All right, so "Serenity" is a movie that is hard to explain.
Yes.
So try to explain it.
Oh, good.
Yeah, well, it's a sexy, surrealist modern noir.
Yes.
So if you are into thrillers and you are into,
I don't know, morality that's not black and white
and you like to be taken on some kind of surreal adventure,
you should check it out.
Yes.
But other than that, it's hard to talk about.
Yeah.
Matthew McConaughey plays the captain of a fishing boat.
He's obsessed with the fish.
I come into his life.
I ask him to kill my husband who's a monster
and is abusive to me and to my son.
And Matthew's obsession changes from whether or not
he's going to catch the fish to whether or not
he's going to kill the man.
Right.
Because-- and you think you were watching a movie,
and then there's a surprise that--
that-- so you don't know what it is.
That's what we can't give away is that something happens.
You're like, oh.
And it was filmed on a beautiful island.
He said--
So beautiful.
It was-- where was it?
Mauritius.
Yeah, yeah, beautiful.
Yeah, I think it's-- if you go to South Africa and then you go
to Madagascar and you keep going, then you hit Mauritius.
Wow, that's a long flight.
It was a long flight.
Jonathan did great on it though.
And how long did you stay on that island?
I was there for about five weeks.
Five weeks.
Yeah, and it was incredibly.
Matthew and Camila had been there for a while.
So we arrived.
And, you know, I knew Matthew from Interstellar, of course.
And so I got a call from him.
Hey, you're in the northern part of the island.
We're in the southern part.
You should come down.
And so we did.
And Matthew and Camila took us on an amazing, kind of,
little bar side tour of all the best rums on the island.
Wow.
And how was that?
I don't remember.
Uh-huh.
[LAUGHTER]
I have no idea.
Really?
It was-- oh, man.
Well-- because they're both cool.
And I just can't drink as much as them.
So anyway, yeah, we drank the night away.
And then I had to go to a meeting with Steven Knight,
our director, the next day.
And I was just kind of--
have you guys ever had to do a meeting hungover?
You don't have to admit it.
And so I was just kind of like stumbling and one eye open.
And I was trying to convince him about certain things
about my character.
And at the end of it, I said, listen, I've got a confession.
I was hung over the entire time.
And he just goes, oh, really, I couldn't tell.
And then two days later, we had another meeting,
and I showed up.
He said, oh, now I can.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
The difference between the other meeting.
And then you quit drinking after that, right?
I did.
I quit drinking back in October.
Like forever?
For 18 years.
Uh-huh.
I'm gonna-- I'm going to stop drinking while my son's living
in my house just because I don't totally love the way I do it,
and he's getting to an age where he really does need me all
the time in the morning.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I didn't one school run one day where I dropped him off
at school.
I wasn't driving, but I was hungover.
And that was enough for me.
I didn't love that one.
Yeah, yeah, another reason I don't want kids.
[LAUGHTER]
So--
It's true.
It's very, very true.
I'm not quiting drinking.
[LAUGHTER]
All right, the movie is called "Serenity,"
and it's in theaters this Friday.
We'll be right back.