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CUMMING: Thanks, Neal. Nice to talk to you.

CONAN: And you have a red tie on.

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CUMMING: I’m completely naked, actually.

CONAN: Oh, that’s charming. When do you get to play the real classic Scottish parts, you know, like Macbeth or James Bond?

CUMMING: Well, finally enough, I’m going to play Macbeth next summer in the gap between “The Good Wife” – in the summer holidays from “The Good Wife,” with the National Theatre of Scotland, so it doesn’t get much more Scottish.

CONAN: No, it doesn’t. And if, by time, James Bond though?

CUMMING: I think Daniel Craig is safe in his job for now.

CONAN: OK. I wanted to ask you, your part was introduced as a – in the first season of “The Good Wife” – as a campaign manager and not intended to last very long.

CUMMING: No, I came on to do – well, I mean, they said one, maybe a couple more episodes and then he just kind of stayed. He just sort of fitted, I suppose.

CONAN: Well, he took off because, well, it’s a good part, it’s well written and you’re playing it very, very well.

CUMMING: Thank you very much. I really enjoy it. I mean, it’s a very – it’s funny, like, sometimes when, you know, you play someone who’s very, very different to yourself and a role that you don’t really know and actually understand, it’s sort of daunting. But actually, I began – I thought of Eli just as I’ve thought of many other characters I’ve played that I don’t know anything about. But they tend, mostly, to be superheroes or animals or, you know, kind of mythical characters. So I put him in that same gallery.

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