-This is your first time on a late-night talk show,
which is such an honor for us. -Yes.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-This is weird! -Yeah, this is all for you.
You do have a little experience? -I do.
This isn't my first rodeo.
-What was your late-night experience?
-In primary school, which is when you're probably young.
I don't know the American version.
-Yeah. [ Laughs ]
-You do, like, plays, and one of the plays was,
where I was a talk-show host,
and it was called "The Rhianne Barreto Show."
-Wow! -Yeah.
-That's a famous play.
-That's why I'm wearing this suit.
I'm taking your job. -You are!
Oh, my God. I'm being usurped.
-But I would interview, like, religious figures
to be like, "Why weren't you the good Samaritan?"
-Oh! -It was, like, very weird.
-Wow. -It's like Dr. Phil, but like...
-Gotcha. -Catholic.
-Was it well-received? -Yeah.
I mean, I'm here. -Yeah.
Wait. You think you're here because of that?
[ Laughter ]
-You were in the audience.
-We saw "The Rhianne Barreto Show" years ago.
-Well, I had a banner made, and then I put it on my bedroom wall
to, like, assert power in my house.
-Gotcha. Because you -- And I should say,
power in your house, you're 1 of 9?
-Yeah. -1 of 9.
-I needed to be the favorite. [ Laughter ]
-And is it true, everyone in your family,
all nine siblings start with an R?
-Like the Kardashians. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-Like the Kardashian if there were more.
-But we pre -- we pre -- -You predated the Kardashians.
-That's the word.
I was thinking of preconceived, but that was not the right word.
[ Laughter ]
Yeah, no, my granddad started it,
and then we all followed suit. -Gotcha.
And was there any fear that you were gonna
run out of R names along the line?
-I think we chose weird ones. -Okay.
-Like the Capitol of Italy, Rome.
-Rome, yes. -Roma is one of them.
-Roma, uh-huh.
-Renata, like the custard tart from Portugal.
-Okay. -Rhianne was the most boring.
-Really? 'Cause Rihanna's pretty -- I would have said --
-You love her. -I do.
-I'm budget Rihanna. -You're budget -- [ Laughs ]
"Seth, Rihanna's on the show tonight."
"Yes!" It's like, "Rhianne..."
-Barreto. -Barreto.
And then I was like, "From the talk show?"
And they were like, "Yes." So very happy.
[ Cheers and applause ]
This is gonna be such a weird segue
to this very serious movie you're in.
Ready for this? -I'm not.
-Okay, yeah. -I got the giggles.
-But this is --
I mean, it's a wonderfully made film about --
This is a sexual assault that happened to somebody
and that is captured on cellphone,
and it's basically, you are playing someone
who's trying to figure out what happened
over the course of the night? -Yeah.
-And this is something that, being from the U.K.,
you think happens less,
but there's less familiarity with it there?
-I think more Americans exist than British people,
just because you guys have a big country.
-Yeah. Oh, you think, it's just a numbers game.
-I was like, "It's a numbers game."
But also, when I was --
You know, I'm pretty Hermione Granger,
and I was like, "I need to research and do homework,"
bust she kind of, Pippa, the wonderful writer-director,
restrained me from doing that and was like,
"I don't want you to research
'cause the character doesn't know what happened.
So, you know, maybe you shouldn't know what happened
so that when you're in a scene with a lawyer,
and they're telling you the reality of these crimes
and how they go down,
you're really actively listening."
And also, the character doesn't remember
what happened that night, so I never have to fabricate
memory of assault.
-And method is something --
You sort of get ostracized in the film.
-Yeah. -By your friends.
And I've read that you basically
did the same thing with your cast mates --
you started being friendly with them,
and then you kind of pulled away as you got to those scenes.
-Yeah. -Is that something that you've
always sort of worked with as a performer?
-I mean, yeah. When I -- When I --
[ Light laughter ] Sorry.
When I was younger, I was in a showcase.
I went to the BRIT School -- Spider-Man went there.
-Oh, wow. -Yeah, it was good.
-Yeah, yeah. -He came to my play once,
and was like one of the -- -Wow!
Wow. -Spider-Man!
-Yeah. -And then -- So, yeah.
So, that happened, and then I did a showcase to get an agent.
And I was doing this play called "The Wasps,"
and I had to like tie up this woman and trap her,
and I was like, "Ooh, acting is all about,
you know, the most dramatic thing."
And so I tied my friend Naomi.
I was like, "How about you try and escape,
and I just trap you before I go on, so I feel it?"
-Oh, so this -- [ Laughter ]
So this wasn't -- Naomi wasn't on stage.
You were just tying her up backstage?
[ Laughter ]
-So, I was like, "Escape Trafalgar Studios,
and I will capture you." And she's quite small, so I did.
-Well, that's smart. [ Laughter ]
I mean, if you're gonna do that,
you pick your smallest friend, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-She's massively talented, and then I ran, captured her,
tied her up, put, like, tape on her face,
and then -- She consented, I swear.
[ Laughter ]
And then I like, went to the wings and was like --
'Cause someone was performing their monologue separate,
maybe a comedic one. Who knows.
-Yeah, and they were probably wondering
what's all that banging backstage.
[ Laughter ]
-And then I was stroking her hair in the wings,
and "Shh, shh." [ Laughter ]
Tied up little girl. And then the technician
could see what was happening, and he wrote a note saying,
"Are you okay?" [ Laughter ]
Held it up. And my friend had to be like...
[ Laughter ]
It was so -- so... Yeah.
-Yeah. [ Applause ]
They say... -What do they say?
-They say if you ever see an abduction taking place,
you want to hold up a note. [ Laughter ]
You definitely want to hold up a note
just to make sure everything's okay.
-Yeah. -You won an award,
and you actually shouted out the podcast host
of your favorite podcast. -God, yeah.
-Yeah. -I've done every interview,
and shouted them out, and they haven't responded.
-Your favorite podcast is... -"My Favorite Murder."
-"My Favorite Murder."
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yes. -Any Murderinos in the house?
-And so, you were calling them out by name.
-Yeah, and my family -- So, I was like, "Thank you, Mom,
thank you, Dad," da da da da da,
and then I went, "Thank you, Karen and Georgia,"
who i love, and who the director told me to listen to
in preparation for the film, accent-wise.
And so my family responded, like, "Who are these women
that you want to thank after us?"
And, yeah, I just absolutely love them.
-And you still haven't gotten anything back from them?
-They don't like me. -Wow!
[ Laughter ]
-I think they're gonna see this and realize
you're the same girl from the talk show.
-Yeah! -And --
-They definitely saw that, too. -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-It was so great meeting you and having you here.
-Thank you. -What a delight.
Thank you so much.
Give it up for Rhianne Barreto, everybody.