Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome, not to name Manuel,
Speaker 1: that's the name Manuel. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome in person. Because the first thing I have to
Speaker 1: say is congratulations, because the last time we spoke was
Speaker 1: virtually and that's when you were doing the new show
Speaker 1: was Die Heart with Kevin Hart, right, and since then
Speaker 1: you got nominated for an Emmy for that ROLESO. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it feels like you your journey has
Speaker 1: just been you know, it's just on the up. You're
Speaker 1: enjoying yourself with its comedy, with its drama, whether it's whatever.
Speaker 1: This is like a thriller, yeah, it's it's it's terrifying. Yes, um.
Speaker 1: You know I like to challenge myself, try my hand
Speaker 1: to everything. Watching this movie, I was like, this is
Speaker 1: a terrible mistake that your characters made, because we saw
Speaker 1: a little bit in the clip she goes to like
Speaker 1: you know, like a Levishi of ented English destination wedding
Speaker 1: with a long lost relative who is a stranger um
Speaker 1: and goes alone. I mean no, like that was her
Speaker 1: first mistake. So I so I always joke that if
Speaker 1: it was me in this situation, that movie would have
Speaker 1: ended in the scene with my best friend, He's like,
Speaker 1: are you going to go meet him? And we'd be
Speaker 1: like nah, because like if I got invited to a
Speaker 1: long lost relatives event and I get there and then
Speaker 1: it's a bunch of people wearing masks pulling out knives,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, this is not always I intended this,
Speaker 1: This is not it. What I also found interesting was
Speaker 1: you are playing an American in the movie, but then
Speaker 1: everyone is English. Is that like super weird for you
Speaker 1: because it's like you English playing an American with English people.
Speaker 1: Do you find that there's like parts of Natalie the change,
Speaker 1: Like it's like other things like American Natalie does that
Speaker 1: English naturally would never do. Um. I think American Natalie
Speaker 1: is probably a little more. She's probably a little louder,
Speaker 1: to be honest, a little louder. Yeah, Like I don't
Speaker 1: mean that to sound like negative, Like, no, it's fine,
Speaker 1: you've said it. I don't we love that. I love that.
Speaker 1: I think that sometimes, like my Britishness, you know, often
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, keep it sort of yes, of course,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. And and I think there's a freedom that
Speaker 1: comes with that accent and that I see with Americans
Speaker 1: like they have no problem expressing themselves, expressing their opinions,
Speaker 1: and I love that. I wish I had more of that,
Speaker 1: so I tried to adopt it myself, not always successfully,
Speaker 1: but no, I think you do a great job of it.
Speaker 1: I loved seeing it in the character. I love seeing
Speaker 1: how you change before I let you go. There's one
Speaker 1: change that we have to speak about, and that's your hair. Right,
Speaker 1: it looks good. Thank you saying that. I saw the
Speaker 1: video of you cutting your hair, and it was really emotional.
Speaker 1: It was so emotional because we've known you with your
Speaker 1: hair for so long. It's become a part of you,
Speaker 1: and people have even come up to you and so like,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having natural hair on on
Speaker 1: a TV show, And like what made you decide, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm going to cut it? And not for
Speaker 1: a role, by the way, just for yourself. It was
Speaker 1: for me. Um. I think it had taken for many years.
Speaker 1: I wanted to cut my hair, and I always found
Speaker 1: a reason not to. And I think some of it
Speaker 1: was fear. Some of it was like, oh, um, you know,
Speaker 1: to be what is femininity or beauty or whatever? Like
Speaker 1: often we're kind of taught that you have to have
Speaker 1: long hair and it has to be a certain way,
Speaker 1: and and I think i'd um also like there was
Speaker 1: a real pride in not changing my hair for the
Speaker 1: screen and on red carpets and doing you know, glamorous
Speaker 1: looks with my natural texture and you know, hair discrimination
Speaker 1: all of that. It was a real kind of defiance
Speaker 1: that was in my hair, in a celebration that was
Speaker 1: in my hair. And so when I decided to cut it,
Speaker 1: I wanted to just shed it. I wanted to let
Speaker 1: go of all the sort of complex feelings but you know,
Speaker 1: start fresh and for regulations to me, You've inspired me.
Speaker 1: Now now maybe I'm not I'm not going to cut it,
Speaker 1: but maybe I'll come to the show with cornrows. Maybe
Speaker 1: you never know, I might such things up. You've you've
Speaker 1: inspired me, and you've been doing you've been mixing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I might. Now I might just do like a
Speaker 1: whole you never know, like a whole thing just like
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. That's like it for now. Natalie,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining me on the show. Actually, Profs,
Speaker 1: make sure to watch her invitations. It's going to be
Speaker 1: excuse to be and feeling on all the twenty six?
Speaker 1: Can that for me? Manuel, Everybody? The Daily Show with
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