WEBVTT - Luke Macfarlane of Platonic, Brothers & Sisters, Bros 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.920 Hey guys, welcome to I've never said this before with 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:09.960 me Tommy di Dario. Today I am joined by a 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.280 man of many, many talents. Luke McFarlane has tackled TV 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.319 and film, Broadway and now the unscripted world. He is 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.240 currently hosting and starring in Hallmark plus his home renovation 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:24.360 series Home Is Where the Heart Is, which is out 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.400 right now. And yes he is rolling up the sleeves, 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.880 and yes he is getting dirty because he is showcasing 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.080 his very impressive skills in woodwork to help bring some 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.880 magic to some incredible human beings. I love feel good 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.559 shows like this. You guys are in for such a 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:42.840 treat with this one. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:43.199 Now. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.000 Luke has done fifteen fan favorite Hallmark movies, so it's 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.120 pretty cool to see him in a totally different role, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.040 still bringing that same joy to many. You may know 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.360 and love Luke from his role in Brothers and Sisters 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.560 or the Apple series Platonic, which he just finished filming 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.280 season two of. Then there's the movie Bros. Which was 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.400 a big studio rom com featuring a same sex love story, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:04.560 which was pretty groundbreaking for the time, and I would 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.720 argue that it still very much is. And Luke added 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.720 Broadway to his resume performing in the very moving play 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.839 The Normal Heart. And this is just naming a few 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:18.360 of his many many credits. So let's see if today 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.560 we can get Luke to say something that he has 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:28.800 never said before. Luke, how you doing, my man? 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:30.960 I'm good, Tommy, thank you so much for having me. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.680 I am so happy to see you. A lot has 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:34.600 changed since I saw you last. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.600 It is correct, it's been met. When I was doing 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:37.000 the Bros. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.440 Press tour yep, yep, on my show Extra and you 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.800 were not a parent, then you're a parent now. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.000 Yes, that's correct. I walked into I will say this, 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.119 when I walked into the theater. You were sitting down 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:48.800 in the theater and I walked and I turned to 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.800 Billy Eichner and said, like, who is this guy? He's 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.760 very very handsome. Oh god, Billy immediately made a joke 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.760 about that. But it's true. And you look fantastic. You 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:58.240 look great. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:00.880 Thank you well likewise, my man. Likewise, I saw your 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.919 promo stills for the new show, and you're clearly staying 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.360 on top of your fitness game. Oh yes, you have 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.760 not let that slip in two years. I haven't you know. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.680 I did just have a daughter. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.520 She's going to be two years old soon, and I 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.880 still make time to sort of have a little time 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.399 to myself, to go to the gym. It's a big 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.120 part of what I do. And yeah, even having any kid, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.280 it just becomes a little bit earlier in the morning. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.280 Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure. But you're carving out the 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:26.280 time for you, which is great. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:26.760 That's right. 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:29.520 Well, we have lots of cover and obviously we're going 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.400 to get to the show. A lot of people know 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.960 you from the acting world. You know, you're rolling up 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.320 your sleeves or getting dirty in the unscripted world, and 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:38.919 we're going to talk all about that. But to begin, Luke, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.920 you have such an impressive career. You've done projects that 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.320 are so wonderful and that means so much to so 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.799 many people. So in your perspective, what for you is 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:49.799 a career high? 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.239 Oh gosh, you know, it's always funny to look back 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.440 at your career because you never quite know where it's 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.760 going to go. I mean, if you told me that 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.760 would become this amazing home for me, and it has. 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.480 I've done fifteen movies with them, I would be really 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.960 I'd probably ask first of all, what is Hallmark And 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.240 now it's become this amazing platform for me to do 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.400 movies and to work on movies and to be a 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.520 romantic lead in these movies. But now it's been a 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.840 place for me to go. Can I executive produce something? 