Sam Richardson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

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Sam Richardson's breakthrough role came in HBO's Veep. Sam is also a writer. With the help of SNL alum Tim Robinson, they co-created and starred in Detroiters. These days, you can catch Sam in The Afterparty on Apple TV+. Sam joins Jesse to talk about his career in film and TV, and what it was like growing up between the United States and Ghana. A version of this interview originally aired in August of 2021.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.6	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Sam Richardson is an actor. His breakthrough role came in
0:25.7	the HBO show starring Jolio Luey-Dreyfus, where everyone is terrible and mean and incompetent and they all hate each other.
0:33.7	Everyone except for Sam's character, the cheerful, incorruptible, Richard Splatt.
0:40.7	Is there a way to change Doyle's music without screwing up the lights?
0:43.7	Absolutely. Great. Well I'm not sure but positivity is the first step.
0:47.7	Love it. Can you say what? I honestly have no idea. What do you have on your phone?
0:51.7	Well it's mostly self-help audiobooks and relaxation tapes. I'm quite an anxious man.
0:56.7	Sam is also a writer. Richard sent along with Tim Robinson, co-created and starred in Detroiters,
1:03.7	a favorite of mine about two buddies working for an advertising agency in Detroit.
1:09.7	Richardson has also appeared and I think you should leave Tim Robinson's absolutely spectacular sketch comedy show on Netflix.
1:17.7	And I think you could say that by this point Sam Richardson has a brand.
1:22.7	He plays cheerful, friendly characters who are usually so nice they end up getting in their own way.
1:28.7	That is probably in part because Sam Richardson is an extremely cheerful, friendly guy in real life.
1:36.7	Little white little though, Sam is working on expanding that brand.
1:41.7	Recently he starred alongside Chris Pratt in the Tomorrow War, a science fiction time travel action movie,
1:48.7	and he has a lead role in Where Wolves Within, which is available to rent or buy online now.
1:55.7	Where Wolves Within is a horror comedy. It's set in a small New England town where all the people are trapped in a snowstorm.
2:03.7	And enough scary stuff has happened that people are beginning to think that maybe just maybe a Where Wolve is lurking somewhere out there.
2:13.7	My guest Sam Richardson plays Finn Wheeler in the film, a ranger who just arrived for a new stint at the nearby national park.
2:21.7	As the bodies begin to pile up residents of the town begin to turn on each other, after all if there is a Where Wolve in town it could literally be any of them.
2:31.7	And this clip Finn makes a last ditch attempt to keep everyone together with, well with an inspiring speech.
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