-Let me start by thanking you for being here
and also congratulating you.
Your wife gave birth three days ago!
-She did. -Congratulations!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I'm a very, very, very proud father.
-I gotta say. -Yeah. As well you should be.
-This was your second? -My second.
-So, I'm about to have my second any day now, really,
and I have to say --
Was the experience the same
or did you feel like a pro being in there the second time?
-Pbbht.
I mean -- Oh, I mean --
45 minutes my wife took to deliver.
-Yeah. -And it was incredible.
The nurses were just extraordinary,
and I was in a state of shock.
I mean, I really was.
-I only hope I can be as useless as I was last time.
No, really, I was sending texts.
And then the nurse -- When they measured her cervix, they said,
"We're at 9. We're going."
"We're what?"
You know, it was like -- Literally.
-By the way, even at 8, you shouldn't be texting.
-[ Laughs ] But that was the first measurement they took.
-Oh, oh, I got it. -It was the first measurement.
We were there taking it easy,
and then it was like, "We're 9."
I was just like, "Oh. Whoa. Okay."
-Well, that's great.
And was it a boy, girl? What'd you have?
-A boy. -A little boy.
You have another little boy, as well, right?
[ Cheers and applause ] That's very exciting.
And may I just say thank you to your family
for letting you be here tonight. I really appreciate it.
-Thanks, guys, really.
Papa really is working, James. I'm actually...
-I know it looks like Papa's just talking to a man.
-Well, my son, my son doesn't know what I'm doing.
He says, "Where are you going, Papa?"
You know, somebody comes to pick me up again.
And I -- "It's two sleeps, two sleeps."
-Oh, that -- You mean you'll see him in two sleeps?
-Yeah. -That's wonderful.
-So if you're still up watching, here I am.
-[ Laughs ] There you go.
"This is the bad man who took your father!"
-It's him, it's him, it's him!
-So, I want to ask, how much did you know,
one, about the Kennedys,
and, two, about this specific moment,
this Chappaquiddick moment, before this movie?
-Well, I'm like most people. I thought I knew a lot.
Like everybody, I thought I knew a lot about the Kennedys.
I thought I knew about American politics.
I thought I knew about this incident.
But then when I read that script
and then I got off the plane and checked the facts,
I realized how little I did know.
-Yeah. -And, you know,
I couldn't believe some of the things I'd read in the script,
such as, you know, the asphyxiation
or, you know, lack of air rather than drowning.
-Well, it's funny. I just --
I do want to explain, because I think you had this moment
happen at the premiere,
where you realize a lot of younger people
don't know about this moment where Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge.
There was a women in the car. He survived. She didn't.
And this film kind of covers the days after
and his pretty terrible behavior
in the moments after this accident happened.
-Yeah, his behavior, I mean, society's behavior.
I mean, you know, he not only got away with it,
but he also managed to thrive
and also went on to do a great many wonderful, amazing things
in terms of the legislation that he passed,
and contribute to society.
But, yes, he got away with it, you know, and we elected him.
-And we talk now -- You know, obviously,
I think the thing we're talking about a lot right now
is what people in politics are getting away with right now.
It's like nothing we've ever seen before.
And it does strike me that current generations forget
that people have been getting away with things.
And not just people in the Republican party,
but people in the Democratic party, as well,
with terrible behavior. -Yeah.
-And did you find, like, when you screened this --
Because I know one of the taglines for the film is
"This really happened." -Yeah, yeah.
-Because people might not believe
that this was a thing that someone got away with.
-It's true. I mean, things are pretty crazy now,
but 1968, you know --
Martin Luther King. 50 years. He was shot.
Bobby Kennedy was shot.
There were race riots. There was a Vietnam War.
I mean, these are crazy days.
But I think it's always important
to put things in context and perspective
and learn from history and understand
that, you know what, we've been through tough times.
With the right people, with the right thought and education
and votes and belief, we can make better days.