Sam Rockwell

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Sam Rockwell (Bad Guys 2, The White Lotus, Moon) is an Academy Award-winning actor. Sam joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up in the Tenderloin of San Francisco, doing plays and improv with his mom at 10 years old, and the parallels between charm and fuel. Sam and Dax talk about stumbling into a Willy Wonka entrance doing his faker baker dancing, adopting delusions of grandeur that he moves like a stretch limo, and completing the two year Meisner program that changed his life. Sam explains getting recognized for the first time while bussing tables, how he builds characters with his acting teacher of 26 years, and the illusion of safety amid peaks and valleys of success.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert.
0:16.1	I'm Dax Shepherd and I'm joined by Lily Padman.
0:18.1	Hi.
0:19.2	And we have one of my biggest crushes alive on.
0:22.6	He's a stud.
0:23.6	Oh, what an animal.
0:25.0	Sam Rockwell.
0:26.2	You know him from absolutely everything.
0:28.5	He's just got that X factor.
0:30.3	He's got that sprinkle of just unbridled charisma.
0:35.1	Yeah, he has an electricity.
0:37.5	High on the soul spectrum, also uber comfortable in his own skin.
0:41.2	Yep.
0:41.8	Oh.
0:42.6	Yeah, we love him.
0:43.6	I don't know.
0:44.2	I'm going to put him in a top five, like most comfortable in their own skin.
0:48.2	I don't know who the other.
0:49.4	I know Snoop's there.
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