| Kelli Williams on The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn September 26, 2002 This is a somewhat rough transcript. I did it right after the show until like three in the morning, so I was kinda tired, but you get the gist. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <Mike (out in the hallways) and Craig (in the studio) are talking about �extravadanza� (Tony Danza was also a guest)> Mike: I�m glad you asked me that. Kelli is a real dear friend of mine and I caught up earlier today with her and asked her about the Tony buzz. Let�s take a look. Craig: Mike there�s no tape. Mike: Oh that�s right I didn�t catch up with Kelli actually, um -- Craig: Oh actually I don�t think she�s here yet, Mike. Mike: True, but you know, actually I got some pictures of her. <He takes a bunch of pictures out her out of his tux jacket and shows them (they are of her at awards shows, etc.)> And she is a cutie. She is. She�s got it going on. I mean, can you get any cuter? I don�t think you can get any cuter. Craig: You seem to have a lot of pictures of Kelli, Mike. Mike: Here�s another. < holds up one of her in a black dress> How good does she look in black. Hold on, I got some wallet pictures of her. < he show wallet pix of her picture cut and pasted next to his> Here we are at Old Faithful, and here were in Moscow together. Craig: Yeah, wait a minute, you have wallet photos of the two of you together? Mike: Kelli and I are like, you know, best friends. Craig: They aren�t real. Mike: Yeah they are. Craig: Mike, you haven�t even met Kelli have you? Mike: <very insistent> yes, yes I told you we go way back -- <Kelli walks around the corner. She doesn�t have a mike on so you can�t hear her, but they appear to be excited to see each other, just like old friends.> Kelli, Oh my god <they hug each other, and romantic music plays in the background and the whole scene becomes very nostalgic feeling � Camera cuts to Mike staring off into space.> Craig: Mike, Mike, we just caught you man, you were daydreaming. Mike: No Craig: We exposed you buddy. Mike: We�re tight. I watch The Practice-- Craig: Mike Gibbons, everybody. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig: Right now, our next guest is a talented actress who begins her seventh season on the Emmy award-winning series The Practice. <cuts to clip of Lindsay in jail with Bobby and Bobby jr. > Lindsay: <to bobby jr.> I�m gonna go...live somewhere else for awhile. But you�re going to visit me all the time, just like we talked about, okay? <Bobby jr. is looking at her. The camera cuts to Bobby who looks intensely upset and almost angry. The camera then cuts to Lindsay who is wiping away her tears.> I need a hug<to Bobby jr.> Can I have a hug? Just a little one? <she pulls Bobby jr. close to her> <end of clip> Craig: Please welcome Kelli Williams < Kelli walks out in a pink floral and ruffled summer dress.> Hi, nice to see you. Kelli: <pointing to his hair> I like the shorter hair. Craig: I like your dress, since we�re sharing, I like your dress. <she is adjusting it> But I don�t want you to touch it. Don�t touch it. Kelli: Alright. Craig: Thanks for doing that thing with Mike Gibbons. That was nice. Kelli: I know Mike. Craig: No you don�t. You don�t know him at all. You know Danza don�t you? Kelli: Yes, 10 years ago in New York, we did a play. Craig: When you were like 16 and he was like 45. He�s a nice guy. He has that energy. Kelli: He�s a great guy. I actually played softball with him on the Broadway Show League. Craig: who was the second baseman who hit him? Kelli: I don�t know, that was a different game. Craig: Doug McClure, Lee Majors. Kelli: I don�t know, I have no idea. It was a very serious business playing softball. I kept having to remind him that we were playing The Rockettes. Craig: He takes it very seriously. He�s competitive. Let�s forget him. Last season on The Practice you went to jail because your character -- Kelli: Well, you know, I got stalked by the nun killer, and then the guy with the head in his freezer and then I got stalked by the cannibal. And what am I supposed to do? Craig: What�s a girl supposed to do? So you whacked somebody? Kelli: I shot somebody. Craig: so you went to jail. Are you out this year? Kelli: I don�t know. Craig: Oh hence we have to watch. Kelli: You have to watch. I�ve got lovely costumes. I basically got scrubs and tennis shoes. Craig: What if I don�t watch. I�m gonna say you get out. They�ve gotta make it work. Kelli: Yeah, on like I technicality. Craig: Yeah, you probably get out. Do you get upset with all these stalkers on the show. Kelli: Well, yes, I guess. I wonder what Lindsay did to get stalkers like this. Craig: Can you influence the writers, say �knock it off�? Kelli: Well, David is known for doing things you�re afraid of, so I don�t know how that connects to the stalking thing. I�m just a normal person who doesn�t