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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Maggie Q (Nikita, Designated Survivor) talks with Justin about getting her start in Hong Kong as an action star, her unconditional love for animals, and how one act of kindness can change your life.
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0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
0:11.8 | In the summer of 2007, I was |
0:16.2 | promoting a movie called Die Hard 4. Live Free or Die Hard, it was called. And as part of the promotional tour, |
0:21.6 | we got to go all around the world. It was so cool. And I |
0:26.0 | was allowed to bring one person. And I decided to bring my friend, John Togo. I guess I was unavailable. |
0:32.5 | Yeah, sorry. I don't know why I didn't bring you. I don't know how I feel. |
0:35.9 | If I ever do another big movie, at one point, we stopped in Berlin. And up until that point, |
0:42.7 | Bruce Willis had been around John a lot. And he thought he was my assistant. He just didn't know |
0:50.3 | that John was also an actor. And so when we were in Berlin, |
0:54.2 | Togo went out for a jog. And I guess Bruce was outside signing some autographs where there were autographs |
1:00.0 | seekers outside. And as Togo left the hotel, like half autographed seekers turned and spotted him |
1:08.2 | and started pursuing him. So they were like chasing John down the street. Later that day, Bruce came |
1:13.1 | up to me and he said, Hey, what does John do? He must have thought that he was like the best |
1:19.4 | assistant ever. The German who's like famous for being an amazing assistant. And the Germans would |
1:25.0 | value that I guess. Really on top of the thing. That's really responsible. |
1:37.3 | You're listening to Life Who Short. I'm your host Justin Long. |
1:41.1 | Life could be a dream sweetheart. |
1:49.1 | And with me is always his Christian long. Hello. |
1:53.3 | Christian was not there. I, you know, try that. Hello again. Oh, yeah. Christian was not |
1:58.5 | with me is always is my brother. Hello. Oh, well, I thought you wanted to try that again. |
2:03.4 | I thought you wanted to try a better one. I did. Oh, that was better. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. |
2:08.3 | I was such a fun trip. It was such a funny moment that Togo realized that he had, and later |
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