Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I've got a great one for you today with Ed Harris, the legendary Ed Harris.

Been around Hollywood for more than 40 years, but in some of the biggest movies of that time.

His big breakthrough, as you'll remember, is the right stuff in 1983 where he played

astronaut John Glenn. That's when he first hopped onto people's radars.

And his list of credits since then is incredible, nominated for Oscars,

in Apollo 13, the Truman Show, the Hours, and of course Pollock, which was his big passion project

in the year 2000. He spent a decade developing that movie about Jackson Pollock.

He also directed that film and was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards.

We got together, though, to talk about his new role as Atticus Finch on Broadway.

Aaron Sorkin has taken the classic book to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee,

adapted it for Broadway. Jeff Daniels was in the role for several months.

When his run came to an end, they picked up the phone and they called the great Ed Harris.

You'll hear what he had to say when that phone call came his way in our conversation.

We got together inside the Schubert Theater just to paint the picture for you.

We are inside the courtroom to Kill a Mockingbird where Atticus Finch makes his arguments eight times

a week on that stage. Does Ed Harris in the Schubert Theater in the heart of Broadway here in

New York City? Two Jersey guys, by the way, Ed Harris from Tenifly, New Jersey, in Bergen County,

Willi Geist from Ridgewood, New Jersey, also in Bergen County, both played football, both

captains of our football teams. He's slightly before me. So as we sat down, before we start rolling

on the interview, most of our conversation was reliving his 1967 state championship season and

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