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The view starts live

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right now. No justice left

0:41

as the war over reproductive

0:44

rights rages on someone,

0:46

the Supreme Court could lean

0:48

further, right? If liberal

0:50

Justice Sotomayor doesn't step

0:52

down now over age and health concerns for

0:54

54 years, they were

0:56

trying to get. The future of your rights.

0:59

Then Elizabeth Hurley and her director son

1:02

Damien are live to talk

1:04

about how he was behind the camera

1:06

for her steamy scenes in their

1:09

new movie strictly confidential and comedian

1:12

Alex Edelman on going to dangerous lengths

1:14

for laughs do you want to come with

1:16

me to this meeting of Nazis and Queens

1:19

in his latest special just for us.

1:21

Here come hot topics

1:26

with whoopee Sarah

1:30

Haynes in

1:32

a Navarro Joy

1:35

Behar Sunny Haas

1:38

10 and Alyssa Farrah

1:41

Griffin. Now

1:43

let's get things started. Welcome

2:06

to

2:08

the

2:11

view,

2:13

have

2:15

a

2:18

seat. Join

2:21

the party. Now

2:23

apparently we need to start

2:26

by calling back to a hot topic we

2:28

did last week about videos of chickens

2:31

who are screaming. Because

2:33

apparently they have

2:35

learned some new words.

2:38

Take a look. Join!

2:42

We're seeing more trees!

2:47

You love that

2:50

chicken. Maria! You

2:54

have to do the scream when things are very

2:56

tense. Like we're talking about Israel or something. Maria!

3:03

You were doing that backstage a bunch. You

3:05

loved that chicken. It just makes me

3:07

laugh. What can I tell you? I have a very silly streak. Well

3:10

the thing I've noticed is that these chickens are very

3:12

quiet. Your chicken said joy.

3:16

My chicken said whoopee. Yeah. Instead

3:20

of Maria! Is

3:23

it our age? I think so. So

3:27

here's what's going on in the world. The

3:29

battle over reproductive rights is one of the

3:31

key issues in America right now. And

3:34

it has some warning, history,

3:37

that it could repeat itself if

3:39

liberal Supreme Court

3:41

Justice Sonia Sotomayor doesn't step

3:44

down. Look.

3:50

Here's what political

3:52

commentator Mendy Hassan

3:54

has warning. Take a

3:56

look. I have PTSD

3:58

from 2020. I think the

4:00

Democrats didn't learn lessons. Look, what are we talking

4:02

about? Abortion rights, how did that happen? Dobbs, how

4:04

did the Florida decision happen today? DeSantis appointed five

4:06

of the seven judges. Republicans are very good at

4:09

stacking courts, at getting their people on courts, at

4:11

stinking strategically about filling courts. Democrats aren't very good

4:13

at seeing the power of the Supreme Court. And

4:15

that's why I worry, I worry that, why would

4:17

you want to repeat history? Why take the risk?

4:19

You have a Democratic president and a Democratic Senate,

4:21

and you have a justice who's about to turn

4:23

70. So,

4:26

just, because I'm gonna ask this. What

4:30

are you annoyed with? I'm

4:32

annoyed that he's not saying, hey, why

4:34

do we still have Clarence Thomas on

4:36

the court, whose wife was

4:39

implicit in trying to turn over the

4:42

election? Listen,

4:45

there are, I've always

4:48

said this about the Supreme Court, Supremes

4:50

get on the court and they evolve.

4:52

Sometimes it takes some time, but you

4:54

think of Frank Footer who evolved, all

4:56

of these Supreme Court justices. It just

4:58

says evolve. They do evolve because

5:01

their job is not to make the law. Their

5:04

job is to look at the law and

5:06

figure out how it could be working better.

5:08

This guy, to go for

5:10

Justice Sotomayor, who we know her thoughts,

5:12

we don't always agree with him, but

5:14

we know her thoughts and she's a

5:16

thoughtful person. We don't know some of

5:18

these other folks. And getting her off doesn't

5:20

mean somebody else is gonna get on and

5:23

be better. So what is his point? There

5:25

are people who should be gone because they're

5:27

not doing what I think they should have

5:29

done. Clarence Thomas should have recused

5:31

himself. He shouldn't be sitting. Maybe you and

5:33

I can chip in and pay for a

5:35

cruise for him. Maybe, a Ted Cruz? No,

5:37

I had to. Just to defend many a

5:39

bit, he did call for Clarence Thomas to

5:42

recuse from January 6th. He's very progressive. I

5:44

think he's, he and I just agree. I'm

5:46

gonna show you his, but this is not, for

5:48

me, I did not want to hear

5:50

this. I want you to talk about getting

5:52

to people who are not doing their job. My

5:54

thing with this is, I don't, actually 70

5:56

to me seems pretty young for her. Well it

5:59

is pretty young. struck by that, but the

6:01

subtext here, I think, Betty and I don't

6:03

agree on a single thing, but he's one

6:05

of the smarter progressive minds, and I think

6:07

liberals looking at the political system right now,

6:10

and he is awake to the fact that

6:12

Donald Trump could very much win re-election. And

6:14

I think that there's a lot of Democrats

6:16

who are a bit asleep to that, and

6:18

there's this kind of fear of, well, it's

6:20

the Nikki Haley Republicans who are gonna lose

6:23

this for Joe Biden. I don't think so,

6:25

I think a lot are gonna go for

6:27

Biden. I think there's a real fear that

6:29

progressive leftists are actually going to next,

6:31

turn out. Well, listen, if that's their

6:33

reasoning, then they

6:35

have to do what they have to do. If that's

6:37

the country they want, with you-know-who

6:40

in charge, listen, I appreciate

6:42

people's opinions, I like them, it's

6:44

fine. But for me, this

6:47

was a slap A to a 69-year-old

6:49

woman, because

6:52

you're acting like she's got an issue. You

6:55

got an issue with her, so she should go. I

6:58

say get rid of the people who

7:00

aren't doing their job. Democrats,

7:02

we don't stack the court, we

7:04

don't, we

7:06

don't do that. A lot of us wanted him

7:08

to do that, but he won't do that, because

7:10

that's not how you run the government. That's his

7:12

feeling. Now, not you,

7:15

but Republicans, many Republicans on

7:17

the other side were fine

7:20

with the shenanigans that went on to stack

7:22

the court. Well, they stole about 12 seats.

7:25

Well, yeah, they did. Let's point that out, and then

7:27

I was waiting for you. Thank you. They

7:31

have stacked the court by stealing two seats. And

7:33

the other thing I will say is, I agree,

7:35

I love Medivh. I consider him a personal friend.

7:38

We have talked about a lot of

7:40

issues. He's actually very brilliant. He might

7:43

be, he's wrong here. This take, I

7:45

will say, to my friend,

7:48

I thought was the wrong take, especially

7:50

because, as you pointed out, Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel

7:54

Alito, who wrote the jobs decision at

7:56

74. John

7:58

Roberts, the Chief Justice, is the same

8:00

age as Justice Sotomayor. He's 69, Kagan

8:02

is 63. So

8:06

when you're pointing all of those things out, how

8:08

can you then say, this woman who, by the

8:10

way, Justice Sotomayor is managing diabetes,

8:12

like millions of people in the world, she's managing

8:14

it well. She needs to get on those Olympics.

8:16

Get on those Olympics. She can get on those

8:18

Olympics, she can do several things, but the bottom

8:21

line is, she is such a

8:23

stalwart on that court, that we need

8:25

her voice. And they have established allegiances

8:27

and she's been on the court for

8:29

almost 15 years. Well, there

8:31

also is a policy equivocating it to RBG, who

8:33

was 82, she was 12 years older. Yeah,

8:36

and so- She had pancreatic cancer. There were

8:38

a lot of people putting in the article,

8:40

like, it's like that again, but it's really

8:42

not. So I think the fact that you're

8:44

falsely, I mean, she is only gonna be

8:46

70 when this next election rolls around. She's

8:48

a baby. Yes. Okay. Oh,

8:53

thank you for reminding me, Whoopi, I have a

8:55

legal note. Okay. Justice

8:59

Clarence Thomas and Ginny Thomas have denied

9:02

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Hey, I'm Andi Mitchell, a New York

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Times bestselling author. And I'm Sabrina Kohlberg,

10:49

a morning television producer. We're moms of

10:52

toddlers and best friends of 20 years.

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And we both love to talk about

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being parents. Yes, but also food

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culture. So we're combining our two

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interests by talking to celebrities, writers,

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Culture Moms is out now wherever you

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listen to podcasts. Welcome

11:27

back. A lot of people are firing back after

11:29

one TikTok user posted a

11:32

question asking why SNL has

11:35

never hired any hot female cast members.

11:38

Okay. Yeah,

11:40

I need Joy's taste. Well,

11:43

yeah. First of

11:45

all, it's a comedy show, not

11:47

a beauty pageant. Right. And

11:49

it's not, yeah. And it's not, it's

11:51

not for men to ogle the women who are

11:54

trying to make, get a laugh. First of all,

11:56

as a comedian, if you

11:58

go out there and you're like, dah, dah, dah, dah, blah,

12:00

blah, blah. No one's gonna laugh at what

12:02

you say because they're too busy looking at

12:04

your boobs and working out something that's going

12:06

on in their heads, especially the men. So

12:09

one thing clashes with the other. So that's one

12:11

thing I could say to this girl. Not to

12:13

mention the fact that I don't

12:16

see many hot men there. I mean,

12:18

Belushi and Cliff Farley were not my

12:20

exactly ideal dates. So

12:23

their men are not that hot, hot, meaning

12:25

sexy. I think that's what they mean because

12:27

the women are attractive, obviously. You don't have

12:29

to be a dog to be funny. But

12:32

if you're a

12:34

hugely, hugely model level,

12:38

no one's gonna laugh. That's why De'Belle Buncheon is

12:40

not funny. If you're

12:42

looking for an eBay, go watch an eBay.

