'The Morning Show' Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other

What Guinness World Record do I hold?

Highest Paid TV Actress of All Time.

No, but wouldn't that be nice?

[everyone laughing]

[bright upbeat music]

Hey, I'm Jen Aniston.

And I'm Reese Witherspoon.

And we are here to play a game for Vanity Fair.

Called Quiz Show.

We're gonna see how well our cast members,

how well we know each other.

[bright upbeat music]

Who is my goddaughter?

[gasping] I know, well, you have more than one.

I have tons.

Yeah. [Jen laughing]

I've got one.

You have one? But you went first.

Okay, I'm gonna say Coco Arquette.

Yay!

Whoa!

I can't get

an additional one. I'd love to know who else,

give me the other.

Mark Duplass. [Reese laughing]

Oh yes,

it's my other god daughter. Let's see it

turn it around, turn it around.

[paper thudding]

[chime ringing] Coco.

[Billy] Told you.

Hold on, I'm trying to get.

Where's my buzzer, by the way?

Oh, Lord, how do I like to unwind

after a long day on set?

[Mark humming]

Is there one answer?

Half a bottle of wine, snuggling with your dog.

Learning tomorrow's lines.

[Billy humming]

I'm gonna say a tequila soda, snuggle with your dogs,

learn your lines. [group laughing]

I'm gonna say workout and dinner with friends.

And then a full bottle.

It's play with my dogs and watch the sunset.

[group gasping]

So we each get half a point.

[chime ringing] Yeah.

There were dogs in there. Yeah,

I think that's a win. I think that's beautiful.

You do have a beautiful sunset.

Watching the sunset is drinking.

I mean,

let's face it, we know. [group laughing]

What Guinness World Record Do I hold?

[Billy gasping]

Whoa.

Oh.

Oh, okay, I'm gonna say something.

I know, I think I have a guess.

Can I give it to you or no,

I guess. No, you should.

Okay. I have a guess.

Am I right?

Highest paid TV actress of all time?

No, but wouldn't that be nice.

[group laughing]

Reese, sorry. Most covers of a magazine.

Oh.

Oh. Reese, what you should've said is

when she says she wasn't the highest paid actress,

you go, that's because it's me.

Oh, good call. Yeah, that's right.

Rivalry. Oh, that's right.

That's not true either. Yes, oh right.

[group laughing] That's not true either.

Most rescue dog posts

[group laughing] on Instagram ever.

By the way, if there is. Only to be met by you.

I'm second, yeah. [group laughing]

You're just very close second.

Yeah.

No, it was Instagram followers.

Oh, yes. Oh.

I don't know. In a day or something,

right? Something.

She crashed Instagram.

Is that right? Yeah, something like that.

I remember when you signed up for Instagram

and you got 40 million followers

[laughing] in one day. In a day.

It was insane.

It was crazy and I thought I'd have none.

And I have a framed plaque.

Oh. Wow.

Yeah, you impressed by me now?

[Group] Yes.

Don't you like me now? [Reese laughing]

Almost as good as being

the highest paid actress.[laughing]

Very close. Who from the cast

would I call to get me out of a pickle?

[Billy laughing]

[Reese mumbling]

[Billy] Yeah.

No. Reese.

[Billy] I know, it's Reese.

Yeah.

Yeah. [chime ringing]

R Dubs. Yeah. There you go.

[laughing] Yeah. I feel like

I won. [laughing] It's a big cast

to go through too.

[Mark] It is a big cast to go through.

Most definitely. That's your pickle.

You'd go for her for your pickles.

[Reese laughing] [bright music]

Okay. What is my real name? [laughing]

Oh. Oh, my God.

What in the hell?

Okay. Yes.

[hands clapping] What do you mean?

You got. Laura Jeanne.

Yes, she got it.

Oh, my. Whoa.

[chime ringing] Laura Jeanne?

That's my real name. It's LJ?

It's all a ruse? LJ,

LJ dubs? Yeah.

What the hell? Laura Jeanne.

Where is Reese in that?

[Reese laughing]

Laura Jean Reese Witherspoon.

That's my real name.

You've got four of them.

[Jen laughing] Oh, you got four names?

Okay. I got it. There's four of her.

I have a lot of name, okay, next.

What is my favorite Southern saying?

It's a TV show, y'all?

[group laughing]

I'm listening to see how many words you're writing

and trying to get

better deduction. It's a very long word.

What's her favorite saying?

I remember one that you used a lot on season one

and a little bit on season two,

which was, can't be sad on a peach farm, y'all.

[Jen gasping]

That is something. Remember that?

I would say all the time. Remember that?

This is when Reese was just like,

I think I'm gonna get out of this business.

