(ominous music)
- Jessie Mei Li.
- The time has come.
- For this weird little rabbit.
Ooh.
- Oh.
(dramatic music)
(logo twinkling)
(logo whooshing)
(lid pops)
- Hello.
- This paw is particularly disturbing when you take it off.
- Yeah.
- It's just, "Hello."
- "Hi." Oh this one's for you.
Once upon a time, the internet decided
that you should play Sirius Black.
Interestingly, half of the squares on a chess board
are seriously black.
(Jessie laughing)
- Did Daisy Head write these questions?
- [Daisy] Not A word.
- [Jessie] What I'm getting at is
are your chess skills great or are they trash?
(throwing object)
Have we ever played chess?
- I feel like we probably talked about it
when everyone watched The Queen's Gambit.
- Yeah.
- And suddenly thought they were a chess wizard.
(Jessie laughing)
To be honest, even though it's not like this at all,
I feel like it's a game like pool.
The more drunk I am, the better I am at pool.
But chess doesn't work that way.
- (laughs) No.
- But sometimes you think,
you think you'll be really good at it
'cause you're feeling cocky and confident in your life.
I feel like it goes with my mood
whether I think I'm good at chess or not.
- Do you know what though?
We've got a lot of good chess players in the cast.
We were in a pub in Hackney and then it was my turn
and I never play chess and I was just
moving the pieces around and Callahan, who's very good,
was like you could tell he was thinking, "what is she doing?
What is this technique?"
(Ben laughs)
And eventually he realized, he was like
there's nothing going on here.
- [Man] Just a cruel joke all along.
(logo whooshing)
(slurping noises)
- Don't make that noise.
- Shut up.
- Right.
- It's disgusting.
- Wow. These are really um.
(Jessie laughs)
- [Jessie] Ben.
- Yes, that's me.
- You share a birthday with Andrew Garfield?
- I do.
- Garfield, the cat, famously loves lasagna
but hates Mondays.
What is your favorite day of the week
and what do you like to do on that day?
- Sunday's my favorite day.
- You're such a Sunday sort of person.
♪ I want a Sunday-- ♪
- I knew you were gonna do that.
♪ Kind of love ♪
I knew you were gonna do that.
- I love Sundays 'cause they're just lazy
and lovely and I love the laziness of a Sunday.
- I don't think I ever know what day of the week it is.
(logo whooshing)
(lid pops)
(suspenseful music)
(papers rustling)
Rustle, rustle, rustle, rustle.
- Jessie.
- Hello.
- Your character in Shadow and Bone is able to summon light.
(conjuring magic)
If you had the ability to summon one thing
anytime, anywhere, what would it be?
- Hummus.
- Oh, straight away.
- You know, sometimes you just need
just a little bit of hummus just to like tide you over to.
- I never need it.
- No? What would you summon?
- You can't ask me that. The rabbit did not ask me that.
- All right, fantastic.
(Ben laughs)
I would summon hummus
and perhaps some lovely breadsticks.
- Yeah. Something to dip in it.
- Yeah.
Otherwise you're just using your finger.
- Yeah.
- You psycho.
(Jessie laughs)
(logo whooshing) Your turn.
- Okay.
Who's this for, me?
Jessie, you made your professional stage debut
alongside Gillian Anderson,
AKA Scully from The X-Files. Is the truth out there?
Do aliens exist?
Absolutely.
(laser fires)
Aliens exist.
That's why I don't sleep ever 'cause I'm just conversing
- With your fellow aliens.
- Yeah, pretty much.
(laughs)
(logo whooshing)
- Ben. - That's me.
- In Season 2, your character seemingly comes back
from the dead and reemerges from the Fold.
- [Man] I have returned.
- Outside of the Fold, you are an accomplished musician
(laughs)
- That's a good sequitur.
(laughing)
- If you could revive or reunite any music act
for one more show, who would it be?
- Ooh.
Well, my two favorite singers of all time
are Donny Hathaway and Freddie Mercury.
I have a huge print of Freddie Mercury
in my house above my piano.
Those would be the two people that I would just
- To perform together?
- Yeah, but also just be in the room
while they do anything at all.
- Anything at all?
- Yeah.
- Anything at all.
(blows raspberry)
- Casual.
(logo whooshing)
- Boop.
- More.
- Jessie, the word 'Malina' in Polish
translates to 'raspberry'.
Did you know that?
(blows raspberry)
- Yeah.
- She knows everything. Let's talk about raspberries.
Mm mm, delicious juicy raspberries.
But I have some terrible news.
Uh oh, raspberries aren't actually berries.
That's right. Technically, while they are fruits
they are not berries in the botanical sense.
And to make things worse, the things that are berries
include bananas, pumpkins, and avocados.
That's all this says.
There is no question on this piece of paper.
(crying)
- Why did you tell me that?
- I dunno. But I knew a banana was a berry.
(logo whooshing)
- That's enough of that.
Thank you so much for watching.
- And check out Shadow and Bone Season 2
now streaming, only on Netflix.
- Just put that.
- [Jessie] Yeah.
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