Comedy Clash: Emma Stone vs Ryan Gosling | The Graham Norton Show

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Watch Emma's outrageously charming stories go head-to-head with Ryan's brilliantly goofy chaos! ๐๐ From shocking confessions to hilarious anecdotes, these Hollywood comedy LEGENDS battle it out for the crown! ๐บ๐ธโจ Who'll win the laugh-off? YOU decide! ๐๐ฅ Two comedy icons, ONE epic compilation! May the funniest star WIN! ๐ฌ๐ฅ.
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AI GeneratedEmma Stone, Ryan Gosling, and Harrison Ford share a series of humorous personal anecdotes and professional reflections. The conversation covers childhood ambitions, embarrassing mishaps, the rigorous training required for musical performances, and behind-the-scenes stories from their various film projects, including *Blade Runner 2049*.
Emma and Ryan, of course, everyone loves you together in La La Land, but this isn't the first time you've worked together.
You've worked together in Gangster Squad, and then in Crazy Stupid Love, we've even seen you dance together before.
Interesting pose on me.
I've noticed you're shirtless.
So double whammy.
But now, what happened? Because the dancing didn't go to plan in Crazy Stupid Love.
Uh, no.
Oh, yeah.
You mean the dirty dancing left?
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
Well, we were meant to do that, and then what happened?
Oh, you don't remember?
Well, I remember, but I'd like to hear you.
You'd like to hear me talk?
Your version of it?
Listen, when I was...
Quick story.
When I was about seven years old... Quick story.
When I was about seven years old, I was in gymnastics class, and I was on these parallel bars that are about six feet off the ground.
And I was standing on the top of the bars, and the teacher was holding me by the ankles.
And somehow or other, she let go.
And I was standing on this bar, and I felt myself beginning to tip forward, and I put my arms in like this, and I fell six feet to the ground.
And I broke both of my arms at the same time.
Wow.
Yeah.
And so I spent a whole summer. I lived in Arizona, which is like 120 degrees, which I don't know what that is in Celsius.
Cold.
So, I had a cast, and all the... You know, I was just... It was miserable.
It was the day before the last day of school.
Anyway, I had internalized this... That's a really important part.
It's an important detail.
I really know how to tell a story.
Anyway.
Years later, we do Crazy, Stupid, Love.
I know that we're going to do the Dirty Dancing Lift.
I don't know, however, that I have an internalized phobia of being, you know, lifted over someone's head at the height of about six feet.
So, I run to do the lift, and Ryan lifts me over his head, and I... What did I do, Ryan?
I've never had this happen, but I imagine if a possum fell out of a tree and started trying to scratch your eyes out.
It would be something similar.
It was a lot. And then it was, like, a full meltdown. I mean, I had, like, a real meltdown.
Yeah, you had to go...
I had to go lay down.
You crawled in bed and watched...
Labyrinth.
You were in a house, and she was like, I have to go watch Labyrinth.
For an hour, I went and laid down crying, watching Labyrinth. This is so stupid.
And then Ryan came in and was like, yeah, right? And then the directors came in and were like, yeah, right?
We're going to use the devil, and I was like, great.
What is the hold that the Spice Girls have over you? Is this real?
Yes, it's real. And I just feel like I've been talking more about the Spice Girls on this press tour than I have about the movie.
That's because you wept. You wept in Australia.
I did weep. I know, I wept.
Did you really weep?
I really did.
Now, which one was talking to you?
Mel B.
And was she really talking to you, or was it a message?
No, it was a video message on an iPad.
And that made you cry?
Yes.
Were you jet lagged?
Yes.
But I also, you don't, I mean, you do understand, because we're in the UK.
I was, I was a fiend. I was obsessed with the Spice Girls.
And they taught me about girl power. And I love them. I think they're fantastic.
What's the song?
There's so many, Jamie. There's so many.
No.
Spice Up Your Life.
Every boy and every girl.
Spice Up Your Life.
Hey!
There's so many, and they're so fantastic. And today on the radio, Mel C. talked to me over Skype.
