if we've done our job correctly we've done a fusion of punk rock an offer of trailer park boys and it should be funny but it should also be electric and entertaining and action packed and hopefully if we've done our jobs recently explosion in there. it's all i've ever wanted to do since i was a kid ok a lifetime dream nine years old. and everything i'd hoped it would be and heartburn what's your relationship like with jonah hill. yeah there is one i guess. it was contentious once upon a time but i think now. we're each the devil the other almost plus thanks to my guest jade. oh really it's really it's a bird it's.

all next on larry king now. larry king our special guest is actor j l the actors comedian screenwriter director and producer you know him from knocked up man seeking woman top of thunder and this is the end jay directed co-wrote and stars in the last of the enforcers it's in theaters and on demand september first you co-wrote you start in the first installment who came up with this idea to do a movie about hockey enforcers yeah it's it was i was very fortunate how it was kind of dropped in my lap was these producers had the rights to a book called the first movie is sort of loosely inspired by a true story and they approached a friend of mine to adapt it and go. berg and he very kindly said i would

love to but i don't know anything about hockey but my friend jay is a religious hockey fan and i know he likes writing and so he and i kind of got together and we put our heads together and we saw that this is like very fertile ground for storytelling who's a model that so in the in our hero dog lad there's sort of two main inspirations there's the real dog doug smith who is the that's who the book is based on but his story hits all the sort of hollywood mile markers and it was a bit too sweetness and light for our tastes and so what we did was we took him as a jumping off point. and then we kind of fused it with my dad's experiences my entire understanding of hockey and hockey fighting is all inherited through my father and for good and my father was jewish immigrant in montreal and hockey and he was a fighter and his team and and so in our household the players that were lionized

were always hockey fighters to play in the national archives he never did oh gosh no he he but he played for the bethel wings when he was sixteen seventeen years old and four i was on the hockey fan enforcers are not good players depends so that one minute to beat up the other guy and take them both out of the game that you know i mean that it depends i think it's slightly maybe a bit more gray area than that i think there in the ninety's you had a lot of stop guys who couldn't skate worth a damn and only go for yeah that's who started it was a bully started the whole thing and then it became the model that was replicated but but i still i i posit that the kind of most important fighters in hockey history were all pretty good skaters as well is this a comedy it is as well as if we've done our jobs correctly we've done a fusion of punk rock an opera of trailer park boys and ben-hur. it should be funny

but it should also be electric and entertaining and action packed and hopefully if we've done our jobs we sneak some emotion in there until we're to do directing it's all i've ever wanted to do since i was a kid my other than acting more all would have by far in oh my first day on set as an actor i was twelve years old. by that point that was year three of me telling my parents i wanted to be a director i had nine was when i did it was when i had the lightbulb moment when my roommate yeah and it's all again because of my folks because we didn't have much money but we were religious movie fans and so every friday and saturday night dad would rent one or two videos and i'd wake up early the next morning and if they were still in the v.c.r. it meant i was allowed to watch them if they're back in their case it meant it was too racy and so what this mantra was for the bulk of my childhood i watched on average two to four movies every single week and all the books i ever got were filled theory books and random things and i would just hold myself off in my

bedroom committing to memory all these weird little synopsys and crew lists of movies i'd never seen and and and i just i fell in love it's the greatest art form the world's come up with was this your first time you directed directing a feature film yeah i had before this before this i had done i had directed one a short film in an episode of a t.v. show but ya know i jumped in with with both feet ok a lifetime dream nine years old what was it like. and everything i'd hoped it would be and heartburn it. is it is and it's your baby that's the thing and a director's purview is all encompassing and they have you have to have the an answer and the right answer and an opinion on every aspect of the production and and there's just always something to worry about that being said. i had i have such a reverence. for the for the foreman i have such

a reference for sentiment that i i knew and i've been wanting this since i was a child that i was like i've got to make this the best thing pie you in the movie to say i'm in about four or five scenes as much as i can stomach watching myself see you don't like acting i i i like it and i respect it and and i'm very grateful because it's afforded me and my mum and my sister lives we wouldn't have otherwise had that's just the god's honest truth but i was always in acting as a means of being part of movies not the other way around. he says some movie for americans as well as canadian yes you have to be a hockey afficionado to appreciate you know i think if you dig hockey you you know you probably really like the movie but i also think that we built this movie so that. ideally you see the first one and then ours but even if you missed the first one and you don't know anything about hockey you should be able to just sit down

and enjoy this what was the first one i hit it was it was. my friend michael dowse very very talented director and and my general and we wrote this script for him to direct and only when he was unable to to step to the fore was i asked if i could take over you weren't you have to tell what's that like. he. is a lovely lovely man erected you he has so i worked for judd twice once when i was eighteen on a show called undeclared and then once on a movie called knocked up and. you work for him and it sort of it's one of these things where it kind of spoils you for the for a while hear the rest of your ear because it's a really creative atmosphere and he wants everyone to take ownership of their character is anyone's everyone to feel free to contribute and and make it your own and it's not always afforded that freedom as a pretty loose it can be it can be and it's all. sort of under his watchful eye and

