The Best of SBS: Ted Danson
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Welcome to South Beach Sessions. I am thrilled. We're not in South Beach this time. We're in Los Angeles, and Ted Danson is here, and he just described himself correctly as dangerously sexy because of the amount that I was sweating, which I may still be sweating. But I'm thrilled to have you here. Thank you for making the time.
You're welcome. I'm still working on hearing back what I said. Maybe I shouldn't have said that. You are dangerously sexy.
You are dangerously sexy.
I said undercurrent.
When I came here, my wife referred to you as a silver fox. You know this about yourself. Sexy guy with arthritis. That's what a silver fox is. Didn't you start in soap operas? I did. Okay, so come on. It's not like you don't know you're dangerously sexy.
No, here I am. Can I just quickly tell you, it was Somerset. It was a spinoff of Another World. And I was hired to be the town. I'm trying to think of another word besides Coxman. But, you know, he was the town outrageous, sweep people off. And the first day I sat down opposite this table where I was supposed to be seducing this woman who had been on the show for years. And this was my first day. So I was beyond anxious. I'd taken Valium the night before, and I was, Valium makes me sweat. Like this?
Like this, because I'm just profusely, give me your handkerchief.
You offered me a handkerchief before. This is yours, and it's very snappy with your outfit.
This is very intimate, too. I am using a handkerchief that you have never used before because of the amount that I'm sweating.
I'm sorry, I interrupted you. No. So anyway, I was so nervous, speaking of sweat, that this woman who was very calm and had been doing this for years, and this was my first day on Valium just having an anxiety attack. And it was broadcast news sweat. It was just pouring sheets of sweat. And the producer went... Nah, he's not a leading man. We're going to make him the town sleaze. So I turned all my friends into the mafia. That was my role.
But this is difficult first role if you're already nervous about just starting your career and they ask you to go sensual right off the bat. Yeah, horrible. I don't do sensual. I do jokes about sensual.
But you started, that's not where you started. You do that now. You've learned how to do that now. No, but even Cheers, you think Sam Malone, dah, dah, dah, dah. I only make jokes about being sexual. I do good sexy jokes. I don't do sexy.
How do you do with fear and insecurity? Like when you started your career, like did you get over that?
Obviously- I never got over it on the soap opera. It was just a nightmare, because you can't be funny. You know, there's not a real naturalistic funny moment, at least back then. And it was also, to this day, when you started to count five, four, three, two, I get anxious because that was soap operas. Yeah, five, four, three. And don't mess up. It wasn't live, but you had only a few minutes buffer on either side.
How did Ted Danson describe his early acting beginnings on soap operas and what happened on his first day?
So it might as well have been live to get it into the computer.
How did you get into acting? What's the story at Stanford in terms of how it is that you made your path into what became a lifelong devotion?
Because you have to start with basketball for me because I went to a prep school called Kent, 300 boys, Kent, Connecticut. And basketball saved my life. I was not an academic. I was a fish out of water. I came from Arizona. And then there I was back east, prep schools, preppy. And it was just not my comfort place. So I was faking my way through school. And basketball came along. And a basketball coach who... passed away a couple years ago, Jim Wood, and just saved my life. I so respected him. If I got into trouble at school, no one would talk to me. They'd talk to Jim to come talk to me. Sports are so good for confidence. And it also set me up for life, which was, it's not about you, Ted. It's about the team.
It's about the team playing well. It's not just about you playing well. And that translated into acting. So I went to Stanford. having passionately loved basketball at Kent, we won the league championship, which...
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–3:30
2
How did Ted Danson describe his early acting beginnings on soap operas and what happened on his first day?
3:30–13:02
3
How did basketball and Stanford lead Ted to discover theater and acting?
13:02–57:14
4
How did Ted's relationship with Mary Steenburgen begin and what changed about him?
57:14–1:41:19
Speakers
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