Rashida Jones On Her Dad’s Relationship With Frank Sinatra | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

you had this interesting experience like. because you're you're growing up and. obviously your dad Quincy Jones uh this. Powerhouse uh in the music industry. legendary person and then your mom had. been this you know incredibly iconic. figure who then stepped out and said. yeah I'm not going to I'm going to I'm. stepping away from this world yeah uh. very consciously yeah and were you aware. that like I'm just what my mom was doing.

before you know when you were yeah we. knew we knew for sure cuz you're too. young to be a have been watching modad. we no we were not around and um I mean. we knew that she had had this like big. thing but I think she just you know I. think she was really young and she was. really famous really fast and there was. three networks and everybody watched The. Mod Squad so everybody knew who she was. and my mom was kind of shy so I think.

just was not did not suit her she was. like no whoa no and then and then when. she fell in love with my dad I think it. like contextualized her life in a way. where she was like oh this is what I. want it's like a family and a home and. you know the and good friends and to. keep things small like this she wasn't. that person who was like seeking. everybody else's approval and attention. all the time you know and then I. wouldn't know what that's like uh no I. know that's why I'm explaining it to. you so she didn't want that she didn't. have a travel show no MM not go visit.

fans at their. houses I don't buy it she was playing. some kind of long con definitely this. was just a way to draw Us in. more that's hilarious she uh because. then I know she I remember when she came. to Twin Peaks and it was like a huge. deal yeah came came back she was amazing. looked just I mean incredible and she. was back and yeah I don't know where you.

would have been at that point you still. would have been a kid I was in high. school I was just thinking the other day. actually cuz I was looking at my. graduation pictures and she was my age. when I was graduating high school when. she was doing Twin Peaks Y which I'm. like cuz she looked so young and I. remember her being so young and I'm like. but I don't why don't I feel as young as. well as the way I perceived her to be. she probably didn't she probably felt. tired just like me but but yeah it's. like it's mind-blowing to think that.

that's that's where she was in her life. and she had two teenage kids and was. like let me go back to this thing you. know anyway everybody makes life choices. and then you end up sort of in the same. place I guess yeah I mean I'm just I was. you know it's funny CU I don't I was. just thinking right now when we mention. Twin Peaks that what I remember because. I was in my 20s I think I was working on. Saturday Night Live when Twin Peaks came. out TV was a certain way like you said. there were three networks maybe at that.

point the fourth was just starting up. Fox but really there wasn't much and TV. was very much a certain thing and I. remember turning on the TV and watching. with my girlfriend at the time Twin. Peaks and I cannot explain to any young. person today because we're constantly. being bombarded with edgy cool. television on all the streaming. platforms and everything but this show. came on that was. unlike anything you had ever seen before.

and when the first when the pilot. episode ended everybody's face fell off. he was watching it it was nuts and it. was a just an obsession and then I. remembered I was working at SNL Kyle. mclin came on and they did a sketch. about Twin Peaks I remember and they. needed someone they needed a guard to be. holding Chris Farley in the background. so they always did this for some reason. I look like a guy who should be doing. something on television but no one knew. what the.

what so Lauren was always Lauren or Jim. Downey was always saying just put the. costume on Conan and just have him so. I'm standing there I don't think I even. have a line I'm just holding on to Chris. Farley in the background of this Twin. Peak sketch but um it changed everything. yeah I find time and time again it's. very hard in the current day to tell. people what it was like you know TV was. a certain thing and then this show came. and you saw what a TV show could be yeah. how weird it could be so weird it was so.

original I was obsessed it was so scary. I was this is probably not appropriate. for a teenager in high school but I was. so scared of Bob I would check my bed. every night my mom is on the show I know. it's fake and I saw him I remember going. to set and seeing him walk by on set and. like it felt like everything slowed down. when he walked by and then eventually by. the way in my 20s when I went to the. premiere of the movie Fire walk with me. I saw Bob still don't know name.

something Silva I I went to go introduce. myself cuz I was like I this is. ridiculous I'm an adult I need to get. over it and he was so nice and he said. and he said I was under your bed I am I. am a. murderer by the way I was under bed. right to be I didn't do anything but I. was under. there he was a set dresser that's he was. a set dresser for Twin Peaks and and. David Lynch saw him on camera was like. there we go there's our there's there's. the guy yeah but but what I was going to. say is kids now they maybe they don't.

understand but I think they do like kids. kids now give Twin Peaks its flowers or. what however they say it they really. love Twin Peaks because there there. still isn't really anything like it it's. so authentically weirdo yes in a way. that like people try to manufacture now. now but it's like it's David Lynch yes. TV which is not like any and when he did. it there was just nothing like it and I. remember just being electrified you'd. wait for the next and you had to wait. yeah you had to wait wait I mean I know.

there were still shows where you have to. wait but this was quite uncommon at the. time and all of us it's all any of us. thought about I was living in New York. and watching Twin Peaks me too my mom. wouldn't tell me anything she had to. like sign like some NDA every time she. got a new script and she would not tell. me anything you have that going on you. also have I last time we were on the. podcast we talked a lot about the. documentary you did which I think was. lovely and spectacular about your dad. Quincy um and I'm the title of the.

documentary that's not me having the. gall to call your dad Quincy you can you. can you can he would insist actually. yeah yeah hey how's Quincy hey how's Q. doing tell him C wants to know doesn't. have the same ring I don't think no it. doesn't it really doesn't your sons more. like a disease yeah tell him tell him. the Big C says hi cancer. no uh but I think one of the coolest. Parts in that documentary that just. blows my mind is when Frank Sinatra is.

on some TV show and he calls you had the. footage he calls your dad out and says. by the way this is the best arranger. producer music genius I know let's get. him out here Quincy Jones and I thought. just such a stunning moment you know. yeah I a champion Frank was his Champion. they really loved each other a lot and. and also it's in the documentary but. there was so much racism at the time and. Frank had a lot of power and he used it.

to change things cuz they wouldn't let. the band stay at the casinos they were. playing at and he was like I'm not. playing my band's not staying here I'm. not playing yeah you know absolutely. incredible yeah that's uh were you. interested in music for that reason I. know that music's a big part of your. life. obviously um but I also think you got. very interested in religion mhm I think. you studied did you study religion in. college yeah I did that's fascinating. would you was there a certain religion.

you were drawn to or did you find. yourself like bopping around between. different religions I bopped a little. bit I mean I grew up like culturally. Jewish my mom's Jewish and then I spent. a lot of time my mom uh took us to a. medit a Hindu meditation asham so I. spent a lot of time there as a kid and. lived in India for a little bit um but. then I was like really into Buddhism I I. was in a church choir I was kind of all. over the place I just liked the ritual. of religion I thought was really cool. I uh grew up very Catholic but and so.

there's a lot of rules and obviously. guilt and things like that and then. later on just in my life when I've just. in living in LA and trying to be open to. different things and you you're exposed. to things like Buddhism I think oh my. God this is fantastic yeah this is. amazing there's another way there's. another way to look at it I don't have. to necessarily hate myself right but. that might just be you no but I know. then other people say no you everyone.

you really. should no no no that was such an. unconvincing new I don't believe it I'm. not playing it.