Transcript of "Margot Robbie"

Hey, Will. Good morning. How are you today?

Hey, Sean. Yeah, good morning. I'm good, too.

I set my thermostat, even though it's winter. Oh, my God.

Hang on. Fucking let me sit down for this. Okay, go ahead.

I set my thermostat to put the air conditioning on because everybody in my building in New York has the heat on. At night, I'm sleep with the air conditioning on. Isn't that dumb?

No, it's not dumb. I'm just trying to think of a synonym right now. You know what? It's Smartless. Welcome to Smartless. Smart.

Smart. Les. Smart. Les. Smart. Les. Smart. Les.

So, Sean- Hey. Yeah, now- I'm just happy to be here.

Shut up.

This is incredible.

This is amazing.

Jason, don't talk to him like that. Hang on. Sean, shut up.

Sean, you're on Eastern time, so he's more cups of coffee into his day than we are.

Sean, he never lets it show. He works his freaking tail off. He's there in rehearsal doing this play, and then he just shows up, and he doesn't complain.

Do you ever hear that? Well, live with me.

Let me ask Crankerville. Crankerville, do you notice?

I've never heard you complain about anything. He doesn't, right?

I do. I Well, I would- No, it's- Scotty.

Scotty's like, all he does is complain.

Scotty's listening in that way.

Wait, is Scotty always on the extra set of kids?

Not always, but a lot of times he listens just for fun. I love it.

Now, Sean, you haven't... I got a full night of Willy's new look last night.

Oh, right. I got it the other night.

He just looks so goddamn handsome with this facial hair. Look at He cut his hair.

Yeah, you never grow your beard out.

I know. Thank you.

Where are your rings, Willy? Did you get to keep the rings?

I had the rings. I know.

For Tracy, Will's doing this big film to follow up the other film.

It's for a It's not for a... Is it for a part? Yeah.

It's for the thing I just did with Tony Gilroy.

Well, say what it is. Tony Gilroy is directing you and Pedro Pascal, and who else?

Olivia Wild and a lot of great people. It's called Behemoth.

It's very cool that you're part of that.

Yeah, it was really fun. It was really fun that they asked me to-Well, wait, are you playing some fucking stud? Because you're looking like it. No, I can't really say anything because I realized that they haven't said anything of what it's about, so I'm not allowed to really say.

It's not Star Wars. Fucking hit cake. Please, my God. You have watermark scripts and stuff? Of course.

Yeah.

Well, you're handsome in it. I can tell you that. You're going to hold the You're going to keep the look? Listen, for anyone who cares out there, us soft actor guys, the only time we ever stumble into a new look, it's because somebody with taste in a makeup trailer carved one into us for a part. Then we're done with the movie. We're like, Oh, maybe I'll just hold on to a little element of this.

When you had your long hair for a while.

Well, I still... Amanda, I came home. Amanda was like, Oh, you're keeping that. Really? Oh, God. Yeah.

But you cut it off pretty fast after the Black Rabbit.

But it's still a little long, isn't it? I mean, it's not stupid long like it was before.

Remember when Jason got really in shape and he was doing Black Rabbit and he had the long hair and he was really ripped up?

We were still in shape a little bit.

Amanda was like, It's like having sex with a stranger. She said, With glean.

With some tweaker you give a ride to, a ride home for.

She was a little too excited about last night.

When she talked about it. A little change of pace never hurts.

But we missed you, Shani. It was the first time. I know. What?

Did you guys get together last night?

Yeah, we did Sunday dinner. Sunday, fun day. It was the first time in a while for me. It was so great seeing everybody and seeing this guy. Did Caroleyn go? The love of my life. No, she was... Something came up.

It's not working out, Sean. We're making news today, guys.

No, we are not making news. It's not true. Something came up, and then we had Danny and Dawn Dees, which was raising them.

I just heard from Dawn. Yeah, she's great.

Willy Speck.

Oh, man. Jimmy Hedge.

Jimmy Hedge. We saw Sweet Richard.

Sweet little maple. Oh, Richard and Jenny.

Richard and Jenny.

But Jennifer Aniston wasn't there, was she?

Oh, you know it, girl. She was frying up some... What did we have last night?

We had those burgers. By the way, how about Thoreau had He had sleeves last night?

Yeah, well, it's cold. Thoreau was there, too.

Yeah, it was a little cold.

He had sleeves, but he had two T-shirts.

He had the two layered T-shirts.

He had a Steve Banon combo going.

Oh, my God. God, everybody was there.

It was fun. You guys were missed. You and Scotty.

That's very nice.

Sorely missed. Sorely, sorely missed.

Any way you can get a vicious stomach virus and get fired off that play?

I think about it all the time. Yesterday was the big, big, big snowstorm. Massive. We had a canceled rehearsal. But I still wanted to run.

Is this you guys rehearsing out in a park? I mean, the You got a little excuse. Let's take a day off.

Yeah, we're doing it. It's outside. It's in Central Park outside. No, I said it was rehearsal because you couldn't drive or go anywhere in the streets or whatever. Anyway, so they canceled, and I said this, but I still wanted run the show, so it's fresh in my head. I said, Scotty, there's a performance in the bedroom tonight. It starts at 07: 00 PM. There's one ticket because there's one chair in the bedroom. I said, there's a bathroom. There's no intermission, but there's a bathroom right next to the chair. If you want to fall asleep during the performance, there's a bed.

Jesus, I'm getting a heart on. Tell me more about it. What a sell.

What a cell on this play. I mean, Jesus.

How many times does that pitch come out of your mouth? There's a performance in the bedroom tonight.

I was going to make a joke, but then Sean, it occurred to me. You know what would be a great biopic you should do because you know a lot about it is the story of Chef Boyardee.

Why not?

The Chef Boyardee story.

Don't fucking threaten me.

But how does a rehearsal for a one-man show go? What do you mean? How does it go? It's just him. It's just you're up there, and then you got the director sitting in the middle of the house.

Yeah.

Tech is just you, and it's just right.

It's weird. But you know the-Do you like the show with a flashlight?

Is that it?

Yeah. Well, people have to use their phone lights. That's how we get the light. Everybody in the audience. No, during the run through the other day. We had our first quote audience, but it was all the producers and the people doing behind the scenes stuff. It was 20 people, which is a lot of people have to be rehearsing by yourself. I walked in and I started laughing. I'm like, I can't do this. This is insane.

They all start panicking. Now, I think we talked about this before, but forgive my old man brain, I've forgotten. Do you have some a net, some a fail safe? If I go up, somebody just off stage?

Yeah, well, for previews, which are two weeks, there'll be somebody in the front row on book.

Front row? You can't look to the audience for the line.

No, Because you can just say line or whatever.

Really? The person in the front row. Is it going to be a person in front row with a script in their hands? This is correct.

When you say person, you mean Scotty, obviously.

Isn't that going to be distracting for the people around this person that this person is snapping script pages? What are you going to do? I'll tell you what you're going to do. You put somebody off fucking off stage in the wings.

