00:00 First of all, you are here.
00:02 I am here.
00:03 You are here!
00:04 Come on, thank you for everybody who supported me, because this is the reason I'm here.
00:07 Keep the mental game, because one day, things like this happen.
00:10 You know, why is it, I think we talked a little bit about this, but what do you think it is
00:13 about American fiction that made us all just fall head over heels?
00:19 It's such, like, I can't even describe, like it's an easy movie, but it's just,
00:25 it's an American tale in a way that we haven't seen in a while, I guess.
00:29 Well, it's like your peanut butter meets my chocolate.
00:32 There's a real serious core to it, and it's funny.
00:35 I mean, satire brings everyone together, and I think everyone agrees that when you put
00:39 two things together, especially in genre, it might have a specific, I don't know, a voice.
00:47 And, you know, the other person who did that really well was Jordan Peele, you know,
00:51 in sort of fusing genre.
00:53 So in that same way, the great court Jefferson taking Percival Everett's novel, did it,
00:57 and put in Jeffrey Wright, throwing a little Coraline.
01:00 Hey, you got a hit.
01:01 Now, listen, you know that you are an icon for so many of us and have been for decades,
01:06 but I wonder, with this film and the attention that it's gotten, have you seen a bit of,
01:10 like, I don't know, a new feeling, a newfound love for Erica in this business?
01:16 Yes, I have.
01:17 You know, also, a lot of the people who are looking are people, executives who were younger
01:21 who always liked me, but now they're in positions to do things, and they are spreading
01:26 the love and asking me to work with them and inviting me to places that I think heretofore
01:31 maybe people may have liked me but may not have really known me.
01:35 They know me very well.
01:36 We know you, baby, and we love you.
01:38 But tonight is a celebration as well.
01:40 I mean, a celebration of the movie, a celebration of your co-stars.
01:43 Like, you all really, I mean, I hope you can enjoy every single bit of it.
01:47 I am, girl.
01:48 I'm about to cry.
01:49 I'm so happy.
01:50 I am.
01:51 I didn't think I would be as overwhelmed, but I'm grateful just seeing your face.
01:55 And I just feel really grateful now to have lasted this long.
02:00 It's 40 years this year for me to be in the business, 30 years for living single.
02:04 And I just wanted everybody to know that I didn't get here alone.
02:08 And so everybody who's watching, they're wishing the best for me.
02:11 Thank you.
02:12 As always, you know, I fangirled.
02:14 We saw each other at a party the other night, and I had to run up because literally it was
02:18 a fangirl moment.
02:19 I have loved you for decades.
02:21 You are incredible.
02:22 I know.
02:23 I am so glad now the masses are starting to hear.
02:26 Erica Alexander!
02:27 Yes!
02:28 Yes!
02:29 Thank you.
02:30 It's EF the Oscars, right?
02:32 Okay, tell me about this.
02:33 Tell me a little secret about this.
02:35 Oh, this is Kristen Sariano.
02:37 He's always dressing women who have different bodies.
02:40 He was one of the first to say, "I'm going to dress people who are not typical."
02:44 And that's what this movie is about, stereotypes.
02:46 He wasn't going to play into the stereotype that designer needs six and below.
02:50 And so I've always admired his career, the project wondering, all of that.
02:54 And he made me this vision of a dress.
02:56 It's couture, baby!
02:57 Come on, couture!
02:58 It's couture, baby!
02:59 Come on!
03:00 Come on!
03:01 Okay, so you pick an envelope at random, and it's a random question that's tied to the
03:09 best picture nominations for the night.
03:12 Okay, come on.
03:13 Let me take the top.
03:14 Okay, you're taking the top.
03:15 Hey!
03:16 Oh, and it's from your movie, of course!
03:18 Okay!
03:19 Tell us about the most recent time you lied on your resume to get a job.
03:23 Well, you know what?
03:24 I never lied on my resume to get a job.
03:26 You know what I mean?
03:27 Didn't have to.
03:28 Your resume speaks for itself.
03:29 You know what?
03:30 One of the reasons they cast me is because I was new.
03:33 I was actually discovered in a film called My Little Girl, Merchant Ivory Film, and they
03:37 were looking for little girls who were new.
03:40 And when the dust cleared in Philadelphia, the New Freedom Theater, they chose me.
03:44 And so that's why I have my career, because I was discovered.
03:48 I love that story!
03:50 (cymbal crashing)
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