1 00:00:30,113 --> 00:00:33,075 Yo. Hey. What is so important? 2 00:00:33,158 --> 00:00:35,369 Why couldn't you tell me whatever this is over the phone, huh? 3 00:00:35,452 --> 00:00:38,705 'Cause I wanted to see your stupid face when I told you. 4 00:00:38,789 --> 00:00:41,667 Okay. You know that teaser poster we released yesterday? 5 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:43,544 Yeah. The Kool-Aid one, yeah? 6 00:00:44,545 --> 00:00:47,464 It has gotten more positive online engagement 7 00:00:47,548 --> 00:00:53,262 than any teaser poster released by anyone in the last five fucking years! 8 00:00:53,345 --> 00:00:54,972 It's fucking destroying. 9 00:00:55,055 --> 00:00:58,392 - Wait, are you serious right now? - I am fucking dead serious. 10 00:00:58,475 --> 00:01:00,227 - I'm fucking dead serious, man. Yeah. - Oh, my God. 11 00:01:00,310 --> 00:01:02,604 How is this happening? 12 00:01:02,688 --> 00:01:04,438 You know, I think it's just the perfect storm 13 00:01:04,522 --> 00:01:06,900 of nostalgia, kitsch, irony and stupidity. 14 00:01:06,984 --> 00:01:08,819 Fucking people are just loving 15 00:01:08,902 --> 00:01:10,320 - the fucking Kool-Aid right now. - Oh, my God. 16 00:01:10,404 --> 00:01:12,197 - Oh, yeah! - Oh, yeah! 17 00:01:12,281 --> 00:01:15,200 - Yeah! Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah! 18 00:01:15,284 --> 00:01:17,870 - Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah. 19 00:01:18,662 --> 00:01:20,372 - Yeah! - We're gonna make a billion dollars! 20 00:01:20,455 --> 00:01:22,708 We're gonna make a fucking billion dollars! 21 00:01:22,791 --> 00:01:25,002 - Do you wanna make out right now? - We can't do that anymore. 22 00:01:25,085 --> 00:01:26,962 - Are you sure? - We said we wouldn't. 23 00:01:27,045 --> 00:01:29,798 - We're gonna be fucking rich! - We're gonna make a billion dollars! 24 00:01:29,882 --> 00:01:32,801 - We're gonna be fucking rich! Yeah! - Yeah, motherfucker! 25 00:01:32,885 --> 00:01:34,344 Okay. 26 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:42,644 All right, on the heels of the huge launch of our poster, 27 00:01:42,728 --> 00:01:46,523 we are gonna be all up in Anaheim Comic-Con tomorrow 28 00:01:46,607 --> 00:01:48,275 announcing this dope cast! 29 00:01:48,358 --> 00:01:51,904 I got Nick Stoller to write a bit for Ice Cube to come out during the panel. 30 00:01:51,987 --> 00:01:54,114 He's gonna, like, crash through the wall as Kool-Aid, "Oh, yeah!" 31 00:01:54,198 --> 00:01:56,617 That's great. Stoller, he should actually write a joke for me 32 00:01:56,700 --> 00:01:58,952 because I've decided I'm personally gonna introduce 33 00:01:59,036 --> 00:02:00,829 Ice Cube as the Kool-Aid Man at Comic-Con. 34 00:02:01,622 --> 00:02:05,125 Look who's hopping on the bandwagon now that it's got some heat. 35 00:02:05,209 --> 00:02:06,877 Well, you know, I figured it's a, you know, 36 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,086 good moment for me to show confidence in the project. 37 00:02:09,170 --> 00:02:12,674 Also really, like, rub it in everyone's fucking face who said this was gonna suck. 38 00:02:12,758 --> 00:02:15,260 - I mean, we got Biel, we got Duhamel… - Yes. 39 00:02:15,344 --> 00:02:17,262 - …we got Oh, we got Cube. - Boom. 40 00:02:17,346 --> 00:02:20,140 I mean, how could you not be excited about this cast? 41 00:02:20,224 --> 00:02:23,018 Yeah. How could you not be excited? 42 00:02:23,101 --> 00:02:26,104 I can't believe we got Ice Cube. He is better than Kevin Hart. 43 00:02:26,188 --> 00:02:28,607 I still think Tracy Morgan would have been so funny. 44 00:02:28,690 --> 00:02:30,025 "Who's thirsty? 45 00:02:30,108 --> 00:02:33,612 Somebody gettin' pregnant!" You know, it would have been great. 46 00:02:33,695 --> 00:02:35,614 Sal, can you hang back? 47 00:02:35,697 --> 00:02:37,699 - Me too? - No, you, out. 48 00:02:40,994 --> 00:02:41,939 - What happened? - What's up? 49 00:02:41,954 --> 00:02:46,458 Okay, so, we are loving the enthusiasm in this room. 50 00:02:46,542 --> 00:02:49,628 I'm just having, like… I'm starting to have like a… 51 00:02:49,711 --> 00:02:53,924 a nagging concern that something is really fucking sus. 52 00:02:54,550 --> 00:02:55,592 - Sus? Like bad? - Yeah. 53 00:02:55,676 --> 00:02:57,094 This isn't sus at all. This is amazing. 54 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:58,720 - Yeah, no, there's no sus… - Are you kidding me? 55 00:02:58,804 --> 00:03:00,764 Look, I know Josh Duhamel's not Mr. Comedy, 56 00:03:00,848 --> 00:03:02,391 - but he is so good looking and cool. - He's funny enough. 57 00:03:02,474 --> 00:03:04,560 Duhamel is the least of my concerns. 58 00:03:04,643 --> 00:03:06,645 What is it? Just spit it out. What's going on here? 59 00:03:06,728 --> 00:03:10,023 Okay, I'm starting to think 60 00:03:10,107 --> 00:03:13,110 that maybe casting Ice Cube as the Kool-Aid Man 61 00:03:13,193 --> 00:03:14,945 could potentially be problematic. 62 00:03:15,612 --> 00:03:17,948 Why? You're the one who said we should cast Ice Cube in the first place. 