Siri's from Shonda Rhimes.

Bridgeton.

Let's take a look.

You appear displeased.

Do I?

We find ourselves seated beside each other.

Miss Bridgeton.

I'd like to thank you.

Help you about that.

Perhaps, Your Grace.

It would be better if you were a friend from thinking about me at all.

It is simply surprising.

Yes.

However, is it possible for a lady to offer anything but a smile while seated beside a duke?

Regarding subjects, even one of your reputation?

You are aware of my reputation.

Where if your friendship with my eldest brother, if that were not enough, I'm also aware of the things that certain writers recently written off You.

Presumptuous.

Clearly arrogant.

Most definitely.

You are a rig two and two.

Hey, Phoebe, how are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

I'm good.

Now.

I'm thrilled that I get a chance to talk to you because you are the woman of the moment.

This is a huge deal.

So I mean, just first of all, congratulations.

Thank you.

Thanks so much.

Yeah, it's been surreal.

Few weeks.

Yeah, it's so fascinating.

because Richardson came out.

Was it 34 weeks ago?

It just came out.

Yeah, exactly.

Pretty much exactly four weeks ago.

Came out on Christmas Day.

Okay, so this is what I experienced.

It came out Christmas Day.

About two days later, Everybody I know was texting me and saying, Have you seen Bridgeton on?

I said it was two days, two days, two days, everybody.

And then, uh you know, I said, I'm going to watch it.

Give me a second.

Um, I hear doctors air like leaving mid operation to go watch Bridgeton.

Everybody's gone mad for this show and deservedly so.

It's a terrific show, but it's kind of a mania.

I don't know what it's like in in Britain, in the UK, but here in America, people have lost their minds.

It's great.

Yeah, it's amazing.

It's so it's so lovely to be part of something that's obviously bringing a lot of joys People's lives in this really crazy time.

So it's just it's good to be part of something positive, I guess.

Yeah, it's very positive.

Everybody looks gorgeous, the costumes or stunning.

I think it's a nice on, and there's so much about it to that, I think, is fascinating.

Uh, one of the things I'm curious about is people talk today about dating and how difficult it is with the apse with social APs and what a weird experience it is.

And I'm curious if you almost do you prefer.

I mean, obviously there's a lot of downsides, but are there things that you prefer about the way they were doing it in the 19th century?

I mean, you know, E Yeah, I think the problem today is that there is no social etiquette at, so you can ghost someone and just sort of blank them completely.

And there's no, you know, there's no repercussions to that.

So that's something you have to do with.

And also, you know, if if someone was into you in those days, they would come around and bring you a big bouquet of flowers, it was pretty much a simple as that.

So you knew where you stood with people.

I think that's the that was the benefit of being a woman back in those days.

Obviously, that's probably the only E was going to say.

Not many people are saying early 19th century, great time to be a woman.

Uh, but but yes, people had to put in an effort they had to put in an effort.

And now it's just someone can, um, like something that you wrote.

Or they can send you an emoji.

And you think, Wait a minute back then you had to ride, you know, 80 miles through a bog to deliver some roses.

It feels like a guy had to work for it back then.

They did?

Yeah, they did.

Um, but I think, you know, I think there's there's a pluses and negatives.

Isn't that because also, if I'm not interested, you know, if there's a Nigel Burr Brooke of today, I don't have toe Panda.

I could just say no.

I'm good.

Thank you.

Yeah, that's true.

I don't even have to say thank you.

You don't even have to say anything.

You just don't You just turn off your phone for a week and maybe he gets the message.

I know I like that.

I like that a lot.

There's obviously so many things about this show that I feel people right now are hungry for.

For example, during this co vid crisis, nobody's been dressing up.

And I think, you know, obviously the show is really entertaining in so many ways.

But part of the show is you all look so beautiful and you're dressed so nicely and everyone watching it is wearing sweatpants.

Yes, and T shirt, including me, including you wearing sweat pants right now, eh?

So basically, you're from, like, from the waist up from the waist up.

You are.

There you go.

Yes.

Yes.

I won't show you what I'm wearing because yeah, it's not good.

Um, I'm wearing very short short.

Uh, e believe that.

Not a good look.

Um, is there any chance because I've watched the show with my wife and it's very interesting because my wife and I watched the show and we watch it in the main room.

We have two Children and they're teenagers, but on the younger side of being teenagers and they wander in and out.

So we love the show.

But we were worried about Well, we can't leave them walking through if there's an intense scene.

And then someone told us three exact episode.

There's an episode that everyone that if there's kids around eso Yeah, is it six e I mean?

Yeah, it's quite easy to remember, actually, isn't it?

Well, absolute six.

Yeah.

Episode six is the danger Danger.

Red Light hasn't Yeah, No, I couldn't handle it.

I fainted twice.

Uh, they took me to the hospital, but it was fantastic.

It was great, but I just I just kept They brought me around with smelling salts.

Uh, but it was nice that the word is out like now.

