‘Lonely Planet’ stars Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth join Condé Nast Traveler to test their movie location knowledge. From Jurassic Park and Little Women to The Hunger Games, can Dern and Hemsworth remember locations from some of their most famous movies as well as they remember a script?
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00:00I do love that the movie he didn't remember
00:03is The Hunger Games.
00:05-♪♪
00:07All righty.
00:08This look familiar to you?
00:10It does. I'm so glad it does,
00:12because this whole idea made me so nervous.
00:14But I have seen this before.
00:16Where have you seen it?
00:17In a movie where my co-stars were dinosaurs.
00:22Am I right?
00:23That is correct.
00:25Okay. That is one of my first memories
00:27on set of that movie.
00:28That's amazing.
00:29Wasn't as scary as you'd think in the moment.
00:33Well, first of all, it is supposed to be Costa Rica,
00:36but that is Kauai, Hawaii,
00:39and very memorable with those mountains.
00:43That was early on.
00:44It was one of the first scenes
00:46we're supposed to look down at the same moment
00:49when we hear the first roar in the movie,
00:54because it's early on,
00:55and it's supposed to be, like, a distant sound,
00:57and we're supposed to all look at the same moment.
00:59Like, what the hell was that?
01:00And we couldn't all look at the same moment.
01:04And finally, we said to Steven Spielberg,
01:06we need a sound so we look at the same moment.
01:10It's not working.
01:11And he's like, okay, I got it. I got it.
01:13And they said, action.
01:14And then it was really quiet, and we're all looking down,
01:17and suddenly, with a megaphone, he goes,
01:19Roar! Roar!
01:22And we all start cracking up.
01:23We're like, if that's the dinosaur sound
01:25we're going to get on this movie,
01:27we're in huge trouble.
01:28Okay.
01:30Yep. Yep.
01:32That's a bar in New Orleans
01:35from a film called Expendables 2.
01:38You are right.
01:39I was shooting with Sylvester Stallone,
01:42Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture,
01:44Jason Statham was there that night as well.
01:47Oh!
01:48You know, all the Expendables, yeah.
01:49My God.
01:50We're shooting this scene in this, you know,
01:52this kind of a divey kind of bar in New Orleans.
01:54Had a bunch of guys that looked like
01:56they know how to handle themselves
01:58that were, you know, kind of background and whatnot.
02:00I remember this one guy saying to Randy Couture,
02:02do you ever get into a bar fight?
02:03And it was the best response I ever heard,
02:05and Randy Couture was like,
02:06I've never been in a fight that I didn't get paid for.
02:08I was like, you're fucking, I was like, you legend.
02:10I was like, that's the best response ever.
02:12This guy was kind of sizing him up a little bit.
02:14He's like, you ever been in a bar fight?
02:15That's genius.
02:16But then me and Sylvester Stallone
02:17had a scene out in front of that bar, and...
02:20He was so great to me.
02:21He was?
02:22Yeah, he was wonderful.
02:23Like, he really took me under his wing
02:24and talked about his career
02:26and different things that he's done throughout his life.
02:28He's such a legendary director,
02:30and it is crazy that I feel like
02:32for the next generation,
02:34they know him as an iconic persona,
02:37but I hope they know what a master director he is.
02:41Yeah, no, he's great.
02:42I had all these voicemails on my phone
02:44from Sly at that time.
02:45He'd call me and just be talking about the script.
02:47And then I came to his house one time.
02:48He's just so great.
02:49Like, he taught me so much,
02:50and it was a real kind of open book relationship with him.
02:53Like, whatever I needed,
02:54like, he was always there and so good.
02:56It sort of just helped me through the whole thing.
02:58I love that.
02:59I love that he was so generous to you.
03:03Ooh, this looks like a difficult one.
03:05What's this?
03:06Is this ringing any bells for you?
03:08Is that...
03:10Now I'm scared.
03:12Is it Marriage Story?
03:14It is.
03:15You got it.
03:16Beautiful production design,
03:17and I only remember it
03:18because of this pink kind of velvety chair,
03:20which felt very like the attorney I played.
03:23It's the first time you meet.
03:25Nicole and Nora meet for the first time in Nora's office.
03:28Nicole opens up about her marriage.
03:30We shot in Century City.
03:32And it is, in fact, the divorce lawyer building of L.A.
03:36A lot of divorce lawyers are in that building.
03:38And I meet people who come up,
03:40and they're like,
03:41oh, my God, I saw your movie,
03:42and my divorce lawyer is actually in that building,
03:45and I could barely watch.
03:46It was so hard for me.
03:47I was like, okay, well, sorry, and thank you.
03:51Anytime you're in an office like that,
03:54and the person across from you that's at the desk
03:57says, trust me.
04:00Trust me.
04:01You're pretty much in trouble.
04:03This...
04:06It's upside down.
04:07Oh, this is upside down.
04:10I know you're not going to remember this,
04:12because I think this is a little project you worked on.
04:16That a lot of people haven't seen.
04:18But in the world of independent cinema,
04:21I think it's one people should catch up on.
04:23What do you think?
04:26It's not ringing any bells.
04:28Well, it's a small film based on a tiny book.
04:35There might be more than one book.
04:37Is this from The Hunger Games?
04:38Yeah.
04:39It doesn't look familiar at all.
04:41Or Jurassic Park.