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.000 And I did executive produce the show which is going 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:27.400 to be Well, which is live now where I get 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.400 to show another part of myself, which is my passion 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.480 for home renovation and woodworking. So career highlight. Trying to 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.480 answer your question, sorry rambling, Gosh, I got to work 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.720 on Broadway. That was huge. You never thought that that 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.040 would happen. I worked an amazing production of The Normal Heart, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.600 which won a Tony Award almost ten years ago. That 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.880 was amazing, beautiful story. Yeah, gosh, I don't know. It's 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.520 been so varied. I worked on a sci fi series 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.760 which I loved. I worked on Brothers and Sisters for 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:57.720 one hundred episodes with Sally Field and Cliss of Lockhart 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.680 and Rob Lowe and the amazing Matthew. So it's been 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.560 very It's been all over the place. I don't even know. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.800 Sometimes I look back on my IMDb page and try 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.120 to remember the plot of some of the movies that 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:10.720 I've been in. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.520 It's pretty cool that you've touched kind of everything, right, 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.440 I mean, you've done the Broadway, You've now done film, 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.760 you've done TV, you're doing unscripted. Is that something you 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.800 always wanted for yourself? Or you just kinda are a 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.680 yes person and took the opportunities as they came. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.920 I mean, I love TV from the very beginning. I've 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.160 always loved TV. I think it speaks to my generation. 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:33.440 You know, TV was where my family sat down and 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.840 watched things together, so it always had a sense of 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:39.800 like togetherness. TV was that for us. Movies were not 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.920 as much part of growing up. It was Mom went 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.240 to Blockbuster and came back with three videos and we 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.000 debated forever, and then she would fall asleep and no 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.359 one would ever watch Jade or some weird psycho sexual 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.599 movie that she always sem to come home with. So 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.760 TV is important, and I actually really love being on 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.359 TV because it also, as an an actor, creates a 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.440 space that you get to return to again and again, 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.840 a group of people that you see every single day. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:09.920 Movies aren't as much like that. That's interesting. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.080 What a perspective, And you strike me as someone who 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.320 likes to form relationships and nurture those bonds. So I imagine 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.880 you do that more in television. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.480 Absolutely. You get to know the carpenters, you get to 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.440 know the set painters, you get to know the wardrobe 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.760 people in a much more intimate way. And yes, I 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.560 do like that. I think it makes you a better 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:29.520 actor to just understand where people come from a little 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:29.880 bit more. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.000 And your work means so much to so many for 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.840 many reasons. But I just saw you posted minutes before 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.000 the interview you're out magazine cover. Yes, and you've been 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.800 such a prominent figure for that community for many reasons. 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.200 What I kind of take from your career and from 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:46.960 you is you're someone who shows people that you can 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.120 go after your wildest dreams, no matter what background you 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.640 come from. And I think that's pretty cool. And like 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.240 you said, we met during Bros. And that's a movie 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:56.800 that means a lot to many people today. Does that 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.160 hold a special place in your heart? 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.400 Oh my god? Absolutely. I mean only was it my 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.640 first opportunity to be part of a feature film put 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.200 up by his studio, which just means a different thing. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.040 You know, a lot more money, a lot more pressure, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.120 you know, working with people like Judd Apatau and you know, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.280 guest stars that were you know, household names. That was 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.560 the first time for that, So that definitely holds a 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:18.760 special spot for me too. 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.760 I mean clearly, I see you reminiscing, Yeah, and you're 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.320 thinking about that time, and I imagine doing something that 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.120 with Billy and working on a project like that and 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.360 being such a pioneer for that is pretty cool. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.360 Oh, I know you're gonna say you're talking about Out magazine. 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.960 It's funny actually because just you know, I posted that 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:36.880 and Guy Brendan just sent me a text. Guy Brendan, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.160 who is also in Bros. Along with Billy, played Billy 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.400 Aikner's best friend in the movie, sent me a text. 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.080 He said, I saw your Out magazine. I can always 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:45.839 tell when you really care about a project because you 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:46.600 take your shirt off. 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.400 I was like, God, So what incorrect? Or I mean, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:51.120 is that accurate? 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.040 Well, I mean, look, there's something about skin that you know, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.120 just you know, gets people's attention. We all know about 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.240 the scroll and we all know what makes people stop. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.240 And I care so much about the show that I'm 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:05.440 executive producing homes Where the Heart Is. And yeah, maybe 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.320 I did want a couple extra eyes, and maybe I 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.600 was willing to take the shirt off to get a 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.800 little bit more attention on something I care so much about. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.920 Listen and an oversaturate of market. You Gotta do, you 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.560 Gotta do, You Gotta do, you Gotta do. Yeah, that's awesome, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.800 And with that series, I think it's so cool for 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:25.160 many reasons that you're doing it, because it's so different 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.400 than what we're used to from you, right, And when 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.520 I first saw it, I thought, huh yeah. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.160 I mean I knew you loved board work. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.760 I saw, especially during COVID a lot of your videos 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.520 you put up doing all of that. But what for 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.600 you made you say I need to be a part 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.120 of this project, like sign me up. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.520 So it began with an amazing woman named Jessica Sebastian 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.520 and she had always wanted to do a home renovation 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.960 show and she came to me because she knew she 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.400 wanted to do it a Hallmark and Hallmark is starting 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.880 to get into the nonscripted space and they said to her, 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.920 you got to work with one of our talent, and 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:03.600 we know who that's going to be. It's Luke McFarlane. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.080 It's got this interest, so Jessica and I began talking. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:07.920 We began talking about what the show want to be 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:13.720 and our sort of idea about wanting to create spaces 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.360 for people that reflected who they were, where they're coming from, 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.560 and then specifically for me. I said, but I want 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.120 to add something personal to every home that we renovate. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.920 I want to build something specifically for them, because word, 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.440 working for me is something I've done for a long time. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.360 It's been professional. Sometimes sometimes it's about paying the bills. 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.600 Sometimes it's reminiscing about, like you know, working with my 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.199 dad where I was a kid, it's a big part 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.600 of what we did. We always built stuff together. So 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.080 I knew I wanted to add that because I think 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.120 when you design a space for someone, it has to 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.840 be personal. It has to be intimate. It's not just 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.240 about this is the it color, this is the right paper, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:58.040 these are the things you need. It's not that, it's 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.120 who are you? And how can your space represent you. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.080 I think we look at clothing as a way of 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.800 expressing ourselves a lot, but we don't do it I 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.720 think with as much intention as our physical space. You know, 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:14.640 we want our physical space to represent who we are 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.040 as well. So that's what the show is really about. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.199 Home is where the heart is Palmark. Plus that's right out. Now, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.280 what about this show feels different than an acting job? 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.360 Like what fulfills you in a different way doing this 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.280 versus that kind of work? 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.280 Oh my god, tell me. It was so hard. It 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:37.400 was also so hot. And look, we did not have 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.040 all the money in the world. So like I found myself, 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.160 you know, finishing up an interview with a family and 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:45.200 then being like, Okay, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.280 build this thing. I gotta get dirty and dusty, and 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.320 you know, some some days my day would start at 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.360 six am and I was like literally on the table 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.240 saw until the sun went down. Like it was very 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.200 different that way. I expected there'd be a whole team 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.160 that would kind of help me. It was like, if 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.040 you really care about something, you have to do it. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.439 So it was hard and it was hot. We filmed 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.640 it in Atlanta in the summer, so if you look 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.800 carefully at the show, you can see some sweaty shirts. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:12.199 H for sure, Uh huh. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.959 That wasn't production throwing water over you making you look 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:15.680 extra steaming. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.679 One percent. I actually I did make a comment. I 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.400 think a lot of home run. Those shows, there's a 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.960 what I like to call sort of like a carpenter drag, 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.320 where like they'll go in and like maybe knock one 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.040 wall down and lift one thing. But I swear to 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.320 you I was doing it all with some help, but 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.240 I had my hands super dirty. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.240 Really, yes, okay, all right, well you enjoy it too. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:39.160 You don't want to fake it? 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.760 No, I do, and I do. And I walking into 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.840 a reveal and making sure that like the thing that 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:48.000 you're showing them is good is a different kind of 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:52.720 stress for me. It's very much reflective of myself. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.720 And these shows for me, are always very emotional. And 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.000 I'm an Italian from Jerseys, so I can like cry 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.880 when wind blows, but I no, no, I imagine for 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.000 you when you see the faces of these families and 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.720 whoever you're profiling, you must feel that too. Did you 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.360 catch yourself getting emotional at all? 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:13.440 Oh? Absolutely? I think I got the most emotional in 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.679 one of the episodes it's streaming now, where it was 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.680 really important. It was a mother and daughter and the 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.360 mother was having a hard time. Oh it's making emotional now. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.280 She was having a hard time letting go of something 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.600 that her late husband had built. So it was his 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.079 conversation of like, how can you let go of this 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:41.640 thing while letting your daughter make this space for herself. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:46.600 And we were in a cabinet chop and we were 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:51.120 trying to convince this lovely mother to sort of let 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.920 go of these old cabinets so we could give her 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.120 some new cabinets. And it was very emotional. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.280 Actually, wow, yeah, wow, that's hard to let go. I 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.839 mean home, Your home is sacred, right, It's a space. 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:02.840 I always say it to my husband, like when we 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.920 move or when we design a home, like I want 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:06.960 it to feel like our sanctuary. We can turn out 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.640 the world and come home and. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:09.400 Just be safe. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.880 And there are things that you bring with you from 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.480 loved ones who have passed or you know that you 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.160 collect along the way, and I just I think there's 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.359 something so magical when you can help facilitate creating that 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.920 that knew something for someone else because you know how 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:24.720 important it is totally. 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.040 And I think it's important to remember. And this is 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.040 something I talked about a lot, but homes are also 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.720 time traveling machines. And you know, when I first bought 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.480 my home in Los Angeles, which is one hundred years old. 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:40.040 You literally take off the wallpaper and you see what 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.320 was there before. So you're actually going back in time 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.280 and you're going this was once somebody's idea of what 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:49.320 you were describing with your husband as a cozy space. 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:51.640 And you're like, oh God, should I be removing this? 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.840 Should I be taking this away? But the home travels 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.040 through time. We just get to inhabit it for a 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.720 brief moment. So yeah, trying to honor about all those things, 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:01.800 it can get very emotional. 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:10.640 Do you want to do more in this space? I 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.400 mean it's a whole new category for you. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.959 I mean it is. I will say my real passion 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.920 is furniture building. I've built a lot of furniture, and look, 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.840 I've done everything from framing to trimwork, to hang indoors 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.920 to even painting. God bless me, I hate painting so much. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:31.280 I hate painting. But furniture building is really my passion. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.000 I get to work in my workshop, I get to 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.600 stay in one place, I get to work with sort 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.880 of beautiful special woods. So that's what I'd like to 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.000 do more. But I didn't like to sort of encourage 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.800 people and talk more about what makes great pieces of furniture. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.000 That's so cool that you're such an entrepreneur in doing 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:48.520 it all. And I think that's the way of twenty 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:49.880 and twenty five and going forward. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:50.600 I mean, the. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.720 Idea of doing one thing and staying in one lane, 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.560 to me is very dated. And I love that you 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.199 can go do a show right like Platonic and film 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.080 season two, and go jump into the some scriptive worlds 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.280 and go work on your furniture. You know, your wo 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.480 would work and all of it well, like. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:08.240 You honestly tell me, like to watch you. You know, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.200 when I first met you, you were doing these you know, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.040 fifteen to five minute, twenty minute interviews, and now we 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.040 get this opportunity to sit down and actually talk. And 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.320 I know that's probably a part of yourself that you've 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.760 always want to share. Yeah. If we like somebody, we 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.120 want to see them grow. Yeah, and Hallmark has done 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.160 that for me. Yeah, give me the opportunity to grow. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:24.720 Trust me. 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.640 I've seen a few of those Christmas moves like many 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:27.080 people have. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:27.760 Many people. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.920 Actually, I was just texting with a friend here we go. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.320 I'm very close with Jennifer a few and she said 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.360 she watches catch me if you claws. Oh, all the time, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.240 like year round when she's having a bad day. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.840 Oh that was a favorite one. Yeah, amazing Italia Richie, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.240 I love making that one. Yeah. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.600 See you bring so much joy to people, not even 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.280 during just the holidays with your work, but year round. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.840 And Jennifer love Cwett No less, there we go. It 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.960 was a soft name drop. You know. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.920 That's what we do on this show. We just slide 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.200 them in sometimes. But that's awesome. I think it's really cool. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.760 I'm really excited for this series, and I love that 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:04.320 hall Hallmark is now expanding into this category because it's 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.080 so hot. People want it. My dad, he just turned 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.320 seventies and Italian from Jersey. He watches like those those 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.520 home Rhino shows on streaming all the time just because 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.080 for him he has anxiety. That's another story, but it 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:17.400 gives him such calm. 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:21.080 You know, I got to ask you, this Old House 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.120 is that what your dad watches? What does your dad watch? 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:24.280 Do you know any of the titles? 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.760 I don't know any of the titles. I will get 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:28.160 them for it. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.280 I'm curious because like I grew up, this Old House 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.640 was like, yeah, me and my dad used to watch that. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.600 Yeah, yeah, it's something though, because he likes sold Western, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.400 So like when I started seeing him watching these I'm like, Okay, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:39.080 I see you. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:39.560 I love it. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.400 But that's that's the power of these shows. It transcends 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.560 all demographics and ages and people just want to feel 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.280 that joy and connection and you're bringing that, which is 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.000 so damn cool. 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.640 Well, also the home renovation shows this beautiful built in 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:54.600 thing where you get up before and then as right right, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.440 so that after takes you all the way to the 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.440 end of the episode. Yeah, and that's really what we 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.040 want to see. 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.840 Okay, but you're not hanging up your hat in the acting. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.120 World, correct, No, I am not. I just finished film 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:09.320 in the second season of Apple's Platonic with the amazing 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.480 Rose Byrne and the incredibly funny and talk about someone 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:17.000 who's got his hands and everything Seth Rogan. Now he's great, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.720 he's amazing. Yeah, he's like truly a genius. Can't wait 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.240 to see his new show. But yeah, so I just 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.600 finished doing the second season. That really excited about that. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.480 Just finished making a little horror film with an actress 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.560 I know you interviewed Olivia Holt, and that was really 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.640 fun playing a playing a teacher who may or may 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:36.520 not be a zombie. 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.000 Oh yeah, is this your first kind of step into horror? 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.120 I made one horror film. I'll let people look it up. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.800 It was yeah, it was what is it? Come on? 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:51.960 Come on? It's called rock paper Dead had an amazing cast. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:58.480 Oh god, Michael Madson and Tatum O'Neill in that movie. 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:01.600 It was wild. So it's been a minute. It's been 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:02.000 a minute. 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:03.760 All right, Well we look forward to that. You know 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.320 what I announced? It was my guest. A lot of 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.639 people were writing saying they want to see you play 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.040 a superhero, specifically Captain America. 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:12.439 I'd take it. I'd take it. 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:13.600 You want to turned that down? 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.960 I love doing action. I don't know, I mean, yeah, sure, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.680 I'll take it. Captain America sign up. Although I am Canadian. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.960 I don't know if you knew that. So maybe Captain Canuck, 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:29.080 which is actually an old comic book, So Marvel, if 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:34.119 you're listening, Captain Canuck is probably available, very inexpensive if 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.440 you want to turn that franchise into something. We're onto 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.679 something here, let's do it. We're manifesting that right now. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.840 For trying to think what Captain Canuck's like superpower would be. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:44.960 I don't know. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.000 He's a Canadian. I don't want to say something offensive. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.520 No, I'm not going to say, Joe, I'm not going 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.120 to make a joke disappear. There we go. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.080 All right, we're gonna we're gonna plush that idea out 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:56.560 a little bit. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:00.080 It's a big legal sort of you know, polit a 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:00.560 cool show. 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.360 All right, Okay, you never know. Is there a role 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.960 that you auditioned for that you really wanted that you 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:08.360 were super bummed didn't work out? 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:12.719 God, that's that's a super fair question. You learn so 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.199 quickly to let go of things. Yeah, you just have to. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.480 I always like make the joke with with my friends 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.359