Episode 779 - Martin Landau

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Martin Landau is an Oscar-winning actor with a lifetime of work on film, TV, and stage. But he's also one of the foremost educators on his craft. Martin takes Marc through his early days in New York City at The Actors Studio studying under Lee Strasberg alongside fellow students like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean, which led to Martin becoming a revered acting teacher in his own right.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, how are you? I just wanted to take a moment here to say that you can go to WTFPod.com
0:06.7	slash tour to check out my upcoming tour dates. Like tomorrow night, I'll be at the Ruby Diamond concert hall
0:13.2	in Tallahassee, Florida. I believe that's on the campus of the big university there. I got Durham,
0:19.2	North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina. I got Ridgefield, Connecticut, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
0:25.3	Montreal, Toronto, New Haven, Troy, New York, Burlington, Vermont, Oakland, California, Seattle,
0:32.3	Washington, Vancouver, BC, Austin, Texas, Boulder, Colorado, Denver, Colorado, Portland, Oregon,
0:39.3	Portland, Oregon, again, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
0:46.2	and Philly, Washington, DC, all coming up between now and mid May. So go to WTFPod.com slash tour
0:56.4	to see if you want to come. If you want to make it out, if you're around, if you have any interest.
1:02.0	All right, let's do the show.
1:12.3	All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck,
1:17.3	Nick's what the fucksters? What's happening? I'm Mark Marin. This is my podcast WTF. Welcome to it.
1:24.2	Powerful weekend. Powerful weekend around the world. Today on the show, Martin Landau, the actor
1:33.5	and acting teacher who's been around for a very long time. Many of you know him from the Ed Wood movie,
1:39.8	Crimes and Mr. Meeners, early on Mission Impossible, Space 1999. It's just the history of his career,
1:50.7	but also his presence in the art of acting and in show business in general. And what he's experienced
1:59.5	going back 50 years or more is profound and beautiful, very a sweet guy and just a repository of
2:10.1	amazing information about the importance of theater and art and acting and also reverence
2:19.5	for people he's worked with going back to the people's theater and he's in one of my favorite movies
2:26.2	of all time. Crimes and Mr. Meeners, Woody Allen's masterpiece, but definitely one of the best movies
2:35.8	ever made in terms of dealing with the human animal, dealing with morality, dealing with choices,
2:44.7	decisions, fears, jealousy, love. I mean, it's really that is it. It's all in there. Martin Landau
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