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00:05From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York, it's Late Night with Seth Meyers.
00:12Tonight, Lena Dunham, star of Mortal Kombat 2, actor Carl Urban.
00:18An all-new, closer look.
00:25And now, Seth Meyers.
00:28Good evening, everybody. I'm Seth Meyers.
00:30This is Late Night. We hope you're doing well.
00:32And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:34President Trump reposted a Daily Mail article in Truth Social yesterday
00:38that claims he is a cousin of Britain's King Charles and said,
00:42quote,
00:45Oh, yeah, buddy, we can tell.
00:49You're making Buckingham Palace look like a tasteful, split-level ranch house.
00:55President Trump hosted a state dinner last night
00:58at the White House for Britain's King Charles,
01:01and the dress code for the event was Whitey.
01:03Sorry, that says White Tie.
01:07White Tie.
01:14Snuck a Red Fox joke in.
01:17During last night's state dinner at the White House,
01:20King Charles gifted President Trump a gold bell
01:22from an old submarine called the HMS Trump.
01:25And what better gift for a guy who's way underwater?
01:31Cold joke.
01:33Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted yesterday
01:36for posting a photograph on social media of seashells
01:39that spelled out the numbers 86-47,
01:42which prosecutors claim was a threat against President Trump.
01:46Oh, come on, that's not a threat.
01:47That's something your mom has framed for the guest bathroom.
01:51The only way that's a threat to President Trump
01:54is if he has a shellfish allergy.
01:5786 just means to remove something.
01:59I worked at a lot of restaurants,
02:00and when the manager said 86 the salmon,
02:02nobody thought he meant assassinate the salmon.
02:06The salmon seem too much.
02:11President Trump said yesterday that Iran has asked the U.S.
02:14to lift a naval blockade at the Strait of Hormuz.
02:17Unfortunately, if there's one thing Trump can't do,
02:19it's open up water.
02:24New York City's first full-fledged casino
02:27opened yesterday in Queens
02:29and features more than 240 table games.
02:31Great news if you're from Queens
02:33and you love hitting on 16.
02:40That's about...
02:41Okay, believe it or not,
02:42that's what I thought the ceiling of your reaction would be.
02:47A sheep in Vermont recently gave birth
02:49to a batch of six lambs.
02:51Well, there might have been more,
02:53but the doctor fell asleep.
02:59Yeah, no, why?
03:04That's how bad this week has been.
03:06My writers are doing sheep counting jokes.
03:09And also that my writers think a doctor comes
03:15to deliver sheep.
03:17They're like, they hear a...
03:19Uh, uh, ooh.
03:23Nah, call the OB-GYN.
03:30S-O-B-G-Y-N.
03:33Cheap.
03:38Where are we?
03:41Canceled.
03:46You guys were like, you booed that joke too back,
03:48and then we're like, uh-oh, well, it gets worse.
03:52The makers of Coors Light announced today
03:54they will launch their first-ever zero-alcohol beer.
03:57So if you want the taste of Coors Light without getting drunk,
04:00you may already be drunk.
04:04A Florida woman was arrested recently
04:06after she allegedly snorted coo-
04:07Uh...
04:11A Florida woman was arrested recently
04:13after she allegedly snorted cocaine in an Uber,
04:15complained that the air-conditioning was too hot,
04:18and later attacked the driver,
04:20which in Florida still gets you four stars.
04:24I do know people who call it cocaine.
04:28But I appreciated that our audience might not,
04:31so I go...
04:34Coming to the party later?
04:35Are you going to have cocaine?
04:37And finally, today was singer Willie Nelson's
04:4093rd birthday.
04:41If you forgot, don't worry, so did he.
04:44Oh, yeah, it's my birthday.
04:46Oh, yeah.
04:50That was a monologue, everybody.
04:52Hey!
04:54Got a great show for you tonight.
04:57You know her from Girls Too Much
05:00as well as her films Tiny Furniture
05:02and Catherine A Called A Birdie.
05:04Her memoir, Fame Sick, debuted at number one
05:07on The New York Times bestsellers.
05:09Lina Dunham!
05:10Our friend Lina Dunham is back on the show.
05:13And you know him from The Lord of the Rings
05:16and Star Trek franchises,
05:17as well as his starring role as Billy Butcher
05:19on The Boys.
05:20He's starring in Mortal Kombat 2,
05:22which opens in theaters May 8th.
05:24Carl Urban is joining the show.
05:25I'm so excited for that.
05:28Before we get to all of that,
05:32I feel like I should...
05:34You know, it's not a bad Willie Nelson.
05:38Oh, my birthday.
05:40I forgot my birthday.
05:43It's pretty good.
05:44Was it the right time to do it?
05:46No.
05:47I'm just saying, like, let's just roll past
05:49what a good Willie Nelson did.
05:51Moving on.
05:52Donald Trump got roasted by King Charles
05:54over his $400 million golden ballroom,
05:56which Republicans are now insisting
05:58should be funded by taxpayers.
06:00For more on this, it's time for A Closer Look.
06:05Donald Trump desperately wants to be a king.
