Speaker 1: This is Frosted Tips with Lance Baths and I heart
Speaker 1: reading a podcast. Hello and welcome to Frosted Tips. I
Speaker 1: am Kristin Krook. I'm your guest host for today. I
Speaker 1: have never hosted a podcast before, so this will be
Speaker 1: interesting and please bear with me on this adventure. So,
Speaker 1: I have a new series coming out on Fox on
Speaker 1: September twenty fourth called Murder in a Small Town. It's
Speaker 1: you Know about. It's a murder mystery that follows a
Speaker 1: detective as he moves from an urban police work environment
Speaker 1: to solving crimes and a picturesque Pacific northwestern town. And
Speaker 1: this town seems to attract an inordinate amount of murders
Speaker 1: and at the center is a love story. And the
Speaker 1: lead of this television series is the actor Rossif Sutherland,
Speaker 1: who I am interviewing today and you may not know him,
Speaker 1: but now you will get to know him. So, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: Nice to see you.
Speaker 2: Nice to see you.
Speaker 1: How's your day going?
Speaker 2: It's going just fine?
Speaker 1: Great. Do you wanna do you want to tell people
Speaker 1: about how you got into acting?
Speaker 2: How I got into acting. I come from a family
Speaker 2: of actors. My dad, his dad.
Speaker 1: Is Donald Sutherland. Just so they know, we might as
Speaker 1: well just get it out of the way.
Speaker 2: My father, who recently passed away as Donald Sutherland. My mom,
Speaker 2: Francine Roussette, was a French Canadian actress who made a
Speaker 2: career in France. My brother, Keifer is an actor. All
Speaker 2: my other brothers, my sister, they're all in the industry.
Speaker 2: I had no ambition to be an actor as a
Speaker 2: young man. I became an actor because I was studying
Speaker 2: philosophy at Princeton. My ambition was to be a writer.
Speaker 2: And a friend of mine that approached me to direct
Speaker 2: this short film which was going to be her senior thesis,
Speaker 2: And on the first day of shooting and I was directing.
Speaker 2: I had no experience directing whatsoever. I'm guessing it was
Speaker 2: my last name that must have given her the impression
Speaker 2: that I would know what I was doing, which I
Speaker 2: did not. I'd been on sets as a child, but
Speaker 2: that was the extent of it. And on my first
Speaker 2: day of shooting, my lead actor was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 2: I don't think he thought very highly of the project.
Speaker 2: Probably didn't think very highly of this Sutherland kid who
Speaker 2: was going to direct him. Yeah, what the hell. Indeed,
Speaker 2: luckily i'd cast somebody who who was my height. So
Speaker 2: after three hours of waiting, I put on his clothes
Speaker 2: and I directed for the first time, acted for the
Speaker 2: first time, and after months of added and chopping these
Speaker 2: pieces together, I showed it to my dad. I showed
Speaker 2: it to him as a director, really forgetting that it
Speaker 2: was my face on the screen because I chopped at
Speaker 2: the bits. But my father watched it on his own.
Speaker 2: I didn't have the courage to watch it with him,
Speaker 2: and a half hour went by. The project was twelve
Speaker 2: minutes long, so I figured he was just coming up
Speaker 2: with things he could tell his son as to, you know,
Speaker 2: you should do something else with your life. But it
Speaker 2: was quite the opposite. He'd watched it twice and he
Speaker 2: called my name, Rossiff, and down I came, and he
Speaker 2: had tears rolling down his cheeks, and he said, kid,
Speaker 2: that's what you're supposed to do. And I said, to
Speaker 2: be a director. He said, well, well, who knows, but
Speaker 2: you're supposed to be an actor. And I started training
Speaker 2: out of curiosity because my father had seen something in
Speaker 2: me that I didn't grow up seeing, and my father
Speaker 2: was away for most of my childhood, so this notion
Speaker 2: that I belonged in that world that that he was
Speaker 2: in was so intriguing to me that that I studied
Speaker 2: and and it has not been an easy journey by
Speaker 2: any means, however privileged I may be. I've I've, you know,
Speaker 2: I've I've worked here and there, mostly in Canada, mostly
Speaker 2: doing independent films, and I've this wasn't necessarily love at
Speaker 2: first sight, but I do. I'm madly in love with
Speaker 2: my job now. I'm a bit like falling in love
Speaker 2: with your neighbor. Somebody you see every day and then
Speaker 2: one day she she's at that door, that door that
Speaker 2: you see every day, and there she is with the groceries,
Speaker 2: and you think, my gosh, she's so much more beautiful
Speaker 2: than I ever realized. That's my life. I fell in
Speaker 2: love with my neighbor.
