How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good, Ellen.
Very well.
You look good.
Very well.
Thank you.
And happy belated birthday to you.
OK, thank you.
I'm glad it's belated.
So it was in September, right?
September 25th.
And you and Catherine have the same--
Catherine, my wife, and I have the same birthday.
25 years apart, but the same day.
But who's counting, right?
So she turned--
She turned 50.
And you turned 75.
75.
You look great.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
Moving right along.
You have good genes.
Your dad is how old now?
My dad is 102.
How about that?
And my stepmother-- and my stepmom,
Anne, has been married to Dad for 65 years.
She's 100.
Wow.
So that's, what, 202?
Yeah.
Well-- so do you--
I mean, how do you feel about getting older?
Did it hit you at a certain age, or do you care anymore?
Yeah.
I'm moving right along.
You know, I had a cancer about about eight or nine years ago
where I sort of thought about that stuff.
Right.
But once I got a clean bill of health, after that,
it was kind of straight on, feeling good.
Having a younger bride makes me feel good on one side.
And I've got the old man over here on the other side
with still a full head of hair.
Right.
So it's all good.
You can't be an idiot about it.
So 75.
I look at the 15 year program, if I've still got my marbles
by the time I'm 90.
So I kind of think about that.
And after that, it's all golden.
Do you work out?
Do you take care of yourself?
I do.
I try.
What do you do?
What kind of workout?
I do a cardio mix-up with weights.
But I recently because I have been having some trouble
with my back playing golf, which has cut me down.
So I'm working with a trainer now,
doing a little more core body work and other areas.
So you play golf?
You're still-- are you as good as you've always been?
Well, I never was very good.
Oh, I see.
I never-- I started late at about 45, 48.
But interestingly enough, I just had yesterday--
I put it on a charity golf tournament
for the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
Great.
I've done it for 12 years.
We've raised about $7, $8 million
for the Motion Picture Television Fund, which
is another story, but we're very proud, our industry,
that we had this home for everybody,
not just actors, writers, everybody else,
and we take care of them.
It's a fantastic thing, yes.
So we did a tournament yesterday.
I played terrible.
I had the worst day of my life.
It's a long course out at Riviera.
And I'm looking at the tees.
You have different tees you can take off.
Ladies have a tee.
The seniors-- I said, what are those gold tees up there?
They should, that's for seniors.
I said, well, how old do you got to be to be a senior?
Exactly.
They said, 60.
So what am I doing back here?
I said, it's my tournament.
Exactly.
All right?
I'm raising money.
I mean, these make me feel good.
You know what I mean?
So you moved up to the senior tees.
No, I couldn't do it.
Oh, you didn't do it.
I saw a picture today of a baby that is your grandchild.
She is how old?
Lua.
She'll be two in December.
It is-- look at that face.
Yeah.
Yeah, she's a [BABY TALK].
She calls me and I said, can you say, Bubba?
Call me Bubba.
She goes, buh-buh, buh-buh.
Well, that's an easy name for her to learn,
Bubba So she's going to call you Bubba her whole life now.
I hope so.
I'm ready for that.
Yeah.
That's cute.
And your son-- your youngest son-- no.
Is he 19?
My youngest son, Dylan, is 19.
OK.
So this-- jumping off-- he's a daredevil.
Look what he does.
Where was that that he did that?
That was, I think, in Sicily.
OK.
And what do you think when you see--
I mean, and he does all kinds of things like this, right?
Well, he did-- you know, he just did a skydiving thing.
But I remember that age, I was--
it's a hormonal thing, I think, for boys testing yourself.
This is him skydiving.
I just think it--
what I did not like--
what I did not like is he was the first one to jump.
Don't be the first one to jump.
Schmuck.
Right.
Yeah.
Let a couple of other people go off
first to test if there's any rocks in there and anything
else.
Right.
Yeah.
So I said, that was not--
so I said OK to that.
I said, just don't be first.
Yeah.
Be the second one to do dangerous things like that.
Exactly.
All right.
Let's talk about The Kominsky Method.
This is the second season now.
Second season's coming out October 25th.
And it is-- we see that your daughter is now dating.
My daughter, Mindy, bless her soul,
has got a boyfriend this year.
And I'm very happy about that, but maybe because of the fact
that my character, Sandy Kominsky,
has tended to date younger women.
She's chosen to have a boyfriend, this older guy.
I just did not expect that the guy would be my age.
Right.
And they brought me an ex-wife this year, too.
And I have an ex-wife.
And tell everyone who it is.
Well, if you guys would think about what
would be the perfect match for me for my ex-wife,
it's Kathleen Turner.
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That's fantastic.
We're going to do a little War of the Roses bit.
That's fantastic.
That's going to be great.
That's a great idea, whoever thought of that.
All right.
The new season of The Kominsky Method
is available October 25th on Netflix.
We're going to talk to Michael when we come back.
That's Michael Douglas in Green Eggs and Ham.
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I am so excited about this.
I mean, when we got the rights to this--
I'm executive producing this for Netflix.
And we have the greatest cast, including Michael,
who is a grumpy, grumpy man.
Typecast.
Yeah.
Are you having--
It's a very-- you've got a day job.
Where did you-- the idea of a production company.
Was that something?
When you were a kid, you loved this project.
How did you get hold of Dr. Seuss?
Well, this is-- Jeff Kleeman, who runs my production company,
talked to the family and got the rights to it.
But I like making things that make people happy,
and I think this is such a great thing for Netflix.
No, it's really special.
I saw you and said, wow, Ellen, she does everything.
Well, are you enjoying it?
Have you done animated before?
No, I haven't.
Am I enjoying it?
No.
Oh.
No.
It's hard work, huh?
You did one.
Didn't you do one?
Yeah, Finding Dory and Finding Nemo.
Finding Dory.
Exactly.
Well, you know.
Yeah.
You sit there and--
well, firstly, you have to overdo it, right?
You've got to be larger than life.
Right.
And you're sure you're way, way off the top.
But I'm sort of at this point in my life
where I'm trying to do things that I've never done before.
Right.
So you've got Ant-Man on one side, which
is like a green screen, which I never had done before.
It's a green screen.
That's hard, too.
Finding something-- yeah, exactly.
Whole new appreciation for acting
when there's nothing there.
Comedy.
Kominsky Method.
I'm not necessarily known for my comedy,
so that was really a treat.
And then this, doing animated stuff,
was something I was really kind of looking forward to.