- At the judges table,
she's had highs and low,
and maybe he can tell us
how Kyle broke her nose.
It's "Watch What Happens Live"
with Padma Lakshmi
and Jason Blum, now.
* Andy Cohen's
got the 411 *
* king king of
late night fun *
* Midnight
MC AC *
- Hey, everybody, welcome
to "Watch What Happens Live."
I am your host Andy Cohen
in the Bravo clubhouse
with one guest who knows
Michael Myers and another
who'd probably tell him
to pack up his knives and go.
After spending 15 years
behind the judges table
on "Top Chef," my first guest
probably wanted to
stretch her legs a bit,
so she embarked on
another nationwide food tour
with her incredible
four part docuseries,
"Taste the Nation:
Holiday Edition,"
which premiers November 4th
on Hulu.
Give it up for my friend
Padma Lakshmi. Hey, Padma!
- Hi.
- Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you, Andy.
- Missed you.
- I missed you, too.
- So happy to see you.
Now, if you haven't heard
of my next guest,
you need to.
He is the most successful
movie producer working today.
He's been behind megahits
like "Get Out," "The Purge,"
"Halloween," "The Jinx,"
"The Invisible Man,"
and "The Good Lord Bird"
just to name a few.
Go see his new movie
"Halloween Kills"
in theaters and streaming
on Peacock now.
Please welcome my friend,
Jason Blum.
Hey, Jason.
Great to see you.
- Great to be here.
- Um, and tonight's
guest bartender
played Elphaba in "Wicked"
on Broadway,
but now she's
whipping up cocktails
until you're green in the face
and screaming a lot.
Get tickets for her solo
Carnegie Hall debut,
wow, November 8th.
It's called "My Golden Age."
Say hi to Jessica Vosk.
Congratulations!
Are you nervous,
or at this point...
- I am the most nervous
that you can ever imagine
in your lifetime, but I'm also
the biggest fan of yours,
so it's, like, a toss up.
- Thank you.
And you also can belt, so...
- She can belt, yeah.
- She can belt.
Drinking game alert.
My guests won't know it.
Anytime you hear anyone say
this word, if you're
21 or over,
drink until you
Hallo-wee yourself.
Now, I have to
tell you guys,
Jason and I are really
good buddies,
and one of the things
about him
that always keeps me entertained
is that he's a straight,
married man with kids
who loves to dress in drag!
So I want to go through some
of your finest slays, Jason.
Here you are
as a wicked witch.
Here you are as, uh,
Laurie Strode.
That was recent.
- Jamie Lee Curtis.
- Very good,
as Jamie Lee Curtis.
Ivanka Trump, and this is
your wife, Lauren,
as Jared Kushner.
- Ivanka and Jared.
- That was a wonderful year.
- Did you hear-- yes.
That was a great year.
- I'm still waiting
for them to call.
- Yes, and here you are
as Stormy Daniels.
Wow. And is that Lauren
as Michael Avenatti?
- Michael Avenatti.
Stormy and Mike--
Michael and her client.
- Wow.
- Yeah, that was
a great one.
- It looks like
Stephen Miller, also.
- That was a-- oh, yeah.
- It does kinda look like
Stephen Miller.
- I thought it was
Stephen Miller.
- Uh, Jason. Give it up
for a man who loves doing drag.
[cheering]
You know, Padma's--
speaking of clothes,
Padma's such a food expert,
I'm sure she could tell
if your salad is good
just by looking at it,
I was hoping
she'd "lettuce" go through
some of her signature dressings
to determine which ones
were little gems and which
should be removed
from her spring mix.
Let's find out with
"Sear It or Save It."
Padma, I'm gonna show you
some outfits from
your nearly 150 episodes
hosting "Top Chef."
- Okay.
- If you like what you see,
save it. If not, you sear it
on the clubhouse grill.
- Okay.
- Here you go.
what do you think about
this statement choker
your first season?
- Oh, I love that choker,
I just wish I didn't have
those 90s eyebrows still.
- Save it!
Uh, sear it or save it,
very bespoke in a vest.
- I like that.
I still love a vest.
- Okay, she loves a vest,
by the way.
- I do.
- Sear it or save it,
Bettie Page vibes
with blunt bangs
and a high pony?
- Yeah, no, I was pregnant.
- Okay.
Sear it, guys.
Uh, how 'bout the lady in red
with sparkly shoulders.
- I do like that.
It's a Temperley.
- Okay. How about this
bold printed dress in Texas?
- Eh...
- Okay. Sear it, guys.
- Sear it.
- Wow, I thought you were gonna
stand behind more of these.
