Actor Shea Whigham from "Perry Mason" and Starz's "Gaslit" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor Shea Whigham from “Perry Mason” and Starz’s “Gaslit” joins us on Story & Craft.
Shea’s work includes “Boardwalk Empire,” “Perry Mason,” “Joker,” “American Hustle,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and the “Mission: Impossible” films. We talk about his creative path and playing G. Gordon Liddy opposite Julia Roberts and Sean Penn in “Gaslit,” a drama about Watergate.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Shea Whigham joins Story & Craft
Acting, Inspiration, and Portraying Real People
Testing Will and Insecurities (56 Seconds)
Path to Becoming an Actor (109 Seconds)
Sam Rockwell and American Buffalo (25 Seconds)
Acting, Filmmaking, Collaborating With Seth MacFarlane (64 Seconds)
Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
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He calls me and he goes.
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Shea Whigam: I've got someone else from the line.
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Shea Whigam: How about you want to meet?
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Shea Whigam: This is Tom Cruise on the line.
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Shea Whigam: So it's a three-way call and they say how
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Shea Whigam: would you like to be part of the mission
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Shea Whigam: family?
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Shea Whigam: For me it was as good as it gets.
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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.
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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.
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Marc Preston: Well, hello, how are you?
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Marc Preston: Welcome back to the show.
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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston, and today a really great
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Marc Preston: episode with an incredibly talented actor.
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Marc Preston: I mean going back 17 years ago.
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Marc Preston: I saw his name on a call sheet on a project
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Marc Preston: I was working on, and ever since then I've
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Marc Preston: been following his career, the TV projects,
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Marc Preston: the movies he's been in.
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Marc Preston: I'm talking about Shea Whigham, one of those
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Marc Preston: actors.
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Marc Preston: No matter what he does, he always just
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Marc Preston: knocks it out of the park.
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Marc Preston: He's been in a whole lot of TV and film
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Marc Preston: projects like Perry Mason, joker, vice,
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Marc Preston: sicario, the Day of the Soldado, american
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Marc Preston: Hustle, silver Lighting's playbook, the
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Marc Preston: Wolf of Wall Street, and he's even got a
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Marc Preston: recurring role in the Mission Impossible
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Marc Preston: franchise.
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Marc Preston: You can see him right now, though, in the
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Marc Preston: stars miniseries, gaslit.
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Marc Preston: He plays G Gordon-Liddy in this miniseries
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Marc Preston: about the Nixon Watergate scandal.
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Marc Preston: He delivers what I think is just an
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Marc Preston: award-winning performance.
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Marc Preston: He just knocks it out of the park.
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Marc Preston: Once again.
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Marc Preston: Gaslit is the miniseries.
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Marc Preston: A lot of great performances in this.
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Marc Preston: Julia Roberts, I mean, without a doubt Also
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Marc Preston: an award-worthy performance.
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Marc Preston: Definitely love the great notes I've been
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Marc Preston: receiving as of late.
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Marc Preston: Certainly appreciate you being here and
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Marc Preston: let's get after it.
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Marc Preston: Today it's Shea Whigham Day right now on
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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.
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Marc Preston: How are you doing today, man?
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Shea Whigam: Oh good man, I'm doing good, thank you.
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Marc Preston: It's kind of funny.
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Marc Preston: I was talking to my kids earlier about this.
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Marc Preston: The first time I became aware of you was
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Marc Preston: seeing your name on a call sheet for Faith
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Marc Preston: of my Fathers, way back at the day 17 years
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Marc Preston: ago I think but we didn't have a scene
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Marc Preston: together, but I saw your name as like the
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Marc Preston: Shea guy.
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Marc Preston: Who is he?
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Marc Preston: And ever since then, every time I see your
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Marc Preston: name in a credit or a see, I'm like I
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Marc Preston: wanted to talk to that guy.
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Marc Preston: They had me shooting scenes over to
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Marc Preston: Catholic Girls School and I don't know
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Marc Preston: where they shot you.
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Marc Preston: I think y'all were at a studio, if I'm not
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Marc Preston: mistaken.
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, you know, the thing I remember about
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Shea Whigam: Faith and my Fathers was the Hurricane
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Shea Whigam: Katrina.
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Shea Whigam: I remember they had just hit and that was
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Shea Whigam: one of the first things that had come back.
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Shea Whigam: We were going in there to film.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's you know what.
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Marc Preston: God, I totally forgot that was after
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Marc Preston: Katrina.
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Marc Preston: I just that was all a little bit of a blur.
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Marc Preston: I'm originally from Texas, but I've been in
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Marc Preston: but on and off of New Orleans about 20 plus
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Marc Preston: years or so.
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Marc Preston: So where are you located right now?
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Shea Whigam: Now, right now, I'm in Los Angeles.
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Shea Whigam: I've been in Los Angeles here.
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Shea Whigam: I was in New York for a long time and then,
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Shea Whigam: you know, followed some work out here.
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Marc Preston: So now, are you from New York originally or
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Marc Preston: did you find your way to New York?
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Shea Whigam: No, no, originally from born in Florida,
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Shea Whigam: born in Tallahassee, florida.
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Shea Whigam: My parents were going to school there and
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Shea Whigam: at Florida State.
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Shea Whigam: My father was a quarterback at Florida
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Shea Whigam: State Really, and yeah, and my mom and then
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Shea Whigam: he got a, got his degree and he got a law
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Shea Whigam: degree.
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Shea Whigam: He was kind of a John Grisham small town
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Shea Whigam: lawyer in a place called Sanford, florida,
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Shea Whigam: in Lake Mary, florida, really Lake Mary.
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Shea Whigam: My mother was a librarian at a high school
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Shea Whigam: there.
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Marc Preston: So Were you an athlete as well, or was it
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Marc Preston: always creative?
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, no, I was okay, I was okay at it.
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Shea Whigam: But my father, you know, he wasn't.
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Shea Whigam: He wasn't a jock, so to speak.
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Shea Whigam: He raised, he was a, he's a voracious
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Shea Whigam: reader and of course my mother's a
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Shea Whigam: librarian.
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Shea Whigam: So he raised my brother, jack and I,
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Shea Whigam: basically on the poets and the thinkers.
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Shea Whigam: So it was Byron, keats, shelley, it was
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Shea Whigam: Ingersoll, you know just some thinkers.
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Shea Whigam: So he, he wasn't.
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Shea Whigam: You know he used that to to the football, I
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Shea Whigam: guess to get his, you know his degree for
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Shea Whigam: the state.
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Marc Preston: Was this kind of your course of study when
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Marc Preston: you got off to college?
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Marc Preston: You know theater, or or did you, or was
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Marc Preston: something else your objective?
