Transcript: Sandra Bullock on Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Hello everyone. Welcome to another

episode of Good Hang. Boy, we are

excited about our guest today. She's a

gigantic movie star and an incredible

talent and it's the one, the only Sandra

Bulock. Sandy Bulock is here today and

we talk about so many things. We're

going to get into it. We're going to

talk about um her love of physical

comedy. We're going to find out her

favorite German word and I'm going to

try to guess what it means. We're going

to talk about uh what a nightmare it is

to stand next to Nicole Kimman on a red

carpet and we are going to talk about

her new movie Practical Magic 2 out this

week. It is great. Check it out. She is

incredible. We are lucky to have her and

we always do this at the beginning of

our episodes. We talk well behind our

guests back and we find somebody who

knows our guests and wants to give me a

question to ask them. So, we are joined

today by two of her co-stars from

Practical Magic who play her daughters

in the film and great, incredibly

talented actresses in her own right,

Joey King and Maisie Williams. Hello,

ladies.

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>> [music]

>> OMG,

look at who I'm getting to talk to.

Double trouble right over here.

[laughter]

>> Someone just rang my door.

>> Wait, someone's at your door. Wait, take

us with you. Who is it? [laughter]

>> My husband's answering. You know what I

think? I think it's part of his

anniversary present. I got him just

arrived right at this moment.

>> Oh my gosh. What did you get him? Tell

us. We won't tell anyone. [laughter]

>> I got cuz it's our three-year wedding

anniversary. Keith's right over there.

You're going to hear what I got. It's

fine. Just go in the other room and go.

[laughter] No, no, no.

I got three years of leather. So, I got

him a really nice like leather carry-on

like

>> And someone's delivering it to the

house. That's That's fancy.

>> Well, well, I got it shipped cuz

>> Okay. Okay. So, it's just it's someone

[laughter] who shipped it. Okay. Got it.

online.

>> I thought it was like a white glove

service where like a butler is

delivering a a leather case. [gasps]

>> I want my bag to have a butler.

[laughter]

>> Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry if we ruined

the surprise, but that was excited when

somebody rings the I mean, who

>> I'm sorry someone rang the [laughter]

doorbell.

>> But who rings a doorbell anymore? Like

there's no like we had this happen on on

the show when when we were with um

Rachel

>> D.

Amy, we know. We've seen it.

>> [laughter]

>> Oh my god, the best. I I that clip comes

up on my feed all the time and I watch

it just I watch it full through every

time I see it.

>> Joey King, Maisy Williams, I just want

to say I love and have watched

everything you guys have done. When I

saw that you were in this in Practical

Magic 2, when I saw that you were the

the daughters in in the film, I was

like, "Okay, okay, we're going heavy

hitter here. We've got a four top a real

heavy for top with Nicole [laughter]

and Sandy and you two Mike. Incredible.

>> Oh my god.

>> Also, you're crushing it on Tik Tok.

>> We love making Tik Toks.

>> We really do.

>> Tik Toks are so good. [laughter]

>> Oh my god. It makes me so like I feel

I'm like blushing that you watch them

>> now. Joey, you've been you've been on

Tik Tok for a a minute.

>> Me? [laughter] Yeah. I've been I've been

there from the beginning. Been there a

while.

>> You were there before co I believe which

is

>> of the birth. My sister got me on

TikTok. I remember to promote one of the

kissing booth movies. She was like, "You

got to get on TikTok and start dancing."

And I was like, [laughter] "All right,

soldier.

Whatever you say."

>> Yep. And now here we are. I feel like

I've been watching you guys depressed

for this movie and it's been very cool

to watch not only like I've said very

talented women get to do um something

very special together, but it does feel

like you have all really enjoyed working

together.

>> Yeah, it was so much fun. It was It's

kind of crazy. It was a year ago to the

date that we finished, I think. Right,

Joey?

>> You're right.

>> Yeah, it was so We spent the whole

summer together. It was beautiful. And

then doing all this press together has

just been like such a dream.

>> Just a lot of giggling actually. Yeah.

>> So much so much giggling. Maisy's like

my favorite woman ever. So this has just

been like the greatest joy to make such

a close friend through this film that's

all about sisterhood. Every time, you

know, they always are like, "What spell

would you cast in press if if you had

cast one spell?" And my answer every

time is like, "I just want Maisy to live

closer to me." [laughter]

A

>> that would be so nice living in LA and

they're hanging out.

>> We were literally in the waiting room to

come on here and we're just like texting

like we're just can't stop. We can't

stop communicating. [laughter]

>> Maisy, play your cards right and a

leather briefcase will be handd

delivered to your door in just a few

years. Okay. So, we're talking I am

talking to Sandra Bulock today. Um whom

I I really don't think I have met.

>> Okay.

>> Yeah. I I I mean I am of the age where I

I we may have met and and I forget, but

I don't think so. We've never really

properly met. What was your first

experience meeting Sandy? And what do

you love about working with her? And

should I call her Sandy right away?

>> I feel like yes, you should just rock

straight in with Sandy. Okay.

>> I feel like she'd love it. And she

always introduced that way. I met her.

She immediately offered me some Harry

Bow, I think, which just like broke the

ice, which was lovely. And it was at the

read through.

>> Just to be clear, that's a gummy bear.

>> Yes. A gummy bear. Got it.

>> Um, right. Yeah.

>> Important to make that distinction.

>> Yes. Um, and she texts us immediately,

"It's your mother here." Like, how she

gets that?

>> Mother. [laughter]

Mother.

>> Take mother. It's your mother. It was my

mother. [laughter]

>> Um, and [clears throat] she just like

ever since has just been like a mother

to us on set. It's been so special. We

went for a little sleepover at her

house. It was cool.

>> Wait, tell say more about that. What do

you mean before you started shooting?

You did?

>> No, it was like after a night shoot. um

after the night after a night shoot we

went there and we had a little cocktails

at like 6:00 in the morning [laughter]

and then stayed over in her little

cottage and then the next day we got to

go in the hot tub. We raided her fridge

and ate all her food. She had to go to

work. She left us in the house and then

we just like ate and sat on the sofa,

watched like YouTube. It was nice.

[laughter]

>> It was so nice. It was I mean she's just

the best. She's such a nurturing spirit.

She's like, she's one of those people

who, you know, she says that she'll

always be there for you and she's like

really means it. Like she'll answer the

call anytime, any day. Um I've texted

her in distress before being like, "I

need your advice on something." And

she's like, "Calling now." And so, and

that's just such a she's such a she's

such a a like a girl's girl and also

just like I don't know. She's just I I'm

so amazed by her and her and everything

she's been through and she handles

herself with so much grace and elegance

and I just and she's she's just so hot,

too.

>> I know. She's so hot.

>> She's so hot.

>> It's It's a lot like it's a lot. It's

hard to ask somebody like, "Why are you

so hot?"

>> I think you have to.

>> That'll be my first question.

>> Why are you so hot?

>> Why are you so hot? No, but she has this

thing. I mean, we've been like, you

know, we get ready for our guests and

we're like reviewing their body of work

and her body of work is so diverse. It's

incredible. She has been in a space

movie that has made gazillion dollars.

She has done like really deep, intense

drama. She's done horror. She's done

incredible physical comedy. She's been

done hugely successful romantic

comedies. She's done. She can do it all.

How does she like to work? And what was

it like working with her in this film? I

mean like I love watching her. She she's

almost like tinker like especially if

it's like a physical comedy scene like

she's really building it. She'll get to

set early like she'll rehearse on her

own. She'll like block with supporting

artists and like she'll build it and

build it and build it and each take she

like adds something more. But it's like

she's constantly finessing one idea and

it's like so amazing to watch and it's

like really nice to watch someone doing

something that seems so off the cuff and

so natural but they're like and they've

thought about it a lot and they know

what props they want to have and they

and like I just I liked to see that on

set. like it was a peak behind the

curtain because everything she does is

so funny and it seems so natural and

seems just so in the moment but like it

takes a lot of work for her to do

something that she's like really happy

with and we got to watch that time and

time and time again on this movie. She's

also just a really great uh generous

actor too. Like there was just some

stuff where we had where it was like

really emotional for either me or

Nicole. And like the way that she would

support us when it was like our turn to

have like a like a really tough moment

or a big moment was so just beautiful.

