Big Bang Theory was nominated for a SAG Award and Hidden Figures.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you, very sweet.
>> And we'll talk about the movie in a minute, but
you shot a scene for Big Bang Theory in the audience when we weren't here.
>> Yes, I did, we crept right in here.
I'll tell you, if you've ever gone to anyone's house when they weren't there,
or somebody's place of office where they're not working.
It's creepy.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's almost like there's been
a death or something.
You're like, where is everyone?
What is happening in here?
You just feel like you're gonna get an echo.
But it was neat, we were- >> Do we have a clip of it?
>> Do you have it?
>> Let's, yeah.
>> Okay.
>> New study came out, and it said that laughing makes your brain work better.
And I know that's true because laughing has made me the smartiest.
>> [LAUGH] >> Although on the other hand,
babies laugh a lot and they're dumb.
>> [LAUGH] >> Do people know about her?
Because she's delightful.
>> [LAUGH] >> So, you had an audience.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> Yeah, now we filled the section.
But it was odd, it was the first time I've ever sat out there.
I mean, you come and do the talk shows and they're like, whisk in, whisk out,
you gotta change, which is very neat to see all that, but this was a good angle.
>> It's amazing, so you just used footage of me talking and
you're sitting in the audience.
And you're doing, the commercials with Michael Phelps by the way.
>> Lord! >> I love those commercials!
It is so much fun.
>> Yeah. >> Thank for that, and I-
>> And he's a great guy, isn't he?
>> He is stupendous.
He is so nice, he's very smart, so it was easy to shoot with him.
And the only other thing I would say is,
when you finally meet him in person, has he been on here?
>> Yeah. >> But he's probably
wearing more clothes than when he is when he's doing that.
>> No, we shot with him just in a Speedo as well.
>> You did? >> Yes.
>> Okay, so you see him in person and the size of his hands and his feet and
the length of his torso, you're like you're vaguely aquatic.
>> Yes. >> It's no wonder, you're part dolphin.
>> Yes.
>> Of course you're fast in the water.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> But he's a really good guy.
>> You seem like you would have a swimmer's body, do you swim?
>> You'd be wrong.
>> I would? >> No.
>> [LAUGH]
>> I don't know, if I'd done that,
maybe I would've turned into a swimmer's body.
But no, my body, especially right here,
is going, you didn't swim enough.
>> [LAUGH] >> It's supposed to be great exercise.
>> It's the best exercise because it's no impact.
Some you're doing press for the movie right now and
I know you're taking your mom with you.
>> My god, yes.
>> Was that a mistake.
>> No, not at all.
It was the most wonderful time.
In fact I probably will take her to more things with me.
I will say I did one of those press junket days,
and if you've never done one, you sit in a room.
It was me and Kevin Costner in this case and they literally
rotate 40 journalists in and out of the room for four minutes at a time.
In two different like three hour segments.
So, we did the first one and then we went to eat and then we came back for
the second one and we finished that.
And she goes, you and Kevin have more energy in the first one.
[LAUGH] And I said, what do you mean?
She goes, no it was just different.
It was just lower energy and I said, that sounds like criticism.
I think you just come to your last press junket lady.
>> [LAUGH] >> Portia and
I watched it last night and we kept saying, it's a very important movie.
But it's a very difficult movie to watch because you're just looking at it going,
this cannot be real.
>> I know, I know.
>> This could not have happened, explain what the movie is.
>> Well the movie is about getting a man into space,
getting John Glenn to orbit the Earth.
The goal in the mission.
And why it's called Hidden Figures is because in our story specifically, we
bring to life three African American women who were integral to getting this done.
Who until very recently no one had ever heard of them,
other than some people at NASA and their families.
And I do think that's why stories like this are so important to tell and
retell again and again.
Because you know we're whitewashing and covering up something else now.
There's somebody else being overlooked now.
There's somebody doing something that we're not recognizing enough now.
And we'll be angry in 30 or 40 years that we did it then.
And just, it's hard, it's hard when you're in the thick of it, I know that.
But it's important to keep those eyes peeled.
>> Yeah. >> I don't know how else to put that.
>> Yeah, I can't stress enough how important this movie is to watch and
we, it's crazy we didn't know this story.
>> Yeah, it really is.
>> It's amazing.