July 15, 2019 • 15 mins
Emmy winner Darren Criss stops by to talk about playing the iHeartRadio Music Festival and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With Maria a little bit. It's up yar on mar
Lopez joining me now in studio, Amy winning actor, our
buddy Darren Chris. How are you man Lo? Guys back,
I'm back. Everyone's exactly where I left them. I just wait.
We love to assume the position and you come in.
Before we get into anything, I gotta tell you, dude,
you'r Taco Bell Ndro Fries commercial might be the most
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epic commercial I've ever Have you guys seen this in
the production It is next level. I better have the
budget of like a studio film. It looked. I want
to see a movie. I want to see what that
whole movie is so funny, it was so good it
would but that must have been a fun One of
the most ideal situations I've ever had professionally was something
where I got a call saying, hey, do you like
(00:44):
talk about them like you're hitting You're kidding right, Like
if only my college shelf could know that I was
going to get this call, And then they sent me
the creative on it also hilarious, very cool, And I've
seen the other two because they had one with Josh
Dumel uh Webb of Fries and all these sort of
like Fox trailers with really high product and value. So
I knew what the gag was. Um, the song was great,
everything about was great. I got to go to Mexico
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City for like a week, which is I love Mexico City.
Everything about it was amazing and and like it all
happened within I don't like a month. I got the call,
went to Mexico City, and then I saw it on
TV and it was insane. So I love it. I
think it's so great that people love it. And uh
yeah they did. They towed that really great line between
sort of taking the piss and also you know, like
doing something cool. You know, they nailed it. Was probably
(01:27):
I was laughing out because the only thing about Mexican spices. Yeah,
I can thing about what I love. Thought that's great. Anyway, Uh,
forgive me for not congratulating you on the wedding earlier
this year. First, I mean, we'll Taco Bell my wife.
Yeah we know where places fries are pretty amazing, right,
I mean it's all priorities here. Um, I was Maird
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life so far it's great, you know, just so it's
just the more paperwork, I gotta say, like the hundreds
of years of patriarchy has not made it easy for
the ladies. I told my wife, was like, I don't
care about the name change, don't worry about it. Whatever
you want. And she, well, she's so you took her name.
Yeah exactly. I mean, hey, it would make no difference
to me. But I I just felt bad, like on
the passport thing, on the driver's license, everywhere we go,
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they just they don't make it easy, man, Yeah, they don't. Win.
Is her maiden name? Uh swear sweet sweet s w
I E R. So she wanted to change anyway, Yeah,
it's just a sweet Then I'm Chris is a cool
last name. Yeah, I think she wanted to change it.
That's on her. But still, I just I couldn't believe
how rough it was. So when people ask how married
life is, I just think of the paperwork and just
it's just so tedious. But obviously, you know, things are good.
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The business last time it is so you know, we
own the bar together and we've kind of created a
whole life together. And uh, the wedding was like, I
guess our our launch party one of the greatest launch
parties of my life. That's awesome in the bar that
I still have yet to visit, but very waiting for you,
maybe too. I very much want to. The last time
you were here, I said, I wanted That's what happen
when you started having kids. You'll see. Oh yeah, the
(02:53):
bedtime start coming earlier, totally. Yeah. Yeah, the closing hours
are a little earlier. Yeah, but I'm a weekend warrior.
I'll get I'll get out there. We're waiting for you, man,
We'll wait, we'll we'll I'll hold the pianet on some
chorus line for you. Thanks, brother, And this is very cool.
We've been talking about you joining the line up for
the I Heart Radio Music Festival. Um, what do you
have in store? Dude? Um, I've been going to that
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since day one. I mean the Heart sort of family
has been personally and professionally a big part of my
life for the past. However many years I've sort of
lost track. And uh, I was there at the first one.
