Speaker 1: I am all in again. Oh that's you. I am
Speaker 1: all in again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: This is Easton Allen. You know me from a I
Speaker 2: Smell Pop Culture. This great little spin off show that
Speaker 2: Scott Patterson has graciously allowed me to host. And I
Speaker 2: have such a special guest today. That's right, I'm the host.
Speaker 2: If you're listening to this, I'm the host today and
Speaker 2: I got a guess. It's Scott Patterson. You know him
Speaker 2: is Luke Dan's from Gilmore Girls. Hey Scott, how's it
Speaker 2: going do? He is too stunned to speak.
Speaker 1: To see you. Man.
Speaker 2: We are so pumped for this episode today. We're gonna
Speaker 2: do Q and A with you. These are questions that
Speaker 2: the fans are dying to ask you. Some of them
Speaker 2: are my personal questions. Which one is which It's up
Speaker 2: to you to find out. We are going to get
Speaker 2: to the bottom of what makes Scott tick and ask
Speaker 2: the burning questions here. So let's get started. Let's not
Speaker 2: waste any more time let's get started with a question.
Speaker 1: I don't know what makes me tick. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We're not going to find that out. You know, some
Speaker 2: of the greatest questions the ones you learn about yourself. Scott, Yes,
Speaker 2: what do you think Luke's biggest shining moment is in
Speaker 2: all of Gilmore Girls?
Speaker 1: In all of Gilmore Girls. Yeah, We're start off with
Speaker 1: an easy one. I mean, really, it all harkens back
Speaker 1: to supporting Laura, l I and just being a good,
Speaker 1: solid friend. Big shining moment probably the uh. You know,
Speaker 1: people remember how you make them feel, right, so that's
Speaker 1: how they remember you. And you know, I think building
Speaker 1: her that that skating rink was you know that that
Speaker 1: was a big shining moment, you know, and just all
Speaker 1: the little gestures over the years of support and being
Speaker 1: there without having to be asked, that kind of thing,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: So, I mean, one of the great love stories of television.
Speaker 2: We've said it so many times on this show, but
Speaker 2: but you know we love Luke and Laura La. Now
Speaker 2: I want you to play favorites here. I want you
Speaker 2: to to offend some people and break some hearts. Who
Speaker 2: is your favorite cast member to work with and why?
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, oh god. They were all so good to
Speaker 1: work with. You know, they were all great for different reasons, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Lauren was great to work with because she's
Speaker 1: so good and and and you know, you know, you
Speaker 1: trust that you're and and they're also good, right, you
Speaker 1: know her, Michael Winter's I love my working with Michael Winter.
Speaker 1: Sally Struthers was a hoot. You know, you always had
Speaker 1: a smile in your face when you're working with Sally
Speaker 1: because she keeps you in stitches and she's such a
Speaker 1: great actress. Sean was always fun and great to work
Speaker 1: you know, everybody. I can't think of one person that
Speaker 1: was either difficult or not pleasant to work with. Everybody
Speaker 1: was pretty great. You know.
Speaker 2: I've been lucky enough to see you interview a lot
Speaker 2: of those people you just listed, and you have such
Speaker 2: great chemistry on the show and then like off off camera,
Speaker 2: you guys are such good friends.
Speaker 1: It's so fun to watch. It's like there's real love.
Speaker 2: There was there a scene Ingomore Girls that gave you,
Speaker 2: like trouble to shoot that was particularly difficult that you
Speaker 2: can remember.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, there were probably there were a few of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: trouble difficult shooting I mean difficult for me to get
Speaker 1: at emotionally or just get the scene or.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, or like was there some kind of
Speaker 2: complicated thing like like you know, it was in the
Speaker 2: rain or something like that, or no, no, well there was.
Speaker 1: One day during the there was fires. There were fires
Speaker 1: near the studio. Oh wow, it was I think it
Speaker 1: was like season four, season five, maybe in season six,
Speaker 1: but there was ash raining down on the studio. So
Speaker 1: it was getting We were inside and we were right
Speaker 1: next door shooting at the Red White and what do
Speaker 1: you call it the movie theater? Red white and when
Speaker 1: is it called red and white movie theater? Yes, I
Speaker 1: will confirm that something like that. And we were shooting
Speaker 1: indoors in this sort of like garage thing. But but
Speaker 1: ash was coming in, you know, it was coming into
Speaker 1: the door was coming in, and we had to deal
Speaker 1: with this ash and this gray and it was just
Speaker 1: very odd and we kept having a stop and do
Speaker 1: more takes and it was just we weren't really in
Speaker 1: fear of being evacuated, but just it was very pomp peish. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a little strange, eerie. I love this
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. When Luke is is writing on his
Speaker 2: order pad at the diner. What were you actually writing
Speaker 2: on there?
