Rose Byrne

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I Would Kick You, Damages, Neighbors) is an Emmy Award-nominated actor. Rose joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being rejected from every drama school she applied to in Australia, not having the confidence to discern between early roles, and whether she identifies as a people pleaser. Rose and Dax talk about playing the straight man in Bridesmaids, getting into a loose comedic rhythm with longtime collaborator Seth Rogan, and her improv baptism by fire making Get Him to the Greek. Rose explains how much she enjoys seeing a comedic actor do a dramatic part, accepting as she gets older that we all need to dance around the apartment more, and throwing herself deeply into her grueling new film If I Had Legs I Would Kick You.

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0:13.9	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.0	I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:18.2	Hi.
0:18.9	Today we have one of my all-time favorite actors.
0:22.4	I've been singing her praises for a long time now.
0:26.3	She's so good.
0:27.3	Because she does this thing that very few people can do, which is perfect comedian, perfect dramatic actor.
0:32.3	Yes.
0:32.9	Rose Byrne.
0:33.7	She's a powerhouse.
0:35.2	She is an Emmy nominated actor and producer, Platonic, currently on Apple Plus, neighbors, insidious, bridesmaids. She has a new movie in theaters now called If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You. That's a great title. And of course, she's from Australia, which is just endlessly
0:55.8	charming. I find that endlessly charming. I know. As you'll hear, she's reluctant to tall poppy,
1:01.4	but we try to get her there. I think we made a little progress by the end. We may be.
1:05.8	And she was not reminiscent at all of that AI that would not count to a million. No, she was
1:10.7	nothing like her.
1:11.5	Nothing like her, that Australian woman.
1:13.9	Also, we have Armchair Anonymous prompts.
1:16.1	Oh, yes.
1:16.9	So make sure if people, people are sometimes confused, how do I get on Armchair Anonymous,
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