Samantha Mathis on The Late Late Show (2007)

0:00 welcome back my filthy pigeons my next guy is a very lovely actress she's in a new film called a stranger's heart which is on saturday on the hallmark channel take a look at this i used to think of the light as you when i'd be in bed at night feeling scared i'd think you were looking in on me every once in a while i wasn't cut out for being the dad it was her figured i was your mom figured i could keep a watch over you keep you safe i knew something about that line of work she said you did keep me safe oh my god

0:51 samantha mathis everybody [Applause] [Music] that was very moving thank you it's a comedy obviously it yeah no actually it has a lot of light gallows humor i mean when you're uh waiting for a heart transplant um and it's as dark and and and sort of uh dire as it gets you gotta find the humor and so we did actually instill a lot of humor in the movie oh i'm sure yeah yeah absolutely yeah yeah i'm selling you yes no no no i believe so sorry about your uh you're running with the shrimp by the way

1:38 i had a run in with a turkey really turkey a turkey a thanksgiving turkey do it any other time who eats turkey any other time i mean i don't want to get all oprah on this but i don't want to you know what i mean yeah it's usually the thanksgiving thing have you have you indulged in many american thanksgivings yet oh yeah i've been here for 13 years 13 thanksgivings all right 13 plates of turkey but you haven't had a bad run in with the turkey yet not yet no no no it's not good no i'm guessing the the bird running is much the same as the seafood running it's uh yeah i managed to lose weight on thanksgiving oh yeah which is actually not not such a bad thing oh no i had a big weight watch this weekend myself so it's not all bad i still don't know [Laughter]

2:24 hey did you you made a film called jack and sarah years ago you remember that film that was directed by one of my very best friends oh was it tim sullivan in case you could say mr sullivan you know he's all right yeah he's a bit crotchety do you think that he's very kind of grumpy to him did you think yeah when you're working with him well it's been a few years now we're we're talking 1991. so how was that longer it was a few years ago oh yeah yeah it can't be that long ago sadly yeah you must have been like four in that movie that was an amazing experience for me because i i here i was i was so young i was in england working on a movie with ian mckellen judy dench eileen atkins richard uh richard e grant yeah and i'm playing the stupid american yeah so i found myself in a corner sort of like hi dame judy sir ian i will be the stupid american in

3:11 the corner doing my little acting thing yeah well it worked it's just that stephen fry said this about british actors though he thinks sometimes everybody thinks they're really good just because of the accent yeah it is important hello i'm just going to open the door it's not fair really you guys do sound more impressive with your accent even when i met tim's children isabelle izzy right yeah i'm sure she's like this now yeah she said hello do you want some tea yeah like oh my god you're smarter than me if she's four yeah yeah would you like some tea would you like to do some i don't do some physics is that the last time you were over there uh no i'm trying to remember the last time i was over there i think i was doing a mini series uh in prague and i went over in prague that sounds very nice i've never been to

3:58 prague it's beautiful is it where is it it's quite romantic is it really yeah maybe we should go all right i'm taking a red eye to new york in a couple of hours are you really well you mean they have red eyes half past one in the morning yes they do yeah yeah that's right private red eyes yeah yeah you can see the airport's just out that way somewhere you'll be all right you're going to new york yes i'm doing a bit more press for this right and then you're going to prague and then i'm going actually i'm going to new orleans for jazz fest this year oh nice do you like the jazz i love it i don't like jazz no too many people all playing a different tune at the same time drives me crazy you know all that we did you just stick to a few notes and play them again and

4:43 again that's what i like they have more than jazz at jazz fest they have rock and roll and they have blues and they have gospel they have tents they have tents for all different kinds of really and where will you be going will you be going to the gospel the gospel tent's pretty amazing it's all that you know praise jesus hallelujah absolutely absolutely it's very life-affirming yeah yes it is and then you've got the gospel and then you've got the the rock and roll what do you enjoy in the rock and roll well uh do you know the counting crows uh oh yes yeah they're my favorite [Applause] here's the thing they sang the song accidentally in love which is in shrek 2. yes and tim sullivan who wrote that movie jack and sarah that you were in i think wrote the script for shrek 3. did he really yeah good for him

5:29 yeah i know everything about show business apparently he might not have written this first directory i might just have made that up for my own designs but you're talking about strictly your shrek four he he's he's definitely working on something to do with shrek you're as they say a chancellor aren't you i am a chancellor yeah i am how am i doing yeah you're doing well i thought i was doing okay yeah so when you're down in new orleans how long are you going to be there because i can make it by the weekend where are you from are you from down that way uh no no my best friend from junior high moved down there out of high school so i started going a long time ago to jazz fest to hear him play and other friends play and but and i was born in new york and raised in california and here sometimes nice you've got the whole bicurious thing growing up by coastal that's what i meant yeah yeah

6:15 you might be projecting on the backyard yes it's just a little i was just kind of a hopeful yeah i uh i'm kid i'm kidding i'm not kidding i am kidding yeah i am kidding yeah so you live here in l.a now do you do the do you do the surfing and the uh i just started learning how to surf in the last year do you like it i love it it's fantastic i'm not so sure no it's not for you wait no did i hear you do yoga me yoga i've done a bit of yoga yeah once i'm doing it now actually are you really yeah just a little tiny bit you're impressive yeah well i have to after the weekend well surfing is sort of like yoga on a board yeah um it's fantastic yeah you're sort of in downward dog and then you get into warrior one take my word for it chancer he's a

7:01 chancellor yeah we gotta go over here thanks lovely talking about it yes sir everybody we were right back