February 29, 2024 • 33 mins
He worked under Rory at The Yale Daily News as A.K.
Adam Hendershott reveals the interesting way he landed his role.
IRL, he's switched careers and is a successful photographer who has worked with some major celebs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am all In. Let's just you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I Am all in with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast, one
of our productions iHeartRadio, I heart Media, iHeart Podcasts. Today
we are going to do an interview with Adam Hendershott.
He played a k at the Yale Daily News for
seven episodes. He is currently a commercial and editorial portrait photographer.
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Was born, raised, and is still based in Los Angeles.
Adam got into the entertainment industry when he was discovered
at A Bob's Big Boy six years old. His first
acting job was playing a young Dudie Howser MD flashback
episode of the television series. Adam is twenty years of
experience as a working actor, with roles in Nip Tuck
for Uncle Mar's Cold Case and Nancy Drew As a photographer.
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Adam's work has been featured in magazines like GQ, Esquire, People,
and Entertainment Weekly, and has worked at campaigns for movie posters,
album covers, Oh I Wonder which bands, podcasts and books.
Jackie Let's bring him in, Adam, how did you get
your role on Gilmore Girls? Tell us about it?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh boy, I remember I had. It was a it
was a lengthy auditioning process. It was a unique process too.
We actually it was my first time going and being
paired with like a group of people because I had
my role was in the Yale newsroom. So I remember
being paired up with a group at the audition and
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they and before I went in, my manager said, hey, man,
you got to watch Gilmore Girls to make sure you
understand the tone of this show. And I did, and
so I was like, okay, I know, I gotta I
gotta keep my dialogue peppy and poppy. And then when
when I auditioned with the group of people, they wanted
to make sure that we could like jump on, jump
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in right away as soon as it was our turn
to speak and be a be part of like an ensemble.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That was it was.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It was an awesome interview experience. Is definitely unique.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So you didn't have any problem with the speed or.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I didn't really. It was it was kind of fun
being part of a group where I you know, as
soon as as soon it might turn to speak, man,
I was just man, I was ready to ready to
jump in.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, okay, good, So you nailed it and then how
long afterwards did you know you got the offer? Your
agent call you and say you got it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh. I think I went to like an initial call
and then they brought us back for like producers or
director and then and then as soon as that happened,
I believe it was either that night or the next
day that that I got an offer to be on it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And were you pretty pumped because were you away of
the show and you knew, hey, this this is definitely
a shot in the arm for the career.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Heck, yeah, man, that was back back then. I mean
it was a lifetime ago. So yeah, I was definitely
stoked to be on a on a hit shot. Oh man,
it was I've been acting since I was a little kid,
but you know, and took a little break and then
and then when uh, when it was time to get
back into it, and and I was in my late teens. Uh,
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I was super passionate about acting, and getting on the
show was definitely uh uh encouraging and uh very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So you played uh A K A K on the
Year for the Yale Daily News for seven episodes. It's
a lot of episodes. Yeah, they just kept calling you
to come back, or did they give you a seven
episode deal. They just kept calling.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
They did not they just they just kept calling. It
was awesome. Yeah. Every time that they needed to go
back to the the news room and I was in
it and I was in the scripts, they just said, hey,
you're you're working great.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, it's always good news, always good fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, it was always fun being a part of that,
being part of that group. And then I became kind
of friends with all the people in the Yale newsroom
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So we spoke to Devin already and he's one of
the writers from Yale Daily News. Were you who were
you closest to was Devin? You mentioned Devon That was.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I really liked Devon Man. Everyone was really cool. Danny
Putty was really cool. Amy Sloan was really cool. I
would say Rona was the person that I became the
biggest friends with. Rona Benson. Yeah, I became a photographer
and was a been a photographer for a really long time,
and I've taken her head shots multiple times.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, there's nothing that says friendship more than allowing somebody
to take your head shots. What was your favorite part
of working in that newsroom?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, I love the tone of the show because
it was just such a challenge that it was just unique,
like a unique acting challenge, so always being like no,
having my lines down and and and knowing uh when
to jump in and you know, actually one of my
favorite things to be part of that show were the
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different directors. I I liked to see how different directors
on each episode would come in and bring there and
do the choreography of the blocking and the dialogue and
everything and kind of have to jump in.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Too.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And like especially Kenny Artega that was that was a
really cool episode to see him like everything became like
a dance and and the blocking of choreography with the
camera and it was it was all really cool to watch.
But the camaraderie as well was was awesome, you know,
meeting a bunch of cool people that were that became
friends and and and acting in a on a kind
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of really cool show.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I was.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I was happy to happy to participate.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
What a concept. Huh, get paid to go make friends
and do stuff you like to do.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh yeah, after after cleaning pools and doing all kinds
of other odd jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So did you prefer when Paris was editor or Rory?
I mean, what what what was more fun to be
a part of.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I think it was more stressful when Rory was was
the editor, and then when Rory it was just a
bunch more of a supportive environment. You know, it's just
a different there's just a different environment. One was more
One was definitely a lot more hectic and stressful. Did
she was a bit of a tyrant?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right? Did you get to know Lies a little bit?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Or or alexis a little bit not not more than
off off out of the studio, you know, but all
the all the people that were my friends in the
newsroom I was, I were friends with them for sure.
But yeah, like Rory and Wise, I definitely just saw
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when I when I was there filming, and they were
extremely nice.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Did you guys go across the street to that watering
hole together and throw a couple back and reminiscent reminisce
on the day.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It doesn't sound familiar, but I mean we might have. Yeah,
I might have just blacked out from throwing a few back.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What was the name of that What was the name
of that place that famous? Gosh, it escapes me anyway,
It says here that you got discovered at Bob's Big
Boy Hamburger restaurant at six years old. Yeah, what were
you doing? And what? You must have been the most
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magnetic child.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I really was, Honestly, I was. I was a very
cute kid and there was a lot of personality.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Okay, tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I was with my family, obviously, I was six, and
I think a manager was sitting at another booth and
just like started, you know, like making eyes of me
and like seeing what if I would you know, play
back or whatever, and then came over to my family
and said, this kid is too cute and has a
great person and needs to be in the movies. And
you know, my family had never thought of anything like
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that before. So they asked me if I wanted to
do it, and I said, I'm sure, let's try it.
