00:00For her Golden Globe win for the movie Fences, please welcome the amazing Viola Davis!
00:18Oh boy, this is crazy!
00:26Oh!
00:27Yeah!
00:30Wow!
00:32I love this outfit!
00:34Beautiful! Yeah, you look amazing!
00:35Thank you!
00:36I just threw it together!
00:38This is like Stayin' Alive! Like this is a tribute Tony Manero!
00:41This is Stayin' Alive!
00:42Yeah, it's good!
00:42And I thought of that when I put it on!
00:44Did you really?
00:45No!
00:46I do! I like that!
00:47Amazing! Yeah!
00:49Total Travolta!
00:50Hey, congratulations on your Golden Globe!
00:51Thank you!
00:52You're well deserved!
00:53Thank you!
00:55Thank you!
00:56You won a Tony for the play as well!
00:59I won the Tony for the play 2010!
01:02Oh my gosh!
01:04I'm sitting here right now by the way and I'm thinking to myself, I can't believe my life!
01:09I'm on TV!
01:11Wait!
01:12We were just discussing that!
01:14That's right!
01:16When you unexpectedly see yourself or somebody you know on TV!
01:19Right!
01:20Do you get excited?
01:22Oh!
01:22All the time!
01:24Right!
01:24That's right!
01:24That's right!
01:24That's right!
01:24That's right!
01:24And then I think to myself when I'm on TV, I'm like, oh, I'm tired!
01:28I want to go home!
01:30I want to eat!
01:30But when I see someone else, even on Law & Order, especially Law & Order!
01:34Yes!
01:34I'm like, oh my God!
01:35Oh my God!
01:36They got a job!
01:37That's right!
01:38You're happy!
01:39Yeah, I know!
01:40So excited for them!
01:41I know!
01:41Me too!
01:42It's really true!
01:43You know what's so funny?
01:44I got excited this morning.
01:45I was getting my hair and makeup on backstage and I saw Denzel Washington on the early show
01:51and I was like, we know him!
01:53That's right!
01:54He was just here!
01:56He was just here!
01:56Yeah, I know!
01:57He was such a nice guy!
01:58Denzel!
01:59I know, huh?
02:00So you just got...
02:02You're the first recipient in 2017 to receive a star on the Hollywood world!
02:13Amazing!
02:16Hey, listen!
02:17Yeah!
02:18Now I'm going to tell you something!
02:20I'm going to tell you something!
02:21That's...
02:21That's interesting!
02:23That is strategic!
02:24You had the slit in the front of the skirt and you had to get down into that position!
02:28Well, no, because I didn't know I had to get down in that position!
02:32That was a workout for me!
02:33Then you had to get back up!
02:35I had to get back up!
02:36And there's photographers everywhere, right?
02:38There's photographers everywhere and you were hoping you didn't have a malfunction!
02:42Yeah, right!
02:42Of course!
02:43Of course!
02:43Now, did Meryl Streep, she presented you with the star?
02:46She did!
02:47There was an agreement!
02:48She would present me with my star if I presented her with her Cecil B. DeMille award!
02:54Fair!
02:56Have you two been friends a long time?
02:59We've been friends!
03:01Since Doubt, right?
03:02Since Doubt!
03:03Is that right?
03:03Yeah!
03:03And you know, I...
03:05It's a testament to her because I was so odd on that set.
03:09All I did was follow her around and stare.
03:11Yeah!
03:12I mean, I stared so much at one point, I could tell she was going to look at me and
03:16go, stop
03:17it!
03:18Yeah!
03:18Yeah!
03:19You know?
03:20But Dane and I would stare and say, Meryl, do you want some tea?
03:23No.
03:24No, honey.
03:25No, I don't want any tea.
03:26Do you want me to get you a biscuit?
03:28Aww.
03:29You said that you wish your dad was there to see it.
03:32What do you think he would have said?
03:33Because I believe your dad did see it.
03:36Oh, yes.
03:37Of course.
03:37I do too.
03:38I'm a God believer.
03:40You know, I totally believe that.
03:42But I just remember he was in the audience when I had my Broadway debut in an August Wilson
03:47play.
03:47And I remember looking out the audience during the curtain call and he was crying.
03:53Oh, no.
03:53Really?
03:54He was clapping, he was crying, and you could tell he was hyperventilating.
03:58And then afterwards he kept saying, I love you so much, daughter.
04:02I'm so proud of you.
04:03And I just, you know, imagine him just getting the biggest kick out of it, you know?
04:09Oh, my gosh.
04:09He was just floating, I'm sure, just loving every second of it.
04:12And you've also been doing some tweeting on, what, as you start people's week off in the
04:16right way?
04:17Yes, Monday Motivation.
04:19Monday Motivation.
04:21Nice.
04:25And do you get a lot of positive feedback or retweets?
04:30You know what?
04:31I, some Monday Motivations are better than others.
04:35Sure.
