Supergirl’s Milly Alcock Eats Her Last Meal

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I'm Milly Alcock, and this is my last
meal.
>> [bell]
>> Every person has exactly two things in
common. We all got to eat, and we're all
going to die. Today's guest is an actor
who you might recognize from House of
the Dragon, Sirens, and Noel Gallagher's
High Flying Birds music video. She stars
as Supergirl in Supergirl out in
theaters on June 26th. She's come a long
way since doing shoeys at the park in
her native Sydney. Milly Alcock, welcome
to the show.
>> Thank you for having me.
>> Anytime.
>> to be here.
>> Milly, on the table
we have two shoes.
>> No!
>> And two beers. Hold on. Hold on. Let me
explain something.
>> to do a shoey?
>> Well, that's up to you. We're certainly
not going to pressure you into doing
anything you don't want.
>> kind of have to, though.
>> Is that part of the code of being
Australian?
>> I I would be like shunned.
>> I
>> They're too clean, though.
We're not dirtying them, but
>> say I'll take off my own shoe and do
mine.
>> But like in the context of when you do a
shoey, okay, you're like either 16 in a
park, and you're like drunk, and you're
like, "This is hilarious."
>> Yeah.
>> Or you're at a music festival, and
you're like, [music] "We have no cup.
Let's do a shoey." Or a musician would
do it on stage, and everyone goes crazy.
>> I'm doing it. We're doing it.
>> I'm not going to say no.
>> How much of the beer goes into the shoe?
>> You just I mean, that's too much. That's
too much. That's too much. Oh god.
>> Milly, you got to go.
>> DON'T SO LIKE the beauty of a shoey, and
we're not going to do it right, is that
when you do it, it's usually very hot.
So you do and you spill it all. It's
like when
F1.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> Yeah, when they when they spray the
champagne.
>> The Australian version is
>> It's it's a shoey.
>> This is
>> [laughter]
>> It's it's a celebratory
>> European version of the shoey. It's the
champagne spray.
>> Yes.
>> I think shoeys are a lot classier.
>> I think that they are a lot classier.
You're spilling it. Okay, let's do it
together. [laughter]
>> I'm just going
>> This is phenomenal. Okay.
>> you were going to do the whole beer.
>> No. So you just cheers. We cheers it,
and then you drink it.
>> [applause]
>> God, I feel alive.
>> It's great.
>> Milly, thank you so much for being on
Last Meals.
>> Of course.
>> Yeah.
>> Have you thought about your last meal
before?
>> I You know what? This is a quest This
used to be a date question.
>> Wait, that you would ask dates or dates
would ask
>> I would I would ask dates. I would ask
dates, "What is your last meal?" a lot
cuz I think it tells a lot about a
person, but it's also like, "Okay,
>> [music]
>> how do I want to go out?" You either go
through like the childhood route or
you're like,
"I'm going to indulge and eat something
[music] crazy." Or you're like, you
know, "How how do you want your last
moments to be?"
>> Yeah.
>> So, I have thought about it quite a bit.
>> Yeah, so you
>> And it changes
depending on the season. [music]
>> Are you a person who typically like
changes their style, their wants, their
needs? Do you think you've gone through
a lot of changes in your life in that
way?
>> Yeah, I think so. I think that like
living in a different country and like
traveling so much, it kind of you become
this collage of everywhere that you're
from and who you are is at the center of
that. So, I think that we're always in
influx.
>> It's so funny. Do you you you have a
fair amount of tattoos, right?
>> Yes.
>> How many do you have?
>> 20?
>> You have 20 tattoos? Hell yeah. I
>> [laughter]
>> A lot of people are like, "I don't want
to get tattoos because I'm always
changing." And I'm like, "That's
precisely why I want
>> That's why you get it. No, I agree. I
agree. And I think also for me being an
actor, there's a lot You know, my my
Yes, my body is my tool, but also my
body is in service of other people and a
character and whoever I need to be. And
there's something very grounding about
at the end of the day taking it all off
and it's my skin. You know? And it's
like it's personalized to me. And
they're also just really addictive.
>> I get that.
>> to get another one.
>> Oh, yeah. What are you What are you
doing after this? We do another couple
shots
>> I tattoo.
>> [laughter]
>> And then like I got someone I can call.
>> Yeah.
>> How often do you think about death in
general?
>> You know what?
I have this weird thing and it kind of
started when I got House of the Dragon
and funnily enough, I think it's because
something really overwhelmingly positive
had happened to me. Like really, really
good had happened to me, and my brain
was like, "The other shoe has to drop.
How is the other shoe going to drop?"
And I used to get these very
vivid, visceral, um, like in like images
and scenarios in real time of me like
tripping and knocking out all of my
teeth, me getting hit by a car, a lamp
post falling because my body was like,
"This good thing has happened, so this
bad thing has to happen to even it out."
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> And also, I fly a lot.
Planes, man.
>> But do you do you get that death anxiety
on planes? Because the thing that always
calms down is knowing that you if you
drove on the freeway or any LA street,
you're much more likely to die in that
scenario. But there's something very
emotionally isolating on a plane.
>> altitude.
>> [laughter]
>> That's what it is.
>> You're so high up, so like there's
actually nowhere to go.
>> I can't wait to dive into some of those
deep, horribly messed up anxieties
[laughter] while we're having a martini.
>> Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Let's eat.
>> [bell]
>> Milly, for the first course of your
final meal on Earth, we have Gilda's,
the proper chips, and then a dozen
oysters with mignonette. So now, these
are Kusshi oysters. These are West Coast
oysters. These are maybe my single
favorite oyster on the planet. And then,
of course, we have the extra filthy
vodka martini.
