he's talking at right oh there you go above it all. took me way more time and. mary. tyler if you are a person and you care about what you do you get more and more curious about how things are made. from being the person from the camera the camera out of the reason i mean x. and we can because we only had there was no way i was going to get to make a second movie that way and i just had to decide my life to go and what do i have to give up to get. the rigors of making a daytime show. is just too much it's not just about inclusion it's not just about numbers or ethnicity and diversity and perspective means of diversity and storytelling and if you notice but hollywood keeps telling the same stories over and over again we need fresh blood in this town we can't keep talking about it.

plus guilty pleasure cat and dog videos on the first floor and you just watch like too much c n n m s n b c a cabinet toilet it's a great relief all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king now. one of my favorite people the emmy award winning the host to media activist author and now director stars as llama and the hit f.x. animated series archer and his tara lewis on criminal minds which has its season premier supt on the twenty seventh on c.b.s. she hosts whose line is it anyway the c.w. and i.e. she has directed axis it premieres at the arc light in los angeles september twenty second and a landmark in new york september twenty ninth. why do with your day you do everything else. well

a mad thirst for power. you know i mean larry i think you know if you are a mood to be that person and you care about what you do you you get more and more curious about how things are made and you move from being the person for the camera to being the person behind the camera out of passion you know i think for me also i was a really nerdy little kid i loved the movie so much i used to do that thing i don't know kids do this anymore but you could buy a matinee ticket for a dollar fifty which tells you how old i am and then i would go to that first movie at like ten thirty and then i would just sneak into every movie theater in that place and watch will do a day out so i just i've always loved movies and dreamt about movie even wanted to be in movies and then realize oh you know if you if you have a passion for telling stories directing is the best way to really use that passion this is your feature film debut yeah as you come to the project. i was in ireland a couple of years ago shadowing a couple of t.v. shows that sheet over there a show called penny dreadful initial called vikings and i met some irish actors

while i was there and clued in one who asked me to direct a short film he had written and we did that together in two thousand and fourteen and it was a great experience and then he came to me with this feature script and i and i he's like i want you to read this movie i wrote i'm going to unfriend this guy how do you unfriend people in real life and i read it it was brilliant it was a brilliant first feature and it was different you know will be very explosive a close whole movie takes place in a car and when i hear action or so i think of germany and japan memorial with two men now and you know how old you are earlier that's about back well it's about this guy the movie is about an expatriate irish actor who has really he had a lot of success and then he screwed up his life and i think you see that hollywood a lot people get very successful and then they ruin everything and he's trying to turn his life back around and that's the access his life is turning on and access he's trying to use in the call if he's by himself. and all the conversations take place on the phone so this is a young guy who is trying to repair the relationship with his family that have been

damaged by his drug addiction he's trying to get it together with his girlfriend the people he works with and you do it all by phone you're directing him in a car in a car so we see him on the phone we see him on the other voices coming in over and everybody who lives in l.a. knows what it's like to spend an hour driving across town rolling phone calls i know you've done it the scene called you're directing a revelation in every way that's pretty flattering but what did you enjoy about it oh god everything telling a story making helping other people be great at their jobs i mean directing hardest part well is not the movie in seven days for two hundred fifty thousand dollars so i was just as one of the kids say nowadays lariam to teach you a new term i was sweating balls for an entire week and you said it's one of the best experiences of the life best experience of my life is the lack of female directors there are. i mean socially director in the male yeah socialization there

is a dearth of female actors and for me i just wanted to put my own skin in the game you know i could complain about it or i could do something about it so i put my body i'm in and that's what i did and look i want to say this about diversity in directing there's a lot of conversation about diversity in hollywood it's not just about inclusion it's not just about numbers or ethnicity a diversity of perspective means of diversity and storytelling and out if you notice but hollywood keeps telling the same stories over and over again we keep rebooting the same superhero franchise that we keep rebooting old television shows diversity background means you tell different stories and that's what we need in hollywood is different perspectives because we need fresh blood in this town we can't keep talking about a guy in a lycra suit over and over and over again the actors generally make good directors yes i think so because we care about actors and we know how to talk to them and i think we have a passion for what's going on out there but you also have to understand camera movement you know it's interesting the first time i directed a short film i remember being very nervous about whether i was going to figure all

that stuff out but when you sit in front of a camera for twenty years that stuff becomes second nature to you understand it because you've been on the other side of it for so long and also being a director is you don't have to know everything you hire smart capable people and then you let them do their job well so you're opening into theaters in new york them in l.a. now do you hope to see how do you expand from what i mean i think the first have been so yeah it's a little independent movie you know with unknown in the lead and we it's an art house movies so for me it's like opening these two theaters hopefully people see it they talk about it in the same way that a few people have already talked about it and it spreads from there but i really made this little movie with my friends to show people i could make a movie the fact that it's already won awards and got these great reviews is already more than i had hoped for in this film so it's a thrill so you're happy with the final product yeah i mean this was a little picture that i made in a week and i was just hoping to use it to show people that i could direct. bigger film that won the outstanding filming more than previous film festival it got named

