0:00
All right.
Search this video
0:00
This does make me want to like Okay.
0:04
It's that part of the trip, you know. Yes, exactly.
0:06
Truly, this is the part where you're like Okay. Okay, I'm in this now.
0:19
Hey, what's going on everybody?
0:19
From First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
0:21
It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
0:24
And today we're joined by Zoë Kravitz.
0:26
She's an actress, model, and musician you know from projects like Mad Max: Fury Road and HBO's Big Little Lies.
0:32
She also stars in High Fidelity, a new series from Hulu, which is set to release on Valentine's Day. That's February 14th.
0:37
Zoë Kravitz, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me.
0:42
How are you around spicy food?
0:42
How are you feeling going into this? I love spice.
0:44
I love spice a lot, but I am scared right now. Mhm. Okay. Follow cake.
1:21
So, as we mentioned, you have a new comedy show on Hulu, High Fidelity, where you play this record shop owner who's preoccupied with past breakups. Mhm.
1:29
I know you're a self-described music nerd.
1:31
What is the proper way to sort records?
1:33
Is it alphabetical, chronological, or autobiographical?
1:37
I mean, autobiographical is pretty dope.
1:39
It's also like slightly psychotic.
1:39
Um but probably the most interesting way because you have to remember where they came from, where you were in your life.
1:48
I am not able to do this, by the way, but I think it's a really cool thing if you can pull it off.
1:52
Have you ever given any thought to that great High Fidelity quote, "What came first, the music or the misery?"
1:56
Like, have you ever given any thought to whether or not we're miserable so we listen to pop music or we're miserable because we listen to pop music?
2:07
I think it's a chicken or the egg situation, man.
2:08
I really don't think there's a proper answer.
2:09
I think it's like a vicious cycle. Oh, sweet. Got a kick though.
2:24
I'm [ __ ] scared right now, bro.
2:28
One of the many amazing videos on your Instagram is one where you're dancing and singing along, blasting R&B, and eating a burrito. Yeah.
2:37
As someone who actually grew up on a vegan diet, are we living in like a golden age of veganism or is it kind of becoming a parody of itself? It's a good question. So, I did grow up vegan. I'm not vegan anymore.
2:49
I'm trying to be better for the environment.
2:53
People assume that I'm vegan because I don't know, they think I'm like a hippie or something.
2:56
So, I think I kind of rebelled against that.
2:57
I mean, I do wish there was like a world where vegans didn't have to If you go to Cafe Gratitude or something, which has delicious food, I don't want to be asked the question of the day. I just don't want that.
3:08
I want you to just give me food.
3:11
If you like look at places like by Chloe or whatever, there's this whole windfall of like vegan offerings where it could be like sloppy Joe's or mac and cheese or like there's that Impossible burger.
3:20
Yeah, I love the Impossible burger. Right.
3:21
So, it's like this whole new thing where it's like maybe it's not like a health choice necessarily or an environmental choice necessarily.
3:26
Like, there's 10,000 different reasons to go there.
3:30
I feel like we should open like like I want to go to like a dirty fast food vegan restaurant.
3:34
Like, just ugly fluorescent lighting, dirty.
3:37
I don't want any [ __ ] wind chimes. You know what I mean?
3:41
Like, I feel like people should be able to just have like the McDonald's experience with vegan food.
3:45
And I think that's right around the corner. We can make it happen.
3:48
Speaking of right around the corner, Okay.
3:59
It's chill, which is scaring me.
3:59
I feel like it's about to become not chill.
4:04
So, I suppose the people would feel short-changed if we didn't take a moment to discuss Big Little Lies.
4:07
Is the Monterey 5 group chat still active? It is. Yeah.
4:12
It's so girly, but I feel like there's a lot of like I love you guys with lots of hearts.
4:18
Whatever happened to that deleted scene in season 2 where Reese Witherspoon was supposed to throw ice cream at Meryl Streep? I don't know.
4:26
I don't know why they cut it.
4:27
It was such a bummer because obviously the world needs to see that. Right.
4:31
Um I feel like we should somehow release that to the world.
4:34
I don't know why it was taken out, but um just knowing that Reese threw ice cream at Meryl is good enough, I think.
4:42
What are the mechanics of all those sunset scenes?
4:43
Because it seems like production nothing stresses them out quite like that ticking of natural light. Good question. You know, it's funny.
4:51
There there never was that feeling of we're running out of light, we're freaking out, especially in season 1 and Jean-Marc who really established the natural light look.
4:57
He was just very He would always just figure it out.
4:59
He was always the kind of person that would, you know, if if there's no light, we'll use the light from the car that's in the parking lot in the background. He's super creative.
