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-Welcome back, everybody.

Our next guest is a talented actress.

You know, from the Mission Impossible

and Dune film franchises.

She executive produces and stars

in the Apple TV+ series "Silo."

The second season premieres November 15th,

with new episodes premiering Fridays.

Let's take a look.

-You heard the music.

I love that song.

So one thing, uh, you tried to open the door.

Um, I get it.

You know, you see a closed door.

What's on the other side?

You know, I understand.

Thing is, you do that again...

and I'm going to kill you.

-Please welcome back to the show,

Rebecca Ferguson, everybody!

[ Cheers and applause ]

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-Hello.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Yes. Yes.

Celebrate them.

Yes. Nobody gives them anything.

-I love doing that.

-How are you? I'm good. I also like --

Thank you for calling me talented.

-Oh, my God. -Talented.

-Do you not get that enough? -No.

I just like the adjective of talented.

-Yeah. -You're talented.

-Thank you very much. -You know you're welcome.

You know what?

You were saying thank you for saying it.

And I was like, you know what? I'd like you to say it to me.

-Yeah. -So I'm really glad you did.

-I think Seth is really talented .

-Well, don't do it like that. -No, but I didn't do this.

-Yeah. Oh, yeah. You didn't. -No.

-But you did say it like you had been given a note

to say it backstage.

-[ Laughs ] -When you're like,

"He's very talented." -No, I stood there,

and the really nice guy who tells me what to do

and when to do it. -Yeah.

[ Laughter ]

Uh, I said, "He said talented." And he went, "Oh, I'm sorry."

And I went, "No, no, no, oh, no, this isn't working."

-Oh. -No.

-You got excited backstage

when you heard talented. -Yes, super excited.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Because there is a man backstage who says,

like you need to walk in. -You need to walk in.

And he got nervous because I started walking away

and he went, "No no no no no no no no."

-Yeah. -You're gonna miss the beat.

-Isn't it funny though, And I feel like nobody here,

it's very obvious where to walk.

-When the door opens,

I'm thinking, "That's a cue." -Yeah.

[ Laughter ]

We have a lot of conversation backstage for a thing

that almost anybody -- -I like them. They're good.

Yeah. Oh, they're very good, yeah.

-They also make you feel smart and fun.

-[ Laughing ] Yeah. -Even if you're not.

-It's really good. They're very well --

-I mean, they're very good. -Well-trained.

-Yeah. Um. [ Laughter ]

Last time, this is the first time you've been here in person.

-We've done the Zoom thing. -We did. We did a Dune Zoom.

-Did you --

-A Duzoom. -[ Laughs ]

-There's actually a, um,

an Indian restaurant called Dishoom, isn't it?

-Is it? -Oh.

[ Cheers and applause ]

I mean, can I tell you it's very rare

for someone to be this plugged in with the audience.

And you are, you know, the same restaurants.

-You have -- [ Laughs ]

Thank you, Sandra. -[ Laughs ]

Oh, you brought Sandra. That's not fair.

You're not allowed to have plants.

-What was your name?

Who said Dishoom?

[ Indistinct ] -Ali?

-Yeah. -Hi, Ali.

-Hey. -Close.

-Yeah. There you go. -Yeah.

-Um, you, uh...

[ Both laugh ] -Back on track?

-Back on -- Well, barely. -Wait, Dune.

-No. Yeah. Let's figure it out. -We did that, Zoom.

We did a Zoom Dune. A Dune Zoom.

-Yeah. -And now we're in person.

-[ Laughs ] -But here's the thing.

-So "Dune," obviously is sci-fi. -Mm-hmm.

-Um, "Silo" is sci-fi. -Mm-hmm.

-You've worked in many genres.

and yet recently a lot of sci-fi.

Are you someone who's drawn to it as a genre?

-Only. It's all I do.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Post-Apoca -- apocalyptic. -[ Laughs ]

-Post-apocalyptic, that's a hard one.

-Yeah. -Yeah. Sorry. Silo is great.

And... -It is great. And it's a book.

-I read the books. -You did?!

-I love the books. I love the show.

I'm very excited for season two.

-I'm excited I meet -- -Whoo!

-Thank you. -Yeah.

It's really fun. -It's good.

It's good. I do like it.

-But, you know -- -I do like it.

-You're like, "I do like it." -I like I do like it myself.

You're in it.

-You're an executive producer. -It's a good show.

-And here's the real exciting thing.

You do like it. -I do like it.

But also, not -- Because fun is fun.

It's -- It is sci-fi-esque.

But I think the point is it's in the future.

But actually it's like crime and it's relationship

and it's scary and it's awkward.

And it's -- -Yeah, all good sci-fi

is basically just a frame

over the stuff we're dealing with now.

