Big Swings with Skyler Gisondo and Austin Abrams 2026

Directed by A24 Podcast Team

Actors Skyler Gisondo and Austin Abrams discuss topics such as: Former arch-nemeses, cutthroat Pizza Hut auditions, oceanic engineer parents, busking on Santa Monica promenade, childhood fixations on West Side Story and Happy Gilmore, shape-shifting performances, having an out-of-body experience working with Robert Pattinson on the first day of Primetime, Skyler “beaming like a maniac” watching Austin in a top-secret screening of Resident Evil, Lance Oppenheim’s deep collaboration, decapitated whale heads, shining Ryan Gosling’s shoes, Ben Stiller and Robin Williams helping Skyler ask his girlfriend to prom on set of Night at the Museum, calling Robert De Niro “Bob,” and the joy of taking big weird swings.