WEBVTT - I Choose...To Always Be Connected with Jason Priestley 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:09.280 You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. Hi, everyone, 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:12.840 welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:17.560 the choices we make and where they lead us. You guys, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:21.360 my guest today as someone I've called a friend for 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:27.440 over thirty years? Can you guess who it is? The 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.640 phrase that Kelly Taylor said, I Choose Me was in 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.320 part because of his character. We shared the screen together 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:38.839 on Beverly Hills nine on two ONA, where he played 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:43.760 Brandon Walsh and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.600 which I have no recollection of for his work for 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.279 that role. Oh my gosh. Now you can catch him 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.400 on Wild Cars on the CW Wednesday nights. Please welcome 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:58.640 Jason Priestley to the podcast. Oh okay, this is good. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.760 I'm over here doing happy dance that you're on the pod. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:08.360 Thank you. I'm it's nice to finally be here. Jed. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.960 I know this is so you. Did you know you 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.640 are the number one requested guest to be on this 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.320 pod because we did a little survey and everybody wants you. 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:21.919 Everybody wants Jason. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.959 That's hilarious. That's awesome. Well, that's good to know. Good 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.120 to know if somebody still wants to pay attention. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.920 Oh, somebody definitely does. Wait, do you remember when we 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.959 met yeah on teen Agel on. 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.680 Teen Agel in Phoenix, Arizona. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.319 Yeah, wait, we were in Phoenix. 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.080 Yeah, we're in Phoenix. We shot that one in Phoenix. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:43.199 Oh my god. 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:45.640 We shot the first one in Phoenix. We shot the 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.440 second one in Salt Lake City. You're in the second one. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.559 Yeah, teen Angel returns. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.080 Now, Yeah, the original with Adam Bisk and Renee what 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:57.480 was Renee's last name. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.040 I don't even remember what my character was or what 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.120 my role was. Nothing. I remember nothing other than seeing 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.960 you for the first time and thinking, oh my god, 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.120 he's so cute. 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.519 Yeah, I remember it. I remember it was you were 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.120 you were one in Rene. You were Rene's like buddy. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.720 You were here like kick number two. Yeah. I think 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:24.160 I think that was the last time you played the 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:25.119 female number two. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.959 Oh yeah, the good old days. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.080 But you were a kid man, you were like in 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:33.680 high school, like you were seventeen. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.880 I think I had my parents on the set with me, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.640 and you had you had a girlfriend. I think was 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.720 that Robin? 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.880 No, No, no, I don't think I had a girlfriend 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:46.359 back then. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.480 Oh I don't know. I was just like, I was 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.200 really stoked that our relationship was an automatic like friendship 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.480 and no drama, Like I don't know. It's kind of 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.480 like a brotherly sisterly thing that we've always had. Yeah, 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:03.920 and I love that about it. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.360 It's true, you know. You know what it does. It 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.880 just makes it really comfortable whenever we see each other. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.640 We don't have to. We don't have to, you know, 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.640 go back through the menu, show the last three months 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.400 before we saw each other. We can we left off right. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.640 It makes it, It makes it much easier. 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.640 Yes, it does. Okay, So I named my podcast I 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.080 Choose Me, which, as fans know, was when Kelly had 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.240 to choose between Brandon and Dylan and instead she choose herself. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.880 But that's what sort of launched it all. Do you 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:37.680 remember filming that scene? Did you? 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.920 I do? I do? I really, I totally remember it. 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.760 And I remember you because you and me were on 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.040 the beach just north of the just north of the 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:51.680 Venice Pier, and Rusty, our steady cam operator, was exhausted 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.760 because we kept walking through the sand and doing a 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.720 big long walk and talk poor poor Rusty man. Uh, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.400 And I remember it was it was it was kind 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.640 of cool and bluster that day, and it was it 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:03.880 was it was cloudy. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.600 Yeah, we were on the beach, but the scene where 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.920 she says I choose me was outside the. 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.520 Oh that's right, because that's where that's where Brandon proposed 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:18.040 that's what I'm getting beach. That was the proposition, Yes, 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.120 the first time, that's right. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.680 Did you understand the importance or that the ultimate meaning 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.680 of I choose me at that time? Because I did not? 