5:09
So, um yeah, there was never that feeling of we're running out of time, actually.
5:13
And then finally, costume designer Alex Friedberg described your season 1 style as NorCal Bohemian and then your season 2 look is careless, shapeless, and depressed.
5:24
Clothes are a huge part of getting into character.
5:25
I've had certain characters where I couldn't I didn't really feel like that person and then the second I put on those clothes, I felt like, "Oh, okay, I feel it now."
5:32
Um I think that's why I love fashion so much.
5:34
I mean, it's it's self-expression, right?
5:36
So, how how does this person walk and talk is it's all connected to clothing in a way. Ooh, I like this one. This is good. I just like the flavor.
5:51
How do you feel about this? I like this one.
5:53
I'm wondering if they were if they were swapped. Am I right, Chris?
5:58
I think that I think it's like this. Oh. Having tried them.
6:05
You're right, cuz this is that color.
6:07
Classic uh Hot Ones production mix-up.
6:07
I should mention this is our first shoot of season 11.
6:11
I don't know where it's falling in the order, but we got to We got to tighten up, guys. We got to tighten up. Mhm, that's dope. That's a good hot sauce.
6:20
So, as I understand it, you've lived in Williamsburg for 10 years and over that decade it's had a complete transformation.
6:26
What is one thing that outsiders get wrong about Williamsburg and then what's one stereotype that is absolutely right?
6:34
I guess a lot of people think it's Doucheville, USA. That's true.
6:40
Um Um the thing that people get wrong is that I guess Doucheville, USA is actually kind of a nice place to live.
6:49
Out of curiosity, have you ever been to that hot sauce store, Heat N Eat on Wythe in North 8th? I've passed it.
6:54
I've passed it and definitely gets my attention.
6:55
And there's something about it that makes me think it's too Williamsburg. I can't go inside.
7:00
I can't make myself go inside.
7:02
I'm like, of course there's like a [ __ ] hot sauce store here.
7:04
What neighborhood do you think has more influence on style in 2020, Williamsburg or Calabasas? Huh.
7:12
Calabasas, cuz those people have more followers.
7:15
Which is the better city to be a musician, LA or New York City?
7:19
If you could import one LA institution to Brooklyn, what would it be? Sushi Park. Sushi Park. You heard it here first.
7:31
Are you ready to move on down the line? Zoe Kravitz.
7:34
All right, so this one is the Los Calientes Rojo.
7:43
Mhm, I like this one's cool.
7:46
So we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that gram where we have our guest explain some of the deep dive pictures on their Instagram.
7:51
But I want to start with your bio which is try not to be an [ __ ] since 1988.
7:55
How's that going for you?
8:00
It's like a day-by-day thing.
8:02
Yeah, I mean I think like most people I can be kind of an [ __ ] sometimes.
8:06
Um you know, social media people often try to um appear perfect and I guess that's me saying I'm not perfect.
8:13
In fact, I'm a little bit of an [ __ ] but I'm trying not to be and that's kind of the journey of life.
8:19
And that's what's important.
8:19
All right, on to the picture Zoe.
8:21
Here you are with an owl on your head.
8:23
Is this at one of those owl cafes? indeed. I went to Japan.
8:27
I heard about these owl cafes and I was fascinated and shit's crazy man.
8:32
You like sit there and they give you tea and then they they just put the owls on you in different places and it's it's an owl cafe. It's weird.
8:42
I've always understood owls to be like semi dangerous birds of prey.
8:46
They probably could scratch the [ __ ] out of the claws on that thing.
8:48
I look pretty chill, but I was not chill.
8:51
I was freaking out a little bit in that picture.
8:55
All right, this next picture Yeah.
9:00
feels like it could use some explanation.
9:02
Um so when I was a kid I was a Britney Spears fanatic for obvious reasons and my father was really good is really good friends with Mark Seliger the photographer who took this photo and he came into town and surprised me and brought me to the photo shoot to meet Britney.
9:16
On the Oops I Did It Again cover shoot?
9:18
Yeah, it's [ __ ] iconic.
9:20
And then finally we have one more for you.
9:24
Haters will say it's photoshopped.
9:26
Okay, so when we were shooting season 2 we were in Monterey and we had a midway party where we went bowling and I went to go get Shailene and I um more beer and then I guess they they took the photo while I was gone and then this photo got posted on Instagram and went totally viral and I was like [ __ ] man you go to the bar for 5 minutes and And they cut you out of the picture. not in the photo.
9:48
So then yeah I I photoshopped myself into the photo cuz I'm I'm a loser.
