 |
 |
|
      |
||
 |
|
|
|
||
  
|
 |
December 21, 2000 Jon: Hey, everybody, welcome back to the show. Tonight's guest stars as Scully on The X-Files. And starting Friday, you can see her in the new film "House of Mirth." [Clip from HOM] Lily: How nice of you to come to my rescue. Selden: And what form should my rescue take? Lily: Oh, almost any. Selden: Shall we go for a cup of tea? Lily: I'm dying for a cup of tea, but isn't there a quieter place? Selden: I live near here. Lily: At the Benedict still? Selden: Yes, on the top floor. Lily: Is it cool up there? Selden: Come up and see. Lily: I'll take the risk. [End Clip] Jon: Please welcome Gillian Anderson. Come on! (Cheers and applause as Gillian enters wearing a black hooded sweater, black skirt, and black knee-length boots) Come here! Where have you been? Where you been? Gillian: Hi! Hi! Jon: How are you doing? Nice to see you. Gillian: Good to see you. (Cheers and applause) Hi!! Jon: How is ya? Gillian: I'm good. How are you? It's good to see you. Jon: I'm good. I've got two words for you: Oscar speech. Gillian: Oh, stop. You're married! Let's get off that subject. You're married! You haven't been married since I've seen you last. Jon: That is a good point. Well, I got married. It's funny... Gillian: Two words for you: You're married! Jon: I am married, but here's the thing: When the state forces you to do that because here's the thing... You can't take a 14-year-old over state lines without doing that. Gillian: (laughs) Can I tell you how funny that curry thing is? Jon: That was funny. Gillian: That curry thing was so hysterical. Wasn't that funny? Jon: Oh wait- Gillian: Is that not, is that airing on another night? The curry thing that I saw the other night was so funny. Jon: Yes, yes, yes. Gillian: That was... It's so fresh in my memory because it was just brilliant. I've been laughing about it ever since. Jon: What did you think of the piece actually that you saw on tonight's show? Gillian: On tonight's show? It wasn't as good, but you know, you can't be... Jon: It had no curry in it! Gillian: It had no curry in it. I'm a big fan of curry. Jon: Do you really like the curry? Gillian: Oh, yeah. See these uh... [gestures to arm] Jon: Have you been able to stop? How's your kid doing? Gillian: My kid is doing great. Jon: She's a smarty. Gillian: She's a smarty. She's six now. Jon: Do you remember what she said to me the first time she met me? I had not met her and she walked up to me and said, "You're a dork." You remember that? Gillian: Yeah, I do remember that. Jon: She was very smart. Gillian: She was right! She's pretty good at reading people. Did she really used the word dork? She couldn't have used the word dork. Jon: You know what she said actually? Jack ass. She was like five at the time. She's like a sailor. And then she broke a Budweiser bottle and just kept doing this to me, "Come on, Stuart, you want a piece?!" Gillian: (laughs) Yeah, that sounds like my daughter. Jon: How is The X-Files going? You got this new guy... Gillian: Have you um... Jon: Yeah, I've been watching. By the way, the curry episode, hilarious. I like that guy though. Gillian: Did you see the curry slug episode? Jon: Yes, I did. Gillian: Curry flavored slug from Mars. Jon: What happened to David? Is he with aliens now? Gillian: Curry. Jon: He didn't have curry. I saw the episode where they took his face up like this [stretches out face] and then he went "Scully!!" Gillian: Yeah. Did you know that introduced me as Scully, you said, "We've got Scully from The X-Files"? Did you forget my name or did you just... what? Jon: Yeah. Gillian: Yeah. Jon: Your name is... Are you telling me you're an actress? I though your name was Scully, you work for the FBI! I thought that House of Mirth thing was just an undercover thing because you had to catch a criminal in the 1800's. Am I wrong? Gillian: (laughs) That was The X-Files, you're right. Jon: How did you get to do this Edith Wharton thing? It looked like a fun thing. Gillian: How did I uh.. Yeah, well... I wouldn't call it... I wouldn't call it fun. Jon: It