-For those who couldn't tell from the clip,
you are three women.
This is -- You are committers of crimes.
-That's true. Yes, it is.
We did commit a crime in the pilot episode.
We will continue to do bad things.
-Yeah. And it's really fun.
It's a super funny show. -Thanks.
-And a fantastic cast.
You, Retta, and Christina Hendricks.
Were you immediately -- Did it become clear to you
were working with great people right away?
-Oh, yeah. Right away.
I mean, the whole concept is these women grew up together
and they all kind of get backed into these financial situations
that are really desperate.
And it's kind of desperate times call for desperate measures.
But I think one of the really important elements is
that we really believe
that they're all really close friends.
And so we actually ended up having a producers' dinner
the first time we all three, kind of, hung out together.
And it was very formal. We had a nice cocktail.
and then we sort of were like -- The producers went home
and we were like, "Mae, should we have a nice dinner?"
Sure. So we went to dinner and had about seven bottles of wine.
[ Laughter ]
Then we were like, "Should we keep having a nice time?"
And we went to Christina's house.
And all I know is somewhere around the 3:00 mark I believe
I was like, "I'll be right back. I'm gonna go to the restroom."
And Christina -- apparently, I just never came back.
And like an hour later -- [ Laughter ]
Like an hour later Christina went looking for me
and said her front door was ajar
and my pants were splayed out on her dining room table.
And she, like, wandered into the street and was like, "Mae?"
Like, with my pants thinking I just wandered into the ocean
with no pants.
But I just stole some of her sweatpants and went home.
-Wow. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ] Pretty classy stuff.
-That is classy. -That's me, guys.
-There you go. -Invite me over.
-That seems like a real rookie move,
but you've been doing this a long time.
-I did it on purpose, okay?
My character is irresponsible.
I was trying to generate a relationship.
-You were deep in character. -That's right.
I would never do that in real life, Seth.
-Of course. -You know me. Come on.
-Well, you're very --
Well, you have been doing this since you were 3 years old.
-It's true, yeah. -You've been in the business.
And you had parents who were very --
wanted to make sure you were ready for this.
-Yes, Pat and Jeff.
They are extremely good caretakers.
They really wanted to prepare me and actually
they may have prepared me a little too much.
There's a classic story that, you know,
on a movie set everybody curses like sailors.
Like, it's the most intense place to be.
-And so they said, "Okay, we're gonna sit her down."
And they said, "Now listen, Mae.
You're gonna hear a lot of words.
And we want to tell you what they are
and we're gonna tell you exactly what they mean,
but you must never, ever use them."
And they, you know, gave me the whole spiel.
The meanings, the words, all of them.
And so apparently a couple days later they got a call
from my next door neighbor,
who I was best friends with their kid at the time,
And the mom said, "Come on over and see what's happening here."
And they peeked over the fence and I was sitting in the pool,
and I was going, "Now, here are the words.
This is what they mean but you must never, ever use them."
[ Laughter ]
To, like, this like 4-year-old and her 2-year-old brother.
So yeah, you know, my best work. -Very helpful.
-Full disclosure.
-So, Sarah Jessica Parker was just here.
-I know.
-You are obsessed with her, but kind of recently.
-Cool it. She's probably still in the dressing room, Seth!
-She probably still is, yeah.
Yeah, she's probably taking your mug right now.
-Oh, she probably is. She can have it.
She can have anything. I've got a wallet.
Take the cash. Whatever you need, SJP.
-But this is -- you -- "Sex and the City," this is --
-Yeah. I tend to come into things a little too late.
because whenever I start, like, a new show or something,
it really means a lot to me.
And I get so invested it's hard for me to do anything else.
So I just started "Sex and the City"
like literally like a month ago. [ Laughter ]
Retta was making so much fun of me, 'cause I'd walk into set
and be like, "Oh, my God, Carrie cheated on Aiden!
Can you believe?"
And she was like, "Yeah, 20 years ago.
It's pretty wild to go through that."
It's really sad. [ Applause ]
I know. I'm trying. I'm trying.
-Do you just do it for everything, not just that show?
Come in and be like, "Lewinsky, have you heard?"
-Guys, it's crazy. You don't understand.
I really -- the one other area that I really struggled in
is the "Hamilton" train.
It took me for freaking ever to get on it.
And Retta was, like, so annoyed with me.
I mean, literally the only thing I knew from "Hamilton"
was when the "Hamilton" challenge came up,
Lauren Graham, who's still like my best friend in the world.
We actually went hiking in the mountains
and afterwards she was like, "We're doing the challenge."
And she taught me one song.
So that's, like, all I had to relate to people at parties.
I was like, "Oh, I know. When she goes
♪♪ a toast to the groom ♪♪
and like does the whole thing I was like,
Ah, that's crazy, right? I've got to go though.
I'm gonna run out."
But Retta, when she heard about this,
she totally flipped out and she was like,
"We're going this trip."
So I went last night for the first time!
-All right. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you. It was so exciting.
-I'm always worried that people who wait too long,
they'll hear so much about "Hamilton"
that they will then be underwhelmed.
But that does not seem like -- -I couldn't believe it.
First of all, something really humbling happened
when I was coming back in, where I got there a little late
and I have, like, a really nightmarish peeing problem
where it's like every five minutes.
I'm like, "Well, now I have to pee. I'm not enjoying the show."
So, like, I go like right before the show starts.
And when I came back in --
also the show "Good Girls" had just premiered the night before.
And when I came back in,
people kind of started to look in my direction,
and they were like, oh, kind of excited,
taking out their cameras.
And I was like, "You guys, please.
It's really not a big deal."
And then literally the three people
in front of me turned around
and it was, like, these three beautiful blonde people.
And it was the gold medal Olympians
from the cross country skiing team.
And literally everybody's like,
"Get out of the way, excuse me," like, pushing me aside.
And I was like, "Oh, okay, yes, I mean, it's amazing."
So that was pretty cool.
And yeah, I mean, my mind was blown.
It's the most amazing thing I've ever --
-I just want to point out how kind Retta is
that she would take you to that show
after you made this observation on Instagram.
You put a picture of Retta next to a picture of The Rock
and you said, "When your costar shows up to work
looking like The Rock."
And I got to say it's a pretty fair --
-I mean, you guys. [ Laughter and applause ]
You guys -- it's the exact -- -It's the exact same outfit.
-It's literally the exact same outfit.
-You added the fanny pack.
-What do you mean? That is a real fanny pack, Seth.
I would never do something like that.
-Hey, congrats on the show. It's always so great to see you.
Mae Whitman, everybody.