First of all, that works both ways.

If there are people who are worried about their kids worried about maybe their grandmother coming into the room, um, you need to be a little careful about Episode six, But you also know it's going to drive people to Episode six is Well, yeah, so with my family, because I watched it with my grandparent's on with my family.

We just We skipped Episode six.

It was just like it was a no go.

But there's what there's, You know, there's a few before that as well.

So I had to sort of sit by the remote and fast forward the bits before episode sex that slightly Yeah, on the precarious side as well.

You're there with the remote pushing fast forward, ready to go, Ready to go.

And you probably you know exactly what's happening.

And then on then stop.

Like you don't understand that.

Yeah, and and suddenly there's there's, like, a baby or something, and you're like, Trust me.

E had to give them a download of everything that happened in that episode.

Six.

So they were all caught up.

So yeah, that was what I gave them a little like.

Okay, So what happens is yeah, skipped all the away, the bad parts.

Let me ask you.

Ah, a quick question and you feel free to be completely honest with me.

Um, I look at this show, and yes, obviously, everyone's very attractive, so that's gonna be a problem for me.

But I do have the overall skin tone of someone in the, uh, let's say, 18th, 19th century England.

I look like someone who maybe hasn't been well nourished and taken care of.

Would there could there be some small part for me?

You know, I just got to say, because it's not I mean, the bridge, iTunes, we're all we're all kind of pasty, but it's also the hat.

You've got the British and boy has style going on.

They would.

Honestly, they weren't hair makeup for hours getting getting your hair done.

Listen, you just have it.

I have that liberty that those guys, the bridge, it's especially have that big thing of hair.

And they have those crazy side burns burns.

I just need burns.

I could do that.

And then we just have to find a reason why someone like me would be in the show.

And I don't wanna be distracting, literally just coming by in the background every now and then.

Hello?

You know, quick wave.

And then off I go.

You've got the accent as well.

Well, no, What I just did was insulting and terrible.

I want to ask you quickly about the narrator of Bridgeton is Julie Andrews, the great Julie Andrews.

And I know I mean, the word icon doesn't even do justice to to who Julie Andrews is and what she's accomplished because she's the narrator of the show.

Have you had a chance to meet her?

I haven't.

I haven't and I It's haunted.

May ever since the pandemic salted.

I think I actually read her autobiography in Lock Down because I just wanted to be close to her.

I was so disappointed we didn't get to meet.

So I just found out everything I could about Julie Andrews so that now I feel like I know, uh, and if we ever meet in person, I have something to talk about, Although I worry that might scare her away, so I might be a bit cooler.

Yeah, Sometimes that frightens people.

When you say when you say it's trip.

Oh, you know, Phoebe, meet Julie Andrews.

You were born in Leeds in 1928.

You weigh 135 g.

You know, you don't want to say that kind of stuff to people.

It sounds creepy.

Um, I have to tell you of all, I've been very fortunate.

I've had the chance to over a long career.

I've been able to meet just about everybody, never had the chance to meet Julie Andrews.

But they have something here in the States.

The Macy's Day parade, which is a big deal on Thanksgiving, and I was in New York once, just before I left about 10 years ago, and the Macy's Day parade was going by and I was holding my daughter who was just a baby at the time and suddenly right in front of me.

Julie Andrews goes by on top of the parade float waving.

I dropped my daughter practically and started screaming on on she I think she saw.

I don't think she recognized me, but she thought, Who is that horrible woman?

I I completely lost it.

That's the effect she has on people.

She does.

She does.

She She's a She's a basically a royal.

She is.

Have you done a lot of chat shows before your Have you Have you done a lot of chat shows in the UK?

Not really.

No.

This is like my first late night.

You know, America, this is a big, huge deal.

I'm really excited to be here.

Well, thanks for reading that as I wrote it, uh, make sure she says this is a big deal to her.

Um, well, you I only ask because you're a natural.

You're so easy to talk Thio and delightful.

And I got Major e got major points in my house today when, uh, my wife said, uh, you know, what's what are you doing today?

And I said, Oh, I've gotta shoot this and do that.

Then I'll be talking to, you know, Phoebe Denver.

And she was like, she's talking to you.

And I was like, Come on.

No, she has more respect for you than for May.

We'll just leave it at that bridge.

Iton is available on a little thing called Netflix, and I don't think you'll have any trouble finding it.

And you're such a big deal right now that sometimes before the show, I like toe Look up people to find out a little something else about them.

Prepare.

I think I typed.

I was gonna type your whole name in and I think I typed in the p from for Phoebe and your name came up.

So that's before, like Peter the Great.

So the Apostle the Apostle Paul Uh, eso thrilled for you.

And thank you so much for being on the show.

Stay safe.

Say well, and you and I hope to see you in season two.

Yeah, guess what.

You're the You're the You're the only person You're the only person who's excited about that.

I could be a creepy older suitor for one of the, you know, for the for one of the daughters who gets killed instantly.