Robin Williams

The person he reminded me of most in this movie was...

I was thinking it's kind of a Robin Williams performance almost.

Williams would have this quality of going really over the top and almost to the point where I'm like, oh my God, this is a little bit much.

But he's so charming that you go along with it.

And then this is a move in the main sort of through line of the movie is his relationship with this young woman who is his former foster child, who's played by a, I think, first time actress, Angelina Lookingglass.

who is much more reserved and kind of introverted and shy.

But I thought of Williams because it reminded me a little bit of the Ethan Hawke, Robin Williams dynamic in Dead Poets Society, where you have this very kind of inward person who's sort of being brought to life by this boisterous adult.

And so that's a really wonderful relationship.

Do you know which film had the most cocaine use on set? 1980.

You might not know it since it wasn't a success, but in 1980, a live-action Popeye film was made starring Robin Williams.

In a recent interview, Barry Diller, who was the CEO of Paramount at the time and oversaw the film's production, named it the most coked-up film set he'd ever seen.

Coked-up film set? Oh, Popeye.

So from now on, when you think of movies with white powder instead of Scarface, you can think of Popeye.

Dude, that is crazy.

It means Robin Williams, you know, the guy was pretty legendary in his drug use at that point.

Well, you know, back in the 80s, they all did yayo with ice cream scoops.

You're the bird.

But was your first bird in Aladdin, Jafar's bird? Now, Robin Williams was the voice of Genie, but I don't know.

Did you have any scenes together?

No.

There may have been a scene where he like zaps me or something, but even when you have scenes with the other person, you're just reading your lines.

Right, right.

But had you worked with Robin Williams at all?

I had never worked with him once during Aladdin.

I would watch that.

Robin Williams plays both Romeo and Juliet.

Well,

of course he does.

Julio.

It's Julio.

It's the transporter accident has caused there to be just one person, and they have to have a balcony scene together, played by Robin Williams.

Why can't we just do this right, keep the kids out of it, and just do Romeo and Juliet with, like, Monica Bellucci and Keanu Reeves? Oh, dream weaver.

Brilliant Minds.

And it's based on the same doctor that the Robin Williams.

Oh, right.

Not Robin Williams.

Patch Adams? No,

not Patch Adams.

No, no.

Maybe not Robin Williams.

It's one that was always been on my bucket list, but like because of like this past summer, you know with the Odyssey and Back rooms and obsession never got down to watching it and obviously eventually I did I was like why not?

Fair enough the film stars Matt Damon as will our titular character Robin Williams is Sean Ben Affleck Chucky one of Will's friends stone scars guard as Gerald one of Will's mentors Mini Driver is Skyler, Casey Affleck is Morgan, Cole Hauser is Billy, and a long list of others.

But before we get into any of the acting or whatever else, Diego, what are your general takes on the

movie? I think it's honestly one of those really unique movies that it shows just the maturity and the simplicity of...

I think this is perfectly fine as it is with that.

As far as acting goes, Matt Damon as Will and Ben Affleck as Chucky steal the show together for sure, but...

It's really hard to say that they're my favorites whenever you're putting Stellan Skarsgård and Robin Williams in the same scene as with each other.

Robin, being most well-known for his comedy in this movie, isn't very comedic.

no.

Yeah, so Al Pacino, Robin Williams.

I

didn't know nothing about this movie.

So definitely need to add it to my watch list or I mean, it is on my watch list.

I just need to actually watch it.

Um, cause also a Rob, Robin Williams and Al Pacino in a, uh, Nolan movie.

That just doesn't sound right.

George O'Dowd, super, super deluxe.

The most recent one that was just an absolute shock was, and one of our chat group people said it, was Robin Williams.

That was just so unexpected.

Another one that hit you