LEE PACE RUNNING MAN 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Lee, you're out with Quinn and Ntara.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Lee Pace, actor, Lee Pace, how are you.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm very good. How are you doing.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We're good. We're looking at you, leap Frog. That's you
on Instagram. Fantastic, fantastic short pants with the suit top,
the vest and the coat. Looking good, mister Pace.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Looks awesome.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Wow, you're really going in deep.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Well there, listen. I'm a fan, mister Pace. Halt and
ketch Fire was probably one of the best TV shows
I've seen in since then. A fantastic job in Hall
and kitsch Fire, and I own Bodies, Bodies, Bodies for
the record, So we're happy to talk to you about
the new Running Man.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, thank you very much. I'm so proud of Halting
kitsch Fire. Yeah, we had such a great time making
that show. What a great cast it was. It was
a wonderful experience all around.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Talking to Lee Pace from The Running Man is a
killer cast, William H. Macy, Josh Browl and Glenn Powell
is just on SNL. But you play the villain and
you wear a mask. Do you wear a mask the
entire movie?

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Yeah, pretty much. I wear the mask of the whole movie.
When Edgar pitched the idea of burning the mask. I
was at the game. I thought it would be a
fun challenge to play a character that's completely covered up.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I'm reading here and read it from the smash. Should
be illegal to hide leap pace his face this much.
But does that change how you It must change how
you act. You're expressionless in a way.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Well, he does have a face, he's just hiding it, right,
He's like underneath the mask. So I took that as
a big cue for the character is and you know,
physically you have to approach the character a little bit differently.
But he wants to be mysterious. He wants to be
anonymous and unknown, and I kind of that led me
to a physicality that was, you know, unbothered, kind of

(01:38):
nonchalant with all the violence exploding all around him.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
He gets he gets accused of being a hymbo sometimes canterra.
So it's it's good that we we don't have to
see his face to see his talents. Okay, he's a
very handsome fellow.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Now. The book from Stephen King, I think came out
in eighty two and The Running Man was set in
twenty twenty five, so I didn't see the movie on
full disclosure. But so when is this set? How did
you how did you make that future happen?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
It is?

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, Stephen King in eighty two was speculating about
a fictional twenty twenty five, and which is when our
movie is set. But it's fictional. It's not your movie satire.
We don't live in a world where The Running Man
is America's most popular show, thank god, but yet it
would be. You know, you're right, this is very much
an Edgar Wright film, and he's dramatizing what Stephen King

(02:29):
was speculating about. Forty five years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Edgar Wright did Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz,
two of my favorites.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Couple couple of great, great movies too. It sounds, it
sounds a lot like we like nowadays.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Hey, you grew up in Oklahoma. Your dad was in
the oil business. Was he a land Man? Are you
watching land manly?

Speaker 1 (02:47):
No, I'm not watching that, but I'm curious about it.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
You're part of a killer cast. We wish a lot
of luck with Running Man. Can't wait to see it least.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Thank you, thank you very much for having me on.
I appreciate it.