Speaker 1: Scribbly things? I just you know, I tried once every
Speaker 1: once in a while, i'd write pancakes. Really, I try
Speaker 1: to write pancakes and I go back and look at
Speaker 1: it look like a four year old road. Usually it's
Speaker 1: just sort of scribbly things, you know, like I'm acting
Speaker 1: like I'm writing instead of actually writing. And you just
Speaker 1: need to write, but you don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: because I have limited brain power. I really needed to
Speaker 1: focus on the lines what I was writing. Now it's
Speaker 1: usually just sort of like doodling stuff.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is one of my my personal questions. I'm
Speaker 2: just throwing this in there. I've always wondered when an
Speaker 2: actor is like has a has a book or a
Speaker 2: like something that could conceal a script. Do you ever
Speaker 2: do that to like just kind of help, Like, is
Speaker 2: there ever a time where like someone's holding a menu
Speaker 2: but like the script is in there just so they
Speaker 2: can like jog their memory of the lions.
Speaker 1: Does that ever happen you mean while we're shooting? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like while you're shooting. Oh no, I don't. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: seen that before, but not on Gilmore, and you would
Speaker 1: you would think you would see it on Gilmore because
Speaker 1: it was so challenging, right, So No, I never saw
Speaker 1: it on Gilmore. Uh huh.
Speaker 2: I watched a taping once of a star I shall
Speaker 2: not name, but he had to every two seconds had
Speaker 2: to ask for his line, and I was like, oh man,
Speaker 2: this is you had to have that memorized where.
Speaker 1: That is just like that, it's not possible to work
Speaker 1: with people like that. Yeah, it's just you can't. You've
Speaker 1: got to know your stuff, right And uh, I mean
Speaker 1: especially Gilmore. Oh yeah, you know, if it's not a
Speaker 1: dialogue heavy show, like I'm working on a show now
Speaker 1: where it's not dialogue heavy, it's like pure mode. It's
Speaker 1: like everything is just heavy emotion all the time, every scene.
Speaker 1: So it's really not about the lines. Yeah, it's really
Speaker 1: what you're putting underneath the lines. So you know, I
Speaker 1: learned my I learned my stuff in rehearsal because I
Speaker 1: want it to be very fresh and have the quality
Speaker 1: of the first time that I've ever said these things.
Speaker 1: And that was the challenge of that. It's like getting
Speaker 1: the emotion a and then you know doing the lines
Speaker 1: as really like it's the first time you've done them.
Speaker 1: So you couldn't do that on Gilmour, right, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not possible, But on this other show, yeah, it is possible.
Speaker 1: And then like like in terms of.
Speaker 2: Interrupting the filming process, was there anyone Was there any
Speaker 2: other cast member who would like break the most or
Speaker 2: laugh the most during a scene?
Speaker 1: No? You know, if we would get late at night,
Speaker 1: you were in our twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen hour and
Speaker 1: Lauren would break because she had to, she had to
Speaker 1: release the tension and laugh, and we would get all
Speaker 1: kind of silly and loopy, like it was what you
Speaker 1: call church laughter and getting punchy. Yeah, and once it starts,
Speaker 1: you can't stop it. And most directors were like, you know,
Speaker 1: smart enough to just sort of let it go. And
Speaker 1: I think we had one director that got very upset
Speaker 1: with us. We just and it made it even funnier, right,
Speaker 1: We just started laughing at him for the feudal attempts
Speaker 1: to get us to stop laughing, but we needed, you know,
Speaker 1: you need to just sort of let it out when
Speaker 1: something funny happens. You've kind of earned that laugh, you know,
Speaker 1: absolutely right?
Speaker 2: How many of the luke hats did wardrobe have Like
Speaker 2: how many of those were there?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean you have to figure there
Speaker 1: must have been a couple of backups, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I have the original that belongs in the Smithsonian.