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Shea Whigam: Well, I don't know where you're from in
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Shea Whigam: Texas, but I kicked around and found my way
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Shea Whigam: for a minute into Tyler, Texas.
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Marc Preston: East Texas.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I got a lot of family out there.
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, I was there for a minute and I
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Shea Whigam: auditioned, I started doing plays there.
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Shea Whigam: You know, I think, in back, I guess, my
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Shea Whigam: father, my father, you know, really, he
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Shea Whigam: would show me, you know, show me films.
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Shea Whigam: He loved Brando and he loved, you know,
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Shea Whigam: denarrow.
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Shea Whigam: And he didn't know anything about anything
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Shea Whigam: as far as that goes, but he, he, he would
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Shea Whigam: say to me you know, this, this guy they say
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Shea Whigam: is the best actor on the planet, or this,
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Shea Whigam: you know, you know.
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Shea Whigam: And so I remember that in early, early days,
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Shea Whigam: watching, you know, denarrow, o'pochino and
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Shea Whigam: Scarface or Ridley Scott, I mean, yeah,
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Shea Whigam: ridley's alien, you know.
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Shea Whigam: So it was just that.
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Shea Whigam: And then I had a fascination with it, and
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Shea Whigam: and, and I, I, I, I went down to San
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Shea Whigam: Antonio, texas, to audition for some of the,
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Shea Whigam: some of the schools, bu, but Boston and
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Shea Whigam: SUNY Purchase.
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Shea Whigam: And I got into SUNY Purchase and I got.
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Shea Whigam: I just wanted to be in New York.
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Shea Whigam: So I made my way to SUNY purchase and I got.
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Shea Whigam: As you get lucky in this business sometimes,
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Shea Whigam: I think, I think that's true.
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Marc Preston: I think sometimes it's the incalculable
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Marc Preston: thing being at the right place, right time,
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Marc Preston: right idea, right then you know, but what
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Marc Preston: took you to Tyler?
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Shea Whigam: Well, I played a little bit of tennis and I
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Shea Whigam: I had like a scholarship Scholarship there
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Shea Whigam: for that, but, as I like to say, it was
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Shea Whigam: very Quickly.
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Shea Whigam: I knew that I was out of my depth, so I
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Shea Whigam: turned that scholarship and I started
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Shea Whigam: taking Pros and poetry reading courses
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Shea Whigam: there, and so we would just read poetry and
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Shea Whigam: we would read and I always I started just
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Shea Whigam: Feathering in performance based Monologues
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Shea Whigam: that I shouldn't, and the teacher and the
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Shea Whigam: professor was like you know, this is a,
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Shea Whigam: this is a reading guy, You're doing
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Shea Whigam: monologues and why don't you come try out
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Shea Whigam: for the theater?
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Shea Whigam: I tried out for a Sam Shepherd play.
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Shea Whigam: Okay, lie, the yeah, and I did lie of the
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Shea Whigam: mind and it just opened up my world.
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Marc Preston: I always am envious whenever I hear
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Marc Preston: interviews with actors who had a chance to
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Marc Preston: act with them or to have.
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Marc Preston: It's actually living legend kind of like
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Marc Preston: that, you know.
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Shea Whigam: Oh man, I remember, I remember Jeff Nichols,
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Shea Whigam: who I did take shelter with, and Mike
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Shea Whigam: Shannon.
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Shea Whigam: Jeff had, jeff Used Sam in a couple of his
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Shea Whigam: films and I used to just pepper Jeff
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Shea Whigam: Nichols you know about Sam Shepherd and
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Shea Whigam: Mike Shannon went, I remember Mike said,
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Shea Whigam: michael said I went to this party and Sam
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Shea Whigam: was across the room and I, just, I, just I
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Shea Whigam: stared at Sam.
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Shea Whigam: You know, I didn't, I couldn't even, I
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Shea Whigam: didn't have the balls to go up and didn't
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Shea Whigam: even say anything.
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Shea Whigam: It was Sam Shepherd, you know, and I I
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Shea Whigam: lived in Chelsea at one point, right after
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Shea Whigam: I got out of school.
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Shea Whigam: I lived in Chelsea and I was slinging
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Shea Whigam: coffee in Chelsea right next to the Chelsea
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Shea Whigam: hotel when he and Patty Smith he was doing
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Shea Whigam: his writing and she was, you know, they
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Shea Whigam: were living there.
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Shea Whigam: So it had all this history for me with
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Shea Whigam: Shepherd.
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Marc Preston: It's funny you mentioned Michael Shannon.
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Marc Preston: I was speaking with Ariel Vroman, who
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Marc Preston: directed him in Iceman, and I was like how
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Marc Preston: did I miss this movie?
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Marc Preston: This is such a great movie.
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Marc Preston: And then In Waco, he's just such a great
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Marc Preston: chest.
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Marc Preston: I'll drink his Kool-Aid whatever he's in.
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Marc Preston: I'm going to go see it, without a doubt.
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Marc Preston: But but you man, I tell you, I got to tell
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Marc Preston: you that was just spot-on, man.
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Marc Preston: I, that Waco performance was just.
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Marc Preston: I thought that was such a great mini series.
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Shea Whigam: You know it was the doubt was John and Drew
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Shea Whigam: Dowell and Mike and I.
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Shea Whigam: You know Mike and I have such a history.
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Shea Whigam: We go back to my first film ever, tiger
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Shea Whigam: land.
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Shea Whigam: Mike did two scenes in it and so, um, I
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Shea Whigam: remember thinking, you know, it was all
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Shea Whigam: these young, young guys on on Tiger land.
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Shea Whigam: They were about to kind of pop and Mike and
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Shea Whigam: I we Early days, we're doing a ton of
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Shea Whigam: research, we're traveling or calling
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Shea Whigam: Ferrell's, driving for the first time In
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Shea Whigam: this state's a station wagon, mike and I
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Shea Whigam: find ourselves in the back of the state,
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Shea Whigam: very, very back of the station wagon.
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Shea Whigam: You know I'm drinking with him and talking
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Shea Whigam: about Chicago and, and that was the early,
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Shea Whigam: that was the embryonic stages of us, our
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Shea Whigam: careers, and then we've gone on to do about
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Shea Whigam: eight or nine things together.
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Shea Whigam: So when Waco popped up, you know Mike and I
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Shea Whigam: basically are like have guns, we'll travel,
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Shea Whigam: we'll do whatever.
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Shea Whigam: Whatever he's doing, I'll do, or vice versa.
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Marc Preston: You know that is very that is very cool and
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Marc Preston: Do you prefer that, or do you find it to be
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Marc Preston: That's a good question.
