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On Larry King Now,
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Emmy nominated actor Jared Harris.
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The Russian government has taken exception to the show,
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that it's disparaging towards the soviet state,
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which is a weird thing, because they're supposed to be
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two completely different entities.
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He would talk about, with me,
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he would talk about plays that he'd seen,
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performances that he'd seen.
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He'd act them out, and it was, I think he was excited
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because we had something in common,
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a new thing in common that we could share and talk about.
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You're not allowed to smoke real cigarettes on the set.
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And the thing about the herbal cigarettes
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as opposed to the real cigarettes
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is herbal cigarettes are really hard to keep lit.
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So that's why you see, when you see people smoking on screen
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and they're going (inhales) like that.
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Plus!
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It had various categories that you were being evaluated,
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and one of them was stage presence.
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I can remember it says
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"Stage presence - lost it on his way up to the stage."
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That's all next on Larry King Now.
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Welcome to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green, filling in for Larry.
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My guest today is Emmy nominated actor Jared Harris.
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Jared is known for his acting on both
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the big and small screen.
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He was nominated for an Emmy for his role
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as Lane Price in Madmen,
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and played George VI in Netflix's "The Crown."
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Jared is currently starring in the five-part
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HBO miniseries, Chernobyl,
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about the 1986 nuclear disaster,
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one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history.
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It's airing now on HBO.
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First of all, thank you for coming.
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Thank you for inviting me.
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Wow, what a show, this show "Chernobyl"
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is just incredibly interesting, scary, and amazing.
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How do you prepare for something like that?
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I mean, read the script is always a good place to start.
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Yeah.
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And then just, you know, start to dig in
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and do research, read, there's quite a few books
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that have been written about it,
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so you dig in and read all that,
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try and find out, he was a real character,
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so there's the biographical information available
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on the internet.
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Sometimes if you're playing a real character,
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there's footage of the person, audio,
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and stuff like that,
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so you can dig into all of that as well.
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You play a Russian nuclear physicist.
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Who is basically in the midst of this horrible
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Chernobyl disaster,
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and the show itself is actually,
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there's an amazing amount of tension,
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even though we know--
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What happens.
How it ends.
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It's just an amazing ride, watching the show.
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When you prepare for that role,
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do you sort of have to become a little bit
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of a nuclear physicist yourself?
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(laughs)
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Can you tell me, like--
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I can explain how--
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What a nuclear meltdown is.
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I can explain what happened in that circumstance,
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and basically explain the basics around how
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a nuclear reactor works,
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but that's only because Craig, the writer,
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Craig Mazin, the writer, he'd figured it out,
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and he put it down in words that an actor could understand.
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If an actor can understand it,
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then pretty much everyone else can.
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So then you have to figure out
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what it is that you're saying and make sure
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you understand the concepts that you're dealing with,
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but yes, I took a little quick crash course
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in nuclear physics, but I wouldn't say I'm an expert.
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Well, what I find so interesting about the show
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is it's not just how it's documenting this disaster,
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but just the way the people, the human behavior,
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you know, of the scientists, of the government officials.
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Everyone's kinda trying to, are they trying to cover?
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Their own behinds, or what's--
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what is happening there with the human nature
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with those people?
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Well, this is an interesting thing,
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because there's been studies done on this,
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and there's a certain point at which the institutions,
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after they've been around for a certain amount of time,
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they no longer operate along the idea
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of whatever that institution is supposed to
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either be creating or doing,
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but it becomes interested in just preserving itself,
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so there was a
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certain amount of expectations
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that they had with regards to the people
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who were operating the reactor,
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and being in the nuclear field
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and operating at a nuclear reactor was a prized job,
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and if you failed, you would be fired
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and you would go to a different job
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that wasn't as prized.
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So there was a certain amount of wanting to do a good job.
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But I think there was also,
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they were living,
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the regime that they were in had a certain amount
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of denial about itself, and then that certain things
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could never happen within the Soviet Union,
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so one of the things, for example, they said was,
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an accident like this could never happen.
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It's one of the things that you also hear
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about the Soviet Union, that there was no crime,
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or anything like that.
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So there wasn't a lot of accountability within the state.
