ER reunion | Stars in the House, Thursday, 4/22 at 8PM ET

they've won tonys and oscars and enemies and grammys there's no red carpet cause they're home in their jammies from melrose place to broadway to janeway and her crew let seth and james bring all the stars to you [Music] on stars in the house [Music] hello everyone happy earth day i'm separated this is james wesley this is stars in the house we are celebrating earth day let me try this clearly by raising money for the water keeper alliance with the cast of what e r this shows club stars in the house we began when everything shut down last march we're raising money for the actress fund which is for everybody in the arts so you can be on stage backstage in front of the cameras behind the cameras we've raised almost around 92 000 at this point from viewers like you but today we are dedicating to waterkeeper alliance before we forget we have so many viewers tonight we want you to please god all to subscribe to the channel because the more viewers we get the more we can have amazing reunions like er we've had grey's anatomy we want to keep him coming so subscribe so he looks super fancy right now subscribe stars there you go right there david has it starts in the house thank you in fact at the end of the show um bb newworth and brian stokes mitchell and chandra wilson speaking of grey's anatomy um and annette benning all made this great video but we're going to show it at the end of the show we're going to get to er right so and and we're going to get to gloria rubin who put this whole thing together who not only gina boulay but also the president of waterkeeper alliance in her spare time she's like yeah she's got spare time she's going to be the president of waterkeeper alliance bringing clean water to everyone around the world but she's going to be on in a couple of minutes to talk more about that and the way that tonight is going to work is there are so many people who said yes they're going to be kind of coming on in waves like a party so there's just going to be that's how it's going to roll don't spend your time in the comments going where is right they're going to be here they're going to it's just going to happen um and and right now what we've always had uh before we get to dr ross and and nurse hathaway and dr green and dr hicks and everyone else we have our own medical expert actual medical expert right let's be honest a real doctor even though he is also a doctor on tv because he's the chief medical correspondent of cbs news he's been here since our very first show he gives us major up to the date coveted updates please welcome dr john the book hey guys now i know time is limited i promised you a spiel in 90 seconds and here's the spiel because we have so many new viewers okay where are we right now tony fauci says we need herd immunity to be about what 75 80 percent of people to get the vaccine there's 20 percent of people by the latest poll say they're not getting it or they're not going to get it unless it's mandated okay that leaves 80 we got to get the rest at the beginning in december 39 of people said they were going to be waiting and seeing that's gone way down to 17 it's that 17 of people we've got to get so how do we do that first thing we do is we listen to what the questions are why why is there hesitancy and there are a couple of things out there one of them is it happened too fast it was operation warp speed and it couldn't be safe well it turns out that the technology that this was based on is decades old so it wasn't done overnight it was done over decades second of all they're saying well wait a second the johnson and johnson you know that it's causing some clots you know isn't that a worrisome yeah it is worrisome guess what that's like about a one in a million side effect and the whole screening procedure uh and regimen pick that up that should make people feel good same thing with the manufacturing problems they had at the factory where they picked that up because not one of those shots got out into anybody's arm so there's a lot of you know spilts and suspenders that are working here and i think you know we've got a lot of movers and shakers out there i could you imagine some psas from the people out here saying to people hey we're we're almost doctors we're real live almost doctors uh and uh you know here are the reasons why you should take the vaccine so that's 90 seconds and i'm out of here all right you're the best get a vaccine everybody thank you doctor we'll see you tomorrow tomorrow that's right if i don't and if i forget billy davis jr and marilyn mccoo are going to be here tomorrow that's right fifth dimension that's right yeah and then on saturday uh game night with uh favorites that's right the first standing on broadway andrew mcardle and mandy gonzalez from in the heights that's in the heights and wicked and hamilton yeah that's saturday focus that's right and and where should we start we need to start with the woman who made this happen gloria rubin gloria i love it when you sing my name hey fellas hi gloria hi thank you for doing this we we want to tell everybody what is but not in our words what is waterkeeper alliance give us an actual description of it it is an extraordinary organization you know i've been involved with it for about 15 years i was on the board of trustees quite a few years ago and as you mentioned i recently became president of waterkeeper alliance last november november 20 so um which is kind of amazing you know someone else became president in november yes exactly so water keeper alliance is a global nonprofit that is focused solely on clean water and we have over 350 water keepers around the globe right so you ask what is a water keeper a water keeper is a person who is who's based in their community who lives in their community is a clean water advocate for their community so they fight for clean water for the people in their community and in turn that's what ends up happening for around the globe is we have these clean water warriors around the globe they fight in these ways they patrol and protect their waterways they cut down polluters they bind forces with other environmental organizations they engage the community to participate in the processes of you know solutions let them learn about what's actually happening in the local watersheds and one of my favorite things is that they bring polluters to justice so they take them to court they enforce environmental law and to me that's what a warrior is yes right exactly so whether it be from manufacturing or mining or factory farming or energy production or sewage waste or human waste or what have you water keepers literally fight day and night this is what they do every day for their communities it's extraordinary and 350 around the globe i'm not kidding so literally from peru to the pacific northwest from china to canada gloria wants israel we are everywhere we are everywhere you plead the waterways we're going to find you and we're going to take you to court i didn't do anything i was going to say gloria once everything opens your passport is going to be filled i'm telling you i cannot wait because i've been meeting as many of our water keepers as possible virtually obviously in the regional calls and so you know as we as waterkeeper alliance helps strengthen and grow the movement you know we offer tangible tools for the individual water keeper groups to become stronger and sustainable themselves so i have been going hopping on all of these regional calls so i get to put faces to names and i get to hear stories for them directly about what they're fighting for and how they're fighting for clean water for their communities and you guys trust me on this i mean when people i i just encourage everyone to obviously donate you can see the scroll on the bottom but also go to waterkeeper.org and find out who your local waterkeeper waterkeeper is as well as ones across the globe because there are people water keepers who are literally putting their lives on the line wow fight for clean water for their communities they get bullied by polluters and by politicians so what i want to do is raise the awareness and the global visibility of waterkeeper lines so that not just the water keeper knows that they are not fighting on their own but any bully that is you know threatening one of my water keepers you have their back all about it we have their bag and they're my watercolor i mean i feel that protective of them they are fighting for clean water for the communities and we are fighting for them yeah that's amazing if you read that book it's you know a civil action it's about the water being polluted i've seen that movie polluted and it caused all that cancer i mean it would be amazing if you guys did help all the way back then well i i'm telling you it's just this is again this is we are in a whole new venture especially i don't know what's happened well i do know what's happened of course everything has shifted in the last few months for sure but hope is on the horizon and as i get to see and hear each water keeper and i feel their passion for what they're doing and i see their dedication and their commitment and their inspiration i'm like you know what it just feeds my own i'm a passionate person to begin with you guys i'm a passionate person and i don't take things on unless i'm willing to fight for them not unless i'm willing to dive deep no pun intended and for this organization water keepers i i just they are they are amazing they are amazing people so gloria tell everyone how they can join you in in having everyone's back around the world who's fighting for clean water indeed well today of course we're all about raising funds for uh watercooper alliance and and what and waterkeeper alliance is matching donations up to 25 000 through tonight maybe even extending that over the weekend depending how well we do tonight on earth day but absolutely sign up go to waterkeeper.org sign up for the newsletters you can find your local water keeper you could actually be on the ground hopefully in person soon to find out what's going on in your local watershed or in the nearby water keeper or go around the globe check out what's going on in nepal see what's in india right see what's happening in australia in senegal as i had mentioned in latin america i mean we are just i cannot wait to travel to see everybody in person i i just and i'm acting as well i have some great stuff coming up and you know i'm writing my and music i mean i don't know what i'm i'm just a crazy person i just organized all these people everybody i mean i know i said yes i can't i've been so excited okay so we're gonna start but but the qr code was just up we're going to david is going to bring it up a couple of times throughout the show if not there you go um if not as you can see it's scrolling on the bottom it'll be there the entire show join and make a donation we'd love to raise some that's right money man that's amazing i know well thanks again for doing this for water keep reliance i really i mean thanks for saying yes to this especially on earth day i mean literally every day is earth day where would we be without clean water to drink all right gloria let's do this let's do it yes that's right water water cheers i have a feeling that george clooney does not have water but we'll we can ask him he's staying up quite late that's right [Laughter] he's in london so let's bring people on let's just bring them on we've got laura innis hello hi gloria hi beauty oh my god so good to see you you too thanks for doing this it's amazing oh my gosh thanks for joining us oh my goodness we've got cch pounder hello hello hey beauty i'm just great thanks thanks for joining us how are you i'm great and oh let me just toast you with some water just hearing your intro i'm like that's it that's done someone's doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing and i'm so proud to to to know you and wow congratulations on being president thank god our first female president and it would be you all along and uh in in protest i'm not even gonna drink any water tonight i'm gonna save it for other people all right let's please welcome hi tony juliana margulies hi guys hello oh my god it's so good to see you all oh my gosh tools how are you hi i'm good i'm in l.a in a rental oh you want you're like you all look like you're all cozy and at home and i'm like i'm having a rental you've got white walls and stainless steel appliances behind you yes it's quite sophisticated yes um joining tools it's so good to see you all and no thank you gloria i'm so impressed i'm really impressed and i'm thrilled and i've been on some of these water keeper alliance trips and banff that we used to take years ago exactly so i've been a big supporter for years and i can't thank you enough for taking the lead well done thank you all right next up is noah wiley oh my god i miss you all terribly thanks for organizing this gloria welcome see you oh boy and even though it's 1 10 am where he is george clooney oh i'm sorry i didn't know i'm sorry hi guys hi gloria hi george um hi gang boy i miss you guys and what a fun thing to see every one of your faces man we we went through a ride together gloria i want to say first of all you know we always think that these these issues are uh third world country issues flint michigan had a lot of problems with their water as well so it's a it's a very noble thing that you're doing and and uh and thank you for that and we're all very impressed with that and also thank you for getting us together because i have to tell you i look at these faces and you know we all of us share a really unique moment in time all of us we uh you know we went from obscurity to um a very different life and almost overnight and uh and tony was our fear fearless leader and it was just an it was such an exciting thing to be part of and to see all of you guys and and not to see any gray hair which really pisses me off oh it's there you don't have any [Laughter] i know it's in the middle of the night where you are so i really you know thank you all of you for for being here showing your support really it means a great deal so um we've we've got a ton of fan questions and basically all that we've been hearing in our house the last two weeks is the our theme song because we've been watching episode after episode it doesn't really