ANDREW RANNELLS IS ON THE SHOW,
THERE HE IS.
HOW ARE YOU, ANDREW, ARE YOU GOOD?
>> I'M GOOD, I'M GOOD.
>> James: I'M SO HAPPY ARE YOU HERE.
>> IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU, I MISS YOU VERY MUCH AND I WISH I WAS
THERE NEXT TO YOU TO HOLD YOU AND YOU KNOW, PET YOUR HEAD, BUT
YOU KNOW.
>> James: NOTHING WOULD MAKE ME HAPPIER.
>> ANOTHER TIME,.
>> James: YOU ARE OVER IN NEW YORK, AND CHRISTMAS IS COMING
UP.
ARE THERE ANY ANDREW RANNELLS CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS THAT WE GET
EXK SIGHTED ABOUT AROUND THIS TIME OF AREA?
>> WELL, CHRISTMAS, YEAH, I LOVE CHRISTMAS, I LOVE CHRISTMAS, AS
A KID I ALWAYS HAD A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRISTMAS
BECAUSE THERE WAS ALWAYS A HANGOVER FROM CHRISTMAS AFTER
THE FACT.
SO LIKE CHRISTMAS NIGHT, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER FELT THIS WAY
BUT CHRISTMAS NIGHT AS A KID WAS SO DE PRESSING.
BECAUSE LIKE THE PRESENTS ARE OPENED.
AND EVERYTHING IS DONE.
AND THEN ARE YOU JUST LIKE, AND NOW WHAT.
ALL THIS BUILDUP.
BUT, BUT, AND I'M SURE YOU ARE FAMILIAR, JAMES, YOU HAVE THREE
CHILDREN.
THE MAGIC OF THE ELF ON THE SHELF.
>> James: YES, HE'S A BIG PART OF OUR LIFE, YES.
>> SO MY NEPHEW GAVIN WHO LOVES YOU, BY THE WAY.
BUT HE, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE MAGIC OF THE ELF ON THE SHELF IS
WHEN THE ELF ARRIVES YOU GET TO NAME YOUR ELF, RIGHT.
>> James: YES.
>> YOU GET TO PICK THE NAME.
>> James: YEAH.
>> SO GAVIN IN ABOUT FOUR YEARS OLD NAMED HIS ELF GARBAGE.
SO GARBAGE ARRIVED ABOUT A WEEK AGO AND YOU KNOW, GARBAGE IS
DOING HIS THING.
>> James: YEAH.
>> AND REALLY YOU KNOW, EXCITED TO BE THERE FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND
KEEPING AN EYE ON GAVIN, KEEPING HIM HONEST.
>> James: THE FUNNY THING I THINK ABOUT THE EL RF ON THE
SHELF IS THAT IT IS BASICALLY RELIGION STVMENT SOMEONE IS
WATCHING YOU, AND IF YOU ARE BAD, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.
AND IF YOU ARE GOOD, GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.
AND IT IS A STRANGE THING TO BRING INTO YOUR HOUSE.
>> I KNOW, I KNOW.
I MEAN I WAS-- I LOVED SANTAMENT I LOVED SANTA BUT AS A CHILD I
WAS ALSO TERRIFIED OF THE IDEA THAT LIKE AT ANY MOMENT YOU
COULD BE WRITTEN OFF THE LIST.
MAYBE THAT'S WHY I GOT INTO SHOW BUSINESS.
I DON'T KNOW.
IT'S HARD TO SAY.
>> James: NOW YOU TOUCHED ON SOMETHING THERE, I'M INTERESTED
TO GET INTO THE DEPTH OF THIS.
WHY DID YOU GET INTO SHOW BUSINESS?
>> I GUESS I WOULD SAY NOT ENOUGH HUGS.
>> James: WHAT HAPPENED?
, WHAT HAPPENED?
>> YEAH, NOT ENOUGH HUGS FROM MY PARENTS.
>> James: REALLY, WHAT HAPPENED.
>> I THINK, YEAH.
I FEEL LIKE WE'RE ALL THIRSTY FOR ATTENTION.