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I don't think I realized how big of an impact
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it could have had if the meltdown,
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you know, they've said if the radiation had melted down,
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gotten into the river system, the water system,
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it would have, could have taken out all of Europe?
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Certainly eastern Europe would have gone down.
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I mean, large parts of it are still contaminated,
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and Belarus, I think there's something like
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a fifth of their country is still severely contaminated
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from the accident.
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Okay, well we'll talk more when we come back,
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and we'll also get to know Jared a little better.
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How he got his start in acting,
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plus what it's like to come from a legendary acting family.
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That's all next on Larry King Now.
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green, filling in for Larry.
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My guest today is actor Jared Harris.
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And "Chernobyl" is an incredible hit right now,
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the show's a huge hit.
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Is that, that must be exciting--
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When people, watching the show.
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Certainly better than the alternative.
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Yeah, yeah.
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What do the Russians think about the show?
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started to happen, is that,
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well, the Russians, actually "Moscow Times"
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were extremely complimentary towards it.
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A lot of people in the Ukrainian media,
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which is where it happened,
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are very, very, complimentary towards it.
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But the Russian government has taken exception
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to the show, that it's disparaging towards
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the soviet state, which is a weird thing,
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because they're supposed to be
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two completely different entities.
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And you know, I think there's some story about them
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gonna produce their own version
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where they're gonna blame the CIA,
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which is again kind of a hilarious version.
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A Russian produced version of Chernobyl.
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Yeah, well they blame the CIA blowing up,
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which I don't know how that makes them look better,
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because it still blows up, I mean,
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yeah, it's a weird thing.
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how they've taken offense to it,
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because, well, it would be like somebody in the
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south African government now taking offense
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to comments made about the apartheid government.
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The Russian government right now is a democracy,
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and they've got nothing to do with the soviet state.
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There's a phenomenon now of people going to Chernobyl.
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I know, I saw that.
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With their Instagram.
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To take pictures for their Instagram.
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It's probably ill-advised, is it,
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I mean, is there still radiation there, right?
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I suppose distasteful, really, isn't it?
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Insensitive?
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dangerously radioactive, particularly, as I understand it,
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metal would absorb radiation and hold it longer,
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so if you see people sitting in swings
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and sort of casually leaning against an abandoned bus,
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probably not the best place to go and take a picture, yeah.
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Yeah, I think I'll leave that off the next vacation.
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We were asked if we wanted to go,
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and my wife said absolutely not.
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So there is radiation there, a lot of radiation there still.
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But people--
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There's actually an episode of Anthony Bourdain's
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"Parts Unknown" where they go and take a trip.
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Got some good restaurants there, do they, in Chernobyl?
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Well, in Kiev, they do.
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Yeah, but he takes off and he wants to go
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and they take a trip in there, which is a guided thing,
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and they wander off the path
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and they sit there and they go
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"Oh, look," they're actually in the amusement park area,
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and they go "Oh, we've got these decimeters,
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"let's see if they work."
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And they switch them on and they go absolutely crazy,
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and you see the filming cuts, and then it picks up.
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Let's go back to Kiev and get a sandwich.
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Yeah, yeah. (laughs)
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So you grew up, your father was the legendary actor,
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Richard Harris, and you were around Hollywood,
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and movies, your whole life.
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Was that fun as a kid?
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Did you know you wanted to be an actor?
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No, I didn't.
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I was very shy.
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We weren't around Hollywood, I have to say.
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He kept the two things pretty separate.
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I can only remember being on two film sets of his.
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Where he made a movie called "Orca" in Malta.
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But he didn't mix it up,
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he kept those two worlds separate from us.
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I think mostly because he didn't want us to
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get influenced by it and have it turn our heads
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in some way, and have a chance to make a rational,
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sensible decision about what kind of career
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you would follow.
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Unfortunately, it didn't work for any of us.
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Let you decide to become an actor on your own.
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Yeah, basically.
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And at that point, was he supportive and helped you?
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He initially wasn't, I have to say.
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I started to get interested in acting
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when I went to Duke University,
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and my mother came to see me in a few plays,
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and she said "You should really go down and see him,
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"he's good," and he would say "Yeah, you would say that,
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"you're his mother."
