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NBC Nightly News
"ben platt" Discussed on NBC Nightly News
"Is kate snow at. I'm so happy to share with you. A conversation that i had with ben platt as part of my series the drink ben of course known for his tony award winning performance as evan in deer. Evan hansen on broadway. But did you know that. He's been acting since he was five years old. Ben talks with me about reprising. The role of evan in the film version of dear. Evan hansen. y'all so tells me how he was able to deliver such a powerful performance night after night. When he was on broadway and ben maybe eyeing a return to the stage sometime soon you can hear so many more stories of success from top artists entrepreneurs and visionaries. You can find it all at. Www dot nbc news dot com slash. The drink i love life performance more than anything and so both in terms of original music. An returning to the theater to broadway. Hopefully at some point soon. That's that's a huge something that i see in my future and we way hopefully returning to broadway sometime soon. That's going to get all your fans attention. Hello there all right. what's your drink. It's slightly boring but it's very healthy. It's just a matter. I mean i'm just gonna say that. Jane goodall had whiskey and repent martini and we had khumbu and smoothies. Water might be the most boring drink. We've we've had. But i get at least i have exciting nails to make up for the boring water. He let me see those. I noticed those at the met gala. Oh cavs those are exciting. You were there all decked out in delta yes indeedy. I was a christian callen before little gay cowboy on the big question. Ben is always. You've won a tony right. An emmy a grammy. Your twenty seven yes. How on earth did that happen by the age twenty seven. How'd you get here a number of things. i mean. i think the earliest reason for my being errors. That i had a wonderful family that really supported my love of the and of singing and performing and also that my siblings before me had already been doing musical theater at the youth program when i was born so once i was old enough to join like four or five started doing cinderella and oliver and all of those great kids musicals and fell just deeply in love with performing your father's a musical producer rates so evil and you're from la. I think some people might go wait. So was it one of those like you were forced into child acting. You know what. I mean yes. Of course i'm actually understand but if anything because my father's in the business he knows what unfortunately terrible business it can be an how deeply terrifying can be. They're always very cautionary in very realistic. About what i was getting myself into. And i think when he and my mom saw that not only did. I have a deep deep love for it but i really had an ability. End an affinity for it to go along with that. Date import. You do it all through high school. And then am i right that you moved to new york to go to columbia university. Yes so i finished on. How long did that last. Not very long. I lasted about six and a half seven weeks to the end of october. At which point. It was fortunate enough to be constant in book of mormon Which was opening a new company chicago at the time and so i couldn't pass up the opportunity to originate all new company. And so i. I left to do that. Been on this roller coaster. Since then it's worked out okay. I think all right when you went in for a reading of durban hanson. Did you know right away like did you have a moment like this is for me. Yes it always opened with. Evans kind of stream-of-consciousness when he's trying to write this letter and thinking about all the ways in which the day could go wrong and dislike run on anxiety filled comedic kind of lovable rhythm that i felt really connected to and then on top of that was waiting through windows for song. Which was there from the very first day. And i think that really was when i sang that song and really felt Just a deep connection not only vocally and stylistically but in terms of what's being expressed in indicated in that song. I think when i was finished singing i felt this. I i have to make myself invalid with your. I can't ever let the scope. I sing. And i know how hard it is to sing. I mean every night and you're not just seeing you're like laying barriers soul. I mean you're crying and singing at the same time it physically. How did you do that. Water is a big that. I did that water and then also i think just i was blessed to have material that really called for that giving that much of myself. I got to experience firsthand. The way that it literally saved people's lives and started conversations and really make people feel seen and heard in like a really deep kind of universal way and so i think if there were ever nights where i was like how am i going to get up on stage and do this again. Or how am i going to put my body this again. It was reading a letter that i got nor reminding looking on on social media in hearing someone who was coming to show for the first time. Just reminding myself that it's so much bigger than my own experience. He even when the dog comes crashing through when you need a friend to carry do when you're rogue at all you be a really is about mental health right and his anxiety and acceptance and so many different themes that are tough. Yes relatable to to everyone. I i also wondered. How much of you is. evan hansen. Or how much. Evan hansen is you. I think yes. And no. I think more so when i was playing him on stage. The most important thing we share. Which is what makes the story the most meaningful for me on this experience for me that i struggled with anxiety for my whole life particularly in as an adult i think having that shared baseline so it's Is always what makes me feel the most connected to him. And i think in in coming back to it for the film the biggest difference that i really tried to apply to sort of protect myself was to maintain a healthy distance. Between who he hasn't miam- what do you want people to take from the movie on the most basic level. I just hope it's a nice escape on on on a deeper level. I hope it makes people feel connected and reminds us of our shared humanity. There's been a lot of talk about your age a lot of like. Oh he's twenty seven. He's playing a high school kid. How are you processing all that. I'm trying my best to tune it out because there's nothing i can do about how old i am. I'm very privileged in very grateful that i was given the opportunity to preserve the role in that the director in the studio deemed mike performance or the of of the film version in. So i all. I can do is play a character in when i'm playing a character. There's all sorts of things about myself. That are not like who i am. You know. i'm way a little less or address a little differently or my ears little earlier and in this particular case. I'm someone younger than i am. And that's my job as an actress to play things that are not like me. Flipside as you're twenty seven years old you've won all these major awards. You achieved a lot. So where do you go from here. You know i would love to continue to make ritual music and perform mireslav music. I love.