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Shea Whigam: Uh, I, I, yes, I think there is a an
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Shea Whigam: Some of us take litty, for instance.
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Marc Preston: When you were preparing for it, was it
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Marc Preston: litty to me always seemed like an imposing
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, I think I think litty's the ultimate
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Shea Whigam: Well, there's a myriad of things, but it
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Shea Whigam: test his will, a testament of will, and he
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Marc Preston: But isn't it ironic that Nixon also his own
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Shea Whigam: Oh yeah, I mean, it's the tapes that did
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Marc Preston: So we've gone back to when you were in
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Marc Preston: When did you say this is this thing I'm
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Shea Whigam: No, no, no, I don't think you can do that
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Marc Preston: Would you recommend kind of some people
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Marc Preston: I was doing that and got into acting and I
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Marc Preston: Here there are a book, gravid DVD, Uda
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Marc Preston: Hagen or whatever.
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Marc Preston: And do you, do you feel like it is best if,
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Marc Preston: if someone wants to act, if they want to
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Marc Preston: go into a program in college or more, or or
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Marc Preston: What do you think is probably best for
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Marc Preston: someone who wants to get into this?
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Shea Whigam: Well, I, I mean for me, I, I, I don't.
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Shea Whigam: To be honest, I don't know that there is
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Shea Whigam: You know what I mean For me, Marc.
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Shea Whigam: I enjoy the discovery and the research, the
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Shea Whigam: I love to find those in the difficulty the
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Shea Whigam: more difficult it is for me, the more
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Shea Whigam: enabled me to to come out and to start a
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Marc Preston: Putting this show together.
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Marc Preston: I was like I'm gonna kind of pick up on a
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Marc Preston: I was reminded just going to IMDB and this
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Marc Preston: kind of skim and he was like holy crap, I
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Marc Preston: forgot he, he did all this.
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Marc Preston: I've seen all these things.
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Marc Preston: most of the Fast and Furious movies.
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Marc Preston: The ninth one did you have any scenes with
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Marc Preston: Helen Mirren, by any chance?
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Marc Preston: Of Kurt Russell?
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Shea Whigam: No, no, my stuff on Fast was was mainly
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Shea Whigam: I had, we had just filmed right before that.
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Shea Whigam: And so my stuff was really with Paul.
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Shea Whigam: And then the last one, justin brought me
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Shea Whigam: back with Vin and they I just did one scene
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Shea Whigam: and it kind of was an honor, an honor of
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Marc Preston: Now.
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Marc Preston: Now going back to another you know real
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Marc Preston: life kind of deal, vice.
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Marc Preston: I just saw.
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Marc Preston: Don't look up Adam McKay and of course he
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Marc Preston: directed this.
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Marc Preston: I think he wrote it also.
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Marc Preston: What was that like?
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Marc Preston: Being on on on Vice was.
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Marc Preston: Now I'm curious about the Adam McKay.
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Marc Preston: What was that experience?
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Marc Preston: What's that like?
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, you know, matt, for me when I just
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Shea Whigam: for people, the actors that are listening
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Shea Whigam: for myself, it's all it.
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Shea Whigam: It it's about directors I've wanted.
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Shea Whigam: I've really kind of I told my the people
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Shea Whigam: you to the best material.
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Shea Whigam: And Adam McKay was at the top of my right,
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Shea Whigam: at the top of my list, and that's why, like
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Shea Whigam: Fast and Furious, you go.
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Shea Whigam: Well, why did you do that?
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Shea Whigam: Justin Lin, I'd seen Justin's early work.
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Shea Whigam: So when McKay approached me, that and that
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Shea Whigam: that was really that happened very quickly.
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Shea Whigam: I didn't have a lot of time to prepare for
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Shea Whigam: that.
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Shea Whigam: Mckay called me and said something had
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Shea Whigam: happened to an actor.
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Shea Whigam: And when I come on board and I was doing
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Shea Whigam: something else at the time, I think
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Shea Whigam: Boardwalk Empire and when I so they let me
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Shea Whigam: So he's not in, I'm not in much of it, but
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Shea Whigam: it was with Amy and with Christian Bale,
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Shea Whigam: who I've done, who I admire in no, in
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Marc Preston: Oh, he did it.
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Marc Preston: He knocked it out of the park, without a
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Marc Preston: But what's it like being director?
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Marc Preston: He definitely is.
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Marc Preston: Just, I think like don't look up.
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Marc Preston: I mean, it was such a I I loved it, I
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Marc Preston: thought it was a great movie.
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Marc Preston: But what was the experience like with him?
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Shea Whigam: The first word that comes to mind about
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Shea Whigam: He's literally the smartest guy, probably
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Shea Whigam: the smartest guy in every room he walks in.
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Shea Whigam: He loves actors.
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Shea Whigam: That's why you get Christian coming back
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Shea Whigam: time and time again with him.
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, I mean, he, he lets you run and then
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Shea Whigam: And if you're, if you're in it, he, he
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Shea Whigam: He, he really lets you run with it.
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Marc Preston: Kind of the Mount Rushmore people I'd love
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Marc Preston: to talk to, who I think are just incredibly
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Marc Preston: talented.
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Marc Preston: Sam Rockwell, I think just there's
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Marc Preston: something about that guy, just everything
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Marc Preston: he's in.
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Marc Preston: Who were you mostly connecting with and
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Marc Preston: scenes and vice?
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Marc Preston: Were you with Sam Rockwell?
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Marc Preston: Yeah, please pardon my memory.
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Marc Preston: My kids make fun of me all the time.
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Shea Whigam: That's okay, that's okay, I'm with me,
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Shea Whigam: adams and and and Christian.
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Shea Whigam: That's mainly.
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Shea Whigam: That was my stuff.
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Shea Whigam: Basically was just aiming so and I had done,
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Shea Whigam: I had done American hustle with Amy.
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Shea Whigam: So you know that was.
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Shea Whigam: That was fun going back in with her again,
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Shea Whigam: you know.
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Marc Preston: You talk about the directors, david or
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Marc Preston: Russell.
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Marc Preston: I mean you that and American American
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Marc Preston: hustle silver linings playbook, that's yeah,
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Marc Preston: I can kind of see that thread, now what
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Marc Preston: you're talking about.
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Shea Whigam: You know, man, I, when I got on Boardwalk
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Shea Whigam: Empire, that was the first time I'd worked
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Shea Whigam: with Scorsese, and so I go, scorsese was
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Shea Whigam: coming to the television for the first time
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Shea Whigam: and it was the boy.
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Shea Whigam: It was the guys from the sopranos, tim Van
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Shea Whigam: Patten and Terry winter.
