Hank Azaria
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Podcast Appearances
Yes, Hari, yeah.
Yes, Hari, yeah.
I might be a unicorn.
I might be a unicorn.
I might be a unicorn.
Programmatically. By the time that happened... any crisis in my life, you... Respond is the right word. Because in your life as an addict and as a codependent person, there's a lot of reacting. A lot of reacting. And some of the reacting can kill you. Like drinking yourself to death or whatever. So I had to... Anybody in recovery... has to learn to respond.
Programmatically. By the time that happened... any crisis in my life, you... Respond is the right word. Because in your life as an addict and as a codependent person, there's a lot of reacting. A lot of reacting. And some of the reacting can kill you. Like drinking yourself to death or whatever. So I had to... Anybody in recovery... has to learn to respond.
Programmatically. By the time that happened... any crisis in my life, you... Respond is the right word. Because in your life as an addict and as a codependent person, there's a lot of reacting. A lot of reacting. And some of the reacting can kill you. Like drinking yourself to death or whatever. So I had to... Anybody in recovery... has to learn to respond.
And that requires, you know, feeling your feelings, taking the pause, as they say in AA, learning that when you're kind of most upset is probably the, the biggest cue to shush, um, privately and publicly share with folks you trust, how you're feeling, what you're going through. Um, so that's how I approach that. And, uh,
And that requires, you know, feeling your feelings, taking the pause, as they say in AA, learning that when you're kind of most upset is probably the, the biggest cue to shush, um, privately and publicly share with folks you trust, how you're feeling, what you're going through. Um, so that's how I approach that. And, uh,
And that requires, you know, feeling your feelings, taking the pause, as they say in AA, learning that when you're kind of most upset is probably the, the biggest cue to shush, um, privately and publicly share with folks you trust, how you're feeling, what you're going through. Um, so that's how I approach that. And, uh,
What that boiled down to, what Harry presented to me was essentially, do I keep doing that voice or not? That was the dilemma. That's what it boiled down to.
What that boiled down to, what Harry presented to me was essentially, do I keep doing that voice or not? That was the dilemma. That's what it boiled down to.
What that boiled down to, what Harry presented to me was essentially, do I keep doing that voice or not? That was the dilemma. That's what it boiled down to.
In order to answer that question, do I keep doing this voice or not, required a deep dive. It wasn't like, well, let me take a week and look into this. It was probably two or three years, because we all just froze at The Simpsons. We had no idea what to do. The character just stopped saying anything. And it became a deep dive into, well, is this racist?
In order to answer that question, do I keep doing this voice or not, required a deep dive. It wasn't like, well, let me take a week and look into this. It was probably two or three years, because we all just froze at The Simpsons. We had no idea what to do. The character just stopped saying anything. And it became a deep dive into, well, is this racist?
In order to answer that question, do I keep doing this voice or not, required a deep dive. It wasn't like, well, let me take a week and look into this. It was probably two or three years, because we all just froze at The Simpsons. We had no idea what to do. The character just stopped saying anything. And it became a deep dive into, well, is this racist?
Does Hollywood have a tradition of doing this in one way or another? Am I part of that? The aforementioned Peter Sellers, you know, that voice was based on a Peter Sellers performance from a movie called The Party in the mid-60s, where he played an Indian guy named Harundi V. Bakshi in Brownface.
Does Hollywood have a tradition of doing this in one way or another? Am I part of that? The aforementioned Peter Sellers, you know, that voice was based on a Peter Sellers performance from a movie called The Party in the mid-60s, where he played an Indian guy named Harundi V. Bakshi in Brownface.
Does Hollywood have a tradition of doing this in one way or another? Am I part of that? The aforementioned Peter Sellers, you know, that voice was based on a Peter Sellers performance from a movie called The Party in the mid-60s, where he played an Indian guy named Harundi V. Bakshi in Brownface.