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# Watch Morgan Freeman Narrate the Life of an Unsuspecting Pedestrian

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## Melissa Locker


Aug 5, 2016 3:40 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Aug 5, 2016 3:40 PM UTC

When “the bald man with his shirt buttoned all the way up” took his first tentative steps down a California sidewalk, he undoubtedly had no idea that his life was about to change as his every move was being narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman.

[Freeman](http://time.com/3340330/morgan-freeman-samuel-l-jackson-television-entertainment/?iid=sr-link3) has stopped by _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_  to promote his new film _Ben Hur_ and [Kimmel](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/29/watch-president-obama-outshines-jimmy-kimmel-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner/?iid=sr-link2) asked him to repeat a stunt they had pulled back in March where Freeman used his [considerable vocal powers](http://time.com/4246188/morgan-freeman-jimmy-kimmel/?iid=sr-link1) for good and applied his trademark narration to the activities of some random person going through life. 

After being assured that he was not “being set up”, Freeman gamely narrated a few meaningful minutes of a stranger’s life, transforming them from hum drum to a riveting scene straight out of _March of the Penguins._

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