0:00

The view starts

0:02

lie right now.

0:05

Will power as Will

0:07

Smith gets ready to return to the big

0:10

screen. He opens up about

0:12

what led to his infamous Oscar

0:14

Knight laugh.

0:15

That was a rage

0:18

that had been bottled for a really wrong

0:20

time. That's not who I wanna be.

0:22

But our audience is ready to accept

0:24

him back in the spotlight. Plus,

0:27

superstar couple Samuel l Jackson

0:29

and LaTanya Richardson Jackson talk

0:31

about how she's got in the shots when

0:33

he takes the stage for the Broadway classic,

0:36

the piano Alyssa. And which one

0:38

of his iconic roles? She's

0:40

still doesn't get the big deal about.

0:43

Then, Alyssa Milano on her legacy

0:45

of activism for UNICEF and the

0:47

Me Too movement plus the latest

0:50

on the reboot of who's the boss.

0:52

Here

0:53

come hot topics

0:56

with movie. Sarah

0:59

Hanes.

1:00

Anna Navarro.

1:03

Joy Bay Har. Sunny

1:06

House in and Alyssa

1:08

Vera Griffin. Now

1:11

let's get things started.

1:35

Hello.

1:41

Hello. Hello. Love them to the So

1:44

before we get to hot

1:46

topics, alright, Joy, you

1:48

wanna clarify? Yes. I have to clarify

1:50

something I said yesterday. I wanna correct something.

1:53

I said on air when I stated that people

1:55

of praise had been deemed a hate group. I

1:58

just got them mixed up with another group.

1:59

It was inaccurate. So I don't

2:02

think that's right that I should I have to say, you know,

2:04

sorry about that. Yeah. Just it was

2:06

anyway, I conflated them. Okay.

2:09

That happens, you know, it's easy to do. And

2:11

life shows. You know, and you're thinking and

2:13

sometimes I called Joy, you know,

2:15

Sarah. because

2:17

we look so much like that. you look identical

2:20

to each other. Ask a

2:22

winner Will Smith is getting ready to return

2:25

to the big screen and the new movie emancipation.

2:28

And last night, he sat down with Trevor

2:30

Noah to give some context

2:32

to where his head was at on

2:34

the night

2:34

of that infamous slap.

2:37

Take a look. At the end of the day, I

2:39

just I lost it, you know.

2:41

the And I

2:43

guess what I would say, you

2:47

just never know what going

2:49

through. I took my and made

2:51

it hard for other people. You

2:53

know? And it's like, I understood the

2:55

idea when they say hurt people, hurt people. It

2:57

was a lot of things. It was the the the

2:59

little boy that watched his father

3:01

beat up his mother, you know,

3:03

it's that, you know, all of that just

3:05

bubbled up Yeah. Yeah. And in

3:08

in that moment, you know,

3:11

I just that's

3:14

not who I wanna be.

3:16

He also said he helps his bad

3:17

behavior that night won't keep people

3:19

away from a powerful and important movie

3:22

like a man's patient. So the

3:24

question I guess is our

3:26

audience is ready to

3:28

move past what he did on Oscar night.

3:31

Well, he he, to let's

3:33

say, he posted a six

3:35

minute long video on YouTube,

3:37

apologizing to Chris Rock. He's

3:39

resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture

3:42

Arts and Sciences at this point. He's

3:44

been banned from the events for the past

3:46

ten years and For the next

3:48

ten years. For the next ten years. I mean,

3:50

it's not like he did something so horrible. Like, have

3:53

have thanksgiving with Trump. Yeah.

3:57

Yeah. I think it's a sucky.

3:59

I

4:03

don't

4:03

think there's a one size fits all for this because

4:05

I think art and the way you consume it

4:07

is so individual and unique and

4:09

vulnerable because there are people For

4:12

example, I used to be obsessed

4:14

with Kevin Spacey. I thought he was the most amazing

4:17

performer. He's denied allegations

4:19

of of any wrongdoing. But now

4:22

when I see his face, I struggle a little

4:24

bit and I have a hard time believing

4:26

the story, you know, and when something takes

4:28

you out. That's so unique to you.

4:30

I remember my dad fought in the Vietnam war. He

4:32

struggles a little bit watching Jane Fonda. You

4:34

know, and it's it's just so personal and

4:36

so individual that I think, of course,

4:38

people should go watch if that's, you know,

4:40

if they're a fan, if they wanna see the movie, there's no

4:42

reason not to. It's just if you're one of those

4:44

people that can't. I also get that it's

4:47

unique to you. I think there'll be some people that

4:49

won't wanna watch it. I I hope people will

4:51

go watch it. Like Joey said, he's

4:54

Definitely

4:54

apologized over and

4:56

over and over again. He's explained to himself.

4:58

He's been being banned from the academy. He

5:01

can't even go. He's probably gonna get nominated

5:03

for this role is

5:05

what I'm hearing. And he probably can't and he

5:07

can't attend the, you know, the Academy

5:09

Awards. So when is enough enough?

