[Jeff scatting]
Hey, look who’s sneaking up on us.
Do you see this? Hello.
I think that’s AD.
Hello, AD.
Hi, AD! Welcome to our guest house.
Guess what?
We’re gonna take you for a little spin.
But first, let’s you and I slip into something
a little more comfortable.
Shall we? Oh, I’d like that.
Okay.
♪ What goes up, must come down ♪ [fingers snapping]
[upbeat jazzy music]
Yes, yes, they’re already ensconced.
It’s AD again.
Hey, look at us. We’re in our comfortable clothes.
Yeah, cozy, for the tour.
Yes, for the tour of our guest house, which this is.
Come. Come. Come to our guest house.
Come. [Emilie laughs]
[upbeat jazzy music]
So this is the guest house that we’re in.
It’s had many functions.
You know, the guy who owned this before was Claude Ravier,
from whom I bought it, and it was a kind of a.
People said, Oh, I’ve been at parties at your house.
There were pinball machines, I think, in this room.
Yes, and a kind of a wet bar.
And you know, there was a lot of activity here.
And then we did tap classes in here.
We scuffed up
That’s- the wooden floor terribly.
That’s- Then we kind of fixed it up,
‘cause this was like a whole play space.
So before any movie or play,
I would have constant, habitual, routine rehearsals here.
We’d have acting classes here.
We came onto Barbara Bestor,
the greatest architect
Amazing team. and designer here in LA.
And what a great team.
[Emilie] Barbara introduced us
to Zeb and Crunk, Oh, Zeb and Crunk. Yes.
[Emilie] who helped with all
of the interior design. Interior design.
And then thinking about the function
for the boys, for all our needs.
Your performance and creative and artistic needs.
We’re also trying to figure a way to contain them.
Because, you know, once you start having children,
they take over.
Oh, yes. Yeah, you know that movie, The Blob?
You ever see The Blob? Yeah.
Yeah. Steve McQueen’s first movie.
Yeah. This space,
I pictured in our minds like,
Well, maybe we’ll put on plays here.
‘Cause with the kids, Jeff plays piano,
I’m an aerialist, contortionist dancer.
And maybe we’ll have a dinner party
and we can all like come in and dance
and recite a sonnet or two. [chuckles]
This whole door behind you is open in a different way.
Indoor, outdoor. Which will allow
for a connection between us and the outside,
and this place too.
There wasn’t a door there before at all.
[Emilie] Just really invites our outdoor courtyard,
which was also redone with the stone,
and Terremotto did all the landscaping.
It’s so gorgeous to look at.
We just moved the piano around today,
and I have a notion [piano keys chime]
that we could use this.
I don’t know if, I mean, I played piano a little bit,
and we were fooling around on this before.
♪ I have a cozy, little flat ♪
♪ In what is known as Old Manhattan ♪
♪ We’ll settle down right here in town ♪
Yeah, very good. Very good.
I have a song for every occasion. Right.
Yeah, yeah, that’s true.
Every idea. [Emilie laughs]
Oh, that’s it.
And that’s the show. Get out of here, AD.
We’ve told you too much. [Emilie laughing]
[upbeat music]
I never saw this big cherry before, but I love it.
We should, we might buy that.
[drumbeats thump]
I do remember showing the swatches to Charlie,
our eldest son, and he was really into it.
I think he really collaborated,
and then we were like, Let’s go show to Dad.
Like let’s make sure he’s onboard.
I love all the colors. It just makes me so happy.
My sister Pam painted this. Aw.
I’ve had this for a long time.
This is me.
Taken from a photograph of me and our first dog Ginger.
Yeah. I’m like about eight there.
I’m the- Cute.
Oh. Little boxer briefs.
It’s so cute.
[jaunty music]
Come to the blue room.
Isn’t there a song The Blue Room?
We’re passing this glorious-
And you have to look at the ceramic bow hooks
because I adore them.
They’re just so darling.
I sure do. So cute.
Oh my gosh! Hi!
Oh look. So this is not staged exactly.
