OK, you can't mention Eric Danes name without thinking back
to his roles as Doctor Mark Sloan AKA Mcsteamy.
We know on that serious
Grey's Anatomy, he also LED a double life as the
very,
very complicated Cal Jacobs on Euphoria.
So now Eric is starring in Bad Boys Ride or
Die.
In this 4th installment of the franchise,
Eric plays the villain. OK who's making life very complicated
for two Miami cops played by Will Smith and Martin
Lawrence.
Come on. We're waiting for this one.
Yes. And you're playing a bad guy.
Yeah. I love the way you put that.
Making life very complicated. What you do?
Miami's top cops. That's what I do.
Do you like playing a villain?
Is that fun for you,
playing the villains? Fun. Yeah.
You get to say and do all the things you
ever wanted to say do without having to experience real
world consequence.
Uh huh. You're very different than some of the characters
you play,
which I think might also be liberating.
Right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm, I mean,
I, I, I try to mix it up.
It's, it's you, you take what's available at times,
but I try to do things that are a complete
departure from from who I am.
And that's, that's kind of the deal,
right? But
I, I'm so not like any of these guys.
It's so funny. Like everybody asks me like,
you're the, you're always playing the villain.
I'm like, I don't get it.
But OK, I'll do it as long as they're available.
OK. What was everyone's reaction when you cut your hair?
This I don't. Is there a reaction?
Do people say, yeah, was
there? I hope, I hope it's a positive reaction,
Yeah. Did you decide to do it for a reason
or just because I did it for a role?
I just did this series in,
in, in Athens called Kabul.
And
I just as I was playing Acia operative and and
I was like,
this is probably a a pretty good idea.
And you know what? It's very low maintenance.
Yes. Do you love it?
You feel liberated
for summer, by the way.
Like you're not getting hot and sweaty back there on.
I agree. It was a utilitarian decision.
OK, We have to talk about this film.
Will Smith, Martin Lawrence. They've been at this
a long time. What was it like to join them
on set?
Was it fun? OK, so I found them to be
super affable and open and two guys that really cared
about the project they were making,
absolute professionals and just guys,
and we were just hanging out and it was fun.
It's like, oh, that's Will Smith.
That's Martin Lawrence. Yeah. But
it was really fun working with them in this film
is real.
I've seen it twice. It's so good.
It's such a fun ride.
It's got the action is kinetic,
the story's got tons of velocity,
the characters are great, and it's got heart.
It's got heart, which is not something you find.
You know what, you have a lot.
You have a lot of heart.
Thank you. You were just talking about your kids,
which is so fun to watch.
You discuss just how they are,
but what is dad life like for you?
Dad, life is at times,
if I really were to look at it under a
microscope,
it'd probably be very, very scary with two young girls
in the house,
one 14112
And I was just discussing with Rebecca the other day.
We were like, is it time to let Billy take
an Uber?
And I'm like, are you,
are you kidding me? I mean,
are we there? Well, she's going to high school,
right? And it's wild to think that these tiny humans
are now people,
right? I know. Is that
do you parent them differently?
Are you trying to kind of evolve as they do?
Or do you still see them as your babies?
I mean, I think I'm always going to see them
as my babies.
You know, I don't no matter what the age,
I'm they're always going to be my daughters.
Yeah. How do you not helicopter parent?
Because I think we're we we both have young kids
too.
And sometimes you're like, let them be,
let them figure it out.
Yeah. You know, I don't know if we're creating a
a generation of fear based kids,
but you know, when when we were younger,
it was like, you know,
we had to figure everything out.
See when you got me one that got dark out.
Yeah, yeah. And sometimes it was dangerous and we just
had to deal with it.
But
and then you didn't have a failure to launch like
you were independent enough to move the world.
Well, yeah, You started to understand what guardrails you were
able to put up for yourself.
Like, we're as parents, we put up the guardrails and
the kids aren't allowed to create their own.
And when you let them go out into the world
and figure out what works and what doesn't work,
then they get to create their own guardrails.
I love that. It's good.
OK. We. I love Euphoria.
Thank you. I'm like a lot of people that are
waiting.
I know it's such a great show.
And I hate to ask you because you probably don't
know,
but what? What's happening? Well,
so we pushed off of
2024. Yeah. OK. So we're looking at
2025, and I'm optimistic that it's going to come back.
There's a real appetite for that show out there,
and it's just too good
to let go of. Yeah.
You know, Did you, could you tell that was going
to be a special project from from the jump?
Yeah. Yes. The writing was spectacular.
Yeah,
and isn't he nice? He's very such a nice.
Just
thinking about him while we're sitting here.
You really are. Yeah. We just want to say thank
you for coming to see us.
I love coming this time.
So every time. Yeah. That motorcycle thing you got going
on that comes out August 8th.
Yeah. Things are happening. It's all it's fun right now.
Very cool. We're happy for you,
Eric. Y'all. I feel like Bad Boys could be one
of the one of the films of the summer,
if not the film Bad Boys Ride or Die hits
theaters this Friday.
Coming up next, George Clooney and Brad Pitt reunite on
the big screen and Nicole Kidman starring in a fun
new ROM com.
Can't wait for that right after this.
You're such a nice yes.
Like that's it.