You came over while we were eating.
She put her hands on both of our shoulders.
And you said, whatever you two do, it'll be great.
And you walked away.
And Cameron went, "Were we just blessed by Ellen?"
I was like, I think we
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Hi, Emma.
Hello, Ellen.
I have been a fan of yours for a long time.
And we ran into each other the other night at a restaurant.
Yes, we did.
And you're just-- you're just so talented.
That is so nice of you to say.
Thank you.
Well, it's true.
And--
Oh, boy.
Yes.
Now, when you worked with Ryan Gosling on Crazy, Stupid Love--
Yes.
And that body.
That must have been tough, to work with him.
It was tough.
Tough to kiss him.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Nobody's said that to me.
That's really nice of you to notice.
It must have been just pure hell.
It was a lot of acting.
I'll tell you that.
Yes.
To look at that body, and to act like you're interested.
It was awful, actually.
It was bad.
But I got through it, and I'm here, you know?
Yeah.
Good.
Good for you, for getting through it.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
He really is the most ridiculously--
his body is just insane.
It's insane.
Yeah.
I was grateful that there was that "photoshopped" line
in the script because--
I mean, of course, I think he was working hard
because that line was in the script, which is
a lot of pressure on someone.
Right.
But yeah, it worked out.
Right.
And I'm looking at your hair right now, and it is blonde.
Yes.
But I thought you had red hair.
What color is your real color?
This color.
It's this.
It's blonde.
Yeah.
So you dyed it red?
I dyed it red.
For a movie, or just for fun?
Well, I had dyed it brown when I was 15
because my first agent had sent me out
on a bunch of parts blonde, and they were mostly
just cheerleaders and characters on the Disney channel.
And I didn't fit the mold.
And so I dyed it brown.
And then a week later, I got my first part.
So you dyed it red after brown?
When I went in for Superbad at the camera test--
You were great in Superbad,
Thank you.
That was my first movie.
And Judd Apatow said dye your hair red.
And so then ever since, it was red.
And now what color do you like to have it?
This is the easiest because when it's red,
I have to dye it every three weeks.
This just can grow and grow, and nobody's the wiser.
Right.
So you want to basically keep it like that now?
Wear wigs.
I'll just wear wigs.
Yeah.
Do that.
OK.
They make good ones.
This is a wig.
Wear a wig?
Yeah.
I wish you would.
I know.
Wouldn't it be great?
My hair's really long.
It's ringlets of brown with barrettes in it or something.
I'm a totally different person.
There's a dress under here.
I just, like--
I'm a whole different Ellen.
That would be the best.
I know.
I'm sorry.
I didn't plan it.
I didn't know this conversation would go this way,
or I would have done it just for the joke.
I would have loved that.
I know.
I'm sorry to disappoint.
Next time, I'm going to do that.
All right.
Good.
You did something backstage that I really enjoyed very much.
We keep asking people to do dance dares,
and they're really hard.
It's hard to dance behind somebody and not get caught.
Is it?
Well, you made it look easy.
And I can't believe--
Tony even looked around.
I thought for sure you were going to get caught,
and he didn't even notice that-- well, let's just show.
I don't know how many people you got, but--
I think, like, 8 or 9.
Wow, that's a lot.
And I said, I'm going to get Tim McGraw talking.
Go behind Tim McGraw.
He had no idea.
Now he knows, watching this now.
Oh, boy.
All right, let's take a look.
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I look to see if people have fears
that I can help them overcome, and I know you have a fear, of?
Needles.
Needles?
I didn't know that one.
I'll add that.
No, don't add that.
All right.
I didn't know it was needles, as well.
Spiders, right?
Are you scared of spiders?
Nope.
I'm not scared.
I'm going to be fine.
You're not scared of spiders?
OK because spiders, until you actually hold a spider,
you're going to have that fear.
Oh, my god.
Look how still.
They don't even--
It looks great.
They're not going to--
if you are calm--
I'm not afraid of that all right.
Good.
If you are calm--
I'm going to throw up.
All right.
If you are calm--
all right, hold on.
Ellen?
What?
If you're calm, it's not going to--
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Oh, I see.
OK.
You're such a jerk.
You are the worst.
No, that's not--
That is.
Ugh.
I'm just saying.
Now, are you over your fear?
Why would you do that to somebody?
Because now you-- probably when you see a spider,
you'll think, oh, it's like that.
It's fake every time?
No, it's just harmless.
That's what I mean.
There's nothing-- just hold it to feel.
That's what a real spider-- this is the real one, here.
OK, wait.
Hold on.
I can lift this one, right?
OK.
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Oh, my god!
Oh, my god.
You are-- oh, my god.
That is so horrible.
All right.
That's all.
See?
You're not scared anymore.
No.
These are my spider pals.
That's right.
You're welcome.
Thank you, Ellen.
OK.
You're welcome, Emma.
All right, The Amazing Spider-Man opens in theaters
July--
That's horrible.
Ah, come see Spider-Man.
