Claire Danes Returns
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What does Claire Danes say about being Conan O'Brien's friend?
Hi, my name is Claire Danes. And I feel blessed about being Conan O'Brien's friend.
Fall is here, hear the yell. Back to school, ring the bell. Brand new shoes, walk and lose. Climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends. I can tell that we are gonna be friends There's just so much spit on it!
Hey there and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I just started the podcast to stop Sona from jabbering.
How did Claire prepare for her role in 'The Beast in Me'?
You were jabbering a bit. Sona Movsesian joining me and Matt Crowley. Did you see what I did there? I started the podcast in order to stop her. I saw a slight opening and I jumped in.
I'm going to leave in the edit just the last thing she said right before you spoke, which is there's so much spit on it.
I was saying you rest on the microphone a lot. You did that. I remember you had. We shouldn't talk.
What experiences did Claire have while filming 'Homeland'?
No, it was in the documentary.
It was in the documentary.
You had pus on your eye and then you kept shoving the microphone in your eye. And then I had to like wipe it with a wipey.
This is going back. to 2010. Yeah. I'm preparing to do my tour and there's, we're having lots of problems getting the show up and going. Yeah. And at one point, I remember it, I wasn't feeling well.
How does Claire balance parenting with her acting career?
I had a postulated eyeball. Don't even ask me what was going on. I had some disease that was eradicated in the middle ages. But I wasn't feeling well. And it's the poster for the tour, the movie, the documentary, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop. I forgot it's a poster. I see it every morning because I had that, someone gave me that frame poster and I put it in my basement and I'm always passing it like on the way to like watch TV. And it's me leaning my postulating eye on the foam cover of the microphone.
Holding it. You're holding it.
What insights does Claire share about working with Jodie Foster?
I'm holding it and I'm rubbing, I'm wiping pus onto the microphone.
Yeah.
And then the director, Robin Flender, got a great shot of you. He inserted it later of you with a little handy wipe.
Yeah. Wiping pus.
You had to clean up his pus?
I had to clean up his eye pus from his microphone. Yeah.
And to be fair-
How does Claire describe the challenges of being in the entertainment industry?
I did bring this up in your interview for the job.
Oh.
I said, I may have a postulating eye and you will need to clean it up.
I don't remember that.
Well, you were pretty high.
Yeah, I was pretty high.
Scored. Scored.
Crushed it.
Yeah.
What themes does Claire explore in her new series?
Goals. What?
I don't know. That doesn't work. But you have a thing with resting on whatever microphone. Yeah.
Sometimes, I don't know what it is, but I find it somehow calming to rest my eyeball on the microphone. Okay. And Eduardo, you are, of course, the designer of this wonderful studio. This is your equipment.
How do Conan and the team respond to listener questions?
You're very finicky about it. How do you feel when you see me resting my eyeball on this, what I'm sure is a $600,000 microphone? Yeah. It's not.
I'm okay with it because we have a bunch of spares. So if you've done it too long, I'll swap it out. Do you boil them afterwards? They can get cleaned, actually, this foam part here. I hope so.
Because I secrete many secretions and they could get on the mic. It just could happen. Yeah.
Also, when people, you're not the only one who uses that microphone.
I know. Ted Danson regularly does a podcast in here. And I've noticed lately he has all these horrible sores around his mouth. I think he has what I have now. And he probably thought, oh, there's going to be no problem me speaking into this mic. Little does he know that I have some kind of scabies from this era of the Salem witch trial. It's coming out my eye and it's going into Ted Danson. And the last time I saw him, he had trouble. He was trying to just eat the softest muffin.
You're killing Ted Danson.
I'm killing Ted Danson. He couldn't get the little soft muffin into his mouth because of the giant... He cankers on his Ted Danson lips.
The other concern is the earphones. You know, sometimes when you have you noticed if you picked up earphones, sometimes they've got a little. I clean them every pre-session. And I will say this. I move every time we have a guest. I immediately have to move here.
They glisten.
And sometimes guests ears glisten.
They glisten.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Claire Danes say about being Conan O'Brien's friend?
0:03–0:44
2
How did Claire prepare for her role in 'The Beast in Me'?
0:44–1:13
3
What experiences did Claire have while filming 'Homeland'?
1:13–1:36
4
How does Claire balance parenting with her acting career?
1:36–2:15
5
What insights does Claire share about working with Jodie Foster?
2:15–2:37
6
How does Claire describe the challenges of being in the entertainment industry?
2:37–2:54
7
What themes does Claire explore in her new series?
2:54–3:15
8
How do Conan and the team respond to listener questions?
3:15–52:40