Mozhan Marnò: Diaries, Screenplays, And Blacklists

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🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Mozhan Marnò shares the research behind shaping her character, FBI and Mossad operative Samar Navabi, on The Blacklist. This episode originally aired on November 17, 2017.

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0:00.0	Hey Jonathan. Hey, if you're today on Ask Me Another We're Playing a Game Where You Have to Guess If a Museum We Describe is Real or Fake.
0:06.5	So Speed Round, Real or Fake, there's a museum in Pittsburgh where you can play air hockey against a robot.
0:12.3	Yeah, that sounds real. Absolutely.
0:14.4	Yeah. Next, how about a museum in San Jose that has a virtual reality simulator where you can fly like a bird above New York City?
0:20.8	Yeah, sounds real to me. Yep, indeed it is. And here's the last one. There's an art museum where visitors politely appreciate the art.
0:28.6	Instead of taking selfies with it. That's fake. Yeah, that's totally fake.
0:38.5	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia. Ask me another.
0:48.9	I'm Jonathan Colton. Now here's your host, O'Fearah Eisenberg.
0:53.4	Thank you, Jonathan. We've got a great show for you for brilliant contestants or backstage talking in 280 characters.
1:05.3	They're here to play our nerdy games, but only one will be our big winner. And our special guest today is Mojang Marno from the NBC series The Blacklist,
1:14.0	where she plays Samarna Vabi, a FBI operative with a shadowy past.
1:19.8	Mojang also does a lot of voice work, including a character in the video game Skyrim. Turns out actually a lot of celebrities have appeared in video games.
1:28.7	Kristen Bell is in Assassin's Creed. Elijah Wood is the voice of Spyro the Dragon. And I gotta tell you, I got in on it too.
1:36.8	I don't mean to brag, but I am the voice of the rectangle in Pong.
1:41.5	Yes, I dated the ball for a little while, but it didn't work out. It was a rebound relationship.
1:55.2	Our first two contestants will play a game about museums, or as I like to call them, culturally acceptable hoarder houses.
2:02.7	Let's meet them. First up, Jackamo Santangelo on buzzer number one.
2:08.3	You're an economics professor at Fordham University. Welcome.
2:12.3	It's good to be here.
2:13.5	Your opponent is Mihail Etropolski on buzzer number two.
2:17.2	You hit people with sores for living by which I mean you're a fencing instructor. Welcome.
2:22.8	Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here.
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