David Letterman - Late Show (September 15 1994)

Sandra Bullock on "The Late Show", September 15 1994.

This is a transcript of Sandra Bullock's appearance on "The Late Show with
David Letterman" on September 15 1994 (repeated on October 13 1995). The
whole segment is about 12 minutes long, excluding the commercial breaks, of
course.

written by Thomas Meyer (i03a@zfn.uni-bremen.de)

Dave: You probably know our first guest from her starring role in the
  motion picture "Speed", the big summer hit about the talking bus.
  [he said this before in June 1994, when Sandra was also on the
  show]
  Please, Ladies and Gentlemen, join me and welcoming back to the
  program, the lithe and peppy Sandra Bullock. Sandra... Here we go.
[Sandra enters the stage, wearing a short black skirt, black stockings and
 black boots with flat heels. They shake hands and Dave leads her to her seat.]
Dave: Sandra Bullock] Welcome to the program!
Sandra: Thank you for having me.
Dave: How're you doing? What did you do this summer, other than have
  this, like, huge blockbuster success from a movie?
Sandra: Um, I actually went to Europe to promote the huge blockbuster
  movie.
Dave: Oh! And they like it in Europe? Was it a big success there?
Sandra: I don't think it... Well, I think it was... Yeah, it turned out to
  be a really big success because it's not too difficult to
  understand. [pops out her right cheek with the tongue]
Dave: Big bus out of control...Sandra: Yeah.Dave: ... people in danger...
Sandra: Yeah.Dave: ... bomb is going off.
Sandra: Yeah, it... We didn't have to subtitle much of anything.
Dave: That's good.Sandra: "Stop the bus" is pretty universal, so...
Dave: Is that what it was called in some places?
Sandra: "Stop the bus, please"... no, yeah, they...
Dave: And did they love you while you were on tour? Did you go to, like,
  interviews and stuff?
Sandra: You know, I think... I don't really know because I thought, you
  know, they would love me, but most of the questions were about, um,
  Keanu... and Dennis and... you know. Look, I was the one person
  away from these people, so I was, you know, they were nice to me...
  to get, you know, that much closer.
Dave: Did you have fun while you were there?
Sandra: Well, yeah... We... I took a really good friend of mine, we went
  and um...Save: What's your friend's name?
Sandra: [grinning] Her name is Samantha Mathis.Dave: I'm sorry?
Sandra: Samantha Mathis.Dave: Samantha Mathis!Sandra: Yes, she's...
Dave: Oh, that's, that's very lyrical, melodic. Samantha Mathis.
Sandra: Samantha Mathis.Dave: Yeah, poetic almost.Sandra: Samantha...
Dave: Samantha Mathis.Sandra: Samantha, yes...Dave: Samantha Mathis.
Sandra: Samantha Mathis.Dave: What does Samantha do?
Sandra: Samantha is also an actress. She's in the movie, um, "Pump Up The
  Volume", um, and we did a...
[some applause from audience; Sandra applauds, too]
Dave: Aw, come on! You didn't see it! Stop...
Sandra: So we went together and we thought we would document this entire
  trip, you know.Dave: Uh-huh.
Sandra: The only problem was, is that we said we were gonna condense our
  clothing and we condensed just a little too much cos all we
  took was just your basic overalls, which are very in fashion.
Dave: Gotta have those overalls!
Sandra: Gotta have them for that "down" look, you know, for that Grunge
  thing. And then we took the little black dress, you know, the
  simple...Dave: Always have to have them, yeah.
Sandra: ... little black dress, which is a classic piece.
Dave: For dinner, dancing, cocktail parties.
Sandra: For dinner, dancing... no, yah, yah, okay. Okay, um, so...
[audience laughing]
Sandra: ... our biggest dilemma... Everytime we left the hotel room, you
  know, one of us had to wear the overalls and one of us had to wear
  the little black dress.
Dave: You mean, between... you only had one of each?
Sandra: Between, no... yeah! Well, no, no, no, no. We both brought the same
  things. So, I mean, I can't very well walk into gay Paris [French
  pronounciation] with the same black dress that she has.
Dave: [laughs] Wait a minute, wait a minute. You walked into Paris from
  the airport?[audience laughs, Sandra too]
Sandra: [grinning] Yes, Dave, I walked.... [more to herself] Boy, are my
  feet tired.[Dave looks into the camera and the audience laughs]
  So, yes, no, so that... that posed problems, but we made it work,
  we made it work. The other thing that we discovered in, um,
  Europe...Dave: How did you make it work?
