- I'm so glad you're here, 'cause I'm a huge fan.
- Oh, thanks. - And you were brilliant,
I should--well, before we talk about the movie,
which you're also brilliant in--
"Breaking Bad." You were so fantastic.
- Well, thank you. [cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
You know, I, uh-- [cheers and applause]
I heard that you were a fan, and so I wanted to bring you
a little--a little gift for your coffee table.
It's just a little snack. - Some meth?
- Just, um--
- Oh, thanks, 'cause I was getting a little tired, so--
- Oh, it's very good.
- Oh. - Mmm.
- That's some good meth. - That is some good meth.
[laughter and applause]
Mmm. - Yeah. [laughs]
- We have some for everyone in the audience, by the way.
[cheers and applause]
- It would be rude not to. [cheers and applause]
- Yes, I know!
- So rude to not offer meth to everybody.
- Exactly. [audience laughter]
- Wow, that is some sugary stuff.
- We were selling it on the show for a little while.
We--'cause it's Ellen blue, it's the same color.
- It's your color. - So we were packaging it,
and we were selling it on the show.
It didn't really-- [audience laughter]
- How did-- how were sales?
- Didn't do well. Didn't do well.
- Maybe it was a marketing campaign
that needed to be revamped.
- Too many people losing their teeth and not coming back.
- That's--that's not good for sales.
- I have to say congratulations to you.
First of all, David Beckham is the sexiest man alive, but--
- Yes, he is. - But--
[cheers and applause]
- You know what? I've met David a couple of times.
The first time I met him, I went,
"Oh, my God, you are the sexiest man."
He is. - He really is.
- He drips sexy. - He oozes sexuality.
- Mm-hmm. - He is, for sure.
You can't argue with that, but--
"Sexy At Every Age," and it starts at the 20s,
and it cuts off at 59 and you barely squeak in there
at 59-- [cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
- So, when someone--when someone just showed me this,
and I went, "Oh wow, look at that, I'm at 59.
Let's see who's 60."
There isn't any. [audience laughter]
I'm like-- So that's it.
I'm going out with a bang. 59.
[cheers and applause]
- First of all, I want to say, seriously, you are sexy.
And this is long-- long time coming,
because there's a picture of you that--
[cheers and applause]
I don't know why it took them so long.
- You know, yeah.
That's the--that's the foldout inside "People" magazine.
[audience laughter] Like, "Wow!"
- Yeah.
- Thank you for that. - Well, you're welcome.
All right, let's talk about the movie.
So you--and by the way you're naked in this movie, also.
- Yeah. I have the worst agent in the world.
[audience laughter]
You know, I said, "We need to have a nudity clause,"
and they put it in, but they put it in backwards.
I'm--I'm nude in everything--
- They thought you were asking for it, yeah.
But it's really you nude in there.
It's the back of you, but it's really you.
- Yeah, but I had to do a whole full frontal thing.
We shot it, with a whole thing.
It was nerve-wracking. - Why?
- That's a good question. [audience laughter]
Well, this is a story about--
- Yeah, tell people what it's about.
- Trumbo--Dalton Trumbo
was a very high-paid screenwriter in the 1940s,
in fact, the highest paid.
He wrote beautiful works, and eventually he wrote
"Roman Holiday," and "Spartacus," and "Exodus,"
"Papillon,"
some really wonderful films.
But he was blacklisted in the '40s, from '47 to 1960.
He wasn't able to use his own name,
because he was a member of the American Communist Party.
So he was stripped of his physical freedom,
he was stripped of his dignity,
his ability to follow his own career path
and being responsible for his wife and children.
So when we got to the scene
where we're shooting in the jail, we thought,
"You know, this is really going to be important
to see a man completely,
physically stripped of everything."
So I said to Jay Roach, our director,
I said, "You're never going to find volunteers to say,
"'Yeah, I'll be naked, completely naked,
and shoot everything.'"
I had to do it, you know? But--
So they said, "Well, who would like to be naked
in a cell with Bryan Cranston?"
It was like, "Yeah, okay. Yeah, all right."
It was like--we had our pick.
There were five or six other guys completely naked,
and I'm like, "Okay. All right."
And by the way,
all men are not created equal.
- Oh. [audience laughter]
[cheers and applause]
Good to know. [cheers and applause]
[cheers and applause]
Oh, you're very funny.
We have to, uh-- [audience laughter]
I wouldn't know, but we're gonna take a break--
[audience laughter]