Ben Platt

Happy Sad Confused

Josh Horowitz

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ben Platt is a busy man! A new album ("Sing to Me Instead"), a new TV series ("The Politician"), AND he just played Radio City! Not bad for a 26 year-old. Ben joins Josh to talk about his love of musical theater, his successes on stage and the big and small screen, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prepare your ears humans.
0:02.0	Happy Sad Confused begins now.
0:05.0	Today on Happy Sir Confused,
0:10.0	today on Happy Sir Confused, Ben Platt, on musicals,
0:14.0	musicals, movies, and his new TV show, The Politician.
0:18.0	Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrowitz.
0:20.0	Welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused.
0:23.4	Yes, the main event today, Mr. Ben Platt, who is killing it everywhere these days.
0:29.9	He's been on tour, he has a new album, he just played played Radio City he's got a TV show that's
0:35.6	on Netflix that right now that everybody's talking about called a politician and he is
0:40.8	just poised for more success he's got so many cool projects going.
0:44.7	Had never talked to Ben before this.
0:47.3	He'd been on the list for the last little while,
0:49.6	last couple of years since he popped up on my radar, thanks to dear Evan Hansen in particular.
0:55.7	If you saw that production, if you listen to that music, if you've heard him sing, you know
1:00.2	why he is somebody worth chatting with. He's delightful. He's, you know, self-deprecating,
1:06.4	neurotic, fun, definitely my kind of guy. And we had a great chat, as I said, we said we you know he's a big musical theater guy really dove deep on all that stuff his early days growing up in LA moving to New York pursuing acting and music, landing in pitch perfect as his film debut, going
1:26.5	from Book of Mormon to Dear Evan Hansen, and to where he is now, which is a super busy guy.
1:33.3	He's just doing a little bit of everything
1:36.2	or a lot of everything, I should say,
1:38.4	and a lot more to come.
1:39.7	We also mention this amazing project
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