(audience applauding)
You look beautiful as always.
Thank you. You look handsome as always.
Well, I don't always look this good.
It's the pedicure, but thank you for being here.
I wish you actually were barefoot under there.
No, you don't want to see the old webbed toe.
Oh.
Big turn off for this crowd and the ladies.
Good for the mermaids, right?
Yeah, I can get through the water so fast.
But other than that, it's very sad.
I want to congratulate you before we get started.
Because I haven't seen you in a little while
and since the last time I saw you,
you won a Golden Globe, which is very impressive,
but the most impressive part,
you beat out Meryl Streep to get the Golden Globe.
That's impossible, how did that happen?
(audience applauding)
I mean, good for you, you deserve it.
Yeah it kind of--
I would think whenever you're up against Meryl Streep,
it's just like, well, I won't even show up.
You know?
Exactly, that's how I felt.
And I actually ... I worked with her.
I was lucky enough to work with her in a play
here in New York.
So, when I saw her at the Globes,
I bumped into her and was kind of jokingly like,
"You're going down."
(laughing)
And then, she actually did go down.
I was like, "Oh."
See, it's funny if then she wins,
but when you're like, "You're going down Streep.
You're going. You're out."
And then you win,
that makes you look terrible, yeah.
That's kind of embarrassing, yeah.
And then you held the Globe in front of her face
and taunted her.
Yeah, exactly.
That's not good.
Now, I want to ask you something.
It's a big part of your career
which a lot of people don't know about,
but is promotion.
You know, you work hard on the movie,
and everybody knows that,
but then you go places, you do a million print interviews,
you come on shows like this.
And I've noticed you always look loose
and like you're having fun.
Thanks.
How do you keep it loose?
How do you keep it fun from just becoming repetitive?
Well, I don't know.
I guess it is kind of repetitive a lot of the times,
but my publicist tries to do this thing
where you have to like,
she'll say a word right before you do.
Because we do these junkets
where you have to sit in a room
and do like 50 interviews in a row.
They're four minutes each,
and they all ask you exactly the same question.
So, she's like,
"Try and get the word diaper in there."
And she throws out some random word.
It's like a fun game, like a bet.
Right, exactly.
And try and incorporate it into your answer.
And it kind of messes me up all the time
because you're trying to--
Yeah, I notice a lot of your interviews,
you just talk a lot about diapers.
All the time. It's weird.
I think that would be fun
and be fun for your publicist,
but it probably, you're trying to talk about the movie
and you're like, "I still haven't worked diaper in."
(laughing) Exactly, yeah.
I'm like, "Anne Boleyn at the guillotine
was really wetting her diaper."
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can work it in easily into almost any conversation,
but I'm an immature ass.
(audience laughing)
You had a United Kingdom premier for this movie which--
A royal premier.
A royal premier,
and the royals were there at the premier.
I've always heard that when you're going to meet the royals
or interact with them, there are rules.
That it's not just, yeah, slapping five or whatever,
there's--
Yeah, there's this whole protocol letter
that they send you before, and they're like,
"You must address him by sir and her by ma'am,
which rhymes with Spam."
Like, they write that in the letter.
They write you--
Ma'am which rhymes with Spam.
Why do they need to tell you?
What other way is there to say it?
Well, I guess that some people would say ma'am
and in Britain they would says ma'am
like M-A-R-M or something.
So they tell you how to pronounce it.
Are you allowed to talk to them
sort of informally at all?
You can only answer questions,
but you can't ask any questions.
That's how it works for me here too.
(audience laughing)
If anyone ever says, "And how are you?"
Go, "Don't you speak!"
(audience laughing)
"You answer my questions!
You'll do it now!"
But is it fun?
First of all, who had you met before?
I know that you met Prince Charles.
Had you--
I met Prince Charles once at the royal premier
for the first Star Wars, which was,
he asked me, because you know they have one question there
sort of prepared, so they know one tidbit
about every person.