have a melody no it's very 80s it's very 80s i kept saying is this buffy it's like [Laughter] [Music] my wife my wife has been watching it this has been a very very disastrous thing for me because i forgot all of the all of the terrible things i did is dr ross you're a player my wife keeps going is that it are you done season three do you finally settle down with the nurse hathaway and i'm like yeah i think so it's like not even close it's been a disaster for my marriage all right so let's dive right in this is like this is a really uh a simple question and i think i know your answer because i think everyone's reacting here but here it is what do you miss the most about this show that's from a viewer mcfly delorean a fan of back to the future apparently anyone jump in i miss yes i miss all right go ahead you start okay because i'll then i'll cry when you speak too no it was really um as george said a special time and you know it's one of those things where the sanity and the happiness and the joy was on the set and all the madness was around but when you came to work and when you played with all of these wonderful people we laugh non-stop i mean the image i always have is like we were on stage eleven and we were just laughing each other while every you know in the show there's everybody's dying everything and next door at friends you go onto that stage and it was like a cemetery it was like no laughing there was nothing i'm like aren't you guys like it was a total reversal and of course they were wonderful and doing great and everything but we just had a synergy of people uh and we i i've you know i feel like i laughed and stayed in love for eight years so it's it's all of these people that i love and miss oh my gosh laughing and staying in love for eight years that's kind of my dream that's like my man that was don't you think that's actually that was sort of the secret to the whole thing was that um i remember when when we were at the upfronts and people who don't know what the upfronts are it's when they sort of present the new series for the year and we hadn't seen anything of our show yet and we were standing backstage juliana wasn't allowed to be there because she was supposed to be dead and we were standing backstage and they showed it and the place went ape [ __ ] all of the you know all of the the affiliates and we realized at that exact moment that we were going to have a show that would because we knew the time slot was great it'd been there'd only been two shows in 16 years in that time so wow but we knew suddenly as a bunch of actors who you know struggled quite honestly we were all sort of fighting for careers and suddenly it was like oh we're going to be working for a while and the joy that came with that i think you know i mean people forget when when our show came out and the first season in the first few seasons actually um you know we were doing 10 million more people than friends which was you know an hour earlier than us we were just a huge huge television show and we we all recognized it and we had fun because we were like wow this is really crazy and we know how lucky we are and we knew that that wouldn't happen again you knew how lucky you were you got terribly spoiled having this first big experience be the most incredible experience you could be in and then the rest of your career is comparing everything to this once in a lifetime opportunity we were 23. professionals and you're working with tremendous writing and tremendous directors and everybody's watching and then you're like that that's not always the case it's true that's absolutely yeah i i remember when um because i didn't understand ratings i didn't know what that meant and i think our first show right we we got a 44 million right that was the the number which was numbers and then when i went on to do a good wipe they said we're a hit we have 14 million and i was like 44 million's ahead but everything has changed since then it's just the same and also we didn't we weren't competing against hbo cable there was no streaming so right were we yeah i mean but think about it you know the shows that we were being compared to if you remember you guys remember we would get these ratings they would send sending to us and they'd say you know you're you've tied with charlie's angels remember that that was the big oh you've tied charlie's angels but the truth was the shows that we retired were when there were three networks and there were you know there were 100 and some channels by the time we got on the air so there was you know it was different it was a real sort of appointment television and we were look we i i've been on seven series before that not one of them was a success and uh we all got to take a really nice ride on a really wonderful show i think and uh yeah and and i got to work with the you know the this group i mean i remember my first days with with uh cch pounder was like you know i i looked over and i was like this is an actress that i adore and i hope i don't screw up the scene you know it was just so much fun all the way around well george uh cch put you in your place quite well i'm angela hey hi i'm dr ross listen why don't you take uh bedpan detail here it's not very glamorous very necessary that's dr hicks i'm the new attending er physician oops you won't be needing these yep who is that young gorgeous woman who is she you know what people never talk about is that we went from dr kildare to er yeah you know let's fix the heart muscle right here that's the level there you remember we talked about we would say all the doctors when all the doctor shows we watched he would do eye surgery and heart surgery remember and it was like that was what the shows were and that was the beauty of this was it was very and that and that we took that stigma of uh the the woman is not the nurse in the scene which was important for us to talk about you know i remember um like i was um i was hired to do three episodes in the first season initially and then those three turned into six and then second season was like wow you're hanging on like what [Music] happened to you too though laura didn't it didn't you come on and there was about your cane what was the yeah she switched she switched arms i came on in year two and of course the show was like white hot and i was and so many people were auditioning for it i thought well i never get this so i was not nervous because i thought this is not gonna happen and i in the callback noah you were in the room because they were auditioning some loving anyways the thing i have to say is that i came onto the set i was totally totally nervous i walked in the set george and tony walked toward me and i was like holy [ __ ] my god and they immediately knew exactly what to do they said something funny they said something irreverent they said like don't screw up they gave me like a hug and i thought this these people are incredible and that's the thing that i will say the decency of the people the work ethic the energy the preparation the fun of the movement it wasn't like and when i went on to work on other shows or direct other shows it was like hit your mark get touch-ups it was like oh my god this is so boring i mean er was so wonderful and so integrated with the operators and the boom operators and everybody was just doing the dance and it was unbelievable unbelievable but i watched that clip and i know as many people in the background's name as i do in the foreground and that's the big distinction i'm picking out oh there's should be and there's brick and there's and there's mary i mean we were all sequestered on that sound stage together and there and george very early on you remember you called us all into your trailer and you said i've had the benefit of being on seven series that haven't gone here's what we're gonna do differently we're all gonna be nice to everybody and we're going to erase the lines between foreground and background and cast and crew we're all going to take our work seriously but we're not going to take ourselves seriously we're going to do our homework and we're not going to waste rehearsals learning our lines and you kind of laid out you know the abcs of professionalism and that just became the standard that we operated under and it should be standard job working procedure but in a way it was something that we kept our own counsel and were harsher on each other as as castmates than anybody else above us was ever going to be and we kept each other honest well no i think it's important you should know now it's late but you should know that we'd all met ahead of time and we decided we had to have that conversation that wasn't getting attention oh now i know not fair no you know what here's the thing we were really lucky that everybody and and it started at tony who was number one on that call sheet and walked on the set and said you know um uh let's let's enjoy ourselves and let's have fun uh every single actor that came on you know was treated with respect we treated with respect but they treated us with respect uh the john wells made a beautiful set for us the directors all did mimi and uh everybody did i just we were just really lucky i just you know i've been unlucky before and i've been lucky a couple of times and this was lucky i think you know i think i think fear really drove a lot of it in in a healthy way because you know it was really effing hard i remember like that pilot going like i had no idea where that door went what the thing was i remember the first day george we're like thing we're like they're giving us like a pig's foot and like like what the like here's a laryngoscope and all this stuff that ultimately became second with and so as a result like you had to be prepared and it was really that's what was really fun it's out of feel like you had to know your words and it's i mean to this day i'm sure all of you you go on sets now and your people are like you show up and people are like they don't know their words and you're like what are you doing like it's not boxy hemoglobin jesus yes i don't have to worry i can't worry about dialogue tony you were really really good about knowing your medical terminology oh damn order uh 10 units crypto my pseudoline i mean [Laughter] yeah see i have a speech impediment yeah thanks for pointing that out seth and james of here he's walking about triggering we take it back we're sorry there's no one else here so one of the questions we have re-watching the show how much you were on location you must have stories of like uh of being being in chicago and like were fans watching on the sides did you have to close streets like what was it like no storms and drinking in the lobby i remember the first time i we shot in chicago five times a year we would go to do exteriors in chicago and of course most of it's in l.a and you would run out of the ambulance bay to to get to the ambulance in your scrubs in l.a and then cut to where in chicago and it's 40 below and you're in cotton scrubs and clogs and you're so angry at yourself for not putting on that jacket when you could have beforehand but i remember um thinking oh my god their lives have changed when i walked with it was tony and george and noah and eric and we were in chicago and we decided to go and have dinner and it was like walking with the beatles i think women were throwing their panties at them it was one of those bizarre i remember just sort of standing back because the crowds came in and they were screaming screaming for the guys and i was like oh my god this is crazy this is like what it must have been like well not for me no one threw their panties at me but they they but it wasn't even it's like they were like rock stars these guys and also you know they're all tall right so like these you know tall handsome walking down they're all i'm 5 11. these guys are all like six i everybody always thought i was like some you know tying my shoes up like this easy now i love shooting in chicago it was a great time they were so welcoming and the crews were great and it was freezing cold but i shot there a lot because halfway his house the exterior of her house was there so um whole episode there though you shot the first full episode in chicago with you and mcgregor mcgregor that's right we did and then we spent more and more time there as the show went on and our investment and infrastructure grew but it was a huge part of the texture of the show was getting that weather but i honestly said when i think about chicago i think about the bar and the ritz and the just not wanting to say good night or goodbye to each other with each other all the time anyway well you've never remembered saturday live and we all got on a plane and flew out for the night because we just wanted to be there for him when he did it and yeah you know it was a i have to say there you know and friends had this too it was a really interesting sort of feeling because friends and we start at the same time it started with six of us in the very beginning and there was this you know sort of symbiotic relationship and they were really close and continue to be really close friends and stuff and we were sort of we and we were they were on the stage right next to us and but there was this feeling we had at the time that you know we first of all we did really understand that we were lucky but we also really felt like we couldn't believe it was work i mean it was hard you know what people don't understand is our shows were 47 pages in 1993 and our show was 47 52 pages maybe because it'd be a 44 minute show we were doing 90 95 page scripts right laura i think wouldn't it be about that so we're like doubling it up and you know and it's all shot and wonders you know with the camera moving so it became it was a real challenge for all of us and it became a point of pride we were proud of the fact we would go and watch the show uh thursday morning before it aired thursday night over in john wells office and we were proud of the fact that we weren't milking a scene for emotion you know that we would you know some kid would die and we'd be like well that's too bad and would walk away and you'd get a tap from eric lasalle or you'd you know look over to giuliani juliana and we should wink you know because we go oh we didn't we didn't hand bone it up which was the you know which was the danger of a show like this so it was great i'm so curious