> référence : "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" du 23 juin 98 (USA)

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Sarah : I am the worst at staring contests

Conan: you're no good at those?

Sarah: I just bust out laughing.

Conan: Oh, really?

Sarah: I'm so bad.

Conan: I can usually stare. I just go into another world.

Sarah: Really? I just laugh instantly.

Conan: Oh, really?

Sarah: I look up and (elle fait une grimace)

Conan: That's great. I like that.

Sarah: Thanks you.

Conan: I need an audience full of people like you who'll laugh at anything.

Sarah: Ok, so we have to talk about something.

Conan: Yeah, I understand you've got an issue with me.

Sarah: I have a small issue.

Conan: Ok.

Sarah: So I watch, you know, the show in my trailer usually because we're still working at this hour on Buffy.

Conan: Oh, you don't live in a trailer. It's like a movie set kind of thing.

Sarah: My family does, though, they call me like the trailer park queen. They think I actually do, and I'm not sure if that's a compliment.

Conan: Mm hmm.

Sarah: But I'm watching the show, and you're doing random mating.

Conan: It's called uh, "if they made it."

Sarah: If they made it, with Matthew Perry and I. Now...

Conan: This is... let me explain, "if they made it" is where we take celebrities who we hear are going out, and we see what their child is going to look like.

Sarah: Ok now, I don't know where they're getting their information, but I was not dating Matthew Perry. I've actually never met him, but if we did procreate, I'm just saying, the kid would be better looking than Billy Ray Cyrus. Nothing personal to Billy Ray Cyrus.

Conan: That wasn't Billy Ray Cyrus. Let's take a look at this.

Sarah: That wasn't Billy Ray Cyrus?

Conan: No. Well, first of all, the tabloids said that you guys were dating, and that's legally all we need.

Sarah: Well you need to stop reading the tabloids.

Conan: The legal department says that's good enuogh, and so this is the two of you, (à l'image on voit les photos de Sarah et de Matthew Perry)

Conan: and this was going to be your child. This is what we took a look at, and we thought...

(On montre une image d'ordinateur montrant ce que pourrait être leur enfant)

(Rires du public)

Sarah: Now back me up, would we not have a better looking child than that if we were going to have a child?

Conan: That IS a mutant Billy Ray Cyrus.

Andy: Computers don't lie.

Conan: Yeah.

(Rires du public)

Sarah: Remind me never to have a child with Matthew Perry then.

Conan: Ok. I'll get you a post-it that says that.

(Rires du public)

Conan: Um, let's talk about the show Buffy for a second because before I saw the show I heard about, you know... that they're going to do the show and I had actually seen you somewhere do an interview, and for some reason, I just didn't think that you were going to be doing these kind of intense action scenes, and I start watching the show... you're a great athelete. You're great in these action scenes, and you're actually trained in combat. Is that right?

Sarah: Yeah, I studied tae-kwon-doe for about 4 or 5 years when I lived here in New York, and now I'm studying kick-boxing, and a little gymnastics, and a little street-fighting.

Conan: So you could beat me up in like 40 seconds, you know, pretty much.

Sarah: Well, let's give you 45. Come on.

Conan: This is how I fight... Uhhuhhh

(Conan remue ses bras)

Conan: That's my fighting. I actually studied that.

Sarah: Does it have a name?

Conan: That's a little known martial art called...

Sarah: The doggy paddle.

Conan: Uhhhuhhh.

(Conan remue une nouvelle fois ses bras)

Conan: Shriek and go like this, and hope everyone freaks out and walks away, but I'm watching the show, and on the show, you're very super-confident. You can take on five guys at once, beat 'em up, but in the movies, there's a trend that you're always the victim, and I'm wondering...

Sarah: Victim 101.

Conan: Yeah, is that in Scream 2, and I Know What You Did Last Summer, there's a trend that you have to be someone who runs away. Is that hard making that transition from Buffy to someone who's just a victim?

Sarah: It's funny. At first you think ahh it's no big deal, I go "oh look at the bad man" and I'm going to run away, and...

Conan: Is that how you say it?