I think I've only missed one in the past several years,
So I think they it's like having my punch card
at like a cafe. I've done enough times. Right now,
I got a free smoothie, like I got a free
they they're letting me perform there. I have a song
with Stevie Oki which is just a cover, not just
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it is a cover of um. Well, let me give
you the backstory really quickly. So I forever because I'm
a nineties kid and I and I've've been in many
nineties cover bands. I've always jokes, by the way, I
love oh yeah, I'm a big cover band. It's it's
a blast, especially if you're a musician. It's it's always
fun playing other people's songs because then they're already good.
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There's no worry of like sometimes better by the way, Well,
so that was kind of the idea. I'm not gonna
say we do it better than Dave. We just do
a little different. Um. But I've always joked that man
if I was an E D M d J, I
would just take Dave matthews Seminal Crash into Me, which
is a six minute sort of unconventional ballad with odd
bars and sort of it's it's a strange song that
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people love and have a lot of nostalgia attached to it.
I was like, I would chop it into like a
three minute banger, and I know exactly where I put
the drop. Um and uh just like this guitar party
goes didn't dent it, and I always thought, like CEO
two cannons and like like, I always thought that would
be funny. And I gave this exact same pitch to
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um Steve Yoki when I got a chance to meet him,
and he looks at me seriously, was like, that's amazing.
We have to do it, and then we recorded it immediately.
So it was just born from just having fun and
this mutual love of Dave Matthews and I think we
both love fusing two styles that people wouldn't necessarily know.
And the great thing is for people that know that song,
like my age, like and and and beyond, people go,
oh my god within two seconds like holy grab is
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this is this crashing to me? Oh man, this is nuts.
This is a song you wouldn't usually hear in a club.
And I've played for kids like under twenty seven and
then and they have no idea. I just think it's
a cool song. But yeah, I think re contextualizing popular
songs is like a tradition of music for like decades
and decades. I mean there's so many songs that I
can mention that I heard as a kid. I didn't
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know we're covers, you know, until later in life. So
I'm kind of adding to that zeitgeist a little bit,
and um forgiving me if I'm wrong. But isn't Steve
is he the one that throws the cake in the face?
Thrown cakes? Are you thro own cakes? Come on that?
Some cakes will come crashing into somebody if not me.
That's a good set to check out. Congrats on that,
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Thank you very much. It'll be fun. By the way,
cover bands, you'll you'll appreciate this. I'm into this one.
I has had him in my golf tournament. They're called
yacht Lee Crew. Oh yeah, that's all yacht rock. Yeah.
I love it. They nail it and they they're good. Right,
these guys are all about it. I'm all about the
cover band names. Uh, there's a there's a great band
called m Springsteen. Just do the math, right? There was
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there was another one that I saw recently, the No
Doubt one? What was it called? Alright? Told you the
one forget the name and a funny name. Though this
will be the first time I ever talked about this publicly.
But the band that I have with my with one
of my best friends, we we always throw these big
nineties parties. We have this band that we called Jumper
Wall and it's because we always begin with Thirday Blinds
Jumper and we end with wonder Wall, even though the
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set has changed in between. So that's kind of it's
not it's not as good as Yacht Crew, but you
know it's it's it's sort of echoing the same flavor
a little bit. I'm down to check that show. No duh, No,
that's so much better. No dud is no yachtley Crew
or Jumper I'm sure. Um. And obviously with all in
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your plate, you're still acting very much, and you're also
part of this upcoming movie Midway that's happening to gosh.
I mean, well that's a big old role in Emeric
if you know who he is, Independence Day and the Page,
just these big action blockbusters. It was wild to be
part of that. I've never done anything like that before.
I mean, if your history buff, especially with World War two, Uh,
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these things are very complicated and there's a lot going on.
It's you know, the battle Midway isn't just like one thing. Um,
there's several people and a lot of different moving pieces.
So having said that, I'm I'm just a little teeny
tiny cog in a much larger machine. I mean I
saw the trailer and I was like, wow, I can't
believe that. Persons in it, Like, I never met that.