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And she said "No, no, he's good,"
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and he says "Yeah, no."
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And I did a play there after I graduated,
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I stayed over one summer, and he came down to see me.
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And I'd also made a movie,
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and he was gonna come down and see this film that I made
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while I was a college student, and then look at the play,
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and he was gonna tell me, "Be a director."
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And he saw me in the play, I can remember really clearly,
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I can hear him laughing, the first laugh I got out of him
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on stage within the first couple of minutes
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of being on the stage, and it was just such a thrill.
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And his face afterwards, when I saw him after the play,
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and he was really excited.
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And he said "Wow, you've got it, you've got it!"
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And I think he was excited because
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we had something in common, you know,
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a new thing in common that we could share and talk about.
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And from that point onwards, he would talk about,
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with me he would talk about plays that he'd seen,
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performances that he'd seen.
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He'd act them out, I mean he re-enacted Olivier's
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"Titus Andronicus," Olivier's death scene in "Coriolanus,"
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Patrick McEwen and Brand,
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and all these great performances,
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and he'd talk his way through them
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and what their interpretation had been.
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Yeah, that must have been encouraging.
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That was like a school, it was like a little,
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you know, I learned a lot.
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I learned a lot listening to him tell stories.
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I listened to him change,
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the way he would change the stories depending on
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who he was talking to.
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I mean, it's the same as, you know,
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like you're telling a story to somebody,
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and you hear them sort of being tickled
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by a part of the story,
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and you slightly embellish that part of it, you know?
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Yeah.
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So I learned a lot from him, listening to him,
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watching him do that.
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Do you have a favorite role that you've played?
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Is that possible to answer that question?
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I mean, you've been in such amazing shows,
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playing King George in "The Crown" and "Madmen."
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Is there a favorite role, or is that?
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I don't have a favorite role.
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I mean, I always say, when someone says
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what's your favorite role,
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I say "The next one."
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Yeah. (laughs)
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But if there was a role that I would do again,
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I would love to do, I'd like to play Ulysses S. Grant again,
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and I would like to do a proper examination
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and investigation of that story and that character.
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Yeah, what was he,
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the 11th president of the United States?
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Uh.
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I just became American--
Isn't that on the test?
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Three months ago.
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Yeah, well you should remember this, surely.
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I had to learn that for the test.
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He's the 11th?
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Is he?
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I'm not sure.
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He's right before Rutherford B. Hayes, I know that.
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Okay, next!
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We put Jared Harris in the hot seat for a round of
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If You Only Knew.
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We'll find out his secret talent, a guilty pleasure,
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and what keeps him up at night.
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Stay right there.
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(bouncy music)
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green, filling in for Larry.
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My guest today is actor Jared Harris.
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Thank you for doing this.
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Thank you.
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I'm excited to watch the rest of "Chernobyl,"
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by the way.
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I've been really enjoying it.
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I'm halfway through.
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Don't tell me how it ends.
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I won't.
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It's a secret.
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Yes.
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We are gonna play a game now, though.
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Okay.
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We play a game here on the show.
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The game is called If You Only Knew.
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Okay.
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Guilty Pleasure.
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Oh, Survivor.
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A director you'd love to work with.
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Paul Thomas Anderson.
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You've worked with him before, right?
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No.
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No, you have not?
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Okay.
No.
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Okay, strangest fan encounter.
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I got bunny eared by a fan on the photograph once.
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That was pretty funny.
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Bunny eared?
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Oh, like.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You like that, when people come up and bunny ear ya?
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Is there a lot of people--
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You've gotta take it all with good grace,
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haven't you?
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You've gotta be, you've gotta play along, haven't you?
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Yeah.
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Those odd, unpleasant encounters are when people
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elbow who you're with, my wife--
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I want a selfie, get outta here.
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Out of the way, yeah, suddenly,
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and they just elbow your wife out the way.
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Yeah.
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So those are uncomfortable encounters.
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People get excited.
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A technology you can't wrap your head around.
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Nuclear physics. (laughs)
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Yeah, a technology I can't--
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I mean, I'm baffled by most technology, I have to say.
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I'm a bit of a Luddite.
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Are you big on the phone?
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Do you use your Twitter, and?
