[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> announcer: from 30 rockefeller plaza in new york, it's "late night with seth meyers." tonight -- joel edgerton, from "band aid," actress and director, zoe lister-jones, music from royal blood. featuring the 8g band with jared champion. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." [ cheers and applause ] how's everybody doing tonight? that is great to hear. let's get to the news everybody. former fbi director james comey testified before the senate intelligence committee today and comey ran the gambit of emotions from bemusement, to confusion, to outright anger. [ light laughter ]

during his testimony today, former fbi director james comey said that the trump administration chose to defame him and the fbi with "lies, plain and simple." a claim that was refuted by both plain and simple. [ laughter and applause ] president trump -- president trump did not post on twitter during james comey's senate testimony today. well, he thought he did, but his aide switched his phone with a speak and spell. [ laughter and applause ] former president barack obama's white house ethics lawyers said yesterday that, "comey's accounts of his meetings with president trump sounds like trial testimony, which is also what trump thinks comey did today. "this is just a trial testimony,

right?" "we'll see how it goes, then decide if we like it?" [ light laughter ] producers have announced that they are suspending production of "the real housewives of toronto." apparently the show didn't work because every argument ended with, "you know what? you're right. i'm sorry." [ laughter and applause ] "sorry." an 88 year old woman has set a new record for oldest female to stand on the wing of a flying plane. it sounds dangerous, but it's actually the safest place to be when you fly united. [ laughter and applause ] where is 12b? we need to remove 12b, she's on the wing. [ light laughter ] chinese dentists this week had to remove a wrench from a man's penis, but the good news is his nuts are on pretty tight now. [ laughter ] why did he go to a dentist?

[ light laughter ] i guess you're in so much pain you can't even think straight. [ light laughter ] >> seth: and finally, a musician broke a world record this week by hitting a single piano key 824 times in one minute. he also broke the record for most satisfied girlfriend. [ laughter and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, we got a great show for you tonight. he's got a great new film, "it comes at night," our friend joel edgerton is back on the show, everybody. fantastic actor and a great guy. she is the writer, director and star of a fantastic new film, "band aid." zoe lister-jones joins us this evening. [ cheers and applause ] and we have music from a great english rock band, royal blood. we're so happy to have them back on the show. [ cheers and applause ] before we get to all that, former fbi director james comey testified today that president trump lied about his reasons for firing comey. as well as their conversations leading up to that firing, meanwhile republicans defended trump by saying, "he doesn't know what he's doing." for more on this, it's time for

"a closer look." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: comey's testimony was one of the most highly anticipated political events since the election. the stakes could not be set any higher, but in the run up to the hearing, trump tried to play it cool. earlier this week, he was asked if he had a message for comey before the hearing and just said this -- >> mr. president, what message do you have to give comey ahead of his testimony? >> i wish him luck. >> seth: is there anything more sinister than the way trump says, "i wish him luck?" [ light laughter ] he might as well have said, "may the odds be ever in your favor." [ laughter and applause ] of course, trump did not wish comey well. in fact, after the hearing today, trump's lawyer basically said comey was lying about his conversations with trump, and before the testimony, a non-profit supporting trump debuted an unprecedented attack ad against comey. almost as if he was a political canidate. trump and his allies are targeting the director of the fbi and are questioning his personal integrity, which is completely inappropriate, but

don't take it from me, take it from these guys. >> what we're seeing now is the old playbook of the politics of personal destruction that the clintons have rolled out throughout their career and they are targeting the director of the fbi, and questioning his personal integrity. >> but the -- >> i appreciate the fact that given the information he had, he decided to go forward with it. why do i appreciate the fact? because i'm an american who loves this country -- >> bill clinton essentially called the fbi director james comey, a liar. when he said the fbi director was spouting bull. can you imagine? man. >> seth: maybe. [ light laughter ] maybe, he meant it as a compliment. "man, that's a sick move, i'm going to steal that." [ light laughter ] but now we have very clear, damning evidence, that the president lied about interfering in a criminal investigation, and possibly committed obstruction of justice. and yet the republicans have done everything they can to either dismiss or deny comey's allegations. for example, new jersey governer

