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>> Hey, what's going on everybody from First We Feast.
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I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Rose Byrne.
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She's an Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominated actress, you know, from comedies like Bridesmaids and Neighbors, prestige plays like Damages and horror films like Insidious.
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And on the topic of versatility, her latest project is a critically acclaimed genre-bending film from A24.
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It's called If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You and it's in theaters now.
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Rose Byrne, welcome to the show. >> Thank you so much. Thanks for having me.
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>> What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the Hot Ones Gauntlet? I can tell already.
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Do you feel prepared for the moment? >> How bad can it be? Well, well, let's see. Let's see. Let's see what happens. Let's see. Okay, this one? >> That one. >> Okay. Just eat it. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. That's nice. That's lovely. Just spicy.
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>> And that's the road we're on.
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I I I try to be transparent. Yeah. >> That cracks. Yeah. That's lovely. Yeah. Do we do another one? No. We wait.
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>> Well, I have a question first >> Oh, yeah. We're going to talk. Let's talk. Let's talk. Yeah.
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>> So, when I interviewed Sam Rockwell, he talked about how the key to playing a character who's drunk is to play them sober because inebriated people think that they're making total sense.
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Are there any similarities to how you would approach playing a character like Linda who's constantly pushed to the brink and unraveling?
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>> I would absolutely agree with Sam Rockwell. It's so true.
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But my character Linda is um is drinking and smoking a lot of pot and and not sleeping throughout the film and it's the key thing is that people who are who are doing that or who are inebriated are just constantly recalibrating themselves and constantly making sure that they they they appear completely normal.
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Yes, I think it's like the and the worse you get, the more you're focused on doing that. I've I think I found.
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Um but that was a challenge with Linda cuz it sort of she's unraveling throughout the film.
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So it's just like making sure we were tracking that.
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And it is very it's a very challenging role, but it's also really fun to be able to do all that stuff.
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It's like such a such a gift. Okay. Back in? >> It's okay. It's okay. >> Wow. >> It is a stop. >> Mhm.
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>> I'm also curious how the filmmaking style and cinematic choices might have affected your approach.
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Like do you have to change your process at all when you have so many scenes and the camera is stuffed right into your face?
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>> The first day was the hardest cuz that was like establishing that language with the camera.
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The first day I was like, oh my god.
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And then and then I then I adjusted and and we and we figured it out.
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But I too when I saw the film I was like, oh wow, it's such a powerful language she's using to tell to tell the story.
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It feels it's very immersive. Much more like this.
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>> I was going to say on the topic of immersion.
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Are you ready to move on here to sauce number three?
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This is a pickled garlic sriracha. >> Okay. Pickled garlic sriracha. Okay. Okay. >> Sorry. >> Mhm. Okay.
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Yeah, it's coming more now. But but not bad. Right. Not bad.
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>> Nothing you can't handle.
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>> Nothing I can I'm just looking at the next one.
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>> Do you remember the first time that you made people laugh with your acting?
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Like was that comedic gear something you always knew you had or was it like a talent that was spotted?
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>> Oh, that's a good question.
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Um I think I'm the youngest of four, so I think there's a natural element of being slightly goofy being the youngest, probably trying to get attention.
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I think it was probably discovered later in having the opportunity to like audition for stuff that was funny and seeing if I could do it, you know?
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Cuz you know, funny a funny person is not necessarily a funny actor and a funny actor is not a funny person usually.
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Like a lot of comedians are very serious.
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>> Well, I think >> Very serious, so it's a bit of a mystery how it works, I think. Yeah.
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>> Yeah, well I think like audiences hold a special awe for like actors like you or Julia Louis-Dreyfus who aren't necessarily walking around cracking jokes, but still steal every comedic scene that they're in.
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How do you think about that terrain between comedy and acting?
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>> I am obsessed with that terrain.
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Like it's kind of my quiet obsession.
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I think someone like for you to mention Julia Louis-Dreyfus, she's one of my idols who can who will do that tightrope, you know?
