Speaker 1: I am all in you, I am all in with
Speaker 1: Scott Patterson and I Hurt Radio podcast. All right, everybody,
Speaker 1: we're here with Billy Burke, uh, who is so far
Speaker 1: my favorite uh guy for lorli um. And I don't
Speaker 1: know how you can possibly say that, but thanks, because
Speaker 1: I think you're You're just You're just a very cool cat.
Speaker 1: You know, You're a mellow kind of kind of cool guy,
Speaker 1: and you seem very confident and comfortable in your own skin.
Speaker 1: And I just it's just a nice balance between the
Speaker 1: two of you, and I enjoy watching it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: and I think you're a terrific act. During you you
Speaker 1: really underplay everything and just but everything is h you know,
Speaker 1: it was louder because of it, So it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a great relief actually because I U, I take
Speaker 1: exception with most of her um potential love interests, but
Speaker 1: not here. I I like, I like how this feels,
Speaker 1: and I like you just dropped her off and gave
Speaker 1: her a kiss and she was hungry. You did your
Speaker 1: weekend in New York City, and uh, I like probably
Speaker 1: because that probably has mostly to do with the fact
Speaker 1: that I had zero idea what I was walking into
Speaker 1: and I came on the show, I know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I mean, I as far as I recollect
Speaker 1: I you know, Lauren and I had done um, this
Speaker 1: little independent movie together a couple of years prior called
Speaker 1: deal Scallion, and it was a fake documentary about a
Speaker 1: country singer, and so I played this country singer and
Speaker 1: go on the road and I meet her and she
Speaker 1: becomes my girlfriend and um, and so within that process,
Speaker 1: I mean, we had the greatest time making that movie.
Speaker 1: But Laura and I just became really good friends during that.
Speaker 1: So I had always assumed that it was a couple
Speaker 1: of years later that when we got the call to
Speaker 1: come and do Gilmore Girls. I had just assumed that
Speaker 1: maybe she had made a request or something like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if that's the case or not.
Speaker 1: It never got discussed between here Kerr and I or
Speaker 1: anybody else. So it could have been could have been
Speaker 1: just an accident, It could have been could have been
Speaker 1: against her will for all I know. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: she was so busy they didn't consult her on much,
Speaker 1: but she probably gave them a list, you know, I know,
Speaker 1: people she did want to work with and people she
Speaker 1: didn't want to work with and you know, absolute nos
Speaker 1: and um. Yeah, So so tell us about you know,
Speaker 1: how you got the job. Was it just a straight offer?
Speaker 1: Did you audition first day on the set, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing? Reunited It came in as an offer they
Speaker 1: I think it probably was one of those situations where
Speaker 1: they asked if you want to come do one episode
Speaker 1: with the potential for for more. But uh, I think
Speaker 1: it was always supposed to be a one to three
Speaker 1: episode arc. I believe I ended up doing three. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I said, it just kind of came in.
Speaker 1: So my assumption was, oh, you know, my friend Lauren
Speaker 1: probably just trying to see if I want to come
Speaker 1: and do some of the show, and I'd be more
Speaker 1: than happy to obviously, so I said yes immediately, right right,
Speaker 1: Um again, not having any idea have I mean, had
Speaker 1: not seen it prior to that, had not experienced the
Speaker 1: tone and tempo and um all that up, which is
Speaker 1: very specific to that shown, very specific to to a
Speaker 1: lot of I think what Amy Paladino does. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why That's why I particularly like what you did
Speaker 1: with that character, because you didn't allow yourself to get
Speaker 1: caught up in their rhythm and their speed. You had
Speaker 1: your own yet it was so smooth and it didn't
Speaker 1: throw anybody off. It just kept feeding and feeding it,
Speaker 1: feeding it because you know, they're going a mile a minute, um,
Speaker 1: but you provided this real i don't know, not an
Speaker 1: escape from it, but it relaxed the scenes and they
Speaker 1: just seemed more real as a result, so, you know,
Speaker 1: as as an actor and that and that was my
Speaker 1: challenge too, because Luke was a whole different you know,
Speaker 1: he was a whole different vibe. But sometimes you couldn't
Speaker 1: help but get caught in, caught up in the speed
Speaker 1: what was going on, and it was you. You were
Speaker 1: you were the cool, relaxed guy on the show. If
Speaker 1: I recall, oh no, no, no, no no. Well sometimes
Speaker 1: and then you came along and it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's what it's supposed to be. No, that's really that's
Speaker 1: exactly what I was trying to achieve is what you achieved.
