Is "A Quiet Place" A Christmas Movie? John Krasinski Says Yes
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
0:01 Hey everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:04 My guest tonight is a talented actor, writer, and director.
0:07 Please welcome back to the Late Show, Mr.
0:09 John Krinski.
0:38 John Krosinski.
0:41 Thank you so much.
0:43 John Kazinski, everybody.
0:47 My next guest.
0:48 Let's do one.
0:50 There you go.
0:51 Thank you.
0:52 Oh.
0:55 Oh,
0:57 Dr.
0:57 Krosinski, it's wonderful to see you again.
1:00 Thank you for letting me be your final guest ever.
1:04 Yes.
1:04 When they called me, I I genuinely got moved.
1:06 I got emotional.
1:07 I cried and I said, "Really?
1:08 He wants me to be the final guest?"
1:12 Yeah.
1:11 And I'm just so proud to be here for that occasion.
1:15 Yeah.
1:16 Uh I have
1:18 Fire away.
1:18 I have uh
1:20 I have something I need to talk to you about after the show.
1:22 Great.
1:25 Okay.
1:24 Okay.
1:25 After playing Jack Ryan longer than anybody,
1:27 you hung it up three years ago and you know how much I loved your Jack Ryan.
1:31 Yeah.
1:31 You're very nice.
1:31 A very Okay.
1:32 So, now you're back though.
1:33 Yeah.
1:34 For the new film Jack Ryan Ghost War.
1:37 Yes.
1:37 Uh what's it about?
1:38 What's it about?
1:39 What's it about?
1:40 Um there any ghosts in this one?
1:41 Is like a crossover with The Conjuring or something?
1:43 Yes.
1:43 Cuz those people print money, my brother.
1:45 So, you've seen Hamlet, right?
1:46 I have seen Hamlet.
1:47 I play Jack Ryan's dad who comes back to talk to Jack Ryan and I play both.
1:53 Yeah,
1:53 that's really good.
1:54 Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
1:56 Yeah.
1:56 Did you bring a clip by any chance?
1:57 Of course I brought a clip.
1:59 Do we need to set up this clip, sir?
2:01 Um, yeah, you can set up the clip.
2:02 The the This is I am teaming up, by the way,
2:06 with the extremely talented Sienna Miller, who's joined our world.
2:11 Oh my god.
2:13 She's an MI6 agent.
2:15 We have teamed up in this one uh, you know, crazy adventure.
2:20 Yeah.
2:20 And uh, we're in a we're in a tight spot.
2:22 All right.
2:34 What?
2:33 Security door.
3:01 You're welcome.
3:06 Uh, there's a high-speed chase in this.
3:08 There is,
3:09 but it's in the UK, so it's on the other side of the road.
3:13 It was How much did that freak you out?
3:15 It freaked me out, especially when cars were coming
3:17 at me and that wasn't even part of the stunt.
3:20 That was just me on the wrong side of the road.
3:22 Do you have how have you had a lot of experience with on the wrong side?
3:24 I have because I married a Brit.
3:26 I have to go on the wrong side of the road every time I go see your family.
3:29 And we should start saying it's the right side of the road over there.
3:32 Well, but um No, it's I had a lot of the left side of the road.
3:39 But it literally is.
3:40 It literally is.
3:41 I have a bar if you want anything.
3:42 I've got a bar back there.
3:43 Is there is that a bar?
3:49 Oh, yes.
3:52 Like glass or shots?
3:54 We should do shots.
3:55 Do shots.
3:55 Okay.
3:56 I got I got uh
3:57 We're just going to reboot this.
3:59 I got I got bourbon.
4:00 I got that uh Clooney Hollywood tequila.
4:05 Okay.
4:04 I got uh this is rum from Cuba, so technically illegal.
4:09 And I got I got vodka.
4:11 What What do you What do you want?
4:12 You're a bourbon man, aren't you?
4:13 I am.
4:14 Yep.
4:14 Yeah.
4:14 We're going to do your rules.
4:15 And this ain't cheap.
4:17 This is This is You ever had this?
4:21 No.
4:20 All the Wellers.
4:21 Oh, this is great.
4:23 Right.
4:23 I have no idea where we are in this interview, and I do not care.
4:28 It's all animated anyway.
4:31 Yep.
4:37 Oh.
4:39 Oh.
4:38 What do you got after this?
4:40 You got something to do after this?
4:41 I was going to put my kids to bed, but I think I'm going to put myself to bed.
4:46 All right.
4:46 This is a sip.
4:47 This is another sip.
4:47 And Okay.
4:48 So, you told me when we were doing the Colar questionnaire,
4:52 do you remember when you did the Colar questionnaire?
4:53 Of course I do.
4:55 Okay.
4:55 You um you said that your favorite
4:57 before we arm wrestled.
4:58 What?
4:59 What?
4:59 No.
4:59 You want you No, no, no.
5:02 I was just saying I remember it because it was before we arm wrestled.
5:05 We have arm wrestled four times, my friend.
5:06 That's right.
5:07 How many times have you won?
5:08 We have arm wrestled four times.
5:12 You want You know what?
5:13 No.
5:13 No.
5:13 Do you want to go again?
5:15 No.
5:15 But we'll
5:15 Do you want to go again or are you scared?
5:20 We'll earn it.
5:20 I'm not saying we're going to go right now.
5:22 Okay.
5:22 I just want to let you know.
5:23 Can we slow play it and stretch?
5:25 I'll go for it.
5:26 How about this?
5:27 You look like a guy who skips leg day.
5:30 You want a leg wrestle?
5:33 Wow.
5:32 You want a leg wrestle?
5:33 What I what I lack in bicep, I make up for in haunch.
5:36 Okay.
5:38 Okay.
5:38 So, uh, in the Col Bear questionnaire,
5:40 you said that your favorite action movie was The Dark Knight.
5:44 Yes.
5:44 But I have recently learned that you lied.
5:48 Yeah.
5:47 And that your favorite action movie is Die Hard.
5:50 Die Hard.
5:51 Yeah.
5:51 Well, when I was a kid, it was Die Hard.
5:53 And then The Dark Knight,
5:54 I sort of evolved into The Dark Knight because Chris Nolan,
5:56 who you know, is he's the greatest.
5:59 Why did you like The Die Hard when you were a kid?
6:01 I just I mean, Die Hard was just the best.
6:03 It is the best Christmas movie.
6:05 I was about to ask, is it a Christmas movie?
6:07 Christmas time.
6:07 Have you done a Christmas movie?
6:09 I don't think I have.
6:13 Quiet Place.
6:14 Quiet Place could be Christmas time.
6:15 It totally could be.
6:16 We don't know.
6:16 Yeah, we're just doing the bells silent like.
6:21 Yeah.
6:20 Yeah.
6:20 You're just hoping like it's the kind of What do you think Quiet Place 3 is?
6:23 Christmas movie.
6:25 Wow.
6:26 Yeah.
6:26 We have to take a quick break.
6:27 We'll be right back with more John Krosinski.
6:29 Everybody stick around.
6:43 Yeah.