The View
"ben platt" Discussed on The View
"And see that one topic. I have no look when somebody says they cousin's mother's on subsistence brothers uncles doll in another country. Happening another contract. It's like you were saying earlier. Our grandmothers our grandmothers. Our greg remers. We'll always tell you about something that happened in another country to somebody. They knew who they knew everything. Yeah you should avoid all of that take accent. People should take that is. This is not the woman you want to get your information from. She's a wonderful girl makes great music. I would not take any advice from her about getting shop. She says she wants to do further research. She i would like to do some into heart disease. Yes maybe i could become searching. You never know when exactly she's gonna start a research though like we started. Hearing we've known about this is the beginning of twenty twenty. And she's not wanting to the She didn't go to the gallows so she had time the other night. And i would recommend the research before she go to twenty two point seven million twitter followers and speak. Because we know. We're living in a time where there's misinformation campaign and your story started out with your cousins sisters fiance's brother that's that's a huge red flag right there. That's the reason the white house. I think wants to contact her and talk because all the people out there who follow him using who reveal her listening to which is the right thing for the white house to put off to talk with a doctor. But you know this is now involved. This is now become an international incident involving several governments and yesterday yesterday the minister of health of trinidad they had looked high and low for mickey's cartons friend. People are there in trinidad million point. Three people that you know and no one has reported these particular side effect. The health ministry. And that's why. I don't want to say too much because one i don't want even lame ak deep do you don't want them night. I want to say it and he told me. Say let's see. But i do wanna. I do wanna follow up in in all seriousness on. I don't want wanna keep coming after me. But she does have twenty. Two million followers with that kind of platform comes much responsible. Eddie right and we know that there has been some hesitancy in the black community is getting much better. But i would implore people that have great platform to do your research and not spread any misinformation. And when you have people like tucker. Carlson kansas owens and laura ingraham sticking up for you gotta kinda coming thing is probably wrong and she should probably think about getting her information from someone like his mekki corbett the african american woman who was a key scientists behind the cove. One thousand nine hundred vaccine. Who has offered at. Mickey she has. She has access to the information. Okay yeah i understand if you come around and you say my god where did you get that third head you know. I want to understand. You might be a little hesitant. Now you know or god you have a tail. Where did that come from. And if that's not what's happening. If the stories of the day are not about the what's happening to people because of this you gotta take some solace in the fact that people are not having those kinds of issues. They're not having those crimes. I'm gonna tell you. There is one issue scientific. No i'm not gonna say the issue that we can't mention. I'm going to tell you one that we can make there's erectile dysfunction. There are scientific studies from the cleveland clinic and from reputable scientific organizations. That right is that is a possibility. Then yeah but the result of ovid colorado not ex- bats important secure that they do. Here's the point. It's not the vaccine giving it to you. And they don't know what's in it and they don't care.
WGN Radio
"ben platt" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Best in Latin American music all day on Sunday at Ravinia Of the Pitchfork Music fest is going on this weekend at Union Park it Randolph and Ogden. Phoebe Bridgers is there tonight. Saint Vincent tomorrow and Erykah Badu on Sunday 42 artists in total performing. Blake Shelton's in town this weekend. He is at the Allstate Arena on Saturday. Jeff Dunham, the comedian at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, And Bob, I think this one you and I should go together to go see Bobby Rydell. Oh, man, the our kata out in Saint Charles on Sunday. Bobby Rydell is still at it, huh? Trying to think of what was the Bobby Rydell that he had a big sellers to call. Forget him. He had He had a few and not one title comes to mind right now. I want to say forget him and somebody text us, uh, You big Bobby Rydell fans out there. We won't cheat by Googling. No, we won't leave it up to the listener. I don't think my computer will even look that up and also backed the Toronto Film Festival kicking off. Yeah, That's a big deal because it only happened virtually last year and the Toronto Film Festival is North America's biggest Film fest. You know, we've been hearing about the Venice Film Festival we always hear about can But here in North America, the biggest one is always in September. Always right around this time of year, um up in beautiful Toronto. Normally, I would be there previewing movies and interviewing the stars of those movies, But we haven't gone for a couple of years now because of The pandemic, but they did premiere the movie that kicked it all off. Is the movie version of Dear Evan Hansen, which was a Tony Award winner on Broadway. It started Ben Platt. He is in this movie version. It's not like they took the stage version and filmed it. They've completely restage that. With Julianne Moore now in it, and Amy Adams, and it's just one of the most beautiful and powerful musicals you will ever see on stage and I've already seen this movie version. In fact, I interviewed Ben Platt a couple of days ago, and we're going to share that interview on my Sunday show this coming weekend, But this movie version just takes you inside closer into everything that's going on. That you know the movies can bring you in close on different emotions and things. So when this movie comes out at the end of this month, I'm going to be highly highly recommending it. But that was the movie that kicked off the Toronto film fest last night. I was reading about the Diana musical. What do you know about this? Well, I haven't seen it yet. They haven't seen a trailer for it. It's not supposed to come out. It wasn't supposed to come out till toward the end of the year. But Netflix now has announced that they're going to be releasing it. On October, the first So they are going to let it go a little bit earlier. It's a musical. That is about the teenage years of Diana, Princess of Wales. So, uh, you know if if you want to see the trailer, it's up on YouTube, and it's not hard to find But it's a musical based based on the life of, uh Diana Spencer 19 year old Diana Spencer in this movie, so yeah, and this movie, it will be on Netflix. And I cheated. I did Google. Bobby Rydell had hits with Wild one. Forget him. He also did a version of the Lari Lari Mhm and you can see him in Saint Charles. What night is he? Uh, let me check my Bobby Rydell file. Kata kata in on Sunday Sunday. Yeah..