Speaker 1: So would you say that acting itself is something that
Speaker 1: you love or is there something else about it that
Speaker 1: has kept you invested for all of these years because
Speaker 1: you've been doing it a long time. It's not an
Speaker 1: easy profession.
Speaker 2: No, No, I've been doing it for I guess over
Speaker 2: twenty years now. And the job for me, my first
Speaker 2: job on a film set was as a boom operator.
Speaker 2: I was capturing sound and doing a very poor job
Speaker 2: at it. I kept hitting the microphone against the ceiling,
Speaker 2: falling into frame. I didn't know about shadows on people's faces.
Speaker 2: I also didn't know that you had to learn the
Speaker 2: actor's lines as you bounced the microphone around right and
Speaker 2: left the whole you know, dance of it all. But
Speaker 2: I loved being on set. I loved being part of
Speaker 2: this circus of misfits.
Speaker 1: And really is that a circus of misfits?
Speaker 2: And so acting became an opportunity to be part of
Speaker 2: that set life. Not to diminish the job, I do
Speaker 2: love the exploration of character. I studied with this gorgeous
Speaker 2: coach in New York. He was the one who actually
Speaker 2: made me want to pursue this professionally. His name was
Speaker 2: Harold Guskin. He wrote a book called How to Stop Acting.
Speaker 2: And he was the one when I asked the question,
Speaker 2: when he asked me the question whether I wanted to
Speaker 2: do this with my life or not, and I said
Speaker 2: that I didn't particularly I want to be an actor
Speaker 2: because actors pretended to be other people, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to figure out who I was. And he corrected me
Speaker 2: and said that acting, in fact was not pretending to
Speaker 2: be other people, but it was permission to be all
Speaker 2: the people that you could have been. And for this
Speaker 2: kid who had studied philosophy at Princeton, who wanted to write,
Speaker 2: who wanted to explore those grand questions or the meaning
Speaker 2: of life, and all the idea to put on other
Speaker 2: people's clothes, clothes that I could have picked, and living
Speaker 2: in a home that wasn't my home but could have
Speaker 2: been my home, with parents that could have been my parents.
Speaker 2: But he taught me never that the job was never
Speaker 2: to deny your own heart, that I was never going
Speaker 2: to put my soul on check, that I could always
Speaker 2: bring that to life, just in a different form, through
Speaker 2: a different voice. And so that exploration was fascinating to me.
Speaker 2: And I guess just like just like being with a
Speaker 2: with a lover who I won't go there anyway.
Speaker 1: It's like, where is this going to come? Of all
Speaker 1: of the roles you've played in your life, what do
Speaker 1: you feel like has been the most gratifying for you
Speaker 1: as an actor?
Speaker 2: Well, I've truly enjoyed working with you, Kristen Krook. I've
Speaker 2: never been given an opportunity like this to be the
Speaker 2: I guess the lead of a show.
Speaker 1: Not I guess you are the lead of a show, right.
Speaker 2: I'm the leader of the show. Actually, I kept seeing
Speaker 2: that number.
Speaker 1: Next time, number one, you are number one.
