Jackie Earle Haley Is Breaking Back Into Hollywood

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Jackie Earle Haley shares stories from his 50 years in Hollywood, making the jump from child star to Oscar-nominated actor, and the wild road that took him from Bad News Bears to delivering pizzas before Sean Penn and Steve Zaillian pulled him back for All The King’s Men. He gets into the audition tape that relaunched his career, the intense process behind Little Children, and the emotional moment he learned he’d been nominated for an Academy Award. He remembers shooting Bad News Bears as Kelly Leak, riding motorcycles at 13, working with Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal, and carrying Breaking Training as a teenager. He breaks down playing Rorschach in Watchmen, goes deep on building his version of Freddy Krueger including the brutal daily make-up process, and shares why his new horror film Your Host let him go full “batshit crazy” in the best way possible. Stream Your Host now: https://www.yourhostfilm.com/ 📸 Instagram: @jackieearle Talk Is Jericho is available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/ChrisJerichoFozzy 👍 Don’t forget to Like, Subscribe, and hit the 🔔 to stay updated on new episodes! More from Talk Is Jericho: 📸 Instagram: @chrisjerichfozzy | @talkisjericho 🐦 Twitter/X: @IAmJericho | @TalkIsJericho 🌐 Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.5	So we're here with Jackie Earl Haley.
1:10.0	I was just about to say, you know, like you were saying, if we run out of stuff to talk about, just wrap it up.
1:30.7	But I was like, you've had over 50 years of being a working actor. I mean, that's impressive, man. Longevity in this business, 50 years. Yeah, I started when I was five. I mean, that's incredible. Five years old, yeah. And you were able to make the transition from a child actor into adult actor? You know, not really.
1:27.7	I mean, ultimately, yeah, but I, you know, there was this period of time where, you know,
1:33.7	it was really successful child actor.
1:35.6	And, you know, kind of continued on into my late teens.
1:38.7	And then in the early 20s, it kind of started to drift.
1:43.3	And I was kind of hanging in there trying to go to auditions and, started to drift. And I was kind of hanging in there,
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