06:09We all know this.
06:10He loves pageantry and fanfare
06:12and putting his face and name on everything.
06:14His official store sells everything from Trump golf balls
06:17to Trump beer koozies to Trump pickleball paddles
06:19to Trump dog collars, which you can get in three sizes.
06:23Poodle, Doberman, and J.D. Vance.
06:25And now he's doing the same thing to official government documents.
06:31A series of U.S. passports with an image of President Trump
06:33on the inside cover will be issued this year
06:36as part of the nation's 250th anniversary.
06:38This is just another example of the president adding his name
06:41or image to government items.
06:44You may remember him adding his likeness
06:45to the National Park Pass right next to George Washington.
06:48And back in February, a large banner was hung
06:50outside the Justice Department with his face on it.
06:53Trump would be the first living president
06:54to have his image inside of a passport.
06:57The passport joins a growing list of things
06:59named after Trump just this term.
07:03We do have the rolling ledger of how Trump is doing
07:08compared to his predecessors in terms of naming things
07:11after himself.
07:12And everybody is at zero.
07:15And Trump is at 10.
07:18It's the only measure by which Trump is doing better
07:21than his predecessors.
07:22And we're only 15 months in.
07:24By the time his term is over, we're all going to live
07:25in the United States of Trump, take swims in the Gulf of Trump.
07:28And when you need to take a dump in a public park,
07:30instead of a port-a-john, you'll have to use
07:32a port-a-trump.
07:34And, by the way, who the hell wants
07:36Trump's scowling face on their passport?
07:39Based on how he's treated other countries,
07:41that thing is going to be like a Disney fast pass
07:43right to the cavity search line.
07:47I'm not great at accents, but here are some of the things
07:49you can expect to hear at airports across the world
07:52when they open this up.
07:53Mon Dieu!
07:55Cote en Himo!
07:57Ay, Dios mio!
08:00Take a look at this mug.
08:01That last one was Logan Airport in Boston.
08:06Now, if you're worried you're going to be stuck
08:08with Trump's face on your passport, there's good news.
08:10You only get this special edition in one place.
08:14They will be issued to citizens who apply in person
08:17at the Washington, D.C. Passport office.
08:19If you would rather get a standard passport,
08:21you can apply at any other office or online.
08:24So you better move fast, because lines are forming never.
08:29Look, I'm not saying people won't want this passport.
08:32I'm just saying I find it hard to believe there are many
08:34MAGA die-hards willing to drive all the way to D.C.
08:37just to get one.
08:37I mean, there are other ways to tell a customs agent
08:39you're a Trump fan.
08:40For example, when they ask what the purpose of your visit is,
08:43you can say, it's a good question, and people have been
08:45talking about it more and more.
08:47Am I going to see the sights, or am I visiting family?
08:50It's definitely something we're looking into, and you're going to be
08:52very surprised when you hear the answer.
08:53And then, you know, you'll get your second cavity surge.
08:57We already checked him, Dave.
08:59We'll check him again.
09:01The point is, Trump loves king stuff.
09:03He loves his face on documents.
09:05You can tell he's always happiest when he goes abroad,
09:07and other countries treat him like he's royalty.
09:09In South Korea, they gave him an actual golden crown.
09:12In Saudi Arabia, he was welcomed by an honor guard
09:15wielding golden swords.
09:16In Qatar, he was greeted by a parade of camels,
09:19although there was a brief international incident when one of those
09:21camels ended up in RFK Jr.'s fridge.
09:26Camel meat is actually very high in amino acids.
09:30It tastes almost as good as raccoons.
09:47And Trump clearly loves the royal treatment.
09:49We appreciate those camels.
09:51I haven't seen camels like that in a long time.
09:53What do you mean?
09:54You haven't seen camels like that in a long time?
09:59I haven't seen camels like that since the time my dad paid a
10:02stranger to take me to the circus.
10:05Oh, we had a time, Lefty and Me.
10:07I called him Lefty because about after 50 minutes with me, he left.
10:13So, Trump's trip last year to the U.K., the mother of all monarchies,
10:17should have been his peak, but it didn't go quite as planned
10:19because the U.K. is a free society, so he faced massive protests,
10:22both from people who projected an image of him with Jeffrey Epstein
10:26onto Windsor Castle and from horses, one of whom took a dump
10:30right in front of him.
10:37When Trump saw that, he was like, a camo would never.
10:42But this week, Trump got a redo for his royal visit when King Charles
10:45came to the U.S., and Trump pulled out all the stops,
10:48including some stops I didn't know existed.
10:50King Charles and Queen Camilla arriving to a red carpet welcome
10:54here at the White House.
10:55They were greeted with renditions of the British and U.S. national anthems
10:59when they landed at Joint Base Andrews.
11:01He and the queen are going to be honored at a rare state dinner
11:04here at the White House tonight, so lots of pomp and circumstance.
11:08Yesterday, the royals joined the president and the first lady
11:11for afternoon tea.
11:12They also toured the South Lawn to see the new White House beehive
11:16that is constructed in the shape of the White House.