So they took me to an agent, and the agent
wasn't sure if she wanted to represent me, and so
she was like, all right, I'll send you out on
an audition.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
What the heck was her problem? What was the agent's problem?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I think I just had like a lack of focus.
I just I mean, I wasn't the typical you know
kid actor. That was just I am dying to be
a star or anything. You're six years old?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well you were kind of focused. Did they expect exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So? Are you?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Don't cut it? You don't have focus, You're sex You
need to be focused. What is that eight? Did you
just say take a look at me, Look at.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Me, look at this. How can you pass on this?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It got me out of Bob's big boy, you know.
It got me in the door.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And then I booked my first audition. So as soon
as I booked that, she was ready with papers to sign. Yeah. Man,
it was Doogie Howser, Doogey Howser. I played him as
a six year old in a flashback.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh right, but she wasn't sure whether you can handle
it because of your focus. But here you are playing
through the house. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
As soon as I book it, yeah, then she then
she's all over it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And then I just never stopped working. I was just
I did a ton of pilots and commercials and little
little movie parts and bunch of like, uh, you know,
guest stars and things like that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Would you recommend a young children getting involved in this business?
Did it mess your head up a little bit? Or
were you at all level headed and could deal with
it and all.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That My family was really cool about it. They were
always like, hey, if you never want if you want
to stop doing this, let's stop.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They never were never pressuring me. So to me, it
really depends on the family and the kid. If there
are some kids that are just magic and they're born
to do this, so you know they so and they
want to do it, but then there are something that
the parents are just like forcing them to be little stars.
So it just really depends.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I guess it all comes down to family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I never got like, I never got exposed to drugs
and a bunch of bad people or anything like that.
You know. I was always pretty grounded in my family,
get me as levelheaded as possible. If I ever said
anything that was like whoa, you're getting a little too
big for your bridges, they shut it down pretty quickly,
right right, right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So you were born and raised in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I'm a unicorn.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That just means everyone in Los Angeles is a transplant.
So yeah, I'm actually one of those that's been born
and raised in LA.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And you started so young? Uh? Did you go to
school with a lot of other kids that were actors
as well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Like, what was the percentage I did? When I got
a little bit older, I went to a high school
where Romney Malick went to school, and uh and pierced
the Dunst. So yeah, So at a certain point then
I was like, okay, well, most of the kids that
were in the industry were either like in the really
I end schools and never there because they were always filming,
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or they were homeschool right.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So so that was a school just for sort of
kids that were working in the industry.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, no, it was a private Catholic school and they
just they just happened to be going there.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Oh okay, all right, so now you're in you're not
as acting as much, right, that's right, transitioned into a
successful career as a photographer. Uh, that's so. I'd always interested, you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You know, it was something that you know, I had
a little bit of a lull in my twenties when
I was acting and looking for odd jobs and things.
And my girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Now my wife, was was going to USC and asked
if I wanted to do a curricular extracurricular class with
her to go to do photo one on one, and
I just took that class with her and said sure,
why not And I ended up loving it and then
was doing photography and acting for a long time, but
then then ultimately made the big jump over to photography.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So you you've shot some album covers or record covers.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, I've shot some album covers. I've I've shot the
key art on on some podcasts and some movies and
different things.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, who are the bands?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Who are the bands? I mean one of the guys
I I was Kanye back in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Really, yeah, Kanye, Yeah, Kanye.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I had a mentor at the time, Mino Polouse and
and he uh offered me this job going to Chicago
to follow Kanye around shooting him while he did a
P S. A and uh and man, that was that
was an experience for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You know, there's a there's a rumor going around that
if you win an award around Kanye, he's gonna take
it away from you. Oh for sure. Yeah, you gotta
be you gotta be careful of that.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, it's almost like you got to pay your dues
and and hope hopefully that happens. That's probably good luck
with that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You you better you better be careful that Beyonce is
not in the same category or else you're getting charged.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Sure, but she should have won that for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm having a little Kanye paranoia. Not that I'm nominated
for anything, but if I ever was, I'd be, Oh yeah,
i'd be I'd make sure what to watch my six man?
Uh uh so so a lot of what you learned,
uh in photography? Did being on set help or inform
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your your photograph photographic vision?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah? I mean it really just made me not really
starstruck so much when I would shoot with celebrities. No,
it was like, like, yes, these people are people too,
So if.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You weren't getting what you wanted at him, you just
smack them around, That's right.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Hey yeah, come on, I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ramedy Malick trying to give you attitude because it was
in a Bond film. You just smack them. That's how
you throw a wet chicken at them or something. It's like,
will you do what I tell you to do?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
See this is anyway?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Give me a queen bark?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Come on? What about what about? Uh? What about Kanye?
Have you ever shot Kanye?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh? Like, I mean I did. I went to Chicago
to shoot with him. And and followed him around for
a whole weekend. Well, he did a PSA to a concert.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But did you do his portrait?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I mean yes, and no. I didn't direct him at all.
I just was was hired to be there to follow
around for as much coverage as possible for the whole weekend.
So I kind of stayed a fly on the wall
as much as I could.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All right, So if you ever, if that ever happens again,
if you cause you again. Yeah, and he says, I
want you follow me around. I want you to shoot
a portrait, hand him a golden statue and say this
was meant force beyond. It wasn't meant for Beyonce, but
I want somebody else want it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
YEA, hold it? Okay, Clinton, Now I'm gonna take your picture.
Right he just might have an episode right while I'm
taking his picture?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Why not? So this is your this is your true
passion or is it both? You can have two passions.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I was passionate about acting for law long time, and
I and then when I found photography, it was like, okay,
people are like hiring me for photo shoots. And it
was like, okay, here's some money for to do a
photo shoot, and with acting, it's like you got an
audition to make some money, so you might get it,
you might not. But if you've got this photo shoot
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and you've got to you know, and then you get
an audition. When you're an actor, you have to stop
everything you're doing in order to focus right on this audition.
So I was like, man, I remember the last audition
I went to. It was just you know, the I'm
on the four five and I went to like a
cattle call commercial audition in Santa Monica at like three
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o'clock on a Friday or something, and I just had
the worst audition and I had to reschedule a bunch
of guaranteed money for photography in order to do it.
