Anya Taylor-Joy & Keegan-Michael Key Talk Mushrooms & The Super Mario Galaxy Movie w/ Get Played!

We have Anya Taylor-Joy, Princess Peach, and Keegan-Michael Key, Toad. Thank you in advance for dealing with our nonsense. Hi. Hi, guys. You're both returning from the first film. How did you react when you found out the sequel would be like a space movie? I mean, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but basically every time I got into the booth, the directors would say, and now this has happened. And I was like, cool, for sure. Absolutely. Let me imagine. Okay. Yep. I'm in the scene. So it was thrilling. It was really fun. It was great. It was really exciting to find out how expansive it was going to be. Yeah. I had no idea. I'm like, wait a minute. So wait, I'm sorry. Wait, where are we now? On the what landscape of the where plot? On what just happened? Wait, but yeah, it was really, it was really, really fun to hear that it was going to be this space movie and that it was going to have all these different worlds that we were, all of the characters were going to be contending with. It was great. And so much lore. Yes. Oh yeah. Lore is deep. We're suckers for lore. She and I, we've been learning that about each other. Do you think you guys have, I mean, I don't, I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to put the cast against each other or anything like that, but do you think you guys have a special kinship with each other because you both have, you both go by three names? We've discovered. Yeah. We've been talking about this today. I think, I think we are bonded. We're bonded through school trauma. Hyphens run deep. Exactly. Yeah. The feeling of, yes, we do. Yeah. It's growing and growing as we speak. You're watching it happen in real time. I feel it. It feels good. When you're in the booth, speaking about like being told like, oh, you're in this location or you're in that location, how much of your dialogue gets to be improvised or is it a really strict script process? We get to improvise a little bit. Yeah. A little bit. We get to try. Yes, we get, yes. You get attempts and every once in a while, something sneaks through. And it's glorious too. When you go to a screening and go, oh my God, that got in there. That one got in there. But most of it, not strictly scripted, but pretty close. Do you ever do anything like, because I made up that you, Anya, you wore a crown in the booth. I was like, what if that was true? So would you be willing to lie? Yes. Honestly, the thing that like throws me the most, but it's kind of the most fun is that I'm, I've been lucky enough to be constantly working whilst voicing Peach and all of my other characters are pretty bloody and dirty and in like some intense situation. So I really like being able to like rock up after a night shoot and be like, okay, now we're clean and we're a princess. So that's pretty fun. I'd like to wear a crown though. I'm kind of bummed. Yeah. Where was my crown? I don't know. You should just do it probably. Yeah. Why not? You could just wear a crown. Yeah. They'll let you do it. Thank you. In Nintendo lore, when there's a bad version of you, it's like the Wah version of you, like Wah Luigi or Wario is the opposite of Mario. My Wah version, Wah Heather would love the beach and hate spaghetti. What would your Wah versions be? Like what's the opposite version of you? What would the evil you be? Okay. So Wah Keegan, it's funny that you said the thing about the beach. That's also a city. Wah Keegan, yes, yes. Wah Keegan, Illinois. That's correct. Not so funny that you say that because then I just thought to myself, I know where Wah Keegan is because I love geography. So Wah Keegan would not have a passport. Okay, okay, nice. Okay, that's good. Would not have a passport and would hate the beach. Would hate the beach, since I actually live on a beach, would hate the beach and would not have a passport. Because you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did I do the other day on the plane? What did we do for five minutes? We played a game. We played a geography game. Yeah. I am obsessed with geography. Oh, is it GeoGuessr? No, it's called World Quiz. Okay, yeah, yeah. So yeah, he would not have a passport, which is to imply would care nothing about, the most worst dreadful isolationist person in the world and hate beaches. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're describing me before this trip. Anya, how about you? What would the Wah Anya be? Wanya would hate animals and love direct sunlight. We were talking about this earlier today. I don't get claustrophobic in any kind of situation. You can put me in the smallest box possible. I will not care. Direct sunlight on exposed skin is not for me. Not for me. But they keep putting me in the desert for all of my movies. There's a lesson there. It's funny you describe your other characters as bloody and rough and tumble, but Princess Peach could maybe mop the floor with all of them. She's a badass. If they did the live action version of this, that's the thing I would be most excited about. The fight choreography that Princess Peach is rocking is insane. We have a we have a segment we do on the show. It's our video game. Would you rather this? We call it Would You Blathers? So this is Would You Blathers? Mario edition. Okay. Okay, let's go. Let's get into it. You didn't do the Blathers noise. Oh, you're self-conscious. I forgot that I do it. Yeah, it's Would You Blathers? Mario edition. That was so good. All right. So I'll read a hypothetical. Can you guys talk to each other in that voice? No, Heather's the only good one. So I'll read a hypothetical. You tell me which option you'd pick. First up, Would You Blathers? Always have a mostly red wardrobe like Mario or a mostly green wardrobe like Luigi. Interesting. Oh, no. I'm an Aries. I might have to go for red. Oh, okay. Wow. I think I might have to. Yeah, do that. I just enjoy green so much. Oh, great. I would have to go with it. Together for Christmas. 