11:20Wait, what? There's a beehive in the shape of the White House?
11:24So even the bees are getting a ballroom now?
11:28And let me just say, I, for one, don't care if the White House
11:31has a beehive.
11:32I just pray Trump doesn't do that thing he's doing with the ballroom
11:35of claiming every president before him wanted a beehive
11:37in the shape of a White House, but he's the only one
11:40who can get it done because he's the first president
11:42who is good at beehives.
11:45Because if he did, you know, it would sound like this.
11:47They've wanted a beehive.
11:48Yeah, we don't have a beehive.
11:50They've wanted a great beehive.
11:52And we're building, we're going to build the greatest beehive.
11:54Anywhere in the world, they've wanted a beehive at the White House.
11:58We're going to make and build a beehive.
12:02Actually, it would be pretty fun.
12:03I hope it happens. It's pretty fun.
12:05So the stakes were high.
12:06This trip was an effort to reset U.S.-U.K. relations,
12:09which had been rocky.
12:10Unfortunately, there were still some screw-ups.
12:12The District of Columbia is scrambling to fix a major mix-up
12:15after putting up Australian flags instead of British flags
12:19near the White House ahead of King Charles' U.S. visit.
12:2215 Australian flags were briefly included among more than 230
12:26Union Jack flags put on display to welcome King Charles.
12:29You'd think it would be an easy mistake to spot
12:31since the flags look different.
12:35These are national flags.
12:37You get just the one design.
12:41It's not like Major League Baseball,
12:43where you have alternate away flags.
12:45Speaking of, have you seen the new alternate uniform
12:48they're making the Mets wear?
12:49Clown suits.
12:52So the flag mishap was awkward,
12:54and things got even rockier when Trump cut in front of Camilla.
12:58Cut right in front of her while shaking hands
13:00with White House staff.
13:11He cut in front of her like they were in line for cake
13:14at a five-year-old's birthday party.
13:17Also, why would you cut in front of a guest
13:19to shake hands with people you see every day?
13:22Be like, if I introduce someone to come on this show,
13:25and then instead of getting up to say hi to them,
13:26I just ran to shake hands with cue card Wall-E.
13:30No one looks at a Wall-E before I do!
13:41Don't clap for Wall-E and ruin my vibe!
13:46But beneath all the pageantry and fanfare,
13:49there have been moments of tension.
13:51Trump's been lobbing insults at the U.K.
13:53for not coming to his rescue during the Iran War.
13:54He even claimed that without the U.S.,
13:57Europeans would all be speaking German.
13:58But Charles had a comeback premised on the fact
14:01that parts of North America were, of course,
14:02colonized by both England and France.
14:05You recently commented, Mr. President,
14:07that if it were not for the United States,
14:09European countries would be speaking German.
14:13Dare I say that if it wasn't for us,
14:15you'd be speaking French.
14:17Oh, man, when Trump heard that joke,
14:19I guarantee he fake laughed so hard
14:21because he definitely didn't get it.
14:24Very well said. What, though?
14:28And let me just say, can you imagine
14:30Donald Trump trying to speak French?
14:31He can barely speak English.
14:32In fact, there are times when he's speaking English,
14:35and it sounds like he's trying to speak French.
14:38Known or suspected gang members.
14:41The oranges.
14:42The oranges of the investigation.
14:46The beginnings.
14:46Saudi Arabia and Russia will be...
14:51Donald Trump's very, very large brain.
14:55This is me. I hear.
14:57Controlled by large earners.
14:59Unelected regulators and regulators.
15:02The earners and regulators.
15:05It's asbestos that Donald Trump has a very large brain, no?
15:10But Charles saved his best line for Trump's obsession
15:13with building a White House ballroom,
15:15which involves demolishing the East Wing.
15:17The King reverenced the War of 1812
15:19when British forces burned down the White House.
15:22I cannot help noticing the readjustments
15:26to the East Wing, Mr. President.
15:29Um, following your visit to Windsor Castle last year.
15:33And I'm sorry to say that we British, of course,
15:36made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment
15:40of the White House in 1814.
15:44Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
15:46Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
15:49Oh, Charles, your punchlines are like sex with Melania.
15:52I don't get it.
15:59But the timing of Charles' ballroom jab
16:01must be especially wounding for Trump,
16:03given that the entire Republican Party
16:05is now falling in lockstep behind Trump's ballroom demand
16:08after the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
16:11A lot of senators and representatives are now saying,
16:13this is why we need to get the ballroom back up and running.
16:16We got to build that ballroom as soon as possible.
16:18The ballroom will be a solution for this.
16:21Being more prepared means having a facility like this ballroom.
16:25This is one of the reasons why the president
16:27has been pushing to build this ballroom at the White House.
16:31The president is right about this,
16:32having the ballroom on the White House grounds.
16:35A ballroom is imperative.
16:38The American people elected...
16:40No! No!
16:45You forget that the American people elected Donald Trump
16:48to do three things.
16:49Build a golden ballroom,
16:51put his face on passports,
16:54and get on by a royal horse.
16:57You remember now.
