Stay ConnectedPodcrushed — the podcast where Penn Badgley reads your middle school story — explores the heartbreak, anxiety and self-discovery of being a teenager. Hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, and Sophie Ansari bring you stories and conversations about middle school – from childhood crushes, to battles with body hair, to schoolyard scuffles. The results are sometimes awkward, sometimes heartwarming, and always relatable.
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Fresh off a historic run of Golden Globe wins for her new film The Brutalist, actor Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything, On The Basis of Sex, Rogue One) drops in to share stories of her early life -- from her days as a child actor, to her canon moments in college losing out on roles in student films to other students (despite being a decade into her professional acting career), to how The Brutalist beautified her relationship to the architecture of her hometown.
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To celebrate his new film The Apprentice, we're doing a special holiday rerun of our episode with Sebastian Stan! Penn and Seb reminisce about heartbreak during their time on Gossip Girl and how acting forces them to question things. Sebastian also shares how it was to learn English through acting, and the group ponders how to navigate friendship and competition in the entertainment industry.
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Today we're rerunning our Taylor Tomlinson episode — one of our favorites from Season 2! You may know her from her viral Netflix specials, "Quarter Life Crisis" and "Look at You", but this week's guest, the bright, witty, and ludicrously funny Taylor Tomlinson, feels duped! She thought she was coming on for a breezy conversation on first periods and childhood crushes, and instead found herself deep in a conversation on heartbreak, rejection, death, and mental health. The hosts hold nothing back, too, this week as they reflect on sudden loss and middle school trauma. This is a special episode of Podcrushed you won't wanna miss.
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Acclaimed actor, comedian, and impressionist Jay Pharoah (SNL, Jared) tells the gang about his days getting in trouble for impersonating his preacher, the pivotal moment that came from forgetting his lines on stage, and the strange coincidences that keep shaping his life.
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Riley Keough (Under The Bridge, Daisy Jones & The Six) regales the hosts with stories of her early dual-life -- the ultra shy kid who once tried to run away from her own birthday party, and the budding performer who was discovering the same elation of being on stage as her grandfather Elvis Presley. Riley also tells stories from her new book, From Here To The Great Unknown, about her relationship with her mother Lisa Marie Presley and the complexities of their family.
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Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, Heroes) swings by and gets deep about growing up in the wake of his dad's passing, the moment he first found joy in musical theater, and how a real-life struggle he was experiencing ended up strengthening the audition that got him Sylar on Heroes.
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Today we're handing our feed over to one of our favorite shows: Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Each week, you’ll hear Julia have insightful, funny, and important conversations with these ladies who have so much to teach us about living unapologetically and focusing on the stuff that really matters. This season is yet again chock-full of marvelous guests, and, as always, every episode ends with a conversation between Julia and her 90-year-old mom Judy.
On the premiere episode of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down with the one and only Jane Fonda. With a career spanning over six decades, Jane – now 85 years old – hits all the highlights: staying fit at any age, fantasizing about funerals, getting heckled on set by Katharine Hepburn…and something about a fake thumb.
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Auli‘i Cravalho (Moana, Mean Girls) shares what it was like to break out as the youngest Disney princess in history, grow up with no television, attend boarding school, and let her mom find out personal information via Teen Vogue. Auli‘i talks to us about language, polytheism, protecting our oceans, and navigating the seas with the stars as our guide.
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Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything, Fantastic Beasts) takes a break from gracing the stage (and the soundstage) to bring his characteristic charm and kindness to the pod. He recalls early memories from growing up as the artsy one in a family full of athletes, and talks about his early days as a young theater actor in London, in awe of the bright lights and buzzy energy.
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Hot off the heels of his Emmy win, Lamorne Morris (New Girl, Fargo) stops by and makes all of Penn’s dreams come true. Lamorne is candid about volatile days at home, and why he chooses forgiveness; what it was like to be a tiny instigator; and the time he shat his pants in front of his crush. We get into hard days on New Girl, pick up lines in the real world, and playing the straight man in his Best-Actor-cinching role on Fargo.
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