March 8, 2024 • 8 mins
Actor Tom Payne talks new movie, new baby and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With Mario Lopez Mario Lopez rode Ben on Zoom for
the new movie Imaginary actor Tom Payne. Welcome to the
show Man. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm bro Maria. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, first off, baby number two is on the way. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do we know?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm actually sitting in a rocker that we just got
from a friend, which we didn't have for the first one,
and then I'm regretting that choice.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Why investment? Do you know what you're having?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We do, but we're not. We're not making a public ye.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're not sharing what's your what's your what's the baby?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Number one? Maybe number one is a boy.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's a boy. Oh wow, you got a boy. They're
off the bat.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You have a name picked out?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's again, do you have a name picked out?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
We think we do, but we're also like, well, I'm
a bit more reticent about giving it out than my wife.
But like, I don't like saying that first because I
don't want to see people's reactions.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The baby is.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
There in front of them. It's like, that's the baby's name.
People like, okay, I have to accept it, but they're
not quite here yet. People can give their opinions too freely,
and I don't I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That's a wise choice. I agree. I actually waited on
all my kids to find out what they were, and
that's wild.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I don't know how you can do that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's fine if you go for number three, I suggested,
especially if you have one of each, right, I think
it's a way to go.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, if you've already had one of each, I can
see that could be workable. Yes, I'd like to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, yes, good luck with that, and congratulations again on
the new film Imaginary is the is the title? It
looks pretty scary there. What's the premise?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The premise is, so I play it father in the movie,
first time playing a father, and I have a teenage
daughter and a younger younger daughter, and.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I guess preteen, and we.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I get remarried to the lead of the movie, dou
wander Wise, and we move into her childhood home. And
in that childhood home, my younger daughter gains an imaginary friend.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh that's the tease.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, the imaginary friend, I'm assuming because or has imaginary
powers that are very real.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, it's a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So in the in the promotional materials, you will see
that it's a cute little teddy bear, but he may not.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Be quite as cute as he first appears. And yeah,
I mean the trailers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The trailers are actually got more in them than I
thought they would cut it. But there's a lot, a
lot to make you jump and make you afraid.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's a fun, scary premise. I always think whenever you
throw kids in a horror film, it makes it scarier.
It really does, especially oblivious to everything.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely, And you know, the girl in the movie, Piper Brawn,
is such a fantastic, capable young actress that she she
was really skilled in what she could do in scene
and very professional, and I we I mean, the movie
couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Insafe for hands as far as child actors go in
real life. You know, I'm gonna I'll get in trouble
with her for getting it. I think she's ten.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wow, she's really young.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Really, I think she's definitely not older than ten.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah. Oh wow, oh that's good. No, see that makes
it the younger the scarier. Oh yeah, so ooh that's good.
Uh do you think this is something that could be
a franchise perhaps.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
If it does well?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I mean, you know, in that world, everything, everything can
be a franchise, anything can be expanded upon. Uh and
there's absolutely yeah room for room for expansion where Mavie
does well. We shot it in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A scary city, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And also just we shot it in the summer and
it was just before the strike and it was crazy hot,
like New Orleans. I love New Orleans, but I don't
know how people survive those summers. They're just so you
you walk outside and you're just wrapped in a blanket.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I love New Orleans as well, the music, the people,
the food. But yes, you're well, you're in a swamp.
You're basically swamp, marinating in your own juices all day.
It's a weird, weird.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And everyone else is everyone's sweating.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Everyone is sweating. You're exactly right, this is cool. Also
in the works this epic Kevin Costner and Western I
love me some Westerns. I love me some Kevin constnern Horizon,
and American Saga. So who do you plan this?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So I'm in the wagon train portion, So it's a
big It really is an American saga. America in the
eighteen hundreds, the beginnings of what we are now and.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I play.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A character traveling with my wife in the wagon train
across America and really like so it's coming out in
two parts June and August. And I was super emotional
actually on set because it really was everything that you
dream of when you're a kid about what shooting a
movie is. You were in these epic vistas in the
(04:50):
middle of Utah where we shot it, and really the
only difference between shooting it now and in the fifties
is probably the size of the cameras. Because we had
all the horses and all the wagons and everyone dressed.
I had to calm myself down a little bit of like,
you know, oh, I'm this guy in this movie. I
had to remember like, oh, you're a real person, right,
just your real life, like, because I was so excited
to be doing it and to be in it and
(05:11):
to have Kevin directing it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So he also was said, that was my next question, Oh,
that's he.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Directed it and wrote it like it's been his passion
project since like the eighties, and so well, everyone that
was there was so excited and happy to be there
and happy to be helping him make it a reality.
