( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: LOVELY NIGHT.
NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
>> NICE TO SEE YOU.
SO NICE TO SEE YOU ALWAYS.
>> Stephen: IT'S ALWAYS SUCH A PLEASANT CONVERSATION.
IT'S ALSO NICE TO SEE A GUEST WHO TAKES THE SCENIC ROOM.
>> (BLEEP).
>> Stephen: IT'S NICE.
GOES OUT TO THE AUDIENCE.
THAT'S A MAN WHO HAS BEEN ON STAGE FAIR WHILE.
>> THIS IS LIKE A HOME NOW.
THIS FEELS LIKE HOME AGAIN, LIKE BEING IN THE THEATER.
IT'S A STRANGE PLACE TO CALL HOME.
YEAH, IT'S WEIRD BEING SO COMFORTABLE IN SUCH A CAVERNOUS,
SPIRITUALLY KIND OF-- I DON'T KNOW-- ALIGNED SPACE, YEAH.
>> Stephen: I WANT TO GET TO HOW YOU GOT TO BROADWAY FOR A
SECOND TIME, BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS THE SECOND TIME.
YOU'VE BEEN NOMINATED FOR A TONY.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR TONY NOMINATION.
>> THANK YOU
>> Stephen: DO WE NEED TO WARN ANY OF YOUR FELLOW NOMINEES AND
SEAT MATES, BECAUSE THIS IS-- THIS IS FROM 2017 GOLDEN GLOBES.
THIS IS YOU KISSING RYAN REYNOLDS.
AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES.
IS THIS-- IS THIS SOMETHING DO YOU AT EVERY AWARDS SHOW?
>> WITH CONSENT.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: NICELY DONE.
AS WELL YOU SHOULD.
>> I TALKED TO RYAN ABOUT IT BEFORE, AND HE WAS GAME.
>> Stephen: YEAH.
>> AND WE-- WHEN WE'VE HAD -- >> Stephen: YOU AND I HAVE
KISSED AS WELL.
>> OUR INTIMATE MOMENT.
>> Stephen: TOTALLY CONSENSUAL.
FANTASTIC.
>> WHO DOESN'T LIKE KISSING?
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
ANY OPPORTUNITY TO KISS.
( LAUGHTER ) I'LL TAKE IT.
>> Stephen: I THINK IT'S GREAT.
I THINK IT'S GREAT.
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST KISS?
>> I DO.
>> Stephen: HOW OLD WERE YOU?
>> I WAS 13, I THINK.
>> Stephen: WOW.
>> YEAH, YEAH.
WHAT'S THAT "WOW?" WHAT'S THAT?
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
>> LATE BLOOMER I WAS GOING TO SAY.
>> PROPER KISS, LIKE A FRENCH KISS.
I'M TALKING FRENCH KISSING.
>> Stephen: WE DON'T HAVE TO GET CONTINENTAL.
JUST PLAIN-OLD KISSING SOMEBODY, BOY OR GIRL ON THE MOUTH.
>> YEAH, SURE, WELL, THAT'S A LESS INTERESTING STORY, WHEN I
WAS SEVEN OR EIGHT.
THE MORE INTERESTING STORY IS WHEN I WAS 13.
>> Stephen: HIT IT.
>> I'M GOING TO HIT IT RIGHT NOW.
I WAS AT AN ALL-BOYS' PREP SCHOOL UNTIL THE AGE OF 12.
AND AS THE HORMONE MONSTER CAME INTO MY LIFE, I WENT TO A CO-ED
SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 12, 13.
>> Stephen: DO YOU THINK THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA, ONCE THE
HORMONE MONSTER STARTS, TO GO CO-ED?
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: OKAY, GOOD.
YOU'RE NOT A PARENT.
GO AHEAD.
>> AND-- AND, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE EVERYONE'S HORMONES ARE
RAGING, AND WE HAVE NO FRAMEWORK OF HOW TO DEAL WITH THE OPPOSITE
SEX.