Hi!
This is our production, your crew here.
Here we are.
You tell ‘em about this room here.
Wow. Oh, this is like
the guest bedroom.
So there’s some closet space.
But what’s so cool, Look at this.
‘cause it’s a smaller space,
this is a Murphy bed.
So it literally folds all the way back up.
To flatten- So it looks really pretty.
It looks like- Oh, boy.
Okay, hang on. Wait, wait.
Uh-oh. There you go.
Okay. Yeah.
See how strong I am?
[Emilie laughing]
You impressed me. I know.
I’m not gonna tangle with her. I’ll tell you that though.
But you’ll tango with me.
And then there’s a beautiful bathroom.
But what’s also cool about this bathroom,
so yes, there’s a indoor shower,
but then on the other side of it is our outdoor shower.
So that when we’re hosting like a pool party-
It’s outdoor, like after you go in the pool,
which we have out there.
Yeah, they can go rinse off, shower,
outside in the fresh air, I think.
We’re so lucky.
This is all too luxurious, but I’ll never not appreciate it.
[jaunty music]
They redid this window. It’s bigger.
You can see the sky. It’s a gorgeous window.
I like this runner thing.
[Emilie] Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
It reminds me of the stars.
It reminds me of like a sky at night,
with just like twinkling stars.
The house used to be filled with Pam’s,
my sister’s art all over the place
on every square inch of the wall.
But you said, Oh, I like this particular one.
Yeah.
I just love the size of it. It’s so big.
And then, girl, she’s so beautiful.
All of it is just a,
this character from bygone era that’s just so beautiful.
A little bit classical with a little whimsy and irony and.
That’s me again.
Says Like the Watts Tower or La Tour Eiffel.
These are my parents
that Pam did, once again, from a wood block.
Zeb and Crunk. Guys, we’ll clear it all up.
[group laughing]
I’m up. Sorry.
[group laughing]
We didn’t introduce you to ‘em.
Our art piece.
They’re always in our house.
They’re kind of an installation, a living art piece.
Sometimes you find them here, sometimes there.
And they just move around a little bit. They don’t speak.
[Emilie laughing] I like it a lot.
Now. Oh.
So here’s you. Oh.
I’m not the only one pictured around these parts.
These are my brothers who are sadly no longer with us.
I think this picture is taken from us
on a vacation in Atlantic City.
We used to drive from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
to Atlantic City, the four of us kids.
And we’d dress up, I would dress up.
There are pictures of me, and probably not around here,
of me with a shirt and a tie and a coat on.
Like what we did.
[upbeat music]
Nick Massi, and shine a light on us, Nick Massi, and-
Give us a second here.
Paul Cornet.
All right.
[lively music]
I’ll tell you very quickly about this bathroom.
This was air space.
There was no such room
before Barbara Bestor’s architecture went to work.
And here it is.
[Emilie] I never wanted to shy away from colors,
even though sometimes it made me nervous, thinking like,
Is it gonna turn out well? Is it gonna read?
But that’s why you have Barbara,
‘cause you can trust that it’s gonna turn out great.
I love this bathroom. Yeah.
As much as you can, a human being can love a bathroom.
If I wasn’t already married, I’d marry this bathroom.
But I’ve spoken for her. [Emilie laughing]
You’re so funny.
Oh, thank you.
[bright music]
I’m gonna try not to gush
because this is kind of a room
that I have a lot of interest in.
It’s been used for many things over the years.
Once, in our era, I started to, you know, come up here
and I’d take a nap here.
It would be alternative, you know, and with the kids here.
I never had kind of a place
to really have an an office. To creatively-
And this is the one part on the property
Yeah. that faces the hills.
And this wall, can you imagine, had no window at all.
Mm. This was nothing.
So this room was not light like this at all,
and there was no view onto these hills.
When It’s cool, you kept saying that like,
when I built the rig,
that you could watch me while you’re working here.
You can watch me do- And now look
what’s out there, it’s not only the hills,
but there’s that rig that you have seen her on.