This jumpin',
jumpin' jumpsuit.
- Oh, yes, a good--
- I love it, too.
- I do love a good jumpsuit.
- I love you in a jumpsuit.
How about this, um, kind of
loud printed sheer top?
- No.
- I don't--
- Sear it, guys.
- Uh, vixen in Vegas?
- Oh, yes.
- Yes!
- I like that.
- Okay, last up, queen
of the mountain in Alaska.
- Yes!
Thank you
very much, Padma.
Um, Jason has been praised
for producing blockbusters
for pennies, but now I want
a penny for his thoughts
on his uber successful
film career.
Um, we're gonna have him spill
the paranormal activi-tea.
Jason, you've been nominated
for Best Motion Picture
three times at the Oscars--
"Whiplash," "Get Out,"
and "Black KkKlansman."
Which of those films do you
think most deserved the win
in its respective year?
- Absolutely "Get Out."
- Me, too. Who even
won that year?
- The... no one can--
The movie about the, uh,
mermaid, about the fish.
- Oh, yes, yes, yes.
- It was aquatic.
- Oh, "Shape of Water?"
- "Shape of Water!"
- No!
- It was a crime.
It was a crime--
- I poop on "Shape of Water!"
- It was a crime
against humanity.
- I poop on--
- And I'm still pissed about it.
- Yes.
- I'm furious.
- Since "Halloween Ends"
is coming up--
- Isn't as funny how none
of us can remember the name?
- Yes!
- Yeah, of course.
I just shows what an injustice--
- Since "Halloween Ends"
is coming out next Halloween,
are there any Easter eggs
in "Halloween Kills" that fans
should pay special attention to
that will play a part
in the next movie?
- The-the-- they should pay
special attention
to the style of kills,
particularly a kill
where a lightbulb goes into
somebody armpit.
- Ooh.
- Okay.
Did you ever expect that "Ma"
would be such a cult favorite
and what was your favorite part
of having Octavia Spencer
in that villainous role?
- Uh, I never-- never expected
it to do as well as it did.
I'd love to make
a sequel.
We've been thinking about it,
and my favorite part
of having her in the role
was, uh, was, like,
getting to spend time
with her.
She was terrific to
spend time with.
- What do you remember about
the first time you read
the script for "Get Out?"
- Uh...
- Did you know how important
it was gonna be?
- Oh, no, of course not.
I loved it.
I loved the script,
and I wanted to meet Jordan,
and I remember--
and the thing I most--
remember most is I met Jordan,
and I said, "Is it true,
there's this part
"of this script, like,
if you're the only Black guy--
"there's only two
Black guys in a room
"where everyone's white,
do acknowledge that,
"and talk to each other?"
And of course he said,
"Yeah, we-- of course
we acknowledge it."
And that had
never occurred to me
because I'm not
in that situation.
- Yeah.
- And after that,
we made the movie.
- Uh, you won the 2015 Emmy
for Outstanding Documentary
for "The Jinx."
Initial reaction when you heard
the infamous hot mic moment
from Robert Durst.
- Uh, well, I was shocked
by the end of the movie,
but the proudest thing
I've ever worked on
is "The Jinx" because he
was put in jail.
So that's-- of everything
that we've done,
I'm most proud
of "The Jinx."
- On a scale from one to ten,
how much do you regret
turning down the opportunity
to acquire
"The Blair Witch Project?"
- Uh, ten.
- Okay, thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
On "Taste the Nation,"
Padma has snacked
all over the country
from North to South.
I wonder which American
delicacies have yet
to cross the threshold
of her mouth.
We're gonna
find out with...
Okay, here's how this
is gonna work.
Some daring food items
will appear in the monitor.
Jason will guess if Padma
has tried it or not.
If he's wrong, he's gonna
eat from this bowl
of crickets.
- Oh, you're a good sport.
- Okay? Okay.
Live octopus sushi.
Has Padma tried it?
Jason, yes?
- Yes, yes.
- Yes.
- Yes, she has.
Okay, um, casu marzu,
a.k.a. maggot cheese.
Has she tried it, Jason?
- She has not.
- No, I have not.
- Oh!
- Okay, wow.
Okay, scrapple.
- I have tried maggots,
not maggot cheese.
- Okay. Scrapple,
which is a mush
of pork scraps and trimmings
combined with cornmeal.
- She loves it.
- Yes, I do.
- Okay.
Um, rattlesnake.
- She has not tried it.
- I have.
- Oh, no!
- Grab a cricket.
- Season two, Miami.
[cheering]
- Delish--
Tastes like popcorn.