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's how I saw Luke. But
Speaker 1: they kept whipping me to go faster, so I guess
Speaker 1: I go faster. Yeah, I'm always I mean, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm confined to what's on the page in terms
Speaker 1: of in terms of bourbage and uh sentiment and dynamic
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Um, but I just
Speaker 1: I probably just didn't know what else to do but
Speaker 1: settle into into how I saw it. You know, if
Speaker 1: I were going to reach beyond that and try to
Speaker 1: attain there, um, you know, their tempo, it would have
Speaker 1: been a disaster. Yeah. And that's and when I and
Speaker 1: when it happened to me. And I'm now I'm saying
Speaker 1: because I never saw it before, I cringe. God, I
Speaker 1: cringe uh at being at being duped into their tempo.
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, yeah, damn it. Um, but that's
Speaker 1: I guess all those people were so good at it,
Speaker 1: right right. I mean you know I include you on
Speaker 1: this too. I mean you you were on the show
Speaker 1: for a long time. I mean that's whatever whatever everybody
Speaker 1: was doing was was obviously working. Hey man, Hey, I
Speaker 1: had to learn to go that fast. I didn't like it.
Speaker 1: I struggled with it. I never felt comfortable going that fast.
Speaker 1: They were great at it. I mean, Lauren, it's just
Speaker 1: like you know, she's that that's just another brain, that's
Speaker 1: another level there. She's always had it since I since
Speaker 1: right knowing her. I mean, she's just she's a rocket ship.
Speaker 1: She just she's yeah, yeah, it's it's why she can
Speaker 1: do those uh And where I think she really is
Speaker 1: best with with her comedy is in those moments where
Speaker 1: she's got a stumble and fumble and and she does
Speaker 1: it so she does it so quickly and with while
Speaker 1: also delaying things, and I it's amazing how she can
Speaker 1: do it. She did it in this episode in the
Speaker 1: scene with with the band in her kitchen and she
Speaker 1: kind of let the cat out of the bag about
Speaker 1: how uh Lane and Dave were dating, and she tried
Speaker 1: to take it back, and I really laughed out loud.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's very, very fun, she's very gifted, she's
Speaker 1: very yeah. And it's and I think it comes from
Speaker 1: she's got an old school heart when it comes to
Speaker 1: when it comes to television and that kind of comedy.
Speaker 1: I mean I liken it to kind the like the
Speaker 1: Bob new Hearts of the Right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: where Bob Newhart was like he wasn't it didn't feel
Speaker 1: like he was doing something perfect or precious, because but
Speaker 1: he was. It just felt so natural for him, right,
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. Yeah, just as as quick
Speaker 1: as lightning, that one unbelievable. Um. Um, So look the fans,
Speaker 1: they they they email questions and they want to know.
Speaker 1: They're very excited about you being on the show. Um aside,
Speaker 1: and they want to know. Okay, here's here's uh, Jennifer
Speaker 1: from God, I I hope I can answer this, Okay, Um, well, okay,
Speaker 1: you can probably answer this. Uh from from Houston, Texas.
Speaker 1: Jennifer from Houston, Texas. Uh, Billy Park is so cool.
Speaker 1: I agree, Jennifer, h what do you think? What? What
Speaker 1: did you think of your character Alex? Are you anything
Speaker 1: like him? Huh? Again? I mean I really don't remember
Speaker 1: the character that well. I mean I probably should have.
