Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum

Tara Strong (Harley Quinn, Teen Titans, The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents) joins us this week for a conversation that goes a lot deeper than cartoons. Tara talks about how voicing Harley Quinn became her actual therapy, saying lines in the booth that she wished she could say to her then husband, and how the character grew into her own power at the same time she did. We also get into the h...

The band is back together. Tom Welling (Smallville, Lucifer), Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Murder in a Small Town), Erica Durance (Smallville, Saving Hope) and creators Al Gough and Miles Millar join me to celebrate 25 years of Smallville. We get into the casting stories nobody has heard end to end, the network that flat out said it did not want the show, and the renegotiation that nearly wrote Lex...

Michael Jai White (Spawn, Black Dynamite, The Dark Knight) joins me this week for the longest conversation I have ever had on this show, and I did not want it to end. Michael opens up about growing up in Brooklyn and Bridgeport where violence was right outside the doorstep, being on his own since 14, and the lunch with a friend who served 30 years in prison that made him realize how close he came....

James B. Jones and Shelley Wolfe (Love on the Spectrum) join me this week and I fell for these two the same way everybody else has, fast. What surprised me was how much this conversation goes beneath the show. We talk about what filming is really like, five or six hours of cameras for a few minutes of footage, and how the version people see is only one side of them. Shelley opens up about the comm...

Fortune Feimster (The Hawk, FUBAR, The Mindy Project) joins me this week to reflect on where her career is at now amidst the hardest year of her personal life. She discusses how much the industry has changed compared to when she was struggling to break through at a time when "different" wasn't so accepted. We also get into the emotional scene in The Hawk that left her and Will Ferrell both teary-e...

Jason Priestley (Beverly Hills 90210, Private Eyes) joins me this week for one I have wanted to do for years, and it goes to some heavy places. We get into the 2002 race car crash that technically killed him, flatlining in the helicopter and again in the elevator, and the long road back. Jason opens up about losing Luke Perry and Shannen Doherty, the ego that comes with fame in your early 20s, and...

Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, How to Train Your Dragon) joins us this week for one of the most open and disarming conversations we have had. Nick opens up about the psychological collapse 6 years ago that completely rebuilt him and the version of himself he had to let go of. We also get into manifesting the role of Hagrid in the new Harry Potter series by writing the name 12,000 times, the hyperv...

Patrick Renna (The Sandlot, The Big Green, Dugout Dads) joins us this week for a warm and surprisingly raw conversation about carrying a movie three generations have loved since he was thirteen years old. Patrick gets into the almost ridiculous way he landed The Sandlot, why the you play ball like a girl scene was never written for him, and why he will not perform the line everybody asks him for....

Sam Jones III (Smallville, Blue Mountain State) finally comes by and this one goes everywhere I hoped it would. We start with the Pete Ross days, meeting Tom Welling in the van, the chemistry read with Allison Mack, and the Seinfeld night a crowd chased us down the street. Then Sam opens all the way up about the one bad decision that sent him to prison, the DEA setup posing as the Mexican mafia, a...

Kellan Lutz (Twilight, The Legend of Hercules) joins us this week for an unexpectedly deep and disarming conversation about leaving California for Tennessee, the intensive couples therapy that cracked open a childhood he had completely blacked out, and the post Twilight pressure that made him lose his secret sauce while chasing roles like Captain America and Thor. Kellan opens up about the rowboat...

Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons, Rugrats) joins us this week for a warm and energized conversation about the unique anonymity that comes with being one of the most recognizable voices in television history. Nancy opens up about losing her mother just two weeks before she moved to LA at twenty, why she chose to bury herself in work as her way through that grief, and how a high school marching band c...

Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Burn Notice) joins me this week for one of the most honest and moving conversations I have had on the show. Bruce opens up about his cancer diagnosis, the whack a mole life of living with something treatable but not curable, and the strange waves of gratitude that have left him feeling more present and more grateful than ever. We also get into making his new movie Ernie...

Zach Braff (Scrubs, Garden State, Shrinking) joins me again this week for a conversation that swings from gut busting funny to genuinely tender. Zach opens up about living with depression, the highs and lows of a creative life, and the shingles nightmare he survived while directing Florence Pugh in A Good Person. We get into the real story behind bringing Scrubs back, rebuilding Sacred Heart from...

Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live, Portlandia, Wednesday) joins us this week for a wide ranging and surprisingly personal conversation about horror movies, drumming, Prince, and the unlikely turn that brought him to comedy. Fred opens up about the moment in his early thirties when his band fell apart and he had no idea what was next, the SNL audition call he still saves in his phone as Best Call E...

Huey Lewis (Huey Lewis and the News, Back to the Future) joins us this week for a deeply honest conversation about losing his hearing to Meniere's disease and what life looks like on the other side of music. Huey opens up about the worst six months of his life, the cochlear implant that changed everything, and finding a new identity through fly fishing and friendship. We also get into the wild ori...

Tori Spelling (Beverly Hills 90210, Saved by the Bell) joins us this week for a warm, sarcastic, surprisingly vulnerable conversation about growing up as Aaron Spelling's daughter and the lifelong instinct to overcompensate to prove she belongs. Tori opens up about sneaking into the 90210 audition under an alias, being paid less than a guest star while being a series regular, the bittersweet timin...

Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul, Pluribus) joins us this week for a candid and grounded conversation about the weight of her recent Golden Globe win, the long road of rejections that shaped her, and the moment Vince Gilligan called to say he had written Pluribus specifically for her. Rhea opens up about watching herself on screen, suppressing her anger until her body forces it out, and finding the...

Jodie Sweetin (Full House, Fuller House) joins us for a candid and emotional conversation about growing up in front of millions as Stephanie Tanner on Full House, and the identity crisis that followed when the cameras stopped rolling. She opens up about addiction, relapse, public scrutiny, and what it actually took to get sober and stay sober. We also talk about motherhood, boundaries, advocacy, a...

Joel McHale (Community, The Soup) joins us this week for a conversation that is exactly what you would expect and then some. Joel talks about stepping into Scream 7 as a replacement, the improvised insults he threw at Jeremy Allen White on The Bear, and the Robin Williams scene in Merry Frigging Christmas that nobody saw but still makes him emotional. We also get into his sons' brutal ego checks,...

Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek, Picard) joins us again this week and at 73 he is somehow still the most generous voice in the room. We get into the Picard Season Three reunion he calls a true full circle, the season eight of Next Generation they pitched together after twenty years apart, and the version of Riker he finally got to play one more time. We also talk about the Sir Ben Kingsley humility les...

Kevin Nealon (SNL, Weeds, Hiking with Kevin) joins us this week for a quietly honest conversation that goes a lot deeper than you would expect. Kevin tells the story of an active shooter scare at his Bridgeport stand up show that ended with him hiding behind a dumpster, the audiences who keep dropping mid set as his fans get older, and why the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, not SNL, was the real...

Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage, Superman and Lois) joins us this week for a deeply honest conversation about the loss, anxiety, and identity shifts that nobody saw from the outside. Emmanuelle opens up about both of her parents passing, the grounded calm that hides a more anxious interior, and the brutal stretch on Superman and Lois when her manager and dear friend took his life and she didn't know...

Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, Expendables, Creed II, The Witcher) joins us this week for the most open conversation we have ever had. Dolph walks me through the kidney cancer diagnosis he kept secret for seven years, the misdiagnosis at a major LA hospital that nearly cost him his life, and the surreal moment he got the news in Sweden then drove the Gumball Rally at 150 miles an hour through Europe wi...

Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones, Sonic the Hedgehog 3) joins us this week for a candid and very personal conversation about returning to Jessica Jones for Daredevil Born Again, the dream come true of working with Jim Carrey on Sonic 3, and the public panic attacks she has fought through both on set and off. Krysten opens up about her anxiety spirals, the heat stroke that left her terrified, and the...

Gene Simmons (KISS, Deep Water) joins us this week for a wide ranging and surprisingly tender conversation about the mother who shaped him, the bandmate he wishes he had saved, and the work ethic that still has him producing films at 77. Gene opens up about his Hungarian mother surviving the concentration camps, the moment he tasted jam for the first time in America, and why he believes the race o...