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I followed you on Twitter last night.
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Cool!
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I was firmly a Nokia person,
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and then my wife persuaded me to get an iPhone,
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and then she sort of brought me into the 21st century,
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she's got me on Twitter.
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Yeah, but I find it very confusing.
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Also it takes up a lot of time,
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and I think between your phone and the computer
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and this endless choices on the television now,
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real life tends to get short shrift,
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so I'm trying to make sure I still stay living in the world.
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Leave the phone at home.
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Who would you trade places with for a day?
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I've always been fascinated by David Attenborough.
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The naturalist, well, I'd trade places with him,
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but I'd certainly like to spend a day in his company,
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where you went on one of these journeys or adventures.
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He's the sort of person, probably, you could just sort of
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take a walk through a park in a city,
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and he would point out things to you
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that you'd never realized were there.
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Every plant, every--
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Well, I just think, he'd explain the interaction,
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how the natural world interaction with each other,
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and it's all connected, and how we're involved in it.
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If you were trapped on a deserted island,
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what three things would you bring with you?
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You'd have to bring something to read.
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I'd probably bring
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the collected works of William Shakespeare.
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Yeah?
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Yeah, because they're always offering up
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something new to you.
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As an actor, is that just the best writing?
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Shakespeare?
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I mean, I know this is an obvious question,
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but what is it about Shakespeare that you would,
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if you're on an island, you just wanna read that
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over and over again?
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What it is about?
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He just seems to have such a good insight
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into not just human nature,
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and a poetic expression of it,
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but he, there's a lot of things that he just seems to have
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either discovered or coined.
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There's something beautiful about the way
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that he expresses the human condition, yeah.
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Two more things that you'd bring on the island.
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Yeah, okay.
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Do I have electricity on the island?
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Sure.
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I do.
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You have to bring that, so that's one of the things.
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Oh really?
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Yeah, so you bring electricity, Shakespeare,
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and then one other thing.
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Oh, no, I won't bring electricity then.
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You're not gonna bring electricity.
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No, I'll bring a telescope.
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Okay.
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I could look at something at night-time--
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That'd be fun.
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Because obviously you're not gonna be able to
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read your Shakespeare at night,
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and a really powerful telescope so I could
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see a ship coming.
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Absolutely.
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Over here!
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I've got one more thing.
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That's right, you do.
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One more thing.
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Well I, as you can tell, I will burn horribly.
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Sunscreen.
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Otherwise I would be dead very quickly.
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That's a good answer, sunscreen.
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Of course!
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Something that's become obsolete that you miss.
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I love those old rotary phones.
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Ah, I have one.
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Yeah?
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I have one in my kitchen.
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Yeah.
Land line.
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Yeah.
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And it's amazing.
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Some people will come over to my house
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and they won't know how to work it.
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And these are people who are in their 30s, you know?
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Respect.
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Should know.
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They've never seen that before.
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And you can also, it can be plugged in,
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they don't need any power,
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because the ones that are connected into
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the telephone socket, they get the power off the socket.
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I've got a land line.
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Yeah, a land line, exactly.
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You should get one.
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I tried to get one in New York.
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It's impossible.
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We got an apartment in New York,
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and I wanted a land line specifically for me.
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Oh, you couldn't even get the land line plug, or--
484
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Yeah, because it has to go through the internet, yeah.
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I like my land line and I like my rotary dial.
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Okay, what should we be paying more attention to today?
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What's happening with the climate
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and what our impact upon the environment,
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because I don't think that our generation has covered,
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we haven't covered ourself in glory very much
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with the terms of our husbandry of the resources
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and the expectation of what we're passing on
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to the next generation.
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I mean, I think it's a very, very, serious issue,
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and it's one of the things I think that
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the reason why "Chernobyl" has hit a nerve
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within the public is they can,
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it's not preachy, the show isn't preachy,
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it's about the story and about the event,
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but they don't really have to work too hard
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to make an analogy to what's going on right now.
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Yeah.
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A lot of parallels there.
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Our guest is the talented Jared Harris.
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We'll be answering some of your social media questions
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after the break.
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Stay right there.
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(bouncy music)
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Welcome back to Larry King Now.
