Drew Barrymore Asks 'Outcome' Star Keanu Reeves for Acting Advice | the Drew Barrymore Show

How did you come up with the Jonah Hill style of directing? Well, first of all, can I just say thank you for the kind words that you said, because they really touched my heart and that really means a lot to me. And it's not just me. It's my whole crew. It's strong, baby. I have to give credit to you because we we started the company six years ago and I never wanted to start a production company. I was like, I was like, I just want to direct movies or write comedy or whatever. And but what it ended up when it ended up happening and Matt and I wanted to do this, it just was the idea was we I've been in the hotel business for 20 years. What would happen if I opened my own hotel? What would that hotel? What would the sheets be like? What would the minibar be like? And I was like, I just want to run our sets in a way where I saw everything. I didn't like for 20 years. I wanted to do it the way that I thought would be. That's the exact answer. I'm looking for is like a hotel reference. Like it could be any job. Just what did I see that I would do differently if I ever got the chance to run one of these and six years later, we made another movie right after a big movie with me and Kristen Wiig and Bette Midler and Nathan Lane and and it's just been the most fun of my life and these people all four of these people showing up for me and us on was the greatest gift in the world because my first two movies were about what you know, start a bunch of skaters and my therapist. So by the way, it's on Netflix. It's one of the most beautiful documentaries. I've ever seen in my life. So I Keanu again. I just can't say this unless it's my truth. It's such a beautiful nuanced extraordinary performance and I was wondering how do you keep it? There are moments where you keep so much inside and as an actor who's a consummate vaudevillian hambone. How do you trust that you will be giving enough because it's achieved in quieter moments asking for a friend me as an acting tip. How do I I don't know. I think but I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit, but for me in the show, I was just trusting Jonah and let me know if it's there or not so you don't have an easy character to pull off to because it's someone who is going through inventory of their lives. The guy is just awful. I tortured him go on is so rich you have there. I had never read a script with so many brilliant scenes and they're not set pieces where actions going off. It's dialogue not easy to write not easy to perform not easy to pull off. But when you do it's the sweetest thing in the world because that's I think what who can't relate to two people sitting down having a conversation. That's what we all do in real life. Like when you were doing scenes with Susan Lucci are Morton Scorsese great and you're sitting across from them at a table. Just having a conversation. Did you relate having grown up in this industry because I've never read material that felt as accurate to growing up in this industry as this film does definitely. Yeah, there was a lot that was fact and fiction but familiar for sure. I just thought you tackled this subject in a way. I had never seen it handled and it isn't as black and white as I think the public portrays that it's either dire or great, but it's not it's a nuance of many things such as everyone's growing up experience did and you guys as you know, I saw different cuts of it or different writings of it different iterations. You are the friends we need in this world. You are supportive. You're willing to look the other way. But at the end of the day you have your own needs and wants and how do you get them met from someone that you've known a long time and you're looking for almost a historic apology, but you're in the current space and it's been decades in the making. How do we talk to our friends in a real way and say, you know what? Here's where I'm at. Can we do you want to take this? No, you go ahead. I've been friends with people who've become really famous and so I was able to kind of look at it through that that lens and that perspective and watch them achieve this acclaim and watch the world's change around them while they didn't change and try to support them through that. And so that was kind of my in on it, but I think a lot of it though. The writing is just so lived in it starts really with Jonah and Ezra Woods writing. It just felt like these people knew each other and then you couldn't ask for two better actors. They're icons of cinema, but they could not have been more accommodating and lovely from day one. So we were able to just kind of jump right into it. And we were like, we're best friends. There we go. Here we go. We're best friends. Decision-made, chemistry. No problem. Yeah, it was just too much fun. We'll be right back.