about role models because you know dr lapooka is a real doctor and he said he loved your show like cch would you hear from like young women of color who said like i thought i could go into the medical field because of you would you ever hear from fans like that i can kind of hear from almost everybody because they saw a black woman and then thought well if she can do it and say the words maybe i can too so a lot of people became interested in more like the er aspect because i think a lot of people um when i say it's the kill there effect it's that friendly doctor you go when you feel a pulse and have a little conversation as that's it and here you are you've got gurney's barreling down the corridor things are happening left and right and it it's almost sort of cowboy action in the medical field so it was and still is i think a very exciting show to watch it's also the first of that kind and that's what was a huge difference and the fact that you said real words that really existed in the medical field and that these were things that we had real doctors who were our coaches and who told us how to say the words where the scalpel goes and whatever other instrument that you have to use for that scene so it was that's why people came in on time and that's why the guys played basketball so beautiful right we would do 50 patients an episode yeah and they used to do three patients an episode but to your question seth yesterday i got my covent test going back to work and and the doctor came in and was like just went off i'm here's a you know 35 40 year old doctor who's like the only reason i'm a doctor is because of er and he says we used to bet on the show and we was like you know and what he said the watch i think point is that you guys did everything right you just did it three times faster than anybody can actually do it but we did every process and so that's i mean the writer's trusted in that and i think from that reality it's like that thing where people lose like oh just fake it if they're watching that you know it's trouble but the fact is all the good stuff came out of trying to do it for real yeah i would see noah stitching a pig's foot off the camera just practicing this stitch of pigs foot remember that i do you know key point i don't think a day goes by where i don't get a message from somebody saying that they were inspired by our show to go into medicine and and when you look at those numbers on balance it's got to be the greatest thing i've ever done with my life especially in 2020 realizing that all those first responders got their sort of inoculation about what it is to be a first responder from our show is extremely gratifying and if i could think back one extra thing because he's not here and i wish he was but eric you know when you talk about representation on television the relationship i'm most proud of on the show was the one that he and i had because he played an unapologetically talented black man who didn't cater to anybody's opinion or didn't care to be liked and it was a really unpopular character to play an unpopular stance to take and i didn't understand it at the time i don't think a lot of us understood what he was doing at the time but in retrospect he was standing for something that was extremely significant it was on the vanguard of something way ahead of his time and i wish he was here to take the battle for it because i don't think he would take it when we work together remember every tv guide wouldn't put an african-american on the cover of their magazine and we all boycotted them yeah well you found it they had more cartoon characters and animals on the cover you remember that and we were like we pointed out and they said you can't tell us you know who we can put on the cover we said no we can't tell you to put on the cover but we can point out what you do and we'll stop doing it with you i'll quote you george wrote a hell of a letter to tv guide that ended with and i know you don't go running into a crowded theater and yell fire unless of course there is one i think i risked that off from somewhere that you make noah though because even though it wasn't that long ago you know this like the next generation the new generation that that is watching the full 15 seasons of er on hulu you know they that kind of reminder of what it takes sometimes as an artist to just kind of have a specific perspective and really you know honor that and it's not easy to do and you need us to say the writing every director comes in and wants you to play sentimentality every director wants you to be likable in the scene and eric would have to fight every single week and say i know what i'm doing i know who i'm playing and interesting also people don't understand that on our shows because they have to do prep and post you can't have the same director directing like on the sitcom so you'll have a director who comes in who doesn't really know the show or knows it you know as directed four episodes ago and they come in and you know they'll be a kid dying or a woman dying they'll go you know this really makes you cry and you go i cried last week it became sort of our job as i think these uh all these wonderful actors would agree to sort of protect the character because it's not the director's fault they just didn't see it and of course they'd want you to be you know there's it was a really fascinating time i think we had that term of if if you if there was a moment walk away from it yeah yeah turn your back on it [ __ ] out i mean always i always felt that there was a moment where a new director kind of wanted to make his show you know and god love him you can't blame them because it's not as if they're doing it every single day this is it's finally i got to do er i'm gonna and then i'm gonna make that woman cry that one's gonna happen oh death and it's like no except tarantino do you remember that yeah when quentin tarantino came to direct us and he was such a big fan of the show he only did one take so they didn't have a choice to edit do you remember so we would rehearse rehearse rehearse we'd do one take it goes good let's move on and i said why are you doing that he goes it'll be my cut no matter what wow remember what was that director's name charlie haye yeah the yeller yeah they would yell you yell and i remember i was in the uh in the emergency room itself and and and this one poor actress she was like a you know working as a day player and she clearly auditioned by crying like crazy and he comes he's like okay when you get in here you go cry you gonna cry okay it's a runner so it's like you know 12 pages of dialogue and it lands on her and it's like she's like i'm gonna cry pulling nose and whatever she can do and she can't cry and he keep going [Laughter] finally he goes hail with it move on and he walks out and i'm standing there with her and she looks at me and she's just like and she goes i don't know what happened i couldn't cry and i was like i bet you do in the car on the way home you know it's a muscle that we all learned after a while but it's really hard to just come in and do it once i think it's really hard sometimes the guest star like i remember after a couple of three years of doing something where you do a scene where you've kind of done these scenes before because you know at some point you've kind of you're trying to match it and you're kind of going well i know what to do here you're not really paying attention and there's some actor because it's er who comes in and just knocks it out of the park and you're looking at me like wow you just wiped the floor with me buried me man you just killed me that happened a lot i used to say cece i'm sorry tony cch is in new orleans filming and i and i know you have to go so we wanted to to thank you so much for coming on you got it it was really good to see all of you and just a quick note to you gloria the whole water keepers thing congratulations on doing that and also just that hip to my own country that is you know below sea level like new orleans and uh is having a huge problem with dikes and um cokers because folks are polluting the waterways and they're getting clogged with the plastic bottle so um thank you for what you're doing and hopefully during all of this everybody will make that a loud part of the conversation indeed thank you please thank you for a couple of months if hopefully if you're still in london bye bye hi okay okay speaking of guest stars there's one guest star we have to we have to talk about and we have the clip yes and and george it's with there's nepotism happening but i understand rosemary cooney how did rosemary including happen was the role written for her did you picture it's the perfect matching of star and roll how did it happen i had nothing to do with it literally i had nothing to do john wells called me up one day and said i've got a part for your aunt and i was like oh okay and then they called her up and asked her to do it it was completely out of the i i didn't have you know they would do that to us they did it to i think all of us at one point or another they'd call and say oh i want to work with somebody so i wasn't i i wish i could take credit for it but i had nothing to do with it noah you're seen with her that we're gonna show it's like one of them there's so many of course scenes that you cry that the audience cries in um from er but this one in particular it is so sweet what was it like having like such a famous singer she wasn't lip-syncing that was her voice what was it like hearing the voice coming out of her right next to you well i had the great benefit of getting sort of all the older patients so i got stanford meisner oh my god she did red boltons and i got eli wallach and i got mickey rooney i had an unbelievable embarrassment of riches with the people i got to work with but rosemary was one of the earliest sort of heavy-hitter guest stars that we had on the show and i thought she was just amazing you know she played a sort of form of aphasia that's not difficult it's very hard to play less intelligent than you are or more confused than you are and she had she had a really interesting quality and then when she began to sing the expectation is that she would fall into her old sort of performance rhythm but she didn't she found a sort of a vocal quality that seemed much more pedestrian and less polished than a professional would be which made it all the more heartbreaking and i i just thought you know she and i kept in touch over the years and she ended up i moved up to san diego where her daughter lived and uh i got to see her perform a few other times and i just thought she was very always very kind to me and i really enjoyed the time manila was the nephew she always wanted to play well you can see that in this clip that vaporize and the vapor becomes the dreams we devise and while we are dreaming time flies and while we are dreaming time flies oh my god i have to get sisters gloria we've got um two of your other cast members here but before we bring them on remind everyone why we're here besides this great reunion i know after you catch your breath here that was intense okay happy earth day and thank you for supporting waterkeeper alliance global non-profit focused only on clean water so you know again i encourage everyone who's watching to visit waterkeeper.org and of course donate donated you would respond to the scroll below but thanks that's right because we've got it this you've got this amazing matching donation that's up to 25 000 dollars i know and it will probably you know we'll find out soon whether we will continue through the weekend and but that number will increase but literally every little bit helps that's right yeah okay so if you want to bring on we have ming na hello hi everyone wow everyone looks amazing your lightning wins by the way you have the best lighting in the bunch thumbs up and we have direct from london george i think he's just down the blimey from you goran is here oh george looked crazy who are you well someone didn't age i'm like you know what i'm like the portrait of dorian gray for all of you i get old you guys look great [Music] for joining us gorge you live in london now permanently are you there doing uh a panto i'm in uh cornwall yeah but we moved here last summer yeah so england wow cold there blood pudding no it's it's okay i mean right now it is a little bit cold but uh we actually had a pretty mild winter you know so the plan was being close to croatia travel every second weekend but uh your instagram account your instagram account makes it seem like you are in the most beautiful places in the world always well i've been moving around you know but this place is really gorgeous you know we're on a five mile beach here in hale down in corners it's it's really pretty you know but uh it's photography [Laughter] so when you know looking through all these clips and you know being 26 year over 26 years ago that er premiered so much of it's still relevant today but there were a couple of things that we noticed laura um that this scene that we found and it's like cause you're like i want to protect patients privacy but you protect them by literally making it easier to do identity theft let's watch i've created a diagnostic code for the board it's a list of a few hundred easy to remember two-letter combinations of our most common patient complaints and we can use the patient's social security numbers to protect their anonymity look at these social security numbers up on the board i guess that was better sorry you can't do everything right laura did you ever switch your your cane did you ever switch it from one arm to the other one time that's right we're on a bet or by accident by accident because i was walking on the hall and i was like oh [ __ ] as i started doing something with the wrong hand and i can't be so i didn't tell anyone i didn't say let's do another take i was afraid i'm getting into trouble so i just like thought oh well you can come through 12 years of er your commitment to that cane and the way that you had you embodied the physical performance took a toll on you over the course of the season i remember you telling me you had to do pretty extensive bodywork just because of the way that you were spending so many hours a day in a sort of difficult body position yeah i have you know i had a little bit of stuff and actually the bottom of my spine has