Oh, wow!
So it's really very exciting.
Okay, now, who would you say is your favourite Spice Girl?
Emma Bunton, Baby Spice.
She's your favourite.
She's my favourite.
Who's next?
Don't do that.
Just a question.
All of the other four.
So, Emma Bunton.
Well, Emma Bunton was the one that, I had blonde hair and bangs, and my name obviously is now Emma.
My name was Emily, but it was taken when I became an actor.
And so, now it's Emma. And, yeah, I just, I love...
So get me this. So one gave you a video message, and one talked to you on Skype.
Yes.
But you're telling me you've never met a Spice Girl.
Are you going to do something really?
Have you never met a Spice Girl?
Are you going to do something really?
Have you never met a Spice Girl?
I'm, wait, hold on. I have to mentally prepare.
Have you never met a Spice Girl?
Not in the flesh.
Okay. Now, as you know, as you know, Emma, it is very rare, it is very rare for more than one Spice Girl to appear together for any reason.
So, hang on here.
We tried! We tried.
Emma Bunton, Emma Bunton's on holidays.
Just forget it.
No, honestly.
Just forget it.
Terry Halliwell, Terry Halliwell's phone is disconnected.
I rang her, I rang her, and it was like, this number is no longer in use.
Hilarious.
You'll meet them, you'll meet them.
Someday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I really did too.
Posh is busy.
That was just as good though as it, that was just as good as it was.
That was pretty close.
And it was quicker.
It was a lot quicker, yeah.
Ryan and Russell, you've been all, is it the end of your publicity tour?
Oh, thank God, yeah.
You've got a couple of cities to go.
Oh, you still? Oh, great.
I've been having a great time on this press tour, yeah.
Because Ryan attracts a lot of young women.
But he's in a committed relationship, so, you know,
don't want to cry on, you know, father figure.
I'm just glad Jodie's here, honestly.
Because we need a little feminine energy up in this situation.
It's been my job to provide that, and I don't, you know,
I've been doing my best, but the well only goes so deep.
We've been through therapy, we've had, it's been a long run.
We're doing all right now, aren't we, pal?
Can I touch you? Sorry.
Russell doesn't like direct eye contact.
He takes it as a sign of aggression.
We last saw you, Emma Stone, on the show.
You went and won an Oscar.
Well done, you.
And there's, you know, often people in those speeches go,
you know, oh, I never dreamt of this moment.
But you did more than dream of this moment.
I mean, you planned this.
It wasn't that specific.
Not for that movie.
To be fair.
No, I mean what you mean just like in terms of my childhood dreams.
Yes, when you made your pitch to your parents.
Yes.
I've, this is, this story will never die.
But how old were you when you did it?
Because it's amazing.
I was 14, I was almost 15,
and I made a PowerPoint presentation for my parents.
So you wanted to move to L.A.
And they didn't want you to go.
They weren't going to let you move.
Is that it?
Well, no, they hadn't even heard the idea yet.
Oh, I see.
It was just like I realized if I'm going to, you know,
we lived about a six-hour drive from L.A. in Phoenix, Arizona,
and I realized I couldn't just come home in my freshman year of high school,
And I realized I couldn't just walk in and go like, I'm moving.
I'm 14 and here I go.
So I decided to make a PowerPoint presentation
about why it would be a good idea for me to move to Los Angeles
and follow my big dreams.
But you went to it, like it had music and everything.
Yeah, it had the song Hollywood by Madonna.
Amazing.
Were you in a sensible pants suit?
I should have been in a sensible pants suit.
I think I was in my high school.
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school,
so I think I was in like a plaid skirt and a collared shirt.
And so Madonna's playing, and then what?
You just had a series of reasons why you should go to L.A.?
A series of reasons why this would be a good idea,
not just at any time, but now.
For some reason, it did eventually, it worked.
And I would punish my child if they had done that.
But they believed in me.
Those freaks.
But it is true that the presentation ended with...
Let me go? What?
