John Cusack

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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John Cusack has been on our screens for the better part of four decades, first in movies like Better Off Dead and Say Anything and later starring in classics like Grosse Pointe Blank and Being John Malkovich. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with the actor over Zoom to talk about that long career of memorable roles and his latest shift into television with the new Amazon Prime series Utopia.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another brand new episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:07.1	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:10.3	Excited about this one for you today.
0:12.5	Some of my favorite interviews are the ones we do with people who don't do a lot of interviews.
0:17.3	Al Pacino jumps to mind earlier this year.
0:20.4	John Qsack is my guest this week.
0:22.8	He doesn't do a ton of press.
0:24.9	He's sort of like an elusive star even though he's this movie icon and so connected to the
0:30.0	great movies of the 1980s but then also moving forward.
0:34.1	He's sort of always been there doing good stuff whether it's gross point blank or high fidelity
0:39.8	or being John Malkovich.
0:41.9	He just keeps pushing forward.
0:43.4	He's done like 70 some 80 movies over the course of his career which he started.
0:48.5	You'll hear him talk about as a teenager growing up in Evanston Illinois just outside
0:53.4	Chicago.
0:54.4	He said all of a sudden they started making movies about teenagers in Chicago and I was there.
1:00.0	I was a teenager in Chicago which led to movies like 16 candles and then of course better
1:05.7	off dead and a little bit later say anything with that famous boom box scene.
1:09.7	He said such an interesting career and his latest project is on TV.
1:14.3	Hasn't done a lot of that over his career for all he's done.
1:16.7	It's called Utopia.
1:18.7	It's on Amazon Prime.
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