And it's like inspiring and and so

special because she she takes her job so

seriously and she also takes making sure

others experience a good job too so

seriously. I asked um the um the people

that I get have the pleasure to zoom

with um if they have a question for my

guest and um I was curious if you think

there's anything I should ask her today

on your behalf.

>> I think she's got such like there's such

a lack of vanity to the way that she

approaches physical comedy. Um, and I

think it's really like I I get very

self-conscious on set. And I know that

there are times in her life where she

feels self-conscious, but it's never in

front of the camera. So, seems like it's

never in front of the camera. And I just

like has that always been just

instinctive or is that something that

she's like crafted? Like if she's

feeling self-conscious, how does she get

out of it? Like I just really I really

want to know how she battles that.

[laughter] I love that question, Maisy.

I think that's such a good question.

>> Okay. And what's yours, Joey?

>> My question for Sandra is I want to know

when the last time she just quietly

thought to herself, does it get any

better than this? Like, what's the last

moment she had that was so does it get

any better than this?

>> Oh, that's such a beautiful question.

And it's going to also um help her get

back to that moment. That's a that's a

really generous question. I'm excited to

watch the episode because I'm excited to

like see where she goes mentally with

where where she where she arrives. I

think that'll be special.

>> Oh, that's a great question. You guys

are so smart and talented. And the

future, you're the future. So, we're in

really good hands.

>> And I've always said that. [laughter]

>> And we all know that the future looks

incredible and there's nothing to worry

about.

>> Yeah. Literally, it's perfect.

[laughter]

These are perfect in our hands. Come on.

>> Well, thank you so much for your time. I

know she'll be thrilled that I talked to

you both. And I bet she's got the

warmest things to say right back to you.

So, um, thank you guys so much for doing

this.

>> We love you, Amy. Thank you for having

us.

>> Thank you so much for having us.

>> Thank you so much. Such a pleasure to

meet you both. Hope to get you in the

stewed.

>> Yes.

>> Me with love.

>> Great. Me, too. Okay. Bye.

>> Bye.

>> Bye.

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Sandra Bulock is here. We looked at the

fake food. Yes, we did. I'm very very

excited. Thank you for buying. I know

you're in the middle of a lot of

talking.

>> I am I am super excited because I I'm

I'm excited to be in the company of your

brain. Truly.

>> Same. And your sweater says shenanigans.

>> It's from the film.

>> It's something Aunt Jet says.

>> And let's start there.

>> Okay. because [laughter]

when I was thinking about how to start

this interview, which I've been very

excited for, um, we were just talking

about the fact that you really can do so

many things well and how tiring it must

be to be good at so many things.

>> You know, it is [laughter]

>> you're like you're you're a physical

comedian. You're an incredibly

successful producer. You can do really

deep, meaningful things, big and small.

You've been in huge hits. You've been in

small

>> in stinkers. You've been in [laughter]

huge hits and some that have

>> You've been in huge hits. You've been in

things people don't choose to see.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> And you've withstood that.

>> Yes. Um [laughter]

>> did I?

>> But you are to me you have what Lucille

Ball has. You have what Carol Bernett

has. You have like a physicality. You

have timing. What did you guys laugh at

in your family when you were little?

Because you have you have really

interesting creative parents. really

interesting parents had. They're dead,

so they're up here.

>> Um,

>> my mother was German,

>> right?

>> So, right there.

>> What is she laughing at?

>> Not funny.

>> Um, [laughter]

really did not have a sense of humor.

Um which

>> actually makes you want to challenge

that on a daily basis.

>> Yeah.

>> My father was from Birmingham, Alabama.

>> English, Irish, French, you know, like

storyteller from the South. Mhm.

>> So he had a rhythm of his own.

>> Um but I really think I got it from

trying to break my mother. [laughter]

>> She was trying to break me.

>> Yeah. By making her laugh and it was

always when I hurt myself when I fell.

[laughter]

>> So which kind of goes

you would laugh hard.

>> She would laugh so hard. And I went my

mother didn't laugh a lot. So to get joy

out of her

>> was everything. My dad I had I had in

the pocket, but my mother really was

someone that I knew wanted to laugh and

needed it, but when I finally found it,

>> it was like it was my little ace in in

the pocket. It she she

was a tough audience.

>> Was there any American stuff that she

laughed at that she liked when you were

younger? Do you remember her laughing at

anything or any liking any pop culture

American TV?

>> We didn't really have a lot of TV in the

house. Like we didn't have magazines

when I I lived overseas. We watched

foreign films and you know I would

always gravitate to the ones that had a

physicality so you could understand it.

>> Um

>> but no, my mother was an artist. She was

an opera singer and it was very serious.

>> I'm in I'm incredibly intrigued by this.

>> She was extraordinary and I noticed that

now more than ever being a mom and

seeing her practice her craft which was

incredibly annoying to me.

>> Yeah. Of course

>> it was annoying. It was loud. Yeah.

>> And it was in the basement of our house

and it would permeate the whole

neighborhood as we're playing like

kickball outside. You hear her

vocalizing and you're just like

>> You have very good posture.

>> I'm trying.

>> Does did she have really good posture?

>> Yes.

>> Yeah. Breath control and all that stuff.

>> All of it from the diaphragm. She was

she so she was

>> she practiced a high art. So did my

father.

>> Yeah.

>> But he just had that southern thing that

was more relaxed but also to control the

room and put the remedies. She had no

desire to put the remedies. [laughter]

Incredible.

>> None whatsoever.

>> I'm always fascinated by the people that

can stay quiet and that don't feel the

need to change the temperature in the

room. It's fascinating to me. It's like

a such a power move.

>> It is. It's funny that you bring that up

because today I had that very

conversation with my sister.

>> Mhm.

>> I was like, I am so tired of hearing

myself talk.

>> Oh, babe.

>> And she goes, I can I'm like, and it's

also the press junket. I feel like I'm

here to just share and do whatever. But

she says, "You know, it's also your

undiagnosed ADHD and your trauma

response." I went, "Okay." [laughter]

>> You're like, "Wow, you read for Phil.

Thank you so much." But has this ever

happened to you where you're on a

conference call and you're accidentally

on mute and you you're talking but

you're on mute and then you get off mute

and you realize like I've actually just

been the most powerful I've ever been by

not talking by pausing for more than 10

seconds. But I never do that. I have to

work at it. Okay. We were talking about

we were talking about your German mom,

but we're talking about opera.

>> I your relationship to music is really

interesting to me. I've learned that

about knowing you. Not only like, you

know, as a producer, you're picking

music for the projects you make.

>> There's really good needle drops that

are in films that you make because of

you, but you sang opera.

>> No, I DID NOT.

>> YOU [laughter] DIDN'T?

>> ARE YOU A SINGER?

>> Not even close.

>> Okay.

>> Not even. No, I'm not one of those who

says, "Oh, I can't sing." And then I'll

be in like the car and I'll belt

something out and they're like, "You've

got a great voice."

>> Okay. You know, you don't have a good

voice. I I should not be singing, but

what I have is great rhythm.

>> Yeah, I timing timing. So, but you sang

with your parents, were you not in

operas?

>> Yes, I was in the back.

>> I was in I was in the background.

There's always like some filthy child

stealing money and coins off the floor.

That was me.

>> That was [laughter] me.

>> And so, do you feel Did your mom want

you to be a singer? Did she ever want

you? No, she knew.

>> Look, [laughter] there could only be She

knew. Um, there was only one her.

>> And she was she was of the highest order

of of talent. She just she was the one.

I was the jokester. I found

>> my way to sort of level the vibe

anywhere was through that. So, she knew,

of course, at some point I would be

that. I was in theater and I did things

like that.

>> I didn't even attempt to sing.

>> I am going to my first opera very soon.

I've never been.

>> Which one are you going to?

>> Um, George Saunders. They're doing an

opera based on his book Lincoln and the

Bardau at the Met.

>> Really?

>> And I'm thrilled. But my question for

you is what like what what should I

prepare for?