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"You know sounds to me like you're gonna have to be more direct. The i feel too guilty. And i don't want you to go through. Time is just activating the masculine side of him. Of like i can handle this. I'm the man what you need to say is. I truly believe that. I need to be single for right now because i'm not running toward you. I'm not running toward engagement. I was. I'm sorry about that. I got a little excited. However since then i've really given the some thought and i won't be the best partner for you because i'm not over the moon about this pending proposal and getting married and having you come here so i'm not the right partner for you at this time you're gonna have to be very very direct and very strong in how you speak with him and to be honest with you. I don't think you need to go and spend a month right thinking about earlier. I don't think you need to go and spend a month there. Because he will propose and he will pressure you and you might even cave when you go. Can you stay here. Yes i can i can. I can change my tickets. Usually all i care. Can you hear like every time we say like. Hey this is your future. Like she gets super excited. She starts glowing. You've got this beautiful smile at her face. I think that's why it's easy to be able to tell you these kind of harsh things that essentially this relationship it's not suitable for your life right now and i think your parents and family and friends. I'm sure they've noticed your independence. You feel like excited about living in los angeles and living life without your gut on et. Your parents are would be like yeah. It was starting to not seem right. I would say my brother is going to be extremely happy though. Yeah my mom. Shunde understanding on. Oh one last thing. You don't have to break up with him immediately. Like all the stuff like but don't do it knows up to spite your face. I'm working on the assumption that you may take our blunt blunt harsh advice which is to break up with him. But i do think it would be. It would be interesting for you to start to view life as a single person like when you go out to coffee. When you're out with your friends keep your eyes open. Imagine being single. You know what i mean. Imagine like oh okay i could be open to these other experiences because then maybe you can kind of let go of the security blanket of this relationship. You know gently if you don't feel like calling him tonight but she has to do something though on because this isn't just another thirty days that she's been doing every year to go there on. Are you going to miss not going if you decide to not go. I should go and do his face to face. but i don't know if i the gut feeling of face-to-face. Think face to face his overrated. I really do especially if you know that you can maybe be easily hushed. You know i know i can. No one is gonna say. Oh my god. She broke up with him over zoom. You know. nobody's gonna say that and if they do fuck them they should be living their own lives. I'm excited for you. I don't know. I could see a world opening up for you. That's filled with a lot on a disease. Help it all did we freak you out again. I think everything you said is something. I had Back of my mind subconsciously..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Leave my life but i'm just scared that as soon as i do that i'm not going to be willing to put as much effort and energy because i put a lot of effort energy relationships Relationships i i'll be like if it works out perfect. Great gonna be very grateful. I'm very happy with that person. But shifting and changing as much as i shift event changed myself for him. I don't think i can't do it up again. Will maybe the next person in your life will be able to do nice things for you. Maybe you won't have to feel like you're giving so much of yourself and it could be a great time to be single for a minute. I wish i had been more single in my twenties. I think i kind of missed out on some things. I moved in with my boyfriend like four months after we met and then we got married and we were just too young. We were just idiots. It was like we were playing being married. I look back on that. And i'm like that was like a production or something like we were just playing roles and not very well at a whole. So that's kinda where i'm coming from and i think the reason why i can so breezily say to you. I think you should break up with him is because it feels to me from kinda your energy that you have been kind of breaking up with him for a long time in your head or tried to get him. Break breakout with me. Had we can show you how to do that. Okay well first and foremost the reason why you shifted and had to work so hard at becoming. What he wanted was partly due to personality types and also the age that you both were when you met when you hit an older age. We don't do that. hopefully we. Don't so that was part of just growth right if you stay in something like that where you're having to acquiesce and shift and bend yourself into a pretzel to be with somebody..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Watching you observing you would probably see that you've literally shut yourself off. He'd be freaked out. Yeah exactly he would be. He'd be like shit she's fucking hot. You are so hot. And he's like happy yet. she's excited. Yeah yeah loser. I need you. I need you so much. You don't understand you're the love of my life yet. don't listen to it on. I am being shot him. It's just. I feel like i recognize so many elements of this. I think she needs to see. I mean i know it sounds crazy and horrible but i think she needs to see what life is like with other guys. Because that's how you develop your patterns in your needs and your wants and your dealbreakers is that you get to explore experiment. The twenties our exploration and they're the exploration time of ourselves. And you can't do that by being with one person since you were super young especially if you move to another country and that doesn't mean have sex with other people but go out have coffee. A dinner have lunch meat. People connect with co workers. You need the exposure to develop yourself. I want you to have a relationship where you can have long meaningful conversations. A road trip relationship. You know i want you to be able to drive to texas and talk to each other the whole time if you met when you're nineteen and he was twenty one. You've probably talked a lot. Then you knew each other. You had a lot more in common. Now it's like you guys are two different people. You've had such different experiences. And you kind of put your life on. Hold a little bit for him when you were in europe and only going to school and not really having a life experiences because you sorta found security in what he thought the future would be. And i think that's shifting for you. And i think it's awesome. I know i know it's scary. It's so easy for me to be like just break. He's even say we like to ask this to on it. What do you wanna do like. How can we support you and help you visualize and strategize. You want him to move.
