and nick nolte -- >> jimmy: liam neeson and -- what movie did you do?> they're real men. i got -- we had this one moment when we were sitting -- we were sitting, you know, between takes and we were all sitting down talking. and it turned out that we had -- all three of us worked at a beer factory at some point of our life. and i just thought that that was just such a -- i was like i'm sitting here with these men and we all worked in beer factories. and nick nolte, he was like, "you got to drink the beer, right? for free. i mean, that was the greatest thing about working at this -- you got to drink beer." i was like no, no, they did not let me drink beer at work. >> jimmy: oh, they didn't? >> that was not part of the deal. >> jimmy: that's what happened to nick. [ laughter ] >> yeah. it might have been. >> jimmy: drinking beer at work. [ applause ] what beer factory did you work at? >> i was working at this beer factory called the ringnuss in norway, in oslo. and i had this incredibly important job. i -- when the conveyor belt took the empty beer cans fr

but yeah, nick nolte played my elder brother. joel was my son.tory? >> i drove a forklift truck in a guinness bottling plant back home. >> jimmy: and do you sample the wares as you are driving? [ laughter ] >> i wasn't allowed to. >> jimmy: you weren't allowed to. >> just by nature of my position on the forklift. >> jimmy: i'm surprised they had that kind of restraint there at the guinness factory. [ laughter ] >> i know. >> jimmy: nick on the other hand had to be getting into the beers. >> i think nick and joel had the occasional one. on a friday afternoon. >> jimmy: yes. i got you. how old were you when you first came to hollywood, when you made the trip out here? >> i was in my 30s. >> jimmy: and what did you think of it? >> i couldn't get over, jimmy, the size of it, the scale of it. i had these two wonderful agents, harrison goldberg, and i was staying in a little cheap hotel up in the hollywood hills. hollywood boulevard. and they had arranged a meeting for me on sunset -- on santa monica boulevard. and i knew. i said, well, santa monica bo