WEBVTT - CHASE-ing Stephen Colletti 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.240 First of all, you don't know me. 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:05.840 All about that high school drama, girl drama girl, all 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.959 about them high school queens. We'll take you for a 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.319 ride and our comic girl sharing for the right teams, 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.479 drama queens ls, my girl girl fashion, but your tough girl. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:17.480 You could sit with us. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:21.640 Girl drama, queens, drama, Queens Drama, Queens drama, Drahna Queens 0:00:21.680 --> 0:00:25.759 drama queens. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.640 Look at this just just like just like Ryan, Ryan Seacrest, 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.040 Madonna or Beyonce. He has he goes by one name 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.519 on Zoom and it is COLLETTI. 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.720 You all have one day. What's up your beautiful faces? 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.560 How are you? Cutie? Bye? Thank you guys. How are you, buddy, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.360 I'm too well, Thank you well, buddy. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:50.960 It's so good to have you. I know we've been 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.240 trying to make this happen for ages, but I'm so 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.360 thrilled to have you on. I will say personally because 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:58.960 I don't this is a question I have for you 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.280 that we'll circle back to. But I'm because I'm curious 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.240 how much of the show you remember because my experience, 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:09.160 I remember so little of the show, and watching you 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:15.679 in it has been a delight. You're so fun and 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:20.640 funny and likable on the show, and such a necessary 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.440 ingredient in the stew that is one tree hill, and 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.440 that I had no idea of. I think, you know, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.760 I had. I had a clue because we got to 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.679 do an occasional trick scene together. But now that I'm 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.920 actually watching it as a viewer, I'm like, oh, geez, Louise, 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.399 and I'm like watching my buddy and I'm watching my 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:43.000 buddy do great, which is just the best feeling. So, yeah, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.360 you're fantastic in the show. 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.120 Man. Oh you are way too kind, way too kind. 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:49.640 It was it was a steep hill to climb with 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.000 all you guys. I mean, watching the show and seeing 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.920 you guys all on it, I was just admiring your guys' work. 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.320 So I appreciate the kind words, but you know, we 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.320 had to quickly catch up. Yeah, I feel like drop 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.480 it into the show in season four. Thankfully Sophia was 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.080 there to guide me along the way and help lift 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.760 me up, and and you know, to be able to 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.919 still be standing there in season nine and be around 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.600 it was a delight and something that I am very 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.760 proud of and have always cherished. You always wanted to 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.600 continue to work on the show and do a little 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.600 bit more and hope to do more, and hope to 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.960 get out from behind the bar eventually once we were 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.960 the bartender there and in those last couple of seasons 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:29.760 we get to have all the fun. Although it was 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.840 kind of like careful what you wish were because it 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:33.520 was it was like from out from behind the bar 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.280 and right into a bed. I feel like all these 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.280 scenes with Chase and Alex are just in the bed, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.160 rolled around. I don't know if I've seen any really 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:43.840 anything else. Thankfully, you get a little bit of a 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.160 breath of fresh air from that with hanging out with Chuck. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.959 But it's it's funny. I feel like watching the first 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.400 couple episodes of season nine, it's at a lot of 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:53.119 action in the bed. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.040 I thought you were going to take it even further 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.760 and say, you went from cool bar to crow bar, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.600 because isn't that what we get teased in the first episode. 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.400 Isn't it a crowbar that you do your dirty work with? 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.880 It? Is it is? It was like I think it 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.160 was a tire iron. Very yeah, very violent, very violent 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:17.040 tool there. But hey, he deserved it, right, That's what 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:18.160 I'm That's what I'm going with. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.120 So, how much of the show do you remember? 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.160 Oh man, there's a lot that bleeds together. I did 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:30.480 find myself skipping around in season eight and consulting some 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:33.160 info online exactly where we were at at the end 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.880 of season eight going into season nine, what happened in 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:41.640 Chase's life there, So you know what it's it's been 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.760 so long now, there's there's a lot that I don't remember. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:46.960 To sit here, I'm not gonna say a lot of 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.120 you guys and think that like I can recite every 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.160 episode and tell you exactly what happened and chases are 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.160 through all the seasons. I would not be able to 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.560 do that. I would fail miserably. But it is a 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.320 joy when you know, you go check it out and 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.800 see the different seasons where he was at, to see 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.920 the journey really and you know, I always feel so 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.400 fortunate I was able to hang around the amount of 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.920 seasons that I did. And yeah, so I was saying earlier, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.640 just play a little bit more and get a little 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:15.840 bit more chew on towards those later seasons and then 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.880 really have some fun arcs in seasons eight and nine. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.160 There So very very proud of that, especially considering where 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.200 we started, Sophia. I mean think about back in season 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.839 four when I jumped in. I was like, oh my gosh, 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.120 I was so green. I was twenty years old, just 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.120 getting started, just hoping that you guys would would accept 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.440 me on your set. But you guys did with open arms, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:36.799 and I'm always great of course. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.320 Oh it was so fun. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.599 And I think, you know, we were just talking about 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.799 this because we just watched the first episode of season 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:49.960 nine last week, and you are so fun to watch. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:51.839 Oh, that's very kind. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.240 And I don't know if it's the sort of like 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.560 senioritis that hits you know, you know, you're almost to 0:04:58.600 --> 0:04:59.280 the finish lines. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.320 You get really and you start reflecting. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.599 And I was thinking about it, you know, watching you 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.760 and Jana and talking to Rob about just how fricking 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.760 enjoyable you guys are. And I was thinking about season 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:19.279 four and the fact that you came in so eager 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:25.160 to learn and hang and you were such a great friend, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.200 such a great addition to the greater friend group immediately, 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:34.680 and I don't know, it's like, it's so cool to 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:39.200 watch you across these five years of the show, the 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.320 way that you grew as an actor, the way that 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:46.560 you could, Like I can see your technical proficiency, you know, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.600 knowing how to work with the camera crew and all 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.719 the stuff that on all of any of our first 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.280 seasons on a TV show we had no idea how 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:57.520 to do, and like, I don't know, I feel I 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.000 almost feel parental about all of us, myself included watching 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.760 us at season nine, I'm like, looking our kiddos, they're 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.000 so great, and I don't know, it's really cool. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.760 Yeah, I mean we do so many seasons and so 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:13.400 many episodes, but I had, you know, the best opportunity 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.640 to learn. You can only learn so much sitting in 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.520 acting classes in LA where the coaches are just trying 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.320 to keep you around for as long as possible, so 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:22.719 they will teach you anything that they think that that 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.720 you'll just absorb. But to really be able to seek 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.560 your teeth into stuff and figure out who you are 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.760 as a performer, you got to be on set and 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.240 you gotta follow your face there and learn things and 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.359 also learn from people that are booking like all you guys, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.640 some very talented folks and working with you in that season, 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.640 and that you know, getting a chance to see Rob's 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.800 work as well and live with Rob and see him, 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.159 whether we're doing auditions together behind the scenes there or 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.880 just seeing him work when he came on the show. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.840 I mean, talk about a breath of fresh air and 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.839 just an incredible light in the room. I mean, Rob, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.000 everything that you brought to the show, and the fact 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.159 that it's interesting. You know, you've got a lot there's 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:01.480 a lot of heavy stuff, and there's drama of course 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.520 in this show, but just who you are, you know 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.080 of off camera, and how funny you are in such delight. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.560 So I had so much fun being able to get 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.280 the best of both worlds at you guys. There is 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.080 you know, on the professional side and on the personal side. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.680 We really had a lot of fun on our little 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.280 one Tree Hill Island out there in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.800 So I'm very very grateful for that, and I definitely 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.400 cherish all those memories. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.480 It was so great. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.680 Wait, you just dropped a little nugget that I want 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.320 to expand on, because this is a question we got 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:30.880 from a lot of the fans knowing you were coming 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:35.360 in today. They all want to understand more about the 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.080 you know, transition between filming reality and then coming descripted. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.840 But there's also so many people that want to know 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.440 if you always wanted to act even before you did 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:47.160 Laguna Beach. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:52.200 So take us back to how this all shaped up 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.040 before you came. 