Sandra: One of us would belt it, the other one would, like, wear the
  Wonderbra and give it a whole another dimension. [acts this out
  with her hands]
Dave: Whow! Hello! Hello! Hello! [sound from orchestra] You didn't tell
  me you were packing a Wonderbra, for God's sake.
  [audience and Sandra laughs]
  How the hell did you get through airport security with that thing
  on?
Sandra: I don't know... No beeper went off...
Dave: Man... Look out, we got the Wonderbra! Here we go...
Sandra: So, you know it was fun. And the most amazing thing, though, you
  know, they would send us to these incredible hotels and...
Dave: Where'd you stay?Sandra: Um, I don't remember the names. [grinning]
Dave: Wow! Just THAT incredible.
Sandra: Big... They were very, very big. Very expensive, very big.
Dave: Uh-huh.Sandra: And then they have a Presidential Suite on the front.
Dave: Woo!
Sandra: And we're, like, two chicks in Europe... with the Presidential
  Suite. Ummm, but every hotel has Cream of Chicken soup. Every
  single hotel. So we made a point, in, in every country to have
  Cream of Chicken soup. [laughs; Dave starts to laugh, too, but
  there's almost no response from the audience] [to the audience]
  Now, isn't that hysterical??Dave: Wow!Sandra: Isn't that funny?
[some members of the audience start laughing and applauding]
Sandra: So, we did it... And also...Dave: "Dear Diary..."
Sandra: [laughs] "...the broth today was extra creamy."
  Um, and the other thing that we did, we were gonna do sort of a
  documentary on, um, ...Dave: Video tape it?Sandra: Video tape...
Dave: Sure.Sandra: Men of Europe.
Dave: Now, are they different from men of other countries?
[cheers from audience]
Sandra: [very distinct] Yes! Yes! In the sole fact that, thank goodness,
  men in American aren't as, um, locked into the idea of wearing
  Speedos in... at the beach. [makes a funny face][cheers from audience]
  [now Sandra almost can't speak while laughing]
  Every single [???], no matter how thick he was [???], they'd wear
  these... it was like this... [picking up something she brought with
  her, which was lying on Dave's desk since then - a small purple
  box, from which she takes this:] it was, like, a little purple
  piece of something, you know... [laughter from audience]
  With little strings and you were SO afraid that something was gonna
  rupture [audience laughs] and, [Dave makes a sour face] like,
  spoil your entire day, so... We would, like, have the video camera
  [picturing it with her hands], and then, you know... People running
  was a good thing to catch on the video cam.Dave: Uh-huh.
Sandra: We get men running in Speedos... We'd slo-mo it, you know...
[laughter from audience]
Dave: And you found it by and large just kind of repulsive? Sort of
  vulgar?Sandra: Would you find that repulsive and vulgar?Dave: Yeah...
Sandra: Yeah.Dave: ... yeah, I think so, I think so.
Sandra: But you know, it wasn't...
Dave: But you see, I never know. When you see a guy in one of those
  things, you think "I don't know, maybe..."
Sandra: ... women find that [???]Dave: ... maybe find it, I just don't know...
Sandra: Nnnno.Dave: Yah.[laughter from audience]
Sandra: I mean, I don't know. Maybe I just, I mean... I like the big,
  droopy, you know, "the sort of leave it up to the imagination type
  of thing", but... they'd...[giggles from audience]Dave: Uh-hm.
Sandra: It's in the colors! They were just so vibrant. They were, like,
  fuchsias and cobalt blues... They would just reflect...
Dave: [putting a hand on Sandra's arm to interrupt her, looking to Paul
  Shaffer's place] Let's see what that guy thinks!
Sandra: [puzzled] What guy?
[camera shows the stand-in for Paul tonight, a guy with quite a blank face,
 who doesn't even lift an eyebrow now; audience laughs]
Dave: Ahh... Well, no, no, when I come back, I wanna hear more about the
  Cream of Chicken soup.Sandra: Cream of Chicken soup.