And then I get back in my car and I'm like,
just what am I doing? Why am I? Why am
I sacrificing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
This five hours to get home? Yeah, it's four o'clock
on the four would be for self tapes. I don't know.
I don't I don't know if I like the self
tapes so much.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
There's pros and cons for sure, definitely. You know, there's
an energy getting in the room and talking to people.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Man, Yeah, there's psychology, you can work with psychology.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I miss and I've also got one buddy that is
on a show now. But you know, when they do
their tapes, they get as many takes as they want
to get it perfect, and then they send that perfect take,
you know, and then when you go and actually shoot
the show, yeah, one maybe two takes to get it right,
you know. So it's just a it's just a different vibe.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So kind of if you yell and scream, you can
get more takes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, big enough, you can. You can get away with it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So let's talk about some of these big times lebs.
You work with them? Or Roberts, Angela Kinsey, who's that?
Who's Angela?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Can he's Angela from the Office? Oh yeah, the the
blonde lady who marries Dwight at the end.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, I never I never really watched the show.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's such a good show.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
No, I know, I've seen clips. I've never that's fun y.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I'vehot I've shot to shoot a few people from that
show because I'm friends with their publicist, and the publicist
asked if I would, you know, take some pictures of them.
But then when they started their own podcast, rewatching the
Office shows then they said, hey, come and shoot the
cover art for this. So it's called Office Ladies. It's
a really good podcast as well that I shot at
the cover art part.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Do you charge a lot of money? Are you expensive?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So much money?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
How much?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So much money?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
What do you charge? Tell me what do you charge?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's different, honestly. I work with budgets. You know, you
put in bids ten thousand and shot that's on a
bad day, one hundred thousands like this.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Like so you're like Andy Leebowitz the West Coast. You're
like a female, Oh, I wish what is she? What
is she taking down per session? What do you think
she's taking?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Are you kidding me? She's what's undred hundreds of thousands
of dollars a shoot? For sure? At least at least
the budgets are that big for her shoot?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Sure, Yeah, she's taking She's takken down some big scores,
isn't she?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And then she's like and then there's licensing, So if
she's shooting someone and then they want to use those
photos for you know, for me or for all kinds
of things, she's just getting paid just for the shoot itself.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's like residuals for actors. It's just that's it's that's
where the photographers really make their dusk real.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
The cake is man. So, who's been your favorite to shoot? Though?
Of these famous.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Celebrity man my favorite to shoot?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm going to ask you who's who's been your favorite
and who was a nightmare? I want to know who
was a nightmare?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Kanye. Kanye was definitely a prima donna. I mean, he
was like that's shocking. Yeah, I remember going to Chicago,
and I mean, but he's a genius as well as like,
at the same time, you just kind of give him
the grace.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Why is he a genius? Why is this term music
around so much? That he's a genius.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
With music and producing and uh, you.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Know when a lot of people do that, do that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's true. I know there's uh I think there's an
old documentary called Genius that is about him being him
being a genius for with music, but with producing and
just his ear and his lyrics and all kinds of stuff.
I think he's just got a very innovative and revolutionary
as far as the as far as music is concerned,
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I'm not I'm no expert.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
In that I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna dig into
this a little bit. I'm gonna check this out.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Wait. So in Chicago, I remember he gave a concert
and and then there was like one little thing. It
sounded perfect to me, And there was like one little thing,
and he's doing it for like all these these underprivileged
youths in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
There was one thing that didn't set that sounded off,
and he stopped the concert. Boy. Oh and and for
like a half an hour, forty five minutes or so,
he made sure that everything sounded fine and just let
these let everybody wait. Well, he just wanted to get
this one little thing.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right, because that's what geniuses do.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I guess they don't settle. They don't settle for mediocrity.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And then he gets up there and he takes somebody's
award away. That's what geniuses do. Yeah, I don't know
his music that well, I'm gonna check it out, uh,
and I'll get back to you on the So, who
was in so other than him? Who was a nightmare
websitemare I want to know about jennif Fisher? Was she
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and she was such a nightmare? She was a nightmare,
wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
She's the world?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yes, yes, she's so nice all smiles, yes the whole time.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, even I'm sure even if she was having a
bad time you you wouldn't know, and she would be.
She's just so pleasant.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
What about Emma Roberts, dude.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Emma Roberts was super cool. I shot her a few
times because she and I had the same manager. So
I shot her for her in a like a Diane
von first and bird dress. And then she uh recommended
me to be a photographer for this, like for this
jewelry company that was that was working with her to
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that that where she was like starting to design jewelry.
And so, man, I owe a good amount of money
and time and experience to shooting with her. Man, she was,
she was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But so who who? Just you just stop the shoot
to get out of my studio. I don't want to shoot.
Let me look, give me, give me a name.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Give you a name of somebody that was terrible.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Millions of people listening to this podcast, millions, I want
a name.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You want me to drop? And still the gossip about somebody.
I quit. I'm logging off right now, do.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Uh that's Angela Kenzie cool? Was she? Was she cool?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Angela Kenzie was very cool? Yeah, yeah, I still I've
shot her on multiple occasions and have a have a
good time shooting her.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Who's so? Who are your influences? Tell us who your
photographic heroes are? For?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Photographed so many? Oh many? I mean Annie is definitely.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Give me, give me one, Give me one, give meat.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I like him. He creates that world, doesn't he? But
but he lived that world, didn't he. It's not like
he was this church going guy who had a family
and he'd go home, but then he had these fantasies
and he'd go and he'd act out all brought to life.
But he lived that life, didn't He didn't he live
that life?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I mean, I don't know too much about his personal life,
but I mean, if it's anything like his photos, I
mean it's pretty. It's pretty cool and voyeuristic and kinky.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you're doing the photography full time, you're charging tens
of thousands of dollars per photogs.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's just so much money.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You're getting stupid rich. You're getting stupid rich.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
No, man, I assist other photographers. Man, I shoot photography
is a journey man. So I, yes, I shoot celebrities
every once in a while, but you know, you shoot
all kinds of stuff, and it's different from from day
to day. You know, there was a one day I
was shooting like a marijuana facility, and then the next
then the next day you're shooting kids fashion, and then
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there's you know, just wherever the wherever the jobs are
coming and people are and refer to you. It's it's
it's always kind of in a new adventure.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Did Kanye stop by the the dispensary was? Did he
did you see? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Right, I'm sure. I'm sure he partakes.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
He's so cool. We're gonna do a a little game
we play called rapid Fire. Oh okay, and you can go.
