Avan Jogia Talks ‘Victorious’ and Beck, Engagement to Halsey, Dove Cameron and New Series ‘56 Days’
Zach Sang Show
Sangasong, LLC
4.6 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Even though Zach and Avan have known each other socially for 16 years, the pair have never sat down for a formal chat, but now the 34-year-old Canadian-British-Indian actor is in the official hotseat thanks to his new thriller series ‘56 Days.’ Playing the brooding, possibly dangerous, definitely tortured Oliver, starring opposite Dove Cameron, the Prime series is very much in the vein of 90s psycho-sexual classics like ‘Fatal Attraction’ and ‘Basic Instinct.’ The chemistry is combustible and we get into that, how he built the character, intimacy co-ordinators, morality gray areas, and more.
Plus he chats about his beginnings in acting, how he snagged the role of heartthrob Beck in ‘Victorious,’ and his relationship with the cast to this day. We also dig into his more leftfield creative endeavors including working with arthouse filmmaker Greg Araki, screenwriting legend Charlie Kaufman, and his own screenplays and directing forays.
And… his second poetry collection — ‘Autopsy (of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob)’ with its humor and satire, some of which might have been lost on readers. Naturally it’s impossible not to discuss his fiancée Halsey and their creative and romantic partnership too. Awww.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, it's so crazy. |
| 0:07.0 | We've never actually had like a one-on-one conversation. |
| 0:11.4 | No, no, it's always been in life, yes. |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah, I've known you for, what is it now, 15 years? |
| 0:16.3 | Yeah, it has to be, I think. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm about 15 or 15 years, yeah. |
| 0:19.1 | What? |
| 0:20.4 | Long, long time. How does that make you, because that, how think. Probably 16 or 15 years, yeah. Long, long time. |
| 0:21.7 | How does that make you feel? |
| 0:24.7 | I don't know, man. |
| 0:25.6 | Time is this sort of like warped, strange thing, right? |
| 0:29.8 | I guess it depends on, like, I've been thinking a lot about this recently, about, like, memory and how you retain memories. |
| 0:37.3 | And the better way to do it is to like make |
| 0:38.7 | sure you're doing something unique or interesting every single day or every single experience so that |
| 0:42.9 | you can retain if you do too many repetitive things it all just becomes one like the years all |
| 0:47.7 | stretched together or whatever um and that was a unique time in my life so i um 15 years ago feels very close to me and it's very strong in my memory because it was the first time I'd ever left Vancouver or come and to be an actor or any of that day. I have like a bunch of memories of you and your mom. Yeah, mom's the best. Your mom is amazing. Wendy Jogia. Oh, she is. She's fantastic. She's lovely. And my father, they're great. |
| 1:12.3 | I mean, I had, like, whatever the antithesis of the opposite is of, like, a set parent. |
| 1:19.0 | My mom was very, very cool and very, like... |
| 1:22.6 | You know, like, there to put, I don't know, guardrails on the happenings of a young person, 17 years old living in L.A. |
| 1:31.2 | But, like, also there to be like, explore, find yourself. |
| 1:34.8 | What do you want? |
| 1:35.3 | Like, what do you want out of this? |
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