How are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm really good.
How old is your child now?
My child is six months old.
Six months old, and a little girl, right?
Little girl.
What's her name?
Katherine.
Is she a good baby?
She is a good baby, but I will say that I was--
she's a great baby.
She's a great baby.
But she's a baby, and I have never been a kid person.
And when I watched Reasons Why I Don't Have Kids,
I was like, oh no, what have I gotten myself into?
So you've never been a kid person, and yet you had a baby?
No, I was I was the person who, when I saw, like,
a one-year-old baby, and they'd be like Minday,
come meet my baby.
I'd be like hello, young man, shaking hands with an infant.
But actually, the hardest part about it--
it's been pretty easy, mostly because she needs me
for sustenance, so she behaves well.
But it's the hardest part was, when
I was really pregnant, when I came to see you last,
I was just eating whatever I wanted.
Because when you're pregnant, you can just say it's cravings.
And you're like, I needed to have 11 cupcakes because
of my pregnancy cravings.
And everyone is like no, she's about to have a kid.
Let her eat whatever she wants.
But I haven't altered that that much since having the kid.
Oh really?
So, yeah it's not normal to be not pregnant
and have a birthday cake a Tuesday afternoon
when it's not your birthday.
Well, I think you look great, but I
think that would be hard to all of a sudden stop eating
a certain way for eight months, or however
long you were doing it.
Thank you.
Especially when you were eating terribly.
Yeah, and then all of a sudden start
eating broccoli or something.
Yeah, that's my life now.
So you hung out with Oprah.
And how was that?
She's fabulous, isn't she?
Well, I'm not her best friend like you guys are.
You guys are very, very tight.
Reese and I are best friends with her, yes.
Yes, I'm not the tight-ry of you guys, but it's great.
And she actually had a screening for her movie
A Wrinkle in Time, and invited the cast up
to her home, which is, I think, the nicest home in America.
And I you've been there.
Yes.
And I was scared, because I had to bring
my baby with me, because she was so little at the time.
And she'd been really fussy, and she'd been fussy the whole way.
I'm like, oh my god, am I going to be the person that
brings a screaming baby into Oprah's cathedral of beauty
and art?
And the minute we went in, I was like, Katherine, please.
Please.
You have no idea how high the stakes are right now.
And we walked into the door, and her eyes went wide,
and she stopped crying like she knew she was in Oprah's house.
And then she was just coyly smiling and being adorable
for the next four hours.
Wow, she is smart.
Yeah, she's a smart kid.
Super smart.
But if anybody is going to be OK with kids,
it's going to be Oprah, because she loves children.
She has a literal school for girls--
Yes, she does.
--in South Africa.
Yeah.
And you're going to--
it's June, of course.
You're going to be 39 later this month.
Yes.
And is that-- what does that make you--
I hate it.
Why?
One, because I'm a narcissistic actress.
But two, because I think that there's something about a 9
that is so hard to handle.
I'd rather be 40 for two years straight than 39,
because I feel like when people ask your age and you say 39,
you feel like you're clinging to your 30s
in this really lame way.
Like, I'm 39.
They're like, just say you're 40.
So that's my thing with 39.
It's an actual age, though.
You know that, right?
It's the year between 38 and 40.
So you can actually-- it's real to say that.
You shouldn't feel like you're clinging on to the 30s.
That's a good point.
But if you want to jump ahead and say, "I'm 40," you can.
I'd be the first actress in history to do that.
To jump ahead.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Yeah.
So let's talk about the movie.
So Ocean's 8, is it called?
Ocean's 8.
Let's talked about the cast.
It's you, Sandra Bullock, Rihanna--
Cate Blanchett, Annie Hathaway--
Sarah Paulson--
Yes, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Just different struggling actresses,
trying to make their first break.
So it's the Ocean's-- it's the female remake of Ocean's--
Ocean's Eleven, yeah.
No, it's exciting.
But it's one of those things that's very intimidating,
because everyone--
the Ocean's movie, Sandra Bullock
plays Danny Ocean's sister, Debbie Ocean.
She has to go around and find everyone based on their skills
to do this heist.
And so when you get cast in a movie like that, you're like,
oh god, Rihanna is a computer genius in the movie.
Other people are expert pickpockets,
and I'm like, please don't let I be the person who gets bitten
by a dog to distract them while they rob the Met Gala.
Where they're doing something cool,
and they're like, hey Mindy, we need you to fall down
some stairs as a diversion.
So that was my big fear.
But you're not.
No, I'm good at jewelry.
Oh.
Yeah, not making jewelry.
You're good at making jewelry?
I'm a jeweler.
I see.
That comes in handy when you're doing a heist?
I'm not making it sound great, but it was helpful.
OK.
I promise it's helpful.