Hello, my friend.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
Last time you were here, you guest hosted for me.
How did you like that?
It's really hard what you do.
I will give you so much more credit or to any talk show host
ever.
But it kind of reminded me a little bit of "70s Show,"
so there was an element of it that
was like slightly nostalgic of being
in front of a live audience and getting that instant feedback.
But otherwise, it's incredibly nerve wracking.
Well, yeah, I mean, but if you get
to-- it's just like anything, the more you do it,
you get comfortable.
And it's really nice to get that audience--
I mean, we don't have a live audience here now.
But I see smiling faces and we do have the feedback.
We do get that, you know.
It's not-- you should do it again sometime if you want.
I think that you should just keep doing it, Ellen.
I'll just sit on the other side.
I enjoy you.
OK.
All right, Mila.
So my staff did tell me that there
was a lot of swearing coming out of your mouth behind--
That's not true.
You're making this up.
I don't swear.
Andy said you swore a lot.
My parents watch the show, Ellen.
I don't swear.
No, no, it was when the cameras weren't rolling,
that's what he's saying.
Andy!
No, I was watching.
I was watching.
Andy, he's a tattletale is what he is.
Hey, I watched the Super Bowl and the commercials.
You and Ashton did one.
And I thought, first of all, I thought it was hilarious.
I thought it was a great idea.
And I was wondering if they came up with the idea
and then brought it to both of you or just you
and then you said, let's do it with--
I just love that he sang.
Yeah, he didn't know he would have to--
OK, so here's what happened.
So we both got an offer, like we got an email in the morning
and he was already working.
And I was just walking out of the room and I looked at it,
and I was like, oh, this is kind of funny.
And we kind of met each other in the kitchen.
And we looked at each other and I was like, hey,
did you happen to look at the offer?
And he was like, yeah, it's kind of funny.
Should we just do it?
It was in the peak of the pandemic.
It made no sense logically.
It may have been like the worst-- we are
so quarantined, as you know.
But we were also--
I was dying to get out of the house.
I was literally like, I don't care,
I need to get out of the house.
And so I looked at it as a two day vacation.
And I was like, we're getting out.
We're going to go shoot this thing
and get away from our children.
And so we talked to Brian on the phone, who was the director.
And he was like, yeah, so then Ashton is singing.
And he was like, I'm what?
[LAUGHTER]
I was like, oh!
I was like, I don't sing so this is all you get.
And so we showed up.
It's really uncomfortable because you're not
wearing a mask.
You feel really vulnerable.
You also feel like a lemming.
No one's allowed to talk to you.
You're not allowed to to talk to anybody.
You don't know what anyone looks like.
You have no clue.
It's like a bizarre circumstance.
And then I was pretty convinced I had COVID.
I was like, oh, this is how I get COVID.
This is it.
This is the end of that.
But needless to say, knock on wood, it didn't happen.
And I got two days off from my kids.
That's a horrible mom.
Wow, well, that's a win-win.
You do a commercial for the Super Bowl, you get paid,
and you get paid to get away from your kids.
So wait, so that means Ashton put Bear down?
Like he actually let him walk on his own.
[LAUGHTER]
Ellen, Ellen.
Wait, when was the last time you saw our kid out?
It's been a minute.
It's practically been a year.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's been a while.
But I've never seen that child walk on his own.
Ashton carries him everywhere.
Anyway.
This is only funny to me and you because it's true.
But when our kiddo was little, just to explain.
We would walk and he would be in a hiker.
Because they're little so they can only walk for so long.
We really enjoyed walking long distance.
And so he would put our son in a walker.
And so I could see how Ellen kept thinking
that our son didn't walk.
No, he never, ever walked.
He's going to be like a grown man
and expect to be carried, because that's
just how you've trained him.
Let's talk about your movie, which I thought
was hilarious, "Breaking News in Yuba County."
Explain-- first, the cast is great.
I told you how much I loved it already.
But tell everybody about it.
So this script was one of the best scripts
that I'd ever gotten.
So I read the script.
And I was like, what a unique voice,
what an incredible young writer.
I have been obsessed with Allison since she
was in "The West Wing."
And at one point we were at a restaurant
and it was maybe like 15 years ago.
And I was like, you know what, I'm going to go walk up to her
and be like, I love you.
I'm going to be that person, whatever.
And I did.
I walked up to Allison and I was like, Allison, you're awesome.
And she's like, OK.
And then cut to many years later, I was like,
do you remember?
And she's like, no.
But I remembered and that's all that mattered.
But I've been a huge, huge fan of hers.
So when this opportunity came up, Tate Taylor, the director,
actually wanted me to play a different part.
And the part that he wanted me to play
didn't have any scenes with Allison.
And I said, I will do this, but I want
to be in scenes with Allison.
I want to work with her.
And so he rewrote the sister part to make sense for me
to play the sister so that I can work with Allison in the film.
So essentially the film is about a woman who kind of blends
into the background.
No one's paying attention to her.
And she finds a way to get 15 minutes of fame.
And it's essentially about what will you
do, at what cost will you upkeep that 15 minutes of fame?
Yes.
And then it takes a dark, dark turn at the end.
But it's hilarious.
I mean, Allison Janney, Wanda Sykes, everybody in it
is great.
It's a really cool cast, Awkwafina.
It's a really fun cast.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was going to go on and on.
And I was like, no, there's tons of people.
And this is what I see in the background is
Andy saying break, which that's what that means.
He put his toy down for me to see that.
Andy, that's a very cool toy, I have to say.
I was really impressed.
You know, it doesn't even have to be a toy.
Sometimes he just has like a screw in his hand
like he's found on the floor and he's got--
You don't have to explain.
Mila likes my toy.
Let's go to break.
All right.