9:55
Who's the best bowler in this group? Maybe Reese. Not Nicole.
10:05
Meryl was pretty good but [ __ ] Meryl's good at everything it's upsetting.
10:08
I think she when whenever she got a gutter we were all like yes because it was so nice to see her not like get an award for best bowler or something. Is it creeping for you? It's creeping for me.
10:24
I'm scared of how chill I feel right now.
10:25
I feel like I'm going to like karma's going to [ __ ] me up on the second half. Okay.
10:31
Despite you and your family being considered the paradigm of cool across generations, I've heard you say that you relate more to being a a nerd or like a goofball.
10:39
Do you think that it's maybe impossible for anyone to think of their parents as being cool no matter what the outside world thinks of them?
10:50
I think when you're younger yes.
10:50
Now I think my parents are very cool for probably different reasons that the rest of the world does but yeah as a kid there's just there's just no way. You cannot win.
11:00
I mean my father would do cool things like bring me to you know see Britney Spears but I was probably like dad take off the knitted shirt man like what are you doing?
11:10
You know a lot of times I think people rebel because their parents are so categorically uncool. Uh-huh.
11:15
Do you think that maybe there's a part of you that would rebel because they were too cool?
11:21
I mean I used to joke about being a lawyer.
11:24
Um and I didn't get tattoos for till I was 19 or 20. That was rebellion.
11:31
Right cuz you almost want to go the opposite direction.
11:34
get a tattoo and it won't piss them off.
11:36
They'd be like, "Oh, cool. Who'd you go to? What'd you get?"
11:37
You know, it's like there's nowhere to go.
11:40
You know what I think this is like? Ooh, what happened? What just happened? I was looking.
11:45
I was like, I have three left, but there's four sauces.
11:49
Okay, your [ __ ] ticket is done. It's Dayo Dayo's stuff.
11:52
I feel like this show is like doing drugs with somebody. Right.
11:57
a psychedelic experience.
11:57
But also in the way where you sit down with someone and you know you're about to go through something together. Right.
12:03
And you're it kind of talking each other through it. I'm like a a shaman.
12:08
yes, you're you're the hot sauce food trip here. All right.
12:13
All right, this one's Stargazer, speaking of trippy. All right.
12:22
These vegan wings are very spongy.
12:24
But they're chewy as [ __ ] Mhm. Yeah.
12:27
So, when we had Shia LaBeouf on the show, he gave us some advice for finding the right kind of vintage tee.
12:33
Unpredictably, he said that the key is to look for shape. That's true.
12:37
Like some t-shirts are too boxy.
12:38
It's usually how they fit in the under the armpit, I feel like.
12:41
You want them to be slimming. I go to thrift stores.
12:44
There's a really cool place here in LA called um Filth Mart, that's really cool.
12:48
And um nowadays you can look on Instagram, too.
12:52
And if there's something that I want specifically, I'll start looking on eBay and [ __ ] So, I'm surrounded by sneaker obsessives quite a bit in my life, and all of them seem to really respect the loyalty that you have to Sambas. Really? Yeah. That's funny.
13:06
So, I'm so not a sneakerhead.
13:08
So, I have like one pair of a shoe.
13:10
I think I'm wearing the same pair I think I have one pair, and I just continue to wear them.
13:13
But I think super fancy sneakers are too They're just like too much going on. Sambas are classic.
13:20
They like blend into your outfit. I wear a lot of Dickies.
13:23
I feel like they they look good with Dickies.
13:25
The fashion sites, there's tons of them that are just lying dedicated to the style evolution of Zoe Kravitz. So if you'll humor me. Oh, no.
13:34
What I want to do is show you some throwback show you some throwbacks and I'm just wondering how they hit your eyes now in 2020, okay?
13:43
So here you are in 1997 MTV Movie Awards.
13:47
Literally wearing the jacket I'm wearing right now. Literally? No, but could be.
13:53
Also maybe it looks like a ring pop. Oh my god, is it? Maybe, I don't know. Ooh, look at my toes. I'm I was cool. This is a cool outfit.
14:01
I would wear this outfit right now.
14:04
Let me show you another one.
14:04
Here you are, this looks like 2002 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
14:10
Like why are you bringing your kid to that? Um Oh god.
14:15
Do you remember that look? Yeah. This is a bummer. This is a bummer.
14:19
I was a victim to the Kangol hat.
14:22
Which is something that only Samuel L. Jackson should wear.
14:24
No one else except for You heard it here. Samuel L.
14:27
Jackson should wear this hat.
14:29
Oh, I'm Okay, I have a bag made out of candy wrappers or something.
