-Felicity Jones, welcome back to the show.
We have lots to discuss here.
First of all, congratulations.
You've gotten married since you've been on the show.
-I have, yes. [ Cheers and applause ]
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-Congratulations.
Here's a photo of you guys from the --
[ Audience "Awws" ]
Look how beautiful you look but also how happy.
Gosh-darn happy you two people look.
Oh, my gosh.
That looks like a storybook wedding.
-I know. I've never seen two such happy people.
-I know! I love it so much.
Did everything -- It looks like everything was perfect.
Was everything -- go according to plan?
Any problems at all? -Yeah.
It was -- I was --
At the time, I was getting ready,
I was shooting a film called "The Aeronauts,"
which is with Eddie Redmayne. -Oh, yeah?
-That is coming out the end of next year.
And it was about two hot-air balloonists
who go see how high they can go in this hot-air balloon.
So, as I was getting ready for the wedding,
I was also -- we thought we'd go in Tom Cruise's footsteps
and try and do our own stunts for the film.
-No, no, no, no. -Which...
-There's only one Tom Cruise. You can't do that.
Were you were doing your own stunts?
-Yeah. So, as I was getting ready for the wedding,
I was also learning all the stunts for the film.
So I'd be sort of going from doing dress fittings
and then obsessing about flowers,
and then, the next minute, I'd be falling out
of a hot-air balloon and almost killing myself.
[ Laughter ]
-So were you all bruised and scraped up?
-Yeah, exactly. Hence the long sleeves.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, is that right?
Look at that. See, you're always thinking.
Very smart. Well, you made it work.
Well, in fact, I think we had Eddie on,
and he was, like, limping or something.
He had, like, a broken foot or something.
-Yeah, yeah. We really went for it.
-Is that from the same movie? -It was from the same movie.
-Oh, my gosh! That's crazy.
-That was on the very last day of shooting.
Yeah. -I'm not laughing.
I'm laughing 'cause he's -- he's fine.
-I know, I know. He's fine now.
-That's why I'm laughing.
Let's talk about "On the Basis of Sex,"
your new film.
You play a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
-I do, yeah. -Has she seen the film?
-She has, yes, yeah.
We've been e-mailing about it.
-You get e-mails from Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
[ Laughter ] What?!
How cool is that?! -Whoo!
-No way. Is she, like, fun?
Is she funny and joking around? -Yeah.
She signs off "R.B.G."
-Yes! Of course. -Yeah, I know.
Come on. -The notorious R.B.G., man.
-Yeah. -Yeah, absolutely.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, exactly, exactly.
-The film is fascinating.
Basically, it's her life before the Supreme Court.
And "On the Basis of Sex," basically, it shows
that she had to, like, prove for gender discrimination.
She had to actually fight for men.
-Yeah. I mean, the film is about how men and women become equal.
And she was not only fighting for women
but also fighting for men who were put into positions
of being in certain roles because of their gender,
because of those gender stereotypes.
That's interesting, yeah. -Yeah.
It was actually Marty, her husband,
played by Armie, who brought her the case.
And he was an expert in tax law,
and it was a case to do with tax.
And, basically, they managed to argue for the rights of this man
who was caring for his mother, that he should have a tax rebate
'cause the law said that he shouldn't 'cause he was a man.
Of course, men don't look after their parents,
which is, obviously, absolute nonsense.
And so they argued against this law
and managed to get it changed,
which then enabled greater equality in society
because of pushing through and fighting against that law.
And that's what she has done her entire life.
She just doesn't stop fighting.
-Right? Equality.
It's just fantastic. It's such a great story.
I want to know if you wanted to take a question from a fan.
Do you mind? -Yeah, definitely.
-We have a question on video from a fan.
I think his name is Armie. Let's take a look.
-Hi, Felicity. Huge fan.
I love you. I love your work.
You're just amazing.
And you did such an amazing job as Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
I was just curious.
Was there anything you did to prepare for these scenes?
-Wow. -[ Laughing ]
It was a fan that sent that in.
Was there anything you did to prepare for the scenes?
I'm sure there's some type of embarrassing story.
-Well, Cailee and I, who plays my daughter in the film,
who's a wonderful actress, we were try--
I mean, mostly we were just trying to, you know, loosen up.
You kind of want to just --
You want to be easy before, you know, you're doing a scene
as the formidable, wonderful R.B.G.
So one of the things we would do
is we would watch Beyoncé videos.
So we would watch a video of her doing "All the Single Ladies"
and try, really, really badly, to follow the dance moves.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
And it's the best way to just completely kind of --
You know, it sort of -- it just relaxes you.
It just stops you being too self-conscious.
-Did you end up learning any Beyoncé --
-Well, we did. Yeah.
I mean, you kind of have to -- I heard some music.
[ Laughter ]
-We're always ready. ♪♪
-I know. -Do you need any help?
-You ready?
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-Oh. Hey, wait.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Wait. Let me give you some --
Let me give you -- I'll give you a little wind machine.
-You've got to get up. You've got to get up.
-No. -You've got to get up, yeah.
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[ Cheers and applause ] -[ Laughing ]
Oh, my God! Fantastic right there!
[ Cheers and applause ] Felicity Jones!
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Felicity Jones in the new film "On the Basis of Sex."
Take a look.
-Let us go around the table.
And each of you ladies report who you are, where you're from,
and why you're occupying a place at Harvard
that could've gone to a man.
Yeah?
-I'm Ruth Ginsburg, from Brooklyn.
-And why are you here, Miss Ginsburg?
-Mrs. Ginsburg, actually.
My husband, Marty, is in the second-year class.
I'm at Harvard to learn more about his work
so I can be a more patient and understanding wife.
[ Snickering ]
-Exactly. Felicity Jones, everybody.