ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley Podcast - Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Uncut!

Episode Date: April 6, 2022

Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley had a chat with Jake Gyllenhaal & Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.Talking their new movie "Ambulance", and covering a range of topics from Plant care to Casual Footwear!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well, it's out today, the new Michael Bay movie, Ambulance. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Yaya Abdul-Mateen II. And they're on Zoom with us now, and because they're action stars, we'll do this the proper way. Lights, camera. All right. Nice. We don't have slates.

We don't have slates. We don't have slates, but we've been given these handy hands. What kind of show are you guys running over there? Sound speed! Action! Oh, we've all caught up. What time is running over there? Sound speed. Action. What time is it over there is the question. It's in the morning time. It's in the a.m.

9.22. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So it's a wonderful time. A wonderful time. I was wondering if it was early or if it was late and you all were delirious.

We're delirious either way. Yeah was late and you all were delirious. We're delirious either way, Yaya. We wake up delirious. We go to bed delirious. Around the clock delirium. Yeah. How are both of you guys this morning? We're great. It's 9.22.

There's literally no better time. I'm psyched. I'm good. Wait, so it's 9.22 where you are? No, here. Nope. Yeah, I'm good. Wait, so it's 9.22 where you are? No. Here? No. Yeah, I know the time here, but I thought it might be p.m.

I thought you might be doing the p.m. It's 1.22. 1.22. It's 4.22 where Yaya is. It's probably 4.23 now. So Yaya and Jake, you two aren't in the same room together? Yeah, we are. What an astute observation, Hayley. No, I was just wondering if. Hayley, we are in the same room together. Was it? What an astute observation, Hayley.

No, I was just wondering if. Hayley, we are in the same room. We're just on different time zones. Right. Wow. Right. America, it's freaky the way you guys do it over there. Well, it's freedom.

It's freedom. It's freedom. America is all about freedom. He's in the matrix, and so he can do all that stuff. That's what it is. Now, Yaya, you're overwatering that plant because you've got some dead leaves. Yeah, you need to pull back on that.

Wow. Look at that. Do you know what? I'd actually. Look, I went out of town for a couple weeks. I came back and I just wanted to show my guy love. He's going to be cool. Don't even worry about what's going on.

No. I'd trim those off if I were you. Yeah, cut them off. They're sucking the energy out of the other leaves. You're not going to get new growth with all that dead growth. It's Indoor Planting 101. I already like this show. I'm not going to get in trouble for like

the attention paid to the detail and the environmentalism is, I think, really good. You know that's a plant. Am I going to get in trouble for like plant food? That's good. And you pulled it off at the join. That's, really good. You know that's a plant. Am I going to get in trouble for plant food? That's good. And you pulled it off at the join. That's well done, actually. You are a botanist.

God, you're really giving it some love. You can just chuck that on the floor. That's dead. That's dead. Don't care too much for that. Should we talk about ambulance? I think we should. Now, what does Michael Bay...

I think you should keep talking about Yaya's plants. That's the only radio show I've ever been on where it's like that. We're big plant people. It's great. So I have these in my hand right now. I mean, it's all your fault. Oh, don't do this. I want to see you sit like that for the rest of the interview.

Yaya, hand them to me. All right. Here you go. Yeah. See, you're in the same room. Yeah. Just different time zones, man. Let's talk about ambulance.

I think my favorite line in the whole movie was, you can't wear Birkenstocks to a bank robbery. Which we learned is not true. Could you just... It's not true. There's some Birkenstocks. Can we talk about your favorite casual wear? Yeah, what's your footwear of choice? Favorite casual footwear.

Would you do a Birkenstock in everyday life? Can we talk about casual footwear? Yeah, I prefer socks. You use your socks. But you wouldn't go to the store in a sock? Oh, but you know what? Uggs. I got a pair of Uggs for the Uggs,

like house shoes when i went to australia for the first time and it was sort of like a welcome gift oh we love an ugg yeah new zealanders love an ugg i love a birkenstock i have to say i love a birkenstock i mean i you know there's really nothing better fact, there was a moment where I was thinking of renting an apartment above a Birkenstocks store and I thought, ooh, that's dangerous. Dangerous. Dangerous. Not a good idea.

Dangerous. It's like when you live above a fast food place, you know, you're just constantly eating there. If you live above a Birkenstocks shop, you're just down there every five minutes for a new pair of Birks. I mean, they're transseasonal. I go down to my socks and I just put a hamburger right between my feet. Now, the socks but also Birkenstocks, not at the same time, surely? I go down to my socks and I just put a hamburger right between my feet.

