Elle Fanning Learned Manners From Kirsten Dunst & Nicole Kidman | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

I was reading different interviews with. you in preparation for chatting with you. today and you said something really. interesting to me which is that you. learned you've learned different things. from different people you say that a big. part of your education was working with. Sophia Copa you know your education. continued long after your your formal. education and I really believe in that I. really believe we learned so much but. you said that you learned. manners from working with Kirsten dun. and Nicole Kidman and I thought nobody. talks about manners and now I'm going to. sound like an old man.

but I promise you I think it is a magic. power it's a magical thing to be. well-mannered yeah and you are. exceptionally well-mannered you're just. a you're you're a very kind person I. don't think people understand the. superpower that that is you know what I. mean and no one and no one talks about. it a lot oh yeah they don't talk about. it's all about well you know obviously. you got to have talent but you also have. to like you got to be tactical and you. got to do this and I like how about I. swear to God nice being being well.

mannered being well mannered and and. it's a it's and I understand it's maybe. it's uh I've always heard it's part of a. southern thing like Jack is insanely. well-mannered so anytime Jack MCB comes. to my house two days later I get a note. sir it was an honor you know I have a. feeling that's not what. it he doesn't say it was an honor but he. does he does write he says it was lovely. it was an honor hanging out with your.

wife everyone Everyone likes Liza people. tolerate me but uh but no it's just like. that's such a nice thing yeah it's true. I mean I think like I didn't go to like. acting class or anything so it's just. like being on set and around different. personalities and different people and. picking up on you know what people do. and I mean honestly it's like my mom yes. like you know she would be on set with. me or my grandmother and I would have. you know write a note get rap gifts for. everyone.

like I've just always done that even. like small things about like putting at. the end of the day like your costume. like making sure that it's like hung up. that you hang it up at in in the trailer. because then you hear because you hear. people say like they just throw and. they're like thank you so much for just. hanging it up it's like well it takes. like a second to do that you know like. it's and also sometimes it makes you. realize how other people are behaving. I've had situations where I don't know. I'm doing something and.

uh I don't know it'll be like a Serious. XM record in New York or something and. I'm headed out and I'll pass the person. at like the front thing and I'll say I'm. going to get coffee do you want any and. they go what yeah what and I'm thinking. I'm not giving you a kidney right I'm. saying I'm getting a coffee would you. like one too and you realize oh it's. such little things like that you feel. better to I don't know to be to be kind. I mean it sounds so cliche and easy but. I don't in this business it's like like. there's a lot of not nice people why'd.

you look at me and by the way I that's a. madeup story about getting the coffee I. was like did you really get coffee. that no I think you took the coffee from. that I took I took the security I took. her coffee and I said thanks for the. Java now go get your own but you are. known you you actually are known as like. the nicest and the best well that's very. sweet you are everyone says it and. everyone thinks it Sona you've seen the. real me I have seen the real you yeah.

yeah I have I have it's coming out in a. tell all you already wrote it the real. con wrot a book yeah I did I know that's. right I did she wrote A New York Times. bestseller called world's worst. assistant and she basically put it all. out there but it's basically the two of. us acting have a little Edge we're. mostly mostly you read the book and it's. a hilarious book but you mostly just. read the book and think both of these. people are idiots who shouldn't be. allowed to do anything I think I started. writing thinking it would be a takedown.

of you but it was really just an. indictment on me and how bad I was as. your assistant but having being your. assistant I will say there's a. difference you can see between people. who will dismiss you and people who. actually talk to you I got that a lot. yeah and it makes a really big. difference yeah and just remembering. people's names you know what I mean like. on set you do meet a lot of people it's. like assistance like people can. sometimes just be very rude to. assistance because they're trying to get. to you and there's a lot of people who I. actually talk to you I had a really.

interesting thing happened to me I've. never forgotten it which is I was. working on The Simpsons I was a writer. producer there this is before I got the. uh talk show and I'm probably I don't. know. 26 and I used to just wear like a. t-shirt and kind of that you know that. red James Dean kind of iconic jacket. with a flip up collar I had one of those. that's just how I'm dressed and I'm. wearing sneakers and I remembered I was. going to go meet my uh friend Suzanne. Daniel who was a big exec over on the.

fox lot I remember for some reason I had. a package in my hand that was just my. package and I walked into this office. and I said um yeah um here for uh. Suzanne Daniels and this person behind. the desk went yeah just put that down. just leave it there and I went well. actually and they went uh just put it. down okay like because I'm the delivery. guy yeah and I kept trying to stall and. the person was just just looking through. me like I didn't exist and then of.

course Suzanne saw me went Conan hey and. this person she was like have you met. Conan he's a writer producer at The. Simpsons and d d and he's going to have. a late night show in a year and a half. even though nobody knows that yet and. she just knew he is a delivery. boy but anyway I just saw in a moment. and then he's like oh I saw status. completely shift arbitrarily MH because. why does that make a difference yeah. completely yeah that executive was Jeff. Ross I mean that yeah he was terrible to.

me I'm sorry when he was assistant no. doesn't make any sense you made it um I. know it's you really mess fix that up. yeah I got it wrong uh but um. anyway no you know who the assistant was. who it was a very very young Timothy. shalam oh my. God around yeah remember he was the. fetus uhuh it was like there was a fetus. a really goodl looking fetus wearing uh. like some kind of exotic.

Cologne who said like just leave the. package there and I said why do you have. an umbilical cord just leave the feet. just leave it there and cue the r. light I got us. out uh everyone's going to see this. movie it's a complete unknown uh it's. you uh timthe Shel and Edward Norton. Edward. Norton it is uh Bob Dylan sort of. creation story and I can't wait to see.

it but also anytime you want to come in. and just sit down and talk about. anything you're one of my favorite. people no seriously I want to pop in now. I want to like cuz the office is it was. this is really nice with the kitchen and. everything yeah yeah just don't go in. there that's our. kitchen like I've already have like. Pockets full of snacks okay well I'll. need you to empty your coat before you. leave snacks don't grow on trees no. Conan they're nuts they literally grow. on trees um you are an absolute light.

and I as you know I'm a massive fan of. the great and uh and watching you in. that role walk this crazy tight rope of. being near-death experiences being. assaulted but being but then being. hilariously funny in the next scene I. don't know how you do it it's one of the. best performances I've seen in a show. ever and it's one of my favorite shows. and then you just have this insane. career and you're a delight you're a. delightful person so come back anytime. and thanks for being here and sharing.

your energy with us cuz these guys are. sucking the life out of me.