Regina Hall on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Hello everyone. Welcome to another

episode of Good Hang. So excited to talk

to Regina Hall today. I love Regina. I

love her work. And we're going to talk

about a lot of fun things today. We're

going to talk about her incredible range

as an actress. We're going to talk about

the difference between phobias and

phonas. Uh we're going to break down

what it's like hosting award shows. and

we're gonna discuss her new movie, her

great new PT Anderson movie, um, One

Battle After Another, which is in

theaters this week. But we always do

this before we have our guest. We talk

to someone who knows our guest who, uh,

uh, who wants to speak well behind their

back. And we have a great guest today,

the extremely talented Andrew Ran.

Andrew um, was Regina's co-star on Black

Monday. Um he is the imaginary father of

the imaginary twins Dawn and Dawn that

they seem to share um a little inside

joke on set. And uh you know him from

Book of Mormon, you know him from Girls

Five Eva, you know him from Too Much,

Lena Dunham's new show. He's just a real

peach. So let's get him on. Andrew.

Andrew,

are you there?

What do you say?

I wanted

>> Amy.

>> There you are on your set and

everything.

>> There you are. It's so good to talk to

you.

>> It's great to talk to you. Thank you for

asking me to do this.

>> Are you kidding? Thank you so much for

doing this. I know you and Regina are

good buds.

>> We really are.

>> And she has such a great rep.

>> She really does. I've I've yet to meet

anyone who doesn't say like, "Ah, she's

the best." It's always a good idea to

hang out with Regina Hall.

>> Okay, we're going to get to Regina. But

first of all, I'm very, very excited to

talk to you.

>> To me,

>> of course. I hope I can get you in the

stew one of these days.

>> I would love it.

>> I mean, I haven't got a chance. I feel

like you and I have probably crossed

paths and like been in the same room at

a fancy event,

>> but I am a very very big fan of your

work.

>> Well, that's very generous of you to say

because I am a huge fan of your work and

I always get very nervous when I see

you.

>> Oh, tell me why.

>> Well, I just get nervous that I'm like,

should I talk to her? Should I not talk

to her? Am I talking to her for too

long?

>> Should I, you know, it's like, should I

get in, get out? It's one of those

things is at some event. Yeah. That like

there's a bunch of people around and

it's like I don't know there's like a

receiving line of people who want to

like talk to you and I just sort of I

choose to do the um like

>> well I I will say if if you have chosen

not to talk to me I appreciate that

because

I have a lot of social anxiety which

does not look like I do but I I do in

those events and I get overwhelmed.

>> Same same. One of the first like big

parties I went to when I first moved to

LA, I was very lucky and I walked in

with Jessica Lang

>> and I know, right?

>> You floated in with Jessica Lang.

>> I floated in with Jessica Lang and

Jessica Lang just wanted to like hold on

to me because I'm sort of tall and um

and I think she likes that. I think she

likes that. So then all night I got to

be the gatekeeper to Jessica Lang and

people people I really respected who

didn't know me were coming up to me and

saying could you introduce me to Jessica

Lang and I was like absolutely

>> you were like let me check with Jessica

first.

>> Yeah it was that was So I guess my

advice is if you can go to one of those

events with Jessica Lang do it.

>> That makes sense. God I would you two

would make a very nice couple. I have to

say a handsome couple. I I think we um

Yeah, I've got to to to be with her a

couple times and it's um it's always

successful. But you know, how's this for

a segue? You know who's very good at

those events? Regina Hall.

>> Oo, tell me why.

>> You go to a party with Regina Hall and

she first of all, everybody loves her,

so that's great. And she just sort of I

don't know, she just kind of floats

above it and just has a very kind of um

just kind of like chill attitude about

everything. Now whether or not that's

actually what she's feeling,

>> right?

>> I'm not sure because, you know, we all,

you know, process those things

differently, but it is really fun to go

to those events with her because she

just kind of she just sort of always is

herself. And I will say from like, you

know, we got to work together for 3

years on the show Black Monday and on

Showtime. And whether it was like 4:00

a.m. in the makeup trailer or 3:00 a.m.

on a night shoot, she always maintained

the same level of like cool and, you

know, happy to be there and like sort of

calmed everybody down cuz Don Cheetel

and I on on that show often had to do

some like really wacky stuff and she not

only could match that, she, you know,

often times like outdid us in that

arena, but then also um just brought

like all the heart to it. She really

like anchored it in a way and it was

such a good lesson of like how to be you

can be absurdly funny and really broad

but still have a lot of thought and

heart behind it which I learned a lot

from working with her that like you can

you can do all of the clowny silly stuff

but unless there is some kind of heart

to it it it just looks like faces

>> you know I think that way about you too

Like I feel like there's there's the ex

sometimes there's the exceptional

eccentric really kind of out there funny

person who's their own island. But for

the most part I find that people that

are very good at comedy have a switch or

a gear where they can really like

they're just very good at um being in

the moment and being present when asked

to do that. And it and it's kind of the

theme that I want to talk to Regina

about today is her career is really

>> really diverse and really wide. Her

range she's done a lot of different

things and she can do really dumb fun

comedy

>> totally

>> and very deep grounded stuff and that's

not a lot of people don't have that

range. I don't know. There's It sounds

maybe trite to say that she has a light

to her because that usually is reserved

for people who get murdered, but she

does have a she really lights up a room.

She really lights up a room. And not in

a way that

>> she's going to get murdered.

>> No, not in that way. In a different way.

In a very different way.

>> In a in a better way.

>> In a very different way.

>> You know

this I I absolutely loved you in Book of

Mormon. I was lucky enough to see the

original cast and you in it with Josh

and so many other great people and

um but you bring something up that I

always wondered about and I haven't been

able to ask anybody who's been on

Broadway for as long as you have.

>> Sure.

>> Why is it unprofessional to see who's in

the audience?

>> Well, in theory, you should be

>> I guess connected to your co-stars.

>> Sure.

um and telling the story. But I think

over time, you know, you're doing it

eight times a week and you get to a

place where you know eyes. I mean, you

know, that's the tricky part about one

of the tricky parts about live theater

is that of all of the whatever 1,200

people that are in that audience,

somebody's looking at you at all times.

And I just know that from an audience

member, like sometimes you drift to like

an ensemble person, whatever. like

you're not watching the action. So, you

do kind of always have to be on guard

that like, okay, somebody's watching.

So,

>> but you never used to do what I used to

do, which is literally peak.

>> Oh, well, I mean, we got to a point

where I could look into the audience at

certain points and be like, "Oh, look

who's there." Um, and sometimes the

worst is when you make eye contact with

that person.

>> Ooh,

>> yeah.

>> Ooh, that's rough.

>> That's rough.

>> That's rough. I made I made direct eye

contact with Oprah Winfrey and I thought

I don't that probably wasn't a great

idea and I reflexed. I smiled at her as

if there was no fourth wall

>> you went Oprah

>> just like I'm just like I'm doing like a

nightclub act. I was like oh

>> I remember smiling at her and she smiled

back cuz she's polite. She could

probably she's probably had a lot of um

experience with intense eye contacts.

I mean, the reactions to

>> Yeah.

>> to her must be extreme.

>> You are so incredible in the Book of

Mormon. I

>> Oh my gosh.

