30: On perseverance, hard work, and dedication in Hollywood with actor/director Nick Clifford

Be Here For A While

Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Actor and director Nick Clifford -- known for his roles in Masters of Sex, Hindsight, and The Opportunist -- stops by to chat on this episode of Be Here For a While. He and Rachel discuss the pyramids of Giza, how Nick first delved into acting while at Brown University, and screwing over national SAT prep organizations (among other things). Rachel and Nick relate to each other on learning to be patient about getting gigs in Hollywood, and Nick offers up some advice on how to remain a confident and passionate actor in an unpredictable and competitive industry. You can catch Nick on the current season of Masters of Sex on Showtime.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello everyone welcome back to another episode of Be here for a while.
0:17.0	I'm a very special guest today. You might recognize him from a TV show called Masters of Sex another show called hindsight on VH1
0:27.2	He's a he's a great actor and has a very cool past I looked at his bio. I've never met him before but I was like oh man I feel
0:34.6	inadequate after reading this bio we have the same publicist that's how this got set up
0:39.3	but yeah you're gonna love it his name's Nick Clifford thanks for being here of course thanks for having me yeah yeah you're gonna love it. His name's Nick Clifford. Thanks for being here.
0:43.1	Of course, thanks for having me.
0:44.4	Yeah, your bio was very interesting.
0:46.4	I've had a, I've like,
0:48.4	climbed the pyramids of, I can't even pronounce the word Giza?
0:51.9	Yeah.
0:52.4	Just for fun? Yeah for sure. I mean I you know like there's there's three that you can go visit the main ones that everyone knows and I can't remember if I like
1:05.1	that actually went up on them I feel like they don't let you do that okay but they
1:09.2	basically just walked in and then wrote in your bio that you climbed
1:11.6	them yeah I don't even know if I wrote that.
1:13.7	I don't know who wrote that.
1:14.4	But yeah, you can definitely go inside,
1:17.8	or at least when I went, you could go all the way inside.
1:19.6	You can go all the way down,
1:20.3	that's like really creepy long tunnel. And then in the middle is just a huge ante room. the by the atmosphere if it was still there. Yeah. But you can basically like,
1:34.0	they have these guides that just take you and they're like,
1:35.7	no, no, here's what you do, here's what you do.
1:37.3	Get into the tomb, get in the tomb, and you're like,
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