Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Ep 16： Is Ryan Reynolds the new Chevy Chase ？

00:00:00.260 This was my first book, Let's Dish Up a Dinner Party.

00:00:04.100 So this was Brad Pitt's suit.

00:00:07.560 I cringed, I cringed.

00:00:09.080 He sort of let the mask fall for a moment.

00:00:11.940 She wisely hired a specific publicist for crisis management.

00:00:18.360 Yeah, we Flossome Talk.

00:00:22.820 Hi, and welcome to Flossome Talk.

00:00:24.580 I'm Sashley Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:27.180 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.

00:00:30.880 Welcome to my podcast.

00:00:33.540 As you know, every Friday, I have episodes that are a little different,

00:00:38.220 and sometimes I have guests.

00:00:40.280 And today, I have one of your favorite guests of all time on Flossome Talk.

00:00:44.960 I think this is his third or fourth time, actually, being here on my show.

00:00:48.740 He's a multi-award-winning journalist and author and a podcast host,

00:00:53.620 and he's always spilling the tea.

00:00:56.460 And please stay till the end to hear about his upcoming project.

00:01:01.020 Nelson, welcome back!

00:01:03.880 Thank you.

00:01:04.000 Is this your fourth time here on Flossome Talk?

00:01:08.280 Maybe.

00:01:08.860 Maybe.

00:01:09.200 It's either three or four.

00:01:10.520 I don't know.

00:01:10.960 But I would say the third time or the fourth time is a charm,

00:01:14.060 just because it's always good to be with you again.

00:01:16.180 And someday we're going to be sitting in the same hotel suite again together.

00:01:20.640 I don't know where that will be.

00:01:21.680 I'm sure we will.

00:01:24.020 Yeah, who knows when it's going to be, but I'm sure it's going to be amazing.

00:01:27.740 Anyways, I was so excited when you reached out again,

00:01:30.040 and we were going to talk about all these interesting subjects,

00:01:32.660 because you sent me a video of this person talking about Chevy Chase,

00:01:38.900 and if the same thing is going to happen to Ryan Reynolds.

00:01:41.820 We are actively watching Ryan Reynolds turn into this generation's Chevy Chase,

00:01:46.240 and honestly, it's not that surprising when you look back at his career

00:01:50.260 and compare it to Chevy Chase's,

00:01:52.380 because they're basically just the same person, really.

00:01:55.780 All of this fame and success got to a point to where Chevy Chase's ego became so big

00:02:01.080 that he thought he was the funniest person in every single room he walked into,

00:02:06.640 to where he would just be an asshole and play it off as a joke.

00:02:10.640 You look at what's happening with Ryan Reynolds recently,

00:02:13.720 and the downfall of Chevy Chase, they are basically parallel.

00:02:17.340 Active funny guy in Hollywood spends 20 years playing the exact same character

00:02:21.520 in every single movie he's in,

00:02:23.620 suddenly thinks that he is the peak of comedy in Hollywood,

00:02:27.540 and that he can say whatever he wants to anybody on set,

00:02:31.020 and pass it off as a joke, and face no consequences.

00:02:34.340 I really hate that I have to say these things,

00:02:36.220 because there was a time that I really loved Ryan Reynolds.

00:02:38.740 I'm pretty sure there was a time most of us loved Ryan Reynolds,

00:02:41.700 but that facade has dropped.

00:02:43.740 We can all see through the mask that he puts up as this, like, funny, nice guy,

00:02:48.700 and we can see who he really is.

00:02:50.460 What do you think is going to happen?

00:02:52.300 I had to send you that video.

00:02:53.680 I don't know.

00:02:54.120 It just sort of came across the algorithms,

00:02:56.020 and friends like you, you know, we tend to have the same algorithms,

00:03:00.040 and that was of note to me,

00:03:03.320 because this gentleman was likening the effects of Chevy Chase's career,

00:03:10.240 and his sort of reputation as a curmudgeon and a grumpy egomaniac

00:03:15.480 was how this person perceived it.

00:03:17.180 That was not my experience with Chevy Chase,

00:03:19.080 but it was this fellow's impression of Chevy Chase,

00:03:21.740 and he thought that Ryan Reynolds would go down the same professional rabbit hole,

00:03:27.380 but I thought he made an excellent case for it,

00:03:30.240 and it got me thinking about what goes into a career beyond your talent,

00:03:37.420 beyond your strategy, and every star seems to have a strategy,

00:03:43.020 but also good old-fashioned luck.

00:03:46.020 Luck plays, I would say, 90% of what goes into career success

00:03:51.840 or the lack thereof,

00:03:54.100 and also just your attitude and how you treat others,

00:03:58.880 and this viral video was making the case that Chevy Chase's attitude

00:04:05.580 factored in a lot,

00:04:08.020 and making the case that he went into his final years of doing sitcoms,

00:04:12.020 sitcoms, which probably was never his dream when he was a big movie star,

00:04:16.480 going from Saturday Night Live success to the big screen,

00:04:20.720 but his attitude is what put him back into TV,

00:04:24.580 essentially playing himself.

00:04:26.120 I feel like that generation of actors,

00:04:29.660 it's a little bit different for them

00:04:31.280 because it took people a long time to realize what they're really like,

00:04:35.000 and I think today with social media,

00:04:37.120 it's so much easier to figure out,

00:04:39.200 or it's so much easier that it slips out there what a person is really like.

00:04:44.360 Like now we've seen these little clips with Ryan Reynolds.

00:04:47.060 Did you see him at the Toronto Film Festival with that boy reporter?

00:04:50.960 I cringed. I cringed.

00:04:52.480 What's going on? I know.

00:04:54.940 I'd get halfway down there and be like,

00:04:56.580 I'm a monster.

00:04:57.660 Nice to meet you.

00:04:59.220 Nice to meet you. Let's skip to the question.

00:05:01.000 Why is there so much?

00:05:02.080 And you know, I get it.

00:05:03.180 He was busy. He was trying to...

00:05:04.860 Just to have a child on the red carpet in itself is problematic.

00:05:08.160 You're asking for trouble when you put a kid reporter on there.

00:05:11.820 And I get it. It's cute.

00:05:12.920 It's charming and all of that.

00:05:14.780 But from the...

00:05:15.500 I understand from the celebrity's point of view

00:05:17.540 and in defense of the publicist

00:05:19.140 who's trying to accommodate as many requests as possible,

00:05:22.780 it's probably a little irritating for Ryan.

00:05:25.020 The problem is he let it slip.

00:05:27.020 He sort of let the mask fall for a moment

00:05:29.400 and show how irritated he was trying to accommodate the kid.

00:05:34.080 But it's interesting.

00:05:34.980 I was thinking about Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively

00:05:37.940 went from being the golden couple

00:05:39.860 to arguably now their reputation has become tarnished.

00:05:45.160 People sort of feel like they're

00:05:47.960 the emperor's new clothes kind of scenario.

00:05:51.040 And it got me thinking about,

00:05:53.480 take another couple like John Krasinski and Emily Blunt,

00:05:57.120 whom I've interviewed a zillion times.

00:05:59.180 I'm sure you have as well.

00:06:00.560 And they're sweethearts by comparison.

00:06:05.940 You take a Blake and a Ryan

00:06:07.560 and then you take a John Krasinski and an Emily Blunt.

00:06:10.460 They're a real life couple who seem to be enjoying the ride,

00:06:14.920 have a great sense of humor,

00:06:16.500 are making hit movies,

00:06:18.000 don't get a lot of conflict.

00:06:20.700 And John, interestingly,

00:06:22.120 as we go into this whole Chevy Chase conversation,

00:06:25.040 John Krasinski started on sitcoms.

00:06:27.860 He was a sitcom actor who, you know,

00:06:31.220 who got very lucky with The Office

00:06:32.800 and he was so good and so charming,

00:06:35.520 then went on to be a movie star and to be directing.

00:06:39.820 Now he's an acclaimed artist,

00:06:42.740 not just the sitcom star who got lucky with a movie.

00:06:46.500 And Emily, same way.

00:06:47.960 She went from British television,

00:06:50.920 I remember from the Henry VIII miniseries.

00:06:54.820 Comparing them,

00:06:56.360 I like to compare them to Ryan and Blake.

00:06:58.780 It's actually interesting

00:06:59.680 because I never thought about that,

00:07:01.100 but they have so many parallels here.

00:07:03.380 And that John and Emily are making movies together now.

00:07:07.340 They work on each other's projects,

00:07:08.900 which is something that Blake and Ryan

00:07:10.920 pride themselves to do a lot,

00:07:12.520 even though they have nothing to do

00:07:13.920 with the other person's project, really.

00:07:16.200 They just like interfere with each other's projects,

00:07:19.040 I guess you could say, but that's so interesting.

00:07:21.920 And I have the same experience.

00:07:22.940 I haven't, I don't remember if I met John Krasinski,

00:07:25.460 but I have interviewed Emily a lot of times.

00:07:28.000 So I do really feel like she's one of those people

00:07:31.280 that are just like real, you know?

00:07:35.040 And even if she's not,

00:07:36.480 even if she doesn't feel up to the task of being real,

00:07:39.100 because we all have those days,

00:07:40.780 at least she understands the assignment.

00:07:43.900 For the five minutes, 10 minutes,

00:07:46.160 she's got to give the interview.

00:07:47.600 She gives it her best shot, her best, you know.

00:07:52.760 Anne Hathaway's not always that way.

00:07:54.740 Did you see that?

00:07:55.360 Did you see the video recently of her chastising?

00:07:59.200 It was a paparazzi video.

00:08:01.040 And she was filming Prada 2,

00:08:03.340 and somebody was using profane language around the set.

00:08:08.040 And she scolded them.

00:08:09.640 I don't know what you're doing.

