Live with Regis and Kelly is filmed before a live studio audience. It features free-form discussion and interview sessions, so the dialogue is fast-paced and people are often talking over each other.

Regis: Allright, one of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, 40 movies to her credit.

Kelly: Wow.

Regis: I guess we'll always remember what I believe is the first one, "Flashdance"...

Kelly: Sure, of course!

Regis: ... which was some kinda movie!

[The audience cheers and claps.]

Regis: That was a long time ago. She's had a great career since then, now she's starring in the new Showtime series "The L Word," here's Jennifer Beals!

[Regis and Kelly stand as Jennifer walks onto the stage. Dance music plays. The audience cheers and claps.]

Regis: (over audience cheering) She still looks incredible!

Kelly: (over audience cheering) Wowww!

[Jennifer, walking out, waves at the audience. They cheer louder. Jennifer walks over to Regis. They shake hands. The audience continues to cheer.]

Regis: (over audience cheering) Hi, Jennifer!

Jennifer: (over audience cheering) Hi, nice to see you!

[Jennifer kisses Regis on the cheek.]

Regis: (says something unintelligible over audience cheering)

Kelly: (over audience cheering) You look great!

Jennifer: (over audience cheering) Thank you!

[Jennifer and Kelly kiss on the cheek.]

Kelly: (over audience cheering) Oh, my gosh!

Regis: Oh, boy!

Kelly: Okay, I love your whole outfit!

Regis: Yeah, look at you.

Kelly: It's so good!

[Everybody sits down. The audience hoots and cheers for Jennifer's outfit.]

Jennifer: Thank you!

Regis: Springtime, got a little pink on, here, looking good.

Jennifer: Yeah. I tried to get dressed up for you guys!

Regis: We appreciate that.

Kelly: You look great.

Regis: We really do. Anyways, good to see you again.

Jennifer: Nice to see you, too.

Regis: Absolutely. And I know you don't wanna talk about "Flashdance," you're tired of talking about it...

[Jennifer chuckles.]

Regis: ... but you look just as great as you did 20 years ago.

Jennifer: Oh, thank you.

[The audience claps and cheers. Jennifer smiles.]

Jennifer: Thank you.

Kelly: (to Regis) Jennifer's a horseback rider!

Regis: Really, you like horseback riding?

Jennifer: I love horseback riding.

Kelly: You took a long journey on a horse, didn't you?

Jennifer: Uh, well, recently I went on a trip to Patagonia.

Kelly: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: Which is, you know, the tip of South America, and we went horseback riding for 10 days and we camped out in tents, and... it was -

Regis: Well, what -

Kelly: Ten days on a horse!

Regis: Yeah!

[Jennifer laughs.]

Kelly: Were there no taxis to be found?

[The audience laughs.]

Regis: Now, why did you have to go all the way to Patagonia?

Jennifer: Well, you know, I tried to find a trip in Southern California and Arizona, and I couldn't find any.

Regis: A horseback riding trip.

Jennifer: Yeah, like, a long horse packing trip.

Regis: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: Because this was in December and it was too cold, and so nobody's taking anybody out.

Regis: Yeah. So, so do you have your own horse?

Jennifer: I don't, because I travel so much. I would love to have my own horse.

Kelly: Right.

Jennifer: But, the trip was really wonderful, it was pretty grueling sometimes...

Kelly: But after a while... (motioning to hips) on a horse...

Regis: What?

Jennifer: It's - you know, it's not here (motioning to hips), it's here (touches stomach).

Regis: What, what happens? What?

Kelly: Oh, it's there? (motioning to stomach)

Jennifer: Your stomach muscles are killing you.

[Regis puts a hand to his stomach.]

Regis: Really, eh?

Jennifer: Because they have the different type of saddle. There's the - Chilean saddle is different. And they ri - it's just like the - (motioning) a piece of leather, and then a sheepskin over it, so there's not much cushioning and you have to sit back a little bit (leans back), and I after two days, I was like, "Please, God, let's get to the camp," 'cause I was really tired.

[Kelly laughs. The audience chuckles.]

Regis: And it was a camp you were going to, or was it...

Jennifer: Yeah, we went to a camp and then we put up our tents, and I went with a couple friends of mine and my husband and we were out shopping for sleeping bags and things, and they were gonna get these little thin (gestures with fingers together), uh, mattresses that you put under the sleeping bags.

Regis: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: I was, like, "No, no, no, you get the Four Seasons pad. that's got, like, 4 inches (gestures, holding fingers apart several inches) and...

Regis: Yeah, that's what you need. (chuckles)

Kelly: Yeah, there you go!

Jennifer: Pretty well.

Kelly: That's a - that's a good girl. I'm shocked that you should've been in a Four Seasons...

