Molly Gordon Talks Working with Connor Storrie for Peaked, Compares Sheep Detectives to Star Wars

0:01 -I want to get into "The Sheep Detectives." I cannot wait for this.

0:03 But first, I want to talk to you about this movie that you're

0:05 working on called "Peaked" that the Internet

0:07 is kind of freaking out over already.

0:09 Congrats on this.

0:10 -Thank you.

0:11 -The premise behind this is a high-school reunion?

0:14 -Yes, I wrote it with my high-school best friend who works on "SNL." -Yeah.

0:19 -She's writing probably right now in this room— Not in this room.

0:22 In this building.

0:22 -In this building.

0:24 -She's writing in the corner in this room.

0:25 Um, but it's— Yeah, it's about two women

0:28 that are not invited to their high-school reunion.

0:30 Um, and hilarity ensues, hopefully.

0:33 But, you know, we wrapped three weeks ago, so I've been in the edit.

0:36 I have 15 minutes of a movie.

0:37 -Okay.

0:38 That's not bad.

0:38 -I think that's all you need.

0:40 -That's all you really need.

0:41 Oh, yeah.

0:41 -These days, people are their phone, right?

0:43 -Oh, 15 minutes is long for a movie.

0:45 -Exactly.

0:45 -Absolutely.

0:46 But it is a great cast.

0:48 -I feel so lucky.

0:49 I have Laura Dern.

0:50 -Yeah.

0:50 I love Laura Dern.

0:52 -Connor Storrie.

0:53 -Come on.

0:53 Connor.

0:54 Oh, come on.

0:55 -Come on.

0:55 -By the way, all the "Heated Rivalry" fans are going nuts for this.

0:58 They're like, "Let's go!

0:59 We want more!" -I feel so lucky that he's in the movie.

1:02 He's also just such a lovely person.

1:03 And then, of course, we have my father.

1:05 -Yes!

1:06 -Yes.

1:07 -Yes.

1:08 That's— That's gonna sell the tickets.

1:11 -Yeah, my father plays an orthodontist in the film.

1:14 He was our most difficult actor by far.

1:17 Uh, he— -Why did you cast your dad?

1:20 -Why?

1:20 -Just— Besides loving him.

1:21 -Um, I, you know— I've always, like Scorsese,

1:25 wanted to put my, like, you know— The greatest director of all time.

1:28 I wanted to put my parents— My mom is also in the film.

1:31 -Yeah.

1:31 I love when it's moms.

1:33 Yeah.

1:34 Happy Mother's Day.

1:35 Come on.

1:36 -Happy Mother's Day.

1:37 But my dad took it very seriously.

1:39 He was in character for about three weeks before.

1:42 He kept ask— -Orthodontist?

1:43 -Orthodontist.

1:43 He kept asking if there was going to be a technician on set that he could ask.

1:47 He was going up to random extras,

1:49 asking if they were orthodontists, if they could help him.

1:52 -Oh, my Lord.

1:53 -He had one line.

1:54 He kept— He was processing.

1:56 He wanted many different takes, you know,

1:58 to figure out exactly what was the beginning and the end of the scene,

2:01 but he was incredible.

2:02 He's going to be amazing in the film.

2:03 -Oh, my God.

2:04 Yeah, of course, he'll be fantastic in this.

2:05 I was asking you backstage.

2:08 Acting.

2:08 You get the bug.

2:10 That was your first love.

2:11 And you're like, "Yeah, but also a little music." -Yes.

2:13 -You went to, like, a theater camp?

2:15 -I went to rock camp, actually.

2:17 -Excuse me.

2:18 -So I loved that jam session that you were just having.

2:20 -Wow.

2:21 -I would have loved to get— I don't play harmonica,

2:22 but I would love to get in there with, like, a cowbell or something.

2:26 -Yes, yes.

2:27 We can make sure that exists.

2:29 -Thank you.

2:29 -What kind of bands were you in in rock camp?

2:33 --I had a jazz band called, um, Deep Blue.

2:36 -Hold your applause.

2:37 Hold your applause.

2:38 Hold your applause for Deep Blue.

2:40 -Yeah.

2:40 -Yeah, we actually have a— I think this is, like,

2:42 a photo session or an album cover of Deep Blue, jazz.

2:45 -Um...

