Jason Peck

Intro: Gina is totally over it. Performing chores, repetition, BOREDOM, the promise of Clubhouse.
Let Me Run This By You: Have you ever committed a crime unintentionally?
Interview: We talk to Jason Peck about studying at not one but two theatre schools - USC and Florida State University. Jason helps us compare the different conservatory experiences. Also, the trope of "breaking you down to build you up", studying alongside the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Maggie Gyllenhaal at the Young Actors Space as a child actor, what Jason has learned about teaching the craft of acting. Then, we talk about Eric Bogosian and the rewrites of SubUrbia that Jason was a part of.

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Speaker 1: (00:08)
I'm Jen Bosworth from me this and I'm Gina Polizzi. We went to theater school together. We survived it, but we didn't quite understand it. 20 years later, we're digging deep talking to our guests about their experiences and trying to make sense of it all. We survived theater school and you will too. Are we famous yet? Are you high going out?

Speaker 2: (00:33)
There's only so much playing in the snow you can do, right. I mean, there's,

Speaker 3: (00:37)
There's only so much playing in the snow. You can do. I think we're in the phase and maybe we've always been in or been at it for a while or we're returning to it. But the phase of the self isolation where it's like, we're all kind of low key, like nothing matters. There's no point to anything. This is all just, yes, this is all just like, like I'll be doing the dishes and I'll just think like, I'm just performing this dishes act, right. Just performing the trash act. I mean, it's all like, I'm not suggesting that it would be better if we just ignored that and lived in, uh, in squalor, but at the same time, right. It's just does feel like, what are we doing?

Speaker 2: (01:21)
Yeah, it is. It is, it does feel like it's never, um, for me, I just go back and forth to different houses that aren't my house. Uh, we just keep, we keep eating. We keep going, you know, to the bathroom, it's just the same. And it's just, it just there's, uh, we need a break. We all need a break and something fun to happen because this is, this is pretty, you know? Yes. It could be worse. Yes. We're healthy, relatively speaking. And, but it's real boring. I mean, I think what you're talking about is a real deep level border Bordeaux going on.

Speaker 3: (01:59)
One of the things, one of the States of being that I dislike the most is being bored, but ha but having a lot to do. Yeah. Like having a lot of tasks on my plate. Um, and I should say, I mean, I am finding things to keep me stimulated. I'm not entirely bored. I can say that there's was a good portion of my life since living here. Well, even, maybe before, uh, where I was extremely busy working really hard and just so bored because nothing was feeding me creatively, whatever intellectually. So thank God for this venture between us. Thank God for a clubhouse, which I'm addicted to.

Speaker 2: (02:56)
Okay. Close, cut. Cause everyone I'm seeing in all my forum, like all of the pages, I'm a part of online, like, right. Like I'm a part of some writer's groups. I'm a part of some women's Facebook thing. Everyone is going on clubhouse now. So I'm once our, after our interview today, I'm going to T-Mobile and get my, and get my iPhone. Good.

Speaker 4: (03:15)
Oh, I'm so excited for you. Yeah, you're gonna, I mean, it's like a blessing and a curse it's w if you're like me, you'll get on it and then it's hard to get, it's hard to get off of it. Um, but it's amazing because, and I've been saying this so much recently, but it's still true. It's amazing because it's talking about boring. Part of what's boring about social media is that you're just seeing so much of people's self curated self image, and you never know like what to believe about what the person is presenting to you. And in this case, I mean, I'm certain, there are ways that people can filter themselves on this app too. But for how it is for right now for me is it's only people's voices.

Speaker 4: (04:12)
So there's, to me, there's nothing to hide behind. I mean, you're hiding because you don't have to, we don't have to see your face, but, but to me, like the value of a person is not in their face, it's in their minds. And you know, not, not to say like they have to be intellectual or anything like that. I'm just saying like P people's perspective. People's thoughts about the world. That's, what's compelling to me about other people or not compelling to me about other people as the case may be and what you find on, on clubhouses people. And, and don't get me wrong. There's plenty of, I was saying to somebody last night, so far, I can identify a few different tiers or, or categories of people. And it's same thing as true on any other social media platform. But, um, there's the internet hustlers, the people who are trying to make a buck, the life coaches, the preneurs, the venture, you know, so there's that whole side of things. Then there's, you know, people who, and this may be a lot, a lot of, a lot of us people who are, have been so socially isolated, that they're just longing for human connection. Um, and I forgot where I was going.

Speaker 2: (05:25)
That's okay. But there's different tiers of people. So like, so there's different categories of like, who who's trying to do, what on there.

Speaker 4: (05:33)
Right. Who's trying to do what, and, and, and the, the, the category that I'm finding myself attracted to is something that I really have not done very much of in my life, which is trying to synthesize different worlds together. So like, there's a lot of tech people on t...