So go your do your thing. But that's a cool
thing to your part. It's a really cool thing to
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be a part of. So yes, it's I won't go
too much into it, but yes, it's about the Battle
Midway sort of the events directly after the attack on
Pearl Harbor and uh yeah, I play a uh lieutenant commander.
I'm I'm flying a torpedo bomber in that movie. Yeah,
well look forward to and this was just announced. You're
writing and starting in a musical series called Royalties. Yeah,
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this is this is something I've been working on for gosh,
it seems like almost a decade because I've been you know,
another thing that a lot of people don't know about
me is uh in Los Angeles, New York. I've lived
of life is as a songwriter, and songwriting was my
sort of big splash into the entertainment industry, and then
from there I got a lot of other kind of
wacky gigs. But it's about school in Michigan, right, Yeah,
exactly a good memory. Yeah, that's like one of the biggest.
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I like it tattooed to my face essentially, like you
have M Go blue. That's just I'm a broken record
about it. So it's about my life as a songwriter,
and it's sort of an ode to a lot of
the the silly grind of what it is to be
a pro songwriter. It's not all glitz and glam. It's
kind of like an office nine to five when you're
trying to create sentiment for people, um, and the hilarious
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things that come up when that happened. So, yeah, I'm
writing it, I'm producing it, I'm writing the songs for it,
I'm in it. There's It's something I've been trying to
get off its feet for a long long time, and
I'm so glad that it's finally. It's awesome out there
to see that and created as a project. It is. Yeah,
it's ironic that now the project itself is about the process.
It is exactly. It's it's a show called Royalties, and
I literally had to like discuss like royalties with like
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the people that I was doing exactly. The snake is
just eating itself and this is for the streaming service Quimby. Um,
how did that? Cloud? Quimby is a whole thing. I mean,
I don't want to get too into unless you know
the inside baseball of Hollywood. But it's Jeffrey Katzenberg. You
can wikipedia him if you don't know who he is.
He's the k of sk DreamWorks SKG. He's doing okay,
he's sort of a you know, an entertainment juggernaut. But
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it's his new thing. Um. I won't get too into
it because I'll bore everybody, but it's his new platform
that launches in April twenty and so being a part
of that pedigree of people that he has lined up
is is pretty flattering. I'm really excited. Yeah, I know,
he's got a pretty impressive slate. I'm familiar with it.
It's funny because not to digress, I was just I
was just talking to Jeremy Renner, who is a big songwriter. Yeah.
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People know that Jeremy is an excellent pianist and a
great Yeah. Would wouldn't think Hawkeye, you know what I mean.
So it's neat when you get legit. That's a man
of many many towns. You know. He started acting because
he was making so much money flipping houses. Really wait,
I didn't even know that what. It's insane. He's a
house flipping piano playing MF that acts and that excellent side.
(10:01):
It's it's insane. Look up Jeremy Renner. I always blows
them because he's an extraordinary actor, like every like Jeremy
right right, But but but I'm now I'm now a
bigger fan just because he was flipping houses. We'll get
the houses that he's made. It's like insane. He's like
a full on carpenter. It's insane. That's pretty awesome. I
was just rad. I don't know why I think about that.
And man, I don't think I've had the chance to
(10:22):
congratulate you on air, but I was so happy and
proud of your any win, um because you're so great
American crime story and I was chearing you on on
the red carpet there. But I know it's always nice
to see you guys on the way and where I'm
like all the homies are here. I feel feel I
feel at easy. Yeah, I mean that must have been
so gratifying. You do something obviously hope it's received well.
But then to finally get an award for it and
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recognize on that level. I think the nice thing is
um is that the accolade is representative of a lot
more than than whatever I had to do. And I
wish I could say I was just trying to be
charming and making it about other people, but it's like
whatever I got to is an amalgam of so many
other people that worked their asses off, solid cast exactly
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actors and produces people that like, we're in the trenches
with you for hours and hours and hours away from
their families and stressed now through being sick and all
this stuff. So it's something like that happens. It's sort
of like, hey, guys, look like we did it. This
is for you, and so that's like a I think
that's probably one of the greatest feelings about it. It's
like the validation and encouragement for them, like as personified
through like a moment that you get to experience. But
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it really is like this huge like team like victory.
