Nicholas Hoult Asks Matt Gourley If He Wants To Be Friends | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi my name is Nicholas Holt and I feel. truly happy about being Conan O'Brien's. friend that's very sweet I do you know. what we started is this yes this is it. yeah doesn't get better than this right. now there we go what a show thanks for. having me this is it yeah uh I was. thinking about friendship on the drive. here were you really yeah well I was. thinking about how La is quite a lonely. town in many ways um anyway we don't. have to get into it to no we should. because you live in LA now yeah we. technically down in Long Beach yeah so. LBC in 20 years oh where abouts uh in.

Belmont Shore you live so close to me. I'm on Naples oh my God I lived in. Naples for a little bit too oh my gosh. you want to be friends yes I going ask. you that you're relieved you're. dismissed I'm going to go have a coffee. live in belma what are your I live in. Pasadena now but oh you went the wrong. way okay. friendship he wanted to get farther away. from the water and closer to the Sun and. just be miserable I do like P well. there's a Huntington Library and Gardens. you well we don't go there anymore. because it's too far.

I understand if uh lost control of this. interview completely basically I'm here. looking for. friends you'd be an amazingly cool. friend to have uh I have to say uh I am. a u massive fan of yours thanks and you. seem like a very normal healthy person. and I'm sure you don't love uh. compliments ladled on you no I always. liked you work oh you do okay well then. you're like well first time I saw you. was in about a boy which is a such a. great great film and you were so good in.

that movie with h Grant and and it holds. up I think I've watched it many times. since then it's one of those movies. whenever it's on I love you in it I love. uh the story I love Hugh Grant it's just. so well done I love the soundtrack and. then I saw you kill it in many. roles and then uh you you started doing. the great with Lanning yeah and um my. eyeballs fell out of my head because I I. thought.

Nicholas Holt is one of the funniest. actors alive you are so good in that. role and here's the thing you were. walking this insane line in that role uh. Peter III right you're walking this. insane line of a terrible. murderer who you know who is constantly. uh on the verge of killing his wife and. by today's standards just an inhuman.

Barbarian and Incredibly likable and I. thought what what kind of Juno move is. that but I loved your character in that. I thought you were absolutely hilarious. in that in that role it was a dream of a. role because Tony McNamara's writing is. so smart MH and that was the thing I. kind of discovered that character along. the way as everyone else did because so. we'd shot he he wrote the favorite as. well y that I was in and and then after. that he said oh I've got this other. script and it was it was at that point a.

feature script for for the great I'd. worked with L before he said he was. going to ask el to play Katherine and. she's wonderful as as you know and um. and I knew I had a fantastic time. working with her previously so I was. excited about all the components and. then he turned it into a show but when. we started shooting we only had like um. a couple of episodes two or three. episodes so then it was kind of as we. went we would get more of the episodes. as we shot so it was kind of like I'd. read it and I be like oh this is. terrible very funny but Terrible. Horrible character right who's just.

punched his wife and all these things. but then but then you'd start to eek out. all the things that made him human and. tick and the way the way the way he is. and and how ridiculous he is in very. humorous ways so it was kind of it was. definitely all down to him his writing. well okay yes great writing but I. thought you and L together one of my. favorite couples I've seen on TV in. memory and we had the best time you well. you could tell you guys have such a. great chemistry but also um huzzah. became I I think you put huzzah on the.

map it's back it's huzzah is back huzzah. and and also um just that self assurance. constantly obsessed with your and. sex and um and and I I just got I'm just. watching this and thinking the segue I. know is this in your Journal again yes. yeah no but just like was so. aggressive yes it's a very aggressive. word it's a very aggressive word strong. sounds yeah it is um but but also just.

this kind. of musing about uh sex and what he's. going to do next and just like it was. just. hilarious hilarious a real foodie yeah a. real foodie one of the redeeming things. about him is is his Foody nature but. also he's very he's very open it's. exactly what you see as what you get yes. it's and I think that's one of the. things that people can appreciate about. him it's like it's very it's not very. common that you see someone who tells. you exactly what they're thinking when. they're think it and he's the kind of.

person who might say hm I may have to. murder you now but would say it out loud. and then go well probably shouldn't have. said that out loud that's the kind of. but I think that uh show I mean first of. all the acting across the board uh who. plays the uh the ter I mean such. terrific acting but the the the minister. of war the general oh Douglas Hodge oh. my God yeah and that that is truly. incredible his performance because know.

characters aren't described there's not. like any of the the bellowing and. breathing and all those things that that. Douglas added and I remember being in. scenes with him when we first started. shooting you'd hear him constantly. like swallowing his own burps and stuff. and none of that was in the script it. was just something that he brought to. the character and was so hilarious that. there was times that we had to like cut. and stop scenes because the rest of us. would be giggling so much at just how he. breathed he's conly which is but again. he was a great character because he's. this you know he's this Russian General.

who's drunk drunk all the time but also. but also has common sense I mean I mean. he he is the voice of reason often in a. scene but also not yeah I don't know. that that series uh was so delightfully. surprising and I I watched that and then. I knew that I had a Nicholas Holt. Obsession when I don't know if you guys. remember but Lanning came on the podcast. and we were talking about the show and I. kept saying tell me more about.

and she you know she would indulge me. and she was like well what you should. talk to Nicholas and I'm like yes I. should you tried to get his number from. her I did I did and she gave it to me. and then it was like a suspiciously. wrong it was a. 555 been Cooling and breathing down the. line now I recognize the breath you. thought it was Douglas Hodge.