| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - 2/11/2003 |
Jay: How are ya buddy?
Megan: I'm really good.
Jay: I was thinking of you today because you know they do that thing early in the morning where they announce the Academy Awards, and you announced--what is it, the SAG Awards?
Megan: Oh yeah, the Screen Actors Guild Awards. They asked me to announce them. It was a couple weeks ago and I thought that was great, I was really honored. Well, I hadn't realized that I had to get up at 3:30 in the morning. I go to bed around 2:00. So you have not lived until you have hair and make-up people ringing your doorbell at 4 o'clock in the morning.
Jay: Why? Why do they have to do it so early?
Megan: I guess because there's New York, I'm not sure. So I did it and it was fun. It was fine. We announced the thing and we read it off of a card so its pretty easy. And uh, we get done and the thing I hadn't counted on, I had saved just enough energy to get through the announcements and then go right to sleep. You know, but I realized I had to do press. So they run you around to all these press, you know like Access Hollywood and this at that. So there running me around its really loud and there's a lot of people in there talking at the same time, and cameras and equipment and there like "oh my god its CNN Headline News we gotta go right now!". So they are running me through this thing, down the stairs to this place and they shove one of those things in your ear like the secret service and I put the microphone on and there like "go!" and I'm just looking at the camera doing it, your not talking to an actual person. It's all from satellite. It was really short. Like 30 seconds but for some reason I was a complete-- I was just absolutely imbecilic for every answer! And they asked me questions like "the SAG Awards are supposed to be a predictor of the Academy Awards" and I said "yes, absolutely" like I didn't know what else to say! I'm not an authority on award shows! So, so we get done and there's a silence, there was about 2 or 3 people interviewing me we get done and there's a silence and the guy goes, "thank you, your done" and there's a silence and the guy goes, "well, it is a little early out there" and everyone starts cracking up! Because basically what they were saying was, "well she's an idiot but maybe it's just because she's tired". [sympathetically to the audience] I'm not an idiot. Well kinda, lil bit. So it was pretty intense. So I thought well here I am at 5:00 in the morning getting lambasted on national television.
Jay: What is this trip you took with your mom? I know you and your mom are close. You always talk about your mom.
Megan: I know, I always talk about my mom. [laughs] But she does give me a lot of good material I must say. Well, we went to Santa Fe at New Years and uh, we arrived separately, and I was there with my fiance and she came in with her boyfriend--
Jay: Her boyfriend?
Megan: Well, yes-
Jay: How old is your mom?
Megan: My moms 81.
Jay: 81? Wow.
Megan: Her boyfriend is 84. So they get to the hotel and uh, they're at the desk you know they're checking in, and they got in kinda late at night and there's this young girl behind the desk and she says "alright Mrs. Mullally we have you in room such and such and Mr. Smith we have you in room blah blah" and my mom says, "oh no that's a mistake we're in the same room". This poor girl just blenches and there's this long silence and she says, "well... uh... there's only one bed..'' and my moms like, "yeah, wrap it up! Lets go! Get the bags!". [laughs]
Jay: Come on we're anxious to get at it! Yeah! The guys 84! How much time do I got left? Come on!
Megan: Time's a wastin'!
Jay: That's funny to me, because my mom, I would come home from college and my mom would go "so and so s-e-x'' and I'd go, "mom! I know how to spell! I'm in college!". It's like shes talking in code to my father.
Megan: [laughs] My mom is very not embarrassed by anything and opened minded. As a matter of fact I may have something that might amuse you. Well, they came to visit the set of Will & Grace. They came to see a taping, and they loved the cast and loved everybody, and Sean is particularly lovable, just in general. So, they thought, "oh we'll get our picture taken by the NBC staff photographer" who just happened to be there with Sean. So they go to sit down on the couch, on our set, and this is how Sean chose to pose, for the photograph.
Jay: And the look on your mothers face-- he's doing a gesture with his finger.
[Jay shows a picture of Matt, Sean, and Megan's mother sitting on the couch and they are both looking at Sean's middle finger sticking up at the camera]
Megan: [as her mother] I don't think this is right. I ask you.
Jay: Go in close on her mom. She looks a little shocked.
Megan: Now in reality, they thought that was a scream. But the photographer just happened to get it right in that moment where it looks like they are the typical shocked people. [giggles]
Jay: Now you have some celebrities coming on? Madonna is coming on your show?
Megan: Madonna is coming on our show. Well actually I'm a tinny bit bitter because they have these big glamorous stars on all the time, Demi Moore is on Thursday night and it's really good you gotta watch because shes great, and she's so beautiful that it's crazy. Um--
Jay: I heard that she spent like 4,000 dollars getting like work done.
Megan: No, [laughs] No, shes a natural, no it's just shes just a natural beauty. She has a bone structure-- yeah shes beautiful.
Jay: Yeah she is beautiful, but you don't think shes--
Megan: Jay, shh--
Jay: had any work done?
Megan: [pauses] Not that I know of.
Jay: [laughs]
Megan: I think she's beautiful. I think shes a natural beauty. Maybe I'm naive.
Jay: But even a rose needs to be trimmed.
Megan: Lets go on to the next subject.
Jay: [laughs]
Megan: I know that no one accuses me of having any plastic surgery. [eyes the audience]
Jay: Well, your a natural beauty.
Megan: [laughs] Yeah, thank you Jay.
Jay: A woman like you-- that skin is like milk. [touches her cheek with his index finger]
Megan: Like buttah.
Jay: Like buttah.
Megan: Lets talk about little miss Madonna though, because she's coming on the show and I was always kinda bitter because I never get to be in the scenes with all the big glamorous movie stars, well I guess my character Karen, she answers a ad, she decides to get a roommate, and it turns out to be Madonna. So that should be really good.
Jay: Is that the clip we have here.
Megan: No, we haven't even shot that yet so. [laughs] This is somethin' else.
Jay: Oh okay, what's the clip we are going to see here?
Megan: Uh, this is were Grace needs advice and we are having a girls night, and she asks everyone for advice but me and I get a little bent out of shape.
Jay: Lets take a look.
[shows the W&G clip]
Jay: Cool. Now your off doing a play? What play are you doing?
Megan: Im doing a play with my fiance and it's kinda romantic, right here around valentines day, because we met at the same theater, the evidence room, here in LA, doing a play 3 years ago almost to the day and we are doing a new play called Mayhem. Its a world premiere so we're really excited.
Jay: Oh so the electricity on stage will be good.
Megan: Ohh yeah. We're playing husband and wife. Mhm, okay.
Jay: Oh cool, well congrats. Thanks for coming by.
Megan: Thanks Jay.
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