5:12

One is enough cancellation enough, one is

5:14

enough, punishment enough. And I have to

5:16

say this film amancipation is about whipped

5:19

Peter with the the slave that

5:21

sort of was the picture

5:23

of his back with all the lashes.

5:25

It's such an important and pivotal moment

5:27

for civil rights for African Americans in

5:29

this country. It started the

5:31

civil war, I think, in many ways, and it showed the

5:33

brutality of slavery

5:36

where you had white slave owners saying,

5:38

it's not really which read the really well. and then

5:40

you had this picture and it galvanized so

5:42

many abolitionists. I think it's such an We

5:44

did film movies like that -- Yeah. -- the country. And how

5:46

about the other actors and the directors of

5:48

of this film. Are we gonna punish them for

5:50

some thing that Will Smith did?

5:52

Well, and and to Sarah's point, you

5:54

know, there's certain things that are unforgivable. I

5:56

don't think this was. he apologized. He's

5:58

owned it. I would have liked to see this level of an

6:00

apology maybe right afterward. But

6:02

I think audiences can't forgive him. He's a

6:04

little bit of victim of his own success, though.

6:07

HE'S GOTTEN, HE'S A NICE GUY ACTOR.

6:09

LIKE HIS PUBLIC IMAGES, HE'S SUCH A

6:11

NICE GUY. SO THIS TOOK AWAY

6:13

IN THAT NICE AND BAD Boys. that's true. But

6:15

I just think the image of him, like, fresh

6:17

prints, like, we have this expectation we

6:19

put on celebrities we want them to live up to.

6:21

And it's not fair. They're humans. Like, he is gonna

6:23

go through struggles just like anyone. He's

6:25

one of my absolute favorite actors. I

6:27

I will see this. The only thing I would say

6:29

is this level of an apology I would have liked to

6:31

have seen sooner because I I do

6:33

still feel for Chris Rock. I think it was a really

6:35

low moment and shouldn't have happened, but

6:38

you've got it. You can separate the art

6:40

from the artist if it's not beyond the pale.

6:42

Like, I about, I'm not gonna listen to Kanye. That's beyond

6:44

the pale to me. I can forgive Will Smith. He asked

6:46

for an apology. And I think we we

6:48

can't forget Chris

6:50

in in this and how he

6:52

must have felt to be

6:55

struck in front of millions and millions of people.

6:57

And in the way, the gentlemanly way

6:59

he react to handled it. I think he

7:01

handled it much better than a lot of people.

7:03

separating the art from the artist is always a conversation.

7:06

Yeah. I was having it with my grandson

7:08

the other day who has those easies.

7:11

Oh, you know, a lot of kids

7:13

-- Yeah. -- and I said I said to him, you

7:15

know, Kanye has said some anti Semitic

7:17

things and he said, well, I don't like that.

7:19

but I like the yeezy's.

7:20

Yeah. How

7:23

about the be?

7:23

And what we often says, you have to

7:25

separate the art from the artist. Listen.

7:27

Let he who is without

7:28

send cast the first star. That's

7:30

right.

7:30

That's right.

7:33

Chris, I should be prejudged

7:34

by that this worse moment. Well, I

7:36

mean, you could say you know, as Jesus would

7:38

say, turn the other cheek and certainly

7:40

Chris Rock did. He sure did. Yeah. But we've

7:42

also learned with historical figures that

7:44

people that we've put into statues

7:47

and I made icons of

7:49

history had dirty sides and

7:51

dirty deeds and Jackson. And I

7:53

don't don't believe one. They can

7:55

both coexist and we can continue to educate

7:57

people more on why that was wrong, but it doesn't mean

7:59

you wipe out everything

7:59

they've ever done. And it's a it's a

8:02

relative situation because you have somebody

8:04

like this monster, Vladimir Putin,

8:06

You know, let's let's talk about a little bit

8:08

about what about ism, you know. It's

8:10

like what what he did, it was it's

8:12

it was a nasty thing he did. but

8:15

it's not unforgivable. What Vladimir

8:17

Putin is doing is unforgivable. So

8:19

let's keep the perspective a little bit

8:22

Yep. And there you have it. Yeah. We'll be

8:24

right back.

8:30

This

8:32

week, the stars are shining

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bright on the view. Facing the seatbelts

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You don't wanna miss this one. On

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Amy's Eve, the Mew.

8:55

Welcome back. So

8:56

singer, Jesse

8:59

James Decker,

8:59

posted photos of her recent

9:02

family vacation and

9:04

accusations started piling up. that

9:06

she photoshopped abs onto

9:08

her children. She

9:11

responded by posting that

9:13

her kids are in shape because of

9:15

genetics and athletics. Yeah. And the

9:17

reaction just proves

9:19

how bizarre People have gotten

9:21

about what's normal when it

9:23

comes to kids' body. Oh my

9:25

god. What do you think?