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I'm Tom Green, filling in for Larry,
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and my guest today is actor Jared Harris.
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Thanks for doing this.
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Not at all.
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This is kind of exciting for me to be here doing this,
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to meet you and we're here in Larry King's studio.
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Yeah.
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It's pretty cool.
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It is pretty cool!
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Larry tweeted out, and I tweeted out to social media
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for some question for ya.
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So these come from the Twitter.
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Sorry, do you handle your own Twitter account?
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I do, yeah.
Yeah?
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I tweet.
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You tweet?
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And Instagram and Facebook.
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Are you on the Instagram?
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The Gram?
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The thing about that, I am but I don't put
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much stuff up there.
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Mostly because it alerts people where you aren't,
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like at home. (laughs)
533
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Yes, absolutely.
534
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So I don't really put, months later I'll put stuff up then
535
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but not in real time.
536
00:20:02.580 --> 00:20:03.413
Ah, very good.
537
00:20:03.413 --> 00:20:04.436
Okay, well, we have a question here from
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Kyle Kelley on Facebook.
539
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His question is "What part about being an actor drives you?"
540
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Fear.
541
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(both laugh)
542
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I love the challenge of it,
543
00:20:16.780 --> 00:20:19.240
not knowing whether you, you feel like--
544
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I mean, whether you feel like you can pull something off.
545
00:20:21.380 --> 00:20:22.897
Say, if I read something, and I go,
546
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"Oh, I've done that before,"
547
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then I'm not really interested in it.
548
00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:27.875
If I read something and I go "Oh wow,
549
00:20:27.875 --> 00:20:29.637
"first of all this is really well written,
550
00:20:29.637 --> 00:20:32.840
"but how would I pull that off?"
551
00:20:32.840 --> 00:20:34.890
Then I'm interested, and it's mostly to do
552
00:20:34.890 --> 00:20:36.870
with that adrenaline and the fear and the challenge
553
00:20:36.870 --> 00:20:39.420
to yourself is the main, figuring out how you do it.
554
00:20:39.420 --> 00:20:40.470
Interesting, yeah.
555
00:20:40.470 --> 00:20:43.480
So that kind of is a motivator when you see something
556
00:20:43.480 --> 00:20:44.320
that makes you uncomfortable,
557
00:20:44.320 --> 00:20:45.673
you want to go towards it.
558
00:20:45.673 --> 00:20:47.310
I think if it frightens you,
559
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probably that's a plus.
560
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Good.
561
00:20:50.013 --> 00:20:52.514
I feel so much better about being terrified right now.
562
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(both laugh)
563
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Okay, John Pannell on Facebook.
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What can you tell us about your role in the "Morbius" movie,
565
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and are there other comic book movie roles
566
00:21:03.080 --> 00:21:04.220 line:15%
you'd be interested in?
567
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I can't say too much about the Morbius thing,
568
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because Marvel will have a drone that flies around
569
00:21:09.420 --> 00:21:10.713
and shoots you dead if you say anything.
570
00:21:10.713 --> 00:21:11.684
Yes, okay.
571
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You're gonna have to wait,
572
00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:13.987
you're gonna have to wait for your answer on that, John.
573
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But I can just say,
574
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Morbius is the Spiderman super villain universe.
575
00:21:21.910 --> 00:21:25.610
What other superhero character would I like to do?
576
00:21:25.610 --> 00:21:27.100
I've always loved Swamp Thing,
577
00:21:27.100 --> 00:21:29.110
but now they just canceled the show.
578
00:21:29.110 --> 00:21:32.083
I always thought it's a fantastic idea for a show.
579
00:21:33.810 --> 00:21:37.440
There's a sort of half human, half cyborg character
580
00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:40.203
called Deathlok that I always really liked.
581
00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:43.733
Yeah.
582
00:21:43.733 --> 00:21:44.566
That's cool.
583
00:21:44.566 --> 00:21:47.380
Ulysses S. Grant and the cyborg Deathlok.
584
00:21:47.380 --> 00:21:48.410
Yeah, Rorschach.
585
00:21:48.410 --> 00:21:51.100
I loved Rorschach in the Watchmen series, as well.
586
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Very cool.