>> I mean, you're you you've written two

books. You have

>> I have

>> You have You are You are You're

constantly in so many good things. Like

we mentioned Girls Five, the show that

you did with Tina. Um, you also are just

in in Lena's new show, Too Much, where

you play her husband, which was so

satisfying to see.

>> I do. We've graduated from being like

the messy kids to now being like the

still kind of messy adults.

>> So, my um I ask all of my guests if they

have a question for our guest and um and

like I said, I hope someday to get you

in the hot seat. So, um what what what

do you have any a question you think I

should ask Regina today? a story you

think she might want to tell, something

you don't know about her, something you

think people should know about her.

>> Her career is so diverse

and she bounces between all of these

things like this Paul Thomas Anderson

movie that that she is, you know, that's

that's coming out that it's wildly

different from anything she's done in a

lot of ways. And I as much as I I assume

that she's like the architect of that

that she's like making these choices and

doing these things like I wonder Yeah, I

do wonder like did she seek that out?

Was she like I want to I'm going to

switch this up

>> or is this something that just sort of

build it was built sort of naturally?

>> You're right. I don't think we know

enough about like Regina's origin story.

When I was learning about Regina, I know

she wanted to maybe be a journalist at

one point. So, I'm very curious when she

started acting and then also yes, the

her career is really feels like a flow

basically.

>> And also, you know, obviously like who

does she like better? Does she like me

better or Don Cheetel? I think that's an

important I think a lot of people

probably wonder that.

>> Yeah. And maybe you can stay on the Zoom

while I ask her that. Yeah, I'll I'll

take my camera off and then, you know,

and then I'll surprise her and be like,

"I knew you were gonna say Don." Regina

and I would annoy the cast that we um

she she told everybody that we were

married at one point. And some people

some people who didn't really know me

very well thought that that was true.

And then she she sort of in a um who's

afraid of Virginia Wolf way created

children for us

that we would talk about Don and Dawn

and we would reference Don and Dawn our

twins and who had the twins and where

are the twins and how are the twins

doing.

>> She's so good. I can't wait to talk to

her. I really appreciate I'm excited for

you to talk to her.

>> Your time and how tall are you Andrew?

>> 6'2.

>> Oh, congratulations.

>> Thanks. Thanks so much.

>> I just That's so great. I I I like

Jessica Lang, a tall man.

>> Jackpot.

>> Sign me up.

>> You did it.

>> It is so great to talk to you. Thank you

so much for your time.

>> Thank you very much. And thank you for

being so generous and so lovely, of

course.

>> And I hope I see you at some event

sometime soon. And we just totally ghost

each other.

>> Yeah. I'm not going to look at you. I'm

just going to be taking care of Jessica.

Okay. I'll talk to you soon. Thank you.

Bye.

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>> Woohoo! You're wearing formal pajamas.

>> I am. I am. I was like, how can I be

dressy and comfortable

>> and it's so hot out

>> because I was going to be in sweats.

>> You look great.

>> But not for you.

>> Mm- You know what I

makeup?

>> Yeah. If she's not beat, I don't want

her. That's what I said.

>> Yeah. I need two hours.

>> I need you to have two hours of hair and

makeup before we hang out.

>> Well, you look gorgeous. This lighting

is nice. This is great lighting,

>> isn't it?

>> You know what? I realize I'm not aging.

Lighting is just getting bad. Cuz in my

bathroom, I have really good lighting in

my bathroom.

>> Yeah.

>> And in my bathroom, I'm something else.

>> Yeah.

>> In my car, not so much. But in my

bathroom, I'm like, I'm chef's kiss.

>> But in the car, when the sunlight, so

it's the lighting. I always say this

about I mean I'm I'm probably saying

something very obvious but when I go

into dressing rooms I'm like I can't

believe the dressing rooms aren't better

lit. I would buy so many more things. It

would just be better for business.

>> It was a dressing room where I honestly

the for the first time discovered like

the depth of my cellulite.

>> Yeah,

>> that's the truth. It was in a dressing

room.

>> Yeah. Yeah. It's super serious.

>> It's when I started running. I started

jogging. I said I I was shopping with my

boyfriend at the time and I I screamed.

I'd never seen I I did I said, "Is this

what came out at night?" And I went and

I said, "Baby, my my" and he was like,

"What?" He didn't, you know, they don't

notice.

>> No, they just noticed the legs.

>> They don't care what's on.

>> They don't care. They don't care.

>> I feel that way, too. One time when I

got a mammogram,

>> I turned to the person and I was like,

"It's just It's shocking how this hasn't

gotten better. How has this not gotten

better? How have we still have to

literally squeeze?

>> I don't have a lot of boobs. I was like,

what are you getting?

>> And it's even this much breast.

>> It's sometimes worse when you don't. It

>> fits larger

>> and you Well, they're both worse, I

guess. But like sometimes if you can't

if you don't have a lot to put in the

machine

>> that we're squeezing it between two

metal.

>> No, like a like a waffle.

>> And that there's nothing to look at. No,

you're just you're and then they're like

if you just move your arm a little like

it's not like you're it's a it's a it's

you're kind of contorting your body in a

in a very

>> and I said and I remember doing it very

you know like lucky me I have a nice

place to get my mamogram. I'm very

grateful and privileged to have a nice

place to get a mammog.

>> Not a poster on the wall, not a piece of

art to look at.

>> No distraction. I was like, you guys

don't want to put even an inspirational

>> No. And it takes about It takes a few

minutes to get the right angle cuz it's

not just getting it in there. It's

getting it in there. I need a little

bit. And I was like, there's there's no

there's got to be a better way.

>> Yeah. I It's shocking to me how

>> gave up. They were like, "Well, [ __ ] it.

If we've got something in it, then we've

got something in it." Cuz after a while,

I they just couldn't get a photo. No,

they can't get.

>> And then what about when it comes out

cloudy and they're like, "We need

another one or we need an ultrasound."

>> Also, they're like, they squeeze you in

the tightest vice ever. Yes.

>> They say, "Don't move."

>> Yeah. Don't move. That's true.

>> And then they leave the room because

there's too much radiation.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> That's the truth, right? So, it's just

you, your nodes, and your breast, and

the rest of your body exposed. And

>> there's not a like you don't even want

to play a an old episode of Everyone

Loves Raymond or whatever.

>> There's no sound. There's no music.

>> I know. No music.

>> There's no music. There's nothing.

>> I I remember talking to my great

dentist. I love my dentist. But I

remember saying

>> I love your dentist.

>> I love a dentist, too.

>> You like your dentist?

>> I do.

>> And I get nitrous every

>> a lot. I like my dentist.

>> I do, too.

>> And my dental hygienist. I love I love

her.

>> Did you work as a dental hygienist?

>> A dental assistant. Like Yeah. I just

handed the instruments over and cleaned

them and stuff. Mhm.

>> Do you feel like you have healthy teeth?

>> I do for the most part. Um

I grind my teeth.

>> Oh yeah.

>> And I didn't know that when you grind

you can get a little recession from the

grinding.

>> Yeah. Do you wear a thing?

>> I wear a thing now.

>> Yeah. We're with Regina Hall and we just

got we just got really into it. We're

talking about teeth and boobs. We're

right into it. Mhm.

>> Um but um I feel like the last time we

saw each other was on a dance floor at

Rashidita Jones.

