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Life is Short with Justin Long

Rob Lowe 👍

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.89.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Rob Lowe (Literally! With Rob Lowe) talks to Justin about why he wanted to start a new podcast, his experience as a teen idol in the 80s, and how his comedy dreams came true after Lorne Michaels took him under his wing. 


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0:00.0

Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Life Is Short, add free on Amazon Music.

0:05.3

Download the app today.

0:07.0

Well, hey there folks out in Podcast Land, listen to your podcast.

0:10.1

This is Life Is Short.

0:11.5

Before we begin, I want to thank our presenting sponsor, Bud Light Seltar.

0:15.1

We love these drinks so much, we can't stop talking about them, so finally they just

0:18.2

thought, okay, we'll be a sponsor.

0:20.3

Fine.

0:21.3

Here's the show.

0:23.3

In the summer of 2020, years ago, I was doing my first big lead role in a movie called

0:35.9

Cheapest Creepers, and the producer of that movie was one of my cinematic heroes, Francis

0:41.3

Ford Coppola, and he took everyone out for a big fancy dinner.

0:45.3

All I wanted to know about was shooting apocalypse now, or the outsiders, or any of his other

0:51.3

movies.

0:52.3

I so badly wanted to hear stories about these movies that I loved.

0:55.9

I said something like, oh, what about Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now?

1:02.1

What happened when he punched the mirror?

1:04.1

And Coppola told me the story about it, which was Coppola had a dream where Martin Sheen

1:09.3

was a bunch of Russian nesting dolls, and he was nothing but a face.

1:13.6

And Martin Sheen was really drunk in this hotel room, and Coppola told him about the

1:17.5

dream, and so when Martin Sheen punched the mirror, he was really punching his own face,

1:21.5

and he got a, sliced up his hand, had to be taken to the hospital, and had a heart attack,

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