-You know, I love asking
about your mother every time you're here.
Last time you were here, we talked about
how you were renovating her house for her.
-Yes. -And you just --
you were filming the show in London.
-Mm-hmm. -And you had her come to London.
-Yeah, my family,
they find a way to come wherever I'm filming.
And it's never just one.
It's my mom, my stepdad, my aunt who lives next door,
my sister, my brother-in-law, my niece,
my brother and his girlfriend. -Wow.
[ Laughter ] -All of them.
-It's a lot of people. I feel like that is not --
I mean, you have a photo here.
-Yeah, well, so when they came to London,
I really wanted it to be special.
They'd never been in London.
And you'd think that one of them was dying.
Because they literally went to Kensington Palace
and Wimbledon three times, met Serena Williams.
I mean, this is -- This is where they meet her.
-That's proof they met Serena Williams.
-Yeah.
They -- we did everything. And I actually --
I tried to make it really special, like I said.
And one day, I actually rented this double-decker bus.
And I invited some of the cast and my family
and some friends were in town.
And now the thing about my mom
is she's obsessed with Chinatowns across the world.
-Okay, gotcha. [ Laughter ]
-And she really wants to go
and see if every Chinatown
is just like all the other Chinatowns.
-Okay. -That's all she wants is just
to see if it's the same.
-Does that make her happy when it's the same?
-It makes her -- Yes, makes her very happy.
-So she likes the consistency. -Yes.
Yes, she's like, "Ah, yes."
Like, almost like we've taken over, you know?
-Right. [ Laughter ]
-And so we get this double-decker bus,
which is not cheap, you know?
And it's just -- just us on this bus.
And so we're going around to see the most amazing places.
And there's Big Ben. There's Kensington Palace.
We get out, take pictures. We're doing all this stuff.
But the entire time my mom just keeps asking, like,
"Where's Chinatown? Where's Chinatown?"
And so a few hours into the -- into the trip,
we get to this crossroads. And the bus driver says to me,
like, "Hey, so here's the thing.
If we take a left, we're gonna continue going on
and seeing -- there's a lot of amazing historical sites
that the we can go see.
But because of traffic,
we can't really come back around.
So if we take a left, we can do that.
But if we take a right, I can drop you off
and you can go to Chinatown." [ Laughter ]
Now, he's like, "And I just --
I've been hearing your mom talk about Chinatown."
He's like, "So, I don't really know what you want to do."
I said, "Let me go talk to her." So I said, "Mom, okay,
we got a few more hours left on this amazing trip.
Now, if we take a left,
we can go see all these amazing historical sites.
It's like, you know, hundreds of years old.
And this is London. And there's gonna be so many amazing things.
Or if we take a right, we got to get off
and then we can go to Chinatown."
And she goes,
"Chinatown." [ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Okay." But when we -- That's --
Oh, yeah, that's us on the... -I mean, that is --
-...the bus. -That looks like a --
That's the way to rock it right there.
-That's us on the bus. -That's amazing. Yeah.
-The entire time, this is her,
"Chinatown. Where's Chinatown?" -Gotcha.
She's -- she's smiling because Chinatown's over here.
[ Laughter ] So she's looking at Chinatown.
-She's like, "That's it." -Yeah.
-But here's the best part. When we get there,
we get off the bus, say goodbye to the driver,
who's very perplexed at this moment.
He doesn't understand. And we walk into Chinatown.
My mom looks around and goes,
"Same." [ Laughter ]
And then about -- I'm not kidding,
like 15, 20 seconds later, she's like, "Let's go home."
And that was it. [ Laughter ]
She just wants to go there to be like,
"Is everything in order? Is everything where I put it?"
-That's so great. Well, at least Chinatowns
are not like McDonald's. You know what I mean?
-That's true. But although, I realized after this trip,
if that's what matters to her, we could stay local.
We can go to Iowa, you know? We can go to Michigan.
We can go to all the just domestic Chinatowns.
We don't have to go across an ocean.
-Yeah, that's true.
-Let's go see all the American Chinatowns.
Why are we doing this?
-Yeah, when you get on a British Air flight,
you feel like, they're never like,
[ British accent ] Let me guess. Off to Chinatown?
[ Laughter ]
Taking a trip to see our Chinatown?"
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, I wish --
You know, your family is so sweet.
I mean, your family's so close. Your mom and dad, your brother.
-[ Normal voice ] Yeah. -You guys are all so close.
I feel like when you guys go places,
it's -- you know, you guys -- you and Alexi
go on just the most amazing vacations.
-Yeah. -It's very --
My family would go to amazing places.
And then we just go to Chinatown.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. Well, with my mom,
I would say it's -- instead of Chinatown, it's just a bar.
[ Laughter ]
She's telling the bus driver, like,
"Are we going to see any bars?" [ Laughter ]
-He's like, "We passed a bunch." Yeah, any one will do.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. She like's -- you know,
she's like, "I want to look at the bars."
-And your family loves karaoke. I know that.
-No. -No?
-My wife's family loves karaoke.
-The wedding, I felt like your mom and dad were really into it.
-Yeah. We were, but again --
-To be supportive of the in-laws?
-Yeah, we were supportive of the family.
-Do they love country music as much as we do?
-No. [ Laughter ]
-'Cause his wife's family loves country music, and so do I.
-Yeah, and my wife's family has an actual karaoke --
You've seen it. -Oh, yeah.
-Like a karaoke setup.
-Yeah, I've been to New Mexico at his wife's family home there.
And it's the moment you get in, it's karaoke.
-Yeah. -The moment you get in.
-It speaks to how much I love my wife that I've looked past that.
[ Laughter ]
-She's amazing. -She's amazing.
And so -- My in-laws are amazing.
