Episode 1154 - J.K. Simmons

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

J.K. Simmons faced a tough balancing act when his lifelong nonchalance about awards for acting came up against him becoming the runaway favorite to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. J.K. and Marc talk about how he reconciled that contradiction with help from Jason Reitman and how his late-blooming Hollywood career helped him maintain perspective. They also talk about his time on stage in Seattle, Broadway and regional theaters across the country, his fear of being typecast when he was on Oz, and the big shift that happened when he made Juno.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.0	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucknix, what's happening?
0:15.4	I'm Mark Marin, this is my podcast.
0:17.8	How are you?
0:18.8	Are you okay?
0:19.8	Are you doing alright?
0:20.8	Man, I've got to assume that everyone's tired of this shit.
0:24.2	And by shit, I mean this fucking president.
0:27.3	Anyway, today on the show, I talked to, well I'm going to talk to JK Simmons, the actor.
0:35.2	You know him, he was in Whiplash, Juno, Oz, Law & Order.
0:39.4	He just did a movie called Palm Springs with Andy Sandberg.
0:44.2	He's on the Apple TV Plus series defending Jacob right now.
0:48.7	He's an upfront dude man, straight ahead, straight forward.
0:53.7	No bullshit.
0:55.7	So that's happening, that's going to happen.
0:57.6	You're going to hear that happen in your head.
0:59.6	Got to confess, I did something crazy.
1:03.9	I really, I did something crazy.
1:06.5	And I'm fucking going to have to get another test because I don't know if it was worth risking
1:12.0	my life or if I went and had my car washed.
1:15.6	Can you fucking believe that?
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