(audience cheering)
- Everywhere we go, I'm like...
(audience cheers and applauds)
It's crazy.
(Kelly chuckles)
Well, I meant, calm down.
(Kelly chuckles)
They're literally, like I said
your name a minute ago and they scared me.
I was like, that's never happened in three seasons.
Well, I mentioned you won a Grammy
for your work with your girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
(audience cheers)
So that's amazing.
- Okay. Thank you.
- But I love that you, I find it really cool -
you did it under a pseudonym.
You - it wasn't your name.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, why did you choose to do that?
- Well, we chose to do it so that people,
first and foremost, would listen to the music first
before dissecting the fact that we did it together.
- (Kelly) Yeah! - But yeah,
I did it under a name, William Bowery.
- Yeah. - Which sounds like-
- Very fancy. - Very fancy.
- Yeah.
- Sounds like a kind of Agatha Christie character,
- Yeah. - I should be wearing
a monocle with a big mustache.
(Kelly laughs)
But, yeah, it was a combination of
William, my great grandfather,
who I never actually met,
was a composer. He wrote a lot of
classical music, - Oh!
and he wrote a lot of film scores.
And then Bowery is the area in New York that I spent
a lot of time in when I first went over there. So.
- I love that. - Stick them together.
- That's how you...okay.
But wait, I actually love this story
cause you starred with Steve Martin, who I love,
and you starred in a movie with him.
It was your first movie, right?
- Yeah. - Okay.
So, I love that he thought that your accent was fake
because this film, was it was it based in Texas?
Is that what I? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Okay. So you had an American accent.
- I did. - And you just kept that
all the time.
- I guess I kept it around him. Yeah.
- And then he thought you were like BSing him
and like, "Why are you speaking with British accent to me?"
- I guess. I mean, I don't remember keeping it all the time,
but I did sometimes.
And I guess I did when I was around
Steve Martin for some reason.
And then, yeah, it got to like, press day
a few months, you know, like a year later.
And he was like, "Ah, you're English."
(Kelly and audience laughs)
- I mean, job well done.
Like, he had no idea. That's amazing.
You're really good at accents.
- It went down well.
- I just love that, like a year later after filming,
"Wait, you're British?" - I know.
- Like, it's a lot of missed moments there,
but anyway. - It's fine.
Well, speaking of moments, so your new show
is called "Conversations with Friends".
So you do fewer fake accents, but more intimate scenes.
Are those awkward for you
or do you just kind of go to another place?
- I mean, they're like, they're obviously
a weird, funny strange part of the job.
- I feel like it's yeah.
I would be awkward.
- But they're not, I mean they nowadays, when you do them
they often have like they're called
- the coach or something. - Intimacy coordinator.
- Yeah. - So they come in and
they're the ones who have like the embarrassing,
not embarrassing job, they do like a really important job.
But they're the ones who roll around on the floor
making funny noises and showing you what shapes to make.
- Oh my gosh.
- And then you just kind of copy them.
That's I'm bending, yeah. I'm bending it slightly, but
- That's amazing.
- Yeah.
- [Kelly] Sounds like a fun party, but anyway
but so the show - They want you to have fun.
I'm like, it sounds like fun, like I would have -
So the, the show is based on a novel, right?
- Yeah. The show is based on a book by Sally Rooney.
- Yeah. - Who also wrote
"Normal People".
And she's an Irish au-author.
And yes, it's a brilliant, brilliant book.
I read it when it came out and it's directed by
a brilliant Irish filmmaker called Lenny Abrahamson.
And yeah, it was a joy to be a part of.
- What's the overall just cuz even from that, it looks like
you might be doing something you shouldn't be doing.
Oh! Yep! (laughing) I was like -
- I mean um, the gist of it is,
it basically - it's really like like a coming of age story
for this girl who you saw briefly there
called Frances who's this 21 year old student in Dublin
and she and her best friend become kind of entangled
with an older couple and Frances and Nick,
who I play, have an affair and it all gets kind
of messy and complicated.
And I suppose at its heart, it's asking
can you love more than one person at once?
And can you find love and happiness and intimacy outside
of constructs of conventional relationships
like friendships, families, marriages,
and uh - - Interesting.
Yeah. It's kind of, it's like a,
a modern kind of love story.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Kind of heavy but a really cool subject
that you don't really see talked about a lot.
- Yeah yeah.
All right. Well thank you for coming by.
- Thanks for having me.
- Yeah."Conversations with Friends" now on Hulu.