WEBVTT - Andrew Levitas Meets World 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:20.640 Will Will. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.639 Looking all clean cut, it's all gone. When did you 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.560 do this yesterday? How's it feel? It feels pretty great? 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:32.199 It looks great, man, it. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.000 Looks so good. 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:36.160 You like it? 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.040 I love it? 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:38.479 Uh? Oh? 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:38.840 Writer? 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.120 Does writer like it better? Long? 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:41.400 What? No? 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:41.839 I like you? 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:43.080 Okay, I do like. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:43.559 It better long. 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.600 In general, I think Will has excellent hair, and I 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.040 like to see more of it. But I think this 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.200 looks great. Yeah. 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:50.680 This couldn't deal with it anymore. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.199 Yeah, you know what I'm you know what I'm noticing. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.440 Your bone structure is really just is I can see 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.400 your bone structure. Whereas for thank you, maybe because your 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.320 long flowing locks were so distracting, I didn't notice, but 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.160 now that you have that off like your jaw, everything's 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:11.240 all like sharp. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.960 Well, thank you. I appreciate that. I like a sharp jaw. Yeah, 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:22.600 sigma face. Yeah dude, you go you always have it 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.600 was it felt so The greatest part was actually he's it. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:32.560 Because he's more seconds now Yeah. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.400 Lovely great, great. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:33.679 In two seconds. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.080 I love that your head is more square. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.720 Square, got a lego head now? Very happy? 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:39.720 Uh? 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:44.640 I I ran into the one and only mister Wilfredell 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:49.480 and his gorgeous wife Susan At of course the tapangam all, 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.040 because all them all. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:52.920 Where else do we go on a weekend? 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:58.800 But Will was shopping for some new clothes and he 0:01:58.880 --> 0:01:59.360 looked York. 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.320 He looked pretty dapper. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.840 I'm pretty happy. I got two whole new outfits. Where 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.840 I met a guy shout out Marco Nordstrom's, who's like, uh, 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.240 I'm I'm gonna address you from from top to bottom. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:12.560 Good. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:18.560 So literally, you know, toes to tip, that's God, from 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:19.440 my feet to my head. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.960 Let's put it that way. And to the point where 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.680 I first went to another store. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:26.080 I won't say the name, but I went to another 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.079 store and I bought an outfit myself. 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.640 I'm like, wow, I like that jacket, and so a 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.520 guy there helped me. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.000 And so I then went to Nordstrom and I got 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:35.799 the second outfit, and Marco said, do me a favor. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.480 When you come back to get fitted for this one 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.800 you just bought, bring the outfit you bought yourself and 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:43.560 try it on for me. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.239 I just want to see how it looks. And I 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:45.760 went sure. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.600 So I brought the outfit and he looked at me 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.840 for two seconds, went nope, no, nope, what And even 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.440 Sue went uh, and even I looked at it and went, oh, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.440 I don't like this at all anymore. And he's like, yeah, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.640 we're gonna we're gonna return all that and we're going 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:02.840 to start over. And he got me the whole second 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.240 outfit that day too, and I returned the whole first one. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:07.560 It took him two seconds. He looked at me, I 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:08.000 walked out. 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.200 He went, when you. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.720 Bought the first outfit from the first store, did you 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:14.360 try it on? 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:15.120 Or did you? 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.680 Okay, Okay, no, I did, because it's a pretty. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.160 Will thing to just look at a shirt, hold it up, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.359 go yeah, this is good, and then be like that'll 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:24.919 this will go with this jacket right. 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:25.440 And then leave. 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:26.040 No. 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.520 I actually I I tried it all on and I 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.000 was like, man, this looks like something from Star Wars. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:32.519 And then when I put it on again, I was like, 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:34.960 oh man, this this this looks like something from Star Wars. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.120 Stormtrooper like huh, you know. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:38.720 It was more. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.520 It was more Luke Skywalker on yeah on, tattooing a 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.080 little a little tan on tan, staring up at the 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.200 two moons, wondering if I'm ever going. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:48.720 To live. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.960 Like jacket too, and the jacket was this like something 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.240 he would have worn, And then I didn't realize there was. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:00.840 Like a sheen to it, so it was odd because 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.800 I'm sure it was five. But the new one, I'm 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.000 very excited Daniel saw it. I'm very excited. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.760 Good writer. What are you wearing to New York? 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.040 I don't know, man. I tried to go shopping and 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.120 just had a panic attack. It was awful because. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:15.240 Alex was going to talk to Marco. I'll go with you. 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.120 And then I walked into some giant apartment store. I 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.560 walked around, you know, she was shopping in her floor, 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:21.880 so I was alone. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.120 It was awful, and I did buy a couple of things. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:27.760 They returned most of them. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.760 And then and then I just decided to go online 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.880 and buy everything and return everything. So I bought like 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.000 so many clothes online from like all my favorite chops 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.480 online and now I'm just in the process of returning ninety. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.760 Five percent of them, which is kind of a pain. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:45.919 The order. I'm like, this is the payoff, right. I 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.000 get the privacy of my own home and trying things on, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:49.960 But then when you have to return it, it's like 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.880 some use the post office, some use ups drop off. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.680 Some use FedEx, then another one uses DHL. Who's still 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.799 using d anyway, I had four different stops to returns 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.120 if I I still haven't returned everything. But yeah, I 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.920 think I've got some outfits. I don't know, Man, I 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.760 go to market actual this this year this time, like 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.240 I'm just like, I don't know, like I always, I 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.360 feel like I always try and do like a blazer 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:15.400 to be more like fancy or formal. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:16.920 There you go, and it just doesn't. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:17.960 It never works for me. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.160 So yeah, I like you in a blazer. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.560 You got this the school teacher going on people hot professor, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.360 people love that for teacher. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:26.640 Thanks, I don't, I don't. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:27.880 I'm not going to do it this time. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.360 Guys. Sorry, it's all right, we're not We're not upset 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:30.919 with you. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:31.719 What are you? 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:32.279 What? 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.560 What's none of us are asking you, Danielle, because it 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.680 doesn't matter what we're wearing anyway. I go to. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.000 Blurry garbage bags, like, hey, what's going on? 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:45.120 This is a yeah, this is a hefty really excited. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.400 It's not going to matter. What the hell I should 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:51.000 we should you know? 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.200 I should just be in. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.479 Yeah, exactly, we should know we should really do just 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.240 to really pissed you off is find out what she's 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.080 wearing and wear exactly the same thing. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.320 If you think that would piss me, Oh, she. 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.680 Would love it if we just had like many versions 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:08.960 of whenever she was wearing. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:13.440 Like, oh my gosh, literally nothing could make me happier 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.599 than the idea of the three. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.920 Of us dressed the same That would be great. 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.440 Have to be tiny, so they're like two tights or 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.760 like bursting out of them, right, yeah, so it's like 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.480 we're wearing her size stuff. 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.720 Actually they noticed people would see us. 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:28.559 It would be cute. 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.960 But you know what else would be even better is 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:32.920 if we could if we really wanted to do it, 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:34.880 because like, the three of us together wearing the same 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.000 clothes as kind of my dream. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.920 I could wear men's wear. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.640 I could like I could you know, like if you 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:43.840 guys wanted to, we could buy matching cool suits. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.480 Mm hmm okay, awesome. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.760 Yeah, it would be like your Chicago number and Dancing 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:53.599 with the stars, right, because you guys are all. 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.240 Correct, yes with a tie cool? Right? 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:58.680 Okay? 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.760 Okay, oh that PIXI excited. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.680 I am possibly wearing a very short skirt to the 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.920 premiere so that you guys would look great. It would 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.839 be a great opportunity to show off your legs. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.000 I got killer legs. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:15.600 That's wanted to see your hobbit feet both. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:21.280 It's basically for the waist out. This is perfect. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:25.000 Like if you could just crap me for how I 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.280 am presumed in real life, everyone would be happy. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.920 You and your friends save the shire Rider. You deserve 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:34.440 all the accolades. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.840 Welcome to Upon Meets World. I'm Danielle Vishel. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.680 I'm right strong, and I'm Wilford Dell. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.640 Over our seven seasons of recaps, we have uncovered a 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.760 lot about Boy Meets World that, when all is said 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.400 and done, we hope we made rewatching the show a 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:08.239 little more enjoyable. We organically figured out who the original 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.040 Tapanga was, we were reminded of the hidden lobsters, we 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.560 discovered photos of random food in the apartment kitchen, and 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.120 though we'll probably never know who the creepy janitor was, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.200 we've come a long way. But nothing from the past 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.440 three years of this podcast could have prepared us for 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.800 the deep dive adventure that this week's guest put us 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:33.160 on after we rewatched his guest star appearance, And honestly, 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.920 this completely shocked by a guest we knew nothing about 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.640 before this podcast. In the memorable season seven episode What 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.959 a Drag, he appeared as Crazy Luthor, the leather jacket 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.160 wearing college criminal who was so intimidating to Jack and 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.240 Eric that they decide to dress as women to hide 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.920 from his wrath. But somehow that's maybe the least interesting 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.679 thing he's done in his career. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:57.439 Truth is, I bet. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.040 Friends of the filmmaker, artist, actor, producer, fatis hographer, activist 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.320 don't even know he was on the show. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.280 After acting as a kid on shows like. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.440 Boy Meets World, The Nanny and Party of Five, the 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.600 NYU grad would expand his creative resume with a social 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.400 impact art career that led The New York Times to 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.840 say he has the Midas touch. His metalwork installations are 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:22.400 considered an artistic breakthrough, connecting photography, sculpture, and contemporary art 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:27.760 through a copyrighted signature method transferring images onto custom transparencies 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.120 that are then melted onto multi interlocking metal sheets. Will 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:33.200 you're really into that too? 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:33.439 Right? 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:34.040 I am? 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.880 Well, I mean yes, I love melting things onto multi 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.240 interlocking metal sheets. I mean I thought I was the 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.120 only one, but I'd love to know there's another one out. 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:42.480 There doing it. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.000 I know I didn't. Most people don't know that you're 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.040 an expert in it. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.440 I literally can't even picture what that is. 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:50.679 I can't either. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.160 I know, I can't wait to talk to him. I 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:53.040 don't know the hell that is. 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:56.040 But even though his works are sold by auction houses, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.920 acquired by museums, and the talk of international art fairs, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.760 he also found time to write and direct the twenty 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:06.480 fourteen movie Lullaby starring Amy Adams, Richard Jenkins, Terrence Howard, 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.840 and Jennifer Hudson, plus the twenty twenty critically acclaimed film Minamata, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.360 all about the photojournalist Eugene Smith's expose of corporate negligence 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.480 and government cover ups in a Japanese coastal town, starring 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:24.360 Johnny Depp. He's also produced numerous movies focusing on actors 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.680 turned directors, like Julie Delfi for My Zoe or Christoph 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.600 Waltz in his debut behind the camera Georgetown Wow. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.920 He also co wrote a comic super Cool Is it Like? 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.920 Are you're looking at super Cool? 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:43.840 It's these big, huge metal whoa like enormous metal things 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.560 with all these cool pit you like like, look at 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:47.640 this one, I mean just. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:50.160 Super cool. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:51.120 Wow. 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.640 Yeah, that's yeah, wow, okay geez alrighty. 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.520 Then he also co wrote a comic book with Andy 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.920 Serkis tout as part time professor at his All Guest 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.080 lectured at Yale, tadd a masterclass in Athens, married, an 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.800 award winning British classical singer, launched his own Gin brand, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.959 and is an outspoken advocate on environmental protection and wildlife 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.040 conservation as a global patron for the Wilderness Foundation and 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.920 an ambassador of Tusk Trust, a British nonprofit organization focusing 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.480 on protecting African elephants, rhinos, lions and all endangered species 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:28.760 across the continent. And yeah, he was on an episode 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.120 of Boy Meets World, But who cares crazy? 