[Jennifer laughs.]

Kelly: You could've taken your horse up there, and then...

[The audience laughs. Regis leans over and picks up a camera off the table by his chair.]

Regis: So, you're into photography...

Kelly: Hitch him out front?

[Jennifer laughs.]

Regis: (to Kelly) Do you know that we have never had a guest come on our show and tell us, "I'd love to have a picture of the two of you." You know?

Kelly: Well, that's probably...

Regis: Here's Jennifer Beals, here's a big student of photography...

Kelly: Mm-hmm.

Regis: And, this is a cam -

Jennifer: This is my camera.

Regis: This is your camera, huh?

Jennifer: Yeah. One of them. There's -

Regis: Don't you have one of those cameras where you just press a button, press another button and the thing comes out, you know (makes a pulling motion from the bottom of the camera), the picture comes out?

Jennifer: Oh, no, no, I don't have one of those. I think that's called a Polaroid.

Regis: Polaroid!

[Kelly squints at the audience. They chuckle.]

Regis: Yeah! No, no, not the Polaroid - you know, the new - the new stuff!

Someone offstage: Digital?

Regis: Digital! Digital!

[Regis hands the camera to Jennifer.]

Jennifer: Digital. I don't really like digital -

Regis: I don't either!

Kelly: Digital? The picture doesn't (unintelligible as everyone's talking over each other)

Regis: We don't like digital!

Jennifer: I like film, I like film.

Regis: We like film. We absolutely like it. (motioning) You put it in a box, you send it to the - you take it up to the Photo Max, whatever it is - (motions)

[The audience chuckles.]

Regis: You go back two days later, and they're all made for you! What's the problem!

Jennifer: Or, you can do it yourself, and it's even more exciting.

Regis: You do it yourself, too?

Jennifer: Yeah.

Regis: Boy, you're really into it, aren't you?

Kelly: (to Regis) See, she's a real - she's a real photographer. I mean, that's what they do, they...

[Jennifer brings the camera up to her eye to snap a picture.]

Kelly: She's gonna take our picture! Wait a minute! Let me - wait, wait, wait! This is so nerve-wracking! Let me - !

[Regis stands up with a foot on the chair, facing Jennifer. Kelly faces the audience and musses her hair.]

Jennifer: Ready?

Kelly: Okay!

[Jennifer, laughing, brings the camera down to check something. She brings it back up.]

Kelly: On the count of three! One, two -

[Regis stands rigid as Kelly whips her head around to strike a sexy pose. The audience laughs. Jennifer snaps the picture, laughing. Regis laughs as he and Kelly sit back down. Jennifer and Kelly laugh.]

Regis: Allright, let's talk about this new series "The L Word". "The L Word" means... what does "The L Word" mean?

[Jennifer sets the camera down on the table by her chair.]

Jennifer: What do you think it means?

Kelly: Yeah, we wanna know what it means.

Regis: I think it means Leonard.

Jennifer: Leonard? That's a good one! I've never heard that one! It can mean a lot of things.

Regis: Yeah.

Jennifer: It can mean love.

Regis: Yeah.

Jennifer: It can mean lascivious.

Regis: Uh-huh.

Jennifer: On a bad day, it could be laxative.

[The audience laughs. Regis wrinkles his face up.]

Kelly: Great!

Jennifer: But, in this case, I think most of all, it means lesbian.

Audience: Ooh.

Regis: Aha.

Kelly: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: So.

Regis: So, you're playing a lesbian?

Jennifer: I am. I'm playing a lesbian.

Regis: How did you research that role?

[The audience laughs. Jennifer grins and points a finger at Regis and Kelly.]

Jennifer: Aren't you a funny guy? Actually, I researched the role in that the woman is the director of an art museum. She's very, uh, focused on her work, and so I spent a lot of time, um, trying to learn what it takes to run a museum. So, that's really the research that I did.

Regis: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: The other stuff, I just kind of...

Regis: How many - how many girls are there in this show? 3.22

Jennifer: My gosh, I think there's 6 of us?

Regis: Six.

Jennifer: Six or 7?

Kelly: Do you all get along?

Jennifer: Very well. Very well.

Kelly: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: In fact, I was walking out on the street talking to Mia Kirschner yesterday (holds up hand to ear like a cell phone) and telling her about all the cute shops and stuff.

Regis: Here, in Manhattan?

Jennifer: Yeah.

Regis: Oh, good, good.

Kelly: Do ya - do ya have kissing scenes...

Jennifer: Yes.

Kelly: ... and if so, are they uncomfortable?

[Jennifer busts out laughing at Kelly. Kelly laughs hard; the audience laughs.]

Jennifer: We have kissing scenes, and at first it was very... just strange, because it's so different?

Kelly: Right.

