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We could just dance the entire time instead of talk.
And I have the flu and this is the first time I go to a show
and I come out dancing.
It's so much fun.
You have the flu?
Yeah, and I just hug you, sorry.
Now you tell me.
I forget.
What, you're acting like you're healthy.
This gave me a lot of energy.
Yeah.
Did it?
It sounds like it.
Whenever I'm sick, I come out here and dance
and I can't breathe afterwards.
No.
But I feel like that now.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll have some water, please.
And then we'll get you some--
let me just wash my hands real quick because--
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There.
Seriously.
So thanks.
Are you good?
Things are good?
My people is really behave like that, when I tell them.
You're so funny.
Well.
And I should be respectful and tell you before.
Yes.
Well, no.
It's fine, it's fine.
Respectful.
You have a very thick accent but I
thought I was going to have a hard time understanding you,
but.
I hope not because I've been taking lessons forever.
When I was a kid, I did French and then
I studied with English much later.
So that's why it took me--
when you start as a kid you get rid of the accent much faster.
Right.
But I always have a teacher next to me
because now I'm shooting in four different languages.
So I always have to have a teacher there, but I love that.
You're shooting in four different languages, right now?
Or you?--
No.
So it's English, Spanish, Italian--
and French.
--and French?
Wow.
That's very impressive but it is harder
when you start later because there's a part of the brain
that it's easier to learn language when you're younger.
Yes.
And it's also the muscles when you
train them like for the French when
I started when I was four or five,
so then you get that much, much faster.
You're just not used to it.
Right.
Yeah, well when you're not able to a--
what am I trying to say, manipulate or--
Yes.
You have never worked those muscles--
Yeah.
So.
Yeah.
That's kind of funny.
I don't.
But if I wanted to, I could actually
speak a different languages because I'm
very good at the languages.
That sounds like a little Italian accent.
Really?
But that was supposed to be Irish.
OK.
You see I'm not the best judge because--
No, it wasn't.
It was-- but and even when I like
I know a little bit of Spanish like, "Como esta usted?"
And that doesn't even sound--
That sounds good.
Gracias.
De Nada.
De Nada?
I'm the one that says, De Nada.
Yes, I know I'm just showing off.
You really sounds good.
You have a good accent.
I'm always shocked when people have such a pure accent
and then it's not naturally their accent.
It's really impressive to me.
But it's--
I mean I can't do all those accent in Spanish.
Yeah.
Now I was playing an Italian, and I
had to lose my Spanish accent completely playing an Italian,
but it's a very similar language.
Yeah, right.
And then when you stop rolling--
once they cut, Do you go back to your accent?
Or do you try to keep that, the Italian accent the whole time?
With the Italian movie, it was not only the accent,
it was the language.
So I would just only speak in Italian the whole time
for four months.
Wow.
Really?
That's four languages, really very impressive.
I wanted to tell you how beautiful you looked and I
saw you because I was going to ask you this,
but I already saw the answer.
This is you and your friend Salma Hayek at the Oscars,
and you look beautiful.
And what you did--
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But I like-- because I was watching the pre-show and they
were asking different actors and actresses what they were doing
before they got there, and I was going to ask you if you were
nervous but someone asked you that and this is--
tell them what you do to not be nervous before you show up?
Eat a lot.
And what is funny is that when I got to the red carpet,
somebody asked me, what did you do today?
And I said, I just ate In-N-Out, I just had a cheeseburger.
It was like this big deal that I--
Yeah.
It's always funny to me.
It's just--
Do you drive-through?
Or do you go sit-in there in your gown?
No.
I did it with my gown and it's kind of my ritual
because you do get a little nervous
and the other time I had a lentil soup in my gown
and it's great to see all the people that are there getting
so nervous and because it is like a wedding,
that day so crazy.
Well, most people don't eat for a week
before they put dresses like that on
and then you're eating like was it like a double, double?
It was a double, double.
Really?
Yes, of course.
Good for you.
So--
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You can go that way, eating, it calms you down.
I'll tell you gin is good too.
That doesn't work for me.
No?
The maximum is like a glass of wine
and I only had one at the end of the day.
After, that mean, you get on the stage to present
and so many million people are watching
and you get a little nervous.
Alcohol would not--
No?
--make me better.
You'd fall over?
So I said you were here with Selma and you're good friends,
and you actually were on a flight on Halloween together?
That sounds like it was very scary?
We had an emergency landing.
