Noah Emmerich, otherwise known as Stan Beeman on The Americans, joins Brian to talk about the subtleties in his craft, how he went from being a musician and travel writer to an actor, and how Brian broke Noah the news that he couldn’t land a role in the Kevin Costner film, For Love of the Game. Noah also dives into the backstory of how he landed his role as Marlon, Truman’s best friend, on The Truman Show and the lessons we can all learn from chasing your fears.
Mentioned this week:

The Truman Show, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, and Witness – Peter Weir films
Pride & Glory, Warrior, and Miracle – Gavin O’Connor films
The Americans
Beautiful Girls and Monument Avenue – Ted “Teddy” Demme films
Rounders
Floyd Abrams
@DanAbrams
Paul Giamatti
Ron Livingston
@JoshMalina
@WhitfordBradley
@DuleHill
A Few Good Men
Atlantic Theater Company
Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill an essay by David Mamet
Harold Evans
Lincoln Center Library
True West a play by Sam Shepard
Burn This a play by Lanford Wilson
The Qualms a play by Bruce Norris
Ron Stetson – Neighborhood Playhouse teacher
Ed Harris
Lee Krasner
Kurt Russell
Coach K
Andrew Niccol writer of Gattaca and The Truman Show
Susan Smith – Talent Agent
@JimCarrey
Bulworth a Warren Beatty film
Cop Land a James Mangold film
Harvey Keitel
@RayLiotta
Arthur Nascarella
For Love of the Game a film starring Kevin Costner
Scott Rosenberg writer of Beautiful Girls
@JoeWeisberg
Making Movies a book by Sidney Lumet

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