Jeff Goldblum: "I live more in 10 minutes than most people do in an entire lifetime"
Aux Features Jeff Goldblum
Lately, the hot trend in the field of Jeff Goldblum interviewing has been to ask him to do all sorts of odd things and then marvel as he gamely does them. We’ve seen him read horny tweets about himself. We’ve seen him purr like a cat. We’ve even seen him, for whatever reason, play Seymour Skinner in a table-reading of “Steamed Hams.”
This delightful interview with Stephen Colbert, however, serves as a reminder that Jeff Goldblum doesn’t need any of your props, man. Colbert is more than content to wind Goldblum up and let him go, and the results are highly satisfactory. Exchanging pleasantries, Colbert is unable to get out a proper question before Goldblum is diving into a minor fishing injury Colbert apparently incurred. Before you know it, the two are dumping cough drops and Advil all over Colbert’s desk and struggling through Truman Capote trivia questions. The top highlight among many is Goldblum claiming he lives more in 10 minutes than most people do a lifetime, a statement that is wildly hyperbolic, but also, hmm… maybe?
All of this comes in service of Goldblum ostensibly promoting his movie The Mountain, a movie in which Goldblum plays a lobotomist whose exterior Goldblumian joviality hides a dark and cruel interior. Who can say if Goldblum himself is carrying a darker inner-life, but he is carrying around a lot of cough drops.
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Who can say if Goldblum himself is carrying a darker inner-life…It’s actually just a, uh, smaller larger-than-life Jeff, yes, yes, Goldblum.
This man is a gat damn national treasure.
The top highlight among many is Goldblum claiming he lives more in 10 minutes than most people do a lifetime, a statement that is wildly hyperbolic, but also, hmm… maybe?He probably, uh, finds a way to do so.
Why isn’t Jeff Goldblum in more stuff? Be in more stuff, Jeff Goldblum!
He’s too busy playing jazz and making his son breakfast.
Anyone else, I’d call it arrogance. But it’s Goldblum.
I wish I could say the same thing, I normally love the man too but this is an occasion where I think it’s a bit of a twatty thing to say.
I’ll save you from watching the clip (since I saw this last night) – he immediately retracts it as a joke.But man this dude is getting weirder.
Ah, thanks for that, that’s good to hear.
He makes me think of the expression “High on life”, but like, literally, like he has somehow found a way for the act of living to alter his brain chemistry.
If the act of living doesn’t alter your brain chemistry in any way, you might have a problem.
Does someone around here owe Goldbloom’s publicist a lot of money or something?
Considering I just spent a whole week of my work vacations watching 20 year old X-Files episodes, going outside literally twice… yeah, he’s right.
Was looking for the excellent David Duchovny SNL/Jeopardy impression of Goldblum on YouTube, and all I found was this Lynchian weirdness (don’t listen with the volume up too high):
NBC kills me with how they hoard so many of their best historical skits.
Yes, their stinginess is annoying and nobody wants to go to their stupid corporate website just for some old SNL skits.
Most of them aren’t even there. And I’m not buying 20 seasons of SNL DVDs for fuck’s sake.
I’m not in America, NBC don’t let me see any SNL video…
Duchovny did a great job with that impression. One of my favorites.
That wasn’t my impression. It showed how limited in range Duchovny really is as a performer. Didn’t see a resemblance between the impression and the actor.
Does this work?https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jeopardy/n11121
No spoiler alert? Dr. Brundle has obviously declared his casting as a modern, pansexual Riddler in The Batman.
Wow, check out the grandaddy bod.He was cute in The Fly (as a human). After that, he was always a B- or less actor to me. #actorsfailingupwards
Damn. Way harsh Tai.
“I live more in 10 minutes than most people do in an entire lifetime” So do all people with disposable time and money. Most people can’t afford that luxury.
I could live more in 10 mins than anyone else too if I had a butt ton of money and everybody was giving me attention all the time.
Give me money and attention!!!!!! I’m fucking quirky!!!!