No, didn't it end with...
You probably remember more about it than I do.
Well, Jessica, doesn't it end,
it ends with you putting up the picture and it says,
Emma Stone, actress, best, was it best actress?
No!
No, didn't it end with...
Who told you that?
It ended with you winning an Oscar.
First of all, my name is Emily, so there's no way it said Emma.
Okay, okay.
And then, no!
So you didn't say you were going to win an Oscar.
Why are we telling this story?
I thought the whole point of this...
That's crazy.
I thought, well, it's quite crazy anyway.
It is crazy.
It's crazy.
The board would have made it like,
absolutely, she's going somewhere.
And it's not there.
It's somewhere else.
Oh, well, you won an Oscar.
There you go.
Ryan, you were also a young entrepreneur, weren't you?
I wouldn't say that.
But didn't your father...
What did he...
He wanted you to sell...
Was it cellophane he wanted you to sell?
My parents came upon a truck of cellophane somehow.
I was asked not to ask too many questions, I did.
I just...
Suddenly, there was a basement filled with cellophane
and they encouraged me to go to school
and see if I could sell it to my teachers
or put a few in my backpack
and try and hock them at recess.
Convince kids that they might be good
stocking stuffers for their parents.
What are the uses of cellophane?
How did it go?
What do you mean, what's the use of cellophane?
I know the name, but I don't know what you do with it.
You wrap sandwiches in it, it keeps things fresh.
Oh, okay.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
It was an important question, you needed to ask it.
I'm not doing a good job of selling it, obviously.
Did you sell it?
There's still some left, if you're interested.
It keeps things fresh, I want some.
The dream was someone would just say,
I'll take all of it.
Never happened.
It's a weird story.
It is a bit weird now you tell it.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Emma, didn't you have some cultural education in China?
Yeah, well, we went to a temple,
which was completely beautiful.
We went to this...
Forbidden city.
In the Forbidden City, there was a temple
that the king had used to worship all of his ancestors.
It was beautiful, yeah.
And while we were at the temple,
we went to the bathroom,
and there was a woman pooping on the ground.
She was doing what?
She was taking a nice poop.
She was pooping in the ground.
And this is apparently common,
and they warn you about it in the guidebooks.
Was she pooping in a hole?
She was pooping in a toilet.
Oh, I see.
Sorry, I had a vision of her just,
she just said, no, I need to go.
Just pooping on the ground.
No, no, it was a toilet,
but it was in the ground.
So it went somewhere.
It went somewhere, yeah, it went somewhere.
But that was a...
It was spiritual.
That was a spiritual...
There was no flush.
Getting the demons out.
No, no, there was, it was a...
I think I made it sound like
she was just pooping on the ground.
You did, that's what you said.
She said she was pooping on the ground.
Yeah, I was not clear in the story.
Was she pooping...
There was a toilet in the ground.
Oh, okay, okay.
There was a toilet in the ground.
So she wasn't in a little cubicle,
that's kind of more shocking than...
No, she was, but the door was just,
she just had the door propped open,
it was just sort of...
What did she look...
I mean, that's kind of...
Yeah.
I mean, what's her face looking like?
The story sounds really impressive.
I really wanted to do the face.
I feel bad I even told the story kind of.
Beijing is beautiful.
She doesn't watch this show,
she's not going to be bothered.
And as you go around the world,
I heard you, Emma, on the radio saying
that you don't see, you only saw the movie
for the first time a couple of days ago.
I just, yeah, saw the movie.
I'm in, like, cold sweats about my story.
But is that because you don't like seeing...
I'm sorry, my Chinese story.
Oh, you're pooping on the ground.
Oh, God.
Let it go, literally walk away.
I'm sorry we're returning to it,
but I just regret telling it.
Walk away.
Just walk away.
Who says that word on national TV multiple times?
Poop.
Poop, poop, poop, poop, poop.
It's fine.
All right.
I just want to...
It would have been better in conjunction
with the word toilet.
I should have said toilet.
Yeah.
Okay.