I FEEL LIKE IF OUR INTERACTION ON THE SET OF THE PROM WAS NOT
EVIDENCE ENOUGH, I THINK WE DOT DIDN'T GET ENOUGH ATTENTION AS
CHILDREN BECAUSE WE ACT THE OUT IN VERY BOLD WAYS, I WOULD SAY.
>> James: WELL, WERE YOU DEEPLY INAPPROPRIATE, THAT IS
WHAT I WOULD SAY.
>> NO, NO, NO.
>> James: NO, YOU WERE.
JUST OWN IT, YOU WERE DEEPLY INAPPROPRIATE AND I HAD TO SPEND
A LOT OF TIME A POM GIEZING FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR-- APOLOGIZING FOR
YOUR BEHAVIOR.
>> IS THAT HOW YOU REMEMBER IT.
>> James: IT IS NOT HOW I REMEMBER IT, IT IS HOW IT WAS
WRITTEN UP ON SEVERAL COMPLAINT FORMS.
>> WELL I, YOU KNOW, THERE IS NO HR ON THAT SET BUT IF THERE HAD
BEEN I HAVE A SPECIFIC REMEMBRANCE OF YOU AND I LIKE
PROBABLY MAKING SOME SORT OF INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS ABOUT
SOMETHING. AND MERYL STREEP, THE GREAT MERYL STREEP WHO
EVERYONE WAS SO EXCITED TO WORK WITH.
>> James: 19 TIME OSCAR LOSER, MERYL STREEP.
>> YEAH, AND SHE LOOKED AT BOTH OF US.
AND SHE SAID YOU BOYS ARE DISGUSTING.
>> James: YEAH, WE DID REIGN IT IN FOR A COUPLE SECONDS AFTER
THAT.
AND-- YEAH.
>> AND THEN I REALIZED OH, I CROSSED A LINE WITH MERYL
STREEP.
LIKE IF THAT IS NOT A VERSION OF ROCK BOTTOM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
IS.
>> James: I DON'T THINK THAT LINE EXISTS WITH MERYL STREEP.
I THINK SHE IS THE WORST OUT OF ALL OF US.
>> I THINK SO.
WELL, THE THING THAT I LOVE IS THAT NICOLE KIDMAN WAS LIKE DOWN
THE CLOWN, LIKE SHE WAS GOOD WITH ALL OF IT.
SHE WAS LIKE FILTHY AND LIKE-- YOU KNOW, SHE WAS COOL
WITH ALL OF IT.
>> James: EVERYONE WAS COOL.
>> THAT WAS REALLY FUN.
>> James: WE HAD THE MOST BRILLIANT TIME.
BUT YOU KNOW, I HAD THE GREATEST TIME WORKING WITH YOU ON THE
PROM.
THE FILM IS DIRECTED BY RYAN MURPHY AND YOU HAD WORKED WITH
RYAN BEFORE.
MANY TIMES.
I NEVER ASKED YOU THIS, WHEN WE WERE FILMING.
WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST MEETING WITH RYAN.
>> I WAS DOING THE BOOK OF MORMON AND IT WAS SORT OF LIKE A
WHIRLWIND TOUR OF LOSS ANG LES.-- LOS ANGELES, I FLEW OUT
THERE, I TOOK A WEEK VACATION TO DO THAT SORT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW,
YOU KNOW WHAT ST, LIKE TOUR OF LOS ANGELES WHERE YOU MEET ALL
OF THE EXECUTIVES AND I REALLY WANTED TO MEET RYAN.
BUT HE WAS NOT ON THE LIST.
AND THEN THE LAST DAY MY MANAGER CALLED ME AND SAID YOU HAVE A
MEETING WITH RYAN MURPHY, YOU CAN GET TO PARAMOUNT IN 20
MINUTES.
SO I WENT THERE.
AND I WAS SITTING IN FRONT OF RYAN MURPHY AND HE WAS TALKING
TO ME ABOUT MAYBE DOING SOMETHING ON-- BUT I HEARD HE
WAS WORKING ON THE SHOW CALLED THE NEW NORMAL ABOUT A GAY
COUPLE HAVING A BABY THROUGH SUR GASSEE.
AND I SAID CAN I TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE NEW NORMAL.
AND HE SORT OF, YOU KNOW, LOOKED A LITTLE SURPRISED.
AND HE SAID WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT.
