OLIVER PLATT 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Veteran actor Oliver Play and everybody. Welcome to the show, sir,
thank you so much. You are you're promoting Chicago Med.
You played the long running role of doctor Daniel Charles
Wednesday nights at eight. What are you the You a psychiatrist?
What are you on that show?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm a that's right, I'm an emergency room guys, which
is different than you know. Come in and lie down
on my couch.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Who needs an emergency room psychiatrist? What situation would I
have to be in? Mister Platt?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, you know what the the truth is is that
a lot of people who are presenting with their first
mental health right this right, if you know it's so
often it's the genetic. It could happen a number of reasons,
but they don't necessarily know what's happening to them, right,
and they're verified and often there are physical symptoms that

(00:52):
uh a company, or they're born in by the by
by by first responders, by by ants or or by police.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Or they're my mother and they brought me the emergency
room hammered and my mom needs to speak to somebody
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, that's a different Yeah, she needs a different kind
of metal health support. Yeah, but that's that's that's what
You've got a sort of big contact with somebody who
is terrified and this oriented and sometimes and let them
know that you're there.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
To help them in Then Oliver Platt, did you did
you see the guy who ran the New York City Marathon?
Did did two shows of Wicked on Broadway right after?

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh my god, no I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
It's pretty amazing. I mean, so you you done movies,
You've done TV shows, You've done the stage. You have
a preference.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I like to work in front of a camera, you know,
I love I came up doing plays, and I'm trained
in the theater, and there's nothing like telling a story
in front of a live audiot.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
You were your your uncle Jimmy in The Bear. You
have some amazing roles and you've done some incredible work.
But your uncle Jimmy and the Bear and your brother,
I read I hope I'm right, is a food critic
for a New York magazine? Does he like The Bear?
Your brother? You know?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
He? Actually I was in Italy with my wife on
our big anniversary trip when it actually aired for the
first time, and I got home and you know, my
brother's one of my best buddies. I say, hey, I
ain't doing what's going on? You know that food show
you're in is pret dan good. I'm like, oh, and

(02:30):
let me tell you something. He's very he's a critic, right,
you know, and he's very usually like very critical of
of sort of like he's just going to be the
first guy to say, ah, that wasn't actually so accurate.
But I think that the first person I heard about
the bear from, you know, looking at it through that
lens of the food was my bro and it was

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a really good review.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
You know, it's actor Oliver Platt Coorse you can see
on Wednesday nights on Chicago med You're not like a
lot of actors. You're not. Don't seem like you're an
LA kind of guy. And I know you spend a
lot of time in Maine.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Right, I love going to Maybe.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
But what is your connection to Maine? Did your dad
have a connection.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It was actually my father's side of the family many
many years ago that started to go there, you know,
in the summer because New York was so incredibly hot
and yeah, and it was like my first experience of
the United States actually because my father was a diplomat

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and I was living in Hong Kong, you know, from
the age of four, kind of when your memory start
to the age of eight. You know, when I was
about six, we went to the United States. So the
first place we went was this island in Maine, and
I was like, wow, everybody in America, you know, doesn't
wear shoes, and all they do is a group gear

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barrels all day long.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
All it was like Henry Kitchinger at Thanksgiving growing up?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
What was going on there?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's amazing?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Not quite not quite, but yeah, but you know we
had like having Thanksgiving a different parts of the world
is a really interesting thing.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I bet mister Platt, did you think you should have
been nominated for an Emmy when you played speed Styles
on Miami Vice in nineteen eighty eight water roll? Do
you remember that?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
It was incredible? To this day, I boiled with rage
over that injustice.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
But we think you're super talented. We watch everything you're
in and we wish a lot of luck with Chicago
med Thank.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
You, mister Platt. Thank you guys.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I could not call it a Platt. It spicks one
on six QUINNI Ganterre