WEBVTT - One on One: Anthony Azizi 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:08.879 I am all In. Let's kiss you. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.640 I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.840 Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.319 on one interview. We have a very very very special guest. 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.960 Anthony Azeezi played the role of Luciano for one episode 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:33.080 in two thousand and four. He plays a hotel manager 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:37.880 that helps Emily and Rory into their room in Rome, Italy. 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.760 The only time we see Anthony as Luciano is in 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:47.839 season five, episode two, A Messenger Nothing More. Anthony is 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.559 an actor known for his dramatic film roles. He kickstarted 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.480 his career in the comedies like for Richard Poor nineteen 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.720 ninety seven starring Tim Allen Tom Katz two thousand and one. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.240 His passion for acting continued to his roles in projects 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.560 like American East two thousand and seven with Tony Shaloub, Wristcutters, 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.640 A Love Story two thousand and seven with Patrick Fugit, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.600 and the Shia Lahbooth smash hit drama Eagle Eye two 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.319 thousand and eighty. Also working television during these years, including 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.240 a part on Threat Matrix, Criminal Minds twenty four, Commander 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.680 in Chief, Desperate Housewives Without a trace Las Vegas, Veronica, Mars, Lost, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:31.039 The Resident with Our Own, Madi Zukui, et cetera. Anthony 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.520 is mostly known for acting in the thriller Armed Response 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:41.480 with Wesley Snipes, Transformers, Dark of the Moon, and Priest 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.560 So Let's bring him in Anthony is easy? Hey, Anthony, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:47.199 how you doing? 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:48.320 What's up? 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.280 Hub? So? You played Luciano, the hotel manager who helps 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:55.000 Emily and Roy into their hotel room. Had you ever 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:56.960 seen or heard of the series when you when you 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:58.240 got cast for this part? 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.080 You know, I did because there was a lot of 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:08.000 heat on on the show because of the writing, and 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.280 as you can see now, I mean it's it's the Palladinos, 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:11.640 you know. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.359 I read for them and it was good to read 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.840 for them. They're they're a really good team. They've been 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.840 around now for a long time. And so, yeah, I 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:25.520 had heard of the show, and I knew the popularity 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.880 of the show, which was a very popular show. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.160 So yeah, I had heard of the show and I heard. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.359 So so tell us about that day you went in 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.240 and read Framian Dan So that was the first time 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.880 you met him both and they were both there. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.560 Yeah, And I was shocked because I would think they'd 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.640 be too busy for a role like that, you know. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.320 I mean, I don't say he's my uncle anymore, but 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.760 you know he's because he and he kind of Tony 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:51.959 Tony shall Hoop is a very dear friend of mine, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:56.760 and he's working on their new series, Missus Maslin. You know, 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:02.040 at the level of just I was surprised you were 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.240 in the room one hundred percent. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:04.920 I was like, oh, shoot, I can't I can't believe 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:06.240 they're in the room. Yeah, And I was. 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.760 You know, whenever you walk into a room and you're 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.239 not expecting. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:15.959 Certain stars to be there or producers to be there. 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.120 I mean I went in one time and I didn't 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:19.919 Nobody told me Jeff Goldblum was going to be in 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.480 the room, and I had to do all this crazy 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.600 scenes with Jeff Goldblum and it's kind of shocking. So 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.760 I was shocked that they were both in the room. Yes, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:28.640 they were both in. 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.920 The room, right, Yeah, I know, I know that feeling 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:34.800 when you walk in and it's like, oh my god, 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.280 there's a movie star right there watching, not reading with me, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:43.280 but watching, and then there's the big time director there watching. Yeah, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.720 and it's like that's that's like whoa, yeah, so did 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.080 you did you feel but your experience enough at that 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.480 point in your career where that that wasn't going to 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.560 throw you off, right, I mean it didn't intimidate you. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.000 No, a little bit. It really did a little bit. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.880 It did a little bit, you know, it did it did? 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:01.600 It did a little bit. Yes, it threw me off 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.720 a little bit. It threw me off. I knew the 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.160 show was very popular. It was a smaller role. I mean, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:10.240 I didn't know. But you know, when you're starting out 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:18.560 as an actor, you can't you really can't. Uh, you know, 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:21.760 every job matters, like you always think that it's gonna 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:22.320 be recurring. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:23.719 It's funny actors. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.520 Actors every job they do, they think it's gonna be recurring. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:33.640 They're like, oh, they didn't kill me, so I might come. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.760 You know, they may they made next season, they may 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.480 have killed more girls in Italy, and Luciano will be 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:41.960 beloved and. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.720 He's gonna start to make a bust and took it 0:04:45.839 --> 0:04:47.760 go crazy crazy to tell you guy. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.240 So to be honest with you, at that point, you're 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:54.200 so desperate for work because you're you're starting out, that 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.240 you don't you know, it is a little nerve wracking 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.400 because you want you think it's going to be the 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.080 it's going to be bigger than what it is. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.800 Right, did you did you practice your accident for the 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.120 role I have? 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.799 I grew up in New York, in Philadelphia. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.839 And oh, did you really you're a Philly guy. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:13.840 But Philly guy? 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:15.760 Oh geez? Were you? Did you? 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:16.159 Were you? 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.040 Did you live in South Philly? 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.320 I did not live in South Philly. I lived off 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.919 in Philadelphia outside Philly the. 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:27.000 Main line, and then mostly in in like al tou Bethlin, 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.159 Lehigh Valley, and I say Philly. 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.520 My dad was was was at the he was at 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.479 the children's hospital, he was a job. He's buried. He's 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:37.799 buried in Valley Forge. 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.560 I spent a lot of time, you know, in Philadelphia 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:43.160 growing up. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.000 So yeah, I was born in Philly. I know, Philly. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:46.760 That's my area. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.880 Oh wow, South Philly. You are a South Philly guy. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.560 No, No, No, born there? And then my parents moved over 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.880 to South Jersey right away. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.000 Oh okay, so so because. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.600 My mom my dad's from uh god, my mom's from 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:06.440 Upper Derby and my dad's from God, it'll come to 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:07.600 me at Drexel Hill. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.520 Well yeah, but see It's so funny because those are 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.760 technically not in They're not Philly Philly, but they are 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.360 Upper Darby's Philadelphia enough, you know, I mean all that 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.760 places are you know, Villa Nova is Philly enough. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.320 You know, britin Maher, all those places. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.400 But I love Philadelphia and I love I love growing 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.440 up in those in the in then in that area, 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.240 and yeah, and then so I grew up with a 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.200 lot of Italians and then living in New York, I 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.400 had so many Italian friends that my. 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:40.880 Accent on that is pretty real. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.320 I mean I spoke Italian at one point pretty fluently, 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:49.400 I speaking. And so it was no problem for me 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.279 to do that role, you know, I mean, I know 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.520 you guys like that. I worked worked in restaurants for 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.520 many years as an Italian, as a waiter in Italian restaurants. Basically, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.000 that's that's what it is to be you know that 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.160 that type of role is like a service. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.359 He's an Italian server. You know. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.920 So you were your scene was with a Kelly Bishop. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.880 What do you remember working with her? What was it like? 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:16.680 They were with Kelly? 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:20.120 But I think Alexis was in them too, right, Yeah, there, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.480 she's very professional, she's very she's old. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:31.720 School, uh, proper trained actress. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.480 Who really knows how to hit her mark and say 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:42.400 her lines very well. And she's an old school professional 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:47.280 and and that that's always refreshing, especially on a show 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.720 like I think that the Palladinos. I think they really 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.920 like to hire talent, you know. I think they're very 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.520 talent driven. They're not really bells and whistle and what's 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.920 the what's the hot flavor of the months and that 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.239 I don't I don't. I think they they write something 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.160 and then they go who best can do this role? 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.080 Mm hmm. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.560 And so they always have very strong casts. You know. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.400 They're really good at being able to That's that's one 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:15.120 thing I would say about. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.239 They're very good at being able to adjudicate talent. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.160 Although they've yeah, although they've kind of hired me, although 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.640 they've never hired me since. 