00:00Hello, my name is Jeff Goldblum, and this is my town and country guide to style.
00:06I'll be your guide.
00:10What are your signature fashion staples?
00:12Hey, good question. I did not prepare myself for that.
00:14What would be my signature fashion staple?
00:18If it were a snake, it would have bit me.
00:21There's my Cartier watch that I like a lot.
00:24It's a little tank watch that I invested in a couple years ago, a few years ago.
00:27It's my go-to watch right now, so if that's, if I understand this staple business, I think that's a staple.
00:33It has nothing to do with the staple singers or the staple center, but this is a staple of my order.
00:39Also, of course, my wedding ring.
00:41I cherish. I'm only taking it off to look at it again myself.
00:45Emily Goldblum. I met her 14 years ago.
00:49I put a ring on it, it being her lovely finger.
00:53Lovelier digits, more symmetrical than I've ever seen on another human being.
00:56Anyway, we exchanged rings.
00:58My spectacles, of course, I'm thinking.
01:01I actually need them.
01:02I'm a little myopic, so I need them, you know, to drive and this and that.
01:06But I can act with them.
01:07If I had to act on the set or something, I wouldn't read a teleprompter without them.
01:11And these particular glasses, by the way, not that you asked, are the Jeff frames from Jacques-Marie Maje.
01:17We've collaborated with them, and I was honored to be asked to have a frame named after me.
01:23And that's our Jeff frame.
01:24It comes in several flavors, you know.
01:25This is my actual go-to.
01:27This is what I would have worn today had I not even known that we were having this date.
01:31Hey, this is already more fun than I thought.
01:32What's the biggest fashion risk you've taken that turned out to be a success?
01:39These are all very good.
01:40I didn't expect these.
01:41Well, success, of course, is in the eye of the beholder.
01:44Everybody's got an opinion.
01:45It's not science, which I highly esteem.
01:47I've played a couple of scientists.
01:48But this is not empirically data-driven.
01:54It's, you know, a matter of taste, of course.
01:56But, you know, reviews will come in, you know, for this and that.
02:00And thanks to Andrew Votero, some of these more conspicuous outfits where I've had to go on stage and do our jazz gigs or be on a carpet of some kind, you know, and get our picture taken there and be at an event like the Met Gala.
02:15What else?
02:16You know, early on, when left to my own devices, I was prone to taking risks.
02:22Now that I'm yapping about, feel free to cut me off whenever you want to, if it's too much fun.
02:28My mother for Halloween, because that's everybody's chance to take some risks and dress up.
02:33She dressed me up in fourth grade.
02:35What was I?
02:36You had five years.
02:37What was I?
02:38Nine.
02:38Nine.
02:39The day we were asked to wear our costumes to school.
02:42It was her idea, I do believe, to dress me up as a witch.
02:46Hey, this is sort of not unrelated to my current witch connection with, you know, Wicked and all that stuff.
02:51She dressed me up as a witch in full kind of drag, as a matter of fact.
02:55She put on one of her brassieres and stuffed it.
02:57I had a long, crinley kind of skirt and some high-heeled shoes and a wig and a ghouls, a white ghouls mask and some gloves with some long fingernails, painted fingernails and a witchy hat.
03:10I dug it.
03:11Anyway, that's enough of chatter about that.
03:14Risks and successes and fanatics.
03:15You closed Prada's 2022 fall-winter show.
03:21How did that collaboration come to be?
03:23Yeah, it's one of the highlights of my life.
03:25I was on the runway with Kyle MacLachlan and several other very beautiful models of every stripe.
03:31Andrew Vitero has transformed my style approach.
03:35About 10 years ago, I met him.
03:36Who's that slamming the door?
03:38Did you hear that door slam?
03:39Now you can see that and hear that you can include the door slam because somebody, in fact, just slammed a door.
03:44I hate when they do that.
03:45Lose their temper.
03:46Hey, what's that song?
03:47Doors and doors and fa-fa-fa.
03:50I talk about the right out loud.
03:53I think that's Joni Mitchell.
