What the hell is this dialogue?
Was I in this movie?
Where have I said that?
You can't stump me.
Oh, wow.
This is familiar and elusive.
I don't remember this at all.
I'm doing good because, you know, it's all scrambled up here.
Watch this.
Here it goes.
Fly yes, land no, Indiana Jones.
Which one?
Having a clue.
I didn't know you could fly a plane.
Fly yes.
Land no.
He's Sean Connery.
I mean, the guy is amazing.
I had the best time with him.
He's not the billy goat gruff that everybody thinks he is, and neither am I.
He asked me to play tennis with him, and I had not played tennis much before.
In fact, not at all.
I was able to serve the ball, but I hit him in the back two times with a serve ball.
Much to his amusement, you know.
But when we got into the motorcycle with the sidecar, then he really began to give me trouble.
He thought he was more qualified to drive than I was.
I think I proved him wrong.
I had been asked by George Lucas to go and meet Steven Spielberg, who I did not know.
And he sent me a script to read first.
I read the script and I thought it was great.
I met Steven.
I think we spent about an hour together.
Suddenly I had a job.
I didn't expect success.
In the movie business, you always go in wanting to be successful, but you don't always expect to be.
I did expect the first film would be wildly successful, but I could not imagine that we were going to end up doing five of them.
This is why Superman works alone.
Okay, this was.
This is why superman works alone is going to be from the fantastic mr fox.
Oh, it's for batman and robin.
I know, i didn't want to say the word batman and robin.
I want to put them together because everybody gets all uptight.
This is why superman works alone.
I was the best batman and you know it and i know it and i don't want to hear any more all those other guys.
You know, Batman has nipples, dude.
He has nipples.
How do you think he feeds the children?
The little bats.
So I don't want to hear any more bullshit.
I was the best Batman.
It was not the most fun shoot because of the suit.
It was a very painful suit and you couldn't move.
I would be laying on a board and Joel Schumacher would direct you with a microphone, with a giant speaker, and he would go Okay George, and here we go.
And ready?
And your parents are dead.
You have nothing to live for.
And action.
And then they just prop me up.
And I go, I'm Batman.
And I go, and cut.
And they drop me back down.
And then they carry me out on a board.
And that was my experiences.
I should have realized it was not going to be a hit right about then.
I'm ashamed.
Okay.
Get the fuck out of my house.
That could be a number of movies.
Let's see.
Oh, well, it could be Panic Room, of course, because that would make sense just thematically.
But it could also be True Detective.
Maybe it's a different movie.
Yeah, maybe it's a different movie.
I don't know.
It's Panic Room, right?
The second I met Kristen Stewart, I was like, oh, she's my mini-me.
I just absolutely loved her.
And don't forget, I was brought on the movie like a week before shooting because Nicole Kidman was originally cast in the part.
And so there was something just amazing that I had just kind of fallen into this role where I got to be Kristen's mom.
And we seemed so alike.
We had the same haircut.
I spent so much time with this kid at 11 years old in a tiny little room that's, you know, eight feet by 14 feet.
And I have never enjoyed being stuck in a closet with a person in my life so much as with Kristen Stewart as a kid.
You know, we'd talk about bands and, you know, she thought U2 was a boy band.
She's like they're just like a boy band.
You're wrong, that is not true.
We'd have sort of like fights about pop culture and she'd play basketball.
There was like a little hoop at the stage.
So I always was like oh, she's gonna be so great when she grows up, but she's not gonna be an actor right, because she doesn't have that personality.
She's not somebody who wants to put a lampshade on her head and she doesn't want to like sing for grandma or be the center of attention.
She doesn't like being the center of attention.
And I said to her mom She doesn't want to be an actor.
Her mom was like, no, she does.
And I thought, oh, no.
Really?
Really?
I'm so shocked.
So I'm still shocked to this day that she's an actor.
But now she's director.
So who knows?
She might be moving into her hyphenate.
Every time we go out, it's life or death.
You roll the dice.
You deal with it.
You recognize that, don't you?
Ah, it's Hurt Locker.
Every time we go out.
It's life or death.
You roll the dice and you deal with it.
Hurt Locker is probably one of the most important acting experiences I had.
We shot that in 2007.
And I remember I was doing a movie in North Carolina with quite possibly the worst director to ever direct.
Ironically, because of that, the movie never came out.
And because of that, the movie went over and I had to pull out of Hurt Locker.
They offered it to somebody else and he said no because it wasn't enough money.
And they came back to me and they were like, look, you know, we'll wait if you do it.
I'm like, fuck yeah, I'll do it.
They're like, but you got to be on a plane the day after you wrap.