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:34.199 No, not to their credit. Yeah, they I think for Gilmore, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.320 they could have had anybody that was That was at 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.680 a time when movie people were you know, going over 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.600 into television. That's when it was all beginning, right because 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.520 it was always for boating and it was always separate. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.200 But then into you know, like the late nineties, and 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.600 there was a sort of drip of movie people into 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.360 as you know, as film projects were drying up and 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.280 there were less and less, they wanted to do television. 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.000 They wanted to stay in town. They didn't want to 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.040 you know what I mean. They wanted a steady gig. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.120 There was not a lot of people make great money 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.040 in movies. I mean, there's what ten people in the 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.680 world that make great money in films. There's there's probably 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.720 a couple of there's maybe one hundred people that make 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.480 great money. On TV. There's ten times twenty times many people. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.480 So you know that's they had their pick at that 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.439 time of anybody they wanted. Yeah, pretty much. It was 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:28.000 available and everybody's available. Yeah, they they fought for us. 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.520 And I bet you it was a fight too. I 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.680 bet you that wasn't easy to get this cast, to 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.120 get Warner Brothers to agree to this cast, because they're 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.640 probably all going nobody ever heard any of these people, right, right, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:41.240 you know what I mean? 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.080 Right, there were a lot of there were, Yeah, I mean. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.200 That everybody was unknown nobody. I mean, I think Ed 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.920 Herman and Kelly Bishop, you know, they were the ones 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.400 that came in with the resumes, right, especially at herman. 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.760 But Kelly done a lot of great work and been 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:59.280 a lot of great films, but those were really two 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.080 nobody else knew who anybody was. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.000 Yeah, I mean I think Alexis had done I think 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:04.560 one other thing. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.319 She told me, no, no, no. She came right out 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.600 of n y U Film school to do this role. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:11.720 She never acted before. 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.120 Holy yeah, Holy moly. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:19.640 Yeah, her first gig. She was a model. Oh I see, 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.480 and you know, a smart kid, and she wanted to 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.520 write and direct film. She was she was Yeah, she 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:26.240 was an n y U. 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:27.720 She was smart. 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.640 It's a sweet, very sweet, very quiet yeah, very quiet set. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:33.440 It was good. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:37.000 Didn't didn't know what she was getting into. Man, It's 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:38.319 like it's a lot of hours. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.720 We were getting hold like a like a creative. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:42.880 Brain like that. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:43.200 You know. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:47.400 It's like, all right, so we have a bunch of 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.720 fan questions, right, So so let's get to these fan questions. Uh, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:59.280 this is from Melissa from Eugene, Oregon. Do you have 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.680 a preference on doing a film or a TV series? 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.440 Well that's a really interesting question because I when I 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:11.160 first moved to LA my agent at the time was 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.440 a very famous agent, Like I mean, he had a 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.719 lot of big stars and he and he specialized in 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:18.679 a lot of ethnic in minor. He was just he 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.920 was from New York. And he had people like Angela 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:30.199 Bassett and uh Rock Dunton and Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi, 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.280 a lot of character, a lot of great actors from 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:32.800 New York. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.160 And when I went in, who was who was the agent? 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.080 If you don't mind, Lewis Ambrosio? 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.679 Okay? Was was he an Isam? 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.480 No, he's Ambrosio Mortimer. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.720 He had his own Oh he's Ambrosia. Okay, okay, gotcha? Gotcha? 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.320 And and I and you know, well, you know he 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.600 he had a whole bunch of issues that came up 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.280 later that was insane. But I have to say I 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.400 loved him because he always gave me. He gave me 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.319 a chance when nobody else did. But it's because I 0:11:58.400 --> 0:11:59.839 knew people that he knew in New York and a 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:04.360 way when I went in fromhim, I said, Louis, where 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:04.880 do you see me? 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:10.440 Anthony? Anthony, stop bothering me. You're you're a film guy, Anthony, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:11.360 I said. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.559 But see, it was funny because at the time, at 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.160 the time, I don't know how I saw this in 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:19.680 my mind. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.440 But I knew that television was a better beast for 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.199 me for those reasons you said, so, she would you. 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.560 I knew that the would be greater longevity. Okay, there 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:30.240 would be longer. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.200 There would be if I got on a series that lasted, 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.800 I'd be on the series for longer, and I would 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:37.439 be able to. 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.120 I would be able to make a better living. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.760 I would make more money because I didn't see myself 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.560 as a film star. And then as as as Murphy's 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.040 Law would have it, my first big job was getting 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.480 a pretty big role in a major motion picture for 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.000 Universal Studios. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.640 But I have to say. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.840 I prefer series because of this. I like the grind. 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.720 Some actors don't like the grind. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.600 I liked. I was the guy when I had my series. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.559 The different series I had, they would always schedule me 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.400 in the mornings very early and then at night late 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.480 because they knew I would show up and I and 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.080 I'd love to be there at grind. 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.160 I mean, after a twelve. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.800 Hour day, I was making everyone on the set laugh, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.040 and because I just love being on sets, So at 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.440 the twelfth hour, when everyone's exhausted, I come in there 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:31.280 and I'm not like, let me get the hell home. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.040 I'm like, let's do this, everybody, let's go and let's 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:35.320 have fun. And you know that was me. 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.560 So yeah, I prefer television and I always have. And 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.160 I'm glad because I started to get more television work 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.200 and then as you know, it turned and it became 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:50.200 very much more now with all the series it's and 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.280 all the you know, all the streaming, it's all about 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.240 the series, you know, Breaking Bad and all the same. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.800 I mean, there's still films, but the film. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.839 Industry is tough now, you know, unless you're going to 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.760 be a superhero, it's tough. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:12.600 Mm hmm. Yeah. Okay, So this is from Clarice from Dallas, Texas. Uh, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.480 what has been your favorite project to film? 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.200 Well, is that a TV series or a film? 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:27.160 Any your favorite? Your favorite doesn't matter, favorite experience so low. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.120 I mean, I'm really been lucky, man. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:30.840 I mean for you know, because when you look at 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.920 someone like Seinfeld, you know, he's a multi millionaire, but 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.520 he was stuck for sixteen or whatever. Friends they were 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.920 stuck on that one set their whole careers, you know, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.720 And I've been I've been in so many different ones. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.920 I would say one of them is lost. There's no way. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:50.080 I can, you know, working for Damien Carlton Q's JJ 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.880 Abrams with such a diverse cast, shooting on the island 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:58.080 of o Wahoo and my childhood friend Daniel day Kim 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:02.400 played h Jin I think the name of the character was. 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.320 I mean, we grew up together in in in Pennsylvania 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.040 and Philly and outside Philly, and and it was just 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.680 it was just a great that The Loss is definitely 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.800 one of the great jobs that I worked on. There's 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:18.120 no question that always comes and I like my character, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:19.560 and I just I like the show. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:21.200 I would say. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.240 The other the other one that really really comes to 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:29.800 mind simply because it I mean it was just grand 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.840 was Commander in Chief with Geena Davis and Donald Sutherlan 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.400 just because the Rod Lourie had assembled a real that 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:38.880 was I think Donald's. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:39.520 First TV series. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.680 And of course I got to go to work every 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.080 day with Geena Davis, who has She's an icon. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.880 I mean, she's Academy Award, Golden Globe. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.040 I mean everything, emmy, So it was cool to go 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.840 to work with her every day. She's awesome, she's brilliant, 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.280 beautiful person. And uh yeah, that the Commander in Chief 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.800 was a big one for me for sure. 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:05.680 You you worked with Matt Zukri on The Resident, tell 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:06.400 us about. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.480 That he's a really sweet guy. Man, Yeah he is, 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:14.840 he really? I mean, god, what uh I've had hearing 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:19.000 these nightmare experiences. But of all these different actors, and 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.480 especially the young ones, no way, man, Matt Man, Matt, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.480 I love him. I mean he's such Oh yeah, that 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:26.600 was the point up for me. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.760 But that you know that that job was one of 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.200 those incidents is where they said you are going to 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:32.960 be like, you know, every job an actor, so I'm 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:33.520 going to recur. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.040 And I did recur in a couple couple I forgot how. 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.400 Many episodes I did, but I was supposed to come 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.600 back even more. And then they used because they didn't 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.440 want to spend money on me, they used an extra 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.240 to be me and used the back of my head 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.560 in all the scenes and I didn't say anything. They 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.320 just got a guy to look like me. So but 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.680 Matt was Matts, lovely guy, good actor, very good actor. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.440 And I really liked working on The Resident. I love 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.280 that job. That was a fun job for me. I 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:08.560 played like the crown princess of some Saudi or some 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:09.800 Arabic country. 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.760 Her personal bodyguard slash father figure. So it was fun cool, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.200 it was cool. It was a cool job. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.040 Yeah, we love we love Maddie over here. He's he's 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.720 been on the show a couple of times. He is 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.360 a lovely guy and really really really is. 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.119 What you see is what you And so was the 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.520 I forgot his name, the couple of his partners on 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.960 the show, the whole, the whole, I think. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:35.240 I think Maurice Chestnut was on that show. Maurice Chestnut 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:35.800 was awesome. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.960 They had a great cast, and of course there's a 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:43.040 there was an Indian doctor who was played they had 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.159 I forgot his name. Sweetest guy everybody who's just so sweet. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.399 I love that. I love that. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.119 So we know you have two teenage sons. What's that? 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.119 What's a like grown raising teenage boys. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.400 Well, they're about to drop their their. 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:06.119 Which is called Twin Talk LA and they decided to 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.560 do it because they are teenagers growing up in Los 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:17.960 Angeles that have had, you know, friends die from overdose, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.920 friends die from suicide. They have these takeovers with cars 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.280 like kids, kids going to these takeovers. I mean, there 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:28.600 are just so many things that are quintessentially Los Angeles 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.120 things that I think people would be interested to hear 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.439 about that would affect teenagers all over the country, teenage 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:41.600 drug use, teenage sexuality. So raising those two kids in 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.840 LA I thought would be a nightmare. But they're such 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.040 good kids. Oh man, I am so lucky. I love 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:50.480 the I love being with them. You know, some divorced, 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.240 but I'm a real I just love being a dad 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.320 and we have the best time. They're two great kids. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.959 They're both athletes, big soccer players. And they decided that 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:03.080 their friend died and they decided that they wanted to 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.320 They wanted an outlet of talking about these teenagers issues 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.439 that are happening in LA with other teens, and so 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.040 they're gonna they started this podcast. 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.440 We have about ten of them, ten or twelve of 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:14.960 them recorded. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.399 We're not going to start dropping them until we have 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.520 a bunch and then we'll start dropping them and it'll 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:19.360 be very interesting. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.800 Yeah, it's really cool raising kids. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.159 But I'm lucky because raising kids in Los Angeles and 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.560 teens in Los Angeles, it's probably difficult anywhere, but LA 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:31.200 it's challenging, you know, I mean it's challenging. 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:36.840 We I have a young son and yeah, I'm uh, 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:43.240 we're facing all of the issues at a time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.679 LA is a different kind of a place, it is, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:52.120 for sure. Uh so they had do they have any 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.960 interest in following in your footsteps getting in the acting game. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.400 Well, they keep saying it because you know, they've been 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.359 around it. They've been on sets since they were kids. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.399 And then I had that Broadway show. I think the 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:07.879 Broadway Show really was good and bad. I think having 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.840 them moved to New York and seeing you know, living 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:14.800 in a cool ass apartment, going to Lincoln Center every night, 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.199 and then all the people they met after the shows, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.040 including the Clinton's. 0:20:21.080 --> 0:20:24.560 Tom Hanks, John Lithgot. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:25.879 I mean, I mean, it's the list is endless of 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:27.720 people who came to see the show because the show 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.280 won a bunch of major awards. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:32.040 I think they got the bug a little bit. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.800 I think they just like being they're very they're very 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.359 social kids, and they they they like talking to people, 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.879 they like listening to people, and. 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.000