(audience applauds)
How you doing?
I'm great.
How are you?
I'm feeling really good.
Thank you.
All right. Settle down there, fella.
Thank you.
He loved me like 10 minutes ago.
Then you come out and like Conan who?
Did my foot turn you on, my naked foot.
Just be honest.
(Conan Laughs)
Yes, Conan.
You've answered the question for me.
Cause all I do is imagine what goes up from that foot.
Which might look similar
and it makes me really wanna take you to a spa.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I need a spa. Don't I? I need a spa.
I don't go to spas.
I don't like the terry cloth robes
and the oils and the scents.
No, but you don't need that.
See, if you come to LA, I really want you,
if you ever come to LA,
I want take you some spas in Korea town
and have like a fat Korean woman just scrub you down.
None of this fancy shmancy stuff.
You just, you just all
Wow. It sounds so tempting.
A fat Korean woman will scrape.
What is she scraping all over my body?
She basically like takes, I don't know if any
of you guys have ever done this.
It's great. It's fantastic.
Really. I recommend it.
Yeah. Yeah.
Basically takes kind of like a Brillo pad
and just scraps you down,
but it's really good for your skin.
So it's sort of masochistic.
It's sort of what they use to get grease
and grime off a pot is dragged over your skin
by a very powerful woman.
Yes.
Wow.
Doesn't that take?
My flesh would just come off.
I would just I'd come out like, "Wow that was really nice.
I'm glad I did that".
Yeah. I think that'd be nice
cause I just actually wanna see how much comes off of you.
(Conan laughs) That sounds gross.
I'm moving on.
Thanks very much for being here,
first of all, and congratulations.
Grey's anatomy, this thing's a huge hit.
You gotta be excited about that.
Yeah.
(audience cheers)
Thank you.
I've always thought,
and I guess in preparation for the role
of playing, you know, a medical professional,
you decided to sit through some surgery, some real surgery.
Oh, yes.
Is that true?
Yes. It's fantastic.
We had so much research
and so much help from a lot of the local hospitals.
So that you could feel that you really understood
what was going on.
So what kind of procedure did you you sit in and on?
I sat in on a heart replacement valve surgery,
a valve replacement.
So you were there in the...
I was there.
So it's fantastic.
One, the woman was, you know, she was very generous
to let myself, Katherine Heigl,
and actually two design students,
they were design engineers, guys who were observing.
And you're literally this far away from her head.
Right.
Yeah. From the entire field of surgery.
So you got the permission first,
cause you don't want the woman coming out of surgery
and this is your doctor and this is the actor.
We just wanted to look at your insides.
No, no.
She gave us a permission and we went in and it's just
I was very, very nervous.
Of course you're gonna be nervous
and you don't know what it is.
And all those, you know,
medical surgery shows and all that stuff,
you think it's gonna be really really gross.
And I was kind of queasy, you know, before.
Right.
So I was wondering, oh, am I gonna throw up?
Am I gonna faint?
Right.
But I gotta tell you, man, it was just, what a rush.
I really get it
because you have life really in front of you.
And like when, you know,
you have to open up the chest with the saw and stuff.
And I, you just think that you're gonna be grossed out,
but at least I wasn't.
Yeah. You don't wanna go too far the other way
and be like, yeah.
(audience laughs)
No, but what you...
Woo.
(audience laughs)
Woo hoo.
They cracked your chest, dude.
It can really give you,
it really gives you a rush.
Right.
At that point, you're not thinking
about whether you're feeling queasy or not.
It's extremely exciting.
Do you always do this for roles?
If you're playing a part,
you try and go and study people
that actually do that job?
Yeah. I like to, I like to, whenever I can, you know,
there are various projects that I've done
that you know, you really get into their world.
Sure. Sure.
Like what was another example of a time
that you studied something before you portrayed that role?
(Sandra laughs) Various things.
Let's see, like right now, you know
with this play I'm doing called Satellites.
It's about, you know, a woman who is newly married
and has a baby, although that has not happened to me.
Right. Right.
Basically I'm doing a portrayal
of my sister and my best friend all combined.
So it's like spending time with them
or like, you know, I've had to be pregnant
in a lot of things where you spend time
with your friends who are pregnant.
And also other things like, you know
I've played a variety of characters.
And one really actually great experience was
this film called "Dancing at the Blue Iguana".
And that happened to be about these five strippers in LA.
So I'm like from a pretty conservative background.
I had never, ever been in a strip club
before the day of the audition.
Me either to this day.
(audience laughs)
I saw that.
Yeah. No, no, no.
But with that process,
which the film was improvised,
we spent all this time in strip clubs
and that's how we learned how to dance and really...
Did you get up on stage then in front of people?
I gotta tell you, man, there's so many clubs
in LA that I have danced and no one has known,
no one's known, yeah.
Right, right.
Yeah. Cause usually we kind of went there
like before it would open.
Sure.
So it would like be very very slow
and you know, no one would really know...
Was it, it must be some way liberating
you know, to do something like that impactful.
Oh, I think so.
Like actually Sheila Kelley,
who was one of the cast members,
she's kind of made this empire
of teaching women how to pole dance.
Sure.
And I gotta tell you, for all the women out there
I really highly recommend it because it is extremely...
I do too.
I highly recommend... So liberating.
(audience cheers)
You know, and of course there are a lot of guys
that out there cause it's like, you know,
if you, cause...
It's also beneficial to you,
if you know your partner is learning
to liberate herself sexually.
I think it's good for everyone
if women are pole dancing.
Yes. Constantly.
(audience laughs and cheers)
Through their own means.
Through their own means. Yes.