best film at the festival at sarasota film festival then it got all these great reviews i mean this is like you made it a crappy ashtray and you know shop class and then the next day you know i don't know the president is ashen a cigar in it so it's a pretty dire ages this is shop class. tell the whole bit of it and i did what we were going to do that were yes i bet water. was jus leave the talk oh god. that's a really good question i mean i think i've been at the show for six years and you go and it's an hour live you go i loved it and i really wanted to be a director and i remember i had just finished access and i thought i want to set up my next movie and i'm going to try to go in and persuade people to give me money to make it and they're going to ask me when are you going to make this movie how are you going to make this movie the talks it's eleven months out of the year i'm on criminal minds at sheetz nine months out of the year they overlap so i literally the reason i made x. and weak is because a week was all i had there was no way i was going to get to make

a second movie that way and i just had to decide where i want my life to go and what do i have to give up to get there and sadly the rigors of making a daytime show day in and day out for eleven months a year it was just it was too much i wasn't you know sort of on the air i now sit on the air which you had told them before right that you had told them we'd been talking about it and i subtly told them the day before everybody knew everybody was left when in the way my last day on the show was august fourth but we'll be honest it over the summer i announced it when we made the decision which was in june and is that. not yet not yet because the day i left i immediately started prepping to direct kernel mines and now i'm promoting my movie so my days have been very full i miss my girlfriends but we talk and text and see each other all the time so his reduce said on the talk the reason this show works out here is because it works so beautifully when we're not on stage. meaning you're all good friends i mean that

was a show that was built on those friendships and i think that was the most painful part of leaving the show wasn't the hour on air it was the time that i had with those women office i've been on i love being on it it's a great show and i will son was office i remember i was there out of the i'm so into that yeah it was adorable you know i mean that place is a family and i hope when your guest you feel that ever your marriage you know it's going to and i'll probably always refer to that show as you know he would place share i don't know they haven't found anybody yet i'm going to are irreplaceable i might be a hard a hard person to replace larry but that's ok they're that show they know who they are and they know who will feel right in that space and they're going to take their time till they find the right person and in the meantime you know people get to go on and cast i'll probably go back and promote my movie there that's my home i think they'll book you yeah i think but we'll see if they take my calls. after twenty years you got two wars yeah no children no children what happened as i mean it's none of my business is a famous story it is couples married sixty years and they file for the war so the

judge says why when the man says enough is enough. it was not that in my case. i was with my ex-husband since i was a child and i was a teenager and i don't think at nineteen you can know you're going to be at twenty five or thirty five or forty five and one day you wake up and you realize you want different things out of your life and it wasn't a fight it was just a of sweet and painful parting of ways are friends very good friends and i hope that we always will be i mean i love that guy for half my age. wife i'm going to stop now ok what's it like to be single. you know i my life is really filled with work and whether that you don't work at night you know i like what i do i say work like seven days a week. you know larry you know this business is what you talk about your relationship and keep the cannibals to send so someday i'll probably be ready to talk about it but not you like being single it's different and i've never been

single i've never been single larry i went from high school to my college boyfriend to marriage so it's a different feeling and it's a little you know i get to where i want to get to watch what i want on t.v. yeah you always like to dip your hands and many things all right i mean you know you do that yeah i am i am i will i you have a problem probably my therapist would say i need to slow down but i'm only really happy when i have that kind of like adrenaline pennie taste of panic you know i mean that's what that feeling guy feel alive you know when i'm in a panic of the guilty pleasures secret talent central probably didn't go anywhere at all talking about. tackling it all with i should say i will be right back.

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into politics as much as the you know it did not but are you political oh absolutely i mean my undergraduate degrees in political science and at one point i thought i was going to be an environmental lawyer so i'm very engaged in politics the way it's a surrogate for obama both elections and the debate in the record. what do you make of mr trump. i want to work this as carefully as i possibly can well you know i think that i think that his administration is an assault on the american values and and i and i i'm i'm alarmed and disappointed and i think that it's really incumbent upon americans to spend as much time paying attention to what this administration is doing as possible i think we've had we've never had an ministration in my opinion this destructive in the last century or this one and i think people aren't clear on how much damage this administration is going to do the dreamers and the dreamers decision is is while we disappointing and i think if you

