Speaker 1: I am all in again.
Speaker 2: Let's hi Am all in again with Scott Patterson and
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Speaker 1: Hi everybody today, I'm joined by the incredible Biff Jaeger
Speaker 1: known as Tom on Gilmore Girls to recap season two
Speaker 1: episode one, Sadie Sadie. Tom first appears in season two
Speaker 1: episode two, Hammers and Veils as a construction worker on
Speaker 1: the site that Rory is building homes for extracurricular activities
Speaker 1: is to get into Harvard. How you doing, Beff? Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us?
Speaker 3: Going pretty good? How are you good?
Speaker 1: Good? Good, Sadie. Sadie continues right where the season one
Speaker 1: finale left off, and Laurel lies accepting Max Medina's marriage proposals.
Speaker 1: Have you watched this episode before or is this your
Speaker 1: first episode? Beff?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched it before you, did you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: A little bit?
Speaker 1: All right, a lot? So this aired October nine, two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. Man, that's a long time ago. It's
Speaker 1: hard to even say that. Rory helps Laurel. I way
Speaker 1: Max's proposal with pros pro and contest, and they decorated
Speaker 1: stars Hollow with all the leftover daisies that he said.
Speaker 1: He said A thousand some people on my team say
Speaker 1: it's way more than a thousand, but I'm not counting it. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Laine is upset about being sent to Korea for the
Speaker 1: summer in a very very large suitcase that's actually larger
Speaker 1: than her. Directed by the one and only Amy Sherman
Speaker 1: Palladino and written by her twin sister, Amy Sherman Palladino.
Speaker 1: There has to be two of them. How can one
Speaker 1: person do all of this? Laurel I's engagement? Here we go.
Speaker 1: What'd you think of this romantic gesture? Biff was a
Speaker 1: little over the top of a thousand daisies.
Speaker 3: A thousand daisies. I don't think it could have been
Speaker 3: maybe more.
Speaker 1: It was quite a scene, wasn't it. It was quite a visual.
Speaker 1: I must say it was a very very powerful visual.
Speaker 1: Now she's got to come to a decision, and I
Speaker 1: kind of get the feeling her reaction to all those
Speaker 1: daisies was overwhelming. But I saw a glint of I
Speaker 1: don't know that she wasn't so sure, you know of
Speaker 1: anything right right exactly exactly, but in her body language,
Speaker 1: I kind of got that, oh boy, you know this
Speaker 1: is a little too much. Maybe so she's hesitant about
Speaker 1: her own decision but also sharing that, but also about
Speaker 1: sharing the news with with Luke. And then Luke asked
Speaker 1: us a series of questions about her future that really
Speaker 1: get Laura like thinking. And then interesting part about that
Speaker 1: scene and the reason I think think he was so
Speaker 1: cool about it, you know, absorbing that news was. I
Speaker 1: think he just had that conversation, same conversation that broke
Speaker 1: up his own relationship with Rachel. I think maybe they
Speaker 1: got into a back and forth about you know, all
Speaker 1: of the questions, you know, where are we going to live,
Speaker 1: you know, what's it going to look like, what you know,
Speaker 1: how's it going to affect your photography career, You're going
Speaker 1: to travel? You know, all this stuff, and then they
Speaker 1: maybe just realized that heck, he is ain't gonna work out.
Speaker 1: So I think because of that experience, he was cool
Speaker 1: under fire here. I just you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And and maybe it's the one time that we're seeing
Speaker 1: Luke kind of fight for his territory, you know, like
Speaker 1: like get Max off, like get him out of there,
Speaker 1: you know somehow, And this is how he was doing it,
Speaker 1: because he doesn't really seem like that type of guy.
Speaker 3: But maybe well he's backing into it though, right, you
Speaker 3: know that's smart right right?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean what a what a what a
Speaker 1: smart way to.
Speaker 3: Doesn't want to show his feelings. He was going to
Speaker 3: back into it.
Speaker 1: To sabotage her relationship with Max. I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: this guy man, that's pretty sharp. Anyway, Eventually, Lorelei, you know,
Speaker 1: frantically seeds planted go look uh frantically calls Max about
Speaker 1: what their next steps should be. But she still says yes, yes,
Speaker 1: but she still says yes, And this is like, you know,
Speaker 1: she says yes now, but Luke I don't know. He's waiting.
