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This is my first--
my first show ever.
It is?
Yeah.
Really?
Why is it sad?
It's sad?
[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]
No, that's a real big compliment that he
doesn't like to do shows.
A lot of people don't like to do this--
No, I just-- no one will have me.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Now, it's not such a compliment.
[LAUGHS]
But you've been my first for a couple of things, the awards,
and there was that other thing that we don't talk about.
Yeah, that thing.
Yeah.
Which we should talk about, by the way.
One day.
I called you.
Yeah.
I called you a few times.
We met-- we met at the Academy Awards when he was nominated.
And I just-- if you haven't seen Half Nelson,
you've got to see him in this.
It's so good.
And you-- I've heard many, many people say you should have won.
That was a tight category.
But you were so good in that.
But anyway, so your mother and your sister were there.
And that must have been a big thing for you, right?
Oh, they were so exciting.
And then we went out to the parties afterwards.
My mother was like, rocking the beehive.
Well, with Prince, we went to Prince's party.
And Prince is like dancing with everyone, dancing my mom
and like made up this move, where
everyone point to her hair.
That didn't happen, actually.
That didn't happen.
But in my mind, it did.
Yeah, I see.
In my mind, Prince is pointing at my mom's hair.
But she was proud of it later on.
Oh, yeah.
She was rocking that beehive look.
You [INAUDIBLE]
Yeah, I noticed it.
It was distracting for me to keep talking.
I saw right in the front row.
She's going to watch this.
Oh, I know.
I met her.
She was lovely.
And I like your sister.
And they were excited for you.
So let's talk about this movie.
Because you're so, so good.
And Anthony Hopkins--
He's the greatest.
So how is that working with him?
He's the best.
He's so much funnier than I thought he would be.
I guess I had him all wrong.
But he-- like he doesn't like anything--
he's not serious at all.
And he doesn't like you to-- and I take myself
way too seriously.
And he can't stand that.
So he'll like bark like a dog.
If he sees you being super serious,
he'll start barking or meowing like a cat or something.
That sounds crazy.
[LAUGHS]
I mean, what do you mean?
He'll just start barking if somebody being serious?
Yeah, like if it gets too tense on set or something,
he'll just start barking.
But the thing is that everything he does
is so good that it sounds exactly like a dog.
You can almost hear it.
You're like, it's a three-legged shepherd with a kidney problem.
It's like Prince's dancing like that.
Your head goes into different places.
Yeah, none of that's true.
So what, he tries to get you to go after the dog or something?
Is that--
No, he didn't try and get me to go after the dog.
Yeah.
It just-- he doesn't like try to throw the voice?
What's that?
Does he try to throw the voice like there's a dog outside,
or he just actually becomes a dog barking?
No, he tries to hide it.
For instance, when he was on Elephant Man,
he thought that it was everyone was taking themselves way too
seriously on that movie.
It's the saddest movie ever.
And he was joking around.
And he got tired of it.
So he started meowing like a cat so that no one knew.
And he had the whole crew for an hour looking on top
of buildings for the cat.
And everyone was going crazy for the cat.
And finally, they saw him doing it.
He was like [LAUGHS] He's very mischievous.
He's actually here on Tuesday.
So I'm going to ask him all these things.
Oh, get him-- you got to get him to bark.
You won't believe it.
Yeah.
I'll ask him to bark and meow.
How many women have you done the dirty dancing thing with?
Just one.
[LAUGHS] So it's really not a go-to thing at all.
No.
Yeah.
I've done it with male friends.
It's fun.
Oh, I see.
It's something you can--
anyone can do it.
You really can.
Why should I limit it to a woman?
Yes, of course, you could do that with a man.
Anyone can do it.
During the break, you'll do it with Andy.
That'll be great.
Great.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
I want to hear about the story, because I saw a picture of you
in a beekeeper's outfit.
So your mother got married in Italy.
Yeah.
And somehow, there were bees at the wedding.
The place where we were made their own honey.
And for some reason, at lunch, the bees
decided they were going to take it back.
And so there were just 100 bees at the table just
trying to take that honey back, which
was hard to blame them for.
Yes.
It's hard to make it.
So how do you happen to have a bee outfit?
How does that-- do you bring that to dinner with you in case
there are bees or--
No, well, I thought, if they make honey here,
there has to be an outfit.
So I found it.
And I was able to safely remove the bees.
What did you do?
I just moved the honey to a safer area.
Yeah.
But I paid for it later.
Because they were all-- they were kind of on my mask.
And I thought-- I had a strong feeling they were just
getting a good look at me.
Yeah, like is that Ryan Gosling?
No, it's like they wanted-- is this the bee-man?
They were finally seeing this person that had been--
I hope keeping them well.
But anyway, they were dive bombing me
for the rest of the trip.
Oh, they recognize you.
You're thinking the bees were on your face and then they--
They were like, yes.
And I felt like they were passing out tiny sketches of me
or something.
Because no matter where I went in Italy,
I was just getting dive bombed by Italian bees.
They had like 50 eyes or something.
So they probably like pictures of-- like 50 of you.
[LAUGHS] See, like that.
So Halloween is coming up.
And I understand like this is a very-- you love the holiday.
I do.
Like so much so that you leave--
is this true?
They said that you leave the decorations up year round.
All year round.
You don't take Halloween decorations down?
No.
What do you have out there right now?
Well,
You got your tombstones.
You got a lot of sneaky skulls.
You know.
What happens on Christmas?
Your pumpkins, your bats, your witches.
What's that?
What about Christmas?
I think they go well together.
I don't think they're mutually exclusive.
So you add Christmas decorations during Christmas,
and then you take--
Like a spooky Christmas.
You know, like a spooky Christmas.
I like spooky things, yes.
But wait.
So you put them out there for Christmas,
and then you take them out but leave the Halloween?
Yeah, leave the Halloween.
Yeah.
The people in your neighborhood must really
be upset by that to have.
Because it's one thing-- there are
people who leave Christmas decorations up year round.
Yeah.
But to leave tombstones up year round--
Yeah.
--and witches and bats is different.
I'm kind of like the monsters on our block.
I bet you are.
Yeah.
I bet you are.
So let's talk about you learning how to fly.
Did you get your license?
Oh, no.
No.
Oh, no.
How far did you get?
Not very far at all.
What did you learn?
Well, I had this-- so I played Neil Armstrong in this film
First Man.
Yes.
And flight was--
Neil was flying before he could drive.
So it felt like something I should learn how to do.
Right.
And if I'm honest, I thought you always
hear about celebrities flying.
So I thought, how hard could it be?
If celebrities can do it.
Yeah, celebrities doing it.
It's got to be--
it's very hard.
Yeah.
No, yeah.
So you learned on like a small--
like a twin engine thing?
Yeah.
Like a Cessna.
And it was-- they asked me to take it
into a stall, a self imposed stall.
And I thought, you know what else is stalled?
My interest in flying.
Let's go.
So you were up-- was it your first flight?
No, I had taken like four weeks--
Because they don't do the stall--
Right away.
Yeah.
You give a little bit of experience
before you tell someone to stall so you go into a free dive.
Yeah.
So one of my first few lessons, we flew over my house.
And I waved to my kids.
And I thought, I could get used to this.
That's fun.
Yeah.
And then he said, let's put it into a stall.
And I thought, oh, no.
Let's land.
And I'll spend my time learning other things.
I'll wave to my kids from the car.
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