96. 16th of April. Oh, 16th of April. Okay. Me and my husband. All right. Same birthday? Wow. But you guys are late Aries. Late Aries. Happy birthday. You guys got the same parents? Luckily, no. Grateful for that one. All right. How about Would You Blathers? Eat a mushroom that doubles your size or be transformed into a baby version of yourself? I'd go mushroom. I think I'd go mushroom. The baby, that was already awesome. I want to be huge. Yeah. I want to be huge. Why do that again? I want to take a step and cross a mountain. You know what I mean? That'd be great. There's something about appealing, about being bigger than Victor Wemba Nyama, being the biggest person in the world. But I would choose baby myself. Oh, really? Yeah, because I'd love to be a baby with an adult brain. I feel like I could do it right this time. Wait, no. Wait, wait, wait a second. That sounds like hell. The best part about being a baby is that you are not aware. You're completely ignorant. You're profoundly ignorant of the world. We also don't know that babies aren't in constant pain. They're not communicating that stuff with us. And baby Mario and baby Luigi don't seem to know what's going on. They seem like they don't know. Also, imagine you have all of your thoughts, but you can't talk. Yeah, that's a prison. That's like you now. I have one here. Would you Blathers be stuck in a warp pipe or at the top of a flagpole? You're stuck either way. If I'm stuck either way, I'd rather be stuck at the top of a flagpole because at least I have the view. Oh, right. At least I have the view. Yeah, I'm like you. I'm not super claustrophobic. Yeah, but I'd rather have the view. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get a flag. What's that? As a flag. And as a flag, I can tell you, I'm like, oh, this is the mushroom. What's the third iteration? I change it in 1941. Your flag knowledge is admirable, though. Like, genuinely, it's impressive. Do you have a favorite flag? Well, my favorite flag is the there's two. I have two. Amazing. I have two favorite flags. Okay, one. There's one wrong answer. Go, you got it. Only flag in the entire world that is neither a square or a rectangle is Nepal. So they have their own special little flag. It has two little taily things. The other flag I love, Liberia. Liberia's flag is a blue field with one star and the American stars and stripes because when all of the former slaves left America in 1841 and sailed across the world to Africa and moved to Liberia, it's called Liberia because it's their liberation place. Wow, that's awesome. The capital of Liberia is Monrovia after James Monroe. And so they made an American flag with one star. Why is this our show? We should grab you on telling us cool stuff. The most interesting thing anyone's ever said on the show. Switch formats to flight fags. Anyway, Anya, what's your answer? Was I hypothetical? Oh, stuck in a warp pipe or stuck on the top of a flagpole. And you must answer. I'm kind of scared of heights. Yes, but I agree with you on the view thing. So maybe I would go on top of the flagpole because then I would have to get over my fear. And I feel like I would grow. I choose the growth. How about would you Blathers have a mushroom for a head like Toad or bear the burden of absolute power like Princess Peach? Oh, oh, oh, no. It's the way you worded it. Because I want to say, I mean, what's wrong with absolute power? I'll go for absolute power in solidarity with my girl, Peach. But I do I do love a mushroom. So like having a mushroom head would be kind of great. I've never heard anybody. I mean, we don't know. We actually don't know what's being in. We don't know. We don't have time for this. But there's like an entire conspiracy theory about mushrooms that actually they're like an alien species and they're here and the mycelium network. So maybe having a mushroom for a head actually means that you do have absolute power because you're connected because you're connected with the universe. Yeah. Wow. That's my conspiracy theory. I love that. I like that answer. That's very avatar firing. Yeah. Thank you guys so much. Thank you both so much. Thank you. Anya, Taylor, Joy, Keegan-Michael Key. Anything you want to plug? Our movie, the Super Mario Galaxy movie comes out on April 1st. Wow. In the United States. And this is not an April Fool's Day thing. It's actually coming out on April 1st. Yeah. So look for that. Thank you so much. That was a HeadGum Podcast.