Greta Lee

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Very excited to talk to my buddy today. Greta Lee.

Greta is an incredible actress.

You may have seen her film "Pass Lives," may have seen her in the morning show. She's been in girls and brought city in Russian doll. And she's so talented and beautiful. I'm wonderful. And we're going to talk about a lot of fun things.

We're going to talk about being a waitress. We're going to talk about how to drown on camera. We're going to talk about all the fun we had making Russian doll together. And she's also going to explain her new part in Toy Story 5 in which she plays the villain. And that villain is an iPad.

But before we get into talking to Greta, we're going to speak to somebody who knows her, who wants to speak well behind her back and give me a question to ask her. And that is celebrity chef, Allison Roman, Allison Roman, an author, a podcaster, kind of a food expert, hostess with the most us. And Allison is going to join us.

I believe she has a cat that's also going to join as well.

So let's hear from Allison and get a question.

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Hi, we got an Aimee. Hi, it's so nice to meet you. I can't tell you how nice it is to meet you. Is this your personal kitchen? It is.

Yeah, I love here. It's like a big guy, he's here, he's his Leonard, he's just such a big guy. Leonard, yeah, he loves to be in the mix.

Well, first of all, we're going to talk about Greta today, the great Greta, of course.

But I do want to talk to you about first bloom, which is your brick and mortar store that you open in the cat's skills and you're opening, perhaps other places. I'm impressed. Yeah, I started a little grocery store in 2023, the opened, sort of like a, and I didn't really have a full plan.

“I was like, I'm an open and grocery store, and that was it, and then I did, and I was”

like, okay, I'll now what, but it went really well, and I love doing it, and yeah, we're going to open one in Brooklyn with later this year. I listened to podcasts while I grocery shop, we're listening to music because I like the, I don't really want to, I don't want to chat. No, I don't want to chat.

Although, I do, and part of, I mean, I guess it makes sense because I did open and grocery store, but you know, like the, like the co-ops, I don't know, I like doesn't really have this. This is very personal. This is very Brooklyn.

Yeah. I don't find the co-ops. It's so stressful to me. Who is the time? Exactly.

It's my worst nightmare to walk into a place, and people are already disappointed about my participation. Oh, yeah. Like, hey, nice to see you. It's been a while.

So that said, I did determine that like, I thought if there was a job that I would would do at a co-op, which doesn't exist, but like, I would stand in the aisles and effectively, like, tell people what to do. Like, if people were like, what do I do with, like, red lentils, I'd be like, oh, well, I hear here are some great things, and then I just stand there.

I don't have to do anything else. That's really smart. You just be like, you'd be like the cruise director, like, let's talk about ramps. Yeah. What are you really going to do with those?

Let's be honest with you with ourselves. Are they going to rot in the fridge? You're going to throw them away. You are going to compost them. But like, the number of times I'm in a butcher shop, and I hear like a person, most often

a man who doesn't know what they're doing, and they ask the butcher and the butcher, like, gives them kind of vague advice, I sometimes pipe up, and I'm like, oh, you don't want to grow that. That's going to be a nightmare. Or, you know, like, sometimes I actually like to see her at free, but, you know, like,

and I'd say eight times out of ten, they are so uninterested in what I have to say. Like, they're like, shrinks. Sure. I'm just so lady in the book. They're like, thanks, lady.

Yeah.

You're like, babe, I'm a professional, also, it's like, it's that you're like a doctor

“on an airplane, and they're like, is there a doctor on board?”

And it's like, I guess I got to go save a life. Yeah. Exactly. And imagine having a medical issue, and the doctor comes over and the people are like, we're good.

You know, that's sort of what it feels like to be, and like being robust, like the butcher. But. Okay. So speaking of Brooklyn, I feel like that is where maybe you met Greta? It is where I met Greta.

Yeah. Didn't you work together at a restaurant? So we did. And I think, like, I was working at Milk Bar at the time, which was like, that we shared a kitchen with sambar, which is where Greta worked.

Yeah. But we were like in the basement. We were very separate. It was like, Milk Bar people and sambar people did not necessarily co-mingle. And so I knew of her, I think I saw her like the hot person that worked at sambar.

Yeah. Like the most beautiful person. Exactly. You're like, who's this hot cool person that's so well dressed and it seems fun. Like, I can't be friends with them.

I was talking to somebody about this the other day, like how hard it is to be well dressed now because of the homogenous culture and everybody sees everything. But she's so manages to carry through. I mean, her style is the envy of every person with awareness of the internet that has

seen all of her appearances over the last few years, but she's always had it.

She's always had individuality that really comes through. Let's talk well behind her back. What do you love about her? I love that she is one of the hardest working and also kindness people that I've never met.

And I also, in this isn't really like, you know, a virtue, but she is hilarious. She's so funny and so funny, so funny and like, has it great sense of humor and is just like such a bright light in the world and no matter where she goes and like how she shows up, like just existing. She is as fabulous as you might think she is if you've never met her.

And I have seen it with her kids and her family and her friends. And with like a random server at a restaurant and with basically any human on the planet. She's just like exceedingly kind and generous, but in like hospitable. She has like a real like hospitality vibe around her. And I feel like she was always the person hosting.

She was always the person inviting people over. It was like the more the merrier energy every time.

“And that is such a rare personality trait, I think.”

Yeah, I mean, you, you are a great example of this, but it does feel like host so much of hosting is the vibe you give off when you're hosting. Yeah. So I love hosting. However, I'll just say that I realize that at times, I was a little bit of a stressy

host. Mmm, you feel like you've outgrown that, like you've moved on into a different era. I've worked on it. Yeah. I've worked on it.

Well, you also, you realize that like no one has a good time when you're stressed out. Like everyone actually has a bad time. I know, but like we all know these things, but you know when something comes out of your mouth and you're like, oh, fuck, I said that out loud, like, yeah, I still do it. I'll be like, oh, it's fine.

No, it's really fine. It's not fine. Not fine at all. Totally. Or like, you can eat that, but we're not yet, you know, like whatever stupid shit he

say. And then there's like the apology par, we're like, well, this was supposed to do it up. But I didn't have to. And it's like, I even have to check myself and because I'm so good at giving people advice to not do that.

And then I do that. And I'm like, well, I'm a bad student of myself, like I have to like practice, but I preach here. But yeah, it's very hard. But I'm really happy to hear that you're on the other side of that, or at least on

your journey. I'm working on it with professionals day and night, day and night. Okay.

So we always start our episodes with the question for our guest.

“Do you have a question that you think Greta would like to answer?”

Or I should ask her. Yeah, absolutely. I think about like what people don't know about her, like what people maybe don't ask her often or like I wonder how much they get into like that restaurant part of her. Because I have a belief that like once you're a restaurant person, you're always a restaurant

person. And it teaches you a lot. So I kind of want to know like how in this iteration of her life in this career does like what from restaurant days has she held on to or like how has working in restaurants made her a better actor or, or, you know, multi-hipen it.

And I love that question. I also was a restaurant person and waiter and for many, many years in New York and wanted to ask just that because I do think it is incredible training for life. Yeah. It's like the work I think is unparalleled.

