Paget Brewster

Wheels Off with Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller

Music, Performing Arts, Arts

4.9 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Actress Paget Brewster joins Rhett from her home in Los Angeles to talk about her career as an actor, and the immense gratitude she holds for the artistic journey she’s on. Paget and Rhett talk about why voice excites her, how pre-performance nerves are a blessing in disguise, why it’s fun to die in a movie as an actor, and much more. Paget is incredibly thoughtful in the way she analyzes her work, and her exuberance about her art is refreshing and inspiring. Paget Brewster is an actor, voice actor, and singer from Concord, Massachusetts. She gained initial recognition for her recurring role as Kathy on the fourth season of Friends, and broke through to widespread acclaim when she played Emily Prentiss on Criminal Minds. Paget currently voices Birdgirl on the Adult Swim comedy series Birdgirl, which she and Rhett discuss in the episode. Wheels Off is brought to you by Osiris Media. Hosted and produced by Rhett Miller. Co-produced by Kirsten Cluthe in partnership with Nick Ruffini (Revoice Media). Editing by Justin Thomas. Production Assistance by Matt Bavuso. Music by OLD 97’s. Episode artwork by Katherine Boils. Show logo by Tim Skirven. Upcoming episodes of Wheels Off include singer-songwriter Allison Russell, producer & songwriter Jeff Barry, musical duo Ida Mae, and more. Revisit Season One of Wheels Off with Rosanne Cash, Rob Thomas, Will Forte, Lydia Loveless, Allison Moorer, Ted Leo, Paul F. Tompkins, Jen Kirkman, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	O'SIMUS
0:02.0	Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.
0:09.0	I'm Rhett Miller.
0:10.5	That's when it got wheels off.
0:13.6	Shot it up and we ain't gonna stop.
0:16.0	Oh, I said like you.
0:17.7	I could not.
0:19.3	That's when they got wheels off.
0:24.2	Okay, this might be my favorite ever wheels off.
0:30.0	Padgett Brewster is a friend, but not somebody that I've known super, super well.
0:35.2	We've worked together on thrilling adventure hour and wits
0:38.4	and done the San Francisco sketch fest, comedy fest before and hung out some. But I did not expect
0:48.5	this conversation to be so fun, first of all, but also to go to some of the places to which it went.
0:58.5	When the third quarter, which is typically reserved for the internally generated obstacles questions,
1:06.6	you know, the part where we talk about the things that make it tricky to do the things we do, right?
1:13.3	Her answer to that and the conversation that spun out of it wound up feeling to me like therapy almost.
1:22.1	Like it was really good to hear someone as successful as Padgett has been talk about going through some of the things that I've gone through with regards to dealing with coworkers, dealing with peers, problematic people, and when they have success, and how do we respond internally to the feelings that that generates?
1:45.6	Anyway, you'll hear it.
1:47.4	It's a really cool, fun conversation.
1:50.0	The story of how she got into acting is insane.
1:56.2	I did not at all expect to hear that story from Padgett.
2:00.4	So I'm really excited for you guys to hear this.
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