Alicia Silverstone

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Alicia Silverstone (Irish Blood, Bugonia, Clueless) is an award-winning actress, writer, and activist. Alicia joins the Armchair Expert to discuss her incidence of disassociation when remembering entertainment business adjacent meetings, how her mom was a proto-environmentalist without even knowing it, and connecting to the deep, juicy inner lives of older teenagers in her first acting class. Alicia and Dax talk about how she truly could not have been more dissimilar to Cher Horowitz as a person, learning how to use that the funniest element about her was how seriously she took things, and the incredible working relationship she cultivated with Benicio del Toro. Alicia explains her understanding over time that there are some things that are just yours, writing her book The Kind Diet and why becoming vegan helped her feel like she could solve several problems at once, and returning to theater after a hiatus to fall back in love with acting.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.7	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:15.8	I'm Dax Shepherd.
0:16.5	I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:18.2	Hi.
0:18.8	Hi.
0:19.7	Today we have Alicia Silverstone.
0:23.2	And we're looking at it, I think, 30-year anniversary of Clueless, which is so exciting.
0:28.8	A movie that changed my life.
0:30.0	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
0:32.0	Yeah, I was, so 30 years ago, that's 95.
0:36.7	I got to California 95.
0:39.4	Yeah.
0:40.0	And that just seemed like another galaxy, her in that movie.
0:43.6	The notion that I got to sit and chat with her would have been unimaginable.
0:48.1	And there were so many iconic L.A. things in that movie that when you moved here, weren't you like, oh, the valley, the
0:56.2	this, like everywhere in LA takes 15 minutes.
0:59.6	That's true.
1:00.6	Classic.
1:01.2	Classic.
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