Josh Peck
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430 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Josh Peck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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dip a toe in and do a part that I'm really excited about and working with people that I'm excited about and then also not have to chase things I'm not excited about and get to be here midday on a Friday or go hit up Nick Antonian and be like let's put together our dumbest ideas today and shoot and we have something finished in a day as opposed to in 18 months and then it didn't quite come together and you're watching it and you're like why did they pick that take and
I look bloated and I hate this, you know?
Oh, man. Um... I've never, I don't have one. I don't think. He's still trying to work with all of them.
I mean, you know, and I also don't like, I used to do that thing where, and you guys tell me if you do this, where I'd be like, I really got to show up. I got to prove myself so that they invite me back.
Right. My life was in the, I just want to keep getting invited. Yeah. Instead of, I'm going to treat this like this is the last time I'm ever going to get to do it and be present and enjoy it. So like.
It's hard.
I just, I try to be present. I try to really enjoy it. And I try to... I got to have this great small part in Oppenheimer in the Christopher Nolan movie. Crazy. So good. Such an honor and incredible to be a part of. And then, of course, I stayed friendly with one or two of the people in the cast. So we're joking around when he's getting his next movie that's shooting right now in the works.
And they're like, yo, bro. Because, you know, Nolan likes to work with some of the same people. And I'm like... And actually, one of my buddies is actually there right now doing another kind of small part. And it's amazing. But I'm like, I did it. Like, if he invited me back, oh, my God. A dream. Would be amazing. I would hopefully have a few more lines. But whatever, whatever. No judgment.
But, like, just be happy to be there. But, like... I did it. I had my moment. I got to be on that set for two months. I got to work with the master. I got to like I really I'm so glad I was present so that I can sit there and, you know, joke with my boys, but not feel like jealous at my friends. They're shooting or, you know, just be be at peace with the opportunity that I got.
The really long, long story short is there was six years of buildup to that, right? Which was... It was six years of buildup in that I looked at my life, my work at 30 or maybe 29 years old, and I was like, I need to go back to class. I need to work on this thing that I love, that I've been doing my whole life, because I probably have bad habits. Wow.
And if I had to best define it, I felt inconsistent. Like if the material was perfect and very like me and I like, and the director was cool and there was enough time, like, yeah, there would be moments where I'd be like, oh, I love this. But then there would just be times where I'd be like... That just didn't hit the mark.
I would say that ability to be the character. Like I felt like things had to be close to me for me to do well.
Yeah, I would say, like, I was comfortable, like, playing, like, one of my favorite, I did this movie, The Whackness, years ago, where I played, and it was with Ben Kingsley, and it was, like, this amazing moment, and went to Sundance, and it was this thing I was so proud of, but I was playing, like, a hip-hop, a pot-smoking hip-hop head in the 90s from New York.
I'm like, at 20 years old, I was uniquely ready for that. I got this.
Totally. But then all the actors I look up to, they are these chameleons, man. And I'm like, how are you doing this? How can you play a guy in this movie and then do a total 180? And so I spent six years in class just getting crushed.
Crushed.
It was... I had this dirty little secret I was carrying around that I was lucky enough to have a really nice amount of rare success in this business up until that point. But I felt like I'd never done the work. Like the great plays that you hear about in conservatories and just like... I didn't feel like I had that strong foundation.
I knew I could fake it, but I wasn't quite sure that if I was put to the task, if I had like all the tools that the people I looked up to seemed to have. So I went to this teacher who, her name is Sharon Chatton. What's going on? I'm so sorry. This is my spirit animal right here.
I'm going to be honest. I lied to your wife when I first got here because when you opened the door and you were like, come on in, and I saw the animals, I ran to my car. I said I had to get my phone. That's her tech.
Can we get rid of them? I'm going to be fine.
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