Joe Rogan Experience #1871 - Jon Peters

Jon Peters is a veteran Hollywood film producer and executive. His credits include such films as "Batman," "Tango and Cash," "Superman Returns," and "A Star is Born."

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(drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast,…
1. JPJon Peters
  (drumming music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (upbeat music) All right, we're up and rolling. (clapping)
3. JPJon Peters
  This is the first interview I've ever done except for Barbara Walters 30 years ago.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Holy shit.
5. JPJon Peters
  When the first question she asked me was, I was with Streisand at the time, she said, "Are you a hustler?"
6. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
7. JPJon Peters
  And I said, "If you mean do I hustle every fucking day of my life? Yes, I'm a hustler."
8. JRJoe Rogan
  What does that mean, are you a hustler? What was she implying?
9. JPJon Peters
  That I was using Barbra.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
11. JPJon Peters
  That I was a, a hairdresser with the biggest star in the world.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Isn't that crazy? She would never dare ask that question if you were a woman.
13. JPJon Peters
  No.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  And, and, you know, you were with Roger Moore or whatever.
15. JPJon Peters
  Yeah. Oh, yeah.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, never.
17. JPJon Peters
  She was angry, you know, and, uh, yeah, she was angry.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  That's a wild question to ask someone. Like, a- a person who's a hairdresser can't fall in love with, uh, some famous singer?
19. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  That's not possible?
21. JPJon Peters
  Yeah, well, you see-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, are they, are they out of reach?
23. JPJon Peters
  And... Yeah, I think that the fact that I was making decisions for her, or not making decisions, I was creating alternatives for her, and she was like, "Yeah, man." Star is Born was something that when I first read it, I called her and I said, "I read this thing." She goes, "You schmuck, it's been made three times before." And she hung up the phone on me. That was 1976 with, you know-
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
25. JPJon Peters
  And that's when I met Elvis.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  I went through your IMDb. Holy shit, have you produced a lot of movies.
27. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
29. JPJon Peters
  A lot of marijuana, man. (laughs)
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
15:00 – 30:00
It was way too…
1. JPJon Peters
  know.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  It was way too big.
3. JPJon Peters
  He got to 241-
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
5. JPJon Peters
  ... I went to 281. I'm now down, I gotta lose another 30 pounds (laughs) since I, you know.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  What are you doing to lose it?
7. JPJon Peters
  Um, h- uh, no food, uh, raw fish and vegetables, and that's it.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Raw fish, huh?
9. JPJon Peters
  Yeah. I love it, man.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah?
11. JPJon Peters
  And I, yeah, my, I have a chef, and she's the greatest chef in the world, and she cooks for me wherever I go. And, and I, yeah, I gotta lose another... I wanna get... I'm 260, I wanna get down to... I'd really like to get down to 200. I'd like to be-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Do you have a trainer?
13. JPJon Peters
  Yeah. Oh, yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  That's important.
15. JPJon Peters
  Brazilian great guy.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  That's awesome.
17. JPJon Peters
  Amazing black belt trainer guy, champion from Brazil. I brought him over. He's fantastic, you know.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  So, you're doing jujitsu with him?
19. JPJon Peters
  As much as I can because I'm all broke up.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
21. JPJon Peters
  My knees-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  So, he's got you doing other stuff, too?
23. JPJon Peters
  Yeah, yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. That's great.
25. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Having someone like that, especially for a guy like you that's very busy-
27. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  ... having someone like, "This is my job."
29. JPJon Peters
  I trained for my life, man. From the more nighttime, I train. I live in my spa. I live in... I've never gone to an office. Everybody resolves around my s- my schnoodle.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
30:00 – 45:00
Yeah. …
1. JRJoe Rogan
  more. I just liked the idea of knocking someone unconscious. It was very exciting to me. (laughs)
2. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  So, that's... So, I got involved in that, and I did that for...
4. JPJon Peters
  There was a, uh, a time when Jerry Bruckheimer was partners with a guy named Don Simpson.Don Simpson was a genius and so is Jerry. Top Gun is one of the best movies I've ever seen in my life, but-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Great fucking movie.
6. JPJon Peters
  ... I, I've seen it 10 times.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Great fucking movie.
8. JPJon Peters
  I just watch it over and over and over and over. It's so damn fucking brilliantly done. It's like, I did Star is Born two years ago. We had the soundtrack, we had the thing, they had everything.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  And at the time, Top Gun was just w- w- blew the roof off the world.
10. JPJon Peters
  It did, but this is better. This one, this one that they did now-
11. JRJoe Rogan
  The new one you think is better?
12. JPJon Peters
  ... is, and, and, I, I do-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  I need to watch it.
14. JPJon Peters
  The, oh, make-
15. JRJoe Rogan
  I haven't watched it yet.
16. JPJon Peters
  The cameras are in the cockpit, man. And they go like this, and you're in the cockpit. And you got the music and you got the score. Talk about a musical, it's a musical.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
18. JPJon Peters
  And he's phenomenal. You're gonna go, "How's he doing that? How's he doing that? How's he doing that?"
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Do they play Highway to the Danger Zone?
20. JPJon Peters
  Yes.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
22. JPJon Peters
  The hair stands from the back of your neck, man. Yeah.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Of course they do, of course they do. (laughs)
24. JPJon Peters
  It's crazy.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  That's amazing.
26. JPJon Peters
  A brilliant movie. I called Bruckheimer, I say, "Look, you're the camp man. I love you." This is a brilliant movie. But see, just like I am with them, the way fighters are with each other, you know-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
