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Speaker 3: Hello, friends and fam We had so much fun having
Speaker 3: our very own Austin Nichols join us to talk about
Speaker 3: episode six, so nine, we're gonna make you come back
Speaker 3: all the time. But we have so many fan questions
Speaker 3: for you that we thought it might be great to
Speaker 3: just do a fan Q and a follow up.
Speaker 4: Everybody likes Austin, everybody loves and.
Speaker 3: You know, apparently we didn't answer enough of y'all's questions
Speaker 3: about his time on the show because we were too
Speaker 3: busy reminiscing.
Speaker 4: So busy, Gabin, We're gonna get to.
Speaker 3: It for you this week.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: Are you nervous?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 6: Him?
Speaker 7: Ask him the hardest question? First, go what's the hardest No? Okay, well,
Speaker 7: let's hear. Did you know your character was going to
Speaker 7: become a permanent. Was this a series regular thing that
Speaker 7: you signed on for? Was it just recurring you were
Speaker 7: only going to be there for a short arc?
Speaker 5: It was recurring. It was ten episodes, and then I
Speaker 5: don't even think they dangled possibility of series regular like
Speaker 5: they do sometimes. I think it was just said, it's
Speaker 5: ten episodes and that's all. I know.
Speaker 6: That's a big order though, because if you show up
Speaker 6: in six oh eight, that takes us through six eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that's a that's a big order for a new character.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I was like, you guys said too. I was,
Speaker 5: you know, once we got through like the first three
Speaker 5: episodes and we got to Julian and Brooke, Julian and
Speaker 5: Brooke was so heavy that I was doing the workload
Speaker 5: of series regulars. I remember like, wow, this like this
Speaker 5: got really busy, really fast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, what I signed up for.
Speaker 3: Hold on a second.
Speaker 4: I mean, well, the rest of us are at the beach.
Speaker 8: I wonder if they knew that contract negotiations were going
Speaker 8: to be coming up at the end of season six
Speaker 8: and we're starting to think about like if they were
Speaker 8: going to need new new people. I mean, that would
Speaker 8: make sense that they wanted to give you a good,
Speaker 8: good runway to build up to that if possible.
Speaker 5: Good question. I don't know, maybe I don't.
Speaker 4: Know me there, I mean I do.
Speaker 6: I remember us being told exactly that. It was like, hey,
Speaker 6: there's no guarantee in The highest paid people on the
Speaker 6: show at this point were me and Chad, and so
Speaker 6: it was like, hey, we can bring in people that
Speaker 6: they'll love every bit as much of you and as
Speaker 6: you and they did, you know. And so that was
Speaker 6: actually something that I would talk to younger actors about
Speaker 6: after I left One Tree Hill. They'd get like a
Speaker 6: pilot or they'd get like a TV show picked up,
Speaker 6: and I even like really big shows, and I'd be like, guys,
Speaker 6: everybody is replaceable. Every single person here, the showrunner, the writers,
Speaker 6: the directors, the actors. Every single person is replaceable. And
Speaker 6: that's a good lesson to learn when you're a young actor.
Speaker 6: You know it really you know, also changes the tone.
Speaker 5: Something nobody tells us as young actors is you know,
Speaker 5: when the cast renegotiates, and also producers, writers, EPs and
Speaker 5: salaries go up, what happens to production and the case
Speaker 5: of shooting could go to seven days of shooting for
Speaker 5: an episode, and things can get short change, and nobody
Speaker 5: ever teaches you that the thing is, oh, get as
Speaker 5: much money as you can. And I'm constantly like so
Speaker 5: turned off by our world and the greed of our world.
Speaker 5: And it's like, I think we're fine, and let's make
Speaker 5: the best show that we can.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: That's always been like mind boggling to me that no
Speaker 5: one talks about that.
Speaker 4: Budgets, you're learning stuff kids.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, now I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna ask
Speaker 6: an upper question. Let's ask let's ask something fun. Uh, Hey,
Speaker 6: how'd you feel about leaving the kids in the car
Speaker 6: in that storyline?
