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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Aaron Sorkin: Well There You Have It

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In which Rob and writer/director Aaron Sorkin discuss The West Wing reunion special, their favorite episodes of the show, how Rob was cast as Sam Seaborn, a disastrous moment from the opening night of A Few Good Men in London, and doing Chekov with Christopher Walken. Plus: Parks & Recreation superfan Aaron turns the tables and interviews Rob.

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0:00.0

Aaron. How you doing Rob? It's Robby Low. How are you? Good. It's good to talk to you. I'm so excited.

0:19.7

Welcome to the podcast. The great Aaron Sorkin is my guest. And you know, in a career, there are

0:28.3

certain people who are so important to you both as, you know, an actor, artist, whatever you are,

0:38.4

and just as a person. And Aaron is one of those people for me. Aaron changed my life, changed my

0:43.2

career. And I remember the very first time I was ever aware of him. I read a screenplay called

0:50.8

Malice. I wanted to play the part because the dialogue was so insanely good. Of course, the part

0:57.3

went to Alec Baldwin. But I never forgot the name Aaron Sorkin. And then one day my agent,

1:05.4

I told them I might want to do television. It was back in the days when you just did not do

1:10.8

television. Of course, it was a lesser industry. And they sent me a script called The West Wing. And I

1:19.6

thought it was an offshoot of Pensacola Wings of Gold. I thought it might be about a fighter jet squadron.

1:26.5

It wasn't. And I opened the page up and saw The West Wing written by Aaron Sorkin.

1:34.4

And I knew what I was in for. And on the first page was Vintage Aaron Sorkin and a character named

1:42.4

Sam Seaborne. I don't think we're going to run the table. That's right. It's not the background.

1:48.1

I'm not going to come close to using your name. I'm not going to come close to getting a quote either.

1:51.9

Why are we sitting here? You sat down. Is Josh on his way out? No. Is he? No. I know he's your friend.

1:58.8

He is. Did Caldwell say I'm not talking about this. Who do I call? No one. Just tell me who to call.

2:04.2

Well, you could call 1-800-Bike-May Sam. We've just reunited to do the long anticipated,

2:11.6

much talked about, much questioned West Wing reunion, which it took a very good cause.

2:19.6

When we vote, the bipartisan effort to get everybody out to do their constitutional duty,

2:26.7

that seemed like a good excuse to put all the people back on the field and see if we still

2:32.0

knew how to play the music. And I think we did well. And I think you're going to like it. And

2:38.0

it is out today on HBO Max. If you've wanted more West Wing, we've got you covered as long as you vote.

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