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Conan:
My next guest plays Willow on Buffy The Vampire Slayer and
starting this Friday you can see her in the film American
Pie 2. Please welcome Alyson Hannigan.
Conan:
How are you?
Alyson:
I'm good.
Conan:
How's it going? Very nice to have you on the show again.
Alyson:
Thank you for having me.
Conan:
Everything's good I understand.
Alyson:
Yes. Your fisherman guy was scaring my publicist backstage
and then I saw that and he's scaring me now.
Conan:
Yeah, he's a very strange man.
Alyson:
Yes.
Conan:
But we love him.
Alyson:
Okay.
Conan:
It's a good company. Now then, you're very young right
now, I understand, but you've been acting for a long time.
I mean, you're one of these people who got into it when you
were, like, four or something. Is that right?
Alyson:
Exactly.
Alyson
fiddles with her mic pack
Conan:
What are you doing back there?
Alyson:
It fell out.
Conan:
What fell out?
Alyson:
It fell out of my...
Conan:
Oh, that. Okay. I seriously didn't know what you
were talking about and I became very afraid.
Alyson:
But yes, I have been acting since I...basically...came out.
Conan:
Can we change seats? You can't make this stuff up!
Did you ever have a regular job?
Alyson:
Yes, I did. I worked in a video store actually, that was
pretty much 90% porn.
Conan:
Was that the title of the video store? That would be great
if that was the title of their store - "90% porn".
Alyson:
I think they'll change their name if they're still in business.
Conan:
Really? So it had a few...if it's 90% porn why not just
go that extra mile and just clean out the rest of the inventory?
There's 90% porn and then there's, like, Love Bug 2 or
something.
Alyson:
Exactly. Like one copy of the big blockbuster that's just
come out. But the people who would rent the porn were
just kinda gross. This one guy in particular he would
come in - you could rent six movies, that was the maximum you
could rent - and he would come in right after I'd started at
like ten, rent six movies...
Conan:
Ten in the morning?
Alyson:
Yeah. Ten in the morning.
Conan:
And rent six movies?
Alyson:
And rent six pornos and then come back right around after I'd
went for lunch or came back from lunch, about twelve, one o'clock,
return those six, rent more than that.
Conan:
Is that as long as it would take to watch?
Alyson:
He would fast forward. He's gotta dehydrate.
Conan:
All right. She meant running back and forth to the store.
That would be very strange.
Alyson:
And he would do this all weekend long and then I would see him
about three times during my shift, which was from, like, ten
to six and then the following morning he would return six different
videos, so he obviously did it in the night.
Conan:
Right.
Alyson:
Poor guy. I mean, he had to have seen, like, the whole
big selection.
Conan:
Right, right.
Alyson:
That's a lot of porn.
Conan:
It is a lot of porn. That's a ton of porn.
Alyson:
Yes.
Conan:
Well, have you had a chance to talk to Max since then?
Conan
indicates the drummer in his band
Conan:
Come on! What do you want?
Max:
I knew that was coming.
Conan:
I had to do it! I was too easy and it's true.
Now, let's talk about American Pie. In the original
movie, your character - very funny character - your character
plays the flute in that movie. And there's a...
But is your character still play that same instrument in this
movie.
Alyson:
Now she's teaching flute lessons. She works at band camp,
so she's...
Conan:
How's she say it, "band camp"?
Alyson:
Band camp. That's how it said it. Yes, so she's
working there, so she's pretty satisfied with her job.
Conan:
Yeah.
Alyson:
And there's more instruments in the second movie. Easy
for me to say!
Conan:
More instruments and a different kind of pie, maybe. Anything
to get the kids back.
Alyson:
Exactly.
Conan:
You like the second one?
Alyson:
Oh, definitely.
Conan:
That's good.
Alyson:
Definitely. There's just as much fun in the second one
as the first, if not more. They sort of push the envelope
a little more.
Conan:
Excellent. So let's talk about Buffy for a second
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer - your character, Willow,
they wrote in that you are having a lesbian relationship on
the show.
Alyson:
Yes.
The
audience cheers
Conan:
You know what's sad? Don't misconstrue that - "that's
socially good" - that's not what they're talking about
there.
Alyson:
Girl on girl.
Conan:
Yeah, right. That's just, I wanna see that.
Was this intentional? Were they doing this to attract
male viewers, do you think, to the show?
Alyson:
No. The producers actually handle it in a very professional
manner, although it did attract a lot of our transportation
department into the studio while we were shooting those scenes.
These guys, they don't do much - sorry guys - I mean, I love
them, they're awesome.
Conan:
They're the people who drive you guys around?
Alyson:
Yeah, and they move the trailers around when we go on location
and everything. But basically, you just see them with
their big gulps. We always make fun of how little they
do - I personally make fun, but suddenly we did this
one episode where it was a dream sequence and we were all slutted
out, 'cause it was Xander's dream and we're in the back of an
ice cream truck and we're about to kiss but then they cut to
Xander.
Conan:
Right.
Alyson:
Anyway, all of transportation was in there and they're like,
"no, we've gotta make sure the ice cream truck is okay".
It wasn't moving!
Conan:
What's gonna happen to the ice cream truck?
Alyson:
"We're here because there's a truck on stage".
Uh-huh, sure you are.
Conan:
Well, they're good. They're trying to get in there and
really help the show and make it as good as possible.
Alyson:
Yes.
Conan:
And your character Willow became evil, right? In
one episode?
Alyson:
Oh yes. Evil Willow.
Conan:
And did Evil Willow dress differently than good Willow?
Alyson:
Yes, she dressed in leather and she sort of had a leather bustier
and she was a little more well endowed.
Conan:
Wait a minute. I love that when you become evil it enhances
your breast size?
Alyson:
Yes. You get boobs.
Conan:
That's such a strange concept!
Alyson:
Isn't that great?
Conan:
Girls just before they go out to the prom are gonna do something
really mean and whoooop!
Alyson:
It was awesome made. The wardrobe ladies gave me these
things that I refer to them as chicken breasts.
Conan:
What?
Alyson:
Chicken breasts. They look like chicken breasts with with
little nipples on them and you shove 'em in and it pushes you
up and then they get all sticky and you can throw them against
the mirror.
Conan:
It's a fun children's toy! Like wheeeee, this is fun!
Alyson:
This is how I amuse myself on the set of Buffy.
Conan:
Yeah.
Alyson:
I take my boobs out and I throw them against the wall.
Conan:
It's a new kind of super heroine.
Alyson:
Exactly.
Conan:
"Stop thief!" Whang!
Alyson:
It's kinda like those little things you get out of the gumball
machines that you throw and they slink down.
Conan:
I never got a breast out of a gumball machine.
Alyson:
Really?
Conan:
Try and try as I might as a child. Every time I put that
quarter in how I prayed. American Pie 2...
The
audience applauds
Conan:
I apologise for the entire show tonight but what are you gonna
do? It's free. American Pie 2 opens this
Friday and the new season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
premieres October 2nd.
Alyson:
On UPN.
Conan:
On UPN this time. Alyson, great to have you here, thanks
for coming. Alyson Hannigan everybody!
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