Watch: Esquire’s ‘Now You See Me’ Roundtable Q&A Esquire
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Woody Harrelson, doing an impression of Matthew McConaughey, say the word “margaritas.”
In an exclusive roundtable interview hosted by Esquire (streaming above), the cast of Now You See Me: Now You Don’t—the newest movie in the magic heist series, out in theaters on November 14—gather for chit-chat and laughs about their work and careers. Seated for the episode are the original “Four Horsemen” of the Now You See Me saga: Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, and Isla Fisher, who returns for the threequel after missing 2016’s Now You See Me 2.
Before the conversation devolves into Harrelson’s McConaughey impression, Fisher tells the group about her time working with Baz Luhrmann for 2013’s The Great Gatsby. The actress admits she had not figured out her character Myrtle until her hairstyle was finished, even though Luhrmann assured her, “You’re Myrtle.” No character necessary. “It tricks your brain into thinking you’re actually immersed in someone new,” Fisher says about the film’s props and costumes. That’s when Harrelson recites a quote from Jack Nicholson, all while giving a note-perfect Nicholson impression. “Let the uniform do the acting,” he says.
Harrelson’s impression amuses his co-stars, which invites Franco to testify that Harrelson is good with impressions. “You could do a good Matthew McConaughey,” Fisher adds. (Apparently, Harrelson impersonates McConaughey quite a bit.) So, he improvs a little as McConaughey and absolutely nails it. Watch the clip above, as you really need to hear McConaughey to get the full effect.
Obviously, Harrelson has spent a lot of time with his True Detective co-star to pick up on his mannerisms. The two worked together in the acclaimed first season of HBO’s crime thriller, but they recently reunited for a series of commercials for Salesforce. Now, Harrelson admits that commercials work makes him “feel like a prostitute.”
Elsewhere in the video, Franco brings the conversation back to their new film and asks Fisher about her alleged near-death experience while filming the first Now You See Me. During her character’s first scene in the 2013 film, Fisher was scripted to struggle during an escape from a standing water tank. However, as the actress told Chelsea Lately at the time, Fisher’s prop chains legitimately got caught while filming the scene and she panicked.
“My chain got stuck, and I had to really swim to the bottom,” Fisher told Handler, “I couldn’t get up. Everyone thought I was acting fabulously. I was actually drowning.” (Fisher said she was able to escape thanks to a quick-release hatch and a stuntman who was present nearby to activate it.)
Now, Fisher says that her death-defying act was actually worse than she initially described. “My handcuffs got caught,” she says, “and there was a safety switch that you had six minutes in the water before it fully drained. There was a little moment where I thought, ‘Maybe…,’ but then I got free. And like The Little Mermaid, like an aging, ginger, slightly middle-aged mermaid, I got my way to the surface and inhaled some oxygen.”
The Now You See Me cast spends the rest of the video naming their favorite movies that their co-stars appeared in. Franco names No Country for Old Men as his favorite Woody movie, Bachelorette as his favorite Isla Fisher film, and The Squid and the Whale as his favorite Eisenberg—all while egging on Eisenberg to smile on command. “I haven’t seen you smile yet in this interview!” Harrelson jokes. Watch the video, and you might just smile too.
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