ANDREW RANNELLS IS ON THE SHOW, THERE HE IS. HOW ARE YOU, ANDREW, ARE YOU
GOOD? >> I'M GOOD, I'M GOOD. >> James: I'M SO HAPPY ARE YOU
HERE. >> IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU, I MISS
YOU VERY MUCH AND I WISH I WAS THERE NEXT TO YOU TO HOLD YOU
AND YOU KNOW, PET YOUR HEAD, BUT YOU KNOW. >> James: NOTHING WOULD MAKE
ME HAPPIER. >> ANOTHER TIME,. >> James: YOU ARE OVER IN NEW
YORK, AND CHRISTMAS IS COMING UP. ARE THERE ANY ANDREW RANNELLS
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS THAT WE GET EXK SIGHTED ABOUT AROUND THIS
TIME OF AREA? >> WELL, CHRISTMAS, YEAH, I LOVE
CHRISTMAS, I LOVE CHRISTMAS, AS A KID I ALWAYS HAD A STRANGE
RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRISTMAS BECAUSE THERE WAS ALWAYS A
HANGOVER FROM CHRISTMAS AFTER THE FACT. SO LIKE CHRISTMAS NIGHT, I DON'T
KNOW IF YOU EVER FELT THIS WAY BUT CHRISTMAS NIGHT AS A KID WAS
SO DE PRESSING. BECAUSE LIKE THE PRESENTS ARE
OPENED. AND EVERYTHING IS DONE. AND THEN ARE YOU JUST LIKE, AND
NOW WHAT. ALL THIS BUILDUP. BUT, BUT, AND I'M SURE YOU ARE
FAMILIAR, JAMES, YOU HAVE THREE CHILDREN. THE MAGIC OF THE ELF ON THE
SHELF. >> James: YES, HE'S A BIG PART
OF OUR LIFE, YES. >> SO MY NEPHEW GAVIN WHO LOVES
YOU, BY THE WAY. BUT HE, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE
MAGIC OF THE ELF ON THE SHELF IS WHEN THE ELF ARRIVES YOU GET TO
NAME YOUR ELF, RIGHT. >> James: YES. >> YOU GET TO PICK THE NAME. >> James: YEAH. >> SO GAVIN IN ABOUT FOUR YEARS
OLD NAMED HIS ELF GARBAGE. SO GARBAGE ARRIVED ABOUT A WEEK
AGO AND YOU KNOW, GARBAGE IS DOING HIS THING. >> James: YEAH. >> AND REALLY YOU KNOW, EXCITED
TO BE THERE FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND KEEPING AN EYE ON GAVIN, KEEPING
HIM HONEST. >> James: THE FUNNY THING I
THINK ABOUT THE EL RF ON THE SHELF IS THAT IT IS BASICALLY
RELIGION STVMENT SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU, AND IF YOU ARE
BAD, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN. AND IF YOU ARE GOOD, GOOD THINGS
WILL HAPPEN. AND IT IS A STRANGE THING TO
BRING INTO YOUR HOUSE. >> I KNOW, I KNOW. I MEAN I WAS-- I LOVED SANTAMENT
I LOVED SANTA BUT AS A CHILD I WAS ALSO TERRIFIED OF THE IDEA
THAT LIKE AT ANY MOMENT YOU COULD BE WRITTEN OFF THE LIST. MAYBE THAT'S WHY I GOT INTO SHOW
BUSINESS. I DON'T KNOW. IT'S HARD TO SAY. >> James: NOW YOU TOUCHED ON
SOMETHING THERE, I'M INTERESTED TO GET INTO THE DEPTH OF THIS. WHY DID YOU GET INTO SHOW
BUSINESS? >> I GUESS I WOULD SAY NOT
ENOUGH HUGS. >> James: WHAT HAPPENED? , WHAT HAPPENED? >> YEAH, NOT ENOUGH HUGS FROM MY
PARENTS. >> James: REALLY, WHAT
HAPPENED. >> I THINK, YEAH. I FEEL LIKE WE'RE ALL THIRSTY
FOR ATTENTION. I FEEL LIKE IF OUR INTERACTION
ON THE SET OF THE PROM WAS NOT EVIDENCE ENOUGH, I THINK WE DOT
DIDN'T GET ENOUGH ATTENTION AS CHILDREN BECAUSE WE ACT THE OUT
IN VERY BOLD WAYS, I WOULD SAY. >> James: WELL, WERE YOU
