i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley for sandyha patel, chris alvarez, all of us. we appreciate your time right now on jimmy kimmel, conan o'brien and regé-jean >> lou: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- conan o'brien and rege-jean page. with cleto and the cletones. and now, jimmy kimmel!

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you. very nice. hi, everyone. guillermo. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. [ cheers and applause ] thank you for watching. thank you for joining us here on what was a beautiful day in hollywood, california. i don't know if you're aware of this. maybe you saw this when you were lined up outside. hundreds of people are hard at work setting up the oscars, which happen on sunday right across the street. we have a special guest tonight. joining our show, for the first time ever, one of the all-time television greats. a man who goes by any names "the irish beanstalk." [ laughter ] "the jolly ginger giant." "the albino rhino." the host of the oscars conan o'brien is here with us. [ cheers and applause ] now, that's the good news.

the bad news is i'm looking for a new place to buy yarn. [ laughter ] because after 82 years, the knit has hit the fan. jo-ann, the store your mother has loved since before she even loved you -- [ laughter ] the store where your grandma bought the needles to crochet your little booties and that hat you wore one time -- is going out of business. [ audience moaning ] they're shutting down 800 -- i'll give you a few moments of silence for prayer or reflection. i have to say i know why they closed. and it's not because of the internet. everybody's saying it's because of the internet. the reason they're closing jo-ann is because they named their store "jo-ann." [ laughter ] it used to be jo-ann fabrics but some genius was like "well, we have more than just fabrics. we've got glue guns. we've got ribbon. we have buttons. maybe we should just go as jo-ann?" and no one raised their hand and said that's a terrible idea. [ laughter ] it's confusing. jo-ann is my aunt's name. you tell me, "i'm going to joann" i say "oh, say hello to uncle tony." [ laughter ] you can't change the name of a

store to jo-ann! it could be joann, joann michael's isn't "michael j it's "michael's." and guess what, still open. [ cheers and applause ] that's right. and i'm going to tell you something. right now, michael's at home laughing his ass off at joann. [ laughter ] i love that store. even though i never went in it, i loved that store. [ laughter ] and while jo-ann may soon be gone, all the weird stuff we bought there will live in our hearts and boxes in the closet forever. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: so many gnomes. so many gnomes in our homes. well, you know what they say, when a jo-ann closes, a spirit halloween opens its doors. [ laughter ] in happier news, guess what is coming back? the fyre festival! the disastrous music and lifestyle fyre festival that happened back in 2017 that was such an epic mess, it inspired not one but two documentaries about what an epic mess it was. it's coming back. the guy who ran it went to prison, but you know what they say. "if at first you strand hundreds of people on an island with no food or water, try, try again." [ laughter ] >> tickets on sale today range in price from $1,400 to $1.1 million. an experience mac for land says includes yacht accommodations and access to artists performing, though no artists have been announced yet. >> we're going to have artists across electronic, hip-hop, pop,

and rock. we might have a professional skateboarder do a demonstration. we might have an mma champion teach you techniques in the morning. >> you say we might have. are any of these forsure haves? are they booked? >> what makes fyre so cool is we are selling the experience of fire. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: who wouldn't want the experience of fire? half the state of california had the experience of fire. [ audience moaning ] it wasn't great. >> mcfarland says he knows the experience might not be for everyone. is it a risk to buy a ticket to fyre festival 2? >> it's always a risk. you're taking a risk because i made a lot of bad decisions and messed up the first festival. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, when you put that it way, why not? [ laughter ] do you take discover card? i'd like to get the $1.1 million package. [ laughter ] that buy, billy mcfarland, he did four years for wire fraud, for bank fraud, for making false statements for law enforcement. how he's not a part of the trump administration already, i have no idea. [ cheers and applause ]

the whole country is a fyre festival right now and elon musk is soaking the mattresses. [ laughter ] it's so much worse than i think anyone even imagined it might be. elon and his musketeers sent an email to all federal employees ordering them to list five things they did at work last week. trump loved this idea and said it was genius. he said anyone who didn't respond to the email would be "fired or semi-fired." what if that was his catch phrase on "the apprentice"? "meatloaf, you're fired, or semi-fired!" [ laughter ] but then, just a few hours later, the office of personnel management said responding to the email was not mandatory, it was voluntary, and a number of trump's other departments, like the fbi, the justice department, the defense and state departments, specifically told their people, do not respond to this email. in other words, thank you, doge, our government is finally running efficiently. [ laughter ] so then today, with more than three million federal workers right now spinning in circles because they don't know what to

do, today our celebrity president made his plan perfectly clear. >> can you clarify, hopefully once and for all, what your expectations are with this email to federal employees? what are you going to use that information for, and do you see it as voluntary, like opm has said, or mandatory? >> well, it's somewhat voluntary. but it's also, if you don't answer, i guess you get fired. what it really is -- what it is, is do people exist? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: okay. now i understand. it's somewhat voluntary, but if you don't respond, he guesses you get fired. thanks for clearing that up. i think it might be time to give the planet to the apes. because we're finished. [ applause ] these poor federal workers, i mean, really, can you imagine? these federal workers are is confused as elon musk's kids were when they realized their father named them after a phone number. [ laughter ] and maybe the craziest part of all of it is elon musk has no official authority to fire anyone. he's not an elected official. he wasn't appointed, he wasn't confirmed. who knew you could fire people at a place you don't even work?

[ laughter ] i might try it a the chipotle sometime just to see what happens. [ laughter ] and then, because there isn't enough dumb happening, we have the klan mom, marjorie taylor greene, who doesn't seem to think federal workers have any value tail. >> those are not real jobs producing federal revenue. those jobs are paid for by the american tax people. federal employees do not deserve their jobs. federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. >> jimmy: wait. aren't you a federal employee? [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] you're a congressperson. i got to tell you something. i can't believe kermit the frog goes out with her. [ laughter ] thousands of employees have been let go at national parks. thousands of park rangers have been laid off or resigned in protest. you know how smokey bear says "only you can prevent forest fires"? it's about to be true. [ laughter ] they're firing cia agents, fbi, the va, the cdc, scientists

working on the bird flu, which could soon be a pandemic, are losing their jobs. but trump's flying monkeys are all in. they love this so much. in florida, governor ron desantis held a press conference to announce he is forming his own doge task force on a state level, and also, he wanted to do this weird thing to his face. >> okay, do we have any questions? yes? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. i have a question. could we see that again, but slower this time? [ laughter ] he goes for the nose once, twice. then for the lips. and then a swipe of the dimple. and down into the pants. that's right. as if florida wasn't gross enough. [ applause ] trying to tell somebody to steal second or something. [ laughter ] we've gotten very relaxed since covid. when covid showed up we stopped even shaking hands, but as soon

as it died down we went right back to creaming our germs all over each other again. which is not good. it's a bad thing. and it's the reason why i've been working to develop a product that i believe will save millions if not hundreds of lives. i call it "hand mask." i'll show you how it works. guillermo? all right, you just put it on. [ cheers and applause ] simple. look at how healthy he is. hand mask protects your hand, and any hand you touch, by shielding it so that germs never come into contact with your body. genius, you say? well, i'm flattered and i couldn't agree more. [ laughter ] hello, it's me, your favorite television celebrity. and i am so proud to be partnering with my friend, lee greenwood, to bring you my newest and greatest product yet. hand mask. this is the most important

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>> hand mask. >> i never take mine off. >> me neither. >> hand mask. >> wait, aren't these just gloves? >> oh, ah, ah! >> jimmy: kick him. >> oh, oh! ah, ah! >> jimmy: greet the world with the confidence of knowing that disease and pestilence are a thing of the past. thanks to hand mask. to get yours, go to two ks, copp. the extra "confirm" is for kimmel. >> hand mask does not protect against disease. >> jimmy: no, it does. >> it doesn't. use handmaskk at your own risk. >> available at walgreens. >> jimmy: i accept your nobel prize, thank you. we have a very good show for you tonight. rege-jean page is here and we'll be right back with conan o'brien.

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: hi there. welcome back to the show. tonight, you know him from "bridgerton." his new movie is called "black bag." rege-jean page is with us. [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night -- we'll be here tomorrow too. mindy kaling and natasha rothwell, who you know from "the white lotus," will join us, with music from soccer mommy. so please join us for that. our first guest literally threw down his top hat and cane to stop rehearsal and walk across the street to be here with us. he is host of the oscars live this sunday on abc and hulu. please say hello to conan o'brien.

