larry king now you're a writer director lake bell i was an actress who was a closet writer who aspired to be a director so then we all mixed it all up four years ago you said i don't find it hard to make a film because i am a woman if you happen to have a vagina that's ok. you said that you say it better than. before i had kids i would be like i'm all work all the time but now my biggest challenge is. being. not just a mom but like a puppy one costs. ok so i mean. with.

father. yeah i've never like i can say like that like i don't really know what it means you know all next on larry king. will go to larry king our special guest is lake bell actor director and writer you know her from how to make it in america children's hospital wet hot american summer and it's complicated like stars in the home again opposite reese witherspoon that's in theaters september shop color in select theaters now and she wrote directed and stars in i do until i don't do that helms very steam burgeon amber heard in paul riser that's in select theaters september first of the night you not busy. so what comes first oh you're a writer director actor what. i will say i. i'm

a mom for correct which is a think i know is like the right answer but it i do mean it i think before i had kids i would be like i'm all work all the time you know but now my biggest challenge is managing being not just a mom but like oh good one like a pretty good if you just said one profession what would it be. i feel like i have the privilege to do all of them so i'm going to say all of you like them all equally yes i think because you can tell the stories sort of multi did in multi dimensional fashion that is what makes it really sexy and really fulfilling do you therefore take direction will i do i do and in order to learn i think how to give direction while you have to know how to also ingest tell me about i do until i don't know what it's about it's about marriage topic. yeah i it's a topic that i needed to investigate because initially when i started writing the

movie i came out from a pretty jaded and cynical point of view you know there's a myriad of divorces in my my life. certainly early on i was part of a divorce my parents and so when i was growing up i was thinking. i feel like there's a problem with the system here potentially it's just archaic at this point the concept is do we split after seven years she was that well it's all in the movie actually follows three different couples all the different times in their relationship and different types of relationships and it's all through the lens of the sort of pretentious documentarian who sort of descends her sort of big world politics and concepts onto a small town and she is trying to prove her thesis that marriage should be a seven year contract with an option to renew seven year itch yeah. you. right to

do so i did the second album so yeah i i i do enjoy doing that and that's hard because you know i think some people get squeamish seeing their their performances but i just never had that saying i did another movie called in a world that was the first time i had directed myself and it was like groove you think you know a version of that and it was it was i wasn't sure if it would work that i could direct myself but in the end i was just kind of like you just remain objective it's a clip from i do to i don't you know know when i have been approached to participate in this sort of on guard documentary study on marriage does anybody want to refill we have yes it's this award winning british filmmaker who's holding the piece and i just couldn't turn down the opportunity to support her to stick vision over doing that to you know i don't think it's probably a different thing because i don't know what you guys are talking about i haven't heard about this yet yeah i have to later she came by the workshop and she begged

us to do would because of our own religious you know what was going to happen on him her love you know it was getting you know you kidding it is hard and heavy on her deck and he was ready to protect yes yes well right vivian when did she know when when did this come about no no i haven't heard why did she go i think i deserve to know whatever guard of sex games you sign does not want that's not something on a card i mean but i can actually i can totally see where you think that's what's made you know what's great is that we're all going to do it and we're talking about sex no no i'm talking about sex you're the only one who brought sex into it it's not like that. it's funny because of all riser news and mary steenburgen the cast is is awesome i feel really lucky that. it's interesting this clip it's sort of it's when. alice who my character she sort of apologetic in the space she. takes up

in the world she's sort of repressed and her very sexual and open sister fanny is quite free and this is the first time that she sort of had something she gets to be a part of this documentary enough not a lot of really cool things come to vero beach that she's very excited about it and then she finds out that are her sisters in fact doing it too and there's a lot of jealousy between so your first film called in a world yes a star the terrific movie critic of the new york times called it's more generous than all together winning debut feature with the person blend of diffidence goofiness and charm without much that thrilled you that good that that was framed out that was that was a framer that i have to say i was i was definitely. pretty flat or why did you said this movie in which my vera beaches i have a thing with florida i love it and when i was about twelve my mom moved to florida

