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Nobody told you

life

was going to be like this, that was really good, do it again, so I guess nobody told you

life

was going to be like this. College courses on Buffy, they're Buffy studies, there are, you can, there are books about that. there is some sort of philosophical discussion so there are classes that I haven't personally attended but I think it's just all the theories about what was actually said and the psychology behind the monsters and what they really represented or just my hair, you should. Show up and do a seminar or something. I mean, I would love to, but it would be a huge disappointment because people come up to me on Do You Remember an Episode?

You know, season five, episode four, and I'm like, "Oh, I could." tell me what happened in it and it was I was I was I Buffy in that one too did you live you lived no no actually I didn't die many times yes I died many times I'm an idiot um and in the night I'm right to call you yeah that's it cool, okay, so you're famous for directing these movies that have a very twisty plot and surprises and shocks along the way and I heard you in an interview talk about how you don't do that.

I think there's ever a moratorium on spoiler alerts that you should never give spoilers. Mind you, I am, you know, even today I was doing interviews for the new movie. This movie was like never before, in this life, the one we went to, we were at the premiere yesterday and all these influencers were now at the premiere and they're kids and they say I just saw this movie. Amazing how you saw it yesterday, you know, it's like this new generation is watching these movies, so I tell them don't say anything, no, you don't say anything to your children, please let them watch, so I.

I tell you the most embarrassing thing oh no, did you tell the ending? No, no, in that movie, um, no, I mean my relationship, it almost was, but no, it's a Freddie prison story. We've all seen the Sixth Sense here, oh my god, I know. We're all going to see a deaf person in a minute of the movie and I said something that came out like, oh, that's it, and my husband didn't watch a movie with me for 15 years, rightfully so, so for years I forgot about it until I just saw you here, yeah, I have PTSD, you went brunette in Legally Blonde, well, it was kind of a mustard color, yeah, yeah, they said the colors, you know, the baddest hair color and loser you can think of and the thing is You're the one that when you play the loser in a movie you get treated like that on set and you just say you know I mean if I was like I talked to him like he would like it leave me breathless in coffee. at craft service or something because you know you forget you have big clown shoes and you know you have mustard hair and they put these fake pimples on your face and everything, so you're like, hey, me.

I was flirting with the storm in that movie and I was just, I was very limited and here's a strange thing: you don't know many of these people David Schwimmer you're sitting next to a unicorn uh Mark Ruffalo tell David an interesting fact about you , you know the fact that I come from Kenosha Wisconsin, that's one of them, no, you've never seen friends, have you seen like? I've seen many parts of the script for the episodes and I read the first one, uh, in the first one. episode of episodes and it was like uh and who's going to be on your

show

Matt LeBlanc and I had to Google it no no so yeah I'm so sorry honey one person and then the rest of the

show

was just going to be big for you.

Well, Nick, do you know who he is? So what comedy is it? We touched on it briefly there, the idea of ​​being vegan if you really like the environment and being vegan and yeah, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I really care about the people on the planet and the animals and there's so much suffering that's unnecessary, so it's really wonderful to eat well and I'm with you, I'm with you, I have the hybrid car. I have dogs all that, but you, your dog is vegan and my four dogs, his farts must be terrible. They used to fart when they were not vegetarians.

They farted a lot, but now that they are, they are vegan. Don't fart anymore, aren't you afraid of being torn and eaten? It hasn't happened yet. I have dogs that are very big and they were all rescues, so you should know that you don't know where they are. I come and there are one of them 17. He is huge and holds up. I think they do better because they are vegan. Do you think he is waiting for meat before he dies? No, he's fine when they're in Nuevo. York, they have eaten meat because people don't know that they are vegan and you know, on the streets of New York they gather and the dogs don't know that they are vegan.

Looks delicious, just going back to Legally. Blonde, there was something, last year, you must want to make headlines, President Trump, he gave the commencement speech, oh yeah, yeah, and then it turned out it had a close resemblance to Elle's commencement speech, yeah, yeah , he did, yeah, was it Jimmy Fallon? Who discovered this? I know it was on the Internet. I know it was yeah, maybe it was on Jimmy's show. If you haven't seen it, it's amazing, we're just going to show you what we're going to take our next steps on. the world you should go out into the world is with passion, passion, courage of conviction, courage in your convictions and a strong sense of self, be true to yourself.

I did, no I've never seen that I've always fallen down YouTube rabbit holes and completely missed that it's true he's better when he sticks to the script do you know how that happened or is he just a fan of the movie? I'm sure he's a big fan because they play Samantha, people have to. just assume that they can sleep with you I think they think they already have, but no, seriously, I mean, I know, I'm serious, not because they feel like you know because the show was about sexuality and in a lot of situations and different places. with a little bit of venting, yeah, um, that they feel like you know that's something that they can imagine in their mind, but for most of the series I was married and the last season, um, I wasn't and it was pretty scary because the men were actually scared. from me because they felt that I was just a carnivore and they wouldn't stand a chance.

