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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Noah Emmerich: 5/12/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Noah Emmerich, otherwise known as Stan Beeman on The Americans, joins Brian to talk about the subtleties in his craft, how he went from being a musician and travel writer to an actor, and how Brian broke Noah the news that he couldn’t land a role in the Kevin Costner film, For Love of the Game. Noah also dives into the backstory of how he landed his role as Marlon, Truman’s best friend, on The Truman Show and the lessons we can all learn from chasing your fears. Mentioned this week: The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, and Witness – Peter Weir films Pride & Glory, Warrior, and Miracle – Gavin O’Connor films The Americans Beautiful Girls and Monument Avenue – Ted “Teddy” Demme films Rounders Floyd Abrams @DanAbrams Paul Giamatti Ron Livingston @JoshMalina @WhitfordBradley @DuleHill A Few Good Men Atlantic Theater Company Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill an essay by David Mamet Harold Evans Lincoln Center Library True West a play by Sam Shepard Burn This a play by Lanford Wilson The Qualms a play by Bruce Norris Ron Stetson – Neighborhood Playhouse teacher Ed Harris Lee Krasner Kurt Russell Coach K Andrew Niccol writer of Gattaca and The Truman Show Susan Smith – Talent Agent @JimCarrey Bulworth a Warren Beatty film Cop Land a James Mangold film Harvey Keitel @RayLiotta Arthur Nascarella For Love of the Game a film starring Kevin Costner Scott Rosenberg writer of Beautiful Girls @JoeWeisberg Making Movies a book by Sidney Lumet This episode of The Moment is sponsored by Quickbooks Self Employed. Visit tryselfemployed.com/moment for your free 30 day trial. 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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slash moment. The following podcast contains explicit language. Thanks for listening. Today my guest is Noah Emmerich. Hey Brian. You know

0:36.8

Emm you know Noah from movies like the Truman Show from what would you say the second the movie that you're second most

0:44.7

of all known for miracle depending on somebody's age yeah depends upon the age and

0:47.7

and hobbies but miracle the hockey movie or a beautiful girls Beautiful girls which was when Noah first sort of came to attention and then most people know him now as

0:59.0

FBI agent Stan Beeman on the Americans which you're killing it man.

1:03.7

Congratulations.

1:04.7

Oh, thanks.

1:05.7

I mean we were just talking I mean you and I have known each other for a long time right?

1:09.2

Like we met right at the beginning of both of our careers.

1:12.6

Yeah, I mean, Beautiful Girls was actually my first real role in a movie and it was directed

1:17.0

by Ted Demi.

1:18.3

And Ted produced my first movie, Rounders, right after, like right after Beautiful Girls. Yeah. Both with, it was all after like right after beautiful girls yeah

1:23.0

both with it was all Miramax stuff so we were both around Miramax in those days yeah

1:28.9

but I just want to start because we were talking before the mics came on and we were

1:31.7

talking about Yale and I think this is so indicative of kind of who you are and you're the way you make how you make your way through the world which is we're talking about Yale and you go no way I get in today.

1:42.0

And I said no no it all proved out like you've done so well in life and you were just like nah

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