28. JPJon Peters
  ... if somebody's good, they're damn good.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Right. Right. Yeah, there's some, look, that's a classic movie. That's a goddamn class. But do you have a favorite out of all the movies you've done?
30. JPJon Peters
  Well, I like Batman because it was one that was, it broke, nobody had any done anything like that before.
45:00 – 1:00:00
(laughs) Well, I love…
1. JPJon Peters
  amazing girls hosting it. It was incredible. He calls me back, almost when it's done, actually it was almost done. We were just done editing. He said, uh, "Can't do it." Uh, "They don't want any outside producers." Um, and I'd already spent 60 grand. So I went, "That's cool, man. I love you." I said, "I don't wanna cause a rift." He said, y- you know, "You said yes right away because you love me, not thinking that the new company has rules. And, uh, I'm a kind of an outlaw in Hollywood, so I get it." And that was that. And he was a mensch too. When I called him, I said, "Look, I need a favor. I really wanna do this before I die." I said, "It's important to me that we speak and then take a look at it and see what I look like, because I w- I don't know really." And, uh, he said, "I'll talk to him." That was it.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) Well, I love Dana to death. So anytime Dana has something like that, I'm down for it.
3. JPJon Peters
  Yeah, that was really sweet.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  He's the best.
5. JPJon Peters
  Yeah, he is.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  I love that guy.
7. JPJon Peters
  I, I do too in a way.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  You know what I say in every weigh-in? I said, "Dana White," when I wanna introduce everybody, I say, "Dana White. Without him, none of this would be possible."
9. JPJon Peters
  None of it. None of it.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. He's, uh... You gotta realize, like, the success that it has now-
11. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  ... a lot of it is that guy's driving force.
13. JPJon Peters
  Heartbeat.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  He's um, a fucking maniac.
15. JPJon Peters
  Heartbeat.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
17. JPJon Peters
  His heartbeat.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  He lives for it.
19. JPJon Peters
  Your heartbeat.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  He lives for it.
21. JPJon Peters
  The Wrestler Guy.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
23. JPJon Peters
  I love him, the heartbeat. Dana, he-
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Dana and I, I'll call him sometimes at like midnight and we'll talk on the phone for like two hours.
25. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Just talk about fights.
27. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  Just talk about fights.
29. JPJon Peters
  Yeah. I can do that too. Not as good as you guys, but-
30. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
1:00:00 – 1:06:04
When I got out…
1. JRJoe Rogan
  into hairdressing?
2. JPJon Peters
  When I got out of juvie, uh, my mother, uh, the judge said, "You have to put him somewhere." So, she put me in beauty school.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
4. JPJon Peters
  And I had shot five guys, and, and-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  You shot five guys?
6. JPJon Peters
  Yeah, yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  How'd you shoot 'em?
8. JPJon Peters
  Yeah. Um, it was an acci- I never said this before.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Five people by accident?
10. JPJon Peters
  Y- yeah, yeah. Well, no, it was a gang fight. It was a fight in s- in s- in San Fernando, and it was like 30 guys. And, uh, um-
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Has the statute of limitations passed on this or should we edit this out?
12. JPJon Peters
  Yes, yes, yes.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  You were out there shooting people.
14. JPJon Peters
  And, and, and, and it was, uh, somebody else's... everybody in wood shop was making a weapon.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) I remember that from high school.
16. JPJon Peters
  Yeah.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, we used to make nunchucks and say they were table legs.
18. JPJon Peters
  Yes, yes, exactly.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
20. JPJon Peters
  And when... yeah, that's what happened, and these, this guy came with these guns and these guys was, and I bang, bang, and then this guy... it was, it was... and then I was like, "Oh my God, what the fu-" That was the changing of my life. That, and when I was in juvie, a guy that I met from Boys Town, which was a, a, a, in the middle of the country, a place where a lot of fucked up kids would go. He came from Boys Town, he ran away, he went to juvie, and they, they weren't supposed to, they weren't supposed to have things and they covered it up, but he tried to get away and they shot him on the fence right in front of me and 30 other guys.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh.
22. JPJon Peters
  And, uh, and, and, uh, he was, uh, "Fuck you." He was, he was... I said, "Man, you're gonna get killed. You gotta shut your fucking mouth. You gotta take it cool. If you're gonna get outta here, you gotta work your way out. You, there's no escaping this." Strong, big, blond haired guy, farmer boy. Years ago, and then I'm getting tired and I gotta go, but, um, uh, years ago, when I was with Lesley Ann Warren, I was... had a beauty shop and it was on the corner of Rodeo and Brighton Way. It was called the John Peters Salon. Uh, uh, um, OJ would come hunt the girls. Everybody'd hunt the girls 'cause I'd have like 40 or 50 beautiful girls getting their hair done all day long. This guy comes in. My mother happened to be working at the desk, and he comes in, in big overalls, big tall guy, and he, um, says, "I'm here to see, uh, Cinderella." You know, Lesley Ann Warren. And I, I came out, I said, "I'm her husband." And he was like a fan of Mission Impossible, whatever it was, I don't remember what at the time. Next thing I know, we went home that night and he had been there, in the colony. He had come to the colony. So I sent out a bunch of my guys 'cause a lot of the hairdressers I had were guys like you. They were tough kids that were smart and they w- and they, and they needed a chance, and they went to beauty school and they got out and they... women were lined up around the block for them.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  It sounds like a movie.
24. JPJon Peters
  It is a mo- my life is like a crazy movie, right?
25. JRJoe Rogan
  That does sound like a movie, a bunch of tough guy hairdressers-
26. JPJon Peters
  Yes, oh yeah.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  ... out there protecting you.
28. JPJon Peters
  Right out in front with all the motorcycles all lined up.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Wow.
30. JPJon Peters
  So-

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