587
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Okay, from @niocwh on Twitter, is the name.
588
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What's the toughest, most brutal criticism
589
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you've ever received as an actor,
590
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and how did you process that, and how do you cope
591
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with criticism in this industry?
592
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Oh dear.
593
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That's really funny.
594
00:22:12.250 --> 00:22:14.610
I mean, I remember the first,
595
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I auditioned for a summer repertory circuit
596
00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:26.643
here in the states that you an audition for.
597
00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:31.750
And I was at college, I was at Duke University,
598
00:22:31.750 --> 00:22:35.600
and I auditioned to be considered part of this roster.
599
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And they give you their little notes
600
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with their crits.
601
00:22:39.060 --> 00:22:40.570
And one of the things it had was,
602
00:22:40.570 --> 00:22:43.530
it had various categories that you were being evaluated,
603
00:22:43.530 --> 00:22:45.530
but one of them was stage presence.
604
00:22:45.530 --> 00:22:46.767
I can remember, it says
605
00:22:46.767 --> 00:22:50.089
"Stage presence - lost it on his way up to the stage."
606
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(laughs)
607
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What do they know, huh?
608
00:22:53.260 --> 00:22:54.310
Clearly they--
I kept it.
609
00:22:54.310 --> 00:22:56.450
All those things that are terrible that they say,
610
00:22:56.450 --> 00:23:00.470
I keep them all, because they motivate you.
611
00:23:00.470 --> 00:23:01.360
Yeah.
612
00:23:01.360 --> 00:23:02.490
You get motivated by--
613
00:23:02.490 --> 00:23:05.450
You'll always remember your worst criticism, always.
614
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The good reviews and stuff like that,
615
00:23:07.180 --> 00:23:08.013
you never remember.
616
00:23:08.013 --> 00:23:10.277
The worst criticism, you always remember.
617
00:23:10.277 --> 00:23:12.350
The first proper play that I did
618
00:23:12.350 --> 00:23:13.730
was at Duke University,
619
00:23:13.730 --> 00:23:15.713
and it was an Agatha Christie play,
620
00:23:17.076 --> 00:23:20.080
and I was cast in this very small part,
621
00:23:20.080 --> 00:23:25.080
and the school newspaper printed a review of it,
622
00:23:25.250 --> 00:23:27.910
and it did its usual thing,
623
00:23:27.910 --> 00:23:29.070
and then it got into the accents,
624
00:23:29.070 --> 00:23:31.947
and it said "By and large, the accents are
625
00:23:31.947 --> 00:23:34.467
"completely believable and very well done,
626
00:23:34.467 --> 00:23:36.727
"except for Jared Harris' accent,
627
00:23:36.727 --> 00:23:39.495
"which strains the bounds of credulity."
628
00:23:39.495 --> 00:23:40.890
They thought you had a fake British accent?
629
00:23:40.890 --> 00:23:41.850
They thought, yeah, I was doing,
630
00:23:41.850 --> 00:23:44.020
my accent didn't sound real or credible.
631
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It's too much.(laughs)
632
00:23:46.410 --> 00:23:47.530
You always look at the negative.
633
00:23:47.530 --> 00:23:48.910
That's the thing about social media, too,
634
00:23:48.910 --> 00:23:50.500
you can get 100 tweets in one day,
635
00:23:50.500 --> 00:23:52.100
but one person says something bad,
636
00:23:52.100 --> 00:23:53.560
and you just can't stop thinking about it.
637
00:23:53.560 --> 00:23:56.520
Okay, what is your favorite character
638
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that you've ever had to play,
639
00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:59.410
that you've ever gotten to play?
640
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I don't know.
641
00:24:00.243 --> 00:24:01.680
And what's in those fake cigarettes
642
00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:03.330
that you have to keep smoking in many shows.
643
00:24:03.330 --> 00:24:04.900
Do you smoke fake cigarettes?
644
00:24:04.900 --> 00:24:07.903
Yeah, you're not allowed to smoke real cigarettes on set.
645
00:24:08.780 --> 00:24:11.402
So they give you, it's herbal cigarettes.
646
00:24:11.402 --> 00:24:12.235
Oh, okay.
