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Julia Garner | SmartLess

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Julia Garner | SmartLess", an episode of SmartLess published July 28, 2025 (54 min, about 10,943 words). It mentions 50 people, works and ideas, including New York, New York, SmartLess, Julia Garner, Weapons, Ted Sarandos.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Froot Loops, SmartLess, Trader Joe's, Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta
  2. – 10:00: Julia Garner, Amazon Amanda, Flow State, Ted Sarandos
  3. – 15:00: Flow State, New York, New York, Ted Sarandos
  4. – 20:00: Missouri, New York, New York, Rain Wilson
  5. – 25:00: Los Angeles, Martha Marcy May Marlene, New York, New York, Sundance
  6. – 30:00: Chevy Chase, Not Fade Away, Paul Thomas Anderson, New York, New York
  7. – 35:00: Clown School, France, Failure is the friend of the clown
  8. – 40:00: Foster the People, Mark Foster
  9. – 45:00: Weapons, Fantastic Four, Magnolia, Silver Surfer
  10. – 50:00: Julia Garner, New York, New York, SmartLess, The Altruist
  11. – 54:07: Mandy & Ralph Ellison, SmartLess

Notable quotes from "Julia Garner | SmartLess"

  • Let us enter your ear hole because we're going to fill it full of Welcome to Smartless.
    about SmartLess · at
  • Way out to Hollywood and into our hearts? We're going to find out. Let's find out. This is Miss Julia Garner. Did I say that correctly?
    about Julia Garner · at
  • Yeah. But also it's like also if you want you know I'm I'm always constantly like chasing that flow state. So and that takes a lot of work in a way kind of get there.
    about Flow State · at
  • Julie, I love that. Me too. Never been directed by him. The Ted Randos is the best. Ted Sarandos is also the best. Yeah. Let me just say that.
    about Ted Sarandos · at
  • Because the first audition I thought, it was just like a tiny casting room in New York, paper thin walls, and I'm like hearing the other actors read the lines and I'm Oh my god, there Yeah. And I'm Wow, she.
    about New York, New York · at
  • Tell me what Tell me about what is this David Chase thing that Wikipedia is talking about here.
    about Chevy Chase · at
  • From my manager. And like a few weeks before I went out in New York, I went on this audition for an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film.
    about Paul Thomas Anderson · at
  • And it was crazy. And the first day on set, my first day on set was wild because well, I finished weapons like now weapons. Let's not jump to the Josh Brolan vehicle coming out August 8 called Weapons.
    about Weapons · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Books & papers

  • Weapons — Book · 3 mentions · first at
  • Not Fade Away — Book · 2 mentions · first at
    Oh, so there's actually Speaking of. So that I that was my second movie. this is Not Fade Away.
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Julie, I've got a question for you, Sean. Quiet, please. So, you booked Martha Marcy May Marlene. Okay, hold for applause. At 16, was this the first time that you really felt acting was a viable career path?
  • The Godfather — Book · 1 mention · first at
    And then also who I met that week was Fred Roose. I was 17 years old. It was like one of you know the producer of the Godfather.
  • Magnolia — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Intertwined spiderweb, but it's like a horror magnolia kind of vibe. Really? I don't even I don't even know how to explain it to I'm going to explain it with you. When all but one child from the same class.
  • The Altruist — Book · 1 mention · first at
    And yeah. And then look for the altruist. She's about Is that what you're about to go do?
  • There Will Be Blood — Book · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

  • Trader Joe's — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Will was busy doing the Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta.
  • Sundance — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah, that was the first job. and I didn't even really know cuz this was 2010 and so Sundance was not what it is today. It wasn't like it was still felt kind of indie in that way. There was like I think like swag bag was like a thing for.
  • Turner Classic Movies — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Like I never thought that this was I like I always loved movies. I grew up like watching Turner classic movies and I always loved films but there was still something that felt very far even though I grew up in New York and I grew.
  • Foster the People — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Is he a singer? I don't know who he forgive me. I Mark Foster, Foster the People.
  • TikTok — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • SmartLess — Product · 3 mentions · first at
  • Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Will was busy doing the Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta.
  • Froot Loops — Product · 1 mention · first at
    You're you're what 62 63 now and you're still buying Froot Loops?
  • Weekend Update — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. So it was Scotty. Scotty's going to slide in on a chair like Weekend Update.
  • Fantastic Four — Product · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. So, it's I mean I'm you know I feel like with that they were so the four the Fantastic Four the cast they were so nice and I kind of felt like a really nice dinner guest…
  • Ozark — Product · 1 mention

Concepts & topics

  • Flow State — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
  • Clown School — Concept · 2 mentions · first at
    Yes. Yes. Please tell me what h what goes on in clown school.
  • Failure is the friend of the clown — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Exactly. But he kept on saying the failure is the friend of the clown, which I love.
  • Silver Surfer — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. So I was just Oh, wait. You're the Silver Surfer.
  • ADR — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

  • New York, New York — Place · 5 mentions · first at
  • France — Place · 2 mentions · first at
    I went to clowns school because I didn't know what else to do with my time. and I went to France but that and the thing that they the teacher Phipe Golier who's amazing he kept on saying you know he said he's like.
  • Missouri — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. no. It was kind of one of those things that I just assumed because it was Missouri that there was going to be an accent. Missouri and that and that's also why that's also why I didn't feel like.
  • Los Angeles — Place · 1 mention · first at
    No, cuz it's just I've been Where do you live? Los Angeles.
  • Vancouver — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Well, I have an ADR after today and then I am leaving on Thursday to Vancouver for 5 and a half months.
  • Bronx — Place · 1 mention

Sponsors

Full transcript with timestamps

How many cold opens are we going to be doing? Well, we're doing one right now. We're doing one. Oh, okay. Well, let's start with the first one.

Um, and I basically the big question is listener, how you doing? Huh? Oh, God. How you feeling out there, listener? Huh?

Hey, uh, just turn us up nice and loud. Let us enter your ear hole because uh we're going to fill it full of uh

Welcome to Smartless. Yeah. Smart. Will, are you ready? [ __ ] Yeah, I've been ready for [ __ ] 20 minutes. Awad.