2:48 Cheers and applause] Thank you.

2:50 -Were you, uh— -It was, like, a fedora— It was a fedora phase.

2:54 -Oh, yeah.

2:55 -And there was— There's something about a woman in a fedora.

2:58 And you've always said this.

2:59 -I've always said this.

3:00 Yeah.

3:00 I have a lower-back tattoo that says that, yeah.

3:03 I wanted to give a little taste of your band.

3:06 I don't know if you know,

3:08 but we got an MP3 of what you recorded on, I think, GarageBand.

3:12 And it was just you?

3:12 -Yeah, this was just me.

3:13 This was, like, in the height of GarageBand.

3:16 Kind of me alone flowing.

3:18 Yeah.

3:18 -How old do you think you were?

3:20 -I'm 11.

3:21 -Okay.

3:21 11-year-old.

3:22 And this song is called "Julie." And it's very— it's very deep, by the way.

3:25 -Yeah.

3:26 -I love it, actually.

3:27 I love it.

3:27 But let's listen to "Julie." Here we go.

3:29 Molly Gordon.

3:31 La, la, la-la, la♪♪ Hey-ey♪[ Metronome clicking]♪

3:39 You walk♪ The metronome is on, obviously.

3:43 -Can barely hear it.

3:44 I hear the art.

3:48 Scatting] -Bongo.

3:53 -Bye-bye, Julie.

3:54 -Hm.

3:56 Bye— Bye-bye, Julie.

3:58 -Yeah.

3:59 Cheers and applause] You ended with...

4:02 -Bye-bye, Julie.

4:03 -Bye-bye, Julie.

4:05 -Bye-bye, Julie.

4:05 -You're almost Southern.

4:06 Maybe.

4:06 Almost.

4:07 A little hint of Southern accent?

4:08 -There's a Southern twang.

4:09 -Yeah.

4:09 Bye-bye, Julie.

4:10 -Bye-bye, Julie.

4:11 -Now, who is Julie?

4:12 -I do not know.

4:14 -Just in general.

4:15 You were saying goodbye to...

4:17 -I'm saying goodbye to someone.

4:18 It's clearly an ex-lover.

4:20 I'm processing something sexually.

4:22 -Wow.

4:22 -I don't know.

4:23 Something's going on.

4:25 That's a shortened version of the song.

4:26 You know, for the right money, I'd be willing to release the full track.

4:29 But let's see.

4:30 -The right money.

4:31 -Yeah.

4:32 -Bye-bye, Julie.

4:33 Uh, you could maybe even put "Bah-bah,

4:36 Julie" in "The Sheep Detectives" soundtrack!

4:38 -Brilliant!

4:39 -Bah-bah, Julie!

4:40 Yes!

4:40 Come on.

4:41 -Yeah!

4:42 -Sequel!

4:42 You gotta call me.

4:44 For the right amount of money, I can make that happen.

4:46 -For the right amount of money, we'll do anything, yeah.

4:47 -Let's talk about "The Sheep Detectives." I think this is the cutest,

4:50 coolest, most interesting movie out this weekend.

4:53 I'm so excited to take my kids to go see it.

4:55 But your actors are mostly sheep in this film.

5:00 And you were telling me backstage that it's all movie magic.

5:04 -Yes.

5:04 I did the film to work with animals.

5:06 Um, and that was not my experience.

5:09 -These are cardboard.

5:10 These are cardboard sheep.

5:11 -Cardboard cutouts.

5:13 Yes, I was kind of going through a breakup and didn't know if I wanted to work.

5:18 My parents were like, "Go, Molly.

5:19 You'll work with animals.

5:20 They'll heal you." It was me on a mountain alone with stuffed sheep,

5:25 um, kind of really processing a lot.

5:28 It was a dark time, but I found the love of my life, Emma Thompson.

5:33 -Oh, wow.

5:33 Okay.

5:34 That's my love of my life, too.

5:36 -Yeah.

5:37 Um, and...

5:37 -I love Emma Thompson.

5:38 Who doesn't love Emma?

5:39 Are you joking?

5:40 -So she is my set crush.

5:42 -Yeah.

5:43 She's everyone's crush.

5:44 -She met me, and she was like, "You are a sad woman.

5:47 You will come to my house.

5:48 -Yes.

