KPCS: John C. McGinley

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  • Опубліковано 28 гру 2024
  • Join Kevin as he sits down with fellow character actor John C. McGinley (Scrubs, Platoon). John chats about his beginnings in New York theater leading to memorable performances on both the small and big screen.

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  • @pizzafrenzyman
    @pizzafrenzyman 3 роки тому +20

    John C is an amazing actor. I celebrate the guy's entire catalogue.

    • @rhetttillery
      @rhetttillery Рік тому +1

      I see what ya did there.

    • @AnotherOak
      @AnotherOak 10 місяців тому

      Haha..his place in office space was great

    • @Kumite_Champ
      @Kumite_Champ 7 місяців тому

      LMAO!!

  • @Mostly_bad
    @Mostly_bad Рік тому +3

    I just discovered this podcast. It’s amazing. I can’t believe he’s not doing it anymore.

  • @jonathanhildreth8919
    @jonathanhildreth8919 2 роки тому +7

    And here I am, 6 years after this has been posted, absolutely AMAZED at how spot on his John Malkovich impression was. Hahahaha I love it.

  • @joke312
    @joke312 Рік тому +1

    I met this man last year in an elevator. What a presence. Good man. I was ecstatic but had to be cool. Having grown up watching his work I was very happy to at least get to say hello.

  • @SRKanai1
    @SRKanai1 3 роки тому +3

    One of my all time favs. He does not fail.

  • @raiderking69
    @raiderking69 8 років тому +63

    I love McGinley! I have never seen him do a bad job, even in tiny roles.

    • @greendogg83
      @greendogg83 7 років тому +3

      I remember when he was a go to henchman, he has had varied career that is for sure.

    • @lowstryder1022
      @lowstryder1022 5 років тому +1

      Seven!

    • @ComicBookGuy420
      @ComicBookGuy420 4 роки тому

      My favourite was when he was in Highlander 2, trying to negotiate with a bloodthirsty psychopath like any good yuppie

    • @WalterLiddy
      @WalterLiddy 4 роки тому +3

      He specializes in taking a character that's nothing on the page, and making it a memorable role that suggests real substance behind the scenes.

  • @MrAitraining
    @MrAitraining 5 років тому +8

    Rare interview indeed. John is awesome. What a great program this was.

  • @Kumite_Champ
    @Kumite_Champ 7 місяців тому +2

    Love this guy in Point Break 😂 , he’s got so many great roles tho it’s hard to pick a favorite. Honorable mention Wild Hogs

  • @acaciakoa2417
    @acaciakoa2417 7 років тому +5

    J.C.M., an amazing storyteller and actor. One of a handful of the best interviews on KPCS. Great job, Kevin.

  • @spenser330
    @spenser330 4 роки тому +6

    The best thing I have seen anywhere. Not just on the Internet. McGinley is always such good value for money - but Kevin Pollack and his team are amazing.

    • @A_M_P_
      @A_M_P_ 3 роки тому

      Except for Sam. I'm sorry but that kid is so annoying and intrusive.

  • @jjouney
    @jjouney 4 роки тому +6

    Great actor! Loved him in Office Space

  • @pete6185
    @pete6185 8 років тому +12

    I never saw an interview with John C. McGinley, impressive, bright, passionate

  • @bonvivantinsf
    @bonvivantinsf 3 роки тому +6

    In 2003, I saw him walking out of the parking garage at The Grove in Hollywood, and said, "Hey, Marv, would you do your own homework?" and he gave me a WITHERING look - and I still love him. -- and true to his word, he NEVER broke stride.

  • @jonmyrick472
    @jonmyrick472 3 роки тому +3

    His performance in intensity was an absolute masterclass.

  • @tiearts
    @tiearts 8 років тому +6

    I can't think of a better interview either of them have done. Good to see McGinley talk his career at such great length, including Se7en for the first time I've seen

  • @CimChim
    @CimChim 8 років тому +7

    That was outstanding, engaging and inspiring.

  •  3 роки тому +1

    These interviews will become legendary.