Cuz have you I'm assuming you've been to

many.

>> Yes. And it's amazing how no matter what

the language when it's good, you

understand it all.

>> And it's it's the profoundity of the

performances and the set deck and the

it's grand. It's always grand. Um, I

remember as a kid I would be in the back

of the car and my mother would always

test me like she would play something.

She goes, "What does that make you

feel?" And I would I would lean in. I

would say, "This feels like someone's

losing someone or they're they're

looking for someone who's dead." You

know, like you you could feel it when

it's good. Um, when it's bad, it's bad.

>> Yeah.

>> Um, I think you're at the Met, you're

probably going to be just fine and it's

going to be amazing. [laughter]

>> I think you're going to be okay.

>> What a cool thing for your mom to do to

test you on what are you feeling,

>> what I was feeling. I mean, we would go

to Italy for the operas, just sit on the

stone steps and with our little ice

cream and just watch the animals come on

stage and the, you know, it was it was

it was just beautiful. It was really

beautiful.

>> And speaking of German, what can you

tell me your favorite German word? And

I'm going to try to guess what it means.

>> It's it's um

>> Say again, please. [laughter]

>> Shiskoff. I'm gonna say that is um the

feeling that you get [laughter]

>> when you're about to win an argument.

>> You're very close because [laughter] the

word would probably be used in the

argument is you right before the mic

drop moment. [gasps]

>> Oh my god, chills.

>> I speak German now.

>> Um

>> do you want to know what it means?

>> Oh yeah. What does it [laughter] mean?

Sorry. Means It's what my

mother would teach. All the boyfriends

were like, "Would you like me to teach

you some shaman?" And they were like,

"Yes, Miss Bulock, I really would." And

then she'd give them, you know,

And then, [laughter]

so she maybe she did have a tiny sense

of humor.

>> That sounds pretty funny.

>> Does sound funny.

>> That sounds pretty bright. She sounds

like a trickster.

>> She You know what? She is. She just

didn't know it at the time.

>> Yeah.

>> Of her life. [laughter]

>> It It came to her later on.

>> Well, I mean, I you everybody needs a

straight man and it feels like your mom

provided that. Yeah. um the you know

there's a million journeys to get to

being on screen and like you know you

you're performing you're acting you

moved to New York

>> you study at Meisner I I studied in

college uh the teacher that came to the

>> what college were you then East Carolina

University only because my best friend

in high school had an application my dad

really wanted me to go to a school of

the arts the top 10

>> I was not getting into any of them I

auditioned for one

>> was very unfortunate [laughter] Do you

remember what you auditioned with?

>> I don't recall. It's that traumatic.

>> Yes. I remember the smell of the room.

[laughter]

The smell of fear.

>> I remember the flop sweat and

>> Oh, it was it was this austere white

room. I was like, I'm not supposed to be

here. I'm not I wasn't I was pretty

oddly shy as a kid because we traveled

back and forth and I had a lisp

>> and my list still kind of comes out when

I'm like on this press tour. My lisp has

come out

>> when you're tired or talking to your

family or something. Yeah. And I didn't

really notice I had one until a few

years ago. I was working my coaster. I

was like, "You have a lisp." And I was

like, "Fuck her." [laughter]

>> You were like, "Stop paying attention.

>> Stop. Why are you looking at my mouth?"

>> Yeah.

>> Worry about [laughter] yourself.

>> But I I didn't I wasn't baked. I wasn't

mature enough. I was very sheltered. So

I could never have made it in any of

those environments. I did not have the

confidence.

>> Did you like studying all like that

miser technique?

>> Very much.

>> So for people who don't know what miser

technique is, it's kind of cool. What

what how would you explain it?

>> Premise is being truthful in imaginary

circumstances going. So I I wasn't

comfortable when they would say lay on

the floor and you're going to fry like

bacon. And I was like I'll never be cast

as that. This will never it felt

artificial to me. It didn't. But Meisner

they give you a piece um started off

with you know this these siloquies in in

a book. You had to go and do an

emotional preparation as if going, okay,

this never happened to you, but prepare

as closely as you can to the emotion and

the feeling of getting to this. What

would make you feel like this?

>> And it gave you a tool outside of

>> um yourself that made s at least for me,

it made sense to hang on. And also

listening.

>> Yeah.

>> Which we're probably not very good at

because we like we like to, you know,

>> you know what? I'm good at it.

>> You are.

>> And so are you. I've seen it. Active

listening. You're very good at it. And I

am too.

>> It's learned. It's it it not always. Not

always.

>> But can't you tell

>> very quickly when you're with someone

who's not listening and there's like

there's no lonelier feeling. Yeah.

>> When you can tell when you're talking

and you can tell that someone's dead

behind the eyes,

>> it kind of makes me [laughter] sad.

>> Makes me sad, too.

>> Makes me really sad.

>> And I maybe it's co maybe it's a little

codependency. Maybe it's like a little

bit of making sure I'm staying

connected. I I I think I I I think you

can still be a good listener while

you're talking. Yes. Or while if you're

if you consider yourself a talker.

>> Yes. And if you've done enough therapy,

too, you've learned that, you know, it

it

>> requires you to just stop.

>> Yeah.

>> And that all of that it's it's all of

that together in a pile. And I got very

lucky that this teacher came in to teach

the Meisner technique. And

>> it was always the girls in class who

could cry on the spot. And I'm like,

"Oh, there's such brilliant actors. She

can cry." You know? Never could get

there.

>> No tears.

>> No, I can't. Unless I feel it. What? You

don't like the tears? You

>> I I have a whole thing about tears.

>> Just explain.

>> Well, I think that tears, to your point,

are very effective,

but people just like being flexible.

People can sometimes are just good at

tears.

>> Like they were just born being good at

tears

>> and keeping them like perched right

there. And then it just

>> when I cry, it's the square mouth. It's

like things tilt. It implodes. And it's

there's nothing cinematic about.

>> I heard that Elizabeth Moss, I don't

know if this is true. Elizabeth, write

in. Call in.

>> That she can pick what eye she's going

to cry out of. Stop.

>> That's what I heard.

>> Isn't that Isn't that an incredible

rumor?

Lizzy, call us. Because she's so good at

crying. The people that are able to go

blink and drop a tear.

>> I'm I'm sort of like I'm having a little

FOMO like right now. I wish I had.

>> But I think it's like being able to

touch your toes or something. Like you

either have it or not.

>> Well, I can do that. No one wants to see

how it feels.

>> Not all of us can, Sandy.

>> Well, have you been practicing? It

requires

>> I know. I tried to touch my toes with

John Cena when he was in here and he was

[laughter]

>> That's not a euphemism.

>> How dare you? And

>> he touched his toes so well.

>> He touched his to the floor.

>> I can see that.

>> Are you that flexible?

Can you do that? Damn it.

>> But I practice. I I practice.

>> I practice. [sighs and gasps]

>> Okay. Speed. Okay. So [laughter] then

you audition.

>> Then you audition for speed.

>> No. Um

>> where I had to be flexible.

>> Yeah. You probably did have to be

flexible in speed. Uh you've talked

about this before, but I'm really those

early days of like walking into rooms,

trying things, like you were saying, not

being fully cooked, but feeling excited

about stuff, knowing that you had the

passion, but maybe not the experience

yet, but going for it. Those swings

>> feels like really paid off with speed.

You were able to like meet the moment of

that movie

>> with the enthusiasm that that character

needed. And that audition process, I've

read about it, read about it, and read

about you talking about it, but it

sounds really funny and fun. It's in in

in retrospect,

>> right? But

>> again, there was again like the audition

for the school I didn't get into. Yeah.

There's a lots of sching and just you're

outside of your body. And I think from

New York, I was I was a waitress. Every

Thursday I got the backstage magazine. I

pounded the pavement. You went to your

little auditions with your your head

shot and you just

>> you just had to do it. So I was

comfortable just doing it.

>> Yeah.

>> Um

>> did you have to pretend you were on a

bus when you were auditioning?

