Kurt and Wyatt Russell Live from SiriusXM Miami Studios

climb the fence, books and pens, I can tell that we are gonna be friends, yes I can tell

that we are gonna be friends.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Conan O'Brien!

Hey!

How you all doing?

How you all doing?

Are you all from Miami?

Are people from Miami?

Yes!

Okay, come on, you can say yes!

Yes!

Don't be ashamed!

I'll tell you why I'm thrilled to be here, the humidity!

I got off the plane and my hair expanded!

Fantastic!

It comes to life in humidity in LA, it's always dying.

My hair is always like, I will kill myself!

And I got off the plane here and it's just fantastic!

I've never seen it this high.

I woke up this morning, it's super high.

I don't know why, I honestly don't know why I'm doing this movement.

Miami Conan.

This isn't helping anything at all.

Anyone gonna be hitting the clubs tonight, because I hear that's what you're supposed

to do in Miami.

Are we hitting the clubs?

What the hell is wrong with you?

I'm in Miami and it's Art Basel and I get the library crowd.

Reading, I tell you!

That's why you can't...

I thought people went to the clubs no matter if you're like someone who goes to the clubs.

Don't you go on Tuesday also?

I've never been to the clubs.

When I say go to the clubs, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Is it clear that I've never been to the clubs?

Thank you.

Thank you for your sad, embarrassed silence.

Nothing says...

I don't know.

I just think we have to do something tonight.

I don't know what I'm gonna do, because we're here through tomorrow night.

So I'm gonna have to do something.

So maybe if we all got together as a group, we could hit the clubs, you know?

Make our own club.

These movements I'm doing now, this isn't gonna go not so good.

You're in the front row.

You're sitting next to this gentleman in an orange wig, and you're just looking very sad

when I dance like this.

Come on, if you were in the clubs, and you didn't know me, I wasn't famous, but you saw

this guy in the corner doing this, intrigued or horrified?

A little bit of both.

That's exactly what I was going for.

God bless you.

All right.

We're gonna get started here.

I'm gonna bring out my assistant, Mr. David Hopping.

Let's get David Hopping out here.

David Hopping!

Are you joining me up here?

We go up here?

All right.

Now, let me explain.

Usually, Sona Movsassian assists me.

She has little twins.

She does.

And she said she can't come to Miami.

But my real assistant now is David Hopping, because Sona doesn't do shit.

She never did shit.

And now that she has babies, she really doesn't do anything.

She still does some stuff.

No, she does absolutely nothing.

She does absolutely nothing, except say, where's my check?

And then...

And you just keep giving it.

I keep paying her.

I pay her, and I pay her, and I pay her, because I love her.

I'm trying to figure out how to get to that level of your assistant.

Yeah, yeah.

So can we hire another assistant out here?

Yeah.

If you had an assistant, if you hire an assistant, then you could goof off.

Great.

Yeah.

Who wants to be Conan's assistant?

Now, that means you'd be subject to a lot of passive aggression.

Yeah.

You'd probably...

You'd find a lot of NDAs.

Do you guys listen to the podcast fairly regularly, or have you heard of the podcast?

Okay, so then you know that, yeah, I'm no treat to work for, because I'm a very needy

person.

I think I have a good soul, but I'm a needy person.

Yeah.

But then, like, on trips like this, Conan pays for everything, so that part's really

nice.

Yeah, that wasn't clear to me until we got here.

I thought this was, like, paid by Sirius, and they said, no, Conan, you're paying for

this.

Yeah, you're just...

Let's visit the fact that we're here in Miami.

We came from LA.

And I'm wearing...

I'm wearing denim.

I'm wearing a denim jacket, and I don't think that's the right clothing to be wearing in

this temperature, and you are wearing, like, an L.L. Bean...

It's a very thick shirt.

Yeah.

You look like you're headed out in November in Maine.

Yeah.

So why are you dressed that way?

