Reese Witherspoon & Will Ferrell Interview Each Other

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The 'You're Cordially Invited' stars reminisce about their first meeting on ‘SNL’ for the first episode back after 9/11,  open up about real-life wedding mishaps and share behind-the-scenes secrets about 'Legally Blonde and ‘Elf’

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00:00La la la la la.

00:02Me me me me me.

00:04Can you sing Fireball?

00:06Beep beep beep.

00:08Beep beep beep. Nope.

00:10I don't know the lyrics to Fireball.

00:12You're Cordially Invited is not the first time we worked together.

00:18No, it's not.

00:19We worked together on Saturday Night Live.

00:21In 2001.

00:222001. How'd you remember?

00:24And we did a sketch where I played the Little Mermaid.

00:26Yes.

00:27And do you remember anything about that time?

00:29I just remember, was it the first show back?

00:32It was the first show back after 9-11, yeah.

00:35And I sang the song.

00:37You were this prince who I saw on the shore and you were like, wow, she's cute.

00:41And I was like, hey, but one other thing, I have fish genitals.

00:44And then it really turned me off.

00:46Yeah, you got really disgusted.

00:48Oh, there it is.

00:50Oh my gosh, wow.

00:52That is, look at your hair.

00:55I've got some really bad hair.

00:57No, you have really good hair.

00:59You have a lot of hair.

01:00But that's a wig.

01:01Was it?

01:02Yeah.

01:03That's crazy.

01:04I haven't seen that in years.

01:05What was your first impression of me?

01:07Well, you were a really good singer, which you are, and you're still a really good singer.

01:12You sing in our movie.

01:15You were the big attraction of the show.

01:17Everybody wanted to skit with you.

01:18So we didn't work together since 2001.

01:21Right.

01:22What took us so long to work together?

01:24I don't know, you tell me.

01:25I mean, I blame you.

01:26I sent you numerous emails, but maybe I had, I think I had your Hotmail account.

01:32Yeah.

01:33Earthlink.net.

01:34Earthlink.net.

01:35Yeah, but I got rid of that.

01:36Oh.

01:37I got rid of that.

01:38I think there might be a little mistake, because my daughter's getting married.

01:40Oh no.

01:41We've double booked your weddings.

01:43What?

01:44Nick Stoller, thank God he found both our emails.

01:46Thank you, Nick, for bringing us together.

01:48Yeah.

01:49Okay, let me ask you this.

01:50This movie's about a wedding, and many things go wrong.

01:53You know that.

01:54Yeah.

01:55What's the real-life wedding mishap you've witnessed?

01:59With me and Ken?

02:01Yeah.

02:02But that wasn't a mishap, was it?

02:03Well, we sort of took over the wedding when it really wasn't ours to star in.

02:07Oh, okay.

02:08We were just guests at a wedding, and we were just guests at the wedding in Hawaii.

02:12So you kind of commandeered the reception dance floor, basically.

02:15Yeah.

02:16And they sang, um,

02:17It's like the wide-winged dove.

02:20I mean, he and I acted out the doves around the whole dance floor, yeah.

02:23God, that's incredible.

02:24And really called a lot of attention to ourselves.

02:27But whosever wedding that was has a lifetime of memories.

02:31I'm sorry.

02:32I'm also sorry.

02:33Sorry, not sorry.

02:34And what about you?

02:35Do you have any memorable wedding moments?

02:38Mishaps?

02:39Well, I mean, I've told you this story, that I did stand up at a wedding

02:43during the moment where the priest or whoever was running the wedding says,

02:47Does anyone object to this union of these two people?

02:50And I stood up and said, I do.

02:51And then I said, I love you, Carol.

02:53But her name's not Carol.

02:54And the groom was like, this is Barbara.

02:57I'm like, oh, sorry.

02:59My bad.

03:00Keep going.

03:01Good one.

03:02And everyone stared at me.

03:03Good one.

03:04Yeah.

03:05Have you ever had this moment where you gave a speech,

03:06and then you're like, three years later, it was like,

03:08Why did I do that?

03:09Why did I do that?

03:10I don't think so.

03:11Wow.

03:12Yeah.

03:13You just have no regret?

03:14I don't think so.

03:15I can't remember if I do.

03:16I have one, and I'm like, it haunts me.

03:18It literally haunts me.

03:19So this friend of mine who I didn't really know that well,

03:22but she was a very serious, proper actress.

03:25And she asked me to give her an award.

03:28But I had never been to this award ceremony,

03:30so I thought it was like a roast.

