-First of all, how's your mom doing?
How's everything back in Ireland?
-She's great. -Okay, good.
-She's not here right now
because she's looking after Fran.
-She got a new puppy, right?
-She got a new puppy called Fran.
And we got her about -- We actually got her
while I was doing "Lady Bird."
So she's about a year and a half old now.
And, like, if I -- -What kind of dog?
-She's -- We think she's a Westie terrier
mixed with maybe a golden retriever.
And I don't know how that worked at the time.
But I think, like, if I was a dog, I would look like Fran.
She's blond and she's a bit mad-looking
and she's got wiry hair and she needs her hair --
She's got bangs right now and she can't see,
so I keep telling mom to take her to the groomer's,
'cause, like, she can't see anything.
And she won't get her hair cut.
But, so, Fran has become the priority
for mom for sure right now.
-Oh, she is? -Yeah.
Like, she passed up on the Golden Globes
to look after Fran, so...
[ Laughter ]
-So that's the reason why you think your mom
did not come to the Golden Globes?
To take care of Fran? -She loves Fran.
No. Well, I mean, mom did say to me --
Before we went to the Golden Globes, she said,
"You know, win, lose, or draw, I want to be
in the room with you when they call out your name."
'Cause she was with me a couple of years ago
when we went for "Brooklyn."
-Oh, my gosh. -I know.
But my mate came with me this time.
My friend, Eileen, came with me. So she was me date.
-Will it make you too emotional if mom's there?
-It probably would have, actually,
'cause it wasn't until I got offstage
and I saw mom on FaceTime,
and she was bawling her eyes out 'cause she was so tired.
It was about 3:00 a.m. in Ireland, so she was so tired.
And she had just been, like, tossing back the tea
to stay awake for like hours and hours.
And then she was really emotional.
-No, I loved that, because that was a cool moment.
You actually got onstage and -- Did Eileen FaceTime your mom?
-No. It was our other friend, Barry, who was in the room.
-You FaceTimed your mom. It was 3:00 in the morning.
And you were like, "Whew."
And then were you looking at her
when they were announcing the nominees and stuff?
-No. Barry was behind me, and he had the phone.
And so I just saw his iPhone pointed at the stage.
And as soon as I saw that, I went, "Oh, my God.
She's here." -So she did make it.
I want to show everyone the clip.
Here's Saoirse at the Golden Globes.
Check this out.
-My mom's on FaceTime over there
on someone's phone right now, so hi.
I have no time at all to say thank you, but...
They give you no time.
-She didn't even make it to the stage.
-I looked at the screen that they had,
and it was like 45 seconds and counting.
-Blinking, blinking, blinking, yeah.
-Yeah.
-Can you tell the story about when you
took your mom to go see "Lady Bird"?
-Yeah. -I think it's very funny.
-Yeah. So, "Lady Bird" has done quite well.
-Yeah. -We're very proud of it.
[ Cheers and applause ] Thank you.
It's done very well.
And before Christmas, when it had just come out,
you know, like, it was breaking all these records,
and all the, you know, showings in the cinema were sold out.
It was packed houses. Everyone was going to see it.
It was brilliant.
Mom comes over to L.A., and I'm like, "Right, Mom.
We're gonna go see 'Lady Bird.'
Now, it's a bit of a success, this film.
It's a big success,
so the cinema's probably gonna be jam-packed."
-Yeah.
-"So, I'm just letting you know
we should probably just keep our heads down."
'Cause we wanted to go see it in the cinema,
with an audience and stuff.
I said, "Let's just keep our heads down when we go in,
'cause, you know, it's gonna be packed in there," right?
So, we go in, and I'm getting ready to sort of, like,
be incognito and stuff.
And we go in, and there's
literally six people in the cinema.
There's nobody in the cinema. And then we sat down.
I was like, "It's probably gonna
fill up in a minute, fill up in a minute."
Nobody else comes in.
And then, like, for the first 10 minutes,
there was a girl right in front of us,
and she was just texting on her phone the whole time.
-"Hey, I'm in this!"
-She was texting her friend,
who was late to come and see "Lady Bird."
-That's even the double whammy. -That's even worse.
-Yeah, what'd your mom say? -She loved it.
She absolutely loved it. Yeah.
-She did, yeah. Well, you did such a great job.
-Thanks.
-We had Greta Gerwig, the writer/director,
on the show yesterday, and just had
the best things to say about you.
But it looked like you guys were just having so much fun
with Beanie Feldstein.
-Oh, man. -She's the best.
-She really is awesome.
And Timothée Chalamet, who's on the show tonight
for his other movie, as well.
-Our rival. -His rival movie. Yeah.
-No, our Catchphrase rival. -Oh, sorry.
I thought you meant his rival movie.
I'm like, "Yeah!" -That too.
-Do not go see his movie until you see --
Until he comes out,
and then we'll talk about how great his movie was.
-No, we're very, very, very proud of him.
He's amazing.
And, you know, I watched "Call Me by Your Name"
over the Christmas break, and he's just magic.
He's absolutely magic.
-He's, like, a different actor in both movies,
which is what actors do, I guess.
-Good actors, yeah. -Good actors, yeah.
-Weird. It's like you're one person in one film
and another person in another film.
What's that all about?
What was that all about?
-I know everyone probably says it to you --
and they do, probably -- but how you just mastered
an American accent and just nailed it.
And, for a second, I don't even realize it's you.
And it's, like, this young girl with --
-It's like I'm a different person?
-It's like you're a different person.
The magic of acting. -Whoa!
-Well, for people who haven't seen it,
tell people kind of what it is.
-Yeah, I mean, it's a film set in Sacramento in 2002.
And it's about this girl who's called herself Lady Bird.
And it's really --
It's about her just figuring herself out, basically.
And it's the year before she graduates from high school.
And we all know that everything changes
for everyone in your life around that time.
So, it's really just about all these
little individual moments in someone's life.
-And it's a great story with your mom and all that stuff.
-Yeah. -The plot is fantastic.
-The relationship between them is kind of
the higher to the story.