16:59You remember now.
17:02How is this their biggest priority?
17:05Gas is at its highest point since the Iran War started,
17:08and a majority of Americans say
17:09their financial situation is getting worse,
17:11which is the highest ever in polling.
17:14And you think the thing that's going to solve our problems
17:16is a golden ballroom that no one else can use?
17:19The only way any of us will ever see the inside of that ballroom
17:21is if we find a Trump passport with, like, a golden ticket inside,
17:25and he gives you a tour like he's Willy Wonka.
17:28And this is the beehive.
17:29This is where we make the delicious honey for our chocolate bar.
17:32You want to meet the Oompa Loompas?
17:33Marco J.D., come out and sing.
17:38But at the very least,
17:40this dumb vanity project was supposed to be funded
17:43by private donations, not taxpayers.
17:45Well, you'll never guess what happened this week.
17:47Republicans changed their tune and said,
17:49we, we should pay for the ballroom that none of us asked for.
17:53A group of Senate Republicans is pushing to fund
17:55the construction of President Trump's
17:5790,000-square-foot ballroom using taxpayer money.
18:00The effort's being led by Senator and close Trump ally Lindsey Graham.
18:04We're going to introduce legislation
18:06that would authorize $400 million to be spent
18:10to secure the pre... to build the presidential ballroom.
18:15Underneath, there will be a lot of military stuff.
18:17There will be a Secret Service annex.
18:20The estimate is $332 million.
18:23We're going to do $400 million,
18:24because I think it's probably going to take more.
18:27Private donations can be used,
18:28but I think they should be used for buying China
18:31and stuff like that.
18:32They can use donations to buy China,
18:34because I ain't giving them mine.
18:36I need my China for my dinner parties,
18:39even though my Meemaw keeps telling me
18:40no one's ever going to come to my parties.
18:42Maybe they'd come if you'd stay in your room.
18:45Instead of traipsing around the dinner table
18:48with your nightgown half-open.
18:52Asking everybody if you want to open it up
18:54to see your military stuff.
18:59The old dust bucket.
19:04And now Republicans...
19:07No, it didn't go bright!
19:10And now Republicans are seriously trying to claim
19:13that this is actually a gift.
19:15The ballroom is a gift to the next president.
19:17The next time that we have a Democrat president
19:19and Democrats who are going to receptions
19:23and parties at the White House,
19:24they're going to love the big, beautiful ballroom
19:27that Donald Trump built for them and for the country.
19:30I mean, it's something that I think
19:32we can all look forward to and celebrate.
19:34No, we can't, because none of us can use it.
19:36Also, he's not going to leave it
19:38in a usable condition for a Democrat.
19:42He or his supporters are going to march in,
19:44smash all the windows, flip over the tables.
19:46The only invite Trump's going to make
19:48is to the horse he met in England.
19:51Tell him to do a couple of laps and do his worst.
19:55Americans are more pessimistic
19:56about their financial situations
19:58than they've ever been in the history of polling,
20:00but Trump doesn't care.
20:01There's one thing he can say he accomplished as president,
20:03putting his name and face on things.
20:05When it comes to everything else,
20:06it turns out his promises were emptier than his...
20:09A brain.
20:10This has been A Closer Look.
20:16We'll be right back with Lena Dunham, everybody!
20:23For more of Seth's Closer Looks,
20:25be sure to subscribe to Late Night on YouTube.
20:36Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-nominated actress,
20:39writer, and director.
20:40You know from her shows, Girls and Too Much,
20:42and her films, Tiny Furniture and Catherine Calverti.
20:45Her memoir, Fame Sick, debuted at number one
20:48on the New York Times bestseller list.
20:50It's available now wherever you buy your books.
20:51Please welcome back to the show my friend,
20:54Lena Dunham, everybody!
21:11Hello, friends!
21:12Hi, Sam!
21:13It is always so special.
21:14It's been a while since you've been here,
21:16but you were a guest first year on the show.
21:18I was a guest first week on the show.
21:20First week on the show.
21:21God love you.
21:22So, like, yeah, February at 14.
21:24February at 14,
21:25and there's something I've been holding onto since then
21:27that I was hoping we could talk about.
21:30It's your time.
21:30I want you to know I'm not mad at you.
21:32Oh, well.
21:33But I think it's better that we just put it out
21:35in the open now.
21:36Yeah, totally.
21:36And I'm glad we didn't do it backstage.
21:38Me too.
21:38You came back there and I thought,
21:39why do it with, like, no one around?
21:42We could do it with, like, everyone around.
21:43Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:46So, it was your first week doing the show.
21:48Yeah.
21:48And you had just left,
21:49obviously being head writer at SNL.
21:51I had, yeah.
21:52And you came up to visit, and I said,
21:55Seth, because you're my friend, I said,
21:56Seth, I'm having a lot of trouble with my monologue,
21:58and I'm trying to rewrite it,
21:59and do you think you could stay here
22:00for a couple minutes and help me?
22:01And you went, no.
22:05And then I looked.