  • @ClayHarris-g4r
    @ClayHarris-g4r Місяць тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤ John thank you mate ❤❤❤❤❤you need to come to Australia ❤love from Australia.Clay

  • @chriskaprys
    @chriskaprys 8 місяців тому

    Consummate professional. Radiant presence. Excellent listener. Damn fine storyteller.
    What a treat this was. Thank you, sir, for all the hard work and talent you've poured into your roles. It's clear you have a passion for storytelling - thank you for using your gift.

  • @ForbinColossus
    @ForbinColossus 8 років тому +19

    @25:27 Malkovich: "Get a fucking wig - ARE YOU DAFT?!"
    @29:49 Oliver Stone: "You wanna play the lead in my fuckin movie?"
    @31:10 Joe Papp: "We'll do Hamlet again when you get back...Go & tell Ollie I said Hi"

  • @billlee5307
    @billlee5307 8 років тому +1

    Yes! Indeed a most excellent interview! Many thanks!

  • @ReillyQuizzle
    @ReillyQuizzle 7 років тому +6

    The way John talks about actors and performances makes it REALLY sound like he should give directing a goddamn go.

  • @dcanmore
    @dcanmore 8 років тому +4

    excellent, one of the best interviews

    • @kevinw712
      @kevinw712 5 років тому +1

      To be honest I'd never exactly considered myself specifically like a huge John McGinley fan, I mean I've enjoyed and respected plenty of his work over the years, but not like I often went out of my way to plug into more of him. I kind of lazily first watched this not long after its debut when I didn't really have anything to do. There's been maybe like 5 different episodes from this series at this point that I have watched at least 3 times in their entirety over the years (& still paying full attention), this is one of them. The day I'm leaving this comment might have even been the 4th.

  • @gssheriff7278
    @gssheriff7278 4 роки тому +9

    Love him in Office Space.

  • @TheCanesgot5
    @TheCanesgot5 4 роки тому +1

    One of the best episodes for Kps

  • @bh5606
    @bh5606 5 років тому +2

    Terrific discussion about acting.

  • @claudec2588
    @claudec2588 8 років тому +6

    Excellent. "Being an Actor 101".

  • @scottgreenberg1596
    @scottgreenberg1596 8 років тому +1

    This is why I watch every week.

  • @rtifishul
    @rtifishul Рік тому

    IMHO, exemplary acting is found in the eyes. John McGinley as Perry Cox is masterful in this regard; even in expository scenes, this dimension of his acting elevates even basic expository scenes and electrifies the dramatic ones. He's an actor's actor, and worthy of examination by anyone in the arts

  • @halojones1843
    @halojones1843 4 роки тому +1

    Great show. Great actors.

  • @Afrimusican
    @Afrimusican 4 роки тому +1

    This was a beautiful tennis match between two character actors. Loved it from 0:01 to end

  • @paulguglielmini1023
    @paulguglielmini1023 3 роки тому +1

    Ones of the things I like about Johnny c. Is he is a humble actor,he has no problem just doing a little bit part in a movie and he can also star!

  • @dayleclarke4433
    @dayleclarke4433 8 років тому +17

    It's easy to forget sometimes just how incredible Scrubs could be. Could go from hilarious to painfully deep and be ridiculous and sincere at the same time.

    • @davidhayes4840
      @davidhayes4840 4 роки тому +1

      I fully agree. Scrubs always reminded me of a live action broad cartoon that so happens to be a moving drama. I have never seen that kind of juxtaposition in a show ever

  • @mjpink8408
    @mjpink8408 4 роки тому +2

    I loved him as Dr. Cox!!!!’

  • @maxthepupp
    @maxthepupp 4 роки тому +1

    Good Lord!! How have I JUST found this?
    I'll take it! 2020 has sucked balls so far.

  • @ClayHarris-g4r
    @ClayHarris-g4r Місяць тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤ love from Australia.Clay ❤❤praze you Kevin ❤

  • @daedralord1
    @daedralord1 8 років тому +1

    Brilliant interview

  • @limestonegoth
    @limestonegoth 4 роки тому +2

    McGinley is one of my very favorite actors, and this was great fun. It amused me that he dissed *Highway* because I loved his character in that (Johnny the Fox). The movie really wasn't good, but he was terrific.

