for the G version with hysterical laughter?" " Yeah." " For the TV version." "You should put that on the DVD because it's so insane." "I love that a girl gets to have a big O in a movie." "I think that's so fun." "Yeah, it's just a little embarrassing." "Don't be embarrassed." "You're beautiful." "We are sweetly in love here." " That's a beautiful kiss." " I wanna put a shirt on myself here." "Nick?" "What?" "How do you feel about Where's Fluffy?" "Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." " Okay." "Oh, hurry up." " We have to hurry." "Hurry, hurry." "I am, I am, I am." "Oh, my God." "Oh, shoes." "Okay, hang on." "Okay." "I'm ready." "Okay, go." "Oh, wait." "Here." "Look, wait." "My brother is in this scene." "Right behind Mike." " No way." " Yeah, look, I'm gonna show you." "This is Matt." "Matt Sollett." "My bro..." "Right there." "I hope people watching this commentary are still watching it." " Because I'm just having a good time." " Me too." "This is like us hanging out." "We should've done a better job." "This is how it is on..." "How it was on..." "That's the Empire State Building, famous New York building." "This is such a..." "This was such a fun roof." "And it was raining this night too." "Remember how it was raining?" " Guys, remember when it was raining?" " I remember." " I remember." " I remember that." "This is the night that Rafi put the Babybels in Jay's jacket." " You guys were singing a lot." " Yeah, we were harmonizing." " We're doing the..." " Beach Boys." " Yeah." " We can't clear it." " We can't do it now." " Don't say it." "We can't do it right now." "So all the enemies come out to play." "You trying to make a fool of me in front of my boys?" "Do you realize that I had to walk back to 10th by myself?" " You weren't exactly by yourself." " Shut up, Gary." " So you're telling me this is over?" " You're seriously over me?" "That dude on the..." "Okay, this friend..." " That guy?" " Oh, no." " That guy." "No." " The other one." "Oh, he's not shown." "His Tal's friend who has, like, some face hair and he and I played Mercy and I wouldn't give up, but he did win eventually." "That guy." " Yeah, that guy." " No, he's really a sweet guy." "And he warned me that I wouldn't be winning, but..." " I busted Raf this night." " Look at Jonny." "Raf had told an extra that he was 24." "He was actually 18." "And he was talking to him and I said, "So, what year were you born?"" "And he went, "What do you mean, what year...?" "1986."" "And I went, "1986." "So wouldn't that make you 22?"" "He goes, "What...?" "I mean, what do you...?" "What...?"" "Oh, boy." " He's gonna get angry." " You've never looked more beautiful." " What?" " Coming up." " Oh, Ari, shush." " You look so gorgeous." " Thank you." " That's not true." "You..." "I mean, Mike, look at you." " I love the slo-mo." " This is very..." "This makes me cry every time I watch it." "Wasn't there a line that got cut out:" ""Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"" " Yes." " We cut it out." " Let's do it right now." " Look at..." " Let's do it right now." " Look at..." " I love this." " It's Fluffy." " Is that a reshoot?" "That?" " No." " No?" " It's like an insert shoot." " This is such a perfect song too." " Yeah." "This is, like, the Nick and Norah, sort of, theme song." "It's the love theme." "This is Stephen Coates." "This is great." " We're so close to the end." " I know, this is sad." "And your two stand-ins have, like, a featured moment in the Fluffy crowd." " Yeah, it's true." " Look, we're gonna hold hands." "Look, we..." " Oh, my God." " Oh, they're holding hands." "You know, we..." "I didn't..." "I held your hand wrong in a couple of takes." " Really?" "This is the movie poster here." " Yeah." " This is it." " Here you go." " Look at..." "Oh, it's the poster." " There it is." " Not bad." " It's the poster." "This is a sweet..." "You know, I get tingly when I watch this part." "Because we love each other there, you know." "You kind of feel bad for him there, huh?" "It's like, he wasted three years." " That's a lot of time for young men." " I wanna know..." "She hated the band so, like, she just was putting up with it." "I kind of feel bad for them." "Yeah." " I'm sorry." " This movie is a wistful film." " God." "Now we're watching this movie." " I love this." " I do love this too." " Ari just glowing." "I love that last thing you got to say, "I love New York."" "I love that last thing you got to say, "I love New York."" "I do." "And I love that you got over it so quickly, that Norah left you and you're just, "Oh, shit." "What a great town." "My best friend left me, I had a shitty night."" " This is great." " "What a great town."" "People were not pleased about not being able to get to trains for work." "Because this was like 7 in the morning." "And people were going to work." "And we were like, "No, you can't." "We're doing a romantic scene."" "Yeah, leave us alone." "You can get in a train tomorrow." "Did you start sweating when you were doing this?" "Because it's like treadmill style." "Or StairMaster style." "There's not enough time." " There you go." " Kiss." "Do it." "Yes." "Did you guys ever kiss with tongue?" "Just say it." " I'm not gonna judge..." " Probably right there, we did." "Maybe the characters did." "I don't remember." "This is a beautiful shot." " I mean, look, it's like..." "It's morning." " Yeah." "That was on a big crane?" "How did you shoot that?" "It was a giant crane." "We had to wait until it was, you know, 7:09." "And a pigeon, at one of the shots, flew right..." "Check this bird out." "Look at this." "Here it comes." " This is the take?" " No, there it is." "Is that it?" " Oh, my God." " That's the take." "Wait a minute." "Wasn't that a negative thing when we were shooting?" "Yeah." "At first, we thought that bird just blew the shot." " It's beautiful." " It looks terrific." "It looks like a CGI bird." " It's the end of the movie." " Hold up." " That's it?" " So that's it." " Wait a minute." " Wrap it up." " Can we talk over the credits?" " Sure." " We probably got four minutes." " There's more to say." "Anything you wanna say for yourself as a time capsule for when you're an old person and look back at this and think:" " "Is that how I thought when I was...?"" " Old Kat I resent anything that you have a problem with that I said during this commentary." "And I hope your skin isn't all wrinkly." " Okay." " I wanna remind myself and you guys that shooting the movie really was as wonderful and fun as we keep saying that it was." "Or we'll think it was." "It wasn't just hindsight saying that, it actually was that good." "We're gonna hang out tonight, right?" "All of us?" "I'm gonna remind myself." "Remember when we all hung out at Ari's apartment?" " It's a house." " It hasn't happened yet but it'll be a memory soon." "You know what we're doing?" "Making memories, you guys." "And that's what it's all about." "Pete, what do you wanna say?" "You have been with this far longer than us from the beginning to the end." "You just picture wrapped, like a little..." "We've been done for almost a year." "You've been with it every day." "What about you?" "It's true." "It's a miracle every time one of these things happen." " Yeah." " And I hope it keeps happening." " For all of us." " Commentaries?" "Yeah." "What else would I be talking about?" "Getting our schedules to work out for all of us." "Remember the first time we met, Pete?" "Do you remember the first time we met?" " What was that place?" " What was your first meeting?" "It was this place called, like, Cake Cake in the Lower East Side." "It was on Ludlow." "Like a block away from where we shot." "Yeah, right by the Hotel On Rivington, which was where I was staying." " Yeah." " Nice." "Boy, a lot has happened since then." "I felt good about it." "I really liked you." "Obviously." "I'm glad, you know..." "It worked out." "Yeah, it went well." "Look at us now." " Doing commentary." " Swiveling in the chairs." "Me and Pete, it's worth saying, we were neighbors while we were shooting this movie." "You were living in the building next to me, which was where you lived." "I was subletting a place." "We're gonna be neighbors for the rest of our lives." " Yeah, in California this time." " Moved into the same neighborhood." "Coast to coast." "Neighbors till the end." "They can't keep us apart, no matter what major city it's in." "New York, Los Angeles." " Haiti." " The world." "Tokyo." "We should both move to Tokyo." " I wanna go to Tokyo." " Michael, what's your final thought?" "Oh, the thing about..." " Oh, making memory, sorry." " Cake?" " Yeah, I already said it." " I guess it just slipped my mind." "I don't know." "I feel like you guys are all good friends now." "We've all made..." "I've made good friends working on this movie." " I love you." " We'll all be lifelong friends." " Let's say we love each other." " I love you." " I love you, guys." " I love you." "The people that couldn't be here, I love too." " I love them." " They're great." " A lot." " I love everybody." "I do." "It was a tightknit group." "I know you hear that, like, about the making of Ocean's 11 that they played pranks on each other." "No, they didn't." "They lied." "I felt like this was something..." "This was a real nice bond." "Not that what they had wasn't real, but..." "It's different." "Clooney and Brad Pitt, and me and you and Ari and Pete is like the same thing, kind of." " Stature-wise, at least." " Exactly." " Yeah." " What a great note to end on." " Let's just stop there." " Thanks, guys." " Bye." " Thank you, everybody." "Keep watching our movie." " Watch it again." " And again." " And again." " And again." "Hi." "This is Peter Sollett, the director of Nick  Norah's Infinite Playlist and I'm here with screenwriter Lorene Scafaria..." "Hello." "...and the co-authors of the novel Nick  Norah Rachel Cohn..." " Greetings." "...and David Levithan." " And salutations." "So we're here to try to tug on your ear to talk about where this novel came from the collaborative process of writing this novel to talk about the writing of the screenplay adaptation from novel to screenplay and how all that turned into our movie." "So, you know, if I can..." "I guess what I'll do, selfishly, to start is ask you guys questions that I've been asked that I didn't have the answers to." "Why don't we start..." "I wanna point out that's a Magnetic Fields record." " That's really important to me." " It is." "Interestingly enough, the original plan for the scene was to try to use The Magnetic Fields." "Which would've been awesome, not that Chris Bell isn't awesome, but..." "And I do love that there's a..." "He's playing vinyl at the beginning because I think it establishes right away his love for music." "Yeah." "Well, yeah." "You just don't see that very much anymore." " Need a mix tape in there." " You do..." "Yeah." "Well, there's one in there somewhere." "There's a mix CD in there." "Okay." "Okay." "What's this title all about?" "Why "Nick  Norah" and what's with "the Infinite Playlist"?" "Because I've been making up things all over." "You can read it all over the Internet, but now we can find out." "I'll start with the "Nick  Norah" part." "David can finish the "Infinite Playlist" part." "I always loved the Thin Man movies and one of the things I loved about them the most was that the characters of Nick and Nora Charles had this really warm and fun banter between each other as opposed to a lot of screwball comedies where they're..." "They also have a lot of fun, but it's always..." "They're always kind of yelling at each other whereas Nick and Nora Charles just take this genuine delight in each other." "That's one of the things I've always loved watching about those movies." "So when I had the idea to update it..." "Not update it, but to write about two teen characters using those names, it was really just the hope to try to translate some of that warm and fun feeling between the two characters." "Beyond that, I didn't ever envision that we'd write about social elites or a dog named Asta or anything like that." "As for the "Infinite Playlist," that came from a line that David wrote." "Right, which is really..." "It has more bearing to the end." "So if you guys listen to this whole commentary at the end, we'll explain "Infinite Playlist."" " Very writer-like." " You guys gotta hang in there." "Did you...?" "Lorene, did you watch The Thin Man before you...?" "I've seen The Thin Man, yeah." "Yeah." "I also felt like it's kind of..." "There's that quality also in, like, It Happened One Night and all..." "I don't know, there's something very classic about their banter certainly." "When I was a teenager myself I mean, I didn't spend much time hanging