I mean, Will was busy doing the Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta. He loves that trend. He's on He's all over Tik Tok doing the lobster bis pasta trend.

Uh Sean, do you do your own grocery shopping? Um I don't I Yeah, sometimes I do. Yeah.

Well, what was the pause for? Can you go deeper on the pausing? Yeah. Well, because a lot of times Scotty Thank you, Scotty. Just made me some tea. Look at that.

Um, yeah. Can he take the rest of the afternoon off or? And by tea, do you mean chili?

Yeah. A cup of chili. Um, no. I do. I I go I go to the grocery store. Scotty, do we go to the grocery store? Help me. Um,

yeah. Sometimes a second. Yeah, we go to the grocery store. I'm sorry. Can we just pause on that for one second? Can we pause on the Scotty? Do we go to the grocery store sometimes?

We do sometimes. Sometime. But here's a blackout. I I only like to go when I know exactly what it is I need. And then like years ago, it's so funny you said this because last night I was talking about this. Years ago, I thought

Here we go. It's a great story. I know. He does seem like he's really fire. He's filled the whole gas tank ready for this one.

Yeah. Get into Go ahead. Go back to Take us back to years ago. Yeah. We I had this idea for this app which was

Oh, boy. I I was going to like partner with all of these grocery stores and and when you walk into the grocery store, your phone recognizes your location and then it gives you a map of that grocery store and you put in what exactly you're looking for. So you're not in there for an hour just looking for the one item.

People just fill a post. So instead of looking at the signs above, you just look at your phone.

That's right. And and then somebody thought of it and somebody it's already somebody's doing

I went to I remember one time being in Germany and seeing these stores. They had these food stores where you go in, true story, and they'd have like set up in different areas of the store, you know, examples of prepared meals like a like a pasta or like a chicken or whatever. And then all the way around that item and they would switch them up every day. They'd have all the necessary ingredients you need to buy for the from the store just to make that at home.

Pretty good. You don't like that? Yeah. You know, you know what? Some You know something? I would I would do that. I would buy that. You know what you you know what else they do at at supermarkets is they've got rows and rows and rows of ingredients that you could buy to build.

But this is giving you this is this is kind of eliminating the like, oh, what do I need? I need to go in eight. No, no, no. All of it.

I can't wait for this answer. I can't wait for this answer. Jason, by the way, standing in front of his huge glass house lobbing stones.

Let me tell you something. I actually really enjoy the market. And when I go, it's expensive because I will I'll take three hours and I'll just go aisle to aisle to up and then down and then up and then this was 87 88.

Um, and we're talking very recent is sometimes I need a follow cart, you know, because the front one gets too full.

Lettuce and romaine lettuce and butter lettuce. This was in the day where I'd get I'd get everything, you know, cuz I I I grew up in a house that was very very sort of quote healthy, you know, so there wasn't any garbage in the house. And so once I moved out, I bought all the garbage. I mean, the snacks, the sodas, the cereals. It's almost like when you get older and you're on your own, it's something feels good about not having to ask permission to get eaten whatever you want.

Let's be clear, Sean. I grew out of it in about two years and and I've been taking care of my body ever since. You're you're what 62 63 now and you're still buying Froot Loops?

No, I I will have something like that on occasion. I'm trying to now I'm trying to find balance for the first time ever.

Are you still off sugar? You were off sugar a couple weeks ago. Not entirely, but but I didn't realize my favorite ice cream had 100 gram of sugar in a pint.

Didn't realize that. Huh. What do you think's You think ice cream is just uh uh unicorn farts and uh and cream?

Yeah. I didn't know they could they could manufacture unicorn farts. Yeah, it's cream and sugar. Full stop.

Yeah. Uh, what kind of dad joke do I have for you? This might have been I'd love to just to transition into our guest.

This is a new This is Wait, this because I don't know if I may have said this before.

You created your own segment here. I I may have said this before, so please forgive me if I told you this one right, but I asked my brother to pass me the travel pamphlet this morning.

Yeah. And he said, "Bro, sure. Oh, I got a giggle. I got a giggle. Oh, JB really likes that one.

JB really likes that one. That one makes me real happy. It settles me. It's good that it settles me because I'm really nervous about this next guest. I mean, you know, this is uh

Is that why you wear a nice shirt? Yeah, exactly. You've I don't think you've ever seen me in a button-up um on on this show. Um,

really nice. So, today's guest, this is someone I've wanted to meet for a very long time. Um, she first hit my radar. Um, oh, no, wait. That's uh,

that's my That's my wife. That's the last guest. That's Amanda. Hey, God. Can you imagine how much [ __ ] you'd throw at me if you were if I came this unprepared? And by the way, what a nice to your guest. What a sideswipe to your guest.

Oh, no. Here we go. Here we Oh, here we go. Just would have started exactly. I would have hung up. I would have gone already. I would have if I were your guest, I would have walked.

We've got a real special treat today. Dash, I think. Can't wait to meet her. This is someone who I've been watching from afar. Very, very curious about stalking.

She's a true chameleon. She started acting at 15 and now barely barely 30. She's already won multiple Emmys, countless nominations, and seems positioned for a long and fruitful career. How did this Hebrew speaking beauty from the Bronx make it all the way out to Hollywood and into our hearts? We're going to find out. Let's find out. This is Miss Julia Garner. Did I say that correctly?

Did I pronounce that right? You threw me with I can't wait to meet her. Oh, right. A real crafty like that from a

We can unblock the camera now. My sweet love. Yeah. Oh, there you are. Hi. Hi, Julia. Oh, you look just like on the TV shows.

Oh my god. So nice to meet you, Jason. You, too. Wait, no southern accent? No southern accent. So that was just a put on from the for our so that our listener knows, Julia starred in was arguably the best part of of Ozark for the entire You're right. for years and years. And that's how you and J you and JB met, I presume, was on Ozark, the award-winning show brought to you by uh our our very own JB and starring the wonderful Julia Garner. Julia, welcome to Smart

and Jason. Jason starring brought to you by our friend Ted Sarandos. That's that's who brought us.

Oh my god. Huck her up. Yeah. I love you, Teddy. Teddy, you're the best. Gross. Disgusting. Go ahead.