14:32
Look, man, I was confused.
14:35
This is a confusing time, but also what's my dad wearing? Also what's he wearing?
14:39
That could have been a good wing.
14:39
That could have been a good game.
14:40
What is my dad wearing with Zoe Kravitz? wearing? All right, this one.
14:44
Where do you stand on vests now? Oh, no.
14:49
You were bullish back in 2005. What am I doing? Who are you? What are you doing? Go home. Where are your friends?
14:55
Why didn't they tell you? All right, Zoe Kravitz. What's up?
15:00
Do I just Can I just Sure, you can keep them.
15:04
To remind me what not to do. up to you.
15:08
This next one is the bomb beyond insanity.
15:10
Sky, my friend Sky Look at her. Look at her. She's freaking out. She's scared. So you brought a friend.
15:16
Yes, I brought my best friend in the world, Sky, who I've literally known since I was She was there when I was born.
15:21
She was in the room when I was born because her father and my father old friends and she's 6 months older than me so she was in the room.
15:29
So we are lifelong friends and she's obsessed with the show.
15:31
She's the reason I wanted to do the show.
15:34
Thanks for the referral, Sky.
15:37
She's losing her [ __ ] Sky's losing her [ __ ] And she was hyped for the bomb.
15:41
Yes, she's just like, "You're going TO TRY THE BOMB? OH MY GOD!"
15:42
SO SKY, this is this is for you.
15:58
I just don't like the way this tastes. Right.
16:04
Oh, this is about to [ __ ] me up. I see you. I see you. All right.
16:13
This is just make me want to like Okay.
16:17
It's that part of the trip, you know? Yes, exactly.
16:19
Truly, this is the part where you're like, "Okay. Okay, I'm in this now."
16:25
I don't know what specific drug that was, but Well, speaking of, that's such a poetic segue.
16:31
Cuz in your years of going to Burning Man, I'm curious, what's the craziest thing you've ever seen?
16:34
When we had Cara Delevigne on the show, she said that she saw two people having sex, but wasn't sure if it was an art installation.
16:42
gnarly [ __ ] Just give me a minute. I want to like Sure. Like absorb it all. experience it.
16:49
I am going to take my jacket And this is the part where I say effect, by the way. I'm totally fine.
16:55
Be careful around your eyes. Don't touch your eyes. Yeah. Sky told me that. She prepped me.
17:02
Is this This is also the part in the show where like you guys do that thing to my voice where it's like echoing and [ __ ] There was one time where it was like 7:00 in the morning and we hadn't gone to sleep yet and then all of a sudden a
17:16
hot air balloon came down and these people jumped out and I think they handed us like grilled cheese sandwiches or something and it was dope because we were so hungry and hung over and the cool thing about Burning Man is that you get what you need magically. Do you have any thoughts on like Mark
17:29
Do you have any thoughts on like Mark Zuckerberg helicoptering into Black Rock City or like Jeff Bezos bringing private chefs and stuff?
17:35
Like do Instagram influencers and like tech tycoons are they kind of like threatening the spirit of Burning Man?
17:41
Yeah, I mean when I first went there was no cell phone service, no one had the you know you couldn't have iPhones.
17:44
So there was it was a really safe space so you could walk around half naked on acid and it was fine.
17:51
I wouldn't do that now personally because I would be scared someone was taking a you know a picture or something which is a bummer.
17:56
And then there's also just like this communal feeling.
18:00
You know there's these things called art cars and you can jump on and jump off and anyone can jump on and jump off and I remember going a few years ago and a few friends of mine jumped on a car and some girls were like this is private actually and we were like this this that's not how this works [ __ ] Like what are you doing?
18:16
You know I'm happy that powerful people with money and influence are choosing to hopefully expand their minds.
18:22
I think that's cool but I think if you're going to go to something like that you should try and honor what it's about.
18:27
And again if you're going to bring a five star chef do it but give food to whoever wants it. Hey. You know. That's what I'm saying. All right Zoe. On to number nine. Nose is running. Me too. You and I both.
18:47
The widow maker you kill your husbands with this [ __ ] My taste buds are dead from the bomb. Yeah it's good.
18:57
As someone who's met Prince, opened for Miley Cyrus, and been in a Jay-Z video, do you have a most cherished musical memory in your life?
19:04
Yeah, hanging out with Prince is was always hanging out with Prince.
19:08
Yeah what a what a what a sentence for someone to say.
19:11
Um and and then him performing, too.
19:13
He would have these parties and he'd perform downstairs and Yeah, that's nice. At the house? At his house. It was nuts.
19:19
And then they give you pancakes. It's true.
