Hi Ellen.
Hi.
I'm happy, and yet scared to meet you.
You're so good that some people are just scared of you.
We've been talking about you being on the show.
They're like "Oh what's it going to be like?
He's so scary."
Where are you right now?
I'm in Paris.
Oh, beautiful beaut-- is that where you live?
Yeah, that's where I live.
That's fantastic.
You know, my show's not on in France.
Can you do something about that?
No.
Try to do something about it, if you can.
You know what?
We might not have American channels, but we have YouTube.
You know, you're well-known here.
You got a lot of fans.
First one was my sister, she's the one who told me about you.
Well thank you so much.
Tell your sister Hello.
What a smart, smart woman she is.
I will.
OK, you were having a great year,
and I didn't even recognize that you were the same guy that
was in "Mauritanian."
You were so fantastic.
You were nominated for a Golden Globe,
and now you're in the "Serpent" and you're having a great time.
You must feel really good.
Oh yeah.
It feels good.
I'm so happy.
When you get that recognition it feels good
because you feel like people are telling you welcome
and it brings you more self confidence as an actor
and and you feel good about your choices.
Feel like yeah I was right.
So yeah, it's great.
Yeah.
But the "Serpent", it is--
it's so-- you're so good.
The style is great.
The setting is great.
It's shot like, in Bangkok and all over the world, right?
Yeah in Bangkok, most of it.
And because of the pandemic we had to stop,
shut down the shooting, and and we couldn't go back there,
unfortunately.
So we ended up shooting in a small town, North London,
called [INAUDIBLE].
And we shot Paris there.
I was really concerned about it but finally
I guess it went well.
So, yeah.
Yeah, it went--
From Thailand to [INAUDIBLE].
Yeah well, it really well.
It broke records in the UK.
I'm talking about it like everybody knows it.
So tell everybody-- It's based on a true story,
but tell everybody what it's about.
So it's the story of Charles Sobhraj.
A conman, manipulator, murderer, and his partner in crime
who hunted hippies in the 70s in what was called "the hippie"
trail back then.
But the show is not glorifying Charles and his crimes,
but celebrating the fight of a young Dutch ambassador who
gave it all to stop Charles from his crime escalation
and eventually brought him to justice.
Yeah.
It's really, really good.
Did you did you want to meet the--
I don't want to give anything away
for people who haven't seen it or seen the end of it yet
but did you want to meet Charles?
I got to say I thought about it for a short time,
and ethically it was not right.
I thought about the victims and their families, so I said no.
But I wanted to meet him just to see how he would con me,
you know?
Yeah.
Plus you know what, Charles went--
if you want to interview him, you got to pay.
So, you know, I'm not going to pay a killer.
Right smart.
I can't believe he makes people pay to interview him.
And I learned you did some uncomfortable--
I paid you.
Yeah, you would paid me?
You had to do some uncomfortable things to look like him.
I didn't realize that you waxed your entire body
Oh, yeah.
Oh, God.
I had to do this every two weeks.
And then I went back home and I told my wife you are a hero.
Now I know what it is, and it hurts.
I cried like a baby, it's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah, I forgot that you're in--
you're in just your pants or a bathing suit a lot but--
so we appreciate you waxing.
We appreciate that a lot.
It is so good and I tell everybody about it.
It's-- especially knowing it's a true story.
But you are fantastic in it.
You were just incredible.
And I just--
I'm so happy to meet you.
Oh me too, really.
Really.
All right.
Thank you for having me.
I hope to meet you in person someday.
The "Serpent" is available now on Netflix.
Check it out.
We'll be back.