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How are you?
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I'm good.
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I'm good, Ellen.
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Very well.
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You look good.
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Very well.
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Thank you.
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And happy belated birthday to you.
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OK, thank you.
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I'm glad it's belated.
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So it was in September, right?
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September 25th.
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And you and Catherine have the same--
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Catherine, my wife, and I have the same birthday.
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25 years apart, but the same day.
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But who's counting, right?
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So she turned--
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She turned 50.
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And you turned 75.
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75.
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You look great.
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Thank you.
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[APPLAUSE]
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Thank you.
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Moving right along.
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Moving right along.
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You have good genes.
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Your dad is how old now?
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My dad is 102.
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How about that?
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And my stepmother-- and my stepmom,
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Anne, has been married to Dad for 65 years.
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She's 100.
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Wow.
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So that's, what, 202?
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Yeah.
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Well-- so do you--
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I mean, how do you feel about getting older?
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Did it hit you at a certain age, or do you care anymore?
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Yeah.
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I'm moving right along.
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You know, I had a cancer about about eight or nine years ago
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where I sort of thought about that stuff.
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Right.
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But once I got a clean bill of health, after that,
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it was kind of straight on, feeling good.
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Having a younger bride makes me feel good on one side.
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And I've got the old man over here on the other side
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with still a full head of hair.
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Right.
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So it's all good.
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You can't be an idiot about it.
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So 75.
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I look at the 15 year program, if I've still got my marbles
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by the time I'm 90.
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So I kind of think about that.
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And after that, it's all golden.
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Do you work out?
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Do you take care of yourself?
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I do.
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I try.
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What do you do?
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What kind of workout?
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I do a cardio mix-up with weights.
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But I recently because I have been having some trouble
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with my back playing golf, which has cut me down.
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So I'm working with a trainer now,
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doing a little more core body work and other areas.
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So you play golf?
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You're still-- are you as good as you've always been?
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Well, I never was very good.
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Oh, I see.
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I never-- I started late at about 45, 48.
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But interestingly enough, I just had yesterday--
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I put it on a charity golf tournament
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for the Motion Picture and Television Fund.
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Great.
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I've done it for 12 years.
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We've raised about $7, $8 million
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for the Motion Picture Television Fund, which
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is another story, but we're very proud, our industry,
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that we had this home for everybody,
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not just actors, writers, everybody else,
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and we take care of them.
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It's a fantastic thing, yes.
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So we did a tournament yesterday.
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I played terrible.
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I had the worst day of my life.
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It's a long course out at Riviera.
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And I'm looking at the tees.
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You have different tees you can take off.
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Ladies have a tee.
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The seniors-- I said, what are those gold tees up there?
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They should, that's for seniors.
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I said, well, how old do you got to be to be a senior?
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Exactly.
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They said, 60.
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So what am I doing back here?
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I said, it's my tournament.
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Exactly.
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All right?
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I'm raising money.
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I mean, these make me feel good.
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You know what I mean?
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So you moved up to the senior tees.
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No, I couldn't do it.
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Oh, you didn't do it.
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I saw a picture today of a baby that is your grandchild.
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She is how old?
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Lua.
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She'll be two in December.
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It is-- look at that face.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, she's a [BABY TALK].
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She calls me and I said, can you say, Bubba?
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Call me Bubba.
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She goes, buh-buh, buh-buh.
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Well, that's an easy name for her to learn,
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Bubba So she's going to call you Bubba her whole life now.
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I hope so.
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I'm ready for that.
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Yeah.
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That's cute.
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And your son-- your youngest son-- no.
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Is he 19?
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My youngest son, Dylan, is 19.
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OK.
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So this-- jumping off-- he's a daredevil.
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Look what he does.
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Where was that that he did that?
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That was, I think, in Sicily.
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OK.
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And what do you think when you see--
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I mean, and he does all kinds of things like this, right?
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Well, he did-- you know, he just did a skydiving thing.
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But I remember that age, I was--
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it's a hormonal thing, I think, for boys testing yourself.
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This is him skydiving.
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I just think it--
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what I did not like--
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what I did not like is he was the first one to jump.
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Don't be the first one to jump.
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Schmuck.
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Right.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Let a couple of other people go off
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first to test if there's any rocks in there and anything
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else.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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So I said, that was not--
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so I said OK to that.
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I said, just don't be first.
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Yeah.
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Be the second one to do dangerous things like that.
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Exactly.
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All right.
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Let's talk about The Kominsky Method.
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This is the second season now.
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Second season's coming out October 25th.
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And it is-- we see that your daughter is now dating.
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My daughter, Mindy, bless her soul,
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has got a boyfriend this year.
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And I'm very happy about that, but maybe because of the fact
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that my character, Sandy Kominsky,
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has tended to date younger women.
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She's chosen to have a boyfriend, this older guy.
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I just did not expect that the guy would be my age.
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Right.
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And they brought me an ex-wife this year, too.
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And I have an ex-wife.
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And tell everyone who it is.
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Well, if you guys would think about what
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would be the perfect match for me for my ex-wife,
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it's Kathleen Turner.
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[APPLAUSE]
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That's fantastic.
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We're going to do a little War of the Roses bit.
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That's fantastic.
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That's going to be great.
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That's a great idea, whoever thought of that.
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All right.
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The new season of The Kominsky Method
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is available October 25th on Netflix.
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We're going to talk to Michael when we come back.
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That's Michael Douglas in Green Eggs and Ham.
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[APPLAUSE]
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I am so excited about this.
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I mean, when we got the rights to this--
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I'm executive producing this for Netflix.
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And we have the greatest cast, including Michael,
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who is a grumpy, grumpy man.
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Typecast.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Are you having--
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It's a very-- you've got a day job.
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Where did you-- the idea of a production company.
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Was that something?
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When you were a kid, you loved this project.
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How did you get hold of Dr. Seuss?
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Well, this is-- Jeff Kleeman, who runs my production company,
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talked to the family and got the rights to it.
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But I like making things that make people happy,
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and I think this is such a great thing for Netflix.
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No, it's really special.
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I saw you and said, wow, Ellen, she does everything.
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Well, are you enjoying it?
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Have you done animated before?
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No, I haven't.
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Am I enjoying it?
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No.
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Oh.
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No.
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It's hard work, huh?
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You did one.
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Didn't you do one?
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Yeah, Finding Dory and Finding Nemo.
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Finding Dory.
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Exactly.
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Well, you know.
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Yeah.
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You sit there and--
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well, firstly, you have to overdo it, right?
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You've got to be larger than life.
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Right.
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And you're sure you're way, way off the top.
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But I'm sort of at this point in my life
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where I'm trying to do things that I've never done before.
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Right.
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So you've got Ant-Man on one side, which
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is like a green screen, which I never had done before.
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It's a green screen.
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That's hard, too.
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Finding something-- yeah, exactly.
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Whole new appreciation for acting
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when there's nothing there.
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Comedy.
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Kominsky Method.
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I'm not necessarily known for my comedy,
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so that was really a treat.
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And then this, doing animated stuff,
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was something I was really kind of looking forward to.