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00:00oh man i mean it's like you get that call it's like what do you i had to do it
00:07hey i'm david
00:08harbour and i'm going to take 10 deadline i got a hit hey you got a hit man i got
00:27a hit
00:27haha nice one first one says modern love it's a guy but still it's nice to get a hit yeah
00:36when you first read the dtf st louis script what made you say i have to do this this question
00:45is
00:45weird because i said i have to do this before the script was even in its inception i took an
00:55idea
00:55and several themes but it was sort of my gestation to go to steve conrad and to be like can
01:02we write
01:02something about this about middle age about men about weird sexuality in the suburbs perhaps a
01:11little genre bending around suburban noir so i sort of had to do it with steve before the script came
01:17in and then when the script came in we worked on it for i mean we worked on these scripts
01:22for a long
01:23time for like three years but i will say even from the first script his writing style is unlike
01:30anyone else's i've ever met i think it is so original and in a world where everything now
01:36is a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy originality is something even if it's bad that i will
01:43run toward your character floyd is funny vulnerable and layered thank you deadline what did you
01:53personally connect to most personally what i connect to most oh god what i've connected most
02:02i think floyd has a naive heart and i think he believes the best in people i think that's what
02:10the real connection was i had to learn other things about floyd like how he danced for example i don't
02:16dance that well floyd does um or sign language how he expresses things with his body he has something
02:23about validation which not to say i don't need validation but he he sort of needs to be validated
02:29by uh a man's erection towards the end of the series which is a wild idea that really took me
02:37a long
02:37time to reconcile what that meant for him so there were real um challenges in connecting with him as
02:42well there were sometimes things that i could have written off that i had to really dig in and go
02:48how
02:48do i ground this as a real man who's you know out there struggling making money for living in the
02:55suburbs doing his thing but at the kernel of this naive heart of floyd's was something that i i just
03:01loved
03:02about him and it's something that i really connected with uh very quickly you learned american sign
03:07language asl for those of you in the know for the role what was your biggest takeaway from that
03:12experience american sign language is amazing i'm going to say one thing right off the bat which i think
03:17is crazy american sign language only works for americans which is like even if you're communicating
03:26with a british person i guess you can't sign with that person certainly you can't go to italy or
03:31france or anything and you think that they would have come up with some kind of universal language
03:35but they didn't and so it's you're really it's very niche community the other thing is nobody really
03:44learns it unless they have a family member who's deaf or hard of hearing nobody just randomly picks it up
03:51and the other thing is it's an incredibly beautiful expressive language i went to northwestern university
03:58when i was 17 years old in a program called the cherubs program there was a fellow actor of our
04:06community who was also in the same year as me at that northwestern program his name is pedro pascal
04:10we were in the same play called voychek but there was a woman there who was an actress who was
04:17deaf and we all had to do at the beginning of the program we all had to get up and
04:22do
04:23monologues i did henry v because i had just seen kenneth brano do it in film and i was like
04:28i just
04:28basically did an imitation of him doing henry v it was terrible i forget what pedro did i have no
04:36idea
04:36but um she did a monologue it was extraordinary and i think the thing that was extraordinary about it
04:44was she just got up there and did sign language and was just very expressive and we were all just
04:50blown away i thought she was the best actress in the whole program but she had an advantage
04:54because there's something very um arresting when sound drops out but someone's still communicating
05:02and i think that
05:06it's a really powerful trick to use in a way it's very powerfully done in the show too
05:11whenever the sign language comes on i just think it really takes on it's just like your attention just
05:17goes uh laser focused the tv so yeah it's really an incredible language and it's an incredible tool
05:24to use cinematically too and that as well was there a moment on set with jason bateman and linda
05:30carlini you'll never forget i mean to be honest most of the show i'll never forget it was probably
05:38one of my greatest working experiences i don't know if you know but the last 10 years of my career
05:44i've been working with a lot of kids and i finally worked with a couple middle-aged individuals like
05:50myself and it was really nice to sit around talking about middle-aged stuff with middle-aged people
05:55um it would be different for for both of them but for jason it would be that scene in the
06:02bath
06:03house the kevin klein pools at the end of the show the 15 page scene with us and our tighty
06:09whiteys
06:10dancing around was
06:13it just sounds weird that that's how you tee it up and then you go it was the greatest artistic
06:18night
06:18of my life but it really but it really was it's a beautiful it's a beautiful piece of work and
06:25i
06:25would say with linda it was more of a slow burn it was kind of like just every time i
06:29got together
06:29with her i just was impressed with her strength and her intelligence as an actress and we would
06:35have lovely conversations and i would hang out with her husband and her daughter would walk around
06:40atlanta a little bit sometimes and she's a very special person i think everybody feels it i think
06:45everybody's felt it since scooby-doo and uh we just love her she's a national treasure
06:53when stranger things ended did you keep anything from the set or wish you had uh yeah stranger things