Speaker 4: That that was fun?
Speaker 5: I get so much flak for this.
Speaker 4: Do you still I mean, people really really.
Speaker 5: Feel like, hey, man, loved your character, but god, when
Speaker 5: you left the kids in the car? Oh, I still
Speaker 5: get I still get shame, shame on the streets. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you know, I think they You know, Julian was
Speaker 5: for a long time was you know, after the intro
Speaker 5: where we were scared of him his intentions and then
Speaker 5: he but then we started to like him and he
Speaker 5: became safer. Julian for a long time was very like
Speaker 5: I don't want to say perfect, but he was like
Speaker 5: a really supportive except for the Alex thing. He was
Speaker 5: like really, I think he was pretty good as a
Speaker 5: as a partner and supportive and great, and at a
Speaker 5: certain point, I think the writers thought, this guy needs
Speaker 5: to fall apart and some dude, something has to happen. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that was their that was their answer. But I do
Speaker 5: remember loving one part of it. It was when I
Speaker 5: got drunk afterwards after I locked the kid in the car.
Speaker 5: I got drunk afterwards and I picked a fight in
Speaker 5: a bar and I had somebody was just beaten on
Speaker 5: my face and I was just laughing, and I just
Speaker 5: thought that was so fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you were looking to get hurt.
Speaker 4: How long was the kid in the car?
Speaker 5: I mean I had to go to an ATM, talk
Speaker 5: to Dan and get a bottle of booze. Oh maybe someone, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know, fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: I don't like somebody.
Speaker 3: Somebody had to break the glass and get the kid out.
Speaker 9: It had to have been longer, right enough to.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to act like it wasn't because you're
Speaker 5: still traumatic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're still embarrassed.
Speaker 5: Was probably very long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's sorry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, super super scary.
Speaker 5: I had a lot going on. It was a lot,
Speaker 5: a lot on my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you touched on something that relates to this
Speaker 3: next question, because Julian came in in one way and
Speaker 3: then there was there was a lot of change for
Speaker 3: you and and some of that I think was you know,
Speaker 3: him getting to shift into a good guy and a
Speaker 3: good partner, and some of it was like very weird
Speaker 3: behind the scenes, strange energy. What man can't have five
Speaker 3: I'll never get over it. So sorry they did that
Speaker 3: to you. But there's a fan question that asks which
Speaker 3: of the two personas that they made you portray would
Speaker 3: you have preferred to stick with, Which is interesting because
Speaker 3: it really does mean that I think a lot of
Speaker 3: our viewers see the big shift. So was it like
Speaker 3: bad boy, dangerous guy, or was it you know, husband
Speaker 3: and father? What did you like doing better.
Speaker 5: Husband and father? Julian without a doubt, And I'll tell
Speaker 5: you why. I've spent so many years playing the sort
Speaker 5: of you know, sometimes villainous sometimes dark guy, and it's
Speaker 5: so fun and I hope I never stop doing it.
Speaker 5: But to be to have the audience trust you is
Speaker 5: such a gift, and it's so it's so rare for
Speaker 5: me and it's it's such a I can't even tell
Speaker 5: you how fulfilling that is for an audience to trust
Speaker 5: you with the story. They look at you and they
Speaker 5: go sit down on the couch and they go, I'm
Speaker 5: good for for the next forty four minutes with this group,
Speaker 5: I'm good and I'm in good hands. And and that
Speaker 5: is rare and special and I would choose that any day.
Speaker 9: So nice.
Speaker 4: Who's your comfort actor? Like when you sit down, you're.
Speaker 6: Like, forty four minutes with this one done.
