Greta Lee
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Hi, my name is Greta Lee. And I feel
Exciting. Oh my god. About being Conan O'Brien's friend.
Greta, you just said the record was the longest uh it wouldn't be the longest intro. That's just because that record is held by Jeff Global, who went, Oh mm, oh, oh for maybe forty five minutes, but y there was just silence.
I just died a little bit and then came back to life.
Fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand the shoes, walking loose, climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends. So I can tell that we are gonna be friends.
Hey there, welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I am Conan O'Brien, of course, uh joined by my two uh chums, pals, amigos. They're my ride along buddies. That's right. Son of Sessian.
What's up?
And uh Okay. It I don't think you really want to know what's up with me. I think you just said that. I do.
I didn't know.
And Matt Gorley, how are you, Matt?
Matt Gorley, how are you?
I'm good. Did you kind of mean ride or die? Because ride along feels like we're you're a cop and we're like your kids.
I think comedically I'm an expert and you two are researching the role of being funny and you're riding along with me. Okay. But then we stop and we're involved in a shootout.
But we also don't have a choice to who we get to ride along when you learn how to be funny. Exactly.
No. You want it to be hey, I want to ride along with Bill Hader. No, that's not gonna work out. You're with Connor O'Brien. Woo. What's our shootout?
Sometimes you do get phrases wrong.
I do, yeah. Yeah. And it makes me laugh.
Like you said, cute meat the other day when we were recording, and it's me cute.
Yeah, but you know what? You can flip those around whatever you want. I play with language like James Joyce. I'm constantly No, I'm very creative with it. You're like the rule is to say it this way.
Well, you're just saying it incorrectly. Cute meat is not the right way to say it. Right along makes no sense.
When I'm cute meat implies like they didn't have a meet cute, but they just saw each other and went, Hey, you kinda got cute meat.
Yeah. Oh.
You guys are terrific.
And by the way, I want you I want you out of my comedy cop card. We can't, these doors are you can't open to the inside. Uh I I I don't follow the rules. I don't you want to color inside the lines and do a good job with your talking. I'm all over the map. Uh I and I think that it's the way to go.
I think it's just important f like you remind me sometimes of my mom and she And she is not a native English speaker. So y you w you the two of you have the same sort of grasp on a lot of like catharctic like he does? Do you say catharctic?
I like to throw a C in there. It makes it gives it an Arctic chill. Oh, it's I didn't realize it was on purpose. Yeah. Wow. I'm telling you, there's a lot that I do that, and you're thinking, of course, you're the guy that if you got in a time machine would go back to look at Picasso and go, no, no, no, not two eyes on one side of the head. This will never work. Make cats with big eyes. Um And and that's why uh, you know, uh your time travel adventures are always just terrible. But what I do is I play with the forms. I'm very elastic and creative.
It's all on purpose.
Of course it is.
Yeah.
What are you talking about?
You say Saturday Night Live weird too, which we've talked about.
Yeah, you did it well. Well I told you what happened. Lauren is from the deep south. Okay. And then he invented this whole thing. No, he invented this whole thing about being from Toronto. But when I first met him it's like hello, Coden. Welcome to Sat Live. He was drinking a mint julep and he was fanning himself. He was sitting on a big porch. Big spread down there in Alabama. Anyway. That's nice. Uh sure. Okay. I will try to conform to your more legalistic ways of speaking.
We could do you. We could go we could go on a comedic ride-along. Yeah. That's what it is. So we're both like in the backseat of the case.
And you say I remind you of your mom?
And you remind me of your mom.
She created you and I created you, so that makes sense.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–30:54
2
How does Greta Lee describe her childhood and Korean identity?
30:54–46:00
3
What was Greta’s experience moving from the Midwest to New York for college?
46:00–48:07
4
How did Greta land the role in Past Lives and what was the casting process like?
48:07–54:34
5
What impact has Past Lives had on audiences and Greta’s career?
54:34–59:15
6
Why is the Netflix film The Last House significant for Greta?
59:15–1:05:24
7
What challenges did Greta face while watching The Last House on Netflix?
1:05:24–1:05:57