Speaker 2: Gosh, yeah, every day it was a panic. Number one.
Speaker 2: Really that's you. If only they could change it from
Speaker 2: one day to the next. But but but yeah, I've listen.
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for a while. I've seen I've
Speaker 2: seen the gorgeous behavior of a functional set where people
Speaker 2: honor each other's ideas and and it's it's a bunch
Speaker 2: of storytellers who will get to come with their own
Speaker 2: ext with tease and bring something to life. I've also
Speaker 2: seen it when everything you know seems to go wrong
Speaker 2: because of egos and divas and and it was a
Speaker 2: great honor to have a voice that actually was somewhat
Speaker 2: listened to as we as we told our story. And
Speaker 2: you were such an extraordinary partner.
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: You're wonderful done Little films too, And I've I've really
Speaker 2: enjoyed working with young creators who are who are just
Speaker 2: filled with passion, more passion than experience, but just have
Speaker 2: a vision. And obviously hopefully everybody has.
Speaker 1: A vision, but not everybody has a vision. No, No,
Speaker 1: absolutely not. Sometimes you work with people and they do not.
Speaker 1: But yes, it's wonderful to work on things with that
Speaker 1: are really about you don't have the money and you
Speaker 1: don't have the resources, and you just try and make
Speaker 1: it work. And there's a lot of joy to be
Speaker 1: found in those experiences and a lot of freedom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: within the constraints anyway. So this show, our show, Murder
Speaker 1: in a Small Town is linked to your father in
Speaker 1: some ways, which you didn't know when we started all this.
Speaker 2: I had no idea, and I.
Speaker 1: Wonder how it has been for you, kind of launching
Speaker 1: this show and also grieving your father's passing and having
Speaker 1: to kind of face that within the promotion of a
Speaker 1: television series.
Speaker 2: My father passed away in late June, and the family
Speaker 2: we've really kept to ourselves. I know there was a
Speaker 2: bombardment of articles and honoring my father's career, and people
Speaker 2: kept emailing them to me, And I don't know if
Speaker 2: it was lack of courage or just that I would.
Speaker 2: I knew that I would do it at some later point,
Speaker 2: but I haven't read any of it. I've mourned my father,
Speaker 2: not so much the actor, but here I find myself
Speaker 2: doing this TV show. I auditioned for this thing another detective,
Speaker 2: and i've you know, as my young son THEO would say,
Speaker 2: you know, that's what you do with that detective. But
Speaker 2: here I am another detective and I wasn't you know.
Speaker 2: The text was was good. So I did it. I
Speaker 2: did the audition, and then two weeks later, I got
Speaker 2: this phone call that, you know, they wanted me for
Speaker 2: the part, which was quite unusual because usually if anybody
Speaker 2: is ever interested in casting me for anything, they make
Speaker 2: me go through the ringer. I mean, I auditioned again
Speaker 2: and again and again until they've really exhausted every other
Speaker 2: possibility and then they maybe settle on me. Usually it's
Speaker 2: the other guy, so.
Speaker 1: It's very optimistic outlook. Settle on me, I don't think.
Speaker 2: So, but they with seeming enthusiasm, they said he's our guy,
Speaker 2: and I was very you know, it was It's quite
Speaker 2: quite empowering to feel like, you know, okay, well, these
Speaker 2: people seem to know that they want me, and therefore
Speaker 2: maybe I belong here. I described it to my father
Speaker 2: because my father has been my champion ever since I
Speaker 2: started in this industry, and I'm an actor very much
Speaker 2: because of him, and he's been very involved, and we
Speaker 2: you know, it's a subject. There was a subject of
Speaker 2: constant conversation. I don't particularly like talking about work, nor acting,
Speaker 2: but I would do it with my dad, So I
Speaker 2: explained it to him, and the project seemed all too
Speaker 2: familiar to him. I had said, there was the Auburg Mysteries,
Speaker 2: and he said, I know these books, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how involved he's been in the past years. It
Speaker 2: seemed to be a surprise to him that this was
Speaker 2: being turned into a TV show. But here I was
Speaker 2: about to play a part in a show of which
Speaker 2: the film was going to be made with my father.