And I think that like she has so much of that and maybe that was pre restaurants. But I also think if you have it, you're more inclined to work at a restaurant. So it all kind of ties in together. Before we go, I'm going to ask you for some pre-advice like people do to doctors and to chefs on which is, uh, I feel like my artichokes, uh, there's, I have to take so much

I can't even tell you how niche this question already is specifically to suit my intro.

“I haven't tried artichokes on my in a boss right here.”

I did not, this is just on my camera. Like I'm obsessed with artichokes. Me too. I just got back from Italy, not to brag. and the artichokes there were next level,

incredible. I love how it looks. I'm just starting to work with them. And it is like, I must be like what a gardener feels like when I have to just like crazy prune a rose bush.

Like, it's like, I have to cut all of that away. You're like, I'm killing it. I'm killing it. I'm killing it. Cut the top, cut the stem, get all the leaves almost,

all of the leaves off. I guess my question that I'll make it is how do you like to prepare your artichokes these days?

- Well, forever and always.

And let me also just say that I too have been to Italy, not to brag, not recently, but it has happened. And the way that they do artichokes there is so like, they're almost treating them like a trash vegetable. Like, they're so prolific and like,

the way that they grow and like, you see truckloads of them and they peel or like, pair back, like the whole thing, it's just the heart. That is like, the rest is garbage, they throw it all. - Yeah.

And I had never treated that until I left the United States, obviously, because I grew up with basically a whole steamed artichoke, where you trim the stem, but the stem is super edible. I love eating the stem.

The stem is basically like an extension of the heart. So it's just as tender, it's just as edible, it's sweet, it's delicious. But I just trim the leaves, yeah. Just right beyond the phone.

- Okay. - And you cut the top, and I leave the whole leave. Yeah, I cut the top to expose a little rose in the center. - Yep.

“- But that's honestly just for aesthetics.”

Like, that's not really serving a purpose, but I like to do it. And then I'll season it with salt and then I'll steam them. - Yes. - Like, you know, an inch or two of boiling water,

artichokes, prop and bath. - Do you take the size you stuff out after they steam or before? - After they steam it. - I think I learned that. I think I learned that from you.

- I do have a video online on how to eat an artichoke. Okay, thank you for confirming my positive artichoke bias. I can't believe you have a dried one right in front of you. - I just trim, oh, also it's gonna say trim away, like the tiniest leaves near the outside base of the center.

- Of course, I'm not an animal. - And then once you steam it, if any of the leaves on the outer part are too tough, just discard them. But like, I don't trim it too far in advance. - Okay, I love to hear this.

Okay, listeners, I hope it's getting you hungry for artichokes. - Thank you so much, Allison, what a pleasure. And I'm sure Greta will be so happy that we talk. So thanks again. - I hope so, I love her so much.

She's so wonderful. - Bye. - Bye, Leonard.

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- Hi, hi, Bob. - Oh, I just want to stare at you. - Oh my god, Greta, Greta is here and she's has her arms full of gifts. - Okay, okay.

So, yeah, I have some flowers. It's a collection of natives and non-navit natives. People really care about that here. - From your garden, my garden. - Yeah, mom.

- So I get that. - We'll see you in the right stage and some will lemon verbina and you wrapped it in a paper. - Paper. - People, this is a professional wrapping job with a rubber band and everything.

- This is gorgeous. - Thank you. - There's more. - I have the, okay, what you all say about it? - It's like I'm worried you don't,

you don't have a grocery store. Like you don't have access to it. - This is a cable. - This is from your garden. - Yeah, and I have these eggplants.

- Honestly, you're helping me. I can't eat this all. - Okay, I'm gonna say something. - I'm very sorry. - What?

- I don't like eggplants. - I knew I knew it. - I'm so sorry. - That does not get it. - Get them out of here.

- I love how they look. - They're so funny.

I love it as an emoji incredible.

- I know. - But as you don't like the taste. - It's too sweet. - It's too sweet. - No, but you can learn.

You can listen. This is, this is the now eye.

- Okay, what about kale? - I love kale. - Love kale. - Obsessed with kale.

This looks like dinosaur kale.

- Yeah, dinosaur kale and curly kale. - Oh my goodness. - Okay, this is so... - They're avocados.

“- Incredible avocados from people listening.”

They're huge. - Yeah. - They're huge. You can't eat them for like a year. (laughing)

- You like, you can't, like, don't even give back. (laughing) - Just leave it here. Just, it's like decoration. - Don't even look at it.

Don't touch it for like at least a year. - Okay, I'm gonna take out a gigantic... - That's an autoblunko. - Excuse me, see. - See, it's a, it's a cross between a pamello

and a white grapefruit. They're delicious. - Wow. - It's really, it's really nice in, like, an alcoholic beverage with this is a Mexican lime.

It's yellow, it's wonderful. And some of the lemon verbana, you can put like flowers in your drink. - Quite a lot. - I live in LA now.

(laughing) - Well, hi, remember me? - I know you're very, very healthy. - It's very, very. - Look.

- You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't. - We're out of brotherhood. - We're out of brotherhood. - This is bad. - She brought her egg yolk.

“- I mean, you know, you have to have it in your car.”

- Yeah, at all times. - This to me is success that you have a garden and we're bringing your fruit to people. - That is, is it? - Yeah, oh gosh, that's success.

- But thank you. - We have done so much stuff together. - We have. - I was looking at what we've worked on together. - And I want to talk about all of it.

- I worked on Brad City. We worked on a show called Old Soul. We worked on sisters, Russian doll. And I just want to start by saying,

here's what I love about you.

Not only are you super talented and so good at so many things. But I feel like you, how I would describe you is, you are a person who takes their works seriously but not themselves, serious.

- Yeah. - Would you agree that that's kind of true? - Yeah, I do. - Yeah, agree. - Yeah, next question.

- Okay. - So how do we first meet? - How do we first meet? - 'Cause I don't remember when we met. I mean, we met on some project that we worked on

but what, which one, did I audition for you first? - I mean, I'm sure we've brought city. - Maybe. - Maybe. That time in New York gets really confusing to me.

- Agreed. - So I feel like I end up talking about it a lot because once you get in the habit of telling your story of how you started, and then you're like telling the story and then soon you're like, I don't even,

is this real? - Is this, did I? Am I lying? - 'Cause it's easier just to say the story. - Yeah.

- And who can I do for it? - And then, you know, I was on girls and then, yeah, it was this really special, really important time for women and women in comedy. - Mm-hmm.

- And there was this moment, it was very distinct too

“'cause I think I was observing it somewhat”

from the outside a little bit because I was coming off of doing theater and I was like, really, just, I wanted to do straight theater. - Yeah. - But Abby and Alana, and, you know, you and Tina

and Maya and everyone on SNL, briding the wings of that into Lena and Schumer and everyone. - Yeah. - It was really, it was big. - I want to talk about going back

because it's so interesting you bring up the theater park as in researching you. I did not know that you before I met you had already been on the West End, no one cares about that. - I care about that, really.

- Are you kidding?

- First of all, I don't even love theater.

- I don't know how people do it, so I want to ask, yeah, okay, okay, but hold on, okay. - Going back even farther. - Your mom, classically, classically trained pianist? - Yeah.

