The SAG-winning actor on bad films, games, and the broken link between the two.
Paul Scheer is a comedian and actor who made his mark as a creator and star of the MTV sketch series Human Giant. Since then, he’s starred in various TV shows such as The League, Fresh Off The Boat and Veep, and continues to host How Did This Get Made, a podcast (mostly) about bad films.
What gave you the idea to start How Did This Get Made?
My wife June and I had just seen Wall Street 2 and we went to a party after. We started talking to our friend Jason about it and we were finishing each other’s sentences, laughing and talking, and he says, “Oh, this is a podcast”. And it just plays into Jason, June and I sharing that we love movies. Even these movies that are not the best of the best, we love talking about them and we love the experience of seeing a movie together. I see that as a universal thing, that one of the best parts about going to the theatre is the talk you have afterwards.
You’ve done over 100 episodes now.
We’ve done over 100, but we’ve done them over such a long period of time – eight years. We don’t do many, and I think that keeps it fresh, because we all have different careers: writers, directors, actors, we’re all doing our stuff. It’s still very much a hobby.
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