WEBVTT - KATHIE LEE GIFFORD 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.000 I get to turn the tables on today's podcast Gas 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.520 because usually when I'm in a room with this woman, 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.720 she is the one doing the interview, asking the questions. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:19.960 She is a four time Emmy Award winner and a 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.160 former co host of not one, but two of America's 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.040 most beloved morning shows. She sat next to Regis Philbin 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.880 for fifteen years, then Hoda for eleven before stepping down 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.840 last year to pursue other opportunities. In she was inducted 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:41.600 into the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame, and she's 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.600 recently been chosen to receive a star on the Hollywood 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.040 Walk of Fame. She's a book author, she's a playwright, 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.600 she's a producer, a singer, a songstress, an actress. She 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.080 has her own record label, and she's written several musicals, 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:01.320 including Broadways Scandalous that got a Tony nomination. Oh my gosh. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.920 I could go on and on and on about today's 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:08.080 guest and her list of impressive accomplishments, but if I 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.720 tried to cover them all, there wouldn't be time for 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:16.440 this interview. This podcast Love Someone with the Lila's guest today, 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.600 as of course, Kathy Lee Gifford. She is the star 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.240 of the hour. Today, she's popping in to talk with 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.760 us about her new movie, A delightful rom com. I 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.600 got to watch it. It's called Then Came You. 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I was I 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:53.120 was blessed, and I thought, oh my god, oh my gosh, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.239 I get to talk to this lady and like find 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.120 out more about this. But you co wrote the songs 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.040 the soundtrack, yep. I I co wrote the songs, I 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.760 wrote the screenplays and produced it. And I star opposite 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.480 my dear, dear friend Craig Ferguson, whom I actually wrote 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.160 it for. He had co hosted with me on the 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.440 Today Show and we had had a blast together, and 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.480 he said, you know, if we wait for our agents 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.240 to get us another job in television, we're in diet razing. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.760 He said, God, let's just write a I write a 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.359 movie together, and he left for home and I went 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.800 to bed that night, and right on time, two o'clock 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.919 in the morning, bing, I wake up and I knew 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.679 what the movie should be, Delilah. I just knew it. 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.400 I knew it should be Annabel her name Annabelle Wilson. 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:41.800 He should be Howard Odds, and I knew how I 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.920 could get her to Scotland, and I just I just 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.680 let my imagination run wild and I had a ball 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.880 writing it. Called him that day and said, you remember 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.240 that movie. I think I just wrote it because Scott 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.480 I haven't even been home a day so anyways, uh, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.600 but I sent him the six scenes that I had 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.600 written and he said, this is your baby. I standard 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.400 lady deserves. So we had a ball in the highlands 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:09.720 of Scotland. We had so many labs. This movie is 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.200 basically a romantic comedy for people who think that romances 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.120 in their rear view mirror. You know, they're never going 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.159 to have a romance again, they're never gonna love again. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.560 That that's over and nothing's very funny anymore either. And 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.760 there are millions of people in the world like that. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.920 Many of them listen to you, Delilah. They listen to 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.640 you and love you because you bring hope to them 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.599 in the songs that you play. So this this brings 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:39.160 up my first question in the movie, then can you 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:51.200 you play opposite this gorgeous, funny, oozing, sexy character. Yes, 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.960 Mr Odds. And in the movie, Cathy, you try to feign, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.640 you try to act like he discussed you. He annoys you, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.520 he ticks you off, he shuts the radio off. But 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.359 I wasn't buying that because there was so much chemistry 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.520 between you two. Oh my god, we have had that 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:15.200 since the day we met years ago. And nobody understands 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.960 it better and and loves it more than his wife, Megan, 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.280 who she read the script and finally finished it and 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.799 I sent it off to Craig. She read it first 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.440 and she said, Craig, you have got to make this movie. Boy, 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.520 does Kathy have you down? So it was totally with 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:36.080 her blessing, And yeah, we have chemical reaction to one another. 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.320 It's obvious on screen. And I didn't I didn't mean 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.480 to imply chemistry as in, um, you know that the 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.320 love scenes were real. I meant to imply that there 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.880 is such an energy that is between you two. It's 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:54.160 palpable on screen. It's it's palpable. We've always said if 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.320 things had gone differently in our lives that we would 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.320 have ended up together, we might have killed each other. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.680 But it's there. It's there. So that's what to do 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:03.880 in a movie. You harness it, you know, in a 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:07.640 way that brings it, brings it to life. Without you know, 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.200 hurting each other's personal lives. You know, I mean, I 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.159 adore his wife and you know, I've spent a weekend 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.120 at their house with them and their little boy out 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.520 in the Scottish countryside, and you know, no, he's a 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.039 really really cherished friend to me, one of the most 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.560 brilliant people. And isn't he in a great dramatic actor too. 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:31.120 He played his role brilliantly, like he came across as 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:36.120 this jerky and a caustic guy. But then when he 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.560 let the walls down in the scene where you you 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.479 wrote it for him, where he let the walls down, 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:48.160 it was so subtly believable. Yes, very very very beautiful. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.800 He wounded too, but we all deal with our woundedness 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.480 in different ways. Annabelle has found an actual physical way 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.920 for her degree by taking her husband's ashes on this journey. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.640 He in aach box and it's I'm going to ruin 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:04.000 a part of it there, and in a chocolate box. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.040 You know what it's in. It's in the trailer. So 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.760 they give half the movie away these days and trailers, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.880 but it does get people, you know, sort of excited 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.440 about the movie. And that's what happened with that trailer. 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.360 They did a brilliant trailer on it, and there's tons 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.800 more in the movie as well too. But it's a 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.360 story of two very unlikely people, um dealing with their 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.760 own grief and their own needs in different ways, but 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.680 discovering that you know, you don't go out. She's got 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.880 out looking for love. She isn't, She's just her husband's 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.480 been gone for a year. She's she's just doing first 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.960 of all, what he said to do with his ashes, 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.080 that was part of his will, and the rest of it. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.960 She figures out a way to also try to make 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.520 her long lost dreams come true. And I think, Delilah, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.800 you and I are blessed. You and I've had big lives, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.520 big careers, big families. You more than me. You know, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.240 we've got a lot more kids than I do. But many, 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.440 many women, I think, have settled in their life, not 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.360 because they chose to or wanted to. Many of them 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.800 had to because of different circumstances. But Annabelle is like 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.720 so many women who never got to see the world 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.280 the way she wants to dreams. She could never had 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.200 her dreams of being an actress and a singer fulfilled 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.120 and This movie is the first of five about these 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.560 characters that I want to shoot and and and she 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:29.240 discovers even in her later life, that she has gifts 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.200 she didn't even know she had, and we see those 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:37.280 dreams come to pass as Annabelle's journey continues, and each 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.360 movie takes place in a different place as she follows 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.720 along with the lists that she brings with her to Scotland. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.480 So Craig's on board for all the the Shenanigans of 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.880 boards on board. I don't think that Elizabeth Hurley will 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.920 be because I sort of got rid of her. Boy, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:01.040 wasn't that a fun scene The minute she's the minute 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:05.000 she said that's not the tent I ordered. I was like, oh, 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.760 let's just get rid of this little gorgeous thing. But 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.400 didn't see every woman's worst nightmare. The man you are 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:18.160 falling for is engaged to her Elizabeth early And I'm 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.880 in that outfit when I've been fixing the furnace or 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.280 something and I look like crap, and I have to 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 meet her, and I'm going, I hope when you see me, 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:29.640 take the scrunch sheet out of my hair and just 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:34.360 try to make myself halfway pretty and sitting there looking 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.200 at Elizabeth Hurley, who is impossibly beautiful and of sweet 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.480 girl too. I've known her a long long time, reached. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.040 I wrote that for her too, And one day she 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.559 was at the Today Show and I said, after we 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.040 finished the segment, I said, can I talk to you 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.280 for a moment my dressing room? So she went into 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.920 my dressing room with her. I said, listen, maybe this 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:55.920 is unprofessional, but I forgive me. I said, Elizabeth, I've 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.640 just written a screenplay for my friend, Craig Ferguson says, Oh, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:03.040 I love Craig all He's an absolute doll. Yes, she 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.120 I said, I wrote a part for you in it, 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.320 and it would just mean the world to me if 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.080 you if you'd read the scriptures, well let me have it, dolling. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.640 I'll read it on the plane on the way home, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.599 you know. So she took the script, read it on 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.000 the plane. Her agent called and said she'd love to 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.760 do it if we can fit it into her schedule. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.640 So this was meant to happen, this movie, and I 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.600 think it's the timing of it's perfect, don't you, Delilah. 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:29.079 People there are needing escape. They wanted to kick it 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.200 on a plane and fly anywhere, and now they get 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.280 to get on a plane with Annabelle and go to Scotland. 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.920 Well after, after I watched it last night, I did 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.520 go online to see you know what the travel restrictions are, because, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.800 oh my gosh, it's so beautiful where you filmed it. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:50.800 It's in the Highlands, just west of Glasgow and Scotland. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.719 I've been to Scotland many times and always loved it. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.280 But then when we decided to do the movie together 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.559 with Craig, I knew that I've had to write a 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.959 story set there. And annabel has only seen the world 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.599 through movies. So there are a lot of people like that. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.240 And people have places on their bucket list before they die, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:13.079 and you put Scotland on my bucket list with this movie. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.880 I'm so glad. And the Scottish people are so lovely. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:22.719 They're so funny, very cleverly written, very good. Thank you. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.680 That means a lot to me. Well again, the soundtrack 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.280 is something that is also a star of the movie. 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:32.800 The music really is another star in the film because 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.559 it's uh and you don't get to hear all the 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.840 lyrics of it and everything except if you get the soundtrack. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.839 And our friends Salo Lavery also wrote this underscore with 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:44.640 breat Somebody said to me the other day that some 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.280 critics said, you know what, it's a beautiful film because 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.960 it's it's a jolly rump and I went, oh my gosh, 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.480 that's what I wanted to be, and I want to 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.720 surprise people with it. There are twenty three different places 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.360 where it takes a turn that you don't see it coming. 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.760 And those are my favorite kinds of movies. You know, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.959 one of my favorite rom coms is Love Actually and 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.640 I Love It's Complicated. Those are the movies that I 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.760 enjoy watching because they're they're they're for adults. It's, you know, 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.880 there for for mature people who've been through life and 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.080 they've got a lot of baggage. Now their baggage maybe 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:21.959 Louis Witamp, but they still got baggage. And I find 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.200 that sort of entertainments so much more interesting. I don't 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.839 want to see things blow up anymore. I never did. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.880 I don't want to see gratuitous sex or gratuitous violence. 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.839 I just can we please just go someplace beautiful and 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.440 watch life unfurl for two people who who think life 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.480 is basically over for them, it's not. It's not. If 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.959 you got a pulse, you've still got a purpose. And 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.959 I have that. Every morning I take an emotional pulse 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.360 rate and if I'm still here, it means God's not 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.199 finished with me yet. I have so much work to 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.319 do and that I'm just loving and excite it every 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.400 day about what's new. And finally this movie's out. It's 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.040 on demand now on any service that you can rent films, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.080 and I just can't wait to hear if people are 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.800 tapping their toes to the music we wrote and and 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.480 laughing in the right places and crying in the right places. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.080 Thanks so much for watching it, Deliland, and for loving 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.200 if that means the world to me. I'm not done 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.040 talking about it yet. Because the character of Craig Ferguson's 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:30.480 Howard Odds best friend. Yes, Gavin, he was very funny, 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.439 but he was he was perfect. He was perfect in 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.719 honesty and I don't ever not speaking honestly, but I 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.760 did write that role originally for Ricky Gervais. Oh that 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.760 would have been good too, yeah yeah, And and Ricky 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:49.480 loved the script but he said, hell yeah, I just 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.040 find with Netflix and I can't And I said, okay, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.200 so um, They said, do you know who Ford Karenan 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.440 is And I said, no, is that he's a number 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.880 one comedic actor in the entire UK. Said let's get him. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:05.760 He was so brilliant. And when he had the talk 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:11.719 with you with your character Annabelle about his best friend, yes, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.360 that's where I was crying. I wasn't crying at the 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:19.560 other you know parts that I think some people, especially 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.400 if you've lost your partner, would cry at. I was 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:28.320 crying there because I have that best friend. Yes, yes, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.320 that would move heaven and earth for me. Yes, yes, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:38.840 and thank god, boy did that come across beautifully. Yeah. Well, 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.120 he and Craig were friends before, they had worked together before. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:46.280 So Craig was thrilled when we got Forward and we 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.040 only I had written a small role because originally I 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.440 thought it was going to be Ricky and I knew 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.080 we'd probably only get him for a day or two. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.960 But once we started working, and this is the beauty 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.840 of an independent film. Once we started working, I said, 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.240 can Forward, Can you work next week? Because I have 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.320 this idea for a scene for you and can. He 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.720 ended up being in about, you know, ten more scenes 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.760 than I than I originally anticipated, and he's agreed to 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.920 go forward with them as we as we keep writing. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.960 But uh. And then the original title of the movie 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.080 was called Loved Me to Death. And then I was 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.720 on a two weeks before we wrapped, I was on 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.760 a big five hour long hike in the Highlands. My 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.440 one and only day off every week was on a Sunday, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.040 and I had to clear my head and take these 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:33.080 long walks. And I felt the Lord saying so clearly 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.760 to m Cathy, go back, take your pad and your 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.000 pen I have a present for you. So I went 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.960 home and walked home, got up to that spot which 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.240 you will see at the end of our movie, and 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.040 and the lyrics to then came you, came to me, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.640 then came you, then came you. So I couldn't believe it. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.480 I climbed down those steps, called Brett James and said, Brett, 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.400 I'm going to change the end of the movie, and 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.680 I I'm gonna change the title. And we were able 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.800 to change that ending completely two weeks before we even 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.320 wrapped the film. Brett added a melody to the lyrics 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.440 that I had written. He sent them off to me, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.400 and that's him singing it in the movie. And uh, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.400 that's him also in the in the pub singing with 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:22.040 Me Whiskey and Wine, which is our next single, Bring 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:26.560 the Whiskey, Bring the Wine. I mean, it's just a fun, fun, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:31.600 fun musical romp too. And so he is not an actor, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.080 but I think he did just great. He did awesome. 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.080 And you guys played off each other so well. But 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:45.520 when you when you were doing the bubble bath scene, girlfriend, dang, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:51.680 you naked. God has blessed you. God has blessed you. 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:57.400 You look as beautiful as you ever have, Oh sweetie. 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.680 So I know a theme in the movie is, you know, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.760 when we have to come to grips with the fact 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.040 that we're not sixteen anymore, um, and that and you 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.040 you work that in very very subtly. You know when 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.280 you said, what are you checking? Are you checking my age? 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.440 You're checking my age? You're checking my age? And you 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.439 know it was subtle. But but for those of us 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:19.919 that have to look in the mirror and see our 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.600 mother looking back at us, it's very real. And that 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.200 is a morning process that we have to go through 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.800 that we're not sixteen. But let me tell you, there 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:34.520 are a few scenes in this movie where I was like, dang, 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.520 I I gotta, I gotta kick it back into the gym, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.200 because if she could look that hot in a bathtub, 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.120 I got a little work to do here. We thank 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.400 you well. I I really got in shape for that movie. 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.400 I lost a lot of weight for it because she's 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:51.000 a runner, and the originally in the script she was 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.800 she ran, she talked about running and what it did? 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.480 You know? So much has to be lost in the 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.560 editing process. But it'll all if I get a chance 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:02.080 to do the next four films, it'll all come out. Um. Yeah. 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.760 The clothes are also a star of this film. My 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:10.879 friend Michael Hurd's uh British, delightful designer. Every outfit is 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.520 made in the UK, one one country or another, so 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.000 it's all very organic and authentic to to the United Kingdom. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.520 And I don't think I could fit in one outfit 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.960 at this point. I really maybe my shoes, but that's it. 