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By Lauren Morris\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy has said that he would handle some of his big interviews \u201cslightly differently\u201d today, adding that he\u2019s better at \u201cdefusing situations\u201d than he was previously.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Radio Times magazine\u2019s View From My Sofa<\/a> podcast, Guru-Murthy said that while interviews \u201crarely go to plan\u201d, he would approach some of his better known interviews differently today.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s one of those things that depends on the circumstances and the person and your level of experience at the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the notable ones that I look back on, I would probably handle them slightly differently now years on to how I did then,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m probably a bit better at defusing situations than I was.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut sometimes, you know, things go south \u2013 not because of anything you\u2019ve done, it\u2019s just because of the person and their reaction to things. And I look back at the vast majority of my interviews and kind of think, \u2018Yeah, that was all right,\u2019 you know?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robert Downey Jr walking out of his 2015 interview with Krishnan Guru Murthy.<\/span><\/figcaption> Channel 4<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Notable interviews by Guru Murthy have included his 2013 chat with Quentin Tarantino, who refused to answer a question on whether film violence is linked to real-life violence, and a 2015 interview which saw Robert Downey Jr cut the conversation short and leave the room.<\/p>\n

Guru Murthy added: \u201cYou can be hypercritical and you can always say, \u2018Well, why didn\u2019t you say this? Why didn\u2019t you do that? Why didn\u2019t you calm it down a different way or whatever it might be, and then the interview would have carried on.\u2019<\/p>

\u201cBut I think you just have to accept that things happen in the moment. You react the way you react, they react the way they react. It has an authenticity to it and as long as you didn\u2019t make a terrible mistake, then you just live with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The journalist spoke to View From My Sofa prior to his suspension from Channel 4<\/a> over using an expletive to describe Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker in October.<\/p>\n

Listen to the episode below:<\/p>\n