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Our first guest tonight is an Academy Award-winning actress and producer you know from films such as Poor Things,
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Our first guest tonight is an Academy Award-winning actress and producer you know from films such as Poor Things,
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La La Land, The Favorite, and Birdman.
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She stars in Megonia, which is in select theaters now and everywhere this Friday.
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Let's take a look.
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We need to send the message that we have a new culture here now,
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where people should, yes, of course,
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feel free to leave at 5.30 and be with their families.
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No one is gonna be overworked like in the past.
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No more unpleasant incidents.
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But, of course, it's not compulsory.
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And obviously, if people still have work to do,
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they should absolutely stay and continue to work.
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But it's not strictly enforced.
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Although, we still do want to meet quotas.
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So if we can do that with no pressure,
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just remembering, you know, we are running a business here.
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So let your conscience guide you kind of thing.
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Yeah?
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Good?
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I'll definitely let them know.
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Great.
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New era.
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Please welcome back to the show our friend Emma Stone!
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Hi!
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How are you?
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I'm great.
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How are you?
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Happy Halloween.
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And to you.
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Are you a Halloween person?
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Uh...
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What's a Halloween person?
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Great question.
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Yeah.
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Is it someone that thinks about Halloween all the time and,
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like, can't wait for the day to come?
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Yeah, I think a Halloween person is,
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like, I think by, like,
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September 31st, they know what they're gonna be.
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Yeah, no, I'm not a Halloween person.
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Okay, gotcha, yeah.
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I'm not a Halloween person either.
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I will say, like, I kind of look back to my 20s and 30s in New York,
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and I feel like I maybe missed out on some good parties.
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I mean, I haven't gone to an adult Halloween party in quite a while,
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and I do miss it.
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Okay, yeah.
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I do miss it.
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And you're not gonna go this year, it sounds like.
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I'm not.
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Yeah.
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I think nobody watching this right now thinks you're on the fence even about it.
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No, because I just learned I'm not a Halloween person.
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Yeah, it's really nice.
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I'm glad we found it out together.
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Was there one year where you feel like you nailed it,
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like with a costume or anything?
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Oh, when I was five,
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I went as Morticia Adams.
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And if you stick...
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If you put a five-year-old in a long black wig with red nail,
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I'm doing it today.
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Yeah.
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It's like I felt the coolest I've ever felt.
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Oh, that's great.
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As Morticia.
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So you just peaked too early.
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I peaked too soon.
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That's exactly right.
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Yeah, that's right.
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And everything's been downhill from there.
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Yeah.
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Honestly.
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Well, I will say an uphill thing is I would imagine
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Cruella is of your roles maybe the most Halloween-friendly as far as costumes other people wear.
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It's very holiday.
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Yeah.
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But I don't think it's...
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Obviously, it's not because of my Cruella.
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It's because Cruella is a longtime canon character.
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You know what?
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I really appreciate that you don't try to jump and grab credit for Cruella.
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Yeah.
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Thank you.
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It really speaks to you.
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Yeah.
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It's just a little something about me.
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Yeah.
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It's that I didn't...
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...write or create Cruella in the 1960s.
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Yeah, that's true.
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But you do have a great...
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I like...
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You have an iconic Cruella,
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and I think people could use it as an inspiration.
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And that's what I really wanted to say.
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Yes.
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Now, I have a question.
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Begonia, I feel like it's not going to come out in time to inspire this year's Halloween.
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Right, because it comes out on Halloween.
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Yeah, and it's too...
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Nobody can be like...
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If you're thinking about...
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Although, I will say, like,
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this is kind of the costume.
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All you have to do,
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really, is either shave your head or have a bald cap.
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And then you're done.
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That's it.
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So I guess if you saw this early on Halloween morning...
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You could do it by the nighttime.
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Yeah.
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That's right.
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So it's a good last-minute one,
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though, with a high cost.
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Well, you do have to fully shave your head.
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That's correct.
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But you know what?
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If you're a Halloween person...
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Yeah.
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Then you should commit.
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Then you should commit.
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Yeah, I think if you...
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I mean, I think the weird thing would be
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if you bald-capped your begonia costume and then you went to a party and there was a full,
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like, an actual person who practically shaved their head,
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you'd feel like a real sucker.
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That...
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I think next year that's gonna be the problem.
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Like, too many begonias at the party,
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and then they're gonna separate into the cliques of the ones who actually shaved their head and then the bald-capped.
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How committed are you?
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Yeah, exactly.
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I like that.
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That actually sounds like a good plan.
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I love this movie, and I know you've been asked,
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like, forever, I would imagine on this press tour,
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about shaving your head for this role.
