Penn Badgley
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222 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 31 May
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Buckled them in.
Yeah.
but when this happened I realized like oh you know in terms of my mom like she probably I don't I don't know I'm not sure but certainly in terms of my father I think I just their generation, the way they parented all of us, I was just like, oh, that was new. Me apologizing to a three-year-old as his father, I was like, that's new.
Right, and that was a beautiful moment. That was like, you know.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah. Well, the insecurity hadn't even really found its full expression until I moved here because I was 12. And, you know, I hadn't yet started making money in a livelihood, a practice, a craft that would come to depend more and more on the way that I looked.
So when we moved to that mountain outside of Issaquah, having lost my cat, wasn't enrolled in school because it was the end of the school year. And so the long summer was ahead of us. Again, parents like- Not the tightest. my mom clearly saw like, Ooh, this is, we need something. You know, we need like neighbors. Our closest neighbor was a mile away.
Like our driveway was like two dirt tracks up there. It was like a real mountain. That's why the cat died. There's cougars and bears and all kinds of... And you're an only child.
Yes, thank you.
I don't know what the competition was like. No memory of that. I got the role. Winthrop, the music man, it's a significant role. He's a boy with a lisp who's very quiet and shy. I was very quiet and shy, but he comes out of his shell when he learns to play something in a band. So I loved just the camaraderie.
of and mixed ages too you know it's like kids and adults and everybody in between and it was it was just like it's not like going to school at all it was it was really really exciting it was um and on opening night just getting that feedback you know the excitement of being on stage you know it creates stakes and structure which everybody i think needs a bit of to thrive like um I loved it.
I loved it. I actually said that night, like, I want to do this for the rest of my life. You know, that little boy was not aware of all the implications or what it would take or that it was ever feasible, that it was actually delusional and basically not feasible. But yeah, and people very quickly. And why they do this, I don't know, but...
If you're in any town close to like a major city, like a satellite for L.A., like there's Seattle, there's Florida, like Tampa. A lot of kids come from Florida. There's other places, maybe Chicago. But if you're in a certain town, people will say, you should try going to L.A. I mean, it's not good advice. It's just not good advice.
Are you going to make it?
Are you going to? Yeah. I mean, it's I'm not.
But this is the thing, though. It is to a degree a fluke. It just is.
I'm not saying there's no talent involved. I'm just saying those of us who make it are something of the exception that proves the rule because the rate of failure in this town is high. It's high. It's high. It's a bit tragically high for people who want to make art and want to do things, want to perform. And it's like, you know. It's to me, it's not just, it's not a meritocracy.
You know what I mean? I don't know what industry would be, but.
I know when I did, I was 12. I started working that summer.
Yeah.
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