So I went from this sucky director who had no business in being in the business or in the director's chair, to Catherine Bigelow.
And the moment I landed in Amman, Jordan, like we hit the ground running, like cultural research, military research, character studies, like the real work a director does.
And it really was poignant to me, like the type of people I want to work with and the type of people who shouldn't be working.
One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man.
I'm talking about lembas bread in the Lord of the Rings, in the Fellowship of the Ring.
One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man.
The hobbits are complaining about not having, you know, 50 meals a day or something.
And I'm like well lembas bread, legolas was this remarkable character to play.
Obviously i'd felt huge pressure because the character i knew was very beloved within the books, one of my favorite characters in the books when i read it.
So i had this sense of, like you know, wanting a deep desire to land the character correctly, at least for the fans of the books.
I had auditioned to play faramir.
I think they were probably just sifting through london, all the cities around the world, to try and find these characters and i guess i probably fit the you know the blurb of faramir at the time.
And then i got a call back to put myself on tape, initially for legolas, and then i got another call back to meet peter and fran who had come to london.
And then i waited and i was at drama school and yeah, the rest is history.
Break out the ale.
These men are thirsty.
I said that a lot actually in there up in sheffield.
Uh break, is it um?
Game of Thrones.
Lord of the Rings.
I can't remember saying that line.
Break out the ale!
These men are thirsty!
I mean, it was 25 years now and we started shooting in 1999 and it was released, I think, in 2000 or 2001.
Kids that were like 10, they're like 35-year-old now, or 40.
You know, you forget that it's kind of timeless.
To keep it all secret.
When we got to New Zealand, on the front cover it didn't say Lord of the Rings, it says Jamboree.
And that's what scouts in England do.
They go on a Jamboree or something.
And I rang the agent, I said, are you sure this is Lord of the Rings that we're doing?
He says, yeah, that's just to keep people away and keep it secret.
I said, oh, thank God for that.
One of you.
Must do this.
That bit where I'm going like that, something... God, I'm terrible.
When you're doing a film, you just go straight out your head forever really.
It's just something about Mordor, isn't it?
We're going to Mordor.
What is it?
One does not simply walk into Mordor.
One does not simply walk into Mordor.
Okay.
You went upstairs.
You went upstairs.
Oh my God, why didn't you just crawl into bed with her and ask for a bedtime story?
Devil Wears Prada.
You went upstairs.
You went upstairs.
Oh my God, why didn't you just climb into bed with her and ask for a bedtime story?
I didn't know enough in any way about the fashion industry going into that movie.
I didn't quite realize how intense It was.
And friends of mine who've worked in the fashion industry say that that film does manage to capture that.
But I think it was a bit of a voyage of discovery for me in every way, like not just about the industry itself but about style and the art of it, and like how important it is.
And I think I'd just been dressing like a teenage boy until that happened.
And I learned a lot.
It's from, well, Leon, the professional.
Everyone!
Shall I tell you the story behind this?
I was on the set and we were shooting that scene.
I think I played it, you know, bring me everyone.
The actor said, everyone?
And I said, yeah, everyone.
And as a joke, to make Luc Besson laugh, because we had that sort of kind of relationship.
I mean, sometimes he would shoot film on me and ask me to do a scene like as Robert De Niro, or he'd say let's just do one more, but now play it like And I just did this really loud like that, just to make him laugh.
I do remember specifically going to the sound guy saying be careful of your ears because I'm going to do this one really, really loud.
And I did that and it made Luke laugh and it ended up in the film.
So it's become a quotable iconic line. which actually was a joke, me having just a laugh.
Okay.
Does Princess Sophia want to come out and play?
I sometimes wonder how many people say this to their partners.
I'd love to know, you know, if that's something that they do just to, you know, be funny.
How to lose a guy in 10 days.
Does Princess Sophia want to come out and play?
We were watching the movie and my brother Oliver, was with me, and it was the scene where I'm doing the photo album.
And he just looked at me, he's like, you are so insane.
You're insane in this.
And I was like, I know, it was so much fun.
I got to go so far.
And this was one of those scenes, I mean, just like grabbing him and just being nuts.
It was so fun.
The most wild antic of Andes, just off the top of my head.
I would think it would be the poker scene.
Our love fern!
It's dead.
The love fern is like a thing that people talk about.
It's really, you can't lose something you never had.
Because you can't lose something you never had.
I think that's something that I hear a lot.
I thought you were my friends.
Win together, lose together, teammates.
High School Musical?
Nice.
First one?
They're all similar dialogue, I don't know.
I thought that you're my friends.
Win together, lose together, teammates.
The cast and the group of people making that movie was just magical.
There's a time and a place for everything, and everything happens for a reason, and High School Musical is the prime example for that.
