Adam Driver Was a Marine Before Becoming an Actor

you know it's an amazing road you've taken to acting I like your road to acting because it looked like for a while you weren't even going to be an actor so here you are where'd you grow up Indiana okay you used to act in what like elementary school right high school high school yeah you did the high school play and you thought well I'll go to Julliard and I'll become an actor right but you got rejected right did you audition for Juilliard yeah you did and they didn't like your audition no it was not good and so you said you something that's it I'm not I'm not gonna be an actor I can't get into Juilliard and that's it it's over right that's it yeah and your mom and stepdad you know you're in their house and they say hey you graduated high school you got to go do something so they they gave you tough love right yeah they said hey [ __ ] you go live in the back and get a job right yeah they were right to do that weren't they or did it seem harsh to you no they were right they always kind of told me that was a plan soon as you turned 18 you're gonna be paying rent here right yeah we're gonna put you in the back of the house you have to buy your own fridge vacuum are you any good at that no I was bad how much money did you make so in here Oh zero it's a commission job you never got lucky no no no then also I didn't have the balls to do that for a while like so I would call my people at my parents Church and they told you to [ __ ] off No Wow in a way it's good acting training you have to learn you have to put on a face affiliation yes you do did you put on his suit to sell the vacuum oh no no I think I just wore like my dress casuals yeah good look if you wanna sell that and can you even meet women at that point because are you dating or you where you at with that yeah I had like a girlfriend who were very why put that in air quotes we're very you know we're serious and we're gonna get married right and she's saying herself maybe I got to rethink this guy because he's cute Jesus Christ the guy kids so Levac you did she start to say to you look I think you need to make a little money before we get married yeah well I mean we're not together so yeah did you have it when you were selling vacuums did you have a port dirt on the floor and you did oh my god I figured that too that an instant sale no we do you have to do those thing where this is these ports are connected the same things that NASA is using in space it's the power that connects these two I'm not very good at it no II don't you terrible I would not buy a vacuum front so then somebody says to you I think it maybe was your stepdad yeah he said why don't you go join the [ __ ] Marines and become a man Yeah right yeah I wasn't doing anything we got a brochure in the mail and he's like once you do that that's it steady it seems like a very reasonable you know it's a steady income there's always they're always hiring you know right vacuum right right so 9/11 happens and you say to yourself hey man you know what joining the Marines seems like a good thing to do I'll go over and kick some [ __ ] ass over there right how hardcore is the training it's pretty intensive the Marine Corps is three months long the basic training then you go to two months after that Avesta why school of school of infantry because I wanted to be in the infantry and you would usually be one of those guys that hits the ground exactly why we're digging it yeah yeah and you didn't sit the whole time ago [ __ ] I wish I could just be an actor I wish I could mean act you were like full-on hardcore military yeah I love being in the Marine Corps what's scarier to you warfare or acting I mean those are two warfare what I never got a chance to go over and do that poor you so you train and train you get your body into physical shape you learn to be a couple do they teach you weaponry oh of course yeah yeah what he's firing off well I was a mortarman but they trained as a rifleman so are you a good shot yeah yeah yeah qualified [ __ ] no not that he can talk about wait a second you didn't get to go over cuz she went mountain biking and broke you back that's different would you like weight if so they kick you out of the military because you broke your sternum yeah they draw me to a different unit all my guys we're gonna go over and so wait Afghanistan yeah they did a West back so Afghanistan in Iraq and and you were ready to go I was yeah very ready to go were you brokenhearted very much so yeah Wow even now looking back on I wish I could have gone I talk to them all now and they have like are they like what kind of [ __ ] are you acting yeah that's a [ __ ] mode right yeah so you get out of the military and you say hey I'll go to Indiana University right you know I'll go study acting there since I can't get into Juilliard but then your audition for Juilliard and you get in there yeah yeah I got in yeah do you think if you hadn't broken your sternum you might have stayed in the military and never gone took that new audition with Juilliard and get back into act yeah maybe yeah I was very interested in making it a career

Channel: The Howard Stern Show

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Keywords: The Howard Stern Show, Howard Stern, Robin Quivers, Fred Norris, Gary Dell'Abate, Baba Booey, SiriusXM, HSS, htvod, Adam Driver, Marines, Acting, Movies, TV, Interview, Star Wars, Girls, BlacKkKlansman, Radio, Vacuum Salesman

Id: 1NUAcHRq0K4

Length: 4min 54sec (294 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 16 2019

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