-That's a movie star!
That's a stud right there. Welcome.
It is great to see you.
Thank you for being here in person. I appreciate that.
-Well, it's very nice to be here in person. Thank you.
-How are the family? How are the kids?
-They're good. -Yeah.
-Their thing at the moment is just screaming.
-Ah, that sounds peaceful.
[ Laughter ]
-They're, like, really good at it, you know.
But it's all -- you know, like, our 8-year-old,
I feel like she is going through some kind of --
Apparently, we've since found out that around eight,
they get some hormonal surge.
And she's just, like, guttural screaming a lot,
which encourages the 2-year-old,
who is doing that anyway in her own kind of way.
And then the 5-year-old sits in the middle just like going,
"I may as well join in." -Yeah.
And you're just driving going, "This is awesome."
-But occasionally, we take a break to listen to
the soundtrack for "Encanto."
That's our -- Yeah.
-I mean, that's what everyone's doing right now.
-That's what everyone's doing.
-That represents everyone.
It's screaming and "Encanto" right now.
-How good is the music? -We don't talk about Bruno.
Yeah, I mean, come on. -We might talk about Bruno.
-Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
-We're allowed to talk about Bruno.
-Speaking of singing, by the way,
I saw a really cool thing.
You were singing "Rainbow Connection."
-I was. -In the Kermit the Frog voice.
I have it here. Can we just show it?
-♪ Why are there so many songs about rainbows? ♪
♪ What's on the other side? ♪
[ Laughter ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Nailed it! Nailed it!
-Yeah.
-It looks like you might be singing to your girls there.
-I'm not. That's sad, I'm not. [ Laughter ]
-You're not? -I'm just singing to my groomer
before I go on another talk show.
-Is that right? -Yeah.
-There were no kids in the room? -No.
I'm not even sure my kids have seen that.
[ Laughter ]
I was mucking around with a guitar and I was just --
I've always loved that song, you know, so I was singing that song
anyway and then realized that I could sing it like Kermit.
[ Laughter ]
-I love that you could do something like that
but then you could also do "Belfast."
I mean, you're kind of doing everything.
-That's the idea, isn't it?
-Yeah, I guess that's the fun of acting, yeah.
Congrats. It's getting great reviews.
It's been nominated for every award I can think of.
You're getting Oscar buzz. That must be exciting.
I mean, I know it's -- You're going around
and you're on all of the lists and everything like that,
but for anyone who hasn't seen "Belfast," can you set it up?
What it's about? -Yeah.
Yeah, so it's -- our writer/director
Sir Kenneth Branagh -- -Kenneth Branagh. Awesome.
-Who's just a legend. -Yeah.
-It's sort of semi-autobiographical
about his childhood growing up in Belfast.
A lot of people don't realize he has any connection to Ireland.
But he was brought up in Belfast.
We go from 1969 when he was nine years old
and follow the beginning of the conflict,
which would go on for 30 years, we know, and its troubles,
and it's a sort of 9-year-old boy's account of his family
and how they were dealing with that situation at that time.
-Now, were born and raised in Belfast?
-Yep. -And I read that you were
the only actor that Kenneth considered for the role.
That's got to feel good. -He's lost his mind.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
I mean, that's -- Have you ever met Kenneth Branagh before
or come close to working with him?
-I did audition for "Thor"
when he directed "Thor" way back when.
But I didn't -- you know, I'd -- I've talked to Ken about --
I don't even think he saw my tape, it was that bad.
[ Laughter ]
-To play Thor? -No, no -- like, no.
I don't know, one of the guys.
-One of his buddies. -Yeah, one of his, you know --
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Smaller buddies, I think.
[ Laughter ]
But Ken -- I grew up with a picture of Kenneth Branagh
on our bookshelf of him and my dad.
My dad was a professor of medicine,
and he opened a maternity ward at the hospital
my dad spent the majority of his career at.
So there's a picture of my dad with Kenneth Branagh
and a couple of other doctors always in my house.
-Really? -Yeah, it was cool.
Sort of full circle. -I loved it.
Obviously, I'm Irish -- Fallon. -Yep.
-But I loved it because it was a different type of Irish movie
that you would see out there and, like --
you kind of go like -- I loved it, I appreciated it.
But it's really just a family is what it was really about.
-Yeah, and I think that's why it's resonated so well.
You know, we're making a movie about a tiny place
on a tiny island that people don't really know
that much about really, even though we've spread
ourselves pretty far, the Irish.
But, you know, we -- it is at a particular point in time,
but it is essentially, as you said,
it's about a family and it's about family dealing with crisis
and we can all -- every single person here can understand that.
-Yeah. Does it -- There's a part of the movie towards the middle,
towards the end, but you end up just singing --
♪ Everlasting love ♪
[ Vocalizing ]
It's such a great song, But it's at the perfect part of
the movie because it's been such a tough thing to watch.
And that scene to me was my scene because
I loved it because I saw you guys were just in love.
-Yeah, listen, it's been a lovely --
The response to that scene has been incredible.
And for us, it's a moment of escapism and a release that you
kind of need at that point in the film.
But also, like, it's essentially about through the medium of song
these two central characters, my character saying to his wife,
"Look, we are going through the wringer here.
This is tough but I've got you.
Don't worry. I've got you. I love you.
It's going to be okay and that's not changing."
-That's what I'm talking about it, yeah.
Is it nerve-wracking to just sing and just dance and --
-Yeah, I've been doing it too much recently.
-Kermit the Frog, yeah.
-I mean, that's a choice, a bad choice, but, you know.
The last few things I've ended up singing.
But I think I know what I'm doing next
and I know I don't sing in it so we are all going to be spared.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
I want to talk more about the movie
and show a clip when we come back.
More with Jamie Dornan after the break. Come on back.