Speaker 1: It's just a house now. It is in my house. Well,
Speaker 1: it's in storage. Put it that way, along with many
Speaker 1: other items. So so so was the same hat every time?
Speaker 1: Or I believe it was? Yeah, wow, yeah, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: There's like so much like love in that ball cap,
Speaker 2: Like it's so it's a magic item, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all my hair's in there. I guess it's gone now. Scott.
Speaker 2: You you've had such a such an interesting career, and
Speaker 2: we've talked before about I mean, I love your the
Speaker 2: Saw movies and uh a little big League.
Speaker 1: I love so many roles you've had.
Speaker 2: Is there a dream like role or type of performance
Speaker 2: you've always wanted to have and you haven't yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've always wanted to play you know, like a
Speaker 1: really like scary bad guy, a villain. Interesting. Yeah I
Speaker 1: can a film, Yeah, and just see if I can
Speaker 1: pull that off, because those are fun roles. Those are
Speaker 1: really really fun roles and not a lot of dialogue,
Speaker 1: just just a lot of sort of looking and reacting.
Speaker 2: I can see it in my mind, like like you'd
Speaker 2: be so good that you're this lovable guy. But but
Speaker 2: I know that like you could turn that on and
Speaker 2: become a terrifying person.
Speaker 1: I think it would be fun. Those are the funnest roles.
Speaker 1: And those are the roles that I I you know,
Speaker 1: like a Gary Oldman role in the professional right, something
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, how much fun did that guy happen?
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like, oh yeah, yeah, those those
Speaker 1: roles are fun. All right.
Speaker 2: Here's a question about Luke and Loralai. What do you
Speaker 2: think Luke loves the most about Laura Lei?
Speaker 1: Her spirit? You know, her her her sunny, optimistic, sarcastic, witty,
Speaker 1: brilliant self. You know, there's so much going on with
Speaker 1: her at any given moment that you know, it's hard
Speaker 1: not to love her. I mean it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: so easy to fall in love with her, and you know,
Speaker 1: whatever is coming out of her mouth at any given moment,
Speaker 1: it just makes her even more and more beautiful. You know,
Speaker 1: whether she's you know, throwing down with Emily or loving
Speaker 1: her daughter, or you know, she's just she's She's all
Speaker 1: the colors of the rainbow all at once, you know,
Speaker 1: so pretty spectacular character.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But now I need to know does Lauren love
Speaker 2: coffee as much as Laura?
Speaker 1: I does? I believe she does? Yeah, yeah, yeah, there
Speaker 1: were a lot of coffee orders coming in. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: bet life iman date. Sorry, a lot of coffee orders.
Speaker 2: Scott, this is so cool. I love doing this. I
Speaker 2: love learning more about you, and we have so much
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Speaker 2: voice and Scott Patterson's here too. We're gonna jump into
Speaker 2: some more questions. How did it feel for you and
Speaker 2: Lauren to kiss after all that anticipation in waiting?
Speaker 1: What was that moment? Like? It was It was really great.
Speaker 1: It was really just it was everything that I thought
Speaker 1: it would be, you know, and like I've said before,
Speaker 1: you know, we were both very nervous. We wanted to
Speaker 1: get it right and get the scene right. Building up
Speaker 1: to it, you know, that was the nerve wracking part.
Speaker 1: It's like, let's really set this up without guilding the
Speaker 1: lily too much, and but it was it was pretty
Speaker 1: obvious what it was going to be. And I think
Speaker 1: that the best part about it was the fact that
Speaker 1: it broke It broke off and then she repeats the
Speaker 1: line and then comes in for me. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was just great. And then Kirk runs through you just
Speaker 1: is there a better writing? There? Just isn't. No, the
Speaker 1: last thing you expect, right, yes, exactly right. The stuff
Speaker 1: of dreams are made of. It was a wonderful day.
Speaker 2: When did you know that Loral and Luke were finally
Speaker 2: going to like get together?
Speaker 1: I knew the moment I read the pilot script before
Speaker 1: my first audition.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, all right, so it is it was always
Speaker 2: there's always going to happen.
Speaker 1: I love that as you called me and said did
Speaker 1: you read the script? And I said yeah. She goes,
Speaker 1: you know what this means? I said, yeah, I know
Speaker 1: what it means. She says it don't blow it because
Speaker 1: you're the love interest, and I said, yeah it looks
Speaker 1: that way. You know.