out with other teenagers." "I actually skipped school a lot and went to old movies." "I actually skipped school a lot and went to old movies." "There was..." "I grew up right outside Washington, D. C which had, at the time, a lot of old revival theaters:" "the Circle Theatre, the AFI, the Biograph." "They're not there anymore." "I'm really dating myself here." "But that's what I used to do when I would skip school." "And they showed old movies all the time and that's how I spent most of my teenage years." "And so the fact that these characters are named that is no coincidence because when I was a teenager myself I was imagining myself as somebody named Nick or Nora or Cyd Charisse like another character in my book, that kind of thing." "Hey, guys." "We should be so cool." "Hey, Rachel, I'm gonna interrupt here, because one question that many Jews as well as Catholics wanna know is:" "Norah, Jewish girl, going to a Catholic school." " What's that about?" " The reason for that is that in the book Norah says that she basically wants to go to school anywhere that Caroline goes to school." "But Caroline's so obnoxious, she's been kicked out of every school." "Even the Quakers won't have her anymore." "Hence, only the Catholics will take her and that's why they end up at Catholic school." "That was one of my favorite things about the book was just that they're both these fish out of water." "He's, you know, a straight guy in a gay band and she's a Jewish girl in a Catholic school." "It's just great, great." "I loved actually being able to see them on-screen in the Catholic-school uniforms." "That was great." "I don't think when I wrote it I ever envisioned that would actually..." "To actually see that." "It's way more humiliating, I think, when you see it live and surreal when you see it live than when you imagine it." "It was for me not ever having been to a Catholic school." "Me neither." "Anyone?" " No?" " No." "No, I was raised by a parent who went to Catholic school." "So I had that much of an understanding of it." "Beyond that, nothing." "Now, Lorene, if I can ask a question too." "I'm just curious, because, of course the friendship between Norah and Caroline is totally in the book but you really went home with it in a great way." "So I'm curious, did you have sort of a best girlfriend growing up or?" "Sure, yeah." "I don't wanna call her out, but..." "No, I had a few of them." "I was shockingly sober growing up so I definitely felt like Norah in those scenarios and..." "We're gonna be like the Sex and the City thing:" ""Are you a Miranda?" "Are you a Carrie?"" " "Are you a Norah?"" " Yeah." "I was a Norah, I was not a Caroline but I was fascinated by all the Carolines so I tried to surround myself with them and then, you know wound up taking care of them for the rest of the night." "Yeah, Ari, who plays Caroline, asked me when they were filming if any of the characters were based on me particularly Norah, and I said not really." "The only thing I shared in common with Norah as a teenager was that I was always the girl getting the drunk girl home." "I really understood that." "I've held my share of hair back while vomiting was taking place and making sure parents didn't hear and couldn't find out." " A human scrunchie." "That's nice." " Yeah, exactly." "It becomes an interesting measure in high school..." "In my high school that was a really interesting measure of true friendship:" "Would you hold their hair back when they puke?" "And I don't know where that comes from or where or why it was assigned such importance but it has been." "Because it's a sort of extreme situation." "I guess so." "It's almost medical." " Yeah." " It's almost medical." "I like a lot..." "Somebody pointed out too that it's nice to have these opening scenes here where you see Caroline sober so we have this chance to see, you know why this friendship exists to begin with." "Because if we only saw drunk Caroline, that would be great because she's hilarious and so much fun but you need that underpinning of understanding where the friendship is coming from." "I also love that you put in there that she kind of defends Tris also." "Right." "There was something great in the book about that that Caroline was sort of the thing that was keeping these adversaries from completely falling out, right?" "Wasn't Tris sort of looking up to Caroline too in that?" "Yeah." "I think that Norah says that Tris is so Single White Female about..." "All right, here comes the star of the movie." " We have to..." " Yes." "Never heard of him, never seen this kid." "My favorite story to tell about the filming of the movie is that..." "Well, when we were writing the book we just picked each chapter up where the other person left off and we had no idea where it was gonna go." "And one of the chapters that David ended with he had them getting into a Yugo." "That was the last thing that happened, and I had to pick up with that." "So I was like, "Wow, just where do I go with this Yugo?"" "And then the first day we came to visit the film set..." "Which was just unbelievable, to be able to see it in all its glory and to see what had been transformed for this thing that we really started as a lark." "We get to the set and there's lights and people everywhere and it's incredibly exciting." "And we walk up on the street and this Yugo is sitting right there in front of me." "And David turns over to me and he goes:" ""I just put the Yugo in there to mess with your head."" " And there it is on Ludlow Street." " And now it's real." " And because it's such a beautiful car." " Right." "And because the Yugoslavian government paid me $5000 of product placement." "Again, he's always on the graft like that." "Milosevic, we're just like that." "How did you guys wind up writing a book together?" "We were..." "We'd been on the unemployment line, actually..." " We were selling Girl Scout cookies." "...during the Great Depression." "And..." "No, we ended up writing a book together because Rachel had wanted to write a book with a guy writer and I happened to be the first one..." "She threw a rock out and hit me in the head." "He was the only guy writer I knew at the time, so he was the one..." "I always find it so flattering when you say that." "I know." "The actual truth, though, is I'd recently read a book of David's that had just come out at the time called The Realm of Possibility which is one of my all-time..." "Not only one of my favorite books of David's one of my all-time favorite books ever." "I'd just read that when we happened to have lunch." "I had this bit of a literary crush going." "I was like:" ""Well, I have this idea." "Do you wanna write it?" So..." " I love that book, David." " Thank you." " It's an amazing work of art." " No, go on." "And I think..." "And Rachel said:" ""It has to take place in one night." "Main characters have to be named Nick and Norah." "They have to be bridge-and-tunnel kids from Jersey in New York for the night."" " That was all she told me." " We knew nothing else." "The only rule was we would pick up where the other one left off and not really talk about it, and that's exactly how..." "It worked out well for that reason." "And also, we said no deadlines." "There was no, like:" ""You have to finish such and such by such and such time." It was just:" ""Get to it when you get to it." "We'll see what happens."" " Very noncommittal." " The guilt would only come later." "Exactly, that would come much later, but for the time being, you know I knew how to play it right from the beginning." "But for Nick, the thing that started his character, really, for me was that he was the straight bass player in a queercore band." "That was really all I needed to know about Nick because, A, I mean, being the straight bass player in a queercore band means that he's a certain kind of guy that's he's willing to do things and that he's really not so worried about what other people think." "And the fact that he was a bassist was..." "I mean, bassists are always that through line underneath and they never go for the attention, they never go out there and jam out." "They're just standing behind the scenes just letting everything happen and enjoying the musical aspect of it." "So that, from the get-go, was Nick for me." "It was easy to write Norah based on that because what girl couldn't fall in love with a guy who's the, you know, straight member of queercore band?" "I was like, "Tell me no more."" "Especially when they don't have a drummer." "Exactly." "Exactly." "I was sort of pissed off, though, that the first chapter..." "I said, "Write about characters named Nick and Norah" he wrote about characters named Nick and Tris." "I was a little bit outraged when I started the second chapter and that was Norah's, and it..." "The outrage fed very well, but I was a little bit miffed." "So I was like, "Oh, let me tell you about Tris."" "So you guys didn't...?" "Where...?" "So where did their objective of finding Fluffy come from?" "That wasn't part of the original concept." "It was something that came later." "Yeah, that was more in the screenplay than the book." " Yeah, that was in the screenplay." " Where's Fluffy appear in the book." "They don't have to work nearly as hard to get to Where's Fluffy." " They saw them at, like..." " They see them, yeah." "They're at Camera Obscura, but..." "And I saw some reviewer somewhere..." "Somebody was saying how..." "Cutting the reference to the Where's Fluffy and saying that:" ""Oh, so, you know, they're trying to..."" "They alluded to the fact that we must have been making a reference to a Dylan song or something like that." "And it just..." "Really overanalyzing where this so-called Fluffy came from." "And the real reason of the name Where's Fluffy is that while David and I were writing it I happened to go down to San Diego one weekend to visit a friend of mine who is very much of a free spirit, and she was cat-sitting at the time." "I said, "I'm writing this thing right now and I need to think of a band name."" "She said, "Well, call it Where's Fluffy." And I said, "Why?" And she said:" ""Oh, because I'm cat-sitting this weekend and I lost the cat."" "And I said, "Okay, that's what I'll name it."" " Brilliant." " Meant to be, with Kat Dennings." " Exactly, exactly." "But yeah." " Little did we know." "So the idea of people trying to find meaning in "Where's Fluffy..."" "It literally is what it is:" ""Where's Fluffy?"" "Whereas "the Jerk Offs" has so many meanings." " Yeah, exactly." " I won't get into that." " It's open to different interpretations." " I get asked about that all the time." "No." "I mean, for me, anyway, it was kind of a..." "You know, growing up in Jersey you always heard Bruce Springsteen was gonna show up at these places." "And everybody would, like, pour into this, you know, one bar this, like, small, like, Jersey Shore bar to see Bruce." "It was always, "Where's Bruce?"" "And then Southside Johnny would show up instead and everybody would boo, except for the one guy who'd freak out." "Yeah." "But yeah, you guys created that whole Where's Fluffy world." "Where did you guys come up for "the Jerk Offs"?" "Because the language of the book is obviously so different than what became in the movie." "How did you work to try to find references that would sort of speak to the punk energy but at the same time meet the requirements of a PG-13 rating?" "That's a fine line, right?" "Well, we..." "I mean, it..." " The script was written..." " I salute my hat for "the Jerk Offs."" "Yeah, I mean the script was written rated R at first..." " X." " R-plus novel." "But yeah, we started there and then had to taper it back for the audiences but, I mean, it was a challenge, right, Pete?" "To go through it and?" "Yeah, and it was a process because, you know, we don't have censors." "We have a board that reviews the film." "And it was impossible to really know from the script if we had turned..." "If we had met..." "So we had an R-rated script." "We were..." "We had the opportunity to make the film as long as it's PG-13." "So then Lorene was sent away to PG-13-itize it." "There was really no finish line there because there were no hard and fast rules about what you can say and what you can't say." "But my idea of putting the one F-bomb right in the beginning so people think it's edgy." "We loved that, actually." "To me, myself very selfishly, I felt like that was a nod to the book at the very beginning, that that was the first thing he says when he's not talking in the voice mail." " Yeah, it is a nod to the book." " We say thank you." "Well, Michael really wanted to make that last." "He said he wanted to..." "He said:" ""If this is the one that we're gonna get, I really wanna make it count