For the show, that's.

Don't tell them how to do it.

But you're selling tickets for the preview.

That's correct. That's correct. I don't get that. Because they get to see how the sosie just made.

It should be a discount and ticket them because Sean has never shit together yet.

What are you, an advocacy group? What are you doing? By the way, Sean, quick question. First of all, Sean, obviously, Jason and I are thrilled to have you on the show. Do you Are you? Shani is- I'm such a big fan of both of you.

We don't usually have theater types.

You're so good. Do you have any stories that you'd like to... Shani, is Scotty off book? Seriously.

Wait, because from Running Lines with me? Yeah. I mean, not really. I mean, a tiny bit.

Scotty, come into frame. Scotty, are you off book?

Wait, he's way down there. Scotty, you off book a little bit? You love that one line, I say.

You know that one line. The one you always say, you nailed it.

What is it?

Shut up, Scotty. Just shut up. Hey, Scotty, what's the first line of the play?

I don't know.

Oh, that's your man, front row.

What if the lights come up? I'm like, Line.

Did you get a deal on him?

I told you that thing when I auditioned for David Chase for the Sopranos and I had one line. Tell us. One line, and I got the Silver Cup and Jordan walk into the casting director and I go in. She goes, I know you're going to meet him, but he wants everybody to say one line. I was like, One line? How am I going to... The bunch of actors out there for it. This is like 2001 or 2000. Anyway, I go out there. Again, I go into the room with him. David Chase, Georgeanne Hawkinson there. I've got this piece of paper with the one line. She goes, You ready to start? I go, Yeah, and he's just watching us. Me deliver it to her. I look at her and I just go, Line. He burst out laughing and I got the job. That's not a comedy, but I think he was so… He was This motherfucker just came in here.

Was this for Sopranos?

Sopranos, yeah.

You were on the Sopranos?

Yeah, I know. That's what a lot of people say.

Wait, come on, really?

I didn't know that.

Can you believe I still have not watched that show? I haven't either. It's easy.

It's real good.

It's going to be a hit, I hear. All right, come on. Here we go.

Jabe, let's get to your guest.

Let's get to our guest. She's probably left or asleep by now. Here we come. Wait a second. Let me pull up the notes.

Here we go.

Here we go. Guys. Yes. Today, We have an actor that I met once, very briefly, and was as knocked out by her charm and warmth as you would think that you would be. She's one of her biggest stars, an incredibly successful producer. She kills it in both comedy and drama, big films and small. She has box office success as well as critical praise. Her nominations are numerous, including two for an academy award. She knows how to hold her breath for five minutes. What? She's a trained pickpocket in Will. I know what this is. She plays ice hockey competitively. She's at the top of the mountain, folks, but is cleared an hour for a good old smartless chat and giggle. I couldn't be more grateful to her. God, gang. Please welcome Ms. God, gang. Margot Robbie. No. Hey, Margot.

I'm Margot.

What's going on, Margot?

She's a big rangers fan.

I am. I've been sitting here giggling listening to you guys shoot the shit. That was really fun.

We tried to keep it tight.

No, I love that. That That was my favorite part. Yeah, I love the rangers.

Have you guys seen each other out there at the garden?

No. No? I've seen you there. Yeah, I'm incognite, but I'm short for incognito.

I didn't have the time to. I have to say, before we keep talking It's not that hockey, which I hope we do. Will, I have to say I fucking love Is This Thing On. Isn't it good? You are so good in it. I swear to God, as soon as I finish- It is still on. It is still going. As soon as I finished watching it, the first thing I said, I was like, Give the man an Oscar. You were so unreal in it. I love it.

That's very good. Thank you so much.

Now, let's have your review on this look, this new look.

Are you in love with him as I am? Honestly, quite the reveal when I wicked off the piece of paper from the screen just then. You look great.

All right. You look tend as well.

Have you been on holiday?

It's a new bronzer.

Jason's new line, he does a lot of men's skincare.

This one is water resistant. It's good for all climates. Won't leak on you, won't run.

This one is called early June, so it's not too heavy. It just looks like the summer started.

It's working for you. Margot, so nice to meet you. Oh my God. This is so cool. This is so cool. How exciting. I had no idea about the hockey thing. You play hockey? You still play hockey?

Do you know what? I haven't for a couple of years, but I loved The Mighty Ducks when I was a kid, the movie. I desperately wanted to play ice hockey, but I'm from a place called the Gold Coast in Australia, and there is no ice, and so there was no way to play ice hockey. I ended up playing field hockey all through school. When I got to America, the first thing I did, I was like, I'm going to play ice hockey. I'm here. I've made it in America. I can finally live out this dream. I joined an ice hockey team. Really? I hadn't really ever ice skated.

Margot, as a Canadian, the nation of Canada is behind you. You are all of a sudden, you've reached elite status in Canada.

It was so fun.

Was this before or after the the skating training for Itanya?

Well before. It would have been very helpful if this came after that, but no, it was well before. I hadn't really skated before. I had here and there, I don't know, just a few times maybe in my life, but not really. I think I just thought, I'll just run. There's so much padding that honestly, it was fine. But I played in a co-ed I had a team. Jesus. There was only one other girl on the team. But when you're in all your gear, you can't really tell that you're a girl. I just looked like a very small guy.

I had a problem with that one Saturday night. Go ahead.

Hey, man, you need a ride? I want to hear more about that.

I just looked like a small dude on the team, so I'd get picked on. They would check me so hard. But yeah, it was great.

It was a good time.

That's pretty ballsy.

Then I take off helmet at the end of the game. They'd be like, Oh, shit. Sorry. I didn't know you were a girl.

But you never got any... You didn't tune anybody up. You didn't get any fights?

No.

Throw the gloves? I was way smaller than everyone. Wow.

That's cool. That's really cool. All right, so you're out there in Australia and you're enjoying... Was it... Done a tiny bit of research. Was it the infatuation with Harry Potter that got you really excited about movies and-Is that true? And acting and stuff like that? Is that true? That that's what started? Where did it all start out there? Because mom nor dad was part of any of this stuff.

No, no one's in the biz in my family. I had never met anyone who'd even so much as walked on a film set.

You were on a farm, right?

Until I was... I spent a lot of time on a farm, but I myself was not on a farm. I was on property, but a lot. But no, I don't know. I was just always obsessed with movies. I would just I'd watch them again and again. Like most kids from the '90s, we had a collection of videos, and I'd just watch them to death, and then I'd recreate them, and I was just...

And Harry Potter was a big part of them?

I was obsessed with the books. No, that really didn't bleed into my movie obsession. I was just obsessed with movies and watching them. My mom just used to watch me. I'd regurgitate. She'd be there making dinner in the kitchen, and I'd just be reenacting something. She kept me like, How are you remembering all this? Where is this coming from?

Is there one that you would do over and over again? Is there one that you would- Was there a particular actor or actress that you were like, Oh, God.

