1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,740 MATT FORTE: There's an image that I've 2 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:05,160 seen before of Ian McKellen sitting weeping 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:08,160 at a green screen because he just-- it's hard for him 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,050 to-- it was on the set, I think, of "The Hobbit." 5 00:00:10,050 --> 00:00:11,670 And he was like, you know, I prefer 6 00:00:11,670 --> 00:00:12,720 being on the mountain top. 7 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:13,650 I prefer doing this. 8 00:00:13,650 --> 00:00:15,690 Not an option here in a lot of the places you go. 9 00:00:15,690 --> 00:00:17,940 NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: [LAUGHS] I prefer to be inside the atom. 10 00:00:17,940 --> 00:00:18,917 MATT FORTE: Exactly. 11 00:00:18,917 --> 00:00:20,350 NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: I can't work this way. 12 00:00:20,350 --> 00:00:23,160 Where's my agent? 13 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:24,900 MATT FORTE: Is it difficult to act-- 14 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:26,370 that sense of awe? 15 00:00:26,370 --> 00:00:27,820 You know, how do you get yourself 16 00:00:27,820 --> 00:00:30,570 to perform in these environments that you 17 00:00:30,570 --> 00:00:31,852 couldn't possibly travel to? 18 00:00:31,852 --> 00:00:33,185 NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: They were all real. 19 00:00:33,185 --> 00:00:34,880 MATT FORTE: [LAUGHS] That's the answer. 20 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:35,680 NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: No. 21 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:36,480 Yeah, that's the answer. 22 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,520 [INAUDIBLE] So no, I'm in this ship, 23 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,340 and there's, you know, a 50-foot green screen 24 00:00:41,340 --> 00:00:43,260 outside the ship because every camera angle 25 00:00:43,260 --> 00:00:44,850 has to be able to capture it. 26 00:00:44,850 --> 00:00:47,970 And I'm there, and this visual effects 27 00:00:47,970 --> 00:00:51,570 supervisor comes up with a laser and said, look over there. 28 00:00:51,570 --> 00:00:53,110 A star just blew up. 29 00:00:53,110 --> 00:00:54,120 Now, go. 30 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,790 And now, I deal in exploded stars, 31 00:00:56,790 --> 00:00:58,260 because I'm an astrophysicist. 32 00:00:58,260 --> 00:00:59,580 So I got that one. 33 00:00:59,580 --> 00:01:01,470 I know what that's gonna look and feel like. 34 00:01:01,470 --> 00:01:03,120 Plus, I'm helping him adjust what colors 35 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,280 they are, because while it's happening, 36 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,590 the camera on my face-- yes. 37 00:01:07,590 --> 00:01:09,360 I have to be illuminated while that's 38 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:11,130 happening in the colors of what they 39 00:01:11,130 --> 00:01:12,570 ultimately put on the screen. 40 00:01:12,570 --> 00:01:14,640 Otherwise, you can't sell your brain. 41 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,440 Even if you don't think it, your brain 42 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:17,650 know something's not right. 43 00:01:17,650 --> 00:01:18,450 OK? 44 00:01:18,450 --> 00:01:20,410 So I have to actually be in front of an exploding star, 45 00:01:20,410 --> 00:01:21,700 even though it's just a green screen. 46 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,040 So I got that. 47 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,670 But when the ship is small, and where I'm hanging around 48 00:01:26,670 --> 00:01:29,340 with insects, he points over. 49 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:31,420 He said, there's a worm over there staring you down. 50 00:01:31,420 --> 00:01:32,220 Go. 51 00:01:32,220 --> 00:01:35,490 And can I see a reference picture for this worm, please? 52 00:01:35,490 --> 00:01:37,840 Because I'm not-- me and worms, I don't have that one. 53 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,050 So I have to be informed. 54 00:01:40,050 --> 00:01:44,370 I have to be primed for that reaction. 55 00:01:44,370 --> 00:01:46,980 But I totally enjoy it because it's all nature, and most of it 56 00:01:46,980 --> 00:01:48,830 is the universe, and I'm already there. 57 00:01:48,830 --> 00:01:51,260 I have it in me, anyway. 58 00:01:51,260 --> 00:01:53,490 I don't have to see it in order to emote it. 59 00:01:53,490 --> 00:01:56,840 [MUSIC PLAYING] 60 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,000