Emily Blunt & Anne Hathaway | Actors on Actors

I'm actually time traveling I'm actually I'm actually like time traveling and I'm on the set with you and it takes just about to go and you've just said something really really funny and I'm just sitting on top of like this bubble of gig or or we'd make like fart noises they'd be like rolling rolling and i' be [Music] like all right yeah we're back we're back hi honey hello hello so yes I'm sure everyone is curious how did we meet we met did we meet before the table read of devil W pra was it at

the table read this is so embarrassing because I remember every second of the first time I met you and you're like did we no because I also am very blurry on most memories but just so much more into you than you are into me fine it's fine how did we meet I remember because um I I was I join the cast just before you yeah and I was like oh who's going to play Emily who's going to play Emily and he said they were like some random who's no one's ever heard of no you hadn't

been cast yet and so no no what I mean is that was a bad joke what I mean is um I was hearing that you know your name came up and they said it's this amazing girl out of England and she's so funny and then I remember David calling and saying that you gotten the part and and I remember walking into the room and like turning and meeting you and I just remember going like hi buddy in my head and instant thought I was like what a movie star what first thought like there was like

you were like shedding stust it was crazy are you getting this and I just remember thinking to myself Emily Blunt is going to be the biggest deal and um then we just chatted and and we went for coffee and I took you for a walk around where I say I was just talking to our mutual friend this morning to Jen and I was saying you know I was so green coming into that situation and I said she was so kind to me and I didn't know New York I didn't know anyone and you were like

the warmest Embrace and you were so good to me and even though you were a colossal movie star at that time there was you treated me like a complete equal to you always you are one of the people I've known longest we know each other for 18 years what what 18 years our relationship is the age of an adult it really is we have an adult relationship is a Dr age a drinking age in in England we are so drunk in England right now exactly exactly it was the wildest thing and I know we just

had a joy Bor of a time on that movie it was so wild I don't know if any of us knew it was going to become what it did I mean it's quoted to me every week I don't know about you it it will be the movie that changed my life and you couldn't have been kinder to me truly truly cuz it was nerve-wracking and I mean we were both absolutely terrified we were but that I was I was so grateful to you your gift of a personality but also like your britishness because I found

like the more nervous you get the funnier you are like yeah that's how it get myself in trouble it makes stupid jokes but thank God for them because I mean it was like a I love what you said it was like a joy bomb just of non-stop Mrs Doubtfire references yeah and which now my children love stop so much oh my gosh time is quot run by Fring to me and they try and do the voice and everything do it for them oh I saw him dear it was a run by Fring I love it's

the best it's the best oh the terrorist they ran that way it was a run by fruiting so we are in the devor product club together which is incredible and now we're in another club together the Christopher Nolan Club so oh yeah oh yeah oh oh yeah Captain Captain [Music] extraordinary I have been going to him all [ __ ] day when we did um Interstellar Matthew mccon noted that when we were up in the glacier like the colder it was and the harder the conditions were like the Bluer Chris's eyes got and the blonder

his hair was and he just I've always feel Chris's hair I can tell when he's very happy with a take cuz his hair starts to dance he has quite expressive hair I noticed and I can tell it's almost like he sort of vibrates a little bit when he's really happy with the take he's not going to tell you that he's that happy because he's very English and so the his version is like happy yeah moving on okay yeah all right let's go and you're like was it good you know um I remember when I first

met Robert Downey Jr I said you're going to just love it so much and the screws are going to get tightened on you so much and it's just the most focused wonderful un chaotic set I said but you're going to get some very British compliments there will be no smoke blown up your ass and you're going to have to be all right with it but um he is extraordinary he's like a tempest of a talent encased in this completely calm or authoritative person but he's fun isn't he and warm and accessible and it's all those

things that people kind of don't assume about him I think everyone's in very intimidated I think very very intimidated and it's so exciting when you talk to him and you realize he's still a human being having a life that is very like a good dad and and yeah like we've all been on those sets where the director is like a bad dad you know what I mean like a bad dad a bad dad where who has an ego and agenda and I just feel Chris is a good one the part that blows my mind about