12:44

Why are you watching SNL? These are sketch

12:46

and improv comics. They're often in characters. So

12:49

at what point are you judging their hotness?

12:51

Okay, I also think there is a baseline

12:53

of attractiveness on TV. I think there's very

12:55

good looking SNL members, like Cecily Strong, please

12:58

play me if I'm ever on it, made

13:00

fun of on it. But I also think,

13:03

listen, there's no Beyonce's or Brad

13:05

Pitts on SNL, but they're funny. And I

13:07

thought of recently, there was Jacob Allordi, who's

13:09

one of the hottest guys on the planet,

13:11

hosted. He was funny, but every

13:13

skit was about how he's attractive because it can

13:15

be a distraction. He's not

13:17

doing spit take kind of things because it

13:20

just wouldn't work. I just, you know, what

13:22

was strange to me was I find people

13:24

that are funny more attractive. Yeah, they humor

13:26

in it, makes you more attractive. My

13:29

husband, Joy, you've spent some time with Manny and Whoopi has,

13:31

all of you have. Yes, I've spent all of them all.

13:35

He's really witty. That's

13:39

what comedians do. That's what they do.

13:41

But no, he's really witty and

13:43

it made him more attractive to me.

13:45

Women find funny men attractive. They're very

13:47

attractive. That doesn't translate. Look at all

13:50

the chicks Pete Davidson gets. Yeah, but

13:52

they're funny. But

13:55

tell me where women are so attractive to men

13:57

when they're funny, they're not. I'm

14:00

attracted to a funny person. I think

14:02

a lot of women are, I think. But you're a woman.

14:04

Yeah, that's what I mean. Oh, you don't think

14:06

men are attracted to funny people? Men don't necessarily want you talking

14:08

at all. Yeah. I

14:11

don't know if a man could be scared of a

14:13

woman on a stage with a microphone. We're

14:16

in a powerful position there, and any minute

14:18

we could cut you down, you know what

14:20

that means. So they don't

14:22

like it so much. You do have to be

14:24

a confident man to be with a funny woman.

14:26

Brian, are you attracted to funny women? Yes, absolutely.

14:28

My wife's a little hysterical. See?

14:31

Okay. But you're confident. He's a

14:33

pure male. Yeah, secure. I thought he

14:35

tells me. Yes. I'm also attracted to Beyonce. It

14:37

goes, you know. Okay, go both ways. Go both

14:39

ways. So he does have eyes as well. And

14:42

so you really meant to say,

14:44

I'm also attracted to Beyonce like

14:46

I'm attracted to my wife. Yes.

14:52

They're so similar in so many

14:54

ways. Yeah. Keep digging, keep digging.

14:56

Yeah, can we play the chicken, please? Ready?

15:00

Yeah. It's

15:03

a good looking chicken. Yeah. We'll be right

15:05

back. But be funny. Be funny, though. Welcome

15:23

back. A woman

15:25

who is expecting her first child in her mid

15:27

20s is going viral for

15:29

claiming that people are treating her like

15:32

she's a teen mom, even though she

15:34

made the decision to start a family in

15:36

her 20s. And

15:38

she's upset, I guess. Yeah.

15:43

So what do you think? Go ahead, Sarah.

15:45

Well, that's when everyone had babies when I was growing up.

15:47

Like, I don't think that the, like, she

15:49

might want to move to Iowa. I mean, there's

15:52

a lot of people there having babies. I always

15:54

wished I could have had babies younger. I just

15:56

had no partner. And you can do it alone.

15:58

I respect people that do. I

16:00

had a baby in my 20s too. I know, that's right.

16:03

Even though I was 28, I thought it was

16:05

still too young. We didn't have the option to

16:07

freeze our eggs in those days. So now you

16:10

girls, you can freeze your eggs and then when

16:12

you get to be really mature, you just to

16:14

put them in the microwave and hit these costs

16:16

and you'll have a baby. What

16:19

are you doing? I will say, I

16:21

agree with you, Sarah. I wish I

16:23

had my children a little bit younger because at 55

16:25

with a 17 year old, I'm tired. And

16:30

because I had my kids at 34 and 38. Right,

16:32

and I was considered geriatric. Me too, everything

16:34

after 34. Oh, I'll be geriatric.

16:36

How old are you? I say that, 34 and

16:38

38. Yeah, that's old. I'm

16:40

40. Boy, boy. She was

16:42

older. I think I'm a bit 41. Yeah,

16:45

that's good. They're more mature. But she says,

16:47

I'm over scrambled boy.

