So, this morning, Critics' Choice Award, congratulations.
And to you too, congratulations.
It's not about me right now, it's about you.
This is-- and you're going to stick around and help me
with 12 days a little later.
I would love to help with 12 days.
Which is going to be fun.
OK how do you remember the Tonya Harding story,
where she was accused of hurting Nancy Kerrigan, and all
of this stuff.
So, that's what this movie is.
And you play the mother, but you don't skate in the movie,
but I found out you were a competitive skater.
Well, I dreamed of being, it was my first dream as a child
before even thinking about being an actor.
I wanted to be an Olympic figure skater.
And I was really committed and passionate about it.
I would get up before school in the morning and go to the rink.
And then after school.
Wow.
And then I had this terrible accident
that stopped my skating career.
Wow.
And I went in a different direction.
But I wanted to tell you, the reason I quit.
I had this accident.
And the reason I had this accident,
because I was playing a game, and I was cheating.
And I thought you would appreciate that.
It was my earlier days of cheating.
Because I was so competitive.
I was playing this game with these couples.
And it was parents, and kids, it was a big party.
And you had to dance in a couple, and you had--
the woman had a balloon tied around her ankle,
and you had to pop all the other couple's balloons.
And it was down to two couples, and I
had this strapless long dress on,
and I pulled my balloon up to my knees,
so that it wasn't anywhere near the ground.
So I was cheating.
Isn't that interesting.
So you started cheating early in life,
because every time we've played a game you've cheated.
And so, I have a feeling--
Almost every time.
You could win the Oscar because you know how to cheat.
So you could cheat your way into winning the Oscar.
Oh my gosh.
Now I'm going to bet on you, because I
know you're a cheater.
And obviously Margot Robbie, who produced the movie and stars
in it as Tonya skates, because she's in the--
Well she did, she had been an ice hockey
player for a brief moment in her life,
and she'd never done figure skating.
And it's a different animal altogether.
And she, I'm so impressed with what she did.
She trained for five months before we did the movie.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's really good.
I texted you and told you how brilliant.
I know, it was thrilling to get a text from you.
Well, I said that you're going to get nominated for an Oscar,
and you will get nominated for an Oscar.
And you will, you will.
If not win.
So, tell everybody about I Tanya.
And it's just done so well.
It is done beautifully.
My friend Steven Rogers wrote this movie.
And he went and started interviewing Tonya Harding.
We went up to Portland to meet her and interview her.
And he met Jeff Gillooly.
And he didn't know how he was going to actually write
the movie, but as he started interviewing them,
he found it just so interesting that they both had
completely different versions of what happened,
in their relationship, and about the incident.
And he thought, that's how I'm going to tell the story,
from everyone's different point of view.
Right.
And then, of course, the only thing they did agree about
is how--
what a tough mother LaVona was.
She was a horrible mother.
Not a tough one, she was a horrible mother.
Not a very nurturing mother.
I didn't want to spoil it for everyone.
Let them discover her.
Yeah, well you can kind of see from--
you're standing on the ice, smoking a cigarette,
pushing your kid.
Tonya was at the premiere.
She was at the premiere last night,
I finally got to meet her.
Did she love it?
She did, I think she loved a lot of-- she
loved my performance a lot.
Which, I was like, oh, you poor thing.
Yeah, that must have been really--
she loved the movie.
There were parts she didn't like,
but I think mostly she was really excited about it.
And I just wanted to give her a hug,
because back when we first heard about this story,
we were told what to think about her,
and we were told she was a villain.
And actually it was a lot more complicated than that.
The story of what had happened to her.
And I think people come away with a lot more compassion
for her.
I do too, and I don't know, but I come away
from it looking like she had nothing to do with it.
To me, it looks like that other person did it,
and she knew nothing about it.
Yeah well, they don't tell you what to think about it,
but everyone will have their own opinion.
I'm glad you think that, that's what I think too.
Yeah.
I think that she had a very unfortunate situation
in her life.
But boy, she was so talented, she was so good.
And it's really a shame, because it just ruined her career.
I know.
I mean, they can't take the triple away from her, though.
She did land the triple axle, one
of the only like a handful of women have ever done that.
In fact, for the stunt we had to do it,
and the director Craig Gillespie was like, well
let's get someone to do that triple axle,
and they're like, there's nobody who can do it.
Right.
The only two women who could do it
were competing, or getting ready for the Olympics,
and they didn't want to risk injuring themselves
for a movie.
Wow, that says something.
So they had to CGI that stuff.