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Hello, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Good Hang.

So excited to talk to Regina Hall today.

I love Regina.

I love her work.

And we're going to talk about a lot of fun things today.

We're going to talk about her incredible range as an actress.

We're going to talk about the difference between phobias and phonias.

We're going to break down what it's like hosting award shows.

And we're going to discuss her new movie, her great new P.T.

Anderson movie, One Battle After Another, which is in theaters this week.

But we always do this before we have our guests.

We talk to someone who knows our guest, who

wants to speak well behind their back.

And we have a great guest today, the extremely talented Andrew Rannels.

Andrew was Regina's co-star on Black Monday.

He is the imaginary father of the imaginary twins, Dawn and Dawn, that they seem to share.

A little inside joke on set.

And you know him from Book of Mormon.

You know him from Girls 5 Ebba.

you know him from Too Much, Lena Dunham's new show.

He's just a real peach.

So let's get him on.

Andrew?

Andrew?

Are you there?

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Amy?

There you are on your set and everything.

There you are.

It's so good to talk to you.

It's great to talk to you.

Thank you for asking asking me to do this.

Are you kidding?

Thank you so much for doing this.

I know you and Regina are good buds.

We really are.

And she has such a great rep.

She really does.

I've yet to meet anyone who doesn't say like, oh, she's the best.

It's always a good idea to hang out with Regina Hall.

Okay, we're going to get to Regina, but first of all, I'm very, very excited to talk to you.

To me?

Of course.

I hope I can get you in the stewed one of these days.

I would love it.

I mean, I haven't got a chance.

I feel like you and I probably crossed paths and like been in the same room at a fancy event, but I am a very, very big fan of your work.

Well, that's very generous of you to say because I am a huge fan of your work.

And I always get very nervous when I see you.

Oh, tell me why.

Well, I just get nervous that I'm like, should I talk to her?

Should I not talk to her?

Am I talking to her for too long?

Oh, should I, you know, it's like, should I get in, get out?

It's one of those things because i appreciate it is at some event yeah that like there's a bunch of people around and it's like i don't know there's like a receiving line of people who want to like talk to you and i just sort of i choose to do the um like well i i will say if if you have chosen not to talk to me i appreciate that because

I have a lot of social anxiety, which does not look like I do, but I do in those events and I get overwhelmed.

Same, same, same.

One of the first like big parties I went to when I first moved to LA, I was very lucky and I walked in with Jessica Lang.

Oh,

and I know, right?

You floated in with Jessica Lang.

I floated in with Jessica Lang and Jessica Lang just wanted to like hold on to me because I'm sort of tall.

And

I think she likes that.

I think she likes it.

So then all night I got to be the gatekeeper to Jessica Lang and people, people I really respected who didn't know me were coming up to me and saying, could you introduce me to Jessica Lang?

And I was like, absolutely.

You were like, let me check what Jessica first.

Yeah, it was.

That was.

So I guess my advice is: if you can go to one of those events with Jessica Lang, do it.

That makes sense.

God, I would totally make it.

You two would make a very nice couple, I have to say, a handsome couple.

I think we, yeah, I've got to be with her a couple of times and it's always successful.

But you know, how's this first segue?

You know, who's very good at those events?

Regina Hall.

Ooh.

Tell me why.

You go to to a party with Regina Hall and she, first of all, everybody loves her.

So that's great.

And she just sort of, I don't know, she just kind of floats above it and just has a very kind of

just kind of like chill attitude about everything.

Now, whether or not that's actually what she's feeling, right?

I'm not sure because, you know, we all, you know.

process those things differently but it is really fun to go to those events with her because she just kind of she just sort of always is herself.

And I will say from like, you know, we got to work together for three years on the show, Black Monday, and on Showtime.

And whether it was like 4 a.m.

in the makeup trailer or 3 a.m.

on a night shoot, she always maintained the same level of like cool and,

you know, happy to be there and like sort of calmed everybody down.

Because Don Cheadle and I on that show often had to do some like really wacky stuff.

And she not only could match that she you know oftentimes like outdid us in that arena but then also

um just brought like all the heart to it she really like anchored it in a way and it was such a good lesson of like how to be you can be absurdly funny and really broad, but still have a lot of thought and heart behind it, which I learned a lot from working with her that like you can, you can do all of the clowny, silly stuff, but unless there is some kind of heart to it, it just looks like faces.

You know, I think that way about you too.

Like, I feel like there's, you know, there's the, sometimes there's the exceptional, eccentric, really kind of out there, funny person who's their own island.

But for the most part, I find that people that are very good at comedy have a switch or a gear where they can really, like, they're just very good at being in the moment and being present when asked to do that.

And it and it's kind of the theme that I want to talk to Regina about today: her career is really,

really diverse and really wide.

Her range, she's done a lot of different things.

And she can do really dumb, fun comedy

and very deep, grounded stuff.

And that's not, a lot of people don't have that range.

I don't know.

It sounds maybe trite to say that she has a light to her because that usually is reserved for people who get murdered.

But she does have a, she really lights up a room.

She really lights up a room and not in a way that she's going to get murdered.

No, not in that way.

In a different way.

In a very different way.

In a better way.

In a very different way.

You know,

this, I absolutely loved you in Book of Mormon.

I was lucky enough to see the original cast and you in it with Josh and so many other great people.

And,

but you bring something up that I always wondered about and I haven't been able to ask anybody who's been on Broadway for as long as you have.

For sure.

Why is it unprofessional to see who's in the audience?

Well, in theory,

you should be,

I guess, connected to your co-stars

and telling the story.

But I think over time, you know, you're doing it eight times a week and you get to a place where you know eyes i mean you know that's the tricky part about one of the tricky parts about live theater is that of all of the whatever 1200 people that are in that audience somebody's looking at you at all times And I just know that from an audience member, like sometimes you drift to like an ensemble person, whatever, you're like, you're not watching the action.

So you do kind of always have to be on guard.

Yeah.

That like, okay, somebody's watching.

So but you never used to do what I used to do, which is literally peak.

Oh, well, I mean, we got to a point where I could look into the audience at certain points and be like, oh, look, who's there?

Um, and sometimes the worst is when you make eye contact with that person.

Oh, oh, yeah, oh, that's rough.

That's rough.

That's rough.

I made, I made direct eye contact with Oprah Winfrey, and I thought,

I don't, that probably wasn't a great idea.

And I reflexed, I smiled at her as if there was no fourth wall.

You went hi.

