- [Kelly] You look beautiful!
- Thank you.
- [Kelly] Oh, my gosh! I love the hair to the side.
- Thank you. I love you too. - It's kind of like
we called each other.
- I mean. We compliment. We compliment.
How are you? - I'm good. How are you?
- I'm good. You have a ton of fans here.
I just need you to know. - Hi, guys.
(audience cheering)
- Yes.
(audience cheering)
I was like- - Thank you.
- I said your name earlier running through the script
and they lost their minds
and I was like, oh, okay. They're all here.
They're all here. - Yes, that's right.
- Yeah.
(audience cheering)
- Well, happy holidays, early holidays-
- Yes, thank you. - For you.
Do you have any like traditions for the holidays
with your family?
- You know?
Yes, of course.
There's always, you know, there are the cute,
fun little things, but I've been,
I feel like the last couple of years I've been trying
to like,
well, I dunno finding a new tradition
is like finding something new and exciting every year,
but maybe it is. - I think it is.
- Last year
I had like, snow brought in. - Yeah!
- For like a whole sledding situation for,
there's a ton of babies in the family now,
which is the best thing in the world.
Even though,
I did that more for me
and the adults. - I was gonna say,
did you put a baby
on a sled? - Yeah, well.
They kinda went for the first 30 minutes
and then it was just completely taken over by us.
- That sounds awesome. - Yeah, yeah.
With spiked eggnog.
(audience laughing)
Speaking of family,
I heard your brother's a race car driver?
- Yes. - I didn't know that.
- Yes, he is.
(audience cheering)
- Does he ever take you
in the car? - Okay.
- [Kelly] 'Cause I've been driven around
and it scares me.
- Okay. Okay. - It scares me.
- Ladies, calm down.
- See, they're very excited.
I know. It's awkward when it's your brother.
- Yeah, its like, all for me. Come on, all the time.
But this? Tone it down a bit.
- Does he ever scare you, though?
- Okay. So, yeah- - That's amazing!
- Thanks. I took that and I love that photo.
Isn't that awesome?
- No. Oh, yes, he's amazing.
I mean the truck. - Okay, okay.
Oh, yeah, the truck is cool too.
- [Kelly] No, I just mean, what is that?
That's amazing.
- Okay, so this truck,
my parents got him for his 15th birthday
and- - What?!
- It wasn't running so well. - Oh.
- So they told him, if you can figure this out
by the time you get your license, you have a car.
- Very Hallmark special waiting to happen,
- Right? - I like it, yep, yep, yep.
- So, yeah. - Yeah. It's very nice.
- But, yeah,
now he's racing it
and Just like winning races- - Wow!
- Setting records and-
- That's so cool!
(audience cheering)
Do you drive fast or are you like, a turtle?
Like are y'all, how are you both in the car together?
- Okay, so,
well, when he's driving and I'm in the passenger seat,
I am like, I got my hands on the handles-
- I don't appreciate that. - You know what I'm saying.
I'm like, my head is back so that I can't go back,
you know- - The g-force.
- Exactly.
When I'm driving him,
it depends on what the situation is.
We love to take drives and that's like our,
one of my favorite things to do with him is just like,
get in the car, drive
and listen to music. - Music, yeah.
- And that's kind of like where we talk-
- Windows down. - Exactly.
And you know, when I'm driving,
it's like a nice cruise.
- Yeah. - You know-
- Chilling. - I'm enjoying my time
with my brother. I'm not,
going nowhere fast,
right. - Yeah.
- He's just like put the pedal to the metal, girl.
- He's like it's- - What are you doing?
- It's under your right foot?
Yeah. - Yeah, yeah.
- Oh no, I'm like you,
I like chilling. - Yeah!
- I like enjoying the back roads, yeah.
- I have no problem going slow.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Yeah, well, there we go. - Yeah.
- But he goes fast.
I don't ever want to be in a car with him.
I hate being, Jimmy Johnson took me one time in a car,
and I was like- - Oh, shoot.
- This is the worst day of my life.
I don't like it. I don't like the lack of control,
is the thing, yeah. - Sure, yeah.
- Well- - I'm with you on that.
- There's some therapy for you, there.
(audience laughing)
So you got into baking during the pandemic.
I feel like a lot of people got into baking.
So what did you love to bake?
- Okay. Well, here's the thing.
So I was actually very late to this game.
The Great British baking show game.
- Oh yeah. That's huge.
- Totally picked up on that and was like,
I can absolutely make like a bust
of Emily Dickinson out of cake-
(Kelly laughing)
and it didn't,
the attempt was more so in my head than it was ever,
made physically but yeah,
I'm obsessed with the show and I love baking
but it's not a thing that I-
- I love that you sat down at the piano
and wanted to play Beethoven right off the bat.
