-Lea Thompson!
"Some Kind of Wonderful," weirdly enough,
that song not in the movie, right?
-Yes! It was not in the movie of "Some Kind of Wonderful."
-That's pretty interesting. -Which is the weirdest thing.
I was like, "What?
You spent the money for the title."
-Why is that song not in the movie?
-Yes, my husband directed that.
-Well, yeah, I mean, that's the --
that's the good thing that came out of that.
-33 years. [ Cheers and applause ]
-That's what I'm talking about. Congrats.
-Hi, honey! -Mwah! Mwah! We love you, honey!
Thank you for playing charades with Ralph and Jennifer.
Have you met -- -I'm so sorry for your loss.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, my -- geez.
-I mean, you are the home team. -I was home team.
But, man, that got crazy. Oh, my gosh.
Have you met those guys before, Ralph or Jennifer?
-Well, Jennifer played my daughter Zoey's mother
in "Before I Fall." -That's right.
-And I remember seeing "Flashdance" when I did
"All the Right Moves," with Tom Cruise.
That was a long time ago. And I was a dancer.
I was like, "You can dance and weld at the same time?"
-Yeah! Of course! -Oh, my God!
-You can do whatever you want. -Yes.
And, Ralph, I auditioned for "Karate Kid,"
and I didn't get the part. -Aww.
-I was bitter until now, but since I beat him at Charades...
[ Laughter ]
I'm over it now.
-Can we talk about the "Back to the Future" audition?
'Cause this is a good story, too.
"Back to the Future," you auditioned for --
and spoiler alert. -I got it!
-Yeah, you got it. -I got the part.
-You pretty much know that, yeah, you got it.
-But at the same time I was --
I got this part in "A Chorus Line," the movie.
-Ooh. -So I had to pick.
And it was the girl who couldn't sing.
You know that part? -Yes.
-"See, I really can't sing. I really couldn't sing."
And then, so I had to decide whether I wanted to say that
or, "Oh, my God. It's Calvin Klein.
What a dream." -Yes!
[ Cheers and applause ]
I mean... Choices, choices.
-The choice was clear.
-The choice was very, very clear.
-So I took "Back to the Future."
But the people from "Chorus Line"
were very upset with me.
And they said, "Don't you want to be a piece of history?"
[ Laughter ] And I guess I am.
-Yeah, you are, actually! Yeah, exactly.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Lea Thompson is a part of history, pretty much.
Also, you know what's another part of history?
Is that you were in the very first Marvel movie.
You were in "Howard the Duck." -Oh, yes.
-I mean, this is -- that's the very first Marvel movie.
-Yes, I am the first Marvel queen.
-Yes! [ Laughter ]
-They kind of try to keep it on the down low
over there at Marvel Studios. -Yeah.
No, they kind of always hint around sneaking
Howard the Duck somehow back.
I would love -- I think we should bring it back.
I think we should do it. -See, I want --
I want -- I've been in to pitch a "Howard the Duck" movie
with Chip Zdarsky, who did the comic book --
the last run of the "Howard the Duck" comic book.
He put me on the cover. And so we went in,
and we pitched it. And --
-You've been directing for the --
I mean, you're doing -- you're crushing it.
I know Zoey Deutch is your daughter, who we love,
and she's been on the show many times.
I love her. -Yes.
Absolutely one of our favorite guests.
And I always talk to her, and she's like, "Oh, yeah,
my mom's directing this, and then she's doing that."
And so I think it would be perfect.
I think, Marvel, let's do this. -Yeah.
-I've been directing a lot of sci-fi shows,
big shows, to learn how to do the special effects
and all of that. I've been doing "Star Girl."
I have on one that was on tonight and one next week.
And then, I did "Resident Alien,"
which is a great show.
AND "Star Trek: Picard."
I took Sir Patrick Stewart back in time.
Apparently, I am an expert at time travel.
-Yeah, yeah, that's interesting. Right?
Don't get typecast now. -No, okay.
But, yah, I've been trying to learn all my special effects
just in case Marvel calls. -Yeah.
-You guys, yeah. -You need some more
women directors. [ Cheers and applause ]
Women.
-Did you always want to direct? Being such a good actor...
I mean, do you go, like, "Ooh, I think I could be
on the other side"?
-Well, I'm bossy, so there's that.
[ Laughter ]
-That helps, being a bossy director, yeah.
-And I've been directing for like 17 years.
Yeah, I kind of did, but when you have little kids,
it's so kind of all-encompassing.
But I find -- I've done so many things.
I was a ballet dancer, singer, I've been on Broadway.
[ Coarse voice ] And I get to use my 43 years in show biz.
-Wow! It's been forty --
-43 years. -Let me tell you,
back in the day, we didn't sit on couches.
We sat on the floor and talked to each other.
[ Laughter ]
-[ Normal voice ] You can use all that,
like you do on this show. You're so amazing,
the way you sing and you dance and you write and you create.
And it's so fun to be able to create with people
something special that makes them laugh.
-Yeah, that's what we try to do. -Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-We have things we have to talk about.
We have to talk about "The Spencer Sisters" because --
-Oh, okay! -Yeah.
This is where -- you just came from here, from set.
-Yes, I just came from set.
I'm doing "The Spencer Sisters."
And this is the amazing Stacy Farber,
and she plays my daughter.
I'm, like, this fabulous mystery writer.
I get to be like, "Oh, my God." I've got nails and everything.
And Spanx and extensions. -Spanx.
[ Laughter ]
And we solve mysteries together.
She's an ex-cop. -Fun.
-I'm in Winnipeg. I got two jobs in Winnipeg.
One was with Stacy Farber, and the other
is "The Disappearance of Cari Farver."
What is going on with Winnipeg and these names?!
-Wait. Stacy Farber and Cari Farver?
-Yes. -That's bizarre.
-I know. How do I remember it?
-Yeah. Let's talk about "The Disappearance of Cari Farver."
It's on Lifetime this Saturday, 8:00 p.m.
What is the movie about? How do we set it up?
-Well, it's just crazy.
You know, If one thing we've learned,
people are cray, right? -Mm-hmm.
-Last five years, there's some cray things going on.
-People are cray. It's trending on Twitter right now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The one thing we learned.
-So this is a real cray story.
It's kind of like a love triangle.
A guy and two girls, Cari and Liz.
And all of a sudden, Cari disappears,
and she starts sending all these horrible text messages,
and nobody knows where she is.
And I play her mother. And of course,
I'm the one that keeps going to the police and saying,
"Something is wrong."
-Yeah. -There you go.
-That's it right there. -That's it, in a nutshell.
-You have to do it.
Someone has to say it. -Someone's mom --
-Someone has to say, "Something is wrong here!"
[ Laughter ]
"Something is wrong here!" Yeah, there we go.
I auditioned for the part of the mother. I did not get it.
I want to show everyone a clip. Here's Lea Thompson in
"The Disappearance of Cari Farver."
Take a look.
-Look, I know what you're thinking,
but she missed her cousin's wedding.
She would never miss something like that if she could help it.
And she's taking her father to every single chemo treatment.
My daughter, Cari...
she is a wonderful person.
She really is.
But yesterday, she didn't show up.
She didn't call, she didn't text, nothing.
-Lea Thompson, everybody! [ Cheers and applause ]
"The Disappearance of Cari Farver"
premieres this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. on Lifetime.
We'll be right back with a performance from Modern English!
Stick around!