>> The last time, but there was a time I

think after too.

>> What was that?

>> Uhoh.

>> It was on a street and you were

directing.

>> What was that?

>> And it was on a culde-sac.

And I was like, "What's going on down

there? I think they're filming

something."

>> Oh, yeah.

>> Around the corner from Yep. And And I

walked down the street and I was like,

"Who's directing?" And they said, "Amy

Polar." And then I made my way. I made

my way. It was very exciting. Do you

remember that?

>> I do remember that. That was precoid.

>> It was pre-COVID.

>> Okay. Yeah.

>> Yeah. And then everything else has been

a blur.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Cuz I cuz I was trying

>> that breast exam.

>> Everything else has been felt like a

mammogram.

[Laughter]

>> Everything did was like this is going to

really hurt. It's really weird. It's

going to take a long time and every

>> exposed to all things.

>> Totally. Totally. Um, but I feel like

we've had a couple times. So, Rashita

Jones often had a pajama jammy jam as

she talked about in this podcast and she

had a dance party and I feel like we've

had a couple good times on the dance

floor together dancing in pajamas.

>> Do you you like to dance?

>> Here's the thing.

>> I do like to dance. I wish I were a

better dancer. I'm not a good I can hold

a beat.

>> Sure.

>> But I I would love to be able to do and

Rashidita does them very well. She can

learn choreograph dances. And I I I wish

I had that gift.

>> Yeah. Her and her sister Kada can do

like Kadata is a great dancer, too. Old

>> routines from the '9s.

>> They can get a choreographer in front of

them and they're able to

>> Yeah.

>> to dance um and learn that choreography.

I can't. No. I was having a conversation

with Sheila E and she was like,

>> "Wait, excuse me."

>> I know.

>> You just dropped that.

>> I know. And I did. Did you see how I

dropped it like suddenly? like I said

nothing is I was like yeah so when

Sheila and I were talking e you know um

no I did we were I did a a one-on-one

interview and so she was my subject and

she's

>> so cool

>> so amazing and I was asking her did she

understand her impact on girls when she

first came out cuz like the drums we

hadn't seen a lot of women playing the

drums necessarily but anyway she said um

everything for her moves very separately

M she can feel all the rhythms and every

She feels every limb and every portion.

So everything is separate for her.

>> Ooh.

>> Yeah.

>> So if you feel like you're not maybe the

strongest at choreography,

>> I'm a unit.

>> What part feels like you're like that's

a good skill? Like I can do that. Well,

can you memorize fast? Can do you have a

good ear?

Can you sing?

>> I think I can. But I'm gonna tell you,

you know, cuz I used to tell me that I

had a a terrible pitch.

I disagree with that. Um,

and then I went on I think it was Cordon

and I I was like I and I they started

and then I joined in the harmony and boy

was I off.

>> So I'm not a harmonizer.

>> Okay.

>> I'm a soloist.

>> Yeah. No one else sing when Regina's

singing.

>> But I have a good gift for

I can remember a face.

>> Hey, that's good.

>> Yeah. Not a name. Terrible with names.

>> But you'd be able to.

>> You remember me?

>> I want to talk to you about so many

things today, Regina, because

the theme today for me with you is

range. like you are you can do it all

and to and how to approach you and your

career and your work is really

interesting because you can come in

through a lot of different doors and

it's it's well first of all let me just

say that you have a great rep like

everyone loves working with you.

>> Oh I thought you were talking about my

agent. I was about to say he is a great

>> I was like I've got a good team but yes

>> a great reputation. Does it matter to

you um like how you like when you go to

work like what matters to you like how

you show up and how other people show

up.

>> I think for me like if I when I when I'm

working

>> I think of everybody who put so much

work into it before I got there.

writers, you know, people who write,

that's

>> once it's written, selling it, like

sitting with studio notes. There's so

much, you know, this, you've done it all

directors that goes into it. So for me

to come and be like anything less than

like excited for what like they're

bringing a vision together in addition

to what I get to do and have fun then I

think it's I won't take it if I don't

think I could come and and bring

something to the environment

>> or and to the work. So I think that

that's important for me.

>> Okay. What kind of kid were you? cuz you

grew up in DC

>> and you know

>> went to form went to NYU to be a

journalist like very you were not a kid

who were you around actors or anyone who

was acting?

>> No, because I just we didn't I guess we

had I was like we didn't have any but

>> yeah I don't I wasn't exposed to it.

>> You weren't you weren't studying it in

school?

>> No, we had our plays.

>> Okay.

>> I went to Catholic school and so we had

the nuns

>> who I loved. I loved my nuns. I loved

>> What do you love about nuns? Because my

mom went to Catholic school and she was

very afraid of her nuns.

>> Oh, I think I had some

>> I was respectfully afraid. I mean, I

certainly had a reverence

>> um where I wouldn't cross a line, but I

wasn't afraid of being hurt. I was more

afraid of them telling my mom and then

getting in trouble. So, I didn't I

didn't have that. They were I found my

nuns to be very

I mean they were I wouldn't say they

were strict

>> but they were they were loving I would

say I would yeah they were loving.

>> And then is it true that you thought

about perhaps becoming a nurse?

>> I did. I did several times when I was in

high school and then again when I was

older and I was too old.

>> You were too old to

>> 39. That was a cut off. I was 41. They

were like, "It's not a backup plan,

miss. Get on out of here."

>> But it's Oh, for that particular for

that particular order.

>> Okay, got it.

>> Cuz they're different orders. You know,

with some orders, it's a sleeping

partner number thing.

>> Yeah. Right.

>> Four.

>> I don't know if anybody

>> Wait, you can only have slept with four

people.

>> Yep. Amy, can you make it?

>> You don't have to count them, you know.

>> Uh, no, I can't.

I don't want to brag, but

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on. So, there is

a there's some orders where there's a

number you can only have had a certain

amount of partners.

>> Some are could be a certain amount of

partners. Some might be how many

attachments that you have. Some, you

know, in the world it's hard and some is

age.

>> Yeah. Wow. But, but what made you,

Regina, as a young person, what was

attractive about that life for you? What

did you think about? What was the

fantasy of that life?

>> I thought if wow if if you you know

you'd spend your life in prayer prayer

for others I would imagine because it's

unless you were like healing cuz they

don't you're not really attached to

anything material. Right. So they're

>> they wouldn't have an outward striving

>> Yeah.

>> of like oh right the the the thing of

like you know success whatever that is.

And um

no romantic heartbreak, right?

>> You don't want to say love cuz that part

is beautiful, but it's the other side

when

>> Yeah.

>> whatever whatever trauma, whatever

reasons things don't make it.

>> And then um you had that singular focus.

I'm sure that it's not that easy.

>> I'm just saying that was that was what I

romanticized it would be if I did it.

And I thought that was

>> like lovely.

>> And and and what is how is your faith

like now many years later, young Regina,

looking out at the world that way,

figuring that might be a way in which I

can manage my own world?

>> How do you practice your version of

loving God now? What does it look like?

>> I mean, I think I really believe if you

believe in past lives, I believe I had a

past life where I was that. I believe

I've come from that. Mhm.

>> So I believe it probably exists within

me because it has existed,

>> you know, and so it it

>> feels familiar.

>> It feels familiar. And so there's a

certain piece in that familiarity.

