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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Dude, I did a show. Tommy, Tommy, move, bro. No, Tommy's great. I did a show called Turner and Hooch on Disney+. It was like the movie. It was a Tom Hanks movie from the 80s about a hard-charging detective and his crime-fighting dog. And this was 150 pounds. Don't worry, it's canceled. This was a 150-pound French dog du bardo, right? A French mastiff.
And I remember when I had my first meeting for the part, they were like, you're not allergic to dogs, are you? And I was like, me?
because that's what you learn in my first days of acting i'm 10 years old auditioning for commercials in new york right and they would say what are your special skills and i'm like skiing never been skiing you just say whatever the rule is say yes and if you get the part learn it no way this is a real thing yeah
So I'd spent this time getting ready and I felt really solid about where I was at. And it was all to get to this point where I was like, listen, I have no idea if I will have the ability of like the people that I admire. But at least I'll know that I did everything in my power to have all the tools. So I can never say, oh, like I didn't do enough. I did enough.
So the audition comes, and it's a monologue, basically a two-page monologue from a different movie, playing a professor who is giving this sort of dissertation about space and atoms splitting, and pretty dense, because we're auditioning to play scientists. And I work on it and I put it together and I send in the audition and I jokingly write to my agent.
I'm like, listen, I don't get parts like this, but I think this is pretty good. But, you know, call me when they're making American Pie 5. That's so funny. And I'll never forget, two weeks later, I get a text from my agent, and she writes, Nolan saw your tape. He likes you. We're in the hunt. Whoa.
This is crazy. Okay, so where were you and how did you feel? I was just in my apartment and I remember I got it. And the truth is, in this business, you have to subsist on hope. And you have to take these little signs that you should keep going. And sometimes it's just a callback. Even if you don't get the part, sometimes it's just like a really nice compliment from someone you respect.
Not some BS, just lip service, but someone seeing you and being like, I like what you're doing. Like you're moving in the right direction. Cause sometimes that's all you get for six months, a year, two years. So I knew in my head, I'm like, it's gotta be enough. He liked you. That's it. You don't get it. Okay. But the master liked you. And then every two weeks I would get a call
you're still in, in, in the mix. They're still talking about you. They're casting the bigger roles. And then it comes out like Matt Damon, Killian Murphy, Emily Blunt. And I'm like, there's no roles left. I didn't get it. But almost three months after I auditioned, I got the call. Like you got it. And you're going to New Mexico for two months. And yeah, it's cool. So you get that call. Yeah. Okay.
Dude, I will never forget this moment. There's a scene where Matt Damon has to be really annoyed because we as a scientist are taking too long to figure this thing out. And we're walking down the hall and just the scene was us walking down the hall and him sort of glaring at us with the stare of just like, get it together.
And I remember us walking by Matt Damon, looking at his face and thinking, wow, that's very believable. That's so funny. Totally. What's it like working with Matt Damon? Great guy. Really? Yeah. We, on the last day of shooting, I remember just randomly, we were all in some, it was me and like two other actors and Killian and Matt and we had lunch together.
Like there was nowhere to go like back to trailers or anything. We were sort of stuck in this one room and we just ate lunch and shot the shit. I asked him questions about Goodwill hunting. Bro. Okay.
I think I like... The great... Bless him. The great Robin Williams had this really funny joke when he won the Academy Award for Good Will Hunting. He said to Gus Van Sant, the director, thank you for being so subtle. You're subliminal. And sort of the thing about Gus Van Sant is that people say is he's so great at casting that he just kind of says, I cast you for a reason.
Go forth and do your thing. He's not really like super hands on. He lets the actor do the role. And I think I just asked him something about that. Like, was that really true? And did he just let Robin do whatever? But the famous, you know, the famous scene in Good Will Hunting where, Robin Williams talks about his late wife and how she used to fart in bed and how he used to have to like ignore it.
But it was like one of the things that made him miss her most was this random moment. And you see you cut to Matt hysterical laughing like it's it's too good. It can't be acting. It's got to be.
Oh, my God. Please. I'm like, listen, Matty Boy. Matt. Could you imagine if I did what you did to me with Hug Me, Brother?
I told you everything. That was the E break. And ever since then, I was like, don't ever do that again. Okay. I wonder, I know I cringe sometimes almost 10 years later remembering I did that exact same thing to Ice Cube once.
Ice Cube has to be way worse than Brawl.
Yeah. I was like, where Chris Tucker says, Debo be like, shut the fuck up. I'd be quiet. But when he leave, I'd be talking again. And he looked at me and finished the line. He's like, I'd be talking again. And I was like, shout out, Mr. Cube.
I know. But it's just a little. But you just think back on it.
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