00:00Try to, like, I don't know, reinvigorate it, but instead we just took it down.
00:04Dark colouring your hair.
00:07Put down the fags. Put down the cigarettes.
00:10Yeah, I'm confused myself.
00:12I don't know.
00:14No, I didn't. Hang on, let me go back through our text.
00:18I feel like you two chatted this morning, didn't you, about your outfits?
00:22Yeah, we had some earth, burgundy tones.
00:25That's a theme, we got the memo.
00:27We're wig wine drinkers.
00:28Exactly.
00:29Our autumn vibes.
00:31Love it. Merlot all the way. Love.
00:33So we're in the UK. What do you do when you first land in London?
00:36What are you up to?
00:37Well, taking the sunshine today. That was a surprise.
00:40I know, so nice. Have you been outside?
00:43No.
00:45This is like paradise right now.
00:47This is fake simulated sunlight.
00:49What?
00:50Thank you for bringing the sunshine, guys. We don't often see it here,
00:53but you are the sunshine in the room and outside, which is wonderful.
00:56First of all, what a ride. What a wild ride this is.
01:01When you first signed up, were you just like, really?
01:04What was your reaction?
01:06It was basically that, I think.
01:08I was in the first four episodes, and it was so exciting to think
01:12that I was going to be reading one story,
01:15and then it became something else at the end of that first episode.
01:18So it was thrilling to be a part of something
01:21that I thought people wouldn't see coming.
01:23Yeah, it was pretty shocking.
01:24So for a minute you're talking about a hedgehog in London,
01:26and now you're talking about President.
01:28I mean, what a life you're leading.
01:30Yeah, yeah. I'm confused myself.
01:33I don't know where I am or who I am,
01:36but thank God we got this real sunlight.
01:38I know.
01:39Yeah, I know. I was here not too long ago slinging that movie.
01:44But yes, I'm very fortunate to be able to be given the opportunity
01:50to go from a hedgehog's friend to playing the President of the United States.
01:54It's a tough jump sometimes.
01:55And working with Jim Carrey, and now the incredible Julianne.
01:58I mean, how much of a fan were you guys of each other?
02:01Now's your time to kind of give each other a big head.
02:03Well, I've already done that for James, so I don't want to go to his head.
02:06I'm kidding.
02:07So we worked together on Ally McBeal in the last season.
02:10Never heard of it.
02:11Right. Many people haven't, by the way.
02:13You're joking.
02:15Yeah.
02:16Like anyone under 30.
02:19People hiding under rocks.
02:20Exactly.
02:21But we started that show with Josh Hopkins and Regina Hall,
02:26and we formed this little posse because it was the end.
02:31The end of the show.
02:32It was the end of the show.
02:33It was like the last season.
02:34And we knew so much.
02:35There was so much drama surrounding that, so we got pretty tight pretty quickly.
02:39And we've only bumped into each other a few times in the last 20 years.
02:45I loved James, loved him then,
02:47and it was pure joy to be able to meet each other again in a scene
02:52and just feel him with me, to feel like we were together.
02:55I found it very moving.
02:57Have I already told you that?
02:58Same.
02:59No.
03:00Good job.
03:01You made all of that up.
03:03No.
03:04Yeah, we had the best time on that.
03:05Got to be really close.
03:06We were the new kids in the show.
03:08We were brought in to sort of try to reinvigorate it.
03:13But instead, we just took it down.
03:15No, that's not true.
03:16But we got to be very close, and I've always loved this woman so much.
03:20I'm like, when can we work together again?
03:23And this came around.
03:24It made me so excited to know that she was on board doing it.
03:27And even though we're sharing scenes, we're not each other's favourite person.
03:33But yeah, I feel very fortunate to have this reunion.
03:36How does it work in the acting world?
03:37Because you've known each other for so long.
03:39Do you just text each other when something comes out?
03:41Oh, I liked you in this.
03:42You were good in Hairspray.
03:43You were great in The Note.
03:44How does it work?
03:45We don't.
03:46We don't.
03:47No, I didn't.
03:48Hang on.
03:49Let me go back through our texts.
03:51I think there's probably about a 10-year gap.
03:53But I think I texted you when I knew that you were doing this.
03:57I think we texted each other then, being like, yay.
04:00And you run into each other every once in a while.
04:02But I would say it's only been a handful of times.
04:05But every time I see him, it actually feels like no time has passed.
04:08It really does.
04:09Yeah.
