- It's good to meet you, now you've just come in
from where, Canada?
- I did. Yeah, I was in Vancouver.
Let's see, eight hours ago.
- [Host] Oh, okay.
(audience laughing)
So yes, very happy to be back and a little tired,
but we're not gonna talk about that, it's fine.
- [Host] But you're like a world traveler now.
I know you were just where, was it in Sweden?
- [Emily] I was, yeah, in between shooting the show,
"Pretty Smart", that you just saw,
and working on a film up in Vancouver.
I took two weeks.
My boyfriend and I went to Sweden to visit a friend of mine.
And I'd never been that far north before.
[Host] Right.
And everybody, it felt like I was in a simulation.
Everyone's so beautiful.
(all laugh)
It was very strange.
Here you're walking around
and everybody's exercising and eating well,
and it was marvelous.
I had a really great time.
- [Host] Well, you're blonde and you're a good fit right in.
- You know I thought I was Swedish.
I was very excited to go back to my homeland.
I'm Norwegian,
(audience laughing)
I'm not Swedish at all.
It was, I landed and they're like get out,
We don't, we see.
- [Host] But see, to most Americans close enough.
- Sure.
- So what was it like, tell me about Sweden.
- It was great. I was there for about a week.
One of my favorite artists is,
he goes by the name of the tallest man on earth.
And we follow each other on social media.
And the day that I was leaving Sweden,
I get a message from him like,
"Hey, I just want to let you know,
I know you're a longtime fan.
I'm playing a show in Stockholm tonight,
if you want to come."
And I'm like on the plane, the plane is like taking off
and I'm like, "Turn around."
- Is he actually tall?
- You know, I haven't met him,
but his name would suggest that, right?
- [Host] Well, I mean, do you have a picture
of him standing next to a tree or something where he
- I'm gonna get in touch and ask for that photo.
(all laughs)
- So you've never seen a picture of him?
- Well no, I know what he looks like, but I,
you know I'm so short so I know everybody is tall to me.
(audience laughing)
How tall are you Lea?
Are you short?
- [Lea] I'm 5'3.
- Yeah, me too.
So we're short we don't know how tall people are.
- [Host] That's about normal height.
(chuckles)
Let me ask you though, as a child star.
Well, both of you, you seem incredibly normal, you know.
(all laughs)
- Do you see this ridiculous outfit I'm wearing,
or I seem normal to you?
- Okay.
Besides that, but no, but you know what I mean?
At any point, did you feel like, oh,
I want to just be a kid or I want to go back
or you seem like you handled it pretty well?
- [Emily] That's really nice. Lea I'll let you go first.
(laughter)
- I'm just grateful that you think that we look normal.
- Isn't that nice?
(audience laughing)
No, I mean, I think it was a little easier
for me to step into normality
just because I grew up here.
My friends are here.
I went to college here.
I went to high school here.
I have a really nice community around me.
My parents are still together.
Thankfully, they love each other very much.
They love me and my brother very much.
And I kind of grew up in a community that was just all love.
And school was very important.
So no matter what I was doing,
whether it was Hannah Montana or I was in college
through Young and Hungry.
It's just, school kind of took precedent a lot of the time.
And that helped me keep my head on straight.
And I've got like a kind of a ubiquitous amount
of ridiculous hobbies.
So that kind of helped as well.
- [Host] No, that's great.
(audience applauding)
Now you've got to work with,
one of my favorite people, you know,
I love Betty White
and she's, her 100th birthday is coming up.
There she is right there.
- [Emily] Oh no, a hundred really?
- [Host] Betty is a hundred, I think next month,
Yeah, and that's something.
(audience applauding)
So, tell me about that.
You know something, she is so sharp, you know 'cause?
- She is so, she's got a mouth on her too man.
- Oh yeah,
(chuckles)
I'm glad you said it not me.
- [Emily] No, she's got a mouth on her, she'll tell you.
If she was sitting here, she'd go, uh huh.
- [Host] Oh yeah, she'll just give you, 'cause you know,
you kind of go, and how are you? And she'd give you that.
She'd just give you, you know.
- [Emily] I don't know what words I can say
on this television show.
- I'm gonna hold back the,
(a shocking surprise noise)
- But she's very funny.
- She's, she's very funny.
- She's very funny I was very fortunate to work with Betty.
She did, I wanna say,
I think at least three episodes of Young and Hungry.
She did a couple and um.
Man she, I mean, first of all, she's beautiful.
She's just so stunning to look at.
She's got really beautiful skin and she shows up
and then she's, you know, razzing you.
And the crew, it was amazing to be working
on a show for that long
and our crew, you watch our crew.
That's been around forever.
They've worked with so many people,
and then she walks on stage and they all kind of just,
"Hi, Ms. White it's very nice to meet you," or whatever.
And, the amount of respect
that she garners walking into a room was very interesting
and well-deserved, and man, she's got a mouth
on her though doesn't she?
(audience laughing)
- Apparently, I'm gonna have to be a lot older
to get any of that, yeah.
(audience laughing)
Did you ever work with her here?
Or there's someone in theater where, "Oh my God,
I can't believe I'm working with this?"
- I mean on Glee we got to work
with so many incredible people,
but I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis on Scream Queens.
- Oh, yes. Yeah.
(audience applauding)
- She's just,
- I love her.
- Such a force.
So that was incredible.
- I love Jamie Lee Curtis, but we actually, it was her,
I believe it was her 93rd birthday when she was on set.
And I don't know if you know this,
but she's a huge animal rights activist.
- Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
And, her team didn't tell anybody
on the Young and Hungry stage,
just shows up with a petting zoo
of like exotic animals.
(audience amazed)
And, oh there she is!
- Oh!
- So I'm pretty sure that's either an African lynx
or some sort of snow leopard or something.
And look at her just,
I think she knew that she was like, oh Betsy,
it's good to see you again or whatever.
(audience laughing)
I'm like, you know this animal?
(audience laughing)
She's the raddest.
- Just the fact that she was 93, 7 years ago,
- I know!
- I know, now the show is called Pretty Smart.
What's it about?
- So yes, Pretty Smart, it's a new show for Netflix.
It's now streaming.
(audience cheering)
It's uh, I play a character named Chelsea,
who is a high intellectual.
She went to Harvard, she's a lawyer.
And by unfortunate circumstance,
she has to move in with her sister Claire,
who lives in Venice Beach, California.
And Chelsea has to sort of find her feet
with this new community of people
that she doesn't really understand.
And in turn, they sort of help her figure out
that, can't really always judge a book by its cover.
And, it's very funny.
I had a really lovely time on there.
(audience cheering)