00:07Interview with CoStar?
00:09Okay, rolling?
00:10Yeah, okay, last looks.
00:12We're gonna have to redo Julia's whole face.
00:15Are you directing this?
00:16Yeah, they didn't tell you?
00:17Uh-uh.
00:18Check the back of my head. Does it work?
00:21It's... it's a disaster.
00:22Would you be able to get me a glass of water?
00:25Yes, absolutely. Let me do that for you.
00:28Hold on two seconds.
00:37Julia?
00:40Julia?
00:41Yeah, I'm so sorry.
00:43That took a little longer than I wanted it to.
00:45Here you go.
00:46Thanks.
00:47Maybe don't drink out of it.
00:51What is it?
00:54Don't even add stuff in it.
00:55But anyway, I did get you a glass of water.
00:57Did I stop in it?
00:58What did I do?
01:00Q-tips.
01:02I'm gonna be sick.
01:03Yes, we can just quickly drop by...
01:06What the fuck is this light?
01:07We're gonna drop by urgent care on the way out of here.
01:11You would be the worst assistant.
01:14Okay.
01:15You know, I feel like the press has been quite kind to you.
01:19Oh, I thought you were gonna say brutal.
01:21Not from where I stand.
01:22Uh-huh.
01:23For this film, because it's more of a serious movie for you, we could maybe do something a little different
01:28this time.
01:29Sure.
01:29Yeah.
01:30Yeah.
01:30Have you ever, you know...
01:32Been a sheep?
01:33Been a sheep?
01:33Have you ever been a sheep?
01:34No.
01:34No.
01:35He's not moving.
01:37What?
01:37Lily, tell us what to do.
01:39Our shepherd was murdered.
01:42And we shall solve the crime.
01:45Do you kind of want to more just do voice work now?
01:48Uh-uh.
01:48Really?
01:49No, I'm done with voice work.
01:50Really after this film?
01:51Oh, yeah.
01:52Why do you feel that way?
01:53It's just so strenuous.
01:54Okay.
01:55Walking into a sound booth and saying lines and then leaving the sound booth.
01:59Yeah.
01:59I mean, come on.
02:00Totally.
02:01Exhausting.
02:01Yeah.
02:01Yeah, yeah.
02:02It's exhausting.
02:02I heard you've taken about a year break after the project.
02:05I have.
02:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:06Yeah.
02:06Just to kind of recuperate.
02:08Totally.
02:08Lily took it out of you.
02:10Yeah, she did.
02:11Yeah.
02:11I mean, she's always a part of me.
02:13Yes, of course.
02:14Yes.
02:14Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:15I'm just gonna write this down, actually.
02:17Oh.
02:17To what end are you taking notes?
02:19That doesn't involve you.
02:20Oh, okay.
02:21What is that, your grocery list or...?
02:23No.
02:24So, I didn't know that we were working together.
02:26And I just wish the studio had told me that ahead of time.
02:29Told you.
02:29I get that.
02:30Because I would have given a completely different performance.
02:32Or perhaps you wouldn't have done it at all, is my guess.
02:34A hundred percent.
02:35Yeah, right.
02:35And they went, this will be a well-known actress.
02:37And then I see the film, I'm in shock.
02:40It's you.
02:41Yeah.
02:42Yeah.
02:42We worked together.
02:43We did work together, yes.
02:44Yes.
02:45We worked together.
02:46On you people.
02:47You people.
02:47It went terribly wrong.
02:50You couldn't stand me.
02:52I actually thought you were charming in you people.
02:54Yeah.
02:55And we bonded during you people.
02:57Yeah.
02:57But I can see when you found out that I was playing this sheep in this movie that you wish
03:01you hadn't actually, in fact, signed the contract.
03:03Yeah.
03:03I just was like, I'm done with this now.
03:05Yeah.
03:05But seriously, getting to work with you was one of the greatest things that has ever happened
03:09to me.
03:09We had such a good time.
03:10We had such a good time.
03:11And the way you approach comedy, the way you approach just acting in general, was the
03:17most inspiring thing I've ever seen.
03:18And when I say this, you're always like, hmm.
03:21But yeah, the way that you mine a joke and you bring so much truth and humor to it with
03:25your body is incredible.
03:27So I was so impressed within this movie, how you could do that without having your body
03:31at all.
03:32Like I felt like I was watching Julia, but you were a sheep.
03:35It was very strange, right?
03:36Very strange.
03:38What is that?
03:39I think it's a rod.
03:40But what is it made of?
03:41Well, not grass.
03:42I can tell you that.
03:43Chris O'Dowd, who's also in the movie.
03:45Yes.
03:45He was just saying that doing voice work is like being one of those Irish dancers.
03:50Yeah.
03:50Where only your legs are working and the rest of your body is not a part of it.
03:54And he feels like that's what voice work is like.
03:56I thought that was a pretty good metaphor.
03:57Have you done voice work before?
03:59I have done voice work before.
04:01Yeah.
04:01Okay.
04:01I'm sorry I haven't looked into your full resume.
04:03That's fine.
04:04Yeah, yeah.
04:04I'm good.
