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MATT FORTE: There's
an image that I've

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seen before of Ian
McKellen sitting weeping

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at a green screen because
he just-- it's hard for him

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to-- it was on the set,
I think, of "The Hobbit."

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And he was like,
you know, I prefer

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being on the mountain top.

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I prefer doing this.

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Not an option here in a
lot of the places you go.

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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: [LAUGHS]
I prefer to be inside the atom.

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MATT FORTE: Exactly.

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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON:
I can't work this way.

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Where's my agent?

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MATT FORTE: Is it
difficult to act--

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that sense of awe?

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You know, how do
you get yourself

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to perform in these
environments that you

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couldn't possibly travel to?

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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON:
They were all real.

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MATT FORTE: [LAUGHS]
That's the answer.

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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: No.

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Yeah, that's the answer.

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[INAUDIBLE] So no,
I'm in this ship,

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and there's, you know,
a 50-foot green screen

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outside the ship because
every camera angle

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has to be able to capture it.

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And I'm there, and
this visual effects

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supervisor comes up with a
laser and said, look over there.

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A star just blew up.

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Now, go.

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And now, I deal
in exploded stars,

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because I'm an astrophysicist.

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So I got that one.

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I know what that's gonna
look and feel like.

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Plus, I'm helping him
adjust what colors

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they are, because
while it's happening,

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the camera on my face-- yes.

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I have to be
illuminated while that's

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happening in the
colors of what they

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ultimately put on the screen.

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Otherwise, you can't
sell your brain.

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Even if you don't
think it, your brain

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know something's not right.

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OK?

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So I have to actually be in
front of an exploding star,

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even though it's
just a green screen.

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So I got that.

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But when the ship is small,
and where I'm hanging around

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with insects, he points over.

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He said, there's a worm
over there staring you down.

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Go.

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And can I see a reference
picture for this worm, please?

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Because I'm not-- me and
worms, I don't have that one.

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So I have to be informed.

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I have to be primed
for that reaction.

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But I totally enjoy it because
it's all nature, and most of it

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is the universe, and
I'm already there.

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I have it in me, anyway.

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I don't have to see it
in order to emote it.

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