How Cooper Koch Made His Trailer Feel Like Erik Menendez's Room & Diego Luna's Day Off | Off Script Moment - video Dailymotion

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THR pulls our drama actors aside for some "Off Script" moments ahead of their THR Roundtable interview. Find out how Cooper Koch wanted to make his trailer feel like Erik Menendez's room and why Eddie Redmayne would want to be a pizza maker. Plus, Adam Scott reveals the movie that made him want to become and actor and more.

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00:00Raiders of the Lost Ark was the thing where I was like I want to do that I remember thinking I

00:17think maybe archaeology is is and then I saw real genius and I was like you know what I want to start

00:23inventing things and then eventually it was like I think I just want to be an actor it's West Side

00:27Story when I was a kid I was like in fifth grade and I did that show the first time and it was the

00:32first time I felt like I was really feeling actual emotions the movie that I I did see for the first

00:39time and I felt like oh this this man is is speaking to me I understand him his tender mercies and and it

00:48was Robert Duvall that that I became obsessed with he was my hero I saw a production of a Midsummer

00:56Nightstream at the Olivier Theatre when I was a kid and Timothy Spore was playing bottom and I was

01:02completely stunned by him for me acting was making sure I was around my dad making sure I could have a

01:11connection not just with him but with his world it was more about belonging to that family more of a

01:17kind of like a circus family who's moving and you just don't want to be left out and you join you

01:24not actually it was a friend of mine in college they put on a play I said to myself I can do that

01:32at least he was awful the most essential thing that I have always put in is I'm so bad with names and

01:40faces is that I need a kind of name of every single person on the cast and crew so that I can try and

01:47remember people's names which normally by the end of the shoot I've got down just in time for it to be

01:52useless you know what I do like is Topo Chico the sparkling water I drink a lot of it tennis rackets

02:00tennis balls and all kinds of stuff that made me feel like it was Eric's room I like cooking so I

02:06bring my knives I don't know why but that keeps me sane you know having one or two pictures of your

02:12kids and something that you can connect easily with and remind you what you're going back to soon

02:18you know and a nice pillow you know I generally just have a computer and you know like anyone else

02:24couple books it's always useful to have like the script that you're working on I find that that's

02:29helpful I have this van that is an extension of my home and and my family is in that van with me now

02:39whenever I'm not at home and I go I carry it to pretty much everything that I do I've just spent the last six months

02:46doing Fallout going to it every day and I can't tell you what it has meant to my peace of mind using

02:55it as a trailer is something that that means a great deal to me if I could switch jobs with any

03:02profession for just one day it would be like a White House correspondent not now really because it would

03:09be a bummer maybe in like 1987 or something like during Iran Contra that would have been really fun

03:15I think I would do music I think I would want to be like a rock star play Coachella for many years I

03:24thought like I could be a good soccer player but I was obviously lying to myself my kids are 14 and 16

03:31and and their lives are starting to like get away from me so I'll try to find the job that gets me

03:37closer I work for the Washington Gas Company it was like being a pirate you know on a truck all day

03:44with a bunch of hooligans it was best gig ever so if I could do that one more day again I'd ride the

03:51truck with the boys I've always dreamt of being a pizza maker at Pizza Express and I have a friend who

03:57was pizza maker of Pizza Express and says it gets pretty boring after the first day so I would love

04:02to do it just for a day I actually enjoy just puttering around the house in the backyard listening

04:09to podcasts it sounds like I'm 77 years old and sometimes it feels that way but I like just being

04:17like not leaving my house and just finding things to do around tennis maybe a little like hot tub vibe

04:25oh I usually play volleyball on Sundays I'd be sleeping right now I would be asleep probably now

04:31and then cook some breakfast but eat it around 2 p.m. try to stay as close as possible to a bed and not

04:40move around that's a perfect Sunday for me this morning I went for breakfast and I bumped into Gwendolyn

04:46Christie who is the person you want to bump into at breakfast um she's so full of joy and exuberance

04:55we have breakfast together and I could have stayed there all day keep them talking just keep fucking

05:00going what else we got

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