I loved scary movies growing up. I mean,
I was a big fan of the genre, but particularly this one.
Quite honestly, your performance scared me more than Mike,
(Man laughs)
like, like Mike kills so many people,
Right.
at some point, John and I started like, giggling about it.
Like "Wow it was cool! Hah-hah-haha."
(laughter) Right, right.
You know what I mean?
Right, right, right. Thank you.
But what, what your character goes through in this movie
is in all of us, just under the surface.
And it's about that light switch (snaps fingers) that
Right
we all have.
Right.
When you get fed up or you get frustrated
or you live in fear.
Right You said it perfectly.
So the movie opens and it's a continuation of the last one;
it's Halloween night still, with all the locals gathered
and the survivors and victims of Meyers have come together.
But what's really cool, Rachel, is that we all make a turn.
We decide to unite and to fight back and to take them on
head on. So it's classic kind of good versus evil stakes.
And uh, this is the 12th installment
in this great franchise.
I'm just really privileged and excited.
(applause)
It's, it's really cool.
Do you like horror movies? I love horror movies.
I loved 'em. Yeah. As a kid,
I remember watching this on cable
when cable was new back in the day (Rachel laughs)
probably like '79 or '80.
Do you remember when cable was new? (Man laughs)
Hey, do you kids know what cable is?
Yeah, right? Pre-cell phones and everything. Yeah.
Exactly.
So it's just a great film. I'm really proud of it.
And I'm so excited because there's a huge audience,
as we know for this, for this genre and
for this film in particular.
Now, you know, there's this duality too,
of how you can watch it. Like it's streaming on Peacock, uh
TV, but you, of course, it's in the theater.
So there's more of an opportunity for more people to see
more great films.
Yes. Yes, Absolutely.
Because we've had to adapt.
(applause)
Yes, absolutely.
(applause)
So, I asked Jamie about if she loved horror movies
and what scares her. And she showed us a baby picture
where she looked terrified as an infant. (Man laughs)
And she said "I was born for this!
Cause the truth is everything scares me."
Right, well both her parents are movie stars, right?
She said "look at me", yeah, "look at me".
How are you though? What scares you? Do you scare easily?
I loved scary movies growing up. I mean,
I was a big fan of the genre, but particularly this one,
cause I remember the first one was a kid.
I was probably 11 or 12 years old all the way back in the
seventies.
So this one really was-
This one was really cool.
-going through, like, the looking glass, yeah.
Totally. And it's just awesome to work with Jamie Lee.
She's a great lady down to earth. Couldn't be cooler
She's so cool.
Really awesome person and really gives a lot of herself.
She's really a lot of fun.
Oh, you have a Netflix thing coming up too,
right, with Jessica -- Jessica Alba is one of the nicest,
most lovely
(applause)
She's a big friend of our show,
Yeah.
uh, many, many years and done so many nice,
generous things
for so many deserving people with her --
Cool.
company,
Right, yeah.
with honest for viewers over the years.
But I, I love her work too.
Yeah.
You know --
Yeah, she's talented.
and she's in this project with you, right?
Yeah. We just did this film called 'Trigger Warning'
and Jessica stars in it.
And it was produced by a company called Thunder Road, they
do all the 'John Wick', uh, films. (Jessica gasps)
So it was a great action.
Oh my God, I LOVE JOHN WICK MOVIES!
(applause, Man laughs)
So this is gonna be an, uh action packed --
Yeah. I play kind of a, a dirty politician
and he's kind of the villain in it,
but it's a fun film --
Oh, that's fun.
and it was great to see her work. She's incredible.
She goes from mothering to acting,
to doing fight scenes.
She's a great lady.
I know, she's always, like surrounded
by a gaggle of children, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great lady though.
She is, she is. (applause)
Do you enjoy playing the bad guy?
Oh, it's fun. It's fun.
Isn't playing the bad guy fun?
It is, it's a lot of fun. You try to insert a
little humor into it and it was, it was a great time.
We shot in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was another Netflix
project.
I'd done one about five years ago with Brad Pitt for Netflix
called 'War Machine'. So that was a lot of fun.
So it was great to work with Netflix again, yeah.
Yeah she told uh- we just saw her a
couple weeks ago and she said, "Yeah, we just finished
working down here."
Cool.
And I'm like, "Was it really hot?"
She's like, "Oh my God." (Man and Rachel laugh)
Great food in Santa Fe, though.
Oh yeah. Santa. Fe's a --
Good stuff.
great food city.
Great town. Great people.
Huge, huge food city.
Yeah, enjoyed it.
So, what are you working on next?
Have you already picked it?
Well, I also produced a film this summer
called 'The Class', which is kind of a modern day,
updated version of 'The Breakfast Club', actually.
It's not a remake, but it's a new version.
(gasps) Wow! (applause)
Yeah, so I'm playing the assistant principal in that.
Where and when will we see that?
We shot in Chicago, uh, this past summer, Rachel.
So I think it'll be out next year.
(applause)