Kristen Bell & Ben Platt

Kristen Bell & Ben Platt break down their new movie & more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mario Lomita Mario Lopez join me now on Zoom from
the new movie The People We Hate at the Wedding
actors Kristen Bell and Ben Platt. Welcome to show, guys.
How are you great? How are you? I'm doing well?
Congratulations on the movie. Great title makes me laugh already.
I want to check it out. What what's it about?

(00:21):
Provocative title? I think you know anyone who's when who's
gone to a wedding before you know? There are those
people at the wedding who just cause chaos. And I
think a wedding is such a great place to um
to have the setting of a movie, because there's such
high stakes. You're watching this beautiful endeavor of people promising
themselves to one another and you're just endlessly comparing yourself

(00:43):
to their love and whether or not you have it,
will you ever get it? So it's right for conflict,
um and I think you watch this incredibly dysfunctional family
family prove uh that they are the people that you
hate at the wedding. I love a wedding, or I
should say I love a reception. Those are always a lot,

(01:03):
a lot of fun. Where where did you guys film? Uh?
The Where where did you film it? Did you go
over to London? Yes, we got to live in London
for a couple of months and have a really beautiful
little adventure over there and um be the kind of messy,
dirty Americans ruining the beautiful British settings and see some
theater and it was it was a wonderful time being

(01:25):
over there. That's awesome. Absolutely, Alison Janny plays your mother.
Love her. She's fantastic. How how how was she unset?
She's a queen. There's truly no one funnier than she is,
and just everything she did on screen and off. First
of all, she's absolutely wild off screen. Then concur of

(01:48):
course you said this beautifully in another interview did but
that she so has so much silliness and play and
like she hasn't lost a single stitch of that after
being just such a veteran in the industry for so
long and so much fantastic work all over the spectrum,
She's still approaches every day with like so much just
like silliness and unabashedness, and it's it's like infectious to
be around and makes you want to be freer and funnier.

(02:10):
And she's there's a reason she's stuck around. Yeah, that's
good to hear. Super talented. Um, you both have real
life siblings. Are any of your relationships like the ones
in the movie? Yeah? I mean my sister me and Kristin,
thankfully are one of the more functional relationships in the family,
even though are our characters kind of feed each other's dysfunction.

(02:31):
But we we do get along and we get to
bond a little bit, which I really loved getting to
do with Kristin because she's wonderful. But I feel similarly
with my sisters Samantha and my sister Hannah, and you know,
they're like my girlfriends in addition to being my sisters.
Like we can really dish about things and gossip about
things and roll our eyes at things together. So certainly
felt familiar in terms of the sister brother vibe. Yeah,

(02:54):
I have two older sisters, and there's something about being
with them that, all of a sudden when you're together,
are the perspective shifts from your solo perspective to what
the three of you think about the whole room, and
you're able to just you know, gossip with one another
in a completely safe space. And I like that. Siblings. Um,
often run as a team. Yeah, it's like a little

(03:17):
wolf pack. I too have sister. We all have sisters,
and uh, I just listen to mine. They tell me
what to do when we go from there. Um. Then
also in the works something called theater camp. Being a
former musical theater kid myself, I think I know what
it's about, but um, what what is it? Maybe it's
something different? Well thanks, I'm sure it is relatively what
you're thinking. So my partner Noah Galvin, and I and

(03:38):
our two best friends Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman. You
made this short film in just sort of a mockumentary
style sketch about overly intense theater teachers at a theater
camp in in very much the tradition of Christopher guests
sort of waiting for government. What the mash up? And
this is the kind of featurization of that short uh documentary,

(03:59):
full length documentary about summer camp, theater summer camp that's
struggling to stay afloat financially and how the staff kind
of bands together to keep it open and very misguided ways.
That's so funny. This is the movie of my dream truly,
the movie of my dreams. That is you're right in
the center of our target audience. Kristen, I will be
outside the theater with my camping tent the day it opens.

