Dave Davies

And it's a lot of fun to watch.

Right.

Trust the director.

Trust the process.

All right.

I wanted to talk about the HBO series Chernobyl, which you had a major role in in 2019.

It's about this accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine in 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history.

And you play a high-ranking

Soviet government minister who is assigned the day after the explosion by the head of the Soviet Union to go and investigate it and you are a very formidable comrade here.

When you're traveling in helicopter with the scientist with you and you ask him to explain how a reactor works and he hesitates, you say, tell me or I'm going to have a soldier throw you out the window of the helicopter.

The scene we're going to hear is one where you and others managing the response to this reactor realize that there could be a catastrophic release of radiation if you don't get three volunteers from the plant to wade into some very badly contaminated water under the crippled reactor and shut down some valves.

They're almost certain to get a lethal dose of radiation and not survive.

And in the scene, you're in the room kind of sitting at the side while the lead scientist is trying to get workers to volunteer for this dangerous assignment, telling them they'll get a cash bonus.

But they sense the risk and they're skeptical.

And at some point, you just stand up and take charge.

I think one of the workers who's skeptical speaks first.

Let's listen.

And that is our guest Stellan Skarsgård in the HBO series Chernobyl.

This is powerful stuff here.

The guy that you play here, Boris Shcherbina, was a real guy who Soviet Abaratchik got involved in managing the response and eventually died because of the radiation sickness, didn't he?