This is a movie called Can You Ever Forgive Me.
It's based on a true story.
And as you can see, it's a very dramatic role for Melissa.
It's really-- you're excellent.
You will be nominated--
Aw.
--for an Academy Award for this.
I really think you will.
[CHEERING]
Thank you.
I didn't know the story before.
But tell the story.
I didn't either.
It's the story of Lee Israel, that I
felt a little disappointed in myself
that I didn't know who she was or what her story was.
She was a fairly successful writer
in the '80s, and then in the '90s,
fell on really hard times.
And this is the story of--
she was backed into a corner and started forging letters
by very famous writers.
She was putting little--
sometimes the full letters.
But she was writing as Dorothy Parker and Noel Coward--
the best writers that we've ever known.
And she was getting away with it.
Because she was so clever.
Because she was such a great writer.
Such great wit-- until she was caught by the FBI.
And then it took a very different turn.
But it's a lovely story of just someone who's truly--
can be so lonely, even within the big, busy city of New York.
And her and Jack, who is played by Richard E. Grant,
who's just lovely--
these two very lonely, unlikely people become friends.
And it's a beautiful story just about humanity.
Yeah.
And the relationship with you two is great.
It's really good.
Oh, thanks.
So she's arrested for forgery.
Have you ever been arrested?
No.
And no one's more surprised than myself or my parents
that I can say that.
I did steal a Chunky once.
Do you remember-- anyone who's of a certain age--
it was this big chunk of chocolate
that you were like-- like an unreasonable-- nobody needs
a solid mass of chocolate.
And I don't know why.
My dad came down the aisle.
We were in the dime store.
And I was like--
just trying to-- suddenly realizing,
this is a lot of chocolate to take down.
I can't actually digest it all.
And then my dad came around the corner,
and he's like, what are you doing?
I'm like, I had chocolate in my pocket.
And he goes, oh, OK.
Come on.
We're going.
And we get in the car.
And I'm just sweating bullets.
I'm probably four or five, something like that--
sweating bullets, but I'm like, I got away with that Chunky.
In the backseat.
And then, out of nowhere--
like, not related to anything-- my dad's like,
so, Missy was eating chocolate in the store.
And I was like, you son of a gun.
And my ma-- I just remember seeing this.
She was?
And I was like--
and she goes, where did she get it?
And she said, well, she had in her pocket, she said.
And she goes, oh, is that right?
Did she buy that with her paycheck?
And I knew-- and she looked back at me again.
And I was like, oh, God.
I'm in so much trouble.
And my dad and my sister got out.
We drove out to the farm.
They got out of the car.
I started to get out.
My mom's like, don't move.
And she turned the car around.
And we went back into town.
And I got a quarter--
because I'm 100, and that's how much a Chunky cost.
And I had to go in.
And I was sobbing and crying.
And there was some kid that I thought was an adult--
he was probably 17--
at the counter.
And I had to just--
I think I stole a Chunky.
[FAKE CRYING]
And he goes, that's OK.
And I just remember my mom knocking on the glass,
and just like, it is not OK.
Don't tell her it's OK.
It's not OK.
And I was like--
[FAKE CRYING]
And then we just drove home.
And I never stole another Chunky.
Well, good for your mom.
Yeah.
Good for your mom.
Good for Sandy.
Very clever.
Did you buy it with her paycheck?
Can You Ever Forgive Me is out next Friday.
You should see it.
It's really, really good.
And she's fantastic in it.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.