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LGBTQ&A

Victor Garber: Has Kinda Been In Everything

LGBTQ&A

Jeffrey Masters

Society & Culture

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

...and this Sunday (11/21), he debuts as Mr. Smithers' new boyfriend on The Simpsons. Victor Garber joins us to talk about his role as the gay billionaire fashion mogul on The Simpsons, going to Stephen Sondheim's house for his Sweeney Todd callback, and why he doesn't want to do any more musicals. LGBTQ&A is hosted by Jeffrey Masters and produced by The Advocate magazine, in partnership with GLAAD. Come find us on Twitter to recommend a guest: @lgbtqpod.

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0:00.0

From The Advocate magazine in partnership with Glad, this is LGBTQ and A.

0:09.0

I'm Jeffrey Masters, and today I'm talking to the actor Victor Garber, who has been in every

0:14.6

movie that's ever been good, ever. That's legally blonde, Titanic, Milk, The First Wives Club.

0:21.0

I think we can all agree at this point that the first Wies Club is just a perfect movie.

0:26.3

Victor was also in the TV series Alias and the DC comic book shows The Flash and Legends

0:31.6

of Tomorrow.

0:32.8

In those, he played Dr. Martin Stein, aka Firestorm, and he's one of the oldest actors to play a superhero

0:39.8

on these shows. And so if all of that wasn't enough, Victor Garber has also starred on stage

0:46.7

in some of the most significant shows in Broadway history. I'm talking about Sweeney Todd,

0:52.9

The Assassins, Art, Noises Off. I could go on, and now this

0:57.2

week, you can see Victor debut on The Simpsons. Airing this Sunday, November 21st, the character

1:03.6

Mr. Smithers gets his first real boyfriend in the show's 30-plus year history, and that boyfriend

1:10.3

is voiced by none other than Victor Garber.

1:13.9

So today, Victor is here to talk about his rather extraordinary career.

1:18.5

Here he is.

1:25.0

To begin with, I want to go all the way back to the production of Godspell that you did in Toronto in 1972.

1:31.8

It was a cast of all local actors, and those actors included Eugene Levy, Martin Short,

1:38.2

Andrea Martin, and Gilda Radner.

1:41.3

Those are some of the most celebrated comedic actors of all time. You know,

1:47.2

starting out, did you also have those comedy ambitions? Not in the same way that I would,

1:52.6

that Marty did, for instance, or Gilda. I did have a comedic facility that I became aware of

1:59.1

early. And I loved, I realized that making people laugh was something

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