Chris Martin & Dick Van Dyke on Making All My Love Music Video, Mary Poppins & Dick Turning 99

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Our next guests are exceptionally talented men who've joined forces for a remarkable
new music video to be released on one of their 99th birthdays.
I'll let you guess which one.
All my love to Chris Martin and Dick Van Dyke.
Dick, you even stumble elegantly.
How are you?
I'm pretty good.
I just...
Welcome.
Thank you.
That was...
Surprised me.
Wow.
Listen.
May I ask how was this duo formed?
This is one...
This is a pairing I never anticipated.
Neither did I.
They said...
Chris Martin called.
I said, who?
I thought...
I remember Bob Crosby and the Bobcats.
You were not a Coldplay fan at the time?
I...
To tell you the truth, I didn't know who he was.
Right.
I really didn't at the time.
I didn't know who you were.
I said, we're looking for an old guy.
Who's the oldest guy?
Dick, you are going to be 99 years old on the day this music video is released, which
is kind of miraculous.
Chris, how did you pitch?
This was your idea, this whole deal?
Spike Jonze and myself, yeah.
Wow.
And I...
Dick is like a neighbor.
And...
What do you mean like a neighbor?
Like he seems like a neighbor or he actually is a neighbor?
Well, in the global scale, we live very close to each other, but in terms of borrowing sugar,
it's slightly further.
Okay.
So, he lives about eight miles from me, and one day a few years ago, I asked if he would
come and have breakfast with me and my kids, and he was very kind and came with his beautiful
wife Arlene.
And that's how we met, and I said, you know, I'm a super fan, and...
What now, you, I assume that your main thing with Dick is diagnosis murder, yes?
Is that your...
Absolutely.
Do you want to see my tattoo?
Yes, I do.
Mary Poppins.
Yes, Mary Poppins is my number one.
Your number one movie.
And Dick, I don't know if you remember, but you were in Mary Poppins.
Just barely.
You were the guy in it.
Yeah.
It was 60 years ago.
60 years ago.
I've waited for 60 years to say something, and I finally got a guy called up from the
bank and said, what bank are you with?
And I got to say, the Dalstone Stockley Grub, the whole thing.
Was it a setup, or he really was asking that question?
No, he just asked me.
Dalstone...
The only impression I can do is when Dick plays the older banker, Mr. Dawes.
Yeah.
The only impression I can do is when he starts laughing, and it's like this.
Ready?
Go ahead.
I love to laugh.
That's his only impression.
It's of you.
That's the only impression.
So you guys, you have breakfast together with the family, and you meet, and then you meet
and you go listen to Chris's music to see if you want to be mixed up with this guy?
Oh, sure.
Then I started listening to his music right away, and the song, oh my, oh my gosh.
The song is so beautiful.
And you, from Mary Poppins, like, what's your favorite Mary Poppins, song from Mary Poppins?
I mean, I love the whole thing, start to finish.
Who do you think has seen the movie more, Chris or Dick?
I haven't seen it in years.
Oh, you haven't?
Yeah.
You've seen it...
How many times?
I'm going to say 5 or 6,000.
Really?
But for me, that's...
Do I look like Doge or the old man now?
I grew into the part.
Yeah.
You did.
You really did grow into the part.
Method acting now.
Dick, can you still laugh like the part?
That's the big question.
Oh, yeah.
Well, oh, yeah.
Like he did?
Yeah.
No.
Yeah, you don't want to do that.
You could get hurt.
And yet, and this is one of the...
So you make this music video.
And this is in your house.
This is in your actual house.
With your family, your real family, your grandkids, your kids, I mean, the whole gang, your wife
is there.
Your memories are there, all your collections of things.
Yeah.
I mean, it's really beautiful, and in a way, you got Coldplay to pay for a home video that
is quite beautifully edited.
I had grandkids I had never met.
I had no idea.
Jimmy, can I tell you something?
Yeah.
My favorite moment of the whole...
You won't remember this.
My favorite moment of the whole shoot was, your son is Barry, right?
And Barry is, what, 74?
74.
And I saw Barry come up to Dick and say, Dad, can I turn the pool slide on?
And it was so sweet, because it was like a son and his dad, the son asking if he could
use the slide into the pool.
But they're collectively 176.
And you've only got 74.
I mean, that's got to be one of the strangest things for being your age, is not even your
age, but the age of your children.
Imagine you have a 74-year-old son.
Yes.
Who you still send to his room.
True or false?
I have one who's 78.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
That's right.
I'm old enough to be Joe Biden's father.
At Dick's house, I'm going to ask Chris this question.
Is his chimney super clean?
Is it like...
Really immaculate.
It's immaculate.
Yeah, that'd be the first thing I'd check.
I'd go in there.
I'd look up.
I'd want to see what was going on.
Dick, at the Emmys, I saw you at the Emmys, the Creative Arts Emmys.
Right.
And you were so funny and so great.
As I recall, you ended your speech by saying, by inviting everyone to your memorial service.
That's right.
This is an open invitation.
And Chris, I ran into Dick in the hall when Dick was coming in here.
I go, hey, how you doing?
And you said, very old.
A little dementia.
I get dementia once in a while.
Me too.
Like now, I think I'm on the Jimmy Kimmel show.
Happens to me too.
Frequently.
So, December 13th is when the music video comes out.
That's your 99th birthday.
Do you have a plan for that night?
Hideout.
Just going to hideout.
You're going to hideout.
No.
You won't have a party?
I don't think so.
My kids will probably all come over, though.
Do people ask you for the secret to not just a long life, but also like, I mean, really,
just mentally, physically, you seem to be fantastic.
Everybody asks, what's the secret?
I don't know.
You don't know.
I have no idea.
I still exercise.
I go to the gym.
And I think that has something to do with keep moving.
Well, I wrote a book called Keep Moving.
Keep Moving.
Yeah.
That's important.
I think it's important.
The older you get, the more important it is.
Well, when you see the whole video, you will see that you do keep moving.
I mean, you still like, I mean, physically.
He had me doing things I didn't know I could do.
I've heard that about Chris.
Yeah.
It's really maybe the most fun thing I've ever done.
You know?
It makes me so grateful.
It's a big deal for me.
You sat down.
I said, I'm from the days of Dixieland and ragtime.
You sat down at the piano and played ragtime like you wouldn't believe.
Tim, how did you know how to play ragtime?
I'm a professional musician.
Big fan, guys.
I'm Chris Martin.
All My Love, the music video comes out December 13th.
We'll be back with These Sacred Souls.
