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00:01From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York,
00:04it's Late Night with Seth Meyers.
00:07Tonight, Nate Hudson.
00:10Star of Marty's Supreme, actress Odessa Assayan.
00:13An all-new closer look.
00:20And now, Seth Meyers.
00:23Good evening, everybody. I'm Seth Meyers.
00:25This is Late Night. We hope you're doing well.
00:27And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:29President Trump was set tonight to address the country,
00:31with Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, and CNN
00:35all carrying the speech live.
00:37So either we're at war with Venezuela,
00:40or there are some exciting new updates about the ballroom.
00:45Tonight's three-hour season finale of Survivor on CBS
00:48was set to be interrupted by President Trump's
00:50primetime address to the nation
00:52and part of his continuing quest
00:54to never let anyone know what happens on private islands.
00:59What happened?
01:03That's why they're private.
01:05President Trump said yesterday he agrees with White House
01:08Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' assessment
01:10that he has an alcoholic's personality.
01:12Okay, but even they don't pass out this much.
01:17In a new interview with Vanity Fair,
01:19White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles confirmed
01:21that President Trump is mentioned in the Epstein Files.
01:24Yeah, I'll bet.
01:25If I had to guess, he's mentioned in the Epstein Files
01:28like the whale is mentioned in Moby Dick.
01:31Every other page.
01:34Vanity Fair published pictures from a photo shoot
01:37with Trump administration officials yesterday,
01:39including an extreme close-up of Deputy Chief of Staff
01:43Stephen Miller.
01:44That's unfortunate.
01:45That looks like the photographer's thumb was in the way.
01:51His resting thumb face.
01:53At a Hanukkah reception yesterday,
01:56President Trump claimed that former White House physician
01:58and Congressman Dr. Ronny Jackson told him he was healthier
02:01than former President Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
02:05I don't know.
02:06The way you've been looking lately,
02:07I'd say you're just a little bit healthier
02:09than Ronald Reagan.
02:13President Trump said on Monday that he's considering
02:15an executive order loosening regulations on marijuana.
02:18Wait, this is before the munchies?
02:24Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters yesterday
02:26that he won't release the full, unedited video
02:29of a September attack on a suspected drug boat
02:32because he accidentally taped last night's bar rescue over it.
02:38According to a new survey, 15% of frequent travelers said
02:41that their most forgotten item this year was a phone charger,
02:44while 1% said, Kevin!
02:51You know, once I'll forgive.
02:53Twice?
02:54Twice.
02:57New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday
03:00that three New York City casino projects
03:02have been granted gaming licenses.
03:04Or if you really want to gamble in New York,
03:06sit down on the F train.
03:10And finally, in honor of the holiday season,
03:12McDonald's today offered customers an Egg McMuffin for $2.
03:16If you're wondering what that has to do with the holidays,
03:19the oil will last for eight nights.
03:23And that was a monologue, everybody.
03:27Closing on a very strong Hanukkah joke.
03:28We got a great interview tonight.
03:30She's a fantastic actress.
03:31You know from movies such as Glass Onion,
03:34Almost Famous, and the Netflix series Running Point.
03:37You can see her next in Song Sung Blue,
03:39which is in theaters December 25th.
03:41Kate Hudson is here, everybody!
03:44And she's currently starring at HBO's I Love LA,
03:47as well as Marty Supreme, which is in theaters everywhere.
03:50Christmas Day, Odessa.
03:52Zion will also be joining us, everybody!
03:55Family trips this week.
03:57Paul Feig, give it a listen.
03:59Moving on!
04:00The Trump White House is in damage control
04:03over an explosive new article in Vanity Fair
04:06in which some pretty nasty things are said
04:08about the Trump administration
04:09by a radical, left-woke Antifa Democrat traitor.
04:12Wait, sorry, I'm reading that wrong.
04:14Donald Trump's current Chief of Staff.
04:18For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
04:24By now, you're probably well aware of everyone
04:26in Trump's orbit, the Vice President,
04:28the Attorney General, the Health Secretary,
04:31and the Deputy Health Secretary,
04:33RFK Jr.'s brain worm.
04:35But you might be less familiar with the current
04:37White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
04:39Wiles rarely talks or appears in public,
04:42except for that one time she was spotted standing
04:46behind Trump in the Oval Office
04:49and making a face like Daniel Craig
04:51just accused her of murder.
04:54Well, well, well, look what we have here.
04:56Turns out the perpetrator of this nefarious act
05:00was Miss Susie in the Oval Office with a rolling pin.
05:04It wasn't me!
05:06It was my lookalike Paula Deen!
05:10By the way, that photo was taken from an Oval Office meeting
05:13earlier this year.
05:14She looks like she just got an eye transplant
05:16from Rudy Giuliani.
05:19They're all yours, Susie. I don't need them anymore.
05:21I got a brand-new pair from Spirit Halloween.
05:24The whole thing was covered by my insurance.
05:27It's not a HMO. It's an HMO!
05:29No, Rudy, you've done it again!
05:32Anyway, the point is, Wiles never talks in public,
05:37but she is one of the most important figures
05:39in Trump's second term.
05:41She's so important that Trump has started giving her
05:43a new nickname.
05:44So, Susie Trump. Do you know Susie Trump?
05:48Sometimes referred to as Susie Wiles, Susie Trump.
05:51She's the great chief of staff.
05:53Where's Susie?
05:56Susie, come on, Susie.
05:59Look at Susie. Susie's the greatest.
06:02Getting real lazy with the nicknames.
06:06He used to have bangers like Little Marco and Lion Ted.
06:09Now he's just giving people his name.