so I'm gonna stretch it out."" "And I said, "Stretch it out how?" And he said, "You know, like, 'Fuck."'" "Nick." "Norah." "And so he was gonna do that." "We actually didn't wind up using that take but..." "Anyway, interesting story:" "I said to him..." "We had done three takes of it and I reminded him that he wanted to do a long one." "I said, "Hey, Mike, don't...?" "Remember you wanted to do a really long, slow 'Fu... '?" "And he said, "Right here?" "In front of the crew?"" " That's so funny." " Anyway." "He did it and it was funny but we happened to use a different take." "But you never know with ratings." "You make the film, show the board, and see what they have to say." "We were discussing earlier, like, movies like Sixteen Candles and sort of the John Hughes oeuvre that aren't rated PG or PG-13 and you couldn't get away with that stuff now." "It's so different." "I mean, they're actually much stronger." "Gum makes its debut here, please note." " Oh, yes." " The gum starts with Randy." "It took eight viewings of me seeing this movie till I finally got the circle of the gum." "The trail of the gum." " Really?" " Yes." "That's why you gotta see it more than once." "Tell us, where did the gum come from?" "That's something all my relatives have been emailing to me:" ""Was the gum in the book?" No, it was not." " I have no idea where that came from." " You are much too classy for that stuff." "Yeah, right." "Probably doesn't play as well in print, I imagine." "Yeah, that's sort of a visual thing." "That's Pete and I, losing our minds on a..." "Where did the gum come from?" "I think the gum started with the gum in the toilet." "I think that the original sort of gum moment was the gum in the toilet." "And then we just decided there was some sort of..." "I think you and I were losing our minds in that coffee shop and just started to go overboard." "Yeah, I remember a café on 10th Street and First Avenue called Tarallucci e Vino, which you should go to." " We'll be there." "And..." " We're still there." "We're still there." "We're recording this there." " I'll have a cappuccino." " My stomach rumbled in anticipation." "We spent some time there talking about the story, and what..." "I think what we..." "That gum kept coming..." "We kept seeing the opportunities in the gum." "Because I think maybe she was just feeling sick she was gonna throw up, and the gum fell out." "I think she reached in and got it, but then it wasn't..." "Yeah, we didn't track it, yeah." " We didn't..." "That was it, yeah." " Yeah." "But we kept finding opportunities to bring it back." "Then it became, really, a useful way to let dramatic air out of the balloon to sort of do a highbrow-lowbrow thing at the same time because that's what it does in the film." "You'll have a scene where it's the two of them talking about their feelings and then somebody will pull that gum out and it'll call back to the sensory experience of having seen somebody pull it out of a toilet and feeling sick about it." "So it's not based on your personal experience?" "You've swapped some gum." "Sure." "It's wonderful that we see the actors do that, though because, like, in the..." "Later in the scene, in their love scene the gum never actually comes from where it looks like it's coming from." "You know, in the scene where she pulls it out of the toilet, it's..." "You know, somebody's handing it to her out of..." "Off camera." "And in the scene where Michael pulls it out of his mouth after they've been kissing and getting it on in the recording studio it was in his mouth for the whole scene." "But it's just amazing what the mind can do and how you can assign it a certain level of grossness with the help of an actor, you know, helping you along." "I'm really foreseeing that there's gonna be websites devoted to the trail of that gum and..." " Where's Fluffy?" "Where's the gum?" " Where's the gum?" "And some people probably won't be satisfied with the fact that it was actually handed to her rather than..." "Well, maybe I shouldn't have..." "Maybe I should've not said that." "But I mean, that's sort of gross for gumophobes." "I've met now so many gumophobes because of this movie." "I don't mind swapping gum, I'll admit that right here." " I wouldn't take it out of a toilet." " I've seen you do it." "I did it with my friend Elizabeth right after our screening because she wanted gum, I had gum in my mouth, you know?" " That's friendship." " It's got a bit of freshness left." "But yeah, you know, it just..." "I mean, thank you, Orbit." "But yeah." "But some people..." "I didn't realize how much that skeezes some people out even before the toilet comes into play." " Germophobes everywhere." " Yeah." "It's amazing." "And now here are the gay boys, come to save the day which is another awesome, awesome part of this movie that you guys have in." "I mean, the amazing thing is, of course, we learn in this scene that gay boys can actually jump-start a car just by holding the wires." " You don't need to...?" " Well, it's a work of fiction, really." "Oh, I've met some boys who can do that." "Beefy Guy's so hot, he can just generate electricity..." "Yeah, that's what..." "We were just discussing that earlier." "He has superpowers." "So yeah, I think a common misperception about homosexuals that might come from this movie is that they all ride around in vans that have lots of bras in the backs." " You wanna explain the bra cachet?" " Yeah, let's go into it." "I drive around with bras in the back of my van and, you know, I thought everybody did." "We're trying not to play towards stereotypes, so..." "Yeah, but the thing I'm impressed about is that you got bras in her size, because that's actually the hard part." "Having the bras in your van, not hard." "Having one that fit, that's hard." "You underestimate Dev." " You're right." " Yeah, that's true." " The reason he carries bras is..." " Point taken." "I think in a draft of the script it was mentioned that he's prone to doing..." "To cross-dressing and that he would occasionally get dressed up and do the whole thing and that that was a remnant of one of those nights." "But somehow along the way, we lost the mention of that." " Yeah, and just kept the bras." " And just kept the bras." "It works." "There's also, it seems, a Minnie Pearl hat." "Is that?" "Oh, yeah, when they get back in the van?" "Yeah, when they're pulling out." "Is that what Beefy puts on his head?" "What he's putting on his head is a pillow that he sits on for most of the movie." "I'm gonna go with the Minnie Pearl hat." "I like that explanation better." " I'm not gonna get in the way of that." " Love this." "This is one of these scenes that in the script, reading it, I was like:" ""Okay, they're all cheering to get her to unlock the car." "How's that gonna play out?"" " The way it plays out is magical." " And then it really..." "Just the way that it's done is pretty incredible." "Yeah, and showing it sort of from her perspective at the same time." "And I just love Norah coming over and just saying..." " Setting it all straight." " The camera sort of gets drunk here which is sort of awesome." "And that music." "We shot this, all this point-of-view stuff, upside down too." " Negative scratch." "Couldn't use it." " I love that face." "And there you have it." "Yeah, the trick to making this magical is Mark Mothersbaugh's harp." "How's that?" "How's that?" "Well, it's just you can't help but be charmed and sort of warmed by the sound of a harp, you know, and some strings." " It really gets the point across." " Nothing like a..." "My sister and I, who..." "I have a 20-year-old sister who was the original inspiration for the Norah character." "She was living with me one summer when we were writing Nick  Norah." "And she was 16 and she was a straight-edge girl, music obsessed." "She later, or a couple years later, informed me that she was not so straight-edge anymore and I should get over that." "But that was sort of where the genesis of that idea of her being straight-edge came from, of Norah." "But we love to watch the parts where Beefy gets her..." "Gets Caroline out of the car, and he just says:" ""I got her."" " "I got her." - "I got it."" "Here comes the pillow." "There's the pillow." "We're kind of obsessed with Beefy and obsessed with Gary." "We're kind of obsessed with Beefy and obsessed with Gary." "Here's the Now It's Overhead sticker on the back of the car which is one of my favorite things." "It actually makes an appearance later on as well in a different scene, which is pretty cool." "I love the way that all the music permeates the movie not just on the soundtrack, where it obviously does but you got all the details right with the stickers and posters everywhere." "Dave Doernberg, great production designer went to Merge Records and got a lot of this stuff from them." "His friend is the..." "Runs the label, and he gave us a lot of cool stuff." " That's awesome." " Yeah." " Did you keep any of it?" " No, he took it all back." "I tried." "I got a wonderful souvenir, which..." "I got the white Stratocaster from the love scene." " Are you kidding?" " Which is my prized possession, yeah." " That's pretty awesome." " Yeah." " Lorene Scafaria." " Sir?" "How'd you get involved?" "So somebody sent you this book?" "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, Rachel and David's agent, I suppose sent it to me when it was in galley form and so it was bound by a William Morris book jacket." "And I read it in one go, and I cried." "And I wanted to be 16 and in love and in New York and just meeting musicians." "Yeah, it brought back so many feelings of living in New Jersey and..." "And then I ate at Veselka." "Everything was just..." "It was kismet all over the place, so yeah, I had to do it." "They wrote such a beautiful novel." "I loved that they painted each other into these corners with their alternating chapters and had to kind of respond accordingly." "I think that's..." "And before we'd sold the rights, we talked to Lorene on the phone and it was so clear from talking to her that she totally got the book and really understood it and had lived it and she was just such a, kind of, Norah herself in a lot of ways." "You know, fine Jersey girl, and we were just..." "So you get the script, and then you end up making out in the back of a Yugo with Seth Meyers." " Speaking of which..." " Let's talk about it." "Here you come." " Let's talk about you, Lorene." " This is Lorene's big moment here." "I wrote this part for myself." " Well done." " God, awful." "Is it true that originally it was Brad Pitt in a thong, selling fruit and then somehow it got to be Seth Meyers?" "Yeah, Jersey girl named Lorene had to play the other part." "No, this was fun." "I mean, yeah, spending the day or the night making out with Seth Meyers in the back of a..." " Yeah, how did that happen that...?" " What's the inside of his mouth like?" " Hoboken." " It's salty." "This was..." "It was fun." "I remember when I read in the book that the car was a Yugo I just flipped out about it." "I just remember them when I was growing up the sort of last phase of them, and..." "Had all these memories of making out in the back of them?" "Yes." "Yeah, and wanted to relive it, so..." "No, and then I looked them up online and I realized they really do look like cabs." "They look an awful lot like a cab so if you throw some yellow paint on one this is bound to happen, I think." " It leads to this." " It leads to this." "But what was fun about this was, I didn't get to be on the set much because of the writers' strike, so this was my opportunity to come back and hang out with you guys for a little bit." "And you really..." "You did good." "You did good, took one for the team." "I really did." "What was bad was the day we thought Seth wasn't going to be able to do it." " Remember?" " Yeah." "And there was about to be an ad in Back Stage and I was just absolutely horrified." "I was just trying to..." "It'd be like finding your make-out partner on Craigslist." "I was like, "What's Fred Armisen doing?" "Get somebody from SNL over here."" "So yeah, it was pretty great." "Ari told us how to be drunk too, which was..." " Really?" " Yeah, she said to spin before..." "Well, we drank." "We did a little of that, so that helped." "But then she said to spin around before you yelled "Action."" "And man, does that work." "I was immediately nauseous and..." " Yeah." " Yeah." "Every take of Ari in the film, bef..." "You could see between action and..." "After rolling and before action, she'd be spinning and spinning." "Myron tried to cut..." "Myron, our editor, tried to cut together shots of her spinning to see if it could be representative of Caroline's wild behavior." "He tried