- So hot, so hot, so hot.
- Let's see what ya got.
- My chair is squeaking.
(Holland chuckling loudly)
(upbeat music)
- Hi, I'm Sandra Oh.
- I'm Bob Balaban.
- I'm Jay Duplass.
- I'm Nana Mensah.
- Hey, I'm Holland Taylor.
I'm from the new Netflix show called "The Chair"
and I'm going to answer some highly invasive questions.
- Highly invasive questions?
Okay.
- Bring it on.
- Shit, no.
- Well, I mean, I ask you, of course I did.
- I did put deodorant on today, super proud of myself.
- I was known in camp when I was 13 years old,
and I didn't realize that I had body odor,
my nickname at camp for two years was B.O. Bob.
Something happened along the way
and unless I'm in a steam room and go out without showering
and sitting in 300 degree heat, I don't wear deodorant
because I don't have odor.
- My worst subject in school was probably English
which is not good for me playing an English professor.
I did pretty well in school,
but I always found the level of analysis
and conversation around literature super (beep) annoying.
- Easy, easy. Chemistry.
My brain didn't have cells
that included any of the words that chemistry uses.
I was an idiot.
When I was good in school, I was great.
And when I was bad, I wasn't just bad,
it was so bad that they agreed to give me a D
so I could go onto my next year of school.
- Hell no! (laughing loudly)
I was definitely not in a sorority in college.
I am recalcitrant. (laughing loudly)
And I could never have somebody, like,
telling me what to do as I rushed a sorority.
So, that was not my bag, I did not do that.
- Oh my God, it was the worst experience of my life.
So, I joined Phi Kappa Tau,
all it did was, desperately for one year,
I tried to learn how to drink.
And I finally was able to down
an entire pitcher of beer in one sitting,
and when I finally was able to do that,
I did it on Friday and I woke up on Monday
and I won't tell you anything else.
- You know, I gotta tell you,
the funniest thing for me is just our director, Dan Longino.
We shot this in the height of COVID.
He's directing me and Jay,
and he personally has glasses.
So he has glasses, a mask, a shield,
and it's cold, right?
So, he comes in for a second and as he's directing us,
his shield is just fogging.
So, basically he's directing us
and he's doesn't stop talking
and it's completely fogged out.
And I was like, "Dan, can you even see us?"
He goes, "No, absolutely not, I can't even see you."
- I have Michelle Obama's executive assistant in my phone.
And I have letters from her with messages back and forth
between me and Michelle Obama in my phone.
- I wish, come on, Michelle, get in my phone.
- It's an Anthony Newley song, "What Kind of Fool Am I"
And I do an impression of Anthony Newley,
which I think is great, and I do hand gestures
and I'm very violent.
And I do it because it embarrasses my wife so much.
- No, I'm such a terrible singer, no.
- My go-to karaoke song is "Word Up" from Cameo.
That's a 40-and-above answer.
Spotify it, you'll know.
- I do have my own Netflix login,
don't ask me what it is.
- I have my own, are you kidding me?
- I don't. Would you furnish me with one
or is this a trick question and now you're firing me?
- I have my own Netflix login.
I am the source, people use my login.
I probably shouldn't admit to that on camera,
but here we are.
- I would say "Rashomon" is a film
that I say I've seen, but I really don't--
what's even worse, I don't even know if I've seen it.
Like, I went to film school
and we were avalanched with many films.
So it's very hard for me to remember what I've seen,
what I cheat watched, what I slept through,
what I have just gleaned from
other pompous film school people talking about "Rashomon"
and how important it is.
- For a graduation trip from college,
me and two girlfriends went to Saint-Tropez.
We had no money and we had no business
being in Saint-Tropez because
it's where like billionaires go and park their yachts.
And we ended up meeting a guy
who brought us back to his house
and his house was, like, palatial and it was amazing.
And it turned out that it wasn't his house.
And he was actually the keeper of the house.
And we got, like, busted in this house
that we weren't actually allowed to stay in
and it, like, belonged to the Sultan of Brunei
or something crazy.
- It's so boring.
It's from my plumber saying,
"I will be there later this morning." (laughs loudly)
- "Yay, happy you're happy."
- "He looks like my Irish accountant."
- The one I just received from Jay Duplass says,
"You guys look like you're 13."
- Ha.
- Well, now that you know so much more about me,
please enjoy "The Chair" on Netflix.