04:04I'll send you all the links.
04:06I love to.
04:07Well, when you work with you, you do send a super cut of everything you've done.
04:10Everything I've ever done.
04:11Yeah.
04:11I was just unable to get through it all because it's so much stuff.
04:14So much.
04:14Because I include all the talk shows.
04:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:16Of course.
04:16And all the award shows, the red carpet conversations.
04:19Of course.
04:19That's a lot.
04:20Because I know you want to look at all of that.
04:22Well, I actually famously gave you an award.
04:24Would you give that back?
04:25If I could find it.
04:27Well, that was actually such an incredible night.
04:29And it was such a gift to give you that award.
04:32But we were sitting at a table with Martin Scorsese.
04:34Yes.
04:35It was amazing.
04:36Oh, that award.
04:37Yeah.
04:38You don't even, she doesn't even fucking remember.
04:40Actually, that was a bananas night.
04:42That was a bananas night.
04:42So Julia is given an innovator award.
04:45Innovator?
04:46Lindsay.
04:46Lindsay?
04:47Yeah.
04:48She's an innovator.
04:49And I was lucky enough to give her that award.
04:52Yes.
04:53And our table was?
04:54Marty Scorsese.
04:56Mm-hmm.
04:56Timothée.
04:57Timothée.
04:57Chalamet.
04:58Chalamet.
04:59Kylie Jenner.
05:00Kylie Jenner.
05:01There were some other very famous people.
05:03Yeah.
05:04I'm embarrassed that I'm not remembering.
05:04I know me too.
05:06If we could just insert.
05:07Martha Stewart.
05:08Renee Rapp.
05:09And then I'll go.
05:10Hyder Ackerman.
05:11Trevor Noah.
05:13I was seated right next to Martin Scorsese.
05:16Yeah.
05:17And I was so, I admire him so much, of course.
05:22Why?
05:22He just seems nice.
05:23Yeah.
05:24Did you see the documentary?
05:25I thought it was one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen in my life.
05:28I watched it twice.
05:29Yes.
05:30Yeah.
05:30For anybody in the arts, they should watch it.
05:32Because it just shows the ups and downs.
05:34The ups and downs and that he comes at it from all these different ways.
05:38How connected he is to each piece.
05:40Oh, my God.
05:41Yeah.
05:41Anyway, with Marty Scorsese.
05:42And I was intimidated.
05:44I could barely speak.
05:45I was trying to sort of sound cool and natural.
05:49Yeah.
05:49Yeah.
05:49But I don't remember.
05:51The whole time.
05:52The only thing I remember from that night was being nervous that he was at the table.
05:56For that night, I took a beta blocker.
05:58Have you ever taken one of those?
05:59No.
05:59But you know what?
06:00Tell me everything about that.
06:01It basically is a drug that helps you not be nervous so like your hands don't shake.
06:08Are you hooked?
06:09Completely addicted.
06:10If I'm very nervous, I will take one.
06:12But you, I'm amazed, like you public speak a lot.
06:16Do you get nervous?
06:17Yes, every time.
06:18So what do you do?
06:19I just get through it somehow.
06:21But you know, it's funny you say that because I get really nervous singing.
06:25I can sing, but I get really nervous singing.
06:28And so I wonder about that beta blocker.
06:30Are they addictive?
06:31I don't think they're addictive.
06:32Can we bring in a beta blocker for Julia?
06:35Yeah.
06:35I'm going to take it now.
06:36Take it now.
06:37Let's not talk about it.
06:38Yeah.
06:39So you were in Sheep Detectives.
06:40You saw the film.
06:41I've seen the film and I'm pretty sure that was you.
06:43Yeah.
06:43You lived in England?
06:45For like six months.
06:46Yeah.
06:46Six months?
06:47Yeah.
06:48Maybe not that long.
06:49Maybe four months.
06:50Where'd you live when you were there?
06:51I lived in Notting Hill.
06:52Oh.
06:53Ooh.
06:54I love England.
06:55Do you find yourself doing their accent with them sometimes?
06:58Yes.
06:58And they always go, it's not attractive when you do that.
07:02No, no, no.
07:02I mean like if you just go to the shops.
07:04Yes, of course.
07:05And do you find yourself like you might turn it on a little bit and see if somebody notices?
07:10Yes.
07:10Do you do that?
07:11Mm-hmm.
07:11Have you played English in something?
07:14Not seriously.
07:15Okay.
07:15Like sketch stuff.
07:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:17Do you think you could do it?
07:19I do.
07:20Could you?
07:20I did a play in New York where I had an English accent.
07:24Um, it was reviewed negatively.
07:26But I will still try again.
07:28Accent was?
07:28No, my performance was.
07:30But.
07:31Who is this asshole?
07:32Who is this fucking bullshit?
07:34Um, how do you feel that you are so many people's comedy hero?
07:38It's a little bit strange.
07:40Is it strange?
07:42I mean, it's lovely.
07:43Yeah.
07:44But I feel like I'm still, still, um, trying to get there.
07:48Yeah.
07:48I'm still trying to catch it.
07:50Well, you never want to feel, right, like you, like you have it.
