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Jay Leno: My first guest, emmy award winning actress stars as Agent Scully
on the popular series The X-Files. Into its...what season is this? Fourth,
fifth, sixth? Sixth season. Okay, on November eighth. She's usually chewing
something when she comes out, so we'll see. She can also be seen in the new
movie, The Mighty, this was a teriffic movie. It opens October twenty-
third. Please welcome, Gillian Anderson!!
(Gillian comes out looking stunning as usual. She's wearing a medium- length
black dress, with high- heeled sandals and a gray cardigan. She comes out
with a huge smile on her face. She waves to the audience. When she walks
over to where Jay is standing, she kisses him on the cheek. They talk for a
few seconds, but I don't know what she's saying.)
Gillian Anderson: I spit it out! Just backstage
JL: You did spit it out.
GA: I spit it out.
JL: Okay. I like the new hairdo. Very nice.
GA: Yeah...well..okay. (Gillian giggles)
JL: See I notice. Don't I notice.
GA: You do notice. It's only two days old. It's not that much shorter then
it normally is.
JL: No, no, but It has that new haircut thing.
GA: It has that thing.
JL: Yeah, but...it has that thing. (Gillian giggles) You feel different now
that you have a new haircut?
It looks cute.
GA: Thank you.
JL: See, I noticed it right away. I hadn't seen you since the emmys and I
went, new haircut.
GA: Thank you.
JL: So what have you been doing. I heard you were where? Moving back east
somewhere?
GA: Was I back east? You mean, what? No.
JL: Vacation?
GA: I went to Sadona for a little while.
JL: Oh, to Arizona.
GA: I went to Arizona, that's not back east. That's like close to Los
Angeles.
(Jay pull out a map and puts it on his desk.)
JL: Let me see, if you were to leave California and go east. You would come
to...
GA: (Laughing) I wouldn't call that back east.
JL: Well that would be Arizona.
GA: (Still laughing) Okay, okay.
JL: Now, way back east would be New York.
GA: New York
JL :But, back east.
GA: I went to Sadona just for a weekend, um, with my best friend, and uh,
yeah we (starts to giggle yet again) You know that was the funniest, we were
driving. We knew that we were going to take a drive through the cannons,
they have these amazing cannons. And so we loaded up, we stopped at a sort
of an out of the way health food store, and we picked up, seaweed, tofu.
JL: Whew, stop you're making me hungry. Really.
GA: Then we also picked up goats milk youghurt. Have you ever tried goats
milk youghurt? It's kind of tangy, It's different.
JL: Goats milk youghurt?
GA: It's good.
JL: how it that different then regular youghurt?
GA: It's...it's..made from goats. Apparently it's easier to digest, because
goats only have one stomach and cows have three
JL: Goats eat tin cans too.
GA: Anyway...
JL: So was it good?
GA: It was good. So anyway, we were driving along, eating. And I eat some
and he eats some and I eat some and he eats some, we managed to finish the
whole thing. And I put it down in the console. And we're feeling a little
odd, just a little odd. And I look down and I notice there's some writing on
the side of the container. It says 'goats milk youghurt...for pets.'
(Gillian makes an odd face.)
GA: And were thinking, like what is the difference between goats milk
youghurt for pets and goats milk youghurt for humans. Like what, are the
standards different, do they mix it with dirty hands. Do they, I mean do
they have it like lying around the house in large vats with cats jumping
over it? All these images, then I noticed there was a like telephone number
on the side. It's like goats milk youghurt for pets, then there's a
telephone number. It's a sort of like sticker. So I call the number.
JL: While you were in the car.
GA: While i'm in the car, I thought well I'm gonna call and talk to the guy
and question him about what's different about processing goats milk youghurt
for pets and goats milk youghurt for humans. So I call the number and
there's an answering machine, and it's some like, a hundard and eight guy
going, 'well if you'd like to leave a message.' And I push redial and play
it for my friend, and we're looking at each other with like, horror on our
faces. I mean you could just imagine, this little shack somewhere, in the
middle of nowhere, with hairballs flying by and getting the the youghurt.
JL: And did you get sick, were you okay?
GA:No, we were fine. I'm sure it was fine, but I'm still very curious to
know what's in it, like the bacteria and stuff.
(GA makes a grossed out face)
JL: Like, ever eat Friskies Buffet?
