- I'm like, don't you ever get tired?
Like, he would come in, and he'd be like,
yeah, I've been up since four a.m.,
and I've worked out, and worked on my comedy set.
And, I've done this, that, and next thing.
And, wrote the script to another film.
And, you know, shot a commercial.
And like, and now I'm here to do this scene with you.
And, it was like, when do you sleep?
Hi, my name is Aja Naomi King, from The Upside,
and How to Get Away With Murder.
And, I am here to Insta-stalk with Elle.
Like, oops, I turned your phone off.
And, now I'm all up in your personal business.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh, this is taking me back.
Wow, memories.
And, I always thought like, 'cause Jack was so pretty,
I was like, oh, he has to be a jerk.
But, he's like, like the nicest person ever.
Like, undercover nice guy, we like to call him.
The first scene that we shot for the show
was the classroom scene with Viola.
And, I'll never forget, like sitting in there.
'Cause I had one line in that scene.
And, I was like, oh my God, don't mess up,
don't mess up, don't mess up this line.
'Cause I really needed Viola to think
that I deserved to be in the same room with her.
But then, she was so nice, and she actually
kept messing up all her lines.
So, then I felt really confident
by the time we got to me.
Me and Gabby, this was, I think this
might've actually been the first time we met each other.
You can tell from the smile from on my face
because I am just, I, God, I love her.
I was so excited to be in the same room with her.
That was like the Elle Women in Television event.
And, she was so nice to me.
And, I was like, is this really happening?
Is she really this nice?
Yeah, I think this was like my very first selfie with Viola.
We had been working together for a few episodes
at this point, so I finally felt confident enough
to be like, hey V, like take this picture with me.
Oh, and she's so nice.
She does this a lot.
Like, you'll always see her in a selfie being like.
See, now I just jump up on her.
And, I'm like, V, get in this photo.
(laughing)
It's like, cut to today.
Take a picture with me, right now.
This was for Spirit Day, which was awesome
because the whole cast, everyone put on purple in support.
So, like that was really great.
Oh, I love photos like this of Viola.
She's so beautiful.
Like, there's a style icon for you.
My God.
She's gorgeous.
Damn.
And, I do not believe her, she always says
she hates doing photo shoots.
And, I'm like, really, really.
'Cause you don't look like you hate this right now.
Oh yes, that was us on Viola's birthday.
I think it was her last scene of that episode,
and so she wasn't gonna be in for the next couple days.
And, they're like, they're like, okay,
we're gonna do the scene one more time.
And, it was a really long scene,
with a lot of different parts.
So, the idea of doing it one more time
was just like, oh no, like come on,
like I think we got this.
And then, like, they like snuck the cake on-set
when she was getting touched up.
So, that when she turned around we weren't actually
doing the scene again, we were just
gathering to sing her Happy Birthday.
Now see, now this, this is like how he is 24/7.
The man just never stops moving.
I mean he's always cracking jokes.
It doesn't matter what you say,
he's gonna imitate you, make fun of you.
So, you have to be careful.
He told me he doesn't need to memorize lines,
if he reads a scene once, he knows it.
Like, if he understands the beats,
then he knows it, and he can just like,
you know, go with it and ad-lib within it,
and not mess up the other actors in the scene, thank God.
'Cause once he said that, I was like,
so wait, then do you actually know your lines?
What are we about to do in here?
I'm so used to seeing the comedic side of him.
And so, to do these like these deeply personal scenes
with him, and for him to like just be able
to give so much, and like really drop in,
and give that kind of performance.
I was really like, oh wow.
Like, like this is great, it just feels good.
Oh, they look so cute together.
Like, they are an adorable pair.
I mean, we all know Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad,
and just like, you know,
the kind of gravitas he adds to something.
So like, getting to see like kind of
the more comedic side of him, and his playfulness
with Kevin, like that was really cool.
They're just two awesome, really awesome people.
Just nice, it's nice when like
really talented people are also
just really genuinely good human beings.
All right.
I'm like, do we have the actual stats on that?
Did he throw a 273 mile per hour fastball?
Haters will say he's lying.
Yes, then I am a hater.
I think that was my first Elle event, yeah.
Oh, that was so cool.
I remember getting the invite for the dinner,
and just being so excited, and hoping that
I wouldn't be working on that night so that I could go.
And, just getting dressed up for it.
And then, being in that room
with all these incredible women.
Like the beginnings of the pinch me moments.
And, now I've had like a long line of pinch me moments.
This was the latest,
the Elle Women in Hollywood event this year, yeah.
This past year I almost cried
because like Sandra Bullock was there,
and I'm actually a really huge,
really big Sandra Bullock fan.
And, she like gave this really incredible speech.
I think that's the one person,
if I ever met her, I might actually cry.
I've met so many incredible people
who I've done my best to not cry in front of.
But, growing up, I just loved watching
all those like romantic comedies.
So, I was like, okay, I'm good, I'm good at a,
I'm good at a distance.
I can keep it together.
This picture, like, captures probably
one of the just very best moments of my life.
This catwalk in the middle of the Seine in Paris.
I don't think I ever thought to dream that big,
that I would ever get that experience.
And like, so L'Oreal doing that was just,
that was utter insanity.
I still look back at that like, is this really real?
And, I remember like, I had hurt my foot too,
so I was actually walking on like an injured foot.
But, I was like, I'm gonna push through this
because nothing is gonna ruin this moment for me.
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