    • @chrisgardiner2215
      @chrisgardiner2215 4 роки тому

      Never saw that one but I liked how you said "actor" and not character actor : )

  • @DarkDennis1961
    @DarkDennis1961 8 років тому +6

    never has Samm and Jamie been so quiet... cant believe it was 2 hours

  • @eliotmccann2589
    @eliotmccann2589 7 років тому +14

    6:05 for the guest

  • @kellykonoske91
    @kellykonoske91 4 роки тому +5

    SOOO miss Kevin doing this podcast. I know he's too busy now but....

  • @batjutsu
    @batjutsu 8 років тому +1

    a great interview, and wonderful stories :-)

  • @patrickfaulds5683
    @patrickfaulds5683 3 роки тому +1

    Crazy to hear John say California (Seven) was only a 3 line role. That was the first role where I really noticed John and became a huge fan. He really did have Elvis dust!

  • @mattcorich6759
    @mattcorich6759 8 років тому +1

    without question, great episode

  • @ownpetard8379
    @ownpetard8379 8 років тому +1

    Kevin makes it look easy. I'm late to his 'show' but have throughly enjoyed each of the dozen + + I have seen. Would hope he gets some of the interviewees back for 'the rest of the story'

  • @radiac6818
    @radiac6818 8 років тому +5

    Around 20:00 they ask for a definition of the word "unctuous". For the record, it's pronounced "UNK-tchoo-us" and it literally means "oily", but contextually, it means that in the sense of being excessively smooth, suave, or smug. So like oily as a weasel or some other oily-fur bearing critter, and about as trustworthy.

  • @zackdenny
    @zackdenny 3 роки тому +3

    Confidence personified. He's like a drill sergeant who was never in the military. One, if not the best actor anyone can afford

  • @reginaldcaputo2861
    @reginaldcaputo2861 4 роки тому +2

    He's still holding onto that "widow's peak" for dear life.

  • @chancefitzgerald7740
    @chancefitzgerald7740 Рік тому

    Just a smart guy and great actor.

  • @WealthyHealthyPro
    @WealthyHealthyPro 7 років тому

    John C. McGinley, super cool. Eternally irritated. That's how I feel most days. Blessings...

  • @rubenrodriguez6989
    @rubenrodriguez6989 3 роки тому

    Wow his memory is amazing

  • @simbeau
    @simbeau 8 років тому +5

    Great episode. I could have listened to another 2 hours.

  • @weejoy
    @weejoy 8 років тому

    What a great personality - good on you John C!

  • @StephanieGould
    @StephanieGould 6 років тому +1

    I studied with B.H. Barry too at Circle in the Square. He's great! :)

  • @codedeluxevids
    @codedeluxevids 8 років тому

    Great show

  • @stevejones371
    @stevejones371 2 роки тому

    If he isn’t teaching an actors class - what a shame. Listening to McGinkey made me feel like I could go audition and land a role - and I’m not an actor lol! Christ he is passionate and inspiring!

  • @uhfnutbar1
    @uhfnutbar1 8 років тому +1

    John C. McGinley cool good actor , i love the fear in his voice " Bob i got a bad feeling about this one all right" "i dont think I`m going to make it out of here " "understand what I`m saying to you" ,,,, Everybody gotta die some time Red

  • @CaptKundalini
    @CaptKundalini 4 роки тому +2

    Captain Dale Dye: "Red O'Neil, how ya doin'?
    Sgt. O'Neil: "Just fine, sir."
    Captain Dye: "That's good, cuz you've got second platoon."
    O'Neil (Disbelief, sorrow and fear): "Yes, sir."

  • @b3films
    @b3films 8 років тому +8

    Great stories and John's impersonations were killing me. Easily up there with Jamie Lee or Hanks as my favorite episode.

  • @joec0914
    @joec0914 8 років тому

    Fantastic show. Fascinating listening to the inside-baseball stuff about working actors. But no Larry King Game?

