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SmartList. I'm going full tilt this morning. It's a Smartless. It's one of our OG original ones. Smartless, honey. You're like your cool dad this morning. Did I tell you? So the other day, I've never wanted it out of the house, obviously, for every year. Yeah, you don't want people to know that. Well, also, it's got our faces on the back. Yeah, you don't want people to know that. So you don't want to be like, hey, Johnny wearing his merch. So the other day, wearing the house, went to do my little walk that you guys know, and forgot that I had it on. And then my shirt, and I had to wear it to go, and I went to Whole Foods and I realized as I was getting out of the car Why'd you have to wear it? Because if you took it off you'd be just in a sweaty I'd taken my t-shirt off because it was gone it was so soaked in sweat because I work out so hard because if you want let me walk you through the workout

Well, because you're wearing the heavy hands you strap on the heavy hands and the heavy ankles right? The Velcro

And I got the big visor that comes down in front and then I got the locked No, because I'm wearing the you know, I got the weight vest as we know So you're shirtless with a hoodie on so anyway shirtless with the hoodie on and then I'm in line

smartless hoodie on in Whole Foods and I'm in Whole Foods I'm just trying to do it in and out

I hope you ran into somebody you know no I got a guy I forget the new name he's always does like Getty Images photos at events and he's like and I just hear it I was like well it looks like somebody's got Will Arnett on the back and I turn around and I go luckily I kind of we all kind of know I forget his name he's a nice guy and I was like oh shit at which point and then I go up to I do a self check out and this girl taps me on the shoulder And they're like, are you willing? Love the show. Yeah, it's like a really big fan. And I literally said to the stranger, and I said to this stranger, I was so embarrassed. I go, by the way, I never normally would wear this, but I didn't have this. Oh, God, it gets worse. And I just ran to my car.

I was like, what a tool. In a deeper sweat. And then I hope you were locked out of your car, had to call AAA on the side of the road.

Standing on the side of the street.

I'll wear smartless. We know. No, to the gym, to the gym. Sure, sure. Or anywhere. But nobody cares. Nobody stops you.

It was so humiliated. Tapped on the...

shoulder oh excuse me yeah excuse me are you will or net yeah how's your merch going wait what's that new tag for reese's where you're using the reese's name for a different word um like it's uh it's all it's instead of like it's all reality it's all reese's or something like that i don't

know it was i was impressed with it this weekend yeah every everybody uh everybody loves a reese's

no and something like that that was exciting you were expecting more from me i apologize i'm picking my teeth a little bit what is what's the what's the don't start now what's the protocol i know yeah the politeness thing you guys aren't aren't both real deep on manners but um i wouldn't mind much more than you are i don't know about that yeah what about i don't talk about potty stuff i don't i don't pick my teeth i don't eat and you don't you know you don't fart you don't fart either i don't think you've ever farted in front of me well it's disgusting who wants to hear what are you talking about man oh it's listen that's just it's just dude shit you know bro not Just like you burp. I mean, Sean and I love our power burps. Sean, I think you and I have definitely farted in front of you, Sean. I think you've done it in front of me. You've definitely farted on me. Yeah, you've farted in front of me before. I have, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the car. But Willie doesn't. He doesn't. So then, Will, then you don't, you don't, you don't, did you ever poo in front of Amy? Are you looking for clicks? No, I'm just saying. Are you trying to get something that we can click around? I always forget people listening to this. Wait, but hang on. You were married to her, had two kids. You guys never went to the bathroom in front of each other? I'm sorry.

The question is, did I poo in front of Amy? And you're saying that I don't have manners? What are you talking about? I think it's a good question. It's not a good question. I refuse to answer it.

It's a cute question.

I refuse to answer that. It's not a your fucking business.

Did you poo P-E-W-P? Yeah. Yeah. All right. I hope we have a very respectable guest on. Well, we do. Well, let me ask you. We do, and she's going to be outraged by this, by the way. But wait a minute.

But wait a minute. Do you poo in front of Amanda?

I mean, we don't use the same potty, but if she needed to come in and ask me something important, she could and would. I don't know if I would do that to her, although to hear her, she doesn't poo. Never has. Right. I don't know how. It's amazing. but yeah yeah

I spoke to her this morning she said please tell him that I'm jealous that we get to see your face and she didn't this morning

aww that's your age it's coming up on three weeks I know

when are you back we saw her this weekend I talked to her yesterday and I saw her Saturday night and I talked to her Saturday day I've been spending a lot of time with her yeah same I've been spending a lot of time with her yeah well let me say this When you get home, she is worn out. Just give her a break? I love, can I just say, all bits aside, how much I do love your wife, Amanda. We all do a show. We all love her. I was on the phone with her this morning. She's the fucking greatest. She's such a good friend. She's so thoughtful and kind and sweet. Always available. Yeah, she's amazing. I like her, too, pretty much. She's so good. She's so, so good. Tell you, he's good. Tell you, he's real good. and classy and you're going to feel badly about all this disgusting potty talk. No, no. Tell me she's not

an award winner, is she? Oh, well, okay.

Well, tell me if this means a lot. Uh-oh. Ten Golden Globe nominations and two wins. Wow. Seven BAFTA nominations. Oh, I was

going to say, does she have a British accent? No.

Two Emmy noms. Ten SAG nominations and two wins. I apologize. Five Academy Award nominations. Wow. Christ. Five Academy Award nominations. Do you like films like Junebug? Do you like films like Night of the Museum? Julia and Julia? Do you like The Master? The Muppets? On the Road? Arrival, Sean.

Oh my God.

She's got a dirty sense of humor.

She's fine with the poo talk. Get around here. Hi.

I'm so glad I entered on this conversation. I'm so embarrassed, Amy. I'm sorry. We know each other a little. I know you're good with the poo talk. I'm fine with poop talk. Absolutely. And I also love Amanda, so.

Yeah, she's the best. Oh, how nice you're here with us, Amy.

I'm so happy to be here. Yes, I'm very glad to get to participate in this conversation. It's an important conversation.

Well, jump in if you want. Yeah, sure. Amy, welcome. Let's do it. Here's our new intro. Pretend that never happened. Yeah, now we get the suit. Guys, it's Amy Adams. Hi.

