William Jackson Harper

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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William Jackson Harper (The Good Place, Midsommar, Dark Waters) is an Emmy-nominated actor and playwright. William joins the Armchair Expert to discuss feeling like an outsider growing up in a Dallas suburb, not being good at anything as a kid except acting, and his father passing away at a young age. William and Dax discuss him moving to New York to pursue a Broadway career, how he never felt like the television and film world would accept him, and his many bad haircuts over the years. William explains how he almost quit acting and how his experience on The Good Place changed his life. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm Mike Grego and I'm joined by
0:05.3	Sarah Lawrence. Oh my God, Sarah Lawrence has such a history. Oh yeah great
0:10.0	college. Great, great college. You created a great, great college. Why, thank you.
0:13.0	God, I wish I could create a great, great college.
0:16.0	That's the Unifile's dream.
0:18.0	Yeah, but it would just take hundreds of years before it really had that prestige you and I,
0:21.8	a covet. I'm in it for the long game. We have a good good buddy on today. Yeah we do. Oh the sweetest. William Jackson Harper, you probably know him as Cheedy on the good place. What a perfect Cheedy he was. Oh my God, he was perfect.
0:35.1	That's why they nominated him for an Emmy.
0:37.2	Emmy nominated William Jackson Harper.
0:39.5	Oh my gosh.
0:40.5	Well you guys have a lot in common.
0:41.6	We sure do.
0:42.3	Now, of course, you know him from the good place, also mid-summer, dark waters.
0:46.0	He has a new film We Broke Up, which will be released on VOD, April 23rd.
0:52.0	Also, Amazon's The Underground Railroad will premiere on May 14th.
0:56.8	I am so looking forward to that.
0:58.8	Me too.
0:59.8	But I also got to say something really important about We Broke Up.
1:02.3	Okay.
1:02.8	We broke up is written by Jeff Rosenberg who worked on the good place.
1:09.7	Oh.
1:10.5	I love Rosie so much and we had such a great rapport.
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