[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> yeah! >> jimmy: how are you? >> wow! [ cheers and applause ] [ audience chanting conan ] >> let's not do that. that sounds angry. [ laughter ] there's a real hostility to that. conan, conan! you know what you did! [ laughter ] >> jimmy: thank you for coming. >> how are you, sir? >> jimmy: i'm doing well. i appreciate you doing that. >> i appreciate you inviting me, thank you. >> jimmy: did you walk across the street? >> i was across the street at the dolby theatre preparing for the oscars. and then i said, hey, it's time to go see my good pal, jimmy kimmel. [ cheers and applause ]

i crossed the street. encounter like nine spider-men. [ laughter ] with fanny packs. [ laughter ] paid them all generously. and then made my way in here. >> jimmy: how's it going over there? think it's going well? >> well -- ha ha ha ha ha hah! i made a mistake! [ laughter ] no, we're going to have a great show. we're going to have a great time. things for me, you know, come together very late. so i started working on the oscars about four hours ago. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: hey, that's enough. >> i'm going to pull an all-nighter, ladies and gentlemen. [ laughter ] no, we've been working hard. i think we have fun ideas. there's great surprises. >> jimmy: excellent. >>ment i owe this gentleman thanks. >> jimmy: what? >> one of the first calls i got after agreeing to host the oscars was from jimmy kimmel. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's right.

>> yeah. and i didn't pick up because i have caller i.d. [ laughter ] but then i thought about it and i called you back. >> jimmy: that was nice, i appreciate it. >> you were very nice. you said, "i've hosted this several times," and i think beautifully. and you said, "i will give you some tips along with my wife molly, who has produced the show." and i said, yeah. so we met at a restaurant. >> jimmy: uh-huh? >> and you and molly could not have been more gracious. they gave me all these great tips. they just -- >> jimmy: dumb tips. like, i would never be so -- i would not give you tips on jokes or any of that stuff. >> no. >> jimmy: i would never do anything like that. >> no, no. >> jimmy: but i did have some old man tips like, try to sit down during the show. [ laughter ] which is one of my tips. >> jimmy is obsessed with sitting down as much as possible. [ laughter ] and his tips kept going back to, try and sit down! [ laughter ]

if you can do the joke sitting down, do them sitting down! what are you, franklin roosevelt? relax, buddy. >> jimmy: whose tips were more helpful, mine or mollys? >> molly, molly. molly is very smart. she clearly pays attention. she had all these very specific, great tips. i mean, she's beautiful, she's smart, she had all these -- she just really knows the show. this guy was obsessed with ordering appetizers. [ laughter ] and we chose like a nice restaurant. you chose a nice restaurant, i paid. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: the tips ain't free. [ laughter ] >> didn't even make a move for his credit card. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i didn't even bring it. >> no, it was one of those i said, "well, oh, the bill is here, so --" and your hands -- [ laughter ] you put your hands up like, i can't move these. [ laughter ]

>> jimmy: can i be honest? i was hoping you'd pay for the valet. [ laughter ] >> yeah, i tried. the valet knows your reputation. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it was nice, though, to spend time. >> it was really nice to hang out. i've never seen a man order more shrimp or even more shrimp. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i get paid in slirch here. i'm like a squid or a flamingo. it's why i'm so pink. >> you were tossing it in the air, rrr, rrr, rrr! well, molly is giving me amazing advice on how to host the oscars. >> jimmy: that's right. >> while you were a complete waste of time. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, i know, i know. next year, just you and molly, maybe. >> exactly. >> jimmy: have you watched all the movies that were nominated? >> i told "people" magazine i've watched all 35. [ laughter ] and that's in print. what about you, generally? do you watch them all? >> jimmy: usually i try to watch -- yeah, i -- i watch them -- well, you know. some of them, no. some of them, if you know they're not -- they don't have a chance or nobody saw them.

i didn't watch them. >> first of all -- >> jimmy: you think there are some that have a chance? [ laughter ] >> first of all, let me make something clear. when we were coming along as young people, there were five movies nominated. then they expanded it to 45 movies. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, there's a lot. >> then 75, now 110. and so it's -- you've got to watch a lot of movies. i have seen all the movies. [ laughter ] i've watched a lot of the movies. >> jimmy: it becomes almost unpleasant, which is a weird feeling to have when you're sitting down to watch a movie. oh, i have to watch this movie. no one else has that in their lives. >> the worst experience i had in my life with movies was quentin tarantino was coming on. it was a booking i didn't know about. and this is a bunch of years ago. and he's my favorite filmmaker. and they say, "oh, and you have to watch his movie." i get to work that day. "oh, he has a movie."

