Skylar Astin on Musical Theatre, LeBron, and Flatulence
Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen
Headgum
4.7 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Skylar Astin [Pitch Perfect, Wreck-it Ralph, 21 & Over] talks to Rachel and Olivia about how he got into acting, summer camp movies, and the new season of So Help Me Todd. They also discuss summer camp movies, farts, and public urination.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to Broad Ideas. |
| 0:10.6 | Hi, Rob. |
| 0:12.3 | Hi, Rob. |
| 0:13.1 | Hello. |
| 0:13.7 | Listen, Skylar Aston is on with us today. |
| 0:16.3 | Yes, he is. |
| 0:17.4 | What a delight. |
| 0:20.3 | Truly. |
| 0:21.2 | Okay, people know him from Pitch Perfect, but his current show, so help me talk. Yes. What a delight. Truly. Okay. |
| 0:21.7 | People know him from Pitch Perfect, but his current show, so help me Todd. |
| 0:25.9 | That's what we were talking to him about. |
| 0:27.8 | And yeah, let's just get to him because he's a lot more entertaining than I am. |
| 0:33.8 | Sometimes when the world feels insane, you can take a little peek inside of Rachel's little brain. |
| 0:46.0 | All these thoughts are swirling round and round inside to join us on this journey as we take a little ride we'll talk about dogs and kids |
| 0:59.8 | and things we'll talk about chicks and tampon strings we'll talk about boys that'll make you |
| 1:06.3 | cry we'll talk about death because people die about that fun stuff and that fun stuff. We'll just stop talking. Let's just do the whole thing silent. Let's do, yeah, let's do a new take on podcasts. I would love that. How do you feel about podcasts? I like them. I like that it's relaxed and that it's not too, you know, like planned. Sometimes talk shows or whatever. you have to kind of have a bit of a script. |
| 1:28.5 | I have, that's my biggest pet peeve is like the pre-interviews. It's like, wait, this is not organic. It is organic for me in the pre-interviews. And then they're like, remember when you came to that very natural punchline of your story? And I'm like, fuck, I got to hit that punchline. Yeah, right. And then you're in your head and you're like, oh, now I have a script in my mind that if I don't, so I'm out of the moment. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm just thinking fuck, I got to hit that punchline. Yeah, right. And then you're in your head and you're like, oh, now I have a script in my mind that if I don't, so I'm out of the moment. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm just thinking about these other things. And I just really feel like they should come up with something else. Yeah, potentially. I'm going to tell them. You tell them. Do you get like that with rehearsing? like you don't want to over-rehearse |
| 1:42.7 | Yeah, like you more like you hold it back |
| 1:44.9 | And then give it or do you like to go all the way there in rehearsal? |
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