Ep 109 - Enjoy the Laugh, Enjoy the Ride with Christopher McDonald (Shooter McGavin)
What's Next with Eric Wood
Eric Wood
5 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Christopher McDonald is an American actor who has starred in over 100+ films and plays. He is best known for his role as Shooter McGavin in the 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore. A Buffalo Bills fan that grew up in Western New York, Shooter joins Eric on the show to discuss the value of feedback and how he has embraced his villainous persona in real life. Topics include:
(2:45-4:10) - Growing up in New York, earning a football scholarship
(4:10-9:25) - How Chris became interested in acting, when he knew it would be a career
(9:25-13:00) - Filming Happy Gilmore, having to act like a professional golfer
(13:00-21:42) - The difference in acting in films and plays
(21:42-26:00) - The value of feedback in acting
(26:00-29:35) - Role models in acting, turning on/off your role
(29:35-32:00) - What drives Chris
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| 0:00.0 | I've learned to embrace it. |
| 0:05.0 | I didn't know how to deal with it at first, because people love to hate me, and that was not a great thing, but I thought, why not? |
| 0:13.0 | Just enjoy the lap, enjoy the ride. And that's what I do to this day. And there's so many new, it's a new generation of fans fans now even though it's 25 years old these |
| 0:22.1 | these grandfathers watching with their grandchildren and it's just incredible welcome to what's next |
| 0:30.6 | with eric wood where we will prepare you to make your what's next in life your best yet by learning |
| 0:35.7 | from high performers in a variety of industries. |
| 0:39.0 | Our next guest is Chris McDonald, aka Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore. |
| 0:46.2 | Chris has starred in over 100 films and plays and you will love hearing about his career, |
| 0:51.2 | some behind the scenes of some of his iconic work, and just some great stories |
| 0:55.6 | in general. You will also be inspired by his talk on the value of feedback and being prepared for |
| 1:01.7 | when life's opportunities come your way. If you enjoy this podcast, please rate, review, and |
| 1:07.5 | subscribe to help spread the impact we hope to have. I've been blown away lately by |
| 1:12.9 | the amount of feedback and how much you all are enjoying the podcast and using people's |
| 1:17.7 | lessons and stories to inspire you. So thank you for sharing that with me. Also, if you |
| 1:23.0 | share this on social media and tag me, I'll share as well and we can double the impact enjoy chris |
| 1:32.7 | welcome to the show brother thank you eric great to be here sir man it was so great seeing you buffalo |
| 1:37.9 | last weekend got to see you over the summer as well always a treat how was your weekend of buffalo |
| 1:42.9 | well whenever you're traveling with the man, |
| 1:45.5 | Jim Kelly, it's a special, special time going to the stadium, walking out in the field where I saw |
| 1:51.0 | you hanging out with Dan Marino, who's a great guy, and the Buffalo win on top of all that, |
| 1:57.4 | standing right by these BMIS that now. When I played football, I mean, I'm looking at |
| 2:01.2 | these guys, there's six, eight, and I go, this freaking way that I could ever try to be in that |
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