9:27

Well, it was interesting to me because I

9:29

follow her. Jesse Jackson. She's a

9:31

fantastic singer. Have you seen her

9:33

husband? He's a former football player? He's

9:35

absolutely there. But what about the kids?

9:37

Okay? What about the kids? We're talking

9:39

about genetics? here. He is a former

9:41

football player. I gotta tell you when my kids

9:43

were younger, they look like that too because

9:45

we're a very active family. I

9:47

hate some of this stuff, but it's the biking and the

9:49

hiking and the hiking and to this and to that and to this. And if you're

9:51

an active family, your kids look just

9:53

like that. I sent to that a

9:55

four year old. Is it better shape than I am?

9:57

Right. I I those kids

9:59

have

9:59

six packs,

10:00

and they're four years old. Who's their father?

10:02

Arnold Schwartzman, isn't that you

10:05

die beyond the genetic. Look at those

10:07

kids. Beyond those genes, which

10:09

are clearly beautiful. It's also she's

10:11

a wellness so they'd probably

10:13

eat well. They're not leaving on chicken

10:15

nuggets and french fries. Like Hey. Hey. Hey. Nothing

10:17

against the chicken nuggets. Nothing against

10:19

the chicken nuggets. But I think it's a

10:21

combination. She also, right when I saw

10:23

the little girl's body. I thought I bet she's

10:25

a gymnast because I my family, we were

10:27

all in gymnastics. It was a long time

10:29

ago. But when you're pre

10:31

pubescent and have no body fat. And you worked

10:33

out your whole body, you literally

10:35

are a live little muscle. That end

10:37

with nothing to and that's exactly what you

10:39

like. lift weights for a six pack

10:41

though? No. No. You hang from

10:43

a bar and you pull yourself up like

10:45

Rocky. That's what you do. Oh, yeah. I

10:47

do all I'm guilty. I I follow

10:49

I follow Jesse James Decker

10:52

and I love her brand kids. She's done. It's for,

10:54

like, instagram and she's she's lovely.

10:56

But I actually saw this and I thought that

10:58

she left a filter on that creates

11:00

abs and maybe got caught in it. That turns out that

11:02

was not the case, but I looked at it because was

11:04

definitely Alyssa little kid with, like, a pot belly, not,

11:06

like, and I was active. And so I've never seen

11:08

this before, but it does make sense. She's

11:10

super into fitness and wellness. And her

11:12

man looks like that. her man is a very

11:14

player. This is a football player. This is all

11:16

genetics. He's running and throwing footballs

11:18

at the kids. But her quarterback was

11:20

perfect. Like, anyone commented on your his

11:22

body is needs to get a life. That's so bizarre.

11:25

Yeah. Yeah. Body's in general, but, like, to go

11:27

for a child, I I would never

11:29

think that let me take the time to go comment

11:31

on someone's to, you

11:31

know, keep eye out to it all the time. Right now, they

11:33

say sister did. One time she, like, pumped our

11:35

whole family, she sent me a picture of my nephew, and he

11:38

had this kind of buzz cut hairdo,

11:40

and he was like one and a half. And I

11:42

said, Susan, what's up with his

11:44

head? And she's like, what?

11:45

she proceeded to send me five photos

11:48

with him and new hair, and

11:50

it was a filter. And eventually, she sent my dad

11:52

with the same hair. And I was like, Susan, why did you

11:54

do that? because I'm like, trying to scrub this through if I

11:56

had it was actually hilarious because it was a

11:58

dumb and dumber haircut, and he didn't even have

11:59

hair. But yeah. So it can

12:02

be done.

12:03

Alrighty. But we don't but we

12:05

don't she did it. We don't No. She did not. No. She did

12:07

not. She did not. She did it. But that was my initial

12:09

instinct because I thought has. And she struggles

12:11

herself with body issues and has said that she

12:13

wants to make sure her kids don't. Yeah.

12:16

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Diane Sawyer. Is

12:55

celebrating an anniversary of a

12:58

beloved holiday romantic comedy

13:00

on her new special, the laughter

13:02

and secrets of love actually.

13:04

So twenty years later. Okay. So

13:07

Why do you think so many people

13:10

keep going

13:10

back to the movie? It's a fabulous

13:13

film. It's not very cheekily,

13:15

like, some Christmas movies can be. It is

13:17

very edgy, and yet it's heartwarming.

13:19

And you have great stars in it. You have Hugh

13:21

Grant and Liam Mason and Emma

13:23

Thompson and Bill Nye, fantastic

13:25

British cast and has great music.

13:28

Except there is one scene that's

13:30

kind of like these two people are simulating

13:32

pornography. just as, like,

13:34

a warning to everyone? Bighorn.

13:36

Yeah. They do. They there's stand ins

13:38

for the for moving -- Yep. -- where there's

13:40

gonna be real real corn

13:42

So they're just sitting there all day film. Yes.

