-My first guest tonight is an Oscar-winning actress.
She stars in the new movie "F9," which is in theaters today.
Here is Charlize Theron.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, my goodness, come on, now!
Oh! We love you.
Charlize. -Hi, Jimmy.
-Thank you so much for being here.
I appreciate this every time you come.
Congrats on "F9."
I think this -- I mean, obviously I think
it's going to be the biggest movie.
I think this is the movie that's going to open up movies again.
Everyone's gonna go to the theater this weekend
and check it out.
Congrats on being in this. This is your second one.
-Thank you.
Thank you for having --
Thank you for saying all those kind words.
And yes, I -- Have you missed movies, going to the theater?
'Cause I have.
-Yes, of course I have. -So much.
-Especially with this movie, which is --
You take it to a new level in this "Fast and Furious."
Actually, you go to space in --
That's not a spoiler. It's out there.
But here's what I love.
You play Cipher.
And you're a villain in the movie,
and your hair choice, I will say, is fantastic.
You chose a bowl cut.
And you still look cool.
[ Light laughter ]
You are just so cool-looking
that you look awesome with a bowl cut.
Look at this. I love that.
[ Cheers and applause ]
How do you pull that off?
-I don't know if I did,
but thank you for selling it so hard.
-[ Laughing ] You did.
-You know what? I was working on a movie
and I had shorter hair,
and I went right into the shoot after I wrapped that film.
And I just -- I didn't have that much hair to work with,
and we didn't have enough time to build a wig,
so we just didn't have that much choice.
And the only thing that we really could do was that.
And thank God I have so much trust
in the people that I work with.
-I pulled a similar look when I was a child.
That was me here. That was --
[ Laughter ]
We look like we could be brother and sister, kind of.
-I mean, I think every kid had, like, a bowl cut, right?
Like, I had one, too.
-Yeah, I asked you for a picture of you with a bowl cut,
and, oh, my goodness, this is what you sent us.
-[ Laughs ]
-Oh, my goodness. Stop!
Are you kidding me? How cute is this baby?
Oh, my gosh. You were so cute.
-Aww.
-It's the tiniest little bowl cut.
It's like a little --
-Yet again, I didn't have that much hair to work with.
[ Laughs ]
-Cipher's name is an alias.
You've used aliases probably before in real life,
like if you stay at a hotel.
Do you ever stay under --
You don't stay under your name, do you?
You change it up? -I do.
I had one that people were really kind of weirded out by,
which really came from a very innocent place
because I took it off a cereal box --
Ginger Raspberry --
but everybody thought it was very stripper-like.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, Ginger Raspberry. -I know.
-Coming to the stage, put your hands together
for Ginger Raspberry.
[ Airhorn honks ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, yeah. Ginger Raspberry.
No, you can't do that.
It almost takes more explaining than --
just put my own name down there.
-I just felt like room service never took me serious.
-[ Laughs ] Ginger Raspberry.
I want to talk about "F9"
because you know I love your acting.
But this acting is a good challenge.
You act most of the movie in a box.
You're in a Plexiglas box.
-I am. I do well when I'm given boundaries.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -Listen, I definitely think
some actors really like to have a lot of freedom
and to use space and things like that.
I tend to -- I have learned over the years
that it's maybe better for me to just have boundaries
and have somebody say, "This is where you are,
and you're working with this."
Because I remember when I had to audition,
when I was starting out, and going --
First of all, I didn't know what an audition was,
so I didn't even really know how to prepare for it.
But the idea of walking into
an office building room with fluorescent lights
and not having boundaries,
not having somebody say, "This is where you are,
this is what you do," I -- I don't take well to it.
I have memories of doing the craziest things,
like bringing in ketchup
and, like, squirting ketchup all over the floor and on myself,
because I was auditioning for a scene where I was getting shot.
And again, I just needed a director to say,
"You don't need to do that. You don't need to do that."
-Wait, so they go -- "Next up, Charlize.
Charlize Theron, can you come in?"
And you would enter already bloody, or no?
-Yes, I would do it in the hallway.
I would kind of tell the secretary
I'm going to get loud for a second,
cause she's on the phone.
I was trying to be respectful,
and then I would squirt it all over myself,
and then I just barge into the door,
pretending like I was shot.
And I would smear ketchup on the walls, everywhere.
Again, I need somebody to tell me, "You can't do that.
Stay here and just stand right here."
-There's rumors of an all-female "Fast" spin-off.
Have you heard that, and would you be up for it?
-I have been hearing that, and I don't know anything,
but yes.
I mean, I think -- the thing that I will say
that I think is very impressive about this franchise
would be the female characters.
I think the women in this franchise are --
it's probably one of the biggest reasons
why I wanted to be a part of it.
You know, no offense to Vin Diesel,
but Michelle Rodriguez is pretty badass.
-Never offense to the Diesel, yeah.
-And so I think it's a great idea, and I hope they do it.
If they need a baddie with a bowl cut, I'm available.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-"F9" is in theaters today.