Yeah no exactly, and I should have asked you earlier too,
but what what are the plans as far as you
and your wife? Are you wanting to start a family
right away? Later on? We own a bar, dude, that's
that's like, that's like having a baby. That's like having
twenty babies that never grow up. Yeah, equal amounts of
pee and poop that you gotta deal with. They're grown
(11:48):
as adults. It's crazy. Um yeah, it's probably not for
a long time. A man good smart, enjoy marriage for
a while. Yeah. The game change when you come to
the bar, we'll be like, yeah, I get it. Yeah,
oh no, I know, yeah, you know you know what
I'm talking all right, Before I let you go down,
I'm gonna put you on the spot quick questions, go answers. Yes,
song that's currently stuck in your head of gosh, I
(12:10):
don't know Sunflower? Okay, Oh my god at my house
both the Vampire Weekend one and the post Malone. What's
his name? Oh my god, I hear it every tame
Sorry not I'm gonna run into many I'll hear this.
And do you not remember my name exactly? Sorry, dude,
(12:34):
last show you binged watched? Uh well, I mean so
I'm in the middle of Stranger Things because it's summertime
and that just came out, So I'm enjoined the hell
out of that. I love the music, right, it's the
best celebrity crush growing up. Um uh gosh, I mean,
who who doesn't love herbacka Romaine who ended up being
the first actress I would ever work with On my
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very first TV show, that was That's Funny How Life Is?
Would you hear in first? Oh, I don't know victorious
secret catalogs Okay, okay, yeah, because I because there's a
lot of acting, and I was just yeah, that was
the first thing that came to mind. But I think
that was more of just like that was also what
I was told to like as a kid. It's like
this girl's hot, So that was like the collective understood
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like chick that I had a crush on. But I
honestly I loved like, um, I was in love with
like movie stars that I didn't know we're older. So
like I remember seeing like Susan Sarandon, No I would
I'm not gonna. I'd like see like Bridget part Don't
like there's people wow, Like I would see, but I
didn't realize that they were now older women, like they
were just forever that young. And then I see pictures
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like that's not that's uh yeah, I remember old movies,
so I thought, really, because I was willing like James
Bond movies as a kids, like I always wrong at
all about it all time favorite musical that man, you
can't ask a top three that we don't get time
for that right, top three? I mean, I'll say these
are all contextual because I will say because people like
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people make fun of certain musicals. But if that was
the first show you ever saw as a kid, it's
like bullets, Okay, you know the first show I ever saw.
I was probably a miss so that was my first show. Yeah,
so there you go, like that the whole a special place. Um,
I'll say my favorite. That's not like going to be
a shamed. I was just saying because like, my wife's
obsessed with cats, and she everybody makes fun of her
for she's like, listen, I was a kid and I
saw that that show, and that blew my mind. I'm like,
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I can't. I can't throw a rock at that. That's unfair. Um,
my favorite. Those other people I love, I'll say Assassin's
Cabaret and uh just I'll give it a throw because
these are all my homies from Michigan. But Dear of
a Hanson, why not, I'll just say that Okay, okay,
what should get rebooted next? Uh? Nothing. Let's just try
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and keep thinking of new stuff, guys, says the guy
that covered David. Keep it original, kind of kind of original.
That's it. Well. Almore dot com slash Festival to get
your tickets to see Darren at the I Heart Radio
Music Festival September twenty and twenty one in Vegas. You
can follow him on Instagram at Darren Chris. Thanks for
(15:06):
stopping by. Thank you, guys. Work on with Mario Lopez.
With Maria a little bit. It's up yar on mar
Lopez joining me now in studio, Amy winning actor, our
buddy Darren Chris. How are you man Lo? Guys back,
I'm back. Everyone's exactly where I left them. I just wait.