Sarah: Yeah, "oh look, bad man"

(Conan rit)

Sarah: but you realize that you look like you know what you're doing, and normally you'll wear comfortable shoes, because they don't see your feet, so I'm putting on like big strappy heels, and I'm sticking rocks in my shoes, and I'm actually doing the Conan. I was failing my arms and...

Conan: Don't call it doing the Conan.

(Rires du public)

Conan: I don't want that to catch on. "Don't panic everyone, and whatever you do, don't do that Conan." So you actually work at it?

Sarah: You do. You have to work on not looking like you know what you're doing becaues otherwise they see like, ok the man in the mask would not beat you, the man in the mask has to kill you.

Conan: So you really put rocks in your shoes so that you...

Sarah: I would put pebbles and rocks and like anything I could find on the ground in North Carolina, and stick it in my shoes.

Conan: Just so that you'd look...

Sarah: Wobbly.

Conan: Wobbly.

Sarah: Wobbly.

Conan: Because a victim is a wobbly runner. That's why.

Sarah: Well, a victim isn't like, you know, Jackie Joyner Kersie sprinting across

Conan: Right.

Sarah: You know, you got to look like you don't know what you're doing.

Conan: and also, I've noticed in horror movies a lot that usually the monster or the bad guy, or the slasher, whoever, is moving really slowly, and the person is running like 30 mph through the woods, and then they cut again and there's like this much distance between them.

Sarah: See, they give you the talk which is, you know, you're all paranoied, and you're not thinking straight, but the killer is calm.

Conan: He's toying with you.

Sarah: and he knows that he's just going to catch you at a weak moment. There's all these things, it's like, you always have to be in bad shoes if you're the girl home alone. You're always wearing heels in the house for no reason. Do you ever notice that?

Conan: (riant) Uh huh.

Sarah: You watch a horror movie, you're sitting at home, they're watching of course Friday the 13th, or whatever horror movie. And they're sitting in heels.

Conan: Right.

Sarah: I don't know about you, but I don't wear heels in my house when I'm just sitting at home watching...

Conan: I do, and let me tell you something, it's comfortable and it makes me look more attractive. Um, can you hang on for one second. We want to do a commercial break.

Sarah: Sure.

Conan: We have more to talk about. More with Sarah Michelle Gellar in just a second so stick around.

Coupure pub

Conan: We're back everybody with Sarah Michelle Gellar. And uh, you got started in this business um, I came into this later. I mean, I started after college.

Sarah: I was four.

Conan: but you were four when you got started.

Sarah: I was four. I was eating in a restaraunt and some woman came up to me and said "do you want to be on tv ? " and I said "oh yes, of course I do." No idea what I was doing.

Conan: Right, and you did uh, was it Burger King ads?

Andy: Were you dining alone?

Conan: Yeah.

Sarah: Yes actually I was alone.

Andy: Didn't your parents have anything to say?

Sarah: I was on a play date actually.

Conan: Yeah, you were eating a cheese-burger, smoking a cigarette, you know.

Sarah: I was actually eating with Matthew Perry so go figure.

(Rires du public)

Conan: A 6 year old Matthew Perry.

Sarah: We were cute then.

Conan: Uh, so it was for Burger King that you did a bunch of ads. And they got you in trouble, right?

Sarah: Well, it's a very famous lawsuit. It was the first company to actually use another comapny's name in a commercial. So I was four, and I said "do I look 20% smaller to you? I must to McDonalds." And it was the first time. We take that for granted now that every time you see an ad, they go, you know, this is better than this. So McDonalds turned around and sued not only J. Walker Thompson, and Burger King, but me.

Conan: They sued a four year old girl?

Sarah: Now mind you, where do all four year olds have their birthday parties? At McDonalds at the playgrounds. And McDonalds, I couldn't go to any of my friend's parties.

Conan: Why?

Sarah: Truth in advertising. Everything you see on television is true.

Conan: I agree 100%. You must agree too. No, what do you mean? If you had gone to McDonalds, that would meant that you...

Sarah: Well, if I was eating the hamburgers, I would prove that I don't eat Burger King, and that I eat McDonalds, so I couldn't go. And then one of my really really good friends had a party there, and I think my mom dressed me like in a straw hat and sunglasses and pigtails.