  • @Bryan8329
    @Bryan8329 8 років тому +2

    Him and Kevin breaking down the mechanics of supporting characters is a bit of a revelation to me. It's been staring me in the face for as long as I've watched movies or TV and it's so obvious, but how it's picked apart and discussed here has definitely made me look at it a different way.

  • @tiearts
    @tiearts 8 років тому +3

    1:18:54 McGinley on Se7en & Fincher, for those interested: the best film he's been in, in my opinion. Talk Radio is an underrated classic, too

    • @kevinw712
      @kevinw712 5 років тому

      It is a tiny role, and he makes his fucking presence KNOWN (& yet not being at all hammy)

  • @T.M.Warren-qp2gq
    @T.M.Warren-qp2gq 8 років тому

    McGinley has always been solid.Top draw character actor.

  • @TacticalXRays
    @TacticalXRays 8 років тому

    what a pro
    takes the craft massively serious

  • @meulestein7692
    @meulestein7692 8 років тому +16

    Oliver Stone impression killed me!

  • @stuartfitzsimons2786
    @stuartfitzsimons2786 8 років тому

    Fine job by all!

  • @turbodub501
    @turbodub501 7 років тому

    show needs more attention

  • @saswatogupta6128
    @saswatogupta6128 8 років тому +2

    It was one of the greatest TV shows of all time.It got me going through a lot.

  • @timmmmkay
    @timmmmkay 3 роки тому

    Miss this chat show.

  • @squatch545
    @squatch545 8 років тому +2

    I think John C McGinley just invented a new game: The Oliver Stone Game.

  • @stephengiese7549
    @stephengiese7549 2 роки тому +2

    This guy is pretty blunt and profane. Seen alot of his work. Spoke fast and was also blunt then. He wears a t shirt and shorts. How about that?

  • @ClayHarris-g4r
    @ClayHarris-g4r Місяць тому +2

    His entre movie listing is impossible

  • @AnthonyL0401
    @AnthonyL0401 8 років тому +2

    46:00 Awkward as usual when the cohost kid butts in. Especially awkward because Johnny C. is pretty authentic and not into bull crap. The kid should have asked it as a question, "Is that [hating when other actors don't know their lines] because of your theater days?"

  • @brom00
    @brom00 7 років тому

    I want John C. as a life coach.

  • @iamgeminijoker
    @iamgeminijoker 3 роки тому

    remember the movie Intensity? great stuff john play a bad guy

  • @paulsneddon1234
    @paulsneddon1234 7 років тому +1

    That kitchen extract fan is still rumbling away in the background...

  • @emersonian75
    @emersonian75 8 років тому

    Great entertainer and Jersey guy.

  • @Football__Junkie
    @Football__Junkie 3 роки тому

    Johnny is so intense. I love him

  • @MrAitraining
    @MrAitraining 5 років тому +5

    58:18 "cmon!" lmao

  • @kevinw712
    @kevinw712 5 років тому

    1:21:32 If this were a very common, regular practice in Hollywood, pretty much every third screenplay of the last 30 years would have "(a John Spencer type)" written somewhere in it.

  • @mdplemons
    @mdplemons 7 років тому

    The "Attaching a verb to listening" is interesting. I'll try it in my next droning meeting.

  • @knedy
    @knedy 8 років тому

    Fun to hear Kevin talk about Red State a bit, he was great in that movie and the movie itself is fantastic. Too bad Kevin Smith doesn't do more of that stuff.

    • @sleeperx9408
      @sleeperx9408 8 років тому

      Agreed, well.. a half great movie, but miles ahead of his later junk. Funnily, K Smith mentions he'd finished a dark and twisted script for a movie that'd make no money in their '09 kpcs, before he even thought of casting him.

  • @gena.sottile..HG..
    @gena.sottile..HG.. 4 роки тому

    love jc.m

  • @Ninjujitsu
    @Ninjujitsu 7 років тому +8

    "Scrubs was never top ten maybe top twenty" u wot

  • @pseudonayme7717
    @pseudonayme7717 8 років тому +1

    Woohoo, someone I know! First guest since Jamie Lee Curtis I have known.