13:44

And so that's why I was watching it

13:47

with Luca one day. And then I had seen it

13:49

before and just as it was they come up, I'm like, oh

13:51

my god. Where's the remote? I said,

13:53

but let's go to the kitchen and make some french

13:55

fries. Because you have to be

13:57

careful of that scene if you have young kids. Yeah. That's

13:59

what I like. It's a

13:59

little too much to sit with grandchildren and watch

14:02

porn. Okay? I like that it's edgy

14:04

though because like Christmas movies, they can get be

14:06

kind of like childish and repetitive, but this kinda

14:08

has everything. It has POLITIVES. IT'S

14:10

ONE NEWLY ELECTED BRITISH PRIME MINISTER.

14:12

IT'S GOT, YOU KNOW, A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT PLOT

14:14

LINES. THE AMERICAN SIDE, THE

14:16

INTERNATIONAL SIDE. also deals with

14:18

grief. One of the characters has lost his wife and

14:20

is raising his son. Adultery.

14:23

Adultery. It's got a little bit of effort. much

14:25

love. It's actually seen a different love. there's

14:27

absolutely love. There's romantic love.

14:29

There's aspirational love. It sounds very

14:31

confusing. It sounds very convoluted

14:33

story line. It sounds like it's got a

14:35

lot going on. I've never seen

14:37

it. You know what? You want me to ask you why?

14:39

Like The lawyer thinks it's confusing to

14:41

watch a movie about too many different

14:43

pieces of mine. You'll love

14:45

it. You need to watch it and come back and give

14:47

us your review because I do think you would like it. You'll

14:49

love it music. You will love it. Liam Nation

14:51

and Hugh Grant is a black trans.

14:53

is course. Steve tried that dance, he threw his back out.

14:56

He does a dance. Wow.

14:58

Role playing at your house, really. One unpopular

15:00

opinion, though. I think the holiday is just as good

15:02

as love actually. The movie, the holiday? I

15:04

don't know that. Oh, that was so cute.

15:06

Yeah. It's perfect. Kamadiah.

15:08

Kamadiah. Oh, I wanna see how we still

15:10

love it. Usually watch the best man

15:12

holiday. That was good. What

15:15

about wait? That was How many people have

15:17

seen Bad Sam That's good. I have a

15:19

good brother loved that, and I just find that shrine.

15:21

Oh, so weird. I'm like I'm more of a

15:23

fancier girl. Best Man

15:25

holiday is one of the best holiday

15:27

movies out

15:27

there. Let me take a look. Yeah.

15:30

What we said she was too busy

15:32

working to watch many of these more Christmases.

15:34

Oh, work. That's what it is. I have to

15:37

wait for Christmas movie. Yeah.

15:39

I did, but it's not mine. The

15:42

laughter and the secrets of love acts actually

15:45

twenty years later, a Diane

15:47

Soyuz special airs tonight

15:49

at eight PM on Eastern on

15:51

ABC, Maybe you should watch that, and that'll make

15:53

you watch the movie. Yeah. No. We'll be right

16:05

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16:08

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16:11

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16:13

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16:15

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16:17

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16:19

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16:26

Hey,

16:26

what I'll back. Samuel l

16:28

Jackson is always having a full

16:30

circle moment, especially on

16:32

Broadway. I mean, he's everywhere. He's

16:34

amazing. But right now he's in

16:36

August Wilson's The

16:37

piano lesson, which is also

16:39

a historic milestone for the

16:41

plays director.

16:41

His wife, the

16:44

Thai accent. Where's it stood?

17:08

We go

17:11

back some

17:13

so many years with this couple

17:15

of coronavirir. We years and years

17:17

ago. True. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

17:20

True. Yeah. Many boys. Many say,

17:22

universe woman to direct an

17:24

August Wilson play. Oh,

17:26

bro. Unbroken. broken.

17:27

What

17:32

was it about the piano that

17:35

made

17:35

you decide that was the one you wanted to do?

17:37

because this is your directorial debut.

17:40

It

17:40

is, but you also know

17:43

because you're the head of this

17:45

business that it's not always

17:47

what you decide. This was

17:49

a gift from Denzel Washington

17:51

--

17:51

Oh. -- and Scott Roofing.

17:54

Thank you. So

17:55

they brought it to me and

17:57

said, here, we want you to do this. And that's how

17:59

I got it.

17:59

It wasn't. I wasn't even thinking. I was all

18:02

still doing Hello and

18:04

good. Yeah. On a stage,

18:06

you know? Wow. And this

18:09

is a real full

18:11

circle moment for you because you play

18:13

Joker, the family patriarch, but you originated

18:15

the role of boy Willie when this work debuted at

18:17

the Yale Repertory Repertory

18:19

Theatre in nineteen eighty seven and then

18:21

you were the under study during its original

18:24

broadway run. Now you've said this changed your

18:26

life. Oh, yeah. You know,

18:29

it's the big role. I had a great time doing it

18:31

at Yale, and I thought I was fantastic.

18:33

I have no idea if I wasn't.

18:35

He was fantastic.

18:37

What did you

18:40

say? Yeah. Yeah. sometimes.