- Your dad, doctor. - Yeah, what kind of doctor? - He is a physical therapist. - I need him. - Do you?

- Yeah, let's go. - What do you mean? - What's wrong? - Well, what's wrong with me? - I said I wasn't gonna bring it up.

(laughing) - Mind your body. - My fucking frozen shoulder is back dude. - Who knows? - I know.

- He can't know with that. - Okay, so I need his number. - Yeah, doctor Lee. - And please, nobody call in, nobody call in. This isn't even a call-in show.

- Wait, nobody thoughts I don't know. - I got him to call in. - Nobody call in, please don't give me your advice about frozen shoulder. - I know all of it, I know all of it,

and I appreciate it, but I can't, okay. This is what we're cutting all those things. - That's what I'm saying. - That's what I'm saying. - Okay, your dad is a physical therapist.

(laughing) - So you have a left-brain right-brain household growing up. - Yeah. - What was that, was that true? - Yeah.

- I mean, I guess that's what they say. They're like, ah, I don't know, my parents are weird. They're so amazing. Tell me. - Tell me.

- Wild. - Are they like? - They are, okay, well, I just took them to the Dior show. - Nice. - All of that.

- I know. - You know, they invited themselves. (laughing)

- Okay, okay.

- I got a text from my mom.

“That was a screen grab of a picture of Lachma.”

This is a venue for the show. - Yeah. - And she was like, didn't say anything. Just a picture of that. - I mean, and an announcement that said,

Dior Cru show will be at the, at Lachma, with a new David Geffen Gallery. And I kind of, I just, I didn't really respond right away. (laughing) - What did I think made it?

- You're just gave it like a heart? - Oh yeah, I was like, yeah. - Yeah. - He was like, yeah. - Yeah.

- He sent an eggplant to Moji. - He sent an eggplant to Moji. - He sent an eggplant to Moji. - He sent an eggplant to Moji. - He sent an eggplant to Moji.

- And she invited herself. She was like, so, I'm coming. - At the time, yeah. - And your dad's coming too. - Because it's not fair.

- He's coming too. If I'm coming, which is funny, 'cause I was like, I didn't say you're coming. - Okay, let's break this down though, because do you feel obligated to say, you can say, no.

I could, but no, actually I can't. (laughing) Okay, no, okay, okay, because that's the dynamic. A little bit when it comes to certain things. I also, okay, I mean, to be fair,

I go to these things and it's exciting, but to go with your parents to go with my parents, it is something special.

- I mean, they've never been to a fashion show before.

- What did they think of it? - They were amazed. - Yeah. - They touched everything. They wanted everything.

They took their, these blankets that were meant to keep people more, they grabbed all of them. They want, they have so many now. I mean, it was incredible. I don't know, I think they were,

'cause sometimes they get shy. I don't know if you have this with family or relatives. - I wish my parents were shy. - Okay, so they're not. - They go right up to anybody.

- They go to like, bring big fans of yours. - Yeah, we want a picture before the night's over. - Oh, they're the demanding type. - Yes. - Like a little entitled.

- My parents were not shy, are not shy. - My parents might, I would rather that, but what makes it even more confusing is they're both, it's like a light switch. They're either like, so like, cause playing,

like some sort of like silent, shy, junior thing. - Yeah. - And then it'll just switch to super aggressive,

“super demanding, you know, do you know who my daughter is?”

- Yeah. - That kind of stuff.

- But your parents are first, are you first gen?

They immigrated and had me here. - Okay. - So I'm the first person in my family to go to school in America. - Got it.

- And they immigrated from Korea. - Yeah. - And then they spoke Korean in the home or mostly English. - Korean was my first language. - Yeah.

- I'd have really fucked up accent actually because we moved. By kindergarten, I was in Brooklyn. - Mm-hmm. - And I had, we were living in 'Connor Station.

And I had like a Korean Brooklyn accent. - What does that sound like? - They won't tell me. I want to know, is there, is there any one that has that accent now that I keep pointing

that people like her? Like that? - And they're like, no. - No. - But I went to ESL and I went to speech therapy

and all of that. - Time to know. - Oh, funny. - Well, I found mine. - I want to talk about language in general

'cause a lot of your work is like circles around that especially the most beautiful film, my favorite film of the past five, 10 years past. - The sisters, sisters, sisters, yeah. (laughing)

That's right. - Yeah. - But you're a little kid. You do singing competitions. - Mm-hmm.

- Classical singing? - Yeah.

“- What's it difference between classical singing and singing?”

- Well, it was like, it was opera. - Okay. There we go. It was another way to say opera. (laughing)

(laughing) - Yeah, but I did things like, oh, I won, like, the box festival. - Oh, I, I'm like, (laughing)

- What was I doing? - How do you feel? - You were just being smart. - I mean, there's so many things. But I was so into it.

- Yeah. - And my siblings, both my siblings can sing pretty much every Italian area because of me, like, they hate sing it at me now. But that's like, I was so,

- You were singing Italian areas at what age? - I mean, middle school, I started in middle school, I was like a conductor of a children's choir at one point. (laughing) Did they ask you to do it or do you do something?

(laughing) - I just did it. - They were like, why is she doing that? (laughing) - It was like, maybe I need to stop, stop doing that.

I mean, you're a big time achiever. I mean, you work really hard. - And that's the way I want to stop. - So what is that? - Well, I mean, what, what is like a through line

in all of your stuff, is that, and what I meant in the very beginning is like, you really show up and you work really hard, but there's an ease to when you work there. There's not a thriving vibe about you at all, Greta.

But when you are, when you look at what you've done,

before you were getting all those acting parts, you were winning competitions and you were like studying theater and in like Broadway shows.

“- Basically, I had my first job right out of the gate”

in New York City actually was law and order SVU. I did one episode of those. - Okay, pause. - Yes. - Okay, so we love law and order at this show.

- Yes you do. - We interviewed in Rishka. - Yeah. - The great Mershka Hargite. - Yeah, I did, I did a scene with her.

- Okay. - Okay. Now, I tend to sometimes stay a little bit away from SVU because too sexy. (laughing)

Well, that's the one way to put it. (laughing) - Mershka's too damn sexy. - Because I get worried about like, is it gonna be?

Is it girl gonna be in the door? - Yeah, she hanging from the floor. - Okay, so it's a lot. - Why was in the incest? (laughing)

- I knew it, so I didn't do it, I was so afraid to add. - It was such a good residual. - I'm not so upsetting. - It did so well. - Oh, my God.

- Wait, okay, so you were... (laughing) - That is the thing, I'm glad I'm the young version of me wants to be an SVU or a law and order, but you, okay, it's a really big deal.

But so imagine though, that's my first job, right?

- Sure. - And I call my parents and their parents, and I'm like, I did, oh my gosh. - Okay, it's airing this time. And you didn't tell them what, no, I'm not gonna tell them,

but I'm like, okay, I don't know what, I don't know what they're.

“- What do you remember about shooting that”

with Mariska and Team? - You just, I was like terrible, like, you know, I, the bells, like me, like the, I had no idea what I was doing. - I don't know that sometimes we're in like a big studio before they start the scene.

