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Oh my gosh. Jordan, your house IS SO FRIENDLY. THESE ARE THE BEST, smartest people money can buy. I will tell you. Did you Did Could you feel them watching that clip? Just like Yeah. Was everyone gripping their their own drive like steering wheel? Yes. Every Everybody's holding. Everybody's like, "Oh, what am I going to do?" Are you just Are you addicted to playing characters who have to get out of stressful situations? Oh, yeah. It's a It's an issue. It is. You just want to be in a place of tension and uncertainty at all times. That's right. It's right. It's It's my therapist's whole idea of healing, I guess.
Let me tell you, as long as you can work in Hollywood and use that as therapy, you are doing something right. Congratulations. Thank you. Yes. Congrat- Yes. Now, I'm so excited for people to see the show, and I brought you this gift. Um It didn't used to have my face on it, but now it does. I put this IN HERE. WHAT? YOU YOUR FACE IS ON A BOOK. I KNOW. a And I didn't write it. WRITE IT? NO. HARLAN COBEN WROTE IT. DO we have fans here?
Yeah. Yeah, you're part of the Har- Harlan Coben uh you're part of the HCU now. You're in his universe. Yeah. like a whole genre. It's like science fiction, western, and Harlan Coben. Are you ready for the Harlan Coben super fans? Are you ready? Yeah. They're going to come. This is great. I like that you're like, "There's a new Netflix series. Do you want to read the book first?" How much time do you think I have, Brit? For God's sake. You must have a lot. so much free time. Let me tell you. I It is great. I binged it this past week.
Oh, thank you. It's fan- Well, for the people who haven't seen it, uh I don't want to give away any spoilers. No, we can't. What's happening with I will find you? Okay. So, it's about a journalist played by me. Congratulations. Thank you. You were my inspiration. It really shows. It shines. I'm screaming. Yeah, you can see it. Okay, good. I'm glad you saw that. And then Sam Worthington plays a fugitive. And we're both on a journey to find his son. I will find you. It's a very clear action, find. And we're doing it.
How do you get into to character with the journalist? Are you doing journalistic research or you're just watching The Daily Show to try to figure out how I pretend how to do it? Like I said, it's just watching you every day. me. Thank you. Yes. Great acting. This is why you get Emmys. They give you Emmys because of this sort of research. Yes. god. Yes. Well, I do feel like journalism and acting, they're sort of spiritual cousins. There's a shared DNA, right? Your job and our job is to really deeply listen and to find the humanity in people's stories. And that's what I
really connected to about this character. She's um she's she's kind of like an old soul. Um I worked with the prop department to pack her bag that she has with her. And inside was a 35-mm camera, a handheld recorder, a notebook. She's just a really like hands-on, like tactile, boots-on-the-ground kind of reporter. And uh yeah. And mostly it was just inspired by you. Yes, THANK YOU. YES. WELL, I KNOW YOU DID that with Severance as well, correct? You kept sort of a journal of some of the paintings that your character would make. Like you seem to take your artistic interests and hobbies and use them to sort of
flesh out these characters. Is it fair to say that you're a painter? You play ukulele from my understanding. Sometimes. And sort of mediocre, but That's I think is it all ukulele sort of mediocre? OH, BIRD. CAREFUL. Ukulele players come at him. Those ukulele have like one sad strum that still sounds kind of happy like oh I do feel like if you're holding a ukulele like you can't really be that sad. No, I was going to say you're finding some joy, right? Yes. You can't also be that artistically inclined. IT'S LIKE GET A OH, BIRD.
UKULELE PLAYERS COME AT HIM. TAKE THAT. You better watch out. You're right. I need to back up here. But you have I think what I find most compelling about sort of your journey as well is your interest outside of this. I know like you get in you have you've done circus. You stepped away from Severance and did circus. You have many other hobbies. Do you see your told them I was like just can you guys take a break for a second? I'm going to go do the circus. I got a tightrope. I need to walk. to finish the season. And I'm like no. Yeah, we did we blame you for the fact that there isn't a season 3 yet, right?
