(applause)
- I'm sorry.
I probably smell like static cling,
it's not my perfume.
It's sticking to me.
So I like drenched myself.
If you smell it, that's not my Od Kelly Clarkson.
(chuckling) Yeah, it's static cling.
So how are you?
- I'm good.
I'm excited to be here.
- Yeah, I'm excited too.
This is such a cool project.
Before we get to that.
How is Denmark?
I hear it's like the happiest place ever.
Why?
- That's a good question,
we keep asking ourselves that.
I think it's a mix of things.
It's a great country.
It's a small country.
There's only like 5 million of us.
You can't really get too carried away there
'cause everybody knows you which I think is a good thing.
There's a high level of equality
and then there's these crazy things
like free healthcare and free education and-
- See, it works, it works.
(audience clapping)
- It works for us.
I'm not-
- I hear y'all know how to vacation well too
you take time.
- That's true, yeah.
We have the whole balance
between work and free time and life.
Work week is 37 1/2 hours
for everyone.
- That's like average like, oh-
- And then you have everybody is entitled
to at least seven weeks of vacation a year.
- Wow.
- So that means that you can actually--
(audience clapping)
- That's why you're so happy.
- We're so happy, yeah.
- It's like, did you take many vacations?
- Yeah, as a kid my mom was a single mom
and I have two sisters and we didn't have much,
but she insisted that we'd go away at least for a week,
somewhere outside of Denmark.
We had this tiny little Fiat 600,
which is probably the tiniest car you can imagine.
And then she would just grab on our bicycles on the roof
and off we went to normally it would be Sweden
or Scandinavia but we did one trip once where we went to,
she wanted to go to Spain.
She was like, this is it.
But she also had this rule that she hated highways.
She wanted us to see the countries we went through
also cause the car--
- Why did she hate highways?
- I think also the car didn't go faster than 60 miles
an hour so-
- She was slowly in denial the whole time.
- Every time when she hit 60 the car, was like (squeaking)
So there was that.
And then I remember I was surprised by how,
we were going through the Pyrenees, the mountains.
My mom is terrified of heights.
So I had, and so are my sisters,
they were screaming the whole time,
and so then suddenly the car broke down,
and I remember thinking I was six or seven, I was like,
Oh my God, all the Spanish men are so friendly.
'Cause say we had like every time we broke down quite a bit
they would within two minutes there would be a guy
they're helping.
And now of course I look back,
oh yeah, you have a 32 year old,
beautiful Scandinavian girl standing there going,
"I don't Know what to do."
- Those Spanish men weren't helping all the ladies?
Just your mom?
- Yeah, we did have a couple of,
I still remember also that we had some visitors
in Denmark from Spain (Kerry laughing).
- She's polite, they helped her out.
- They were so friendly.
(continued laughter)
- Wait, so now you have, is it 21 and 18 year girls?
- I have, oh yes.
I have my beautiful daughters, 21--
- So like that's kind of out of the house
kind of you're in to nest to try--
(applause)
Are you nervous about this scenario?
Like the guy situation, are you-
- Oh.
- 'Cause were you like one of those guys that
you should be afraid of your daughters dating?
(both laughing)
- Yeah, exactly, exactly that.
'Cause you have that thing where sometimes you look back
and we like to romanticize about those years
when we were younger or it were so great
high school, it was like, there was nothing but joy
and then you start thinking and go,
well, actually it was pretty stressful
and you try to fit in and you didn't know any,
I mean, all that.
So I think that was one of the things
when my kids and they're now 18 and 21
knowing that they had to go through heartbreak
and all those things is devastating.
But of course then the boys, right?
And the first-
- Did you give them a hard time?
- No, the first time I was introduced to a boyfriend.
I think I was more freaked out than he was.
'Cause I remember I was like back then
when it was me I don't know why I was terrified
of meeting parents but it is frightening.
- Do they date generally pretty good guys though?
That's cool.
- So far so good.
I mean but then at the same time,
then you hear stories from their friends
and like there's, I mean, there's a lot of frogs out there.
- Yeah, but I'm just saying like, I think that maybe
you've done a good job of representing to them
like how a man should treat you.
So maybe that's why they got good guys.
- I hope so.
(audience clapping)
- Yeah.
- I like that but yeah-
- No, that's good.
Just live in that fantasy world.
- I like yeah, I stay in my fantasy,
yes, it's all good
- It's all great.
Now let's all look at his new Netflix movie
"Against the Eyes," so tell us about it.
I love movies like, is this like survival,
kind of like you're surviving a situation?