chris christie suggested that trump couldn't be held accountable for his actions because he doesn't know what he's doing. >> what people don't understand is that they elected an outsider president. >> mm-hm. >> they elected someone who had never been inside government. what you're seeing is a president who is now very publically learning about the way people react to what he considers to be normal, new york city conversation. >> seth: probably just his accent, but new york city conversations sounds like mafia slang. [ light laughter ] take this guy behind the warehouse and have a new york city conversation with him. [ light laughter ] if that don't work, open up a jersey discussion. [ light laughter ] worse comes to worse, a staten island tête-à-tête. [ light laughter ] of course, coming into today, another one of the big questions was how trump would respond. his staff was reportedly terrified that he would tweet during the hearing. so terrified in fact, they tried to pack his schedule to keep pre-occupied. >> white house officials are trying to keep the president as

busy as possible tomorrow to try and keep him away from twitter so that he can't respond in realtime to james comey's testimonies. >> seth: it's a sad state of affairs when the white house staff has to handle the president like a toddler on a road trip. "okay, i got the ipad and the sticker book. ziplock full of cheerios, three binkeys. okay, i think we're good, let's roll. let's see what we do." "oh! he's already out of his carseat." [ cheers and applause ] but comey -- comey himself did not personally seem concerned with what trump might tweet about him because right off the bat, comey minced no words about the president. calling trump's shifting explanations for why he fired him lies. in fact, comey said he knew instantly upon meeting trump for the first time, even before he was inagurated, that he should start writing down everything trump told him. apparently comey didn't exactly get the most honest vibe off trump when they first met. >> what was it about that meeting -- that led you to determine that you needed to start putting down a written record? >> a combination of things. i think the circumstances, the

subject matter and the person i was interacting with. i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting. >> seth: that's the fbi director, a guy who has dealt with liars and criminals his whole life, walking out of his first meeting with the president and thinking, "i got write this [ bleep ] down." [ laughter and applause ] [ laughter and applause ] now if it feels to you like there weren't any new bombshells today, that's because we are already surrounded by previous bombshells. our capacity to be shocked has already been so worn down by the trump presidency, he's like your druggie cousin who can no longer surprise you. [ light laughter ] kevin traded aunt janet's cat for robitussin. uh-huh! [ light laughter ] did he? [ light laughter ] for example, comey said trump called him out the blue and said that, "he had nothing to do with russia. had not been involved with hookers in russia." can you imagine any other president saying that?

[ light laughter ] and yet it's barely shrug inducing. you're almost surprised trump didn't throw in a second country. [ light laughter ] "i had nothing to do with hookers in russia, or thailand." [ light laughter ] no one mentioned thailand -- "well, good. we had a great time there, with no hookers." [ light laughter ] at least trump mentioning hookers gave us the delightful bonus of watching serious reports have to repeat those words on national television. >> the idea, the president of the united states is at one point calling the fbi director and saying, "i have nothing to do with russian hookers." >> you don't often read a document from an fbi director taking notes that the president called me to say, "he didn't hang out with hookers." >> hookers. >> hookers. >> hookers. >> and a lot of the dossier was substantiated, but that particularly salacious detail was not. >> the salacious detail about the hookers? >> yes. [ laughter and applause ]

>> seth: about the hookers? you can tell how giddy they are to bring it up. they're just so happy -- "well russia -- you mean the location of the peepee tape? yes and putin, you mean the guy who has the peepee tape? yes, hookers." [ light laughter ] but the crux of the hearing was comey's one on one meeting with trump where the president asked him to shut down his investigation of former national security adviser, michael flynn. remember, trump cleared the room and then told comey, "i hope you can let this go." comey said explicitly, he took that as a direction to end the investigation. and yet republicans seem to harp, not on trump's apparent attempt to interfer with a criminal investigation, but on the words he used. like senator jim risch of idaho. >> he did not direct you to let it go. >> not in his words, no. >> he did not order you to let it go. >> again, those words are not in order. >> no, he said, "i hope." >> i took it as a direction -- >> right. >> i mean he's the president of the united states with me alone, saying, "i hope this," i took it as, this is what he wants me to do. not -- i didn't obey that, but

that's the way i took it. >> you may have taken it as a direction, but that's not what he said. >> correct, that's why -- >> he said -- he said, "i hope." >> seth: look, when someone says, "i hope you'll join us for dinner," they want you to come to dinner. [ light laughter ] they're not going to answer the door and say, "what the hell are you doing here?" [ light laughter ] "you invited me." "i was just hoping!" [ light laughter ] and then there was house speaker, paul ryan who tried a version of the chris christie defense, saying basically that trump was too dumb to know that what he was doing was wrong. >> the president's new at this. he's new to government. and so he probably wasn't steeped in the long running protocols that establish the relationships between doj, fbi and white houses. he's just new to this. >> seth: so wait, the president is just learning on the job? even at chipotle you have to shadow someone for a week. [ laughter and applause ] because he would -- he would never get hired at chipotle. [ light laughter ]

