Trump Makes Questionable Pact to "Self-Regulate" AI | with Anne Hathaway, Riz Ahmed | Wednesday, September 30

0:05From Studio 6B in Roger Miller Center in the heart of New York City, it's The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Tonight, join Kim and his guest, Anne Hathaway. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Riz Ahmed and featuring the legendary Roots Crew. 2350 Cartman. And now, here he is, Jimmy Fallon! Hey!

0:38Thank you! Hey! Thank you very much! Hey, man! Welcome up! Welcome up! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you very much!

0:54Come on! Thank you very much! Enjoy yourself! Enjoy yourself! Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome to The Tonight Show. This is it. We're here. You made it. Thank you. Well, guys, New York City is still buzzing from last night's Yankees win over the Red Sox. Oh, my God. You can tell New York is celebrating when Times Square Elmo smells like weed and champagne. Yeah, you go, ooh. Yankees versus Red Sox is one of America's biggest rivalries, along with Lakers versus Celtics, Packers versus Bears, Trump versus the Wind. I mean, yeah, these are big... While everyone's talking about this, President Trump just announced that he and all the major tech leaders have signed an agreement to self-regulate AI.

1:45So don't worry about AI. We're fully protected by the honor system. So that's... Yep, tech leaders will regulate themselves. Anyone who's ever put out a bowl of candy on Halloween was like, good luck with that. Uh... Yeah, they all signed a, quote, morally binding agreement, which is one step below a pinky promise. And while Trump was talking to reporters about A.I., people noticed that he was standing in a pretty interesting way. Take a look at this. This is... Wow. How do you do that? It's like a... It's like a Jerry Lewis... Like a Jerry Lewis B-side. He's like... It looks like one of those toy giraffes that collapses when you press the bottom of it.

2:30Yeah.

2:34Yep, Trump met with AI leaders and also launched a new government website with an AI chatbot. Yep, it's been a big week for AI, and Trump's been talking about it a lot. First, Trump said,

2:47Then the Reflecting Pool said,

2:52And Trump said, They used to think it would hurt you, but now we're in the clear. Then Taco Bell said, Used to hurt you, but now you're in the clear. Join the club, bud. Trump said, It's a hyper-intelligent robot that some people find off-putting. Then Elon Musk said, A hyper-intelligent robot that some people find off-putting. Join the club, bud. And Trump said, It's a website that gives you answers that could be totally wrong. Then WebMD said, A website that gives you answers that could be totally wrong. Join the club, bud. And Trump said, And the Red Sox fan out at Yankee Stadium said,

3:31And Trump said, And Mitch McConnell said,

3:39Then... Whoa! Whoa!

3:49Then Trump said, It's something that will either cause great joy or kill us all. And Four Loko said, Something that will either great joy or kill us all. Join the club, bud. And finally, Trump said, Whether they like it or not, we're totally stuck with it. Then Melania said, Join the club, bud. There we go. And it's a big quote. Point of job, bud. Point of job, Judd. Spoonerism. Coin the bub. Coin the bub, Judd, yeah. More news from Washington. Today, Trump announced that he will start sending out $500 refund checks to Americans who claims were overcharged for Obamacare. $500. Americans are like, oh, man, that's almost half a tank of gas.

4:29You guys see this? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is cutting 20 % of admirals and generals across the military. Yeah, he's cutting a fifth of the Pentagon. So now it's a rectangle.

4:43Come on.

4:48Come on. Thank you very much. Yep, Hegseth is getting rid of 20 % of the military's admirals and generals, and he just put out a video to recruit new members. Check this out. Are you ready to serve? Do you want to put the pedal to the metal?

5:02Riz Ahmed: Will you answer the call at any hour, day or night? Then you should sign up to be Pete Hegseth's designated driver. That's not what I was expecting, but I see, yeah. Well, some business news. I read that Carnival Cruise Lines said, despite record ticket prices, bookings for 2027 hit all-time highs. Yeah, I guess after a summer of Taylor Farms' lettuce, a Carnival cruise doesn't seem so bad. And finally, a dad said his family's trip to Disney World was ruined after his child found an adult toy in their hotel room. Mmm. Hmm. Kid was like, Mom, why does this Woody buzz? We have a great show. Give it up, Boy of the Roots, everybody.

