Our first guest rose to stardom on Dawson's Creek
and has appeared in such movies as Wonder Boys and Phone Booth.
She now stars in the new movie Pieces of April.
Please give a warm welcome to Kate Holmes.
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Thank you.
Wow.
They love you.
I think they love you.
No, I think they love you.
We love you both.
They love us both.
Isn't that sweet?
So how are you?
I'm great.
Yeah?
Yeah.
How are you doing adjusting to Los Angeles
after living in-- where did you shoot Dawson's Cweek?
Cweek?
Did I say Cweek?
The Cweek Shot.
Where did you shoot Dawson's Cweek?
We shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, which
is this wonderful Southern town, and we were there
for six years.
And it's been an adjustment.
I moved to Los Angeles in June.
In June?
In June.
And you'd never been here before?
I mean, living here?
I've never really full-time lived here.
Wait, and where did you move to North Carolina from?
From Ohio, because I started Dawson's Creek right
after high school.
Wow.
Ohio, then another small town, now here.
Now here.
Uh-huh.
So it's kind of new.
I mean, in the morning--
I'm used to going to my Port City job in Wilmington.
Everybody knew my name and they'd say,
oh, it's 10 o'clock.
Did you guys shoot late?
What's going on?
Isn't it your nephew's birthday?
They just knew me and were my friends.
And here, I go into the same Starbucks,
expecting one of these days they'll say, hi, Katie.
You know, I have your--
and it's not happening yet.
I'm going to keep going.
I mean, it's been about six months,
but I'm going to keep trying.
Is it the same person behind the counter at Starbucks?
Yes, it is.
It is.
Are you wearing something different or are you
trying-- you could wear the same exact outfit and try it out.
I'll try that.
Yeah, don't change at all.
And what you do is you train them.
Just every single-- you go every hour for a while.
OK.
And then every four hours, and then every day.
OK.
Yeah.
OK.
Because there's probably like 1,000 people
going in there versus, in North Carolina,
there were like 100 people.
Yeah, you're probably right.
Yeah, wean them down to once a day.
Don't be so hard on the-- do you know his name or her name?
No, you don't.
You got me.
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Now you see how selfish you're being.
Oh my God.
I know how to make my guests feel at home.
But that must be an adjustment to all of a sudden--
because I was lucky enough to live in a small town
a couple of times, and I really like that feeling
of people knowing who you are.
And when you pass them on the road, everybody waves.
That's a nice feeling.
That's not here at all.
No, it's kind of like honk.
Yeah.
I'm always in somebody's way.
Yeah, like I don't understand the actresses that move
like from Ohio to New York.
Like I can't imagine.
That's too much for me even.
Too much.
I went to New York and every time I'd hear a horn honk,
I thought someone was honking at me
and I'd turn around, like wondering.
And they just honk horns constantly there.
It's not about you.
It's just that's how naive I was, that oh, someone knows me.
There's a horn honking.
Well, no, a lot of people knew you.
No, not then.
I was just wandering the streets with a suitcase.
So now a lot of people are sad.
The show was on for six years, but they were sad
that it ended.
And it ended in a shocking way, didn't it?
It was shocking to a lot of people.
Look at this.
Here.
This is the--
Year one.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's how people want me to dress.
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Look at that.
I know.
You were how old, 18?
Yeah.
We all have a little bit of baby fat.
Yeah, look.
That's adorable.
Yeah.
Funny that you brought this picture out
because for the last--
I brought this from home.
This is usually on my mantle.
Appropriate.
Because what?
Well, in the last episode, Joey chooses Pacey over Dawson.
How come?
Well, I think that they had the better love affair.
Oh, really?
I mean, that's my opinion.
Yeah.
But of course, I've had mixed reactions
because there's so many Pacey fans versus Dawson fans.
They either love it or hate it, but I guess
you can't satisfy everyone.
You know what I find, you can't satisfy everyone.
You can try, but you can't.
So were you upset with the way it ended
or were you happy about it?
No, I was happy.
I thought it made sense.
And it was a very emotional ending for everybody.
It was quite an experience to be a part of that show.
Yeah, it's amazing.
And this film that we'll talk about in the next segment,
I mean, you couldn't be further from this.
I saw it.
It's really, really good.
Actually, we'll be right back.
We'll talk more about that with Katie Holmes.
We'll be right back.
We're back with Katie Holmes.
And Katie, what are you doing for Halloween?
What are your plans?
We have big plans here for Halloween.
What are you doing?
Well, I've always been a fan of haunted houses,
although I'm the biggest scaredy cat.
But it's such a challenge for me to try to make it
through at least like one room.
I have to go with friends.
But I need to find some in LA, and the big city,
I'm sure they are going to be very scary.
Yeah, there's some cool places around here.
We heard that, and so we're actually going to send you.
We have VIP passes to Spooky House 14 Haunted Theme Park
in Woodland Hills, California.
Do you know about that?
That's a spooky one.
No.
Is it really spooky?
Yeah, very spooky.
It's the spookiest of all spooky.
And they describe it as a dilapidated old two-story
mansion with 25 terrifying rooms.
That's going to be scary to get through, 25 rooms.
So you like that feeling of being s-- scared?
Yeah.
(COUGHS) Scared.
You think my voice would stop changing at this age.
I do.
25 is kind of a lot, but I'll give it a go.
I like being scared.
Did you see that movie 28 Days?
No.
Oh, that's the scariest movie ever.
And I don't like it either, but sometimes it's
fun to be scared.
But you should try to watch that.
OK.
But really, you won't be able to sleep.
It really is.
Maybe I'll have a slumber party.
Yeah.
Yeah, do that.
OK.
And I'll tell you a story after you watch it,
because I don't want to give anything away, of what happened
to me while I was watching it.
OK.
Call me after you watch it.
All right, so Pieces of April is a movie that--
is it out now?
It is out in New York and LA.
I saw it, and it is so good.
The acting in it is so, so good.
You're so great and so completely different.
Do you want to tell people what it's about
before we show the clip?
It's this story that takes place on Thanksgiving Day.
And it's a family who's kind of estranged
from their one daughter, or vice versa,
and they're coming together.
And she's preparing this turkey, and she's
having a very hard time cooking the turkey,
and they're kind of having a hard time getting to her.
And it's funny and sad.
I'm proud of it.
I think it is.
It's a very small, independent movie, but it's done so well.
And it's a very dysfunctional family.
Very.
But who doesn't have that?
Pieces of April in select cities now,
and opens in more cities on Halloween.
Next from Bally Total Fitness, Akiba's Trip will be here.
Thank you so much for being here.
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