Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to episode 71 of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards

podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is Robert Wagner,

the legendary star of film and TV who's now 86 years old and still going strong.

Over the course of our conversation, Wagner who goes by

R.J. talks about his experiences growing up around

Hollywood and movie stars.

His years as a contract player during Hollywood's golden age at

Darlav Zannick's 20th century Fox where he starred in films like with a song in my heart,

what price glory, broken lance and a kiss Before Dying, and during which he married for the first of two times, the great actress Natalie Wood.

He also talks about his transition to television, which wasn't the path most movie stars wanted to take in those days, but which worked out very well for him in It Takes a Thief with Fred Astaire

Switch with Eddie Albert and most famously heart to heart with Stephanie Powers. He opens up about his very

special relationships with Natalie Wood and with his current wife Jill St. John

and his later work in everything from the Austin Powers

to two and a half men to his most recent acclaimed

performance as a guest star on CBS's NCIS

on which he's popped up since 2010

as the father of Michael Weatherly's character. It's a performance for

which he might well receive a Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series Emmy nomination

in July. All in all this is a one-of-a-kind trip down memory lane with a guy who has an amazing

memory that stretches back pretty far into Hollywood history and I hope you'll

find it as interesting as I did. Let's go to that conversation. All right, Mr. Waderin, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you very much.

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