-The last time you were here was for "Fences."
-Yes. -Which, after we talked,
you got four Oscar nominations for that.
Congratulations.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Viola Davis went on to win.
-Yes.
-I think you and Viola together was fantastic.
-She's pretty good, huh? -Yeah, she's okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. -I thought so.
-She knows what she's doing, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
-Yes!
[ Laughter ]
-You love Thanksgiving!
-Yes. -Yeah, yeah.
-Especially tomorrow. -Especially -- it has to be --
-Has to be.. -It's always better
when it's tomorrow.
[ Laughter ]
[ Both laugh ]
-Do you want to start over. Should I come back out?
-No, no, that's good.
Do you start prepping the bird the day before?
-Do... [ Laughter ]
So I start prepping?
-Well, I mean, the people cooking.
I mean, maybe, like, yeah --
maybe, like, say, Monday night, you start...
-Me, personally?
-...getting ready for Thanksgiving that's tomorrow.
-Man... -No. You don't do it.
-No. -No. You have enough to do.
-I don't even know how -- I wouldn't -- no.
-No.
No, you wouldn't have any clue.
-No. -But who does the cooking?
-My wife does. You know, she...
-She's got the thing.
Yeah, she knows how to do it.
-Do all that. -But it's such a long process.
You get up at, like, 4:00 in the morning,
start stuffing a bird. You have no idea what to do.
-No, they got to start, like, a couple of days --
start it...
-Monday night.
[ Laughter ]
No, you got to, like, soak them or something, right?
-No, you do. You soak, and you do the whole thing.
But then, so, do you have a favorite part?
Do you have two different types of cranberry sauce?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
-Uh, she kind of does the fresh cranberry mixture.
-You don't do the stuff from a can that stays the same shape?
-No. Nothing from the can.
No. No. -That's the best stuff.
-Stuffing from a can?
-Oh, I got to get you some of this.
No, not stuffing, cranberry sauce.
-Oh. Oh. Oh, you mean, like, the --
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Yeah, yeah. Like the...
[ Makes squishing noise ]
[ Laughter ]
Then, you flip it over and you slice it.
-Slice it up. -Yeah.
-Yeah, yeah. Oh, man.
I look forward to that. -Yes.
I look forward to that every year.
-Do they still make it like that?
-Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Ain't a cranberry in there. -No. not even close.
I eat it -- I eat it straight from the can, sometimes,
like a silly old cowboy.
Do you watch football and hang out and do all that?
-Of course. Of course.
-You -- last time you were here, we were talking about,
you ran into an old librarian of yours.
-Oh, yeah. -You ran into her.
I loved that story.
And we were talking about that.
And now, I heard another cool story
about you meeting a fan -- her name was Juanita Hubbard --
in Chicago.
You ended up -- -Oh, I went to her house.
-You went to her house.
-You're talking about the little old lady?
-Yes. Exactly. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Now, how -- -I didn't go to her --
what is was, I was on the south side of Chicago,
where my cousins are from.
And they used to be -- they had a gang
called "The Black Stone Rangers."
And they were the Black Stone Rangers.
So, in that neighborhood, there was a Leon's Barbecue.
And I was looking -- I was trying to remember
where it was.
So, I saw a group of guys
standing out in front of this house,
and I forgot who I was, so I got out to ask them,
you know, "Where's Leon's?"
And they were like, "Oh, my goodness!"
-[ Laughs ] -You know, I was like,
"Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. But where's the barbecue place?"
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then, they're now back to being tough guys, too.
They're like, "Oh, yeah, that's right."
-But then, their grandmother was there,
and she's like, "Oh,"
so I went and sat down and talked to her and..
-I mean, how cute is this?
-Oh, you got a picture? -Yeah, I got a picture.
-Aww, there she is. -She out this online.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I just love that.
-She would not let me go.
[ Laughter ] I mean, like...
-Oh, really? -No, no.
She was -- she had a good grip.
-Good grip, yeah.
People just love you.
We always flip out when you come here.
The whole -- everybody -- the whole staff.
Everyone in the halls are like, "Oh, Denzel's coming."
Drake recently got a tattoo of you.
Did you know this? -I heard about this.
-He got a tattoo... -Oh me.
-...of you... -Yes.
-...from "Mo' Better Blues." -Yes.
-His tattoo artist put this online.
This is -- I just don't know what body part
this is from, on Drake.
[ Laughter ]
Does anyone know Drake that well?
[ Laughter ]
Does anyone know what part -- is this his arm?
Is this his back?
It's got to be bigger than his arm.
But that's you.
-Yeah, that's me.
-[ Laughs ]
-Let me see that. Yeah, now you got mer wondering now.
Where is that?
[ Laughter ]
-Forget I brought it up. Forget I brought it up.
[ Laughter ]
-Too big for that.
That's quite -- that's crazy.
No, but I think he got some other, like,
people he admires, tattoos, as well.
-Oh, maybe I'm on there.
[ Laughter ]
I never hear those stories.
I want to talk about the film.
-Oh, that was good. -Thank you.