Dermot on the Rosie O'Donnell Show - June 1997

Rosie: We all know our next guest from his movies like Young Guns,
Copycat, How to make an American Quilt. Pretty soon everyone
will know him as the guy who's wanted both by Julia Roberts and
Cameron Diaz. Please welcome, Dermot Mulroney.
Rosie: How are ya Dermot?
Dermot: Very well thank-you.
Rosie: Good to see you.
Dermot: Glad to be here.
Rosie: Can I say something about your performance in this film?
Dermot: Yes.
Rosie: ADORABLE! You're just adorable.
Dermot: Thank-you. Well, I'm in the best company of course.
Rosie: Ya, not a bad gig for you.
Dermot: I should say not. At least it's easy on the eyes and we all got along ... it's like a dream job.
Rosie: They called you up and said this is a hard gig...you're going to be engaged to Cameron and Julia's going to be in love with you.
Dermot: Somebody's got to do it.
Rosie: Hard stuff.
Dermot: Ya - it's hard to get out of bed in the morning.
Rosie: Do you remember when we first met?
Dermot: I do...I do. We have a mutual musician friend, right?
Rosie: That's right. Melissa Etheridge had a big Hollywood party - my first Hollywood party.
Julia: I wasn't invited.
Rosie: She didn't know you.
Julia: She still doesn't.
Rosie: Maybe she met you and thought you were cold.
Dermot: Couldn't have been that.
Rosie: No. But I walked in and you were there and I like accosted you and frightened you.
Dermot: I thought you were a little wierd.
Rosie: Ya I remember that, you did.
Dermot: But I love wierd people so that's not a problem.
Rosie: And then we hit it off you and I ... then you came to see my show once.
Dermot: You were nice enough to invite me.
Rosie: There you have it that's the story of Rosie and Dermot, right there in a nut shell.
Julia: That's better than my story.
Dermot: Ya it is actually.
Rosie: Hey you have a CD out that I want everyone to know about. And you're an accoplished cellist.
Dermot: I play in a band called the Low and Sweet Orchestra and it's released by Interscope. It actually came out this summer during the shoot.
Julia: It's fabulous ... it is so fabulous.
Dermot: It's a great album. In fact, it's sold out all across Chicago...which I'd really like to thank the crew for buying all the CDs (audience laughs) while were working together.
Rosie: That's where you shot the film, right? I heard the crowd scenes were a little hard to handle.
Dermot: Well a lot of the scenes took place outside and most of them in railway stations, football fields and everything else...boats. We had one scene on a boat...a tour boat in Chicago and we're on the upper deck that goes under all the bridges over the Chicago river. So there's people literally just 3 or 4 feet above you and they're just walking to work or whatever you know, and you see a lot of double takes to the point where people are literally screaming "Julia!" and um, it was a little distracting but I think we got threw that scene pretty well.
Rosie: I can imagine. What do you have to do, just scream "shut up" and do it again? Do they take it out?
Dermot: They'd take it out or we'd do it a couple of times.
Julia: And you sort of ignore it. That wasn't as bad as some of the low bridges where we're having this -as you guys know- having this sort of a deep moment on the boat and we're talking and it's like, "heads up, bridge!". So we had to be careful.
Rosie: You know what I loved in that scene - those two little girls in the foreground staring and laughing at you, which I thought was so accurate.
Rosie: Well you are the best friend, you are about to marry Cameron Diaz and she's (Julia's) in love with you. Dermot: I know.
Rosie: Do you know the clip we have?
Dermot: I do.
Rosie: Could you set it up?
Dermot: I think this is where the best friend got sent off to the stag party/baseball game, so she's being treated like a pal.
(clip)
Rosie: Very cute. How is your lovely wife who was here on the show.
Dermot: Catharine's doing terrific. I was hoping she could come but business intruded.
Rosie: It was so sweet, I was telling Julia that when your wife for her film "Walking and Talking", Dermot came with her and she was very nervous and Dermot stood right there so that she could have eye contact the whole time...broke my heart it was so...
Dermot: But really it was you who made her feel so comfortable...as you seem to be doing with me. So whatever you're doing, keep it up.
Rosie: Dermot, I have a little question to ask you that someone told me - I believe it was Mr.Estevez again...name dropping him twice.
Dermot: It's a big thing for Emilio.
Rosie: That, you worked with "my" Tommy.
Dermot: I did only briefly - I assume you mean Tom Cruise?
Rosie: Have you been in a coma Dermot? Yes, I mean my Tommy, my Tommy, Tom Cruise.
Dermot: Ya you know he's pals with those guys that were in Young Guns, Charlie and Emilio and Keifer and Lou and so forth so this is years and years ago and I hadn't never met him or anything, but he came in for one millisecond and they shot him and he's in Young Guns.
Rosie: He's in the movie?
Dermot: Yes he is, that's a fact.
Rosie: I looked through the film painstakingly frame by frame, but I read that little piece of trivia in you information packet...I could not find it Dermot.
Dermot: I know, it's tough. I haven't seen the film since it came out, but I...
Rosie: Are you positive it's still in there?
Dermot: Ya, I just checked upstairs. It's there, that's him.
Rosie: Roll the clip.
(clip)
Rosie: You're trying to tell me that that is my Tommy?
Dermot: That's some of his best work.
Rosie: Is that honestly my Tommy right there?
Dermot: It really is. He just literally came in for the day and put on some muttonchops or something and I think in the original cut I actually shot him which I thought was pretty cool, but then they gave it to Casey in the final cut.
Rosie: Can we do it in slow motion please.
Dermot: Look closely right at the end. That's him right there.
Rosie: I'm not sure that looks like my Tommy.
Dermot: No, it doesn't look like him.
Rosie: Wait, look, well it does sort of look like his smile a little bit, I saw a little bit of his teeth for a second, which is why I'm smiling.
Dermot: So you have a whole 'nother video to put in your collection.
Rosie: Alright - my Tom Cruise video - got to add Young Guns... Whatever! I do what I have to do to keep up on my Tommy files. Well Dermot, you're delightful in the film and in real life. Don't go anywhere cause we got Rupert coming up.
Dermot: I'm sure looking forward to that.
Rosie: My Best Friend's Wedding Day here on the Rosie O'Donnell Show. We'll be right back with Rupert Everett.