06:12It's like if you got a job at Chipotle and your new boss said,
06:14I'm kind of known for coming up with good nicknames,
06:16so from now on, you're Mike Chipotle.
06:19You'll be working with Jeff Chipotle over here,
06:22and that tall guy over there with the curly red hair
06:25and clown makeup, you probably guess what we call him.
06:27Ronald McDonald? Oh, no, that's good, though.
06:30We call him Mark Chipotle.
06:33Also, can we go back to this?
06:35Where's Susie?
06:38Susie, come on, Susie.
06:40Dude, you never sound older and more out of it
06:43than when you're asking where someone is.
06:46He sounds like he's in a hospital bed
06:48hallucinating about an old flame.
06:50Susie, where is Susie?
06:52Dad, who's Susie? My first love?
06:54We met in Paris in 49, but you met Mom in 44.
06:59I don't care about Mom!
07:01I want Susie!
07:04Susie can have you for all I care.
07:06You're no catch!
07:11I'm going back to my puzzles.
07:13Just when are you gonna die?
07:16The point is Wiles is so important to Trump
07:19that he has bestowed his name upon her,
07:22although he might take it back after an explosive interview.
07:25Vanity Fair released a stunning new interview,
07:29series of interviews, with Susie Wiles,
07:32President Trump's chief of staff.
07:34Susie Wiles offered a stunning assessment
07:36of the central characters in the White House,
07:38starting with her boss,
07:40saying President Trump has an alcoholic's personality.
07:43As for Vice President Vance,
07:45Wiles says he's been a conspiracy theorist for a decade.
07:48Wiles also had words for Elon Musk,
07:50which she called an avowed ketamine user.
07:52In fact, he used so much ketamine around the office,
07:55we had a nickname for him, Elon Ketamine.
08:00The weird thing about this is it's stuff we already knew,
08:02and in many ways it's not surprising,
08:04except that it's coming from the White House chief of staff,
08:07and not a former chief of staff, mind you.
08:09She is still employed at the White House.
08:11She said the president she currently works for
08:13behaves like an alcoholic.
08:14The vice president is a conspiracy theorist,
08:17and the most likely explanation for the ramblings
08:19of the richest man on Earth is that he's on drugs.
08:22It doesn't sound like she works there.
08:24It sounds like she works here.
08:28Susie Meyers.
08:31Where is Susie? Where is Susie?
08:35Susie Meyers, we got...
08:37She unloaded on the most powerful people on Earth
08:41like she was the drunk co-worker
08:43at the office Christmas party.
08:45I'm going to tell you one more thing, J.D.
08:47He does wear eyeliner.
08:51And the confessions did not stop there.
08:53Some stunning new admissions
08:55from White House chief of staff Susie Wiles,
08:58including acknowledging that President Trump
09:00is score-settling with recent prosecutions
09:04of his political enemies.
09:05She also spoke candidly about the president's inner circle.
09:08She called Elon Musk an odd, odd duck.
09:11Russell Vogt, architect of the Notorious Project 2025
09:14and the head of the Office of Management and Budget,
09:16is a, quote, right-wing absolute zealot.
09:20She goes on to talk about Attorney General Pam Bondi,
09:23for instance, saying that she whiffed initially
09:25in the first months of this administration
09:27with her handling of the Epstein files.
09:29She does acknowledge the president himself
09:31is in the Epstein files, but not doing anything awful.
09:36She says the two men were sort of young,
09:38single playboys together.
09:40I didn't think it was possible to make Trump's relationship
09:42with Epstein sound any worse, but Susie Wiles did it.
09:45You're not helping Trump's case by saying he and Epstein
09:48were playboys together.
09:49That's like saying, oh, yeah, I was friends with Hannibal Lecter,
09:52but only because we're both foodies!
09:55But Wiles and the Trump team didn't just do interviews.
09:59They posed for glamour shots.
10:01Everybody was on board. Everybody knew the drill.
10:04Uh, when the photographer, the Vanity Fair photographer,
10:07went to the White House, we were there the entire day.
10:12Uh, we were camped in the Roosevelt Room.
10:14There were individual glamour shots for J.D. Vance,
10:17as well as Trump's top adviser Stephen Miller,
10:20Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt, among others.
10:23This looks like a still from the pilot episode of Suits
10:26before they were all recast.
10:29They all thought they were going to look so cool,
10:31and while they were posing for these glossy photos,
10:33their colleague was bad-mouthing them.
10:35This is like if you posed for a high school yearbook photo
10:37thinking you've been voted most likely to succeed,
10:39and then when it came out, your superlative said,
10:41most likely to his pants at lunch.
10:44But now, of course, this crack team of brainiacs are claiming
10:47the interviews they participated in
10:49and the photos they posed for were actually part
10:52of an elaborate hit beast.
10:54This is, unfortunately, another example
10:56of disingenuous reporting, where you have a reporter
11:00who took the chief of staff's words wildly out of context,
11:04did not include the context those conversations
11:06were had within.
11:08I'm sorry, what context would make these quotes sound better?
11:11When Suzy said the president had an alcoholic's personality,
11:14she meant it as a good thing.
11:16Alcoholics have to be smart and resourceful
11:18so they can find places to hide their alcohol.
11:21At one point, Wiles even tried to deny.
11:23She said Musk was a ketamine addict,
11:25but her denial only made things worse.
11:27Wiles is blasting Vanity Fair for quoting her.
11:30In her interview with the New York Times,
11:32Wiles took issue with the quote attributed to her
11:34about Elon Musk's drug use.
11:35That's ridiculous, she said.
11:37I wouldn't have said it and I wouldn't know.
11:39But the Vanity Fair reporter, Chris Whipple, quote,
11:42played a tape for the times in which she could be heard saying it.
