Two of my favorite people in the world.
Really.
You both are.
Well, one of ours.
Thank you so much.
Well, what do you feel?
[LAUGHTER]
Today I feel like I'm lucky I've been invited to the couch.
Aw.
No.
Well, in a good way.
I mean, you know, it's all right.
It's OK.
All right.
Well, we still love you.
I'm in love with you.
All right.
Both of yous.
Both of you.
Hey, I like your shirt.
Oh, thank you very much.
Time's up.
That's right.
Time's up.
[CHEERING]
They put something over here.
Are you looking for this?
Yes!
What is it?
It's one for you.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, fantastic.
But yours is happier than mine.
Thank you.
They're both happy.
[CHEERING]
You have one too.
That's fantastic.
Did you make-- have these made?
No.
I didn't knit them.
A gal, Lingua Franca, Saying did them up last night
for all of us.
Thank you.
Yeah.
You're welcome.
Hey, how come you all hadn't worked together before?
I think everyone is so surprised to hear
that this is the first time working together
on the movie, "The Post," but you had met before obviously.
Sort of.
We sort of had.
But it wasn't really memorable.
Well, the first--
[LAUGHTER]
No.
Here's the thing.
When you know somebody famous, and you think you--
We know each other because we're famous and we've been on TV.
And I've seen you in movies, and I think maybe I did meet you.
It was at the Shakespeare in the Park.
And you were already seated.
And Rita and I were walking to our seats.
And I said something like--
we'd never really met--
I said, hey, Meryl!
Meryl!
Hey, Meryl!
And you said, Tom!
Yeah.
And that was it.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
You both sound very Italian all of a sudden.
[LAUGHTER]
Meryl o'Meryl.
Tom.
So when you first started working together
did you have surprises to learn personality traits?
I had the days marked on the calendar of when
I would show up to work and be in a scene with her
at the same time.
I was really glad to work with you because you're so funny.
And we're in a serious movie.
And I knew that that injection of wit and style,
and kind of getting the joke.
Every real story, even the hardest ones,
have something funny in them.
Yes.
There is.
And you brought that.
You know who's really funny is her trumpeteers,
the guys that enter the room before she does
and blow the trumpets.
He's breaking my balls again.
You have trumpeteers.
Wow.
She has the copyrighted fanfare for Meryl
that is a number of notes.
Do you know it, by any chance, the fanfare for Meryl.
We'll try to get it.
It goes something like (TRUMPET SOUNDS)
She has the little drapes that say MS on it. (TRUMPET SOUNDS)
The guys at epaulets and what have you.
He's trying to break my--
Eh.
Everybody.
This is what we would do.
A couple of times like when we were in the newsroom scene--
now we work in the morning.
We knew that she was coming in.
We were all like dogs in the back yard.
We're all just, (MURMURING).
[LAUGHTER]
We're like dogs hearing the postman,
because all of a sudden a word would come out
or someone would see that Kay Graham has
entered into the newsroom.
And we would all just straighten up.
Yeah.
Because it's a movie about a room--
Newsrooms used to be all male.
Yes.
So when you heard that click, click,
click coming down the hall--
Formidable.
And if that was the boss--
That was.
That was you.
Everybody would straighten up and fly right.
Hey, can I ask a question?
There was a moment in the Golden Globes
the other night where you went to the bar
to get a tray of martinis, which, by the way,
is very impressive.
If you ever waited tables, which I have,
carrying one martini, much less a tray of martinis,
very tricky.
They need to redesign that glass.
Oh, there I am.
Yes.
It should go in.
It should completely curl in to protect it.
Anyway, how-- why did you get that job?
I was at a table.
She's on antibiotics because she's getting over the flu.
So she couldn't have one.
But I was at a table where somebody who I love very much--
He brought four of them.
And he brought them under my nose.
I was told to go get martinis.
And so what I did was, coming down through it-- oh,
there I am.
Yeah.
That's one of the people who asked for a martini,
as a matter of fact.
Yeah.
Steven Spielberg.
Yeah.
But it was like I was one of those truckers on mountain
roads with a load full of nitroglycerin.
I have never been more nervous carrying something
through a rowdy place.
Delivering it to Steven Spielberg, sure.
That's right.
And you were in the room obviously when Oprah,
our future president--
Thank you.
[CHEERING]
Is-- was--
And that's with the vice president.
Yeah.
(MEEKLY) Yeah.
I mean, what a speech, huh?
What a speech.
A barn-burner.
Yeah.
Did you hear what Stedman said?
No.
So Stedman was asked.
And Stedman said it really is up to the people.
She would absolutely do it.
That was from Stedman.
So I don't think he would say that without permission.
Wow.
All right.
Where do I send the check?
Yeah.
I know.
While she was speaking out on the patio of the Hilton hotel,
the pool, the water separated in the pool.
[LAUGHTER]
And some of the staff were walking down along the tile
from the deep end, and up and getting out.
And it stayed there for a while, and then it mooched back in.
Well, that's what she does.
But she did part the waters there.
It was very, very impressive.
That's Oprah.
But you realize how we thirst for that.
We really want that kind of elevated, aspirational,
can do, optimistic attachment to the principles of our country.
Caring of people, and paying attention to who's watching.
These young girls that are watching and actually knowing
that words have power.