You don't have to go rapidly. This is there's nothing
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rapid about it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
So I can think about my answers and then.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No, you cannot think. You're not allowed to think, all right,
no thinking normally. I see that you are a thinking person,
and this is an ethema to what we're doing here.
All right, Okay, I just need answers, buddy, Okay, I
want them straight, and I want him fast, but not rapid. Okay,
here we go. How do you like your coffee?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Uh, it's to cream, a little bit of sugar.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I saw your thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh, sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Are you team Logan Team Jess or Team Dean Team Jess?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I see you thinking. I can see your brain. You
know what. You're one of these high i Q people
who just can't turn it off. I understand.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I've never been accused of that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, this was the first time. Who is your favorite
Gilmour Girls couple? Luke and Laurel are Emily and Richard?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh, Luke and Lauray?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Hell? Yeah, brother? Uh? Would you rather work with Michelle
or Kirk Michelle? Why?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't think about it.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I just said it now. You're all who would you
like to shoot? Whose portrait would you like to shoot?
On the show? Who you?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Well? Alexis I would love to shoot her.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah. Yeah, she's interesting, isn't she?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah? Or you let's shoot He's He's.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Very interesting, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Maybe the two of us together? Yes? All right? Yes?
What would you do? What? What would you order it?
Lukes diner?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh? I don't know what's available.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Luke's diner.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You got pie there, I'll have some pie. I don't
know what.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, could you shoot the pie?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean I've done food photography. That's a very specific
niche for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right. Who would you rather hang out with Paris or
Lane Kim Paris? Why?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Just because I know her?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Okay, yeah, Harvard Yale? Or would you drop out? And
oh yeah yeah? Why Yale?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Why Yale? That was fast?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean that was screw Harvard Yale?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Why was it the Yale newser.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That makes sense? Makes sense? I like that you live
in the dream. Uh. Would you rather attend a d
A R event with Emily or a town meeting with Taylor?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Oh? Man, I don't even know what the I'll just
have to That's an any meaning mind situation I have.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That's not an answer. We can't accept that, Taylor. Okay,
thank you? Okay, give them more girls character you would
most want as a roommate.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I would most want as a roommate anyone from the
Yale newsroom because they were all super cool people.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Okay, all right, how about all of them? Yes, like
in a house.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It would be a good time. When they asked me
to do this, I said, let's all get on this.
Can we just have like a group where we all
join in on this, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Get a house in Pacoima or someplace like that and
you all be together.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, and then we'll join you for the pod for
another episode of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, the Pocoima Daily News. You could have your own thing.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You could be the other I think Pacoima is where
I shot the weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That's shocking something in your life you are all in
on and I think we know what that is.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What Yeah, and being a fan, being a family man
and my and with my wife and family, and.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You have you have two kids.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I do? How old I do? Ava is about to
turn nine and uh Cole just turned four.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Ah, so great nine, such a great age. My boy
is nine. We're having so much fun.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Ah. Yeah, she's the best man. Yeah, he's very cool too.
It's just you. He just loves mama right now, and
it's all about mama.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He's gonna look, he's gonna discover you give it a
couple of years.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, that's what happened with Ava. That's what happened with
Deva for sure. Right, he'll to his mama's girl. And
then now we're now we just have so much fun together.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, it's it's just such a joy having a family.
I mean really great. Well, I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You got a nice career going. You're charging tens of
thousands of dollars?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Do you have?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I just I just have the one attack to me
if it's any less than that. Yeah, but yeah, things
are going good. Man. You're you know, Kanye stocking you
now and you know you don't have time. You just
don't have time for that.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's right. How are you doing? How many kids do
you have?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I have one?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I just have one kid. Okay, cool? Yeah that was
me too. I was an only child.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, I think I think we'll probably I think we're
talking about number two.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Really, that's like after a nine years old, that's starting
over again.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It start, but it does have its upside in that,
you know, my son can help out.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That's cool. Yeah. We my my son and daughter are
five years apart, and if you you know, she she
definitely helps take care of him a little bit. You know,
she's very very nurturing little girl. Yeah, but yeah, after
we were done with diapers with her, then it became
diapers with the new one.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, it's like I know, it's like six years in
a row of diapers. Yep, it's a lot of divers.
So much poop. That's a lot of poop. Well, this
was fun. You're a pretty guy.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Thanks man, this is fun to do. I'm glad they
asked me.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, and uh, you're welcome back anytime. And uh, good
luck with everything, you know, good luck with the photography and.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
All right, I'm gonna hit you up to take your portrait.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't have that kind of money.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Okay, well then forget it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Forget it, man, tens of thousands in charge. It's too
much money. It's like, you know, for.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The big companies, for the big companies.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Are you you're working out of California? Are you all
those taxes? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Wow, so many taxes. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's why you got to charge to tens of thousands,
because you left with about five hundred bucks at the
end of the day, right after every shoot.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's true, So true, end up with true yeah, after
the assistant right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You charge fifty thousand a shoot, you end up with
about forty dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I can buy myself a cup of coffee and then
at Starbucks for forty bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, almost enough money to buy a dinner for the
family of Trader.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Joe's almost right, almost almost, that's right, all.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Right, man, would be good. Peace be with you, brother.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It is great talking to you.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Great talking.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I wish you all the best best your family. Thanks
and stay safe brother, okay cool, can't wait here, Take
care man, alright, bye, all right, bye, Hey everybody, and
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don't forget. Follow us on Instagram at I Am all
In podcast and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.
I am all In. Let's just you.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I Am all in with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast, one
of our productions iHeartRadio, I heart Media, iHeart Podcasts. Today
we are going to do an interview with Adam Hendershott.
He played a k at the Yale Daily News for
seven episodes. He is currently a commercial and editorial portrait photographer.