Goldie Horn. I was a big fan. Good one. I loved everything she did.

Yeah, likewise.

Then there was the Fifth Element was my favorite film when I was kid. I tried to recreate all these action sequences. It was a bit of a dramatic.

How funny was Chris Tucker in that?

So good.

You go down to Melbourne, you get a couple of jobs there such that you feel like, Well, maybe this can arm me with the experience and position in the community somewhat that I can go to America and try to parlay that into something bigger, better?

Totally. I was on the Gold Coast, which, ironically, now a lot of movies are shooting on the Gold Coast, but growing up, it felt very far away. If you really wanted to do anything, the biggest shows were all in Sydney and Melbourne. I ended up eventually finding my way into an audition for, practically a student film and ended up doing that and through that, you know how things are. You do one unpaid thing, it leads to another unpaid thing, leads to another thing, and then eventually someone pays you to do it.

You're about 16, 17, 18?

Sixteen, yes. I was in my final year of high school. Then I ended up getting a guest role on a TV show that shot in Melbourne. That took me to the big smoke. Then once I was in Melbourne, I could quickly parlay one guest role into another guest role in a TV show with the same casting director. Then while I was in Melbourne, I auditioned for Neighbors, which is a big show.

Oh, yeah, the biggest.

Oh, you've heard of it?

Of course. Yeah. I'm up on all things Australia. Except for I will say I'm ignorant enough that I didn't realize that Gold Coast was the name of the actual city. I thought it was just an area, but it's the actual name.

I know. It's confusing. You also say You say the Gold Coast, not like in… You live in Melbourne, you live in Sydney, but you live on the Gold Coast, even though that's the name of the city. Oh, wow.

That's confusing. That's up northeast, like Brisbane?

Yeah, Exactly. An hour drive from Brisbane, an hour drive from Byron.

Where are you today? Where are we finding you today?

I'm in LA. Oh, you are? Okay. We're about to start the Junket for Wuthering Heights, which is a film that we got coming out.

Oh, I can't wait for that.

We're to get to that. He's so good, guys.

I'm so excited for Wuthering Heights.

I can't wait.

Words I never thought I'd say.

No, I know. We'll hold you to that.

I mean, I'm excited.

All right, so what's going on with school at this moment? You're in your last year high school. Are you thinking about college? Are you thinking about another career that might be more predictable, something that you can count on more?

Yeah, I didn't really know what I was going to... Because it still hadn't occurred to me that I do acting as a job, even though I had started doing these small unpaid things on the Gold Coast. About halfway through high school, I did my first, the thing that I described as a student film. It was like an independent film that never got distribution. I don't really know what to call it other than a tiny micro budget film. I did two of those. I would do commercials for free and whatever. Then the job in Melbourne timed out the end of high school. It turned out pretty great that I got to finish my childhood, really. Then two months later, I got the job on neighbors. Then I've been working professionally ever since.

I don't have time for college. Don't have time to get a backup.

Well, I actually, to be honest, I didn't have the money to go to uni anyway. I thought, this is crazy. Am I really going to go? The thing is, you finish school, you go to university. I know it's like that in America, too, go off to college. But I was like, I don't know that there's something I want to study specifically. Am I going to put myself in crazy debt for what? That's what I did.

I was like, that's insane.

So I couldn't get my head around that.

Yeah, because you were lucky enough to know at a young age exactly what you wanted to do, which is great.

I know, but don't most... I'm talking to my daughters about this now. It's like, there's no pressure to know what your career is going to be, at least in your first two years. Isn't it the third and fourth year where you have to declare your major?

I think it's a bit different in America. I feel like in America... Oh, by the way, all I wanted to do was to college in America because watching movies, it looked like the funnest thing in the whole world. Why? What do you want to study? I'm like, oh, I don't care about what I want. I just want to go to college.

That's exactly why you go.

I want to go to a frat fraternity party and drink a red cups and all that stuff.

My daughter's in that right now.

I love it. I think I get the impression that for you guys in America, it's like you go to college to have a college experience. And at some point during that experience, you realize, oh, I really like this class I'm taking, and now I'm going to shift in that direction. It's not really so much like that in Australia. You have to decide in high school what it is that you... So you're like, oh, I want to be a lawyer or I want to do business or something. And then you pick your degree and then you do that degree. And it's a little shorter as well. You can even do your full degree in two and a half years. In Australia, you can back it up like that.

My experience was I was like, I feel like I'm just going to go and waste my time doing this when I know that that's not where I just want to go and start life now.

Were you doing what your parents What else wanted you to do, too? Was that part of it? Who? Me?

Yeah, you. Yeah, a little bit.

Can you name one more time? You're handsome. Look how handsome this guy is.

What is this handsome guy?

Margot, I remember in college, we used to have parties and we'd lug the keg up the stairs. Yeah, totally. In this apartment. Just like in the movies. Totally. We'd charge $3 a cup. When you come in, we'd buy the kegs. We'd make all this money. At the end of the night, the floor would just be trashed with beer everywhere in our apartment. At that age, you just don't care.

No, that's the dream. That's all I wanted. Do you know what? Part of me was like, Oh, no. I started acting like I said, a little neighbors, whatever. I was like, Oh, I haven't gone to university, and I guess I'm never going to at this point. Does that mean I'm... Am I dumb? I remember asking my sister- I look in the mirror and say that to myself every day. I almost wanted to check that this didn't mean I wasn't smart. My sister was with very, very, very different people. She was studying to be an accountant in university, something I never would have done. But I remember saying, I was like, Hey, can I do one of your assignments, one of your uni assignments? Because I just need to check that acting is not making me dumb. I did it. And by the way, numbers and accounting is not my forte at all. I got an A I was like, okay, cool. And then I felt good after that. I was like, I'm good. I can do it.

I know I can do it if I need to. Because of life experience, right?

Well, I mean, I studied. It was all about cognitive dissonance and some boring shit. Yeah. But yeah.

We'll be right back.

Now, back to the show.

All right, so you get to Hollywood. Well, it's not Hollywood first, right?

No. I was on Neighbors for three years, which is a pretty intense and very fun and amazing training thing as a young actor. I did that for three years. Then when my contract finished, I started about six months into that job on Neighbors. I'm looking around, you've got a cast of, say, 30 people aging from eight years old to 80 years old. I looked around and I was like, Okay, so some people are life is here. Some people have just made a life just from acting. I I'd ask the cast members, I was like, So you don't have any side jobs? You don't have a second job that you go do? They're like, No, just this. I was like, Wow. Okay, so you can make enough money doing this that you can pay for a house and put your kids through school? They're like, Yeah. I was like, Oh, excellent. Great. I'm going to do this then. So I'm going to be an actor then. Great. Then I was looking at some of the younger cast members who would... There was three choices on neighbors. Either one, you can't keep up, you get fired, and it's like a revolving door.

So you need to be able to keep up. Number two, you are great and you stay and you can be on there for 20, 30 years. It's a long running. Or option three, you do it for a little bit and then you make the jump to America and you try your luck in America. I knew that I wanted to be in Hollywood and do American films.

Margot, just to be clear, there have been a lot of cast members over the years from Neighbors who have done that and gone to America and done great things, right?

Yeah, and Home and Away. The two main soaps, neighbors and Home and Away. It's like, Kylie Minogue was on Neighbors. That's crazy. Chris Hamsworth was on Home and Away. Wow.

That's wow. That's a long lineage. Then when you get to Hollywood, is there a safety net? Do you come with a bag of money? Do you have an agent ready?

There's an Aussie Mafia readymade for you. Yes. No, truly, it's like being on Ramsey Street, which is like the street in the show. It was like just being on Ramsey Street again, but in America.

So who's taking care of you?

Well, your fellow Aussies that have been on soaps as well, and you sleep on their couches, and everyone shares info of like, okay... Because by the way, when I moved here, it was 16 years ago, so I was 20. I moved five days after I finished on Neighbors. I was quite keen to get Yeah, there was no Uber. It was a different time. There was pilot season.

You had to learn how to drive on the other side of the road.

Well, that wouldn't have been a problem. It was getting a car. You can't actually rent a car until you're 21, and I was still I was 20. I asked the Aussie, like our Aussie Mafia, I was like, What do I do if I need to get a car to get around to these auditions? They're like, Okay, I know a guy. You'd go to the guy, and he would rent you a car off the books or whatever, and then you'd drive around to your auditions or all that.

Russell Crowe has got a little side gig out in Seamy Valley.

I ended up crashing that car on the way. This was not a guy that you... I didn't get the impression this is a guy that you messed with, but I crashed his car and I was really scared to tell him. Anyways, he took the car off me, obviously. Then I still needed a car to get around to auditions. I went back to the Aussies and I was like, What do you do when you piss off that guy? Is there another guy that you can rent a car from? They're like, Yes, he's called the dodgy Romanian. I was like, Okay. I rented a car from the dodgy Romanian, as he was called. It was this gold-colored... God, I haven't thought about this in years. It was this gold-colored, not a Lincoln, but it looked like it was a boxy car from the '80s. A big one. This guy was like, very few words, very like, Here's the keys, give me the cash. We're not going to chit chat. Just one thing.

We don't have an offensive Romanian accent at No, thank God.

He was like, Don't open the trunk, ever.

No, come on, really.

I am not joking. He said, Just don't open the trunk. I was petrified. No, I desperately wanted to make it in Hollywood. I'm I'm not going on little side quest here to open this trunk and get caught up in whatever is happening here. I am never going to open this trunk. Anyways, I ended up, again, crashing in this car. What's your battle with you? You know what? I was always doing my makeup and changing on the way to auditions and stuff and not paying. It was a bit of a chaotic time. Anyways, I crashed in this car and I was panicking. I was like, holy shit, what do I do? You don't even call insurance. You got to call the dodgy Romanian and tell him that I've just crashed his car and he can kill me, I suppose. I called him and he's like, Where are you? I was like, I gave him the address. I was somewhere in Venice, I think. It was like, nighttime. He was like, I'm coming to you. I was like, Oh, God, no. He rocked up with an associate and they got out of the car. They got to the trunk.

He looked at the damage and he was like, Okay. I was waiting to, I don't know, be executed. He was like, Did you open the trunk? I was like, No, never. I literally He never. How dare you? He goes, Okay. He just took the keys and he drove away. No way. I never saw him again. I never got a bill for the damage to the car. Nothing.

Truly? That was it. Oh my God.

That was it. Just went into thin air. Did you make use- I still to this day, I don't know what was in the trunk.

What was in there? What was in there? Just some cash, just loose cash. That'd be nice. That you can't deposit.

Just junk. It might have just been junk in the trunk. Oh, God.

Just too slow. Junk in the trunk. Did you get to Did you use the car enough to go to plenty of auditions? Did you get use out of the car before you crashed or got in the accident? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I had a good couple of weeks.

All right, good. You come to America. Margot, what was the thing? What was the first American gig? Pan Am.

Was it Pan Am? Yeah, Pan Am. Pan Am. Remember that series? A movie? At the time, it was a TV show about Pan Am. Oh, that's right. It was in the '60s.

It was just a big- It was a big deal at the time.

It was a big deal at the time. Good-looking show. I think at the time, it was the someone had spent on a pilot before. They spent $10 million on the pilot or something like that.

It doesn't seem like it's that long ago.

I know. That also now seems like a small budget for a pilot. But yeah, it was a big deal, and I had a role in that. That was my first job. I then moved to New York because we shot that at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn. Then I was living in New York for a year. Was that your first- My roommate was Christina Richie. No way. It was also on the show. No way. I'm gone from being in Australia, never having met a single famous person or seen a movie set or whatever. Living in the big city.

Then was this your first time in New York?

Yes. Oh, my God.

What did you think of that?

I couldn't comprehend how much of a city it was. The thing is where I grew up on the Gold Coast, like I mentioned, but my family's all from inland, Queensland, like the farms. I had grown up thinking I was a city kid, and I thought the Gold Coast was the big smoke. And they'd always call me a city kid because I was on the Gold Coast. Then I moved to Melbourne for neighbors, and I was like, whoa, okay, this is a city. I was like, oh, my God, I can't believe I thought I was a city kid. I've never been to a city. Melbourne is a city. This is the craziest thing I've ever seen. And then I got to New York and I was like, Okay, I don't even know anymore. This is a different level. This is a city. Yeah, I loved it.

I had the best-So exciting, though.

Best, best time.

Oh, my God. You do Pan Am, and then that It runs its course. Then what? You're left wondering what's going to happen now, or was it just offers flooding in?

No, they didn't pick up the back nine. We had an inkling that we weren't going to go to a season two. It's my job. Then I started auditioning at that point. I auditioned for Richard Curtis's film, About Time, which I ended up getting a small role in. Then I also, like everyone else, I auditioned for the Wolf of Wall Street. I sent in a self tape for that, and I ended up getting that. That was my first American film. No, wait.

You sent in a self tape for Wolf of Wall Street?

Yeah. Then how long was that process? Was that maybe two or three auditions before you got to Scorsese and Leo? No.

I went from the tape to being in the room with Marty and Leo. Christ. Wow. There was no in between. I don't know how it happened like that because everyone I knew was sending in a tape, everyone. I never thought Martin Scorsese was going to see the tape. I just was hoping that Ellen Lewis, the casting director, was going to see the tape. I sent it in. I didn't hear back anything until I got the call saying, You're going to read in the room with Marty Lee.

How long was that? How long was that gap from the time you said- It was quite a while.

I can't remember.

You'd forgotten about it almost.

Yeah. I don't know, maybe five weeks or something. I don't know. I get the feeling that maybe I was a bit of a wild card option because I think they had a couple of actresses read in the room with Marty and Leo to do a chemistry read situation. I don't know. Maybe I was like the wild card where they're like, I don't know, throw her in. I have no idea.

