[Applause] oh my goodness how has Toronto been treating you have you had a good time this weekend I just got here this morning okay see so busy doing all the things um so hopefully you get a chance to see the city just a little bit to enjoy it and I did get a part on the soap opera at that [Applause] time kind of led to another that that way love it just really Scrappy basically like and even back to the musical thing I was just audition for anything even though it was like horrible just like when those people who audition for musicals they are so talented they teach you that choreography in you know 30 seconds and you have to know it I was in a farce it was not working for me but I tried I just like I I stupidity of being yum no come on the tenacity though of chasing your dream I think that is one of the most important things for anybody doesn't matter what you're going into um even if you don't necessarily think that you are the most uh skilled person at it you went for it you went out there you were seen and no matter what that means that those people that make decisions will know your name and I'm sure that there are some people that you audition for they're like hey I met ver once she audition for we didn't take her butt I know I promise thank you for that job remember that's our fault fo fools fools um you mentioned being on a sofa Opera and that takes place in instead of being on the stage you're on the small screen and there's something very special about television and you've had many different appearances um on great great shows a different world was my life um yes we sh out came on Seinfeld so do you like anything in particular about being on TV versus the stage or film uh I mean TV is kind of like film in a way I mean some of those things different world was in front of a live audience on so that was very much like the stage like and it was uh and it was a regular schedule and it was like a Friday night and the audience comes in and you have a live audience and it's they're there with you through that whole through that whole run and sometimes we go back and kind of pick up a few things but generally we just went right through it and I think it was that's what I liked about it I could I I like being with everyone I love it over your distinguished career has building for television change much in process um whether the technology has changed so cameras are different well there's no more like hardly any so you're not doing anything in front of a live audience except for I got to do the All in the Family so fun and so scary and it was just like so shocking came out of nowhere and I don't even it but you were brilliant I think it happened because I was Jimmy Kimmel best friend is Chris biano who has an amazing pizza place and in Phoenix but then he opened one in LA and my brother is friends with that guy who cuz they both love do pizza so we went to that soft opening of that pizza place of that Kimmel was there we just all said Hi and then like two days later I got a phone call from Norman Lear saying hey you want to be part of this all in the family thing but I think it's cuz CU Jimmy produced it so I think it was cuz he just saw me at the pizza I was like you really do have to follow what you love I was like I really love pizza and I want to go and something good came out of it but it was really quite a challenge of course I mean I also was like edth wait a second I guess I am not AG okay I mean you wear it very well let's let's say that for sure um and that's that's another classic show that is super steep in astounding smart comedy and I think that's something that also uh marks your career you have such astounding comedic timing that you know when they see you they're like oh my God this is beautiful woman and then she makes you laugh in the best way possible it's so true it's so true you are really making up for the last [Music] P um and to that end like when it comes to Comedy do you have any particular Idols or icons that you looked up to as comedians or performers it just made you laugh oh yeah [Applause] Luc absolutely and then I'd say Barbara sanwick in in her funnier r and then my mother she's fun yeah I think that's the other thing that is so spectacular about you is you have this wealth of culture that you dig into is that part of a a New York upbringing I mean because obviously New York is a great place for culture so many different things to see is that kind of where you bu an eye for recognizing all the things that on the D let's go let's go it's the subway I mean really it's the Subway or it's walking around the neighborhood but I really do think it's a lot about the Subway because it's so diverse and you're see so many different kinds of people and different kinds of characters and able I I always got a lot of inspiration and just being on the subway oh really do you do you people watch a lot I mean cuz you're pulling characterizations out with all your roles do you watch people and be like that's something for later I'm going to yeah I some of you right that was me in line when I fre out on AB amazing um considering uh in terms of movies there are so many of your roles that have been truly iconic obviously my cousin V we got [Applause] some to do so at at that point in your career what does that feel like as an accomplishment I don't know if any of us have ever won anything in this room that was of that level of a claim but to stand out in such a prominent role that you won the award what did that do for you as an actor well I mean it gave me it gave me a career I didn't really have I mean I had you had some I mean I I was part of a theater company that's still naked Angels you that you co founded that didn't you uh I was pretty early on my maybe like the third person you know I wasn't like it was like Fisher and a couple other people from NYU that they had started it but I had met him on the set of flamingo kid that I was pretty much an extra but we became friends and like I'm starting this Le company and like it was just so great so lucky so lucky to have that time there's nothing like that where it's just I mean there there's nothing that I could do that would ever be really as pure as that time and it was so fulfilling and felt and we had we had an actual theater too we had a space and that really gave us a home and a place you could just show up at any time and it would always be creative and it was really a very very special time so so I I was in the company and also had done this so prop like I'm saying and um but I couldn't really break into movies and I just flx I just I it's hard hard it is really hard and casting directors are wonderful and they really become your champion and course so um I don't really remember how what I remember auditioning for my cousin Vinnie but I don't really I don't remember too much about it um that is a flaw um but um I know that Joe wound up seeing the tapes at the time they would film you in person there and he he wound up choosing me at least that's what I mean no I chose her I chose her um so it was just so it was a really lucky thing and it was really my second right so it was all very it was very green and he really you know held my hand through the process and really took care of me and still close to the day he was very very kind to me and he such a tough guy person but he really such a for Joe [Applause] P he plays a guitar he he had a career as a singer as a child actor yes so that was one of the ways that we bonded especially on the set we would just sing a lot of old songs together yeah so he really