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Late Night with Seth Meyers - Season 13 - Episode 05: Emilia Clarke, Connor Storrie
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00:30We admire this late night. We hope you're doing well.
00:32And now, if you don't mind, we're going to get to the news.
00:34President Trump posted a screenshot of his Wikipedia profile
00:37on Truth Social over the weekend
00:39that shows him listed as the, quote,
00:41acting president of Venezuela.
00:43Wow.
00:44Not many people can say they were the worst president
00:47in the history of two countries.
00:51That's right.
00:52President Trump posted a screenshot of his Wikipedia profile
00:55that shows him listed as the, quote,
00:57acting president of Venezuela.
00:58And while he was there, he made a couple other edits.
01:05President Trump said in a new interview
01:06that his power is only constrained by his, quote,
01:09own morality.
01:10All right, you guys, who gave him the last Infinity Stone?
01:15President Trump yesterday reposted a grainy black-and-white image
01:18of himself standing on the White House roof
01:20with the caption, quote, soon.
01:23What?
01:24What's coming soon?
01:26A gritty reboot of The Fugitive?
01:29Proof of the existence of Bigfoot?
01:31Ooh, is it Weapons 2?
01:35After the CEO of Exxon Mobil referred to Venezuela
01:39as uninvestable during a meeting on Friday
01:41at the White House,
01:42President Trump told reporters last night, quote,
01:44I didn't like Exxon's response.
01:46How do you even hear it when you were so distracted?
01:48Look at him.
01:50That was during the meeting.
01:51He's like a war widow still waiting
01:53for her husband to come home.
01:55That's how I look when it's been an hour
01:57since my DoorDash order.
02:01Before President Trump's departure
02:02from Palm Beach Airport last night,
02:04the Secret Service discovered a, quote,
02:06suspicious object.
02:07It was a salad.
02:08Yeah.
02:10That's definitely not his.
02:13Pope Leo yesterday baptized 20 babies
02:15in the Sistine Chapel.
02:17He wasn't planning on it.
02:18He was just really pumped about the bears.
02:21Yeah, give me another baby.
02:25New York announced plans last week
02:26to eventually become the first city in the country
02:29to provide free universal child care.
02:31It's quite a leap.
02:32Yeah.
02:34It's quite a leap for a city
02:36that only recently discovered trash cans.
02:41And finally, a new organic grocery store
02:44recently opened in Miami called Nude
02:46when Whole Foods was right there.
02:53That was a monologue, everybody!
02:57We got a great show for you tonight.
03:00You know her from Game of Thrones
03:01as well as films such as Solo,
03:03A Star Wars Story, and Last Christmas.
03:05Currently, she's starring in the new series Ponies,
03:09which premieres January 15th on Peacock.
03:11Emilia Clarke is back on the show, everybody.
03:14So happy to see her together.
03:16And he plays Ilya Rosenthal
03:18in the wildly popular HBO Max breakout series
03:22Heated Rivalry.
03:23Buckle up, everybody, because Connor Story is here.
03:28Very excited to talk to Connor.
03:31Before we get to all that,
03:33in the span of four days,
03:34Donald Trump has threatened to start a war with Europe
03:37by invading Greenland,
03:38defended the ice shooting in Minneapolis
03:40by saying an unarmed woman
03:42was disrespectful to law enforcement,
03:44opened a sham investigation
03:45into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
03:47because Powell won't do what he says,
03:49called himself the acting president of Venezuela,
03:52and broke the Guinness World Record
03:54for largest shoulder pads ever worn by a president.
03:58What is going on here, man?
03:59Where did you buy that?
04:01Gru's Warehouse?
04:03For more on this, it's time for a closer look.
04:10You guys, we're under a constant barrage of horrible news.
04:13It's impossible to look at your phone
04:14for even five minutes
04:15without alternating between rage and despair,
04:17and there's seemingly no end in sight,
04:19which is why I have made an important decision.
04:21I have decided to get a LeBooBoo.
04:25His name is Cherry Blossom.
04:27He's from the small Belgian village of Oosterburken.
04:31He loves skiing, cuddling,
04:32and leaving silly little notes around the house,
04:34and, oh, look at this.
04:36Here's a note right here.
04:37It says,
04:37Holy CNN says Trump might invade Greenland.
04:40Cherry Blossom!
04:43I told you to turn off your news alerts!
04:46And, by the way,
04:46I don't think I'm the only one suffering from burnout,
04:48or, at the very least, some seasonal ennui.
04:51During a meeting with oil execs on Friday,
04:53the president seemed a little overstimulated
04:56and decided he needed some quiet time in the cozy corner.
05:00We have many others that we're not able to get in.
05:03I said, if we had a ballroom,
05:05we'd have over 1,000 people.
05:08Everybody wanted it.
05:08I never knew your industry was that big.
05:10I never knew you had that many people in your industry.
05:15But here we are.
05:16And, in fact, if you look, come to think of it,
05:21well, I've got to look at this myself.
05:32What a view.
05:34This is the door to the ballroom.
05:40What was everyone else doing when this happened?
05:46The most powerful man in the world stops in the middle of a meeting
05:48to stare out the window,
05:49and no one there thinks to himself,
05:51should we call a nurse?
05:54What we just saw was, like, if in mid-interview I did this.
05:57So, you have a new movie coming out, and...
06:17This city.
06:20Would you look at that?
06:31So, your movie?
