-Our first guest is an Oscar, Golden Globe,
and Emmy winner, starring in the very popular
series "The Morning Show," season two,
premieres September 17th on Apple TV+,
here is Reese Witherspoon!
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah! Hi, Reese!
Hi, bud! Thank you so much
for coming on the show. I appreciate it, Reese.
I always love seeing you.
-Well, I wish I could be there in person.
-No, I know. But that -- Well, next time.
Baby steps, please.
You know you're always welcome here.
Reese, if we go to a bagel shop together, what would you order?
What would your order be? -Bialy.
-[ Laughing ] Oh, my God!
Yeah, that's not true at all. [ Laughs ]
-A flat bagel. -No, it would not be a bialy.
How are you doing? How's the family, by the way?
Everyone good? -So good.
Everybody is back in school,
and, you know, just trying to stay safe and healthy.
-Yeah, I did see your Instagram, by the way.
And, gosh, I want to like all of your videos
but I don't want to look like I'm stalking you.
But I do laugh at -- I do laugh at every one I see.
But you did one recently about your kids going to school
and how -- what it's like when your kids go back to school.
And, actually, we have a clip I want to show.
Take a look. This is what Reese does.
-♪ Won't stop ♪ -♪ Won't stop the beat and go ♪
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-♪ Everybody ♪
♪ Move your feet ♪
-Just eating cake. [ Cheers and applause ]
-You know. What can we do?
-You're fine. Have fun.
I wanted to say congrats on this because I've said --
We've talked about it before, but your company,
Hello Sunshine, you've done such a great job
with this company.
I respect it, and your whole --
You know, I'm a fan of what you've done with your career.
But this company, you were like,
"I'm gonna do things with women, for women, like, women-forward."
And I thought that was so cool. And you do your book club,
you do TV shows, you do movies. It is giant.
And you just sold this thing for, like, a gazillion dollars.
This giant company bought it. Congratulations on --
I'm sure that wasn't the plan to have this happen,
but it's good news.
-Hey, I'll take it. -Yeah, of course.
Yeah. Why not? But no, it is.
Thank you for saying that, Jimmy.
I've known you for so many years,
and we've talked so much about, like, the importance
of having different kinds of storytellers,
and it's really exciting that it's just the beginning.
You know, it's a great time for women to be creating
and to be writing their stories in their own words,
and I'm just so happy to put a spotlight
on some other female creators.
-It's so good, and it's just quality stuff, too.
Everything you do is quality.
So I do want to say congratulations.
-I try not to put crap out there.
-Yeah, you really do. And are you still gonna stay --
-Hey, man. But, you know, they're not --
Everything can't be perfect, but we try.
-No. Are you -- I do --
Speaking of some of the great stuff you've done,
it's the 20th anniversary,
if you can believe it, of "Legally Blonde."
I know. [ Cheers and applause ]
Isn't that wild? Twenty --
I mean, it's become such a thing now,
it's part of pop culture. But anything game-changing
when people bring up "Legally Blonde" to you?
-Oh, you know, I probably get stopped once a week
and asked to do the bend and snap.
-Yeah, yeah, you have to. -Which is great.
And, also, my son, who is 9, just watched it
for the first time, and he was laughing so hard
at the jokes. It made me feel so good.
-Isn't that great when your kids laugh at a joke?
"Yes, they're getting comedy! They get a joke!"
I love when my kids laugh. -Well, you know,
we teach our kids in this house, you know, comedy is king.
-Yeah, thank you. -Funny is money.
-Funny is money. How is "Legally Blonde 3"?
There was a rumor that Mindy Kaling
was working on a script and you were gonna
reprise your role. Is it true?
-The rumors are true.
[ Cheers and applause ] -There you go.
I don't know what else -- What else do you want?
Is it soon? -Mindy is working on
"Legally Blonde 3," and we just --
we are having the best time.
She's such a great girlfriend, but we also get to joke around
about just things that she thinks are funny.
-She's very funny. She's very clever.
-Oh, my gosh. She's the best.
-She's brilliant.
I want to talk about "The Morning Show."
I love season one. What a cast -- you,
Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Aniston.
And then, I was watching the "Friends" reunion,
and I almost forgot, I go, "How can I forget?"
You were in -- You were on "Friends"
for a while. You were a recurring character.
You already worked with Jennifer Aniston.
What was that like, by the way, to be on "Friends"?
-Well, being on "Friends," I was 23 years old.
-Yep. -And I was just in awe
of watching them work. I had only really done --
I mean, I've done a few movies, but I just came off of
a movie called "Election," and the the writers had seen it,
and they thought it would be funny
if I was Jen's kind of crappy little sister.
-Yeah. -And, um --
And it was so amazing being there.
And I had a baby. I just had a baby.
So my daughter Ava was born, and I put her --
I remember taking her and putting her on the couch
at Central Perk.
And, you know, when babies are just like --
they can't sit up, and so she just fell.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, it's great memories. -Yeah. And then I got to be --
Now I just get to be Jen's pesty --
pesty little sister every day. -Yeah.
Let's talk about "The Morning Show."
It was such a big hit. It's on Apple TV+.
Season two kind of has a whole new plot to it, yeah.
A lot of stuff. You deal with a lot of issues.
It's based on a morning show and two kind of anchors.
And there's a little rivalry. There's some -- a lot of --
I know. How do we even get into this?
This year deals with -- -I just want to watch you
describe it. [ Laughter ]
-I don't know how to describe it.
It's kind of loosely based on things that might have happened.
Did I set it up at all? [ Laughter ]
-Well... -Not really.
-You know, yes. It is --
It's a morning show.
We talk about everything that's going on in
every normal workplace right now,
so it doesn't matter what industry you're in,
you're probably dealing with issues of sexism,
abuse of power,
systemic racism, homophobia, some opioid addiction.
-Yeah, yeah. -There's just the whole shebang.
-Wow. -But we do it
and, I think, in a really human way.
We talk about cancel culture in a way
that is really thoughtful and talks about, you know,
there's real people involved in all of these things
that are happening, and culture is moving so fast.
It's great to have a TV show
that kind of deals with all of these issues.
-I want to show everyone a clip. Here is Reese Witherspoon
in season two of "The Morning Show."
Take a look.
-Bradley.
Ratings are down. Pick your battles.
-You know, if they don't value me around here,
I have a feeling there's going to be an opening
on the evening news very soon.
-That seems like a safe bet.
-And I seriously doubt Vince would tell me
to do nutrition in the new year on the evening news.
And by the way, Gayle, you told me all this singing
and dancing and playing along
was gonna buy me some freedom around this place.
I mean, I dyed my hair.
I hosted their celebrity bowling show.
I -- I did stupid TikTok dances on TV.
I did everything short of tattooing UBA on my ass,
and for what?
-You got to do most of the stories you wanted to do.
-If we stay the course, people will catch up.
-I hope you're right.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-That is Reese Witherspoon, everybody.
Season two of "The Morning Show"
premieres September 17th on Apple TV+.