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"It seems like you guys have been together for five maybe six years but unless you've been together on a day-to-day basis for five or six year period of time you can't really be in the position of thinking about proposal and engagement and marriage. How much of that five years have you actually been with. Each other in person would be like something around two years. Max okay and i asked him. I was talking to him last time. I had feelings and i was like listen. Maybe we should figure sound way that you can come here and we can like leave at least on the same continent not across the ocean. Because i cannot move back right now arm in school. I had worked. I can't move back and when we get married and easily get married. He's going to be the one who is going to be moving here so i feel big pressure. Also 'cause he has friends and family great career and he's gonna come here for me if he doesn't like it. What if it's gonna affect more our relationships shoot responsibility on me. So i told this he's like oh. Maybe you should have thought about this before like our parents talked before. I talk to your parents. Well that's okay you know. He's the one that talked to your parents. And you are allowed to have new thoughts and you're allowed to change your mind and i'm just hearing you right now. I'm getting the feeling that there is so much of you. That has grown since being here like you said like there's a possibility that you have grown out of this relationship and you're entering into corporate world and you're finishing up your degree in like there's so much going on for you and you're not even in the same country just seems a big decision to be made right now that you really don't have to remember all the men on. I guess it does feel like you are kind of in a relationship out of some degree of obligation pressure because it has been so long..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"It's so nice to meet you on and you're here with april fire so on a will you tell us what's going on. Yes sure i've been relationships or six years N it's very long distance relationships. My boyfriend is somewhere in the middle of malware europe. I moved here five years ago. So it's been long since the whole time. I was going back for a month every year. Just to have that physical connection to keep everything going clipping trotting online allot now off six years. He decided got some time to get engaged on may next year together. Mary and i am standing in front of this decision. That i'm not sure. What should i focus. It's been six years of rollercoasters. Like shooting involved there was like cooling Again heating relationships in wild than all bad. Are you engaged right now. Do you have a ring. Neither uncovering but if this year i go is going to propose to me. I know that 'cause you already talked to my family. Everything so on. I mean right off the bat. It feels like mu. So i'm curious because in your letter you write that you have been long distance for over five years then you move to the. Us he cheated. And you're maybe feeling some pressure from your family is well or everyone is at least expecting you to get married. It's true and i'm only twenty five for the record. So i wonder what do you love about him. What keeps you in this I'll be completely honest He changed a lot. He was an absolutely different thurston and it was definitely the started. Relationships was way more confident. And i was like the one who was trying to engage she. More and like trying to drag humi- relationships and all this one i moved to. Us i guess. Us does this to you. Try to like get out of your comfort zone and got to now. People meet people do all this stuff and you start building career. I got except that they. You'll see now. Is dreamed about going to uc san diego It's really changed me. And i feel like i got more self-confident and now the role switched. He's super sweet. He's trying to be understanding. Although a night. Twelve that ham. I changed my job. He's like oh well. Your bus is going to be a man or woman as like. Wow a boy who. I trust my way. That question like i like Right now i'm working like gemin- and like all this environment and like everyone Single of my co workers are women so his like going to work with. And i'm like. Yeah i'm gonna like drip ledge with men and everything like this is how corporate america wage this is. This is part of it and all this here like torturing him ana that's hysterical. You're like yeah there's going to be a lot of men know that so many men. Well the thing is that he knows if i start thinking about someone else. It's end of our relationship. 'cause i i b. He done that to me. I know that sucks. I'm not gonna be the same thing to him. But i feel like i've spent so much energy time and i shaped myself so much to fit into his perfection. Were perfect human kind of criterias. That i'm i feel sorry for that. I don't know if i can do it with someone else. Like i can ajaz that much for someone else. I can like try to work on relationships with someone else much like. It's a lot of effort. It sounds like you gave a lot and you shouldn't have to change just to fit into someone's idea of perfection. Yes to the outside world..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"What talent or ability would you most like. Have i was kinda hoping for an idea of an instrument that you might love to play. But i kind of would love both ideas young new. Both the guitar is definitely the instrument. Answer i've tried a couple times in giving up because it hurts your fingers and it's frustrating. But i really want to be able to play because i only play piano which i love but you can't bring it with you anywhere and the guitar is so infinitely portable so i would love to be able to do that and then like zooming out any ability. Oh wow i'd love to have like any visual art ability to draw or paint or like i just don't have that muscle like i just can't do that. My handwriting is like not very legible. Like i just don't have that muscle. It's always so like unbelievably shocking to me when people can do that. It's like it feels like superhuman in a way. I'd like to be able to do that. I'm with you. Do you like to travel love to travel. Especially with noah. Now he's a really really good travel partner. Let makes travel pattern. That's a good question. i think it's about controlled chaos. Like i think it's about like somebody who's willing to have structure and like have a game plan so that we have something to build on when we get somewhere but then is equally willing to throw things out the window and like go with the flow and be spontaneous and experienced place within that framework and think we share that balanced together. Yeah i agree. I liked that controlled chaos and. I think there's also if you are fundamentally a person who can kind of make the best out of most situations than that makes for a good traveling partner absolutely you can get bogged post ranch in it and also motels exit. We just went to post engine. I heard you talking about It's just glorious isn't it. Yeah we went for noah's birthday was like going to a different planet for a little. While it was beautiful swit- the islands up north or like salmon island. All i have to go. Yes i know you guys above it. What advice would you give your younger self two things. I would say. Spend more time with your parents because when you're younger that feels like like cow. Mike god i love you and i love them of course and i. We had a wonderful relationship. But i you know it's not forever that you're gonna be living in the house with them and spending every day with them so i would just say like try to appreciate that..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"She's like living this full emotional thing and the singing gorgeous at the same time and i was like i learned from you so i don't really know what to say back to that. That was just a very special like life. Oh yeah that's awesome. Will you tell me a little bit. I wanna live vicariously through about seeing the opening of wicked like the power of that particular show. It's like a freight train. It must have been so dynamic. Like i said i loved wizard of oz growing up so like my two greatest loves reservoirs and musical theater so the fact that it was like a musical in the world was it was like i was falling out of my skin like so excited about it and i just remember hearing like you know. Recordings of the workshops and readings like in the car on the way to school and my dad would play for us and ask us about like what songs we liked and stuff like that. And and the first time i saw it was in san francisco when they did their out of town tryout and i saw the the big production for the first time and i think that show has this weird ability like with a lot of young people. I feel like a lot of people my age or around my age like sought at this very formative eleven to fourteen fifteen time when it was like. This is what i want to do with my life. It was like that kinda show is like the emotion on the spectacle and it was like that for me but like times a million. 