- Oh, my God,
you're so annoying.
- So great.
- Okay, what about
fried tarantulas?
If you've had these I--
I can't even look at that.
I'm so scared of
tarantulas ever since
"The Brady Bunch."
- She's not tried it.
- Not tried it.
- Oh, good. Thank God.
Okay, what about bull penis?
Has she tried a bull penis?
- Has tried it.
- I have.
- Oh!
- Oh, my!
I mean, dare I ask
what it tasted like?
Did you go back for more?
- No.
- No. Okay, what about
pigs tail?
- Has tried it.
- Yes.
- Of course, obviously.
What about a puffer fish?
- Has also tried it.
- No.
- Oh, Jay!
- It was less good
than I thought.
- What, the cricket?
- Yeah, it tastes like dirt.
- Where did we get
these, by the way?
- The internet.
- Okay, what about-- here's
a very basic, um,
kind of trashy dish,
ambrosia fruit salad.
Have you ever tried it?
- Yes, I have.
- Oh, okay.
Oh, I was supposed
to ask him, sorry.
- Yeah.
- Sorry.
Okay, what about
a peanut butter, banana,
and bacon sandwich?
- Of course she's tried it.
- Yes. Um, what about emu?
- What is emu?
- Well, has she tried--
- Uh, yeah, she's tried it.
- I have not.
- Jason.
- I thought too long.
- Yeah, you did.
Okay, what about
turducken? Turducken.
- Tried it.
- Yeah, a lot.
- Ew, okay. What is it?
- Turducken's delicious.
- It's a-- it's a duck--
it's a chicken
stuffed in a duck
stuffed in a turkey.
- Ew, okay, get
that away from me.
Thanks for playing
"Has Padma Tried It?"
Um, Padma, wanting
to know, uh, if you--
have you seen
"Cooking With Paris"?
What did you think of
her skills in the kitchen?
- Uh, I haven't seen it, no.
- Oh, okay.
I thought that this must've
meant that you were on it,
from James L.
- No.
- Um, Jason,
Jack I. wants to know
what can you say
about the upcoming
"Paranormal Activity"
reboot?
- It's, uh, it's very, very
scary and-and, uh,
it's gonna start a new--
a whole new chapter of
the "Paranormal Activity"
universe.
- Is-- will Kyle Richards
return in "Halloween Ends"?
- If I have anything
to do with it, yes.
- Well, you have everything
to do with it,
I would think.
- No, I only have some--
no, the director--
It's really
the director's choice,
but I'll support his yes.
- Padma, how important
was Anthony Bourdain
as an inspiration to
your new series?
- Well, Tony was
a friend for 20 years.
- Yeah.
- And his writing
was a great
inspiration to me.
Um, our show is much
different, but, um,
I love the comparison.
- Yeah.
- I mean, it's just
different, you know?
- Yeah.
- But he's great.
- All right, we're
gonna be right back.
Coming up, more with
Padma and Jason.
Here's who's dropping
by next week.
Don't go anywhere.
[cheers and applause]
- I can taste-- you know
that effervescence that
you get just before
something turns?
I'm gettin' that
in these guys.
- A little bubbly almost?
- Mm-hmm.
I don't know if it's
just because it--
why are you laughing?
- Because you're
the crunchiest eater
I ever heard in my life.
[laughing]
- I like to crunch.
- Fermented and packed
in warmer months,
pickled vegetables were
crucial to surviving
the long, dark winter,
until the light of spring.
- Why am I turned on?
That was a clip
of Padma Lakshmi
in "Taste the Nation:
Holiday Edition."
It comes out on
Hulu November 4th.
Welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
It's Andy Cohen in
the Bravo clubhouse.
Also joined
by Jason Blum.
Make sure you check out
BlumFest, Jason's
virtual event for
Blumhouse fanatics on
the Blumhouse Facebook
and YouTube channel.
Over at the bar, you can
see her voice shake
the Carnegie Hall rafters,
November 8th,
in "My Golden Age."
Tonight, you can see
her work a martini shaker.
It's Jessica Vosk.
Hey, Jessica.
- Hey, Andy.
- Yes! Yes.
Drinking game reminder,
anytime you hear this word,
in honor of "Halloween Kills,"
drink until you look
Laurie Strode hard
and put away wet.
Let's take questions
from our virtual fans.
Krista from Minneapolis
has a question for Padma.
Hey, Krista.
- Hi, Andy, hi, Jason.
- Hi, Krista.
- I feel like a car alarm
might be going off,
uh, nearby.
What's your question?