Speaker 2: Now, looking back on Gilmore as a whole, is there
Speaker 2: anything you would change about Luke's character, like how he
Speaker 2: was developed?
Speaker 1: Is anything you do differently. No, No, I think he
Speaker 1: has the I think he has the proper amount of development,
Speaker 1: you know, I think less is more right. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got enough nuggets from his life too, you know, to
Speaker 1: to inform an audience but also retain his mystery, which
Speaker 1: I think is a really powerful thing and a character
Speaker 1: you could do that with. Because it just sort of,
Speaker 1: you know, sits well with me. Now, there's really nothing.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I got very lucky to be able to inhabit that
Speaker 1: role and contribute what I contributed. I just you know,
Speaker 1: it's twenty five years later and this thing is still growing.
Speaker 1: I knew it would be a successful show. I just
Speaker 1: you can never imagine that it's going to turn into
Speaker 1: something like this, you know. So it just I just
Speaker 1: I'd never I've never been lucky in my life. And
Speaker 1: then I realized with this show boy, you got lucky.
Speaker 1: I really got lucky. You know. It's like that, you know,
Speaker 1: when preparedness meets opportunity that is, yes, exactly exactly, And man,
Speaker 1: I you know, I was definitely prepared. And I've been
Speaker 1: auditioning really well for a couple of years. You know,
Speaker 1: I finally learned how to be a good auditioner because
Speaker 1: it's a skill set, it's a different it's kind of
Speaker 1: different from acting. Really. Yeah, it's more psychology than anything.
Speaker 1: And I got very good at that and it really
Speaker 1: helped me in that audition, you know, because they really
Speaker 1: thought I didn't care that and I knew I had
Speaker 1: to flip the psychology in the room in order to
Speaker 1: get an offer on something right because it was working.
Speaker 1: I was I was almost getting every offer every audition
Speaker 1: that I was going into because I acted like I
Speaker 1: didn't care. And I thought, Oh, this this acting like
Speaker 1: you don't care thing, it's working, So let's found the key.
Speaker 1: Let's keep doing it. You know.
Speaker 2: I just had the pleasure of interviewing Robin Lively on
Speaker 2: on this show and we were talking about auditioning, and
Speaker 2: she was saying, like, it never gets she was saying
Speaker 2: she never felt comfortable auditioning. It's it's such an awkward
Speaker 2: part of the process but necessary. And I was wondering
Speaker 2: if you agree with that, like, like, did you was
Speaker 2: there a point where you ever enjoyed the thrill of
Speaker 2: it orthing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, if you have a real intention
Speaker 1: of going in and taking over the room, that can
Speaker 1: be fun. Sometimes you're thwarted from doing that because it's
Speaker 1: just too heavy a vibe in there. And like I
Speaker 1: remember going in and meeting, God, who's the guy that
Speaker 1: directed Clear and Present Danger, John McTiernan or big A list,
Speaker 1: big movie director, right, Yeah, And I went in for
Speaker 1: a role a Philip Noise, Philip Noise. Sorry, yes, I
Speaker 1: went in and I read for Philip Noise and this
Speaker 1: big time casting director and Philip Noise and big time
Speaker 1: studio executives. And you go in thinking, man, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take over the room, just like I always do. And
Speaker 1: you get in there and you're like, no, you're not
Speaker 1: taking over. There's a lot of power in that room.
Speaker 1: So but I did well, you know, I was proud
Speaker 1: of myself and didn't get the roll. But Feedbuck was
Speaker 1: very good, very strong, so you know, but no, you
Speaker 1: really do need to just go in and take the room, right,
Speaker 1: You just need to. You need to create the space
Speaker 1: to do your work. And that's what it's about. It's
Speaker 1: really you know, I forget who was talking about this,
Speaker 1: but it's one of the best descriptions I've heard of
Speaker 1: going into a room. It's like, look at it like
Speaker 1: it's your first day of work. On set on the job.
Speaker 1: You've already gotten the job. Now it's day one and
Speaker 1: you're going in and it's a work session, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're walking into a rehearsal process. So how are you
Speaker 1: going to approach that because that's the person that they're
Speaker 1: going to coexist with for three months or seven years
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Right, Yeah, how does this guy
Speaker 1: approach his work? So that's kind of how I have
Speaker 1: to look at That's great, that's great advice.
