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and i suppose and mystery in the north caucasus was gunned down along with his men just this week he was only a few days short of seeing the 10th anniversary of the blast adama dead of an airport which he helped mastermind russia has come a long way from when people in moscow were literally blown up in their beds to a few disorganized groups of radicals scattered across the slopes of the caucasus and hunted down. with it to the top of the us either.
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i think he's a legend morgan freeman if this. works were to do the play and. have success one pays a little better than. what he make. abscessed r. rated folks. ask your pope he's had me in his hip pocket but if he needs facts about it he's got it to the fans one. more and more another one similar to your favorite story i'm not that much above on the schools but on the explained song you. have some good smoke. some ideas.
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plus something you wish you would go to practice tomorrow i'm telling you. no i take the back golf all next on larry king now. he's. my guest today is to love it with great actors a lot of time morgan freeman the winner of a moscow said award golden globe as well as the. kennedy center honor morgan is a director a producer a narrator and has played too many memorable 'd roles and characters to list here he reprices his role as alan trouble in london has paul in the sequel to 2013 is highly successful olympus has fallen this time he's vice president i sort of movie last night this is an action packed thrill that you will if freezing your
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seats did not go to the bathroom it was it like to make a movie like this. i'm not in any of the mess thread you were 'd on i was just on a very quiet this is a safe room yeah right it was so. i'm only hearing and trying to picture what my guy's going so doing those scenes that are talking to them right now and there on the screen somewhere but you're in the right so what are you what did you think when you saw the final film something. that on that well the scenes are unbelievable i keep hearing that and i've seen the trailers you know and they look awesome i saw a lesson is from it is really i'm glad to hear them thank you very much you're going to enjoy it very much enjoy ahead of time in bulgaria cold weather lying on the grown been there done that hate it. why did you choose to do these films
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what's the basis of your so it shouldn't process work if it's work and i'm not going to get hurt. and it's going to paid. i want to do it and not that you know you don't i don't get like a ton of scripts coming my way when if i do well if i do i don't know about it. because you know screening for you my age is just going to a lot of it. i got a lot of stuff to be asked to be so when they give it to me is they like it yeah they think this is worth doing and you usually agree yes i do have you regret ever turning down something you never never i regretted not getting something that i auditioned for maybe or just wasn't thought of for but i've never regretted turning down and i think you have appeared in so many wonderful films the
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vegas film with the new of those guys and i would jack nicholson working with him yeah yeah bucket list you know but whenever people mention morgan freeman the one thing that 1st jumps up and why i want to ask you why you think it's forever ok source good action. why do people say that 10 times none of us no i mean those of us who were in that movie. i can tell you tim couldn't tell you right darabont couldn't tell you why this movie has such depth. i don't think stephen king can tell you and he wrote it. number one is probably one of the more off beat love stories it's very very deep going on and on and on and on and on and at the end when those tool guys hook up again it's the hook suspend and cheer yeah life is good. to the jew realize making
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it that you were doing something special. when i read the script it was special i told made it out playing a role what i did know because he didn't say read for this part just read the script that was it and i called and said i'll play any role and he said they want to play read. really happy. but if this if this london thing works they've got washington they've got london suppose it's going to be must go or paris or something were to do number 3 absolutely absolutely ever success i'm one pays a little better. morgan are you saying that you do some things for money yes. more it's an art yeah.
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but i don't want to die a pop up a can of. art and all i don't think i'm bob friends of mine like modigliani i bank go on a more native wouldn't type opera but. yeah mango did and modigliani did. until yeah but you know what the problem we have is living up to our income that's right yeah or people to pay yeah or homes to keep up. strew alimony go over. there to all these years and he's still like watching yourself on screen i never like watching myself on screen it's not one of my favorite thing to his everything that why not. i spent 20 years on the stage on the stage you only see yourself through the eyes of the audience and you read the book you know that i got it's all over this road.