It was the pooping on the ground
that left us all a bit...
Oh.
I wish I could retell it, but I can't,
so I just want you to all know how I'm feeling.
I want to share it with you.
But is it true you,
so you hate telling pooping on the ground stories,
and you hate watching yourself in movies?
Yes, I hate...
She hates a lot of things.
Yeah, I don't...
I don't...
It's not...
I don't like thinking about my facial expressions in movies.
It's nicer to just enjoy making the movie.
But didn't Michelle Obama, didn't she force you to watch?
Was it the help she forced you on?
She didn't force us to watch it, but we were watching...
She was incredibly aggressive.
Get in there.
Get in there and watch your movie.
You're at the White House.
But, yeah, she had a screening,
and it was Octavia, Spencer, and I,
and it was pretty amazing.
I never got...
That's funny.
Yeah, it was just like...
You didn't get an invitation?
No, and I'm, you know, I'm African-American, right?
Wow.
That was crazy.
You played Ray Charles.
You would think.
You'd think, Auster, Ray Charles, hello.
I'm just the first black president, you know.
That just seems like a ticket to the White House right there.
Right there, yeah.
Right there.
But then why, if you don't...
Why were you having the...
Was it a deep tissue massage you were having?
Where are you going with this, Graham?
Weren't you having a Turkish massage or something?
I don't know what it has to do with what we're talking about.
It's a funny story. Tell it.
I had an awful experience having a Turkish massage
where this guy's idea of massage
was to like take my one leg and the other arm
and try and connect it behind my back.
And I was kind of like, you know, like that.
And then I...
Well, his belly went in my mouth.
And you know when you get something weird in your mouth
and you're like...
If you're eating something, you go like...
Your brain sends your tongue to figure out what it is.
It's not a conscious thought.
It's just like, is that a bone?
Figure that out.
Your tongue goes in to figure it out.
My tongue was like, what is that?
It's a hairy belly.
Sounds like you're heading off for newspapers.
Emma, we've never talked about this.
No.
Oh, my God.
The La La Land Oscars car thing.
I know what you were going to say.
But like, because that was the night...
There's a picture.
That was the night you win your Oscars,
so it's the best, best night.
Did it ruin your night or did you still have a nice time?
No, of course not.
It was, I mean, you know, it's an incredible film.
I think it's just the chaos of it.
Yes.
I think the part that was also like,
just personally kind of sad for me
was my mom was not at the ceremony
and she was watching it on TV.
I was there with my brother.
And she said that when everybody reacted in the audience,
she thought something horrible had happened in the theater.
So she started panicking watching it on TV.
And it had just been like one minute before
that this thing had happened,
so I felt so terrible that she was scared.
And then obviously, you know, we found out what happened.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Which was classic me.
Classic.
Every time something, you know, exciting happens,
I either break a bone
or my name's in a frickin' envelope for no reason
and it says the movie underneath
and they're like, I guess it means that one.
Like, it's crazy.
Ryan, you do have a connection.
I've got a weird intro to show business via,
was it your uncle, I believe?
Yeah, that's right.
So he...
So was your uncle living with you?
Yes.
Did you walk into the room once?
I walked into the room once
and he was bedazzling a sequined white jumpsuit
and he said that he was going to be Elvis for a little while.
And, you know, would I like to help?
And I said, absolutely, what do you need me to do?
So I became his head of security
and he got my whole family in on the act.
My mother was a backup singer
and honestly, it was one of the greatest performances
I've ever seen.
But he was being sincere.
I mean, it was really affecting.
No, no, yeah, he, I mean,
what I admired about what he was doing
was that he looked nothing like Elvis, you know.
He didn't attempt to.
He had a mustache and very little hair.
But, my God, he just became him.
And, you know, he would end every show with a suspicious mind
and he would get on his knees
and often with tears in his eyes
he would sing to some imaginary woman
and beg her not to leave.
And we were transported from this mall in my small town
in Ontario to that.