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Shea Whigam: And Van Patten quickly became like my
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Shea Whigam: closest of the close friends and so when I
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Shea Whigam: got on that I was like I asked them.
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Shea Whigam: I said, if I get the opportunity while I'm
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Shea Whigam: doing the show to work with any of the
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Shea Whigam: greats Directing wise with you, will you
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Shea Whigam: allow that?
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Shea Whigam: And they said absolutely so.
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Shea Whigam: I went on a murderous row of directors
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Shea Whigam: While on Boardwalk Empire.
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Shea Whigam: I mean I went with Scorsese and then I did
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Shea Whigam: Wolf of Wall Street with Marty.
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Shea Whigam: Again I did Savages with Oliver Stone.
563
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Shea Whigam: I hit Terry Malick, verner Herzog and one
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Shea Whigam: of the boys and and and and and David O
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Shea Whigam: Russell twice During Boardwalk Empire.
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Shea Whigam: So Boardwalk was, you know, the Sun man and
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Shea Whigam: everything was, you know, kind of orbiting
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Shea Whigam: around that film.
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Shea Whigam: Wise.
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Sam Rockwell and American Buffalo (25 Seconds)
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Shea Whigam: But coming back real quick, I want to
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Shea Whigam: answer your question about Sam Rockwell.
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Shea Whigam: You're not wrong about Rockwell.
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Shea Whigam: He is in my age group.
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Shea Whigam: I always felt like it was.
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Shea Whigam: It was what Phil sweet Seymour Hoffman was
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Shea Whigam: doing Heath Ledger.
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Shea Whigam: At the time of his passing I think Colin
578
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Shea Whigam: Farrell was doing it.
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Shea Whigam: He's doing amazing stuff and Sam is someone
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Shea Whigam: that Sam and I go back and forth.
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Shea Whigam: Respect I have for him is through the roof.
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Shea Whigam: Matter of fact, I'm going to see his play
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Shea Whigam: next week in American American Buffalo in
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Shea Whigam: New York and coming back to gaslit what,
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Shea Whigam: how did that come together for you?
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Shea Whigam: You know, man, I, I was doing mission, I'm
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Shea Whigam: doing mission impossible seven, and I'm
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Shea Whigam: about to Eight, number eight.
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Shea Whigam: And so I'm sitting in London and they say
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Shea Whigam: Matt Ross, who directed Captain Fantastic,
591
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Shea Whigam: he's called want you to be a part of this.
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Shea Whigam: And I had done homecoming with Julia
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Shea Whigam: Roberts and Sam Esmael, that was the and so
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Shea Whigam: they, they knew my work.
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Shea Whigam: So when, when, when, when, matt Ross said,
596
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Shea Whigam: I want Shea, we're gonna play Liddy, julie
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Shea Whigam: and Esmael both went to bat for me.
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Shea Whigam: So that's how that came to be.
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Shea Whigam: And then conversations started.
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Shea Whigam: And so so, tom, so what I'm doing, mission
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Shea Whigam: impossible seven was taken, taking a long
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Shea Whigam: time, because during a pandemic, we were
603
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Shea Whigam: trying to figure out how do you, how do you
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Shea Whigam: do this thing at the same time.
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Shea Whigam: And so I went to to cruise, and, and
606
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Shea Whigam: Macquarie, and I said, listen, I have a
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Shea Whigam: chance to go play G chord and Liddy and
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Shea Whigam: thing, and, and they and I was still
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Shea Whigam: filming, and they go, you know what?
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Shea Whigam: We're gonna look, we're gonna figure out,
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Shea Whigam: we're gonna figure this out.
612
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Shea Whigam: So cruise was kind enough to Get me out in
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Shea Whigam: order to have the time for the research to
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Shea Whigam: do Liddy.
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Shea Whigam: So that's how it came out.
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Marc Preston: Okay.
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Marc Preston: So he structured the shooting to kind of
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Marc Preston: get you all locked, locked in and all your
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Marc Preston: shit scenes are done before you Headed off
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Marc Preston: to do gaslet, or you went and did gaslet
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Marc Preston: and came back.
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Shea Whigam: No, no, I went gas, I did gaslet and I owed,
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Shea Whigam: like I owed, a couple of out, a couple of
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Shea Whigam: scenes from I'm doing in gaslet.
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Shea Whigam: You'll see, once we start the in episode
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Shea Whigam: two we start where they were in the Howard
627
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Shea Whigam: Johnson's and we start the whole bungling
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Shea Whigam: of the burglary.
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Shea Whigam: And so I had to do that jump on it's an
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Shea Whigam: embarrassment of riches for an actor
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Shea Whigam: because I had to do that shoot for about 12
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Shea Whigam: hours, go to LAX, jump on a plane Flight of
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Shea Whigam: Birmingham, england, and then we shot the
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Shea Whigam: rest of Mission seven for me and they came
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Shea Whigam: back immediately to the airport and
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Shea Whigam: finished up gaslet.
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Marc Preston: It's tremendous amount of fun.
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Marc Preston: You're talking about how you got gaslet.
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Marc Preston: Julie Roberts, being said, went to bat for
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Marc Preston: you.
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Marc Preston: How does it feel when that kind of when
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Marc Preston: your career evolved to the point where
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Marc Preston: you're not auditioning nearly as much
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Marc Preston: you're actually having people say, yeah, we
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Marc Preston: want Shea to be in this thing it's?
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Marc Preston: How did that feel and that start
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Marc Preston: transitioning?
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Marc Preston: Was it an awkward kind of a feeling or did
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Marc Preston: it feel kind of like a natural progression
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Marc Preston: for you?
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Shea Whigam: It's, it's not awkward, it's, it's an, it's
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Shea Whigam: a nice feeling, let's put it that way.
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Shea Whigam: It's nice that people I've seen oh that's
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Shea Whigam: why I, like mission seven came about,
655
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Shea Whigam: macquarie, had seen homecoming and what I'd
656
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Shea Whigam: done in that, and then there was a mutual
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Shea Whigam: respect between the two of us and he said
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Shea Whigam: you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna write
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Shea Whigam: something for you in the next mission
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Shea Whigam: impossible.
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Shea Whigam: That's January of like 2018, and so the
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Shea Whigam: whole calendar year goes by of 2018 and I'm
663
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Shea Whigam: like this is never gonna.
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Shea Whigam: I, you know, this happened, I'm sure.
665
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Shea Whigam: And December I get a call from a text from
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Shea Whigam: a quarry and it's from like a 4-4 number
667
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Shea Whigam: plus 4-4 and said is this still you, mchugh
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Shea Whigam: and I?
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Shea Whigam: So it was like that.
