WEBVTT - 9021One on One: Jack Armstrong 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:05.520 It's nine O Gene with Jenny Garth and Tory spelling. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.320 You guys, we are excited to be joined by Jack Armstrong, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.880 the one and only. He played Mike Ryan, version. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.480 Two exciting incarnation of Michael Ryan. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:28.080 We're so excited to talk to him today. Hello Jack, Hi, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.680 it's so lovely to see. We were just talking about 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.879 how you got the role of Mike Ryan and you 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.920 were the second person to play this specific character. What 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.239 did you know about the recasting of that, Like, how 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:42.519 did that come to be? 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.239 I don't actually know anything about that. I don't know 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.760 how that came to be. So was it the character 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.040 on before or the characters played. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.240 Afterwards before you? Before before me? I don't know. The 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.080 guy gave up acting and moved to Hawaii to surf 0:00:58.160 --> 0:00:58.640 for something. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.080 Sounds nice, but that's not the case. Now we're trying 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.640 to be Jeni like being detectives, and we're trying to 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.480 figure this out, but we can't. So we thought you 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.200 could help us because allegedly. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.320 Yeah, allegedly, the actor who played Mike Crime previous to 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.120 you in like three or four episodes left because he 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.600 didn't want to play a gay character. That is alleged yes. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.280 Not verified. We have no idea. He We did talk 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.080 to Brandon Douglas and he has no recollection of that. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.960 His only thing he could think of is that perhaps 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.360 when the character came back, he was busy, he was 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.600 doing something else. He was on Ferris Bueller's Day off 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.160 the series. So maybe, but we don't know. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.040 That could maybe was available, so they went for a 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:38.880 second story. 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:43.920 But second best here he is. Yeah, I love that. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.800 Yeah, is a long time ago. I was trying to 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:48.640 remember when we did that. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:54.040 It was like ninety four, you guys know, four ninety four. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.240 Yeah, it was only one episode, but that entire episode 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.760 really revolved around you and your character. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.240 Yeah, yeah, it was. It was interesting, you know that 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.200 was it was a different time back then. I guess 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:07.880 you know, we all remember that. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.040 It was a different time, and I remember when that 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.080 role came up, my agency had a conversation with me 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.880 about do you want to do this because there. 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.280 Was still a stigma back then. I mean, you guys necessarily, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.040 but like for a guy, for a young guy actor 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:26.200 at that time to perceived as a gay actor, there 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:27.840 were people that were like, oh, we're not going to 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:28.639 hire him. 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:30.840 You know, for something else. You know, for a non 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:31.359 gay role. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.400 Yeah, exactly, so exactly. So when you know, as a 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.079 younger actor starting out, it was like, you know what, 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.280 don't want to limit myself in that way. So they 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.640 were like, let's have a conversation about this, whether you 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.120 do this or not. But you know, I read the 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.480 script and I thought, and I don't know, my memories 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.080 are not as as good, but it seemed like it 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.480 was really handled well back then. I saw a snippet 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.040 of it, and and I got to say that I 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.120 still feel really good about that show. That episode. I 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:08.720 didn't obviously that was the only episode of the show, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.000 but it was really handled well. And I thought that 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.720 people on the show. I did a lot of guest 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.120 star stuff, and so it would be like some sets 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.600 you would walk onto and you know, you could just 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:26.680 tell it wasn't really a happy set. You guys have 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.720 ever done that or not, But when around the different shows, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.640 it's like and you and I, you know, you may 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:33.200 not even know what it is or who it is, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:34.680 but you can just tell people that are not really 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.720 happy to be there, and it's like mentioned and all 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.280 that kind of stuff. And when I walked on to 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:44.280 your set, it was everybody was like so friendly and 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.600 so helpful. Maybe you guys did that with everybody, but 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.000 I certainly felt, you know, at home kind of thing. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.920 So walk onto the set in Meloe's place. It was. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.440 Your character had some very you know, great dialogue and 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.560 some good monologues there in those pivotal scenes with your character, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.120 and they were so important and it was really important 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:13.200 that those words all be heard by those that age demographic. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.880 Definitely, yeah, because that wasn't out there. I was thinking 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:17.560 about that also. 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.440 I came, I came to LA from New York and 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.200 on Broadway in the theater that subject matter was being 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.320 addressed and was being handled and talked about it, do 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.920 you know what I mean? But it wasn't mainstream at 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:37.000 all in TV at all because of I suppose, I mean, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:40.880 it was a different time and advertisers still wanting a 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.880 certain thing and not an other certain thing and stuff 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.760 like that, and so it felt a little bit like 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.200 we were breaking some ground with that. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:49.520 And I know it wasn't new. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.920 Knew that it hadn't been addressed at all, but it 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.400 was not commonplace, like you know, on. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:55.920 A teen. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.560 Not for you for taking on that. Yes, we do 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:04.640 know that some actors had passed on it when they 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.280 were presented the role. So the fact that you stepped 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.360 up and did it it is really important. And look 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:12.520 how far we've come. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.440 And now the conversation would never be happening should I 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.400 should I play a gay actor? They would be like, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:20.320 please let me play a gay actor? 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.080 Absolutely? 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:24.280 Absolutely, Yeah. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.040 But I mean it's like, you know, that's a long 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.600 time ago, and thank god, a lot of things have 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:34.479 changed and we're a lot more open and understanding and. 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:37.360 Accepting of people. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.280 You know that that necessarily weren't accepted before, and I 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:41.960 think that's good. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.760 Most of your scenes were with Iron Zerring, who played 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.400 Steve Sanders. You remember him. How how was that working 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.520 with him? 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.960 He was He was a sweetheart to me and he 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.200 was so nice. I get the feeling he's that kind 0:05:58.200 --> 0:05:58.840 of a guy. 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.640 Yes, and just that way to everybody, But he was 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.560 really nice to me, and everybody knew. It was a 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.920 little you know, it was a little dicey, it was 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:10.039 a little tense to be that character, but really really 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.840 made me feel at home. And there were some off 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:15.640 off stage jabs. I mean, I'll be honest with you, you know, 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:21.479 the like kind of stuff. But all in good humor, right, 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:23.000 very friendly. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.680 Do you remember filming at the at the gay coffeehouse 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:30.000 when they they went to Brandon and Steve go to 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.919 the coffee house and it's just specifically for queer people, 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.000 like it doesn't there's no straight people. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.400 There, no straight people there, right, exactly. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.200 Very realistic, very very. 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:46.560 Yeah, just like it is today. But yeah, I remember, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.919 I don't remember all those scenes actually that. 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.360 Scene, and I remember the big speech at the end 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.760 that he gives to the fraternity brothers, which what was 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.800 I thought you mentioned before? 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.719 Really well written? I thought it was. I thought it 0:06:58.720 --> 0:06:59.560 was a really good speech. 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.440 So you've just continued to work and work and work 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.279 through the years. You've appeared on so many of the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.680 biggest soaps out there. What are yeah, you look good? 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:11.480 You look good? 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.200 Oh? 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.640 What are you most recognized for? 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:15.000 Like? 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:15.880 What would you say? 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.880 Gosh, you know, I don't really know. There's some film 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.880 work that I've did that, you know, people in certain 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.040 genres like they're into that kind of stuff, some sci 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.520 fi stuff really like what there's a film called The 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.520 Guyberg and they made two Guy for films. I wasn't 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.920 in the second one. I wasn't around for the second 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.000 one I did the first one with Mark Hamill. And 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:40.920 people that. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.360 Are into sci fi stuff like that all know that 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.160 film and like that film, and I did some I 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.800 did some other up that I won't even mention too, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:50.960 not because they. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.120 Were like anything wrong with them. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.680 Then the quality was just not great, but in that 0:07:54.800 --> 0:08:00.400 genre also of sci fi stuff. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.040 Well, you were in one of my favorite movies, Student. 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.520 Bodies, Student Bodies, you know that. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:21.560 Look, I'm a sick horror fan and especially camp Poor. Yeah. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.880 Hello nineteen eighty one. Oh my god, I went to 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.520 my local. Sorry, I get very excited when I talk 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:27.800 about it. 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:28.760 You were a child. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.120 I went to my local. It was like not even 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.960 a Blockbuster. It was like family owned one and Friday nights, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.600 I got to order pizza with my friends and we 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.240 would like pull out the VHS tapes and Student Bodies 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.120 well good or bad? I have seen it many times. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:47.079 It was one of my favorites. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.760 Well, other people have told me the same thing. I'm 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:55.560 always like, really, yeah, yeah, it was fun. Oh yeah, yeah, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.080 I was killed. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.040 I think in that movie. I was killed with a 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:58.679 paper clip. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.240 Oh, I think it was killed with a paper clip 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.280 and then paper clip. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.559 That's my paper clip and then the bodies were all 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.360 I think you put them all in garbage back or something. 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.760 It was really it was a good one. He should 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.120 we make that movie. 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.600 I want to be in it. You should be too. 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.559 Oh my god, let's do it. Sure, Okay, we'll talk 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.320 about that later. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:22.160 Okay, So what are you up to now? 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:28.120 Well, my uh wife and kid and I left LA 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.640 about two and a half years ago. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.120 We now live in the Great State of Texas. 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:33.360 Nice. 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:37.720 Where we went to Dallas. Nobody else I know who 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.560 went to Austin. We went right and we still go 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.360 down there because my wife had family down there. But 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.480 everybody moved up here. So we're in Dallas. 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.600 It's so beautiful outside of Dallas. Between Dallas and Austin, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.720 that beautiful hill country. Just yeah, oh gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:55.160 Yeah, it is. I like it. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.080 And the people are super friendly. I grew up in 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.880 a little tiny town. I mean, you're like little eight 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.000 hundred and fifteen people fifteen in western Pennsylvania. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.920 So that's how I grew up. And when I went 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:09.679 to New York. First of all, right, before I went 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.320 to and I would walk down the street in New 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.640 York in Manhattan, Good morning. Hi. People would be like, 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:16.560 what the good wrong? 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.319 True, you have a lot of mistakes in New York 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.920 because I didn't know any better. But I started working 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.320 right away in New York because I think because I 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:28.040 didn't know any better. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.240 Right, I was such a hic. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.840 You had that fresh off the boat look. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.839 Exactly exactly, and then I got less fresh and well 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:37.319 you know, I mean, it's like you. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:44.280 Got jaded like everyone else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's time you. Yeah, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:45.760 you have one son, right, I. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.480 Have one time who just turned twelve. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:50.440 D one. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.959 You're still in the thick of it, So in. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.680 The thick of it. And the dude is like so smart, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.400 like street smart, you know what I mean. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.560 And better be growing up in Dallas. Huh, he better 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:05.960 be growing up in Dallas. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:06.560 Yeah. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.240 He's very He's like he looks and acts like he's 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.439 about fifteen going on thirty seven. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.800 So does he want to be an actor? 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:21.000 No, No, he doesn't know what he wants to do now. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.000 He was going to be a veterinarian. And then he 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.480 wants to go and have our cars, which I think 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:26.959 is cool. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.640 Very yes, we need that, we need him. 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.880 We need to have her cars. And I don't know 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.280 what he's going to do. You know, he's twelve, he's 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:34.040 having fun. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.240 And you're just you and your wife are raising You've 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.719 been together so long, you and your wife two hundred. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.200 Years, it's a world record as well. You know, we're 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.920 we're tight, we're like this. We've been together a long 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:52.920 and still going strong. You know. It is not my 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:59.600 first marriage. And I learned finally, finally number three. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.400 I finally learned that it's like really important to like 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.640 like the person as a friend, so and like you know, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:08.600 hang her out with them and talk to them and 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.679 have similar interests and stuff like that. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.760 It's not really all about you know, their. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.760 Face and can I take down notes to go ahead? 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.199 Yeah, this is very valuable information. So anyway, we're a 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.080 good friends. So we have a lot of fun together. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.520 And she's in order to sell so so we we 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:31.200 are all involved in creative stuff. And there's still some 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.400 acting work here in Dallas, and I do audio books 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.280 now and I do voice work and stuff that I 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.200 can do from Dallas. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.560 Excellent. Oh that's a way to do it. I mean, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:41.640 because to be an actor now you don't have to 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.439 live in la or New York. You can live anywhere, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.480 and you can travel for your jobs and you can 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:46.200 work from home. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:48.640 That's right. And I'm teaching, which I didn't mention. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.520 I should mention that what us tell us teach us, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:54.959 teach us how to act. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.760 Teach us how to act. I've been teaching. I studied 0:12:58.760 --> 0:12:59.920 with different teachers for years. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.080 And year in years, and I back in LA before 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.760 I left, I sat in for a guy who's been 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.040 teaching for like thirty years, and a guy named Gary 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:14.040 iam Hoff. He's been a teacher around for long. Came 0:13:14.040 --> 0:13:17.719 out of Beverly Hills Playhouse and anyway, he had to 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:19.520 go out of town, and I ended up teaching for him. 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.600 For three months, never having taught before. And when it 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.040 turned out, I was. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:27.040 He was really good teaching. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.560 I was a really good teacher. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:29.000 Oh. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.520 I love that I've learned so much. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.640 And then from working for you know, thirty five or 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.560 or more years, you know, you pick up a lot 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.480 of stuff you learn from other people, directors, other actors, 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:44.040 and so to be able to give young actors who 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.240 are starting out and a lot of I don't know 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.839 what you guys did when you started out. You were 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:52.400 just instantly famous, but a lot of people a lot 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.160 of guys. People go to college and they do like 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.320 a college curriculum on how to be an actor, and 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.720 most of the time you get out and it's like 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.040 they're not prepared at all for how to go into 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.760 the business and be an actor and what's needed on 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.160 set and how to do the basic things that you 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.640 have to do so that you can actually walk on 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.280 the set, work with the crew, and work with the 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.439 other actors on set and send offices, you know what 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:18.880 I mean, Basic stuff like that. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.000 I mean, I think that's the way most teaching of 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.960 anything is, like they don't teach you the things you 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.920 really need to know out there on the job. 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:28.440 Yeah. 