Tony Shalhoub

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Now that The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is in its third season, we're revisiting our interview with actor Tony Shalhoub. He talks about how he loves acting in Mrs. Maisel's low-tech world and how he relates to his character Abe as a father himself. Jeese also chatted, of course, about the show he played an OCD detective on for seven years, the award-winning series Monk. Plus, Tony talks about the film that inspired him to embark on his creative path as an actor.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:12.7	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:21.6	The stereotype goes usually that there are character actors and stars.
0:25.6	A character actor can show up in a couple scenes, maybe only for five minutes and even in that
0:30.2	small moment they could make a film.
0:33.2	My guest Tony Shaloud can do that.
0:35.7	Well, a star, of course, you build a whole movie or a TV show around.
0:40.2	They're relatable, charming, vulnerable.
0:43.1	But my guest Tony Shaloud can do that too.
0:46.7	He's a veteran of both the big and small screens.
0:49.8	He's had unforgettable parts in movies like Barton Fink, Men in Black, Quick Change.
0:55.2	He starred in movies like Big Night and TV shows like Wings and of course the hit detective
0:59.8	series Monk.
1:01.5	These days he's a regular on the Amazon show The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
1:05.8	It's a dramedy set in the late 1950s.
1:08.0	Rachel Brosnahan plays the title character, Midge Maisel.
1:11.7	When the series starts out, Midge is a housewife living in Manhattan who puts her old life behind
1:16.5	her to take up stand-up comedy.
1:18.7	She leaves her husband, takes her kids and moves back in with her parents.
1:22.7	And in fits and starts, her stand-up career takes off.
1:26.4	My guest Tony Shaloud plays Abe Weissman, Midge's dad, a role that's gotten Tony a handful
1:32.1	of awards, including an Emmy last year.
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