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And I too, I love like for example, seeing someone like a Conan O'Brien do something dramatic.
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It's always exciting when you see that transition.
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Um it's harder to go the other way, I think.
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So, I feel like that's um it's a it's That's why I think they're actually more similar than different to be funny and to be serious. Yeah. Okay, here we go. Mhm. Mhm.
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>> Yeah, I think this is another step. >> Mhm. Ooh. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Little bit of a kick.
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I like how, you know, I really feel like you absorb all of these.
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Yeah, yeah, and then react.
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>> You don't get too far out in front of it.
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For the uninitiated, what are practical What is practical aesthetics?
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And is that a technique that could be applied >> To this? >> equally? Yeah, yeah.
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To like a comedy romp as it could be to like a darkly intense drama?
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>> Oh, that's such a good question.
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Um practical aesthetics is a acting technique. Excuse me. Um pardon me.
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Um and I think you can absolutely can apply it to any kind of genre in terms of uh your own like homework behind the scenes as an actor.
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It's very writer-driven, so it's it's sort of like there is no character.
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The character is the writing on the page.
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You know, the audience will give you all you need for your character kind of thing.
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So, it's um it's it's less about like thinking about, you know, sense memory or these sort of more traditional acting approaches.
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Um and it was a sort of has a cult following in Australia.
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It became a really popular technique, which is where I discovered it.
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>> If someone is an acolyte of practical aesthetics, does it ever like chafe up against other acting approaches on set?
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Like I'm always curious how these different methods might play together on set.
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>> Well, if you're I would hope people do their homework beforehand, and so you never want to see an actor's homework either whatever research or technique they're bringing.
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So, you just come and you you're prepared and at the end of the day, the other actor's going to inform your whole performance, I think.
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Like acting is reacting, obviously.
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Um but I I've never I'm always intrigued by the method acting and I've never worked really worked with a method actor and I do wonder how that how that would be, like >> Your mind wanders. >> Exactly. You know what I mean?
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Like you can't talk to them or they you know what I'm I'm I'm much more kind of yeah, church and state with work.
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Like I you know, I'm in it and then when it's over I can kind of step away, but this is it.
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>> You can't step away from this. >> Neals? >> Real deal. >> Is this the next one? This guy?
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>> And you're at the halfway mark already. >> Chimichurri? >> Habanero. >> Ooh. >> Let's party. >> Mhm.
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So are these just all drenched in the sauce?
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>> Yeah, there's no escape. I love this part. I love this part.
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>> I've just like yeah, see anticipation for me is what's making me anxious.
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>> And it's making me anticipate your anticipation. >> Yeah.
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The anticipation of it is like is is stressful, isn't it? Yeah.
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>> Yeah, but you know what? Let's focus on the wins. >> Okay.
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>> Half of the gauntlet is done.
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>> It's all behind you, you know?
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>> I've done better than I thought I would. >> You're doing great. >> Yeah.
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I really what had a low estimation of what I was of what I could achieve.
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Go to the low level bar, right?
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Come I come in with a very low bar on my thumb.
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>> I think that's a good mindset just in life in general, yeah.
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Can't be disappointed that way. >> I get up in the day.
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Just expect very little very little from the day.
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>> What do you think is like the creepiest prop or prosthetic treatment that you've ever seen while shooting a horror movie, like 28 Weeks Later or Insidious?
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>> Insidious, there was a really scary character that was a demon.