  • @christianfinkbeiner684
    @christianfinkbeiner684 2 роки тому +1

    He could "print" Cher in a second? I assume that's a sexual term, but I haven't heard it.

  • @cluckeryduckery261
    @cluckeryduckery261 8 років тому +2

    Amazing actor. Lol through college i worked as a restaurant manager and john C's depiction of dr. cox was my inspiration for management style. It worked surprisingly well actually

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 8 років тому +1

      I bet it did. Did your staff hate you though? :D

    • @cluckeryduckery261
      @cluckeryduckery261 8 років тому +1

      +Pseudonayme 77 haha im sure some did but since i also did the hiring and the schedule, i kinda surrounded myself with the people i got along with... Hey i never said i was ethical about it lol

  • @TheKitchenerLeslie
    @TheKitchenerLeslie 8 років тому +3

    That's true about Pacino. I'm nobody, but I've met him a few times and he really is a sweet, genuine guy to everyone he meets.

    • @ahabthewhaler
      @ahabthewhaler 8 років тому

      not sure if stalking is meeting

    • @TheKitchenerLeslie
      @TheKitchenerLeslie 8 років тому +1

      +ahabthewhaler you haven't met me, but you ARE stalking me.

  • @TheKitchenerLeslie
    @TheKitchenerLeslie 8 років тому +2

    Elvis Dust = I'm awesome, you're awesome... let's be awesome together.

  • @oscarguzman2161
    @oscarguzman2161 8 років тому

    Great show!! Love to see Michael Keaton one day.

  • @zetetick395
    @zetetick395 8 років тому

    Is there a reason that this particular show is not numbered?

    • @zetetick395
      @zetetick395 7 років тому

      Well, now it is, past me.
      - All these KPCS shows disappeared off YT for a good while - but now they're back! ....Err.....ok....Great!

  • @JM-zp9ik
    @JM-zp9ik 8 років тому +1

    I love this show, but I"m not sure about the unctuous quality regarding John Cusack, considering in a previous episode he was referred to as 'an old pile of coats' - as it should be!

  • @chrisgardiner2215
    @chrisgardiner2215 4 роки тому

    My favorite John C. movie lines:
    (1) what are you doin ...saving up to be Jewish ? (PLATOON)
    (2)What ya think Bob ... a guy like that make it ?? (PLATOON)
    (3) well Bob I was hoping you'd put me on the chopper with King.... what ya say there chief-a- roony? (PLATOON)
    (4) BOB... I GOT A BAD FEELING ON THIS ONE (PLATOON)
    (5) "It's Barry's show boss" (Talk Radio)
    (6) HEY NICK I LIKE YOU LIKE THIS.... YOU AND YOUR PROM DATE HAVING WEAPONS ... (NOTHING TO LOSE)
    (7) AHHH ... THAT'S GREAT.... THAT'S JUST FUCKING GREAT!!! (ANY GIVIN SUNDAY)
    (8) Tom Sadowski...... He's useless (OFFICE SPACE)

  • @thescowlingschnauzer
    @thescowlingschnauzer 8 років тому

    NO LARRY KING GAME? What I would do to see John C McGinley do a Larry King Game.

  • @Carl_Frank
    @Carl_Frank 8 років тому

    At 1:29:44 I'm sure I'm not the only one who was immediately put in mind of, "What would you say... .ya DO here?" :-)

  • @jdnehen
    @jdnehen 6 років тому +1

    39:00 pineapples don't grow in trees

  • @mylifeisanerrantventure1909
    @mylifeisanerrantventure1909 8 років тому

    when in june will he be back and who is the guest. thats what i want to know. also what movie did john film in bloomington

  • @TheKitchenerLeslie
    @TheKitchenerLeslie 8 років тому

    Christ, I hope Oliver is just fucking around when he says lines like he's quoted as saying.

  • @garconvoute3024
    @garconvoute3024 6 років тому

    The fuckin man

  • @jakedc1997
    @jakedc1997 7 років тому

    I want him as the DCEU Jay Garricj