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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Conan O’Brien will ruffle Hollywood feathers when Season 2 of his travel series “Conan O’Brien Must Go” takes flight May 8 on Max.
O’Brien, 61, who will return as Oscars host next year, unveiled the premiere of the six-episode season at the raucous, sold-out opening night of the “This Is Not a Fiction” documentary festival on Wednesday.
Among the new adventures, the Spain trip features a tour of Madrid from famed resident Javier Bardem. Bardem’s wife, Penélope Cruz, should be warned: there are scenes of O’Brien and Bardem sleeping together in a hotel bed (in several positions) after an exhausting day of sightseeing. The crashed duo share a bed in matching pajamas.
Speaking after the screening, O’Brien compared his bed interlude with Bardem to a kiss with Ryan Reynolds for a spoof of “The Notebook.”
“So I have slept with Javier Bardem. And a bunch of years ago at Comic-Con, I made out with Ryan Reynolds… then we shot a bit,” said O’Brien, who called his nocturnal Bardem scenes “wonderful.”
“I have these experiences that so many people on my staff envy,” said O’Brien. “They’re like, ‘Wait a minute, you got to sleep with Javier Bardem?’”
Oscar-winning Bardem (“No Country for Old Men”) was enthusiastic about leading O’Brien on the TV tour. What started with one planned stop turned into much more.
“He kept saying, ‘No, we have to do more. I have another idea. Let’s do this,’” said O’Brien. “He doesn’t have enough work.”
In another segment from the season premiere, O’Brien performs a mocking voiceover of Vin Diesel’s dialogue from “The Street Always Wins” scene in “Furious 7.”
“There is the fear of Vin Diesel getting angry. I’ll deal with that when it comes,” said O’Brien. “Sometimes I worry about these things. Then I realize, what are you going to do?”
He made no apologies for being obsessed with the “Furious” clip, which features Diesel’s Dominic Toretto character beating Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw with a seismic boot stomp that destroys a garage.
“I could watch that clip for hours. It makes no sense,” joked O’Brien. “I will just talk about how insane it is that one stomp with his size-three boot would cause that garage to collapse.”
The new season features more global high jinks as O’Brien visits his fans in New Zealand and Austria.
The travel series has already been renewed for a third season in a politically charged global climate. “Now that America is loved more than ever, I’m looking forward to being an ambassador,” he said sarcastically. “If nothing else, people can take out their aggression and rage on me.”
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