Actor Kevin Pollak Jumps Into Social Media, And Is Swimming Quite Well

Actor Kevin Pollak (A Few Good Men, Usual Suspects, etc.) met Mahalo's Jason Calacanis at a poker game and learned all about Twitter - a few weeks later and he has over 160,000 followers (although he jokes "I just don't know what that means" ). Calacanis also talked him into hosting a video show as well, which is two weeks old and already has 1,000 or so people watching live every Sunday afternoon. Tomorrow he'll have Tesla founder Elon Musk on the show at 5 pm. Mahalo basically duplicated the Charlie Rose set (all black, single round table) for a total cost, he says, of $20,000. He says he can create a show for $300/episode for an editor, makeup, etc. The show is good, and it's fun to watch a professional actor begin to understand the power of social media, where you can gain a lot of devoted fans very quickly - with the only downside being that you have to listen to what they say back to you. Pollack is handling it well, talking about the chat feature on the video show and how bewildered he is by Twitter. And he also seems to like the fact that he can do literally anything on the show that he wants - swear, be silent, talk for as long as he likes, whatever. Between his talking about what it's like for a professional actor to do whatever he likes without interference, he throws in a few good comedic bits as well. My favorite - a damned good impression of Jack Nicholson at about the 2:15 mark of this video: