Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Regina Hall

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

The nunnery's loss of Regina Hall is our gain. Amy hangs with the actor and talks about the pains of getting a mammogram, watching 'Dateline' before going to bed, and working with Leonardo DiCaprio. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Andrew Rannells and Regina HallExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producers Devon Baroldi and Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles Order Sephora on Uber Eats today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We're going to talk about her incredible range as an actress. We're going to talk about the difference between phobias and phonyas. 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.D. Anderson movie, one battle after another, which is in theaters this week. But we always do this before we have our guest. 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 Rannells. 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 Five Eva. You know him from Too Much. Lina 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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Subject to credit approval, Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank, USA, Salt Lake City Branch, terms and more at Applecard.com. 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 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, ah, 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, if 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. I appreciate it. Because it usually is at some event 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, like, get and get out. say, 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. One of the first, like, big parties I went to when I first moved to L.A., I was very lucky. And I walked in with Jessica Lange. And I know, right? You floated in with Jessica Lange. I floated in with Jessica Lange. And Jessica Lange just wanted to, like, hold on to me because I'm sort of tall. And I think she likes that. I think she likes that. 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 with 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, you two would make a very nice nice couple. I have to say a handsome couple. I think we, yeah, I've got to be with her a couple times and it's always successful. But you know, how's this for a segue? You know who's very good at those events, Regina Hall. Oh, tell me why. You go 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 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 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, 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's kind of the theme that I want to talk to Regina about today is her career. 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, 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. But you bring something up that I always wondered about and I have a

haven't been able to ask anybody who's been on Broadway for as long as you have. Sure, 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, 1,200 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 drip 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. But like, okay, somebody's watching. 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? And sometimes the worst is when you make eye contact that person. Ooh. Yeah.

Ooh, that's rough. That's rough. That's rough. 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 went, Oprah. Just like I'm doing like a nightclub act.

I was like, oh, I go for us. I remember smiling at her. And she smiled back because she's polite. She could probably, she's probably had a lot of experience with intense eye contact. Oh. And tears, I mean, the reactions to her must be extreme. You are so incredible in the Book of Mormon. Oh, my gosh.

I mean, you've written two books. You have. I have. You have. You are, you are, you're kind of. Constantly, and so many good things. We mentioned Girls 5Eva, the show that you did with Tina. You also are just in Lena's new show, Too Much, where you play her 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, 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 coming out, that it's wildly different from anything she's done in a lot of ways. And as much as 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 want to, I'm going to switch this up? Or is this something that just sort of built, 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 Sheetle? 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, um, she told everybody that we were married at one point. And some people, some people who didn't really know me very well thought that that was true. And then she, she sort of in a, who's afraid of Virginia Woolfway, created children for us that we would talk about, Don and Dawn. And we would reference Don 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 appreciate your time.

And how tall are you, Andrew? 6-2. Oh, congratulations. Thanks. Thanks so much. That's so great. I like Jessica Lang, a tall man. Jackpot!

Sign me up. I did it. It is so great to talk to you. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much. And thank you for being so generous and so lovely, as always. And I hope I see you at some event, time soon and we just totally ghost each other. Yeah, I'm not going to look at you. I'm just

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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 insist on. I saw hair and makeup. Yeah, if she's not beat, I don't want her.

That's what I saw. Yeah, I need two hours. I need you have two hours of hair and makeup before we hang out. Wow, you look gorgeous. This lighting is nice. This is great. Isn't it? Chris. You know what I realized? I'm not aging. Lighting is 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 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 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, super sad. 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 see. I did. I said, is this one? Something's wrong with my legs. And I went and I said, And he was like, you know, they don't notice. No, they don't care. They just notice the legs. They don't care what it's on it. They don't care.

No, 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 is this not gotten better? How we still have to literally squeeze our boobs? And I don't have a lot of boobs. I was like, what are you getting? And it's even sometimes worse. It's sometimes worse when you don't.

If it's larger. And you, you all, 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. No, like a, like a waffle. And that, there's nothing to look at? No. Like, I, 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, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, you're kind of contorting your body, you know, 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. No distraction. I was like, you guys don't want to put even an inspirational. No. And it takes a few 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 things are done. My breath 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 a photo. 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 vice ever. Yes. They say, don't move.