(00:41):
Was born, raised, and is still based in Los Angeles.
Adam got into the entertainment industry when he was discovered
at A Bob's Big Boy six years old. His first
acting job was playing a young Dudie Howser MD flashback
episode of the television series. Adam is twenty years of
experience as a working actor, with roles in Nip Tuck
for Uncle Mar's Cold Case and Nancy Drew As a photographer.
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Adam's work has been featured in magazines like GQ, Esquire, People,
and Entertainment Weekly, and has worked at campaigns for movie posters,
album covers, Oh I Wonder which bands, podcasts and books.
Jackie Let's bring him in, Adam, how did you get
your role on Gilmore Girls? Tell us about it?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh boy, I remember I had. It was a it
was a lengthy auditioning process. It was a unique process too.
We actually it was my first time going and being
paired with like a group of people because I had
my role was in the Yale newsroom. So I remember
being paired up with a group at the audition and
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they and before I went in, my manager said, hey, man,
you got to watch Gilmore Girls to make sure you
understand the tone of this show. And I did, and
so I was like, okay, I know, I gotta I
gotta keep my dialogue peppy and poppy. And then when
when I auditioned with the group of people, they wanted
to make sure that we could like jump on, jump
(02:06):
in right away as soon as it was our turn
to speak and be a be part of like an ensemble.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
That was it was.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It was an awesome interview experience. Is definitely unique.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So you didn't have any problem with the speed or.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
I didn't really. It was it was kind of fun
being part of a group where I you know, as
soon as as soon it might turn to speak, man,
I was just man, I was ready to ready to
jump in.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, okay, good, So you nailed it and then how
long afterwards did you know you got the offer? Your
agent call you and say you got it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh. I think I went to like an initial call
and then they brought us back for like producers or
director and then and then as soon as that happened,
I believe it was either that night or the next
day that that I got an offer to be on it.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And were you pretty pumped because were you away of
the show and you knew, hey, this this is definitely
a shot in the arm for the career.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Heck, yeah, man, that was back back then. I mean
it was a lifetime ago. So yeah, I was definitely
stoked to be on a on a hit shot. Oh man,
it was I've been acting since I was a little kid,
but you know, and took a little break and then
and then when uh, when it was time to get
back into it, and and I was in my late teens. Uh,
(03:22):
I was super passionate about acting, and getting on the
show was definitely uh uh encouraging and uh very cool.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So you played uh A K A K on the
Year for the Yale Daily News for seven episodes. It's
a lot of episodes. Yeah, they just kept calling you
to come back, or did they give you a seven
episode deal. They just kept calling.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
They did not they just they just kept calling. It
was awesome. Yeah. Every time that they needed to go
back to the the news room and I was in
it and I was in the scripts, they just said, hey,
you're you're working great.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, it's always good news, always good fun. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, it was always fun being a part of that,
being part of that group. And then I became kind
of friends with all the people in the Yale newsroom
as well.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So we spoke to Devin already and he's one of
the writers from Yale Daily News. Were you who were
you closest to was Devin? You mentioned Devon That was.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I really liked Devon Man. Everyone was really cool. Danny
Putty was really cool. Amy Sloan was really cool. I
would say Rona was the person that I became the
biggest friends with. Rona Benson. Yeah, I became a photographer
and was a been a photographer for a really long time,
and I've taken her head shots multiple times.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Well, there's nothing that says friendship more than allowing somebody
to take your head shots. What was your favorite part
of working in that newsroom?
Speaker 2 (04:53):
You know, I love the tone of the show because
it was just such a challenge that it was just unique,
like a unique acting challenge, so always being like no,
having my lines down and and and knowing uh when
to jump in and you know, actually one of my
favorite things to be part of that show were the
(05:16):
different directors. I I liked to see how different directors
on each episode would come in and bring there and
do the choreography of the blocking and the dialogue and
everything and kind of have to jump in.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Too.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And like especially Kenny Artega that was that was a
really cool episode to see him like everything became like
a dance and and the blocking of choreography with the
camera and it was it was all really cool to watch.
But the camaraderie as well was was awesome, you know,
meeting a bunch of cool people that were that became
friends and and and acting in a on a kind
(05:59):
of really cool show.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I was.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I was happy to happy to participate.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
What a concept. Huh, get paid to go make friends
and do stuff you like to do.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Oh yeah, after after cleaning pools and doing all kinds
of other odd jobs.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
So did you prefer when Paris was editor or Rory?
I mean, what what what was more fun to be
a part of.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I think it was more stressful when Rory was was
the editor, and then when Rory it was just a
bunch more of a supportive environment. You know, it's just
a different there's just a different environment. One was more
One was definitely a lot more hectic and stressful. Did
she was a bit of a tyrant?
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right? Did you get to know Lies a little bit?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Or or alexis a little bit not not more than
off off out of the studio, you know, but all
the all the people that were my friends in the
newsroom I was, I were friends with them for sure.
But yeah, like Rory and Wise, I definitely just saw
(07:06):
when I when I was there filming, and they were
extremely nice.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Did you guys go across the street to that watering
hole together and throw a couple back and reminiscent reminisce
on the day.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It doesn't sound familiar, but I mean we might have. Yeah,
I might have just blacked out from throwing a few back.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What was the name of that What was the name
of that place that famous? Gosh, it escapes me anyway,
It says here that you got discovered at Bob's Big
Boy Hamburger restaurant at six years old. Yeah, what were
you doing? And what? You must have been the most
(07:52):
magnetic child.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I really was, Honestly, I was. I was a very
cute kid and there was a lot of personality.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Okay, tell us about that.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I was with my family, obviously, I was six, and
I think a manager was sitting at another booth and
just like started, you know, like making eyes of me
and like seeing what if I would you know, play
back or whatever, and then came over to my family
and said, this kid is too cute and has a
great person and needs to be in the movies. And
you know, my family had never thought of anything like
(08:23):
that before. So they asked me if I wanted to
do it, and I said, I'm sure, let's try it.
So they took me to an agent, and the agent
wasn't sure if she wanted to represent me, and so
she was like, all right, I'll send you out on
an audition.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
What the heck was her problem? What was the agent's problem?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I think I just had like a lack of focus.