looked like you were about to go up and bang Eric Stoltz! That looked like fun. He was giving you the whole... "Come up to my room!" "Is it cool?" I like that. You're doing it. Gillian: I see on Oscar coming for you. Jon: I'm telling you, I hear great things. This film has really great reviews and everybody's talking about your performances. Gillian: People are... Yeah, it's been... We've been... Yeah. Jon: How do you find the time? You're doing The X-Files all year. How long did this one take to shoot? Gillian: Just a couple months. Jon: Where did you guys do it? Gillian: In Scotland. Jon: You're kidding me! Gillian: No! Jon: What did you think of Scotland? Gillian: I liked it! Jon: That's where my people are from. Stewart. Gillian: Really? Scotland's good! Jon: House of Stewart. We're from the Scotland Jews that live in the south of Scotland. Gillian: Do you have a umm... I keep wanting to say tartan, or tarter... Do you have a tartan? Jon: Yes. Gillian: What color is it? Jon: Orange. Gillian: What's the right word? Jon: What's a tartan? Gillian: I don't know. Jon: well, you were only there for two months. You can't be expected to learn their language... Gillian: (laughs) No, no... What's the thing when you get a scarf or the kilt, the thing, the pattern? [audience says "Plaid!"] Plaid? Kilt? No, wait a minute. Jon: Hold on a second. (to audience) We'll [BLEEP]ing fight any one of you. Don't yell at us. I'll take care of this, Gillian. Gillian: No, but when you have a certain like the... I think somebody... Jon: It's coat of arms. You mean coat of arms? Gillian: No. Your.. plaid... (audience now yells "Tartan!") Your... tartan? I said tartan!! Jon: Yes. Gillian: I SAID TARTAN!! (Cheers and applause) Tartan! The word came out of my skull somewhere, and it happened to be right! (smacks Jon) Jon: I knew that. Gillian: Tartan, what's your tartan? Jon: It's made of haggis. I have a tartan made of haggis, which by the way, never wear it where the chipmunks are. Boy, they run... I'm not making any sense. But here's the thing... Gillian: You're not. Jon: I'm damn proud of you, you know, because you and I started together. Like a year ago. (Laughter) you were actually already a star, but I was starting. And it was in a little movie called "Playing by Heart." Let me tell you something, that launched me in Belgium. Gillian: Is that right? Do you have huge fans in Belgium? Jon: No. Did that even run in the United States, do you know? Gillian: Yes, I think it did. Jon: You think it did? Gillian: Yes, I think it did. Jon: Did anybody see it? (Cheers and applause) Gillian: I think a few people have come up to me and said that they've seen it. Yes, they did, and they say, "You know, that Jon, he's a good actor." Jon: You know what else they say, "He'll never be able to go out now without wearing a tartan. He'll have to disguise himself." All right, when's this thing... What's opening up on Friday, the movie? Gillian: Yeah, the movie. That's coming out on December 22nd. Jon: You met the Duchess of York? Gillian: Yes. How much time do we have? This is a long story. Jon: This was over four minutes ago. They're not even running the cameras anymore. There's no film in the cameras. Just tell me quickly the Duchess of York. Gillian: It was just a thing, I did this auction... I can remember it, but I hate talking when I know... You know when you do an interview with a reporter and they're not recording, they're just writing and so all they're doing... Jon: Did you just call me a reporter? Gillian: No I didn't, but... Jon: Yeah, did you. Gillian: No no no, but when you're doing an interview with a reporter and they're sitting there and they're writing but they don't have a tape recorder and you're talking... You're talking and you feel like you're in the middle of saying something really important but they're not writing? Jon: I'm sorry. What? ( Laughter ) Gillian: They're not wr- [laughs] It's the same thing. Jon: Gillian Anderson! The House of Mirth opens up on Friday. Gillian: Thank you. Transcript appears courtesy of Daily Show with Jon Stewart.      |