I've never had so much fun maybe a few times, but it was still, to this day, maybe one of the most fun experiences of my whole life.
It just shows on camera.
The whole first movie, we practiced those dance routines like once or twice.
We would just get up there and do it.
So I couldn't believe you had your head in the game.
I couldn't believe we got a clean take of that.
The first couple takes, there were basketballs flying everywhere.
It was chaos.
We were like, we're never going to get this.
And then everyone just nailed it.
It changed everything for me.
I had just a really great group of friends.
It was fun to be out there doing really exciting, fun, music-forward work.
It wasn't so serious.
Definitely made me very popular, so that was interesting.
I remember I could afford to move out of my house and live in LA.
Everything got really interesting from that point forward.
It's like I have ESPN or something.
My breasts can always tell when it's gonna rain.
Just kidding.
This is Mean Girls.
Classic Mean Girls.
It's like I have ESPN or something.
My breasts can always tell when it's gonna rain.
I was really struggling not to laugh every single take.
And actually, you can see it in the movie.
I say, my breasts can always tell when it's raining.
And then I laughed.
But Mark Waters used that take and he cut because there probably weren't any takes where I wasn't like.
My breasts can always tell when it's raining.
That movie was just full of just me falling apart, constantly trying to stay in control of my life giggles.
Most actors can agree that that walking into a room full of people who want the same job is just absolutely intimidating beyond words, especially when you're when you're 16, 17 years old, but at the same time it's like it gets your juices flowing.
Did you know that it takes men an additional seven seconds to receive this was a mouthful at the time a woman as a threat compared to a man?
Did you know that it takes men an additional seven seconds to perceive a woman as a threat compared to a man?
Yeah, I remember saying that.
That was from a little film called The Charlie's Angels.
It takes men an additional seven seconds to perceive a woman as a threat compared to a man.
We wanted a strong opener, you know?
We wanted to really, like, broadcast what the movie was about.
It was a good idea at the time.
I hated making that movie. know what else to say to you.
Honestly, the three you can't touch.
Like, Cameron, Lucy, and Drew.
I love that movie.
I love that movie.
If that says anything.
No, seriously, get your hands off my man.
This isn't even a movie.
This is an iconic song.
Um, Miss Possessive.
No, seriously, get your hands off my man.
This was probably one of the coolest things.
Glenn texted me in a group chat with Tate and was like, I got to connect you two.
Tate wants to meet.
And then I talked to her and she was like, would you be down to do this?
I was like, Holly, I'm the biggest fan.
Like, you're absolutely iconic and I love you.
So this was a pretty, pretty cool moment for me.
I was filming Housemaid at the time and I was in my trailer and I was just doing a bunch of recordings and I would text him to say and then she'd give me notes and I'd send her more
I didn't really know where they'd place it, and I was like, oh, gosh.
Oh, jeez.
It was so cool, though.
My apple pie's here.
Okay, I work like a dog day and night, living off a coffee from a pot none of you wanna, yes.
Hidden figures, Katherine Johnson.
That is a very still viral video.
And I work like a dog day and night, living off a coffee from a pot none of you wanna touch.
No one knew about these women.
I didn't know.
Hidden figures.
Like, I had no idea.
I remember when Ted Melfi sent me the script, the director and I read it and of course it's a beautiful story and I just thought this is not real.
And I asked him, I said, is this a true story?
He said, absolutely.
And I almost fell out.
I was like, it's a true story?
And I was like, well, are any of these women alive?
I said, is Catherine still alive?
And he was like, yes.
I said, I have to go meet her.
I have to go meet her.
So I went and spent time with her and her family.
You know, if you're playing a real person who's still alive, you want to get it right.
So it was important that I go meet, talk to her and the family.
And just, wow, what an extraordinary story that we had no clue about these incredible women.
But now we do.
For me, it was her mannerisms and it was her messaging.
Something about her was very regal.
When you're that brilliant, you kind of levitate above it all.
Not in a pompous, conceited way, but your brain wave is just different.
And her love of math.
For me, it wasn't about her smarts.
It was about how she can share her smarts with someone else and get you to have that aha moment.
And that's what I remember the most about that conversation with her and how she kept saying we we we, that I I, I Wouldn't she could have.
Because she's the one that... produce the numbers to get them to space.
So those are the things that I really picked up on.
And just, she was very soft and demure.
I know that's the saying now, but I mean that in all seriousness.
She was just, you know, women in that era just carried themselves in a different way.
Never taken a shortcut before.
Well, that's actually two movies.
That's Shaun of the Dead, where it first appeared, and then we decided to carry over into Hot Fuzz.
You never taken a shortcut before?