Speaker 1: I probably should have done some research and gone back
Speaker 1: and taken a look. But then again, and then I'd
Speaker 1: be in your shoes, cringing it stuff, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that. So, um, let let me help
Speaker 1: let me. I doubt I doubt it. I doubt there
Speaker 1: was anything familiar to me about what he was supposed
Speaker 1: to be. I probably was just doing my best to
Speaker 1: you know, not offend anybody. Well that's that's it. Why
Speaker 1: strategy that was easy to do? Um? Um, all right,
Speaker 1: here's here's one hang on, uh This is from Robert
Speaker 1: from Seattle. I thank you yours. Yeah, you're close, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I spent all my formative years in downtown Seattle, from
Speaker 1: okay to uh. He wants to know any favorite memories
Speaker 1: working with Lauren or Melissa McCarthy. Did I have scenes
Speaker 1: with Melissa hum just outside when you went to see
Speaker 1: the Broadway show that everybody hated and she was there
Speaker 1: with Jackson out theater after the theater. I'm sure it was.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was beyond pleasant. Um. Everybody on the
Speaker 1: show was obviously, I mean, given my sort of fish
Speaker 1: out of water feeling about myself, everybody was was so kind. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't have any specific recollections about that. Laura and
Speaker 1: I have always I mean, as I was saying before,
Speaker 1: we we did a little independent movie beforehand a few
Speaker 1: years prior, and we had we had what I would
Speaker 1: consider to be one of those sort of automatic oh
Speaker 1: I get you, I get what you're doing. Um, And
Speaker 1: so we had one of those kind of friendships, and
Speaker 1: I think that translated, hopefully translated into into the stuff
Speaker 1: on screen. Every every moment working with Lauren is always
Speaker 1: a joy, right, Okay, So let's change gears. Talk about
Speaker 1: a little bit Twilight. There's so many Twilight, uh questions, emails?
Speaker 1: Good god, there were so many. So you're about to
Speaker 1: say there's so many Twilight movies, which there are? Good god,
Speaker 1: how many of them? Uh? Uh? Um, okay, who this is? Uh?
Speaker 1: This is Robert Roberta from Albuquerque. You've worked steady since
Speaker 1: the nineties, but many fans no use Charlotte Swan, Bella's
Speaker 1: dad and Twilight. Ah, in those five years the franchise,
Speaker 1: was it hard to walk outside without being recognized. Um
Speaker 1: those five years were probably my most recognizable. Um I
Speaker 1: without without just the the Charlie Swan porn stash, without
Speaker 1: just that on my face. Um, I kind of disappear
Speaker 1: into myself most of the time. So it depends on
Speaker 1: what facial hair I have at the time, going on
Speaker 1: how recognized, how recognizable I am. But but yeah, during
Speaker 1: those five years, um, look, it was it was just
Speaker 1: nice to be a part of something that people were
Speaker 1: paying attention to, you know, as as she said herself,
Speaker 1: I've been working since the early nineties, and you know,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of good successes and and some
Speaker 1: dips and and as all careers do, and uh and
Speaker 1: so Yeah, it was. It was nice to be a
Speaker 1: part of that, UM, but I don't necessarily love not
Speaker 1: having an unim anonymity. However, you say that word, you know,
Speaker 1: um right, uh? And so did it what you were
Speaker 1: doing the music? Then you were pretty serious about recording
Speaker 1: and releasing songs and was at that time I used
Speaker 1: that around that time when the first Twilight came out,
Speaker 1: That's when Twitter was still kind of burgeoning. Uh. I
Speaker 1: didn't get the concept, still kind of don't um. But
Speaker 1: somebody approached me saying, UM, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: necessary tool for you. You're gonna you're gonna want to
Speaker 1: have this. I said, I don't know that, I am.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I will ever use it. And
Speaker 1: then I started thinking, oh, because I was in the
Speaker 1: throes of kind of putting together an album for myself
Speaker 1: of just stuff that I've been running over the years,
Speaker 1: and so I figured, h, I will use that for
Speaker 1: what I can and what I can do is use
Speaker 1: it as a promotional tool for that. UM. And so yes,
Speaker 1: during that time, I put out a record and we did,
Speaker 1: and probably only because of Twilight fans, we did. We
Speaker 1: released it on a format called CD Baby, and we
Speaker 1: had their biggest single day day opening sales record of
Speaker 1: all time at the time, which was great. Um So
Speaker 1: in those cases, social media pretty useful. But did you
Speaker 1: did you get music? Did you get did you get into?