5:45Come on. ...to the spoon, the reach, and teach the blind, and finally wait, A to Z, and he's the most, the most alive and proud of the gainer, ain't everything on the left. You know what he is going to do. Come on. Whoo! Whoo! Big show tonight. Welcome to the show. Hey, I just want to remind everyone that the entire second season of our Tonight Show micro-drama, Who Billionaire? Me Billionaire is out now. It's already been viewed over 10 million times, so thank you all for watching. That's a big deal. Let's just release it. If you need a little soap opera fix, these are going, these are like one to two minutes long.

6:20So it's perfect. Yeah, you can catch them on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Shorts, also on the Peacock app. Ooh. Look at this. Look at this. The Peacock app right here. That's not us. That is a sports team. Right. But somewhere. And then the voice, of course. The paper. Sing. Sing the movie. Trolls. There you go right there. Number one. What does that say? Line of fire. What is this? The voice. Pets. Suits are on here. Suits. Love suits. People love suits. Vanderpump rules. Wild card race. The traitors. Sure, traitors. Traitors are good. Traitors. Line of fire again. The voice again. Yeah. -"Real Housewives." -"Keep scrolling." -"What am I missing?" -"AGT," of course." Oh, here it is!

7:11Microdramas. Who Billionaire, Me Billionaire. That's it. That's it. We did it. Yeah. That's it. Ooh, so it's... All right, so it's season two, Who Billionaire, Me Billionaire is the number one on microdramas. I don't think it's in order. I don't think it's, like, a top ten. It's just like it's... Whatever's the freshest. Right. Or what's recently put up. Yeah. Then it's Who Billionaire, Me Billionaire, season one. Right. And then it's The Call Boy I Met in Paris. Oh! Then it's Duke with benefits. Duke? Oh, my God. Oh, it's ours. Wow. Holy moly. Spicy. Royal balls. By the way, sponsored by TheraBreath, by the way, I want to thank TheraBreath for being our sponsor for it.

8:04Fresh. Fresh. What a show we have for tonight. She's an Academy Award-winning actress who stars in the new film Verity, which is in theaters Friday. Anne Hathaway is here tonight! Wow. Fantastic in this. One of my favorite people on earth. Scary movie. Love it. Oh, Colleen Hoover. It's a great film. He is an Oscar and Emmy winner who stars in the highly anticipated new film Digger, which is in theaters and IMAX this Friday. Riz Ahmed is joining us. He's great in this. With Tom Cruise. Hey, everybody. I was running a bit behind today. I thought if you guys wouldn't mind, I'd like to write out my weekly thank you notes right now.

8:44Is that cool? Wow.

8:48I write them out every single week, and I was just running a bit behind. James, can I get some thank you note writing music, please? Wow. That's a garish outfit for him. He's in a great mood. Look at him.

9:05Mr. Fall. Yeah. Thank you, putting on a jacket for the first time each fall, for answering the question, what happened to that used tissue from April?

9:20Hard. Thank you, Double Decker Bus Tour, for being a fun way to explore a new city with the added excitement of maybe getting decapitated.

9:34Yeah.

9:38Thank you, movie theater previews, for letting me arrive 45 minutes late and still be 30 minutes early. Wait, stop the movie! What are you doing? In a world... Stop the movie! Come in the summer of 2035. You won't believe what you're about to see. Jimmy Fallon's getting his driver's license. Wow! Look out! Thank you, decorative gourds, for being like, yeah, I don't know what I'm doing here either.

10:22Thank you, sangria. for answering the question, what if a fruit salad could get me hammered? Yeah, that's it. Not bad. It's pretty fun. Pretty fun. Sign me up. Just tell me that apple. Oh, yeah. Oh. Thank you, bike helmets, for looking like a European art museum.

10:47That's a thinker. Or like an alien spawning egg or something. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Or like a pecan from the future. Yeah, futuristic, a space pecan. Space pecan. Jimmy Fallon this summer. Space pecan. Some call it pecan. Some call it pecan. But this summer, Jimmy Fallon is getting his driver's license. Summer 2047. Soundtrack by Sum 41. Yeah. Right? Right? Would you say Sum 47? I said Sum, yeah, but. Yeah. Because it's summer of 47. Oh, coming in Sum 47. I'm saying summer of 47 because it's just... The year 2047. Right. The joke is that the trails are so long, they're now promoting movies that would be 20 years in the future.

