Saturday Special - Kelly AuCoin
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Colin talks with Actor Kelly AuCoin, who most notably plays Dollar Bill Stearn on the Showtime series 'Billions,' about being a part of such a talented cast and working with Paul Giamatti. Kelly also discusses getting into the mind of a character that is nothing like him and why on 'Billions" none of the actors improvise a single line.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Israel Gutierrez. I'm hosting a new podcast called Four Years of Heat. It takes you to Miami from 2010 to 2014 |
| 0:07.8 | with LeBron James, Chris Bosch and Duane Wade, set the NBA ablaze. |
| 0:12.6 | You know, having an opportunity to team up with the best trio to ever play the game of basketball |
| 0:18.0 | will take you inside those four monumental years with behind-the-scenes access and insight about one of the greatest teams ever |
| 0:25.3 | for a sum. Four years of heat on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.5 | There are definitely things you have to find within yourself in order to make it real. Like, like, how would I behave if I were a raging half-hole in this moment? |
| 0:43.8 | His name is Kelly Acorn. You may know him as Dollar Bill Stern on Billions, where he's had an increasing role, |
| 0:50.6 | Pastor Tim on the Americans, Rolls in the House of Cards. And he just happens to be from Oregon, where I spent seven years working at KGW. |
| 0:59.2 | Kelly Acorn is joining us on our Saturday Morning Podcast. Billions premiered last week, season four. |
| 1:05.3 | It's one of my, I would say, seminal four or five TV shows of my life. I've really enjoyed. Kelly, how are you? |
| 1:11.9 | I'm well. How are you? Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:13.9 | You bet. One of the reasons I like, there's so much I like about Billions, but I like the complexity of the characters. |
| 1:20.6 | There's, there's things I love about, you know, Bobby Axelrod and there's things I hate about him. |
| 1:28.3 | What initially, when you got the script initially in the role, were you, did the writing jump out to you? |
| 1:34.0 | Did you have a sense of, oh, God, this is going to work and it's going to work big. |
| 1:38.4 | Yeah, I did. Now, I didn't get the entire script, but I had the scenes I was auditioning for in an audition for a few different characters. |
| 1:47.8 | And I got snippets of the rest of the script and it was, you know, it was, it was, it was top notch. |
| 1:54.8 | I knew the guys who were involved. I knew that, that Damien Lewis and Paul G. Mottie were going to star. |
| 2:02.4 | I knew that Brian Coppill and I, David McBean, who did rounders and those 13 were involved. |
| 2:08.9 | And I was like, this is, this is absolutely something you want to be a part of. |
| 2:12.5 | Even though I didn't know at the beginning, whether dollar bill, what size of a little dollar bill would be, |
| 2:19.7 | it, you know, it was kind of a cool nickname and the description was, |
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