63 00:03:18,031 --> 00:03:20,701 You actually said for a musician, he's remarkably unproblematic. 64 00:03:20,784 --> 00:03:22,703 - That's true. - Oh, God. 65 00:03:22,786 --> 00:03:24,204 - Oh, my God. - You see it? 66 00:03:24,288 --> 00:03:26,915 - Oh, no! Oh, fuck. - What? What do you see? 67 00:03:26,999 --> 00:03:28,542 - What am I not seeing? What is happening? - I know. 68 00:03:28,625 --> 00:03:29,793 - Okay. Fucking… - Okay, just… 69 00:03:29,877 --> 00:03:35,340 What Maya is saying is that perhaps we're playing into some stereotypes 70 00:03:35,424 --> 00:03:37,843 - because there might be… - Oh, my God. 71 00:03:37,926 --> 00:03:43,265 …a group of people who historically enjoy Kool-Aid more than others. 72 00:03:43,348 --> 00:03:45,392 - I think that's what you were saying. - Yeah, thank you. 73 00:03:45,475 --> 00:03:47,186 Fuck… Everyone enjoys Kool-Aid. 74 00:03:47,269 --> 00:03:49,646 I grew up drinking Kool-Aid. Who doesn't like Kool-Aid? 75 00:03:50,230 --> 00:03:52,357 - I agree. It's fine. - Yeah. 76 00:03:52,441 --> 00:03:53,650 - He doesn't see it, so we're… - It's good. 77 00:03:53,734 --> 00:03:55,444 - Okay, great, great. I'll… - Oh, no. 78 00:04:02,951 --> 00:04:04,953 - He's Black. - Okay, you don't have to say it. 79 00:04:05,037 --> 00:04:06,872 - To say that out loud. We get it. - Shit. 80 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:08,832 Is this racist? Did we do something racist? 81 00:04:08,916 --> 00:04:11,335 - Yeah, kinda. - Okay, you guys, 82 00:04:11,418 --> 00:04:14,880 - this could be a major marketing issue. - Oh, fuck. 83 00:04:14,963 --> 00:04:17,757 This is exactly the kind of shit that social gets salty over. 84 00:04:17,841 --> 00:04:19,635 They're gonna tear us new assholes. 85 00:04:19,718 --> 00:04:21,678 That's gonna leave a stink on this whole, beautiful thing. 86 00:04:21,762 --> 00:04:23,555 I always knew something like this would happen to me. 87 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:25,390 You know what, I'm the whitest motherfucker in this room. 88 00:04:25,474 --> 00:04:26,808 Trust me, I will take the fall for this. 89 00:04:26,892 --> 00:04:27,878 - I'm dead. - Are you kidding me? 90 00:04:27,893 --> 00:04:31,188 I am personally getting up in front of thousands of people tomorrow 91 00:04:31,271 --> 00:04:32,397 and announcing this hate crime. 92 00:04:32,481 --> 00:04:33,425 Oh, God. 93 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,902 Look, maybe we're just spinning out. You know what I mean? 94 00:04:36,985 --> 00:04:40,197 Maybe it's like white guilt, you know, and it's not a big deal. 95 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:41,323 We should talk to Quinn. 96 00:04:41,406 --> 00:04:42,407 - Let's ask her, you know? - Good idea. 97 00:04:42,491 --> 00:04:45,911 - She's very young and with-it… - Yeah, she's got a cute bob. 98 00:04:45,994 --> 00:04:48,205 - She's not white. - Don't say that. She's… 99 00:04:48,288 --> 00:04:51,166 - She's different. She's the same. - She's not different! She's the same. 100 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:52,709 - And I think that is so great. - We're all the same. 101 00:04:52,793 --> 00:04:54,920 - Let's just head out. - I think it's fucking great. 102 00:04:55,796 --> 00:04:58,423 - Knock, knock, knock. Hi. - Hi. 103 00:04:58,507 --> 00:05:00,217 - Hey, girl. - What's happening right now? 104 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:01,426 Am I being fired? 105 00:05:01,510 --> 00:05:04,429 No, far from it. Yeah, you're actually of, 106 00:05:04,513 --> 00:05:07,224 very particular use at the moment. 107 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:08,475 Great. 108 00:05:08,559 --> 00:05:09,977 - Let me just ask you. - Yeah. 109 00:05:10,811 --> 00:05:13,689 Do you think it's weird in any way, shape, or form 110 00:05:13,772 --> 00:05:20,362 that the Kool-Aid Man is being voiced by a person of… 111 00:05:21,697 --> 00:05:22,698 Ice Cube? 112 00:05:23,448 --> 00:05:25,075 Why would that be weird? 113 00:05:25,909 --> 00:05:27,160 Maybe it wouldn't. There you go. 114 00:05:27,244 --> 00:05:29,288 - Thank you. Right, good. See? - I feel a little bit better. 115 00:05:29,371 --> 00:05:30,664 Because Ice Cube's Black? 116 00:05:31,623 --> 00:05:34,376 We did not call Ice Cube Black, just for the record. 117 00:05:34,459 --> 00:05:36,086 None of us called him Black. 118 00:05:36,170 --> 00:05:39,298 I mean, I guess I get your concern, 119 00:05:39,381 --> 00:05:42,092 but I've never really viewed Kool-Aid as a Black person drink. 120 00:05:42,176 --> 00:05:44,636 - Okay, great. - It's a poor person drink. 