-Our first guest tonight is an Emmy and Golden Globe
award-winning actress you know from such shows as
"Mad Men," "The West Wing," and "The Handmaid's Tale."
She stars in "The Invisible Man,"
which is in theaters and IMAX on February 28th.
Let's take a look.
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Please welcome back to the show Elisabeth Moss, everybody!
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That is -- As movie clips go, that was very intense.
-Oh, good.
The rest of the movie is just kind of slow.
-Yeah, it's very chill.
It's a very chill movie about an invisible man.
-Pretty much. -Yeah.
It's interesting, because a lot of times in horror movies,
people are dealing with CGI, but, like, this is --
The man's invisible.
So you were doing a lot of acting
that we, as an audience, are doing,
because you can't see anybody 'cause no one's there.
-Right. Very true.
That was with the incredible stuntperson, though.
So, yeah, and a harness and the whole thing.
-Gotcha. How many times did you have to do
the old harness scene?
-I think that we did like five or six times --
-Okay, so that's not crazy. Yeah. Well...
-Oh, really? -I was never in movies.
I don't know.
Six seems normal. -Yeah, yeah.
I am not a very physical person, so --
-Gotcha. -Yes.
-Is there a lot of discussion about doing your own stunts
with a film like this?
-Yes. So, Leigh, our wonderful writer/director,
called me while I was in Toronto, and he said,
"I want you to do as much as possible,
you know, if you're game.
Like, I'm feeling it out."
And I was like, "Yeah, totally, man.
Like, let's totally do that.
I want to do as many stunts as I can."
And then I kind of forgot about it for like a month.
And then I got to Australia, where we shot it,
and we started going to set rehearsals,
and I was like, "Oh, no.
No, no, no."
Like, I don't like going to the gym.
I don't like working out. -Yeah. Right.
-Like, napping is my physical activity.
-Yeah. It's a good one. -It is a sport.
[ Cheers and applause ] -I think it's healthy.
I think napping's very healthy. -It is very healthy.
-Yeah. -Thank you very much.
-Yeah.
-So, I had to do all these stunts
and these stunt rehearsals and I had to do lots of running.
There's so much running. -Yeah.
-It was constantly running.
-They think the invisible man won't be fast,
but he's a regular man.
He's just invisible. -Exactly.
-He's right on your heels. -He's right on your heels.
And you have no idea how much gap you have
between you and him.
-You don't know where he is.
-You can't be like, "I can slow down now.
I got some, yeah, space between us."
-You don't know. -You don't know.
-You don't know.
-I feel like you've done -- I feel like "Handmaid's"
has some running, as well.
-It does.
-There's been some, like, running in the woods.
-There was a lot of running in the woods.
-I feel like the last season particularly,
it was like, "Let's really run in the woods."
-We have to stop this. -Yeah.
-This is not my thing.
-It feels like the "Handmaid's" universe needs Uber
for you.
Just for you.
I don't know it will perfectly fit into the story line.
-Just for me. Or just, like, a slow walk.
Remember the days when I used to just slowly walk on the show?
-Yeah. -That was lovely.
-I mean, now that you mention it,
I feel like a lot of the first couple seasons
were a lot of slow walking.
-Yeah.
-It was like a lot of the exposition happened on walks.
It was lovely.
If you didn't know what the show was about, you'd be like,
"This is a nice show.
-This is a wonderful show, a lot of two-hander scenes
of us just walking and talking.
-A lot of, like, happy women who coincidentally wore
the same outfit.
That's always funny.
So, this is -- The original "Invisible Man" movie, I think,
was in the '30s, right?
-Yes, 1933.
-And had you seen those films? -I hadn't.
-I actually never watched any of them.
But I'm a huge horror fan.
-Was that something you got into as a kid?
-Oh, yeah.
When I was 11 or 12,
I used to get together with my girlfriends,
and we'd have sleepovers and we'd watch scary movies,
which now seems really bad.
-Yeah. -Like, why did we do that?
It's a terrible idea.
But we'd just scare the [bleep] out of ourselves.
-I know. We did it, too.
I also think there was a really fun thing that --
And, again, this makes sound old,
and I appreciate people will feel that.
But, like, going to select them from a video store
was also sort of thrilling.
-Absolutely.
-Because the covers of them were terrifying.
-Yes. And curating that was all very exciting,
and you'd get your two for the night, you know,
and then settle in.
-Like, that's when I realize I'm older,
because the idea -- I used to watch two movies a night
all the time.
If I get 15 minutes into anything before falling asleep,
it is incredible.
-I know.
-I never -- I was so scared by the idea,
I've still not seen "Nightmare on Elm Street."
-Really? -And I like scary movies.
-Oh, it's a good one. -Yeah.
-But there was just something about that guy's face.
I was like, "No, thank you." -You didn't like it.
-Yeah, it was like, "I do not care for your choices."
-It's not a good face.
-I do not like your grooming,
and I'm not going to spend two hours with you.
-I like what you've done here.