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And you haven't been asked enough about the fact that your co-star,
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Jesse Plemons, has long, gross hair.
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Yes.
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A lot of his hair was actually extensions because it wasn't quite long enough,
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but he just didn't wash it ever.
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But what was less discussed was the fact that he grew his nails the entire time.
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And his nails were very dirty and very long, And honestly, strong.
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Like, as someone who is trying to grow my hair and nails,
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grow my hair and nails, they're strong.
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They're strong nails, and they're at length.
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So, are you saying it like you might...
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At first, I thought you were grossed out,
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but now you might be covetous.
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You're jealous.
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I'm jealous.
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Yes.
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And he was so committed that he didn't wash.
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Yeah.
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He didn't wash.
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I feel bad that we're talking about him because he wasn't in the clip,
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but I should note that it is the right choice for the character he's playing.
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Maybe I should have mentioned that to begin with as well.
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It was for his character.
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He wasn't just doing that.
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We have not done a service to our friend Jesse Plemons.
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No, we have not, and we love Jesse.
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There's another, when we first,
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you were, I don't want...
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Did you print all these out yourself?
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I do.
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I do them all myself, yeah.
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Oh, that's so neat.
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I'm always, you should, if you ever come in the afternoon,
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it's just me by the copier.
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And my assistant's always like,
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I'm like, no, no, no,
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no, no, not for Emma.
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Not for Emma.
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Yep.
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I don't want to give...
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I mean, again, it's in the trailer,
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because it's one of those movies where I am so loath to give anything away.
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But you were abducted by two characters,
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Jessie and is it Aiden?
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Aiden, yeah.
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Who's wonderful.
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And they're wearing...
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The masks they're wearing are fantastic,
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because they're Jennifer Aniston masks.
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Yeah, I don't know if you can...
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I don't know if you can see them in that picture.
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Yeah.
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It is a little bit of a jump-scare moment,
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because you're like, what are these masks?
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They go to buy them in a store before...
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This is not spoiling anything.
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They do it right at the beginning.
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They buy these Jennifer Aniston masks.
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In the script, it was a different person.
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It was like...
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It was like Rambo or something.
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You know, it was like...
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But Yorgos, our director, is a Friends fanatic.
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Okay.
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Like, a fanatic, which is really kind of wild for, like, Yorgos Lanthimos.
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You wouldn't think, like, knows everything about Friends.
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But if you...
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I've never watched a Yorgos film and thought, this guy loves Friends.
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Friends.
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But maybe you should, because these movies are a little bit silly, too.
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They are really...
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I mean, a love movie could be wrong.
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He's got a great sense of humor,
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I want to make sure.
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Totally, totally.
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And it just reads a little different than maybe the sitcom Friends.
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But if you were to do any type of trivia,
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and I've tried this many times,
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he can answer any question about friends, any trivia question.
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So, long story short, one day he went,
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should they be Ross and Rachel?
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The masks?
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I was like, that's pretty random, but funny.
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He goes, I think they should both be Rachel.
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I was like...
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Okay.
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And-and Jesse and I were like, why?
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And he's like, I don't know.
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I think that would be funny.
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We were like, okay.
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He's not wrong.
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And so we did write an e-mail to Jennifer Aniston,
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and she was like, sounds great to me.
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She's totally in for it.
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So, but she hasn't...
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I don't think she's seen the movie yet,
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so I hope she still likes it.
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It is funny when you're like,
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of course you can use my mask,
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and then you're like, what was it for again?
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It's like, we're abducting a woman.
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Well, actually, you're abduct...
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Two of you are abducting a woman.
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Two of you are abducting a woman,
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and there will be a point where you stab her in the leg with a needle.
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And out she'll go, and we'll shave her head.
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Fourth Yor...
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This is Four with Yorgos?
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And, I mean, I will say, like, in all...
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Fourgos.
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Fourgos.
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That's...
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That's all the time we have.
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Good night, everyone.
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Thanks so much for having me.
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I invented Cruella.
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Oh, well, well.
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Now you can stay.
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If that's true, you can stay.
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I'm back.
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But these movies are so intense,
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oftentimes very dark, but really funny,
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and there's a great amount of physical comedy, I would imagine.
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At this point, you must know what you're in for and look forward to it.
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Yes, definitely.
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It's...
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It's a very...
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I do kind of know,
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going in, that it's gonna be hyperphysical and very funny,
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but, you know, this one...
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This one was a different experience than,
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like, you know, doing poor things.
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That was a very specific physicality.
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This one was a lot of...
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Chained to a cot in a basement.
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I swear you guys are gonna like it.
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It's very entertaining.
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Yes.
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It is very entertaining.
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It is, right?