16:49

And I, you kidding. She's like, there

16:51

is this weird period in the 20s

16:54

where you see friends announcing

16:56

they're pregnant and you're not sure if you should

16:58

say like, congratulations or oh no, because it does

17:00

feel young to my generation. It does

17:02

feel younger. You say you never went with the oh

17:04

no. I never publicly did. But people are

17:06

having kids later. It's a good thing we have more

17:08

optionality than we did. And I think some of it

17:10

is life too. I personally wasn't ready in my 20s

17:12

to have a kid. But some of my best

17:15

girlfriends from college did in their early 20s and they're

17:17

great moms. It's just what works for the individual. Well,

17:19

if I feel young, it's not good. Yeah, but aside

17:21

from being like, you definitely wanna be financially stable. And

17:23

in this situation, you're ready for. Some people can do

17:25

it single. Some people don't wanna do that alone. But

17:28

you're never really ready. Now being on the job, I

17:30

would say there wasn't an emotional state I could have

17:32

reached where I would have been like, yeah, I'm totally

17:34

cut out for this. Like this is all now. You

17:36

know what, people wait until they're financially stable and mature,

17:38

the world would end. Nobody

17:41

is ever really, really happy to defend. I had

17:43

a friend, a new single who wanted to have

17:45

a baby and said she actually couldn't have afforded

17:47

to have the baby at all. That's what I

17:49

mean by stable. Somehow you manage. I

17:51

don't know why. That's your advice? Yeah.

17:54

Yeah. It feels good to hear

17:56

it. That baby comes, that baby

17:58

comes. You fall in love with that. You do, you

18:00

have to do it. I also had roommates in my 20s. Like

18:02

they would not have appreciated it by me. But they would

18:04

have pitched in and they would have helped. You're

18:07

right, you just make it work because you

18:09

love those little sweet things. That's what it

18:11

is. I mean, I remember when I gave

18:13

birth. Oh, wow. And

18:16

after that, my husband picked me up

18:18

in the Volkswagen, my first husband. And

18:22

I got in the car and was holding the

18:24

baby and I looked at him and I

18:27

said, boy, we better grow it fast. Yeah,

18:29

yes. It like hit me, you know, holy

18:31

moly. Irresponsible for another human being. This life

18:34

is got, it's depending on me, you know?

18:36

And they don't. It's about depending on you,

18:38

do they? Well, you have to help

18:40

them to separate from you and train them to be

18:42

without you because you're not gonna be anywhere. Well, the

18:45

pain is never gonna happen. No. I

18:49

mean, you've been in

18:51

it for a while. I've been in it for a

18:53

very long time. I'm a great grandmother. I've been down

18:55

this road a lot. Yeah. Wait a second.

18:58

Can you say you're a great grandmother or

19:00

I'm a great grandmother? Both. Okay.

19:02

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back. Elizabeth Hurley is directed

19:51

by her son, Damian Hurley, in the

19:54

new movie Strictly Confidential where there's

19:56

trouble in paradise and passions are running high.

19:58

Take a look. Thank

20:01

you for coming. No,

20:04

it wasn't me then. I'm

20:08

sorry for the finishing. I

20:11

just... Lived

20:13

her everything. Her

20:15

husband and Rebecca. I

20:19

was totally out of my debt. I

20:22

never meant to hurt anyone. It

20:25

wasn't your fault. I

20:27

was the man. I

20:30

was the man. Please

20:41

welcome Elizabeth and Damien Hurley. That's

20:56

some hot tea, baby. Yes, Rick, keep going.

21:01

Now, Elizabeth, you had Damien with

21:04

you on set over the years, because you've

21:06

had a long career, and

21:08

you did things like Gossip Girl, and

21:10

I know The Royals, which you also appeared in, Damien,

21:13

but do you think that has... Yeah, do

21:15

you think that has anything to do with what we're seeing

21:17

now that he spent a lot of life on set? You

21:19

know what, I think it might have done. I gave him

21:22

his first camera when he was eight. From

21:24

that moment on, he just started to make short movies.

21:26

Baby movies at the time, which got more grown up.

21:29

And then when he came on to Gossip Girl, his eyes...

21:33

They were just like saucers. And he was

21:35

just like, this is my world. And

21:37

then mum's dreams of him being a lawyer,

21:39

a banker or something, respectively, when he was grown up, went out of

21:41

the window, and he was in show business. Not

21:44

an astrophysicist. No. The

21:46

director is very impressive. Damien, as Sarah said, you

21:49

pretty much grew up on red carpets and on

21:51

sets. What do you remember when you were younger,

21:53

being there, that inspired you to want to get

21:55

into the industry? I have to say, I was

21:57

just such a sponge. On every set, I could get

21:59

myself on to. I would sneak into the editing suite,

22:01

they'd let me call action, call cut, I would

22:03

run everyone's lines with them on gossip girl, Blake

22:05

Lively, who played Serena, I'd learn all her lines

22:07

and I'd hide on set with her and whisper

22:09

them as she forgot them. And

22:12

it was just honestly, it was the best environment in the

22:14

world for young creative to grow up in. So

22:18

Elizabeth, since this film came out,

22:20

strictly confidential, there's been

22:22

a lot of talk about how Damien's directing

22:24

you in this film, which he wrote, good

22:26

for you, including some,

22:32

you know, how should we put

22:34

it? Hot scenes, like we just saw

22:37

with another woman, by the way, which is even

22:39

out there more. So what

22:41

was that like for the two of you? And what do

22:43

you make of all the attention that you're getting around the

22:45

fact that your son is directing you

22:47

in those scenes? Yeah, well, I think the

22:49

important thing is that he was directing me

22:51

in those scenes, not sneaking into my bedroom

22:53

with a video camera. Yeah, correct. Okay, it

22:55

was, we were on a set and they

22:57

were grown up. He's a director, not a

22:59

pervert. That's going to be the headline.

