Hey, everyone listening to the podcast. This is Ari Melburgh. We have an exclusive interview for you tonight on this podcast.

This has not aired anywhere else. It's part of some of the extra content we're doing because we've read that you guys like stuff that goes beyond what's been on the show.

So I sat down for an in-depth conversation with an actor you probably recognize, Boris McGuiver. He's been on the hit Netflix show House of Cards.

He plays, yes, a journalist trying to root out corruption in the White House. We got into a lot

of topics, including how the show's impact might play out with a woman president in the show

and how that plays out in our politics and sexism and feminism, how Boris worked with

my colleague, Rachel Maddo, because he said he felt starstruck filming a scene with her. We get under

that. And also his larger acting process and his work with directors like Steven Spielberg. So again,

what you're about to hear is that entire interview for the first time. Thanks as always for

listening to The Beat with Ari Melbert podcast.

Thanks for being here. Oh gosh. Thanks for having me. We're going to talk about a lot of stuff

and I'm going to mention some of your other roles. Okay. But first of all, how do you

like being associated with and working in such obviously politically

infused shows?

I totally love it.

Completely love it.

I really do.

I mean, it was a real gift to do.

I got to work with David Fincher.

I got to work with, I got to work with Kevin Spacey, you know, say what you want, and there are obvious things to comment on, I won't, but I got to work with some amazing stars.

And the writing was probably the biggest star to work with.

Bo Willemann's writing from the get-go,, because normally when you learn lines,

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