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but when you see yourself i least when i see myself i'm not all over it i'm just me and i'm not so. i'm not hidden well enough on stage you can hide you didn't know because it's all just psychic if you can see yourself and you know you don't the same old cliches of a stage or 'd warding ringback. ultimately yeah it's incredibly patient yeah that's would you go back and do theater you know. and went back in 08 and did the country go great sure it's a great it was a great play and i was with great people peter gallagher and francis mike moment but. we we 3 who do movies. in one state after about it we can go wow we. ordered he got a great part. of the matter. i have great parts oh yes
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sure morgan freeman is our special guest and you will see him as the vice president of the united states in london 'd has fall ringback and it will 'd be a very successful movie to follow olympus has fallen that was a surprise that it was but you know if you've got enough action and you've got a good looking spar and enough back up it's almost a shoo in do you still enjoy the work and money aside you have enjoy that's only real reason to do and you know i don't need to go to work just because i get paid i go to work because. i've always wanted to do this as a kid as a little kid yeah yeah did you use to play acting as a child yeah i won my 1st best acting award in school and only for the state wide contest young black men in 1950 you don't win statewide awards in mississippi do
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the yes yes in school segregated you had your own thing going on you know ray charles told me once he went to a 'd school for blind and they segregated because. well . this is it wasn't exactly the threshold of advancement. yes and no it's where i came from. he still says that i still lived there i moved back wow all right you like playing other what do you what's the kick of being. god or vice president or driving a lady around in a car or being a prisoner what's the kid because it's all. so and when that i looking at you doing i do it with ease i've always been
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a natural actor with born to do this so. new you know when you're a kid it's hey look at me look at what i can do. and now i'm 78 years old hey look at me do is still here you know you've done well and some yes yeah. i knew of doing well in driving miss daisy and i did that on stage and that when i see it in new york and i thought i did well in. shawshank and i thought i did well in street smart. and i thought i did well in 1000000 dollar baby. also i think i did well and. in invictus not bad i knew him very
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well wasn't he something mr mandela greatest figure it might have been you know the 20th century what was it like to play him it was the most fun i had i was working with my favorite director plenty's to it. and when we when we shot the very last scene everybody said let's start over real yeah. it was just the most fun i've had what special about working that is would. she i think the 1st thing is he speed he just doesn't fool around you got it let's move on number 2 he doesn't fool around with actors he hired you to do the job so he do it for you so he respects the actor he respects you and there are about who's ever worked with him come away with that feeling this guy's tops what was it like to play god. you didn't list that as one of your memorable
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ones you know it was it wasn't like that because i mean how do you play god. who is god and you just played it because oh i'm agnostic. i boarded just cause you were good good. well i think that because i'm god you see the do it well let's talk about the voice it's that imitated voice that something did commercials as you. did was there also there and no not a lawsuit just an request to stand down have you always had that voice no no no. the boy started when i was in college. when my 1st efforts in in fish really learning the talent that the.
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business of acting how do you do it at that and that's not what you really should be trying to learn your ship be trying to get your instrument home and part of your estimate is the voice and i had a and this trucker. man named robert whitten. l a c c. who. nailed elocution diction. control all of that into his students and you made a record the beginning of his class and at the end of the class you made a record so you could hear the difference 1st thing it does is it teaches you that your voice is too high most people speak with a tense throat is too high so he gives you techniques on how to relax that he was deepens and then you just nailed. diction
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did you have a southern accent serious you must yes yes it was bad 1st time i stood up in his class and open my mouth he said hold it hold it. i said small and free when i said this not stepin fetchit. ok get serious. is that. you no. longer has followed opens watch for. this week a softball like absolutely awful 1st game coded then a 2nd wave they say a 3rd is coming now the virus is mutating and i walk 2 blocks away from the apartment and i would get confused as to holly gets not. meanwhile patients who've recovered from covert started to report some unusual aftereffects the symptoms were
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different but. my hearing has been ok i think that's one of the things red flag research is all over the world are trying to determine the many aches pains and other problems and then turn it all into numbers show you my hair. but if you look here the 1113 there this is throughout the day my hair just. various sources reports that didn't just leave a 35 percent of recovered patients. so. does the bush. just there have been many complaints of peril vision loss joint pain and fatigue in the us these patients are referred to as post coded long hole as i talk to multiple doctors and my doctor and they said we have a feeling that you're going to have a hard time in recovery you're going to be one of those people that they consider a long haul or.
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in 2040 you know bloody revolution to the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful protests to be recently violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just the lawyer. put video through in the new bill is that i mean. schooling me to the former ukrainian president recalls the events of 2014. of those who took part in this to do over $5000000000.00 to assist ukraine in these another call that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. that is more than 3 of the control to be called a great. olympus has fallen was a successful hit and now we have london has fall and is going to march right in forces go be a lot to lose if you care about box office receipts sure you follow them know
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somebody doubts about tell you yeah yeah ok has hollywood changed a lot since all since i was a kid since you started in the business. a lot i don't think it's changed a lot. of major movie company when they brought you out you came from see it around here yeah mourner brothers. i think it was one of the 1st moves to the 1st 3 movies i did where one of the movie was. shot at with the option was cast around but one approach was a distributor and a lean on me one of brothers was your 1st movie. she was my 1st movie believe it or not was in 1989 with jack klugman in the movie called. variously p o n y p period oh period in life pony it's about these kids trying to save a draft horse in their parents' apartments. 14 years ago he was
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and he liked my work so much that he skipped rewrite the script to keep me in it was ok what about all these diversity issues in hollywood well. i'm not quite sure 'd that there is that i base that the issue of fact that their words you know black. nominated for an academy award. ok by and i have many years when there aren't but you know there were no asians either. i think if we're going to talk about diversity in the movies let's not talk about the cademy awards and that's has an outcome that see in mine we have need to go way way back when it come back to people who are making the move to school directors or directors or producers and then the people who are behind the camera nothing about a black behind the camera and here. that kind of thing you know is twisted you have
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just not the camera demick yeah. just. say that ringback finder or you have to like the person is that true oh yes yes i'm going to be able to sympathize with the character so the if you're putting me have you ever played evil people. once who is was i can never remember you being that and you didn't see streetsmart no streets water those who we would streets who was a pampered. i was the face cutting killing him was that easy for like falling off a log. on our dish and this very very was the director and i audition and a role where i'm correct in the put a woman's eye out and she has to choose which one so joy todd was the casting agent and i used hers to girl and terry started and said
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he'd done this before. about the vegas movies we're going to do another one. if one materializes absolutely what was it like i was with you guys and yet you say oh well the group that was that had to be fun now it was fun i had such a great guy to work with one just funny himself or you understands humor. takes a great punch goes and i'm a puncher enjoy comedy i enjoy and it doesn't matter to me what it is and is working with love this ringback until i i do anyone any. damn good by the way did you with president obama this week yeah last night or less we. placed a call below t.h.o.t.