I just liked this shirt.

Yeah.

But Blay's ready.

Look at him over there.

Oh, Blay.

Let's give it up for Blay, who actually wore it.

Ready for Miami.

If you cross your eyes, you could see a sailboat.

We should go get matching shirts.

Yeah.

Did you wear that shirt?

Because you rarely wear any shirt with a button.

You usually wear a really stupid t-shirt.

No, and I meant that in a nice way.

That wasn't an insult.

Well, I will say, last night, you know, we got in late, and we grabbed some food, and

I made the mistake...

You know, when you're on the plane, you want to be comfortable, and I made the mistake

of wearing a t-shirt and had a dinosaur reading a book, and I will never hear the end of it

for the rest of my life.

Well, you always dress that way, and you're 72 years old.

I'm very old.

And you clean up nice.

You're a good-looking 72-year-old, but it's this generation that refuses to ever dress

like an adult.

So I think when I go and I have my funeral, you're going to show up in a hoof-farted t-shirt

and like a hat with like a propeller on it, because it's ironic.

Possibly.

Quite possibly.

Yeah.

Yeah, I just think, you know, we're down in Miami.

I wanted to look nice, and so flowers.

Now, I've asked these people, and I think they're a very attractive crowd.

This is a very good-looking group, and I just assumed they'd be hitting the clubs.

And when I said, hey, I guess I'll see you all in the clubs tonight, I got nothing.

Because this is a group that I think just doesn't go out.

Well, if I may be so bold, maybe they are going to hit the clubs, but they don't want

you to know that they're going to hit the clubs.

I think that's a terrible assumption.

Okay, sorry.

This young woman here saw me dance, and I have to admit, you didn't seem thrilled about

it, but I think over time, that dance would start to seem cool to you.

She's desperate to get out of here.

Now, those of you who didn't wear a Conan wig today, do you feel a little shame?

I mean, this guy went all the way with the Conan wig, and the rest of you probably have

to feel right now like, man, I thought I was a Conan fan.

And this guy, where did you get that wig, by the way?

What grave did you dig up?

You got it at Amazon?

They didn't have, I couldn't get my hair, like, the poof, so I bought a wig.

But I lost the bet against my late brother, so whoever gets to see you first in person

wears a dumb wig.

Oh my God, that's incredible.

Wait, this was, and your brother passed?

Yeah, two years ago.

I'm very sorry about that.

Yeah.

And was he a fan as well?

Yeah, we both saw him, like, almost 20 years ago.

My mom would come to my room, like, at midnight, what are you guys doing?

Are you doing, are you, like, smoking pot?

And we're like, no, we're watching Conan.

Which is worse.

Way worse.

It's so much worse.

It's so much more mind-altering.

She thought you were the guy from the Lucky Charms commercial.

What was your brother's, your late brother's name?

Christopher.

All right, Christopher.

I'll be thinking about Christopher today.

He's here in spirit, and I'm so glad that you were able to be here.

Thank you so much.

That's really beautiful, and I'm glad that I ruined your minds when you were children.

Parents hated me.

Because kids would stay up and say, we've got to watch Conan, and it ruined everything.

My mom still doesn't understand you at all.

Your mother still doesn't understand?

No, she's like, what do you see in him?

It's like...

Thank you for that.

You know what?

I have to say, that's what my father says.

My father doesn't get it.

He's like, what?

What are you talking about?

But, you know, over time, over time, I'll get to your mom as well.

Yeah, after he passed, I couldn't watch Conan for a while, because it was a lot to me.

Oh, I can see that.

And my mom, I woke up one day, and she was watching your show.

She was trying to understand it.

So I sat next to her.

It's not...

I love that it's like, I'm going to try one more time to see why anyone likes this idiot.

This is fantastic.

So I sat next to her.

She was watching the baseball one, which is my favorite.

The old-timey baseball one is a classic, yeah.

And she looks at me at the end, and she's like, why?

