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jon favreau is with us.plause ] what a thrill it's got to be to see your own work like that. by the way this is from "entertainment weekly." a pretty great photo. it's daniel craig, harrison ford and you on a pony. >> me on horse. you know what happened, i ven't seen harrison when we're shooting that. during the press junket. they brought me a bunch of cowboy hats to wear. i tried one on. harrison said, no, not that one. i said, harrison what do you think of this one? i turned around and he said, did you bring a yarmulke? that was how dynamic on the set. there is somebody with "cowboys and aliens" shirt from comic con a year ago. thank you for representing there. [ applause ] >> jimmy: unfortunately she hasn't changed since then. there's a lot of excitement. know it's going to be a huge blockbuster film. why shouldn't it be? you're facing the biggest challenge of your life on wednesday night. >> yes. >> jimmy: right here as you take on directing this show. >> yes. >> jimmy: are you ready for this? >> i'm fol

but after meeting jon favreau, the director, he said, look, this is the wayay we want to do it. i got the chance to ride horses every day. >> jimmy: you had one specific horse? >> i had two horses at once, a horse that did something specifically. but i had one horse called w eeo and another called cool. harrison rode a horse called cooper and he bought two horses, one, mine, and his horse. >> jimmy: he bought your horse? >> yeah, and he said the other day it died and he ate it. >> jimmy: that's nice. i don't know -- if your horse is named ringo, i don't know if you're getting the best one. you know? might be getting, like, the third or fofoth. and was that fun for you, doing that deal? >> i had -- probably had more money on a movie than i've had for many years. >> jimmy: you were kind of the party guy. you threw the parties for the crew. >> yeah, i mean, i kind of had a few margarita m ming sessions. >> jimmy: i see. >> i mean -- we were in mexico, the t tuila was good. sometimes we could go to bars but with harrison ford and sam rockwell, you have to kind of -- you can only go

. >> reporter: jon favreau is the director.a roll after doing the successful "iron man" movies with robert downey jr. this one is close to his heart. you always wanted to make a western? >> yeah,, wrote a western right after "swingers." i've been trying to work in this milieu for a long time. >> reporter: what is it about westerners you love? >> it's a classic american forerule. it's opera. big characters and big stories. there's a hero, somebody who needs redemption. those stories are told time and time again. >> there's a sort of simple thethic that the western man lived. it really was self-reliance, you know. ititas simple rules. finish what you start. you know? do the best job you can. they're all -- they were work ethic rules really. and so it's nice to do a film that has that as, you know, as part of the armiture of it, the simplicity, straightfordness and something really sort of black and white. >> take 'em to missouri, mit. >> reporter: for decade, hollywood made western movies like "red river" to rake in a dependable

daniel craig, harrison ford, olivia wilde, and the director of the movie, jon favreau, will be our guestw on wednesday. and when he's director, my plan is, i'm going to shoot e.t. from a horse. and our music gueses next week, ronnie vannucci from the killers' new band, big talk, the features will be here, chris young will be with us, and lady gaga will be here to turn everything upside down. so join us next week, too. our first guest tonight is an exceptionally funny individual. he has a television show on nbc called "parenthood" and a film that he wrote and directed and starred in called "brother's justice." it just came out on blu-ray and dvd. please say hello to dax shepard. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you look so wholesome tonight. >> five years younger, right? >> jimmy: you do. what did you do? >> on vacation together, which you'll learn about later -- >> jimmy: don'n'tell everyone. >> i had a full beard and longer hail. don't i look younger? >> jimmy: you do. >> i sprang out of bed this morning. my hair was still long and thin and i shaved and then i looked terrible. i didn't