You were like- - Yeah, no,
that's my very, very ambitious-
- A bust of- - Yeah, exactly. But-
- Did you ever attempt it?
- No. - No.
- I didn't. Here's the thing. Like, I love to bake.
I love to do it. - Me too.
- I can't do it for other people.
I will not. - No, yeah.
- Because
I can't. I can't deliver. - You don't wanna
be judged for the, yeah. - Yeah, it's just,
it either looks great and it doesn't taste so good-
- Yeah. - Or it tastes great
and it doesn't look-
- Yeah. - Whatever.
I don't know if I just said-
- It can look horrible and if it tastes great, I'm fine.
- Then it's okay, right. - Yeah.
- But you know, I'm trying to work on the presentation
and the- - Yeah.
- It's a work in progress.
- We're not all chefs, it's fine.
- Nope. Yeah. - Yeah.
Well, did you also work on any new music?
I know a lot of artists, like during the pandemic worked on,
like, I'm excited
for you to have new stuff. - Yes.
Thank you so much. - Yeah.
- It was a weird, you know, situation at first,
kind of trying to, like, I know a lot of friends
of mine who are artists, struggled with like,
some of them were more inspired than ever
and felt themselves like in one space,
being able to create
and others who didn't necessarily feel that way
and I
found myself
in that sort of space of like, this is,
I finally feel like I have the time to get this right
and to tell this story the way I want to, sonically,
lyrically.
And I'm very excited about this music
that I've been working on.
It's all, the projects almost, it's almost done.
(audience cheering)
Dare I say.
I'm always so nervous to say anything about my music
'cause then they're like, oh it's coming.
That means it's coming tomorrow.
- I know but that's so cool though
'cause people are excited.
You have some great music- - Thank you.
- So people are stoked about it.
- Thank you.
- I've always wanted to, I mean, just personally,
I want to hear a singer-songwriter album from you,
like really hardcore. - Oh my God.
- I think you have such a great-
- Thank you. - 'Cause you're and actor,
so you do a really good job of storytelling.
- Thank you.
- Like even when it's got like a beat,
like I love your voice.
I love those songs, at one point in your life,
please, for me-
- You got it. - You just do that.
Okay. - If you'll be on it with me.
- Fine. Fine. - Great.
- I'll do backgrounds. I love singing backgrounds.
- Oh my God.
- Just let me do the harmonies.
Has playing Emily Dickinson,
has it changed you as a writer at all?
'Cause poetry is really lyrics-
- Sure, absolutely. - Yeah.
- I do feel like, so after we shot season one,
I was always,
I was planning on going into the studio
to spend some time making music after season one
and I felt like,
and I don't think I necessarily realized it right away,
but I did feel this sense
of this like new found fearlessness in my writing.
I just put it all out there and I thought to myself,
like I could change this and nobody would ever know
if I'm, you know, uncomfortable by it
or intimidated by it- - Yeah.
- And I ended up not going back
and making any of those changes
that I maybe thought I would have.
So I was really- - That's brilliant, though.
Let people in.
- Yeah. - That's the coolest thing is,
even as a songwriter myself, like listening to other people,
you can tell- - Mm.
- You can tell when they're trying
to either make it too broad- - Totally.
- Or they're trying to like,
still have that wall up. - Sure.
- And the best records are people that are, you know,
full on, just open. - Yeah.
- Like, this is me.
You know, damaged, happy, whatever it is, like.
- Totally. - So I'm happy you did that.
I cannot wait!
- Thank you. - What a tease.
(audience cheering)
Do you ever hear from people
who have discovered Emily Dickinson because of the show?
- Yes, I have. I've had some really beautiful encounters
with people who have seen the show,
all over the world really
and I think, you know,
this show has always been about seeing
and being seen and not putting people in a box
and to at all feel like that is coming across
and that is being felt by viewers
is just the greatest honor
and that's been quite cool to see.
- And it's cool to think like,
back in the day, that was she was such a pioneer.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
There were more male poets- - Oh yeah.
- You know what I'm saying? So it's really cool.
And I know now we're used to it.
- Mm. - But back in the day,
like what a pioneer- - Yeah.
- And what a cool character- - Absolutely.
- To get to play. - Thank you.
- So rad.
Well, I have to ask you about this
'cause I'm obsessed with Marvel.
So you're playing Kate Bishop in "Hawkeye," that's amazing!
(audience cheering)
Okay, in my world, if I were an actor,
this would be like my dream role.
So- - Stop.
- Okay, so like I'm just saying,
I'm not an actress, so I don't want it
but I just love watching them.
