A Family Affair

Hey, what's going on, everybody? For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans,

and you're watching Hot Ones.

And today we're joined by Chris Cole.

He's an actor you know for his beloved superhero franchise Icarus Rush.

With Icarus Rush Labyrinth on the way, this year could be his best year yet.

...very clearly not my fault.

I left on time, I did.

Like, any normal person would understand that.

He'll understand that. Everyone's gonna understand that.

That's fine. You can go ahead.

This is a lesson. I'm being taught something here.

I'm being taught that if I let you in, I'm gonna get there faster.

It's good karma.

Oh, my God!

Now I'm going to lose my shit.

Thanks for coming.

Thanks for changing your plans.

Oh, of course.

You know I'm always here for you.

I'm so sorry I've been so preoccupied with the movie starting.

Well, don't worry, Chris. I mean, I'm not a needy girlfriend.

I know we're okay.

Right, okay.

Anyways, I got to thinking, you know, where is Ashley in all of this?

Where is this wonderful woman that I'm so grateful I've gotten to know and...

I think it's time we took a big step.

May I tell you the specials?

- Yes, please. In great detail. - No.

Uh, if you don't mind, I'm starving today.

- Excuse me one second. - Okay.

Absolutely. We've got...

Text message from Chris Cole.

Read it.

Where the fuck are you?

I don't care if you have to sell a vital organ.

Get your ass here or you're fired!

My God!

What we have is so special...

- and spectacular and... - Whoa! Hi.

...that, you know...

See that famous guy that looks mad at me right now,

looks like he wants to kill me, that's my boss.

And I really need to get this...

Whoa! Whoa!

I'm furiously joyful.

I have to get it over there or he'll kill me. For real this time.

Can I...

I'll have paparazzi here before he leaves.

Thank you.

- My gosh, is that Bradley Cooper? - Where?

Nope, it's just a normal person.

Can I get a water, please?

- Absolutely. - Thank you.

Sweetheart, you and I, we're great.

And it's because of how great we are that I feel at the same time

that we're heading in a direction that we're not quite equipped for.

Huh?

I'm gonna be immersed in this film. That's... That's how I work.

Uh-huh.

So I just think it would be best

if we took our foot off the gas a little bit.

Wait, what?

You just said we should take the next step.

- I said "a" step. - You said a big step.

- I know. - You did.

And that big step is a... big step away...

from this relationship.

Does that make sense?

Hold on. You're...

Wait, you're saying that you're ending this?

Ashley, you and I both know that there's a future for us.

It's just, it's not a future that starts right now.

Hey. Hey.

I still want to be friends.

Do you even have friends?

I'm gonna take these, though, 'cause they're gorgeous.

- So... - Okay.

- Bye. - Bye.

My God! Listen to these lyrics. Cher is singing this about me. Listen.

I'm trying, Cher. I'm trying.

Where were you, by the way?

- Jesus. - I was stuck there, stalling,

just riffing, making it up as I go.

And you're so lucky that I won improv championships when I was a kid,

because believe me, that was one of my best performances of all time.

Still, I had to say a lot more than I wrote down last night,

which means Ashley probably felt the sting of rejection

much more because of you.

Because of... You're blaming that on me?

- Yeah. - Really?

Sometimes the incompetency,

like, you deserve to be fired.

- Then fire me. - No.

Is this about the movie?

You think I'm paranoid, but if 3 doesn't do well,

while we're filming 4,

then they won't invite me back for 5 and 6.

So? Who cares? That's okay.

You know, you'll have actual time, like a real actor to do other things.

I'm worried the script doesn't make sense.

'Cause it doesn't make sense. It's very confusing.

Like, the whole department store Santa being a Nordic terrorist thing.

They want a Christmas movie.

It's Die Hard meets Miracle on 34th Street.

The real Santa is kidnapped.

Why do you have to go to Antarctica

before your run-in with the suicide bombing reindeer?

Do you hear how stupid that sounds?

No, it's Die Hard meets Miracle on 34th Street

with a little bit of Speed.

But Speed was already Die Hard on a bus.

You're just being confusing on purpose.

No, it needs a rewrite.

I actually found a great writer for that.

All right, I have an idea.

Tomorrow, we're gonna find a great writer.

I'm gonna comb through all the agent lists.

Be at my house at 8:30.

But first, you gotta go clean up this mess and pick up my stuff from Ashley's.

No. God, please, no. Chris. Ugh!

When you gave earrings to Kimmy and Whitney,

it was so awful for me getting your stuff back.

I felt like I was grave robbing.

What are you talking about? I left my autographed Jordans there,

I left my Himalayan T-shirt.

I left my copy of The Courage to be Disliked.

I have several underwears there, and people sell those.

So, my house, 8:30. And bring a latte with cow's milk.

From a real cow.

They still make that, right?

Or is that, like, canceled?

I know it's repetitious, I know that.

- I'm sorry, I'm just... - No. There's something here.

- It's just too many words. - Too many words.

This reads like you're thinking of finally getting out there again.

I don't know.

Everything I write sounds irrelevant to me.

- Do you feel irrelevant? - No.

I find myself absolutely fascinating.

That's because you are.

I'm scared.

I haven't written anything for me in so long, and...

But that's just growing pains, kid.

We all go through it.

Life walloped you.

You picked yourself up. You raised that gorgeous girl, Zara.

Now you just don't know which direction to take.

It's okay.

It's exciting.

You could get to ask yourself, "Who was I?"

"Who was I before I was everything to everybody else?"

Why do you write?

Why do I write?

Um...

To find out what I think about things I don't understand.

Well...

And what things don't you understand now?

- Now? - Now.

Pretty much everything since Charlie died.

You've never written about Charlie.

Because it's not easy.

And if I did, I don't think I could let you read it.

Why not?

I was your editor before I was your mother-in-law.

Yeah, but you're Charlie's mother...

before you were my editor.

Before I was Charlie's mother,

I was a young woman who wanted things for herself.

I wanted to be Stevie Nicks.

We're still everything we always were, kiddo.

I'd love to believe that.

Mom?

Hey, Mom.

Hey, baby.

Beautiful, huh?

- How was Grandma? - She was good.

Mom, were you my age when you published your first book?

Um...

No, I was 29.

Why?

I'm just wondering when my life is gonna start.

You're 24, baby, and you're smart and you're talented.

When you work hard, it's going to pay off.

Isn't Chris building you up to run his company?

Mmm. Sometimes I think he forgets.

Well, don't let him forget.

You tell him what you want.

Don't let him push you around because he's famous.

You just speak up for yourself.

You can do that.

Hi.

I can't sleep.