This content is a promotional interview featuring actors Danny DeVito and Colin Farrell discussing their involvement in Tim Burton's live-action adaptation of Disney's "Dumbo," interspersed with personal anecdotes and a playful quiz about their past experiences.
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here good comfy hey everybody how you
doing hello everyone very nice to see
y'all wow you know you're in England
don't you
Danny yeah I wouldn't even attempt that
accent yeah uh
s gentlemen congratulations on Dumbo I
saw last night I loved it I mean I love
Tim Burton anyway we're all Tim fans
aren't we it's an amazing amazing it's
like the original but it's it's so new
as well were you I was a big fan of the
original you know it's going some time
back now were you were you fans of it
did you watch it when you were young or
with your kids well the thing I the
movie was made in 1941 at 6 3 minutes
and it was like when I saw it I was like
a kid I was like just entering your
teenagers my yeah and thank you and you
know I saw when I was about 10 years old
my sisters took me to I don't really
remember that experience but my my kids
you know that was the movie I have three
children and you know that thing when
you're up in the morning and you the kid
gets up really early in the morning you
can't even see straight and you throw
Dumbo on it's like one of the beautiful
seminal Disney movies that we we all
love that Artistry and so your kidss
must be fairly grown up now your boys
are still quite young aren't they 15 and
N yeah wow so I guess this would be one
of the first movies you've made I mean I
know you've made a couple of kind of
bigger broader family films yeah but
there's usually domestic abuse and
alcohol and drug addiction in my
course the former not the latter yeah um
but yeah it's the first time that I've
well fantastic Beast film I did a few
years ago they could see but this is the
first yeah but Henry wasn't my
nine-year-old wasn't too impressed when
I told him I was doing Dumbo I thought
I'd get brownie points and I said you
know Dumbo and he went
Dumbo wow what did he have against
what's he got against elephants or I
don't know I just think at eight he
thought maybe a flying elephant was
uncool which he just and then he saw has
he seen the movie yeah he thought it was
mildly cool wow I think they do man they
do make it cool it is a kind of
beautiful it's just it wears its heart
and at sleep it's a very sweet uncynical
film you know it's not like an Irishman
heart on the sleeve you the whole
emotional thing are you with me yeah
couple yeah the idea the the movie Dumbo
for me when it was made the original
movie that I watched it had all these
like great heart tugging things about it
you know the the emotion of like the
other you know the Dumbo the baby's born
I play Max medich who's the owner of the
circus uh Colin is is gone off to war
it's World War I we've taken care of his
children the the circus is like on the
way it's like very you know rough times
for us we have all the jugglers and the
clowns and the people from all different
countries who are are you know artists
in their own right uh Highwire acts and
they're all real people in the movie by
the way they're amazing amazing talented
artists and you put all those great
themes and you give them to Tim Burton
Tim Burton is is a really sensitive
artist brings it into the 21st century
in a in an incredible way I just got a
text yeah that that was Jim Burton
saying don't give too much away about
the movie you're telling them everything
okay I'm telling you everything but
basically with with all hold on Denny
can I check yeah have you got a phone or
when you get a text does your leg just
ping I carry myy to see you see phone in
my wow that's pretty good pretty good
and I'll take yeah oh uh yeah this is
good he shot everything on Dumbo as well
I can't wait to see your cut of the film
cuz he shot every single yeah yeah you
be You' be doing a take and Danny be off
the camera be there and you'd be doing
dialogue with him and you'd be going
saying his lines and next thing this had
happen I I do a lot of photographing
well that's nice it's nice yeah well
it's a good good memory to have this is
going back in the socket turns it off
well we look forward to hearing it ping
Again by the way it's vibrating right
now I'm getting another text
oh probably keeping it in the wrong
place we're going to have to we're
talking about Disney movie come back to
S go back to telling the whole story man
go back back back you know you mentioned
uh it's a very intense experience I I
know this from many acts I've spoken to
and you work together and you get very
close for a short period and then you
often don't see each other for long
while and I wonder before you guys par
company move on to your next uh project
whether I could uh just do a little Cris
you and see how close you actually
became okay oh yeah I'm going to ask you
some questions about Colin you tell me
if they're true I'll ask you some
questions about Danny okay okay uh Danny
yeah Colin I'm going to read three out
you tell me which one is true or false
Colin once failed an audition for the
boy band boy Zone question one Colin has
a fear of belly buttons number two or
Colin once released his own album
fowl which which one of those is true
and which two are four this is so
difficult yeah a tough I'll pick number
one he was F for the boy bad boys out he
did ladies and gentlemen did you know
that you knew that I didn't know that
you didn't know that no but you didn't