Chris is that he because he is authoritative in the best sense of the word um is How Deeply he he really listens oh my God and he's so he's so present with you yeah did you like how he'd stand by the camera and watch you like no monitors no sort of yelling from the tent in a puffy coat as we're all freezing he's there freezing with you and he's he's just watching you and he's leaning into you you know it's all about the work yeah completely and the whole set is so focused on that and

I remember when I was on Dark Night Rises uh one of the crew members we justt chatting one day she's she's got she said you know I've really got imposter syndrome being here I said or really and she said yeah but then someone else told me if you're on a Christopher Nolan set that means you might be one of the three best people at your job in the world W and I thought about that and I was like it's kind of true actually and so I just I mean I remember this day cuz he really

expects it from everyone you know he really wants that kind of Excellence he BRS gives it and he you know he just the magnitude of what he is capable of I think he just expects the same from everyone and I remember we were doing this shot around a table and it was a very difficult shot to get as the dollies coming behind me like that and we did it a few times and I and we couldn't get and the dolly had to come around to me and rack Focus as I turn to Killian and the

whole scene's about she's a drunken mess and everything as be and um again again um and it comes around we and it was just hard to get it right and so I said do you want me just to turn on a specific line Chris and he goes no that's not for you to worry about he goes cuz that's why I've hide hide the best right Ryan because you're going to get it aren't you and Ryan on the dolly was like absolutely you know but it was just kind of that assumption that he would get it

and he did get it and it was just I don't know he just is I just love it I know it's kind of hard to express because I love what you said about the magnitude of him and so the last thing you expect uh some from someone like that is that they're all kind oh so kind and they're also and they also really value kindness in I remember there was this uh one day we were doing a shot on um Dark Knight Rises and he came to me beforehand he said now I just want you

to know the shot has lived in my head for many years God so I'm going to be very specific about it I'm going to make you do it a lot but it's not actually you it's just because I have it in my head a certain way and I just I couldn't because he didn't have to like I would have done it however many times he wanted like a thousand a thousand more like whatever to preface it by saying so that you didn't shrink and start to question yourself exact he's just a he's he's he's a

wonderful I I get lost for words about I we all felt that way and we're all so proud to be in it like we're so blown away can I tell you that I saw that watching the movie yeah cuz the movie is the movie is the movie and I am at a loss for words and you are just so wonderful in it I was so just because I've known you for so long I was so proud of you she was so different than you yeah like so different and you're you're so warm and you're so

funny and you're just like it just a room is better with you in it and she's kind of like the opposite of you she's kind of like a dying star that like contracts um painfully and dramatically and reacts to things and is frightening you don't get to commit the sin and then I was all feel sorry for you that it had consequences knowing you as I do I knew that that's a stretch so so the way Kitty contracts around her life you know rather than kind of opening to it and then when she finally does

open and you realize oh God the pain that she'd been in the whole time and and sort of the indignity of her life yeah that someone that's an amazing word to use and actually the perfect word to use and I so appreciate everything that you're saying I can't even tell you it's so CU you speak so beautifully and you kind of word things that even I haven't quite been able able to uh grasp about her and what it meant to play her I did find her ferocity so exciting I thought she was so exhilarating I

mean he was her fourth Husband by the time she was 29 like clearly she was a bit of a non-conformist for the time and that deterioration that she goes through and the indignity as you say of having to contort herself into something that was so unnatural for that extraordinary brain and the capacity of it that was so um straight jacketed and squandered really yeah and wasted and I understood the anger so much and the resentment at her lot in life you know and why she must have just wanted to numb it out you know yeah

and the isolation and loneliness of Los Alamos you know she's a big party animal as well yeah yeah she'd throw cocktail parties but she wasn't good at the small talk she didn't like doing it and so she definitely got the reputation of not being terribly nice and I understand why but she she was a bad mother she wasn't she did not read Good Housekeeping you know at all she did not subscribe she she needed a kitchen she knew she needed a kitchen which was probably not a very good just to shake up a martini put