He asked me, he said,
"Oh, were you in the original films."
And I was like, "Hmm, not so much."
Yeah, yes, I'm 58 years old.
Plastic surgery these days.
You should have just hit him in the forehead,
"What are you thinking?"
Yeah, well he's not really thinking about it hard,
but it must be really fun, I would think,
to do that.
It's a trip.
It's kind of hysterical with like the whole trumpets and--
They really do that?
They have trumpets.
They have--
They go like doo-do-do-do do-do-do, and people--
Totally!
Right, wow, that's so cool.
Yeah, it's pretty foreign to think that your tax money
goes to pay for somebody to have trumpets call for them
and make chit-chat.
I hope our tax money isn't going for that crap.
It probably does too.
It would be great if American tax payers figured out
we're supporting the King and Queen of England.
You know, what the hell?
It's for trumpets for the King and Queen of England,
come on!
You know it's amazing.
I want to talk about this movie
because I thought I knew something about ...
I thought I knew this story because, you know,
I knew that Ann Boleyn married to Henry VIII,
he decides he wants out, chops her head off.
We all learned that in school,
but there's so much more to this story,
and it's a fascinating story.
And at the same time, it's a racy story.
I mean there's a lot of ... Racy sounds like
something my grandfather would say.
You know, "Pretty racy story there."
But you and Scarlett Johansson,
there's a lot of, it's very romantic,
but very erotic at the same time.
Sibling rivalry.
Yeah, yeah.
And all kinds of--
You guys are competing for the affections of the king.
So, it was kind of neat because I was watching the movie,
and I was like, "I'm learning, and it's sexy."
(audience laughing)
Which didn't happen a lot when I was in school.
Absolutely, yeah.
It's very history through porn, very.
(audience laughing)
That's yeah--
It is.
We'd all know everything, if only.
Why didn't you use that on the poster?
Exactly.
The Other Boleyn Girl, history through porn.
Line's around the block.
Well, it is a fascinating story.
I don't know how much you want me to give away
because I don't wanna ruin it for people,
but this is the story basically,
you play Anne Boleyn,
and Scarlett Johannson is your sister,
and you are both rivals for Henry VIII's affections.
Right.
And I know we have a clip here.
What do we need to know for this clip?
Well, Anne is sort of banished
for being cheeky with the king,
and so this is her big return to court
when he's sort of saying,
"Oh, are you good enough to come back to court?"
Right, and he's sort of interested in her,
but he's not sure, and you've got a sharp tongue.
Yeah, I think so.
Let's take a look at this clip
from The Other Boleyn Girl.
A great king, a great man,
rises above such things.
And what would you know of great men?
I've read enough books, and heard enough talk
to believe I'd know one, if he were before me.
Then look about you.
I'm curious, do you see one here?
Looking my lord.
Still looking my lord.
Ah, there, found one.
(audience applauding)
She's got guts.
I have to ask you one question.
Before we go to commercial,
I just have to ask you one question.
There's a rumor out there,
and I just have to ask you that,
there's this rumor that's going around
and it just sounded like such a cool idea
that you were going to do a movie,
or you were offered a movie directed by Jet Li.
Where it's a kung fu version of Snow White.
It's true.
I heard that and I was like,
Jet Li, kung fu version of Snow White,
that's the greatest thing I've ever heard.
(audience laughing)
You and seven ninjas, and like just--
I mean, it exists, and it was offered.
I'm not planning to do it, but--
Nah, Naah!
But it is a fantastic idea.
Do kung fu versions of every fairy tale.
All right, I'm going to convince you to do it,
and you're going to come back and promote that film.
Maybe you can be in it.
Yes!
Which one would I be?
Web toey, the unknown little guy.
The Other Boleyn Girl,
you should see this, it's a great movie.
Opens in theaters tomorrow.
Natalie Portman, so nice to see you again.
So good seeing you, thank you.
Thank you for being here.
Yeah.
We'll be right back, Robert Simmel's here.
Stick around.