I was on a folding chair and they gave

me a paper plate. [laughter]

>> I think I have to say, you know, we talk

about acting a lot on this because I

talked to a lot of actors. I think

everybody should have to do that once to

feel like, you know, you think in life

like I've felt what it's like to be

humiliated and you're like, no, you've

not.

>> And then they bring in Kiana Reeves like

when they in the call back and you're

just like, am I still on the chair with

paper plate? Yes. Still the plate. Okay.

Okay.

[laughter]

Associate and driving.

>> Did you do a little [laughter] roll down

the window?

>> My back there cuz the bus has all these

levers here.

>> Adjust the mirror.

>> The hydraulics.

>> There's all kinds of stuff going on that

I was like, you know.

>> Yeah.

>> Checking the glove compartment.

>> There's no glove compartment on the bus.

[laughter]

>> I mean, I don't know. Is there

>> Maybe there's an air freshener. There's

a million. Not air fresher. Um, that

movie is so huge. It's huge for you. You

and Kanu, lifelong friends. You create

this incredible chemistry together.

>> We didn't create it. It just shows up.

>> It shows up. You're right. And you have

chemistry with So, you are really,

really good.

>> I'm like a skunk. I kind of just spray

it. [laughter]

>> You're like, she's ready.

>> And whoever's in the line OF FIRE.

>> WHATEVER DOGS are start coming in.

[laughter]

>> That's what people don't realize. You

have to like

>> I agree. You got to you got to turn the

channel. You got to But what what but

talk about chemistry for a second

because people love to talk about it.

But what like what what what was it

about you and Keanu that like

immediately you just felt

>> I think with us we're so different.

>> We're so He is very

>> reserved and zen. And as we were saying

earlier,

>> give us a silent room and you can watch

us spin out. So, anytime he's silent,

I'm like the whirling dervish around his

silence and he's just waiting for me to

wear myself out.

>> He's just patiently waiting and then he

often doesn't respond to what I say, you

know, and then until like maybe a day

later when he's thought about it. So,

>> it's it's someone to learn from in terms

of what you and I need to work on.

>> Yeah. The tortoise in the hair kind of

thing. Yeah.

>> But you've worked with really really

different leading men. I and they all

have

they they are good at playing.

>> Yeah.

>> They're just like they're there to

volley back. And I think because I am

not the fem fatal. I am I am the the

tomboy. I am the one that'll get in

there with the guys and you know

>> I think that's why it works for me

because I love being poked. I love

being, you know, just be the needle and

just trying to get at me because that's

a spark for me rather than

>> the real sweet stuff which I just go

it's uninteresting to me. It's goes back

to timing and women who have that and

I'm just I can watch you all day long

but your respect and support of

>> your opponent because it is like a

match.

>> It is and it's a little bit a tiny bit

competitive in a fun way. in a fun way,

but it's also I see you have so much

respect for the person opposite you. I

feel it. I feel it in you. You wait like

even in the bloopers and the outtakes, I

see you giving the person grace enough.

You're like, "Am I going to step in on

this one? I'm going to step in on this

one." I see it. And it's a rhythm that

just it you feel it here. I feel it

here.

>> And don't you feel I feel like people

have music like they just have a rhythm

and to figure out how to make it work is

you have to just kind of get into their

song. It's like

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> And then I think the reason why people

like actors or performers or writers or

whatever is they just like like their

music. They like their song.

>> Yeah. It's like when someone says you

have good taste, that means you have the

taste that I have. [laughter] Like you

know what I mean? It's like you have

nice taste. This is what I would do. You

know it's

>> Yeah. That's so true. Gravity.

>> I want to ask you questions about

gravity. I mean, well,

>> I love talking about

>> Oh my god. I have I have so many

questions.

>> Ask away because I don't think it it

Yeah. Go ahead. Well, you were before we

get to gravity, you know, you won for

the Blind Side Oscar. You've been

nominated many times. How many times?

>> No, I've been nomin I've nominated twice

and one once.

>> Okay. Well, that's more than once.

>> It's like a 50 50 I have 50%, right?

>> 50%. Okay.

>> Several. You've been nominated several

times. [laughter]

>> And you won an Oscar and a Rousey in the

same weekend. Incredible. Balance.

Balance.

>> Incredible. of

>> I came and took the razi back cuz I went

home with it and they were like, "You

can't have this." I was like, "Yes, I

can." [laughter]

>> They were like, "We only have one.

>> We only have one."

>> We had Dakota um Johnson on here. Dakota

Johnson told a really nice story about a

voicemail that she got from you.

>> She's one of the She's one of us.

>> What did you What did you do when she

won her Razie?

>> Called her and welcomed her to the club.

[laughter]

>> What did you win your Razie for?

>> Um All About Steve, a film I did with

Bradley Cooper. Yeah.

>> And we never heard from him again.

Exactly. He just he just [laughter]

[applause]

>> But a movie like Gravity, I'm just going

to put out there, is a really big, deep,

lots of It is you by yourself, camera on

your face movie.

>> So, what was it like to shoot mostly and

often by yourself?

>> What did it feel like?

>> Um, there was so much

technology and like in in in within the

box set that I was literally within the

box if I wasn't on the wires. Um and if

I wasn't with George

>> um it was music.

>> It was the only relationship I had was

to our sound

>> mixer

>> and Alonso because the whole stage was

black and and so I had earwigs in

>> um and so I said to the the sound guy, I

said, "Look, there are these because it

was all rhythmic. I my body had to be

very slow like Martha Graham. And I kept

looking at a dance teacher that I had at

ECU who came from um Alvin Ay

>> and taught me how to not throw my body

around. He goes, "You got to stop

throwing your body around." As he'd

throw me up against the wall and I'd be

like me, I'm coming back. Um but I

learned how to disconnect the head from

the body because the head could speak at

normal speed and the body had to move

>> like that. You know, everything had to

be what it would be in gravity as I was

looking at a dot. That's George. That's

a Soy use. That's And the sound

mixer had we chose selections of sounds

and music and songs and vibes that I

like you said, you start vibing with a

project. I was like, "This song reminds

me of this right here. This makes me

feel this moment."

>> You know, what makes me feel absolute

silence? What you know what? So, I would

say I'm not getting there. I play two,

seven, and five, and then I'll get to.

And he just was my life mixer. He would

mix it and just get me to

>> Is there any music that you'd be willing

to share that you listen to that?

>> I don't even remember, but I just

remember at the end he gave me this tiny

little,

>> you know, what's it called? Like, you

know, tiny little thing with like a hole

where he'd plug in, you know, and he

just handed it to me and I was like,

>> "That's my performance."

>> Wow, that's so cool.

>> So, it tapped into my body cuz my body

had to do these strange zero G things.

>> You were just faking the whole time.

Everything was faking. Like everything

George and I were in the the pod and

Alonso was giving us notes and they

said, "Does anyone want a water?" And I

said, "I do." And they handed it to me

and I grabbed it and George goes, "You

know what you just did, didn't you?" I

said, "No, I have an idea." He goes,

"You were like this."

>> Everything was very slow and I was kept

talking to Alonso and I grabbed the

water, but my body was so used to having

>> That must have somatically been really

cool. Like

>> it must have been peaceful.

>> It was very peaceful.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah.

>> Well, it was a humongous hit. Congrats.

Didn't do bad. Yeah.

>> And you had just adopted your son,

right?

>> Lubert. Yes. Lubbert. We called him

Lubert T. Jones. That was his name on

the because he was just I had dressed

him in these cute little English vests

and he had these little hats. [laughter]

He was so cute. Cutest baby ever.

>> I mean, still cute, but that was super

cute. Yeah. Um it was just it was an

amazing experience because for Alfonso

and his son and they wrote it together.

It was about his sort of feeling lost

and e having an existential

moment in life of despair and how do you

show that in space you go to space.

>> It was it's such an incredible movie.

Beautiful movie. And your performance is

incredible.

>> Thank you.

>> And George too.

>> I mean it's it's all just exactly where

it needs to be.