and yet despite republican attempts to dismiss or deny comey's testimony, he repeatedly offered new and important details about bizarre conversations he had with the president that were clearly, at the very least, inappropriate. for example, there's the infamous dinner where trump asked comey for loyalty after repeatedly telling comey he wanted him to stay on and had been doing a good job. trump suddenly called one day out of the blue and asked him to come to the white house. >> he called me at my desk at lunch time and asked me, was i free for dinner that night. he called himself and said, "can you come over for dinner tonight?" and he said, "how about 6:30?" and i said, "whatever works for you, sir." and then i hung and had to call my wife and break a date with her. i was supposed to take her out to dinner that night and -- >> that's one of the all-time greatest excuses for breaking a date, i'd think. >> yeah. [ light laughter ] in retrospect, i would have -- i love spending time with my wife. i wish i had been there that night. [ audience ohs ] >> seth: and if a call from a president is all-time excuse for

breaking a date, saying no to the president and staying home with your wife, is an all-time player move. [ light laughter ] i'm pretty sure if you do that, you get to skip the netflix and go right to chill. [ light laughter ] in fact, as comey detailed, he esident's repeated attempts to talk to him privately that he implored attorney general jeff sessiton.to know how to handle the situation. thera pause from him? what happened? clearly. i have a recollection of him his body language gave me the sense like, what am i going to do? >> did he shrug? >> i don't remember clearly. i think the reasonme av recollection of almost the -- impeo?ti [ light laughter ] it's amazing to me how many times in donald trump's short presidency people have resorted to making a face youldsitc.

[ light laughter ] and it makes me happy because we us >> i have some recollection of almost the -- imperceptible like -- ♪ ♪ [ laughter and applause ] special production. >> sit, spicer, sit. good dog. [ ] >> seth: now as we mentioned personal lawyer, mark kasowitz issued a statement, claiming trump had been vindicated, while f hi cconversations with trump. but most noticably, and this is real, in the very first line of audience aws ] and i'm not even sure if that's a mistake or if he just did it to cover hon hse, i never called him the president. predisent." [ light laughter ]isen the predisent of the untied stats. [ light laughter ] in the end, comey was asked why he wanted to come forward to testify publically, and why he

ve wntk and offered this answer -- of the r pleased to be here, is that i think this committee has shown the american people, although we have two parties and work together when it involves the coreer so i would hope that you'd just keep doing what you're doing. it -- it's goo abut 's also a m especially for kids that we -- we are a functioning adult >> seth: that's right, we're an salacious details that are beneath the dignity of our >> the salacious detail about the hooker.[ light laughter ] this has been, "a closer look." [ cheers and applause ]ight bac joel edgerton, everybody. [ cheers and applause joel edgerton, everybody. [ cheers and applause ♪

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♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: welcome back. give it up for the 8g band, right over there. [ cheers and applause ] also this week, we've had the drummer from cage the elephant, sitting in. who's live and unplugged album "unpeeled" will be out later this summer, jared champion, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for a great week. we really loved having you here. our first guest tonight is a talented actor you know from films like "loving," "zero dark thirty," and "the gift." his new film "it comes at night" is in theaters tomorrow.

let's take a look. [ dog barking ] >> go inside, i'll take care of sam. hey, hey, stop, stop. it's me. i said go inside! [ dog barking ] hey! settle down! travis? billy! travis! [ screaming ] >> seth: please welcome back to the show, joel edgerton, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: i was so, now -- i was going to compliment that clip. but not how you were wonderful in it. but the dog was great. [ light laughter ] i mean the dog is what really gives you the tension in that

scene. but you were saying -- you just said to me as you walked out. >> that dog bit me. >> seth: really? [ light laughter ] >> for real. and dogs and animals in general get treated with, you know, we think we get treated really well, actors. and we do, we get treated way too well. >> seth: yeah. >> lobsters, dogs, any animal that turns up on set. like, that dog bit me, the very next thing that was said was by the dog handler. he's like, "that means he's tired. and he needs a rest." [ light laughter ] i was like, "how about that?" what about edgerton? >> seth: yeah. >> he needs a rest. >> seth: you couldn't -- you couldn't teach him as a dog handler, you couldn't teach him a better way to say, "i need a rest." >> yeah, or like, how about this, "are you okay? he needs a rest." yeah. >> seth: so this is, this is sort of psychological thriller. you could say it's a horror film. are you a fan of that genre? >> i love psychological thrillers, psychological horror films. i'm not a big horror film -- i think there's a category i call "blood porn." >> seth: sure, yeah, i know what you mean. >> which is just like stack up the bodies. >> seth: yup. >> and -- but psychological films, that make me feel disturbed.