- It's based on a true story, you know?
- Oh, it is.
- I'm so proud of this movie, I really love it.
And I've been looking to do something in Greenland
for a long time, my wife's from Greenland,
so I've been coming there for more than 20, 25 years.
And I found this book which is just an insane, true story
of survival but also about companionship
and we have these, it's about these two guys,
that get stuck in the North Eastern part of Greenland.
They have to survive.
But also what happens
when you're under that kind of pressure,
what happens with your mind?
- [Kelly] Mentally.
- [Nikolaj] Mentally and he just captured that beautifully
and we wanted to explore this in the movie and we did
and then we wanted to shoot everything on location
in the Arctic.
So we shot in Iceland and in Greenland
and it was tough, it was extreme,
it was everything hoped for.
So, when you watch the movie and you see a storm or-
- It's like real.
- We were shooting in like,
I'd never done that before.
I mean, we were shooting on these glaciers in Iceland.
We all had to carry a whistle
in case we fell into a crevasse so they could find us.
And the one day-
- That's when I'm out (laughs).
- But I mean, the crew, they all knew what they were doing.
It was great.
I felt safe.
Well, there was that one day where there was this storm
and they kept saying it's gonna get better,
but it just got worse, there were hurricane force winds
and suddenly we were all called in.
Well, actually first we get this call that
this guy who was sitting in a van had called in
that rocks were flying through the windows of the van
but you couldn't make it up and then we get a call,
we have to gather at base camp to do a roll call.
So everyone had to be evacuated
and then they had to call everyone,
and then incase you weren't there,
they had to set rescue teams out.
So that was unusual.
- You were really, you were method acting
you like wanted to get in there.
- But the thing is it's what we wanted 'cause we, I mean,
- It's beautiful though.
It probably looked beautiful
- And like shooting in Greenland on the actual sea ice is
I mean you can't do that.
You can do everything in CGI
but you can't replicate what it does to the actors
and to the faces and to the way you talk,
when you're actually shooting in like 20 below
it's just, it does something special.
And then to, I mean, there are so many things, like
obviously there's a lot of, it's a true story,
this guy lived, there's a family.
We wanted to do it right.
We had a screening for the family
of my character two weeks ago.
And I was really nervous because of course we are like
all the dialogue is something we make up
and we change stuff, it's a movie.
- Yeah.
- But they came out there was like, they were so happy.
- Oh, getting that approval's cool.
- Yeah, and I was like,
how I got this beautiful letter from a grandchild
and she was like this, she was so afraid of this movie
because it was part of her identity.
That her great grandfather did this and then like
and he was kind of this secret in the family
and she wanted to keep it, like keep it special
but she was very very happy and thrilled, so yeah.
- That's so cool.
Wait, did you ever get into like fantasy games
like Dragons and Dungeons and Dragons,
is that what it's called?
I always have men on this show that love that game.
- Yeah, I love the idea.
No, I didn't, well, back when I was in high school,
there was Dungeons and Dragons was a big thing.
It still is.
- I didn't know it was a big thing,
but I've had several actors like men on here,
it was like, "Yeah, I'm in a club."
I'm like what?
- I never got into that kind of role playing thing.
But I wanted to be part of this group
and then they said, "Yeah, we're gonna play this
and then we gonna smoke a bit of weed, we get high."
And I said, I don't smoke.
I can't do that.
So they baked this cake for me
and I like cake.
- [Kelly] I love this story.
- So we came in and they were doing stuff
and I just saw this cake
and I just assumed it was all for me.
So I ate it all.
- No.
- And then they came in and said, "Where's the cake?"
And I said, well, it was for me, wasn't it?
And they got, "You ate all of,
that's a lot."
And I'm like, "No, it's gonna be a fine, oh."
- It was weed cake, it had weed in it?
- It had like hash, hash or whatever you call it, yeah.
- Weed but hash, yeah.
- Yeah, Yeah, I got a little weird.
- I Bet you got really into role playing.
- I actually literally (chuckling)
I got into character better than ever before.
I was literally
(Kelly laughing)
chasing my friends through the forest
and they were like, "Stop it"
I'm like, "Ah"
and I don't know what the character was, but it was intense.
Then we came back to the house
and I remember I was crying at one point
(audience laughing)
and then I was laughing and-
- The range of emotions.
- And then they said I suddenly fell asleep.
It was literally like ah.
- Oh my God, you ate the whole cake.
- I ate the whole cake.
- Oh, and you didn't know, that's not good.
Nicolaj, (chuckling)
that's so funnier though.