Hello, everybody. My next guest co-stars on Buffy the vampire slayer, and in American pie movies.
Now she can been seen every Monday night on the CBS Show How I met your Mother.
Please welcome Alyson Hannigan.
- You look stunning! ... You are beautiful - Thank you ... Thanks ... Yeah
- Now happy Thanksgiving. - Happy Thanksgiving.
I'm so exited to be in New York for Thanksgiving.
It's a great time. It's one of the best city in the world to celebrate.
Absolutely!
Are you... In the past, when I've talked to you, you were a vegetarian.
And I know that it can be tricky... vegetarian at Thanksgiving.
- Right - But now I thought you're not a vegetarian anymore.
No. I was for 8 years and I just got REALLY hungry!
I said "Man, I need some meet!" So...
- So I thew it through the window - Really? I love that. I was just one away. OK?
- I was so hungry. - Do you eat... What would you eat now?
- Hum.. Well... - Do you eat like all... all meat?
No. I don't. My friend has labelled me a "cutetarian".
- Cutetarian? - Because I don't eat cute animals. Only the third ugly ones.
- Really? - Yes. Like chicken and turkeys and well...
So an idious animal or unattactive animal you will eat?
Yeah, well... I won't eat, you know... ducks or bunnies or you know stuff...
No more people running around eating bunnies, you know.
- They call it rabbit - A rabbit. Yeah.
Noone says "Bunny you know".
I won't eat puppies.
Yeah. Good. Nice. Let's celebrate. More celebrities could join that cause.
Peter ?William? and Grace ?Y? may be.
Yeah, So that's nice that you wouldn't eat... but ducks? What about ducks? I mean ducks are...
Ducks are cute. They are. Especially I used to feed them when I was a kid at the pond. There are really cute.
Chickens start cute and then they get ugly. So I can eat those.
So you'd eat the baby chick but the .... you would just munch away. Yeah.
And I won't eat baby cows, but cows are sort of cute as adults but I try'a think... I try'a just put that...
- Think other thoughts. This is a all mouvements. - Yeah. Because I also love to wear leathers. So...
So I try to avoid looking at cows.
Very good. You know how to not think about it too much.
Last time... It is going to be smoothly now, Mr Will Arnett is a nice guy.
But last time you were on the show, Luke Perry was sitting over there.
And you guys had an awkward moment.
You called the ????? on... you thought he snubed you a little bit?
He did snub me!
Well, we'll show... Let's take a fine look back at that awkward moment. Let's take a look.
- I have to give him a little Hello before I start. - OK.
We stay at the same hotel. And I encounter him in the elevator and he had his head down reading news.
"Oh I'm going to the exact same place you're going" I said.
"I seriously doubt it."
Actually that's not what I said.
So that's was good of you.
- Why!? - I think it was good because I don't confront people.
I'm 'confrontation-averse'. I'm affraid to do it.
But you, on a National television you turned,... a 60 millions people were watching this epidode,
You turned and you gave him to 'em. That was... - Yeah.
Yeah. Now what's the weird thing is that not too long afterwards, you cast in a romantic play with Luke Perry!?
Yes. Luke and I did How Harry met Sally in the West end of... in London.
How had you put aside your differences?
Well, he always denies that he snubed me. But you know... I know the truth, whatever.
No. He is such a wonderful guy and I mean we were... we did the show for probably six months,
I think it was the fifth month before he started to talking to me.
- Really? - So it wasn't awkward at all.
- You'd get heard the tension in the play.
- No he is very sweet. And you know... sort of that jokes of... Yeah. Allright.
You are lovely...
- Now, you are married now. - I am indeed.
I think I saw you somewhere during an eve planning with you husband and he spoke.
And it sounds a British accent, I thought. Is he British?
And sounds to me now your husband is not British but he has a British accent.
Yeah. He lived there for forteen years.
And so if he's talking to anyone British, he'll have the accent, but it sort of "it comes and goes".
Like I know who's calling him by the accent that he uses.
If its accent really changes, that would worry me.
The persons you were married to, sometime they're one person and sometime they pick up like
"Hey honey I love ya." "Hello ?????"
"How're ya"
And that's exactly how it sounds.
?????
I don't want to talk to that guy anymore.
But it is nice cos' the accent is so sexy. So that's nice to have a husband that sort of... sometimes...
Nothing like mine I hope. Year.
- It's similar. - Yeah.
My English accent is about as accurate as my French.
Yeah. When I was doing the play there, I sort of sounded like Madonna.
You know, this sort of thick British accent. Cos' it's really hard not to imitate their accent.
It sort of blows me away, because, you know, Madonna, when you see her on interview now,
Especially when she is, you know... She does sound a little like Mary Poppins.
I know, but I totally understand it.
I used to sort of judge her and think "Oh come on, we are not English".
And just being here for six months I completly sounded like Madonna.
- It's just happened. - I have the Madonna accent.
You started to wearing a monocle...
Absolutely.
By Jove
I'm curious, I'm thinking about you had so much success in different arenas,
Buffy was a big hit show,
and then you are in the American Pie movies,
and now you are in How I met your Mother,
and so I'm curious, when someone approaches you who's a fan
you know... you must not know exactly of which show they are fans of, how they get to know you.
Yeah. Well,... you know the American Pie's fans, you can kind of see them coming.
Because they're usually screaming at me, and like saying fool things...
"Where is the flute? euuu..." like that kind of stuff.
I get that too. For different reasons.
What the... I mean you must have very intense fans, what's the most intense...
you know... sort of... situation you have with the fans?
Well, I had a fan who shown up to my house with a horse that she wanted to give me... Yeah.
What do you mean?
She had a horse, a beautiful horse, I wouldn't eat it.
And, she was like: "- Oh I just want to give you this horse. - Really?"
And my husband: "Noooo don't take the horse."
And... you know... I was living...
He was like "Glory me!"
And yeah, I mean, she trained horses and she just wanted to share her art with me, and give me a horse.
This is so strange to just show up at your door. That takes a level of confidence.
It does!
Shall I take it? Ding Dong...
I know, it's like: "OK! I'll just put it in the swimming pool."
Well, How I met your Mother airs Monday night at 8 on CBS.
And Alyson, thanks for being here, and happy thanksgiving.
Alyson Hannigan... We'll be right back.