Speaker 5: I have a lot. I have a lot. I mean
Speaker 5: Tom Hanks is someone that I think everybody feels safe with,
Speaker 5: you know, And he's whether it's a drama or comedy
Speaker 5: or whatever, he cares so deeply about the final product
Speaker 5: and about taking care of everyone on his set. And
Speaker 5: he's from what I hear, just you know, the best
Speaker 5: version of the whole deal. You know, that's the kind
Speaker 5: of that's the kind of actor I look up to
Speaker 5: and want to be.
Speaker 6: I like it.
Speaker 4: Just Austin at home watching Polar Express.
Speaker 8: Really say, Austin, what was your favorite storyline for Julian?
Speaker 5: My favorite storyline was probably when he locked in on
Speaker 5: turning the story into a show at the very end,
Speaker 5: because that was like him coming full circle and saying, look,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm a movie guy, which is which was
Speaker 5: my own life, and that was mind by the writers,
Speaker 5: and it was when I was okay with because I
Speaker 5: started in movies and then it it evolved to doing
Speaker 5: a lot more television and then happened with television, you know.
Speaker 5: And so I'm so thrilled that that happened to me.
Speaker 5: And you know, it was kind of fun for me to,
Speaker 5: as Julian, kind of go discover that and go, Okay,
Speaker 5: where I am here now with these these people. I
Speaker 5: want to make a show about this world.
Speaker 4: I liked the meta of it all.
Speaker 6: See, I wasn't around for any of that stuff. And
Speaker 6: so the idea what was the show called.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it ever happens the Ravens.
Speaker 7: So do you.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it ever had do you remember? No,
Speaker 5: I just mean the idea of the concept. I don't
Speaker 5: know if it ever. It's so weird.
Speaker 6: But when I just went home to my high school,
Speaker 6: it felt like we had mined so much of Parkview
Speaker 6: High School for Tree Hill because we have a clean
Speaker 6: teens and state championship and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 6: and so it felt kind of like that where it's
Speaker 6: like there's a TV show that's too close for comfort
Speaker 6: with this reality.
Speaker 4: And it's cool, know.
Speaker 6: I like that Julian was able to give this second,
Speaker 6: second go round to all the Tree Hill kids.
Speaker 4: We couldn't have done it with Autri.
Speaker 5: This is to address what Sophia said about the high five.
Speaker 5: And also there was a the things that I hated
Speaker 5: the most in the moment were also some of the
Speaker 5: things that the fans always remember, and it's, Yeah, my
Speaker 5: relationship with this career is so weird because the things
Speaker 5: that I've often liked were we're not hits, and the
Speaker 5: things that were hits I didn't like as much, and
Speaker 5: that's always been confusing. Like we had this, you know,
Speaker 5: the Julian high five, and then like I brought joy,
Speaker 5: I brought you flowers once like peonies is how you
Speaker 5: say it, and P and E's yeah, I brought flowers once,
Speaker 5: and Julian had this whole thing where he like, he
Speaker 5: was like talking about flowers and it was so dumb.
Speaker 5: And there was butterfly catching, like I was catching butterflies
Speaker 5: in the outfield at a baseball game. Stupids that I
Speaker 5: think that what they were doing was trying to take
Speaker 5: Julian from you know, the dangerous Julian to oh, well
Speaker 5: he's silly and you know, he can't go camping with
Speaker 5: the boys and he's like not one of the guys
Speaker 5: and all that stuff. And at the time I hate it,
Speaker 5: Like I still kind of hate it, to be honest. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so weird the way some of those things are memorable,
Speaker 5: and that's what people latch onto and like that's always
Speaker 5: been such a contradiction to me.
Speaker 4: They like it or they're just trolling you. Well, they
Speaker 4: might just be, but they remember it because you.
Speaker 6: Came in so masculine and all of that sounds rather emasculating.
Speaker 4: Who'd you piss off?
Speaker 5: Well, also, that's exactly probably what it was. It was
Speaker 5: a little bit stay in your lane, stay in your lane,
Speaker 5: we stay in your box. Like Tim Okay, I did
Speaker 5: write a letter once, you did, and it was you know,
Speaker 5: me being a young ambitious actor who you know, wanted more.