Hi, guys.

Amy, where are we finding you today, by the way? I'm really liking your background. Los Angeles in my kitchen. Okay, in your kitchen. You look so nice.

Amy, I'm going to let Will drive this, but I'm dying to get to doubt.

where he won't and and Arrival because those are two of my favorite films ever and um I've seen Arrival probably no joke probably like 10 12 times so good I can't tell you how many times

we've had other people on who have no connection to Arrival and then Sean will be have you seen

Arrival yeah but but that's that script is one of you know not since like you know the sixth sense or something have you read a script or seen a script or seen a movie whatever that has an ending that just completely blows your mind i mean the the fact that all the flashbacks were actually flash forwards is so you've never you've never seen anything like like when you read it

were you like wait a minute what like yeah i mean i was reading it sort of thinking it was told in like a traditional timeline so i still loved it but then when i got to the end i was like oh no i gotta go back and reread it and understand right you almost have to watch the movie again Yeah, it was so crazy to shoot it because I had to perform it as if it were, like, it was, I had to live in that duality of, like, letting the audience think that it was flashbacks, but then on a rewatch, understanding that it was a flash forward. So that was a lot of fun to play with. Yeah, it's so smart.

Yeah, that's so smart.

Yeah, Denis is amazing. He's so good.

That guy is something else.

He's so good, and he's lovely. He's, like, the nicest.

He was on the podcast, yeah.

Oh, was he?

Isn't he just, like, so humble and funny, and you're like, yeah.

Yeah. Can you imagine he had to deal with Sean the whole podcast? Oh, my gosh. It was such a handful. I was dripping sweat. And then you did the, and then you. And Dune.

I'm like, Dune.

Yeah.

And then I was the idiot over here calling him Denny the whole time. That's all right.

I called him Dennis Villanueva. So, there you go.

Villanueva. Oh, no. Denise.

Not to him. I joke to him because that's kind of how it's spelled in sort of the Colorado pronunciation.

But I was going to say, Colorado, by way of, so I didn't know this, that you were born in Italy.

I was born in Italy. Yeah, which part? Dad was in the Army. My dad was stationed at Vicenza and Aviano Air Force Base and Vicenza Army Base, so I was born in that region, which is kind of in between Florence and Venice.

Scotty, my husband Scotty, he's an Army brat, too. He was born in Okinawa, Japan.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, so you guys are, like, born all over the world.

Exactly. My husband was born in Rammstein, Germany.

Oh, wow.

I think it's called Rammstein, yeah.

Also, so, also, also parents in the—

Also Air Force, yeah.

Also Air Force.

Yeah, his dad was Air Force, so. Oh, wow. That's cool.

Then how does it work then to get an American passport? Do you have to, like, sort of, when you come to this country, then what goes on with that? Well, her parents are American, so she's an American born abroad.

Yeah, you're naturalized.

Because you're born on an American base.

Exactly.

Yeah. Could you run for president?

I think I'm, I don't think that's in my interest. Okay. But I think technically I can.

By the way, all the rules are out the window on that one. I think so. Are there any rules to that anymore?

I think I'd be, I'd be great.

I bet you'd be very good. Yeah. I bet you'd be very good. I'd vote for you.

There'd be a lot of singing in the White House, that's for sure.

Yeah. That would be lovely. So you're born overseas to Air Force dad. Army dad. Moved around a bunch. Just to be clear. Oh, sorry.

My husband has an Air Force dad. Sorry, I'm not that particular, but just in case he is, I want to.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course. Okay, so Army dad. Yeah. And then you, but you end up basically settling in Colorado, which you mentioned. Yeah, and then where did the, where did the sort of the interest come from to, you know, for performing? Because you're not just a great performer who does it at the highest level. You're also prolific. You've done so much, and so it seems like, where does that come from? Was your mom into that, or was your dad into that? Were they encouraging?

My dad was a performer. Oh, wow. He played, he had a band and sang, and he ended up being sort of like a one-man band, and he played in bars, and so we'd go watch him in bars. Wait, wait, wait.

With the cymbals tied to the leg and everything?

It wasn't quite Dick Van Dyke, Mary Poppins. I love that. I love that. No, he had like all these synths and he would like push buttons for, yeah.

Bang your knees together for the cymbal hit.

Yeah, pizza joints, just walking around, flapping his wings.

Oh, I love that. They just turn them loose for someone's birthday coming out of the kitchen.

I actually wish that's what he did. That would be great.

That's so good.

No, he would play, there's a foot synthesizer, right? So I don't know if you guys have ever seen those. Yeah. Since you would wear fancy socks and play the foot synthesizer. Come on.

No way. Kind of like Big, like the movie Big.

No, it's a...

No.

It's not like that. It literally looks sort of like... I guess this is what came to mind. You know, in Goonies, that big piano that they play with the bones?

Oh, with the skeleton bones, yeah.

It's like that, but like black, blacker. I don't know. That's the best way. That's the visualization that came to mind.

Is it kind of like the bottom half of an organ? Like when they push the feet with you? Yeah, exactly.

So he pushes on these pedals with his feet while he plays. You saved it, Sean. Yeah, yeah. Thank you, thank you for that. I'm like, it's kind of like the Goonies skeleton.

Sean's like, imagine if they made big and Goonies and you're like, like imagine if To the Villeneuve made, like, goodies and veggies. And that person who's making it is watching Arrival.

Wait, so, Amy, this doesn't sound like an army dad.

I'm just, like, return to the goondocks. All of a sudden, you guys, I'm writing a script, just so you know. Right. So good.

Yeah, it doesn't, you're right, Jason's right. It doesn't sound like a regular army dad.

He can also clean a weapon, too. I mean, this guy's multi-talented, we're saying. Yes. You're painting a great dynamic picture.

Absolutely. Yeah? Yeah, but mostly played music, so.

Wow, so then that's where you got your, so then did singing and dancing precede acting?

Yes, yeah.

Really?

Absolutely, I never thought I was going to be an actress. I was such a musical theater kid and mostly trained in ballet, but like I was so shy and I had paralyzing stage fright. Still do, but I make myself do it anyway and every time I'm like, why do I do this to myself? Yeah, it's torture.