I imagine it was a kitchen and she was trying to leave
and we were just in that moment every night
and it was incredible
and honestly one of the best acting lessons I've ever had.
I wish you could have helped out with those sequins.
I could have used a little help.
I would have liked that.
How old were you when you were doing security?
I want to say six.
It's quite quiet in the mall.
Did you have water guns?
I just had two tiny guns.
Wait, so there's no photo?
No.
I painted a picture.
There's lots of young Ryan pictures out there.
I'm Googling later.
Tonight, with La La Land in mind,
we are going to focus on the early dancing career
of Mr. Ryan Gosling.
The only video you have tonight is this.
So the dance troupe you were in,
can you tell us about it?
Because apparently young dancers, they can be quite vicious.
It's a cutthroat business.
I had to get out.
I was on some kind of Canadian star search
and I somehow made it to the finals
and my main competition were these two twins
who were tap dancers
and they were dancing to Phil Collins' Two Hearts.
They had big heart-shaped bows
and they were the ones to beat.
I remember wishing them luck and going on stage
and I was getting ready to start.
I was dancing to Everybody Dance Now
by C&C Music Factory, of course.
And I'm getting ready to start,
which is This Is How You Started.
It's a winning dance number, if you want to know.
And I look up just off stage
and the two twins are standing there
like the twins from The Shining.
And they're just going like this.
This means war.
I just shimmied my way all the way to that trophy,
to that tiny little trophy.
Is this the same troupe?
I was going to say it's an all-girl troupe,
but obviously it's not. You're in it.
But you are the only boy in it.
Yeah, that was the...
That was the point.
That was the gimmick.
They let me dance there for free because I was a guy.
Because if you had a guy, you would win.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
So are you ready to see the dance stylings?
I believe you're dancing to Cathy Dennis' classic, Touch Me.
How did the troupe have a name, Ryan?
It was Elite Dance Studio.
And how old are you in this one?
Old enough to know better.
Enjoy.
I wish I could say someone said,
here, you have to wear this.
That was my idea, I thought.
I have a vision for this number.
Purple and silver hammer pants.
The silver hammer pants are...
I don't think we gave them enough of a shot.
We gave up with hammer,
but I think we should have kept them going.
They may come back.
How do you feel about the corset?
No one likes corsets, do they?
Oh, man.
Has anyone ever tried a corset on?
Oh, yeah.
You've done a lot of corset work.
Yeah, I have, actually.
He's done extensive corset training.
On many corset rolls.
Yeah, quite a few.
Yeah.
First guy ever who made a corset,
I did a production of Twelfth Night,
with Mark Rylance,
and I was playing Viola,
and Mark was playing Olivia,
and the guy who made the corsets was called Luca,
and he was amazing,
and he made these corsets,
it was as if they were from the 16th century,
whalebone,
and he tightened me into it,
and he had worn corsets all his life,
and basically his body went into this
extraordinary kind of thing.
Like trees.
Yeah.
What happened when he took it off?
Well, this is...
LAUGHTER
My liver.
It was jelly.
It was all floppy.
But there was...
I think a gentleman...
I don't know the answer to that question.
But there was a horrible moment when he was...
I was like,
oh, I'm not going to be able to eat much
when I wear my kills,
and he went,
I never eat.
LAUGHTER
So I have had some sympathy for the actresses
I've worked with who've worn corsets.
No, you get...
It was...
Can you sit?
Can you sit in those?
I was supposed to ask,
did you do the leaning board?
I didn't have a leaning board,
but I would just...
Like a couch like this,
I would...
Because you cannot sit down.
You really can't.
And it's...
And honestly,
women existed in that for such a long time,
which does give you a lot of sympathy
for that time period,
what you were going through.
But for the first month,
I couldn't breathe,
and so I would just smell...
And Sandy Powell is the costume designer.
She's fantastic.
The costumes are beautiful.
It's just this one part.
It's historically accurate,
but I couldn't...
LAUGHTER
And I would smell menthol,
and it sort of made me think
that I was in a wide-open space.