>> It makes sense to me then that you're,

you know, for a while thinking about

going into journalism because it's this

like qu it's like the idea of like

unpacking big questions, finding out the

truth, being curious, like all that

stuff feels like it's connected. When

did you decide, okay, I'm I'm happy that

I have my journalism degree, but I want

to be an actor. What when did that

change happen? What?

>> Well, my parents were like, you're not

going to just My parents were divorced,

but they were just like, you're not

going to be in New York partying cuz I

had also I had left the nun life behind.

>> You were like,

>> I was in New York and I was partying and

I loved partying,

>> you know, and good. I had great friends

and from college and like we finished.

>> Yeah.

>> And then it was like what am I, you

know, but we were going out.

>> We were probably in New York at the same

time, like in the '9s, right?

>> New York in the '9s. It was great.

>> It was great.

>> It was great. And so we used to go out a

lot and then my mom was like, my dad was

like, "What are you doing? You have to

get a job or something." I either had to

get a job or go back to school.

>> Mhm. And so I went I was like I'm

choosing school because I could arrange

my classes to still party

but work I couldn't do it. I did work

for six months.

>> Ooh. What was your job?

>> I was working at a director's office and

their office was in their home and so

they really had to

carefully vet who worked there. So I was

like an assistant. And

>> was that like your first job in near the

industry

>> and it was working with a director?

>> Yeah. He was a commercial director. He

did TV commercials.

>> And um

one day I fell asleep with my my my

elbow on a button on the computer and it

was blinking. It was just like all X's,

whatever was at the end and the screen

was blinking and I woke up cuz I had

been out too late. And um I was like I

And then my roommate and I were like we

are going to raise money and um I don't

know. And I was like we have to quit our

jobs. Our jobs are holding us back.

Yeah.

>> And then

>> and then I had to borrow money and my

parents were like, "What are you going

to do?" So I went I was like, "I'll go

back to school."

>> Okay. You So you went back to study

journalism then. And

>> I went back to study journal and my dad

had a stroke and passed away very

suddenly my first few months of school.

>> First few months. And so you didn't you

you stopped going to school after that?

>> No, I finished cuz I knew he'd want me

to. But I had a friend who said, "Do you

want to make extra money doing

commercials?" And she was like, "I'll

introduce you to my manager." I met her

manager. that manager. I couldn't show

up for auditions because I was like, I

I'm doing my thesis. I can't show up to

an audition.

>> But I did. And then I took a class in

acting. And I think it it was very

healing

>> for me after my dad to be out of my head

a little bit and that's how and then I

was like, "Oh, I love this." So then I

finished NYU

>> and then decided to go to Colombia's

bartending school.

>> Wow.

>> Because I was going to need to pay for

acting school.

>> Yeah.

>> And then I went to acting school. I

remember my mom was like, "So, you just

don't want a job, huh, baby?"

>> And I could have been a professional

student. I did love school. I I studied

at uh at um at Bill Esper.

>> I could see you also being a great

bartender.

>> Oh my gosh. I would have been, but I

don't know how to make any drinks

because you were supposed to spit those

drinks out in class.

>> I was really tipsy after every class.

>> Yeah.

But but so much of bartending is faking

like faking the like you're just making

the drink but it's about the chitchat.

>> Yeah. And I do like people.

>> Yeah.

>> So I love to converse and meet. I find

people to be fascinating.

>> Okay. So back to commercials. You're

auditioning for commercials. Any Did you

get any commercials during that time?

>> I did.

>> What did you get?

>> I got that was a big deal to get a

commercial in the '9s.

>> It was national.

>> [ __ ]

>> McDonald's. What? You got a national

McDonald's commercial? How much money

did you make from that?

>> Cuz that could pay that could change

your life. A national commercial.

>> A Yeah, it was. Yeah, I my line I had to

say and some McDonald's fries.

>> You were ordering them or

>> I was at a movie theater watching

>> We were watching a movie about

McDonald's and then my

>> watching a McDonald's movie.

>> No, we watching a movie about something

and they were running maybe. I don't

even remember. But he says I could go

for a Big Mac. Yeah, I think the movie

that you're watching and then I send in

some McDonald's fries.

>> And what do you remember about being on

the set of did you like you know how

sometimes you can remember the feeling

when you're shooting something? What was

it? Were you nervous?

>> I was nervous. Yes, I was nervous. I

remember I was like, I don't know if I

like my hair cuz they did these rods.

>> But now I look back and I'm like that

hair was just fine. Um

>> I thought everyone was going to

recognize me. I thought that commercial

was going to air. I was outside like

this.

>> You were like

>> waiting

>> waiting for people to be like the fries.

There she is.

>> Did you just do a McDonald's commercial?

Not one. Nobody.

>> That's a big get.

>> It was a big get.

>> That is a big get. And it ran for a

while.

>> It did. It ran for like You remember how

they had to pay for your cycles? I think

I made like

>> over a per like 30 40,000 30k.

>> Yes. Back then you could make he could

>> And there were some people who made like

Yeah. But I made like I think I made

like 30.

>> Yeah.

>> And if you could get a commercial and it

could run and and

>> your residuals were nice.

>> Yes.

It's been like really interesting to

look at your range like we talked about.

I mean

you have done all different kinds of

work. You've done you've been in big

huge franchise.

>> Can I interrupt?

>> Yes.

>> I love this woman.

No, I want to say that. You know what

the re No, no, no. I have to say it

because I I have to say

how profoundly

inspiring you are, right? Um

>> that's across all cultures, races, and

genres. You know that too. Thank you for

saying in terms of comedy. Yeah. Because

it's like, you know, you say Amy Polar,

it doesn't matter, right? We all know

who it is.

Um, and so

when I would watch you and Tina, I'd be

like, "They're beautiful. They're

funny." And so you, you know, you're

always looking at people who you admire.

>> And, um,

I think also how much fun they're

having,

>> right? And so, um, whether it's

conscious or subconscious, like and Maya

Rudolph,

um, who's also hilarious, but

>> to see women be so funny and so like um,

beautiful and yet not vain

>> because you can't really have that right

when you're doing comedy. You got to be

like, you can't be like

>> um, I don't know. Oh, but it that was

profoundly like um impactful and

inspirational with I don't even think

without me without me knowing it at

first and then it became like oh my

goodness I love them.

>> Well, you know, thank you for saying

that. It it does mean a lot because I

have followed your career and been and

been so impressed by how genuinely and

deeply funny you are. You are really

funny and also you have played

incredibly subtle, grounded, interesting

characters, including the film that

you're in, the new Paul Thomas Anderson

film that you're in that we'll talk

about. Like you are playing deep,

complex characters and also getting to

swing the other way. That's very

inspiring because it's very hard to not

be uh just limited or like you know to

come in through the comedy door and

never leave that way. It's Have you

found that to be like was that did that

happen in the beginning like when you

were doing more comedic stuff? Did you

>> I think after scary movie I think after

and the interesting thing with scary

movie is after scary movie

then it was like oh she only does broad

comedy. So then you have to say well can

you get a um you know a grounded kind

and a lot of them I just you know I mean

a lot of stuff you don't get right isn't

there like

>> well I'd be curious because I was

thinking like what is Regina when you

were you know we all have this thing

where

we get scripts sent to us or parts sent

to us and we scroll down to see what

people are thinking about us and

sometimes it's like okay

>> I got my first part job I got was a

stripper and I just was like I'm going

to get inundated. I haven't been asked

again and I'm offended. I I'm serious. I

literally was like, "Watch, I'm just I'm

just I do remember I had an agent. I

love her so much. Her name is Jamie."