Speaker 2: They were trying to do it thirty years ago. Listen.
Speaker 2: I haven't really processed it yet. This is, in many
Speaker 2: ways the big break of my career, if there is
Speaker 2: such a thing. And I've been an actor very much
Speaker 2: because of my father, and now my father's gone and
Speaker 2: I'm playing in a show that that he would have
Speaker 2: been a part of. It's a All of it has
Speaker 2: been serendipitous, a little surreal, very emotional. I've I've met
Speaker 2: people on this project that I will have in my
Speaker 2: life for the rest of my life. Regardless of the
Speaker 2: future of this thing. Yes, I hope there is a
Speaker 2: life for the show. I really do. I hope people
Speaker 2: invite these characters into their lives because there's there's a
Speaker 2: lot for us to do with them. You know. It
Speaker 2: is a detective show, and in that that cozy way
Speaker 2: I guess of a show like Colombo. Or it's not
Speaker 2: a it's not a it's not a series of bloodsheds.
Speaker 2: It's not a it's not there to necessarily scare you,
Speaker 2: frighten you. It's more about the psychology, the motivation of people.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of people trying to make sense of
Speaker 2: their lives, trying to find their purpose. But at the
Speaker 2: center of it, which is the glue which fascinates me,
Speaker 2: are these two characters played by you and I, who
Speaker 2: are lovers who've reached what they can hope is the
Speaker 2: half way mark of their lives with the baggage of
Speaker 2: their failings and their their hurt, their betrayals, and they
Speaker 2: get to try and make the most of this gift,
Speaker 2: this true love, this passion for one another, and it's
Speaker 2: full of full of fear and hesitation. But as mature
Speaker 2: adults trying to define love and I think in their case,
Speaker 2: love is to give the other person wings. It's not
Speaker 2: about two people becoming one, about two people being whole
Speaker 2: for the first time. And I think that's a story
Speaker 2: we're telling.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree, So I mean we're talking about the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, reluctantly you say.
Speaker 1: No, no, not reluctantly. Absolutely not. Was there I mean
Speaker 1: this is a very classic question when we get asked
Speaker 1: all the time, was there anything different for you in
Speaker 1: preparation for this role?
Speaker 2: I think this was the closest I've ever got to
Speaker 2: play myself. People seem to have wanted to cast me
Speaker 2: as a bad men bad men.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're very scary, I know. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's the perversity of it, because I
Speaker 2: don't think I'm scary. I mean, I'm tall, sure, but
Speaker 2: other than that, you are tall. I'm tall. Yeah, So
Speaker 2: I cast a long shadow.
Speaker 1: And you have a serious face.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: It's a serious face. It's a lie, but it's a
Speaker 1: serious face.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is a lie, isn't it. Yes, But yes,
Speaker 2: I guess my resting face is serious. I went to
Speaker 2: a chest a school and Fred, there's there's no space
Speaker 2: for the curl of the you know, the dimples and
Speaker 2: all that stuff. Anyway, there are dimples, I just hide
Speaker 2: them behind them.
Speaker 1: See the photos of Ross Child. Yes, the cutest face.
Speaker 1: It's still serious, well less serious, but yes, serious with.
Speaker 2: Your glasses, yeah my glasses.
Speaker 1: Serious guy.
Speaker 2: I uh, this was the closest I ever got to
Speaker 2: play myself. The producer Jeff Wantell, we were speaking to
Speaker 2: him the other day and we were talking about this
Speaker 2: this press business that we're doing to try and launch
Speaker 2: this show, and I mentioned the humanity of this character
Speaker 2: and he said it wasn't necessarily on the page. And
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that because to me it was so obvious.