You know what though, Julia? I I first of all, it's so nice to meet you. So nice to meet you. Um I Jason was joking because I know every interview you've ever given over the many many years of Ozark

was about that accent, but I I was truly blown away. I was because I'd never seen you before. So because I'm an idiot and my first expos my first exposure to you was Ozark and then when I saw you on your first talk show I was like, "Oh, wait, what?" Like it was it was so believable. You were completely Do you love playing characters like that? acting. He's He's really blown away by the concept of it.

It's so fun, right? Can you pretend to be someone else? Is it neat? Yeah, I guess. I mean,

he thought Ozark was a documentary. Sorry. It's he just Jason just brought a whole film crew to the Ozarks. Disturbed you and your

brother. It just did like Verer Hersog style basically. Yeah, I I I don't think I ever asked you was it was it would have been fun for me. I would be fun one day to play and do some big southern accent like was it fun to do that

when Oh, hang on. Keep going. Who are we? Introduce us to this character up the truck.

Yeah. Um did you was it fun to play to to use the accent all the time? Did I use it like off camera when we weren't working together?

No. No. When you were doing it, when you were playing uh the the Ruth Langmore,

was it was it a Was it a Was it work or did you enjoy actually doing that? Because you have to be conscious of it.

It's it was both. But I I feel like um if you want anything to be good, it it takes a lot of work.

Um I'm writing this down as you're talking. Yeah. But also it's like also if you want you know I'm I'm always constantly like chasing that flow state. So and that takes a lot of work

in a way kind of get there. What is that? That is that is after when you're acting

right. So well I don't know directed remember when you directed me. Yeah. Yeah. But the flow but the flow is happens. Does the flow happen at all? After massive preparation, one can reach a flow state because you've properly prepared. Question.

Yes. Yes. So, I like prepare. I prepare prepare and then um once I, you know, get to your set, I just throw it all away.

Yeah. You don't have to think about it. Yeah. I don't think about it. He doesn't take you out of that flow state. When you see his face, it doesn't like go like

No. You know what? I love working with Jason because he kind of I I love working with Jason because he relaxes

everybody like he makes it fun cuz sometimes when you know especially when I was like a new actor. Um I I I would always get super tense and it it felt like almost like life or death and then Jason would do something ridiculous to

kind of ease it and I loved it and I think that's so important in my opin. I love it.

You are the best. You really I say this to everybody truly. Julie, I love that. Me too. Never been directed by him. The the

Ted Randos is the best. Ted Sarandos is also the best. Yeah. Let me just say that.

Yeah. No. No. Incredible. But Jay, why don't you you never ever have By the way, neither of you will. You don't either. Never show any signs of anxiety while me and Julia are walking around with like we're nervous about showing up and doing a good job.

You should look at my bowel movements. Would you? God, can we have one episode where we don't talk about bowel movement?

This is what are you talking about, Sean? You're very You're not No, I mean I I I I get nervous like you just said, Julia, about be right before you start and is the character that I worked on any going to be any good and blah blah blah, you know, and then once you get But I just don't feel that from you guys.

Well, I you know, sort of in that in that vein, Julia. So, you do you're you're going to do Ozark. You obviously you meet uh Mr. Baitman, as he makes you I heard that he made you call him.

And so you're on you're you go through the process of of getting that that gig and you show up day one on set and you know that you're playing this uh southern character. Were you nervous at all about taking that first swing, that first take of that first scene?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or had or had you guys prepped enough and he knew? No, I was so nervous because also um first of all, I I thought that I wasn't gonna get Ozark

when I auditioned for it. Well, his face just sag, so he's always No, it wasn't even I I actually felt

the first audition. Look at his nose getting up. He's like, um he thinks he's smiling.

I'm thrilled. Turn his whole head up smiling. He's like, look, it's like I can see a booger right there. Um um no, but it was it was kind of crazy because the first audition I thought, you know, it was just like a a tiny tiny casting room in New York, paper thin walls, and I'm like hearing the other actors

read the lines and I'm like, "Oh my god, there Yeah." And I'm like, "Wow, she killed it." They're like, "That was amazing. That was fantastic." And and then I had to go in next and I did it once. And I remember calling my mother and I was like, I'm not I don't think I'm I'm just going to move on. And then I want to say like 10 days later, there was a call back. Um, and Jason was in that call back. And I remember the I remember he

slower. He kept No, I'm trying. No, I'm just I'm trying to remember that. You know what? remember I remember he was he was very he gave very good he gave amazing like really interesting direction but also he was very sweet and then he started talking about like local TV at the end of the audition you local news you were saying what are you going to do later I was like I don't know watch some TV and he's like what are you going to watch local news that was

right that's literally the first thing and then I was like that guy's an oddball but I like him and I was But also, how does he know that I kind of like love secretly local news too?

Did I? He saw me like immediately. Yeah. Did I Did I Did I say any I didn't we didn't we I didn't say, "Hey, high five. You got the job." In the room, did I?

No. No. And Chris was in the room and I I just remember feeling like un still unsure. But I do remember with the first it was like a mock scene. It wasn't even in the script. Um, but I do remember seeing

Did I read with you? Yeah, you read with me. I did. And I remember the first like the first scene that I saw, I was like, this this dialogue is either going to work if this person talks really fast or really slow.

There's like no, there was no in between. That was always very clear in the dialogue, I think.

And you went with the fast depending on her mood. Yeah. Mhm. And then what what about the accent? Was that something that the that Alexa Fogle sort of our casting director, did she give you a sort of a a hint, a tip on that like you should speak in or is that just something you did on your own?

No. By the way, we love Alexa Fogle. Shout out to Alexa Fogle. Um Yes. Like grateful for

She loves that. Will Arnette many years? I've known her. Many years. Yeah. Um, no. It was kind of one of those things that I just assumed because it was Missouri that there was going to be an accent. Um,

Missouri and that that and that and that's also why that's also why I didn't feel like the first audition nobody was doing that accent. And then I didn't I couldn't remember my lines uh with my regular speaking voice. So, I started freaking out. That's why I didn't think I was going to get the job.

