♪♪ >> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY!
WELCOME BACK TO "THE LATE SHOW"!
RIGHT HERE ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) LADIES AND GENTLEMEN --
CHECKMATE.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MY FIRST GUEST TONIGHT IS A TONY
AWARD WINNING ACTOR YOU KNOW FROM "THE SOCIAL NETWORK," "THE
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN," AND "HACKSAW RIDGE."
THIS FALL HE STARS IN TWO NEW FILMS: "THE EYES OF TAMMY
FAYE" AND "TICK TICK BOOM!" PLEASE WELCOME TO "THE LATE
SHOW," ANDREW GARFIELD!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ♪♪
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: NICE TO SEE YOU
AGAIN.
>> CRAZY.
SO NICE TO SEE YOU, JON.
CONGRATULATIONS.
I'M JUST SO, LIKE, MY ART SOUL BROTHER.
I'M JUST, LIKE, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE THIS
YEAR.
HELLO!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) AND A PEABODY!
>> Stephen: AND A PEABODY.
NINE YEARS AGO, YOU MADE YOUR BROADWAY DEBUT IN "DEATH OF A
SALESMAN."
>> YES.
>> Stephen: WITH THE GREAT MIKE NICHOLS RIGHT HERE.
THERE YOU ARE.
( APPLAUSE ) I'M ONLY A LITTLE JEALOUS TO
SPEND A LITTLE TIME WITH THE MAN.
HE ONCE SAID YOU HAD ENORMOUS EMOTIONAL EQUIPMENT.
( LAUGHTER ) I'M ASSUMING THAT'S NOT A
EUPHEMISM.
>> IS THAT LIKE AN OVERCOMPENSATION?
>> Stephen: HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HIM?
BECAUSE, AGAIN -- >> ENORMOUS EQUIPMENT,
GENERALLY.
>> Stephen: I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE KNOWN OR WORKED WITH
HIM.
HE'S CERTAINLY A HERO.
>> YEAH, AND A HERO TO ME.
ALWAYS WAS A HERO TO ME ARTISTICALLY.
THERE'S A STORY THAT COMES TO MIND THAT IS VERY INDICATIVE OF
THIS.
ON BROADWAY, USUALLY LUMINAIRES OF THEATER WILL GO BACK AND
THANK THE CAST AND SAY HELLO TO THE CAST AT THE STAGE DOOR EVERY
PERFORMANCE.
MIKE NEVER MISSED THIS.
EVEN IF HE DIDN'T LIKE THE SHOW, HE WOULD GO BACK AND SAY, YOU
DID IT!
I LIKED YOUR HAT!
THEN HE WOULD LEAVE.
BUT HE WOULD BE SO, SO GENEROUS.
EVEN IN THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES.
BUT THERE'S THIS ONE STORY I HEARD ABOUT HIM THAT SUMS IT UP
SO BEAUTIFULLY.
HE CAME BACK AFTER THE SHOW, THANKS EVERY CAST MEMBER, SHOOK
HANDS, GAVE THEM KISSES AND LEFT.
AND ONE YOUNG LADY IN THE COMPANY WAS OBSESSED WITH MIKE
AND HEARD THAT HE WAS IN, WAS UP IN HER DRESSING ROOM, JUST SPENT
A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG TO MEET MIKE NICHOLS, SHE COMES DOWN THE
STAGE DOOR AND THE COMPANY MEMBERS SAID YOU LITERALLY -- HE
LITERALLY LEFT FIVE MINUTES AGO, YOU JUST MISSED HIM.
SHE'S DESPONDENT.
SHE GOES BACK UP, THE STAGE DOOR OPENS BEHIND HER, SHE TURNS
AROUND, MIKE STICKS HIS HEAD IN, LOOKS AROUND, CATCHES HER AND
SAYS, YOU!
YOU'RE AUDREY HEPBURN!
AND THEN LEAVES.
>> Stephen: WOW.
THAT'S LOVELY.
( APPLAUSE ) I GOT TO MEET HIM ONCE AT THE
KENNEDY CENTER BECAUSE I WAS HOSTING AND HE WAS THERE, AND I
WENT OVER TO SAY HELLO TO MERYL STREEP, AND MERYL STREEP --
YEAH, THUD.
BECAUSE I INTERVIEWED HER AND SHE'S, LIKE, OH, MIKE WANTS TO
MEET YOU.
AND I SAID, OKAY.
MIKE'S RIGHT THERE, I GO OVER TO SAY HELLO TO HIM AND I DON'T
KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO ME BECAUSE THE ENTIRE TIME HE WAS TALKING
TO ME I WAS SAYING, IT'S MIKE NICHOLS, IT'S MIKE NICHOLS, IT'S
MIKE NICHOLS.
>> HE PROBABLY JUST SAID, YOU'RE AUDREY HEPBURN!
>> Stephen: YEAH.
AFTER I FIRST MET HIM, IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO SETTLE
IN.
WHEN WE WERE DOING "DEATH OF A SALESMAN," FOR US DOING ANY ART,
THERE'S NEVER ANY SATISFACTION WHATSOEVER, WE'RE ALWAYS JUST
SEARCHING AND YEARNING AND NEUROTIC AND TRYING TO GET IT
RIGHT.
I REMEMBER I WAS FETCHING ABOUT SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
RUN.
WE HAD ALREADY WON A BUNCH OF TONYS AND I'M, LIKE, NO, MIKE,
YANLTD GET THIS MOMENT RIGHT.
HE'S LIKE, DEAR BOY, I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT YOU.
YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME, YOU DON'T THINK HIGHLY OF YOURSELF AT ALL.