looked out for me and and he was the like he was there that night of the I mean it was just so surreal really like who would have thought that like the second movie that I would do ever become something like that it was so nuts but I mean but he was right there in the wings right when I came off the stage he was so kind and he had actually just won his Oscar maybe right before that CU I remember took it to setep one day for me to like rub for it works it you do it that's how you do it someone in the uh audience asked earlier about the the famous car speech and I'm not going to ask you to do it what I will ask you is to see it be this Hallmark of a feminist empowerment stance where this character is dismissed as being woman that she can't know and you come through and just knock it out the park and you see people feel inspired and equalized with your performance how does that feel as a person as an actor as a woman I I really like it when when little girls see the show and sometimes they have that memorized I like to see all that you know toughness come out of their tiny little love it and I think it is a really good it's a I think she's a good role model I mean that wasn't you know conscious or anything or it was that's the way gaana wrote it and he wrote an amazing script be so lucky to find something like that again I I feel so happy that I got to be part of that and it really did um use that Al alternate Persona that was absolutely great um I did challenge them to see how many in this room could do it for being now there was a couple people they were like I can are you still feeling strong would you do it right now oh yeah yeah okay I don't see those hands up now okay I just want so so in terms of movies um you've had some amazing co-stars that you got to build characters with tell stories through um to you who would be like some of your favorite people who challenged your Artistry as an actor oh wow um who who I've gotten to work with I mean I'd say Robert Downey first one I mean we work together on chaplain and then and we work together on onlyu and um and then again Spiderman but but um yeah I think there was just like you don't always have that like what I have with Joe or what I have with him like there's you just have a rhythm it's like a comedic Rhythm that just happen so he definitely you know love that motivated chapl is one of those phenomenal movies about um film culture and one of the true icons of film um in your like diverse uh range of of demography are there other characters like chap that you would love to tell the story about um oh gosh I can't think right okay that's all right that's all right that we'll come back I'm sure like most people in this room you have like you have to make a list and suddenly you can't think of anything that's what happens that's the work I think uh to to many people in this room there's so many that really got to know you through a lot of different roles and a is definitely won uh can I get some love for you know might be super geeky were you a fan of comics at all before you took on that role no not you know what and I think that that actually works so very well for your portrayal about me no it because she's she's just gets to be this authentic person there was not this tie of who you had to capture you just got to be the really cool aunt who was taking care of her nephew which is fun um well my brother was oh he was the one yeah yeah so so when you got the role did he freak out well I just asking what is this but he really had him and his friend David metalon we who uh we all went to high school with I was say can we just I need you guys to give me the history and understand like at least what's the essence of what she stands for because that's what I have to try to capture because I I wasn't familiar with it and also my the Mandate from the studio was um a reinvention but you have to know what it is to reinvent right know so um they did spend a lot of time you know telling me the history and also what they really perceived as like what what her um what why she was part of that Universe at all I love it I love it you again phenomenal uh I think I shed many man tears um in no way home I'm not going to lie we not going to talk about why cuz I want to cry up here but out of those three movies did you have any particular behind the- scen favorite moments of bringing anme to life I um no I mean I think some of the favorite things were really just watching Tom and Z grow up watching Love and seeing their phenomenal Talent yes being like blown away from the the GetGo and um just seeing them step into shoes that's I I mean I'm blown away like some people are just meant for it and they [Applause] are they they carry enormous enormous star power enormous power and they they are are managed to be real people at the same time and and just just multi-talent they can do everything they sing they dance they act they they do stunts they they design fashion I mean what are they not doing they they're incredible incredible people I love it I love it that's that's absolutely magic and again I saw him do um Shakespeare in London was there and I went to and there he is he's doing the verse beautifully like he can do everything and he did a cart clip it was it was awesome I love that I absolutely enjoy that um when it comes to different genres do you have a particular favorite genre to act in and is there one that you are just inching to jump into that you haven't really done yet well musical I mean no no we get we give that music we if I got to write it myself absolutely anything else I mean do you do you like horror movies no I don't like no horror whatsoever no no no I I I really am I can't I can't I the nightmares I I get the purge I mean I had a small part in theed I was political kind of went with it and Jones was in that one and like it was like okay it's like a statement about how people are treated and you know we're going to like uprise but it was but to be in a horror movie I just I just think I I couldn't I have an idea that's fair that's fair and also Al I can tell you you'll be amazing at it so I just want to throw that out there ever You're just bored you're like you know what I'll just do it I'll just try it so there are so many uh very talented people that again wear manyi hats when it comes to being in this business um for you what other uh aspirations of the the film making or storytelling business are on the horizon for you ever s a director chair be producer writer what is on the horizon I just want to to write another really great movie yes yes that would be ideal okay we have any writers in room check it let check I like that um for for you uh we we have just a few more minutes and I don't want to hold you up too too long um for you what is some of the best things that uh occur as a part of your career when it comes to interacting with fans have you had any crazy great moments that you were out and about just doing your thing and a came up and just gave you that glow of appreciation in an experience oh well yeah that's just so beautiful I mean it's really uh you know what if if something's touched someone's family or you know just meant something to to them and like that always really is very moving to me and really uplifting and then also of course when people are like really in tight Spider-Man suits and you can see all their junk okay I see you okay so I'm sorry if you wore that outfit today be very cognizant of yourself no sincerely thank you so very much for joing us it has been a blast to have with you [Applause]