Stars of "The Righteous Gemstones" Danny McBride (Jesse Gemstone) Adam Devine (Kelvin Gemstone), and Edi Patterson (Judy Gemstone) visit WIRED to answer the 50 most googled questions about the show as it enters its final season.
The Righteous Gemstones 4th and final season premieres March 9
Director: Jackie Phillips
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Talent: Adam Devine; Danny McBride; Edi Patterson
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Shay Eberle-Gunst
Sound Mixer: Paul Cornett
Production Assistant: Doug Archibald; Abigayle Devine
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Rachel Kim
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
The Righteous Gemstones 4th and final season premieres March 9
Director: Jackie Phillips
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Talent: Adam Devine; Danny McBride; Edi Patterson
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Lauren Mendoza
Camera Operator: Shay Eberle-Gunst
Sound Mixer: Paul Cornett
Production Assistant: Doug Archibald; Abigayle Devine
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Rachel Kim
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Additional Editor: Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
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00:00Hey, I'm Adam Devine.
00:01Hi, I'm Edie Patterson.
00:02And I am Danny McBride.
00:04And we are here to answer the most googled questions
00:08about the Righteous Gemstones.
00:09Oh, let's dig in.
00:17What state is the Righteous Gemstones set in?
00:20It's pretty simple.
00:20It's set in Rogers, South Carolina,
00:22a fictional South Carolina town.
00:24Yeah, I saw Rogers on the police car
00:26and I didn't know that until like the last season.
00:29I was like, Rogers?
00:30Details.
00:31Yeah, that's what I don't notice.
00:33It's out.
00:34Get that out of here.
00:35What year is the Righteous Gemstones set in?
00:37I think it's now.
00:39Yes, it's now.
00:40Whatever now equals.
00:41Some people think 1862.
00:43A lot of people think that.
00:45Surprisingly, it's right now.
00:46Yeah, it's our world.
00:49Out of here.
00:50Where's the Righteous Gemstones filmed?
00:52I know this one.
00:53Charleston, South Carolina.
00:56One of my favorite cities.
00:57I love it there.
00:58Almost moved there.
00:58Should have.
01:00Get it out of here.
01:01Guess what?
01:02I did get a place.
01:03Yeah, she did.
01:04All the smart ones got a place.
01:06Who is the oldest Gemstone's son?
01:09Because it's Googled, I don't think
01:10that they're asking about me.
01:12I think they're asking about Skylar.
01:13Yeah.
01:14Yes.
01:14They're talking about the son.
01:15Oh, yeah.
01:16Yeah.
01:16Skylar is Skylar's son.
01:18Yeah.
01:18That good-looking young fellow.
01:20He's such a honk, dude.
01:21Everyone thinks he's so honky and I would have to agree.
01:24Everyone's all like, oh, he's sweet and he's also cute.
01:26Yeah.
01:27Get over yourself how sweet and cute and also nice he is.
01:30So nice.
01:31What a prick.
01:32How much are the Gemstones worth?
01:34Dollar, dollar bills, y'all.
01:35Net worth.
01:36Okay.
01:36I don't know if we've ever fully discussed this.
01:39They're not billionaires.
01:40They're not.
01:40I don't think they're in the B-Club.
01:42Yeah, I don't think it's in the B-Club,
01:43but I think it's hundreds of millions of dollars.
01:45Yeah, it's huge.
01:46I would agree.
01:46It's hundreds of millions.
01:48Yes.
01:48Yeah.
01:49Get it out of here.
01:51Who sings for Judy?
01:52How dare they?
01:53Okay, what the fuck?
01:54How fucking dare they?
01:56Kiss my ass.
01:57Edie sings for Judy Gemstone, of course.
01:59Give him some.
02:00Hit him with it.
02:01Hit him with it.
02:02I sing for Judy Gemstone.
02:02I go into a studio in Charleston.
02:05I record the song.
02:06Hit him with it.
02:06I sing it on set.
02:08Hit him with it.
02:09Table flip.
02:10Acapella.
02:10Hit him with it.
02:12Oh, hit him with it.
02:14Hit him with it.
02:14Acapella.
02:15Hit him with it.
02:17Butterflies.
02:18Oh.
02:19That's all I get.
02:20That's all you get.
02:21How dare you ask that?
02:22Which Culkin is in The Righteous Gemstone?
02:28That would be Macaulay.
02:29Macaulay.
