2019-11-07
1 小时 10 分钟So for my guest today, Thomas Adosky, acting has more or less been a part of his DNA for as long as he can remember.
Born in Connecticut, raised mostly in Texas, he found himself immersed in the world of New York theater at the age of 19 and never looked back.
And in the 20 plus years since, his stage credits are kind of mind blowing, including features and reasons to be pretty where he was nominated for Tony, other desert cities, which earned him an OB reckless, which was his Broadway debut opposite Mary Louise Parker, and more recently, Susan Lori Park's White Noise, which was this fierce look at race and humanity and the stories we tell ourselves and just so many others.
You may also know him from movies like John Wick, the Last Word, wild, or maybe leading tv roles on the network law and order, Ugly Betty, life in pieces and more.
And by the way, be absolutely sure to keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming CB's series Tommy, where he will be featured alongside Edie Falco.
Cannot wait for that to come out.
And with such an accomplished professional resume.
What really blew me away, though, in our conversation is how big and open his heart is, how deeply he thinks about work and life, and how much care he gives to his craft and to the community he both co creates alongside and offers his art and his love and his mind, too.
We dive into all of this in today's conversation, along with the role of acting and art and belonging in society and his personal commitment to becoming much more, as he puts it, forward footed in his activism.
Now sitting on the board of directors and being very actively involved in Inara, an organization that provides life saving and life changing medical care to refugee children wounded in war, and also serving as an ambassador for War Child USA, which works to provide educational, legal and economic aid to children and communities who have been devastated by conflict all over the world.
So enjoyed this conversation on so many levels and I'm incredibly excited to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
So good to be hanging out with you.
It's funny, I recently actually was rewatching the first episode of the newsroom, which was like 2012 ish, right?
Oh yeah.
Was it that long ago?
I guess so, yeah, ten years ago.
And I'm like, this is as relevant, if not more so today, than it was when it came.
Almost prescient in a weird way.
Well, that's sort of the nature of great art, you know, that it seemingly is ahead of its time and simultaneously timeless.