What is Justice Smith Even Doing?
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, actor Justice Smith and Kyle delve into their love for Shakespeare & Pokémon, what it was like going to magic school for Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, their philosophy on acting & play, Justice’s superpower & why he prioritizes authenticity, what he learned from starring in I Saw the TV Glow & how the movie references David Lynch, the impact of social media on celebrity culture, why Kyle & Justice love being weird on TikTok, and a spellbinding game of “It’s Giving Magic”.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:04.3 | What are we even doing? |
| 0:11.1 | What are we even doing? |
| 0:14.1 | I got one with you granted. |
| 0:15.6 | I did. |
| 0:16.4 | Oh, I love you. |
| 0:17.8 | Okay. |
| 0:20.8 | Okay, so I just talked to Rosamund Pike about this on the set of what I'm here to promote. Because when I worked with him, I was like, Hugh, you know, do you still love what you do? Do you still love this? And he was just like, no. He said, I've never loved it. He's like, I just wanted to be famous and make a lot of money. |
| 0:39.2 | And I said, really? He said, yeah. He is so funny. And he's like, I've always hated the acting part of it. And I was like, oh. But he said it was such sincerity. Yeah. Here's a thing about it. That I think. I got a vibe about that. You might have a feeling about that too. |
| 0:53.2 | I've known Hugh for a long time, |
| 0:54.6 | and he has the same spiel that he does. |
| 0:57.1 | I think the thing that about... I got a vibe about them. You might have a feeling about that too. I've known Hugh for a long time, |
| 0:54.9 | and he has the same spiel that he does. I think the thing that is so challenging for him is that |
| 1:00.0 | he's such a perfectionist and he takes it so seriously. I did notice that, yeah. And so it's like |
| 1:08.1 | everything. He wants it to be perfect, you know. He's got, I think, control issues. But I feel like it's like everything he wants it to be perfect you know he's got i think control issues but i feel like |
| 1:12.8 | it's the torture of that experience as opposed to kind of letting it all go and just you know |
| 1:19.2 | doing what he does but i got to believe that he finds joy in it i would hope that he was joking |
| 1:25.8 | but i also that british humor is so dry and, like, |
| 1:30.5 | sometimes hard to permeate that I don't know. Yeah. Because he was so sincere. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:36.9 | But then I watch him, like, he puts a lot of, like, he does the work. Like, he puts a lot of effort |
| 1:41.7 | into what he does, you know, and we, we were working on a silly comedy together, you know, and he just, you could tell he really cares about it. Yeah. No, I think that's, that's his MO. That's his whole thing. And he's such a good actor. He'll make you believe that he doesn't. Yeah, because Rosman also said, she's like, no, I'm pretty sure he's just British. I don't think you... I'm like, are you sure? Because it stuck with me. I was like, |
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