know that no but it's it's good I like
the I like the true or false questions
you know I wouldn't be afraid of belly
buttons you're always picking your belly
button and anyone else is who'd let me
okay Colin you ready for your three
questions on Danny yes please sir here we
we
go uh once again tell me which one's a
true and which one's the false all which
one's a true and which one's a
false okay take it away
and then and then the duck Comes Down
Danny prepared for a roll on Broadway by
jumping naked on a trampoline each night
number one before he became an actor
that's true but anyway go on before he
became an actor Danny was a qualified hairdresser
hairdresser
bollock Danny appeared drunk on a
daytime television show after a night
out drinking bottles of lmon cello with
George Clooney yeah pluralized that last
one but um definitely the second one's
balls the second one's not true Danny
were you ever a qualif quite hairdress up
up
yes I went to the Wilford Academy Beauty
School you did and I worked for my
sister in her beauty parlor for two
years that's so much better than the
trampoline actually now that I think
about it but let me just ask you about
the trampoline would that be true or
false yeah it's true except there that's
true as well it's really good for you it
gets the the lymph going you know so
this kind of like bouncing
thing the lymph oh I've got an itchy
lymph he used to say on
the third one which was great you once
appeared on the TV show after having got
very very drunk the night before George
Clooney who's like really notorious guy
we we had a lot of lot of lemon cello I
had to do a talk show the next day in
America and I was promoting something
and anyway I slept in the morning I took
a shower how long did you sleep 4 couple
hours I took a shower went on the show I
was still bombed didn't feel like didn't
feel like you got any rest yeah I didn't
get much rest and I said the they they
said how you doing and I said the last
seven lemon cellos got
me that was good yeah Colin you don't
drink do you anymore no no nor do I I
don't drink either do you miss it yeah I
had a little look at one stage but it
wasn't really I was made patently
obvious to me very quickly that I
probably should stay office was it a
good idea
yeah I got a Jin and tonic in The Green
Room do you know what there's a word I I
do you know what every now and then
every now and then I meet about last
five minutes
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which
is one of the longest running situation
comedy shows in American TV now I
Believe been doing 13 years 13 years
it's amazing it's lots of fun it's
available here on Netflix uh and it's
just my kids turn me on to it because I
hadn't seen it before they told me about
it and I'm amazed because it feels much
edgier than than most American comp
that's a lot edgier yeah we do we do a
lot of great things tackle a lot of good
subjects you know uh anything you can
think of that's going to really shock
people we do it but it seems to me like
almost it's almost like they something a
challenge to try and find something in
the script to offer you that you will
finally say no to because you you seem
to do just about anything on that show
dude basically anything that they yeah
you think of it I've done it well maybe
I take that back yeah pretty close
that's pretty close pretty close so tell
me about the episode in which you
emerged from the couch at the Christmas
party well the idea was that uh Frank my
character is they wanted to do like kind
of the ghost to Christmas Past thing you
know where like Marley takes Scrooge
back back to see what people really
think of him and so they they brought
they were going to have a cocktail party
at the business that I was I owned
before I went to the bar and um so in
order for me to find out what people
were saying I was going to hide in a
couch they were going to sew me into a
leather couch and I was going to listen
to all the part the people and the party
goers when I read the script I thought
wow this is going to be cool and the
idea is that I have to come out of the
couch a certain way and uh oh you want
to show the well we want to show the
clip this is extraordinary it must have
been quite quite difficult to film I
would have thought I yeah I could tell
you all about it okay let's look at this
this is uh I know this has been shown
over here on regular terrestial TV uh
possibly with good reason here we go
this is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Philadelphia
oh that's uh that's Dumbo it opens
gentlemen that's an amazing the thing is
when I read the script and I had to come
out of the couch naked and it's it's so
hot in there and I'm hot hot I can't
that's my big line coming out of the
couch and I you read it and you go okay
you know I'll do that that sounds like
really fun I know the cast I know the
crew and I figured it's going to be fine
but you don't realize that you're going
to be in a a room with a cocktail party
with like a hundred people you don't you never
never
see so the first take I come out of the
couch hot hot hot hot and there's a clip
on YouTube that you can see where
Caitlyn who's the woman in it she's
looking at me
like she not say line the director okay
cut cut cut I had to go back in the
couch come out you had to come out I had
to come out of that couch like four or
five times wow ladies and gentlemen is
it great to have here Danny dito and Colin
Colin
F thank you so much [Music]
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