WEBVTT - Amy Adams / "Vice" 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.400 You're listening to Playback, a Variety I Heart Radio podcast. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:23.160 I'm your host, Variety Awards Editor Chris Tapley. We're kicking 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.639 off three weeks of chats with OSCAR nominees this week, 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:29.240 beginning with Amy Adams, who picked up her sixth nomination 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.640 for playing Dick Cheney and for playing Lynn Cheney and Vice. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.400 I think if Amy Adams played Dick Cheney in this movie, 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.199 that would be something to write home about. Holy crap. No, Uh, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.159 she plays Lynn Chaney in the films. She got her 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.760 sixth nomination in fourteen years, which is incredible, particularly when 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.479 you consider the fact that she kind of hit the 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.160 ground running with OSCAR nominations, uh, landing one for June 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:55.040 Bug in two thousand five. And uh, she's one of 0:00:55.040 --> 0:01:00.280 our most unrewarded actresses on that score, six nominations without 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.840 a win so far. Maybe she'll finally pull it off 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.320 for Vice. We talked about that film and all the 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.280 films she's been nominated for in fact, which is quite 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.039 a collection of films. And again, she's I think she's 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:15.880 one of the sweetest people in the business. She was 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.640 one of our first guests early on here at Playback 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.840 and We're so pleased to have her back. So here 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.240 is my chat with Amy Adams. It's it's always fun 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:31.720 to get a movie out there. Um, thank you to 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.360 get it seen. You know, there's always so much anticipation, 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.400 and you know, especially when it's Adam and it's Christian 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.120 and I've had all you guys on the show. I 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.640 don't think I've ever had this many people from one 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.039 movie on the show. I did Christian and Sam together. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.080 Now here we are with you all right, we are 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:56.760 up and running. Okay, everyone, no big deal, We're just 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.800 here with Amy Adams. UM, six time Oscar nominee. A 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.360 thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.000 having your returning champ, so to speak. One of the 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.160 few that we've had a second time on the show. Yeah, 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.480 it was tell you Right, Tell you Right. That's episode 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.120 number two, by the way, this is like number one, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.400 oh four. Oh my goodness, congratulations. That's really cool. That 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:18.880 was a fun one though. I love doing them and 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.680 tell you right. I'll love going to tell you right. Obviously, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.919 it's beautiful. It's so beautiful. I wish I had more 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.760 time there. I kind of just go and hang out. 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:29.639 You can actually watch movies when you're there, if you're 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.760 able to spend time there. But yes, the Oscar nominated 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.560 Star of Vice. Congratulations on that. Thank you. What was 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:42.079 your morning like when you got the news? Were you here? Yeah? 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.360 I was here so in early morning. Then yeah, I 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.960 got a phone call and that was fun. It's always fun. Um. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.320 I wasn't anticipating it one way or the other, but 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.960 I was happy to hear about everyone's nominations. For me, 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.840 that's always fun to be nominated with a bunch of 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:02.000 a bunch of people from the films. It's a good feeling. Yeah, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.680 that thing was like eight nominations. That's one of my 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.359 favorite movies of the year. I love it. I think 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.600 it's delicious. Uh, you know, it's what's interesting to me though, 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.040 it's been a bit of a divisive movie. I mean, 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.480 have you been surprised by some of the reviews to advice? 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.480 Do you pay attention to them? I don't always pay 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.280 attention to reviews. Um. Sometimes I like to read like 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:21.760 one or two good and one or two bad, just 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.840 so I understand sort of people's perspective. I'd like to 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:31.160 be balanced. Um, it was interesting the level of of 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:34.280 divisiveness like this sort of passion. People had both ways. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.520 You know, I think that's that was really um. That 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.280 was really interesting, and in a way it kind of 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.320 reflects the times that we're in that it's you know, um. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:47.360 But but there were people on both sides of the 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.880 aisle who either liked or didn't like the film who responded, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.520 I love the film and I love um Adam McKay's 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:58.640 unique storytelling devices. And so for me, I'm I'm I'm 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.080 in the I mean, of course I'm in it, but 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.840 I'm in the camp of really loving it. It's good 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.280 to have strong reactions as opposed to it was okay, 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:09.000 you want to get for dinner, you know, just forget 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.480 about it. Within being in different in difference is kind 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.800 of one of my least favorite things in general in life. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.839 Although I really don't like not being liked, do you 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:20.800 know what I mean? That like stresses me out. Would 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.600 be strange. Otherwise, I think, is there anyone who just 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:28.719 loves not being liked? Like? Probably? Actually, particularly in my field, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.360 I think, okay, the people who like to rouse, I 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.880 got it, well, you know, I like that there's a conversation, 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.600 you know what I mean? And I will say there's 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.680 a conversation around vice. So, um, I think, especially when 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:47.240 we're dealing with political elements, conversation is important. Yeah. So 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.680 when you got the script, did it read how it 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.960 was finally presented? Did it read on the page as 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.159 irreverent as it is the filmmaking is because I'm always 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.479 curious about that translation translation, you know, I guess may 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.640 because I was looking at it from a character point 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.880 of view and the way that the characters were developed. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.520 I mean, I knew, I know, Adam is um very 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.919 political and he has very strong points of view, so 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:12.760 I knew he was going to put that in. But 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.359 you know, there's always a slight difference between the script 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:23.000 and the final product, and so I knew that, you know, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.800 diving into it with Adam, he was going to have 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:26.960 a take on it. But the script itself was very 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:32.800 solid and felt very um, it just felt very matter 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.400 of fact. You know, his storytelling techniques aren't so you 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.599 always knew that there was going to be that. But 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.440 for instance, are you reading half with you the script? 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.279 There's a credit role, Yeah, exactly, that's in there. Um, 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.000 the Shakespearean scene is in there. There's even more that 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.120 didn't make it in, like the musical number, which I 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:55.120 wasn't involved in, so I tell no, no, I mean, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.719 trust me. I was really you know, anyone who knows 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.440 me is like I would have just shown up just 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.359 to be a dancer, you know, I'd like to be 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.360 an easter egg in the musical number. But I saw 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.000 the musical number and it's amazing. I believe. He said 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.320 he's going to try to put it on the DVD. 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:12.559 I hope it makes it out. We hope he does. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.520 I hope he does that. And then he sort of 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.560 teased that he might do like a twenty minute a 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.920 short phone, a short about the early stuff, because when 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.200 you meet my character in the script, it's already like 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:29.960 twenty minutes, and so it was. It was definitely I 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.120 approached that scene with a certain sort of energy of 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.640 already knowing who Lynn is. So it's a really fun 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.760 introduction in that way because it wasn't the initial introduction 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.479 to the character. It's funny. Yeah, let's talk about that 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:46.640 getting to know Lynn researching was this uh significant element 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.920 of research compared to other roles you've done, or you know, 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.560 just tell me about that. I mean to some yes, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.520 actually I didn't know a lot about her. And um, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.480 I knew people's opinions, so in one way I had 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:05.279 to really, um, I just had to kind of let 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.960 go of my own opinion or my own politics and 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.720 go back because I had started watching video on her, 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.920 because I of course I'm like, oh, I'm playing somebody. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.480 What do they look like, what do they sound like? 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.680 How do they act? What? You know? So I went 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.120 straight to sort of more video research. And then I 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.400 realized I was not I was coming out her from 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.920 a place that wasn't going to be productive in creating 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.520 a character that felt real and grounded and balanced. And 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.040 so I stopped watching the videos for a period of 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.160 time and went back and did my reading and like 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.840 did the did the real research and trying to figure 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.440 out who she was as opposed to who she is 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.840 now or people's opinions or or my own opinions. The 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.440 hardest part of that, as far as instilling it and 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.360 making it a character, and you always talk about playing 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.240 real life people, like staying away from anything that's like 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.400 an impersonation or anything. Just finding an actual character in there. 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.440 What was the hardest kind of through line to find there? 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:09.320 I guess, I mean, I think the biggest challenge for me, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:14.800 was just creating a character that aged, for you know, 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:18.160 fifty years and still felt like the same person, but 0:08:18.400 --> 0:08:21.640 went through an evolution, and creating that in a way 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.160 that felt subtle and real as opposed to UM, what 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:26.880 I'm doing it with Christians, So it makes it a 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:33.920 lot easier, UM, but in with with Lynn and so 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.000 it's so strange too because everything even that I read 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.560 about her, saw about her that wasn't written by her, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.240 was based on her past a certain age. So going 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.800 back into research, I really had to sort of, I guess, 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:53.599 triangulate between what people had told Adam. Adam sent me 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.080 these amazing this amazing letter somebody had written, and then 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.760 there was an article someone had written about the two 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:04.320 of them, and then UM sources, you know, we had sources, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.559 and then kind of watching how people reacted to her 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.600 and kind of trying to understand how she got that 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:15.600 way and drawing conclusions about kind of what what about 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.600 her past, what about her experience? UM created that kind 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.719 of ambition and that kind of drive and that kind 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.920 of focus, so that it was coming from a place 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:30.400 that didn't feel purely Shakespearean, you know, and felt a 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.800 little felt more grounded, but It's always important to me. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:34.920 Is I like my characters to feel like you could 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.520 meet them on the street. What do you think that 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.280 Drive was about? I mean, that's what I told Adam. 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:39.840 It's what I've told everyone about this movie. What I 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:44.520 come away from this movie thinking is why, you know 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.119 all of that push for power? Uh, you know, specifically 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.800 regarding Dick Cheney, he doesn't need the money, He's not 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.280 necessarily getting the credit because you know VP and everything. 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.160 It's just like this push for power and why? And 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.480 you got any ideas? I mean, I have ideas. I 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:07.880 have no conclusive, conclusory evidence, you know, But in looking 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.400 at Lynn in particular, I mean, I think you get 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.400 to a point in life where you can lose perspective 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:19.199 if you don't um. It's easy to lose perspective in 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.200 the pursuit of power or or wealth, I think. And 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.160 I don't know that that's what happened to Lynne, but 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:30.040 I do know in the beginning she um she came 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.520 from a real rough upbringing, and she doesn't talk about 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.800 it in the way that's sort of our society talks about. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.040 You know, everyone's so open and just like shares about 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.520 their pain and their trauma. She's honest about it in 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.040 her book, but she almost tells it with sort of 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:50.079 this romanticized like everything feels like it's shot and soft 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.520 focused in the way that she tells her story about 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:57.400 you know, her the tragedies and her family's history and 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:02.240 her dad's you know, problems with gambling or you know, 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.120 having to move out of her house into an apartment 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.160 because they lost their house, and going to the state 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.440 championships for baton twirling and seeing the girls of privilege 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.640 and understanding that she was one of the only ones 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.800 there in a handmade costume, you know, little things that 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.880 you start to go I kind of see, I'm seeing 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:29.120 where you know, she created a realm, a real drive, 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.560 and understanding that it was going to be up to 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:35.960 her to get herself out of her situation, and she 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:40.680 wanted to. Um. I think she learned very early that 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.720 her hard work could be rewarded, and so I think 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.600 she kind of just had this amazing focus and work 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.920 ethic and it didn't matter if it was baton twirling 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.160 or you know, um getting the husband or whatever it 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.320 was when she whipping him into shape, but it was 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.480 it was as soon as I felt this reading it, 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.880 and there was this I actually really liked this because 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.439 I know ambition still feels like such a dirty word, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.440 especially for women to be like, I'm ambitious. It just 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.200 doesn't I know. Rhese Witherspoon talked about this and speech 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.280 and it's it's worth looking up. And so I felt 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:21.720 that Lynn didn't feel apologetic about being ambitious. She saw 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.720 it as I decided I wanted to be the best girl, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:29.600 and I used to fantasize about the dress sidewear and gosh, darnett, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.960 I did it and I wore the dress, you know, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.120 and she's proud of herself, and that's something that isn't 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:41.120 instilled often about um ambition in women, and you know, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.160 it's it's not always seen the same way. Yeah, I mean, 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.959 the whole thing makes for a fascinating psychological study, obviously. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.880 I know, I think I love psychology, which is always 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.920 trying to break down my characters and this sort of 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.000 like amateur psychologist, right, it's part of what you guys do. Yeah, 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.560 it's the most fun part of my work for me, 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.680 is is going on in there. Yeah. Yeah. I also 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.319 wanted to talk about your just your your fellow nominees 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.480 in the Supporting Actors category that year. It's a fascinating lineup. 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.240 I mean Regina King, you know, I was hopeful she 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:16.280 would make the cut and she did for Could Talk. Yeah, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.680 you know, fantastic performance. The ladies from the favorite Rachel 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:23.480 Weiss and Emma Stone, and I was so thrilled to 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.840 see Marina did a very good in for Roma, which 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.680 was such an interesting inclusion as well. What have you 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:30.960 had a chance to see movies this year? Have you 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.360 had to just see their movies this year? I'm just 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.680 curious what you think. I've seen some movies. Um, I 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.719 haven't seen everybody's movies. I feel bad about that. UM, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.839 I definitely will see I'm in the middle of all 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:46.120 of my h viewing at this point. Um, and I'm 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.439 excited there. I know them all. You guys are running 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.520 into each other all of the Yeah, but also as people, 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:55.240 they're awesome and their previous work. I'm I'm a huge fan. 