121 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,513 - I don't wanna hear it. - No. 122 00:05:46,597 --> 00:05:48,307 - Don't say that, please. - That's a whole separate bad thing 123 00:05:48,390 --> 00:05:50,309 - you just said. - People love Ice Cube, okay? 124 00:05:50,392 --> 00:05:52,019 - Just stick with him. It's fine. - Okay. 125 00:05:52,102 --> 00:05:54,479 Respectfully, I don't think Quinn is the spokesperson 126 00:05:54,563 --> 00:05:57,024 - for all peoples if you know what I mean? - Yes, I never said I was. 127 00:05:57,107 --> 00:05:59,109 - Honey, give us a sec. - Sal's right. Look, 128 00:05:59,193 --> 00:06:03,197 we need a much more specific perspective on this. 129 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:05,115 - You know what I'm saying? Who? - Tyler. 130 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:09,161 - My Tyler. You know, who run… - Oh, yes, Tyler. Hard working, dedicated. 131 00:06:09,244 --> 00:06:10,954 - Very specific. - Yes. 132 00:06:11,038 --> 00:06:14,374 He's running the photo shoot for Ain't Yo Mama stage eight. Let's go. 133 00:06:15,042 --> 00:06:16,877 - Thank you, Quinn. - Yeah, you're welcome. 134 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:18,378 Hey. 135 00:06:24,885 --> 00:06:26,720 - I'm good with it. - Oh, my God. 136 00:06:26,803 --> 00:06:28,430 Great. That's great news. Great news. 137 00:06:28,514 --> 00:06:31,725 Honestly, when you think about it, if you didn't cast a Black man as Kool-Aid, 138 00:06:31,808 --> 00:06:34,520 - that would be more racist. - Precisely, yes. 139 00:06:34,603 --> 00:06:35,979 That's exactly why we cast him. 140 00:06:36,063 --> 00:06:37,481 Thank you so much, Tyler. 141 00:06:37,564 --> 00:06:39,733 We so value and appreciate you. 142 00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:41,944 - Yes, thank you so much. - No. Come here. 143 00:06:42,027 --> 00:06:44,530 I do not feel comfortable speaking for all Black people. 144 00:06:44,613 --> 00:06:45,613 Oh, my God. 145 00:06:45,656 --> 00:06:48,617 Can't you just, like, rubber-stamp it on their behalf for the time being? 146 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:50,661 Anaheim Comic-Con is tomorrow, dude. 147 00:06:50,744 --> 00:06:51,745 No. 148 00:06:52,704 --> 00:06:54,581 Why don't we ask Ziwe and Lil Rel? 149 00:06:54,665 --> 00:06:57,751 Oh, yeah, great idea. Can you ask them for us, please? 150 00:06:58,418 --> 00:06:59,419 No. 151 00:07:02,673 --> 00:07:04,675 I love Ice Cube as the Kool-Aid Man. 152 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:07,469 - Great. Thank you. - Dope. Dope AF. 153 00:07:07,553 --> 00:07:12,766 Okay, so, are y'all thinking Mrs. Kool could be like Gabby Union, or… 154 00:07:12,850 --> 00:07:15,394 She is great, but no, it's not her. 155 00:07:15,477 --> 00:07:17,145 Is it Keke Palmer? 156 00:07:17,229 --> 00:07:20,065 - She slays, but no, it's not. - Yes. 157 00:07:20,148 --> 00:07:21,148 No, it's not. 158 00:07:21,859 --> 00:07:24,069 Mrs. Kool's Black too though, right? 159 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:27,531 Mrs. Kool is for sure a woman of color. 160 00:07:27,614 --> 00:07:29,157 - Yes. - POC, hello. Yeah. 161 00:07:29,241 --> 00:07:30,701 Is the color Black? 162 00:07:30,784 --> 00:07:34,037 Her color is Korean. 163 00:07:35,455 --> 00:07:37,124 Is that not… 164 00:07:37,207 --> 00:07:39,334 - Is that bad? - Well… 165 00:07:39,418 --> 00:07:43,839 Well, it's bad if you're implying that a Black woman, 166 00:07:43,922 --> 00:07:46,425 is not good enough to be with a successful Black man like Kool. 167 00:07:46,508 --> 00:07:48,135 No. 168 00:07:48,218 --> 00:07:50,679 Hey. No, I'm not implying that. 169 00:07:50,762 --> 00:07:52,806 I'm not. Look, I'm not implying… Look… 170 00:07:52,890 --> 00:07:54,641 Let me just make one thing clear. 171 00:07:54,725 --> 00:07:58,770 We are in no way saying that a Black woman is not, 172 00:07:58,854 --> 00:08:02,608 good enough to be with a successful Black man like the Kool-Aid Man. 173 00:08:02,691 --> 00:08:05,194 I think, if anything, I never viewed the Kool-Aid Man 174 00:08:05,277 --> 00:08:08,071 as a successful Black man. I didn't view him as a ma… 175 00:08:08,155 --> 00:08:11,491 He's a CGI glass jug filled with red liquid. 176 00:08:11,575 --> 00:08:13,660 - He's not real, you know what I mean? - It's all pretend. 177 00:08:13,744 --> 00:08:14,953 Sure. Look, I… 178 00:08:15,037 --> 00:08:17,539 All of that makes sense, but really, when you think about it, 179 00:08:17,623 --> 00:08:22,711 if Kool-Aid is voiced by a Black man, you know what that means. 180 00:08:22,794 --> 00:08:23,739 - Yes. - That's… 181 00:08:23,754 --> 00:08:26,507 The thing is I very much don't know what that means. 182 00:08:27,925 --> 00:08:29,468 Wake the fuck up. 183 00:08:29,551 --> 00:08:31,178 - Okay. - Okay? 184 00:08:32,136 --> 00:08:33,722 Now I'll tell you what it means. 185 00:08:33,804 --> 00:08:39,770 It means that the Kool-Aid man has the soul of a Black man… 186 00:08:39,852 --> 00:08:40,797 Yes. 187 00:08:40,812 --> 00:08:42,231 …and he has the soul of a Black man 188 00:08:42,313 --> 00:08:45,859 because Ice Cube is voicing that Black man. 189 00:08:46,443 --> 00:08:48,237 So Kool-Aid is Black. 190 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,030 Kool-Aid is a Black man. 191 00:08:50,113 --> 00:08:52,407 The Kool-Aid man is… 192 00:08:54,409 --> 00:08:55,494 Black. 