the ice where where's the freezer I kind of fell in love with her completely and all of her ugliness yeah loved it it's just it was all very long ago Mr Rob wasn't it long enough to have forgotten did you return the card or rip it up the card whose existence I've forgotten that scene that you talk about the testifying scene I saw it as that Reclamation of that brilliant brain like coming back to life and when all the odds were against her and no one believed in her and she was so volatile and so

unpredictable at that time it was so exciting it's such a cool setup that Chris gave me you know and it literally says in the script she's barely walking in a straight line getting into the and you're just like oh my God she's going to choke you know oh the way the way you and the way you choke M the way you did before he gives you the glass of water the thing I loved was I couldn't tell you managed to make me equally believe that it was put on she was lowering them in and that

it was something that was happening and she was smart enough to know how to lean into it and use it and she was playing chess with the moment but I couldn't tell right off the bat if it was something that she was like I know exactly how they see meh I know exactly where their biases are and I know exactly how to play them yeah I also remember in the scene Jason Clark who's just a great dance partner you know for a scene he's so brilliant yes but I remember he said to Chris I think

I'm I'm going to just move my chair in and I'm going to get really close to her and actually I remember it made me like bristle and it kind of made me go let's roll like let's do this do you mean that he because he and the character wanted to he wanted to intimidate me and invade my space and like that thing as most women have experienced when a man tries to intimidate you you go up to the wall but not through it that's right and it's just like it kind of just makes you want

to fight yeah it was really fun it was a very exhilarating it was so fun fun it looked really really fun and when you let this cackle out I was like there she is I was so relieved there she probably like relieved yeah it was it it was a it was a really such a heroic moment for her and I'm so grateful that she gets that moment because she um had deteriorated to such an extent it was so wonderful to give her a moment of um yeah you know soaring at the end the whole metaphor

of a star dying and what and what Chris did uh with the cinemat who was your cinematographer ho van it was HOA I thought it was I know hoyaa did Interstellar he's Heaven he's Heaven he's so brilliant I know he is and they're like Soul twins together Chris so I worked with HOA and Chris on the first one so they must be like so deep in love you can tell how in love they are through every shot I mean loves more than anyone in the world I think I mean apart from em and his children

sorry but say quickly but the whole cast felt it was one of those th thrilling things because you you know what it is like there's the M there's the the times when you're number one in the call sheet you're the Killian of the cast and then there's the The Ensemble work yeah and it's such an exciting place to be as an actor to be like okay I'm not just I don't just get my moment I don't just don't get my my my my uh solo but I have to hold space for everybody and you you're

like this job is about being present and listening and creating the veracity of the world around this person it's so true and actually because it's told from Killian's perspective he's so extraordinary and Mercurial and all of those things keeps you oh God he so intimate in his performance he's so intimate and he's so vulnerable and beautiful but I think all of these other characters come in who are quite colorful you know and they just extract different facets of this very mysterious personality and so I I kind of Lov that all of our scenes were so

I feel like I I would jetpack in and just have these very high octane emotional scenes with him and then leave and then come back 10 days later and do another thing I it was much easier for us but it also seems to me like that's the Cris of it and the Oppenheimer of it it's like that thing I could see every single cast member aware that they were in the presence that's right of probably the best director that they were ever going to work with oh I think you know and so it's that it's

that extra I saw it I saw it in and and then there there was one scene there was like 20 speaking Parts in it and everybody was so it was just like actor I was s in such Heaven because everyone was so open so listening and so specific in their part everyone had worked their craft so much if they had a line if they were just in the scene nobody the entire cast was show showed up so prepared it was that way focused that level of respect and inspiration Well he kind of I mean you

just do like he walks in the room and you know it's going to be a very rare day a day after day was a rare day it was amazing wake up it is STW it's always been straw and you know it why won't you fight him the film was a hit I know the film was a hit it was so big it was so like historical drama even though I don't even want to call it that because I think it's like a horror movie and it's a love story and it's a Chase Thriller and it's

just paranoid Thriller where at the end you're just like but I have I actually do have so much to be scared about like I'm not paranoid I'm just very very kind of like a three-hour heart attack the film you know little bit completely no I couldn't feel my legs afterwards I remember staggering towards Chris going I don't know how to describe this experience you but I can't believe none of us none of us we are all very a struck by the success of it and that people ran to the theaters and they ran over and

