On this episode of Live Well and Thrive with Mike Torchia, legendary actor Peter Weller — star of RoboCop, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, and David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch — joins us for an in-depth conversation about music, art, film, and his remarkable career.

Beyond his iconic roles, Weller is a director, jazz musician, and scholar, holding a Master’s in Roman and Renaissance Art from Syracuse University and a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History from UCLA. He’s also the author of Leon Battista Alberti in Exile: Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting, a fascinating exploration of how the Renaissance thinker’s exile shaped De Pictura.

We discuss his early days in acting, his breakthrough film roles, his love for music, his academic journey, and how creativity connects all of his passions.