That's become one of those lines that's quoted back at me quite a lot.
The first time Sean does it, he crashes through the fence.
The second time Nicholas Angel does this incredibly energetic athletic sort of.
I actually didn't do the last one.
I jump, jump, and then a stunt guy took over, an acrobat, who did like this sideways somersault.
So there you go, that's blown that myth.
That was before I met Tom Cruise.
After that, I did all my own Somersault.
Those three films are kind of about the individual versus the collective.
So you have Sean versus zombies, Nicholas Angel versus the NWA the Neighborhood Watch Association and Gary versus the Blanks, which are these sort of alien invaders.
None of those films were ever or will ever be sequelized.
It just felt like let's make three films that take on a genre, put a uniquely British spin on that genre and then, you know, do something different.
So that was always our plan.
You're probably just having a midlife crisis.
Did you buy a Porsche yet?
Lost in translation?
You're probably just having a midlife crisis.
Did you buy a Porsche?
That set was the Park Hyatt in Tokyo.
It was a fully functioning hotel.
It felt like very much we were doing a kind of guerrilla style filmmaking because we were a small crew.
We just were capturing what we could wherever we could get it.
And it was a really quick shoot.
My experience shooting.
It sort of mirrored my experience in the film because I felt so out of my element.
I was also 17 when we made it.
The character Charlotte is kind of in that headspace too.
Are we X-rated on this thing?
Can we use profanity?
Oh, my fucking wife, man.
She's down there.
Some idiot's dick in her.
Everybody's standing around watching.
It's fucking embarrassment.
And it's from Boogie Nights.
Down there some idiot's dicking or everybody's standing around watching.
It's a fucking embarrassment.
This is back in the day when they would FedEx a script to you.
I read it and I called my agent and I said, am I being punked?
Because it was much racier than the film.
I said, we can't make this movie.
This is X-rated.
And he said, no, no, it's going to be R-rated.
That's contractual.
Boy, I wanted it.
I really wanted to do it.
I loved it.
It was so fantastic.
Ricky Jay, the fabulous magician and scholar on magic, he did the scene with me.
And he says, yeah, I wanted to talk about the thing.
And I finally turn to him and I go, do you mind? my wife's down there with a cock in her ass.
So we did the first take and Paul came up and he said that was great.
But you said my wife's down there with an ass in her cock.
And I went, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.
So we did another take.
He said, you did it again.
I said, I don't think so.
I think I did it right this time.
And then when I saw the film, he is the first take and everybody always asks about that line.
This is the genius of Paul Anderson.
He thought that it was psychologically correct somehow.
And it was, it was, I mean, the guy was beside himself.
It made sense.
Okay.
Oh, I know this one.
Who?
Who?
What are you, a fucking owl?
Who is she?
From Wolf of Wall Street.
Who?
Who?
Who?
What are you, a fucking owl?
Who is she?
I wouldn't even know how to say this without the accent.
It's so ingrained.
That actually was not in the script.
That was on the day.
I find a Brooklyn accent far easier to do than other American regions, because dropping the R is something we do in Australian as well and actually hitting a really hard R is hard work for my mouth.
Doing like the accent I did in I, Tonya, really, really strong R's like, I'm not a girly girl.
It's like R on the R's.
Whereas like in Wolf of Wall Street, she's like Jordan.
She doesn't even do an R and it's not Jordan.
So I found it much easier.
That's why I love doing a Brooklyn accent.
I do a Brooklyn accent for Harley Quinn as well and I love it.
I'm America's best figure skater.
I never act in my own accent.
I actually don't even know if I could now.
It'd be so weird.
I'd feel like I'm just playing myself, I think.
The audition process for Wolf of Wall Street.
They didn't need a known actor for that role which, at the time, not being a known actor is like the most exciting thing you can hear, because everyone in town in my age demographic was like, oh my God, we can audition for a Scorsese film.
I did a tape like everyone else.
Never expected Scorsese himself to see it.
I just wanted Ellen Lewis, the casting agent, to like the tape and remember me for future things.
But I never did the tape, considering I'd actually get the role.
You know, I got a call a while later saying Scorsese's watched your tape and wants you to come in in person to read with him and Leonardo DiCaprio.
It was so much fun.
It was my first movie in America and quite an introduction to the industry.
Obviously, it was a wild and incredible film and the set was wild and incredible as well.
And everyone was just trying to one up each other.
Do something crazier than the last person, and every scene would just escalate and get bigger and crazier, and crazier and crazier.
And I think Marty was really like fostering that atmosphere on set because he knew that's what this movie needed, to be infused with this idea of something spiraling out of control and the decadence getting even more crazy and insane.
So on set, we had a bit of that vibe, which was so fun.