'cause it was like wizard vase and it was my dad and it was at just like i just remember feeling like it doesn't get better than this and it was just so unbelie magical visit kristen. Ten with and adina menzel. Yes both of them. Like i can't imagine just brilliant and also just like carrying the weight of the world like obviously. I have some sense of what. That's like now because of evan hansen but it was a much higher stakes situation going in because it was a huge production and there was a lot of buzz about it and it was a big. Ip like just a lot on their shoulders and those are really difficult roles and they're just both absolutely incredible. I mean they're both legendary because of and after it and it makes total sense. Iras latine some youtube videos of you on different appearances so..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Okay what is your relationship with fame. Probably similar to yours are anyone's in the sense that there's some things that are wonderful in some things that i hate. I'd say the best part of it is just knowing that when i create something that i love or bible make music that i love that i you know acting a piece that i think is important. I have a platform to get that out there. To have a lot of people see down get is on it. And that's the best part. I think that's like a gift and i try to take that responsibility seriously as i can without like psyching myself out and i like running into people who have been moved or changed in some way by what i've done. Then they're certain encounters that are really meaningful ones. That i really am grateful for. But then i also feel that it's terrifying and sort of detrimental and like that. I exist as this kind of idea of somebody for a lot of people or this version of myself that i subconsciously have to try to sort of maintain in addition to just like figuring out who actually am which is just kind of a weird mind game and you know. I'm anxious kind of private person. So the idea that anyone is sort of looking in wanting to know what's going on. I'm sure you feel very deeply. The that is unsettling to me for sir. Did you ever have a moment in your youth like when you were first experiencing hetty fame that in hindsight you felt like you may have had a hint of like sort of drinking the kool aid. Yes i asked to speak have a couple of cringe irs. That i'm really glad. We're of course..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
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Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Just really dear friends that would every so often have some sort of dalliance find ourselves back in the same spot and i would always kind of beat around the bush and then eventually last year or i guess twenty nine team. We got to kind of a crossroads where it was clearly kind of time to either. Really do this or to not keep bringing this back up because it was hurting his feelings and also it just wasn't healthy for either. Will you guys living in different cities. New york both in newark wants to bring up the crossroads who is motivating. I think he just knew a lot. Sooner than i did. Really how special. It was and like the fact that this really could be the thing. And i think i had all these kind of preconceived notions in my head about like who that person would be that. Were really irrelevant. Ultimately that was so kind of clinging onto like they're not going to be an artist like me. They're going to do something totally different. And they're going to be older than me and they're gonna all these like sort of arbitrary things and then. The crossroads really came from my kind of being enlightened and kind of joining the reality that he was in. When i did this radio city show. That's now on netflix. Special concert for my first album and it was very special night. Obviously you've never played there before and had everybody that i love all their my whole family came in all my friends. And it felt like my like adult barmitzvah. And i was dating someone kind of random at the time and afterwards i had party because it was like sort of a celebration for my birthday and also for the concert and i just remember walking into the party and seeing everybody that i loved including this random guy that i was dating and thinking to myself like the only person that i actually really wanna go and see and spend time with and like go home with is noah and so i think something about that like life shifting perspective of having something so big happen in thinking about like hoodoo i actually care about how they felt about what they think about it and you know it was just him and so we did end up going home together and then from that night forward it's just sort of shifted and then shortly thereafter. We had the kind of real conscious conversation of like. Let's do this exclusively. Let's really date and so it's been like a year and a half since then. We're going stern. And then of course like corentin probably hit shortly after that night radio city music all right yes so that was in the fall and then we started sort of hardcore like. We're doing the real thing. Dating the beginning of january of twenty twenty so we only have like two months of normal relationship rate. So like quarantine made you double down andrea upper shut up sorta of like zero to sixty but it ended up being kind of exactly what we needed in a beautiful way. I mean obviously. I wish that this had never occurred for murrieta reasons but the one nice kind of by product was we had been skating around for so long especially me and like you know doing versions of it and you know knowing each other and but not really ever like diving entirely and this was like okay. There's nothing to do but dive all the way in. So we were like living together. He stayed with me and my family for most of the beginning. And you know all my siblings and my nephews and my parents and we were spending twenty four seven together and really seeing what it really was and then of course it ended up being the love of my life. So that's always good. I love that so much. This year has really introspective. Year for me am really grateful for that element absolutely..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"I was eighteen going nineteen and i was doing pitch perfect and one of the guys in the movie with me. I just like fell so in love with and he was not yet comfortable with himself so he was closeted and we had to keep the whole thing under wraps for that reason. Because i felt so in love for the first time in so infatuated with him. He was like talented and cool. And you know mysterious also really sensitive secretly and like really loving but only in private like all these things were sort of pulling me in different directions and i got really invested really fast. Then i regret that. I was so kind of impressionable because i was dishonest. With like my family and with my friends and really just like lie then changed myself for him because i just loved him so much in i would do anything he asked me to do and unfortunately he just was not a place where he was comfortable with who he was. We dated for like nine months and it stayed secretive the whole time. Do you mind my asking ben. If the lies were in regards to his being closeted knew. I had to sort of keep everyone under the impression that like buddies. Obviously people close to us were working with. They knew what was happening. And my mic. Best friends in the world. I couldn't help tell them but to my parents for a long time to you know anyone else in the professional realm to anyone like beyond this close to me. I had to sort of continued to pretend that we friends. And i had to be around his family as his friend. And you know it just was you know scarring kind of a rite of passage for gripper which i hope is slowly becoming extinct this kind of phenomenon of wanting to be with people who aren't yet comfortable with themselves but it reached kind of a peak and after like nine months of doing this i was like i'm in love with you and i've shifted my whole life around for you and and so can we please come out with it and just be honest about it and he was like. I don't wanna do that. And i was like well. I don't think we should do this anymore. So we broke up. We spent the summer doing different jobs that he did a play somewhere. I did a play somewhere. And then when i came back to new york after the play i heard from a mutual friend that he was like out of the closet with another person. Living with this guy. Like basically. I was sort of his gateway which i'm happy to be but it was a little bit painful of a gate to be So that was my first love and also my first heartbreak to kill two birds one stone that was also a tough blow to come back and find him like totally comfortable now without me. Was it hard to not take that personally or did you blame the societal pressure There's definitely both. I mean certainly like society. Don't also i think familial. And also just internal. I think he just struggled with liking himself and loving himself and so of course as you know eighteen nineteen year old. I was like it's me. He's embarrassed of me doesn't want to show me to anyone. But now obviously i have a much more perspective and ultimately i i know that it could have been really anybody to his credit. He's still now with the guy that he was with. When i got home so they've been together for like seven years and they're very happy so very happy for them..