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And there was a little boy in the movie this lovely actor Ty and he was only 10 or something and we would get ready me Ty and the demon all together in the trailer for the demon Joe who's so sweet would come in
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and be like hi and he'd get in and slowly then he'd be like red and then weird eyes and then what you know and you're like like getting his fangs on and his nails and his crazy little like latex outfit and but we would all be there to try to make
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it normal you know so this little Ty wouldn't like get traumatized >> and scared >> exactly and like have haunting dreams for the rest of his life but um it was a it was a good it was a good it was a good trick it was actually a good thing to do yeah but that was really scary and that character's really scary in the movie James James Wan >> shout out to James >> all right Rosie are you ready to move on here to the back half >> yep
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>> so this one is called tropical amarillo here at number six >> okay mm good lord mm mm-hmm is this just going to crack right up woo I'm trying to not actively drink until I have to desperately cuz I'm hoping like I'm >> same with me
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>> someone told me that was a good technique I think it was my makeup artist Sue is that a good technique >> I you know what it's >> it doesn't matter >> it's yeah I don't think it matters that much that's actually I think the real
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secret here is that none of it really matters you know people always hit me with these kinds of like spice tips all the time but I'm like once you're on the train you're on the train and you just have to lean into it you know >> got to go okay
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>> so I'd imagine that films like if I had legs I'd kick you or even last year the substance it must give actors a lot of hope that these movies that blur genres can actually break through >> how do you >> Yeah. >> From your vantage, how can films like
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>> From your vantage, how can films like these influence a shift back to like true artistic risk-taking?
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Like, do you see them as important not only as movies, but like ones that can actually define the sort of algorithmic driven decision-making of Hollywood? >> I love that question.
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Appreciate that question.
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Uh it's hard to focus, isn't it, when you >> Yeah. Yeah. That's the show. >> That's what happens. Hard to like zone in.
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Harder to hear stuff is the what's happening.
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If there is success behind something like The Substance, which was so great, and such a director-driven film, I hope that that is the case with with with all of these movies that what they all do their bit in pushing things forward.
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But I feel like examination of particularly like female stories is also really interesting.
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I feel like there is a a kind of collective movement of that, whether it's our movie or Night [ __ ] or Baby Girl or The Substance or I mean, I could go on and on.
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There's so many, you know, wonderful like stories about women that are unusual and confronting and thought-provoking.
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And genre-bending, too, which is cool. So.
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>> Reasons to feel optimistic. >> god. >> I know.
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>> It's hard to be articulate, isn't it? That's the problem.
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>> Well, you could have fooled me, Rose. >> Oh.
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>> You could have fooled me. I wouldn't know. >> Okay.
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>> Are you ready to move on here? >> it. So, four more left. >> Who's counting? Who's counting? >> Me.
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So, Hawaiian Hot Tea, right? >> Yeah. That's the one. >> Oh god. Okay.
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Oh, that was too big a bite. I took a big bite. Mhm. So, this is hot. >> Yeah. Goes without saying.
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Yeah, this is the new This is kind of a new frontier. Yeah. Yeah. >> It's so [ __ ] hot. Can I swear?
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>> Yeah, you can let Let Let it fly. Be yourself. >> Good lord. Wow. >> Yeah. >> Who would want that? >> I know. I know. I understand.
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>> That is That's some [ __ ] up [ __ ] >> Yeah, it is some [ __ ] up [ __ ] >> Well, pug. Wow. >> I know.
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There's nothing even about the sort of tropical elements in a Hawaiian driven sauce. I'll join you. Yeah. >> Wow. Wow. Wow. Ooh.
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>> Does it ever feel burdensome being an Australian actor working abroad who's constantly asked to defend Vegemite or do you see it as a noble calling?
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>> I I have a new approach with Vegemite. Wow. >> Yeah. >> Oh my god. I can't Wow. Get the [ __ ] out.
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That is That [ __ ] is nasty. Pug. Oh my god. Puggy. Wow.
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Um Have you ever tried it? >> I don't mind it. >> Oh, you tried it? >> Yeah.
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>> People are who are rookies, they don't understand.
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Cuz Vegemite's all about the butter.
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Really good bread, really good butter, and just a little bit of Vegemite.
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Like you don't need a lot.
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>> It doesn't need to dominate. >> need to dominate.
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That's how I would introduce it to somebody.
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>> What is pound for pound the best Kylie Minogue song in your opinion? >> Ah, great question.
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Um Better the Devil You Know is a great track.
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That's a That's a deeper cut.