Speaker 5: And I remember writing a letter once. You know, it
Speaker 5: wasn't mean, it wasn't rue, but it was passionately expressing,
Speaker 5: you know that I wanted something more or more interesting,
Speaker 5: and that might have you know, rubbed people the wrong way.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 9: Egos, so many egos.
Speaker 6: So creatively thinking put on your little writer's hat, what
Speaker 6: would you craft for Julian? What do you wish he
Speaker 6: had been able to do on you know, on Tree Hill.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a great question. He was he was a
Speaker 5: he was born in the business. He was a child
Speaker 5: of movies in like La and sort of like you know,
Speaker 5: we've all been around people like this who grew up
Speaker 5: in it, and he ended up producing movies. I don't know,
Speaker 5: you know, we did do, we did do. I don't
Speaker 5: know how many episodes it was where we were actually
Speaker 5: making the movie, mm hmm. And those things don't often
Speaker 5: work on film, on television and film. But I wish
Speaker 5: there could have been something that in a different way
Speaker 5: or something like it where you could actually see his
Speaker 5: purpose and maybe we just didn't execute it as well
Speaker 5: as I'd hoped or whatever. But to me, those are
Speaker 5: the kinds of things that you know, get my juices
Speaker 5: falling is like I love to see a person's purpose
Speaker 5: and I've see them chasing it. Like I love a
Speaker 5: movie where a protagonist is like running a lot and
Speaker 5: moving and torn between different places. And choosing and like, Okay,
Speaker 5: I got to get over there, and I got to
Speaker 5: get there fast. Yeah. That's the sort of stuff that
Speaker 5: I think drives a movie so well and drives television.
Speaker 5: I would have liked to have seen a little bit
Speaker 5: more purpose.
Speaker 6: I mean, I for we've all produced things at this
Speaker 6: point where there's TV shows or indie movies or whatever,
Speaker 6: and Julian is such a cool cucumber.
Speaker 4: With the producing, My experience with it is just like
Speaker 4: you're on fire. I have to do this, I have
Speaker 4: to do this, and Julian is so chill.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I would have loved to see you just.
Speaker 6: In the trenches. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Maybe that's it, maybe putting out fires and yeah, solve
Speaker 5: the problems, because that's what it is, right, it's solving
Speaker 5: problems constantly.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: So okay, while we're imagining things about Julian, who would
Speaker 8: Julian have hung out with if he had gone to
Speaker 8: Tree Hill High?
Speaker 5: If he had gone to Tree Hill High?
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like, if you went to high school with all
Speaker 8: of us, who do you think he would have been
Speaker 8: chilling with? Would we have even known you, would you
Speaker 8: been like completely with a different group, or would you
Speaker 8: have hung out with any of these characters.
Speaker 5: Well, I know, you know, he would have He would
Speaker 5: have had a crush on Brooke, of course, and I
Speaker 5: think because of the the sort of the audio visual component,
Speaker 5: maybe he would have been friends with Mouth and gotten
Speaker 5: to work.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 5: Getting into that world at school would have been cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, av club.
Speaker 5: Club, that's right.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, Okay, well this could be a fun one. Where
Speaker 3: do you think Brooke and Julian would be?
Speaker 6: Now, oh oh that's so hard.