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.840 Seriously, I got a haircut and it was like my 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.200 whole day. I can't imagine that. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:38.800 My God. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.240 Today we welcome someone who we have to assume thinks 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.760 this podcast is stupid. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.800 It's multi hyphenate and recipient. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.560 Of our longest intro, Andrew Levitas. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.400 Hey how are you? Andrew? 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.120 I'm well, how are you? 0:11:58.800 --> 0:11:59.880 We are? 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.880 Thank you so much for even responding to our email. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:10.880 We just ran down your resume and we've never felt lazier. 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:14.560 Well, it's great to see you guys have been about 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.280 a million years. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.160 Yes, just about that. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:22.079 The way you guys have this awesome podcast, I wasn't aware, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:24.440 and now I've listened a bit. It's totally great and 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.160 it's so cool you guys all get to be together. 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:26.680 It's amazing. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.360 I know that part is really nice. We'll just got 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:31.480 a haircut yesterday. 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:32.800 Congratulations. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:34.080 Well, thank yeah, thank you. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.280 It did take up his whole day. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:37.240 It was my whole day. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.320 We were reading your stuff and looking at your artwork 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:40.960 and all the things you've done. And by the time 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.319 we got to Wildlife Conservation, I was like, I had 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.000 a sandwich, Like yeah. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:49.679 It was so yeah, you've already made us feel bad 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.920 about ourselves. Andrew, thank you for coming on the show. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:57.640 For coming on the show, Andrew, I do have to ask, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.640 because it is worth asking considering the amount of actual 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:02.800 artistic work you have done. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.240 Do you remember being on Boy Meets World? 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:10.319 I do, though it was a fun jog down memory 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.800 lane searching for it and watching the episode again. Yeah, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:16.880 I remember at the time, you know, for me, I 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:20.200 was a tourist as an actor, right like I never 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.840 set out in my life to be an actor. For me, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.880 I always knew i'd be a filmmaker. I was already 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.960 having museum exhibitions at the time that I came on 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.520 with you guys, and it was just an opportunity to 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.600 learn and be around other artists and see what you 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:38.840 guys were doing and become a better filmmaker someday. So 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:41.160 for me, it was wild to see it because I 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:46.800 was so open to just being like an idiot. Yeah, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.760 like just going for it and not being stressed about 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.960 it and having a fun time. But it's quite wild 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.000 what was in that episode? 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.760 Actually, you mean you didn't take away great artistic truths. 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:08.760 I'm sorry and shocking at the place that's open all 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:09.240 night long? 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.920 It was like, wait, what, how is this not affecting 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:13.600 your whole career? 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.600 It was a truly baffling episode, you know it was. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.160 It was super cool to be with you guys. I mean, 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.440 you guys had done at that time was amazing. Right 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.680 to have a series that had gone that long with 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.840 the same folks were all seemed lovely and beautiful. And 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.120 you know what I remember about that week because I'd 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.720 done so much stuff over the years, like prior to that, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.400 just how warm and familyish and how excited everyone was. 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.120 Just like just how happy everybody was, or at least 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.480 it felt that way to be coming in like that's 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.600 not normally at least it's not part for the course. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.920 It should be normal, right. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.840 That makes me so happy to hear, because we have 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.600 talked a lot about the fact that by the time 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.160 we got to season seven, we were all in various 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.840 stages of disconnect. Disconnect good, that's a great way of 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.800 saying it. And so it's good to know that when 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.360 someone who wasn't there with us week after week came 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.320 in and got to spend an entire week with us, 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.280 the feeling you still walked away from was that everyone 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:15.640 was warm and happy to be there. 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.640 So good to hear it. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:22.600 So, Andrew, you said that you you were almost taking it. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.600 Were you were you auditioning because you just wanted to 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.560 become a better filmmaker. Was there any part of you 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.080 that wanted to be an actor to stay in the 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.320 acting industry or was this just like, Okay, this is 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.080 going to be a fun part to learn the rest 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.119 of the industry, but if I get a job great. 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.800 Or were you calling your manager every day like the 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:39.680 rest of us, going what's next? Do I have an audition? 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:40.280 What's going on? 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.080 No, I'm not even sure if I had. I must 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:47.040 have had an agent or manager at that point. I 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.920 don't know. I don't remember. But my like, the acting 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.080 side of my life was like a like an accidental 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.880 thing that happened, and it just kept I mean, like 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.040 all of your listeners who are actors are going to hate. 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:05.600 Me, but I just couldn't stop getting parts. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.680 One of those things where I was like, listen, anything 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.560 that anybody wants me to do, I'm psyched to get 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.880 the opportunity and have a different experience and meet other 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.920 actors and meet other filmmakers and you know, and spend 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:22.480 time with different elements of you know, production, and talk 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.400 to different crew and just have that have that time 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.520 and enjoy it and not feel pressure of this is 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.120 my life and my passion I was. I felt fortunate 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.040 and blessed to do it. Whatever money I made as 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.560 an actor, I spent on canvases and cameras and materials, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.320 and it really got me through a pretty sizeable chunk 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.280 of those early days and it was amazing. I mean, 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.960 you know, I I got really lucky. I stumbled onto 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.320 being on a soap opera in the early days. I 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.280 went and visited a friend on a soap they were 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.840 casting a boyfriend for her, and we were young, you know, 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.840 and like eighteens. I was growing up in New York. 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.040 And I remember the producers being like, so, are you 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:10.000 an actor? And I was like, yeah, sure, you know, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.959 and I had acted on you know, I'd acted on 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.959 school plays and that kind of stuff, but I wasn't like, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.560 I was like, yeah, whatever, and I'm like, you know, 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.320 hear the sides, like do you want to take it home? 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.280 I was like, oh, let's go now, it's fine, no 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.359 no stress. And I read it and I got that. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.320 And I did, have, however, many episodes of that soap 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.639 opera and it was funny and fun and easy. And 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.760 then I like went on one audition in New York 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:36.960 just because it came out of maybe it was the 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.879 same casting people or something, and I ended up flying 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:43.200 to La at a screen test, which I didn't even 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.640 know what that was at the time, on a series 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.879 for the WB which had just started, and they couldn't 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.560 find their you know, tough Italian guy, which like I 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.639 wasn't tough or Italian by the way, but you know, 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.760 like it was a little type casting that really went 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.000 on over the years, and the next thing I knew, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.720 I was like, had my own series, flew to La 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.840 stayed at that like you know, I don't know if 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.600 they're one of your sponsors or not, but the crappy 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.879 apartment thing that everyone stays at the Woods. But it 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.240 was super fun and interesting, and you know, I was 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.280 paying attention, like I was learning. I was out there 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.920 to learn and see what was going on. And then 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.399 it just kept sort of happening for a while, and 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.080 I never said no, Like if you wanted me to 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.920 do your thing, I did your thing. And there were 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:30.600 wild ones too, like I remember getting offered a I 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:35.160 never had an audition, getting offered a like weird campy 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:41.560 off Broadway, like strange, you know off Broadway show that 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:43.879 had run for a long time that had this cult following. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.680 They were going to make a feature of called Psycho 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.280 Beach Party, and at the time, I'm like, yeah, sure, whatever, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:55.199 I'll play like a repressed sexually repressed surfer and you know, 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:57.840 the gidget era, and no problem, right, yeah, But like 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.600 that film suddenly was that Sundance suddenly was having this 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.760 god and they were amazing, Like Lauren Ambrose was in 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.879 that movie, Amy Adams was in that film. Like I 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.040 made all these friends and all these relationships that served 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.119 me served me later and I learned from it. So 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:13.719