00:00 I met Marty.
00:01 Yeah, I met Marty the other night.
00:04 I asked him how many more movies he thinks he's gonna make.
00:08 He said, like, "I think I have three more in me."
00:10 -Really? -And then I was like, "Oh, yeah?"
00:12 -Here's my headshot. -Yeah.
00:14 -What do you think? -My name is Greta Lee.
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00:26 Have you ever been mistaken for another actor?
00:28 All the time. All the time.
00:30 Keira Knightley. -Ooh, that's a good one.
00:32 All the time. Very flattering.
00:34 Meryl Streep.
00:35 [ Laughter ]
00:38 I was like, "No."
00:39 -I'm not Meryl. -No, I'm not Meryl Streep.
00:41 Well, Meryl's very transformative.
00:42 She could be you. -Exactly.
00:44 She could be me, but I could never be her.
00:47 I feel like me and Betty Gilpin,
00:49 we always get mixed up with each other a lot.
00:53 I get Matt Damon a lot, and Ben Affleck.
00:58 Uh...
01:01 Someone mistook me for Idris Elba once.
01:03 Oh, that's a very good one.
01:05 I'm not mad at that. I'm not mad at that.
01:06 It's a match. It's a match.
01:08 It's kind of crazy how much I get Matt Damon,
01:11 but that's pretty much it.
01:14 -Oh, wow. -Seriously?
01:17 Pedro, what movie of yours have you watched the most?
01:20 -It's not a movie. -What is it?
01:21 It's an episode of television.
01:23 Which one?
01:24 What have you watched the most?
01:26 You sit back with popcorn in your underwear and watch.
01:28 There's an episode.
01:32 What? You're like, "I'm so good in this."
01:34 There's an episode of "The Mentalist."
01:37 You remember that show? -Yeah, I do. Yeah.
01:38 And I have this scene with Robin Tunning,
01:40 who's a very, very good friend of mine,
01:42 and there's a piano score in the scene that's so good!
01:47 Right now, I'm trying so hard
01:49 not to watch "Past Lives" on the airplane
01:52 'cause I'm on the airplane so much,
01:54 and I see so many people watching it,
01:55 and I really want to watch it, but that's so awkward.
01:58 Oh, my God. Do people ever watch it and then look at you?
02:01 'Cause I have, like, my baseball cap on,
02:02 but I, like, want to see, like, me crying.
02:05 Like, that's so weird, right?
02:07 The horror movie that I did, "X,"
02:09 I have a really big scream in that,
02:11 and people have sent me that video countless times.
02:14 When I used to be on Twitter,
02:15 it was, like, a really big reaction video.
02:18 So I've seen that clip over a million times probably.
02:21 It's so weird. What about you?
02:22 I don't watch myself.
02:25 Do we have to get better at that? I don't know.
02:27 Part of it, I like the mystery of it
02:29 because I'm becoming the character.
02:31 You know what I mean? Yeah.
02:32 I fall into who the character is,
02:34 and a part of me doesn't want to watch myself
02:36 because I like the abandonment.
02:38 I like that departure to become that person.
02:41 I also find that usually the second or third watch
02:45 is the one where I can actually watch the film
02:47 instead of, you know, like we were talking about.
02:49 You kind of pre-edit it in your head
02:50 based upon the choices that you made
02:52 and what you think they're going to use,
02:53 and then it's never what you think it is.
02:55 I've actually watched Zola the most.
02:56 Oh, yeah. Because I almost watch it
02:58 because I'm like, "I can't believe what's actually happening."
03:00 I can't believe what you're doing.
03:02 I've known him for a really, really, really long time,
03:05 and Zola, one and the same.
03:09 What is a line of one of your characters
03:11 that you can't seem to forget?
03:14 You got some pretty big coconuts
03:16 pulling that stunt you pulled last night.
03:19 It was something like that. I'm kidding.
03:21 Something like that?
03:23 Wait, maybe let's do another option.
03:25 Oh, I think from May-December,
03:27 the one that's just what grown-ups do
03:30 is particularly cruel.
03:33 This one I remember. "There Goes That Dream."
03:36 Oh, that's such a great one. It's heartbreaking.
03:38 It's such a good one.
03:40 It's so sad. Oh.
03:41 It's so sad.
03:42 "Being that holdovers was the last gig I did,
03:45 a line in it she says, 'Mary Lamb,'
03:47 that stands out to me.
03:49 You can't even dream a whole dream, can you?'"
03:53 And I just thought that was so profound and yet simple.
03:59 I think sometimes we're afraid to dream.
04:01 What was one of your favorite lines?
04:04 Oh, easy. "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:07 Which was?
04:09 The line, the line, the line, the line.
04:12 "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:13 Oh. Yeah, that's the line.
04:15 Oh, I thought you did a movie called "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:18 No, no, that was for a Russian doll.
04:20 Oh, "Sweet Birthday Baby."
04:21 Yeah, this is great because we're just revealing
04:24 how little of each other's work we've actually seen.
04:27 It's not about the work. It's about the human,
04:31 the connection.
04:32 Oh, my God.
04:33 What genre of film have you always wanted to do
04:35 but haven't done yet?
04:38 You're actually the perfect person to talk about this to.
04:41 I think I want to get into, like, horror,
04:45 but this is the thing.
04:47 I easily get scared in real life.
04:49 Is it scary to film scary movies?