They like ring this giant, scary, like tornadoes coming. - Yeah. - That's exactly what you do. - And instead of ducking and hiding or running,

you're supposed to act. - Yeah, and they're like, no, go, cry. - Yes, it's exactly. - Did you have to cry? - What do I have to do?

Oh no, I had to, I was the roommate of the victim. - Okay, that's, so I wasn't participating. - Good, thank God, great. So you just, we're around, you're like, you're like, I don't even know, I didn't do it.

(laughing) - Oh my God, oh man, you were like, I don't know, she was here last Tuesday night and then she was it. - Yeah. - All right, Putnam's spelling bee is the next big job.

- Yeah. - What is it like to do shows? How did you, I mean, you were a young person at times, but what did you do to prep and get ready?

I'm always very curious, but people that are on Broadway.

- Yeah, the seven shows or eight shows a week.

“- I don't know, I think a lot of things happening.”

'Cause I also, I graduated from Northwestern, which was a big 10 school. - Yeah. - It was an incredible theater program and all of that, but it's also a big 10 school.

So I learned how to like, do like a keg stand and made all kinds of friends from Shabwaygan with Wisconsin and it's very formative. - Yeah. - And I kind of, then was bringing that sort of like,

oh, I'm gonna like move to New York City and become an artist and live like a sex and a city fantasy, but I had a very intense full-time job. And you kind of, it takes so much discipline and I think that, you know, it was hard.

- I bet. - I was 21, I was 21, 22, trying to figure out how to be a responsible professional show up on time. - Yeah. - You know, every time.

- Right. - But you're on the West End. I wanna ask you about Mark Rylens. - Yes. - I love him.

He's an incredible app. - Yes. - He is. - Yes. - That whole experience was also very unique, very special.

We did a play called LeBet. - Mm-hmm. - It's a, it was set in 16th century France and it was an Iambic pentameter. - Oh.

- My character only spoke and warts at Rylens with blue. - Oh dear. (laughing) - Well, say, oh dear. - Oh dear.

- Oh dear. - I would definitely be one of those things that would show up on a be like, oh man. I wish I knew this. - No, I think you would be like,

yes. - Really? - I think you would. - But this is like, when I guess in talking about this, I'm like, God, life is long.

I'm like, I, wow. There's like so much stuff, people have no idea about it. - Well, you have had an amazing, interesting bunch of jobs. You have, you have toggled between

very dramatic and very comedic, which few people can do well. - Yeah. - And you have gone back and forth and back and forth. - I don't know why.

- Well, 'cause you're tiring. - You're really good at doing that. Stop being so good, boys. - Stop being good at both. - No.

- I mean, I'm always worried that we're gonna lose you

that you're gonna lose me into my garden.

“I'm gonna go in there and never come back.”

(laughing) - You're gonna make jokes to the end. - Okay, so we're gonna get bigger and bigger and we're gonna be funny. - Yeah.

- No, I'm afraid we're gonna lose you to like the drama worlds and... - Oh, you won't. - Okay, all right. - Whatever, no.

- Okay, so then, here's something fun. - Okay. - You and I have something in common that I don't think we ever talked about, which is that we both worked in restaurants.

- Yeah. - And I do think there is like a very specific type of person that works in restaurants, especially like New Yorkie restaurants. - Yeah.

- And you're younger than me, but I imagine we, at the same time in our lives, worked in like kind of like fancy restaurants in New York. So we do something on the podcast where we ask a friend or someone to speak well,

behind your back and to give me a question. We talked to Allison Roman today. - Oh my goodness. - Yes. - Oh my goodness.

- Oh my goodness. - Yes. - And she was with her cat Leonard. And we were talking about, she was talking about so many things

that she loves about you, your ease as a person and as a host, your incredible style and like how you don't make anybody feel bad that you're the prettiest, cool person. (laughing)

- You never make a deal about about him,

which thank you, Greta, and also just your work ethic. Like how you have this way of getting things done that feels like somebody who used to work in the restaurant. (laughing)

Because you were working with her, right? Where were you guys working together? - Working for David Chang at the Mama Fuku restaurant. - What was that? Like that was a hot restaurant crazy.

(laughing) - So fucking crazy. - Crazy. - I just so hard. - Hi, so hard.

- So hard, so so hard. - Yeah, but that time in New York though, it's like, what year was that? - From like 2007, 2008 to, I don't know. I mean, I was there on and off for a good five years,

maybe more, like I go do a job. I'd book something and think like, oh, good, but I'd have, like, I'm safe, good, but. (laughing)

- You're like, I'm never coming back, yeah.

- And this, yeah. Like, oh, and like, pick up the tab, you know. - Oh my god, my friends who worked in finance, I'd like, book like one commercial, and they're like, I got this.

I got this, Betty's down even right, but then just come crawling back. - Yeah. - But that time for food was really exciting. - I was like, David Chang, and we're friends now,

we have kids at same age, and we live really, really close, and we have mutual friends, and it's funny, reminiscing about that time collectively, because it's just, it's like chefs for rock stars, and being a part of that was really exciting for all of us.

- What's it like working at like a restaurant

“that is so hot, you know, that everybody wants to get to?”

What was it like? - I was so powerful. - Yeah. - Oh, I was a hostess, I was like basically encouraged to be mean, so great.

- Incredible. - Yeah. - Okay, as a past hostess, I'm a very fancy restaurant. - Yeah.

- What would you say to people, never works?

- Oh. - You don't even mean like, when would people get, you know, what would they do that you'd be like, absolutely not. - The culture was different then,

and you would easily tell someone, okay, it's gonna be four hours. (laughing) - That's not even within like a meal, a stretch of a meal time.

Like four out, like dinner time is over. Like if you're starting four hours is crazy. - Four hours to get seated or four hours to eat. - Four hours to get seated. - Oh yeah, wait, time to tell someone like,

and they're like, thank you, Mr. Justin, I have another. (laughing) - Yeah, do I just wait over here or do I like, do you want my phone and I'm like,

no, go away. - That's what that means. - Yeah, four hours means, it's not happening. - Yeah, it's not happening. - Did you ever have people try to slip you?

- Cash. - Cash, yeah.

“- And did they ever try to like throw fancy names around?”

Like, yes, but I think that restaurant though, I don't know where you worked, that was really discouraged, so it was helpful, like that just wouldn't work. - Sure.

- I mean, I feel like when I was waiting tables, there was definitely a vibe of a finance vibe, I guess, the only way to say it, where, and let's be honest, it was finance bros. - Yes.

- Who were like, I'm willing to spend a lot of money here. Like that was the vibe, like, I know you might have a system and reservations. - Yes. - And I'm very rich.

- Yes. (laughing) - I know. Like, I'm gonna have so many oysters. - Yeah. (laughing)

- Where did you work?

- I remember I used to play this called Aqua Grill.

- Oh my, do you remember it? - Yeah. - Rest in peace. - Oh my gosh. - Yeah.

- 'Cause those bitches, you see it now. - Yeah. - That was so ho, we were like, so ho gang. - Oh, yes. - And congratulations.

- Very, like, seafood forward. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Tefter wear, like, a press shirt. - A button down.