06:35The point of this meeting was to discuss
06:36the illegal seizure of Venezuela's oil,
06:38but he seemed to lose track of what he was supposed to be doing,
06:41because at some point,
06:42his secretary of state, Marco Rubio,
06:44passed him a note telling him what to do,
06:45and we only know about it
06:46because Trump read the note out loud.
06:48You're all going to do very well.
06:50I think really very well.
06:51Marco just gave me a note.
06:53Go back to Chevron.
06:56They want to discuss something.
06:57Go ahead. I'm going back to Chevron.
07:00Thank you, Marco.
07:02Is there a question, Mr. President?
07:03Yes. Go ahead, Marco.
07:05What are you saying here?
07:06I mean, first of all, how cute.
07:08Trump got a note from his labubu.
07:13Marco Rubububio.
07:16Rubububio.
07:18Marco Rubububio.
07:19Second, it doesn't inspire much confidence
07:21that the president got a private note
07:23from his secretary of state,
07:24and his first instinct was to immediately read it out loud
07:27in front of TV cameras.
07:28At least George W. Bush had the wherewithal
07:30to keep reading the pet goat.
07:32If Trump had been in that situation,
07:34he would have immediately blurted out,
07:35Everyone run for your lives!
07:38Trump is so bad with discretion,
07:39I wouldn't be surprised if Melania whispered in his ear
07:42at a dinner party, and then he announced,
07:44Well, we're going to get going.
07:46Melania has the
07:51That's what you told me.
07:54And while Trump was hatching his scheme
07:56to steal Venezuela's oil,
07:57he also threw in a mob-style threat
07:59toward Greenland,
08:01which is currently under the thumb
08:02of one of our most vicious foes, Denmark.
08:05We are going to do something on Greenland,
08:07whether they like it or not.
08:09I would like to make a deal, you know, the easy way,
08:11but if we don't do it the easy way,
08:12we're going to do it the hard way.
08:14First of all, we're talking about a remote island
08:16in the Arctic, not a waste management company
08:18in New Jersey.
08:19I can't even make a joke about Trump being a mobster,
08:22because even mobsters don't talk like that.
08:24They wouldn't just say Greenland.
08:26You know, they'd use coded language.
08:27You know, a friend up north,
08:28the one that looks like a golf course?
08:30What are you talking about?
08:32Here, let me write it down.
08:33There you go.
08:33Take a look.
08:35Greenland?
08:35Oh, don't read the note out loud.
08:39Who am I supposed to read it, Vinny?
08:41In your head!
08:43Now, Trump is threatening a military invasion.
08:46I've really used this prop a lot.
08:49So now Trump is threatening a military invasion
08:51of Greenland and a war with Europe,
08:53and it's not like things are any calmer on the home front.
08:55Over the weekend, there were sweeping protests
08:57against ICE and the Trump administration
08:59across the country.
08:59You might think it's because large numbers of Americans
09:02say they disapprove of both Trump and the conduct of ICE,
09:05but the president knows what's really going on.
09:07It's all a conspiracy.
09:09I think, frankly, they're professional agitators.
09:11And I'd like to find out,
09:14and we are going to find out who's paying for it,
09:16with their brand new signs and all the different things.
09:19Well, my man, one of the reasons the signs are new
09:21is because the outrages are new.
09:23Like, no one has an old sign lying around
09:25that says, keep your mitts off Greenland.
09:28Also, I love that in the middle of the AI boom
09:30where anything is possible, this dude's like,
09:31no one can make a sign that fast.
09:35In an effort to smoke out these shadowy far-left conspirators,
09:39Fox News host Sean Hannity sent a reporter
09:40into the streets of Minneapolis
09:42to interview protesters live on his show,
09:44but it didn't go the way Hannity expected.
09:46Let me ask you, have you spoken to any people,
09:49or can you speak to anybody that's marching right now
09:51and ask them what it is that they're marching about?
09:56Yeah.
09:57Excuse me.
09:58Can you tell us, what are you here marching for?
10:00Yeah, I'm just here because I think it's absolutely disgusting
10:02what ICE is doing here.
10:03I think it's absolutely abhorrent that they're kidnapping people.
10:06I'm disgusted that they murdered an innocent human being.
10:09And yeah, the entire thing just absolutely abhors me.
10:12This has to stop immediately.
10:14And I'm sorry, but how dare you go on Fox News
10:16and state such a normal, reasonable opinion?
10:18If you keep this up, the president is going to be so sad
10:20he'll walk over to the window and never come back.
10:24And then who would post psychotic rants on Truth Social
10:26besides, you know, everyone else on Truth Social?
10:30But don't forget, this man is a paid left-wing agitator.
10:33He's part of a shadowy, far-left conspiracy.
10:35He must also be carrying a dangerous weapon.
10:39What's your instrument of choice?
10:40Instrument of choice?
10:41I just found a bell in a bag.
10:43Someone was handing out free stuff, so there we go.
10:45Oh, my God, he's got a bell!
10:48Quick, cover your ears.
10:49If he rings it three times,
10:50you have no choice but to sit down for dinner.
10:54Let's just tell you everything you need to know
10:56about the situation.
10:57One side is showing up with guns,
10:58and the other side is showing up with bells.
11:00And not just any bells, tiny bells.
11:02I mean, what dangerous weapons are these paid agitators
11:05going to brandish next?
11:06A quilt and a ball of yarn?