03:32So I got up and I roasted her.

03:35But that was not the tone.

03:36No.

03:37Oh, boy.

03:38The tone was British.

03:40Elegant.

03:41Elegant.

03:42Serious.

03:43Classy.

03:44And I was like, remember the time we got laser hair removal?

03:48I'm kidding.

03:50I'm still embarrassed about it.

03:52My word.

03:53We're not friends anymore.

03:54I'm not even kidding.

03:55We're not friends anymore.

03:56That laser hair removal place was so excited to be mentioned.

04:00I thought it was so funny.

04:01And it was just, I had the wrong audience.

04:04That's a real doozy.

04:05It was pretty bad.

04:07Yeah.

04:08I'm not even kidding.

04:09She doesn't talk to me anymore.

04:12Oh.

04:13Oh, well.

04:14Nick Jonas.

04:15Yeah.

04:16That's it.

04:18That's the question.

04:19That's the card.

04:20He's the hot pastor.

04:21Yeah.

04:22He plays like that.

04:23You know, that groovy hot pastor.

04:24He was written as hot pastor.

04:26Hot pastor.

04:27To conflict with old family creepy pastor.

04:31Mm-hmm.

04:32And Nick was willing to do it.

04:34And he was like Nick Jonas.

04:35Yeah.

04:36And he was incredible.

04:37And he was amazing.

04:38Amazing.

04:39And so funny.

04:40And so overly earnest.

04:41He sang that song in the movie.

04:44Is it?

04:45Extreme?

04:46More than words?

04:48Is it a Creed song?

04:49No.

04:50It is Creed.

04:51It's Creed.

04:52Yeah.

04:53It's no fireball.

04:54Okay.

04:55Now, I'm known to sing in my movies.

04:56I am.

04:57I love this question.

04:58What was it like singing with me in this one?

05:00I'm asking the woman who won an Oscar for singing.

05:06It was like that.

05:07As a very...

05:08It was so...

05:09It was similar?

05:10It was almost like the same experience.

05:11Yeah.

05:12Okay.

05:13It was like Joaquin Phoenix.

05:14Yeah.

05:15And then Will Ferrell.

05:16Will Ferrell.

05:17Islands of the Stream.

05:18Islands of the Stream.

05:19It was still country.

05:20I felt comfortable because it was country.

05:21We've been talking about Jackson ever since the fire went out.

05:27I'm going to Jackson.

05:30You were really good.

05:31Thanks.

05:32Yeah.

05:33But then we got to dance a lot, which was very different.

05:34Right.

05:35That was very fun.

05:36Okay.

05:37From the alligator to the dock crashing in the water, what is a standout, ridiculous

05:42memory from making this movie?

05:44After...

05:45I'm also jumping onto a power boat.

05:48Yes.

05:49Where I bang my head.

05:50Yes.

05:51Trying to catch a...

05:52A moving boat.

05:53A moving boat.

05:56Nick and I were laughing so hard.

05:59I just love walking in the middle of the reception, sopping wet, but that we shot that.

06:06He wanted that shot like a horror movie.

06:08Yeah.

06:09So that water is dripping off my hand.

06:11I'm just sitting there like a crazy, crazy man.

06:14Swamp thing.

06:15Swamp thing.

06:16Yes.

06:17And I push a little...

06:19That poor child.

06:20Yes.

06:21In the face.

06:22That wonderful child actor in the face.

06:23But he liked it.

06:24Hey.

06:25Is there a movie I've been in that's made it in as a family favorite?

06:31Yes.

06:32Which one?

06:33Talladega Nights.

06:34Ah, great.

06:35Because I like when you and John C go around and you talk about what your baby Jesus would

06:39eat at the table.

06:40Mm-hmm.

06:41Mm-hmm.

06:42And so every time I taste something delicious, I'm like, this is what my baby Jesus would

06:44eat.

06:45Whether it's banana pudding or it's like chocolate arugula.

06:47Good old baby.

06:48That little baby Jesus.

06:49Yep.

06:50Everybody has different...

06:51He was a man.

06:52He had a beard.

06:53It's like when...

06:54Does he play on the Eagles?

06:57I like to think of Jesus like with giant eagles' wings and singing lead vocals for Leonard

07:04Skinner with like an angel band and I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk.

07:09I imagine my Jesus is a lead singer of a Leonard Skinner cover band and he's got big angel

07:18wings and he's on ice skates or something like that.

07:21Yeah.

07:22Okay.

07:23Elf.

07:24Elf is also such a big favorite in our family.

