role.
>> Great, can I get --
>> No, casting.
>> Someone is casting me, I'm
fine.
Really.
>> Laverne cox in the film
"Promising young woman."
>> The emmy-nominated actress,
our friend Laverne cox joins us
now.
I mean, how is working for
Laverne?
>> Is it a covid glow-up, what
is going on?
>> I feel good today.
I am feeling really good.
I'm happy.
So yeah.
Comes from inside out.
And I have a glam squad in the
other room.
>> Sweet.
I love, it comes from the inside
out, and my glam squad.
Let's not get it twisted.
This movie, everybody is talking
about it.
Is that why you want today be a
part?
>> Absolutely.
I'm so proud to be a part of
this film.
When I read it a couple years
ago, I immediately emailed my
team back and said I have to be
in this no matter what.
I don't care how big or small
the role is.
I thought this is brilliant.
I had never read anything like
it, and I thought this could be
the quintessential post-me too
film, where we have an artistic
moment to really, because I feel
like a lot of what happened with
me too is the backlash started
right away and we didn't have
the conversations around consent
and what does it mean to be
complicit, we didn't have those
conversations, and we can do
that now.
With this film as a vehicle for
that.
And it's just a fun ride, and
it's suspenseful and it's sad,
and it's so many things.
This film.
So proud to be a part of it.
>> You have so much going on
with that, with your doc, but
your podcast, we love the tag
line, Scott and me.
Let's have a spiritual makeover
together.
So what's your goal with your
podcast?
>> I wanted to have
conversations publicly that I
had been having privately for a
really long time.
I want to have conversations
that, it's really for me, brene
brown, who I interview in my
first episode of the Laverne cox
show, starts her book, dare to
lead, with the quote, what
stands in the way becomes the
way.
There are things that stand in
the way of me being the very
best version of myself.
I want to talk about those
things that get in the way of
that and I want to find
solutions to get those things
out of the way so we can be the
very best versions of ourselves.
And the episode with brene, we
talk about moving beyond us V.
Them, and it's a conversation
about belonging and belonging to
ourselves.
The second episode is about
dating over 40, dating on the
internet and apps.
I want to be in a space of being
the very best version of myself,
and like, going on a journey
with the audience and with the
listeners.
>> I love Laverne cox.
You were talking about dating on
the app.
>> Over 40.
I need to hear this.
>> I was wondering, what might
be your situation now?
People talk about love.
People talk about being booed
up.
Last time you were here, I think
you were single.
Somebody told me this time
that's not the same case.
>> And you told us you like them
younger.
We were kind of getting
specific, Laverne.
We were all up in your business.
>> They like me.
Younger men like me.
You know, one of the wonderful
things I talk about with Simona
Hoffman is you have to be open.
I think ultimately, attraction
is important.
I dated someone you're not
attracted to, but if you're
attracted to people of various
ages, I think it's important to
open up your age range, open up,
like, height.
Open up like how much money they
need to make or not make.
Ideally, you know, it shouldn't
be broke and they have to sleep
on your couch, but being open.
I love that I was open and I
didn't expect that he would be
the dude that I would kind of
just, like, decide would be the
dude for now and not want to see
anybody else, but we fell in
love, and that's where we are
right now.
We're taking it one day at a
time.
Taking it a day at a time and
having fun.
And I just, I'm really happy.
And he's really happy.
And so that's it.
>> We love hearing that.
>> That's it.
>> Well, Laverne, keep cranking,
man.
Keep doing everything that
you're doing.
Next time, Scott and I get to,
if you want to bring your
boyfriend on, as the nosy
auntie, we'll be happy to vet
him out more for you.
But whatever you're comfortable
with.
>> And he's fully vetted, honey.
We're good.
>> Great to see you, Laverne.
Laverne cox, her show, the
podcast is available now on I
heart radio, a wonderful listen.
>> And coming up, we've got