Do you still carol?
I heard this morning in a meeting
that you used to go caroling.
Yeah, my parents used to take us caroling.
I grew up back in Massachusetts, so if it
snowed I'd be on the back of a sled,
Flexible Flyers I think they call them,
and they'd pull me around.
We'd all have candles and go door to door
in our neighborhood and go caroling.
Who's all?
Your whole family?
Yeah.
How many people there?
I have three older brothers.
OK, so the whole family.
And neighbors.
A bunch of people from the neighborhood
will go out and carol.
They actually caroled in our neighborhood.
A couple of days ago--
That neighborhood is crazy.
Well, my wife Nancy gets really embarrassed by the carolers
coming to the door because she doesn't know how to react.
You know, you get to the door and they start singing
and you have this face, it's like a caroler face.
You're like, ah, ah, and then, thank you, that was wonderful.
And you give them appreciation so they sing another song.
And you get even worse caroler or face like, oh no,
what am I going to do now?
Yeah.
And you can't just go, thank you and close the door.
No, no, no.
You have to be very gracious.
I went to a party at a neighbor's house
a few years ago where there was a woman who
insisted on singing solo Christmas carols at the party
and she didn't have a great voice
and she did what you would call scooping a note.
You don't hit the note at first, you kind of get to it.
Right
I remember she sang Oh Holy Night
and it went something like, (SINGING OFF
KEY) oh Holy night, the stars are brightly shining.
[LAUGHING]
And I was sweating bullets because--
[LAUGHING]
--I empathize so deeply with people going through trauma.
[LAUGHING]
And I just knew that everyone there was just
waiting for her to finish and she was the only one who
didn't know that.
And then she did five more songs and she
scooped (SINGING OFF KEY) fall on your knees.
You have a very pretty voice.
When I scoop it.
[LAUGHING]
This is such a creative movie, Welcome to Marwen,
and it is based on a true story.
Explain-- it's just the way it's shot.
I don't even understand, but explain what it is and how
that you shot it.
It was based on a documentary about a man named
Mark Hogancamp who suffered a really traumatic beating,
a hate crime.
And as therapy, as a way of healing himself,
he created this miniature town in his backyard and all
the people in his world he put as alter egos within this town,
himself included, as this swashbuckling World War
2 captain.
And so he was able to process a lot of what
he was going through, all the pain and hurt,
and also just physically to keep himself more [? dexterous. ?]
So it's a really interesting story
and Robert Zemeckis was able to take this world
and bring it into life really.
It's crazy that it's a true story
and I mean the patience that he had in the detail
and what he did and how he shot it.
And then the character that you play, and the character there,
wears high heels.
He's not gay, he just likes high heels.
And you had to wear high heels.
I had to learn.
What was that like?
It was so hard.
I could not believe it.
It was, I think, the most difficult thing
I've ever had to do for a movie.
Really?
Yeah.
And that's not even a joke.
They sent me boxes of heels at home and I, months in advance,
started on three inch heels and then I went to four or five
and I was walking around on stilettos eventually.
And it's one thing just walking in them,
it's another thing looking like you feel comfortable in them.
They really are--
I don't know why women wear them.
I don't understand it.
It's so uncomfortable.
They're like, well, it elongates your legs.
It's like, so what?
Like, I don't care.
[LAUGHING]
Yeah.
I did look great in them.
And then I had the Lycra on top of that.
Yeah.
I was picturing you in the Lycra with those on actually.
I didn't want to bring it up again.
So Welcome to Marwen, Beautiful Boy.
If you haven't seen Beautiful Boy, that's an amazing movie.
[APPLAUSE]
Steve's great.
I just saw Vice the other day.
Vice is fantastic.
You play Rumsfeld.
Yeah.
And did you know much about that story before?
Not to the degree that I eventually did.
Another true story.
I don't think a lot of people don't know that story.
No.
That's a crazy true story.
Yeah.
You have to see Vice.
And I didn't think I would like a political film because I
don't really like political films
or I don't want to get into all that, but it's great
and it's scary, but good.
Hi, I'm Andy.
Ellen asked me to remind you to subscribe to her channel
so you can see more awesome videos, like videos
of me getting scared or saying embarrassing things,
like ball ping hammer.
And also some videos of Ellen and other celebrities,
if you're into that sort of thing.
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