today. there and so proclaimed nerd zachary levi what's your bucket list now take over the world i don't have the room if. you're not doing the show so that you know critic a or critic b. gives you the love that you want you feel like you need or want is an actor that validation you do it because you're all of your audience plus the chances of your dreams coming true in such profound ways i find to be pretty thin you know i mean it doesn't happen to everybody and it's that's not lost on me that's all ahead on larry king now. welcome to larry king now were in new york town a return visit with zachary levi the actor director singh and so proclaimed nerd

and was proud to be a nerd he makes his broadway debut by the way the romantic comedy first date he's back on the big screen as fans are all the dashing in those installment of four title for the dog world that will open in theaters november eighth what brought you to broadway first of all that may be the greatest summation of my life that anyone else here for the whole thing here is like the everything i when i was a kid i grew up doing nothing but theater that was you know child actor well kind of i mean school theater community theater nothing really professional or anything that anybody ever saw outside of california or ventura california. but i you know as a young actor coming up that's what you know that's what you love that's what you you want to reach the highest level of in broadway is that level and. about twelve years ago i was my career took a really amazing turn in that i was blessed to go into television and film for

about the last you know dozen years but never did i. ever let go of that dream ultimately the bucket list you know check more gov go live in new york and go and do a broadway show and you know a couple of shows have kind of come our way that just the timing wasn't right the role wasn't right and then this one came along and i thought you know this is this is fun this is an entertaining show that i think people will relate to and when they're open august eighth we started previews july ninth and then the show openoffice a to do play seven actually there's myself and krista rodriguez who are the kind of the it's a two hander between us on the day it's. kristen was on a smash on n.b.c. and as she's a broadway veteran i'm the newbie in the group and then there's five others. they kind of fill out the rest of the ensemble and and they are all either like the waiter in the restaurant or two of other couples in the restaurant that double as the voices in our heads as we are on this date so these you know they that was what

you were thinking yes exactly so there are just a random guy and a girl but then it in a moment's notice they'll pop up and they are like my best friend who's giving me advice you know don't bring up your ex on a date don't do that that's a bad idea or use ago as a musical you have a romantic comedy musical and it's an hour and a half known or mission it's kind of like an hour and a half said come with music it is all broadway and went on broadway on broadway at long acre theater on forty history what was opening night like you know it was very interesting because we had a few a dream yeah definitely and we had a month of previews before that so we had already been performing it for a good month. but but opening night was the whole to do with you know the red carpet outside and people coming and a lot of industry folks and my agents and you know everybody else's agents and lawyers and and friends and family and. it was it was very special is very special

to finally say we are open now we are we're not making any more changes to the show previews are done rehearsals done the show is locked and it's frozen the critics have come they've made their decisions and this is really. how the critics we critics were they were mixed we had some that were not kind at all we had some that were incredibly kind. and i think ultimately when it came down to was do do they see the show for what the show is or are they or are they trying to or the judging of or something that it's that it's not. i've always said that you know that it's not it's not high art it's not highbrow we're not doing chaucer shakespeare it is it's a romantic comedy musical incident it's modern and you know many people in the arts over the years that i've interviewed have told me. that they never read

a critic who help them well you know they were able to say yes that's right i'll do that differently yeah well one of the things fortunately i only read two i should never read any of the reviews some people don't yeah and you shouldn't particularly if you're doing theatre and you have to go back because you got to go back and do it again the movie for your movie it's done your you finished it you know i didn't like the way exactly exactly still not not necessarily beneficial go read what other people have to say about it but you know necessarily however on on broadway or doing you know off road or whatever if you're doing an ongoing performance it just it's it's these you know these little worms that just like they burrow into your head and into your mind then. you don't you shouldn't bring any of that into the stage you need to be be there or be present and be the character that you are so did were you able to overcome i was yeah there was there's there was a few days that i got really really messed with me for

a second and then it was like you know what i still believe in this and i and i and i stand by the choice that i made for why i wanted to do this show and you know when you when we have a packed house of like eleven hundred people and they're laughing their asses off and they're enjoying it you go that's why you're doing the show you're not doing the show so that you know the critic a critic be. gives you the love that you you feel like you need or want as an actor that validation you do it because you're all of your audience i said next to a famous critic ones who go on main. at a comedy at a preview and he left his head off i mean i was eleven double left me and he rapped it no way he looked he thoroughly enjoyed it and then he just panels that appealed to the lowest element was incredible i couldn't believe it was this our show. you know we always assumed there. when i grew up doing