But is it, were you freaking out
when you got the call?
Everybody wants to play these roles,
right? - Oh. Yeah.
- Yeah. - Freaking, I was like-
- And then you get in the door
and then you're part of all of them.
- Oh no it's- - Yeah.
- And I still feel like every time I do something,
I feel that way.
Like, I it's the most,
when I met on the project for the first time,
that alone was like the most wild experience.
I like went to the studio
and I felt like the coolest person ever.
I was like, going underground
and through these separate gates and all these things.
It was like, so hush-hush- - Yeah.
- And I was like, I don't even have the job yet.
- I am VIP.
- Yeah, this is wild.
So it's been a very, very fun experience.
I'm so excited to be playing a character
that is so loved
and I can't wait for people to meet her.
(audience cheering)
- Oh my gosh. - Whoo!
- I love him! - Right?
- I'm so excited for you!
(audience applauding)
Oh!
So, wait. What superhero?
Did you ever have like a favorite superhero as a kid?
- Okay. Anybody who knows me knows I am incapable
of picking favorites.
Anything. - Oh. Indecisive. Okay.
- Very. - Oh.
- Which is not very-
- No, it means your like- - Well it's like-
- You're very politically correct.
- Oh, well, possibly. - Inclusive.
Yeah. - Yeah.
(Kelly chuckling)
- No, I guess the answer is no. I never had a favorite.
Did you? You definitely had a favorite,
- Well, I feel like I'm so happy for my daughter
'cause she has all these females to pick from now
but whenever I was a kid, it was all boys, really?
Except for like She-Ra and like,
you know, it was like, I like dated myself.
Like, I mean, there was Wonder Woman
but they didn't really have that,
like when I was kid- - Sure.
- So I really was obsessed with, with Bruce Wayne.
Yeah. - Okay, course.
- It's Michael Keaton. Thank you, Michael Keaton.
(audience laughing)
- He, I thought was so handsome
and Kim Basinger in that film,
I was like, this is the coolest movie ever.
So I loved Batman.
Yeah. I thought it was cool.
But it is one of those things
when I kind of like Captain Marvel now,
she's my favorite because-
- Huh. - Yeah. 'Cause I feel like-
(audience cheering)
That's only because I haven't seen you yet-
- Fair enough. - But I'm just saying,
Captain Marvel's pretty cool.
She's just like a ball of energy.
I feel like that is my superpower-
- Oh.
- Playing, being a ball of energy,
so- - It is one, for sure.
- So I feel like I'm Captain Marvel
and she's just, it's fake.
(everyone laughing)
So, no she's my favorite.
But do you have any bow and arrow skills?
Like can you- - None.
- Or are you one of those actors
who is like, yes. - Zero.
- I'm amazing at that and then you get there?
- Yeah, no, I actually, I was.
(Kelly laughing)
I was that person.
I spent so much time watching videos
of
just all levels of archery.
So I felt like, I was like, okay,
I have an idea of like what the form looks like.
You know, people like, I'll watch the-
- That's like watching a gymnast and being like,
I can do that. - Oh fully. By the way,
they go up to the line
and they, you know, everybody's got their little, like,
they take their deep breath
or they like do it like a weird little like twitch
or something. I'm like, oh yeah, I got it for sure.
So I went and took my first archery lesson
with this really wonderful instructor
and it was like a two hour lesson
and I was ready to go.
Again, I was like watching videos on the way there.
And I was just, I had my stance down, I was ready to go.
I get there
and he talks for like
an hour and like 40 minutes- - Wait,
and you're not doing it? - And I'm just like-
It's right there. It's on the table.
I can just, I can just, you know, get it and go.
But it was amazing 'cause he like, you know,
was educating me on the, you know, technical side
of it all and okay, great.
But I just wanted to like get going.
So by the time I actually picked up the bow and arrow, I,
I will say he complimented me on the form.
Okay.
(audience laughing)
- I would say, my form was amazing.
- He was surprised that I had never done it before
but I had a lot to learn.
- Yeah. That would've killed me.
An hour and a half, I'd be like,
wrap it up. - Oh, it was brutal.
- Yeah. - Brutal.
And I kept, I was like, you know, trying so hard to, yeah.
I was like, I had my mask on,
I was yelling like, into my mask
and like, this is so bad. - Yeah. Yeah.
- But the whole time I'm like throwing little nods
to the. Yeah, that's- - Yeah.
- I wonder what that feels like.
You know, what you're talking about, you know.
- Yeah. I wonder. - Yeah.
- You know, I could just feel it right now.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
- That's some Mr. Miyagi stuff right there-
- Yeah, yeah, exactly. - You have to like,
do all this other stuff before you get to.