>> James: PLEASE WELCOME THE CHARMING, THE DELIGHTFUL ELLE
FANNING TO THE SHOW!
THERE SHE SO MUCH SO NICE TO SEE YOU.
WE LOVE IT SO MUCH WHEN YOU'RE HERE, FIRST OF ALL,
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATION.
INCREDIBLE NEWS.
[ APPLAUSE ] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN YOU FOUND OUT?
>> WELL, I'M ACTUALLY IN LONDON RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE'VE STARTED
FILMING THE SECOND SEASON OF "THE GREAT."
SO I WAS ON SET, YOU KNOW, THE TIME DIFFERENCE AND EVERYTHING
NORMALLY, YOU KNOW, IF I WAS IN L.A. THEY'D COME OUT, WHAT, LIKE
5:00 A.M., YOU WOULD BE WOKEN UP WITH THE NEWS.
BUT I WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF FILMING.
IT WAS, LIKE, 2:00 P.M., I GUESS, AND WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE SCENENNED AND TONY MACK McNAMARA, THE WRITER TO HAVE
THE SHOW, RAN DOWN FROM THE WRITER'S ROOM AND SAID WE GOT
NOMINATED FOR BEST COMEDY.
AND TO BE ON SET AND EXPERIENCE THAT WITH THE WHOLE CREW.
AND THEY COME ROLLING IN.
SO HE CAME BACK AND STOPPED THE SCENE AGAIN AND WAS, LIKE, AND
ELLE'S BEEN NOMINATED AND NICK'S BEEN NOMINATED!
WE WERE SCREAMING CAZAL LIKE WE DO IN THE SHOW.
SO IT WAS AMAZING.
IT WAS SO COOL IS THAT SO DID YOU MANAGE TO FIND THE ONE
BRITISH FILM CREW WHO WOULD BE EVEN REMOTELY BOTHERED BY THIS?
BECAUSE MY EXPERIENCE OF BEING ON A SET WITH A BRITISH FILM
CREW IS SOMEONE WILL COME DOWN WITH NEWS AND SOMEONE JUST GOES,
RIGHT, BUT WHAT TIME ARE WE FINISHING?
( LAUGHTER ) SURE.
SURE.
BRILLIANT.
DOES THIS AFFECT THE OVERTIME OR WHAT?
( LAUGHTER ) >> THAT WOULD NORMALLY BE THE
RESPONSE, LIKE, OF THE GUY.
BUT I THINK, BECAUSE OF THE LOCKDOWN, AND THERE'S JUST --
>> James: YES!
-- NOT MUCH HAPPENING OR TO CELEBRATE, LIKE, REALLY, SO
HAVING THAT NEWS KIND OF GAVE EVERYONE A PEP IN THEIR STEP.
NORMALLY, EVERYONE, I GUESS, WOULD RUN TO THE PUBS.
>> James: YES.
BUT WE JUST KIND OF HAD, YOU KNOW, CHAMPAGNE FOR LUNCH.
WE WERE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER ABOUT THE SCENES,
RIGHT?
>> James: HOW EUROPEAN.
IT'S WONDERFUL.
AS YOU SAID, VERY RIGHTFULLY AND BRILLIANTLY NICHOLAS HOULT WAS
NOMINATED, AND YOU MADE THIS TO CELEBRATE.
HE DOES LOOK GOOD IN A CORSET, DOESN'T HE?
WHERE DID YOU PUT THIS PICTURE?
>> I PUT THAT IN HIS TRAILER.
HE ACTUALLY WASN'T FILMING THE DAY HE FOUND OUT.
I THINK HE SAID HE WAS DOING A WORKOUT CLASS ON HIS PHONE.
>> James: SURE.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT HE SAID.
BUT I THEN WAS, LIKE, OKAY, QUICKLY, WE'VE GOT TO PUT
SOMETHING IN HIS TRAILER.
AND FOR HIS BIRTHDAY, I HAD PREVIOUSLY DECORATED HIS ENTIRE
TRAILER OF, LIKE, HIS FAMOUS CHARACTERS FROM, LIKE, "MAD MAX"
AND X-MEN AND I SUPERIMPOSED MY FACE ON TO HIS CHARACTERS, LIKE
IN ABOUT A BOY, ALL AROUND HIS TRAILER.
