On the same night, or same day, I watched back to back,
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood"
and the film that Alan is a part of, "Marriage Story."
They are heavy hitters.
And I come from a family of divorce,
and there's an estranged father-son relationship
in the Mr. Rogers movie,
"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood."
Matthew Rhys is this struggling, the counter-lead,
I guess you would say, the costar with Tom Hanks.
It is such a riveting movie but it was so heavy,
and I was crying so hard, and then
I immediately watched "Marriage Story."
And at the end of the afternoon, my husband entered,
I was sitting in the dining room, no shock,
that's where I write all my recipes,
and my husband looked at me, and my eyes are swollen shut,
and my face is all hot and red, and I'm all sweaty,
and he's like, "What happened?"
And you said, "I just saw Alan Alda."
(audience laughs)
Which normally makes you very happy.
I love that movie, and it's true,
it gives you an emotional workout.
It really does.
But it's like a workout at the gym,
you're healthier after you have that emotional workout.
It's a good thing to go through.
It's a very cathartic movie,
and certainly relatable to you, just as a great story,
because you've been married, what, 60--
62.
62 years.
(audience applauds)
Look at her, I love her smile.
What a smile.
Oh, there we are.
She has a smile that lights up the room.
Thank you, but you don't need to applaud,
I really enjoyed it.
(audience laughs)
But in the film, he plays a thrice, a three-times married
divorce attorney, and the first line,
they put this on the commercial so I'm not blowing anything.
But the first line he says, one of the first things
he says to Adam Driver's character,
who's clearly about to go through a divorce
with the Scarlett Johansson character,
is, "you remind me of myself in my second marriage."
(audience laughs)
And he's a really warm guy--
He is.
Your character, in a weird way.
Well, did you notice he has all these principles,
and he believes in fairness during a divorce.
Yes.
And that's why he has such a shabby office,
he doesn't do very well.
He doesn't do very well.
He's like the touchy-feely divorce lawyer.
He wants you to be super sweet, and give the other person
whatever they want, which is why he's not that successful.
(audience laughs)
The whole cast of this movie is so great,
Adam Driver is just so delightful
and wildly layered and talented,
but Julie Hagerty is amazing in this movie.
Everybody in it is amazing.
You know when everybody is that good in a movie--
In an ensemble, yeah.
It's the director, Noah Baumbach, and he wrote--
And he wrote it too.
Wrote a wonderful script.
And I loved the structure of it, gives you hope--
It does.
Didn't you feel that--
It does.
Even though they go through a divorce,
they love each other at the very end--
And at the very core.
Yeah.
They fight, and there's hard scenes to watch
that are super relatable, but it's also about
the beauty of love, that even if you're not at your best
when you're together, there's something really basic,
and strong, and unbreakable about true love.
(audience applauds)
It's true.
And I love the last scene, I don't want to ruin it,
but the last scene--
I know, no.
I don't want to ruin, I don't want to be a spoiler,
but the last scene of this movie is just poetic, right?
I love it.
I'm very proud to be in this movie.
I think it's one of the great movies.
I do too, and I think it's going to
stand the test of time, I think,
for multiple generations.
They will, because it's going to be on Netflix in the--
Yeah. (laughs)
(audience cheers)