And she said, "We've gotten a foreign

film for you."

>> I haven't read it yet, but we just got

the offer. This is after Scary Movie.

And I was like, "Oh gosh, I'm I'm

international."

>> And um this is before emails. And

remember when you had to pick your

scripts up? Oh yeah. Physically go to

someone's house.

>> Yeah. So I physically went to the agency

and it was in the bin because I wasn't

at the point where they were messening

them to me. So I got the script and I

remember it um it was players which she

was reading as playa the beach.

>> No

>> yes play hiatus.

Playa hiatus. That's what she said to me

on the phone. And I said it's it's it's

player haters. I was like,

>> she was like, "So, it doesn't take place

on a beach?"

>> I was like, "No, and it's not a foreign

film.

There's nothing foreign about it."

And so,

and so I didn't end up doing

Playahatias.

>> Playa

playas.

>> It's a foreign film. She was so excited,

too. Um, Jamie, no.

>> Do you feel like you were getting after

Scary Movie? Were you getting a lot of

the same stuff offered to you?

>> Probably like more broad like Yeah.

Yeah.

>> Yeah. Like like I was I I was laughing

cuz I was like I bet Regina and I would

be in a movie where we'd be playing like

stereotypical versions like because I

still to you know to this day someone's

like we thought of you. We think it's

great. And I'm like okay. and I read the

part and I'm like just

>> I know

>> one of those characters that is just

like usually very like let me speak to

the manager very nuts and very like

>> get her out of here.

>> I know.

>> Yeah.

>> And and I feel like we would probably be

cast in a movie where we would be

>> I'd be the one that you wanted to speak

to the manager over. I'd be like, they'd

always have it like there's some hood

chick and she's always like and I'd be

like

>> and I would be like

>> totally

>> cuz you just can't do that all this.

You're like what else?

>> So versions of that.

>> Well, that that's leads me to my

question. So we always we do this thing

on the show where we talk behind well

behind someone's back. We kind of try to

find out more about them through people

that know them. And so we talked to

Andrew Ranels today.

>> My baby daddy.

>> I heard you have twins together. and

Don. We hatch We don't know where where

are our kids.

Don and Don. I love Andrew. I love

Andrew.

>> I know. He's so What do you love about

him?

>> Oh, he's just He makes me smile. He

makes me laugh. He's funny. So talented.

Yeah.

>> But he's just such a nice human being.

Like I love Andrew. Like I knew he was

my baby daddy from the first moment I

saw him.

>> Yeah. I know. Well, I can tell you have

a special connection with him.

>> I love Andrew. Like one day we did a

scene and I said decade instead of

decade and it was late and then every

time we had to do it over and it would

come to the word we couldn't say. You

know how that happens? You get the

giggles and we couldn't stop.

>> I have a I have I have a clip of that

God and I was like

>> I was it would just we couldn't stop and

he was like don't don't look at me and

we couldn't do it. We couldn't do it. We

had to break. He loves you and he loves

working with you. Loved working with you

and you guys work together in Black

Monday and and and he talked about like

one of the questions is kind of like

what we talk about we're talking about

now because like whether it's you know

girls trip or love and basketball or one

battle um after another your new film.

You've done big budget, you've done

small independence like um support the

girls, you've done scary movie, you've

done big and small like uh dramatic and

comedic. And he was just saying like I I

want to ask Regina, does she feel like

she's the architect of this or does it

feel like part of a kind of a bigger

flow? like like are you feeling like

you're adjusting the dials on those all

the time or are you just kind of seeing

what's coming up next?

>> I mean at a certain point you have more

options, right, as your career. I mean I

think it was I mean I would love to say

I was an architect. I think it was

probably accidental because in the

beginning you would just you kind of

said yes.

>> Yeah, totally.

>> I got a job. Ply height when does it

when does it start? Well, this if that

would have been my first offer, I would

have been there. So, it's kind of been

like

>> I know it is kind of funny in retrospect

when people say like

>> you know what what made you make that

choice and it's like they just they just

made ass.

>> I know and it and it went well,

>> but that's kind of how it was. I mean,

Scary Movie was a little I think Best

Man in the Love. Scary Movie was

different because I was a huge fan of

The Weigh-ins and I I mean, I would

really wanted to work with Keenan, but

>> and then that just ended up having But

it's it's I will say for the beginning

it was kind of an accident. It

everything was an accident

>> when that movie comes out and it's a

huge hit. You've been in a couple films

that are just like giant hits right

away. Scary Movie, Girl Strip, like

where you're just on this train. Mhm.

>> What is that like to just have, you

know, do something and then suddenly

it's like, oh, we've got a franchise,

>> you know? No, I don't know. I I'll ask

you this. Nothing necessarily feels like

that in real time.

>> Yeah, that's right. It's kind of like

what is what's discussed later.

>> Yeah, it's later. I think in real time

it came out, it did well. And I was

like, you know, that's great. But I did

die in the first one

>> and I was and we you know and I and and

I didn't expect to come back for the

second one. It was like I didn't have a

deal. I didn't

>> Remind me how they got you back after

you died.

>> It was a near-death experience.

>> Right.

>> They described it as a near-death

experience. And then I became psychic,

but I really wasn't psychic at all.

Jesus, Brenda just swore she was

psychic. Um um but um I think yeah that

was like it's kind of like I you know

you don't know who knew.

>> Yeah.

>> I mean and that was kind of

>> Did you feel that way about Girls Trip

too which I mean I can remember when

that came out Tracy Oliver who I got the

pleasure to work with on we produced a

show together called Harlem. Um

>> Oh yes

>> for a couple years on Amazon. And

Tracy's Megan

>> Yes. Megan and Tracy's so talented and

>> um I just remember that feeling very

exciting when that was a big

>> big hit. What was that experience like?

>> That was great. You know, I will say

this. This is going to sound crazy to

many people, but my dog got really sick

right before and my dog passed away like

4 days after Girl Script came out and he

had been really sick and I loved my dog

Zeus. So, it was a bit of a blur. I was

very sad. I was very sad cuz I had lost

um

I had lost my little little fat little

baby, you know, he was a little bulldog.

And so

I was very happy it did well.

>> Yeah.

>> I remember because at first I was like

I think I was not I think the girls were

a lot more um optimistic. I was like

should we be coming out in the summer?

That was my thought. I was like against

I mean, he's not like he's very

talented, but Chris Nolan um and

Dunkkirk, I was like, we're coming out

the same day.

>> But sometimes that counterprogramming

can really work.

>> They they sometimes and at that and I

guess at that time it did, I guess,

because I was I'm, you know, I'm a I'm a

Nolan fan, so I was not um So, yeah, it

was it was it was it was great.

>> But sometimes you've had a day and

you're just like, I can't go see Dunkirk

tonight.

>> You're like, I can't do it. I I had my

my day was Dunkerkian.

>> Yes. Right.

>> And I need a laugh.

>> Yeah. I don't need Dunkirk again.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. Because I I remember Tina and I

did a movie called Sisters and it came

out against Star Wars.

