And he said, Remember the day at the Queen
Mary, you know, you were kind of And
I said, well, I am kind of so
, so what? Hi, I'm Aya Debury.
I'm John Malkovich, and I'm Juliette Lewis. We
have filmed in some pretty amazing locations. Uh,
let's see if we actually remember them. OK,
image number one, location number one. Oh,
I recognize this. This is a plate with a
napkin on it, but it's shot through almost like
a portal. Do you recognize this? I think
I do. That was in, I believe.
A restaurant, if it's the restaurant scene at the
end where all the people are Malkovich. Malkovich Malkovich
. Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich. That was on the
Queen Mary in Long Beach. My guess is that
it's from being John Malkovich. I'm filming it actually
with the camera meeting on on my shoulder. Wait
, really? I remember it was unbelievably hot,
no air conditioners, and there were a number of
people with my face in a rubber mask with only
the little breathing holes, so a lot of people
were fainting. And eventually I kind of said,
I'm very happy in my dress. Life is good
, life is beautiful. Can we shoot, please
? Let's shoot. People are fainting. Let's get
on with it. Then years later I got a
call from Vince Landay, who produced Being John,
and he said he was working on a new production
that Spike Jones was doing a film called Adaptation,
and would I look at it. And he said
, well, remember the day at the Queen Mary
, you know, and I said, oh,
well, I'm sure it's fine. And Vince said
, Well, we think you should look at it
. And I said, Well, why? And
Vince was like, well, you know, you're
kind of an asshole. And I said, well
, I am kind of an asshole. So,
so what? That was the scene from that day
. OK. Let's really try today to solve our
camera problems. Keep between take time at an absolute
minimum. These masks are really hot. That was
a pretty absurd one. I hope to go back
and watch this again. It was uh pretty absurd
, but mostly it was fun. I have seen
a world that no man should see. Who's this
? Oh wait, I think I know. These
are so obscure that they're close up. It looks
like Mars. We are snakes that. Might even
be rattlesnakes or cobras, I think. I think
it's killer. So we did shoot in New Mexico
. And that's what Ous reminded me. I was
having flashbacks or deja vu because Tatanka is Russell Mean's
son and he's an opus, and that's the scene
that I shot with his father. So we shot
it was freezing and we shot with real rattlesnakes all
around us and fake rattlesnakes. But the cameraman who
had to walk backwards, he doesn't know where the
real and fake ones are. And so the first
cameraman was like, I'm out, I'm not doing
it. I'm not doing it. And then Oliver
Stone got the second cameraman who was a bit more
daring or crazy, and he's like, I'll do
it. And he did it. The truth is
how I did it where I wasn't scared as I
watched the rattlesnake handler try to get a rattlesnake to
bite. They had to do a close up and
this rattlesnake would not bite this pretend pant leg for
anything and I was like, why is he not
biting and he said. It's cold when they're cold
they'll stay coiled up and they won't, they're harder
to get you. So I lodged this little safety
gem. They were, they were a bit away
, but for the cameraman who's walking backwards, totally
different, totally different. We all live to tell
. Here we go. Oh, I know that
. I know that is. That's the bus that's
in Chicago. That's for the day. Is that
the back of my head or is that the back
of the back of my head I know that on
the train, yeah, in Chicago or maybe I
don't know that's like old town or somewhere. So
you're on the L. Was it a real running
train or, yes, we, um, we
must love that. So our department, I don't
even know I think. There's some of the most
chill people. Every line of dialogue on that show
, everybody's talking over each other at the same time
. Sydney, stir that pot for me, please
, chef. You want a car. What's our
best day here? 5. Like they just have
given it to God at this point. We're on
the train and on the bus on that show very
frequently, and our locations department is like, I
don't even know, they're the best, sweetest people
in the world. They have so many connections to
the city because we use a lot of real locations
. Like we're out in the city a lot.
Oh gosh, now Bill is his I think his
name, but it's like our contacts to the public
transport city and we've like used him so much that
he's kind of become an unofficial like crew member and
in the third season, he made a cameo as
like an uncle of the character. because we just
like he has given us so many favors and like
helped us out so much because our characters are often
having contemplative moments on moving public transmit. There's just
really good food in Chicago. It's really easy to
get a seat in a restaurant there when we're filming
, which is nice. Me and Lionel had a
little side quest, like first season or second.
In season because we were like we really need to
get like some good soul food like while we're out
here and so we like made it our mission to
get really good soul food and we found this place
. I thought my foot was gonna fall off at
the end of when we were done eating there,
which is a compliment. What is it called?
It's it's called, but I think it doesn't exist
anymore also and we we really tried looking for it
. We were like, oh, this is there's
a lore, but it's called we it is 2
. And there's no one. There's no one.
It's just is too. Yeah, it's crazy.
We went straight to the sequel. Yeah, we
went straight to the sequel. We went there and
I had like a sweet tea that I was like
, oh my God, like I like I saw
my ancestors like I was like a portal had opened
. There was a line down the block where people
would just like they go there every Sunday after church
and we're just like, right, yeah, we're
here. It's the compound. Moretti's compound. I
forget the story about it. Yeah, there's like
a woman who owned this place, the place we
shot different colorful events might have occurred at this place
. Yeah, it's sort of between Santa Fe and
Los Alamos. It was, I think, a
horse ranch horse farm, but quite a lovely place
, probably not at the best time of year,
um, because snowing very cold, and, um
, you know, very, very arid, dry
. Landscape for the most part, but we got
a lot of snow and a decent amount of mud
as well. It was a fun trip down memory
lane. I think we did a pretty good job
. I have.