"wait, no one told me he was coming on, what's the movie?" "inglorious basterds." i love that movie. "he's going to be here in an hour, watch it really fast!" [ laughter ] it's like copeland's coming. have you seen "the godfather"? 92? watch them really fast! fast! [ laughter ] it was awful. it was like the greatest meal in your life, and i had to eat it at high speed. >> jimmy: you mean to tell me and america that quentin tarantino was coming on the show and you didn't know he'd made a movie that he was going to promote? >> i'm just saying -- [ laughter ] that i have terrible people working for me. [ laughter ] and then i get here at the kimmel show. you guys are fantastic. >> jimmy: yeah. >> i mean, everyone. [ cheers and applause ] this place. look at this band.

that's a band. i had a bunch of people just banging on -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that is not true. >> unbelievable. >> jimmy: you know, i had a quentin tarantino incident as well. >> we'ved a had a quentin tarantino incident. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: we had a screen of "kill bill." we took the whole audience to see the movie after shoate. you know, i watched the movie. when i came out of the theater, he was sitting there, outside the theater, waiting to see if i got up and left early. and thank god i didn't. he was hoping to catch me leaving early. >> well, that's a great movie. so of course you didn't. i'm very glad that that's not the policy of most filmmakers. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, no, it would be a weird thing. >> that would be a very bad thing. >> jimmy: i was excited to hear you were going to be in a movie. and like a dramatic film, correct? >> yeah, yeah, pornography wasn't working. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it is called -- "if i had legs, i would kick you." >> yeah.

what happened was, i was approached -- it's an a-24 film. >> jimmy: oh, wow. >> and i got a call from adam sandler. "buddy, buddy!" and he said, the people at a i've 24 -- because he's done a lot of work with them. they want that to have know if they can send you a script. and i said, i guess so. and he went, "you're damn right, buddy." [ laughter ] like, don't be stupid. they sent me a script. it's by mary bronstein. i read the script. i was riveted. i looked at the part. it's a dramatic part. it is not something i would have sought. i am not looking to be an actor. i don't want to do that to america. [ laughter ] trust me. this is not on my bucket list. but -- and so i met with mary, and i tried -- i think i tried to talk her out of it. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and she said no. she was very persuasive.

so i said, i'll give it a shot. the movie stars rose byrne. and getting to work with rose byrne was a religious experience. she is so phenomenally good. she's absolutely mind-blowing. the film has since gone to sundance, to berlin. it's getting these crazy reviews. >> jimmy: oh, really? wow. >> and it's all -- trust me, it is all rose byrne and the work of mary bronstein. these two women are spectacular. and i think rose gives this insane, crazy performance. and then i'm there, but i think not in a -- if you can believe it, not in a distracting way. [ laughter ] and i think it's like the fit's creed is, do no harm. i think i did no harm. [ laughter ] yeah, it's just -- was just a nice thing. >> jimmy: were you at all concerned you might be disqualified from hosting the oscars next year if you are nominated for an oscar next year as a result of this? >> don't think that's going to

be a problem. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: wow. >> very different. so no, that's not going to be an issue. but it was -- i have, you know -- i wrapped up my late-night show a couple years ago, three years ago, i think. i just decided -- i loved doing it. and i can tell you love doing it. it was a dream. i got to do exactly what i wanted to do for a long time. when it ended, i was done. and i thought, now i want to just try things that scare me. if it scares me, i think i should do it. so i shot myself in the leg. [ laughter ] which i don't advise. >> jimmy: it hurts, right? >> it's very painful. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> just don't do it. it's stupid. >> jimmy: what other things have you done that scare you? >> i -- you know, i hack around as a guitarist. >> jimmy: right. >> and i like -- music is a fun part of my life on the side. so, through someone who works for you, who worked for me for a long time, jim pitt, this opportunity came up to kind of host and front a section of the

