-How's the family doing?
-Everybody's good, you know.
Growing up. You know what it's like.
You've got two. I've got three daughters.
And you know, they're half -- My wife's from England.
So they're different, you know.
[ Laughter ]
Well, I mean I'm saying the British -- no, no, no.
The British are different.
So I see in my kids as they get older,
I see the American kind of boisterous side
and then I also see the quiet, demure,
sort of more reserved, proper British.
We were in England recently.
This is a true story.
We were in like a bed and breakfast.
Kids are crashed out. My wife and I --
This is just a great example of how the British behave.
We're in a little café downstairs having a bite to eat.
And there's an older couple sitting over here
just eating their eggs, and I start hearing --
[ Chokes ]
You know, just very soft --
That's choking. That's me choking.
-Of course. [ Laughter ]
-And I look over here, and the husband,
he's not looking up from his eggs
to even acknowledge that his wife is, like, kind of choking.
I look over at the waiter, and the waiter's got the newspaper.
And he's like...
You know, he's not gonna say anything.
[ Laughter ]
I said to my wife, "Should I go do anything?"
And she's just like, "No, we don't deal with it like that."
So the woman -- It's getting a little louder.
She goes out into the hallway.
And she's having an episode.
It's like an F-150 backfiring at this point.
And I'm like, "I got to do something."
So I go in the hallway, and I tap her on the shoulder.
I say, "Can I --"
You know, and I played a soap opera doctor in a movie once.
I know nothing. [ Laughter ]
-You were great, by the way. You were fantastic.
-I have no idea how to deal with a choking situation.
But I just said, "Can I give you, you know --"
you know, the international symbol, I guess, for a Heimlich.
And she's -- eyes are tearing up.
And she said, "Yes, please, please."
Turns around.
And I give her a couple of pops.
And finally the husband, who's been gulping eggs,
peeks around the corner and is kind of checking out.
She coughs a little something up.
She was fine.
Everything was okay.
And then seconds later
we're all back in the café and nothing's happened.
Everybody's -- nothing happened. Nothing at all.
-You saved someone's life.
-I promise you -- [ Cheers and applause ]
-You're a hero. -No. I don't --
-You're an American treasure.
-It kind of was my Tom Cruise moment, right?
-It really was.
-I think she would have been fine anyway.
But honestly, it was just like the way the British are.
It's just very quiet and reserved.
-I want to talk about "House of Cards."
-Yeah. -I love it.
Big fan of the show.
You coming in on this -- it's a big deal.
This is the end of the whole series.
-Yeah.
-Yeah. They almost didn't make this season.
-Yeah. It started a little rough.
You know, obviously.
Diane Lane and I play a brother and sister.
We play Bill and Annette Sheppard.
We started the show
and obviously hit a pretty serious speed bump.
Netflix was very good.
They took care of the crew during a time
where the writers had to go rewrite and reconfigure the show
for that final episode. -Sure.
-But we all came back with a mandate.
Listen, I'm just a big fan of the show.
I felt like the people on that show, particularly Robin,
who I really felt like stuck with it --
[ Cheers and applause ]
It would be very easy for an actor to lose, you know,
her co-star and say, "You know, maybe that's a sign.
Maybe that's enough." And she stuck right in there.
Brought that ball into the end zone.
-Good for her.
-And I felt like -- for good reason, too.
Not only for the crew but for the fans.
I mean people really, really like that show.
-Of course, yeah.
-We have an ending coming.
And it's good. -Really?
-Yeah. -Really?
Now, it's eight episodes, right? -That's right.
-What can you tell us? Can you tell us anything?
Can you give us a hint, a spoiler?
Can you allude?
-I can't tell you much.
I can tell you that at the end of the season
I've killed everyone and I'm the president.
But I can't -- [ Laughter ]
-Greg, that's way too much.
-I can't tell you anything more than that.
-All right. That's a good hint.
I want to show a clip.
Here's Greg Kinnear and Robin Wright
in the new season of "House of Cards."
Take a look at this.
-He's out, Claire, and he's not going back in.
Now, you need my help.
Later tonight I'm going to watch you sign that bill
that's sitting on your desk.
To the dead a kingdom means nothing.
They have their requiem and eternity.
That's "MacBeth," the opera, not the play.
All you have to do now is just go on out there
to your oldest, dearest friend, hold her hand up high.
-That's how you do it right there.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Greg Kinnear, everybody!