-Thank you so much.
-Goodness, so nice to be here. Thank you so much.
-Dude, look at that. They love you.
We all love you. How's that feel?
When the audience -- -It feels crazy.
I mean, this is the first time I've been on a TV show
in, you know, a year and a half or whatever.
Right? In a room with a bunch of people.
-Yeah, it's bizarre. -It's amazing.
[ Cheers and applause ] -I'm so happy you're here.
-I'm so happy too. Thanks for having me. Thank you.
-Every time you come on,
and thank you for doing our show,
I mean, doing all those -- it was just crazy times.
You were saying of course you were getting back to work.
-Yeah, yeah. -But everything was shut down.
And you were -- you said that you changed your laundry room
into like 10 different rooms.
-We were -- We were in
our little tiny house out in Long Island.
-Yup. -Just me and my husband
and our teenage daughter.
And we only had one little space where we could all work,
and that was the laundry room,
and it was also where my husband's office was,
and it was where I did yoga.
It's where my daughter did homework.
That's where I recorded an animated movie.
In this laundry room. -Wow. Did you really?
-Yeah, yeah. And they would be like,
"Do you have a space that's a little less live?
A little less echoey?"
I'm like, "No." -No.
-"This is it."
-Everyone found a new room during this whole thing.
-We'd stick towels under the door. Yeah, this is it.
And we'd rotate in and out of there, 'cause yeah, you know.
-Wait. Is this spirit? Is that --
-"Spirit Untamed." Yeah.
-"Spirit Untamed." I've read about this.
-Your daughters will love this.
-My kids are into "Spirit." They love "Spirit."
-Yeah, they love horses and all that.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-Next Friday, your new series,
"Lisey's Story," comes out. -Mm-hmm.
-This is Stephen King. -Stephen King, yeah.
-This is not your first foray into scary.
-No. It's not my first scary-movie event.
-No, your first scary movie was -- Everyone remembers.
-Oh, sure. You'll remember this one.
-"Tales From the Dark Side," the movie.
Look at you there. -Yeah. That's me. That's me.
-Now that is you somewhere under there?
-[ Laughs ]
-And what do you remember about this?
-Well, you know what's interesting about this
is that this is the part of the movie --
I really remember this because this is a part of the movie
that I didn't think that I was in.
It was my first movie, this horror movie,
and we were shooting it in Yonkers.
I was so excited to get this horror movie.
-Yeah.
-And I have a tendency even now
not to read anything but the dialogue,
you know, when I get a script.
Because I don't like stage directions.
I don't like hearing, you know,
"She walks down the street jauntily."
I know I'll walk down the street.
I might not be jaunty.
I don't want to know what they think.
-Yeah, you're acting. -I'm gonna figure it out.
Right? So I don't read any of the stage directions.
So on this job, it was a really quick job,
I finished, and I got killed by the mummy,
and I went over to the director to say good-bye
and thank you for this great opportunity.
And he was like, "You're not done."
[ Light laughter ]
I'm like "No, this is my last scene."
He goes, "No, no.
You didn't finish reading the script, did you?"
Because -- Because I turn into a mummy at the end.
-Yeah, come back.
-And I come back and I kill somebody else.
But it was all in stage directions,
and I never read it.
So it was so incredibly unprofessional of me.
-But look at you -- -I didn't read the script.
-Yeah, but look at you now. It's all worked out.
I lost my voice earlier in the week.
-It sounds good. Sounds sexy.
-It is sexy, right? -Yeah. Sexy voice.
-Thank you. Please tell my wife that.
-Sexy Fallon. -Yeah, thank you.
What would that be like, sexy Fallon?
But you've screamed before.
Do you have any tips?
-You can't scream without losing your voice.
-You just can't? -I would have to --
The director of "Lisey's Story" would always --
I would say, "Please save the screaming
that you want me to do until Friday night,
because I'm going to need two days to recover,"
because I'd always blow out my voice,
and I wanted it to be better on a Monday.
But then, like -- so every Friday,
he'd be like, "You ready? We're gonna do some screaming."
But this one weekend, I had an audition
for "Dear Evan Hansen" the next day.
So he was like -- [ Scattered cheers ]
Yeah. So he was like, "Scream."
And I'm like, "I don't want to scream."
He's like, "Scream." And I was like, aaaaah.
[ Laughter ]
-"That's your scream?" Aaaah.
-I was like... ♪ I have an audition ♪
♪ I can't blow out my voice ♪
-Yeah. How'd the audition go?
-I mean, you know, hopefully it didn't sound like that.
-Yeah.
-I did get the job.
-You got the part. Yeah. -I got the job.
So that was great.
[ Cheers and applause ] -I saw the trailer.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-The trailer came out --
-Such a good trailer, right? -Oh, dude, that guy.
-And Ben Platt is a genius. -Ben Platt is insane.
"Lisey's Story." -Yeah.
-This is based on a Stephen King book, very popular.
How do we describe it?
-Okay. So Lisey is a woman who's married to a famous writer
who has -- at the beginning of the story,
you realize he's been dead for a couple of years.
And so she's kind of living her life by herself,
but she's getting all these weird messages from her past.
At the same time, this other guy,
one of her husband's fans -- he's a horror writer --
is stalking her.
So it's kind of a really complicated
psychological horror drama.
It's good. -Of course it is. Yeah.
It's on Apple TV Plus. I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Julianne Moore in "Lisey's Story."
Take a look.
-Funny that you -- that you came today
'cause I was just looking at your picture
in the Horlick's yearbook.
Picture of the hero who saves a famous writer's life,
but, um, I think reality, you ran like a rabbit.
-Mrs. Landon. -You came back, though,
to get your picture taken and to grab the credit.
I mean, I don't care about that. I never cared about credit.
I don't care about that at all,
but you are not getting in there,
and you are never going to see his papers.
-You were nothing but a restaurant hostess
when you caught his eye.
The fact that you slept in his bed
does not give you the right to withhold his unwritten papers
from the rest of the world.
-Oh, my God.
-Julianne Moore, everybody!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I think I just -- -Spit everywhere.
-"Lisey's Story" premieres Friday, June 4th
on Apple TV Plus.