>> Yeah.
>> Frozen glass, frozen vodka, frozen
everything. This is a very, um, specific
visit. You were saying how your last
meal kind of changes. What version of
Milly's last meal are we getting right
now?
>> This is the present last meal. This is
like what I would have right now in my
life. But I think if you ask me what my
last meal would be like 5 years from
now, it would be different.
>> How would it be different?
>> know. I'd be different in 5 years.
>> But like 5 years ago, what do you think
you would have said if you could put
yourself in that headspace?
>> Ooh, I would have said a tiramisu and a
toast.
I don't know why. My friend, owns a
restaurant in Sydney called Baba's Place
that's like [music] fusion food that's
Lebanese and it's it's basically
immigrant food that's like elevated and
it's such a beautiful beautiful
restaurant and they have a very famous
tarama toast that is so beautiful to
look at.
>> Is tarama
>> Like taramasalata?
>> popular enough in Australia that you
shorten it to tarama?
>> Yeah, probably.
>> Hell yeah.
>> Everything everything is short.
>> So this is now sort of like
>> This is elevated. We've we've leveled
up.
>> This is Milli of the world. Milli
Milli's elevated out of Australia.
>> cuz I hadn't traveled until I
>> Yeah.
>> Sydney. [music]
>> Damn. This is actually a really cool
exercise in snapshot. Hey, in the
meantime
>> Let's have
>> [music]
>> a sip.
>> Extra filthy, a lot of cosmopolitan all
the juice in there.
>> That's very good.
>> That rips.
>> That's very good.
>> There's one thing on here. Please start
wherever you want. This is your last
meal, but there's one thing that's
catching my eye because we've never had
this in the show and it's one of the
coolest things you can eat. And that's
the Gilda.
>> Gildas I feel like Gildas are really
having a moment.
>> They're they really are.
>> are. They're a good like you know with a
drink it's summertime. You get a little
snack.
>> For people who don't know a Gilda is
it's a a pincho from a northern Spain uh
started in San Sebastian where there's
an an anchovy wrapped around an olive
with a gindia pepper skewered. The hot
damn I'm in flavor town.
>> I had a really good Gilda at Rita's in
London and they stuffed their olives
with blue cheese. When you try it you
will understand why the blue cheese
is amazing in it and you have to chase
it with the drink.
>> 100%. Oh my god.
>> Is this good? It's just salt.
>> You ever salt the fish and eat? You ever
been checked?
>> Probably.
>> [laughter]
>> I mean not after this.
>> I know I'm like
>> Do you know the history of the Gilda?
>> I don't.
>> The history of the Gilda
is it's named after the movie Gilda
starring Rita Hayworth
>> Oh.
>> which premiered at the Cannes Film
Festival in 1946 immediately after World
War II.
>> Yeah.
>> Cannes Film Festival was only founded
because Mussolini and Hitler had too
much influence over the Venice Film
Festival [music]
and so it's kind of big that Gilda was
like the first premiere movie there.
>> Oh my god.
>> Spain under Francisco Franco, the
fascist autocrat, banned the movie Gilda
because it was too salacious.
A lot of things about
weak men fearing the power of a woman on
screen.
So banned the movie and so somebody who
owned a bar in San Sebastian created
this and was like
>> [music]
>> it's green, Gilda was wearing green in
the movie posters. It's spicy, it's
salty, it's salacious. This is the Gilda
and this will forever live on as our
little subversive message.
>> god, so there you go. That's amazing.
>> You know.
>> So many facts.
>> Weak men being afraid of powerful women
on screen because of Gilda.
>> It's true.
>> That is what happened.
>> Yeah.
It's so good.
I love oysters.
I'm going to chew and then speak to you.
>> Please, please, please.
>> [laughter]
>> So for me
oysters are Christmas time food.
Because in Australia it's summer. So
like someone will bring the There's
always an argument Well, in my house
anyway, there's always an argument about
who brings the oysters and who brings
the prawns. So you come in with like
like a kid
>> Those are the Christmas time arguments
in Australia? Incredible.
>> Who brings the oysters and who brings
the prawns cuz you'll get like a massive
like 2 kilo bag of prawns and you you
just have them We would only really have
them fresh.
>> Mhm.
>> So the barbecuing thing
is a is a marketing tool.
>> Have you ever said the phrase
>> and you just like
>> Shrimp on the barbie?
>> No, I didn't say
>> Are you going to say it? I said have you
said it? I wasn't going to ask you.
That's messed up.
>> Yeah. So that's the that's the big
debate of Christmas time.
>> Man, well
dig in. I love love raw oysters. Cheers.
>> Cheers.
It's just so good.
>> [cough]
[clears throat]
>> I'm so [laughter] sorry, dude.
That was the grossest thing I've ever
done on the show.
>> go down the wrong way?
>> What happened is the oyster wasn't
dislodging
and so I tried to suck it in and then a
shallot
>> Ooh.
Right at
>> back of the throat.
>> Right up into the nasal cavity.
>> The vinegar.
>> So we'll figure out
>> We'll cut it out.
>> on in there? No, leave it. This stays.
This stays.
>> [laughter]
>> So
the chicken salt.
>> The chicken salt on the chips. So you
also have steak fries. Those are coming
later. But we wanted to make like a
proper thing of really thick chips with
the chicken salt, which is something
that we have never had before.
And we got it here in case we didn't put
enough. We don't know the correct
Australian ratio.