11:45Don't deny saying something if you were recorded saying it.
11:49That's like if I said I've never taken a closer look at anything.
11:52I only take one kind of look from a respectful distance.
11:56But okay, fine.
11:58Maybe Wiles really thinks this was a hit piece
12:00and she was tricked into saying things on the record
12:03that she thought were off the record.
12:04Anyone can make a mistake like that one time, right?
12:08I spoke to Susie Wiles 11 times,
12:1111 in-depth interviews over nearly a year.
12:14She did 11 interviews with the same guy.
12:17You can't do 11 interviews with someone
12:20and then accuse them of writing a hit piece about you.
12:22If you go to a doctor one time
12:24and he leaves a sponge in your brain, that's a bummer.
12:26But if you go back to that same doctor 10 more times,
12:29that doctor is just using you to get rid of sponges.
12:34And then there was Vance,
12:35who tried an interesting new defense of Wiles.
12:38Her honesty is actually a good thing.
12:40I've seen so many people who will say one thing
12:42to the president's face, Democrats and Republicans,
12:45and then will do the exact opposite behind the scenes.
12:48And you know why I really love Susie Wiles?
12:50Because Susie is who she is in the president's presence.
12:55She's the same exact person when the president isn't around.
12:58Wait, so you're not denying what she said?
13:00You know what I love about Susie Wiles?
13:01She's the only one who will say to the president's face
13:04that he has the personality of an alcoholic.
13:06And he can't stay mad at her
13:08because he also has the memory of an alcoholic.
13:11Again, this is mostly stuff we already knew.
13:13But this time, it's coming from a central figure
13:15inside the Trump team who knows what impact any of this will have.
13:19But in a few weeks, there's a chance Wiles' colleagues
13:22will be walking around the White House saying...
13:24-"Where's Susie?"
13:25This has been A Closer Look.
13:31We'll be right back with Kate Hudson, everybody.
13:38For more of Seth's Closer Looks, be sure to subscribe
13:40to Late Night on YouTube.
13:52Our first guest tonight is the Golden Globe,
13:54winning an Academy Award-nominated actress.
13:56You know from movies like Glass Onion, Almost Famous,
13:59How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,
14:00and the Netflix series Running Point.
14:02She stars in Songs Sung Blue,
14:04which is in theaters December 25th.
14:06Let's take a look.
14:07Nostalgia pays.
14:10Oh, God, I'm burning up in this wig.
14:13If my boobs were just a bit bigger, I could be dolly.
14:16You're a blonde?
14:18Oh, boy, am I.
14:20All right.
14:21Put your hands together for Miss Patsy and the Greatest Hits.
14:26I hope you sing as good as you look.
14:28Please welcome back to the show.
14:29I bring Kate Hudson, everybody!
14:36Hello!
14:37How are you?
14:38I'm so good.
14:39Congratulations on the film.
14:40Congratulations on your Golden Globe nomination.
14:43It's very exciting.
14:45It's very...
14:46Also, I always love the timing of the Golden Globe nominations,
14:48because we all find out about them before any of us can see the movie.
14:51I know, right?
14:52Yeah.
14:53I'm like...
14:54I'm like...
14:55I'm like...
14:56I'm like...
14:57I'm like...
14:58I'm like...
14:59I'm like...
15:00I'm like...
15:01I'm like...
15:02I'm like...
15:03I'm like...
15:04I'm like...
15:05I'm like...
15:06So, it's very...
15:07You're like...
15:08Oh, my God.
15:09It's already a big hit.
15:10I know.
15:11I can't wait for this movie to come out.
15:12This is...
15:13I mean, it is a beautiful film.
15:14And I did not realize over the course of watching it that it is based on a true story.
15:18Yeah.
15:19I mean, it's a true story about a couple who plays a Neil...
15:23Or who is a Neil Diamond tribute band.
15:25Yep.
15:26And the things that happened to them in their life are, like, literally unbelievable.
15:32And it was a blast.
15:34I mean, it was...
15:35And it's emotional.
15:36It's very...
15:37I would say...
15:38I believe the term is tear-jerker.
15:39Yeah.
15:40It's a tear-jerker.
15:41Let's not hide from what...
15:42No, no.
15:43What's gonna get...
15:44Something's gonna get jerked.
15:45Well...
15:46Yes.
15:47I'm just letting people know it's tears.
15:50Did you...
15:51That's good.
15:52Yeah.
15:53But, I mean, this is...
15:54You're playing someone...
15:55It's a challenging role as well.
15:56Yeah.
15:57I have a dream as an actor.
15:58Yeah.
15:59You know, for everything you'd ever want to do in one movie, this sort of provided that
16:04in Claire.
16:05I play Claire, and she falls in love with Mike Sardina, who is a just struggling singer-artist.
16:16And they decide to form this band, but they really fall in love through music.
16:21And it's just a heart-wrenching love story.
16:24But it also is fun and inspirational and has all...
16:27And Hugh Jackman is a lot of fun to be around.
16:29He's the best.
16:30He's the kind of...
16:31He genuinely is, yeah.
16:32He's...
16:33Honestly, like, everything you think Hugh is, he is and more.
16:39I have one issue being around Hugh Jackman.
16:41He feels like...
16:42He has so much energy that I feel lazy.
16:44Really?
16:45Don't you...
16:46You don't like...
16:47I don't...
16:48I've never...
16:49Like, again, I have been around him, like, all the time.
16:50But I don't...
16:51It's hard to imagine Hugh being, like, tired.
16:52Do you want to know what Hugh would say right now?
16:54What's that?
16:55He would say, I have more energy than Hugh.
16:56Really?
16:57Yeah.
16:58He says that about me.
