Tom Blyth and Emily Bader Talk Heeled Boots and Preferred Bedtimes in the Latest Off the Cuff

Today I learned that Emily Bader

doesn t like a creepy whisper.

[Tom whispering]

Do it again.

[Tom whispering]

No, it s not growing on me.

Hi, Vogue.

I m Tom Blyth.

And I m Emily Bader, and this is Off the Cuff.

[light music] Round one, icebreakers.

[Emily shuddering]

One memory you d love to relive on repeat.

When I went sailing for the first time

and I was super hungover in Sweden,

and it was actually the greatest memory of my life.

That s so beautiful.

If we got kicked out of somewhere,

what would the reason be?

Drunk and disorderly.

No, we re so well-behaved.

Never. [cards thudding]

What useless skill are you proud of?

I can hold my breath for a really long time underwater,

but I can t pop my ears very well,

so there s not really a point

to being able to do that. That s not useless.

That s very helpful.

If you had to replace a finger with a tool,

[chuckling] what would it be?

Swiss Army Knife, so you ve got multiple tools in one.

[Emily] That s genius.

Yep.

What word do you struggle to pronounce?

I m gonna do it right out.

Horseradish.

I always say horshradish.

Horshradish.

But it s just horseradish.

Nice.

Right, how do you, is that right?

Horseradish. Horseradish.

What s one thing that you pretend to understand?

Math.

[Emily] [laughing] Yeah?

I don t even pretend.

If I were a sound effect, what would it sound like?

Skibbidy bop.

[Emily And Tom] Skibiddy bo, oh, oh.

[Emily] [light music] Round two.

[Emily And Tom] Film.

Go. Okay, okay, okay.

When you first met me, what movie trope did I embody?

An example, main character, funny sidekick,

mysterious stranger. Mysterious stranger

with the leather jackets and the motorcycle.

I mean,

what s more mysterious? Did you know

that was one of them already?

Yep. That was so good.

[chuckling] No, I just knew. [card thudding]

If we ran into each other in a grocery aisle rom-com style,

what are we each holding?

This is actually very telling.

A cucumber.

A cucumber?

Okay, perfect. [Tom and Emily laughing]

Is there one specific movie scene

that is on repeat in your head?

Sexy cardi, which I don t know what that s from.

[Tom] What is that?

And also when Cher slaps Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck.

Moonstruck. And says, Snap out of it.

You were just talking about that.

You love that. Yeah.

Okay. [card thudding]

If I disappeared for 10 minutes on set,

where would you first look for me? [chuckling]

Crafty. Crafty.

Snacks.

What kind of person are you

on the last night of your vacation?

Oh, I m in bed early and I m watching HGTV,

locked in, bathrobe, take, yep, that.

On the last night of your vacation?

I like to be rested for the morning.

I ve done all the fun things.

All you re doing is leaving.

You might as well go all out.

That s my answer, Tom.

Okay, fine, fair enough. [Emily chuckling]

Who am I to argue?

If your acting career had chapter titles,

which chapter are you in right now?

Eh, I m enjoying it.

I m just lapping it all up.

He s in the lapping it all up chapter.

I m in the lapping stage, yeah.

[light music] Round three, fashion.

[Emily] Fashion.

What s your most unforgettable corset moment?

Riding a horse with the double corset down Dover Castle.

If you had to save one piece of clothing

from a moth infestation, what would you choose?

These boots.

What s your beauty mantra?

Nothing looks better than good night of sleep.

[chuckling] What s the best fashion compliment

you ve ever received?

Mm, I don t know.

You look real English.

No.

You look good, kid

I don t know. You look good, kid

[Tom and Emily laughing]

What s your go-to airport look?

The worst outfit I own in my closet and Uggs.

Did an outfit ever give you a new personality?

Yes, actually.

The moment I started wearing boots with heels,

with a decent heel, suddenly, I ve just, like,

I was 10 times more confident.

Yeah, that s such, like, a look, with the earring.

[light music] Round four,

the last time you,

dot, dot, dot. Oh.

Got humbled instantly.

Ooh.

You humble me every time we hang out.

[chuckling] Tom, no.

[Tom] Yep.

It s an honor to do that. Yeah, thank you.

Had a paranormal encounter?

Ooh, a Christmas a few years ago,

I felt some crazy grandma presence.

[Tom] Oh. Yeah.

Your grandma or somebody else s grandma?

My grandma.

The lights, there was red.

[Tom] Oh. I ll get into it later.

[Tom] That s nice.

Edited your Wikipedia page? [chuckling]

Never.

Yeah, how do you even do that, is that a thing?

Doesn t somebody else do that?

I thought it was a job, but. [chuckling]

Had beef with an inanimate object?

The tray on the last airplane that I couldn t figure out

how to get outta the tray.

Went camping?

Last summer, I think, at some point.

Yeah, I did, I did.

I went this summer.

What an adventurous guy. In Canada.

In Canada.

It was beautiful.

Committed to a lie?

Oh, I probably lied about watching someone s movie

that I have not seen sometime this week.

It was yours. Was it one of mine?

All of of yours. It was one of mine, yeah.

Caused chaos [laughing] by accident?

[chuckling] Every day.

Every single day.

Every day. Right now.

Last time you felt really seen?

By our, what we did with Emily Henry,

and when you said the kindest things about me yesterday.

[Tom] Aw. They re always

way too nice to me, and that made me feel very seen.

[Tom] Thank you. I got you, boo.

Asked for a favor?

Um.

He s lying, he s so needy.

Yeah.

I m always asking people to look after my dog.

That s a good one, though. Yeah.

The dog needs love.