>> had chicken salt before?
>> Never had
>> Chicken salt is amazing.
>> And then also we have uh the tomato
sauce.
Uh you have to say it with an accent cuz
tomato sauce for us is something
different.
>> Okay.
>> So it's only when you say tomato sauce
that it becomes ketchup.
We have ketchup in America.
>> accent.
>> [laughter]
>> Where would you place me in Australia
with that? Do it again.
>> [clears throat]
>> Tomato sauce.
>> In America.
>> [laughter]
>> In what region of America?
>> I don't know.
>> We also have Lao Gan Ma
>> Lao Gan Ma
This I do do
a lot.
>> Lao Gan Ma in the mayonnaise?
>> But Lao Gan Ma in hummus.
>> Dude. Dude.
>> That
was
>> should. You ought to try it.
It's just like
salt but better.
>> But all the things that sort of make
chicken taste
>> it's just like garlic garlic onion
powder.
>> There's no MSG in it at least as far as
I can tell, which I kind of wish it had
it.
>> to get the good one with MSG.
>> Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.
>> Yeah.
>> [laughter]
>> That would be like chicken salt.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> When you were asked what would be on
Supergirl's playlist
>> Mhm.
>> you mentioned the song Security by Amyl
and the Sniffers.
>> Mhm.
>> Which I thought that was really great
that a Kryptonian living in Metropolis
would be a fan of Australian garage punk
{slash} pub rock.
>> It's my movie.
>> It's
>> [laughter]
>> your movie. I got the sense that a
little bit of Milly slipped into that
answer.
>> Oh, yeah. I think so. I think she would
be into that. I was really thinking of
the origin of Metropolis.
>> Sure, sure, sure.
>> And in in conjunction to the to the to
the world.
>> How long have you been like listening to
Amyl and the Sniffers / that genre in
general?
>> I actually got introduced to Amyl and
the Sniffers from Rhys Ifans on the set
of House of the Dragon. He was like,
"Millie, you need to check out this
band. I think they're amazing. They're
Australian." And then I got really,
really
>> [music]
>> into them. But I haven't seen them live
yet.
I would love to see them live.
>> They're pretty rad live. Not to make you
jealous at all.
>> Did you see What did you say?
>> Coachella 2025. They were there.
>> Really?
>> They were there. Viagra Boys is there.
Soft Play. A lot of the fun fun funk
bands. But Amyl
they absolutely crushed it. There was
another character that I
feel like had a lot of similarities that
I played Supergirl and that was Meg in
Upgrade.
>> Mhm.
>> Cuz that is such a fantastic show that
frankly I wish was easier to watch in
America. Yeah, it's You have to go
through a lot of hoops and sign up for a
bunch of weird 7-day trials.
>> Yeah.
>> But no, that said, I mean you and and to
mention like you jump off the screen as
just this like devil-may-care,
mischievous attitude. Like truly it's
incredible and you can draw the direct
through line
from Meg to to Kara in Supergirl.
>> Yeah.
>> When you You must must have been what?
17, 18 when you took that role?
>> 18, yeah.
>> Did you know that you had that in your
bag to play that level within the first
5 minutes on screen? It's just like,
"Oh, she gets comedy. She gets sarcasm.
She gets all of this."
>> thank you. That's so That's really,
really lovely. I don't know if I like
knew that it was inside of me, but I
think I kind of
had this these feelings and [music] this
feeling and I I I didn't know
where to put it and Meg was just
presented as such this beautiful,
complex, hot,
deeply lovable and deeply human
>> Yeah.
>> person that I was so, so thrilled to
play her. Yeah, she does have a through
line to Kara. They I
When I was shooting Supergirl, I was
kind of like, "Oh, this is kind of Meg
in my brain." I was like, "They're kind
of all They're in the the yeah, they're
like the same person.
>> But like do you draw from that in your
own life?
>> What do you mean by that?
>> So you use the term you said
Kara in the movie is at war with herself
in a way which seemed like a very
personal statement. That's a very
specific phrasing. Do you feel that kind
of war within yourself?
>> Yeah, I think most people do. I don't
know, I think it's it's important to be
introspective and it's important to kind
of express all these very complex
contradictory things that we feel as
human. We're all walking contradictions
[music] chronically, you know, and I
think
I think if you berate yourself for
thinking a certain way that you could
have quite shouldn't be thinking then
you're by proxy doing the same thing as
thinking the bad thing.
>> Sure, sure. Executive producer Chantal
Nong
said she started ugly crying allegedly
>> She did.
>> when she saw you wear the Supergirl suit
for the first time. What did that
communicate to you though about how much
it means to play Supergirl because she
had been working on bringing this idea
to life for so so long.
>> Yeah, yeah. I think it just made me like
viscerally feel
the responsibility that I had to play
this person not only for the people who
will watch the film but for the people
who are making the film.
>> Sure, yeah.
>> Like making a film is so hard.
>> Seems like it.
>> It's honestly it's astonishing [music]
that anything gets made. It's honestly
it is like every day is moving a
mountain. Every day anything can happen.
Like there's so many perfect parts that
have to fall into just the right way to
make this like beautiful puzzle piece.
It is a lot of pressure yes but it's it
also makes you want to work really hard
and it makes everybody
>> [music]
>> around you who is working on it
really invested and it's nice to be in
something that's you know, people care
about.
>> You ready to go to the next course?
>> Let's do it.
>> it.
>> [bell]
>> Milly for the second course
>> Yes.