Speaker 5: I mean, I know so much of Brook's journey was about,
Speaker 5: you know, I think finding she had so many heartbreaks
Speaker 5: and finding the right person. So you know, my gut
Speaker 5: is to say that they would have lived happily ever
Speaker 5: after because the show ended and blah blah blah. But
Speaker 5: that's not terribly interesting.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: As a writer, I start going, well, like, how can
Speaker 5: we How could this be more interesting? And I don't,
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't really know if I have the answer,
Speaker 5: you know, Like I think I think the a great
Speaker 5: version of this be if there's still a very very
Speaker 5: strong love between them. But maybe they didn't take a
Speaker 5: traditional route, and you know, their careers have pulled them
Speaker 5: in different places. Probably they are in the muck sometimes
Speaker 5: and they are dealing with real stuff and how hard
Speaker 5: it is to you know, go here for do your
Speaker 5: career for a while and this one's home with the
Speaker 5: kids and then switch. Yeah, and you know how challenging
Speaker 5: and beautiful that all is. Like, really get into you
Speaker 5: know what that what that means?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I love that because I feel like the easy answer
Speaker 3: is to say, oh, yeah, you want these people to
Speaker 3: be happy, and then you're like, well, these people exist
Speaker 3: in a television show, and television shows don't exist without drama,
Speaker 3: so you have to find like something for them to
Speaker 3: be working on. Right, They're just happy, We're bored exactly.
Speaker 6: Okay, great, we have someone that wants to hear your
Speaker 6: side of the ghost story.
Speaker 5: That's somebody else.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: Your time.
Speaker 5: We share.
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, because she's already told that story here.
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 5: We were It was dark in the middle of the night. Weird.
Speaker 5: It was dark and I sensed or saw a shape, shadow, silhouette.
Speaker 3: It was the noise first.
Speaker 5: Oh, oh, I don't remember that.
Speaker 4: Oh, two different realities.
Speaker 5: Now that you say it, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: Well, no, because I remember it because I thought you
Speaker 3: were I didn't know what you were doing, and I.
Speaker 4: Like hit, I was like, what are you doing? What
Speaker 4: is that?
Speaker 3: So I woke you up thinking you were doing something,
Speaker 3: and then realized you were.
Speaker 5: Asleep right And then I remember looking and seeing this
Speaker 5: silhouette shape shadow whatever it is, rushed towards us. Oh,
Speaker 5: and we both went ape shit, and I think I
Speaker 5: or she grabbed the lamp to turn the light on
Speaker 5: and there.
Speaker 10: Was Oh my gosh, was it a dark shadow?
Speaker 9: Was it a light?
Speaker 5: What was it? I thought it was a smaller person,
Speaker 5: like a child, I don't know, child or woman.
Speaker 3: It started like this, like it started round like all.
Speaker 4: When it came at us.
Speaker 3: Got tall, but yeah, never got taller than like a
Speaker 3: three year old.
Speaker 6: So that's actually really common folklore in Appalachia. Really. Yeah.
Speaker 6: My daddy used to tell me stories about the shadow
Speaker 6: people when I was a kid, and they He would
Speaker 6: tell me about being in the woods and they'd roll
Speaker 6: around your feet like a bunch of bowling balls, and
Speaker 6: then right as they got to you, they would unfurl.
Speaker 4: Into like a big human shape. Really is that what happened?
Speaker 5: I don't remember it ever being that small, but it
Speaker 5: was also we couldn't I don't know that we could
Speaker 5: see the floor. I remember imitating.
Speaker 4: Because I remember.
Speaker 3: Realizing that the sound like wasn't coming from where you
Speaker 3: were or like the door that was on the other
Speaker 3: side of you, realizing it was coming from the window
Speaker 3: that looked over the alley, like in that general vicinity,
Speaker 3: and like starting to move toward it to be like
Speaker 3: what is it. I thought like an animal was going
Speaker 3: to come through the wall, like that building was so old.
Speaker 3: I was like, some feral squirrel is going to like
Speaker 3: what is right to happen? And then there was just
Speaker 3: this burst and it was bright white, and then it
Speaker 3: came at us both.
Speaker 4: And got tall.
Speaker 3: We both ran backwards like against the wall, screaming.
Speaker 5: I just remember something was rushing at us and it
Speaker 5: felt like it was going to get us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I felt so much better about the fact
Speaker 3: that I was screaming so loud because you were screaming
Speaker 3: so loud, and I was like, okay, so I did
Speaker 3: did you scream?
Speaker 5: It was obviously we both experienced something.
Speaker 3: We were screaming.