We love to assume the position and you come in.
Before we get into anything, I gotta tell you, dude,
you'r Taco Bell Ndro Fries commercial might be the most
(00:22):
epic commercial I've ever Have you guys seen this in
the production It is next level. I better have the
budget of like a studio film. It looked. I want
to see a movie. I want to see what that
whole movie is so funny, it was so good it
would but that must have been a fun One of
the most ideal situations I've ever had professionally was something
where I got a call saying, hey, do you like
(00:44):
talk about them like you're hitting You're kidding right, Like
if only my college shelf could know that I was
going to get this call, And then they sent me
the creative on it also hilarious, very cool, And I've
seen the other two because they had one with Josh
Dumel uh Webb of Fries and all these sort of
like Fox trailers with really high product and value. So
I knew what the gag was. Um, the song was great,
everything about was great. I got to go to Mexico
(01:06):
City for like a week, which is I love Mexico City.
Everything about it was amazing and and like it all
happened within I don't like a month. I got the call,
went to Mexico City, and then I saw it on
TV and it was insane. So I love it. I
think it's so great that people love it. And uh
yeah they did. They towed that really great line between
sort of taking the piss and also you know, like
doing something cool. You know, they nailed it. Was probably
(01:27):
I was laughing out because the only thing about Mexican spices. Yeah,
I can thing about what I love. Thought that's great. Anyway, Uh,
forgive me for not congratulating you on the wedding earlier
this year. First, I mean, we'll Taco Bell my wife.
Yeah we know where places fries are pretty amazing, right,
I mean it's all priorities here. Um, I was Maird
(01:49):
life so far it's great, you know, just so it's
just the more paperwork, I gotta say, like the hundreds
of years of patriarchy has not made it easy for
the ladies. I told my wife, was like, I don't
care about the name change, don't worry about it. Whatever
you want. And she, well, she's so you took her name.
Yeah exactly. I mean, hey, it would make no difference
to me. But I I just felt bad, like on
the passport thing, on the driver's license, everywhere we go,
(02:11):
they just they don't make it easy, man, Yeah, they don't. Win.
Is her maiden name? Uh swear sweet sweet s w
I E R. So she wanted to change anyway, Yeah,
it's just a sweet Then I'm Chris is a cool
last name. Yeah, I think she wanted to change it.
That's on her. But still, I just I couldn't believe
how rough it was. So when people ask how married
life is, I just think of the paperwork and just
it's just so tedious. But obviously, you know, things are good.
(02:32):
The business last time it is so you know, we
own the bar together and we've kind of created a
whole life together. And uh, the wedding was like, I
guess our our launch party one of the greatest launch
parties of my life. That's awesome in the bar that
I still have yet to visit, but very waiting for you,
maybe too. I very much want to. The last time
you were here, I said, I wanted That's what happen
when you started having kids. You'll see. Oh yeah, the
(02:53):
bedtime start coming earlier, totally. Yeah. Yeah, the closing hours
are a little earlier. Yeah, but I'm a weekend warrior.
I'll get I'll get out there. We're waiting for you, man,
We'll wait, we'll we'll I'll hold the pianet on some
chorus line for you. Thanks, brother, And this is very cool.
We've been talking about you joining the line up for
the I Heart Radio Music Festival. Um, what do you
have in store? Dude? Um, I've been going to that
(03:13):
since day one. I mean the Heart sort of family
has been personally and professionally a big part of my
life for the past. However many years I've sort of
lost track. And uh, I was there at the first one.
I think I've only missed one in the past several years,
So I think they it's like having my punch card
at like a cafe. I've done enough times. Right now,
I got a free smoothie, like I got a free
they they're letting me perform there. I have a song
with Stevie Oki which is just a cover, not just
(03:36):
it is a cover of um. Well, let me give
you the backstory really quickly. So I forever because I'm
a nineties kid and I and I've've been in many
nineties cover bands. I've always jokes, by the way, I
love oh yeah, I'm a big cover band. It's it's
a blast, especially if you're a musician. It's it's always
fun playing other people's songs because then they're already good.
