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Behind the Scenes: Can People Levitate?
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The setup
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The premise
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During a filming break, Robert brings David a question about levitation. David’s reaction turns the quiet exchange into a dispute about curiosity, intelligence and wounded pride.
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Can people levitate?
Because I have the intellectual confidence to appear stupid sometimes.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
Speaker 1 ?
Okay, ten minutes for lighting.
- 00:02
Robert Webb ?
David?
- 00:03
David Mitchell ?
Yeah?
- 00:04
Robert Webb ?
Is it possible... Yeah. Oh.
- 00:08
David Mitchell ?
What?
- 00:08
Robert Webb
No, that's all right.
- 00:10
David Mitchell
What's the question?
- 00:12
Robert Webb
There's just something in this, but you're just going to be all horrible.
- 00:15
David Mitchell
No, I'm not. What is it?
- 00:19
Robert Webb
In here, it looks like... I mean... I mean, basically, can people levitate?
- 00:27
David Mitchell
Can people levitate?
- 00:29
Robert Webb
Oh, I knew I shouldn't have asked.
- 00:31
David Mitchell
Can people levitate?
- 00:32
Robert Webb
Don't... just... I mean, it's no, isn't it?
- 00:37
David Mitchell
Yes, it is no.
- 00:38
Robert Webb
Don't be like that!
- 00:40
David Mitchell
Well, I haven't said anything.
- 00:41
Robert Webb
Don't have a go at me.
- 00:43
David Mitchell
You're the moron who thinks people might be able to levitate.
- 00:46
Robert Webb
It was very convincing.
- 00:47
David Mitchell
Can you levitate?
- 00:49
Robert Webb
I knew you'd be able to.
- 00:50
David Mitchell
I'm just trying to get to the root of why you felt the need to ask such a humiliating question.
- 00:55
Robert Webb
Because I have the intellectual confidence to appear stupid sometimes. times. You're the thick bastard who has to pretend he knows everything.
- 01:02
David Mitchell
Well, certainly I'm sufficiently insecure to have felt the need to establish to my own satisfaction before the age of 33 whether or not humans can fly. That makes me a chippy little autodidact in your eyes, and so be it.
- 01:14
Robert Webb
I'm just not going to ask you anything ever again.
- 01:26
David Mitchell ?
Lunch in ten Ten minutes?
- 01:28
Robert Webb
Er, twelve minutes, you twat!
- 01:34
David Mitchell
Ten, twelve... I don't know the difference between ten and twelve!
The rabbit hole continues
One more couldn’t hurt.
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