16:59Wow.
17:00Because I'm, like, the Energizer Bunny.
17:01Yeah.
17:02Like, I could pull an all-nighter and have, like, 30 minutes of sleep and then just be like,
17:07let's...
17:08Have you always...
17:09Have you always had that?
17:10Always.
17:11Yeah.
17:12Always.
17:13Yeah.
17:14He is similar.
17:15And I think he also just loves life.
17:17And he loves to entertain.
17:19He loves to sing.
17:20He loves...
17:21And, like, nobody connects more than Hugh.
17:23Yeah.
17:24No, it's crazy.
17:25But he would know everybody's name here at the end of this if he spent an hour.
17:29Yeah.
17:30He just, like...
17:31Without asking.
17:32He just also has, like, crazy...
17:34He's also an incredible mentalist.
17:36It's actually very unsettling when you spend time with him.
17:39He's like, how's your family?
17:40And you're like, I didn't tell you about my family.
17:42By the way, we met this mentalist today.
17:45You did?
17:46Who...
17:47The one who on Howard Stern...
17:49Uh-huh.
17:50Like, did you see that?
17:51No.
17:52With Howard Stern and his wife, he basically discovered...
17:55Howard, they had a word that if he died, that that would be the word of him basically saying, like, I'm here with you.
18:02Oh, got it.
18:03To Beth, his wife.
18:04That's his ghost word.
18:05Right.
18:06Yeah.
18:07It's his ghost word.
18:08And the mental...
18:09The ghost word...
18:10Do we want to give it up?
18:11Should I spoil it?
18:12It's out there in the world.
18:13Well, this is...
18:14But I now...
18:15I do feel bad because now anyone here could die and then trick Howard's wife.
18:18But...
18:19But the ghost word was titties.
18:22Really?
18:23Yeah.
18:24And he guessed it.
18:25I don't know.
18:26Like, if it's Howard, that would have been, like...
18:29It wouldn't have been my first.
18:30It would have been my third.
18:31Is that the mentalist you met?
18:34And then we met the mentalist and he got...
18:37He, Hugh, I can't even explain it, said the same word that I was thinking.
18:42I wrote down a word.
18:43It's the most random thing on the planet.
18:46And we said the same word at the same time.
18:49You and the mentalist.
18:50It was nuts.
18:51Can I just say something?
18:52I'm both really impressed by mentalists and I do not find them entertaining at all.
18:56Like, you know what I mean?
18:57I'm blown away and I'm, like, really glad.
18:58But, like, I'm not, like, when somebody's like, oh, my God, you got to come to our party.
19:01There's a mentalist there.
19:02I'm like, well, that's, like, if you were like, there's werewolves.
19:05Like, I'm so scared by somebody who can do that.
19:09I don't find it, like, a nice settling evening out.
19:11Yeah.
19:12No, it's definitely of another world.
19:14Yeah.
19:15You're like, that's unsettling.
19:17It'll get me as far away from this party.
19:19I like that they have, like, alien powers and they came to Earth and they're like, what
19:22do we do now?
19:23They're like, parties.
19:26You're gonna do mostly parties.
19:28And they're like, oh, all right.
19:30No, I had a roommate in college who always claimed, like, if you were ever trying to decide,
19:35like, what to play at a party, he would just say, like, put on Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits.
19:38Like, I guarantee, like, it's the best vibe.
19:40And did you?
19:41Did you really?
19:42That's so cute.
19:43We listened to so much Neil Diamond's Greatest Hits.
19:46And it was a thing where, like, I feel like even if you don't, in your head, if you don't
19:49think you're a Neil Diamond fan, I think you're surprised to know that you are aware of, like,
19:53the lyrics to 20 songs.
19:54It's so weird because when I signed on to do this movie, I only really knew a couple
19:59Neil Diamond songs.
20:00Yeah.
20:01Like, Sweet Caroline and then, and, and, and Girl.
20:04And Girl, Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon because it's cult fiction.
20:07And then, and then when I looked at his catalog, it's unbelievable.
20:10Yeah.
20:11I couldn't believe it.
20:12And then songs that you didn't even know he wrote, like Red, Red Wine.
20:15Yeah.
20:16I'm a Believer.
20:17Amazing.
20:18Yeah.
20:19And you got to hang out with Neil Diamond as well.
20:20I did.
20:21How was your hang?
20:22It was great.
20:23I invited myself to his house.
20:24That's great.
20:25This is...
20:26He has no, he did not know you were coming.
20:27He's upset you're there.
20:28No.
20:29He was like, this is weird.
20:30He was like, this is a weird time.
20:32No, I heard he'd seen the movie.
20:34He loved it.
20:35He got very emotional.
20:36So I said, can I go to his house?
20:38Because I grew up in Colorado 10 minutes from him.
20:41Oh, wow.
20:42For like 35 years, have never met him, anybody in his family.
20:45It's a small town.
20:46Yeah.
20:47So it was kind of weird.
20:48But I went over there and we sat on the porch and drank lemonade.
20:51And then I sent that picture to Hugh and to our director Craig.
20:55And then Hugh just called me.
20:56He's like, I want to go to Colorado.
20:58Yeah.
20:59And I was like, you are?
21:00He's like, yeah.
21:01And then he called me like an hour later and was like, I'm going.
21:05I'm going.
21:06And he ended up like sleeping over there and like had a full slumber party.
21:10And they sang karaoke.
21:12I kind of like...
21:13Do you feel like if either of you tried to go back, there would maybe be like a restraining
21:17order filed?
21:18Probably.
21:19I'm like...
21:20Like when you land, the cops are like, so it's 100 yards.
21:24I'm like there for Christmas.
21:26They're like, um...