02:31Does Macaulay have an Academy Award?
02:35No, he doesn't.
02:36That goes to the other one.
02:39Kieran, Kieran?
02:40Macaulay Culkin plays baby Billy's estranged son.
02:44Harmon.
02:44Harmon.
02:45Yep, that's right.
02:46Yeah, our cousin.
02:47Cousin Harmon.
02:48Harmon Freeman.
02:49Little H.
02:50I guess we don't know if his mom gave him
02:52his father's last name, but I think it's Harmon Freeman.
02:54Yeah, yep.
02:55Okay.
02:56Okay.
02:56How did Keith and Kelvin meet?
02:59This is not a stab.
03:00Did you, do you have something cooked up in your nod?
03:03In my head, I had a loose idea.
03:04I thought maybe, you know, you saved him.
03:06Yeah, I'm always cruising satanic cults.
03:09Yeah.
03:09Going undercover.
03:10I feel like Kelvin goes a little undercover,
03:12goes in all black with like the, the, the tears,
03:16the black streaks coming down.
03:18And he's just like, so what's up?
03:20Do you want Christ in your life?
03:22Do you want Jesus to fill your soul?
03:24That's so smirky.
03:25Yeah.
03:26I was like, do you want that?
03:27It worked.
03:27It worked on him.
03:28And it worked on Keith.
03:29It's fantastic.
03:30Yeah, it's cool.
03:30Who is the Righteous Gemstones based on?
03:33It's not one family in particular.
03:35I think it's just, they're their own, their own creation.
03:39Yeah, their own thing.
03:40Part gangster, part minister, you know, no one in particular.
03:44Oh, I have, I have someone very.
03:46You're basing, you base, you base you on somebody.
03:50Yeah, but I won't tell.
03:52Google that.
03:53Yeah, yeah.
03:54Google that.
03:54Yeah, try to Google that.
03:55Get that card out of here.
03:57Who wrote the Righteous Gemstones?
03:59Right here.
04:00Two of them right here.
04:02Here we go.
04:02That's right.
04:03We did it.
04:04And then there's also a writing staff.
04:06Yeah.
04:06There's John Cachuri and Jeff Bradley and Kevin Barnett and Chris Pappas.
04:10Yep.
04:12Nice, nice little crew.
04:13Get that card out of my face.
04:15Wow.
04:15I keep getting very salacious Kelvin questions.
04:19Why does Eli break Kelvin's thumbs?
04:21My take on that would be because Kelvin was being a dick.
04:24Yeah, he's being a salty little bitch.
04:26Yeah.
04:26Yeah, you tried to fight your dad.
04:28Yeah, I did.
04:30I feel like my actual father would also break my thumbs if I did what I did to Eli.
04:36Why does Judy Gemstone always wear blue?
04:39When we shot the pilot, my note to the costume designer,
04:43Sarah Trost, was that each gemstone would be like a Power Ranger,
04:46that everyone would have their own gemstone color,
04:49that their costume would always be connected to.
04:52Green.
04:53You were green.
04:53Yeah, I was green.
04:54Judy was blue.
04:55Jesse was like ruby, you know?
04:57So that's it.
04:58Because they are each a gemstone.
05:00That's what it is.
05:01Boom-ya.
05:02Wow.
05:02Boom-boom.
05:03Boom-ya.
05:05I've never heard boom-ya before.
05:07This is why he's the creator.
05:09Boom-ya.
05:09These crazy fun words.
05:12These worlds to live in.
05:14Boom-ya.
05:14How many kids does Jesse Gemstone have?
05:17Boop, boop, boop.
05:19That we know of.
05:20Three.
05:20That we know of.
05:22I think three.
05:23Me too.
05:23There could be a hidden one, right?
05:24Yeah.
05:25But there's probably three.
05:25There could be a hidden one.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Pre-established.
05:28Okay, get this out of my face.
05:29Another Kelvin question.
05:33Does Kelvin Gemstone come out?
05:36Yes, he does.
05:37Yes, he does.
05:39Oh, this is a good one.
05:40Who killed Scotty in The Righteous Gemstones?
05:43It was Aunt Tiffany.
05:44Blew his head off by accident.
05:46Oh, that's right.
05:46Yeah.
05:47Oh my god.
05:48Yep.
05:50Classic Aunt Tiff.
05:51Oh, get that card out of my face.
05:53Why did baby Billy leave his son?