Oh, wow. Wow. Yeah. Did you you know I I will say it reminded me of uh did you ever know people I knew a few actors over the years especially like in the '9s uh being in New York and sometimes coming out here

and you you'd often over the course of years see like the same kind of people who are kind of your age up for the similar jobs and you'd see them over and you get to know them from waiting rooms and stuff around town.

Yeah. Oh my god. And that's how I had the mis it's like I had the misfortune of of originally meeting thorough over the years was in waiting rooms. Right. There's always an actor in a waiting room like but there were those but but you know those actors who would come out I knew a couple and they thought they were being funny and they'd come out and they'd go like well I got it like that was their bit all all the time was I got it nobody else and like at a certain point you're like hey man just stay in your lane

stay away from me I want to work too well and and then cut to you walking out of the Arrested Development audition and everyone and all the executives following you out saying, "All right, we got it. We got our guy." As you guys all walked past the remaining guys that were supposed to go in and audition for your which if you remember JB at the time I said to Mitch, I said, "Hey, let's keep it down."

Is part of the story because one of the people was out there in the room who didn't get it and I felt I knew what that feeling was.

Yeah. Well, we we can say who that is cuz he did just fine. Rain Wilson went on to get the office a couple weeks later.

Yeah. He would have beat me at that g so like he you know what I mean? Let's just be clear about that. Um

anyway, so with that that kind of like actor uh politics is always weird. Well, it's funny and I feel like that's slowly disappearing. Like I feel like I was doing their audition from

Yeah. I was I feel like I was kind of the la the very very last of like there's so many actors that are working today that I've met

in audition rooms when I was like 16 17 years old and then like there would be like a hangout after after like they're like oh yeah do you like want to hang out? Yeah. Like it was just like a little more there was like this spontaneous a little more. Now it's just

camaraderie. Yeah. Yeah. But you were also you're but you're you're also are you're a you were a great hangerouter on on Ozark, right? You you guys you always went out.

I don't even know what that's Well, but cuz you always I would always hear the next morning at work like you guys would all talk about the night you guys had out. You'd go out with all the other actors and you guys would all have a lot of fun. They had

22 when I started. You had a real life down there, you know. Where were you JB?

Granddad went home, put on the comfy socks and PJs and watched Rachel Matto and and learned my lines and went to bed.

Oh my. Yeah. Still doing the same thing today. Julia, you're not having it's all going to be over. No regrets. What have you done? What have you done? Nothing.

I've got one tooth left in my mouth. See, I've had no life experience. Buddy, I'm thin. We'll be right back. And now back to the show. We'll get off Ozark really, you know, I'm sure after this I could talk about it forever. I love the show.

No, shut up. You have not seen it. I love I've seen every episode. The um was there anything because it was like at times it was really physical and I I remember Jason telling me that I was like did you really do all that? He's like no that was a stunt double where he gets punched in the face, thrown on the floor, kicked across the room. Did you have anything like that and did you ever get hurt?

Yeah. Oh, I mean Yeah. Yeah. But I'm also like like my you know flower. Yeah. But I also don't sometimes carry myself like one. So that's how I get hurt.

Okay. Julia, like oh yeah, I'll be fine. Have you learned how to drive since the show?

You didn't know how to drive? This woman? I'm I mean you ask her to just drive 10 ft. Just hit the mark.

You're just going to drive 10 ft. We're going to put sandbags in front of You're going to be the first person that I'm going to call as soon as I'm not getting in the car. I will not get in the car till you hear a year under your belt.

Wait, Julia, do you drive now or you still don't drive? No, cuz it's just I've been

Where do you live? Los Angeles. Yeah. Okay. Well, I I You honestly still don't drive?

No. And then and then whenever I I'm in the process of learning how to drive, then I have to leave town for real. Like it's like always like that. So as soon as like I want to, you know, work, I just, you know, learn how try to learn how to drive and then and then I'll

So you get around. You're Uber all the time. Or does Mark drive you around? Both friends. I I You know what? What the I'm a I'm like a passenger princess. That's what the kids say today. Totally. By the way, even if I learned how to drive, I still love to be driven. I'm not going to lie. Like I love it.

Call me if you ever need a ride. I do like to drive. All right. Wait. Wait a minute, Julie. Wait, I want to stay on this driving thing just for just two seconds.

Okay. Okay, Sean. So, wait. You have your friends drive you or Mark? I'm guessing Mark is your boyfriend or husband? I could ask you a million questions about this.

And have you ever weigh mode? Is that the thing that's self-driving car? That scares me. I don't like that.

I've done that before with my friend cuz he also doesn't drive because he's from the UK and that scares me.

That's Yeah, Sean's a big advocate. Well, no. I mean I I think it's where the future's going to I think ultimately like 20% is that where we're going driver cars prognosticator.

Do you think AI is going to have an impact? Wait, what's AI? What's going to be popular? Computers.

What else? I think food's really going to catch on. Any more hot takes? [ __ ] Julie, I've got a question for you, Sean. Quiet, please. So, you booked Martha Marcy May Marlene. Okay, hold for applause. At 16,

was this the first time that you really felt acting was a viable career path? Julia,

Julia, please answer the question. Please answer the question. Um, it was still like a test because I was so young. I was 16. So, I

That was like the first biggie, right? Yeah, that was the first job. Um, and I didn't even really know cuz this was 2010 and so Sundance was not what it is today. It wasn't like it was still felt kind of

indie in that way. There was like I think like swag bag was like a thing for like two that it was like it was just new. So it wasn't

um commercialized in a way. Um so I didn't really know what that anything was. So it felt more like a a a test I guess. um in a way, but I just really loved it. I just loved meeting people and

and that film kind of took off and you started to get some notoriety and the phone started ringing just a little bit and like was that kind of notoriety? Was it bad news? What happened? Did you do something bad?

Could you could you kind of see the future a little bit? Did you did you did you did you have the courage to kind of dream a little bit there or was it still a little distant?