to put music to it and show her spinning in different places." "I just read in Entertainment Weekly that she prepared for the role by getting drunk and having some friends tape her." "Is that right?" "Can that be in the DVD extra to see her practice tapes?" "Well, you know, those tapes exist, but they won't be on the DVD." " Did you see them?" " I've seen them, and they're wonderful." "And wonderfully endearing." "They're very Caroline." "She pulled a lot from those tapes, you know." " "Are you mad at me?" - "Are you mad at me?" Right, yeah." "Because that was..." "What a great idea to do." "Because you know how to play it just from watching people do that and you can understand the sort of slapstick humor of it and you can understand the sort of slapstick humor of it but the beauty of her portrayal of it is she just brings a whole other level to it." "And that has to be where it comes from sort of watching yourself do it as opposed to just being the person holding the other person's hair back." "Right, yeah." "This is her Rain Man." "This is her Rain Man." "Now, allegedly, the..." "I can never see it when I watch the movie but on Caroline's phone, Norah's picture you can see her wearing flannel." " Is this true?" " Yes." " She's giving the finger too, right?" " Yeah, she's giving the finger." "I'm glad the flannel made it in there somehow." " Yes, that was our only thing..." " We wanted to spark a flannel revival." "I've been wearing flannels, by the way, to help out." "The only disappointment of an otherwise beautiful, magical film is Norah not wearing flannel." "But if we can see a few more Salvatore jackets out there in the universe, then we'll have done our job, I feel." "This is awesome." "After this was filmed, actually, my other sister, Anna went out and bought the same shoes that Caroline has." " Really?" " Yeah, she scoured hard to find those exact gold shoes." "Those shoes were not an easy thing for her." "In one of those takes of her running out of the back of the van, they just..." "She pretty..." "She almost smashed to the curb running across Sixth Avenue like that." "That's why I don't wear the shoes." "I'm afraid that it'll..." "If she actually fell, it would be in the movie." " There you go." " No, that's a terrible thing to say." "She would've insisted that I put it in the movie." "In the scene where she knocks her head against the van one of the times, she took the van in the face." " Really?" " Yeah." "That sound is the real sound." "That's the real sound of Ari's face eating Econoline van." "The things she does for her art." " Yeah, what she suffers for her craft." " She's dedicated." " They're my favorite band in the world." " They're my favorite band." "It is inspiring, I mean, to see teenagers bonding over music in a movie because you so rarely..." "I mean, it's such a part of life but it's not something you see very often." "It's like this part of their lives that, if it doesn't tie into the soundtrack no other movie mentions." "So this is pretty cool, and it's so..." "That is so much my high school and my college." "While you were sneaking out to go see old movies..." " See old people, yeah." "...I was making mix after mix." "Yeah, I was doing that too." "It's nice, too, just because so many teen-oriented movies or TV shows tend to be very label-obsessed these days where it's just kids talking about acquiring wealth or what they have and what they own and very material type of things where at least what I remember and understand from being a teenager is that it's much more focused on this kind of conversation, and this is what I was passionate about." "I think so many more of the teenagers I know this is what they care about." "I don't think that often gets reflected in mainstream movies and TV for them." "And they seem to be getting richer and richer and meaner and meaner." "Yeah." "Where's that money coming from?" " I have no idea." " Does anyone have it?" "I know." "Help me out." " Perfect." " I refuse to be the goodie bag at your party." " You don't have to yell." "It's not a train station." "We're in a car." " Just drop me off." " I will." "Oh, my God!" "This is an awesome thing that does not occur in the book." "One of the great things about rereading the book after the movie's come out is seeing the fun stuff that was added that again, you couldn't do in a book." "I mean, I think some authors really want the movie to be sort of a carbon copy and identical to what's written on the pages." "But I think both Rachel and I, from the beginning were happy that it was so different, that you would explore different things." " Like, for example, this motion." " Get him." "You can't do that in a book." "It just doesn't come across." "But here on film, it's pretty damn beautiful." "And I love that shrill..." "I mean, you just can't get that shrill:" ""I'm not jealous."" "You just can't capture that as effectively in a book." "You just can't capture that as effectively in a book." " Capital letters." " Yeah." "And I don't think any other actress could capture that as effectively as Kat does." "Where did this throat punch come from?" "Throat punch is just funny." " It's just..." " When in doubt..." " Punching someone in the throat..." " Who could resist?" "I remember swinging at someone once and landing in a very..." "Like on the collarbone, and that was it and realizing this is why I shouldn't be punching anybody because, you know, I'm like 5-foot-nothing and swinging at the air and..." "Yeah." "I just thought Norah punching him in the throat was just..." "Yeah." "Why the face or the stomach when you've got that?" " He was just asking for it." " Yeah." "For the rest of the time, he's rubbing his little Adam's apple." "Yeah, I love that, in the van." "He's just rubbing it again and again." "These are so my group of friends now." "I think that the line:" ""We looked everywhere." "We looked at Gray's Papaya and the back of the van."" "So much of me and my friends." "It's sort of perfect." "I mean, I think..." "Was Gray's Papaya all over it too?" "Well, in the book?" "Gray's Papaya I don't think is in the book at all." "I mean, being a vegetarian, I feel that I can't really promote them as much as the movie does." " So that's yours." " I think so." "Wandering around Manhattan at night." "So why Gray's Papaya?" "Because it could be anything." "It could be in..." "It could be..." "Why isn't it Ray's Pizza?" " Or the ice-cream truck or...?" " I mean, I personally had a hot dog." "A love of hotdogs that continues today." "Did you go two or three times throughout the night to...?" "I would go to Gray's Papaya in the middle of the night for sure." "I mean, it was just one of those late-night..." "Bars are sort of closing and, yeah, you stumble into Gray's Papaya." "They're also phallic, which is just kind of fun." "But that wasn't intentional." "I loved seeing this film." "So you filmed this during hours while there were some commuters walking by." " That's a real guy there." " I go through Port Authority every day." "And one of the great things about Port Authority is that there is no signboard telling you where the buses are." " Right." " It's just..." "It's utter chaos." "And so people were both reacting to seeing Michael Cera and seeing that something was filming." "But more, they were going, "Why is there a signboard there?"" "And they were sort of excited about it, which was sort of..." "You've..." "The letdown the next morning when they came by and it wasn't there was pretty..." "I'm sure it was amazing." "It's a kind thing to do for the people to put out the signboards so they know where they're going and what time they should get there." "Yeah, but that's just not the Port Authority way, really." "We just put that up so that room looked like a bus station." "We just put that up so that room looked like a bus station." "Because if you film that room without a sign, it looks like..." " A bank?" " A bank or a big room or a..." " It could be anything." " I can't not backtrack for a moment and take note that that was, in the..." "Playing the bus-ticket guy, Frankie Faison who was Commissioner Burrell on The Wire." "And I was on set that night and anyone who was there can back up the fact that I was freak-out fan girl over him." "I was like, "I can't believe you're here." "What's gonna happen on season five?"" "And he was just kind of like, "Hi, I'm gonna sit over there."" ""I'm playing the ticket taker."" " Yeah, exactly." " The ticket salesman." "But I couldn't get enough of..." "Yeah, I was just..." "I could..." "I beam every time that scene comes on and I see Commissioner Burrell." "All my family who wrote to me after the opening weekend just said:" ""Oh, the movie was so great." "And Commissioner Burrell was in it!"" "He was saved from the gum by that sheet of glass there." "If it wasn't for that glass, that would've landed in his eye." " It could've put an eye out." " Yeah." "The other funny thing is that when they were filming at Port Authority there was still one operating bus terminal." "So these people would be running to their buses and as they'd be running, they'd turn their head and they'd be going, "That's the kid from Superbad."" "And then they'd continue on to their bus." "Fistful of Assholes is a brilliant, brilliant band name." "As somebody who tries to spend at least an hour every day..." " Was that a spontaneous thing?" " I think it might have been." "Yeah." "Yeah, I think so." " So you weren't in a band called that?" " Called Fistful of Assholes?" "No." "I really..." "I hope somebody just grabs it." "You know what it was?" "It was "hatful."" "There's a phrase, right?" ""A hatful" of something?" "There's, like, a phrase that someone said to me about a hatful of assholes or something and..." "What a strange-looking hat that must be." " It's amazing that that's PG-13." " Amazing." " Right." " Yeah, sure." "Everybody has one." "It's when you start getting specific." "It's when you assign female and male parts." "Now, I..." "Where did the hat come from in this scene?" " This is brilliant." " He..." "Kevin Corrigan wanted to..." "He wanted..." "I wanted him to choose his own wardrobe." " So he..." "Really, the thing that he got..." " And this was one of the options." "So he went into Wardrobe and really, what he was passionate about was that hat." "He really wanted that hat." "Because it's placed on his head so nicely too." " He took great care in placing it." " I can see that." "I'm impressed." "This is all Ari here, by the way." "I mean, this is..." "This is one of the best scenes in the movie." " It's all so good, but she..." " It's so poignant." "I don't think I wrote one word of this." "Every bit of it is Ari." " Ari and that turkey sandwich." " It's fun to hear the audience reaction." "Everybody who's kind of annoyed with her for being such a pain in the ass is at the same time just completely in love with her at this point." " Until the sound starts to come out." " Right, exactly." "Then they go:" "Yeah, no, the audience's reaction to this is priceless." "I mean, just to see that you can get such a visceral reaction out of people." "...that you can get such a visceral reaction out of people." "And again, it is so true to the Port Authority I have to say." " Yeah." "Remember we had to take that line out before giving it to them?" "It was like "the grossest bathroom in all of New York City."" "It was something like that." "Then it was like, cross that off to give it to Port Authority." "In fairness, I've been to worse bathrooms but as far as consistently bad, as far as, like, you really..." "The bar has to be really high for having to go to the bathroom in order to use it." "Yeah, if you ever take a cross-country trip and some gas stations, you know, that you'll get to might rival it but this is..." " Well, this is true to form." " Truly just awe-inspiring." "It's so funny how grossed out everybody is and then when she says this line everybody is, like, relieved a little bit that this isn't about to turn incredibly, incredibly dark." "And the funny thing is that we can't stop watching her when she comes on." "It's just so mesmerizing every time." "One of my favorite things about this scene is this, this bubble." "Ready?" "Point-of-view shot." "Go." "That was an invention of Chris Weitz and Myron Kerstein." "The way she looks away..." " Oh, beautiful." "Just beautiful." " And just the rings, I mean..." "I mean, who hasn't done this in their life, at least four times?" " The question is, who will admit it?" " That's true." "I guess me." " I never went back for the gum." " We did have..." "Hear from this woman, the actress who plays..." " Says her line was cut." " She was sitting behind us on opening day at the theater." " You