So I'd just smell a little bit of menthol
and be in a wide-open space for 30 seconds
and then be back to not breathing.
But then after about a month,
my organs shifted.
Oh, my God.
Because they have to,
like what you're saying.
His whole body shape changed.
Oh, my God.
And it was only temporary,
but it was gross.
It was gross.
Do you feel they've gone back?
They've gone back.
OK.
They've gone back.
For sure.
Well, let's ask.
You said that like we knew...
What happens when you're...
Do you hear it?
You basically...
Is it like a...
If you hear a creaking sound,
then there's a pop,
and that wakes you in the night
with a screech.
No, it was like...
It went apart.
The bottom half of my stomach,
whatever's...
I'm not a doctor.
Whatever's in there
went down that way,
and then I guess just my ribs stayed up.
Whoa.
So...
What?
Anyway, don't do it.
If you don't have to,
don't do it.
This movie...
Where did the dog...
The dog isn't in the film.
What dog?
You had a dog, didn't you?
Oh, no, I found a dog on the film.
OK.
Would you like me to tell that story?
Yeah.
I can give it a go if you want.
Big old dog it was, guys.
Big old dog.
Three legs.
Right?
Yeah, that's about right.
No, they...
So I was staying at this sort of
go-to movie guy house in Atlanta,
where, you know,
when they showed me the house,
they were like, you know,
Liam Hemsworth and Miley Cyrus
just stayed here, so...
And they gave me one of these,
you know,
which I thought was untoward.
But they were very precious
about the house,
and what I didn't realize
was that there was a strict
no dogs policy,
and then I was going to work
one morning,
and there's a little dog.
It's below zero,
and I thought,
oh, what harm can it do?
And I let it in the house.
When I came back from work,
it was like a fecal Jackson Pollock.
It was just...
It was everywhere.
It was like, did he have help?
I was like looking up,
like, did he get a ladder?
How did he...
How is he still alive?
And so then I had to
clean it all up,
and then I had to hide the dog,
and I spent like two weeks
hiding this dog,
and, you know,
when it was over,
the last day,
I didn't know
what I was going to do with it,
and actually your driver,
Bo,
said that his father
had just lost his dog
at 16 years,
and so Bo took this little dog,
and he went and lived
on a lake with 100 acres,
and he went to,
you know,
literally die.
That's a nice story.
That's a lovely story.
Yeah, it is.
It's sort of euphemistic
for killing a dog.
He's living in 100 acres now
with Bo's dad.
Weirdly,
Emma,
you were also a fan
of fake tan.
I was absolutely obsessed
with spray tan.
I understand this,
but I can't.
I mean, my pigment.
If I were to lay in a sunbed,
that would be the end.
That would be forever.
So I had to do
spray tans all the time
because I grew up in Arizona
where it's very hot
and very sunny,
and I was so pale,
and that was my obsession
through my teens.
So what do you do?
Well,
this might be
too much information,
but I feel like
we're all going on
a holiday together,
so I'm telling you.
Tomorrow?
Thank you.
I get in.
Happy New Year to us.
I get in the bath
with some table salt,
and I get a scourer
that you would use on a pan.
What, too much?
No.
We are friends,
and it's New Year's Eve,
and I'll have less of the sharp
intake of breath.
Please.
And I get in,
and I just scrub away.
And I've asked my husband
to do it,
and let me just say
that's not good,
like, for foreplay.
It was weird.
Can I ask,
does it still smell
like burnt hot dog?
Yes.
It smells like biscuits,
which I find erotic.
If somebody made a perfume
of that...
That scent.
It's pungent.
Mm-hmm.
It really cuts through.
Do you wear a bikini,
so you have bikini lines?
No.
Mark, Mark, please.
Easy.
He's a sculptor.
He's allowed to watch.
Oh, yes.
You can ask that, yes.
I'm an artist.
No, no.
I wear a pant.
Right.
I love a brown boob.
Dreamy.
When was the last time
you saw your actual skin colour?
I...
Good question.
So, I don't have mirrors in my house.