You get a call from your agent, you're like, guess what? That tape you sent in, you're going to go meet Martin Scorsese.

Well, no, they said, you're going to go meet with Marty, and I didn't know who Marty was. I was like, Marty? They're like, Marty is what people call Martin Scorsese. I was like, whoa.

That's the Romanian. I was like, whoa. That's the Romanian.

You're going to go meet Marty and Leo, and you're going to read with Leo for Marty.

I mean, did they make you feel comfortable or were you nervous?

They did. They did. They gave me the role in the room as well. No.

That's great.

The whole thing was great.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, walk us through that.

Is it This is amazing. Is it true that you improvised a slap on Leo?

Yes, it is true. It is true. Thank Christ, that worked out because that could have gone a different way. Okay, walk us through that. Okay, so the way that day went, I walk in. First, I to Ellen Lewis's office to have a quick pre-chat with her. The great Ellen Lewis. She takes one look at what I'm wearing, and she was like, No, no, no, no, no. She was like, You're going to go back downstairs? I think I was wearing my boots and jeans and I don't know, long sleeve shirt or something. She was like, Absolutely not. You're going to go downstairs, you're going to walk that way, and you're going to walk into a place called Soho. There's lots of shops, and you're going to find a tight dress and the highest heels you can find, and then you're going to come back. I was like, Okay. I went and did that, and I came back in a new outfit. Then I went to the audition room thing, and Marty and Leo were in there, and it was quite surreal. We started doing the first scene. I'd been on a soap where you have to...

You do 60 pages a day and you have to be word perfect because it's multi-cams, they're switching, they're essentially editing as you do the scene. You are word perfect. So I start doing the scene and it was all right and whatever. But Leo was throwing in adlibs and improvising, and I'd never, ever improvised before. I'd never seen another actor improvise before. I was a bit thrown. I was like, well, that's not in the script. Wait, what's he doing? Okay. I was like, Oh, my gosh. He doesn't know his lines. He's like, Leo doesn't know his lines. I was like, Wow, he's improvising. Okay, shit. I thought, okay, I didn't do very good in that scene, I think, because I was playing catch up a little bit. I thought, oh, God, I'm getting thrown out of this room in 30 seconds. I've got 30 seconds to make an impression because we are like, this is not impressive so far. I was like, okay, forget the lines, just go off script. I just thought, I'm just going to use every swear word I know. They were like, hit action. I just started script because also Leo can go.

If you don't get in there, he'll just keep going. He can do the scene without you. It's either get yourself in there or you're like, he can do- You're in a Brooklyn accent for this? Yeah, Brooklyn accent, which is actually easier for an Aussie because we don't hit our R's like that. I just started like, I jumped in quick. I was like, and started screaming, whatever. I was like, okay, great. We're doing this scene, and now there's a bit of energy in the room, and it's feeling good. I was like, okay, great. And then there was the last scene, third scene to do, which ends in a line of, now get over here and kiss me. And then it's the end of the scene. And so we end up, I think, feeling a little buzz that I did well in the second scene. I was a little more bolshe in this third scene, and we get to the end and it's like, okay, now get over here and kiss me. I thought to myself, wow, I could kiss Leonardo DiCaprio right now. That would be so cool. I could Tell all my girlfriends back home that that happened.

That'd be a life experience. I was walking towards him slowly, having this thought of like, Maybe I just do it. Fuck it. Then I got close and I was like, No, this character wouldn't do that. I just went whack and slapped him instead.

That's amazing.

Dead silent. You could hear a pin drop and I was like, Oh, my God, what have I just done? I'm going to get arrested. I think that's battery or assault of some kind. Can I be sued? Do I go to jail for this? Then he and Marty just burst out laughing. That's great.

That was amazing. Then they said, You've got the job right there?

They said, Do that again. Let's do the scene again. Do more improv. Do that again. Anyway, so we workshopped the scenes for a little bit. Then I said, Thank you. I walked out of the room and I got in the elevator and I took my heels off. I did that little silent jigs dance to yourself. Like, Oh, my gosh, that was so fun. I can't believe that just happened. Just as the elevator doors were about to close, Ellen Lewis was like, Wait, come back into the room for one second. I was like, Oh, okay. I walked back in, my heels still in my hands, and they were standing there just smiling. I was like, What's up? They were like, And Marty just held out his hands like this and guys would like to offer you the role. Then gave me the biggest hug. It was just- That's amazing. It was so incredible.

That's amazing. Did they ever make the movie?

What did you say? Did they end up making the movie, Sean wants to know?

Yeah, they got that one-off the ground.

Well, now, okay. That was an amazing story. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, that was really cool. The film is stunning. Your work in it is stunning. It was so well received. Did things Things... A massive change for you in your life once that comes out, was that a comfortable thing? I mean, something you've been working for for a long time, this was a bigger step than you probably imagined happening. Were you able to step up to it and hit it in stride, or was it a bit of an adjustment?

You know how it goes? It's like you make a movie and then it doesn't come out for a year. So your life goes on for a a year. It didn't occur to me that I would... Do you know what? I just didn't know it was going to be in the movie as much as I ended up being in it. I thought because the set was so crazy and so much improvisation and so much every day. It was like we were writing scenes the night before. My whole end sequence in that movie, we wrote the night before in a room at 3: 00 AM. It was meant to be just a scene where my character comes in and says, I want a divorce, and she put some papers down. That's it. Then we ended up being like, We need something more. We workshopped this whole thing, that whole sequence. So by the nature of the filming process, I thought, there's a lot of experimenting going on, a lot of improv going on. I'm sure most of this isn't going to make the cut. So I thought, I wonder how much I'll be in this movie. And I didn't see it till the night before the premiere, so I had no idea.

Oh, no way. Yeah. So I didn't really prepare for it. And I thought, oh, I'll be like a blink and you'll miss me thing. I'll be in and out. I just didn't think anyone was going to pay attention to me in that movie at all. So I wasn't- A huge cast. I wasn't really... Yeah. You got Johnny Hill doing the most incredible stuff. Everyone, the cameos are endless. Every day you'd come into work and people would be like, Matthew McConae is the other day, or whatever. Yeah, it just felt like I was one blip amongst a big canvas of chaos. I didn't really brace myself for how things would change after that. I'd already done a bunch of jobs in between because I had a year. I don't know. Life got weird pretty quickly.

Yeah, but then you go and you see it and you're like, Wow, this I mean…

Yeah. Well, no, really, I was thinking, I was like, Oh, shit. My family is about to see this. Oh, no. I organized a friends and family screening, and I sat down and the credit started, and I suddenly was like, Oh my God, I'm naked, and I'm fully naked and they're all about to see it. There's scenes where we're having sex on a bed of cash. My brother is right next to me like, Oh, no.

They didn't cut this scene.