are kidding." " No." " And she was..." "She..." "We promised we would say something in the commentary." "Well, she's gonna be a happy lady, because on this disc that you're watching right now in the deleted-scenes section are all the takes of her saying, "Hell, no."" " Oh, good." " Awesome." "In rapid succession, jump cut, one to the next." "There's no other actors you can say that about on this film that all their takes are in." "Okay, this is like the Scooby-Doo homage highlight." "I feel they are closest to being the Scooby gang right now." "I mean, returning to the van in their search?" " I think that's kind of brilliant." " I can't..." "Is Dev Fred or Daphne?" " He's Daphne, I would say." " Daphne?" "And there she is." "I saw people pointing, like:" "And there she is." "I saw people pointing, like:" "Trying to..."She's right there."" " I love this song over this." " I've been singing this song." " I have a great appreciation." " And look at them." " It's very cute." " Sweet." "See, you were disappointed Scott wasn't in there but there's a little love." " No, we'll take Beefy over Scott." "Yeah, we'll take Beefy." "We totally give that one up to you." " Awesome, awesome, awesome." " Oh, please." "But it's great, and it's so funny because so many of the reviews have mentioned the fact that it's, like, so revolutionary." "I think one of the reviews said to have these gay characters just be who they are and have it not be the colorful, gay sidekicks and it's just they're real people and just doing their things." "And it's just amazing consistently." "Obviously, the screenplay and the direction and also the way the actors did it is pretty much note-perfect." "And I think that is..." "It's sort of sad how revolutionary it is and how shocked people are that it's not like the flamboyant gay kid from Legally Blonde or from wherever." "Name it." "There's always one gay kid but he always usually dresses in a pink sweater." "The Will  Grace stereotype." "That's something that I learned on Victor Vargas." "I thought when we were making that we were being honest about the characters and what the actors knew about the world that they lived in." "And then when we..." "And the movie came out and then some of the critics said that it was very progressive because they didn't seem to be defined by the fact that they were Dominican that we weren't making a point about it, that they were just..." "You know, they were all pursuing their characters' objectives." " They're just living their lives." " Trying to get with the girl or trying to make the dinner or trying to whatever it is." "And then it seemed like the same logic to apply here." "You know, why would they be defined by their sexual orientation when no one else is, really?" " Right." "Well, you get a sense that with Dev and with Beefy like you could get a movie about their night too." "It's a nice parallel." "They're meeting for the first time, this night, as well and obviously end up at pretty much the same place at the end of it, and there's glimpses like this..." " I smell a sequel." "...of them getting together maybe not in as talky a way as Nick and Norah but at the same time it's just they're enjoying the night just as much." "There's a palm reading later." "There's some talking." "I do love the dance-wich." "And there's a lot of sort of sweet leaning into each other which I think is really nice." " Yeah." "This is just them." "This is the part I just watch and my heart just sings every time." " This was gonna be something else." " Yeah, it was." "Remember?" "They were on a..." "I think they were on each other..." "They were on the guy's shoulders and it was sort of an above-the-room, sort of, view of the club." " This was gonna be a chicken fight." " Yeah, a chicken fight." "That's what was in script." "And the problem that I got into was that the actors were anxious about being on each other's shoulders." "They were worried to do that." "It's one thing if you're at a pool to do the fight but it was a bit nerve-racking for all involved to have Michael and Kat up in the air." "Sure." " Because Michael weighs so much." " Yeah." "I mean, it would've crushed whoever he was on top of." "It's true." "But there are bursts of gravity in Brooklyn that you can't predict." "And we were afraid of one, so we couldn't get them up in the air." " We were afraid..." " I think what's there works a thousand times better, I do." "I think their chemistry is ridiculous there." " Yeah, they did great." " And then here comes Jay Baruchel who I'd almost leave Michael Cera for, he's just..." "Even though he's a total sleaze, but he's just so awesome." " I'm deeply attracted to Tal." " Every time I see this movie again I just kind of am like, "Well, you know, Tal..."" " Yeah." " He's a sleaze, but..." "You were always a sucker for Jew fire, though." "This is true." "I can't get enough of it." " He brings the Jew fire." " He brings it." "How did this character...?" "He is Israeli in the book and from Israel." "How did he...?" "Why?" "Rachel, for those of you at home is looking at me as if he were my character." "However, he does first appear in one of her chapters." " I have no idea why." " I love that he is." "It's very specific." "He was, like, going on a kibbutz." "It's because you made the kibbutz reference earlier in the book." "Yeah, that must be it." "Thank you." "That's why, yeah." "That's why." "I have no idea anymore." "It just made me laugh." "And the "challah back" shirt somehow appeared on John Cho." " Just great." " I love this." "He has so much energy for his, like, four lines of dial..." "By the way, in the blue at the bottom, that's my sister Anna." "Yeah." "Here's the hype man." " Hype man." " Hype man." "That red T-shirt was gonna go on Jay Baruchel but it didn't go with the rest of the outfit." "It looked..." "It did not..." "It looked like he wouldn't have left the house that way." " Yeah." " Then John read about that T-shirt and was talking about how much he liked it." "I said, "It's funny that you bring that up because that T-shirt is available now."" "That's amazing." " Along with Kevin Corrigan's hat." " Right." "Was that T-shirt in the book?" "Or was that something you came up with, Pete?" "I saw a girl at the gym in New York on 14th Street wearing a T-shirt that said "challah back."" "I remember Nick was wearing a different shirt." "And there was something..." "Everything in the..." ""I think about death a lot."" "I think in the manuscript version, he had..." "No, maybe in the..."When I say, 'Jesus,' you say, 'Christ."'" " He wore that shirt?" " Yeah, that's what..." " And he did." " Yeah, and it was..." "He was wearing a shirt that said:" ""When I say, 'Jesus,' you say, 'Christ."'" "That's right." "Oh, and then we tried to get Caroline to say that at the bar." " Is that on this DVD?" " That's on the DVD." "This DVD?" "So tell me about Randy." "I love this guy." "The break dancer." "This is one of the highlights of the movie." "This guy was sitting behind us in the movie theater when we went to see it opening day, so that was exciting." "We met the janitor and the Are You Randy acrobat." "Totally not planned." "Joe's friend Faith is on line right now there too." "We have..." "All these that..." "It sort of..." "It's very funny because New York seems like such a small town in this movie and then we found out that friends of friends or friends of ours had cameos or were extras in the movie that we didn't even know about until later." "It just sort of reinforces that." "It is small-towny when you're doing what they're doing." "There's not a gigantic collection of people that at 3:00 in the morning are lining up to get into clubs." "Right." " I mean, that is..." "It's a small group." " Hence why Tris would be there." "I wanna start a drinking game for Gary." "So every time she just says, "Gary," you have to take a drink or something." "I mean, for those straight-edge at home, you can use root beer." " Just drink water or something." " Eat grapes." "Grapes will do it." "But Gary's face..." "He's just..." "It's up there with Beefy's." "His story is the great untold story of this movie." "Yes, I agree." "Gary's Very Finite Playlist can be the sequel." "That moment right there on the curb when she says, "Get in the car, Gary." "We're not going in there to see Where's Fluffy." "Get in the taxi" that's when I think that Gary realizes that he ain't getting any tonight." "But he's still gonna get stiffed with the cab fare." "I think he thinks if he hangs in, maybe there's another date down the road." "But I think he knows at that point that her agenda has shifted and they're not gonna hook up." " That's like me and Tris." " No, that ended, remember?" "So in the book it's all about punk music." "And in the script, it's all about punk music." " Right." " And I've taken a lot of heat electronic heat, about it being indie rock and not punk music." "I mean, does that seem off to you, guys?" "And why is it punk music?" "And were you writing it to be contemporary?" "Because there's not really a gigantic punk scene going on." "Well, this is very much where Martha came into play my sister, who was the inspiration for the character." "She was spending the summer with me in Berkeley, California and we were going to several punk shows and so that energy happened to be very much on my mind." "And there was one day that we went to a show at Amoeba Music in San Francisco, on Haight Street." "And it was..." "I think it was Lars, the guy..." "The Lars guy, he's the drummer for Rancid and he had some side band that was performing at Amoeba Music one day, so she took me to that." "And it was in the middle of the day, and the kids were..." "They had made a mosh pit, they were crowd surfing." "I mean, at noon on like a Thursday in San Francisco." "And just the energy of that, and it's so..." "It made such a big impact on me while we were writing that that I think that's why that..." "At least from my perspective, my writing perspective." "I don't know about David's." "That's why that sort of got infused in there." "But I think, also, I think it's mistaking..." "Where's Fluffy is punk but, like, the rest of the music in the book is not entirely punk." "I mean, I'm looking..." "They were saying Nick could mix Cesaria Evora to Wilco to Ani followed by Rancid capped off with Patsy Cline, blending into a Fugazi finale." "So, like, the music seems exactly right to me, I mean..." "And I think the world of New York right now is that indie world, not as much of a punk world." "And the indie world has a sort of punk spirit to it so I didn't see anything too jarring about it at all." "I remember not knowing if it was even a period piece at first because it was..." "References to Green Day and The Cure and so I was like, "Yeah, these are..." "Yes." "This is..."" "Yeah, not intended to be a period piece just so much as that that's just the music." "Especially more punkish type of bands that kids will be listening to even 20 years from now and 30 years from now." "One of the reasons that I made Norah's father a music producer was because I was throwing in references like Cesaria Evora and Wilco and Rancid and..." "Oh, sorry." "And I wanted her to have the conceit of having had a musical upbringing that was very broad." "I thought that the only way I could pull that off was to have her father be a music producer who would've made it part of her education growing up that she had to know all of these wide range of things." " Right." " And that's why that came about." "But I do love that it does all come back to the Beatles." " At least for me." " Everything does." " Not necessarily for Rachel or Norah." " All of it does." " Not necessarily for Rachel or Norah." " All of it does." "I get so much heat about that line in the book about Norah not liking the Beatles." " I will admit I'm not..." " I think it's good you gave her a flaw." " I mean, you think it's..." " Yeah, that is a great flaw." "There's somebody I like a lot that I live with now that, you know, you all know..." "Not for long, if she doesn't like the Beatles." "...who did not like the Beatles." "Thought they were too soft when we first met." " I'm with that friend of yours." " Wasn't very interested." "And then..." "I found that very appealing and mysterious and sexy." "I was like, "Really?" "You're different." "I wanna know about you."" " God, I'm so boring." "Love the Beatles." " Yeah." "I like about three Beatles songs, but other..." "I love their songwriting, but beyond that I just don't get it." "But part of it, too, is that I just don't wanna buy into this thing that everyone else has bought into." "So even if they were the greatest thing ever which people purport that they are." " You don't wanna