13255: Treat Showbiz With All The Suspicion It Deserves

Raw transcript:

You know, I was going to title this uh
podcast episode
treat show business with all the sus it
deserved. You know, like all the Gen Z
kids are doing these days. And then I
thought that would be so sus, so I
didn’t do that. Anyway, we’re going to
talk about that little phrase, who said
it, and what it means in this episode of
the VO Heroes podcast.
Brian Cox from Succession
and from so many other awesome shows and
plays and television series and films
and stuff. Uh he was asked recently by
the Hollywood Reporter, “What is the
best lesson about show business you’ve
ever learned?” And he said, “Treat it
with all the suspicion it deserves.”
You know,
Brian is a is a is a definite character,
a definite unique individual. He’s got
his way of doing things. And you know,
he’s not wrong. You know, show business
is the kind of thing that is confusing
to people who are in it as well as
people who are not in it. And
because it’s so unpredictable, because
it’s not systematized, it’s not uh easy
to understand even for people who are
performers who are working within show
business
that you can believe your own press
releases. You can believe the negative
things that you say about yourself. uh
you can believe that success is
predictable and plannable and
structural. You know, it’s it’s so
random. It’s just so random. And you
have to be comfortable with that. I hope
that you are. I hope that you can just
say to yourself, listen, I have no way
other than making sure I’m the best at
at what I’m doing that I can be and
continually getting better at it.
I have to be at peace with the idea that
showbiz is just like
you can’t say what’s coming. You don’t
know what’s coming. Past performance is
no indicator of future performance. And
you never know when that big huge ball
of loveliness
or stretches of nothing are going to
show up. And I wish that for you. I wish
that grace for you. And I hope you can
just like be at peace with that. you
kind of have to be if you want to stay
in the business. How do you stay at
peace with the unpredictability, the sus
of showbiz?
I’d love to know if you have
suggestions, put them in the comments
below. And by below, I mean if you’re on
the page for this episode at
vohheres.com. It’s a great place to go.
The conversation is polite and
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at ease with the unpredictability of
show business or maybe somebody who
isn’t in show business in your family or
group of friends that don’t quite
understand you and that you’re willing
to be a part of this crazy business. I’m
David H. Lawrence the 17th. I thank you
so much for watching and for listening
and I will see you in the next episode
of the VO Heroes Podcast.

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