- Yes, without giving
too much away, Padma,
how is this crop
of "Top Chef" new chefs
compared to
past seasons?
And did you have
a clear frontrunner
from the beginning
of the season?
- We're not even
done filming yet.
- Oh, you're kidding me?
- And you're asking
me these questions.
- Wow!
- Yes, we just finished
filming the main season,
but we still have
the finale to do.
- How's the crop?
- Um, it's great.
Like, really, really great.
- Oh, good.
- Like-like,
Voltaggio brothers great.
- Wow!
- Yeah.
[cheers and applause]
I will say that.
- Voltaggio brothers cute?
- Yeah, yeah.
- All right, here's
Caitlyn from Austin
with a question
for Jason.
- Hey, Andy, Queen Padma,
and Jason.
- Hi.
- Jason, my question
is for you.
Can you tease anything
about the new "Wolfman"
you're producing
with R-Ryan Gosling
and will you please
guarantee that we will get
at least a little bit
of nudity from him?
[laughing]
- Um, can I tease anything
about the new "Wolfman"?
Well, uh, it's been, uh,
it's been developed
for quite sometime.
We're really trying to
get the script right.
And, um, I will say that Ryan,
um, is-is super, super
committed to the role and
super committed to "Wolfman."
He's the one who
originated this and was
the original Producer on it,
as well as the star.
And if that's a--
that's-that's a positive
indication that there might
be a little bit of nudity
in this as soon
as we're done.
- Very good. That's-that's
what we wanna hear.
Bear C. wants to know, "Padma,
how's your dating life
"these days?
Are you still into poetry?"
- I'm single.
- Okay. Okay, very good.
And just for the record,
she has always been
into poetry, no matter
who she's dating, right?
- Correct.
- Jason, Scott S.
wants to know,
"Out of all
the stars of your films,
"who's been the most
intimidating to work with
"on the first day
of shooting?"
- Russell Crowe.
- Russell Crowe?
Oh, for the-- Oh, that was
great, that Showtime series
you did about Roger Ailes.
- "The Loudest Voice," yeah.
- Yes,
and is he a dick?
- No, he wasn't a dick,
but he was Intimidating.
He was intimidating.
- Okay, okay.
Does he have the--
is that his reputation?
- Uh, he had that reputation
when he was younger
of being difficult, but he's
mellowed out in age.
- Okay, um...
[laughter]
- Good answer.
- Padma-- right.
That was a good answer, right?
- Thank you.
- Samantha L. wants to know
which of your celebrity friends
have you been surprised by
how good of a cook they are?
- Oh, um, gosh, so many.
Ali's a good cook.
- Ali?
- Ali Wong.
- Oh, yeah.
- Michelle Buteau
is a great cook.
- Oh, really?
- Yeah.
She just sent me a video
of her tomato sauce
the other day actually.
- A video of tomato sauce.
- Michelle and I have
this great relationship
where we don't leave
each other voicemails,
we send each other videos
of whatever we're doing.
And we just have, like,
these video messages.
It's great, and she's,
you know, so funny.
- I love her.
- That-- yeah, I love her, too.
- Yeah, well, uh, sure,
Michael Meyers
has terrorized America
for over 40 years,
but in just a few
short decades
everyone might say
the same thing about Ramona.
So let's get ahead
of the history books
with a round of...
Okay, let me move
these crickets.
I'm gonna show you both
some housewives clips
that might even be too scary
for a horror expert like Jason.
After each one we are gonna
rate how horrified we are
from 1-10
with these score cards,
10 being
the most horrified.
We are going to start
with Aviva's leg toss.
- The only thing that is
artifical or fake about me...
is this,
and I'm sick of it!
I am sick of you
all accusing me.
- I'm done.
- Heather,
why don't you take it?
I'll crawl home.
Here, go ahead!
- Okay, so she threw
her prosthetic leg
in Le Cirque.
- I went out with Aviva.
- I-- hold on.
I would like to say
I just remembered,
Jason Blum has
an announcement to make.
- Yes, I do.
My college girlfriend.
- Was Aviva Drescher!
- Was Aviva, yes.
[cheers and applause]
- Wow!
- Yes! Yes!
I forgot!
- Yes, it was.
- I forgot until the clip
started playing.
What was scarier,
dating Aviva or the leg toss?
- The leg toss was scarier.
- Okay, by the way,
dating Aviva would not be scary.
I love Aviva.
Okay, two 9s and a 10.
I mean, very good.
I forgot
you dated Aviva, wow.
- It's like her version
of throwing a shoe.
- Yes, exactly!
Okay, here we go,
here is Vicki Gunvalson
in Iceland. Let's see.