00:08:10.840 You've got to relax.

00:08:11.800 You're not a real pap.

00:08:12.760 Get a 7200.

00:08:13.420 That's not a relax.

00:08:14.080 Yo, you're talking.

00:08:15.440 Stop talking.

00:08:15.880 Does everyone know that there are children on set?

00:08:17.220 You've got to relax.

00:08:18.220 Everyone's going to relax for a very nice day

00:08:20.160 because we have children.

00:08:22.740 Because there were children,

00:08:24.280 there were children around,

00:08:25.340 and they shouldn't be using adult language.

00:08:28.640 And while I appreciated that she was protecting

00:08:31.560 the innocent ears of children on the set,

00:08:34.220 on the streets of New York City,

00:08:35.460 believe me,

00:08:35.920 the children on the streets of New York City

00:08:37.460 have heard worse.

00:08:38.460 But she was really trying to scold,

00:08:43.100 to come off as this sort of maternal, caring person.

00:08:47.800 And I don't know.

00:08:49.020 It seemed disingenuous.

00:08:50.440 She's working hard on her image.

00:08:52.340 You know she apologized to me.

00:08:53.840 She invited me to come and interview her

00:08:55.820 for the next movie.

00:08:56.820 Right.

00:08:57.580 I didn't hear anything yet.

00:08:59.500 So I think she forgot about it.

00:09:01.920 Her image is looking pretty good.

00:09:03.600 Whoever her doctor is,

00:09:04.840 is making her image look very good.

00:09:06.020 Yes, I saw that.

00:09:07.980 Beautiful.

00:09:08.460 Everyone keeps talking about her new face.

00:09:10.580 And regarding Emily Blunt,

00:09:12.140 I saw her new face too.

00:09:13.460 Did you see that?

00:09:15.160 Beautiful.

00:09:16.000 Beautiful.

00:09:16.640 You think it's beautiful?

00:09:17.820 Yeah.

00:09:17.880 I think she filled it up with so much Botox and fillers.

00:09:21.780 And I'm like,

00:09:22.360 no, not you too.

00:09:24.040 She had this beautiful face.

00:09:25.660 And then they're just putting so much stuff in there right now

00:09:28.480 that everyone looks the same.

00:09:29.820 But I don't know.

00:09:33.360 Part of that culture of full faces.

00:09:38.080 I think because of all my years in the industry,

00:09:43.280 I am used to it.

00:09:46.920 You get conditioned to it.

00:09:48.900 And you begin to think that's what looks good.

00:09:52.260 I know.

00:09:53.200 To different degrees.

00:09:54.100 A good job,

00:09:55.360 a bad job,

00:09:56.220 an in-between job.

00:09:57.660 So it's,

00:09:58.700 we have become warped.

00:10:01.320 I know.

00:10:02.040 They call it the filler blindness now.

00:10:06.340 And all these,

00:10:08.680 and they call it an Instagram face and an iPhone face of all these

00:10:12.200 actresses who have these big lips and the high cheekbones and the fake

00:10:15.840 everything else.

00:10:16.700 And it just looks,

00:10:17.820 everything looks the same.

00:10:19.000 And I'm like,

00:10:19.640 it's so true.

00:10:20.680 We've forgotten about,

00:10:21.740 you know,

00:10:22.580 the natural beauty.

00:10:23.480 And I think Emily Blunt is an example of that.

00:10:25.460 And when I saw her,

00:10:26.520 some of the latest photos from Venice Film Festival,

00:10:28.660 I was like,

00:10:29.300 don't do that.

00:10:30.920 You don't need that.

00:10:32.080 We have to all make sure that we get cremated when our time comes.

00:10:36.000 Because if we get buried in a hundred years,

00:10:39.160 when they dig up our graves,

00:10:40.940 they'll see all the silicone and the chemicals.

00:10:44.740 There won't just be a skeleton there.

00:10:46.460 There'll be all these other things on top of the skeleton.

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00:12:27.700 So back to being cancelled and everything,

00:12:30.380 we were talking about,

00:12:32.080 or you mentioned to me these other people who were cancelled,

00:12:35.220 and it looked really bad for them.

00:12:37.300 Someone like Hugh Grant,

00:12:38.540 for example,

00:12:39.220 but he managed to get back in to the business again.

00:12:43.060 And now I feel like people have kind of forgotten about that,

00:12:46.040 what happens.

00:12:47.960 And that has to do a lot with luck.

00:12:50.320 That has to do,

00:12:51.000 there's crisis management.

00:12:53.520 Armie Hammer,

00:12:54.840 I mean,

00:12:55.140 Jesus Christ,

00:12:56.100 could there be any more of a career crisis

00:12:58.900 than being accused of cannibalism desires?

00:13:02.300 There is like this arguably incredibly talented,

00:13:07.220 handsome guy,

00:13:08.040 leading man,

00:13:08.640 Hollywood's next leading man.

00:13:11.380 How he,

00:13:12.160 you know,

00:13:12.400 he,

00:13:12.600 he's trying to recover from that.

00:13:16.080 A Reese Witherspoon,

00:13:17.400 America's darling,

00:13:18.880 everybody,

00:13:19.180 you know,

00:13:19.300 she's a billionaire.

00:13:21.080 Everybody loves Reese Witherspoon.

00:13:23.240 But there was that whole arrest incident.

00:13:26.100 Don't,

00:13:26.360 you know,

00:13:26.640 do you know my name?

00:13:27.540 Do you know who I am?

00:13:28.940 Yeah,

00:13:29.200 she recovered from that.

00:13:30.980 I remember,

00:13:33.540 gosh,

00:13:33.880 it was probably about 10 years ago,

00:13:35.140 Hilary Swank,

00:13:36.640 and she wasn't,

00:13:37.320 even though she won her Oscars,

00:13:40.100 she appeared at some controversial dinner.

00:13:43.040 She was a celebrity guest at some,

00:13:45.680 I don't know,

00:13:46.320 he was a,

00:13:46.900 he was a despot.

00:13:48.040 He was a,

00:13:48.440 he was a bad,

00:13:49.120 a bad dude.

00:13:50.060 But he,

00:13:50.580 she was brought to be a celebrity

00:13:54.220 at his birthday dinner

00:13:55.640 or some,

00:13:56.220 some kind of banquet.

00:13:57.280 And she,

00:13:58.480 she got in a lot of trouble for that.

00:14:01.100 She wisely hired a specific publicist

00:14:05.400 for crisis management

00:14:06.880 to,

00:14:07.840 to make the statement,

00:14:09.180 to acknowledge the mistake,

00:14:11.300 and then to make up for it

00:14:13.480 by actually doing,

00:14:15.180 not community service,

00:14:16.500 but charitable efforts

00:14:17.900 to counteract that.

00:14:20.260 So,

00:14:21.060 so ultimately her career was not affected.

00:14:23.580 And a lot of these stars need to realize

00:14:25.540 how to make up for things.

00:14:28.000 Hugh Grant is a terrific example.

00:14:30.160 That was actually the early,

00:14:31.440 when he got arrested

00:14:32.320 for being found

00:14:33.840 in the,

00:14:34.760 in the car,

00:14:35.340 right around the corner

00:14:35.960 from where I was living

00:14:36.820 in Hollywood at the time,

00:14:38.380 with Divine Brown

00:14:39.980 was her name.

00:14:42.100 Yeah.

00:14:42.860 But,

00:14:43.040 but it was brilliant

00:14:43.960 because he went on

00:14:45.480 The Tonight Show

00:14:46.820 and copped to it.

00:14:49.140 He,

00:14:49.620 he proved he was human.

00:14:51.660 He,

00:14:52.740 you know,

00:14:53.360 he got the mug shot.

00:14:54.780 He,

00:14:55.000 he paid the price

00:14:56.120 and then he acknowledged it

00:14:58.780 and moved on.

00:15:00.140 Let me start with question number one.

00:15:04.660 What the hell were you thinking?

00:15:11.660 I think you know in life,

00:15:13.140 uh,

00:15:14.180 pretty much what's a good thing to do

00:15:15.760 and what's a bad thing.

00:15:16.880 And,

00:15:17.160 um,

00:15:17.980 I did a bad thing

00:15:18.900 and there you have it.

00:15:20.660 Okay,

00:15:21.160 yeah,

00:15:21.320 I think if you own the mistake,

00:15:24.820 I remember that

00:15:25.600 so clearly

00:15:26.960 when he was asked,

00:15:28.460 what were you thinking?

00:15:31.600 And he was like,

00:15:33.160 I don't know,

00:15:34.340 I wasn't thinking.

00:15:35.480 But the thing is,

00:15:36.220 he has this charm

00:15:37.780 about him.

00:15:38.800 So you just kind of

00:15:39.760 have to forgive Hugh Grant,

00:15:41.580 I think,

00:15:42.280 no matter what he does,

00:15:43.540 because also he's

00:15:44.820 kind of humble

00:15:45.660 and he has this

00:15:46.620 way of,

00:15:47.800 you know,

00:15:48.200 he's so self-deprecating

00:15:49.740 that he,

00:15:51.980 I don't know,

00:15:52.580 there's something about him

00:15:53.700 that Armie Hammer

00:15:54.940 doesn't have

00:15:55.680 because he's

00:15:56.920 very self-important.

00:15:59.420 Um,

00:16:00.120 I think,

00:16:00.840 what do you think?

00:16:01.360 Have you interviewed Armie?

00:16:03.400 Yeah.

00:16:03.980 Yeah,

00:16:04.300 I have.

00:16:04.980 I mean,

00:16:05.340 he was nice,

00:16:06.060 but it was kind of an awkward,

00:16:07.520 I don't know,

00:16:07.960 he's got this energy about him

00:16:09.960 that I felt

00:16:10.500 it was a little awkward.