I was brought up in a house
without mirrors.
That's true.
I've heard you say that.
It's true, isn't it?
Staunch feminist.
What you look like doesn't matter,
so I have no idea what I...
This is all guesswork.
I'm also minus 15 in my left eye.
I don't know.
It's like brown,
bit of black,
white.
Good luck, everyone.
Like, I don't know
what I look like.
Well, you look great.
Let me tell you,
you look great.
With Harrison and Ryan's movie,
it is the much-awaited
Blade Runner 2049.
It opens on the 5th of October.
And, I mean,
the expectation,
the hopes for this
were high.
Ridley Scott's involved,
Harrison,
you were involved.
But presumably,
this isn't the first time.
Not just involved.
You're in it.
You're on the poster.
Yeah.
OK.
My question is this.
So, there must have been
mentions of a sequel
between...
It was 1982, wasn't it,
when it came out?
So, between then and now,
so why now?
Why not before?
I guess because
Ryan wasn't available.
LAUGHTER
For many years,
he wasn't available.
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, not for 30 years.
LAUGHTER
But they were waiting
for me to grow up.
LAUGHTER
But they decided
to have to go ahead anyway.
LAUGHTER
No, they finally came up
with a good...
with a story.
I read it,
and I thought it was
awesome.
I thought it was great.
And as I read it,
I read about the character
that Ryan...
Ryan?
It's Ryan.
LAUGHTER
...came to play,
and I said...
And with great enthusiasm,
I called up the producers,
and I said,
this is great.
I can't wait to get...
And what a great part.
Why don't we see
if we can get...
Ryan.
LAUGHTER
Ryan Gosling.
And they said,
oh...
I don't know how to...
Rosling?
LAUGHTER
Gosling.
Ryan...
You got that on tape?
Ryan Gosling.
LAUGHTER
And I said,
why don't...
This is a great part
for Ryan Gosling.
LAUGHTER
And they said,
we've been talking
to him for months.
Now, wait a second.
They'd only been talking
to me for weeks.
LAUGHTER
So they probably would have
gone ahead without me.
No.
And, I mean,
any film takes preparation.
There's, you know,
you bulk up for parts,
you learn accents.
But the preparation
for this thing,
it was so much,
because it's, you know,
the dancing, the singing.
I mean, could you play
the piano before?
Yes.
I play a few chords.
No, he couldn't.
I always...
LAUGHTER
I mean, he's learned
to play the songs
in the movie.
Those are his hands
the entire time.
I mean, he's playing
jazz piano,
and he learned it
from scratch for the film.
I just think it's amazing.
APPLAUSE
I didn't have a choice.
The director wanted
to shoot all of these
musical sequences
in one shot,
and he'd been dreaming
about this his whole life,
so it was either
shatter his dreams
or...
LAUGHTER
And why did you learn
how to dance separately?
What was that about?
Well...
Just the maturity level,
really, I think.
It was a...
LAUGHTER
Lacking of?
Well, I think that they...
I think it was also
maybe a little bit
of a mind game,
because I would go
every day
to my tap lessons,
which I'd never
really done before,
except for a little bit
when I was, like, 12,
and we would do
these kind of
very primitive tap moves,
like you're eight years old,
which is the year
after I broke my arm.
LAUGHTER
For the last year of school.
Anyway, we would do
our tap moves,
and I would say
every day,
how's Ryan doing?
And he'd be like,
oh, he's amazing.
LAUGHTER
He's doing really well.
He's exceeding our expectations.
They were doing
the same thing to me.
LAUGHTER
We'll talk about that later.
So for about two months,
I just thought he was
the most, you know,
incredible dancer of all time,
and I was failing miserably,
and then they put us together,
and I was like,
oh, I got this.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
The reference is kind of,
you know,
old Hollywood in it,
and so, Ryan,
you went to meet
Gene Kelly's widow,
is that right?
Yeah, we both...
Oh, you both went?
Oh, OK.
