-My first guest is one of my favorites.
She is an Oscar-, Emmy-, and Tony-winning actress.
She stars in "F9," which hits theaters Friday, June 25th.
Here is Helen Mirren!
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Oh, my gosh! Yes!
Oh, my gosh!
You are the absolute -- You are the greatest ever!
Oh, my God! That is the greatest.
Oh my goodness! I love you! Helen!
Helen --
-I'm in my favorite place in the world.
-Oh, my God! You are the greatest.
I love that you're in a -- You might be
the first guest ever to be in a bathtub on
"The Tonight Show" as a guest.
-Well, you know, that's the brilliant thing about Zoom.
I was thinking, you know, "Why not be in the place
that you love to sit and chat to people?"
I love having a chat to my husband
while I'm sitting in the bath.
So why not do it to the whole of America?
-Yeah, that's very smart. Why not?
[ Cheers and applause ] That's why you're the best.
I love --
-I'm running out of bubbles, though.
That's the problem.
You know, you were chatting away, and I was waiting
and bubbles were going down.
-Oh, I'll make the interview very fast then, yeah.
-Alright, fast, please. Fast and furious, yes.
-Fast and furious.
Oh, see? We already segued in. Brilliant mind.
I do want to ask you some questions, though.
I love that you're in a bathtub. It's so fun.
I follow you on the social medias
and I see that you're very in tune with nature.
Wherever you live, there's lots of creatures
and animals and squirrels and -- Well, squirrels, yeah.
-Chipmunks, golden mantles, blue jays, coyotes,
and, of course, bears.
-Now, I have a clip of you, a black bear --
Helen Mirren confronting a black bear.
Take a look at this.
-Come. Come on here. No. [ Knock on window ]
Go on. -That's not going to stop it.
-Go on!
-You better watch out. -No, he's fine.
Go on, go on! Go on, bear! Go on!
Naughty bear! Naughty bear! Naughty bear!
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-"Naughty bear! Naughty bear!"
Is yelling "naughty bear" --
is that exactly how you get rid of a black bear?
-Well, it worked, didn't it?
And I've seen that bear since,
and every time -- I think it's a she.
I don't know if it is or not.
Every time I see her, I go, "Naughty bear!
Naughty bear! Go on! Off you go!"
And off it goes.
-I think you should make "Naughty Bear"
into a children's book.
I would -- -"Naughty Bear," yes.
-"Naughty Bear." -Kids love that.
-Yeah, why not?
-Kids absolutely love that video.
-Yeah. -Show it to your kids.
They love it,
'cause I think they get told off so often.
They're told that they're naughty
and they should go to bed or something.
So they really recognize it.
-Can you -- Tell me about your show that you're doing,
speaking of nature.
It's called "When Nature Calls with Helen Mirren."
I think it's really funny. Great title.
But explain the premise, 'cause that's what I really love.
-It's a lovely idea.
It's all the off-cuts from these great nature shows, you know,
when they do these incredible nature shows,
especially the BBC.
They have hours of film
that they can't use in the actual program.
But it's great footage. I mean, incredible footage.
So we've taken that footage and we've sort of, you know,
given the animals voices, you know,
and made them sort of understandable in their world.
It's a way of putting ourselves within the animal world
and just showing that we're all --
We all share the same planet.
It's very funny, too.
-I think it's really funny, yeah.
I love the -- I love that premise.
You know, I was researching you for this interview.
Of course, we've done many interviews.
And I realized that you're very close to an EGOT.
You have an Emmy.
You have an Oscar. You're a Tony winner.
And I think that next is --
I mean, do you want to announce it tonight?
Are you dropping an album? [ Laughter ]
-I wish.
I have a terrible disadvantage where a Grammy is concerned,
which is, I absolutely can't sing.
I mean, I really, really, really can't sing.
So, you know, it's a terrible disadvantage
for an effort to get a Grammy.
Maybe I could do a spoken-word album,
but that's as close as I'm ever going to get to a Grammy.
-But then what is this?
'Cause I found this photo of you on the Internet.
-Oh, that's from a long time ago.
Yes, that was a theater show I was doing,
and it was called "Teeth 'n' Smiles."
And it was about --
It was sort of based on Janis Joplin, in a way.
So I'm kind of trying desperately to channel
the great Janis Joplin there.
But I did sing onstage, but, really, I shouted onstage,
sort of vaguely in tune, but maybe not at all.
But it was a great experience.
-Was it, like, a rock 'n' roll audience?
-It was pretty rock 'n' roll.
It was the first time rock 'n' rollers
came to the theater, actually.
It's the first time they'd ever done a play.
And -- But I proved the fact that
I'm so not rock 'n' roll by nature.
You know, I'm a sort of good theater girl by nature,
rather than a mad rock 'n' roller.
Because one night,
Keith Moon sort of appeared out of the blue.
Well, actually, out of a rubbish bin that he'd fallen into
in the alleyway outside my dressing room.
And I heard this huge kerfuffle, you know, at the stage door,
which was down below my dressing room.
Coming up the stairs outside my dressing room,
and then bang, bang, bang on the door.
And I opened my door.
And it was just before my last entrance in the play.
And, here, it was Keith Moon standing there.
He said, "'Ello, Helen."
I said, "Gosh, Keith, you know, what an honor to meet you.
How fabulous."
He said, "I'm coming onstage with you.
It's supposed to be fantastic.
I'm coming onstage with you."
And to my absolute discredit, my rock 'n' roll discredit,
I sort of got very English and, "Oh, no, no, Keith.
You know, I don't think that's a good idea."
He was completely blasted, incidentally.
He was completely out of it.
So I did say no, and it was a terrible mistake,
because, I mean, how --
It wouldn't have mattered how chaotic it had been.
It would have been just such a fabulous experience
to be onstage with Keith Moon.
-You would have been a member of The Who, yeah.
-Absolutely, yeah. -You know what?
You're already a rock star. You don't need it.
We love you, bud.
I want to talk to you about "F9,"
the latest in the "Fast and Furious" franchise.
More with Helen Mirren in a bathtub.