-Keira, welcome back to the -- [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, they love you. -Wow!
Hey! -Yes!
-Look -- people. -People.
-People. Isn't that nice?
Isn't it the greatest thing in the world.
The best audience ever. -Yeah, people are great.
Yep. -Yeah.
You look fantastic.
How are you doing? How is the family?
-The family are okay. -Yeah, they're good, yeah.
-You know, they're -- Yeah, they're okay.
-How old are they now -- the kids?
-3 and 7. -Love it.
-Yeah, they were trying to --
They're not happy about me being here.
-They're not? -No.
I said, "I've got to go to New York."
They said, "Why?" I said, "Well, I'm gonna be on television."
And my 3-year-old doesn't get that.
My 3-year-old is like, "In da television?"
[ Laughter ] And I'm like, "Yes."
And she's like, "But how do you get in da television?"
"Well, I get -- in New York, I get in the television."
But, you know -- so, but -- -Yeah, it's a camera.
Yeah, you can't explain. -Yeah, the whole camera thing --
They couldn't explain. -No.
What are they into right now? -Oh, rainbow unicorns.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Rainbow unicorns. -Everything.
Everything rainbow unicorns.
-I had a feeling that you would say that they're into that.
-Yeah. -Would you like to --
[ Audience "Awws" ] -Oh, look.
-Just in case -- -Shall I, for her?
Because she did actually say to me --
she said, "If you are going in the television,
you have to be dressed like rainbow unicorn."
And I was like, "Well, I'm not gonna do that, obviously."
[ Cheers and applause ]
-[ Laughs ]
Yes! -So, yes.
-Mom of the Year! -Mum of the Year.
-Your mom loves you so much! -Right?
[ Cheers and applause ]
Delilah Belle Righton, I love you.
Can I take it off now? -Yes. Yeah, of course.
Yes, of course. [ Laughter ]
It was just for your daughter.
-Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that.
-Do they understand why you're in "da television"?
-I mean, yeah, I've tried to explain films.
Actually, they've seen one of the --
I did a version of "The Nutcracker" a few years ago
where I play, like, a psychotic pink cake.
And so -- And so, they watched that.
-Wow. -Yeah, but she didn't
like that at all. She was like,
"A, you should be dressed in rainbows."
And she was, "Why are you so angry?"
[ Laughter ] And I was like, "I don't know."
And then the other one, I tried to show her
"Pirates of the Caribbean." She watched 10 minutes.
She was far too terrified. She said, "I don't --
I don't want to see you doing that."
[ Laughter ] -Really?
-Yeah, she wasn't impressed.
But do you know what she also said?
She said, "No, I don't like you in that.
You're too pretty." I was like, "Oh."
But she said, "But don't worry, you're not anymore."
[ Audience "Ohhs" ] -[ Laughs ]
-Wow! Brutal.
-"Mwah! Go to sleep, go to sleep." Right?
-Yeah, "I love you, I love you."
-Yeah. "You were cute for a second."
-Yeah, exactly. -Have any of them
shown any interest in acting? -No. No.
I actually asked her. I said, "You know, do --
You know, is that something --" We took her to the theater.
I said, "Is that something that you want to do?"
She was like, "No!" I went, "Why not?"
Said, "All those people were looking at you!"
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "You know, I'm quite proud."
-Yeah. Yeah, yeah, good. Don't get involved.
-"Good point." -Yeah.
-Yeah. -You started acting at around
7 years old, right? -I did -- 6, yes.
-6. In something called, I want to say, "Royal Celebration"?
-It was. It was called "A Royal Celebration."
I don't think I did very much. I think I sort of ran in
and said, "Mummy, Daddy." You know, but I loved it.
-Did you have any -- "Mommy, Daddy," were your lines?
-I mean, I don't remember. I remember very few lines.
I remember there being, you know, there were marks
on the floor where you have to hit when you're acting on --
on -- on film, and I remember mine was green,
and I was so pleased about hitting my mark
and just being there.
-And it was about Princess Diana and Charles?
-It was about a street party on the day
that Charles and Diana got married.
-Wow. -Yeah.
-This was your acting debut? -This was my acting debut, yeah.
-We found the clip. We have it.
[ Cheers and applause ] Your acting debut.
-No. -And you did have a line.
-Did I? -Yeah. Here is 6-year-old
Keira Knightley making her acting debut
in "Royal Celebration." Check this out.
-...their new life together.
-Here, here, here, here!