23:04

But they actually felt really comfortable. Really

23:07

comfortable, you know what? Because sometimes when

23:09

you have to do an intimate scene or an

23:11

emotional scene, you're really putting yourself in the hands

23:13

of the filmmakers because it's out of your control.

23:16

But with Damien behind the camera, I felt really

23:18

safe because I knew he'd really look

23:21

out for me, look after me, both on

23:23

the set, in the edit, in the post.

23:26

And I felt for the first time actually

23:28

ever doing a scene like that. But

23:30

I knew that he'd be true

23:33

to what we knew we were shooting,

23:35

not what somebody later would go, oh, we

23:37

couldn't. Was she easy to

23:39

direct or was like, you know, come on, kiss her and pied

23:41

her. I

23:44

think when you're shooting in independent film, we shot this in

23:46

18 days. It was an insane

23:48

schedule. Every second counts, every minute matters. You're just,

23:50

you know, you're losing the light, you're being dive-bombed

23:52

by mosquitoes. You're losing, it's insane. So, you know,

23:55

really, I really thought, and everyone is making

23:57

a massive deal about this, but I really thought

23:59

at the time. I think it was one of nine

24:01

scenes we were shooting that day. It was just, don't lose the

24:03

light, make the day and make the scene as beautiful as possible

24:05

and go on. It wasn't until now that we're like, oh, should

24:07

we have given up on this? Because

24:10

they don't know. They

24:13

don't know what goes on on sets. Most people

24:15

don't. And they don't know that you've been on

24:17

sets your whole life, you've known your mother as

24:19

being your mother and an actor. I mean, it's

24:21

business. And so you know what you're doing. And

24:23

for most people, it would be crazy. It would

24:26

be inconceivable for that part of normal moms to

24:28

do the scene besides its business as it is.

24:30

It is just business. It feels crazy to say

24:32

it's normal. But it was. It

24:34

felt normal. Did you have an intimacy coordinator that

24:36

we're hearing about a lot now? No, we

24:38

didn't. It's a very interesting thing. Obviously, it's

24:41

such an important thing. Ours was, again, a

24:43

tiny independent film. And everyone felt

24:45

really safe. And obviously, it was

24:47

a close fight. I mean, people thought

24:49

that. No, it wasn't something

24:51

we had. And I've got to say, I

24:54

felt it worked. We were so rehearsed

24:56

and ready. Oh,

24:58

wonderful. Unrushed. Unrushed. It's

25:01

called Strictly Confidential. You're talking

25:03

about mosquitoes. It

25:05

was a beautiful setting because it was filmed in

25:07

Nevis, right? In the Caribbean. And it's tiny

25:09

and so beautiful. It's like a jewel.

25:11

And not that I had any time

25:13

to lie on the beach. I wish.

25:15

It looked beautiful. So you've

25:18

got this beautiful cast. You've got the seduction.

25:20

You've got the mystery. You've got all the things.

25:22

A young woman, this is the plot. A

25:24

young woman named Mia, played by Georgia Locke,

25:26

is looking for answers after her best friend's

25:29

untimely death. Yeah.

25:31

You added that in. Yeah. Elizabeth,

25:34

you saw in it as Lily. Damon, you wrote

25:36

and directed it, as we've said. This

25:38

is your first feature film. How

25:40

has this experience been? I mean, how did

25:42

you come up with the story? Like, how?

25:45

Well, so we ended up calling this a

25:49

central mystery with a pulse. So, you know,

25:51

it's not a hardcore, intense, dramatic thriller. But

25:53

I love it. And it's a really beautiful

25:55

film. I came up with this after

25:57

I lost a very, very close friend of mine to suicide.

26:00

And it was a dev I was 17. It was the

26:02

first death that me and any of my friends had really

26:04

known. It was a devastating, devastating time. And

26:07

I was really struck by, I was watching a lot of

26:09

my friends really, they went into this

26:11

strange mode that I couldn't understand but they just

26:13

refused to accept that it had happened. And

26:15

I didn't understand that I could sympathize with it but I didn't get what they

26:17

were saying until my own biological father took his

26:19

own life a year later and suddenly I understood

26:22

them all too well. And then, you

26:24

know, the world fell apart. We had COVID, I made a

26:26

short film which I had executive alliance gets sore and I

26:28

got a call out of the blues saying, we love your

26:30

short film, we'd like you to make writing direct to feature

26:32

you on board. Oh, wow. And I'd had this

26:34

idea when I was 17 in the midst of all this stuff

26:36

and you know, in that time I'd grown up a lot

26:38

more and experienced a lot more and I thought I'm

26:41

ready to have a story. And so Strictly Confidential was

26:43

born. And that's what we have here. That's great.

