Interview · moment 11 of 17
Diagnosing Theater Kid Detachment and Being a Comedian Who Can Act
from Call OJ Daddy with Stavros Halkias | The Tim Dillon Show #342 · #342
5 min
Guest
Continued riffing on the vacant, try-on-any-personality energy of young hot actors, comparing them to Ben Affleck, and Tim reflecting that he's a comedian who can act but isn't a real actor, contrasted with theater kid earnestness.
- Tim hints at a major upcoming movie role he can't publicly identify yet.
- He identifies himself as a comedian who can act, not an actor with theater kid energy.
- Theater kid energy is brutal and self-serious, evident when young actors burst into character-work mid-conversation.
- Tim describes a handsome young actor trying to perform intensity, doing bits with his eyes like he's reenacting Pinocchio.
- These young actors lack authenticity—they're constantly trying on different personas and you never know who you're actually talking to.
- Tim argues this inauthenticity is necessary for great actors and unavoidable across the profession, even for someone like Ben Affleck.
- Super hot people might as well be unpredictable because they can get away with anything, so picking one personality is pointless.
- Young actors don't grasp how deep a conversation can go; they look at Tim like he's an old wise man ready to dispense final wisdom.
- Tim says he can act and would like to do more films if he had creative control over them.
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