I feel like when we cut it together we made
drake look a lot tougher than it may have gone
down. But I don't, I don't remember,
it's been so long. I can't recall exactly what
happened. Maybe he knows. Hello, I'm Ashton
kutcher and I am here for Vanity Fair's scene selection
. Let's check it out. The first one we're
gonna watch is a classic dude. Where's my car
? Like a duck. Fabio man, Fabio.
What do you want to say When I was in
Iowa, somebody came up to me and asked me
if I ever thought about being a male model.
The only male model I knew was Fabio and I
was like, I don't think I look like Fabio
. Like I don't think that's like really even like
a job that you can have. And when Fabio
showed up on the set, I told him that
story and I think Fabio may have looked at me
and been like, no, you're not like me
. I remember Danny Leiner, the director who passed
away laughing so uproariously at at the scene when we
shot it and just how much delight he took in
in filming this At that time. I think I
was 20. I couldn't grow facial hair to save
my life, but showing and Scott had one hell
of a beard. Like it was unbelievable! He
was so, there was so much stubble. How
did anyone kiss a guy with that much stubble and
from that moment on, I really sympathize with anyone
who kisses a guy with stubble because it's really unpleasant
. Like it's like kissing sandpaper. I mean he
might have had the greatest lips in the world.
I'll never know. The screenwriter was Phil Stark who
was also a writer on that seventies show fills a
really interesting guy. He's now I think he's like
a psychologist. So you know, if you ever
need some dude therapy you can go talk to old
Phil Stark now we're gonna jump back in time a
few decades to that seventies show. Well I have
a date too, who is it? What's his
name? His name is Not important. I mean
I think I'm like 19 and I was like 15
when we're doing this, we're like, I'm like
20 and she's 15. Were so young. That's
always what's important is he's better than you in every
conceivable way. Yeah. Damn Jackie. That could
be anybody. Yeah, I don't remember shooting this
. It was 25 years ago. It's fine someday
my kids are gonna have to watch this and they're
gonna be really confused about what was real and what
wasn't real and then we'll have to walk them through
it terrifying to think we're gonna jump ahead a little
2, 2.5 men, let's take a gander.
She's wondering why did he spell his last name?
Maybe I should know who he is. So now
she's taking out her phone and googling me. Oh
I tried that once and I dropped my phone in
the toilet, fortunately it was right after a courtesy
flush. My guy Jon Cryer every one of those
Hughes movies that Jon Cryer was in when I was
a kid. I watched like every single one of
them. So the idea that I was actually in
a scene let alone a show with Jon Cryer is
bonkers to me because he's so brilliant and so wonderful
and such a kind human being. The first hit
on my name is the Forbes 500 website. At
which point in time she finds out exactly how much
money, I make she forgets to go to the
bathroom along with everything she learned in Sunday, school
slaps on some lipstick and comes back into the bar
, Wow she probably Unbuttons one Button on her blouse
and you know what? I changed my mind about
that drink having done that 70 show, I knew
what a great life doing a sitcom was and being
in a sitcom and how much fun it is and
how much of a family you build when you're shooting
on set. There was obviously like all of the
sort of perception of what was happening there and then
there was the reality of what was happening there which
is a family that like making people laugh and like
creating comedy and that was desperate to play and I
got to, I got to join that group and
be a part of that and share scenes with Jon
Cryer on a regular basis for a couple of years
and it was just pure delight. Check out no
strings attached. That was a good one. What
are you writing? Hi, how are you doing
? And then a winky face. No adam it's
after 10 p.m. Come on. The where are you
? Text is like saying, hey, I want
to have sex with you, but I just need
to know how drunk did you fuckin and then bring
her a balloon luna. So this was written by
Liz Merryweather and the screenplay was just fantastic. Like
the notion of giving someone balloons after you hook up
with like a bouquet of carrots and making a period
playlist and like all of these just wonderful, thoughtful
but corky, interesting sort of angles of this character
takes. It was just brilliantly written. And then
directed by Ivan Reitman who was a legend before I
ever, I had an opportunity to work with him
. You know, go from a position of power
something like where am I? Why don't you check
your underpants? Yeah, yeah. Don't write that
. I would never write that. I like to
be kind of scary like boo. Here comes my
dad. Did you have sex with some girl and
give her a balloon? I remember talking to chris
bridges and he was telling me how he was going
to buy a plane and I was like, what
? Like you are gonna buy a like an airplane
And he was like, yeah, I bought a
plane and I was like, come on! And
I would go out to the club with my friends
, that song move bitch would turn it into like
a mosh pit of one another. Just like move
, get out the way, get out the way
. So um I tried to do it with him
and he was not having it. I really,
I thought that that would be how he would feel
about this. I was wrong. So what you
right back Hi. Yeah, it's not bad.
