Jason Priestley: Auditioning For 90210 and Flatlining After Racing Accident

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From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, Jason Priestley.

Plus the news with Elisha Krauss and now, Adam Carolla.

Adam Carolla (1:47)

Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on.

SPEAKER_4 (1:48)

No choice but to get on.

Adam Carolla (1:50)

I'm gonna mandate you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Jason Priestley, finally.

SPEAKER_5 (1:55)

I see Jason Priestley.

Adam Carolla (1:57)

God, it's kind of weird because I feel like I've known you for so long.

SPEAKER_5 (2:01)

Yeah.

Adam Carolla (2:01)

Because you've been on TV and a part of everyone's life for so long. The new series, well, it's out on CW, Private Eye West Coast. It's, I don't know, do people, can you stream it as well? I guess you can go online and do it that way as well. Yeah, you can stream it.

Jason Priestley (2:17)

It's on the CW and then it's on the CW app the next day. You can watch it.

Adam Carolla (2:22)

Fun. Just watched the trailer. Lots of action, lots of comedy. Got kind of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, I guess, as I think about it, that Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie kind of vibe, like comedy and action put together.

Jason Priestley (2:35)

Very much so. Yeah, we definitely lean into the comedy a little bit more in this version of the show.

Adam Carolla (2:40)

So you start off in Canada, right? You do tons of TV. I mean, I think we're looking back on some of the credits, but like Airwolf and that kind of stuff.

Jason Priestley (2:52)

MacGyver, all the old stuff.

Adam Carolla (2:54)

Were you a child actor then?

Jason Priestley (2:56)

I was, yeah. Yeah, when I did those shows, I was probably 15, 16 years old.

But I'd started well before that. I was making CBC TV movies back in the 70s.

Adam Carolla (3:10)

So you start, do you have an acting family? Are they arts or showbiz related?

Jason Priestley (3:16)

Well, my mom was a dancer and a singer and a choreographer and all that stuff. So when I told her that I wanted to be one of the people who lived inside the TV, she had an agent that she could take me and introduce me to.

Adam Carolla (3:29)

And I mean, 90210 was kind of phenomenon. It was a definite phenomenon. And it was back when, if you were a part of something like that, everyone knew who you were. Those days are gone.

Jason Priestley (3:43)

Yeah.

Adam Carolla (3:44)

It's mainly because there's just too many projects and too many outlets and too many streamers and nobody could possibly keep up with everyone who's on TV.

But that was about, I shouldn't say the end, but it was getting to the end of you knew everyone who was on TV. Like there was the guys from Chips, the guys from Duke's a Hazard. There was Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch, Partridge Family. You knew every single, I knew every single person that was on television. And then at some point, you got right to the sort of end of that point when, and all of a sudden, you got MTV and all the VH1s and all. Now you got lots of other people showing up. But you were as recognizable as somebody could be in 1995

Jason Priestley (4:35)