Speaker 2: It was it was. It was there, blatant that this character,
Speaker 2: this detective who's not burdened by all these demons, but
Speaker 2: instead of somebody who thinks outside of the box, who's
Speaker 2: an observer, a listener, who does things his own way.
Speaker 2: He much is by the beat of his own drum.
Speaker 2: But he doesn't behave with intimidation. He doesn't behave with
Speaker 2: the power of his gun or the flashing of his badge.
Speaker 2: He's somebody who confuses the people into revealing the truth
Speaker 2: thanks to his humanity. And that that that part of
Speaker 2: this character fascinated me and if I could bring that
Speaker 2: to life, then I thought, you know, I realized that
Speaker 2: we're not reinventing television here. But no, no, but there
Speaker 2: is there is that that character hasn't been on TV
Speaker 2: for a while. I don't think.
Speaker 1: No, And Jeff's right, I mean on the page, I mean,
Speaker 1: every character on the page is quite flat. But you
Speaker 1: you brought a lot of that humanity to the character.
Speaker 1: I think that that is in large part because of you.
Speaker 1: And then I think that you know, Ian also responded
Speaker 1: to that, and they work together to.
Speaker 2: Be the writer. Lovely beautiful man.
Speaker 1: But I so you're saying that you didn't prepare, you
Speaker 1: just channeled yourself.
Speaker 2: What a way to sum it up.
Speaker 3: That's what I answer that, you know, well, sometimes you
Speaker 3: got a massage those things into the lines sometimes, and
Speaker 3: and luckily and who you just mentioned.
Speaker 2: Was responsive to my instincts and my impu laugh.
Speaker 1: I'm laughing because nobody knows quite what this means.
Speaker 2: Responsive the word response.
Speaker 1: He was responsive. No, they know what responsive.
Speaker 2: I know, But in my context, do you make no,
Speaker 2: I mean, in.
Speaker 1: The context of the way that Rossif went about communicating, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: he has it's lovely. But he always had a lot
Speaker 1: of notes and thoughts.
Speaker 2: I have ideas well.
Speaker 1: It's great, yeah, yeah, speaking of and.
Speaker 2: You know, it doesn't mean that I'm always right.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: Of course, having ideas, being passionate.
Speaker 1: About something, caring about it, yes.
Speaker 2: But also having ideas means that that I he can
Speaker 2: explain to me why I'm wrong.
Speaker 1: Yes, and he did not all the time, because you
Speaker 1: were right a lot of the time.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah. Working with you was my preparation. They
Speaker 2: they they kept speaking of chemistry and the and it's
Speaker 2: it's true, there was. I've never had such an easy time.
Speaker 1: Oh, it was a joy.
Speaker 2: Working with somebody. Where As you say, sometimes words appear
Speaker 2: flat on a page, but as soon as we'd start
Speaker 2: to play. And I don't mean to say that acting
Speaker 2: can sound like music, but there there was, there was
Speaker 2: a there was a quality of jazz to it. Not
Speaker 2: to flatter my acting as I'm flattering her.
Speaker 1: No, I think we're talking about process though, we're talking
Speaker 1: about experience, where being in the moment in the scene
Speaker 1: was just a lot of fun and being able to
Speaker 1: I mean that was and when we're talking about like preparation,
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of work that actors can
Speaker 1: do ahead of time, but so much happens on the
Speaker 1: floor on the day, and I feel like that's that
Speaker 1: is what occurred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you always have to be ready for Yeah, but
Speaker 2: whatever feels right in that and hopefully you have enough
Speaker 2: of a track record with the character and the people
Speaker 2: that you're you're creating with that that there is a
Speaker 2: there is a part of the equation that is instinct,
Speaker 2: got gut. You can't just rely on it. I've seen
Speaker 2: people who just rely on their gut and a lot
Speaker 2: of time sitting on the toilet.