I was like, This is going to be the I was like, No, it's not comfortable thing ever. I never forget at the end of that screening, I think my family were all a little bit stunned and didn't know what to say, but felt like they felt like they should say congrats or something. My older brother He was quite a blokey bloke, quite an Aussie bloke. He was just like, couldn't find the words. I was like, You know what? We don't have to talk for a while. He goes, Great. Just gave me a hit on the back and then walked out. We didn't for months after that. Then when we did, we never mentioned it again. We're like, Let's never talk about that.

Oh, my God. How soon after that did you get pulled into the DC universe with Harley Quinn?

Gosh, that must have been.

Gosh, that's right, Harley Quinn.

Okay, so Wolf of Wall Street, 2012.

You did the movie before that. You did the movie with... What's that great one you did with Will Smith?

Focus.

I love that movie.

Yeah, it's so fun, isn't it?

It's a great movie. You're so good in that movie.

Thank you. That was so fun. Yeah, it must have been right after. It must have been after Focus because Will and I had already done that movie, and then we worked together again in the first Suicide Squad.

Then where was Itanya in all that?

Itanya was after that.

After Harley Quinn?

2017 is when I, Tanya, either we filmed it or it came out in 2017. I think it came out in 2017.

Yeah, that movie is so great. Your performance is… I mean, everybody, you're probably so sick of talking about the one scene where they just hold on you in the mirror.

No, I loved… Because, again, that was an in the moment thing where, I don't know, we'll set up and…

Craig Gillespie, right?

Yeah, Craig, who's the best. What a director he is. Also an Aussie. But yeah, I was like, Let me try something for a second. It might be lame, But let me try.

Oh, my God, it was so powerful.

That was incredible. Then afterwards, and I was like, Is that too weird? He was really still, and he's never still. He's like, he is fast. I thought shooting neighbors, but he is fast. Anyways, and he was very still, and he was like, That was something. I was like, Okay, cool. Do you want me to do? He's like, Don't do anything else. Let's move on. I was like, Wow.

What a great feeling.

That's the best. That's the best feeling.

That's the best. You know that feeling where you're like, Oh, something electric just happened. Something I don't know. Maybe it's nothing, but maybe it ends up being a thing that cool guys bring up on a podcast years from now. At what point- We're waiting for those cool guys, I guess. Yeah, where are they? When do they join?

We will be right back.

Back to the show.

At what point did you start thinking, God, I would love to parlay some of this great access and position in the community into producing as well, because you're such an accomplished producer. You're a company lucky chap. Thank you.

I told you it was the first thing that we produced that came... Well, it was actually the The second movie we produced, but the first one that came out. So it was kick things off really nicely. We started talking about the production company in 2013, so the year after Wolf of Wall Street. So after Wolf of Wall Street, before it had come out, I went off to Belgium to shoot this movie called Sweet Frances, which I've actually never seen. And I met my two producing partners, one of whom I'm now married to. So Josie and Tom were second and third AD on that job, and we all became friends on that job. Yeah, Wolf of Wall Street wasn't out yet, so that must have been 20. Anyways, whatever. Very early on. That's when we talked about starting a production company, and we started the company the following year. We've had it for 11 years now.

I love that you work with your husband. I just think that's great. My wife and I are working together a bit now, and it's just so... I just love it.

Oh, you love it? Okay, sorry. I didn't know which way you were going to go with that. The look on your face. You got lost a little.

Now, I'd love to get my spouse to play golf, too. Tom can swing a golf club.

He has tried to make me play golf so many times.

No, don't bother. I'm going to play with him. He and I are going to become big golf buddies. Please. Please. Please. Willy, he's coming on up.

Is that right?

Yeah.

Okay. Oh, good.

Tom on the board.

Are you all golfers together?

Are you all going to be golfing together?

This is adorable. I love it. Yeah, he's obsessed with golf. I feel like every dude I know turned and suddenly overnight was obsessed with golf. I was like, I've never heard any of you talk about golf. It's this wonderfully difficult thing. They all seem to hate it and themselves so much but want to do it all the time. It's such a weird... It seems to be a very...

It is. It's a toxic relationship. It is a love-hate thing. It's just an incredibly challenging thing that is hard to ignore.

It perplexes me. It really does. It really perplexes me. I'm also like, You can love this thing without me. This can be a thing that I don't need to play golf. I'm going to set you up with my wife.

It seems nice. That is so... Yeah, Amanda needs to hear that. Let's clip that for Amanda. I'm speaking of- Bennett, will you clip that for Amanda? Thank you.

Margot, speaking of golf, I just had lunch two weeks ago, three weeks ago, on a golf course with a non-Christ. Oh, no way. Yeah, who is- The real life CEO of Mattel. The real-life CEO of Mattel. We were talking about you, and we talked about Barbie, of course. I'm like, How did that come? He told me, because he's such a great guy, he's like, This is the pitch. Mago Robbie, Barbie. That was the pitch. What's that got to do with golf? Really? No, because we were having lunch on the golf course.

What golf course?

Will, which golf course was I at? Do you remember that when you called me? I was like, I'm not going to-Hillcrest.

I was about to say, do you want me to start rattling them off? I hate that I know them all.

Because that's where he wanted to have lunch.

No, a friend of ours- Jason, why are you getting bogged down in the detail?

I need to understand, how does Sean Hayes end up at Hillcrest?

I got to pass. What is with the look on your face?

Why are you so mad at him? Who has lunch at Hillcrest unless you're making the Timer? Are you mad?

Are you not allowed at Hillcrest?

No, a friend of ours set us up as just to have lunch. You guys would have a good time, so we had a good time and I talked to him, and he's... Look at his face.

People can only hear this. You can't see Jason's face right now. It is so bewildered.

It's beautiful. It's gorgeous there.

Yeah, it's hard to get out there. You just thought you'd just have your sandwich out there, I guess.

He's so mad. Anyway, Inan spoke very highly of you. He's such a good guy. When he told me the pitch was just you and Barbie, that's where it started. Then everything else just snowballed from there, which is incredible.

We're going to fly over Quentin Tarantino in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and we're going to go right to Barbie. No. I get it. Wait.

We don't have to talk about Barbie. I just thought, what a coincidence you're here. I had lunch with Inan, and it was great.

He made the golf version. That's fair enough. That's a very good... We will allow. Once Upon a time in Hollywood. What a film.

That's a great film, isn't it?

What a film.

Now, is being on a set with Quentin as exciting as it seems? Yes.

It is every Everything. I'm a huge Tarantino fan, and it is... I've read all the folklore around making a movie with Quentin. He doesn't allow phones on set. It's all true, and it's everything you'd want it to be and more. It was just the best.

That's an awesome, awesome, awesome film. That was a huge, great film. I love that. I still can't believe. You remember when that, I think was it Cann, where it first was shown? Yeah. He made some declaration to the press in a really cool way saying, listen, I know some directors say, please watch the spoilers when you write these reviews and everything. But he made this real, but I'm serious, please try not to reveal the ending to everyone, blah, blah, blah, blah, Okay, this is never going to last. Somebody is going to... But I remember that I made it to watching the movie, which was months later, without ever hearing what the ending was about, and was so excited by the reveal of what that ending was, and fucking love the way that thing all wraps up. Just what a film.