18:43

But by the time we

18:45

got the Broadway, I was sitting backstage as an

18:47

under study Well, the play was written for

18:49

child, done. and he was off doing

18:51

crocodile Dundee too. So

18:53

I I started but I figured, I'm so

18:55

good. Well, maybe Rocco just said, well, let him go ahead and do

18:57

it. but he didn't. And he ended up and he got a tone in

18:59

and played one appeal surprise. And I'm sitting

19:01

downstairs listening to it, and I was losing my

19:04

mind. And burning myself out on

19:06

drugs. So by the time I ended

19:08

up about

19:08

three weeks into the run, she put me

19:10

in rehab, and she was doing a play. Mhmm.

19:13

I'll probably too. What was that play you

19:15

were doing with

19:16

the

19:17

You are

19:18

fantastic. I was fantastic.

19:21

But I will be Mike

19:24

Nickels. Joe's Pfeiffer. It

19:25

was his Joe's Pfeiffer play. Yes.

19:26

He's going to Mike Nickels.

19:29

And I went to rehab and I got

19:31

clean. And as soon as I got

19:33

sober, I did jumbo fever was the

19:35

first person she ever did. That's okay.

19:37

Yeah. And what do you want

19:39

all not to do? Right. The people in rehab

19:41

told me, you know, you're gonna be having pipes. You're gonna

19:43

be having ladders. You're gonna be triggered. You'll

19:45

be back. That's good. If for no other reason, I

19:47

never wanna see you people again. I've never

19:49

been back. That's how I would imagine

19:51

anyone. Thank god. You were

19:53

the you were on the cemetery

19:55

at a can. And when jungle

19:57

fever came through, you are

19:59

very responsible for

19:59

getting me the first and

20:02

only supporting accurate reward ever given.

20:04

Yeah. Thank you. So thank

20:06

you.

20:06

Yeah. Wow. All three.

20:08

Well,

20:08

Well deserved. I went

20:10

to opening night. It's very ever.

20:13

Very well in your Chanel. Oh, thank

20:15

you. I think this

20:17

is one of the best traumatic place I've ever

20:19

seen in my life. So

20:21

congratulations. It was fantastic. I

20:23

was sitting with Patty Lupone who said they don't

20:25

wanna all be real. But let

20:28

me Kathy, let me ask

20:30

you this. The two of you starred in

20:32

Freedom Milano. together. And after

20:34

that, you said, Latanya, I will

20:36

never be in another movie with

20:38

him. So I

20:40

didn't say never. I just said, well, I

20:42

better think about this again

20:44

because he was not. He was you

20:46

know what? When you live with someone and

20:48

you pick up their underwear,

20:51

You never really feel that he starts to

20:53

like that. The start thing.

20:56

Even when I've been to see him

20:58

on set, stuff and it never dawned on

21:00

me until I was there working that

21:02

his trailer was as big

21:04

as our house. Wow. and

21:06

I was in a trailer. What about

21:08

it? What about this? And

21:12

so I, you know, I have I have

21:14

always been wanting to be a director, so

21:16

I've I've always been in everybody's like

21:18

thing trying to tell them what to do and so I offered

21:20

a suggestion to you

21:23

know, which the

21:25

great Julianne Moore thought was good. So

21:27

she said, tell him. She

21:29

set me up. I said, you

21:31

know, when you go through the door

21:33

blah blah blah, you should, you know, turn

21:35

back and look at us. and we'll

21:37

look at you. And he

21:39

said, push your number on the

21:42

call sheet. And

21:45

I said I do. I still

21:47

remember that. So I said

21:49

nine. That's what I said nine and

21:51

he said. 10I

21:53

walked away. So I

21:56

said, oh, well, I

21:57

guess I'm done. And what this time

21:59

you directed is not my lane? You

22:01

directed him, though. this time. How

22:03

did anybody else this time? Yeah. Could you listen? Life

22:06

changes. Yeah.

22:08

My number didn't change. No. That's right. That's

22:11

right. but your lane

22:13

expanded. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know how

22:15

to take a note from the right

22:17

person. Number nine.

22:19

Number No. He took it from number one.

22:21

Number one. Which is what I explained to

22:23

him. I said, you know what? You're number

22:25

one in casting, but over the

22:27

casket is one person who doesn't even have

22:29

a number because she supersedes all

22:32

numbers that is it. That's

22:34

true. That's

22:34

correct. Yeah. That's true. That's

22:36

That's true.

22:39

We understand that because we come from

22:41

a system of theater before, you

22:44

know, people were sensitive. We come from a

22:46

system where the director was a

22:48

dictator. Yeah. You know, the

22:50

director everything the director said,

22:52

William, No. That was it. You didn't question

22:54

it. You didn't do anything else. So I have no

22:56

problem with that -- Right. -- in that situation. You

22:58

know, everybody's collaborative and

23:00

know, people get triggered when you say things to them.

23:03

It's it's really funny when you hear that and it's

23:05

got, oh, I'm triggered by

23:07

that. What's

23:09

that mean? you have to do this thing that -- Yeah. -- directed

23:11

towards the decision. Yeah. Whether you trigger it or

23:13

not, you know how you get you to

23:15

robin. because your number is on there.

