-Congratulations on the show.
I feel as though you guys have pulled off a very hard thing,
which is you've made a very funny show about grief
that is also very honest about grief.
-Well, thank you.
-And you just got picked up for a second season,
which is excellent.
-We did. We did. [ Cheers and applause ]
-You and your co-star, Christina Applegate,
you guys are fantastic together.
And you're both going through
sort of different kinds of grief.
And you're both pretty much --
I've only watched the first couple episodes --
you're pretty much in every single scene.
Is that accurate? -Yes.
When I read it, I thought, "Oh, it's two female leads.
That's so exciting. And I'll also get some time off."
But no, it was all of us, you know,
both of us on set all the time.
-And we were talking backstage.
I'm so familiar with both of your works
because you have such a large body of it,
but you guys had never worked together before.
-No. -Did you know each other at all?
-No, we did not know each other at all.
-It's fantastic. Your chemistry is fantastic.
-Thank you.
-And it is a lot of fun to watch.
It is very funny, like I said,
but there's also a lot of crying.
-Yes.
-Very good cry acting on this show.
-Thank you, thank you.
-I was taking note of it, because I'm like, "Wow.
They are both crying a lot, and in very different ways,
and I'm very impressed by it."
-Yeah, yeah. It's like all different versions of crying.
-Yeah. -Yeah, a lot of times --
-I've also heard you were a cryer.
In real life, you cry at animated films.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
-Yeah, I cry a lot anyways. -Yeah.
-I feel like because, maybe, of what we do, I am more --
I'm taken out of the reality when I watch acting.
But somehow when I'm watching animation, it breaks my heart.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
-And then I -- I was watching -- I've done it twice.
I've cried so hard during "Finding Nemo."
-Uh-huh, yeah.
-That was the first time that it happened.
That somebody -- And then during "Up"
that somebody next to me said -- asked me if I needed to leave.
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "No, no. I love this movie."
[ Laughter ] But yeah.
-One of my first dates with my wife was "Toy Story 3."
It was a 3-D.
And I was wearing -- she still has a picture of me --
-"Toy Story 3" killed me. -Yeah.
And I'm crying with, like, big, dumb 3-D glasses.
-Yeah, yeah.
-And she took it from the side.
And I'm just, like, this weirdo with, like,
a tear coming out of the side of my face.
It's a pretty bad scene.
-"Toy Story 3," somebody told me that at the end, Woody died.
-Uh-huh.
-So the whole time I watched it,
I was expecting that that really happened.
[ Laughter ]
So I was hysterical from the very beginning of "Toy Story 3."
-Why would somebody tell -- -No, he doesn't die.
-Yeah, but why would somebody --
-I mean, that's a spoiler. Sorry.
-Why would somebody tell you that awful thing?
-I don't know. I don't know.
-Was it the person you ruined "Finding Nemo" for?
-Yeah, no kidding. [ Laughter ]
-"Hey, when you see 'Toy Story 3,' Woody dies."
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Last time you were here, you were in the "Avengers,"
but you were not allowed to tell anyone.
-No.
-And you kept the secret pretty well, yeah?
-Yes, yes. -That's very impressive.
-Thank you.
-And was it true that one of your friends just found --
fully found out watching the movie?
-Yeah, one of my childhood friends was --
because I didn't tell my parents.
I didn't tell anybody. -Yeah.
-And one of my childhood friends
stood up in the middle of the theater and yelled and pointed,
"That's Linda!"
And then, he was with his kids,
and his kids were so embarrassed.
[ Laughter ]
-You have a 7-year-old? -I do.
-And you -- have you introduced her to any of your work yet?
-You know, not too much. Not too much.
But she -- you know, at one point, kids were talking about
"Scooby-Doo," and I said, "Oh, do you want to see that?"
And she said, "Mommy, that's weird."
[ Laughter ] So, no.
-What did she find weird about it?
-I don't know. -That a dog was a detective?
-I didn't go into it.
I was like, "Oh, phew, she doesn't want to see it."
But she did once see a commercial for "Green Book,"
because there was a lot of commercials running.
And I have an accent.
She was like, "Mommy, your voice."
[ Laughter ]
So sometimes when I read her a story,
I have to do, like, Dolores' voice for her.
-Oh, that's really great.
I like that, that she just was very impressed
with your skills as an actor.
-Yeah. -Your ability to transform.
-That's all that matters, is to get her approval.
I make her watch everything, give me notes.
-And was it -- I guess she's seven,
and when you did "Mad Men,"
that was another sort of top secret --
-That was crazy top secret, yes.
-But being top secret for "Mad Men" was maybe even
a little bit harder than the Avengers,
because you had to have, just playing the role,
you had to be, like, era-appropriate --
-Yes. I had to have these incredibly long, acrylic nails.
I mean, they weren't supposed to be acrylic then.
They were supposed to be natural nails.
But long nails were very feminine at the time.
So I had a four- or five-month-year old.
Not, year-old. -Yeah.
-Five-month-old. Whatever it is.
She was young, I was tired, I'm a mom.
[ Laughter ]
And I would change her diapers with these ridiculous nails.
And I'd be sitting there with other moms,
and other people just looking at me like...
[ Laughter ]
And I couldn't tell anybody the reason why I had them.
-You were like, "I'm not mentally ill. It's for a part."
-Yeah, yeah.
-Congrats again on the show.
I'm so happy it's coming back for another season.
It's always so great to see you. -It's always awesome to see you.