>> Yeah. and and it it like space films

about space I kind I'll kind of watch

anytime but the feeling of like I don't

want to go to space I guess is what I'm

saying

>> nor do I

>> okay good let's not go yeah

>> and what was it like working with clones

>> you know what I've known Cloon since

before he got um

>> is that how he what he likes to be

called

>> senor clones

>> he like he prefers

>> Amal calls him that now

>> senor [laughter]

>> um when did you guys first worked was

had we we'd only worked together then

but it's first met when he was, you

know, on back porches of all their

friends drunk doing Buddy Hacket

imitations and like this was before um

what was that the show he did where he

was a doctor, you know, er that thing.

Yeah, it's before he got the other ER.

>> The other ER, but it's where he was

doing all the P he was like George of

the Pilots before he became

>> Wait, did you just say what is the show

where he was the doctor?

>> Yeah, you know the doctor show.

>> Oh my god. Eer,

>> I know I said ER. You you have

>> I've watched ER three time, you know.

I've watched the entirety of erent

>> the last time was during co

>> well it's worth it everyone is stellar

[laughter]

>> it's so

>> yeah they're just it's yeah so George is

>> a player he will play and he will bat

things back and forth and he is

>> he's fun George is fun

>> you guys were great together

>> really great together I mean

>> we're good in space together I don't

know how we'll do on land but on space

we're amazing

>> in space in space we're

[laughter]

[gasps] There's no one out there that

can compete with us.

>> I'll only work with him in space and and

this one I'll only work with underwater.

>> Exactly.

>> But now we're talking about Practical

Magic, which you're doing tons of press

for, first of all. And I just love I

mean I I know it's weird to talk about

the press people are doing, but just

watching you and Nicole talk is so nice

and relaxing. You guys are such

opposites in the best way. Nicole is

just kind of on a different channel

>> and in her and like in a re and really

>> she's regal.

>> She is

>> she's regal

>> and she's also very playful

>> and so are you but you play totally

differently

>> and to see her play is really nice cuz

you don't get to see that a lot. You

know she's on this one

>> cuz the what I had to carry wasn't

really sexy for a comedian because I was

like I'm grieving.

>> Yeah. I'm having issues with my

daughter right?

>> I'm battling with fear and all that

stuff. And then she got the fun roll.

[laughter] And I was like,

where can I find moments that are

appropriate within these dire

situations? And we kept with the writer

writing these fun lines for Nicole. And

she she didn't want to do like she was

like, I don't this I don't want to be

the comedic sidekick. I'm like, yes, you

do.

>> Yes, you do.

>> That's what you want. Promise. And she

just took to it. Like she found her she

found her rhythm. Yeah.

>> And she's really good at it.

>> Yeah. I mean, the friendship you guys

have is really cool to watch. I mean,

it's very authentic. You I'm I'm I know

the female friendships are very very

important to you. They've I would

imagine in many as they are to you.

>> Absolutely. What have the women in your

life done and the friendships in your

life done for you?

>> I everything. It's it's like it it I

don't think I can quantify it because it

changes with the seasons. It changes

with our changes. It changes with where

we are and where we're not. Um, and it

you know what they they give me a

tremendous amount of grace.

>> Um, they judge like my sister will be

like, "She's doing that thing again."

You like, but my sister will sit there

and allow that thing to pass because she

knows my history. She knows where it's

coming from.

>> Even though she wants to kill me,

>> she's she's she's going to wait it out.

>> Yeah. That's what I always say about

friends is they know you really well and

they like you anyway.

>> Oh, yes.

>> You know, it's like they really really

know you and yet they still take your

call. Yeah. And hopefully I mean it's

really important for me to be a good

friend.

>> What's your conflict style? Do you are

you a retreater?

>> I'm a mix I'm a mixed bag. I'm a little

sprinkle of but it also depends on who

I'm opposite what their style is. You

know I know every that's sort of the the

vernacular right now is like I'm an

avoidant, you know, whatever.

>> I I am probably a little bit of

everything depending on who I'm opposite

>> and how safe I feel.

>> Yeah.

>> Because in what we do

>> Yeah. Unless it's very close

relationships. Yeah.

>> You don't know who's coming to you with

safety and giving you a safe place.

>> So, it just depends. Um,

>> but I can read people really well.

>> I bet.

>> And I don't always heed my own warning

until like three beats later I'm like, I

knew it. But, you know, I'm like, I want

to give them a shot. I want to, you

know, like whatever they're coming at

me, maybe it's this, maybe they're

having a hard day. And then three beats

later I'm like, it's what I thought it

was.

>> Yes. Yeah.

>> Yeah. That instinct of feeling something

and listening to it and responding to it

like that to me is like a lifetime of

work basically. It's like our entire

life is to figure out like how to

shorten the distance between what we

sense

>> and what we

act on.

>> But do you don't you think that's also

being a woman? like we we have we have a

more sensitive meter or I feel we're

also conditioned in this you know social

universe that

>> we are not to

>> trust that

>> well we become experts in other people

>> and we become really really aware of how

people are acting and changing

>> and to your point we like we're

conditioned to give a lot of grace

>> like that's why like someone like your

mom who's like I'm going to be an island

and you're going to have to come to me

is still ly fascinating to find in a

woman

>> because it's still just like

>> whoa, she's not saying anything and

she's not pleasing anybody

>> and she really does not care that people

are projecting all this stuff on her.

It's fascinating.

>> Yeah. I mean, the way you're saying that

I'm going I'm getting to know my mom,

you know, like I I feel like I am

getting to know my mom

>> as I become more of a mom, you know,

with each day. I'm like, "Oh, I see why

she said that. I see why." I mean,

practical magic has a lot of those

themes, like beautiful themes about like

you talked about history, trauma, pain,

the idea of protecting the people that

you love. The idea of like what is a

like what is a mother's burden and

blessing? What does she get to do? What

does she have to do? It's so great.

>> And you're playing a witch

>> 30 years later almost from when you

played it before. And I'm so interested

in this idea in general that as women

get older, like there's something that

gets very witchy about us. We've always

had it.

>> It is. It's the lag time. Those three

beats become one beat,

>> right?

>> You're no longer, you know, like you're

no longer waiting or second guessing

yourself. You go, it just is.

>> Yeah.

>> You because you've had enough instances

in life to prove you correct

>> when you had that feeling. It's called

mother's intuition for a really good

reason. Women's intuition. Like it's

>> we are extra sensitive to things and

it's it's a both a blessing and a curse.

But I think as you get older, you just

don't want to waste time anymore. You

know, at least I don't.

>> The way you speak about

the losses that you've had in your life

makes people feel very seen

>> and you're very generous about it. And

it in many ways reminds me of this idea

of like the witchiness that happens to

us when we get older

>> that we're coming in with some pain and

some hopefully some lessons or knowledge

from it or whatever.

And I really appreciate it as a person

listening to you share because

I don't know I can't explain it other

than I feel safe in the way that you

share

>> because I feel like you're taking care

of yourself which is a big relief for

me. Yes, that makes any sense.

>> It does. And I I want to take care of

you. I want to take care. You're making

me tearary guys. Stop. Um I really want

to take care of people's

souls like or whatever whoever their

person is. I never want to be known as

someone who violated someone's

confidence that someone

>> um

>> gave me a piece of themselves and I was

I was careless with it.

>> Yeah. Yeah.

>> And I think sure younger age I was a

dingbat, but because of the things that

I've been able to see and feel and

experience and get behind the curtain

on, um I feel like it's a secret that I

don't want to share from those who

deserve to

um benefit from my experience.

>> Well, you've spoken beautifully about

being a caretaker to Brian, and there's

a lot of caretakers listening.

>> The caretaker world is absolutely

underserved. I I'm been very private

since I was a little kid because my

mother always thought I was up to

something that I wasn't, you know. I

really am like, why am I getting blamed

for things I did do. I just I'm a guilty

I just look guilty, you know. But

[laughter] I don't want to ever ever

ever not be Oh god, how do I describe

this? I don't I did what I had to do in

the situation I was in. I didn't want to

say anything out of turn on what anyone

else experienced within that situation

because everyone is experiencing

something their own journey with that.

>> Um there's so much to the story

that would be of service,

but my story, my slice of pie and me and

the kids, you know, it that's all we can

speak about.

>> Yeah.