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Joyful frenetic energy with her voice and with performance that it's like this bittersweet feeling that i really love i completely agree there is like a fighting through the tragedy spirit about her and i think liza has a bit of it too. Oh yes for sure. I mean i would hope so. Do you collect anything. Like electorate chopsticks. Whenever i ordered sushi. Because i'm always looking for chopsticks with. That's all i could. That's good. i'm a hoarder my shower. It looks like i have eighteen sorority sisters while you love like washes and shampoos and all that kind of stuff. Yes but i also have a funny thing about throwing something away. Even if i don't care for it because maybe someday you'll need it or you'll want it or yeah i i don't have to go to the store. Just go to the shower. What or who has influenced your career. The most while the instinct is just to go to the earliest thing that influenced career and has stuck with me. And that's probably my drama teacher. Turnips janet. utterly. And she has this place called the hourly school in the palisades. Here in la. That's like an after school program where we would go once a week and over the course of like three or four months for her show and then performance for the parents and it's where i met a lot of my dearest friends that i still have and i also think i was like this empty vessel and then it just that place just kind of filled new show tunes and with broadway and with a love and appreciation for those things. It was the first place that i went does young person where i felt like in charge or like sort of powerful and confident in my very kind of binary sort of run of the mill school experience that wasn't necessarily the most valued thing in elementary school middle school to musical theater or to to sing as a guy or to. You know. I certainly didn't face the kind of adversity than a lot of young people face especially on queer people but i think it was the place where i felt.
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"That is possible in musical theater. So i think it was a nice challenge. Guy missed. I missed having you know people's audible sobs laughter. My dad read a profile of robert young. Who played the father in. Father knows best He said that plane that character made him a better father in a better man in a bitter husbands simply the absorption. Think of playing a character and i imagine that because though you created evan and he is you in a sense that you can't really reflect on evan changing you yes or no i mean i think obviously in like kind of the more superficial ways when i look at my life and like the doors that have opened in kind of connections that i've been able to make i can think about him changing the in that sense but i think on a human level i feel like as much as i felt seen an have grown from feeling like i like him in terms of like the fact that we both struggle with anxiety. And you know we both struggle in large social situations and it's nice to play someone where you feel at home in that way but i think what i've carried with me more so in a strange way as like reveling in the parts of me that are not like him and sort of like appreciating that and being grateful that i do feel seen by some people in my life and that i do have people around me that accept me and that love me and that that i feel like i have a community to receive me in a way that he doesn't hopefully eventually we. You know suggest that he will find that. But i think that and also my ability to emotionally communicate i think both has grown obviously with age but also it has made me really lean into that as a skill and really appreciate and foster that in myself because i know that so much whatever goes through is a product of his inability to to do that to communicate what he's feeling and to open up to people and i think if i already had a seed of that i've now really tried to like ten that garden because i it's sort of like a what not to do kind of thing. What a great answer. And i love a gardening analogy all right. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be. Move new york city. I love new york. And i usually live there. I was there for the last eight years or so. I left for the pandemic to come home with my family and staying around. La because my partner works in vancouver and so for now. It's nice to be proximal. And i do like la very much grew up here but new york is just my favorite place live theater and you can walk everywhere and there's so much community and it feels very together. I just really love in los angeles. Couldn't feel more like the antithesis in every way with some in some ways is nice nice space and feel an openness and.
Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"ben platt" Discussed on Anna Faris Is Unqualified
"Hey everyone today's guest is singer. Songwriter and actor. Ben platt from his roles in pitch perfect and deer. Evan hansen to being on the time one hundred list of most influential people in the world. You'll soon no i. I was so excited to meet ben later in the episode april and i talked with a young woman who can't decide whether to marry or break up with her long distance boyfriend. I really wanna thank everyone for their openness and sharing these stories if you have a question and would like some unqualified and qualified advice. Please look for the link at unqualified dot com. Now here. he is ben. Platt ladies and gentlemen. You're listening to unqualified on affairs. You.