a lot of musical theater and stuff as a kid i'm not a trained singer by any stretch i really enjoy singing and it was something that i wanted to incorporate more into my career but singing and acting is a very i don't know i've always seen it as being a very interesting one way street if you're a successful recording artist and you want to be an actor. i find that hollywood is very open to that idea they do they really like that. and however if you are a very if you're a successful actor and you want to become a recording artist the music industry is much more like will wall in the second who are you. and i feel like you know there's it's much more difficult to earn that and so because my career started very much in acting and singing is always been this coming i don't i don't know exactly how to how to tackle that but i think you know going to doing a broadway show helps do that i did this animated movie called tangled for disney and i sang in that and a lot of people came to know that i could sing through that but i thoroughly enjoy

singing he'll be back on the screen in for a bit darker orders of the dark what the dark world dark world now you playing a part differently than your predecessor josh was supposed to just alice originated the role as fanjul in the first film and he had some conflicts with the television show he's currently on call once upon a time and there it was a kind of a the fate of it was interesting as i nearly played the role the first time and then it ended up being in josh's hands and then marvel remembered me and said hey would you like to come in and help and that's where we made you economic and come to exactly are you a comic fan i love comic books i mean oh my big comical heroes when i was eleven well in fairness my big comic years were right around that time it was like kind of nine to fourteen yeah. but even now you know comics have actually taken

a really interesting turn in like the graphic novel kind of world now you have comic books that are they're much more like you know adult fiction you're not just dealing with stuff that kids would deal with you and that's actually some very you know adult themes and. darker kind of themes and you know being able to read a novel because it really is a novel but you get the pictures with it so it's kind of a fun way to you know be told the story who is fandor oh fans are all is of that sure what i have found all the dash and yes he is one of the best friends and fellow warriors from as guard he's like this kind of errol flynn with already oh time. good with the ladies and good with a sword you had working with him is worth important oh yeah it was fantastic i mean you know we were definitely supporting characters the warriors three so you know our screen time with them is not as much as they you know got to do together but we

had scenes with with chris and natalie and with him coming up you know yeah i love that that he is the d.m. rather mendis see is a guy he is he's not had a you know he's mean the fact that he you know when you when you meet him and you say oh you know certain first and he i love that he's not even a so what you but he's you know he's isn't he denounced it i think something like that first citizenship thing i don't know what it was but but he insists on being called tony and. this multiple academy award winning amongst every other award he's won is a great day such a great guy. and you are people know you already what is this going to do for your career of you think gosh i don't know i mean i hope i hope it will be doors yeah i think i think it will be i just i've more than anything i'm just really happy to get to work in that marvel universe and as a comic book fan in as a fan of marvel i think they put out some really great entertaining films it's

pretty it's still very kind of trippy to think that i was you know just this spasiuk little kid who like making people laugh and now i get to make a living out of it you know and that's carried me to places like this and like here live in a new york and doing broadway. the chances of your dreams coming true and such profound ways i find to be. pretty thin you know i mean it doesn't happen to everybody and it's not lost on me brothers and sisters two sisters one older one younger than me in the business know well my younger sister works for me she's my sister but that's the closest to anybody in my family being in the business my older sister is fantastic wedding and event coordinator at the ohio valley and. owns and she loves that and my younger sister is just an incredible individual who has helped me in my career for the last ten years you know help keep all the t.'s

crossed and i's dotted and the next segment we'll talk a little above being a nerd and everything do nerds get married of course and you marry no you anon marrying nerd no no no i have every intention of getting married someday i just haven't found yet what by definition. and i left probably and i've said i'm close we're going to show a clip from a much oh yeah yeah comic time by the way before it's with that explain comic-con to me i mean i went there and it was to me we're. well comic-con is the hollywood boulevard it is you sure well yet certainly now or or times square with everybody dressing up you know a little that's witty at that but those guys are always trying to make a buck and that's how we were all about everybody it is where it is we're and those costumes are very good but the costumes at comic-con are very good and it's because people are really passionate about it all this oh i'm incredibly incredibly and that's really what it is comic-con is just this it's this you know this four day

event. and by the way come a cons happen all over the world and all of the country but say you're going to come is the kind of mecca of that los angeles tried to get it lawson yeah and so san diego kept it yes well the city's always trying to it's a giant income generator for san diego and could be for los angeles but it's also just all the you know the kind of logistics of it you know how many hotels do you have how many people are coming into town where do you put the how because the convention center city goes trying to expand their convention center because this world is so big when we come back we'll show you the clip played him. at comic-con and then more than good. it was a. very hard to get him. to get on a flight that that would rather make their release.