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Shea Whigam: It was like at a mission impossible, I go,
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Shea Whigam: he goes.
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Shea Whigam: I'm calling from a UK number.
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Shea Whigam: Pick up.
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Shea Whigam: When I do so, I go.
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Shea Whigam: I didn't, I didn't know what it was about.
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Shea Whigam: So I'm here at the house and I in, he, he
677
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Shea Whigam: calls me and he goes how would you like to
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Shea Whigam: come?
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Shea Whigam: Before I do that, Shea, I've got someone
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Shea Whigam: else on the line.
681
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Shea Whigam: How about you want to meet?
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Shea Whigam: This is Tom Cruise on the line.
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Shea Whigam: So it's a three-way call and they say how
684
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Shea Whigam: would you like to be part of the mission,
685
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Shea Whigam: family and and you know, for me it was as
686
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Shea Whigam: good as it gets.
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Shea Whigam: So the homecoming got that home, you know.
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Shea Whigam: You know, boardwalk got a lot of these
689
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Shea Whigam: things for me and it's, it's a testament,
690
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Shea Whigam: like for anyone that that's out there that
691
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Shea Whigam: wants to be an actor, that it.
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Shea Whigam: It's about the work, work, begets, work.
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Shea Whigam: I think you know, because I'm a guy man, I
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Shea Whigam: don't do any social media.
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Shea Whigam: I don't.
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Shea Whigam: I've never been on Facebook, I've never
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Shea Whigam: Tweeted in my life, I've never.
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Shea Whigam: So it's about the work for me, trying to
699
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Shea Whigam: just put together characters.
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Shea Whigam: Man.
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Marc Preston: That's.
702
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Marc Preston: You know, that's such a funny thing because
703
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Marc Preston: I I'm very much the same way.
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Marc Preston: I was discussing it with my kids.
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Marc Preston: I said if my gig was not somewhat dependent
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Marc Preston: upon Social media I wouldn't even mess with
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Marc Preston: it, to be honest with you.
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Marc Preston: But but there's a younger generation that
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Marc Preston: you know, having hundreds of thousands or a
710
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Marc Preston: million or two followers Could potentially
711
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Marc Preston: impact the career.
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Marc Preston: I do have to say one movie that I've saw.
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Marc Preston: I only saw about half of it, but that to
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Marc Preston: the stars again, with JD Evermore in there
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Marc Preston: that was.
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Marc Preston: That was one of those movies that was
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Marc Preston: sitting in the DVR and whatever came up
718
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Marc Preston: came up and you know, having kids, things
719
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Marc Preston: happen like, oh shit, I saw him watch that
720
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Marc Preston: movie yet but where did you, where did you
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Marc Preston: all shoot that film?
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Shea Whigam: We were in Enid Enid, oklahoma and I
723
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Shea Whigam: remember you know I'll get from time to
724
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Shea Whigam: time I'll get young filmmakers, you know
725
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Shea Whigam: asked me to come do a couple of scenes in
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Shea Whigam: an independent.
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Shea Whigam: They have no money, it's in the middle of
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Shea Whigam: nowhere and I remember Martha, she
729
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Shea Whigam: approached me and I I just I loved her
730
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Shea Whigam: spirit and the producers on it and so I
731
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Shea Whigam: flew and did a couple of scenes.
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Shea Whigam: I think it's a beautiful film.
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Shea Whigam: I think it was.
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Marc Preston: It was one of those things like I remember
735
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Marc Preston: watching going.
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Marc Preston: I need to save it, I need to come back and
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Marc Preston: watch it.
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Marc Preston: But you know, in the world and doing what
739
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Marc Preston: I'm doing here and I'm also acting and
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Marc Preston: doing voiceover it's it's like watching and
741
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Marc Preston: consuming is such a small part of my day.
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Marc Preston: It seems like I have to start building a
743
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Marc Preston: hierarchy of things.
744
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Marc Preston: I definitely want to watch this.
745
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Marc Preston: Why gaslit will be my binge this weekend.
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Acting, Filmmaking, Collaborating With Seth MacFarlane (64 Seconds)
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Marc Preston: Your folks obviously they weren't in the
747
,812 --> 00:28:52,578
Marc Preston: business, of course, but your family is
748
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Marc Preston: anybody else in acting or do you have any
749
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Marc Preston: kids?
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, my, yeah, my, my.
751
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Shea Whigam: One son of mine wants to be a filmmaker and
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Shea Whigam: my daughter is she's.
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Shea Whigam: She's doing very well, she, she's an act,
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Shea Whigam: she wants to be an actress and I'm letting
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Shea Whigam: her that be her experience and letting her
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Shea Whigam: you know I very much believe in that and
757
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Shea Whigam: she's about to start something really cool
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Shea Whigam: with Seth MacFarlane next.
759
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Shea Whigam: So who does fun?
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Marc Preston: It has to be fun.
761
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, yeah, he's a genius, that guy.
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Marc Preston: So yeah, so funny.
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Marc Preston: It was just talking to Neil deGrasse Tyson
764
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Marc Preston: a little while back and they were talking
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Marc Preston: about Cosmos and he said he just happened
766
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Marc Preston: to bump into bump into him and he was like
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Marc Preston: hey, you know, I got a little extra money
768
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Marc Preston: sitting around.
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Marc Preston: You want to do something with Cosmos by
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Marc Preston: chance?
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Marc Preston: You know, it seems like Seth MacFarlane
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Marc Preston: just be kind of a cool guy to collaborate
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Marc Preston: with.
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Shea Whigam: He's pretty smart, huh.
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Marc Preston: Oh, indeed, indeed.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, so you have those two kids, you say.
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Shea Whigam: No, no, I have four kids, I got four kids.
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Shea Whigam: Oh, four, okay, yeah.
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Marc Preston: I got, are they?
780
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Marc Preston: Are they kind of off on the road now, or
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Marc Preston: are they still?
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Shea Whigam: They're here, man.
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Shea Whigam: I, we, you know, we've got our hands full.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I'm.
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Marc Preston: I'm at that point where I got.
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Marc Preston: I got a 19 year old who's just coming back
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Marc Preston: home from college and one who's starting
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Marc Preston: college next year, and I got one who's
789
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Marc Preston: going to wrap up in a couple of high school
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Marc Preston: in a couple of years and going oh my God, I
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Marc Preston: need to busy myself because this is going
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Marc Preston: to be rough when they leave.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, so the now, as far as what you're
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Marc Preston: working on right now, what do you have now?
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Marc Preston: Gaslets in the in the can and it's been
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Marc Preston: aired.
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Marc Preston: What else do you have coming up in the pipe?
