yes we were doing our dateline
correspondent impersonations during the
break
just so you know you may know him as dr
strange or sherlock holmes but now he's
the courier
benedict cumberbatch is back in a new
movie and here with real talk
is a movie maven greg russell hello greg
hello jason glad to be here i'm glad to
have you dialed in
uh what's this the courier what's this
all about
it's this movie is about espionage
benedict cumberbatch plays a guy who in
real life at least his characters real
life
he's a salesperson so he's recruited by
mi6 to do some undercover work in russia
in the 1960s in regards to the cuban
missile crisis
very fascinating movie got to talk to
him and the director about it
and here's what they say a totally
fascinating movie i mean
it would have been great if somebody
just written this as a script as fiction
but to find out later that it's fact was
that something that also helped pull you
into wanting to be in this movie and
make the movie
well dominic pitched it to me and at the
end of the pitch i was like is this is
this true
i mean i knew about the cuban missile
crisis and the key players of christian
and kennedy
now this is this is all true and i read
tom's script and
you know they really dug deep on their
research and they were in absolutely um
kind of um what's the word uh completely
utterly absorbed in that world uh
certainly for my generation it's a story
that's been lost
um and so yes it's i think it's it's a
great one to bring to light i think he's
he's an every man he's an ordinary man
who does an extraordinary thing
from naive very knowing a master of
spycraft and then in the end this this
heroic friend and
i just uh i was really pulled into the
idea of playing that arc
i think one of the things that moved me
about script initially was this sort of
idea though that you know
one person people don't know what
they're capable of until they're put
into situations where they
have the opportunity to be heroic and
that's what this sky
was greville wynn was a real regular guy
you know um and there's that idea in the
film that you know change
starts with one person um and that's
you know and at the moment that feels
like a really important sort of
thing to be talking about that you know
we don't know what we're capable of but
actually sticking your neck out is it's
worth doing you know
so is it riveting is it suspenseful even
though we know the outcome
yes yes it very much is i think you'd
really like it because i mean just even
the way it was shot
it looks like a movie that was done in
the 1960s and benedict cumberbatch is
just
you know really at the top of his game
in pretty much every movie he does and
in this one he's right up there how many
rules
definite four and this one is showing
only in theaters for right now
okay next we have a new series on
netflix with michelle obama let's talk
about
waffles and mochi yeah
you got it there you go it's a cooking
show for
kids where they travel around the world
they get these recipes
so kids if they're hungry and at home
they can go and make all these delicious
dishes that are also healthy
got to talk to some of the chefs and
they're going to pass along some of
their recipes
this show went all over the world i mean
it wasn't just here in the united states
it was
everywhere so internationally you got to
teach kids
how to make all types of things what uh
waffle and mochi is going to achieve is
unbelievable
we're talking about 190 plus countries
millions of children hundreds of
millions of people because
grown ups are going to be watching this
show
and to me quite frankly i think we're
gonna see that
mrs obama is going from the first lady
of the united states to
the the the foot ambassador of the world
this is obama i was i mean i knew she's
great but then i'm like wow she is a
good actor
and she has really good comic timing
she's so funny
you know as a young cook like when i
first heard of
mrs obama's initiatives in the garden in
the kitchen with kids it was so
aligned with the philosophy the kitchen
philosophy that i had come up with
it's not only showing kids you know how
to make their own meals
but the best part is showing that you
don't necessarily need ten thousand
things to make
you can make something good with maybe
just four or five you know different
things and a little bit of an ingredient
no even even one ingredient you know
it's it's important
just that to understand the quality that
is uh
a quality of the of the of the of the
farmers the fishermen the cheese maker
the
products that you you use
uh it's cool that you got to speak to
this chef i can't remember her name but
she's the salt fat acid the heat
uh writer yeah yeah good stuff all right
what did you think about the series
it's really nice and a great thing for
kids especially those ages five to six
up to probably about 11 years old and
i'm looking around now seeing if
michelle obama is going to pop into our
corner
like she did earlier no fallon would
show up right
that would be so great so great
and and also something for you and toddy
real quick when you're talking about
mori salad there's this book lost
restaurants of detroit
it's got the hudson's recipe for the
marie salad in here
so there you go make your own all right
and and second my motion toward tati to
watch out of sight with jennifer lopez
and george clooney
oh absolutely asking which one i should
watch this weekend should i watch
beverly hills cop or out of sight
uh if you're in that happy spunky mood
uh
beverly hills cop if you're into
something a little bit more serious
out of sight okay and romantic and
romantic thanks greg