Torture. But isn't stage fright more acute on a stage, doing singing, dancing, spotlight, microphone, the whole thing? It's not cute anywhere. Isn't the fright more intense there than in front of a camera or no?

Yes. Oh, yeah. I mean, they still get nervous in front of a camera, but it's such an intimate thing. And you have one person you can focus on.

And you can screw up.

You can screw up, exactly.

Yeah, and then just do it again. Now, this is reminding me because I was doing a project. This is many, many, many, many, many years ago. Here we go. Which project was this? Buckle up.

Sorry, which project were you working on? I can't say. No, that's all right.

We'll applaud. Go ahead. And the producers were like, you should reach out to Amy Adams for this project. And I was like, well, I don't know Amy Adams. I'm a big fan, but I don't know. No, just do it. She knows you're going to call. So I called you. I don't know if you remember this. I called you and you picked up and you go, hello. And I go, hi, Amy, it's Sean Hayes. Oh, I'm in the White House right now. in the bathroom, can I call you back? You remember this?

I was at the White House for Julie and Julia.

Oh, my God. And that's when I was like, wait, the time I call you, you're in the bathroom at the White House?

Yes, I was in the bathroom at the White House.

That is crazy.

We can talk later.

So that was the last time you talked to her? Yeah, that was the last time I talked to Amy. How have you been since?

You know, just hanging out, having a kid.

But what I want to know, oh, yeah, we're going to get into that. But what I want to know is, you didn't think you would have a career as an actor. So, and your dad's doing all these, playing the one-man band in the bars and stuff. How do you go from that to, what's your first acting gig and how did that happen from Colorado?

Well, I started dancing. That was sort of my way into performing, which was good because I could be with like a group of people. For me, it's very much about a singular focus. So like always being in the chorus was really fun because you got to feed off of everybody else and just become a part of a group, you know? And I love that. So yeah, I got into dancing, which led me after high school. I was going to say the reason I got into all of it is because I was bad at math because I wanted to be a doctor. So I was like... Really? Really, yeah. What kind of doctor? Still wish I could have been a doctor. I think I wanted to work in emergency medicine. I'm really good in a crisis, yeah. Really? Yeah.

And you'd be okay with like blood and gore and like somebody in a lot of pain and trauma you'd be okay with?

yeah yeah i i really i want to like i have this fantasy that when i retire from acting i'm going to be one of the seniors that volunteers down at cedars i was like i just kind of have the same

thing do you kind of want to yeah like i want to just go like help people out like what's going on well you're going to be there anyway so you might as well you've got your own parking spot it's a hop skip and jump wait that's so interesting are you good so so because some people are like um flight instead of fight during emergencies right they're like i can't deal with this and run away whereas like there's this one time when i was driving home from a taping of will and grace

and a guy was lying in the middle of the street this is a sitcom so funny so many they don't make them no more they're not like that not with the laughs and this one thinks this and the other one thinks this and they have a misunderstanding they have a misunderstanding

the one door shuts the other one opens no one knows what's in one bed everybody's gay so funny

sorry Amy sorry about that Amy

no I love it I love it you guys are great I'm like sometimes way too earnest so I

I appreciate you guys bringing humor in.

We're not.

No, don't worry about it. We should learn from you. No, exactly. No, so I was driving home from one of the tapings and there's this guy lying in the middle of the street. I was like, what? And the two cars ahead of me were just driving around him. I was like, what, this guy's lying in the middle of the street? That was me and Will. On the gas. Smart. Just missed his head. And so I pull over, as somebody would do, and then just as I open the door to my car, I'm like, oh, is this one of those things, this setup where I get out, I help the guy and then somebody takes my car or whatever or, you know, jumps me or whatever it is. So then...

I'd love to see you get taken over by that guy and the other dude that's hiding behind the mailbox and them just taking your car and your clothes and just leaving you... them tying you up and them not understanding how much you're enjoying it.

And I'm just going, no, stop. No, ouch. You don't want these clothes?

Okay. You don't want these.

No, wait. How am I going to get home naked? You'll figure it out.

Okay. That's amazing.

All right, so. Oh, my God.

So you end up lying in the middle of the road so somebody pulls over for you. It's a cycle. Because now you need a ride. How am I going to get home? By the way. So sorry, Amy.

It's okay. No, I love it. Are you kidding? I was only a few blocks from home, too.

Yeah. Oh, God.

We'll be right back.

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All right, so you're about to get out of the car. You think it might be a thing. But then I was like, but the guy I could see is in real pain. god this is a long way to go to get to the question but um i so i get out and the guy just got shot the guy was shot oh i did take off my shirt and i put i didn't know what i was doing like to your point like emergencies like yeah you know fight or flight so i was like oh you know i'm gonna do this so nobody was around and so i took my shirt off i put it on the bullet wound on his

on his stomach and i was like a hold it over for some pressure not a turning hit or anything

Correct. Well, yeah, a makeshift turning. And so I'm pulling on a dialing 911 on my phone. Meanwhile, other people have heard it and now are starting to come out of their houses, right? And so they already called, too.

And then— You're starting to feel self-conscious about being topless? A little bit. At this point? A little bit. A little bit.

Were you actually topless? I was, yeah, yeah. You don't wear a T-shirt?

Yeah. And so I'm again— Not everyone wears an undershirt, granddad. Yeah. Go ahead.

And so, yeah, so the guy— I don't know. So, finally, the ambulance came and everything. And he lived and he was okay. Everything was fine. He got the help he needed. And, of course, the ambulance guy was like, are you, Sean? No. With my hand on his stomach. I was like, yeah. But anyway, the point is.

Still topless.

Yeah, still topless. And then we exchanged numbers. No, I'm kidding. But the point is, yes, emergencies, I attack them. I don't run from them usually.

Yeah, I get very focused. Like, everything becomes very focused in an emergency. I'm sorry.

Was that whole story about the time that you saved the dude's life?

Yeah.

Yeah, because most people drive— Just to prove that he runs into a fire instead of away from a fire. Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Yeah, I've come across a couple of scenes where we've been sort of the first people on the scene.