>> final meal on Earth we have the rare
chateaubriand with cafe de Paris sauce,
>> [music]
>> thin fries Caesar salad and then so the
Birra Moretti Sale di Mare, we could not
find that in America. [laughter]
I think that only exists
>> thing. It's so hard to find in London as
well. When I can find an off-license
that sells it, I will stockpile it.
>> And I know Australians are European
because you compete in Eurovision.
Um
>> [laughter]
>> Uh so, what we did is we added some sea
salt to a normal Birra Moretti. However,
we have an American version of a salted
lager with lime salt.
>> Oh, wow.
>> Buena Vesa, this is like from one of my
favorite breweries called Stone. That is
like local to me. If you want to try it.
>> Let's try it.
>> It's a San Diego brewery. They're like
pioneers. They're not a sponsor. I just
>> [music]
>> I've been drinking them since I was 21.
>> That's good.
>> Isn't it?
>> It's good.
>> Tell me about the rare chateaubriand.
And is this cooked to your liking or is
this too rare?
>> it's just like I just want like a good
like a thick steak. You want a thick
steak and rare whenever medium rare is
always a gamble, I think, when you go to
a restaurant. Cuz sometimes it's medium
rare, but sometimes they're cooking
somebody else's steak and yours comes
[music] out and it's it's well done. So,
I always just say rare.
Cuz then you're kind of at their mercy.
>> gamble. I don't know. That's a gamble in
and of itself. I think it takes a lot of
trust in life to order a rare steak.
Does that make sense?
>> Yeah, you got to trust life.
>> Are you Are you a trusting person in
life?
>> Yeah, I think so. Maybe like not of
people, but of like of life itself.
>> Okay. Like you trust that things will
generally work out for the better.
>> Maybe not work out for the better, but I
just trust that everything is going to
happen the way it's meant to meant to
happen. You can't As soon as you
manipulate an outcome, or well, for me
anyway, like obsess over something that
you want, or like, you know, be
strategic about how you're going to play
a certain move, it doesn't work out. You
have to like surrender to, you know,
>> The the tighter you grip something, the
more likely it is to slip through your
fingers.
>> Exactly. Exactly. Yeah.
>> Why the Cafe de Paris sauce? Cuz that's
very That's a very specific thing.
>> I was just feeling it. I was feeling it
that day. And I was like Also, when I
got the email to be on the show, they
were like, "You have to do it by
tonight."
>> [laughter]
>> YEAH, WE
LISTEN. LISTEN, HEY.
>> I SHOULD HAVE JUST DONE I should have
just done peppercorn like, you know, a
normal person. But then I was like I was
like, "Wait.
>> So, Cafe de Paris sauce Have you been to
Le Relais de l'Entrecôte or Le Relais de
Venise? Very famous
>> No.
>> steak spot? I thought that's where this
inspiration was coming from cuz I think
they popularized it.
>> Yeah.
>> made it a couple times on the show, I
think.
>> good.
>> But this is great. I don't think it's
the thing that a lot of Americans know,
either. This is like There's 50
ingredients in this.
>> Yep.
>> It's anchovies for the second or third
time in this meal.
>> I love anchovies. [laughter]
>> I agree. And for the love of God, go to
a doctor and see what the salt situation
is cuz there's salt in the beer, there's
salt in the martini, there's anchovies
everywhere.
>> I think if I were to look at a couple
similarities across your meal, there's a
kind of intensity about it.
>> Yeah.
>> There's a real intensity of flavor.
>> Yeah.
>> I know you've talked about this
adrenaline rush
>> Yeah.
>> of performing for the first time
>> Mhm.
>> on a little red rocking hood, I believe.
>> Yeah.
>> What was that feeling that you got on
stage? And is that what you're trying to
recreate?
>> I think so. I just remember being on
stage and like looking at the crowd and
just being like, "Whoa." I think that
feeling is You You know when a memory is
happening in real time and it's a
moment? [music]
>> I spoke about this just previously
before, but I think performing offers
that sense of
magic. You know when you're getting like
broken up with
and it's happening and your brain is
like, "Oh my god, it's happening. Wait,
what's happening? This is happening.
It's happening." And you kind of like
the moment and you've thought about it
probably
>> Mhm.
>> before of like how it's going to happen,
how it's going to play out. But as the
moment is happening, it feels special,
but sad, but real, but kind of euphoric
in a weird way.
I think it's that feeling.
>> There There was a
There was a psychologist who talked
about the idea of
>> [music]
>> extending not your life in terms of how
many years you live,
>> Yeah.
>> but your life in terms of how long it
feels.
>> Yeah.
>> I don't know if you've had this
experience where you you blink and 3
months goes by. For me as I've gotten
older, that happens more and more often,
but they said that the way to
prolong your life in that sense in the
feeling is to create more tremendously
strong memories.
>> Yeah.
>> And it's not just good memories.
>> No.
>> I think good, bad is sort of a false
dichotomy [music]
in a way, right?
>> Yeah, everything's a gray area.
>> Everything's a gray area.
>> Nothing is black and white.
>> There are there times of like tremendous
sadness that I felt where I'm I'm very
grateful for that and I'm not I almost
want to say I'm nostalgic for it because
I felt truly alive in that moment.
>> there's also a safety in sadness.
[music]
There's there's a permission to wallow.
There's a permission to not feel good.
>> Cuz you're not waiting for the other
shoe to drop.
>> No, it's it's dropped and you can kind
of sit in the feeling and sometimes that
is really unfortunately kind of nice.
>> That's bleak, man.
>> It's bleak, but that's life.
>> No, it is.
