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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "Being The Ricardos," "Dune" & "The Good Boss" Star, Javier Bardem

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2543 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Academy Award-winner Javier Bardem had a tremendous 2021, starring in one of the biggest blockbusters of the year with "Dune," playing Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin's "Being The Ricardos," which he recently received a SAG Nomination for Best Actor from his peers and playing the lead in the Spanish submission for Best International Feature Film, "The Good Boss." Javier was kind enough to spend some time with us discussing all three roles, including his musical work as entertainer, Desi Arnaz, the differences between Spanish and American productions, where things are at regarding his role as Stilgar in the upcoming "Dune: Part Two," and more! We hope you enjoy our conversation, which you can listen to down below. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with Academy Award winner Javier Bardem on his three roles in being the Ricardo's, Dune, and the Good Boss.

0:11.9

We've been through worse than this.

0:14.4

We have?

0:16.0

No.

0:17.3

Javier, first and foremost, congratulations on your Screen Actors Guild nomination for being

0:22.7

the Ricardo's. It must be really great to get that recognition from your peers, and I know that

0:27.5

you're no stranger to that. You've been getting accolades all throughout your career, and

0:32.1

why not? You're a really, really phenomenal actor, and you have three films this season in the award season race with being the Ricardo's

0:39.7

Dune and the Good Boss, which is shortlisted for Spain's entry for Best International

0:45.2

Feature this year.

0:46.2

So all around, great success.

0:48.6

You must feel like you're on top of the world right now, right?

0:53.1

Well, it's a very special moment for sure because I had three movies out and they're so

1:00.5

different from each other.

1:01.6

Yeah.

1:02.2

And as an actor, that's a gift, it's a blessed that you can show three performances that

1:07.9

are, well, different from each other because they don't have anything to do with each other.

1:12.4

The movies that those performances are in on the stories that we're telling. So it's not that I feel

1:17.7

like the top of the world. I feel like we're at this moment because it's not very common and you have to

1:24.0

taste it. You have to enjoy it. Yeah. It means more work, but also means like, wow, what a gift to be able to show that.

1:33.0

Totally.

1:33.7

And you're showing sides of us that we have not seen before.

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