Michael Stuhlbarg

Happy Sad Confused

Josh Horowitz

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

If there's one scene from a feature film released in 2017 that should go into a time capsule for future actors showing how it's done, it might as well be Michael Stuhlbarg's monologue that comes near the end of "Call Me By Your Name". To those who know Stuhlbarg's diverse resume it shouldn't be much of a surprise. This is an actor who can do just about anything. He's been "Hamlet" on the stage and led a brilliant Coen brothers film ("A Serious Man") but he's also carved out a career as an unparalleled character actor playing roles big and small for the likes of Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The only common denominator in his performances seems to be excellence. On this episode of "Happy Sad Confused", Stuhlbarg gives a master class on his approach to acting on the stage and screen, how his career changed virtually overnight thanks to the Coen brothers, and what it was like to work on a trio of acclaimed films ("The Shape of Water" and "The Post" round out the group" out this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.2	Today on Happy Second Fuse, Michael Stuubarg on Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water, and the Post. Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrowitz.
0:17.4	Welcome to the show.
0:18.3	Welcome to my little podcast.
0:20.3	And welcome to a really great conversation, thought today with a fantastic actor, a
0:26.9	actor's actor. You know, we've had a bunch of these lately where I've had these, you
0:31.7	could call them character actors I mean you know tomato
0:34.1	tomato whatever they've been leads they've been they've been supporting
0:37.0	players they're just consummate actors you know I put people like Richard Jenkins
0:41.7	and Willem de Foe in that category.
0:45.0	These kind of actors that are true chameleons and you can fit them in any, in virtually any role it seems and they always elevate the material and that is my guest today, Michael Stoolbarg.
1:00.0	I first saw, call me by your name a few months back at the Toronto Film Festival.
1:06.0	I missed it. It was at the Sundance Film Festival and there was a huge acclaim and buzz around it and it took it
1:11.4	it was a while before it came back around on the festival
1:13.4	circuit and I saw it there and there was so much I fell in love with about that
1:19.6	movie if you haven't seen it it's you know it's basically kind of a coming-of-age story about a young man named
1:25.6	Ilio, spending a summer in Italy with his family.
1:30.4	Michael Stubark plays the father, the patriarch, and Eelia falls in love with a man there, played by the
1:38.2	great army hammer, and you know it's about, you know, discovering your own sexuality and just falling in love
1:44.7	and and and and all the things that we've seen many times in films probably not
1:49.8	done so well and yet call me by your name is just note perfect touching and
1:54.3	beautiful and it's just one of the one of the best films of the year and that's one of
1:59.6	the reasons why we've covered it so extensively on this podcast is that it's a great film and
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