HUANG: Shannon delved more into his childhood on Wild Card, where guests answer big questions about their lives drawn from a deck of cards. Here's host Rachel Martin.

HUANG: Shannon delved more into his childhood on Wild Card, where guests answer big questions about their lives drawn from a deck of cards. Here's host Rachel Martin.

MICHAEL SHANNON: When you act, you create these little societies or civilizations to create some piece of art, and then you finish, and they disappear. And it's kind of, like, the rhythm of my life.

There is something in Michael Shannon's eyes that makes it impossible to look away. And it's no small thing to do that when sharing a scene with Bill Murray. It's like that in every movie he's in.

MICHAEL SHANNON: When you act, you create these little societies or civilizations to create some piece of art, and then you finish, and they disappear. And it's kind of, like, the rhythm of my life.

SHANNON: That is, yeah - particularly my daughters. I mean, that's the one thing, you know, that won't change, is I love them very much, and I always will. And they're my, you know, favorite people.