26:45

Now, yeah, that's a very amazing, and

26:47

I mean, I know Cathartic.

26:51

It was Cathartic and really,

26:53

it could have been draining really right at the end.

26:55

We were just both quite overwhelmed. And last night was

26:57

our premiere in New York. Thank

26:59

you so much. Yeah. Now,

27:01

Elizabeth, we have to ask you, you played

27:04

Vanessa Kensington in Austin

27:07

Powers, which is truly one of the

27:09

greatest and most hilarious movies from the

27:11

90s. Would you be open to doing

27:13

another one and did you keep anything

27:15

from that movie? Can you do that?

27:17

Well, I kept everything. So

27:19

I've got every single costume and every prop that

27:21

all in my attic. Would I get into any

27:23

costume? No. That was a long

27:26

time ago, but that's just in case. What do

27:28

you do with the stuff you bought? Just keep

27:30

it hanging around. In the attic. Kept it in

27:32

the attic. Just keeping it. In the old days they

27:34

used to lay in the house. In the old

27:36

days they used to track you down and come and

27:38

get your costume. Wow. Yeah, I

27:40

wouldn't hand them over. Well, we can't

27:43

let you go without mentioning today is a special

27:45

day because it is your 22nd birthday. It

27:49

is. That would be very good. We're

27:51

gonna have to eat cake. We're gonna

27:54

have to eat cake. You have cake?

28:00

Oh, you... Oh,

28:02

happy birthday! Yay! That's

28:06

great. You noticed they did not bring you a knife

28:08

to cut the cut. Oh, we can open it. But

28:11

in your phone, it's beautiful. Thank you so much.

28:13

This is my first cake of the day. Thank

28:15

you. Happy birthday, babe. Enjoy them

28:17

each one. Enjoy each one. And can I

28:20

say I'm your biggest fan? I've

28:22

been to a starstruck now for the course of the day.

28:25

I know. I said to my husband, can I say that?

28:27

I'm really... I'm like, say it. Such

28:30

a pleasure to meet you. Thank you everyone for having us.

28:32

Thank you all for coming. And our thanks to

28:34

Elizabeth and David again. Strictly

28:37

confidential, almost. Strictly

28:39

confidential, premieres in

28:41

select theaters and on demand tomorrow.

28:43

Do yourself a favor, have some

28:45

fun, you can handle it. We'll

28:47

be right back. What

28:59

would you do if you saw this? You

29:02

seem very happy. Pits, you're asking me to go to your

29:04

hotel room. What's the big deal? A

29:07

young woman being harassed by her manager. You

29:09

know how the music industry works. Would

29:11

you step in to help? Are you okay? Like

29:15

these everyday heroes? Yeah, I'd be

29:17

fucking murdered by it. You want to leave with me? Come

29:20

on. Okay. Here we

29:22

go. Here we go. Hi, ma'am.

29:24

That was amazing. You're still shaking.

29:27

I wanted you to be okay. What

29:29

would you do? Sunday night,

29:31

all new on ABC. Welcome

29:36

back. Comedian

29:38

Alex Aderman, critically,

29:41

his critically acclaimed hit show,

29:43

Just For Us, is now an HBO

29:45

special. Where he takes

29:47

audiences into unexpected

29:49

places to explore anti-Semitism

29:52

and his Jewish identity. Like

29:54

the time he snuck into a meeting of

29:57

white supremacists. Here's

29:59

a snooze. I grew up in

30:01

Boston. I grew up in this

30:03

really racist part of Boston called

30:05

Boston. It's a

30:08

Tuesday night and I'm doing my favorite thing. When

30:10

I'm alone, I lie on my couch and I

30:12

hold my phone like an otter, like an inch

30:14

from my face. Can

30:18

I see this tweet? Can I send it to my best friend

30:20

in the world? Can I receive it? Do

30:22

you want to come with me to this meeting of Nazis and queens? Please

30:28

welcome the fabulous Alex Adelman. First

30:44

of all, welcome to the view. Thanks so much.

30:47

I'm like God snack. This is so cool. Well,

30:49

and second of all, I'm so proud of you.

30:51

Thank you, Opie. Jeez. We go back

30:54

a while. And

30:56

I'm so... I

31:00

mean, like, whoopie is

31:02

the... I met whoopie when I was like 18

31:04

years old at the 92nd Street Y.

31:07

I was in college as like freshman

31:09

at NYU and she gave me her

31:11

email address, which I will

31:13

now give out to... No, I'm just kidding.

