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  • That's Reese Witherspoon in Little Fires Everywhere.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • So I don't know if you read the book Little Fires Everywhere.

  • The book is great, and then you optioned it.

  • Yeah.

  • You read the book.

  • Right?

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • It's such a good show.

  • It really-- it reminds--

  • it brings up a lot of topics.

  • There's so many things to talk about.

  • And it's set in the '90s, so you get all these great flashbacks.

  • Explain what it's about.

  • So it's in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1997.

  • My character is a mom with four teenage kids.

  • And then Kerry's character comes to town

  • and rents an apartment from me, her and her teenage daughter.

  • Her kid gets involved with my kids.

  • She starts working in my home.

  • But it's just this clash of personalities.

  • And there's nobody better than Kerry Washington,

  • I have to tell you.

  • I'm like, so excited that she and I finally

  • got to work together.

  • I love her.

  • And really, it's a great story.

  • And it's the '90s, so get to dress like the '90s.

  • Yeah, which is really cool.

  • And then the costume designer brought in these inspiration

  • boards.

  • And I was like, oh, that's cute.

  • And then I looked over the teenager one

  • and I was on the teenager board in 19--

  • because I started being an actress in 1990.

  • And so I was--

  • I realized.

  • And I turned to Kerry and I was like, wait.

  • I'm-- we're playing our mothers.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • This is weird.

  • Yeah.

  • So it was actually kind of cool to call my mom and be like,

  • oh, what was it like to be a mom in the '90s?

  • Now do you feel like you're being

  • a mom, the way you're talking about, when you get your son

  • to do TikToks with you?

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Well, you know, he's taught me a lot.

  • Well, has he?

  • My teenager-- he has!

  • Let's watch the TikTok of you doing The Woah.

  • OK.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • Oh, how did I do?

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • How am I doing, tWitch?

  • How am I doing?

  • Am I doing OK?

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • Eh.

  • Eh.

  • I'm getting better.

  • I've been working on it.

  • Yeah.

  • The spirit is fantastic.

  • [LAUGHTER]

  • And just your arm placement is a little--

  • My arm placement's bad?

  • Arm placement is a little--

  • Try it right now.

  • Can you do The Woah?

  • He's trying to teach me.

  • You try it right now.

  • Do you want to throw me The Woah?

  • Yeah.

  • I'll throw it to you.

  • Ready?

  • OK.

  • Yeah.

  • OK.

  • OK.

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • You ready?

  • I'm ready.

  • All right Here we go.

  • Wham.

  • OK, better.

  • Better.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • That's not bad.

  • I did it better?

  • Yeah.

  • Your arm placement-- yeah.

  • There you go.

  • There you go.

  • I'm going to throw it to you, The Woah.

  • OK.

  • You ready?

  • Yeah.

  • Huh.

  • Wham.

  • Yay!

  • [APPLAUSE]

That's Reese Witherspoon in Little Fires Everywhere.

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