193 00:08:56,411 --> 00:08:59,456 - I feel that. Black man, yeah. - Yeah, that makes sense now. 194 00:09:00,082 --> 00:09:01,375 - Thank you, guys. - Thank you. 195 00:09:01,458 --> 00:09:04,002 - So, Sandra Oh is out as Mrs. Kool. - Very informative. 196 00:09:04,086 --> 00:09:06,255 - Fucking fired. Done. Gone. - Goddamn it. 197 00:09:06,338 --> 00:09:08,674 All right, I got it. Are you ready for this shit? 198 00:09:08,757 --> 00:09:10,008 Here we go. 199 00:09:10,092 --> 00:09:12,219 - Regina King as Mrs. Kool. - Okay, great. 200 00:09:12,302 --> 00:09:13,679 - I like that, yeah. - Love her. Obsessed. 201 00:09:13,762 --> 00:09:15,556 Now… Wait, we have to recast the daughter. 202 00:09:15,639 --> 00:09:17,432 - Why? - 'Cause she's half Asian. 203 00:09:17,516 --> 00:09:19,184 You want "who's the father" questions coming up? 204 00:09:19,268 --> 00:09:20,811 We might as well burn a cross at Comic-Con. 205 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:24,022 - Why did I agree to introduce this panel? - God, slow down, motherfucker. 206 00:09:24,106 --> 00:09:25,190 My hair. 207 00:09:26,024 --> 00:09:29,194 And booyah. Look at that. 208 00:09:29,736 --> 00:09:32,906 That feels good. That is progress, you know what I mean? 209 00:09:38,287 --> 00:09:39,454 What? 210 00:09:39,538 --> 00:09:46,378 I mean, is it weird that all of the live-action characters are white, 211 00:09:46,461 --> 00:09:49,798 and all of the non-white actors are CG? 212 00:09:49,882 --> 00:09:53,635 And so then, the only actual human faces we see on camera are white faces. 213 00:09:53,719 --> 00:09:55,095 - Yes, the answer's yes. - Right. 214 00:09:55,179 --> 00:09:56,972 That's obviously very fucking weird. 215 00:09:57,055 --> 00:09:58,807 We can't have a segregated cast. 216 00:09:58,891 --> 00:10:00,976 How did we not see this until right now? 217 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:03,478 I think maybe because we had Sandra Oh. 218 00:10:03,562 --> 00:10:04,855 She kind of, like, offset the whole thing. 219 00:10:04,938 --> 00:10:08,859 Okay, here's what we're gonna do, Josh Duhamel, he's fucking gone, 220 00:10:08,942 --> 00:10:11,361 and Don Cheadle, he's the new live-action dad. 221 00:10:11,445 --> 00:10:13,947 Matt, the cast we had this morning is so fine, okay? 222 00:10:14,031 --> 00:10:15,699 This is all making it a lot worse. 223 00:10:15,782 --> 00:10:18,327 Okay, we can't have Biel and Cheadle because of the white wife thing. 224 00:10:18,410 --> 00:10:20,204 - Fuck, she's right. - Because of what? 225 00:10:20,287 --> 00:10:23,165 Because if Don Cheadle is married to a whitey, 226 00:10:23,248 --> 00:10:26,168 then that could be construed as possibly problematic to Black women. 227 00:10:26,251 --> 00:10:28,295 - Do you want that? Okay. - Okay, no. 228 00:10:28,378 --> 00:10:31,215 But you're telling me that interracial marriage is now regressive? 229 00:10:31,298 --> 00:10:33,759 I've exclusively dated white men. Does that make me a racist person? 230 00:10:33,842 --> 00:10:34,968 Honestly, it might. 231 00:10:35,052 --> 00:10:36,220 Holy shit, I got it. 232 00:10:37,012 --> 00:10:38,013 Lesbians. 233 00:10:38,972 --> 00:10:43,435 Two white lesbians with a Asian child. Is that anything? 234 00:10:43,519 --> 00:10:46,021 Does their gayness mitigate their whiteness? 235 00:10:46,104 --> 00:10:48,273 Okay, I'm sorry, I love lesbians, 236 00:10:48,357 --> 00:10:51,151 but white women are the fucking worst right now. They're so toxic. 237 00:10:51,235 --> 00:10:52,778 Okay, you are a white woman. 238 00:10:52,861 --> 00:10:55,405 How dare you? My dad is from Cyprus. 239 00:10:55,489 --> 00:10:58,575 I got it. I fucking got it. 240 00:10:59,493 --> 00:11:01,078 We make them all Black, baby. 241 00:11:01,745 --> 00:11:03,747 We Black Panther this shit, you know what I mean? 242 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:04,831 That's unassailable. 243 00:11:04,915 --> 00:11:06,583 - That's doing the work, you know? - Yeah. 244 00:11:06,667 --> 00:11:07,668 - Boom. You ready for this? - Yeah. 245 00:11:07,751 --> 00:11:08,919 Watch this. Don Cheadle as the dad. 246 00:11:09,002 --> 00:11:10,671 - Keke Palmer as the mom. - Love it. 247 00:11:10,754 --> 00:11:13,507 And this will be a young Black actor TBD. 248 00:11:13,590 --> 00:11:14,675 - Okay, I can sell it. - Boom. 249 00:11:14,758 --> 00:11:16,760 Great. This actually makes it feel important almost now, you know? 250 00:11:16,844 --> 00:11:18,053 This could be like our Hamilton. 251 00:11:18,136 --> 00:11:19,680 Okay, wait, hold on. Stoller's at the production office 252 00:11:19,763 --> 00:11:21,557 with the writers right now, and they're working on a new draft 253 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,475 - so we should probably… - Okay, I'll give them the note myself. 