11:33Did you just fall asleep in the middle of what you were saying? What? Where's my costume back? I've never seen that before. It's amazing. Last one? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Ice, for being water on Viagra. There you have it, everybody. Come on. Those are my thank you notes. We'll be right back with Anne Hathaway!

12:11Our first guest is an Oscar-winning actress who stars in the new movie Verity, which is in theaters Friday. Please welcome Anne Hathaway!

12:31Come on. They love you. We love you. Welcome back. Oh, my God. I love everybody right back. It's so good to see you. Oop! Thank you for doing this show. And, oh, my gosh, you're ready. You're ready. Kind of. Wow. When was the last time that I saw you? Were you on the show? It was for Devil Wears Prada. And were you pregnant then? I was. You were? I was. I found out. Oh, God. I'm getting... Sorry. It takes a minute to get used to chairs. So, thank you. Yes. Everything's fine. You all just got so concerned. Yes, you all did. Yes. We will all take you to the hospital right now. We're ready to go.

13:05You guys are ready. Our bags are packed. We're ready to take care of you. Come on. You're America's sweetheart. Come on. Are you kidding me? We love you. Very nice. Yeah. Hi, baby. Welcome to The Tonight Show. So happy that you're here. Thank you. Thank you. I can't wait to meet you. Me too. Last time. So I was here. I found out I was pregnant like two and a half weeks before the Devil Wears Prada press tour kicked off. And I was just like, how is that going to work? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because now you have to do all this press. But you were doing everything. You're a pro. I got really lucky. You know, my main symptom during my first pregnancy was fatigue.

13:46and that didn't happen this time. This time, my main symptom was, well, acne. But... Yeah, yeah. But I had, like, the craziest sense of smell. It was like... Yes. You know. Wow, isn't New York City fun when you have that? It smells in the city. You're like, ooh, wow. I really do love this. End of summer, you go, oof. Oh, yeah, when it's nice and ripe. Oh, it's ripe is a good word. It's a good word. It's just a tang. Very ripe tang. And the thing about pregnancy smell is you smell time. So you don't just smell this summer. You smell all of them. I went back to the 80s. Wow. You went back in time.

14:33There were many strikes there. No, and so, you know, on a press tour, it's amazing. It's like this Goodfellas experience. You're going in and out of, like, hotels in the back ways, but you're past so many garbage bins, and you go through so many kitchens and then you go into elevators and you smell every single room service order yeah and every cologne every perfume and you go the perfume was really intense because people i love you they like come to like be like oh my gosh hi good to see you and you're like i love you that's a lot yeah thank you for coming so first trimester my goal was to not like dry in public.

15:10And now third trimester, my goal is to not waddle in public. So I feel like that's a good thing. No, you're allowed to do it. You're doing it great. Whatever you're doing, keep it up. It's fantastic. Thank you. We also talked about the Knicks last time you were on the show. In your love for the Knicks, you almost wore an OG Ananobi jersey. They played against the Hawks, I think, the day after you were on the show. You gave the Knicks a pep talk here. And then every headline was all you. OG Ananobi enjoys Anne Hathaway effect. A Knicks game six win over the Hawks. You were the credit for the Knicks winning.

15:41New York Post, we love the Post. Why Anne Hathaway is getting all the credit for Knicks' historic playoff performance. I mean, it was... The governor of New York's office tweeted, Thank you, Anne Hathaway. That's pretty cool. That's gotta feel good. Here's the thing. I feel that way about the Knicks all the time. I feel like the real, like, X Factor in that was The Tonight Show. Ooh. Maybe it was the combination. Maybe it was expressing the love. Yes. Yes. Well, we had the Knicks on the show, and OG was on the show. I wanted to surprise you. He autographed the jersey for you. Are you serious? It's for you.

16:23Oh, my. Hold on. Hold on. No, no. Oh, my God. You don't have to put it. Oh, no, no, no. And? Annie?

16:32You are unbelievable. Wow.

