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Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director

of New York City's Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

In this episode of Star Talk, we're featuring a conversation with the award-winning actor Morgan

Freeman.

He came to my office at the Hayden Planetarium and we chatted about his interest in science

and space exploration.

In fact, after we recorded this interview, we headed down to the radio studio for a Star

Talk episode where we talked about his science channel TV series through the wormhole.

So you'll want to check out that show on our website's archive, www.StarTalkRadio.net.

Morgan Freeman's through the wormhole series tackles some of the most intriguing questions

in science today, including the birth of the universe, the origin of life on earth, the

question of alien life, and the deep mystery of dark matter.

Morgan Freeman is not only one of the most popular actors in Hollywood today, he's received

Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, the

Shawshank Redemption, and Invictus.

He won an Oscar in 2005 for a million dollar baby, and he's also won a Golden Globe Award

and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

His other popular films include Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, My Favorite, Deep Impact, Bruce

Almighty, where of course he played God, Batman Begins, The Bucket List, it goes on and

on.

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