WEBVTT - 211: A Criminal, A Whore, An Idiot, And a Liar 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.720 Unpacking the Toolbox is a production of Shondaland Audio in 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:22.720 partnership with Higheart Radios. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:34.440 Katie at the Spa, I love this place. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.120 They also have the best Korean food there, oh really 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.199 care about. Like I would spend all there and then 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:45.720 go upstairs and you just order like like bowls of 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.320 like brown rice and kim chi and. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.560 So delicious healthy, like super. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.800 Healthy, delicious healthy, Like I can't even get it. And 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.160 a woman was like, does everyone ever tell you look 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.360 like Quinn Perkins? 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:00.320 Oh Jesus curse. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.320 And I was like, oh, I get that all the time. 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.199 And she was like, whatever, You're way prettier than that girl. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:12.760 No. I used to in the beginning. I used to 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.760 be like, bitch, bitch, I don't know, I don't see it. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:20.440 I used to in the beginning be like that's me, Yeah, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.760 I'm huck And then and then as the you know, 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.480 the seasons would go on, I'd be like yeah, yeah, yeah, people, yeah, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.440 people tell me that, yeah, thanks, yeah, And then I'm 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.639 just like I don't even engage. Yeah, and I've stopped 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.280 doing yeah, I stopped doing the whole like what have 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.640 I seen you in? Because I used to be like, well, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.120 a show called Scandal. I was on Weak and they'd 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.640 be like no, no, no. 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.440 And then I was like your resume, Oh my god. 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.559 And then you feel dumb because they're like, no, that's 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.600 not it, and I'm like, now I don't do that anymore. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.160 I'm just like I don't know stuff, you know. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.000 I always got to saying like, no, you were at 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.040 Beamon Park on a playdate, like I met you like 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.680 in the sandbox, and I'm like, no, they can't put 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.760 it together where they've seen me. But I look like 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.040 such dogshit that there's no way that I could be 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.800 like a Hollywood actor. It's like, no, you're that dumpy 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.040 mom I saw. Oh my god. I feel like so 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.399 much fucking happens in this episode. I can't even deal 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.160 with it. But you know you probably feel that way 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.160 because Huck wasn't in it, Munch and Quinn wasn't in 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:27.600 it at all. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:32.160 Right, this is the first episode that we don't see Quinn. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.080 Right, Quinn is not in it. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.040 I remember getting a call, well, yeah, I remember getting 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.799 a call from Shondas and I'm like. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.760 Oh my god, every I'm getting fired. It's done. We're over. 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:42.720 They figured it out. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:43.840 You guys, I. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.120 Suck, get me out of here, like like what the fuck? 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:50.600 And she just was like, I just want to let 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.560 you know, like you're not in next week's episode, but 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.120 it's not. It's only because this it's mostly a you know, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.919 a flashback episode, and Quinn wasn't anywhere you know, you 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.480 were in like fucking high school or whatever, like you know, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:04.880 you were in law school and no one gave a. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:05.280 Shit about you. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.720 Remember being like wildly upset. Like of course, as an 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.160 insecure actor, you're like, what. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.840 Did I do in the war? Yeah, they don't want 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.000 me to be on there shoes. 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.160 They're starting to weed me out, Like. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.240 I actually even like kind of remember like coming to 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:25.200 the trailers anyway maybe and like lying like I needed 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.640 to pick something up just to be like what's happening 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.079 because I felt so out of the loop. But then 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.320 cut to like my jaded ass now, which I'd be. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.200 Like, what the fuck that means? You're you're paid for 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:39.560 a whole episode even week? 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:41.200 Yes, what a dream? 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:48.200 Yeah yeah, as we're talking about episode two eleven, called 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:51.440 a Criminal, a Whore, an Idiot, and a Liar. It 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.880 aired on January seventeenth of twenty thirteen, and. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.120 It was written by Mark Fish and directed by Stephen Cragg. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.400 Guest starring Vita Patil as President's doctor, Denorah Wilcott as reporter, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:07.480 Carol Reese Rio says reporter, Peter Joe Holt as Secretary 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:08.520 of Defense. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:12.600 And Virginia Louise Smith as Secretary of State. Barry Bosswick, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.599 Barry Bosswick, you guys as Jerry Grants, Come on, Wick, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.480 most of my notes are about Barry Bobs. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:20.120 I can't wait. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.640 And then we have Jeannette Brocks as Rona, the polling analysts. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.320 And then wow, Germo, you would be right because this 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.600 synopsis on this prep sheet is real short, so I 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.000 don't super sure why I have notes on this. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll just read like the last two seconds. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.359 Ready, here we go, just to jog all you gladiator's memories. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:43.560 Although you're such fucking o g gladiators. I'm sure you've 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.560 watched episode two eleven a million times because it's fucking awesome. 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:48.640 But let me tell you about it. The White House 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:53.240 is rocked by more changes. It fits, going back to one, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.000 going back to one, going back to one, to one, 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.360 back to one, back to one. The White House is 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.960 rocked by more changes. As Fits returns to office, flash 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.680 Backs reveal more about the rigged election conspiracy, along with 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.279 Fitz's relationship with his father. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.839 Edison makes a shocking accusation against Olivia, and Fitz makes 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:13.200 a surprising decision about his future with Melly, as does Edison. 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.520 With Olivia, Olivia has to make a few hard choices. 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.240 Yes this fucking episode. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.200 I honestly sat there the entire time and thought, how 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.960 did Carrie Washington not win an Emmy for this part? 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.359 She is so good in this episode. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:34.960 Fucking believable, Like I can't her emotions because this is 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.719 the episode where she makes the decision to say, yes, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.039 I'm all in, I want to rig the election with 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.560 Verna and Hollis Doyle and Cyrus and Melli. But it's 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.720 you watch her fall in love with the man. You 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.840 watch her believe in the possibility of him being the 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.400 greatest president that may ever happen, and her justify why 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.920 she's going to say yes, let's rig the election. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.599 And also yes, and struggling with that, she. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.640 Like gives up everything she on the other hand, believes in, 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.200 which is we the people get to decide who the 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.880 fucking leader of the free world is it is. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.599 She's unbelievable and her her her stellar acting starts off 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.440 like right at the top of this episode, at the right, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:20.800 like right at the top. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.680 It's unbelievable. Olivia walks into her apartment. Edison is fucking 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:26.720 waiting for her, and he's like, I know who your 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.359 boyfriend was the last few years, bitch, it's the president. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.200 And she's like in all of her classic Olivia like 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:37.760 like head fucking shitch to the side, arms cross. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:43.600 Pointing at him, pointing like like and she, you know, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.840 is like acting like I don't know what the fuck 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.400 you're talking about, you idiot, And then she has this 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.359 who the fuck wrote this episode? 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:51.280 Mark Fish? 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.000 Mark Fish? Of course he did. 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.280 Mark Fish was one of the solid dudes with us 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.560 till the very end. And also I think almost was 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.920 like I think he was like headhead head writer seasons 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.440 maybe six and second. He's amazing and such a nice guy. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.240 But she goes through these numbers like five, this is 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.280 why I won't be with you, four, this is why 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.520 you're a dick. Three this is why I won't be 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.920 with you. Two did you hear me? And one in 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:17.600 a matter of three minutes, you've called me a criminal, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.760 a whore, an idiot, and a liar, and so now 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:20.480 good days. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.720 Yes, and there's the title of the episode she throws 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:25.360 that shit out. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:29.000 So and also the whole time, I was thinking, how 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.000 the fuck did she memorize this shit? 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:37.480 H listen most of the time on set and if 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:41.440 I was around Carrie, she was with her assistant going 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.400 over lines. I mean it was constantly, even when we 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.520 had downtime, when they were setting up in the hair 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:50.280 and makeup trailer, I mean it was constantly, constantly, constantly 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:52.560 she was going over lines. She had to, I mean 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.600 because she had this monologue and this is just one 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.760 out of like eight, you know what I mean? Yes, yes, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.840 And sometimes they would there were there were days where 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.440 we had monologues where they would change them the day of, 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.080 like change stuff in the monologue the day of. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.960 Yeah, and to paint a picture for you guys, Like 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.720 she would be called in to get her wig on 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.800 at like four thirty in the morning, and so before 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.680 any of us would get there, her lovely assistant, which 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.160 changed over the years, would sit in the fucking hair 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.760 chair next to her, drilling lines until we got there. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.160 And then she'd be like, yes, it would be maybe 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.679 six am. She'd be like, guys, you would have run it, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.640 and then we would run. And then when we would 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.280 be shooting the scene. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.120 An assistant episode, wh can we run. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.240 The next one? Let me get for the next time. Yes, 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:43.440 you'd be like a scene that. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.439 Running the next scene. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.800 The work ethic, I mean she was an Olympic athlete. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.920 She was literally an Olympic athlete. That's how hard she 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:54.640 trained in working. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.480 Yeah, and with Josie on her lap. Carrie used to 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.280 have this little, beautiful little it's a little dog name 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:07.040 Josie Josephine Baker who loved to eat bacon. Carrie would 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:08.320 give her bacon in the mornings. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.640 Remember that that dog. Oh you were Oh my god, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.480 because I saw her, Like, the little ones always freak 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:15.160 me out. 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.880 Because they will your face off, like nip. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.360 Your fucking face and then all of a sudden you're 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.520 getting stitches and you have a scar for the rest 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:25.959 of your life. Like I loved her. Rip Josie rip 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:27.200 she does. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but she was. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.280 Like our set mascot. She was there for everything. She 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.719 was so God. Carrie was such a good or. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.360 She was a mom because yes, that dog was independent 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.920 and would just never on a leash, would follow her around, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.200 but also like do her own like she was so 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.400 independently her own personality, but also listen to whatever Carrie 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:49.240 needed her to do. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.000 And love to also love to be on Carrie's lap 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:53.760 or in her arm, you know what I mean. 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:55.120 Her holding bacon. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:57.880 She ate bacon. Yeah, every morning she would give her 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:58.360 some bacon. 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.640 Is the cutest I've ever heard. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:01.960 We'll be right back, guys. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.720 Okay, So Edison leaves the room after we they're like 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.760 broken up, and she's like, get the fuck out of here, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.000 and she calls Cyrus and she's like, holy shit, we 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.120 have a problem. Edicine just told me that tomorrow Sally 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.360 Langston is going to go public and saying that Fits 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.360 is not capable of leading right now, like he is 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.320 not fully recovered from the gunshot wound. And then we 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.960 do this whole episode where like we're going back and 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.080 forth between like back in time and to present time. Yes, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.959 and we the big part of this episode is that 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.200 Mellie suggests that you know, Fits is down too many points, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.080 there's no way he's going to beat Governor Restin, and 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.880 everyone's like bringing Papa Grant played Jerry Grant. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.679 Jerry was a former politician, right, super successful. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:55.439 America's fucking darling dickhead. Yes now, yes, tell me about 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:56.679 Barry Wick. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.280 You guys, It's played by Barry Bosswick. I mean listen. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.400 Barry boss Wick is a theater icon, Carrie, I mean, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.800 kaye carry, I just called you ing icon. First of all, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:14.120 he he was nominated for a Tony He originated originated 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.720 the role of Danny Zuko in Greece, Guys, which is 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:19.320 for k News, and he was nominated. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:20.560 Let it be known that Grease. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.120 As much as Gearmo and I sang rent on the 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.560 scandal set, Grease was also saying quite a lot because 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:33.920 Tom Verica, our producing director, played Kinicki all over Pensylvania Jersey. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.680 Oh yeah, Katie, I didn't know that he played Kiniki 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.520 all over touring companies. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.200 Oh my god. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.760 But yeah, when Tom Verica was like nineteen to twenty one, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.240 like he made his living equity, like going around playing 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.280 kiki Is at different places, you know, and he always 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:56.720 had that that was like, oh no, was that some world? 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:58.959 Did she put up a fight like that? Music was 0:11:59.000 --> 0:11:59.400 not okay? 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.839 That musical you can't say. I know it's not cool. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:08.120 I know, but Tom is fucking hot. Tom is a 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:10.480 really good looking guy, Like I could totally see him 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.120 in Greece Playicky. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.760 And then Fully would also. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.440 I think was Fully Grease too. 