04:36Are they coming from your head or do you get them from quotes from books?
04:39They come from my head and sometimes they come from the head of the guy who actually
04:45knows how to press the tweet button.
04:47Uh-huh.
04:47Uh-huh.
04:48Yeah, sure.
04:49I'm a relic.
04:51I'm an OG.
04:51I say I'm an OG.
04:53Uh-huh.
04:53No, no, no.
04:54I, I, I still write letters.
04:56So, you know, I, you know.
04:57It's a beautiful, oh yeah, you don't want to lose that.
04:59It's a wonderful thing.
05:00I know.
05:01I know.
05:01Okay.
05:01Alright.
05:02We have to take a short break when we come back.
05:03I always gonna post what you really think about Denzel Washington.
05:10Tomorrow on live from the television film Beaches, Regina Menzel.
05:15Come on me, especially with Billy Brown.
05:18Yes.
05:19Billy Brown, who looks like he's been genetically modified.
05:24I mean, it's like I'm in a scene and I'm saying, I'm an actress.
05:27I went to Juilliard.
05:29Yeah.
05:29What's our relationship?
05:30Where, where did we meet?
05:32How do I feel about him?
05:34And then he gets out of bed and I see him.
05:36Yeah.
05:37And I'm like, okay, I'm on TV.
05:39Yeah.
05:40I'm on TV.
05:50You know, you, we're gonna go back now and talk about fences for a minute.
05:54You, of course, won the Tony.
05:56You were amazing.
05:57You did not.
05:59And I saw you on Broadway and this year.
06:03So, you did not have your daughter yet when you.
06:07I did not.
06:07So, what's it like when you have a child filming those scenes in fences?
06:13Well, it was a last scene particularly because my son tells me I'm not going to my father's funeral.
06:19Mm-hmm.
06:19He treated me like crap.
06:21Mm-hmm.
06:21He's ruined my life.
06:23I'm not.
06:23Truly as nice a guy as he appears to be or?
06:27He's awesome.
06:28He's awesome.
06:28Okay.
06:30And then I had to do that scene for the movie and it completely released for me because
06:36what I had to tell him was you need to forgive your father to release your life.
06:42Mm-hmm.
06:43And it's nothing that can be explained.
06:46That's, there's no manual on that.
06:49Right.
06:49It's a heart thing that gets injected in you because when you have a kid, you know, I'm 51.
06:55So, I know probably by the time my kid is 40, unless I'm Betty White, I may not see my
07:00daughter.
07:00You know?
07:01No, you're saying.
07:02Do you know what I'm saying?
07:03No, I know exactly what you're saying.
07:04There's a mortality there.
07:05I need for her to be okay.
07:06Mm-hmm.
07:07I need for her to forgive.
07:08I need for her to have some kind of a good life.
07:11Yeah.
07:11Even though I know she's going to have some nicks and scrapes in there.
07:14Sure.
07:14So, I got it.
07:15Yeah.
07:16You know?
07:16And for me, that was just a huge moment for me as an actress.
07:20Doing that final scene.
07:21To have that experience, a new perspective.
07:23Yeah.
07:23So, Denzel Washington was here, what, last week?
07:25Yeah.
07:25Is he doing it?
07:27And when I did the play on Broadway, I said, okay, I don't get the scene.
07:30I don't get this.
07:32Mm-hmm.
07:32And then I had to tell him all the time I'm a friend and a fan.
07:35Because sometimes you're not.
07:37Sometimes you're a fan, but you're like, I don't like you.
07:39Sure.
07:40You know?
07:41And vice versa.
07:42Yeah, absolutely.
07:42I'm a friend, but you're not so good of an actor.
07:46Right.
07:49But with him, he's familiar to me.
07:52Yeah.
07:52There's certain people you meet and you're like, you remind me of so-and-so.
07:56Now, before, when I was young, I was like, oh, Denzel, he's so handsome.
08:01He's so beautiful.
08:03And now I'm like, hey, Denzel.
08:04Right.
08:06I told him when he was here, I was like, I believe that you are a couple in real life.
08:10I believe it.
08:11Yeah.
08:12You guys have-and even though I know both of your spouses, I still believe you're a couple
08:17in real life.
08:18because that's how good you are.
08:19Yeah.
08:20You've crossed over now.
08:21Yeah.
08:22Totally.
08:22Is that what it is?
08:23Yeah.
08:23Yeah.
08:23Yeah.
08:24That works.
08:24Yeah.
08:25I'm happy.
08:26Yeah.
08:27Listen, make sure you check out How To Get Away With Murder.
08:30It returns next Thursday, January 26th at KPN on ABC and Texas in theaters now.
08:37Next, we have Louie Emerson.
08:54Thanks, M.
08:54Thanks, M.
08:56Yeah.
08:56Thanks, M.
08:57Yeah.
08:59That's the Bye.
08:59Thank you very much.
09:00Bye.
