Amy Ryan & Shea Serrano

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

First up: Amy Ryan. You've seen her as Beadie Russel on The Wire, in The Office, Gone Baby Gone, a bunch more. She's starring in the new movie Abundant Acreage Available too. She'll talk with us about all that stuff, plus, how she convinced her family it was cool to skip college and give acting a real go. Then, Shea Serrano. He's a writer. He's covered basketball, music and more for ESPN, Vice, the Ringer, and more. And he took kind of an unusual path to making a career out of it. Born and raised in Texas, Serrano was originally a teacher who'd write in his spare time. He only started writing full time a little over two years ago. His new book is a hot one - it's called Basketball and Other Things, it's beautifully illustrated, and it's out now. Finally: some beautiful words about the baseball team with the worst record this year.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and Embedded is Back.
0:03.3	President Donald Trump has no record of public service,
0:06.4	but he does have a record in business and on TV.
0:10.8	In our latest round of stories, we introduce you to the people who were there as he built an
0:15.3	empire and a name. Listen on the NPR1 app or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:22.7	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:30.2	I'm Jesse Thorn. If you're an actor,
0:37.7	accents are just full of pitfalls. I mean, you could mess up one vowel and all of a sudden the
0:44.2	people of Philadelphia are after you throwing tasty cakes at you. It's so easy to get a part in
0:51.8	a movie and do a voice like Foghorn, Leghorn, and just go like, uh, I parked my car on
0:57.1	Covid Yard, you know, even if you're a great actor. But Amy Ryan, she always gets it right.
1:05.2	And she tries to stay immersed in it, but not like crazy immersed in it.
1:11.2	But I don't go that far where, you know, when I'm back offset and I'm at the, you know, Starbucks,
1:17.9	I'm not like throwing out the accent to strangers on the stream.
1:21.6	Because I feel like that'll be the one time someone recognizes me from that actress
1:25.6	from New York. He said that's something, at least speaking with us on their next.
1:30.9	It's Bullseye.
1:39.8	Coming up, Amy Ryan, you've seen her on the wire in the office, gone baby gone. She's nominated for
1:46.3	an Oscar for that one. She's starring in the new movie Abundant Acrid available. She'll
1:51.7	talk to me about all that stuff. Plus the time that she convinced her dad, skipping college,
1:57.2	to become an actor was a good idea. I remember that moment sliding my first paycheck across the
2:02.7	deal. And it was more than my dad. He was very happy. Then I'll talk with Shay Serrano.
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