16:40That's what I'm talking about. Immediately. Oh, my gosh. You put it on immediately. Oh, my gosh. With the bulgare, I can't cross my legs. I'm sorry. No, yeah. I keep forgetting I can't do that, and it's always a surprise. Also, the Knicks sent over a whole baby basket for you. I am so spoiled. They love you, and OG. Wait! OG signed the card and said, All my best, OG and Anobi. That's from, yeah, because we just knew, we knew you were gonna come on and like, oh yeah. So this is all the love for you. I'll give it to you backstage. I'm supposed to be like a person now? Yes, you're a person, yes. That's crazy, that's so nice, thank you so much.

17:18We have to talk about your movie. That's really why we're here. We're talking about very, this is Colleen Hoover. The movie's chilling, scary. Is this what you thought you were getting into when you signed on? I'm sorry, I'm so excited about my jersey. I'm messing up this transition so fast. No, you are, no, no. You can't mess me up. I just want to talk about my scary movie and I'm just like, ee. Yeah, no, no. Now we have to get into movie mode. Okay. We have to get into movie mode. I'm switching. I'm locking in. Yes. When you sent on for this film, did you think it's going to be a romantic comedy?

17:46Did you think, well, what did you think? I did. You did, right? I did because it's Colleen Hoover. Yeah. Who's, you know, this incredibly successful romance novelist. Yes. And Michael Schuilwalter is the director, but we worked together on The Idea of You. He's fantastic. He's so amazing as a director, as a human, as a friend. And so I just thought, oh, my gosh, Colleen's written a romance and Michael's gonna make it funny and this is gonna be so great and then I read Verity Cut to and it is like murder yes Yes Bad murder yes It's like bad humans and lies and deceit and all of these things and so I just It's great and Dakota Johnson really excited and then yeah no I got excited because I'm not the person that you think of for this type of a part Good.

18:31And I was like, I just love that Michael thought of me for it. And then the cast came together. It's Dakota. It's Josh. And then in the movie, a lot of you are just kind of propped in bed. Yes. And I'm like, man, oh, man, you stay so still. And you're acting. And I'm like, are those long days? Yeah. Wait, what do you mean? I should probably, like, lie and just be like, oh, no, it's really hard. and you have to dig very, very deep. It's a pleasure. To lay in bed? It's a pleasure to play a character who's very wealthy and has expensive nightgowns and cashmere socks. Lying in bed. That's the best role you ever played.

19:12I was so happy. And like an actress friend of mine, who's a serious actress, when I told her about what I was doing, she looked at me with such concern and she was like, aren't you bored? And I was like, no, babe. Yeah, I am having the best time. I think I might be a genius. Wow. You cracked the code. Maybe that's it. You cracked the code. And then when I wasn't doing that, I got to do all this juicy, villainy, heightened stuff. And so that was great. I got to say, the premiere for the movie was last night. And something was going viral today that made me laugh. And I have to show this video of you.

19:45Do it. It's you on the red... Exactly what you're going to show. It can only be one thing. It's horrifying. It's not horrifying. It's so funny. It's like the stuff of nightmares. No, stop it. It is you on the red carpet. and you were just trying to organize everyone while all the photographers were taking your picture. You kind of went into mom mode. Here's Anne Hathaway. Watch this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. You got it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Just like that. Let's do it. Mom mode by way of chorus line. Like, it was just so... And the thing about it was, I did it.

20:23I was trying to be helpful. The photographers, there were so many of us, and the photographers were, like, getting upset, and so the vibe was changing. Yes. And I was just trying to be helpful. Yes. And so I did the thing, and as soon as I was done, I went, Oh, no. This is gonna go viral. This... Well, because also, because when I was doing it, I was like, I'm trying to get you your picture. And then I was done, and I was like, But there's also video. Yes! There's always video. And I went into a full cringe crouch on the inside. No. I loved it. It's great. It was just very... So I apologize, everybody.

20:57Yeah, yeah, come on. Give me a break. That girl came out to play last night. Actually, she didn't come to play. She came to business. That's right, business. Yeah. All right, how do we set up the book? Do we need to set it up? I don't want to give any spoilers away, but it's good. Okay, okay. I should know how to do this. Okay, so you know how, like, we're all living in this post-truth age and social media's taken over and we don't necessarily agree on facts anymore. Truth is something that you feel. Well, this movie is kind of like that, like, turned up to an 11. Mm-hmm. Yes. I like that. That's a great way to say it.