-So when you say, "Do you like sci-fi?"

And I go, you know, weirdly enough,

every bloody film I've done recently is some form of sci-fi.

I don't know, maybe that's just the best, right?

-But also, it all works because it's grounded.

It's not just like, you know, jetpacks --

-Is it though? -I think so.

-I mean, in the last film, there's a big worm.

-Yeah. -You know?

-I will say -- Can I say it? -Yeah.

-And I know it's in the books.

The worm's not my favorite part. -Really?

-Yeah. -Well, you have a hoot coming.

[ Laughter ]

-Is there more worms? -Well...

You know if you've read the book.

-Yeah, I read -- -I think someone --

-I didn't say I read "Dune." -Someone turns into it.

-I didn't say I read Dune. -Oh, no. No.

-I tried "Dune." -That's true.

-Colbert did. -Did you read "Dune"?

Of course, Colbert. -No but Colbert

told me all about it. -Yeah. Oh, yeah?

-He's fiercely intelligent. -Is he that fun?

That's fun to have somebody tell you about a book

before you read it. -Yeah, I saw you on.

Yeah. I haven't read "Silo" either.

-You haven't? -I have.

[ Laughter ]

[ Laughter continues ]

-I have a real question though.

Because you're actually so -- -A real question.

-Yeah. I really do. -I really enjoy this.

[ Laughing ] Oh, good. Oh, yeah.

I like that you don't really seem

that interested in the destination.

-No. -Um...

[ Laughter ]

You...

[ Laughter ]

But this is -- -That is so true.

-This -- All right, so for people who don't know,

like, it's about a society that's living in a silo.

-Yes. -And you are in real life.

You suffer from claustrophobia.

This is an incredibly claustrophobic show.

Now, I know, obviously, it's a movie set.

You're not actually inside a silo.

-No problem there. -No problem there?

-I am very claustrophobic.

-Has it been your whole life?

-It's a real problem. -Or is it something that

it developed later?

-It did -- It did develop more

when I did a -- We call it a life cast.

So you do, um -- -Oh, yeah. Of course.

-Yeah. -You're in a movie.

And they need to do -- -And they need to do a --

[ Sighs ] For the people who don't know,

should we finish the sentence? -Yeah. No.

Don't tell them. -[ Laughs ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, when you become

a Hollywood insider. -You know, when they do a thing.

You know the thing. Yeah. -Yeah, I know. I know, yeah.

-Oh, yeah. I'm in the biz. -Yeah.

-I, uh, know. -Do you know who knows?

-Ali. -Ali. Ali knows.

A life cast is if you got to do like

if they have to do prosthetics or anything,

they have to do a whole --

-They -- -I only had a head cast.

I've never done the full body. -So, no, no.

-This is a head course. -Okay. Gotcha.

-Whew, we're moving so fast.

[ Laughter ]

-We can slow it down. -Just a little bit.

-Yeah, let's -- You know what? -Because this is --

-I do feel like we're racing through this.

-I know, and also, when they say cut and we're done,

we're not going to be done.

-No. -I'm just going to continue.

-This is all.

Everything we're ever going to do is a beginning.

-It's just this until. And that's it.

-Yeah. -But what I was saying is

I have always --

No I haven't been stuck in an elevator,

I didn't have --

My child was quite tough,

but not that tough.

-Uh-huh. Yeah. -A lot of love.

Um, but I just couldn't bear people lying on top of you

or holding you down and tickling you and control stuff.

It's a lot of therapy to go, you know?

-Yeah. -Can't be arsed really.

-But then with all those things. -A lot of drug.

-But I'm clean now. -And then they head --

Then they had casted you. -And then they head caste me.

That was like a trigger? -They put --

[ Scoffs ] Was it? -Yeah.

You -- Basically, they put lots of like gel and latex

and it's thick and they cover your ears and your eyes

and you have tiny straws for your nose.

And I said, I'm really claustrophobic.

And he was like, "Don't worry, trust me."

"Trust me" means [bleep] all...

[ Laughter ]

...from now on to me. -Yeah, right.

-It means nothing.

All of a sudden it solidifies, great word.

And I said it, solidify. -Yeah.

-Landed it. -Landed it.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

-Whoo! -And it's -- Thank you.

[ Audience applauds ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

It's not even worth it.

Thank you. -You know what? Can I --

-But my point is, I needed to get it off.

And I started panicking, and I started sweating,

and I couldn't get -- I couldn't get it off.

And I realized that if I blinked,

I could get my fingers into my eyeballs.

[ Laughter ]

I mean, literally.

And I managed to pull it off and they said,

"No, no, we're just about to put the cast on."

