- Do you mind going back in time with me
and playing my favorite game?
- Let's do it.
- It's Behind the Scenes!
- [Kerry] Oh! (audience cheering)
Oh!
- Well, ironically, let's kick it back
to all the high schoolers drooling,
"Save the Last Dance." - [Kerry] (laughing)
Oh my goodness. (audience cheering)
Oh my gosh.
So what I learned something so amazing from Julia Stiles.
I mean, I learned so much from Julia
'cause she had done a bunch of films.
This was my first studio film and
one day it was really, really, really cold.
We were shooting in Chicago in the winter,
so cold, - [Drew] Uh huh.
and we have on these really cute outfits.
They weren't very warm.
They were just very, very cute.
And the director was like, "One more time,
one more time, one more time."
Our brilliant, wonderful director Thomas Carter.
And finally Julia said, "I'll do it as many times
as you want when you take off your coat."
(audience laughing)
And he said, "What?"
And so he took off his coat,
and then we did it one more time, and that was it.
Yeah. (high five clap)
So good. (audience cheering)
So good.
- Wow.
- Right?
- I love that.
- [Kerry] Love that.
- All right, "Ray."
Oh my goodness. - [Kerry] Oh my goodness.
This film is so incredible - [Kerry] Love that movie.
(audience cheering)
- I just have to say, like, people will often compliment me
on the kind of number one that I am.
When you, when you go to work in showbiz
there's a call sheet
and the lead character - [Drew] That's right.
is the number one on the call sheet.
And you find that, however, the number one acts
everybody else kind of takes their cues
for how to be on set.
And when people say that, I am a good number one
if that's true, I always say I owe it all to Jamie,
because he is the best number one on the call sheet ever.
Ever, ever, ever. (audience clapping)
- I love that story. - Yeah, yeah.
All right, I love this film so much.
I've seen it way too many times, "Mr. And Mrs. Smith."
- [Kerry] Oh, so fun! (audience clapping)
The thing I loved the most was that I learned to rock climb
for that film 'cause there was a scene...
- Oh, uh, were, you're-
- She and I are climbing the rocks.
- And talking about him.
- And talking casually, yes.
And so we took rock climbing together
and we actually shot it on this giant styrofoam plastic wall
that looked like rocks in, like, a parking lot of an Ikea.
- Uh huh (laughing)
- But it looks like we're in this gorgeous mountain
in the middle of nowhere, yeah.
- All right, "Django Unchained."
- [Kerry] Oh my goodness, yes. - [Drew] This is a beloved,
bold. (audience clapping)
- [Kerry] Yes, really bold.
- [Drew] What was going on there?
- I mean, I, I, I will say there is a scene
people often ask me if this, if this is true and it is true.
There was a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio
who's so brilliant in the film, actually smashed glass
and had a bloody hand and did the scene,
finished the scene with a bloody hand.
And so in the scene he goes to touch my face later
and Quentin wasn't sure if he wanted to use the take
with the blood or not.
So every moment after that moment in the movie
we shot twice, we would shoot completely bloody
with him touching my face with fake blood.
And then we had to take everything off and shoot it again
totally clean because he just wanted to have the option
in the edit of blood or no blood.
- And Quentin Tarantino.
- I mean.
- I love him so much.
- [Kerry] Yeah, yeah. (audience clapping)
- Boy has he put such incredible things into the world.
- [Kerry] Yeah.
- Okay.
Scandal.
- Ahh. (laughs) (audience cheering)
- [Drew] Olivia Pope. - [Kerry] (laughing)
(audience clapping)
I don't even know what to say about her.
You know, she just, she totally changed my life,
you know, she really did.
I think in a lot of ways she taught me a lot about
how to be a leader.
You know, she used to say, "It's my name on that door."
And in some ways it was like it was my show.
Like, I had to have that same sense of
responsibility and feeling like I could lead something.
And I think playing her helped me fool myself
into thinking that I could.
- And you can.
And that's the point - [Kerry] Aw thank you
of characters giving you
an emboldened nature - [Kerry] Yes, yes.
that sometimes we can't give ourselves.
It's so strange. - [Kerry] Yeah, yeah.
It's like that,
I have a friend who says, "Fake it till you make it."
You know, and sometimes characters give you
the permission to do that.
- [Drew] It's so true.
- Sometimes you just gotta wake up and put on the bold
red lip and then you might feel sexy as the day goes on.
- Yeah. - You know?
- Exactly. - Yeah.
(audience clapping)
And lastly,
I could not love this more also,
"Little Fires Everywhere."
- [Kerry] Ohh. (audience cheering)
- [Drew] So good.
- [Kerry] I just love Reese Witherspoon so much.
I just love her so much. (audience clapping)
And we had so much fun, like getting in the ring
with each other because we're actually like beloved friends.
We adore each other.
And so the days where we would have our big character
fights, it was every, there was like all buzz on set.
Like everybody was going to watch a big match
and we'd like really have to rev up
to battle each other on camera.
And it was just so fun to be able to
play that way with a good friend.
And we'd do the scene and then we'd look
at each other and be like, "We can be worse," you know?
- (laughing)
- And we'd go again, it was just so fun.
- Oh my God, I love it. - Yeah.
Well it really paid off.
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