00:16:12.020 I don't know,

00:16:12.420 what do you think?

00:16:13.260 I was nervous to interview him

00:16:14.780 because I thought

00:16:15.540 he was so handsome

00:16:17.260 that I thought

00:16:18.400 I would be tongue-tied.

00:16:20.480 I thought,

00:16:21.040 I,

00:16:21.260 I,

00:16:21.520 my impression

00:16:22.100 before meeting him

00:16:23.100 was that he was so beautiful

00:16:24.860 I would be

00:16:26.200 intimidated somehow.

00:16:28.520 And,

00:16:29.140 you know,

00:16:29.460 I mean,

00:16:29.740 he's a generically

00:16:30.960 nice-looking man,

00:16:32.680 but he was not

00:16:33.700 so breathtaking

00:16:35.040 that I,

00:16:35.800 that was what I was struck by.

00:16:37.500 It was like,

00:16:38.120 oh,

00:16:38.340 yeah,

00:16:38.580 you're fine.

00:16:39.540 You're,

00:16:39.820 you know,

00:16:40.120 you're fine.

00:16:40.660 There are,

00:16:40.920 the other stars,

00:16:42.240 like,

00:16:42.600 we've talked about this before.

00:16:43.400 Viggo Mortensen.

00:16:44.160 Like a Viggo Mortensen.

00:16:45.800 I just can't,

00:16:46.700 I,

00:16:46.840 I have to have refused

00:16:48.080 all future interviews

00:16:49.300 with Viggo

00:16:49.740 because there's no point.

00:16:50.860 I'll just sit there

00:16:51.480 and go,

00:16:51.840 and Hugh Jackman's

00:16:55.840 another one.

00:16:56.280 Hugh Jackman is

00:16:57.120 everybody.

00:16:58.040 You have to,

00:16:58.500 you have to tell me first,

00:16:59.460 do you think Armie Hammer

00:17:00.500 is going to come back?

00:17:02.920 Well,

00:17:03.220 he's sort of

00:17:04.040 trying to come back.

00:17:05.860 I mean,

00:17:06.040 it wasn't there,

00:17:06.600 there was a documentary,

00:17:08.000 something about,

00:17:08.560 something he did

00:17:09.180 with his mother.

00:17:09.500 He was on a podcast.

00:17:10.940 Yeah.

00:17:11.140 Yeah.

00:17:11.500 Yeah.

00:17:11.780 He's got his social media

00:17:13.020 going again.

00:17:14.080 And I mean,

00:17:14.780 I'm sure.

00:17:15.800 But do you think

00:17:16.540 he's going to be back

00:17:17.160 in Hollywood though?

00:17:18.460 Yeah.

00:17:18.720 He just needs to find

00:17:19.580 the right role.

00:17:20.820 And that's kind of

00:17:22.000 what's nice about

00:17:22.800 being an actor is

00:17:23.900 you never get too old

00:17:25.800 to be an actor.

00:17:27.120 You look at,

00:17:27.960 in the glory days

00:17:29.620 of movies,

00:17:31.280 you look at stars

00:17:32.400 like Joan Crawford

00:17:33.320 and Bette Davis.

00:17:34.180 they were able to keep working

00:17:37.140 well into their 60s,

00:17:38.780 70s and beyond

00:17:39.820 just because of the camp value

00:17:42.280 of stardom.

00:17:44.740 You know,

00:17:45.000 if you're willing

00:17:45.960 to sort of become

00:17:47.760 a camp caricature

00:17:48.920 of your former self,

00:17:50.980 an actor can always

00:17:51.920 keep working.

00:17:52.560 You're never too old

00:17:53.880 to play old,

00:17:55.020 so keep getting old

00:17:56.180 and if you're willing

00:17:57.260 to play those parts.

00:17:58.340 So he has another 50 years

00:17:59.860 to come back.

00:18:00.380 Yeah, Armie Hammer

00:18:01.940 could come back,

00:18:02.900 but it might not be

00:18:04.980 an Oscar-winning,

00:18:06.580 acclaimed performance.

00:18:08.160 Maybe it will be,

00:18:09.360 but you have to,

00:18:10.340 if you really want

00:18:11.040 to work that badly,

00:18:12.100 you have to be willing

00:18:13.020 to take a pie in the face.

00:18:16.660 Yeah.

00:18:18.060 Yeah.

00:18:18.780 I feel like same thing

00:18:19.920 with Will Smith.

00:18:21.080 I still,

00:18:22.400 is he back?

00:18:23.380 I don't think

00:18:23.840 he's back either.

00:18:25.080 People have...

00:18:25.760 I don't think he's back,

00:18:27.040 but a lot of times,

00:18:29.060 oh, you know what?

00:18:29.620 I just got a great idea.

00:18:31.100 You're welcome,

00:18:31.880 Will Smith,

00:18:32.480 for this million-dollar idea

00:18:33.880 I just had.

00:18:35.300 But for him,

00:18:36.160 somebody like Will Smith,

00:18:37.120 who's undeniably

00:18:38.080 a terrific actor,

00:18:40.240 go away for a while,

00:18:41.920 let us forget about things,

00:18:43.460 let the dust settle,

00:18:45.020 and come back

00:18:46.160 playing something

00:18:47.100 like Bill Cosby.

00:18:49.340 He could play Bill Cosby

00:18:50.920 in a Bill Cosby biopic,

00:18:53.280 and if he does

00:18:53.940 a fantastic job,

00:18:55.280 if the writing's there,

00:18:56.280 the acting's there,

00:18:57.160 the director's there,

00:18:58.320 the directing's there,

00:18:59.220 you know,

00:19:00.220 that's the kind of thing

00:19:01.220 that can save

00:19:02.800 or resuscitate a career.

00:19:05.380 But will people hire him?

00:19:07.160 I think for Hollywood,

00:19:08.780 it's so risky

00:19:09.620 to hire people

00:19:10.920 that are so controversial

00:19:12.220 that they think,

00:19:13.380 okay,

00:19:13.660 could people potentially

00:19:15.360 just boycott this

00:19:16.320 because they don't want

00:19:17.820 to see Will Smith back,

00:19:19.240 or, you know,

00:19:20.120 there's so many risk factors here

00:19:21.720 that it's not only

00:19:22.920 if they want to play a role,

00:19:24.180 but, you know,

00:19:25.400 are they going to get opportunities?

00:19:27.640 Let's ask your viewers

00:19:28.760 in the comments,

00:19:29.760 please, tell us.

00:19:30.760 What do you think

00:19:31.340 is the right role

00:19:32.480 for Will Smith,

00:19:33.580 or should he just

00:19:34.740 retire altogether?

00:19:36.360 I don't think anybody

00:19:37.200 should retire.

00:19:37.580 I mean,

00:19:37.800 if you want to work

00:19:38.420 and are able to work,

00:19:39.260 I think you should be

00:19:39.880 allowed to work.

00:19:40.620 It just doesn't,

00:19:41.380 it doesn't mean

00:19:42.500 you're a star.

00:19:43.260 Maybe you do smaller things.

00:19:44.760 I use Hugh Jackman

00:19:45.780 as a great example.

00:19:47.040 There is no one

00:19:47.900 that doesn't,

00:19:50.420 you know,

00:19:50.800 as a performer,

00:19:52.760 love Hugh Jackman.

00:19:53.660 Super talented,

00:19:55.000 super great,

00:19:55.940 this, that,

00:19:56.280 and the other thing.

00:19:57.160 The breakup of his marriage

00:19:58.960 was the first thing

00:19:59.880 in all the decades

00:20:01.060 of Hugh Jackman

00:20:01.820 that has even remotely

00:20:03.500 tainted his reputation

00:20:05.400 for being stupendous.

00:20:07.820 That said,

00:20:09.960 he hasn't slowed down.

00:20:11.500 Thank God for Wolverine,

00:20:12.980 because Wolverine

00:20:14.000 enables him

00:20:15.020 to deliver box office.

00:20:17.500 He would love

00:20:18.500 to have an Oscar

00:20:19.320 for his acting,

00:20:20.600 but if you notice,

00:20:21.580 other than Les Mis,

00:20:22.800 and then the,

00:20:24.640 the sort of

00:20:25.340 the Marvel franchise,

00:20:27.280 he never gets

00:20:28.700 critical acclaim

00:20:29.920 for his film work,

00:20:31.560 you know,

00:20:32.280 as, as an actor.

00:20:33.260 Like,

00:20:33.520 it would be nice

00:20:34.200 for him to have

00:20:35.240 a great acting role.

00:20:36.940 That's never really,

00:20:37.840 really manifested.

00:20:39.900 So,

00:20:40.440 it didn't slow him down.

00:20:41.700 He went to Broadway.

00:20:42.760 He's been having

00:20:43.340 this tremendously

00:20:43.940 successful residency

00:20:45.520 with his musical theater work.

00:20:48.340 So,

00:20:49.000 you just have to be willing

00:20:50.240 to reinvent yourself,

00:20:51.500 and Hugh,

00:20:52.240 Hugh may never win

00:20:53.360 an Oscar for acting,

00:20:54.940 but he's a superstar

00:20:56.580 and he can do

00:20:57.380 whatever he wants.

00:20:58.620 Did you,

00:20:59.340 by the way,

00:20:59.880 I was talking about it

00:21:01.420 on my show,

00:21:02.540 did you watch

00:21:04.120 that Italian journalist

00:21:05.420 who interviewed

00:21:06.620 Julia Roberts

00:21:07.500 and Andrew Garfield

00:21:08.640 and Aya Ebediri

00:21:10.840 in Venice Film Festival?

00:21:13.620 No,

00:21:13.940 remind me.