DEEPLY INAPPROPRIATE, THAT IS WHAT I WOULD SAY. >> NO, NO, NO. >> James: NO, YOU WERE. JUST OWN IT, YOU WERE DEEPLY
INAPPROPRIATE AND I HAD TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME A POM GIEZING FOR
YOUR BEHAVIOR-- APOLOGIZING FOR YOUR BEHAVIOR. >> IS THAT HOW YOU REMEMBER IT. >> James: IT IS NOT HOW I
REMEMBER IT, IT IS HOW IT WAS WRITTEN UP ON SEVERAL COMPLAINT
FORMS. >> WELL I, YOU KNOW, THERE IS NO
HR ON THAT SET BUT IF THERE HAD BEEN I HAVE A SPECIFIC
REMEMBRANCE OF YOU AND I LIKE PROBABLY MAKING SOME SORT OF
INAPPROPRIATE COMMENTS ABOUT SOMETHING. AND MERYL STREEP,
THE GREAT MERYL STREEP WHO EVERYONE WAS SO EXCITED TO WORK
WITH. >> James: 19 TIME OSCAR LOSER,
MERYL STREEP. >> YEAH, AND SHE LOOKED AT BOTH
OF US. AND SHE SAID YOU BOYS ARE
DISGUSTING. >> James: YEAH, WE DID REIGN
IT IN FOR A COUPLE SECONDS AFTER THAT. AND-- YEAH. >> AND THEN I REALIZED OH, I
CROSSED A LINE WITH MERYL STREEP. LIKE IF THAT IS NOT A VERSION OF
ROCK BOTTOM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS. >> James: I DON'T THINK THAT
LINE EXISTS WITH MERYL STREEP. I THINK SHE IS THE WORST OUT OF
ALL OF US. >> I THINK SO. WELL, THE THING THAT I LOVE IS
THAT NICOLE KIDMAN WAS LIKE DOWN THE CLOWN, LIKE SHE WAS GOOD
WITH ALL OF IT. SHE WAS LIKE FILTHY AND
LIKE-- YOU KNOW, SHE WAS COOL WITH ALL OF IT. >> James: EVERYONE WAS COOL. >> THAT WAS REALLY FUN. >> James: WE HAD THE MOST
BRILLIANT TIME. BUT YOU KNOW, I HAD THE GREATEST
TIME WORKING WITH YOU ON THE PROM. THE FILM IS DIRECTED BY RYAN
MURPHY AND YOU HAD WORKED WITH RYAN BEFORE. MANY TIMES. I NEVER ASKED YOU THIS, WHEN WE
WERE FILMING. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST MEETING WITH
RYAN. >> I WAS DOING THE BOOK OF
MORMON AND IT WAS SORT OF LIKE A WHIRLWIND TOUR OF LOSS ANG
LES.-- LOS ANGELES, I FLEW OUT THERE, I TOOK A WEEK VACATION TO
DO THAT SORT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT ST, LIKE TOUR OF
LOS ANGELES WHERE YOU MEET ALL OF THE EXECUTIVES AND I REALLY
WANTED TO MEET RYAN. BUT HE WAS NOT ON THE LIST. AND THEN THE LAST DAY MY MANAGER
CALLED ME AND SAID YOU HAVE A MEETING WITH RYAN MURPHY, YOU
CAN GET TO PARAMOUNT IN 20 MINUTES. SO I WENT THERE. AND I WAS SITTING IN FRONT OF
RYAN MURPHY AND HE WAS TALKING TO ME ABOUT MAYBE DOING
SOMETHING ON-- BUT I HEARD HE WAS WORKING ON THE SHOW CALLED
THE NEW NORMAL ABOUT A GAY COUPLE HAVING A BABY THROUGH SUR
GASSEE. AND I SAID CAN I TELL ME MORE
ABOUT THE NEW NORMAL. AND HE SORT OF, YOU KNOW, LOOKED
A LITTLE SURPRISED. AND HE SAID WHAT DO YOU KNOW
ABOUT IT. AND I SAID I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING
ABOUT IT BUT IT IS ABOUT A GAY COUPLE HAVING A KID. AND I FEEL LIKE I SHOULD BE ONE
OF THOSE GAY PEOPLE. AND HE JUST SAID OKAY, THANKS SO
MUCH. THANKS FOR COMING IN. AND I WAS TERRIFIED, I WAS LIKE
[BLEEP], YOU RUINED, LIKE YOU HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY AND YOU
