First of all, how are your kids?
They're great.
Yeah?
They're great.
I know they watch.
So I can say hi.
Yes, they love the show.
Well--
They are massive fans of that one over there.
Oh.
And they can Sophia, Grace, and Rosie, yeah, that's a constant.
I got to tell you.
It's a disappointment for them every time they're
not on every show.
Just going to let you know.
Really?
They're still waiting for them to come back.
We are too.
We'll find out when they're coming.
So last time you were here, we were talking
about how well they got along.
Are they still getting along?
Mm.
The last time I was here, the little one
was like a year and a half, and the oldest was five.
And it was--
I didn't realize this, because I didn't grow up with siblings.
So this is all new to me.
But then it was like the older one would just say,
let's do this, and the little would be like, OK.
And so it was just a peaceful, beautiful loving relationship
that made me cry every single day.
Now I cry, but not because it's peaceful and loving anymore.
Oh, no.
Well, because the one-year-old is now almost three,
and she's like, no.
And the older one's like, what?
What do you mean, no?
I said let's do this.
Right.
And so it's like a war in our house every single day.
Don't touch me.
Don't look at me.
I want to be alone.
I was like, are they 13 already?
Wow.
Yeah.
And one says all of that with a lisp.
Yeah.
Well, maybe they're getting it out of the way now,
and they'll get along as they get older.
I hope so.
Maybe that's going to happen.
I'm touching wood.
OK, so all right, let's talk about-- we
saw the clip just now.
And Portia and I were watching it,
and we're like, if that is some kind of fat suit,
they did an amazing job.
But you actually gained 50 pounds for that.
That was you.
Yeah, close to 50 pounds, yeah.
So how come?
I mean, that must be-- because that's
hard to lose after you gain 50 pounds.
It was brutal.
In retrospect, the film deals with what parenthood
looks like today.
And also I think just how we--
it's so insane to me that we live in a time
where we share so much information.
We share the medication that we take,
whether it's through social media or whatever.
But for some reason when it comes to parenting,
there's still so much stigma around it,
and we just don't talk about a lot of stuff
that parents go through.
And so it's strange.
Like I did this, yes, but mothers
do this every single day.
And they get pregnant, and they gain all that weight,
and it takes them a year and a half to lose it.
And if they don't, they get judged.
And I feel like I had to do it for the film
if I was going to go and play a mother who's
having her third child.
I just felt a responsibility to that.
And I think for myself as an actor,
I wanted to feel as much as I possibly could.
But you had gained weight for Monster, right?
Yeah.
How much did you gain for that?
I think less.
I was younger too.
I was like 27 if I remember.
So it was easier to lose afterwards.
I just didn't snack for a week.
And you lost weight.
And I was back into shape.
Yeah, it was insane.
[LAUGHTER]
That doesn't happen anymore.
No, no, that makes me angry.
I was like-- you had that at 22.
You just remember it.
Yeah, maybe I did.
OK, so what did you do?
Did you just not work out and eat a lot of stuff?
What did you eat?
I ate a lot of everything.
But my favorite thing, my drug of choice is potato chips.
So basically you ate potato chips.
all the time.
Basically everywhere.
I had a bag in my car, a bag in the bathroom,
a bag in the kitchen, a bag on the couch, a bag in my trailer.
Just everywhere I went, there was just a bag.
The green room's trouble for me too.
There's a lot of potato chips back there.
Now, how was it to all of a sudden--
I know we're saying it's harder as you get older
to lose weight.
Yeah.
But what did you do, because that really
is hard once you've been allowing
yourself to eat anything, to be disciplined like that?
The hardest thing for me was I wasn't
prepared for how that amount of processed food
will affect your mood.
And I dealt with depression for the first time.
Wow.
And so what they say about what you eat is kind of who you are
is so true.
Because I ate like a person who just didn't move,
and I felt like that.
And I was lethargic and tired all the time,
and that was a hard thing to break,
because it's more mental than it is almost physical.
You can stop eating, but if you don't feel good about yourself,
or you don't feel like you can, then it's hard.
Right, yeah.
No, it really does make you depressed to have
the wrong kinds of food in your body.