>> Oh.

>> And so it was like hm

>> I have a film I'm coming out in um an

animated film.

>> Oo.

>> Spongebob.

>> Yes.

>> And that's coming out the same day as

Avatar. So I was like that that that

that's

>> But I like that programming. I like that

because

>> Tell me how I don't understand that.

Tell me. Tell me.

>> I like it.

>> You like an Avatar?

>> I like an Avatar Spongebob um uh choice

because

>> cuz I feel like I would take my kids to

see Avatar as well,

>> dude. How much Avatar are we going to

get?

>> But the thing is this is the last

Avatar. So yeah, you got to go see it.

But he hasn't filmed anymore and it

takes like

>> I mean is it the last Avatar?

>> Yeah.

>> I mean how many times we get fooled by

that?

>> Right. That's true. The last

>> I feel safer now.

>> And I don't know. And that one I just

It's going to take so long. That's the

other thing cuz movies are so long.

>> Well, Spongebob is only It's short. I

mean 96 minutes you're in and out.

>> It's hilarious. In and out. But I mean

when you see I just like the other thing

is like what do you I could only go to

that movie at starting at 4:00 and

there's no way I'm going to go to an

8:00 movie of Avatar.

>> But of Spongebob. Aren't they sleep by

then too? the kids, you got to get them

in and out of there by 12. 1 2

>> Spongebob you got to do like a 600 p.m.

probably 6 p.m. But I think you're going

to get a lot of adult.

>> That's a good idea cuz

>> that's

>> going to Spongebob.

>> But don't you think those adults would

see Avatar 2? I'm just

>> not this adult.

>> Not that. So we got we got one

everybody.

>> I'm going to say it right now and I'm

sorry if I'm going to like cause

problems. I'm not going to see the new

Avatar.

>> I'm not I don't I'm not going to see it.

Well, we're not on IMAX anyway. So, the

Avatar took the IMAX. So, we're going to

be on

>> I also I don't like IMAX.

>> Yeah, those big theaters.

>> It's so intense. It's too loud.

>> Well, we're coming out one battle after

another is coming on on IMAX.

>> Okay. Except for that,

[Laughter]

>> right? Yeah, that one.

>> Okay. But so before I get to that movie

because it looks so great and I mean

Paul Thomas Anderson is just such an

incredible director and your cast is

incredible. Um but I want to talk about

award shows because you and I are we've

both hosted stuff.

>> You I love Yes. I love

>> I love when you host. You are so good at

it.

>> Well I mean

>> what do you what do you like about

doing?

>> It's I mean I don't know that I do.

>> I know what you mean. Yes. It's hard.

>> I know what I mean. It's hard and it's a

little bit of like diminishing returns.

Like the more you do it, like when you

when you pull it off the first time,

you're like and they like come back and

do it again. It's like I don't know if I

should.

>> You all have managed to do repeat

performance and honestly be amazing each

time.

>> Thank you. Right back at you. And I feel

like you have something that hosts need

that you just kind of can't teach, which

is you have to be a little

a little ambivalent, a little relaxed.

You can't care too much about it.

>> No. Because people can feel that.

>> I know. They can feel it in the room.

>> They can feel it in the room.

>> So, what do you do to kind of keep that

vibe going or you or like fake that vibe

when you're out there doing it?

>> I do. I mean, I don't know. Let me ask

you if you feel this. You know, you're

nervous, but once the curtain goes up,

you're like, "Well, here it is."

>> Yes.

>> There's nothing you can do.

>> I mean, it's at that point, it's just,

you know,

>> it's like that breast exam. It's on. The

shirt is off.

>> We got to do it.

>> The machine is open.

>> We got to slap them on in there. I think

it just kind of

I mean, you got to feel that what you've

got is enough. I think I think that's

what it is. You've got to just feel

like, well,

>> what I have is enough. cuz I always feel

like the minute you feel like you panic

>> Yes.

That's when it's going to be

>> and you are the ho like a host whether

it be you're having a dinner party

whether you're having a wedding whether

you're hosting the BT awards whatever is

the thing

>> if you're having fun

>> right I agree

>> and you set the tone people relax but if

to your point if you and I mean you were

hosting the Academy Awards during a very

hectic um year the year of the slap very

stressful you and Amy and Wanda and you

guys

>> had to handle like this crazy live

thing.

>> Are you the kind of performer when

something like that happens where you

like how do you

>> how do you adjust? Do you just

>> like try to stay in your body? Do you

disassociate? Do you what do you do? How

do you adjust when those kind of things

happen?

>> Well, I had I mean I I mean it was

wonderful to have them, you know, and

not be doing that alone

>> and they were great.

Um,

I think you just are like, let we just,

you know, the show must go on. I think

there's just something about the show

must go on mentality that you just are

like, it is we, here we go.

>> Yeah.

>> And because you're at that point, you

are thinking of your audience. You want

your audience to um

>> continue to enjoy the show and you don't

and that's the thing about a live show,

you know, anything anything can happen

um anyway when you're doing anything

live. So, I think you're have to just

always be prepared for that and whatever

that ends up being, you just ride it

out.

>> Yeah. I mean, it it it's a skill. It's a

skill to be able to to do that and to

not let things kind of throw you. And

you're so good at pivoting in real time

like whether you're accepting for Kevin

Cosner in real time which was amazing

like a beautiful poem

>> and an incredible

>> that is my fault because they said

Regina you should read this backstage

and I was like no no no no I got it I

was like no no no no I got it and I

didn't realize what they had written and

I think it was that discovery in real

time

>> it was very human and very light lovely

like because you were real. You were

accepting for Kevin Coer who wasn't

there at the time cuz he was dealing

with weather in Santa Barbara which was

real um destructive weather that people

were you know and you were of course

>> doing what anyone would do which is like

>> doing like this fun gracious kind of

light tease to the person who won until

you realized mid-sentence that you're

like I see this is more serious and it

was it was a beautiful pivot.

Do you remember? I forget what award

show it was.

Maybe it was the Emmys and Jimmy

Fallon's um prompter went out. Do you

remember that?

>> No.

>> Yes. And I mean he was he h he he

handled it so well. He just was like,

"Hey, I can't read the prompter." And he

just kind of riff for a second. And I

thought, "Oh,

>> oh, I do remember that."

>> He just kind of made a thing about it.

And I remember like for hours after just

kind of lying in my room thinking that

is a living stress dream

>> that you would just walk out to all

these people and just the prompter

>> and the prompter. I know. And even for

two seconds cuz it's like the beginning.

It's right when you need it's right when

you are like I need to engage them. I'm

letting them know what this night is

going to be like. And then you don't

have a prompter.

>> Back to dentistry.

>> Mhm. Have you ever had dreams that your

teeth fall out?

>> No. Have you?

>> You have? It's a very typical stress

dream.

>> Really?

>> That your that like you go to talk and

your teeth fall out.

>> Oh my god. That I'm stressed thinking

about it.

>> I know. I'm sorry to bring it up. Um do

you have what what would be a typical

stress dream for you?

>> I probably am not sleeping if I'm that

stressed. I think that's what happens.

>> Do you are you a good sleeper? I love to

talk about sleep. I love sleep.

>> Here's the thing. I love sleep. I want

more of it.

>> Okay. Well, let's talk about how to get

you there.