647
00:24:12.235 --> 00:24:14.110
And the thing about the herbal cigarettes,
648
00:24:14.110 --> 00:24:15.590
as opposed to the real cigarettes,
649
00:24:15.590 --> 00:24:19.560
is herbal cigarettes are really hard to keep lit.
650
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Yeah.
651
00:24:20.393 --> 00:24:22.079
So that's why you see, when you see people smoking
652
00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:24.153
on screen, they're going (inhales) like that,
653
00:24:24.153 --> 00:24:26.950
because if you stop puffing on that cigarettes
654
00:24:26.950 --> 00:24:29.230
for 10 or 15 seconds, it will go out.
655
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Yeah.
656
00:24:30.063 --> 00:24:32.095
So everyone looks like they're really addicted,
657
00:24:32.095 --> 00:24:33.960
they're sucking down on these things.
658
00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:35.440
They're just trying to keep the damn thing lit
659
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throughout the take.
660
00:24:36.350 --> 00:24:37.183
Herbal cigarettes.
661
00:24:37.183 --> 00:24:38.700
That sounds like that could be pretty good,
662
00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:39.533
a herbal cigarette.
663
00:24:39.533 --> 00:24:42.440
I think they legalized that in California recently.
664
00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:43.770
If only.
665
00:24:43.770 --> 00:24:46.450
It's hard to remember your lines the longer the day goes.
666
00:24:46.450 --> 00:24:47.522
Yes, yes.
667
00:24:47.522 --> 00:24:48.439
(both laugh)
668
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Don't smoke that kind of herbal cigarette.
669
00:24:51.287 --> 00:24:54.740 line:15%
@Indigo1966 on Twitter.
670
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Love your work on "Chernobyl."
671
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Number one on IMDb, congrats.
672
00:24:58.667 --> 00:24:59.770 line:15%
Yeah!
673
00:24:59.770 --> 00:25:02.130 line:15%
Do you prefer to play real life people
674
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or fictional characters?
675
00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:05.743 line:15%
I've no preference.
676
00:25:06.690 --> 00:25:08.943
They both have different challenges.
677
00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:14.450
The real life characters answer a whole lot of questions
678
00:25:14.450 --> 00:25:15.990
that you ask yourself when you're gonna
679
00:25:15.990 --> 00:25:16.870
play a character.
680
00:25:16.870 --> 00:25:17.970
They're all provided for you.
681
00:25:17.970 --> 00:25:19.750
What do they look like, what do they sound like,
682
00:25:19.750 --> 00:25:22.100
how do they move, how do they present themselves?
683
00:25:22.100 --> 00:25:24.090
So you can answer all those sorts of questions
684
00:25:24.090 --> 00:25:26.020
very quickly, you know?
685
00:25:26.020 --> 00:25:27.840
But then, at the same time, you still,
686
00:25:27.840 --> 00:25:29.736
it is still an imaginative process,
687
00:25:29.736 --> 00:25:33.650
and it's still a fictional version of a true story,
688
00:25:33.650 --> 00:25:35.920
you know, they're not docudramas,
689
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:38.660
so you still have to imaginatively put yourself
690
00:25:38.660 --> 00:25:40.180
into the world of these people,
691
00:25:40.180 --> 00:25:42.360
and it's always an imaginative process
692
00:25:42.360 --> 00:25:43.460
at the end of the day.
693
00:25:44.370 --> 00:25:45.203
Thank you for coming today.
694
00:25:45.203 --> 00:25:46.036
Thank you.
695
00:25:46.036 --> 00:25:48.700
Congratulations on the show, and it's great to meet you
696
00:25:48.700 --> 00:25:49.960
and talk to you.
697
00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:51.700
Thank you, Jared Harris, for joining me today.
698
00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:53.510
Make sure you see him in "Chernobyl."
699
00:25:53.510 --> 00:25:55.220
It's currently airing on HBO
700
00:25:55.220 --> 00:25:57.380
and streaming on HBO apps.
701
00:25:57.380 --> 00:26:00.650
And thanks to Larry for having me fill in for him today.
702
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We'll see you next time.
703
00:26:02.230 --> 00:26:03.168
Bye.
704
00:26:03.168 --> 00:26:05.751
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