The Bear? Being John Malkovich? ‘Opus’ Cast Test Their Movie Location Knowledge

And he said, Remember the day at the Queen Mary?

You know, you were kind of a [beep].

And I said, well, I am kind of an [beep].

So what?

Hi, I'm Ayo Edebiri. I'm John Malkovich.

And I'm Juliette Lewis.

We have filmed in some pretty amazing locations.

And let's see if we actually remember them.

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Okay, image number one, location number one.

Oh, I recognize this.

This is a plate with a napkin on it,

but it's shot through almost like a portal.

Do you recognize this?

I think I do.

That was in, I believe, a restaurant.

If it's the restaurant scene at the end

where all the people are Malkovich.

[Ayo] Yeah, yeah. Malkovich, Malkovich.

Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich.

Malkovich!

[John] That was on the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

My guess is that it's from Being John Malkovich.

[bell dinging]

[John] I'm filming it actually

with the camera on my shoulder.

Wait, really? Wow.

I remember it was unbelievably hot.

No air conditioners. Of course.

And there were a number of people

with my face in a rubber mask

with only the little breathing holes.

So a lot of people were fainting

and eventually I kind of said,

I'm very happy in my dress, life is good, life is beautiful.

Can we shoot, please?

Let's shoot. People are fainting.

Let's get on with it.

Then years later, I got a call from Vince Lande

who produced Being John Malkovich

and he said he was working on a new production

that Spike Jonze was doing, a film called Adaptation,

and would I look at it.

And he said, Well, remember the day

at the Queen Mary, you know?

And I said, Oh, well, I'm sure it's fine.

And Vince said, Well, we think you should look at it.

And I said, Well, why?

And Vince was like, Well, you know,

you were kind of an asshole.

And I said, Well, I'm kind of an asshole.

So what?

That was this scene from that day.

Shut up! Do it yourself.

Shut up! Okay?

Let's really try today to solve our camera problems,

keep between take time at an absolute minimum,

these masks are really hot.

That was a pretty absurd one.

I have to go back and watch this again.

It was pretty absurd, but mostly it was fun.

I have seen a world that no man should see!

[Juliette] Who's this?

Oh, wait, I think I know.

These are so obscure 'cause they're closeups.

It looks like Mars.

Wait, are those,-

These are snakes,

that might even be rattlesnakes or cobras, I think.

I think it's Natural Born Killer.

Yes. Yeah,

that's what I was gonna say. [bell dinging]

So we did shoot in New Mexico

and that's what Opus reminded me,

I was having flashbacks or deja vu,

'cause Tatanka is Russell Mean's son and he's in Opus

and that's the scene that I shot with his father.

So this we shot,

it was freezing and we shot with real rattlesnakes

all around us and fake rattlesnakes.

But the cameraman who had to walk backwards,

he doesn't know where the real and fake ones are

and so the first cameraman was like,

I'm out, I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it.

And then all Oliver Stone got a second cameraman

who was a bit more daring or crazy and he's like,

I'll do it.

And he did it.

Oh!

Oh! Oh!

Snakes! _ Leave me alone!

I'm going! No, Mal, hang on!

The truth is how I did it, where I wasn't scared,

is I watched the rattlesnake handler

try to get a rattlesnake to bite.

They had to do a closeup.

And this rattle saying would not bite

this pretend pant leg for anything.

And I was like, Why is he not biting?

And he said, It's cold.

When they're cold they'll stay coiled up

and they're harder to get you to attack.

So I lodged this little safety gem.

They were a bit away.

But for the cameraman who's walking backwards.

Totally different. Totally different.

We all live to tell.

Here we go. Oh, I know that.

I know what that is.

That's the bus, that's in Chicago.

That's for The Bear. [bell dinging]

Is that the back of my head or is that the back,

it might be the back of my head.

I didn't know you shot that in Chicago though.

I think it is.

On the train, yeah, in Chicago.

Or maybe, I don't know, that's like old town or somewhere.

So you're on The L. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm on the out.

Was it a real running train or?

Yeah. Whoa!

Yes. Sound must've loved that.

So our sound department, I don't even know,

I think they're some of the most chill people.

Every line of dialogue on that show,

everybody's talking over each other at the same time.

[Carmen] Sydney, stir that pot from me, can you please?

Yes, chef. You want a cartouche?

What's a cartouche?

What's our best day here? Five.

Like, they just have given it to God at this point.

We are on the train and on the bus

on that show very frequently

and our locations department is like,

I don't even know,

they're the best sweetest people in the world

and they have so many connections to the city

'cause we use a lot of real locations.

Like, we're out in the city a lot.

Oh, gosh.

Bill is, I think, his name,

but is, like, our contact to the public transport city

and we've like used him so much

that he's kind of become an unofficial, like, crew member

and in the third season,

he made a cameo as, like, an uncle of the character

because, like, he has given us so many favors

and, like, helped us out so much

because our characters are often having

contemplative moments on moving public transit.

There's just really good food in Chicago.

It's really easy to get a seat in a restaurant there

when we're filming, which is nice.

Me and Lionel had a little side quest,

like, first season or second season

'cause we were like, We really need to get, like,

some good soul food, like, while we're out here.

And so we, like, made it our mission

to get really good soul food and we found this place.

I thought my foot was gonna fall off at the end of

when we were done eating there, which is a compliment.

What is it called?

But I think it doesn't exist anymore also

and we literally tried looking for it and we were like,

Oh. There's a lore.

But it's called Ooh Wee! It Is 2!

And there's no one, there's no Ooh Wee! It Is 1!

[Juliette laughing]

Just Ooh Wee! It Is 2!

Yeah, it's crazy.

[crew member speaking indistinctly]

We went straight to the sequel.

Yeah. We went straight to the sequel.

We went there and I had like a sweet tea that I was like,

Oh my God!'

Like, I saw my ancestors,

like, I was like a portal had opened.

There was a line down the block of people who would just,

like, they'd go there every Sunday after church

and we were just like, All right, yeah, we're here.

Opus. Opus.

Yeah. It's the compound.

Moretti's compound. Moretti's compound.

[John] I forget the story about it.

Do you remember?

Oh, yeah.

There's, like, a woman who owned this place.

[Juliette] Oh, wait, of the place we shot.

[Ayo] Yeah.

[Juliette] Different colorful events

might have occurred at this place.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's sort of between Santa Fe and Los Alamos.

It was I think a horse ranch, horse farm.

But quite a lovely place.

Probably not at the best time of year.

Definitely not. Snowing.

So cold. Snowing, very cold

and you know, very, very arid dry landscape

for the most part.

But we got to a lot of snowing

and decent amount of mud as well.

That was a fun trip down memory lane.

Yeah, I agree.

I think we did a pretty good job.

I have to agree. I think so.

[John speaking indistinctly]

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