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What's a moment when a stranger made you feel loved?

Hey, maybe this one, though, is it all flip?

When have you had a stranger feel that they loved you?

Strangers in the night.

Rachel, exchanging glances, wandering in the night.

What happened to you on that occasion?

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wildcard.

The game where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.

Pick a card one through three.

Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped them.

I can say that generally having devoted my life to the so-called

creative pursuits, you train yourself to, and the aspiration is to get a little comfy and cozy

with an environment of surprise. Jeff Goldblum has a special brand of charisma, the kind that seeps its way into all his roles.

Whether it's in the movie The Fly or Independence Day or Jurassic Park or his newest show called Chaos,

every character feels like a version of Jeff Goldblum himself.

He doesn't need to work too hard at becoming someone else on screen because he knows

that the audience really just wants him. His devilish smile, his perfectly deployed comedic asides,

it feels like he's always in on the joke and he wants us to be in on it too. It's as if he is saying,

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