Yeah, and it was Halloween and we
were wearing wigs and scary mask,
and then the oxygen mask came down and it's like, oh,
it must be a joke, it's Halloween.
So some of us didn't put the mask on and it was for real
but it's great that we can now be here and laugh about it
and imitate each other on the flight
because we all had different reactions
and I was the hysterical one.
I'm crying and screaming.
I was the only person in the plane yelling.
It's so good to see you.
Great to see you, Ellen.
It's been a while and happy holidays to you
and did you spend it--
I know you live here part time, in Spain part time,
were you in Spain for the holidays?
No.
We were here in L.A. Because my brother lives here
and we're very close.
I'm 11 years young--
older than him and he has a little baby.
I had met him but my kids still had not met their cousin
and they were very angry and upset about that.
And finally, we could be here together with them.
Oh, that's sweet, that's great.
Are there specific traditions that you have coming from Spain
and do you do them here?
Well, you know that we eat 12 grapes for New Year's
evening in the last 12 seconds?
In 12 seconds you have to eat 12 grapes?
Yeah and normally, they give you grapes
that are this big, so I'm always like looking at everyone
and nobody's choking and this is the first time
that I go to a place and my own brother
didn't have the grapes prepared, so for Javier and I,
that was like the end of the world.
How are we going to do this ritual without that grapes?
And what is that supposed to mean?
What's that do when you eat the 12 grapes?
I think we've done it for so long--
that is, some people say, you ask for one wish for each grape
and for others it's more a superstition thing.
For me, it's just this beautiful ritual with my family
since I was a little girl.
But I have to say, since I have little children,
it has become such a stressful moment.
I'm looking at them like, are they still breathing?
Right.
Yeah, to shove 12 grapes in your mouth.
I used to cut them, like give them a quarter of the grape.
They don't want that.
They want the whole thing so.
Well, the most important thing is
that you were with your family and your loved ones
and we're all grateful and we're healthy and happy
and stuff like that.
You have been here many times.
Your first time here was season one--
season two.
And so this is what you were teaching me.
Do you remember this moment where
you were teaching me a dance that you did in a movie?
Oh, my God.
Yes I remember.
And you did it too.
Great.
It's a lot of commitment.
--love it.
Yeah.
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Hey, Salma Hayek was here, your good friend Salma.
And she-- Well, first we were zooming with her and the owl
actually, I wanted to meet it, and the owl showed up
with lunch in its claws.
And then, we were talking about it here, have you met the owl?
Yes, of course.
Do you like the owl?
I love the owl because-- when she told me that she had one,
I was blown away because when I was little,
my grandmother had a neighbor who had an owl
and I was really scared of the owl
but I always wanted to go and see her.
And then Salma has one at home and she
invites us to feed the owl with these little rats
and give it to my daughter to give the rat to the owl.
That really traumatic for her.
Yeah.
That's not the way to-- how old is your daughter?
8.
No, no but the other animal has to eat too.
But, the first day was--
she was very impressed by that.
I love owls though, and I think that's so cool.
I keep telling her she needs to get a second one
because it needs a pal.
I agree.
Yeah.
But it's so cute that she has that.
And also, did you know that her house was haunted?
She didn't tell me that.
We've been in that house and--
I believe it if she says that it's haunted, I believe her.
You wouldn't be scared of that.
You would like that, right?
If she sees this interview, she's
going to laugh because when I go to LA the first time,
we didn't know each other, only on the phone.
And I got here with a ticket to make a movie.
I had my return ticket, so I was coming here for two months
and I didn't know anyone here and she picked me up
at the airport and she said, you're not going to the hotel,
you're coming to my house because this
is hard at the beginning and you're
going to feel very lonely.
So she took me to her house.
That's why now we're like sisters.
And I ended up also sleeping in her room because I was scared.
And that's the way we met.
And on top of that, in the middle of the night,
she says that I was holding her hand because I was afraid.
I don't know.
I was dreaming.
So-- she would love so much if she
hears you say that because our beginning was
really particular.
That's really sweet though, and that's great
that she took you in and that she knew
that it was going to be hard.
It was amazing that somebody that I really
didn't know, only on the phone.
Yeah.
She made sure that she picked me up at the airport
and she didn't let me go to the hotel.
She told me you are, whether you want it or not--
you don't know me but you're coming to my house.
I'm not going to leave you alone
That's so sweet.
I love her so much but from day one
she's been like that with me.
Yeah.
No, she's fantastic.
I love her.
I adore.
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