with my stepfather and he wanted to open up. a wine company there and he had had this memory of it being really dear to him because vero beach was really big in its heyday was or then it was for the dodgers great for the dodgers spring training in fifty's and sixty's and so i guess i just have this affection for of beach and it is the hub of some really interesting cultural events so for instance there's a windsor. polo club there where prince charles frequents he you know there's so you got prince charles a guy like darryl strawberry occasionally back in the day and you get interested in the late school yeah there's just it's very tiny but it's of note chris who then wrote and directed writer who then i did or we would direct. i i was an actress who was a closet writer. who aspired to be

a director so then we all mixed it all up ocean first film breakers and actors i don't know which one is a break i feel like i've been a slow steady of like keepin steps taken steps up to figure when we noticed she was the most street movie it's complicated i feel like what happens in vegas was the first like big movie that i did which was a camera and isn't ashton kutcher and rob corder e and that was like you know the first time i had been on a really big movie set and i'd done little indies and i'd done t.v. do you regard reviews of you do work didn't do for me than acting and i try i try incredibly hard to not look up because they don't think. i only look at them if they're good about that because i think there was a path to darkness four years ago you said i don't find it hard to make a film because i am a woman i think if you have a movie to make make it if you happen to have a vagina that's ok she'll make it better that you care or you should that you say

it better than. i like. while some of the john it's ok let's talk about. but why do women get this is such a small percentage of effect we have a quote. women made up of seven percent of all directors of the top two hundred fifty films that's a two percent decline from twenty fifteen according to san diego state center for the study of women in television i think i think that there will always be. a discrepancy mainly because if we just think about just a pool of directors and half of them are women and then half of those female directors are moms those directors those female directors that are also moms will not be able to make be as prolific and make as many movies in the year so already it's just in its inherent to i think being that's what i find most difficult to

kind of understand but are logical yeah i know like a blockbuster that might take two years to make i just think honestly what needs to change is the i think the kind of. how it's couched in society globally great like to be a mom it just means you just have to have child care and the appropriate functioning system on set like why can't they just be a part of the set you know or because when i think about making my next picture i am i'm not going to not make that movie because i now have a three month old and a two and a half year old i want them to see me continue to attack my dreams and i need to be happy in order for the whole home to be happy in the same way that my husband has to do the same would you like to do a mammoth movie i my next picture is a much much bigger movie but it's not a studio picture that's like

a well financially independent exactly but i would very much like to do you know if it desires of the caribbean yeah. i mean this is a pitch because i mean what's one of the would be you know as soon as i know people with autism people between you and me i feel like we don't think judd katzenberg. for it i'm so glad that that is done we have to ask you i have jewish food jewish ok so only the good half jewish on what side. which side of the road father father that's way yeah i've never like i can say like but like i don't really know what it means you know when did you react harshly to charlottesville of course half of course i feel like i right now i'm having. with a lot of the country and the planet i'm having a lot of anxiety and there is tension in the air and honestly i feel

a little bit nervous i feel like there's very little that i can do but then i am reassured that the only thing i can do is put a kind spirit out there and in the art that i make so i do until they don't has inherently and so did so did in a world as an inherently kind spirit even if it's comedy and its message is it is hopeful and sweet at the end sure i do until i don't has kind of like you're thinking oh maybe it's going to be a little cynical but it's actually ultimately and this is not even a small spoiler but i want people to know that the experience of it and what i want to put out in the universe in a small fashion is is respect to. a partner and they're pro-marriage i am prime pro-marriage i'm pro commitment and pro relationship that everybody it deserves a chance but usually you're nervous you have to be

a little nervous in the trump thing when someone of course i think show never know what's going up and next exactly i think the unpredictability and. you know even just as a mom you know it's like all i do every day is trying to make my children feel at ease with as much predictability as possible right and so for me as a citizen i do feel. and worry. mainly because i think there are so many people disgruntled at the same time and that cannot be a good thing you know boy or girl yet the girls older yes she is she said always name is always a good idea always good yeah good luck ozzie nelson yeah like ozzie . z. . i'm like i don't what i'm like i was like oh i don't want to give him any comparisons i mean i was ozzy in my mother's name is lake and my sister's in his

sister's name is nova nova yeah so we got it nobody likes to remember the locks i know what scotia coming up lake on merrill research on on merrill comma and her guilty pleasures more with the multi-talented leg belly up to the bit where the.

