larry king now it's jason schwartzman on his latest role in the awards contenders saving mr banks i've ever seen the screening going hey this is like a movie right off the telephone like call my friend and say hey there's a movie that i'm in that's coming out and they'll say i saw that guy up on the screen i thought i had to be up there well i never had that feeling as a kid i never thought i have to be up there i never thought i really could be up there to seem so much larger than life plus becoming so super that you would not return to this show. glendale is never too far away from me that's all ahead on larry king now clearly all ahead on larry king. welcome to larry king now a pleasure to have as our special guest jason schwartzman the actor writer musician

who does it all you know him from such films as moonrise kingdom and the h.b.o. series bored to death but he'll for ever be remembered as max fisher the ambitious high school with. and wes anderson's rushmore now he stars as the musical legend richard sherman in saving mr banks which is sure to be oscar bait when it hits the editors this holiday season i met tom hanks so many times sorman new york in the play and at the end of the play told me you're going to love this movie saving mr banks who plays walt disney a dead person you play a living person you know richard right now i know richard i know about bob died yeah but i know richard in fact we had a little house party my father monos and better work with him we had a house party with richard played all the music from the old songs talked about working with disney did like a one man stand in this house so amazing now he's. he's old as you know eighty

seven i believe. and he's just he's the most vibrant optimistic wonderful man i've ever i've ever come across and he he was so kind to me in fact he let me come to his house anytime i wanted to in preparation for the role and he would entertain me you know i would sit we would talk for hours then he would go to the piano and he taught me how to play all of the all of the songs for this is hard to play someone who's you know yeah i mean i think it's i i was very nervous going into it because. he is a legend you know and and i wanted to i felt responsible to. him correctly and i was quite nervous but he said the greatest thing to me when i went to his house he said actually two things that made it feel less daunting one was he said don't worry i've already done everything so you just be you doing the

things that i did that was very nice and then the other thing he said was just love music and you'll be all right. and you know obviously i think it is more complicated than that but those were really nice things to say to me because the idea behind it was just relax and then they feel they seeded the music and bob did the lyrics right yeah it's interesting though because like i saw an interview with him and his brother bob and they said what comes first lyrics or music and they said neither the idea and they said that they would sit there for hours and hours and hours talking about what the song needed to be and what purpose it served in the movie and i think that's why those songs are so deeply rooted in us is because they are beyond words and beyond music they are communicating something more profound you have to be a genius to come up with supercold for a jewish. you do i know there's no other word for that i know there isn't you play

the piano you sing in the film right yeah. well john lee hancock who is the director of the movie. he is he is thing that he said to me when we first met was i would like you to try to learn all the songs as best as possible and i'd like to play them live in the room as much as possible some things will have to be to play back but the reason he said that was because well two reasons one is he said inevitably will make some errors and hit some wrong notes which i want in the movie and second of all a lot of the scenes where i'm playing the piano and where bob is next to me and we're singing we're sort of selling our songs to p.l. travers who's played by abba times and and she is having many issues with us she doesn't want the movie to be a musical and she's cutting us off all the time and john lee hancock felt that if the songs were done to play back then emma would be having to cut us off at the same place every time and it wouldn't feel natural so he said if you can learn the

songs then you just play them and she will cut you off whenever she feels like it's necessary and so what i did was i went on about a mary poppins song book and i started to sort of learn the songs based on that but it was pretty clear early on that like a song book for the most part is sort of like a novelization is to a movie it's someone who's listened to the final score and they have transcribed it and then sort of like distilled it into they've taken all the arrangements of put it into something that you could play you know if you're having like a mary poppins themed party i guess in your house you can play of songs for people but it wasn't true to the way that richard sherman would have been playing the songs at this time and so i asked richard i said richard what do i do buy these songs you know it doesn't sound like you and he gave me all of his demos for the movie which is amazing kalev love demos as well live interviews demos and he gave me his demos and he gave me all the hours of. of the recorded conversations with

p.l. travers. because they were on tape she insisted and i took the tapes and then i gave them to my piano teacher this guy named elmo peeler and he spent a week transcribing all of the songs as they were played on these in these rougher sions and then i learned those versions and really it's not like how high learning is versions of like to be cool or something. if maybe if that isn't even that cool that shows you had dorky i am like how i learned the original over the but but it was it was for two reasons one. it helped me i think get into the character of richard because like if you're playing walt disney for instance tom hanks it was very necessary that he have the accent of walt disney so i guess in my way this is sort of the accent of richard sherman and the other thing is richard was on set every day and i wanted just just for him to know that the songs were being played correctly. because he was it i was just more like sort of respect out of