Speaker 2: Anyone out there listening wants to get into the form
Speaker 2: of acting, take a lesson from Scott Patterson here. I
Speaker 2: love watching like videos of people auditioning because I met
Speaker 2: it's just got to be so weird to like, you're
Speaker 2: putting all this emotion and this preparation into this performance,
Speaker 2: but then there's like a cast, you know, just like
Speaker 2: a women wearing like bifocals, just dryly reading the other character,
Speaker 2: like the other person in the scene, and it's got
Speaker 2: to be so I don't know, I just it's such
Speaker 2: a unique challenge. I think for as someone who's never
Speaker 2: acted or attempted or anything, it just seems so difficult.
Speaker 2: So I'm always so impressed that actors can just do
Speaker 2: this over and over again.
Speaker 1: Well, cancer directors pretty much know the scene. They know
Speaker 1: the beats of the scene, so they won't you know,
Speaker 1: and they don't really read with you. They have somebody
Speaker 1: else do it. And a lot of times it's a
Speaker 1: good actor reading with you and they know the beats
Speaker 1: and they know the scenes. Especially if you're going on tape.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get tripped up because they don't know the
Speaker 1: scene very well and it's not a very good actor
Speaker 1: your opposite, and really if you act over them, it's
Speaker 1: going to be awkward. It won't feel organic. So you're
Speaker 1: really just sort of responding about what is being given
Speaker 1: to you in that moment. And I think that's really
Speaker 1: the trick, right is you can't be so if you're
Speaker 1: so wedded to one of your choices, your your choice,
Speaker 1: and you you go in there and you try to
Speaker 1: execute those choices and get very result oriented instead of
Speaker 1: allowing a process to happen that's organic and you know, changeable,
Speaker 1: then you're going to be in trouble. So I think
Speaker 1: it's really just taking in any given moment what you're
Speaker 1: being given and just sort of giving it back. It's
Speaker 1: so fascinating. I love this kind of stuff when when
Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls ended.
Speaker 2: Before you know, before you did the movie, you know,
Speaker 2: the Netflix movies. Uh, what did you what was going
Speaker 2: through your head? Like, did you think it was going
Speaker 2: to come back in some way?
Speaker 1: Like? What was on your mind at that moment? Well,
Speaker 1: I was. I was on set in Toronto of doing
Speaker 1: a movie and my manager called me and told me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't altogether surprised. Yeah, I had heard some grumblings
Speaker 1: from other sources that negotiations weren't going well with certain parties.
Speaker 1: So I thought, all right, I guess this is this
Speaker 1: is done. Maybe I don't know, prepare yourself, So I
Speaker 1: was kind of preparing myself anyway. Yeah, I always thought
Speaker 1: it had a huge life left without Amy and Dan,
Speaker 1: though that's a that's tough sledting. I thought David Rosenthal
Speaker 1: did a really great job and his team did a
Speaker 1: really great job on season seven. I think some episodes
Speaker 1: far exceeded my expectations and were real, real quality. Some
Speaker 1: of my favorite episodes in the whole seven seasons. Other's
Speaker 1: not so much, you know, but it's hard, you know,
Speaker 1: you take Amy and Dan with those original voices in
Speaker 1: their heads that they own and that they hear and
Speaker 1: they you have to admit they both have a unique
Speaker 1: ability to draw characters and very distinct into visual characters.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of writers, right, they'll have ten characters,
Speaker 1: they'll sound the same. There's nothing terribly distinctive about them.
Speaker 1: You can't say that about Gilmore Girls. I mean even
Speaker 1: down to the uh, you know, recurring players or day players.
Speaker 1: These are unique individuals. These are unique voices coming in
Speaker 1: the show. So I can't duplicate that, you know, it's
Speaker 1: hard to do. So when they left, I thought, well,
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna have to write a movie, or
Speaker 1: they're going to have to write, you know, a mini
Speaker 1: series or something and bring it back. But I didn't
Speaker 1: really think about it that much. But you know, you're
Speaker 1: always hopeful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you do you think if they did
Speaker 2: a Gilmore Girl's prequel, like before, you know, going back
Speaker 2: to the before the show started, is that something you
Speaker 2: would want to see or be part of?
Speaker 1: Do you think that would be exciting? Man? Gosh, how
Speaker 1: would they do that? Right? Wow? What do you start it?