Okay.
Awesome.
Oh, wow.
Like, totally freaked me out.
I mean, right on.
I mean, come on.
It's like, it's classic.
Bring it on.
Classic.
Awesome.
Oh, wow.
Like, totally freaked me out.
We did extensive dance rehearsal, which I loved.
I was a cheerleader in eighth grade.
That's why I did the movie, because I wanted to see this movie.
In eighth grade, I was a bass, so I was not a flyer.
And so I did fly a little in Bring It On, which made me a little nervous, not gonna lie.
My best friend broke her arm when she was a flyer, so that was always in the back of my head like please catch me.
But that movie was really a surprise to all of us, the success.
We were just off in San Diego doing, you know, having fun.
I mean, I wish it was a producer on it.
They made so many afterwards.
Like Rihanna was in one.
So yeah, they really brought it with that.
Oh, shit.
No, I need to be my L on someone's tease.
That is from Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
That was an improv in a scene with Bill Hader.
I'm still really proud of that one.
I need to be my L on somebody's tease.
That's disgusting.
There was a lot of improv in that scene and in that movie, yeah.
Yeah.
We cast the funniest people that we could find.
Bill is as funny as anyone on Earth, and so he made everything funnier.
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Lord Farquaad from Shrek.
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make.
I thought it was like a Saturday morning cartoon or something, not a big deal.
I read my dialogue.
They showed me a maquette of this little character, Lord Farquaad, and they showed me a lot of storyboards animated storyboards.
And I thought well, this looks like fun.
And these writers were all there and they sort of pitched what was funny about this character.
The curious thing was, that was like four years before we ever saw Shrek.
And they would bring me back in once every eight months or so to record some new material and it was like Oh, I gotta do this Shrek thing again.
What is this?
Chris Farley was the original Shrek and he passed away.
They had to bring in Mike Myers.
Mike Myers recorded the whole thing.
Then they decided he should use his Scottish accent from his great SNL sketches.
So there were all sorts of things that prolonged the process.
Orange mocha frappuccino.
It's from Zoolander.
Orange Mocha Frappuccino!
My first job, I could not believe my luck.
I didn't even have representation.
I was on vacation in LA visiting my dad, and his manager sent me out to this audition.
It was my very first audition.
And two weeks later I was in New York City with Ben Stiller screaming Orange Mocha Frappuccino, getting soaked in gasoline and dancing to Wham and dying in a gasoline fight.
It was a very surreal experience.
I'm not sick of it.
So please, if you've ever seen me scream orange mocha frappuccino in my face, I love it.
Or throw an orange mocha frappuccino in my face.
If I have a signature look when I model, it's probably constipated surprise.
Like, that's my look, kind of.
That's what I go for if I'm on a fashion photo shoot or something.
So you met my nurses.
They cleaned the copper out of my blood.
I know what this is.
This is Speed 2.
So you met my nurses.
They cleaned the copper out of my blood.
Speed 2, a lot of people give me a hard time about that.
They tease me about the size of my performance, that it was over the top.
But I swear to God, I stand by that performance because There was no other way to do it.
I've got a pretty flexible face, an expressive face, and I don't censor it.
I let it do its thing.
I don't put on faces, but I know for a fact that my face can do some really extreme things.
And so when you freeze it into a meme, yeah, you can get a lot of laughs out of that.
That's for sure.
Sometimes you do things and people just aren't ready for them.
Or it's the wrong time or the context is wrong.
Maybe I misread it, but for my money, I stand by that movie.
Next one.
Okay.
Oh, gosh.
Well, ditto.
We know that one is pretty easy.
That one is, dare I say, it has an iconic resonance from Ghost.
I've always loved you.
You know, the beautiful thing is that this film stepped into the world of the afterlife and really bringing forward the awareness that a lot of people hadn't explored for themselves that it doesn't end when the physical body has come to completion.
That, in fact, those people that we might lose are still with us, and so, for me, the really meaningful part is having people come up, who they still do, saying how much it helped them through a loss, how much it gave them a sense of hope and connection.
And that I feel like is the greatest gift we could have ever we could have ever given.
Well, I think I would call you on that one.
That's an easy one.
Daniel Craig was the only guy in that film who did not know how to play poker.
And he ran away with 150 million of my dollars.
Casino Royale.
Well, I think I will call you on that one.
I played poker.
I played a lot of poker during shooting that film.
And all the guys at the table were big poker players.
And as I said, Daniel...
We hated him for it.
It was a fun experience.
It was very big for me, but obviously it was gigantic for Daniel.
And we take it for granted that he was that big.
But he was just like anyone else from Europe.
Like made small indie films.
That was a lot of pressure on him.
