“I Play Rocky” Star AnnaSophia Robb “Wild Horse Nine” Star John Malkovich

Air Date: Wednesday, November 11^th

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AnnaSophia Robb on What She Remembers from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Set and Starting Acting at Nine

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Drew: All right everybody, it's behind the scenes with AnnaSophia Robb. I don't know why I got that voice. I'm so excited. OK, let's start with a little film called 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' OK, what was it like? Any memories that jump out to your mind?

AnnaSophia: It was magical. Like I was, I think, 10 or 11 doing it, and, and Julia Winter and I became actual best friends. Yeah, like she, I love her so much, but we would, all the grass was plastic and we would make jewelry out of it. So we would be sitting because we spent a month on, on the chocolate river set.

Drew: When did you start acting?

AnnaSophia: I was 9.

AnnaSophia on "Bridge to Terabithia" and Not Feeling Bad About Traumatizing Kids

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Drew: A lot of children actually, and I didn't realize how fervorous to the point where I believe your co-star Josh Hutcherson, he put out a video I guess saying like yep, people come up to me all the time saying like we traumatized their childhoods in 'Bridge to Terabithia' everyone, what can you tell us about that movie that people are so tremendously affected by. Because it deals with big themes.

AnnaSophia: Giant themes, yes. I get, people walk up to me all the time and they're like, you, we cried in the movie theater and you traumatized me in childhood and I, will I apologize? No.

I think it's healthy like I think it's so beautiful to have films, especially for kids that tackle real world things. It's like it deals with fantasy and imagination and friendship and hardship at home and like not fitting in and finding your best friend and then losing that and Katherine Paterson, the author, her son, his best friend died unexpectedly and so she wrote this book for him to try to explain like why do bad things happen to good people. And it, which is just such a gift to generations and so it was so cool to be I read the book and I wrote a letter to the producers because I loved the book and that's how I got in this movie because I was just a fan of the book.

AnnaSophia on "I Play Rocky"

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Drew: Your latest film, I am so in love with this film. And this is Peter Farrelly who is 'Something About Mary' 'Kingpin' 'Dumb and Dumber.'

AnnaSophia: 'Fever Pitch.' That's why I wore this.

Drew:…And also this is your film is a love letter to Philly and a love letter to one of the greatest films ever made, 'Rocky' but it's like a love letter to you and Sylvester and this union that they have where you are a driving force for him and it's just so well told and you are the heart of the movie. I keep thinking if you had played it any different, I don't know if I would have loved the movie the same way because you need, the way you balance each other is so good.

AnnaSophia: It's such a beautiful ensemble piece, but Anthony is remarkable. Like he, and I really felt like art imitating life with it because he poured so much time. He prepared for a year and a half. Like he had a completely different physicality. He gained 40 pounds of muscle. He's just like transforms into Sylvester and into Rocky. It's like two different characters -

Drew: And this true life story is as fascinating about a fascinating movie and time, and it is so perfectly told, and I'm, it's just my favorite.

John Malkovich on Meeting Drew at the Club When She Was Twelve

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Drew: Is it true that we met up in the club?

John: My memory is this, it was a club in Los Angeles. It was the late 80s, and you came over to me. And you complimented me on some work that I had done, and I remember sort of thinking two things, the first one, I said, 'Well, if I'm ever half as good as you were in E.T. I'll feel self-actualized.' Then the second thing I was thinking is, 'What are you doing in this club?' You were like 12 years old.

Drew: I was a club kid.

John: Yeah, indeed.

John on the Gift He Got From Sally Field and His First Oscars Experience for "Places in the Heart"

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Drew: We're gonna go behind the scenes to your first Oscar nomination if that's OK. So 1984 'Places in the Heart' with the great Sally Field, Danny Glover, what was that film experience like? Is there a memory that jumps out?

John: Sally, I remember, did all her shopping in catalogs. And so I kind of eventually succeeded in torturing her to buy me a duck telephone, the one that quacks like a duck, which she sent me for Christmas.

Drew: Did you use it?

John: I did, yeah, I used it for years, here in New York, but, the thing I remember most was going to the Oscars, I had a woman, a manager who's quite bossy, and we were on the way in the limousine to the Oscars and she goes, 'Now honey, when we get there, there's gonna be a lot of people.' And I said, 'Oh, OK, well, we, we could go in the side door' and excuse me, this is how she responded right in my face, 'Honey it's the Oscars, there is no side door.' And I was like, OK, well. Then I guess we'll have to go in the front door.

Drew: And did you?

John: I did.

John on Reading the Script for "Being John Malkovich" and His Contribution to the Film's Casting

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Drew: How did you know to take the leap of faith because the, also one of the best filmmakers alive, Spike Jonze, but wasn't that his first feature? But you took a leap by being in this.

John: Well, I had read it. I was doing a film out in LA and getting ready to go back to France that night on a plane. And I called my producing partner at the time and said, 'Is there anything at the office for me to read'…And, so he kind of paused and then he said in a kind of menacing way, 'Oh, I've got something for you to read' and he sent out via messenger the script, and I looked at it and it said Being John Malkovich, and I didn't really think about it much and I started to read it. It was hilarious and it was absolutely to me visionary, just an exquisite piece of writing with a brilliant, very singular voice, and I called and, I said, 'Did you read this thing It's unbelievable' and he said, 'Keep reading.' And so I read it on the plane. I called when I got back. I said let's meet with this guy, you meet with him and tell him I'd like to direct it and we'll produce it. We had a deal at Castle Rock then and he met with Charlie, Charlie came to meet him and Charlie said no, he wasn't, I said I would direct it if he would make it about somebody else, anybody else, and -

Drew: So it could have been being George Clooney.

John: Yeah, or really any good actor that was my opinion, then Charlie said no, that wouldn't interest him. So we kind of thanked him for coming in and wished him luck, and then a few years passed, I think, and then I got a call from Francis Coppola, who said, 'Would you do me a favor and go and meet this boy called Spike Jonze?' I said, of course, he once talked to me about 'Being John Malkovich' so I said, of course I'll go to meet him, and I went to meet Spike and I really liked him and I said listen, I don't know if I wanna do a film called 'Being John Malkovich.' I think it's a great script, but you know, cast it and call me and he did and it was, it was Johnny and Cameron and Keener and the only missing element was, the part of my best friend was originally written for Kevin Bacon, who had turned it down, who declined it, and I finally told Spike, it was my only real contribution to 'Being John Malkovich' that I thought my best friend should be played by Charlie Sheen and Spike was like, 'You're friends with Charlie Sheen?' I was like, 'No, no, I've, I've never met him, but I just think he should play my best friend.' So that was really my contribution.

John on Chemistry with Sam Rockwell in "Wild Horse Nine"

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Drew: But you two together, your friendship and your chemistry is the heart of the film.

John: And also his, his talent and his, concentration and his studiousness, meaning he's somebody who loves acting, loves actors, studies it like crazy. I said a few weeks ago it occurred to me what I think of, of Sam as a colleague. He's like a kind of incredibly expert, trainer at SeaWorld who can get the sharks to turn flips and the whales to do this and the dolphins to chant, but never loses a fingernail feeding them. He's an incredible colleague who gets the best work out of his colleagues.

Drew: Well, the two of you together are so incredible and this film is such a big deal and I'm so happy for you guys.