Yeah. Can you imagine that?
[Emilie] I just feel like the whole energy in here
is very calm,
Wasn’t how quiet right now. but light.
Yeah.
Yeah. It’s really quiet here.
It’s just fantastic.
And then you have your Fender Rhodes.
Well, and then I put, Which you can then practice.
And then I wanted another piano up here,
‘cause if the boys are playing their piano,
I sometimes need to do my work,
immediately and simultaneously.
And I’ve had this Fender Rhodes since the ’70s.
I bought it when it was new.
Well, a lot of people know this as a delightful item.
[piano chiming]
You know. [bright upbeat music]
I love this desk.
I feel like this really does suit you
and really does make sense in the practical sense of it.
Like you need to write. Look at this place to work.
Look at me looking at it.
This is a nice corner of the world.
And then this heavy paperweight was also done by my sister.
The dinosaur, you know, in my collection to dinosaurs.
And so there’s that.
And you know, there’s this.
I’m kind of a little bit of a freak for the right pen.
[Emilie] Minimalist. Yeah.
And so the ballpoint pen,
and I’ve chosen a couple of ballpoint pens here
that I particularly like.
And I think I used this
on Criminal Intent. Oh.
Because I was playing a detective
and I could put this in any kind of pocket
with a little notepad and go, Yes? and Uh-huh.
Uh-huh, I think this is what happened there.
Very good, you know.
Why are you so cute?
I can’t stand it. [laughs]
Reenacting. [laughs]
You’re a doll. Well.
And lamps. I’m crazy about lamplight, you know.
[switch clicking] Oh.
It’s not plugged in, but that’s okay.
I love it.
Melody Gardot just gave me that.
Melody Gardot was a great singer
with whom our band recorded this song, Misty.
I think it could go right there.
Look, look. Look how it fits right there.
[Emilie] P.G. Wodehouse. We love to read those.
I’ve read all of P.G. Wodehouse.
These things are meaningful to me,
and this is one of the original.
You know, this looks like a first edition
of a P.G. Wodehouse thing.
And that’s nice to have there. My sister did that.
This is, you know, Isle of Dogs.
That’s my character Duke.
He’s- Also the boys’
favorite movie of yours.
Yes. They love, they rewatch
that movie a lot.
That’s- Charlie made this.
He’s like a- Lego,
he’s a Lego champion.
[Emilie] Your Culturistas Award.
Et cetera. Hey, there’s- Bowen Yang.
[Jeff] There’s my Jeffirmations book.
You know? Yeah.
Okay. Tell me when to stop.
[laughing] What?
Tell me when to stop. Stop.
Okay. Left or right?
Right. Okay.
I would say to you, Don’t sweat the small stuff.
Still, a little deodorant never hurt anybody.
Really?
I think I smell [sniffs] pretty good.
You do smell,
you always smell- I don’t know about you
though.
[Emilie laughing]
I’m so sorry for that. I apologize for my wife.
I’m kidding. I’m kidding. We’ll hash this out later.
[jaunty music]
This would be from our first album,
Jeff Goldblum & the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
My sister did that.
It’s Louis Armstrong and an alien.
She would pair different, you know, things together.
That’s me in the center there at Frank Sinatra’s house
for our second album, I believe.
We went and shot the cover
at Frank Sinatra’s house in Palm Springs.
Oh. Hey, that’s kind of interesting.
Those four portraits on the end,
that’s me and my two brothers and sister.
And that, my sister did.
It’s a kind of a collage of me at the piano
and Scarlett Johansson.
And she sang a song on our album.
I think these pictures are a nice little,
Yeah. you know,
grouping above your bed.
Not to mention, how about that for a chair?
That wing chair,
I’ve always hankered after something like that.
And that substantial,
gorgeous, orange and white striped thing.
Oh my gosh.
That I use, I put my glasses on there,
and a book, or this and that.
[Emilie] Yeah, even I come up here sometimes
and like just read.
You do? Yeah.
What a confession? I never realized it.
And- Why, you think
it’s just your room?