The irony of the whole thing is that while I
was making this film, no strings attached, my
wife was making a movie called Friends With Benefits which
was the exact same plot. We were both making
virtually the same movie and the way we ended up
together was through a relationship that was very much a
Friends with benefits, no strings attached relationship that became
something more than that. So yeah, kinda wild
too watch that also in that film, I got
to act with Natalie Portman who's just such a fierce
human being and a force of nature and an extraordinary
actress. Yeah, just fun love story and next
we're gonna watch a clip from everyone's favorite prankster show
. I don't even need to say the word,
how much fun is that? That one was actually
I finished, I was like okay, I'm done
doing this because frankly I just wanted to get invited
to parties again when you're the person that does that
to other people. They're like no we don't want
him here, we don't know what's gonna happen.
I think at the time like Justin Bieber was like
hosting the show and coming up with most of the
pranks and doing stuff and they asked me to come
and do one more and I was like yeah okay
, but if we're gonna do it, I'm going
big. We basically scripted what we wanted it to
be and have been sitting on the shelf for a
while because it's relatively complicated cause we had to get
the car into the parking garage and then hook it
up to a rig so the car shook and made
it feel like there was an actual earthquake happening and
we had a rig every single thing in the parking
garage that you could see that had any capacity of
mobility so that it moved as well and then time
each one of those hits so that it would give
the sensibility of actually being in and experiencing an earthquake
. Oh my God. Alright. Count oh my
God! Having people that are in so much control
of every aspect of every day of their life and
watching them be out of control for a brief moment
is delightful drake called his mom and jumped on his
friends laugh. I feel like when we cut it
together, we made drake look a lot tougher than
it may have gone down but I don't I don't
remember, it's been so long, I can't recall
exactly what happened. Maybe he knows. Maybe he
maybe he would tell people but I'll never tell You
. And I are gonna be in the same city
for a whole week. When's the last time that
we hung out that long? I don't know,
2008 when you left L. A. Because you
were scared of earthquakes. Hey, the Chino Hills
Temblor was no joke. I learned that when there's
an earthquake, it's called a temblor and not tremor
or a trembler. I always say it was like
a trembler. A tremor that was like oh did
you feel that Tremor? No it's not tremor.
It's Temblor. Anyway, I know you have to
go to work and I want to give you your
present before you go. So I was cleaning out
this drawer, You clean things out occasionally. I
clean things out and look what I found. You
know what's interesting about the scene is that Reese had
already shot her side of this scene before I shot
my side of the scene. So in this scene
I was reacting to the performance that she had already
given. So I was trying to remember the various
takes that she had done in improvs that she had
done in order to play against it. I know
you hate memento. Yeah. No, I hate
Mementos. Above all, Mentos. Okay, hold
on, here's your present. Look, I put
this in the end table the night you stayed over
because I don't know. I thought it would be
a keepsake at our wedding or something. That's how
dumb I was in my twenties weren't dumb a little
bit because she had already recorded her side. The
timing in the space that I had to actually deliver
. My side of the performance was very concise relative
to the exact amount of time that was between her
side. Working that out in the cuts was really
tricky and complicated. The best part of the whole
night was when I took all your money. That
was the best part. I mean it overshadowed the
sex part because you fled the next day. Wait
, hold on. I did call you later going
through the pandemic. This movie is like the movie
I wanted to watch. It's just, it's happy
, it's upbeat. It's hopeful. And then my
entire career when I was choosing to do romantic comedy
, I always wanted to do one with Reese and
I worked with a lean, quite a bit like
kind of behind the scenes, like working out different
films, scenes, things, problems and films that
I'd worked on before. And so the combo of
working with the two of them seemed extraordinarily exciting and
making the movie that I felt like I wanted to
see. That was an exciting opportunity. Thanks for
taking this walk down memory lane with me. This
is really fun and we'll see you next time