Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

I thought I was done with this after Conan left Late Night.

http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/44156.html

I loved Jimmy Fallon ever since Saturday Night Live and never expected him to really fill those shoes. In a lot of ways, this is accurate. I loved Jimmy's show for very different reasons and it didn't grow up with me as Conan's show did.

There is also still mixed feelings about his taking over The Tonight Show...a sense of deja vu and impending dread no matter how stupid it is to feel that way.

There has been an overabundance of clip shows and appearances and things for the transition this time.

Still...when Jimmy and the Muppets performed "The Weight" and more and more Muppets kept showing up, including Robin and Walter...

I totally cried. Then, he did the Seth Myers thing of walking off into his new digs.

I think it was the Muppets that did it...there are just too many feelings there.

Also, today was the 50th anniversary of The Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show".

These combine both:

Off Cameras with Sam Jones

This is literally one of the most amazing interviews I have ever seen. I know it's the BEST Robert Downey, Jr interview I have ever seen. He's not bull-shitting. It's just complete honesty about his process from picking his roles to preparing for parts to the actual acting process with directors. If you like him or if you're a writer, a director, an actor, I HIGHLY recommend this!

It's on the 101 Audience Network channel if you have DirecTv or you can watch on Youtube:

One of the things I found most interesting is how he picks his roles. Most actors talk about how they wanted to challenge themselves as an actor or they wanted to film in a particular location. Elijah Wood took Flipper to swim with dolphins and Gwyneth Paltrow took Iron Man so she could be home every night with her children, that sort of thing.

He said he thinks about "what the consumer would want". That's consumer meaning us.

Sam Jones: But wouldn't they just want that Iron Man experience again, all the time?

Downey hesitates but tells him no and really, he's correct. While we talk about people failing because the public expects them in a certain way and they didn't deliver that, the public is even more fickle when it comes to the perception that you're just doing the same thing over and over...look at Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Ryan Reynolds, etc...

Now, is this thought process more motivated by the fact that he usually negotiates a back-end deal of the profits afterwards?
Yeah, it probably is, but maybe that would be a better way of doing things in Hollywood if the main actors knew the grosses would affect how much they were paid for a project. It would be similar to a cooperative where employees share in the profits so they're more motivated to have the business make more profits rather than as a scare mechanism of Make more profits or we fire you.

EDIT: I had to add a screenshot of this unfocused shot over the end credits where Downey appears to out do Tom Hiddleston in the sitting department: