>> James: HOW IS IT GOING?

ARE YOU WELL, I FEEL LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN NEW SO LONG, AND I

WAS SEEING YOU EVERY FEW MONTHS.

>> I KNOW, I GET TO COME INTO THE STUDIO AND WE DO THINGSING

TO, WE DO COMEDY BITS.

NOW LOOK AT US.

>> James: NOW LOOK AT US.

>> YOU'RE STUCK IN A DRAPED ROOM AND I'M STUCK IN MY HOUSE.

>> James: SOME KIND OF BOND VILANS LAYER BY THE LOOK OF IT.

>> ARE YOU IN A PLACE WHERE THEY CARRY THE DEAD, WHAT IS

HAPPENING IN THIS ROOM.

>> James: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

WHY?

>> IT LOOKS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, IF IT LOOKS LIKE A WAITING ROOM

WHERE PEOPLE SIGN THEIR NAMES, A DESK REGISTER OR-- OR SOMETHING.

>> James: YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT BEFORE.

>> WHAT WAS IT BEFORE.

>> James: TO WAS MYSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT THERE WAS INSTEAD OF

THOSE FLOWERS.

>> WHAT WERE THERE?

>> James: I WILL SHOW YOU.

>> WHAT SHOULD WE GUESS.

I'M GUESSING SOME SORT OF STATUE, A GREEK STATUE OR MAYBE

A PAMPHLET FOR THE NURSING HOME THAT YOU ARE?

(LAUGHTER).

>> James: GUYS WHAT IS THIS, THEY WENT YOU KNOW, HE'S

BRITISH.

>> YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A TEA MAY STRUCK.

>> James: AND NO CUP.

>> DOWN THE HATCH.

>> James: CHUCKING IT OUT OF THE POT.

>> THE FLOWERS DO EVERYTHING.

WELL DONE.

WELL PLAYED YOU.

>> James: THANKS VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

NOW WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?

YOU ARE IN LONG ISLAND, RIGHT.

>> WE ARE IN LONG ISLAND.

WE HAVE AN APARTMENT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND THEN WE WERE

JUST FINISHING RENOVATIONS OF THIS FARM THAT WE LIVE IN

OUTSIDE OF THE CITY, WHICH IS KIND OF DECENT TIMING BECAUSE

ALL THE COVID STUFF STARTED HAPPENING WE WERE LITERALLY

MOVING TOO THIS OTHER PLACE, SO WE HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE THEN

SWRZ NOW YOU REVEALED THIS WEEK THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAD

CORONAVIRUS, I THINK SORT OF BACK A FEW MONTHS AGO.

TALK TO ME ABOUT IT.

WHEN WAS IT AND HOW SCARY WAS IT AT THE TIME?

>> IT WAS RIGHT WHEN ALL OF THIS WAS FIRST HAPPENING, END OF

MARCH, EARLY APRIL.

YEAH, IT WAS-- IT WASN'T FUN.

I DIDN'T REALLY FEEL LIKE IT WAS THIS-- NEWS WORTHY AS MUCH AS IT

WAS LIKE A FLU OF MULTIPLE WEEKS OF THENLETTAGEY FOR ANOTHER AT

LEAST THAT LONG OF NOT WANTING TO EXERCISE, NOT WANTING TO DO

MUCH.

IT WORKED ITS WAY THROUGH ME AND MY HUSBAND AS WELL, OUR FRIEND

MICHAEL GOT IT, OUR KIDS GOT IT.

IT IS NO JOKE, THAT'S FOR SURE.

BUT HAPPILY WE'RE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT.

WE DIDN'T HAVE TO GO TO HOSPITAL.

AND YEAH, I JUST DIDN'T, I DON'T FEEL LIKE, I DON'T REALLY

PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE SOMEONE'S ILLS WERE NEWS WORTHY SO I WAS

HAVING TO TRY TO BE PAST TENSE INSTEAD OF PRESENT TENSE BUT

KEEP WEARING MASKS, IT IS SO IMPORTANT.

>> James: I'M SO HAPPY YOU ARE ALL FEELING BETTER, YOU SENT US

A PHOTO OF A RECENT FISHING TRIP, YOU AND YOUR SON WENT ON.

>> YEAH, GIDEON AND I JUST WENT FISHING.

HE HAD A BUCKET LIST HE WANTED TO DO BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS.

LOOK AT THAT, WE WENT AND CAUGHT FISH.

SOME FATHER SON BONDING.

FIRST WE TIE DYED SO THE OTHER SHOT IS IN THE TIE DYE SWEATER

WE ALL DID, THAT WAS PRETTY DOPE AND WE ALL WENT FUSHING, HAVE

YOU GONE FISHING WITH MASKS YET?

>> WE HAVE NOT SEEN FINISH BUT WE HAVE TIE DYED SO WE GOT HALF

THE WAY THERE.

I CAN ONLY HOPE WHEN I CATCH A FISH MY SON LOOKS AS HAPPY ABOUT

IT AS GIDEON DOES RIGHT THERE IN THAT PHOTO.

>> HE IS DOING A LITTLE SMIRK, THAT DOWN SMILE SMIRK, YEAH, I'M

PRETTY COOL.

>> James: SO HOW LONG WERE YOU OUT ON THE WATER.

>> WE CAUGHT SEVEN FISH AND IT WAS PRETTY EXCITING.

GIDEON WAS UNBELIEVABLE.

HE WAS BETTER THAN I WAS FOR SURE.

HE WAS A BIT OF THE FISH WHISPERER, HE CAUGHT TWO BABY

SHARKS.

DO DO DO DO DO.

>> WHICH IS WEIRD, THEY WERE LARGE AND TOOTHLESS SO I THINK

THEY ARE CALLED DOG FISH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO WE CERTAINLY PUT THEM BACK IN AND TOOK CARE OF THEM BUT THAT

WAS INCREDIBLY EXCITING.

THE NICE THING ABOUT FISHING WITH MY FAMILY IS THAT MY

HUSBAND IS A CHIEF AND CAN ACTUALLY DEAL WITH FISH.

WE GOT TO CATCH THE FISH, WE PUT THE LITTLE ONES BACK, THE BIG

ONES WE GT TO KEEP AND CAME HOME AND HAD PROPER COOKED FISH AND

SALAD AND EVERYTHING.

IT WAS REALLY FARM-TO-TABLE WHAT IS IT-- SNOWT TO BUTTOCKS S THAT

THE PHRASE.

>> James: THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.

>> I'M PRETTY SURE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I THINK I NAILED IT,

SNOWT TO BUTTOCKS.

>> James: DAVID IS INCREDIBLE.

I'M A BIG FAN OF DAVID, AS YOU KNOW.

YOU HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR QUITE AWHILE NOW.

HOW DID YOU MEET?

I DON'T KNOW YOUR STORY, WAS IT LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT?

>> IT WAS PROBABLY LUST AT FIRST SIGHT.

WE WERE IN NEW YORK, WE WERE BOTH IN NEW YORK WORK OCTOBER

BROADWAY SHOW, IN ADDITION TO CHEFFING HE TRAINED IN ACTING

AND MUSICAL THEATER AND STUFF.

SO I WAS DOING CABARET ON BODWAY AS THE EMCEE AND HE WAS IN GYPSY

THAT BERNADETTE PETERS WHAT IS IN, A MUTUAL FRIEND OF OURS, WE

WERE YOU CAN WHATTING DOWN EIGHTH AVENUE AND PASSIONED EACH

OTHER, THE FRIEND AND I AND I TURNED AND SAID HEY, SHE SAID

NEIL, SHE WAS WITH THIS SORT OF HANDSOME DUDE WITH LEATHER

JACKET, KIND OF JAMES DEEB YOU WERE.

AND I SAID TO HER NICELY DONE YOU.

SHE SAID DAVID, OH NO, HE'S TOTALLY GAY.

AND I SAID REALLY.

HMMMM.

AND SO I JUST-- INTERESTING.

AND I KEPT CALLING, TEXTING KATE AND SHE WOULD TELL ME WHAT,

AFTER THEATER BARS THEY WERE GOING TO BE AT, MY SHOW WAS DONE

ABOUT 15 MINUTES BEFORE THEIRS SO I WOULD JUST HAPPEN TO BE

CONVENIENTLY BE AT EVERY BAR.

>> WAIT, YOU, YOU ARE HERE AGAIN?

>> James: THAT IS CRAZY.

>> AND THEN WE STARTED DATING AND NEVER STOPPED.

THAT WAS ABOUT 16 YEARS AGO.

>> James: WOW.

>> YEAH.

>> James: 16 YEARS.

ARE YOU THE MOST WONDERFUL COUPLE.

YOU ARE REALLY LOVELY TO SPEND TIME WITH.

YOU HAVE BEEN SPENDING A BIT OF TIME AWAY FROM THE FAMILY AND I

REALLY WANT TO, I THINK THIS IS HUGELY EXCITING.

YOU ARE SHOOTING THE NEW MATRIX MOVIE OVER IN GERMANY, RIGHT?

>> YEAH, BERLIN, GERMANY.

SAN FRANCISCO FOR A LITTLE BIT.

>> James: IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ARE ALLOWED TO EL US ABOUT

THE FILL SNM.

>> NO, I MEAN THEY WOULD PREFER THE NO ANSWER.

THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE VERY INTERESTED IN ANYTHING MAT RICK

WHICH I TOTALLY VALUE BECAUSE I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.

I LOVED THE MOVIES.

I READ THE TBRASK NOVELS AND ALL THE LORRE ABOUT IT AND I'M A

HUGE LANA FAN.

SHE WROTE THE FIRST, SHE WROTE ALL AND DIRECTED ALL OF THEM.

SHE IS DIRECTING THIS ONE.

AND I'M JUST, I WANTED TO BE IN IT IN ANY CAPACITY.

SO IT IS PRETTY EXCITING.

FUN TO SEE ALL OF THE-- AND I'M IN IT A BIT AND THEN I'M NOT IN

THE WHOLE THING.

I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT WHO I AM PLAYING AND I WON'T BUT

I WOULD LOVE SOME DAY TO BE LIKE A PROTAT NIS IN A BIG ACTION

MOVIE WITH THE WIRES AND GUNS AND STAWNTS AND PRACTICING AND

DOING ALL OF THAT STUFF.

>> DID YOU NOT DO ANY OF THAT.

>> THAT'S NOT, NO, I'M JUST HAPPY TO BE THERE IN ANY

CAPACITY.

AND IT IS PRETTY AMAZING TO WATCH THEM WORK.

AND TO WATCH LANA.

I'M JUST A MASSIVE FAN OF HERS.

SO I THINK THAT ALL THE FANS WHO ARE WONDERING HOW YOU REBOOT

SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, 20 YEARS LATER.

I THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE REALLY STOKED.

I HAVE BEEN VERY IMPRESSED BY EVERYTHING I HAVE SEEN WHICH IS

NOT A LOT.

>> I THINK I'M MORE EXCITED FOR THIS REBOOT THAN I AM WHEN THE

THIRD ONE CAME OUT.

>> I HAVE TO TILL, I WAS BEYOND EXCITED WHEN I FOUND OUT I GOT

TO BE A PART OF IT.

BECAUSE OF THAT, THERE AREN'T MANY BIG FRANCHISE MOVIES.

YOU HAVE THE STAR WARS STUFF AND MAYBE THE MARVEL STUFF.

AND OUTSIDE OF THAT, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THOSE.

AND SO THIS IS SORT OF ANOTHER ONE.

AND IT IS A VERY-- TO HAVE A BIG RESURGENCE.

I CAN'T WAIT.