You you went opra

it's like i'm doing like a nightclub act i was like oh

i remember smiling at her and she smiled back because she's polite she could probably she's probably had a lot of um experience with intense eye contact

so she's i mean the reactions to yeah to her must be extreme you are so incredible in the book of mormon i oh my gosh i mean you're you you've written two books you have i have you have you are you are You're constantly in so many good things.

We mentioned Girls 5 Eva, the show that you did with Tina.

You also are just in Lena's new show, Too Much, where you play her as a husband, which was so satisfying to see.

I do.

We've graduated from being like the messy kids to now being like the still kind of messy adults.

So I ask all of my guests if they have a question for our guest.

And

like I said, I hope someday to get you in the hot seat.

So

what, what, do you have any question you think I should ask Regina today?

A story you think she might want to tell, something you don't know about her, something you think people should know about her.

Her career is so diverse, and she bounces between all of these things.

Like this Paul Thomas Anderson movie that she is, you know, that's that's coming out, that it's wildly different from anything she's done in a lot of ways.

And I, as much as I, I assume that she's like the architect of that, that she's like making these choices and doing these things, like, I wonder, yeah, I do wonder, like, did she seek that out?

Was she like, I wanna, I'm gonna switch this up?

Or is this something that just sort of builded, it was built sort of naturally?

You're right.

I don't think we know enough about like Regina's origin story.

When I was learning about Regina, I know she wanted to maybe be a journalist at one point.

So I'm very curious when she started acting.

And then also, yes,

her career is really feels like a flow, basically.

And also, you know, obviously, like, who does she like better?

Does she like me better?

Or Don Cheadle?

I think that's an important.

I think a lot of people probably wonder that.

Yeah.

And maybe you can stay on the Zoom while I ask her that.

Yeah, I'll take my camera off and then, you know, and then I'll surprise her and be like, I knew you were going to say Don.

Regina and I would annoy the cast that we,

she, she told everybody that we were married married at one point.

And

some people who didn't really know me very well thought that that was true.

And then she sort of in a who's afraid of Virginia Wolfway, created children for us

that we would talk about, Dawn and Dawn.

And we would reference Dawn and Dawn, our twins.

and who had the twins and where are the twins and how are the twins doing.

She's so good.

I can't wait to talk to her.

I really am.

I'm so excited for you to talk to her.

your time and how tall are you andrew six two oh congratulations thanks thanks so much i just that's so great i do i i like jessica lang a tall man jackpot

sign me up

it is so great to talk to you thank you so much for your time I thank you very much and thank you for being so generous and so lovely.

And I hope I see you at some event sometime soon and we just totally ghost each other.

Yeah, I'm not going to look at you.

I'm just going to be taking care of Jessica.

Okay, I'll talk to you soon.

Thank you.

Bye.

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Woo-hoo-hoo!

You're wearing normal pajamas.

I am.

I am.

I was like, how can I be dressy and comfortable?

And it's so hot out.

Because I was going to be in sweats.

You look great.

But not for you.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I'm not going to be able to do that.

Small hair and makeup.

Yeah.

If she's not beat, I don't want her.

That's what I said.

Yeah, I need two hours.

I need you to have two hours of hair and makeup before we hang out.

Wow, you look gorgeous.

This lighting is nice.

This is great lighting.

Isn't it?

You know what I realized?

I'm not aging.

Lighting's just getting bad.

Because in my bathroom i have really good lighting in my bathroom yeah

and in my bathroom i'm something else yeah in my car

not so much but in my bathroom i'm like i'm chef's kiss but in the car when the sunlight so it's the lighting i always say this about i mean i'm i'm probably saying something very obvious but when i go into dressing rooms i'm like i can't believe the dressing rooms aren't better lit i would buy so many more things it would just be better for business it It was a dressing room where I honestly, for the first time, discovered like

the depth of my cellulite.

Yeah.

That's the truth.

It was in a dressing room.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's super screwy.

It's when I started running.

I started jogging.

I said, I was shopping with my boyfriend at the time and I screamed.

I'd never seen, I did.

I said, is this what he's doing?

Something came out at night.

And I went and I said, baby, my, and he was like, what happened?

He didn't, you know, they don't notice.

No, they don't.

They just notice the legs.

They don't care what's on.

They don't care.

They don't care.

I feel that way too.

One time when I got a mammogram, I turned to the person and I was like, it's just, it's shocking how this hasn't gotten better.

How has this not gotten better?

How have we still have to literally squeeze?

I don't have a lot of boobs.

I was like, what are you getting?

And it's even worse.

You're getting worse.

It's sometimes worse when you don't.

And

they're both worse, I guess.

But like, sometimes if you can't, if you don't have a lot to put in the machine, that we're squeezing it between two

metal,

like a, like a waffle.

And that there's nothing to look at.

No.

And then they're like, if you just move your arm a little, like it's not like you're, it's a, it's a, it's, you're kind of contorting your body.

Yeah.

And a very.

And I said, and I remember doing it very, you know, like, lucky me, I have a nice place to get my mammogram.

I'm very grateful and privileged to have a nice place to get a mammogram.

Not a poster on the wall, not a

piece of art to look at it.

No distraction.

I was like, you guys don't want to put even an inspirational

minutes to get the right angle because it's not just getting it in there.

It's getting it in there.

I need a little bit.

And I was like,

there's no, there's got to be a better way.

Yeah.

It's shocking to me how much.

My breasts gave up.

They were like, well, fuck it.

If we've got something in it, then we've got something in it.

Because after a while, they just couldn't get a photo.

No, they can't get it.

And then what about when it comes out cloudy?

And they're like, We need another one.

And we need an ultrasound.

Also, they're like, they squeeze you in the tightest device ever.

Yes.

They say, Don't move.

Yeah, don't move.

And then they leave the room because there's too much radiation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That ain't the truth.

Right.

So it's just you, your nodes, and your breasts, and the rest of your body exposed.

And not a, like, you don't even want to play an old episode of Everyone Loves Raymond.

There's no sound.

There's no music.

I know.

No music.

There's no music.

There's nothing.

I remember talking to my great dentist.

I love my dentist, but I remember saying.

I don't know what you love your dentist.

I do.

I love a dentist, too.

You like your dentist?

I do.

And I get nitrous every time.

A lot.

I like my dentist.

I do too.

And my dental hygienist.

I love her.

Did you work as a dental hygienist?

A dental assistant.

Like, yeah, I just handed the instruments over and cleaned them and stuff.

Do you feel like you have healthy teeth?

I do for the most part.

I grind my teeth.

Oh, yeah.

And I didn't know that when you grind, you can get a little recession from the grinding.

Yeah.

Do you wear a thing?

I wear a thing now.

Yeah.

We're with Regina Hall and we just, we just got, we just got really into it.

We were talking about teeth and boobs.