>> but yeah, I think I think [music] I
think that. Yeah.
>> Mhm.
>> Yeah.
>> Solid.
>> I'm trying to see if actually have sea
salt last night.
>> [laughter]
>> In LA?
>> It's just a safe bet. Yeah, it was just
at the hotel.
>> Wait, why is safe bet on your last meal,
then?
>> Cuz it's just good.
Anchovies again.
>> Oh my god. Oh my god.
>> I know.
>> Your last meal is like that of a of a
sea otter.
Just tiny little fish.
>> so many little fish.
>> [laughter]
>> I don't know why.
>> You said something in an interview that
made me feel tremendously sad. That's a
great way to start a sentence. Talking
to somebody. But no, I'm almost like
forlorn in a way of you said that after
you booked House of the Dragon after it
came out,
>> Mhm.
>> you moved to London because in a way you
felt like you couldn't return home
anymore.
>> Yeah.
>> Because you were an entirely different
person. All these memories that you have
would be seen through a different lens.
Does that make you yearn for home? Does
that make you mourn it?
>> Mhm.
>> [music]
>> It comes and it comes and goes
in waves. When you're someone who
I don't want to say works in an industry
like mine, but has a lifestyle that
mirrors being an actor, which is you
travel a lot, you're constantly working
with new people, you're constantly
saying goodbye, you're constantly
in different hotel rooms, in different,
you know,
people, places, and things all the time
that you make all these little homes as
you go. Like a hotel room becomes a home
for a couple weeks. I think that
Australia home and the the kind of
yearning that I get for Australia, um
just it's [music] it's like my younger
self. It's like, you know, it's where I
come from. So, I do I do miss it, but
it's just it's very far away.
>> [laughter]
>> It's very, very far away.
>> Now that you're Supergirl, there's
>> [music]
>> yet another echelon of fame that I think
you're you're jumping into.
London's your home now.
>> Yeah.
>> Do you see that changing in a way? Do
you [music]
think that you can go back to the
version of Millie that lived in London
before Supergirl?
>> No, but that's just like anything that
happens in life.
That's just like do you think you can go
back to the version of yourself after
getting a promotion or losing like your
best friend having a falling out with
you, or you know what I mean? Like all
of us go through these monumentous
moments that feel small,
>> Yeah.
>> and then we can't really return to to
who we were before then.
>> Yeah.
>> You know, it's like
you want to be gluten-free, or you want
to be sober, or vegan, or whatever, you
know.
>> Most people don't have
um
hundreds of millions dollars on the line
and millions of people watching their
attempt to go and gluten-free
>> That's true.
>> is I think the only difference, which
some would say is a major difference.
[music]
>> Yeah.
>> But not to put that on you. Because at
the end of the day, I think
here's a sort of thesis I've been
working on. Um
I think [music]
humans capacity for happiness and joy is
maybe a a bit lower of a ceiling than we
think. I think the most intense joy that
you can experience
is about as much as [music]
an average person in a way. And I think
that
>> Mhm.
>> movie stars, celebrities, um
athletes, they sort of function as this
aspirational larger-than-life figure
that people go, "God, if I only had
that, I could be happy." Not knowing
that
>> [music]
>> that ultimate happiness is so much
closer
>> to Yeah.
>> is.
>> No, I agree.
>> [music]
>> I think I think there's so much joy in
mundanity. And I don't think that people
really
not appreciate cuz that's the wrong
word, but I see people like sitting and
laughing in a park with their newborn,
and I'm like, "Oh my god, they're the
luckiest people on the planet."
>> That's That is as good as life gets,
100%. Yeah, yeah. Everything else is
sort of window dressing, yeah.
>> Oh, it doesn't Yeah, it doesn't matter.
>> That's that. Do you think the reason we
chase things
>> Mhm.
>> This is a question I ask myself all the
time.
>> Yeah.
>> Um do you think that we chase greatness
out of a sense of fear or out of a sense
of love?
>> I talk about this with my friends all
the time.
>> No, [laughter] what are they saying?
>> ask them. I do Do you operate out of um
a place of love and a place of fear? And
I think it's different from every person
to person, [music] and also where that
person is in a like being adjacent to
what they want.
>> [music]
>> I think that for me personally, it's
always in flux.
>> Yeah.
>> Like
Supergirl, pure fear.
Pure fear. I was so, you know, scared to
take on that responsibility and to
>> Yeah.
>> to to face that, but then there was this
immense love that happened during the
making of it, you know, and kind of
getting the opportunity to work with
hundreds of people who are They're the
best at what they do.
>> Yeah.
>> Like they are incredible, the crew.
>> I I recently heard uh a psychiatrist say
that um happiness is perhaps heritable,
meaning that if you had unhappy parents,
no matter what
>> Woah.
>> Which kind of really made me so
existentially bummed
>> Yeah.
>> in a way, but like I think different
people have different capacities for
happiness.
>> Mhm.
>> What is the actual happiest that you
are? Because I I love what I do. It is
shrouded in a tremendous amount of
stress and fear.
>> Mhm.
>> In a way that everything I've ever cared
about has been. What is the actual
happiest that you have been
working in a job?
Like true happiness, like true
elation, not like oh, this is a big
opportunity, but actually like the good
hormones and brain chemicals are
spraying.
>> On a set.
>> Yeah.
>> It's on a set. And it's a beautiful
point on a set where week one is scary,
terrifying, nobody knows each other,
you're trying to learn each other's
names. Week two, you're kind of like,
okay, who do I like? Who do I trust? Who
do I not trust? Whose team am I on?