254 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:25,477 - Right. Wow. - Maya, you come with me. 255 00:11:25,561 --> 00:11:27,896 - Okay. Coming. - Let's get these white losers off. 256 00:11:27,980 --> 00:11:29,565 - Totally. Yeah. - Bye white losers. Bye-bye. 257 00:11:29,648 --> 00:11:33,652 There's a lot of enthusiasm internally for this new version of the film. 258 00:11:33,735 --> 00:11:35,654 Yeah, we think that it's more of the moment… 259 00:11:35,737 --> 00:11:37,030 - No. More fresh. - Exactly. 260 00:11:37,114 --> 00:11:39,032 Yeah. Lots of new opportunities for comedy 261 00:11:39,116 --> 00:11:40,909 will come from the new casting, you know? 262 00:11:40,993 --> 00:11:42,911 Totally. Super-duper fresh. 263 00:11:42,995 --> 00:11:46,081 Yeah, so, Nick, as the director you think you can pull this off? 264 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:52,379 So, we're talking about an almost entirely new cast? 265 00:11:52,462 --> 00:11:53,547 - Yes. - Yeah. 266 00:11:54,464 --> 00:11:57,926 Which would require substantial rewrites. 267 00:11:58,010 --> 00:11:59,011 - Yes. - Definitely. 268 00:11:59,094 --> 00:12:01,847 - Yeah. - And we're f… 269 00:12:01,930 --> 00:12:03,974 we're five weeks out from shooting. 270 00:12:09,438 --> 00:12:10,689 I mean, yeah, we could do this. 271 00:12:10,772 --> 00:12:12,608 - Great. Perfect. Love that. - We got this. Yeah… 272 00:12:12,691 --> 00:12:13,692 You got this. Yeah. 273 00:12:13,775 --> 00:12:15,360 - What do you guys… - I mean, it's… 274 00:12:15,444 --> 00:12:18,113 - Wow. - …it's certainly an exciting new version 275 00:12:18,197 --> 00:12:19,198 of the Kool-Aid man story. 276 00:12:19,281 --> 00:12:21,116 - Yes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. - Great. 277 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:22,201 But… 278 00:12:22,284 --> 00:12:25,954 are we 100% sure we should be the writers on this movie now? 279 00:12:26,455 --> 00:12:27,456 Why not? 280 00:12:27,539 --> 00:12:28,957 - You guys have been rocking it. - Yeah. 281 00:12:29,041 --> 00:12:31,835 Because it would be way out of our wheelhouse. 282 00:12:31,919 --> 00:12:33,295 - Definitely. - It's a comedy. 283 00:12:33,378 --> 00:12:36,340 You guys are comedy writers. That is the definition of wheelhouse. 284 00:12:36,423 --> 00:12:38,050 Yeah, but… We're… 285 00:12:38,133 --> 00:12:41,553 We're talking about the live-action family and… 286 00:12:41,637 --> 00:12:43,722 You want them to be Black. 287 00:12:43,805 --> 00:12:45,349 We can't do that. 288 00:12:45,432 --> 00:12:49,228 Like, then… What, we're taking jobs from Black writers? 289 00:12:49,311 --> 00:12:51,313 - Like, we c… I mean, we couldn't. - I'd hate that. 290 00:12:51,396 --> 00:12:53,065 Okay, so can you help me understand this? 291 00:12:53,148 --> 00:12:54,149 Yeah. 292 00:12:54,233 --> 00:12:57,277 You can write then for one Black person, but… 293 00:12:57,361 --> 00:12:58,946 But now it's all Black people. 294 00:12:59,029 --> 00:13:00,781 So in an attempt to not be racist, 295 00:13:00,864 --> 00:13:03,825 you're limiting the amount of Black people you're willing to write for? 296 00:13:03,909 --> 00:13:06,411 Look, if this is the path you guys are gonna go down… 297 00:13:06,495 --> 00:13:08,539 I don't think we can work on this anymore. 298 00:13:08,622 --> 00:13:11,166 Well, this is very much 100% the path we're gonna go down. 299 00:13:11,250 --> 00:13:14,002 - We vetted it with Lil Rel. Okay? - Yeah, it's vetted. 300 00:13:14,086 --> 00:13:16,213 - We are so sorry. - We're sorry. 301 00:13:16,296 --> 00:13:17,881 - Thank you. That's it. - Wow. Thank you. 302 00:13:17,965 --> 00:13:19,591 We believe in the project, it's… It isn't easy. 303 00:13:19,675 --> 00:13:20,676 Thank you so much. 304 00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:22,803 - Thank you, we'll… See you. Yes. - Hey, best of luck on this. 305 00:13:22,886 --> 00:13:23,887 Thank you. 306 00:13:23,971 --> 00:13:26,014 - We should have lunch, guys. - We'd love that. 307 00:13:26,098 --> 00:13:27,766 That'd be great. Thank you. Thanks. 308 00:13:29,893 --> 00:13:31,895 I'll rewrite the whole thing. I don't give a shit. 309 00:13:31,979 --> 00:13:33,814 - I'll rewrite the entire thing. - Thank you. Thank you, Nick. 310 00:13:33,897 --> 00:13:35,274 - I got it. - I knew you would. Thank you, man. 311 00:13:35,357 --> 00:13:36,817 - There he is. - Thank God. 312 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:39,194 Oh, and Matt, just one quick housekeeping thing… 313 00:13:39,278 --> 00:13:40,946 - Yeah. - Just a little thing… 314 00:13:41,029 --> 00:13:42,364 - So in order to hit the dates… - Yeah. 315 00:13:42,447 --> 00:13:43,448 …on our budget, 316 00:13:43,532 --> 00:13:45,659 and given these… The substantial changes that we just… 317 00:13:45,742 --> 00:13:46,743 - Yeah. - I just received, 318 00:13:46,827 --> 00:13:48,829 - which I love and are awesome… - Great. 319 00:13:48,912 --> 00:13:54,918 I'm going to have to bring on an animation company that is primarily artificial. 320 00:13:55,961 --> 00:13:57,963 - Like, AI artificial? - Yeah, artificial… 321 00:13:58,046 --> 00:13:59,840 - Like, artificial intelligence. - Artificial intelligence? 322 00:13:59,923 --> 00:14:01,091 Can't you hire more human animators? 