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Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Alan Tudyk on the Craziest Day of His Entire Career

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

NPR

Society & Culture

4.72.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Craziest Day of My Entire Career is a segment that gives us the chance to talk with some of our favorite people about the weirdest workday they have experienced so far. This week, our guest is Alan Tudyk. Alan is a brilliant character actor and a performer who can do a thousand and one impressions. He has worked in movies like Rogue One, I, Robot, and several Pixar films. His latest project is the SyFy series Resident Alien. In it, Alan plays an extraterrestrial tasked to live on earth as a human, a man named Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle. When we asked Alan Tudyk about the craziest day of his career, he took us way back. Back when he was mainly a Broadway performer but got a part in the 90s dramedy Patch Adams, which would change his life forever.

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0:00.0

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

0:11.2

From MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.

0:22.4

There's no business like show business, they say.

0:25.0

You know what?

0:26.0

They might be right.

0:27.5

There aren't many other lines of work where you will find yourself eating like royalty

0:31.8

at a hotel, then a few hours later on set with your child, Hurtiro, and then a couple

0:36.9

hours after that, lying in a hospital bed.

0:40.4

That's why we came up with a segment on our show called The Craziest Day of My Career.

0:47.0

A place for folks in the biz, as we like to call it, to dish on the weirdest work day

0:52.8

they've experienced, at least so far.

0:56.1

This week our guest is Alan Tudyk.

0:58.6

Alan is a brilliant character actor, a performer who can do a thousand and one impressions.

1:03.6

Maybe you've seen him in movies like Rogue One or I Robot.

1:06.9

He was also a star of the beloved sci-fi show Firefly.

1:11.4

These days he's working on another sci-fi show, Resident Alien, in it Alan plays an

1:32.8

alien.

1:33.8

An alien who has landed on Earth with a mission to live here as a human, a man named

1:41.1

Dr. Harry Vanderspeagle.

1:44.2

The goal being eventually to, well you know what aliens want to do, they want to wipe all

1:49.0

the humans off the face of the planet.

1:51.4

Only there's one problem.

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