a little curve an er oh my god oh my god really yeah yeah i mean it doesn't really bother me but yeah they just said yeah there's a little like hook there and it was like shoot oh well yeah but you know who helped me a lot was john fong oh come on switch arms and just use the other arm so you'll balance i was like i never thought of it anyways oh so it was his fault for the arm switch exactly i'll blame him that's really mean well i'm just saying i have a question by the way so giuliana you know everyone says you're only supposed to be on that first episode and then die what happened like how did you find out i'm coming back like how exciting was that who called you and what happened it just sounds thrilling yeah it was pretty unbelievable uh george called me and said if you're thinking of taking a jaw i'd just come back to new york um because i died in the pilot and um he said if you're thinking of taking a job i i i urge you not to i think the next couple of days you might be offered a serious regular role and i was like but i i died how does that how does that work um and he's like i don't know but i think it's gonna work and so i i was about to go and do homicide life on the street because i had done two episodes of it before i did the pilot ovr and they wanted me back and um and i didn't i didn't take the job and like a week later they called and said we're going to make you a series regular how did you know there's like 13 out of 10 whatever it was yeah i went to the test um and they did a test of it and the show tested you know extraordinarily well and the network nbc didn't really believe the test they thought that the warner brothers had doctored it and so they brought in a like another audience like a jay leno audience or something from another and brought him in right away to try to prove that that the show couldn't because the the the network didn't like the show they thought it was too dark and too many things were happening and no one would understand the words and it tested they tested it twice in a day and it tested off the charts and they realized because jules character was such an important part of it that that there's no way they were going to kill her off you know so that was a it was an interesting day how did you know though not to take homicide i mean i mean why did you think one show would be better than the other um you know i have to say i i i didn't know i i i called tom fontana who who wrote um homicide with barry levinson i called them because i i i didn't know what to do and i needed a job i was broke and i said i don't know what to do because there's this pilot i did and i think it's an amazing show and they might keep me on and he said if you don't take risks in life you'll never know and i'll always have a place for you here i mean he he was like my guardian angel and so between him and george i i said okay i'll wait i won't eat for a week no i wasn't that bad but yeah and then and and what was amazing is sherry i don't know if you guys remember this but when my character i i truly think the only reason my character lived was the way rod holcomb shot her coming in on a gurney overdosed the way he shot it with the steadicam and then through everyone's eyes suddenly elevated my character because everyone that you cared about on the show cared about this person and i think that's really what helped tremendously to keep me there but but um sherry she she states that i have a positive babinski which would have meant i was brain dead she hit the chart like up to her face when she said it so they just looped it and said negative babinski or something like that i wasn't brain dead which i mean so i share anything too i want everyone to think but the minsky is taking your finger up the middle of their foot right yeah like you take it up the middle and if the toe moves your brain down it curls this way and if it doesn't you're not so yeah wow isn't that amazing no great inside scoop noah i'm looking at this you look like you're staying like you're the unabomber where you're staying where are you from and this place is really weird man i like it no it's my my office which is starting to look a lot more like russell crowe's shack and a beautiful mind i kind of like it thank you i can't see what all those pictures are i'm so blind oh all my heroes what's going on have you been oh hi jordan hi everybody um life's been a blessing and it's been wonderful and i was i mean gloria uh thank you for inviting me to this uh great party i was so excited to see everybody again i've seen a few people but yeah i mean knock on wood you know being asian and being a woman of a certain age these days it's nice to still be working so i mean you know family's good but uh i think this was really my first big foray when i came out to la was this show so i have such incredible um memories of coming out there and guest starring that first year not knowing what 40 shares meant at all and no idea was such a huge show um it's just uh it's just been the platform that you know propelled everything else i think we talked about we talked about role models would you get letters i mean especially with that pregnancy episode with giving up your child for adoption would you get letters from people who haven't given up or considering um doing an adoption plan yes yes it's uh it's still a very um memorable and vital episode because i i was truly pregnant and having to play the part of having given birth before i gave birth to my first child i mean i remember working with noah on those scenes and i was just bawling at every take and noah's like just just save it save it for your close-up i'm like i can't help it hormonal push don't really push push push that's hilarious it was so insane and then i remember jonathan kaplan like wanting me to like really scream and push and scream and i was going through that whole like thing of i'm going to just visualize and give birth in the most peaceful most beautiful way and then when i had my first child 33 hours of labor later i called jonathan i'm like can we reshoot those scenes i don't think enough do you remember we were doing that there was a pregnancy in a birth scene and tony had to um tony was the doctor giving birth and it was like noah and eric and juliana and i were standing outside the window and i put that remote fart machine underneath the actor and you kept going push it and you hear the sound and you see europe tony's face he just freezes he tries to keep it together and you can see us in the window going like this or slowly like falling out of the window and then he goes all right let me you can do this push [Laughter] that remote control fart machine got a lot of play that's yeah i remember the alien remember we were who pulled out i pulled the alien out yeah tony pulled out this alien and we all screamed yeah remember crazy werner that you did all the special effects you had it from like alien baby tony you called the alien now yeah yeah yeah remember that they would always bring babies because you know you'd have triplets if you're gonna have a baby that's like you know a week old you can only have them on the set for like what like 30 seconds or something and they would cover them in strawberry jam and cream so they look like they've just been born and we would have this let this ten thousand dollar life like rubber baby that we would rehearse with and you know noah or tony or whoever was doing at the time every time the parents are sitting there holding their babies on the set we would do the rehearsal and we remember we would always drop the rubber band you had to drop the baby just to see their reaction this is before we were parents yes yes that's true this is when we were dicks well to bring it down we have that really beautiful scene between uh migna and noah here this is it it's so great oh 18 years from now he shows up looking for an explanation oh you tell them the truth you know you tell them that you wanted to provide the best home possible for did i tell him i was a coward that my bigoted parents were more important to me than he was you guys look so you're so young oh my god good acting is good acting yeah michaela is now 20 years old what a baby that was inside my body when we shot that are you kidding me oh my god yeah you guys know that bailey is now 27. oh my god no that's insane and to this day because he was born the january before we did the pilot to this day he'll tell you where all the different uh craft service was where all the wheelchairs were hidden and has such incredible memories of all of you making him laugh and caring for him on that set i mean he literally grew up there and he oh how much yeah anyway he sends his love to all of you oh man now cal and mia must be alice get ready cal is 30. no mia just finished her freshman year of college oh my god all right here's some fun uh in about uh 10 days i'll be 60. so [ __ ] off they will all wear it as well yeah yeah absolutely guys it's crazy it doesn't feel like 25 years ago it doesn't no it was because it was 26. or oh okay that's right thank you very much tony with the sass hey corn let me ask you something you know when we were talking to the cast of scandal they were basically saying they didn't know what would happen from one week to the next i feel you were always on the verge of being murdered or dying did you think you were gonna be killed like did you know you were gonna live through all these horrible things um i don't know honestly i mean i was on such a ride when i came there i was like everything was like awesome you know it was uh it was just unbelievable to be there you know i just came from croatia literally i was i did some movies you know small parts and stuff like that and suddenly i had a meeting with these people john wells and lydia woodward i never heard of them and then five days later they're my agent is calling like uh they would like you on the show er and i'm like are we talking about the same er and uh i just came there and started working with all these crazy people jonathan kaplan yelling and screaming giving me the tapes you need to memorize these words and i have a dialect coach i have a doctor giving me like these stitches go home and you need to learn how to do this and i'm like oh man what am i doing oh people am i supposed to say that uh juliana was my coach for all the bad words it was a keyword that i never heard before and we've been um i was kind of told off not to say that word it's a very bad word apparently in english language you tell us all the bad words i have to say warren when i wasn't being threatened by your presence because you're an internationally acclaimed hamlet the attitude theater performer and you were that was a problem you came in and i was years later i looked back and thought you came to a different country and in a different language held your own on the number one show in the world at the time if any of us had gone to croatia and tried to pick up croatia and pulled in to the rhythms of the number one show there we would have failed miserably it's such an unbelievable achievement how seamlessly you fit in and how much extra work you had to do on the side to do so uh if i never said it then i'll say it now no it was remarkable i got to witness it pretty pretty close up and it was remarkable you just you'd never let us see the work no but the ride was so wild that you you really couldn't stop and tell yourself oh my god what's happening to me you know you were just kind of it was so busy that summer came and you're like oh my god you know this just happened but at that time you know we were all kind of like in and you guys were all really i mean i always felt really welcome and i don't know george you remember this but my first day i parked the car in a parking lot and there's this guy that we worked in the same movie but never saw each other i had a one day of filming in macedonia on a peacemaker yeah you know and he's on this parking lot say hey you're a new guy and i'm like uh yeah that's that that would be me oh man you're gonna love it you know show is great you're gonna have so much fun this is awesome okay man you know goodbye i'm like me again sorry it's it's a little bit late my brain is like but yeah it was it was it was it was amazing you know i really felt you know uh tony was so nice calling us you know to this place and juliana was very very very friendly to me and noah and i played tons of pool he would come by for dinner and stuff you know so it was it was really you know i i'm so grateful for you know that time spent there i i really can't find words to explain that to you guys seriously i mean really the best period of my life those couple of years you know we we uh we have your first appearance and look how sweet and relaxed you are exactly what's your name my name is luca it's a funny name isn't it um that kid is now 51 years old before i forget um alex alex kingston could not be here but she sent this amazing video that i want to play right now oh hello to my er family um i'm so sorry that i'm not able to be with you live tonight but as you can see it is way past my bedtime so i just want to say good luck with the water keeper alliance fundraiser tonight access to clean water should be every living being's right it has been for many millennia so let's make it happen yummy remember the first day alex was on the set you guys and you know american actors have this funny thing about british actors the sound you know in if you look back at the 30s and 40s we even tried to sound british you know darling you know i'm only doing for happiness so we're always sort of intimidated somehow by an english accent and alex came on the set and the first day we were working we were in the emergency room and she's like cbc type across full units and we're like she's good and we was immediately intimidated by alex but you showed up hello uh laura i want to keep talking about this whole thing about role models what about being a very present lesbian on a tv show i mean it was really i was it the first of its kind i can't imagine any other show that had a main character television yeah well bisexual or lesbian however you want to say it yeah it was uh the first it was pretty big deal you know it's like a like you said a main character on a hit show and i remember during the summer they brought me into the office which they often did to have a