Speaker 1: While we were talking about jazz and music, right, the
Speaker 1: show is frosted tips, frosted tips yep, which in case
Speaker 1: Rossif doesn't know because because he doesn't know anything, No,
Speaker 1: he knows lots, but he doesn't do you know what frosted?
Speaker 1: Do you know what they're in reference to.
Speaker 2: It's it's when the edge the tips of your hair
Speaker 2: are a different color from the rest of Yes, very yes.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about a period of time of like
Speaker 1: boy bands and that kind of music where they were very.
Speaker 2: Popular and they all had frosted tips.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but some of them did. I think
Speaker 1: Lance did I was going to ask you what I see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sort of, I sort of have Well, it's
Speaker 2: just great.
Speaker 1: Great, Yes, I think they've just become little yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: But I was going to.
Speaker 2: Ask very sweetly told me this morning that ever since
Speaker 2: she saw me last when we did finish this TV show,
Speaker 2: that I've gone a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Great, you've been through a bit, yes, yeah, you've had
Speaker 1: You've had a few months. But I was going to
Speaker 1: ask you a light question about music. Yeah, and what
Speaker 1: you like to listen to.
Speaker 2: What I like to listen to.
Speaker 1: Now, well, you know, let's let's take you back.
Speaker 2: Okay, taking me back.
Speaker 1: Let's take you back to the nineties, the nineties.
Speaker 2: Well, the nineties. I was a little Canadian boy in France, yeap,
Speaker 2: and I listened to a lot of the Seattle bands
Speaker 2: I did, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I listened to a
Speaker 2: lot of Eric Clampton too.
Speaker 1: Okay, what no, I'm just okay.
Speaker 2: And I listened to a lot of jazz too, because
Speaker 2: I had to study so much. It was the only
Speaker 2: music that was kind of unpredictable enough that it would
Speaker 2: keep me awake and there was no singing, so it
Speaker 2: wouldn't distract me. From my studies.
Speaker 1: You listened to jazz so that the variations and the
Speaker 1: music would allow you to stay awake to study because
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 2: To study like three four hours every night. The French
Speaker 2: are cruel in that way.
Speaker 1: Yes, the French have a very much to steal.
Speaker 2: Your childhood away by hitting your head with school books.
Speaker 2: That was my childhood, okay, with that progressive sound of
Speaker 2: the books hitting the top of my head. There was
Speaker 2: a background jazz lovely. Yeah, and you make music, I do.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, what a segue it was.
Speaker 1: It was a segue.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Actually, you're not bad at this.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I am bad at it.
Speaker 1: But that's fine. So have you made music recently? What's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 2: It's been a while I did music. This happened too
Speaker 2: in college. My one of my friends dared me to sing.
Speaker 2: We were in the company of what I remember to
Speaker 2: be two attractive young women.
Speaker 1: Of course, that seems about right, and he.
Speaker 2: Said, why don't you sing? He picked up a guitar
Speaker 2: and dared me to sing. And I was writing a
Speaker 2: bunch of short stories at the time, and I just
Speaker 2: sang one of my stories and it was that. That
Speaker 2: was a I remember that being a big eye opener
Speaker 2: in my life, where it's like looking at yourself in
Speaker 2: the mirror and you see something that you just a
Speaker 2: truth that you just never had before. And so I did.
Speaker 2: I pursued it, but I was I wasn't an actor then,
Speaker 2: and I didn't understand that words can be written down
Speaker 2: and made to be different. All the time, I had
Speaker 2: stories I wanted to sing, but I didn't write them
Speaker 2: down because I thought they'd always be the same, that
Speaker 2: they'd be void of life as a result.