11:09Now, compare how reasonable and normal these protesters sound
11:12to how mindless and broken the administration sounds.
11:14Specifically, when asked about the double standard
11:17between their response to ICE protesters
11:19and the way they treat law enforcement.
11:21I want to show some video to you right now
11:23and ask, what is the appropriate response
11:25for the police officers in this situation?
11:28Those are law enforcement officers being physically attacked.
11:32By this standard, would any of those officers
11:35be justified in shooting and killing the people
11:37causing them physical harm?
11:39Every single situation is going to rely
11:42on the situation those officers are on.
11:44President Trump pardoned every single one of those people.
11:46And every single one of these investigations
11:48comes in the full context of the situation on the ground.
11:52I just showed you video of people
11:54attacking law enforcement officers.
11:56There's a different standard for law enforcement officials
11:59being attacked if they're being attacked
12:01by Trump supporters.
12:02We just saw them.
12:03This individual and these instances
12:05and these investigations all have to be taken
12:08and done and done correctly
12:10in context of every situation that is happening
12:12on the ground.
12:13I don't think I've ever seen a government official
12:15short circuit like that.
12:16It's like if you asked an Amazon Echo
12:19to answer an impossible math question
12:21after dropping it in the toilet.
12:23Alexa, what's zero times infinity?
12:27Zero times infinity is infinity multiplied by zero,
12:30which is zero infinity, zero infinity, zero infinity.
12:33All math problems must be done and done correctly
12:36in the situation of the context of the situation
12:38of the context of the situation of the context.
12:40You know what? Just forget it.
12:40Forget it. Forget it.
12:42But seriously, check out.
12:44Check out the blank look in her eyes.
12:46There's nothing there.
12:47Those eyes are so empty and vacant,
12:49Trump's going to stand up in the middle of the meeting
12:50and look through them.
12:52What a beautiful view. Wow.
12:55The Trump administration is behaving as though
12:57they govern not a democracy but an empire.
12:59They think they can annex any territory they want
13:01and occupy any American city they want,
13:03but polls show that most Americans strongly disapprove
13:05and eventually Trump officials
13:07will have to face that reality.
13:08Whether they like it or not.
13:10This has been A Closer Look.
13:15We'll be right back with Emilia Clarke, everybody.
13:23For more of Seth's Closer Looks,
13:25be sure to subscribe to Late Night on YouTube.
13:37Our first guest tonight is an Emmy-nominated actress
13:40you know from Game of Thrones as well as films
13:42like Solo, A Star Wars Story, and Last Christmas.
13:45She stars in the new series Ponies,
13:46which premieres January 15th on Peacock.
13:49Let's take a look.
14:09What the hell?
14:11Your accent is not Moscovite at all.
14:13He picked up on that?
14:14An idiot would.
14:15Did you pick up on it?
14:16I mean, did you have to throw the peanuts?
14:19Better peanuts than bullets.
14:21Every time I throw a peanut,
14:23imagine how it would feel with a bullet.
14:26Please welcome back to the show,
14:28Emilia Clarke, everybody.
14:43Hi.
14:44Thank you so much for having me.
14:46How are you?
14:46It's lovely to see you again.
14:47It's been a while.
14:48It has been a while.
14:49I feel like it's been nearly 10 years.
14:51I'm out of practice.
14:52It's been too long.
14:53We're not going to make a habit of waiting 10 years
14:55between visits.
14:56No, no, no, definitely.
14:56Okay.
14:57I'll work more.
14:59And I'll work more to make sure you're here.
15:01So this is my, I was talking backstage,
15:03this is like my favorite genre of show.
15:06Yes.
15:06This is Cold War spy stuff.
15:08Yes, it is.
15:08It's actually a wonderful clip because you play someone who is going undercover.
15:13Uh-huh.
15:13A spy.
15:14Uh-huh.
15:14And you have to learn Russian both in the show, but also for the show.
15:18Yeah, in life.
15:19In life, you had to learn Russian.
15:20I had to learn Russian.
15:21Yeah.
15:21The lines in Russian.
15:23You had to learn lines in Russian, right?
15:24Yes.
15:25You did not just conversational Russian.
15:26But like this Russian.
15:27This particular Russian because I know no other Russian.
15:30I do not speak.
15:31So you started with no Russian.
15:33And then you had to do a whole show's worth of Russian.
15:35Yes.
15:35I had, I had one teacher and she made me cry.
15:39Okay.
15:39And I sucked.
15:42And she just kept saying the same words over and over again.
15:46And I kept repeating them.
15:47And I felt like I had a good ear and I felt like I knew what I was saying.
15:49And then she would say them back and I'd be like, that's what I'm saying.
15:52And she's like, no, you're not.
15:53And then I would, and then it would be like, it would be very upsetting.
15:56That doesn't sound good at all.
15:57No, it was horrible.
15:58It was, yeah, that was not good.
15:59And then my, the amazing show when I was on the show, David and Susanna.
16:03Hi guys, you're in the audience.
16:06David's here?
16:07Yeah.
16:07You used to work with them.
16:08There we go.
16:09Yeah.
16:09Full circle.
16:11And, and he was like, you can, you can change teachers.
16:14And I was like, no, no, no, I'm going to do this.
16:15I'm going, you know, I'm going to, you're giving me the teacher it's going to be.
16:17And then he gave me a new teacher and then everything was better.
16:20Really?
