Unhinge your jaw, it’s Jeff Goldblum. Jazz, urgency, true happiness, and ducks going to Moscow. Leave your kids with their helper, they’re good people. It’s a podcast; it’s called SmartLess. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of SmartLess ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiting siriusxm.com/podcastsplus.
Chapter 1: Who are the hosts and guest of this SmartLess episode?
Hi, guys. We're about to do the show. How do you feel today? Oh, right now, today, I feel pretty good.
Great.
You sound like it. Welcome to Smartlish.
Give us a chance to catch our breath. Smart.
Oh, well, he's like really sensitive and kind of like, he's like delicate today. He's like very delicate. I am. You're picking up on a vibe. You're super delicate. We know who you are. Backwards hat kind of vibe. Like, it's great. Took it off. Hair getting a little long. He's an artist. Little. He's an artist and he didn't get much sleep last night. It's like Crystal Gale over there.
Dude. Right? Bennett, I don't know what you're doing, but you are dialed. You are dialed, dude. Here comes Jay. Jay's back. You're picking up on a vibe. There he is.
Bellissima. Okay.
Will is sensitive today and tired today. He's a sensitive, tired little boy.
Will it Sunday morn? Well, no, it's Sunday afternoon. It's lunchtime where you are, Willie. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What funny incident happened while house hunting in Brooklyn?
Yeah, he laughed. But for a second on his face, he was like, he thought he was serious. And I could see that Pete's like, is this guy really saying this to me? Complicated what he was running. And Sean just did it in front of everybody.
Hey, Pete, like across the set. Can you just keep, you're vocalizing outside your process. Pete Thorell, one of the all-time greats.
Jay, he came from you. He was a recommend from you. Yeah. Because you'd worked with him. And he's just the greatest.
Yeah, Pete and I have done a ton of stuff together. It's my first AD and things that I've directed. He's just like... He's so great.
He's so great. So you guys have worked together a lot, right?
We've done – we did Family Feign together. We did – three or four seasons of Ozark together. We did The Outsider together. He was the first AD every episode of Ozark? Those first three, four? No, no, no. He alternated with... You rotate. There's two of them. Oh, right. But I get Pete on everything I direct if he's available. But he's very fancy now.
He's working with a bunch of directors that make me look like a little punk. No.
Which I am. Which is weird. He works together a lot because he said I'm his favorite. Anyway, it doesn't matter.
I literally take work... just so I could work with Pete. Like I really don't care what the script is.
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Chapter 3: How do actors feel about backstage meet and greets after performances?
Chapter 4: Where is Jeff Goldblum currently living and what is his family life like?
Jason feigned interest. Is Scotty always okay? Is Scotty good? Okay, let's get to the game.
How's Linda's data plan? And so you passed on this one. Back in the SUV.
Did you ask if you could put it in an escalator?
Oh, God, is that funny? All right, let's get to our guest. Jesus Christ. You guys, we're all big, big fans of this guy. He's amazing. I'm not committing to that yet. I promise you are. I don't know who it is. And it was such an honor when he was a guest of ours on Will & Grace.
Before becoming the beloved Hollywood treasure that we know today, he used to write affirmations in the shower asking God to let him be an actor. Spoiler alert, God delivered. But before that, he was peddling office supplies to correction facilities in between auditions. Today, when he's not recording amazing jazz albums, you can see him being wizardly in one of the hottest blockbusters this year.
It's the incredibly talented and utterly delightful Jeff Goldblum.
Oh, yes, I am a fan of Jeff Goldblum.
Yes, I am a fan as well.
Yes.
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Chapter 5: What are Jeff Goldblum’s thoughts on talk shows and podcasting today?
Oh, Jeff.
I'm so happy to be here. I love you all so much. By the way, where are you? You know where I am? In our apartment in Florence, Italy. Oh, wow.
Another hashtag relatable.
Jeffrey's doing very well.
You don't have an elevator in there, do you? Oh, my God.
Yes. You do? Yes, we do. It's a couple of floors. It's very, very nice. But I want to be relatable. No, we've been living here for, you know, the last couple of years, a few years. Our two kids, seven and nine, two boys are going to school here. Lisee Frances. My wife is from Toronto. She speaks French to them. They speak now three languages because they speak Italian. Will is from Toronto.
I know he is. I have much to ask. I'm so interested in you guys. I adore you. I adore this show. And just your little tete-a-tete-a-tete before I came on. My coffee chat. Yeah, your coffee chat. I love so much, and I love this show. But you know what I love? It reminded me is people making each other laugh.
If I have my druthers, I oftentimes, if I really need a lift, I'll go on YouTube and see the blooper reels for, you know, I have my favorites, you know, Julie Louis-Dreyfus on Seinfeld. I love the way she laughs. Larry David, I love the way he laughs. Ricky Gervais, all these people have been on your show, of course.
When Larry David laughs, his jaw becomes unhinged and he's, yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 6: What is Jeff Goldblum’s experience with theater and notable plays he’s seen recently?
I love it. Hey, how about, and then I sometimes, because my algorithm knows I like it, I guess, I see bloopers from 1930s. And so you see, you know, Barbara Stanwyck and Humphrey Bogart, you know, forgetting, Betty Davis forgetting their lines. I've seen that. And swearing. Isn't that interesting?
Doesn't that make them? I don't think I've ever seen anybody curse in black and white.
No, me neither.
I've never seen that. No.
Yeah. It's kind of interesting. I mean, I love behind the scenes of all kinds. One of my little obsessions is to go on now, the device, and you can see interviews with everybody about the craft and directors and actors and these podcasts. We have to talk about that if we were really at dinner and we could talk for a few hours.
You know, I feel like I have so much to talk to you guys about that we need to be pithy on all these issues.
Sure, yeah.
But, you know, I would like to talk about the history of talk shows and the new podcast phenomenon of which you guys are now the kings of the hill. And the form which allows us to know you and to know all your guests. So thank you for that. Because I know there are people I like particularly on your show that I now know better than... than ever. I just saw a play. We just came back.
Sorry if I'm too, you know, self-starting and chatty, but I'm excited. We love it, yeah. We just came back from a little weekend trip, leaving the kids here with their helper, with good people, and we saw two plays, and we went to a, in London, a gallery and saw, you know, Goya and the- Go ahead. Yeah, I know. No, they're good. They did a very good job.
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Chapter 7: How did Jeff Goldblum start his acting career and what was his first professional gig?
Chapter 8: What was Jeff Goldblum’s experience working with director David Cronenberg on The Fly?
Let's go to the movies. Let's do many things. You know, you're my favorite. You're my best friends now, you know.
Uh-huh. We'll be right back. And now, back to the show.
Now, Jeff, I want to talk about this thing about, I poll anyone who will answer, this thing about going backstage when you go see a play on Broadway. And apologies to the listener. This is hashtag not relatable again.
Ongoing thing.
So there's this thing.
Well, Sean did it the other night, Jason, by the way. Sean did it the other night at Glen Gary.
Yeah, well, okay, so now I didn't, okay? I went, I saw Glen Gary last week as well. And now I don't know those actors except for the fact that they have been on this show.
They've been on this show. You know Bob. You know Bob Odenkirk a little bit.
I've talked to Bob at a couple of parties, but I don't think that counts in order to what I think is disruptive and potentially annoying to an actor that's just finished a two-hour performance.
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