I read somewhere that women are really inappropriate about the things they just mention and tell you about their partners and their own sex lives. A man came up to me at the fish counter and said it's the atmosphere, it's all your fault, don't blame me and he told me to say "I really have to thank you" and I thought "oh why was he so attractive and had a a younger girl with him obviously his daughter, said because without you and this show I wouldn't have been able to really talk about oral sex and the dangers of that with my daughter.

I said thank you very much. I know, so it can be a a. uncomplicated but at the same time maybe it's a conversation that should happen between father and son, not only from a mother's point of view but also from a father's point of view, probably not between them and you, although no, no, that conversation never happened, no, no one else, although someone else had a big influence on Leonardo DiCaprio's career. I turned to Paul Rudd, well you did, although I probably don't know, I don't think he had one. influence, but sometimes you know, looking back, you find yourself in some interesting conversations and

moment

s in time and I worked with Leonardo on Romeo and Juliet and at the time my father was making a living he was an expert on Titanic and he used to wear people all over the world talking about the Titanic, I couldn't go to universities and Yeah, uh, and it was my last day of filming Romeo and Juliet and then we all went to a bar, all of us guys were a group of guys working on the movie, so we were in different cars and I was driving.

I went to the place with Leo and he said they just offered me this movie, but it's a big movie, it needs to be made in the movies to that point, he said it's big, it's a studio movie, it's a Titanic and I told him Which is amazing and I knew a lot about Titanic because my dad just talked about it and we had a conversation about it and he was saying, you know, I don't know what I'll do. I remember saying you should do it. I don't think I did. Anyone can say that, but it's interesting to remember that yes, there was a time when she could have done it, yes, because she did it, she did it, she made the movie, did you contact other people like Jerry Halliwell, did you call her and say, okay?

If I put that story in there about no, I haven't done that, but bad, it's just that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she doesn't, she doesn't love it, but no, I see you were dating at the time, well, we . We were dating, we were friends and you know, I used to have this flat in Notting Hill and the window was quite public, it was a quite public flat and I was watching TV and a bus pulled up. and it would be the top deck and it would be like watching Robbie Williams watching TV every 20 minutes and on that particular night, Jerry was in the apartment and, I don't know how, but there were 20 to 25 paparazzi outside. and they were letting the flashlights go out like this trying to get us to go to the window and I thought I'd call the police and see what my rights are and I don't want to bother the police but I would like to know because this is weird and the police are He approached me and I told him: I'm very sorry to have you near me.

I don't want to be an obstacle, but I have all these paparazzi and I just want to know what my rights are and the policeman says can I stop you? Yeah and he said that when you start your career is when you want the press, isn't that okay? So when the press wants something from you, you don't like it, right? I'm thinking, oh no, I have a cop in my house and Jerry Halliwell hiding in the closet right next to the pizza in this conversation and I'm like, oh, now I have to get him out because I don't want to get scolded, you know, and I'm like , oh yeah, thanks buddy, thanks for coming, you're right, sorry, take off your cap, he left and I was like, oh Jerry, there's nothing we can do. about the paparazzi and us, we should get out of here and I had the great idea of ​​putting it on a whole door and that literally put it in this duffel bag.

I put her over my shoulder and like the paparazzi were taking pictures and I Hey guys, she had a car and I put her in the trunk of a car, which is funny when we got to the gas station and I had a KFC. I could have let her out, you know, they had a career that many actors would have liked to know were on TV shows and making a living much later in my life. It took me a long time to get there. I did a lot of very questionable work. They were jobs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, and then, but. then ER came along and everything

changed

, yeah, and I read, and if you can point to the

moment

when you stopped being a fallen actor and that's a good look, that was the moment, I don't remember, they showed that picture and then they cut it out. for you and they say oh oh yeah.

I remember a moment because you know there's a moment when you're getting famous is when they actually know your name and I remember being in New York, I think after, because you know the show came out. and people forget what kind of numbers our show had, but in the United States that we were doing, we had shows that we did with 45 million people watching, you know, the biggest show will have 15 or 20 if it's 18 million people, we were averaging 35 and 40 million people, so it was overnight, one of those, everyone was obsessed with the show. We were on the cover of Newsweek after about two weeks, so we came out of complete obscurity, you know, knowing who we are, actually, well, we filmed. the pilot and the show were picked up and we all walked across the street, there's a place called Smokehouse, which is a restaurant to eat, it was like all the actors Tony Edwards, Juliana Margaritas, we were all dressed in our Dr. schmox because we're doing a show , but the show hasn't aired yet and Tony has a little boy who he gives a french fry and he starts choking on the fries and now you have six actors, someone do something. hahaha everyone in the restaurant says that some people never go to that hospital no, no, that's a terrible husband.