Winona Ryder & David Harbour Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions

Hi. [laughs]

Hi.

I'm David Harbour.

And I'm Winona Ryder.

And we're doing the Wired--

We're doing the Wired...

Auto...

[Both] Autocomplete Interview.

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Do we really need to...

[laughing]

I was just kidding.

David Harbour...

Yeah, what did they Google?

Where are you from?

Where am I from?

From White Plains, New York.

Westchester County, represent.

All right.

Do you have a brother?

Do I have a brother?

No, I have a sister.

Yeah, I know that.

Yeah, there ya go.

Do you play trombone?

Wow.

Not present tense--

Oh, you played it.

But yeah, I did play trombone.

You were in band.

But I mean again, the verb play is like,

kinda tricky, because I--

Right.

Held a trombone, I blew into it, sounds came out.

Like me with the clarinet, yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

You played the clarinet?

Not well.

[laughing]

Were you awful at it?

Yeah.

I was awful at trombone.

I was pretty bad.

Where does David Harbour live?

[laughing]

That's kind of like...

We don't want to...

Uh, I mean...

I think I can give this general area.

On the east coast.

Somewhere you'll find me roaming.

David Harbour video games.

[laughs] Oh, no.

It's not...

I don't know, yeah.

Yeah, David Harbour plays some video games.

Pong. [laughs]

I mean, no, no, I wish they were that uninvolving.

Unfortunately they're more immersive than Pong, yeah.

I don't wanna talk about it.

Okay, what Winona Ryder is the Google phrase.

So what is Winona Ryder...

Like?

Awesome.

Moving on.

What...

Please, that's just all we need to say.

What's Winona Ryder's...

Real name?

This gets complicated.

Oh, my god, I don't even know this.

It does.

I'm excited for this, please.

My grandfather at Ellis Island,

it was Solomon Tompshin, but he was a kid

in the turn of the century,

he had to say he was with the Horowitzes,

with the name thing, very Vito,

got put in quarantine, Vito Corleone.

Wow.

And so on my birth certificate,

it's Winona Laura Horowitz.

Wow, can I ask a follow-up question--

Yeah.

That Google may not have asked?

I was in Minnesota recently, in Minneapolis.

Oh, and I was born in Winona.

Is that true?

Yeah.

It is true, it is true.

So what my college roommate told me was correct.

I showed up to college, and my roommate said,

I'm from Winona, Minnesota.

Yeah.

It's where Winona Ryder was born.

[laughing]

It's true.

It's also in the song Route 66.

Really?

Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona.

[laughing]

But there's like, Winona, Arizona, Winona somewhere...

What is Winona Ryder's...

Natural hair color, [laughs] oh.

Oh, I think that's rude.

Yeah, but it's brown, right?

Yeah, brown, I was really blonde as a kid, but...

My natural color is...

Chestnut.

Chestnut, dirty blond.

What is Winona Ryder's birthday?

It's an awesome day where we celebrate

the birth of Winona Ryder.

What is your birthday?

October 29th.

Really?

1971.

Scorpio, right before Halloween.

Yeah, yeah.

Also, I share it with Fanny Brice and Kate Jackson.

[laughs] All the young kids are gonna love Fanny Brice,

that reference.

[laughs] It's in their almanac.

Really into the Fanny Brice reference.

What was Winona Ryder...

Nominated for?

Okay, I can answer this.

Winona Ryder was nominated for an Academy Award

for her performance...

In...

Girl, Interrupted?

[laughs] No.

Heathers?

No.

Age of Innocence.

Age of Innocence?

And Little Women, but...

And Little Women, which were you nominated...

You were nominated for an Academy Award.

For those.

For two, twice?

Oh, my god.

What is David Harbour?

Conundrum.

What age is David Harbour?

Oh, man.

Are you okay with that?

Yeah, I'm okay with that.

Of course, you should be, I'm way older.

What, no you're not.

What do you...

Do you know how old I am?

Oh, you have to do it like Jeopardy, like what is...

What is, 44 years old.

[laughs] Yeah, correct, ding-ding.

What did David Harbour win?

What did I win?

Yes.

What did I win?

You won...

I won a part on Stranger Things.

[laughs] But you also won awards.

We won a SAG ensemble award, all of us,

and then I won a Critics' Choice Award.

Yes.

What is David Harbour's middle name?