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That's like an older song, but that's for me ah great dance tune.
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Great great great club number.
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Cuz I'm always in the clubs.
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>> If I'm at home on the couch on a lazy Sunday night and I feel the itch for a powerful Judy Davis performance, is there a film that you could recommend?
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>> Um Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career.
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It's was I think it's 79 or 80.
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It's an old movie and it's her She's so young.
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Um It's a fantastic film and Judy Davis is extraordinary. Yeah.
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>> What makes the uh ricotta hotcakes at Bill's Cafe so elite in your opinion? >> know about them?
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Sorry, I just totally talked over your question.
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How do you know about them? >> We got to know.
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>> You got >> Cuz you're Rose Byrne, we have to know. >> Oh.
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Well, they are a Australian staple.
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Uh Bill Granger was an extraordinary chef uh and um he he has such a wonderful legacy in Australia and those hotcakes are iconic and they're they're the right amount of fluffy and texture.
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They're just absolutely delicious. Okay. >> How we feeling? >> I feel sick. I mean How do you feel? I feel sick and crazy. That's how I feel.
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What do you expect with a name like that, right?
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Like you can't, you know. Okay. Oh, [ __ ] me. >> Yeah. >> Oh, [ __ ] me.
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I mean, that started straight away.
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>> Yeah, you don't have to wait around for this one and then on top of that, it's kind of a gross sauce.
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You know, like even Hawaiian hot tea, right?
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There are these redeeming culinary qualities. >> Mm. That's just nasty. >> has nothing, right? >> That's nasty. Why would you want that?
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>> I think just for this moment on this YouTube show.
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I'm not sure that's why it was created, but it's certainly why it's lasted. >> Wow.
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>> So, you've been a working actress since you were a teenager and in that time since you've been prolific, stacking up dozens and dozens of credits across decades.
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So, whenever we get an actor like that in the seat, we like to play a game where I give you a tagline to a Rose Byrne film >> Oh god.
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>> try to connect it to the title, all right?
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So, for example eradication sterilization repopulation, reinfection.
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What Rose Byrne movie is that? >> 28 Weeks Later? >> 28 Weeks Later. So, you've got it. You've got it. All right. >> Okay. >> Family versus frat. >> Neighbors. >> Of course. Two for two.
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What if you met the man of your man's dreams?
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>> I met the man of my man's dreams. Well, I don't know. I'm I'm lost. >> Juliet Naked.
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>> Oh, well, I love that. That's so cute.
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Great movie with Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Dowd, and me. So cute.
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I was like, I met a man and he met a man and he got together with the man and like I was like, was it a love square? Okay.
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>> She wants a family and that family is yours. Yours underlined. >> Get out of here. Is it Yeah, okay. Is it Oh, old. Old. >> It is old. I'll give you that.
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>> You got to give it to me, John. I'm This is bad. This >> Dallas Doll.
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>> Oh my god, I was never going to get that. That's my first job.
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I was like a little a little baby. >> Sandra Bernhard.
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And like kind of an iconic movie to be like your first film, you know?
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It's a wild movie to be your first film. >> a wild movie. Big swings.
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And Tonya directed she was lovely and Sandra was lovely, yeah. Oh, wow. I love that. Good luck. >> Here's an easy one. The clones are coming.
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>> Star Wars Attack of the Clones. >> There you go. Back on track.
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>> I'm back out of back in the hot seat.
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Back in the back in the driver's seat.
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>> It's not the house that's haunted. >> Insidious. >> You got it. You're on a roll. >> Now I'm on a roll. Now I'm on a roll.
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>> The CIA's best kept secret. >> Spy.
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>> Oh, I just want to keep them coming.
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Hiring them was a brilliant mistake. >> Ooh. Um Good lord. Um I got I don't know. I don't know. >> The Internship. >> Oh my god. Okay. Okay, great. Great. Yes, them. Those guys. Yes.
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>> I like to end on a miss. >> Okay.
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>> If you're ready to move on here to sauce number nine.
