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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Can it really be ten years since Whiplash put filmmaker Damien Chazelle on the map and earned J.K. Simmons his Best Supporting Actor Oscar? We interviewed the versatile actor in 2017 and his stories are worth hearing again. By the way, he remains a good luck charm for writer-director Jason Reitman, with a juicy role in his new movie Saturday Night. And Whiplash is also back on theater screens.
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0:46.2 | And normally you would hear my daughter's voice as well, but Jesse is not here today. |
0:47.5 | I'm sorry. |
0:49.6 | I know she's the one you tune in for. |
0:51.5 | You're just going to have to make do with me. But I am here with somebody who makes up for any absence or any negativity, any kind of possible |
0:59.1 | liability because my guest today is J.K. Simmons. |
1:02.8 | Hello. |
1:03.5 | How are you? |
1:04.1 | I'm not going to try and be as witty and entertaining and embellion as Jesse or as high-voiced |
1:10.0 | for that matter. |
1:12.4 | But I'm great. I'm happy to be here. Thank you. But you could if you wanted to. Yeah, you know, I could give it a try, |
1:17.8 | but... In fact, this gives us an interesting starting point, because we were just talking briefly |
1:24.1 | off-mic, as they say, about voiceovers. |
1:28.5 | And you do quite a few. |
1:30.6 | And you do a lot of cartoon voice work as well, a lot of animation, even video game voice work. |
1:37.0 | And I guess anybody who has read up on you at all knows, and if they don't, they're going to find out right now that you have been, lo these many years, the yellow M&M. |
1:49.4 | Indeed. Sweet, dumb, yellow. |
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