16:20Yes.
16:21Yes.
16:21So this isn't that you're bad at Russian.
16:23It's that you had a terrible teacher.
16:25That's what we're saying.
16:26Yeah, that's good.
16:26That's my story.
16:27That's what we're sticking with.
16:28I think it's a good story to stick with.
16:30It's a fantastic setup for a spy show.
16:33You and Haley, Lou Richardson.
16:35Yes.
16:36You play ponies.
16:38Which is a, means, what, person of no interest.
16:41Persons of no interest, yes.
16:42Gotcha.
16:42So your husbands are spies.
16:44Yes.
16:44They die in mysterious circumstances.
16:46Because you are persons of no interest, you can go back to Russia and the KGB will not be hip
16:51to you.
16:51Exactly, because we're women and no one's going to expect women to be spies.
16:54Very fun.
16:55Yeah, it's very good.
16:56It's very good.
16:57And did you enjoy, are you the kind of person who thinks you would be good at spycraft in real
17:01life?
17:01I would be the worst spy.
17:03Yeah.
17:03I would be terrible.
17:04What do you think would be your, like, Achilles heel as a spy?
17:07All of it.
17:07Yeah.
17:08Absolutely everything.
17:09Yeah.
17:09I'm bad at lying.
17:10Yep.
17:11I get uncomfortable if I'm, like, having, you know, with someone and I'm maybe being mean.
17:17Yep.
17:17In a certain way.
17:18Or, like, that person doesn't like me.
17:20I think I've spent the entire time just being, like, okay, yeah, but this is a lie.
17:24Like, I'm great.
17:25You're going to like me and I'm going to make you like me.
17:27It'd be really funny if you went back and you're like, you know, how did it go with your game?
17:30And you're like, I think he really likes me.
17:31I think we did really well.
17:32I did tell him I'm a spy, but I do think he really likes me.
17:35But, like, that got him on side.
17:36Yeah.
17:37So, therefore, now we're friends.
17:38I feel like the same.
17:39I, like, I think here's why I think I'd be a bad spy.
17:42I don't think I've ever tried to, like, sneakily look at somebody without them immediately noticing.
17:46Yes.
17:46No, no, completely.
17:47People are always like, I'm sorry, can I help you?
17:48And I feel like that's a bad thing for a spy.
17:50Yes.
17:51Yeah.
17:51Yes, definitely.
17:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
17:52I would not go incognito very well.
17:54Yep.
17:55I think I would take a bad, like, like, people need, like, the secret camera.
17:58I think I'd be bad with that.
17:59Yeah.
17:59Oh, terrible.
18:00Yeah, absolutely awful.
18:01I think I'd constantly be like, if we were talking, I'd be like.
18:05Yeah, no, exactly.
18:07Yes.
18:08Yes.
18:08I like the time, you know, you saw Madonna in a restaurant and you're like.
18:12I'm like, she knows.
18:14She knows.
18:15You, of course, famously had to learn Dothraki.
18:18Yeah.
18:19For Game of Thrones.
18:20Which was, which we've talked about.
18:24Which was, you know, and I remember 10 years ago, we talked about it.
18:27It was a real language.
18:28It was a real language.
18:29I know.
18:29I don't understand it.
18:30I'm such a bad linguist.
18:32I speak English.
18:33That's it.
18:33Yeah.
18:34And all these things.
18:35Everybody says wonderfully.
18:36So well.
18:37Yeah.
18:38Really good at this one language.
18:40Really bad at all the others.
18:41And yet, all of these shows.
18:42I just, like, everything that I've done.
18:44Yeah, but at least other people speak Russian.
18:46I mean, Dothraki was, like, seemed, like, deeply unfair.
18:49Yeah.
18:49So this, it really was.
18:50I put so much energy into learning Dothraki, and then we did the show, and then we moved
18:56on to Valerian, and then we moved on to High Valerian, and all that stuff, and then I
18:59feel like she ended up speaking English.
19:00But the creator of the language, I read an article, said that I sucked at Dothraki.
19:10And I was like, what?
19:12There's like...
19:13Bro!
19:13You're like, I'm the only one doing it, bro.
19:16It's not real.
19:17It's not a real language.
19:19I can't suck at it, because me saying it on the TV, that's how it goes.
19:23That's the language.
19:24That's Dothraki now.
19:26Yeah.
19:27And forever.
19:28I love that guy being like, I'd love to see her order dinner in a Dothraki restaurant.
19:33You're like, don't worry, bro.
19:34It's not real.
19:35It's not real.
19:36I was so hurt.
19:38And then really pissed.
19:40Yeah.
19:40Yeah.
19:40It is fascinating today that both guests on the show had to learn Russian for the purposes.
19:46Yes.
19:47So, Conor Story, obviously, learned Russian for Heated Rivalry.
19:50Yes.
19:50Have you seen Heated Rivalry yet?
19:52No.
19:53Okay.
19:53No.
19:55I...
19:56No, no, no, no.
19:56It's not on in England.
19:58I, like, don't know.
19:59It's too hot for England.
20:00It's too...
20:02Way too hot for England.
20:02I mean, by the way, I feel like, yeah.
20:04The BBC ain't showing that.
20:05No.
20:05You know what I mean?
20:06You know what?
20:07By the way, I've watched it.
20:08The BBC can show, like, the first seven minutes.
20:12And that's it.
20:12By the way, this is not a show that makes you wait for what you heard about.
