Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Sean Gunn Loves Math, Cats, and Rap
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Sean Gunn is known for playing the ever-eccentric Kirk on Gilmore Girls and space-pirate Kraglin in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. On Nerdette, he talks about what it’s like to be in a movie directed by his big brother, and how intense Gilmore Girls fans are. Plus, Sean shares his little-known obsessions with math, cats, and rap.
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| 0:13.6 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:19.8 | And I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:20.8 | Today we're very excited to talk to Sean Gunn who plays |
| 0:23.5 | Yandu's first mate Craglin and the biggest superhero movie of the summer |
| 0:26.9 | Guardians of the Galaxy volume two. He's also perhaps more importantly at least to |
| 0:31.5 | me Kurt Gleason on Gilmore Girls, can I just say I had no idea that |
| 0:35.8 | Kirk had a last name? |
| 0:38.0 | From space pirates to basement dwellers, Sean is a versatile actor. |
| 0:41.5 | He's also a real nerd about underground rap and math and cats, all of which of course we will talk about today on Nurdette. |
| 0:50.0 | Sean Gunn, welcome to the show. |
| 0:53.0 | So what is it like to be in the biggest superhero movie of the summer? |
| 0:56.2 | It's trippy, can I use that word? |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm certainly very proud of the movie, and I'm very glad that it's out because I've been sort of working on in somewhere or another for |
| 1:07.0 | years but yeah now that it's out and it's doing so well it's been very strange. I was just in the UK shooting something and I was surprised |
| 1:18.0 | by how many people had seen the movie already everywhere I went. So that's gratifying. So what's the weirdest thing that someone has like |
| 1:25.8 | yelled at you when they recognize you from the variety of roles that you've played? Oh my gosh. Well I have had a young woman have me autograph their arm and then tattoo the autograph. |
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