Dave: We have to do a commercial, we'll be right back here with Sandra
  Bullock, kids.[commercial break]
Dave: Sandra Bullock is here, James Carville, Marshal Crenshaw and all
  night long out of the seventh floor we're gonna be, uh, dropping
  stuff. Uh, turn on the camera, Hal, let's see who's out there now.
[segment with four guys throwing a ten gallon jug of water each from a
 seventh floor window on the street]Dave: Yes, sir... Makes...
[cheers from audience]
Dave: Thank you. [to Sandra] Makes that, uh, makes that story about
  Cream of Chicken soup look a little silly, doesn't it?
Sandra: Yes, yeah... [grinning]
Dave: Now, am I pronouncing your name correct? Is it Sandra ["Sa" as in
  "anthem"] or Sandra [as in "father"]?Sandra: Sandra ["anthem"].
Dave: Sandra?Sandra: Yeah.Dave: Did I say Sandra ["father"]?
Sandra: I don't know.Dave: Well, I'm sorry, if I got it wrong.
Sandra: That's okay. It's quite alright.
Dave: As I mentioned, James Carville is on the show.Sandra: Yes.
Dave: Do you know anything about politics? Have you met the guy, do you
  know what he does?Sandra: No, I just met him in the back.
Dave: He's a, he's a very intense man, very energetic.
Sandra: Very intense. Very intense. He's an amazing individual.Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: No, I mean, I never met him until tonight. I never really met
  anybody that had any... any weight in the political... Except for,
  um, this girlfriend of mine in high school, my best friend, her
  father was...Dave: Samantha Mathis.Sandra: Yes, Samantha Mathis.
Dave: Samantha Mathis, Samantha Mathis.
Sandra: Samantha Mathis, Samantha Mathis.
  [Sandra cracks up laughing and claps her hands]
  Oh... she's gonna kill me. Um, ah, so, anyway... This friend of
  mine's father was a senator... I'm not gonna say what state he was
  in because...Dave: What state was he from?
Sandra: I can't tell ya. I can't tell ya, Dave, can't tell ya.
Dave: Why not? You can tell us...Sandra: Can't tell ya, can't tell ya.
Dave: You can tell us.
Sandra: Can't tell ya cos when I'm gonna tell you... It's also about as
  unattractive as the Speedo incident.Dave: Alright.
Sandra: Um, we used to hang out at her house because my mother seemed to
  think that since her father was, um, you know, of good standing in
  politics that was obviously a good thing for us.
Dave: Is the guy still a senator?Sandra: I, I don't know.Dave: Yeah.
Sandra: Yeah. Ah, so we would hang out there and it was a good excuse to,
  you know, say I'm spending the night at my friend's house and we
  would go out and be children, as we were, in high school... do the
  child thing.Dave: Like a kid, fifteen, sixteen, like that.
Sandra: Fifteen, sixteen, you know. Just blossoming... that type of thing.
  Um, and he would... The next morning we'd wake up and it'd always
  be, like, Saturday and Sunday, so, I mean, he was somebody to be
  supposed to be a senator...Dave: Uh-huh.
Sandra: ... running around, in like, these droopy... underwears.
Dave: Now, you like the droopy look.
Sandra: I'd... You know, what? I mean... Yeah... Not the way he wore it.
  [laughs] So this is the image that I have of politics. I look at
  politicians and I think, that you know, they have... droopy
  [???]. [only some laughter from audience]
  [to the audience] Isn't that hysterical?
  [this finally generates big laughter and applause]
Dave: [taking a pen from nearby and writing on a piece of paper]
  "Dear Diary..." [audience and Sandra laugh]
  [to Sandra, quite ironically] Now, those are two great stories.
Sandra: Yeah, well, thank you.
  [grinning, although she is quite being made fun of; then looks to
  the side]Dave: Are gettin'... Are you gettin' ready for a...
  [at this point, Sandra is slamming her left hand on the arm of her
  seat - VERY cute]
  Now, why can't you tell us the name of the guy? I mean, it's not
  like he killed a guy...
Sandra: Because... You know, maybe he's trying to, like, change his image,
  he could... walks into a party and everyone looks, like, ...
Dave: Well, it seems unlikely...
Sandra: ... they can't look him in the eye... They look... [makes a "give
  away" gesture and then shrugs; the band makes a "Baow" sound]
Dave: Seems unlikely that he's campaining like that...