20:15No.
20:16No.
20:17Exactly.
20:17It's, like, out of the gates.
20:18Yes.
20:19Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:19But the interesting thing is, like, Conor, you know, and obviously I'll talk to him,
20:24is a phenomenon, right?
20:24Yes.
20:25The show, it's very similar to Game of Thrones.
20:27I'm excited to watch it.
20:28I will watch the show, everyone.
20:29Yeah, no, no.
20:29We have no doubt.
20:31No doubt.
20:31Yes.
20:32My mom has also told me no less than 20 times that this gorgeous young man is on the same
20:39show tonight.
20:41She wanted you to know who the other guest was.
20:43She kept saying it.
20:44And I was like, do you have Alzheimer's?
20:45You have told me this 20 times.
20:47Yeah.
20:47I know this man is on the show, but I, like, I, you know, I think, I don't think.
20:52I'm going to say something, and I'm not a doctor.
20:54I think that show is so horny it gives people Alzheimer's.
20:58But she's not seen the show.
21:01She doesn't know what the show is.
21:02She just knows that it's hot right now.
21:04Yeah.
21:04Oh, my God.
21:05I love it.
21:06Thank you so much.
21:07I love that it's, like, how viral is this show?
21:09Like, British moms who haven't seen it are calling their daughters, being like, I have news.
21:15Oh, my God.
21:17Get ready for it.
21:18Get me that selfie.
21:19I'm like, Mom, you don't know who.
21:20Anyway.
21:20Anyway.
21:21But God love your mom for looking out.
21:23Absolutely.
21:23Does she often do that?
21:24Does she often call you with, like, updates on showbiz?
21:26My mother is more online than I am.
21:28Yeah.
21:28Yeah.
21:29I'm really.
21:29I will say, like, that, the future of social media, if it was that, which is you only get
21:33it because your parents are on social media, I feel like they would, like, filter out all
21:37the toxicity and you would just get, like, slightly wrong showbiz stuff.
21:41No, that's true.
21:42But then, see, like, I don't know if you're one of those people, like, I have to, I keep, like,
21:45deleting Instagram.
21:46It's not good for you.
21:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:47And then you download it and all this stuff.
21:48But my mom consistently sends me Instagram links.
21:51And I'm like, I don't know.
21:52Right now, Mom.
21:53Don't make me go back on Instagram to watch this dog dancing.
21:56I would really appreciate that.
21:57My dad sends me links all the time from the hometown paper that I need a paid subscription
22:03for.
22:05Like, at this point, I should just get the subscription.
22:07I just really like that it's, like, and it's, like, he sends it from the newspaper website.
22:11So it's, like, Larry Myers thinks you would enjoy this.
22:14But you can't unless you bought it.
22:15And then you click it and you would need a subscription.
22:16And I'm, like, and then he's always, like, did you read that?
22:18And I'm, like, yeah.
22:19Yeah.
22:19That's what I said.
22:20I'm, like, it's great.
22:21Thanks, Mom.
22:21But, you know, when you were, you know, in Game of Thrones, that was, again, that was
22:25a show very similar, which was, like, as soon as it came out, another HBO show that was
22:29a phenomenon.
22:30Were you immediately, like, in the public eye in a way that was uncomfortable?
22:35No.
22:35So because I had brown hair and she had blonde hair, I was completely unrecognizable.
22:43Utterly unrecognizable.
22:44I would be walking down the street with Kit, Kit Harrington, who played Jon Snow in the
22:46show, and people, the fans would stop me and be, like, can you take a picture of me
22:51and Kit?
22:51I'm, like, yeah.
22:53I 100% can.
22:54And was kind of riding off that for a while, and then people caught on.
22:57Yeah.
22:58That I looked this way.
22:59But there was one time we were filming in Spain, and I still don't know how these particular
23:03fans got to the hair and makeup trailer, but they were there.
23:06Usually there's security on a set.
23:07Some kind.
23:08Yeah.
23:09Anyway, so they're, like, outside the hair and makeup, and they're, like, can I have
23:12a photo?
23:12And I'm, like, of course you can.
23:13Let me just get my wig off, and then I'll come back out.
23:16I came back out.
23:17They did not know who I was.
23:19Like, at all.
23:20I just walked right by.
23:21I was, like, I'm not going to.
23:22They were, like, is Amelia coming out soon?
23:24You're, like, any minute.
23:25Any minute now.
23:26Yeah, and I didn't feel it was bad for me to be, like, didn't you want a photo?
23:29Yeah.
23:30Right.
23:30It's me.
23:31I swear.
23:32Well, that is right.
23:32I will say there's nothing scarier than, like, when you follow up and you're, like, did
23:36you want a picture?
23:37Yes.
23:37And then they, like, are, like, uh, no.
23:40Changed my mind.
23:41We did.
23:42Yeah, but we don't want it anymore.
23:43But now we don't.
23:43Yeah.
23:43Um, is it true, uh, that, uh, back in England every January, at least once, I guess, you
23:50go into, you swim in the ocean?
23:52Well, it's not in January.
23:53It's all the time.
23:54Yeah.
23:54Okay.
23:54The British Sea, getting in that ice cold.
23:56Oh, so this isn't, like, a polar bear plunge like we do, where it's, like, to start the
24:00new year.
24:00You, like, do it.
24:01No, I mean, I should.
24:02Yeah.