over again to see it and I don't think even Chris understands how it all happened I think we're all just enjoying uh this kind of meteoric moment that's really difficult to word and I think people want the full kidnap of an experience and you are going to get that with a Chris Nolan movie absolutely I think that kind of togetherness that people crave We crave experiencing something in the dark together and being um pinned to our seats by the experience that is impossible to word and I think people are overwhelmed and [Music] heart-wrenching he's really

uncompromising and Vision he expects you to be at your most heightened awareness of what's going on and like he doesn't leave anyone behind but he's also nothing spoonfed and no I will never forget like I think when I realized that there was a Oppenheimer was going to be part of a big movement and a very um significant moment in history in cinema it was you know because of the strike we were never able to watch the movie with an audience any of us and it was really sad you know cuz cuz I of all the

movies I've done I was like is that one that I want to see at the premiere normally I don't even I don't really need to watch it at the premere we'll go out a party or whatever but I really wanted to watch it with an audience and we didn't get to so I remember opening weekend John and I managed to find two seats at an IMAX in nyak New York perfect in a shopping mall perfect at 4 P.M M and we went and We snuck in when the lights went dark and I saw a group

of teenage boys coming in dressed as him in nyak New York and I got like chills I was like oh my God I remember calling KY and afterwards you're not going to believe what I just saw I love like 15-year-old boys with like a fake martini was so amaz with like pipes tangling out of their mou uh nyak we love you yeah nyak we love you it was just it was wild it was wild I have my own ideas kind ideas you can never tell anyone do you understand promise me okay I found Eileen completely

riveting thank you and I was completely Intoxicated by Rebecca and I felt um gripped by how you just would glide into this very muted world with This ferocious Allure that you have you are so sexy in this movie it's crazy I know I'm going to she ruins it sexy in the movie and you just would Glide in and I couldn't figure out it's that thing of going do I want to be with her or be her it was just so ambiguous and seductive and your Chemistry with eileene is just it's it's so beautiful and I

couldn't even figure out if you were like almost a ghost of her mother or the idealized version of who her mother was like is she like a spectre is she is she a friend is she a foe is she oh it was so deliciously deceptive and justor stop talking it was so beautiful it was it was just some so magnetic and I always always me to sleep tonight I always find you so magnetic but there was something I I I love you just embracing all of that kind of Allure and sexuality and like it's just

beautiful and want to know why you wanted to do it and what was it about the part that made you go o I'm so in O um thank you you're welcome thank you it's all true I it's beautiful William alerid the director made a film called lady McBeth Florence Pew yes and I saw it when it came out because um I'm always really curious about emerging filmmakers and I was just my jaw was on the floor I mean I couldn't believe it I thought it was so bold her performance isn't she brilliant yes she's yes

she's brilliant really really brilliant and it was like Aphrodite coming out of a shell cuz I'd never seen her before and then all of a sudden it was this person sitting in front of me picking her teeth and it was so unreal and I thought well you know it's his first film and she's new so if it's all her he knew what he had and if it's him too amazing so I was really curious about what it would be like to work with him and then um what was he like dream really so oh my

gosh he's so fun he's so fun and he had this um first of all he's brilliant uh you know kind of uh has come up through the theater and so his and he's joyful yeah and he's funny yeah that you could feel it in the movie there was like a sort of relishing the the violence and the shock and there was this wonderful relish of it that was wicked you know he's he's he's a giggle of a person while also being um you know delighted by Darkness yeah it was wonderful and then I was delighted

by Darkness it was just it was just he he he knew exactly kind of how to pull you into this Vortex of just this devilish Darkness so cool I think and the thing about will that I appreciated so much was we were in Indie so like we had tiny tiny tiny budget what did you make it for I don't remember but it was in New Jersey so I imagine 8 to1 million and AR Wagner was our cinematographer who just watching her work was so exciting and you know she would needed the time she needed to

