-It's always great to see you.
But I told you we were going to get that win, right?
-I feel so, like... -Yes, you -- We did it.
We got it. -...invincible.
-Yes! Come on! We crushed it! -Invincible.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-I knew we would be good together.
Thanks for coming back to the show.
You know, there's a big debate always around this time.
Is it too early to get ready for Christmas?
Can you listen to the music? Can you decorate?
And you say --
-I say it's not too early to start on Halloween.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-But, I mean, is that when you start, around Halloween?
No. -Well, I pull the tree out.
And, I mean, it's -- Mine is out.
I haven't decorated it. I'm doing that when I get back.
-Oh, yeah. So, the -- But the tree is out.
Is it -- is it plugged --
-It's lit and plugged in, but no decorations, guys.
-Yeah. Now, do you do -- Do you do a real tree?
-No, no, no. -Fake tree.
-I like the fake tree because you have
the lights evenly distributed.
-Wow!
-Otherwise, you'll have pockets, you know, that are just...
-Do you have the whole family -- Do you have every --
Do you host everyone for the holidays?
-No.
I usually go home because it's easier for me,
but -- and, in all honesty, nobody in my life
would ever want me to host a party or...
-I think you would be a great host.
-Well, only because -- And I just want to see
if you guys agree and if you agree.
I have -- I tap out early.
So I'm ready to be done before other people are,
and if --
-No, no, no, no, no.
-If you're hosting, you can't go,
"Ooh, guys, you know, dinner is from 8:00 to 10:00.
It's 9:30."
-You've got to go to 10:00 at least.
-Yes.
I just -- So -- -Wow.
-Yeah. -No, yeah. Then you can't.
But have you ever tried it?
-"Dinner is from 8:00 to 10:00. It's 9:30."
I am going to try next year.
-Yeah. Oh, you will? -I am. Yeah.
-Okay, good. -Yeah.
-So then, after next year, I want you to come back
on the show to discuss how it went.
-I can tell you, I'm going to be really panicked.
-Around 9:30, how do we get the family up politely?
-How do we get them out? How do we get them out? Yeah.
-I want to talk to you about this,
because you told me a very funny story,
and you brought a photo, as well.
It's Halloween, and you were getting some candy.
-Yeah. -Getting ready for Halloween.
And -- Well, do we --
-Well, so, here's the thing. I never have cash with me.
And I was all excited.
I'm also that customer who's, like, ready.
I don't want to be fumbling for my cash or my credit card
when I'm at the register.
-Me neither. -So I like to find it.
I'm like, "Do I have cash?" Like, "Do I have $5?"
And I found a $100 bill in my wallet.
And I was so proud because
I felt like I had found a treasure.
And, so, I'm glad I'm one of those people
who likes to be prepared,
because I'm looking at the $100 bill and I'm like,
"Ben Franklin looks really, really weird."
-Yeah.
And this is the -- This is what you gave the person at the --
at the store.
-I realized...
I realized it was a prop from "Spirited"
and I almost paid with it.
Can you imagine?
-Counterfeit Ryan Reynolds money.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughs ] You almost went to jail.
-I almost went to jail.
-You almost went to prison over Ryan Reynolds.
How did you end up with this? What is this?
-Well, it's a prop from the set, and I saw it on the floor
and I thought, "Wow, that's a great -- It looks real."
And I thought, because I never have money in my wallet,
that I would remember.
We shot it a year ago. This just happened Halloween.
-Yeah.
That's so funny.
But now is it out of your purse and safe?
-I have it on a shelf.
I save props and things from sets.
So I have it on my bookshelf.
And I'm never saving money from any other set.
-Yeah, there you go. You learned your lesson.
-Yeah. -Let's talk about "Spirited."
Congratulations on this. You know, I...
-Thank you. Thank you. [ Cheers and applause ]
-It's a big, fun comedy, holiday musical.
Can we set up what it's about? -Yes.
It's a retelling of "A Christmas Carol,"
but it's from the ghosts' perspective.
-Which I think is brilliant. -Yeah.
-Yeah, so, Will Ferrell is actually
looking at his past and going, "Why am I doing this?
Why am I finding a Scrooge every year?
What's the point of all this?"