>> Who's your enemy? Who are you going to
prank?
>> Week three, you get into a groove. Week
four, you're kind of in this beautiful
place where [music]
you become this community, become this
family, or this very dysfunctional
family, you know, you're this crew of
misfit pirates [music] in a way.
Everyone's from somewhere, everyone has
a story, you know, it is such a
demanding job, not only for the actor,
but for [music] everybody who is
involved. The ADs work their asses off.
Every department works, you know,
upwards of 16 hours a day. Yeah, you
kind [music] of develop this
camaraderie. So, I would say during
during the being on set. Sometimes it's
not even acting. It's just the being a
part of being a part of something.
>> I've talked to so many actors that say
they got into acting not because of the
feeling they have when they're acting.
>> Mhm.
>> But because of the feeling of being at
the diner or the cafe after, [music] you
know, the pub after the set wraps.
>> Yeah.
>> Um
Anthony Bourdain said that um the only
feeling he said he never missed working
on the actual line being a chef.
>> miss having the beer after it? Yeah.
[music]
>> Mhm.
>> That's it? We're all sort of working for
the beer after it.
>> It
>> And you can't recreate the feeling?
>> No, because the drink [music]
independently doesn't serve the purpose.
>> No.
>> It's not about the drink. never
>> the drink.
>> You know, so yeah.
>> None of this is actually about the food.
It It's [music] about the memories that
you have associated with it. It's about
who you want to be
while you're eating this. It's about
>> Yeah.
>> so much more.
>> So much more. I'm going to have my
steak.
This is very good, by the way.
>> [bell]
>> Milly, for the final course of your
final meal on Earth, we have the Mezcal
Negroni. Now, this is smoked underneath
a cloche.
This is made with Madre Mezcal. It's a
Mezcal out of Los Angeles.
>> Never had it.
>> [laughter]
>> Something this beautiful before. I just
want to take a moment to appreciate the
ice.
>> The spherical ice?
>> It's beautiful. The spherical ice is
amazing.
>> There's a certain aesthetic to your
entire meal. If you look at everything
with the raspberry sorbet.
>> Oh, you got raspberry and dark chocolate
as one.
>> We did. We We sort of like made a dark
chocolate speckle in there with some
really quality 72% cacao. We actually
have a raspberry filled dark chocolate
here. The Mezcal Negroni though,
there's something on top of it. So, this
is garnished with an orange. I love
Mezcal and all agave spirits.
This is sal de gusano.
>> Mhm.
>> That's on it. So, there are worms that
live in the agave plant.
>> Mhm.
>> And when they smoke the agave, the worms
actually get dried and smoked as well.
Then they grind that with salt. It's
traditionally eaten on top of the orange
with Mezcal. If you want to try the
salt, lick it off. I find it wonderful.
Some people are weirded out by worms.
>> We did a shoey. I mean
>> You did a shoey?
>> Like I can lick this salt.
>> Lick the salt.
>> Somebody do you just lick it?
>> Lick the salt, really take it in, and
then take a sip.
>> Okay.
Woah.
>> Kind of tastes like chicken salt, right?
>> This is what I imagine
It sounds so weird. A fireplace to taste
like.
>> Yes.
>> You know what I mean?
>> 100%.
>> It tastes like a fireplace. Like it's
woody, but smoky, but like
>> And you want that?
>> Yeah.
>> Why? Have you like diagnosed that about
yourself? Cuz I um
there was a study that talked about how
love of bitter intense flavors
>> Mhm. that aren't necessarily
traditionally good is associated with
psychopathy. However
>> What's psychopathy? [music]
>> Like being a psychopath.
>> I'm not a psychopath.
>> You're not a psychopath. That's not what
I was saying at all. I wasn't implying
that.
>> [laughter]
>> No, but I think
for instance you once said that acting
was the first time that your emotional
dysregulation
seemed to be treated as a net positive.
>> Yeah.
>> Which I think absolutely rules and
something that I very much identify
with.
>> Mhm.
>> When is the first time that you got the
hint that like oh, this is something I
can actually use to my advantage?
>> use to my advantage? Probably through
the work. I think it's any sort of
artist has that distance
>> I agree entirely.
>> and that like disconnect.
>> Yeah.
>> You know? You need the medium of
whatever art you're doing to to purge or
to get something out of
of something deep within yourself, you
know? It's like blasting art is seen
that way. It's not made to It's not as
commercial, I think, you know, in a way.
>> Where do your like personal art tastes
lie?
>> Like movies?
>> Like what's your what's your dream role?
What is your obviously your dream role?
Supergirl.
>> Obviously my dream role is Supergirl.
Yeah. I never know how to answer that
question because I think that I get so
excited by
new writing and new directors and I
think we've had such a
um
wave of young talent and young directors
specifically
like with you know obsession and
backrooms that have really just thrown
the market place this absolute amazing
curveball of like you can make a film
for under a million dollars and it be
this huge thing and I think that that
extension of trust within
making
new content and things that are also
left of center um will hopefully
there'll be more of that made.
>> Yeah.
>> So, some something like that.
>> Your dream role is a role that hasn't
yet been written.
>> Yeah, I would say so.
>> That's that's like tremendously
optimistic in a way. That rules, man.
>> Yeah.
>> Hell yeah. Dig into the survey. Dig into
the sorbet. Please, please, please.
>> Which spoon?
>> Uh so this is
>> [laughter]
>> I don't know. This one seems reasonable.
>> like nice to hold.
