Russell Howard
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1,397 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 26 Feb
Russell Howard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I mean, from that, like, because you're under this old school, like, Disney contract, I had to do some movie, like the sequel, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, which was a sequel to Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.
You know, it was like the old school system, like, we hired you under this umbrella, so if you record an album, if you make a movie, like, you are ours, you know?
Yeah, it was a little bit like that.
You know, like the kids now. Like all those... American Idol kids and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or whatever all those new Disney shows are.
No, that was... It wasn't on ABC. It was on something else. Thank you.
First of all, the reason the show was so good was what JJ and Matt did. It was so sweet. It was like such a sweet little something of a show. And it was their writing that was so good. But yeah, for... Luckily, I can't imagine the kids now with all of the social media. Back then, it was just occasional paparazzi weirdos. But yeah, I am sort of a nervous person anyway around people I don't know.
So that only made that worse. And that was hard.
Well, I mean, people were generally pretty nice to me, but I just think if you're an anxious person, it doesn't help like, yeah, having more people looking at you all the time. So I think that was something to sort of navigate a little bit. Um, but then it all worked out because after that show ended, I took a big break and I didn't, um, act anymore.
I didn't think that's what I wanted to do anymore. Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, I thought I was going to go back to – or go to school because I hadn't gone to school. Because I graduated early from high school because I was on the Mickey Mouse Club.
Yeah. Because when you're on the Mickey Mouse Club, like if you're a kid, you're tutored on set so you can finish as quickly as you can. Same with Mr. Bateman. Yeah, we know about that.
Yeah, so doing that show, that was back in the old days when we would do 22 episodes. Now, you know, the nature of television tends to be like eight or 13 episodes, but we were still doing network, 22 episodes. Especially back then, we were working, because Matt Reeves was one of our first directors and set up the show, we were shooting it like film. We were shooting on film in the beginning.
Really? Yeah. Shooting on film? Yeah. We were working 18-hour days, five days a week. So my Friday as a 21-year-old would end about 5 in the morning, and then I would start again at 5 on Monday. Wow. I loved that job, and it was great, and I'm so thankful. I'm still really close with a few of those people. But in many ways, it was life-arresting.
Like, I wanted to, you know, be with girlfriends and, you know, whatever, kiss boys, or, you know, like, do simple, stupid things that I knew I was sort of missing. So when it ended... I had no time to spend any money or do any of that. So I took the money I had saved and rented this amazing apartment, one bedroom apartment in the village, which was really great still back then.
And I had no furniture. I moved to New York with two giant boxes of books. I got mattresses. I put them on the floor and I did all those things I wanted to do. I had to...
really great girlfriends there and we would go out dancing and get drunk and like walk home drunk in the snow and we would watch The Bachelorette and eat shitty food and like I mean it was it was everything I wanted it to be and I got to just fucking be a kid and yeah that's great and I think that's what I wanted did you end up going to school uh I didn't so I thought that's what I was gonna do and that's probably what I should have done I still think about it um but I think I just sort of
did it myself. Like I just read what I wanted to read about and, and took all that time off. I took, I think a couple of years and then just slowly started inching my way back in. You know, I took a job where I wasn't the lead. I took, I was like a part of a family. And actually we shot in London with Mike Binder and I was just a part of these sisters and Joan Allen was the lead.
Yeah. And I was like, you know, she's cool and smart and classy. And if I can watch her, if she's managing her life okay, you know, maybe it's possible. And she was. And so then I slowly dipped back in.
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