WEBVTT - One on One: Alan Blumenfeld 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:18.000 I am all in you. I Am all in with 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:22.840 Scottison and I Heart radio podcast Everybody. Scott Connerson one 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:29.000 on one interview with the fella who played David Baron's 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:35.360 Alan Blumenfeld has appeared in over three hundred shows during 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.640 his lustrous career and a dozen films, most recently In 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:43.040 The Patient and in al Pacino Prime video series Hunters. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:47.519 And you want to know some important Gilmore facts, heck 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.040 I sure do. For the New Year, um, he was 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.280 in four episodes Gilmore Girls. His first appearance was in 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.400 season three, episode six, Take the Deviled Eggs. His last 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:03.160 appearance with season six episode Dry Think Miss Gilmore. Let's 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.360 bring him in. The distinguished Alan Blueman felt, Hi, how 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.880 are you. I'm doing very very well. So look, let's 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.800 just jump right out of the gate here. Take us back. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.640 You've been acting since the eighties and your incredible career 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.959 still growing strong. When did the passion for acting start 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:25.959 with you? I've been acting since the eighties. No, I 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.080 just turned seventy. I've been acting for forty six years. 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.200 I can't do the math, but you don't have to. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.240 When I got the time I was fifteen, I knew 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.200 this is what I was gonna do with my life. Uh. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.399 I grew up on Loon and uh back east and 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:45.720 uh I had a wonderful theater program at high school. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.840 We did big shows every year, and I went to 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.800 a summer camp that had a very uh strong theater program. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.000 So I did plays for six or seven years every summer. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.720 And then after I decided to go to school and 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.000 went to a college that had a good theater program 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:05.320 and left there and went to the American Conservatory Theater 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:11.120 in San Francisco, and I haven't looked back since you 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.760 um do you do you remember your first role? Paid role? 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.560 That's interesting. Um, well, my first job for Screen Actors 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.240 Guild were three commercials for Foremost Dairy. That's how I 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.359 got my Screen Actors Guilt car. And then I think 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:36.360 the first job on television was Alan Funt, who used 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:44.320 to do he relaunched a Candid Camera reboot and I 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:50.239 did that. So my that was probably forty uh one 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.639 or forty two years ago. My oldest son is that 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.239 forty three was a baby at the time, so that 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:03.120 was my first That was my first television job. Wow. Um, 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.840 I was living in San Francisco, so h there was 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.560 some great filmmakers up there other than Copelo Puss was there, 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:13.560 but John Cordy, who just died. Actually, uh, he was 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:17.680 up there. I did some things with him and Philip Haufman, 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.880 who e bectually went on to do uh right stuff. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.560 He was up there. So there was a lot of 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.440 film and a lot of theater in San Francisco back 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.000 in the seventies. Yeah. Coppola took that whole gang up 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:36.640 to San Francisco. He got out of Hollywood. Yeah. Um, 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.760 so let's get to Gilmore Girls. Is Rabbi Rabbi David Barnes. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.520 How did you get the role? Was the Jeff auditioner? 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.960 Was it just an offer to the agent? Everything is 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:52.280 an audition. Uh, I don't know, Scott. You know, my 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.200 career has never been uh my my career has been 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:00.320 wonderful and steady. But no, uh no, like medioric an anything, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.960 everything is an audition. Uh it was. Uh. I had 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.120 a broken arm I had. I was writing past because 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.800 I had a torn bicep tender and I was very 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.560 concerned about what am I gonna wear because you know, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.080 I couldn't move my arm, So I had like a 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.080 sweater vest. So I was so concerned about that. Uh. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.240 The audition was great. The casting director and god forgot 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:31.599 her name, she was wonderful. Uh. And I think you 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:37.159 know Amy Palladino Sherman Panzino is a brilliant writer. Um. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.880 And the castre to came out and said, it's it's 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:45.640 very fast. It's fast talking. Don't don't you know what 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.159 they say to actors is don't make a meal out 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:52.919 of it. Just moved through it. So, Uh, I was 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.000 very concerned about this cast on my arm. I got 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.640 cast in the role. I showed up and they said, okay, 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.200 we have a suit we want you to try on. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.839 I said, I can't wear a suit because I have 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:11.200 my arm in a No one noticed that. That was 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.240 the last time I ever worried about what am I 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.320 gonna wear it to an audition. We don't pay attention. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.760 But I really loved it. And Jim Jansen uh played 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:29.239 the uh the minister, and the two of us had 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.120 a great time. You know you know she is uh. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:39.440 Amy uhl Is is a spectacular writer who creates really 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:44.680 full characters and real human beings with a combination of 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.599 humor and pathos. And I think it's really an unusual 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.960 unusual combination. M hm. She brought us in one for 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.919 one show where we had a half a page scene 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.560 where we're wandering through the park. It's the scene where 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.240 the kids find that big battle of marijuana that they're 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.240 schlepping through the park. I don't know if you remember 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.760 that scene, but anyway, in the middle of it that 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:14.120 she had us, the rabbi and the minister just walking 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:20.360 through the park discussing God. And she did that often 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:24.840 in order to I think root the show in the 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.240 reality of the fact that there is the whole world here. 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:36.560 It's not just people disconnected from the rest of reality. 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.320 That there's a world that she's creating of people. And 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:45.760 I always was grateful and appreciated that because it's not usual. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:52.240 Become more usual lately, I think television has become spectacular, right, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.400 And when she did that, it was really unusual and 0:06:55.440 --> 0:07:02.880 greatly appreciated. Um, So you came into this role with 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:07.080 a ton of experience. Tell us what it was like 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.560 to be on this set. The set was great. I 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.440 have to say, I hadn't seen the show. It's seen 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:18.160 maybe one episode before I got cast, and then I 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.640 went back and watched it. You know. Uh, the show 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.720 was done at a time where you couldn't just go 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:28.520 on Hulu. There was no Hulu, there was no HBO Max. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:32.480 You couldn't just find the library of shows, you know 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.920 where where someone had archived, so I had to try 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:39.480 to find episodes. I had a friend who was real 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.040 fat of the show, so I was able to go 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.920 to their house and I watched something that they had recorded. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:50.040 The set was very, very efficient. The directors were really 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:54.960 really experienced. Jamie Barrett, who was basically a film director, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:08:01.480 she had done a number of the episodes that I did. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.000 She was really she did the film but I'm a cheerleader. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.600 UM terrific because she was interesting that. The directors were 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:14.640 very well prepared. The set was very efficient. There was 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:19.080 a lot of time for rehearsal, which again is is unusual, 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.640 but they took the time for that because the show 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.160 is really about relationships. It's an interpret the show about 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:31.320 introversial relationships, UM and and I really appreciate it. One 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.240 of my dear friends, Michael Winterton, was on the show 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.280 for many years and the first day we shot, I 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:43.200 think it was Jim and I and Michael in the 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.880 in the in the cafe, and and it was great. 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.400 It's always great if you know someone because that way 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.720 you're you're a guest, and when you're welcomed the people 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:57.760 who you know, it's always more comfortable and you always 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:02.840 feel more included. That was great. I mean, this woman 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:09.040 runs a top quality show, and I think to me 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:14.160 is it's a show that appeals especially to uh, young girls, 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:18.880 young women. Teenage girls and their moms watched the show 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.040 a lot, and I think that was a demographic that 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:27.559 was not as often served. Uh, And I don't I 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.880 don't know if she set out for that or just 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:35.360 the nature of the storylines made it so that, uh, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.520 that is the demographic that watched it. But I very 