>> It feels elegant in a way. Um so this is
uh fresh raspberries that we frozen,
we've [music] juiced, we've deseeded,
we've blended with a little bit of fresh
dark chocolate in there.
>> That is amazing. [music]
That is so good.
>> My team is very talented.
>> You guys are amazing.
>> Thank you. We like genuinely take this
seriously. Um also especially for
somebody like you that I know
has so much deep knowledge about food.
>> food.
>> Also, restaurant industry veteran.
>> Mhm.
>> Washing dishes at a cafe
>> Mhm.
>> in Sydney
>> Yeah.
>> uh
while you had already booked House of
the Dragon?
>> Yeah. Yeah. So I got I got that job at
Baba's Place, that restaurant that I was
talking about. And this was when
I used to I used to throw warehouse
parties when I was like 18, 19.
>> Come on.
>> In in these warehouses.
>> What kind of music? What kind of music
at the warehouse?
>> all live music. So we would get our
friends who were musicians who went to
[music] perform at our high school. Um
and we had a gallery space and we would
Yeah, we would throw parties there in
this warehouse and one of the people who
lived in the warehouse was
J- JP who owns Baba's Place now. But
Baba's Place was in such early
development days, they had licensing
issues at the time. So it was in this
very secluded warehouse and they needed
staff really quickly. So I would
chip in and wash dishes there.
>> Even after the show came out though when
you were living in London, you said that
you thought of applying to I believe
Violet was the bakery?
>> I did, yeah. I did a trial shift at
Violet.
>> You did a trial shift?
>> I did do a trial shift.
>> How did it go?
>> Violet. They were like, "Can you come
back?" And I was like, "Yeah." And then
I looked at my schedule and I was like,
"No, wait. I'm actually I'm an actor.
What am I doing?"
>> But like what
>> [laughter]
>> what about that environment draws you to
You mentioned this like roving band of
pirates thing. I think there that's
what's always drew me to kitchens. It's
the same thing that drew me to sports as
well.
>> Yeah.
>> It was just these are a bunch of people
who
they love to be in the [ __ ]
>> They love to be in the [ __ ]
>> Truly. But that's the only time that I
kind of feel that emotional
dysregulation being regulated for the
first time is when I have that constant
intensity surrounding me.
>> Yeah.
>> You know?
>> Yeah.
>> Is that something you found as well?
>> Yeah. I think
I think that chaos can be a really
wonderful place sometimes.
>> It's It's the best.
>> It's kind of the best. It's kind of the
best. Yeah, and there is something about
that
community aspect of you all collectively
trying to push this boulder up this hill
>> [music]
>> that is really rewarding. That's really
fulfilling.
>> And you know that close of day it
crashes back down and
>> Oh, it's fabulous. Yeah. But I I love
that I love that camaraderie that like
kitchens have and sets have.
>> You're playing a character in Supergirl
who has all of that chaos and all of the
emotional dysregulation
but is sort of neglecting the
camaraderie for a lot of it until she
meets Ruthie, somebody who she
>> [music]
>> sees a fair amount of herself in. The
thing that I identified with
in that was her almost inability to care
about herself. And almost not from a way
of I care so much about other people,
but almost in like a really
self-detonating way.
>> Yeah.
>> Do you Do you identify with that
personally?
>> With the self-detonating?
>> Self-detonating, but but but but will
not detonate for another person.
>> I think that that's her way of
being good in the film in a really in a
really interesting way cuz Clark, you
know, Clark's whole thing is that he's
virtuous and he's good and he's a symbol
for hope and all of these other things.
And Kara is someone who struggles to be
to be good to herself and to be kind
[music] to herself because she hasn't
healed. She's incredibly emotionally
damaged. So, when she's presented this
beautiful opportunity to almost save
herself by proxy by helping Ruthie, she
kind of puts that to bed in a way. So,
yeah.
>> There's another big theme of grief. Not
only does Kara go through so much grief,
but a very different kind of grief than
somebody like Clark or even somebody
like Ruthie.
>> Yeah.
>> And I really love the way that it um
>> [clears throat]
>> might be a cliché, but you never know
what somebody else has actually gone
through in that
>> You don't.
>> specific way.
>> Yeah.
>> Is there any moment in your real life
that you were able to draw from where
you realized that either you had
something that you were almost keeping
inside you and seeking from another or
found out that somebody else had?
>> Yeah.
I think that I surprisingly had this
kind of very meta experience while
playing Kara
that I was
someone who
was unsure of myself, unsure of what I
was doing was the right thing, wasn't
[music] treating myself in the way that
I should have been been treating myself
and Kara was my Ruthie in this weird
very interesting way. Like I needed her
to have this trust in myself as an actor
cuz I kind of didn't I was still in that
mindset of like this is all a scam and
none of it is real and I am like I was
>> Sure.
>> I still am kind of in that like big
phase impostor syndrome and you know,
hopefully I'll escape that as the years
go on, but getting the opportunity to
play Kara gave me that gift of getting
outside of myself because we me and Kara
felt very similar as people.
>> Yeah.
>> Cuz I fully believe that all the people
that you that you play as an actor, it's
a part of you. There's a part of you
that kind of that is fully seen in that
person. You transform, yes, but it's
still you at your core.
>> We ask everybody on the show, what do
you think happens when you die?
>> What do I think happens when you die?
>> I'm hoping we can really solve it this
time.
>> I think well, your brain like produces
the same chemical as DMT, doesn't it?
>> That's what I've heard. I'm sort of
banking a lot in this.
>> On this?
>> Mhm.
>> Are you scared to die?