31:15

But whoopie gave me her email address and

31:17

I looked back at those emails a couple

31:19

of weeks ago and the emails I sent

31:21

you were like college kid emails. She's like,

31:23

how are you? I'm like, I'm failing calculus,

31:25

whoopie. So whoopie is

31:27

such a role model for me and

31:30

there are, you know, maybe you don't know this,

31:32

but there aren't many comedians who have been lucky

31:34

enough to do Broadway. And so

31:36

whoopie and Billy Crystal and Mike Roviglia

31:38

and very few others, they're the gold

31:41

standard. So it's really cool to be

31:43

able to do that. So

31:49

the special is based on the one man

31:51

show you've been performing all over the world

31:53

and on Broadway for the past six years.

31:55

How are you feeling about it? I mean,

31:57

it's crazy. It's like I made cookies in

31:59

my apartment. for a while, and people were like,

32:01

oh, good cookies. And then there were like 200 people want to try

32:03

the cookies. You were like, well, OK. And

32:05

then 2000, and they're like, now we're going

32:07

to ship your cookies everywhere. And so you

32:09

have to say, yeah, I hope people like

32:11

the cookies. But, um. The cookie is delicious.

32:13

Yeah, well, I'm really, I'm nervous.

32:16

I'm excited. I'm a little sad to be

32:18

putting away this thing that's been so wonderful.

32:20

You know, I don't think I'll tell these

32:22

jokes again. So it's very,

32:24

you know, a little bittersweet. But, you know,

32:27

bittersweet cookies, everybody loves bittersweet cookies.

32:29

So the show is based on a true story

32:31

about you going into

32:34

a neo-Nazi rally. Sure. In Queens.

32:36

In Queens, yes, in Queens. It was like, it

32:39

was a couple, it was, you know, a couple of

32:41

people in apartments. So it was not much of a

32:43

rally, but yes, it was like. How did

32:45

you exactly, a devout Jew, I understand

32:47

a religious Jew, how did you exactly

32:49

end up at the neo-Nazi? Yeah. How

32:51

did that happen? I was single. And

32:57

mixers at Scholl weren't exactly working out for

33:00

me. I

33:02

had gone down this sort of

33:04

rabbit hole on Twitter of anti-Semitism.

33:07

Or I guess, yeah, like white nationalists

33:09

and stuff. And I started adding them

33:11

to this list. I made

33:13

a list on, to annoy them, I made

33:15

a list on Twitter and I'd add them to the

33:17

list. And the name of the list, and they saw

33:19

this when they were added, was Jewish National Fund Contributors.

33:22

And so it really worked out. And they're like,

33:24

I've never contributed to the Jewish National Fund. And

33:26

it was always like, there's still time, you know.

33:29

Like, no. Did

33:32

they realize at any point that you would not?

33:35

Yeah, they realized that, not to spoil it yet. You

33:39

wanna know at the end of people, if they

33:41

kill me. But. He's still

33:43

here to kill the story. Yeah, yeah, I'm

33:45

still here. But they do at some point

33:48

figure out that I'm Jewish and a conversation

33:50

ensues and. Yeah. Well,

33:52

you have to see the show. Whoopi always tells us not

33:54

to read the comments from social media, it's

33:56

not a healthy thing. You went ahead with

33:58

that and read the comments. engaged

34:01

and then infiltrated. Now,

34:03

it did not go... That's what he

34:05

does. ...swimmingly, I would think. Yeah, but

34:07

did you ever consider how badly this

34:09

could have gone? Um, there was

34:11

one moment where I felt like, um... where

34:13

I felt, like, a little nervous, but it was more

34:16

like, your stomach's like, oh, no, we're in trouble with

34:18

the principal nervous. And, uh... Not

34:21

my life is a danger, nervous? No, but when

34:23

I called my mom afterwards, I told... I told... I

34:26

have a policy that whenever I go to

34:28

a meeting with a white nationalist, I immediately tell

34:30

my mom afterwards. Yeah. But, like, yeah,

34:32

I called my mom, and my mom, uh...

34:36

And I'm cleaning this up because we're on daytime. My mom

34:38

went, you need to get a job. My

34:40

mom was like, you used to have a job on a sitcom. You

34:42

had health care, and now you do stupid stuff like this. So...

34:45

please go get a job. That's

34:48

such a mon... Classic. Yeah,

34:50

and as moms, we would be terrified for you.

34:53

But, listen, in the special, you talk...

34:55

This was interesting to me. You talk

34:57

about having conflicting feelings and maybe even

35:00

a brief flirtation with one of the

35:02

white nationalist attendees. Yeah. And

35:04

you also felt... I'm not sweet, you know. I mean...

35:07

I'm not sweet. I'm not sweet. I'm

35:09

not sweet. Oh. That's

35:12

awesome. And,

35:14

apparently, you also felt a little

35:16

bit bad for these people. Yeah.

35:19

I mean... Why? Why? They're racists

35:21

in New York City. They're

35:24

racists... I say in the special, you can't even get...

