-Our first guest is an Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor
you know from his work as Chief of Police Jim Hopper
in the award-winning series "Stranger Things."
Next month, he stars in Marvel's highly anticipated
"Black Widow," as well as "No Sudden Move,"
which begins streaming on HBO Max on July 1st.
Let's take a look. -I was going to tell her.
I was going to tell her.
And then, Peggy had a bird feeder thing, and I'm --
I -- It doesn't matter.
And now, there's another thing.
And I just -- -I told Phil,
as per our promise.
-I need to get into the green safe right now.
-Why?
He cried, Matt.
Phil, he cried.
-I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
The combination of the green safe is what?
-I came to work from the Humpty Dumpty Motel.
-I'm sorry.
I need the combination to the green safe.
-Please welcome back to the show David Harbour, everybody!
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Hi, buddy. How are you?
Welcome back. So nice to see you.
-Thanks for having me.
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-I really like -- There is a real nice shape
to your beard right now. I feel like we've seen it
in a lot of different ways over the years.
-Thank you, man. I just cut it with some scissors
over the sink right before I got here.
For real, like, very pandemic style.
-Yeah, I would have assumed -- I guess that was a skill
you must have learned in the pandemic.
-I mean, yeah. I guess so, yeah.
You know -- you pick -- I've had the beard a lot.
So you pick things like that up, yeah.
-Yeah, alright. Well, I'm glad to hear it.
The last time -- I think it's safe to say
the last time you were in this building
was when you hosted "SNL."
It's been a year and a half. You did a great job.
-Thanks man, thanks. It was amazing.
That's like a real dream come true.
-Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming you had some nerves about it.
-Yeah, it's terrifying. I mean, I --
I mean, Lorne even said it's like being shot out of a cannon.
You show up and there is nothing written.
You're going to have to do an hour and a half show
five days from then.
And then, basically, you don't get any material
until Wednesday, right? -Yeah.
-And then on Saturday, you're doing a show. It's terrifying.
-And how is it compared to being here, which is not live?
It's live to tape in front of nobody.
Do you feel the same nerves?
[ Laughter ] -It's a little less.
-Yeah, a little less? Okay, well, thanks for your honesty.
How about being back in the world?
Have you been out?
I know that's a thing not just actors but all human beings
are a little worried about, interacting with humans again.
-No, I mean, it's great.
I've been really excited to, you know, open up.
I've just been harassing
celebrities and things like that.
-Oh, so celebrities are just like us
in that they get harassed by other celebrities.
-Harassed by me, yeah.
We harass other celebrities.
-Who did you harass?
-So, it was like one of the first days
out of the pandemic, and I was in London.
I was in Notting Hill, and things started to open up,
coffee shops and stuff like that.
And I went out with my mask. I was kind of walking around.
I was so excited because I saw Chris Pine
like way across the street on the corner.
And I was --I had my mask on and everything.
But I was like, "Yo, Chris Pine."
Actor, you know, I was like, "Hey, hey."
And he looked back at me and he was like...
And I was like, "No, no, no, no, no, man."
I took off my mask. I went, "Hey."
And he went... [ Laughter ]
And I walked up.
He's just going like --
[Bleep] [Bleep] [ Laughter ]
Just like --
-Don't feel like you've nailed that one.
-Awful. Awful. -Yeah.
Have you ever met him or was it --
-No. -Okay, gotcha.
[ Laughter ]
-That's not true.
I met him once I think at a party.
-Okay, gotcha. -Yeah.
-But it wasn't like -- -But also, I gotta say.
Like, something about that story was like,
it's not like it was Al Pacino.
Like, God, you know what I mean?
-Yeah. -It's like Chris Pine.
Like, good, you know, but I really, like,
fanboyed out too hard and it was very embarrassing.
-See, I feel like Pacino would have come right over.
[ Laughter ]
I feel like you wave to Al Pacino.
[ as Pacino ] Hey, "Stranger Things."
Hey, you alive in "Stranger Things?"
[ Laughter ] Tell me the truth!
[ Laughter ]
-It is an excellent impersonation.
-[ Normal voice ] Thank you. It's kind of gone away.
-Anybody who tells you different is just jealous.
-Yeah, I think so. It is jealousy, right?
It's abject jealousy. -Yeah.
-Hey, congratulations. You got married.
And part of the bargain, a really good part of bargain,
you have two stepdaughters.
I've got a couple boys. -How old are yours?
-Mine are five and three. -Five and three. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, I have two stepdaughters. They're eight and nine.
