Crave Online: How does it feel that Jay Baruchel is too big to do press with you?

Chris Marquette: Jay Baruchel's doing a film with Nic Cage right now. He's good but, Baruchel's stayed Baruchel. He's a good man.

Crave Online: What did you guys think of Episode I?

Chris Marquette: Me personally, I didn’t like it. I was really disappointed. I mean, I was really happy I saw it, but I was just saying it doesn’t matter what Luke Skywalker was doing in Episode I. He could have been crapping or just showering slowly.

Sam Huntington: Luke wasn't in Episode I.

Chris Marquette: I'm sorry, Anakin. Any Skywalker for that matter.

Sam Huntington: Sorry to bust you there.

Crave Online: I thought you were going somewhere with that.

Chris Marquette: I was but I lost it. No, I'm sorry. Anything, it didn't really matter what you were showing and I would have loved it. But at the same time I just remember walking out being like, "God…" The pod racers, that was terrible. I just remember being like, "This kid can’t do that."

Sam Huntington: But he's a Jedi, man.

Chris Marquette: I don't know.

Sam Huntington: I didn’t care for it. Honestly, it wasn’t just the expectation thing. Personally, I am a tremendous fan of the older films, and I don’t think it really had anything to do with that. I just think standalone it really didn’t sit well with me. But a lot of people did love it. So it’s different strokes for different folks.

Crave Online: Is your opinion shaped by expectations?

Chris Marquette: Yeah, the thing is, it's the hardest thing with any kind of sequel or anything, prequel, anything is that it's not going to be better than the original. I feel like he was making these new Star Wars movies because fans wanted them, not because he was like, "I need to make this." He made Star Wars because this was the movie he had to make. As a filmmaker, he was going to do anything to get it done, and then this one's like 20 years later. It's the same way like Stallone made Rambo, the new one. He made it for fans. You're making it to revive this thing people want to see and it's not going to live up to the original in any way, shape or form.

Sam Huntington: I hear that new Rambo's pretty rad though.

Chris Marquette: It's not.

Sam Huntington: It's not?

Chris Marquette: There's a new Terminator. That's the hard part. They're good when they made them because that's when it fit in the time.

Sam Huntington: And they were passionate.

Chris Marquette: Yeah, people were passionate and then you move onto something else. I didn't like the new Indiana Jones.

Crave Online: Nuking the fridge is the new jumping the shark.

Chris Marquette: It wasn't that part that lost me so much as Shia Labeouf swinging from trees with a bunch of monkeys. Then I was like, "All right, now I'm really phasing out."

Crave Online: How about Episode II?

Chris Marquette: I enjoyed Episode II more although the whole Jar Jar Binks conspiracy, I don't know. Definitely the third one I loved.

Sam Huntington: I actually really loved the third one too.

Chris Marquette: The first two were like… the third one I saw a couple times in theaters. The first two I only saw once, if that gives you a point of view.

Crave Online: The fascinating thing is people who complain about Episode I got right back in line for Episode II.

Sam Huntington: That's exactly right.

Chris Marquette: He could do anything. You're going to go see it.

Sam Huntington: It goes back to what you were saying. It doesn't matter what was on screen.

Chris Marquette: No matter what's on screen, you're going to see it.

Crave Online: Well, it's a CGI puppet movie.

Chris Marquette: I know, exactly. That's the biggest disappointment and I think that's why it was so perfect for its time. You can only get away with Jim Henson puppets. You can't really have a Jar Jar Binks completely CGI character and believe it.

Sam Huntington: It's like E.T. It's like when they went back and remastered E.T. It was like no, no, no, it was perfect. It was perfect. It's a piece of my childhood. Please don't mess with it. Now it's like you rent it or see it and it's the remastered version. That's not E.T.

Crave Online: How do you feel about a Karate Kid remake?

Sam Huntington: I don't want to talk about it. I seriously don't. It's really frustrating, that one in particular because I was a huge Karate Kid fan. And look, I trust Will Smith. I think he's a smart guy. I do, I really love him. I think he's a smart guy but I gotta tell you.

Chris Marquette: Wait, what's happening?

Sam Huntington: His kid is going to play the new Karate Kid.

Chris Marquette: What?

Sam Huntington: I can't even talk about it. I can't even talk about it. Seriously.

Chris Marquette: You can't be serious.

Sam Huntington: Yeah, can you believe that?

Chris Marquette: People have lost their goddamn minds. What in the hell?

Sam Huntington: And seriously, I do. I love Will Smith. I think he's a very smart guy.

Chris Marquette: I saw The Day the Earth Stood Still. Come on, really? Karate Kid, that kid, Karate Kid?

Sam Huntington: I know, I know.

Chris Marquette: NO! ARE YOU SERIOUS? OH GOD.

Crave Online: Karate Kid has to be in high school.

Chris Marquette: Yeah, right, give me a break.

Sam Huntington: Seriously, seriously.