(03:57):
There's no worry of like sometimes better by the way, Well,
so that was kind of the idea. I'm not gonna
say we do it better than Dave. We just do
a little different. Um. But I've always joked that man
if I was an E D M d J, I
would just take Dave matthews Seminal Crash into Me, which
is a six minute sort of unconventional ballad with odd
bars and sort of it's it's a strange song that
(04:17):
people love and have a lot of nostalgia attached to it.
I was like, I would chop it into like a
three minute banger, and I know exactly where I put
the drop. Um and uh just like this guitar party
goes didn't dent it, and I always thought, like CEO
two cannons and like like, I always thought that would
be funny. And I gave this exact same pitch to
(04:38):
um Steve Yoki when I got a chance to meet him,
and he looks at me seriously, was like, that's amazing.
We have to do it, and then we recorded it immediately.
So it was just born from just having fun and
this mutual love of Dave Matthews and I think we
both love fusing two styles that people wouldn't necessarily know.
And the great thing is for people that know that song,
like my age, like and and and beyond, people go,
oh my god within two seconds like holy grab is
(04:59):
this is this crashing to me? Oh man, this is nuts.
This is a song you wouldn't usually hear in a club.
And I've played for kids like under twenty seven and
then and they have no idea. I just think it's
a cool song. But yeah, I think re contextualizing popular
songs is like a tradition of music for like decades
and decades. I mean there's so many songs that I
can mention that I heard as a kid. I didn't
(05:20):
know we're covers, you know, until later in life. So
I'm kind of adding to that zeitgeist a little bit,
and um forgiving me if I'm wrong. But isn't Steve
is he the one that throws the cake in the face?
Thrown cakes? Are you thro own cakes? Come on that?
Some cakes will come crashing into somebody if not me.
That's a good set to check out. Congrats on that,
(05:42):
Thank you very much. It'll be fun. By the way,
cover bands, you'll you'll appreciate this. I'm into this one.
I has had him in my golf tournament. They're called
yacht Lee Crew. Oh yeah, that's all yacht rock. Yeah.
I love it. They nail it and they they're good. Right,
these guys are all about it. I'm all about the
cover band names. Uh, there's a there's a great band
called m Springsteen. Just do the math, right? There was
(06:03):
there was another one that I saw recently, the No
Doubt one? What was it called? Alright? Told you the
one forget the name and a funny name. Though this
will be the first time I ever talked about this publicly.
But the band that I have with my with one
of my best friends, we we always throw these big
nineties parties. We have this band that we called Jumper
Wall and it's because we always begin with Thirday Blinds
Jumper and we end with wonder Wall, even though the
(06:25):
set has changed in between. So that's kind of it's
not it's not as good as Yacht Crew, but you
know it's it's it's sort of echoing the same flavor
a little bit. I'm down to check that show. No duh, No,
that's so much better. No dud is no yachtley Crew
or Jumper I'm sure. Um. And obviously with all in
(06:47):
your plate, you're still acting very much, and you're also
part of this upcoming movie Midway that's happening to gosh.
I mean, well that's a big old role in Emeric
if you know who he is, Independence Day and the Page,
just these big action blockbusters. It was wild to be
part of that. I've never done anything like that before.
I mean, if your history buff, especially with World War two, Uh,
(07:09):
these things are very complicated and there's a lot going on.
It's you know, the battle Midway isn't just like one thing. Um,
there's several people and a lot of different moving pieces.
So having said that, I'm I'm just a little teeny
tiny cog in a much larger machine. I mean I
saw the trailer and I was like, wow, I can't
believe that. Persons in it, Like, I never met that.