Sandra: I don't know. I *don't* know, what he's doing! I don't want to
  destroy a family.Dave: Well, uh.... Okay...Sandra: Okay, okay.
Dave: But is there more to that story because...
Sandra: Yes, but I'm just not gonna... I'm not gonna delve into that.
Dave: Because "baggy underwear"... I'm not sure that would, in fact,
  alone destroy a family.
  [laughter from audience, Sandra makes a funny face] You know?
Sandra: You may have a point there, yes. Yes.
Dave: So I'm thinking maybe there's more to this story...
Sandra: You know, there could be... I think I was just too young to see the
  signs.Dave: Oh... God bless ya.Sandra: Yeah.
Dave: Ummmm.... I'd like to hear more about that time you walked into
  Paris from the airport, though, but... [Sandra laughs]
  Now, are they talking about a sequel to the film?Sandra: Oh, to "Speed"?
Dave: Yeah, to "Speed".
Sandra: They talk... You know, they keep throwing around ideas, um... I
  keep... I think I have a great idea. I think we should call it
  "Breed"...Dave: Uh-hm.
Sandra: "From the bus to the bed". And, like, we have to populate the world
  in under a year, or something like that...
  [laughter and giggles from audience, but not quite as much]
  [Sandra looks to the ceiling in this somehow embarrassing moment]
  I th... I, you know...Dave: [very calm] Yeah.
Sandra: You have a reasonable urgency...Dave: Uh-huh.
Sandra: It's a difficult task... You know...
  [only a few members of the audience are giggling; Sandra makes a
  funny face and looks to the side again] Mommy?
Dave: No, no, no, no, no! Ah, do you...Sandra: [very quiet]
  Samantha Mathis, Samantha Mathis...
Dave: Samantha Mathis. Now, do you wanna go, do you wanna go up there and
  heave something out of the office building?Sandra: [enthusiastic]
  Yes! I do!Dave: What would you like to toss out of there?
Sandra: Can I heave you?Dave: No.... Yeah. [waving to audience]
[laughter and applause from audience]Sandra: Something... Something messy.
Dave: Oh... you know, tonight I'm ready to go.
Sandra: Alright. [grins and rubs her hands in glee]
Dave: You can heave me out tonight.Sandra: Alright. Let's go...
Dave: Ah... Why don't you run up there *now*...Sandra: Now.
Dave: ... and then see what's up there and then, just, when you're
  ready... toss it out.Sandra: Okay.Dave: Alright.Sandra: Okay, Dave.
Dave: [to audience]
  Sandra Bullock, Ladies and Gentleman! We'll be right back!
  [they shake hands and the audience cheers and applauds]
[commercial break]
Dave: Okay... James Carville is on the program tonight and also Marshal
  Cranshaw. Hal, turn on the camera, let's see if Sandra is...
[Sandra is shown in close-up, grins and waves when the red light goes on]
  Hi! Are you ready to heave something out, Sandra?
Sandra: [gives thumbs up] I'm ready Dave.Dave: What do you have there?
Sandra: I got you!
[the camera zooms back and we see that Sandra is holding a life-size dummy
 of Dave, which only looks remotely like him]Dave: Wow! Look at there...
[audience cheers]
Dave: It looks exactly like me. I ought to be in a Speedo... Thank you
  very much...
[Sandra lifts the jacket of the dummy and looks down; someone in the
audience goes "Aw!"] I ought to be full of Cream of Chicken soup.
[Sandra puts down the jacket and pats the belly of the dummy]
  Easy, easy. Alright! Any time you're ready and... for Heaven's
  sake, grab hold of that safety harness.Sandra: Okay. Here we go, Dave.
Dave: Here we go... Sandra Bullock... Seventh floor is up. Out of the Ed
  Sullivan theater building.
[Cut to the outside of the building. I'm not quite sure, but one should see
 Sandra from this point of view if she's in the same position as she was
 just shown to be. Now she cannot be seen, only the feet of the dummy
 dangling out of the window.
 The dummy is thrown out of the window (complete with a seat) and the woman
 who threw it out can be shortly seen looking out of the window - I am not
 really sure if this is Sandra. The hair looks somehow different.]
Dave: Pretty moving, wasn't it? Let's see that again. Roll that back in
  slow motion. [they repeat the fall in slow motion] You know,
  actually I have survived falls worse than that. Because of the hair
  piece... it always brings you... the hair piece.

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