- Yes.
(audience cheering) - Let's settle down. (audience cheering and applauding) Man, so I just... Look, I don't know if
you've seen "Mary & George" or "The Idea of You," his two projects. - I'm sorry.
- Oh, come on. - So...
- They could not. No, the only reason why I'm saying that is they could not be more different. - No, I've heard.
- She did, yeah. - I've heard.
- Yeah. - They're very different.
- Yeah. I love that. Do you purposely do that,
like in your career? I love when actors do that. 'Cause I like seeing
people play completely different things.
- Yeah. I think it's important for me. I think, especially, in
the last couple years, maintaining a sense of versatility in my work.
- Yeah. - I think it just nourishes
different parts of yourself, you know?
- Makes it more fun. - Yeah.
- Breaks the monotony, yeah. - Well, it's good you're talented 'cause you're not very attractive. (all laughing and applauding) - Thank you. - You're not hard on the eyes. Yeah, that is true.
- Very. (chuckles) - Hey, and I'm just saying
you had like a boy band other life because, or rock and roll. I was like, "Is it your voice?"
- Yeah. - "You're like really good."
- Yeah. - So your new movie, "The Idea of You." So explain to everybody what it's about. - Yeah, well, it's about
a woman, Solene Marchand and a young man, Hayes Campbell, who I play and their love story. It's about this woman who's turning 40 and really she rediscovers
a sense of her sexuality, and sort of autonomy I think
you could say in some sense, and she finds it- - And identity from the
broken marriage. Yeah. - Totally, and she finds this... She meets this young man who she doesn't, you know, expect to connect
with, but they have this sort of instant simpatico.
- Yeah. I love how y'all meet. It's hilarious. - It's a pretty amazing meet cute. - Yeah. - I don't think anyone's
done a bathroom meet cute- - No.
(Jean laughs) - In the restroom is the word. - In a very clever way to meet someone, just saying.
- Yeah. - So wait, Tony Curran was
just here and he injured you. He told us that he injured
you on set. He headbutted you. - He gave me the Glasgow kiss.
- Oh. (audience laughing) - So we were doing an intimate scene. - [Kelly] Got his chin open. - That's oh.
- You know what? That's actually not from that injury-
- Oh, it's not. - That's from a separate injury. - Oh.
(audience laughing) That's a separate one he did. - That was a shaving actually.
- Yes. Yeah. He sliced my chin open with
his ring on that occasion. But I think I deserved it and I won't... No spoilers but the Glasgow kiss was during a very intimate scene and I thought we were sort of... We were feeling, we were
connecting in the moment. And Tony, as you've met,
you know, he's a very wild- - Love.
- Person. - Fell in love with him. - The best guy ever.
- Yeah. - But yeah, he decided to headbutt me, which kind of ruined the vibes of the scene I think.
(audience and Kelly laughing) But yeah, I got injured a few times. I broke my ankle in the jobs.
- Oh my God. - Well, okay, so I have the
utmost respect for anyone who wears heels because
I had to wear a bunch of heeled shoes.
- Yes. - As you know, being a period piece- - Yep. - And stupidly I did this stunt where it's running
across one of these sort of very polished stately homed floors. - [Jean] Oh. - And yeah-
- Oh. - Tanked and went 90 degrees. - Oh.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- That sucked but- - We are warriors.
- I agree. - Just saying...
- I agree. - We do that every day around- - Incredible.
- New York City. I do watch, walk across
those women though wearing like stilettos and I'm like,
"Who are you impressing?" Like, I don't understand.
(audience laughing) Like, and I hope it works 'cause you are working hard for that. - Yeah.
- That I'm just saying. But you play George in "Mary & George" and I was just saying that they
could not be more different. So why sign on to do something like this? Have you always wanted to
do something in this film? - Yeah, I definitely have always wanted to work in it a period piece, albeit, you know, one that felt
sort of quite different for the genre, I think,
which "Mary & George" is, you know?
- Mm. - It has a provocativeness to it, it has an edge to it, I think. And you know, it was very funny. But the day before I
got the call to be asked to play George, I was watching one of... I think I was watching "Still Alice" while I was shooting "The Idea of You," which is not exactly self-care, but I was thinking I would love to work with Julianne Moore-
- Yeah. - And then the next day they called me and offered me the role and-
- Wow. - [Nicholas] Yeah. It
was kind of a no brainer. - Oh, and her character is insane. That mother, like in how
they had to navigate. - She's the original momager. That's what we like to say.
- Oh, yes. - Yeah. - Oh, this should be a case study in some class-
- That's true. - Yes.
- At some college. It was like insane.
- Yeah. Like what happened. Anyway,
it's really, really great.
