Our producer Seth told me
that your husband wrote this script,
did he really?
Yes he did.
Okay, so it's based on a book by Sheila Williams
called Dancing on the Edge of the Roof,
and my husband Roderick Spencer wrote the screenplay for me.
Wow!
I said I don't need an anniversary, birthday
or Christmas present, cause it all happens within
two months of each other, so I said
just write this script for me.
I knew he could find that,
and of course I just howled as I read it and all,
but he came up with the conceit of Blair Underwood.
You guys will discover in it.
He said I got this idea Blair Underwood is her.
Is that a spoiler to tell what he is?
No, no, go go go!
Okay, so Blair Underwood is her fantasy boyfriend.
He said but it will only work if Blair will do it
so he called Blair and said I'm writing this.
Blair said I'm game.
So, it was perfect.
Now, my--
That is so weird that your husband is like,
you know what I mean, kind of setting you up.
But okay!
So Blair Underwood is my fantasy one
but Adam Beach is my real life one.
(both laugh)
See, you know, when you're grown
and you get to say who you want to be in it,
you have whatever tenderony you want, right?
(audience claps)
So my son, I have a son who is 25, and daughter 27.
I sat next to my son, watching it.
He said, aww mom, all during the love scenes.
And I said, your father wrote these for me,
that's even weirder! (audience laughs)
It is, it's so weird!
But it's kinda cool and sexy at the same time.
Yes, it is! (audience claps)
So, is there a role that you were more attached to
than others?
And is this one of them?
Is Juanita one of them?
Are there ones that you just felt really close to?
I love Juanita because I get her,
and she is unapologetic, finally, in her life.
You know, I've done some really remarkable women.
Some fictional, but some historical.
But, I'm not as serious and sort of heavy
as most of the people I play,
so the ones that I am closest to are people like,
I did this thing called, oh God, Miss Firecracker,
and I played Popeye Jackson in there,
and then I played Mariah Dillard Stokes in Luke Cage,
and she is formidable.
She is a gangster. (host laughs)
I love it.
I love her because we're always from a time
where three years old we're told, you know,
be nice, and she is just...
She is like a...
A man.
You're doing it right now!
And the other one, Popeye, she just makes me laugh.
So, they're probably more towards women that
I would wanna hang out with.
Hang out with, right, like you wanna go roll with them,
you know what I mean?
I hear that you keep your awards,
on which I'm sure there are many,
on the floor.
Why?
Cause I live in California.
And you just keep everything on the floor?
Well, yeah!
Don't they have shelves in California?
They do, but occasionally we have a big quake,
but there's little temblors all the time,
and even I--
Now I get it, I'm like what do you mean,
don't they have bookshelves?
Well, okay.
So I think I have four Emmy's, and
the first two, it was the big quake, when Duncan,
it was 94, because Duncan was ten days old.
They came down off of the top.
They went through the carpet, into the floor,
and so one of the Emmy's fell through the world,
the other one the wings fell off and all.
But those wings could hurt!
Like, they could literally take an eye out.
Oh yeah, they are the murder weapon.
Oh, they are.
Yeah!
So what I do is I keep them on the floor,
and you see them all the time,
cause you sit on the floor.
And then I have one from El Nino, where there was a flood,
and it flooded one of the din,
so they all have like weather damage.
That's hilarious!
I think that's so cool!
They've like been through it!
(audience cheering)