- Welcome back, y'all.
Maren Morris and Karina Argow are here!
(crowd cheering)
And our next guest is a very talented actor
who you've seen in shows
like "Mr. And Mrs. Smith" and "Narcos",
where he played the notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar.
You can see him now in "Civil War".
The movie is in theaters and IMAX nationwide.
Please go to the movies and see it.
It's that kind of film.
Please welcome Wagner Moura.
(crowd cheering) (cheerful jazz music)
- Thank you, thank you.
- Have a seat.
- Wow.
- Have y'all ever met?
- No.
- No, same.
- Very nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
- First time, now you go way back.
- Yes. (Karina laughs)
- It's so nice to have you on here.
You're so talented.
- I'm so happy to be here.
You're so amazing.
I'm such a fan.
- Oh, you are very nice, thank you.
(crowd cheering)
Ditto.
So you're from Brazil?
- Yeah.
- So what kind of music did you listen to growing up?
- Well, samba, a lot of samba.
I love samba. - [Kelly] It's sexy, yeah.
- I think it's the, it's my music.
- That's a sexy vibe, yeah.
So I heard that the first time you heard your song,
"The Middle" was in Brazil.
- I was in Sao Paulo, yeah, I was in a taxi.
- Did you perform there?
- I did, I was on tour and I ate,
I think the best meal I've ever had
at this place called D.O.M.
- [Wagner] Oh yeah, I know, I know him.
- [Maren and Wagner] Alex Atala.
- Yeah, that was-
- He's a good friend of mine, yeah.
- He is?
Okay well he- (audience laughing)
- We'd like reservations at six, thank you.
- Yes! (audience laughing)
- Kelly, have you seen this man?
- No.
- [Karina] He's very handsome.
- [Maren] "Chef's Table".
- Okay, okay.
- He's in an episode of "Chef's Table".
- No, I have, yes I have, yes I have.
- Alex Atala, yeah.
It was the best meal I've ever had but yeah,
the first time I ever heard-
- [Kelly] Any man that can cook.
- "The Middle" was in a cab in Sao Paulo,
so, me and Brazil, you know?
- Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Brazilian fans are so fun.
- [Wagner] Yeah.
- I didn't need to sing a lyric.
- They're loud.
- Yeah, they sang the whole day.
I cried because I was like, it was like an unknown song
that they were singing all the lyrics to,
and I was just like, I was overwhelmed.
- Wow.
- [Kelly] They're very passionate, I love them.
- Yeah, they're very passionate.
- Yeah, yeah.
Well, let's talk about "Civil War".
We recently had Kirsten here
and we were talking about the film.
It's, I think very important more than ever now,
like the message of it,
but why, what made you wanna do this project?
- Well, I wanted to work with Alex Garland,
the guy who had direct "Ex Machina", "Annihilation".
He's a brilliant director.
I had met him before when he was casting
another project called "Devs".
Didn't work out,
and then he called me again for "Civil War".
I read the script and I thought
that was first of all, great writing,
but that was the most timely thing
I had ever read in my life.
"Civil War" is about the aftermath
of a polarized situation
which we all know-
- [Kelly] Very well right now, yeah.
- Very well.
So, yeah, so that was the thing that I,
that I, caught me at my attention,
especially because the film
doesn't have a ideological agenda, you know?
- Yeah.
- The film is seen through the point of view
of journalists.
- Well, real journalists that have no,
they're not trying to gauge you either way.
I feel like that's-
- [Wagner] Yes.
- Becoming a lost art as well.
And you went to school to be a journalist.
- Yes, I am a journalist.
I graduated as a journalist.
- That's amazing. (audience clapping)
Do you get frustrated like right now
because it has to be frustrating to like-
- Kelly, I think it's so, I mean, I'm so happy
that this film is also about journalism
because I think that journalism
is such an important pillar for democracy,
and it's been so discredited,
and I think that especially the ones
that we play in the film,
that the war correspondents, especially these guys,
you know, that risked their lives to bring us-
- [Kelly] The truth. - Stories and images.
They are gonna desensitize our souls to the horror of war.
- But let you know it's actually happening.
- That's actually happening everywhere.
So I'm very proud of that.
I have a big admiration for journalists.
- Yeah.
- One thing that scares me a lot,
especially with the development of technology
and you know, you can pretend,
you can imitate the voices and the faces of people.
- [Kelly] Oh, the AI that's going on?
- The AI thing.
- I do not eat random gummies that make me lose weight.
Like, I don't know why, stop saying this.
I keep getting calls from people about gummies
that I eat for loss of weight.
I'm like, what?
- [Wagner] What are you talking about?
- Anyway, lies! - Yeah, nothing to do,
that the truth as we know it is about to end,
and that's very scary.
- Yeah, I know. - Very scary.
- It's a very scary thing, especially with a kid.
Do y'all feel the same way?
You feel like it just like all the information,
you don't know what to, like-
- I was a teacher.
I taught research and writing for 10 years,
and I struggled so much with like helping teenagers
to understand, like, how do you figure out what's real?
What's not real?
- When adults can't even do it, you know-
- I know. - Adults can't even do it.
Sometimes my kid comes up with a,
"Oh, did you know this?"
I'm like, "Where did you read this?
What's the source?
Where is the..."
and it's scary. - Remember that in school
and you had to do papers,
you need to show your, like, where you got-
- Citations. - Yeah citations.
- Yeah, there's none of that going on anyway.
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