it's like a sense of dread i really love. that's why i made "the gift." that's why i love -- >> seth: which is a fantastic film. >> oh, thank you. >> seth: that i feel like has a sense of that dread. [ applause ] >> thank you. i just gave myself a plug in retrospect. >> seth: you just plugged a movie from two years ago. >> "the gift" it came out last -- two years ago, go watch it. like "get out" i thought was one of the best films of the year. >> seth: amazing, yeah. >> yeah. and i think it was a really great -- i think we judge horror films, too easily. the really great ones are really worth watching. because they also say something about the times that we live in. i think "the thing" you know, if you go back and watch that was about communism. >> seth: yeah. >> this film is really about the paranoia, or the way we look at each other and think, what's the minds of the people we cross in the street every day? do they want to cause me harm or are they going to help me? and there's something about paranoia, about this film that's very terrifying. >> seth: another thing that's terrifying about this film, is a lot of people are wearing gas masks, in the film. of the masks, i would say, gas masks are the scariest, would you concur? [ light laughter ] >> yeah, no, it is pretty -- well it's scary to act in as

well. i think -- >> seth: if you went on the subway and someone was wearing a werewolf mask. >> hmm. >> seth: and another person was wearing a gas mask -- >> yeah. >> seth: i'd be way more afraid of the gas mask. [ light laughter ] >> i would, and i'd go up to the gas mask person, i'd ask them if they had a spare, because that's -- i get a sense something is coming. >> seth: yeah. >> but it's because you can't see someone's eyes. >> seth: oh, right. >> like, do i immediately become a little bit more scary if i go like this? >> seth: yeah, i would think. >> but you can't -- >> seth: i think we're all, a bit spooked. >> you can't tell what my intentions are, yeah. >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> i'm going to do the rest of the interview like this. >> seth: ooh, we'll have to put a thing on the screen, look away for children. [ light laughter ] and you shot this in woodstock -- >> upsatate. >> seth: beautiful place. >> very peaceful, historically peaceful town, shooting a terrifying movie. >> seth: yeah, was -- were you out in the wilderness? did you enjoy that? >> yeah, we were like 10 minutes up the road from the one main street of woodstock. and shooting in one big wooden house in the woods. it was incredible. >> seth: a lot of woods there. woodstock, wooden house, the woods. >> wood heavy.

>> seth: yeah. >> wooden. [ light laughter ] wooden actor. >> seth: and so -- [ light laughter ] >> you know -- [ applause ] >> seth: did you -- >> they weren't laughing because it's true. >> seth: no, no, no, they don't -- i don't think so. >> yeah, alright. [ light laughter ] >> seth: what, did you run into -- did you come across any wild animals? [ light laughter ] >> yeah. i was robbed by a bear. >> seth: you were? >> but i was, yeah, i was robbed by a bear. i never saw a bear, but it robbed my garbage. >> seth: okay -- >> and it must have made off with it. >> seth: that's so much more disappointing than what i wanted the story to be. [ light laughter ] i would just like a paw on your back. and like, "don't move." [ light laughter ] >> yeah. >> seth: that might have been a guy in a bear suit. i don't know. >> no, but, i was obsessed with seeing bears. and i've actually taken a five day camping trip to yosemite before, because i'm obsessed with seeing a bear. >> seth: you want to see one. >> i really want to see a bear. i have a feeling -- i almost know that when i do see a bear i'm going to take that wish back. >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> like if you see it at a zoo, there is a big old steel fence, i assume, between you and the bear.

