You're listening to Comedy Central. Please welcome, not to name Manuel, that's the name Manuel. Welcome back to the Daily Show. Welcome in person. Because the first thing I have to say is congratulations, because the last time we spoke was virtually and that's when you were doing the new show was Die Heart with Kevin Hart, right, and since then you got nominated for an Emmy for that ROLESO. Congratulations. I'm just saying it feels like you your journey has
just been you know, it's just on the up. You're enjoying yourself with its comedy, with its drama, whether it's whatever. This is like a thriller, yeah, it's it's it's terrifying. Yes, um. You know I like to challenge myself, try my hand
to everything. Watching this movie, I was like, this is a terrible mistake that your characters made, because we saw a little bit in the clip she goes to like you know, like a Levishi of ented English destination wedding with a long lost relative who is a stranger um and goes alone. I mean no, like that was her first mistake. So I so I always joke that if it was me in this situation, that movie would have ended in the scene with my best friend, He's like,
are you going to go meet him? And we'd be like nah, because like if I got invited to a long lost relatives event and I get there and then it's a bunch of people wearing masks pulling out knives, I'd be like, yeah, this is not always I intended this, This is not it. What I also found interesting was you are playing an American in the movie, but then everyone is English. Is that like super weird for you because it's like you English playing an American with English people.
Do you find that there's like parts of Natalie the change, Like it's like other things like American Natalie does that English naturally would never do. Um. I think American Natalie is probably a little more. She's probably a little louder, to be honest, a little louder. Yeah, Like I don't mean that to sound like negative, Like, no, it's fine, you've said it. I don't we love that. I love that.
I think that sometimes, like my Britishness, you know, often it's like, you know, keep it sort of yes, of course, yeah exactly. And and I think there's a freedom that comes with that accent and that I see with Americans like they have no problem expressing themselves, expressing their opinions, and I love that. I wish I had more of that, so I tried to adopt it myself, not always successfully, but no, I think you do a great job of it. I loved seeing it in the character. I love seeing
how you change before I let you go. There's one change that we have to speak about, and that's your hair. Right, it looks good. Thank you saying that. I saw the video of you cutting your hair, and it was really emotional. It was so emotional because we've known you with your hair for so long. It's become a part of you, and people have even come up to you and so like, thank you so much for having natural hair on on a TV show, And like what made you decide, you
know what, I'm going to cut it? And not for a role, by the way, just for yourself. It was for me. Um. I think it had taken for many years. I wanted to cut my hair, and I always found a reason not to. And I think some of it was fear. Some of it was like, oh, um, you know,
to be what is femininity or beauty or whatever? Like often we're kind of taught that you have to have long hair and it has to be a certain way, and and I think i'd um also like there was a real pride in not changing my hair for the screen and on red carpets and doing you know, glamorous looks with my natural texture and you know, hair discrimination all of that. It was a real kind of defiance that was in my hair, in a celebration that was in my hair. And so when I decided to cut it,
I wanted to just shed it. I wanted to let go of all the sort of complex feelings but you know, start fresh and for regulations to me, You've inspired me. Now now maybe I'm not I'm not going to cut it, but maybe I'll come to the show with cornrows. Maybe you never know, I might such things up. You've you've inspired me, and you've been doing you've been mixing up. Yeah, but I might. Now I might just do like a whole you never know, like a whole thing just like
you know, I don't know. That's like it for now. Natalie, thank you so much for joining me on the show. Actually, Profs, make sure to watch her invitations. It's going to be excuse to be and feeling on all the twenty six? Can that for me? Manuel, Everybody? The Daily Show with Trevor No ears additions. Subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. Mm hmm. This has been a Comedy Central podcast