We're right into it.

But I feel like the last time we saw each other was on a dance floor at Rashida Jones's.

That was the last time, but there was a time, I think, after, too.

What was that?

Uh-oh.

It was on a street, and you were directing.

And it was on a cul-de-sac.

And I was like, what's going on down there?

I think they're filming something.

Oh, yeah.

Around the corner from, yep.

And I walked down the street and I was like, who's directing?

And they said, Amy Pohler.

And then I made my way.

I made my way.

It was very exciting.

Do you remember that?

I do remember that.

That was pre-COVID?

It was pre-COVID.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then everything else has been a blur.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Cause I, because I was trying to get that breast exam.

Everything else has been felt like a mammography.

Everything was like, this is going to really hurt.

It's really weird.

It's going to take a long time.

Yeah.

And everybody's going to leave the room.

So all things.

Totally, totally.

But I feel like we've had a couple of times.

So Rashida Jones often had a pajama jammy jam, as she talked about in this podcast, and she had a dance party.

And I feel like we've had a couple good times on the dance floor together, dancing in pajamas.

Do you, you're, you like to dance?

Here's the thing:

I do like to dance.

I wish I were a better dancer.

I'm not a good, I can hold a beat, sure,

but I would love to be able to do, and Rashida does them very well.

She can learn choreographed dances.

And I wish I had that gift.

Yeah, her and her sister Kadata can do like

old routines from the 90s.

They can get a choreographer in front of them and they're able to

to dance um and learn that choreography you can't do that i can't no i was having a conversation with sheila e and she was like excuse me

i know you just dropped that i know and i did did you see how i dropped it like suddenly like i said nothing because i was like yeah so when sheila and i were talking e you know i know

uh i did we were i did a a one-on-one interview and so she was my subject and she's

so amazing and i was asking her did she understand her impact on girls when she first came out?

Because like the drums, we hadn't seen a lot of women playing the drums necessarily.

But anyway, she said everything for her moves very separately.

Hmm.

She can feel all

she feels every limb and every portion.

Everything is separate for her.

Ooh.

Yeah.

So if you feel like you're not maybe the strongest at choreography, I'm a unit.

What part feels like you're like, that's a good skill?

Like I can do that well.

Can you memorize fast?

Do you have a good ear?

Can you sing?

I think I can, but I'm going to tell you.

You know, because I used to tell me that I had a terrible pitch.

I disagree with that.

And then I went on, I think it was Cordon.

And

I was like,

and they started and then I joined in the harmony.

And boy, was I off.

So I'm not a harmonizer.

Okay.

I'm a soloist.

Yeah, no one else sing when Regina's singing.

But I have a good gift for

I can remember a face.

Hey, that's good.

Yeah.

Not a name.

Terrible with names.

But you'd be able to.

You.

Remember me?

I want to talk to you about so many things today, Regina, because

the theme today for me with you is range.

Like you are,

you can do it all.

And how to approach you and your career and your work is really interesting because you can come in through a lot of different doors.

And it's, it's,

well, first of all, let me just say that you have a great rep.

Like everyone loves working with you.

Oh, I thought you were talking about my agent.

I was about to say he is ugly as angry.

I like i've got a good team but yes

a great reputation does it matter to you um like how you like what when you go to work like what matters to you like how you show up and how other people show up

i i think for me like if i when i when i'm working

i think of everybody who put so much work into it before i got there writers you know people who write that's once it's written selling it like sitting with studio notes There's so much, you know this, you've done it all, directors that goes into it.

So for me to come and be like anything less than like excited for what like they're bringing a vision together in addition to what I get to do and have fun, then I think it's, I won't take it if I don't think I could come and bring something to the environment or and to the work.

So I think that that's important for me.

Okay.

What kind of kid were you?

Because you grew up in DC

And, you know, went to Fordham, went to NYU to be a journalist.

Like very, you were not a kid who, were you around actors or anyone who was acting?

No.

Because I just, we didn't, I guess we had, I was like, we didn't have any.

But

yeah, I don't, I wasn't exposed to it.

And you weren't studying it in school?

No, we had our plays.

Okay.

I went to Catholic school.

And so we had the nuns who I loved.

I loved my nuns.

I love.

What do you love about nuns?

Because my mom went to Catholic school and she was very afraid of her nuns.

Oh, I think I had some.

I was respectfully afraid.

I mean, I certainly had a reverence

where I wouldn't cross a line, but I wasn't afraid of being hurt.

I was more afraid of them telling my mom and then getting in trouble.

So

I didn't have that.

I found my nuns to be very,

I mean, they were, I wouldn't say they were strict, but they were

they were loving, I would say.

Yeah, I would, yeah, they were loving.

And then, is it true that you thought about perhaps becoming an I did.

I did.

Several times when I was in high school and then again when I was older and I was too old.

You were too old to 39.

That was a cutoff.

I was 41.

They were like, it's not a backup plan, miss.

Get on out of here.

But it's for that particular, for that particular order.

Okay, got it.

Because they're different orders.

You know, with some orders, it's a sleeping partner number thing.

Yeah.

Right.

Four.

I don't know if anybody.

Wait, you can only have slept with four people?

Yep.

Amy, can you make it?

You don't have to count them, you know.

No, I can't.

I don't want to brag, but

whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold on.

So there is an, there's some orders where there's a number that you can only have had a certain amount of partners.

Some could be a certain amount of partners.

Some might be how many attachments that you have some you know in the world it's hard and some is age yeah wow yeah but but what made you regina

as a young person what was attractive about that life for you what did you think about what was the fantasy of that life i thought if wow if if you you know you'd spend your life in prayer prayer for others i would imagine because it's unless you were like healing because they don't you're not really attached to anything material right so they're they wouldn't have an outward striving yeah

of like oh right the the the thing of like

you know success whatever that is and

um

no romantic heartbreak right you don't want to say love because that part is beautiful but it's the other side when yeah whatever our whatever trauma whatever reasons things don't make it and then um

you had that singular focus.

I'm sure that it's not that easy.

I'm just saying that was, that was what I romanticized.

It would be if I did it.

And then I thought that was like lovely.

And

what is, how is your faith like now, many years later,

young Regina, looking out at the world that way, figuring that might be a way in which I can manage my own world.

How do you practice your version of loving God now?

now what does it look like i mean i think i really believe if you believe in past lives i believe i had a past life

where i was that i believe i've come from that so i believe it probably exists within me because it has existed you know and so it feels familiar it feels familiar and so there's a certain peace in that familiarity it makes sense to me then that you're you know for a while thinking about going into journalism because it's just like quite it's like the idea of like unpacking big questions finding out the truth being curious like all that stuff feels like it's connected when did you decide okay i'm i'm happy that i have my journalism degree but i want to be an actor what when did that change happen what

i well my parents were like you're not gonna just my parents were divorced but they were just like you're not gonna be in new york partying because i had also I'd left the none life behind.