Conan: But what? Like they're going to have security like "that four year old! We're suing her ass! Get her out of here!"

Sarah: You know tabloids. They find you.

Conan: That's amazing. That's an amazing story. Did you know what was going on at the time that you were being sued?"

Sarah: All I know is that I couldn't go to Katie's birthday party.

Conan: Right.

Sarah: So that's where I was...

Conan: That was the extent of it.

Sarah: I couldn't have a happy meal.

Conan: Yeah. And that was all because it was the first time... you know it used to be when I was growing up that ads would say, you know "Burger King, our burger is better than that other burger", but they wouldn't say it and your ad was pretty much you saying "McDonalds sucks," you know, "Don't eat McDonalds." Right?

Sarah: That was the director's cut actually.

Conan: (riant) ok. That was the slogan they almost went for.

Sarah: Yeah.

Conan: Uh, in preperation for this interview, I was reading Rolling Stone magazine...

Sarah: Oh God.

Conan: where you were giving some advice.

Sarah: Oh.

Conan: and there's this section of this interview where you're saying "I've got advice for people out there." and I thought it was going to be "how to get into acting", or whatever.

Sarah: but everybody knows how to do that. That's on every talk show.

Conan: Yeah, right. You actually are giving information like uh, "Raise legs if you're going to take a nap above your chest and it will double your nap time" and I was like "what are you talking about?"

Sarah: No no, it's true. It's not for sleep time. It's nap time. So if you're in the middle of the day, and you've had a rough day, you have to be up at night. You're staying up to watch the show, and you want to you know, get some nap time earlier, so what you do is, you sit down, and you raise your head... or you raise your legs above your heart level, and it changes the way the blood pumps into the heart. So normally if you take an hour nap, you get up and you're all groggy.

Conan: Right.

Sarah: So this way you only have a 20 minute nap, but for your body it's like an hour nap.

Conan: That's... how did you find this out? Are you some evil scientist on the weekends?

(Rires du public)

Sarah: Uh, it's an old skater and dancer trick, and I went to school with a bunch of dancers.

Conan: And it works?

Sarah: Yeah, it's great. I can't take an hour nap in the middle of the day becaue I'm all uhh uhh, you know that whole morning thing again.

Conan: Right, you're drooling and staggerring.

Sarah: Oh, and my thoughts are just all over the place, and this way it's only like a 20 minute nap to the brain.

Conan: What I do is uh, if I take a nap in the day and the phone wakes me up and I answer it, I'm incoherent for the first...

Sarah: You said you knew what you were saying today when I called you.

Conan: Yeah, I always talk like that. No, but for a good 45 seconds of a conversation, I think people do that. The phone rings and wakes them up, and you don't want to admit that you were taking a nap. That's the last thing in the world that you want to do, so once my answering machine picked up just as I picked up, so I had a record of this thing, and I kept it for about 2 years. It was hilarious because I was fast asleep, middle of the day, someone called me up, I picked up the phone and the person went "I'm sorry Conan, were you sleeping?" and I went "Noooo." and they went "no no no, if you were sleeping..." I went "(parlant comme si elle était mal réveillée)" and I had this tape. It was like, I called the incredible hulk today and talked to him. Uh, now what is this? Vanilla Fog is going to be... it's a movie you're shooting right now in New York City, is that right?

Sarah: Yeah, I shot two movies in New York this summer. The first one was Cruel Inventions which is a modernized Dangerous Liasons with Ryan Phillipe, and now I'm shooting a movie called Vanilla Fog, which is a romantic comedy with Sean Patrick Flannery.

Conan: Amazing. So in addition to the show, you're making a lot of movies on the side. People just... a show is enough for most people. But you're doing great.

Sarah: You know, that's the great thing about the business these days is that you can do television. You can do movies, and it's great.

Conan: I have not found that to be true.

Sarah: You work all the time.

Conan: I'm sure the offers will be rolling in, and uh, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Tuesdays at 8:00 on the WB, but I don't think we have to tell our audience that. Thank you so much for coming by.

Sarah: Thank you for having me.

Conan: Really nice to have you. Sarah Michelle Gellar everybody.

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