want to be stalked. But god forbid I say I hate singing cause he�ll have me singing. Its that kinda thing. Craig: When you say David -- Kelli: David E. Kelley. Craig: What about your fans? Kelli: I get these letters from guys in prison who want me to handle their appeals. Craig: Do you respond? Kelli: No. Craig: No. Kelli: No. The idea of some guy in prison watching The practice and saying that is the one I want handling my appeal. that is just weird. That�s too weird. Craig: Tell everybody where you went to school. Kelli: <laughs> Beverly Hills High Craig: Is it as nice as -- Do you drive Mercades there. Kelli: Some do, I don't believe in that. Craig: What kinda car did you drive when you were sixteen? Kelli: A jeep. Craig: Well that's nice, very down to earth, making a statement. Kelli: A very normal life. Craig: What does your dad do? Kelli: A very normal life -- Plastic Surgeon. Craig: See Kelli: Mom was an actress. Very normal. Craig: But you were not screwd up at all. Kelli: No. Craig: Did you ever say to your dad, can I have a little something done? Kelli: well one of his nurses thought I should have a nose job. I said explain it. What would you have me do? She said just thin it <demonstrating on her nose> I was like you can't talk to me. Craig: its perfect, its a tiny little button nose. Kelli: I'd have no nose. Craig: Can you spot people that have -- Kelli: I think I can. Craig: Can I show you some photos of people Kelli: Oh, I am being tested now. Craig: Just tell us what they've had done. These are all our friends, They've all done the show. Kelli: Oh, I hope no ones here cause I dont want to offend anyone. < Shows first picture, which is of some actor, I dont know who> Well, he's had a face lift. Craig: A face lift, is that it? Kelli: Well, you can tell right around the ears <pointing to the man's ears> Craig: What about around the eyes? Kelli: Wll that sort of goes with it. Normally eyes get tucked. Its kinda the whole buisness. < Next picture is shown, of Jennifer Grey> Oh please, she's had a few things done.Nose, maybe cheek implants. Craig: Really, Kelli: I feel terrible. I don't know, now I feel bad. < Shows picture of Britney Spears> Well, she developed rather quickly. Craig: Okay < Audience laughs; Kelli smiles at audience> Kelli: I dont want to offend anyone. They dont like to talk about it. < Craig flips through photos and shows a picture of Kelli's season seven promo pic> oh..<Kelli laughs> Craig: Nothing there Kelli: oh no <Craig pulls out picture of Tony Danza; Audience laughs> Craig: Anything? Kelli: All real. Craig: Then we have some sisters we'd like you to take a look at < he pulls out photo of Micheal Jackson and I think Elizabeth Taylor ( she had a veil around her face so i wasn't sure, If I am wrong please let me know, cause that would be embarassing)> Kelli: Oh my god <laughing> Yeah, yeah. Craig: Does your father ever say to patients "no, no more"? Kelli: He does, but then they just go to someone else who then does it anyway. No my dad's an interesting guy. Craig: Does he come home and say these people are freaks? Kelli: One guy actually, that he had given cheek implants to, a big rock star, I ofcourse can't tell you who. Craig: Can I guess? Kelli: No. Craig: Steven Tyler? Kelli: No. But he was taing out stiches and the guy was wincing and telling him to stop and he couldnt handle it. And my dad who is 82 -- Craig: He's still got the scalpel? Kelli: He's looking at him covered in tatoos and saying I dont understand, didnt that hurt? I am taking out a couple of stiches. Craig: He's a baby, he's soft..some guy from white snake? Kelli: No, I'm not telling no. Craig: The whole show has been me guessing White Snake and Vic Daema. I'm entertaining myself and no one else. Anyways, pleasure meeting you, The seventh season of The Practice is sunday. Look at this it doesn't say the network. I don't even know. Kelli: Is it because we are on a different one? Craig: probably Kelli: ABC. Craig: Is it ABC? Kelli: <nodding> Its ABC. Do i have time for another story. I got a great story about my dad. Craig: No, but tell me if you can maybe in like ten seconds. Kelli: Oj m,y god, pressure. Ok my dad is having his 6th divorse. You get to -- Craig:This guy is fascinating. Kelli: But he was married to Ava Ga Bore, and many years later, this is the 50s -- Craig: This is good stuff. Kelli: Many years later he is in an elevator standing next to Ava, and he turns to her, rather she turns to him and says do I know you? and he says yes I was your second husband, and without missing a beat, she says "you look fantastic, who does your work?" < laughter> and its ture. it is really a true story. Its sad but true. Craig: Thats the stuff I wanted, thats what I really wanted. Kelli: I know. Craig: I didn't want to talk about The Practice Kelli: I know. Craig: Give it to Kelli Williams. We'll be right back. <end of transcript> |