AP 24 Hour News
Ben Platt named Hasty Pudding's 2020 Man of the Year
"Award winning actor and musician Ben Platt is being honored by Harvard university's famed hasty pudding theatricals that that's twenty twenty man of the year Platt who's twenty six is the youngest recipient of the fifty four year history of the award he's the putting coproducer Natalie needles as he was chosen because of the incredible impact he's had on Broadway and in Hollywood at such a young age but want to Tony in twenty seventeen for dear Evan Hansen and the cast recording to come the Grammy for best musical theater album as well the daytime Emmy for his performance on the today show it's also known for his role as Benji Applebaum in the films pitch perfect and pitch perfect two is currently filming the second season of the Netflix series the
WBZ Midday News
Ben Platt named Hasty Pudding's 2020 Man of the Year
"The ward winning actor and musician Ben Platt was honored by the hasty pudding theatricals says it's twenty twenty man of the year yesterday plateau of dear Evan Hansen and pitch perfect at twenty six years old is the youngest recipient in the fifty four year history of the award former winners of man of the year include Tom Hanks Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford Elizabeth banks is hasty pudding twenty twenty woman of the year and was honored last
KZSC Programming
The 77th Annual Golden Globes to honor several LGBTQ-inclusive nominees in 2020
"Here now the nation's for the seventy seventh annual golden golden globe awards were announced and there were several of the B. two Q. and crear adjacent nods across film and television with rocket man paid and gory killing eve at the politician each scoring two or more nominations there are also several out actors who were nominated other nominations at celebrate LGBT Q. representation that lack of nominations for people of color and outstanding roles like is a diet and euphoria and rigidity keying in watchman art well that's notable any year rife with extraordinary films from when the directors the Hollywood foreign press association failed to nominate credit Kerr wing for little William little women Lulu way you for the fare well the rain ASCA Fauria for hustlers Cillian CO four portrait of a lady on fire and Merial Heller for or won't you be my neighbor still progress around LGBT Q. visibility deserves to be celebrated and the gay and lesbian alliance against defamation are glad pre is the recognition in a statement saying quote golden globe nominations for LGBT Q. inclusive films including rocket man portrait of a lady on fire and painted glory along with tell of the television series the politician and killing eve continue a tradition of recognizing extraordinary talents by the Hollywood foreign press association glad said director of entertainment media Jeremy black a black hello said quote well deserved nominations for several LGBT Q. roles as well as for out actors Billy Porter BT felt staying Ben Platt and Andrew Scott provide a reason to celebrate and reminder for how audiences and critics alike support and applied authentic RGB to Q. storytelling and here's just a brief review of of those folks that have and in receipt of nominations is according to the advocate here for the F. X. drama pose Billy Porter was nominated for best performance by an actor in a television series drama the gay actor appears as pray tell and the and the show which is made history with trans gender representation can't wait to see what he's gonna wear yeah right Ben Platt recognized for his role as Peyton Hobart in Netflix's the politician and nominated in the category of best performance by an actor in a television series comedy or musical Platt recently came out as gay and his character Peyton is durable as a bisexual lead in this Ryan Murphy produced series next and you Scott the hot priest in season two of Amazon's flea bag scored a nomination in the category of best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series limited series or motion picture made for television Scott is gay this the show the politicians scored a nomination it best television series comedy or musical the series produced by Ryan Murphy centers on several LGBTQ characters vying for power in a wealthy high school in Santa Barbara California including a character played by a gay actor Ben Platt was received a golden globe not as we just mentioned flea bag that series received three nominations at the golden globes best television series comedy or musical best performance by an actress in a television series for Phoebe Waller bridge and best performance by an actor in a supporting role in the series for Andrew Scott as imagined in addition to prominently featuring Scott a gay actor as the hot priest the season Waller bridges series is funny and moving at a take on navigating life love and sex as a woman in her thirties next up killing eve the BBC America series about a killer Jody calmer and the woman she is infatuated with Sandra was nominated in the category of best television series drama I'll also mentioned that Jody Comber the who kills and killing eve ha ha the a she's got the nomination in the best performance by an actress in a television series drama for her role in killing a law for the show yeah for sure the second season really stood up sometimes you never know yes sometimes it is kind of a sophomore jinx that now is it but in this case the dazzling musical a biopic of Elton John's life a rocket man is up for best motion picture musical or comedy I got to see that Terron Iger ten an ally of the LGBT Q. community was nominated in best performance by an actor in a motion picture musical or comedy for rocket man and he gives life and voiced Elton John and this a claim role also Elton John alongside his writing partner Bernie to open received a nomination for the track I'm gonna Love Me again from rocket man in the yeah the school category you know music commissaries category right Gregor wings little women did the clearest and most feminist interpretation yet of the beloved story by Louisa may Alcott received nominations in two categories Best Original Score and best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama for a show is run ins Joe March Renee Zellweger was nominated in best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama for giving life to gay icon Judy Garland in the bio pic Judy Antonio Banderas is vying for best performance by an actor in a motion picture drama he was nominated for his lead role in pain and Gloria filled by Pedro Almodovar inspired by the gate directors life out actress Beatie felled Steen scored and not in the category of best performance by an actress in a motion picture musical or comedy she plays Molly and books marked the Olivia Wilde directed comedy about two friends one straight one lesbian who cut loose after prom glory as we mentioned previously the film directed by an inspired by the life of gay filmmaker Pedro Almodovar is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film portrait of a lady on fire silliness yamas beautiful film about two women who discover love and art in eighteenth century France was nominated in the category of Best Foreign Language Film and Jennifer Lopez as queer hearts a flutter as Ramona the stripper and hustler who took destiny Constance Wu under her wing and the fold of her fur coat the foreign press association was also moved giving her a nomination and best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture and Margot Robbie is a stand out and bombshell the film about sexual harassment at fox news that giving away spoilers he's a compelling reason for LGBTQ folks to watch it the foreign press association agreed honoring Robbie with the nomination and best performance by an actress in a supporting role in any motion picture so at least a couple categories here will get a half LGBT representation competing against itself wiles is kind of cool and its own right but yeah so congratulations to the many LGBT Q. nominations for this year's golden
