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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

450. Reagan, Star Wars, Trump, & Power | Dennis Quaid

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Education, Science, Society & Culture

4.634.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down in person with legendary actor Dennis Quaid. They discuss his upcoming film in which he portrays the titular Ronald Reagan, what the former president understood about Marxism, how he dealt with the Soviet cold war, how an actor learns to leave the character after each take, the responsibility to portray flaws as well virtues, existing as an Independent in Hollywood, and the state of the industry as well as the country today. Dennis William Quaid is an American actor and gospel singer. He is known for his starring roles in Breaking Away (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), The Big Easy (1986), Innerspace (1987), Great Balls of Fire! (1989), Dragonheart (1996), The Parent Trap (1998), Frequency (2000), The Rookie (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), In Good Company (2004), Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), and Vantage Point (2008). He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in Far from Heaven (2002). Quaid has appeared in over a hundred and twenty feature films, and The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. - Links - 2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ For Dennis Quaid: On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dennisquaid/ Reagan (Upcoming film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723808/

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Hello everybody I have the privilege today of speaking with actor Dennis Quaid he flew into

0:19.2

Scottsdale to do the show in person. I saw a screening of his new film coming out in August, end of August,

0:28.2

Reagan last year and thought it was a classic American production, very much enjoyed it, speaks of a very significant

0:37.7

time in the history of the world really, the defeat of the communist empire, which is something remarkable and extremely relevant

0:48.1

to today again when the same sorts of ideas are making their re-emergence.

0:52.8

And so what did we talk about?

0:54.8

What are we going to talk about?

0:55.9

Well, Dennis's career, the challenge of playing Reagan,

1:01.1

the purpose of drama, it's calling to us to see the world

1:06.2

the eyes of other people so that we can expand the way that we look at things

1:12.4

and we can expand what we that we look at things and we can

1:13.2

expand what we can understand. We talk about Hollywood. We talk about the future of

1:18.4

the music industry. We talk about political attitudes and how they affect the entertainment world.

1:26.4

Join us for all that.

1:28.3

So I think it was about a year ago that I was in LA and Mark Joseph showed me an early cut of Reagan. Yeah.

1:37.5

It's changed from from them. Well I liked it I'll tell you why I liked liked it I like the fact that the film concentrated on Reagan's

1:47.8

activity as an anti-communist yeah I thought that you bet I thought that was wise right of his life. Yeah right right all of his life and so I thought that was extremely

1:58.2

interesting and I thought it was a wise choice to concentrate on that specifically because that's the right what would you say that's

2:08.4

a central story with him as far as pertains to the world.

2:14.0

That is what he, you know, almost single-handedly, really,

2:19.0

because if he'd had another president in there,

2:21.0

it would have been business as usual.

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