Episode 162 - Sam Waterston

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Actor Sam Waterston doesn't do many of these. In fact, this is his first podcast. To mark the special occasion the stage and screen performer reflects on his 60-year career, from his days at Yale in Waiting for Godot to breaking into Hollywood with the The Great Gatsby. But what most fascinates Waterston is reflecting on his life behind the camera, off-stage, as a husband and father. For years Waterston was reluctant to publicly give voice to his thoughts. Now that he's approaching 80, he's starting to feel different. “I just want to know what I think,” he says, “and I don’t know how much more time there is to find that out.”

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:07.0	I think. I think my life would be greatly impoverished if it weren't for the wonderful time with
0:19.7	Shakespeare from college until today pretty close to being enough to get to perform it, to have
0:27.6	something of the sensation of what it's like to be able to see into the world the way Hamlet
0:32.4	does. It's a beneficial feedback loop into your whole
0:36.2	nature. His way of understanding the world built into the language, opposition, all of these things held in wonderful narrative.
0:47.0	They have no bottom.
0:48.0	That was Sam Waterston. I'm Sam Fricoso and this is Talk Easy.
0:57.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. I'm Samfordregoso. This is Talk Easy. Today on the show is Sam Waterston and
1:30.0	this is an episode I've been wanting to do for a long time now.
1:35.0	He's an actor. I think you probably know that.
1:39.0	He's been doing it for over 50 years and because of that fact I'm not going to do a formal introduction.
1:48.4	Instead I'd like to point out why this episode is especially unusual and unique to this show.
1:56.6	For one, 15 minutes before the podcast, I got a call from Catherine Waterston who is Sam's daughter.
2:05.0	Keep in mind that right before I do these, I'm frantic, I have to go to the bathroom, I'm anxious, I don't know what the hell I'm talking about or asking.
2:17.9	And she calls and she did not know we were going to do this. I told her at the last minute.
2:24.0	And the first thing she says is,
2:27.0	well, have you done your research,
2:29.0	which is a great thing to hear right before you do a podcast for an hour.
2:33.7	That was unusual and in that conversation Catherine gave me good pointers and things to talk about
2:40.7	that I would have not had if not for her.
2:44.0	So first off, we've been doing this show for four years and we've never had someone's
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