Is that Aw. No, that's You know Good things take time. They do. You're right. You know? just you can't just it out. It's a oh. Okay, well, that's a totally other story. I don't totally different. I don't know. No, but I'm I'm curious as somebody who is an artist in many senses of it all. Do you view as the other things that you do in service of your acting projects or do you see them as something that live outside of that? Such a great question. You're such a great journalist. This is WHY. OH. YOU'RE AND YOU'RE SO PERCEPTIVE. THANK YOU. YES.
I mean, I think anything you do in life is going to filter into the art that you make. Um and yeah. Well, you also do improv. I do. I started out in improv and we were trying to remember how we know each other and we have no idea but we sort of met in Chicago in the improv scene. Um, I think there's something about listening there's something about being present with another person Very much so. Um, and like stepping out into the total mystery of like I have no idea what's going to happen and I have to have my scene partner's back.
Yeah, there's there's a beauty in that. It's it's giving over to that moment. There's also like an acceptance of failure. I know you still do improv. Yes. But you are you implying that I'm failing at improv? I guess what I'm saying there's an element of what is fun about improv is that it doesn't work Yes. 90% of the time. Totally. Whereas in acting you get another take, right? It's like the one time in life when you get to like a second chance at a moment and that's what's so like exciting about it. You're like, I'm going to try to get this more
real every time. But in improv it's one and done. You are right. You're failing and it's over. Is that harder now because people know you? They have expectations of you. Like when you What is your relationship with to an audience now doing an improv show? Oh, it's it's a delight. I mean, it's kind of like an emotional thrill, I guess. Stepping out and just I improvise with my college friends from Chicago and so yeah, we just have such a good time and there's you're on the edge of the mystery. Ooh, the edge of the mystery.
Are you able to utilize that in doing something like this? I mean, I will find you is it's it's you find the funny in the comedy that is there but it is a taut thriller. It is moving, it is plotted really well, it's it's nothing but cliffhangers. Like how do you find those moments of levity and those moments of improv in something that is plotted like this? Well, Sam and I had a great time on set. A fun fact is that he and I have the same birthday. I know. And when that And you can see that on screen. You really can.
It's It's the It's purely the reason why we got cast. If you have an August 2nd birthday, you're going to be in our show. This is what I've been saying. What I've been bugging my agents and managers about why I'm not getting this role. They're like, "You were born on the wrong day, man. I'm sorry. That March 9th is no good." Okay, wait. But have you ever heard of the birthday paradox? No, I have not. Okay, this is crazy. So here's the deal. I go to the MAGA universe and I get flat Earth, I get algae deep state, and now you're giving me birthday paradox?
Rizz. Okay, wait. So it actually has All right. What do we got? Okay, It's actually like not even a paradox. It's just math. So don't be so scared. Okay, thank you. All right. Still a little frightened. So if two people are in the room together, there's a one in 365 chance that they have the same birthday, right? Right. But if there's 23 people in the room, there's a 50/50 chance. Like who else here was born on August 2nd? Is that right? Tyler was. IS THAT RIGHT?
ANYWAY, IT'S JUST MATH. Look at that. I think it's like 73 In a room of 73 people, it's like 99% chance you'll like that two people will have the same birthday. And look at this. We did. You're on the show. I will happily act as your agent. you, STARRING YOU AND ME IN WELL, BRITT, I WILL FIND you is fantastic. Also, Britt, you won an Emmy for Severance. Well deserved. I will say you need to tell that slacker Ben Stiller to stop watching basketball games and get working on season 3. We need that to happen, right?
Yeah, we're doing it. I mean Yes. Incredible work. Thank you so much and congratulations most of all for being on a book. Okay? YOU'RE ON A BOOK. SHE DID IT. I WILL FIND YOU. IS THAT BOOK COMING TO NETFLIX ALSO AIRING ON NETFLIX JUNE 18TH? Fred Armisen.