little meeting with us to sort of talk about the year and so of course i thought okay i'm getting fired great run i'm so lucky i got to do this and they said you know we're thinking about maybe and they would just kept like hamming annoying and i was like what what and we wonder how you would feel if the character was gay and i was like oh my god that's amazing i mean i would it was great but also i was so happy i wasn't getting fired so i thought it was great i love doing it i love trying to figure it out um i've got lots and lots of letters and you know still to this day i think it really that's one of the great things about the show certainly with so many aspects of it certainly what gloria did on the show i mean it did change the world and they used to do a thing on fridays they which i don't know how they did it but they did some kind of study where they would see the social impact of the show like how many people called for aids tests how many people called for domestic abuse counseling and it was incredible so that's one of the things that's so amazing you can have this job that's so fun so wonderful and literally you're making somebody healthier or happier you know by doing it i mean what gloria was doing people forget uh at the time it was you know it was in 1995 i think gloria when it happened you know uh people were still coming to terms with magic johnson it was still this whole idea that this is actually a pandemic that is affecting everybody and people were afraid to touch one another and they were scared of all these other things it was such a you know it was making people a pariah in some way and you were playing a character that's saying i'm going to continue to live my life with this i was a victim of this in some ways and i just i thought that was amazing to watch and i thought that was on a show that 40 million people might see i thought that was incredibly important and brave that was that was for retrovirals i mean it was like yeah yeah it was a death really tony do you remember going to those hospices you and i went down there we would just hold hands through the night it was unbelievable yeah you know it was really it was at that cusp it was literally at that cusp when medicines were beginning to give people their lives back so it was um i mean i know this word is used a lot but it truly it was groundbreaking in the way that we broke the barriers on the who gets hiv how they get it it was a married professionals straight woman you know it was like that doesn't yeah it does and you come out so proudly i was just gonna say you guys you know you know that it was like it was such a mixed blessing because of the huge success of the show was of course the blessing and yet at that time you know it was a challenge for what was going on in in my personal life at the time and there was no break from it it was um you know people wouldn't attract me like call me there was no but the good thing as laura mentioned is that it literally saved lives i mean people and still to this day as the repeats happen you know they are thankful and grateful about breaking down the stigma like eradicating the stigma and the shame and the denial still prevalent in certain pockets of course but jeannie boulais was i mean she literally she handled it with such strength and grace and dignity you know yeah um she was kind of if i may say so she's kind of amazing and definitely a role that i will be proud of for the rest of my life and i wanted to make for sure that i make for sure it'd be how do i say this i wasn't gonna let her die from it because that wasn't hiv didn't have to do that anymore no way and i didn't want that to be the message in the world forever for all time so um well we love the scene where you at this point i think it's only laura and tony who know that it's you who's hiv positive and it's a scene where you basically are you revealed that you're a patient x oh so great the real question here isn't in law and policies it's do our patients have the right to know this in no way has any reflection upon my opinion on employee x's work is there an actual employee x or are we just talking we're talking policy here people employee x could be any one of us excuse me just would everyone stop calling me employee x i am hiv positive [Music] yeah wow i remember that so well powerful it really gave people courage to be able to do it and and the other powerful clip we have is is laura when um when you're when you come out to uh to dr romano um and by the way paul mccrane could not it was a last-minute thing a family thing came up and he couldn't and he could not make it and he he emailed and said uh he sent his regrets and he's hoping that that gloria reuben will uh put together an er reunion part two and that you'll be there for that um but this is laura the longest of people who want to be on that i got calls all day from people that were like wait a second where was my invite i want to be on there we're gonna do a part two poor gloria had to say no after a while because we only had so many boxes all right so we'll do a part two gloria there you go but this is that famous mandarin uh men's room scene are you giving me an ultimatum i swear to god [Applause] very carefully you're the chief of emergency medicine not the county's lesbian advocate that's where you're wrong robert because i am both i'm the chief of emergency medicine and i am a lesbian and if you pursue this matter any further i will take it to the county board of supervisors the aclu the press and anyone else who will listen so i suggest you choose your battles very carefully that's right such a great scene remember overlapping dialogue remember when people talk on top of each other how quickly everything happens right i mean if you did this on tv now you'd be like seven pages later you'd be like that's always went right to it okay i want to rewatch all the episodes now just seeing these little clips is yeah that's what's been so amazing about whistle many memories the pandemic seems to have started uh a whole resurgence right everyone's watching er again and it's been years since i had been called new pathway when i you know and now it's like young kids are watching it and i actually asked a couple of kids i said does it bother you that there's no cell phones or you know does it feel like it's technologically behind and they go and don't even notice wow because it's so fast and they're so and it's so good so yeah remember our first season steven spielberg gave us all cell phones at the time we called it the gift that keeps on taking because it was like four dollars a minute didn't tell us that we had to pay the phone bill i didn't know that corey steven spielberg had given the cast of always the movie he just directed and it was christmas time and he gave us all these cell phones said to me hey we should write a really funny thank you note that says dear stephen thanks for the miata crossed out cell phone and i was like yeah that'd be funny george didn't send his stupid biggest ingrained in the world to steven spielberg okay juliana to kind of uh prove your point about er being ahead of its time we have the scene where there's a patient who has a numb chin and you do not know you're you're using like the intranet to figure out what's the new system that just came to the hospital and uh it's between you and tony i've got this kid in the clinic who's complaining of a numb chin which i do why don't you try num chin numb chin sounds a little too uh you know easy hey wow there you go it's ask jeeves anybody exactly wow okay so there's the the most obvious question that so many fans have been asking would you guys ever consider doing an er reboot or a two-hour special here's my performance [Laughter] you can come back like on grey's anatomy like in a dream sequence it's all a dream tony it's you know in a white suit you know i don't know the the hardest part is that when you look at the show you know and consistently over you know so many years it would be hard to say that you could do it at the level that we did it um you know i'm not sure that that's available um because boy i you know you watch i've been i actually julian i've been actually watching it a little bit because my wife's watching it which is very odd and i have to say you know it's such great television so um you know i i just tony i just watched love's labor loss and i have to say you know i'm barely in it so i can say it sort of objectively it's it's good a piece of television as i've ever seen and what you guys did than tony what you do in those scenes i was like this is better than anything i see in film or anywhere this is stunning it's stunning work and you know and i felt that way about a lot of the episodes i saw i i i'm not sure i'm not sure you can you know it's hard to catch lightning again you know i know maybe other people have a different opinion you can try yeah does anyone else classy of john not to franchise it and not to do er new york or erla which was planned at the time you know csi and law and order and all those shows that were on around the same time they all figured out how they could brand themselves and replicate the model in a different city and get a different show out of it and i always thought it was really classy that we never tried to do that that we just sort of although no let me just say er ibiza i don't think you can reboot it i think it's what george said you can't capture lightning in a bottle twice you know i mean i i think you have to leave what was so beautiful and move on um because it just feels cheap it feels like it's it would cheapen it right for me i actually think sitcoms are easier to sort of bring back than our shows in a way i i feel like you know they were so character driven in a way it's very different i did have an idea about genie boulet 20 years later though where would she be in new york her viral load is zero she's divorced her son is in college he's struggling with mental health issues genie and others will make guest star appearances how about that it's a possibility done you it's hard to conceive of a way because people ask this all done and it's it's hard to conceive of a way that it could live right now correctly like it would have to be different in just the right way i mean it would have to be so so good and so i i just don't know how you could crack it exactly you know to make it match that in any way it would be tough the tempting aspect would be that er came on the air in 1994 yeah right right when bill clinton had been an elected president it was going to revamp the entire health care industry and he appointed hillary clinton to do it and suddenly that became the lightning rod topic and we were to show that when we were on newsweek magazines cover the violence had a healthcare program that really works because we were in the national conversation about what healthcare in america was at that moment similarly we're in that same conversation now as they're looking at all these metrics about who covet affected more than anybody else we realize that we have a huge two-party system in our healthcare industry there is a jeremiah show to talk about the discrepancy with the passion of john wells behind it that would be an interesting show noah before we before we close this segment we haven't i have to show this clip because it's it's between uh tony and juliana just to to make your point about talking so much especially in those early episodes zeitgeist yeah it was such in the zeitgeist her insurance company wants her transferred to midway for orthopedic admission i can't apply a plaster splint without moving the ankle it's going to hurt like hell we'll medicate him do parents know about this i'm going to tell them now mark we're going to splint an unstable ankle fracture send a 12 year old girl across town for an operation we can do upstairs look i don't like this any more than you do but that's what her insurance wants done i thought you were the doctor i am the doctor but if i admit her here her very nice parents are gonna get slapped with a surgical bill for tens of thousands of dollars i quit what i want the sideburns back never i i would have to say that i would love to do a reboot only to be able to hang out with this group of people the talent you know as you get older the the appreciation level and just the awareness is so much greater and and this just such great fortune to i would love to have been you know even now just like just just even this surrounded by these people i do have to say gloria when we when i got the call they said we're going to do some sort of an er reunion where everybody gets to talk you know i think everybody who's in these squares sort of felt the same way which was you know we were really excited to see each other you know i'm excited to see this gang there these are people that i really love you know and and that we grew up together really grew up together in in many ways and it's fun to see you guys yeah george i'll never forget you chaperoning me on the tonight show because i was a nervous wreck and i was going to pee in my pants and i didn't want to go out there my publicist came and knocked on your door and you stayed instead of leaving you stayed on that stage with me and that's the kind of unlimited people you know you were i mean because i look because two years earlier i was a nervous wreck doing it you know i mean that was the thing we all got to experience this together i mean we all got to take this ride where we go you know we went from you know tony bit had some success in film um but the rest of us hadn't had much and suddenly you know we were on the cover of newsweek about three weeks after the show you know premiered and it was like we went from zero to a hundred and you know we were working in new york and we all knew people knew our names remember that and george we have to say which you're very humble about this but you had such a clear vision of how you thought television could be four actors on it and you're like mina said your way of talking i only end up on saturday night live because you made that happen you like suggested me for that you know i mean you you were gracious and and and you were like knowing that as long as we stay classy and happy we win and we did that you know and and you you really knew that your experience of what it's like to be in a show and work with people for