Yeah, it was really...
wonderful of her to have us,
and she shared
a lot of Gene's stories,
and it was kind of like,
you know,
Kissing the Ring.
You know,
she showed us
some of his,
you know,
old screenplays.
It was so amazing.
She has, like,
a room that's basically
all archival,
and we put on, like,
little white gloves
and looked through
his leather-bound
Singing in the Rain script
with his notes
in the margins,
and it was just so...
It was really amazing, yeah.
There was a note
that, like,
you'd hand off
the audience
an umbrella
at the end of the number
or something.
Really?
That's really cool.
It was great.
I'm glad he did that.
She had a tiny little dog
as well,
who, at the end
of this wonderful,
magical night,
just we let out
into the street.
Maybe don't
tell this story.
Right.
Right, right.
Yeah.
So, anyway,
nothing happened,
and the dog is fine,
so...
And it ended well.
So, how was it
until the end of school?
It was...
It was the day
before the last day.
But it ended happily,
didn't it?
The dog's alive.
It did,
but there was a moment
where both Damien and I
were running around
through traffic
trying to catch this dog,
and Damien looked at me
and he's like,
we will not kill
Gene Kelly's widow's dog.
We will not.
There will not be
how this story ends.
And you didn't.
And we didn't.
You didn't.
And we didn't.
Didn't, didn't.
Yeah.
Emma,
you've done
British before.
Yes.
And was it
Olivia Colman
that has kind of
given you tips?
Oh,
because on The Favourite,
that was the first time
I had properly done
an entire film,
you know,
with a British accent
and it was,
you know,
jarring because I was
the only American
in that cast
and Olivia was so helpful
and I would check in
with everybody
all the time
because everybody
was British.
And she was like,
you know,
it's really good.
If you can say,
I can't even do it now.
Bottle.
There's like a,
in the back of your,
you know,
when you do a double T
and it's like bot,
can you say?
You're saying bottle.
What do you,
what did she want you to say?
She had a kind of,
you know,
bottle.
Oh.
Bottle.
Not bottle.
Oh, not bottle.
Not that,
like bottle.
Bottle.
We can't do it.
Bottle.
I can't do it.
Oh my God,
I'm doing it so much better
than you guys.
Whoa.
Wow.
I can do a British accent.
What?
But that's always been in my head
and she was like,
oh,
it's fine.
Bottle.
It's fine.
Which it is,
clearly.
Yeah.
But,
no,
I've always had it in my head
and then I did a British accent
in Cruella
and then in this,
again,
I can't stop.
I'm obsessed with you guys.
Things do take preparation,
like fights take preparation
and now,
they take a lot of preparation.
Now,
Ryan,
is it true that Harrison Fields,
There we go.
Harrison Fields,
Ryan,
you were underprepared
for one punch.
I know what you're referring to.
Just say it.
Use your words.
Just say it.
Well,
he punched you.
Yeah,
yeah,
that's right.
Well,
he punched you.
Yeah,
of course I punched you.
But you weren't meant
to punch him.
Right?
Oh,
I misread the script.
He stepped on my foot,
for Christ's sake.
No,
we were doing a scene
in lights,
in flashing strobe lights.
He was walking backward.
I was walking forward.
The camera was handheld.
You know,
you have to make the punch
look like it's intended.
Yes.
But,
I hit him.
One out of a hundred times
I hit him.
Yeah.
I should be lucky
I didn't get hit more.
It's the theme of this.
I apologize.
It's not just a punch though.
I mean,
I think it's like,
a Harrison Ford punch
is a different animal
altogether.
It was not,
it was not a good punch.
I just,
I,
I'll be the judge of that.
Okay.
I tried to apologize.
I went to his dressing room,
his palatial motorhome.
He had a bottle of scotch in hand.
You know.
Lovely gesture.
Cracked the top,
poured him a drink,
gave him a drink.
Said,
you know,
he said,
I'm kind of busy now.
And I went back to my trailer
with the rest of the bottle.
I had the intention to leave it,
but,
nah.
My hand hurt.
I needed some medicine.