Oh, really? Really?

Yeah.

Care to share? Like where?

We were in Santa Monica and coming out of our favorite restaurant. And I was with my dad. And my dad is also very much like that, thankfully. And these people were screaming and a guy was walking and they're yelling he's dying. And my husband's like, that's blood. And I was like, Darren, you stay here with our daughter. We ran over and he'd been stabbed in the neck.

Oh, gosh. Yeah.

So he was bleeding and his friends were freaking out. So luckily we're going to the beach. We grabbed towels. My dad has been on lots of scenes. I guess he attracts them as well and applied pressure. And I'm sitting there somehow going, you need to calm your pulse rate. Take a deep breath. Like, I literally was just so focused. I was like, the more you struggle, the faster you're going to bleed. Just lay down. Let's elevate this. We were like, just, and yeah. And then I ran into him. A year later, a guy walks up to me in the restaurant. He's like, I heard a story that you and your dad were on the scene of a guy getting stabbed. And I was like, yeah, yeah, that's so funny. You heard that story. And he went like that. And I was like, oh, my God, it's you.

And it was him.

Yeah, and it was him. And he was like all teary. And he had his son with him.

Wow.

Yeah, it was so crazy.

Did he tell you what the situation was under which, the reason that he got stabbed?

I mean, as far as I could make out, it was, they had run into an old college friend and had some drinks and then went to the liquor store. They were going to go back to someone's house and he just freaked out. But I don't know kind of what the whole story is. Wow, wow, wow, wow.

That's crazy. Yeah. Would have been great if you and your dad started singing him a little song to calm him down. Oh, yeah, like a one-man. Yeah. We had like a little pocket trombone or something.

Can you imagine I just start singing like Giselle?

Well, your dad's playing and you're dancing.

I'm like, stay away.

That's calming, you know? That is calming.

I'm going to start singing Mary Poppins, too. That would have been nice.

Wow, you really would have been great in an emergency room.

This is... I'm not that smart, but I'm that focused, so.

You're a lot smarter than we are, so...

No, I don't think so.

Have you ever played a medical person?

You know, I did in Dr. Vegas. I played Rob Lowe's...

Wait a second. All right. I need to see this. Yeah, me too.

And so I went and...

So what year did we make this?

2001. Actually, it's a good story. I was filming and they sent me home and I was mad because I was like, of course, the one project where you want to stay where they're filming in Vegas when I was like, you know, 30. And when I went home, I got the Junebug audition. Oh, nice. And then was filming Junebug when they reduced my role to recurring.

No, he's bounced.

On Dr. Vegas.

On Dr. Vegas. And I was like, I'm good. They're like, you're just going to leave? I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I feel like.

I'm all set. Got an indie.

Suck it.

Yeah.

I just did an indie. I'm set.

I'm just going to go ahead and get an Academy Award nomination over here. So I'm good. You want to reduce it? Yeah. We're all set.

Look, I had no idea. I just was like, anyway, it's a long story, but I did a shadow at Emergency Room Doctor.

Before that part, yeah.

Yeah, and I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's got to be fascinating. Did you not want to see? Did you see some things you didn't want to see?

I think for me, I was just fascinated with the stories that kind of really helped me put things into perspective. I know, I'm so earnest, I told you guys. I just was so grateful and invested in people's personal stories. It's just...

I was, you know, I'm a frequent flyer at the ER in Los Angeles.

But yeah, you want to give a shout out to Cedars? Yeah, Cedars-Sinay.

Yeah. And I was lying there waiting to get... Free extra couple of punches on your punch card. You get to your bonus earlier. We're in the cafeteria.

Sean's nickname is Paddles, by the way.

This is true, Amy. Because I get AFib and they zap my heart back. Anyway, so, but one time I was in there, this was like two years ago, and the guy, some guy OD'd on drugs. They were trying to revive him and he died right next to me. In the room right next to me. It's so crazy to witness all of that.

Willie and I play golf with Dr. Gary Shulman he does ER doctor and the things that he knows how to do and he could save any life you put in front of him I think it's incredible yeah it's really amazing and he's got a great short game too you can get up and down from anywhere by the way

let's be clear he's got a great game all around he's middle of the fairway

long game yeah I never see him in trouble you never see him looking for a ball never you want him as your teammate

yeah Dr. Gary's been playing with the same ball for three years definitely yeah anyway let's nice man and shout out to dr gary um you know uh so so amy you've done so many things but so many different kinds of roles like comedy drama yeah sci-fi is there one i've seen the most is enchantment enchanted or enchanted

you nailed it never saw enchanted because it doesn't exist but um yeah i mean you know having having two girls you met both of them yeah how are they doing they must be they're doing great thanks yeah they're they're not watching it anymore yeah but I mean I knew that album backwards and forwards loved it

thank you and I'm sorry

yeah no no it was fantastic but I've seen I've seen them all but that one a lot

I bet yeah

yeah very good

thank you

do you have do you have like a genre that you like doing more than because you kind of you've done like I said you've done it all like you do you work in comedy you work in drama you work in sci-fi like is there one sort of lane that you feel more comfortable in or do you just kind of each one is just like a new opportunity to have fun

and you don't really think about it yeah i think each one's a new opportunity i like working in different genres because it requires like a different approach to tone and it's a challenge and but i mean i mean i'm most comfortable in like musical theater even at 51 if someone's like you need to go play Belle. I'd be like, got it. Like, that's where my spirit lives, my inner child.

Do you want to do more of it?

I do. I did theater recently in London, and I really do want to do more of it. But I think I'm so tired all this time.

Yeah, yeah. It's a lot.

It's so much work. I have so much respect for everybody who works on stage because doing that eight shows a week is really, really grueling. And so I'd have to really consider it. Maybe when my daughter is...

Gets a little older.

Gets a little, when she's out of the house, because I really want to be present for her.

How old is she?

She's going to be 16 next Friday. Oh, wow.

Yeah.

That's amazing, sweet 16. How are those driving lessons going?

She has not started them yet. No, I...

