Now, uh, there's an article, I think, in Newsweek magazine in which you make a passing reference--you didn't really tell the story but--to a drunken skydiving incident. And I want to know what happened there. Was there a drunken skydiving...
It was, uh... It was hungover skydiving.
OK.
Yeah
So not technically...
Drunken would be very irresponsible.
Who was drunk? You? The pilot? The guy jumping out of the plane?
Well, um, I went there a little hung over.
Uh-huh.
Well, here's the thing. I actually... Very few people know this, but my mom was like a professional skydiver. She was the only woman in a men's team in Old Rhodesia, and they were formation skydivers. And so I grew up with all of these really really badass, cool photos of my mom with all these guys and her, you know, parachute and these little propeller planes in the back. And, and you know...
Wow!
...some moms. My mom's really cool, but she for some reason was just always very adamant about me not skydiving, because her last jump ended up really bad, and she almost landed on power lines, and she said... You know, some parents were like, "Don't do drugs." My mom was like, "DO NOT SKYDIVE!" Like that was... She's like, "Shoot up herion all you want. Do NOT skydive!" She was really, really adamant about it, and, and, and, and so...
And you disregarded it entirely.
Well, it was such a badass image that I wanted to know what it felt like. So, I went, uh... I was at a party and and friend said, "Oh, we're going." And I was like, "Oh my God, this is my chance." And I was a little hungover, but then we got on the plane... I just did the tandem thing--I didn't do, like, a course or anything--where you just basically hook onto a guy. And I'm hooked onto this guy, and we're on the plane, and the propeller is really loud, but I can hear him snoring. And I'm thinking to myself, "That's not a good sign." So I turn back and I'm like, "You OK?" And he's like, "Oh yeah... I'm just... I was up till like 4AM."
By the way, if he's snoring with _you_ attached to him, he's really out of it. I mean. Because this is not exactly the typical day at work. And did you jump out of the plane?
Yeah, I did!
With the snoring guy!
Yeah, he woke up for that part... And it's really amazing because I'm not really a big fan of heights or anything like that.
Perfect.
But this mad thing happens where you want to jump out of a plane. 'Cause you're in the front. So when you get to the door, I thought, "Oh my God! This drunk, half-asleep, tandem skydiver is going to have to literally, like, force me out of the plane." And I wanted to take the leap. It was crazy.
Was it fun?
It was really amazing I have to say.
Did you tell your mother.
Yeah, I then called her, and...
And what did she say?
D'... OK, but don't do it again! Which I haven't. I've obeyed.
You've obeyed so far.
Yeah.
Alright. Well we're going to take a quick break here. When we come back we'll... we are going to take about Snow White and the Huntsman. Charlize Theron is here with us. We'll be right back.