04:42It could be from...
04:43Actually, I think this is true.
04:45I feel like nature and I'm panicked.
04:49Actually, I think because of Hunger Games,
04:51I do panic in nature now.
04:53I used to love nature.
04:54It's a dangerous place.
04:55I'm sure people are after me.
04:56Watch your back out there.
04:57Yeah.
04:58This rings no bells.
04:59I don't remember...
05:01Let me tell you.
05:02Where this fence came from.
05:04Maybe it's a district boundary fence.
05:07Is it a district boundary fence?
05:09I don't think I ever saw it.
05:10This must be from the first film, I'm guessing,
05:13which was...
05:14How old am I now?
05:1534?
05:16It's like 14 years ago, I think, when we shot this.
05:18How was making those films?
05:20So much fun.
05:21So much fun.
05:22From Jennifer Lawrence to Josh Hutchinson to Woody Harrelson.
05:25We had such a great cast that everyone got along
05:28and we all hung out all the time.
05:31It was such a wild experience for all of us at that time.
05:33You were babies.
05:34Yeah, we were so young and trying to find our way in the world
05:37and got to share that experience together.
05:40All those films were such a great experience.
05:42We do these press tours together.
05:44In any normal circumstance, you're doing a press tour
05:46of that size on your own at that age
05:48and you haven't had experience in it.
05:49It's fucking scary.
05:51We were lucky enough to have each other to bounce off
05:53and go through that whole time together.
05:56I miss those guys and I miss shooting those films with those guys.
05:59It was such a great time.
06:01I remember seeing one of your earliest interviews
06:04and seeing you guys together.
06:07I don't think I've seen actors laughing that hard in an interview ever.
06:11It made me so happy.
06:13It's tough to get things done.
06:16I do love that the movie you didn't remember is The Hunger Games.
06:22This is from the movie Home Alone.
06:24Isn't it?
06:25No, it's not.
06:26You weren't in that movie.
06:28This is a movie I'm in?
06:31I don't know what that is.
06:33Oh, yeah, I do.
06:35Wait, is that snow?
06:37I hope it's Little Women.
06:39It's Little Women.
06:40I was like, it's a house in the woods.
06:43Yeah, that's Little Women shot in Concord, Massachusetts.
06:46That's one of my favorite locations I've ever been on, actually.
06:50Really? Why?
06:51We lived in that town for four or five months, all of us together,
06:55and it really became family.
06:57I had just made Marriage Story with Noah,
07:00and then we went there and I made Little Women with Greta,
07:03and Noah came, so I felt like I basically spent a year with them,
07:06which was so special.
07:08And Walden Pond is in that amazing town,
07:12and it's just this radical gift to American literature.
07:17Some of our greatest novelists in American history
07:20all wrote within the same year or two of each other,
07:24living there at the same time, blocks from each other.
07:27Thoreau, Emerson, and, of course, Louisa May Alcott,
07:30all at the same time, so wild.
07:33But it was just beautiful,
07:34and I lived in this little guest house in a farmhouse
07:37and had to learn how to really make a serious good fire for myself,
07:41which I had never learned because I'm from Santa Monica, California.
07:45Okay, my turn.
07:46Yeah, okay.
07:48Looks a lot like the moon.
07:49It does, right? I was going to say, space, right?
07:51Yeah, now I can see that ship.
07:53This is from Independence Day Resurgence.
07:56Yes, I remember this very well.
07:59Actually, me and Jeff Goldblum were sitting in there.
08:01I was going to say, that's a perfect segue.
08:05The ever-entertaining Jeff Goldblum.
08:07What can I tell you about the day?
08:08It was shot on the moon.
08:10We shot it on the moon, for real.
08:12It was the only production ever to shoot on the moon.
08:14What was it like walking on the moon?
08:16It was not as cool as you'd think it would be.
08:18Really?
08:19Yeah, kind of difficult.
08:20Did you have your whole getup?
08:23Yeah, I did.
08:24Once I got out of that spaceship,
08:26me and Jeff Goldblum were wearing astronaut suits.
08:28We were shooting in New Mexico at the time, actually.
08:31Wait, I thought you said you were on the moon.
08:33New Mexico slash the moon.
08:36Similar landscapes.
08:38We had these big astronaut suits on.
08:40It was really hot, so they gave us this extra suit
08:44to wear underneath the astronaut suit,
08:47which had cold water flowing through it.
08:49But you had to connect up to a machine,
08:51and you couldn't sit down in these suits.
08:53You had to lay down.
08:54So me and Jeff would go and lay on these beds next to set
08:58and then get attached to the machine.
09:00That's better.
09:01Oh my God, that sounds horrible.
09:03Yeah, that was a good time.
09:05This one.
09:06That looks familiar.
09:07Is it to you?
09:09Nope, not really.
09:11I think that's where I spent months
09:14with Liam Hemsworth in Morocco, in the Atlas Mountains.
09:18Yep.
09:19There's our car that we drive around in.
09:21We drove all over Morocco in that.
09:24Did a bit of running up maybe that hill there.
09:27I was sleeping somewhere down there.
09:29Didn't you shoot up there?
09:30Yep, shot up on that roof.
09:32We found out that it wasn't quite a load-bearing roof.
09:36Probably shouldn't have been up there.
09:38That's another story.
09:41What film is this?
09:43This is Lonely Planet.