really cared about the dreamers he would extend that executive order while a legislative solution was being drafted rather than ditching it and then kind of throwing his hands up in the air and seeing what's going to happen but this guy's a bull in a china shop he wants to break everything and i don't i don't think people realize how difficult it's going to be to repair all the things that he's breaking here board member of planned parenthood you sit them pretty he has of them pretty hard but i also think he's an opportunist i don't even think he really cares i think he has the evils i guess to satisfy his base and i think that's the worst kind of president is someone who doesn't have a moral compass but kind of goes whichever way the wind blows. there's been an assault on women's rights from a variety of angles into this guy and he's only been there what's that i mean it's it's extraordinary how many things he has ruined in such a short period of military thirty five years and i don't know it does seem like he's a different person maybe but you know. this is also a guy who wants to be liked and so. but i think he is bowing to certain elements in

his party as are norms in his base that he thinks he needs to satisfy and he kind of goes that way and then comes back again and you know it's important to think about the president like someone who's captaining a ship and this is a guy who keeps swinging the wheel one way and swing at the other when it came mutely yes with no regard for which way the wind is blowing and you know week we can capsize but i also think that he's galvanizing. not just progressives in this country but moderates to think more critically about their political choices you don't just vote for somebody because you remember them from a t.v. show we play a little game of if you only knew or just saw some questions actually what's your secret talent my secret talent why i speak three languages and all the talent english and english english french swahili and very basic russian and i just got functional in swedish a little while ago things come and go i think hardest of them all russian because a it's a different alphabet person you trade places with for a day this is such

a good question. this is so weird because it's a guy but if i could smash ben affleck and kathryn bigelow to go there i would kind of like their careers. i just think ben affleck is such a great example of reinventing yourself over and over and over again like i do drugs get it out of all gary's he doesn't stop guilty pleasure oh god cat and dog videos on the internet for sure when you just watch like too much c.n.n. to push a mess and we see a cat in a toilet it's a great relief less time you were starstruck meeting clint eastwood best compliment you have a good probably review for my movie weaves job you've ever had weird is oh i sold vitamins vitamins in a vitamin store i was fifteen i was wildly unqualified to tell you what supplements to buy but they have so many yeah i just was like you know the the brown one that's going to i was their favorite vice o.o.o.

. i have a lot probably i'm a cocktail of things yes to mean you know drinking is my hobby you give it your you know alcohol no no no because i'm a c. i would rather have one great cocktail than seven crappy light beers something you wish you were better at. something i wish i was better at god there are so many pretty good in everything you do i am a jane of all trades and a master of none what would you like to master that your bottom time management which i probably need a machine for because i run out of time every single day you know the strangest fan encounter well a guy came up to me after a stand up show and asked me if i would sign his girlfriend's ass which i did so i'm a giver. but then afterwards i was like what are they going to do with this signal like what's going to happen after i leave you know and i don't know what the internet i imagine he was slapping my my autograph later in the evening well some people like that was a luxury you can't live without my car my electric car you know in or try of

a tesla and i it's like everybody my job tesla loved it i love it so much it's i saw her hour oh there if the that's one of the fastest production vehicles you call of the car or i call that hershey that's my girl or coersion she's gray. she's fairy special she's a sexist or the river valley i do i'm into a gas station for years larry yeah i love it i love i want to know is i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm one of those tesla deuces i'm not afraid to say it something you long believed to be true and then realize wasn't. that's a hard one to answer i'll tell you something that i didn't know was true but now i know is which is that the only thing that's permanent is change. and i think you have to find a way to adapt to change and grow otherwise you will be run over and changed you could change she did you have big man i posted this a little while ago posted it when i left the talk that there is no growth without

change and change can be painful and it can also be beautiful most of the time it's both things told me something people don't know about you. something people that i can i can brew my own beer and i have brew during grew my own beer for years and i've done a couple of collaborative breeze with stone brewing here in california i love beer i don't drink as much as i used when i was young you know cause actress but but i love i love a good beer and a beer is considered a male drink as in the orange is where the men and drink like a boy and i also make fun of men because i'm a lot of guy friends that like like lite beer and i only don't drink oh no i don't drink like beer that's for babies most of the best beer you're bachelorette parties oh man liberty i.p.a. which is made in my hometown of sam's is go by and for brewing that's probably my favorite beer you've got to launch the line of bottled cocktails cold stone courage and stone although. it sounds like a good version of the stone i mean it takes courage to drink it it came actually

out of out of the phrase liquid courage that was where i came up with that name what i meant why do this you know enough to do with ryan seacrest and i am i'm a black female ryan seacrest absolutely. i this came out of the fact that i travel a lot for work and you probably travel up for work and i would have these great drinks and these great restaurants and i'd come home and i want to recreate them and i couldn't i didn't have the stuff i didn't know how so i kind of was the self-taught bartender and then i thought i want to make a big mass my counter sticky out of the stupid spoon in this crazy shaker and i just want to have a nice drink when i come home without making a mess so i started making these bottles and keeping them in my fridge so when i got home like a poor out a couple inches of a nice new cronie or manhattan and enjoy them while i watch game of thrones and i thought wouldn't. great if i could buy this would have been better if i could sell this wares or made distillers in new york brooklyn born courage and stone even brooks i'm not from brooklyn but it seems like a good place to launch a product it's a place where delicious and wonderful things are being made by smart people as is

