-You have a new addition to the family.
-Yeah, we got a dog.
-That's fantastic! -Yes, thank you.
-You've never had a dog?
-No, my husband grew up with dogs.
My -- I never had a dog, and my kid has been asking for a dog
since he could talk. -Yeah.
-And, when I was on "The Good Wife," I could barely,
you know, clean up his poop, but I wasn't about to start,
like, cleaning up a dog's poop.
-Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of that.
-But after -- -But wait, what kind of a dog?
I love the name of this kind -- type of dog.
-So, we have a whoodle.
Do you know what a woodle is? -It just sounds so cute.
I've never heard of a whoodle.
-A whoodle is a Wheaten terrier/ poodle mix.
-Oh, my God. -They're very sweet,
and I should have brought a picture of her,
but then it would be weird.
I've become a weird dog person now.
-Oh, really? -Yeah, I -- I mean --
-Take a lot of photos?
-I take pictures, I send them to my husband at work.
It's not good. -Do you talk to the dog
with a different voice? -No one in my household
can talk to the dog in a normal voice.
-You got to always -- is it high or low?
-So, Kieren goes up, like, three octaves.
[ Indistinct babbling ]
I mean, it's just -- and lies on the floor
and just lets her lick his whole face.
-That's what you're supposed to do. Oh, no.
-Ugh. -Oh, please.
-And, for some reason, my husband can't say anything
once, so everything is,
"Well, good morning, good morning, good morning!"
[ Laughter ]
And it's -- it's so bizarre. And I...
I mean, I-I'm just as guilty, because I cannot look at --
See? I start -- I'm like, "Oh, my God!"
-"I want to eat you!"
[ Indistinct babbling ]
-It's just -- there's -- they're just so loyal and sweet.
-What's the dog's name? -And they don't talk back.
-Oh, no, it's the best. Dogs are the greatest.
I have a dog. She's fantastic. -Your dog's name is...?
-Her name is Gary. -Her name is Gary.
[ Laughter ]
-She doesn't -- I mean, she loves her name.
-Sure, she doesn't know. -No, she doesn't know.
I mean, yeah. -Um, yeah, so --
-What's your dog's name? -So my son named the dog
before we found the dog. -Okay.
-And he -- and it turned out it's a girl dog.
-Okay. -And he named her Rocket.
And I was like, "Oh, well, really?
'Cause it's a girl."
-Yeah. -And he said,
"It's gender neutral, Mom."
[ Laughter ]
-He said that? That's a good kid, see?
I like him, I like him.
-It's such a New York City kid thing to say.
You know, it's like, "Okay, so sorry."
So, you know, it's -- my mother-in-law
and my father-in-law have a dog and they live in D.C.
and D.C. has become a place that's a little hard for people
who work and live there... [ Clears throat ]
'cause of some new occupants. So anyway...
[ Laughter ]
When we got Whoodle -- I like to just call her Whoodle.
I actually wanted to name her Whoodle.
I think that's a funny name for a dog.
-I could just say Wocket.
-You could say Wocket. Wocket, Whoodle.
Whoodle, Wocket. Yeah, exactly. -But anyway,
So, she gave us a lovely -- a welcoming basket for the dog,
and in it was these Trump poop bags.
And it has Trump's face on it. It's red,
and it just has his face like this, right in the middle.
And there's this sort of really cathartic, therapeutic
moment, and I just stand there and I go,
"You take a poopie!" -[ Laughs ]
-"Take that poopie!" -Let's talk about "Dietland."
-Oh, let's. Right, that's why I'm here.
-What made you -- -I forgot.
-What made you come --
Oh, hey, that's a good conversation, when you --
What made you to back to TV?
-Oh. -'Cause we love you.
-Thank you. -Yeah, I mean,
what made you? What, the script? -Yeah, it was all of it.
It was the schedule.
I have to be honest. -Yeah.
-I was tired after "The Good Wife."
Seven years on that show wiped me out.
-It's a lot of work.
I don't think people understand how long those hours are.
It's good stuff. -It's a great problem to have.
And I love doing it.
I didn't realize how tired I was till I stopped.
I think you just don't. You just go, go, go,
and you're so grateful to be there and --
then I --
Anyway, so I took a year off, and then this script came to me.
Not just one script.
So, on network TV, you do 22 episodes a year,
and the poor writers are just writing as fast as they can,
but sometimes, you don't get the script until 12 hours before
you're about to shoot it. -You got to memorize your lines.
-And you got to memorize it and you're still in court
and this new script comes.
So I'm not used to this. I got five scripts,
and they weren't even gonna be shooting for another two months.
So for me, that was a vacation. -[ Laughs ]
-"I get to learn my lines." -Yeah, learn my lines,
and I loved the story. I loved that it was 10 episodes.
I made sure I was only working two days an episode.
so I could still have a life. -Yeah.
-And I play this character that I've never, ever
been given a chance to play. -It is kind of like a villain
version of Julianna. We've never seen this before.
-I hope it's not any version of me,
but it's definitely a villain.
-Yeah, no, no. -I hope in my worst moments
I'm not like her. -Never! Of course you're not.
But it must be fun to do that. -It's so much fun.
Someone said to me, they saw the pilot,
and they said it's kind of like
"Devil Wear Prada" meets "Fight Club."
A female "Fight Club." -Yeah.
-Um, but it's got a lot packed into it,
and it's sort of on this backdrop
of this incredible actress, Joy Nash, who plays the lead.
She plays an obese girl who is waiting for her life to start
once she gets her, um, surgery so that she can be a size 6,
and a group of women stop her on the way and say,
"Why can't your life start now?
Why -- What do you think is gonna happen?"
-Absolutely. -And I love that
that it's such a positive body image
and it talks about women's body issues,
and I play this crazy woman who's afraid of aging,
afraid of gaining an ounce. She's insane.
Someone asked me the other day,
"Why do you think Kitty's such a bitch?"
I was like, "Well, she's starving."
-[ Laughs ] She's just hungry, yeah.
-She's really hungry.
And it was a chance for me to just have fun
and be the villain, and I never get to do that, so...
-I want to show everyone a clip. Here's Julianna Margulies
in the new show "Dietland." Take a look at this.
-You have to be absolutely fanatical
to stay under a size 2.
I never talk about this around here, but...
Menopause?
Peri-, in my case. You know me.
Always have to be first.
Suddenly I had this middle.
My chef had to cut absolutely everything white out of my menu.
You can do things for the face, the body, even the hands.
But the waist, you have to attack.
Around here, you start looking like somebody's grandmother?
[ Clicks tongue ] You're out.
Martha Stewart can get away with it.
She sells hot glue guns.
But "Tastemakers"? No.
Mark my word.
It won't happen to me.
I will not be left behind.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa! You are so not her.
Julianna Margulies, everybody!