for her uh art and her work and then we would have so much to do and it was Indie and it was and we were all in wigs and you know all the underpinnings and all the stuff and I would be like we don't have enough time to shoot the scene the scene is so complicated and will would dilate time around us and all of the of being on an independent film where you can imagine people are just like looking at the watch and kind of killing the vibe will body blocked the entire thing heaven

and actually so I would come out of scenes like in a blackout thinking that we'd been filming it for 7 hours and it had been like 50 minutes like it was just it kind of started to it was it was amazing and and I had to trust him so much because it was such a stepping so far outside my comfort zone you know with this one like cuz there's a version where you hug the safe stuff and you're just like I know how I look as a brunette I know how my voice sounds I know

you know what uh what playing someone a little bit more like me is and then I'm like yeah but it's so wonderful to this other person but it was so dangerous and cool and I wanted and we wanted her to be dangerous and it was great I remember it's okay to be a bit scared isn't it don't you find I feel like it's I feel braver now oh oh God when you mean when you're Mak it yeah bit of Terror is great I I'm learning to enjoy it this this is the film that kind of

got me to transition into enjoying it because um I remember sitting with a friend like just on a weekend just like this and he's like you okay and I'm just like I think I think I've I've gone too far this time and he was just like tell me everything and I'm just like oh God I'm blonde and I invented an accent and like she's just she's self-invented and so I did all these I just made all these choices that don't have any kind of I don't know I'm not playing someone I'm not basing it on

any except for my own imagination this is the way I saw her and this is how I just wanted her to be and and I just feel like maybe I've gone too far but that's why she's so she's like this rare bird that comes in and and just bewitches everybody and so it's sort of wonderful that everything was so put on because you couldn't get a beat on her that was the hope you couldn't get a beat on her she was so mysterious and well he turned to me and he just goes I hear that

but you'd have been so mad at yourself if you had gone for it and I was just like oh yeah you're right and then the film came out and I realized I was so happy because my instinct was to trust will and to trust everybody really and to just kind of get lost in the making of it because um you know and especially being in that cast Thomas and McKenzie and Marin Ireland yeah that monologue at oh my God oh my God and Shay wigam and so it was kind of like stop worrying so much

just be here just just just be here you're playing a part in this cast and it's a really important part because you're the one that makes everybody doubt everything oh that scream you in the kitchen thank I went back and watched it again cuz I just loved it so much I was like I think that's what I love about these moments of sort of startling force that you had that was so out of nowhere you know so she just felt so edgy and dangerous to me all the time and you could see this girl Thomason

Thomason but I don't know if she if she had to even you know push anything in those scenes because she must have just been like that to I my Christmas savior savior I didn't do anything well you're being a friend that's everything cheers I want you to tell me about that bottle of wine scene and how on Earth did you open it like that and what how what what tell me everything about that moment well it was in the script okay and um we were in a a home in January in New Jersey and um

it said in the script she puts a bottle of wine in a shoe and hits it against the wall until the cork pops out that was a great trick who's done does it work I know you know you just go does does it and the prop guy assured me that it did and should just do it as a party trick now now we should now it's a thing now Tik Tok please what are what Tik Tok What get make this a thing um and it was funny because uh that moment I'm someone I love to

be in the space ahead of time I love to work at my props I love to know my my path with it and I don't remember which day of filming it on but we were like it was that thing where we were talking about that Terror like I was sitting on top of the terror and I and it felt like things were going okay but it also you know you're flying so blind and I just remember remember grabbing the bottle and the first hit was so satisfying and I was just like I know exactly why

she is doing this and um the cork popped out on one the first time because I was so I was just so full of some kind of Fury I didn't even know what it was cuz you know how sometimes you're like I don't even know what's coming into me right now or what's like I'm downloading something channeling something it feels so but there was this Force to her in that scene and also she's um she's been so poised up to that point and so in control and she's so um Disturbed yes and so unnerved by

what's going on and she's just she is sitting on top of a scream and this is the moment that happens just before the scream and so to actually get the physical release because I feel like there's there's um there's a physical component to the film as well about you know how people we need to go crazy like we need to bust out um or we're just going to oh I can't say it CU it gives away too much about the film but like the film for me is such a metaphor as to why we keep