05:55Okay, I mean, this is layered.
05:56All right, deep.
05:57Wow.
05:59We can boil this down to like,
06:00that's just kind of what that dude's gonna do.
06:04Yeah, for sure.
06:06I don't know if there was a particular reason.
06:08I guess you could, in that episode, trace it back to like,
06:11I don't know.
06:12He was not wanting to be with the son's mom anymore.
06:15Yeah, I think that he was disappointed in who he is.
06:18And I don't think he thought he had what it took
06:19to be a good dad.
06:20So he got out of there.
06:22But it was on himself.
06:23I think he was right.
06:24Yeah.
06:24Yeah, he was right.
06:25I agree with that.
06:27Who shot Eli?
06:28It's interesting that people Google this stuff.
06:30You should just watch.
06:30You could watch the show.
06:31The answers are all in there.
06:32You don't have to, just Google it.
06:34That would be the Cycle Ninjas shot Eli.
06:36They sure did.
06:36That is right.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Hired, though, by somebody else.
06:39Yeah.
06:39Spoiler alert.
06:40Uh-oh.
06:42Spoiler alert.
06:43The show's been out.
06:44You could watch it.
06:44Yeah, it's true.
06:45Boom ya.
06:46Who's your favorite Righteous Gemstone character?
06:49The hard-hitting Qs.
06:51They're asking Google that, huh?
06:52Yeah, they're asking Google.
06:54They're asking who's your favorite.
06:57And Google has the answer.
06:58Yeah.
06:59You know, Keef, I get a kick out of him.
07:01Judy, I think you really make me laugh in your character.
07:06Thanks, Donald.
07:06So sick.
07:09But Harmon.
07:12I think it's Harmon.
07:13Yeah.
07:13Are Kelvin and Keef a couple?
07:15I'd say hard yes.
07:17We're in it to win it now.
07:20Why is BJ always drinking milk?
07:23You know, that was something that was established in the first season,
07:26and we just never went away from it.
07:28We just always had a goblet of milk for BJ.
07:30I'm glad someone noticed that.
07:32That's a nice little touch.
07:33It is.
07:34He needs that calcium, I think.
07:36That's right.
07:36Brittle man.
07:37He's very brittle.
07:38He's a wisp, a little wisp of a man.
07:40If you like finding stuff, too, there's times when BJ will sniff that milk like it's wine.
07:47What is the meaning of the season two finale?
07:50The meaning.
07:51The meaning.
07:52They smoke the competition.
07:53They kill people in the end.
07:55And their love will never die.
07:56You know, that's the meaning.
07:58Love will never die.
07:59That's what it should have been called.
08:00What is the meaning of the season two finale?
08:02Yeah, I don't know.
08:03It's kind of in there.
08:04Yeah, you just watch it.
08:05Oh, what are you doing?
08:06Just get that card out of our face.
08:09What are your favorite jokes or lines from The Righteous Gemstones?
08:14Your monologue, what was that?
08:17Season one or two?
08:18Yeah, season one when you're in that diner.
08:21In the Outback Steakhouse.
08:23Yeah, that was a banger of a monologue.
08:25So watch the show.
08:28Do you remember that entire monologue?
08:30You know, Chonks.
08:31You can do it now.
08:32Butterfly.
08:35The monologues just keep singing.
08:38Get this card out of my face.
08:40Oh, you know what?
08:40I met this dude the other day.
08:42He was like, oh my god.
08:43My friend and I, when we see each other, he lived in New York.
08:46And he was like, we don't say hi.
08:48We go, thank you for meeting me at this neutral location.
08:54They refuse to like hug.
08:56They just like stand and try to say that as seriously as possible.
09:01What year was Judy Gemstone born?
09:04I feel like it's 80.
09:06Is that right?
09:07I'm trying to think of our flashback episodes.
09:10Maybe 79, 80.
09:11Yeah.
09:12That seems like that's in the zone.
09:13Yeah.
09:15Butterflies.
09:16Butterflies.
09:17How much of The Righteous Gemstones is improv?
09:22I would say 12% to 32%, somewhere in there.
09:27I'm a math guy, so that's how my brain works.
09:32Doesn't the whole world know that about Adam?
09:34Yeah.
09:34Yeah, he's a brain guy.
09:35I'm a math guy.
09:36Oh, he's a math guy?
09:37Yeah.
09:37And a brain guy.
09:38Yeah, well, if you're a math guy, you're also a brain guy.