>> Okay.

>> What's your bedtime?

>> Well, there's the answer.

>> Too late

>> there. It's too late. There's a lot to

do sometimes when I get home.

>> Okay.

>> Or it's that last dine episode that I've

never seen and I want to get that last

one in.

>> You cannot watch a date line to feel

good late at night.

>> What happens?

>> Well, it's just bad for dreams.

>> Oh, I have great dreams.

>> Okay. A lot of times it's spouses. Have

you seen that? Have you noticed that?

>> That is true. And I was talking about

this with Zara Gar a couple weeks ago on

this podcast. Um that women who are is

great. That women who are married are

much more likely to die earlier and Yes.

to get married.

>> Oh, you mean from stress? Oh, yes. I

Yes. Yes. Yes.

>> But but it shortens your life if you're

married. You know that.

>> Yeah. Yep. Sucks it right out.

sucks it right out cuz you're caretaking

and you're thinking of and a lot of

times women

>> um they're they're nurturing so they're

giving so much but the men they they

fare better

>> they do a man lives

>> long I don't even know why y'all don't

want to get married

>> y'all should be begging to run down an

altar like literally

>> yeah right men should know that it's

going to add they should do like a you

should do like a very like um

like you know there's all these these

like podcasts and books and classes of

like maximizing your potential. They

should just do it about getting married.

>> They should just say you get married,

you live five more years.

>> 86% of the most successful men are

married.

I'm just saying

that's got I mean that's got to you know

they need that grounding. They need that

home base.

>> And women don't. No.

>> No.

>> Because they find it in friendships.

>> Yeah.

>> You know what I was saying? And tell me

this.

>> Anyone else in here?

>> Have you noticed that men

>> Oh, there was a study. If you ask men

who their best friend is, most of them

say their wives, right?

>> And if you ask a woman, she's really got

her friends. She like Lisa, you know,

Amy, like they really they have they

have it. And for men, it'll be their

wives.

>> Yeah. Um, I do feel like women have, you

know, tribes and

>> we're in our 50s, right? So, we're kind

of in the middle.

>> 30s.

>> Were we in our 30s? Wait, let me check.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah, we are.

>> 39.

>> 39.

>> And we are in the watery middle.

>> We're in the watery middle.

Mhm.

>> Water is so important.

>> Resource.

>> Water is a sponsor.

>> It is.

>> Water. Please.

>> Yeah.

>> Water. It

>> don't go.

>> Don't go. Water. Don't go. Do you worry

about um like are you a

>> totally into climate change? Yes.

>> Yes. And do you are you like a prepper?

Are are you do you think about

>> totally aware and I'm like [ __ ] it at

the same time

>> cuz I'm like what can I do? I can't I

can't live in the stress of it. But am

aware enough to be like if there is

something I that can be done I will do

it.

>> If there was a zombie apocalypse.

>> Oh my gosh. I don't I can't live in

buildings and just just take me out. I'm

going to go at some point anyway.

>> I feel this exactly the same. I would

just be like let me be the first to go.

>> Just Yeah. Like don't bite me cuz I

don't want to be alive and dead. But

just just somebody just run me on over.

However, whatever is the quickest way,

but I don't want to just survive. I

haven't slept. Amy, get up. I hear

something. You've got a gun. We've got

one candy bar between us that's got to

last for like 10 days.

>> No. We should do a zombie movie where

the two of us immediately get killed.

We're trying to get killed the whole

movie. No one will kill us.

Can't even get bitten by a zombie.

>> We can't. Yeah,

>> that is a good idea. I know because I

feel But there But what are you like in

a crisis? Cuz I I'm projecting on you. I

feel like you'd be very levelheaded.

>> I think I'm pretty calm in a crisis. At

least most crisis, but I have a

meophobia. So, it depends on

>> Oh,

>> that crisis I'm not great in.

>> Let's talk about that.

>> I know. I love a phobia.

>> Do you have any?

>> I don't think so. I don't have a real

phobia. I I think I have like intrusive

thoughts that maybe is phobia adjacent,

like fear of uh stuff, but I don't have

an actual

>> fear of clowns. I don't love clowns.

>> You don't I don't mind clowns.

>> I don't I don't love them. I I I don't I

definitely don't want to be around a

clown, but I wouldn't I wouldn't scream

in my way. They're just they see it's a

lot. It's a lot.

>> Um I don't like any people that are like

performing clown stuff.

>> Clown stuff.

>> But I respect them and I would scream if

I saw one.

>> Right.

>> But a metaphobia is

>> well a I have two phobias. I have

amophobia.

>> Aophob phobia.

>> Yeah.

>> And then claustrophobia. Aophobia is a

fear of like

>> throwing up.

>> Yeah.

>> Someone throwing up. Are you throwing

up? I have some friends who have that.

We won't talk about it anymore because

it makes people stressed. Yes. For

people listening, we won't talk about

it.

>> But it's real.

>> It's real. And so is claustrophobia.

>> Okay. And so claustrophobia,

>> how does that manifest in your everyday?

>> My You know what? I only am

claustrophobic if I'm like, I can't get

out. So like I can do a small space if I

can get out of it. What if it's a small

space and I'm like like an MRI?

>> I got to know I can scoot out.

>> But you can't in an MRI. Exactly. That's

why I can't do those.

>> So, do you take a do you take a a night

night pill when you do?

>> No, I do the open MRI.

>> There's an open one.

>> Yeah, there's which is wider. Which is

wider. Where you can scoot out.

>> You can scoot out and I don't let them

leave me alone.

>> Yes.

>> They have to sit there with me and then

I have to talk to them.

>> Mhm.

>> They have to talk to me.

>> And are you feeling do you know do you

do you have a sense of where your

claustrophobia came from?

I remember it starting when I got a um

a face m what do you call those? Um

>> facial.

>> Not a facial.

>> Oh, I know exactly what you're talking

about. So, actors often have to get

>> Yes.

>> like a plaster cast

and it is terrifying.

>> And that's when I I didn't have it

before that I remember. But I remember

when they were both on me plastering me.

>> Yeah.

>> Plastering my face.

>> I know. Neither sound weird.

>> It's like I keep trying to make it sound

better.

>> It's a very weird thing that people

don't know, which is a lot of actors

have to get, especially if you're doing

any prosthetics.

>> Yes.

>> And I'm sure makeup artists have made it

better and better and easier and easier,

but back when we were doing it, it was

like stick two straws in your nose.

>> Yeah. And they do your mouth and then

they're patting you and you your ears

are covered and then they're trying to

go fast and then it has to harden.

>> That's right.

>> And then once it hardens, they can

remove it. And the thing wasn't that. I

just was like, "What if a fire comes?

They forget about me and run out."

>> Wait, like,

>> wait, this is a really interesting thing

your brain is doing.

>> So, my brain creates scenarios.

>> It wouldn't be the fire that would be

the problem. It would be that you've

left, you've been left alone.

>> I've been left and I can't get and I

can't get the thing out off, right?

That's a good anxiety.

That's what happens to me.

>> Okay. So, I do want to talk about one

battle after another because I mean, you

worked with a lot of great directors.

Paul Thomas Anderson is

>> Yeah. Amazing.

>> His films are really amazing.

>> He was one of my Yeah. He's like he's my

favorite.

>> What was it like to shoot it? It was

shot in all in LA.

