-How are you? -I'm good.
-it's so happy to have you back on the show.
-I'm happy to be here. -We've also been very lucky,
your boyfriend Brad Wilk, who was a drummer for --
-A little band. -A little band,
Rage Against the Machine, he's been a guest drummer for us.
-Yes. -And I'm sorry it didn't line up
that we could have both of you at the same time.
-So I wouldn't have been able to concentrate in our interview.
-Good, right. Right. -It's good he's not here.
-If he was over your shoulder, that would've been.
[ Laughter ]
How have you been? -I am so good.
-That's great. -And did you guys see
his special? -Oh, that's so nice.
[ Cheers and applause ] That's very kind of you.
-No, you know.
We all need a lot of laughter and joy in our lives.
-Yes. -And I just couldn't believe.
I was laughing literally every other minute.
-That is very kind of you to say.
And I'm so -- I feel like I'm returning the favor,
because you have entertained me for so many years.
-Well, thank you. -It's the least I could do.
Because you've been doing this, I'm trying to think of
when I first saw you, you've been doing this your whole life?
-Well, I like to think I lived before I was on the screen.
But no it's weird to say 30 years.
So I've been doing the last, actually this year will be
25th anniversary, the 30th anniversary of
"Christmas Vacation"
[ Cheers and applause ] -30 years old.
So you were -- what was that experience like for you?
-So I was 15 and there's a handful of people
that really are instrumental in my career,
and Chevy Chase is one of them. -Yeah.
-He hired me and Johnny Galecki and we all got to get together
just around Christmas last year with Beverly D'Angelo
and Diane Ladd and we did a Q&A and Chevy was in fine form,
everyone was in a great mood.
And it's just so heartwarming to know
that they play this movie when I was 15, every year.
In people's houses. -Yeah I can't wait,
my kids aren't old enough for it yet but I look forward to that.
Another movie they're not quite ready for is "Cape Fear".
-No it's one of my very few PG movies.
-This is? -Yes.
-Yeah, is "Christmas Vacation" is PG, yes.
-Yes. -Okay, that's good.
-It's for the whole family. -The whole family.
Because you dabbled a lot in the R-rated films,
I feel like, like "Cape Fear," "Natural Born Killer"
my two-year-old loves. Yeah. -Really? 'Cause, yeah?
[ Laughter ]
-You gave Martin Scorsese an award this year,
the AARP awards.
"Cape Fear," you were even young-- no you were older.
-I was 18. -Yeah.
-And this is one of these full-circle moments.
Martin Scorsese is a hero of mine, a mentor.
And I got to give him a Best Director award.
And I just love him, because he really validated me
at a time when I was just all instincts
and I was really just rough around the edges.
Like my character in "Sacred Lies."
-[ Laughing ] Yes! -She's very
rough around the edges. -This is, so "Sacred Lies,"
the character we saw,
people can glean it from the clip,
you are a telemarketer who is also a fan of true crime
and you are basically trying to solve cold cases.
-Yeah and you learn through the episodes
that she's more than fan, it comes from a place of trauma
and having tried to save someone she couldn't.
And for me, it was such a thrill because I just love being
other people and stepping inside
a different behavior than my own.
And as you can see I'm just a little bit different.
-Yeah, I don't think that character --
that character didn't strike me as a good talk show guest.
-She doesn't wear a disco dress.
-No disco dresses in her closet.
-No, but a really bad telemarketer
and she's passionate and obsessed about
returning the dignity and names back to people
who were murdered. -You are a fan, a consumer,
of true crime shows, yeah? Cold case files? Forensic files?
-Well, what was funny is when we had the,
you know, when I had the meeting for the job,
I was like, oh, you mean like the 200 hours of forensic files
that I've watched has prepared me for many role?
Because she's an arm-chair detective.
-Arm-chair detective, but also a telemarketer,
has it given you empathy for telemarketers?
-No. -No?
-No. -No? Ha, ha, ha.
-I am on someone's spam list. -You are.
So you get a lot of calls? -Three times a day,
it's like delete, block. Delete, block.
Like Galica, what is it? Galactica.
-Galactica? Yeah, okay. -You guys are too young.
[ Laughter ]
Galactica. They won't leave me alone.
-They won't leave you alone? I'm so sorry about that.
Well, maybe after a show like this,
where you bring great humanity to a telemarketer,
they'll say, you know what, let's let her have her dinner.
-Let's leave her alone. -Yeah.
It is always so wonderful to see you.
Thank you so much for being here. Making the time for us.
-Thank you. -Juliette Lewis, everybody.