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Presented by Lioness | Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman put their honesty to the test in Vanity Fair's Lie Detector Test. From their careers to their personal lives, the actresses answer revealing questions while hooked up to a polygraph. Who tells the truth—and who gets caught in a lie? Watch as Nicole and Zoe face some seriously revealing questions.
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00:00Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.
00:03You're so awesome.
00:04I love it. It's kind of sexy, too.
00:08Nicole. Yes?
00:09Zoe. Hi.
00:10We brought you here today to take a lie detector test.
00:13One of you will be hooked up to the machine, while the other will ask the questions.
00:17Okay.
00:17And then you'll switch.
00:19This is Herman, our polygraph operator.
00:22Hi, Herman.
00:23Hi, Herman.
00:24Hello.
00:24Who wants to be in the hot seat first?
00:27I'll do it.
00:28Wow.
00:29Do you want to do it first?
00:30Nope.
00:30Okay. Lots of no-brainer there.
00:36I'm so scared.
00:40Woo!
00:41Zoe.
00:42Hi.
00:43To calibrate the machine, I'm going to ask you some straightforward questions.
00:49Please answer honestly.
00:52I'm trying.
00:55Was that intimidating?
00:57Um, no.
00:59Could you please give us your full name?
01:01Um, Zoe Yadira Saldaña Nazario.
01:05Mm.
01:05Were you born in New Jersey?
01:07I was born in New Jersey.
01:08Are you nervous?
01:10No.
01:12You should be.
01:13Yeah.
01:15For a minute, are we good to go?
01:16We are calibrated.
01:18All right.
01:18Let's get started.
01:21You start in the beloved film, Crossroads.
01:25Aw.
01:26Where your character goes on a road trip with her best friends.
01:30Be honest.
01:30These days.
01:32Do you ever actually drive yourself?
01:35I do.
01:36You do?
01:37I do.
01:38Okay.
01:39Did you drive yourself here today?
01:41I did not.
01:42Huh.
01:43Okay.
01:44Does that mean you use Uber?
01:46I have.
01:47Before, yeah.
01:50You've never had a chauffeur?
01:52Uh, no.
01:54Hmm.
01:54Really?
01:55Yeah.
01:55Really?
01:56Yeah.
01:58We know the answer to that.
02:00Yeah.
02:00Yeah.
02:01Remember.
02:02Tell the whole truth.
02:03Nothing but the truth.
02:05You got it.
02:06Have you ever broken down on the side of a road?
02:10Um, yes.
02:13Yes.
02:14Okay.
02:15Did you have to, um, perform karaoke to fix your car?
02:24No.
02:26No.
02:27No.
02:28No.
02:29Never?
02:30Never.
02:31To fix my car, no.
02:33Truthful.
02:35So, here we have one.
02:37It's about your mother.
02:38Are you willing to answer questions about your mother?
02:41Yeah, that depends.
02:44But, yeah, let's try it.
02:46Well, let's try.
02:46Yeah.
02:47Mm-hmm.
02:48Your mother once confused you with this person, Tandy Newton.
02:53Yes.
02:54Have you ever confused yourself with Tandy Newton?
03:00No.
03:01I promise you, no, no.
03:07Do you see the resemblance?
03:09I do.
03:09Please take a closer look.
03:12I do see the resemblance.
03:14Am I telling the truth?
03:15You do see the resemblance, yes.
03:16I do.
03:17You're just going along with what?
03:18Are you sure that thing's working, Barbara?
03:20Oh, um.
03:20You just seem to say yes to whatever she says.
03:22She's seduced you.
03:23She's telling the truth.
03:24Come back on the lie detector test, please.
03:27I can't wait when it's your turn.
03:29Are you flatted by the comparison?
03:32I am.
03:33I actually know you, Bob.
03:34Oh.
03:34You don't look anything alike.
03:38Does your mother often forget what you look like?
03:43Apparently.
03:44It's a funny, funny story.
03:46She calls me up one day to tell me,
03:49Zoe, I just drove by and I saw the poster of your new movie.
03:53You look amazing.
03:54But I don't remember you doing a movie called Traffic.
04:00And I told her mom that's because I'm not in traffic.
04:04That's Tandy Newton.
04:05She totally hung up on me.
04:07She was so embarrassed.
04:08She felt so sad.
04:10I thought it was a trip.
04:12That's a trip.
04:13You starred in three Star Trek films.
04:16Yes.
04:16But you once said that you didn't know that much about Star Trek trivia.
04:20Is that still true?
04:22Yeah.
04:23I don't know that much about Star Trek.
04:27She's very comfortable with that answer.
04:29Can we test you?
04:30Sure.
