-Welcome to the show. They love you.
-Thank you so much. Everyone's so lovely.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Aww. It's a good crowd.
-Wow. Hi.
-I was asking you earlier if you ever met Keanu Reeves before.
-Ah. The wonderful -- One time I have met him.
I was at an event, and he was also there.
And we were kind of the two introverts
on the outskirts of the party.
And we were just kind of sitting there, like --
And then he said, "Do you have a pet?"
And I said, "I do. I have a dog."
And he went, "Do you have any pictures
of your dog in costume?"
[ Laughter ]
-Interesting question. -It was so sweet.
And I said, "I sure do." -You actually had a photo...
-Oh, yes. -...of your dog in a costume?
-Yeah.
-And you brought that photo for us. Look at this.
-Yeah. [ Audience awws ]
-[ Laughs ] Oh, come on. Mouse.
-That's my sweet Mouse, who's no longer with us.
-No longer with us. Mouse, we love you, pal.
Making a debut on "The Tonight Show."
-I know.
-Do you enjoy coming to New York City?
Oh, I love it. I love it so much.
-Do you have -- What are your memories of this great city?
-The first time I ever came here, I think I was 16,
and I was doing a press tour for "Heavenly Creatures."
And Kate Winslet and I were staying
at the Four Seasons, and Kate said,
"Oh, the minibar. You can take everything out of it.
And they just put it in the next day."
And I was like, "Oh, my gosh."
So every day we were clearing out the minibar
and just filling up our suitcases
and being like, "More stuff comes."
-Oh, my God! -And we were just lying
on the bed just watching, like, the first ten minutes
of every movie just like, "No, not that one."
And then we got a call from Miramax,
from the company distributing the film,
saying, "This is the worst room-service bill."
-"You guys got to slow down." -Yeah. They were like,
"What's going on in there?"
We're like, "Oh, gosh. Sorry." Like, just clearing the minibar.
-First getting a minibar, you're just like,
"What is this? This is the most insane thing."
-I know. I couldn't believe It. It was like magic.
-Yeah, it is magic.
I was like, "They just bring more?"
She was like, "Yes."
-My first time staying at a hotel,
I remember, like, freaking out of how many rolls
of toilet paper they had, too.
I'm like, "Spare rolls of toilet -- This is unbelievable!"
-I know. -Like, I just freaked out.
Yeah. A minibar. You're like, "This is -- I'm in paradise."
After that, is that when you worked with Drew Barrymore?
-Yes. Yeah. My next movie was with Drew Barrymore.
-"Ever After." -Angel. Yes. Yes.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-How great is -- I know we -- everyone loves Drew Barrymore,
but, really, don't you just love Drew Barrymore?
-Oh, she's just, like, the most special,
the kindest person.
I had this moment.
She gave me a gift when we started doing "Ever After."
And it was so sweet.
And I was like, "I want to get her a gift."
And I found, at this antique market,
these plates with a butterfly opening in different stages.
I was like, "Perfect."
And I gave them to her, and she was like,
[as Barrymore] "Oh, my God!
If each one of these plates was to fall to the floor
and smash into a thousand million pieces,
each one of the pieces would scream,
'I love you, Melanie.'"
[ Laughter ]
Like --
-Oh, my gosh. -In the moment.
-That is unbelievable!
-I'm so nervous. I'm so nervous.
It wasn't a very good impression,
but just the moment...
-Unbelievable impression.
That is exactly Drew, by the way. That is her.
-But, like, in the moment of receiving the gift,
that's what came out of her mouth.
It was the most beautiful, poetic, like...
I just was like, "Oh, you're a fairy.
You're like a living..."
-She really is a fairy. She's a living --
Yeah, she's unbelievable. -Amazing person.
-Before we get into "Yellowjackets,"
which frightens me, scares me -- -I'm sorry.
-Yeah. It's the most frightening thing I've ever seen in my life.
-Yeah. -It's a brilliant story.
But I want to get to that.
But also, speaking of scary, "The Last of Us."
You were fantastic. [ Cheers and applause ]
"The Last of Us." -Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-You're great. -Thank you. Thank you.
She's a horrible person.
-Yeah, it's interesting how you're playing these roles.
You're such a nice person, but, yeah.
-Something needs to come out, apparently.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
Your husband, Jason Ritter,
who is very talented and funny and nice.
He is actually -- You said he's in episode --
or one of the episodes of "Last of Us."
-He's in episode five, yeah. -And I go -- I didn't see him.
I don't remember. Because I love him.
I'm a fan. And I go, "I don't remember him."
And you go, "Yeah. He was one of the..."
-He was a stunt person.
He trained with the stunt people,
and he just did all these amazing stunts.
It's, like, his lifelong dream.
He got put in the makeup, and he came out of the ground
and was falling over and doing all these --
I shot him once.
-You shot him once? -Yeah.
-Why not? Yeah. Of course. -Why not?
-Here's a picture of you two backstage
in "The Last of Us" there.
[ Audience awws ]
He looks great.
[ Laughs ]
-So romantic. -It's so romantic.
-Yeah, yeah.
-I want to talk about "Yellowjackets."
Because here we go. This is season two.
And, honestly, I thought the premise was just so brilliant.
I'm still guessing. I still don't know what's going on.
[ Laughter ] Really.
-I don't either, by the way. You know?
-How do we describe the show, just the basic story line?
-Well, the basic story line, there's a plane crash
in the '90s in the wilderness.
A group of teenage female soccer players are stranded.
They're forced to do terrible things to survive.
And then the other half of the story
takes place in the present day with --
It follows four, now this season, six
of the survivors of the plane crash.
-And no one really knows
what happened when they were stranded.
-Yeah. -And that story starts
to come out, and it is bonkers.
-It is bonkers. Yeah. -It is so unbelievable.
Everyone's great in it, but, gosh, you were so good.
And season two -- -There were moments, like --
I would get a script and read what they were having someone do
and just text, like, Sophie Nélisse,
who plays little me.
I was like, "Are you going to be okay?
-Oh, my God. -Will you be okay?"
She was like, "I think I can do it."
She's so talented. She's so amazing.
I mean, I love all of them. -It's well done.
Everybody is so great.
It is a must-watch if you haven't seen it.
Congrats on all the awards that you've received for this
and been nominated for it.
Well, well, well deserved. -Thank you.
-I want to show a clip.
Here's Melanie Lynskey in season two of "Yellowjackets."
Take a look.
-Miss Sadecki, do you understand your rights
as I have explained them to you?
-Yes, I -- I do.
-Why did you kill Adam Martin?
-What? I -- I didn't. -Didn't what?
-I didn't murder Adam -- whoever.
I -- I didn't murder anyone.
-I never said he was murdered.
-But -- But you said someone killed him.
-So how was the sex?
Mind-blowing or just, like, really, really hot?
-They're definitely not going to ask me that.
-Oh. So he couldn't get it up, huh?
Is that why you murdered him? -Okay.
So I think we're done here.
-Yeah, I think we're done here. Melanie Lynskey, everybody.
Season two of "Yellowjackets"
premieres March 24th on Showtime.
We're talking De La Soul after the break. Come on back.