- Lena! I'm so happy you're back.
You were here last time to promote your book
"Not That Kind of Girl," and it's done very, very well.
Congratulations. - Thank you.
- If you don't have it, funny, smart.
It's a great book, so congratulations on that.
And now you're here because we're gonna talk about--
You're gonna be on "Scandal." - I am.
- She's gonna be on "Scandal."
[cheers and applause]
- That's one of the things I'm doing.
That's one of the things I'm getting to do.
And Portia and I actually got to share a golf cart to set.
We weren't in any scenes together,
but we were both trying furiously to learn our lines
and talk really fast.
Like, I talked the fastest I could possibly talk,
and then they said faster.
- Right, it's--yeah, it's called "Scandal" pace.
You get it down, and they said, "Do it in 'Scandal' pace now."
- I couldn't believe it.
But I actually developed while on the set of "Scandal"--
The biggest takeaway I had was that your wife
has the best eyebrows in the business.
- Oh. - I couldn't believe--
Like, I was quizzing her to the point
where she must've been uncomfortable.
- Yeah. - Look.
I was like, "How did you do that?
Is there anything-- like, do you have extensions?
"What are you"-- and she was like,
"No, I've just been blessed with these eyebrows."
And so I talked about them so much
that the hair and makeup people actually gave me a serum,
like an eyebrow Rogaine,
that's supposed to help them get--
I wondered if maybe 'cause she grew up in Australia,
she didn't feel the same pressure
that many of us felt in the '90s
to have thin, thin, thin eyebrows.
- I don't know, but first of all,
you have excellent eyebrows.
- Well, a professional just filled them in.
My sister says they looked like balding caterpillars when--
- Oh.
Did you tell her you liked her eyebrows?
- Yeah.
- She didn't come home and talk about that.
But usually-- because she was thrilled
to be working with you.
She was very excited about you being on the show.
I'm excited. I can't wait to see it.
- I freaked out just to share
a golf cart with Portia de Rossi.
- Aw, that's sweet.
You are doing something that I'm so impressed by.
I saw some pictures today in our meeting.
You're doing--what kind-- what's the yoga?
- Acroyoga. - Acro.
And it's partner yoga. - It's partner yoga.
- Look what she's doing, y'all.
Look at that. That's crazy.
- He's doing a lot more of the work than I am.
- No, 'cause you have to balance.
That's core. To balance like that--
- Well, you know, it happened because I'm--
- Why are you in a restaurant doing it?
[laughter]
- We actually couldn't find a space
with high enough ceilings,
because one of my teachers is 6'7".
Not her. That's my friend Sonya.
But one of my teachers is 6'7",
and so we asked to enter the hotel bar in the morning.
And then a general manager rushed in,
like, hyper emergency.
Housekeeping says people are picking each other up
and throwing each other around in the bar,
and then he saw me and was like, "Okay, whatever."
Like, I just been, you know, haunting them
in that hotel for months.
- Wow, so how long have you been doing this?
- A month and a half.
- Wow, that's really good for a month and a half.
- Thank you so much.
I think it looks-- part of the teacher's job
is to make it look like I'm doing something.
I was--I'm the physically laziest person you've ever met.
Like, I've never even crawled.
Like, I just laid down on my back till I was five,
then started walking sort of.
Like, I can't--
And so Tracy Anderson, who's a friend of mine
and a, you know, professional fitness trainer,
who's trying to get my body--
She's trying to get my 98-year-old body
to match its chronological age of 28,
and so she suggested this and was like,
"It's a great way to, like, get in touch
"with all your-- reconnect your bones
"and muscles and understand your body
and really feel like you're in it,"
which, like--to me, I'm just, like, a floating head,
and then, like, I guess I have limbs,
but I don't really know about them.
- Right.
- And I have to say it's been working.
Like, I walk up the stairs, and I'm like,
"I can feel my gluteal muscle supporting me
as I go about my day."
- Wow, and you know where your gluteal muscles are too.
- They're right there.
[laughter]
- No.
Will you and your boyfriend Jack do it together?
Is he learning it? - He did it once.
He said it was "life-changing"
but ultimately too nauseating.
- Life-changing-- - There he is.
- Look it, and see--
You'd want to do it together.
- He's a really sensitive guy on a lot of different levels,
and I just feel like getting swung around in the air
is, like--it's not right maybe for him
at this stage in his life.
So now I do it with, like, big, handsome men
that I pay.
- Yeah. [laughter]
However you have to get it.
Now, you and Jack-- here's the one thing
that I want to say that I admire very much,
is that you're very happy and very in love,
and you will not get married
until it is legal for everyone to get married
in all 50 states.
- Yes. - And I love that.
- Thank you. - It's a wonderful thing.
[cheers and applause]
- It's something that-- the idea of having a celebration
that can't be fully shared among all the people in my life
and all the people that we love
just doesn't really feel like a celebration at all,
so until that's something that everyone
can join into with no sense
of being left out on any level--
politically, emotionally--
it's just not something that we're gonna do.
- Well, we're on our way there.