24:02This year, I just couldn't be bothered.
24:04But if you, like, but you would do it, like, on multiple days?
24:08Yeah, any time.
24:09Really?
24:10There's, there, but there is a special app.
24:11So I was just getting in the sea, like, you know, you, you, you go somewhere for the weekend
24:15or whatever, and before you've had your shower, before anything, you, like, run into the sea,
24:19and it's amazing.
24:19And it's freezing, right?
24:20It's freezing.
24:21Okay.
24:21But it's gorgeous.
24:22It's absolutely brilliant.
24:22I was there with my girlfriends, and they were, like, but you've got to get the sewage app.
24:26And I was, like, what?
24:27What are you talking about?
24:28And they were, like, because you know which bit of the sea is contaminated, and which bit
24:34of the sea is, like, okay to get into and which isn't, and I didn't know that.
24:37Wow.
24:37So I've just, yeah, I mean.
24:39It's so fascinating when there was a thing I already wasn't going to do, and then you
24:45immediately made it, like, so much worse.
24:47Yeah.
24:47Like, you were, like, hey, Seth, before you run into the ocean, I'm, like, keep going,
24:50but I wasn't going to.
24:51Okay, good, yes.
24:52You should, though.
24:53You should.
24:54You should.
24:54I can't handle warm, warm seawater.
24:57I went to Hawaii once, and it just felt like everyone had peed.
25:01I, like, couldn't.
25:01It just made me really uncomfortable.
25:02Oh, so you like cold, because that means no one's peed, except, you know, you do know
25:06what, like, sewage is.
25:08Yeah, I'm aware of.
25:10I'm now aware in this exact moment that, yeah, I should, I should, yeah.
25:14Yeah.
25:15So you're fine, and again, I'm 100% sure this, I'm fine with urine as long as it's properly
25:19chilled.
25:20Absolutely.
25:21Yeah.
25:22Yeah.
25:22Just keep your mouth closed.
25:23Keep your mouth closed.
25:24Where is, where do you go?
25:26Is it, like, am I, is it, like, southern coast?
25:28Like, where?
25:28So there's a place that's very near to London.
25:30It's, like, an hour and a half drive, and it's beautiful, and it's the Kent coast.
25:34And there is, you're not the only person.
25:36Like, there's, like, there's, like, no.
25:38People are just walking their dogs, and then some people are just there in their dry robes,
25:41being, like, ah, and, like, running into the sea.
25:44No one cares.
25:45All right.
25:46Or notice, or it's not a thing.
25:47Okay.
25:47It's just, you're just like, oh, yeah, those are the people that run into the sea.
25:50Okay.
25:50And swim.
25:50What a wonderful country.
25:52It's wonderful.
25:52What a wonderful tradition.
25:53It's wonderful.
25:53It's so wonderful to see you again.
25:55Thank you so much for being here.
25:56It's so good to see you.
25:56Congrats on the show.
25:57You guys, this is the other part.
26:00Pony's premieres January 15th on Peacock.
26:02We'll be right back with Conor Story.
26:24Our next guest is a talented actor you know from the wildly popular breakout show,
26:29Heated Rivalry.
26:30All episodes are streaming now on HBO Max.
26:32Please welcome to the show, Conor Story, everybody.
26:51I'm trying to, like, take it in.
26:52Yeah, take it in.
26:53Take it in.
26:54Give it up.
26:57I want to start by thanking you because I was watching the Golden Globes last night
27:02and you presented there and I was doing the math and realizing you had to be here.
27:05Yeah.
27:06So you were on a red eye last night to join us.
27:08We really appreciate it.
27:09Yep.
27:09I left at probably 8 p.m. and then went to the Chateau Marmont for about 30 minutes.
27:15Fantastic.
27:15All right.
27:15A little after party.
27:16Yep.
27:17Said hello to Parker Posey and then got on a plane.
27:19That's fantastic.
27:20Yeah.
27:21Now, I imagine due to the breakthrough, you know, attraction of this show, it must be
27:27nice to be at a Golden Globe party and be able to say hello to people that you've been
27:31a fan of over the years that now know who you are.
27:34Yeah.
27:35Yeah.
27:35It's definitely weird.
27:37I met your favorite person, Amy Poehler.
27:39Pretty good person to me.
27:40Yeah.
27:42She won the first Golden Globe for a podcast, which is really cool.
27:45Yep.
27:45Yep.
27:45And she was in Blades of Glory, so she's also done skating acting.
27:48Yep, yep, yep, yep.
27:49Yeah.
27:50Yeah, that was really good.
27:50She probably wanted to connect on the skating acting.
27:52So, have you heard of, like, divorced dad movies?
27:54No.
27:55What are divorced dad movies?
27:56So, me and my friends talk about this all the time.
27:58If you come from a divorced family, divorced dads have, like, the most raunchy, irreverent
28:03comedies that seven-year-olds should not be watching.
28:05Right.
28:06And Blades of Glory was one of those.
28:07Really?
28:08For me.
28:08Yes.
28:08That's fascinating, because I binged Heated Rivalry with my small children.
28:15And I feel like, looking back, there are some scenes I should have fast-forwarded through.
28:18Yeah, yeah.
28:19It's important.
28:20It's kind of, it's like, when I was little, my dad made me watch The Shining when I was
28:23six, because he was like, people are going to reference this.
28:27You need to know this.
28:28And so, that's how I imagined it was Heated Rivalry.