323 00:14:01,175 --> 00:14:03,177 - It's like two to three million dollars… - That's too much. Don't do that. 324 00:14:03,260 --> 00:14:05,179 …for each one. Yeah, but I'm talking about the eyebrow… Little things. 325 00:14:05,262 --> 00:14:06,263 - Eyebrows. - Eyebrows, eyeballs, like… 326 00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:07,598 Nobody even gives a shit about that. 327 00:14:07,681 --> 00:14:09,057 - Yeah, that's fine. - Maybe a background. 328 00:14:09,141 --> 00:14:12,561 Okay, do what you gotta do, just, you know, keep it under wraps. 329 00:14:12,644 --> 00:14:14,813 - Just on there. Okay. Yeah. - Just sprinkle it on there. Not too much. 330 00:14:14,897 --> 00:14:16,481 Yeah, I'm just worried about not looking racist, okay? 331 00:14:16,565 --> 00:14:18,066 Okay, I get it. Thank you. 332 00:14:18,150 --> 00:14:20,068 - Oh, yeah. - Thanks. Thank you. Oh, yeah! 333 00:14:20,152 --> 00:14:21,153 Oh, yeah! 334 00:14:21,236 --> 00:14:24,948 Donny C. in the house. Right there. Nailed it. 335 00:14:25,032 --> 00:14:26,491 Yeah, I think we did too. 336 00:14:26,575 --> 00:14:28,619 - I feel really good about it. - Don Cheadle's the man. 337 00:14:28,702 --> 00:14:29,870 So good. Funny too. 338 00:14:29,953 --> 00:14:31,413 I didn't know his ears were pierced. 339 00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:34,208 I mean… Now this is racist. 340 00:14:34,291 --> 00:14:36,168 - What? How is that possible? - No! 341 00:14:36,251 --> 00:14:37,586 Look at all of them. What do you mean? 342 00:14:37,669 --> 00:14:38,670 Well, it's just weird. 343 00:14:38,754 --> 00:14:41,340 Like, before we had a cast that was all over the map, racially, 344 00:14:41,423 --> 00:14:44,218 so having a Black Kool-Aid man didn't seem like anything, 345 00:14:44,301 --> 00:14:45,677 but now that they're all Black, 346 00:14:45,761 --> 00:14:50,599 kinda seems like what you're saying is that Kool-Aid is only for Black people. 347 00:14:51,975 --> 00:14:54,228 - Fuck. - Goddamn it, she's right. 348 00:14:54,311 --> 00:14:57,773 Okay, but he has to be Black because Kool-Aid has the soul of a Black man. 349 00:14:57,856 --> 00:14:58,800 What? 350 00:14:58,815 --> 00:14:59,816 You weren't there. 351 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:01,652 And his wife has got to be Black, right? 352 00:15:01,735 --> 00:15:03,320 I don't even wanna get into that whole thing, okay? 353 00:15:03,403 --> 00:15:05,322 I don't know what to do with that. 354 00:15:05,906 --> 00:15:07,991 Okay, here's what we do. 355 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:10,744 If we don't wanna be racist or seem racist, 356 00:15:10,827 --> 00:15:15,332 we just gotta make this cast reflect America's racial demographics, 357 00:15:15,415 --> 00:15:16,416 you know what I mean? 358 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,002 That way, no one can possibly accuse us 359 00:15:19,086 --> 00:15:21,797 of not being representative of America, racially, 360 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:26,385 because we will mathematically be representative of America racially. 361 00:15:26,468 --> 00:15:27,761 Let's do that. 362 00:15:32,933 --> 00:15:34,601 Okay. This is what I'm… 363 00:15:34,685 --> 00:15:36,603 - Okay, this is what I'm seeing. - Okay. 364 00:15:36,687 --> 00:15:39,356 Seventy-five percent of America is all white. 365 00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:42,734 Sixty percent white if we exclude Hispanics. 366 00:15:42,818 --> 00:15:45,904 So, that would be 3.6 white people needed for this cast. 367 00:15:45,988 --> 00:15:48,949 Oh, no, remember we round down for whites, that's three. 368 00:15:49,032 --> 00:15:51,118 Wait, we're lumping Hispanics in with white people now? 369 00:15:51,201 --> 00:15:52,828 - What the fuck is that all about? - I… 370 00:15:52,911 --> 00:15:56,248 Sometimes. When they're not, they're 25% of the population. 371 00:15:56,331 --> 00:15:59,501 Black people are 13%, Asians 6%, and the rest don't matter. 372 00:15:59,585 --> 00:16:02,254 I mean, obvi, they matter, of course. All lives matter. 373 00:16:02,337 --> 00:16:03,463 - All lives matter? - God. 374 00:16:03,547 --> 00:16:05,174 All right, okay, so according to this math, 375 00:16:05,257 --> 00:16:07,885 we need 0.36 an Asian person to round this out. 376 00:16:07,968 --> 00:16:10,345 What the fuck is 0.36 of an Asian person… 377 00:16:10,429 --> 00:16:12,681 Okay, round up half an Asian, Quinn. Fuck. 378 00:16:12,764 --> 00:16:16,685 - Oh, my God. - Israel is technically a part of Asia. 379 00:16:16,768 --> 00:16:18,061 I would just like to say that, okay? 380 00:16:18,145 --> 00:16:22,065 Holy fuck, Matt! No! We are not going there. 381 00:16:22,149 --> 00:16:25,485 Going where? Jews are a race. It's not my fault the Jews are a race. 382 00:16:25,569 --> 00:16:26,737 - All right, here we go again. - What? 383 00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:29,865 It's not… We are a race of people and a religion. 