And then they leave the room because there's too much radiation. Yeah. That's 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 or whatever during this? 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... It's good to love a dentist. I do. I love a dentist, too. You like your dentist? I do. And I get nitrous. 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 end. instruments over and clean 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're just got really into it. We were talking to my 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' birthday party. 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, yes. Around the corner from, yep. And I walked down the street, and I was like, who's directing? And they said, Amy Polar, and then I made my way. I made my way. It was very excited. 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. Because I was trying to. Like that breast exam. Everything else has been felt like a man my brain.

During COVID. Everything did. It was like, this is going to really hurt. It's really weird. It's going to take a long time. Yep. And everybody's going to leave the room. And you're going to be exposed to all things. Totally. Totally. But I feel like we've had a couple 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 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 choreograph dances. And I wish I had that gift. Yeah, her and her sister Kadata can do like. Yes, Kadat is a great dancer, too. Old routines from the 90s. They can get a choreographer in front of them and they're able to dance 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, oh. Wait, excuse me? I know. You just dropped that? I know.

And did you see how I dropped it like suddenly like I said nothing? As I was like, yeah, so when Sheila and I were talking, E, you know, I did we were, I did a one-on-one. interview and so she was my subject and she's so amazing and I was asking her does 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 the rhythms and every she feels every limb and every portion so everything is separate for her oh 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 course. And I was like, I, and I, 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... 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 the way to say he's lovely as me. I was like, I've got a good team. A great reputation. Does it matter to you like how you like when you go to work like what matters to you like how you show up

and how other people show up? I think for me like 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 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 D.C. 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. exposed to it. 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 telling my mom and then getting in trouble. So I didn't, I didn't have that. They were, 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, they were loving. And then is it true that you thought about perhaps becoming a nun? 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 cut off I was 41 they were like it's not a backup plan miss get on out of here

but it's oh for that particular for that particular order okay got it because there are different orders you know with some orders it's a sleeping partner number thing yeah four

I don't know if anybody wait you can only have slept with four people yeah 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, hold on. So there is a, there's some orders where there's a number that you can only have had a certain amount of partners. Some are, it 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 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 you, you know, you'd spend your life in prayer, prayer for others, I would imagine, because 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 thing of like, you know, success, whatever that is. no romantic heartbreak, right?

You don't want to say love because that part is beautiful, but it's the other side when whatever trauma, whatever reasons, things don't make it. And then you had that singular focus. I'm sure that it's not that easy. I'm just saying that was what I romanticized. It would be if I did it. And then I thought that was like lovely.

And 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? 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 piece 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 happy that I have my journalism degree. but I want to be an actor. When did that change happen? What? Well, my parents were like, my parents were divorced, but they were just like,

you're not going to be in New York partying. Because I had also, I'd left the nun life behind. You were like, before I was in New York and I was partying. And I loved partying. You know, I had great friends and from college and like,

we finished. And then it was like, what am I? You know, but we were going out. And we were probably in New York at the same time, like in the 90s, right? 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 party. But work, I couldn't do it. I did work for six months. Oh, 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 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 exes. Whatever was at the And then the screen was late and I woke up because I had been out too late. And I was like, I, 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 you'd want me to, but I had a friend who said, do you want to make extra money doing commercials? And she was like, I introduced 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 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. 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 because I was going to need to pay for acting school. Yeah. And then I went to acting school. I remember my mom's like, so 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 could have been. 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. But I like to. But so much of bartending is faking, like, you're just making the drink, but it's about the chit-chat. And I do like people. So I love to converse and meet. I find people to be fascinating. Okay, so back to commercials.

You're auditioning for commercials. 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 in some McDonald's fries. You were ordering them? I was at a movie theater watching, we were watching a, movie about McDonald's and then

Were you watching a McDonald's movie? No, we're 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 they're watching and then I said 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, were you nervous? I was nervous, yes. I was nervous. I remember I was like, I don't know if I liked my hair because they did these rods.

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

There she is. Did you just do a McDonald's going on? Not one. Nobody. 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, 40,000. Yes, back then. You could make, you could live. 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. Yeah. Your residuals were nice. Yes. During the Volvo Fall Experience event, discover exceptional offers and thoughtful design that leaves plenty of room for autumn adventures. And see for yourself how Volvo's legendary safety brings peace of mind to every crisp morning commute.

