our next guest is a talented actor starring in a new film opening july 3rd and tuttle's
license to wed please say hello to john krasinski john welcome to the program thank you very much
a little bit about yourself where you're from your family that kind of thing all right i uh i'm from
newton massachusetts i uh nice yeah nice uh i am one of three brothers and uh i have a mother and
a father and uh were you the youngest of the three i was i was the youngest of the three which uh you
know i think it's a tough racket because not only do you get beat up the most but i think that uh
you have a false sense of security because i think you think that anything that's been done has been
done before by your brothers right or at least they convinced you that sure um i remember one
time we actually got these skateboards which in boston is not a big skateboarding town so when
we got them we thought we were really cool we just stood on them and we'd slowly roll
we forgot we forgot the push off part of it um and uh so that was fun for about 10 seconds and
then my brother said you know skateboards come from surfboards so why don't we try
that out why don't we uh you know get on our stomachs why don't you get on your stomach
and i was like okay okay and he's like i'm gonna push you and i went so fast that i was having a
really good time because i thought i was surfing until my legs got tired and they slowly went down
and then my knees hit the uh hit the hit the old street there and the jeans blow open and i start
bleeding profusely and my dad was a doctor so my brother must have learned this from him but uh
he immediately says i got it takes off his shoes socks puts the dirty socks around both my knees
the old sock tourniquet yeah of course and uh we actually lived near a woodsy area so he's running
through the woods barefoot carrying me and when we get up to the porch my mom said what happened
here my brother said we got it i took care of it he might need uh two days bed rest but he's good
he'll be good and yeah i'm lucky they didn't have to amputate the infection from the from the socks
now you uh you started your acting career not in boston but here here in new york city yeah
here in new york as a professional waiter that's where it all starts oh good sure yeah yeah get out
there that's the acting lesson um and uh that was fun it was a good time i uh there was actually uh
a bunch of different restaurants but the quickest one that i was in was five days and it was a blue
smoke which is a really nice restaurant yeah i think it was still danny meyer's restaurant yeah
yeah so that's that's pretty big deal so i said well there's where the money is i'm gonna make
some money there so i go to the bar just thinking all i need is a black t-shirt and that'll be it
and um turns out that's not the case at all um you were gonna be the bartender yeah i was gonna be
the bartender you know about bartending not at all yeah no i think i i think i lied on my resume too
which is pretty bad but they have this board of 100 drinks and these drinks uh it's not like beer
and wine and soda it's like blue hurricane mist and red devil face and like what you know and so
exactly and each of the drinks had so many ingredients that began with like okay what
you need to do is you need to grind a grapefruit peel mix it with blood orange then and you're like
i'm done i mean really so i had i had no chance so what i did was i started making greyhounds
for everybody i don't know what a greyhound is a greyhound is uh grapefruit juice and vodka thanks
what could be wrong with that that's it there you go yeah that's all anybody wants and so uh you
know so so when you order the blue hurricane mist i'd put blue curacao in and put that in a twisty
glass and send that down the bar and uh after my five-day training period i was feeling pretty good
and um the manager came over she said how do you feel i said uh pretty good she goes yeah
you're not going to make it so oh and i said yeah i know and she said we've had fun but
this isn't going to work out and as she was firing me no joke at the bar uh this woman this like
older woman holds up one of the drinks and goes this is delicious i want another one of these
so exactly exactly so who's the big loser that's right they missed out they missed
out uh tell me about the the film uh working with uh robin williams oh my god it's just
such a pleasure to work with him he's uh he's the funniest man in the world other than you
really i'm number two yeah oh my god no one you're one number one oh my god wow
and in case you didn't know i'm allowed to give that award out for some reason well thank you very
much paul you're on the top thank you oh how about that after the show we're going down to the improv
and work out let's do it what's in a midnight set welcome yeah you know we're working with robin
it's hard to keep a straight face and everybody says how do you do it you just don't uh but uh
there's this one test that he puts us through in the movie it's basically uh we're an engaged
couple we want to get married but he puts us through all these tests he's a clergyman yes he's
a reverend yeah he's conducting a uh some sort of a pre-marital exactly yeah he wants to make sure
we know what we're getting into so one of them is coming over to our house at like midnight uh and
asking what we like each partner should ask the other partner what they like in bed
now having robin williams dressed as a priest asking you what you like in bed
as an actor or a character is ludicrous right it's wrong it's just wrong it's just wrong and
so my character doesn't want to play along i'm not having it and uh mandy's character
manny moore is uh she starts playing along with him and she's like well maybe you know
on the beach and robin's like well what about in your parents house while they're cooking and
it's very odd and then they keep going back and forth and the director let them improv and i think
robin sort of slowly lost the character and just was having fun and there was this one
moment when mandy said i love it when you get creative and robin goes i bet you do
so i think i'm traumatized for life because he's in a priest uniform going i bet you
yeah it's a manny moore something went haywire yeah for sure so they cut to me and i was like
yeah licensed to web nice meeting you john
thank you very much for being here john krasinski everybody we'll be right back
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