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yeah and why for him to i've spent some time with he did my last show what do you make a proposal oh. i'm a big fan ever since i rated book. the audacity of hope and he's had me in his hip pocket you know whatever he needs back and about it he's got it he knows it what was he talking about the oh and we don't much talk shop that situation that was a lot of people and we were there as the budget was there 'd to. start helping him design the new obama. center and when i click on the library going to call the bomb center you smile when you say it's not going to be a library it's going to be able different yeah he sees anxious to make it so that when people visit they come away with maybe
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a little incentive to. take part in the process more so not like visit him to see him right here also executive producer of madam secretary what a hell of a show she's great so you see love that one or is that a good how are you an active executive producer no i wouldn't call myself an active executive producer. i get on the things going on and my booth and barred all over him very does the heavy lifting to greet you. like it was some social media questions hampton b h w tweets what would you say 'd has been your greatest challenge in life. i don't know what i'd have to give not a lot of thought here that this is not a court that. the seabed wants to know the favorite part of your day.
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well i'm a night person or you're. so gentleman after susan stewart on facebook 'd you played many kind and compassionate cards as this was a come from having compassion the role models were nor 'd what it's like not to be treated that way wow while all of that now having good role models as. i had an incredible line of teachers growing. and my mom was my and my grandmother m m m. m my latest man. smile most of my life is. outstanding women in the pew i'm spending when you're looking. to. call then ask how's your b. sanctuary and would you blame monsanto for making roundup or the government for their ringback lax rules on pesticide both both. there has
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been a frightening. loss of be colonies. particularly in this country i don't know about around the world but to such an extent that the scientists are now saying it is dangerous. to be the canary in the mine methane gas builds up in coal mines and because the canaries respiratory systems so it can break it so rapid they would kill the 1st. so and then you know get out of the mine because you know. your bird is dying well that. proliferates around the planet when the canary dies you're in trouble we got thousands and thousands of
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species of animals that are disappearing because of what we're doing. one of the fans want to ask about your love of marijuana. and more another wants to know your favorite strain. i don't i haven't i'm not that much of a kind of source i don't know what strains are if you do have some good smoke and try this yeah and you think it's going to be legal everywhere yeah i didn't want to be you know it has to be you know. they can't continue to say that it's a dangerous drug but it's safer than alcohol it's a lot safer yeah we draw some good questions at you what's your guilty pleasure and i'm going to tell you ok we're kinship with doug so you're up at night you have to tell us. what's on your bucket list. i'd like to get.
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best movie academy award. larry best film that my company produces a bold film you want the film of the best film of the year yeah you have to be in it no i don't have to be an talent we don't know about. not don't think so i think i think my life's pretty much a book so many you haven't worked with you'd love to work with yeah anybody i haven't this piece of. don't look for trouble something you wish you were better at acting come out i'm telling you no i take the back golf. anything you regret. regret regret evolutionary things and by that i mean they evolved you regret something today. 15 years down the line when you down the line you
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realize it wasn't something to regret. or. if you're just a low being in your posts you are an awesome awesome i don't know why you're still here but the the thank you thank you they so i guess too big for them please the ones who because for ringback with hits theaters watch for soldier the good things things will see that. the world is driven by a dream shaped by. the
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day there's thinks. we dare to ask. nuclear power plants will become a battleground in the us in vermont people are demanding the shut down of a local plant from my yankee is right now my focus because it's a very dangerous oh no clare power plant the owner is attempting to run the reactor beyond its operational limits this case just sort of puts a magnifying glass on where's the power in this country where's it going is it moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional participatory democracy as powerline with the people this case
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demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways that our struggle on o.t. . glasgow 1000 francs a nation campaign is kicked off in russia with an increasing number of other countries also opting for the country split think the japs are now 7 film director gave us his take on russia's banks. were very happy to be. exposed to the possibility of 2 good. russian black sea and because it's me as i was told by someone from in serbia. is one of those that used to receive the same stuff and to see the rules. stray should mansingh countries that opted for the pfizer job or supply problems in europe and north america some of us having to travel to new.
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