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It's been 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. Can I interrupt? Yes. I love this woman. No, I want to say that. You know what? No, 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, whenever you say Amy Polar, it doesn't matter, right? We all know who is. 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. That's right. You can't be like, I don't know, but 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 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. We'll talk about. Like, you are playing. You are playing.

playing deep, complex characters and also getting to 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, it is. Did that happen in the beginning? Like, when you were doing more comedic stuff, did you feel? 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 times? 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 again. And I'm offended. I'm serious. I literally was like, watch. 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 was after Scary Movie. And I was like, oh, gosh, I'm, I'm international. And this is before emails. And 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 was Playa haters, which she was reading as Playa, the beach. No. Yes, Playa haters.

Playa Haitas. That's what she said to me on the phone. And I said it's, it's player haters. I was like... She was like, so it doesn't have a place on a beach? She was like, no, and it's not a foreign film. There was nothing foreign about it. And so...

And so I didn't end up doing playa heaitis. Playa hiatus. It's a foreign film. She was so excited, too. Jamie, no. 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, definitely.

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. I'm like, oh, I know. One of those characters that is just, like, usually very, like, let me speak to the manager, very nuts, and very, like. get her out of here. I know. 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 it. Like, there's some hood chick and she's always like, and I'd be like... Yeah, and I would be like... Totally. Because you just can't do that, all this. You're like, what else? So, okay, well, that leads me to my question.

So we always, we do this thing on the show where we talk well behind someone's back. We kind of try to find it. get more about them to some people that know them and so we talked to Andrew Mantles today. Hi baby daddy. I heard you have twins together.

Dawn and Dawn! We don't know where where are our kids. Dawn 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 thought. Yeah, I know. I can tell you I'm a special connection with him. I love Andrew. Like, one day we did a scene and I said Deccad 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 a, I have the clip of that. Decaud. And I was like, it was just, we couldn't stop. And he was like, don't, don't work 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 worked 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 in basketball or one battle after another, your new film, you've done big budget, you've done small independence, 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. Playa hiatus. When does it start? When does it play high? 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, you know, what made you make that choice? And it's like, they just, they just made ass.

Yeah. I know. 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 Wayans and I, I mean, I really wanted to work with Keenan, but, and then that just ended up having, but it's, I will say, for the beginning, it was kind of an accident. Everything was an accident. When you, when the 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 girls trip, like where you're just on this train. What does 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'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. And I was, you know, and I, and I didn't expect to come back for the second one. It was like I didn't have a deal. 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 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, too? Which, I mean, I can remember when that came out. Tracy Oliver, who I got the pleasure to work with. We produced a show together called Harlem for a couple years on Amazon. And Tracy's... Megan. Yes, Megan. And Tracy's so talented.

And I just remember that feeling very exciting when that was a 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

Gership 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 I had lost my little

fat little baby you know, he was a little bulldog and so I was very happy it did well I remember because at first I was like

I 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 work. Sometimes.

And I guess at that time it did. I guess because I was, you know, I'm a Nolan fan. So I was not. So, yeah, it was, it was, it was. It was great. But sometimes you've had a day and you're just like, I can't go see Dunkirk today.

You're like, I can't do it. Right. And my day was Dunkirkian. Yes, right. And I need to laugh. Yeah, I don't need Dunkirk again. Yeah. Yeah.

Because I remember Tina and I did a movie called Sisters and it came out against Star Wars. 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, that, that's, that's, but I like that programming. I like that. Tell me how. Because I like that very much. Tell me, tell me. I like it. 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 that's what they say. 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 do 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 going to take so long. That's the other thing is movies are so long. Well, SpongeBob is only, it's short. I mean, 96 minutes. Of course it is, because it's hilarious. Yeah, it's in and out.

But, I mean, when you see, I just, like, the other thing is like, what do you, I could only go to that movie starting at 4 o'clock. And there's no way to go to an 8 o'clock movie of ads. But if SpongeBob, aren't they sleep by then to the kids? You've got to get them in and out of there by 12. One, two, five. Yeah, SpongeBob, you got to do like a 6 p.m. probably. A 6 p.m.