But when my father-in-law -- my father-in-law sometimes
will just -- I will come downstairs.
And he'll be sitting outside singing karaoke to himself.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. [ Laughter ]
No. It's just -- when I came to visit,
I came out late at night to get some water.
And he's in there by himself in the dark.
-Yeah. -We just the words coming up
on the screen just -- [ Laughter ]
He's really giving everything.
-And then he'll make something up like,
"It's the only way to keep away the coyotes."
You're like, "No, it's not. [ Laughter ]
You're doing this 'cause you love the sound
of your own voice."
This is a really cool show. -I'm excited.
-You shot it in London. -Yeah.
-And you play a government agent.
-Mm-hmm. -Did you do any research
for your government agent work?
-My -- well, you know, I just came off the show
called "Six" where I played a CIA operative.
And this -- this show -- "The Rook" is different.
It's not where -- it's a made-up, you know, agency.
But we are spies.
And I'm the only American in the whole show, in the cast.
So I was able to bring some of that, you know,
experience just from that show into this one.
-There's some supernatural elements in the show.
Are you -- Do you buy into the supernatural?
I don't know. -You don't. Do you?
-No. -I know.
I can tell by the way you say it.
-Yeah. "Do you buy in? I feel like --
No. I don't. -Do you buy in -- like,
do you feel like you waste your time with that?
[ Laughter ]
-That felt like a very different question.
-No, no, no. I'm just curious.
I mean we all waste our time different ways
and, you know... [ Laughter ]
-I'm trying to figure out how to answer this.
[ Laughter ]
I -- I -- I believe in the science of things.
-Yeah. -And I believe that
we don't know everything. But I don't just --
I'm not just a believer who just --
I don't believe in everything.
I just don't go, like, "Oh, there's a medium.
I'm going to go find this person. There's a psychic."
I don't believe in that.
But I believe in the science of things.
Is that vague enough? -Yeah, that's getting vague.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Yeah. Well, for example,
my brother right now, he's getting his PhD in physics.
And he and I talk a lot about just science and stuff.
And my family, they're very analytical,
and they're like you. They don't -- they just --
They're like, "If it's not science based,
we don't believe in it."
But my brother talked to me once about the color blue.
So we're talking about a friend who loved blue.
And he goes, "Oh, that makes sense.
Because it has a really high vibration, high frequency."
I'm like, "What are you talking about?"
He's like, "Well, you can measure colors."
He put out a -- He's getting his PhD in physics.
I feel like you're not nodding, but not believing me.
I feel like you're doing this thing. "Uh-huh."
-I didn't know -- the part of this story that's crazy to me
is like, "We were talking about a friend of ours
who loved blue." I'm like, "is he 6?"
[ Laughter ] How does it even come up?
A friend at dinner being like,
"Have you guys seen the new blue?"
[ Laughter ]
-Well, it's -- and you know this friend.
And it was -- and the reason I brought it up
was because I thought it was just so strange.
-Yeah. -Everything had to be blue.
-Yeah. Oh, gotcha. So, it's like an obsession.
-I was like -- Yeah, I was like, "Hey, it's so weird.
Everything has to be blue." -Yeah.
-"Head to toe blue. Couch is blue."
-And so blue vibrates. So that's --
-And he was like, "Well, maybe it's because, you know --"
He's like, "It makes sense if he's, like, vibrating
to the color blue." And then I was like,
"Oh, well that's an interesting thing of just colors can put out
an actual frequency that scientists can measure."
So, I mean -- can we just cut this whole part out?
And just me go -- I'll just be like,
"I don't believe in it either, Seth."
-No. I, like --
Yeah, sure, we'll cut it.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-I mean, my brother's gonna call me.
I know my brother's going to be like,
"That's literally not what I said."
But I feel like -- I think I translate in my head --
-I feel like your brother is a scientist.
And he's like, "Hey, Olivia. I know I just told you this.
But, like, you don't know enough to go tell someone else."
-I know. [ Laughter ]
But he told me this years ago.
And it's most likely gotten wrong in my head multiple times.
-He talked to you for an hour straight.
And you were like, "Blue, vibrates, got it. Bye!"
[ Laughter ] I have to go to a TV show now."
-Yeah. "I'm gonna go tell Seth all about this."
-I want to talk about your dogs real quick.
-My dogs. Yeah. That's Chance and Frankie.
-Gracie and Chance. -Chance and Frankie.
[ Audience awws ]
I think you were thinking of -- -And what did I say?
-Grace. -I said Grace and Frankie.
-'Cause I think that you're thinking of the show with --
-I am. -Yeah.
-Yeah. -It's a great show.
-Chance and Frankie is very close to Grace and Frankie.
-Yeah, it's super close. -It is.
Jane Fonda almost was named Chance.
[ Laughter ] Yeah.
-But I've seen this all over town.
It's a lot of billboards in New York.
Tell us about this great organization.
-Well, this is great. This is the Shelter Pet Project.
And it's with the Humane Society and Maddie's Fund.
And we're -- you know, the three of us,
we're trying to get people to adopt shelter animals.
'Cause there's -- I mean, these are --
These two pups, okay. He's a Cavalier King Charles.
It's purebred, yet he was in a shelter.
This kid was on the street just living life, living large.
And now they're on billboards. I mean, how cute is that?
-I feel like that breed, like being a Cavalier King Charles
in a shelter is like when a rich person gets locked up,
they're like, [ Uppity accent ] "Do you know who I am?!
[ Laughter ]
I'm a Cavalier! I would like to make a phone call!"
[ Laughter and applause ]
[ Normal voice ] They're beautiful dogs.
-Thanks. -Thank you so much.
It's so great to see you. -It's so good do see you.
-That's Olivia Munn, everybody! [ Cheers and applause ]