Yeah, come-- [LAUGHS]
We'll be right back.
Really quickly-- sorry to interrupt, but I have to--
You don't have to be quick.
Take your time.
OK.
I just wanted to say thank you for something because I saw you
in a restaurant.
Yes.
About a year ago.
I didn't know you.
We didn't-- well, we had never met before.
We had never met.
And I walked by you, and I didn't
want to say anything because I didn't
want to be a creepy weirdo.
And so I sat down, and I was having
a meeting with someone who was one of my heroes
and always has been, Cameron Crowe.
Yes.
And I was just so excited to be meeting him.
And I was meeting him just as a general meeting.
And you came over while we were eating.
She put her hands on both of our shoulders,
and you said, whatever you two do, it'll be great.
And you walked away.
And Cameron went, "were we just blessed by Ellen?"
I was like, I think we were.
And we didn't have anything in the works.
And then a couple of weeks later, he was like,
I've got an idea, and we've been working on this thing
ever since.
And it's been the greatest experience of my life.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
But we always talk about, you blessed us.
You made this happen.
That's hilarious.
I remember walking around, going,
that was the stupidest thing I've ever done.
Why would I put my hands on Cameron Crowe and Emma Stone--
I don't even know her-- and go, whatever y'all are going to do,
it's going to be great.
And I walk away going, oh, god, you're an idiot.
It worked out so well.
I'm so glad.
You're like our hero.
You're our mascot.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Well, whatever it is, I'm sure there's a part for me in there,
right?
Yeah, exactly.
We should look straight into camera and just make a plea.
Cameron, please, where--
Please.
If you're watching, I would like to be in it.
Or just give me some cash.
Whatever.
I can't believe you haven't seen this.
So this is when she was here last time,
during the commercial break.
And this is-- I'm trying to have a conversation with her,
and this is going on behind her, and she doesn't know it.
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I was trying not to laugh.
But there's rumors that your character-- something major
happens to your character.
Does something-- you can't tell us what,
but does something major happen to your character?
I mean, yeah.
A couple-- a couple major things happened to Gwen
throughout the course of the movie.
What are you insinuating?
There's rumors that you're no longer with us at the end.
Right.
Have you heard that rumor?
I've heard that rumor before, yes.
And in the comic books, she is no longer with us
as of issue 121, so that is part of the arc.
But you cannot confirm nor deny.
I can not confirm nor deny this information.
OK.
Great.
Wonderful.
But I can take some cold medicine--
some more cold medicine.
If you took more cold medicine, might you tell us?
Maybe.
Let's get some Mucinex out here.
You look fantastic.
Oh, thank you.
I haven't seen you in a long time,
and congratulations on this fantastic movie.
Thank you.
Wait till you see this movie.
It's like going back to Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, kind
of those movies that everybody used to just sing and dance,
and you were like, how did they do that in one take?
And y'all did it.
Well, we practiced a lot.
There was a lot of rehearsal.
Yeah.
How much did you?
Well, first of all, you're getting Oscar buzz.
I should say that.
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Now they're interested.
See, now they're invested because they were like--
--a broken leg.
Is it?
Yes, exactly.
If you can't dance.
That's what's really funny.
That's when-- I got so upset that that's what they're--
they're using me, just to watch me--
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Yeah.
But you won best actress in the Venice Film Festival,
so that's amazing already, before the--
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Now, obviously you don't do movies for that reason.
But when all this buzz happens, and when
you get all this attention, do you take it in or are you able
to take it in?
I try to.
I think that it's like for every positive-- you know,
there could be 100 nice comments.
And then there's one negative one,
and you're like, well, that's obviously true.
That one is the truth.
The rest are just-- what are you talking about?
No, obviously, it's very exciting to be part of a movie
that people are responding in a joyous way to,
so that's what's fun.
And it's a good time to have a joyous movie out.
We all need to see joyous things right now,
so it's perfect timing.
That one scene in the beginning where everybody is in cars,
is that CGI or is that real?
That's real.
There was a freeway y'all shut down?
There was.
We shut down a freeway.
We, as if I organized this.
I did not organize it.
How many--
The producers did.
So it went really all the way, that far back?
It was-- well, at the very, very back,
they added some dancers in post, at the very far back.
But there's about 100 dancers.
They shut down part of the freeway for two days.
And it was, like, 110 degree heat.
And they just did this incredible dance sequence
in three tracking shots so it looks like one long shot.
It's this huge musical number at the very beginning.
What about all those cars that are
on the other freeway, that see people on top of cars dancing?
I mean, y'all could have caused an accident with people going,
what is going on?
I think everyone probably hated us for two days.
Just looking up like, what are you doing?
And we can't use that on ramp!
But after about a minute of any type of physical exertion,
I break into a horrible sweat.
A minute of any kind of exertion?
Any kind of exertion.
Wow.
This is a new problem that I should probably
get checked out, over the past year and a half or so.
So we would dance for about a minute, and he'd be like,
you all right?
You OK?