04:32Today is a good day to die is the most famous Klingon phrase.
04:36Do you remember how to say it?
04:38No.
04:40Okay.
04:41Is it true that your mother, back to your mother,
04:44we have an obsession with your mother right now?
04:48I love it.
04:48Is it true that your mother is a huge Star Trek fan
04:52and gave you advice on how to play the role?
04:54She was.
04:55She was a fan.
04:56She used to watch it as a little girl with her grandparents.
04:59Was it good advice that she gave you?
05:01Yes.
05:03Slight deception there.
05:04Oh.
05:05Oh.
05:06Oh.
05:07Did she give you good advice?
05:09Well, she shared with me her experience of watching it as a little girl.
05:13But did you take the advice?
05:17No.
05:18Because it wasn't advice.
05:19She shared with me just what it was like for her to watch it as a little girl.
05:23Well, therefore, we're dealing with you didn't think it was good advice.
05:27That's where we detect the slight lie.
05:29Oh, my God.
05:31Very good, Nicole.
05:31What are you doing, Caitlin?
05:33We're on to you.
05:33Get back to Nicole.
05:35I miss Nicole.
05:38In our show, Lioness, you play a CIA operative.
05:42Do you think that role has prepared you to defeat this lie detector machine?
05:47I would hope so.
05:52Okay.
05:53That was not the answer we were expecting.
05:56But, if yes, have you ever learned any specific tricks?
06:01Oh, you know, I feel confident when I am playing Joe.
06:06I feel confident holding weapons.
06:08But only when I'm playing Joe.
06:12Is that the truth?
06:14No, because we're really talking about the lie detector test.
06:17Oh, okay, lying.
06:18How do you know?
06:21About lying.
06:21Okay.
06:21So, if you are being held captive and forced to give up secrets, would you be able to hold
06:31those secrets under duress?
06:34Yes.
06:35Good.
06:35Okay.
06:36Good.
06:37Not quite sure.
06:38You believe you're telling the truth.
06:40That's very good.
06:41Have you ever cheated on a test?
06:44Um, no.
06:46Uh-oh.
06:47That is definitely a lie.
06:49It's deception.
06:50We don't even need the lie detector for that.
06:54Have you ever un-tipped a waiter?
06:58No.
06:59Under-tipped.
07:00Ah!
07:00Have you ever under-tipped a waiter?
07:04Uh, yes.
07:07Oh.
07:08And now do you compensate for that by over-tipping?
07:11Yes.
07:12Yeah.
07:12Good.
07:13Good girl.
07:14Have you ever pretended to like a movie your friend was in?
07:19Yes!
07:20Have you ever pretended to like one of your own movies that you weren't crazy about?
07:25Yes.
07:26Yes.
07:30Okay.
07:32Am I telling the truth?
07:33Truthful.
07:33Very truthful.
07:34Here we are.
07:34Here we are.
07:34No, we're going to go into it.
07:35Well, I love my friends.
07:37You met your husband on a flight, and he called you one of the best actors of your generation.
07:47Oh, that's sweet.
07:49Zoe, be honest.
07:51Does flattery always go far with you?
07:53No.
07:54Oh.
07:56Oh.
07:57Am I lying?
07:58Yeah, there's a sign of deception there.
08:01Really?
08:01Ask the question again.
08:02You like flattery.
08:02Okay, ask the question again.
08:04Does flattery always go far with you?
08:07No.
08:08Again, deception there.
08:10Damn it!
08:11Is it your main love language?
08:13I guess it is.
08:14I guess it is.
08:14I try, but that's it, guys.
08:16I can't lie.
08:17I can only tell.
08:18The words of affirmation?
08:19You like it.
08:20Okay.
08:21I love words of affirmation.
08:22Do you know all the love languages?
08:25I've heard of them, yes.
08:26What are they?
08:27Acts of service, words of affirmation.
08:30Yeah.
08:30Right?
08:31Yeah.
08:32Touch?
08:33Yes.
08:34You'd be big on touch.
08:36No.
08:37No.
08:39Quality time?
08:40No.
08:41Touch?
08:42No.
08:43I'm okay with that.
08:45And gifts?
08:47Nope.
08:47Wow.
08:49Am I telling the truth there?
08:50We got you covered.
08:51Marco, pay attention.
08:55Did you lie at any point during this detective test and we didn't catch you?
09:04No.
09:04Say yes.
09:05Say yes.
09:05Say yes.
09:08I did not.
09:10Okay.
09:11I don't believe you.
09:12I don't believe you either.
09:13I'm sorry.
09:14Yeah, but she's my god, so I'm telling you.
09:17Did I lie at any moment?