Speaker 1: We did? We did one? We did one album released
Speaker 1: show in Los Angeles at the House of Blues which
Speaker 1: people came from being everywhere to come and see, which
Speaker 1: was was really great. Um but no, no tour. I can't.
Speaker 1: It's impossible to keep a band together if you're if
Speaker 1: your main career is is moving in television. You just
Speaker 1: can't do. I mean, I know some guys do, but
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't see him very often the way
Speaker 1: h m hm. Did A did a label step up? Oh? No, no,
Speaker 1: And I didn't expect that to happen. I mean, my
Speaker 1: music was very sort of eclectic and kind of specific
Speaker 1: to myself els and my thought patterns, And I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's couched in really good melodic music, American
Speaker 1: style music, but it's but content wise and lyrically, it's
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's gonna identify with the masses.
Speaker 1: So if I were the record label, I know I
Speaker 1: might enjoy the momentary popularity for a second and say, oh,
Speaker 1: we can make something out of this, but long run.
Speaker 1: H So, who are who are some of your big
Speaker 1: musical influences growing up and currently what informs your writing?
Speaker 1: I grew up with mostly my mother's music, which was
Speaker 1: a lot of singer songwriters, um, the Jim Croaches and
Speaker 1: in James Taylor's uh early early Billy Joel early Elton
Speaker 1: John was a huge influence. Um Bowie Um always sort
Speaker 1: of all the sort of artisans of that period. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What always amazed me about Bowie is his very early
Speaker 1: career and his his his right. The songwriting in his
Speaker 1: teens was so vulnerable, it was so odd even. It
Speaker 1: was just all of these very childlike, delicate little songs
Speaker 1: that where he created this very safe world for those
Speaker 1: characters to an habit. And then he writes what was
Speaker 1: his big breakthrough a song? It was was it space
Speaker 1: Oddity or was it um? I think space Ody put
Speaker 1: him on the the big map right right right, But
Speaker 1: there was one before that It was like wow, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I was, I was, really I was. I
Speaker 1: mean I was born in sixty six, so uh so
Speaker 1: that was that kind of knowledge was was beyond at
Speaker 1: that point. I didn't get into Bowie Bowie until I
Speaker 1: was you know, early teens, right. Um, So I'm no scholar.
Speaker 1: I can't answer your question about when something came out
Speaker 1: damn it. Um, but yeah, that early stuff. You're absolutely
Speaker 1: right what he was doing. I just don't know that
Speaker 1: there's any parallel to it whatsoever. I mean, not only
Speaker 1: was it vulnerable, but it was so just weirdly insightful
Speaker 1: and and uh and communicated to so many people in
Speaker 1: so many different ways, in such specific ways. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he's the the ultimate uh, the ultimate outsider,
Speaker 1: absolutely who made somehow everybody go like that's probably the
Speaker 1: coolest guy in the world. And yeah, yeah, for his
Speaker 1: entire life or his entire A pony just he just
Speaker 1: kept doing it. He just kept he kept changing until
Speaker 1: until the day he died. He was kept doing his thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I still watch He was on Jules
Speaker 1: Holland in two thousand and God, what was it, two
Speaker 1: thousand and two. I may have seen this on YouTube.
Speaker 1: He does you know he did? Well, maybe it was
Speaker 1: maybe it was two thousand and ten, but I'm thinking
Speaker 1: two tho. Jules Holland. Oh jeez, what just happened? I
Speaker 1: don't know oh good. Sorry, Um, he did Rebel Rebel
Speaker 1: uh in the studio and travel live audience, and it
Speaker 1: was just I don't know, every time I listened to
Speaker 1: it, it it brings a tear. It's just it's such a
Speaker 1: huge song. It's such a great range. It's just such
Speaker 1: a big moment, you know. It's just the audience was
Speaker 1: so happy. Yeah. They were just and quintessential rock and roll.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, wherever you are, and he placed time that
Speaker 1: riff starts you know where you're back again? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the and the vocal he laid down on that
Speaker 1: with such ease, and it's just like, God, damn, this
Speaker 1: guy was magic. Yeah, he made he made everything look easy.
Speaker 1: It was part of it, you know, the movement, yes,
Speaker 1: you know everything. The phenomenal musicianship that he put into everything.