What are gonna do? She's like, I'm gonna buy a peach farm.

And we're like, really?

She's like, can't be sad on a peach farm, y'all.

[group laughing]

That's so true.

Because I wanna have a business called Reese's Peaches.

Reese's Peaches. Reese's Peaches.

Come on. That's too good.

Okay. Now my favorite Southern saying is,

good Lord willin', and the creek don't rise.

[Mark laughing] Wait, say it again.

[Reese And Mark] Good Lord willin'

and the creek don't rise.

[Reese] And only Mark would know

what that means. I got you.

Because he's from Louisiana.[laughing]

I got you, I got you.

Okay. What cast member is most likely

to make me laugh in the middle of a scene?

Oh, come on. That's obvious.

[Mark] No.

No? No.

Hold on. You go if you got. Am I a allowed to say it?

Yeah. Make your guess. Tig Notaro.

Oh, that's a good guess. Yeah.

Look at her, she's like.

[laughing] It's Tig Notaro. That's Tiggy.

[group laughing] Yeah. That's good.

[chime ringing] Notaro, sorry.

Notaro. Yes.

Tig Notaro. Tiggy Tigs.

Tiggy Tigs, Tiggies.

Tiggles.

Tiggles. Yes.

Somebody else. Alright. Hot seat.

Lets go. [bright music]

Speed dating. [Jen humming]

Here we go guys.

If I could have any other career,

what would it be?

Librarian.

Other than your many careers?

I know. I was just gonna say, you have so many.

[Reese scoffing]

[paper flapping] Oh.

Oh.

Well. Oh. you're a musician,

you're a producer, you're a director, you're an actor,

you're a writer.

One of those. Not one of those.

One of those I am not anymore.

One of those. Musician.

I'm gonna say musician.

Boom, done. [chime ringing]

Musician. Yes.

Musician, musician. Failed rockstar

at your service. No.

Not failed. What's your band called?

I do not know you people.

[group laughing] I had this really unique.

[Mark laughing] Billy.

I was called Mark Duplass.

I was a singer songwriter in the late '90s

that lived outta my van.

Was that your stage name?

It was by stage name. Yep.

because my real name is.

[Billy And Mark] Laura Jeanne Witherspoon.

[group laughing]

And my nickname was The Indigo Boy.

I was a very, very. Stop it.

Earnest singer songwriter. [person laughing]

You guys. The Indigo Boy.

There's no place for irony.

I had no idea.

Oh, yes. But wait, were you

really called the Indigo Boy? I knew you were a musician.

I had sideburns, I had a soul patch

and I had a lot of Tevas.

And it's okay. If you don't show us

a picture. Did you have a song called

Very Close to Find? From this period

of your life at some point in the next week.

They're burned.

They are? No, I got some.

Okay. Okay,

What is my idea of a perfect day off?

Oh, 100 beers by the pool.

[Reese laughing]

No, that is the Billy Crudup

day off. Oh yeah, that's right.

That's mine. Sorry. [Jen laughing]

Was season one, I was asking him what he wanted to do

for vacation, he was telling me that, his partner likes to,

go beaches, do these adventures.

And he said, I'm more of 100 beers by the pool kind of guy.

And I've never forgotten it.

100.

100 beers by the pool.

It came to me. Yes.

I've heard you say this, which was not similar

to what it's [humming].

I'm gonna say something with the dogs and the girls.

Yeah. Your daughters.

Yeah. And your. I'm gonna stop you

right there. Adorable way.

[chime ringing]

[Group] Dogs and family.

There you go. Jen and Billy

and myself are really self-centered

and Reese is the only one paying attention to us

'cause you're getting all of these, right?

[group laughing] This is incredible.

[Jen] Oh, my God.

Okay, what reality show would I excel in?

Reality show? I'm just gonna.

$100,000 Pyramid.

[group laughing] Well, that's a game show.

Sorry, I thought you said game show.

I'm not even listening. Let alone know you.

Real Housewives.

Wait. What reality show

would I excel in?

I'm gonna say Amazing Race.

Jen. Wait, what are some other

reality shows?

[Reese laughing] Reese, you're wrong.

Okay. You don't know me at all.

Survivor. There you go. No.

Survivor. [group cheering]

Billy, you got one. I do know you guys

Billy's on the board.

It is one of my favorites.

There's no way,

you're gonna get. [overlapping chatter]

Oh, this is this interesting? Oh, no I started

packing my bags. Okay.

This is kind of putting you guys to a test.

I don't like this, but what was the name

of the first feature film I made with my brother?

Oh. Oh, sweet mother of God.

Your Sister's Sister.

Four years too late.