so it will be it will be sold this fall in person california and new york state and then nationwide by mail order and then will expand in two thousand and what's going to liquor is it so the first we're launching with three flavors of manhattan an old fashioned and a general fashioned so something for every every taste bud and it's really for you know it's for people who like to drink like adults but don't want to make a big mess in the kitchen most of them wonders actors should more clearly open waters here where they'd want to get to q are so good out of why their version i like wine enough but there's plenty of people making wine i wanted to do something that nobody else was doing as some social media questions for you already bryson knocks would you ever welcome drew carey back to whose line is it anyway if you want to return as a guest in a heartbeat we would murder to get through on the show at shows it's very fun thank you it's i'm lucky to be in that seat the first day we launched it for the news the new series drew sent everybody flowers he's

a fan and supporter and i wouldn't be here without him and we would welcome him back and in a heartbeat he's so buying jones what do you miss most about being on the talk the the hour in the morning when we're all discussing about our lives in our kids and hanging out that's the best that's part of that day didn't you want children you know larry i think i didn't for a long time because i was really focused on work and then i got to that age where it was like kind of now or never and i thought maybe i should do it and i started i was really going to. i think you did and we considered it and we looked into it and then the more i thought about it the more i realized i wasn't i didn't want to go through what it was going to take to have a kid and i have not regretted that decision since no one should know and i think there are plenty of people. here and i also don't think you should have a kid because you're bored or you're ambivalent or you think it's time you know if you're going to a person you better really want to make a person because that person is going to be a responsibility of the others is your mother ship she's the best my mom is so cool those who want to be she said no she's got great kids my sister had kids my mother

has always said to me you know you don't have to be a parent you don't have to have kids and i think she was an artist and she never got to realize her dreams i think she's getting to see me do it and i think she loves it does it became easier to take god new roles when you already play so many yes it does and i think her less you become more eager to challenge yourself it becomes less difficult every time it's the best thing about criminal minds the cast is amazing i mean the smartest i just directed at my sister act on an episode of that show and i've seen it was this is the most attractive cast of people vision and they're all so nice we spent a lot of time off off camera hanging out together it sure oh is the rate of the season thirteen you know i'm i mean i've been so lucky just to go from one hit show to the next and you know to be on the show and i only signed on for six episodes i was going to do just a six episode arc three seasons only that was three seasons ago as season eleven and to fill in for a.j. coco is going to have a baby and i've been there for three years is that you feel most comfortable

wearing. director director that's that's the most exciting had you see you so just before we go full time do it you know whose career i would love to have i mentioned earlier as clint eastwood because he you know started directing very young and then he moved through you know being an actor coming back to being a director i mean unforgiven is one of my favorite films i think he's an extraordinary mind and he still acts every once in a while but he's able to do all of it you know brings it in the budget of smart actors love every actor ever interview because you know i had a podcast for five years and i interviewed a lot of people that worked on i was on your period you were on my podcast which was incredible you were one of my first guests larry you helped launch my show studio yeah i was in north hollywood you will write it was great having you to go to stairs i was honored i was always a little lost face i was honored to. have you want to and everyone i know who's worked for him has said what an extraordinary directory is and you want you want actors to you want to know that you gave them an opportunity to do their best are you addicted to being busy yes i have a real problem i do and. you know it's at least one ticket to something that this

productive you know would be a vacation in my head. you rather just let loose every once in a while i'm trying to travel more but you know even might for travel is very aggressive and you know i kind of deal with a city for two days in a city for two days and i come back home you have a google beach and allies to feels too lazy to me i need to be doing stuff i used to go to hawaii and you know what you don't want to do it anymore i don't know if you get some you know if you're like me and you know also like this sharon osborne we always joke about the fact that you go to hawaii and then after a day you're dying of boredom and you got the phone out and you're you know you're out yeah you're get my life cities i like cities too i just took a trip i went to sweden paris read a lot fia the geisha vacationing where you so i know with friends good friends thank you i'm working on it thanks to my guest study should tyler criminal minds from here september twenty seventh bought c.b.s.

access three years of select theaters in los angeles on september twenty second the new york city to the twenty ninth and hopefully worldwide after that and as always you can follow me on twitter king's things i'll see you next time. called the feature we go through. every. period. and you get. the whole. world according to a gesture. from our moral come along for the.

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