I I Well, I've always been a big dreamer, but it felt but I never thought that my life would end up like this. Like I never thought that this was

um I like I always loved movies. I I grew up like watching Turner classic movies and

I always loved loved films but there was still something that felt very far even though I grew up in New York and I grew up around actors and going to the theater and but there's something that felt very far because it wasn't I didn't know it was like a real profession like

it didn't feel real. Right. So then but so then even as sort of some momentum started to gain there. So you're 16,

you're approaching the end of what would be the high school years and the possibility to maybe go to college and study another career. So since you weren't really committed to you weren't allowing yourself to feel super positive about a career in the business. Were you keeping your other irons hot as far as other occupations, other industries? No, cuz I was so bad at everything else. And I seemed

You didn't You were all in. You didn't even You didn't You didn't go to college.

I No. And I was like, "Oh, well, I'm getting a good response with this, so I must be okay with it." Um because I'm so bad at everything else. Um

you know what? You know what's funny about that is that we that's a common that that's that answer comes up for a lot and and it it goes for the three of us too, right? And what I find, I'm sort of coming to the conclusion that actors are just a bunch of people who are bad at everything else.

Yeah. Right. It's true. Let's pretend let's get a job where we can pretend to be good at stuff.

Yeah. It's kind of true. Yeah. Yeah. And I also I didn't do I don't I don't do well when I feel like there's like has to be rules in a way. Like I don't I I you know I

there's a right way to do something and a wrong way to do Yeah. Like I like running. I like the feeling of like running around and kind of being free as corny as that sounds. But

Right. Right. Right. Right. Sounds like you're advocating for anarchy. Yeah. Yeah. No, she is. She's a rule breaker.

Yeah. Rule breaker. I didn't know about this. Tell me what Tell me about what what is this David Chase thing that Wikipedia is talking about here.

Oh, so there's actually Speaking of. So that I that was my second movie. Um this is Not Fade Away.

Not Fade Away. And there, this is a crazy story. So, my first time going to LA, I was was I just turned 17. It was like a month after I turned 17. And I only remember this because it was like in March and all the purple, you know, trees. I never seen anything like that. Jackaras.

Yeah. And I remember being mom. Uh, and were you alone at 17 or did you come out with mom?

No, I came out with mom. Um and and my acting coach. Oh yeah. At the you know and

did you stay at the Oakwoods? Yeah. You did like near nearby. Yeah. And I did. And we didn't know where anything was. This was like GPS was new. So it was like recalculating. It was like all the time. It was so crazy.

And um Sounds like mom was as gifted as you are behind the wheel. Yeah. Recalculating.

Yes. Recalculating. Exactly. But it was one of those things that I had crazy like callbacks, auditions like every single day while I was doing that one day of shoot for the David Chase project that he he basically like wrote that part for me because I auditioned for a different part.

Okay. And I didn't get um I didn't get uh James Golfini's daughter. So he wrote he was like I wrote a part for you and it was like in this dream sequence. Yeah.

So that was my first time in LA and on the plane I got the worst eye infection on my way there. I had green pus coming out of my eye like green goo. It was terrible.

And I had all these auditions booked, all these call backs. Like sometime these callbacks I'm looking at I'm like where where where are these meetings now? Like I'm like these meetings were crazy and I had

this poor thing. You must have been just a nervous wreck that you're going to show up.

And what so this so this call back this call back that I had. So there was all these call backs and auditions and meetings with this like and it wasn't you know contagious. So I went to a doctor and they're like, "Yeah, you're fine, but it just looks it's literally an eyes sore." Um and I got this phone call. Well, I had a chemistry read with Clar Danes, so I had to like go in with an eye infection with Clare Danes and I had to like apologize basically explain my eye, right?

Which was horrific. Don't look at this one. Look at this one. Yeah. So-called eye.

And then Will, that is great. And then in the middle of all these meetings going back and forth, didn't know where I was going, never been to LA, I got um a call from my manager. And like a few weeks before I went out in New York, I went on this audition for an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film.

Mhm. Is there a phone ringing? I can't No, you name the film. I don't know what's going on. Um

I didn't see that one. Yeah. And um by the way, it would be a great title for a Paul Thomas Anderson. Phone ring. Phone ring. Exactly. No. So it was it was an untitled Paul Thomas Anderson film. I was 16 and they called in. They're like he wants to meet with you. Um so I had that and then I it turned out to be for the masters. Um

Oh wow. I love that. Yeah. And but I had this eye infection like I had this crazy chemistry read and yeah but that was my first time in LA. And then also who I met that week was Fred Roose. I was 17 years old. It was like one of you know the producer of the Godfather.

Um but then by then I met him. It was like a Friday in my eye like calm down. But during that time I also did not fade away just to give you you know I'm giving you the bullet point. What were you meeting with Fred Roose about?

Just a general meeting, I guess. I don't know. It was Did he Did he make you an offer you could have refused or

Hell, no, he just I met I just met with him. I just Okay. I just thought maybe Yeah.

So, jump jump from that to Yeah, but that was my first time in LA like crazy. Wow. So if if you will make the make a big huge leap now from you know your sort of nason stage there and now you've just won your first Emmy of three consecutive Emmys by the way. What did that feel? So you've just won an Emmy.

What a streak. What a streak. Um unbeaten three year in a row. Um what was what what what was that like? Did personally and professionally was there a big sea change or was it sort of a gradual thing or sorry re I'm recalling that here's the question did the next day after winning an Emmy feel like you thought it would when you allowed yourself to dream back

well um first of all Jason I just want to say like the it's you know it was such a dream working with you this whole time or that whole time of the the just the it and what I mean is like the process

it really the next day it was not not depressing it was not depressing but it it made you look at how important the process is and the experience rather than

the result in a way. Amen. And now what? It's a token in a way. It's like it's a great it's an amazing token and it's like an opportunity for things, but then after the opportunity, you're looking for a new new process in a way

because you kind of feel like you there's nothing really changed. It's just the next day rush and all that stuff is all in the anticipation. It's not in the getting of the thing, which is

Yeah. And also your problems like fall like you'll have 30 seconds up there and and it's great. And then you

right back to your life. You get off the stage and then you're like the next day your problems are still personally your problems are still following you. It doesn't change anything.

That's why I've never That's why I've never won an Emmy. That's why you just keep returning them.

