Charlie Cox can be seen this April 10, 2015 as the title character of Marvel's Daredevil for Netflix. Daredevil is a 13 episode show that starts a 60 episode arc crossing over some of Marvel's more street level heroes. Daredevil is a blind super heroe with special abilities. Charlie was also on Boardwalk Empire for 2 seasons, in the Oscar nominated The Theory of Everything, he has worked with Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Clare Danes, Ricky Gervais, Steve Buscemi, Kelly MacDonald,...
Feb 01, 2015•1 hr 34 min
Jason Chin wasnt very well known outside of the Chicago comedy scene but he meant a lot to the hundreds or thousands of lives he touched. Jason passed away at the age of 46 on January 8, 2015. Jason was a teacher, an improvisor, a director, a friend, a son and a brother. I bring in some Chicago improvisors that knew Jason to talk about some of their memories of him. Craig Cacowski, Joe Canale, Tim Baltz join me in the kitchen to remember a great man and a great nerd. We talk about his appearance...
Jan 30, 2015•1 hr 29 min
Joel Murray has developed a nice resume over the years in film and television. Racking up credits on Mad Men, Shameless, Dharma and Greg, One Crazy Summer, The Artist and many more. He also happens to be the little brother of comedy legend Bill Murray. We talk about his family, parents, brothers, sisters (one has polio andother is a nun), his father passing awauy when Joel was only 5 years old, growing up in a full house, growing up in Chicago area, getting into actiing and comedy, following the...
Jan 26, 2015•2 hr 6 min
Janina Gavankar did two podcasts with me that nobody has ever heard due to my only two major technical issues doing all these podcasts. There are only 2 podcasts that I have been unable to make public and she is the guest for both of them. She was kind enough to come back for a third time and Im happy to report there were no issues. We had a great talk about race, crazy auditions, working on True Blood, being a Gamer and working on a video game as an actor (not a voice), getting advice from Jenn...
Jan 22, 2015•1 hr 47 min
AJ Tesler is a guy I know from the improv world. We were at Improv Olympic at the same time in the mid 2000's. Now AJ is married and has a little girl with Rett Syndrome. RS is a regressing neurological disorder occurring exclusively in young females. AJ came to my house before the holidays and talked with me about Rett Syndrome and what a parent and a child goes through when they find out. We also talk about his proactive way of coping. He has made a video with his wife and daughter and is look...
Jan 15, 2015•1 hr 27 min
Jordan Klepper and I met some years back in Chicago. I knew him as a hilarious improvisor. Now hes a hilarious on air correspondant for The Daily Show on Comedy Central with Jon Stewart. We talk about Chicago, improv, comedy, how he got into comedy, his funny family, how he met his wife and how he proposed, getting the Daily Show job, what working there is like, what on Stewart is like, his audition process, having Tim Allen as an uncle, and so much more!!! Please listen, please share, please en...
Dec 09, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Susan Messing is a woman I only heard about for years while I was hanging out in the Los Angeles improv scene. Shes a Chicago Improv Rock Star and when I moved to Chicago in 2008-2011, I got to have her as a teacher and even got to perfrom with her a couple of times. In a recent visit to Chicago, she was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about marraige, divorce, raising a kid as a single parent, losing a dear friend, Chris Farley, the improv Guru Del Close, dating UCB founder Matt Besser,...
Nov 23, 2014•1 hr 47 min
Noah and Linda are Chicago improv staples. They also happen to be married to each. We talk about where they each come from, their backgrounds, how they met, age difference, why they eloped in Vegas on a whim, Linda being stalked by crazy people, Del Close, Chris Farley, not having kids and a ton of other things. Had a great time talking to my fridns. Thanks Linda and Noah!! Please Listen, Please Share, Please Enjoy!!! My website... www.ejscott.com Twitter... @ejscott Instagram... @ejscott1106 Th...
Nov 08, 2014•1 hr 51 min
Opus Moreschi is a multi Emmy Award winning writer for The Colbert Report. I sit down with Opus at his apartment in Brooklyn where we talk about his younger life where he and his family lived in different places around the world, the divorce of his parents, developing a sense of humor to help deter bullies, the origin of his nickname "Opus" which became permanent, improv and sketch writing in Boston, his luck with the ladies, how he got a writing job on The Colbert Report and how that paved the ...
Sep 24, 2014•2 hr 6 min
Denis O'Hare became a beloved villain on HBO's True Blood a few years ago. Since then he has been nominated for an Emmy for American Horror Story, married long time boyfriend, adopted a baby with his husband, and keeps working on multiple projects including his one man show that he toured the word with. We talk about all of this plus winning a Tony Award, being an alcoholic and how he got sober, losing his sister to suicide, losing a boyfriend to AIDS, his views on religion, teavching his son Fr...
