4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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During this interview Jon and Matthew talk his journey to becoming a successful actor, the importance of your morning routine, overcoming doubt, having resilience to face rejection, finding passion in life and much more.
Matthew Del Negro is an actor, podcaster (10,000 "No"s), dad and husband. He has built an impressive career by playing a wide range of roles in features, television and theater, including juicy turns on ABC's "Scandal", HBO's "The Sopranos", NBC's "The West Wing", Showtime's "The United States of Tara", MTV's popular "Teen Wolf and, now, "Goliath" on Amazon's Prime Video with Billy Bob Thornton.
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0:15.6 | Hey, I'm John Gordon with Positive University and my guest is Matthew Del Negro. Matthew, we just jump right into these kind of interviews and I want to know like |
0:19.5 | what are you doing this week to give people an idea of what your life's like and and what work you do? |
0:25.1 | Okay I am an actor that's what it says on my tax returns to give you what I'm doing this week. |
0:33.3 | It's Monday right now, 845 a.m. |
0:36.0 | I got up this morning. |
0:37.0 | I've been on this program recently |
0:39.0 | or I'm getting up super early, like 330. |
0:49.7 | Writing a screenplay, so I work on that while my house is quiet, my kids are asleep, my life is asleep. It's been really good just to kind of have that quiet time and be able to do some deep work writing and |
0:55.2 | then 530 the gym open so I go there I get back by seven. |
1:01.3 | My wife does the lion's share of getting the kids ready but we'll get them ready |
1:06.5 | when I'm not shooting which right now I'm not we'll walk them luckily we're pretty close to the kids |
1:11.3 | school so we'll walk them to school and then I'm back here and you know I've got this |
1:15.5 | home office home studio where I do my podcast 10,000 knows and I also write and do any other work that I'm doing. |
1:24.0 | Yeah, no, and in terms of work, I just finished a comedy series for Netflix called |
1:32.0 | Huge in France that will be out |
1:35.0 | available for streaming next February is what they're telling us. |
1:39.0 | That's always a little subject to change, but really, really happy with that that had a blast shooting that this summer |
1:45.7 | here in LA and then like two weeks in Paris which was kind of awesome I had never |
1:51.3 | been before so it was it was kind of a trip of a lifetime my |
1:54.7 | wife got to come with me and that was really cool so what is that show about it's uh... there's a |
2:00.0 | comedian a stand-up comedian in Gad Al-Malais, who is considered the Seinfeld of France. |
2:07.1 | And in real life, Jerry Seinfeld has taken Gad |
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