22:06I wasn't upset at the time, but then I looked,
22:08and I was like, huh, a lot of really hard stuff
22:11happened to me over the last 10 years.
22:13It's in the book.
22:13I don't know if you read it yet.
22:15And maybe had my monologue gone better.
22:18Oh.
22:21Girls might still be on the air.
22:22Oh, my God.
22:23I might not have had some of these really trying times.
22:26I may not have had to have my uterus removed, Seth.
22:29So, you're thinking if I had helped,
22:31just not even written it, just helped a little bit,
22:34you'd still have your uterus.
22:36Yeah.
22:37You know what?
22:38I still have no regrets.
22:40I'm so sorry, Lena.
22:42Honestly, me neither.
22:43Honestly, me neither.
22:44Because I got to put it all into this story.
22:46It's a wonderful book.
22:48Congratulations.
22:48And I know these things can be very arduous undertakings.
22:55I think sometimes it's healthy to hear
22:57from somebody who's finished a book,
22:58which reads like, you know, again,
23:01we're lucky enough to know you.
23:02It reads the way you speak.
23:03It reads the way you have written over the years we've known you.
23:06And yet, of course, it is a slog to get these things out.
23:10So, you're proud of me.
23:11I'm proud of you.
23:12I'm very proud of you.
23:13And I don't want anybody to think it was easy.
23:15You know, it was interesting.
23:17I wrote it over eight and a half years.
23:18Yeah.
23:19My first book took me nine months,
23:20so I was a little bit under the impression
23:22that it would just kind of flow out.
23:24And then I wrote thousands of pages that no one will ever see
23:29that I will have to have burned along with my body.
23:32Did, like, your editor even see those?
23:34Or were there pages that you were like, not for anyone ever?
23:37My editor, Andy Ward, shout out, he had to read a lot.
23:40And he had to find a delicate way to be like,
23:42I know you're talking about your pain,
23:44and I know this is very real for you, but it's not good.
23:48Right.
23:49That must be hard to hear.
23:50Like, I know this hurt, but it is a snooze to read.
23:53That's sort of...
23:54He was like, you kind of...
23:55He's like, you know how you're, like,
23:56spending the whole book being like,
23:57I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy?
23:59You kind of sound crazy.
24:01That's a very good note from an editor.
24:03Yeah, it is. And he was right.
24:04I also, you know, I was obviously aware, like,
24:07from watching Girls and from knowing you,
24:09that you were young when this all began for you.
24:11But then, like, actually seeing it in print,
24:13because I was 27 when I started on SNL,
24:16but, like, I was entering a show that was, like, moving,
24:17and, like, I got to be a very small part of it,
24:19and it was still overwhelming.
24:20Whereas, you know, you, at this very young age,
24:22were you 26, 25 when Girls started?
24:24I was 23 when I wrote the pilot.
24:26And I was 24. It's okay, we can hold hands.
24:29Yeah, yeah, okay.
24:30I told you, I'm not mad at you.
24:32Yes, thank you. Now I know.
24:33Okay, good.
24:35I was 23 when I wrote the pilot,
24:3624 when we shot it, and then off we went.
24:40And it's so funny, because the thing about being that young
24:42is that you don't think you're young.
24:44Right.
24:45And now, when I meet a 24-year-old,
24:47I think you should still be in your mom's body.
24:49Yes.
24:49Like, it's not safe for you to walk around out here.
24:53It's so true.
24:54I also think, and, you know, it comes up in the book,
24:56like, I think one of the things about your success
24:59and the fact that, you know, you were speaking for a lot
25:01of 24-year-olds is people forgot how young you were, right?
25:05Like, you seemed, from the outside, you seemed like someone
25:07who was so capable that I think people sometimes forgot
25:11you were a young person when they talked about you.
25:13And you sort of, you know, you're very honest about it.
25:15Like, again, like, even when you were so successful
25:17and people would tell you, like, focus on what's good,
25:20it's so hard at any age to read negative thoughts about you
25:24that other people have.
25:24But when I think about somebody 24, 25, 26,
25:27having to go through that.
25:27It's hard to imagine. I still lived with my parents
25:29when I started making the show.
25:30Yeah.
25:31So anyone might have thought I was mature
25:33until they dropped me off at my childhood bedroom,
25:40which had, like, a mural of bunnies dancing.
25:43Like, it was a room for a baby.
25:45That is unbelievable.
25:47But 27 is so young. In guy years, 27 is 16.
25:50Yeah, it really is.
25:52That's wild.
25:52Yeah, no, that was, yeah.
25:54I don't think that, honestly, I love men,
25:55but I don't think they should be allowed out of the house
25:56until they're 32.
25:58No.
25:59It is not.
25:59I mean, by the way, 32.
26:01I think it's very...
26:03And when I'm president, no man will be allowed
26:06out of the house until they're 32.
26:08This is such an interesting presidential platform.
26:11I think it really has legs.
26:12I have a lot more questions about your wonderful book.
26:14We'll be right back with Lena after this.
26:35Welcome back.
26:36We're here with Lena Dunham.
26:38Everybody, you talk about...