So they were about to cast. They cast --

Cast like when you've broken... -Yeah. Yep.

They cast your head in...

and then they chisel it out.

-I might be claustrophobic now...

[ Laughter ]

...just from hearing this story about your --

-Dude, I woke up for the last.

It's not a laughing matter.

But I woke... -[ Man laughs ]

[ Laughter ]

These shows just don't work... -I -- I know.

That's my producer who laughed.

-Yeah. Good. -And he's that --

That's the kind of guy he is.

-Thank you.

-When someone's like, it's not a laughing matter,

-Is that him? -That's when he's like,

"Yuck, yuck, yuck!"

-No. Is that him there? -He's right there. That guy.

Who's literally still laughing?

-Henry. -[ Man laughing ]

-No, it's not Henry. It's Shoemaker.

-No. Oh. Anyway, whatever. -Yeah.

-Um...

[ Laughter ]

It's so good. I woke up at literally --

And there's probably a therapist there going.

I'll tell you all about eMDR and stuff.

I've tried it, uh.

Which is a form of therapy -- -Yeah.

um, screaming.

-Really? From the cast. And you --

-I had a dream about the bloody cast.

So right now, I'm in your room there

putting my mic on and out of kindness,

they close my door, and I need to have every door open.

-Really? But you do not do elevators.

You had to -- You walked up eight flights to get here.

-I will walk up as far as I have to walk up.

-What's the most -- What's the most

you've had to walk up due to the elevator thing?

-[ Inhales deeply ] Well, I'm --

I'm a celebrity now. -Yeah.

-So I make sure things come down to me.

-Oh.

[ Laughter ]

-It's true.

-That's really great. -Thank you.

[ Applause ]

-Yeah. -Yeah.

-Yeah. -Thank you.

-So, like, If you're looking for me, I'm on mezzanine.

[ Laughter ]

-We did "The Greatest Showman" and...

Well, what --

[ Cheers and applause ]

[ Mouthing ] Thank you. -[ Laughs ]

-And, um -- I'm so -- I'm so Swedish.

What is the -- Is it which building is it

where you do the Christmas lighting on top.

-Uh, on top.

-Yeah, you do like a -- Clink!

-Here there's like -- Well. Oh. -Like a handle.

Not the Empire -- What's -- What would it be?

A really big building here.

-Okay. -And every Christmas you

pull the thing -- Is it the Indian restaurant?

Is that, is that -- -Dishoom.

-Dishoom. Yeah. -That's the one.

-Every year. Dishoom. Yep. -Ami.

-Uh, no.

And, uh, you have to go all the way up to the top.

And it's the skyscraper. I don't know which one.

It could be Empire State, but I don't know what it is.

-Yeah, okay. -Probably.

I had them bring the switch down.

-Really? -Yeah.

-You -- You basement switched.

-Zendaya, Zac Efron, Hugh Jackman,

all had to stay down in the entrance lobby for me.

-That's fantastic.

-I'm not even proud. -You know?

-I'm very disappointed about how quickly this has gone.

-I'm not done.

-I know, but, like, there's just, you know.

You don't know this in Sweden. -Is there any other guests?

-But, like, the shows are only a certain length.

-No, sod them. Put that down.

-I have a question about this, though.

You, uh, you also have to wear a helmet.

-Yeah. -So is this also --

Does the claustrophobia kick in here?

-No, no, no, this is specially designed for me.

Thank you for asking. So if we look here.

-Thank you.

-Yeah. Don't worry. Right here...

[ Laughter ]

...is underneath, uh, Velcro.

So it's all specially designed for me.

So if I need to, I can pop it in towards my face, but worth it.

You can then flip it and push it out.

And the helmet doesn't have a click system.

Um, because I made sure they glued everything

so nothing can go into a malfunction.

I'm like a non-sexy Jason Bourne.

[ Laughter ]

-[ Laughing ] Don't sell yourself short.

I wouldn't sell you --

but I am so bummed out

because I had a hundred questions about --

-Yeah, let's not do that. -I'm a huge --

-No. -No?

[ Laughter ]

I mean, it's really great. -Oh.

I mean, it's a different era in your life.

You can, you --

It's up to you if you want to show the audience.

-So one of the first shows I did was called "Ocean Avenue."

-"Ocean Avenue." -It's not worth an applaud.

-Um -- -Yeah, by the way...

[ Laughter ]

...you didn't need to say it. -[ Laughing ] No.

[ Laughter ]

[ Cheers and applause ]

I do not think it was forthcoming for old Ocean Ave.

-No. And I played --

It's a Swedish-American show

where it's like a -- it's like if you've seen a porn film,

it is like --

[ Laughter ]

Not done --

It is like the beginning.