21:27Can I ask you?
21:2810 minutes away, you never wanted to like trick or treat at Neil Diamond's house?
21:32Like what?
21:33No, I didn't even know.
21:34I didn't know he was there.
21:35Okay, gotcha.
21:36Yeah.
21:37I mean, I knew he was...
21:38I knew he was a Colorado guy.
21:40Yeah.
21:41And that they had spent a lot of time there.
21:42But no, I'd never...
21:43It was so weird.
21:44It's very...
21:45I'm very excited that like with the life you've led, you had this like thing...
21:48Like a late in life meeting with Neil Diamond.
21:50I think that's a real...
21:51I know.
21:52Yeah, just when you think like, I've done it all.
21:53And that's like, nope, not even close.
21:56No, you are going to know and love the whole Neil Diamond family.
21:59That's fantastic.
22:00I've got a lot more questions about your family.
22:02We'll be right back with Kate Hudson.
22:18Welcome back.
22:19We're here with Kate Hudson.
22:20We talked about how it's an emotional film.
22:22Yeah.
22:23Your family, you're very close with your family.
22:25Yes, very close.
22:26Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, have they seen it?
22:28They've...
22:29Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have seen it.
22:30And what was their reaction?
22:31I want to call them that now, just forever.
22:33Yeah.
22:34When they requested that I say their full name.
22:36You have to say their full name.
22:37Yeah.
22:38They said...
22:39They allowed you...
22:40You can say Kurt and Goldie, but they made it very clear I am to say.
22:42Yeah.
22:43They, like everybody else, like it...
22:44They got really emotional.
22:45Yeah.
22:46It's one of those movies.
22:47And at different times.
22:48So, like, there's always a moment in this movie that gets people differently.
22:51Yeah.
22:52It's when they start to cry.
22:53Oh, that's nice.
22:54So they had different moments.
22:55Do you get emotional when you...
22:56I'm not...
22:57Do you get emotional watching your own work or are you just disconnected enough from...
23:01Yes, but not for the same reasons everyone else is getting emotional.
23:07Were you sort of like, why did they make me put that wig on?
23:10Not a wig.
23:11My hair.
23:12Oh, my God.
23:13Kate, I can't believe this can do that.
23:15I know.
23:16I would FaceTime.
23:17I know.
23:18That's really something.
23:19Oh, it was so much fun.
23:20It was a lot of 80s and 90s hair.
23:21So much hair.
23:22I mean, this is fantastic.
23:23Oh, look at that.
23:24I mean, by the way, credit to the incredible...
23:25I mean, you must have incredible hair.
23:26Johnny V is the best.
23:28Yeah.
23:29But I'd put my hair on.
23:30I'd FaceTime my kids.
23:31Yeah.
23:32And they were like, you can't FaceTime us with this hair.
23:35Yeah.
23:36Well, we talked about your seven-year-old has a lot of style notes for you.
23:39Oh, yeah.
23:40She had a hard time with this hair.
23:41Yeah.
23:42How did she feel about, like, the sequining?
23:43Because, like, it was really...
23:44I mean, this is a very sequiny movie.
23:46Yeah.
23:47Well, she likes sequins, but she doesn't like anything puffy.
23:49Okay.
23:50So, like, the base of this would be problematic for Ronnie.
23:53Gotcha.
23:54Yeah.
23:55Yeah, she's very specific.
23:56Yeah.
23:57It's like having Anna Wintour in your house.
23:59I literally walk downstairs and she's like...
24:02Yeah.
24:03It's really funny to hear a seven-year-old be like,
24:05it's a bit puffy.
24:06Yeah.
24:07You look a bit puffy bump.
24:09This is very cool.
24:10There is a vinyl album of the songs.
24:12Yes.
24:13And you put out your own album last year.
24:15Yeah.
24:16Did that process of, like, you know, becoming a recording artist in your own right,
24:20was that helpful, making this film?
24:22It was, actually.
24:23Actually, because it's been now four years since I've been recording and being more serious about it.
24:29Then when we got in the recording studio, we really had to form the duets.
24:33Because Neil Diamond's music isn't... they're not duets.
24:35Right.
24:36Except for You Don't Bring Me Flowers, which we don't do in the movie.
24:39But, yeah, so we sort of had to get in there and mess around.
24:43And, you know, I felt good in there. I feel good in the studio now.
24:47That's fantastic.
24:48So it was really fun. It was nice for Hugh and I, too, to do that first.
24:50Yeah.
24:51Because we got to, like, record and then do a prerecord.
24:54And then once we were on set, we did a lot of it live.
24:57So then we were able to, you know, kind of mix it together, which was nice.
25:01And are all three of your kids, are they musically inclined?
25:04Yeah, it's like a band.
25:06Yeah.
25:07Yeah.
25:08I feel bad for our neighbors.
25:09Oh, really?
25:10That bad?
25:11It's just loud.
25:12Not bad, just loud.
25:13It's loud.
25:14Bing is a drummer.
25:15Okay.
25:16And he's been since he was a year old.
25:17Yeah.
25:18He's now 14.
25:19He's an incredible drummer.
25:20Yeah.
25:21I would say it is hard.
25:22Being a next-door neighbor of even the world's best drummer is a challenge.
25:26Oh, yeah.
25:27Yeah.
25:28You know what I mean?
25:29Like, yeah.
25:30Yeah, it's a lot.
25:31And then Ryder plays the guitar.
25:33They all sing.
25:34Ronnie just started piano.
25:35They're very musical.
25:36That's fantastic.
25:37I know.
25:38I love it.
25:39To have music as a companion is, like, the great life companion you could have, you know?
25:43That's really great.
25:44Do you have music?