newport folk festival. so i did that last summer, and i was terrified. and i brought big acts out there. i played. they played with me. i played with them. >> jimmy: did you sing as well? >> i did sing. >> jimmy: wow. >> people -- good thing about newport is that you can swim away. [ laughter ] many people took to the water and swam. but i have a certain register, and if i stay in there, legally it doesn't set a problem. >> jimmy: nice. >> but when they came and told me, it's time for you to go, conan, i felt like i was being led to my death. i was that scared. and i haven't been that scared in a long time. and i felt that scared going onto a movie set and being in the same room and having scenes with rose byrne. i'm sure i'll have a dose of that coming up in a couple of nights.

and i just have a little bit of a, you know -- i'm 61 years old. i've had -- been very -- >> jimmy: a lot of surgery. >> i've had a lot of surgery. [ laughter ] trust my, i'm going to watch this back tonight and go, it's time for surgery. [ laughter ] ? no, you look good. you look smooth. >> marty short, both of our favorite people of all-time, marty short, one of my favorite insults he does about me, "conan, my boy, i want to say you look great. however, whatever you're having done, whatever you're having done, i say, 20% more and then stop." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: conan o'brien is here. we'll be right back.

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hi, i'm conan o'brien, and we're here with kate o'brien. i understand you're on the softball team, freshman year in high school? >> yeah, i was. i was out there in the outfield, left, center, you know, the whole bit. >> what do you consider your specialty in the field? >> just about everything. >> i hear you're pretty good? >> oh, a lot of people have heard that, you know. >> they've heard it mostly from you, i hear. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: look at that kid. he's hosting the oscars. that's conan o'brien and your sister, right? >> that's my sister, kate. hi, kate. love you. yeah, kate -- it's just funny. that video surfaced awhile ago. and i didn't think i had a boston accent. then you look at it there. i'm like a news boy from the

1930s. [ laughter ] "hey, kate, what's going on there, kate, heard it from you." [ laughter ] "you want to get a paper?" it's funny, because i -- i look at that and i think, even then, i was trying to work out this thing. i mean, i don't know what -- if you thought about this. but i was as far from show business as you could be, living in brookline, massachusetts. my dad's a scientist, my mom's a lawyer. nobody -- there was no show business around. >> jimmy: right, yeah. >> but even then i was like, "i better go practice my interviewing skills." [ laughter ] "hey, kate." >> jimmy: yeah, just taping everything. >> yeah. >> jimmy: everything is like a little show or a fake commercial or something like that. >> yeah, i wrote goofy plays that went nowhere. i remembered asking my parents, can i have tap dancing lessons? they were like, what? [ laughter ]

it's 1973. in, like, boston. depressing boston. >> jimmy: i've always thought of you as a young gregory hines. [ laughter ] >> i know, i get that a lot, yeah. >> jimmy: bob newhart passed away last year. i know you were very close to bob. and in fact, i'm very proud of this. i took a picture of you. >> oh. >> jimmy: three comedy legends here. [ applause ] bob, conan, and eric. it was at your house. weird thing. it was not christmas. [ laughter ] >> i know. >> jimmy: tree up for no reason. >> it's so weird. that was -- i, you know, have this christmas party every year. and you and molly have come several times. and it's bob -- i remember inviting bob newhart, bob and ginni, his wife, thing, well, they won't come. then he came to the party. and i was just nervous the whole time. >> jimmy: were you? >> i was. because it's bob newhart. and what -- what's -- a

phenomenon that i've noticed is that if you grew up watching someone on tv and they were special to you, they become -- they're godlike. then you meet super-famous people your age later in life. they can't resonate with you the same way. >> jimmy: right. >> you know what i mean? >> jimmy: same with athletes, too. >> some of the biggest stars in the world, best athletes in the world. but i still think about the 1975 boston red sox. i still think about bob newhart and what he meant to me. his records, his show. so he and ginni would come to that party, and it was really incredibly meaningful to me to get to know him. and he was -- and you were there when he was there. >> jimmy: bob's family asked you to speak at his funeral service, correct? >> yeah. and -- they asked me to speak at his funeral, which you need to know, in case anyone's not familiar, bob newhart was famous for doing a telephone bit.