But I think are you going to get a lot of adults? That's a good idea because that's going to SpongeBob. But don't you think those adults would see Avatar too? Not this adult. Not fast. 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 big theaters. That isn't so intense. It's too loud. Well, we're coming out. One battle after another is coming on an IMAX. Okay, except for that. Right. Yeah, that one.

Okay, but so before I get to that movie, because it looks so great. And, I mean, Paul Thomas Anderson has just. such an incredible director and your cast is incredible on. But I want to talk about award shows because you and I are, we've both hosted stuff. I love, yes, 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. It's hard. It's hard and it's a little bit of like diminishing returns. Like, the more you do it, like when you pull it on, for the first time, you're like, we did it.

And they're like, come back and do it again. It's like, I don't know if I should do it. Although 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, 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. Let's get to do it. Let's get to it. We got to slap him 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 because I always feel like the minute you feel like you panic. Yes. That's when it's going to be a hardest. And you were like a 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. Right. I agree. And you set the tone, people relax. But if, to your point, If you, I mean, you were hosting the Academy Awards during a very hectic 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 had, I mean, I mean, it was wonderful to have them, you know, and not be doing that alone.

Yeah. And they were great. 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. Here we go. Yeah. And because you're at that point, you are thinking of your audience.

You want your audience to 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 Gossner in real time, which is. 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 Koster, who wasn't there at the time. Yes. Because he was dealing with weather in Santa Barbara, 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 mid-sentence that you're like, I see, this is more serious. And it was a beautiful pivot. Do you remember, 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 handled it so well. He just was like, hey, I can't read the prompter. And he just kind of riff 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 stream that you would just walk out to all these people and just the prompter would go out. 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. Have you ever had dreams that your teeth fall out?

No, have you? You haven't? It's a very typical stress dream that 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 stream for you?

I probably am not sleeping if I'm not stressed. I think that's what happens. Are you a good sleeper? I love to talk about sleep. I love sleep. 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? It's too late. There's a lot to do sometimes when I get home. Okay.

Or it's that last date line episode that I've never seen and I want to get that last one in. You cannot watch a date line. To feel good. Late at night. 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 Zarnagar a couple weeks ago on this podcast. That women who are married are much more likely to die earlier and yes, to get murdered. 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 fare better. They do. A man lives longer.

That's why 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 um 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

saying. I mean, that's got to, 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 their 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.

I thought we're in our 30s. Wait, let me check. Yeah. 39. 39. Yeah. And we are in the watery middle. We're in the watery middle.

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Water, don't go. Don't go. Do you worry about, like, are you a totally in the climate change, yes. Yes. And are you like a prepper? Are you, do you think about, okay. Totally aware and I'm like, fuck it at the same time. Yeah, I know. Because I'm like, what can I do? I can't, I can't live in the stress of it. Yeah. But I'm 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 just say. 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 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. But I don't want to just survive. I haven't slept. Amy, get up. I hear something. You've got a gun. We've got one candy bar between us that's got to last for like 10 days. No. We should do a zombie movie where the two of us immediately get killed. First act. We're trying to get killed. The whole movie. No one will kill us I can't even get bitten by zombie. We can't, yeah, no. That was a good idea.

I know because I feel, but what are you like in a crisis? Because I'm projecting you. I feel like you'd be very level-headed. I think I'm pretty calm in a crisis. Yeah. 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, I definitely don't want to be around a clown, but I wouldn't. I wouldn't scream in my 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. Clown stuff. But I respect them and I wouldn't scream if I saw one. Right. But ametophobia is... Well, I have two phobias. Amidophobia. Amidophobia.

Amidophobia. Yeah. And then claustrophobia. Metophobia is a fear of like... Throwing up. Yeah. 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 it's claustrophobia. Okay.

And so claustrophobia, how does that manifest in your every day? 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, 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 those.

So do you take a, do you take a night night pill when you do that? No, I do the open MRI. There's an open one? Yeah, 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 in there with me and then I have to talk to them. Mm-hmm. They have to talk to me. And are you feeling, do you know, do you have a sense of where your claustrophobia came from? I remember it starting when I got a face mat. What do you call those? Facial.