23:17

And that's how is coming Jack is coming

23:19

for you to do. That's it. That's it. So,

23:22

Sam, you've started a number of

23:24

Quentin Tarantino films. You've been fabulous in every

23:27

one of them. but he said something

23:29

controversial recently. He about Marvel

23:31

actors, which you're also very familiar with,

23:33

like, the goal is Nick Furi. Nick Furi He

23:35

said that Marvel actors are not

23:37

movie stars. America is

23:39

the star. How do you respond

23:41

to that? Is somebody who's been so popular in both

23:43

the Tarantino Universe and

23:45

the

23:45

Marvel Okay. Well, let's say it's an actor to be those particular

23:47

character. Yeah. And the

23:49

the sign of movie stardom has

23:51

always been, what, as is in Saint

23:54

Yeah.

23:54

Yeah. What we're talking about? Yeah.

23:56

Yeah. Yeah. So that's not a, you

23:58

know, not a big controversy for me to know that

24:01

well, apparently, these actors

24:03

are movie stars.

24:05

You know, Chadwick Boseman

24:08

is Black Panther. Yeah. Yeah.

24:10

Yeah. Of course. You can't refute that. And he's a movie

24:12

star. Yeah. Yeah. And you are Nick Fury.

24:14

Yeah. And, you know, Scarlet, I'm yeah. I'm

24:16

Nick Fury, but, you know, He's

24:19

everything. Do that. Yeah. That's why

24:21

you're saying that's why you're saying that

24:23

was a game host, a game show host.

24:25

Well, nothing wrong

24:25

with that. Oh, Pam. So So let's say

24:27

that. Yeah. Right. Okay. But So, Sam, you've

24:29

been also you've also been known to clap back on

24:31

a politician or two in your day we try

24:34

and enjoy. What do you

24:36

make of what's happening now that

24:38

Elon Musk has taken over Twitter? I'm

24:40

a little frightened to first Twitter, frankly.

24:42

What about you? I'm

24:42

just quick. you know, it's a place. But

24:45

there's there's so many more

24:47

important things -- Yeah. -- that we have to

24:49

deal with. Like, we're busy trying

24:51

to get yell. You don't wanna Yeah.

24:53

We've got an idiot. of

24:55

the polls and vote. And

24:57

the poll to an idiot who probably doesn't even

24:59

have a Twitter account. They used to Yeah. But he's

25:01

got a big that's a big audience. The

25:03

these Nazis can come in on those on

25:05

those Sixteen social media. one.

25:07

all of those. I don't like that. People need to understand

25:10

that, you know, everything that happens. Twitter is

25:12

not a real world. Right. You know, it's

25:14

you can't work for invisible people.

25:16

You can't you can't. Brittany

25:18

grind. Brittany grind. It's a really

25:20

very yeah. Real real world. The real

25:22

world. Yeah. So the real world things that

25:24

we need to do. Yeah. Elon Musk is Elon Musk.

25:26

You know, he's True. I have

25:28

no idea what he is. I don't I

25:30

don't even know if he's a realtor. He didn't invent

25:33

Tesla. he's a businessman. Yeah. Right.

25:35

Yeah. Oh, I thought he invented that. He didn't

25:37

even do that. No. Not do that. He didn't

25:39

do that at all. whatever he did.

25:41

not building the tunnels that you promised some people he's

25:44

gonna build all of the world. Yeah. You know

25:46

what? We don't we don't really care what

25:48

Elon is doing. I do. because

25:50

we're gonna tell you about

25:52

the show.

25:56

The piano

25:56

lesson is playing at the

25:58

echo bar

25:58

more theater in New

25:59

York, and you know what y'all. You're

26:02

so good. You're so

26:04

nice. you're each gonna go home with a pair of tickets.

26:10

We'll be right back. The

26:21

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26:23

is spreading holiday cheer with

26:26

twelve days of holidays. Let's

26:28

get this party start did it.

26:30

Oh, yeah. We'll be we're making it ring with

26:32

so many gifts. It'll help you say

26:34

it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

26:36

you. You love this video.

26:38

This week on ABC. Welcome

26:44

back, actor and activist,

26:46

Alyssa Milano, is a force when

26:48

she gets behind something she believes

26:50

in. From the me too movement to

26:53

her decades, as a UNICEF Ambassador,

26:55

and calls for a reboot of her

26:57

beloved sitcom, who is the

27:00

boss?

27:00

Please welcome back, Alyssa Milano.

27:03

Alright.

27:17

Thank you for having me.

27:18

coming. Alright. Thank you. You

27:20

look wonderful always. Twenty

27:22

years as a as an ambassador

27:24

for UNICE. Yes. I've been

27:26

an ambassador for twenty years, and

27:29

it has been my most fulfilling

27:31

life work without a

27:33

doubt. And just to be blessed

27:35

with those experiences, I've been to Angola

27:38

Africa, only two years after the peace

27:40

treaty was signed for the longest civil

27:42

war in of mankind.