You haven't...

taken her out in your car and just like in an open parking lot and said and just put her in the seat

uh not no i oh my god i am definitely she has absolutely no interest no she has interest but she wants to get through finals before she starts studying for her permits test because she she uh yeah she likes disciplined that's disciplined this generation though that is

because of uber there's just there's no that's true i didn't think of that when we were kids remember like the the day morning you turn 16 you're at the dmv no my guys did arch got it

immediately but abe's been kind of putting well he can only get his lures because he's not 16 yet

you know what i thought would never happen though is that because jason's right when you turn 16 you're like it it um it signifies independence yeah driving right freedom but now and i thought well that will never go away but with waymo self-driving cars and uber and stuff maybe it's

not a thing anymore i don't know with kids yeah but it is nice to be able to just like walk outside your house and climb into your car and go it is i think she's really gonna love that

sensation when she sort of gets into it but i respect i'm letting her are you still in driving

her around mode or is she is she leaning on the oobs like like everybody a little of both i mean

we're a little more cautious with ubers as long as she's with friends and stuff like that so but she loves a Waymo that's her thing

yeah we always say it's a known thing Amy that Jason has the personality of a Waymo driver and that's just kind of known around the office here just around the office here

a Waymo driver

that's enough Sean

that's good

so funny

by the way

I was going to say this Sean I think you know this and you're going to freak out again on Amy. Yeah. You know she just wrapped the new Star Wars, right?

What do you mean? The one with Ryan Gosling?

Yeah.

Wait, I was on that set. Okay, cool. Oh, amazing. Yeah, Sean Levy asked us to come visit and we visited for like a day.

What if you found out that Amy knew you were coming and she was like, this guy fucking called me once in the toilet at the White House. This guy won't leave me alone.

I had a very small part. Yeah.

You did? Wait, are you a fan or no?

Oh my gosh, yeah.

Yeah, huge.

Absolutely.

By the way, Tatooine.

I mean, amazing.

I have my Tatooine hat on today.

I love it. I have my Tatooine hat on. Do you go to May the 4th Disney events at Disney? Because I've always wanted to go. Maybe next year you and I will figure it out.

Oh my God, I would love it. Go to May the 4th. Leave the kids at home. Am I right?

You're right.

I hate the May the 4th be with you because that's my birthday and I feel like they took it over. They took, no, I'm not. They took it over. Everybody's like, May the 4th. I'm like, enough.

Wait, what, did you get to hold all the props and whatever and all the, you know, fantasy stuff? I love that.

Yes.

I love that.

Went to the creature shop twice.

Yeah, I went to the creature shop too. Isn't that wild? A little careful, Sean. Watch the battles. I saw the new, I saw the new, you know, their version of R2-D2 in the new one, which I couldn't post. We're not allowed to post.

Is he real? We just racked focus. There's Scotty in the back just heating up the paddles. Rubbing them together. Getting them ready. Oh, he's talking about the creature shop.

Charge! Wasn't that, but, and then the guy, I met the guy who created BB-8.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's wild. It's so cool. It's wild.

I mean, I'll talk about this, I'm sure, down the road, but like, I don't know what I'm allowed to talk about, but I was so nervous the first day of working, like I forgot how to act. I'm sure Sean Levy's like, Amy, are you okay? And I'm like, no, I'm just not okay.

No, just because of all the stuff that was around you and like—

No, just like, I'm on a Star Wars set. I know, right? And I like love—I grew up on this. This is like, I have to now get out of my like dorky fangirl place and go into like professional actress and like combining the two was really hard. So I had to like—

Could you feel it? Was it palpable? I mean, were the sets big? Was the camera gear like all like—

It's so cool, you guys. It's just so cool. I'm, like, not allowed to talk about anything, of course. But I can tell you, it's so cool. And the kid in it is so great. I just—

What about, like, was there a lot of, like, were the sets real? Were the weapons real? Or was it all, like, sort of green screens and, you know?

It's a mix, but it's—

A mix, yeah.

It was—it's enough to, like, get the feels. You know what I mean?

And then you got the great Sean Levy there. Just, like, he's so infectious with his energy and enthusiasm. He has his enthusiasm and his kindness.

And speaking of Arrival, he was one of the producers on Arrival. He was? Yeah, I worked with him at night at the museum. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah.

So you do the Star Wars, and then you got another, you got a sci-fi film coming out later this year that you did with our buddy Taika. What's that? Oh, yeah, yeah.

I was like, I do? I was like, yes, yes. Yeah, we did that, like, over two years ago now. So, yeah.

Whoa. Are you a sci-fi fan?

I do like sci-fi, yeah.

There's such a, you have, like, so, like, Star Wars-y sci-fi. Like, this is, like, seems to be a genre that you're very comfortable in. Superman. Oh, I love it.

I love it, yeah.

But she's funny as hell, too, and can sing and dance. And let's not, we haven't even gotten to the drama part of it all. I mean. I know.

I do. I do love a good drama.

Do you want to leave any for anybody else? Like, what's going on?

I love a good drama.

How great were you in Doubt? I saw that play and I was like, wow, this play's one of the best plays. And then the movie with you and Meryl Streep.

How good are Meryl and Philip in that? Getting to sit through the rehearsals with them, it's my entire actor training. I never went to college or conservatory. So I really feel like that was how I learned how to act.

And everybody showed up on set off book probably. just know there's nobody has side right everybody just knows their stuff oh yeah by that time we

we really knew it yeah yeah i mean i mean it's it's meryl was it a lot with her was it a lot of rehearsal for that film more than usual i i would say so yeah yeah it was a while ago i it was

amazing so then wait did you just say that you did not go to drama school i did not no no and so What would you attribute your talent to? Was it just a... A lonely childhood.

Yeah, how'd you get so talented?

A lonely childhood.

Was it just like an innate sense of what would be... I don't know.

Honestly, Jason, I really don't know. I think I've always just been... I read a lot and I've always been plugged into characters and how and why and what motivates them and all of that. And I think it just sort of started translating into acting. I never, I honestly, I also, when I moved to LA, I started working with an acting coach later on after I'd started working. And that was really helpful because she helped sort of ground me a bit more instead of being very big. So that was good.