watch the hawks founded by three young americans who love their country but we have to costly question our government watching the hawks brings the stories the give voice to voice. we dig a little deeper we get the stories of the average one else is afraid to touch is afraid to talk about because they don't want to upset their corporate sponsors or interrupt their government access now is the time more than ever we need to question more. we're in this post truth world. words have to matter to about educating people and giving them contacts instead of telling them what to make dialogue is far more valuable than to be. back with lake bell she's got a lot of things going for the shot callers in select theaters home again opposite reese witherspoon september eighth and her own cell now i do until i don't look for

she will see lake bell everywhere this fall you were directed by nancy meyers and it's complicated meryl streep alec baldwin what makes nancy so good nancy and. i love nancy meyers and she's definitely somebody that i feel is influenced me i think to see her command. the epic set that she sort of inspires and invigorates like i think her power is very very cool and she. exactly there's a tone that's very specific that she had here is to introspect you had directed. i think truthfully the way i learned to direct is being on a myriad of sets and taking from all of the chapters i've ever worked with and i collect. little things and that's how i learned to play and then tiger mr meryl streep oh my gosh yet nancy has put me into situations

where i've played this sort of like my status yeah exactly i play a bitch really in man she's daughter of director yeah. yeah but nancy was one who called me and said howley and i want you to come and do this and i'll be good she's great yeah i mean. i've never seen a more tremendous relationship between mother and daughter in a creative fashion because that can be hard that can be you know i was allowed to work with meryl well as you said i had to be very high status with meryl and nancy actually had to pull me off the set and be likely you need to get it together because you're way too starstruck right now and what about. but wait let me answer about meryl because i just want to say that she was working with her was obviously a dream come true and she could not have been more humble area as an actress but

also moving in amazing and yeah i'll never forget it and riis. reese you know i'm friendly with reese and i feel like she is sort of the most deeply professional. sharp but just. she's just so damn good at her you know is lazy just like a racehorse you know. so i i was lucky to work with her as well you've had quite a career indeed just burgeoning we're going to play a little game of if you only knew ok you don't have to answer them are it was your childhood celebrity crush axl rose as a secret talent. used to be a champion at limbo a club that really you could go on to get like yeah persian you trade places with for a day. you me now this is kind of fun and i want to be i want to be full jewish i want to be able do you and i want to or suspenders. braces also you have been world

i'm every time i was with it listen i got to buy some after the shelf and still do pleasure croissants but in multiples multiples like i can't like the guilty part would probably be like for croissants people i fidget a lot less time you were starstruck. when i first walked in here but now i'm doing ok thank you best compliment you ever got. probably i would i was about to say i think you just read it out early her from any other job you ever had when i was a promotional model at a tech convention wearing silver. like robot outfits showing people where the toilets were sold the robot outfits showing people what it's how it was during college is going to favor advice or course on suffice it to be of ice to our let's go past something you wish you had better at patience

strangers fan encounter i don't have one i can't think of that you know i'm like the luxury you can't live without i have to have a myriad of very high quality. pillows like tiny pillows tiny pillow like small i mean from on the bed yet you know they're like the smaller ones that you use and then you can kind of put them over your head or you can put them under and that arrests them here i like a lot of pillows and if you like big fluffy pillows i like the smaller ones i'm just more these is my bridal yeah like down something along believed to be true but realize worsens well someone always told me when i first moved to l.a. that you take fountain you know that was like to be that's what's the big thing yeah like take down. from can get off the very top and. told me something people don't know about you. i'm a car afficionado i like cars a lot of favorite. beginning maybe but i like