Yeah. No, I want to take myself out of the running. It's not going to change, you know. But it's funny. I think what it resulted too was after that I was it made me very um feel not confident in in a complete different way

in in a sense because what it does well you know when you have a win after win after win after win you kind of put this like pressure or you feel like you have this people are having this expectation on you

but you know during the strike you know I went to clowns school um because I didn't know what else to do with my time. Um and I went to France but that and the thing that they the teacher Phipe Golier who's amazing um he kept on saying you know he said

he's like I'll show this guy a thing or two about being a girl. Oh you like French completely.

Sorry this is a running joke. This guy real loud mouth. He's a handful in the back.

Yeah. And he's getting real touchy and sensitive about other Europeans. Exactly. But he kept on saying the uh the failure is the friend of the clown, which I love.

Failure is friend of the clown. Failure is the friend of the clown. I like that.

And and you you you can't have great art with if you don't have some sort of like, you know, uh humility in a way.

Yes. Yes. Please tell me what h what goes on in clown school. Um well, a lot of

face painting, but I mean like you hear that. Are you guys kind of juggling a lot of different things?

Nice. Will another nice one actually. I I didn't you know I didn't I did get a clown certificate. So I you are talking to a certified clown.

Was it an oversized sho? Was it an oversized shoe or just a red nose? Red nose. And he assigned me he took one look at me and he was like the witch. He assigned me to be a witch. I don't know. I maybe give him like witch energy.

The witch. The witch with one one cigarette. Wait. I mean, do you do the do you do like cuz I hear and I'm an idiot so I hear I went to clown school and I do I do everything that Jason and Will are joking about. Like I think about like oh well you put the paint is it that you paint your face and you put on

it's old school like European clown. Yeah old school eur Yeah. And like it's kind of depressing.

Oh really? Yeah. It's like he puts you on stage and then you go behind a curtain and then they cue the music and you walk around like in a clown circle and then you just and then the music stops and you just have to do whatever comes to your mind and make people laugh and if you don't make people laugh he kicks you off the stage.

Oh my god. Wow. So you have to really kind of just completely almost humiliate yourself. Just basically pull your pants down metaphorically, right? And just like be a fool.

Be a fool. So I also I just felt this the first you know two days I was like what the [ __ ] am I doing? Why did I do this? Like what is wrong with me? I'm like I'm not even in Paris. Like I'm in this town which by the way the town that I was staying in I was like why is this energy so crazy? And um there's like the biggest mental asylum in France in this town.

That's not a coincidence. But of course like but again like I of course like I also love like that's just me like I sign me up for like the weirdest experience and I'm like all up for that.

Um but uh yeah no it was an amazing it was a 10 out of 10 experience genuinely it was amazing.

How about that? Yeah that's awesome. So did has has has it adjusted uh your acting at all? Did you sort of incorporating this fearlessness of humiliation? Although you were always brave about you never worried about making yourself look foolish or ugly or or flawed or something like that.

No, not well. No. And I think for me it was more that um I I just needed to I have to constantly make myself feel uncomfortable

and that's going to make me feel comfortable as an artist. Like if I feel any sort of comfortability, I don't like then something's deeply wrong.

Yeah, I totally get it. And also I don't like You totally get it. You're comfortable beyond me. Are you serious?

No. No. I No. Being uncomfortable. Walk around in casual slippers starting at You and one other person live in a 15,000 square foot house. Like

shut the hell up, Sean. Go ahead. Uncomfortable. She's talking about discomfort as a [ __ ] artist. Jesus Christ. I'm I'm not talking. Listen, I'm Don't give me I love my sweaters. Um but I just

There's our bumper sticker. We'll be right back. All right, back to the show. Julia, now I there you surrounded by musical instruments and I've been wanting to ask since are these yours?

No, these are my husband's. We're setting up a studio here. She's married to a rock star, you stupid dick.

Okay, hold on. How am I supposed to know? I can't study up. You're supposed I didn't know his

Is he a singer? I don't know who he forgive me. I uh Mark Foster, Foster the People.

Oh, wonderful. I didn't know that. Now that's a band. Yeah, this is a fantastic band.

That's great. Um, wait, can I jump ahead? I mean, I'll let Jay drive it in a second, but were you I just remembered. Were you supposed to play Madonna at some point? Is that going to still happen?

Yeah. I mean, that's supposed to still happen but wild. It's Yeah. What do you think? I mean, how did that come about? And like, what do you Were you ever a fan and all that?

Oh my god. I was such a fan of Madonna's. Um, you know, I grew up listening to Madonna. Um, it just came about like I knew that they were doing a a project um making a movie about it and then I went out to audition. I want I kind of that was also another thing that I I kind of just wanted to see if I could do it cuz you know I wasn't a trained dancer and I had to like learn how to dance and then dance in front of her and convince her that I'm

can dance basically. Yeah. and sing and sing with her and and wow stressful. I mean was was and so then how did how was that? How did did did it go well or did she give you a bunch of notes or was she just like oh my god you're amazing do this do that? Well, you know, I kind of just like thought like, okay, what would Madonna do? Which is like

convince you that she deserve, you know, to be in this room. And, you know, you owned it.

And I owned it. And I was kind of like, you can take it or leave it, but if you leave it, if I leave, then that's, you know, that's on you, right?

You know what I mean? And it's like, if you take it, great. You know, that kind of like mentality.

Yeah. I can chase the girls. That's sexy and different. And work the room. Literally work the room.

So, what happened with that? What happened with that? Still sort of brewing. Still brewing.

It's a long gestating uh you know good meals take a long time to but I also feel like anything that's great also too I notice if you hear story like it I feel like it takes a long time or it's you know it's either

but meanwhile meanwhile you've snuck in a couple of fantastic jobs. Uh Fantastic 4 anymore July 25th. That's going to be huge.

Yeah. I mean what what was that process like? I imagine there was a lot of effects. You had to work with that pain in the ass, Pedro Pascal. I don't know how you get through that. How do you get through something like that?

He's real chatty. So, he I love him. You know, it's so funny cuz I met Pedro when I was 18.

Yeah. And everybody now is on this Pedro craze, which I'm so happy, but I've not

We're not fans. We're not fans. But I, you know, I've met him and I always thought, you know, he was um just so talented and I it was always a matter of time with him, I felt.

So, and so, but what about so like green screens and and and you know, special effects and all the like that's a that's a big spicy meatball that thing. You've got costumes and and like future stuff like that.

