Bradley Whitford

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Comedy, Music

4.6 • 69.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Bradley Whitford (The West Wing, The Handmaid's Tale, Get Out) is an American actor and political activist. Bradley chats with the armchair expert about growing up in a Quaker household, the impact of social change through storytelling and the three thoughts that flood his brain when receiving direction. Dax asks about the events that led to Bradley writing episodes for The West Wing and Bradley talks about his experience of playing complex characters. The two talk about professions that draw arrogant people and their mutual desire to say the worst thing at the worst moment. 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, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Emmy nominated
0:05.4	Monsoon Monica.
0:07.2	Hi. I flipped it. My name's getting real crazy. It's two men. Maximum miniature monsoon mouse padman. Today we have one of our
0:16.5	favorite actors on. We love Bradley Whitford. Every time he pops up in a show I get a burst of excitement.
0:24.8	He's such a natural good actor. He's so unique. He's got a real fingerprint.
0:29.6	He's an American actor. He's a political activist, he's been nominated for three prime time
0:34.1	Emmy awards and won one for his betrayal of White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Josh
0:39.4	Lehman in the West Wing.
0:42.1	Obviously he was also in Get Out. in the West Wing. Great show.
0:43.0	Obviously he was also in Get Out.
0:44.0	He was incredible.
0:46.0	And then we have most recently fallen in love with him all over again in the Handmaid's tale.
0:50.0	So you should check that out.
0:51.0	Caviot, this was recorded before the many, many protests,
0:54.7	so please excuse Bradley, myself, and Monica's silence
0:59.1	on the topic throughout the interview.
1:00.7	But we do talk about it in the fact check. The fact check the
1:03.7	check is of the day it's on point yeah all right please enjoy Bradley
1:08.8	Whitford
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