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Broadcasting live across the world right now. This is the John Jay and Rich

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radio program. Good morning, Matthew Vaughn, Welcome to our program. Good

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morning. I was just listening to Accidents Insurance and I was about to have

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a conversation with them. I love your accents. That's real. He was

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from Jersey. He was listening to Accent Insurance. I assume that's an advert

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on your show. It's not. You've got a really weird holding message.

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Yeah, we put you on hold just before we could pick you up.

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But welcome to our program though, sir, well, thank you for having

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me so our gyle. I mean, the promotion for this thing, I

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don't know how long ago, sorry, but the first time I saw it, I was like, I didn't understand what I was seeing from the trailer.

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All these massive celebrities. I mean, your your roster of stars is

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amazing. It is. And ironically we made the movie right at the end

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of Lockdown, so we're all wearing masks and they had the zone and people

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couldn't you know, no one could really be together at the same time,

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which is sort of a unique way of making a film. And at the

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premiere, I remember getting up on the stage and it's the first time I've seen them all together, and I was like, oh my gosh, I

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did how do we pull this off and be an honor? And you know,

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they're truly magnificent in the film and magnificent actors and people. Hey,

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do you at all ever like pull Bryce Dallas Howard aside and ask like talk

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to her about I mean, her heritage, her dad being legendary, being

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a director she herself directed. Do you do you ask her for anything any

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tips? I mean, you yourself have an incredible resume. But you know

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what I'm saying, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean Ron Howard is

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a hero of mine. I mean he's a true director in the sense I

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think great directors should be able to direct any genre and tell any story,

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which he has done and is doing. And Bryce and I have talked,

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you know all the time. I think, you know, Bryce's is a

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brilliant director as well. And when she does her first film, you know,

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I'm looking forward to watching it. But yeah, I asked her so

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many questions and she asked me lots of questions in the sense that I think

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if you love what you do, you still never lose curiosity. At the

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moment you think you know what you're doing and you're not interested in other people

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and how they do it and how to make your work better, is the

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day you should probably retire. Well, that's really good advice for anybody's business,

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don't you think, just in all things, Yeah, I mean it's

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curiosity is an important thing. And if you're lucky enough to do what you

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love, then you know you're not really working. You're just you're just being

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given a privilege and and honor to make me making movies. I mean,

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I wake up every day and a still can't believe I'm doing it. And

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people think I know what I'm doing. I'm doing it, so as long

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as they get away with it, I'm going to carry on. So how would you describe to somebody what argyle is. Well, I would say right

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now, it is a ray of sunshine in a very dark world. And

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it's worth going to the cinema to watch with friends because you'll go on a

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thrill ride. You will. It has twists and it has turns. It

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will make you laugh, it will make you gasp, it will make you think. You will see things that you've never seen before. If you love

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action, you're gonna get a lot of action. If you love romance,

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you're gonna get a lot of romance. You love comedy, you're gonna get comedy. And if you love movies, you'll see a lot of references.

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And you'll see everything that you think you know and everything that you like and

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see and know, but you'll see it done in in a different way.

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That's a good sell. I'm down, Hey, what's John Cena like in

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real life? He seems like my favorite person in the history of the like

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mankind? Do you know what I again, I'm gonna start name dropping right

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But for me, the nicest human being who's also an actor, because those

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two things don't not necessarily go together in the same sentence. Is was Hugh

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Jackman. And then I met John Cena and John sena is is like huge

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times a million. I was like, is. I couldn't believe a how

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nice he is? But how professionally is how smart he is? How like

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talking about being curious and inquisitive like I you know, I went to his

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trailer and he's got to he's like a digital piano in it. I was

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like wow, and he goes, yes, I've decided every time I do

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a movie, I learn a new skill set. Once I learned Mandarin Chinese.

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Now I'm going to learn how to play the piano. And he's got

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hands. You know his hands, I mean his finger can probably press a

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whole octave. I mean these seven notes on one. But there's his hands

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are a joke. And I was like, how's he going to play the

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piano with hands like that? And it literally is like hearing Bark and Mozart

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just oozing out into the set with him playing along is a total genius.

