Variety Power Of Women 2022

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00:00Tell me a little bit about your decision to open up about your mental health.

00:07Was there a trigger of sort that you were like, I should talk about this publicly?

00:11I think the therapist was like, I think it started with me being in the studio when I started doing therapy.

00:17And my therapist was like, why don't you just write a song about it?

00:21And so that's how Psycho Freak and a lot of songs came about.

00:25And then that has transferred to talking about it in the studio.

00:29And then talking about it in interviews.

00:32And now I'm just like, I feel like before you talk about stuff like that, it can feel so scary or shameful.

00:38And then you talk about it and you're like, oh, it's kind of like not a big deal.

00:43And makes other people feel really relieved too.

00:46So, it's kind of no downside.

00:48So, I have to ask, have you seen the How to Love memes of you?

00:51Yes, of course, I love them.

00:52It's a strange dynamic in Hollywood.

00:54It's a strange transformation when you go from like, quote unquote, ingenue, young lead to mother, older lead.

01:06And, you know, sometimes I feel really old because I'm seeing all these young actors on all these incredible shows that I'm just obsessed with.

01:13And I'm like, God, I've reached a new age.

01:16And it's great because I get the opportunities I get are actually way better and more interesting for me as a parent and all that.

01:24And sometimes I'm like, wow, I feel so f***ing old.

01:27And then I see memes and I'm like, I think I really like this.

01:33This is good for me.

01:36To be folded into the younger kind of social media generation.

01:42I'm not on TikTok, but I did get a name.

01:45I took a name just in case.

01:47And then I just never went on.

01:49Your character, Samantha, in Sex and the City was such an icon for so many young women.

01:54She explored sexual freedom.

01:56And right now it kind of feels like women's sexual freedom is under attack a little bit by the government.

02:01What are your thoughts on what's going on right now?

02:04I believe that every woman should have the right to choose her health care.

02:10That is her right.

02:12Would you ever be interested in doing a Kinky Boots movie of some sort?

02:16Yeah, they would do it.

02:17Too many, they're still talking.

02:19Right.

02:19Like, child, I got bills to pay.

02:20Call me when you're ready.

02:21Is there a story that you'd love to tell that has not been told yet that you think, you know.

02:25Child, I just wrote a book.

02:27I told all the stories.

02:28It's called Unprotected.

02:30You can buy the audio book or you can read it.

02:33All the stories are there, 279 pages.

02:36Oh my gosh, was that cathartic for you to be able to.

02:38Yes, it's very.

02:39Yeah.

02:40What prompted that?

02:41Am I allowed to drink on screen?

02:43You may have to cut that off.

02:45Tell me a little bit about your latest role on television and how I met your father.

02:50Very fun to be back on there working with Hilary Duff in such an all-star cast.

02:55What's that been like for you?

02:56I love that job.

02:57I love Hilary Duff.

02:58She's great.

02:59She's terrific.

02:59I did a movie with Robert De Niro called About My Father.

03:04I'm doing a lot of shows about fathers right now.

03:07And another reboot of a show called Queer as Folk.

03:13Yes.

03:14And is that about the LGBTQ community?

03:18Is that like most of the stories that we tell, that's definitely a major part of it, but it's

03:26about families and friends and a time in their history.

03:31It's a really touching story.

03:33Have you watched yourself back in the dropout?

03:35Oh, yeah.

03:35And what's it like seeing yourself truly take on another human being?

03:41I'm never really seeing that.

03:43I'm not objective.

03:44I can't be that.

03:47But I watch it because I appreciate how it's edited.

03:53And I appreciate all the performances.

03:56And I check my performance just to see, you know, I don't hate on myself, but I don't

04:00love on myself either.

04:02It's just like, I want to see it back.

04:03Right.

04:03The work that you put in.

04:05Yes.

04:05And then if it's a really good episode, I can talk about it with like more pride.

04:10Yes, of course.

04:11Because I'm like, no, that was really good.

04:12They did a good job.

04:13Why do you think that stories of these kind of, not con artists, but egomaniacs are really

04:20prominent these days and people are watching them and loving them?

04:23Well, I think because they're being caught, it's important to show that they're not getting

04:29away with it.

04:30Yeah.

04:30They're not.

04:30I mean, there are a lot of people who are getting away with it, but a lot of people are

04:33held responsible and so don't even f***ing try it.

04:36I mean, that's one of my perspectives.

04:38I think also people just really love a fall from grace.

04:44They love a downfall and they love, you know, an uprising for sure, but we love a downfall

04:50more because we get to, um, we get to, we, they get in trouble.

04:57We, you know, and it's, they get held, they're held responsible.

05:03I think that we love, we just, we love that as, as a cult, as a society.

05:06I think, I love it.

05:07Um, and, uh, but it is important.

05:09It's like a, it's also a lesson, you know, you see how we've, we've, um, we're culpable

05:17as a society.

05:18Can we see you back on Broadway?

05:20Uh, I'm working on it.

05:21We'll see.

05:22All right.

05:22You know, I'm not going to be doing eight shows a week for three years no more, but we'll

05:26see.

05:27HL, Hollywood Life.

05:29That'll work.

05:30Love.

05:30You look like you're a Hollywood Life person.

05:32Oh, thank you.

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