-Our first guest is an Oscar-winning actress
who stars in the new movie, "Moonfall,"
which hits theaters and IMAX next Friday.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Halle Berry!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Ah, come on now!
Ah, we love you!
We miss you!
-Hi! -Halle!
-Oh, my gosh. It's so good to be here.
I wish I were there, but I'm here, but I'm there.
-You're there, but you're here, but you're there.
But next time, I want you here.
We miss you! -I know! Me too!
-But we love you. Can you feel the audience?
Can you feel the love? [ Cheers and applause ]
Can you feel the love? -Yes!
-There's a lot of love out there for Halle Berry.
-From that good-looking audience.
-We have a lot to talk about, but first I want to ask you --
you caused quite a stir on New Year's Day,
and I thought this was very funny.
I just want to know the story behind it,
'cause I think even Questlove --
-First of all, yeah.
This was not supposed to happen like this.
First of all, Jimmy -- -Okay, okay, okay.
-I was with my boyfriend. We were on an island.
We had copious amounts of drinks at the bar.
-Yes, which one does at an island.
-We're trying to make it back to our room,
and we passed this little chapel.
And we think, "Oh, let's go in here.
Let's see what's inside here."
So, we go in and while we're in there,
we get the crazy idea, we're thinking, "Let's fool his mom.
Let's take a photo of us and send it to her and say,
'Guess what, we got married,' and then say 'Not!'" Okay?
So we took the photo and then after we saw how good the photo
came out, we said, "Let's play this joke on everybody --
on our friends on Instagram too.
Let's post it and then let's swipe over
and tell them it's official, swipe, it's 2022, right?"
That's how we thought it would play
and that everybody would be like,
"Oh, good one, Halle, good one, Van."
But instead, within five minutes
we got all of these congratulations,
from like Ava DuVernay and The Rock.
[ Laughter ]
-Like genuine congratulations.
Here's the joke.
So you put, "It's official." Right?
Even Questlove put, "Wow."
[ Laughter ]
The Rock! No, no, no, you don't --
Now you know the joke's not a joke when The Rock says,
"Congratulations."
[ Laughter ]
"Congrats, you two, beautiful."
And you're like, "Oh," but here when you swipe over,
this was the joke -- "It's official.
It's 2022, y'all." [ Laughter ]
I think it's funny, but no one --
-Nobody got it. -No one swiped.
-Jimmy, after like 20 minutes went by,
we were like, "We are such [bleep].
Everybody believes this.
We're [bleep]. How could we do this?"
-"We don't mean to do that.
-So many people don't swipe.
I didn't know that people don't swipe.
Now I'm never doing swipes ever again
'cause I know nobody looks at the [bleep]
[ Laughter ]
[ Rim shot ]
-I want to congratulate you, of course, not for getting married,
but your directorial debut, "Bruised."
By the way, I was in shock to see you looking like that.
[ Applause ] Great movie.
It became the number-one movie on Netflix.
Not too shabby, huh? [ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you. -Directorial debut.
And the soundtrack is great too.
I do know "Automatic Woman" by H.E.R.
is in Oscar contention.
It's a great, great, great song.
-Yes, it's on the short list. Like, who knew? Who knew?
-It's great, but oh, my, she's fantastic.
-Yeah, we're excited for that.
-Will there be more Halle Berry being a director?
-I hope so. I think so.
I certainly know I have a lot to say.
And being a black woman, I think that's the white space.
We need to tell more of our stories from our point of view.
So I definitely hope so.
-Yeah. Would you direct and act again in the same thing?
-No. No. [ Laughter ]
I'm one and done with that.
That was a lot of a lot of a lot.
-It's a lot of work. -No. It was a lot.
I will never do that again. No.
-I learned something new about you today.
Someone around the office told me that the first time
you got your taste of performing was doing sketch comedy.
Is that true? You were at Second City?
-I did. I wasn't trying to do that though.
I was just there trying to make friends.
I had moved to Chicago. I was all by myself,
and I had heard that that was a good place to meet people.
So I went there, signed up, and yeah, that's where I started.
And one of the teachers there said to me,
"You know, have you ever thought about acting?"
I said, "No, never."
He said, "Well, I think you should.
I think you have some natural talent,
some pretty good timing.
You should give this a try."
-I don't think many people talk about that and, like,
you don't have to go to these improv classes to be
on "Saturday Night Live" or be --
but it's just fun to be a funnier person.
And just go and you meet funny people
that also want to be funny, so yeah, you get to hang out.
-You do. And people that are silly and free,
that's what I got from it.
Even the people that weren't that funny --
I probably was one of them.
But you have the ability to just be free, you know?
No restrictions.
And you can say whatever you want to say and flop.
You can do -- You know, it can be amazing.
It could suck. It doesn't matter.
It's just about being free, and I love that.
-Congrats on "Moonfall," by the way.
I just love even the title before I saw the movie.
I just thought It sounds like a great movie -- "Moonfall."
But this is big. It is action-packed.
I mentioned earlier it's in theaters, but it's also in IMAX,
which, man, there's nothing like that.
If you see a giant action, beautiful movie in IMAX,
it's like, "Ah."
-This is a perfect movie for IMAX.
I mean, you want to see the moon, you know,
coming at you in IMAX.
-Yeah, exactly right, yeah.
How do we set it up for everyone, "Moonfall"?
-Well, this is a story about --
I play a woman who used to be an astronaut.
She's now working sort of in the offices now of NASA.
And her old partner comes to her and tells her that
he's figured out a big, huge problem
that Earth is going to have, and that is that the moon
is off its axis and it's going to plummet into Earth,
and so he and I have to get together and we have to
figure out a way to save Earth by stopping the moon.
-That's exactly right. Come on! That's what I'm talking about!
-You know, something easy like that.
-Come on! I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Halle Berry in "Moonfall."
Take a look at this.
-Don't argue. Just pack your stuff.
We're leaving.
-So you're just going to quit?
-What do you want me to do?
-I want you to help us figure out
what the hell this thing is so we can beat it.
-We're not equipped for that.
You've seen what we're up against.
You've been gunning for my job for a while, Fowler.
Congrats. It's yours.
-What are you not telling me?
You've got Q clearance.
The hole is in the Mare Crisium.
That's what the Harper hearings were all about.
-You should pay a visit to Holdenfield.
Here's your clearance.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Mm-hmm! Yeah!
More with Halle Berry when we come back, everybody.
We're going to do something fun. Come on back.