I'll give you a hint. Okay.

It has something to do with what I'm sitting in right now.

It was called. The Chair?

The Puffy Chair. Puffy Chair?

This was our $10,000 Sundance feature film

that started everything for us.

Bill. [group clapping]

Get ready to get blistered here.

If I could choose anyone to play me in a biopic,

who would it be?

I think I know who it is. Dead or alive?

[group laughing] Dead or alive?

Alive and crushing it.

Sam Rockwell?

No. Oh, that's pretty good.

Boy. I'd love to see his version of me.

It'd be a lot cooler.

William Atticus Parker.

Oh yeah. Well, he's too tall.

Okay. That's my son,

by a foot, he's too tall.

It was The Rock.

Oh. The oh, yes.

I can see that.

He's been talking about how he wants to kind of bulk up

for a role. Yeah.

And so I think that could be good for him.

Who is my all time favorite actor?

[Reece exhaling]

It's gotta be theater.

It's gotta be, he loves that theater stuff.

[Reese] Yeah, he does loves theater.

Loves theater. I'm gonna say John Gielgud.

[group awing]

That's just the way you said it

[Reese laughing] made me want.

John Gielgud. John Gielgud.

Or Sam Rockwell.[laughing]

I mean John, no one has done so much Shakespeare,

but also played the funny butler on Arthur.

Yes. He really did it all.

It's a woman? It is.

Okay.

It's a woman. Cher.

Oh. [person laughing]

I'm rethinking things now.

That's a great> Meryl?

Yes, it is.

[chime ringing] Meryl Streep

right there. Good choice.

Well done, Jen.

Great choice. Okay,

what is my favorite date night?

100 by the pool. [group laughing]

200 beers. 200 beers.

It said date night. Sorry.

I figured that could have constituted as a date.

It will now.

I think he likes to go to the theater.

Or is it? I'm wrong.

A baseball game?

Something in New York.

Something like a New York Italian night.

Close, sushi and a play. [chime ringing]

Oh. Sushi and a play.

I got close, I got close. These two.

Or it's Italian dinner and a play.

And they merged those two. [hands clapping]

They would've gotten the perfect answer.

Give us a tough one.

Okay, what is my weirdest on-set habit?

Oh.

You sit in the green room with your headphones

and your iPad going over and over.

Over and over. The crazy Cory monologues

so that you can say them quickly without pausing.

[Jen laughing]

Apparently there's something else happening on set

that we don't know about.

Say the question again. You talk to yourself?

What is my weirdest on-set habit?

What did you say, Reese?

You talk to yourself.

Okay. It's close.

He's like I didn't know I did that.

Weirdest on-set habit.

I don't think you have any weird habits.

I said not talking to anyone.

Oh, I was gonna say that. Yeah.

But I didn't because.

In a social environment. That doesn't feel

like a habit. That's pretty weird.

But it's for the reasons Mark said, yes.

I'll never forget the wrap. No you do,

you talk to people. I do talk to people?

Yes. We talk all the time.

There was. But you are memorizing

a ton of dialogue at all times.[laughing]

[Billy] Terrified.

We went to visit Billy and Mark on the last night

of shooting season one

and we went over the. Oh, yes.

Oh, yeah. And we went across,

we were shooting on the Hudson.

We went over to Brooklyn.

Dumbo, And I see Mark,

and then I see Billy.

I see both of them.

Mark comes towards us and Billy just runs away.

[group laughing]

Literally was like, and out here.

That was the monologue about the Serengeti.

Yeah, that's right. Because your monologue was

literally days long. Yep.

What was the hardest monologue you've had to do

on Morning Show?

Do you have one that was your albatross?

Well, the one that in the first season,

Mimi was doing a oner on

and I had to pop out from behind a flat

and tell 'em something about seals and oil

and we're gonna clean the seals after the oil spill.

And that was an added scene.

And so the combination of having to do the oner

and Mark was crushing it, by the way,

he's walking through the bullpen, giving orders to everybody

and I can feel that train coming

and I'm just flop sweat everywhere.

Then turns around to me and I go, I don't have anything.

[Mark laughing] It'll be fine.

It'll be fine. We'll do it again.

Take two. Until get, that was one.

Does it stick in your mind,

but you forgot about it, right?

No, I still remember it.

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jen] The actual monologue?

Do you remember it? Yeah, some of it. Yeah.

Who do you think won? Reese won.

[bubble popping] Reese. Absolutely.

[audience clapping] I think Reece won.

Was there a question? I got a couple

of half points though. [light music]

Thanks for playing and watching the quiz show.

We're out. He's got the fingers.

I thought that was important with the pen.

[Mark] Look at that move.