podcast, "Work in progress."
>> We'd love to welcome now
Sofia bush!
>> I don't know where that
accent came from.
>> I'm really thrilled to be
here.
>> I as well.
>> I am so happy.
>> Hello.
>> Great to see you.
And you've been on many, many
times for all your roles.
Now I feel like you're shifting
to this huge activist part.
Was there a turning point for
you?
>> It's interesting.
I think that I've always felt
immensely responsible, having a
privilege of a platform.
Being on television, working in
being able to talk about
politics.
Going out and canvassing for
candidates.
Campaigning on president Obama's
first election.
You know, activism has always
been part of the core of who I
am.
And the way content is changing.
It's enabling us to tell bigger
stories than just writing an
op-ed here or posting essays to
Instagram, which I do all of the
time.
So it's really exciting to take
these conversations into a
bigger space.
>> We were talking during the
break about what it finally
feels like to be able to share
and talk about it.
You've been working on it for so
long.
>> Yes.
>> With people that you really
care about and also admire.
>> Very much.
>> What did it feel like to
press thatublish button and
know, here we are?
So exciting.
We were speaking before we got
on the air about how when you're
working on a show or making a
film, everybody knows.
>> Right.
>> I just finished this movie
with Elana glazer in the spring
in New York.
We were getting Paparazzi
shooting.
With a podcast you can't tell
anyone until they can download
it.
For the last three months I've
been traveling, researching.
I've been in my usc school of
journalism lane again.
I'm like --
>> Right, ah.
>> I love that.
>> I haven't been able to share
it with anybody.
So finally I'm like, guess what?
Gloria steinem, Katy couric --
>> You came in hot.
>> Gloria is my first episode,
it's fun.
>> What is the prep going in to
interview her?
>> You can't show up half
stepping.
>> You want to be conversational
but you don't want to look down
at the cards --
>> I prepped a lot.
And especially because Gloria
is -- she's an idol to me, she's
an icon.
Luckily at various things.
Because we're both people who
really like to show up.
We've met each other.
And been together over the
years.
But her giving me, you know, two
hours of her day to come in and
really talk.
>> That's a long time.
>> Yeah.
>> That's a long time to be
talking to -- to interview.
>> Thank god because it takes
the pressure off.
If I'd had to watch the clock I
think I would have been a wreck.
To sit with her -- I did so much
preparation.
I watched so many of her
interviews.
Rewatched documentaries.
Reread things these written.
Then in a way, when you're
really prepared, as I like to
be, then you have to rein in the
fangirl.
I can't quote her exactly --
because in 1982 -- yeah, no.
It was nice to have my sheets
out but also know that I new
enough where if the conversation
went in any direction, we could
be in it together.
>> What's the Tom Hanks story we
were teasing coming in?
>> Was it a wedding?
>> A dance party?
>> He's such a nice man.
I was asked by your producer,
she said she'd been going
through my Instagram, there it
is, Kate bosworth and I posted
this sort of love letter of
admiration to Tom Hanks.
We were backstage at the golden
globes getting ready to go out
and present, both petrified.
Which is ironic because it's
literally our job to hit a mark
and say lines on a teleprompter.
But when you're acting you're in
it, you can try things again.
Awards show, if you screw up,
it's over.
So she and I were having a
moment.
He goes, girls, he goes, you're
here because you were invited,
so you've already won.
We were like, right, oh, right.
>> Exactly.
>> He said, clearly you know
what you're doing or you
wouldn't be on that stain, you
look great, get out there and
have a good time.
Wear like, did that just happen?
>> Thank you, Mr. Hanks!
>> Yes.
So not long after that -- it's a
real thing, I know.
Everyone needs that advice, and
now he's playing Mr. Rogers,
it's perfect.
Not long after we were at a
wedding and we had a dance party
and I'm looking at him and his
wife going, you are so in love,
so cool, so kind, they have it
figured out.
>> I think you've got it figured
out.
Congratulations on everything
going on with you.
This is spectacular.
>> Check out "Work in progress"
the podcast.
You don't want to miss.
>> Up next, get a head start on
holiday travel plans with this