'Novocaine' Stars Ray Nicholson and Jacob Batalon On The New Action Comedy

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00:00Hi, I'm Mary Beth McAndrews from Dread Central. How are both of you?

00:05I'm Mary Beth, doing great.

00:07Awesome.

00:08Congratulations on Novocaine. What a fucking great time, pardon my French.

00:12No problem.

00:13But my first question for you, Ray, what was the training for this and getting ready for it to play Simon?

00:19I had...

00:20He's been in Guns Out most of this movie, and it's, uh, yeah.

00:23Yeah, I mean, listen, Ashley Robinson is a world-class kickboxer, and he kicked my ass every day, so that was super awesome.

00:31Uh, really fun.

00:32Hell yeah.

00:33Yeah, that was the main thing. Ashley Brew.

00:35You're right.

00:36Yeah, hanging out.

00:37Uh, Jacob, did you also get your ass kicked training for this movie?

00:41No, I had a good time just...

00:42A little less training.

00:43No, I had a good time just watching everyone else get messed up, so I think that was a great time.

00:47Hell yeah.

00:49Well, and Roscoe, I love Roscoe's character. Obviously, comedic relief, and he's kind of off-screen for a lot of the film.

00:54What was that like for you, playing a voice and then having this grand, heroic, in-a-way entrance in the film?

01:00It was really fun. I think that, um, you know, we pre-recorded a lot of the lines, obviously, in the movie,

01:06and it was just funny to kind of see Nathan Cain's character kind of just, like, kind of stumble through it all,

01:13and it really gave me something to, like, react to. It was just such a hilarious...

01:17And then when we finally meet up together, it just, it was all perfect. It was really so fun.

01:21Had you met Jack Quaid before you started recording your lines, or was it a pre-meeting?

01:26I actually... This is really funny, but I feel like people, like, come across paths a lot of times in the industry,

01:31and we've met a few times just randomly, and we...

01:34I met him... I saw him at something a couple months before I had gotten the part in the movie,

01:39and we randomly were like, we should do something together sometime.

01:43And, uh, it kind of just happened out of nowhere.

01:46Yeah, that was really funny, yeah.

01:49And then, Ray, for you, what was it like, especially working with Amber?

01:54Because she said you guys get to play off each other so well in this film.

01:57What was that like, getting to kind of play, uh...

02:00I won't put any spoilers, but what was that like?

02:03Amber and I were like, when we met each other, we were just like, oh, thank God.

02:10It was just really that simple. It's like, oh, you were the... Okay, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:15So that was, like, very easy how well we got along,

02:18and, like, that was sort of one of the things that I was most worried about, pulling that off.

02:23But we truly were each other's confidant during shooting,

02:26and we just had a great time with each other.

02:29And, Ray, you're really growing in the horror-sphere-slash-the-genre space.

02:33What's it like this year between, you know, Smile 2, and then this, and then Borderline coming out?

02:37It's already going to be such a big year for you, huh?

02:39It's a lot all coming out on the same weekend.

02:42I know!

02:45No pressure, but...

02:46You'll be like me a lot.

02:50And it's fun, too. Borderline's fun, too, y'all.

02:52Borderline's fun, too.

02:54I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

02:59Well, thank you both so much. I really appreciate you taking the time.

03:02Thank you. Thank you.

03:03Congratulations on everything.

03:04All right.

03:05Bye.

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