Speaker 1: He's waiting for the blow up, all right. So later
Speaker 1: Loralai shares news of her engagement with Suki, which makes
Speaker 1: her very emotional. She's proud of the woman she has
Speaker 1: become lorel like that is, and the life she's lived.
Speaker 1: And then and Max calls Rory uh to ask about
Speaker 1: the rings, which I thought was a pretty pretty fun
Speaker 1: That was pretty funny. And this is why we love
Speaker 1: laurl I because she's just so much fun to watch.
Speaker 1: She takes the phone and she's playful, she's you know,
Speaker 1: makes jokes about everything. However, she is she does have
Speaker 1: some doubt. You know, she got that creeping down about
Speaker 1: getting getting married.
Speaker 3: Don't you think Luke pushed her into saying yes with
Speaker 3: his reaction?
Speaker 1: I do, okay, I think, you know, I think Luke
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing here, like force a quick yes
Speaker 1: and then get her to go like ah, yeah, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: I never saw him that way, but in this scene
Speaker 1: I thought maybe there's a part of him that is
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to use the word manipulative,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what it is. But yeah, somewhat
Speaker 1: all's fair in love war, right, I mean exactly. It's
Speaker 1: like Max is a worthy adversary. He sees that he's
Speaker 1: got up his game, and I think he did all right,
Speaker 1: So you know, this is an interesting insight in here.
Speaker 1: It's an impulsive reaction her. Yes. It's maybe the thing
Speaker 1: that Luke was trying to get her to do is
Speaker 1: to be impulsive rather than you know, a fully confident decision,
Speaker 1: which would be you know, the death knell for Luke, right,
Speaker 1: that would be the end of that so brilliant storyline.
Speaker 1: And something I hadn't noticed the first time around, but
Speaker 1: it really stuck out to me this time is Luke's intentionality.
Speaker 1: All right, now we're now we're with Rory and Dean,
Speaker 1: and these two are are back, you know. He comes
Speaker 1: over and Laurelin Roy immediately start helping. He starts helping
Speaker 1: him out with chores around the house, the water bottle,
Speaker 1: the thing. Laura I says, I missed you. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're back, you know. And then the faithful invite from
Speaker 1: Rory to Dean to come to Friday night dinner at
Speaker 1: the Gilmours, and he says, he says, why right. He hesitates,
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, Tom. How does Dean's
Speaker 1: return right and his immediate helpfelmust reflect his effort to
Speaker 1: be a more present and supportive boyfriend. Do you think
Speaker 1: he's trying too hard?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, Actually I don't think he's trying enough. I don't.
Speaker 3: I thought. I like the part where where they're in
Speaker 3: the house and Laurelai brings up the beer that was
Speaker 3: that was kind of fun, and he was starting to
Speaker 3: go along with that, but then he got nervous again
Speaker 3: and fro himself. I think, right, I don't think he's
Speaker 3: trying too hard. I think he's I think he was.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think he was more in a moment,
Speaker 3: you know, just trying to go along with it, but
Speaker 3: not knowing really what the hell do you?
Speaker 1: Right? But he's probably a little gunshy, right he got rejected. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really went over the top building her a car
Speaker 1: and all that and didn't get the I love you
Speaker 1: back and all that. But he yeah, yeah, now maybe
Speaker 1: he's he's back in, but it maybe he's going to
Speaker 1: be a little more circumspect, right. Yeah. So that's kind
Speaker 1: of how it seems different from season one to season two,
Speaker 1: and we'll see, we'll see how it develops. All right,
Speaker 1: here's Emily's reaction And what a great scene Suki calling
Speaker 1: Emily to plan a surprise engagement party for Laura l I,
Speaker 1: which is the first Emily has heard of this proposal
Speaker 1: and acceptance of the proposal. And I just thought, you know,
Speaker 1: it was just played so well. Kelly just does such
Speaker 1: a great job, and you can just see you feel
Speaker 1: her pain and she really you know, she stopped and
Speaker 1: it really gutted her, you know, and you could you
Speaker 1: could feel that and see that. So why did Laura
Speaker 1: I hesitate to tell Emily about the engagement.