09:40Yeah, of course.
09:41What was the word you made up earlier?
09:42Boom-ya.
09:43Boom-ya.
09:44Boom-ya.
09:44You're a brain guy.
09:45Boom-ya.
09:46Why did Baby Billy leave Tiffany?
09:48You're getting the hard-hitting questions, dude.
09:50I mean, I think it's important that we remember that, ultimately, he didn't leave Tiffany.
09:55And I think, again, this is like, Baby Billy's a damaged dude.
09:59And I think he starts to doubt that he could have any effect on the world,
10:03and any added value or worth to anything.
10:07And sometimes he's just got to get the fuck out.
10:09He's a runner.
10:10They're together now, and I think they're together forever.
10:12They learned.
10:13What happened to Baby Billy's son?
10:15He grew up to be well-adjusted.
10:16He has a couch with cupholders in it, you know?
10:19So he's obviously a well-adjusted fellow.
10:23That's a nice life.
10:24He worked.
10:25That's a nice life.
10:26What are the bugs in The Righteous Gemstones?
10:29Oh, they're talking about the locusts.
10:31The locusts.
10:32Yes.
10:34At first, I thought it meant, like,
10:35what are the glitches you guys encounter during production?
10:39Any camera mishaps?
10:41What did Eli do to Baby Billy?
10:44In Baby Billy's eyes, I think he thinks that he stole his stage partner.
10:49He stole his act, you know?
10:50And then he aligned himself with her.
10:53But really, he just married Baby Billy's sister.
10:55And Baby Billy's a little bitch about that.
10:57Don't be a bitch, Baby Billy.
11:00Why did Gideon leave the family?
11:02I think he was probably the only sane one and saw his insane family.
11:07He's like, I got to get the fuck out of here.
11:09And he was right in doing so.
11:10And then he came back.
11:11And God, I'm happy to have him.
11:14Yep.
11:14I mean, we're talking really cute, really sweet.
11:17God, he's so sweet.
11:18So cute.
11:19Skylar, we love him.
11:20Get this card out of my face.
11:22I feel like we had runs in the show where Judy was really going off about how hot Gideon was.
11:27Yeah.
11:27Right?
11:28Yeah.
11:28Yeah.
11:28Mm-hmm.
11:29Yeah.
11:30Watching him from across the room, talking about how fit he was.
11:32Yeah.
11:33And also, just at the craft service table, Edie would say stuff like that.
11:37Totally.
11:37It was always mentioned in it.
11:39I mean, the thing is, if we're at lunch, or we're at craft services, or I see Skylar
11:45walking in the bathroom, it's not going to be that hard for him to take his shirt off
11:48for me.
11:48It wouldn't be.
11:49It shouldn't be.
11:50Yeah, it shouldn't be.
11:51Who's the bad guy in The Righteous Gemstones?
11:52Ooh, the bad guy.
11:53Great question.
11:54We've had a few.
11:55Mm-hmm.
11:55We've got a handful of bad guys.
11:56Every season, there is an adversary or foe that is unique to that season.
12:02But a lot of times, I think who gets in The Righteous Gemstones way the most are themselves.
12:07Wow.
12:08Yeah.
12:08Boom ya.
12:08Boom ya.
12:10Does Walton Goggins actually sing in Righteous Gemstones?
12:12The answer is yes.
12:14Of course he does.
12:15We all do.
12:17Edie, chill.
12:18Jesus, you threw that one hard, dude.
12:20Yes.
12:21I felt Edie's rage.
12:22Yeah.
12:23Why did Kelvin kiss Keith?
12:25Oh.
12:25Because of them soft lips.
12:27In the last season three, Towards the End, that was the second to last episode, that
12:33wasn't scripted.
12:34And then-
12:35Well, it was scripted, but it was an alt script.
12:37We weren't sure if we were going to bridge that in the fourth season or if it was going
12:40to be the end of the third.
12:41And that was my second or, I think, first or second day shooting that season.
12:46And I'm like, we're in it.
12:48I'm already kissing my buddy at work.
12:50It's going to be a hell of a season.
12:53Who blackmailed Jesse Gemstone?
12:55Who didn't?
12:56His own child.
12:57It's disgusting.
12:58It's disgusting.
13:00Why is Gideon helping Scotty?
13:02I think Gideon is disappointed in his family.
13:04And I think he feels a little bit betrayed by the fact that they don't practice what
13:08they preach.
