Love & The Paycheck / Omid Memar, Up-and-Coming Actor

Creative Processing with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

HITRECORD & Cadence13

Arts, Tv & Film, Performing Arts

4.4 • 873 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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“When you're an artist, it's not a button you can push on or off. You're always an actor. I sleep as an actor. I wake up as an actor.... I always think about art and creativity, and that's all I want to do.” -Omid Memar This week’s guest is Omid Memar. He’s a fantastic actor who I recently was able to work with for an upcoming movie called 7500 (we actually recorded this episode at the movie’s premiere in Switzerland). Omid’s acting is incredibly honest and real and heartbreaking and human. He also comes from a very culturally-rich background— he’s from an Iranian family, grew up in Austria, moved to Munich, and graduated from a French school. He’s a young guy that’s really just getting started in his career, so I thought he would be perfect to answer this week’s question from Megan Colbert in Springfield, New York. Megan asked, “How do you balance the inner need to create with the practical need to bring in a paycheck?” Omid and I talk about what it’s like to be up-and-coming in the industry, and how the artistry and creativity in acting is often overshadowed by the idea of ‘celebrity’. We also talk about the influence of cultural identity when selecting roles, the creative impact that music has had on each of us, and we top it all off with a touching conversation about our grandmothers. If you have a question about the creative process, that you think would spawn a good conversation on this show, ask me on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter tagged #creativeprocessing, or by emailing [email protected]. New episodes are coming out every Tuesday through October 22, 2019. ------ ABOUT THE GUESTS: Omid Memar is a twenty-year old Iranian actor, who grew up in Vienna before moving to Munich with his family in 2008 where Omid graduated in a French school with a dual-degree in German and French. Omid landed his first acting role at 14 in the German film The Famous Five 4, based on the book series by Enid Blyton. Omid also starred in the Austrian TV Mini-Series M - A City Hunts a Murderer, and the short film Invention of Trust where he was honored with Gold in the Student Academy Awards in 2016. Omid stars alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the movie 7500, which will be released on Amazon early next year. ------ SELECTED LINKS FOR EPISODE: Connect with Omid:- Instagram: @midopersian People Mentioned: - Passar Hariky (Actor) - Patrick Vollrath (Director) - Sebastian Fitz (Omid’s Acting Teacher) Movies Mentions: - The Famous Five 4 (2015) - Angels In The Outfield (1994) Other Mentions: - Locarno Film Festival - Iran-Iraq War (Sep. 22, 1980- Aug. 20, 1988) - Box Studio in Locarno, Switzerland 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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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome
0:06.7	welcome to the creative processing podcast my name is Joe Gordon Levitt the idea
0:11.0	of the show is to have a conversation about the creative process.
0:14.6	Inspired by one question, that question comes from you out there asking questions on the internet.
0:19.6	And then I find a guest that I think is well suited to answer that question and we have a
0:24.6	conversation. My guest this week is Omead Meimar. He is a fantastic young
0:31.4	actor. I recently worked with him on a movie called 7500 which is not
0:36.4	out yet. This is a movie I'm really proud of and the acting was very very challenging I dare say it was as challenging as any
0:46.2	acting I've ever done and he's so good in the movie ome is just, every moment is so honest and real and heartbreaking and human.
0:59.4	He's a young guy, he's just really getting started in his career he's he was 18 when I worked
1:05.1	with him and I think that made him particularly well suited to answer this
1:09.4	question question question came from Megan culbert from Springfield, New York, and she asked.
1:16.5	How do you balance the inner need to create with the practical need to bring in a paycheck? This is a big question and I you know have to
1:27.0	admit I'm coming from a lucky and a privileged position to talk about it. I've been fortunate to make money as an
1:38.0	actor since I was six years old and I'm sitting in the rare and fortunate position right now of having enough money to be comfortable in my life.
1:51.0	So I have a particular perspective on where making money
1:55.4	intertwines with making art or being creative. I do think though that there's sometimes oftentimes in our culture too much emphasis put on to
2:10.5	whether or not one makes money doing the thing that they love to do.
2:16.2	There's almost like a condescending attitude in like Western capitalist culture about if you do
2:22.0	something and it's not the
2:23.0	not the thing that you do for a living,
2:26.0	then you must not be as good at it,
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