Jason Mantzoukas
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You said Veronica Mars, because I wrote it in my, as a Gen X, I wrote it in mine is, is this Nicholas Cage's Fletch?
Because I was like, every time he has to get into, knock on a door, do something, he's not doing it inexplicably.
He could be Ben Reilly for all these interactions.
These people don't matter to the story, but he's still like, I got to get into your apartment.
I guess I'm the plumber.
And I was like,
This is and you know that this is Nick Cage showing up and being like, I'm doing this one like this.
There's a great story about him getting cast in Green Hornet, the Seth Rogen Green Hornet movie, and insist to play the villain that eventually Christoph Waltz plays.
But Nick Cage said, I will only do it if I can do it with dreadlocks and a Jamaican accent.
I think Pattinson is cribbing off Gary Oldman and Nick Cage 100%.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Absolutely.
And I was just like, you know.
He does it throughout.
He references stuff throughout.
When he says, when he references, wait, what movie does he reference and say it's still playing right now?
Maltese Falcon.
I can't remember what movie he says, it's actually in theaters right now.
And I was like, he is just, it's that,
It's that improv rule of play to the height of your intelligence.