384 00:16:29,948 --> 00:16:32,409 It's complicated. Do we need Jewish representation in the film? 385 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:35,078 - Should we cast Josh Gad? - No. Guys, listen, everybody focus. 386 00:16:35,162 --> 00:16:38,749 We just need one real half Asian. No Jews. 387 00:16:38,832 --> 00:16:41,043 Okay. How about a Hispanic? How about a Hispanic person? 388 00:16:41,126 --> 00:16:43,504 - Yeah. Anya Taylor-Joy. She's great. - She's fucking whiter than me. 389 00:16:43,587 --> 00:16:45,130 No, she's Argentinean. She's full Argentinean. 390 00:16:45,214 --> 00:16:46,590 - She is? - Oh, fuck! A white Hispanic! 391 00:16:46,673 --> 00:16:48,258 Two birds with one stone. Anya Taylor-Joy. 392 00:16:48,342 --> 00:16:50,177 - No! That's like half of a bird. - Anya Taylor-Joy. 393 00:16:50,260 --> 00:16:51,261 - No stone. - Okay. 394 00:16:51,345 --> 00:16:54,556 Fucking how are any of these better than a couple of lesbians? 395 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,808 Because gay has too many moving parts. 396 00:16:56,892 --> 00:16:58,852 Yeah, gay is way too complicated. Just stick to race, okay? 397 00:16:58,936 --> 00:17:00,562 - Thank you. - Make it simple. 398 00:17:00,646 --> 00:17:02,314 - Here we go. Gay child. - Everybody can switch… 399 00:17:02,397 --> 00:17:03,398 No! 400 00:17:03,482 --> 00:17:05,733 Stop! Guys, stop. 401 00:17:06,527 --> 00:17:08,779 This is an insane conversation for us to be having. 402 00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:12,199 We should not be saying any of this shit. All right? 403 00:17:12,782 --> 00:17:14,159 This all started this morning 404 00:17:14,242 --> 00:17:16,828 'cause we had concerns that it was perhaps racially insensitive 405 00:17:16,912 --> 00:17:18,872 for Ice Cube to portray the Kool-Aid Man. 406 00:17:18,955 --> 00:17:21,791 There is one person who could tell us if that's the case, 407 00:17:22,416 --> 00:17:23,794 and I'm gonna go talk to him. 408 00:17:41,812 --> 00:17:45,566 Excuse me? I'm looking for Mr. Ice Cube? Mr. Ice? Mr. Cube? 409 00:17:45,649 --> 00:17:47,943 It's just Cube, man. He's in the booth. 410 00:17:48,026 --> 00:17:49,987 Great. Thank you. Appreciate that. 411 00:17:56,660 --> 00:17:57,661 Cube. 412 00:17:58,370 --> 00:18:00,163 - What up, Matt? - How's it going? 413 00:18:00,247 --> 00:18:01,248 All good. What's happening, man? 414 00:18:01,331 --> 00:18:04,376 Not too much. Am I interrupting the flow or anything? 415 00:18:04,459 --> 00:18:07,171 Nah, we just taking a break. Checking out the game. 416 00:18:07,254 --> 00:18:09,590 Great. Cool, yeah. Sports. The best. 417 00:18:09,673 --> 00:18:12,426 So, what's up? How's everything going with Kool-Aid? 418 00:18:13,260 --> 00:18:16,054 So well, actually. Really great. 419 00:18:16,138 --> 00:18:20,142 We just, we had one small concern. 420 00:18:20,934 --> 00:18:22,436 Concern? 421 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:27,107 Concern's not even the right word. It's more of a question. 422 00:18:27,191 --> 00:18:30,194 A question that I think only you can answer. 423 00:18:32,029 --> 00:18:33,322 Okay. 424 00:18:33,405 --> 00:18:36,241 Okay. So, there's been some… 425 00:18:37,034 --> 00:18:40,162 discussion around the office that perhaps… 426 00:18:40,245 --> 00:18:41,413 Why are you whispering? 427 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,041 No reason. 428 00:18:44,875 --> 00:18:47,920 There's been some discussion around the office 429 00:18:48,003 --> 00:18:51,173 that perhaps the Kool-Aid Man being portrayed 430 00:18:51,256 --> 00:18:53,717 by a certain person, 431 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:59,515 who is a certain member of a certain African American community… 432 00:18:59,598 --> 00:19:01,642 - Just say Black. - Great, I will. 433 00:19:02,434 --> 00:19:06,104 Black person, a part of the Black community… 434 00:19:07,481 --> 00:19:09,942 The concern is that maybe you playing the Kool-Aid Man 435 00:19:10,025 --> 00:19:12,861 might be viewed as offensive because it plays into racist tropes. 436 00:19:14,238 --> 00:19:15,239 Are you serious? 437 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,866 I knew when you came in here whispering 438 00:19:17,950 --> 00:19:19,785 you was gonna be on some passive-aggressive bullshit. 439 00:19:19,868 --> 00:19:21,912 - No, it's not passive-aggressive. I… - You trying to fire me? 440 00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:22,996 No! 441 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:24,831 You think a white dude could play Kool-Aid Man better than me? 442 00:19:24,915 --> 00:19:28,126 Not unless you feel that way. No. 443 00:19:28,210 --> 00:19:29,628 Well, then why you trippin'? 444 00:19:30,671 --> 00:19:32,172 Is it 'cause I got first-dollar gross? 445 00:19:32,256 --> 00:19:34,758 Hey, Matt! Don't be a cheap motherfucker, man. 446 00:19:34,842 --> 00:19:36,635 No. This has nothing to do with the money, honestly. 447 00:19:36,718 --> 00:19:38,470 This is purely about the racist thing. 