Thank you for coming to see us.

And I have always an honor to be in your company.

Now, Halloween is here a few days away and I never knew about this.

This incredible special hidden talent that you have involving.

Look at this pumpkin carving.

Look at joe tina Davis is pumpkins here.

How did you, how did you get into this?

And how long does it take to do something like this?

Well, that took a few weeks.

I took confused but so I'd always carved pumpkins with the kids.

But then I saw Martha Stewart pumpkin carving kit online and I ordered it.

And then with the illustrations of the booklet, you know, I said, I got the biggest pumpkin I could find which was about £200.

Stop.

And then this was on the set of while we were shooting Stuart little Well, yeah, I saw this here.

Look at this Stuart little up here.

Look, it's amazing.

So that's a ship.

That's an illustration from the, from the book.

Anyway, Yeah, I just went kind of, I take everything too far.

What do you what do you have you got your design for this year?

Have you started on a pumpkin?

You know, I'm starting it tomorrow.

And uh, I got a note from a neighbor saying we're having a party.

I hope it doesn't bother any of your neighbors.

And uh, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a huge pumpkin and carve his house on it and then just leave it there.

I'm not invited to the party.

Right.

I just got to secretly you hate it when your neighbors do that.

Your neighbors go?

We're having a party.

We're apologized for the noise if you're sleeping or anything.

Well there's one way that I would be awake and I wondered if I was at your party and I wouldn't mind the noise and they go, it's not really gonna work like that.

Sorry.

I before you became an Academy, award winning actor, you had quite interesting job in new york.

What were you doing in new york before your career took off?

Well, I was a mannequin in a store window.

So hang on, what do you mean?

So, so I was a salesgirl at ann taylor And uh and I always wore and tailored clothes and always made up and everything.

And one day there was a women in the window in the front, there were two mannequins sitting at like a little cafe table and there was an empty chair in between them.

They were having like plastic food or whatever.

And I said dare me to get in the window and they were like, yeah, go ahead.

So I went and sat in the window and I didn't know what I was planning to do once I was there, but some people have been looking in the window and they started just watching like, what is she gonna do?

So then I just froze like a mannequin and uh and the crowd started gathering because people would come up and say, what are you looking at?

And they'd say just wait.

So yeah, what pose did you adopt?

What pose did you, I don't, I don't kind of, you know like a man.

So what's the secret?

What's the secret?

What did your boss say?

Well, so they were employing you to not be a mannequin?

Exactly, exactly.

Yeah.

So a huge crowd finally gathered and the manager came over and said, oh my God, you can get out of the window.

And she saw how big the crowd was like stay in the window.

So they started hiring me every saturday that the american for someone who's so good at being so still you have started some of the most incredible blockbusters that have ever been made in the world.

Amazing action movies when you were making those, those films and what, what do you remember?

What's the riskiest kind of stunt that you've ever had to do, where you thought, okay, this is, this is terrifying.

Yeah, the worst was on a long kiss Goodnight.

Um there's a scene where thank you, There's a scene where Sam Jackson and I come flying out a window and we're falling and over a lake on ice and I shoot with the machine got a hole in the ice.

Yeah, and then we fall in.

So it was on the schedule that we're going to do?

The scene where we pop up out of the ice and I'm like, what stage is that going to be on And it was the day we're gonna shoot and they said no, we're going to the location and they had cut a hole in a real lake in the ice and and it was already slashing over, you know, with it trying to And so Sam Jackson and I had to get in the hole and go under the water where they said, you know, action.

We went underwater and they pop out.

So we so we did and it was like being hit in the head with a sledgehammer.

You know, I mean, I couldn't see or think or hear and we popped up and we crawled, crawled, crawled to this hot tub, they had set up and we're like, oh my God, Sam is like lighting a cigarette.

Oh, I can never.

Oh thank God, that's over.

The director comes over and says we have to do it again.

You didn't you didn't pop up, you know, pop up enough.

It wasn't poppy enough.

So we did it three times.

Stop freezing cold water and freezing cold.

Kill your brain water.

And so the final time we had a push on the ice to be far enough down that it would stop.

Yeah.

The first thing about this is anyone that anyone that's watching here, not for one second thinks it's real.

No, no, Everyone watching you guys.

Yeah, I bet that water is like 75°, it's fine, not -12.

Right?

Yeah, that was hard.

We should get a hot tub here get a hot tub that we should crawl over now.

Let's talk about your fantastic memoir, dying of politeness.

It's a very well, I would consider a very, a very british sentiment what inspired the name, dying of politeness.

Well, partly because I almost literally died of politeness.

Uh, and I was raised to be so insane, you know, do Englanders are very much like british people where you don't complain about anything, you don't talk about anything.

And uh the earliest example I have of this was I was in my mom told the story all the time, I was in church, I was a baby on her lap and moving around and all of a sudden I clocked my head on the pew in front of us and it was so loud that the minister stopped talking and everybody froze waiting to hear how much you know, I'm gonna scream and my mom said, and my mom says, and she didn't make a peep.

That was her proudest moment was she cracked your head on a pew and you didn't cry.

I didn't cry.

She told that with such delight for my whole life in the book.

You talk of course about your, your incredible career in life and you mentioned that your Thelma and louise, Costar Susan Sarah and you say that she changed your life in what?

Say, I don't feel like necessarily talking about the film.

She is a person changed your life as a human being.

In what way?

So I I get cast in the part and they say Susan's gonna play the other role and she and I and Ridley scott are gonna meet just to go through the script, see if anybody has any ideas or thoughts.

And uh and I had a couple of thoughts I wanted to bring up, but I had planned out the girl earliest possible way to talk about them, you know?

Uh Well I don't know, maybe that's probably a stupid idea.

Well anyway and uh and so we sit down and Susan like I think it was like page one said my first line here.

I think we should just cut that.

And I was like, well I just had never met a woman who says what she thinks without being embarrassed about it, you know?

And and and the whole day was like that and the whole shoot was like that just being able to experience how she moved through the world which was so different than what I had.

I was just embarrassed for taking up space, but she just was very comfortable and the most important thing was nobody fell over.

People didn't weren't horrified by her being just say what she think yes, I'd like that and I don't want that.

You know, it sounds crazy, but that's how polite I was.

No, I get it.

I hear what you're saying.

If she would have cracked her head on a pew.

Yeah.

She has to scream the church down.

Yeah, probably.

She is an amazing, wonderful woman, as are you.

And we're so happy that you came to see if you can get a copy of Gina's book, dying of politeness anywhere.

Stick around, we'll be right back with you.