Ben Platt

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.5 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

At just 26 years old, Ben Platt has already won a Tony, a Grammy and an Emmy award, all for his groundbreaking performance in the Broadway phenomenon “Dear Evan Hansen.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the actor about his journey from homemade musicals in his backyard to the bright lights of Broadway, to his latest starring role alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in the highly-anticipated new Netflix series “The Politician.”

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday sit down podcast.
0:05.6	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:08.4	Got a really good one for you this week.
0:10.4	Tony winner, Emmy winner and Grammy winner Ben Platt.
0:14.6	You probably know, invest as the star of deer.
0:17.2	I've enhanced in the Broadway phenomenon, but now he's starring in a new Netflix series
0:21.2	called the politician.
0:22.5	He is the politician.
0:24.1	Gwyneth Paltrow plays his mother Jessica Lang is on the show.
0:27.6	I got a chance to see the first couple episodes.
0:29.9	It lives up to the highly anticipated series.
0:32.9	I am joined as always by the producer of this fine podcast, Maggie Law and we're lucky
0:37.8	to have with us the producer of the interview with Ben Platt, Brittany Mania.
0:42.3	Hi, Brett.
0:43.3	How are you doing?
0:44.3	Hello, I'm good.
0:45.3	Welcome to the podcast.
0:46.3	Thank you.
0:47.3	Welcome.
0:48.3	So Brittany produces a lot of these.
0:49.3	We've talked about it before.
0:50.3	We have sort of a tight crew of like four or five producers who do all these amazing, amazing
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