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Thank you.
Welcome.
How are you?
I'm doing fantastic.
You are doing fantastic.
Mine's great.
Oh, I like your accent.
I'm good.
I have a good ear for that.
I don't know where you're from, but that's not--
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--not Pacoima.
No, that's not, no.
It's Crieff, Scotland.
Crieff?
Yes.
Is that a city?
That's the town I come from, Crieff.
Crieff.
Yeah, Crieff.
Yeah, it's a beautiful little town in Perthshire
just before the highlands start.
It's very nice.
So have you gotten into the whole American--
was Halloween big there?
Halloween was big there, yes.
We didn't do trick-or-treating.
We called it guising.
And I don't know if that's just--
Guising?
I think that might be a Scottish thing for trick-or-treat.
For disguise?
No.
Well, maybe.
Disguise?
Oh, maybe!
Oh, you don't even know what it is.
No, I don't know.
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You just said, let's go guising, and you went.
We all went guising.
And I thought it was something to do with-- 'cause very
soon after Halloween is Guy Fawkes night, where
you have a big bonfire.
Do you not do that here?
No.
Well, we do that in Britain because there
was a guy called Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up Parliament
in the 1500s, 1600s, 1500s.
Oh.
And so we celebrate that night--
Celebrate.
It sounds like a fun night, really nice.
--by having a big bonfire.
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And I thought it was to do with that.
But anyway, yes, we had Halloween in Scotland, yes.
But are you celebrating it here?
Is it different here than--
It must be.
Well, we don't guise.
You wear a disguise.
You've made it into Christmas here.
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America made Halloween into--
I love that about America, that there's so many holidays.
And Halloween is a big deal here.
You know who you should dress up as?
What?
If I was you, I would dress up as Obi Wan Kenobi.
Oh yeah?
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You think?
I would.
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Do they know?
This was pretty new at Comic-Con.
You kept a secret for, like, four years, right?
Yeah.
And now it's coming back.
You're going to play it again.
Yeah.
You're going to reprise that.
That's right.
Yes.
Isn't that amazing?
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Thank you.
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It's awkward, because the studios and the franchises,
they want to keep everything totally secret, of course,
which I understand.
But as the person being asked over, and over, and over again,
would you do it again?
Would you do it again?
And I'm already talking to them about it,
but I can't say that I am.
So for four years, I was saying, well,
I'd be happy to do it again if they--
I'm just waiting for the call.
But all the while, it just was embarrassing.
You were acting.
You were acting even when you weren't acting.
Lying.
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What's the difference between lying and acting?
You get paid to act.
Oh, there you go.
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'Cause the first time-- now it's been
20 years to reprise the role.
Do you know that your hairpiece--
Was it?
Yes, yes.
Yes.
I did some research.
Do you know about your hairpiece, the first one
from 20 years ago?
Yeah.
Do you know that was auctioned off?
I do.
I've got some bad news, though.
There was a new one every day.
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I mean, it wasn't--
So for the person, because you know what they paid?
They paid $3,000.
Yeah.
They think they have the only one.
[LAUGHS] It's not.
Rip-off!
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Let's talk about what you're doing now--
Yes!
--Doctor Sleep.
Let's talk about that.
Yeah.
It's a great, great film.
It is.
And it's the sequel to The Shining, right?
Yeah.
It's a follow-on story.
Stephen King wrote a novel in 2014
which is the continuation of The Shining.
He took the character of Danny and some other characters
from the movie and pushed the story
in a sort of slightly different direction.
So now you're the grown-up version
of Jack Nicholson's son?
Yes, I'm the little boy grown up, yes.
There he is.
Yeah, yeah.
So you're him grown up.
It's amazing.
[INAUDIBLE] no beard.
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But what people don't realize is you actually
played that character too.
You are such a fine actor.
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It's, like, seamless.
But did you feel like-- were you a fan of the original one?
I loved the original one, although I didn't watch it
for a very long time because I wasn't a fan of being scared,
and its reputation was that it was the most terrifying movie
ever made, you know?
It was.
Did you ever get to meet Mr. Nicholson, Jack Nicholson?
I didn't, sadly.
I remember being at an event when I was
a younger man with him there.
But I never got to meet him or anything,
and I would have liked to.
I read something.
I just read something online, that Stephen King
saw the movie, screened the movie,
and said that it was just spectacular.
So the fact that Stephen King--
Oh good.
--because this is his material, does that make you feel--
Very, very special, yeah.
I'm very happy about that, yeah.
So we're going to play a game.
But what I'm going to do--
You love games, don't you?
I don't like games at all.
Famously, you like games.
I don't like games.
Oh, OK.
But I'd love to play a game right now.
This is kind of a play date for me.
OK.
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I'm going to need-- this interview so far--
you must be exhausted.
Are you?
No, by this interview?
Yes.
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Yeah.
I'm exhausted interviewing you.
So let's just take a break!
Let's have a game.
You want to take a break?
Yes.
Let's take a break for a minute.
We'll reconnoitel?
Yes.
I don't even know what that means.
We'll be back with a game.
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