(audience cheering)
Hello!
Nice to have you with us.
Thank you, it's nice to be here.
I thought I was a TV redhead and you are just
completely kicking my ass right now.
Beautiful hair.
But you're a real redhead, aren't you?
Well, yeah, yeah.
[Cynthia] I'm not.
Oh, you're not?
No. Okay.
I'm a blonde.
Oh.
There you go.
You just decided, so this is something that you decided
at one point, I want to be red and you just stuck with it.
Yeah, I, I had been sort of toying with it,
and then when I got cast in Sex and the City,
they decided three blondes would probably be too much so.
Right, well it looks great,
looks fantastic. Thank you, thank you.
I'm going to start actually getting mine that color.
I'm going to start changing it so that, you know,
every night so that people tune in just to see it.
Are you gonna style it this way too?
You're going to grow it long and style it this way?
Dreadlocks, I want dreadlocks.
Oh, that'd be good on you.
(audience laughing)
I think it would just pop.
Now the last name Nixon.
Nixon.
I would think it's not the easiest last name.
I was mocked for my first name, obviously, but hard,
hard last name, I think to have probably in the early '70s.
Particularly at the time, exactly, when I grew up.
Yeah, 1973, name of Nixon.
You can't even mention your name without somebody
cracking a joke, and my mother always said, you know, I,
that she grew up in the '40s with a father named Adolf,
and then she lived through the '70s
with a husband named Nixon.
She just couldn't escape. (audience laughing)
Adolf Nixon.
But now.
That'd be a great, if a guy, Adolf Nixon for Congress.
(audience laughing)
Adolf Mussolini.
Right, you can trust me, yeah.
(audience laughing)
But you know.
That'd be great.
But now nobody even remembers Nixon.
No one can even remember how to spell my name anymore.
Wait a minute.
No, they don't know that there's?
They say, I say, you know, you know,
what's your last name?
Nixon, is that N-I-C-K-S-O-N?
Out of sight, out of mind.
Well, I think a lot of kids today, they don't even,
anything before like the 18, they don't know.
You know, I've noticed when I'm talking to kids,
you're like, Jimmy Carter, whoa, what's that?
(audience laughing)
I'm like, it was a movie.
Forget about it, don't worry about it.
(audience laughing)
This is a very, and I mean this in the best of ways,
it's an ex. Oh, I'm scared now.
No, don't be afraid.
Be afraid.
No, it's a sexually explicit show that you do,
and I think that's what a lot of people like about it.
It's very honest, it's, it, it can, you can go further
than a lot of network shows.
Is there ever anything that they took out
because it went too far?
Occasionally we do go too far
and we even stop ourselves, yes.
There was one, there was one time, actually,
one of my favorite things that I've ever filmed.
I was having sex with this character who played a detective
who was like this gorgeous guy that I felt very overwhelmed
to be going out with because he was so attractive,
and I got a little drunk during our date
'cause I was so nervous and then we were actually
having sex and this is the part that they cut.
We're having sex and I've drunk too much,
and I throw up all over him,
(audience laughing)
and it was so skillfully done by our prop department too,
'cause it was projectile, so they shot it from over here
and they had a hose and I would just go, and Dinty Moore
beef stew would come shooting out of my mouth.
Well, first of all, some guys are into that, and second.
(audience laughing)
Would you throw up on me?
The poor actor that I was acting with was not.
It was like five in the morning.
You know, the smell of the beef stew,
he thought he'd signed on to do some sexy show.
Well, that's also, yeah, he probably reads the script.
His agent says, you know, you're gonna have
a sex scene with Cynthia Nixon.
He's like, great. Right, you're not thinking.
And they probably didn't tell him.
Beef stew.
Yeah, shot at you at 40 miles an hour.
(audience laughing)
When I see in movies when people have to vomit
and they have the hose running up the side
and they always turn exactly profile,
and then someone off stage hits a plunger
and vomit comes out, I've always thought I'd love
to get rigged up with that and just walk around the city,
(audience laughing)
shooting, shooting vomit at people.
It would be, (audience cheering)
just like a really weird superhero who's,
stop, thief!
(growling)
(audience laughing) (audience applauding)
It was so much fun, I can't tell you.
It was fun.
Now you have a daughter.
How old is your daughter?
I do, she's four and a half.
Does she ever watch the show?
She used to watch the show when she was little.
(audience laughing)
[Conan] Now she's grown past it.
Before she really figured it out, and then she started,
and then it started to bother her.
First, it started to bother her when I would
have sex scenes with men, and then it started to bother her
when I would be kissing men on screen,
and then it started to bother her when I was speaking
to men on screen 'cause she knew where it was going.
(audience laughing)
So I haven't shown it to her in a while.
That's, that's probably for the best.
Now, do you yourself watch a lot of television?
Are you a television person?
I love television.
I feel about television the way I feel about candy.
I love it, I don't keep it in the house.
[Conan] So you, so?
So I don't have, I have a TV set,
but I don't have reception.
Right, right, so you don't.
I watch the tapes.
'Cause I noticed when you walked out here tonight
and shook my hand, the crowd couldn't hear, but you said,
"it's nice to meet you, Mr. Koppel."
(Cynthia giggling) (audience laughing)
You like, no, but you don't, you don't watch
a lot of television and you think that it's,
it's just for the best, right?
I, you know, I love TV.
I watched so much television as a child, it's stored up.
I don't need to watch anymore, 'cause I got a TV,
I'll just watch it all day.
Yeah, well you know, the thing is, it must be weird
for you because you're in the entertainment business.
You have this really hot show.
You go to award shows 'cause your show
is always up for awards.
How do you know when other people,
(Cynthia tapping desk) That's not wood.
Oh. (audience laughing)
It's a high density polymer.
I'm always telling people.
There you go.
(audience laughing) (audience applauding)
They just want to see me hit,
but if you're out at these award shows, how do you know?
It's very embarrassing.
Who's like, who a famous person is.
I don't know who's the date, who's the famous person,
who's the handler, who's the famous person.
I was at a, this, the screen, screening,
the premiere of the Sopranos, the second season,
and I complimented Lorraine Bracco's daughter.
I said, oh, I love you on the show, and she was like,
I'm, I'm Lorraine's daughter.
I'm not on the show.
[Conan] Oh wow, that's so weird.
Yeah, it's bad.
So now I just keep my mouth shut.
I just say, nice to meet you.
You just have to always say to everybody,
I admire your work, because even if you're talking
to a plumber, they're like, why thank you.
(audience laughing)
I try.
Just say I admire your work.