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Wowing about John Cena like genuinely gave me Goose books just as cool as he

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could have been, Like, he's fine. You directed to him, by

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the way, superheap. It was the worst human being on us. Do

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you think you'd be I would say that about him. Cover Hey, So

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you know, I know you directed kick Ass, and I was looking I

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love kick Ass, So I was kind of like, just kind of honestly

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just googled you. You're married to Claudia Schiffer. Yeah, when I lost

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checked that is bonkers. That is bonkers. Man. Congratulations, thank you,

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my god. Well play. I said about waking up every day and

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believing and thinking you're lucky in life. Forget the movie business. No wonder

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you're curious. Oh my god, man. Anyway, well done, sir,

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well done. You know what what she is and I say this was

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everyone's also being a supermodel. She actually is a super mama as well.

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That's fantastic. So what's the key to having a successful relationship in Hollywood?

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Don't be in Hollywood? Oh really? So where do you guys live.

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We live in the middle of nowhere in the English countryside. When we had

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kids, we decided our job was to give them a childhood and moved out

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of London. And yeah, we just we just wanted to give them as

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normal as and I say normal as that normal can be in what is normal

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in our in anyone's life. But yeah, we just tried to keep them

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out of the spotlight and and have you know, we lived on a farm

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and you know, and we just give them a really normal they're actually excuse

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it is whatever you do if your kids turns out to obviously be wrong in

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their eyes. They're giving me a lot of a lot of heat, we

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say, because they're now saying you didn't prepare us for paparatt Seeing all these

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people being interested in ask because they didn't know their mum was famous, right,

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They just thought that's great advice, though, I mean you're raising them

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in another place. I mean, I mean it gave me good. That's

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what Mark Wahlberg did. He decided to pack up his family moved the middle

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of nowhere in Vegas to get away from Hollywood. Well congratulations, all right,

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so argyle In, thank you so much for being on a program.

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I mean, it's it's been promoted like crazy. It looks like a fun

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It just visually looks fun to see. It is fun, fun, fun.

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You keep saying the word fun. And it was also designed. We

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based it on Romancing the Stone because I watched that, Oh my god,

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I love that movie. That was a great that was on HBO. Oh

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my god, that was that was my first successful date and going to see

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that film in the cinema when I was thirteen, and and you can look

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into what successful means not necessary where you might have just gone. But what

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I would say is so we wanted to recreate that, you know, a

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movie where because what astonished me about Romouncing the Stone. I thought I was

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gonna hate it because I thought it was a sort of a rom comy thing,

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and I thought, well, I'll take this lovely lady there, and

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I loved it more than her by the end of it, and I was

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like, this is amazing. And then she loved it. But I realized

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what she loved. I was like, yeah, yeah, that it's okay.

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But what I loved she thought that bit was okay. But together we

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had something to talk about afterwards and Cartagenia and I wanted to do Yeah.

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I wanted to do a date movie that for both sides of the coin,

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that everyone could enjoy it together and have something to discuss afterwards. Remember remember

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reminting the stone because they went to Cartagena and was always like, is that

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a real place? Cartagenia? Do you remember? Do you remember? I

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do remember it, but not as well as you do. Oh yeah,

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that movie made an impact on me because it was just like it did for

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you. I remember the Jewel. I remember when he he killed the alligator

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at the end with and he and he he's wearing the boots at the end.

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Remember remember remember remember the song that was? That was that was a

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sequel, but yeah, that was a sequel. You don't remember both of

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them sing the Stone? I remember that song that's going to be a hard

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song to write. Thanks Matthew Vonta. Well, we did do a song

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like the Go Go. If you want to have some fun after this,

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go and look up Electric Energy and you'll see all the cast in a homage

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to When the Going Gets Tough video where we got boy George and we've got

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Nil Rogers go literally got your own radio. But go watch the video.

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Look up Electric Energy and you will not believe what you see our actors do.

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Okay, worried right, we'll do it right now, all right man, Thank you very much. Argle in theaters. Thanks, take care,