70: Hollywood history and becoming a successful actor... with Spencer Garrett

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Actor Spencer Garrett (and his scarily accurate Christopher Walken impression) join Rachael on this episode of Be Here For A While to chat about growing up in Hollywood and leading a successful career as an actor, appearing in over 50 series. Self-proclaimed workaholic, Garrett shares his experience working in Hollywood, dealing with some crazy heartbreak, and truly finding his nitch after decades in the industry. After college, Garrett worked on the hill in DC for NPR and thought he may work in politics -- but he caught the acting bug and is now a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences! Catch Spencer in the upcoming Emilio Estevez film, "The Public" and on social media!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello. Hello everyone how's it going welcome back to the episode of B here for a while I'm
0:19.7	in a fantastic mood today because well what reason do I have not to be? Heck yes. I'm
0:26.4	redoing my guest's intro because he has so many credits that I screwed it up the first time when he was here yesterday so I'm
0:34.4	going to redo it and also I can speak with major enthusiasm that he's probably one of
0:40.9	my favorite guests I had never met him before.
0:43.9	My publicist set it up.
0:45.6	We share the same publicist.
0:47.4	And I was like, oh, yeah, sounds like a cool dude.
0:48.9	Sure, I'll have him on.
0:50.3	He couldn't have been cooler and more interesting. And I'm really excited for you guys to hear this podcast
0:55.6	So this guy has been
0:58.3	He's at like over 200 roles. He's been a perennial favorite among industry execs and fans on both the small
1:04.2	screen and big screen best known for his current reoccurring roles on five
1:07.4	popular shows including Amazon's Bosch, HBO's hottest comedy series
1:12.2	insecure as well as appearing on the hit Showtime
1:14.9	comedy series, Dice, and the new Duplas Brothers HBO series, Room 104.
1:20.6	He can't walk down the street without someone recognizing.
1:22.7	In fact, Taylor Swift called him out at a party
1:25.4	for his memorable appearance in the millennial favorite Law and Order.
1:30.0	He's also appeared in movies with the likes of Alec Baldwin,
1:33.9	Carl Reiner, Kevin Pollock, Taylor Schilling,
1:38.1	Robert Duval, his everything, it's crazy.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Be Here For A While, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Be Here For A While and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.