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:01.240 Um Regina, I have like a major girl crush on 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.720 because she's just got the night the best energy and 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.080 UM yeah, I'm It's a It's a fun category to 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.400 be a part of. I always have a good time 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.360 with with the women. It's it's interesting the narrative always 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.320 sets women up in such I don't know if it 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.120 does with men. Does it do this with men? Where 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:20.520 like men are really like, you know, like battling out. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.560 I don't know what they do that like women, it 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:27.280 feels like it's like like that we're like in deep competition. 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.200 Like I have like voodoo dolls of these girls or something, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.360 and I'm like, no, I'd be happy for any of them. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.480 I think maybe some of that plays a part in 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.880 every category. Yeah, but you know, I guess our society 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.080 does like to put women against each other. So well, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.080 it's not it's just not true and not against anybody. Well, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.160 that's not true. I'm not against anybody an actor in 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:52.800 my category. There's some human beings that date back to 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:57.840 junior high. I still have ay those No, can you 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:06.520 imagine Billy Madison? Now that's so funny. I'm now, I'm sorry. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.720 I'm thinking about all the ladies. They're awesome, like and 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.200 I also wanted to talk about your just your previous nominations. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:14.760 If you, if you'd be willing to kind of look 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.680 back with me. You're very prolific actress to begin with, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.800 but to be prolific with you know, award nominated, award 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:28.680 winning work is stunning. I mean years, it's insane. I mean, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.440 since you pretty much leapt onto the scene. Um well, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.680 and so to speak, I mean, obviously you were working 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.880 hard before you broke out in June Bug. But let's 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.280 start with June Bug, your first nomination. You know what 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.920 comes to mind? Want to talk about June Bug. That 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:49.880 was unexpected and um thrilling, it's it's It's why I 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:54.560 always approached awards season with a great at like I 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.000 tried to have a great attitude and to look at 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.160 the gifts of it, because I would not be I 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:05.880 am today if um people hadn't gone behind me for 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.320 June Bug, and I hadn't sort of gone through that 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:14.000 awards season and introduced people to the work. So it 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:19.080 can really Um, I'm so grateful that it brought attention 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.960 to a really small film. It didn't have a big budget, 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.080 didn't have a big publicity budget, and so it was 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.200 it was great. Um, it's great to be a part 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:35.720 of that. It was a real overwhelming experience and sort 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.440 of like yeah, I bet, I mean, you're right in 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.360 the business there. And then I feel like I always 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.320 looked like this tell your pardon and singing on the stage, 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.560 and it was the year that I will never forget that. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.200 It was the year for heart out here for a 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.920 pimp and watching like that on stage, I was like, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:57.480 this is so awesome. You know it's hard at he 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.560 I got to interduce three six Mafia that year. My gosh, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.000 it's any way, So it was that was one of 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.439 my favorite interviews ever. Oh yeah, I exactly because I 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.480 wanted to know what was the nominees launching like for 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.080 those guys. I was like, tell me about that. And 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.160 they're like, man, you're used to being in the studio 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.199 smelling like some stuff you probably shouldn't be smelling like. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:19.840 And then they pull a switcher and you're you're sitting 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.080 there with Reach with a spoon and she's sexy man 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.800 and Steven Spielber. It's the greatest interview I have ever done. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.679 I remember, well, that's kind I mean, that's honestly what 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.880 I felt like. Me my poor husband, he um we 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.480 go back to that season because he made uh, I'm 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.160 so so sorry, Darren. He went to an Apple Martini 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.040 phase and so he was like, oh, three drinks. It SAgs. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:44.960 The next thing you know, he's got his arms around 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.240 David streuth Are and I'm like, Darren, you don't actually 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.679 know him, you know that right, Like he might be 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.480 uh being a little too familiar with everybody because he 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.600 was so excited. We were both so excited to meet everybody. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.560 But I was like doing on, you know, I was 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.560 trying to don't are you kidding? It's the best show ever. 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.440 I was like, I think he likes you a lot. 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.119 You should encourage this, Like I was, I'm I'm bad 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.520 like that if someone's like going down the road, as 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.720 long as it's not harmful and is a great show. Um. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.240 But I was reminding him that um at SAG's this 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.080 past SAG Awards, I was like, do you remember your 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.040 Apple Martini place? I mean there was a time he 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:32.800 was close talking Steven Spielberg about having knowing every word too. 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.199 I ting to Indiana Jones and the Temple him too, 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.560 because he has a record of it, and so he's like, dude, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.600 bro man. I was like, oh my gosh, you just 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.640 dude Broman, Steven spob I love you so much. You're 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.399 so insane. Oh but That's why I love my husband 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:52.080 is he just makes me laugh because he gets so excited. Sorry, guys, 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.600 she's literally crying. Guys, Stephen looks at me because you're driving, right, 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:04.240 Oh yeah, oh yeah, Dare's gonna kill me. He's so 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.919 funny though, I'm not sorry. I don't. You don't have to. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.320 I love it because I will say this about my husband. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:16.000 He really is a true lover of film and and 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.879 one of the nicest, most social people. Like I'm definitely 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.560 the person that goes to a party and I'm like, 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:26.159 find me a couch chair, a corner, whatever, and he's like, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.560 you're good. He gets me settled, and then I don't 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:33.000 see him for like an hour. Good, get you anything, 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:38.240 You're good. And then he just he's just very friendly friendly. 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.320 Is that you think. We just watched him with my daughter. 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:44.040 We covered her eyes during certain parts. Yeah, I know, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:45.800 it's sacrilege. I just think it's the best one. No, 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.000 that's okay. I'm I'm a I'm a fan of the 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:50.920 last weece sad. Yeah, it's awesome too. I like the 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:52.840 first one too. I like them all. We just again, 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.920 we did that with my daughter, um couple weeks ago. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:02.879 Which one does she like? She liked the like that one. Sorry, 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.720 I'm I can't stop thinking of Darren Cooks talking everybody, Well, 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:08.400 this is gonna be a fun segue. Let's talk about 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:17.040 doubt three years later. Yeah, you know Powerhouse cast Meryl Streep, 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:20.600 Violet Davis like, great, Phil Hoffman, what what do you 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:26.320 recall of that movie and and that season. I'm that 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:29.520 was an amazing experience for me working on that film 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:32.760 to get to dive into a character study and we 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.679 were in rehearsals to get to do that. At that 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:41.199 point in my career with Philip and Meryll was I 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:42.960 keep saying a gift, but it is a gift. I 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.720 mean I was able to watch these two masters um 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.359 working their craft and it it taught me so much. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:56.280 And it was strange because that year at the Oscars, 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.320 I went through like a whole like the first Oscars, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:20:59.919 which is so overwhelming, and then I'm like, oh my 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.040 am I doing back here? Like I don't belong here? 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.840 This is too much Almost I got a little overwhelmed 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:10.280 during that season. I think was it different than even 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.240 than it is now. This is just ten years ago, 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.399 but it's the evolution of the season and how much 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.439 work you guys end up having to dude, to promote. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.240 It's different for each film and sort of the way 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:24.399 that it gets rolled out, you know. Um that one, 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:30.160 it was so much of having done Enchanted and having 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:37.600 that come out and then really transitioning into I'm doubt 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:43.679 from Enchanted. It's just yeah. So it was I was 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:49.280 like that moment where I decide how honest to be. 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.760 It was like I really wanted to be taken seriously, 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:57.320 but at the same time not. I think a lot 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.359 of people will be like, like I would make a 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.400 joke because I, as Philip and Meryl would be asked 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:04.760 about sort of diving into these deep characters, and then 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:07.399 they'd get to me and say, so, what was harder 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:09.720 to wear a princess dress or a habit? And I 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.760 was like, oh, no, is this what people think about me? 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:15.000 They think that it's the same thing, and I'm just 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:16.960 changed costumes. So that was kind of I kind of 0:22:17.000 --> 0:22:18.719 got in my head a little bit. Was there already 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:20.760 a natural kind of self consciousness about that or did 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.800 I just have a natural self consciousness anyway? I think, 0:22:25.240 --> 0:22:31.479 But I think I I I didn't expect to be 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:35.399 taken as seriously as as a fulipan, I mean, Filip 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:38.760 and Meryl in that are just overwhelmed, overwhelmingly brilliant and 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:43.960 their their work is amazing. Um. I think it's just 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:45.840 new to it all, you know. So you're just trying 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:47.560 to find your way. I think that's what it is. 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:51.600 How about the Fighter, Uh the first time and I 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:59.240 found my way now now yeah, um that was fun. Um. 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:01.160 That was a harder word season because I went through 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:03.320 I just have my daughter and I was shooting them 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:07.879