You were like, before I was in the middle of the day.

I was in New York and I was partying and I loved partying.

You know, and good, I had great friends and from college and like

we finished.

Yeah.

And then it was like, what am I to, you know what?

We were going out.

You were probably in New York at the same time, like in the 90s.

In New York in the 90s.

It was great.

It was great.

It was great.

And so we used to go out a lot.

And then my mom was like, well, my dad was like, well, what are you doing?

You have to get a job or something.

I either had to get a job or go back to school.

And so I went, I was like, I'm choosing school because I could arrange my classes to still parties.

But work, I couldn't do it.

I did work for six months.

Ooh, what was your job?

I was working at a director's office and their office was in their home.

And so they really had to

carefully vet who worked there.

So I was like an assistant.

Was that like your first job in near the industry?

Yeah.

And it was working with a director.

Yeah, he was a commercial director.

He did TV commercials.

And

one day I fell asleep with my elbow on a button on the computer and it was blinking.

It was just like all X's, whatever was at the end.

And the screen was blinking.

And I woke up because I had been out too late.

And

I was like, and then my roommate and I were like, we are going to raise money.

And

I don't know.

And I was like, we have to quit our jobs.

Our jobs are holding us back.

Yeah.

And then I had to borrow money and my parents were like, what are you going to do?

So I was like, I'll go back to school.

Okay.

So you went back to study journalism then?

I went back to study journalism.

And my dad had a stroke and passed away very suddenly my first few months of school.

First few months.

And so you didn't, you stopped going to school after that?

No.

I finished because I knew he'd wanted me to, but I had a friend who said, do you want to make extra money doing commercials?

And she was like, I introduced you to my manager.

I met her manager.

That manager.

I couldn't show up for auditions because I was like, I'm doing my thesis.

I can't show up to an audition.

But I did.

And then I took took a class in acting.

And I think it was very healing for me after my dad to be out of my head a little bit.

And that's how.

And then I was like, oh, I love this.

So then I finished NYU

and then decided to go to Columbia's bartending school.

Whoa.

Because I was going to need to pay for acting school.

Yeah.

And then I went to acting school.

I remember my mom.

Where'd you go to acting school?

You just don't want a job, huh, baby.

And I could have been a professional student.

I did love school.

I studied at

Bill Esper.

I could see you also being a great bartender.

Oh, my gosh.

I can see you, but I don't know how to make any drinks because you were supposed to spit those drinks out in class.

I was really tipsy after every class.

Yeah.

But

so much of bartending is faking, like

faking the, like you're just making the drink, but it's about the chit-chat.

Yeah.

And I do like people.

Yeah.

So I love to converse and meet interest.

I find people to be fascinating.

Okay.

So back to commercials.

You're auditioning for commercials.

Any commercial?

Did you get any commercials during that time?

I did.

What did you get?

That was a big deal to get a commercial in the 90s.

It was national.

Shit.

McDonald's.

What?

You got a national McDonald's commercial.

How much money did you make from that?

Because that could pay.

That could change your life.

A national commercial.

Yeah.

It was.

Yeah.

My line, I had to say, and some McDonald's fries.

You were ordering them?

Or I was at a movie theater watching,

we were watching a movie about McDonald's.

And then

you watching a McDonald's friend?

No, we were watching a movie about something and they were running.

Maybe I don't even remember, but he says, I could go for a Big Mac.

Yeah, I think the movie we'll be watching.

And then I sent in some McDonald's fries.

And what do you remember about being on the set of, like, you know how sometimes you can remember the feeling when you're shooting something?

What was it?

Were you nervous?

I was nervous.

Yes.

I was nervous.

I remember I was like, I don't know if I like my hair because they did these rods.

But now I look back and I'm like, that hair was just fine.

I thought everyone was going to recognize me.

I thought that commercial was going to air.

I was outside like this.

You were like, waiting.

Waiting for people to be like, the friend's girl.

There she is.

Did you just do a McDonald's conference?

Not one.

No, but that's a big get.

It was a big get.

That is a big get.

And it ran for a while.

It did.

It ran for like, you remember how they had to pay for your cycles?

I think I made like

over a period, like 30,000, 40,000, 30,000.

Yes, back then you could make

it.

And there were some people who made like, yeah.

But I made like, I think I made like 30.

Yeah.

And if you could get a commercial and it could run and your residuals were nice.

Yes.

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it's been like really interesting to look at your range like we talked about I mean

you have done all different kinds of work you've done you've been in big huge franchise

yes I love this woman

no I want to say that you know what the reason no no no I have to say it because I have to say

how profoundly

inspiring you are, right?

That's across all cultures, races, and genres.

You know that, too.

Thank you for saying that.

In terms of comedy, yeah, because it's like, you know, ever you say Amy Poehler, it doesn't matter, right?

We all know who it is.

And so

when I would watch you and Tina, I'd be like, they're beautiful, they're funny.

And so you, you know, you're always looking at people who you admire.

And

I think

also how much fun they're having, right?

And so,

whether it's conscious or subconscious, like, and Maya, Rudolph,

who's also hilarious, but

to see women be so funny and so, like,

beautiful and yet not vain,

because you can't really have that right when you're doing comedy.

You have to be like, you can't be like,

I don't know, but it that was profoundly like

impactful and inspirational.

With, I don't even think without me, without me knowing it at first.

And then

it became like, oh my goodness, I love them.

Well, you know, thank you for saying that.

It does mean a lot because I have followed your career and been and been so impressed by how genuinely and deeply funny you are.

You are really funny.

And also, you have played incredibly subtle, grounded, interesting characters, including the film that you're in, the new Paul Thomas Anderson film that you're in, that we'll talk about.

Like you are playing deep, complex characters and also getting the swing the other way.

That's very inspiring because it's very hard to not be

just limited or like, you know, to come in through the comedy door and never leave that way.

Yeah.

Have you found that to be like, was that, did that happen in the beginning?

Like when you were doing more comedic stuff, did you?

I think after scary movie.

I think after scary, and the interesting thing with scary movie is after scary movie,

then it was like, oh, she only does broad comedy.

So then you have to say, well, can you get a,

you know, a grounded, and a lot of them I just, you know,

I mean, a lot of stuff you don't get, right?

Isn't there like time?