26:39I was fascinated by the use of aliases to check into a hotel
26:43to make a restaurant reservation
26:44and the aliases you've used over the years.
26:46Yes, I listed them all in the book.
26:48I can't use those anymore.
26:50My...
26:50I mean, it wouldn't have occurred to me to use an alias,
26:53but someone told me, you should do this.
26:55And so, my first one was Lori Reynolds.
26:57Yeah.
26:57My mom's name is Lori and my grandma's last name is Reynolds.
26:59So, very nice. Pulled from your past.
27:01Pulled from my past.
27:02My second one was Ruth Stein.
27:04Uh-huh.
27:05Just because I feel that that's who I am inside.
27:08Right.
27:08I think, like, there's that thing, too.
27:10Like, when you check in, you want the name to be like...
27:13You don't want them to be like,
27:14this isn't who I thought.
27:15Yeah, you don't want to be like,
27:16I'm Anastasia Beverly Hills.
27:18Right, yeah.
27:19You want them to...
27:20You want them to believe you.
27:21Yes.
27:22And I feel I can be believed as a Ruth Stein.
27:23Yes. Lori Reynolds, check.
27:25Then I went for Rose O'Neil.
27:27Uh-huh.
27:27And she was the inventor of the Kewpie doll.
27:29Okay.
27:30And America's First Self-Made Female Millionaire.
27:32Wow, that's a good one.
27:33That's a nice...
27:35Until she wasted it all on drink and men.
27:38But before that, she was doing really well.
27:39Yep, yep.
27:40And then I went for Renata Halpern,
27:42which is pretty niche.
27:44It's the novelist in the Nick Nolte,
27:46Barbara Streisand film, The Prince of Tides.
27:49Oh, wow.
27:50So, and anyone who picks up on that, I go,
27:52okay, you see me.
27:54Yeah.
27:55But I think the mistake that people make
27:57is they have too much fun with it.
27:58Yeah, you just, like, they were simple,
28:00like, nice little tributes and...
28:02Little, simple, easy.
28:03So, if I were to check in under an alias,
28:06what do you think I could get away with?
28:13Something's coming to me.
28:14Okay.
28:17Bob Jefferson Schumacher.
28:21Bob Jefferson Schumacher.
28:25I'm not comfortable using three names.
28:29It has a dash.
28:30Okay.
28:31Oh, my last name is Jefferson Schumacher.
28:33Your last name is Jefferson Schumacher.
28:33Gotcha.
28:34My first name is not Bob Jefferson.
28:36No, your name is Robert.
28:38Yeah.
28:38You go by Bob.
28:39Jefferson Schumacher.
28:40I was, this whole time, I'm like,
28:41what was Nick Nolte's name in Prince of Tides?
28:43And I think, oh, I got it.
28:44Tom Wingo.
28:45Oh, my God.
28:46You're good.
28:46You're good.
28:47I'm so proud of myself.
28:48That was amazing.
28:49So proud of myself.
28:50That was beautiful.
28:51Well, one of the only people who recognized the alias
28:54was the woman who accepts packages at my P.O. box
28:58in Connecticut.
28:59Oh, my God.
28:59And she was like, what the heck is Renata Halpern
29:01doing getting old?
29:02I thought she was invented.
29:03Like, it was that kind of thing.
29:04Oh, wow.
29:04You got a real, like, Prince of Tides head.
29:06I got a real Prince of Tides head.
29:07And so then on this tour, I tried a new name,
29:11and everyone around me rejected it.
29:12Oh, interesting.
29:13Roundly rejected it.
29:14I got a little cocky, and I went, Barbara Bookmaker.
29:17Yeah.
29:19I mean, I think even...
29:20And this, obviously, you can tell this room is a huge...
29:22They're huge fans of yours, and we all collectively...
29:24So nice.
29:24Yeah.
29:25No, it was...
29:26It's no good.
29:26Everyone around me was like, you're on a book tour.
29:29Like, calm down.
29:30Yeah.
29:30You make one book, and you lose it completely.
29:33I mean, literally, the only thing that would be worse
29:35is Barbara Booktour.
29:38Well, that's what I'm switching it to.
29:40We talked about your dog last time you were here,
29:42and I have some shame because I...
29:44You know, my dog recently passed away, Frisbee.
29:46And I had to suffer through...
29:48I had to suffer through years of my dear friend Andy Samberg
29:50telling me that my dog was ugly,
29:52and I maybe was a little unkind to your dog.
29:55And so I just want to say, I am...
30:00I am having a hard time changing my tune.
30:06The only people who think that she's a literal supermodel,
30:11we feel that she is the Gisele Bundchen of dogs,
30:14are my husband and I.
30:15Yeah.
30:15Sometimes I wake up and I hear him going,
30:16you're a beautiful girl.
30:17You're such a beautiful girl.
30:19And he's...
30:19People say things about her in the street because...
30:22Yeah.
30:22It's...
30:22They say things or yelp things?
30:25They yelp things.
30:26They ask what she is.
30:27They ask if she's sick.
30:29They ask if she's sick.
30:30And he acts like she can speak English,
30:33and they're hurling abuses at a child.