-How is that? -Very close in age.
I mean, it's amazing and also, it's horrible.
I have to say, you know,
I wanted to say -- tell a little story about them.
But I have to say, you know, to them,
because they sometimes watch this on YouTube.
-Sure.
-I just want to say you both are very special girls.
I love you very much, okay? -That's good.
They'll remember that part. -Okay, good.
The other day, we were -- you know, Marnie,
who's the young one, she just hit her sister.
And I, you know, I was like, "Marnie!"
I took her up to her room.
I'm like, "You can't hit your sister."
And she said, "Look, she hit me first."
And I said, "Well, I didn't see that.
All I saw was you hit her.
And it doesn't matter if she hit you.
You can't hit your sister. You just can't.
Even if she hits you."
And she said, "Well what do you do if somebody hits you?
You have to hit them back."
And I was like, "That is a real conundrum.
Like, I don't really have an answer for that.
Because you're kind of right." -Yeah.
Like, you can't be a door step.
But I said, "We have to figure this out
because I just can't have you hitting your sister."
And she -- I said, "Let's think."
I was like, "Maybe you can come tell us if she hits you."
And her face got really dark.
And she looked away, and she went,
"That's not gonna work."
[ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Alright, well, we'll think about it.
We'll just think about a way to do this."
-You're like, "You think about it.
I'm going to lock the door.
So you're in here." -So, I walk out.
I walk out of the door and there's Ethel, her sister,
like, right outside the door, like, going, "Hi, David."
And I was like, "Hey! How's it going?"
She's like, "Oh, it's good. How are you? How's Marnie?"
[ Laughter ] And I was like, "She's good."
She's like, "What did you guys talk about?"
And I was like, "You little -- like -- you --
She's not a snitch!"
I felt like Eliot Ness or something.
I was like, "It's okay." -Yeah.
-"Your secret is safe." Yeah. -Oh, fantastic.
-Yeah, it was great. It was really great.
-This movie is a Soderbergh movie.
It's the first time you worked with Soderbergh.
-Yeah.
-And this is really just a top to bottom incredible cast.
-Yeah. -A lot of people worked
with him before, but this was your first time.
-Yeah, I mean, I was terrified.
That guy's a real genius.
-Yeah. -And he does it all.
He writes, he directs, the whole thing.
But I was very intimidated.
But I'm not alone in being intimidated by him.
He -- I was in the gym at the hotel.
We're all like cordoned off.
You know, I'm in the gym in the hotel and I bump into Benicio.
And, like, Benicio del Toro, one of the great actors
of our time and just such a presence.
And I was like, "Hey, man." He's like, "Hey."
And immediately got to work.
He was like, "Hey, man, don't you think this thing
in the script is like this?
It could be like a little better if it was like this."
And I was like, "Yeah. That's a great idea, man.
You should tell Steven.
Like, just that little tweet would be great."
And he goes, "Ma-- Maybe you could tell him."
[ Laughter ]
I was like, "What are you talking about, man?
He said, "No, just maybe it come better from you, man."
[ Laughter ] And I was like, "What? No, man.
You won an Oscar in 'Traffic' that he directed."
"I just think maybe you could tell him."
[ Laughter ] We're all terrified of him.
-That's so funny. -We were all terrified.
-Because he comes off as very unassuming.
-I mean, he's super nice. He's just hard to read.
It's hard to know if he likes you.
And he's just so focused on doing his thing.
And he's such a genius that yeah,
none of us were comfortable approaching him.
-One thing I'm very happy about and I don't think I'm alone.
Last time you were here, nobody really knew if you were
going to be in season four of "Stranger Things."
Now we have confirmation. -Yeah.
-And has that been nice now
to finally be able to tell people again?
-Yeah, it's really great.
I mean, I'm really happy we did it before the pandemic.
We had that trailer come out. -Yeah.
-And thank God that people, you know, know about it.
Because I don't know how I would have kept this
secret for much longer. -Yeah.
Well, that's nice that that's back.
And it is really exciting. "Black Widow" as well.
So there's a lot coming. -Yeah.
Yeah, it's a big month if you like David Harbour movies.
[ Laughter ] This is your month!
-[ as Pacino ] Oh, it's my month, baby?
-[ as Pacino ] Hoo-ah!
-David Harbour back-to-back!
[ Laughter ]
-Yours is better. Yours is better.
-[ Normal voice ] No, no, please. You're just jealous.
"No Sudden Move" begins streaming on HBO Max
on July 1st and "Black Widow" will be in theaters on July 9th.