I know. Isn't that amazing that no one spoiled that? Yeah, I couldn't do this. That was a separate part of the script that only a few of us were allowed to even have. The crew didn't have It was kept so under lock and key because you really wanted to preserve that. It's so impactful when you get to the end of the movie and you're like, holy shit, Sharon's live. Wait, this means Sharon Tate lives. This is such a great alternate universe. But knowing how secret he wanted everything to be, I never breathed a word of how it ended. At Cann, I brought my mom to watch the movie, and I asked her afterwards. We're all clapping, and I was like, What did you think? She goes, Honestly, Honestly, I have been dreading watching this movie because I did not want to see my daughter be killed in that way. I know Tarantino movies are violent. She's like, I know. I didn't want to burst your bubble because you're so excited about this, but I've been dreading it. She was like, I didn't know. Anyway, so Quentin was looking at me. He's like, Did your mom like the movie?

I was like, Oh, she was upset because she thought she was about to see me die. He's like, You didn't tell your mom you don't die? I was like, No, you told me not to tell anyone the ending of this movie. I didn't tell anyone. He was like, Well, at I didn't tell your mom. I didn't tell my husband. I didn't tell my mom. I didn't tell anyone how this movie ended. So, yeah, we were all in on keeping it secret.

That's sweet. All right, so, Barbie. The behemoth of Barbie, it comes into your world in a typical way, like through the regular channels, or is it something that you pursue?

No, not really. I mean, we no, we pursued it as the company, as Lucky Chap, we went after it. We knew that the agreement was set up already over at Sony. There had been versions of it, et cetera. Then their time was up.

Jason reached deadline Hollywood, the way he knows the deal of Hollywood.

Hey, Amy Schumer, blah, blah, blah.

He was in tournament for a while. He knows the deal.

Bunch of money against it.

Exactly. But they had to re-up the deal thing. That was the opportunity to get in there and say, Can we take it? We made pitch to Enon, Sean's friend. We made the pitch to him. We're like, Let Lucky Chap produce this. Let us have this. We'll set it up at Warner Brothers. There's no chain of titles issue with whatever they've previously developed at Sony.

This is before Greta and Noah?

Yeah, before Greta and Noah. It was just us.

Then your take then was... Sorry to interrupt, but your take... Because the reason it is relevant and interesting that it had this life beforehand was that, obviously, the version at Sony with Amy would be wildly different than what you guys were doing. Because think about it, that's what the Mattel, they've got all this great IP, and they're just like games or in this action figure. It's like, how do you come up with a movie about that, you have to have a take. What's the angle going to be? What's it going to be about? With Barbie, it's so loaded to you can have a cultural reference to it, some societal comment, all this stuff. What was your take before This is before you had the writer and the director. Did you have a clear idea about what you wanted to say with this, and then that informed where you looked for a writer and a director?

To be honest, the first hurdle was getting them to let us have It was a bit different. Really, those first conversations were about making sure Enon and Mattel knew that we would protect the brand and take care of it, but also do something meaningful with it. We were quite honest in that first meeting of, if we Doing a Barbie movie, we're going to be saying something, and it has to be culturally relevant, and this has to be elevated and cinematic and all the things. But do understand, we're going to be making comments with the movie thing. So Obviously, we'll do that with someone who's very smart. I did pitch Greta in the meeting. I was like, a Greta Girl wig. Yeah, so smart. Who I had spoken to previously about other films and stuff. And she, I think at the time, was filming Little Women, but she had done Lady Bird. Anyways, First step one really was just letting them know that we understood how important this property is to them, that we would be good partners to them. Then it was setting it up the studio, and then it was going after Greta and being like, Do you want to do a Barbie movie?

Then it was about what her take was, really. It was never me being like, I have a take. Do you want to do this? It was like, I trust you to have something. I bet you have something to say. What would you want to say with a Barbie movie with me? Then it went from there. Her and Noah, their writing process is fascinating, but they don't really plot out. They don't outline a whole thing and then send in an outline, you know what you're going to get. They don't really know how it's going to end. They write as they go. They write themselves in corners. They write themselves out of corners. Getting the studio and Mattel to sign off on the movie and get them paid to commence, because then it was COVID, too, and I was like, They need to be writing right now. They were like, What's the movie?

Without giving a full beginning, middle, and end.

Everyone's feeling very protective over this thing and want to know what it is and what they're paying for and all that stuff. I think it was probably the best bit of producing we ever did was getting that whole... All those deals, treatment deals, no approval over the script, but approval over the treatment, all this stuff so that they- You got to convince a lot of people that just trust us. It was completely just trust us and also leave them alone. You cannot They're not going to get on the phone with you and tell that they're not going to pitch you. We have to leave them alone. That's their process.

It says a lot about Mattel and Warner Brothers for taking that risk. That's a lot of courage. It's so great that it worked out so well for them.

I mean, huge. I asked the dumb questions if you haven't picked up on that yet. Will there be a sequel?

Well, there could be.

Because I mean, why wouldn't there be?

But Greta has been... I mean, I'm open. There's no plans at the moment, but I'm open to I'm open to anything with Greta, to be honest. But she's been doing Nania for ages. Oh, wow.

I can't wait for that.

Cool. Yeah, she's been really intensely into it. I love those books. I know you do. I love them, too. Have you read? I love that. Have you ever read a book series called The Magicians. It's this grown up dark Narnia version of Narnia. No, but I will.

It's so good.

Yeah. Tell Sean what channel it's on and he'll watch it for me.

Books. They're books. Wait, The Magicians. No, they're not. Oh, wow. Is it the same tone as the Narnia book?

Well, it's like I love fantasy books. I read a lot of fantasy. I do, too. It's a really good. Oh, good. Well, then check them out. But it's very much seeped in like Narnia law, which I love.

Why don't Can your production company option those books?

Well, actually, if I'm going to option anything, I read a lot of, like I said, a lot of fantasy, but I read a lot of romanticy books as well. Really? Our brand is very female-focused. There's some other romantacy books that I'd rather go after.

Well, that's getting us right to Wuthering Heights. Yeah. Here we go. With the divine Jacob Alorti. What a nice guy. Just met him the other day. What a really nice kid.

He's divine. By the way, sidebar, we just had Charlie XCX on, and she did the music for it. She did a whole album.

She did an entire album. Yeah, her whole album is called Wuthering Heights.

For Wuthering Heights. Yeah. It's amazing.

Another collaboration with you and Emerald Finail. Yes.

Third film together. We produced Promising Young Woman, then Saltburn, and now this is her third film and our third film together.

She's only been in the States for 16 years. Look at all of this.

That's amazing.

It's so great. It is great. Wuthering Heights, you're a big softy with the romance stuff. Did this come out?

It's the ultimate romance.