Well, as long as you know the password.
Do you know the password to get into this room?
Fidelio. Fidelio. That’s correct.
Yeah. It’s from Eyes Wide Shut.
Yeah. She knows the password.
[upbeat music]
You tell them what’s here,
‘cause this was kind of to her specifications.
Yeah. And to mine.
I have certain needs
that this meets beautifully. Yeah, like the equipment
you needed.
But that workout bench, I was a little nervous
‘cause it felt a little bubblegum.
But I feel like it really works
with the grounding of the floor.
And then the equipment, like how it’s pink.
It worked beautifully. Especially with the mirrors.
There’s like a tint of pink in them.
And then the sconces on the wall, they have pink and red,
and then the shades are pink.
Yeah. So. I like it pink.
But I also love this wall.
I actually use this wall a lot for my handstands.
And this is a really important ladder
for contortionists and acrobats.
So I use that a lot for stretching.
And then over here, this is kind of cool
because I like how it folds in and out,
so you have a little bit different range
for like if you’re doing a pull up
or if you’re just doing like leg raises, you know?
If you’re just doing leg raises, you would just do.
This is what she was doing when we first met.
Up like that. Something like that.
I went over to her, the Equinox on Sunset,
said, What are you doing?
There wasn’t this big window,
but there are these nice pink shades.
And then this has a great, great view
of Downtown LA. Yeah. Yeah.
Like that? If you want, we can show you that.
Do you like that or do you like that?
Or do you like that? We can put it back down.
Look, look. Oh, here’s.
Look what they gave us. Look.
One of these things.
We’re just very lucky.
You chose the wrong one.
That’s just hard. Let’s not do it again.
Okay. Okay.
Yeah. So there’s that one.
Yeah. But if you do-
You really want to do it. [laughs]
You know, I always like the clicker.
I get nervous if I don’t have my hands on the clicker, so.
And there’s that one going up. So here.
So I kind of like it like this.
You like it, you like to control the light
and have it kind of all like this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. [chuckles]
Look how substantial this is.
So you don’t fall out of there.
And I think this is a lock.
Look at this. Look at this.
Look how, this is just great.
It’s really great.
And it goes all the way.
You get a cross breeze with that one over there.
Yeah. Oh boy. It’s beautiful.
It’s- You feel that?
Even though it’s balmy out.
Yeah.
I like that. And look at the view.
As you’re on the treadmill,
you look at downtown.
I’ll spend hours in here, once in the morning,
and then if I’m lucky, in the afternoon.
And then the boys come home from school
and then they run up here
and sometimes they’ll jump up there
and try to like, Mama, look. I can do a pull up.
And then Jeff likes to walk.
That’s it. I’m a spent force.
[Emilie chuckles] Oh.
That’s my cardio for the day.
[bright music]
So it starts open. It starts open. Yeah.
It starts open.
I listen to directions
much better than my husband. [laughs]
Throw me under the bus. Throw me under the bus.
Like the baby in the bus better?
♪ The wheels on the bus go round and round ♪
♪ Right over Jeff, and there he goes ♪
♪ Okay, he’s flat as a pancake now ♪
That’s okay. Hey, AD!
This has been a great, great honor.
What a red letter day for- Yeah.
It’s been a lot of fun.
Yeah. It’s been spectacular.
AD, we have to say goodbye to you now.
Yes. It’s-
I gotta get cooking.
Really? Yeah, make some dinner.
Yeah, and I’ve got places to go, people to see.
[Emilie laughs] We have much to do.
And I’m sure you do too, much more than us.
Bye. Bye, AD!
Thank you so much for coming.
Really. We appreciate it.
[bright music]
No end. Goodbye.
[Emilie] Wait. [laughs]
What? No. Nothing. [laughs]
[door clacks] Bye.
You just had to be the last one.
I was like, Wait, I think No, no.
I can get a little. I don’t need
to be the last one. [Emilie laughing]
And she goes, Goodbye. Get out, get out!
[both laughing] [door slams]