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our government and across silicon we've been hijacked trying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one still just my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing up to five ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. i think that anyone is an artist is what you're nerdy about because i think being married just means you're passionate about something you my friend are a suspender in time or that's why you're passionate about your trademark and we're back with zachary levi he's in first date on broadway and that was a clip from our interview back at comic con the first encounter you're still with

in a nerd so i want to definition what is a nerd well a lot of people give you a lot of different answers but what's your my definition is essentially everyone is a nerd because i root there is the stereotypical nerd there is the george clooney is a nerd well yes because. i'll explain. not as the stereotypical nerd is horn rimmed glasses and a pocket protector and super into technology and video games and comic books and that that type of. the picture that you could paint of the soul of a nerd a pencil a sure yes. but to me i feel like those people were given that moniker simply because they were just very passionate about whatever those things were i think gates would build sure absolutely oh yeah. but to me i think that that can translate over because i really believe that being a nerd just means that you are passionate about something being nerdy about something means you're passionate about something i think that jay leno is

a car nerd. germs is a listen best use is a best of all or exact on a broadcast and you're a broadcast nerd absolutely and the suspender nerd i would say is a spender yes exactly you're an open color too but that's that's exactly right yeah and i happen to be nerdy about some of the stereotypical nerd things like comic books and video games and technology but i think that everyone can fall under that you see it that way but the the world wide impression of a nerd is not just someone who is passionate sure someone kind of that's that nerd in the corner sure nerds don't have a lot of friends if the school nerds are not out there but that's changing touch football but that's changing a lot i think we've we've we've come into a new age in the world where you know top level jobs have more to do with your brain than your brawn you know fifty years ago. there and certainly even before that i mean there was a there was a premium put on somebody who about their strength their physical strength and how

many how much what they could shop or how much coal they could shovel and if you and as a man that was a value that was put on you but now if you know of this muscle of your brain if you can go and come up with the next new great app on to sell on i tunes you're the man you know you know her well fine but nerds have taken over the world and so here are the more everyone kind of wants to be will you have a website called the nerd machine dot com yeah what do i find when i go there what we find a lot of. articles editorial a lot of fan generated stuff basically what i wanted to start with the nerd machine was a lifestyle brand for nerd culture going down to comic-con every year i would notice that this entire demographic of people in a very powerful and amazing demographic of people had no brand was chucked a nerd was definitely a nerd yeah took was a hit. you can say that we were here we were on the air for five years to be ahead of you yeah but we were also on the chopping block every single year where our

numbers were never good enough to just give us the green light. we get yellows all the way through and then. fortunately for us we just happened to be on n.b.c. at a time and place where the network needed a show like ours to continue to stay on the schedule and that's true of many shows odd couple was never in the top forty really and ran seven years wow never in the top forty wow i did not know that they just kept their own it wasn't a failure resin hit was there yeah and sometimes you just need as a network you need those other you know there's just going to be a movie well i don't know that it ever was going to be a movie i would love to i feel like the family that we had there the actors the crew. the writers we we had it we had a really special thing especially with when you when you brought in our fanbase and how lovely and interactive and passionate they were and i would love to continue the story for them and for us to just you know get the band back together for you

know about film every couple of years and we'll career you're in a multi-phase right broadway singing yeah for music websites. oh man i'm trying to figure that i was self i don't know i what's your bucket list now. take over the world. i don't have the room if. i want to look i really want to change the world i really want to i want to impact the world in a way that when i'm gone it's. i have a continued legacy of swords and not that i want to monument build for myself i want to create of movement i want to create i want to change the world in a way that's everlasting that touches people and. and changes things for the better and allows artists to create. their art and to get it to

people and and allow those people to get the art that they really wants and and bring joy to people and i don't know and so it has all very existential i suppose but you know what i want to but i think that we live in a really amazing times and i think that technology has really allowed for a lot of doors to open where i mean look look at you you now get to you get to do your show however you want to do your show them at yeah or not beholden to anybody no other venue knows you got your mike you got your table you're overlooking columbus circle right now and a beautiful hotel with a bunch at least teeny little cameras you don't need giant broadcast cameras anymore oh you got these guys yellow cannon five days and they look fantastic and you get to go put it online to all of your fans and oh that's freedom and that's power and that's something that i want to i want to i want to use that for human and that power and i want to keep rolling with it and change the world even more and keep you around we have some social media questions yes i love these names on

social media they're great i j f k on facebook wants to know now that you're a star is it easier to be around women. was a harder before this their lives i don't you know actually is kind of a double edged sword i suppose i mean you know i suppose certainly women are attracted to. stability so knowing that when a woman knows that you have a job and that you know i know when you come famous most european people they know you more and you know when you are but the other but i think a problem with that also is that you don't know when a woman actually likes you for you i would think just like you because you're famous or you really want to know what a great jockey bill hard time was want a great job one five kentucky derby when he was single as i've always had a lot of women and i asked him do you feel but women are attracted to you because you're a famous jockey and he said but i am a famous one. because if they were dragged into you because his act relieved my