I didn't have any costumes because they I was surfer. Yeah. So I was just like,

"Oh, wait. You're the Silver Surfer." Yeah. So I was like, "Yeah, Sean." Yeah. So it was Scotty. Scotty's going to slide in on a chair like Weekend Update.

Hey, question. No, I used to love this when I was a kid. I used to watch it all the time. Like I love the silver circle.

Just like I'm chrome and silver, right? So does then does that mean you had to like wear like a a green bodysuit with like a little markers on it for visual effect?

I had the helmet with the giant GoPro type camera and like the wires. Yeah. And it was crazy. And the first day on set, my first day on set was wild because well, I finished weapons like

now weapons. Let's not jump to the Josh Brolan vehicle coming out August 8 called Weapons.

Yeah. By the way, so I filmed that like I want to say like 3 weeks before. So like but my first day on Fantastic I

That's Fantastic 4. Fantastic 4. Um yes. Um I Yes. That's fantastic far. Um, I, you know, had to do this like all these like lines in the middle of it's supposed to be like Time Square and it was 30 ft in the air.

JB, you did a bunch of lines in the middle of Time Square, right? Like 94. Sure did. Yeah. The New Year's celebration is always classic. That's what it was. But it was crazy. It was it was crazy because I was doing that, you know, it was my first day on set and I was doing a scene 30 ft in the air with an earpiece and a microphone. Um, you know, talking to 500 extras and number two was at Marvel from Marvel was like on set. So I was like that was my first day.

Yeah. But um but after that I felt like you know I I I have no reason to be nervous. I think if I can do a scene 33 in the air,

you have a robust uh promotion uh schedule coming up. Are you going to travel the world for that?

Yeah. So, it's I mean I'm you know I feel like with that they were so the four um the Fantastic Four the the the cast they were so nice and I kind of felt like a a really nice uh dinner guest in a way. So they like were really great hosts. Um, so I'll like come in and out to their dinners, but I'm not going to And I'll be like a good dinner guest, but I'm not going to be like the dinner guest. Yeah.

You'll be number five over there with your cities. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. All right. So then that So then that comes out July 25th. And you got Weapons with Josh Brolan August 8th.

Jeez, man. Um, tell what's what's weapons about? First of all, Brolan. I mean, yeah, Brolan. Now you think Pedro Pascal is a pain in the ass. This guy

I know. I just I work with all the best men. Jason Pedro Josh. Well, you know how to slay the dragons. Unbelievable.

Um, what is that one about? Um, it's so crazy. It's It's kind of like a multi-story intertwined spiderweb, but it's like a horror magnolia kind of vibe. Really? I don't even I don't even know how to explain it to

I'm going to explain it with you. When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

Huh. Well, there it is. And I play a teacher. I'm in. I'm in. Yes. I like you and I like the Brolan fella.

I think he's going to go far. Julie, what do you do for fun? What do you do for fun?

Yeah. Work work. Do you What do you do when you don't work? Yeah. What do you do when you don't work? You sound like you work a lot, which is great. Bravo. And you know, it's it's great. Great work ethic.

Yeah. But but what do you do when you're just you're just chilling? You're not driving, so we know that.

Yeah. Uh are you going to sound so bad in this interview? Oh my god. She just skateboards around LA. What do you What What's What's the hobby?

Yeah. I'm trying to figure that out. You have zero hobby right now. When you're down like you're in LA, you're down. You've got down time. Well, the problem is is that when I'm not working, I I love watching movies, but then even then it still feels like I'm reminded that like it's still work.

Like like what are you going to do the rest of today? Yeah. You're not you're not going to set today?

Well, I have an ADR after today and then I am leaving on Thursday to Vancouver for 5 and a half months.

Oh my god. So then you're going to pack. You'll pack tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. I'm always working.

That's great. What about um what what what what are you watching right now on television aside from the movies? Like like will you just put on an old movie wherever it is? Um

yeah. Well, and then or I'll watch new stuff or I'll watch things that um you know that I know that I should watch that I haven't watched yet. Um

like full deck Mediterranean. Yeah. By the way, I never got into that. I I'm I'm maybe one of the few. Um, but but now I just I'm going to finish watching the Paul Rubin doc. It's really good.

Oh yeah, I finished it. That's really good. It's interesting. It's so good. Did you see the Osama bin Laden doc?

I started watching it and I wanted to watch it. So I stopped, but it looks it's amazing.

Now, what about talk talk to me about fashion and modeling and I'm sure that's a passion for you, but also

I mean I'm kind of Sorry, not for you. Well, this is for our guest. This is for our guest, Julia. Yeah. Yeah. Um, uh, is that, uh, that that is that kind of a hobby? I mean, you don't you don't you don't look at it as as you're not doing that to make a living because you make you make plenty as an actor, but I'm I'd imagine that it's kind of fun to be asked to do these things.

Well, I actually like there was a very long time where I actually made better money doing that than my acting. That's Yeah. A lot of that came from that.

Wow. So it's like a half it's like a I'm like I'm you know I have two jobs I guess. I don't know but yeah.

And so do you love all the dress up and the traveling and the I don't love the traveling but I as you know I do love I've always loved fashion as a kid because I always found it like a form of expression

um in a way. You've got a big billboard in New York. What was it for that I've just seen recently? There's uh

it was uh Gucci. Gucci. That was that was that was amazing cuz I got to shoot with Steven Meiselle again and he shot,

you know, he shot my first uh cover when I was like 21. Wow. Um Yeah. So, and I think it was like Yeah. a year before I did Ozark. The first season of Ozark. Yeah.

Oh my god. So God really [ __ ] cool. Very very cool. Um Sean, you ever done a cover?

Yeah. this year or no? I mean, sorry. Sorry. We need to be more specific. Yeah. Just Just give me the year.

I think you can do a cover. Yeah, I think you can do a cover. Yeah. GQ, whatever. Well, Julia, when you get back in 5 and 1/2 months, um maybe we can say hi.

I know. I know. And I I get like I always, you know, I miss I miss working with you. I That's the thing that I want to do the most is just, you know, work with you again.

Boy, she closed her she closed her eyes when she said that. You know what I mean? It's a tell. That's a tell.