And I think I think the first treaders to come
out in the next month or so. And as you
I'm really excited to see a Western again and to
see a return to things which actually happened. Yeah, and
(05:38):
like could happen, and it's very grounded and real away
from the superhero stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, no, I I I'm definitely going to check it out.
What where can you see it?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's gonna be in cinemas.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh, that's gonna be in cinemas. Okay, got it? Oh,
as you said, two parts, like so, I said back
to back in my mince, So it's two movies all that. Yeah, yeah,
two months apart. Said I've never seen that, So it's
like essentially the sequel or broken up. We just shoot
it all at once and then break it in half.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I'm actually they shot them. They show it's two movies.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, but you I saw a test screening, I mean
almost a year ago now, and you get to the
end of the first one. I mean it's probably different now,
but you get your end of the first one and
you're like, Okay, let's let's watch the next one, and
it's it's cool. Yeah, it's Warner Brothers releasing it in
the cinemas, and I'm hearing they're going to do a
big push and it's going to be a big event,
and yeah, I'm really looking forward to know.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's awesome. I've just never heard of it, the second
part being released so soon?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, so quickly? Yeah, so yeah, I know I've never known.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's cool. But if it's strategy, if the end of
it is, like he said, you're like, you want to
watch the next one, then that's good because I would
have liked that for The Godfather back in the day,
because it's because The Godfather too picks up exactly where
it left.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, so that one. But you had to wait
four years? Wow, very cool. You've been in the States now,
what over a decade?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I have been in the state since twenty ten. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Do you feel do you feel more I don't want
to say more American, but American? Eyesed enough? Or are
you still pretty?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I actually I'm gonna, you know, make a post about this.
But I did my citizenship a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I went down to the you know, the place in
downtown LA and held my hand up and did the oath.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
With twenty other people. And it's a wild experience.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
But I figured, like, you know, I've been here a
long time.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
My son is American, We're going to have another kid,
and they can take your green card away, you know,
and you never know what's going to happen. And also
with a green card, you can't leave for more than
six months at a time. And if I get a
job in you know, a film or a TV show
in another country, then that's it presents a difficulty. And yeah,
so it just it just made sense. And I already
(07:48):
pay all my taxes here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, exactly. Well, good for you, man, Congratulations on everything.
Imaginary is the movie and that's hit in theaters March eighth, Tom,
thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Thank you very much. Thanks having me, har buddy, take care.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
On with Mario Lopez
With Mario Lopez Mario Lopez rode Ben on Zoom for
the new movie Imaginary actor Tom Payne. Welcome to the
show Man. How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm bro Maria. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Well, first off, baby number two is on the way. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Do we know?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm actually sitting in a rocker that we just got
from a friend, which we didn't have for the first one,
and then I'm regretting that choice.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Why investment? Do you know what you're having?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
We do, but we're not. We're not making a public ye.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're not sharing what's your what's your what's the baby?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Number one? Maybe number one is a boy.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's a boy. Oh wow, you got a boy. They're
off the bat.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You have a name picked out?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's again, do you have a name picked out?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
We think we do, but we're also like, well, I'm
a bit more reticent about giving it out than my wife.
But like, I don't like saying that first because I
don't want to see people's reactions.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The baby is.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
There in front of them. It's like, that's the baby's name.
People like, okay, I have to accept it, but they're
not quite here yet. People can give their opinions too freely,
and I don't I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
That's a wise choice. I agree. I actually waited on
all my kids to find out what they were, and
that's wild.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I don't know how you can do that.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
It's fine if you go for number three, I suggested,
especially if you have one of each, right, I think
it's a way to go.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, if you've already had one of each, I can
see that could be workable. Yes, I'd like to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yes, yes, good luck with that, and congratulations again on
the new film Imaginary is the is the title? It
looks pretty scary there. What's the premise?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The premise is, so I play it father in the movie,
first time playing a father, and I have a teenage
daughter and a younger younger daughter, and.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I guess preteen, and we.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I get remarried to the lead of the movie, dou
wander Wise, and we move into her childhood home. And
in that childhood home, my younger daughter gains an imaginary friend.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Oh that's the tease.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Okay, the imaginary friend, I'm assuming because or has imaginary
powers that are very real.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Well, it's a horror movie.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
So in the in the promotional materials, you will see
that it's a cute little teddy bear, but he may not.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Be quite as cute as he first appears. And yeah,
I mean the trailers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The trailers are actually got more in them than I
thought they would cut it. But there's a lot, a
lot to make you jump and make you afraid.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
That's a fun, scary premise. I always think whenever you
throw kids in a horror film, it makes it scarier.
It really does, especially oblivious to everything.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely, And you know, the girl in the movie, Piper Brawn,
is such a fantastic, capable young actress that she she
was really skilled in what she could do in scene
and very professional, and I we I mean, the movie
couldn't be.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Insafe for hands as far as child actors go in
real life. You know, I'm gonna I'll get in trouble
with her for getting it. I think she's ten.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wow, she's really young.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Really, I think she's definitely not older than ten.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah. Oh wow, oh that's good. No, see that makes
it the younger the scarier. Oh yeah, so ooh that's good.
Uh do you think this is something that could be
a franchise perhaps.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
If it does well?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I mean, you know, in that world, everything, everything can
be a franchise, anything can be expanded upon. Uh and
there's absolutely yeah room for room for expansion where Mavie
does well. We shot it in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
A scary city, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
And also just we shot it in the summer and
it was just before the strike and it was crazy hot,
like New Orleans. I love New Orleans, but I don't
know how people survive those summers. They're just so you
you walk outside and you're just wrapped in a blanket.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I love New Orleans as well, the music, the people,
the food. But yes, you're well, you're in a swamp.
You're basically swamp, marinating in your own juices all day.
It's a weird, weird.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
And everyone else is everyone's sweating.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Everyone is sweating. You're exactly right, this is cool. Also
in the works this epic Kevin Costner and Western I
love me some Westerns. I love me some Kevin constnern Horizon,
and American Saga. So who do you plan this?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So I'm in the wagon train portion, So it's a
big It really is an American saga. America in the
eighteen hundreds, the beginnings of what we are now and.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, I play.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
A character traveling with my wife in the wagon train
across America and really like so it's coming out in
two parts June and August. And I was super emotional
actually on set because it really was everything that you
dream of when you're a kid about what shooting a
movie is. You were in these epic vistas in the
(04:50):
middle of Utah where we shot it, and really the
only difference between shooting it now and in the fifties
is probably the size of the cameras. Because we had
all the horses and all the wagons and everyone dressed.
I had to calm myself down a little bit of like,
you know, oh, I'm this guy in this movie. I
had to remember like, oh, you're a real person, right,
just your real life, like, because I was so excited
to be doing it and to be in it and
(05:11):
to have Kevin directing it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
So he also was said, that was my next question, Oh,
that's he.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Directed it and wrote it like it's been his passion
project since like the eighties, and so well, everyone that
was there was so excited and happy to be there
and happy to be helping him make it a reality.
And I think I think the first treaders to come
out in the next month or so. And as you
I'm really excited to see a Western again and to
see a return to things which actually happened. Yeah, and
(05:38):
like could happen, and it's very grounded and real away
from the superhero stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Yeah, no, I I I'm definitely going to check it out.
What where can you see it?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That's gonna be in cinemas.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh, that's gonna be in cinemas. Okay, got it? Oh,
as you said, two parts, like so, I said back
to back in my mince, So it's two movies all that. Yeah, yeah,
two months apart. Said I've never seen that, So it's
like essentially the sequel or broken up. We just shoot
it all at once and then break it in half.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But I'm actually they shot them. They show it's two movies.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, but you I saw a test screening, I mean
almost a year ago now, and you get to the
end of the first one. I mean it's probably different now,
but you get your end of the first one and
you're like, Okay, let's let's watch the next one, and
it's it's cool. Yeah, it's Warner Brothers releasing it in
the cinemas, and I'm hearing they're going to do a
big push and it's going to be a big event,
and yeah, I'm really looking forward to know.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
That's awesome. I've just never heard of it, the second
part being released so soon?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, so quickly? Yeah, so yeah, I know I've never known.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
That's cool. But if it's strategy, if the end of
it is, like he said, you're like, you want to
watch the next one, then that's good because I would
have liked that for The Godfather back in the day,
because it's because The Godfather too picks up exactly where
it left.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, yeah, so that one. But you had to wait
four years? Wow, very cool. You've been in the States now,
what over a decade?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I have been in the state since twenty ten. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Do you feel do you feel more I don't want
to say more American, but American? Eyesed enough? Or are
you still pretty?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I actually I'm gonna, you know, make a post about this.
But I did my citizenship a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Congratulations.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I went down to the you know, the place in
downtown LA and held my hand up and did the oath.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
With twenty other people. And it's a wild experience.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
But I figured, like, you know, I've been here a
long time.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
My son is American, We're going to have another kid,
and they can take your green card away, you know,
and you never know what's going to happen. And also
with a green card, you can't leave for more than
six months at a time. And if I get a
job in you know, a film or a TV show
in another country, then that's it presents a difficulty. And yeah,
so it just it just made sense. And I already
(07:48):
pay all my taxes here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, exactly. Well, good for you, man, Congratulations on everything.
Imaginary is the movie and that's hit in theaters March eighth, Tom,
thanks for hanging out.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Thank you very much. Thanks having me, har buddy, take care.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
On with Mario Lopez
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