Welcome back to The Viall Files: Going Deeper with Sam Asghari! You’ve heard his name, but never his story… Now get ready to know the real Sam Asghari. From his childhood in Iran and moving to America, to his career in acting and modeling, and yes the relationship with the princess of pop herself BRITNEY SPEARS– Sam gets into it all. Also, he talks about new love, Traitors, and what’s next for his career. You will absolutely not want to miss this! “I saw the exact reason why America fell in love with her.” Listen to Humble Brag with Cynthia Bailey and Crystal Kung Minkoff! Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humble-brag-with-crystal-and-cynthia/id1774286896 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@humblebragpod Listen To Disrespectfully now! Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disrespectfully/id1516710301 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh8MqSsiGkfJcWhkan0D0w Start your 7 Day Free Trial of Viall Files + here: https://viallfiles.supportingcast.fm/ To Order Nick’s Book Go To: http://www.viallfiles.com If you would like to get some texting advice on Office Hours send an email to [email protected] with “Texting Office Hours” in the subject line! To advertise on the show, contact [email protected] or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheViallFiles Thank You to Our Sponsors: Quince - Go to https://quince.com/viall for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Rocket Money - Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to https://rocketmoney.com/viall today. Tonal - Right now, Tonal is offering our listeners $200 off your Tonal purchase with promo code VIALL. That’s https://tonal.com and use promo code VIALL for $200 off your purchase. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (01:45) - Sam’s Story (17:49) - Entertainment (25:47) - First Move (36:58) - Dating To Marriage (44:06) - Misconceptions (49:32) - Reactions and Expectations (54:06) - Hardest Things (55:00) - Breakup (01:03:40) - Traitors (01:18:17) - What’s Next? (01:21:26) - Marriage In The Future (01:24:04) - Pet Peeves (01:32:27) - Sandoval Interactions (01:33:53) - Outro Episode Socials: @viallfiles @nickviall @nnataliejjoy @samasghari @justinkaphillips @leahgsilberstein @dereklanerussell
Chapter 1: Who is Sam Asghari and what is his background?
And then the teacher's like, wait a minute. I just spoke for 10 minutes. How could you just translate? And she's like, you know, he gets it. And then she's like, what's your name? She asked me. And then I look at my friend, Sam, and I look at her and then I say, Sam. And then he goes, wait a minute. That's my name. You can't, your name is not Sam. You can't take my name.
I said, no, my name is closer. Just cancel the H E and it's Sam. Your name is S A J J J A D. That's not Sam. You can change it. And he's like, oh, try Henry. Why don't you try Henry? I was like, I don't want Henry. That sounds old. So, you know, yeah.
Well, yeah, Sam, like with your given name, it's just like a nickname.
At the time you have to change it. You know, again, I'm not going to fall into the trap of people were calling me names. People, they were, but they're kids. That's part of growing up is tough, tough, tough skin. I'm not going to take away from bullying. I think, you know, I stand up against bullies any time of the day. But for me, what I was made out of, I was able to hand, I needed it.
You know what I mean? So people were going to call you names. They're just going to assume that name is something else or they're just not going to pronounce it.
And what was it like? I mean, did you speak, you didn't speak much English at all? How did you learn English?
I had it nice because I was, I don't know, but I think, I don't think I'm stupid. I'm only stupid in school and subjects that I don't like. I don't, I don't, because I don't pay attention. If I don't, if I don't like something, I genuinely don't pay attention to it. I just can't. That's me with math.
me with every subject, but history, I was, uh, I was very smart and, you know, I, it was just fascinating. I don't know why I liked history. I was in drama and arts at the time. And that helps me a lot. Drama was because you get to improv and you get to talk and you get to, you know, learn Shakespeare and that's far more advanced, uh, English than it is.
And then I had friends, I played football, and that was a big factor of learning. I learned it right away, I think. I don't think I struggled much.
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Chapter 2: What challenges did Sam face moving from Iran to the US?
And, you know, perception had to do a lot with that because my background is in acting as literally theater and arts. And that's what I've been loving. And my relationship that people know me the most happened because of acting. It was an acting job that we met on. So, you know, it's a period of time where I'm going to be focusing on acting and I'm going to be making some projects as well.
I do have my own production that's creating some great short films right now. We have a TV series in development. And we have a movie in development as well. It's called PB&J Productions. And that's because that's what I ate to fit in, in America, PB&J and drank Gatorade. That's what it was literally doing. I thought that was an American thing to do. I mean, it is. Definitely.
Kind of. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, it is. Yeah. I mean, you guys, and I love that, but that's, you know, and in the meetings I have with some of the studios, I do bring in peanut butter and jelly sandwich because everybody likes peanut butter and jelly sandwich, except they're allergic to it.
I was about to say, is this a high allergy? It used to be. I think they've cut it out of like kids' schools. They're like, you can't even.
This is crazy. Yeah. Glitch. What's glitch? Tell me about glitch.
Okay. So glitch is a amazing idea. You know, me and my mentor have been working on this for a while and is some sort of a very relevant TV series that we developed. We wrote the script and we're in talks with some studios, but It's a series about what the next generation of social media is going to be about, slash AI. Of course, it's about AI. No AI is being used to make it.
But basically, it's people that have perceptions online. Everybody uses Facetune and avatars and all that, but Now we're so advanced that you can actually project that filter into you. So it's people using filters to advance their careers and, you know, to advance their relationships or whatever the case may be. So they are wearing some sort of an avatar. So you can go from white to black.
You can go from female to male, but it's all connected to the satellite. And if that satellite glitches, then you reveal yourself. So the whole show is sort of like Black Mirror. What would you really do? It's very Black Mirror. So what would you really do to protect your identity when all you have is based on that? Some people kill. There's characters in it that don't really care.
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