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.760 To join us. Well, you have to go back. There 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.800 was in middle school. I was doing a little bit 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:03.160 of theater, doing some and I enjoyed it, and I 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.680 was honestly too insecured to pursue it. I was I 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.760 was nervous about how my friends would judge me. It 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.840 was supposed to be about sports, you know, athletics, and 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.120 you know, telling my my parents that I would, you know, 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.000 like to go get some head shots taken and maybe 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:18.440 go up to LA and see if I can audition 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.040 was was just not not going to happen. So that 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.200 was that was a personal secret. But always doing I 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.080 wanted to be an entertainment I was, and I thought 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.400 maybe I land on the sports side. I thought maybe 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.360 sports broadcasting something, you know. I grew up watching the 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.040 sports centers and being like, I'd love to be an 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.880 anchor and where they had a little fun with some 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.640 creativity in the way that they distributed highlights. It wasn't 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.560 just like you know, monotone. They they're very creative in it, So, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.160 you know, Laguna was that kind of opportunity to dip 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.160 into the entertainment world. And you know what I loved 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.240 about it, even looking back and having watched the show 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.160 is the way that they shot it. They shot it 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.720 like a drama. Uh and and unlike a lot of 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.360 the scripted shows or unscripted shows you see today where 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.360 they have their confessionals and whatnot, they really wanted to 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.640 kind of add a little mystery to it and and 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.400 keep it long lensed and not have us speak to 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.920 camera ever and so and shooting that being in production, 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.440 the camaraderie of people coming together to make something, creativity 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.480 involved in that, it just really started to suck me. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:19.960 And then, you know, the further I got with it, 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.520 taking acting classes and stuff and getting little gigs here 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.960 and there, it really just caught the bug more and more. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.800 And you know, really going onto your set in season four, 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.280 there was really like, this is this is kind of 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.000 like what I've been dreaming about. This is the kind 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.360 of perfect job. I love being out here. It's just 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.680 so different from where I grew up. You know, everyone's 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.880 focused on the show and we're all coming together to 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.160 make this thing, and there's a lot of fun being had, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.880 you know, outside the show as well. We were all 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.440 such such kids when we got out there that you know, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:51.920 we all wanted to hang out and have fun and 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.720 you know, so it really was this you know, amazing 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.480 journey of being able to kind of see along the 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.240 way like all right, I think this is thing that 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.400 I'm interested in, and let's continue to take these steps 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.280 and let's see how we can handle, you know, taking 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:08.640 that first step onto that set in season four was 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.960 it was a big one, and like, all right, how 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.640 would I handle you know, how would the work that 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.920 I think I know I can do translate? And sure 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.920 there was some trial and there, and there's a lot 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.360 of growing pains and things that I needed to learn, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.040 but I knew that, like, this is something that I'm 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.800 really interested in, So I want to continue to. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.200 You've done Laguna Beach, right, had you done much between 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:43.360 Laguna Beach and One Tree Hill. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.680 So I actually worked on a film with Hillary. We 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:51.000 didn't we didn't work in any scenes together, but we did, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:55.360 you know, meet there on set. It was a little 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.160 film called Normal Adolescent Behavior, and I think they wound 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.680 up selling it as Havoc Too, which the first Hoboy 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.880 Pane Hathaway. I think Sanny, Yeah, yeah, I think whoever 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.280 bought it went up selling it under that name. But 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.840 it was just a cool, little artsy indie film, had 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.400 a great cast, and I had a little role in it, 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.719 and that was like, I now, I'll never forget where 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:16.760 I was when I booked that job, because I'd been 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:18.920 you know, after Laguna, and there was a lot of 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.280 attension that came from that show. It was very uncomfortable 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.599 about it, you know, obviously excited about the opportunities that 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.000 it was presenting me within the industry, but knew that like, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:31.400 all right, this is like this is a silly reality 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.000 show about like teenagers, like being idiots. Like it's this 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.240 is not something that you know, I'm gonna be super 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:38.720 proud of, you know at the end of the day. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.600 So to be able to do work and find myself 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.360 hopefully on a set like your guys, as I knew, 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.360 I had to kind of buckle down and study and 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.160 and try to you know, be selective about opportunities and 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.280 and so I was and said no to any other 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.240 reality shows and was like, let's try to get scripted 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.040 in it. And this movie was the first one and 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.800 we shot it and an incident. I remember Hillary. She 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.640 we were in one of the transfer vans and she 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.079 was talking about this show that she's working on and 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.120 you know what it's like down there in Wilmington, North Carolina. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.160 And I was like, damn, that sounds freaking awesome. And 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.880 I first was familiar with the show, which is the 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:16.320 way that she was talking about it. I was like, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.400 it sounds like a great gig. So when the opportunity 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:21.400 first presented itself to audition for the show, I was 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.079 super excited, like, this would be a treat job. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.200 That's so fun. Did you because you had worked with her? 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:29.560 You got to jog my memory? 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.480 I don't I don't remember the details. Did you ever 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.960 watch the show or did you have to try to 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.280 catch up on the show once you were going to 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:39.120 audition for it. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.080 Yeah. I had seen a little bit of the show, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.400 but I never sat down to watch a full episode 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.720 until I was auditioning for the show. I was actually 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:53.000 working on TRL again, another weird connection that Hillary and I. Yeah, 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.120 we didn't do it together, but we both did TRL. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.360 There was an episode where I believe Chad was there. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.360 I did interview him, but we were just there in 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.440 the studio together. And then that night I went home 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.200 to my hotel and I just flipped on the TV 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:09.800 and the first thing that came on was an episode 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.480 of One Trio Wow, And so I watched that episode. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.360 I was like, oh man, what a cool show. And 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:16.000 again it's just one of those things they kept kind 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:17.960 of following me around. It was like that would be interesting. 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.640 So when I got the audition, I watched what I 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.320 could find. You know, back then, of course, you know, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.000 there's you know, unless you went up to the store 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:26.440 and bought some DVDs and you were't gonna be able 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:26.959 to get it onto me. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:28.280 So gravy. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.720 So I would call my friends who I know watched 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.959 the show, we were fans of the show, and talk 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.720 to them about it. And then I think I got 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.880 my hands on some tape from you know, my age 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.880 was able to get some episodes for me and I 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.679 was watching it. So that's how I kind of got 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.600 first introduced the show. And then once I, you know, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:45.880 I found out that was gonna go on, then it 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.120 was like, all right, buy the DVDs and we got 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.360 to watch everything. Wow. 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.240 What a trip like the Pixie Dust in the air 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.120 of like you and her doing the movie together, you 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.120 and Chad being on TRL at the same time, you get, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.720 you know, finding it on TV. It's like, were you 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.320 at the time that there was obviously something pulling you 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:05.200 in our direction? 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.600 You know. I'm looking back on it and hearing you 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:11.120 say that, I do feel I believe that, and I 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:12.959 think that it's it's one of those things where the 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.440 universe has giving you the signs, and I'm always looking 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.559 tonted for those green lights, you know, and will sometimes 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.200 it might take a little while to get the actual 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.160 green light. There's something that's like cut up this this 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.520 rock that's like someone's throwing a little stone at your window, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.680 or something's hitting you in the head. And I've always said, actually, 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.280 the thing about even doing Good to Beach was one 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.560 of those moments because to my point earlier about doing 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.360 some plays in middle school but wouldn't be caught dead 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.600 telling anybody that I wanted to do acting. I shouldn't 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.440 have ever signed up to do the good at Beach, 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.960 like it was going to be social suicide within my 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:48.800 friend group. And in a way, it was. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.000 The fact that you were like, I don't want two 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.440 hundred kids in my high school to judge me and 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.240 like the forty friends of mine, and then you're like, instead, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.240 I'm going to do a reality show that is going 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.480 to be a worldwide and not. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.600 Like you're right, you know what, what an idiot? But 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.080 I also I was convinced when we were shooting that 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.200 show that it was going to end up in a 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.240 box somewhere. We were not actually going to air on MTV. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.000 There's no way we were going to be interesting. Like 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.320 how naive I was. There was no way there's nothing 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.840 they were going to find interesting about us. So so yeah, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:21.960 but you know, to there, but that was that moment 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.480 where I was at the end of high school, you're 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.680 kind of like, screw it, Like I chose a college 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.240 where I knew no one else for my school was 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:33.160 going to You're ready to really broaden your horizons. And yeah, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.160 it was an e fit moment for me, like let's 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.360 let's do this, and and it was felt like it 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.000 was something that was calling me because I did want 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.600 to work in entertainment, and I also I talked about 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:47.600 maybe sports broadcasting, but you know, watching Carson Daily TRL 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.320 also something that interests me a lot growing up watching 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.760 that show. So so yeah, so it's you know, that 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.760 pulled and then you know again when the audition came. 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:58.680 It's one of those moments where you know when you 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.440 get that audition and as soon as it hits and 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.440 you read a little bit about it, you're like, I 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.000 really really want to get this one. It feels like 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.720 this is a great fit if everything can align, like 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:12.000 I'm on board one. Hopefully that energy is shared on 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.640 the other end. But you know, we get a lot 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.120 of auditions and different things, you know, come across our desks, 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.680 but there are only a few where you get really 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.240 really excited. And as soon as that popped up in 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.920 my email, I was like, this has to be it. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.160 And by the way, that first audition did not I 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.280 did not book it, but I was told right after 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.080 like this this roll is it right for you? But 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.720 there might be something soon after. So I was like, oh, shoot, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.440 that's exciting. We did not book it, but we might 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:38.640 get on at some other points. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.320 So wow, man, how did you feel about the Clean 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:44.400 teen storyline? 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.880 I still hold a little piece of the Clean Teens 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:51.720 with me today. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:56.200 Oh my god, Oh my gosh. It's hard to let 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:01.080 go all these years later of you just listening Steven 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.920 has been wearing a wonderful black button up shirt that 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:05.880 he just unbuttoned like Clark Kent. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.720 To reveal a clean teen shirt a joke. Go to 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:12.639 YouTube to check it out. That I gotta tell you 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.119 we didn't know he was. You made it like thirty 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.000 minutes to do that. Good job. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:19.840 It's, you know, every Thursday, it's my clean teen day. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:25.360 There on Thursday's week, Clean team dude. A funny side story. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:26.760 I don't know if I've ever told you this, but 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.040 before either of us ever did One Tree Hill, I 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.239 remember pulling up to an audition for an indie and 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.840 as I was looking for a parking space, seeing you 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.119 out front like reading lines for it and recognizing you, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.120 and having that moment of like, what's he doing here, 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.639 Like he's already had his turn? Is even look at 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.200 him taking it seriously reaching the reality show. It was 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.399 just so clearly like like like fear and jealousy and security. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.840 But I remember remember just being like, oh, man, like, oh, 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.080 he's probably gonna get it, and then like cut to 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.760 we are on the same show a couple of years later. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.440 But I'll never forget like just seeing you like tucked 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.760 away by a bush, reading your lines and going, damn it, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.640 you've already had your turn. Let someone else go. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:10.160 Man, thanks for saying hi. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.359 I know I was just too insecure back then. So 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.040 when you and so hold on, So you did not 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.520 audition for the role of Chase. No, And I don't know, gosh, 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.600 I don't remember the role. And I don't even I 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.000 don't know how long after you auditioned and didn't quite 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.560 get it did it take for them they Did they 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:29.399 call you and have you auditioned for Chase? Or do 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.080 they just call you and go, this is the other 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:31.879 thing we got for you. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:36.080 They called me and had the auditioned for Chase, and 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.760 you know it was oh, man, I don't And maybe 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.600 it was something early in season four, because I don't 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.760 remember it being that long. It wasn't like a full 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.479 like year and a half or so it was. It 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.160 was maybe they already knew, maybe they knew that Chase 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.159 was coming down the pipeline and they're like, oh, he 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.159