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Shea Whigam: Well, I'm, I'm doing Perry Mason second
799
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Shea Whigam: season for HBO and I leave for mission
800
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Shea Whigam: impossible eight in Europe in about in a
801
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Shea Whigam: couple of weeks.
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Shea Whigam: So you know we'll.
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Shea Whigam: We'll get back then there with Tom and
804
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Shea Whigam: Macquarie and that gang and I love, I love
805
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Shea Whigam: doing that.
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Shea Whigam: It's amazing.
807
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Shea Whigam: I mean those two guys are like, they're
808
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Shea Whigam: cinephiles, they love cinema and that's
809
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Shea Whigam: been a great experience for me.
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Marc Preston: Hey, it's not half bad.
811
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Marc Preston: Going to Europe and you know, running
812
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Marc Preston: around and what I imagine would be like.
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Marc Preston: When I was a kid I always wanted to.
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Marc Preston: If I said, if I act, I want to be in a
815
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Marc Preston: James Bond movie because it seems like to
816
,663 --> 00:31:11,689
Marc Preston: get to go to fun locations and do cool
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Marc Preston: things.
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Marc Preston: That does your, does your family come along
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Marc Preston: with you, or is it just kind of your, your
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Marc Preston: solo, knocking out the gig?
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Shea Whigam: You know, man, usually I'm, I'm, pretty,
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Shea Whigam: pretty much I'm, I'm, I'm in deep with what
823
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Shea Whigam: I'm doing, to character wise.
824
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Shea Whigam: But and they didn't on, on, on, on mission
825
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Shea Whigam: because of the pandemic, that that that
826
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Shea Whigam: changed a lot, that changed a lot of things.
827
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Shea Whigam: But you know, when I go over there to do
828
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Shea Whigam: eight, I may, I may, have my daughter
829
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Shea Whigam: Georgia and my son Marlon.
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Marc Preston: they may come over and you know, see,
831
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Marc Preston: Having a daughter deciding to go into
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Marc Preston: acting.
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Marc Preston: You've seen all the cautionary tales.
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Marc Preston: Was there?
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Marc Preston: What was a piece of advice you gave her to
836
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Marc Preston: hopefully get her onto a right track?
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Shea Whigam: Do the work.
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Shea Whigam: Do the work.
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Shea Whigam: You know, and you know, acting has an
840
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Shea Whigam: amazing litmus test.
841
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Shea Whigam: I shall that if, if you really want to do
842
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Shea Whigam: it, you'll.
843
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Shea Whigam: You'll know, because the down times are are
844
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Shea Whigam: you wouldn't work, you wouldn't wish them
845
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Shea Whigam: on your worst enemy.
846
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Shea Whigam: They're, they're that difficult.
847
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Shea Whigam: But if you can survive, that that's where
848
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Shea Whigam: your stories are told, during the difficult
849
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Shea Whigam: periods.
850
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Shea Whigam: You know what I mean.
851
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Shea Whigam: The old adage oh it's who you know.
852
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Shea Whigam: That's not true.
853
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Shea Whigam: You can't.
854
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Shea Whigam: You can't just give somebody a gig.
855
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Shea Whigam: Nobody's going to do that.
856
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Shea Whigam: I can't go to Martin Scorsese and say give
857
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Shea Whigam: my daughter a gig, you can't do it.
858
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Shea Whigam: You know what I mean.
859
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Shea Whigam: You.
860
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Shea Whigam: You have to hone your craft and and and
861
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Shea Whigam: love what you do.
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Shea Whigam: I I think, otherwise you won't stay in the
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Shea Whigam: business.
864
,235 --> 00:32:46,918
Shea Whigam: You just won't do it.
865
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Shea Whigam: It's too difficult, you know.
866
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Marc Preston: The people that I know that have succeeded.
867
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Marc Preston: I think that I think earning a living doing
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Marc Preston: it and doing well all seem to really enjoy
869
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Marc Preston: it and cannot imagine doing anything else.
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Marc Preston: It's just, it's just.
871
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Marc Preston: There's no way they would be doing anything
872
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Marc Preston: else.
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Marc Preston: Um, is there anything that's on the?
874
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Marc Preston: Uh, I don't call it a bucket list, but
875
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Marc Preston: something.
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Marc Preston: Be it director, director or directors, you
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Marc Preston: want to work with any actors, any type of
878
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Marc Preston: project that you hope come down the pike
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Marc Preston: sometime soon or sometime within your
880
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Marc Preston: career.
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Shea Whigam: Yeah, you know who I would love to work
882
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Shea Whigam: with is James Mangold.
883
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Shea Whigam: I love Mangold's work every time out, and
884
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Shea Whigam: that's from Copland all the way to Ford
885
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Shea Whigam: versus Ferrari.
886
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Shea Whigam: I love and I'm very I'm looking forward.
887
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Shea Whigam: Boyd Holbrook is a friend of mine and he's
888
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Shea Whigam: doing the new um, indiana Jones, and I love
889
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Shea Whigam: Mangold's work, you know.
890
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Shea Whigam: So, yeah, I'd love to work with him.
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Shea Whigam: Um, I'm trying to place your character in.
892
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Marc Preston: Sicario, and I don't know why I'm having a
893
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Marc Preston: difficult time doing that.
894
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Marc Preston: Oh, that's okay.
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Announcer: But were you?
896
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Marc Preston: uh, had, did you have a chance to spend
897
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Marc Preston: time with Josh Brolin, or?
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Marc Preston: Uh, I know, I know Josh a little bit.
899
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Shea Whigam: I know Benicio Del Toro.
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Shea Whigam: He's a.
901
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Shea Whigam: He's a dear friend of mine.
902
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Shea Whigam: I know I love Josh, uh, my, yeah, um, you
903
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Shea Whigam: know.
904
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Shea Whigam: Again, that's just a world that I wanted to
905
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Shea Whigam: explore.
906
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Shea Whigam: When they had a world that I wanted to
907
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Shea Whigam: explore, when they asked me to come in and
908
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Shea Whigam: do that, I, I, uh, I jumped at the chance.
909
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Shea Whigam: I had done, um, uh, I had done, uh, what
910
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Shea Whigam: did I do with Benicio?
911
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Shea Whigam: I'd done something else with Benicio and I
912
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Shea Whigam: knew him through the years and I I think
913
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Shea Whigam: he's one of our best right there with you
914
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Shea Whigam: know all the names that I named Christian
915
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Shea Whigam: and um, bale, and and then Sam Rockwell and
916
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Shea Whigam: all those guys.
917
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Shea Whigam: So I think you know what he, what he's
918
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Shea Whigam: doing, is incredible.