I just I mean, I wasn't the typical you know
kid actor. That was just I am dying to be
a star or anything. You're six years old?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Well you were kind of focused. Did they expect exactly?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
So? Are you?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Don't cut it? You don't have focus, You're sex You
need to be focused. What is that eight? Did you
just say take a look at me, Look at.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Me, look at this. How can you pass on this?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It got me out of Bob's big boy, you know.
It got me in the door.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And then I booked my first audition. So as soon
as I booked that, she was ready with papers to sign. Yeah. Man,
it was Doogie Howser, Doogey Howser. I played him as
a six year old in a flashback.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Oh right, but she wasn't sure whether you can handle
it because of your focus. But here you are playing
through the house. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
As soon as I book it, yeah, then she then
she's all over it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
And then I just never stopped working. I was just
I did a ton of pilots and commercials and little
little movie parts and bunch of like, uh, you know,
guest stars and things like that.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Would you recommend a young children getting involved in this business?
Did it mess your head up a little bit? Or
were you at all level headed and could deal with
it and all.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
That My family was really cool about it. They were
always like, hey, if you never want if you want
to stop doing this, let's stop.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
They never were never pressuring me. So to me, it
really depends on the family and the kid. If there
are some kids that are just magic and they're born
to do this, so you know they so and they
want to do it, but then there are something that
the parents are just like forcing them to be little stars.
So it just really depends.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, I guess it all comes down to family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I never got like, I never got exposed to drugs
and a bunch of bad people or anything like that.
You know. I was always pretty grounded in my family,
get me as levelheaded as possible. If I ever said
anything that was like whoa, you're getting a little too
big for your bridges, they shut it down pretty quickly,
right right, right.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
So you were born and raised in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I'm a unicorn.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
That just means everyone in Los Angeles is a transplant.
So yeah, I'm actually one of those that's been born
and raised in LA.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Okay, gotcha?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:08):
And you started so young? Uh? Did you go to
school with a lot of other kids that were actors
as well.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Like, what was the percentage I did? When I got
a little bit older, I went to a high school
where Romney Malick went to school, and uh and pierced
the Dunst. So yeah, So at a certain point then
I was like, okay, well, most of the kids that
were in the industry were either like in the really
I end schools and never there because they were always filming,
(11:36):
or they were homeschool right.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
So so that was a school just for sort of
kids that were working in the industry.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, no, it was a private Catholic school and they
just they just happened to be going there.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Oh okay, all right, so now you're in you're not
as acting as much, right, that's right, transitioned into a
successful career as a photographer. Uh, that's so. I'd always interested, you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
You know, it was something that you know, I had
a little bit of a lull in my twenties when
I was acting and looking for odd jobs and things.
And my girlfriend at the time.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Now my wife, was was going to USC and asked
if I wanted to do a curricular extracurricular class with
her to go to do photo one on one, and
I just took that class with her and said sure,
why not And I ended up loving it and then
was doing photography and acting for a long time, but
then then ultimately made the big jump over to photography.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
So you you've shot some album covers or record covers.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, I've shot some album covers. I've I've shot the
key art on on some podcasts and some movies and
different things.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, who are the bands?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Who are the bands? I mean one of the guys
I I was Kanye back in two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Really, yeah, Kanye, Yeah, Kanye.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I had a mentor at the time, Mino Polouse and
and he uh offered me this job going to Chicago
to follow Kanye around shooting him while he did a
P S. A and uh and man, that was that
was an experience for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You know, there's a there's a rumor going around that
if you win an award around Kanye, he's gonna take
it away from you. Oh for sure. Yeah, you gotta
be you gotta be careful of that.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, it's almost like you got to pay your dues
and and hope hopefully that happens. That's probably good luck
with that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
You you better you better be careful that Beyonce is
not in the same category or else you're getting charged.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Sure, but she should have won that for sure.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I'm having a little Kanye paranoia. Not that I'm nominated
for anything, but if I ever was, I'd be, Oh yeah,
i'd be I'd make sure what to watch my six man?
Uh uh so so a lot of what you learned,
uh in photography? Did being on set help or inform
(14:08):
your your photograph photographic vision?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah? I mean it really just made me not really
starstruck so much when I would shoot with celebrities. No,
it was like, like, yes, these people are people too,
So if.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
You weren't getting what you wanted at him, you just
smack them around, That's right.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Hey yeah, come on, I mean.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Ramedy Malick trying to give you attitude because it was
in a Bond film. You just smack them. That's how
you throw a wet chicken at them or something. It's like,
will you do what I tell you to do?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
See this is anyway?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Give me a queen bark?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Come on? What about what about? Uh? What about Kanye?
Have you ever shot Kanye?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Uh? Like, I mean I did. I went to Chicago
to shoot with him. And and followed him around for
a whole weekend. Well, he did a PSA to a concert.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But did you do his portrait?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I mean yes, and no. I didn't direct him at all.
I just was was hired to be there to follow
around for as much coverage as possible for the whole weekend.
So I kind of stayed a fly on the wall
as much as I could.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All right, So if you ever, if that ever happens again,
if you cause you again. Yeah, and he says, I
want you follow me around. I want you to shoot
a portrait, hand him a golden statue and say this
was meant force beyond. It wasn't meant for Beyonce, but
I want somebody else want it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
YEA, hold it? Okay, Clinton, Now I'm gonna take your picture.
Right he just might have an episode right while I'm
taking his picture?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Why not? So this is your this is your true
passion or is it both? You can have two passions.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I was passionate about acting for law long time, and
I and then when I found photography, it was like, okay,
people are like hiring me for photo shoots. And it
was like, okay, here's some money for to do a
photo shoot, and with acting, it's like you got an
audition to make some money, so you might get it,
you might not. But if you've got this photo shoot
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and you've got to you know, and then you get
an audition. When you're an actor, you have to stop
everything you're doing in order to focus right on this audition.
So I was like, man, I remember the last audition
I went to. It was just you know, the I'm
on the four five and I went to like a
cattle call commercial audition in Santa Monica at like three
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o'clock on a Friday or something, and I just had
the worst audition and I had to reschedule a bunch
of guaranteed money for photography in order to do it.
