Dianna Agron 🤗

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Dianna Agron (Glee, Acidman, Clock) and Justin talk about the inappropriate questions women get asked about their plans to have children, what it was like to work with living Hollywood legends like Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro, and how the hit TV show Glee changed her life. Plus, Justin learns how to properly pronounce Dianna’s last name (it’s not AG-Ron, it’s AY-gron).

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.4	What I was a young actor making the rounds, making the on the audition circuit, which is not to suggest I had no longer auditioned,
0:20.3	but there would be a lot of them. You go one to the next and I didn't often get to audition for a movie.
0:26.3	I was very excited when I went in for a movie called Cheer Fever. It was a great script. It ended up being called Bring It On.
0:34.7	It was originally called Cheer Fever. The cast and director was a man named Joe. He was a large man.
0:40.4	I mean, muscular, big tall. He was intimidating. He brought me in and I was excited because it was starring Kirsten Dunst.
0:52.8	I had a really big crush on Kirsten Dunst. I'll admit it. I don't feel like that's weird or shameful.
1:01.8	I think most people have crush on Kirsten Dunst. People can probably relate.
1:05.8	I was reading for her love interest in the movie. Joe was reading her part, standing in for her.
1:14.8	He was a scene where they were meant to have chemistry. I was, hey, how you doing? I just... It's good to see you here.
1:21.8	Joe would say, what are you doing here? The little strange to run into you. I was having a hard time imagining him as Kirsten Dunst.
1:31.8	He was kind of the opposite of Kirsten Dunst. If I were a better actor, I probably would have been able to overcome that.
1:40.8	He said afterwards, he said, you're not quite right for this, but I'm casting something else that I think you could be really right for.
1:48.8	It was a movie about a gay baseball team called the Broken Hearts Club. I also didn't get that part.
1:55.8	The bad news Chelsea Bears. That's really funny. I don't think it can get funnier than that. That's a good little button.
2:06.8	Well, we say we bring on the show. Oh, nice. Yeah, bring it on. Ra Ra Sisbubar.
2:13.8	Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream.
2:17.8	Doodim, doodim, shibu.
2:20.8	You're listening to Life Be Short, and I am your, as you can see, never cheered in my life host Justin Long.
2:26.8	Life could be a dream sweetheart. Doodim, doodim, shibu.
2:33.8	And with me, as always, is my, you've also never been, you're not a great Christian like you're not a great cheerer.
2:40.8	You don't have to start it off with an insult. It's not negative. In fact, you don't go with the, you're not, how do I want to say this?
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