Last time you emotionally spiraled over a text?

Ooh, thankfully not in a while.

Thank God for that.

[Tom] That s good.

I don t know, six months.

Did something for the plot?

Did something just for the plot?

Just for the plot.

Every time we go out to dinner past a certain hour,

it s, like we re doing it

for the plot, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Last time you screamed internally?

When I sat down to do this interview

and held this card for the first time.

[light music] Round five, guess the look.

[Tom] Guess the look.

Oh, I didn t know

we were doing this. This is fun.

You better lock in.

Where s this from?

I have to guess it.

Right, yeah.

Okay. [Emily chuckling]

That is like, one of the first proper red carpets I did,

and it was the first ever premiere

of season one of Billy the Kid.

The answer is, ooh, Billy the Kid.

He s such a baby.

[Tom] I m a baby.

Look at your hair.

[Tom] A lot has happened since then.

You looked solidly 10.

And he s wearing a chain.

Very chic.

[sighing] Just finding myself, wasn t I?

I was finding myself.

This.

[Emily] Oh, that is a Tory Burch show.

My first ever fashion show that I was-

Why am I shaking? [laughing]

[laughing] He s so scared.

He s vibrating.

You make me so nervous. Cause the look is so good.

Yeah.

It was a really cool pantsuit,

and they let me keep the glasses, which was so nice of them.

[Tom] Nice, that s cool.

Yeah, this is gonna be much tougher.

This is a slight pastels going on.

That s AMI, it s head to toe AMI,

and it was a really nice big pink coat that I wore

where we introduced the trailer

to The Hunger Games in Times Square.

How do you?

That s amazing.

Cause I remember really liking it.

It was nice. Mind like a trap.

Is that the saying?

[Emily and Tom laughing]

No one has ever said that.

I don t think that s it.

Okay.

That s, I think, correct,

based on this lovely photo.

[Tom and Emily laughing]

These don t say whether they re correct or not.

They don t.

Guess the fricking look.

I think that is a ELLE Women in Hollywood party

that I went to in LA.

It was on a really cool rooftop.

You are so correct.

It literally says ELLE, Polo Ralph Lauren behind you,

so, yeah. Two for two.

We re really good at this. Well done.

We are doing well. Okay.

We re just narcissists.

We just, like, know exactly where we were when.

Amorphous gray sleeve with a half button.

That s a tricky one.

That was the Burberry show in London.

It was, like, big gray, like, windbreaker.

Look at that.

[Tom] Cool shoe. Oh.

Looks like you could go running.

It s multi-useful. You know why I remember that

is because it was the middle of summer,

and I m in, like, a leather jacket and a windbreaker,

and I was fricking sweating.

Anything for the fashion.

For the fashion.

This is a tricky one.

Guess the look.

Oh, that s like a boob part.

That s a boob cover. [laughing]

London press for My Lady Jane,

which was like my first press look for that show.

Am I right? I believe,

I believe you are right.

That s pretty good.

I mean, for it just being.

You look wonderful.

High-five. [Tom and Emily high-fiving]

We did good.

I feel like your early days

were better than my early days, a little bit.

[Tom And Emily] [light music] Round six.

This or that.

Panic laugh or panic freeze?

Panic laugh.

Loud sneeze or silent but violent?

[Tom and Emily laughing]

Loud sneeze.

Talk too loud or whisper too creepily?

Talk too loud.

I don t know how to whisper.

I like whisper too creepily.

You re really good at that, I ve heard it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Rewatch a show or endlessly scroll?

Mm, oh, rewatch a show. Yeah, me too.

[Tom] Don t waste time scrolling.

I love a rewatch.

Bite ice cream or drink yogurt?

[Emily laughing]

Wait.

[Tom laughing] Are those comparable?

[Tom] Yes.

Drink yogurt.

Love an Actimel.

Good for digestive health, you know, the gut biome?

Yeah, I gotta agree on that.

Wave back at someone who wasn t waving at you,

or hold the door for someone too far away?

[Tom and Emily chuckling]

Wave back at someone who s not waving back at you.

Just for the plot.

Too much sauce or no sauce?

[Tom] Too much sauce. Yeah.

I m sauce boss, you know?

Curly Wurly or Turkish delight?

Curly Wurly.

What s a Curly Wurly?

They re like Cadbury s chocolate.

I had them when I was a kid.

But Turkish delight. [groaning]

I don t like it.

Are those those things in

The Lion, The Witch,

and The Wardrobe? It s a dessert,

it s a type of-

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Narnia.

Yeah, but it s a lot.

Yeah. They re a lot.

Never-ending hiccups or coughs?

I hate a hiccup.

Hiccups are super painful for me.

I once watched a documentary

about a guy who had a benign brain tumor

that was pressing on a part of his brain,

like a nerve, that made him have endless hiccups,

and it looked like torture.

And because of that, I never want to have hiccups again.

Every time I get hiccups- You watched

a hiccup documentary?

Every time I get hiccups,

I wonder if something s going on,

you know? Everyone tune in.

Damn.

Yeah, I m right though, it s a cough.

Cough. Beach vacation

or city break?

Beach vacation every time.

Mm, me too, every time.

Only speak in riddles or sound effects?

[Emily and Tom laughing]

I think I would be sound effects.

Yes or no? [laughing]

I m a yes man.

[Tom] You re a yes girl.

Yeah. I think.

[Tom] I m a yes gal. 100%.

[light music]

[Tom and Emily high-fiving]

That was a good high five.

[Tom] That kinda hurt. Solid.

Thank you so much for watching.

[Tom and Emily laughing]

This has been Off the Cuff.

[light music continues]