-You look gorgeous. Welcome back.
-I feel like such a letdown after Dolly.
I can't even -- -Oh, stop.
Oh, come on. No.
I mean, how ama-- I know, we were --
You were freaking out backstage.
-I know, but I just feel --
I mean, I'm so happy that she was sat here.
[ Laughter ]
-She's sitting in the same -- Oh, stop it.
-No, I'm just -- I'm so sorry. For real.
-[ Laughter ] -Well, you're a big music fan.
We were talking last time.
You were saying how much you love Bruce Springsteen.
-Every time I'm here.
-Yeah, and then you were going to go see him in Broadway.
-Yeah, but I didn't, no.
'Cause I very stupidly gave my ticket to my mother.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, you're so nice. No, don't make that face.
You're so happy. You're the nicest daughter in the world.
-I mean, she's great, she's great,
but, yeah, no, I regret it.
[ Laughter ]
-But you were saying also that I think,
it's your favorite Christmas song as well.
-Oh, yeah, "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town."
-♪ You better watch out ♪
-The live version when he starts laughing though.
-Yes. Oh.
"Hey, Ben, you been good this year?"
[ Laughter ]
-I love it. -Look, fans of "The Crown,"
by the way, got very excited because you had a cameo.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Come on, buddy. You came back.
You came back and gave us a little treat.
-They literally can't get rid of me.
-No, we were so happy to see it.
But I don't think anyone was excited as --
You know who was the biggest fan of you is Nicki Minaj.
And I'm going to read you a quote.
-I know. You're all laughing. It's ridiculous.
-[ Laughter ] -I'm going to read you
a quote from Nicki Minaj.
She said, "I can't get enough of Claire Foy's perfect face.
I want to eat it." -[ Laughter ]
"It just does the right thing in every single scene."
Aw, she loves your face.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Nicki Minaj wants to eat your face.
-I would totally let her eat my face.
-You would let Nicki Minaj eat your face?
-She could try -- I mean, she'd gnaw a bit.
-She could gnaw on it, yeah, of course.
But also, you know, what I was thinking, is maybe you can
rap with Nicki because last time you were here, you rapped.
-Yes, I was forced to.
-I politely asked you to. -[ Laughter ]
-You were like this with a microphone.
-Yeah. Do it, do it, do it.
-It was, like, the most terrifying thing I've ever done.
-But you did Sugarhill Gang.
You did -- It was amazing. -By muscle memory.
I wasn't really there in the room.
I was floating above myself, going, "What are you doing?"
What's wrong with you?" -[ Laughter ]
-"What are you doing? You have a great career.
Why are you doing this?" -"Why are you ruining it?"
[ Laughter ]
-But you did it, and you crushed it.
Everyone loved it. -Hey.
-Nicki, just saying -- -Oh, my God, Nicki.
Don't ruin your career by letting me anywhere near it.
-[ Laughter ] -Oh, my gosh.
Can we talk about --
You're fantastic, yet again, in a movie this time.
This is "Women Talking." -Yes.
-It's already -- -[ Cheers and applause ]
-Very good.
-It's getting awards buzz already.
This is based on the book by the same name.
What was your first reaction to the story?
-So, it's actually -- Yeah, it's a book written by
a Canadian author called Miriam Toews,
but it's based on a set of real-life events that happened
in a Mennonite colony in Bolivia
where women from the ages of 4 to, you know, 90 were waking up
and having no memory, and it turned out that they were being
sexually abused by men of the colony.
So that's what the base -- Oh, God, it's really --
It's a downer, but that's what the book is based on, that,
but then the film is based on the book.
And it sounds incredibly intense and hard and difficult,
but actually the film is really tender
and full of love and hope and stuff.
-Yeah, it's a very difficult conversation.
[ Cheers and applause ]
It's done very, very well.
And I will say there's one scene in particular,
where you're doing this monologue
and you're crushing it.
And I read somewhere -- am I making this up? --
it was like 100 takes or something?
-We did the first big section of it 120 times.
-Maybe on the 50th take, do you go, "I think we got this one"?
[ Laughter ]
-No, because what would happen is we'd do a day and a half
on one side, and everyone would go, "Oh, thank God."
And then they'd go "turning round" and the cameras would go
to the other side, and we'd just look at the other actors and go,
"I'm so sorry. You've got to do it all again."
-You have to do it again. -Yeah.
-Oh, my goodness. -But it was great.
Amazing actors. Watching amazing acting.
-The whole movie, everyone, the cast.
I mean, amazing performances. -Really amazing.
-But, in particular, Claire Foy. I'm just saying.
-He has to say that. -[ Cheers and applause ]
-Just saying. -Just saying.
-A couple scenes, you're doing this incredibly dramatic work
and then you're going from crying to laughing.
And I go, "Who can do that?" That was very impressive.
-Well, the crying is easier than the laughing.
We were all quite scared about doing the laughing
because we knew that we had to do it.
And you know, like, when you watch something and someone's
laughing and it's not quite reaching their eyes.
That's the fear of an actor 'cause it's like,
"I'm not finding this funny at all
and I'm being made to laugh."
But they didn't have Rooney Mara,
who, turns out, she's a genius.
We were all sat there doing this scene, and we're thinking
"It's coming up, it's coming, it's coming up."
And then somebody broke wind.
[ Laughter ]
But we did the nervous thing of like,
[ Laughing nervously ]
"Someone's actually just farted in the scene."
But it turns out Rooney had brought a fart machine in,
and she was sat there going...
-[ Laughter ] -Like, with the fart machine
picking the moment when we could all laugh.
-No. -Yeah, it was amazing.
-Oh, not bad. That's how you did it?
-Yeah. Really recommend the fart machine.
-Rooney, good job.
-Yes, good job, Rooney.
-I'm so happy every time you come here. Please come back.
Congrats on the great reviews on this.
I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Claire Foy in "Women Talking." Take a look.
-We must consider this. -No. No.
That is not our responsibility because we aren't in charge of
whether or not they are punished.
We know that we've been attacked by men, not by ghosts or Satan,
as we were led to believe for so long.
We know that we've not imagined these attacks.
That we were made unconscious with cow tranquilizer.
We know that we are bruised and infected and pregnant
and terrified and insane, and some of us are dead!
We know that we must protect our children
regardless of who is guilty.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Claire Foy, everybody.
"Women Talking" is in select cities December 23rd
and nationwide in January.