25:45Do you like music?
25:46Do you play anything?
25:47I like music.
25:48Do you play anything?
25:49Do you sing?
25:50It's really bad.
25:51I don't.
25:52I sing really badly.
25:53And, you know, I just did.
25:54I went day drinking with Sabrina Carpenter.
25:56Oh, don't you then?
25:57No.
25:58What?
25:59No.
26:00What's wrong?
26:01No.
26:02What?
26:03You're supposed to go day drinking with me.
26:04Is this really?
26:05I have been.
26:06I feel like I need to audition for this.
26:07Is this really something?
26:08Like, are you really up for it, though?
26:09Oh, no.
26:10Oh, no.
26:11Oh, no.
26:12Oh, no.
26:13I am.
26:14Not only that, I think since you know a lot of the cast of Running Point.
26:18I do know a lot.
26:19Yeah.
26:20I think we should do it.
26:21You want, like, a group?
26:22Oh, yes.
26:23A group day drinking?
26:24Some of those people I can't trust at all.
26:26I know.
26:27We have a lot of the same friends that I've actually, like, unfilmed day drinking with them.
26:31And I did not care for it.
26:33I think I know which one you're talking about.
26:35I will say, like, I know I have a terrible singing voice.
26:38But then I got inebriated with Sabrina Carpenter, and I started singing along Christmas carols with her.
26:43And, man, oh, man, that's when you know the difference.
26:45You know that thing of, like, even your best shower voice?
26:48Oh, no.
26:49And then you hear, like, Sabrina, and you're like, oh.
26:52I cannot wait to see this.
26:54Has this already been out?
26:55This has already been out.
26:56But you've been busy.
26:57I've been a little busy.
26:59Oh, is it so fun?
27:01Was she a good partner to day drink with?
27:02She's, yeah.
27:03She's a dynamo.
27:04It was very fun.
27:05She seems like it.
27:06She's little but mighty.
27:07Yeah.
27:08Yeah.
27:09That's a really good way of describing her.
27:10Yeah.
27:11Like, I feel like she can throw down.
27:12Yeah.
27:13There was, um, no doubt about it.
27:15But I'm really...
27:16This is a fantastic audition that you're giving right now for it.
27:18Great, great.
27:19I'm in.
27:20I feel like it's gonna happen.
27:21This is very cool as well.
27:22Everybody here tonight in the audience is getting this on vinyl.
27:26Yay!
27:27Vinyl.
27:29Old school.
27:30As well as tickets.
27:31Tickets to see Song Song Lu with Golden Globe nominated.
27:36Cade Hudson, thank you so much for being back.
27:38It's so lovely to see you.
27:39You guys, Cade Hudson, everyone, Song Song Lu.
27:41We'll be right back with Odessa Azaya.
27:57We're on HBO as a very talented actress currently starring in HBO's I Love L.A.
28:08as well as Marty's Supreme, which is in theaters nationwide Christmas Day.
28:11Let's take a look.
28:12I know it's really not your problem, but I'm about to have a baby.
28:17Yeah.
28:18Look, I got no husband right now.
28:20I got no job.
28:21And this money would really, really help me.
28:23And, you know, let's be good people.
28:25You realize I got that dog for free.
28:27A pound, right?
28:28Well, that's kind of the wrong way to look at it.
28:31Oh, really?
28:33Yeah, really.
28:34How am I supposed to look at it?
28:35Yeah, because let's just say that I'm not calling about a dog.
28:38Let's say that I'm calling about your mother.
28:40And I'm a doctor and I got to perform emergency surgery on her.
28:43She's going to die.
28:44What are you going to do?
28:45Refuse the surgery because you got your mother for free?
28:47No, that's crazy.
28:48You're going to take the surgery because you love your mother.
28:50Well, then I guess you don't know anything about love.
28:53Please welcome to the show Odessa Azayan, everybody.
29:05I'm so happy you're here.
29:18Oh, my God. What the freak?
29:21Hey, guys.
29:22Ah.
29:25Congratulations on this big, wonderful movie.
29:28You had the New York...
29:29Thank you, Carol.
29:30...the New York premiere last night.
29:32How was it?
29:33It was horrifying.
29:34Yeah.
29:35Yeah, it was really scary.
29:37I've never experienced something like that before,
29:40especially a premiere or anything that I've gone to
29:43where anybody actually cared about me being there.
29:45Yeah.
29:46That was the first time.
29:47I would also imagine, because it's a very New York movie,
29:50I would assume the New York premiere people are even more excited.
29:53Oh, yeah. It was gnarly.
29:55It was horrifying.
29:57So, I've been to premieres before.
30:00Did they bring you up ahead of time?
30:02Like, hey, before you watch the movie, this is the cast.
30:03They sort of line you up for everybody to look at?
30:05Yeah, they brought us in.
30:06We weren't on the carpet.
30:07There was this one photographer who was screaming at me.
30:11Okay.
30:12She started screaming,
30:13She's not looking at me!
30:15I was like, I'm standing right here.
30:18I'm sorry. I don't know where to look.
30:20There's 90 of you.
30:22It was crazy. It was very intense.
30:24You've been doing this for a long time.
30:26You've been, you know, an actor for a long time.
30:28But this is a huge year with both Marty Supreme and I Love L.A.
30:31And then I heard...
30:32Crazy.
30:33I read that you actually didn't think
30:34that you had been booked for either of these parts.
30:37No.
30:38Like, based on your audition.
30:39Yeah.
30:40Was that...
30:41Are you hard on yourself?
30:42Like, did you just...
30:43No, no, no.
30:44It happens sometimes where you go in for something,
30:46and then they're like, hey, you didn't get it.
30:48You're like, okay.
