WEBVTT - One on One: Robert Michael Lee 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.760 I Am all In. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:20.640 I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.760 Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:28.920 eleven productions. iHeart Radio, iHeart Media, iHeart podcasts. One on 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.920 one interview. Anyway, we're joined by Suzanne French and we 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:40.520 have the ubiquitous and talented and probably a cast favorite. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:45.360 I would say, Robert Lee is here. He is, you know, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:50.320 one of the the characters in the show. You see 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:55.000 him every single episode, all over every episode. He wears 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:59.400 many hats on that show. I wouldn't even call him 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.680 an extra. I would call him an extension of the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.039 cast because he fills so many roles every single day. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.200 I'll tell you a little bit about him. He's a 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.360 background performer for Gilmore Girls, and he's seen as one 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.600 of the townspeople. Then he became a waiter at Luke's Diner. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.240 And you recognize Robert. You see him in every episode. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:28.440 And we'll be right back after Robert's interview after these words. Robert, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:32.520 welcome to the program. It's great to have you on, 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.240 and how are you, my friend. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.200 Nice to see you, Nice to see you, Scott. Thank you. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:39.240 That was very kind of you. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:44.840 There are no small roles on Gilmore Girls, and you 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.120 are the You are the most recognized extra. How did 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.960 you start doing? And I don't even want to refer 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.120 to it as background work because you were so prominent 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.200 in every episode, But I guess, I guess technically, yes, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.880 you're a background How did you get started that? 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.520 Back in the day, I was a or I still am, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:12.200 an IT consultant. I specialized in the Apple computers. And 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:16.359 back in the two thousands we were brand new with computers. 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.840 The ads, the directors and producers were very kind of 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.440 using computers, but they were still a little scared of them. Man. 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:30.800 I was a consultant and helped out a lot of 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:34.079 production and helped out a lot of ads, and they 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.840 had me close by making me background on a show. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.320 There you go. You get the good grades, you got 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.960 the big brain. They're gonna need you. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.320 And then when something goes wrong with the computer, you're 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:48.480 right there to fix it. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.040 All right, that's exactly right. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.240 How many times did I call you because you used 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:54.920 to live right down the street from me when I 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.079 lived in la And how many times did I call you, Robert, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:03.240 call me, please help me with my laptop, help me 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.280 with my deskto and you'd come over and solve the problem. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:07.000 Pete Kids. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:08.040 Absolutely No. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.799 One of the big things that was great is that 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:18.959 on set show in which we had the Tarantino Quentin 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:26.240 Tarantino party where everybody was dressed up as one of 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:30.560 his movie characters. The wardrow department and the makeup department 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.040 we're having trouble getting screenshots from the movies because that 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:37.800 wasn't allowed on computers in those days. So I was 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.960 pulled aside and I was able to hack it, which 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.680 was part of my job, and I was able to 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.360 get the wardrobe and make up all the pictures of 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.280 the different characters that they wanted to put into that party. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:56.520 That's fantastic. Look at that the fringe benefits. Yeah. Man, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.160 you wore so many hats on that show. You were 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.240 more valuable than I was. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.240 I was watching an episode recently. That was the episode 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:11.880 where Lorelei and Max had their wetting their like their 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.400 bridal shower in the town square, and you were in 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.799 the background dancing with Ms. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.120 Patty. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.240 So that probably wasn't part of your job description as 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:24.360 it consultant. 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.680 I would guess that's right. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.040 That was a lot of fun I got to I 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:33.080 started off mainly in the first two seasons as a townsperson. 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:38.400 In season three and especially season four, they transitioned me 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.720 into being a busboy in the diner. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.159 And so take us through a typical day. You show up, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.640 what time you know, you get there before everybody else does. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:54.160 So tell us about your interactions and what your typical 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:54.719 day was like. 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.880 Yeah, I usually wanted to get on set about an 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.560 hour early, and I would would. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.760 Be about five am, six am. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.080 Oh, I don't know if it was that or it depends, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.400 because they would only start they started only using me 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.600 in the diner, So sometimes the diner would be in 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.160 the beginning of the day. Sometimes the diner would be 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.720 a later or middle part of the day because they 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.960 didn't want to jump cut to me walking in the 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.080 street and jump back in the diner and then all 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:28.240 of a sudden you see a background teleporting between two scenes. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:32.039 And I would get there about an hour early, get 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.719 the sides, which were the words for the particular scene 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:41.280 of the day, and I would read this script, memorize it, 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.640 get to know it very well because it was real 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:50.960 important for me to match my crosses behind Scott Laura 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:56.440 Lai by Bett Mss Patty Kirk and not jump in 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.840 the shots from one scene to another where it wasn't 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.800 that I was walking from one part to another. So 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.919 it was very important to make sure I didn't screw 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.880 up the shots that. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.080 Were Oh yeah, I mean, you know, the focus required, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:19.360 the concentration required all day, and those were complicated scenes 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.120 in that diner. You know, sometimes there would be like 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.120 an an eight pager or a ten pager and it 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.960 was busy diner and you were giving me plates and 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.000 I was running over to deliver and then say lines 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.680 and come back, and it all had to be choreographed 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:38.480 and perfectly timed. And your job was as demanding as 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.440 anybody else's because you had to know you had your 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.960 own choreography that had to be timed perfectly so it 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.120 would match take to take to take, so the editors 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.760 could actually use this stuff because if because if you 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.359 don't cross at a certain time on a certain line, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.400 they're not going to be able to use the take. 0:06:56.120 --> 0:07:00.200 So an incredible amount of effort and concentration, and that 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.160 it took for you to do your job. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.560 Well, thank you, that's kind of you, see so, but 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.240 I mean, really nothing pales in comparison to the work 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:12.080 that you did on set. I mean, you guys got 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:16.000 scripts late, your your the pages that you guys had 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.880 to memorize that the last minute was incredible, and I 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.760 always marveled at the skill and your acting ability on set. 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:25.400 I just I. 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.480 Always shake my head every time I on set, going 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:33.160 whan he just he just did like five pages, you know, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.480 with almost no preparation. I mean, it was easier for 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.480 me to listen to it than you know, I'm sure 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:39.720 for you to act it. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.600 Well. You know, the thing is is we didn't mind 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.320 so much because we knew the writing was so good, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.640 so it was always you know, they were delivering. It's 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.720 like it's like waiting for something, anticipating something that you 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.560 know is going to be better than what you had before. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:01.000 And what you had before was great, so you know, 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.960 the fascinating part was how are they going to make 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.200 this better? And then you get this, you know, yeah, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:08.800 last minute sometimes and that was a little stressful, but 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.960 you know you could you could pull it off because 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.760 the writing was so great and they made it better 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.000 and they made It's just kind of magical process over there, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:27.200 and and and nobody really minded so much. I know 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:32.040 on the show I'm doing now, there's been some freakouts 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.160 on set because script stuff comes and rewrites come in 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.280 at the last minute, and you know, there was a 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:43.240 big incident up there, but that I heard about, But 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:48.040 I never saw that on Gilmour because it was like, oh, yes, okay, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.560 they're gonna lay some some really great stuff on us, now, 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.199 like how could they make this better? And they always 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.679 did and it was It was marvelous. It was marvelous. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.600 So I always thought of my job as trying to 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:07.280 make the diner space that you could work in, that 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:12.400 you could concentrate on your work and try to help 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.160 out as much I can be there at the right second, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.319 get that plate to you, get that people out of 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.080 the way, get those bins out of the way. I 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.160 just really wanted to because I just recognized them out 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.800 of work you guys were doing there, and it was marvelous. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:28.960 It was really great. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.960 I miss that. I really miss being in that diner, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.200 and I missed doing that kind of work with all 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.400 of those physical activities that you had to do and 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.640 all the props that you had to I really miss 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.600 that stuff. It was so I don't know, I just 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.000 it really just got my juices flown. You know, the 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.760 whole competitive my whole competitive side would kick in, like 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.760 you'd really have to challenge yourself. And I'm sure you 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.000 felt the same way when a big scene was coming up, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.280 all knowing, all the task that you had to complete 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.040 in any given scene was just as much as what 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:05.720 I had to do or anybody else in the scene 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.760 had to do, right, I mean, you had a million 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.240 things you had to accomplish. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.840 Yes, it was it was hard work, but it was fun. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.720 It was fun to be part of the process, right, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.520 And it's grateful to be part of the process and 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.319 to be part of the scene in such. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.200 A way, right, And it's fun nailing stuff right, I 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:28.880 mean when you're almost right. I mean it's like when 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:31.199 you almost get it and it's like, oh yeah, the 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.160 director comes out and said, listen, could you you know 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:37.120 on this line, you know, lay a little back on 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.280 right right or whatever, you know, or you met you 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.240 were a little late to the table and the line 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.280 was a little awkward. Yeah, you know, let's just do 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.240 another take, you know, but you're almost there, you're getting it, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.160 you're almost getting it, and it's like ninety percent there, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.240 and then the magical take comes and it's finished and 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.800 you're like, wow, we hit it out of the park man. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.319 You know, we had it in our sites and it's 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.720 just it's just it's so cool. That's that is. You know. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.040 I don't know whether I think I like the rehearsal process. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.960 I used to think I like the rehearsal process, like 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.000 creating the dance, you know, because it is a dance. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:19.480 But I mean the actual shooting of it. You know, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.440 sometimes it was frustrating, you know, because of all the 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.120 technical glitches. And you know, you do a good take 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.440 or something and you've experienced that, You've you've gone through 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.880 a ten page scene and it took forever to do 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.160 it and all this movement and there's Sally and Liz 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.160 and Lauren and uh you know, Milo or whoever, and 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.000 everybody's like doing their thing and it's all coming together 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:45.640 in a master shot and uh sorry, but you know 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.640 there's we we you know, we tried to check the gate, 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:51.000 but the gate's not good, right, we gotta we gotta 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:56.000 reload the camera. Do it again. That was the perfect one. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.240 No no, but then you go do it again, you know, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.800 do it gun and again and again. I got I 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.040 missed that. I just that was such an intensive environment. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.800 It was such an intense environment. It was so much fun, 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:10.680 such a pressure cooker. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.360 In a great sense of accomplishment when we got the 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:14.120 scenes done. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:18.000 Right, wasn't it though? Wasn't it? Yeah? Didn't you? Didn't 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.240 you feel like a stud when you were walking out 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.520 of the the soundstage and going to lunch and there 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.040 you were we just nailed a ten pager and feeling 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.280 pretty good about ourselves, right, I mean we're like, yeah, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:30.680 let's go eat man. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:44.320 You know, is there a secret to background acting? Because 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.559 sometimes as we're watching the show, some of the background actors, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.679 they're almost to the point of being distracting. So how 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.400 do you how do you straddle that line between staying 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.959 in the background but also kind of moving things forward 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.960 like you were talking about, you know, making the diner 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.520 a functional space? Like what is how do you? How 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:04.520 do you walk that line? 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.480 It's It's one of the things that I like to 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.800 tell and that's what some of theTimes the ads would 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.040 ask me to help people in the diner, is that 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.440 do things with intention and if you're intending to sit 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.640 there and eat, sit there and eat, and then you 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.160 don't you you actually do what you intend to do 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.240 and it's less distracting, just like walking across the camera, 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.920 have a destination in mind and then you walk with 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.920 purpose rather than just kind of wandering way. 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:41.320 Basic basic acting, Basic acting tips. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.120 Well, no one know where you're. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:47.760 Coming from, and know where you're going. And if you're hungry, eat, 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.160 if you're tired, sleep, That's all you need to know 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:56.040 about acting. That's it. Yep, and listen. Those are the things. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.920 And yeah, and I'll help Susan. I'll tell you Robert 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.480 it's a really strong actor too. That's why he knows 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.199 what to do. That's why he knows what to give 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.319 because all of that stuff he talked about, like the walking, 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:13.360 and when people don't have those instincts, you can really 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.719 they stick out like a sore thumb in the scene, right, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.560 you know, sometimes where it's so obvious right away, and 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.840 to rehearsal, the director replaces them like could you you know, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.720 maybe go hang outside for a little bit, and they 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.240 get somebody else, because yeah, can it can? It can 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.200 draw everybody's eye to that person that's not concentrating, right, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.640 that's the problem. When you got you got ten people 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.800 in the scene, everybody's focused and concentrating, there's somebody in 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.560 the scene that isn't concentrating. That's where the attention goes, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.280 and that's what kills the scene. So yeah, you know Roberts. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.880 Roberts got the skills, man. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:46.720 Yea. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.720 We got a list of questions here. Let's get to 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.760 a couple of them. Was there ever a time that 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.360 you questioned, well, if somebody so many as a waiter, 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.040 then it might confuse the audience if you did another 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.080 background role. 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:03.320 No, I mean because if I was, especially later when 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.480 I was always the buzzboy, I on purposely stayed deep 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.720 because that's just bad acting to show up somewhere where 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.000 you're not supposed to be. But at the same time, 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.560 you know, there were places that they, you know, were 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:21.400 allowed to put me, like in the town meetings, and 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.840 you just sat there and it was okay to see 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:27.400 you there. So but if there was any something that 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.720 I felt a little sketchy about, I'd bury myself a 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.240 little bit further from the camera, so I wouldn't cause 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:34.240 a problem. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.240 Right, But but it would makes sense to see it 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.320 outside walking around or in doses. If you're in the background, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.080 you live in the town, you work in the town 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.840 you work. It looks why wouldn't you be seen, you know, But. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:45.880 I didn't know the editing. 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.560 I wouldn't I wouldn't get script, so I didn't know 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.160 if that scene might be in or cut with something 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.240 in the diner, bad bad. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.920 Bad but the tables and be out on the sidewalk 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.680 walking past the restaurant at the same. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.560 Time, right. But they but they would know that, you know, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.240 they they would get a general idea that you can't 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.800 be in in a in a scene that's occurring in 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.920 real time right before right after a diner scene, you 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.440 know what I mean? 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.320 Yeah, but you know, but sometimes they just didn't film 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.960 it in chronological orders, so they did, you know. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:26.560 I never did? Yeah, yeah, right exactly. You get recognized 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.280 a lot for the show fans. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:33.520 I do. I just yeah, they do? 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:34.560 They do? They do? 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.240 They come up and say A mother came up to 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:41.240 me at my dad my Catechism school just about three 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.200 weeks ago, saying I'm sorry, but do I know you? 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.760 Yeah, you know our girls. Oh that's my favorite show 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.320 and I thought you were so Yeah. I do get recognized. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.840 Do they ask for autographs and selfies? 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.600 Not so much, but sometimes they do absolutely. 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:06.119 Yeah, there you go, Yeah, there you go. Well you 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:11.960 got You've got plenty of principal roles on your IMDb page. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:16.800 Gray's Anatomy Good Trouble as Alice's dad tell us about 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:17.560 that experience. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:23.919 Oh, that's a great experience being Alice's dad. It's a 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.600 really nice representation of the Asian culture and how parents 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.560 might deal with a daughter that was afraid of coming 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:37.520 out to their parents. It was very nice to play 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.240 that role, and in that role came around the time 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:45.119 when a lot of people were people getting attacked just 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:49.320 because they were Asian, and the show responded with an 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:55.600 actual episode just on celebrating Chinese New Year, and they 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:56.960 gave me this. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.160 Long modelnologue. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.600 Showing and telling the story of some Chinese folk tales. 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.040 So that experience was great to be able to represent. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:16.879 Speaking of representing, how did you feel about how Laine 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.240 and missus Kim were represented in this show. 