-Our next guest tonight is a model and actress
whose work you've seen on "Transparent"
as well as Lifetime's new series, "You."
She's currently starring in "Assassination Nation,"
which is in theaters now. Let's take a look.
-It's amazing how someone so inconsequential
can make you feel so inconsequential.
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-Hold your head high.
Let's get you in there.
-Please welcome to the show Hari Nef, everyone.
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-Welcome, Hari. How are you?
-I am great. How are you?
-Good. I have a question.
You -- I was very excited you were on the show.
I think you were excited, as well,
'cause you tweeted about it. -Oh, my God, yeah.
I'm doing my talk show leg cross.
-Oh, wow. -I'm ready to rock 'n' roll.
-It's really good. The cross is really good.
-Thanks. I've been practicing it my whole life.
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, so this is a culmination of a life's work.
-Yeah. I would like to thank my mom.
-Okay, great. [ Laughter ]
You tweeted at me, so I saw this.
It said, "Hey, sis. What's tea?"
-[ Laughs ] -Now, I --
You know, look, I'm older than you.
I may be little out of it.
I have no idea what that question means.
[ Laughter ]
-Okay. Um... Let me break it down for you.
-Thank you. -I mean, you know --
-"Break it down" meaning "explain"?
-I mean, I come -- I come from a lineage of women
such as Barbra Streisand... -Okay.
-...Bette Midler and Lady Gaga,
who actually began their careers performing in gay clubs.
-Okay.
-So I picked up a little lingo along the way.
"Hey" means like..."hey."
-Okay, good. -Hello.
[ Laughter ] -No, yeah.
I should've said I was with you from here.
You lost me -- -Right.
-You lost me here, yeah.
-Okay, so "sis" is like a friend.
-Okay, gotcha. -And if, you know,
whether you're male or female, doesn't matter,
you're just sis, like, Seth, you're my sis.
-Love it. Great. Okay. Still with you.
-And "What's tea" is like, "What's up?"
"Tea" is like -- it's like the truth,
but it's also like, "What's going on?
What's happening?" So you just see your friend,
you're like, "Hey, sis, what's tea?
What's up? Hey, friend, how are you?"
That would be the normal speak.
-So, I should've read this as, "Hello, Seth, my friend,
what is new with you?"
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, precisely. -Yeah? Okay, great.
Well, thank you, sis.
[ Laughter ]
So this film is -- It's excellent.
It's very provocative. There's a lot of issues in it --
hacking, bullying, there's violence.
How did you -- How did you first hear about it?
How were you drawn to this role?
Like, what brought it to your attention?
-It was just a script that my friend sent to me.
And she said, "There's this part in this movie you have to play."
And I looked at the script, and I saw that it was a script
about four teenage girls,
and lots of bad stuff happens to them.
And then I saw that it was written by a white straight man,
and I was like, "Oh, this is gonna suck."
-Uh-huh. [ Laughter ]
-But then I read it, and I was actually surprised
by how vivid and honest and real and crazy and messed up it was.
And I e-mailed my agents. I was like, "Let's go for this."
They're like, "They're not casting this part yet."
And then they were, and then I went in,
and my callback was actually the day after
the presidential election.
So I had to do these, like,
dramatic scenes, and they were so easy.
-Oh, yeah. [ Laughter ]
That's a good day. [ Cheers and applause ]
That's a very, very good day for that.
-I was, like, crying.
-It takes place in Salem. -Yeah.
-You're from Massachusetts.
-Yeah, well, it takes place in a town called Salem.
-Gotcha. Not the Salem, but there is
sort of a Salem Witch Trial-type element to the film.
-Yeah.
-You were obsessed with the Salem Witch Trials growing up?
-Oh, yeah, when I was a kid, I was obsessed with them.
I would go to Salem every autumn to, you know, just walk around.
They have this, like, festival and everything.
-Did you go to the museum? -Oh, my God.
There's this museum there... -I've been there, yeah.
-...with a giant statue of Satan.
[ Laughter ]
It's, like, my favorite museum.
And there's, like, a sound effect and it's like --
[ In deep voice ] "Death!" It's so...
-Yeah. I haven't been since I was a kid,
but I feel like it was really scary and if I went back now,
I would say, "Those are some lame-ass puppets."
[ Laughter ]
-I mean, that Ann Putnam puppet did not play.
-Yeah. -She was --
Does anybody remember Ann Putnam?
[ Laughter ]
-Not as many Salem Witch Trial heads as us here.
-Shout-out to my good sis Ann Putnam.
[ Laughter ]
Goody Putnam. -There you go.
They know her as Goody Putnam. [ Both laugh ]
But that's -- that seems --
You know, that is one of the cool elements of this movie
is that it is about how a community folds in on itself
when scandal happens, much like what you see
in works like "The Crucible."
-Well, right, witch trials have happened periodic since Salem.
They've happened periodically in American history
over and over again,
whether it was the '50s with Communists
or, you know, early in this millennium with Muslims.
There's always this cyclical thing of the wider population
targeting a certain group of people
which they believe is the source of all the problems going on.
So it's kind of American as apple pie in that way.
-Oh, there you go. Congrats on the film.
Lovely to meet you, and thank you so much for being here.
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