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.720 I think I don't know if Fully had done Grease. 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.880 But I just have so many visuals coming into my 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.480 head right now, like me Verica wow fully singing Greece 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.880 like a lot on set for whatever reason. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.760 I just watched Greece the other day. Greece was I 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.800 used to pull little scenes, little monologues from Greece and 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.040 use them at auditions, like the scene between Kimmicky and Zuko. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.040 Oh god, there's no I don't have that brain that 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.559 you have. We've talked about this before. Katie could do 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.120 a fucking soliloquy from Shakespeare right now, word for word. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.199 I don't even remember what the fuck it is. But 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.040 Greece was my jam, Like I I'll put it on 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.160 like to this day just to have in the background 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:00.000 because it's so good. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:00.920 It's incredible. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.480 But wait, and just recently, what you. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:06.160 Audition would you have where you would pull that? 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.520 It was h it was a couple of scenes, it 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.319 was I remember one scene specifically, And I was actually 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.559 auditioning for a manager and I did it with a 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.880 with a friend with someone else. So we did a 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.440 scene the scene with with Kaniki and and and Danny 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.480 where he gets hit in the head and he's like, 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.480 you're gonna have to drive for me, like you're you're 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.600 my second, you know all this stuff, that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.400 And I did that audition. I did it a couple 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:39.720 of times. I used that, isn't that funny? I did that. 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.280 I did the breakfast club. 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.760 It's a good idea. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.679 Yeah, I did stand by me that monologue when when 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.760 he's telling the story about the kid that vomits on 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.160 the audience and all that stuff. I did that as a. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.520 Model Adam for a monologue. Adam didn't either. You never 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.000 went to like seeing. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.800 Somebody or watch movies. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:00.320 Yeah, saying with Adam. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.360 So when Adam had an audition at University of Maryland, 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:06.680 he's like a sophomore. He's a polypide major. He wants 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.600 to be a lobbyist in DC. He has no thoughts 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.600 or dreams or aspirations of being an actor. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:12.120 And someone's like, you. 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.040 Should really know, and someone's like you should join this 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.200 sketch comedy Troupe at Maryland because you're fucking funny, and 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.680 he joins the sketch troupe, which is just like like SNL, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.200 you know, and he's doing sketches and he's having the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.120 best time, sold out audiences on campus, and then they're like, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.280 you should switch your major to drama. But you had 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.880 to audition to get into the theater department. He didn't 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.440 get in three times, and he didn't know what to 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:41.560 do either, so he just transcribed the opening monologue to Goodfellas. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:42.800 No. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.960 It was like I always knew I wanted to my 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.640 whole life, I've been a gangster some shit like that, 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:57.280 and like this little skinny, fucking fifty pound jew Pennsylvania 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.360 is doing this like Italian gangster mafia monologue didn't get 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:02.760 did did he? 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.000 Did he do the same monologue all three times? Or 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.600 would he change it up? You would change it? 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:07.560 I remember the second time. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.920 Then the third time he begged the guy who officiated 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.560 our wedding. Scott Reese is amazing drama professor who's like 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.880 super cool, looks like Obama, like such a tall, handsome, 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.960 like bi racial dude. And Adam is like I'm going 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.360 to be a senior. I want to graduate with a 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.680 theater degree and I can't get in and I don't 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.320 know what to do. And the guy was like, here's 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.160 a Neil Simon monologue. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.000 He's like, you got to use an actual flight yeah 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.440 play monologue. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.600 And by the way, when he auditioned, all the kids 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.640 are getting up and saying like, you know, this is 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.120 my monologue from name the play and name the playwright, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:45.480 and Adam had to get up and he was like. 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.400 This is what's his name? No, he's no. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.520 When his first he was like, this is this is 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.160 uh whatever? From Goodfellas, like written by Martin score season. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.320 Oh my god, how precious. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.320 They were probably okay, all of this in a roundabout 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.920 story to Grease. Barry Bostwick, you you love Grease. He 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.640 was the original fucking Danny Zuko. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.520 But also he's he's one of the leads and one 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:17.480 of my favorite fucking horror thriller sci fi musicals ever 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:21.720 called The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was Brad Major's asshole, 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:23.360 the Shadow Cast. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:24.960 It's all the best. 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.400 It's the best movie I and the guy is a 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:29.440 He's a legend. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.160 He is a legend. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:36.080 Changed the game in theater and TV and film alike. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.480 Yeah, and he won the Tony for a show, a 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:43.320 show called The Robber Bridegroom in nineteen seventy seven. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:44.320 I don't know that. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.360 Yes, yes, I don't know that one either. But also 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.520 Barry Bosswick, all I wanted to do when he was 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:55.920 on set was talk about rocky horror. Yeah and no, no, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.760 I barely had scenes with him. I was fucking hagrid huck. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:00.880 I was like, what am I gonna look like? Being like, hey, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.000 Mary Mouth's working as a fucking I'm homeless. He's probably like, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.200 who the fuck is this? But I remember talking to 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.640 Bellamy about it, and Bellamy was in awe and loved 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.960 him as well, because you know, she's a big theater persons. 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.560 Scenes with him, Yeah, she had a lot of scenes 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:14.760 with he. 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.240 He's incredible in this episode, and we go there's a 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.880 lot of scenes where like, well we'll get into that, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.560 but we flashback. They they suggest bringing in Fitz's dad 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.960 to help the campaign to sort of split some of 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.080 the campaign stops on the trail, to get like some 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.000 of the you know, approval ratings up, and then oh 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.240 my god, the fits is like, no, no, we're. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.080 Not bringing my dad. 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.080 I'm not doing this, Like, no way, I said I 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:41.960 would do this on my own. I don't need his help. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.720 I'm not my father's son. And then Olivia and Fitz 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.280 go to Olivia's room to discuss it, and they just 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:48.600 fucking hook up. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:53.400 And it's oh, man, yeah, he starts to slide down her. 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.119 Oh my god, and and and Carrie makes that face 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.000 of like ooh this feels good. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:17:59.360 Yeah. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.080 And then also so Tony's gear, I mean, what's his name? 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:03.280 Oh god, see, I'm getting all. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:04.840 Flustered because it was such a fucking hot scene. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:05.280 I know. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.520 No, He's like, if fine, I'll let my dad come 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:09.720 and be a part of this, as long as you 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.359 don't talk about it for the next twenty minutes. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.800 And I'm like, oh, oh, twenty minute, for twenty minutes, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.600 for twenty minutes down. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.080 Okay, okay. 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.159 Back in the present day hospital, a doctor is briefing 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:27.359 fits in Melly. I'm like, how like how bad this 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:28.480 gunshot wound? 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:28.679 Is? 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.679 Like, They're like, you might lose speech, you might not 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.560 be able to connect your brain to your friends, you 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.560 might not be able to walk, which essentially is like, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.399 can he be president of the United states like, what 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.199 the hell? 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:44.560 Okay, Jerry shows up, and Jerry is amazing. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.560 He called he's such an old fashioned piece of. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.240 Shit, so wonderful. His energy in this episode just drives 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.879 the episode. So he's so Jerry Grant, like he just 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.920 melded into the role so well, like I can't imagine anyone, 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.720 anyone else playing Jerry Grant. And he walks in, yeah, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.679 and he's like, no, no, pay no attention to me. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:09.280 I'm furniture. I'm just gonna sit here. And then Fitz 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.919 starts to rehearse like his you know what he's going 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.960 to say during the debate, and and of course Mary 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:17.720 boss Wick, Mary Bosswick, Jerry Grant stops him right away, 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.880 and he's like, what are you knowing? You know you're 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:22.000 good looking, use your personality and. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.800 Calls Olivia's sweetheart, and he's just like, yes, he's very 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.040 old fashioned in a pig and you could tell he's 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:31.040 one of those dudes who cheated on his wife forever 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:33.280 and is like fucking sexist. 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.080 Yes, but also charming as fuck, charming. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.760 As hem yes, yes, and you could see why America 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:43.440 is such a big fan. So Fitz gets drunk as 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.560 ship at like a big the night that Jerry is 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.720 there and they have a big dinner and Fits gets 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.800