So nice to finally meet you, yeah.
We have never met.
And I'm a huge fan of yours and the show.
I love the show.
Same.
And I'm a huge fan of Heads Up.
Are you?
Next time you're here, we're going to play Heads Up.
Bring it, yeah.
Let's do it.
Now I have to see.
All right, let's talk about the most important thing
that I learned about you today.
You commissioned someone to paint a portrait of your cat.
I did, yes.
My cat-- he kind of looks like the Dr. Evil cat,
but with hair.
And one day, I was working on my computer at my house,
and I hear someone peeing in my toilet.
And I'm alone.
I live alone.
And so obviously, I'm alarmed, because there's
a very strange burglar who's decided to use my bathroom.
Right.
And so I leap up, and I throw open the door, and I see this.
I see my cat, who is using the toilet.
I didn't teach him how to do this.
He just did this one day and surprised me.
So I had to snap a photo, and then I
have a good friend, artist Taylor Wright,
who painted this amazing picture of it, which
now hangs in my bathroom.
Right.
Obviously, the cat did not pose for that.
He didn't pose.
No, we walked in on him.
That's him going, [GASPS].
Yeah.
He painted really, really fast.
That's the original photo.
That's what I walked in on.
So now, does the cat continue to do that?
Yeah.
Really?
He just taught himself.
I just--
Does he know how to flush?
I wish.
No, that's the only thing, is when
you walk in, you're like, oh, great,
there's cat litter on that seat.
And that's not fun.
But that's amazing.
Now, in the painting, it looks black and white.
Here, it looks like it just came in from being homeless.
Is that--
[LAUGHTER]
It's not as good looking in the picture.
Is that a black-and-white cat?
He's a black-and-white cat, yes.
I don't know why I think black-and-white cats are more
clever, but they seem to be.
I think they are.
They do seem to be more clever.
And that proves it right there.
He's kind of like a Batman cat.
He's got the mask, and the cape, and--
Yeah, no, he's a he's a good-looking cat.
And the fact that he pees in the toilet is--
I'm--
He's a perfect cat.
He's a genius.
Yeah, genius.
What's his name?
Smoky.
Yes, that's him waking me up in the morning.
Did Smoky take that selfie?
Was his paw on the other side--
He set the timer--
I see.
--and then climbed behind me, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
Smoky, that's a great face.
OK, so you live-- you and Smokey live in Tennessee.
Tennessee.
And why Tennessee?
Well, I'm from the South originally.
I grew up in the woods.
With some bears?
And so I wanted to be--
with some bears-- with some deers.
And I wanted to be close to home.
And I had a son, who's 4 and 1/2 now.
And I just was like, you know, you're
going to have two actor parents in LA.
Let's go to the South for a while
and give you some trees and some grass to run around in.
Yeah, yeah.
What a great place to grow up.
Trees and grass, very important.
I'm very outdoorsy.
I spend most of my time in the desert with cowboys, you know?
It's a show, but we're really out there
doing this, and riding horses, and shooting guns.
Did you ride horses before you did the show?
I did.
I've been riding since I was a kid.
Because if you've seen the show--
how many people have seen Westworld?
Have you seen the show?
[APPLAUSE]
I mean, you're on a horse, and you're galloping,
and you're holding a gun.
And you have to really be good at that.
My first day back at work for season two,
they asked me if I could ride a horse with no hands
while shooting a rifle, full speed.
That's the one I'm talking about, yeah.
Yes, that was really me.
That was not on a green screen.
It was--
Full speed, though.
That's pretty impressive.
Full speed, full speed.
You'd think they wouldn't let you
do that for insurance purposes.
That's what I kept saying.
I kept going, you know this is the first day, right?
You don't want to save this for the end?
Are you are killing my character off, or something?
Right.
Tell everybody-- it's a very intriguing concept.
Explain what is happening.
Well, it kind of explores AI somewhere
in the not-so-distant future.
And instead of these virtual reality worlds,
they've literally built entire worlds,
and they've filled them with these robot characters that
don't know they're robots.
So you can actually go and have an experience in the Wild West,
or--
it's like a theme park.
But of course, the robots become sentient,
and start to rebel and take over,
which is pretty much where we're going to pick up in season two.
Yeah.
It's a really-- it's a scary concept, that these people are
so bored by playing video games, or whatever,
and they have enough money to go, and pay,
and have these experiences.
And some of them, not so nice.
Yes, it shows the darker side of humanity
and what really makes us human at the end of the day.
Yeah, it's really good.
It's really good.
The second season of Westworld premieres this Sunday at 9:00
on HBO.