448 00:19:40,806 --> 00:19:42,808 So there's people that's concerned, for real? 449 00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:45,018 That a Black man is playing Kool-Aid? 450 00:19:45,102 --> 00:19:47,020 It has come up as a concern, yes. 451 00:19:50,148 --> 00:19:51,817 Now that shit's offensive. 452 00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:53,443 See? Why is that offensive? 453 00:19:53,527 --> 00:19:55,821 The whole thing is we're trying not to be offensive. 454 00:19:56,321 --> 00:19:59,575 It's offensive because some asshole studio exec 455 00:19:59,658 --> 00:20:04,538 think that I'm not sophisticated enough to understand that playing Kool-Aid 456 00:20:04,621 --> 00:20:08,834 could possibly be a trope and people could see it as a stereotype. 457 00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:10,335 For the record, I do not think that. 458 00:20:10,419 --> 00:20:13,922 But yes, some stupid studio executives have brought that up. 459 00:20:14,548 --> 00:20:16,466 Well, tell that motherfucker this, all right? 460 00:20:17,009 --> 00:20:18,969 - The Kool-Aid Man is Black. - Okay. 461 00:20:19,052 --> 00:20:21,847 - He ain't white. He ain't no Mexican. - Right. 462 00:20:21,930 --> 00:20:25,392 He Black. I'm the motherfucking Kool-Aid Man. All right? 463 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:27,853 - Yes. - And if you get anybody else to play him, 464 00:20:27,936 --> 00:20:30,898 now that shit's offensive. And they're gonna be coming for your neck. 465 00:20:31,565 --> 00:20:35,319 That is not gonna happen 'cause you're the motherfucking Kool-Aid Man. 466 00:20:35,402 --> 00:20:36,612 That's right. 467 00:20:36,695 --> 00:20:38,155 - Love it. We're on the same page. - Hey. 468 00:20:38,238 --> 00:20:39,781 - Thank you. - That's why you're my nigga, Matt. 469 00:20:39,865 --> 00:20:41,366 And you're mine. Yes. 470 00:20:41,450 --> 00:20:43,243 Hey. Don't come down here with no bullshit like that anymore. 471 00:20:43,327 --> 00:20:44,745 - Never will again. - All right. 472 00:20:44,828 --> 00:20:47,497 So glad we worked this out. I'll see you in Anaheim. 473 00:20:47,581 --> 00:20:49,249 - See you in Anaheim. - We're so psyched. 474 00:20:49,333 --> 00:20:50,792 - Yay, yay. - Yay, yay. 475 00:20:54,505 --> 00:20:55,714 Thank you. 476 00:20:55,797 --> 00:20:58,175 Thank you. Hello, Anaheim Comic-Con. 477 00:20:59,343 --> 00:21:01,512 Thank you for this warm welcome. 478 00:21:01,595 --> 00:21:03,847 Well, Hollywood is abuzz with one question. 479 00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:08,685 Who is the star of Kool-Aid: The Movie? Well, here with an exciting announcement 480 00:21:08,769 --> 00:21:12,105 is the head of Continental Studios, Matt Remick. 481 00:21:14,650 --> 00:21:15,817 Thank you, Nick. 482 00:21:15,901 --> 00:21:17,236 Thank you, everybody. 483 00:21:18,028 --> 00:21:23,367 I am thrilled and honored to announce that the Kool-Aid Man will be voiced 484 00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:29,831 by none other than the incomparable Ice Cube! 485 00:21:29,915 --> 00:21:32,709 Oh, yeah, baby! 486 00:21:34,753 --> 00:21:38,006 - Thank you. - Yeah! 487 00:21:38,090 --> 00:21:39,383 Oh, yay, yay! 488 00:21:39,466 --> 00:21:40,467 Yay, yay. 489 00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:43,679 And we have time to answer a few questions from the audience, 490 00:21:43,762 --> 00:21:45,722 if anyone has anything they'd like to ask? 491 00:21:45,806 --> 00:21:46,890 I have a question. 492 00:21:46,974 --> 00:21:48,600 Yes. The Homelander there. 493 00:21:49,309 --> 00:21:55,107 I just saw on Reddit that you're using AI to replace human animators. Is that true? 494 00:21:59,069 --> 00:22:00,070 Well, is it? 495 00:22:02,072 --> 00:22:04,783 I actually think our director, Nick Stoller, can speak to that. 496 00:22:04,867 --> 00:22:06,451 Nick, why don't you come back out here? 497 00:22:06,535 --> 00:22:07,536 Come down, Nick. 498 00:22:07,619 --> 00:22:09,538 - Hey! - Fuck you, Stoller. 499 00:22:09,621 --> 00:22:10,622 Fucking hack. 500 00:22:11,331 --> 00:22:12,875 Uh-huh. I'd rather talk about our amazing cast. 501 00:22:12,958 --> 00:22:15,294 As an animator, this is pure evil. 502 00:22:15,794 --> 00:22:18,088 Do you have any questions for Ice Cube you'd like to ask? 503 00:22:18,172 --> 00:22:22,050 You're taking jobs away from artists, real human artists. 504 00:22:22,134 --> 00:22:24,636 You are everything that's wrong with Hollywood. 505 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,971 Yeah! 506 00:22:27,973 --> 00:22:31,894 - Yeah, man. She right. AI is bullshit. - Yeah! 507 00:22:31,977 --> 00:22:36,982 Fuck AI! Fuck AI! Fuck AI! 508 00:22:38,692 --> 00:22:40,569 Fuck AI! Fuck AI! Fuck AI! 509 00:22:40,652 --> 00:22:44,948 Bullshit. Can't believe y'all got me part of this bullshit. 510 00:22:45,782 --> 00:22:47,951 - Crushed it. - Don't touch me, motherfucker. 511 00:22:48,869 --> 00:22:50,787 Thank God they didn't mention race. 512 00:22:50,871 --> 00:22:52,623 No shit. We dodged them bullets.