Jennifer: Um, it's just softer.

Kelly: Uh-huh.

Jennifer: Uh...

Kelly: (to Regis) See?

Jennifer: But - (laughs)

[The audience laughs. Regis blushes and shrugs.]

Regis: What have I got to do with it?

Jennifer: (laughing) But, at first, when I had my -

Regis: Is it softer, you say?

Jennifer: Yeah.

Kelly: (to Regis) Than kissing a man.

Jennifer: (to Regis) You know what it's like to kiss a woman.

Regis: Really?

[The audience laughs.]

Regis: No, I do, but I - but it is softer from the woman's point of view, to kiss another woman, is that -

Jennifer: It is softer than -

Kelly: Women are - women -

Jennifer: You know. Softer than kissing a man. Well, most women.

Regis: Which do you - well, I know what you prefer.

[The audience laughs.]

Jennifer: Yes.

Regis: You prefer a man!

Jennifer: Yes. Well, I'm married to a man.

Regis: Yeah!

Jennifer: Right.

Regis: (to Kelly) Did you ever kiss a woman, in all your acting days?

Kelly: No!

Regis: "All My Children", you never kissed a woman?

Kelly: No, never, no, I -

Regis: You never kissed Lucci?

[The audience chuckles.]

Kelly: No! I played a - I played a straight character!

[Jennifer chuckles. Regis looks at the floor for a moment, thinking.]

Regis: Did ya have any, uh, lesbians on the "All My" -

Kelly: Sure!

Regis: Was that part of the plot line?

Kelly: Not my plotline, but they have a plotline.

Regis: Oh. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's interesting.

[Jennifer and Kelly laugh at Regis.]

Regis: (to Jennifer) So, what's been the reaction to the show?

Jennifer: It's been incredibly positive.

Regis: Really?

Jennifer: It's been incredibly positive.

Regis: Well, you're back for a new season, I think, right?

Jennifer: Yeah, we got picked up really quickly...

Kelly: It's great, yeah.

Jennifer: ... after two episodes, we got picked up for another season.

Kelly: I have to tell you that all of our writers over at the - "Hope and Faith," it's their favorite show. They love it.

Jennifer: Oh, that's great.

Kelly: It's, like, it's - it's what they live for.

Jennifer: You know, I think that's interesting about the show, is that it's - it's so much about these women's lives and their loves and their ambitions and work, so, in a way, it points out how - the ways in which we're similar are much more numerous than the way we're different...

Kelly: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: ... So, if the audience that watches the show is kind of across the board, it's not...

Regis: Mm-hmm.

Jennifer: ... you know, just one group of people. I think everybody can relate to it in some way.

Kelly: Uh-huh.

Regis: Let's take a look at a clip right now from "The L Word." Here you are being confronted in group therapy.

Jennifer: Which, she hates group therapy.

Regis: Oh, really?

[Kelly laughs.]

[Scene from 1x08 Listen Up. Bette and Tina are in Dan Foxworthy's office, in group therapy. Yolanda is talking to Bette.]

Yolanda: I'm saying it feels like you're running from something.

Tina: How can you say that when you've only know her, what, two hours -

Bette: Tina, I don't need you to defend me! Okay? (to Yolanda) You know...

[Dan watches the exchange.]

Bette: ... What I wanna know is how do you justify pushing me so hard to come out as a black woman, when all the while, you've let us mistake you for a straight woman?

[The group members raise their brows.]

Yolanda: You thought I was straight?

Bette: (laughing) Well, why wouldn't I? I mean, you're not exactly readable as a lesbian, and you didn't come out and declare yourself. I mean, it wasn't until I read your poem...

[Bette opens her bag and pulls out one of Yolanda's book and holds it up.]

Bette: ... from "Sistah, Stand Up", with an "h", might I add... (opens book) (reading) "On being a black, socialist, feminist lesbian, working to overthrow the white, male, capitalist patriarchy." I noticed "lesbian" comes last.

Yolanda: Oh, but you see, I did not negate it. I did not deny it. I did not leave it out.

Bette: Well, neither do I.

Audience: Ooh.

[The audience applauds and cheers. Jennifer smiles.]

Kelly: Ooh!

Regis: Wow, confrontation! Boy, oh, boy!

Kelly: That's what I'm talkin' about!

[Regis laughs as the audience applause dies down.]

Regis: (to camera) "The L Word" on Sunday nights, 10 PM on Showtime.

[The audience applauds and cheers. Regis takes Jennifer's hand and shakes it.]

Regis: Jennifer, so nice to see you today.

Jennifer: Thank you. It's nice to see you.

[Kelly leans forward and shakes Jennifer's hand.]

Kelly: What a thrill to meet you!

Jennifer: And you also.

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