>> All in LA. All different parts of

California. Not LA. California. It was

great. You know, it's wonderful to I

mean the cast is amazing.

>> And how did you like working with

Leonardo DiCaprio? Leo.

>> Um well, he's um you know, the thing

with Leo is he's he's not very

experienced. He's green. And so you've

when you're working like, "Oh, no,

sweetie. That's crafty. That's crafty.

That's not set."

>> Exactly. You went the wrong way.

>> No. Yeah. I had to do a lot of that. No,

that's the lens.

>> Don't look into it.

>> Cuz he was doing a lot of that.

>> Once we got past that though, he was he

was he was great. He was great. He's

great.

>> Yeah. No, it was sad, but it was also

sweet. It's endearing.

>> Tender.

>> Yeah. Yeah. And he he's got a lot riding

on this cuz he's never had a big movie.

>> No. Yeah. Yeah.

>> Oh, he sounds sweet.

>> He is.

>> And then you're making another scary

movie.

>> Making another scary

>> which is like perfect example of your

career. You have this like,

>> you know, kind of prestigious, very like

intense, and then you're going to go do

that dumb fun

>> cuz I imagine it's real big dumb fun.

>> Oh my gosh. Yes.

>> Yes, it is. And like, you know, I think

for us it's like, well, let's see how

far we can push humor in 2025.

>> You know, that's a that's a big thing.

But you know that the great thing is you

get at everybody.

>> Yeah.

>> That's what comedy

>> that's where it lives, right? Getting at

everybody.

>> I think so. I mean like what I asked

this of all my guests, but what do you

want?

>> Why do I have an urge to do this?

>> What is it called? It's called um what's

the word when you misophonia. So I don't

think it's a phobia. I think it's a

phonia.

>> I don't know what's the difference. But

yeah. Wow. Misophonia is when you can

>> Can you look up the difference between

phobia and phonia? Maybe

>> I can I have a laptop here

and um

>> and she is part of that generation like

myself of pre-technology.

>> That's right. Where type things in we

would be going to the microfish.

>> Remember micro

>> remember microfish?

>> Okay. misophonia

is a condition where specific sounds a

condition

>> so it's a okay

>> where specific sounds trigger intense

negative emotional reactions such as

anger annoyance or anxiety

>> I don't know if it it's intense but for

example if I'm listening to a podcast

>> and um someone needs to take a drink of

water and they're really dry mouth you

can hear it

>> not only can I hear it but I I really

can't listen to the person

>> so you have also you must have an

incredible ear

>> I do have a I have a good ear and I can

hear things pretty well.

>> Now, look up phobia and just see what

that definition is.

>> Phobia. Let's see what the Latin word of

phobia is.

>> Phobia meaning

>> if I was like phobia

>> in a extreme or irrational fear or

aversion to something.

>> So, it's fear and and the other one is

anger and disgust.

>> Yeah.

>> Sounds

>> but just about cuz like phonograph and

phonia.

>> That makes sense.

Um, but you want to know um what causes

phobia?

>> What?

>> It's genetic predisposition,

environmental factors, and traumatic

experiences. So, there you go.

>> That experience of that thing of that

face thing.

I also was like, they could be doing

anything. I can't see,

>> right?

>> I just heard fingers and then like, you

know, I could have been ass up in like

30 seconds. Not that I Not that I

thought that. I didn't think that. Yeah,

>> but if I think about it now,

>> anything could have happened. They were

very nice, both of them.

>> Treatment is CBT, exposure therapy,

>> exposure,

>> medication.

>> Well, how are you going to, you know, so

I just have to get in small spaces,

claustrophobia, and then just be forced

to send sitting there, huh?

>> So, you don't like to get smooshed? I

love getting smushed.

>> I don't mind getting I don't mind

getting smooshed. I just need to know I

can get out. If you put me in a small

closet and I know it can't get locked,

then I can get in there.

>> Yeah,

>> I can get in an elevator just fine.

Unless the elevator gets stuck.

>> Oh, has that happened? And

>> one day I was panicking. I just hadn't

hit the open button because you know

when you know that

>> if the door if the doors don't open it's

very stressful. Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> And I was like you know cuz it was it's

the can't get out part. It's not the

actual cuz I can do Can you do roller

coaster rides where you get strapped in?

>> Okay. I can do them. I don't feel a

phobia from them but I hate being shook

that much

>> like the shaky like I don't do roller

coasters. I feel it's too much.

>> Where is it shaky for you?

>> Just the I don't I don't like a roller

coaster to me is like I I get nauseous.

I feel like all like dizzy. I It's not

worth it for me. The feeling of I love

them.

>> I You love them.

>> I get on them and like and I want to get

off and when it's going chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick chick

chick chick chick chick chick I'm like I

want to get off. I want to get off. As

soon as the first drop happens and I

make it, I'm like woo. Now I can't enjoy

it because I worry about someone

throwing up on it,

right? But if roller coasters are like a

way to shake it up, what is, and I ask

my guests this, what is something that

you're listening to, watching, where do

you go to laugh? Because I know you love

to laugh. You have a great sense of

humor. You're deeply funny. Who makes

you laugh?

>> I have comfort watches. I've seen

Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met

Sally 5,000 times.

>> Yeah.

>> And Heartburn. I kind of like Nor. Isn't

it?

>> Heartburn is not talked about enough.

What is

>> Merryill in that movie and the God

>> and Jack? They're so good together.

>> And you know, Jack, stop. You wanted it

to work.

>> What about when she would had when she

had that pregnant belly and then that

little baby and she had to sing and she

had to leave. That movie I I think that

movie is not

>> I don't know if it's underrated, but I

say it's underrated because I think

you're right. It is so good. Check out

Heartburn, everybody.

>> Check out Heartburn.

>> It's so good. So, and it's so honest,

>> you know, when she came back, even you

know what I loved the um the delivery

scene when he was talking to her and he

cried and you were like, "It's going to

be different." And they had the baby. He

was right back out there.

>> She was right back out there in 10

minutes just doing him. He couldn't even

So, she couldn't she couldn't

>> she couldn't do it anymore.

>> No, people are complicated.

>> People are complicated. And it's not

good or bad, but it it is it is can I

stand it?

>> And there was a little bit of her that

was too compromised in that film,

>> in that story or Efron's story. And I

love I love heartburn. Even before the

even in the beginning when it was like,

should we get married? Remember behind

when she had the cold?

>> Yes. So good. So human.

>> So human. Yeah.

>> She's funny, too.

>> Oh, Merryill's so funny.

>> I mean, Merryill's everything.

>> Merryill.

>> Merryill. I mean there's some words

Merryill

>> Merryill rub on us

>> rub up on us.

>> Yes just just rub on us. I mean love

Merryill. That that was a great one

though.

>> Well I have to say Regina it's been so

great talking to you and I have to say

that the Catholic Church loss has been

our gain. I really appreciate you doing

this. Thank you so much for coming. It's

so great to talk to you.

>> And I'll see you on another dance floor

hopefully soon.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

>> Okay. Okay.

>> Thanks honey.

>> Thank you so much Regina Hall. You are

awesome and it was so great to talk to

you and so fun. And um today's Polar

Plunge is presented by BMW Certified.

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working at like a sports bar. And Regina

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fine example of Regina at her best doing

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