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  • -Hey! Oh, you look great.

  • -Hi! You look great, too.

  • -Thank you so much for coming --

  • Oh, thank you very much. Please.

  • For coming back to "The Tonight Show."

  • It's so nice to see you. I want to see you in person.

  • How's your quarantine experience been, overall?

  • -You know, when quarantine started,

  • I was like, "This is it."

  • I was made for this life. -Wow.

  • -I didn't have to make up excuses to not go to things.

  • You know, I'm like -- And I got to spend all this time

  • with my dogs, and then after about two weeks,

  • I was like, "Oh, I wasn't made for this life."

  • -[ Laughs ] -I actually need

  • human connection.

  • And it made me realize I need to call my mom more.

  • I need to check in with my friends more,

  • not just check their Instagram and be like,

  • "Oh, they're on a beach. They seem fine."

  • -[ Laughs ] It's like, "Really call them..."

  • -Call them and talk to people. -...and say, "How are you?"

  • I found it to be a great bonding experience.

  • I'm closer to all of my friends now.

  • I'm closer with everyone in my life,

  • and I am so blessed for that.

  • -You were finally, recently, able to get back to work.

  • You just finished filming a movie with Morgan Freeman.

  • How did it feel to get back on set?

  • Was it -- Were you rusty?

  • Was it like -- just like riding a bike?

  • -I -- There was that moment where I was like,

  • "Do I even know how to act anymore?"

  • -[ Laughing ] Yeah. -But I got there,

  • and it was such a perfect film to transition

  • back into working again after not really talking to people

  • for so long and not having that kind of

  • connection and being on set.

  • -Speaking of Morgan Freeman, you got to take away

  • a little souvenir of sorts from Morgan.

  • Can you tell us about that? And, by the way,

  • I'm already jealous, 'cause I know what it is.

  • -Yeah. Like, so I'm working with Morgan Freeman.

  • He's one of my idols. He's an amazing actor.

  • He's on that list of people you want to work with --

  • right? -- as an actor. And it was an amazing time,

  • but I did -- I couldn't stop myself

  • from asking him to record my voicemail.

  • So now when people call me, they get to hear Morgan Freeman.

  • -And you are the coolest 'cause you sent us the recording.

  • Let's listen to this.

  • -You've reached Ruby Rose.

  • Leave a number. Maybe she'll call you back.

  • [ Both laugh ] -"Maybe"?

  • Maybe she'll call you back. -Maybe she'll call you back.

  • Oh, my -- That's --

  • That's it for the rest of your life.

  • -That's it. It will never change.

  • -No. Why should it change? That's unbelievable.

  • That is -- I love that you brought it to us.

  • Thank you so much.

  • And good on Morgan Freeman for being a good sport.

  • You know, the last time you were here,

  • you were here to promote the first season of "Batwoman,"

  • and we were both excited.

  • You were Batwoman, the first one.

  • And we were freaking out, but now you're not Batwoman anymore.

  • You -- What happened?

  • Why did you leave after one season?

  • -Well, I didn't just leave. I didn't up and leave.

  • We were in such a weird position because we had to shut down

  • before we could finish the season, because of COVID,

  • and then we went into lockdown.

  • And there was a lot of, like I said earlier,

  • with reflection and things like in quarantine and thinking,

  • and I ended talking to Warner Brothers and Greg

  • and where the show was going, and we really just kind of

  • had a really honest, good chat where we sort of

  • mutually agreed that Kate Kane and her story and everything,

  • we had done what we set out to do.

  • We achieved -- I'm so proud of what we did.

  • I had so much fun. I mean, you know,

  • I cried on your show because of how excited I was.

  • -You were great. -And I had a blast.

  • And I do really feel like it was right for the show

  • to pass the mantle on to someone else now.

  • There's gonna be many iterations of Batwoman,

  • and I'm really proud of it, and I can't wait to watch season 2.

  • -Oh, good. That's good to hear.

  • Well, you crushed on it.

  • And it probably was good training for "The Doorman,"

  • because, man, you kicked butt in this film.

  • You shot this film in Romania.

  • Did you go to -- Did you see Dracula's castle at all?

  • -Okay, yes. But here's the thing about Dracula's castle.

  • People told me it was Romania's Disneyland.

  • So I'm like, "Let's do this."

  • And when I get there, there's all these merch stands,

  • and I had friends that were like, "Send me back something

  • from Dracula's castle, T-shirts, whatever."

  • I buy out everything.

  • Then I put the T-shirt on, it's like Dracula, you know.

  • And I go in and I get a major history lesson

  • that this has got nothing to do with Dracula.

  • Like, this is just 'cause it looks like --

  • it's the only castle that fits the description from the book,

  • so they just kind of made it a thing.

  • And I go in and find out this place was Vlad the Impaler,

  • this horrible ruler who did brutal war crimes,

  • and he actually would like to impale people

  • and leave them around the city and outside the building.

  • I'm in there thinking,

  • "Is this the right thing to send home to my family?"

  • -[ Laughs ] No, you can't do that.

  • You can't -- No, you can't buy --

  • You can't wear that T-shirt. No, you got to --

  • -You can't. This would be like --

  • If it's Disney Land, it'd be like if Mickey Mouse

  • secretly loved hunting people. -[ Laughs ]

  • -And, like, I haven't seen Minnie Mouse in a while.

  • Have you? -Okay, yeah, yeah.

  • -I haven't here in a hot second. -That's interesting, you know?

  • That's interesting.

  • Yeah, you don't really want the merch for that.

  • Yeah, you don't think about that at all.

  • "The Doorman," Let's talk about your movie.

  • "The Doorman," it's an action thriller.

  • It's fun. Tell everyone what it's about.

  • -Basically it's about Ali, who's the character that I play.

  • She is an ex-Marine, and she goes through

  • a very traumatic experience at the beginning of the film,

  • and she ends up moving back to New York to restart her life,

  • heal, and try to get, you know, herself back on track.

  • And she ends up getting a job as a doorman,

  • which seems like a reasonable, easy enough job

  • to go back into the workplace.

  • Unfortunately, she does end up

  • being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

  • They end up shutting down the place that she's working,

  • the building, to renovate, and it actually doubles

  • as, really, a robbery, headed by the one and only Jean Reno.

  • And she's there and left protecting the very few people

  • that stayed during the renovation shutdown.

  • And she ends up having to go from being a doorman

  • straight back into being the trained person

  • that she was and saving the day, or trying to.

  • -I want to show a clip.

  • Here's Ruby Rose in "The Doorman."

  • Take a look.

  • -Why would a decorated officer hole up here as a doorman?

  • -To meet interesting people like you.

  • -I had a friend that came back after war,

  • and he was damaged.

  • Are you damaged...Sergeant?

  • -[ Chuckles ]

  • Not as damaged as you.

  • -[ Chuckles ]

  • -What about this --

  • Unh! Ohh!

  • [ Grunting ]

  • Ohh!

  • -Get their guns!

  • Take the gun.

  • Max, give me the rifle. Find a way out.

  • You go that way!

  • -Ruby Rose, thanks again for coming on the show.

  • Hope to see you again.

  • Stay safe, please. Ruby Rose, everybody.

-Hey! Oh, you look great.

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