28:30That is the most fantastic parenting to show it to you, not because it's a good movie,
28:33but because I want you to get the jokes.
28:35Yeah, yeah.
28:36He wanted me to know what people were saying when they were like, here's Johnny.
28:41Yeah.
28:41You know?
28:41And did that help in life?
28:43It made me love Shelly Duvall.
28:45Yeah, that's...
28:46It made me love Shelly Duvall with a bat like this.
28:48Yeah.
28:49That's fantastic.
28:50She's one of our great bat actors while we talk about different...
28:53No, I want to get to this.
28:55So, this show, for those who haven't seen it, and obviously, there are fewer and fewer
28:58people every day who haven't seen it, but this is a love story.
29:02I thought it was going to end there.
29:02There are fewer and fewer people every day.
29:05Every day.
29:05I'm sorry to break this.
29:07That's just how it works.
29:08Right.
29:08People die, Connor.
29:09Your dad obviously didn't tell you.
29:11He was showing you The Shining.
29:13No, so, this is a love story set in the world of professional hockey.
29:18It's just a lovely show.
29:19Like, how you must be shocked by the broad appeal of it, because, you know, it seems when
29:24you hear the, you know, the concept of it initially, it feels like it might have a narrow
29:27audience, but it feels like everybody's watching it.
29:29It must be so rewarding.
29:30Yeah, yeah.
29:31I mean, I think that anyone can really click into the idea of love and feeling like, you
29:39know, what's expected of you.
29:40And in this case, it's being a professional hockey player.
29:43I think people can really click into being like, how I am, what I want is not really what's
29:47expected of me.
29:49Yeah, I was super shocked.
29:50I mean, you think of something like, you know, male romance, and you think just it's for
29:54gay men.
29:55But, I mean, there's been all walks of life, predominantly women who enjoy it.
30:00It's also, you know, I do think, like, look, media has evolved past a lot of the easy
30:07stereotypes over the years, and there's been a lot of great examples.
30:10But it's also wonderful to show, like, you know, you guys are also jocks, right?
30:13Like, you are, I feel like we're watching a male romance that maybe we haven't seen,
30:17you know, with a few small examples, and that's kind of what makes it so unique.
30:20And obviously, one of the reasons that's attracted so many people to it.
30:23Mm-hmm.
30:23Yeah, I mean, the, that, that's, that was the craziest part for me to play.
30:27Everyone always talks about the Russian, but the jockness of it all.
30:30I mean, like, trying, like, these, these guys in the NHL, they have been skating since
30:36they were, like, three years old.
30:37So for Hudson and I to show up with, like, two weeks of skating training and being, like,
30:44and just kind of waddling like this, like, um, it's ridiculous.
30:47It is very funny.
30:48I feel like there are two things the camera always just cuts right out at.
30:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:52It's like the skates and you know the other thing.
30:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:56Yeah, I, yeah, I do the other thing.
30:58I don't do the skating thing.
31:00Do you feel a little bit better at skating now?
31:01Because, I mean, it was not, it was not egregious.
31:04I'm going to be honest with you, I thought I was doing good.
31:08And then recently, I think our costume, one of our costume designers, Hannah, posted
31:12this, like, BTS thing of me skating.
31:15And I watched it and I was like, oh boy.
31:19I was like, I don't, I don't deserve any accolades for this.
31:22I was like.
31:23You're being too hard on yourself.
31:24It's incredible.
31:24Everything you had to do for the show, we're not going to give you a hard time in the skating.
31:27Hey, one of my favorite things about the narrative structure of the show is it takes place
31:33over a long course of this romance.
31:35There's time jumps.
31:36There's title cards for all the time jumps.
31:38And we've never done this on this show before, but could we do, could the next few questions
31:42be with the benefit of a time jump?
31:44Yeah.
31:44Okay, great.
31:46So was there anything you shot that ended up being too salacious to put in the show?
31:52Yeah, one time.
31:57Wow!
31:59Wow!
32:08I know, right?
32:10Yeah, that's crazy.
32:11Yeah, totally.
32:12Totally.
32:16I'm sorry, I'm just, I'm still thinking about it.
32:20Oh, yeah.
32:21It stays with you.
32:26Do you know what a sex swing is?
32:29Do I?
32:34Hey, great to have you back on the show.
32:36Yeah, no, I mean, it's great to be back.
32:39Were you, I think you were wearing the same thing last time.
32:43I only own like three outfits.
32:45Yeah.
32:45Yeah, I heard that, so I wore the same thing.
32:48Hey, congrats on your Oscar win.
32:52We'll be right back with more of a kind of story.
33:39Not so much.
33:41I love you.
33:44And here's what you're saying.
33:48I want only you, not always only you, I love you so much and I don't know what to do
33:59with it.
34:15When you meet an actor for the first time watching a show that is their sort of breakout role, you
34:20just assume they are closer to who they're playing than they are in real life.
34:25Like, I fully just assumed they had found a Russian-speaking actor for this part. That is not what happened.
34:30No.
34:30Yeah. Did you have any head start on Russian?
34:33So, when I was in high school, I spent my junior year in France and I've always loved languages.
34:38Like, I think if I wasn't an actor or filmmaker, I would definitely want to somehow commit myself to linguistics.
34:44But, so I tried learning the Russian alphabet. I got super into, like, Russian rap and stuff.