Well, I'd be curious, because I was thinking, like, what is Regina when you were, you know, we all have this thing where

we get scripts sent to us or parts sent to us and we scroll down to see what people are thinking about us.

And sometimes it's like, okay.

I got my first job I got was a stripper, and I just was like, I'm going to get inundated.

I haven't been asked to be done.

And I'm offended.

I'm serious.

I literally was like, watching.

I'm just, I do remember I had an agent.

I love her so much.

Her name is Jamie.

And she said, we've gotten a foreign film for you.

I haven't read it yet, but we just got the offer.

This is after Scary Movie.

And I I was like, oh, gosh, I'm international.

And

this is before emails.

Remember when you had to pick your scripts up?

Oh, yeah.

Physically go to someone's house.

So I physically went to the agency and it was in the bin because I wasn't at the point where they were messengering them to me.

So I got the script and I remember it.

It was Playa Haters, which she was reading as Playa, the Beach.

No.

Yes.

Playa Haitas.

Playa hiatus.

That's what she said to me on the phone.

And I said,

it's playa haters.

I was like.

She was like, so it doesn't take place on me?

She was like, no, and it's not a foreign film.

There's nothing foreign about it.

And so

I didn't end up doing playa hiatus.

Playa hiatus.

Playa, playa haitas.

It's a foreign film.

She was so excited too.

Jamina.

Do you feel like you were getting, after Scary Movie, were you getting a lot of the same stuff offered to you?

Probably like more broad, like, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like, like, I was, I was laughing because I was like, I bet Regina and I would be in a movie where we'd be playing like stereotypical versions of, because I still, you know, to this day, someone's like, we thought of you.

We think it's great.

And I'm like, okay.

And I read the part and I'm like, oh,

I know.

One of those characters that that is just like, usually very like, let me speak to the manager, very nuts, and very like, get her out of here.

Yeah.

And I feel like we would probably be cast in a movie where we would be.

I'd be the one that you wanted to speak to the manager over.

I'd be like, they'd always have like, there's some hood chick and she's always like, and I'd be like, and I would be like,

totally.

Because you just can't do that.

All this.

You're like, what else?

So, okay, versions of that.

Well, that, that leads me to my question.

So we always, we do this thing on the show where we talk behind, well, behind someone's back.

We kind of try to find out more about them through people that know them.

And so we talked to Andrew Mannels today.

My baby daddy.

I heard you were twins together.

Don and Dawn.

We had ship.

We don't know where.

Where are our kids?

Don and Dawn.

I love Andrew.

I love Andrew.

I know.

He's so, what do you love about him?

Oh, he's just, he makes me smile.

He makes me laugh.

he's funny so talented yeah but he's just such a nice human being like i love andrew like i knew he was my baby daddy from the first moment i saw him yeah i know i can tell you have a special connection i love i love andrew like one day we did a scene and i said decad instead of decade and it was late and then every time we had to do it over and it would come to the word we couldn't say you know how that happens you get the giggles and we couldn't stop

i have

I have a clip of that.

Jack.

Jack God.

And I was like,

I was, it was just, we couldn't stop.

And he was like, don't, don't look at me.

And we couldn't do it.

We couldn't do it.

We had to break.

He loves you and he loves working with you, loved working with you.

And you guys work together on Black Monday.

And

he talked about like one of the questions is kind of like what we talk about, we're talking about now because, like, whether it's, you know, girls' trip or love and basketball or one battle after another, your new film, you've done big budget, you've done small independents like like

support the girls, you've done scary movie, you've done big and small, like

dramatic and comedic.

And he was just saying, like, I want to ask Regina, does she feel like she's the architect of this?

Or does it feel like part of a kind of a bigger flow?

Like, like, are you feeling like you're adjusting the dials on those all the time?

Or are you just kind of seeing what's coming up next?

I mean, at a certain point, you have more options, right, as your career.

I mean, I think it was, I mean, I would love to say I was an architect.

I think it was probably accidental because in the beginning, you would just, you kind of said yes.

Yeah.

Totally.

I got a job.

Yeah.

Plyia height.

When does it start?

When does fly?

If that would have been my first offer, I would have been there.

So it's kind of been like.

I know, it is kind of funny in retrospect when people say, like, you know, what made you make that choice?

And it's like, they just, they just asked.

no and it and it went well but that's kind of how it was i mean scary movie was a little i think best man in the love scary movie was different because i was a huge fan of the weigh-ins and i i mean i would really wanted to work with keenan but

and then that just ended up having but it's it's i will say for the beginning it was kind of an accident everything was an accident

when that movie comes out and it's a huge hit you've been in a couple films that are just like giant hits right away scary movie girl strip like where you're just on this train

what is that like to just have you know do something and then suddenly it's like oh we've got a franchise

you know nothing i don't know i'll ask you this nothing necessarily feels like that in real time yeah that's right it's kind of like what is what's discussed later yeah it's later i think in real time it came out it did well And I was like, you know, that's great.

But I did die in the first one.

That's right.

And I was, and we, you know, and I, and, and I didn't expect to come back for the second one it was like I didn't have a deal I didn't remind me how they got you back after you died it was a near-death experience

right they described it as a near-death experience and then I became psychic but I really wasn't psychic at all

Brenda just swore she was psychic

but um I think

yeah, that was like, it's kind of like, you know, you don't know who knew.

Yeah.

I mean, and that was kind of.

Did you feel that way about Girls Trip 2?

Which, I mean, I can remember when that came out tracy oliver who i got the pleasure to work with uh we produced a show together called harlem um oh yes for a couple years on amazon and tracy's megan yes megan and tracy's so talented and um i just remember that feeling very exciting when that was a big yeah big hit what was that experience like

That was great.

You know, I will say this.

This is going to sound crazy to many people, but my dog got really sick right before.

And my dog passed away like four days after girlship came out.

And he had been really sick.

And I loved my dog, Zeus.

So it was a bit of a blur.

I was very sad.

I was very sad because

I had lost my little, little, fat, little baby.

You know, he was a little bulldog.

And so

I was very happy it did well.

Yeah.

I remember because at first I was like,

I think think I was not, I think the girls were a lot more

optimistic.

I was like, should we be coming out in the summer?

That was my thought.

I was like, against,

I mean, he's not like he's very talented, but Chris Nolan

and Dunkirk.

I was like, we're coming out the same day.

But sometimes that counter programming can really be

sometimes.

And at the end, I guess at that time it did.

I guess because I was, you know, I'm a, I'm a Nolan fan.

So I was not.

So yeah, it

it was great.

But sometimes you've had a day and you're just like, I can't go see Dunkirk tonight.

You're like, I can't do it.

I had my day.

My day was Dunkirkian.

Yes, right.