falling backwards you know and um to me the film The at the ending of the film is is very ambiguous it is it's so ambiguous I was like more no I need to know more but that that to me is the terrifying part of it I'm like it's so ambiguous that sudden I I can't talk about it I just desperately want wanted to know more I wanted to know what happened and that sort of ambiguous smile she has at the moment and whatever Awakening you triggered in her you know that it has been life shifting

and the Fingerprints of you will be on her forever and it's just yeah it was terribly human as well like we don't always have all the answers we don't always know what the outcome of things will be but I did love that um in that scene with the wine and then into the scream is it's Al a different side of you this wobbly vulnerable um unnerved side of the character and you'd gone from being so pulled together and so poised and so exciting and then I think the danger weirdly is how weary you look and

unnerved suddenly in that and conflicted and I just didn't know what was going on with you in that scene and then you went I have her tied up downstairs and I was like is a spoiler sorry I love that you just brought up how weary she is because that's what let me be so heightened in the beginning cuz I just thought oh I can have so much fun playing someone I kind of imagined her what a thing to hold together what's it's so much pressure to uphold that Mirage all the time so much pressure to

uphold The Mirage and I but I also thought she's made a deal with the devil yeah and she's he's also a great dancer so you could have that was fun um and is aware that she's walking into a space where there's never been someone like her and she knows that she's going to meet this Wall of Resistance and so she's just like they're not going to see me any other way except for as a woman if when I walk into this room so I'm going to give them quite a woman and while they're over here

kind of staring at the bright shiny thing I'm going to be doing exactly what it is that I want to do and there's a deception kind of built into her in that but I think that's exactly what the definition of Glamour iing is on day one of filming we back began with a scene in the bar so um and it was like a five-page monologue I'm like wow Rebecca talks a lot and then we got to this page two and it was like a three-page monologue I'm like yeah she's still talking and we got to

the third scene and I'm like oh God she's a Serial monologuer I was just like what a like and I'm just like oh she's one of those people that's probably so amazing to meet and then like becomes so and great at a dinner party though she's perfect professional dinner guest she's a professional dinner guest she's so good at it but a long weekend and I bet she never gets that messy make young moment with so much gumption I'm like that too I don't give for rats ask what people think they probably scared to you oh

goody we got some fun questions and make that okay man okay so we have some incredible quotes in the devil product some are your characters lines some are other characters l oh my God you want me to go first I would love it is there some reason my coffee isn't here has she died or something remember that one I and I think that was improved has she died or something there were so much so many different ones she was so you too by the way I remember that I remember coming in after seeing like Merill

come up with like 18 different lines on the spot Stanley doing the same you and I was just like this kindergartener who was like how are they all so good and and I went up to you and I was like how are you doing this and you went I practiced the night before yeah practice and try different yeah is that how this works I love that that was is uh did she say that she says it to me right she says me and you're late I'm and then and then and then that's when you get

up and you're just like um get in here I have to pee or something like that yes yes get in here I have to pee peed since you left what took you so long I have to pee you haven't PE since I left that's right all right you doesn't it all come back so vividly yeah it's amazing okay God oh this is so good looking at these this is wild okay can you please spell gabana can you please spell gabana hello were you there that was the cutest were you there when we did that uh

I I was there was I or had I gone to pee you that's it you were on your pee break I was on my PE break cuz I remember when we F your cute little voice and your cute little sweater and that hair and that skirt can you spell gabana oh that so cute so this is a fancy story and then they hang up on you hello Stephano um uh I I was in Italy uh recently and I showed up at the hotel and they baked a cake I arrived in my hotel room to a

cake and I was like this is amazing it was Italian cake so it was really good and on they had written on the top can you please spell gabana oh that is so is that not the greatest that's the greatest oh my God it is quoted to me all all the time I mean my flight attendant coming over went um I love that I'm still working on my stomach flu it was so cool and I was like yeah and then people also misquote that I'm one stomach flu away from my goal weight them or do