and that's better. >> seth: yeah. >> but i never saw one while i was up there. but i had my garbage robbed by one. >> seth: and how did you know it was a bear? did someone tell you? an expert? >> well the garbage bags were so big, and if it was a raccoon, like it would have had to made off with it like santa claus. >> seth: yeah. >> the garbage wasn't there, it was like way off in the woods. and there was -- this is how i know this is the detective in me. [ light laughter ] dish washing liquid bottle, which is huge. >> seth: uh-huh. >> with a big bite mark out of it and there are no sharks out there. because there's no ocean. [ light laughter ] so the only other animal that could have made it is a bear. and it must -- >> seth: i like that an australian detective, the first thing they do is they eliminate shark. [ laughter ] >> yeah, i'm not gonna pick it up, just like. [ light laughter ] this is a case, of bear theft. >> seth: it couldn't have been a shark, we're not near the ocean. >> yeah. yeah. [ laughter and applause ] that's very true. >> seth: yes, it's true. >> our powers of, you know,

detect -- >> seth: very very deductive people. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> seth: so, now, what about this fact that it's post-apocalyptic to some degree this film. >> yeah. >> seth: how do you think you would do in a post-apocalypse? >> look, it's one of those "i like to think" scenarios, i like to think i'd be awesome. i'd like to think i would be bear grylls. [ light laughter ] like crossed with oprah, or something. like really smart and really resourceful. >> seth: uh-huh. >> and like know everything, and -- >> seth: i like the -- the idea of oprah post-apocalypse would be very helpful. because i think everybody would be working through a lot of stuff. >> well, or like you, because, like, i feel like you guys meet everybody, and if you -- you know, you get to absorb other people's lives, so it should make you super intelligent. right? >> seth: oh, well yeah, it doesn't, but technically, it should. >> it doesn't. >> seth: yeah, yeah. >> because you're not really listening to me right now. >> seth: not -- >> what was the last thing i said? >> seth: you -- i was back, there was a, couldn't have been a shark? [ light laughter ] >> yes, he's listensing. no, but like, i think i would just crumble. fall apart and cry --

>> seth: yeah. >> you know, wish i had a cyanide pill. >> seth: i don't think i would do well either. well don't -- aren't you constantly -- i'm constantly, especially now i have a one-year-old, i know -- i realize, oh i have nothing to teach him. >> really? >> seth: like, google will teach him everything. >> yeah. >> seth: i don't know how to do a single thing that would be helpful post-apocalypse. >> well, back in the day, you know, the dad used to teach them maybe to fix a car. >> seth: yeah. >> but fixing a car back then was easier. have you looked under a hood of a car now? >> seth: yeah, no. >> don't even start. >> seth: yeah, it's not for -- tougher. >> cars are gonna be done with soon anyway. >> seth: yeah, or they'll be self driving and the robot will check. >> yeah, right. [ light laughter ] >> seth: i wanna -- the last time you were here -- >> yeah. >> seth: we talked a little bit, the "daily mail" a fine -- >> my favorite publication. >> seth: publication that does a lot of great work. they took a photo of you on the street. and we had a lot of -- long conversation about why you were wearing this outfit. this is, you remember that? [ light laughter ] >> i'm still baffled that this hasn't become a fashion trend. >> seth: yeah. >> within the year. >> seth: you sort of -- you got your smart guy glasses on. >> yeah. >> seth: you were wearing some kind of shin guards with no socks. >> yeah. >> seth: or, no shoes, i should say. >> and pictorial board shorts.

>> seth: yeah, exactly. >> i bought, they're palm trees if you looked up here, they're the stems of palm trees. so, if you're looking for a pair of shorts. >> seth: but this did not teach you a lesson to dress better when you are out and about? >> obviously not. >> seth: because they got another, they got you recently, since the last time you were here, and i just want to show this off, because now -- [ laughter ] first of all, it's the same top so you kept the top, right? >> it's a different top, technically, but by the same maker. >> seth: it looks pretty similar. [ laughter ] >> this is black. this is navy. >> seth: okay. >> and these are snow camouflage -- which you don't -- shouldn't wear in la. >> seth: yeah, exactly. >> snow camouflage. >> seth: snow camouflage. yeah, and also, i like the accessory, that you thought, "you know what was missing?" >> flowers. >> seth: i will carry flowers. yeah. that will -- that will pull the eye away from the rest of the outfit. so, what do you think?