And then I get back in my car and I'm like,
just what am I doing? Why am I? Why am
I sacrificing.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
This five hours to get home? Yeah, it's four o'clock
on the four would be for self tapes. I don't know.
I don't I don't know if I like the self
tapes so much.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
There's pros and cons for sure, definitely. You know, there's
an energy getting in the room and talking to people.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Man, Yeah, there's psychology, you can work with psychology.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I miss and I've also got one buddy that is
on a show now. But you know, when they do
their tapes, they get as many takes as they want
to get it perfect, and then they send that perfect take,
you know, and then when you go and actually shoot
the show, yeah, one maybe two takes to get it right,
you know. So it's just a it's just a different vibe.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So kind of if you yell and scream, you can
get more takes, that's true.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Yeah, big enough, you can. You can get away with it.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
So let's talk about some of these big times lebs.
You work with them? Or Roberts, Angela Kinsey, who's that?
Who's Angela?
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Can he's Angela from the Office? Oh yeah, the the
blonde lady who marries Dwight at the end.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Yeah, I never I never really watched the show.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's such a good show.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
No, I know, I've seen clips. I've never that's fun y.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I'vehot I've shot to shoot a few people from that
show because I'm friends with their publicist, and the publicist
asked if I would, you know, take some pictures of them.
But then when they started their own podcast, rewatching the
Office shows then they said, hey, come and shoot the
cover art for this. So it's called Office Ladies. It's
a really good podcast as well that I shot at
the cover art part.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Do you charge a lot of money? Are you expensive?
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So much money?
Speaker 1 (18:41):
How much?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
So much money?
Speaker 1 (18:42):
What do you charge? Tell me what do you charge?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
It's different, honestly. I work with budgets. You know, you
put in bids ten thousand and shot that's on a
bad day, one hundred thousands like this.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Like so you're like Andy Leebowitz the West Coast. You're
like a female, Oh, I wish what is she? What
is she taking down per session? What do you think
she's taking?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Are you kidding me? She's what's undred hundreds of thousands
of dollars a shoot? For sure? At least at least
the budgets are that big for her shoot?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Sure, Yeah, she's taking She's takken down some big scores,
isn't she?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And then she's like and then there's licensing, So if
she's shooting someone and then they want to use those
photos for you know, for me or for all kinds
of things, she's just getting paid just for the shoot itself.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
It's like residuals for actors. It's just that's it's that's
where the photographers really make their dusk real.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
The cake is man. So, who's been your favorite to shoot? Though?
Of these famous.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Celebrity man my favorite to shoot?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I'm going to ask you who's who's been your favorite
and who was a nightmare? I want to know who
was a nightmare?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Kanye. Kanye was definitely a prima donna. I mean, he
was like that's shocking. Yeah, I remember going to Chicago,
and I mean, but he's a genius as well as like,
at the same time, you just kind of give him
the grace.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Why is he a genius? Why is this term music
around so much? That he's a genius.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
With music and producing and uh, you.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Know when a lot of people do that, do that.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
It's true. I know there's uh I think there's an
old documentary called Genius that is about him being him
being a genius for with music, but with producing and
just his ear and his lyrics and all kinds of stuff.
I think he's just got a very innovative and revolutionary
as far as the as far as music is concerned,
(20:50):
I'm not I'm no expert.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
In that I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna dig into
this a little bit. I'm gonna check this out.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Wait. So in Chicago, I remember he gave a concert
and and then there was like one little thing. It
sounded perfect to me, And there was like one little thing,
and he's doing it for like all these these underprivileged
youths in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Oh that's nice.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
There was one thing that didn't set that sounded off,
and he stopped the concert. Boy. Oh and and for
like a half an hour, forty five minutes or so,
he made sure that everything sounded fine and just let
these let everybody wait. Well, he just wanted to get
this one little thing.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Right, because that's what geniuses do.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I guess they don't settle. They don't settle for mediocrity.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
And then he gets up there and he takes somebody's
award away. That's what geniuses do. Yeah, I don't know
his music that well, I'm gonna check it out, uh,
and I'll get back to you on the So, who
was in so other than him? Who was a nightmare
websitemare I want to know about jennif Fisher? Was she
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and she was such a nightmare? She was a nightmare,
wasn't she.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
She's the world?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yes, yes, she's so nice all smiles, yes the whole time.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Yeah, even I'm sure even if she was having a
bad time you you wouldn't know, and she would be.
She's just so pleasant.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
What about Emma Roberts, dude.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Emma Roberts was super cool. I shot her a few
times because she and I had the same manager. So
I shot her for her in a like a Diane
von first and bird dress. And then she uh recommended
me to be a photographer for this, like for this
jewelry company that was that was working with her to
(22:40):
that that where she was like starting to design jewelry.
And so, man, I owe a good amount of money
and time and experience to shooting with her. Man, she was,
she was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
But so who who? Just you just stop the shoot
to get out of my studio. I don't want to shoot.
Let me look, give me, give me a name.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Give you a name of somebody that was terrible.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Millions of people listening to this podcast, millions, I want
a name.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
You want me to drop? And still the gossip about somebody.
I quit. I'm logging off right now, do.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Uh that's Angela Kenzie cool? Was she? Was she cool?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Angela Kenzie was very cool? Yeah, yeah, I still I've
shot her on multiple occasions and have a have a
good time shooting her.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Who's so? Who are your influences? Tell us who your
photographic heroes are? For?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Photographed so many? Oh many? I mean Annie is definitely.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Give me, give me one, Give me one, give meat.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Ye.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I like him. He creates that world, doesn't he? But
but he lived that world, didn't he. It's not like
he was this church going guy who had a family
and he'd go home, but then he had these fantasies
and he'd go and he'd act out all brought to life.