21:32It's not literally about any of those things, but it's like... But it's just that concept turned up to an 11. You don't know what to believe or who to believe or what's happening, and it's... And maybe you don't care. Maybe you only care about what you believe. Whoa! That's what I'm talking about! And halfway, everybody, Verity hits theaters Friday. Ann and I are doing something fun after the break. Stick around. More with us.

22:05Welcome back, everybody. I'm here with Ann Hathaway. Now she stars in the new film, Verity, in theaters this Friday. Now, Ann, there are so many great things in life, but we want to know what is the best thing. It's time for a game called Best Thing Ever. Here we go. First day of the world. Here's how it works. We're going to get two things. We're going to have to decide which is the best and which one we have to get rid of forever. And then we have to explain our reasoning for that decision. Yes. The best of each round will face off against each other until we decide the ultimate best thing ever.

22:40Sound good? Yeah. Here we go. This first one, I'm going to let you decide this one. This is a tough one for you. Because I know you like this. Green Day. or Great British Bake Off. We did a lot of research. I know you enjoy both of these things. Oh, you went... You're going there. Yes, I'm going there. This is a real game. This is serious. I know you love both of these things. I do. I do. But it's time to make a decision. Okay.

23:11Are you saying to keep it or get rid of it? Keep it or get rid of it? Keep it! I'm about to make so many people mad. Okay, here's the thing. This is a picture that has Prue Lef on it. We love Prue. Nigella is the new host of the show. She's crushing it. It's amazing. No, I love you, Green Day, but I'm gonna keep you. Wow!

23:34Really? Green Day goes away? I can't believe I just did that. All of their hits, all of the memories we had... No, no, no, no. ...that doesn't exist in this world. This is a horrible game, actually. Wow! All right, let's keep that. We're keeping that. All right. Now it's mine. No, this is good. This is good. This is what we have to do. We're adults. We have to make decisions. This is for me. I have to decide. Ice cream or grilled cheese. I mean... Hold on, but this is like this time of year. This time of year. These are not seasonal items. These are eternals. No, but right now it's a little crisp.

24:16A little crisp out there. I couldn't... Who wouldn't love that, but...

24:26I'm saying ice cream. I got... I can't. I have to. I love grilled cheese. I have to. There's so many different varieté. It's 100 % the correct choice. And, by the way, grilled cheese has been my number one craving this entire pregnancy, and even I know that. Wow. Yeah. I just thought you had brought that out. All right, there's another tough decision for you. Oh, gosh.

24:52Another Knicks championship. Or another Oscar win.

25:01I saw you in Verity. I saw you in the Odyssey. You were fantastic. Devil Wears Prada, too. Um, I... You're in New York City. I... I... Can I give up Great British Baking Chef? No! Okay.

25:25Wow.

25:29These are tough decisions. These are great. These are tough decisions. All right, that's what we want. All right, I have the last one here, and then we're going to go round two of these. I'm actually like, the way my nervous system reacting to that choice is really intense. These are all great choices. All right, I have to choose books or museum. Oh, oh, God. I think it's easy for me. I don't want to live in this world. No, I'm making the decision. I got this. I'm just, well, I need attention.

26:04Sorry. Yes, books versus museum. One of them has to go away forever. I think it's got to be, uh, this museum. Books. Books. Make your mind the museum. Make your mind the museum. I just came up with that. That's my new catchphrase. That's going to be on all the T-shirts and the NBC stuff. Jimmy Fallon. I just think we have to think about a world that doesn't have museums. Well, I know, but a world without books. You ever see that Twilight Zone with Burgess? No, no, these are terrible. No, this is really painful. No, this is fun. Or having fun. Wait, can I just look at the discards and just, like, because this is quite a pile.

26:45Well, this, no. I think let's focus on this, and this is... We're going to want what's in that. Okay, okay. I'm just going right back to grilled cheese. All right, let's go. It's going to go like this, okay? It's round two. I'm going to go like this. Oh, my gosh. Nyx versus Bake Off. Oh, shit!

27:06Books versus ice cream. You mean books.