are you going to stick with it? are you going to keep -- are you going to keep going out? >> listen, in five -- four or five years from now. you guys will realize, that this is the way you all are going to be dressing. >> seth: yeah. >> i'm just super cutting edge. >> seth: i do want to say, i know maybe you won't do post-apocalypse, but, i'm very impressed you do your own shopping. obviously, you went to the grocery store. >> there is another person here. [ light laughter ] >> i don't do my own shopping. kidding me? >> seth: i mean i go and i point. >> yeah. >> seth: and someone else pulls it and puts it in a cart. [ light laughter ] that one! i want that one! >> yeah, yeah, i'm just waiting for the next time i'm here i'm going to be carrying a big thing of toilet roll and have like, some weird headdress on. >> seth: a sombrero. >> yeah. >> seth: yeah. and then you'll be like, "oh, that's not the same one. that one's like a different navy." [ light laughter ] thanks, so much for being here. it's always a pleasure talking to you joel. >> thank you. >> seth: joel edgerton everybody! "it comes at night" is in theaters everywhere this friday. we'll be right back with zoe lister-jones. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ how was your vacation? get a lil' sun? yeah, you're looking a little ripe there, buddy. yeah, very funny. hey, guys, what's this tomato doing at randy's desk? [all coworkers laugh] hahahahaha. you know, that actually reminds me, steve. i got you something... when i was over there. it's just a... little... something i thought... you might...like.

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ seth: our next guest is a talented actress you know from the cbs comedy, "life in pieces." she also wrote, directed, and stars in a new film, "band aid" which is in select theatres now, and will be available on demand tomorrow. let's take a look. >> hi, dave. >> is that john mayer over there? >> no. >> no, i just found my old guitar from high school. >> yeah. >> are you john mayer? >> right, yeah. second time's the charm. >> second time, yeah.

>> what are you doing? >> we're cleaning out the garage to make it a rehearsal space. we're starting a band. >> for a band? >> yeah. >> i used to play drums in high school. >> oh. >> really? >> i was in a band myself. >> oh yeah, what was it called? >> the band was called myself. it was a sort of solo percussive group. you know, djembe, marimba. >> uh-huh. >> conga. mongo. >> uh-huh. >> zimbabwe. you know, like, yeah. >> and you played all of those yourself? >> i played all of them myself. >> wow. >> seth: please welcome to the show, zoe lister-jones, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> seth: welcome to the show zoe. >> thank you. i'm so happy to be here. >> seth: congratulations on the film. it's yourself and some very funny guys there, adam pally and fred armisen.

how -- did you enjoy working with fred? because i know i do. >> umm, yeah, i mean, he's very nice. he's hard to get to show up to work as you know. >> seth: yeah, absolutely. >> i think -- was the last time he was here was like 2012. >> seth: 2012, he was -- the last time he was here was right before we started. [ laughter ] >> yes. yeah. yeah, no, it was a dream. i mean they're both so funny, and we had so much fun on set. >> seth: and this is -- so you directed a film that you were also starring in. >> yeah. >> seth: what are the unique challenges of being both an actor in scenes and the director? >> you know, i would say, a director obviously calls action at the top of the scene, and cut at the end of the scene. i would say the weirdest thing about wearing both hats was having to call cut on my own sex scene. >> seth: oh, interesting. yeah. >> it's a strange things, because you're in an intimate experience with another person, and then you just like have to drop it like a sociopath, and just be like cut! [ laughter ] >> i will say, after doing it a

number of times, i feel like it's kind of like a capital-p power move in real life. >> seth: oh yeah. >> if you were like in bed with somebody and not feeling it, to just be like, cut. [ light laughter ] that's a wrap. >> seth: yeah. >> you know? moving on. >> seth: i will tell you that if that had ever happened with me, and a woman had said that, i would not have recovered. [ light laughter ] >> you would have married her, by the way. >> yeah, yeah. i would have married her, and you guys actually formed a band. you guys recorded an album's worth of songs. >> yeah, yeah, so we played all of -- well, the movie is about a couple who can't stop fighting. so they decide to turn all their fights into songs and start a band, and so we played the songs live in the film, and then we recorded an album. our band's called the dirty dishes because that's the crux of our fight. [ light laughter ] >> seth: there you go. >> fights in the film. yeah, and now we just put out an album which is so exciting. >> seth: that's really exciting, and you mentioned that you played live in the film. that is a choice you made as a director because there is a different way to do it, which is maybe a little -- feels a little less authentic.