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:30.960 I did, Oh, I did, I totally did. I totally did. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.400 I remember you and me and Luke all joking around 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.479 about it, right, Yeah, because it because it was because 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.760 because we thought it was we thought it was we 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.560 thought it was clever, and we thought we thought it 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.680 was an original choice. Like I don't remember ever seeing 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:51.159 uh a character on TV like that when when faced 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.599 with a choice of you can marry this awesome guy 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.320 or this awesome guy and the character goes no, I'm good. 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.719 And so brave, so brave. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.960 Yeah. And you know, I think you know, certainly in 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.440 those early seasons, as you know, first four or five 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.680 seasons of the show, I think that we really tried 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.200 to do things like that that were that were you 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.920 know they were different and you know, sometimes controversial, you know, 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:24.120 but but I think it was important to to reach 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.200 our audience, the audience that we were trying to reach. 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.200 I think it was important for them that we addressed 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.400 the that we addressed the issues that they were going 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:32.159 through at the time. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.640 Yeah. I have so many women that come to me 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.320 and say, when I saw that episode and I saw 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:40.680 Kelly choose herself, it dawned on me that I have 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.640 that choice too. Like people women on that age didn't 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.560 really realize that they could choose themselves and understand like 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.400 what that would mean to them and their self esteem 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:56.320 and their entire lives probably changed, which is so cool. 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.320 It is. It's it's crazy to think. And I and 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.360 I especially went through this because I was just in 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.680 UH in Europe at a fan event over there and 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:11.279 UH and so many young people came over to talk 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.039 to me. They were with their moms and they're you know, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.080 their moms and made them watch the show and they 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:18.880 were they were all just telling me how much they 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.240 liked it and how how relevant they all thought it. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:23.040 It still was. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:27.120 You know, that's so cool like that that show still is. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:32.200 It's got a whole new generation of watchers. So like, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.640 did you ever think when we were filming that show 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:40.320 that we would be here talking like this about what 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.200 we're talking about? 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:47.680 Uh? No, No, I really didn't. I was no. I 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.760 loved you know, I mean, I love the show, and 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:52.440 I thought we made I thought we made a lot 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.440 of great television. But but I also, uh you know, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.600 I also I was also very you know, like you know, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.000 and how many people remember this, but we really struggled 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.560 to get through our first season, and you know, our 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.320 numbers were barely keeping us on the air. You know, 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.200 we were sort of a top sixty show. Like it 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.560 wasn't It's not like we not like we hit it 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.280 gangbusters out of the gate. So and I and I 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.560 you know, and I I you know, I I give 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.240 props to you know, the people at Fox, and they 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.080 kept us on the air. And you know, like Aaron, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.320 Aaron must have been in there fighting every day to 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.800 keep the show on the air. And I'm and I'm 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.080 obviously very glad that he did, because I feel like, yeah, 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.040 you know, once once the show hit its stride and 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.640 once the show kind of found its audience, the first 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.440 Gulf War was was good for us because Fox was 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.880 the only channel that was still showing entertainment, so I 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.480 think we gained a lot of followers that way. But 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.600 we gained you know, the summer episodes in season two 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.440 with a big turning point for all of us. You know. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.760 I just think all the time how lucky we are 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:01.040 to have had the careers that we have, and that 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.480 so many people around the world love us and support us. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.240 Like there's no feeling that kind of describes that. And 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.120 I only share that with my fellow cast mates, you guys, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:13.720 and it's such a bond. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:19.120 Yeah it is. It's cool, it's unbelievable, and I feel 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.880 like I feel like we were all incredibly blessed by 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:23.200 by the experience. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.440 We all brought so much of ourselves to the characters. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.480 And I say this because I'm a super fan. Now 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.640 I'm watching the show back, as you know, on OMG podcasts, 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:38.040 and I love the show so much. I never knew 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.200 how much I love the show. I'm so invested in 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.640 the characters and it's blowing my mind that it took 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.000 me this long to catch on. But people, because I 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.120 think we brought so much of ourselves into each of 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.200 our characters. There are times when Kelly blurred into Jenny 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.680 and Brandon blurred into Jason, and I think that was 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:01.160 pretty much the magic sauce. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.480 Yeah, yeah, we did, We did well. I mean, do 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.320 you remember the meetings that we used to have with 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.280 the writers at the end of every season and they 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.040 would say, so, what are you into? What are you 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.760 doing these days? And you know, like, uh, what do 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.520 you what do you think about? What do you think about? 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:15.600 The storyline? About this? 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:20.200 That sent me into it was really it was it 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.720 was something I'd never experienced before, and I think that 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:28.560 I think that sort of encouraged everyone to bring. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:33.440 More of their own personal uh experience and personal likes 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.440 and dislikes to the to the character. And uh, you know, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.120 you know, look at look at David Silver and his 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.600 music career. You know that was happening alongside Brian Austin 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.640 Green and his music career. It was all very It 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.880 was all it was all very It felt it felt 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.400 very in house all in a way, you know what 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:52.760 I mean. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:57.520 Yeah, Now, watching it back, though, it just doubles down 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.560 the fact for me that you're such a good actor. 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:05.040 And I want to know, do you know what a 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:08.120 good actor you are? Like, do you know that without 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:08.520 a doubt. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:14.920 Uh. I'm I feel like I'm pretty competent. Uh. I 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.160 feel I feel like I feel like I've figured out 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:22.320 a pretty good system, like a pretty good technique for myself. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.960 You know, there's when when you're a young actor and 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.440 you're you know, and you study with a lot of 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.520 people and you're trying to figure out a technique that 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.959 works for you and uh, and how you're going to 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.240 be able to get to the places that you need 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.560 to get to as as what a whatever character you're portraying. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.440 I I I sort of you know, my my technique 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.560 is sort of an amalgamation of a lot of the 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.319 different teachers that I worked with over the years and 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.480 things that I picked up, you know, just being on 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.000 set and you know, working with directors and working with 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:54.679 other actors and you know, seeing seeing what their process is. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.959 You know, it's it's one of those things that becomes 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.120 certainly as you get older, it becomes very personalized. 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.440 There's nothing like that on the job training though. 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:08.760 No, it's absolutely the best. And you know, spending my twenties, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:13.160 you know, making you have two hundred and eighty hours 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.560 of television like I couldn't have been in a better 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.839 place to learn to get better. So it's funny you 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.920 say that you know you love the show. When I 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.400 watched the really early episodes of the show, all I 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.200 can see is my bad acting. And then and then 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.960 as the seasons go on, it felt like it got 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.760 much better. But I saw I saw a lot of 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.240 a lot of mugging and a lot of life. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:44.559 Oh, there's some of that for everybody. But like, I 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.840 don't know, you'res I'm in season seven right now, and 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:49.720 you're just so good. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:51.480 Well, thanks Snne. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.240 I'm so lucky to have worked opposite you, and I 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.840 really realize that now maybe I took it for granted. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.480 Wait wait, wait, I have to pause for a second. 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.679 I just thought of something. Okay, while I was researching 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.680 for our little talk today, I had to do a 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:15.800 double take because you were in a Britney Spears music video. Yes, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.840 and I never knew about it. You Pharrell, what's his name? 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.920 Austin Powers? Mike Myers Like, when did that happen? And 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:26.800 why didn't nobody tell me about that? 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:32.400 Well, that happened because because Mike and I were friends. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.520 Mike and I used to play hockey together and h 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.679 and after I did snl Uh, Mike, Mike and I 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.280 spend a little bit of time together and. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.320 Uh and then uh and he would he would always 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.240 invite me to like, you know, table readings and you know, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.440 charity thing whatever he was doing right and uh. And 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.880 then one day he calls me and this was the 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.319 mose for the second Austin Powers movie. They did that. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.560 They added that video to the soundtrack, and he wanted 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.079 to do a music video for you. So he called 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:04.640 me out and he was like, Hey, will you come 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.360 and do this Britney Spears video. It's you and take 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.480 Diggs and me and it'll be super fun. I was like, yeah, 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:11.679 my no problem. 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.959 Wait, did you know going into it that you were 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.840 supposed to be that you were the one that had 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.000 to dance with her like grind on the dance. 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.600 I had no idea. I had no idea what I 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:22.280 was getting into. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.400 As I know, you wouldn't have done that if I 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.720 had told you, because I know how much you love 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:28.280 to dance. 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.560 God it was but you literally. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.920 Are just like there and you dance for just a 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:36.720 second and then you back on out. You guys, if 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:38.320 you haven't seen this, you need to check it out. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.200 It's priceless. What's his name of her song? 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.560 Uh? Boys, Boys Boys? 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.120 You remember? Oh my god, it's so good, It's so good. 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:50.080 Okay, hold on, can I just time out for a second. Yeah, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.000 you had to do research before talking to me each other, 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:55.760 for I liked. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.760 I take my job very seriously. 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.280 Yes, yeah, yeah, no, no, no doubt, no doubt. I 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:00.640 like it. 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.240 There's many things I did not need to research. Let 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:08.080 me tell you, that's pretty much the only thing I uncovered. Okay, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.559 So by season three you were not only acting in 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.960 the show, but you were also directing episodes. You were 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.760 the first one of us to lead that charge. And 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.960 you hadn't directed anything before that, right. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.800 No, I hadn't. I directed the year before that, but 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.480 that was it. So for me, getting that opportunity from 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:34.160 Aaron was a really big deal. And that episode, that 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.960 episode turned out great. It was super fun. I think 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.440 you mean you remember the day that the two days 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.440 we spent up at Magic Mountain and were you there 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:45.160 in Magic Mountain? 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:45.320 Hey? 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.240 You were there, because me and. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:48.280 I remember being there. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.720 Yes, yeah, we were at Magic Mountain and these camera 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.200 mounts on the on the roller coasters and stuff. It 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.720 was super fun and I think the storyline was we 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.560 were there for some or you were there for some 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:03.560 kind of like Senior did stay or something, and some 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.320 dude tried to steal Donna's purse. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:11.680 And yes, I don't know. I just remember Shannon and 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.400 I riding over and over and over on the biggest, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:19.120 baddest roller coaster. We just kept saying, go again, go again, 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.080 go again. That was the best day ever. But yeah, 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:24.400 you were You're just a natural born leader. You're a 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:29.240 natural born director. It's so apparent, you know you. You are 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.040 great at leading a set, You're great at setting a tone. 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.640 I'm not just blown smoke up her. But either by 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:36.600 the way, Buddy. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.880 Well, I appreciate that, Jenny, those are things that I 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:40.720 worked very that I've had to work very hard on. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.480 Yeah, and I'm sure that it's not easy to like 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.360 go from being an actor, especially a heart throb, into 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.680 being taken seriously in the in the directing world. But 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:51.360 you've done it. 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:56.640 Yeah, Yeah, it wasn't It definitely wasn't easy. But I've 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.920 I've certainly been enjoying a certain amount of success behind 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.320 the camera, which which I really which I really enjoy, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.720 you know, I like I I from the from the 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.640 minute I should shot that first episode. And at the 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.960 end of season three, I was like, oh, yeah, this 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.640 is for me, this is this is what I want 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.440 to be doing. And you know, and and I got 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.560 to direct a lot of episodes of of ninety two 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.640 and them before moving on. Like it was it was 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.520 very uh, it was it was good. It was great. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.560 It was a great training ground for me too, you know, 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.360 like having Rick Hunter and Steve Randolph and you know, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.000 all the boys there to really show me the ropes. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.760 It was. It was, it was you know, it was 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.360 the best thing that could have happened to me. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:37.320 Yeah. I had that same similar experience where they just 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.120 kind of let you take the lead, but we're just 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:41.320 always there to support you. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:42.200 Yeah. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:42.800 I love that. 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.120 Who was your when you directed? Who is your DP? 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.400 Was it Rick or was it Steve? Steve Oko? Yeah, 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.960 well Steve Randolph man, he was a He was a 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.040 beauty that that guy. 0:16:54.960 --> 0:17:04.960 Yeah, amazing. I need to ask you one more question 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:09.440 about nine. Okay, who taught you to kiss like that? 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:16.439 Because your kisses now okay, I know because you were 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:21.440 kissing me, but watching him back, Oh my god, you 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:25.560 are an aggressive, really good kisser. 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.200 Wow. Thanks, Yeah, how many women. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.000 Do you think you've kissed? God, come on, come on, 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.960 those people. If you were to ask this question, it 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.639 would be like maybe a double digit, but I'm thinking 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:39.320 triple for you. 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:43.680 I it's if it's not triple digits, it's got to 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:44.439 be really close. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.560 Yeah, is it weird? 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.200 Oh you know what, No, it's got to be. Yeah, 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.879 it's well into the triple digits. I mean I kissed 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:57.360 one hundred girls on nine to two one oh on camera, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:58.320 like you know. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:06.439 Off, Oh my god, Yeah, you're you're a very distinct kisser. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:12.439 No, anywhoin in a good way? Is it distinct? No? 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.240 A good way. We kind of eat my face off. 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.680 I did a few times, but that it's. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:23.480 Okay because it looked good. I just remember getting like 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:28.240 incredible razors scratch, what's that called burns on my face 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.920 from your whiskers. Yeah, there was just yeah, no controlling 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:37.960 that the good old days. Can you believe we're parents 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.880 of kids that are the age we were then? 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.119 Yes, that is. That is the most shocking thing to me. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.960 Like, you don't feel any different right talking to me, 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.000 I feel like we're back there the same age. Like 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:57.639 I don't feel any different, But we have grown almost 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:58.720 grown up kids. 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:02.880 Well you do have grown yeah, my kids, My kids 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.920 are almost grown up. But it's but yeah, it's uh, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:07.280 it's shocking. 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.760 What if they were doing what we were doing in 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:11.680 their lives right now? 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:13.680 I would feel like a failure as a parent. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:20.960 Why because I've spent my whole life with my kids 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:24.200 saying to them, hey, guys, look I know what I 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.679 I know what I do, but it's not real, Like, 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:27.359 you can't. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.639 This is not you know, the success that I that 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.679 I've enjoyed in this career is not normal. So like 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.720 to don't think you're just going to follow in dad's 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.679 footsteps and it's going to be you know, smooth sailing 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.560 and you're going to be you know, on your way 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.199 to the Emmy's the next week, right, Like, it's just 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.040 it's just not like that. And so I tried, so 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:52.959 I tried to be super hyper realistic with them about 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.399 you know, about about choosing your career and choosing a 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:59.080 job path that's something that has some security and. 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.080 H how's that working out for you? 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.080 Well, it worked, it's worked out well with my daughter. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.159 With my son, I mean, he doesn't really know what 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.560 he wants to do yet, but but but in the meantime, 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.199 while he's trying to figure it out, he's, uh, you know, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:17.880 in the theater. 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:23.040 A lot, which I can tell you love that. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:26.720 You know what, you probably be honest. I love going 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:28.760 and watching him and I love watching him do his thing, 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:32.080 and he's yeah, you know, he he loves it. So 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.600 I love it for him. But you know, I don't. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:36.960 I don't know if it's gonna be. I don't know 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.800 if it's gonna be as his life's work or he's 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:41.040 gonna find if he gets as. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.080 Lucky as you. What if he gets as lucky as us? 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:46.520 You say that doesn't happen anymore, but maybe it will. 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:52.000 Yeah, yeah, and I would be. I would be super 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.000 proud of him and super excited for him if he could, 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.399 if he could enjoy a career like I'd like the 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.800 one that I had, I'd be super stoked. But but 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.880 I you know, but I also I worry because I'm 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:06.320