Speaker 3: Well, I not to be a spoils work when it
Speaker 3: comes later when she tells her mother about in the
Speaker 3: next episode, actually, when she tells her mother about being
Speaker 3: disappointed in all the things her mother has done for
Speaker 3: her and she was afraid to tell her that you
Speaker 3: would be disappointed again in the way her mother reacted, right,
Speaker 3: And I felt that was I felt that in that scene.
Speaker 3: But it does drum lend the shows later.
Speaker 1: I think I feel that's fair. I feel that's fair
Speaker 1: given how Emily reacts to Laurel I and is constantly
Speaker 1: trying to get her to behave or to stop talking
Speaker 1: or or to stop making.
Speaker 4: Jokes or which is useless, right, right, And do we
Speaker 4: really feel that that.
Speaker 1: That Emily is being left out of Laurlized life? I
Speaker 1: mean that was intentional. Laurel I moved away, she cut
Speaker 1: off contact, and yeah, she was left out of the
Speaker 1: Laurelized life because of how they reacted to her pregnancy
Speaker 1: and how they reacted to you know, you know that
Speaker 1: in the sixth sixteen year old girl, I mean.
Speaker 3: Man without their parents' support. Yeah, I mean she's gone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. So Karmecy, you know what, right now,
Speaker 1: we have another storyline, Richard's interest in Rory's future. I'mously
Speaker 1: they are thrilled that Rory is in the top three
Speaker 1: of her class. That's quite an accomplishment. It's such a
Speaker 1: prestigious private school. Dean's over Richard asked past in questions
Speaker 1: to see if Dean has his future line? And what
Speaker 1: did you did that make you feel as uncomfortable as
Speaker 1: it made me feel?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, and I was supposed to a quizzing the grilling,
Speaker 3: not quizzing grilling my boyfriend. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think Richard had a right to do that?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's his house, it's his granddaughter depends.
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of thoughts are so protective of daughters,
Speaker 3: and he didn't have his daughter to protect because she left,
Speaker 3: so he's taken on Rory's protected and I can kind
Speaker 3: of see it. But it does make me uncomfortable for sure.
Speaker 1: It was a tough scene to watch, It really was.
Speaker 1: And that's great Dean's pain.
Speaker 3: You feel Dean's pain, right.
Speaker 1: It really is quite extraordinary. Lane's rebellion. Here's another storyline
Speaker 1: Lane discovers. And I don't know how this fit into
Speaker 1: the episode so much, but it was really funny. She
Speaker 1: discovers her parents and ship bring her off to Korea
Speaker 1: for the summer, and a massive suitcase. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: a it's a five foot suitcase that could three people
Speaker 1: could have fit in that thing. And we see as
Speaker 1: we see the genial omer suitcase. Now, in terms of
Speaker 1: future aspiration, how does this contrast with Rory's storyline.
Speaker 3: Lanes Uh gee, I don't know. I think it's uh.
Speaker 3: I didn't think of that well. Her aspirations of of course,
Speaker 3: the stay in America. She didn't want to go back
Speaker 3: to Korea.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. She's getting a little cultural in Richmond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. My granddad Japan, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's it could be getting in touch with her roots.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they have cousins over there and family
Speaker 1: over there. No.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I feel she's more Americanized and doesn't really
Speaker 3: care about getting in touch with her roots at this age.
Speaker 3: Maybe older when she's older, but at this sage, I
Speaker 3: like I said, my granddaughter just went to Japan with
Speaker 3: her father and she loved it. And if if Lane
Speaker 3: was not, if she's born in America and lived in
Speaker 3: America all her life, and I could see something where
Speaker 3: she would want to go maybe explore it. But I
Speaker 3: think she came from Korea with her mother. I don't
Speaker 3: think she I didn't feel she wanted to go back.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's obvious she was reacting. She didn't want
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 1: Back, right, Well, she just met that henry Cho too.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course I didn't think of that, of course. Yes,
Speaker 3: that's one of the one of the one of the
Speaker 3: ways that Chard sides with Rory's line, of course, is
Speaker 3: because they both have boyfriends now and anything else disrupts
Speaker 3: their their love life, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big deal at that age. Overall. What
Speaker 1: do you think of the episode?
