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  • -Thanks for coming back, buddy. -Thank you.

  • -We love it when you come by.

  • How are your daughters

  • and my friends, Hannah and Eve?

  • -Hannah, your number one fan? -She is.

  • -Yeah, she's great, yeah. She's at film school

  • having a great time, yeah. -Oh, really?

  • -Sends you her best. -She's awesome.

  • How about Eve? How is Eve doing?

  • -Eve's doing great, yeah.

  • Eve has actually got an album coming out next year

  • and has been singing with the band The National,

  • which is very weird for me. -Wow.

  • -Because -- [ Cheers and applause ]

  • -That's great.

  • -They're my absolute favorite band.

  • -I love The National, yeah. -So to see -- to see my girl

  • going up there singing with them is pretty awesome.

  • -Last time you came here, Hannah gave me a gift.

  • She gave me a jar of pickles with my face all over it.

  • [ Laughter ] It was very nice.

  • It was very nice of her to do that.

  • Did you bring me any gift today?

  • -There's a photograph, maybe. -Oh.

  • -Yes. Maybe. -Oh, this is very nice.

  • -This is -- now, Hannah's at film school, but she spends,

  • you know, all the time using the things she learned

  • by basically filming me unawares or posting things

  • on Instagram. -Yeah.

  • -And, this is, you know, a lovely thing she posted

  • on Father's Day. Can you believe this?

  • -That's so nice. -Look at -- look at this.

  • -It says, "Happy Father's Day."

  • And it's a picture of me and her.

  • [ Laughter and applause ] That's so nice.

  • -What the hell? What the --

  • [ Laughter and applause ]

  • She did post that. -Did she really?

  • I love her, man. That's the best.

  • Because she also did -- she posted some other thing

  • that we found on Instagram Stories.

  • -Yes. -It was a photo -- it said --

  • Because I guess it was your birthday a couple of weeks ago?

  • -Yeah.

  • -And she put "Happy Birthday to this wannabe Elvis,"

  • and she put -- oh, gosh, this one of you.

  • That's you? -That is me, yeah.

  • -What is that? What is that about?

  • [ Cheers and applause ] -You have to --

  • You have to understand that I haven't got Instagram,

  • so I get calls from my agent over here who says,

  • "Oh, that's great." "What's great, what's great?"

  • And that is me -- -She's trolling you, yeah.

  • -Yeah, in a school play

  • in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat."

  • [ Light laughter ] -So were you trying to be Elvis?

  • -That's the part. -Yeah, I know.

  • [ Laughter ] You're nailing it.

  • I mean, you're nailing it. You got it down.

  • I think you look pretty good. We have another photo

  • I want to talk about, but I want to talk about

  • how the photo was taken first of all.

  • This is a picture of you and President Barack Obama.

  • -It was, yeah. -How did --

  • [ Cheers and applause ] Walk me through this.

  • How did you end up with... -Yeah.

  • -...Barack Obama? -It's a little bit embarrassing,

  • because I don't want to big myself up,

  • but it was a pretty extraordinary moment.

  • I do this stuff with this company SAP,

  • and they were having this big sort of --

  • sort of convention in New York.

  • And I was doing something in the morning.

  • And then I heard he was speaking in the afternoon.

  • And I said, "Oh, I'd like to come back and hear that."

  • So I went back. There were people queuing up for a photo.

  • And they said, "Do you want your photo?"

  • I said, "Yeah, I do actually." And I walked up.

  • -Absolutely. -And as I walked up,

  • the man said, "I'm going to break the rule of a lifetime,"

  • and took his phone out and took a selfie.

  • And I said -- -He's a fan of yours?

  • -I think -- well, I think him and the family love "The Knick,"

  • the show that I did with Soderbergh.

  • -Absolutely. -And I said,

  • "Well, if you are, I am." And I took out my phone

  • and we both took selfies.

  • -You took selfies with the President?

  • -Yeah. -How rad is that?

  • And have you posted it anywhere or showed it?

  • -No. No, no, no.

  • -You don't have a place to post it.

  • Can I show it? [ Light laughter ]

  • -When my kids saw this, they said they can tell --

  • "We can tell you don't take selfies, Dad,

  • because you look terrible, and he looks great."

  • -Here it is. [ Laughter ]

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • I think it's awesome.

  • That's fantastic.

  • He's -- he's fantastic. Isn't he great to meet?

  • -Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was incredible.

  • -I had one opportunity to get a photo with him.

  • I went to the White House for a Fourth of July event

  • for veterans, and I was performing there.

  • And I got there so nervous to meet him and the First Lady.

  • And so I got dressed up in a three-piece suit,

  • like the best suit I had.

  • And I went, and it was so hot. It was the Fourth of July.

  • -You started sweating. -In Washington, D.C.

  • I'm sweating all over the place.

  • And I'm opening up for the Foo Fighters,

  • and they're wearing shorts and T-shirts.

  • They're like, "Wow, you're really --

  • you look like a banker." Yeah, so I'm like --

  • So anyways, I go up to meet them.

  • And I'm just sweating. It's just dripping off me.

  • And Michelle Obama goes, "Jimmy, you look so hot.

  • Are you okay?" And I go, "I'm fine."

  • And the President was laughing. [ Laughter ]

  • He had, like, his shirt rolled up

  • and he was wearing khakis.

  • He goes, "Uh, didn't you get the memo?

  • It's a barbecue." [ Laughter and applause ]

  • And then they pushed me away. I got one photo, like,

  • so sweaty and awful.

  • But he's great.

  • I want to talk about "Gemini Man."

  • Congratulations on this. This is cool, Ang Lee.

  • I love Ang Lee. And -- directed this.

  • Will Smith.

  • You basically acted with two Will Smiths.

  • -Yeah, it's true, it's true. -Can you explain that?

  • -Well, it's -- it's a really -- it's a film that they've been

  • trying to make for over 20 years,

  • and I think Ang Lee finally said, "I think we're ready.

  • I think the technology's there."

  • And basically, Will Smith plays an agent,

  • and there's a guy after him, and he doesn't understand why

  • he's so good, until he turns and he sees a young Will Smith.

  • And basically he's been cloned

  • and the guy's been sent out to get him.

  • -So he's trying -- -And so you have --

  • and they've used this -- I think it's the first time

  • there's a digitalized human, like, fully digitalized.

  • So I did most of my stuff with the young Will.

  • So basically he does it with a whole camera rig,

  • then a body double does it,

  • and then they do a special effects run-through.

  • And then -- -So you basically act

  • with a tennis ball the whole time?

  • -No, I -- To be fair to Will --

  • -"Get over here. Get over here, guy.

  • I love you, man. I'm going to save you."

  • -Yeah, selfies and -- -Exactly, yeah.

  • With a stick. A broomstick.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • -No, but he -- -You never met Will Smith once.

  • -So Will -- [ Laughter ]

  • Will did actually -- I mean, it's digitalized,

  • but he does all the performing, so he acts everything.

  • So he did a whole process where he acted

  • the younger version of himself, and then they physically

  • made him younger, but not a de-aging, like --

  • it was a different process. -It's amazing to look at.

  • -But it's -- like, Ang Lee, with this film is, like,

  • at the forefront of some new technology

  • that he's convinced is going to be the future.

  • It's shot in 120 frames a second.

  • It has stunning action in it.

  • -3-D. -And it's -- 3-D.

  • And it's really extraordinary.

  • And you have to -- you have to see it in the cinema

  • the way it's --

  • and projected properly,

  • because that's, you know -- -Yeah.

  • -...otherwise you won't get the full impact.

-Thanks for coming back, buddy. -Thank you.

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