30:35But, I mean, I find her gorgeous.
30:37This next picture is one of my favorites.
30:39Yeah.
30:39I mean, it's great, too, because the hat looks so natural.
30:41Yeah.
30:43No bosses, no boyfriends, Seth.
30:45She lives on her own time.
30:49This...
30:49Also, since the last time you were here,
30:52you've added some pets.
30:53Yes, I have.
30:54Now, I've heard about people who have pigs as pets
30:55that they're the most incredible animal in the world.
30:57They're incredible. They're mind-blowing.
30:58Here's a photo of yours.
30:59I guess right after they got into the cocaine?
31:05They broke into a yogurt parfait.
31:07Did they really?
31:08Yes, they broke into a yogurt parfait,
31:10and they were so proud of themselves.
31:11Yeah.
31:12The boy is Victor, and that's Cherry.
31:14Yeah.
31:15And if you wonder, they're not brother and sister.
31:18They're husband and wife.
31:19Oh, that's wonderful.
31:20Yeah.
31:20And is it everything that I've heard it is?
31:22Is it just the greatest animals in the world?
31:24They're the greatest animals in the world.
31:25They're brilliant.
31:26Yeah.
31:27They have incredible senses of humor.
31:29Yeah.
31:29I mean, by the way, they figured out how to get the parfait.
31:31They did.
31:32They cry sometimes when they hear music that they love.
31:36Really?
31:37Big, wobbly tears.
31:39His favorite singer is Lana Del Rey.
31:41Yeah.
31:42And she likes Mozart.
31:43Oh, my God.
31:45Yeah.
31:45What a lovely family you've put together.
31:48I feel really lucky.
31:49Yeah.
31:49And what favorite musician?
31:53Oh, this is easy.
31:55This is so easy.
31:57She's a brat girl.
31:59Very brat.
32:00You know that's a brat girl.
32:01That's a brat girl.
32:03Lina, don't be a stranger.
32:05You have to come back again very soon.
32:06Would you like me to sign your book?
32:07Um, okay.
32:08Okay.
32:08You guys.
32:12I only have pencil.
32:13That's a problem.
32:14That's all right.
32:14Okay, great. Here you go.
32:16Dear Seth.
32:17Yes.
32:17I'm not angry.
32:25I love you very much, but only as a friend.
32:36X, X. Lina.
32:38Lena Dunham.
32:40Name-zaken.
32:41Available now.
32:42Everybody might stick around.
32:43I'll be right back.
32:44We called her.
33:03Our next guest is a talented actor you know from the Lord of the Rings and Star Trek franchises Thor
33:09Ragnarok, as well as his work as Billy Butcher on the Prime video series The Boys.
33:13He stars as Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat 2, which opens in theaters May 8th.
33:18Let's take a look.
33:19Here I am.
33:22Rocked you like a hurricane.
33:27Here I am.
33:30Rocked you like a hurricane.
33:33Here I am.
33:37Rocked you like a hurricane.
33:39Rocked you like a hurricane.
33:42You sure brought more, guys.
33:44Please welcome to the show Carl Urban, everybody!
34:03I'm here, please. I'm so happy to have you here.
34:05I've been a fan for a long time.
34:07Well, thank you very much. It's really great to be here.
34:09And this is a very exciting project.
34:10This is an intense fan base for the Mortal Kombat world.
34:15Did you know when you got offered this part
34:16what you were stepping into?
34:18Oh, yeah, I did. And my sons made sure that I knew.
34:20When I told them that I was going to be Johnny Cage,
34:22they were like, oof, big fan base.
34:25Don't F it up.
34:26And you, by the way, not your first time
34:28at a big fan base show, but your kids wanted you to know
34:31this was a big deal. You had to feel a little bit good, though,
34:33when you knew that people wanted you to play this dude.
34:36Yeah, exactly. That is exactly what I went for, as well.
34:39Yeah. There were obviously a lot of physicality to the role.
34:44Yeah, huge physicality.
34:46Is that something? Do you show up early
34:48to start rehearsing for this sort of thing,
34:49or is it just sort of day one fighting and flipping?
34:52Oh, yeah. I mean, it really started three months before
34:54where I did a cast physical, and it was the most exhaustive
34:57physical that I've ever done in my life.
34:59And, you know, the doctor was taking all these bloods.
35:01They're checking my heart, my renal, and, like,
35:03renal function. I thought, oh, okay, this is serious.
35:06And he comes back and he goes, oh, you're all in pretty good shape.
35:08Your cholesterol's a little high.
35:09And I'm like, okay, I'll eat some salad.
35:12Can I go and do my movie now?
35:13Yeah. I like that he's like,
35:15your cholesterol's too high to play Johnny Cage.
35:17Yeah, you can. You're out. Okay, next.
35:20You have weapons in the film, as well.
35:22Yeah. They sent you home with weapons to practice?
35:25Huge mistake.
35:27I took the staff home, and I'm around.
35:29You know, we just had dinner cooked,
35:31and I'm sort of flipping this thing around.