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:32.520 You were, you were beautiful. And the costumes, I gotta 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.720 say though, the one you wore to the when you 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.080 went out to the pub when you sang um, whiskey 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:41.680 and wine, that was my favorite of them all. Everybody 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.400 has a different favorite. Yeah. I love that one too, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:48.399 Um yeah, oh gosh, God, when he told you to 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.639 go change your clothes, if he was gonna take you 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.000 of fishing, I was howling because it looks like a 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.919 tin something. I forget what he says, a plaids plaid 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:04.040 tin or something? Yes, yeah, cookie tin something. She was 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.240 living out her dreams. And you notice in the movie 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.800 she he says, what are you checking? Checking movie times? 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.359 And I go, no, lifetimes. I've got to get to 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.040 a Roman holiday. And he says, what are you gonna 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:22.040 where they're at toga? And I go maybe so um, yes, 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.280 I with a great director. Adriana Trigiana has been a 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.240 friend of mine for many, many years, and she hasn't 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.959 She's a novelist. Just check out her like she's got 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.119 like twenty novels and her she's loved details. She's a 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:41.439 really huge fan of movies anyway. This movie is our movies, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.840 like an homage to the screwball comedies of the fifties, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:48.200 like the Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.560 kind of movies. But even back thirties and forties. She's 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.159 a real connoisseur of those kinds of films, and she 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:58.160 brought that kind of a directorial sense to the film 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.920 as well. Um, so you know it takes everybody to 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:05.160 bring a movie like this to the four And yeah, 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.640 the fact that it's now out, Delilah is it's kind 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.359 of surreal to me. All I ever wanted to be 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.840 when I was growing up was to be in the movies. 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.080 I wanted to be Hayley Mills or a net Punicello. 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.320 You know, I wanted to sing. And the very first 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:22.560 movie I ever really did see in life in the 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.359 theater was his Family Robinson, So that part was true 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:28.760 in the film as well. So there are lots of 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:32.199 little things that I brought from my life. But Annabelle 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.960 uh is very, very different from the person that I am. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.680 But you know what, I loved playing her so much 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.359 because there's an innocence about Annabelle that I lost a 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.840 long long time ago. Fifty years. In this business, you 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.840 lose a bit of innocence, and she's fun to play 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.000 in that regard. And I can go back to my 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.200 my other self years and years ago, and I just 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.040 you know, I thought the world was just beautiful everywhere, 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.960 and people were all nice, and everybody had two parents 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.280 who loved each other. You know that leave it to 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.119 beaver kind of world that I grew up in. Okay, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:08.200 So a personal question, and you don't have to answer 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.840 this if you don't want to. But the character Annabelle 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.800 was in the beginning grief stages, the first year of 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:22.880 losing her husband, and I remember, I saw you less 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:26.640 than a year after you lost your husband, right, how 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:32.760 much of that real grief? Because one of the beautiful 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.119 things about this movie is the characters are multidimensional. Because 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.520 my mom gave up all of her dreams for my dad, 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:44.000 but they had a very contentious, bitter marriage. They didn't 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:46.760 it didn't divorce right before both of them died. It's 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.480 like they couldn't live with each other and they couldn't 0:21:48.520 --> 0:21:51.400 live without each other. But one of the beautiful things 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.840 that I really appreciated was that, yes, she gave up 0:21:54.880 --> 0:21:58.200 her dreams to be married and to live in Nantucket, 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:04.120 but there didn't seem to be any bitterness or um resentment. 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:08.040 You could tell she truly loved her husband and missed him. 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.520 How much of Kathy Lee and your grief missing your 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.639 hobby was written in that. You know, people are asking 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:18.879 me that because it's a it's a very fair question, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.760 and and and and the nastural one. But the truth 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:24.480 is that I didn't. I wasn't really aware. I wasn't 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.560 consciously aware that I was dealing with grief. I started 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.680 writing it at two years after Frank had passed. I knew, 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.280 I knew the grief of widow dim So you're right 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:37.639 what you know, um, But they remember the scene with 0:22:37.800 --> 0:22:40.560 the first night she gets to the in and she's 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.560 by the fire with the dog in her room. Unfortunately 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:45.879 we had to cut a lot of that scene because 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.160 of time. But you see her take her wedding ring 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.600 off her left finger and put it on a chain, 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:55.680 and that's I didn't put mine on a chain, but 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:58.760 I wore my wedding ring for a year, and then 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:01.680 on the first hand of her her Frank's passing, I 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.080