Laura Dern & Liam Hemsworth Test Their Movie Location Knowledge

I do love that the movie you didn't remember

is The Hunger Games.

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[Liam] Alrighty. This look familiar to you?

It does. I'm so glad it does.

'cause this whole idea made me so nervous.

But I have seen this before.

Where have you seen it? In a movie

where my co-stars were dinosaurs.

Am I right?

That is correct. Okay.

That is one of my first memories on set

of that movie. That's amazing.

Yeah. Wasn't as scary as you'd think in the moment.

[Laura and Liam laughing]

Well, first of all, it is supposed to be Costa Rica,

but that is Kauai, Hawaii

and very memorable with those mountains.

That was early on.

It was one of the first scenes we're supposed

to look down at the same moment

when we hear the first roar in the movie.

'Cause it's early on and it's supposed

to be like a distant sound

and we're supposed to all look at the same moment like,

What the hell was that?

And we couldn't all look at the same moment [laughing].

Wasn't in sync. And finally,

we said to Steven Spielberg, We need a sound

so we look at the same moment, it's not working.

And he is like, Okay, I got it. I got it.

And they said, Action.

And then it was really quiet and we're all looking down

and suddenly with a megaphone, he goes, Roar.

Roar.

And we'll start cracking up.

We're like, If that's the dinosaur sound

we're gonna get on this movie,

We're in huge trouble.

Okay.

Yep. Yep.

That's a bar in New Orleans

from a film called Expendables 2.

You are right. I was shooting with

Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren,

Randy Couture, Jason Statham was there that night as well.

Oh... You know,

all the expendables.

Yeah. My God.

We're shooting this scene in this, you know,

this kind of a divey kind of bar in New Orleans.

Had a bunch of guys that looked like they know

how to handle themselves that were, you know,

kind of background and whatnot.

I remember this one guy saying to Randy Couture,

Did you ever get into a bar fight?

And it was the best response I've ever heard.

And Randy Couture was like, I've never been in a fight

that I didn't get paid for.

I was like, He's legend.

I was like, That's the best response.

This guy was kind of sizing him up a little bit.

He is like, You've ever been in a bar fight?

That's genius. But then me

and Sylvester Stallone had a scene out in front of that bar

and he was so great to me.

He was always like...

He was? Yeah, he was wonderful.

Like he took me under his wing and talk about his career

and different things that he's done throughout his life.

He's such a legendary director.

And it is crazy that I feel like

for the next generation they know him

as an iconic persona,

but I hope they know what a master director he is.

Yeah, no, he's great.

I had all these voicemails on my phone

from Sly at that time.

He called me and just be talking about the script

and then I came to his house one time.

He was just so great.

Like he taught me so much

and it was a real kind of open-book relationship with him.

Like whatever I needed, like he was always there

and so good at sort of just helping me

through the whole thing.

I love that. I love that he was so generous to you.

[Liam] Ooh, this looks like a difficult one.

[Laura] What's this?

[Liam] This ringing any bells for you?

Is that...

Now I'm scared.

Is it Marriage Story?

It is. You got it.

Beautiful production design.

And I only remembered 'cause of this pink kind of

velvety chair, which felt very like the attorney I played.

It's the first time you meet Nicole and Nora,

meet for the first time in Nora's office.

Nicole opens up about a marriage

We shot in Century City

and it is in fact the divorce lawyer building of LA

[laughing] a lot of divorce lawyers are in that building

and I meet people who come up

and they're like, Oh my God, I saw your movie

and my divorce lawyer is actually

in that building and I could barely watch.

It was so hard for me.

I was like, Okay, well sorry.

And thank you.

Anytime you're in an office like that

and the person across from you that's at the desk

says, Trust me.

[laughing] Trust me. You're pretty much

in trouble.

[Laura and Liam laughing]

This... It's upside down.

Oh, this is upside down.

I know you're not gonna remember this

'cause I think this is a little project you worked on.

A lot of people haven't seen,

but in the world of independent cinema,

I think it's one people should catch up on.

What do you think?

[Liam laughing]

It's not ringing any bells.

Well, it's a small film based on a tiny book.

There might be more than one book.

Is this from The Hunger Games?

[Laughing] Yeah.

[Liam] [Laughing] It doesn't look familiar at all.

Or Jurassic Park. Yeah.

It could be from...

And actually, [indistinct] This a mix up.

I feel like nature and I'm panicked.

I actually, I think because of Hunger Games

I do panic in nature now.

I used to love nature and now...

It's a dangerous place. I'm sure people

are after me. Better watch your back

[laughing] out there. Yeah.