The crying eye, the blood from the eye.
Yeah, we tried all kinds of different things.
Put some makeup in there, add something in my eye.
Everything was just painful.
So we ended up just do CGI on it.
Because they need What I know.
The torture scene is definitely my favorite scene of the movie.
I mean, it was a long day for Daniel.
He lost his voice.
He was screaming for 24 hours.
Listen, he took 150 million from me, so I think he deserved that whipping.
When I found out patriarchy wasn't just about horses, I lost interest.
Oh, Barbie.
Nailed it.
When I found out that patriarchy wasn't about horses, I lost interest.
I got the script and there was my name.
It said my full name as Ken.
And the first line was, if I wasn't severely injured, I would beat you off right now.
I was like, okay, how am I going to do this?
I know I have to, but how is this going to work?
I just canned as hard as I could.
I had to get new sheets because of all the fake tanner and just looked like a crime scene in my house.
Just terrifying handprints on the wall.
If you didn't know, you would just think that was very disturbed person was living there.
You hit a guy.
Aha!
I know this one.
I can say this one in the character.
And it's like this.
You hit a guy with glasses.
Well played.
That's King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph.
You hit a guy with glasses.
That's well played.
This was the first time I worked for Disney.
Someone was supposed to do the reading, another actor, and they fell out.
Something happened.
And my agent said, hey, I got another actor over here named Alan Tudyk, and he can do it.
They said, can he do an Ed Wynn accent?
Ed Wynn was a vaudevillian actor who did Mary Poppins and did Matt Hatter.
And she said, Alan is so good at that accent.
And they said, okay, we'll fly him up to Pixar in San Francisco with the whole cast, really.
She called me and said, can you please tell me you can do this accent?
Because she had just promised it before she knew.
But I could.
I loved Ed Wynn.
And then I went up and did it.
And then John Lasseter said, hey, it's really nice to meet you.
And then I've been in every one since.
Here we go.
Okay.
Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
God, who said that?
Prince Philip.
No.
Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
Was it The Doctor?
It was The Doctor, and he said it to Amy Pond.
He said it to River Song, Alex Kingston.
He said it to an alien.
It was from A Christmas Carol, and I said it to Katherine Jenkins.
To Michael Gambon, of course.
Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
That's right.
The great Michael Gambon, by the way.
What an absolute joy it was to work with him.
He was just incredible.
So I just, like many of us in England, he's sort of been a hero of mine.
And it was a coup that we got him in Doctor Who.
I just have such great fondness about that whole part, really.
And that moment in my life.
And getting to know Karen so, so well.
Who I love, Karen Gillan.
The legend it is.
Okay, bye.
I am relaxed.
That's from Boardwalk Empire.
You can't stump me.
I am relaxed.
No!
I am relaxed.
Yeah, that's from just outside the florist, right?
And I shoot that guy.
Yeah.
Poor old Nelson.
Yeah, that was five years.
Five years we did that show.
Five seasons, anyway.
Yeah, but now...
It's been a minute since Boardwalk, but people keep watching it or keep discovering it.
I don't know.
I would say it's on reruns, but I don't even know if they have reruns anymore.
Frankly, I never turn the television on, so I don't even know how it functions nowadays.
It used to be you could just turn on the TV and find the baseball game.
I have no idea how it works now.
When you're on a series like Boardwalk Empire, it's a bit tricky because you don't really know what's coming next.
They don't tell you what's coming next.
I had no idea if Nelson's fortunes were ever going to improve.
I assumed at one point that he would have some sort of second coming, but that never really seemed to take place.
So it kind of made me sad for him really, because I think he started off with the best of intentions and just got warped, as is so often the case.
That's very American, too.
The human spider, that's it.
That's the best you got.
That is from The Amazing Spider-Man.
The human spider, that's it?
That's the best you got?
A little known trivia as the ring announcer.
It seems like I have a small cameo.
They used to call him a little throwaway role.
Well, I named the character.
I renamed him The Amazing Spider-Man.
So if my character wasn't in that movie, this billion-dollar franchise would be called The Human Spider.
So let's never forget the power of a strong cameo.
There's more to it, though, because in the second Spider-Man, I play an usher, a snooty usher.
But Peter Parker shows up late to see Mary Jane in a play, her first Broadway play but he's late and I won't let him in because it spoils the illusion.
I'm the only character who has ever defeated Spider-Man.
Oh, well, the fourth one, well, it's not Spider-Man movie, but it's in the Doctor Strange oeuvre.
I play the Pizza Papa, but ask yourself, Really?
In the timeline?
In the Marvel timeline, I'm just a pizza papa?
Please don't kid yourself.
My contract is that thick for that movie.
