Leslie Odom Jr.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, Smash, Central Park) is an American Broadway, TV, Film actor and singer. Leslie chats with the Armchair Expert about his acting approach in Hamilton, achieving his singular goal of being in RENT on Broadway and struggling with the concept of being the "token". Dax asks about the unique dynamic of being married to a fellow actress and Leslie confesses about his time as a grocery store employee. The two talk about cancel culture, Leslie talks about his commitment to salary parity and Monica and Dax have a disgusting/interesting debate in the fact check. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm
0:03.9	I'm Jack Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Modman.
0:06.0	Hi. How you doing?
0:07.6	Great. How are you doing?
0:09.2	Great. You look great in all green.
0:10.8	You're, Monica's in all green. green.
0:13.0	Isn't Green Bill Gates's favorite color?
0:15.0	Or did I make that up?
0:16.0	You must be right, because they say that green is genius's favorite color.
0:20.0	My favorite color is really blue, but I'll often lie and say it's green because I know that about geniuses.
0:24.8	Yeah, sure. It's my second favorite. After blue? Yeah. It's probably my second after purple.
0:30.8	Oh my gosh, purple. Not a popular favorite color that's why I like it. Yeah that's that holds. Well today we have an
0:38.8	outstandingly talented performer Leslie Odom Jr. Leslie Odom Jr.
0:43.0	Leslie Odom Jr. is a Tony award winning and Grammy Award winning actor and singer.
0:48.0	He has performed on Broadway and in television and film.
0:51.0	He has released three jazz albums.
0:53.0	Now most importantly let's just get to it
0:55.1	Hamilton which is currently streaming on the Disney Plus app.
0:58.0	It's incredible if you were unable to see this musical I don't like musicals and this is one of two musicals I
1:04.3	absolutely loved it's so good and Leslie is so tremendous in it playing Aaron Burr.
1:10.0	So if you weren't able to go see it live, I do urge everyone to check it out on Disney Plus.
1:14.8	He also was in Harriet, he was in Smash, Murder on the Orient Express, and you can see Leslie
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