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.800 It was a nice contrast between that mother and dollary 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:33.440 relationship between them and Lauralize and Rory's relationship. And it's 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.440 true you have some dragon mothers out there. They were 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:43.879 real and they were very concerned about their children's upbringing 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.200 and how they were going to get on in society, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:51.600 in a society they didn't quite understand sometimes, so it 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:57.959 was done with good taste, and I toward a celebration 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.760 of life and the relationship of a parent and child. 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:06.879 MM tell us about that. 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:14.240 Wow, I just can't. I mean, Gilmore Girls was such 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:19.520 a great story and all the characters that they brought in. 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.680 You know how friends are your family too, and those 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.879 relationships that you have where it takes a village to 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:33.880 raise a child, both Rory and Kim, and I loved 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.240 being on that show and loved telling that story and 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.320 was really proud to be part of that in that 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.840 Gilmore Girls story of just how all these how this 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.720 community can all come together and and have a great 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:52.120 life and celebrate life and all the festivals that they did. 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:58.919 It was great, well, and there was Sorry Scott, I 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.680 was just gonna say, you might have even been more 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.600 of a part of it than you realized at the time. 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.840 I don't know if you knew. There was a fan 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:08.680 theory at the time that you were actually mister Kim, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:12.439 because we never saw him during the original run of 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.679 the show, and so there's a fan theory that you 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.359 were secretly mister Kim, which I mean that could have 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.080 been like a spinoff or something. I don't know, But 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:23.600 what are your what are your thoughts on that? Did 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.120 you like, were you aware of that or what did 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:27.760 you think about that? 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:28.520 Yeah? 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.560 I did hear that on the internet and I was, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:33.760 you know, I was kind of hoping that that would 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.800 be a little earworm that would. 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:39.360 Crawl into it here and you know. 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.880 Up my role in the show. It would have been 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:47.400 a lot of fun to do. Yeah, And I think 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.239 at least by the later seasons I would have been 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.359 up to the task. It would have been great to do. 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.920 Wait, if they gave you a line, didn't they give 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.359 you a line or two in an alley as a 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.000 FedEx guy or a postman or something like that. Didn't 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.399 you get a line here and there? 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:03.560 I got? 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:09.120 I was able credited. I only got credited for one 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:13.919 line on the last episode in the last season. I 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.680 was handing something to you as we were getting ready 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.959 for the party, saying like where did you want this 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:20.760 or something like that. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:22.000 That's it. That's all you got. 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.840 Yeah. Well, and then I think. 0:21:26.840 --> 0:21:29.840 There was in the fourth season they threw me a 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:32.679 bone and they allowed me to a. 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:37.360 D R myself, oh, which. 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:39.240 Is which means I don't get credit. But I was 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.720 able to say, hey, looke coffee and you might you know. 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:46.440 It was one of those weird things where they had 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.600 me hold out this coffee cup to you and you 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:52.000 poured copy of coffee in it, and they just said 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.679 to themselves, well, he really should have asked for cof right. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:59.600 So they pulled me in and they called me and said, hey, 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.080 we need you to ad R yourself. You know, were 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:03.960 you up for that? And I said, oh my god great. 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:07.399 So that was a nice little It. 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:10.080 Was an off camera, off camera line. You didn't have 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:10.440 to marry. 0:22:10.640 --> 0:22:11.640 I went into the studio. 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:13.639 Yeah, I went into the studio and they had the 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:17.959 tape and the big old microphone and I, you know, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:22.440 hey Lou coffee, Hey Lou coffee, Hey Lou coffee. Yeah. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:25.320 Since Gilmore Girls, I've been in a lot of ad 0:22:25.480 --> 0:22:29.480 R rooms, I've never been in one that nice. Oh wow, 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:34.320 that was very special. Those those looping stages were very 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:40.600 very fancy. Yeah, very very special, because I you know, 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:50.679 I've been in some real dark holes man. So I 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:54.240 have to say, if there were an Emmy Awards for it, 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:58.960 background you'd be winning every year. You had a lot 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:03.720 of work to do, and you did a tremendous job. 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:07.240 And and the thing you really personally speaking, I know 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:09.920 out the other cast feel this way. We knew we 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:14.840 had We knew we could trust you to be focused 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:19.200 and and do the job, because that's all you can 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:22.560 ask for from you know. And and and that's why 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:24.520