Do you think I'd sign a contract that thick for that simple little throwaway character?
What did I do in that movie?
I delayed Doctor Strange.
I didn't defeat him, we didn't fight.
I delayed him from what?
Did I just save Doctor Strange's life?
The Marvel world really is just starting, and again, I can only comment so much.
I thought you wanted to be my bitch.
I thought you wanted to be my bitch.
Oh, wow!
That was, um, Gigli.
I said that to Ben.
The first time meeting him on that film was at the read through.
They did a read through of the whole thing.
And I remember kind of just walking in and I think he was outside smoking a cigarette and I saw him and we just talked for like a minute and then I sat down and we did the read through.
I don't remember a whole bunch more about it, but I remember being on the set with him every day and loving it.
You can't conceive of what I'm capable of.
I'm so far beyond you.
I'm like a god in human clothing.
Lightning bolts shoot from my fingertips!
That is from Better Call Saul.
A great scene.
And hey, actors, can you imagine being given a monologue like this to do on film?
Come on, I did nothing to deserve this kind of writing.
Lightning bolt shoots from my fingertips!
Great drama and great fun and great character and great energy and great craziness, craziness.
The first scene that I did in Breaking Bad, when Saul has Walter White in his office somewhere.
After a half an hour 40 minutes of shooting, the director yelled cut.
And one of the cameramen said, can I get a job on the sequel?
And everyone laughed because I guess everyone was thinking this character is pretty great, pretty fun to see.
From that point on, it was a joke that are they going to make a sequel with Saul?
And every year, one time a year, Vince Gilligan would pull me aside somewhere and say what do you think about that?
Do you think there could be a show in Saul?
And every time he'd ask me, I'd say, I have no idea.
Only you know that.
And if you wanna write that, I'll do it.
It really wasn't until the finale of Breaking Bad, I'm gonna say a year after that, Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, who wrote the first episode that featured Saul, called Better Call Saul.
They took me to a lunch at the Chateau Marmont famous Hollywood place and said we're thinking about creating that show.
And what do you think?
I said, first of all, you're gonna have to make him likable.
Saul isn't sort of fun on his own.
He's fun in the context of Breaking Bad.
And the other thing I said to them was, and don't forget, I'm 50 years old.
So, you know, please don't write him as a 30 year old because I'm not 30.
And of course then they went and wrote him as like 30.
Yeah, you know, they had to cgi the bags from under my eyes in like three scenes on better call saw.
So it's been a real effort on my part to get people to see me as the age that i actually am.
Step two there's so much we can do.
This is not from my movie, this isn't.
No, I don't miss singing.
I just had to sing Paul Walter Hauser and I had to sing this Gautier song together.
Somebody that you used to know?
Holy shit.
I had to go in the studio on a Saturday in Australia with Peter Farrelly and him to sing the song.
And we have to sing it at a party with Sacha Baron Cohen.
You know, we were much more into hip-hop and breakdancing and stuff like that.
And then you know, once we started working with Maurice Starr and we were kind of like you know, basically cast, you know, we started recording in the studio some little rap songs and stuff.
And then he was like, hey, by the way, we're gonna send you to vocal lessons tomorrow.
I was like, that was not my thing.
And I wasn't very good at it either, so.
Okay.
I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind.
I'm not perfect.
That's Clementine from Eternal Sunshine.
And that line is quoted to me all the time.
I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind.
I'm not perfect.
I actually saw someone on a subway who had it tattooed on the outside of their forearm.
And people put it on T-shirts, everything.
So that has actually strangely become really quite a famous line in my life anyway, because people say it to me a lot.
My two older children, Mia and Joe.
When they were in their teenage years They and their friends very much discovered Eternal Sunshine and the soundtrack in particular.
And so I would hear their friends saying these lines all the time.
And I was like God, I didn't kind of didn't anticipate that that would happen, because my son Joe, wasn't even born when we made the film and Mia was only two.
So, yeah, that's that's become quite a key line in my life, actually.
I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk.
Oh no, I thought I would be good at this game.
Damn it.
It has to be like a raunchy comedy.
Is it Mike and Dave?
Is it Mr. Right?
Oh no, what is it?
Who's naked in a movie with me?
Oh my God.
Now I feel dumb.
You have to audition for the Bellas.
I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk.
When I'm saying cover your junk, I'm unfortunately picturing male genitalia.
I say this in the shower to Brittany Snow because we did have like the least sexy, although then it ended up being kind of sexy.
Like while we were shooting it I was like this is the least sexy shower scene that's ever been committed to film.
This is so funny.
Yeah, apparently it was kind of sexy to some people, which makes me happy.
I do wish that B'Chloe would be living on a tiny cottage together already.