Well, that's what I was going to say. Yeah, because theater is sort of at odds with your incredible level of subtlety when you're doing on-camera work. You know, I mean, it's just masterful how little you have the discipline to do, which, you know, if you did that on stage, the people in the front row would be able to read it. But that'd be about it, you know, which I mean, it's great. But oftentimes you'll see theater actors that are sometimes maybe just a little bit bigger on screen. Right. But you do not suffer that at all. It's really, really impressive.

Well, I absolutely love people's inner life. Like, if I could know what people were thinking at all times, I'd be so happy.

Yeah, that's what I love about watching your performance. It's like, yeah, I lean in and I try to read your mind. You know, there's stuff going on inside as opposed to...

I told you guys, you've got to watch this new doc that's coming out later this year. I was telling Shawnee about it. It's called, it's based on the podcast, that really popular podcast, the telepathy tapes about the nonverbal. Oh, yeah. There's a doc. I just saw a screening of the doc.

Is it good?

It's unbelievable. Wait, what is it? Dude, there's this really popular podcast. and called the Telepathy Tapes and they made a doc at the same time and it's coming out later this year and it's unbelievable. I had goosebumps the entire time watching it talking about people who can talk.

It was real popular at the same time the Richard Simmons podcast.

Sean, stop mentioning the Richard Simmons. Every time I mention this, Sean brings up the Richard Simmons podcast, I swear to God. Sean, why? How would that be? Leave it.

An easy reference for everyone. Yeah, just let it stand on its own.

Let it stand on its own. Why do you have to mention the fucking Richard Simmons podcast every time?

No, because at that time, it was years and years ago, those were the two most popular.

I've never heard of a Richard Simmons podcast. Oh, God, you would love it. It's so wild. Oh, here we go.

You'd love it. Oh, for fuck's sake, man.

Now, wait, Willie, the reason that you were seeing this earlier than when it's coming out is because that makes me think maybe we're going to have somebody from it on the podcast coming up. Did you get a little early link or something? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. There's a guest coming. Look at you putting some stuff together.

I used to be a cop. I know. Look at you. Honestly, you guys, it's so fascinating. And Amy, talking about people understanding what other people are thinking and stuff. It is a fucking mind blow.

Did you listen to that, Amy? Did you listen to that podcast?

Yeah, I did, actually. I listened to... I didn't get towards the end of the telepathy. It started to get... I don't want to... You know, it started to get a little, like, it twisted a bit. I don't want to give any spoilers.

Yeah, but it's, I found it, I mean, it was just stunning and I'd listen to the podcast too. But anyway, I don't know how we got here, but boy, it's good. It's really good. But what was your, so this is what I was going to say. What was your first pro gig as an actor?

Your first paying job.

Like exclusively as an actor or just as a dancer?

As an actor. As an actor, actor, what was your first?

Actor, actor, I did a commercial for Omaha National Bank. Okay. Where I lip-synced. So I guess it's, I mean, I lip-synced to Summer Loving but turned into Summer Banking.

No, no. Had me a blast. Sure. Summer bacon had me in black. Boom, boom. Wow.

But then when I started, I was cast in Drop Dead Gorgeous out of Minnesota. So that was like my first thing.

First thing. And then what was your first, what was your first, did you do like a lot of, because I know obviously you did Dr. Vegas. We all know that. We're talking about Rob Lowe. I still call him Dr. Vegas.

Yeah.

What was your first, Like, did you start doing guest spots on shows?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah?

I did all the guest spots. You did? I was on Charmed. I was on Buffy. I was on that 70s show.

Yeah.

West Wing.

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What was the point when you figured that you might be safe, you might not need to have to study something else or have a second job? Or when did it seem that you could make a living?

um i think it was after i think it was after and enchanted yeah because that was a big movie yeah it's funny because by the time enchanted came out i'd i'd been nominated but i still didn't see that as like anything that cemented me as secure i just saw that as like an amazing

right like one-off like yeah so but having the box office of enchanted right that there's a

different thing with that isn't it and I also think it was like the most confident I at that point I'd ever been in a role because even when I read the script and I am not somebody who says this I looked at my husband and went I don't know who else they're gonna get for this like I just was like no no no no I just and I honestly I'm not that person I would cast someone else in every role I've done like I'm not competitive like that but I read that one and was like well well this is mine. Just because I felt like I really understood that world. and the duality of her.

But then you also do like, then you go on to do a couple of films with David O. Russell, some gritty films. You do The Fighter, which is super gritty and such a great film.

Yeah, David, that was huge because David really, I say take a chance, but no one really saw me that way. And then there was something about an interaction he had with me that kind of was like, wait.

You got in his face about like a valet ticket or something? You're terrifying.

No. No, I think he just stabbed.

I was here first.

Yeah, something like that.

Wait, was David, did you stab David O. Russell in the neck and then you and your dad saved him? Is that what happened?

No, it was not David O. Russell.

So you were surprised when David called you with that?

Yeah, yeah, I was. I was, I was like to say, I have like such memories of where I was when things happened that were huge for me. And that was, I was in Ireland filming Leap Year, like this romantic comedy, which helped me learn that I was not good at romantic comedy, though I loved the film. I just was like, there are people who are really good at this, and I don't think that's me. I don't think.

There's nothing you're not good at. Yeah, come on.

No, it's just I'm too earnest. Like, I want to turn it into, like, Wuthering Heights, and, like, I just don't have that turn of phrase that some people are so good at. I'm just so earnest. It's so irritating. I've learned to accept it.

What about did your eyes light up like mine would if I got a call from Paul Thomas Anderson. Like, The Master is one of my favorite, favorite films ever. The Master was great.

Paul is one of those people that I will forever want to impress. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, what I'm saying, a text. I am just, I just love him so much. Just as a person, too.

Agreed. Yeah. Yeah.

I actually met him at a house party.

Yeah.

And I kind of ran the riot act because he had, he had, it's a lot. I don't want to get Paul in trouble, but he had.

He took the last piece of pizza.

He took the last piece of pizza. No, no, there was a mutual friend that was a little drunk and acting a little silly and he was encouraging it, you know, having fun. And I was like, that is highly irresponsible. Now, to be fair, I was 10 weeks pregnant and I was not telling anybody. So I was agitated. And then I looked at Darren and I was like, I can't believe I just yelled at like my favorite filmmaker of all time. I'm like, I'm never going to get to work with him. I don't know what I've done. But I was so like.

