he told me the story of how he to read of the story of solomon northrup.efore you had seen the screenplay, had you known the story? >> i had never heard of solomon. i never heard of his biography. i have very limited awareness of the kidnapping in the north and people being sold into slavery that way. i didn't know anything about it. a was all a bit of revelation. it was kind of incredible. have done a must sizable rewrite from the biography, because i felt of this was the story i would have known this. it is too extraordinary. when you first came to know of the story and you first saw the screenplay, did you immediately know you absolutely wanted to sink your teeth into this, or was there a moment of hesitation or equivocation or intimidation? you are a fine actor. you tell me. >> i was intimidated by it. the weight of the responsibility of it. had never seen a story from inside this experience to four. i had never seen a film inside the slave experience in this way. you come to the point where you think there is not going to be a film because the receive

>> guest: i know that christine northrup did, in fact, have a pbs special and she wrote a book called "women's bodies"--my gosh, i'm blanking on it, but--and it--she had wide, wide viewership. and, in fact, all three of them, deepak chopra and i believe andrew weil as well have had specials on pbs. so that's a huge viewership. and their books are best-sellers. so clearly, they appeal to people. but some of the messages that they put out, i think are, as i said, not really grounded in experimental work. they talk about therapies that have not been proven. and christine northrup in particular is put forth as a women's health expert, and yet, some of the truisms that she was putting forth reminded me of sort of a bad parody of freud. what she said, for example, was that certain kinds of emotional states can cause thyroid illness or cancer or blood clots, this sort of thing. and we have no evidence of that so i would be... c-span: what would she say, if she were here? >> guest: that's a good question. i know in her book, she consulted something called--a person called a medical intuitive.

we have 1% plus gains, in some cases 2% gains in the likes of raytheon and northrup grummon. seema?at netflix, now at an all time high. the stock soaring on news it agreed to pay comcast, the parent of this network, for faster speeds for its service. the two signing a multi-year deal. the stock trading up by 3.2%. >>> the s&p 500 if you are just tuning in, hit an all time high today and the dow, no slack either, up 186 points. bob pisani is with me on the floor. for no real reason. no great trigger. >> moving to historic highs is the reason. but there's no fundamental reason why the dow is up 200 points today. look at the s&p 500, green for the year now. as we moved into historic territory right after the close, around the 1848 level, pop up there and you can see we are just off the highs. three to one advancing to declining stocks throughout the day. a number of sectors up more than 1%. kind of unusual. half the sectors, five of ten sectors in the s&p 500 up more than 1% including energy, industrials, financial, health care and consumer discretionary stocks. you see all up 1%. the