Would 'The Life of Chuck' cast and director Mike Flanagan open the death door?

If you confronted a door that you knew if you looked inside it, you might see a death, if not your own, would you open that door

Great question. I don't know. We all are looking into that door

Do you mean literally or metaphorically? What's in there between my hands

My brain. No, that's not exactly what I mean. I don't know

All the people you know? I guess. Just the people you know

everything you see, everything you know, the world, Chuck, planes in the sky, manhole covers

in the street. Every year that you live, that world inside your head will get bigger and brighter

and more detailed and complex. You will build cities and countries and continents

and you will fill them with people and faces, real and imagined. You understand

Don't stop there. You fill the whole thing with everyone you ever meet, everyone you ever know, everyone you ever just imagine

It be a universe A whole universe right between my hands You contain multitudes I would I wouldn be able to help it I love to say that I wouldn and that I have the I have the fortitude to say no I just going to

live my life and the ending isn't the point the journey is the point and to live every day with

those stakes but I know if if I if I could open the door of course I wouldn't be able to resist it

I'd have to know. And then the question would be, how do I still meet every day with that kind of purpose

Yeah. And do you change direction? Yeah. Do you change the direction of your life

and the momentum of it and the context of it? Like, that would be the thing

People do, right? When you get that kind of diagnosis or scare

people do radically shift their trajectory. I imagine it would be like that

Personally, I'm not looking in that door. Myself, are you looking in that door

I am tempted, but it's the ultimate spoiler. And I think that you..

I mean, it's sort of asking yourself the question of, like, do you want to know when and how you die

And I think that my answer is no to that. For sure, if there's nothing you can do about it, then why

Yeah it inevitable Yeah that valid But also just hearing you say spoiler as a Doctor Who fan gave me a moment of like So that was very fun for me I think the first thing I would think of is is it someone I love

And I think I would, I don't know. It would have to be in the moment for me because I don't know if it was someone I loved or if

it was me. I think it. But do I tell you, I just say don't look in there

You don't, you say don't look in there. And that's probably the worst thing you can do, is to tell a young person, don't do that

Well, now they have it in their head. That's the only thing they want to do

I'm not afraid of death. It's weird. I'm just, I'm not. I'm not

And maybe that'll change the older I get, but I don't think I'd look in the room

Or if I did happen upon it, because I think there's so much to be said for mystery

and in an age where everything is supposed to be known and we can just consult the oracle and know anything

I want to keep that part of my life a mystery. So I wouldn't look in the room, but not out of fear

Do you mean literally or metaphorically? I think we all are literally, we all are going to die

And we have to live. I mean, it's the thing, you know, we live in this like, you know we live our lives but really we all know it going to end So what the choice You know your choice is to live I mean in the case of Sarah it you know dance

Dance in your kitchen with your beautiful grandson and do the best we can to connect and to love the people we love

I mean, I think we're human beings. We all, like, live in this denial, but we all are staring into that door

If I knew what the end was going to be, I would still choose to live as fully as I possibly could

The challenge is not to open the door, but to live with an awareness of what's behind the door, which is, you know, none of us are getting out alive

What's that? Richard Griffiths used to say something. The great Richard Griffiths, the actor, used to say something at the National Theatre

He would call across the courtyard to the young actors. I wasn't there. I hasten to add. I've just heard this reported

but apparently 10 minutes before curtain up at the national, he would open the window of his dressing room

and shout across the courtyard. We're all in the same boat headed for the lighthouse

The trick is to enjoy the trip while you can. Beautifully said. Beautifully said

The universe is large and it contains multitudes, but it also contains me