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Thank you for coming back to the show.
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I have so much to talk to you about.
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I'm freaking out about "The Meg".
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I'm so into this, but first of all,
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you have even crazier news that you just announced yesterday.
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Yes I do.
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I haven't even been able to speak about it yet.
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So, I found out that I got cast as Batwoman.
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That's it!
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Like -- -That's it, it's a game changer.
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It's a game changer and... -That is so cool.
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I found out an hour before I did the premiere for "Meg".
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And I was so nervous during the red carpet
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that I basically skipped everybody because I was worried
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that -- like I kept spontaneously crying.
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And I feel like
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I'm probably gonna do it now, so I'm just gonna
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'Cause I kept thinking, like, what if they say,
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because everyone always says, "So what have you got planned next?"
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And I thought, Either I'm gonna put my foot in it and accidentally say something,
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or I'm gonna just start crying
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and they're gonna be like, "Ooh, she did --"
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She has issues, yeah. -"She doesn't look so good."
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-Ruby Rose has issues, yeah.
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Um, but yeah, I'm, I'm so thrilled. It's, it's But do you understand it's,
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But do you understand it's, it's -- I was talking to you backstage, and I go,
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"It's over now. This is fantastic.
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This is a different it's a whole different chapter.
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But I mean, it's the rest of your life, you're gonna be,
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you're, you're Batwoman. I get to be Batwoman.
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I mean, like, what?
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And, I-I feel like the reason I kept getting so emotional is,
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you know, growing up watching TV I never saw somebody on TV that I could identify with,
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let alone a superhero, you know.
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And, um, I said I wouldn't do that.
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And, uh, I've always had this saying, well, not me,
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Oscar Wilde, but, you know--
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Same dif, same dif. Same thing.
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Same dif. Yeah.
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Which is, you know, "Be yourself because everyone else is taken."
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And so I always lived by that motto.
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And then the second motto when I came into the industry was,
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"Be the person that you needed when you were younger."
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And I feel like sort of one motto led me to the other.
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And I just, like, kept crying about it.
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Well, I almost got emotional backstage because I was talking to you and I said, "Isn't it so fun,
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"Isn't it so fun, kids are gonna be dressing up like you for Halloween."
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And it's different than an orange jumpsuit.
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Yeah, they won't have to dress like they're in prison jumpsuits anymore.
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That's good and then you said this thing to me,
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stuck in my head because you said that you, you, you've been going to hospitals and visiting children
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just to visit kids in hospitals and now, you can visit them dressed as Batwoman.
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As Batwoman.
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And they're gonna, they're gonna think that Batwoman came and saw them
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That's just too...
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I just love that that went through your brain.
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I just think that's so cool.
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That's like that third thing that I thought about. I was just like, "Wow.
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Not only can kids watch this growing up and relate to it
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and feel empowered and think that they can be a superhero.
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But also, I can go and, and do these things,
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like visiting hospitals and kids and people in need
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and it's a really -- it's an amazing opportunity.
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Obviously, I'm very emotional. I love that you're doing that.
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And I love that you're you.
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And I love that you're having fun an enjoying this.
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Because some people, sometimes they go, like,"Yeah, I'm doing this thing."
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And I'm like, "No you have to enjoy this. It's happening now."
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Enjoy it, have fun. - Absolutely.
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Uh, I saw you, last time I saw you was at the Met Gala,
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which was this beautiful night, where everyone just looks,
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I don't even know how I got invited to it, but anyways.
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It's a weir-- It's a weird thing though.
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It's great but it's kind of weird, no?
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No, I think it's normal for me.
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I always drink in museums. - Wait, did I see you there?
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Yeah, I saw you quickly. But I waved and you ignored me.
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But it's fine. it's no big deal.
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I get so nervous and overwhelmed, I just, like, blackout.
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And then, all I remember was, was meeting Kate Moss and Rita Ora, who I hadn't met before.
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But then hearing the first bars of Madonna performing and just was like, bye --
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Didn't even say goodbye, just walked straight off.
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And so they must've been like, "She's a very strange person."
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No, but how great was Madonna? It's all I cared about.
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It was the best.
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I mean of course I cared about being at Met Ball, and I would love to go next year and all that stuff, but, like...
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But look, this is, this is your dress.
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I mean, you just look stunning. - That's me just practicing to be Batwoman
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Look at that.
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Yeah, exactly.
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You know, first, first Batwoman right there, before you even knew, yeah.
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Well, actually, my first attempt at Batwoman was when I was a kid.
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I, I was telling my mom and she has a Bat tattoo.
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She has like a little Batman tattoo, my mom, when she was in her 20s because she had pet bats growing up.
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Very normal.
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What?! Yeah, she had, she nursed these little pet bats back to life,
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but then they couldn't go anywhere because they were domesticated so they just lived in the house
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and [Bleep] everywhere. And...
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This is the best interview I've ever had in my entire l--
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I'm so intrigued.
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You said this last time because of the giant teacup pig.
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That's right! Dude, your mom's very interesting.
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I want to have your mom on the show.
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And that pig is, is still alive.
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And she was telling me this story about, because we grew up with, you know, not a lot of money
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and so I would make my toys.
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And I made batwings out of, like recycled cardboard boxes.
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And I would sleep in them and I would run around in them.
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And I would jump off, high, high things.
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And she would have to catch me.
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And she just said that we would have to keep, gaffer taping them
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because they were like soggy and wet an smelly and gross.
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And I just lived in them. -And now you are Batwoman.
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And now I'll get ones that aren't made of cardboard.
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Yeah. Dude, oh, my God! Is that a good story or not?
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It's a good story. -That's a great story.
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You have to put, you have to put a little shout out to the cardboard wings in the show somewhere.
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Oh, I do. I do! We so have to do that.
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Right? Just have it somewhere in the corner just so you know,
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like, yeah I started from the bottom, now we're here. Yeah.
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Oh!