Speaker 3: It's cute, like all of them. I mean, I get
Speaker 3: I haven't watched them all in a long time. I
Speaker 3: didn't go through it last year, all the seasons, but
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just think that the writing and
Speaker 3: acting and characterizations are just fantastic. It's just just a
Speaker 3: great show. My actually, my granddaughter going to Japan has
Speaker 3: been started watching this series about two years ago, and
Speaker 3: she's a love of them. My daughter was in love,
Speaker 3: so you know, it's a great thing for mothers and
Speaker 3: daughters to watch together, right series.
Speaker 1: And I think we now the seeds of doubt have
Speaker 1: been planted within Laurelai about her feeling truly joyful about
Speaker 1: receiving this ring, you know, the giant rock, the gold bend,
Speaker 1: the antique accents that it has perfect for her, right,
Speaker 1: but really is it?
Speaker 3: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is he the right guy? Is he the
Speaker 1: right guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Well, I guess we're gonna find out. All right, here's
Speaker 1: some questions. Tommy, Ready, how did you first get the
Speaker 1: role of Tom offer audition? What?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And actually I read for Taylor first.
Speaker 1: Oh did you really?
Speaker 3: Yes? I did, and I'm so glad that he got
Speaker 3: it because nobody could do it as good as Ship.
Speaker 3: And then they called me back for this, which is
Speaker 3: supposed to be the one one off, you know, the episode,
Speaker 3: but evidently went into they wanted to keep Tomic hindaacting
Speaker 3: on which I was happy for.
Speaker 1: How many how many episodes did you expect to.
Speaker 3: Be in just that one? I thought it was just
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: And that turned into how many.
Speaker 3: Like three and a half years, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen episodes?
Speaker 1: Nice? What's your favorite tom moment or favorite line?
Speaker 3: Oh, there's a bunch of them, but I don't know
Speaker 3: the exact phrase, something like oh, I'll tell her she's
Speaker 3: a two dollars hooker or something like that. But a
Speaker 3: lot of fans come up to me and tell me
Speaker 3: the lines, you know when I when I see them
Speaker 3: on the street, though.
Speaker 1: Recognize a lot to you do. Yeah, yeah, it seems
Speaker 1: to be picking up. I mean, it's like the show
Speaker 1: is getting more and more popular.
Speaker 3: Every Netflix is fantastic for us, you know, Yeah, that's great,
Speaker 3: more fans every.
Speaker 1: Year every year. If what was it like working with
Speaker 1: Laura and Scott Cohen? Uh and those construction scenes?
Speaker 3: It was fantastic, especially working with Laura. I mean, I
Speaker 3: love it. It fascinated me that that all you guys
Speaker 3: could learn all those lines so fast and speaking so fast,
Speaker 3: and I don't know, it's just something that uh, I
Speaker 3: wasn't that used to when I first went into it.
Speaker 3: You know, there's something really to work on for me.
Speaker 3: The construction seems are great. I mean, I especially building
Speaker 3: me in. I loved that, uh and the lions that
Speaker 3: Amy gave me. You know, we gave everybody, but she
Speaker 3: always seemed to give me a kind of a catch
Speaker 3: a line, which that's what the fans seem to love too.
Speaker 1: Any favorite moments from filming all of them.
Speaker 3: What can I say? I mean every time I worked
Speaker 3: on the on the set, I loved it. The crew
Speaker 3: and the cast, especially working with Lawns fantastic and working
Speaker 3: with you in a diner. I mean it was fun
Speaker 3: back and forth, you know. Yeah, enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we get to say those lines and be in
Speaker 1: those situations. It's I don't know fans understand how special
Speaker 1: it was. I hope they. I hope they understand how
Speaker 1: special it was for us. Yeah, to be placed in
Speaker 1: those situations and be able to say those words, because
Speaker 1: it's not always like that, you know, No, it's not.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you really have to try to justify things,
Speaker 1: and you you want to rewrite your lines. You go
Speaker 1: to the director and say, hey, could I change this
Speaker 1: or that? And then you sort of like then people
Speaker 1: think you're a headache and the whole dale and it's like,
Speaker 1: but you're just trying to make it better, you know.