and so that's it it also is a great bit of of acting school because it forces you to constantly try to make the best decision you can and you also work with rogen right and what's he like to work with is i refuse a friendlier is i've known him since we were both eighteen and he's someone i refer to is as my blood and and yeah he's just at this point it's like it's my family so it's lovely to work with your family how do you screen it to use can maybe i'm kids have made good the boy. having to do you know come in with costumes. you. know i think you know i we've been coming down here since since the silent era you know mary pickford was a canadian and and there's not been an era in hollywood history where we weren't sort of over represented and there's god knows there's whole documentaries and

books written about that exact thing is why the heck are we so because we're very small population literally one tenth the population of the united states it was three hundred million or thirty million so you got famous in america first thing i do so i more or less yeah i had done a bit of kids acting kid t.v. shows in canada some of which i'm still quite nice for back there but but i really i wasn't sort of the lead in t.v. shows or any of that stuff until i kind of came down here and what's so funny is like there's this kind of quintessential. self hating canadian thing of used to be or nobody until you make it in london and then it became you're nobody to make it in new york or l.a. and and they're far kinder. they're far kinder to canadian canadian medias far kinder to canadians that succeed outside of canada seems that's changing hope. and

i'm sure you're a pro and comedian even though you know you like big ken yes i know i one thing i love canadians and you have a great national and i agree completely much better than the old. i agree completely you know i was i had no choice in that in that matter i was raised in a very patriotic household but you continue to live in county i do yes does that make it hard to get. it works so i mean it depends what you're what your aspirations are and if you don't have to live in the way it you know i i think once you get to a certain level you don't maybe don't have to but it also depends on what's most important for you and i have and i'm not really chasing the sort of movie star leading man brass ring a tall you know i mean i'm much more interested in trying to make t.v. shows and movies in canada and trying to get butts in the seats for us to canadians

treat you differently than americans. yeah. it depends which ones i guess but but yeah they. i like to put it sort of like in canada is that if there's one place in the world where i'm famous it would be canada here and sort of whatever quasi recognizable. the nicest thing about being home is for whatever reason people feel like they know me and so when i get people come up to me in the airport or restaurant or so like that it's always my it's always a hey jay how are you i do my as a great to see it and i get a picture and it's this lovely thing where and i i just assume for whatever reason they watch me they don't hate me and maybe they feel like they know me and that's a kind of a neat thing to be taken ownership of canadians invented hockey did they match yes we did and how do you feel now that it's become so international the national

hockey league used to be all canadian there's a couple of american players now you've got them everywhere yeah yeah you know it's a good thing it's a good thing because. you know it's more important to be number one at a sport that everyone plays that to be number one of the sport that's only played in force countries in the world why it is that it is a sport though that has an enforcer i guess no and this is not really a thing else that. lacrosse is orser comes in to beat up on the other team's enforcer or star it depends it depends what the situation requires they're there as a dead they're there as a deterrent they're there to mete out justice when when required and it's more a threat it's the it's the deterrent thing. our star player i don't want anyone hassling him and if they know if that guy on the other bench knows that if you run

takes a run at my boy he's going to pay a price for anything still some up next we're talking guilty pleasures and super problems with jay bakker show stay with us the movie is still the enforcer don't go away. it's called the feeling to. every the world experience. and you get it on the old the old. the old according to just. welcome to my world come along for the ride.

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jaber ourselves against the film is guna last of the enforces it's in theaters and on demand september first he'll prime minister is very popular really around the globe is he just as popular as he is definitely not he's a credible guy he's all that was so that's the thing it's sort of we're in part two

of trudeau mania and i grew up in a household where my mother was an invalid trudeau maniac in the first era and down i will say this the. if you get anywhere in the world it's in canada and so like everyone loves him but he's also he gets a lot of crap for being pretty i think he is pretty this is a very very reelected tomorrow if he hits it i think do you make of what's going on here with our president. show funny everywhere i go i've been in norway i've been in england every time a man comes up. out of the house yeah i think it would be entertaining if it wasn't so horrifying to live next to. it's a movie that's hard to believe it is it is truly it feels like an alternate timeline jay we're going to play a game of if you only knew i just fire some questions let's do a childhood so liberty crush alleges laura says current celebrity crush larry king

. oh you hit the right ah guilty pleasure. m.t.v.'s catfish. see good talent. oh that's a that's a good question secret i'm a very good marksman really like to think so person you'd trade places with for a day person i'd trade places with for a day. yeah. like to be david cronenberg would be interesting weirdest job you've ever had. i was in a career show when i was fifteen for a pillsbury product that never actually launched which was this pillsbury sliced bread. it was like they have a can only need a commercial for the chicago test and i guess the there wasn't an appetite for their slice bread so i don't know where that is but what never fails to make you laugh ever feel so you laugh. rowan atkinson mr being and money python

superpower you'd like to have zero telekinesis you know less time you were star struck. oh last time i was star struck. be on airplane with brian de palma. direct yes one of my favorites leave everything out to paul but every scene everything with any drama gorgeous what do americans get wrong about canada. how much time do we have. what do comedians get wrong about america. precious little lives i think. bad p.r. so squeaky wheel gets the grease so the americans we see on t.v. are maybe not the best ambassadors for the country if you weren't an actor or director to what field would you be oh i would. be in and in

a connected field i'd be like if they still had video stars of their work at a video store just as you would want to manage a hockey team or manager oh gosh i don't think that seems like it seems like a lot of stress best compliment you have received. your mum should be proud. something you wish you were better at. how much time. talking to crowds you get nervous that's the biggest fear of people i hate it i am very very ill it is in front of more than seventeen. i like it why do i love to thrive on something you long to believe to be true and real was wasn't oh oh. p. the world's a nice place a. good school dance tell me something people don't know about you oh oh.