buy into love." "I don't." "I don't believe in it." "I believe in writing about it, but..." " Or Jesus." " Yes." "I believe in the Jew fire." "I hope you have a lot of the riffs that went on when this scene was filmed, because they're pretty brilliant." "My favorite one was when she said that he..." "It looked like somebody she had seen on JDate." "I really..." "I think that was brilliant." "I know that that wouldn't play, necessarily, across the country." "Jewish dating service, for anybody who doesn't know." " That was brilliant." " That's actually how David and I met." ""Writer wanted." Yeah." " Co-write..." "Co-author." " Actually, it was eHarmony." "And Tris..." "I mean, Tris is fascinating in this movie, I think in a slightly different way than in the book but she's still fascinating." "Because in the book, she is such a powerhouse and we get more of the back-story, which is harder to do in the movies." "But here, at first, I know..." "I'm gonna speak for Rachel, but Rachel will correct me." "When we first saw Alexis, like, sort of at the party before the filming started we were like, "She's so petite and so..." "Wait, Tris is just this ball of energy." "What's going on?"" "And then to actually see her in the film there's so much going on there." "It's amazing how somebody who you could floss with becomes such a formidable figure." "When I first met them, actually, I thought that Alexis, who plays Tris she really looked to me the way I had pictured Caroline." "And Ari, who plays Caroline looked to me the way I'd imagined Tris." "So my first impression on meeting them was like:" ""Pete, just switch them around." "Switch them around."" "And then once watching them in action, it was just perfect." "But physically, they really met other expectations for..." "Of the way I pictured them from the book." "You can't judge a book by its cover." "What did you think...?" "Lorene, what did you think they were gonna look like?" "I don't know." "I had always pictured Norah with, like, that bowl cut that sort of was in the book, and so..." "But I think Kat is spot on, actually." "She kind of conjures up all those old, like, Winona Ryder feelings I had back in the day." "So I think that's right." "And..." "Yeah, I remember Caroline in the book being, like, real buxom and..." "Right?" "Blond and buxom and..." "No?" " Really?" " Yeah." "No, she was brunette, with the caramel lips and the..." " She was buxom, though." " I don't think she was that buxom." "I don't think she was describ..." "Show me one description." " No, we we're not gonna..." " Show me one description." " Anyway. "Fly, little birdie, fly."" " You know what it is?" "I don't think of her as buxom so much as I think of her as just being a hot rod." " You know?" " Yeah." "I remember seeing Alexis' audition tape and she was eating a Twizzler like a jerk while saying all this stuff, like saying all this mean stuff to Kat." "I was like, "Oh, man, that's dead on." "That is..." Yeah." "That's where the broccoli came in as personal prop in the deli scene." "She bites that piece of broccoli." "It's the introduction to the scene." "This is my first credit for songwriting ever." " Yeah." " Oh, you did this one?" "My best friend, Billy, is in the left-hand corner next to the door." "And just as Rachel's sister, Martha, inspired Norah I was living, coincidentally, with a friend named Nick at the time while writing the book, so I had a very Nick-oriented life." "The book is dedicated to Martha and real Nick." "So real Nick is in this scene." "He is not one of the gay guys checking out the boys." "He's on the other side." "So I don't know if you see him here but it was fun to have them all be a part of it." "And my sister Martha actually did have the opportunity to be an extra also in the Union Pool scene." "But they were told to dress like hipsters to show up on set dressed like hipsters." "And so they didn't understand that." "Her idea of being a hipster is to look like a very cool English granny." "So that's how she showed up, and they told her to change." "And she said no, so she is not an extra in the movie." " A true hipster would not change." " She was too cool to be an extra." "Exactly, exactly." "She was not going to compromise." "And I asked her if she regretted that once the movie had come out and she said no." "She was right all along." "And I think she was." "And now we honor her spirit with this DVD commentary." "Gary." "Poor Gary." "I still miss Gary running out of the car." "And that's where Martha works, the Landmark's Sunshine." "Which is where I first saw Raising Victor Vargas three times." "And that's where we premiered..." "Where we showed the movie the other night." "Yeah, Sunshine." "This was Michael..." " This was Kat's audition scene." " Really?" " That's right." " This Handi Wipe scene." "You knew if she nailed the Handi Wipe you had your Norah." "Well, there were a few things that, you know, we wanted to check out to see if she had the spectrum of, sort of, throat-punch giddyup and sort of tender, vulnerable emotionally available Handi Wipe scene." "It says that on her résumé now." " She was giggling there." " Under "Special Skills." Handi Wipes." " Handi Wipes and throat punch." " That line, he says:" ""I never wash my pants." "I like to keep the night on them."" "What was the inspiration for that?" "I love that." " I think that's just how I do." " Yeah." " Yeah, I don't know." "Jeans..." " We're moving away from Lorene now." "Well, yeah." "No, these have the day on them." "But yeah, you just never wash your jeans." "You just never get around to them and they start to sort of take their own shape." " Walk on their own." " I love that line." "And Mike's delivery of it is so good." "It sort of..." "The audience doesn't seem to know if they wanna laugh at that." "They sort of think, "That's supposed to be..." "That's funny, but it's kind of gross."" "And then they sort of settle on, "Yeah, this is funny." Then they laugh." "You can kind of hear the thought process roll over the audience." " I love that." " A couple of times I've met Ann Brashares who wrote the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series." "Every time I've seen her..." "I only read the first book, but I wanna say:" ""Did those girls wash the pants yet?"" "I mean, if she wrote four books." "Because that's kind of..." " Just dry-clean them." " Yeah." "It's upsetting me to think of four books." "One of my favorite moments of the movie is when Dev yells, "Nicky!" Here." "Like, I feel that their whole relationship is in just the one line there." "And again, their closeness comes off..." "Exactly." "So incredibly well." "And again, it was amazing to see." "And you..." "Pete can talk about this more than we can but since we were on the set a lot just seeing how the actors came together so amazingly well." "I mean, it was almost like we felt we were sort of the CITs at camp." "And like here, where they were just having a whole lot of fun." "I mean, how did you establish that dynamic with them?" "I wish I could take some kind of credit for it, but I really can't." "I mean, they..." "We cast hoping that the, sort of, ensemble of actors would have a vibe together." "But we couldn't bring them all together at the same time until rehearsal." "You can bring them together in little groups." "Brought together, you know, Ari and..." "You bring together the girls and the guys to see if they feel like they get along and stuff." "They seemed to be like-minded but we didn't really know until rehearsal, so..." "They just got on really well." "It was really who they are." "They're sort of good-natured, sort of warm people." "It was fun to watch them on set." "When they would all come out for a joint scene they would all sort of bound onto the set together." " It was very sweet." " So no trust exercises?" " No." " No, no trust falls." " Didn't even need that stuff." " Drop them in Vietnam." "Make them fend for themselves." "No, the hardest thing to do was to get them to focus up for takes because they would be goofing off and laughing and..." "I heard there was a lot of video-game playing and..." " Yeah, I mean, it was just..." " There was a lot of harmonizing." "Yeah, you know, they..." "I mean, Ari made a..." "Ari, who plays Caroline, made a film during the making of the movie which is on the DVD which is her video diary of the making of the film." "And sort of what you see in that video is definitely..." "Is absolutely the dynamic that they had." "And it comes across beautifully." "This is the one true gum transfer." " And Ari and Kat have both given me..." " Gumologists take note." "They've both given me guilt..." "They've both given me grief about putting that cut in there because, you know, they feel like:" ""If we had to transfer that gum from my mouth to her mouth eight times, you couldn't have even...?" "You had to put a cut into it?" "You couldn't have let everybody know that we did that?"" "You couldn't have let everybody know that we did that?"" "It's true." "So, Lorene, when writing the script was there particular music that you listened to or?" "What got you in the mood to sort of mirror Nick and Norah's?" "I had my little Nick  Norah mix." "I remember burning a..." "I burnt a CD, I think." "I don't know." "I think it sort of made its way around." "Of course, four years later, it's kind of irrelevant." "But no, I just really liked at the time..." "I'm trying to think of what was on there." "It was, like, The Black Keys and Bloc Party and..." "Yeah, but I mean, I could..." "I guess I couldn't have even imagined what you guys could've come up with for this." "And I'm just so..." "I can't..." "I don't know." "It's in my car right now." "It's..." "I know, for us, when we wrote the book, I mean, it was so easy." "I've never had an experience writing before that was so easy and so joyful and so much fun." "Was it like that to do an adaptation or was it kind of grunt work along with fun?" "No, it wasn't." "It was daunting at first just because I truly love the novel so much and because you guys had done such a wonderful job of crawling inside their heads and internalizing so much and so it was more of a challenge of:" "How do they get anything out?" "You know, how do we learn who they are through seeing them interact with each other?" "So it was daunting, but no." "I mean, I think you guys set it up so..." "In such a way..." "And then, of course, just through the process of working with Pete." "I felt like I could have written the two of them in a car for..." "Infinitely." "So yeah, no, I..." "It sort of became effortless after a little bit with them." "But certainly trying to keep up the thrust of the story and the thrust of the night was more of a challenge." "How did the dynamic change once the actors had been cast you know, in terms of what had already been written?" "Well, they're all divas, so everything." "Their clothes got a lot more expensive." " Yeah." "Yeah." " That's a Prada Salvatore jacket." "That is a Prada Salvatore jacket, made by Jim Prada himself." "For Ed Salvatore." "The foot-on-ear action always gets a rise out of the audience as well, I have to say." "Does anyone else count the number of toes?" "Every time I see a foot on-screen I feel compelled to count." " I've never thought to, but now I will." "I get really..." "It always looks like six to me." "I mean, I think what's amazing, having seen..." "Rachel and I saw the movie three times in a row on opening day because we were proud." "But if you study Michael's face, there's so much going on especially in this scene and the scene after the dance, as it were." "Just that haunted, forlorn look." "I mean, I think we take great pains and spend many, many words in the book describing it and then just..." "He just does it, which is really, again, pretty amazing." "And I think he doesn't get enough credit for it because it's so..." "All the pain going on behind the eyes." "Yeah, this is a perfect scene to talk about that." "We'll talk about Michael's performance because it's one of the few scenes in the movie where we can..." "It was appropriate to stay on his face for a very long period of time in movie time." "And you can see halfway through the scene as she's talking to him, the inside of his eyelids go flush." " On a big screen you can see it." " Right." "You can see the..." "You know, you can see the capillaries in his cheeks you know, start to glow when she's kissing on his neck." "I mean, it's just, his face shows an incredible amount." "It's tremendous to watch him." "And it feels like, you know, when you go from a television set to, you know, a movie screen, his performance gets even better because you can just see even more of what he's feeling." "It's