bless you for being here
thank you for coming we're so happy that
you're here now interesting things
happening in the world which i'm told i
knew nothing about this but you i've
been told julia are thrilled
that we are finally out of metro
mercury
retrograde
i don't know i don't know this sounds
like we're in it what do you mean we're
in it
it doesn't it messes with communication
with your devices
like things no i've had it where like my
car will break down
um people will be mad and you're like
what the hell isn't that life
you kind of
did you feel anything over the weekend
any retrograde any mercury i didn't i
didn't but i was kind of sheltered i was
i had the curtains drawn and i was
sitting very still
but with my eyes closed okay just in
case
but what i love about you vigo is up
until recently very recently i think you
had a nokia flip phone and you've only
just you have 20 years right and i've
just mastered it
but now you've gone to a smartphone
yeah that's tough so what was the reason
for going to the smartphone do you
understand how that phone works yet well
i have a publishing company i have to
edit things i have to communicate
quickly with people
images things and
i still i i can text i've learned how to
do that and i can use the phone part of
it yeah the text thing is a one finger
kind of same yeah right i want to go
back to the flip phone i've i've had it
right write letters stuff good
faster than my texts yeah writing a
letter and it arriving is faster than
you yes
sending a text yeah yeah i can see that
i like a written note i'm a big fan
are you a big texter
don't i appreciate people who
communicate and see looking at each
other um my i do the voice dictation and
so it'll be me going no what i'm saying
is we've got to get there on friday or
blah blah so lately recently i was at an
airbnb uh place and there was a
cockroach problem
so it was a cockroach problem a
cockroach yes you can spell that word
out and i voice dictation did some real
fun things
with saying there's a cockroach with a
giant
wrote
in the problem wow
okay yeah
no i understand
i understand meryl streep
played a pivotal role in you deciding to
be an actor in your early acting career
how so tell me
well i
before i started i mean i did admit she
hadn't done much at that time i've been
around for a long time
uh but she had been in uh a couple of
movies the deer hunter
i really noticed her in that but um i
wasn't thinking of acting at all i was
not i mean i've learned how to speak in
public like this a little bit
um over the years but i wasn't
that was never something i thought of
doing acting but in my last year of of
university a friend of mine who was in
the drama department was doing a play
he'd written a play and he said i need
you to be in the play because the
actor's gone i said i'm not i don't know
how to do that he goes you don't have to
say anything you just sit in this lounge
chair
and you're kind of moping and you're
maybe you're drunk or something and then
and you're just staring at this candle
and you're reading a book or pretending
to go okay well i can read a book and
i'll just look at the candle then that's
it he goes yeah and i thought it was the
end of the year i thought maybe if i
take lsd oh god it'll make it go a
little it'll be more fun
and it seemed to last a very long time
and i had no problem staring into the
candle the candle became my universe
first
it seemed like months and it was
probably only half an hour
and then of course you can't just switch
that off i left the stage and thinking
you want to go to dinner
dinner
what is that
you know and that so i just wandered off
i ended up in some sitting
against a uh
you know a toilet in a in a public
bathroom with my neck against the
ceramic
and i had a magazine in my hands and
newsweek
on the cover of which was meryl streep
oh she had a red shirt
and a blue background she looked quite
beautiful and i was really really high
so
i just i don't know how i think i was in
there for hours i was just staring i was
examining every particle of that image
and i felt like i was going into her
eyes and into her head and we had a long
conversation
it's this dose
and i was it was beautiful it was so i
was really i was crying i was laughing i
was there for a long long time
and then finally a janitor came in and
like it was very like disruptive and i
and i left with my magazine i don't know
where i got them i probably stole it
from somewhere and that was it and i i
still have that magazine cover actually
no i ended up framing it
because you thought that was the moment
i'm going to be an answer
i didn't know but it must have had
something it was a sign
you must have crossed paths with her
have you ever told her this story i
haven't i should she knows she would
love it she'd love this story yeah i
know i have met her and she's really
nice she probably would think it was
funny yes she'd love that story well
well i was about to say thank god for
lsd but i'm not going to no i'm not
that's an amazing story now julia i want
to i'm thrilled that you're here because
you i was told that you recently had
a knee injury
but it was misdiagnosed is that right
it's either way it sounds painful what
happened it's terrible i it's my you
know you get these little war wounds uh
okay but i shouldn't use that term um
but i uh it was swollen i couldn't bend
my knee i i went got an mri
and it said i had a torn acl and a torn
meniscus to which i kept getting
reactions like
how are you even standing yeah and so
and i was working on a show and i was
like i don't know
how am i standing
and and like really and i went into this
thing of like why am i not taking care
of myself and how could i not know these
things um and i got like a wheelchair
for when i got off the plane and i just
fully leaned in
it it was a misdiagnosis right
i i
the power of your uh planting is a
thought but i i have a torn meniscus
it's a real drag it's a special fancy
long um couple tears i have to get
surgery which i don't it's not bad i've
had it actually it's not a bad thing
nowadays they just go in it's like a
small hole or two oh it's quick yeah but
we already know that you've got the best
drugs to deal with that sort of
situation
let's talk about your brilliant new
movie crimes of the future now
in in almost every way this is not the
easiest plot to summarize
can you as best you can explain to us
what the film's about it's a love story
truly it's a beautiful love story
unusual one
and a lot of other
somewhat disturbing things happen around
it
it's a it's a strange movie
i think it's a beautiful movie made by a
unique
man david cronenberg's the fourth time
i've worked with him
and he it wasn't like you know
that he ritually made us all
drink our own blood or something like
that but but he did
[Laughter]
it wasn't like we were drinking our own
blood
and and
because of that now all of us think you
were all drinking your own yeah yeah i
thought that well it was just that you
you realized when you got on that set
that you had to get with the program
we did drink our blood but it wasn't the
main part of it
you'll see