- Yeah, I had to wear a button down and a button down. And I think it was a maroon apron. - Oh, however, maroon was really big. - Yes, I do.

- So Allison's question, sorry.

So let me get back to Allison. So Allison's question was a really good. I thought, which was like,

“what have you held on to from your restaurant dates?”

Like, how does it help you as an actor? Does it, do you think about any of that, like, is there any connection to what you do now? - I think like, you know, the expression being in the weeds, what that can feel like and like the crush of it

and how exhausting it is. And I feel like that part that, I don't know, that kind of like, like multi-tasking, extreme multi-tasking. - Yeah, I do. - Yeah.

- I was like thinking about like something I shot where I was drowning. (laughing) - Oh my god. - Acting, acting so weird.

- Why do I do it?

- I don't know, I hate it.

- I hate it too. - Oh, I hate it too. - So why did you have to drown? - And is this reason? - No, not, yeah.

- Well, okay, so you were drowning. - So you were drowning was trying. (laughing) - It's another boiler alert.

“But did you know Amy that acting like you're drowning”

for something, it's just drowning? I can't, did you know that? - This is why you shouldn't do drama. - I don't know. - If you don't do it, it's not.

- And even getting in water, absolutely not at all. - No swimming, nothing. - So yeah, right, they're like, okay, so do the fake drowning. - Yeah.

- It's like, okay, I guess it's the swallowing water. You have to choke, and you have to, and when it's really good, they don't know if they, if you're acting, if you're dying. - Oh, how are they gonna know that?

- And they tell you things like, well, you give them the sink signal, but that's like, but if you're dying, how are you gonna give them the signal? - Yeah, you can't give them the signal.

- 'Cause it really breaks the mood. - It breaks the mood. - Yeah, so you wanna be good. So in your opinion, I guess.

“- 'Cause you're like, well, it turns out, maybe you don't.”

- But if you are successful enough at the drown, that you, it's impossible to distinguish between real and not, you know. - Well, this goes under a thing I like to say, don't be good at things you don't wanna do.

- Right. - So if you're good at the drown, you're gonna get asked to do it again. - So be careful. - 'Cause if that scene is, there is a lot of it.

- Yeah, and they're gonna be like, she's gonna get let's get grat out, she's good. - She's good. - You'll get scuba certified, oh my god. - No scuba.

- No scuba. - People should not scuba. - Sorry, I have a lot of heartaches today. - But scuba, absolutely not. - 'Segu, say good, say good, say good.'

- Say good? - 'Segu, say good, say good, say good, say good, say good, say good, say good, say good, say good, say good. - 'Stift on warm, test, computer build, focus, "Money, chip, finance, you're looking for something out."

"Mega, but this is also quite complicated." "Eye, just a picture of the current owner of the store. It's very good." "It's very good. Hold your money." "With viso steuer." "And a small number of prices at the $9.20 Euro."

"Thank innovative press-brouet technology. It's a special aromatic, with a lot of cream." "And there are the cube capsules in your chip-o-fial and chip-o-de-e." "We'll be back to the next review." "And you'll be able to choose your fancouper." "So, how do you look at the attractive price?"

"Also, let's have a fan bonus in the review." "But only at 18.7." "Okay, you have two boys." "And I'm the mother of two boys." "And they're how old."

"Okay, let's see. Apollo is nine now and we're off to turn seven." "So, having a seven and nine year old, those are kind of delicious times for boys." "What's it like being the mom of boys?" "I'm obsessed with them."

"Oh God." "Yeah." "I love them so much." "Yeah." "Oh, it's so annoying."

"Yeah." "They're your little husbands." "I love my little husband." "Yeah." "Just yeah."

"Okay." "No, they're better than you." "Yeah." "They're your best friends." "No, let's get it right."

“"How have you changed from being like because you're a mom now?"”

"I mean, everything's changed." "Everything's changed." "I... God." "I'm also a boy mom." "And I think that is specific."

"And I never thought about that one way or the other.

And I look at other moms who are not boy moms. I'm like, "Oh." "Okay, let's talk about it because I also am a boy. Yeah." "We held our viewers."

"My guys are getting older, like 15, almost 16 and 17." "No." "Yeah." "No." "We did in 17."

"No?" "Yes, I know." "They're like driving and out in the world." "Oh, God." "I know."

"And almost voting." "But I want to talk about it because, you know, there's a joke about boy mom, but there is something very interesting about what's a joke about boy mom." "Well, the joke is kind of that boy moms are... I guess, like, a little more worn down because, you know, not all boys, of course, but not all people, kids that identify as male,

but in general, you have to play, yeah. "There's a lot of yes." "Why do you think I'm so tan?" "You just always outside playing." "Just outside.

I'm like running on the phone." "I'm like, I'm doing stuff." "I know." "With the boy." "I know."

"It's always like camp." "Let's go, run 'em out." "Every day." "Yeah." "You've got to run 'em, like dogs."

"You do." "And..." "Yeah." "Yeah."

“"And I'm also talking about how much I want them to be outside."”

"And how much I want them to be in their bodies." "So what does that mean?" "I have to be outside." "Like, I want them to play soccer. I'm playing soccer."

"Like, I want them to..." I'm doing all of it. "Do you like doing it?" "Are you an athletic person?" "Yeah." "Yeah."

"I do like it." "Do you play sports and..." "What was your sport?" "I was like..." "I'm such an actor."

"I was always like good enough."

"I'm really good at faking it." "Oh, my God." "Me too." "I was good with chatter." "Yeah."

"Like, I was really quite had the athletic thing. But I was really good at talking. "Yeah." "What are you doing?" "Are you fast?"

"Do you run?" "Yeah." "You know what? "Cradubine now." "But what's that?"

"Again, had to do that for a movie." "Oh, God, that's right." "I do it." "Don't." "Don't worry."

"Nobody's going to ask me to run for a movie." "It is so hard." "So hard." "So hard." "Running is so hard."

"Are you running?" "It's bad for you." "It's absolutely great." "Yeah." "I had to run in something.

"Where did you have to run it?" "For Sean." "I had to pretend that I was going to be killed if I didn't run for my life." "Okay." "So, if you think about that movie and you think about the end."

"No." "I'm going to say, like, half of that movie. "My character is running for her life." "And I'm not like, you just have to sprint." "There's no way to train for that."

"My character isn't a marathon runner, so it doesn't just if I mean." "It's just like, right." "Right." "In this state." "Then suddenly running, like, I don't know, like 13 miles."

"In one, you know, a night shoot where I'm just--" "What?" "I broke." "Yeah." "Again, I was like, why do you run?"

"You ran 13 miles." "I measured." "I measured." "And yeah." "Yeah."

"I forgot how many takes we did were this one." "Yeah." "Is this shot where I was like running along the length of a pier." "And they had to bring in the--" "We shot down production because the next day I took one step."

"And I couldn't--" "I couldn't walk." "Of course." "Because you basically ran a half marathon without any training." "Yeah."

"I mean, I train--" "I train, but I didn't train in the right way." "I didn't know how." "Like, I didn't know how."

“"I remember doing Blades of Glory, this ice skating movie."”