30:49So both of them, I was told that I didn't get.
30:51And then, like, months later, for both projects,
30:54they were like, actually, can you come back in?
30:56I was like, yes.
30:57Really?
30:58I could come back in.
30:59So, like, two separate projects were like, we up.
31:02Oh, I mean, wait.
31:03We're allowed to curse on this?
31:04Go for it.
31:05No.
31:06Wait.
31:07Oh, my God!
31:09Oh, .
31:11I have a real...
31:12Thank you so much.
31:13Okay, bye, guys.
31:14Wait, hold on.
31:15And that's all I can...
31:16I've never felt more like I opened Pandora's box.
31:19Oh, .
31:20No one is happy to get the news.
31:22Yeah.
31:23It's so hard to hold it back sometimes.
31:26That's all right.
31:27Look, it's late at night.
31:28It's New York City.
31:29I give you full permission to, yeah, speak your truth.
31:33Thanks.
31:34you.
31:36Yeah.
31:37Wait, so when...
31:39I know you, you know, a lot of times, actors,
31:41especially now, especially, like, post-COVID,
31:43even more so, like, have to, like, self-tape.
31:45Yeah.
31:46Which means you film yourself.
31:47And is it true for Marty Supreme?
31:49You just, like, you were in...
31:50You were overseas.
31:51Where were you?
31:52I was in Budapest filming until dawn.
31:54Okay.
31:55And we were doing night shoots,
31:56so there was barely any time for anything.
31:58And I found out that I could send in a tape for Marty Supreme.
32:02So I went in.
32:03Every chance I got, found a phone...
32:05Not a phone booth.
32:06Okay.
32:07Yes, a phone booth, like, right next to the hotel.
32:10So, like, the phone booth in the clip.
32:11You literally found, like...
32:12Yeah, I found a real phone booth.
32:14And in the middle of the night, we're on night four
32:17of doing it over and over again.
32:19And finally, we're done.
32:20And this woman, I hear this voice coming from above.
32:25And she's like, hi, I'm so sorry.
32:28I appreciate the artistic expression.
32:30It's 3 o'clock in the morning.
32:32Please shut the up.
32:34Oh, my God! My earring fell out!
32:35Oh, my God!
32:36That didn't happen!
32:38Oh, my God.
32:39Everyone closed your eyes.
32:40Are you closing your eyes?
32:42Are you closing your eyes?
32:43That's that woman cursed you.
32:44God, I knew it!
32:46If you continue to self-tape, one day an earring will fall off.
32:50An earring can come out on live television.
32:52But she was like, please.
32:54She was so kind.
32:55And I was so happy because it was the last tape.
32:57Had she heard you do it night after night
33:00at the same phone booth?
33:01Probably.
33:02Yeah.
33:03She was over it.
33:04It's like, it's the fourth night, guys.
33:05She was well within her rights.
33:07Yeah, oh, yeah.
33:08She was within her...
33:09Yeah, it was very nice.
33:10How did you feel?
33:11You know, you shot this in New York City?
33:13Yeah.
33:14Lower East Side? Is that...?
33:15We kind of shot all over the place.
33:16East Village, yeah.
33:17Yeah.
33:18Chelsea Stewart Park.
33:19We went everywhere.
33:20How did you enjoy filming in New York City?
33:23It was awesome.
33:24It was...
33:25It's not my first time filming in the city.
33:27I did...
33:28You guys remember I did this show called Grand Army?
33:30Hey!
33:33There we go.
33:34But we shot...
33:36It took place in New York, but we shot in Toronto,
33:39and then we did exteriors in New York.
33:40Got it.
33:41And this experience was different.
33:43Yeah.
33:44Because there were some high profiles on the movie,
33:46so that was really scary.
33:47Yeah.
33:48It's also 1950s, so it's like a period drama.
33:52Oh, my God. It was incredible.
33:54They shut...
33:55They didn't really...
33:56They couldn't really shut the street down,
33:57but they kind of shut the street down.
33:58Yeah.
33:59And dressed it down to 1952, and it looked...
34:02It was the coolest thing ever.
34:04It was right by Catstall.
34:05It was amazing.
34:06And it's a very kinetic film.
34:08There's a lot of running around.
34:09It's a crazy movie.
34:10Very high energy.
34:11Don't drink coffee before you go watch it,
34:13because you might explode.
34:14Yeah.
34:15I mean, I should have known what to expect,
34:17but it is really something else.
34:20It's gnarly.
34:21Yeah.
34:22Yeah.
34:23I mean, it's very white-knuckle.
34:24For a movie that they lead you to believe is about ping-pong.
34:28Yeah!
34:29What's that about?
34:30Are you worried ping-pong enthusiasts
34:32are just going to want to talk to you all the time now?
34:34No.
34:35That's good.
34:36I don't know anything about ping-pong.
34:39I think it's good.
34:40I know that they would be mad if I called it...
34:43Hey, it's not ping-pong.
34:44Table tennis.
34:46Nice save.
34:47Thank you so much.
34:48You're very welcome.
34:49I got us.
34:50I mean, if you got you, I think I might still be in trouble.
34:53You worked at a pet shop in the film.
34:55Yes!
34:56There were some...
34:57By the way, the craziest pets.
34:58Oh, my God.
34:59There was an armadillo.
35:01There were prairie dogs in the cage in front of us.
35:04So, I guess, like, in the 50s, you could buy an armadillo?
35:06That's what I was thinking.
35:07I'm like, well, clearly, I already knew it was true,
35:10but I really was born at the wrong time,
35:12because you could just buy an armadillo.
35:14You are covetous of that?
35:16I feel like I shouldn't say that, though.
35:18Buying animals.