07:02yeah i kept something from from stranger things at the end of season four hopper picks up a sword
07:09after his machine gun doesn't work on the demogorgon he picks up a sword and launches for him and on
07:17his
07:18knees slays the dragon and cuts his head off and that sword is the atlantean sword if any of you
07:26are fans
07:26of conan the barbarian this is one of the three swords we use the actual metal one of the real
07:35swords
07:35from that movie it's like just hidden in the russian whatever thing that we have so he uses that
07:41sword so i have not that sword i have the rubber replica of that sword you're reunited with billy
07:51bobby brown in a new spy thriller from adolescence co-creator jack thorne what are you most excited for
07:59with the project who i mean i don't know what people know yet you know one of the most beautiful
08:08things about that show um people love that show and they loved hopper and 11 and they love that
08:15relationship i think the guys did a terrific job on season five but i just don't think you could pay
08:21off that relationship in the way that um people wanted it to pay off i just don't think there's a
08:26way
08:27and so millie and i i think we wanted to bring you something with the chemistry of these two of
08:34me and
08:35her that it will surprise you and that will be um wild and rich have that deep emotion but also
08:43be
08:45just wild so i'm really excited to be back with her i'm really i love working with her i'm really
08:52excited about jack i think he's a brilliant writer a24 is producing with us it has a lot of stuff
08:59to
08:59say about this modern contemporary world we're living in as well that i'm really excited to you
09:05know keep doing i think dtf opened me up it's the first thing i produced and it opened up a
09:11whole new
09:11world of being able to speak about what i feel like our contemporary neurosis in an artistic way
09:16and i think i want to continue that in subtle forms and uh this was just an opportunity to
09:25say more um and to create something beautiful so i'm just really excited about it that's all i'll
09:31tell you now probably too much anyway i'll probably get a call what is the piece of advice you've
09:37received that you still think about i mean the one that i really love the one that i always really
09:45love is never take advice even this what can you tease about what we'll see from you as red guardian
09:52avengers doomsday um you know that like yelena belova and red guardian have a connection if you
10:00saw thunderbolts you know how much they love each other and how much they're trying to help each other
10:06and all that stuff doomsday will affect that relationship what is a show or film that you
10:17will go back and watch again and again i have a couple real comfort shows that are like when i'm
10:26lonely
10:27in santa fe new mexico shooting something and i just want to go to bed and those are usually rick
10:34and
10:34morty in south park in terms of like when i want to watch a show and like dig in the
10:40first season of
10:41true detective still i think is like just some of the best tv out there sopranos some of the best
10:48tv
10:49i've ever seen i'll go back and watch that film wise i'll watch scenes from sometimes old weird
10:55movies there's a movie i keep coming back to that i really love it's like a movie called underground
11:01underground was made in the 90s about former yugoslavia but it's a sort of magical realism
11:08so it's about a guy who keeps his buddy underground making munitions and tells him the war's still
11:15going on while he goes out and sleeps with his wife and makes a lot of money off his work
11:22that his
11:22friend is doing downstairs so and his friend lives downstairs for 30 years as a child has a whole
11:29life and um old boy is another one it's like these movies that have these qualities that are sort of
11:36hyper real um i find that movies that are just what they are i i don't really go back and
11:41watch but
11:42movies that have like a big broader metaphor to them i like to go back and watch so i forget
11:47you're in
11:48the prequel film john rambo playing rambo's commanding officer what can you tell us about that
11:55oh man i mean it's like you get that call it's like what do you i had to do it
12:02the director is
12:03amazing he's made a couple films uh sisu was this film that i saw and i was just like whoa
12:09like that
12:09guy has a propulsion to his filmmaking and stuff and i also think they cast a really great um
12:16guy in the league i met noah and he has this uh very stallone feel to him in the best
12:23way he's kind
12:24of you know studied and he just i don't know he just it felt like a young stallone and i
12:30was like
12:30oh this is like interesting uh yeah i think it's gonna be cool if we could watch only one david
12:37harper
12:37performance not necessarily your most famous which would you tell us to choose
12:46one david harper why why choose just one take the day take a week a month even i can tell
12:54you the
12:54ones i wouldn't want you to watch maybe i should start with those there's a law and order criminal
13:01intent where i'm a silver thief or where i'm like i'm a crazy guy like building pipe bombs back in
13:11the
13:11guest starring days because there was some grim stuff back then some of the soap opera stuff's not
13:16great either the as the world turns early as the world turns stuff i mean i think honestly like a
13:21fine
13:21wine i really do think i'm finally getting good there's a lot of crap in the beginning and like i'm
13:28finally getting better and better so i genuinely do think dpf is probably the best performance i've
13:34given what's your personal top karaoke tune easy i go straight in for can you feel the love tonight
13:42by elton john via the lion king and i go hard and i do not back off and i do
13:50not make fun of it at all
13:51here's the problem with karaoke okay you go in and you're like hi wouldn't it be cute let's
13:57sing some stupid song and you're like and you're like and it's like you're making fun of no you go
14:03in with your full-throated heart and you go you know the world from the day we were just like
14:10and
14:11then it's just like can you feel the love tonight you know what i mean just give the people what
14:18they
14:18want thank you for watching take that
14:20don't like it
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