And I need to laugh.

Yeah, I don't need Dunkirk again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because I remember Tina and I did a movie called Sisters and it came out against Star Wars.

Oh.

And so it was like, hmm.

I have a film I'm coming out in, an animated film.

Ooh.

SpongeBob.

Yes.

And that's coming out the same day as Avatar.

So I was like,

that's.

But I like that programming.

I like that.

Tell me how.

Because I don't understand that.

Tell me, tell me.

I like it.

Do you like an Avatar?

I like an Avatar Spongebob

choice because

I feel like I would take my kids to see Avatar as well.

Dude, how much avatar are we going to get?

But the thing is, this is the last Avatar.

So

you've got to go see it.

But he hasn't filmed anymore and it takes like i mean is it the last avatar yeah i mean how many times we get fooled by that right that's true the last i feel safer now and i don't know and that one i just it's gonna take so long that's the other thing is movies are so long well spongebob is only it's short i mean 96 minutes

because it's hilarious yes and it's in and out but i mean when you see i i just like the other thing is like what do you i i could only go to that movie at starting at four o'clock and there's no way you're gonna go to an eight o'clock movie of Avatar, but of SpongeBob, aren't they asleep by then too?

The kids, you got to get them in and out of there by 12.

One, two, three, SpongeBob, you got to do like a 6 p.m.

probably 6 p.m.

But I think are you going to get a lot of adults?

That's a good idea because

going to SpongeBob.

But don't you think those adults would see Avatar too?

I'm just not this adult.

Not that.

So we got one,

everybody.

I'm going to say it right now.

And I'm sorry if I'm going to like cause problems.

I'm not going to see the new Avatar.

I'm not.

I don't.

I'm not going to see it.

Well, we're not on IMAX anyway.

So the Avatar took the IMAX.

So we're going to be on.

I also, I don't like IMAX.

Yeah.

Those are the things.

It is so intense.

It's too loud.

Well, we're coming out.

One battle after another is coming on IMAX.

Okay, except for that one.

Right.

Yeah, that one.

Okay, but so before I get to that movie, because it looks so great.

And I mean, Paul Thomas Anderson is just such an incredible director and your cast is incredible.

But I want to talk about award shows because you and I are, we've both hosted stuff.

I love, yes, I love it.

And I love when you host.

You are so good at it.

Well, I mean,

what do you like about doing it?

I mean, I don't know that I do.

I know what you mean.

I know what I mean.

It's hard.

And it's a little bit of like diminishing returns.

Like the more you do it, like

when you pull it off the first time, you're like, they want it again.

And they're like, come back and do it again.

It's like, I don't know.

How about you all have managed to do repeat performance and honestly be amazing each time?

Thank you right back at you.

And I feel like you have something that hosts need that you just kind of can't teach, which is you have to be a little,

a little.

ambivalent, a little relaxed.

You can't care too much about it.

No, because people can feel that.

I know.

They can feel it in the room.

They can feel it in the room.

So what do you do to kind of keep that vibe going or

like fake that vibe when you're out there doing it?

I do.

I mean, I don't know.

Let me ask you if you feel this.

You know, you're nervous, but once the curtain goes up, you're like, well, here it is.

Yes.

There's nothing you can do.

I mean, it's at that point.

It's just, you know.

It's like that breast exam.

It's on.

The shirt is off.

We got to do it.

The machine is open.

We got to slap them on in there.

I think it just kind of,

I mean, you got to feel that what you've got is enough.

I think, I think that's what it is.

You've got to just feel like, well, what I have is enough.

Cause I always feel like the minute you feel like you panic,

that's when it's going to be a lot of fun.

And you are the

host, whether it be you're having a dinner party, whether you're having a wedding, whether you're hosting the BT Awards, whatever is the thing.

If you're having fun,

and you set the tone, people relax.

But if, to your point, if you, and I mean, you were hosting the Academy Awards during a very hectic um year

the year of the slap very stressful you and amy and wanda and you guys had to handle like this crazy live thing yeah are you the kind of performer when something like that happens where you like how do you how do you adjust do you just

like try to stay in your body do you disassociate do you what do you do how do you adjust when those kind of things happen

i mean i i mean it was wonderful to have them you know and not be doing that alone yeah and they were great

um

I think you just are like let we just you know the show must go on right I think there's just something about the show must go on mentality that you just are like it is we here we go yeah and because you're at that point you are thinking of your audience you want your audience to um

continue to enjoy the show and you don't and that's the thing about a live show you know anything anything can happen

anyway when you're doing anything live.

So I think you have to just always be prepared for that.

Totally.

Whatever that ends up being, you just ride it out.

Yeah.

I mean, it's a skill.

It's a skill to be able to do that and to not let things kind of throw you.

And you're so good at pivoting in real time.

Like

whether you're accepting.

for Kevin Costner in real time, which was amazing, like a beautiful poem

and an incredible that is my fault because they said, Regina, you should read this backstage.

And I was like, No, no, no, I got it.

Right.

I was like, No, no, no, I got it.

And I didn't realize what they had written.

And I think it was that discovery in real time.

But it was very human and very light, lovely, like because you were real, you were accepting for Kevin Costner, who wasn't there at the time, because he was dealing with weather in Santa Barbara, which was real,

which was real.

Destructive weather that people were, you know, and you were, of course,

doing what anyone would do, which is like doing like this fun, gracious kind of light tease to the person who won until you realize in mid-sentence that you're like, I see this is more serious.

And it was

beautiful, Pippet.

Do you remember?

I forget what award show it was.

Maybe it was the Emmys and Jimmy Fallon's prompter went out.

Do you remember that?

No.

Yes.

And I mean, he was, he,

he handled it so well.

He just was like, hey, I can't read the prompter.

And he just kind of riffed for a second.

And I thought, oh.

Oh, I do remember that.

He just kind of made a thing about it.

And I remember like for hours after, just kind of lying in my room thinking, that is a living stress dream.

That you would just walk out to all these people and just the prompt.

And the prompter.

I know.

And even for two seconds, because it's like the beginning.

It's right when you need, it's right when you are like, I need to engage them.

I'm letting them know what this night is going to be like.

And then you don't have a prompter.

Back to dentistry.

Mm-hmm.

Have you ever had dreams that your teeth fall out?

No, have you?

You have.

It's a very typical stress dream

that you're, but like you go to talk and your teeth fall out.

Oh my God.

I'm stressed thinking about it.

I know.

I'm sorry to bring it up.

Do you have what would be a typical stress dream for you?

I probably am not sleeping if I'm that stress.

I think that's what happens.

Are you a good sleeper?

I love to talk about sleep.

