Actress Elle Fanning feels ecstatic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend. Elle sits down with Conan once more to discuss fake radio call-in shows, behind the scenes stories from the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, and the vital importance of good manners. Later, Conan issues a very specific staff review for producer Jeff Ross. For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit TeamCoco.com.Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847. Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: https://siriusxm.com/conan.
Chapter 1: Why does Elle Fanning feel ecstatic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend?
Hi, my name is Elle Fanning, and I feel ecstatic about being Coded O'Brien's friend.
Yes, I'll take it.
Fall is here, hear the yell Back to school, ring the bell Brand new shoes, walkin' loose Climb the fence, books and pens I can tell that we are gonna be friends
Hey there, and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. Joined, as always, by Sonoma Session.
Hello.
And just put a little pep into it next time. And Matt Gourley, how are you?
Hi, how are you? I'm good. Hey, I want to bring up something that was a direct quote from you just now. You just said, in this room, when I see a Hallmark movie, I watch it.
I did. We weren't on mic. I didn't know that that would come back to haunt me.
So you're prepared to admit that and you're good?
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Chapter 2: What behind-the-scenes stories does Elle share about the Bob Dylan biopic?
There's never a good reason. And then it's a reason that can quickly be removed. So it's really not a conflict. It's a conflict the way like I'd like to come over there, but there's a small tissue in the way. You know what I mean?
Well, there's usually some big city ex-boyfriend that they've got to kind of like get out from under, but barely.
I don't know. I've seen ones where it really is just I've gone back and looked for the conflict and haven't found it.
Do you think you could write a Hallmark movie?
Yes, I do.
Do you think you should?
I think I should.
That's the better question. Yeah, I think it would be a good use of my time. I really want you to write a Hallmark movie.
Do you think you could star in a Hallmark movie?
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Chapter 3: What are Hallmark movies' storytelling secrets?
No, no. I work at a small New England college. Yes. What do you teach? History? What's that? History? One subject is Grover Cleveland. Oh. What? I'm a professor of Grover Clevelandology. No.
It has to be liberal arts. It has to be. No, it doesn't have to.
Because you're sensitive. Hey, give me something.
This is your archetype. You're a sensitive man.
You know what? She's right.
I've seen, you guys think this is a game for me. This is real life.
I'm a sensitive guy. I teach like Emily Dickinson. I teach poetry. Yes. Okay. And I have a very safe but frigid relationship with this other woman who works there. She's controlling. She's controlling. And she's always saying things like, maybe this weekend we'll go and look at that antique shop. And it's always very... Sounds pretty good.
How soon is she going to be single?
No, she wants to go teach at a big city like Ivy League University. And you're like, this is my home. This is where I love teaching.
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Chapter 4: How does Conan plan to write a Hallmark movie?
And then I also because the school that I went to was pretty hard. Like I had to keep up with the schoolwork or like I couldn't do. Well, that's good. I mean, I think it's very important, but. Then I would be, like, staying up until, like, 3 a.m., like, getting stuff done and, like, writing papers. And, like, I think now I'm like, how did I do that? No, but you think about it.
Like, I had the energy to do that when I was little. And now when I'm doing a project, I'm, like, so exhausted at the end of the day. But it used to be that I would go home and have all this, like, work to do and book reports. Right. How did I find the time?
But it's just so funny for me to think of, you know, an actor at your level who's doing this intense work. Even as a kid, you're doing this intense work and then quickly take a break and you got to go make a papier-mâché dinosaur. Yeah.
But it's kind of nice. Yeah, there's something about it that is nice because you can just switch in and out of it. And it's I don't know, not that I'm not the type of actor anyways that really stays in it in between. Like I need to go do something else or, you know.
Right, right.
But go to crafty and like. laugh and relax and like I don't really stay totally in it but I think because when I was a kid I was so used to switching in and out of it that that's what I'm programmed to do it's making me think now wouldn't it be amazing if it was required of everyone not just kids but anyone during in between scenes had to learn stuff
So I'm just thinking of like- And then you'd be quizzed on it later. Yeah, but I'm thinking of like Al Pacino in Scarface, you know, and he's just doing this over the top, like, let me say hello to my little friend, and then they're cut, and he's in the next room, and they're like, now remember, the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1950. He's like, oh, yeah, I got it. I think I got it.
I got it.
So, okay. That's a great skit, actually. So everything north of the 50-degree latitude had to be okay. Those had to be okay. A free state, but anything below. Okay, and back on set.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of good manners in the podcast?
I think I started writing it thinking it would be a takedown of you, but it was really just an indictment on me and how bad I was as your assistant. But being your assistant, I will say there's a difference you can see between people who will dismiss you and people who actually talk to you. I got that a lot. And it makes a really big difference. Yeah. Yeah.
What do you mean?
People remembering people's names. You know, people, you know what I mean? Like on set, you do meet a lot of people.
It's like assistants like people can sometimes just be very rude to assistants because they're trying to get to you. And there's a lot of people who I had a really actually talk to you.
I had a really interesting thing happened to me. I've never forgotten it, which is I was working on The Simpsons. I was a writer producer there. This is before I got the talk show and I'm probably, I don't know, 26. I used to just wear like a t-shirt and kind of that, you know, that red James Dean, a kind of iconic jacket with the flip up collar.
I had one of those.
So I'm wearing like, that's just how I'm dressed and I'm wearing sneakers. And I remembered I was going to go meet my friend, Suzanne Daniels, who was a big exec over on the Fox lot. I remember for some reason I had a package in my hand that was just my package. And I walked into this office and I said, yeah, I'm here for Suzanne Daniels.
And this person behind the desk went, yeah, just put that down. Just leave it there. And I went, well, actually, and they went, just put it down. Okay. Like, because I'm the delivery guy.
Yeah.
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