true you odds are pretty much true true anyway at loveliness of via twitter wants to know if you could pick another current broadway musical started what would it be for any broadway musical of a little. that would be made again about two hundred thousand yeah. gosh i don't know i mean i really love i really love big river. is a goal of huckleberry finn and i did that when i was younger i was huck and it was just such an incredible show roger miller's score is fantastic and he was a great town oh my gosh my travel so yeah. but i'm way too old to play hockey now so i don't know what i would know the king of to do something at zoo on twitter i want between chuck and thought what's the scariest done to you've been asked to perform oh wow. i don't know i i don't really get scared with stunts do we have stunt men to do so and so yeah but we also get to do a lot of our own stuff too and i've always felt that with the new thing we're

really crazy. you know writing on and on for i ride a horse and you know horses have a bit of a mind of their own and. there was a couple moments where my horse wasn't doing exactly what i thought he was going to do or it was oh no no no never got that on but in training we you know we there was a couple moments where he was galloping back to the barn and everything that i had in me to stop him that was a little hairy joshua on facebook i want to know if you have a consider standup comedy i love stand up comedy i have actually done about six or six stand ups. most. people do you really all stand up i've toured all year i don't know if i was a doing is i'd be a stand in no way oh my favorite i am a i'm a giant fan of stand up comedy i wish that i was a better stand up comic i love but i just it's so terrifying and really so

terrifying to get out there though once they laugh we have yeah but he did not act like he got to go and stories and stuff and go had to live you have story your larry king everybody loves you know stop you can read the friggin phone book and then larry keep. jessica lever on and stick around once what inspired you to become an actor. making people happy perno c.v. in suez other any other team the projects coming up for you now at the moment no but i get too busy doing the play at the moment but i think it would be really fun to do a television show here in the city i'd like to do a t.v. show here in a little game if you only knew i assume quickly first kiss. i think that was nicola just see nicola just see where was it that was in ventura when i was a kid what was your first date. breaking up at disneyland on it's a small world. it was your first date essentially yeah kind of and you know went

through that ride we went through the ride that it is a little silent walls and the worst over the ride is if you do that right early in the morning then you signa song will be on goes through your head and it never leaves your head whoever wrote that song go to the tiki room in the in the morning that's a much better so have you had a funny fan encounters oh gosh i've had plenty of funny fan encounters i mean did you know typically it's just people that are like really really passionate and. don't know what to do with their emotions and so you just have to calm them down a little bit but then a short for fanatic yes i know what was your worst addition. man too many to count i mean just auditions where you don't you veuve you practice your lines you for her so much and you know your prom and it just it all goes away you know like what's happening why my son nervous right now is the biggest thing you've ever splurged on . probably vehicles a car a motorcycle i really love you into your writing will have a little bit of

a swan levels and no no now this crowd oh no not terrible nuts he's got so many vehicles i mean it's ridiculous got to anger he's got to and he works on them he goes oh yeah yeah oh yeah yeah like he's legitimate like he air you know how to work on concert on us soil media i don't know how to do any of that stuff dream costar oh man i mean you know some of my idols i suppose like tom hanks i'd love to work with tom hanks. just so my broad wish to rip a sort of i will sell. the show was fantastic it was great yeah yeah what was your first car a nine hundred eighty four chrysler fifth avenue was a hammy down from my grandma i don't know but across of course there was a big car there's a boat there's a boat something no one knows about you. no i pretty much talk about everything that peeves oh bad driving i can't take it made people in the fast lane who are doing you good fingers no i do not give the finger and. jack you're great

larry you're great thanks man zachary levi you'll see him on broadway in first date look from him for next month follow me on king's things at twitter on twitter at c and i start. well with. science technology innovation all the list i'm elements from around russia we've got the future of coverage.

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i'm abby martin and this is breaking at the set after weeks of intense negotiations in geneva about iran's nuclear program diplomacy amazingly prevailed seemed to her on a sign onto a six month agreement that limits its uranium enrichment to five percent a level well below the necessary requirement for the development of a nuclear weapon and exchange iran will receive a minor reduction in harsh sanctions on many of its most valuable exports such as oil and gold and while most of the world is celebrating this encouraging development between the two countries with historically ice cold relations one head of state just just isn't that they've just. got the deal of the century. and the international community got a bad deal this is a very bad deal what is actually a clip from november eighth near days after negotiations began as you can see bibi was already.