AND I SAID I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT BUT IT IS ABOUT A GAY
COUPLE HAVING A KID.
AND I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE ONE OF THOSE GAY PEOPLE.
AND HE JUST SAID OKAY, THANKS SO MUCH.
THANKS FOR COMING IN.
AND I WAS TERRIFIED, I WAS LIKE [BLEEP], YOU RUINED, LIKE YOU
HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY AND YOU OVERSTEPPED AND YOU SHOULDN'T
HAVE BEEN SO AGGRESSIVE.
BUT A MONTH LATER HE CALLED AND OFFERED ME THE JOB ON THE NEW
NORMAL.
WHICH WAS, THAT IS THE THING ABOUT RYAN MURPHY, AS YOU KNOW,
RYAN IS A MAN OF HIS WORD.
WHEN HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING, HE DOES IT.
>> James: ABSOLUTELY.
>> SO WHEN HE TOLD ME THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE MAKING THIS
MOVIE, PROM, HE SAID IT WILL BE YOU AND JAMES CORDEN AND MERYL
STREEP AND NICOLE KIDMAN, I THOUGHT WELL THIS IS A PRANK.
THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING.
BUT THEN A FEW MONTHS LATER, THERE WE WERE IN REHEARSALS.
>> James: YES.
AND YOU ARE SO FANTASTIC IN THE MOVIE.
FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW, TELL THEM WHAT IT IS ABOUT AND
WHO YOU PLAY.
>> I AM, ST ABOUT ME, A MOVIE ABOUT MY CHARACTER, NO.
THE BIGGER STORY IS, AS I'M SURE YOU DISCUSSED, IS THERE IS A
GIRL IN INDIANA WHO WANTS TO TAKE HER GIRLFRIEND TO PROM AND
THE PTA SHUTS IT DOWN.
AND THEN FOUR VERY NARCISSISTIC ACTORS FROM NEW YORK DECIDES
TO GO HELP HER.
AND DO WE HELP?
I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S UP FOR DEBATE.
>> James: YOU WILL HELP MANY, MANY, MANY PEOPLE THIS HOLIDAY
SEASON, ARE YOU SO BRILLIANT AND FUNNY IN THE FILM.
THE "LATE, LATE SHOW" AND TELT, SHARE SOMETHING WITH US FROM
HOME THAT WE MIGHT NOT GET A CHANCE TO SEE.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE.
>> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER BUT THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE I
EXPLAINED ABOUT-- COMPLAINED ABOUT THE LACK OF MERCHANDISE
YOUR SHOW SHARED WITH ME.
I WAS HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME WRAPPING MY HEAD AROUND THE FACT
THAT YOU DON'T REALLY GIVE A LOT OF SWAG.
AND THEN-- AND THEN THIS ARRIVED AND THIS ARRIVED.
AND THIS ARRIVED.
>> James: LOOK AT THIS.
>> SHINY.
SO I HAVE ALL OF THE THINGS.
>> James: IF I.
>> I HAVE ALL OF THE THINGS.
>> James: IF YOU ARE NOT WEARING THAT AND DRINKING FROM
THAT THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU WALKING AROUND NEW YORK, I WILL
BE VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED.
I LOVE ALL THE SWAG.
LOOK AT, THIS YOU LOOK INCREDIBLE.
REGGIE, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR OUR GUEST THIS EVENING?
>> Reggie: YES, I DO.
TONIGHT'S QUESTION GOES TO, I WAS JUST SAMPLING SOME DIFFERENT
FOOD TO GET A LOCK IN ON THE QUESTION.
>> YES.
>> Reggie: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE TEXTURE OF FOOD.
HAVE I TRIED ALL KINDS AND I CAN'T DECIDE.
>> I WOULD SAY MUSHY.
MUSHY TEXTURE.
>> James: WE'RE GOING WITH MUSHY, REG.
>> Reggie: THAT'S ACTUALLY THAT HELPS A LOT.
THAT'S CORRECT.
>> James: ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
PLEASE THANK THE WONDERFUL ANDREW RANNELLS.
EVERYBODY.
MEGAN THEE STALLION IS RIGHT HERE WHEN WE COME BACK.
DON'T GO ANYWHERE.