really..." "He's incredibly subtle and, you know, incredibly good." "And to quote my co-author here I mean, the phrase used to describe his look is "that haunted puppy-dog look of pathetic despair."" "I thought:" "When I reread the book after seeing the movie, I thought:" ""Yeah, that's it exactly."" " Yeah." " That sums it up, yeah." "A different kind of pathetic at work here." "Yeah." "Oz-rael." "Going back for a second, though, I do love that Tris' speech about in the back of the car, where it felt like home..." "That was one of my favorite sections that David had written in the book." "I was very happy to see that appear." "And also, it shows a nice side of Tris too that she's not just this completely shallow person with no real spirit." "That's what I loved about her in the book, actually." "I'm assuming both of you were ultimately responsible for how she sort of took shape, but that concept..." "We didn't anticipate her stealing the book and being such a central character, but she just kept coming in." "Yeah, we talked about it later because we've both had this experience writing other books too where there's just one character who sort of rises up and takes over no matter what you wanna do about it." "And this definitely happened with Nick  Norah." "We sometimes just referred to it as Tris' book because she just sort of took it over." "And we were very happy to hand it over to her on many occasions because she was just such a fun character to write." "But she was especially a fun character to write to see the nuances that she could bring to this sort of bad girl." "She's such a hinge between them too." "I mean, it's just that..." "Although the one disappointment, of course is the naughty scene between Tris and Norah did not make the movie." "But that..." "I was thinking about that." "I was like, "I'm disappointed about that scene."" "Then I thought, "That's a whole other movie."" " She gets Becca Weiner." " Yeah." "Once you go into that scene, though I mean, it's a whole other movie, and you can't recover." "It would've been..." "I wouldn't have known how to..." "What to try to make the audience feel about that." "Yeah, you would've ended up with Cruel Intentions." "That was the fear, right?" "Yeah." "Pete, this scene is based on your audition to direct this movie, right?" "This is how I got the gig." "Yeah, you actually had to dance in front of the headlights of a Yugo." " On the Hudson River." " Yeah." "No, I thought it was really selfless of you to actually lend her your outfit." "You don't get anywhere without risking." " She is so game, Alexis." " Risk versus reward." " I just have to give her some credit." " She watched videos, right?" "Of..." "Yeah, that Whitesnake video with Tawny Kitaen on the sports car." "I was wondering, because it seems so familiar." "The audience just wants to pour some sugar on her." " Of course." " Absolutely." "I love that her song..." "I mean, no offense, but the song is so cheesy for her to..." "I just love that, you know, they get to yell:" ""That's my song!" with Where's Fluffy, and hers is..." " "You Sexy Thing."" " Yeah." "Yeah, I mean, we could be in Flashdance right now." "And that's a compliment." "Well, if it was raining, it would be Flashdance." " That moment?" " This is great." "I mean..." " And to vouch..." " She gives it her all." "...it was a very cold November when we were filming." " It was about five degrees out there." "I also am impressed, again, on repeated viewings realizing that she is wearing the same top that Nick bought her in the flashback from the beginning." "It sort of like, yes, when people betray you they're usually wearing clothes you bought them." "When they come back to haunt you." " Yeah." " Well, that was..." "I was trying to..." "Lorene had written that Tris is wearing yellow stockings." " No, that's in the..." " That was in the book." "Right, so you all wrote that, and I let you all down because the..." "First the flannel, then the yellow stockings." "Well, the yellow..." "I mean..." "Yellow stockings are not a very flattering look, I have to say when you bring them into the real world." "As an image, as a mental image, you know, as a..." "Even previsualising the movie, it seemed like a great idea." "I don't know if the country's ready for that much Jersey on one person." " No." "No." " I feel..." "No, I always liked the stockings in the book because Norah sees them as yellow and Nick sees them as golden." "And so it shows you the..." "And Norah sees them specifically as piss yellow because they're on Tris." " Yeah." "This is a fantastic moment." "Yeah, his eyes kind of say it all." " And the cube is there." "It's incredible..." " Veselka." " And the cube is there." "It's incredible..." " Veselka." "And you've commented on this, Pete hopefully not on other commentaries for this movie how geographically, all of the shots make sense." "You don't have them, like, driving on the Upper West Side to get from one point on the Lower East Side to the other." "Except for the scene from the deli to Grace Church which is actually like a block." "But other than that..." "But they got in the van to get their hot dogs." " This is true." "Good point." " With a few exceptions, it's right on." "We should point out that our editor is over the shoulder of..." " That's Nancy Hinkel." " You guys missed Veselka." "We were filming for a good 12 hours or so." "Yeah, well, we're about to see you when Nick walks into the..." "It is the shot following Nick entering Veselka." "You guys will be sitting behind Norah." "We really wanted them making out in the Yugo but Lorene had that locked up so..." " Yeah." "I argued for Seth Meyers." " Sorry, guys." "I really wanted Seth Meyers, but it just didn't happen quite that way." "Actually, when I learned that it wasn't Brad Pitt in a thong, I was..." "But no, I think this, the effect is about the same." "This was my favorite place in New York when I lived in New York." "This was where..." "Yeah." "Pirogies at 4 in the morning for sure." ""Assorted meat plate" is my favorite line reading by the way, of everything." "I'm a big fan of the borscht." "We saw this scene being filmed and I didn't quite understand why she was slapping Nick's wrist not to touch the gum." "We didn't realize the gum had become such an important kind of supporting role." "I mean, I'm hoping the gum gets a full Oscar campaign." "I mean, as do Rachel and I for the cameo you're about to see." "Best extras, like Gollum." "I see whole new career for us." " As stand-ins." " Yeah." "Just a beacon of light shining over the whole movie." " Oh, Rachel and David, upper left." " There we are." " Yes." " Oh, my God." "And then very grateful that it ends." "My friend Elliott's arm right behind the sign." "Okay, you guys can..." "You can turn off the DVD now." "You've seen the most important part." " Thanks for watching." " It's been great." "We just wanted to point..." "And here we are leaving the scene." "Look at those midriffs." "But yeah, being at Veselka at 4 in the morning is one of the quintessential New York experiences." "And watching your book being filmed in Veselka at 4 in the morning is one..." " With your parents watching, for me." " Yes, truly sweet." " I just took a date there." "It worked." " Really?" "Yeah, it totally worked." "I was like, "Yeah, I wrote this," so..." "Just worked that into the conversation." "Yeah, his mother took me aside later that night like:" ""I've never seen him so happy," talking about David." "We were just very happy." "Happy authors." "I like this choice to break up this scene here." "The thing I don't understand about this choice is she says the thing about Becca Weiner but then we go back to Veselka and she's talking about "three campfire-y nights."" "Are we suppose to understand that they've gone outside and talked and then come back inside?" "I wasn't trying to frame it as a literal time continuum." "What I was trying to do was..." "You know how sometimes you look back on a memory and you think about the experience of...?" "You think about having that experience but you don't associate it with a specific time or place?" ""At some point she said this, he said that and before you knew it we were kissing."" "That kind of thing." "So, what I was basically trying to do was make it that kind of a..." "Give it that kind of a nostalgia." "But, you know, on a less sort of fancy way to talk about it we filmed both of these scenes in both of these locations and we wanted to be able to use the best performances from the inside and the outside." "And "three campfire-y nights" only happened once and it was inside." "And I absolutely had to have it." " Oh, yeah." "And it works." " Yeah, it's great." "So I..." "You know, and I sort of..." "Myron, the editor, and I hope that or think that, you know if you are cutting the best performance and the performance is good, people will follow you wherever you go." "...and the performance is good, people will follow you wherever you go." "That was sort of the logic there." "Now, I could be wrong but I seem to recall hearing a lot of the big New York shots were borrowed from Spider-Man, is that right?" "Yeah, there's some Spider-Man in here." "Yeah, like the aerial shot of the Williamsburg Bridge while they're driving from Union Pool back towards the deli." "That's what we were hoping for when we wrote the book was that eventually Spider-Man would find its web into it." " Well, you know, it's..." " Pretty cool." "Yeah, I mean, it's those kinds of shots that they put, you know Mr. Maguire into, swinging through on a cable." " Can we get Michael Cera to do that?" " Yeah." "It's so challenging to film there." "What was...?" "Was there any particular hardest night?" " Just logistically speaking." " The rain." "Every night was pretty difficult because there was..." "Pretty much every night, there was the threat of rain." "The movie takes place in one night, we couldn't show a drop of rain." "So we always had to hide from it." "I remember finding you guys that night." "I was with friends at a bar." "We were all getting kind of drunk, and we were like:" ""Oh, there's a movie set." "Oh, that's..." "Hey."" "And it was you guys, and you were in the middle of a midnight rain downpour, yeah." "I think it was the search party." "That's sort of what happened there." "Yeah, it was..." "You know, and this scene, this was suppose to..." "That fire hydrant was gonna spout water you know, 40 feet into the air." "But as we were getting ready to film, the temperature dipped from 35 to 34 to 33 to 32 to 31." " Oh, God." "And then the city wouldn't let us cover the street in water because, of course, it would freeze, and then it would be hazardous, right?" "So it turned out, you know, we had to do smoke." "But every day, it was something like that." "But I definitely think that what you get shooting in New York is way more than, you know, what you sacrifice." "Who made these choices of who's...?" "Who is that guy?" " Do we know who he is?" " That's great." "He's an actor who sent us his headshot and we cast him as Norah's father." "Believe it or not, I don't think I've ever met him." "If he's listening to this, pleasure to meet you, my friend." "Wonderful job." "Yeah, of all the props from the set that I desperately wanted for my own the number one besides the jacket of Salvatore was the picture of Norah's dad and Céline Dion." " Yeah." " I did not get it, but just retroactively..." " I like him and Alanis." "...my heart burns every time I see it." "Him and Alanis sharing a laugh is a really good one." " I like the Counting Crows one." " Yeah." " I should tell them?" " Yes." "Who's the voice of this DJ?" "Anybody that we know?" "This is..." "Wonder if it was Myron." "This is the boyfriend of Kate, one of our editing assistants." "He came in and did this for us in the editing room." "This was a big stunt right here." "This was..." "It was big for our movie." " Yeah, I was gonna say, all the action." " Lincoln Tunnel." "Yeah." "Was this a...?" "This was in..." " Yeah, this was in the script." " Yeah, yeah, it was." "This was the beginning of all the propelling action toward the rooftop." "Speaking of Lincoln Tunnel and being a Jersey boy when David first saw the movie you know that opening shot towards the beginning when the credits are on, when you see the Lincoln Tunnel and you see the shot of Manhattan and the way it's shot, we're facing Manhattan what was it you were so worried that people were gonna think?" "That that was the wrong entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel?" " Remember?" " The car's going the wrong way." "Right." "He's like, "People are gonna get the wrong idea about that."" "No, technically, in the real world, he's driving away