Not a facial. Oh, I know exactly. we're talking about, so actors often have to get, like a plaster cast of their face. And it is terrifying. And that's when I, I didn't have it before that I remember, but I remember when they were both on me, plastering me. Yeah. Plastering my face. I know. Neither sounds good. 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 artist made it better and better and easier, but back

when we were doing it, it was like stick to straws in your nose. Yeah, and they do your mouth, and then they're padding you, and your ears are covered, and then they're trying to go fast, and then it has to harden. That's right. 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, 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 I've been left and I can't get, and I can't get the thing out. Ooh, that's a good anxiety. That's a new anxiety.

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, yeah, his films are really amazing. He was one of my, yeah, he's like, he's my favorite. What was it like to shoot it? It was shot in all in L.A. All in L.A.

Like, really different parts of California. Yeah, right, California. It was great. Yeah. You know, it's wonderful to, I mean, the. 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're like, oh, no, sweetie, that's crafty. That's crafty. That's not set. Exactly. I didn't meet 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 was great. He's great. It was sad, but it was all so sweet. Yeah, it's a tender.

Yeah, yeah. And he, he's got a lot riding on this because he's never had a big movie. No, 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. Yes. 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 big thing. But, you know, the great thing is you 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 guess, but what are you? Why do I have an urge to do this? What is it called? It's called, what's the word when you, misophonia. 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, mesophonia is when you can hear. Can you look up the difference between phobia and phonia? Maybe I have phonyas. I can, I have a laptop here. And she is part of that generation like myself of a pre-technology. That's right. Where I slowly type things in.

We would be going to the micro-fiche. Remember micro-fish? Okay, misophonia is a condition where specific sounds, this is a condition. So it's odd? Where specific sounds trigger intense, negative emotional reactions such as anger, annoyance, or anxiety. 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 mouth.

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. Fobia. Let's see what the Latin word of phobia is. Fobia meaning. 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 because like phonograph and phonia that makes sense um but you want to know um 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 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, exposure. 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 sitting there, huh? So you don't like to get smushed. I love getting smushed. I don't mind getting, I don't mind. 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. Because I can do, can you do roller coaster rides where you get strapped in, Todd? 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 much. Where is it shaky for you? Just the, I don't, I don't, like a roller coaster to me is like I get nauseous. I feel like all, like, dizzy. Yeah. It's not worth it for me. The feeling of, I love them. 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 ask my guess 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 more happy, isn't it?

Heartburn is not talked about enough. Merrill in that movie. Oh, my God. And Jack, they're so good to get it. And, you know, Jack, stop. You wanted it to work. What about when she would have, 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. It's so good. And it's so honest. You know, when she came back, even, 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 just doing him

he couldn't even until she couldn't she couldn't 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 Ephron's story and I love I love heartburn

even before the even in the beginning when it was like should we get married remember behind when she had the Yes, so good. So human. So human. Yeah. She's funny too. Oh, Merrill's so funny. I mean, Merrill's everything. Merrill? Merrill. I mean, there's no words. Meryl. Merrill. Marl rub on us.

Merrill rub on us. Just rub on us. I mean, love Merrill. That was a great one, you. Well, I have to say, Regina, it's been so great talking to you. And I have to say that the Catholic Church 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 dance floor, hopefully soon. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Okay.

Thanks, honey. Thank you so much, Regina Hall. You are awesome, and it was so great to talk to you and so fun. And today's polar plunge is presented by BMW Certified. Visit BMWUSA.com slash certified dash pre-owned to learn more. For this plunge, I want to talk about a film that we mentioned. briefly that Regina was in, but it's just great if you get a chance to check it out. It's called Support the Girls. And it was 2018, it was just kind of this slice of life indie film

about a bunch of young women working at like a sports bar. And Regina's just so great in it. And I just wanted to take the plunge moment to remind you to check that out in wherever it's streaming. And just a fine example of Regina at her best doing big, hilarious moves. and deep, grounded, dramatic acting. So check that out, but don't forget that today's polar plunge was presented by BMW Certified. In a world full of uncertainty, BMW certified pre-owned vehicles are the real deal. They come with a BMW certified warranty, genuine BMW parts,

and an additional three years of 24-7 roadside assistance. Learn more at BMWUSA.com slash certified dash pre-owned. Bye. You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman, and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite. For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Katz-Belaine, Kaya Mineris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss Berman.

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