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>> I'm not, but we that's what we'll do, right? We'll do it. Okay. X hot. Ooh. All right.
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So, we just We just have a >> Just a couple of people. >> Okay. >> Not fun.
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But you're almost there, Rose. You're almost there. I know.
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>> It's not as gross as the last one. >> Exactly. >> Like, I'll take it.
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Like, it's not as >> is over, all right?
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That was the worst sauce. You're in the clear.
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>> That was like a nasty one.
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>> Sunshine right on the horizon. We're almost there.
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Only one more >> Did you guys just make this in the kitchen?
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>> No, we claim no We claim no credit for this.
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>> We're going to make number eight. >> All right.
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We did not have our hands on that.
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As an intrepid traveler shaped by your Australian upbringing, is there a movie you've done that holds a special place in your heart purely because it was shot on a location that was just so damn fun to visit? >> Oh my gosh, so many.
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I've had so many incredible Excuse me. locations.
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>> Anything goes on this show. It's okay. Don't apologize. >> I know.
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I have a lot of digestive issues come up. Um Excuse me.
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I got to shoot in Cambodia in Angkor Wat, which was extraordinary.
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Ancient ruins had been taken over by the jungle.
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I shot a film there that was amazing.
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That was That was the most incredible location I've ever shot. >> Now, be very careful. Be very careful. >> that. Wow, I nearly did it. >> I know.
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Um we're only have one more wing to go, so head down. >> did it. Thank you. Thank you. >> I got you. >> me.
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Wow, cuz I just tapped it, but I didn't fully tap it. >> I know.
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I'm always watching for the swipe. Yeah. >> Wow. Okay.
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I'm not going to do that. >> You don't have to.
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And with that, Rose Byrne, the wings of death are behind us.
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And to close things out, we actually have a very special surprise for you.
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We reached out to someone to send a message for you on Wing 10, all right?
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He's an icon of late night, a legend of the show, and the poker-faced foil to your Linda unraveling.
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Please direct your attention to the monitor, cuz we have a special message from Conan O'Brien.
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>> Hi Rose, it's your beloved co-star, Conan O'Brien.
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Congratulations on reaching the last dab.
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I myself hit this milestone, and I can tell you what to expect.
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The next 48 hours are going to be a living hell.
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I myself was medevac'd to Davos, Switzerland, where I had my lower intestine removed, power-washed, and then reinserted.
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For 15 months, I couldn't feel my coccyx.
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I've only recently been able to walk.
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Rose, I hope you're spared these terrible indignities.
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But either way, congratulations. I'm so proud of you.
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>> Aw, what a sweetheart. Wow. That was gnarly.
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That last one is like it's just kicking in, like I can hear my voice over there talking.
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Like it's quite out of body.
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It's a bit of an out-of-body experience. Yeah. I do feel a bit sick.
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Like >> You know what I think that is?
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That is just >> have had a glass of milk for maybe 40 years.
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>> The taste That's the taste of victory swirling around inside of you right now.
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And take a look at you, Rose Byrne, taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale.
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And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera, let the people know what you have going on in your life. >> Yep. What do you mean?
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Just like >> Like a film you've got coming out.
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>> Um I have a film out at the moment called If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, directed and written by the wonderful Mary Bronstein, starring Conan O'Brien, ASAP Rocky, and me. Go see it.
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It's like nothing you've ever seen. It's a total wild ride.
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I really want you to trust me on this one.
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And I just ate all these things. And I feel crazy. I FEEL CRAZY. OH MY GOD.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME.
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I know how this show is like next level and people I just love it.
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So I'm really very honored that you asked me. Thank you.
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>> Well, we're honored that you are here.
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And you're the first ever shoot in the studio.
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>> And for this it's that's so cool.
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>> forever be a part OF OUR HISTORY.
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>> DID YOU REALLY TRY VEGEMITE?
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>> YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
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We I used to have like a >> I wanted to check. I WAS LIKE WOO!
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