Oh, man, do you know this?

I...

It starts with a K,

and it is the WASP-iest name you've ever heard.

Yes.

Kenneth, Kenneth.

[laughs] What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Exactly.

David Kenneth Harbour.

What is David Harbour nominated for?

Oh, how do we...

Do you have an hour?

Please, it was a...

Emmys, all sorts of things.

Yeah, no Academy Awards though.

I want some more Winona Ryder ones.

I'm sick of the David Harbour ones.

Who is...

Winona Ryder.

[laughing]

That's awesome.

Who does Winona Ryder look like?

Who does Winona Ryder look like?

I mean, I think of you as such an individual.

You probably get, hey, you look like Winona Ryder, right?

Sometimes.

Sometimes?

[laughing]

Sometimes Natalie Portman, which is very...

Oh, that's interesting.

Flattering.

Oh, that's interesting, okay.

Yeah, I see a little bit of that.

Who are Winona Ryder's parents?

Mike 'n' Cindy.

Mike 'n' Cindy, love Mike 'n' Cindy.

Who does Winona Ryder play in the Simpsons?

Are you in the Simpsons?

Well, one episode.

I know nothing about your career.

Do you play yourself?

No.

Oh, who do you play?

I play Lisa's rival at school.

Oh, amazing.

Who does like, a diorama of...

An Edgar Allen Poe thing.

It was a long time ago, I can't remember...

Are you like, the popular girl,

or are you like a goth girl?

No, I just beat her at the...

I make a better diorama than her.

Wow, that's a new one for me too,

I'm excited about that.

Who did Winona Ryder play in Star Trek?

I know the answer to this.

Spock's mother.

You were human too, and his dad was...

Oh, wait, I was human, I was.

Yeah, you were human, Spock's got the ears,

you don't have them.

Oh...

You were what gave him his heart.

Right, clearly.

And not his logic.

Who is Winona Ryder's boyfriend in Stranger Things?

Bob the Brain.

Sean Astin.

RIP.

May he rest in peace.

I'm sweating. Is David Harbour ripped?

[laughs] No, he's not.

Yeah!

Yeah, watch season three of Stranger Things.

What are the blimps that float down

on Thanksgiving Day Parade?

You know, the big Garfield blimp?

It's a little bit like that,

that's what I based my performance on.

It's so good, I love fat Hopper, I hope you do too.

[laughs] Oh, my god.

Seriously, he's my favorite.

You're crazy.

[laughing]

Is David Harbour British? [laughs]

Is David Harbour British?!

No, but I...

Are you British?

No, I'm not, no, no.

Millie Bobby Brown is British.

No, no, no, I'm not British,

but my name is spelled the British way.

I think that's the thing, it's spelled with a U.

It's spelled the British way.

[mumbles] I never know how to answer that.

What, is David Harbour, what, what is it?

Is David Harbour related to Jack Nicholson?

[laughing]

Is David Harbour related to Jack Nicholson?

Wow, that's the most flattering thing

anyone's ever Googled about me in my whole life.

So these are Googled?

God, I wish.

Really?

Yeah, I wish I was dedicated, I wish I was...

Yeah, yeah, you know?

[Winona] Maybe you are.

All work and no play.

Yeah, totally.

Maybe you are.

Here's Johnny.

Do the Ancestry.com thing, maybe, who knows.

Yeah, I'll send my DNA to Amazon, come back all Nicholson.

That would be...

78% Nicholson.

[laughs] I love it.

Is David Harbour playing the Thing?

What thing?

The Thing is like, a character in comic books.

Oh, oh...

There was all these speculations

that that was who I was playing.

I'm not allowed to say anything

about this particular film I'm doing, but...

Oh.

But you're playing lots of things.

I've played lots of things.

Lots of things, many things.

And I just use the word thing in my vocabulary a lot.

Yeah, it's a good thing.

Is David Harbour a nice guy?

Abso-[mouths word inaudibly]-lutely.

Depends on the day.

The best.

Depends on the day.

[laughing]

Winona Ryder, and this is blank Winona Ryder,

how to pronounce Winona Ryder.

[laughing]

I mean...

Winona Ryder.

When did Winona Ryder start acting?

Well, in movies you were like, what, 13?

I mean I did it for like...

Turning 13, yeah.

Wow.

But I took like, a one-act play at ACT before then, but...