09:18She doesn't get her out of the seat.
09:20I've got her covered.
09:21We're not allowed to do this to her.
09:23We're done now.
09:24Exactly.
09:24I'm taking care of her.
09:25You're ride or die.
09:27Yeah.
09:27This is my ride or die.
09:30Eww.
09:34Just keep your hands flat on the table.
09:36Nicole, are you ready?
09:38No, not ready.
09:39Nikki?
09:40Yes?
09:41To calibrate the machine, I'm going to ask you some straightforward questions.
09:44So please answer honestly.
09:46Is your full name Nicole Mary Kidman?
09:49Yes.
09:50But I have a Hawaiian name.
09:53Hokielani.
09:55My god.
09:56Is she telling the truth?
09:58Yes.
09:59Were you born in Honolulu, Hawaii?
10:01Yes.
10:02That's why I have a Hawaiian name.
10:04Oh my gosh.
10:05Are you about to take a lie detector test?
10:08Yeah.
10:09Are you nervous?
10:11Yeah.
10:13Are we good to go?
10:15Because I always tell the truth.
10:16So you're going to get...
10:17Oh, anyway, I shouldn't say that.
10:20This year alone, you starred in and produced Scarpetta.
10:23Yeah.
10:24Produced and had a supporting role in Margot's Got Money Trouble.
10:27Starred in and produced the upcoming Practical Magic 2.
10:30Can't wait.
10:31A supporting role in the upcoming The Young People and starred in our show...
10:35Not supporting Cameo.
10:37A Cameo role in the upcoming The Young People.
10:40Yeah.
10:41And starred in our show Lioness.
10:44Nicole, be honest.
10:45Do you ever take time off?
10:48Yes.
10:49Oh.
10:49I just took all of July off.
10:52Yes.
10:52Went all over Europe with my daughters.
10:55Oh.
10:55And my family and my friends.
10:58Yes.
10:58I know you to take time off.
11:00Mm.
11:00Was it actually...
11:01Then I'm taking all of August off.
11:03Yes.
11:04Was it a working vacation?
11:06No.
11:07Oh, in the sense of being a mother, having to keep tabs on seven girls, teenage girls at all times.
11:15That's a working vacation.
11:16Absolutely.
11:17Very truthful.
11:19See?
11:20Look at me.
11:21I'm like, you can't.
11:22You have, like, two girlfriends.
11:24I'm like, absolutely.
11:24She is telling the truth.
11:26I know this to be true.
11:27You recently took a cruise to Antarctica.
11:30Would you consider that a vacation?
11:32Actually, that was back in January.
11:35Yes.
11:36Oh, yes.
11:37So if yes, would you ever consider a Disney cruise?
11:40No.
11:43Truthful.
11:44No, I would like to.
11:45With my kids who were younger, I would have done a Disney cruise.
11:49Yes.
11:49I had not ventured into the cruise world at that stage.
11:53So I was, I did not know how a Disney cruise could be so fun because I was like, well,
11:59thousands of people on a boat.
12:00But actually, if my kids were like three now or four, I would do a Disney cruise.
12:05Is she telling the truth?
12:07Nicole believes she is telling the truth about the Disney cruise.
12:10I love it.
12:10I love it.
12:11You guys, we would suck at spies.
12:14I'm telling you.
12:14We would suck at spies.
12:16Like, I just didn't.
12:16That's the caveat.
12:17What else do you want to ask?
12:18The caveat is that we would not be good lionesses if we needed to lie.
12:22Yeah.
12:23To save a nation.
12:24If we didn't have Taylor's dialogue.
12:26Forget it.
12:27You received an Oscar for your performance in The Hours.
12:29With the stiff competition, would you say that you won by a nose?
12:34What is that?
12:35That's because I wore a prosthetic nose.
12:38Oh.
12:38As Virginia Woolf.
12:40And so did I win by a nose?
12:43I actually, well, when it comes to the winning of an award, all the performances, once you've
12:48gotten into the final five, are spectacular usually and so worthy of anything.
12:52So, you know, it's all just at that point.
12:55It's like, it's the film gods at that point.
12:59Absolutely.
12:59Yeah.
13:00And they're just celebrating.
13:01I didn't even win really.
13:02I think everyone won that year.
13:04Amen.
13:04Off the charts of honesty.
13:06Yay!
13:07You're amazing.
13:08I've paid him off.
13:09Your ad for AMC theater has become a cultural meme.
13:12Did they make you an AMC A-lister for life as a thank you?
13:17They did, actually.
13:18They did.
13:20Can you take me as a guest to see Emily?
13:23Sure.
13:24I can take you to see The Odyssey.
13:26You haven't seen that yet?