You know, like the, "Oh, hi."

-Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, right.

Like, sort of like -- -I'm not picking it up.

-Right, right, right. -But they're kind of like,

Oh, the lighting is harsh and you're like, really --

-But it's like -- It's like sort of an office environment.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

-And I want to be a model.

So all I say is, [Sultry voice] "I want to be a model."

[ Laughter ]

-I would like -- -And this is me.

-Yeah. -Literally.

-Like, that's it. -Yeah.

-It is -- And actually, we were canceled.

Um, I think the third episode showed.

And then they canceled it. -Really?

-Yeah.

-I -- This one I wanted to show

because I like that this is,

you know, this is where you go to be a model

because there's obviously fashion.

Because there's an iron in the back.

[ Laughter ]

A lot of fashion models

walk into a place... -Don't be mean.

-...where they're ironing -- Oh, now,

I can't be mean about Ocean Ave. That's Giselle.

-What? -That's Giselle.

-That's Gisele? -Her name -- Not the model.

[ Laughter ]

-Well, I'm very excited about season two of "Silo."

I really did love the first season,

and I'm so happy to have here in person.

Will you come back? -I will come back.

-Alright. Good. -Did we get through it all?

Did you miss anything? -Um, helmet, uh...Oh.

Did you see, uh -- -Hey, I knew it.

-Yeah. You -- Do you -- -Look at the cheeky.

-I'm very excited. Do you -- Is it true?

[ Laughter ]

Rebecca? -Yeah.

-Is it true that you steal things from sets.

-I might liberate now and then?

-Okay. What do you --

What do you liberate off a set? Is it --

-Anything. -Does it have to be

something special or...?

-I, um...

It's stuck.

[ Laughter ]

We I tried.

-We glued everything down

because we knew you were coming.

[ Laughter ]

-[bleep].

-So you're a claus-- -Um, no. I did.

-You're a claustromaniac. -I literally, I think it's fun.

And I believe that everyone does it.

They just don't talk about it.

-Okay. -And I stole --

-There's something noble, the fact that you're being honest,

-So, I did. I stole.

So I did a film with Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

-You did. -Yeah.

-"Hercules." -"Hercules."

-Yeah. -Yeah.

-Um, and there are skulls in the film.

-Sure. -So I stole a skull.

-Okay. -And I still have it at home.

And I gave it to my daughter. -Uh-huh.

-To take in for, um...

-Show and tell. -Show and tell.

That's the one. -Yeah.

And they sent it back home and said,

"Can you send something else?"

[ Laughter ]

My little 6-year-old.

-She was six?! -Yeah.

[ Laughter ]

-You gave a skull to a 6 year old?

-Yeah, but the jewel.

-And it opens and it -- it looks -- It's amazing.

-Well, then it is appropriate.

I didn't know it opened.

[ Laughter ]

Is it true you stole some rocks from a desert?

-Oh, my gosh, thank you.

-You're welcome.

-So I was in the desert.

-Uh-huh. -Filming "Dune."

-Sure. -And then I stole --

So in the sand in the desert.

Because of the wind,

they create these incredible circular shapes.

I was going to say balls, but it just sounds weird.

But anyway, circular shaped stones.

And I thought, this is such a lovely gift.

I can put them and just make things.

And then someone said to me, a, uh, I'd say Bedouin,

but a local man said, "Very bad juju."

-Okay. -"If you steal from the desert."

-Oh, interesting. -And it is interesting.

And I ran home and I got them.

And the next day I put them back because I got really nervous.

[ Laughter ]

-Really? -Yes.

-And you think it's good luck to steal a skull?

-Yeah. Don't care. -Yeah. Don't care about that.

-Handmade nature made difference.

-Oh, right. Nature made. You got to return the nature.

-Also, if a guy who comes from the desert

and is from the area goes,

"That's bad juju." Right.

-You put that thing back. -You put it back.

[ Laughter ]

Was it important to put it back

where you found it?

-On the spot.

Thank God we went back the same day.

-But do you feel like you did?

I mean, because I would guess -- -In Wadi Rum.

-What? -In Wadi Rum.

-Oh, you put it back in Wadi Rum.

-In Wadi Rum. Yeah. -Alright. Great.

-Well, so obviously things are going well for you.

So you avoided the bad juju. -It went really well.

Yeah. I mean -- -Thank you. Thus far.

-Thus far. What a delight to have you here.

I do think we got through everything now.

-I think we did. This is great.

-You guys, how about this?

How about Rebecca Ferguson, everybody?

[ Cheers and applause ]

And there's no one quite like her.

-Thank you. -Second season of "Silo"

premieres November 15th on Apple TV +,

with new episodes premiering Friday.

We'll be right back.