it's how his career really started. you'd just hear his part of the conversation on the phone. "hello? oh, yes, mr. lincoln?" it would be lincoln's publicist. you could tell lincoln's another other end of the line. you'd just hear bob, but he was very famous for this telephone bit. so the newhart family sweetly said, would you speak at bob's funeral? and i said, i'd be honored to do that. i was real nervous. i'm working on what i'm going to say. and i get this call. and the call is from -- they say -- i won't say his actual name. but it's father mcguire on the phone. father mcguire would like to speak to you. and i was raised very catholic. and father mcguire's the one who's going to be giving the service. for bob. and i think, oh, my god, okay, wow, okay. well, he's probably going to want to talk to me about what the readings are going to be, what the themes are going to be, and is it new testament, are they going to be talking about letters from luke to the

ecclestisians? i got on the phone. "hello, father, this is conan o'brien, father. father, how can i help you, please tell me how i can help you." this is what the priest said. "yeah, um, i'm going on be you." [ laughter ] "and i'm doing a telephone bit." [ laughter and applause ] "and i want to make sure there's no bumpage." bumpage is a word only people in comedy use. >> jimmy: i've never even heard it. >> you haven't, okay. bumpage is like, we just want to make sure that doesn't knock up against each other. like, you know, if i'm going to go on and jimmy's going first, he's going to do this joke, i find out, so i don't do that joke so we don't bump into each other. "you doing that telephone bit?" "no, i wasn't going to." "good, because i'm doing a telephone bit." [ laughter ] "i've got a fake phone and everything, it's going to be killer." [ applause ]

and he did it and it was funny. >> jimmy: wow. >> bob would have loved it. >> jimmy: bob would have loved it. that's a lot to put -- to know that you have to sum up what bob meant to you in that short period of time. >> i've given a few eulogies, and i find them to be more pressure than anything. >> jimmy: yeah. >> because it's, you know -- it's a moment, and it might be -- it's the last or the final summation. and so it is -- as tough as show business can be and comedy can be, when someone said would you do a eulogy, i start to sweat. >> jimmy: yeah. >> it's tough. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. >> so i ask everyone around me not to die. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. that's fair. i think that's very fair. >> yeah. and i yell it at them sometimes. and i yell it at very old people. "don't die!" [ laughter ] sometimes it's counterproductive. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you've got a tuxedo? >> i have a text pseudo. i'm going to change outfits 15

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>> jimmy: you know our next guest from the wildly popular first season of "bridgerton." his new movie with cate blanchett and michael fassbender is called "black bag," it opens in theaters march 14th. please welcome rege-jean page. [ cheers and applause ] ♪

[ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thanks for coming. wow, you really are handsome. [ laughter ] >> trying to keep up. >> jimmy: your name is really a great name. i mean, it's almost like you were destined to be a famous person, right? >> i -- i do my best. >> jimmy: when you have a name like rege, is that correct? you have to smoke weed with a name like that? [ laughter ] >> i do my best to break the stereotype. >> jimmy: you do, okay, very good. did your teachers ever get it exactly right when you were in school on that first day? >> the pronunciation of the name? not once. i'd respond to anything that begins with an "r." like roger. gregory. doesn't begin with an "r."

anything with vaguely ly "r" it. >> jimmy: did you meet conan backstage? >> no. >> jimmy: he went right back across the street. [ laughter ] will you watch the oscars? i know you're from london. >> i never have the same tradition, but i have friends who throw oscar parties every year. i know how big a deal it is. i'm looking forward to it. >> jimmy: so you will watch the show? >> yeah, i'll watch the show. >> jimmy: i have a photograph of you at the emmys. this is 2021. >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: there's you. josh o'connor and sterling k. brown. [ cheers and applause ] and you are -- you're giving an eye test? what's going on here? [ laughter ] >> no, that is a picture of true brotherhood and support there. you know how everyone think is it's competitive, you've got to sit there when someone else wins, rrr. it's kind of the opposite. we were all nominated this year, and josh won. somewhere along the line, josh stuck himself in the head with that incredibly dangerous and sharp award. he's leaking out of his