I love sleep.

Here's the thing.

I love sleep.

I want more of it.

Okay, let's talk about how to get you there.

Okay.

What's your bedtime?

Well, there's the answer.

Too late.

There is too late.

There's a lot to do sometimes when I get home.

Okay.

Or.

It's that last dateline episode that I've never seen and I want to get that last one in.

You cannot watch a dateline.

It late at night.

What happens?

Well, it's just bad for dreams.

Oh, I have great dreams.

Okay.

A lot of times it's spouses.

Have you seen that?

Have you noticed that?

That is true.

And I was talking about this with Zarna Garg a couple weeks ago on this podcast.

That's Zarna.

That women who are, I think, Zara, great.

That women who are married are much more likely to die earlier.

And yes, to get you.

Oh, you mean from stress?

Oh, yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

But it shortens your life if you're married.

You know that.

Yeah.

Yep.

Sucks it right out.

Sucks it right out.

Because you're caretaking and you're thinking of.

And a lot of times women,

they're nurturing.

So they're giving so much.

But the men, they, they fare better.

They do a manly.

That's like, I don't even know why y'all don't want to get married.

Y'all should be begging to run down an altar.

Like literally.

Yeah, right.

Men should know that it's going to add.

They should do like a, you should do like a very like,

you know, there's all these like podcasts and books and classes of like maximizing your potential they should just do it about getting married they should just say you get married you live five more years 86 of the most successful men are married

i'm just saying

that's got i mean that's gotta be you know they need that grounding they need that home base and women don't no no

because they find it in friendships yeah you know what I was saying?

And tell me this.

Anyone else in here?

Have you noticed that men,

oh, there was a study.

If you ask men who their best friend is, most of them say they're wives.

Right.

And if you ask a woman, she's really got her friends.

She's like, Lisa, you know, Amy.

Like they really, they have, they have it.

And for men, it'll be their wives.

Yeah.

I do feel like women have, you know.

tribes and

we're in our 50s right so we're kind of in the middle 30s oh we're in our 30s wait let me check Yeah.

But yeah, we are.

39.

39.

Yeah.

And we are in the watery middle.

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Do you worry about,

like, are you a.

Totally into climate change, yes.

Yes.

And do you, are you like a prepper?

Are you, do you think about

totally aware and I'm like, fuck it at the same time.

Yeah.

Because I'm like, what can I do?

I can't, I can't live in the stress of it.

Yeah.

But am aware enough to be like, if there is something that can be done, I will do it.

If there was a zombie apocalypse, oh my gosh.

Let's take me out.

I don't, I can't live in buildings and just take me out.

I'm going to go at some point anyway.

I feel this exactly the same.

I would just be like, let me be the first to go.

Just, yeah.

Like, don't bite me because I don't want to be alive and dead, but just

somebody just run me on over.

However, whatever is the quickest way.

Right.

But I don't want to just survive.

I haven't slept.

I don't need to get up.

I hear something.

You've got a gun.

We've got one candy bar between us.

It's got to last for like 10 days.

No.

We should do a zombie movie where the two of us immediately get killed.

For exactly.

We're trying to get killed.

The whole movie.

No one will kill us.

Can't even get bitten by a zombie.

We can't.

Yeah, no.

That's a good idea.

I know, because I feel, but there, but what are you like in a crisis?

Because I'm projecting on you.

I feel like you'd be very level-headed.

I think I'm pretty calm in a crisis.

At least most crisis.

But I have a metaphobia, so it depends on

that crisis.

I'm not great in.

Let's talk about that.

I know.

I love a phobia.

Do you have any?

I don't think so.

I don't have a real phobia.

I think I have like intrusive thoughts that maybe is phobia adjacent, like fear of

stuff.

But I don't have an actual fear of clowns.

I don't love clowns.

You don't.

I don't mind clowns.

I don't love them.

I definitely don't want to be around a clown, but I wouldn't scream in that way.

They're just, they see, it's a lot.

It's a lot.

I don't like any people that are like performing

clown stuff.

But I respect them and I wouldn't scream if I saw one.

Right.

But emetophobia is.

Well, I have two phobias.

I have ametophobia.

Ametophobia.

Yeah.

And then claustrophobia.

Ametophobia is a fear of like

throwing up.

Yeah.

If someone throwing up, are you throwing up?

Yeah.

I have some friends who have that.

We won't talk about it anymore because it makes people stressed.

Yes.

For people listening, we won't talk about it.

But it's real.

It's real.

And so is claustrophobia.

Okay.

And so claustrophobia,

how does that manifest in your everyday?

My, you know what?

I only am claustrophobic if I'm like, I can't get out.

So like I can do a small space if I can get out of it.

But if it's a small space and I'm like an MRI,

I got to know I can scoot out.

But you can't in an MRI.

Exactly.

That's why I can't do that.

So do you take a, do you take a nightnight pill when you get it?

No, I do the open MRI.

There's an open?

Yeah, there's, which is wider, which is wider.

Well, you can scoot out.

You can scoot out.

And I don't let them leave me alone.

Yes.

They have to sit there with me and then I have to talk to them.

They have to talk to me.

And are you feeling, do you know, do you have, do you have a sense of where your claustrophobia came from?

I remember it starting when I got a

face mask.

What do you call those?

Facial?

Not a facial.

Oh, I know exactly what you're talking about.

So actors often have to get.

Yes.

Like a plaster

of face.

And it is terrifying.

And that's when I didn't have it before that I remember, but I remember when when they were both on me

plastering me.

Yeah.

Plastering my face.

I know.

Neither sound.

It's a very weird thing.

It's like I keep trying to make it sound better.

It's a very weird thing that people don't know, which is a lot of actors have to get, especially if you're doing any prosthetics.

Yes.

And I'm sure makeup artists have made it better and better and easier and easier.

But back when we were doing it, it was like stick two straws in your nose.

Yeah.

And they do your mouth and then they're patting you and your ears are covered and then they're trying to go fast and then it has to harden.

That's right.

And And then once it hardens, they can remove it.

And the thing wasn't that.

I just was like, what if a fire comes?

They forget about me and run out.

Wait, because like, wait, this is a really interesting thing your brain is doing.

So my brain creates scenarios.

It wouldn't be the fire that would be the problem.

It would be that you've been left alone.

I've been left and I can't get and I can't get the thing out.

That's a good thing.

That's what happens.

That's what happens to me.

Okay, so I do want to talk about one battle after another because, I mean, you've worked with a lot of great directors.

Paul Thomas Anderson is amazing.

His films are really,

yeah, he's like, he's my favorite.

What was it like to shoot it?

It was shot in all in LA.

