Good to see you. You look great.
Nice to see you.
Yeah.
Last time I saw you was the big NBC party,
It was some big NBC party and I was,
Announcing of the schedule.
Right, I was serving hors d'oeuvres there,
actually, I remember that was a fun party though.
You seemed to be having a good time.
Yeah.
And you got you got your own show now on NBC.
This is exciting.
Very exciting.
Are you hanging out with the, with the, I mean, you've
you've been a star for a while, but when you get, you know
you've got your own show, you're hanging
out with the big high level stars now
at big parties out in LA, what's it like?
Well, not, not really.
I mean, the last big party I went
to was the Waterworld premiere. I brought my sister.
The Waterworld premiere?
Hey, you know.
Was there money left for a party at that point?
It's like, bring your own beer to that party.
Well, I, my sister really wanted
to go because she wanted to meet Kevin Costner.
So we crashed the Waterworld premiere
and we went as tourists.
I didn't want to go down the,
you know, get my picture taken.
The red carpet and everything.
And then we were at the party and she said, Oh my God
it's Brad Pitt.
And I was like, Oh, what a dream boat!
He's so cute.
And she wanted his autograph.
So I said, okay, okay, I'll do it.
And I walked up, Brad, can I have your autograph?
And he went, Oh my God, Leah Thompson.
And he put his food down and he said, when I was young
I thought you were so cute.
Oh no! What are you talking, what's he talking about?
I went like this, whoop, Hi!.
No, He said that?
Oh, no, no.
You're very young, you're a youthful, beautiful woman
in the prime of life.
I know, but I, you know I did back
to the future 10 years ago.
So, you know
But that's just, I mean, how old is he?
He's in his late forties. Isn't he? Brad Pitt?
No, he's just,
I think he's 48 years old, who's he to be,
That's just a fact, I'm not doing a joke or anything.
I mean he's actually 48.
Oh no, no, no, he's the cutest thing in the world.
Really?
I was so thrilled.
Was he disappointing at all in person, please say yes.
No, he's a dream.
Really? Oh.
Yeah, but,
Guys, always like to hear that the guy
who everyone thinks is really handsome
in real life, he's four foot five.
He has a big dueling scar.
He's got an eye patch.
He's got a beard, like a pirate.
No, and it was really great, cause my, they put
a picture of us talking in the Hollywood reporter
and my husband saw it so,
How did he respond to that?
He teases me about it now.
Oh good, so a big fight didn't erupt when he saw this.
No, no, no, no, he's so sweet.
My husband's great.
Now you are no, you've done many movies
in your career and we were talking today.
It'd be an interesting question.
Are there any movies that you didn't get?
You know, you hear about these stories, big stars that were
up for movies that later went on to be big movies.
We up for any movies that you didn't get that later went
on to be something?
Oh, well I have a really disastrous story.
I went to audition for, what was it called?
Pretty Woman, and I read,
Oh yeah, what was it called?
(laughter)
I think that was a pretty big movie.
Remember that thing with Julia Roberts,
I don't really remember,
But the thing was is I read the script
and it was a tragedy.
It was, I just thought it was like this docu-drama
about the pitfalls of being well, you know,
a streetwalker in LA.
So I did this really, you know, intense audition.
I had no idea. It was a comedy.
(laughing)
God, what kind of who's, who's managing you.
What's happening here?
I don't know.
You showed up and then you just read it really intense.
Yeah. It was really intense, you know
tears and the whole bit, and I got the call
from the agent, you know, it was a comedy.
That was my interpretation of the script. Ackk.
(laughing)
Was there someone there actually going
Ackk after your, Oh my God.
No, the chair just opened up and I went foom,
Oh Man, but that, did you, so, when you
saw the movie, were you just completely shocked.
I was, I was like, Hm, well, wrong choice
wrong acting choice, Leah.
Well you've made enough good acting choices
in your career.
You've got your show where, where you actually
doing your show, it's in, you guys shoot
it in Los Angeles, right? where, where,
cause I know a lot of these shows are done
in a lot with a million other shows.
Oh yeah, It's great. We're on the old MGM lot
where there's there's Seinfeld, there's Cybil,
there's Roseanne, all the shows are in one place
so it's kind of like the old MGM days.
You get to just hang out.
That's so cool.
Now is it true that American Gladiators
is done on your lot?
Someone told me, tell me about American gladiators,
what's that set like?
I want to be on American Gladiators,
well, you know, they shoot all the shows
really quick and then they, now there's another show there.
Meaning not a lot of artistic integrity goes into that?
Shooting of tennis balls at one another at high speeds.
But I would think that would be a fun set.
You know, you hear
about all the sitcoms and all the, you know
it'd be fun to have the Seinfeld cast as a neighbor.
I think it would be fun to have American Gladiators
as a neighbor.
I think so, all those women in skimpy outfits
and those buffed up dudes.
Yeah, sharing the same restroom.
(laughing)
Wow. I think we're onto something here.
It sounds like, you know
some really racy stories about the set.
They're not for on-air consumption though.
Yeah, right, no,
We won't get into it.
All right, now tell me quickly the, the,
cause we're running a bit low on time,
but I'm, I'm curious about, I know that when
you were starting out in your career,
it's very difficult when you're starting out as an actress,
it's a hard thing to do to get started.
You actually, is it true? You padded your resume a bit.
Yeah, Oh yeah, I had two fake movies and the,
the problem was, (laughing)
Now wait a minute here, you, two fake movies.
That's not padding your resume. That's called lying.
Don't try this at home.
But the weird thing was that they both became movies.
Yes.
(laughing)
I made up this thing Waterworld, and it happened.
It was Crossroads and The River
and they both became movies.
Wait, you made up the title The River?
Yeah, yes. But this was, this was 12 years ago.
So it was really weird.
So now people still find some old resume and they go
you were in Crossroads? and no, no.
You can just do that, do other people do that?
Just make up stuff?
Oh, well I was young, I was foolish. What can I say?
I spent years telling people I was the original host
of Jeopardy and for awhile it worked.
Everyone bought it.
They're still buying it out there somewhere.