Where have I said that?
No, couldn't be that movie.
The game continues.
I really like this game.
Here we go.
I wish I could switch places with her.
Freaky Friday.
Freaky Friday the first.
That one's not hard.
I wish I could switch places with her.
You know who forgets that I was the original Annabelle in Freaky Friday is A.I.
So if you go on like ChatGPT or any of these things and you say like hey, what are the Freaky Friday movies?
They say there was an original, which is the original with Jamie Lee Curtis.
And then there's the second one that just came out.
And they don't mention me.
A.I. has no recollection of the 70s.
I haven't seen the brand new one, but I did see the other one.
And of course, I love Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan.
And it is funny how different it was, right?
Because it was a different time period and all of that.
And Jamie and I laugh about that because she's a very good friend of mine.
So we do laugh about how we were in that same movie.
I have never had any desire to act.
I became an actor at three because my brother did it.
And he did it because the kid across the street did it.
I came in on an interview because they didn't want to leave me in the car, because it was hot and it was the 70s.
And I got that Coppertone ad.
So I was the Coppertone girl.
And then that's just what I did.
The game continues.
He won't come after me.
He won't.
I can't explain it.
He would consider that rude.
Silence the lamps.
He won't come after me.
Oh, really?
He won't.
I can't explain it.
He would consider that rude.
You know Saint-Soleil.
Lots of people just love it because it's scary and it's in our lexicon and it's become this part of our culture.
But there's such deep, tragic, iconic mythology to it.
And that's why I love the movie.
I would love to play Clarice again.
Obviously it would have to be.
You know, Thomas Harris writing Clarice, as she was intended to be, when you know 40 years go by.
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.
I was like no, 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's 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.
Okay.
Yes.
Dona Ki, Mr. Chickpea.
That is Nell.
Dona Ki, Mr. Chickpea.
People tease me mercifully.
Mercifully.
Mercifully?
They do.
They tease me about that movie.
So I have not seen the movie in, I don't know, 30 years.
And my kids, I have not allowed my children to see it.
But they have seen Kate do the SNL version of me, which is so fabulous that I can't stop laughing.
And it seems to me like that should, you know, she should just do the sequel.
I'm 50.
I can stretch and kick and stretch and I'm 50.
The universe is a pretty big place.
It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before.
So if it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact.
Yes, of course that's contact.
The universe is a pretty big place.
It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of.
Carl Sagan's masterpiece.
And we got to meet him.
And he was able to give me kind of a variation of this speech about billions and billions and billions and billions.
It was just like five or six of us.
And then he died shortly afterwards.
And it was pretty amazing.
And it's kind of verbatim of what that just was.
I think what's so beautiful about the movie Contact is that it's as spiritual as it is entirely scientific.
And I'm one of those people.
I believe in science.
I am a science person.
But I believe that there's so much science that we don't understand and that we'll never know that that itself is miraculous.
Okay, here we go.
Will those bastards go to jail?
I have no idea.
Have I said that?
Where have I said that?
I have absolutely no idea where I said that.
No idea.
No, couldn't be that movie.
What could it be?
What could it be?
Will these bastards go to jail?
Oh, The Accused.
The Accused.
Okay.
Well, it was a long time ago.
I was 25, I think, maybe 24, 25.
The only reason that I just remember that line was because I remembered it with a certain kind of accent.
And I was like, who has that accent?
Oh, it's Sarah Tobias from The Accused.
Will those bastards go to jail?
When I first got the script, it was not an offer.
It was a script that people wanted to do and they did not want me.
I really wanted it, but I didn't know why.
And so I came in and they didn't want to audition me.
And they finally agreed to audition me.
And then the producers hated the performance and the director liked it.
So then I had to completely change the performance that I would do for the producers and in the room I made the terrible mistake of saying I can play it like this, but I won't.
And then they of course didn't want me again, and then finally they only hired me like a week before we started shooting, because they ran out of other people.
I guess I thought when I prepared for it, like, they don't really want me.
And I'm just going to do what I do.
And I'm just going to go by instinct.
I'm not even going to read the script more than once.
And I just went to parties and danced and wore little mini skirts.
And like, that was my method acting.
And then when I showed up in Canada to do the part and we started rehearsals, I was like wow, this is hard.
Yeah, I think I would approach it very differently now than I'm a grown-up person.
My first nomination, I was a kid.
