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Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend

Claire Danes Returns

03 Nov 2025

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Chapter 1: What does Claire Danes say about being Conan O'Brien's friend?

3.372 - 16.166 Claire Danes

Hi, my name is Claire Danes. And I feel blessed about being Conan O'Brien's friend.

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17.248 - 38.053 Unknown

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!

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38.067 - 44.315 Conan O'Brien

Hey there and welcome to Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. I just started the podcast to stop Sona from jabbering.

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Chapter 2: How did Claire prepare for her role in 'The Beast in Me'?

44.335 - 55.889 Conan O'Brien

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.

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56.029 - 62.117 Matt Gourley

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.

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64.207 - 73.368 Sona Movsesian

I was saying you rest on the microphone a lot. You did that. I remember you had. We shouldn't talk.

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Chapter 3: What experiences did Claire have while filming 'Homeland'?

73.408 - 74.791 Sona Movsesian

No, it was in the documentary.

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74.811 - 75.853 Conan O'Brien

It was in the documentary.

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75.993 - 82.789 Sona Movsesian

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.

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82.809 - 96.009 Conan O'Brien

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.

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Chapter 4: How does Claire balance parenting with her acting career?

96.029 - 115.899 Conan O'Brien

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.

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116.039 - 134.406 Conan O'Brien

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.

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134.426 - 135.688 Sona Movsesian

Holding it. You're holding it.

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Chapter 5: What insights does Claire share about working with Jodie Foster?

135.728 - 141.498 Conan O'Brien

I'm holding it and I'm rubbing, I'm wiping pus onto the microphone.

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141.518 - 141.619 Sona Movsesian

Yeah.

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142.079 - 148.711 Conan O'Brien

And then the director, Robin Flender, got a great shot of you. He inserted it later of you with a little handy wipe.

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148.751 - 150.134 Sona Movsesian

Yeah. Wiping pus.

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150.214 - 151.396 Conan O'Brien

You had to clean up his pus?

151.436 - 155.744 Sona Movsesian

I had to clean up his eye pus from his microphone. Yeah.

156.045 - 157.427 Conan O'Brien

And to be fair-

Chapter 6: How does Claire describe the challenges of being in the entertainment industry?

157.407 - 159.812 Conan O'Brien

I did bring this up in your interview for the job.

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160.394 - 161.115 Sona Movsesian

Oh.

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161.135 - 165.425 Conan O'Brien

I said, I may have a postulating eye and you will need to clean it up.

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165.445 - 166.527 Sona Movsesian

I don't remember that.

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166.687 - 167.649 Conan O'Brien

Well, you were pretty high.

167.69 - 168.852 Sona Movsesian

Yeah, I was pretty high.

170.235 - 171.618 Conan O'Brien

Scored. Scored.

172.26 - 172.901 Sona Movsesian

Crushed it.

173.141 - 174.464 Conan O'Brien

Yeah.

Chapter 7: What themes does Claire explore in her new series?

174.905 - 177.07 Conan O'Brien

Goals. What?

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177.168 - 182.094 Sona Movsesian

I don't know. That doesn't work. But you have a thing with resting on whatever microphone. Yeah.

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182.114 - 195.91 Conan O'Brien

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.

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Chapter 8: How do Conan and the team respond to listener questions?

195.95 - 205.882 Conan O'Brien

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.

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206.323 - 217.579 Eduardo Perez

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.

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217.82 - 225.231 Conan O'Brien

Because I secrete many secretions and they could get on the mic. It just could happen. Yeah.

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225.211 - 228.179 Sona Movsesian

Also, when people, you're not the only one who uses that microphone.

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228.239 - 257.476 Conan O'Brien

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.

258.077 - 263.084 Conan O'Brien

And the last time I saw him, he had trouble. He was trying to just eat the softest muffin.

263.124 - 264.867 Matt Gourley

You're killing Ted Danson.

264.887 - 273.338 Conan O'Brien

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.

274.56 - 289.398 Matt Gourley

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.

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