respect for him and also you perfectionist. sometimes not you know but it was so nice and richard was we had so much fun together when i went to his house like he said like he that the first time we went to his house he said play the piano for me and i said mr schoen i don't play you and he said just play because it will help me get to know you and for the next half hour we just went back and forth showing each other songs that we like beatle songs beach boys songs and i said to him i'm so sorry mr sherman i'm just really i know this is we're just dorking out right now on all of these. court progressions and he said are you kidding me i can dork out with you all afternoon saving mr banks is the story of the making of mary poppins travers wrote it disney produced it you did a lot they did a lot of disneyland yeah we shot at disneyland well i'm not in those scenes was tom

hanks is and apparently it was pretty amazing to shoot there they said that with had to be like military type precision because the they only had so many minutes before the park opened but and then but we shot many of our scenes on the disney lot because in fact it's still as it was in one thousand sixty one they've added a few things but most of it's unchanged and in fact. i have i play music and i've put out some records but i'm not a natural singer. at all and when i read the script the one thing that was like the biggest fear in it was that i would have to sing you know allowed a lot of allowed to these people concert not alone but one particular scene is that me just gets this thing floating in the air i had to sing there's a part where i sing feed the birds just to walt disney played by tom hanks and that was like highlighted in my calendar as a very soon every day it was one of my favorite songs and really maybe crowell to

walt disney's favorite song and richard told me a great thing which is that walt disney loved it so much that he would have the boys who richard that's what they call them the boys come to his office on friday afternoon like five or six o'clock at night and walt disney would have his favorite drink which was a scotch mist which is crushed ice and scotch and they would talk and catch up and then he would say. play richard and then richard would play feed the birds for walt every friday and and then richard told me that after wall passed away he still went to the office at five five or six o'clock for a few years and saying feed the birds and lots office do your family of the mother is. the best person in the world to her her name is shire for it's one who played rockies wife. first rocky was young yeah she was in the godfather yes al pacino sr conny corleone not a corner so your uncle is francis ford coppola so if you grew up around all

this you almost had to be in the business right i mean war going to be a plumber well. yeah maybe i mean actually the truth is that my mom. my mom loves movies deeply old movies old musicals. but she's not a hollywood like she never was part of like the you know very much of a homebody and stuff and we weren't really she she actually made a real point like we never were raised on sets i never was a kid on set i grew up in a time where i feel like it was you know a lot of actors i hear them or see in interviews they'll say i saw that guy up on the screen i thought i had to be up there while i never had that feeling as a kid i never thought i have to be up there i never thought i really could be up there to seem so much larger than life like lethal weapon and you know kindergarten cop ghostbusters whatever and me music i think i gravitated to earlier on because

it felt more private but no i didn't feel like i had to be in the business at all if. i got into it how it happened was i was my grandfather was a film composer and musician in common coppola and in one nine hundred ninety seven . my uncle fred francis had a party to celebrate a score that he had done for his movie napoleon and it was in san francisco and i was seventeen sixteen have seventeen and i was in los angeles making a record actually with my band and i flew to san francisco with my mom to go to this party to hear the music of the score and there was a casting director there who lived in san francisco who was working on the movie rushmore which at that point as i later came to find out had different casting directors and many scattered to many months many cities in america and this casting

director knew my cousin sophia and they were just chatting about what they were each up to and my cousin said what are you up to now and she said i'm cast in this movie rushmore but we're having a hard time finding the lead and sofia said. what is it and she said it's about a kind of a precocious sixteen year old who's eccentric and into older women and all this stuff and she set up that sounds like kind of like my cousin jason and you know really you know and he's right over there and i was at the party and i had i had rented a tuxedo with tails a coat and tails and i had you know because i was kind of a clown and anyway they met the woman this casting director and she said would you like i'm cat i'm a casting director named dave you know said i'm casting for a movie rushmore would you like i think you could be this part would you have to audition for it i said you're wasting your time i'm not an actor and she said you should you should common audition you know you know and be really fun so i did audition and in fact i never was the first group that ever in my life i had never

been to an audition and i made like an al fit that looked like the main character's outfit in the movie because i called the casting office and i said my name is jason schwartzman i'm coming in on friday what do you wear do and understand and she said just wear whatever makes you feel comfortable which to me i'm never going to feel comfortable because it was you know so i just made this crazy outfit and my idea was i'm not going to get the part in this movie but it's going to be a great experience and i remember like walking into this casting thing and seeing all these other like professional kid actors and and we're sitting in a room with them and they looked like they were just like little killers. anyway but i dish and and then i got a call back and then i got a third callback and i got the part yeah believe me mate i'm a household name will be read by a small household in this small house apartment i want a smaller part. it's