So go your do your thing. But that's a cool
thing to your part. It's a really cool thing to
(07:30):
be a part of. So yes, it's I won't go
too much into it, but yes, it's about the Battle
Midway sort of the events directly after the attack on
Pearl Harbor and uh yeah, I play a uh lieutenant commander.
I'm I'm flying a torpedo bomber in that movie. Yeah,
well look forward to and this was just announced. You're
writing and starting in a musical series called Royalties. Yeah,
(07:50):
this is this is something I've been working on for gosh,
it seems like almost a decade because I've been you know,
another thing that a lot of people don't know about
me is uh in Los Angeles, New York. I've lived
of life is as a songwriter, and songwriting was my
sort of big splash into the entertainment industry, and then
from there I got a lot of other kind of
wacky gigs. But it's about school in Michigan, right, Yeah,
exactly a good memory. Yeah, that's like one of the biggest.
(08:13):
I like it tattooed to my face essentially, like you
have M Go blue. That's just I'm a broken record
about it. So it's about my life as a songwriter,
and it's sort of an ode to a lot of
the the silly grind of what it is to be
a pro songwriter. It's not all glitz and glam. It's
kind of like an office nine to five when you're
trying to create sentiment for people, um, and the hilarious
(08:34):
things that come up when that happened. So, yeah, I'm
writing it, I'm producing it, I'm writing the songs for it,
I'm in it. There's It's something I've been trying to
get off its feet for a long long time, and
I'm so glad that it's finally. It's awesome out there
to see that and created as a project. It is. Yeah,
it's ironic that now the project itself is about the process.
It is exactly. It's it's a show called Royalties, and
I literally had to like discuss like royalties with like
(08:56):
the people that I was doing exactly. The snake is
just eating itself and this is for the streaming service Quimby. Um,
how did that? Cloud? Quimby is a whole thing. I mean,
I don't want to get too into unless you know
the inside baseball of Hollywood. But it's Jeffrey Katzenberg. You
can wikipedia him if you don't know who he is.
He's the k of sk DreamWorks SKG. He's doing okay,
he's sort of a you know, an entertainment juggernaut. But
(09:17):
it's his new thing. Um. I won't get too into
it because I'll bore everybody, but it's his new platform
that launches in April twenty and so being a part
of that pedigree of people that he has lined up
is is pretty flattering. I'm really excited. Yeah, I know,
he's got a pretty impressive slate. I'm familiar with it.
It's funny because not to digress, I was just I
was just talking to Jeremy Renner, who is a big songwriter. Yeah.
(09:39):
People know that Jeremy is an excellent pianist and a
great Yeah. Would wouldn't think Hawkeye, you know what I mean.
So it's neat when you get legit. That's a man
of many many towns. You know. He started acting because
he was making so much money flipping houses. Really wait,
I didn't even know that what. It's insane. He's a
house flipping piano playing MF that acts and that excellent side.
(10:01):
It's it's insane. Look up Jeremy Renner. I always blows
them because he's an extraordinary actor, like every like Jeremy
right right, But but but I'm now I'm now a
bigger fan just because he was flipping houses. We'll get
the houses that he's made. It's like insane. He's like
a full on carpenter. It's insane. That's pretty awesome. I
was just rad. I don't know why I think about that.
And man, I don't think I've had the chance to
(10:22):
congratulate you on air, but I was so happy and
proud of your any win, um because you're so great
American crime story and I was chearing you on on
the red carpet there. But I know it's always nice
to see you guys on the way and where I'm
like all the homies are here. I feel feel I
feel at easy. Yeah, I mean that must have been
so gratifying. You do something obviously hope it's received well.
But then to finally get an award for it and
(10:44):
recognize on that level. I think the nice thing is
um is that the accolade is representative of a lot
more than than whatever I had to do. And I
wish I could say I was just trying to be
charming and making it about other people, but it's like
whatever I got to is an amalgam of so many
other people that worked their asses off, solid cast exactly
(11:06):
actors and produces people that like, we're in the trenches
with you for hours and hours and hours away from
their families and stressed now through being sick and all
this stuff. So it's something like that happens. It's sort
of like, hey, guys, look like we did it. This
is for you, and so that's like a I think
that's probably one of the greatest feelings about it. It's
like the validation and encouragement for them, like as personified
through like a moment that you get to experience. But
(11:26):
it really is like this huge like team like victory.
