Does Alan Tudyk Know His Lines?
Does Alan Tudyk Know His Lines?

Hey everyone, this is Steve Wro with Collider. I’m here at San Diego Comic-Con um in our luxurious studio that you can tell is in San Diego uh you know with the wind.
Anyway, so being serious, uh I am here with the with the great folks behind Resident Alien. How are you guys doing?
Doing great.
Doing good morning.
I was going to say it’s like it has to be a bittersweet time at Comic-Con. Um, it was announced that this is the final season.
Is that what? We weren’t going to tell Alice.
This is—she’s going to go crazy. Somebody call my publicist. It’s okay, baby. Friend, my publicist friend. She’s really into the show.
So, wait. You’re saying we’re cancelled.
I’m saying to you that there might not be more episodes. I don’t want to say canceled, right?
Yeah.
I know. I don’t like that word. Cancel because it’s kind of like wow.
I have a ton of questions for you guys about the show, but I really want to start with thank you so much for making me and a lot of other people laugh.
Thank you.
You know, um and we’re going to get into the show in a second, but one of the things is that I’m obsessed with getting more people to see movies in movie theaters. So, I’ve been asking everybody, do you have a favorite movie theater?
Oh, yes.
Right. Oh, you know what? I’m gonna I’m gonna be in in Los Angeles. Don’t—um Lemley on Sunset.
I was going to say Lem.
Oh, I shouldn’t tell everybody because nobody’s there all the time and you can now you can really get—it’s comfortable and it’s good. They’re good screens and great popcorn and they’ve got they’ve got sort of those gourmet chocolate bars and stuff.
What’s—Okay, gourmet chocolate like top.
I’m partial to the American brand. Yeah, I like it. It’s a little basic [ __ ] but it’s [ __ ]. It serves its purpose.
Yeah. And the seating’s nice. Um the Vista—Vista is nice.
Vista is nice. Tarantino took over. There you go. Over in Los Angeles. Shoes off.
But Universal Citywalk, don’t kid yourself. That’s a pretty good theater.
I mean, you got to do parking in the ass.
No. Well, listen, sir. I respect you a lot. But the only good theater at what I call the shitty walk is the IMAX theater, which is spectacular. But everything else can go f itself.
Obviously, that’s the one I was talking about.
I’ll jump in with one I miss. I missed the Centeroome.
Yeah. Oh, there you go. I mean, it’s not there, but maybe they’ll bring it back. I remember seeing The Fugitive there when it first came out and it was—and people lost their minds. And it was—that’s a movie experience to me.
Cool. It’s amazing.
I like a Drive-In.
A stranded at the drive-in. Stranded at the drive-in. Branded.
I went so low on that.
Uh, I was going to say Limly as well, but mine’s the NHO7, which is uh my neighborhood. So, I don’t know. Come check it out.
Collider has hosted some screenings at the Noho 7. I know that theater very well. Uh, and it’s all—Yeah. Let’s move on to the next thing.
So, we’re at Comic-Con and one of the things about Comic-Con is a lot of people here collect things. Um, and so I’m curious for all of you if you collect anything. And if you were to go on the convention floor, what are you looking to buy?
Well, go ahead, Alice.
I didn’t have anything.
Oh, I actually have the entire Kenner superpower collection from 1983. I think it ended in ’86, including uh the Hall of Justice, uh vehicles, uh you know, the ones where you squeeze their legs.
I know exactly the storyline you’re talking about. Now, do you have them loose or do you have any on card and in the package?
The majority of them I got off of eBay years ago and they are packaged and they have their little certification thing, but some of them are still in the just original packaging. Uh, very few of them are loose. I don’t buy them loose because they’re just not as interesting to me like that.
But yeah, no, I have a big collection of action figures. Thousands—between my son and I—don’t have thousands of Kenner superpower cuz that collection wasn’t thousands. But my son and I have a ton of action figures that we play with all the time.
Oh, that’s cool.
Yeah, I’m a nerd.
Oh, love it. Proud. Say it louder.
I’d like the Funko Pop. I saw a Funko Pop thing online of the Peacemaker cast, but they’re on the stage, the dance stage, and I asked Funko yesterday if it exists. They said, “I think so.”
So, I’d like that. I’m going to look for that forever now whether it exists or not.
You could do the stop motion like choreography of the whole thing.
I would love to. My wife choreographed it. That’s my interest in it because it’s the stage that she—I want to give the rest of the answers, but I want to say that we—I tried finding out through you and other people about the Peacemaker season 2 new opening dance, new opening song, and they sent me episodes. I have them and I have not had the chance to watch and it’s killing me.
I have access to the new opening and I have not had time to push play.
Wow. I would like to. Yeah.
Good. Cool.
They’re going to reveal it here, I think, tomorrow.
That, by the way, makes complete sense. And maybe you’ll see it. I won’t have seen it because I won’t—
Anyway, I want to hear your answers.
I collected comic books when I was a kid and just about two months ago, maybe over Christmas, went through the boxes to look at what I had and there’s some good stuff in there. I don’t know if it’s worth anything because I read each of them like a hundred times. So, they’re all raggedy, but like an early Daredevil number two and like some really old stuff, but they’re like half ripped and I drew on them and stuff like that.
I’ve never joking.
Did you geek out then when you worked on a show that was from a comic book?
That—I didn’t know that about you. That was cool.
That’s really cool.
Yeah, I loved it.
Wow.
Go ahead.
I know you have things you look for.
Star Trek stuff.
Star Trek stuff.
Thank you.
Mine’s Zelda all the time. And uh lately I’ve been looking for earrings that are super unique. And the last ones I bought at a con were the girl from The Ring crawling out of the TV as the earring.
And I really like them because from afar you have no idea what’s happening. And when you get up close you’re like, “Ah.”
But doesn’t that like weigh a lot on the ear?
No, they’re super light.
And it’s not the real girl. It’s just—It’s actually a miniature version.
That’s my new—I like to go look.
That’s right. That’s by the way. And that is the reason why I can imagine that’s what it must be like on set when you guys were filming this because—but you like that kind of improv. I could never do what you just did.
Do you know what I mean? Like, no, but seriously, like a lot of credit because I’m—when I watch the show, I’m like, “Oh, that might be an alt line.” Do you know what I mean?
Especially with this guy, especially because I can see people everywhere. But it’s mostly because I can see someone’s reaction and they’re clearly not ready for that line, you know, and I’m like, “Oh, that’s really good.”
I think that’s one of the best parts about ad-libbing though and improvising is that it keeps everyone present. Because when you’re on the set with this one and this one in particular, if you are not on your toes and present in the moment, you will get left behind.
You will get left behind. Like that movie where the rapture happened and everybody got left.
There were people who were left behind.
Yeah, I love that movie.
It’s like that but without the rapture.
He does.
Um, so what—
So he brings up the rapture a lot.
I’m obsessed with the rapture. It’s got to be the coolest thing in the world.
Can you imagine just all of a sudden we’re sitting here just the mic just drops and just [ __ ] are gone. Everyone would be like, “Oh my god, you’d be—I guess I’m not worthy.”
You know, oh well. I mean, they’d leave the best people.
You’re going to have a kick-ass party on earth though, post rapture cuz all the most heathenist [ __ ] going to still be here, you know, with nothing to lose.
Come on, let’s do it.
So, you know, I don’t know. I am curious. So, this is most likely the end. And I’m curious when you were making it, did you know when you were making it that this is probably the last season or was it sort of like, you know what I mean?
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