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In Depth crew reflects on the hilarious Adam Devine interview

Apr 08, 202511 min
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In this episode of the In Depth Crew Podcast, host Graham, executive producer Brad Galbreath, and director of photography Seth Donnelly take you behind the scenes of their interview with Adam Devine, star of “Workaholics” and “Pitch Perfect.” They share exclusive stories and insights from their time with Adam.

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And here we are back for another edition with EP Brad DP. What's your name Seth? I'm Graham. We have wrapped Adam Devine a fun day was despite the the damage to the. We marked up Adam's ceiling through just kind of unfortunate incident. What happened? So we. I don't even know why we're starting. Well, it's funny because it's funny. Yeah. So we, our key lights hang and they're heavy, so they hang over. So we have to counterweight them.

The counterweight we're using, the strap broke mid interview and the light fell and scratched the ceiling. The stand scratched the ceiling and the light almost fell on Adam's head. And I think I caught it, didn't I? You ended up standing up and like catching it. Whether or not you would have prevented it from like completely falling, I couldn't tell, but. I think I prevented him from getting injured. I. Think it leaned against the window?

I'm not sure, but yeah, I rushed in as fast as I could. Adam's face, though, was hilarious. I talked to him for the BTS clip afterwards and he's like, oh, he said it in the interview too, but he's like, you have to use my reaction. You have to use my reaction. I looked, I looked like a scared which was I think his. Exactly, he has the best facial expressions I think of anybody we've profiled. Well, it's funny.

Carlos was editing and incorporating that in something and he was using the part where he like mind being funny, like being scared, where he was like, oh, and Carlos and I was like, no, no, use the moment of actual terror because there's a moment in it where he's like. Yeah, he like. Without knowing what was happening, like genuinely like genuine terror on his face and it was I felt bad.

I mean, obviously it made doesn't make us look great as a crew when the lights are falling, but it was just a freak thing where like the same sandbag we've been using forever, just the handle or the strap just happened to give out in that moment. But we have all new ones. We replaced all of them. There we go. So. We're all good. We're all set on that. What did you think of Adam? I got teed up with him by Eric Stonestreet. So major shout out and thank you to Eric who we profiled

obviously earlier this year. And then we started texting and he said he would do it. But you know, when somebody tells you they're going to do it and then actually having getting them in the chair, there's a big gap often times between those. Or sometimes somebody commits and, you know, Fast forward five years and then you're sitting down with him for the the first time. So you never really know.

And Adam was true to his word every step of the way, teed us up with the folks on his end to sort all the details. And he was fun. His wife was fun, it was neat talking to his family as part of it is as well. And he's kind of a cool setup in Orange County. Also I. Was, I think it was one of the funnier interviews I think we've ever had.

I mean, it felt like a lot of the crew was laughing behind the scenes and trying to like stifle laughter so you couldn't hear it. Like between the toe falling off story while he was in the bathroom. And he was. Masturbating. No. But you didn't say that. It's all right. What? Does that even mean you're not as good at it as Adam? I fought hard to get that put back in the episode, by the way.

There was so much. That's the that's the thing that sucks about having to shove a full day with somebody until like 22 minutes is a lot of the stories were so funny because of his delivery and his timing. So we have to kind of like, you know, crammed it all into a short thing. But it was, I think it was the funniest interview that I've sat it on. I mean, we've sat some good ones. Seinfeld was really funny, but Adam was just animated and very open.

He brings it like he just. Isn't ashamed of anything. I mean, he was telling a masturbation story and his mom was sitting 10 feet behind the cameras. Oh, was she there? Wasn't she there? Yeah, she was. There. Oh, I mean, his whole team was there, yeah. OK, I had no idea his parents were I I thought he's about to take the kit. OK, I didn't realize that. Well, they may have left at some point. During the OK, but they were there at the start. But I think his mom was there for.

OK, I'm not sure on that. Sorry that makes me feel bad. She. Knows all the. Stories. Well, I was very uncomfortable knowing I was going to ask him those couple questions at the very start of the interview because I wasn't sure. Like it seemed like he was funny dude that like to but.

You never know what you're. Actually going to get but you never know when like if they're expecting because he'd seen some of our stuff and we do these, you know, deep profiles and then I'm like, tell me about masturbating in the tub and losing your toe I've. Told a lot of friends that story, and they really. Yeah, it's a hilarious story.