>> I think anybody who says no is lying,
but I'm going to say no.
>> But why?
>> [snorts]
>> No, I'm tremendously afraid. I think
we're um
my
very annoying answer is that I view
consciousness as a cheap evolutionary
trick to get us to [music] fear death to
continue
propagating our own species.
>> Yeah.
>> Um and so none of this is is really
special and so by fearing death I'm sort
of just going along with the biological
imperative.
>> Mhm.
>> But then there's the other part of me
that like
you know,
uh holds my wife's hand as I watch the
sunset and drink a cold beer and think
surely there's got to be a god that
painted all of this and surely we will
end up in her warm embrace afterwards.
>> But I think that's the constant flux and
paradox that um
I think if you really scrolled through
the the DSM-5, the psychological
diagnostic manual, I think you'd
probably find a couple words that could
describe
>> [laughter]
>> that swing back and forth.
>> Yeah.
>> Um
but here I am. Some I'm of two minds on
that.
>> You're of two minds, yeah.
Yeah, I think the beauty of life is the
value of its inevitable
>> Yeah.
>> disappearance, basically.
So, I don't know. It's scary to be a
person.
But there's also beauty There's beauty
in things being fleeting.
>> Yeah.
I agree totally.
>> Cuz if something was forever, you got to
eat ice cream every day, you'd hate it.
But if you got to eat it one day, so
much better in a weird way.
>> [laughter]
>> you what my job is. This is just sit
here and eat ice cream and steak and all
the things and to be clear, I still very
much love it and I you have a similar
experience.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> [laughter]
>> With the acting, etc.
>> Yeah.
>> You ready to get in the lightning round?
>> Yes.
>> Let's do it. Is Lobo just Jason Momoa's
actual personality?
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah. No comment.
No. No. No. But he's so good. He's so
good as Lobo that like you don't see
Jason. I think I think that's That's
what happened to me when I watched the
film. I was like, "Oh my god. He was He
was born to play this part, genuinely."
>> Who's the one person dead or alive you'd
want to share your actual last meal
with?
>> One person dead or alive I'd like to
share my last meal with?
>> Mhm.
>> [gasps]
>> That's such a loaded question. Amy
Winehouse.
>> What song do you want to be played at
your funeral?
>> Let it be.
By The Beatles, yeah.
>> Who's a character from the DC universe
that you'd be excited to be on screen
with?
>> [gasps]
>> Who is a character from the D- Batman.
>> Come on.
>> Cuz he's Batman. He's scary.
>> Which actor?
>> Ooh. Christian like Chris- the Christian
Bale one.
>> That's That's like
>> The all pats cuz he's
>> [music]
>> amazing. Any of them.
>> George Clooney it is.
Who's your dream eulogizer at your
funeral?
>> Who's my dream
Jeff Goldblum.
>> [laughter]
>> Oh, come on.
>> I think it would be so
amazing.
>> that he is outliving you as well.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> [laughter]
>> 114-year-old.
>> Yeah.
>> What's your biggest fear?
>> My biggest fear?
>> Yeah.
>> Realizing I've
wasted my life climbing up the wrong
mountain. That's That's pretty scary.
[music]
>> Man.
>> Yeah.
>> After I reach the top of the mountain
>> Yeah, you're like, which is the wrong
one?
>> What is the
>> don't That's not happening, so I'm okay.
I'm okay.
>> It's going to be so good.
>> Yeah.
>> It's going to be so good.
>> [laughter]
>> Is there an Australian stereotype that
you think people get wrong?
>> Yeah, I mean, yeah.
>> Is it chewies?
>> For me I mean, no. For me it's that
everything's going to kill you.
>> Yeah, that's weird.
>> feels like well, not really.
>> Yeah.
>> It's still safer than other places.
>> Yeah, like we have
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> We know.
>> Like the
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> That's so funny.
>> It's pretty
>> funny. It's not funny.
>> No, it's obviously not funny.
>> No, it's really. But like the fact that
we're like, "Ooh, you have spiders." And
you're like, "Do you know what's going
on in your Yeah, tough."
>> [ __ ]
>> Millie, are you happy?
>> Am I happy? I am.
>> You seem very happy.
>> I'm happy. I'm all right. Yeah.
>> Tremendously. And I'm very happy that I
get to share this meal with you.
>> Me too. This was great. This was
amazing. [clears throat]
Thank you for having me.
>> Of course. If you want to deliver your
last words to that camera right there.
>> Oh my god, my last words.
>> Last words.
>> Um Oh my god, this I'm thinking about
this too much.
>> Yeah, what do you want people to to
remember you your last, you know, kind
of like as someone funny or somebody
silly? Gordon Ramsay says, "I'll go I'll
take a right shit." And that was those
were his last words.
>> I'll see you soon.
That's my last words.
>> Daunting.
>> Yeah, I know, right? I
couldn't really think of anything witty
and funny and
and it's also something you say when
like you leave.
>> See you soon, Jeff Goldblum. You're
coming to hell with me. That's terrible.
>> be funny in his voice.
>> [laughter]
>> Him or Jennifer Coolidge.
>> We'll see. We'll call them up.
>> lighten the mood.
>> Surely we can find their agent. We'll
figure it out.
>> I'm sure. [laughter]
>> Ever, make sure you go check out
Supergirl in theaters and IMAX on June
26th. Millie, you absolutely rule, dude.
Thank you for coming.
>> No, thank you for having me. This was
really, really nice.
>> Anytime, man. We'll uh send you the
Venmo request for the bill and we'll
just straighten it up.
>> Yeah.
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