>> You know what I mean? I'd love to say

but you know it it serves no purpose

other than

>> I have the information. And I've met so

many people who whose family members

have been diagnosed with ALS or a

neurological disorder. I'm like,

>> this is what I know.

>> What did you learn about yourself when

you became a caretaker? What did you

What was a new thing that you learned?

>> I'm always a caretaker.

>> Yeah.

>> Always.

>> And I learned that I don't I didn't take

care of the person that was taking care

of everybody else. And that was a big

wakeup call for me.

>> Yeah.

>> Um and

I'm not good at asking for help. M

>> but I needed help and I needed to ask it

in a way that was safe.

>> Um thankfully I had a few angels that

stepped forward and was like this is

where the nurses are, this is where the

you know um what did I learn about

myself? um that I have an incredible

sister

>> and she

she in her worry for me

>> gave me like an alarm of going if you do

not start taking care of you

>> something's going to happen to you and

what's going to happen to Lou and lie

and I was like you know I and that to me

that's you know I learned about myself I

have an extraordinary sister you know

that that's the only thing that I know

I'm still developing I mean coming into

a press tour I was looking at um

[snorts] the photos of the the London

premiere and I'm like I'm not a red

carpet gal.

>> Are you out of your mind?

>> Okay, let me I'm just going to let me

just

>> Sorry. Can Okay, [laughter] I'm going to

let every

>> Absolutely not. It's our first fight.

You look better than ever.

>> Let me know when you're done.

>> Your red carpet is slaying.

>> Let me know when you're done.

>> Okay, I'm done.

>> I agree with you. The outfits slay. It's

not just the outfit. It was incredible

stylist that worked on this that made me

feel comfortable in my body from the

neck down. I was I was t so taken care

of.

>> The person on the inside like I said to

every I would start panicking as we

would get ready to leave and I said you

guys are working on the outside in. I'm

sitting in my body. I have no idea what

you guys are doing.

>> Yeah.

>> And I was just like and then I got on

the red carpet. I was like okay I've got

this. I'm going to pretend I which hand

should I put him here? [laughter] I'll

work it. Like I'm not someone who's

like, "What's up?"

>> Totally. I mean,

>> I'm not one of those. Like it's like

>> I just had the finger. I just had this

experience. I just did a photo shoot and

I was like, did you do this? I gave

myself a pep talk. I'm like, Amy, you

get in there and you be the person

finger. You don't say that.

>> I was like, just be into it.

>> I can't. It's so hard for me. I can't

I'm listening to you.

>> Be like, I'm very very sexy right now. I

>> [laughter]

>> And you just have to be a lot of like

who me?

>> What?

>> You'd be like, I'm just in the middle of

something.

>> There's two fingers. Like when someone

shoves two fingers in their mouth in a

photo shoot. Badass. I'm like, girl, I

wish I would have had the whole fist in

there if I could. [laughter]

>> Okay, I understand. I hear you mean the

out.

>> So Warner Brothers goes, "We need you to

like approve some of these shots so we

can get them on social." I'm like,

"Great." Because I by the end I was

like, "I did it. I did a really good

job. You know, I loved everything from

here. And then I went,

"What's your face doing? Is it

[laughter] Is it just your Are your eyes

just like I was like, "Why do I have

stink face?" [laughter] Cuz you were

like I'm LIKE, "NO, WORSE." I'M LIKE

THIS.

>> OH, you look a resting face. Is

that what you had?

>> Like I smelled something and like you

I'm like, "What happened? That's not

what I was feeling." [laughter]

>> Because here here.

>> You know why? Because you're funny.

>> Yeah. Yeah, but that's why you And then

when you're funny on a red carpet, you

get this

>> nightmare.

>> You get someone going, "Can you raise

the camera?" It's like

>> nightmare. It's a nightmare. We don't

belong on a red carpet.

>> No. I But you do.

>> There should be a NO, [laughter] THERE

SHOULD BE a comedy red carpet. We're not

the same.

>> I think we should advocate for a comedy

red carpet.

>> Unfortunately, that's every red carpet

I've ever done is a comedy red carpet

where the cameras help us out a little

bit.

>> I've said this before. I really I I'm

really relating cuz I feel like I I try

my best. I mean, I try so hard and I get

full hair and makeup for hours AND I

LOOK AT MYSELF IN THE MIRROR AND I'M

LIKE, "RIGHT, OKAY. All right." And I

get in the car and I get out there and

I'm and I feel like I'm posing like

this.

>> This is how I feel like I'm posing. And

I see the picture and it's like,

>> "Yeah, [laughter]

>> it is the way."

>> I so know what you're talking about.

>> It's like when did I do that?

>> Yeah. when when you were authentic.

>> But but you're not that's not the place

to be authentic.

>> No, exactly. [laughter]

>> You're right.

>> You you can't be authentic. And we have

to stop.

>> We have to just I agree. [laughter]

>> Stop doing what?

>> Talking moving.

>> I agree.

>> You know, there's there's there's sort

of those who

>> Nicole is incredible.

>> Well, Nicole is a goddess. [laughter]

>> Let's just Can we just remove her from

anything that we're in? So, like I'm

like, you do you. I would never want to

do the red carpet with Nicole. First of

all, I WOULD LOOK

>> DO YOU HAVE empathy for me now? I mean,

to do the red carpet 57, 5'8. Yes. 57.

Can you imagine? I mean, I'm So, can you

imagine me standing next to Nicole? I

would look I I I And honestly,

[laughter]

>> I would just be I would just be doing

some

>> Yeah.

>> some weird Yeah.

>> with your hands. [laughter]

>> So, you're gonna It's not even like

this. be falling out of my pocket and

I'd be talking to her like this.

>> Yes, we all do it. We all do it. And she

is she is a goddess.

>> She is a goddess. Okay. Um well, this

leads me to my

>> stink face leads me to

>> and I bet by by the way, we all have

body dysmorphia. So, I bet you look

incredible. We all do.

>> I bet you look incredible. And not bet.

I saw it. You did. Um Okay. We talk, we

always on this podcast talk to people

who know our guests and give us like we

talk well behind their back.

>> Um, [clears throat]

and um,

>> sweet Jesus.

>> We talked to Maisy Williams.

>> Wait, are we already done? Wait a

minute Maisy.

>> No, we're not done. No, we're we're we

have so I have so many more things on

the on the on the paper, but we usually

do like about an hour an hour 10. Okay.

>> Okay. And we're live. I'm just

[laughter] kidding. Um, we have been

live the whole time.

>> Great. Here. [laughter]

Hold on. These are all stuck. It's like

the is not working. [laughter]

>> Wait. Yeah. We just put a little You

know what I like to do in the red car?

We just put a little black and white

cookie right under my neck.

>> We just we just think about

>> and then it just sits right here.

>> Just work it

>> and it just looks gorgeous.

>> Would it be great if there's like a

really great collar that you sort of had

and it made your jaw snatched and then

you had this taken care of?

>> On the way out your publicist is like

Have your cookie. [laughter]

>> Don't forget your cookie.

>> Oh My cookie for my neck.

>> My cookie. Sorry.

>> Okay. Um, you look incredible. We all

look incredible. It's it um we women are

beautiful.

>> Every woman is beautiful. Okay.

>> Oh my god. I'm shitzy.

>> Oh my god. Me, too. But um Okay. Here is

We talked to Maisie and we talked to

Joey.

>> Oh, how extraordinary are those two?

>> They are the coolest.

>> They're so cool and talented.

>> They are. They are everything.

>> Tell me about working with them. What it

was. Um, you know, it's it's a

combination of awe and intimidation

because they are so free.

>> I'm glad I had to play someone that was

tightly wound and had to be very

maternal and dark and stiff, you know,

like because their freedom is

intimidating and educational.

>> Yeah.

>> Like we were having a um about just just

being a woman and flying the flag and

stuff like that. And I said something

about fear. I said, "Yeah, but you know,

you've got this isn't amazing." He goes,

"Oh, no." And then she went off. She

goes, "Being a woman." She went off on

always not liking the word witch. I said

I don't like the word witch because it

always came with negative connotation

and always

>> had full ownership of it. Yes. I mean

and she and it was like

>> yeah the divine feminine and it's real

power.