you let them live in it no I just let them say it because I think there's various versions you know like like uh older version of me me 1.0 would have been like actually the LI I would have meant it so nice nicely but no 2.0 I'm like that's your devil weare's product that's it it's not mine okay this is one of my favorites oh I'm sorry do you have some prior commitment do you have some hideous skirt convention to go to there some hideous skirt convention you have to go to I sometimes I love

that it you you crack yourself up 18 years later cuz that's what happened all the day no because I would laugh all the time cuz I just felt I was so horrible to you most of the time in this movie and it was your little face like this beautiful like slightly sort of baffled face stunned by the miror like oh I couldn't I could barely ever get through that like some hideous skirt convention was just I don't even know if that was scripted or if we no it wasn't it was how did and I have

to say there's something about your particular voice saying the word hideous hideous it just hits in this really good spot um and I have to say if you've never seen the devil's PR blooper real oh you I highly recommend it because this one is charm I mean just you you look like you're having more fun than anyone has had any and I can bch for it laugh I I I had so do you remember on my so was my first day of shooting and it's actually on the blooper real and it's when I'm running down

the corridor pushing everyone out of the way and I'm not very good walking in heels this person is unbelievable in heels as you've seen Double's brother she's just like leaping around cobblestone streets 5 inch Stilettos I was like oh I'd be dead I would have be gone um but I remember racing down the corridor and it was a kind of um I guess it was on a dolly or something and I'm racing down and I'm supposed to crash into Merl or try almost crash into at the end and I had to do this like turn

and I fell so hard out of frame and I just remember Merl going oh oh you know I don't understand why it's so difficult I think she was I think she always wanted to join in the fun and she kept herself so in character do you know she's she's never done method acting since she said it made her so miserable on this one cuz we were all having a party on the other side set she was like I won't do this again no it was so because I remember a couple times like trying to talk

to her I'm like I can't tell if I'm really off about this but I think she wants to talk to me I think it wasn't we couldn't approach her it was just that no she didn't quite she's such a broad and she's so fun and warm and I think it just do you remember in the morning she would like be meril in rehearsals and it was like the blonde hair and it was just like this Mike Nichols once described to her as this irrepressible spring and I'm like oh that's so good oh my God it's

so true and she would just be that person and then she would come back and just beat this block of ice and it was just it was couldn't penetrate just amazing I remember coming in and you being like I really ate it on this one day I really want you like you're like I ate it this one take went down but um but the thing that was that's you're a magical performer I was just thinking the other day about you in Into the Woods and the way like you're walking through you're like first a prince

then a child then a prince then a woman first a witch then a child then a prince and you like eat your scarf or something or your apron but you just like I it's just you're so alive in your work and I just remember like I think I was stunned I think I was de in headlights cuz I was like who is this creature who's just effervescent like it's amazing no and Stanley and I talk about this all time who's now my brother-in-law I mean how crazy is that by the way fell in love with

him on that movie well I'm just so happy to know that like the the love and the chemistry that I was feeling off of you like I was like this really a lot I'm like I was actually watching a family before we we we are which is really special he's he's he's wonderful and we always talk about it that we could come in with all our sort of sharp edges and and you know one liners but you you are the glue of that you hold the whole thing together you had an impossible part to shine

like that and be that believable and just wonderfully charming and endearing and we all have been Andy you know it was David it was David Frank had a lot of give me your line no I'm not going to go all the way there it was very tempting oh God by all means move at a glacial paie you know how that Thrills Thrills me oh you know how that Thrills me that day that was that was fantastic that day like changed me as an actor because um I like knew I was I was like it was

Merill doing an emotional scene and the set was so quiet was it so quiet I remember you telling me about it afterwards you said it was the most Raw thing you'd seen and you were everyone's energy was like so reduced to keep her I think people would just like I think everyone was grateful everyone it was when we're talking about the Chris thing of it all because there's an aspect of our industry that you know like I I'm I'm I think there's an etiquette to set I don't think you bring your phone on to set

and you're scrolling in between takes I think that you're working with something very precious and ephemeral and can break very easily and um I love to have a laugh on set but I I do take what we do very seriously and I think it was the crew realizing they were witnessing something great yes and being and being fully present in it yes and um and how stripped back she suddenly was talk about the Mirage gone and I also think it was her I think it was her like her just sitting there greatest actress ever and

