I don't think there's anything that cannot be imagined by humans that cannot eventually be done through. Like turning someone into a frog? Well, already people do that on TV, right? You've got David Copperfield or other magicians making you think that you turned to Pearson to a frog. But that's an illusionist. No, no, he does it for real David. Others are illusionist. The grocery store, the doors are somehow warp drives and everything. Isn't that an iPod? I mean, it's iPad. When we come back more with my interview with Alan Rickman and the magic or science of Harry Potter. We're back on Star Talk.
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s interview with Alan Rickman concludes with a discussion of “the mysterious mechanism of acting and theatre and storytelling” and the use of special effects in the Harry Potter movies.
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