Yeah, at like 11 years old or something?

Yeah, This Property is Condemned,

I played the little sister, Willie.

Wow, I had the same trajectory as you,

except I started at 37.

[laughing]

I did a play at 37, and then...

When did Winona Ryder grow up?

What? [laughs]

Wait, where, where.

Oh, where.

[laughing]

Oh, god, that's mean...

When did Winona Ryder grow up. [laughs]

I would just say the Bay area.

Okay, so not Minnesota?

I was born there, lived there for six months.

Oh, jeez.

Oh, jeez.

And then you moved to the Bay area.

Pretty much, yeah.

How tall is Winona Ryder feet? [laughs]

[Winona] Wait...

How tall is Winona Ryder feet?

I mean, I guess, in feet, I guess would be...

'Cause they don't wanna use the metric system.

So how tall are you in feet?

Well, apparently, if I'm standing up straight...

[laughing]

I'm like 5' 4, or three and 1/2, three and 3/4,

but I'm like...

Like that, so, need to work on that.

[laughing]

It is funny, sometimes I do catch pictures

of us on set together, and you look like the size

of a real person, and I look like...

Gandalf.

[laughing]

From like, Lord of the Rings, next to some...

I mean, I look like an ogre, like I look...

Stop!

Like I'm nine feet tall.

Seriously, stop.

Is Winona Ryder on social media?

Hell no.

And, uh, you shouldn't be either. [laughs]

How, David Harbour?

How big is David Harbour?

[laughing]

What is up with Wired and size?

We just discussed this, we just discussed this.

Literally, crazy.

It's just one word, it's too.

He's too big.

Stop with that, seriously!

Stop, I mean it!

Okay.

How did David Harbour become an actor?

Like, out of the womb.

Basically, kind of.

Performing, theatrics, right?

I was a colicky child, so I was screaming and crying.

So I was like, fostering that.

But no, when I was five years old,

I did the Wizard of Oz in kindergarten.

[gasps] I played Auntie Em!

I had one line, look, Henry, there's a storm a-comin' up.

When you were in kindergarten?

No, when I was like, eight?

Oh, my god.

After I played Charlie Brown.

I played the Tin Man.

You did?

Yes.

I wanted to play Dorothy but I didn't get the part.

Oh, the first of many. [laughs]

I have pictures, I'll show you.

Okay.

That's amazing, we were both in Wizard of Oz as children.

Something...

Oh, my god, again with the...

How tall is David Harbour?

Wait, but there's more.

Oh.

[Both] In feet.

Again, people hate the metric system,

that's what I'm learning from the internet, is like,

please, enough with the meters thing.

I'm 6' 3, 6' like three and 1/2.

How to contact David Harbour?

[laughing]

Oh, man, just send up a flare, I'll come running.

Stop, [laughs] that's crazy.

Is Winona Ryder...

Married to Keanu Reaves?

[laughing]

And the answer is absolutely, yes.

Yeah.

Much to my chagrin.

Why did Winona Ryder cut her hair?

When did you cut your hair?

I...

I don't know.

I love your hair in, uh...

The Reality Bites movie, that is where it's short,

but that's like...

Yeah, I cut it myself.

You did that yourself?

Yeah.

That's impressive, I want you to cut my hair now.

Which Winona Ryder character are you?

Which Winona Ryder character are you?

No, no, are you?

Are me? I'm the girl from Heathers.

I'm Heather with the red mallet.

What was her...

Heather Chandler?

Yeah, I'm Heather Chandler.

Winona Ryder, Kevin Bacon?

How many degrees are you from Kevin Bacon?

Oh, my gosh.

Have you done a movie with him?

I don't know.

I'm sure it's one degree.

Yeah, totally, one degree...

I'm zero degrees, I've done a movie with Kevin Bacon.

Oh, hmm.

Who is David Harbour, who does David Harbour look like?

Again, it's what you said, like,

there's no one who looks like you.

I'll let it go.

Who is David Harbour's father?

Uh, Mr. Harbour.

Who is David Harbour in Suicide Squad?

I wore a suit, I had like three lines.

David Harbour, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Nominated for a Tony.

Did that play for like a year on Broadway and in London.

Yeah, I played Nick.

Amazing.

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Hey, thank you Wired.

Thank you, Wired.

I hope you learned something about me and Winona Ryder.