Paul Giamatti: 7/20/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Paul Giamatti, the well respected, award-winning actor who stars along side Damian Lewis in Showtime's latest series, Billions, joins Brian this week to discuss working together on the set of the show (Brian is a co-creator and executive producer of Billions). Also, Paul talks about his complicated relationship with acting, revisits his roles in Donnie Brasco, Sideways, John Adams, and Cinderella Man. And Paul reflects on his time as a young actor and how, after more than 20 years, he keeps the work fresh and alive for himself. Topics this week: Billions Yale School of Drama Donnie Brasco Safe Men Cinderella Man John Adams Choate Rosemary Hall Peer Gynt a play by Henrik Ibsen Glengarry Glen Ross a play by David Mamet Speed-The-Plow a play by David Mamet Man on the Moon Sideways American Splendor Election “Hurt So Good” – John Cougar Mellencamp People this week: Paul Giamatti Sophia Loren Johnny Depp Russell Crowe Maggie Siff Marcus Giamatti Kenny Aronoff Alexander Payne Thomas Haden Church Twitter: @briankoppelman Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Rate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment 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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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey, this is the moment.
0:11.2	I'm Brian Koppelman.
0:12.2	Thanks for listening.
0:13.0	Today's guest is Paul Giamotti.
0:15.0	I'm sure you know who he is.
0:17.0	He's the Oscar-nominated Emmy-winning legendary actor,
0:22.0	and is one of the stars of billions which is the
0:26.2	Showtime series that will premiere in 2016 that my partners David Levine and
0:31.1	Andrea Sorkin and I created.
0:33.4	And I just wanted to say, if you're a new listener,
0:36.4	thanks for being here.
0:37.5	I'm sure that there are going to be people who've never
0:38.9	listened to the show before who're
0:39.7	going to listen because of Paul, which is great.
0:42.6	And if you've been listening a while and you're someone who digs the show,
0:46.4	please pass the word.
0:48.0	There's nothing that helps a podcast more than if listeners tell their friends about the show. I know that the way I found
0:55.2	the podcast that I love is when someone else with whom I share taste has told me to check it out.
1:02.0	That's certainly the case of Mystery Show or
1:04.6	Reply All or any of the other pods I love. So if you dig the show, please tell a
1:10.2	friend, review it on iTunes, rate it on iTunes, tell people on Twitter.
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