ALL WE KNOW IS THAT ALL-- OR THE SAME SEX.
ALL WE KNOW IS THAT WE NEED IT AND WE WANT IT.
AND THERE ARE THESE UN-- UNNAMABLE DESIRES THAT ARE
COMING UP, RIGHT.
URM, RIGHT?
>> Stephen: I DO.
( LAUGHTER ) >> SO NONE OF US KNOW-- IS
RACHEL UNDER THE TABLE IT'S DESK, BY THE WAY.
>> Stephen: YOU STAY DOWN THERE.
>> HI, RACHEL.
( LAUGHTER ).
>> SO HERE'S THE THING.
SO NONE OF US-- NONE OF US KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOOR, RIGHT?
AND THERE'S ALL THESE LONGINGS AND ALL THESE STIRRINGS.
AND WE'RE TERRIFIED OF EACH OTHER, ALL OF US.
THIS GIRL DORRA, DORRA-- I WON'T MENTION HER LAST NAME, BUT SHE
CHANGED ALL OF OUR LIVES.
HER--
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!
NO, NO, NO, NO!
>> Stephen: ANDREW, WAS HER LAST NAME "THE EXPLORER?"
( LAUGHTER ) ( APPLAUSE )
>> HOLD ON.
NO, IT'S MORE INNOCENT THAN THAT.
SHE-- SHE-- I'M STROKING THE TABLE!
( LAUGHTER ) I'M JUST STROKING THE TABLE.
>> Stephen: STROKING THE TABLE.
>> SHE-- SHE SAID, OH, MY PARENTS ARE AWAY THIS WEEKEND.
I WAS THINKING OF HAVING A PARTY."
AND THEN THE REST IS HISTORY.
BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT 50 YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS ON SEPARATE SIDES
OF THIS GARDEN, AND NO PARENTAL SUPERVISION.
AND THEN SUDDENLY I REMEMBER IT WAS LIKE-- IT WAS LIKE A SCENE
FROM "BRAVEHEART" WHERE THE SCOTTISH AND THE ENGLISH ARE
JUST-- THEY JUST START CHARGING AT EACH OTHER.
>> Stephen: AND THEY JUST-- >> JUST LIKE TONGUES OUT.
LIKE TONGUE FIRST.
>> Stephen: WOW.
THAT'S DIRECTOR'S CUT OF "BRAVEHEART," I THINK.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT ONE YET.
>> IT WAS THIS INCREDIBLY DEBOTCHED 13-- I'M SORRY,
PARENTS.
UN, THIS IS WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN.
WE HAVE TO FIGURE IT OUT SOMEHOW.
AND THAT WAS MY FIRST KISS.
AND I THINK THAT NIGHT I KISSED 30 WOMEN-- GIRLS.
>> Stephen: IT STARTED OFF GIRLS.
>> IS THIS TH ISN'T ME SHOWING OFF.
IT WAS EVERYONE.
IT WAS A FREE-FOR-OIL AWL.
IT WAS LIKE A ROYAL RUMBLE.
AND IT REMAINS ONE OF THE BEST NIGHTS OF MY LIFE.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) LIKE-- LIKE--
>> Stephen: NOT A BETTER 13-- YOU HAD A BETTER 13th YEAR
THAN I DID.
>> I'M SORRY.
IT WAS LIKE THIS MASS SEXUAL AWAKENING.
AND WE WERE SO-- WE WERE SO-- I'M STILL FRIENDS WITH FOUR--
FOUR OF MY BEST FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL.
AND WE STILL WILL HAVE A DRINK AT A PUB, AND THERE WILL BE A
QUIET MOMENT, AND ONE OF US WILL BE LIKE, "DORA'S PARTY."
( LAUGHTER ).
>> Stephen: THAT SAME NIGHT, I THINK I LEARNED HOW TO PLAY
"DUDGEONS AND DRAGONS."