Sep 19, 2014•1 hr 10 min
Jon Hein helped coin the phrase "Jump the Shark" from an episode of Happy Days years and made a life and career out of it that lead him to working on The Howad Stern Show both on and off mic. We talk about his background, where he's from, his famliy, starting a "Jump the SHark" website, selling it for a lot of money, going on The Howard Stern Show for the first time as a guest and how that later lead to a career with The Howard Stern Show, hosting The Wrap Up Show, living on Long Island, Proposi...
Sep 11, 2014•2 hr 4 min
Brian "Bucky" Buckner has been show runner of HBO's True Blood for almost the last two seasons. He has been a writer on the show since day one. We talk about The writer's room, getting hired and working with Alan Ball, the transition after Alan left, the ups and downs of being in charge and the decision maker, the sacrifices that must be made, he also worked on Spin City, where he was nicknamed Bucky, working on Friends, his brief stint as an actor, his parents divorce, and other family issues, ...
Sep 02, 2014•2 hr 37 min
Adina Porter and Gregg Daniel drop by the kitchen to talk all things True Blood plus day jobs in Switzerland, meeting Robert DeNiro, advice for daughters, Aaoron Sorkin, House, losing loved ones, divorce ceremonies, the theatre, working with Oprah Winfrey, Spider-Ma 3, Sam Raimi, cult classic Pump Up the Volume, Uma Thurman, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, David Fincher, The Social Network, Glee, Jeff Daniels, Newsroom, and how their relationship goes back 25 years and so much more!!! Please Lis...
Aug 27, 2014•1 hr 43 min
Gregg Fienberg has been with True Blood since episode one until the very end. But you probably never saw his face. He is the executive producer. He worked with Alan Ball and took care of most of the logistics of putting a show on television. He is also a director and directed episode 4 of season 7. We talk about his early career working with U@, Madonna and Michael Jackson, And the story of Michael Jackson leaving the country to go to Germany when he was suppose to shoot a music video with David...
Aug 22, 2014•1 hr 11 min
Nathan Parsons plays James on the seventh and final season of True Blood. We talk about his Texas background, playing a gay character, being a voice over actor at a young age, being home schooled, being born in Australia, his admiration for Robin Williams and his friendship with his daughter, his audition process for True Blood, working on The Originals and True Blood at the same time, and flying back and forth across the country to do both showsdoing almost 400 episodes of General Hospital, wor...
Aug 22, 2014•1 hr 53 min
Ashley Hinshaw plays Brigette on the seventh season of True Blood. We talk about her growing up in Indiana, leaving home to move to New York at age 16 to model for Abercombie and Fitch, meeting and dating boyfrind Topher Grace from That 70's Show, working with Heather Graham and kissing her in a film, finding some scandalous pics of her mom on her moms iphone and how she will never look at grapes the same way, doing the ilm LOL with Miley Cyrus, being part of a film TALHOTBLOND based on a true s...
Aug 22, 2014•1 hr 51 min
Riley Smith and Craig Chester are both newbies on the final season of True Blood. Craig writes two of the episodes (eps 5 and 7) and Riley appears in many of the episodes as Keith a vampire who gets involved with a main character of the show. We talk about how they each got the job on True Blood, what its like on the set, what its like in the writer's room, we talk about Craigs facial deformity as a teenager and the year of surgeries that he had to fix it, then becoming an actor, writer, directo...
Aug 22, 2014•2 hr
Karolina Wydra plays Violet on HBO's True Blood. We talk about her life in Poland before she moved to the O.C. in California, her parents divorce, her fathers new marriage to a woman much younger, her mothers accident that sent her back to Poland, the transition from moving to a new country withut knowing the language, being a loner, her brief encounters with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams, meeting her current boyfriend and being in a long distance relationship, almost retiring from a...
Aug 17, 2014•2 hr 6 min
Tony Hale is a scene stealer. His characters are so interesting and he plays them with such commitment its hard no to watch him when he's on screen. We talk about being bounced around when he was a kid because his father was in the armed forces and how that has mudled his early memories, my theory is he was hypnotised in Germany. We also talk about Tony being bullied and how theater was an oulet for him, we talk about his religious beliefs and how importan that is to him, meeting his wife at chu...
Aug 16, 2014•1 hr 48 min
Shadaliza and Lynn have been running the Vault from the beginning of the hit HBO show TRUE BLOOD. They are die hard fans. And we talk about how they found each other online, what made them and still makes them so passionate about the show, their love lives in good times and bad, the ripple effect of True Blood to their lives, Shad's illness that motivated her to start the site, their favorite and not so favorite moments of the show, how they think the show will end or how they hope it'll end and...
Aug 14, 2014•1 hr 25 min
Amelia Rose Blaire plays Vampire Willa on HBO's True Blood for the last two seasons. Bailey Noble plays Faerie Adilyn also on True Blood and also for two seasons. We talk about the audition process to get on the show, their experiences on the show, what keepsakes from the set they kept, nudity, working with Alex Skarsgaard, Deborah Ann Woll, Chris Bauer and others, BOYS, their different high school experiences (Bailey prom queen, Amelia an outcast), their past and future projects and so much mor...