forehead. >> jimmy: he's bleeding? >> he's fully bleeding. he's bleeding out. there's someone taking pictures. it's his big day, he's got to look good with the award. i'm a concerned auntie. >> jimmy: you're concerned and sterling is not. [ laughter ] >> sterling is like, yeah, i'm glad i didn't win that emmy. >> sterling is joyful for his brother. >> jimmy: now he's blind. he's got a statue, but he's blind in one eye. >> everyone says when they win, oh, my god, this thing's heavy. but no one ever listens. blunt force trauma waiting to happen. >> jimmy: they say it is the most deadly of all the showbiz trophies, the emmy. >> have you seen the tusks on that thing? >> jimmy: a lot of people have been killed. so i mentioned that you're from london. did you move straight to l.a. to get into acting? >> no, no. i came the long way round. i came to the states before i finished training. i did three years of training at a consider tore. i'm probably going to spend my life pretending to be you guys, being americans, this is where the industry is. i went to new york with no

money. couch surfed a couple of weeks. watched people, trying out accents, ordering coffees. >> jimmy: what does that mean? talking to new yorkers like a new yorker? >> yeah, listen to people. like order a coffee. east coast coffee, as opposed to coffee over here on the west coast. you'd work your way up. so i went to chicago for awhile. i ran out of couches in new york. i got the greyhound. you meet humanity on the greyhound. [ laughter ] by wait. >> jimmy: you took it -- where did you go, new york to chicago? >> chicago, somebody had a couch for me to sleep on in chicago. why not? how far can it be? i'm from a tiny island. scotland's eight hours away, chicago was further than that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you stayed in america after that. >>? yep. i stayed. i survived. because i tried out the accent on that ride. the first time a guy asked me for the time in the queue for the bus. "3:30, don't worry about it, i'm a new yorker." it's great. i survived, didn't question me,

got on the bus, sitting next to each other the next 16 hours. [ laughter ] i'm building a character and a legend. "oh, yeah, i grew up in wisconsin but my dad's from london if my accent's weird, so don't worry about it." [ laughter ] he's an ex-serviceman. please don't kill me if you find out i've been lying to you. >> jimmy: that's the least weird thing that would happen on a greyhound bus. [ laughter ] i went from vegas to new york and back again like nine different times, no, ten different times. yeah, it can be sketchy. i'm really -- >> it's great stuff for an actor because you want to see the most interesting people you can find, steal it, and put it on screen. >> jimmy: is it just the big cities? or do you -- did you work on southern accents? >> my first job, we were shooting in louisiana. i was on plantations on louisiana in three months shooting "roots" in 2015. so i was doing south carolina. i learned to do that because i would not order coffee. "oh, my god, he black and he british, come over here!

say strawberry, say banana!" [ laughter ] i walk into starbucks. "may i have a latte, please?" it draws too much attention. >> jimmy: maybe ebb you can work with guillermo on his accent. put you on a bus, you'd be fine. >> guillermo: we'll do it together. >> yeah, we'll get together. >> jimmy: what is the hardest american accent for you? >> i dread the day that i get the fargo call. minnesota is terrifying. >> jimmy: really? >> terrifying. minnesota, chicago, boston. all those particularly specific ones that you can't just cheat. >> jimmy: yeah, boston they'll kill you if you get it wrong. [ laughter ] >> yeah, they don't mess around. >> jimmy: yeah, no, they will not pretend it was good. >> no. they don't do pretending. if i ever pretending to boston, i'm not doing that one hardcore. >> jimmy: this movie you're in is directed by steven soderbergh, one of the great directors. claitt blanchett is in the film. michael fassbender is in the film. pierce brass than. all very good-looking people in the film.

>> very talented people. >> jimmy: talented people, but more importantly -- [ laughter ] attractive people. >> i forgot. >> jimmy: i mean, is that a strange -- like oh, man, ten years ago i'm on a greyhound bus, and here i am? >> that's the goal. that's why i was on the greyhound bus, you know? >> jimmy: look at that, your dream came true. >> everything. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's good, right? rege-jean page. "black bag" is his movie it opens in theaters march 14th. thank you for being with us. we'll be right back.

>> jimmy: well, that's it. we did everything we could. thanks s s to rege-jean page. i apologize to matt damon. we ran out of time for him tonight. "nightline" is next. thanks for watching, good night! night. karen reed back in court accused of murdering her police officer boyfriend with her suv