starring Tim Robbins.
>> He's here right now.
>> Come on out, Tim.
>>.
>> Come on, yeah.
>> How are you?
>> Good to see you.
>> What's up, baby.
>> He's getting stuff done.
>> He has questionable morals.
But --
>> He's a freaky dude.
>> Do you enjoy playing freaky
dudes?
>> I enjoy playing people like
him, you're not quite sure if
they're good or bad and they try
to -- make up for past mistakes,
coming to terms with his life
and his family, and he's dying
and so -- all kinds of
complicated stuff.
All kinds of surprises coming up
on castlerock.
>> That's how we like it.
>> You keep them guessing,
right?
>> What about the accent.
Is that Fung for you?
Do you bring that to characters
or is it already there?
>> That one is -- it's connected
to my east coast upbringing.
When I was a kid, I grew up in
greenwich village in Manhattan,
my parents were from California.
The kids would come home talking
like this, you know, hanging out
and going -- my father would
say, it's car, not cah, we would
get directed.
We knew it was an accent but
it's in us.
Me and my brother and sisters,
and so we kind of can go to it
at any point.
And so this one is just
adjusting it for Maine, which is
a little different.
Like Boston's a little
different.
And --
>> Very different.
>> Was growing up in greenwich
village as wild as I picture it
to be.
>> It had to be.
>> For someone growing up on a
cul-de-sac?
>> I'm going to live
vicariously, take me inside,
Tim.
>> It was pretty exciting, it's
one of those things you don't
know it's exciting until you
leave it.
And you realize, everyone else
didn't grow up like that.
But yeah, it was very creative,
it was greenwich village, folk
music in the '60s, '70s, all
these interesting people.
Also at the same time, some old
world Italian Irish, sons,
daughters, grandsons,
granddaughters of immigrants.
>> Love it.
>> It was a mix of different
ways of thinking.
>> It's so different and somehow
kind of still the same when you
go back, right?
>> It's not the same.
>> What I mean by the same 1,
there's still --
>> The melting pot.
>> It's always exciting to be in
New York, but I live in los
Angeles now for a reason.
And I think you know that
reason.
>> Yes, I do.
I think I do.
>> Don't tell the rest of the
country.
>> No, no, I got you.
>> You've been in so many
inyesterdayible movies.
I came in your dressing room, I
geeked out on shawshank.
>> Did you come in with a line.
>> Is that the movie everyone
comes up and wants to talk
about?
>> It depends where I am.
If I'm in a bull park, it's bull
Durham.
People are saying very kind
things about shawshank.
I welcome that, it's nice.
People come up and say, that
movie changed their life.
You mention that someone you
knew, it shifted their
perspective.
>> Yes, my brother.
>> Absolutely.
That's pretty special, it's rare
to be involved in something like
that.
And I'm appreciative of the fans
of that movie.
>> The ending of that movie.
It's so hopeful and that feeling
of going-forward in like a
bright future, the way the whole
story is so poetic.
>> I think one of the reasons
it's resonated for so many
years, is that people want to
believe that if they have faith
and they have hope, that there
is a place for them.
Regardless of whether you're in
prison or your imprisonment has
something to do with accepting
certain realities in your life
for too long that you don't
think there should be, a bad
job, a bad relationship.
People survive over years and
years, and I think holding out
hope that there's a place on the
beach somewhere for them is a
universal theme with that movie.
>> Some birds aren't meant to be
caged, their feathers shine too
bright.
>> Go!
>> Didn't I tell you.
>> We're going to do a poetry
slam now.
>> She'll be opening a soda or
something.
>> She's like, okay.
>> Feathers shine too bright.
I'm like, are you quoting
shawshank right now.
We have this game --
>> We got to play this game.
>> Where do you see the
characters you have brought to
all of us.
>> Where is an did you Dufrain.
>> He's running a bed and
breakfast.
>> Griffin mill?
>> He's incarcerated somewhere.
>> Very likely, honestly.
>> For money laundering.
>> Bull Durham.
Please say he's wearing
lingerie.
I love when he put on the
women's panties.
>> Well, I think he tried to
come back in his 40s with -- had
a bad -- he had a knuckleball,
it didn't work, and now he's
sitting at a table at one of
those conventions signing
autographs.
>> Love it.
>> What about Bob Roberts.
>> He's currently president of
the United States.
>> You think so?
>> Yes.
I mean, come on.
>> See the movie.
>> This one --
>> I did say it.
>> This character freaked me
out, I loved him with his weird
ponytail, Ian ramen from high
fidelity.
>> Everyone just went yeah!
>> He's been divorced eight
>> But married.
>> But he runs a self-help
clinic where he helps people
with relationships.
>> Yes.
He does.
>> So --
>> He's that kind of guy.
>> Tim Robbins, so great to see
you.
Thanks for playing with us, and
being so great, and congrats on
this role and everything.
>> Let me invite people down to
the actor's gang theater, I'm
currently in a production that I
directed of Orville's 1984,
running through December 7th.
Tickets on sale now.
>> You've helped launch quite a
few careers.
>> Jack Black.
>> Tenacious D.
>> We'll credit the man.
>> Thank you.
It's my first time on stage in
15 years, so -- I took the leap.
>> Are you terrified?
>> I was.
Until I got on stage.
>> There it is.
>> And then it was like riding a
bike.
>> That brings it all home.
>> No one dies, by the way.
>> I did say, it's a good plan.
>> It's like -- you know that,
coming out on stage.
I'm not going to die.
It's going to be all right.
>> We're so excited.