But he lived that life, didn't He didn't he live
that life?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I mean, I don't know too much about his personal life,
but I mean, if it's anything like his photos, I
mean it's pretty. It's pretty cool and voyeuristic and kinky.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
So you're doing the photography full time, you're charging tens
of thousands of dollars per photogs.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
That's just so much money.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
You're getting stupid rich. You're getting stupid rich.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
No, man, I assist other photographers. Man, I shoot photography
is a journey man. So I, yes, I shoot celebrities
every once in a while, but you know, you shoot
all kinds of stuff, and it's different from from day
to day. You know, there was a one day I
was shooting like a marijuana facility, and then the next
then the next day you're shooting kids fashion, and then
(24:56):
there's you know, just wherever the wherever the jobs are
coming and people are and refer to you. It's it's
it's always kind of in a new adventure.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Did Kanye stop by the the dispensary was? Did he
did you see? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Right, I'm sure. I'm sure he partakes.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
He's so cool. We're gonna do a a little game
we play called rapid Fire. Oh okay, and you can go.
You don't have to go rapidly. This is there's nothing
(25:33):
rapid about it.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
So I can think about my answers and then.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
No, you cannot think. You're not allowed to think, all right,
no thinking normally. I see that you are a thinking person,
and this is an ethema to what we're doing here.
All right, Okay, I just need answers, buddy, Okay, I
want them straight, and I want him fast, but not rapid. Okay,
here we go. How do you like your coffee?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Uh, it's to cream, a little bit of sugar.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I saw your thinking.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh, sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, don't do that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Are you team Logan Team Jess or Team Dean Team Jess?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I see you thinking. I can see your brain. You
know what. You're one of these high i Q people
who just can't turn it off. I understand.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I've never been accused of that.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
No, this was the first time. Who is your favorite
Gilmour Girls couple? Luke and Laurel are Emily and Richard?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh, Luke and Lauray?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Hell? Yeah, brother? Uh? Would you rather work with Michelle
or Kirk Michelle? Why?
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Honestly, I have no idea. I didn't think about it.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I just said it now. You're all who would you
like to shoot? Whose portrait would you like to shoot?
On the show? Who you?
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Well? Alexis I would love to shoot her.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah. Yeah, she's interesting, isn't she?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah? Or you let's shoot He's He's.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Very interesting, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Maybe the two of us together? Yes? All right? Yes?
What would you do? What? What would you order it?
Lukes diner?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Oh? I don't know what's available.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Luke's diner.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
You got pie there, I'll have some pie. I don't
know what.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Yeah, could you shoot the pie?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean I've done food photography. That's a very specific
niche for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Right. Who would you rather hang out with Paris or
Lane Kim Paris? Why?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Just because I know her?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Okay, yeah, Harvard Yale? Or would you drop out? And
oh yeah yeah? Why Yale?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Why Yale? That was fast?
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean that was screw Harvard Yale?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Why was it the Yale newser.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That makes sense? Makes sense? I like that you live
in the dream. Uh. Would you rather attend a d
A R event with Emily or a town meeting with Taylor?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Oh? Man, I don't even know what the I'll just
have to That's an any meaning mind situation I have.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
That's not an answer. We can't accept that, Taylor. Okay,
thank you? Okay, give them more girls character you would
most want as a roommate.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I would most want as a roommate anyone from the
Yale newsroom because they were all super cool people.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Okay, all right, how about all of them? Yes, like
in a house.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
It would be a good time. When they asked me
to do this, I said, let's all get on this.
Can we just have like a group where we all
join in on this, that would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Get a house in Pacoima or someplace like that and
you all be together.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, and then we'll join you for the pod for
another episode of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Yes, the Pocoima Daily News. You could have your own thing.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
You could be the other I think Pacoima is where
I shot the weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
That's shocking something in your life you are all in
on and I think we know what that is.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
What Yeah, and being a fan, being a family man
and my and with my wife and family, and.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You have you have two kids.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I do? How old I do? Ava is about to
turn nine and uh Cole just turned four.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Ah, so great nine, such a great age. My boy
is nine. We're having so much fun.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Ah. Yeah, she's the best man. Yeah, he's very cool too.
It's just you. He just loves mama right now, and
it's all about mama.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
He's gonna look, he's gonna discover you give it a
couple of years.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, that's what happened with Ava. That's what happened with
Deva for sure. Right, he'll to his mama's girl. And
then now we're now we just have so much fun together.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Yeah, it's it's just such a joy having a family.
I mean really great. Well, I'm happy for you.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
You got a nice career going. You're charging tens of
thousands of dollars?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Do you have?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I just I just have the one attack to me
if it's any less than that. Yeah, but yeah, things
are going good. Man. You're you know, Kanye stocking you
now and you know you don't have time. You just
don't have time for that.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's right. How are you doing? How many kids do
you have?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
I have one?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I just have one kid. Okay, cool? Yeah that was
me too. I was an only child.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, I think I think we'll probably I think we're
talking about number two.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Really, that's like after a nine years old, that's starting
over again.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It start, but it does have its upside in that,
you know, my son can help out.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
That's cool. Yeah. We my my son and daughter are
five years apart, and if you you know, she she
definitely helps take care of him a little bit. You know,
she's very very nurturing little girl. Yeah, but yeah, after
we were done with diapers with her, then it became
diapers with the new one.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yeah, it's like I know, it's like six years in
a row of diapers. Yep, it's a lot of divers.
So much poop. That's a lot of poop. Well, this
was fun. You're a pretty guy.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Thanks man, this is fun to do. I'm glad they
asked me.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yeah, and uh, you're welcome back anytime. And uh, good
luck with everything, you know, good luck with the photography and.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
All right, I'm gonna hit you up to take your portrait.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I don't have that kind of money.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Okay, well then forget it.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Forget it, man, tens of thousands in charge. It's too
much money. It's like, you know, for.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
The big companies, for the big companies.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Are you you're working out of California? Are you all
those taxes? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Wow, so many taxes. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's why you got to charge to tens of thousands,
because you left with about five hundred bucks at the
end of the day, right after every shoot.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
That's true, So true, end up with true yeah, after
the assistant right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You charge fifty thousand a shoot, you end up with
about forty dollars. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I can buy myself a cup of coffee and then
at Starbucks for forty bucks.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yeah, almost enough money to buy a dinner for the
family of Trader.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Joe's almost right, almost almost, that's right, all.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Right, man, would be good. Peace be with you, brother.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It is great talking to you.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Great talking.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
I wish you all the best best your family. Thanks
and stay safe brother, okay cool, can't wait here, Take
care man, alright, bye, all right, bye, Hey everybody, and
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