Why?

You should.

I'll call your mom.

Maybe after the show, I'll call your mom, okay?

And we'll have a conversation.

What's her first name?

Lesbia.

Lesbia.

Okay, I'm going to call her, and I'm going to convince her that I'm the greatest comedian that ever lived.

Please do.

There's going to be some money exchanged, so...

We need it.

All right, well, we should get on with the show.

We have a terrific show today.

I just go right into it, right?

I think I do.

All right.

Oh, wait, these are not my cards.

These are my cards.

Ah, there we go.

Secret cards.

You get on the plane, you do a lot of cocaine.

What the hell was that?

Nixon, yeah.

That's Nixon on cocaine.

Let's do another line!

My guests today are a father-son duo who are currently starring in the new Apple TV series,

Monarch Legacy of Monsters.

I am thrilled they are here today.

Ladies and gentlemen, Kurt and Wyatt Russell!

Let's get them out here!

So far, so good.

You like that?

It was like it was in question.

We just talked to an audience member who said his mom just doesn't get it.

Now your turn, sir.

Nobody's making out of this room.

It's actually an escape room.

You guys are fucked.

Try to get out of here.

And it's like, I just, and you're like, did you notice?

No, no, I just want away from this man.

Thanks a lot, Kurt.

Hey, hey, I want to meet up with Kurt Russell in Miami and have him insult me.

That's one of my lifelong dreams.

You know, I have to say you have this incredible movie career.

You've made so many different types of movie.

Like you've inhabited more genres than just about anyone I can think of.

There's no clear like path line in your career, is there?

It's just you've made all these iconic movies.

It's amazing.

Keep going.

We were just talking outside.

You're actually funny and you're fun and you're nice.

I don't know.

You're a really good guy.

I didn't even realize it was your son.

I'm watching one of my favorite shows is Black Mirror.

And I'm watching this Black Mirror episode starring this young actor who I didn't recognize.

He has this big beard and it is a acting tour de force.

And I watched it.

I was like, who is that guy?

That guy is absolutely fantastic.

And then I find out it's Wyatt.

It's your boy.

And I'm like, that guy killed it.

You absolutely killed it.

And I thought.

And what's interesting is neither one of you started out thinking you'd be an actor.

You both started out as athletes who got injured.

And then it started with you.

You played baseball.

You were a child actor.

And then you said, no, it's going to be baseball.

I did everything my dad did.

My dad was an actor.

He looked like he was having a fun life.

And I wanted to get some bicycles for my sister and myself.

And I had a paper route.

And then I started.

Thank you.

Listening.

He takes care of me.

Could you adjust my lighting as well?

Absolutely.

And I got a job.

And the minimum pay scale was enough to pay for those two bicycles.

So I asked him.

I said, so is this pretty much it?

And he said, yeah.

I said, well, he said, if you want to do it, call him.

Call Hilda.

My dad's agent.

Call her up and tell her you want to keep doing it.

So I did.

And that was why I got into it.

I was playing baseball.

And then, yeah.

I mean, that was sort of what I thought I was going to do for sure.

And didn't really think about acting as something that I was going to continue with.

I did like writing a lot.

I liked acting.

It was really fun.

And the money in it was just sort of unbelievable for what you're doing.

You're having fun.

You're just having a good time.

And then I guess that was when I got hurt out of baseball.

I played three years of pro ball.

And I was doing well.

So it was a big surprise to me.

And then I said, well, what am I going to do really?

After crying for three days.

And I said, well, maybe I'll stick with that.

I can always do that.

And then I realized, you know, if I'm going to do this, I've got to be really interested.

And I'm going to have to do this my way.

And my way was to try to create characters.

You know, memorable characters.

I remember that character or that character in really fun stories or great stories.

And then I just got lucky.

I had the opportunity to work with some really great directors and some great material.

And then still doing it.

Or is it you've done so many different things.

It's funny.