But that's what it took.

And then I got Cass. He's like, who can yell at Philip Seymour Hoffman? He's like. Who can be stern?

Who's that girl? Wow.

I don't know if that's why he called me, but.

Oh, just loved it.

He's so great. Yeah, I still, anytime I hear from Paul, I'm excited. But yeah, he's wonderful.

So you do that. I mean, and then you go, and then you jump into the DC world, world, the Zack Snyder-y sort of Superman, like that whole world. Yeah. It's amazing. You just have all these like different like really distinct lanes and stuff that you do, totally so different. Did you feel, when you get that call, you're like, yeah, yeah, this is something that I'm into.

No, again, I'm just super dorky and loved Superman, so I was like, ooh, I get to play Lois. I was just...

Yeah, so cool. I grew up loving Superman.

Like, I'm, I really am like meant for Comic-Con like to go down there in costume. Like, that's, I'm dorky. Yeah, I love it. I love dorky. Darren's a dorky. You've met my husband.

We're both just dorky, earnest people. Are you big Halloween? Are you Halloween people?

Um, yes. Sure you are. You bop around with Melissa and Ben, and you guys get all dolled up and do your thing. Well, that's different.

That was our movie club thing.

Right. But it's still, you guys, yeah, these guys, they'd watch a movie. Yeah.

Oh, I do love a dress up. I love a theme party. I'm that girl.

Right, sure.

I have to, like, pull myself back if someone says theme party. Darren's like, Amy, you don't have to be, you can just have a suggestion of, but I like that.

Ugly Christmas sweater party.

Yeah, it'd sign you up, right? Yeah. I went to a 70s birthday party a few months ago. I already had a dress in 1970s clothes. Oh, I remember that. And I was like, oh, we're going, we have to really go do it. And then you go, it's kind of fun.

Yeah. Well, luckily, Sean, you didn't have to buy a costume for that, right? You just went into your wardrobe. Yeah, Sean, what did you put together for that?

Yeah. I put, I think we have photos. Hot shorts? No, I put bell-bottom pants, a big wig, you know, some gold chains and some, you know, open... Yeah, Anamboa. Cool. There you go. Done. All right, thank you. And Scott, did you get dressed too? Yeah, we both did. Let me see if I can find a picture. Yeah, sure.

I used to get dressed up for auditions, guys. Like, I would go in in costume, right? Did you really? Yeah, I didn't quite. And then, like, other girls would be coming out looking absolutely beautiful, and I would be like, oh, I guess... I guess I look like I want it too much Which is probably why it didn't work In the beginning I hadn't sort of cracked the code of neutrality I was like, it's me

I don't know I feel like you did everything I feel like you did everything really,

I think you did everything pretty damn well.

And then now... Your daughter doesn't, does your daughter seem like she is attracted to maybe going that direction too or no?

Not in performing and only recently on the set of Star Wars, on our way to the creature shop, she looked at me and said, mom, do you think I could find a career in film?

Oh, wow.

And I said, yeah, absolutely.

And did you guys start to talk about different parts of it?

Yeah. So we're constantly talking about different. She's like, because I love travel. I love meeting new people. I like every day being different. And this is really like the best suited job for everything I want my life to look like. So yeah, so she kind of switched her motivation. She's still like really interested in psychology, like which I love. So she and I are constantly talking about human behavior, which is fun with a 16-year-old. But it actually is. She's very intuitive and insightful. Yeah.

Yeah. So we'll see. Isn't it neat how the conversations change over years? Like, you know, like as much as you might miss the toddler age, it's like, well, you couldn't really talk about, you know, global issues. Now you can get their take on that. Yeah, because they're so involved now.

Yeah. Right. And they get so much information thrown at them, too.

Yeah, I want to take her over to the Groundlings to take a class because she's really quick-witted and mean. And I'm like, hey, you'll be great in comedy.

Oh, we like that.

She's not a mean person, but her wit is so biting.

Biting and sarcastic.

My husband's like, ow, and I just think it's when she nails me, I laugh so hard. It's really funny. I love it.

It's fun. It's fun. Speaking of psychological, you've got a psychological thriller series on Apple TV I do

you're so good at bringing it back Will

I know I appreciate that thank you by the way thank you

I appreciate that that's a skill

thank you Amy you've been nominated in the group in the group Sean Amy Sean got singled out Sean one time got singled out as best host host interviewer of a podcast of a podcast

and he's part of a threesome yeah they singled him out yeah he did not win

I did not win, yeah. Let me finish, yeah. It's because I was held down by two others. I would say he's sloppy at best.

Contributive. Oh, there they are. There's Sean, Scotty. It's the 70s. Yeah, nice. Oh, that's good.

I like you have hard copies, too, guys. Those are hard copies.

Scotty had them.

That'd be beautiful. So let's talk about Kate Fier for a little bit. You and Javier Bardem, I mean, sick. What a cast. Patrick Wilson. Yeah, that's me. My doppelganger.

Yeah, I was going to say, you sort of look like his brother. Like, you could be his brother.

We've taken selfies before and posted it.

Now, I was actually, I'm very cultured, so I was watching PBS great performances last night. And there was Patrick Wilson doing Rodgers and Hammerstein. Which one?

He's so good, you guys.

Like a medley of things, along with a few other actors.

Sean, let's give us the number. Five, six, seven, eight. Oh, God, there's a billion.

There's a billion Rodgers. That's chorus line. Did you and Patrick ever break out into song at all during some of the setups?

Okay, so he's a little bit more disciplined than I am when it comes to the singing, probably because he does it professionally and I do it because I just love it and it's fun. So the first time he did sing, I thought I was being punked because we were talking about some of our favorite concerts we've seen. And I said, you know, oh, I went and saw the Indigo Girls in Red Rocks like 1992, 93. And I just, it was such a good concert. He's like, I love the Indigo Girls. And I was like, you don't love the Indigo Girls. And he started singing like a deep cut from one of the albums. And we harmonized for a bit. And I was like.

And singing like a songbird, right?

Guys.