27:44

I was in India with UNICEF

27:47

six months after the tsunami to

27:49

see how communities were rebuilding

27:51

with UNICEF programs. I

27:53

was in Kosovo to learn about how children

27:55

were going to bed hungry. Yeah.

27:58

And didn't have, you

27:59

know, adequate water

28:02

in sanitation and

28:04

And then my last trip, which was

28:06

in October, was to Egypt -- Oh.

28:08

-- which was fascinating fascinating.

28:10

Just a place filled with

28:13

really incredible opportunity. I mean, there's there's

28:15

a lot of things

28:17

obviously that are are

28:20

that are really tough like

28:22

female genital mutilation -- Yes. -- child

28:25

marriage, all of those things. But I do

28:27

feel like there's a lot of hope in Egypt

28:29

and the people who

28:31

are in the right places Alyssa, you

28:34

know, just doing amazing work.

28:36

Units have had some amazing programs

28:38

that are on the ground that are

28:40

empowering young women and

28:42

young men on

28:44

equality and equity, and

28:47

it was

28:47

an incredible incredible journey.

28:49

Wow. That's in the lake.

28:50

Yeah. Hey, Neil. No,

28:54

Neil.

28:54

The Toronto mayor of the Me Too

28:56

movement was here last week. and we were talking

28:58

about where things are now. Five

29:01

years ago, you helped the movement go

29:03

viral when you tweeted, hashtag me

29:05

too. Now, Toronto said we have to

29:07

be careful about how we frame the progress.

29:09

We have to look at it what it's

29:11

made possible. Are you happy

29:13

with the progress? so far. And what do you know? Next? I'm

29:16

not happy with the progress. I mean,

29:18

until we first of all, women

29:20

are not in the constitution of the United

29:22

States of America. until we

29:24

pass that equal rights amendment

29:26

where we have protections in our

29:28

constitution, I will not be happy.

29:30

And and is

29:32

absolutely right. The problem is

29:33

still there. It still exists. The

29:35

things that I am relieved

29:39

about is that women have come together

29:42

to speak to this, to use our voices, to

29:44

it's not, you know, that that people

29:46

are whispering under the covers anymore. We

29:48

will never be silent again

29:51

and we

29:51

know that we have

29:54

support from

29:54

other women. And I think

29:57

that is really important, but we

29:59

still have

29:59

to legislate

30:00

on on -- Yeah. -- on all of that. The

30:03

ERA has been around for such a long time. You'd they

30:05

know -- Right. -- that they would pass it already. But,

30:07

you know, your name popped up over the

30:09

weekend when you tweeted that you you returned

30:11

your Tesla.

30:13

So you used to be a

30:15

supporter of Elon Musk's vision Yes.

30:17

What changed your mind? Well, I

30:19

mean, for me speaking of

30:21

me too, when he was accused

30:23

of sexual misconduct and

30:26

paid out two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to this

30:28

to this Jackson. I

30:30

decided that I can't live in

30:33

that hypocrisy of driving that

30:35

car when, you know -- Yeah. -- that

30:37

happened. But also, I'm kind of like

30:39

like, I'm so annoyed with

30:41

all of these these billionaires with, like, the

30:44

exception of a few, but especially Elon

30:46

Musk, like, you buy

30:48

Twitter

30:48

to destroy it.

30:50

Yeah. For forty billion dollars. Right?

30:52

Forty billion dollars

30:55

Elon Musk, imagine if he

30:57

donated that money to UNICEll -- I know.

30:59

-- yeah. he would change the

31:01

world. There would be there would be

31:03

no hunger. He would He could go

31:05

in his pocket and donate that

31:07

money. He could go in his pocket and it wouldn't cost forty

31:09

billion. Forty billion. Forty billion. These guys I

31:11

mean, I by the way,

31:14

I have a there are loads of

31:16

electric cars coming on the market. That's not the

31:18

only one. An inexpensive ones as well.

31:20

Uh-huh. Fairly inexpensive. I do have a

31:22

legal note. Musk has denied

31:24

these allegations of sexual misconduct,

31:26

calling them utterly untrue.

31:29

In your opinion, let

31:31

me ask you this then. What happens if

31:33

things continue the way they are on

31:35

Twitter? I think it's become a housekeeper, but it's

31:37

been a housekeeper for a minute. I mean,

31:39

I was always on the the

31:42

receiving end of the pearls. Right? So,

31:44

like, to me, it doesn't feel any

31:46

different. Mhmm. But you know, I

31:48

always open Twitter with like --

31:50

Yeah. -- such you know what I mean? Like, what a

31:52

helmet on? Because I'm so scared, like, something's

31:54

gonna come out and hit me. Yeah. Yeah.

31:56

Do you think you'll stay on it? Yeah.

31:58

Because we can't seed that territory.