This rings no bells. I don't remember...

Let me tell you.

[laughing] Yeah. Where this fence came from.

♪ Maybe it's a district boundary fence ♪

Is it a district boundary fence?

I don't think I ever saw it.

This must be from the first film I'm guessing,

which was...

Oh, and now I'm 34.

It's like 14 years ago, I think, when we shot this.

How was making those films

So much fun.

So much fun.

From Jennifer Lawrence to Josh Hutcherson

to Woody Harrelson.

We had such a great cast that everyone got along

and we all hung out all the time.

Such a wild experience for all of us at that time.

You're babies. Yeah.

We're so young and trying to find our way in the world

and sort of got to share that experience together.

And all those films were such a great experience.

But then like we do these press tours together,

in any normal circumstance we do in a press tour,

like at that size on your own at that age

and you haven't had experience in it, it's fucking scary.

We were lucky enough to have each other

to kind of bounce off and sort of go through

that whole time together.

I miss those guys.

And I miss shooting those films with those guys.

It was such a great time of...

I remember seeing one of your earliest interviews

and seeing you guys together.

I don't think I've seen actors laughing

that hard in an interview ever.

And it made me so happy that you were...

It was tough to get things done

[laughing] all together.

[laughing] I do love that the movie he didn't remember

is The Hunger Games.

[Liam] This is from the movie Home Alone.

Isn't it? No, it's not.

You weren't that movie [laughing].

This is a movie I'm in?

I don't know what that is.

Oh yeah I do.

Wait, is that snow [laughing]?

I hope it's Little Women.

[Liam] Yeah, it's Little Women.

[laughing] I was like, It's a house in the woods.

Yeah. That's little women shot in Concord, Massachusetts.

That's one of my favorite locations

I've ever been on actually.

[Liam] Really? Why?

We lived in that town for four or five months,

all of us together and it really became family.

I had just made Marriage Story with Noah

and then we went there

and I made Little Women with Greta and Noah came.

So I felt like I basically spent a year with them,

which was so special.

And Walden Pond is in that amazing town

and it's just this radical gift to American literature.

Some of our greatest novelists in American history

all wrote within the same year or two of each other,

living there at the same time.

Blocks from each other.

Thoreau, Emerson, of course Louisa May Alcott.

All at the same time. So wild.

But it was just beautiful and I lived in this little

guest house in a farmhouse

and had to learn how to really make a serious good fire

for myself, which I had never learned

'cause I'm from Santa Monica, California.

Okay. My turn.

[Liam] Yeah. Okay.

Looks a lot like the moon.

It does, right? I was gonna say space, right?

Yeah. Now, now I can see that ship.

This is from Independence Day: Resurgence.

Yes. I remember this very...

[Liam] Actually, me and me and Jeff Goldblum were sitting

in there. I was gonna say

that's a perfect segue.

A segue. That's right. Yeah.

The ever-entertaining Jeff Goldberg.

What can I tell you about the day?

It was shot on the moon.

We shot it on the moon, for real.

That's the only production ever to shoot on the moon.

What was it like walking on the moon?

It was not as cool as you'd think it would be.

Really? Yeah. Kind of difficult.

Did you have your whole get up?

Yeah, I did.

Once I got out of that spaceship,

me and Jeff Goldblum were wearing astronaut suits.

We were shooting in New Mexico at the time actually.

But wait, I thought you said you were on the moon.

[Liam] New Mexico slash the moon.

Oh, okay. Part of it,

you know, and then we were...

Yeah, So similar landscapes.

Yeah. We had these big astronaut suits on.

Remember it being really hot

So they gave us this extra suit

to wear underneath the astronaut suit,

which had cold water flowing through it,

but you had to connect up to a machine

and you couldn't sit down in these suits.

You had to lay down.

So me and [laughing] would go

and lay on these beds next to set

and then get attached to a machine and, Ah, that's better.

[laughing] God, that sounds horrible.

Yeah, that was a good time.

This one.

[Laura] That looks familiar. Does it to you?

[Liam] Nope, not really.

I think that's where I spent months

with Liam Hemsworth in Morocco, in the Atlas Mountains.

[Liam] There's our car that we drive around in.

We drove all over Morocco in that.

Did a bit running up maybe that hill there.

I was sleeping somewhere down there.

[Laura] Didn't you shoot up there?

Yep. Shot up on that roof.

[Laura] Yep.

We found out that it wasn't quite load-bearing roof.

Probably shouldn't have been up.

Yes, probably. That's another story.

Yeah [laughing].

What film is this?

This is Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet.

[Liam] Yeah.

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