- Hello, oh my gosh.
- Oh my gosh, I'm so good.
I'm very excited to be here.
- I'm so star struck you are just our favorite in our home.
We sing to all your songs I mean, oh my, and the house,
my skin tingling. (laughs)
- You? Oh my gosh.
I'm sitting over here really, really shocked.
I cannot believe you just said that you're star struck.
Thank you so much.
- It's so true, I actually made it a huge point.
I was like, do you think China would come on the show
because I'm such a big fan of hers and then you said yes
and I'm so excited because I'm just gonna be on the cool
list with my kids because of it.
And now "Hubie Halloween" is actually not your first time
working with Adam Sandler?
- Yes and no, it's not.
I did "Grown ups" one and "Grown Ups 2" with him.
And when I tell you well, you already know, he's absolutely
incredible, I love him, I love being on his sets.
He always has his family around and it's just a very
comfortable environment, you know what I'm saying?
I love it, every time I get to work with him.
- The first time back to work I had just had Olive,
she was only six months old, we went to Africa to make
this film called "Blended" and the only reason I felt
comfortable doing it because it felt so intimidating
was because it was with Adam and he's such a family man.
And I knew what I was getting into, he's my cinematic
soulmate and yes, you're right, he creates a warm, safe,
loving family oriented full of laughs environment.
- Exactly, and super loyal as well.
Like if you work with him once and he likes you
and your vibes match, I mean, you'll probably have a job
for life with him, he's super loyal.
- You're absolutely right and in fact,
he had Happy Madison and I was starting Flower Films
with my partner Neon and we became really close
on "The Wedding Singer" and we would travel
and take holidays and like hang out.
And then we produced "50 First Dates" together
and then we made "Blended" and I understand
that you're starting a production company.
- Yes I am.
Very early stages of it but when I tell you I'm so excited,
I mean, it's cool working for other people and getting
to tell other stories but there are a lot of stories
that I have inside of me as well.
I've been doing this since I was five and I have a lot
of ideas and I'm ready to take a new venture.
So I'm very excited, very excited.
- Well, I have to say I mean, you know you look at
Reese Witherspoon and you know when we were making
Flower Films back when I was 19 and I would see
Sandra Bullock, she had Fortis Films and you know
there were a lot of people who have taken on sort of being
in charge of their destiny as well as creating these
wonderful other jobs for people and telling stories
that they feel may not be being told or how about this,
like part of why "Charlie's Angels" came out was 'cause
I wanted to see girls doing action that would also love
each other and be funny and I didn't see that being made out
there so, do you have like a first thing or what was like,
oh gosh, if you could have any dream,
what would be a first project?
- Oh my gosh, my first project.
Well, I'm actually, I'm doing action right now
on "Black Lightning".
So at this point I really just want a great story.
Something that feels genuine and also after this year
I think people are ready for something that's gonna
challenge them a little bit emotionally and mentally.
And those are the things that I wanna do.
At this point, that's my dream project.
- I love you being in charge of this because
you've grown up, you're wise, the way you're speaking,
who you are as a person.
Also you have such a big following that I mean,
Anything I can ever do please call on me, count on me,
like I think starting a company is so empowering and I think
you're gonna be amazing at it.
And yes, Adam is a very loyal person.
His company is still all the same people for 25,
almost 30 years.
So, you know.
- It's insane, I went back there and was seeing people
that I had seen when I was 10 working on.
It was like, it's a family.
- Well, the producer that I learned from her name was
Linda Obst and we were making this film called "Bad Girls"
and I saw her running around and solving all the problems
and I thought, that's who I wanna be.
I wanna be a problem solver.
And she used to have a term called PC, Permanent Crew.
You find the people that you love and you stick with them.
And I'm here with Chris Miller and Ember Truesdale
who I call Ember Trueheart and our Nancy Juvonen.
And we've been together for 25 years
and they are my permanent crew and I am theirs.
And so you find your tribe and you stick together
and you make your dreams come true because when you're
alone, you're just a kid with dreams sort of sitting on them
like little nest eggs and then you meet other people
and the eggs start to crack.
So when you find the people that are like-minded
and have the similar dreams or even a different skillset
than you because it takes so many different types
of skillsets to get it done then you will start to build
the flames and embers will ignite and you'll be off
to the aces.
- Whoa, thank you for that advice, I'm learning something.
I learned something from Adam working with him.
I'm learning something from you right now.
I'm taking all of this into my production company.
I wanna surround myself with people that I trust
and there are a lot of things that I don't know,
I wanna learn, you know what I'm saying?
I wanna to learn.
- And yet there's so much experience that you have already
and I tried to bring that to Flower Films when I was 19,
I had been working in films my whole life as you have
and it was a great asset.
So you're already off to the most amazing start.
China and McLean, I am the biggest fan and I'm so honored
to be speaking with you and please know on behalf of me
and my daughters Olive and Frankie,
that we will be singing your songs tonight,
cheering and watching this show back and freaking out
that I'm talking to you.
Thank you so much.
(audience applauding)
- Thank you girl, mwaah!
- Thank you China and McLean.
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