Speaker 1: Where would you start it to make it compelling? How
Speaker 1: could you possibly do that? What would you do it? Is?
Speaker 1: I know, how would you do it, you'd have to
Speaker 1: start it so far back. I mean, who could be
Speaker 1: in it from the original cast? All right?
Speaker 2: Or do we do like like they do on a
Speaker 2: yellow Stowd and stars hallow origins and go back to
Speaker 2: like the seventeen.
Speaker 1: Right eighteen twenty three? Yeah, I'll play. I'll play Luke's
Speaker 1: great great great great grandfa. Yeah. New We're getting somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I'd love to star in the prequels as Luke Dane's dad.
Speaker 1: I like this idea. Yeah, have a seventeen year old
Speaker 1: Luke or something, you know, or sixteen year old Look,
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Here's here's another question from a fan. How did you
Speaker 2: record like the phone conversation scene. It's like, like was
Speaker 2: it did you film those like separately or was it
Speaker 2: done at the same time?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, always, always separately. Yeah, yeah, it was always
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. You know, you've got that,
Speaker 1: You've got that Laurel I phone call. Oh okay, let's just
Speaker 1: knock that out and then somebody would read her lines
Speaker 1: and you know, do the phone call. Scott.
Speaker 2: I'm having the time of my life here. We have
Speaker 2: so many more questions. I just have to ask you
Speaker 2: a few more things. But first we got to take
Speaker 2: a break, man, We got to take a breather. We'll
Speaker 2: be right back, all right, everybody. Those are great commercials, huh.
Speaker 2: I love those commercials so much. But you know what
Speaker 2: I love more talking to Scott Patterson. People want to
Speaker 2: know what's your theory on what's on the third and
Speaker 2: fourth floor of Luke's Diner, because the exterior of the
Speaker 2: building has four stories.
Speaker 1: You know, I was not aware that there was a theory,
Speaker 1: and I was not aware that there's a third and
Speaker 1: fourth floor. That just didn't never occurred to me. But
Speaker 1: now that you mention it, I just don't know what.
Speaker 1: I mean, what could be up there? I just probably
Speaker 1: you know what I bets up there. It's probably a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff he got from his parents in the
Speaker 1: will and he stores it up there. Old furniture, old heirlooms,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing that sounds about right, looks yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I think he's very sentimental underneath it all,
Speaker 1: and he hangs on to things and that's where he
Speaker 1: keeps it.
Speaker 2: So, when you were filming the show, how did the
Speaker 2: scripts come to you? Like, did you just get like
Speaker 2: the Luke parts or did you get the whole episode?
Speaker 1: Oh no, you get the whole. You get the script.
Speaker 1: A messenger drops it off at your house. You know.
Speaker 1: I go out to my mailbox. I had a gated
Speaker 1: kind of compound, and I go out and there be
Speaker 1: a script. I actually shove it under the fence, and
Speaker 1: I didn't want to leave it out in case somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, the mailman, stole it, right, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: because you know how mail men are. You know, they're
Speaker 1: famous for leaking great scripts. Now they just shove it
Speaker 1: under the fence or throw it over the fence.
Speaker 2: In it. So would you read the whole you would
Speaker 2: you read the whole thing? Or would you just read
Speaker 2: Oh no, of course you No, you have to read
Speaker 2: the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Sure, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I could see a version where people are just like,
Speaker 2: what's the part that I need to know?
Speaker 1: Not important? Not important? My lines? Not not important? Not
Speaker 1: my lines? Yeah maybe there are no we you know,
Speaker 1: and we'd have table reads too, every yeah, right, So
Speaker 1: we'd sit down and we'd read it as a as
Speaker 1: a group.
Speaker 2: What happened often where like it would be late at
Speaker 2: night and there'd be a revision and they have to
Speaker 2: send like a p a.