All in LA.

Like really.

In different parts of California.

Yeah.

Not LA, California.

It was great.

Yeah.

You know, it's wonderful to, I mean, the cast is amazing.

And how did you like working with Leonardo DiCaprio, Leo?

Well, he's,

you know, the thing with Leo is

he's not very experienced.

He's green.

And so you've, when you were.

You're like, oh, no, sweetie, that's crafty.

That's crafty.

That's not set.

Exactly.

And you went the wrong way.

No, yeah.

I had to do a lot of that.

No, that's the lens.

Don't look into it.

Because he was doing a lot of that.

Yeah, yeah.

Once we got past that, though,

he was great.

He's great.

He's great.

Yeah, no, it was sad, but it was also sweet.

It's endearing.

Tender.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And he's got a lot riding on this because he's never had a big movie.

No.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, he sounds sweet.

He is.

And then you're making another scary movie.

Making another scary movie.

Which is like a perfect example of your career.

You have this like, you know, kind of prestigious, very like intense.

And then you're going to go do that dumb fun

because I imagine it's real big dumb fun.

Oh my gosh.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

It is.

And like, you know, I think for us, it's like, well, let's see how far we can push humor in 2025.

You know, that's a, that's a big thing.

But, you know, the great thing is you get get at everybody.

Yeah.

That's what comedy,

that's where it lives, right?

Getting at everybody.

I think so.

I mean, like, what I asked this of all my guests, but what do you mean?

Why do I have an urge to do this?

What is it called?

It's called, what's the word when you mesophonia.

So I don't think it's a phobia.

I think it's a phonia.

I don't know what's the difference.

But yeah,

misophonia is what you're doing.

Can you look up the difference between phobia and phonia?

Maybe I have phonias.

I have a laptop here.

And she is part of that generation like myself of pre-technology.

That's right.

Where I

would

be going to the microphiche.

Remember microphich?

Remember microfiche?

Yes.

Okay, mesophonia

is a condition where specific sounds, this is a condition.

So it's audit?

Where specific sounds trigger intense negative emotional reactions, such as anger, annoyance, or anxiety?

Wow.

I don't know if it's intense, but for example, if I'm listening to a podcast

and someone needs to take a drink of water and they're really dry mouthed, you can hear it.

Not only can I hear it, but I really can't listen to the person.

So you have also, you must have an incredible ear.

I do have a, I have a good ear and I can hear things pretty well.

Now look up phobia and just see what that definition is.

Phobia.

Let's see what the Latin word of phobia is.

Phobia meaning.

What if I was like phobia?

In an extreme or irrational fear or aversion to something.

So it's fear and the other one is anger and disgust.

Yeah.

But just about sounds.

Just about sounds.

Because like phonograph and phony.

That makes sense.

But you want to know what causes phobia?

What?

It's genetic predisposition, environmental factors, and traumatic experiences.

So there you go.

That experience of that thing,

of that face thing.

I also was like, they could be doing anything.

I can't see.

Right.

I just heard fingers and then, like, you know, I could have been ass up in like 30 seconds.

Not that I, not that I thought that.

I didn't think that.

Yeah.

But if I think about it now,

anything could happen.

They were very nice, both of them.

Treatment is CBT, exposure therapy,

medication.

How are you going to, you know, so I just have to get in small spaces, claustrophobia, and then just be forced to send it sitting there, huh?

So you don't like to get smushed.

I love getting smushed.

I don't mind getting smushed.

I just need to know I can get out.

If you put me in a small closet and I know it can't get locked, then

I can get in there.

Yeah.

I can get in an elevator just fine unless the elevator gets stuck.

Oh, has that happened?

And one day I was panicking.

I just hadn't hit the open button.

Because, you know,

if the doors don't open, it's very stressful.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I was like, you know, because it's the can't get out part.

It's not the actual.

Because I can do, can you do roller coaster rides where you get strapped in?

Okay.

I can do them.

I don't feel a phobia from them, but I

hate being shook that much.

Like the shaky, like I don't do roller coasters.

I feel it's too.

Where is it shaky for you?

Just the, I don't, I don't, like a roller coaster to me is

like, I, I get nauseous.

I feel like all like dizzy.

Yeah.

I, it's not worth it for me.

The feeling of, I love them.

I, you love them.

I get on them and like, and I want to get off.

And when it's going chick, chick, chick, chick, I'm like, I want to get off.

I want to get off.

As soon as the first drop happens and I make it, I'm like, woo.

Now I can't enjoy it because I worry about someone throwing up on it.

But if roller coasters are like a way to shake it up,

what is, and I asked my guests this, what is something that you're listening to, watching?

Where do you go to laugh?

Because I know you love to laugh.

You have a great sense of humor.

You're deeply funny.

Who makes you laugh?

I have comfort watches.

I've seen Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally 5,000 Times.

Yeah.

And Heartburn.

I kind of like Norhead.

Isn't it?

Heartburn is not talked about enough.

Meryl in that movie.

And Jack.

They're so cute.

And, you know, Jack, stop.

You wanted it to work.

What about when

she had that pregnant belly and then that little baby and she had to sing and she had to leave?

That movie, I think that movie is not.

I don't know if it's underrated, but I say it's underrated.

I think you're right.

It is so good.

Check out Heartburn, everybody.

Check out Heartburn.

It's so good.

And it's so honest.

You know, when she came back, you know what I loved?

The

delivery scene when he was talking to her and he cried and you were like, it's going to be different.

And they had the baby.

He was right back out there.

He was right back out there in 10 minutes.

She was ruining him.

He couldn't even.

And so

she couldn't do it anymore.

No.

People are complicated.

People are complicated.

And it's not good or bad, but it is.

it is can i stand it and there was a little bit of her that was too compromised in that film in that story, or Efron's story.

And I love Heartburn.

Even before the, even in the beginning, when it was like, should we get married?

Remember Behind when she had the cold?

Yes, so good.

So human.

So

funny.

Yeah.

She's funny, too.

Oh, Meryl's so funny.

I mean, Meryl's everything.

Meryl.

Meryl.

I mean, there's words.

Meryl.

Meryl, Rebonis.

Meryl.

Yes, just rebones.

I mean, love Meryl.

That was a great name, though.

Well, I have to say, Regina, it's been so great talking to you.

And I have to say that the Catholic Church's loss has been our gain.

I really appreciate you doing this.

Thank you so much for coming.

It's so great to talk to you.

I know.

And I'll see you on another desk floor, hopefully soon.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay.

Okay.

Thanks, Hannah.

Thank you so much, Regina Hall.

You are awesome.

And it was so great to talk to you and so fun.

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