You look gorgeous as always.
Thank you.
And you've got the redhead look going a little bit here.
Yeah.
Yeah, redhead.
Yeah.
(Conan purring)
(audience laughing)
(Amy laughing)
That's terrible.
I've never tried that for real on a woman.
What's it like?
Is there any difference?
Do you like being a redhead?
I do.
Because normally you're blonde.
I'm a natural blonde.
But blondes don't get treated very well in our society.
So I enjoy being a redhead much more.
You're having a better experience with it than I've had.
(Amy laughing)
(audience laughing)
I get punched in the head a lot.
But did you, do you notice a difference?
Absolutely.
I mean, you know, some people think that redheads are,
you know, we're fiery.
And do you get people who-
Well, aren't we?
Uh, no, I am not a fiery redhead.
Well it used to be, you know, as a blonde,
if I had something I wanted to say,
people are like, "Ugh, she's high maintenance,
kind of a, you know,"
but as a redhead, you get, "She's a firecracker.
She is, you know, she's fiesty."
Right.
So blondes, people maybe it's easier for them
to dismiss a blonde.
I think so.
But if you're a red head they think you got spunk.
You got spunk, baby, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't get that either.
No?
(audience laughing)
(Amy laughing)
We do have in common, I have very, very pale skin.
And you seem to have the almost-
yours is, it's beautiful.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Thank you.
But almost translucent.
(audience laughing)
(Amy laughing)
I can see your skeleton.
(audience laughing)
No, uh-
My sister calls it fishbelly blue, which is-
That's not nice.
No, but it's true.
But fishbelly blue goes well with the red,
let me tell you.
It does, much better than with the blonde.
So did you not like your, growing up,
'cause I always find when I was a kid,
I don't know how you, I mean, I was a redhead and very pale
and I hated the way I looked.
Do you, did you growing up with the pale skin,
was that fun for you or-?
I mean, I didn't want to be pale.
I've accepted it.
I didn't do very well.
(audience laughing)
(Amy chuckling)
You learned slowly to accept it.
I had no choice.
I mean, my skin repels the sunlight.
Literally, I tried to lay out once in Italy
without sunscreen for like 20 minutes
at four o'clock in the afternoon,
and I got sun poisoning.
I woke up with a rash all over.
So.
Yes, yes, this is turning me on.
(Amy laughing)
(audience laughing)
This was my whole experience growing up was-
Exactly.
Sun for five minutes.
You know, my mom made me wear like an old lady's big hat.
(audience laughing)
Exactly.
And forget going to the beach in bikinis, like.
I could never wear a bikini, no.
(Amy laughing)
(audience laughing)
Exactly.
I got yelled at a water park in Georgia.
Somebody yelled at me to get a tan.
And I don't know if you've been to waterparks in Georgia,
but this man was not much to look at in a swimsuit.
And someone yelled at you, "Hey, get a tan"?
Yes sir.
That's terrible.
It was horrible.
Yeah.
What did you do?
Did you say something really cool back to him?
No, I didn't actually.
I think I was upset.
(Conan laughing)
(audience laughing)
Quietly upset.
I wanted to like, you know, yeah.
Like, "Hey, well I'm going to look really good someday
and you'll still be fat," you know.
(Conan laughing)
(audience applauding)
That's good.
I think it was-
You should've said that.
I think I said that to my sister
under, you know, the tears.
You wrote it later on.
(audience laughing)
In my memiors.
That's what I would do.
I would go later and write that in my room.
"Oh, that's what I will say next time."
Exactly.
(audience laughing)
"To those cruel bullies."
Exactly.
I have to talk to about something
again, that affects my life.
I have a daughter who, when she saw "Enchanted,"
when she was I want to say three,
she saw it when she was three years old
and absolutely, she just couldn't believe,
she just loved the movie and she loved you in the movie
and of course believed it all.
And because so much of it happens in Central Park
and we live near Central Park,
she then would say to me, "Take me to Central Park.
I want to go find the princess from 'Enchanted.'"
So she's always looking for you in Central Park.
(audience awwing)
We should plan that someday.
(audience laughing)
Yeah.
You should charge people like $50,000.
(Amy laughing)
(audience laughing)
Only you.
"What's it worth?"
I would only charge you that much.
Yeah, yeah.
No.
(Amy laughing)
Thank you!
You're so nice.
(audience laughing)
Yeah, well anything for you.
"I'd do it for free, but for you, 50 thou."
(Conan snapping)
"Let's have it."
(audience laughing)
But yeah, no, it's been interesting
because kids sometimes recognize me.
Their parents really do.
And I'm always like, "Oh no, no, no, I'm in sweats.
I look-
You're going to ruin her whole idea of princesses."