"And we had an incredible, like, ice dancing coach.

"Yeah." "Was in the Olympics." "And she would just be teaching me." "And I was like, "I'm not going to be able to do this." "Like, I am an actor."

"I'm not trying my best." "But I can't learn how to be an ice dancer." "I don't--" "It can be just like--" "Yes."

"If you gave me all the money in the world." "We're going to have to work on the work around this." "You would just tell her this." "And in much--what would she say?"

"You know, they just are like--"

“"They're like, "Yeah, but you got this."”

"You know?" "I do not have this." "And to your point about the chatter." "We would have our workouts, which I dreaded." "You know, she was so wonderful."

"And I learned I was like, "Oh, you know what? "If I get a little coffee in her and ask her a couple of questions." "Yeah." "Because we only had an hour." "So I would buy her coffee."

"Oh my gosh." "And I remember--" "She would sit in front of the clock and we would be right behind her. "And it'd be like, "What is going with your daughter?" "And she'd be like, "Okay, well, we have to get to work."

"But anyway." "And she would--" "Cause I was like, "Please, don't put me on the ice." "Anyway." "Yeah."

"Did you train?" "But you now run on your own." "No." "In life." "Okay, good."

"Thank God." "God." "Don't run again." "No." "You're running on it."

"It's a really bad for you."

"Don't do it." "Okay. "When I met you, you had done a bunch of TV." "Like you said, you were a Red City, you were on girls." "You were doing a bunch of different things."

"And we worked together on a show called "Old Soul," "The Toshily On." "Yeah." "A pilot that did not pick up." "Right."

"And was." "The basic idea was Natasha was kind of the youngest person in a group of very old people. "We gathered these incredible actors." "Fread, Wheeler, Richard Benjamin." "All in Burston, Marla Gibbs, Rita Moreno."

"Yeah." "And it was a crazy cast." "Shot, not picked up." "Yeah." " Insane."

"Right." "What do you remember about that? Have any memories of that time?" "Yeah."

“"I remember Rita Moreno told me I was on my phone too much."”

"It's so funny." "It's really wasn't." "I still think about." "It's like one of those things you just can't." "I can't let go of that."

"I was barely..." I'm not on social media now. "I'm very..." "I don't consider myself to be addicted." "I'm not." "I wasn't."

"But she told me I was." "It's funny. I'm having a memory that I did a movie with Charles Groton, a movie called The X.

And he said, "You're always on your phone."

"And I put my phone down." "Like, I remember speaking like..." "Thank you for that feedback." "But Rita, Rita, you did." "Yeah."

"But she also..." "I think she just written a book." "I don't know." "She was giving a lot of sort of life advice and sort of her take on things." "Yeah."

"It's so fun." "It's so fun." "It's so fun." "With that crew." "I remember it feeling like such a short thing."

"I know." "I know, right?" "Okay."

“"And then we worked together on sisters."”

"Which is a movie for people of Palipel wrote it." "Me and Tina were in it." "It was a crazy talented cast." "None of whom worked enough." "In my opinion."

"It was like weeks and weeks." "What?" "What?" "What was it?" "No sense."

"What was happening?" "I didn't know." "I was just like, "How you and Kate McKinnon." "And Bobby Moynihan just like, aircraft service just like..." "Just there."

"So long." "So long." "Because that sinkhole member there is that sound stage." "That's what I had to be indoors." "But the house like all the plants were dying."

"That's right." "That's what I decomposing." "Do you remember?" "We had to build a sinkhole." "That's right."

"It did search us now." "There for some." "They built us." "Not you guys." "But they built Bobby Kate."

"Who else?" "John Glazer." "Yeah." "These little plywood cab." "Like little boxes."

"They were like dog houses." "To sit." "To sit." "I don't know what they wanted us to do with them." "But that's what we had."

"And we were in the box." "And we were in the box." "And we would just wait." "What were we there for so long?" "That movie took so long."

"It did." "And also I can remember." "Because everybody on the McDonald's." "There were a lot of like very talented people on the scene." "John Cena."

"And I bear in holds." "But I can remember." "And when you're smart enough to be working for a long time." "There's definitely a feeling when you walk into something." "You're like, okay, we're going to be shooting at like a sinkhole for two weeks."

"Where you start to angle." "Do I need to think my character is here?" "It needs to be." "Like I wonder if she's... "Or the left part of the system."

"Like you are a sister." "And you're like... "Could she have left the guard?" "I feel like she's gone." "And there was a couple of moments where like camera was shooting this way."

"And whoever was in the background was like, "Oh my God." "Yeah." "Sman at the B was in the back." "I was like, I'm going to be in the background of this shot for the next two weeks." "Oh, but so I apologize."

"No. Thank you." "Thank you." "I came here to accept this apology." "You know, I have it."

"Thinking about." "I feel like that doesn't happen anymore." "I know I wouldn't say yes to that anymore." "I don't think like what?" "Like you actually can't."

"It would be like, "No, that's... "We have fought..." "Are you into the thought for you to not do that anymore?" "Are you into thought against the wooden boxes?" "Uh-huh."

“"No, but I remember that time when we got to improvise together."”

"And I feel like that scene that we got to do together is really funny." "But I'm curious if we think it's still hold up." "Yeah." "It does." "Yeah, it does."

"Why?" "Because it's tricky territory." "So there's a scene in the film where Greta's character is playing."

"You first think it's like this kind of submissive quiet but secretly angry."

"Nail technician." "Nail technician." "Who you think cannot speak English very well." "And this is kind of like dealing with these ridiculous women." "And my character is doing that like gross kind of liberal thing where she's trying to connect."

"Like tell me about you and how do you pronounce your name?" "Right." "And let me save you." "Like exactly." "Very white savior bullshit."

"And we are doing it back and forth." "But it does." "It does walk a little bit of a line and it is the bigger question for me about like in your career." "I'm sure you've had to decide over and over again."

“"Do I want to play a character that could seem stereotypical?”

Do I want to speak Korean in this part? I want to... like what has that been like for you to have to try to figure that out?" "Everybody has to kind of figure out how they're going to exploit what they naturally know how to do at the beginning of their career."

"But it's not always based on their ethnicity."

"Right." "How do you juggle that or manage that or have you?" "It's annoying." "Yes." "Not to navigate."

"But with that, that was an easy decision for me." "Because, and I understand the conversation around it and was tricky to navigate." "But it's just it's people." "I have so much love for Helen because I know that chick." "I know her so deep."

"And I, some of my funniest experiences at Nail Salon, I was more... I was switched." "I think that scene also works because, you know, status is inverted." "Yes." "And I think that it's easy to assume." "And I think it's easy to assume if you are not in the marginalized position."

"You assume, like, oh no, like, this is... this is hurtful or this is."

“"But I think when you're looking at people and for me in that moment, she is in total control."”

"Yeah, that's so funny." "And I've been in that situation." "Well, that's the thing about comedy." "It's tricky, right? It's like, if it's funny?" "Yeah."

"Then there's something that's striking the right chord, but you can't always figure out what it is."

"And it's not funny unless it's true." "And there's something about that that was very true." "Yeah." "And I felt like what we were doing." "And what the opportunity was was a chance to play something that rang very true for me."