Oh my God, I was so thrilled.
But I never won anything until The Accused.
I won the Golden Globe and I won the Oscar.
And I was all by myself because I was the only one from that movie that had been nominated.
Whereas with Silence of the Lambs, where we won all the top five categories.
I was just surrounded by all the people from the movie.
So it was a different experience.
I think that cancers make the best lovers.
Taxi driver.
I think that cancers make the best lovers.
When I first came to New York City to shoot it, I was 12 years old, and I met with Robert De Niro.
He would pick me up at the Essex House Hotel and he would take me to these diners and we would run the lines.
After about the third or fourth time that we did that, I got very bored with that and he started throwing improvisation at me.
And I had this realization that, oh wow, acting is more than just memorizing lines and saying them and being naturalistic.
So that was kind of a big moment that this line comes from.
It's sort of woven in and out with improvisation and also with this.
You know, magnificent Paul Schrader script.
I think that De Niro and Scorsese were nervous because there was sort of you know, implied sexual content in the scenes and they were all worried because you know what should they say and how should they say it.
And they were all just like so nervous that they kept giggling because they didn't know what to do.
And I thought that was funny.
Hey, you want to go to college or you want to go to Disneyland?
Disney World, actually.
You want to go to college or you want to go to Disney World?
Little Man Tate.
That's definitely Little Man Tate.
Hey.
You want to go to college or you want to go to Disney World?
I feel like Little Man Tate is the story of my life.
It really is my autobiographical movie.
And yet I didn't write it.
My amazing friend Scott Frank, genius writer director, wrote that as his senior undergrad project at UC Santa Barbara.
And he and I worked together in a way that I've never worked with another writer.
It's my favorite way, which is just like you're just friends and you kind of like point to the computer and you're like, what if they said this?
We're still friends.
And in fact, in New York, we live right in the same building.
And I'm just so grateful for that relationship, for the first movie that I directed to have been so beautifully written.
I really like this game because I'm really good at it.
Your superiority complex is really screwed up.
You know that?
Huh, Nyad?
Your superiority complex is really screwed up.
I've been able to hang out with Bonnie and Diana a lot over the years, way before the movie was even happening.
So I knew them from Christmas parties at friends' houses and barbecues and I just loved the two of them so much.
You know, they're such an odd couple of best friends.
They've known each other since they were in their late 20s, early 30s, and they're each other's family.
And I thought that that was such an important part of our culture and this idea of these two women of a certain age, who are part of a certain generation, where they're friends with their family, because in the LGBTQ community we couldn't really trust anyone else to accept us.
And so that was so special about the movie that it shows a side of a culture of women over a certain age who have said no, you will be my partner because you are my best friend.
Yo.
I always believed that fear belonged to other people.
Weaker people.
It never touched me.
And then it did.
A brave one.
Such a great line.
I always believed that fear belonged to other people.
Weaker people.
What I love about the scene that this comes from, she's like an NPR style host.
So much of her is about just her voice.
She's disembodied.
She has no body and she speaks to people in this intimate way about her most intimate things, and yet she's a stranger and does not know them.
So this kind of existentialism in the film where something terrible happens to her in a sort of Central Park-like setting and then her boyfriend dies and She becomes a different person and she becomes a stone cold killer.
So I find that movie really complicated.
Lots of people were like, no, it's a genre movie.
But I find it really complicated and complex.
It's a real live lion.
Oh, yeah.
Well, there's only one movie this could be, which is Napoleon and Samantha.
Real live lion.
I was about eight and a half when I made that movie in Oregon.
The notable thing when I was eight and a half is that I was mauled by that lion.
But not that lion, because there were three lions on the movie, right?
There was the old lion that sometimes didn't do anything because he was so old, he had no teeth.
And then there was the second lion, who was the standing lion, who I don't know one day just was not happy and picked me up in his mouth, shook me a bunch of times.
And I remember being sideways and seeing the world shake and thinking, oh, it's an earthquake.
And then watching all the crew members run in the opposite direction.
And then I guess he, he dropped me when the, when the trainer said, drop it.
Cause he was well-trained to drop me.
And then I went rolling down a hill and then he came running after me and then he just put his paw on me.
Like, I got this piece of meat, we're all good.
I got like four teeth marks in me.
But now that I'm older, they've moved all over my body.
So they're not like perfect little teeth marks on the back and in the front.