GA: No I haven't.
JL: It's processed different. How is you daughter doing? Piper?
GA: Piper. She's four. She just had her fourth birthday.
JL: Is she four already?
GA: She was so excited, that she saw four. She woke up in the morning and
said 'I can't believe i'm four!' It was such a huge deal for her. Now she's
at that age where she's asking a lot of questions. About...about, not about
life, but she said, sometimes at like three in the morning, she'll roll over
and say 'Mom what's inside trees' or 'Mom why don't the waves stop?' She
asked the other day, she asked 'Mom, how does water float?' And I'm like
well, I didn't pay attention in school sweetheart, but uh, she also said,
'How do we see? I know that we have eyes, but how do we see?'
JL: And you're answer?
(Gillian looks out toward the audience)
GA: I mean how many people can actually answer that? I mean coans and rods.
I mean how do you tell a four year old, how you see?
JL: What was youre explination?
GA: I said 'Go ask your dad.'
(Gillian laughes)
JL: When I was that age, my dad bought me the Golden Book encyclopidias,
remember those things they were like, this thick.
(Jay holds index and middle finger together)
JL: Everything about the world in forty- nine pages.
GA: Yeah.
JL: You'd just sorta look through there. But they never had any of the
question that you wanted to know. There was never any like, sex questions.
GA: Okay Jay. What kind of question would you ask at that age that has to do
about sex? What do you say?
JL: I do remember, you do remember things that get reactions. I remember
being with my mom and all the italian women were all cooking or something,
and I remember saying to my mom, I said 'mom why do women have humps like
camels?' I remember saying that and I remember hearing this collective
Whahohoah! And my mom said 'oh the mouth of that kid!' And she took me out
the the room and I thought' I must've said something great.'
GA: Do you? Are you like fixated on breasts now?
JL: You know I never thought about it, but yeah!
GA: Everytime you see a woman with big breasts you go Whahohoah!!
JL: But I do that anyway. Let me ask you about this movie.
GA: The Mighty.
JL; This movie is you and Sharon Stone.
GA: Yeah and Harry Dean Stanton and Kieren Culken and Eldon Heston.
JL: I say this all the time, the best part of the job is seeing movies
before I have any idea. All I know is Gillian's coming on, she has a movie
coming out. I don't even know the name of it.
GA: I think it's great that you watch them.
JL: It's really good. Tell people what it's about.
GA: Essentionaly, I think it's about these two kids who are outsiders. Their
young, about fourteen and their challanged in their own way. And they find
each other, and through finding each other, they learn how to survive in the
world of kids in a whole new way. And um, it's not really a coming of age
story, but It's a wonderful story about how kids learn to survive in the
world of kids and of other kids and of being made fun of. And being
different.
JL: Let's show the clip. One kid is big and dumb and the other is
handicapped.
GA: I wouldn't say he's dumb.
JL: Essentially, he's... no, no, no. From a kids point of view, that's what
I'm saying.
GA: Yeah, he challenged.
JL: He's a big dumb kid.
GA: Jay!
JL: But it turns out good in the end.
GA: So that makes it okay, to call a kid dumb
JL: Well yeah.
(The tv rises behind Gillian)
GA: He's not dumb. Somethings have happened in his life and he's kind of
shut down and he doesn't talk, he's mute and he's big.
JL: And dumb!
(Gillian half smiles out towards the audience, who are laughing)
JL: But it's a great movie, a wonderful story. You'll cry at the end of this
movie.
GA: Okay. I'm going to cry after you show this clip.
(Jay points to the screen, whice shows two kids stanging out in a hallway.)
JL: See there's the big dumb kid, right there.
GA: Jay.
(The clip comes on. Sorry guys I'm not going to write what happened in the
clip. My fingers are way too sore.)
(After the clip, the camera comes back the Gillian and Jay.The audience
starts cheering and clapping)
JL: Great job. The film is called The Mighty. Wasn't that Pot Roast?
GA: (Smiling) No, that would be Meat Loaf.
JL: Meat Loaf, I'm sorry. I thought it was Pot Roast. Listen, I know you
have to go.
(Gillian laughs)
JL: The film is great. The Mighty, Be right back with Mystro after this.
(Jay stands up and kisses Gillian on both cheeks)