It's the ultimate, yeah. It's much like your relationship with golf. It's like you can't help it even though it's It's destroying you on some level.

Thank you for putting it in a context that we can understand.

Thank you. I'm currently in a divorce with golf right now. I'm working. I'm on a break. I'm dedicated to my life right now. I'm on a break. I'm on a break. But okay, so now you You've seen the film.

Many times, yes.

Do you cry every time?

Every time. I have never watched it and not cried. I love you. This is great. It's so good. I mean, It's just I'm so excited that everyone's about to see it because it's incredible.

It's coming out on Valentine's Day, right? Perfect. Valentine's.

February 13th. February 13th. Yeah, if you don't have plans.

Friday, February 13th.

It did come out three days ago because it was Because it's February 16th today, you guys. It's out now.

It's February 16th today? Yeah. Okay, guys, if you haven't seen it yet- I apologize. Okay, so does that mean is it the Monday? Is it the public holiday today? Okay, you've got time. Go to the movies right now.

Yeah. As soon as I slap this laptop down, I'm going. I'm going to bring this issue.

It's President's Day. It's President's Day. It's Valentine's. It's a big weekend. Go out and see it today.

Today, go see it. It's just an incredible film. It really, really is. It's so moving and evocative and provocative at times, but I really think it's going to make people feel.

What about did you... Because it's chemistry with an with an actor is so vital, especially I would imagine if you're doing some a romantic film with someone. Did you do some research about... Did you call around with people that... Or did you know Jacob from Saltburn?

Yeah, I knew him in a a producer-actor dynamic from Saltburn and always thought he was so lovely and so talented. When I read Saltburn, it's the first thing I said. I was like, Jacob Alorty should play Felix. I was such a fan of his work from euphoria back then.

Then you knew you two would get along.

Well, we're also from... He's from Brisbane and I'm from the Gold Coast. We're from an hour away from each other. We're both Queenslanders. I don't know. I had a feeling I was like, We're both Queenslanders. We'll be best mates. That'll work. That'll be great. He's just so good. I think what really helps is we approach our work in a very similar way. I think that really helped. I think when it comes to chemistry- How is that? Well, we're both very... We take it very seriously. We do a lot of prep. We do a lot of work. We're both on set with notebooks and writing and notes. I don't know. To be honest, I think we were set up for success because the script was so good. I mean, and Emerald is an Oscar-winning screenplay writer. The script was unbelievable. Then the source material has been adored for almost 200 years. Then you've got Emerald's take of it, and her writing's incredible, and she's plucking out lines and stuff in the book, too. Then you've got some of the industry's best designers, cinema Photographers, production designers, costume design, all that stuff. We had all the elements.

Where'd you shoot at?

We shot in London and then on the moors in Yorkshire. That's so beautiful. So that series were up there. We had it all there, and It all came together and we get along and it was just great. It was so great.

I can't wait. I know. I'm so excited. I can't wait to see what you guys did. Do that together. I'm so taken with you. You seem so charming and warm, as I said at the beginning and grounding. You're just such a pleasure. You're just a farm girl. Yeah. What knocks you off balance? When are you not charming? When are you not? What What would Tom tell us is really your kryptonite?

When I'm hungry. I'm not charming when I'm hungry, and I'm almost always hungry, to be honest. I get angry. He calls me Dragoon sometimes. He's like, I need to feed the dragon.

Does he cook for you?

Yeah, he's an amazing cook. Is he? Yeah, he could be a chef. He's so good. Really?

I want to know how to cook.

God damn it. You guys will be golf besties. Don't even get me. You think he loves golf. He's going to start cooking for you, J. You should see He's not doing what he does with the big green egg. He's, oh my God. I'll steal him from him. It's his other mistress.

I'll just take him.

Yeah, take him. He'll love it.

What's your go-to? What's your go-to meal? If you're like, Honey, I'm really hungry. I'm going to fix my favorite thing. You know what it is. What is it?

To be honest, He can cook a steak better than any restaurant can. It's almost ruined getting a steak. He's got a nice rub on there. I don't know what he does, but it's magic.

He does that in the green egg?

He'll do it. Oh, no, I think he does a bit of an oven/reverse here in a skillet pan situation for his steaks, but he can do it on the green egg as well.

Somebody made me a hamburger once and put an egg on it with blue cheese. I was like, no, thanks.

No, that's cool.

Save it for the book.

Margot. Yeah, this is Margot's time, Sean. Thank you so much for joining us today. You guys are funny. I know you've got a lot of press in front of you. I appreciate all the time.

You're the Best of luck with the film.

We're going to watch it this afternoon. We're all going together. Are you actually?

We're going to go to Century City this afternoon.

Oh, yes, of course. It's the 16th today. Yes, go watch it. Go watch it together. You're our core demographic, so enjoy. Tell me what you're doing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, good. So great meeting you.

Thank you for doing this. No, thank you. Good luck with the play as well, Sean.

Oh, thank you, honey. Thank you so much. So sweet of you. All right, well, hopefully we'll see you soon. See you soon. Thanks, Maru. Bye, bye, bye.

I need a shower. All the negativity and the just the- I know.

She is something else, man. She's a...

I mean, what an angel. The career. I mean, bam, bam, Bam, the movie, big movie, big movie, big movie, big movie. I know. She just got here like five minutes ago. When she said she was on Pan Am, I felt like that was like five years ago. What was it? Like 15 years ago? No, it was so long.

But if you just look at like she just so hit the ground running coming here. You know what I mean? Just doing quality things after quality things. Always really good in everything she does. I think what's almost impossible to get my head around is, Sean, you parking at Hillcrest, and then you go over to the patio to have lunch? What? Outdoors.

What is going on?

How did you get in there? Jason will take this for the rest of his days. But wait, Jason- How you ended up at Hillcrest Country Club.

I can play there, but as a guest.

Okay, so why? Is it hard to get in?

I can't call in and have a fucking lunch date there. I'm not a member.

So you have to be a member to have lunch there. So mad.

Was the Mattel guy a member there?

His name is Enon. No, a friend of ours was, a mutual friend of ours.

No, not two fucking non-members having a business meeting. Un Unbelievable. Well, you can get it. All right, getting back into it. This woman-Yeah, she's great. She's great. An incredible actor, incredible producer. Sean's got one love it. I think we'll just be at the tip top of our profession for a very, very long time. Right.

Talented, beautiful, smart, all those things.

Oh, you have something to say, Sean.

Yeah, I do. Just really quick. Out of all the movies that I would have ever guessed would make out of all of her movies on her resume- Still rolling. All of her movies on her resume that would have made over a billion dollars. I would have never guessed it would have been- Barbi. Barbi.

I can't believe it. No, no. Let me explain to you what the bi thing is.

At least go buy, Tanya.

Oh, shit. That's better.

I just don't think you can... You can't make up a word for it to fit the bi. You have to actually find a legitimate buy.

Bar-bye. Bar-bye. Bye.

Bar-bye.

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