Yeah no exactly, and I should have asked you earlier too,
but what what are the plans as far as you
and your wife? Are you wanting to start a family
right away? Later on? We own a bar, dude, that's
that's like, that's like having a baby. That's like having
twenty babies that never grow up. Yeah, equal amounts of
pee and poop that you gotta deal with. They're grown
(11:48):
as adults. It's crazy. Um yeah, it's probably not for
a long time. A man good smart, enjoy marriage for
a while. Yeah. The game change when you come to
the bar, we'll be like, yeah, I get it. Yeah,
oh no, I know, yeah, you know you know what
I'm talking all right, Before I let you go down,
I'm gonna put you on the spot quick questions, go answers. Yes,
song that's currently stuck in your head of gosh, I
(12:10):
don't know Sunflower? Okay, Oh my god at my house
both the Vampire Weekend one and the post Malone. What's
his name? Oh my god, I hear it every tame
Sorry not I'm gonna run into many I'll hear this.
And do you not remember my name exactly? Sorry, dude,
(12:34):
last show you binged watched? Uh well, I mean so
I'm in the middle of Stranger Things because it's summertime
and that just came out, So I'm enjoined the hell
out of that. I love the music, right, it's the
best celebrity crush growing up. Um uh gosh, I mean,
who who doesn't love herbacka Romaine who ended up being
the first actress I would ever work with On my
(12:54):
very first TV show, that was That's Funny How Life Is?
Would you hear in first? Oh, I don't know victorious
secret catalogs Okay, okay, yeah, because I because there's a
lot of acting, and I was just yeah, that was
the first thing that came to mind. But I think
that was more of just like that was also what
I was told to like as a kid. It's like
this girl's hot, So that was like the collective understood
(13:16):
like chick that I had a crush on. But I
honestly I loved like, um, I was in love with
like movie stars that I didn't know we're older. So
like I remember seeing like Susan Sarandon, No I would
I'm not gonna. I'd like see like Bridget part Don't
like there's people wow, Like I would see, but I
didn't realize that they were now older women, like they
were just forever that young. And then I see pictures
(13:38):
like that's not that's uh yeah, I remember old movies,
so I thought, really, because I was willing like James
Bond movies as a kids, like I always wrong at
all about it all time favorite musical that man, you
can't ask a top three that we don't get time
for that right, top three? I mean, I'll say these
are all contextual because I will say because people like
(13:59):
people make fun of certain musicals. But if that was
the first show you ever saw as a kid, it's
like bullets, Okay, you know the first show I ever saw.
I was probably a miss so that was my first show. Yeah,
so there you go, like that the whole a special place. Um,
I'll say my favorite. That's not like going to be
a shamed. I was just saying because like, my wife's
obsessed with cats, and she everybody makes fun of her
for she's like, listen, I was a kid and I
saw that that show, and that blew my mind. I'm like,
(14:20):
I can't. I can't throw a rock at that. That's unfair. Um,
my favorite. Those other people I love, I'll say Assassin's
Cabaret and uh just I'll give it a throw because
these are all my homies from Michigan. But Dear of
a Hanson, why not, I'll just say that Okay, okay,
what should get rebooted next? Uh? Nothing. Let's just try
(14:44):
and keep thinking of new stuff, guys, says the guy
that covered David. Keep it original, kind of kind of original.
That's it. Well. Almore dot com slash Festival to get
your tickets to see Darren at the I Heart Radio
Music Festival September twenty and twenty one in Vegas. You
can follow him on Instagram at Darren Chris. Thanks for
(15:06):
stopping by. Thank you, guys. Work on with Mario Lopez.
Host
Mario Lopez
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