months and months and how that can go south let it happen and you know we we owe a great deal of gratitude to you for that well i i just feel like i you know i just felt so lucky that for you know i've been on series that were really miserable you know i did the first season of er above roseanne you know and oh my god you know there was some crazy [ __ ] that went on there over the years and so to be in a place where everyone just you know we were just locked arms and you know and and tony we talked about this and no all of us we've had these long conversations about the idea that you know the only way this is going to survive is if we just insulate ourselves and protect ourselves we were working people to understand we were working 17-hour days this wasn't like some easy gig so we weren't really experienced we were going out and hanging out and getting you know we were working and so all of a sudden you would we would go to chicago to shoot and the world would explode and we'd be in shock and we we were isolated with each other we were hunkered down with each other and it made us a really tight-knit group you know all of us and i think we were really protective of one another over the years you know george you talk about all these pilots you did before didn't you do one where you were like in a rock band you were a bass player yes i did i'm shocked that didn't go i played a police officer during the day in a rock star at night you told me that you're actually interested in doing a reboot of it [Applause] [Music] what's the matter it's no good sounded all right to me yeah all right just didn't want to cut it okay here we go again the new rockne story here's the best part of this i got that pilot on like a tuesday and on thursday i'm sure i've never played a guitar in my life i got the job because i had long hair i was wondering that's not even my worst i'm in return of the killer tomatoes man all right so we're going to uh clean the slate here gloria's going to has this amazing video she's going to talk a little bit about water keeper i think some of you might be joining us for the last section which is nurses dedicated to nurses um and if you're not staying then uh hopefully the er partnership that's right hopefully we'll see you at er part two so uh george we'll see you in a little bit juliana hold on let's see laura noah tony tony and goran can go to sleep now um so gloria do you have any updates because i know we've been getting texts and i haven't really looked right now i i haven't either um i don't know um i know that we're at corn or mcnaughton thirty thousand dollars now but i don't know i don't have any specific numbers i'm so sorry i've got it i thought that i would get an update um okay well they're watching so i'm sure we'll get one but we have maybe while this video because you wanted to um show can you set up the video and we'll show it before we bring on the earth thank you for that sorry i just totally was of course yeah for this video so for world water day this is a an idea that um i put out to our 350 water keepers and we for everybody to do an individual video at their watershed just who they are where they are why they love their watershed et cetera so out of 300 and this is the first time that this has been requested of them we received 50 videos out of 350 which is pretty darn good considering that it was the first time and from all over the globe right so we put together um a video two and a half minute video uh for world water day that has a combination of many many of these videos and also just fyi because everything is world water day for water keepers around the world every week we are on social media we're plugging we're posting each individual video at length so that everybody can see exactly you know everybody's story and again where they are why they are a clean water warrior what they're doing for the watershed it's kind of amazing so i hope that everybody you know enjoys the video and definitely please remember to donate and i'll be sure to get back to everybody with some numbers all right here's the video water is life it sustains us both physically through drinking cleansing and other critical functions and emotionally by healing and replenishing our spirits this world water day happy world water day everyone happy world water day felipe we must take a stand and defend our right to clean water before it's too late water keeper alliance is a global movement of clean water warriors whose dedication commitment and enthusiasm for the future deeply inspire me but what inspires them i want my children to also enjoy a clean and healthy river in their future and the opportunity to make them incredible environments for us and for nature i also cannot stand seeing a fellow human not having access to drinkable water water keeper model gave me a mechanism to make a difference when i hear stories from our water keepers around the world about the growth success and effectiveness they have had and continue to have i am completely enamored because the passion of these advocates is palpable every single day it's a beautiful green ribbon in an otherwise dry [Music] landscape the coming years will be critical in the fight for clean water as we rapidly approach the point of no return due to climate change rampant pollution and other man-made factors we must take steps to reverse the trend and stop this global water crisis before it's too late having been involved with waterkeeper alliance since 2007 i have seen the incredible progress that can be made when friends like you stand alongside us we're the voice of these rivers we're clean water warriors and you can be too though we cannot physically be on the front lines together you are there with us in spirit fighting with us for the future of our planet for the world's great water sources and for the communities surrounding them i'm proud i'm incredibly humbled to be a clean water warrior clean water warrior well what's more important than water happy world water day clean water warriors [Music] yes you see what i mean yeah it's so great it's just worldwide it's a thing that unifies all of us it's really wonderful exactly and you know what else is wonderful okay so i just got numbers we are up to forty thousand dollars and just for just from this evening exactly and water keeper lives will match up to 100 000 through this sunday so keep it coming man we are just like thank you you guys this is just wow i it's so important and for everyone who's watching this because i know there were comments i saw even before the show they were like can we watch this after it's live the answer is yeah and tell all your friends you subscribe to stars in the house yeah please subscribe to stars in the house everyone that's watching all of our past shows on there and and er will be the top one um to watch so we've got we've got some people who stayed i think we've got new people i think george might have gone to sleep let's bring back um the the uh the people who were here earlier and then we're going to bring on some um some more photos thank you if you want to bring them on we have giuliana yes you stay we have the unabomber noah wiley that's what george said not me i'm just quoting we have the fabulous anthony edwards that's fabulous we have mingna [Music] we have goran and london who can save later than george clooney and very impressed i i think george so george just emailed me he said he got cut off and that was such a weird way to end i thought so we were supposed to stay on tell him to sign the hell back on and we'll bring it back on we can fit him on screen yeah hold on i'll do it quickly oh but you know what here's the problem though seth is that we can only fit literally 10 people on the screen so well no i mean it's uh he's staying we'll see him appear in in uh so you know what um mignon goran you might i hate to say goodbye to you this way but let's let's no you know what i can go to to uh get somebody else on okay i'll just watch others watch it on the youtube thing all right i need that winner soon goran you and i need to play poll soon i miss you terribly yeah come back to los angeles i'll give you a call how about that please do okay here this is you goran and you're uh in your serious mode on the show oh i'm sorry all right one more time johanna we are taking your boyfriend up to you guys okay here we go yeah there was a lot of that going on in front of the elevator it was lasting for about 30 minutes it was very embarrassing all right go to sleep thank you guys i let him know that if you wanted to come back on he should but if he went to sleep we'd understand there you go okay perfect and he was like that was such a weird goodbye i thought it was the lace front wig that threw him in the long hair juliana three of your fellow nurses are here so that's right where are my girls ellen crawford hi ellen we've got connie hi connie oh my gosh what's up and last but not least ladies hi you guys are beautiful wow so handsome too so i i didn't want to say goodbye to anybody i was watching i was having such a wonderful time i have a question was there ever a storyline that you can look back on the show and think wow that was really prescient cool man to find the repression because i didn't do all my sats okay well that was like really foretelling of like what was to come it was a little bit of a prediction like cassandra there is one particular episode and and noah we have the scene cause you're you're in it oh yeah it's very kind of coveted let's just say that you hear the words contact racing you hear you hear the tbc coming you hear go ahead noah you know which episode i'm talking about is it the monkey parks one or the benzenes it's the one where the where the family brings in the two kids he was a state department employee in a bid in africa he did not know what the hell we did it was about very little affliction called monkey pox that required us to go into quarantine and shut down and and start talking about tracings and cdc guidelines and yeah that was a little heaven's time but it was also a bit of the zeitgeist remember movies like outbreak and virus were also around at the time so it wasn't like we were groundbreaking we were picking up on this new notion that we were all vulnerable to an invisible enemy that we would never be able to detect until it was too late that was just starting to become in our awareness well i guess maybe i i hear what you're saying and i think maybe this particular clip you'll see what i mean when i say that that it could be something that is literally said if er was around right now with covet 19. we don't know what it is and we don't know how they got it but it's here and it needs to be contained this is not about denying your civil rights this is about protecting you if we let you go you can carry the disease home to your own families so please stay here help us and we'll all get through this [Music] oh my god i mean wow you can say that speech today oh yeah [Laughter] i was just going to say that there were a lot of things like that either real or sometimes imagine because i remember on kind of a lighter note early on the series uh my husband cut his hand who went to officer albert and we went to the er and we were brand new in the doctor the yeah this one have something on i don't know so odd my transistor radio is on i don't even have one my feelings it might be connie i'm not sure but anyway go ahead ellen well i don't know how much he's heard but i was taking my my husband and when he cut his hand and we took him in the yard by the way i saw what one of our uh prop men was an actual paramedic at night so hello john coming but then um we went back and our show as i was saying was brand new and the doctor that was attending said to him i haven't been watching that show but i really need to because i need to prepare for friday because everybody comes in thinking they have whatever they saw on thursday another group that was that uh were involved in the effects of the hospital because julianna and i and connie marie and uh i did uh went to nurses uh gatherings uh conventions meetings and um and there was a guy who said every morning on friday morning we discussed the ethics of our hospital but first before we get to that we have to discuss the all of the issues that were on your show the night before no we're not going to get to anything else so you know just i just got an apple watch laura and i was thinking like did you this is before fitbit's like did you ever measure how many steps you guys were taking on set weren't the nurses just constantly running relentlessly on the show for sure it everybody else was on i don't know what they will happen all right well look if you have some extra things turned on turn them off on your one computer perhaps maybe you're right maybe it's the polluting the polluters they're trying to pollute they're trying to defrag one has a radio on it for sure or something it's not here's something i think somebody has something extra on gloria thank you so much for including us and and what you're doing i'm so appreciated and no gosh julia all of you guys and you guys look so wonderful i'm happy to see somebody [Laughter] do you guys remember um there was a moment um i think it was our third or fourth season where they decided they wanted hathaway to go to med school and become a doctor yes yes and um i took tremendous offense to that because nurses are never represented properly in a hospital and the backbone and all the nurses i had i had followed around in the real um a hospital before i before we started the show uh they said the doctors fix people but we heal them and and i never forgot that and i i i fought so hard i said you can't make half the way a doctor you just can't it's not right it's not fair to the nurses in this world you know they've got to be seen and and you guys all stood behind me for that and we were it was such a great um just a force of nature of these incredible women and these are d yeah um uh malik who passed away oh man um but that was you know that that was our world and and we made that hospital run and it was a real pleasure to work with all of you julie yes juliana we have that scene we have that scene where you come and you and you and you tell the women that that you're going to stay a nurse didn't expect to see you here it's nurse's night out right i thought we