A little bit of a tell. Tell us one thing that we don't know about Jason that you experienced on that was kind of fun but also revealing and maybe embarrassing.

She can't think of it. It's No, I can't. It's so not Jason's probably the most He paid me to say all this, by the way. No, I'm kidding. Um,

no, Jason is the most like nurturing director I've ever worked with. He's it's there's this like sense of safety that

that's our time. I think we just You know what though? If I ever had the chance to direct Will or Sean, I'd be a [ __ ] monster with that.

Yeah. What do you You already have. Shut up over there, Will. You [ __ ] direct and we got in an argument the first time you directed a rest development.

Yeah, cuz you were all Yeah, cuz he was all He came in all [ __ ] pouty because who was it? Um, who lost the election? Kyrie.

Kyrie. Yeah, John. Yeah, John Ky lost the election. and and old Canadian Will walks on to set all pouty about oh,

hey man, I was wearing yellow leotards and I was in a [ __ ] banana suit. That's a true story. I had to pick you up and Jason and I and he picked me up with a crane and we got in an argument in the bay

and I'm in a [ __ ] banana suit and we're arguing outside. He's like, just do the [ __ ] scene. I'm like, "Hey, [ __ ] you."

Yeah. Oh, I love Was that the last time you Was that the last time you worked with him?

That was it. as a director Jason with as a as an actor and Jason directing. Oh, he's pursued me so much and I just I just deal I can't Yeah, I can't make

time we worked together as an actor. I was it the uh it was the smartless doc, right? But that wasn't really acting.

No, that wasn't that was the last time we did anything. Yeah. See you every goddamn day now doing this.

I'm always acting like I like you. and then shot. By the way, this was so funny how this happened because I remember you were doing Ozark when you started this podcast and I remember you were like, "Yeah, you know, I'm just doing something silly. It's like I'm just doing with my friends. We're just, you know, for shits and gigs

and cut to a monster." Thank you. Thank you listeners, nice people. I get to meet my heroes like Julia Garner. You're everything I hoped you would be, Julia. They say don't meet your heroes

and you are just such a delight. Love to meet you in person one day when you get back from your movie. Please look me up.

I'll I'll try I'll find you. Yes, please do. Yes. Love you. Love to your mother. Love to Mark. Have a great shoot. And we're going to see Fantastic 4. We're going to see

July what? July what? July July 25th. July 25th. August 8th. July 25th. August 8th. Weapons.

And yeah. And then uh and then look for the altruist. She's about Is that what you're about to go do?

Yes. Yep. That's going to be on Netflix. Sam Bankman Freed. You're playing his wife.

Uh Caroline Ellison. Mhm. Yeah. There you go. Very, very good. That's exciting.

Impressive. Impressive. You're an impressive woman. Congrats on everything, Julia. Very thrilled for you. Happy for you. Love you. Go kill it. And uh

Thank you. Thank you. Hit me when you're back. Yes, I will. Thank you guys so much.

Bye, Julia. Thank you. Bye, Julia. Hi. Oh my god, Jason. Right. By the way, you must feel you must genuinely feel a a sense of of pride having watched her grow from being a sort of a young actor like a a young kid.

She's 22. Yeah. She starts on the show, a show that you helped create and brought to life and directed and were the star of and then she had she was not only amazing in it, but was recognized and had all the success and has now had a huge career and and in in part by all the great work she did on a show that you were instrumental in. That must you must feel great sense of pride in that.

Uh yes, but just barely. I take nothing away from her. She was like credit. Yeah. Yeah. No, but I mean she I remember very very quickly um uh we made a sort of a a decision to really make that character really drive a lot of story because she was so so good and the audience was going crazy for her and uh yeah it was really credit to Chris Mundy and the whole writing staff that

kind of changed a lot of storylines to really um uh you know utilize what a great talent she was.

Yeah, she's Yeah. and and and a delightful person. Like I never met her before.

Yeah. It's so so sweet. My god. But exact opposite of the monster, you know, Ruth was although, you know, she did play the character with a lot of vulnerability, but like she was really capable of just being, you know, Yeah. Love the character. I mean,

um but what a what a sweetheart. I'm so glad she's doing really well and um happy happy home life, happy work life. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. How about you? Yeah. I I always find it interesting when a a lot of actors I know are married to musicians, you know,

like it's a good combo. You're married to one? Yes, I am married to one. He makes music. Yeah.

And will you do some modeling? I'm married I'm married to my work. Yeah. As a model.

Yeah. Yeah. What's your is your next your next campaign for Will? Uh my next campaign is for laxative and um

I've moved into a different category at this stage of my life. So something for the seniors.

Yeah. Which I think and now we live in this world where and so anyway, so it's like

so those photo shoots got to be shorter then. No. And when the poster is just I give a [ __ ] a lot, you know.

And uh it's going it's going pretty uh it's going pretty well. Yeah. Sounds like it's going smooth.

Yeah. Yeah. Um I got new glasses. Okay. Oh boy. So you got the so so working working bif focal backwards. That's right. Oh, well you ruined it.

No, no, go ahead. I don't I don't think I ruined it. I don't think you were ahead of anybody on that

the second you said glasses. But go [ __ ] Tell us a story about your new They really are new. I just got them yesterday.

Are they Is it one prescription or No, two cuz the bottoms are What are they? That No, it's not. The bottoms are it by having two it makes them

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In order: 0:00 Froot Loops, SmartLess, Trader Joe's, Trader Joe's lobster bisque pasta; 5:00 Julia Garner, Amazon Amanda, Flow State, Ted Sarandos; 10:00 Flow State, New York, New York, Ted Sarandos; 15:00 Missouri, New York, New York, Rain Wilson; 20:00 Los Angeles, Martha Marcy May Marlene, New York, New York, Sundance; 25:00 Chevy Chase, Not Fade Away, Paul Thomas Anderson, New York, New York; 30:00 Clown School, France, Failure is the friend of the clown; 35:00 Foster the People, Mark Foster; 40:00 Weapons, Fantastic Four, Magnolia, Silver Surfer; 45:00 Julia Garner, New York, New York, SmartLess, The Altruist; 50:00 Mandy & Ralph Ellison, SmartLess.

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