Morgan Freeman falls asleep during live morning show interview

Morning television can be a snooze.

Just ask Morgan Freeman, who appears to have nodded off a few times during his interview with a Seattle morning show on Wednesday morning.

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Freeman joined Michael Caine on the Q13 Fox News This Morning show to promote the upcoming film Now You See Me. Anchors Kaci Aitchison and Bill Wixey asked the actors about magic tricks featured in the film.

Now You See Me might use grand illusions but 75-year-old Freeman didn't have one on hand to distract the audience from his nodding off on camera.

"We all know Bill's voice can lull you into sleep," the Fox news affiliate wrote in its story about the interview.

Morgan Freeman isn't the first celebrity to have his eyes closed during a morning show interview. In 2011, singer Harry Belafonte looked fast asleep when a local show in Bakersfield, California, introduced him for a satellite interview.

The host tried to rouse him, even singing the lyric "Day-O" to the Banana Boat Song artist.

However, a spokesperson for Belafonte later released a statement saying Belafonte couldn't hear the feed from the anchor due to a technical problem and he was meditating while he thought he had spare time, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Belafonte is 86 now years old.

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These two examples seem like enough evidence to declare the morning show publicity circuit cruel treatment for tired stars. Just cruel.