04:10Running into the Oscars, Emmys, waving across the room.
04:14Exactly.
04:15God, it's getting tiring.
04:16We just have to stop meeting like this.
04:18When you really have full, long, meaningful conversations.
04:21Yeah, exactly.
04:22Award events.
04:23I think we saw each other literally getting our picture taken once.
04:26It was like, uh-huh, bye.
04:29Keep moving.
04:30It was nice to actually be together again.
04:32Well, about pictures.
04:33Cal's got a few cool selfies.
04:35Barack Obama golfing.
04:36Oh, my God.
04:37That made me laugh.
04:38Bono.
04:39Barack Obama made me laugh so much.
04:41I mean, some of those are me.
04:42These are in, like, this is a wide shot, right?
04:44You're not seeing a close-up of any of these.
04:46They're cut close-up.
04:48They're over your desk.
04:49Can you tell me about the 18 holes with Barack and how that went?
04:52Was it with Barack?
04:53Yeah, there was a Barack Obama picture.
04:55Okay, so it was LeBron James as well.
04:56I didn't know if we were playing golf or not.
04:57That's right.
04:58Walking with Barack Obama.
04:59Yeah, these were all, I mean, for reference here,
05:02this is all, like, just set decoration.
05:05Oh, you've ruined it now.
05:07Fake photos of me with all famous people.
05:09I think they were, like, Buzz Aldrin.
05:10They're in his photo books anyway.
05:12They're on his phone.
05:13Those are the things I wish I'd actually stolen.
05:15I know.
05:16I wish I'd actually stolen.
05:17You could just screenshot the movie, maybe, and print it off, couldn't you?
05:20Yeah, well, my buddy Obama, we're pals in real life.
05:23Got a kick out of it.
05:24Yeah.
05:25It's a little snapshot of it.
05:27Sets it open.
05:28Did you get any tips from him for the role again?
05:30Because a present again for you?
05:32Um, start colouring your hair.
05:36Put down the fags.
05:37Yeah, yeah.
05:38Put down the cigarettes.
05:39Yeah, put them down.
05:40Well, I wanted to ask-
05:41I didn't see it go grey.
05:42It's the president.
05:43Have you got any cool pictures with celebs?
05:44Is that something you just don't do in that world?
05:47Um...
05:49I have a...
05:51What am I like?
05:53All my photos of my celebrities are in big frames throughout my house.
05:57I'm one of those people that like to show everybody who I know.
06:00So I have a big photo of me and Beyonce.
06:02That resonates.
06:03Yeah.
06:04Um...
06:05What else?
06:06I do have something from-
06:08Not a picture with somebody,
06:10but I worked with Meryl Streep.
06:13And she-
06:15On August Oates Stage County.
06:17And she's crafty.
06:18And she made this frame-
06:20She drew this frame-
06:21This picture of my character, Ivy,
06:23with all these things in a frame.
06:25And that is like-
06:27If the fire is coming, that's one of the things I'm bringing with me.
06:30Yeah, for sure.
06:31So that was pretty special.
06:32She drew a photo?
06:33She drew a photo of Ivy.
06:35There's a quote from the movie.
06:36And then there's other little things glued to it in a beautiful frame.
06:39She literally came to my door, knocked,
06:41because we all lived in this little cul-de-sac.
06:43And was like, knock, knock, knock.
06:44Open the door.
06:45There's Meryl, who is my goddess anyway.
06:47And she was like, here, this is for you.
06:49And I was like, okay, thank you.
06:51Close.
06:52Bye, Meryl Streep.
06:53That's amazing.
06:54That's special.
06:55That's a special thing.
06:56Don't care about your question.
06:57You're still in there.
06:58Don't care about James.
07:00But this was so great.
07:02You're going to have the whole world on the edge of the seats.
07:04And the music, by the way.
07:05You have me singing Coldplay's Paradise.
07:07I couldn't get that out of my head.
07:09And don't you just love Phil Collins?
07:11I mean, how did-
07:12I can't get that song out of my head.
07:14Since watching the-
07:16I watched the screening in LA last week.
07:18Yeah.
07:19It lingers.
07:20That song, it lingers.
07:21I want to see you two on TikTok singing that together, please.
07:23Okay.
07:24Alright, cool.
07:25We'll work on that.
07:26Is it back on?
07:27TikTok?
07:28Snapchat.
07:29Okay.
07:30Thank you so much.
07:31Always great to see you.
07:32Always goes too quickly.
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