Prestige Junkie

The Who's Next Oscar Draft, Plus Tom Pelphrey on Task

Prestige Junkie

Show Notes

It's a crossover event with This Had Oscar Buzz, as Joe Reid and Chris Feil join Katey and Chris Rosen to make their picks for the actors likeliest to win Oscars in the next 10 years — and of course we made a game out of it. Then Katey talks to Tom Pelphrey about his Emmy nominated role in Task, and what he learned when he didn't get the Emmy nomination everyone thought he'd get for Ozark.

00:00 Intro

00:00 Coming Up...

01:37 Who's Next? Oscar Draft

02:40 Rules Of The Game

04:34 The Draft Order

07:49 Round 1 Picks

22:44 Round 2 Picks

41:06 Round 3 Picks

57:12 Round 4 Picks

01:10:34 Next: Tom Pelphrey

01:11:48 The Ozark Snub That Landed On His Birthday

01:15:15 Soap Opera Boot Camp: Fifty Pages A Day

01:17:46 Shooting In The Woods

01:19:37 The Audition He Found On His Phone

01:23:22 East Coast Energy And Sense Of Place

01:25:54 Building Robbie As The Other Half

01:30:24 Why Brad Inglesby Writes From Character

01:32:55 His Secret Screenwriting Education

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