>> She they are both they both epitomize

that and it's

>> so peaceful to see because I'm like if

that's where that generation is. My

daughter's definitely in that

generation. Um

>> it's it makes you calm for the future.

like maybe our job was well done. You

know, Gloria Steinum.

>> Yeah. Rest in peace, Gloria.

>> I see how genuine Maisie and Joey are

about other women.

>> Mhm.

>> Their want for other women to succeed

fearlessly. They are in support of these

women. They don't feel like anything is

being taken from them in their support

of other women. And I'm like,

>> I I I I just find them

I I just I learned I learned a lot from

them.

>> They of course adore you. They loved

working with you and they their

questions were so tender. I loved their

questions. Um and and makes sense that

they're those kind of people. Um,

Maisy's was she was kind of talking

about your physicality and she also says

something I found really interesting and

you know not to make the comparison but

it was very is very Lucy it's very

Lucille Ball is that she talked about

the way you like to really rehearse your

physical stuff that rehearsing is the

way in which you kind of get into it and

>> the physical stuff for verbal comedic

stuff

>> right but that's what Lucy used to do

Lucy used to come in and walk through

her physical stuff which you imagine

like her physical stuff felt like it was

spontaneous not at at all.

>> And she got more and more comfortable

with the physical by doing it. I didn't

know that. Yeah, she was really into

rehearsing.

>> And anyway, she talked about how for her

that physical stuff is kind of like

Maisie can probably cry like the best of

them. I mean, Arya Stark, the most

incredible character, but she was like

the physicality and comedy in and and

those two things. And she was like, "How

does she like how do you not get

self-conscious when you're doing it?"

Which I thought was such a tender

question. And um I feel like we talked

about it a little bit, but but but I

guess how do you not

>> you do

>> then you use it.

>> Yeah.

>> To be uncomfortable is the greatest

feeling for me within doing the physical

things like that as uncomfortable as I

can get cuz then I can react off of it.

So I try to set things up to even bump

myself. I we had this great gentleman

who's Gary who did props. Gary love me

some like so he's my set boyfriend Gary

in the props because it became a game of

I would set things a certain way and he

figured out why I was setting them a

certain way so I could surprise myself

and then get caught on something and he

would slightly move it aside

>> and it would just give me something else

and like when it didn't move I was like

why did he move it? Why didn't he move

it for me? But it to be uncomfortable is

the best position to be in I feel for

the comedy that I like to do. I mean you

too right?

>> Absolutely. Like a little bit of

tension.

>> Yeah.

>> That and that feeling of like a little

bit of danger

>> and um you know a tiny bit of uh I don't

know. I guess it's what an athlete must

feel. It's the closest thing to feeling.

I'll never be an athlete. But the idea

that

>> there's something on the line. There's

something on the line.

>> Yeah.

>> That you can create that that's not

scary, but but a little bit of stress.

>> Yes. And that's that's what I do for my

lines. I learn them three quarters.

>> And I'll never drop a line for another

actor, but I want to always like be able

to pivot, drop it if I need to be in

danger, like let it surprise me as well,

>> cuz you can become very ro.

>> Yeah.

>> And that

>> Well, that's if you learn your lines,

which I choose not to do.

>> You don't? Okay. Wait.

>> I don't believe in it.

[laughter]

that line thing.

>> And then Joey had the sweetest question,

which is, when is the last time you

asked yourself, "Wow, does it get any

better than this?"

>> Oh my god, [laughter]

>> I know.

>> Um,

[laughter] what a nice what a crazy

question.

>> Isn't that so nice? Look at us crying.

WE'RE SO GOOD AT IT.

>> [laughter]

>> DO YOU SEE IT? GET A CLOSEUP.

>> WE'RE GOOD. We can do it.

>> But that's that's when I cry. I cry with

kindness. I in the big moments when you

expect everyone to cry, I have to hold

it together because I have to take care

of big things.

>> The feels hit me when there's kindness

that I didn't expect. And that question,

>> what a great question.

>> I I don't. And I think that's what she's

meaning. She knows I don't stop enough

and go I But it's not true. this whole

past year from from London when we

started filming, I I I see things

just like so differently.

>> Yeah.

>> I I really do. It's like I'm allowing

myself to be a kid in how I see things

again.

>> But that play is the is the um

indication that you're a little out of

crisis. It's really

>> out of crisis. Really,

>> it's hard to play when you're in crisis.

It's like what the reason why for a lot

of people it was hard to create during

COVID. It was hard to like organize

thing, you know, because when when

you're really feeling in crisis, play is

is the first to go.

>> Yeah.

>> When you feel that back again, that's

like some little bit ofense like feeling

that things are getting just a little

bit more safe or regulated like

>> um

>> Well, I mean for Joey then her for both

of them like just, you know, because

we're passing the torch or we're like,

as Gloria said, I light others torches.

this in lighting their torch.

>> It was a bonfire, you know, and to be

opposite them when there was like a lot

on the we have the nostalgia part and to

see them just bring it.

>> That's when it doesn't get any better.

>> Yeah.

>> When the choices we made to bring those

two very specific talents on

>> and watch them kill it.

>> You're such a good producer.

>> You know, it's like Can we just talk?

Take a minute.

>> I love it. Can we take you're just

you're just really really

>> deeply uh empathetic, compassionate, but

very successful and uh

you're just a baller of a producer,

>> you know, that's really nice of you to

say. I mean, I don't

>> you have produced what, like 15 films or

something and you produce a lot of stuff

and I think a lot of people can feel

your presence when you're working on

something because they know that you're

producing it. You do a lot of good

sucking up in your interviews.

>> You know what? Right back at you. You're

always trying to throw it back at me.

Okay. And Practical Magic, really good

music,

>> right? Right. I mean, did you have to

get was it? Did you have to write

personal letters to people to get their

music? But we did get some calling. We

did some reaching out.

>> Olivia Rodrigo and she doesn't license

to anyone.

>> No, I know. She's a fellow witchy poo.

>> She's she's a

>> talk about like the future. No, she's

kidding. She's She's

>> Olivia, please. Come on. We love you.

Okay. All right. Let's do a speed round.

A speed round. Speed. Hold on. Let me

get it. Let me whip my whistle.

>> You love real estate.

>> Do we want to do it like this?

>> Yeah, let's do it like this. Am

>> Well, then the perves will get into it.

>> Oh, don't you want perves or an

audience?

>> Well, you know, it's a great question. I

welcome perves.

>> You know what I love is [laughter] the

laughing that's coming. Are they sitting

in the bathroom? Because they're the

echo. Is there tile in that room? There

[laughter] is. Right. Speaking of real

estate, there's no better laugh than a

laugh from the toilet.

>> Oh my god, that's such a good call.

Tile. A tile of laugh. You're right. Cuz

it's like usually ladies in the

bathroom.

>> I also enjoy a laugh that comes from

like when you're a little kid and you're

sitting on the stairs and there's like a

party downstairs. I love the laugh that

travels up a stair.

>> Okay. [laughter]

>> But yes,

>> she said that is the way as though it's

happened recently. Like

>> um also sons are throwing down your

question. Perves are welcome, but creeps

are not.

>> Okay. Yeah. No, we big difference.

>> Got it. Yes.

>> We've talked about this on here with Ike

Baron Holtz.

>> There's a difference between a perv and

a creep.

>> You know who you are.

>> Yes. Yeah.

>> Okay. [laughter]

Um, but you love real estate and design.

>> I do. I do.

>> How would you describe your design sense

in a word or two?

>> Depends on the structure.

>> So, you go with the place like you're

listen.

>> I go with the I listen to the place. I

walk in and I go, "Who are the

craftsmen? Mhm.

>> What does this place want to be? Cuz I

love the restoration process.

>> So, I feel like that word would be like

organic history or something.

>> Wabishabi.

>> Wobi. Here we go. Okay. Sleep. What time

do you go to bed?

>> Love it. Um I'm a great sleeper.

>> Of course.

>> I'm a great sleeper.

>> I knew you would.