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back with jason schwartzman he of course is one of the stars of saving mr banks he plays the legendary still alive richard sherman who along with his brother world all the music for the disney movies and the movie saving mr banks you know being a major i don't know about who knows about that but i will tell you i remember seeing the screening going hey this is like a movie where i don't have to tell like call my friends and say hey there's a movie that i'm in that's coming out. this is the first time i've been like yeah i'm in this movie called same as most people all yeah i know that. you i was so amusing i call cocaine on record to not record yeah coconut records it was just like i wanted to come up with a name that didn't sound like a band because it's i just want to be more like a like a lab was the been a fan of the band name quicks quicksilver messenger service the band from the sixty's because it seem like it could be anything so i want to be just going to record so it could be just like a more like a film studio using as your first love. and it is and. as i said

earlier like there's just something very private about it and where is. acting is and being a movie that i love movies i love it all i love just being a part of trying to be a part of as much as they can music the thing that i do love about it is that it is especially now with technology it's so portable that you can really be doing it anywhere so it just feels good to do if i go on a trip you know you can bring a keyboard with you it's this big and at night you know the other day you can just mess around and play music your mobile must be very pro. what about these social issues worse in addition five films with yeah another one tom yeah well the chemistry of the two of you he is he is technically he be my mentor i mean he did he met me on the audition for rushmore and he put me in rushmore he cast me and he is my my my dearest friend he is you know and i've got two or three my three best

friends i've been lucky enough that they've come from work situations and he is like we just i think we collaborate well together we share similar senses ability and we get along well and we're always he's my best friend i mean and i don't i don't know why but we just i'm just so happy for that friendship and i think that it's made the work more and more fun to do because i think in the beginning of working with anyone you're really nervous when you call him quality what i call him quirky i wouldn't call him quirky only because. you know it means so much of of what he does it's just it's in line with what i find funny and what i and the things he observes in life are. things that i'm like right that is i mean i think i share a similar sensibility so i'm going to i'm too close to call him anything but great in which is the next movie oh yeah we have this one called the grand budapest hotel

and i'm in it for a little bit but it stars ray finds and bill murray edward norton tilda swinton will modify it's a great cat it's a great movie it's so funny and i think that's like the thing when i read it like when i read that script i was laughing it's just i'm i think more than anything i'm a huge fan of wes's so it's an honor to work with him even though i've worked with a many times now and we are best friends then when we go to work it's just like it's in our you used to see it like when you see saving mr banks what is it like when you see yourself up there. i think it's like a combination of awkward uncomfortable and like some and i guess in this instance a little bit fascinating because like i do have these scenes of tom hanks and tom hanks is someone i grew up watching my whole life as there is a fascinating thing where it's like wow i can't believe i'm really in that thing with tom hanks and i mean i remember just recently we were doing a press q.

and a and tom hanks was next to me and like he was talking to someone and i looked down i saw him like his hands under the table and he was kind of twiddling his thumbs and i was thinking wow i'm looking at tom hanks twiddle it like doing something with the fingers right now answering a question this would be a really rare as a regular he is a regular guy he has no affectation at all it's incredible in fact like i am still trying to get used to the like he asked me a question question recently and my answer was like twenty minutes long i think because i was so excited he's like how are you doing with that they are all credo as driving in there was a thing of tornado in moore and at the end i was like thank you gosh i did he really want to know i think he does like i think it's true he he's fascinated he's interested in your body and he's the kindest man i ever did agree to nora ephron play in new york and i went backstage and he was doing this play for four months it was sold out i mean first three pitching pitches we got a seminar on twitter where i'm just like regular just. i know i could have pictures