07:27Tell us something that we don't know about your experience working on Elf that you've

07:32never told anybody ever.

07:33That I've never...

07:34Was the costume comfortable?

07:36...divulged.

07:37It wasn't bad.

07:38Did you wear regular shoes or elf shoes?

07:40Elf shoes.

07:41I did eat real gum off the...

07:44No.

07:45...thing of...

07:46No, you didn't.

07:47...subway rail.

07:48No, you didn't.

07:49But we did a thing, there's double-sided tape underneath that so it was fresh gum.

07:52I chewed up the gum myself.

07:54Okay, okay, okay.

07:55So it's all...

07:57No, no...

07:58But it was real...

07:59No actors were hurt.

08:00No actor...

08:01No one else chewed my gum for me.

08:03Yeah.

08:04It's so good to know that even though you're a big star, you chew your own gum.

08:07Yeah, I do.

08:08I do the little things.

08:09That's why you're so down to earth.

08:10Yeah.

08:11Can I ask you a question?

08:12Yeah.

08:13Do you have all of your characters' wardrobe at your house or is that something you have

08:15to like...

08:16In my warehouse.

08:17In my warehouse.

08:19So like Ron Burgundy's office or...

08:22On Catalina Island.

08:23Okay.

08:24In Catalina...

08:25No, I don't have that many.

08:26But you have an elf costume.

08:27I don't.

08:28You don't have...

08:29Where'd you get your buddy costume?

08:30Amazon?

08:31I did.

08:32No, you didn't.

08:33I swear.

08:34No, you didn't.

08:35Because people were commenting like, I love that he's just in a cheap buddy costume from

08:40Amazon, which is true.

08:42Yeah.

08:43Wow.

08:44No, I don't have any...

08:45I don't have any...

08:46Wow.

08:47I have the Ron Burgundy one.

08:48I have one of the Blades of Glory skating outfits.

08:50Okay.

08:51But they're all like shadow box framed.

08:53Okay.

08:54What about Eurovision?

08:55No.

08:56You don't have anything there?

08:57I know.

08:58I don't have a Dutch Lander costume.

08:59No.

09:00Nothing?

09:01I don't.

09:02I... yeah.

09:03Shame.

09:04Sorry.

09:05Uh, Reese, uh, oh, can I have a cameo in the next Legally Blonde movie?

09:07Yeah, you can be a cameo.

09:08The part of the Chihuahua.

09:10Oh, I'm going to be the Chihuahua.

09:11Because the Chihuahua has passed.

09:12So I need a new support animal.

09:14So am I just going to wear ping pong balls in a studio somewhere else and act out as

09:20a Chihuahua?

09:21Yeah, but, yeah, you're just going to do the...

09:22What's the name of the Chihuahua?

09:23Bruiser.

09:24Bruiser is in Chihuahua heaven.

09:26Go to rest his little soul, yeah.

09:28We have a Legally Blonde show that we're shooting actually for Amazon called Elle.

09:33And it's going to be about Elle Woods in high school.

09:36And I'm really excited.

09:37We start in March.

09:38So right now...

09:39What about Bruiser?

09:40Is there a follow up to Bruiser?

09:42It might have the Bruiser origin story in it.

09:45Whoa.

09:46Yeah.

09:47Spoilers.

09:48Whoa.

09:49But I'm really excited because we're going through the casting process right now.

09:51And we're picking who is going to play the young me.

09:55Uh oh.

09:56It's kind of a trip.

09:57But it's so exciting too to watch these young girls.

10:00They're so filled with enthusiasm and excitement and completely...

10:04There's so many good ones.

10:05That's the hard thing because there's so many good people to choose from.

10:08And you're writing a book.

10:09And I'm writing a book.

10:10Hello.

10:11Yes.

10:12I'm writing a book with my friend Harlan Coben.

10:14I just kind of came up with this idea.

10:17And I called Harlan and I was like, do you want to write a book with me?

10:20And why did it lend itself more to a book?

10:22Or is it just something you wanted to try to do?

10:24I wanted to make sure it was...

10:26Because I was going to make it a movie.

10:28And I thought, let me actually have to make it a book so I understand what the structure of it.

10:34And then decide if it's a movie or a TV show.

10:37But it's been so fun, the discipline of writing and figuring out a new format.

10:42And you still don't have a publisher, correct?

10:44I do.

10:45What are you talking about?

10:46I'm looking for a publisher.

10:48I'm looking for like Harlan and Art.

10:50We're going to self-publish it.

10:52Okay.

10:53Yeah. Perfect.

10:54Yeah.

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