You never know when you bump into someone.

Is it going to be Snake Plissken?

Is it going to be?

And the biggest one I've ever had is Santa Claus.

I mean, that was Santa Claus on Netflix.

Everybody saw it.

It was really fun to do.

It was something I always wanted to do.

Kind of fun to go from Snake to Santa Claus, you know, over your career.

I've always thought of them as.

Obviously, you know, Goldie's an icon.

And Kate, you know, nominated for an Academy Award.

It's like second crack out of the box.

And Oliver Hudson's done more work than all of us combined.

Right.

And always there was this thing that, well, we used to.

Not kiddingly, I was serious about it.

One of the best actors in the family is a hockey player.

And along came the hockey player.

So you grow up and you think, I'm not going to be an actor.

Right.

You weren't interested in that.

You were interested in hockey.

Well, it's like you've got your kids.

Do they want anything to do with show business?

Because my boy, Beckett, when he was about six.

Because I was trying to kept them away from what I did.

Because I was deeply ashamed of it.

I mean, this guy's cool.

What am I doing?

But my son came and saw me do a big show like at the Beacon Theater.

I mean, I don't know, 2,500 or 3,000 people.

You know, crowd going wild.

Really good, hot show.

My wife took my son when he was about six and he saw it.

And then they're leaving the theater and she's holding his hand.

And she said, what did you think?

And he said, when I grow up, I want to do something where there's no stage and no audience.

Yeah.

So he's really into computers.

He's a really smart kid.

He's going to have, I think he's a brilliant guy.

He's going to have a great life.

And he appreciates what I do, but he's like, uh-huh, no, not me.

So when you were a kid.

Because, you know, you see what it is on screen and it's fun and whatever.

But when you're like six years old and you go to a Kings game and that energy is directed towards your parents who are just your parents.

It's like really off-putting and scary in a way.

You're six or five or whatever it is.

And I grew up with that.

And I was like, I just want to watch a Kings game with my dad.

But you can't.

And so that really seeped in.

And I was like, well, I just don't want to do that.

It's not something that interests me.

At that time, also, you don't understand what an artistic avenue can give you when you get older.

And so I was focusing on hockey.

He took me to my first rink in Toronto.

I was three years old.

My mom was doing a movie.

And I can swear to God to you, as cheesy as it sounds, it's like my first real memory.

I was on an ice rink outdoors in Toronto.

I would skate from, like, bench to bench.

And it stuck with me in this way that I was like, this is what I want to do.

And I swear, from four years old, I was like, I'm going to be a hockey player.

It also differentiated myself from what they did and from a very early age.

You want to find your own way.

It's really important.

And also, they never brought work home.

Like, ever.

So it was just having fun, sports, playing hockey, baseball, whatever it was.

I mean, yeah.

When I come home, I'm in full makeup.

And I'm like, do you have any idea who and what I am?

I'm always leaning on it.

Let's have a little applause.

And then when it came time to be, he was really good, a sports parent, obviously playing sports.

And when I was about 10, he said, look, you're good at this.

And if you're still wanting to do this when you're like 12, 13, then it gets real.

And it's not as fun anymore.

But it becomes a different thing.

And if you do, I'll always support it.

And I did.

And I told him, yeah, this is what I want to do.

And then we ended up moving to Vancouver for me to play junior hockey.

And that was my career path.

And that's how I gained all of my – that's where I learned to do everything in my life.

You would wake up in the morning and there's just fans.

I mean this is – you had real success.

Real success is a big stretch.

But it was pro hockey.

You killed it.

The guy who ran the social media for the team was a bit of an idiot.

And he, like, put my address on, like, Facebook, on my, like, Facebook profile.

And one day after we won the championship, I woke up to fans outside my door, like, wanting to get in.

And so at, like, 7.30 in the morning, I was drinking Weiss beer and pretzels with, like – because it felt, like, safer to let them in somehow.