Speaker 1: I mean, he played so many instruments and was so
Speaker 1: knowledgeable about notes. I mean, yeah, there will never be another. Yea.
Speaker 1: I share your your fascination and respect with it with
Speaker 1: with that artist. My god, he's my probably my favorite
Speaker 1: artist of all time, at least in the last sixty years,
Speaker 1: seventy years. Um, I can't think of anybody Desert Island wise,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna bring somebody's music with you, and you
Speaker 1: only have one. I can't. I can't think of anybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's one that, there's one of them for me. There's
Speaker 1: one that that is sort of competing right now. And
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna say it because I'm I'll be
Speaker 1: embarrassed to say it. But somebody, somebody present day Yah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: who's extraordinary in every way? I mean just master songwriter, singer, performer,
Speaker 1: it's just the whole thing. But anyway, male or female female?
Speaker 1: Do I have an idea of who you're talking about?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe think about it for me when
Speaker 1: you say all those things, Phoebe Bridges comes to mind
Speaker 1: for me. Oh, you know what I'm gonna. I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check her stuff out. I'm not really versed
Speaker 1: within her, so, but I will because I've heard great
Speaker 1: I've heard yl songwriter Okay, right, okay, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: check it out because I love songwriters above and beyond everybody.
Speaker 1: I love songwriters. And you can tell me who you're
Speaker 1: talking about when we when we get off this thing.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna believe it. You're just gonna laugh Okay,
Speaker 1: here's here's another question. But you have a daughter. Do
Speaker 1: you wanna Do you want to talk about your daughter
Speaker 1: at all? Or we don't have to, But if if
Speaker 1: you don't want to, that's fine. But I'm okay talking
Speaker 1: about her. I don't think that I'll be revealing any secrets,
Speaker 1: but she wouldn't want me to. Okay. So here's uh,
Speaker 1: Mary Anne from New York, New York. That's where I am.
Speaker 1: Five five huge films and five years and your daughter
Speaker 1: was born during the first one. How did you manage
Speaker 1: that work schedule? Did you ever get a break? Uh?
Speaker 1: Those five years were a kind of a blur. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was go go go all the time. Her mother
Speaker 1: and I were still married at the time, of course,
Speaker 1: and so that made it a lot easier. She Uh,
Speaker 1: she had to do a lot of work in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, just the day to day while I
Speaker 1: was off, you know, playing Make Belief, and uh, it
Speaker 1: was it was busy, but yeah, it was. I mean,
Speaker 1: those were some of my favorite years with my with
Speaker 1: my kid because we traveled a bit in like different places.
Speaker 1: She'd come to the set m once in a while,
Speaker 1: and and uh it was it was good times. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't under onelm right. She now, um though, speaking
Speaker 1: of the sunch a good hand. Although she hasn't uh
Speaker 1: seen more girls, apparently it's repopularized with a lot of
Speaker 1: kids age now as friends and all these things that
Speaker 1: had resurgences and so so she did like sometime last
Speaker 1: year I think it was, came home and said, do
Speaker 1: you want the Gilmore Girls? Oh? Yeah, I was. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: my friends were watching it, they said they. I said, okay, Well, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been around a while. Have you kept in touch
Speaker 1: with any of the Twilight cast? And that's uh Eva
Speaker 1: from Los Angeles. You must to know that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say Captain Touch. I have run into one or
Speaker 1: two or six of them from time to time over
Speaker 1: the years, and uh it's always a pleasant sight. Um Again,
Speaker 1: not one objectionable person in that castor crew that I
Speaker 1: can remember either all really and and you know, at
Speaker 1: the time, I could tell I can tell some stuff
Speaker 1: that was going on with some of those people, Um,
Speaker 1: a few in particular. I'm not going to name any names,
Speaker 1: but but I could see that there was gonna be
Speaker 1: some great stuff beyond what we were doing at present
Speaker 1: as well. For some of those people. Um, okay, I
Speaker 1: have a question for this form me. You worked with
Speaker 1: Anthony Hopkins, I did the right Anthony Hopkins the the
Speaker 1: Is there anything that he does that you that just
Speaker 1: set you back on your heels because it's unlike other
Speaker 1: actors are doing it? What makes him so great? While
Speaker 1: you got a chance because you worked with him a lot.
