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Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

The Leftovers with Jeff Hiller

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Leftovers, never-before-heard audio from actor Jeff Hiller (Somebody Somewhere), author of the new memoir Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success.  

Jeff talks about visiting the real-life cafes featured in Somebody Somewhere, what he thinks of the Swedish food he grew up eating and why he never ever throws a dinner party. 

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0:00.0

In the States, Japanese food is sushi, ramen, tempura, but when you book your nonstop flight from

0:05.7

Seattle to Tokyo on Alaska Airlines or Hawaiian Airlines, and you land in Japan 10 hours later,

0:11.3

you are going to fall in love with all kinds of regional and home-style Japanese dishes you may

0:16.7

have never heard of. I recommend trying the convenience store Odin and having Oyakodan at a

0:21.4

diner. And starting in October, Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines are offering daily nonstop flights

0:26.8

from Seattle to Seoul, South Korea. Explore the world without a layover. Book your tickets to Tokyo

0:33.3

or Seoul at Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com.

0:46.3

Welcome to The Leftovers. I'm Rachel Bell. The Leftovers is audio left on the cutting room floor

0:52.2

from last week's Your Last Meal interview.

0:55.2

And today, you'll hear never before heard cuts from Emmy nominated actor Jeff Hiller.

1:01.3

Jeff just wrote his first memoir.

1:02.9

It's called Actress of a Certain Age.

1:05.1

And he played a character called Joel in one of my favorite TV shows, Somebody Somewhere,

1:10.4

which was Jeff's first big role on a TV show.

1:13.2

How old were you when you got the role on Somebody Somewhere?

1:16.3

45.

1:17.2

But then that was just the pilot.

1:18.8

Then we had a whole year and a half off because of the pandemic.

1:21.6

So I didn't start shooting it until I was like 46 or 47.

1:25.6

Somebody Somewhere is set in Manhattan, Kansas.

1:28.0

And I am telling you this because it's going to come up later in the show.

1:31.6

If you miss Jeff's episode of your last meal, I recommend you go back and listen to that first.

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