00:00Hi, I'm Jean Smart.
00:01And I'm Hannah Einbinder.
00:02And we're doing the New Yorker Mini Interview.
00:07Put some sauce on it.
00:09So, shall I begin?
00:11Please, first of all.
00:14Small.
00:17Good things come in small packages.
00:20Oh, who was your first celebrity crush?
00:23Jesse McCartney.
00:25I don't want another pretty face.
00:28I don't want just anyone to hold.
00:31I don't want my love to go to waste.
00:34I want you and your beautiful soul.
00:40Nice.
00:41Yeah.
00:43Yeah.
00:44Love that guy.
00:45I'm singing that to you, girl.
00:47Mine was Sal Mineo.
00:51Okay.
00:52The New Yorker famously loves facts.
00:55Can you tell us a little known fact about yourself?
01:02I don't have pierced ears.
01:05Virgin ears.
01:08Clip-ons.
01:09Yeah.
01:11Virgin earlobes.
01:12That's right.
01:14Yep.
01:16Pretty exciting.
01:17If God wanted a hole in our ears, what's your favorite word and your least favorite?
01:26Gosh, my favorite word has got to be chonis.
01:30It's a slang word popularized in, I would say, the 80s in California.
01:36It's a mixture of the word choice and the word bonus.
01:40Totally chonis.
01:42It's a great word.
01:44Love that shit.
01:45Rock and roll.
01:46That's your favorite?
01:47Yeah.
01:47What's your least favorite?
01:50Um, least favorite word.
01:53You know, I don't know if I have, I don't, I think words all have value and there's a time
01:59and place for all of them.
02:01I don't like the word pee.
02:04Huh.
02:04I still can't say I have to pee.
02:07What would you say instead?
02:09I have to go to the bathroom or I have to tinkle.
02:13I don't know.
02:13Not tinkle over pee.
02:16No, because pee always reminds me of like nasty little boys on the playground.
02:20That's what they would say.
02:21My parents didn't say that.
02:23Oh, as opposed to tinkle?
02:24When I was little, that's what my parents said.
02:26Aww, that's so cute.
02:28I want to see baby pictures of you.
02:30I looked like Winston Churchill.
02:34I did.
02:35That's not true.
02:35I was so scrawny and skinny and little when I was born that they just force fed me for
02:40like a year.
02:41Didn't they say, were you super tall when you were born?
02:43I was normal length, but I only weighed five pounds.
02:46Oh my God, Jean.
02:47I weighed 10.
02:47So I was like shriveled up and skinny and jaundiced.
02:50My mother said I looked like stale carrots.
02:52Like a baby carrot.
02:53Stale carrots.
02:54I remember that.
02:55And I was bald.
02:57Okay.
02:57So she doesn't like the word pee.
02:59It's just a pet pee.
03:02Okay.
03:04Okay.
03:05What's a book that everyone should read?
03:11Oh, well, I've always said that people should watch It's a Wonderful Life once a year.
03:19It's a nice reminder of certain things and also our town.
03:23But those, those aren't, those are plays.
03:26We're from TV.
03:27So.
03:28So.
03:28We like to watch stuff.
03:30We don't really.
03:31So what's the.
03:31Did you say?
03:31I know that's your guys' thing here.
03:34Our favorite book?
03:35What is a book that everyone should read?
03:39Well, one of my favorite books probably that I became obsessed about.
03:42I would read it even when I was like pumping gas at the gas station.
03:45I'd bring it with me.
03:46I'd read House of Sand and Fog.
03:49Oh, fabulous.
03:50Yeah.
03:51What song or album has been on repeat for you lately?
03:56I would say this song, I'm Afraid of Americans by David Bowie.
04:02Really good song.
04:03Rocks super freaking hard.
04:07Album on repeat?
04:09Maybe the album by the Blue Nile with the downtown lights on it.
04:15Pretty good album.
04:16If I knew how to put something on repeat, which I don't.
04:21I would maybe do Hall & Oates or Billy Joel.
04:27Oh, hell yeah.
04:27Oh, hell yeah.
04:29What's a go-to life hack for you?
04:33A life hack?
04:37I just learned how to peel boiled eggs really easily.
04:43Yeah.
04:43When you take them out of the boiling water, you immediately plunge them into an ice bath.
04:48Oh, yeah.
04:49And then the shells come off like that.
04:50Yeah.
04:50It's also a good way if you're making like a sort of a jammy like seven and a half minute
04:54egg to stop the cooking process.
04:57And it's trash.
04:58Yes.
04:58Oh, and those are really good.
05:00Yeah.
05:00Those are very good.
05:01And I like to make deviled eggs.
05:03We do.
05:03She makes a new devil egg.
05:05What era would you most like to live in?
05:08Ooh.
05:11Gosh.
05:12None of them are like awesome in terms of like rights.
05:17But I guess just aesthetically, I would say maybe the 70s due to it being extremely groovy.
05:26It also was probably the peak time in our country of movie making, of brilliant.
05:34Wow.
05:34Brilliant.
05:35Definitely.
05:36Everything was still about story and everybody wanted it to be better than the next.
05:42Because I made every movie.
05:43You can name 50 movies that were all time classic.
05:47Yeah.
05:47I think you got to say anything pre like 80s, right?
05:50Because the 80s, I think, was just kind of the beginning of the end of making money.
05:53Just about making money.
05:55Although I would like to live in the 40s just for the clothes and the hair.
05:58Fabulous.
05:58The music.
05:59Fabulous.
06:00The clothes, the hair and the music.
06:0130s, 40s, gorgeous.
06:02Yeah.
06:03Aesthetically, of course.
06:05Fabulous.
06:0650s also stun.
06:08You know, 60s.
06:0950s?
06:10The vibe only?
06:12Only an aesthetic.
06:15Yeah.
06:16The clothes and the cars and the architecture.
06:18Oh my god.
06:19You don't think?
06:20I'm just such a mad men head.
06:28Okay.
06:29What's the scariest thing you've ever done?
06:32Probably the one woman show I did last summer.
06:35Oh, I bet.
06:35Yeah.
06:36I bet.
06:36That was terrifying.
06:37Really gratifying, but terrifying.
06:41Okay.
06:42Look how cute this is.
06:44What's one thing you're working on learning this year?
06:47Hmm.
06:49One thing I'm working on learning this year is how to take time off or take time to recharge,
06:58not spread myself too thin.
07:01I'm trying to really protect the time that I need to recenter on this crazy ride we call life.
07:13Good answer.
07:14Good answer.
07:15I'm kind of trying to do the same too.
07:16Yeah.
07:16As my children tell me, Mom, you have to learn how to say no.
07:19That's right.
07:20That's right.
07:21That's right.
07:25What is something you've learned about yourself in the past year?
07:29Again, that I have enough brain cells left to memorize 90 minutes worth of material.
07:34That's so awesome.
07:34Oh my God.
07:36Seriously.
07:37I wasn't sure.
07:39Nailed it.
07:39Who makes you laugh the hardest?
07:43Of course you, dear.
07:45I wouldn't dream of saying anyone else.
07:49Be hearing about that all the way on the car ride home.
07:53I wouldn't, I wouldn't dare.
07:54Jean.
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