Dermot on Letterman - June 20, 1997

Dave:...Please welcome Dermot Mulroney.
Dave: You excited about the film opening today?
Dermot: Oh ya, sure.
Dave: Listen, sorry about your name, I keep screwing it up - It's DerMot MulRoney. It's an unusual name. Is that right?
Dermot: Exactly right.
Dave: It's an unusual name, Irish?
Dermot: It's a strange enough name. A lot of people have trouble, so you're in good company.
Dave: When you grow up with a name like that - Dermot Mulroney - is it trouble for a kid? Did you get teased at all?
Dermot: It was kinda hard. I mean, I think most kids didn't really think of it as a strange name because they're just kids. But really what happened to me, the worst part was when Kermit the Frog came out, that kind of ruined it for me. I had it hard after that.
Dave: So you're like Dermot Kermit...
Dermot: Kermit, Wormit, Spermit, you know, the whole thing (audience laughs).
Dave: I can see how that would get on your nerves after awhile.
Dermot: Ya.
Dave: How'd ya like working with Julia Roberts?
Dermot: What do you think???
Dave: Well man...she's nice isn't she?
Dermot: She's really nice.
Dave: It must have been great fun.
Dermot: It was great fun.
Dave: How did you get the gig?
Dermot: Well you know, um, I auditioned for it...the old fashioned way.
Dave: You came up here from Virginia today?
Dermot: Ya, actually I was here the other night for the premiere and then I went down last night for a local premiere. Sony and Tristar were kind enough to send an advanced print for a charity event for my high school scholarship fund. So ya, it was really nice; I just spent the evening seeing a lot of great old friends and a lot of people who seemed to think that we were great old friends.
Dave: It works that way sometimes doesn't it? But there's really nothing wrong with it.
Dermot: No, we had a ball. I stayed at a friend's house, we drove up in a VW van and we did it the "Virginia" way.
Dave: Do you hate Disney as well?(audience laughs)
Dermot: I guess I'd have to be honest and say I have mixed feelings.
Dave: Did you when you were a kid have any unpleasant summer jobs?
Dermot: That's a very good question, I had several (sounding very rehearsed) Well what I mean to say is, "yes", yes I did. I actually washed windows for a summer with my brother Kieran, who's also got a real strange Irish name...
Dave: Kieran Mulroney, that's a great name. They're both good names.
Dermot: And Sean and Conor are my other older brothers and my sister Moira...see this was the 60s and my parents weren't doing drugs, so I think that's just how they entertained themselves (audience laughs) But because the names are so wierd - if you can spell them, you can't pronounce them, and if you can pronounce them, you can't spell them - we just went with "Ken&Dan's Window Washing Services".
Dave: Ken and Dan, well that's good. But washing windows doesn't sound all together that unpleasant.
Dermot: Well it was pretty unplesant, it gets hot there in the summer...
Dave: Did you get your hands wet...?
Dermot: Well no, the ad line on our flyer was "We use squegees". We thought that was really going to pull the business in. And it did, because this was the early 80s and we were really on the forefront with squegees.
Dave: Oh yes, that big squegee craze!
Dave: Now what are you going to do after the show tonight? I understand you're going to spend time with you costar?
Dermot: Ya that's what I'm hoping.
Dave: What are you going to do...you know she was here last night, she was great.
Dermot: I didn't get a chance to catch the show (audience laughs). I guess what I mean is that I hope you had a really good time, she's great to spend time with...
Dave: How long have you known her?
Dermot: I met her, I think, in April or something.
Dave: Well I met her in 1988 pal.
Dermot: She was like 14 at the time...
Dave: No, she was not, and I'm not going to reveal her age and I knew how old she was in 1988 but she's still a very very young woman.
Dermot: That's all I meant to say by that.
Dave: So you nervous, excited, thrilled about the film?
Dermot: I'm thrilled about the film. Most of the movies I've been in kind of just slip by, so this is a different experience for me, I've had a real good time.
Dave: And you're hopeful obviously that this is now the beginning of bigger and better things for you right?
Dermot: Sure, if that comes along with it, you bet.
Dave: Or it's back to the squegees.
Dermot: Or it's back to the squegees, which isn't such a bad gig either.
Dave: Dermot, have a great summer. Pleasure meeting you.
Dermot: Thank you very much.

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