"And I could see I knew it was going to be funny." "I knew she was going to be funny and there were many opportunities for her to come alive." "Yeah, be a person." "Yeah." "And then you play someone completely different in Russian dolls."

"You play this like beautiful kind of like sweet birthday baby." "Let's get ready to party." "The version of who you want to have greet you at the door like the ultimate hostess." "And also just this kind of like lost but free spirit." "So aspirational than this woman."

"What was your experience like a Russian doll? What does it like to say a lie to over and over again?" "And to like for that lie to become so iconic." "And like to also be on a show that was such a hit." "Yeah." "How wild was that?"

"Yeah." "Well, you know that first I said no." "Yeah." "I was like there's no way." "I just felt like I don't know how to do this."

"I don't know why you said no." "Yeah." "I don't know how to say the same line again and again." "Yeah." "I asked you guy."

"I said can we just shoot at once and you can reuse that?" "Right." "And he said no." "Like for people you want to know." "I produced Russian doll along with Natasha and Leslie Hadland and we were and we were talking

about Greta's character specifically being like this reset. You're the reset. You're kind of home for that character. You really are a safe person.

"You're crazy lady. You are safe." "Yes."

"And they're with the chicken."

"Yeah."

“"So you have to do the same line over and over again."”

"Because for the show they start over and over again." "And it's kind of like Natasha's character has to reset." "So how did what was it like to do? Was it like did you get into it?" "Well, I said the line.

I think that way once." "And then I realized that was the way I had to say it every single time." "And I can't say it felt like I had landed like the perfect way I wanted to say it." "It was already died." "That's the one."

"Great movie." "Let's get her in." "Let's get her in." "Let's get her in." "Okay, go get to the drowning scene."

"Okay, moving on." "Yeah." "But you know that I love acting with Natasha." "Yeah." "My body touched."

"Yeah." "And it's been some time." "But there is a thing with her where I feel different for me than other people that I acted with." "There's something that happens when I act with her." "And that was true for Russian doll too because it's not."

"I can't say that there I could lie and tell you that I came up with some like insane backstory." "And boarded like each time we went back." "But it wasn't that it was just about friendship." "Yeah." "And like it's just like a connection that you have with someone."

"And Natasha over the years." "She's just one of those people that I had like a very instant connection with." "And you just look and do those huge fucking eyes." "Yeah." "And you are just so locked in."

"And it's just... it's so nice." "Yeah."

“"I think it's what anchored that show was the genuine chemistry between the two of you."”

"Cause you worked together." "You really had such great respect for each other." "You worked so well together." "And that show is about who... who are my chosen family." "Who are the people that are going to be at my birthday?"

"That my birthday party saving me from myself." "Yeah." "Who are they going to be?" "Yeah." "And you can't really fake that."

"And you definitely have that." "Yeah." "Okay." "Now I'm moving on to..." "Drink."

"I think we're the drinking guy at Coke, honestly." "I feel like..." "I feel like..."

"You are the first guest to have a soda."

"And it is in a clear glass." "And it's probably forced you to do." "Yeah." "You know what? I'm so tired." "I'm just tired."

"Now is that a straight-up Coke?" "It should die." "I mean, that's what was available." "Yes." "You're not drinking any... any judgment here."

"Sometimes you do soda." "Like a little soda." "Yeah." "Are you coffee drinker?" "Yeah."

"And where are you tonight?" "Two personal?"

“"No, I mean, what's going on with your sleep?”

Let's get to it." "I know." "All right. Look." "I was like, I don't want to talk about Perry Menopause." "This is like all I know."

"I was talking about..." "I just talked about..." "Which one is frozen?" "I bet I picked up again." "I said to Jenna."

"Yeah." "I was like, I'm not... I said I'm not going to talk about it." "Because it's like... it makes me feel so bold." "And I'm in... out there suffering. You're not old. You're beautiful." "But I am an old, old, grown. I'm an old, crony witch who can't lift her."

"I'm trailing behind you." "And I'm right there left, left shoulder." "Millennials are just getting old and I'm here to tell you as Jenx."

"Yeah. First of all, welcome."

"Like, we welcome you." "Like, coming on the other side of it is not bad. It's actually kind of nice." "It's not be young." "Like, considered young." "It's kind of nice."

"But you have a frozen shoulder." "But it's a nightmare for the body." "It's a nightmare for the body." "Every day." "No body."

"I know." "It's happening." "I don't know." "I don't actually drink soda." "I am today."

"Okay." "You know what I mean?" "Do you know what I mean?" "You know what I mean?" "Yes."

"You're whatever." "Let's try it." "What is your sleep routine?" "What do you like to do?" "How do you talk to me about your nighttime?"

"Mind nighttime." "Tower." "Well, when I'm home." "Right?" "And I--"

"Too much trouble." "Yeah." "Too much trouble?" "Yeah." "Yeah."

"The trap." "Yes." "Too much." "Oh my God. I was in Korea." "Too much."

"Because this is why you're so tired." "But yeah." "But what were you doing in Korea?" "It was a film festival." "Well, speaking of Korea."

"Thank you for that transition." "No." "Pass lives." "Yes." "What?"

"Credits." "Yes." "I believe I may have text to do." "I think you did." "I mean, that movie is spectacular."

"You're performance in it." "Everyone's performance in it."

"Yeah."

“"It's just like we were talking about it earlier today."”

"In anticipation of this."

"And we were just talking about the meditative quality of it." "The rhythm of it." "The music of it." "It's like everyone is watching and being watched at different times." "It's this big, beautiful triangle."

"Mm-hmm." "The actors are so great. You are so good in it." "It must feel so wonderful." "Being such a good movie." "Doesn't it?"

"It's so good." "It feels so good." "It feels so good." "It feels so good." "It feels so good."

"It feels so good." "It feels good to be in a good movie." "It feels really good." "It feels really good." "It feels really good."

"You want it all the time." "I know what you want." "I know your performance in it." "It's so beautiful." "All the awards."

“"I know the award season is long over that's been made."”

"Did you win?" "I don't even know." "Did you win?" "No." "I should have won."

"It's nominated." "Yes." "Yeah." "But you know no one even knows that." "No one knows that."

"No one knows." "It's just about that." "100%." "No one ever remembers who won." "I can't have introduced you as a kid."

"I can't have you anymore." "When I was in a setting." "I wasn't afraid to do." "No." "No."

"That's bullshit." "Of course." "You're what is Celine like to work with?" "Like, you know, was her first movie?" "Crazy."

"I think it was her first time." "Scenes on the director of past lives." "So was it just collaboration city there?" "Yeah. It was its own thing."

"Yeah. I'm never going to have anything like that."

"I felt like..." "I felt like we're making something that it's going to be something." "You did." "You felt at a good time." "You could feel that."

"And it felt very, uh..." "Yeah. Extremely collaborative." "She'd done a lot of theater." "And it was so personal." "And it was just..."

"Everyone was taking such a big risk too." "Like, I had no idea if I was going to be able to act in Korean." "Yeah." "And also, I'd never been the number one in a movie on the call. "She ever before."