07:54That's the chase.
07:55Yeah.
07:55You don't want to.
07:56So it's an interesting thing to be given.
07:57Well, you're the hero.
07:58It's like, well, no, I'm still on the mission.
08:01Yeah.
08:01I'm still on the mission.
08:02Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:02I understand.
08:03Exactly right.
08:03Yeah.
08:04Who is your comedy hero?
08:05I don't have one comedy hero.
08:07Who are some?
08:08Let's start making a list.
08:09We can make it together.
08:10Okay.
08:10Gene Wilder.
08:11Madeline Kahn.
08:13Marty Feldman.
08:14Peter Boyle.
08:15Cloris Leachman.
08:16Cloris Leachman.
08:17Genius.
08:18Genius.
08:19Terry Garr.
08:20She's so genius in After Hours, right?
08:22That's her in her little yellow dress.
08:24She was genius in everything she did.
08:27Brilliant.
08:27So clever.
08:28Another one of my favorite movies is The Wizard of Oz,
08:31which is a hilarious movie.
08:33Yeah, it is.
08:34With incredibly funny performances.
08:35Yeah, I agree.
08:36What about you?
08:37What are your big, funny, ha-ha movies?
08:39I just recently re-watched The Heartbreak Kid.
08:43Oh.
08:43Yeah.
08:44Jeannie Berlin.
08:44Jeannie Berlin is, like, astonishing in that movie.
08:47Astonishing.
08:48And such a great example of being fucking hilarious,
08:52but really grounded in her insanity.
08:55Yes.
08:55I think that, like, you do that,
08:56like, taking your character so seriously.
08:58Yeah, it's without vanity.
09:00In the best possible way.
09:02I got the pleasure of working with her, by the way,
09:05in this movie I made called You Hurt My Feelings.
09:08And what a charming human being.
09:11Was she?
09:11Yeah.
09:12Yeah.
09:13Also, like, to work with her mom and be, like,
09:15it's so cool.
09:17Isn't it?
09:17In that way.
09:18It must have been such a specific, interesting experience.
09:20For those listening, her mom is Elaine May.
09:22Yeah.
09:23Yeah.
09:23But it's an interesting time for comedy in general,
09:26where I feel like they're not made anymore,
09:28or people say that people don't want them.
09:31And I feel like it's all that I crave as a human.
09:34It's the only thing I crave.
09:35I mean, that and Wordle.
09:37Yeah.
09:38Yeah.
09:38Like, a great example of Veep was that you would explore
09:41what was going on that were harder issues through comedy.
09:44Yeah.
09:45It still can be, you know...
09:46It's the best delivery system.
09:48Yes.
09:48What I loved about The Sheep Detectives is that it's really about grief.
09:52I've never read anything like that.
09:54Do you think that he could do that because it was through animals?
09:57I think he could do it because it was through fantasy.
10:00And animals, of course.
10:01Yeah.
10:02It wasn't a story about grief, about grief.
10:05Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:05It was about so many other things.
10:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:07But it had a whimsy to it and the fantasy aspect of it
10:11that made it palatable and maybe can seep under your skin in a way that can be meaningful.
10:19So what's the worst thing you've ever done?
10:21In my life?
10:22Yeah.
10:24Hmm.
10:25When I was in third grade, I was with my mom in the drugstore,
10:31and I really wanted a peppermint patty.
10:34And she said I couldn't have one.
10:35And so I took it.
10:39Oh, my God.
10:40And I put it in my pocket.
10:41We walked home.
10:43Oh.
10:43And I was slightly behind her.
10:45So I quickly ate it while I was walking behind her.
10:49And I was going like this the whole time.
10:52To get the peppermint smell out of my mouth.
10:54Because I didn't want to get caught.
10:56And I didn't get caught.
10:57But the guilt and the shame of that moment is with me to this day.
11:01I mean, it should be.
11:02It should be.
11:03I mean, I didn't realize that you have that in you.
11:05I didn't either.
11:06It makes a lot of sense.
11:07Now, let me ask you, what's the worst thing you ever did?
11:10I mean, so much worse than that.
11:12I mean, let's dive in.
11:13It's hard to go there.
11:15I stole eyeliner from Sephora when I was like 14.
11:17She's right here.
11:18Come on in.
11:18Yeah, come on in.
11:19I'm sorry.
11:19It's over.
11:20But what is the thrill of the early shoplift?
11:23What is that thrill?
11:23I just wanted that candy so bad.
11:25Yeah, of course.
11:26And it's also the like, I want that.
11:27I mean, have you had a peppermint patty?
11:28They're unbelievable.
11:30They're incredible.
11:30They're unbelievable.
11:31Well, this has been incredible.
11:34I think it's probably one of the best interviews that you've done.
11:36It is the best interview.
11:38You're welcome.
11:39I feel so lucky that I'm in a film with Julia again.
11:41I hope to be in films with her for the rest of my life.
11:45Totally.
11:45That's the plan.
11:46And I love you.
11:47I love you too, honey.
11:50Good.
11:52You can't believe you stole a peppermint patty.
11:55That's crazy.
11:56I know.
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