Speaker 1: Drop off at midnight or something. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: think you know, the very first week we were shooting
Speaker 1: at War Brothers because we were filming the pilot in Toronto,
Speaker 1: Laura and I were sitting to make a chair of
Speaker 1: six a m. We had a six thirty set call
Speaker 1: and the PA came in with the ten page script,
Speaker 1: ten page sorry, ten page scene totally rewritten. WHOA. We
Speaker 1: were like whoa, And we had, you know, maybe twenty
Speaker 1: minutes to nail it, and we did. And we so
Speaker 1: we proved to ourselves in that moment like, Okay, we
Speaker 1: can handle this, right, Yeah, can handle it. Maybe she
Speaker 1: already knew she could. I didn't know if I could,
Speaker 1: But you know, it's amazing what you can do on
Speaker 1: adrenaline and effort and belief. And if you have somebody
Speaker 1: like Lauren right and uh, you know you have a great,
Speaker 1: great tennis partner there, she's gonna she's always going to
Speaker 1: hit the ball over the net and challenge you with it.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's kind of easier in that regard.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I imagine a lot of this work got worked
Speaker 2: out during the table read. But like, was there ever
Speaker 2: a time where you're filming the scene, like you're on set,
Speaker 2: you're in ward, you're filming the scene, and then the
Speaker 2: you know, the right. I don't know if the writers
Speaker 2: were ever there, but like, are people like making changes
Speaker 2: on the fly, like after seeing it kind of happen
Speaker 2: in real time?
Speaker 1: Very rarely, it would happen little tweaks here and there
Speaker 1: if Amy was directing an episode or Dan was directing
Speaker 1: an episode, or Amy or Dan happened to be there
Speaker 1: because they were in the writer's room so often. It
Speaker 1: was for so long, and they come out, light up
Speaker 1: the set and we'd be very happy to see them.
Speaker 1: And yeah, every once in a while there'd be a tweak,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing major that they didn't the writing really
Speaker 1: didn't need it, you know, they were very uh man
Speaker 1: were they on it?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: It was very rhythmic and very musical and it was
Speaker 1: just wonderful stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're so lucky to exist in a universe
Speaker 2: with kilmrcirls. I think so, Yeah, I think so is
Speaker 2: there a cast member that you wish you had more
Speaker 2: scenes with?
Speaker 1: Sally? I didn't get to work with her very much.
Speaker 1: It seemed like once every other year we had a
Speaker 1: brief scene, you know, and I would just have so
Speaker 1: much fun with her. She was such a hoot. Man,
Speaker 1: what a what a fun, lively, energetic, full of stories
Speaker 1: and humor and love. I mean, she was just loving everybody.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: She she was equal opportunity, optimist. Man, she was just something.
Speaker 1: She's on set, she still is. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: she's she's with she she does a lot of theater.
Speaker 2: I saw her on stage during Yeah, she did a
Speaker 2: play of Young Frankenstein a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: I went and saw it. It was She's so and I
Speaker 2: was such a big goal in the family fancast. I
Speaker 2: was like, she's just the best. She's so cool she is.
Speaker 2: Did you have a favorite job that Kirk one of
Speaker 2: Kirk's jobs? Did you have a favorite of those?
Speaker 1: Well? His his movie directors was just killed me. His
Speaker 1: movies were so filmed by Kirks Kirk. They're so great.
Speaker 1: I mean, can you this is the greatness of Gilmour
Speaker 1: Girls is to have a character like that and doing
Speaker 1: that and those weirdo films those great you know, they
Speaker 1: all look like n y U student films that I
Speaker 1: used to do. I've been in those films. They're so correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's the and the and the uber driver.
Speaker 1: I remember he was, was he driving them? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: funny the hot dogs so Jesus.
Speaker 2: And the films set up for me too, they're so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you well when you filmed an episode, like like
Speaker 2: an average episode. I know they're all different, but like
Speaker 2: an average Gilmore Girls episode? How long did that take
Speaker 2: to film? Like from start to finish?
Speaker 1: Eight days, eight days? Yeah? Oh my god. Each each
Speaker 1: episode was eight days, eight weekdays. So it would be
Speaker 1: you know, Monday through Friday and then Monday through Wednesday. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm curious the production schedule. Was the whole season
Speaker 2: like wrapped before it started airing or was it like
Speaker 2: airing while you were filming the like second half of
Speaker 2: it or how did that work?
