But within the insanity, it was super important to have the lightness and the levity there.
What made you originally want to sign on?
JASON SUDEIKIS:I mean, for me, itwasthe script.
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But it was the story.
And then Ive read scripts that Ive put down because Ive been like, bawling my eyes out.
I genuinely got to the end of the script and was like, What a rollercoaster.
Its something shes dreamed of since she was a little girl.
Did you two have some kind of crazy dream when you were kids that you wanted to make happen?
WILLIAMS:I dont know.
I have very visual dreams.
But it was like not just the size of a normal whale.
It was like HUGE.
SUDEIKIS: And you were smaller than you are now?
But it was just so incredible and so visual, and that would be sick if that ever happened.
I actually do really want to go snorkeling with whales, so that could happen.
SUDEIKIS:You should!
WILLIAMS:That would make my dream come true.
SUDEIKIS: I would say that yours is pretty philosophical.
And its probably one that a lot of people would emphasize with.
I think I wanted to be a detective when I was a kid.
Because like Encyclopedia Brown and Sherlock Holmes, I always loved those.
So that was like my dream.
I sawThe Color of Money, I wanted to shoot pool.
I get to try on these, quote-unquote, different hats.
WILLIAMS: And you always end up meeting the kookiest people, and this is like their life.
Like I met the world champion at longbow archery.
When would you ever get to meet that guy?
And thats all onGame of Thrones.
You end up meeting the craziest people and faking being them for a bit.
Youre kind of collecting skill sets.
Little merit badges, like Boy Scouts.
WILLIAMS:Like a Brownie!
I want to check that I have [only] the most important things.
I stopped doing that in season 3 or something.
Every single little piece, up until like season 3.
All the costume girls were like, Oh, weirdo.
But I look back at that, and I can remember every costume and everything.
Its like a form of memories, I guess.
I think maybe in a previous life I was like a sparrow or something, just collecting things.
SUDEIKIS:Twine, making a nest out of it.
WILLIAMS:But yeah, thats really significant, I guess.
And it meant so much to me.
SUDEIKIS:With the smallest details of it, discarded.
WILLIAMS:Right, these tiny little bits of waste that meant nothing now mean so much to me.
And so we created this group called Der Monkenpickle.
WILLIAMS:Did you combine your names?
SUDEIKIS:It was like a whole afternoon of fighting, like, what are the two funniest words?
It was monkey and pickle.
Well, then how do we put em together?
And then well make it German.
And I dont think anybody really noticed, but I wore it on my finalSNLat goodnights.
I still have that T-shirt, and it was purposeful.
So much of this story focuses the actual construction of this raft that Millie is trying to build.
How much of the construction did you guys do?
Are you handy people?
SUDEIKIS:[singing]Movie magic!
Im not that handy.
My father wasnt a handyman.
He grew up in Chicago with a superintendent, and Ive passed that on probably to my son.
Make friends with someone who knows how to do that stuff!
SUDEIKIS:It was just great, that attention to detail.
Im much better at destroying things.
That, I can do.
Thats more my speed.
