Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh Go Head-to-Head | Track Star Versus

- Who is the bigger music aficionado? - I don't, I mean, I love music. - I know, for a hundred, one thousand million percent. - It depends on what we're, are we playing a concerto? - This is gonna be ritual humiliation, but I'm happy to. - Which classical works were created in the '80s? Not many, I imagine, so we'll see. - Before we start the music, can you just introduce yourselves? - My name is Ryan Reynolds and I am the co-star of a film called Mayday, which is on Apple TV. - And I'm Kenneth Branagh and I am the other guy in Mayday with the gorgeous Ryan Reynolds on Apple TV now. - Okay, are you ready? - Yeah. - Whoever gets the artist first wins. ♪ Pressure ♪ - David, David McQueen's feet! - Yes, yes! - Foot-footering, David Bowie. - But, you know, some people would fall for the vanilla ice trap. ♪ Ice, ice baby ♪ ♪ Ice, ice baby ♪ - You almost did. - How did you know? - I just could tell. - Really? - I could tell, you were kind of doing a little impression. - Do we have time for a 30 second anecdote? - Please. - So, okay, I'm 22, 23, I'm on my first press tour for a movie called Van Wilder. I'm in Cologne, Germany. And I'm like jet lagged, I go to sleep, this next door, oh my God, it's like a racket, a party, I don't know what's happening, it's great. And suddenly like this 22, 23 year old guy, me, I'm like an old man, I'm like I wanna go knock on the door and be like, "You kids, keep it down over there, get off my lawn!" I'm about to go over there and knock on the door and I just think better, I can't be that guy. I'm too young for this shit. So I go back, I try to go to bed, wake up the next morning, I come out, I'm like, just shuffling up, crappy sleep, all this stuff. The door opens on the other room, and out comes David Bowie. - Did you upbraid him? - Walks right past, hits me with that heterochromia, the boom! Hello! And I just like. - Come on, I'll give it to you, Ryan. - Please, Every Breath You Take. - Yes, so I was listening to that song before, and I was noticing that the beat is off. - It is! - Is it different from the guitar? - Yes! - There's a term for that. - It's like something with syncopation or asyncopation or something like that. - Everybody thought it was a kind of love song, and then it became understood as a song, a stalker song, stalker song. - I've tried to use it in maybe seven movies. - Hard to get? - No, no, music in a movie is very, you can, I'll tell you this, it's very hard, what works in your head, and I love a needle drop in a movie. Boy, how do I love a needle drop. - Yeah, join the club. - And you know, it works in your head, it doesn't necessarily work to picture, and you just end up cycling. - Right, yeah. - And then in the middle of the night, something, oh, that's the song! And then it works, you know, it finally works. - I really remember where I was when I first heard that. I was in Sydney, Australia, and I was 22 years old. I was alone, I'd just arrived from London. I was very homesick, and then I heard this song, which was so catchy that it caught my attention and cured my homesickness for a while, even though, of course, I did not wish to be stalked at that point. - No! - But I did enjoy a terrific pop song. - It's one to one. - It's only one, isn't it? - Let's play it for a second, please. - I think it's gonna be very sad at this point, don't you? I suppose it is so mournful, isn't it? - Do we just tie this one up? - Same time, three, two, one. - Cyndi Lauper. - Cyndi Lauper. - Thank you very much. - Icon. - Icon. - Icon. - There was a viral video of her years ago, like maybe five years ago, where she was waiting for a plane and she was stuck at like LaGuardia or some hellhole, and she grabbed the mic and sang that song. ♪ Come up in the morning light ♪ ♪ My mama gave me another fortune ♪ ♪ It's what a girl should be ♪ - She also does the wackiest video if her girls just wanna have fun with unusual dance moves, including the, she would just. - Oh yeah, she's, and the lip, the lip goes up a lot. - What about this one? ♪ Don't get ♪ - I don't know it yet. I know the song, I just don't know it. - She's an American. - Oh. - But she lives in the UK. - Of course. ♪ It's an American girl ♪ - Bowie, right? - This song? - Isn't this an American girl? - Who is this? - You got it. - Oh, oh, oh. - Pretenders. - Yes. - It's Chrissy Hines. ♪ Whenever you want me ♪ - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Chrissy Hines, she moved over to England, to London, when she wanted to be part of the scene. Sex Pistols, punk rock. - Yeah, yeah. She remains like this sort of pioneer, just a, I don't know, rock idol. - Where punk rock turned into pop, I mean, nothing. Nothing like it. - Did you like UK punk, jam, or? - I do, much when I was older. I didn't love it as much when I was younger. - Yeah. - I liked big, soaring, thematic, anthemic kind of pop when I was younger. - Yeah. - And then as I got older, I still liked the anthemic pop. Like, I, you know. I get upset when people are like too cool for everything. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You know, I just, but I, boy, man. - I agree. - I love a ballad. - Oh, man, have you ever done, have you ever sort of rocked out to Total Eclipse of the Heart? - I haven't rocked out. I've karaoke'd that one. - I don't like karaoke, but I had to, 'cause it's Total Eclipse of the Heart. - And it takes about three hours of your time, doesn't it? - Oh, I know. - I mean, from start to end. And if you think of what Bonnie goes through when she does that. - Imagine Don Henley trying to sing American Pie over and over again. - Oh, my God. - There's a 15, 20 minute song right there. ♪ I don't want to ♪ - Oh, oh, oh, this is George. - Oh, my God, wham. - When I was maybe, I was probably about 22 as well, I went out to dancing all night with Sandra Bullock and George Michael. I'd known Sandy for a while, but I did not know George. And it was one of the greatest, greatest dance of my life. - Good dancer. - He was on the dance floor a little bit, but it was just mild. - Yeah. - He wasn't like, shaking it. But I just kept going, that's George Michael. I'm dancing right next to George Michael. - I met him once on a plane. Very nice, he didn't know me from a bar of soap, but it was a very nice interchange of just thank you for what you've done. You're very welcome, thank you. How are you, how's your day? Very nice, thank you. - I would be pretty impressed meeting Andrew Ridgely, too. - Well, I bet he'd be impressed by meeting you, too. - When's the movie out? - September 4th. - September 4th, that's very soon. - It's any day, it's now, that's today probably. - That's probably today. - Are we kicking ass? - Yes, awesome. - Are we kicking ass, are we laughing? - This man is saving my ass, the whole movie, while kicking other ass. - Action, comedy, comedy, action, action, comedy, comedy, action. - Oh, it's wild. - Come on! - Yeah, it's everything you want in a buddy action comedy anymore. - It's fun, it's really a stripper. - It's fun, it's a really bloody funny film. We're tickled pink to be in it, we're very proud of it, and we hope people bloody love it. - Thank you. - Thank you. - Jack, thank you for having us. - Great to meet you guys. - That was phenomenal. That was a lot of fun. ♪ I don't want your freedom ♪ ♪ I don't want to play around ♪