I did always think if there ever were another one, it would be like can we just have them get together already?
What are we doing?
This is madness at this point.
Okay, here we go.
I've always hated that chair.
Oh my God.
I'm getting old.
I don't remember things that I've done.
This was Avengers?
Oh my God, yes, yes, she's talking about her dad.
Yeah, I've always hated that chair.
I always hated that chair.
I wish I could go back and reshoot what Gamora was going through in the Avengers movies.
I don't think I was quite understanding what the Russo brothers, who are excellent filmmakers, and the opportunity that they gave me was of a lifetime.
To highlight Gamora in such a way in their films is something that I will forever be grateful for.
I wish I could go back and redo it so that I can push a little harder, because it was such a great opportunity to play sort of like a daughter having issues with a dad, and whether or not she's having this opportunity to reconciliate or to heal or to repair or simply just walk away from this person.
That would have been a great opportunity had I, you know, been a little more aware of it back then.
Different things can be sad.
It's not all war.
That was from Lady Bird.
Different things can be sad.
It's not all war.
I adore Saoirse.
Yeah, or Timothy, either.
I got to work with both of them again and I hope I get to work with both of them again in the future.
Saoirse, I just actually got to see her two nights ago.
Two nights ago?
We were at an event and she saw me across the room and then, I think, we spent the rest of the night holding each other.
We love each other.
She's such an extraordinary talent, but also I feel kind of like a mother hen.
You yelled out, hey big ass Wanda.
That's Curb Your Enthusiasm.
It better be Curb Your Enthusiasm unless somebody's, no one's called me big ass before.
I have a little ass.
You yelled out, hey big ass Wanda.
When I auditioned for the part, I didn't even know I was auditioning.
I thought I was just coming in to meet Larry and he just, started in on okay you're walking and i yelled hey i know that tush anywhere and i was like well why would you say that and that's how i got the part so i knew oh that's this is what he wanted so it's easy being yourself i remember that one the most because he just could not stop laughing i just kept cracking him up i never wanted the throne i only ever wanted to be your equal this is loki in thor I only ever wanted to be your equal.
How would I describe the relationship between Loki and Thor?
Enormously complex and deep.
Yeah, how long have you got?
It's been a journey, a journey of a thousand miles.
Two brothers in the palace of Asgard, very close, at the same time opposite.
I think they probably define themselves as brothers, as opposites, but have grown up with great trust and affection, and the heartbreak of the emotional fallout between Thor and Loki is that actually, as brothers they were great friends and they're separated by circumstance.
That circumstance initially is Loki's discovery that he is not in fact Thor's brother.
He was adopted and was an orphan who was left to die.
And I think Loki feels stricken with grief about that.
I was cast in 2009 when I was 28.
So it's been 15 years for both of us and it's been such a pleasure to sit alongside him on the roller coaster of this journey.
Being cast, as Thor and Loki changed our lives forever in the most extraordinary and unexpected ways.
To have someone who is going through the same experience has just been such a comfort, actually.
Over the years, we've shared so much.
We've shared so many memories.
We've made the films in different locations, different cities, different states.
We're good old mates.
Ah, yeah, I know this.
I cry all the time, more than any woman you've ever met.
That's the holiday.
I cry all the time.
You do not.
Yeah, I do. more than any woman you've ever met.
You hope that what you make appeals to people and you hope what you make finds an audience and finds its way into people's heads and hearts.
But for it to be returned to so frequently and really to become a sort of store for people's celebration every year at Christmas is a wonderful thing.
People assume that I've had this career of rom-coms and this is really one or maybe two that I've done in 30 years.
I avoided them for many, many years because I felt like it was gonna lead me down a path where I became that guy who does those films.
And then, I was intrigued to do one.
I sort of wanted to go there and test that muscle.
And Nancy talked about all my favorite rom-coms that she desperately wanted to sort of emulate.
Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace, His Girl Friday, films like that.
So I was in, and we had a great time making it.
It took a long time to make.
Nancy likes a lot of takes.
OK.
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
Yeah, that's Doctor Strange, the first film.
Dormammu, I've come to bargain.
I can't remember how many times I said that in different setups, how many times I died.
A lot was taken over by digi doubles, but I was in all sorts of rigs.
It was the same space rig as Sandra Bullock in her acting as well, putting up with that.
It was unbelievably good fun for the first sort of couple of rides.
And then it was just, it was really hard.
Very odd strains on the body in a weird way.
And I like that kind of work.
I like the physical aspect of my work.
But I think there was a bit of that involved on the same set and just coming up and saying it again and again, and again as he dies.
Where's Dormammu out in this trap of repeated time?
Next.
