Melissa Benoist on Crazy Things Her 3 Year Old Says & Living in a Haunted Chocolate Factory
JIMMY KIMMEL - just a few years ago our next guest
could fly now she is forced to use
public transportation like the rest of
us you can see new episodes of the girls
on the bus Thursdays on Max please
welcome Melissa
how are you?
MELISSA - great what a great Crow
JIMMY KIMMEL- you know the last time you're here
uh was I think you just had a baby right
MELISSA BENOIST - yeah! he was about a a year old just over
a year old
JIMMY KIMMEL- just okay just over a year
old so how old is he now
MELISSA BENOIST - he's three and
a half now like full-blown
JIMMY KIMMEL - oh that's a
fun that's a fun age and also a crazy age
MELISSA BENOIST - the hardest age yeah do you think
JIMMY KIMMEL - it's the hardest age for me well it's a
hardest age so far
MELISSA BENOIST - yeah is what it is
yeah
JIMMY KIMMEL - is you write down the things he
says the funny stuff
MELISSA BENOIST - oh yeah he's saying
weird things all the time he the other
today he said jump in
Jehoshaphat
JIMMY KIMMEL - what
MELISSA BENOIST - yeah Heavens to Betsy
it must I think
JIMMY KIMMEL - is he hanging around
with Joe Biden where is he getting
MELISSA BENOIST - no
it's just my husband
JIMMY KIMMEL - really how old is
your husband 85
MELISSA BENOIST - at heart at heart yes he
also um I was changing one day and he
saw like my bra and he called it he's
like oh those are mommy's booby traps
JIMMY KIMMEL - that's very clever
MELISSA BENOIST - it's really
good right like
JIMMY KIMMEL - that should be a product
the booby trap
MELISSA BENOIST - why didn't we call it
that in the first place
JIMMY KIMMEL - it's a very l
might be a genius your son actually
MELISSA BENOIST - maybe I should have him tested
JIMMY KIMMEL - you
should definitely have him tested for
sure although if the test comes back not
a genius
MELISSA BENOIST - it could go either way
JIMMY KIMMEL -yeah yeah this show that you're on I think is
there's an interesting little thing
about it and that is that it's based on
a a non-fiction book a true story but is
a fictional version of that story
MELISSA BENOIST - entirely fictionalized version of real
events in politics in recent history yes
JIMMY KIMMEL - the book is about a report a journalist
who was on like on the campaign tour
MELISSA BENOIST - yes
Amy chos
JIMMY KIMMEL - Amy with uh with Hillary
Clinton
MELISSA BENOSIT - yeah and she trailed she trailed
Obama with the Wall Street Journal in
2008 she trailed Hillary in 2016 and the
book is about her relationship with
Hillary
JIMMY KIMMEL - I see and it's an interesting
position to be in because you're kind of
like on one hand you're part of the team
you're with these people all the time
going from town to town but you're also
not at all part of the team
MELISSA BENOIST - no
JIMMY KIMMEL - no
MELISSA BENOIST - no not
at all but that was something I was
struck by that I don't think maybe
naively I didn't realize like how close
in proximity journalists are to the
candidates like you kind of get chummy
with them even though there there's that
laay that you're never going to really
yeah break through
JIMMY KIMMEL - yeah and if you do
that's probably a failure on their part
MELISSA BENOIST - yes
JIMMY KIMMEL - yeah
JIMMY KIMMEL - yeah
MELISSA BENOIST - and also it takes a
certain person to run for president of
the United States and I think
journalists are always very keenly aware
of that
JIMMY KIMMEL - uhhuh kind you think that
because I feel like
sometimes sometimes we vary from that uh
as far as the certain person type
MELISSA BENOIST yeah
JIMMY KIMMEL - that's true you rather be on the road
with Biden or Trump as a a pretend
journalist
MELISSA BENOIST - as a pretend journalist
JIMMY KIMMEL yeah
well which is what I me
MELISSA BENOIST - I do think that
Trump cracked the code because he's
giving them newsworthy stories every day
JIMMY KIMMEL - he's definitely more interesting he's
definitely not saying jump at
Jehoshaphat
MELISSA BENOIST - no although I would I do
wish that Biden would say that
JIMMY KIMMEL - yeah well
he I'm sure he does probably every time
he he steps on one of his
grandchildren's Legos he probably says
that Hum so and then also uh and I'm this
I'm guessing was not part of the the
book this real story that you talk to
your character talks to the ghost of
Hunter S Thompson
MELISSA BENOIST - I hope it wasn't part
of the real story if it was she didn't
tell everyone if it was
yeah
JIMMY KIMMEL - if it was
that is a perhaps a um a psychological
breakdown of some kind why is there a
ghost in this
MELISSA BENOIST - he sort of serves as the
devil on her shoulder and sort of her
inner voice and inner critic as a writer
because she my character kind of
idolizes this bygone era of Ro of
Journalism romanticizes
JIMMY KIMMEL - journalism yeah
yeah and because it's I think it's one
of those things that you go like you
know if I'm buying the show I go like oh
it's great and it's set and it's
interesting and like and there's a go
ghost and you're like uh maybe there
shouldn't be a ghost but but the the
ghost is working for you
MELISSA BENOIST - yeah he works
he works for her yeah I mean it's it's
it's an interesting line that we uh that
we tow because you know we I think
there's a line in the show that says if
hunteress Thompson were here today he'd
be an HR nightmare so we kind of
examined that
JIMMY KIMMEL - yeah yeah he'd shoot the
HR person what you do do you are you a
ghost person like do you
MELISSA BENOIST - I love
ghosts
JIMMY KIMMEL - you love ghosts
MELISSA BENOIST - I all I want in
life is to see a UFO and have a ghost
story and I thought I saw a UFO once in
on vacation down near Florida and it was
just a test of
JIMMY KIMMEL - everybody sees uos in
Florida
JIMMY KIMMEL - it have you seen a ghost
MELISSA BENOIST - I no you know
what I haven't I don't have like a juicy
ghost story but I did used to live in
this building when I lived in Brooklyn
in the Navy Yard it was like an old
Chocolate Factory back in the industrial
revolution and we used to hear like
Footsteps in the hall when me and my
roommate knew we were the only ones
there
JIMMY KIMMEL - fat ghosts walking around the
Chocolate Factory
MELISSA BENOIST - and we like to think
that he like died in
aoop
JIMMY KIMMEL - style it smell like chocolate
MELISSA BENOIST - no it
didn't I mean it was pretty modernized
they had done some Renovations but
JIMMY KIMMEL - wow
you lived in an abandoned Chocolate
Factory that's pretty I mean that's
another show on its
own well it's very good to see you the
show is called uh it's called the girls
on the bus you can watch new episodes
Thursdays on max Melissa Benoist
everybody thank you good to see you
we'll be back with Ranna and get
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