Yeah. I could tell it was going to be a fun day from like, we were setting up and Carlos was shooting him working out and you could just hear him screaming, like joking around and just like, I was like, OK, yeah, it's going to be a fun day. Yeah, I had to ask Adam's team, like, wait, what? Somebody yelling Like, who is that? What is that? Like? That's Adam just yelling while he works out like. Like he always does that or he was playing it up. No, he was doing that before we

were. Oh yeah, It was just. Well, he told us the day before, like he yells a lot when he's working out. Like I, I don't know if he does it when he's in it by himself, but he was probably playing to the camera a little bit, I'd imagine. But I'd like to imagine he. Wasn't, but he wasn't, we weren't filming him when he started. Like we, we heard him yelling and that's how I knew he was working out because his assistant said that's Adam,

don't pay it, don't mind him. And like, what's he doing? Sounds like he's getting like what's happening to him. He's like, oh, he's just working out. It's like, can we go film that? And we asked him. We said yes. I think the I thought the funniest part of the day was sitting down with Adam and his wife and her bringing up how much she takes craps. Takes craps. That's funnier than them talking about it. And he was actually at that moment seemed genuinely uncomfortable.

I would like the look on his face when she like it wasn't. I mean, he played it off eventually, but in that moment you could tell he got embarrassed. There was a lot, there was a lot of funny parts in that. Whenever you have brought the bachelor party, his response to that was I thought was really funny. Which I think it's great that he has that attitude.

I mean, he, there's a, there's plenty of other timelines of his life where he's not alive today because of that cement truck accident he got into when he was 11 years old. And it's just crazy that he had that he learned to walk again. And he attributes that to, to being where he is today and even being an actor. And he like he tells that story and it's just so grizzly and it's like it's incredible that he is where he is. I guess that's the best way to

to phrase that. I still can't get over thinking about a leg being degloved from the knee down. That is. Meaning. Meaning. For clarification. Skin, right? See. Sock Grizzly. I saw Grizzly. And that's the one on his leg that was pretty gnarly. Which is funny because we got there this that morning and he was in shorts and I didn't even notice. I didn't either, yeah. He was like walking around in shorts in a shirt, and I didn't notice at all.

And then during the interview, he pulled his pants up and it was like, yeah. What I found most crazy about all that, aside from the fact that he just recovered and had all this success, was that recently he thought he was going to die like. A few years ago, right? Not even a few years ago, up until right before his kid was born. Yeah, that's right. The kid just said it's one year old or his one year old birthday. So because they thought he had

what's it called? Stiff, stiff personal syndrome. But like, he's still grappling with all these health issues today. He has to exercise and be otherwise healed. Yeah, I mean that's. We got up. I was. So yeah, that brings up one of the funnier moments is Graham had mentioned hate, like, as he was talking about the injury and grandma's like, well, do you, like, need to take a break? Like just trying to be nice. And he stands up and he does like this whole, like, gyrating exercise thing.

And he's like, grandma, it's your turn, and then you didn't do it. No, OK. I was like, did I? That disappointed me. But I did, despite not having swim trunks jump off the top of the boat and my spandex liners that I am forcing you guys to creatively edit. Although you did a pretty good job, yeah. We make you look good, Graham. We try. Were you scared of sharks?

Yeah, actually, because he said, I don't know if he was screwing with me, but I feel like he wasn't, that he had the app that shows where the sharks are, and he decided to take it off his phone because there were so many around. And we're out in the middle of nowhere. I mean, we're probably 45 minutes off the Southern California coast in freezing water, and we're like, let's just strip down and jump in the ocean. I didn't think that what's going to happen.

It kept getting pitched. Who kept pitching off the boat? I think it was you. OK, to jump in because because you got in my head the night, right? It was you that got in my head the night before. Not, no, I'm sorry, not the night before, the day of. And said something about how they might get in the water, right? I had, yeah. So I guess the full story and that I had asked the Adam's assistant, I said, hey, is Adam potentially open to jumping in? Is that something you think he would do?

Like when he goes out in the? Middle when you brought it up. I brought up to the assistant and then she says I don't know, I can ask Adam. I didn't hear anything after that other than like the next day. And then I think it's she ended up talking to Adam and then it I think that's how it got we were. 1st going out on the boat, he was like, I don't know. Well, yeah, it seemed like he wanted to do. It. I don't think he wanted to do it. I don't think he had any intention of doing it.

But because you got in my head that that was a thing, I then kind of made that a thing. And then, yeah, with the fact that it seemed like he didn't want to do it, then made me like, want to do it, yeah. And you guys jumped in. Yeah, now we have an ending to the episode. I'm glad it happened because we needed an ending and I don't know what the ending would have been had we didn't if we didn't

have you. We would have had we just wouldn't have had like the exclamation point, which anything, anytime like that, yeah, it's makes for a nice clean, obvious and. For Brad and Seth, I am Graham. Goodbye.

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