>> yeah, i feel like it's so rare to see like live performance actually performed live because it's risky for the production. so when i was like, no, that's what i want to do. cause i feel like it's just so electric to see on camera. everyone is like, you're crazy, i was like, deal with it. you know. we're going to do it. it was so fun, because we were like gigging while shooting. >> seth: right. >> so, but we had to actually learn how to -- i mean i had to learn. i didn't know how to play bass. so i learned to play bass for the movie. >> seth: but, you have been in the band before, yes? >> i was in a band. a band is a loose term for what i was in. >> seth: okay. >> it was like half performance art, half, half music, and i was a back-up singer. the band was maxi dial and -- and i just did like a bunch of crazy-ish like all the time. >> seth: what's and example of the performance art half of this band? >> like, i went to k-mart one day and bought like 20 pairs of really like ugly like granny underwear. >> seth: uh-huh. >> i was wearing a cute little dress.

you know i was in my 20s, that was my prime. i put on like a dozen pairs of under wear, so we were singing, and the first pair i took off like really seductively and the whole augience like -- [ gasp ] including my parents. you're welcome, mom and dad. [ light laughter ] and then like i took off a second pair, and then a third, and by the time it got to ten everyone was like, what is happening? [ light laughter ] >> seth: you had to get to ten before they were like, i officially don't think this is normal. [ light laughter ] >> yeah, yeah, yeah, no, up to eight everyone was like i'm into this. >> seth: yeah. >> yeah. on that same one, i was so obsessed with the strokes, the band the strokes, at that time in my life that i also like wrote down on a piece of paper when i was supposed to be actually singing, does anyone have julian casablanca's phone number and i held it up. nobody did. but if you are watching, i tried julian. >> seth: well that's nice. that's nice that you tried. you -- you've accomplished something as an actor that i am so impressed with because i am such a fan of this franchise.

you grew up in brooklyn, you went to school here, and you have been on all four "law and orders!" >> yeah, yeah. >> seth: wow. bravo, by the way, bravo. >> thank you. thank you. [ applause ] thank you. thank you. >> seth: so what is -- what are the four, "law and orders?" "law and order" classic. >> which they call the mothership. >> seth: okay. >> there's "law and order: criminal intent." >> seth: yep. >> there's "law and order: special victims," and then there was a short list one "order trial by jury." which is why i think i do hold the record because it was just one year. >> seth: oh right. >> so not that many -- you know, when you're a new york actor, that's like a batmitzvah. you know, it's a rite of passage. you have to be -- then to like have the egot of the crime drama franchise. >> seth: yeah. did you have a -- pick a favorite? was there one that was a memorable role? >> there was one where i played a junkie who was murdered. >> seth: okay. >> you know, as you do, and i got found in a box again. just a regular day.

>> seth: who found to you? >> chris knoth. >> seth: oh, a good person to be found by. >> okay. mr. big, found my rotting corpse, and i was like covered in like you know, corpse makeup. i was gnarly looking, and when we finished it was like 2:00 in the morning and they were like, do you want us to take your makeup off? and i was like, i think i'm going to stick with it, and like, i was on my bicycle. i lived in the west village. i was like, i'm just going to bike home, and see on a friday night at 2:00 in the morning if anyone wants to party. >> yeah, yeah. >> like will new yorkers be so like myopic that they won't see this? >> seth: well, also, new york has the highest bar for something that's weird. >> yes, but also, like new yorkers don't pay attenion. >> seth: right. >> cause we're just all like on our -- you know -- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> our own journeys. so i got on my bike, and i rode around as a corpse, and when i parked it, and locked it up, these dudes were like, hey, my friend wants to talk to you. [ light laughter ] i like legit got cat-called as a rotting corpse. [ cheers and applause ] the thing is, i'd be like thank you so much.

i feel like -- you know, like it's obviously disgusting to be cat-called as a woman, but there is like a little part of all of us that's like i look good today. you know? [ light laughter ] and like, that was it for me where i was like, oh, no, no no, this has nothing to do with me. yeah. [ light laughter ] >> seth: yeah. that's a guy with very specific tastes. [ light laughter ] >> yeah. >> seth: hey, thank for being here, congrats on the movie. >> thank you so much. >> seth: i heard it was number one in the specially on box office last week. >> yeah. >> seth: so well done, and i can't wait for it to open everywhere. thank you so much for being here. [ cheers and applause ] zoe lister-jones, everybody. "band-aid" is in select theatres now, available on demand tomorrow. we'll be right back with more "late night." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ i'm not the type to smushy garbages... you know what? i'm going for it. you are completely and utterly... awesome... i'm glad you showed up. in my life! i think i'm about to cry... you better not. every single time i...

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