Yeah, he's got skills.

I was like, we're going to be best friends. We're going to have so much fun. We like the same things. Put your number in my phone right now. We like the same things. It was a lot.

But just, yeah. I mean, all of us, just talking about it, I feel like we are the closer we are to fine. You know what I mean? Yes, exactly. That's a deep cut.

But yes, Cape Fear, Patrick's great, Javier's great.

I mean, yeah, this is a sick cast.

For it being so challenging and difficult, like content-wise and sort of the physicality, it was so much fun. And shot in Atlanta, I shot with a lot of your crew from Ozark, I believe.

Yeah, I think in a minute of Mars. They were able to recover. Amanda Marsalis, I think, directed an episode or two, yeah? She did, too, yeah. I just worked with her. Yeah. She's lovely.

Oh, we like Amanda. She's really nice. I like her.

Yeah, she was great.

No, I can't wait to see that show. I've watched the trailer a couple of times. It looks fantastic. It does look like a lot of night shoots.

which, you know, I'd have an issue with.

You know, there's a lot of night shoots.

Or is it more splits? Yeah, maybe we can just tent a bunch of stuff.

Honestly, it was challenging. We couldn't block shoot because we had a lot of directors. So it was challenging. So we could never block shoot. So it was a lot. It wasn't.

So for Tracy, Jay, or Amy, explain what block shooting means.

Yeah, Jason, you do it.

Yeah, you shoot out. Like if all the scenes that take place in this one particular location, no matter what episode they're in, we're going to shoot them all in a row so that we never have to come back to this location.

So you can knock out that location.

It's cheaper for budgetary reasons. Right, right.

Yeah, when I did Sharp Objects, we did a lot of block shooting and that was nice.

Another great project. I mean, you can go on and on. I know, it's amazing. Your resume's doing okay. I'm doing okay. Thank you, Jason.

You are at the tip top of what you do. You are so, so good at everything.

You guys are so sweet.

You've never, and we talk about there are very few people. You're one of those people. And we talk, John Goodman, we hold up as the gold center. I always do. Never a bad performance. No matter what you do, never a bad performance. There's still time. No, no, Amy, you're so good. You're so talented.

Well, do you allow yourself to, this is a tough question to answer, but do you allow yourself to?

We've had more of her time than we were allowed, but go ahead.

Oh, shit.

We are over.

You can cut a lot of my stuff out. You guys are so kidding. No, no, no.

We're going to let you go. But do you allow yourself to sort of like say, hey, you know, I've done all right. And I'm like only halfway done. And I thought maybe I was just going to, you know, kind of just sing and dance in front of mom and dad. Don't say halfway.

That's because she's going to be exhausted.

No, but I mean, it's really, really impressive what you've done and what you will continue to do. and you're still ascendant and I'm just, it's amazing.

Well, you know, I adore you and I'm just grateful. Like, I appreciate it. Thank you. I'm just grateful. I think like I'm 51 now and I think being in my fifties is the greatest. I'm so grounded and I just feel grateful and kind of open to whatever comes and grateful for what I've been able to do. And it's a great time of reflection. It shows. And Jason, I will say, I think this is the longest I've ever talked to you because you're normally ducking out of parties.

I know. Oh, wow. That doesn't sound like it. Yeah, let's get into that.

So I'm so excited to get to talk to you.

It's something both these boys know, you know. I go out and then it's time to go home. No, you're smart. Yeah, it's time to get into bed.

Like Jay always says, there's a window of energy. And once that energy is up, that's it.

That's smart. Well, I'm an introvert and also I don't drink anymore. And so it's like it's usually the last two hours at a party. You got to have a little in you. Otherwise, it's the stuff that's being talked about is just not that interesting. Yeah. And the stuff ain't that funny.

I'm usually the last person there talking about that not interesting.

Can I top that out for you? No, no, no.

Anymore, I'll be leaving at the same time. I'm just tired.

Word to the wise, if you run into Jason in a social setting, just make sure you have a bunch of stuff loaded. Just try to keep him interested because he doesn't want to talk to you. Sounds like a really great guy, doesn't he? It's not true. Fucking self-involved asshole. Jesus Christ, sometimes you do it for other people, not just for you, you fucking dick. God, you've had so much given to you. You've had so much attention and shit given to you your whole life. Why don't you fucking give back to other people? Noblesse oblige. All right.

Let's just ask some questions. Amy Adams.

What a pleasure. You're just a delight. We love you. You're so great. And thank you so much. We can't wait for Cape Fear on Apple TV. It's fantastic. and we just continued success. You're just the greatest. Oh, thanks, guys.

Thanks for having me on. I could talk to you guys for hours.

Likewise.

Hugs and kisses to Darren.

Yeah, to Amanda and the girls as well.

Thank you, honey. Bye-bye-bye. Thanks, Amy. Bye-bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Bye.

Bye. Bye. Double A, right there. I'm married to a double A. Amanda, yeah, Amy Adams. Yeah, yeah, Amy Adams.

That's right, two A's, two A's, double A. And she's, what a career. every single thing you guys remember I'm like oh that's right oh that's right oh my god that's right

I mean everything's quality everything's quality

always and even if it's not she's the best thing in it I mean it's like she's just it never sucks

no that's what that's why it's a very that's a rare

rare error yeah we all clank it every once in a while but I don't I think she's either buried the things that she hasn't been good in or she's just never been bad remember Night Bitch

did you guys see Night Bitch I never saw it

I saw the trailer and I thought that that looks cool

I like that moment just looking I just pulled up all her stuff because I'm like I can't believe

it's awesome oh when you look at her when you look at her things

it's amazing yeah it's insane I was going to ask what musical she was in she was in Into the Woods and in a 2013 interview

magazine piece she said she watched bye bye birdie with her dad who's um huge ann margaret fan but she's never done that show but it's a great title oh yeah i was gonna say i'm surprised you didn't use bye bye birdie for the goodbye but uh it sounds like you might be doubling back well it's

one of those things look look you know what he did it but everything happens for a recess you know

There you see Told ya

Well there's a re-up Coming Will's way You mean a Reese's up You guys So if you haven't already Get out and bye Some Reese's Smart

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