- Real quick, though.
I want to thank New York Magazine.
This is about you, ready?
They just released their Quarry Awards
for the most scrappy, absurd, and ingenious stuff
that shaped our year of lockdown.
And we're kicking off Drew's News
announcing that you have won a Quarry award
for Best Scream Into the Void.
Congratulations, Drew! - Thank you.
- And thanks to New York Magazine for watching,
getting your show.
- I'm just honored to be on your radar even.
So thank you. - They're watching, Drew.
- I can't believe it.
They're like, I'm such a fan girl.
It's like, look, I mean our entire,
they have wallpaper of their magazine,
so you can see I'm telling the truth.
All right.
We're actually adding a third to our Drew's News crew today.
It's someone you know.
- I'm obsessed with, I'm like, hi, okay, tell 'em.
I'm excited. - Okay, it's someone who's
a friend of the show.
We're so glad to have him back here.
He shined in "The Boys in the Band,"
and now he's back on Netflix's movie jam packed
with joy and A-lister stars, "The Prom."
Take a look.
- Honestly, Dee Dee, I feel adrift as I did in my days
before Julliard. - Oh my God.
- You see, my passions are fueled
by the power of lady theater and how she can
with the gentle touch of her head sculpt a human soul.
But we learned at Julliard-
- Oh my God. - If I could soliloquize,
if you prick me, do I not bleed?
- Please welcome back the effervescent,
the brilliant, the multitalented,
Andrew Rannells! - Yes! Hi!
- Hi!
- I'm a little jealous you're in the middle
'cause I want to be in an Andrew and Ross sandwich.
But we'll be your bread today.
Andrew, I'm so glad you're back.
I love you, please. - Well.
- I mean this movie. Oh my gosh.
It's every star that's important is in this movie.
- Well, that's very sweet.
I'm currently just very proud
that I figured out how to change my Zoom background.
- You did it! - I did it.
I did it by myself.
It's, you know, it's really, I'm really winning today.
It's a good way to start the Monday.
- Felicia Daniels, our head of digital,
she's a genius, and she always has a different Zoom backdrop
every day, it's like what's Felicia gonna have today.
And she taught me,
but I could only figure out one Zoom drop,
and it was like in the cosmos
and I felt nuts and I looked nuts and it wasn't great.
And I'm proud of you.
That is the big 2020 thing. - Thank you.
- Like how to put a Zoom backdrop up.
- Yeah, it's not as easy as it sounds either.
It's a little complicated. - No.
- I mean. - Well done.
- And I've been obsessing about, you know,
sort of as I've been talking about "The Prom,"
sort of a lot recently, what is my background?
And like, do I need to paint my walls a different color?
And maybe I need new throw pillows.
Like, it's a lot of stress trying.
to figure out your background. - I agree.
Well, what about your sidekicks?
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, James Cordon.
Did you have the time of your life?
- It was so much fun.
It was one of those experiences that I think will be,
you know, forever, obviously very hard to top.
They were all so generous and so kind.
And James and I had been friends before,
so we already knew each other and we were, you know,
so that was, you know, whatever.
But obviously when you have like, someone says, like,
now you have to say lines with Meryl Streep.
- Yeah.
- That's a little tricky.
- What was she like? Tell me everything.
- I know, what was she like? - Right?
- She was the best.
We had a very sort
of traditional rehearsal process for this film.
So we had, like, we had five weeks in a studio
just to sort of learn all the choreography
and get to know each other.
So by the first day of filming,
everybody was a little more relaxed
and I wasn't just like flop sweating
around Meryl Streep every day.
I was able to sort of like relax into that.
So that was really the, you know,
it was a real saving grace that we got to have
some time to get to know each other
before we actually had to film anything.
But the amazing thing was is that we were all,
it was a very sort of level playing field in
that sense that like we were all learning that material
for the first time.
And that was, just to see how hard
Meryl and Nicole and James and Keegan and Kerry,
like the fact that they all came in and like
just were ready to go in their
workout wear, like in their dance clothes,
and they just dove in.
So that was a really, it was a very exciting thing
to get to be a part of.
- You know what's so cool is that you can be like,
Meryl and Nicole, just like one, just the first name.
Like yeah, so cool. - James, Keegan.
I loved it so much
and you have two extraordinary, like,
solo, big musical numbers.
Everybody check out "The Prom" on Netflix.
It just came out. It's all the rage.
We're gonna go to commercial break
and then when we come back,
can we tackle some news together?
- Yes, please. - Yay!
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