Joel Edgerton

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams, The Secret Life of Us, The Square) is an actor, writer, and director. Joel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how he knows when his Australian Vogue Editor-in-Chief wife doesn’t like his outfit, why his approach to relationships is ‘it takes two to tango,’ and the reasons why he gets starstruck over are athletes. Joel and Dax talk about the big dreaminess of Australian filmmakers, the deficits of old school masculinity, and why his brother is ‘that guy’ as a stunt performer in movies. Joel explains pitching ideas to George Miller while getting his steps in, the pleasure of working alongside someone better than him, and the incredible and brutal world he gets to portray in Train Dreams.

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0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert.
0:16.1	I'm Dachshppard.
0:16.7	I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:18.0	Hi.
0:18.5	Today we have a very handsome and rugged yet sensitive and sweet man. Yeah. Joel Edgerton. Yes. God, well, he was a delight. He really was. This was, I didn't know much about Joel. And so I was really happy that we got to know him. And his project is incredible. It is. So, of course, you know him from loving, warrior, the gift, bright, dark matter.
0:40.8	But he has, you know, I don't go on on a limb.
0:43.9	I don't, I'm telling you right now, this is one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen.
0:48.9	Yeah.
0:49.1	It's just sat with me.
0:51.2	Since I've saw it, I keep thinking about it.
0:53.9	Train Dreams, which is out on Netflix
0:56.8	on the 21st, just in time for Thanksgiving. It is actually, you know, it's a great movie to see
1:03.2	right before Thanksgiving because it gives you so much gratitude for the abundance we live in
1:07.9	and have no gratitude for. Yeah. And take for granted. Because it's just a very
1:11.9	simple story about someone in 1917. And man, it was fucking horrid. Yeah. So yes, Joel Edgerton,
1:18.8	he's great. I also want to say that my heart is broken for Clito and his family and my friends,
1:26.2	the Kimmel's.
1:29.8	And boy, that's such a bummer.
1:32.3	And I send all my love to everyone. Me too.
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