35:19We don't do that, right, guys?
35:20Yeah.
35:21No, we don't buy animals.
35:22You go to pet stores and you say,
35:24would you like to move in with me?
35:25I'm like, hey, I got a home for you.
35:28I got a litter box.
35:30I got everything you need.
35:31I got cuddles, too.
35:33The armadillo is like, let me go.
35:36I'm like, no.
35:38Yeah, no, the armadillo is awesome.
35:39It was very fascinating to see a practical armadillo.
35:42Like, I would imagine in the...
35:43It was a practical one.
35:44Yeah, it was a real armadillo.
35:46They didn't avatar the armadillo.
35:48It was an avatar.
35:49Yeah, no, it was not animated.
35:50It was really cool.
35:51Yeah.
35:52Did you...
35:53I can't remember from the scene.
35:54Did you touch the armadillo?
35:55I held that, girl.
35:56Wow.
35:57I held her in my hands.
35:59Wow.
36:00She was...
36:01And armadillos mean so much to me for some reason.
36:03I don't know why.
36:04I think just growing up armadillos were always like a family thing.
36:07Okay.
36:08One of those animals.
36:09Armadillos and walruses.
36:10Interesting.
36:11Just those two.
36:12Gotcha.
36:13You know?
36:14And it was so hard on the outside and, like, really hard spurs.
36:19Like, hard hairs.
36:20Kind of like horse hairs.
36:22Maybe harder on the inside.
36:24And it wouldn't come out of its shell unless I tickled its nose.
36:27Really?
36:28Really, really cute.
36:29What an amazing experience to have in a movie about table tennis.
36:32Yeah, right?
36:33I know.
36:34It was the perfect atmosphere for me because, during COVID, I kind of, like, called myself
36:38a foster mom.
36:39And I fostered, I think it was like 15 animals or something.
36:42Did you really?
36:43Good for you.
36:44Yeah, I did.
36:45It was like, um, I had...
36:46Okay, guys, buckle up.
36:47Okay.
36:48Two dogs, three cats, three tortoises, an iguana, bearded dragon, two snakes, three bunnies,
36:55two ferrets.
36:56Um, 17 chinchillas.
36:58No, I'm kidding.
36:59It ends there.
37:00And they all, like, did you have...
37:03What was the most you had at one time?
37:04It's why I had no money in my bank account.
37:06Yeah.
37:07It was COVID and I wasn't working.
37:08It was the dumbest thing I could have possibly done.
37:10Yeah.
37:11But every animal that needed a home, I was like, please.
37:13That's fantastic.
37:14And I loved them so much.
37:15I wanted to be a zoologist when I was younger.
37:17Didn't happen.
37:18Yeah.
37:19I'll still get my license one day.
37:20Yeah.
37:21You know what?
37:22We're glad that you're taking the time to entertain us first before you move on to zoology.
37:25Yeah.
37:26You know, this is it.
37:27This is it.
37:28The high-profile people in this film.
37:30It's a great cast.
37:31Crazy.
37:32I was delighted to see Fran Drescher is so good in this movie.
37:35Oh, my God.
37:36What was it like working with the great Fran Drescher?
37:38She was...
37:39You know, we only had one day together, and it happened to be the very last day of filming.
37:44If you don't know, which I feel like you know, what does that thing say?
37:48Oh, I'm reading.
37:49Sorry, I'm reading the cue cards.
37:50I'm reading the cue cards.
37:51I'm reading the cue cards.
37:54There's a cue card that says, don't...
37:55I am ADHD.
37:56It says, don't look.
37:57I'm like, oh, I'm thinking...
37:59Yeah, it was the very last day of filming.
38:01If you don't know, Fran Drescher.
38:05Yeah.
38:06Sorry.
38:08Don't bring me on these things.
38:10I just like that people are watching.
38:12They're like, I knew this whole interview was scripted.
38:15Okay, so she's the president of SAG, or she was while we were filming.
38:20The Screen Actors Guild, yeah.
38:21Yes, the Screen Actors Guild.
38:22Our girl, you know?
38:24Yeah.
38:25She does everything for us.
38:26It was an honor to be working with her, to be in her presence.
38:29She's amazing.
38:30In real life, she's like just as much of a goddess.
38:33And so we have rules in SAG.
38:37You can't work past, I don't know, what is it, like 14 hours or something?
38:40Yeah, that's...
38:41No, no.
38:42We were on hour 23.
38:45With the president of basically the union.
38:47With the president of SAG.
38:49And she's like, Josh, I have a 10 p.m. out.
38:52I can't stay here.
38:54It's 10.
38:55I got to go home and walk and drive pumpkin at 10 o'clock p.m.
39:00I'm like, Josh, the president of SAG.
39:04Yeah, no, that was not good for me.
39:06It was the last day. What were we going to do?
39:07We had to finish the movie.
39:08You got to get it on the last day.
39:09And by the way, one, I love that she stands up for actors.
39:12Two, I love watching her act.
39:13And three, you know what, it all worked out.
39:16I hope so, you know?
39:18Yeah.
39:19You guys haven't seen it yet.
39:20You could hate it.
39:21I don't think they will.
39:22I don't think they will.
39:24I loved having you here.
39:25I really appreciate it.
39:26Wait, can we take a...
39:27Guys, can I take a picture of you guys?
39:29Yeah.
39:30Okay.
39:33It's a wide lens!
39:35It'll work.
39:36Okay, come here.
39:41Wait, my flash is...
39:42Whatever.
39:43It's...
39:44We're pretty well lit, all things considered.
39:46I guess a little bit.
39:47Odessa Zion, everybody!
39:52Bye!
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40:37Wait, let me stay with you.
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