Aug 11, 2014•1 hr 46 min
Dale Raoul and Patricia Bethune come on and talk about their many years in the indusrty. We go over many of their credits such as True Blood, Seinfeld, Under the Dome, Angel, Buffy, Friends, Six Feet Under, The Office, NYPD Blue, Out to Sea, Max Headroom, Who's the BossMike and Molly, Mad Men, Boston Legal, Norm, 3rd Rock From the Sun and more!! We also talk about their marriages, their upbringing, auditioning, men, Patricia was a Care Giver and wrote about Care Giving. Lots of stuff got covered...
Aug 08, 2014•2 hr 16 min
Carrie Preston is an EMMY winner for her guest starring role on The Good Wife, she has been playing Arlene Fowler on TRUE BLOOD for the past 7 years, she is married to Michale Emmerson from Lost and Person of Interest, we talk about all of that, plus working with Cameron Diaz, Julia Robertys, what she is hoping to get from the True Blood set as a souvenir, working with Alan Ball on the movie Towelhead first before True Blood, what shes like as a director, how she started as young as age 8 in act...
Jul 12, 2014•1 hr 44 min
Angela Robinson and Kate Barnow are writers for the hit HBO show TRUE BLOOD!! They have written the first two episodes of the final season as well as other beloved episodes. SPOILER ALERT!!! If you have not seen the first two episodes please do not listen until you do. We talk about writing those first tw episodes, Alan Ball, putting themselves out there creatively for others to critique, and so much more!! Please ENJOY!! Please SHARE! Please LISTEN!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejsc...
Jul 12, 2014•1 hr 26 min
Lauren Bowles plays a witch / wiccan on HBO's TRUE BLOOD. She is marred to Patrick Fischler an actor with 100 IMDB credits to his name including Idiocracy, Mad Men, Lost, Southland. Lauren and Patrick met in college and spent several years developing a friendship that eventually lead to romance. We talk about Laurens relationship with sister Julia Louis-Dreyfuss. How Lauren got to work on Seinfeld, Watching Ellie and New Adventures of Old Christine, How she got the part on True Blood, getting ma...
Jul 11, 2014•2 hr 21 min
Howie Deutch is currently a very important producer and director on TRUE BLOOD!! We talk about S7 E2 opening scene with Alex Skarsgaard and Ryan Kwanten, how he met and fell in love with his now wid=fe Lea Thhompson, working with John Hughes on 3 films, his father who was involved in the music industry and who got involved with the mob, Alzheimer's, Joel Silver, Back to the Future and so much more!! Please SHARE, Please LISTEN, Please ENJOY!! Twitter @ejscott #EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott1106 We...
Jul 08, 2014•59 min
Stephen Moyer plays Bill Compton the 100 + year old vampire that ages gracefully. Stephen and I talk about kids, the origin of his stage name and what his birth name originally was, he tells a great sweet story about a mentor of his and when he found out about his passing, why he had the nickname "Dick" as a youth, Deborah Ann Woll joins us to talk about the Bill and Jessica relationship and much more!! Please SHARE, Please Listen, Please ENJOY!!! Twitter @ejscott @EJPodcast Instagram @ejscott11...
Jul 08, 2014•1 hr 28 min
Ryan Kwanten plays Jason Stackhouse on HBO's TRUE BLOOD!! We talk about being the first person cast for the show, his audition, the amazing story of how he ended up promoting a film he did that shot in Australia in the states and how that changed everything for him, judgng on Iron Chef, growing up in Australia, Sports, family, being a shy kid, the Austarlian Soap Opera "Home and Away", wanting to be a great Human Resource worker, Godzilla, favorite moments filming on True Blood, why he adores L....
Jul 03, 2014•1 hr 52 min
Rutina Wesley is best known as playing Tara Thornton on HBO's True Blood since 2008. We talk about her rise to the public spotlight, auditioning for True Blood, the advice Alan Ball gave her at the audition, what she has learned about herself from playing Tara, going to Juliard in New York City, meeting True Blood co-star Nelsan Ellis at Juliard, growing up in Las Vegas with performing parents, seeing her dad dance on Star Search when she was 6 years old, working with Patricia Clarkson, Julianne...
Jun 23, 2014•2 hr 2 min
Chris Roach was in one of my favorite and most beloved improv teams at iO West in Hollywood called Streethawk! Since the break up of that team Chris has gone on to write for the WWE, became a producer on CBS's Big Brother, and co-write a huge blockbuster movie starrring Liam Neeson called Non-Stop (now on Blu-Ray and DVD). We talk about improv, how the idea for Non-Stop came about and the process of writing a film, selling it, getting it made and how hard that is to actually accomplish. We talk ...
Jun 21, 2014•1 hr 52 min
