Sterling K. Brown Reveals the 1 Thing Mark Harmon Told Him That Changed His Whole Perspective: 'The Nicest Man'

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Brown currently stars in Hulu's 'Washington Black', and says some advice he received from Harmon on a previous project helped him set the tone while on set of the new period drama

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00:00I did a guest spot on NCIS, right?

00:03And people will say this in the States.

00:06Mark Harmon was the nicest man ever.

00:11Like, I was sitting on a rock eating lunch, and he was like,

00:14what are you sitting on the rock for?

00:14I was like, all right, man, you know, the rock is comfortable.

00:17He'd just go and grab a chair, pull it over,

00:19pull it next to him and his friends.

00:21He was like, come on, man, sit, join us, et cetera.

00:23Like, he just, like, creating that environment

00:26where you were appreciated was something that he did naturally.

00:31You know, and I remember asking him one time, he's like,

00:33you know, so many people complain about what they do

00:36and the hours and something.

00:37He's like, there's nothing wrong with loving what you do.

00:40And that was one that's always a bar that just stuck with me

00:43and resonated.

00:44I was like, oh, you know what?

00:45There is nothing wrong with loving what I do.

00:48I think I can carry that forward.

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