Speaker 1: Actually in that film? What was it? What was the
Speaker 1: name of that film you were having in a fan
Speaker 1: of his wife? You were a detective, right, it was
Speaker 1: it was him and Gosling, Right, I was the foil
Speaker 1: um And it was called why are you asking me this? Now? Now?
Speaker 1: I mean now, I'm gonna blank on the on the title. Um,
Speaker 1: it was one of those you know titles. It was
Speaker 1: like a yes, yes, yes, yes, you know look you guys,
Speaker 1: Figger than the film that's understandable, the best, the best
Speaker 1: time in my life? What was the film called? Uh? So,
Speaker 1: that's a great question because what was what turned out
Speaker 1: to be shocking was the opposite of what you just said.
Speaker 1: There was nothing that he did, um, that I looked
Speaker 1: at and watched and experienced and uh there was really
Speaker 1: anything different than I do myself. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that and you know, in between scenes we'll you know,
Speaker 1: we'll go back and sit in our chairs, and you know,
Speaker 1: she'd a little bit just talk about nothing, this and
Speaker 1: that and and then he's the guy who's reading the
Speaker 1: l A times da Dad, Mr Hopkins, were ready for you? Okay,
Speaker 1: hold up the paper, goes to work, right. There's not
Speaker 1: a lot of there's not a lot of extraneous thought
Speaker 1: that's put into it. He's he knows what he's he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing before he gets thereright, And and
Speaker 1: that's what I saw. What's what's it? What's he like?
Speaker 1: In rehearsal um? We didn't really as far as I remember,
Speaker 1: we didn't rehearse a lot. We um. We set up
Speaker 1: the scenes. We uh, you know, maybe ran the dialogue
Speaker 1: for for blocking and placement a little bit um, but
Speaker 1: we never did any hardcore rehearsal um. I think we
Speaker 1: did a little bit before. I remember doing a little
Speaker 1: bit beforehand with with the director and with with Gosling,
Speaker 1: but uh not with uh not with Hopkins. And on
Speaker 1: set we didn't do much rehearsal either. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I think again, I'm assuming he's he's like me when
Speaker 1: it comes to that as well, I kind of come, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, having thoughts and ideas already kind of built in,
Speaker 1: and I don't really want to. I'd rather shake him
Speaker 1: out on camera and and fix it from there, because
Speaker 1: if we get me happy accidents along the way, that's
Speaker 1: what we like, right, that's what we like. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely let it you know, just you know, doing a
Speaker 1: rehearsal by the numbers for camera and then just let
Speaker 1: it fly. Yep, absolutely, Okay, here we go. Uh. This
Speaker 1: is from Benizio. Benizio from Boston, Massachusets as steady working
Speaker 1: actors since the nineties. What advice would you give someone
Speaker 1: just starting out? It is a whole different business today.
Speaker 1: Can you agree it is a full different business? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Nothing like Yeah, I wouldn't be. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: be the last person to ask for advice because somebody,
Speaker 1: somebody who's having some successes starting out right now, would
Speaker 1: have some way better answers than I would. I'm I
Speaker 1: get confused every day. I'm about to go back to
Speaker 1: work here, I'm leaving after tomorrow as a matter of factum,
Speaker 1: and to start another TV series and I what it
Speaker 1: is now and how it works now and with all
Speaker 1: the bump reguards and safety rails and uh and uh
Speaker 1: politics that has to go on just to get something made.