32:00

Mhmm. It's

32:00

like a turf war now. That's how

32:03

I look at it. And we can't I

32:05

can't. Not that that one you

32:07

don't There's other ones you can

32:09

come and grab, leave that to them, because

32:12

that's what that is meant to be now.

32:14

It's not meant to be any better.

32:15

But if we're not representing our

32:17

-- Yes. -- side

32:19

of the the

32:22

political discourse, aren't

32:23

we aren't we just saying, you know what? You can have Twitter.

32:25

You're handing it out. I'll tell you, some

32:28

some things you have to walk away from

32:31

until you can can get

32:32

the control you need of it. Right now, there's

32:34

no way to get this control. Yeah. And

32:36

so find the ones that you can get in

32:39

fix and then come back

32:40

and run that over. Right. But

32:43

do

32:43

yourself. I know it is about self care.

32:45

Yeah. It is. So tell me to comment

32:48

for one Do you mind me? We never the comments. I always

32:50

read the comments. Essentially, that's okay. It doesn't

32:52

read the comment. The comments. Have more days to

32:54

go down the line. Yeah. You can never hang

32:56

out. What we enjoy taught us

32:58

that don't read the comment when we each join the show. Do you turn

33:00

the comments off? No. I just don't read them.

33:02

I'm not interested unless it's somebody that got

33:05

my respect. Yeah. Well, I have another question.

33:07

I left. She left.

33:09

Yeah. I I she left. because I I wish

33:11

I was taken anymore. I wish I was

33:13

I spent many many days with

33:15

my therapist talking about about But

33:17

we're a anonymous person said to you.

33:19

Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's to send it to you. don't know

33:21

you. Yeah. But he who doesn't know you, hasn't

33:24

yet, you don't know your family, doesn't know you doesn't

33:26

know anything about you. Yeah. but we

33:28

let them. We let them in and say,

33:30

you have that oh, it's the -- Oh, no. --

33:32

it's the accessibility. Yeah. You know?

33:34

Yeah. I stopped reading it when people came

33:36

after my kids. by the

33:37

way that I mothered -- Right. -- the last stop.

33:40

Yeah. I was like, because I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna

33:42

find these people. And it's not like I mean,

33:44

yeah. It's not like it. It's just a

33:46

meal. Yeah. so accessible now.

33:48

We are so accessible. I mean, I

33:50

always see people who've been trying to cancel me from the

33:52

eighties, but they had to do it through

33:54

fan mail. Yeah. I think that's

33:56

right. I think that's a letter that had

33:58

a maybe a letter to tell me their

34:00

opinions. Now it's -- And to spend money -- and and

34:02

Lisa with Pam. It's Thank

34:04

you. Exactly. You know? Well,

34:06

Alyssa, I have to tell you. Yes, so I was actually named after

34:08

you. We all hired a few

34:12

I love the name. So this is very

34:14

exciting. Thank you.

34:16

Oh, your mom. Thank you. I like the

34:18

name and I love that. I love it.

34:20

So you posted a photo recently with your co stars from who's the

34:22

boss. And so much excitement is building around

34:25

How many do you dance this? pull

34:27

up you. So Lee Hanson?

34:29

Yeah.

34:30

He stayed very gingham. So what's the latest on the region?

34:32

Okay. So I'm dropping

34:34

this news here first. Okay? Okay.

34:38

So

34:38

we actually submitted a script. Oh,

34:40

last week to freebie, which is

34:43

the network that that picked

34:46

up and we are waiting to hear if we are greenlit

34:48

to go. Wow. So

34:50

we are very close. Wow.

34:54

And now,

34:55

talk about full circle,

34:56

all that's of you. Nice. Well, Tony and I,

34:58

it's it's going I can't believe he can't believe

35:00

his answer still looks that good. Yeah. I

35:03

know. He does. she drinks olive

35:05

oil or something. That is pretty. Oh, don't tell her. She'll

35:08

try it. e.

35:11

Yeah. And for ex all you did, that's to wake up looking

35:13

like Tony. Yeah.

35:16

He doesn't want it. No. He's

35:18

a lot He's so fun. I just saw his

35:20

incredible. If anyone ever has the opportunity to

35:22

see his one man show, it

35:26

is so fun. he tass answers and he plays the ukulele and

35:28

You know, crudes and He's

35:30

he's doing great. He's doing great. And

35:32

we always wanted to very excited

35:36

about potential of the sequel. And I'll be very fingers crossed.

35:38

I think thanks to a list of

35:39

Milano. To learn more about

35:42

Unicef and the work

35:44

they're doing. go

35:46

to our website, and we, of course, will be

35:50

right back. Dear

35:59

mister president, I am riding you concerning my son who is marine.

36:03

He

36:03

disappeared. They were

36:05

determined he was able. The

36:07

idea that marines

36:10

were killing greens, never could for unit cohesion

36:12

of around. These are

36:14

notes, battles,

36:16

and cold.

36:18

I was determined I

36:20

was bringing him home.

36:22

What is private delaney? We

36:23

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36:25

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36:29

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36:30

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