00:21:14.340 what we lost

00:21:15.880 during the politically

00:21:17.560 correct era

00:21:18.800 and what we have

00:21:20.620 to expect in Hollywood

00:21:21.840 after the Me Too movement

00:21:23.680 and the Black Lives Matter

00:21:25.200 are done.

00:21:27.200 The two of you,

00:21:28.660 Andrew and Julia.

00:21:31.560 Well,

00:21:32.560 okay.

00:21:34.380 Can you repeat that?

00:21:36.800 And I,

00:21:37.380 with your sunglasses on,

00:21:38.360 I can't tell

00:21:38.800 which of us

00:21:39.360 you're talking to.

00:21:39.980 Oh,

00:21:40.340 this is so cringe.

00:21:41.680 I think I saw

00:21:42.160 a moment,

00:21:43.420 a moment from it.

00:21:44.880 There's nothing more

00:21:46.320 awkward

00:21:47.080 than

00:21:48.040 a celebrity

00:21:49.560 and a journalist

00:21:51.280 getting into it.

00:21:53.000 It's,

00:21:53.360 it's certainly awkward

00:21:54.200 for the journalist,

00:21:55.520 but

00:21:56.280 if,

00:21:57.000 if those actually

00:21:58.180 make it to air,

00:21:59.380 it's incredibly,

00:22:00.540 no one knows better

00:22:01.580 than you.

00:22:02.480 You,

00:22:03.200 you know,

00:22:03.680 you,

00:22:03.880 you have

00:22:04.800 a whole reputation

00:22:06.340 built on,

00:22:07.460 on an awkward moment

00:22:09.220 and

00:22:09.920 those

00:22:11.760 can be

00:22:13.080 certainly

00:22:13.620 cringeworthy,

00:22:14.620 but they're

00:22:15.320 defining

00:22:16.000 and I find

00:22:16.820 what's interesting

00:22:17.540 now is

00:22:18.520 we watch

00:22:19.440 the President

00:22:20.120 of the United States

00:22:21.680 and his press secretary

00:22:23.520 tangling

00:22:24.720 with journalists.

00:22:26.100 Now we see it

00:22:26.720 on almost

00:22:27.460 a daily basis,

00:22:28.740 so much so

00:22:29.620 that I think

00:22:30.280 this kind

00:22:31.220 of confrontation

00:22:32.080 could be

00:22:32.940 the new normal.

00:22:33.880 And

00:22:34.680 you have,

00:22:36.360 you have

00:22:37.040 the political

00:22:37.780 divide of celebrities,

00:22:39.360 which I think

00:22:40.020 is so interesting.

00:22:41.040 On the conservative

00:22:41.980 side,

00:22:42.740 you've got

00:22:43.380 Mark Wahlberg

00:22:44.520 and Chris Pratt

00:22:46.420 who are

00:22:47.080 unabashedly

00:22:48.200 sharing

00:22:49.260 their

00:22:50.060 Christian beliefs

00:22:51.380 with the audiences

00:22:53.120 and on the other

00:22:54.240 side,

00:22:54.700 you may,

00:22:55.040 maybe have

00:22:55.600 Rosie O'Donnell

00:22:57.060 and Ellen DeGeneres

00:22:58.280 who are leaving

00:22:58.880 the country

00:22:59.480 to live in Europe

00:23:00.540 and speaking out.

00:23:02.420 You've got

00:23:02.820 George Clooney

00:23:03.560 who vacillates

00:23:04.600 like you can

00:23:05.120 never quite tell

00:23:05.820 if George Clooney

00:23:06.500 is just endorsing

00:23:07.620 a candidate

00:23:08.160 or wants to be

00:23:09.140 a candidate

00:23:09.700 himself.

00:23:11.160 And I think

00:23:12.000 this is going to be,

00:23:13.260 if I could have

00:23:14.060 a crystal ball

00:23:14.820 into show business,

00:23:16.040 I think we're going

00:23:16.900 to start seeing

00:23:17.740 even more of that

00:23:19.080 with celebrities

00:23:19.940 sort of weighing in

00:23:21.860 strongly

00:23:22.860 with their

00:23:23.840 political beliefs.

00:23:24.960 But that is so scary

00:23:26.840 for them though.

00:23:27.640 There's,

00:23:28.080 I mean,

00:23:28.580 did you see

00:23:29.060 everything with

00:23:29.620 Gal Gadot

00:23:30.260 and Gerard Butler

00:23:31.300 that were

00:23:31.900 disinvited

00:23:33.040 to Venice

00:23:33.700 because of

00:23:34.460 their political

00:23:35.160 beliefs?

00:23:36.080 I think it's

00:23:36.760 so risky

00:23:37.340 sometimes

00:23:37.980 to have

00:23:38.960 opinions

00:23:39.640 and

00:23:40.860 Maybe it depends

00:23:41.960 on where in your

00:23:42.740 career you are.

00:23:43.900 Yeah,

00:23:43.920 exactly.

00:23:44.460 You have to make up

00:23:45.380 your mind

00:23:45.760 and do I want

00:23:46.500 to continue acting?

00:23:47.560 If I want to

00:23:48.080 continue acting,

00:23:49.060 then it's a

00:23:50.400 very slippery slope

00:23:51.600 if you feel

00:23:53.240 like a George Clooney

00:23:55.580 now,

00:23:56.080 maybe he's like,

00:23:57.160 okay,

00:23:57.340 I want to do

00:23:57.820 something else

00:23:58.380 with my life.

00:23:59.260 He's got a wife.

00:24:00.260 He's doing

00:24:00.920 really important stuff

00:24:02.560 and he might be

00:24:03.640 thinking that

00:24:04.140 but then it's

00:24:05.020 probably a good

00:24:05.940 idea to step

00:24:07.380 away from acting

00:24:08.120 and I think

00:24:08.520 if you have

00:24:09.360 opinions that

00:24:10.380 don't really

00:24:11.820 match with

00:24:13.540 the rest of

00:24:14.080 Hollywood,

00:24:14.920 then you should

00:24:15.780 probably not

00:24:16.640 say anything.

00:24:18.340 I mean,

00:24:18.860 the Sidney Sweeney

00:24:19.820 thing that happened

00:24:20.700 recently when she

00:24:21.500 got so much

00:24:21.980 backlash for

00:24:23.180 that jean

00:24:24.060 commercial.

00:24:25.140 And now she'll

00:24:25.580 never stop

00:24:26.100 working.

00:24:26.720 She's got ad

00:24:27.840 campaigns right

00:24:28.680 and left.

00:24:29.360 But she received

00:24:30.200 so much backlash

00:24:31.420 and everyone's

00:24:32.420 like,

00:24:32.700 look,

00:24:33.000 she's a

00:24:33.360 Republican.

00:24:34.460 Go get her,

00:24:35.580 you know?

00:24:36.060 So for her,

00:24:37.680 that was kind

00:24:38.340 of like,

00:24:38.900 you know,

00:24:39.460 I don't know,

00:24:40.340 is she just

00:24:40.920 going to sell

00:24:41.360 more jeans

00:24:42.080 or is it

00:24:42.640 going to be

00:24:43.160 good for her

00:24:43.700 career?

00:24:44.420 I don't know.

00:24:45.820 What do you

00:24:46.160 think?

00:24:46.840 I think she

00:24:47.520 will,

00:24:48.220 I think she

00:24:48.800 has to make

00:24:49.320 a decision.

00:24:50.020 Do I want

00:24:50.640 to be

00:24:51.300 a celebrity

00:24:52.740 and make

00:24:54.060 a lot of

00:24:54.680 money?

00:24:55.300 Or do I

00:24:55.860 want to be

00:24:56.580 an actress?

00:24:57.580 Do I want

00:24:57.920 to win an

00:24:58.480 Oscar for

00:24:59.160 my acting

00:24:59.840 ability?

00:25:00.500 Or do I

00:25:01.180 enjoy just

00:25:01.840 being a star

00:25:02.840 and making

00:25:04.120 a lot of

00:25:04.560 money and

00:25:04.900 having a lot

00:25:05.540 of notoriety?

00:25:06.360 She can be

00:25:07.060 a darling

00:25:07.760 to the right

00:25:08.980 at the moment

00:25:09.920 or she can

00:25:12.060 parlay it,

00:25:12.680 save her money

00:25:13.220 and then come

00:25:13.680 back and try

00:25:14.340 and do some

00:25:14.880 serious acting

00:25:15.580 role.

00:25:15.800 It's totally

00:25:16.600 up to her.

00:25:17.500 I think

00:25:18.340 this is a

00:25:19.300 time and

00:25:20.040 opportunity for

00:25:21.100 people if

00:25:22.180 they're going

00:25:22.740 to speak

00:25:24.860 out about

00:25:25.540 their beliefs,

00:25:26.280 they have to

00:25:26.820 put their

00:25:27.180 money where

00:25:27.940 their mouth

00:25:28.480 is.

00:25:29.240 So you've

00:25:29.700 got, like I

00:25:31.260 referenced Chris

00:25:32.240 Pratt and Mark

00:25:33.000 Wahlberg,

00:25:33.960 they're holding

00:25:35.460 true to their

00:25:36.200 beliefs about

00:25:37.640 Christianity and

00:25:39.080 they're unapologetic

00:25:40.680 about that,

00:25:41.460 so, but they

00:25:42.620 can afford to

00:25:43.600 be, they're at

00:25:44.180 a strata of

00:25:45.780 their own

00:25:46.360 stardom where

00:25:47.320 they can afford

00:25:47.920 to be that

00:25:48.500 way.

00:25:48.940 Same with, on

00:25:50.020 the other side,

00:25:51.120 Rosie and

00:25:52.040 Ellen, they can

00:25:53.060 afford to go

00:25:53.760 away and

00:25:54.800 complain from

00:25:55.780 the other side

00:25:56.420 of the ocean,

00:25:57.140 that's fair

00:25:57.640 enough.

