Good evening, everyone.

I'm Scott Fiber, the Hollywood Reporter's Executive Editor of Awards coverage

and the host of its awards shatter podcast, as well as a trustee professor here at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts,

from which I will say for our listeners,

this episode is being recorded in front of an audience of some 500 students.

Tonight, we are tremendously fortunate to be joined in person

by a 34-year-old American who is one of the most outstanding actors in the world.

Many of us first discovered him on the Showtime TV series, Shameless, on which he played

on which he played Philip Lipp Gallagher, an academically gifted juvenile delinquent

for 11 seasons between 2011 and 2021, and for which he was nominated for a Critics Choice TV award in 2014.

He then shot to full-fledged stardom as Carmi Brasado, a chef who in the wake of his

brother's suicide abandons his career at a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City

to take over his family's Italian beef sandwich shop in Chicago.

That was, of course, on the FX Dramity, The Bear. Since two... Yes? Yes. to take over his family's Italian beef sandwich shop in Chicago.

That was, of course, on the FX Dramedy, The Bear.

Since two, yes.

Since 2022, four seasons of that show have aired, for which he personally has been recognized with two Emmys, two Critics Choice Awards,

three Golden Globe Awards, and three SAG Awards.

And now he has jumped from the small screen to the big screen to give one of his most impressive performances yet.

In Scott Cooper's, Springsteen Deliver Me from Nowhere, which the audience here has just seen.

He plays the legendary singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen during one of the darkest periods of his life between the releases of his hit albums born to run in 1975 and born in the USA in 1984, a period during which he was grappling with personal demons and making yet another great album, 1982's Nebraska.

This evening, we, as in myself and a bunch of our students, will pick his brain

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