-Everybody's been waiting for.
-Wow! -Wow!
[ Cheers and applause ] Wow, yeah.
I mean, I had one word, which I repeated many times.
So, I clearly -- I milked it. Yeah.
-"Here, here, here, here!" -Yeah.
-And then smash cut to -- totally different.
-Glum. -You got your one line over.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Out.
-Just -- We were looking at IMDb today, and just 20 years,
almost to the day, was the release of
"Bend It Like Beckham." [ Cheers and applause ]
Isn't that crazy?
I feel like just yesterday you did that film.
Did you know that it was gonna be a giant hit?
Or did you feel like it was going to be your breakout?
-No. No, no, I mean, I literally remember telling people
that I was doing it and saying, you know,
"It's called 'Bend It Like Beckham,'"
and them going, "Oh, that's really embarrassing."
[ Laughter ]
-Really? -Okay. Yeah, yeah.
No, it was -- no. And they were all like, "Don't worry.
Nobody will see it. It's fine."
-"Don't worry. Nobody will see it."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was --
No, but it was the idea of it, because you know women's soccer
was not as big back then. -Yeah.
-And so, the idea of the whole thing was sort of ridiculous.
And it's amazing, because it's still the film, even today,
you know, if somebody comes up and talks to me about my work,
it's that one. It's so loved.
-Yeah. -It's like -- it's amazing.
-Yeah, it is beloved. [ Cheers and applause ]
You've done some great work, though.
-Thank you. -I want to talk about
your new one, "Boston Strangler."
It's out on Hulu this Friday. It's based on the true story.
How much about the story did you know?
-I didn't really know very much. So, I'd obviously heard of it.
-Yeah. -So -- but really,
I just sort of read the script and thought, "Whoa.
This is such a complicated story.
And so interesting." And what I didn't realize
was that there are these two female journalists
right at the center of the story.
And actually, when you google it, you know,
they were the two that really kind of went after it.
They first linked the killings.
They even named the killer "The Boston Strangler."
And yet, when you google it, their kind of part of
that history has largely been erased.
So, it felt like a really interesting --
You know, it's a true-crime -- crime piece.
It felt -- It felt cool to kind of see it through that
female gaze and to put these two journalists
sort of in the center of it.
-And it's shot in Boston. And, yeah.
Did you do a Boston accent? -No.
-That's a smart move.
-Well, I wanted to do the Boston accent.
-[ Laughs ] -Who talked you out?
-The director was like, "Abso--" He's from Boston.
-Oh, yeah. No, people from Boston --
-No. You can't -- I mean, if you weren't
from the street that the character was from in Boston,
you were not allowed to do the Boston accent.
So every single actor went in going, "Boston accent!
It's our time!" -You're like, "No, no, no, no!
No, but everyone's made this mistake!"
-Yeah, yeah, no, we were not allowed.
So it's a standard American accent.
[ Laughter ] There is no Boston.
-That is a very smart move that you did that.
I was in a Boston movie. I did not do a Boston accent,
but I did do it when my character got excited.
Like rea-- -Yeah. You've got it in there?
-Oh, yeah. -Really?
-If my character was drunk or excited, I threw a Boston.
-You threw it. And nobody went, "You're not allowed"?
-No, it worked. It was perfect.
I actually was yelling it.
Because Boston, you can't mess it up.
-No, you can't. -And it lives forever.
And they'll find you on the streets and be like,
"That accent was terrible." -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're very vocal about it.
-Yelling from the windows of Dunkin' Donuts at you.
Yeah, absolutely. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -I want to show a clip.
Here's Keira Knightley in "Boston Strangler."
Take a look.
-They won't coordinate with other police departments.
Connections are being missed,
and good leads are falling through the cracks.
-Isn't some of that to be expected?
-We are way beyond that.
Oh, I'm sorry, Jack. Am I keeping you up?
-Will you cut the [bleep] already?
What's the story?
-The city can't protect its women.
-Come on. -What?
You don't think it's true, or you don't think it's a story?
-What the hell is it with you?
You can't go after someone's livelihood
because you're impatient. -10 women are dead,
and these [bleep] don't have a clue.
-You don't have a story.
You have a grudge.
-How many women have to die before it's a story?
-That's enough.
These are good men busting their asses.
I'm not waging a war on the police department.
-Yeah. Keira Knightley, everybody.
"Boston Strangler" is available on Hulu this Friday.
Zachary Levi joins us after the break.
Stick around, everybody.