03:54Is that Joni Mitchell?
03:55Oh, oh, the Prada runway show.
03:57Yes.
03:57So, Andrew Vitero, 10 years ago, we started to collaborate on all sorts of things.
04:03He's just terrific.
04:04He said, you know, Prada, if I could connect you with anybody, that might be healthy and fun and nutritious and really, really creative because it's great and she's great.
04:15Anyway, so they asked me to be in that fashion show, which was really a thrill.
04:21And I have pictures in my house right now, you know, that I got from that that are framed here and there that my wife has in her office.
04:31Okay, talk to me about your love for trench coats.
04:33Trench coats.
04:34I wore a trench coat today.
04:35We're here, you know, I don't know if you know on the, well, it's probably related.
04:38You know, we're here doing town and country, the wonderful people in town and country.
04:41And we took some pictures.
04:43Anyway, yeah, I wore a trench coat today.
04:44I have a, I think it's a Celine classic khaki double-breasted trench coat that is stylishly slim.
04:54I've worn that and had some other pictures taken of me in that.
04:58But then I got another one made by somebody else that's kind of stylishly floppy and oversized.
05:05I've gotten a big kick out of wearing that.
05:08But then Prada, for one thing or another, I believe gifted me with a black trench coat that I'm wild about, that I cherish, that's sitting right there.
05:22And let's stop there.
05:23I don't want to paint myself as a too luxurious a character.
05:30How involved are you typically in your character's wardrobe?
05:33I've worked, like I say, with some great costume designers.
05:37For instance, let's take Milena Cananero.
05:39I wasn't involved really at all.
05:41I lend myself and I, and they put something on me and I start to play the character and start to move like the character.
05:49And so they see me do that.
05:50So that's a little bit of a collaboration.
05:52How'd the iconic Jurassic Park shirtless scene come to be?
05:55Was that your idea?
05:56I've been asked that before.
05:57How am I, how am I shirtless?
05:59Or it wasn't really shirtless.
06:00It's a little bit decolletage.
06:02Is that the right word?
06:03Maybe so.
06:04Where a button or two is unwisely undone.
06:09I remember that one day we were doing that scene with the great Richard Attenborough.
06:13I think at the last minute, I can't tell you as I sit here whether it was me or Steven Spielberg.
06:18I don't think it was him who said, Jeff, Jeff.
06:20A little bit more.
06:22I don't think he did that.
06:24Nor do I think that I went, I know what I'm going to do.
06:26Hey, I hope nobody notices.
06:28I don't think it was anything like that.
06:29It just happened, you know, we were trying to seriously fulfill the needs of the story and the character.
06:36So I don't know.
06:36I don't know how it happened.
06:40How has your red carpet style changed from your first premiere for Jurassic Park to now?
06:44Wow.
06:45You say there was a premiere?
06:46Yes, I remember some for Jurassic Park in 1993.
06:51We went to London where we had, I think it was the Natural History Museum.
06:57There we had a showing that Lady Diana attended.
07:02Oh, I remember what I wore for that.
07:03His pictures were taken.
07:04And Sam Neill and Mr. Steven Spielberg and, you know, Laura Dern.
07:08We were there.
07:09And I remember the princess was one seat over for me.
07:15And I met her.
07:16And it was thrilling.
07:18And, you know, I watched her seeming to enjoy the movie.
07:20And that was great.
07:21How has your approach to red carpet fashion changed over the years?
07:27Well, this last, as we sit here, I don't know when you're consuming this, but, but this, the first Wicked Movie came out, you know, last November.
07:34It's now 2025.
07:35And the next one of this year, 2025, perhaps you're interested in what I wore last year.
07:40Well, that was as I knew those ladies were going to be dressed up and Jonathan Bailey and Michelle Yeoh.
07:46And I think we thought I should show myself off.
07:48And we had a bunch of things that sort of were wizard adjacent.
07:53You know, they had some green or grand elements to them.
07:57Well, I'm long-winded.
07:58I apologize already.
07:59I'm a, I'm a chatterbox.
08:01I'm a chatterbox.
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