Speaker 1: But this this writing that was not necessary.
Speaker 3: It was fantastic. I haven't kept up with her too much.
Speaker 3: Is she doing another show?
Speaker 1: And she's doing a show called Ittoi, which is about
Speaker 1: ballet in New York and Paris? Yeah, because she you know,
Speaker 1: she grew up dancing, so she'sik's got a part in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I'm ready to go. So you've worked on
Speaker 1: a lot of iconic shows. How does Gilmore Girls stack
Speaker 1: up and in your memory compared to all the other
Speaker 1: shows that you've done.
Speaker 3: Actually, you know, there's always there's only been a few
Speaker 3: that I really enjoyed working with people I enjoyed working proves.
Speaker 3: Amy is one on top of the list. Tim Burton
Speaker 3: was another, Alex Cox was another, and a lot of
Speaker 3: them I forgotten because a lot of my stuff was
Speaker 3: one day parts or a week here or something like that,
Speaker 3: and not continuous stuff. Even Gilmore Girls every eight ten
Speaker 3: episode or something. But it just stuck in my mind
Speaker 3: because it was so much fun to work with. Everybody
Speaker 3: was something fun and the writing. That's the thing I
Speaker 3: look for the most is the writing. It's something that's
Speaker 3: interesting to do and fun to do, and it sticks
Speaker 3: in my mind if it's not. I mean, I've done
Speaker 3: over one hundred shows one day here and there, and
Speaker 3: there and there, and I've forgotten most of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, pretty special gig. Gilmore was you played Bob
Speaker 1: and Bunheads another obviously, Amy Shrimp Paladino series. So what
Speaker 1: was that set? Like? Same as Gilmore, same vibe.
Speaker 3: Pretty much the same, I mean, and I think one
Speaker 3: of the episodes I did there was with Paris Lisa
Speaker 3: that was in I'm trying to remember now exactly what
Speaker 3: we did. But again that was the dialogue Quick Quick, Quick,
Speaker 3: which was fun to do. I don't know, I just
Speaker 3: working for am just working for her with her words.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, are you ready for rapid fire? Uh? Oh,
Speaker 1: there's another task? Really well on that, but here's another one.
Speaker 1: This is twice as hard.
Speaker 3: Ready all right?
Speaker 1: Coffee or tea?
Speaker 3: Coffee?
Speaker 1: How do you take your coffee black? With Honny Chiltern
Speaker 1: or Yale?
Speaker 3: Thomas Edison's right? What the hell?
Speaker 1: Team Dean Jess or Logan Dean? Why Dean?
Speaker 3: I think as I worked with him, I liked him.
Speaker 1: He's a good kid. Richard or Emily.
Speaker 3: Emily. I guess I'd have to say favorite season, Oh,
Speaker 3: second season of course where I started.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. One word to describe Gilmour Girls.
Speaker 1: Fantastic favorite character, Urla, most iconic Gilmore Girls quote.
Speaker 3: Oh god, mom, that's great.
Speaker 1: Who said that?
Speaker 3: Lie?
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess Luke's Diner or Friday night dinner.
Speaker 1: Oh looks Lukes Diner, Biff Jaeger, ladies and gentleman. So
Speaker 1: what are you up to now? What? What are you?
Speaker 1: What are you doing now?
Speaker 3: Actually, I'm I I found out last year I got
Speaker 3: a bad kidney, so I'm Monday Alice was three days
Speaker 3: a week, and from that I figured I better withdraw
Speaker 3: from the screen actors Jim, because nobody wants to hire
Speaker 3: at work three days a week.
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 3: Oh that's all right, It's just it just takes time, right, Okay. Besides,
Speaker 3: I'm getting too old for this stuff. You leave it
Speaker 3: to you young guys.
Speaker 1: You're staying right, sure. Yeah, I'm sixty six. Yeah what yeah?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Oh you don't look eighty two.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, you're not. You are not. You're
Speaker 1: looking great.
Speaker 3: But twenty years to go though.
Speaker 1: There you go, the great talking to you feel better?
Speaker 3: Oh I feel great. I feel It just takes the
Speaker 3: time to go in there and sit in that chair
Speaker 3: for four.
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