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.680 So that's such a good perspective you brought for them. 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:31.760 I love that. That's great. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:32.960 Yeah, I do. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.240 I love it too, And I do, you know, because 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.200 I was doing it for so many years. I have 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.280 a lot of stories, and so it's a chance for 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.280 me to get to, you know, tell my stories again 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.800 because otherwise my wife. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:45.960 She's sick of it. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:52.360 We'll listen to them. Tell us the juicy ones. Tell 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:53.960 us one good, juicy, one. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.200 Juicy actor story. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:55.720 Yeah. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.120 Yeah, not to put you on the spot. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:14:59.920 What can I tell you that I won't get it. 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.040 Some of them are little like you know, I'm trying 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.400 to think there's anything that would be like fun to 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:10.680 tell you that we're get in trouble with. I don't know, 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.440 tell you the truth. I now I want to do 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.320 the road because I'm gonna have saying something. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.000 Because you were on soaps a lot, you had to 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.440 learn tons and tons and tons of dialogue. Do you 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.800 give them like advice on how to memorize stuff or 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.200 how to work on in that kind of like quick pace. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.560 Well, I think that's really the technical part of it. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.800 And it's like, you know, drill it, drill it, driller, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.960 go over and over it. I remember years ago in 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.800 LA and a class acting class. Anthony Hopkins came in 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.200 night for a class, right, and he gave us whole 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.680 talk with the teacher and blah blah blah blah and 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.000 all this stuff, and he and he took a few 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.360 questions and one of the guys in the class said, sir, 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:51.640 how how often do you go over your lines? And 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.640 I was sitting there going like, what a. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:58.840 Dumb question to ask, right, Anthony Hopkins, And he said, well, 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:03.320 I read my script about two hundred times and I 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.840 tell you every mouth in the room, every acting young 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:06.360 actor of the room. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.680 Our mouse just went like, oh what I mean? 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.800 Nobody two hundred times and this is Anthony Hopkins. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.840 Yeah. So you know stuff like that where you learn 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.239 as your go is like and it's not for everything, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.440 but I mean, here's a great actor without any question, right, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.880 and if somebody like that spends that much time going 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.760 over lines and he wasn't rehearsing and he was just 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.520 reading him, reading and reading and reading him, and they 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.800 became he said, part of him, and then he was 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.440 ready to go and then he could play and work 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.440 and create. You know. So that's an interesting view point. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:39.320 That's great advice. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:41.920 Yeah, a cool thing to be able to share with 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.280 your students that you got to experience like that with 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.160 Anthony Hopkins. That's really rad. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:52.520 Yeah yeah, Jack Armstrong, mic drop there, geez. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.760 I remember shooting the scene with all of us at 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.160 the photo shoot? Do you remember at the end, what 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:16.000 was your costume? Did you have on a scarf? Only 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:16.600 a scarf? 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:17.080 In boxing? 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.840 They had me dressed up a little, you know, you 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.879 had like a like I don't I don't honestly remember 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:24.280 what I. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.960 Had on silk robe? 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:30.760 Maybe yeah, something, yeah, something in care. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.399 I just remember watching it and I saw Kelly and 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.480 your character together and I was like, they look like 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.679 they're having a genuine good time. So I know that 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.040 you and I were having a really good time that day. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:43.560 We were. 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:45.920 That was a fun day. I remember that too. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.280 Yeah, everybody, so the first I think it's the first 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:49.920 time I got to work with you guys, were being 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.160 in the same scenes with you guys. 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.879 Yeah, it was all about the guy, all of the 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.080 fratrinity stuff. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.480 Right, So you liked working with us better than just with. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:03.440 Absolutely question okay, because we brought the fun. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.639 Still to this day. That's right. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.960 How does everyone reach you? How can they get a hold? 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.240 How can they get your acting? 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.640 You guys are so smart because I totally spaced out 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.120 on that. So the school is called Actor Space Studio. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.520 Actor space studio. 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.920 Like a C t O R s P A C 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.040 E or an actual a. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.880 C T O R a C t R then space 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.440 like a space for an actor studio. So the acronym 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.480 is ass, which I didn't intend at all, but it. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.520 Is right, Okay, okay. 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.480 Yeah, so that's it in Dallas, and yeah, they can 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.360 find me and come to class I'm getting all kinds 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.120 of interesting people in class Dallas. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:52.600 They call you ass. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:54.800 No, they don't, mister. 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:56.160 Are you on Instagram? 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.040 Jack mister asked, of course, I am tour. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.840 What is okay? So it's just at Jack Armstrong, it's 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.800 at ass dot. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.080 Me and Instagram, look me and social media. This is terrible, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:10.800 but yeah. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.520 He looks uncomfortable right now. 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:17.280