00:25:58.200 You look at

00:25:58.780 somebody like

00:25:59.360 an Arnold

00:25:59.800 Schwarzenegger,

00:26:00.680 who was, I'm

00:26:02.000 old enough to

00:26:02.600 remember when

00:26:03.240 Arnold Schwarzenegger

00:26:04.000 was the biggest

00:26:04.720 action star in

00:26:06.060 the world who

00:26:07.320 managed somehow

00:26:09.900 to become

00:26:11.120 the Republican

00:26:12.340 governor of

00:26:13.740 California.

00:26:15.280 That is nuts.

00:26:17.700 When you think

00:26:18.340 about it, when

00:26:19.060 you look back

00:26:19.760 on it, it's

00:26:21.180 crazy.

00:26:22.260 And now,

00:26:23.340 because he's no

00:26:23.960 longer the

00:26:24.480 governor, he's

00:26:26.020 back to being

00:26:26.980 a movie star

00:26:27.960 again.

00:26:28.720 And he was

00:26:29.780 able to dip

00:26:30.660 in and dip

00:26:31.620 out.

00:26:32.420 That's another

00:26:32.860 interesting question

00:26:33.640 to pose to your

00:26:34.340 viewers.

00:26:35.060 What celebrities,

00:26:36.140 besides George

00:26:37.540 Clooney, we're

00:26:38.120 used to him,

00:26:39.160 what celebrities

00:26:40.060 were,

00:26:41.120 could be

00:26:41.700 potential future

00:26:43.060 leaders.

00:26:43.740 Would you

00:26:44.080 trust to lead

00:26:45.480 us?

00:26:46.780 Schwarzenegger was

00:26:47.480 a very effective,

00:26:48.700 I was a resident

00:26:49.440 of California

00:26:50.120 while Schwarzenegger

00:26:51.380 was in office.

00:26:52.100 He was a very

00:26:52.580 effective leader.

00:26:54.140 It won't be

00:26:54.540 Ryan Reynolds.

00:26:55.280 Ryan Reynolds

00:26:55.940 will not be

00:26:56.600 president.

00:26:57.460 I hope not.

00:26:59.700 Oh, but maybe

00:27:00.400 Blake Lively will.

00:27:02.100 She could be.

00:27:03.280 She could be.

00:27:04.200 No, please,

00:27:05.160 no.

00:27:05.420 Then I'm going

00:27:05.800 to have to go

00:27:06.380 find Rosie and

00:27:07.560 Ellen and move.

00:27:08.440 Okay, I'm going

00:27:09.480 to have to ask

00:27:10.000 your opinion

00:27:10.440 about something

00:27:11.080 else that

00:27:11.680 happened not

00:27:12.220 too long ago.

00:27:13.220 Did you see

00:27:13.880 that whole

00:27:14.840 stunt with

00:27:17.880 Pamela Anderson

00:27:18.980 and Liam Neeson

00:27:20.240 being a couple?

00:27:22.420 What was your

00:27:23.300 first thought?

00:27:24.300 Let me hear your

00:27:25.060 first thought on

00:27:26.120 that romance.

00:27:26.860 Nobody likes

00:27:28.140 to be punked.

00:27:29.460 Nobody.

00:27:30.260 And the funny

00:27:32.060 thing is,

00:27:32.760 God, okay.

00:27:34.240 So, good for

00:27:36.560 them.

00:27:36.980 I mean, it got

00:27:37.520 publicity.

00:27:38.160 It did what they

00:27:39.260 set out to do.

00:27:40.300 It got great

00:27:41.160 publicity for their

00:27:42.400 Naked Gun movie,

00:27:43.500 right?

00:27:44.100 So, what leaves

00:27:46.960 me a little

00:27:47.420 unsettled was

00:27:48.560 they manipulated

00:27:50.060 our sympathy

00:27:53.020 and empathy

00:27:54.720 for publicity.

00:27:57.720 We loved

00:27:59.680 seeing Pamela

00:28:00.560 Anderson take

00:28:01.480 off her

00:28:01.920 makeup and

00:28:02.660 embrace her

00:28:03.640 age and being

00:28:04.680 beautiful and

00:28:05.660 she's a survivor.

00:28:06.800 I mean, God,

00:28:07.320 which that woman

00:28:08.000 has been through.

00:28:09.260 So, we were so

00:28:10.040 happy for her to

00:28:11.060 finally have a

00:28:12.340 good, stable

00:28:13.040 relationship, so

00:28:14.060 we thought.

00:28:14.920 As for Liam,

00:28:16.560 this poor guy,

00:28:18.180 he's this sexy

00:28:19.960 action star,

00:28:21.140 great Oscar

00:28:21.840 winning actor,

00:28:23.240 tragically was a

00:28:24.640 widower, he has

00:28:26.000 found love again,

00:28:27.460 he has, that this

00:28:29.040 odd couple in

00:28:30.580 their golden

00:28:32.500 years have found

00:28:34.200 each other.

00:28:34.920 There was

00:28:35.180 something very

00:28:36.020 satisfying and

00:28:37.640 we felt good

00:28:39.220 about it.

00:28:40.180 And then it

00:28:40.560 turns out we

00:28:41.320 were tricked.

00:28:42.620 And I, that's

00:28:43.840 the problem.

00:28:43.940 But did you

00:28:44.040 believe it,

00:28:44.720 though?

00:28:44.900 Did you believe

00:28:45.520 it, Nelson?

00:28:46.020 I did believe

00:28:46.740 it.

00:28:46.940 I did believe

00:28:47.520 it because at

00:28:48.100 the end of the

00:28:48.540 day, I can tell

00:28:49.340 you that Liam

00:28:50.240 Neeson, for as

00:28:51.120 charming as he

00:28:51.820 is, he and

00:28:53.400 his late wife

00:28:55.140 were not living

00:28:56.160 together when she

00:28:57.020 passed away because

00:28:57.920 I know my best

00:28:58.660 friend lived in

00:28:59.240 their building and

00:28:59.900 I knew exactly

00:29:00.600 what was going

00:29:01.240 on.

00:29:01.940 They may have

00:29:03.040 loved each other

00:29:03.740 but they were

00:29:04.220 separated.

00:29:05.260 So I had a

00:29:06.280 little, and I

00:29:07.540 would see Liam

00:29:08.100 around the

00:29:08.540 neighborhood, that's

00:29:09.660 before he quit

00:29:10.280 drinking, I would

00:29:11.020 see him, you

00:29:11.780 know, out and

00:29:12.280 about and having

00:29:13.080 fun.

00:29:13.440 Before he quit

00:29:13.840 drinking.

00:29:14.760 Yeah, this was

00:29:15.320 before he quit

00:29:15.900 drinking.

00:29:16.160 So I sort of, I

00:29:19.980 did buy it.

00:29:20.760 I felt like, wow,

00:29:21.940 you know, at this

00:29:22.780 stage of his

00:29:23.540 life, he's grown

00:29:25.300 up, he's found a

00:29:26.100 stable relationship.

00:29:27.100 So yeah, I fell

00:29:28.480 for it and that

00:29:29.560 was the plan.

00:29:30.360 They executed,

00:29:32.080 whoever came up

00:29:32.880 with that scheme,

00:29:34.540 I hope they got a

00:29:36.740 Christmas bonus.

00:29:37.500 Yeah, because then

00:29:39.520 what I felt was so

00:29:41.020 shady about this

00:29:41.820 whole thing, so

00:29:42.840 then TMC broke

00:29:43.840 this story, it was

00:29:44.940 all a PR stunt,

00:29:46.520 they never, they

00:29:47.360 hadn't even been

00:29:48.000 in contact for a

00:29:49.180 year, but then

00:29:50.500 the next day, a

00:29:52.360 source went to

00:29:54.420 People magazine

00:29:55.300 and said, oh, it

00:29:56.460 wasn't a stunt,

00:29:57.860 they have a real

00:29:58.840 connection.

00:29:59.920 They were using

00:30:00.440 all these words

00:30:01.100 except confirming

00:30:02.540 that they actually

00:30:03.280 had a romantic

00:30:04.140 relationship.

00:30:05.600 So it was like

00:30:06.580 trying to protect

00:30:07.480 and it wasn't

00:30:08.260 a lie, but then

00:30:09.540 everyone was like,

00:30:10.480 well, you just

00:30:11.100 first said it was

00:30:11.840 true and then

00:30:12.340 it's not true and

00:30:12.980 now you're saying,

00:30:13.820 well, it's kind of

00:30:14.780 true because they're

00:30:15.420 actually friends

00:30:16.780 without saying that

00:30:18.200 it was romantic

00:30:19.100 and then Pamela

00:30:19.820 Anderson came out

00:30:20.920 and said like,

00:30:21.720 I don't want people

00:30:22.840 to talk about my

00:30:24.440 love life and

00:30:25.360 you know, she was

00:30:25.960 like, yes, and

00:30:28.480 they planted, we

00:30:29.580 know they planted

00:30:30.420 this exactly how

00:30:31.740 remember Lady Gaga

00:30:33.180 and Bradley Cooper,

00:30:34.800 how they pretended

00:30:35.740 that they were

00:30:36.320 having an affair

00:30:37.160 during, what's

00:30:39.100 the name of

00:30:39.520 the movie?

00:30:40.320 Star is Born.

00:30:41.520 Yes, it was

00:30:42.920 everywhere and

00:30:44.240 everyone's like,

00:30:44.940 oh, they're

00:30:45.400 together, we have

00:30:46.380 to watch this

00:30:47.000 movie.

00:30:48.120 Did you watch

00:30:48.860 The Naked

00:30:49.260 Gun because of

00:30:49.980 that?

