00:00I think I would maybe be a, well, I'd be a bang.
00:07If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, because I think I remember those specific teachers
00:30that were paramount in changing my trajectory.
00:32I've always kind of held this feeling that I think I'd be a zoologist or, like, a safari
00:38park ranger.
00:39If I wasn't an actor, I would study epigenetics or something of that nature.
00:45I always thought I'd be a really good A&R in music.
00:48I don't know, I was just today saying maybe I would want to be a doula.
00:52Or maybe a teacher.
00:54Both my parents are very achievement-focused, so if I wasn't an actor, I had, like, these
01:00delusions of grandeur that I would be, like, a woman of business.
01:04I'd love to be a chef.
01:06I really like cooking.
01:08If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a mess.
01:11I'd, thank God this worked out.
01:20Fictional character identify with the most.
01:23Finding Nemo.
01:24So Nemo.
01:25You know, I think, uh, that story is a beautiful one where, you know, you get lost, and I feel
01:31like, as a little fish in a big sea, uh, I'm lost and trying to find my way back home.
01:37Uh, you gotta get creative.
01:38You gotta find your way to success.
01:40Oh my God, it's poetry.
01:41Think about it.
01:42Do you guys have the wild thornberries here?
01:44Yeah.
01:45Remember the little, the little kid in it?
01:47Was it Donny, Donny, uh, Donny Thornberry?
01:50Like the wild monkey boy.
01:57I guess, I guess him.
01:58It's like, he reminds me to stay free.
02:01The fictional character that I identified with as a, as a kid, I don't know about anymore,
02:07was Lisa Simpson.
02:08I don't know why.
02:10When, when I was young, I just loved that she was this outcast from her family that was
02:15really into the arts.
02:16Remember, there was that episode of The Simpsons where she became Buddhist.
02:19And so I was like, I'm going to be Buddhist.
02:21And so I remember like, waking up at like midnight one night and I was, I must have been like
02:2610 and I tried chanting and my parents were like, what are you doing?
02:29Go back to bed.
02:29Lenny and Carl, you guys are Buddhists?
02:32Oh yeah.
02:33If I didn't have inner peace, I'd completely go psycho on all you guys all the time.
02:37I also had a book that was like, how to be more like Lisa Simpson.
02:43With my first Hollywood paycheck, I, I think I bought my dog.
02:48Like, yeah, Bambi, which my mom was not happy about at all.
02:52My car, I bought an old Mercedes 1984, SEC 500, no pillar windows.
02:59It's the sexiest thing I've ever driven.
03:02And I'm obsessed with her.
03:04First one, I remember I was living in Atlanta.
03:07I went back home and then I got my check and I took myself to Olive Garden.
03:11You know, that's, that's fine dining.
03:14Breadsticks.
03:15You don't do that.
03:16That was luxury.
03:17That is luxury.
03:18My very first one was when I was like 11 or 12 and I had played a feral child in the
03:26Ridley-Scots Robin Hood.
03:28And I, I bought a bunch of Ben and Jerry's ice cream.
03:30It wasn't a big bed yet.
03:32Bought a house.
03:32Before I spent it on Nando's and, and chocolate.
03:38Invested.
03:39And I put it in a savings account as I do all my Hollywood paychecks to this day.
03:45The first time I was properly, properly starstruck was probably Daniel Day-Lewis.
03:50Um, I mean, you don't, you just don't get better than him.
03:53Yeah, meeting him was, uh, was a, was a ride.
03:56I like saw Tilda Swinton from very far away and literally left the room.
04:02That was probably the most starstruck I've ever been.
04:05I recently did a film with Michelle Williams and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
04:08They were the most inviting people ever, but I sat in the makeup chair between them and
04:12I was like, hi.
04:15I didn't really know what to do with myself.
04:18Meeting Donald Glover, maybe.
04:21I was at the Emmys the other day.
04:23Um, and I was in the queue for an interview right behind Ben Stiller.
04:31And I was freaking out.
04:33I was really like mincing my words.
04:35He was like, congrats on the studio.
04:37And I was like, congrats on amazing life and career.
04:41If I have my AirPods in on set, I'm usually listening to Beyonce.
04:45I'd say trying to get my energy back up.
04:48Recently, right now, I'm listening to Tame Impala on set
04:52because I'm just sensing my way through my nerves.
04:57I can listen to The Perfect Circle and Tool and Nine Inch Nails,
05:01or I could be listening to a jazz album, or I'm listening to Dvorak or something,
05:07or nothing poppy.
05:08I'm not a fan of pop music.
05:10You think I'm like locked in.
05:11I'm like, focus.
05:13I'm prepping for a scene.
05:14And I guarantee you it's probably like The Climb by Miley Cyrus playing.
05:19Or it, I, it's always going to be another mountain.
05:21I just genuinely, like, that song is so, she's talking about anxiety.
05:26Think about it.
05:26She's like, there's a voice inside my head.
05:30You'll never make it.
05:32The person I'm dying to work with is Meryl Streep.
05:38Channing Tatum, Lakeith Stanfield, Kiki Palmer, Robert Downey Jr.
05:43The person I'm dying to work with is Colin Farrell.
05:46I think he's, I just, I love chameleons.
05:48And Willem Dafoe.
05:49Gosh, I have a list that I wrote like 10 years ago,
05:52and I will eventually check them all off as my goal.
05:56I'm going to say Paul Dane, though.
05:57I just think that he is such a special actor, and I just love his career.
06:01Jennifer Lawrence, Florence Pugh.
06:03The list is endless.
06:05The person in the industry who gave me the best advice was Scarlett Johansson.
06:09She gave me two really good pieces of advice.
06:11One was when we were on the carpet, and I was extremely overwhelmed,
06:14and she told me to imagine that I was in Hawaii, which was really helpful, actually.
06:18And then with acting, she just would remind me to never expect anything.
06:23The best piece of advice I was given was by Nicole Kidman.
06:26She told me, take care of yourself.
06:28And I think it's a very vital part of our art.
06:32In terms of advice, Catherine Hahn, who is the most wonderful human being ever,
06:39and I feel like she's always giving me little kernels of wisdom,
06:43but I love how she doesn't take it so seriously.
06:46Like, she's always cracking up, and I think just keeping that wonderment.
06:50And also, it's like, it's so crazy that we get to do this.
06:52Like, tell a bunch of silly jokes and hang out with our friends and, you know, be on a movie set.
06:58I think just remembering that that is so crazy and so lucky that we get to do that.
07:03You're welcome.
07:21You're welcome.
07:21You're welcome.