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:45.600 much appreciated, you know, I'd get comments from teenage kids 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.760 could come up and they just loved it. And it's 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:49.800 the kind of thing the kids and their moms, daughters 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.800 and their moms watched together. And I think that is 0:09:54.040 --> 0:10:00.480 an interesting residual effect that is valuable. So since you 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.560 appeared in four episodes, that did Amy and Dan just 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.320 keep calling he or was it for always the plan? Uh? No, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.760 they would call, Uh, my agent would say they want 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:15.080 you back for another episode of Gilmore Girls, and they 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.960 set the script. I was always delighted when they called 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.720 because it was always fun. When was the last time 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:28.400 that you watched your episodes? Oh? That's interesting. Um, we 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:33.120 have a direct TV in our home, and direct TV 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.840 allows you to put in the name of an actor 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.599 and they will record shows that that actor is appears in. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.320 And so I guess, Uh, I guess earlier this year 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.240 the Gilmogers plays a lot, and I guess earlier this 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:56.319 year the episodes were on cycle and I I watched it. 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:03.280 I guess where are we now? Seven? Probably September October? Okay, 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.600 So the first scene that we see you in your 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:09.439 bargaining with Taylor inside of loops with the reverend. Uh, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.040 the quick banter. Was it easy to get used to 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:18.400 for you? Yes, it was. It's extremely well written, so 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.040 you don't have to work too hard to make sense 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:26.040 of it because it's not only makes sense, it's it's 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.839 the way human beings taught. And I've done a lot 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:34.360 of theater, and so it reminded me of an extremely 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:43.280 well written play. So you were in Uh, all kinds 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:48.480 of iconic shows, Hill Street, Blues, Cheers, family ties. Um, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.480 do you have a favorite? Well, of course, the stock 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.760 answer is my favorite shows the one I'm working on currently. Um. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:59.679 But to be honest, I would say Brooklyn Bridge is 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.760 am of my most favorite shows that I've done. Uh, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:09.440 Gary David Goldburg Um two seasons. It should have gone 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.240 on for a long time. I particularly loved I was 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.640 in Heroes the second and third season of that show. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:21.480 And because of the writing, and because of the cinematographer 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.920 and the directors. Um. A shout out to Nate Goodman, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:33.960 who I just reconnected with, and Dan Addius, and to me, 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.000 the work is the most important thing. I love it 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.400 more than anything. I well, I don't love it more 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.640 than my grandkids and my family, but I love working. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.680 And when the writing is good and the directors are good, 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:50.120 your fellow actors are good, it's just heaven. So you 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:53.200 worked with my low on that show. What was it 0:12:53.280 --> 0:13:00.000 like working with him? Well, you know on Heroes, you mean? Yeah. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.400 When I joined here Us the second season, they knew 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.640 they had a pot of gold and they were all 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:13.680 of them grateful, fun, happy, upbeat, in a good mood. Um. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:19.440 I played Greg Grunberg's dad. My character was his character's dad, 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.120 and we had worked together before in a small film 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.920 and then on felicity. So again, when you come into 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.240 a show and they welcome you in, it makes it 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.640 really really pleasant and fun to be part of it. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:42.280 And Milo was happy, and uh, I think he knew 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.000 he was going to be a star, and indeed he is. Um. 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.920 But all of those actors on that show, when I 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.640 came into Heroes of the second season, knew that they 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.080 were in a great situation and we're in great mood. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.680 During a few episodes of Al Pacino's Hunters, as Rabbi Arnold, 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.720 can you tell us about that project? I can, but 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.160 they do not have to have you killed. No. The 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:10.720 first season of Hunters has already been shown on Amazon. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:18.880 It's about hunting Nazis News Hunting Nazis. The creator of 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.520 the show, who was just a really terrifically nice, smart guy. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.320 It's loosely but based on stories that his grandmother told him, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.720 not that she was a Nazi hunter, but that she 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.240 was in the war and the Holocaust, and and she 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.560 told him stories about what that was, and those always 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.640 stayed with him. Um. He had told me, I was 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.760 grateful and lucky to have a chance to spend some 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.680 time talking to him. Um. And so those stories that 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.880 he heard from her form the they loosely formed the 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:57.000 basis of that show. Um, I just finished. I was 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.560 on a show called The Patient with this Steve Carrell 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.600 and I had done Space Force with Steve at the 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:09.640 beginning of the pandemic in so that was that was 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.960 great to work with him again. Um. You know, of course, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.640 was my first job out of the pandemic was me 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:21.800 and Opportuno alone across the desk for a day. It 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:27.120 was a career highlight. Mm hmm. So what does it 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:28.960 like working with him? How does he work? What's this 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:36.120 process like? Um, well, i'll tell you. Um. For example, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.520 here's an exchange we had which was I say, how 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:45.880 are you my friend? And his line is I feel unstuck. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:51.480 I feel unstuck somehow, And I said how are you 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:56.120 my friend? And he said, no, you noticed. I didn't 0:15:56.160 --> 0:16:00.240 think anyone would notice. It's interesting. I'm not myself. I'm 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.200 kind of about odds. I feel sort of I'm at 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.479 sixes and sevens. I don't feel I don't feel connected. 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:10.520 I feel kind of unstuck. I guess unstuck some directoricals 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.920 cut Now. I love that because it means he's going 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.360 to go all around and do his inner monologue, his 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.760 thought process. He's gonna say it out loud until he 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:24.480 finds a way to say the words naturally and so 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:26.960 that they make sense to him. And any connection to me, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:32.800 he was very connected to me. Uh, you know, bye 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:38.680 contact and um. But the director had asked if I 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.160 could help the see move a little more quickly, because 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.640 if every line we're gonna be like that, it would 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:51.120 go on a lot. So I I would interrupt him, 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.720 I would feed the line again. I kept trying to 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.920 find a way to help him, to work with him 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.760 and work around the word to get to the words. 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.680 So it was sort of like a spectacular, high quality 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:13.760 master acting class working with this genius um. And you know, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:21.040 in between takes, he's just he's eighty two. He's still 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:25.240 extremely good looking, full head of hair, which I'm jealous of, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.800 of course. Uh. And I said to him, are you 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.840 still having fun? Is it still fun? And he said, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:39.240 you know this, this is fun the scene during the work. Uh, 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.119 but I think the the business has changed so much 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.560 that I don't think the business is fun for him anymore. 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.000 But he worked a full eight hour day, no break, 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:56.639 you know, eighty two, he's uh, he was cranking. He 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.560 was he was inspiring. Yeah, I guess I said at 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:06.119 that point in and in his career, Um, he just 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.640 feels like he I mean, he just must know how 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:15.359 to improve a scene instantly by you know, ad libbing 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:19.040 and and just you know, any any writer, producer would 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.840 would would well would have to welcome that. I mean, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:27.280 you've got you know, Argue the greatest actor of the past, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.040 one of the top three great actors in the past, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.160 you know, seventy years and he's sitting there on your 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.840 set and for him to uh ad lib, I think 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.800 you would say, yeah, keep going, keep going. You know. 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:46.879 On The Creator, he and the Creator uh got along 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.919 extremely well. Uh. You know, Pacino would come in the 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.600 morning and hug him and talk to him and they 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.199 go up on the side that he was very inclusive, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.159 he was very welcoming. I mean, yeah, he's iconic for 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.400 a reason. He's a great act and a great guy. 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.040 I mean he's loved. He loves the work. He doesn't 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.960 have to work, he doesn't need the money, um, but 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.359 he just loves the challenge of a good script and 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:16.679 good material, right, yeah, doing what he does best. You know, 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:22.200 it's and I could chance to work with him. Yeah, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.840 We've got another film about twelve years ago called Righteous 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.359 Kill with Robert Genniro and Piccino and John Lubuzabo, Donnie 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.359 Walbrook's first big starring role. UM, and he was. He 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.080 was great there too. He was you know, he was younger. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.439 I'm seventy now, so he must have had seventy at 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.880 one time he did it. He Uh, he was great, 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:51.399 he was playful, he's funny, he's uh. I've always thought 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.879 the goal in this business is longevity. I want to 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.879 keep working. I don't want to keep enjoying it, and 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:01.600 I want to be asked to work even when I 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.399 get older. You know, Steve Correll is an interesting actor, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:12.520 uh to me, extremely versatile talent. Uh. You know, I 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:16.399 saw him, you know, after his success on television, he 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.240 did a movie right away, in a romantic lead with 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:26.120 I think Juliette Binoche, and I remember thinking, boy, that 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:30.800 is just such odd offbeat casting. Didn't work for me, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:35.600 But the work that he's done since uh knocked me out. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.240 I just saw him in a Brad Pitt produced film 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.600 about the subprime crisis. I forgot the name of it, 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:49.720 but he played a character who lost his brother to suicide. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.240 He was a Wall Street guy and he got this 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:58.440 information um from Ryan Gosli's character to take advantage of 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:02.760 the subprime mortgage crisis make a billion dollars. But you know, 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.400 the work that he put in in that movie got 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:09.639 got me right in the heart because he, uh, man, 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.679 he went to some places a few actors are willing 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.640 to go, you know, to have that type of courage 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:20.080 to to just get naked like that and and and 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.480 really let it, let it all hang out. He just really, 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.359 he really choked me up. He's he's a really terrific talent, 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.000 isn't he. He's a terrific talent. He has as you said, 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:33.440 he's so virtually has a lot of rain. The show 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:35.440 I just threw with him was called The Patient. It 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.480 was on Hulu. He plays a psychiatrist as the Jewish 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.920 psychiatrist who gets kidnapped by a psychotic killer and changed 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.160 to the floor of the guy's mother's house. And it 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.479 was it was not committed at all, although there's some 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:50.640 funny moments in the show, but it was just simple 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:58.160 and really heartfelt and deeply emotional, and it was about 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:03.560 Voluton with his son and to being a therapist and 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:10.879 he was heartbreakingly beautiful. Yeah, very nice offset you know 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:16.919 of off camera? He's kind again, inventive, kind, inclusive, what 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.960 you want when hope. Yeah, he's very special. He's very 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:29.399 very special, a generational talent. All right, so we're gonna 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.600 do a little thing we do at the end of 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:34.320 these things called rapid Fireman throw some questions at you 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:36.680 and you just answer them as fast as you can. 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:39.560 They're all Gilmore related. All right, here we go. Are 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:44.119 you team Logan, Team Dean or Team Jess Team Logan, 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:48.280 Team Logan? What is your favorite Gilmore Girls character? Who 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:54.800 is your favorite Gilmore Girl's character? Bye? Bye Baron? Uh? 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:56.880 What did you order? What would you order it? Luke's 0:22:56.920 --> 0:23:02.520 Dane Hamburger Fries. Uh. Who would you rather go on 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:09.399 a road trip with Taylor or Michelle Taylor? Why? I 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:15.360 think it'll be more fun. Yeah, I agree. Um, finish 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:19.160 the lyric and where you lead, I will follow dot 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:25.119 dot dot No, no, no, I did anywhere that you 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:30.480 tell me to? Uh? Jackson's Vegetables are Suki's baked Goods? 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:35.240 Would you rather listen to Drella's Heart or the troopadouras 0:23:35.280 --> 0:23:41.320 cover songs? Shelton Prepper stars Hollow Hi, Stars Hollow Hi, 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:47.440 come on public school. All right, um, it was nice 0:23:48.080 --> 0:23:53.120 meeting you, nice talking to you. Um, and keep on 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:58.760 keeping on doing great work and having a an impactful career, 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.440 which you've been doing for a long long time. So 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:06.639 thanks so much. Have a have a great holiday and 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:10.880 uh and a great New Year and uh. And keep 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:14.159 doing the great work that you've been doing. 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