- Why is her--
why is that over her head?
Are you kidding me?
Does she think
she's Michael Jackson?
- What's going on?
- Well, she just came out
with a robe over her head.
- I mean, Vicki...
- How scary is this?
I give it a 5.
Jason gives it a 3.
Pads gives it--
she's going low, low, low.
She gives it a 2.
All right,
very good,
Okay, now this
is very scary.
This is the boat ride
from hell
on "The Real Housewives
of New York."
- Sit the (BLEEP) down.
That's not funny.
This is crazy.
- You need to slow down.
- Get her a ----ing
life preserver!
Get on the floor!
[screaming]
[laughter]
- Oh, my god!
- Okay, I give it a 10.
Jason says 7,
Padma says--
not that scary to you?
- Not that scary.
- Okay, all right.
Okay, here we are,
let's go to Amsterdam
with the Housewives
of Beverly Hills.
- She said, Yolanda,
my husband
has only been sober
for three years.
- Excuse me, did you just say
let's talk about the husband?
- Let's not talk about what
you don't want out there.
Just saying, don't--
- Don't (BLEEP) ever--
- You don't want out
for everybody to know!
- Do you understand that?!
- Everybody will know!
- Don't ever go after
my ----ing husband!
[overlapping chatter]
- Kyle ran. Oh, wow,
two 10s from you,
and I give it a--
that was very scary to you.
- I was triggered.
- Right, yes, you were!
Oh, my god, okay.
Okay, here we go,
let's go on the runway.
How scary is this?
- Here we go!
[cheering]
- How scary
is this runway walk?
- What's with that-- what?
- Okay, I give it an 8,
and two 10s.
- Is that on purpose?
- Yeah, she--
yes, we don't know
what it was.
- She was possessed.
- The last one is--
we're going to New Jersey
for the last one.
I'm interested to see
how Blum scores this.
- Obviously there has to be
something else.
It's not just name change
and arrested.
- I was arrested.
- You were stripping.
You were stripping,
prostitution, whore--
you were ----ing engaged
19 times!
You ----ing stupid bitch!
[indistinct shouting]
- Wow.
- Table flip.
Three 10s, the table flip wins!
When we come back,
more with these two
and our Watch What Happens Five.
We'll be right back.
[groaning]
- Mayday, mayday!
- Radio silence,
we have a major alert.
- This is [indistinct]
There's been
a structural collapse.
My air supply
has been compromised.
[indistinct]
There's someone else
down here--
[grunts]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[shouting]
- All right, that was
"Halloween Kills"
in theaters and streaming
on Peacock now
from my guest Jason Blum.
Welcome back
to "Watch What Happens Live."
It's Andy here with Padma
and Jessica behind the bar.
[cheers and applause]
Johnny from Florida
wants to know, Jason,
what's one film project
that came to Blumhouse
you regret passing on?
- I didn't pass on it,
but one of my biggest regrets
is not doing "The Conjuring."
There are movies also
that we passed on,
but "The Conjuring" is really--
that always makes me crazy.
- Padma, you're highlighting
Hannukah traditions
in "Taste of Nation."
Favorite Hannukah dish?
- Latkes.
- Me, too.
It is time for
Watch What Happens Five.
There it is.
Uh, oh, well.
As a major Hollywood producer,
Jason probably rolls his eyes
when he gets
unsolicited movie pitches
from random people,
but I've locked
the Clubhouse doors
so he can't escape
as I count down
the top five Housewives
horror movies
we are dying to see.
Coming in at #5,
if you see her runway eyes,
you better run away.
It's "The Hills
Have Ramona Eyes,"
starring Ramona Singer.
Our #4 film will make you
wish you were smelling hospital.
It's "A Quiet Poot"
starring Mary M. Cosby.
Our next movie is twice as scary
as "Christine"
with twice the seating
and leg room.
It's "Christine II: Family Van"
starring Vicki Gunvalson.
And when the sun sets
on Orange County
a former Housewive returns
from the grave
in "Night of the Living Dodd."
That's #2.
Our #1 Housewife horror film
is so scary
even Hannibal Lecter
would return it to sender.
It's "Silence
of the Butterflies"
starring Karen Huger.
Jason, how'd I do?
- Excellent.
- Thank you very much!
I wanna thank Padma, Jason,
and Jessica for being here.
See Jessica at Carnegie Hall.
Watch Padma on Hulu.
Get Padma's children's book.
It is so wonderful.
The word of the night
was "movie."
We said it eight times.
Don't drink and drive.
Go to our aftershow now
on Twitter.
[cheers and applause]