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Conan:
Everybody we are back. My next guest this evening plays
Oz on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He's also appeared
in numerous films including Austin Powers: International
Man of Mystery. His latest, Idle Hands, opens
this Friday. Please welcome Seth Green
Dressed
entirely in black, Seth walks onto the set and dances while
the band plays
Conan:
Oh, man!
Seth:
And so the dance begins [makes devil sign with both hands]
Conan:
Thank you for coming by
Seth:
My pleasure man. I'm so excited
Conan:
Yeah, yeah, good to have you. Hair's looking good! [he
slicks back his hair]
Seth:
Woah! Conan O'Brien! [audience whoops]
Conan:
Don't associate this show with the devil
Seth:
Sorry, man. [high-pitched and making peace sign]
Conan O'Brien!
Conan:
We're all about peace and love here
Seth:
All right. I got my beads in the car. Woo!
Conan:
I like this, it's very...I don't know...it's something [slicks
back hair again]
Seth:
It's a distractionary tactic
Conan:
Yeah, its very good
Seth:
I liked it
Conan:
Very good. You know that response you just got, you know
when I was talking to the young people? Now, I was gonna
say that response has got to stop. You're very popular
with young people
Seth:
Eleven to seventeen year olds
Conan:
Now how do they react when you're just walking round the street?
Are they shy?
Seth:
It depends, it depends. I get some people who won't say
a word and they I get a lot of people who start hitting me or
whatever. But the nuttiest thing, I keep getting, across
the board, people want to get stoned with me, or get drunk with
me [audience cheers]. No, no, seriously. Everywhere
I go it's like, "hey man don't drink this, you want to
hang out with me and my friends - get drunk." And
everywhere I go people are trying to get me high or something.
I was driving and these kids pulled up alongside me and I thought
they wanted to race, you know, so I gunned my engine and everything
and I'm looking at them, like, "you're going down",
you know?
Conan:
And you were driving an AMC Pacer weren't you?
Seth:
Exactly, you know. Souped up though! I got the
new tyres
[Conan
dissolves into laughter]
Seth:
And this girl leans out of the window and she holds out like,
a big pipe...I guess that's what the kids are smoking pot with
these days and she says...
Conan:
Tell me more of this...pipe
Seth:
I don't understand it. She says "hey! hey!"
and I go "what?" and she's like "come get stoned
with us, man"
Conan:
That's crazy! While you were both driving?
Seth:
I said "we're driving" and she goes, "yeah, pull
over". Like I'm the idiot!
Conan:
And so the story ends with you saying "no, I don't approve"?
Seth:
I was like, "no, no, that's okay, I have to work and be
a responsible adult. You should cast away these childish
things"
Conan:
Wait...all while you're driving? That's pretty good
Seth:
All while I'm driving. I'm pretty handy with the
wheel, so...
Conan:
Wait, all while you're driving? Now what about...with
the wheel? That's how you refer...I've never heard anyone
describe driving that way - "I'm pretty good with the wheel
myself"
Seth:
[gruff voice] You know, I went to the truckin' school, that's
what we were told to call it, so...
Conan:
What about when you go on vacation? 'Cos some people
when you're on vacation they actually draw a line on you and
they say "normally I'd say 'hi' but I know you're on vacation"
Seth:
No, no. My girlfriend and I went to Jamaica to do this
MTV thing and right off the 'plane we're with six other people
and the guy who was there he was like, "good to meet you...welcome
to Jamaica...nice to meet you too, how you doing...hey I got
what you need, buddy". "What're you talking
about?" [Jamaican accent] "I got the ganga,
man." [normal voice] "No, man, I'm cool."
He goes, "later, then, when no-one is around, I take you
there." I don't know, I don't know
Conan:
Maybe your hair is the giveaway?
Seth:
Something, man. You know, we were at the ball game the
other night, and these four guys sitting in front of us, they
were just screaming and yelling, and they were, like, "hey,
man, hey, drink this". It was this giant 42 ounce
thing in a Coke cup and they were like, "that's some strong
Sprite, man. Drink it"
Conan:
Your life sounds kinda scary, like wherever you go, people are,
like, "Try this. Drink this"
Seth:
It's like one of the public service ads where they're like,
"woah, the voodoos of the world," you know
Conan:
Mmm.hmmm...
Seth:
It's fun though. I have a great time. I love the
people to respond at all
Conan:
Now last time you were on the programme, you know, you were
being real funny and stuff, but you said something that got
you some angry mail from some of your fans. Now, first
of all what did you say? I forget
Seth:
You asked me about the fans and I said, "yeah, you know,
I get like all the 11 year olds and they're like..." [pretends
to lift up T-shirt] "...woo-hoo!" And I'm, like,
"you're eleven, right?" and they're like, "it's
cool because when you're seventy I'll be like forty and then
we can work it out." And I said, "that's great
because I'm looking to get into trouble with your shotgun wielding
father and the law"
Conan:
Shotgun wielding dads?
Seth:
So I got a bunch of outraged letters from young girls - "you
are alienating your audience by saying this." No,
I'm just trying to follow the morals of the world
Conan:
The moral code. You got insincerity over my chair
Seth:
Sorry. [brushes it off chair]
Conan:
Now, this movie Idle Hands. I watched this movie
Idle Hands last night and I thought it was really funny and
you're teamed up with the guy...
Seth:
Elden Henson, yeah. He was in The Mighty
Conan:
Really funny. You and this other guy have a great sort
of chemistry. You're very funny
Seth:
It's like you two...it's a good team. We met and clicked
and they gave us a bunch of funny lines and we have a good time
Conan:
Yeah, what's funny is that I went thinking it was gonna be a
horror movie and it was a comedy
Seth:
It is. If anybody saw, like, Beetlejuice or American
Werewolf in London...it's similar to that that where it's
like a horror film but the situation is so ridiculous and everything
it's just funny. So if you want a little bit of escapism,
go see the movie
Conan:
Yeah, exactly
Seth:
[high-pitched] Woo-hoo! Idle Hands - yeah!
Conan:
That's your promotion for the movie? "Woo-hoo!"
You've gotta do better than that, Seth. Well, Idle
Hands opens this Friday and Seth, always fun having you by
the show
Seth:
My pleasure
Conan:
Seth Green everybody! BACK
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