SO THIS TIME I PUT HIS FACE ON MY BODY.
>> James: NICE.
I THINK HE LOOKS GREAT.
>> James: HE LOOKS FANTASTIC.
NOW, YOU WERE HERE ON THE SHOW, I THINK IN OUR LAST FEW SHOWS
BEFORE LOCKDOWN HAPPENED, I REMEMBER WE WERE TALKING AND YOU
AND YOUR SISTER DAKOTA WERE ABOUT TO GO OFF TO BUDAPEST TO
SHOOT A MOVIE TOGETHER.
HOW IS THAT GOING?
DO YOU THINK THAT FILM IS EVER GOING TO HAPPEN?
>> YEAH, YOU KNOW, WE HOPE SO.
YEAH, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GO FILM, LIKE, OUR FIRST MOVIE
TOGETHER AND, LIKE, LITERALLY THE DAY -- I GUESS, YEAH, THE
DAY BEFORE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE, LIKE, EVERYTHING HIT,
AND, SO, KIND OF GOT SHUT DOWN FOR THE MOMENT.
SO IT'S BASICALLY KIND OF POSTPONED.
WE'RE NOT, LIKE -- WE'RE JUST WAITING UNTIL THE TIME IS RIGHT
AND SAFE AND EVERYTHING.
I KNOW, WE WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
>> James: WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER, YOU AND DAKOTA, THE TWO
OF YOU BEING PERFORMERS, WHEN YOU WERE GROWING UP, WERE YOU
INHERENTLY PERFORMERS THEN?
WOULD YOU PUT ON SHOWS FOR YOUR FAMILY AND PLAYS AND THINGS LIKE
THAT?
>> YEAH.
WE WOULDN'T SO MUCH, LIKE, PUT ON SHOWS FOR ANYONE ELSE.
LIKE, WE WANTED TO JUST DO THE SCENES OURSELF.
THEY WERE KIND OF OUR LITTLE SECRETIVE THING THAT WE WOULD
DO.
AND SHE -- WE TRIED TO MAKE EVERYTHING, LIKE, REALLY AS REAL
AS POSSIBLE.
SO, LIKE, MY SISTER DID A GUEST STAR ON E.R., AND THEY GAVE HER
ALL THE REAL MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO USE, AND, SO, WE WOULD USE
THAT IN OUR PLAYING AROUND, AND I WOULD SOMETIMES -- I WOULD BE,
LIKE, THE BABY THAT SHE WOULD LIKE BIRTH ME.
WE WOULD GO IN DEPTH.
AND THEN I WAS ALWAYS THE HUSBAND OR THE DAD OR, LIKE --
YOU KNOW, SHE WAS ALWAYS LIKE THE WOMAN AND SHE WOULD BOSS ME
AROUND, AND I HAD TO BE THE DUDE.
>> James: WOW.
AND I KNOW YOU HAD QUITE AN UNUSUAL OBSESSION AS A CHILD.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE -- DON'T WORRY, NO ONE'S WATCHING THIS.
( LAUGHTER ) WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE
CREW IN THE STUDIO WHAT IT WAS THAT YOU USED TO OBSESSIVELY
COLLECT AS A YOUNGSTER?
>> YES.
I WOULD COLLECT A LOT OF THINGS, BUT THERE WAS ONE PHASE I WENT
THROUGH OF, LIKE, WHENEVER WE WOULD EAT CHICKEN, I GUESS,
ROAST CHICKEN OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, YOU DO THE WISHBONE.
>> James: YEAH.
YOU KNOW, YOU PULL IT APART.
SO IF I EVER WON, WHICH I GUESS I KIND OF DID OFTEN BECAUSE I
HAD A LOT OF THEM, I WOULD KEEP THOSE WISH BONES AND PUT THEM IN
MY PURSE AND HOARD THEM, AND THEY'D SMELL, BUT I THOUGHT THEY
BROUGHT ME GOOD LUCK.
( LAUGHTER ) I KEPT THEM.
>> James: WOW.
WHAT AGE WERE YOU CARRYING AROUND THE BONES OF DEAD ROASTED
ANIMALS?
>> IT WAS JUST YESTERDAY.
( LAUGHTER )