919
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Marc Preston: So you live in LA, uh, proper, or are you
920
,548 --> 00:34:42,791
Marc Preston: split your time going to live in anywhere
921
,851 --> 00:34:43,401
Marc Preston: else, or?
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Shea Whigam: no, I live here now.
923
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Shea Whigam: I live here.
924
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Shea Whigam: Um, you know, try to get to New York as
925
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Shea Whigam: much as I'm going to go, Like I said, next
926
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Shea Whigam: week to see Rockwell's play in this B
927
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Shea Whigam: Macbeth, uh, Daniel Craig and Macbeth, and
928
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Shea Whigam: uh, one of the things I do, uh, boy, wrap
929
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Shea Whigam: up with everybody.
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Marc Preston: I got seven questions I like to ask.
931
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Marc Preston: It's just pure fun, just a little bit of
932
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Marc Preston: get to know you.
933
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Marc Preston: Uh, first question out of the gate Is what
934
,163 --> 00:35:06,769
Marc Preston: is your favorite comfort food?
935
,980 --> 00:35:09,449
Marc Preston: That thing that uh kind of brings you back.
936
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Marc Preston: It may not be the healthiest thing, but
937
,725 --> 00:35:13,163
Marc Preston: something to do you just love uh, I would
938
,203 --> 00:35:17,451
Marc Preston: say uh, a great spaghetti bolognese is my
939
,551 --> 00:35:18,953
Marc Preston: favorite favorite meal.
940
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Shea Whigam: If I'm.
941
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Shea Whigam: If I got a death row death row meal, I'm
942
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Shea Whigam: going spaghetti, but he's in a napicab.
943
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Marc Preston: Next question is if you're going to sit
944
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Marc Preston: down and have coffee uh, three people
945
,499 --> 00:35:30,041
Marc Preston: living or not.
946
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Marc Preston: You know who would you like to sit down to
947
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Marc Preston: talk story with for a few hours?
948
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Marc Preston: Three people, oh man.
949
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Shea Whigam: Uh, this, uh, I would say I would take the.
950
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Shea Whigam: You know what?
951
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Shea Whigam: I'm going to say this.
952
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Shea Whigam: I'm going to say, uh, percy Shelley, who
953
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Shea Whigam: was my favorite poet, um, I would say, uh,
954
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Shea Whigam: I would say Brando, and I would like to sit
955
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Shea Whigam: with.
956
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Shea Whigam: Um, I'd like to sit with Merrill Streep,
957
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Shea Whigam: I'd love to sit with her.
958
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Shea Whigam: Actually, let me change that maybe to
959
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Shea Whigam: Cassel, because when she was dating Cassel,
960
,780 --> 00:36:15,644
Shea Whigam: that's what I spoke to the narrow quite a
961
,685 --> 00:36:18,176
Shea Whigam: bit about on Silver Lines playbook, you
962
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Shea Whigam: know.
963
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Shea Whigam: But anyway, sorry, I digress.
964
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Marc Preston: No, no, no, no.
965
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Marc Preston: I love it.
966
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Marc Preston: I love it.
967
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Marc Preston: Now.
968
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Marc Preston: Next question is when you were a kid, who
969
Seven Questions
,923 --> 00:36:27,650
Marc Preston: is your celebrity crush when you were a
970
,691 --> 00:36:28,132
Marc Preston: young man?
971
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Shea Whigam: Oh, I would say Very false it in her one
972
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Shea Whigam: piece.
973
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Marc Preston: I had a poster of her in my Posters come up
974
,579 --> 00:36:39,623
Marc Preston: a few times in this show.
975
,956 --> 00:36:43,424
Marc Preston: Now next question if you okay, one year on
976
,464 --> 00:36:44,977
Marc Preston: an exotic island, it's actually a nice
977
,017 --> 00:36:45,338
Marc Preston: getaway.
978
,639 --> 00:36:47,985
Marc Preston: You just don't have streaming or your cell
979
,005 --> 00:36:48,607
Marc Preston: phone or anything.
980
,655 --> 00:36:51,362
Marc Preston: You got one DVD available to you, one album.
981
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Marc Preston: What are you bringing with you to the
982
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Marc Preston: island?
983
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Shea Whigam: I'm bringing, I'm bringing the book.
984
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Shea Whigam: I am bringing Maybe I'll bring a couple of
985
,879 --> 00:37:05,543
Shea Whigam: Don Winslow books with me.
986
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Shea Whigam: The force and I'm bringing, I'm bringing
987
,461 --> 00:37:18,398
Shea Whigam: the Vana Nirvana's early work.
988
,516 --> 00:37:21,901
Shea Whigam: You know, very good, very good, bring me
989
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Shea Whigam: bring me back to college right there.
990
,645 --> 00:37:25,898
Marc Preston: Yeah, now next question If you have a, from
991
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Marc Preston: time you wake up, time you go to sleep,
992
,915 --> 00:37:28,657
Marc Preston: perfect day.
993
,958 --> 00:37:29,279
Announcer: What are the?
994
,299 --> 00:37:30,101
Marc Preston: component parts.
995
,301 --> 00:37:32,827
Marc Preston: I'd be perfect, well executed day for you.
996
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Shea Whigam: Oh, I'm starting with a.
997
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Shea Whigam: I'm starting with a beautiful cup of coffee,
998
,625 --> 00:37:42,681
Shea Whigam: taking the kids to school Because the
999
,722 --> 00:37:44,015
Shea Whigam: stress doesn't kicked in yet.
Speaker:1000
,463 --> 00:37:49,288
Shea Whigam: I'm going over to the guy that I work
Speaker:1001
,235 --> 00:37:52,280
Shea Whigam: Everything with, a guy named Tom Draper,
Speaker:1002
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Shea Whigam: who I put everything, we break everything
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Shea Whigam: open.
Speaker:1004
,096 --> 00:37:57,199
Shea Whigam: We call it the lab.
Speaker:1005
,519 --> 00:38:01,007
Shea Whigam: We go over there and break all of stuff and
Speaker:1006
,068 --> 00:38:06,342
Shea Whigam: then you know I'm Maybe the wife's cooking
Speaker:1007
,603 --> 00:38:09,814
Shea Whigam: and I got a nice big nap, a cab, to end the
Speaker:1008
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Shea Whigam: day.
Speaker:1009
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Marc Preston: You know I need you to whole foods and pick
Speaker:1010
,703 --> 00:38:14,164
Marc Preston: one up tonight.
Speaker:1011
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Marc Preston: Now you got me you got me thirsty.
Speaker:1012
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Marc Preston: Now last couple questions, real quick.
Speaker:1013
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Marc Preston: Yeah, if you were not doing this, what
Speaker:1014
,382 --> 00:38:24,046
Marc Preston: would you derive joy from doing?