 
Chris Marquette: And the reason why The Karate Kid works so well is that Ralph Macchio is the perfect like manboy.

Sam Huntington: He didn't change between that and My Cousin Vinny. And now, seriously, give me a break. I can't.

Chris Marquette: You need Pat Morita. You need that guy. That guy was unbelievable. That just ruined my day.

Crave Online: Did you go through fanboy boot camp?

Chris Marquette: No, I mean, all of us are all these characters. I'd say more so, Baruchel's got the best memory I'd say out of anyone I've ever met, as far as just remembering the names. My favorite joke the entire movie is when we're in the Lucas ranch, he picks up the Willow book and he goes, "Kaya." It's literally this two second part that I'd never thought about and would probably never think about until the day I die unless he had said something of the wife talking to somebody else in the beginning of the movie. It's like this really small part and I remember thinking, "Where is that [from?]" It resonated this huge bell in my head. Baruchel's like, "Come on, man, the family." I was like oh, yes.

Sam Huntington: And we had Kyle too who was just this wealth of information about all that is geekdom.

Chris Marquette: Adam Goldberg the writer, Ernie Cline.

Sam Huntington: And I'll tell you what, Fogler too. Fogler knows everything.

Chris Marquette: Every Han Solo line.

Sam Huntington: He's a really big Star Wars fan so he was tremendously helpful. I'm probably the least, like I love Star Wars but I'm not like uberfan like the rest of the guys are.

Chris Marquette: Which is kind of perfect. It's kind of appropriate. It's kind of really natural and perfect.

Crave Online: How was it to do "I love you" "I know" with Carrie Fisher?

Chris Marquette: That was the best. I know. I was just sort of rethinking, because we filmed this thing three years ago, so I really haven't thought about it but I just remember sitting alone in my hotel room the next day and being like, "I can't believe as an actor in my life I got to grow up and say that line on camera to the person that said the line."

Sam Huntington: I think people are going to sh*t themselves. I think people, when they see this stuff, they are going to love it. Honestly, all the little tiny references, there are so many little just homages, that one and the Judge Reinhold stuff with Billy Dee Williams. God, it's just endless.

Chris Marquette: I think people are going to absolutely kid out.

Crave Online: Did you bring any of your own childhood tidbits to use in the film?

Sam Huntington: I did one. I had one and it's cut out of the movie. It's in the deleted scenes though which I'm very happy about. It's on Comcast right now. You can actually see the scene. It's one of the deleted scenes on Comcast. Anyway, it's the six fingered man thing. We roll up to the gate at the Skywalker Ranch and the whole scene is now cut. There's a guard there and I tell him, "My name is Inigo Montoya." He continues to talk to us, or me, and at one point he holds up his hand and he's got six fingers. He's the six fingered man from The Princess Bride.

Crave Online: Oh, we know.

 
Sam Huntington: I dug it but it was cut out. It's funnier than the way I just pitched it by the way.

Crave Online: How disheartening was it to do reshoots where suddenly you don't have cancer anymore and there's a different director?

Chris Marquette: I don't think I'll ever be asked that question ever again? Yeah, it sucked and it stung but what I had to remind myself of is as an actor, this isn't your movie. As an actor, your only job hopefully at the end of the day is to cross your fingers and hope that whatever you committed to and did on camera, somebody will put into an editing room, put some music behind it and make it look good. You can't do anything but what you do. So at the end of the day, it was like yeah, I did this part and that was cool and that's what I committed to doing and if you want to take it out, that sucks for me.

Sam Huntington: It was just weird. It seems completely out of the blue. And now we're back, so it was like this whole big diversion from what we actually ended up making.

Crave Online: Do you have a favorite reference?

Sam Huntington: I really like the trash chute. I've been saying all day my favorite scene is the trash chute scene, the trash compactor scene. I think that's just really funny. I love that reference because that's, to me, one of the scenes that sticks out so much from Star Wars. The fact that we got to kind of recreate that, and the way it looks, the way the set was dressed, just down to everything I think was just really funny.

Crave Online: Did you have any Princess Leia fantasies? Dan's was eating his way to her in a vat of ice cream.

Sam Huntington: That is hilarious. Breyer's mint chocolate chip?

Chris Marquette: Only Fogler.

Sam Huntington: Well, I used to have the gold bikini. I used to wear it to bed.

Chris Marquette: I used to fantasize about Sam Huntington in a gold bikini.

Sam Huntington: Kristen Bell aside.

Chris Marquette: No, I don't know. Princess Leia was one of my biggest crushes as a kid, so I have all the action figures and posters. Yeah, I don't know. I got to kiss Princess Leia and that was like a dream come true. I don't know if I've ever thought about eating ice cream until I dug my way to reach Princess Leia.

Sam Huntington: That is really funny. You can't top that. You shouldn't have said anything. You should have been like, "Dan said some stupid bullsh*t. So what's your opinion?"