Once We Were Scrappers | Episode 3

Once We Were Spacemen

Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk

Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sure, Nathan and Alan have stellar careers now – they're number ones on their respective shows! (Have they mentioned that before?) But once upon a time, they were just starting out, hustling to make it in Hollywood. Alan was once the 104th actor to audition for a role because the casting director didn't want to call him. And another time, Nathan played an octopus named 42. Follow Once We Were Spacemen wherever you get your podcasts.Listen to extended episodes a whole week early by joining our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/cw/OnceWeWereSpacemen).Once We Were Spacemen is a Collision33 production.

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0:00.0	I'm a scrapper as an artist,
0:02.4	so I got to, I still got, I have to audition a lot.
0:04.6	I, a lot people go, we know he can be a robot,
0:08.4	but can he be a robot who cares?
0:11.6	And so I have to,
0:12.8	I have to audition for that too.
0:17.4	Can you?
0:19.3	It's a different kind of caring from the last robot who cared that he played.
0:22.7	Gotcha, gotcha.
0:27.6	Once we were spacemen.
0:34.5	I tend to play weird people, usually aliens and robots and things that don't have romance.
0:41.7	I once didn't get a job where they were looking for a Nathan Philean type.
0:48.3	Once we were spacemen.
0:50.6	Once we were spacemen.
0:53.4	This episode, Alan.
0:55.1	Yes.
0:56.0	Just you and me.
0:57.0	We're going to hash some things out.
0:58.8	Oh, okay.
0:59.9	I just read an article.
1:01.3	Friends who like poke fun at each other
1:03.5	are more likely to be,
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