IT WAS THE BEAUTIFUL BLESSING TO HAVE THE WOMB, THE CHOSEN DIVINE
DISSATISFACTION THAT WE ARE KIND OF WEDDED TO UNTIL WE DRIVE AS
ARTISTS WHO ARE STRIVING TOWARD PERFECTION, A SPIRITUAL HEIGHT
WE'LL NEVER GET TO, AND HE MADE THAT A BEAUTIFUL THING, SO I
HOLE IT CLOSE TO ME, WHENEVER I GO ON STAGE, WHENEVER I GO ON
FILM STAGE.
HE'S WITH ME AS AN ANCESTOR NOW.
EVEN NOW -- I DON'T WANT TO CRY.
BUT, YEAH, HE'S HERE.
HE'S REMARKABLE.
HE'S HERE.
>> Stephen: DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER -- DO YOU HAVE ANY
TRADITIONS YOU DO BEFORE YOU GO ON STAGE?
>> I DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
DEPENDS ON THE SHOW.
STRANGERS IN AMERICA, BECAUSE IT'S AN EIGHT HOUR SHOW BECAUSE
I STRUGGLE WITH THE NEVER ENOUGHNESS AND IT WILL NEVER BE
JUST RIGHT, THERE'S AN OLD TRADITION THAT YOU SPIT ON THE
STAGE.
>> Stephen: WHY?
BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT A COLD.
NO, IT'S BASICALLY SAYING I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ALL OF ME.
I'M GOING TO LEAVE ALL OF MYSELF HERE, EVEN THE LESS PRETTY
PARTS, THE LESS ATTRACTIVE PARTS, THE BILE, THE STUFF FROM
THE GUTS.
I'M BRINGING, LIKE, GOD IS PERFECT, WHATEVER GOD MEANS TO
ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM, ONE'S HIGHER POWER IS PERFECT BUT
WE'RE NOT MEANT TO BE.
WE'RE MEANT TO BE HUMAN, IN THE DUST AND THE IT D. FOR "ANGELS
IN AMERICA," EVERY RITUAL, I WOULD PRAY BEFORE EVERY SHOW
BECAUSE THAT SHOW AND THAT STORY IS SO MUCH ABOUT HONORING THE
ANCESTORS, ESPECIALLY SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, GAY
BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO, YOU KNOW, DIED AND FOUGHT DURING THE
AIDES EPIDEMIC, SPECIFICALLY HERE IN NEW YORK BUT ALL AROUND
THE WORLD.
SO I WOULD TRY TO COMMUNE, I WOULD JUST SAY, USE ME, USE ME,
AND BE WITH ME HERE IN THE ROOM AND LET ME HEAL YOU AS I TRY TOY
HEAL MYSELF AND AN AUDIENCE AND USING THE WORDS OF THIS PLAY AND
THE IDEAS OF THIS PLAY.
THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN FEELING LIKE YOU'RE SERVING
SOMETHING GREATER AND BEING USED.
I SEE YOU RUNNING OUT HERE AND YOU GUYS PLAYING YOUR
INSTRUMENTS.
YOU LEAVE SPACE FOR GOD.
YOU LEAVE A LITTLE SPACE IN THE TOP OF THE AUDITORIUM FOR
SOMETHING DIVINE TO MOVE YOU AS YOU COME IN HERE.
I SEE IT IN WHAT YOU GUYS DO, YEAH.
>> Stephen: THAT'S LOVELY.
THAT'S LOVELY TO BE SAID.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
>> WHAT.
>> Stephen: THAT MEANS GOD JUST WON A PEABODY.
>> HEY!
>> Stephen: CONGRATULATIONS, LONG OVERDUE.
>> GOD'S FIRST PEABODY.
( LAUGHTER ) >> Stephen: YOU'RE SUPER BUSY
THIS COMING FALL.
YOU HAVE TWO MOVIES.
>> MM-HMM.
>> Stephen: YOU HAVE "THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE," WHERE YOU
PLAY -- JUST THE TRAILER ALONE IS KILLING ME -- YOU PLAY JIM
BAKER.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: AND JESSICA CHASTAIN PLAYS TAMMY FAYE.
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: EXTRAORDINARY.
>> Stephen: YOU'VE PLAYED A JESUIT PRIEST TRYING TO BRING
CHRISTIANITY TO JAPAN, A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST GOING TO WAR AS A
CONSCIENTIOUS PROJECTOR, HOW DID THAT PREPARE YOU IN ANY WAY TO
PLAY TELEVANGELIST?
( LAUGHTER ) >> STICKY QUESTION.
( LAUGHTER ) BECAUSE MY JOB AS AN ACTOR IS
NOT TO JUDGE THE CHARACTERS I'M PLAYING, RIGHT.
>> Stephen: SURE.
YOU HAVE TO FIND SOME PART OF THEM THAT --
>> YEAH.
>> Stephen: -- THAT YOU ARE ON THEIR SIDE BECAUSE YOU ARE THEM.
>> ONE OF THE REASONS JIM BAKER -- AND YOU KNOW, FIRST OF
ALL, JESSICA HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS A NUMBER OF YEARS, THIS IS
A REAL PASSION PROJECT FOR HER.
SHE'S REMARKABLE IN THE FILM AND TRANSFORMATIVE AND DEEPLY
SPECIAL AND HONORS TAMMY.
I LITERALLY GOT A TEXT FROM JIM AND TAMMY'S SON JAY BAKER BEFORE
I CAME ON STAGE TONIGHT AND SAID THANK YOU FOR HELPING TO SHOW
THE WORLD THAT MY FATHER IS HUMAN AND GIVING HIM MORE
DIMENSION THAN PEOPLE WOULD EXPECT.
>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A QUICK COMMERCIAL BREAK.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE BECAUSE WE'LL BE BACK WITH MORE ANDREW
GARFIELD.
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