I HOPE THAT EVERYONE SEES IT IN THE BIGGEST THEATER THEY CAN

FIND.

IT DOESN'T COME OUT FOR AWHILE, THEY PUSHED IT FOR ANOTHER YEAR

I THINK BECAUSE EVERY MOVIE HAS BEEN PUSHING A LOT.

BUT I HOPE HOPE THAT PEOPLE SEE IN A BIG GIANT SCREEN BECAUSE IT

DESERVES THAT KIND OF A-WE AND MOUTH GAIPING.

>> James: I THINK THIS IS-- I THINK THIS IS IT FOR YOU, I

THINK ARE YOU GOING TO BE ALL FRN CHIES.

I THINK NEXT TIME WILL YOU BE TALKING ABOUT FAST & FURIOUS 1

1-RBGS AND THEN YOU WILL JOIN BOND.

AND IT IS JUST GOING TO BE BACK TO BACK FRANCHISE NOW.

>> I'M TOTALLY INTO THAT AS A TRAJECTORY.

>> James: AND WE ARE TALKK OF SUCCESSFUL FRANCHISES, WE HAVE

TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON THIS, YOUR BRILLIANT NEW BOOK, THE

MAGIC MISFITS.

>> THANK YOU.

>> IT IS THE FOURTH AND FINAL IN YOUR MAGIC MISFILT SERIES.

THESE BOOKS ARE VERY POPULAR IN OUR HOUSE.

>> THANKS.

>> James: MY SON, HE LOVERS MAGIC AND HE LOVES THESE BOOKS.

TELL EVERYBODY ABOUT THIS FINAL CHAPTER.

>> WELL, I WAS ASKED TO WRITE THE MIDDLE GRADE FICTION BOOKS

AND ACTUALLY JUST ONE, AND I SAID IT WILL BE A SERIES BECAUSE

HI THIS INTERESTING IDEA TO MAKE IT A FOUR BOOK, FOLLOWING FOUR

KID WAS FEEL A LITTLE BIT LIKE MISFITS, LIKE THEY DIDN'T QUITE

BELONG.

AND THEN THEY FOUND COMMON GROUND TOGETHER IN MAGIC, IN A

FICTIONALIZED TOWN I HAVE CREATED.

IT IS AN HOMAGE TO GOONIES AND FUN, THERE IS LOTS OF CODES AND

VIEPERS IN THE BOOK.

AND MAGIC TRICKS THAT YOU CAN LEARN.

AND THEN EACH BOOK IS FOLLOWING FIRST PERSON ONE OF THE FOUR

KIDS, SO IT STARTED WITH A BOY NAMED CARTER, AND CARDS AND A

GIRL NAME LEILA, IN THE SECOND BOOK AN ESCAPE ARTIST, A KID

NAMED THEO CAN LEV ALREADY WILL BE SHALL LEVER STATES AND THE

FOURTH BOOK IS ABOUT THIS GIRL WHO IS WHEELCHAIR BOUND, SHE IS

MORE INTO TURNING THUNKINGS INTO OTHER THINGS AND SHE IS KIND OF

THE BRAINS OF THE OPERATION, A SUPERERR BAD ASS AND IT FOLLOWS

HER AS THEY TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHO THIS GUY IS, WHO IS THE

MASTER VILLAIN, THEY DON'T QUITE KNOW OR SEE HIS FACE.

HE IS AN EVIL ANTI-MAGIC CALLED THE EM-- EMERALD RING AND CAV

EARNS AND THEN WE WRAP IT UP AM I AM REALLY HAPPY.

I HAVE BEEN DOING THESE VIRTUAL BOOK TOURS.

I JUST DID ONE TONIGHT.

AND IT IS FUN TO SEE ALL OF THESE KIDS.

I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOUR KID IS READING IT.

>> I HAVE TO TELL YOU, THE BOOK IS FANTASTIC.

IT IS BRILLIANT AND EVERYBODY, BUY THIS ONE AND THE THREE THAT

CAME BEFORE.

YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.