Modern Love
Words With (I Wish We Were More Than) Friends | With Ben Platt
"When he was working in Nevada Justin race matter that he thought was perfect for him the only problem they'd never spoken outside of the online game words with friends Justin's essays read by Tony winning actor Ben Platt Ben Stars in the new show the politician on net flicks her okay cupid profile mentioned that she was really good at scrapped will so I sent her message challenging her to game words with friends loser buys the winner coffee I wrote you game she accepted but told me coffee wasn't possible she was in China for the school year teaching English and wouldn't be back until July it was now January I had moved to Reno from Washington DC six months earlier to take a job at the university of Nevada and I was having trouble meeting people over those months I had message more than sixty women and heard back from only six wchs leading two zero dates so it seemed cruelly fitting that the first woman I really connected with had moved to China would hey good words with friends partner can be even harder to find than love later that evening she challenged me to a game at six pm for me nine. Am for her an odd I date half world between us sitting on my couch with phone in hand looking for Bingos hoping to draw an S. or blank play a move send a message repeat we were evenly matched barely won our first game soon we were playing two games at once and chatting in both two entirely different conversations threads one series and the other playful kept this up for six straight hours at one point I had to slide my couch closer to an partly because my battery was at two percent like any good I I didn't want it to end we talked about everything from our childhood pets Herat's Mister peepers and tough nut and my dog inky to my dream of one day running a retirement home for animals geriatric cows and octogenarian pigs happily living out their golden years with nothing whatsoever expected from them she told me the worst gift she had ever given the boyfriend was a giant Hershey Bar I confess that I'm more likely to cry during a movie trailer then while watching the actual movie I told her I always botch clean Chase. It's not like it's rocket surgery falling asleep that night happier than I've felt in sometime I wonder if I was being cashed those six hours had been too good the kind of night you dream about and then suddenly the is rising ridiculous flirtatious or serious whatever the topic it was always easy the next night was no different and I realized I had to start getting this down on paper when a game ended our chat from that game and with it every forty five minutes or so everything would disappear I wanted to preserve all of it proof that such things are possible after week hold my best friend back east what was happening she told me a story about a CO worker who had an online relationship with a woman for two years now they are married my laughed it off and thanked her but I told her I had no illusions we were always brutally honest about our future namely and agreeing there wasn't one it wasn't even clear that she was coming back to reno she would go wherever she managed the job we were most pleasant attraction for each other but school would eventually resume for her and I'd eventually someone in Reno on the words with friends board we were both masters of the endgame but that didn't seem to be any end game for us in real life they also knew that it was the baked in distance and the impossibility of a date that had allowed me to fall so deeply in the first place in person I am typically so shy in romantic situations that I can barely make eye contact with someone just met with her felt pre to open myself up entirely two weeks after playing in China four to six hours every night she warned me that she was meeting her father in South Korea the coming weekend and wouldn't be around to keep our nightly ritual it's strange to miss someone that you've never actually met in the morning I woke to a message she sent from the airport winning out a delay this single message meant more to me than the thousands of others we exchanged when I took my first business trip as a single man a few years earlier I remember wishing that I had someone to text from the airport I had internalized the idea that love I parked in the furthest possible spot the line insecurity is insane spring break or something okay at my gate morning shutting down they're about to take off smiley face all those imagine texts snow recipient it's don't even more when my plane touchdown several hours later with nobody to tell arrived safely broken homes for stating
Lori and Julia
The Politician on Netflix: Jessica Lange, Ben Platt and Everything Else We Know
"Trason. We've heard her be in talks on and off. Mazel use that off beaten song from her first album in in season one Lucia. Oh, really? I'd be shocked when that'd be fun. Now be shocked. They know dining did you like how American horror story ended? I did like how it ended. What's coming back? They're just gonna do a story on the coven. Yes. The wishing says, yes. Which is you know, and I liked American forestry wasn't good season. Redemption. After the last couple of just really violent terrible, storytelling, you know, kind of thought.
Donna and Marley
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Platt team up for an emotional
"This is the mytalk now trending report what's happening right now trending online right now is a palumbo he is the shortstop for the minnesota twins and it looks like he just received an eighty game suspension without pay after testing positive for and banned substance from the form the mlb so it looks like we will be out a shortstop look for the i eighty games so we're gonna have to manage without him for a little while lin manuel miranda is trending we were just talking about him but it looks like he is teaming up with ben platt to release a mash up song with a portion of the proceeds going to the march for our lives and of course the march happening in washington coming up at believe next week in advocating for gun control but it looks like lin manuel miranda will be a fitting the bill for some of it and a jim carey is trending as well it looks like i did not know this but he is a painter and he just released a portrait of sarah huckabee sanders our our secretary the press press secretary we'll just say it's not flattering but jim carey you know he's been unflattering lately he's kooky we're talking about kooks he would be want to go to mars i would think it'd be for a role he's a kook now you know what we know see more at mytalk one zero seven one dot com fresh the whole foods is doing got a high last name with the wrangling.