34:48But Russian is so, it's so impossibly difficult to learn.
34:52I'm so glad your character didn't rap all their lines.
34:55I'm asking Jacob. I'm like, you have to give me a Russian, like, little rap part.
35:00Yeah. I can see that. I can see at least one scene.
35:03Yeah. Yeah. Connor's story destroys everything that was going for him.
35:07But it sounds like Russian was easier for you than the skating. Is that accurate?
35:11Yeah. I mean, I don't think it was easier for, I mean, the skating is just, it's impossible.
35:17Right.
35:17You know, like, again, like, I could do it every single day for ten years and I would never be
35:22anywhere close to that.
35:24Um, the Russian was a little bit more immediate and was a little bit more a part of the show
35:28for me.
35:29Um, yeah. So, I mean, I did, like, four-hour sessions of Russian every day for, like, a month and
35:34a half.
35:35And not only- Shout out to Katya. Katya Yabunovsky.
35:38And is, uh, hopefully Katya wasn't the one that was so mean to Amelia that-
35:43No.
35:44Okay, yeah, yeah. It didn't sound like it.
35:45Seems like Katya might be one of the nice ones.
35:46She was the good cop.
35:47Yeah, that's good.
35:48Bad cop.
35:49Did, uh, you, obviously you had to skate in front of people who I assume, uh, you know, were accomplished
35:53skaters.
35:54You also had to speak Russian in front of actual Russian actors.
35:57Yeah.
35:57What was the feedback they were giving you from scene to scene?
35:59Yeah, um, the- Yeah, oddly enough, a lot of the-the scenes that took place in Russia, almost all
36:06of the background were Russian.
36:09Um, the-the scene where after my dad's funeral- Spoiler.
36:12Um, I-I'm with my brother.
36:16Uh, everyone at that table was actually Russian and so we have, like, an argument in Russian in the other
36:21room.
36:22Um, and this-this, uh, Russian lady, this older lady, um, I came back in to reset and she starts
36:27being like-
36:31And then I'm like, no.
36:33I don't-I don't do that.
36:36And then she told-she told the person next to her, she was like-
36:42Um, and then she was-the-this man was like, oh, she thought you were an actual Russian speaker.
36:47Oh, that's really high praise.
36:48Yeah, but she thought-she-but she thought that, like, she thought that, like, my parents were Russian and I
36:53speak Russian at home with, like, a pseudo-American accent.
36:56Gotcha, yeah.
36:57Um, yeah.
36:57It would be funny if every time somebody spoke to you in Russia, you just went, line!
37:01Yeah, yeah.
37:02I just always say-my go-to, I always say, in Russian, um, I speak Russian really poorly.
37:08Well, to know that is helpful.
37:10Yeah.
37:10You, uh, you grew up in Texas.
37:12Mm-hmm.
37:12So, uh, what part of Texas you grew up?
37:14Odessa.
37:15Represent!
37:15All right.
37:17So that is, as names go, the most Russian part of Texas.
37:20About.
37:20Yeah, just about.
37:21So you kind of.
37:22Um, but, uh, was hockey a big part of your, I mean, did you ever watch hockey or?
37:26Um, I would say one hockey game growing up.
37:29We had the Jackalopes, which is like, uh, it's, yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a rabbit with antlers as
37:35their mascot.
37:36Okay.
37:36And I swear to God, I thought that was a real thing until about five years ago.
37:40The Jackalope.
37:40Yeah, I was talking to Sarah, one of your producers, on the phone.
37:44Um, and she mentioned that she knew of the Jackalopes.
37:46And then I was like, so it is a thing?
37:49Um, she's like, no, it's not.
37:51That's good.
37:52It's fun to have a role that helps you learn about animals.
37:55Yeah, and actually, one of the, uh, one of the, because we probably, we had a few dozen, uh, professional
38:00hockey players that were the teams.
38:01And we would kind of just swap out jerseys.
38:03And, um, one of the guys, he played for the Jackalopes when I was there.
38:07Oh, really?
38:07Yeah.
38:08So another, there was another Texan out there.
38:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:10Well, no, no, he was Canadian, I think.
38:11Okay, gotcha, right.
38:12But he, he had gone there for, he'd gone to Odessa because that's the hockey capital of the world.
38:18Um, you know, I have to imagine how crazy a whirlwind this has been.
38:21Uh, one of the benefits is, you know, it probably opens doors that weren't available to you before.
38:27Like, what is something that you're hopeful, uh, to do with what I'm assuming is a pretty exciting opportunity for?
38:32Yeah, I, uh, I, I get that question and I try to come up with, I mean, I could probably
38:38come up with like a dream role or something.
38:40But, um, I just feel really, really honored.
38:43Um, I've, I worked in restaurants for years and years, literally up until I booked this.
38:50If Heated Rivalry did not go this well, I was already planning on getting a new job in a few
38:54months.
38:55So just to be able to like act and get paid to do what I want to do and have
39:01enough money or resources to film my own things, like, it's, it's made, it's made for me.
39:07Well, very well deserved.
39:09Truly, truly.
39:09Very well deserved.
39:11Yeah.
39:11I think everybody's excited to know there'll be more Heated Rivalry as well.
39:14Hey, thanks so much, Connor.
39:15Congratulations.
39:16Thank you, thank you.
39:18Hey, everybody, that's Connor's story.
39:20All six episodes of Heated Rivalry are streaming now on HBO Max.
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