5:48 -I will cook you a roast." And she introduced me to her amazing family.

5:52 And she is just, like, an incredible, kind, like, brilliant woman.

5:58 And I'm in love with her.

5:59 And I dressed up for her every day.

6:00 Like, she's the hottest person I know.

6:02 So I'm so glad that I did this.

6:04 -I love her, too.

6:05 -Yeah.

6:05 -I love Emma Thompson.

6:08 The coolest.

6:08 -The coolest.

6:09 -Um, how do we set it up?

6:12 Hugh Jackman's in it, as well, who we also love.

6:14 How do we set up "The Sheep Detectives"?

6:16 -Well, it's— You can only say so much.

6:19 It's really shrouded in secrecy.

6:21 It's— -No, now is the time to let the secret out of the bahhhg.

6:25 -I don't know.

6:26 -The bahhhg.

6:27 -The bahhhg.

6:27 -Oh, my gosh.

6:28 Write these down.

6:29 Write these down.

6:30 For your press.

6:31 You have to take...

6:32 "The sheep's out of the bahhhg." -Yeah.

6:34 The puns are endless.

6:35 -Yeah.

6:35 -I think it's kind of the "Star Wars" of the sheep universe.

6:38 -Yes.

6:38 That's what people are saying.

6:40 -Yeah, but it's a whodunit.

6:41 It's kind of— Yeah.

6:42 -Hugh Jackman's a...

6:44 -Hugh Jackman is a shepherd.

6:45 -Yes.

6:46 -And he gets murdered.

6:48 -But he reads mysteries to his sheep.

6:50 -To his sheep, and they go— We're, like, begging them in the audience.

6:52 We're like, "They go to solve the murder!

6:55 The sheep!" -The sheep do it!

6:56 -The sheep do it!

6:57 And...

6:57 Cheers and applause] -Are you kidding me?

6:59 -It's so, um— Craig Mazin wrote it.

7:02 -Yes.

7:03 -He wrote "The Last of Us." Wake up!

7:05 -Come on, folks!

7:06 -He wrote "Chernobyl." -Come on, folks!

7:08 -Come on!

7:09 And he wrote this beautiful kind of meditation on grief.

7:12 And Julia Louis-Dreyfus, another queen, plays the lead sheep.

7:17 -Seriously.

7:18 How fun!

7:19 -Bryan Cranston plays Sebastian the Ram.

7:21 He absolutely bodies the role.

7:23 He should win an Oscar.

7:24 -He should win an Oscar.

7:26 -Yeah.

7:26 -So you're doing "The Bear," right?

7:27 And then as you're doing "The Bear," your co-stars go off.

7:29 They start doing these big movies, right?

7:31 -Well, I got "Sheep Detectives" when I was on the set

7:35 of "The Bear," and everyone was like, "You should do it.

7:36 You got to do 'Sheep Detectives.'" And then, you know,

7:39 Ayo did, uh, Luca's movie and Jeremy did Bruce Springsteen,

7:44 and then we've all been waiting

7:45 for "The Sheep Detectives." -Yeah, this is the one.

7:47 -It's been...

7:47 And so it's exciting, you know, for it to finally be out in the world.

7:50 -This is the one!

7:51 Here we go!

7:52 -Yeah.

7:52 -Let's show a clip.

7:54 Here's Molly Gordon in "The Sheep Detectives." Take a look!

7:58 -You were already in this country last night when George was murdered.

8:04 I'm not accusing you or anything, but that's— Is that right?

8:07 -That's so smart, Detective.

8:09 -No, I'm— I'm not a detective.

8:12 I'm just an officer who...

8:15 is always detecting.

8:17 -Well, I, uh—[ Chuckles] I, uh— I was in this country,

8:22 but I— I've never been to Denbrook until today.

8:25 -Ahem.

8:26 Follow-up question.

8:27 Do you have a boyfriend?

8:30 -Ugh!

8:31 Groans] -This is hard to watch.

8:33 -What?

8:33 That's a standard question any investigator would ask in this situation.

8:38 -Uh, so funny you asked that.

8:40 We just, uh— We just broke up.

8:42 -Oh, no.

8:44 -Come on.

8:45 That's how you do it right there.

8:46 Molly Gordon, everybody!

8:47 "The Sheet Detectives" is in theaters tomorrow.

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