19:21
It's like the rumors were true.
19:24
You went to a Prince house concert and got pancakes? Yes.
19:26
And it starts at midnight. Excuse me.
19:30
It starts at midnight and then Prince performs and then they give you pancakes.
19:35
It's like that is Disneyland.
19:37
That's what Disneyland should really be.
19:40
Which is a more intense fan base, Harry Potter fans or X-Men fans? Batman fans.
19:45
You're feeling that already? I'm feeling the heat. No pun intended. Um yeah.
19:51
Have you gotten a chance to try on the Catwoman suit yet? I have. It's cool. It's really cool. The last dab. The last dab. This is the last dab.
20:08
We call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing.
20:13
You don't have to if you don't want to.
20:15
Dude, I haven't even drank water yet. I'm I'm I'm here. I'm ready. I am very humbled. What did you do? that's that's good. That's good. All right.
20:24
Oh, you sound concerned for me. Are you concerned? Sweet cheers.
20:27
Not a not not a not miss no drink no water no milk no beer Zoe Kravitz.
20:30
I'm not worried about you.
20:34
This is so going to [ __ ] me up after you said that. All right.
20:39
Zoe Kravitz, here we are at the summit of Mount Scoville, all the way down the Hot Ones Gauntlet and we've touched on a lot of things that are special and important to Zoe Kravitz.
20:53
But one thing we haven't talked about is your love of friends.
20:55
I know that you spend many a late night binge with friends.
21:00
So now that your brain is on fire, hot sauce circulating through your veins, I'm going to hit you with a quick Friends quiz that was put together by none other than fellow Friends super fan Dominique Burroughs and Hot Ones producer over there. Okay.
21:16
Oh, [ __ ] Hey, clap it up for Clap it up for Dominique.
21:21
All right, what is the Joey special? The Joey Two pizzas. Ding ding ding ding.
21:25
Doesn't even have to give the multiple choice.
21:28
How did Monica and Ross's routine originally end?
21:33
They did this on the New Year's Eve special, right? Yeah. Monica holding Ross.
21:40
Monica catching Ross is correct. One more for you.
21:45
What high school did Rachel, Ross, and Monica attend? Lincoln? The answer is Lincoln.
21:54
And look at you, Zoë Kravitz, knocking down Friends trivia, taking down super spicy vegan wings, and not even a drop of milk, water, or beer to show for it.
22:05
And now, Zoë Kravitz, there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you, my friend.
22:08
This camera, this camera, this camera.
22:10
Let the people know what you have going on in your life. What's up, everybody? No, what's up?
22:15
I have a show called High Fidelity.
22:15
Do I look at all of them?
22:18
You know, it's This is This is up to you.
22:21
It's a choose your own adventure. Okay. Okay.
22:22
I'm going to look at this one. Um what's up?
22:23
I have a show called High called High Fidelity on Hulu.
22:25
It's out February 14th, which is Valentine's Day. UM I FEEL GOOD. GOOD JOB, ZOë. GOOD JOB. THANK YOU. THANKS SO MUCH.
22:37
I'm going to have this beer now for fun. Me too. Cheers. Cheers, my friend. That was dope.
22:48
All right, Sky's trying to do better. Oh, all right.
22:52
I'm shaking and breathing out. Yeah.
22:59
All right, so I'm joined today at the table with Sky who very thankfully referred Zoe to the show.
23:07
Without Sky, perhaps none of this is even possible.
23:10
And you know, after she's done such a great thing for us, we decided, "Hey, we got to return the favor."
23:18
And the way that we did that is by soaking a vegan wing in the bomb.
23:19
And now Sky is going to live the show. Take a moment.
23:27
Wow, this is a big moment. Just take a moment. All right.
23:31
I'm just going to Don't be scared. Okay. Let's go in. You're here.
23:39
All right, Sky, do you remember how you discovered Hot Ones? [ __ ] dude.
23:53
My nose is already Don't touch your face.
23:56
Oh, yeah, my nose Remember what you taught me.
23:57
Woah, this like keeps getting worse and worse. [ __ ] Yeah.
24:13
Hey, what's going on, Hot Ones fans?
24:15
This is Sean Evans, and as you know, you can catch me every Thursday in this little black box interviewing celebrities.
24:21
But what if I told you that there was a show that actually had a decent set where we fed even hotter wings to civilians while asking them trivia questions.
24:31
Well, guess what, my friend?
24:33
That show exists, and it's called Hot Ones the game show.
24:35
Hot Ones the game show on truTV.
24:38
Check your local listings.
24:43
We'll see you in the pepper dome.