from Manhattan." "He's out of the tunnel, driving from Manhattan into New Jersey." " What's the word? "Heliotrope"?" " "Helix."" "That's what they call that piece of highway." "I love how she wakes up: "Hi."" " She's back." " So, now..." " She's back." " So, now..." "The recording studio, where did that idea come from?" "Because it sort of brilliant." "Yeah, I remember..." "I mean, in the book, it was an ice..." "It was an ice room in the Marriott which is not nearly as exciting cinematically." " Yeah." "I'd reshoot it too." " I think it kind of came from..." "I think it kind of came from the fact it seemed in the book, certainly, and as we were developing it that she had this sort of hang up about being..." "Having this famous father and people kind of giving her these mixes and their demos and everything." "It just seemed like a good opportunity for her to completely shed all insecurity of that by bringing him exactly to that place that would, you know..." "I mean, it would take a lot for her to bring somebody to this place to trust them enough to do that." "And so, what better place to have your first O?" "Your first big O. So yeah." "And then you guys managed to score this location which, I mean, it was always Dad's recording studio until it became this." "Yeah, how did that come about?" "Joe White, our location manager you know, went out and researched where all the..." "You know, where all the film-friendly recording studios might be and this was one that he identified as probably not film-friendly." "But it is..." "You know, it is historic." "And we worked for a long time, and he got it, much to his credit." "I wanna take a pause here also to say how happy I am that the "noticing" song from the book made it into..." " Didn't change a word." " Yeah." "Yeah, when he says, "I wrote that," I wanna go, "I wrote that."" "Although, I have to admit, then the first time that I saw the movie, when she was like:" ""Do you wanna go lay it down?" I was like, "He's gonna sing the song."" " Yeah." " Yeah, well." "You can't have the actor sing the song in the movie unless you're trying to endear the audience to him because he's such a dork." "That's the thing." "Because it's gonna be..." "No matter how you slice it, it's gonna be nails on a chalkboard." " It would be pretty cheesy." " Even if he has a beautiful voice then it's just gonna be like, "Oh, God." "That's not the character, it's an actor."" "I do like his song." "But honestly, from the book if there was one thing I would have wanted translated into the movie, it would've been that." "The song?" "You wanted him to sing that song?" "I love David's song lyrics." "He writes great song lyrics in all his books." "Not all of them, but many." "It's a pity he doesn't know how to write music." "I think Kat's performance of that is so beautiful that if he sung it it would have undermined it." " No." "I agree." " Yeah." " I think it..." "I love when she walks in later and has that awkwardness and that tug on her jacket when she walks into the room later." " I'm curious if..." " Here we get the Tikkun olum the part I wanted from the book." "I feel the whole book, that's what it's about is the notion of making the world better and fixing the world by people coming together rather than putting pieces together." "So I thought sort of when..." "This is the first movie that's been made or anything that's ever been made from anything I've written." "So deep down inside, I was like, "Okay, I'm cool with everything but I really hope that ends up in there."" "So it was neat because that is what this whole journey is about for them." "And you can tell people in the audience when we saw it, at least, who have read the book because the minute she starts that everyone goes..." "like they know exactly where it's going." "...everyone goes..." "like they know exactly where it's going." "That's because we saw it in New York." "A lot of Jews in the audience." "True, and it was also our friends in the audience." "But, you know, I like to think it happens all the time." "So, Lorene, in the book, this was..." "The event that happened in the section of the story was him having an orgasm." " Right." " And you changed that." " Yeah." " With much success." " That was inspired." " So, what's the story?" "Yeah, I don't know." "I guess I..." "Since it just seemed like these themes of, you know shedding kind of your insecurities and everything it just seemed like Norah's big moment being about a guy." "And not that it wasn't done beautifully and very sexy to read, certainly but it was just I didn't know how that would play on-screen, certainly, first off how to make that..." "I don't think you could've made that work." "Yeah, I don't know, and definitely not in a PG-13." "It was my one favorite change..." " Oh, really?" "Oh, good." "...was this, was changing that action." "Yeah, I don't know." "It just seemed like..." "And there was talk in the book of Tal never pleasing her, really." "And so the whole idea of Norah never really having that moment for herself." "And I hope people get it." "They seem to think somehow they've had sex and Nick's pants are on still." "But there is actual foreplay, and there's..." "There are many steps before that, so..." "Yeah, it makes perfect sense." "He's a bass player." "He's a bass player." "Oh, my God." "One of the things I love about this scene earlier is how often they smile at each other." "And I've mentioned this a lot to David, you see it a lot in the movie." "And I really love that aspect of it." "There's just that tenderness." "And it does, for me, in a lot of ways evoke a Nick and Nora in the iconic sense, but the baby version." "You know what I mean?" "Before they've had all the inebriation and sophistication and all of those things that come along with life." "But that's one of the..." "My most favorite parts of the movie is watching them smile at each other." " It's so simple but so lovely." " And their conversation here I mean, it's just so true life." " It's so authentic." "It's crazy." "And I love that." ""Why did you have to buy these pants?"" " "Why would you buy these pants?"" " Right, it's so true." " And "Your hands are cold."" " In the middle of that intimacy but still having those ridiculous moments too." "Not ridiculous but real." "And as we said on NPR, it's not about the humpety-hump." " It's about the actual connection." " He keeps trying to do this." "He's baiting me by saying "humpety-hump."" "Not buying it this time." "I remember that was a challenge that we were talking about for a while:" " How to see it without seeing it." " Yeah." " One button, not two and..." " Yeah." "I think you were the one who came up with the spiking." " He pulls that gum out, everyone goes:" " Her face is great." " Yeah." " Just rest and recover." " Yeah, yeah." "Just the tenderness of it." "It's just played beautifully by both the actors." "When I saw it in the theater, there were a lot of "aws" at "You're beautiful," yeah." "James Blunt started something." "Please, no." "Not an influence on the book." " I love the text." " I love that "found" is, yeah, "foumd."" " "Foumd Flufdy." - "Foumd Flufdy."" "Caroline's drunk." "She couldn't possibly write it." "Now, who can text properly even when they're sober?" "Right." "Not me." "But it's amazing how you go from that quiet calm to just the ecstatic Where's Fluffy moment coming up." "I mean, I think that, again, it's so true to these nights that you have the pauses and you have those moments of just looking at each other and suddenly you're rushing again." "You pause again, and then you're rushing again." " And that's done so well." " Well, it's the music." "The music really helps that, you know?" "It can really..." "Especially this, you know, this..." "The same song again, "Last Words" which sort of scoops up the opening 10 minutes ago and does it again here." " Matt Sollett." " That's my brother right behind Nick." "It been a family affair all the way around." " Yeah." " He's a Where's Fluffy fan in real life." "Apparently, he didn't object to the casting call for his..." " What he was supposed to wear." " No." " He was a hipster." " He was hip." "And this location was..." "Where was that?" "I keep getting asked." "This is..." "I think it's 30th Street between Fifth and Sixth." "It's somewhere in that area." "It's a..." "It's a rooftop there, obviously." "the same rooftop that they shot the opening sequence of Saturday Night Live." "You know when they're having a party and it's like Andy Samberg and Seth Meyers and they're, you know, high-fiving each other?" "Same rooftop." "Except it was raining when we shot ours." "Yeah, so that was easy." "We had to hang all sorts of things to stop them from getting wet." "And the slow-motion shots of Kat you can see some raindrops in there." "They snuck through." " Gary." " Poor Gary." "Poor Gary." " I want Gary to have his own movie." " I love how Thom sniffs her." "I know, just leans in and gives her a good sniff." " And the Merry Men, they come up to..." " Yeah." "Save the day." " Save the day, which is awesome." " I love that in our movie it's the gay guy who punches out the bad guy." "Yeah." "And it's not even..." "And it's the one who's just met everybody." "Yeah, exactly." "He's, like, a true friend." "The gum ends up back..." " And there we are." " Yes, it comes full circle." "All that's left now is to defeat the bad guy." " so you gotta run around playing beard with someone else's?" " lf you push me again..." " What?" " Your merry men will bone me?" " That's it." "Awesome." "This is when the audience all cheers." "And that face is just priceless." "Because we don't advocate violence, but it's certainly..." "Well, and I think he deserved it, I have to say." "And I love that it's Lethario, the lover, not the fighter, that does that." "I just think it's terrific." "And this is just..." " We're all just stopped." "This is it." " Yeah, because this is it the "I wanna hold your hand" moment." " Yeah." "And then..." " And that smile." "That's Where's Fluffy taking the stage." "Can you point out which crew members were...?" "I was really hoping you would get the Spice Girls to do this." " Like, I think that would have been..." " Scary Spice?" "Or just all of them, like Where's Fluffy ended up being the Spice Girls." "That would've been so wrong, it would've been almost right." "Or maybe like all of the references." "Maybe if you had Shania Twain and Ellen DeGeneres and everybody who'd come up during the movie up there on-stage." "It should be Alanis Morissette and Slash." "And some other guest star." " Here comes the one sheet." " Exactly, right." "I like that he sees Gary in full view." "And they have to walk, yeah, far enough so Gary is not in the frame." " And then we get the poster." " I love that face she gives." "She's just the most glorious Norah ever." "She really is." "And of course, again one of my favorite, favorite, favorite lines in the movie is the "I love New York" at the end." " Her spinning around is beautiful." " It just sums it up so beautifully." "Again, I mean, I guess I'm biased because most of the nights I've had like this have been in New York." "I imagine they happen in other places but there's something special about that." "I don't know that they do." "I know they do, but you don't have nights like this outside of New York too much." " It is very special, isn't it?" " The problem with doing..." "You know, with evenings like this in other places..." "You know, with evenings like this in other places is that there are natural pauses in the night where you have to get into a car to travel and then there's time to reflect." "At the end of the night you don't have that big impact of realizing what you experienced." "This was the escalator I would take home." "Always." " Talk about coming full circle, right?" " This is actually the escalator, yeah." " Not with someone like that, but..." " It's pretty incredible." "And again, the way this song plays into it so perfectly." "It's just..." "It's beautiful." "And I love it." "This is it." "That just..." "I love that line." "And the kiss." "And finally the lights are coming up." "I have to read the "infinite playlist" passage." "I promised at the beginning." "Now I'm not gonna be able to find it." " It's good you remembered that." " lf you don't mind, it goes like this:" ""I shouldn't want the song to end." "I always think of each night as a song or each moment as a song." "But now I'm seeing we don't live in a single song." "We move from song to song from lyric to lyric, from chord to chord." "There's no ending here." "It's an infinite playlist."" "There's where the title comes from." " And here's where the title comes in." " Thanks for watching, everybody."