This wild interview with Danny DeVito and Colin Farrell is enough to make us want to see Dumbo
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For those who are still debating whether or not to check out Disney’s latest live-action revisit Dumbo, may we offer you this interview with Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito – which can only be described as a delightful free-for-all – as a potentially deciding factor?
The Dumbo stars sat down with Wired for a segment titled “Colin Farrell & Danny DeVito Answer The Web’s Most Searched Questions,” where they surrender to the internet’s most ruthless interviewer: Google’s autofill function. The questions range from totally innocuous (“Is Danny DeVito nice?”) to just a touch fucked up (“Is Colin Farrell still alive?”) and they come in multiple rounds.
The over 10-minute long session is a fun cacophony Irish accents (which DeVito can imitate, but not necessarily identify), intermittently censored back and forth, and good-natured grumbling. There was also an answer to the burning question, “Was Danny DeVito supposed to be Wolverine?” Oh, what could have been!
Dumbo premieres in theaters March 29.
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Fun interview, but nothing is going to convince me to pay any amount of money to see Dumbo. Looks terrible.
Reminds me of the old Gene Siskel test, “Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?”I’m guessing no.
How does “My Dinner With Andre” stack up by that criterion?
And still no reporter asks why Colin Farrell was Kevin Spacey’s boy-toy for a bit before breaking into Hollywood? Or ask him what he saw/knew while living with Spacey?
Silly me. Nobody’s going to fuck up their junket gangbang privileges!
If I find out that Danny DeVito is not nice it might end me. He’s my Tom Hanks. And I mean both that he’s the Hollywood person I believe to be above reproach and that I have hired him to recreate every Tom Hanks role in my home movies. Bachelor Party was the most fun to film, and Philadelphia was the hardest to maintain an appropriate tone.
FWIW, there’s a really sweet story from Mara Wilson about the making of Matilda where one of her family members was dying (her dad, I wanna say?), and Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman were basically “OK, we’re gonna be your temporary family and do all sorts of fun stuff to help you feel better.”
Oof, I loved her book and the section on Devito and Perlman was the most memorable part. They sound like wonderful people.
If I found out that Colin Farrell is not nice I might have to kill myself.
I…hope he’s nice? He gives me bad vibes though. But I’m often wrong. But like…maybe have a friend with you if his name ever appears in the news.
Tom Hanks’ niceness always seemed 50% genuine, 50% calculated and amplified to me. It just rings a bit false, not an act or anything but he’s trying too hard. Gimme a DeVito any day instead.
If it came out that Hanks was a part of a messed up sex cult, it would not shock me in the least.
Somewhere down the road someone has to do a movie about just this topic, with Hanks playing himself like Van Damme did in that comeback movie (and series of salsa commercials) where he went all meta.
How would you fell if he were in a perfectly ordinary sex cult?
nah he’s either in a cult that forbids sex entirely, or it’s some messed up shit.
I agree that DeVito’s niceness feels more natural. Like he lets his freakiness out there for everyone to see, so it seems like he’s a more complete person. I went to high school with a kid who reminds me of Hanks in that there was nothing to him but niceness. Like he was so nice I kept trying to peek behind the curtain and find the normal teenage asshole hiding inside. It was one dimensional not because he was putting up a front, but just because there really was only one side to him. It feels like it’s false because it doesn’t fit how most people are. Plus Hanks might just be really good at PR. But this kid…he was so nice it was kind of hard to like him. And if I had told him that he’d have been completely fine with it and asked if there was anything he could do to help me out.
He sounds like somebody I went to grad school with. No matter what you told him, he always responded with a very pleasant, “I can see that.” I started telling him increasingly bizarre and demented things to make him snap, but he always just mildly responded with a very sincere “I can see that.”
Did you ever tell him that previous instances in which you professed to like him were fraudulent?
It’s not that I didn’t like him, but rather that his inhumanly good nature made me want to not like him, but I couldn’t help it. Tom Hanks reminds me of that. I like him in spite of wanting to not like him.
Agreed! I have nothing against Tom Hanks—I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice guy, but he always seemed so bland and boring and like it was trying too hard.
I have close friends who have worked on movies for years, and they strongly confirm that Hanks is a great guy. Ben Stiller…um…not so much.
We made a small film for a historical park in Mass. that Tom Hanks partially narrated. The park supt. sent him a letter thanking him and he responded by typing a letter back on one of his typewriters (he collects typewriters if you didn’t know) thanking her for the experience.I never thought much about him until that point. Nice guy!
We made a small film for a historical park in Mass. that Tom Hanks partially narrated. The park supt. sent him a letter thanking him and he responded by typing a letter back on one of his typewriters (he collects typewriters if you didn’t know) thanking her for the experience.I never thought much about him until that point. Nice guy!
Danny Devito seems like the best sport. he goes 100% for it’s always sunny.
This can’t be stated enough. The guy’s 70+ years old, already mega-rich and mega-successful and could do anything he wants including absolutely nothing. National treasure.
I’ll tell you what. In the trailer there’s a scene of Michael Keaton and Danny Devito. First of all, how have they never appeared together. Second, I’m just happy to see Keaton do comedy. And third, I like the joke:KEATON: Is that a monkey in your drawer?(DeVito quickly closes his desk drawer.)DEVITO: It’s just for emergencies.
They famously starred in Batman Returns together, directed by this same director.
Wow. Of course. Totally blanked on that. But yeah, they’re both comedic actors I don’t think we’ve ever seen them together being funny before.
Living dangerously, Johnny.
You’re living dangerously, Johnny.
Batman Returns was pretty funny, which was a movie they both appeared in together.
When exactly does the “wild” part start?
Now not only do I want to see Danny DeVito as Wolverine, I want to see Hugh Jackman as a distractingly buff Penguin.
I am deeply disappointed that Farrell missed the perfect answer (by way of a famous Cary Grant story) to “How old Colin Farrell?” It is, of course, “Old Colin Farrell fine, how you?”
No sense of history.