"I'd never done drama in that way." "Like, I hadn't done realism." "Okay." "You'll understand this." "I realized this instinct that I needed to turn off."

"Where I would improvise my face off." "And I needed to turn." "I needed to stop doing that." "I would fill the silence." "Jokes."

"Can you imagine past lives with like..." "What that label?" "What that label?" "She's like, she's like, stop." "Stop that."

"You're like, "What?" "Wait, there's all of such an image. "You're responsible." "What?" "I meant doing anything."

"The whole idea that the camera was going to stay on my face "with nothing happening." "I could not handle it." "I could not handle it." "I would be like, cut."

"Cut." "We got it." "We got it." "What?" "Just a long shot."

"Just looking out the window." "Yes." "For so long." "Yes." "It's that is."

"Thank you for sharing that because I so relate." "Yeah." "It is like my hardest thing to just be kind of like still in the moment." "Yeah." "Like you said, sit in the kind of like in-betweenness of it all."

"And that film does that beautifully." "You, that dreamy quality of the in-betweenness of everything." "Yeah." "Whatever you had to adjust, you adjusted perfectly." "Because it is so, I recommend to anybody who has not watched past lives."

"I mean, it's my favorite kind of like melancholy nostalgic." "Like kind of happy sad love dream." "And yes, it was a side of you that, of course, I knew that you had.

But I don't think a lot of people I got to see, which is to your point, the kind of like space given to you and to give into the project was really amazing.

"Yeah."

“"I think at one point I counted how many seconds was the longest number of seconds that I'd been in one take."”

"Like literally for the front to stay on my face for longer than I think it was like a couple of minutes." "Yeah." "Which was really wild." "Well, you know what, it leads me to the question that I want to form the right question because I, it's the idea of being looked at and watched in general." "Even though we're in this profession and you would say that we would be comfortable with it."

"What do we do?" "You are a fashion icon, Greta." "You're basically a model."

"You're so, you have the best clothes in the world. You're incredible at posing."

"Thanks." "And there's something that comes over you. How are you adapting?" "It's adapting." "It's like character acting." "Yeah."

"I think when ever since I was really little, I just wanted to be a male character after." "Yeah." "I wanted to be one of the guys." "And I think that posing on a red carpet is not a ghost." "It's like, you know, D'Anero."

"But it's a book." "Okay, I'm going to make a connection to D'Anero." "Uh-huh." "When I see you being like, when we're all watching you on the, I'm just talking about like fashion carpet stuff."

“"Because it takes a certain, like, you have to kind of withstand the gaze, the male gaze, usually."”

"But just the general gaze, that you have this very solid foundation in that moment that is very D'Anero-esque." "Which is, it's very baller." "You have a very, like, um, confident vibe, and you know, you have great style, and you know what you like to wear." "I do." "And it is like comfortable."

"I have great people working with me." "Well, so you're a fucking calman-cliner." "Oh, this is great." "God." "Oh, she's just running, but you know, and not running."

"But the abs do." "The abs?" "Oh, God."

"I mean, I don't want to, I don't want to objectify you."

"But you, what?" "What is going on with your body?" "It's like, you're so rich." "It's actually rude." "It was actually rude for people."

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Who are you listening to?

What are you watching? What video TV show movie? What are you reading?

“Anything that you're doing right now to like laugh and enjoy.”

Hi, Lowe. Does not have to be fancy? Yeah. Okay. Are you ready?

Something that I literally just started watching is my friend ascending me these you to stay in removal videos? Okay. Let's talk a little bit. Okay.

Yeah. So there's one guy. I love staying in removal. You love it, too. Yeah.

All right. Here we go. Yeah. So which we could type in? Inkstein.

Inkstein. Inkstein. Let's start with the toughest ones. Inkstein is the toughest one. Okay.

Let's see. Gentleman. Gentleman's Gazette. Okay. Great way to remove Inkstein's.

Okay. To remove Inkstein's. All right. Gentleman's Gazette.

“Greta's been watching the right way to remove Inkstein's.”

Here we go. Again, I have got to get my commercials off YouTube. I think actually YouTube reached out. And I was like, I don't. This just seems too hard.

What do you mean? What do you mean? Like, what do you mean? I got to get a new account. I mean, it just seems too much.

Okay. Oh, cute. Yeah, right. Okay. This is a nice gentleman named Preston.

This is a stain removal emergency.

Just see your text. Isn't that nice?

Everyone else enjoy our standard intro.

Yeah. Oh, so he tells him if it's an emergency. Yeah. Skip the intro.

“He's going to tell you the first thing you need to do is make sure you get it off your hands.”

I love this guy. Yeah. He's treating us like like, like, we're idiots. But dumb. If you thought your way to this video, then it's nice.

It's really nice. And this is the condensed video. Now, Preston is pulling out a fountain pen, which, right? Oh, you don't use a fountain pen. You only sign your contracts in the fountain pen.

Yeah. Yeah. Wait, I know we're finishing up. But are you gardening now? Are you getting things for asking?

I am. I'm getting into it. I'm getting into it. I'm getting into it. Yeah.

What's going on? Well. I'm writing now.

I've planted some leaduses.

Like easy. Like leaduses. Leaduses are made up. Is it hard? Leaduses is hard.

Leaduses. Shit. Leaduses is hard. It's so easy. It's already done.

Take it out. Take it out. It's hard. It's right. It's too hot for a lettuce here.

Okay. Because this won't-- I'm not gardening here, honey. I'm gardening on the East Coast. Oh, shit.

Can you hear? Then you go away. Disgusting.

You rip out the lettuce here.

No. No. I'm doing this because East Coast. But it's still going to be hot. Yeah.

You're right. It does burn, doesn't it? And it bolts. It flowers. Because it's too hot.

And then it gets better.

“I like that we're ending with gardening.”

Yeah. You love gardening. I find it very gratifying. But now a lot of actors are doing it too. It's just like, oh, I have to break it to you.

You're an actor. I am. Yeah. We just found out. Go ahead.

Academy award. Oh, no. You heard it here. That's right. That's right.

Gradually. Yep. Love you, Greta. I love you so much for doing this. Thanks for having me.

Of course. Thank you for my beautiful gift. I've found you. Enjoy it. And like gorgeous.

My gorgeous produce. Yeah. You can't eat that avocado anytime. I can't lift things back. I can't lift things back.

Yeah. Thank you so much, Greta Lee.

“You are so funny and talented and beautiful.”

And it's just such a pleasure to get to talk to you. And Greta has done so many things and worked with so many great people. And we talked a little bit about Joan Cusack today. So for this polar plunge, I just want to remind everybody yet again. But the genius that is Joan Cusack.

I mean, you know her from 16 candles, from working girl, from school rock, high fidelity. Broadcast news. Do yourself a favor. Open up a bottle of wine and watch broadcast news tonight. Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Joan Cusack.

Just film and comedy at its best. So thank you, Joan. Thank you Greta. Thank you all for listening. See you soon, bye.

You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman and me, Amy Poler. The show is produced by the ringer and paper kite. For the ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spalaine,

Kaya McMillan, and L.A. as an eras. For paper kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman. Original music by Amy Miles.