27:12Oh,

27:16we just heard... No, we just heard the horn of the Yeti. Which means... Which means we're down to the final round. Whoever wins here, this will officially be the best thing ever. For this last round, you and I are going to decide the best thing ever. To make it interesting, our audience will vote, too, by a round of applause. If our audience... If our audience matches our pick, everyone is going home with a pint of Ben & Jerry's Tonight Dough ice cream. The best ice cream in the world. You have to try this. The Tonight Dough! Yes, the Tonight Dough. That's... Oh, you're going home with one tonight.

27:59You're going to freak out. Guys, we got to nail this. Oh, yeah, we got to, yeah. You got it. It's a great flavor. You need this. You need this, yeah. Oh, my God. And all my proceeds go to a great charity, too, so it's a good ice cream. Even better. It's a win-win. All right. We have to decide. Okay. Books, which man, oh, man, we need books.

28:19Another Knicks championship.

28:26Nick. What are you talking about? I know, but no. No, no, no, no. We have to. There's no way. There's no way. We have to. No way. No, no. It's your show. Another Nick's championship. Goodbye, books! Goodbye, books! You guys, we all decided everyone goes home with a pint of Ben and Jerry's thanks to Anne Hathaway. That's a pow right there. Anne Hathaway's Teddy Ovation. Darity is in theaters this Friday, Mixin' 4. We'll be right back, everybody.

29:19Our next guest is an Oscar and Emmy-winning actor and producer who stars in the highly anticipated new film Digger, which is in theaters and IMAX this Friday. Please welcome Riz Ahmed!

29:38Riz, we have to get into... I want to get into the movie and how great you are. There's awards buzz around your performance, and I think well-deserved. We'll get into all that. But you were phenomenal in this movie, and I'll get into it. But, God, congratulations. You were next level. Before we get into that, I want to thank you. Last time you were on our show, you came on and you pitched yourself to be the next James Bond. I remember that. And you look sharp. Why is that always so funny? No, no, no, no. And now you came on and actually did a great pitch. We did, didn't we? But then I just saw this.

30:13James Bond has been cast, suggests the film writer. Is there news that you want to tell us tonight, Riz Ahmed? No. All right, no, all right. Well, that's it. That's a bummer.

30:27Riz Ahmed: I was hoping you might have some news, because we did it on your show, wasn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I do have news.

30:36I'm not James Bond either. No, they wouldn't even let me audition. One of these guys. Someone in the audience is probably James Bond. Thank you for doing that. We were talking about your show, Bait, which, by the way, was a genius idea, got nominated for an Emmy. Congratulations, bud. That was fantastic.

30:55Riz Ahmed: That's got to feel good. It did feel good, yeah. It's such a different idea. Well, yeah, I mean, the show is based on this kind of comedy James Bond kind of concept, but actually it's so personal. It's, like, drawn so much from my life, and it's really a love letter to family. We shot it in my old neighborhood. The house we shot in was, like, modeled exactly after the house I grew up in. So a lot of it was really from the heart, yeah. And I know that you bring your mom to a lot of these events. The Emmy that you brought to the Digger premiere. Here's you and your mom. Come on. Look how pretty.

31:27Look how proud. She's a proud mom. Is she...

31:34Riz Ahmed: She a fun date? She's the best. She's the best. It's actually so funny, because I look at that and I think, like, I'm trying to give Blue Steel, and she's just laughing at me. That's what actually is happening. No, she's the best. She leaves such a good impression on people. Actually, it was funny, because the Digger premiere, she met Prince William, she met Kate, she met Tom. I said, how do you like Tom Cruise? She said, nice boy. She said, nice boy. And when we were just about to go on stage to present the film for the first time to the world, in front of the royal family and everyone. This whole moment, us, the whole cast, crew, director, producers were way in the wings.

32:10Riz Ahmed: Tom turns around, he draws a deep breath. Everyone thinks, all right, he's gonna give a speech, say something inspirational. He just points at me and goes, Riz. Everyone looks at me and he goes, your mom, amazing. Love your mom. She's fantastic. Beautiful mom. That's such a good Tom Cruise, my man. That's a great Tom Cruise. That was the last words we heard before presenting the film to the world. No way. Good on you, Tom. Thank you, Mommy. Yeah, thank you, Mom, yeah. Let's talk about Digger. This is one of the biggest films of the year. And, man, I can't even tell you. I couldn't wait for you to come on because I can't talk to anyone about this film because I don't want to spoil anything.