Speaker 1: So I was an improviser, right, So you didn't write
Speaker 1: them down because you didn't want to deaden the stories.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So I would deal with all these uh, these musicians
Speaker 2: who I was in New York at the time, and
Speaker 2: they they would they would come it was what was it,
Speaker 2: craigslist cilist, look at me? Yeah, thanks, lest Yeah, I
Speaker 2: put up ads and they they would reach out to
Speaker 2: this this guy me and they'd come over and they'd
Speaker 2: play some music and I'd sing and they say, man,
Speaker 2: that's great, it's really great. Okay, and now we got
Speaker 2: to write some stuff down. I said, No, I don't
Speaker 2: write anything down, I said, But and so anyway, so
Speaker 2: that was that then it didn't go anywhere, but until
Speaker 2: I became an actor, And that was the big lesson
Speaker 2: for me before I understood that that's what I'd be
Speaker 2: doing with my life, was that the words of a
Speaker 2: writer can be written in stone, and your job is
Speaker 2: to breathe life into it and to them. And so
Speaker 2: that's when I started writing. And I've written a bunch
Speaker 2: of songs that was a very therapeutic for me, maybe
Speaker 2: too therapeutic, and so I didn't.
Speaker 1: The professional songs of emotional songs.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yeah, but yeah, it's something that I'm
Speaker 2: going to do again. Okay, Yes, my mother's instructions.
Speaker 1: Your mother's instruction.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm going to listen to my mother.
Speaker 1: Now, have you not listened to your mother?
Speaker 2: No, I've listened to my mother, But I'm going to
Speaker 2: listen to her.
Speaker 1: Fully, fully listen to her.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, because she's been writing about pretty much everything,
Speaker 2: for example, oh gosh, where to begin? Yeah? Yes, no,
Speaker 2: but I will yes, no, that's that's been I've been
Speaker 2: saying that a lot lately.
Speaker 1: I actually yes, yes, no, no.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, no, no, yeah, but I'm going to sing,
Speaker 2: I'm going to write, I'm going to do a lot
Speaker 2: of things great, and hopefully I get to keep acting
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: Yes, if everyone watches our television show again, if you
Speaker 1: let us, then we'll be allowed to do it again, and.
Speaker 2: Then it'll be better the second time.
Speaker 1: It'll be much better. It's always better the second season.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course we learn bear with us.
Speaker 1: Please, Yeah, it won't have to it's not it's not
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: It's going to be fun for them. No, it's a lovely, lovely,
Speaker 2: lovely show. Yes, it's a it's a murderous hugs.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. Yeah, yeah, a murderous huge yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that people can pack of suspense. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'll stop now.
Speaker 1: Your son THEO was on set with us, Yes he was, Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: Can you tell us a bit about his experience and
Speaker 1: what it was like for you to have him on
Speaker 1: set with you.
Speaker 2: I grew up going to sets here and there. My
Speaker 2: mother spared us from being, you know, set kids. But
Speaker 2: it was quite a mystery to THEO what his mom
Speaker 2: and dad did for a living. He knew that we
Speaker 2: were actors, he knew that his granddad was was a
Speaker 2: famous actor, and but but yeah, he was really taken
Speaker 2: by all the crew members who really invited him to
Speaker 2: try different things. He worked behind the camera and hung
Speaker 2: out with the sound guys and watched his work.
Speaker 1: He graded us, He graded us on our work.
Speaker 2: That's right. Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. His idea
Speaker 2: was that, I said, I was number one on the call.
Speaker 2: She But his idea is to add to the call
Speaker 2: sheet a grade for your work from the previous day,
Speaker 2: and that if you had a failing grade for two
Speaker 2: consecutive days, you were no longer invited to come work.
Speaker 2: Some very strict it was a scorecard. Yeah, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 2: there's something to be said about that. Yes, but but yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know if my son will well be an actor.
Speaker 2: He jokes that he wants to be an agent like
Speaker 2: his uncle, because he likes to make deals, make deals.
