JARED HARRIS: It's right on the tip of my tongue.
SPEAKER 1: What does he look like?
JARED HARRIS: Bob Hoskins.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Recent Google searches-- crosswords.
I was stumped, so I was cheating and looking up some answers.
I got into crosswords from doing theater,
because I was in "Hamlet," and I played Fortinbras.
Fortinbras basically comes on stage
when everybody else is dead.
And so there's a long, long, long wait
until you get to come on stage.
And at that point, most of the dressing rooms
are empty, because they're all on stage.
So I started to do crosswords to occupy my mind.
I'm just getting the grips of "The New York Times"
one, because they're kind of tricky.
I mean, they invent their own words.
I don't know quite-- maybe I'm using the wrong dictionary.
One of them recently had a lot to do with "The Lion King,"
(WHISPERING) which I've never seen.
I know.
I've never seen it.
So I guess I didn't know the character's names
and stuff like that, so I cheated and looked them up.
Can we edit this?
I had to do this thing yesterday, and so
some of the questions that they were
asking were, what would I consider to be a movie that
defines Britishness?
That was tricky, because depending
on what part of Britain you're from,
you could really piss people off with the answer
to that question and say "Trainspotting."
Well, of course, that's Scotland.
And they probably aren't going to like it
if you say that, you're quintessentially British.
So depending on where you come from in England,
it's very difficult to say what one movie is quintessentially
British.
But I would say that the best definition
of the curse of being British was offered up by John Kleiss
in "A Fish Called Wanda."
That is that you're in constant fear of embarrassing somebody.
Search a Google--
I was Google searching Craig Martin's Chernobyl podcast.
So after every episode, he would then
post the podcast talking about that specific episode, which
I found really fascinating because, obviously, I'd had
talks with Craig beforehand.
But you don't have the opportunity
to go into that much detail.
And it's really fascinating to peer into his thought process
and understand how he constructed this narrative.
One of the things that people are responding to the story
is, there's a very clear analogy towards the climate debate
that's going on at the moment, and the denial of the science,
and the refusal to confront that problem.
It's a masterful piece of construction,
of narrative construction.
So I'm fascinated by that.
The holes in one's education--
it's a very good tool for filling in--
Google searching.
[MUSIC PLAYING]