13:08So I think he sees Scotty as a way to maybe get some revenge on his family and has led
13:15down a bad path, unfortunately.
13:16Yeah.
13:17And then Tiffany blows Scotty's brains out.
13:21Do Judy and BJ stay together?
13:24Oh, yeah.
13:24I think she would kill him before she allowed him to leave.
13:28So absolutely, they're together.
13:31Yes.
13:32Who is the mother of Judy Gemstone?
13:34Amy Lee Gemstone, who is also the mother of Jesse Gemstone and Kelvin Gemstone.
13:38What's up, what's up?
13:39What's up, what's up?
13:40Amy Lee, boom-yah.
13:41Boom-yah.
13:42Who plays young Jesse Gemstone?
13:45We have some incredible actors that play the young versions of us.
13:48Gavin plays young Jesse Gemstone.
13:51Who plays young Judy?
13:52Emma Shannon.
13:53And she is awesome.
13:55Those kids were so good, though, that we didn't even initially plan on coming back to them
14:00every season.
14:01And once we saw how well they were able to channel those characters, we had to just keep
14:06bringing them back and writing more for them.
14:08Yeah, they're incredible.
14:10Sometimes watching Emma, maybe this is going to get too real.
14:13Sometimes she's so good and so funny, it brings tears to my eyes.
14:17I'm like, fuck me.
14:19She's really channeling some shit.
14:22How did Judy and BJ meet?
14:24This was a thing we talked about as being a possibility, and a few times we even wrote
14:29it, and then it just wasn't ever needed to do it.
14:32But remember we talked about that thing of, I was shoplifting from...
14:36Yes, from the grocery store.
14:37Yeah.
14:38Yep, yep.
14:38I was shoplifting from the Piggly Wiggly, where he worked in the optometry department.
14:44Yeah, he's who caught me, and love ensued.
14:47We thought about showing that.
14:49We never did, because the first time you meet BJ, he has just undergone a plastic surgery.
14:55It was the beginning of him trying to fit into the family, and he had changed his
14:59nose, so we always imagined that maybe there would be a scene with you two guys meeting,
15:03and BJ having a drastically different face.
15:06But we never got around to it.
15:09How did Jesse and Amber get back together?
15:11Well, Amber shot Jesse in his asshole, and that kind of basically killed all the bad
15:16feelings between each other, and they got back together.
15:18It was in the asshole?
15:19Yeah, yeah.
15:19It was in the hole.
15:20It was definitely in the hole.
15:21I thought it might have been in the meat, but it was in the hole.
15:24Did it come out ever?
15:25Nope, still there.
15:26Wow.
15:26Yep, still there.
15:27Lodged in the hole.
15:28Yep.
15:28Lodged in the hole.
15:29Does Gideon come back?
15:32You don't even watch the show?
15:34Sometimes it's easier just to Google it, you know?
15:38I mean, just watch the show, and you'll find out.
15:39Yeah, he does.
15:40He does.
15:41He's on the show.
15:42Very talented, Skylar.
15:44Hot, too.
15:44That's right.
15:45I'm very hot.
15:46Who's the youngest Gemstone?
15:48Well, of the siblings, that's Kelvin Gemstone.
15:50What's up, what's up?
15:51If you're talking the kids of Jesse, if we're talking like second generation, third generation,
15:57that would be young Abraham.
16:00That's correct.
16:01How dare they with this next question?
16:04How dare?
16:05Is BJ Judy's cousin?
16:08What?
16:10Someone dug deep.
16:12They know the truth.
16:14You know what?
16:14That would have actually been pretty good.
16:16That could have been what it is.
16:18Kissing cousins.
16:19Yep.
16:19The answer is no, of course not.
16:21BJ is not Judy's cousin.
16:23Judy would never hook up with cousins.
16:25Yeah.
16:26She knows a ton of people who would like to hook up with their siblings, but she would
16:31not hook up with a couple of cousins.
16:31She knows a ton of people that would?
16:33She does.
16:34Wow.
16:34Judy runs in some good circles.
16:36Yeah.
16:37Yep.
16:37We did it.
16:38We answered all the Googles.
16:40Every Google question possible, we answered.
16:43Thank you, Wired.
16:44Thank you, Wired.
16:46Shout out to Skylar.
16:48Take your shirt off, Holmes.
16:50Boom, yeah.
16:55Boom, yeah.