was already fitting you for lab coats yeah well white adds 10 pounds i think i'll stick to pink you have a second thoughts about med school now let's just say i really like what i do another round i'll get it all right you want to play sure all right come on girl it's a quarter of ball i think i can handle that god i don't remember that i don't remember shooting that scene at all look at all the episodes again that's okay a lot of okay there was i was watching an episode and there's a one second shot of you dancing i'm like is someone like an amazing dancer like are you an actual what's here like what i've never seen more amazing isolation pelvic wise what's happening well actually pretty much our entire nursing crew were uh musical performers which really came it came in handy when you're dancing around uh you know a scratch or a gurney because in the beginning especially they just say move around we got more specific direction later but in the beginnings and you'd have the patients lying there going it's like a dance [Music] but yeah we uh we all of us pretty much uh kind of raise the dancer and i know uh lilly was a um she was in uh best of the whorehouse the film yeah yeah we had we had a good time yeah well with the perfect timing of uh george clooney the scene that we're about to show is the last scene of the first season when juliana is not getting married and george is there and you're dancing at the end and george happens to be here so like amazing timing george george went to sleep and literally woke up he got a full night's sleep in the last five minutes oh no you guys cut me off i've been watching you for like an hour i think you saw me with that guitar and that long hair is that we're gonna go get him out oh i'm so glad he came back good good hi laura hi connie hi ellen it's so good to see you guys i've seen ellen more recently i think but it's so good to see you guys we had such a good time together it's really good i miss you guys very much here is this beautiful moment between you and juliana kind of re-hooking up but the most important thing is ellen you're dancing right at the very very end the pelvic awareness is amazing let's think again [Music] [Applause] [Applause] oh that was that was fun we were we were at some beautiful church on location somewhere i don't remember where it was but we were there for a week i think actually a lot of our crew and a lot of the people that worked in our office were in the background of that wedding yeah yeah self-referential things where we were seeing a lot of our internal family on tv for the first time that made it extra special each in our bridesmaids costumes i remember that what were you gonna scrubs to peach dresses what were you gonna say tony it's just gonna say uh it's so great laura and connie and i want to see you guys but and you were dancers and you know part of our rituals we have these tech rehearsals and the tech rehearsal was basically a dance rehearsal and every trauma had it and we'd spend whatever time it took for all this choreography that was every line everything had to match it's like we actually matched like you go to tv now and no one matches anything it's like whatever and but we like made it and the choreography that happened and and what you guys as nurses did and i feel like i learned more from the trauma nurses that were our advisors than i did from the dogs literally the nurses are the heart and soul of the er they really are yeah man and lara you remember remember all the tricks like we all felt like it was literally like we were like doug hennings we were like magicians because the whole thing was like you'd have the you're going to intubate somebody you've got this big giant tongue depressor that would kill an extra if you had to slam it down the throat so as the cameras here you're going like this and then the minute the camera gets behind your back you switch it out you jam it to half a tube down something it was just because i had this trick where i'd hide the short e2 underneath pain i was up in my sleeve and and then i'd take it out of my my wrist basically and sing it in the guy's mouth and i thought to myself the other day that's so unsanitary hey you want to be in show biz remember when jerry springfield sewed the drape to the guy's head by accident and he was so excited to be an extra that he didn't he oh he winced but he didn't complain and we tried with his hand afterwards sewed it right to do you remember when i blasted myself with the paddles they were real puddles they were bad it was a battery charge thing we thought and it went down so fast hey watch this that was me we just watched your rescue episode in the water what the hell was that like and were you wearing a wetsuit and where was it filmed it looks horrific to film well it was interesting we were in chicago it was one of the weirdest like you know they always say about chicago weather we were shooting during the day tony you remember this we had lunch that day and it was 70 degrees and sunny and beautiful and that night it snowed and we were out in this this this uh you know this tank we were out in this ditch shooting with helicopters and snow it was freezing cold and this kid the actor he was like 13 years old he's like i don't rehearse and i was like well i'll tell you what when i'm on your show we won't rehearse remember i smoked pot in that scene you almost smoked pot you but holy cow it's very um water world i mean take a gander at this [Music] or okay we we have to wrap it up we have two things we want to show before before we end my god this has been i think our longest show ever you guys are so incredibly saying especially the late nighters um who is the biggest prankster on the set yeah one guest remember that we were working with real we had lube we had so many so much lube somewhat fluid you know you went to run to your to the back you know your trailer for a 10 minute break and you went open the door and you couldn't because there's it would be lubed or i mean let's still look let's tell a quick no let's tell the quick uh uh eric lasalle one because eric showed up late in the first season because he was doing something in portland another series right and he showed up and he goes you know there's this woman she's like a stalker she's chasing me in portland thank god i got away from this woman you know melanie she's a nut you know and he walks out and goes i'm just so glad to be away from her and be in la and he goes out and leaves and at this point we just have these two banger trailers we don't have phones on them or nobody had cell phones and and so we're in his trailer and he leaves to go on the set and i look at no one i said you understand the mistake he just made he told you everything he told you everything he told us her name so i called ftd and i got a 100 bouquet of flowers sent to his trailer and we're watching him and he comes out and he opens the door and he sees flowers hey flowers and inside the card says yo i'll see you on the set tomorrow love melody you know and he comes running out he goes i gotta get a restraining order he goes onto the set and noah and i are there in the emergency room like you know doing something and noah starts to smile like and eric's like oh no no no i get it oh man you guys and i'm like god damn it so i run outside and family ties remember family ties are shooting next door and i run over and i grab family metals family members out of his door and i grab it and i switch it for eric lasalle's nameplate and i come running back in and eric is like man that you guys you scared the hell out of me man and i was like when did you figure it out and he's like well you know what i when noah starts flying i go do you think you know do you think jaleel will be mad and he's like what are you talking about they go what are you talking about and he goes i'm talking about the flowers you go oh flowers we're talking about switching the nameplate on your door and he goes running and he sees julia wipe on the door he was like i gotta get a restraining order it was fun very early on you don't leave the table first when george is at the table even if you have to use the bathroom you sit there and hold it because the first person leaves the table you know what we should do [Laughter] but by the way by the end everybody was doing it just so we're clear but you remember that we were all having lunch at the commissary there was that director none of us liked very much i don't remember his name and i couldn't believe it he he did that stupid old thing and he goes george smell this doesn't smell funny and he went like that and he and george's head went in and we all were like oh you did not just do that and days went by days go by and i'm thinking what's george gonna do to him what's george gonna do his last day on the set he drives off and his license plate says honk if you love [ __ ] [Laughter] like i said it was all about fear remember when he did that he like goes smell this and i smell it and he hits me in the face and i come on like shaving cream on my face and i look at him and all of you guys are like are you ready you know who you just did that too i was like okay [Music] okay so before you guys go everybody did more acting and directing gloria you went this left turn with tina turner can you just give us two seconds on you went to an open call how did you start working on time well here's the thing people think that i left the yard to go on tour with tina the fact is that i knew i was leaving you i didn't know what i was going to do next i just knew that i wanted to have more music in my life then i met tina backstage at a vh1 davis concert and um like a meet and greet and i wore a french outfit in honor of her of course and she said to me um oh you've got such great legs can you i know you can say that anyway and you sing and dance and i said yes i can and she said well tour with me next year i said okay great and um you know i left and i thought that was so cool that she said i should do that cut to the next day getting a phone call from her tina really want to know if you can sing and dance so i auditioned for tina turner and her manager three months later in her hotel room she's she is she's sitting on the couch with her manager i sing a song of hers or her i can't stand and i do a dancing and i left the hotel room with the gig wow all right we have and you and you staying at the super bowl yes i yes we did sing at the super bowl and yeah yeah the tour was about four months long us and canada and yeah so so we have the clip and the first woman you see in this clip is gloria she's on the left of the screen go see let the sass begin [Music] [Music] guitar and then you see that we should have shown them side by side you guys that was great amazing gloria's still got it all right um we're gonna we we um we wanted to show like i said at the beginning of the of the program two hours ago that um that we you know we've been doing this for the actors fun stars in the house since last march and uh and they just sent us this amazing video i haven't seen it yet that we would be remiss without showing because the actors fund i'm sure there are people who worked on er background players day players people behind the scenes who have gone to the actors fund in the last year especially because there's been so much need so this is an invitation to all of you in the future george clooney movies uh you know juliana the the good wife any of that anyone that does anything because we we vowed that we were going to be doing this show daily until broadway reopens and that ain't going to be tomorrow so um here is here are our friends bb new earth and ned benning brian silks mitchell and chandra wilson from grey's anatomy when covet 19 shut down our industry seth and james went to work they've made stars in the house a must-see live streaming show to raise support and awareness for the actors fun to help professionals in the performing arts and entertainment community across film theater television music opera radio and dance through programs that address our unique and essential needs we're helping over 40 000 colleagues from every part of the country throughout the kobit 19 pandemic the fund has grown our support groups career guidance housing resources financial education and health insurance counseling we've also continued our care and support for everyone living at the actor's fund home that's our seniors residence in new jersey and the palm view in west hollywood and the dorothy ross friedman and schermerhorn residences in new york city and we have provided millions of dollars in direct financial assistance to our colleagues in need to help them put food on the table a roof overhead and medical care we're doing all of this and more because of people like you and people like seth and james to donate visit stars in the house com thank you for supporting a life in the arts wow that was so nice all right but meanwhile gloria tell everyone again um the the match goes until when for water keeper until sunday night um water keeper alliance will match up to a hundred thousand dollars and um we're already up at 45 so yeah so i'm sure that we'll hit that number before and you know seth and james i really appreciate i really appreciate you taking this night out for waterkeeper alliance and for making this happen and you know actors fun to clearly need us to say our fellow artists um in front of behind and all across the arts world and it just you what you've done to raise so much money for fellow artists is really extraordinary and i again sincerely appreciate you taking one night out for waterkeeping alliance and to have us all be together it's much appreciated in everything is just i know that this is um really has brought a lot of smiles and a lot of good feelings to a lot of people and myself included and i just want to thank every single one of you and cch and ming non goren and you guys i just i thank you thank you for showing up and thank you for staying and thank you for supporting me thank you for being so beautiful and um just thank you so good to see you all yeah i love you guys i'm happy to see you man this was heartwarming huh yeah so good all right good night everyone good night thank you this is for gloria how's it going gloria i think you're on the way around how does it go [Music] yeah there you go [Music] if i knew more i'd play

