Jeff Goldblum on Being a Pencil Salesman
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Jeff Goldblum is an actor the same way that Beyoncé is a singer. Sure, he has a roving, polymathic Hollywood career that's spanned decades, with hits in all of them (The Fly, Jurassic Park, Thor: Ragnarok, the list truly goes on). But he's also a late-stage style god, an Internet fascination, and—in an era where everything is bad—one of the rare things we can all agree on. Jeff Goldblum is good. Hell, even James Corden just paid musical tribute to the guy with a parody of "thank u, next" titled—you saw this coming—"thank u, jeff."
He also had one weird as hell job back in the day: pencil salesman. To prisons. "I got a job selling pens and pencils and stationary equipment over the phone," he explains. "It was kind of a scam."
On the latest episode, Goldblum also tells all about improvising under the watchful eye of Thor: Ragnarok's Taika Waititi, saying nothing at all in Nashville, and learning to appreciate his own worth under Philip Kaufman's direction. Oh, and the moment he was told to change his name from "Jeff Goldblum" to "Jeff Hernandez" in order to get more villain roles.
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