Speaker:1015
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Marc Preston: Career wise.
Speaker:1016
,016 --> 00:38:30,637
Shea Whigam: You know, I probably would just be, I'd
Speaker:1017
,677 --> 00:38:35,898
Shea Whigam: probably be in a small town, you know,
Speaker:1018
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Shea Whigam: maybe pumping gas somewhere, just something
Speaker:1019
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Shea Whigam: simple, so I could meet, you know, be, talk
Speaker:1020
,907 --> 00:38:48,399
Shea Whigam: to people and just have stories.
Speaker:1021
,479 --> 00:38:50,105
Shea Whigam: I think that's a lost our field.
Speaker:1022
,536 --> 00:38:52,981
Marc Preston: Kind of kind of its own version of living
Speaker:1023
,022 --> 00:38:55,563
Marc Preston: in the moment you know they're in Texas
Speaker:1024
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Marc Preston: somewhere.
Speaker:1025
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Marc Preston: Yeah, dallas.
Speaker:1026
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Marc Preston: Now I do have family long view, though, and
Speaker:1027
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Marc Preston: I'm not being a Tyler.
Speaker:1028
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Marc Preston: You probably wanted a bodacious barbecue
Speaker:1029
,010 --> 00:39:02,215
Marc Preston: once or twice out that way.
Speaker:1030
,439 --> 00:39:05,366
Marc Preston: The last question if you could jump into a
Speaker:1031
,406 --> 00:39:08,055
Marc Preston: DeLorean cruise back, you're 16 years old.
Speaker:1032
,255 --> 00:39:09,559
Marc Preston: You got a piece of advice You're gonna give
Speaker:1033
,579 --> 00:39:11,745
Marc Preston: your 16 year old self, either to kind of
Speaker:1034
,765 --> 00:39:13,838
Marc Preston: get you on a Little bit better track or
Speaker:1035
,898 --> 00:39:15,422
Marc Preston: bring a little bit more joy to your life,
Speaker:1036
,482 --> 00:39:15,823
Marc Preston: or whatever.
Speaker:1037
,863 --> 00:39:16,124
Marc Preston: Have you?
Speaker:1038
,324 --> 00:39:17,868
Marc Preston: What would that piece of advice be?
Speaker:1039
,476 --> 00:39:24,047
Shea Whigam: Don't think just because something is
Speaker:1040
,555 --> 00:39:29,460
Shea Whigam: difficult and arduous, that it's not gonna
Speaker:1041
,480 --> 00:39:30,041
Shea Whigam: be fun.
Speaker:1042
,305 --> 00:39:34,157
Shea Whigam: You know what I mean, and I Remember Daniel
Speaker:1043
,197 --> 00:39:34,838
Shea Whigam: Day-Lewis.
Speaker:1044
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Shea Whigam: One of the quotes, one of the many quotes
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Shea Whigam: that I have, is he's there.
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Shea Whigam: Someone said do you have?
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Shea Whigam: You don't have any fun.
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Shea Whigam: You don't seem like he goes, never mistake,
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Shea Whigam: he goes.
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Shea Whigam: Just because it appears to be difficult
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Shea Whigam: doesn't mean I'm not having fun On the
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Shea Whigam: floor in the set.
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Shea Whigam: You know what I mean in characters.
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Shea Whigam: So I, I that's what I would say.
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Shea Whigam: I think anything worth is gonna be, it's
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Shea Whigam: gonna be tough, it's gonna be, you know.
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Shea Whigam: So I yeah.
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Marc Preston: Well, thank you very much, best of luck to
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Marc Preston: you, and hopefully I'll have a chance to
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Marc Preston: catch up down the line, and I certainly
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Marc Preston: appreciate your time, my friend.
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Shea Whigam: Listen.
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Shea Whigam: Thank you for doing this.
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Marc Preston: All right, there you go, Shea Whigham.
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Marc Preston: What a talented guy.
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Marc Preston: Very interesting.
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Marc Preston: I mean, as I said at the beginning, and as
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Marc Preston: I told him, everything he shows up in he
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Marc Preston: just knocks it out of the park.
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Marc Preston: Definitely worth checking out gas lit,
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Marc Preston: where he plays G Gordon Liddy.
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Marc Preston: This past weekend I binge the entire mini
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Marc Preston: series, really enjoyed it, and you can as
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Marc Preston: well just pop over to stars and Check out
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Marc Preston: Thanks to Shea for being on the program and
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Shea Whigham
Actor
With a box office of almost $5 billion, Shea Whigham has proven himself to be one of the most talented actors of his generation, having worked with legendary film directors such as Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Werner Herzog, Oliver Stone, David O'Russell and Robert Rodriguez, as well as Hollywood's next generation of auteur filmmakers including Adam Wingard, Damien Chazelle and Jeff Nichols.
Whigham is currently in production simultaneously on Christopher McQuarrie’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 8 and season two of HBO’s PERRY MASON.
He will next be seen in Starz’s upcoming GASLIT reteaming with Julia Roberts and Sean Penn. The limited series, based on the Apple Podcast Slow Burn, follows the untold stories surrounding the Watergate scandal and the political demise of Richard Nixon and his subordinates. Whigham plays the ruthless and larger-than-life G. Gordon Liddy, the leader of Nixon’s bumbling White House Plumbers. GASLIT will premiere on Starz on April 24th.
Later this year, Whigham will again be seen as Pete Strickland in HBO’s Emmy nominated adaptation of PERRY MASON with Matthew Rhys taking on the role of the titular defense attorney. Currently in production, the show marked Whigham’s return to HBO after a memorable run on the much-lauded critically acclaimed series BOARDWALK EMPIRE for which he won a SAG Award for his role as Eli Thompson. In 2018, he earned rave reviews for his work opposite Julia Roberts and Bobby Cannavale in the Amazon series, HOMECOMING. He was nominated for a Critics’ Choice Award in the category of Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance. The show follows a caseworker (Roberts) who works at a facility called Homecoming, which helps soldiers’ transition back to civilian life.
On the small screen, Whigham has also been seen in Amazon’s MODERN LOVE, Bravo’s DIRTY JOHN opposite Connie Britton and Eric Bana and the Paramount TV mini-series WACO opposite Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch. Other notable television credits include HBO's VICE PRINCIPALS, FX’s FARGO Season 3, Cary Fukunaga's TRUE DETECTIVE, Marvel's AGENT CARTER, Graham Yost's FX drama JUSTIFIED and Netflix's NARCOS.
Upcoming, Whigham joins Tom Cruise in a secret roll in both MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 7 and 8, to be released in July 2023 and June 2024 respectively.