and just no makeup and just sitting there just having the space and none of us wanted to be the one to not not even disturb it it wasn't that it wasn't that fragile we just all wanted to just not get in the way and so we all wanted so we all did just did our jobs as well as we could you know that was the way the respect was shown so I was supposed to ask you how you remember that but I've filled in the answer what that scene yes oh well I mean okay is

it is it me shall I ask okay this is it this is the line well I don't eat anything and when I feel like I'm about to faint I eat a cube of cheese when I feel like I'm about to faint I at a cube of cheese guys it works a treat can we can we one of the most iconic lines in cinema history Emily I do that that line gets misquoted to me as well they go like I don't know people always kind of paraphrase it oh God I remember feeling so lost in that

scene and just like you were so in the pocket and I'm like thank God she's here you weren never lost in the scene by the way never no no no I just do you remember when you're like God em you look so thin looks yeah and I say well I'm on this new diet and then that's but I just I just also like just love that like Emily was the authority on this aspect of herself like you know so CU she was always want running you know I think I'm yeah but it was just it

was s such a funny oh and you so cute with your cold with a very red nose and sort of they would actually um spray Menthol in my eyes I sort of had this idea I was like why don't you just like put Menthol in my eyes and then they'll stream and then my nose got so red and I remember walking into the remember the board meeting they're having and yes and Merill was so repulsed by me coming in like she was I remember handing her I don't know a clipboard of something and she was

like have a what did she say like antibacterial wipe or something but I just it was so cool but I remember I've used the the eye watering trick by the way like when you have a cold I'm like cuz it really it activates a I remember going home and I was like I think I do feel sick like you kind of have been streaming with this fake cold all day that I did feel a bit sick at the end um did you come up with I love my job I love my job so I just

have to say so much of this film is David Frankle just like giving space space you know let you kind of throw the kitchen sink at it and like of course you're going to kind of poop the bed sometimes and it's not always going to be great but his curiosity to see and I just remember him giggling behind the camera giggling and and just giggling an environment where you just he let Joy live on the set completely complet you know and he and he encouraged it and um he's so good I mean he's he's an

amazing person he is he's Heaven yeah he's Heaven Heen talk about a good dad yeah it's my turn it's your turn she's not happy unless everyone around her is panic nauseous or suicidal she is not happy unless everyone around her is panic nauseous or suicidal I don't remember this uh he's making the girl cheese and you go I'm not even hungry anymore I'm not even hungry anymore okay yeah um fun fact I am wearing my cousin's headband in that scene we used to do face masks together and um do you know what I loved about

you in that headband is your little bangs would stick up it just so cute it was so nerdy and I wanted that grilled cheese so badly it looked so good I know you remember how NY was you of yurg you eat carbs for Christ's sake God I think was the line you eat carbs HS for Christ's sake as I'm just it's not fair so un it's so unfair so unfair and how I'm like finally do you remember how the um the nurse comes in and he brings me a tray of food so you turn like

Angelic in your martyrdom thank you very much you know because it's the first time [Laughter] she's who is that sad little person are we doing a before and after piece I don't know oh my God it's Stanley Stanley sad little person oh my God it's so Stan isn't it who is that sad little person we're going was thinking of Stanley on that and the day he found his ring his enormous ring like could kill someone with that ring I think yeah Stanley's onet I think he asked to keep he's just ulating did ask to keep

it maybe that ring yeah and this is like call your brother-in-law I know call him I can now you can I know I get free pans oh God it's a big deal has he given you a Parmesan wheel he tried to but we don't live in England so I was like how are you going to get me a Parmesan wheel you know he smuggled it yeah but he's in a very stinky piece of hand luggage and we went over to their house during Co and they were like our family literally they are our family um

and he made uh this carbonara inside the cheese wheel I can't like put the pasta inside the Dugout parmesan wheel whisked it around and it was just like I can't even talk about it that's great that's I do eat Cobbs for Christ's sake fantastic I I'm not going to lie I got a little turned on by oh thank you guys like the idea oh the kindest so that did you guys dig [Music] [Applause] [Music] it