Like, all over, or just under your arms?
Everywhere.
Just a lot of--
I'm glad I can talk about this on national TV.
Yeah.
It's really-- this is going to help.
This is going to help.
It sure will.
People are going to be so curious,
they'll be with you just to see how much you sweat.
It's good.
So you're hosting Saturday Night Live next weekend,
for the third time.
Now, you will sweat.
I will sweat.
That is a stressful situation.
Everybody watch, just to see how much she sweats, because there
is nothing more stressful.
It's fun, though, isn't it?
It's really-- it's so much fun.
It's insane.
You've done SNL.
I've done it once.
And it's just the pace, and how quickly
they grab you and yank you as soon as you
go to commercial break.
They physically, like, pull you out of situations,
put you in new clothes, and throw you back on stage.
No, not-- they don't put you in clothes
until they rip your clothes off.
Yeah.
You go like this.
You're just standing like this, and they're just throwing--
It's madness.
I love it.
It was really-- it was really fun
because then you're just sitting down,
and then they're counting down and you're in a new scene.
Yeah.
And then you're reading off of cue cards, which is even more.
Like, they've changed all the lines in dress rehearsal,
and you're reading it for the first time, live on TV.
Yeah.
But it's great.
But it's fun.
And you'll do it, and you get along
with Lorne Michaels and everybody very well?
Everybody's really great.
The first time you met Lorne Michaels,
I understand it was not a great situation.
Well, it was fine, just in the sense that I cried a lot.
So you must be dehydrated a lot.
Yeah, I am.
I need a lot of-- that's why I keep sipping this.
That's just water in there.
Why did you cry?
Because if I'm ever surprised by meeting someone,
I tend to-- you know, someone that I've held up to kind
of a hero status, I cry.
And with Lorne--
Did you not know you were going to meet him?
No because we were in an elevator together at 30 Rock.
And I saw him, and I was like [GASP],,
and then turned away and just kind of cried in the corner.
I don't know that he knows that.
Until now.
Now he does.
Now I'm a sweaty crier.
Surprise.
It's another nickname I'll have for you now, too.
Sweaty crier.
Have you ever cried when you met me?
No.
Well, I only cry if I'm surprised.
I knew I was meeting you, so I didn't cry.
But I would have.
OK.
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There's always these fake stories going around.
There's a great story about you with the Spice Girls.
You have to explain this.
Yeah, well, the story--
I've been told that the story is I broke
my shoulder in June of 2019.
And we were supposed to start filming Cruella August of--
or maybe even July of 2019.
And I broke my shoulder in two places.
But for some reason, the story became
that I broke my shoulder at the Spice Girls concert,
that I was on somebody's shoulders
and fell and broke my own shoulder.
And that's just not-- it's not true.
How does that come up?
And first of all, I just want to see you on someone's shoulders
at the Spice Girls.
I wasn't on anybody's shoulders.
I had already broken my shoulder.
I couldn't get on anyone else's.
Right.
No, I broke it the night--
I was supposed to go to the Spice Girls concert in London,
and I did go.
But the night before, someone had a little house party
nearby.
And this was 2019, pre-COVID, so, you know,
people could all be together and mingle.
And I was on-- it was like a waxed floor in this house,
and I slipped.
And my arm went back behind me.
And I broke my shoulder.
And then I went to the Spice Girls concert the next day
and wore one of those little--
those little cuffs that they-- well, there it is.
You can see.
Yeah.
See, I'm wearing that little cuff.
And I didn't know yet that my shoulder was broken.
And well, it turned out--
Oh, wow.
You didn't know?
How do you not know your shoulder is broken?
It seems like you'd feel that.
I know.
Well, I was in England.
And so they did an X-ray, and they were like,
there's a shadow on the X-ray.
What could it be?
And we were like, I got to go to the concert.
They were like, come back.
So I came back the next day, and I found out about my shoulder.
They didn't really talk that much like a little witch.
Yeah.
For the story, it's more fun if they're kind of like this.
Right.
It does sound like somebody was stirring something
that was smoking, and then--
Come back.
We have-- I don't know if Emma talks about it a lot,
but we have a bathroom dedicated in Emma's honor because--
see, there it is.
It's the loo.
It's her loo.
Do you have anything named after you?
Has anyone done that for you?
No, I don't.
I don't have anything named after me.
And now I'm really sad about it, now that I've seen that plaque.
Yeah.
Well, now--
I'm devastated to not have my own loo.
You know what?
We knew you would be sad about it.
And I don't want you to be sad.
That's not what we do here.
We make people happy.
So we're going to fix it.
Take a look in this bathroom.
Look what you have.
Oh, what is it?
What is it?
It's a paper towel dispenser.
It's your very own.
Thank you so much.
I'm such a big fan of paper towels.
Yeah.
Oh.
This is perfect for me.
Everyone uses them when they're in there.
I mean, not one person is not going to look at that
and think of you.
That means the world to me.
I can't thank you enough.
Yeah, well, we knew it would.
Listen--
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