35:33It went flying out of my hand and just destroyed dinner.
35:35It was not my finest moment, so don't try that at home.
35:39I like, like, it does seem like a complete flip
35:42with, like, the parenting dynamic in your house
35:43that, like, your kids are the ones being like,
35:45I don't know if you should do that.
35:46And then, like, you're the one flipping around
35:48a stick at dinner.
35:50Yeah, yeah. I still, like, I was gardening the other day,
35:54and I was raking some leaves, and at the end of the rake
35:56broke off, and I just thought, oh, yeah.
35:58Started flipping around, got caught doing that.
36:03It was embarrassing.
36:04So, Johnny will never leave you, it sounds like.
36:06Johnny's here to stay.
36:08So, finishing moves were a huge part of Mortal Kombat.
36:12So, Johnny had a thing where he would do a split
36:14and basically punch someone in a sensitive area.
36:17Yeah.
36:19Now, Carl, they didn't make you do a full split, did they?
36:23Well, yeah, they did.
36:24I do the splits in the movie.
36:27And how was this?
36:29Was these your legs doing a split?
36:32I know how TV and movies work.
36:34Sure, yeah.
36:35I mean, listen, it might have been a bit of a movie.
36:38Do you guys want to see me do the splits?
36:42Oh, my God.
36:43Well, that's a pity.
36:52They don't want to see it.
36:54But you know what?
36:56It's just a bit of a coincidence that I feel like
36:58that I'm my most flexible when my stunt double's around.
37:00Oh, right, right, right.
37:01When Gareth is around, I'm super flexible.
37:04Yeah, yeah, I do.
37:04I think we all need a stuntman in our lives,
37:06don't you think?
37:06I do. Oh, I love a stuntman in my life.
37:08I mean, I don't do anything close to a split,
37:11but I would love to have a stuntman.
37:12Imagine if you had an app that's going to say,
37:14oh, you know, at 3 o'clock this afternoon,
37:16when you're on your dog walk, you're going to have an accident
37:18in a ravine.
37:19You're like, oh, Gareth, you want to walk the dog this afternoon?
37:22Yeah.
37:235? No, can you make it 3?
37:25The worst is, when you were saying that,
37:27I realized all I want a stuntman for is, like,
37:29to read books to my kids at bedtime.
37:32I'm like, Gareth, you need to get in here
37:33and do Good Night, Moon. I can't do another one.
37:35I can't do it. I'm done.
37:35I can't do it again, Gareth.
37:38Congratulations, by the way, on The Boys in its final season.
37:44I mean, I'm somebody, I'll admit, you know, I love comics.
37:49I had read the source material.
37:51I remember when they were making it, I'm like,
37:52God, this seems like an impossible thing to adapt.
37:54And you guys have just, from top down,
37:56done such an incredible job adapting this.
37:58Billy Butcher is such an iconic character.
38:00Are you happy with the way it's all unfolding
38:02as you have your final few episodes here?
38:04Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, this has been a dream role.
38:07It's been a dream ride.
38:08And, you know, we can't wait to see how this lands,
38:10particularly episodes 7 and 8.
38:12Like, oof.
38:13But be prepared.
38:15There's a few big ones coming.
38:17It's really funny to hear that about a show like The Boys,
38:19which has had more big ones than I feel like most shows I've watched.
38:22So when you're saying, like, there's something you're not,
38:24it's going to really blow your mind, I'm like, another one?
38:27Oh, yeah. Yeah.
38:28That show really changed the landscape of how, I think,
38:33television is viewed and the things you can do on TV.
38:35Yeah.
38:36Yeah. It was scary.
38:38Sometimes, you know, picking up those scripts.
38:40It was a few eye-openers, to say the least.
38:43Yeah.
38:44I know, obviously, a lot of roles that you're recognized from.
38:48A lot of ones where people are surprised are like,
38:49oh, that's you, because, you know, sometimes hard to recognize.
38:52But is it true that Mortal Kombat's already helped you,
38:55you know, sort of open doors for you, playing Johnny Cage?
38:59Yeah. It's certainly, you know what, funny enough,
39:01like, the movie hasn't even come out.
39:03And I went to the U.S. consulate in Auckland to get my O-1 visa,
39:08and it was being processed, and the woman behind the desk said,
39:12oh, I'm sorry, the person who actually gives the final okay,
39:16like there's a final okay, is not at work
39:19and won't be at work till next week.
39:21When do you need it? I'm like, I'm leaving Sunday.
39:23And she goes, let me go ask my supervisor.
39:25So she went and got the supervisor.
39:27He came through and went, Carl Urban, Johnny Cage.
39:30Oh, come here. Let's go home.
39:33See ya.
39:35He's like, I'm going to give you two stamps.
39:36Right, yeah.
39:38Well, that's fantastic. And I'm glad, by the way,
39:40that you got here. And, man, such a pleasure to meet you.
39:43Congrats on The Boys and the new film.
39:46Thank you. Thank you so much.
39:47Thank you so much.
39:48Carl Urban, everybody.
39:49Mortal Kombat 2 in theaters May 8th.
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