(04:23):
I want to check this one out too. It's funny
because my wife, who was just here, just quoted waiting
for government thirty seconds ago. So that's so funny. Um, Kristen,
I hold your daughters now, by the way, seven and
nine about to be eight and nine. Okay, So we
got kids around the same wheelhouse and I read you
were locking your kids in their bedrooms to help them

(04:43):
sleep through the night. I'm a fan of that. Is
that true? And how did it work out? Well, that's
I think that's a that's a big headline to a
much more complex parenting issue. No, I'm co signing on that, sure, sure.
Well happened was when they were little, they would come
out of their room absolutely all night, no one was
getting sleep, and they would be keeping each other up.

(05:05):
So after about seven days of warning them, we did
the same thing with the light switches. We'd come in
there in the middle of the night, all the lights
would be on and we said, we're going to take
the bulbs out if you keep doing that. And after
a week of warning them. We felt that was responsible enough.
We did take the light bulb, the ones right over
their bed and the same we we at one point
switched the handle uh so that the um the lock

(05:30):
was on the outside instead. But it didn't last very long,
and we did warn them heads up. They know, they
know you're not to be messed with well. And basically
it was just when they were like three and four
years old. It would be eleven o'clock and they'd you know,
I want a snack or something, and we'd say, no,
that this isn't the rules of the house where you

(05:51):
go to bed, you stay in bed um And so
they'd try the handle. We'd hear them trying to handle,
and then they would just go back to bed because
they know we find we put a roadblock in front
of them. We learned the hard way about locking our
door to unfortunately that's a story for another day. Let
me ask your opinion on this with my daughter, Um,
she just turned well recently, locks the door constantly and
she will not open it for me. And I threatened,

(06:12):
I said, listen, I'm gonna take off your luck because
you got it. You gotta answer and you can't just
be locking in do you? I bet I want to
respect her privacy. At the same time, she's a girl
and she's got brothers and all this and that. What
are your thoughts? What do you think I should do?
Take away the lock, just give her a couple more chances. Well,
I mean, what's so? Can I can I ask this
like personally, why do you need to get in there
so bad? Like Sarah House, She's just she's just locking

(06:35):
herself away, and it's like, Yo, I want to talk
to you, so I want to be able to have access.
That's what she said. She said, Dad, why can't you
text me? Said? What do you mean I can't? Why
can't I text you? You're right there, I don't. I
don't think, Kristen, is this took a wrong turn? No?
I think well, at the same day that I was
like I needed to show my kids I was serious,

(06:56):
but I always unlocked the door before I went to bed,
just actually needed to get out. I would say, like
you got personally by a teenager doing that, I'd say, listen,
I know I need to respect your privacy and you
feel safer with the door locked. I'm not feeling as
much contact with you as i'd like to So what
if you're allowed to keep the door locked. But then
once a week we sit down and um, you know,

(07:18):
eat pasta together for thirty minutes and just connect and
then you get what you need and she gets what
she needs. That's actually perfect advice. And I'm gonna do that.
I'm gonna do that. Just Facetimer, FaceTime. Get all right, quickly, guys,
really quick. What are the plans for the holidays? Are
you sticking around in town you've taken off. I'm going

(07:40):
to be in New York City with um my partner
Noah's family. It's my first time spending Thanksgiving with them,
so I'm very very exciting the Thanksgiving. Oh yeah, I
gotta make a good impression. There, you go. Nice. We
host Thanksgiving with UM for the since COVID began with
our family pods, so we have like five families and
we'll be hosting it here and just have a very

(08:02):
lazy afternoon. That sounds like the best day ever. Well,
thank you so much for taking the time to check in, Chris,
And I'm gonna totally do that. By the way, next
time I see I'll let you know how that worked out. Uh,
And you can watch the people we hate at the
wedding now on Amazon Prime. Thanks so much for having
out guys. Thanks all right, take care. On with Mario
Lopez