Yeah. -Yes.
-Last time you were on our show,
you were just about to start filming.
and you were very excited but also a little nervous,
because the director asked you if you ice-skate.
-If I ice-skate.
And I immediately said, "Uh, no."
And so they got me this world-class trainer,
Elladj Baldé, from Canada.
And that --
-I should say this is a photo.
This is not the trainer, Elladj Baldé.
This is you and a plastic seal for children.
That is for --
usually for children to learn how to ice-skate.
But this is before you got the training.
-Before I got the training.
-Yeah. And you were nervous. -I was --
-But we showed this on the show,
and I appreciate you being so, well, confident.
-But here's the thing.
I realized that I could master the ice.
-Yes. -I did.
-Conquered your demons. And we have a clip.
We'll see how it ended up going. -Yeah, yeah.
-Here's Octavia Spencer. Watch this.
What? Didn't fall down?
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-I did not fall down.
I did learn how to be on the ice.
-Uh-huh. -But I called it "ice scooting."
-Were you -- -I wasn't wearing...
-Skates. -...the skates.
No, I -- -Right there.
-Yeah. No, I just decided I could scoot on
if I had my sneakers.
-You ice-acted? You skate-acted?
-Well, the director was like, "Don't do that.
Nobody does that."
It's like driving and doing this.
So I was like, "Oh, I guess I probably --" Yeah.
So I didn't. -But you sing also in this.
This is a lot of pressure for you to do a lot of stuff.
-There were a lot of new things, a lot of moving parts.
So I -- -Academy Award winner.
You got to do it all now. -Yeah.
-Come on. They expect it from you.
-Yeah. -But you sound phenomenal.
-Well, thank you, but it took a lot to get me there,
because I had no idea what it takes to do a musical,
because -- Well, here's the thing.
We all sing every day.
I don't consider myself a singer.
But I thought I could probably do it,
because, you know, when you're singing with the radio,
you sound so good, right?
You're like...
-Yeah, I might roll down the windows.
I sound pretty good. I want people to hear this one.
Yeah. -You know, you hit the notes.
But you realize that you're singing very low, like...
♪ Hello ♪
-Ooh. -You know, it's --
-♪ Is it me you're looking for? ♪
-Wow. That was magic. -It was magic.
And then I realized, you know, they were going to
have a microphone, so I thought I would just use my little --
my radio singing voice.
And it's kind of small, like a little mouse voice.
And the music -- the voice coach, Eric Vetro,
was like, "Yeah, I'm going to --
I'm going to need you to sing out."
-Project, yeah. -Yeah, project.
-You got to project a little bit.
Yeah, this movie is not a text message,
so we need to hear you.
-And I literally started panicking,
because I thought, "Well, what have I signed on to do?"
I thought I was going to walk around, you know...
♪ Singing mouse voice ♪
-You crushed it. -Thank you.
-And you're singing with Will, with Will Ferrell.
-Well, then he makes it easier, though.
-Yeah, he's fun.
-So, we have a musical director who taught me
how to use the lyrics to the song as a monologue.
Now, that I understand, but...
♪ Singing in mouse voice ♪
-No, I think you have it. You sound so great.
And it's very funny and it's very holiday
and it puts you in a good mood, in a good spirit.
You do get in the holiday spirit.
-You do. -I want to show everyone a clip.
Here's Octavia Spencer in "Spirited."
Take a look.
-Hey! [ Chuckles ]
You're back and in a-a boldly tight suit.
-Yeah, it -- it is a little snug.
-No, I-I like it. It's kind of a Euro fit.
-Oh. -And I like it on you.
-Yeah. Yeah, it is a Euro fit,
because I buy all my clothes in Germany.
-Oh. -Yeah.
-I can see. -Um, uh, sorry.
But would you -- would you want to, uh, go somewhere
and maybe -- I don't -- No.
-No, I -- -You don't even have to answer.
-Yeah. I would love to.
-Oh, great. Really?
-Totally. I love somewhere.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-"I love somewhere." -It's my favorite place.
-Me too. Octavia Spencer.
"Spirited" is in theaters this Friday
and on Apple TV+, globally, November 18th.
We'll be right back with Matthias Schweighoefer.
Stick around, everybody.