The socks, but also Birkenstocks, not at the same time, surely? Oh, yes, of course. Yes, of course. You can wear socks. I'm sorry. You have to be a special sort of someone to pull off socks in Birkenstocks. Vaughn, you're new to Birkenstocks. It's his first winter. We're coming into winter soon in Birkenstocks.

You just whip on a pair of socks and you can wear them all winter long, Vaughn. I'm a boot guy in winter. Oh, no, you're crazy. I'm a winter boot guy. Okay, now let's focus on this movie they've made. Let's focus. What does director Michael Bay have against cars? This guy must have destroyed close to 100,000 cars in his movie career,

and this movie is no exception. Well, I think there's no drama in keeping a car intact. It's an action movie business. So if you've got the toys, you've got to break the toys. It's just like when you're a little kid and you're playing with two of the toy cars and you've got to make them crash and you make them race and you flip them and then you do it all over again. So it's no different.

Is it on a set when you're seeing cars, do you ever get used to that, being on an action set and just seeing cars, boom, explode, flip, get airborne? Is it still as exciting as when you first got into the industry? On a Michael Bay movie, when you see a car on set, particularly if it's a nice one, you just, you sort of cringe, you sort of cringe because you know, it's gone, you know, in a matter of moments, it's going to be destroyed. Yeah. You just got to walk by and just give it a salute.

Thank it for its service. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's, he, he, he has a, he has a very particular penchant, I guess I would say, for destroying things. And it is, like Yaya said, in the end, it's very safe, but it's very playful in this weird way where, you know, I remember the way he shoots movies is so infectious, you know. Everything he does is full of so much energy and so the people who are stunt driving and the people who are doing all that stuff it's it's really it's very fun like even though he every i don't know there wasn't a moment on the movie where there

was a stunt going on where it was all safe but there was a real sense of play you know just stunt drivers is it like the ideal role for stunt drivers to be on a michael bay movie because as you say they know they're gonna have an insane amount of fun doing a silly thing in a car yeah yeah and like michael also you know he uh uses some of the same guys from his previous movies uh i i get the sense that you know that that they're a family also because he's familiar with the drivers in the same way that he's that he gives a lot of trust to the artists, he gives a lot of trust to the stunt guys too. So I know that he just let them go and just play,

just go and just, you know, anything that they can do to make the movie better, I think it was fair game. Particularly anything that requires danger with him, he says, I leave it in the hands of the experts. I don't control it because I don't want to put my, I leave it in the hands of the experts. I don't control it. Cause I don't want to put my, I don't want to mess anything up myself.

So he always says, I give them the space. I give them the floor. I'm so arrogant. I'm so arrogant. If I was an actor on a set like that, I'd be like, let me have a go.

Michael put me behind the wheel. I think I can do this. Well, yeah, yeah, I did do it. Yeah. You know,

I, I think me and you probably sit in the same boat, you know, because why not try? I mean, you have to try. You have to try as long as it's safe or as long as you think you're safe, you know,

and then you deal with the consequences later, but fortunately, you know, fortunately, we were all in good hands. You made it out alive. This is the fast and loose talk of a guy that goes away and gets nobody to water his house plant. Yeah, absolutely. I think just on that, the middle,

we've got another dead leaf that's dying in the middle, in the center. They were so enthralled by your answer, Yaya. All they could do was look at the dead leaves on your plant. There's one that's dying. All of my business, man. I was just imagining Yaya turning up to set with a pot plant being like, let this guy have a drive.

Let this guy go in the car that's about to be flipped and set on fire. By the way, that's how I felt too, by the way. I was like, does that guy take care of his plants? No, I'm not getting in the car with him. It's a fair reflection on the sort of person that's going to be doing the stunts. So you guys play stepbrothers in the film. When you leave a set like this

and you've spent all this time having so much fun together, do you still have that brotherly bond together? We didn't get to spend as much time together as we'd like to because we shot during pandemic so we'd go to work we'd hang out and then we wouldn't be able to hang out outside of work everyone just went back to their respective bubbles and then came back for work so it wasn't the same kind of thing we had but we haven't really been able to we connected and we really i love working with yaya but we really haven't really fully connected so very during this press tour for the movie and and really been able to like we spent hours upon

hours with each other and um i've learned about how uncaring he is to plants and yeah we've learned it too that's all i'm hearing you know you know who looks after his plants tom holland so i think you just stick with being buddies with him from the movie. Yeah, I think so. My God. My God. It's not good. I appreciate it.

I think that's all I can say. Yeah, look how time's up. I love you, Axel. You've got plants to fertilize and care for. We'll leave you to it. Hey, we love the movies. Hey, we love the movie, guys. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us this morning.

Thank you. Thanks for having us. See you, guys. Cheers, guys. Bye.