far more i think i grew up a bit more blue collar than a same area and and a massive history nerd so that's my that's my world history yes preserve it yes i have certain areas that speak to me more but i like what ever i was at one hundred years war and the fifth joan of arc all that entire century is pretty incredible is specifically british and canadian history my favorites for we get to some most social media questions i had. your man is seeking woman costar gondry show politics the man. is he's certifiable and is he now in some kind of asylum he should get help soon yeah i don't want to stories just as. well you know they had that all those and silos had that sort of movement in the

seventy's where they just open them up and let everyone into out and about and purrs enough i have no clue. looney bin i assume no he but i'll say this though for as yes insane as he is and fearless he's an incredibly incredibly old fashion and pretty moral dude on the inside and he and i for the most part are the bulk of our interactions are incredibly earnest and usually just because he's a history as well it was a wild guess he is a wild man but also a huge nerd man seeking woman was canceled this year after his third year disappointed yes and no. because at least we've given the world three awesome episode three awesome seasons and we went into season three knowing that this might be our last and so we had built and designed the arc of that season to fit in perfectly as a good sort of ending for what the story we were telling so most social media

questions jake thompson on. blog is there a role or project you wish you were better known for or role what's the role you're most proud of own cool yeah i. so i do ally i made a lot of movies in canada that for whatever reason didn't get sort of seen much outside of there and one of them is a movie called real time that i did where is just a two hander me and randy quaid in a in a car driving around him a good terrio for ninety minutes just a two hander the two of us and it's one of the things i'm most proud of real time hank gadget what's your relationship like with jonah hill. yeah there is one i guess i know the men don't like him i would say that at this point it was good to say it was contentious once upon a time but i think now are sort of were each the devil the other one was. close so

all of them decide oh no what are you stalking about do you love poutine and you clues explain what makes it so delicious but is it ok so prison. is this canadian sort of specialty that on paper sounds repulsive it is french fries cheese curds and gravy and the unit with a fork at french fries cheese curds and groovy sounds like a pretty heart attack. pretty daring in the midst of yeah but is it ever delicious for whatever reason where you buy it is it stores in canada oh it's like something you go to a greasy spoon for and it'll it'll cure what ails you do you can you make it at home yeah i don't probably but especially if i'm making a can you give to you so focusing more on directing in the future i i i will make movies as long as someone wants me that's all i've ever wanted i want to direct a play oh i would love to i would love to that would be the most fun do you ever

have a dream project oh yes yes yes indeed. there's a sort of there's a there's a bunch of stories that i'm very very interested in not the least of which is the sort of one nine hundred forty one invasion of hong kong which is a sort of ill reported because it happened literally the day after pearl harbor. his drama was invaded yeah the japanese took hong kong on the day after they took pearl harbor and i did not know that it was canadian soldiers that were tasked with defending hong kong and and yeah so it's it's very early on was them a british it was planned. and and churchill was focused on the war in europe and so had asked for canada to yet to take care of hong kong and so on and it wasn't under threat of japan when we got it and take it and then and then and then that was sort of during the same era around the rape of nanking and the whole awful time and and

yeah there were canadians front and center in the middle fighting this battle trying to defend this tiny ruse with declared war december eighth did to canada dick little canada declared war in one nine hundred thirty nine canada cleared war we were the second kind or second or third country to declare war in nazi germany when they invaded poland and that's something that i come from a military family my my mum six of eight kids all grew up on army bases my granddad lot of my own cause my cousins all soldiers and we're very proud tradition and and yeah and we've always punched above our weight you know if there's thirty million of us now in world war two there was like less than twenty and nazi germany was one of the greatest military power the world had ever seen and we didn't hesitate and we jumped right in there. for when things the mounted police are they had machinable police force they like an f.b.i. that's exactly right and the advice but they're aware it's also it's late in some

parts of canada they have the sort of local jurisdiction as well so they are the f.b.i. and until like ten years ago they were the main sort of counterterrorism task force in addition to they have beat cops on it because a lot of this they would those around out soon the only and ceremonious on that's a ceremonial if they my and i'm out my own koran as a mountie for thirty years. great meeting involved like likewise thanks to my guest jay brutal better show on well as really it's para shallow really it's a aber word it's jewishness less it is god. you don't know how to. anyway thanks to jade the ju. ju. that's the name of the. soon starring jade of the enforcers it's an

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