OVERSTEPPED AND YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO AGGRESSIVE. BUT A MONTH LATER HE CALLED AND
OFFERED ME THE JOB ON THE NEW NORMAL. WHICH WAS, THAT IS THE THING
ABOUT RYAN MURPHY, AS YOU KNOW, RYAN IS A MAN OF HIS WORD. WHEN HE SAYS HE IS GOING TO DO
SOMETHING, HE DOES IT. >> James: ABSOLUTELY. >> SO WHEN HE TOLD ME THAT WE
WERE GOING TO BE MAKING THIS MOVIE, PROM, HE SAID IT WILL BE
YOU AND JAMES CORDEN AND MERYL STREEP AND NICOLE KIDMAN, I
THOUGHT WELL THIS IS A PRANK. THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS
HAPPENING. BUT THEN A FEW MONTHS LATER,
THERE WE WERE IN REHEARSALS. >> James: YES. AND YOU ARE SO FANTASTIC IN THE
MOVIE. FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW,
TELL THEM WHAT IT IS ABOUT AND WHO YOU PLAY. >> I AM, ST ABOUT ME, A MOVIE
ABOUT MY CHARACTER, NO. THE BIGGER STORY IS, AS I'M SURE
YOU DISCUSSED, IS THERE IS A GIRL IN INDIANA WHO WANTS TO
TAKE HER GIRLFRIEND TO PROM AND THE PTA SHUTS IT DOWN. AND THEN FOUR VERY NARCISSISTIC
ACTORS FROM NEW YORK DECIDES TO GO HELP HER. AND DO WE HELP? I DON'T KNOW, THAT'S UP FOR
DEBATE. >> James: YOU WILL HELP MANY,
MANY, MANY PEOPLE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, ARE YOU SO BRILLIANT AND
FUNNY IN THE FILM. THE "LATE, LATE SHOW" AND TELT,
SHARE SOMETHING WITH US FROM HOME THAT WE MIGHT NOT GET A
CHANCE TO SEE. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SHARE. >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER
BUT THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE I EXPLAINED ABOUT-- COMPLAINED
ABOUT THE LACK OF MERCHANDISE YOUR SHOW SHARED WITH ME. I WAS HAVING A REALLY HARD TIME
WRAPPING MY HEAD AROUND THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T REALLY GIVE A LOT
OF SWAG. AND THEN-- AND THEN THIS ARRIVED
AND THIS ARRIVED. AND THIS ARRIVED. AND THIS ARRIVED. >> James: LOOK AT THIS. >> SHINY. SO I HAVE ALL OF THE THINGS. >> James: IF I. >> I HAVE ALL OF THE THINGS. >> James: IF YOU ARE NOT
WEARING THAT AND DRINKING FROM THAT THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU
WALKING AROUND NEW YORK, I WILL BE VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED. I LOVE ALL THE SWAG. LOOK AT, THIS YOU LOOK
INCREDIBLE. REGGIE, DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION
FOR OUR GUEST THIS EVENING? >> Reggie: YES, I DO. TONIGHT'S QUESTION GOES TO, I
WAS JUST SAMPLING SOME DIFFERENT FOOD TO GET A LOCK IN ON THE
QUESTION. >> YES. >> Reggie: WHAT IS YOUR
FAVORITE TEXTURE OF FOOD. HAVE I TRIED ALL KINDS AND I
CAN'T DECIDE. >> I WOULD SAY MUSHY. MUSHY TEXTURE. >> James: WE'RE GOING WITH
MUSHY, REG. >> Reggie: THAT'S ACTUALLY
THAT HELPS A LOT. THAT'S CORRECT. >> James: ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. PLEASE THANK THE WONDERFUL
ANDREW RANNELLS. EVERYBODY. MEGAN THEE STALLION IS RIGHT
HERE WHEN WE COME BACK. DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
