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-[ Chuckles ] -Okay.
Can you just make yourself visible, already?
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-What? Why didn't he do that sooner?
-I don't know.
-Welcome back to "Late Night." We're here with David Harbour.
[ Cheers and applause ]
That was a clip from "We Have a Ghost."
Now, I think it's very clear from that clip you play a ghost.
Usually, when we show a clip
from one of the stars of a film who's here,
we make sure that clip has lines from them,
but you don't have a single line in this movie.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
I have some -- I improvised some moans.
-Yeah? Oh, they let you do a few moans?
-[ Moans ] -Oh, very good.
-Thank you. -Very well cast.
-Yeah, no lie. They sent me the script.
And it was, you know, "You are one of the leads of this movie,
walking around, doing things, being a ghost,
and you have no lines." -Yeah.
[ Laughter ]
-And I was like, "Yes! -I mean, so, so nice, right?
-Easy gig. -Yeah.
-And it's a great cast. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anthony Mackie. -Who's wonderful.
-He's great. I love him. Also this younger actor,
Jahi Winston, who I think is really special.
Like, really soulful kid. I really liked him.
-That's really cool
to work with people like that you never met before.
You also worked with Jennifer Coolidge.
-Yes, Jennifer Coolidge, yes. [ Cheers and applause ]
And she is as amazing as you think she would be.
-Yeah. In person, she's everything you want her to be.
-Yeah. -It's really great.
-It's just what you see on a talk show
or at an awards show. It just is that.
And it's not that way with some of us.
[ Laughter ]
But, the -- yeah. She was incredible.
She's so funny. There's one scene --
I don't think I'm spoiling the film.
It's not like Marvel here. But there is a scene in the film
where I frighten her.
And she runs screaming and jumps out a window.
And you think, like, in the script,
it just says, like, "Runs screaming out the window."
I swear, there were like -- we did about 15 takes.
And every take, she was like, "Let's try it again."
[ Laughter ] "Maybe I could go like this.
'Ooh, ooh, ooh!'"
It's like I've never seen any -- every animal, every sound was --
it was a lesson. -Yeah.
-It was an acting class. -If there's any actor
who thought through 15 ways to jump out a window,
I'm happy it's her. [ Laughter ]
-She also had this amazing -- We have this amazing moment
where there's a CGI thing that shoots out of my face,
and it's a hand and it strangles her.
And you know, so I did it with my hand.
I just, like -- and she was, like, really pissed.
We stopped the take. And she was like,
"David, you got to really strangle me.
You got to strangle me!" [ Laughter ]
I was like, "Jen, you're -- You know, what do you --
I'm not gonna murder America's sweetheart."
[ Laughter ]
She's like, "Come on! Come on!" [ Laughter ]
-Well, I'm glad you didn't murder her.
I'm glad you trusted your own instincts.
-Yeah. -One last thing
I want to ask you. No details, no spoilers.
But I know you're about to embark on the final --
you're filming your last of "Stranger Things".
-Yeah. -What an incredible journey
it must be to watch not just this show take off
but also to watch all those kids grow up.
-Yeah, yeah. It'll be really special.
We go back in, I think, May or June.
And we shoot the final season.
And you know, it's been, at this point, eight years.
It'll be 10 years of my life by the time that wraps.
And so -- And you know, it did everything for me, that show.
It created a whole new career for me.
-And we've all been the beneficiaries of it.
It's been so cool how many people in that show
we didn't know before that we got to see
for the first time and then see everywhere else.
Man, it is just always such a pleasure
to have you here. Thank you so much, David.
-Thanks. -David Harbour!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-"We Have a Ghost" premieres February 24th on Netflix.
We'll be right back with Kathryn Newton.