Speaker 1: Well, we would have summers off, right, so it was
Speaker 1: like high school? And when did it? Yeah? And it
Speaker 1: would it usually it would usually drop in September, right
Speaker 1: the first episode. It would it was a fall show, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it would go for twenty three weeks, twenty two
Speaker 1: weeks or twenty four weeks in the fall. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: so we were working in the fall. Yeah, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we we we would start up, and god, why we
Speaker 1: start up? We had Christmas break and then we could
Speaker 1: be back to work and then we work for you know, summer,
Speaker 1: summer would come, we'd be off, we'd be Yeah. I'm
Speaker 1: curious because, like you know, I always wonder, like it
Speaker 1: starts to go to sleep for a month exactly, hybernate. Uh,
Speaker 1: it starts to air and you're getting like you're seeing
Speaker 1: reaction from from fans at that point, and it's got it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the Palladino's how they'd react to that,
Speaker 2: but like you know, you'd at least I feel like
Speaker 2: there'd be temptation to like make changes or adjustments based
Speaker 2: on how it was airing. By that point, so many
Speaker 2: of them were in the cans. It was going to
Speaker 2: be X amount of weeks or months before it actually,
Speaker 2: you know, before the changes took effect.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I always wondered how that worked. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're getting communicates from Warner Brothers about character popularity,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that Amy and Dan really cared
Speaker 1: about any of that. I think they just wrote what
Speaker 1: they wrote, right. I think I think they organically if
Speaker 1: they want to write for a character, if they enjoy
Speaker 1: writing for a character, if they want to create a
Speaker 1: new character because they think it would be funny and
Speaker 1: help the storytelling, they do it. You know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't really see them being dictated to by charts
Speaker 1: and graphs and polls and things like that.
Speaker 2: You know, they have such a clear vision and that
Speaker 2: it's so evident in the show coming back after summer
Speaker 2: to start up again.
Speaker 1: What was what was that like? Was that did it
Speaker 1: feel like school?
Speaker 2: Like? Was it like, oh, hey, I just been your break?
Speaker 2: Like I'm always curious how that was what the experience
Speaker 2: is like?
Speaker 1: No, No, it's it's not like school at all. It's
Speaker 1: like recess. It's like going to school and then just
Speaker 1: going to recess to play. No, I mean we did
Speaker 1: a lot of work. We did some hard work, right,
Speaker 1: it was Look, acting isn't meant to do that often. Okay,
Speaker 1: they just know that to keep it real on TV
Speaker 1: is very very difficult task because you've got nine months
Speaker 1: and you've got these very long days, and it can
Speaker 1: it can break you. It really can. It's like any
Speaker 1: other job. If if you're overworked, it can break you.
Speaker 1: It can really have an effect. But we were all,
Speaker 1: you know, back then, young and strong, and you know
Speaker 1: it could kind of deal with it. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it takes over your life. You don't really have a life.
Speaker 1: You just sort of do the show and then get
Speaker 1: your rest and hope to eat well and hit the
Speaker 1: gym once in a while, and you know, but it's
Speaker 1: it can get it can get tiresome, you know. Sure,
Speaker 1: But you know the thing that always made me get
Speaker 1: out of bed in the morning and look forward to
Speaker 1: it was I get to help tell this story today
Speaker 1: and I get to do it with these people, and
Speaker 1: it's going to be fun. And who cares if you're
Speaker 1: a little tired. Everybody's a little tired, right, Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean I could be tired, you know, doing a job
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do, right, which is a lot
Speaker 1: of people's every day. So I'm doing something I really
Speaker 1: love doing, and I know everybody else in the cast
Speaker 1: was really happy and really grateful to be there. And
Speaker 1: we just love creating scenes. So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: we do. It's a weird thing to do with your day,
Speaker 1: but it's you know, it's very communal. It's you're doing
Speaker 1: with other people. Everybody has the same goal is to
Speaker 1: make as the great ast scene as they possibly can make,
Speaker 1: and that moment so kind of noble, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and nobility there.
Speaker 2: We're so grateful for you and everyone else sharing this
Speaker 2: talent with with the world and bringing these characters to life.
Speaker 2: And I want to thank you Scott for taking time
Speaker 2: to day and answering these questions. We have so many
Speaker 2: more that maybe we'll get to another time, but uh,
Speaker 2: this is just the best. I love having these moments
Speaker 2: with you and you get to just dive deep and
Speaker 2: learn more about about Scott Patterson, the actor, the man,
Speaker 2: the legend.
Speaker 1: So thank you for doing this. You are too kind Easton.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I'm gonna talk to Amy. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get a raise, all right, all Amy, not Amy sharp
Speaker 1: pat But yeah, let's do it again. It was fun,
Speaker 1: all right, Thanks so much? All right, take care, everybody
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