( LAUGHTER ) WELL, NOW, NOW, AS I SAID,
YOU'RE ON BROADWAY IN "ANGELS IN AMERICA."
( APPLAUSE ) KHMER CHE( CHEERS )
IT PREMIERED-- IT PREMIERED 25 YEARS AGO.
WHAT-- WHAT CONNECTION-- WHAT IS THE COMMONALITY, DO YOU THINK?
WHAT CONNECTIONS ARE THERE BETWEEN 1993 AND 2018?
>> OH, GOD.
THAT'S A SERIOUS TRANSITION WE'RE DOING FROM 13-YEAR-OLD
KISSING TO, YOU KNOW, A TERRIBLE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT.
>> Stephen: RIGHT.
>> THIS IS-- YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, IT WAS SET IN THE
80s, AND THE AIDS CRISIS WAS AT ITS KIND OF APEX WHERE ALL OF
THESE GAY MEN WERE BEING KIND OF SLAUGHTERED BY THIS
INDISCRIMINATE VIRUS.
>> Stephen: AND, ALSO, BY THE INDIFFERENCE OF PEOPLE IN POWER
TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
>> PRECISELY.
THE LACK OF HUMANITY, THE LACK OF COMPASSION.
AND THE IN FACT CEEND OF EVEN MORE EXTREME THAN THAT, THIS
PERVADING FALSE NARRATIVE THAT SOMEHOW THIS WAS GOD'S
PUNISHMENT TO THE L.G.B.T.Q.
COMMUNITY.
THE TERRIBLE, UGLY, CALLOUS, IGNORANT FALLACY OF THAT.
AND THESE BEAUTIFUL MEN WHO HAD TO SOMEHOW SURVIVE A PLAGUE
WITHOUT THE HELP OF ANY OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT HAD THE POWER TO
PROVIDE THE DRUGS, TO PROVIDE THE SUPPORT, TO PROVIDE THE
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND THE PHYSICAL SUPPORT TO SURVIVE.
SO THAT'S WHAT THESE INCREDIBLY BRAVE, RESILIENT, FABULOUS,
BEAUTIFUL MEN AND WOMEN HAD TO GO THROUGH.
AND-- IN ORDER TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS TO BE HERE, IN
ORDER TO FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHT OF KNOWING THEIR BELONGING ON
THIS EARTH.
THAT IS MAYBE THE MOST INSPIRING STORY, I THINK, WE COULD BE
TELLING RIGHT NOW.
BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE FEELING DISENFRANCHISED.
SO MANY PEOPLE ARE FEELING A LACK OF BELONGING WITHIN THEIR
OWN BODIES, WITHIN THEIR OWN SELVES, WITHIN THE SOCIETY AT
LARGE.
AND I BELIEVE THIS ADMINISTRATION IS NOT DISSIMILAR
FROM THAT OF THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION AT THE SAME TIME,
PROBABLY MUCH, MUCH WORSE, MAYBE JUST MORE VISIBLE.
SO I BELIEVE IT'S-- SAYING THAT, IT IS A STORY OF HOPE.
IT'S A STORY OF BRINGING NEW LAWS AND NEW RULES INTO THE
CULTURE.
VERY, VERY SIMPLE HUMAN CAPACITIES-- LOVE, COMPASSION,
EMPATHY, COMMUNITY, TAKING CARE OF EACH OTHER.
THIS IS WHAT THOSE AMAZING GAY ACTIVISTS BACK IN THE 80s
FOUGHT FOR AND IS ALLOWING ALL OF US TO BE HERE RIGHT NOW IN A
VERY, VERY DIVERSE CULTURE.
SO THAT'S-- THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THIS PLAY.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR BEING HERE.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR NOMINATION.
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS PLAY.
"ANGELS IN AMERICA" IS AT THE NEIL SIMON THEATRE, AND YOU CAN
SEE ANDREW AT THE TONYS JUNE 10 ON CBS.
ANDREW GARFIELD, EVERYBODY!
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH DAVID CROSS.