Ben Platt

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Ben Platt (Pitch Perfect, Book of Mormon, Dear Evan Hansen) is an American actor, singer and songwriter. Ben sits down with the Armchair Expert to talk about surprising Kristen for her birthday, having to go on silent vocal rest for 10 days and the moment he come out to his parents. Dax wonders if Ben will eventually choose a partner over work and Ben speaks about his love of New York. The two discuss the level of dedication required for live theater, Ben talks about his worst moment on Broadway and he shares the weirdest backstage interaction he's ever had. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert.
0:03.6	Hi Monica Padman.
0:04.6	Hi, Dick Shepard.
0:05.8	Today we have a very talented young man, one of our youngest guests.
0:10.0	Yeah, he's a prodigy, one would say.
0:12.1	He's a prodigy. He's a prodigy. would say. He's a 25 year old prodigy.
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:15.6	You and I had not accomplished a virtually anything at 25.
0:19.2	No, no, just some farts.
0:21.2	Have you had you been in your mermaid commercial at 25? Not even your
0:24.6	oh maybe I can't remember. Okay too far back our guest is Ben Platt now Ben Platt is an actor
0:30.8	and a singer and a songwriter. He came into wide prominence in the Broadway musical,
0:37.1	Dear Evan Hansen, which he won the Tony Four. Well deserved, I saw it on Broadway.
0:43.0	It was unbelievable.
0:44.0	Very moved.
0:45.0	You were.
0:46.0	Oh my God, yeah.
0:47.0	Impossible not to be.
0:48.0	You flew there just to see that.
0:50.0	I did. And then I almost didn't get in because the ticket, you had to print the ticket and I didn't have the ticket printed and I was panicked
0:57.4	You had to go to a hotel to use their printer yes and I was running through the city like a movie. Yeah and even with that amount of post-traumatic stress
1:06.4	he's still a great memory that's how good it was. He also was in the Book of Mormon very popular
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