tonight carey mulligan, from "lady bird," actress beanie feldstein, cooking with chef danny bowien, featuringhe 8g band with michel'le baptiste. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how is everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that is fantastic. in that case, let's get to the news. it was reported about an hour ago that donald trump jr. carried on a 10-month-long secret correspondence with wikileaks during the presidential campaign and the months following. wow, it's go hard to distance yourself from a guy named donald trump jr. [ laughter ] "he's not even related to me. my last name's not junior. everyone knows that." [ laughter and applause ] president trump attacked his critics on twitter yesterday saying, "when will all the haters and fools out there realize that having a relationship with russia is a good thing not a bad thing?" well having a relationship with russia will certainly never be as bad as having a president who uses the word "haters." [ laughter ] i'm surprised he doesn't wear his

we speak to the actress carey mulligan. fear it, and i think we all should fear it, you know. and i think that's what we need to, er... we need to turn that fear into action, you know, this is a global issue. one in three people will develop dementia of some kind. good evening. even for a man as combative as donald trump, today's statement left little to the imagination. he denounced his former white house strategist, steve bannon, as a man who had lost his mind, who had nothing to do with trump or his presidency. the president may be playing with fire. steve bannon knows things about him very few others do, and he has a powerful base on the right in which to relay them. the statement came from the president after the release of extracts from a new book — ‘fire and fury‘, by michael wolff. in it, bannon describes a meeting between donald trump junior and a russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign as treasonous and unpatriotic. it looks and sounds like an ordinary trump spat, but it raises questions of whom the republican bas

carey mulligan thought there was a need to bring a code of conduct into operation on film sets, as hasith the play she recently appeared in. on the first day of rehearsal, we all had to look through the code of conduct, it tells you what is expected in the workplace, it tells you what to do if someone steps outside of the code of conduct. i think really solid action plans like that will move us forward. despite the trauma of these incidents, robert redford, the sundance founder, struck a positive note at the press conference. i'm pretty encouraged right now as this period of change is, it is bringing forth more opportunity for women, and more opportunity for women in film to have their own voices heard. not to be forgotten, of course, were the films at sundance. there were more than 120 full—length features this year. sundance‘s director of programming detected some trends. we noticed the african—american male experience was really prevalent. especially in our us competition. we observed, also, a lot of really interesting, complex, powerful women on screen, both in the documentaries, a

tonight carey mulligan, from "lady bird," actress beanie feldstein, cooking with chef danny bowien, featuring during the presidential campaign and the months following.

being given those opportunities for those bigger kind of of options as well so big studio films carey mulligan who starred in mud bound which was directed by de rey said had she been a man that maybe she would have directed star wars so there's lots of people very vocal about this subject but i think it goes back to where to basics right needs to start which is right at the beginning when you have this kind of situation where where more diversity is demanded actually demanded how hard is it. to avoid making the politically correct decision this is supposed to just take your floor director of the talents various talent or merit i think in terms of if you look at the selection that we've got in terms of the oscars a lot of it has been done on merit you've got really wide varying different films that are nominated this year and i think that's a really positive thing now unfortunately not all of them were directed by women women and we would have loved to have seen that but when you see things like get out films like get out by jordan peele smaller films being nominated i think that is done comple