And I met these kids at an airport
and I had that experience.
This, like, I think she must've been three.
Mm-hmm.
And they said, "Do you know who this is?
It's Giselle."
And she welled up, you know, "That's not Giselle."
And she was sort of-
(audience laughing)
Oh really?
She got upset?
I was horrified.
I had to actually, I bent down to her level
and I had to be like, you know,
"I'm in disguise."
(audience laughing)
(audience applauding)
That's so nice of you, though.
That's really great.
She must've loved that.
She, well, her eyes-
She sort of understood.
Right.
Once I was like, "You know how I,
I made this out of my sofa, these sweats."
(audience laughing)
That's so great.
So, uh, yeah, it was good.
But an airport, it's such not a good place.
It's just, "Why are they making Giselle
take off her belt at security?"
(audience laughing)
Exactly.
(Amy laughing)
Running a metal detector around her.
And now they let paparazzi
and they can take pictures of you
sort of like with your Stripe socks under your jeans,
you know, it's very undignified.
Yeah, that's especially-
Walking barefoot, nobody will take it anyway.
Yes, yes, they take shots of anything out there.
But that's so nice that you do that.
Well, I love that.
I love the little girl who liked this movie, and you know.
Well, you know what's so funny?
Sometimes when I'm walking around,
people will sometimes, you know,
the adult will recognize me
and then they'll get their four year old and go,
"Do you know who this is?
This is Conan O'Brien."
(audience laughing)
Like, I'm on at 12:35 at night.
(Amy laughing)
(audience laughing)
We get a V for violence.
(audience laughing)
I know, I know.
The kid's always, "I don't care on such a profound level."
(Amy laughing)
(audience laughing)
It's terrible.
Yeah.
But It's been fun to do a film that affects kids
and in a positive way.
I want to ask you something.
You used to work at the Gap.
I did.
And I want to ask you about that because I'm always,
I'm personally fascinated by people that are so talented,
they become such big stars,
but just a few years ago, you know, like a lot of people,
were working a job nine to five.
How did you like working at the Gap?
I liked it all right, I have to say, at the time.
I'm one of those personalities,
I'll try to make the best of whatever situation.
So I was the greeter, and so I was always like,
"Hey, check out our t-shirts,"
"Hey, we carry men's underwear now," you know,
I would think of anything.
(audience laughing)
Like anything I could think to say.
So your job was to just start a conversation.
Is that the job of the greeter?
That's the greeter.
Yes, there is-
I haven't been there for a while,
I don't know if any of you guys have worked at the Gap,
but there's the G.A.P. A.C.T.,
which is Greet, Approach, Product information,
Add-on, which is that thing, you know,
when you're in the dressing room and they're like,
Hey, you know wha would look right with those jeans
is this sweater.
(audience chuckling)
Oh my God.
(audience laughing)
I always think the girl just thought of that.
(audience laughing)
They're always getting me to buy like a poncho
to go with the socks.
(audience laughing)
I know, I'm sure, like, the Gap people will be outside
to whisk me away as I walk out of your show.
(Conan laughing)
I've revealed a secret.
"We must remove the chip from her brain.
She's proved troublesome."
(audience laughing)
Yeah, so be nice to them when they, that's their job,
their managers are making them add the belt, 'cause add on.
And then it's Close
and then, huh, I don't know what T was.
Close means make sure you get the sale.
Yes sir.
That's why they grab on your ankles
when you try and leave the store.
(audience laughing)
You're hitting you.
Exactly.
All right.
I forget what the T is.
There's a T in there too?
Well "act," yeah.
Oh.
(Conan laughing)
(audience laughing)
It's not Gap ack.
I should learn to read.
(audience laughing)
And to spell.
I want to talk about "Doubt."
You're in this movie with Meryl Streep.
Yes.
It's gotta be a dream come true.
And I know you're also working with her
in another movie as well
that hasn't come out yet.
"Julie and Julia," it comes out in August,
but I shot at directly after "Doubt."
And that was fun.
It involves, we cook a lot and-
It's about cooking, yeah.
Yeah, I cook my way through the Julia Child cookbook.
Cool.
Did you learn to cook anything?
Like, did you learn amazing skills?
I did, I learned how to poach an egg
and to make omelettes without a spatula,
and I learned how to bone a duck.
Okay.
(audience laughing)
(audience applauding)
(Amy laughing)
Let's talk about "Doubt."
(audience laughing)
I play a nun.
(Amy laughing)
Yeah, you play a nun in "Doubt"
and you really wanted this part.
(audience chuckling)
Please settle down.
(audience laughing)
You people sicken me.
Maybe I should not tell them about
my duck boning progress.
No, no, no, that doesn't go with the nun.