13:27I have.
13:28You have?
13:29Mm-hmm.
13:29Spider-Man, then.
13:30I can take you to see Spider-Man.
13:32Let's go see Spider-Man.
13:33Will you get mad if I talk during your AMC ad?
13:36No.
13:37I will be very happy.
13:38So that you do not look at the screen and I distract you or you distract me.
13:43It's incredibly embarrassing.
13:46People have also been known to salute the ad.
13:48Have they ever saluted you in public?
13:52They're like, no.
13:53No.
13:54That would be weird.
13:55But they do come up and say, can you please say heartbreak feels good in a place like this?
14:00And I go, sure.
14:03Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.
14:06You're so awesome.
14:08I love it.
14:09It's kind of sexy, too.
14:11Um, okay, so.
14:13You're not allowed to smile.
14:14I'm not trying to smile.
14:15I'm sorry.
14:16He's on the take.
14:18I'm trying not to smile here, but, you know, I've seen the, I've been to the movies, so I saw
14:24it.
14:25Exactly.
14:27Some of your greatest moments have become iconic memes.
14:30Have you ever used one of your own GIFs in attacks?
14:34Do you know what a GIF is?
14:36I do.
14:37I've seen one where I was clapping at the Academy Awards like that and my hands were, I've seen that
14:43and I was like, why am I clapping like that?
14:45But I have very expensive jewelry on and I didn't want to destroy it.
14:49Yeah.
14:49And sometimes it hurts to clap.
14:51Yes.
14:51To genuinely clap.
14:52Yes.
14:52You think you're hurting yourself.
14:53Yes.
14:54So you just kind of do this.
14:54Now I do this.
14:56Yeah.
14:57I was doing that.
14:59Not such a good look.
15:00If people only knew the truth.
15:02It hurts.
15:02It hurts.
15:03Beauty.
15:05As a multi-hyphenated talent, you've worn many hats in your career.
15:09You've also worn many actual hats.
15:11Would you rank these hats for us?
15:13Oh, yeah, I love hats.
15:15Okay.
15:16You can leave your hat on.
15:19Wait, I have to, I have to.
15:20I like.
15:21I have to give you all your hats.
15:21Kind of great.
15:21Hold on.
15:22This is, oh, I love these.
15:24That's very My Fair Lady, baby.
15:27Oh, yeah.
15:27I wore that to the races once.
15:29I look slightly shell-shocked there.
15:33Okay, so can you please rate this one?
15:36Well, I love a beret.
15:37Amazing.
15:38Yeah.
15:39What about the number two?
15:40I do love this hat.
15:41It's beautiful.
15:42Yeah.
15:43Which one is your favorite out of all those three?
15:45Well, this is a piece of art, so I'll go with that.
15:47Very good.
15:48Yeah, beautiful.
15:49I think it was Stephen Jones that made it.
15:51You once told this person that you think about dying all the time.
15:56Are you thinking about it right now?
15:58It's, I don't think about dying all the time.
16:01It's something that you have to have as part of the conversation because it's part of living,
16:06is we know the journey.
16:09Am I thinking about it now?
16:10No, absolutely not.
16:12Is that because you never tell a lie?
16:15I think I might have told a lie sometimes not to hurt someone's feelings or kind of,
16:19you know, what do they call that?
16:20A white lie.
16:21A white lie.
16:22Yeah, or just a cushioned, yeah, so that it's not harsh.
16:26I'm not a big fan of harsh, harsh truths.
16:29Sometimes, maybe just button it then.
16:32Don't say anything.
16:32That's so true.
16:33Right?
16:34Plead the fist.
16:34It's like we don't need to always, yeah.
16:38Final question.
16:39Did you lie at any point during this lie detector test?
16:41My fingers are going numb.
16:42It's all over the place, yeah.
16:44Blood flow?
16:45Did you lie at any point during this lie detector test and we didn't catch you?
16:49No.
16:51Excruciatingly truthful.
16:52See?
16:54That's us.
16:55The reality is we would suck as lioness is.
16:57We'd be like, we let you off.
16:58Are you okay?
16:59We let you off.
17:00Can you just lie once so I know what it looks like?
17:02That would be fine.
17:02Can you just have her lie once so I know what it's...
17:05Is the color of the sky blue?
17:07No.
17:08Well, that is up for discussion because it can suck.
17:12Okay.
17:13There you go.
17:15Truthful.
17:16Oh, my God.
17:16Oh, there you go.
17:19Oh, my God.
17:20Sometimes it can be marmalade.
17:21That's the secret.
17:23That's the secret.
17:24Hire truthful women to play incredible liars.
17:28Specific, detailed women.
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