>> I mean, I try to stay awake until, you

know, Yla's in bed cuz she's a terrorist

at night. So, I just if she's out, then

I go to bed. But it's like 10 o'clock,

up at 5:30.

>> That's what a professional does. It is

>> pets.

>> How many do you have?

>> I have four right now. I have

>> What flavors?

>> I have flavors. I have vanilla,

>> peach, [laughter]

and two chocolate.

>> Do you have chickens?

>> I don't have all my chickens passed

away. I'm sorry.

>> I have I have a um a somewhat blind

>> poodle. I have a a little rescue poodle

who has a collapsed trachea cuz they

shoved spoons down her throat to quiet

her. She was part of an illegal puppy

mill.

>> Oh, bless her heart. But at least they

have legs. I we we had dogs without legs

and the kids were like enough. We have

mama who is a black feral somewhat feral

cat that was on my property who then

brought two baby like I'm highly

allergic to cats and I was like I am not

bringing a cat in this house.

>> The cats around the house like so

there's two there's mama and her baby

and yeah. So two gorgeous black cats. My

sister calls them the house panthers.

[laughter]

>> I go that's brilliant. So they're the

house panthers.

>> Um horses. Do you like them?

>> Love them but highly allergic. Well,

because I have a theory that the bet the

thicker your hair, the more you like

horses.

>> Love them, but I'm highly allergic. My

daughter is a great rider. She's she's

she's knows how to

>> tame the beast.

>> Um, what's a musical artist that your

kids got you into?

>> JCole.

>> I mean,

>> yeah,

>> it's good.

>> Protein. How do you take yours? How do

you get it?

>> THICK. [laughter]

>> I mean, you set me up. You said protein.

How do you take it? [laughter]

>> I wasn't even thinking that. What a

dirty

>> I wasn't thinking that either.

>> I was talking about chicken.

>> I'm talking about yogurt.

>> Beefy yogurt.

>> Greek yogurt. Thick Greek.

>> Sandy bullet.

>> 0% Greek yogurt.

>> Very

like a good pulled chicken salad and

then you know the little peptide

proteins in the coffee in the morning.

>> Always trying to figure out how to get

>> and it's like but are we going to find

out like 10 years from now that we've

overdone it? We've grown some like

internal [laughter] like eye some like

>> and also I always appreciate when it's

like what's another thing I'm supposed

to get right like what is another thing

I have to do good lord um okay and then

um wait is this all of our speed round

questions so fun yeah we're almost done

here we go we got to wrap this up

>> I'm not rushing you know

>> um we have places to be and you have

talked so much [laughter]

>> um

way I apologize I mean when this

semester is over I'm going away for

another four years I'm gone I PROMISE.

>> NO, PLEASE. OH, we love hearing

>> unless I come here. Unless I come I'll

just stop here once a year.

>> I got something going on or not. I just

stop.

>> That came out the wrong way. I mean that

you've had to talk so much. Not that

you've talked so much here. I love you

talking here and have loved it. And so

my last question for you that I ask

everybody is um what's making you laugh?

Like what? [laughter]

But I mean when you're like at home, you

know, what's the thing that you are, you

know, it it like where do you go when

you need to change the chemistry?

>> My [laughter]

own head. That makes sense cuz you're so

funny.

>> It's like it's like nothing makes me

laugh harder than

>> Louis my son man a few words like like

it's like I don't know. I don't know.

And he's like, "Well, yeah." He mumbles

everything and I can't I can't

understand a word. I'm like, "English."

He's 16 and a half. I'm like, "English."

And then when he's standing there and

he's, you know, no, no smile. And he's

like, you know, "Can can I can I have a

milkshake?" And I was like, "Yeah,

sure." And then I get up there and I go,

"My milkshake brings, you know," and

I'll just start twerking [laughter] and

he's just watching it. And then if he

smiles, I'm laughing so hard whether he

smiles or not. But like humiliation,

>> yes.

>> Makes me laugh.

>> Me too. If I can humiliate my children

>> in the privacy of our home, not in

public, but in the privacy of our own

home

>> with a little rump shaking, I I it's the

greatest joy.

>> But that's play. Like you're just play.

Yeah.

>> And also it is I mean I can say this but

you can't. But like he like it's so

funny to know that the entire world

loves you Sandy. They feel so connected

to you. They've grown up with you. You

are their favorite. And yet you cannot

get your child to laugh.

>> I cannot I cannot.

>> It's so funny and also a great healthy

relationship.

>> Yes. It's very

>> It's very healthy.

>> Yes. That's how you want it to be.

>> I am just annoying right now to both

children. I'm just annoying.

>> That's That's perfect. That's the

perfect way you should be for any teen.

>> Exactly.

>> But um I I I just love talking to you. I

knew I would I didn't want to put too

much expectation on us being friends,

but I do feel like we've

>> But you know how nice this is. feel like

we're best friends.

>> No, I mean, but I think us not really I

mean, little ships passing in the night,

little, you know, but

>> having the opportunity to meet you now

at this stage of our life Yeah.

>> is pretty amazing because everything is

all over the place and we're all

striving for different things and

relationships with kids and dreams and

things like that. But to be able to sit

here and and

acknowledge like where we are and where

we've been and that where I'm I'm

looking at you just going I'm so glad

you are

that you just are and I'm so glad that

you have this this world that you've

created. So we get to come in and

experience you in a way that we wouldn't

be able to. And you're like you are you

are one of those that those of us who

love comedy do the like the bend but you

you have to know that to a lot of people

to a great many of us.

>> Thank you very much because it is it is

>> it is it's unmatched.

>> The feeling is mutual.

>> But just shut up and take the compliment

for a second. So for you allowing

>> I'm hitting it right back to you babe.

>> Shut your face. So, [laughter] just just

you and

>> one of us is giving the present and one

of us is receiving and I'm giving and

you're receiving and you are not giving

me a present in this conversation.

[laughter]

>> Thank you so much for saying that. It

means a lot to me and I feel really

grateful and this is I was very I was a

little nervous and I was a little bit

I'm sorry to hear that cuz in a in

a good way because I was so looking

forward to it.

>> Same. I I wanted to kind of temper my

expectation because I was like don't

come on too strong. It's okay if she

doesn't become your friend. She doesn't

like you.

>> It's okay if she doesn't like you. Most

people don't. Just relax.

>> I mean, just walking in and seeing you,

you know, was like I was like, did I

just cross a boundary by like throwing

my arms around her face, you know, but I

I I felt very safe here and you make

people feel very very to me that is

everything.

>> Sandy, thank you. Really, thank you so

much for doing it and um I adore you.

So, thanks so much.

>> I I now adore you.

>> Y WE DID IT. OH MY GOD, IT WAS SO GOOD.

[screaming]

OH, SANDY BULOCK, you are just the best.

Thank you so much for coming on. That

was such a delight to talk to you. And

like everything you do, it was moving

and deep and funny and real and

authentic. Um, I just love talking to

you. And for this polar plunge, I think

you know, uh, Sandy talked a lot about

the, um, the care that she took of her

partner, Brian Randall, who died of ALS.

And I think we spoke a little bit about

caretaking in general. And I guess I

just wanted to take the second to reach

out to anybody who is listening today

who are in the thick of it, who are

caretaking currently as we speak, or

know someone who is stretched thin.

We're just sending our love to you. I

know Sandy would feel the same. And she

said some really amazing things here

about making sure to take care of

yourself along the way. So, reminding

you of that message and uh saying thanks

if no one said thanks to you today.

Thank you. Um thank you for listening,

Sandy. Thank you for all that you've

done and the joy you've given us and

continue to give us. And thanks for

listening to Good Hang. Bye.

You've been listening to Good Hang. The

executive producers for this show are

Bill Simmons, Jenna [music] Weiss

Berman, and me, Amy Polar. The show is

produced by The Ringer and Paperkite.

For The Ringer, production by Jack

[music] Wilson, Cat Spalain, Kaia

McMullen, Aia Xanerys, Bridget

Gearlings, Paige Garberini, Bell Roman,

and Drew Vanstein Bergen. For Paperkite,

production by Sam Green, Joel Levelvel,

and Jenna Weiss Berman. Original music

by Amy [music] Miles.

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