Speaker 1: As an actor, Well, here's one thing I would say,
Speaker 1: get some ownership not only of what you do and
Speaker 1: what you bring with your personal part of the of
Speaker 1: the puzzle when you're put together a story piece of drama, um,
Speaker 1: business wise, find a way to navigate the system and
Speaker 1: get in there on getting some ownership because you will
Speaker 1: not want to be just a hired hand actor forever. Yes,
Speaker 1: well said, great, that's great advice because look what happened
Speaker 1: with Goodwill Hunting but those two guys, look what happened
Speaker 1: with Swingers with Vince Vaughn and Jon Favro. You know, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you can write and and produce a small, classy
Speaker 1: indie film that doesn't have to do huge numbers, but
Speaker 1: you've proved, you've shown the industry that you've got some knowledge,
Speaker 1: that's right, some credit, get yourself some Yeah, that'll give
Speaker 1: you a lot of credit. So that's that's very very
Speaker 1: good advice. What are you so, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: What are you getting ready to do? What pilot you're
Speaker 1: doing a pilot or is it picked up already. It's
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's coming out this fall on CBS. It's
Speaker 1: called Fire Country, and it is based around, um, sort
Speaker 1: of a family that lives and has always lived in
Speaker 1: this northern California area where uh, you know, they worked
Speaker 1: for cal Fire and they and and um and you
Speaker 1: know they that's what they do every day. Um. But
Speaker 1: we couple that with their there's a program with prisons
Speaker 1: where um, you can sort of get some benefits and
Speaker 1: possibly even shorten your sentence if you go out and
Speaker 1: fight fires with Califire. Oh yeah, right, sure, that's the
Speaker 1: real thing. That's that's what our story is based on.
Speaker 1: The interesting Um yeah, my yeah, it comes out. It
Speaker 1: comes out this fall. I can't I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say too much about it obviously because I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm supposed to say. And nothing but
Speaker 1: CBS this fall, I think, Right, Okay, yeah, well you're
Speaker 1: gonna Are you gonna shoot it in northern California? Well
Speaker 1: you would think, wouldn't you? But but but no, are
Speaker 1: you going to Canada? You're going to Canada? Oh yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you going to Vaca, Yes, one of Vancouver, where
Speaker 1: I've spent I don't know. I mean probably a good
Speaker 1: third of my career. I guess where I am and
Speaker 1: right now I'm in I'm in Nova, Scotia. Are you Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm shooting something up here. Yeah. It's beautiful. It's I've
Speaker 1: never been here before. It's gorgeous. I've never been there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard it's great up there. I'm doing a show
Speaker 1: called Sullivan's Crossing. Uh. It's like Fremantle and Bell Media
Speaker 1: up here and SEETV. So it's uh one of these
Speaker 1: shows that they're gonna sell all over the world. Um,
Speaker 1: are you a Canadian national? No? No, no no, No, I'm
Speaker 1: from I'm from New Jersey. Yeah that's not Canadian no.
Speaker 1: Um So anyway, so when that when's that come out? Oh? God,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean we're we're on what don't
Speaker 1: We shot two or three episodes so far? We got
Speaker 1: we're shooting ten. Uh so we're done like mid September,
Speaker 1: third week in September. I don't know when it's coming out.
Speaker 1: I guess I guess it would come out early. I
Speaker 1: mean they'd want to pump it up, right, so probably
Speaker 1: early three. I don't know. I don't know, right, Maybe
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, I don't know. Um anyway, look, um
Speaker 1: damn it, you're working because I was gonna try to
Speaker 1: get you up here because I want to. I want
Speaker 1: to work with you. I will, dude, just you know
Speaker 1: all you gotta do, Billy, You're you're available. I like
Speaker 1: to work. You're the coolest guy in the business. You're
Speaker 1: You're like one of those guys. So it's like, I
Speaker 1: got to get this guy's vibe up here, man, because
Speaker 1: he's cool as hell, and you're I'm not sure I
Speaker 1: have anybody to, you know, make that comparison with for myself.
Speaker 1: So but thanks. I appreciate it because you're because you're
Speaker 1: the coolest guy and there's nobody else and that's it.
Speaker 1: You know, You're you're like the eldest of actors. You know,
Speaker 1: you're just like it's like you do your thing and
Speaker 1: it's like that's enough, Billy, just laid it down. Let's
Speaker 1: walk away. Right, We're done. We're done the scene. Drop listen. Good.
Speaker 1: It was good. Uh, finally getting a chance to meet
Speaker 1: you officially and talk to you. I didn't get the
Speaker 1: chance to meet you when you we're on the set. Um,
Speaker 1: it really was And come back anytime, um uh and
Speaker 1: tell us how it's going up there in Vancouver, and
Speaker 1: and uh we'll keep in touch and and be well. Okay,
Speaker 1: have a great shoot and and really nice talking to you. Okay,
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