00:30:50.660 No, I didn't.

00:30:51.960 That's the nice

00:30:52.640 thing about being

00:30:53.240 off the junket

00:30:54.000 circuit.

00:30:54.560 I don't have to

00:30:55.100 see any movies I

00:30:56.800 don't want to.

00:30:57.440 I basically just

00:30:58.420 binge watch series

00:30:59.260 now, but I

00:30:59.940 just, you know,

00:31:02.380 I don't know.

00:31:03.060 Good for them.

00:31:05.140 Nobody, nobody on

00:31:06.780 the planet has

00:31:07.660 seen more bad

00:31:08.640 movies than you

00:31:09.700 and I.

00:31:10.380 We have been

00:31:11.080 forced.

00:31:12.060 We have been,

00:31:12.660 oh, you've got

00:31:13.260 such a great job.

00:31:14.080 You get to see

00:31:14.580 movies for a

00:31:15.260 living.

00:31:15.600 I'm like, do

00:31:16.220 you know how

00:31:16.540 many bad

00:31:17.320 movies we have

00:31:18.560 to see for a

00:31:19.580 living?

00:31:20.800 Torturous.

00:31:21.720 And then you

00:31:22.600 sit there through

00:31:23.340 three hours of

00:31:24.540 movies and then

00:31:25.520 there's a Q&A

00:31:26.400 afterwards that

00:31:27.640 lasts for about

00:31:28.440 40 minutes with

00:31:30.120 everyone being

00:31:31.100 asked these like,

00:31:33.060 annoying questions

00:31:35.320 that are just

00:31:35.860 like kiss-ass

00:31:37.060 questions from

00:31:37.800 some kiss-ass

00:31:38.540 reporter that

00:31:39.260 they put there

00:31:39.880 and you don't

00:31:40.440 learn anything

00:31:41.160 and you're just

00:31:41.700 sitting there

00:31:42.140 like, I hope

00:31:43.180 there's some

00:31:43.660 food after this.

00:31:46.000 Well, you know

00:31:46.400 what, if one

00:31:47.920 good thing came

00:31:48.800 out of the

00:31:49.220 pandemic, it

00:31:50.340 was Zoom

00:31:51.460 junkets because

00:31:52.860 it saved us a

00:31:55.160 lot of time and

00:31:56.400 grief and

00:31:57.920 commuting to

00:31:59.340 get to a

00:31:59.980 screening and

00:32:00.700 out of the

00:32:01.320 screening and

00:32:02.300 then, you

00:32:02.840 know,

00:32:03.060 it's not the

00:32:05.020 same to

00:32:05.540 interview someone.

00:32:06.620 It definitely

00:32:07.720 is not as

00:32:08.500 magical when

00:32:09.600 you're interviewing

00:32:10.140 someone by a

00:32:11.040 Zoom as opposed

00:32:11.720 to in person.

00:32:12.640 But after

00:32:13.160 having done,

00:32:14.100 I don't know,

00:32:15.320 5,000 in-person

00:32:16.840 celebrity interviews

00:32:18.020 over the years,

00:32:19.540 I'll take the

00:32:20.160 Zoom.

00:32:20.520 I can just sit

00:32:21.100 in my pajamas

00:32:21.840 and have a

00:32:23.280 candy bar while

00:32:24.820 I'm waiting for

00:32:25.620 you to, you

00:32:26.180 know, get your

00:32:26.920 hair and makeup

00:32:27.400 done.

00:32:27.640 And then if

00:32:28.100 something really

00:32:28.700 awkward happens,

00:32:29.840 you can just

00:32:30.200 like hang up.

00:32:31.440 You don't have

00:32:32.180 to sit there in

00:32:33.040 the awkward,

00:32:33.880 like in

00:32:34.380 marinade in the

00:32:35.380 awkwardness and

00:32:36.280 be like, okay,

00:32:37.180 we have one more

00:32:38.100 minute.

00:32:38.480 I have nothing to

00:32:39.120 ask you because

00:32:39.700 you've been so

00:32:40.480 like rude to me

00:32:42.340 or whatever.

00:32:43.520 That's when I

00:32:44.180 knew I was

00:32:44.640 finished with

00:32:45.280 Vin Diesel because

00:32:46.640 I got on the

00:32:48.300 record about this

00:32:48.980 before.

00:32:49.340 The first time I

00:32:50.080 interviewed Vin

00:32:50.660 Diesel, he kept

00:32:52.880 us waiting like

00:32:53.560 overnight.

00:32:54.520 It didn't even

00:32:55.340 happen.

00:32:55.680 The second time

00:32:57.000 it was like

00:32:57.520 seven hours.

00:32:58.680 The third time,

00:32:59.700 I don't know,

00:33:00.140 it was four or

00:33:00.960 five hours.

00:33:03.140 The last time I

00:33:04.300 in-person interviewed

00:33:05.660 him, it was two

00:33:07.800 hours, like just

00:33:08.780 to keep us

00:33:09.860 waiting and to

00:33:11.040 be unapologetic

00:33:11.920 about it and

00:33:12.440 then just to show

00:33:13.120 up as if nothing

00:33:13.780 has happened.

00:33:14.560 You know, our

00:33:15.320 time is worth

00:33:16.160 something too.

00:33:17.520 But if we don't

00:33:18.160 get the interview,

00:33:19.080 I mean, in some

00:33:19.620 of our cases, if we

00:33:20.500 don't get the

00:33:20.980 interview, we

00:33:21.760 don't get paid.

00:33:23.740 So we have to

00:33:24.440 sit there.

00:33:25.000 Sometimes it's

00:33:25.880 20 minutes.

00:33:26.840 Sometimes if it's

00:33:27.620 Vin Diesel, it

00:33:28.280 could be two

00:33:28.760 days.

00:33:29.500 But I remember I

00:33:31.140 had a Vin Diesel

00:33:32.200 Zoom interview and

00:33:33.920 I thought, well, at

00:33:35.760 least I won't be

00:33:36.660 kept waiting for

00:33:37.460 seven hours or

00:33:38.380 something.

00:33:38.880 And I dialed into

00:33:39.980 the Zoom and it

00:33:42.160 was two hours.

00:33:44.260 I was able to get

00:33:45.180 up and go around

00:33:45.900 and, you know, do

00:33:47.000 things around the

00:33:47.840 house, but I had

00:33:49.920 to keep my ear on

00:33:51.120 the Zoom call

00:33:51.800 because it still,

00:33:53.020 even on Zoom, it

00:33:53.880 took him two

00:33:54.480 hours.

00:33:55.000 to show up.

00:33:56.600 Oh, I had

00:33:58.000 exactly the same

00:33:59.280 experiences with

00:34:00.160 him.

00:34:00.580 Seven hours, five

00:34:01.840 hours.

00:34:03.480 Yeah, it's always

00:34:04.140 around that.

00:34:05.240 And you're just

00:34:05.740 sitting there and

00:34:06.380 I remember once it

00:34:07.100 was like, oh, he's

00:34:07.820 just taking all the

00:34:08.720 rides.

00:34:09.380 We were at

00:34:09.960 Universal Studios

00:34:10.760 and he took his

00:34:11.700 kids to all the

00:34:12.660 rides at Universal

00:34:13.500 before he came to

00:34:14.920 the interview.

00:34:15.600 And we were like,

00:34:16.260 oh, yeah, that's

00:34:16.940 fine.

00:34:17.300 I don't have any

00:34:17.880 plans today or

00:34:18.940 tomorrow, so I can

00:34:20.000 just sit here and

00:34:20.900 wait for Vin Diesel

00:34:21.780 to be done.

00:34:23.040 I'll tell you a

00:34:23.640 secret.

00:34:24.180 I'll tell you a

00:34:24.580 secret.

00:34:25.620 So one time, it

00:34:27.000 was the last in

00:34:27.780 person where he

00:34:28.480 kept us waiting two

00:34:29.420 hours and I was

00:34:30.720 second in line for

00:34:32.620 the interview.

00:34:33.460 And some of us have

00:34:34.500 live shots we had to

00:34:35.680 get to.

00:34:36.180 Like we don't have

00:34:37.260 all day to get

00:34:37.900 around.

00:34:38.260 We have other

00:34:39.220 appointments to go

00:34:40.180 to.

00:34:40.740 So I was second in

00:34:41.860 line and I'm really,

00:34:43.240 you know, watching the

00:34:43.960 clock, watching the

00:34:44.680 clock.

00:34:44.860 And the person who

00:34:46.380 was first in line,

00:34:47.560 whose name I shall

00:34:48.520 not mention, but you

00:34:49.520 and I both know

00:34:50.440 her, she's a very

00:34:52.480 well-known Hungarian

00:34:53.900 journalist.

00:34:54.840 And when Vin came

00:34:56.200 in, she confronted

00:34:57.580 him and she went off

00:34:59.300 on him about being

00:35:00.780 late.

00:35:01.580 Of course she did.

00:35:03.040 And he, without

00:35:04.180 missing a beat, turned

00:35:05.620 it around on her by

00:35:07.600 saying, my kid was,

00:35:09.460 like he was blaming

00:35:10.040 it on one of his

00:35:11.060 kids.

00:35:11.380 His kid was sick or

00:35:12.420 something.

00:35:12.880 So he totally

00:35:13.880 deflected by making

00:35:16.460 her seem like the

00:35:17.440 bad guy because how

00:35:19.240 dare she call him

00:35:20.520 out for being late

00:35:21.540 if he had a sick

00:35:22.420 kid.

00:35:22.960 And I was just so

00:35:23.880 glad I was second.

00:35:25.600 But, oh, I'm sorry

00:35:26.600 to make sure.

00:35:27.660 Were you glad that

00:35:28.140 you were after her

00:35:29.020 after that happened?

00:35:30.200 Oh yeah, because I

00:35:30.920 came in like, hello,

00:35:32.260 I'm so sweet,

00:35:33.240 everybody loves me.

00:35:36.000 I remember when I

00:35:37.460 was like, after

00:35:38.760 someone who was

00:35:39.820 like, this was

00:35:40.820 actually Antonio

00:35:41.500 Banderas, who were

00:35:42.260 going to interview,

00:35:42.740 and he's such a

00:35:43.480 lovely guy, you

00:35:44.420 know?

00:35:45.120 And then this

00:35:46.000 journalist who was

00:35:47.300 like a news reporter

00:35:48.380 from Germany, she

00:35:49.320 was like, I'm going

00:35:50.260 to ask him why he

00:35:51.360 makes such a terrible

00:35:52.820 movie.

00:35:53.420 It's awful.

00:35:54.440 And I was like,

00:35:55.320 oh, I remember

00:35:56.860 sitting there, I'm

00:35:57.640 like, I was supposed

00:35:58.320 to go after her.

00:35:59.440 And I'm like, he's

00:36:00.180 going to be in such

00:36:00.780 bad mood when I

00:36:01.840 enter that room.

00:36:02.640 So I found someone

00:36:03.560 else to put like a

00:36:04.720 buffer before me.

00:36:06.580 So I didn't have to

00:36:07.680 go in after her.

00:36:09.560 And anyways, and

00:36:10.520 Antonio Banderas,

00:36:11.640 isn't he the

00:36:12.280 sweetest?

00:36:12.800 Was he nice to

00:36:13.540 you after all

00:36:14.280 that?

00:36:15.200 He was super

00:36:15.900 nice.

00:36:16.680 Very, very nice.

00:36:18.100 I would see him

00:36:19.080 at the gym.

00:36:19.960 I would see him at

00:36:20.860 the Four Seasons

00:36:21.880 gym in Beverly

00:36:23.040 Hills.

00:36:24.360 And the thing, I

00:36:25.160 would see a lot of

00:36:25.860 stars there.

00:36:26.660 I mean, you work

00:36:28.120 out harder when

00:36:28.980 Chris Hemsworth is

00:36:29.860 doing weights right

00:36:30.780 next to you.

00:36:31.480 You're like, oh, I

00:36:32.160 think I can go

00:36:32.760 another 10 minutes.

00:36:33.800 If Chris Hemsworth

00:36:34.580 can do that, I can

00:36:36.200 do 10 more minutes

00:36:37.000 on the treadmill.

00:36:37.460 But there's Antonio

00:36:38.920 Banderas, six in the

00:36:40.460 morning in the gym,

00:36:41.820 stretching.

00:36:43.140 He wasn't working

00:36:44.060 out.

00:36:44.280 He was like doing

00:36:44.920 yoga poses.

00:36:46.180 Yes.

00:36:46.640 He told me that

00:36:47.540 actually in that

00:36:48.380 interview that he

00:36:49.120 loves yoga.

00:36:50.100 The question is not

00:36:51.020 tall.

00:36:51.760 The question, the

00:36:52.360 real question is, how

00:36:53.520 do you deal with this

00:36:54.740 physicality at your

00:36:55.980 54?

00:36:57.140 That's what you want

00:36:57.900 to say, right?

00:36:59.440 Well, try just to run

00:37:02.000 in the morning and do

00:37:02.940 yoga and do things

00:37:03.840 like that to keep

00:37:04.460 myself in good shape.

00:37:05.420 He's a man of a

00:37:06.400 certain age.

00:37:07.100 I mean, I'm willing

00:37:07.720 to bet he's around

00:37:08.540 my age.

00:37:09.300 I find that I get

00:37:10.980 stiffer, you know, it

00:37:12.560 takes me a little

00:37:13.220 longer to warm up and

00:37:15.160 cool down.

00:37:16.080 But he can twist

00:37:17.440 himself up like a

00:37:18.420 pretzel.

00:37:18.820 I've never seen

00:37:19.340 anything like it.

00:37:20.160 And he's much thinner

00:37:21.720 than I ever realized.

00:37:23.920 He's very lean.

00:37:25.640 He was quite

00:37:26.740 impressive.

00:37:27.580 I feel a lot of male

00:37:29.320 actors and females,

00:37:30.740 for that matter, are so

00:37:31.900 much smaller and leaner

00:37:33.420 in real life.

00:37:34.220 I sometimes meet

00:37:35.440 celebrities.

00:37:36.140 Brad Pitt is this thing.

00:37:36.740 Brad Pitt is this thing.

00:37:38.140 Brad Pitt is the

00:37:38.380 tiniest butt is like

00:37:39.680 this.

00:37:40.060 I want to show you

00:37:40.680 something.

00:37:41.800 Hold on.

00:37:42.780 Hold on.

00:37:47.840 This was my first book.

00:37:49.860 Let's Dish Up a Dinner

00:37:50.900 Party.

00:37:51.520 And you see that silver

00:37:54.720 suit that I'm wearing?

00:37:56.080 Yes.

00:37:57.040 I borrowed it from a

00:37:58.500 place in Burbank called

00:38:00.040 It's a Wrap.

00:38:01.140 And It's a Wrap, I

00:38:02.440 think it's still there,

00:38:03.120 It's a Wrap, has movie

00:38:05.320 star and film, wardrobe,

00:38:07.940 clothing, things like that.

00:38:09.200 And I knew I was doing the

00:38:10.720 shoot for this book cover

00:38:11.700 and I wanted it to look

00:38:12.780 very Hollywood.

00:38:13.500 This was 20, 25 years ago.

00:38:15.460 So this was Brad Pitt's

00:38:18.020 suit.

00:38:19.320 I think I must have

00:38:21.040 confessed this before.

00:38:22.500 I'm five foot seven.

00:38:22.860 No, I've never heard this.

00:38:24.220 I'm five foot seven.

00:38:25.300 I'm not tall.

00:38:26.600 I wore his suit.

00:38:28.580 I got the suit.

00:38:29.400 I couldn't get the waist

00:38:30.900 buttoned because his waist

00:38:32.440 is so small.

00:38:33.340 I think at the time I was a

00:38:34.440 30 inch waist.

00:38:36.200 And so he was at least a

00:38:37.880 28 inch waist.

00:38:39.600 But I did not have to

00:38:41.580 shorten the pants.

00:38:43.160 I don't know how tall Brad

00:38:44.800 Pitt says he is, but I'm

00:38:46.600 five seven and those pants

00:38:48.060 fit me lengthwise.

00:38:49.400 He's shorter than, he's

00:38:50.580 definitely shorter than me.

00:38:51.980 I've met him.

00:38:52.860 Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt.

00:38:54.340 Yeah.

00:38:54.620 I don't know.

00:38:55.280 I don't know how tall, we

00:38:56.700 talked about Jason, what's

00:38:58.400 his name?

00:38:59.080 Jason Statham.

00:39:00.140 Little, little.

00:39:01.160 Tiny, tiny.

00:39:02.900 Who's the, who's the, Guy

00:39:04.260 Pierce.

00:39:05.000 I don't know how tall Guy

00:39:06.320 Pierce is.

00:39:07.120 My mom says it's all the

00:39:08.180 same lying down anyway.

00:39:09.740 But Guy Pierce, he is thin.

00:39:14.260 And I love Guy Pierce.

00:39:16.280 Guy Pierce in the Mildred

00:39:17.380 Pierce miniseries.

00:39:19.180 Like that's, that's what,

00:39:20.980 that's my dream of what I

00:39:22.200 want to look like.

00:39:22.880 Guy Pierce, I think is

00:39:24.280 terrific.

00:39:24.600 And the best compliment I

00:39:25.860 ever got from a celebrity

00:39:27.100 twice, Morgan Freeman.

00:39:29.400 I sat down with Morgan

00:39:30.720 Freeman and he told me, you

00:39:32.400 look like that Australian

00:39:33.500 actor, Guy Pierce.

00:39:34.760 And I was like, I will take

00:39:36.820 that.

00:39:37.340 I, I would need to lose 50

00:39:39.020 pounds to be as thin as

00:39:41.440 Guy Pierce.

00:39:42.540 I don't think I've met him

00:39:43.960 actually, but I, but you

00:39:45.540 know, it's funny you said

00:39:46.960 Brad Pitt because he was the

00:39:48.300 first time I met him.

00:39:49.600 That was the first thing I

00:39:50.940 was thinking like, wow, he's

00:39:53.760 so thin.

00:39:55.080 Another good work.

00:39:57.260 Good work, Brad Pitt.

00:39:58.800 Keep doing what you're

00:39:59.720 doing.

00:40:00.220 He looks really good.

00:40:01.580 He looks amazing.

00:40:02.800 He's doing the right thing.

00:40:04.200 Tom Cruise, on the other

00:40:05.160 hand.

00:40:06.520 Oh, even your dog react to

00:40:08.580 that.

00:40:09.300 That's good.

00:40:10.500 That's funny.

00:40:11.380 Even your, even your dog is

00:40:12.660 bothered by Tom Cruise.

00:40:14.940 He's like, what?

00:40:16.360 No, I don't think I like that

00:40:18.140 guy.

00:40:19.660 Yeah.

00:40:20.100 I mean, I like Tom Cruise

00:40:21.700 when I'm in, but everything

00:40:22.600 else about him is a little

00:40:23.720 shady.

00:40:24.620 So, yeah.

00:40:25.640 Brad Pitt started out as my

00:40:27.560 friend's pool boy before he

00:40:29.740 became a star.

00:40:30.840 My friend was a soap opera

00:40:32.460 writer and lived in Palm

00:40:34.320 Springs, California.

00:40:35.980 And Brad Pitt was his pool

00:40:37.800 boy.

