-Do you still do karaoke? -I do karaoke all the time.
Yeah. -You still do?
-Oh, yeah. I've actually -- I have a workout room that
I don't always work out in.
-Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah. -So I've turned it
kind of into a karaoke room now. -Fun.
-Yeah. My friend and manager got me a karaoke machine,
and so on any given -- any given Sunday --
[ Laughter ] -You'll just get up there
and do it? -It's not football for me.
-What's your jam? What do you do?
-Oh, I'll do -- I'll do anything.
Right now I'm kind of into harmonizing.
There's a friend of mine that I sing with,
and she's a professional singer. She's amazing.
Her name is Joy Downer. -And she can harmonize anything?
-Yeah, she can do anything. -Yeah.
-She's amazing. But we've started singing
"Mr. Brightside," which is really fun.
[ Laughter and applause ] -The Killers?
-By The Killers.
-The Killers, with harmony in it?
-With harmony. Yeah. -Hey, not bad!
-It's really fun.
-Next time you come on, let's do that.
-Let's do it. Can it be acoustic?
-Yeah, let's go for it, right?
-And let's do the whole thing and we'll bring Joy.
-Yeah, bring Joy! -She's amazing!
-We always bring joy every night.
-Exactly.
-But now we'll actually bring Joy.
-You'll actually bring Joy. Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Congrats...
-Thank you. -...on "Sharp Objects."
This is an HBO limited series. -Yes, sir.
-It's an eight-part series.
How did you get involved with this?
You're actually producing it, too.
-I am. I was really lucky.
I was working on "Arrival", and they sent me the script.
And I was familiar with Gillian's Novels, which...
-Oh, yeah. -...have really complicated --
-Whoo! -Right? So amazing,
female heroines and they're -- they kind of come across
as anti-heroes, but they're really complicated
and interesting and dark, and I was really attracted to it.
-"Gone Girl" was like my jam. -Yeah.
-For forever. Yeah. -Right?
-I was so late to the party on that.
-Really? -I was. But I was like --
-No, because it's so good. -I was reading it two years
after everyone else read it.
I'm like, "Have you guys heard of --" and like, yeah.
Where have you been for two years?
-So good. -Phenomenal.
-Phenomenal. So, yeah, so I met with them,
and they sort of offered me a producorial role,
which has been amazing, because I get to use my mom voice.
-As a producer? -As a producer. Yeah.
-Like, how would you do it? -Yeah, I kind of feel like me
as a producer and me as a mom are very similar.
-Really? -Like, I'm very compassionate,
but very firm. You know? -Oh, interesting.
-Yeah. -Like, how would you
tell somebody, like, they're doing something
that they shouldn't be doing. -That is a really good effort.
I think maybe we should put our energy elsewhere.
[ Laughter and applause ]
You compliment them first. -That was perfect.
-You've got to lead with a --
you got to lead with the validation.
But I use my mom voice in weird places, like,
on the red carpet, I used my mom voice recently.
-You did? [ Laughter ]
-One of the photographers likes to swear.
I don't know why she's so angry.
But she's always like, "Effing this and effing that."
And I'm like, "We do not swear on the red carpet."
[ Laughter ]
-"We don't do that here."
-And it's always the "we," you know?
-Yeah, "We don't do that in our house."
-We don't -- On this red carpet, we don't swear.
-We don't swear. We don't do this.
[ Laughter ] -And then I'm like,
"Oh, my gosh, I'm so nerdy." I love it.
-Do you do that with your daughter, as well?
-I do. You know what's funny
with my daughter is I use that sort of like --
the pronouns are interesting.
So I don't know if I got used to referring to myself as mommy
to her, but a couple weeks ago, she's 8.
I was talking to her and I was asking for forgiveness
because I had lost my patience. -Yeah.
-And I was like, "Mommy is sorry.
Mommy didn't get a lot of sleep last night."
And she goes,
"Why are you preferring to yourself in the third person?"
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, she's like --
-She's 8, and I was so proud of her.
-How smart is that? -I was like,
"Oh, you know third person!" -Yeah.
Who knows third person at 8 years old?
-But at the same time I'm like,
"Why am I referring to myself in the third person?
Because Amy is tired."
[ Laughter ]
"Amy works too much."
-Mommy works too much. -Yeah.
-Mommy is tired. Somebody has to go to bed now.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Exactly.
Mommy goes to bed. Anyway.
-When you do this,
you also got involved with the auditions, as well.
-I did. I loved it.
-Do you remember auditioning for stuff --
-Oh, yeah. Can you remember?
-I hated it. -You hated it?
-I think it's one of the worst things ever.
-Yeah. -Just -- oh.
I really dreaded going in.
I dreaded the -- I was so nervous.
-Yeah. -And so much rejection.
-So much rejection. -Oh, it's just --
-I kind of loved it. I have, like --
-Really? -I did.
I kind of started treating it as an acting class,
and so I would, like, try new things in there and I would,
like, dress up and -- -You would dress up?
-I would dress up. I think it's --
-I know those people. -Yeah.
-That dress up, yeah. [ Laughter ]
No, I was not one of the dress up people.
-Oh, yeah, you were not. You were not a dress up --
-No, I only had one outfit in my name.
I couldn't afford -- -Exactly.
-I'm like, "This is all you got, man."
-That is amazing. Now my wardrobe, I was, like,
anywhere from, like, hooker to lawyer.
-There you go. Really? -I, like, had everything
in between, and I could sing the coordinating song
that went with it. [ Laughter ]
You know... -Did you like --
you told me that you used to do, like, fake steering wheels
when you were during a driving scene audition?
-Yeah, like, I would be like,
"Listen, Jimmy, I mean, we've had a really hard day
and I just -- [ Laughter ]
And so it took me a long -- -You're like -- like,
are you driving or milking a cow?
You're like, "I have no idea, but, Jimmy, I -- look.
We got to get this milk out to the dairy.
[ Laughter ] We got to make our money."
-See? I wasn't good at it.
This is why I didn't work until I was 30, you know?
-I like the character you play in "Sharp Objects."
Dark, though -- -Very dark.
-Troubled character. -She's troubled. I like her.
-Yeah! -I do. Yeah.
-She's kind of a drinker. -Yeah.
-What did you do to unwind from that?
-I drank. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah, you actually drank. -Well, it was kind of amazing.
I said this earlier, and I was like,
I hope this is appropriate,
but, like, I would fake drink all day,
and it was kind of like foreplay for, like, when I got home
and then I could have a real drink.
[ Laughter ]
So by the time I got home and I could actually have
a gin and tonic it was -- I know that sounds --
but I drank so much on the set. Like, so much.
-What was it like, O'Doul's or something or like --
-Coca-Cola with water. -Wow!
-Whatever. -It had to look like a drink.
-Kool-Aid. -'Cause you can't drink.
-Yeah. And then O'Doul's,
and we did O'Doul's on a outdoor set
when it was about 97 degrees, so I was like bread.
I just, pffffff.
[ Laughter ] -You were just rising?
-I was rising. -Yeah.
-As the temperature rose, so did I.
-Yeah, so did you. -Yeah.