a duck tomato as well won't get you into cars my dad is in race car driving and he has a collector and they're going there racetrack he did he own two terrorist tracks virginia international raceway not anymore but and new jersey motorsport park and so i always grew up being very good listening to those engines. does all of this as a character and i do until i don't who is heavily tattooed but is afraid of motorcycles. that's all it is. a husband is heavily tattooed my husband is tattooed from here to the toes you from out attractive. you know you never know who you're going to end up with and yes i was pretty sexy or does he do yes he's a tattoo artist and a fine artist so he he. you know it's he's the most gentlemanly man i've ever met in my life so it's funny it's he is very unexpected you sort of see

him and maybe be a little nervous. but he is just he's he's from the south is a gentleman how did you come up with the idea to have a tattoo guy who's afraid of morris said well you know obviously my husband did inspire a little bit of that said he's not he races them but. but that would have been too on the nose. that said. i thought it would be fun to have someone a little unexpected because i think that people do profile that if you have a slew of tattoos that you have to be some sort of like media has we on an h.b.o. show how to make it in america. they would often invite authentic new york characters to be on the show we're going to listen they were actors or not and my character gets a tattoo at one point in one episode and they were like let's get this really cool tattoo artist scott campbell like i'll sound like a good idea i don't know anything about to lose. so i met him in the makeup trailer

the morning he was shooting and i was like. you as your husband why he did this i mean yeah i mean we got we have gotten into it and incidentally i think. i think he has an amazing story his own stories incredible but he left home at like fifteen his mother passed away and you know when she passed away who she was kind of his super hero and. he always loved to draw he was just a real. talented he's like if i could just do that for the rest of my life i'd be happy and so he found a way to do that and and yes so he he he is that i'd say i'm a little biased but i would say he's the best in the world i don't even think that's both liberal social media questions jay fuller twenty three twenty six is there any any any hope that how to make it in america will make a comeback but i am not the creator of that show so i do not have any power about

that but you have a hope but i do also hope that we do a something just to kind of give people some closure because we didn't get to do that judge natalie wants to know what attracted you to no escape thriller with no emotion and pierce brosnan i would say because it's so entirely different than anything i've ever done because it was why old lee action packed thriller in thailand was shot and i thought well the whole point of doing this incredible job is to travel and try new experiences so that's what it was pierce brosnan's a great guy i became dear friends with and a very good actor very good actor solid strong handsome man no what makes you cry the most don't work hard american summer. on what americans i'm or it is just hard not to laugh because every single person involved is like a. torrent of force does steamrolling comedian so.

it's very very difficult but i think the hardest time to not crack up was doing the me and ken marino and david wain were doing like a sexual interaction of some sort but all wearing reason let's say there's and. you get it. and but we're all wearing masks of each other. and it's. really funny and i was pregnant so we know people don't know that that's some behind the scenes stuff but i did get pregnant from tell me about shot call and i should tell you you're opposite mccoll costa womble yes he was just who i am because i know you're. lucky great. man first of all i'm the only lead in this movie because it is just a lot of testosterone but it's a prison drama again not a comedy oh here he gets sent to prison he gets sent to prison car yeah he gets

under president is like any normal guy not a criminal a white supremacist out of purely survival because within the prison system i guess they're who do you play but his life. i don't like a prison guards only play as wife is. you know and other stuff too i mean obviously that's very sick but you know i'm i'm his it's very good you should say you have quite a life because you get to do the three things you love the thing you're a mother. but you get to write it to act good to direct and always want to do them all of them right yeah and i think it's nice to i mean not in a row i think what i like about making movies is that the way that it's built the path of it offers you many different flavors so well writing is sort of lonely and quiet and and personal you know it's there puget you know and then

as you start to produce the project and direct you know there are you know casting you start to build a team and you assemble your comrades assemble it gets bigger and bigger and then you know that you know then you're wearing sneakers because you've got to run around to get a fanny pack at things do you know it's exciting and then you know it just keeps going it keeps changing so they can. thanks thank you thank you for having me on the thank god yes lake bell i do until i don't get is in theaters september first again is in theaters september eighth and shop. for. will sell me on to the king's things and i'll see you next time.

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