Channel: Stars In The House

Views: 224,573

Keywords: Gloria Reuben, Jeanie Boulet, George Clooney, Noah Wyle, John Carter, Laura Innes, Kerry Weaver, Anthony Edwards, Mark Greene, Elizabeth Corday, Julianna Margulies, Carol Hathaway, Goran Visnjic, Luka Kovac, Paul McCrane, Robert Romano, Ming-Na Wen, Jing-Mei Chen, Laura Cerón, Chuny Marquez, Yvette Freeman, Haleh Adams, Conni Marie Brazelton, CCH Pounder, Angela Hicks, Doug Ross, stars in the house, waterkeepers alliance, ER, earth day, water, ellen crawford, reunion

Id: q32KZI_3ohI

Length: 128min 25sec (7705 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 22 2021

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This is so fun already! I’m giddy with nostalgia!

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That whole reunion summed up why this show is timeless. I’ve tried other medical shows since ER and nothing compares even at their good moments. (I remember watching an episode of Chicago Med where they had a toxic spill in the ER and I just kept thinking how much better Exodus was!)

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I am in love with George all over again

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Good to see Goran looks like the Luka I melted for when I was 14 back in S6!

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I’m 20 minutes in and can’t stop grinning...ugh, now I’m going to have to do another rewatch!

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I'm enjoying it. Anthony is crying. I'm shocked George actually came and stayed longer than 30 mins. I'm ready to see everyone else too.

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Omg George Clooney as a bass player is hilarious

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This is the greatest moment of my life

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I am loving all of this!