b.j. novak who plays my brother in the movie said to me because you know i anticipated him being the nicest guy but what i didn't realize was the thing that happens when i'm with him is i feel like when we go home at the end of the day that our lives are also the same anybody realize that because you said to him when we were making a movie like were you going to watch the oscars this year thinking like you can watch it at someone's house and he's like when i got home i realize he's probably going to be at the oscars. really funny you recorded lot of capitol records and yeah we record. a lot of the music in two places one place is box studios and a lot of capitol records which was a real thrill when you were a kid i mean gabble rogers must have been. building yeah to me it still is in fact . my favorite like one of my favorite stretches of driving in los angeles is the one zero one freeway when you're near vine and you can see all of the buildings and especially capitol records it's it's i mean that it just every time i look at him

it just kind of gives me goosebumps just night of fun work and it was for me a dream come true he was in the great television series on h.b.o. bored to death it was so crazy that's link it with. what jonathan ames who created that show he's my other best friend in the world and we met on that show and he married my wife and i in fact he got ordained and married us and. that show was the great ted danson zach galifianakis is the thing where lucky to say that those are my dear like all the years he is three years in and it's it was the best time going to work every day was it was that could be a movie they're trying to make it a movie right now in fact it's being worked on jonathan's writing it so you know you never on these things go but let's hope. this isn't about mozart in the jungle a t.v. movie with roman yeah moten the jungle is a. show that roman coppola and alex timbers who's

a great new york playwright and director three of us wrote it it's a it's a show that we shot for amazon who are now making movies movies and shows and it's a it's based loosely based on a book called mozart the jungle sex drugs and classical music and it's a show that sort of is looks into the. underbelly of the world of classical music in new york and you know the symphony and the orchestra and all the different levels of. musicians and what it takes to sort of ascend in the world of classical music and and the highs and the lows you know because i think growing up i was fascinated you know you look at an orchestra and they're all in tuxedo they all look so nice and it has a sheen on it that looks like well this is very expensive luxury it's life and in fact it's not high paying for a lot of people and really difficult and you know and some of those tuxedoes are

rented and but they're playing instruments that are worth you know a million dollars a time to them it was just very complicated in and i love the music and so this opportunity came along to show the different facets of the world and i love it and we have a great cast malcolm mcdowell all of this great actor guy i'll go see a burn all in this new great actress named lola kirk and bernadette peters isn't it you know busy managers and. you know what i'm not that busy i like it's funny as we've seen the stuff i sound quite busy but in fact you wouldn't know it by the amount of sweat pants that i'm wearing. ok we will get into the little game you if you only knew these are quick questions quick answers first yes. the first call i kissed her name was jackie temptin that was in kindergarten it was very quick she was there was a mission here and he was here in los angeles i went to a school support that i was i'm on a story school she was the supply monitor that day she was putting away glue sticks

i was sitting down cross-legged on the rug i had a big crush on her we were all singing a song i looked over at her she was on the back end of the room i thought it's now or never so i got up and i went a tap on the shoulders she was taller than me i remember her turning around i went on my tippy toes zapped her with the kiss and then walked away and just return to the song if i know would have a problem in her yes she in fact let years later she i used to be in a band called phantom planet she dated the bass player in my band sam for our for many many years in the band and i wouldn't say it was. love triangle because my thing was very quick but there were times where i felt like remember she grew up tall she got off and she got we evened out we evened out i caught up to her what's your favorite mary poppins tune feed the birds mind to dreams elaborate a dead or alive dream collaborator oh my gosh i can't even i can't think of a collaborator this this is a collaboration that i have dreamed of characteristic you value most in other

people what do you call it when they are not easily offended like i love it when someone just gets they they can take a joke and there are lots of it i don't know if there's a word for that yeah i like that because if you were to know what would you be. a. an interviewer you know you're on a desert island what three things you want with you. all my music. a guitar and i would say my family but that would mean that they're with me stuck so i would wish them well for some music guitar and. a. towel the. biggest misconception about hollywood. that it's just about show business goes a softball yeah favorite interview are. you really yeah i love all i grew

up while i mean i know i'm in the mine you are not here i mean i'm not i mean this microphone this is inside own legendary right key to me as it is the i.r.s. that's how i came from is no of the r.c.a. seventy seven this was my first mike years ago and reveal that exact one no yeah they don't make them in america i mean yeah so that no r.c.a. anymore there right number his master's voice wow wow said well that's a seventy seven and yes so this is this is a big one so supposing saving mr banks explodes explodes which it could and you now become a major star are you ready for that jason schwartzman yes. and no becoming so super that you would not return to this show. never too far away from me thank you jason cheers.

the birds thanks to my guest jason schwartzman this film is saving mr banks out in select. friday and nationwide. and. i'll see you next.

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