32:50Riz Ahmed: Yeah, the less you know, the better. But it's a real roller coaster, and it's so kind of different, I think. It's fresh. It's something new. I think so. I mean, there's been this conversation for a long time, right, with people saying, we want movies to go back to being really original. Yeah. You know, I remember back in the day where it was just fresh stories and told in such a kind of brave way, such a big swing. This is that, man. You got it. This is the most extreme version of that. Everyone is out there doing something so different. So I'd say to people, like, please see it for yourself and be part of that conversation about where we want movies to be.

33:23Riz Ahmed: Yes, it is. We want something different. We do. We want something. I want to see it again. I want to see it again. because I go, oh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I want to see it. There's things you miss, and then you find them again. To Tom Cruise, it's tour de force. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. I mean, he's driven motorbikes off cliffs and stuff. This, in a way, was just as crazy and scary, what he was doing. It was like jumping into the unknown. When you see what he's done in this movie, it's solved the chain. One continuous take on that. Did you go to set even when you weren't in scenes with him just to watch him act?

33:56Riz Ahmed: I did, you know. There was that kind of vibe where we were all almost this, like, theater ensemble. We were all in it together, just supporting each other and finding it. And, honestly, like, the attention to detail and the world that has been built in this movie. The sets in this movie. I'd be walking around, like, with my jaw on the floor, like, this is crazy. And someone would tap me on the shoulder and I'd be going, this is crazy, isn't it? And I look, and it's Tom Cruise. And it's like, you've seen it all, you've done it all. So if he thought that, we knew we were really trying to do something really special.

34:30Riz Ahmed: Again, just trying to do something truly fresh and original for people. But, Rez, you more than held your own with Tom Cruise. I mean, one of the best performances I've ever seen is you. You crushed it, buddy. Oh, thank you. Did he stay in character? Well, it was kind of weird, because we all had this kind of transformation. So I'm in prosthetics here. And obviously so is Tom. Yeah. Tom does normally look like this. He's never looked better, Tom Cruise. Yeah. But it was a bit like everyone's telling me Tom Cruise is in this movie. and I'm like, this is gaslighting. Tom Cruise is not in this movie.

35:02Riz Ahmed: Digger Rockwell is in this movie. Yeah, whoever this dude is, he's in this movie. This guy's a lot of fun, though, I've got to tell you. But it was interesting because you start getting used to these prosthetics, so I'd start thinking, like, well, this is how I look, you know? And so I'd take out my phone, and the face ID would not be working. And I'd be like, I've got to get a new phone. Yeah, I know. It's like, no, you've got to do it. And then I'm FaceTiming my son. He was like a little baby at the time. and I'd be like, hey, what's up? No recognition. Yeah, yeah. He starts crying. He started calling me funny man.

35:34Riz Ahmed: He was like, funny man? He thought he got a new uncle or something. Yeah, I know. All right, it's me, the funny guy. But what a... It was almost like a dance, you and Tom Cruise, to watch you guys act together. It's like watching a great tennis match. And it was so well done. And the timing and all those lines. You've got to be precise. Yeah, it's interesting about that, the timing and stuff. there was this crazy rumor going around that this movie is a musical. I know, I heard that. Right, yeah? It's not. It's not a musical. Yeah. But I've never used my musical background more in a film, and it's because it has such a particular tone that we spoke actively about rhythm, pace, speed, pitch, tone of delivery of lines in a way that you never normally would in a movie.

36:22Riz Ahmed: It was like one of those old 1940s, like Cary Grant movies, the way the people are talking and they're just going so many fast. And it's like... Rattatatat. It's a real rattatat kind of thing. So it reminded me of that background in rapping. And Alejandro himself was almost like... He was like the conductor leading us all. So, yeah, again, everything about this process was so different, because we knew we wanted to make something that's just totally different. It's different. It's special. It's great. Oh, come on! Riz Ahmed! Digger is in theaters and IMAX this Friday. More Tonight Show after the break.

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37:13My thanks to Anne Hathaway, Riz Ahmed. That was phenomenal, buddy. Thank you so much. And the roots right there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Good night, everybody. Thank you!

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