35:27

You can't even get 17 Nazis together in New York without

35:30

a Jew being sat right there in the middle of it, you

35:32

know? Very diverse environment.

35:35

But not to give a serious answer here. But,

35:38

um... But,

35:41

look, everyone... I pointed out in the show... I take

35:43

a very brave stand in the show that being

35:45

a Nazi is not ideal. But, um... But,

35:48

like, to that extent, these people, they

35:51

do have frustrations. They

35:54

feel powerless. They feel voiceless. And

35:56

those are universal struggles. Oh, boo-boo.

35:58

I know, but... Yeah. You engage all the time

36:01

with Trump people, right? I know. But

36:03

you say that. I do. But you do.

36:05

Do you want to understand that perspective? This

36:07

is a show that's partially based on the,

36:09

this right here is a show that's partially

36:11

based on the premise that people have different

36:13

opinions and come together and have productive conversations

36:15

about those opinions in hope of getting

36:17

to something. So yeah, I'm just

36:20

doing that, but. The one man view. Yeah, yeah,

36:22

one man view. You want us to understand them.

36:24

You want us to understand them. Between a Trump

36:26

supporter and a Nazi. Let's differentiate. What? I'm differentiating

36:28

between a Trump supporter and a Nazi. It's a

36:30

little different. I engage, I'm engaging people who do

36:32

not want to. Joy, you will get a kick

36:34

out of this. I'm telling you, it's so funny.

36:37

I like it already. But like somehow serious at

36:39

the same time. But I want to ask you,

36:41

many of your comedy heroes have

36:43

come to see your show in person. Jerry

36:45

Seinfeld, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal. Does that ever

36:47

get normal to you? Do you get starstruck?

36:50

Yeah, you get extremely starstruck. I watched it. If

36:52

one of them is sitting right there, I'm just

36:54

like, you know, like I don't,

36:56

I try not to look at them. Do you want to know

36:58

when somebody famous is in the audience? I always know when

37:00

someone famous is in the audience, they're coming to work and

37:02

everyone's weird. And I'm like, who is it today? They're

37:05

like, Sarah Jessica Parker came to

37:07

the show. Like when, you

37:10

know, by the way, Whoopi, this is how nice Whoopi

37:12

goes. I'm going to embarrass you. Whoopi wanted to come

37:14

to the show. Her schedule changed. She sent cookies for

37:16

the entire cast and crew, which was

37:18

extremely nice of her. Very generous, yes. She's very generous.

37:20

Very nice of her. But whenever

37:23

the comics come, I always ask them for

37:25

advice. I always like dig advice

37:27

out of them. Like when Billy Crystal came,

37:30

I really tried to pull some advice out of

37:32

him because he was actually weirdly humble.

37:34

He was like, I don't want to. But then he

37:36

called me a few days later and he's like, if

37:38

you move from a handheld microphone to a headset microphone,

37:41

it will change your show completely. Oh, that works. I

37:44

mean, hopefully for the better, right? But

37:46

like, but I tried it and it

37:48

was great. Yeah, you can

37:50

move more easily. And Steve Martin gave me a

37:52

joke. So if you're curious about the show, it

37:54

is co-written by Steve Martin. I'm gonna say now.

37:57

One joke, Alice. Yeah, one joke. It

38:01

is such a pleasure to see you here.

38:03

Yeah, yeah. Such a pleasure and an honor.

38:06

Congrats on your success. And keep going,

38:08

keep doing your thing. Thank you, thanks

38:10

so much. You're such a role model. This is

38:12

so wonderful for me. Thanks so much for having

38:14

me. I'll say

38:17

it again. Just for us, please,

38:19

on HBO and Mac on

38:21

April 6th, do yourself a

38:23

favor. You gotta see it. You gotta do it.

38:26

It will give you hope for

38:28

the future. We'll be

38:30

right back. Tomorrow,

38:41

less we do. Talk about being a

38:44

member of the star-studded and scandalous

38:46

club at the Tom

38:48

Royale. Welcome

38:52

back, Sunny. Yes,

38:54

I just wanted to thank the Guild Hall

38:56

for inducting me into their Academy of

38:59

the Arts yesterday. I'm

39:02

sort of shocked. This

39:04

is the little pin that they gave me,

39:06

but I was inducted. And then other inductees

39:08

included your friend, Neil

39:11

Tyson. Neil deGrasse Tyson.

39:15

Robert Downey Jr., Fern Malice, Marcus Samuelson,

39:17

and just a bunch of really cool

39:19

people. And I was standing

39:21

there shocked. But thank you

39:23

for the honor. And she's in it

39:25

as well. I think Michelle's in it as

39:27

well. Yeah. Alyssa

39:31

is on the Behind the Table podcast today.

39:33

Nice time. We want you all to have

39:36

a great day, everyone. Thank you for coming.

39:38

Thank you for watching. We want you all to

39:40

take a little time to enjoy the view and

39:42

we'll see you tomorrow. Woo!