-Our first guest tonight is an actor and director
you know from his work on "The Office" and "A Quiet Place."
He stars in Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan,"
which begins streaming its second season Friday
on Amazon Prime Video.
Let's take a look.
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Wow! [ Cheers and applause ]
Please welcome back to the show our friend John Krasinski.
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What a genuinely -- You look great.
-Thank you.
-But that was genuinely a great clip.
-Well, it got a "wow." -It got a "wow."
-I was laughing backstage.
-I don't often "wow" at a clip.
So much running and rooftops. -I am fake exhausted.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-You can't -- I think people in action movies, it strikes me
that you got to be really good at running fast
for super short distances. -Yes.
-Yeah. -It is, yeah.
-I think you did a great job there.
-Well, thank you very much. -Yeah.
-You actually have to pump your arms faster.
-Yeah.
-Because the first movie I did that had action,
I ran like I did.
And it was -- it looked like a "Scooby-Doo" character.
I was like -- [ Laughter ]
And they were like, "That's not exciting at all."
-But that's the right way to run.
If You "Mission: Impossible" down, you know, like,
nobody wants to see that.
-And thank you for saying, "Mission: Impossible."
We all learned from Tom. We learned how to run from Tom.
-Tom is the greatest action runner of all time.
-For sure, yeah. -Yeah.
And -- but this is -- I mean, some of that,
I'm assuming you did some of your own stunts.
Like, that little slide down the roof.
-Yeah, I did more of my own stunts than I should have.
It was one of those things where I was like,
"Guys, I'm getting older. I don't want to do it."
And the stunt guys were like, "No problem.
Maybe just give us one.
And I was like, "Of course."
And then like 17 later, I was like, "Guys, guys!"
-What was the hardest stunt you had to do for this?
-Jumping from building to building. No.
[ Laughter ]
For this one, it wasn't actually a stunt.
It was -- It was a Black Hawk taking off.
And we did this one take where I get on a Black Hawk
and then the Black Hawk takes off all in the same take,
which sounds super exciting, and it was,
except for the pilot didn't care
whether I got my seatbelt on or not.
-Oh!
-So I was like, "I'll see you back there!"
And then I was like, "Not yet, not yet!"
[ Laughter ]
He was just like, "Here we go!"
And I was like, "Nope, nope, nope, nope!"
So in the trailer, when you see me, like, out the door,
really looking confident, five seconds ago I was not confident.
I was terrified.
-You filmed some of in this in London?
-In London, yeah.
-And your wife Emily is from England.
-She is. -But you never --
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So you obviously spent a lot of time there
but never shot there before. -No, never shot there.
And certainly never shot a rooftop jumping scene in London,
which was phenomenal.
They also shut down Piccadilly in London as well for us.
It was very exciting.
But I think my favorite part of the day was going back
to my father-in-law 'cause there's always a little part --
by the way, my father-in-law is the greatest human ever.
-That's very nice.
-And he's got the greatest -- Thank you, yeah.
[ Laughter ]
And he's got the greatest accent.
And he's so impassioned about everything.
So he was like, "What you getting up to today, Johnny?"
And I was like, "Oh, you know,
I was, like, running on some rooftops.
And then, like, a guy jumps into the Thames."
And he was like, "Really?! That's absolutely wonderful!
Good for you! Fantastic, fantastic!"
And I was just like, "Thank you so much."
[ Laughter ]
Had I known that's all it took
when I proposed to your daughter.
-"That's the only reason I did it."
-Yeah, exactly. -"Everything else is a sham."
You just turned 40. Congratulations.
-I did.
-Big birthday. -Thank you.
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-Big birthday. -Thank you.
Thank you.
-And yet still running as fast.
-A little slower now. [ Laughter ]
-This is very sweet.
On social media, you made a plea for a birthday --
If anybody had any interest in giving you a birthday gift,
you directed them to a great organization.
I want to give you a chance to talk about it.
-Yes, I told them to give me money.
-Yes.
-If you're a fan of mine, you should give me money.
That's what I said.
But, no, it all went to these incredible people
and an incredible organization.
Family Reach, which is based in Boston.
And they help financial situations of families
who are going through the battle of cancer.
So not only is cancer as bad as everyone knows it is,
but the financial stress of going through that
and being with kids or any family members
that are going through it is so difficult.
So we raised some money to help them out.
-That's awesome. What a nice gesture.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Yeah, it was great.
And it's still going on. You can still donate.
Go to familyreach.org. -Familyreach.org.