00:40:39.140 And he just thought Brad was

00:40:40.740 and Brad said, all I want to

00:40:42.480 do is have kids and sit on the

00:40:44.380 front porch, not the back

00:40:45.640 porch.

00:40:46.140 All I want to do is sit on the

00:40:47.000 front porch and watch my kids

00:40:48.360 play.

00:40:49.060 That was Brad Pitt's career

00:40:50.860 goal.

00:40:51.540 He wanted to be an actor who

00:40:52.760 would have a bunch of kids

00:40:53.820 and he'd sit on the front

00:40:55.220 porch of his house and watch

00:40:56.320 them play.

00:40:56.940 As a, as a young, young man,

00:40:58.800 that was his dream while he

00:41:00.600 was cleaning the pool.

00:41:01.720 And he wrote poetry and he

00:41:03.440 was, he was very esoteric.

00:41:05.920 Well, not, not esoteric, the

00:41:07.160 opposite of esoteric.

00:41:08.140 He was, he was very artistic

00:41:10.520 and very deep.

00:41:11.940 And my friend created a role for

00:41:14.360 him on the soap opera,

00:41:15.480 another world.

00:41:17.500 And Brad played on, on

00:41:19.500 another world for a couple

00:41:20.560 of days and produce, I was

00:41:22.560 working there at the time

00:41:23.500 and the producers did not

00:41:25.000 like him.

00:41:25.660 They thought he wasn't

00:41:26.940 talented enough.

00:41:28.100 They thought he had bad

00:41:29.180 skin.

00:41:29.820 They didn't think he was

00:41:30.580 sexy.

00:41:31.420 And so they didn't let him

00:41:33.160 pursue that.

00:41:34.460 And I think then, you know,

00:41:35.520 the next thing he got was

00:41:36.540 Dallas.

00:41:37.100 Wasn't he on Dallas and from

00:41:38.840 Dallas, Thelma and Louise

00:41:40.340 and the rest is history.

00:41:42.940 Wow.

00:41:43.800 Was they, they were wrong.

00:41:46.040 Yeah.

00:41:46.460 I wonder if he skims his

00:41:48.040 own pool.

00:41:48.940 Something tells me he does

00:41:50.140 not.

00:41:51.500 Not anymore.

00:41:53.200 He might sit on the porch.

00:41:54.480 I hope we get to see his

00:41:55.620 kids a little bit.

00:41:56.820 Okay.

00:41:57.140 So let's talk about your

00:41:58.560 projects because you always

00:42:00.700 have something to share with

00:42:02.040 us because you're doing all

00:42:03.180 these amazing things and we

00:42:05.820 really need people to come and

00:42:07.760 support you and to watch

00:42:09.860 your stuff.

00:42:10.220 So let us know what are you

00:42:11.440 up to now, Nelson?

00:42:12.540 This has been the year of

00:42:14.460 Titanic because my latest

00:42:17.200 novel, Kindred Spirits, a

00:42:20.200 Titanic tale.

00:42:21.500 It's a historical fantasy

00:42:23.000 based on the life of one

00:42:24.900 particular passenger who

00:42:26.180 perished aboard the Titanic.

00:42:28.000 I have a podcast called

00:42:29.660 Titanic Talk and that's what

00:42:31.620 has accelerated my interest in

00:42:34.080 all things Titanic.

00:42:35.240 And I have been traveling the

00:42:37.440 world this year from Belfast,

00:42:40.720 Northern Ireland, where the

00:42:41.800 Titanic was built, to London,

00:42:44.120 to California, New York,

00:42:46.000 Boston, Baltimore, to promote

00:42:48.640 the book and tell Titanic

00:42:50.020 stories, which has been very

00:42:52.100 rewarding.

00:42:53.000 We're kind of in the early

00:42:54.340 stages of possibly film

00:42:56.140 development for the story,

00:42:57.960 which is very exciting.

00:42:59.280 And what's notable is it's the

00:43:01.460 first, it's the first gay

00:43:03.400 Titanic story.

00:43:04.940 I always tell people like,

00:43:06.540 you know what?

00:43:07.400 There were gay people on the

00:43:08.780 Titanic.

00:43:09.460 I know you didn't see it in

00:43:10.720 Jim Cameron's movie, but you

00:43:12.560 know, there've always been gay

00:43:13.900 people, including on the

00:43:15.200 Titanic.

00:43:15.600 And I'm telling this story.

00:43:17.960 And that's that's a nice hook.

00:43:20.460 But it's also I think it's a

00:43:21.700 it's a cool, cool story.

00:43:24.740 And I am I've been

00:43:26.960 commissioned to go on a

00:43:29.160 transatlantic voyage on the

00:43:30.960 Queen Mary to on the exact

00:43:33.500 route of Titanic from

00:43:35.200 Southampton, England, to New

00:43:37.660 York.

00:43:38.060 And I will be speaking about

00:43:39.540 Titanic over the site of the

00:43:41.640 wreck, which is going to be a

00:43:43.080 thrill for me.

00:43:44.240 And then next year, I'm just

00:43:47.320 we're in the planning stages

00:43:48.600 now.

00:43:49.000 Anybody who wants to come

00:43:50.140 along can come along.

00:43:52.040 Woo!

00:43:52.660 Did you hear that, guys?

00:43:54.120 I am leading.

00:43:55.040 We'll put we'll put all the

00:43:56.000 links up.

00:43:56.660 I'm leading a two week tour to

00:43:59.220 Ireland, starting in Dublin

00:44:01.220 and ending up in Belfast at the

00:44:03.980 Titanic Museum in Belfast.

00:44:05.860 And it's not a tour all about

00:44:07.380 the Titanic.

00:44:07.980 It will be when we get to

00:44:09.120 Belfast, because that's the

00:44:10.540 history of Belfast.

00:44:12.000 But it's a two week experience

00:44:13.980 where I can give you all this

00:44:15.380 kind of showbiz dirt in person.

00:44:17.780 And we we go on this amazing

00:44:21.260 tour of all these notable

00:44:22.820 places in Ireland.

00:44:23.820 And on the website, it has a

00:44:25.560 breakdown of what the itinerary

00:44:26.960 will be.

00:44:27.660 They take care of the airfare,

00:44:29.240 the hotels, the meals.

00:44:30.720 It's all it's all done for you.

00:44:32.560 So we just get to go and have

00:44:34.560 this amazing Irish adventure.

00:44:37.160 And this will be my fourth

00:44:38.680 trip to Ireland.

00:44:39.660 And I got to tell you, I don't

00:44:40.780 have a drop of Irish blood in me,

00:44:42.960 but Ireland is an amazing

00:44:44.600 place to go.

00:44:46.220 Oh, that's so cool.

00:44:47.540 What month is this going to be?

00:44:48.900 That's October of 2026.

00:44:51.440 OK, so plenty of time here to get

00:44:53.860 it planned.

00:44:54.580 But we're signing up people now

00:44:56.080 because, you know, we got to we

00:44:57.480 got to get it.

00:44:58.680 It's a long way away, but it's a

00:45:00.400 big trip.

00:45:00.860 So people have to plan.

00:45:02.960 So, yeah, I'm really excited about

00:45:04.540 that and doing, you know,

00:45:07.120 Kindred Spirits, Titanic Tale.

00:45:08.760 I'm going to be heading to Hong Kong

00:45:10.280 and Sydney, Australia in

00:45:12.940 December to promote that.

00:45:14.920 All the details are on my

00:45:16.040 Web site and I always update my

00:45:17.620 Instagram with where I'm going to

00:45:19.100 be and what I'm going to be doing.

00:45:20.600 So all my Australian friends, I

00:45:22.200 hope you'll come out and support

00:45:23.220 us.

00:45:23.860 I'll be doing an event in Sydney

00:45:25.380 with Melissa Doyle.

00:45:26.620 Any Australians who know me also

00:45:29.200 know Melissa Doyle.

00:45:31.340 And that'll be great.

00:45:33.120 And off we, you know, it's like

00:45:34.480 2026.

00:45:35.520 We'll be here before we know it.

00:45:36.960 I'll be releasing two books next

00:45:38.560 year, including my first

00:45:39.980 children's book, which is kind of

00:45:42.120 cold because, you know, my books

00:45:43.680 are not for children.

00:45:45.720 So it'll be exciting.

00:45:47.200 I'm cleaning up my act for that

00:45:49.020 one.

00:45:50.040 This is so amazing.

00:45:51.180 So I'm going to leave all the

00:45:52.580 links to this stuff in the

00:45:54.040 description so you can go through

00:45:55.720 everything and also your books,

00:45:57.900 of course, that we talked about

00:45:59.240 before.

00:46:00.380 Dancing Between the Raindrops.

00:46:01.880 The third part of that trilogy is

00:46:04.140 coming out in February of next

00:46:06.160 year.

00:46:06.600 So busy, busy, busy.

00:46:07.840 I never would have thought after

00:46:09.900 30 years of doing morning TV.

00:46:12.320 I thought, oh, what am I going to

00:46:13.380 do?

00:46:14.060 Oh, my God, I've never been busier.

00:46:15.760 And it's so it's so rewarding.

00:46:18.120 What I'm doing is it's amazing.

00:46:20.580 I get to write every day.

00:46:23.300 So well deserved.

00:46:24.340 All your success, Nelson.

00:46:25.760 You're my favorite person in the

00:46:27.320 junket circuit.

00:46:28.140 And it's so nice to have you here.

00:46:29.780 And you always deliver the tea.

00:46:31.600 And I love it so much.

00:46:33.620 Get your sweet behind to New York

00:46:36.320 as soon as possible.

00:46:37.360 I owe you a beautiful dinner.

00:46:39.460 Oh, that would be amazing.

00:46:40.880 Can we fall some talk?

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