WEBVTT - Hunter Doohan 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:05.800 Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me, 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.680 Tommy di Dario. This is the first episode of this show, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.879 and I am so excited you were tuning in. So 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.760 during the pandemic, it was March twenty twenty, the world 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.840 shut down and my job stopped. I wasn't going on 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.680 television and doing my feel good segments and my celebrity interviews. 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.360 So I had to pivot and I was sitting home 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.720 wondering what was I going to do. Was I going 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.400 to contribute during this scary time, or was I going 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.720 to do something to help people feel connected and together 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.000 and close to the people that they admired. And that's 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.240 what I did. So I launched an Instagram live show. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.760 It was called Let's Stay Together, where I brought on 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.960 today's hottest actors from films and TV shows and we 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.040 dove deep into the projects that fans loved, and then 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.560 we went there on some other more human connection type 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.880 of questions. It was a five day a week show 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.480 for quite some time, and then as the world began reopening, 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.160 we scaled it back. But it was something that I 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.600 had a very big aha moment doing, and that was 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.360 people don't just want to hear about the highs in 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.920 somebody's life, right, they want to hear about the lows. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.240 They want to learn about what they went through and 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.600 what they took away from that low. I wanted to 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.319 do the show because I think it's so important to 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.560 have conversations that go deep, and when I'm on the 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.360 red carpet, I don't get the chance to do that. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.720 And I see the people I'm interviewing. They're craving it. 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:23.720 They want to go there, right, We're just about to 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.560 get there, and then we run out of time. So 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.039 this is the space to have the time to go there, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.280 because I think that's where we can all connect to 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.040 one another. You see the shine, you see the glitz, 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.200 you see the glamour. It's smoking mirrors. We're all stripped down. 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.800 I want to show people that we all have a 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.679 lot more in common than we don't. This is a 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.399 show where people who pretend to be someone else for 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:48.240 a living have the chance to be real. Today's guest 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.920 is no big deal. One of the most talked about 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.520 actors in the world right now. Hunter Duhan grew up 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:57.480 in Fort Smith, Atlanta, where he had big dreams of 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.840 making it in Hollywood and I think it's safe to 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:02.720 say he did just that. You may know him from 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:06.120 his co starring role as Brian Cranston's son in Your 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:10.120 Honor on Showtime, or of course, as Tyler in Wednesday 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.920 on Netflix, starring in one of the most popular shows 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.240 in the history of Netflix ever, where he plays Jeno 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:21.760 Ortego's love interest turned billing and on a personal note, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.000 I am so psyched that season two has been announced, 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.840 because well, we all need more of his brilliant character 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.600 work playing the evil monster known as the Hide. I 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.120 hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.160 Now let's see if today we can get Hunter to 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:47.960 say something that he has never said before. Okay, I've 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.160 got to ask you first before we dive in. I 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.680 was on your Instagram doing a little scrolling, and I 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.000 noticed there was a picture of you as a kid 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.200 giving the middle finger. A little scared that that might 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.040 happen to me today if you don't like the interview, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.799 but you gotta give me the backstory on that. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.280 Yeah, that's a warning to everyone I do an interview. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:14.920 With, so behave No. That's I think the credit or 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.400 blame for that goes to my mom. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.959 For encouraging me to take that picture. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.040 In taking it, she's the best and has a very 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.400 immature sense of humor. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.400 So were you a spicy kid? Was that your default? 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.480 I think I was like little, But then when I 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.360 was in like high school, like not at all, I 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.080 was like kind of lame. I was just running around 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:45.080 the theater department and got very involved in my like 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.880 youth group church. I was like not going to party 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:52.240 like drinking parties as me like oh called them. 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.120 So you were a good boy, mm hmm, okay, all right, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.440 but obviously that phase maybe didn't last through your work 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.120 because you kind of play a bad boy on Wednesday, right. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.080 Yeah, spoiler alert, but Eve had two months come on, people, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.640 catch up. Yeah. It was so fun kind of got 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.960 to play both. That was kind of like the nice 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.920 guy for seven episodes and then you know, we wanted 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.800 that like big shift to happen on the last one, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.280 and it was so much fun. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:26.359 Getting to play the villain. And I'm so excited. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.240 I think last time we talked, I couldn't say anything 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.800 because I didn't know. But we are officially coming back 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.360 for a second season, so I get to like start 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.200 off the second season in that place, which is gonna 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:38.080 be so much fun. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.640 Wow, that's huge, congratulations to you. I know that waiting 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.320 for that renewal is always a bit a nerve racking, right, Like, 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.719 you know how popular the show is, but did you 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.160 still have a little bit of worry or fear about 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:49.880 getting renewed. 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.520 Yeah, I kind of went through like seven stages of 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.400 grief about it. I was like thinking, it was like, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:59.400 for sure gonna happen, and then it took so long 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.440 we weren't really sure what was going on. And then 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.680 there's all these like crazy articles coming out saying it 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.200 might switch to Amazon, which there was like that can't 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.200 be true. And then it you know, then we got 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:13.640 the good news and time if I can feel I 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.200 can finally breathe. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.680 Well well deserved. I mean, this show I don't have 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.800 to tell you, but it broke all sorts of Netflix records. 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.120 Wednesday is truly, in my opinion, one of the freshest 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.720 shows of all of twenty twenty two. I think it 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.080 was done so beautifully. It also had a great record. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.760 The show twice broke the record for the most hours 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.479 viewed in a single week by an English language TV series. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.040 I'm curious to know, where were you in your life 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:44.120 personally and professionally when the opportunity for this amazing role 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:44.960 came up for you. 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:52.000 Why had come off another show that was like a 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.679 dream come true to be on It was your Honor 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.560 on Showtime and it was so much fun. But it 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.760 was supposed to be a limited series and my character 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.760 dies in the last episode, and so I was like, okay, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.040 you know, like what a great ending. And then it 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:11.559 got renewed for a second season because it did so well. 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.560 But I was like, oh, well, I don't get to 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.840 be a part of that, and so I was really bummed. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.960 And then it kind of all worked out for the 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.159 best because if I had still been doing that show, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:23.320 I couldn't have done Wednesday. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.200 Yeah, it was like it came on along and it just. 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.440 Like a great, great time for me. That was like 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:32.000 so much fun getting that call. 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.920 So you got the call, then what happened? 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.000 Then I started can I you know, getting to work 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.240 on it because the audition process is long. It was 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.240 like I think the first tape it was February and 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.800 then I didn't find out I got the role until July, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.440 and then we were going to go to Romania to 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:58.040 shoot in September, and so then I just started, you know, 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.359 getting the scripts and like breaking everything down and actually 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.520 trying to figure out this character. I like finally got 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.200 the official word that I was the bad guy, because 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.640 during the audition process they didn't want to, you know, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.760 officially tell anyone what the real deal was with Tyler. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.280 So I think I told you the last time we spoke. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.840 It was like they gave me the clue like he 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.000 has a dark secret, and I was like, is it 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:20.760 you know, the dark secret? 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.520 And they wouldn't like officially tell me. 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:24.760 But then after booking it, I got on the phone 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:29.600 with Alan Miles are like amazing writers, and they kind 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:32.480 of broke down the whole history of Tyler and how 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.760 the whole first season was going to play out for me. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.600 Were you hoping that you were the character with the 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.800 dark secret? Did you want to sink your teeth into it? 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:40.520 Oh? 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.560 Yeah, I mean that's just. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.000 For me. That fel like the most exciting element to 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.200 what could possibly be a part of this character. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.680 So how do you prepare for something like that? You 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.040 kind of have this juckle Hyde character. You play the 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.880 good guy and you play the bad guy. Is it 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.520 double the work? Double the prep, how do you get 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.160 into that bad guy frame of mind? What did you 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.400 do to really nail this character? Because you did it flawlessly. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:11.640 Thanks. When I actually got the original like Jecko and 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.200 Hyde novel, read through that and like. 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:14.920 Used a lot of that for inspiration. 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.560 That book is funny though as it like holds up 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:21.080 as a horror story in today's because I, you know, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.280 Horace like comes so far and so intense nowadays, and 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.760 that leading that book is like a whole chapter would 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.600 be like and he received a mysterious letter and that 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.120 would be like the big scare of the chapter. But like, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.600 something I took from that was the more that he 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:40.560 turns into mister Hyde and that the like lines between 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.840 them get blurred and like Hide kind of takes over 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.400 for him. So we kind of talked about that the 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.000 same for Tyler, Like the more he's transition into the 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:54.120 Hide and the more kills he does, the more that 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.760 kind of takes over, and like, you know, the real 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.440 Tyler is kind of pretty much gone by the into 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.000 the first season. Wow. 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:05.440 Yeah, the show ended on that total transformation for your character, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.360 which was so satisfying as a viewer to see you 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.600 had the scene I was in an episode seven or 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.640 eight where you were in the police station or the court, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:19.280 the police station, right, and you just tell me about 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:20.720 that scene. What was it like filming that? 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.720 Yeah, the police station scene. That was kind of like 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.199 the real you reveal for me because she has the 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.240 vision at end of episode seven, but they've kind of 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.320 spent the whole season reminding people that her visions may 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.200 not be able to be trusted. And then I start 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:41.280 off episode eight, I'm still playing against it, saying, you know, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.040 tied up in chains, like how could you do this 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.760 to me? And then I've never been more nervous or 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.679 excited or prepared more for a scene than that police 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.000 station scene because I was like the villain monologue that 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:59.040 you hope to have and it ends with me talking 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.920 about killing people, saying it was delicious. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.840 Wow. How much work would you say you put into 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.840 a scene like that before you film it? How many 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.560 times do you run in and practice it? Does it 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.679 consume you until you actually do it? 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.360 Yeah? We were waiting on that script for a while, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.520 and I knew the tyler was aware that he was 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.040 the bad guy, and like was the hide like wasn't 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.040 like a secret to him? But I didn't know what 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:30.040 extent and you know, just even you know, logistically the 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.240 dialogue of how he did it or revealed it now. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.319 But once I got it, you know, I immediately started 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.719 breaking it down and also just going back throughout the 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.160 season and trying to make sure everything I'd done is 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.920 adding up and making sense now that I had all 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.000 eight scripts. 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.320 Well, that's what's amazing about how you play this role. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.240 You don't kind of let on throughout the show that 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.360 you could be the bad guy everyone. You're kind of 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.680 suspecting as you're watching, like, oh, are they the Hide? 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.560 Are they the Hider? Are they the Hide? So you 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.640 have these feelings, Oh, it could be anyone, but you 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.400 were so not the obvious choice for me. Maybe thought 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.960 that early on, but then I'm like, no, it's not him. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:08.720 So that was all deliberate. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.439 Well, you didn't want to make it obvious, and I 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.360 felt like I didn't have to, you know, leave any 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:21.320 like hints for people because it was so well crafted. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.080 Like in the story and every time, if you like, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:29.720 go back and watch that Wednesday sees the Hide and 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.880 it's like he's followed her or something. It's Tyler knows 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.360 where Wednesday's going. To be and you know, people even 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.480 put it together on TikTok that when she has the 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.560 vision of Eugene getting attacked to the dance, there's a 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.760 split second where she bumps into me and that's why 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.480 she has the vision, you know. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:46.240 And I was a. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.079 Shot you know that Tim designed from above that we 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.320 had to do over and over again trying to like 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:52.760 make sure it. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.640 Was there but not too obvious. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.360 So well done. And you and Jenna Ortiga in this 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.160 show have such a great chemisty and it feels like 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.120 you've known each other forever. Like that's just how the 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.400 relationship unravels on screen, and that's how working together really 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.719 comes off. As how was it forming that bond with 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.079 Jenna and starting the character work together? What did you 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.440 guys do to get to that place? 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.960 Honestly, we just kind of became friends in real life 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.400 and just spent a lot of time together on set 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.760 because I mean most of my scenes are just the 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.800 two of us, which was so lucky for me. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.560 She's phenomenal as this character. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.959 I reached out to her after I was cast and 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.320 we met up for coffee here in La before we 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.360 went over, just to like, you know, before we like 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.680 jump into this giant show and make sure we like 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.600 met in person, and I don't know, being over in 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.480 Romania as a cast in general, we all kind of 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.600 bonded really quickly because we were all away from home, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.160 all the way from our families and friends, so the 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.280 only people we had to hang out with, you know, 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.880 was each other. You know, Jenna was on set though 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.560 almost twenty four to seven because you look at the 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.240 show and she's almost in every single frame of it. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.920 And to be honestly, I mean, she's just so easy 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.280 to work with because she's phenomenal and she gives you 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:20.960 so much. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.520 As an actor to like bounce off of. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.560 Was there a scene that you shot together that was 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:29.040 more difficult and you just really wanted to master and 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.640 just make sure it came off perfectly. Did you two 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:36.080 work really extra hard at a particular scene. 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.200 I think the episode A had a few of those, 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.640 with like the police station thing, and she has the 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:44.920 scene right before that with you know, the sheriff and 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:50.559 the principle. I think it's always interesting to watch her navigate, 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.760 you know, how Wednesday reacts in these like high stress 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.360 moments because she doesn't respond the same way other people would. 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.240 And then earlier than that. I think this legally blonde 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:05.800 scene and when we're like having the date and then 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.680 like just trying to like build a romantic relationship with 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.280 Wednesday Adams, like I would kind of be like, okay, are. 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.439 We selling this enough? 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:20.680 And then you know, some people, like I saw online, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.040 were making fun of a moment in episode four when 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:26.120 Tyler says, you know, he keep giving me these signals, 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.680 and everyone's like, what signals? She hasn't giving you anything. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.720 But then I was able to realize, you know, he's 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.240 kind of gaslighting her the whole time anyway, and like 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.360 tricking her into having feelings and making her feel like 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.320 she can trust him, and they have this bond of 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.600 not fitting in with the other never more kids. 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.080 So that was kind of like my way in on 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:48.080 some of those scenes. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.760 Yeah, oh that's so funny. People pick out the littlest 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.000 things and seeing oh yeah, well, does that surprise you 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.920 when you see things on TikTok and social media and 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.200 you're like, wait, that they're interpreting it one way, but 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.840 it's supposed to be meant in another way. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.760 Definitely, And I mean there's so funny. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.880 I like I had to like repost a few like 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.520 I did like a series of like pre PoTA memes 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.920 and tiktoks on my Instagram the people in mad just 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.880 because people the fans are like so funny and I 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.760 just like, I mean, I love seeing it, so I 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:17.800 wanted to share it. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.600 That's awesome. I love seeing all the fan edits and 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.400 everything that goes around on social media. It's really cool. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.400 The community that has come together through a show like this, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.160 I think is incredible. It makes a lot of people 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.880 feel connected through just being a fan of the show. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.040 I know the movie was before your time obviously, but 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.680 did you watch that growing up or did you kind 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.040 of have to go back and watch it for the 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:50.600 first time. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.160 I had seen it growing up, but then I did 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.560 go rewatch the two nineties movies with Christina Ricci in 0:15:57.640 --> 0:15:59.600 it over again, not really. 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.320 For like character research, more just for like, I was 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:03.480 excited about the job. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:06.600 But it was cool. It was like and I think 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:11.240 there's a lot of inspiration, you know, obviously with the 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.600 whole thanksgiving play that they do in the Adams Chanley 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.920 Values movie, and then you know, there's so much thanksgiving 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:21.400 stuff in Pilgrim World in ours and people kept giving 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:21.960 a shit. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.160 Like why is the show not coming out on Halloween? 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.480 And I was like, just wait, I swear it makes sense. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:27.040 Once it comes out. 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.240 Yeah, and it did. I mean it's I thought the 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.800 timing of it all was perfect. What would you want 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:34.000 to see in a season two? I know the writers 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.080 are brilliant and they're going to take the reins, But 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.560 if you had a magic ball and you were like, Okay, 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.720 this is what I want putting it out in the universe, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:41.480 what is it? 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:47.840 I want the first scene to just be Tyler having 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.800 escaped that van post like killing everyone that band covered 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.280 in blood, and I'm going to like, I don't want 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.360 to start the season off, like I think Tyler's going 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:04.800 to be totally kind of unhinged because he's in the 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.840 darkest place he's ever been in. And also he doesn't 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.560 have you know, risin Ricci's character pulling the strings anymore, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:14.160 and so he doesn't have a master, so I think 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.080 he's gonna, you know, hopefully be a little lost. I 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.640 don't know. I wouldn't explore like does he get another 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.679 hide master or what is it like when he's on 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.560 his own? And then I mean, I hope for me 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.960 that like the big art for my character is like 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.399 just the like fight between the real Tyler and the 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.720 Hide and like which side is gonna kind of take 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.040 over at any point. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.320 So do you think there's redemption for Tyler? Could he 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.320 become a straight out good guy? 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:49.520 I don't know. Maybe if he's never more people actually 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:50.879 let Hides into the school. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.480 It's not fair they won't teach him how. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:54.000 To control it. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.480 Okay, fair enough, fair enough? 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.879 Can you redeem someone who's like murdered seven people. 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.640 That's a good question. I'm not quite sure. Yeah, I'm 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.479 gonna go with no, but very curious to see to 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.119 see how your storyline unfolds. It's definitely to me one 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.280 of the most interesting storylines on the show, really because 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.080 of that dichotomy, right of going back and forth from 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.080 the good guy to the transforming to the bad guy. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:25.000 When you got that role and you've set out on 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.479 this adventure you filmed in Romania, you went out for 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.760 seven months, you were kind of detached from reality. You 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.879 came back home, you know, you were waiting for this 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.479 baby to be put into the world. Did you have 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.520 any idea that this was going to blow up in 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:38.840 the way that it did. 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:43.920 No, not at all, Like I was telling someone recently. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.920 Once I got back home, I kind of like disassociated 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:48.879 from it because they spent so long over there, and 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.879 then I don't know, it's like back home. And then 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.480 all of a sudden, I wasn't seeing the same people 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.880 every day, and I wasn't seeing any of the same 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.440 locations because it was so our way, and it kind 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:05.560 of felt like it hadn't happened in a weird way, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.840 and I was like, oh, and then you know, it 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.959 got home, and then there was like seven months of 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:12.399 us waiting. 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.440 Until the show came out after we had wrapped. It 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:16.200 was really strange. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.080 And then I knew that it would be like a 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:23.240 thing and that it would like do well. And I've 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.919 been saying since we started shooting, like I'll be saying, 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.040 you know, I worked with din Ortego when I knew 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.560 she was going to just be an absolute megastar because 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.399 she's so great in it. But no, I mean, I 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:38.960 don't think anyone could have predicted the like kind of 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.400 way that it did blow up. You'd be like an 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.040 insane person to be like, yeah, I think this is 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:45.680 going to be more popular than the stranger things. 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:48.679 You know, Like, how do you go about. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.879 Saying that, Yeah, well, that's one of the things I 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.240 love about you. I think you know well, I know 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.600 when we met up in New York for a coffee, 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.160 I walked away from that being like, wow, like Hunter 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.840 is so grounded and with all all of the success 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.000 that came your way with the show seemingly fast, we'll say, right, 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.119 because it got set into the world and it just 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.120