HBO's Chernobyl, The Crown & Mad Men | Jared Harris | Talks at Google

Jared Harris, the Emmy-nominated actor who has played some of the most memorable characters of our time—including Lane Pryce on Mad Men, King George VI on The Crown and Valery Legasov on HBO's Chernobyl, among others—discusses following in his father, Richard Harris's footsteps, the surprising state that Google searches him most, how he handles dying in (almost) every role, and his upcoming project in the Spiderman universe.

Moderated by Jennifer Vaden Barth.

[AdamBorseti]

Jared deserves an Emmy for his performance in Chernobyl. This guy's the real he can, just with his facial expressions, portray an incredible sense of emotion. That's to say nothing of his body language and vocal tone. The dude deserves a big win!

[exlibrisas]

Sean Bean: I am king of death on screen.
Jared Harris: Hold my AZ-5.

[ladyrocker]

The interviewer is basically in love with Jared, god I really felt that

[lazyskull]

Jared Harris was great in both Chernobyl and The Terror. Cant wait to see what else he has in store.

[michcookies]

There’s something about his voice, the way he pronounces some words, I could just listen to him talk all day.

[squamish]

He owned it in The Terror as well. Man is a dynamo. Wish he had talked about that role.

I didn't know who he was before watching The Terror (I never saw Mad Men). Watching the show, I thought, "He looks like Richard Harris. Sounds like him too."

Then a few episodes on, "He REALLY looks like Richard Harris. Sounds like him too. Must be because he's Irish." (The captain he portrayed on The Terror was Irish, so I assumed he was as well.)

Well...now I know why I thought that lol. And even though he was raised in London, he nailed the Irish accent for obvious reasons.

[sentdc]

16:08 that's where Chernobyl discussion starts

[HTHAMMACK]

Chernobyl should be #1. It's better than Game of Thrones without question.

[susanlevy]

The Emmy goes to Jared Harris no question Chernobyl was excellent not overrated by any means

[Christineog]

After binge watching him in Mad Men within the last two months.. my goodness, my heart broke for his character- it took the wind out of me. Jared Harris is an amazing actor, and I’m in love 😍

[kandrews]

I remember watching the trailer of Chernobyl and thinking "wow that trailer looks so good but so scary at the same time" and I was like surely the actual show won't be like this, " and I was right, it was even better and scarier.

[DeltaStar]

A brilliant actor, thanks for sharing this!

[agramsci]

This was a great interview. Ms. Vaden is great at asking the right questions that got amazing responses. More of her, please. :)

[kandrews]

I find it funny when people complain about the english accents used in Chernobyl but I've not heard anyone complain about the Sound of Music, I don't think the nazis and the von trapp family all had english accents...

[ghostofguy]

Fantastic interview. Well worth watching. Thanks

[Namverse]

who watched the terror( performance of Jared Harris)

[acetate]

All of those shows are amazing. I have never had any interest in the British Royal Family but The Crown is awesome. Mad Men is obviously a classic and I watched it on basic cable as it was airing. I want to re watch it when I have a free _month_ available. Chernobyl is probably the best mini series I've watched all year. It contains the most affective kind of tension that a great horror/thriller can produce. It gets all the human relationships perfect. Really a great piece of media that was so powerful and affecting that I'm in no hurry to re watch it.

What does the outside look like?

[musicluvrlaurie]

So funny, so intelligent, so interesting! Just love Mr. Harris! <3

[kristinwood]

Is the joke when they were talking about the robot, and he's like well not that one, and Boris is like I know not that one?

[fmulder]

terrific actor, just like his father, the late richard Harris was