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It's really funny, and yet everything you said also is true.
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Is true as well.
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Yes.
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Some of your...
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I wouldn't say...
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For me, this is Emma Stone canon,
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but I think maybe less people think of it when they think of you.
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You did a digital short that I talk about all the time called I Wish It Would Rain.
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Here's a photo.
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That is you.
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That's your butt.
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That's my own butt.
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That's no...
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Yes, it is, and they kept it in finally.
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That's Andy.
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This is not anybody's top.. anyone's top 200 digital shorts.
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And they did less than 200.
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What?
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Can I be honest with you?
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So, before you come on a talk show like this,
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you speak to a producer of the show,
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and they kind of, like,
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ask you questions about what you might want to talk about or tell you,
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like, oh, you know, the host has this idea, the host being Seth.
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And she said, first thing,
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Seth really wants to bring up this video.
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I do.
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I was like, I haven't heard about that video since the night it aired.
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And you have done a lot of things on SNL that people still probably talk to you about.
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It was, like, 15 years ago.
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And this one, like, just came and went.
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And I love it so much.
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I love that.
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Because it was, like, this big...
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And everybody should watch it.
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It immediately doesn't work.
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That's why you love it.
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I love it.
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But also, I want to make sure I establish,
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I thought it was gonna work.
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I love it.
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And so I'm not like,
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ha-ha, those guys swung and missed.
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I was the guy right before it aimed.
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I'm like, here we go,
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it's the next Lazy Sunday.
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And then it was just like, cricket.
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And you, by the way,
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you're not like the main part.
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You come in very late.
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You're not the reason it doesn't work.
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I come in as kind of as assistant.
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I think that brings...
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Again, I've seen it only the one time that it aired.
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I need to watch it again.
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Or just let it be the once.
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You know what?
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Let it be the once.
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All right, I have another Estelle question.
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And how about you guys all let it be the once, too?
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Or the not ever.
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or the nuns.
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Never.
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You did SNL 50th.
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We were both there.
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I believe at one point at the after party,
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I saw you on stage with a tambourine.
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Yes, yes.
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And I had a feeling.
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It felt like a flashback to me.
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Can you explain where I might have got that feeling?
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At the SNL 50th, I got to go on stage with Haim and also got to go up there with Kristen.
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Yeah, Kristen Wiig.
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And I played a tambourine.
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Yeah.
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But ten years earlier at the SNL 40th,
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I got to go on stage also with Hein,
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but Prince and play a tambourine.
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Oh, wow.
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Which was unbelievable.
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And I had just...
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I had had a few tequilas at this point.
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Uh-huh.
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And I'd taken off my shoes to dance.
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I stepped on a piece of glass.
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They took me back to the back room.
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The chef that worked at the hotel,
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which was the Plaza Hotel,
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cut out the glass with a paring knife.
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Again, couldn't feel anything.
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Highly recommend tequila.
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And I was walking back out,
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and they went, you want to come on stage with Prince?
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It was, like, 90 seconds later.
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I was like, yup!
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I put my foot in a heel,
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bleeding, and was doing the tambourine.
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And then, ten years later,
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we had another tambourine moment, but no Prince.
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Wow.
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The question is, like, did you,
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in both cases, did you bring a tambourine?
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No. They just...
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They just...
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They give me that because I can't...
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Now, no offense to professional tambourine players everywhere,
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But they give me that because I can't play an instrument.
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Yeah, gotcha.
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And so I get to participate by,
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you know, playing like a three-year-old one in music class.
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So when, I think when,
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basically, what you're saying, when the list of who was coming to the 50th came out and Lauren saw your name,
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he was like, have a tambourine.
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He's like, we should have one.
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At this point, I should be carrying a tambourine.
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You should be carrying.
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Just have something to do.
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At the 60th, maybe we'll get you a golden tambourine.
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Stop it.
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Yeah, because it'll be your...
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If you're at the third anniversary,
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you get your own tambourine.
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Oh, my God, I love that idea.
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Maybe we could bring back the sketch.
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Uh, nobody wants that.
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Okay.
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Um, hey, congrats on the movie.
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I loved it.
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I love having you here.
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You guys, this is Emma Stone.
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The game is the Select Green is now and nationwide.
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Tomorrow, stick around.
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We'll be right back on our late night.
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- Direct Questions: "Are you a Halloween person?" This structure encourages concise responses; a useful approach when engaging in casual conversations.
- Conditional Statements: "If people still have work to do, they should absolutely stay." This line illustrates the importance of conditionals in discussing hypothetical situations or potential outcomes.
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- Halloween: Although familiar, the pronunciation can be tricky for non-native speakers. Focus on the correct stress pattern and the link between syllables.
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