04:52 No, but I feel like that actually,
04:53 you would be phenomenal in it
04:55 because then over and over, take after take,
04:58 I feel like you might not get used to it.
04:59 It's not scary at all.
05:01 It's, you know, demons walking around,
05:03 you know, drinking Starbucks and, you know, doing--
05:05 Oh, okay. So it's the in-between takes
05:08 that demystifies it a bit.
05:10 People accidentally spitting on each other.
05:11 It's a whole-- you just kind of get used to it.
05:14 I really want to do a musical, like, really badly.
05:16 I really want to do a musical.
05:18 Yes.
05:19 Does it count if I say silent?
05:20 Nobody does silent movies anymore.
05:22 Memorable fan moment?
05:25 Um, I think when I did Thor Love and Thunder
05:28 and I saw little girls dressed up as Lady Thor,
05:32 as the mighty Thor, it was very exciting.
05:35 I feel like there was some interesting ones
05:37 with Killer Neve because, I don't know,
05:40 Villanelle was, you know, psychopathic kind of killer.
05:44 So there was some often, like, odd requests
05:46 for people asking me to, like,
05:48 strangle them for a photograph.
05:50 There was definitely an era of that which I remember.
05:54 As a fan, meeting The Rock.
05:56 - What? - Yeah.
05:57 - You met The Rock? - Met The Rock.
05:59 I just couldn't speak.
06:01 I just kept looking up at him.
06:03 And I was like, "Oh, shit."
06:05 I was like, "Sorry about this."
06:07 You know, and he went, "Come here," to me,
06:08 and took me in, and I hugged him.
06:10 It was so nice.
06:12 I've seen tattoos of myself,
06:13 which was really, really strange to see in person.
06:16 Or I've had the whole, "Sign right here,
06:18 and I'll get it tattooed," and I botched it bad.
06:21 Like, there was no coming back from that,
06:23 and it was sharpie, so I felt like it was smearing
06:25 'cause I tried to fix it.
06:26 It was super stressful.
06:28 That was pretty memorable.
06:29 Do you have any rituals or superstitions
06:31 as it relates to giving a performance?
06:35 - No. - No?
06:36 - No, not really. - I have superstitions,
06:38 but, like, more about, like, getting onto a plane.
06:41 My mom started one with me.
06:43 What?
06:44 - You have to wear new socks on a plane.
06:47 And if you don't have new socks on,
06:49 you can have them also, like, in your suitcase or with you.
06:53 - You know, when I was taught growing up,
06:54 just culturally,
06:55 whenever you have a significant experience,
06:57 a part of you will stay there.
06:59 Your spirit will hang out there.
07:00 So when you're leaving, you call yourself.
07:02 So you just-- - Wow.
07:03 - So I do take to doing that if it's under my breath
07:06 or whatever, and if it's particularly a really hard scene.
07:09 I don't want to let myself linger there.
07:10 I have to stay present with myself.
07:12 So when you're walking off,
07:14 or when I'm walking off set or walking away from it,
07:15 just quick, "Lily, come on."
07:17 - [gasps]
07:18 That's so beautiful.
07:19 - Yeah, it works. - Yeah.
07:21 - Good old Blackfeet wisdom.
07:22 - Do you remember your first audition?
07:25 - Yes, I do.
07:26 It was for, like, a commercial.
07:29 - What commercial?
07:30 - I think Doritos.
07:31 - Oh, what flavor?
07:33 - Cool Ranch. - Oh.
07:35 - No, it was for regular Doritos,
07:36 but Cool Ranch is my favorite.
07:38 - Did you get the job? - No.
07:41 - Sorry to bring it up. - Thanks.
07:43 - Next question.
07:44 - There was a cup that went around
07:46 with everybody's names written on a Popsicle stick.
07:48 - Okay.
07:49 - And when the characters were read,
07:51 it's like, "Okay, now for this role,
07:52 you would pull your name."
07:53 And I remember when it came around to the lead role,
07:56 I was willing my name to come out of that cup,
07:58 and sure enough, it did.
07:59 - Wow, that manifestation right there.
08:00 - Yep, yep.
08:02 You know, I kind of miss that process, honestly.
08:03 It's a lot less pressure.
08:05 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:07 Bring the Popsicle sticks.
08:09 - I don't remember what I did when I was in the fourth grade.
08:11 I was the state of New Mexico.
08:14 And--
08:15 - You were the state of New Mexico.
08:17 - Yes, basically, my mother had to make a costume
08:19 that was the state of New Mexico,
08:21 but I think it was literally just
08:22 the cutout of New Mexico.
08:23 And then I came out and I just said, "New Mexico!"
08:26 And then I sat down.
08:27 So I think that was-- that wasn't an audition,
08:29 but I think I got the role.
08:30 - Advice would I have given myself a year ago?
08:33 I think, like, be patient with yourself.
08:36 - Make sure you sleep.
08:38 - Did you have a hard time remembering to do that?
08:40 - No, yet.
08:41 I only started getting more than six hours of sleep
08:44 like three months ago.
08:45 - What? - Yeah.
08:46 - Get as much sleep as you can.
08:48 - Sleep more. - Wow.
08:50 - Charles, from a year ago.
08:52 - And the work that you're putting in,
08:55 it matters, and people are gonna see it.
08:58 And the dreams that you've dreamed for yourself,
09:02 what you will experience a year from now,
09:04 will surpass it.
09:07 So just enjoy it.
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