Episode 141 - Michael Kelly

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

“I feel like I always get asked the same questions," says actor Michael Kelly. Well, hopefully, not today. Kelly joins us on the show to talk his beachy college years in South Carolina (06:40), choosing acting over business and law (09:53), the impact of Arthur Penn and the Actors Studio (14:28), the benefit of his naiveté (18:05), being on set with Milos Forman and Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon (20:15), his 2000 Unbreakable breakout (27:41), the story of how he met his wife, Karyn (33:31), how the Kevin Spacey controversy impacted House of Cards (41:03), and then, finally, some stray reflections on today's political landscape (56:45). For more info, visit talkeasypod.com.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:06.0	I guess because I realize that there are so many people who want to do this and so many people that go up for the exact same role that you get.
0:22.0	I don't feel like I don't deserve
0:24.4	it and someone else should have got it. It's just it, wow, you beat the odds again.
0:28.8	And so every time I'm like, I can't believe it. It's just a, it don't know, that gratitude of just doing it, you're doing it.
0:37.2	It doesn't even matter like what your resume is behind you.
0:40.5	It doesn't matter what you've done.
0:42.9	Each time you get a job.
0:44.3	I get, I get to keep playing, I get to keep doing this.
0:49.1	That was Michael Kelly, I'm Sam Fricoso and this is Talk Easy.
0:56.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hello everyone welcome to to the podcast. Today on the show is actor Michael
1:26.8	Kelly and I imagine your introduction to Michael Kelly was very similar to mine. In 2013 Netflix launched what was their first
1:38.1	flagship show it was called house of cards.
1:42.6	In it, Kelly plays a character named Doug Stamper.
1:46.7	He was the right-hand man to then Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey.
1:52.3	In case you need a refresher, here's a clip from the show in which Kelly
1:56.0	As Stamper is sitting in on an AA meeting.
2:00.0	I'm Doug and I'm an alcoholic.
2:03.0	I'm a alcoholic.
2:04.0	One of the things I do for a living is count.
2:09.0	I count votes.
2:11.0	Yays, nays, nays,
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