Speaker 2: He had a lemonade stand this summer. Yeah, and he
Speaker 2: he made the money from the squeeze lemons that he
Speaker 2: paid for with recycled soda cans. So, I mean, I
Speaker 2: think he's got a few.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's I mean, at eight, he's got some good ideas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's moving along. Indeed, Well, what else shall we talk about?
Speaker 2: Why don't we talk about you?
Speaker 1: Why? Well, why not there's nothing to talk about me about.
Speaker 2: Why do you do this show, this show.
Speaker 1: The one frosted tips.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm doing this show. You mean
Speaker 1: the show?
Speaker 2: Yes, our show, our show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I did it in large part because
Speaker 1: it was shooting near my home, and because I knew
Speaker 1: Tina and Kim, who were producers on the show, and
Speaker 1: I worked with Ian Weir when I was seventeen years old.
Speaker 1: He wrote the first show I ever was a part of.
Speaker 1: So it was a choice I made in part because
Speaker 1: it was full circle, and in part because it was convenient,
Speaker 1: and I happened to really like the character and I
Speaker 1: thought I could do something different with her than I
Speaker 1: had done with other characters. Really happy that I did
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: What's she like your character? Because I do. I love
Speaker 2: an Ador as a participant and as a as a
Speaker 2: future viewer.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, she's a passionate community member. She's
Speaker 1: a librarian, she has visions for her town. She is
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward. She doesn't adhere to convention. She has lived
Speaker 1: her life the way that she wants to live her life,
Speaker 1: very much, not caring about the judgment of others. And
Speaker 1: she has carved a path that is incredibly unique to her,
Speaker 1: and she carries that with her. So when her and
Speaker 1: Carl meet, she brings that. She brings her full life
Speaker 1: experience and her unwillingness to bend too much, which I
Speaker 1: think is fun between them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's it. That's all we're asking about me.
Speaker 2: No, I can keep going.
Speaker 1: No, No, it's fine. We can talk about other things.
Speaker 1: What else shall we talk about? Oh? You and me? Yes,
Speaker 1: both worked on c W shows at the same time. Yes,
Speaker 1: in the studios, right next to each other. You worked
Speaker 1: on Rain, I worked on Beauty and the Beast. Do
Speaker 1: you have any recollections of your working on that show?
Speaker 2: I do. I remember wearing a lot of attempting to
Speaker 2: do anyway, as you can tell by if you're still
Speaker 2: listening to me, I speak a little funny, and they
Speaker 2: wanted me to do a British accent, and the accent
Speaker 2: that came out of me was I don't think it
Speaker 2: was British. I think it belonged in the middle of
Speaker 2: the ocean.
Speaker 1: Well that's mid Atlantic. There you go is technically fine.
Speaker 2: So there you go. I was that's my memory of it.
Speaker 2: But I never met you.
Speaker 1: No, not that we know of. We probably ate in
Speaker 1: the same cafeteria.
Speaker 2: Probably probably.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm going I'm going back to the accent, so
Speaker 1: rossef and I have a joke that his accent is
Speaker 1: from Atlantica, a made up.
Speaker 2: Land, well made up, made up for you. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: it's my It's this very small island in the middle
Speaker 2: of the ocean, the middle of the Atlantic, with a.
Speaker 1: With There were two residents.
Speaker 2: Residents, yes, John Malcovich and myself.
Speaker 1: Okay, can you tell the story?
Speaker 2: Quickly abandoned me when I was six years old. By
Speaker 2: the age of eight, I was a very good swimmer
Speaker 2: and made myself made my way to a cruise ship
Speaker 2: set for New York. And I've been looking for John
Speaker 2: Malcovitch ever since.
Speaker 1: And on that note, thank you Lance for letting us
Speaker 1: I don't know take over your show and talk about
Speaker 1: I don't know lots of interesting things. Yes, and please
Speaker 1: tune in and watch our show September twenty fourth, Murder
Speaker 1: in a Small Town on Fox.
Speaker 2: Please do much love, Hey, thanks for listening.
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