Speaker 5: It was I going, what'd you what happened?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Because if you looked at me and been
Speaker 4: like what is going on?
Speaker 3: Like are you nuts. I would have felt nuts, but
Speaker 3: you were terrified and I was terrified, and for some
Speaker 3: reason that gave me some comfort.
Speaker 4: Was this in an apartment?
Speaker 5: It was aloft, one of those old buildings downtown.
Speaker 9: Which one of you was, I mean whose apartment was?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 9: You guys both lived there.
Speaker 5: We sublcted it from some friends.
Speaker 4: From Alex and Stephanie. Did you just keep living there?
Speaker 4: Or were you like, we got it?
Speaker 9: This is no good.
Speaker 4: There's where were we going to go?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well to another haunted apartment. Everything there is hot.
Speaker 3: Everything in Wilmington was haunted.
Speaker 10: It was like, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, Well give us something funny. What's the
Speaker 8: funniest memory you have from from set? If you have
Speaker 8: any days when you guys were just besides Brooke and but.
Speaker 5: I have to and it's it's it's harmless. My favorite
Speaker 5: story is when Joe Manganila was sitting waiting for his
Speaker 5: van looking into the call sheet for the next day
Speaker 5: and Chad God bless him, walks up to him and goes,
Speaker 5: you know, how to read one of those? He was
Speaker 5: being helpful Austin there, I'll just leave that there. That's
Speaker 5: a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, look it's great. It's a great story, it's helpful.
Speaker 4: It is also adorable. But what did Joe say? Was
Speaker 4: he nice about it?
Speaker 5: He didn't tell me, but I don't know what he said.
Speaker 5: He just said yeah. But also, I remember the first
Speaker 5: time I saw a call sheet. It was confusing.
Speaker 4: They're intimidating.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but by the time you showed up on our show,
Speaker 6: he'd already been on our show for like a year.
Speaker 9: So for you to with us pretty funny. Yeah, it's
Speaker 9: pretty funny.
Speaker 4: This is incredible.
Speaker 5: Listen, we were all kids.
Speaker 6: We want from us.
Speaker 5: I was real and stupid.
Speaker 6: Yeah, who cares. What's your favorite place in Wilmington besides
Speaker 6: the Bestrow.
Speaker 5: The ocean, Mason Burrough Island. I love going to Mason
Speaker 5: Burrow and the things that happened when the tide changes
Speaker 5: in the inner coastal and little little sand bars appear
Speaker 5: in beaches and people gap.
Speaker 10: So cool, it's so special.
Speaker 8: Did you do a lot of a lot of traveling,
Speaker 8: just jumping in the car and go and exploring when
Speaker 8: you were there on your days off, like to other
Speaker 8: cities other states?
Speaker 5: Really? I mean, I guess maybe Charleston wants Baldhead Island
Speaker 5: a little bit, but not not as much as I think. Honestly,
Speaker 5: it was, you know, because we were all work in
Speaker 5: a lot. If I had more time off of maybe
Speaker 5: I would have, but no, not as much as I
Speaker 5: would have hoped. Like I never went to Kate Patteris,
Speaker 5: I never went to the Outer Banks, and I wish
Speaker 5: I would have done that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5: Rules.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was always a little tricky though, because we even
Speaker 3: if you had a day off, you were always at
Speaker 3: risk of getting called in.
Speaker 5: So you couldn't well, you're always a cover set, right, because.
Speaker 4: That's right, So you couldn't really leave.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 8: Because if you asked permission, he would say no. But
Speaker 8: if you didn't ask permission and they happened to need you,
Speaker 8: you couldn't be like, I'm in Atlanta, sorry.
Speaker 4: Have you guys?
Speaker 6: This was pre iPhone. We could just dome me up
Speaker 6: and be like who. I never answered my phone.
Speaker 5: My first couple episodes. I was out at the beach
Speaker 5: and I went surfing and I left, I didn't bring
Speaker 5: my I don't bring my phone to the beach, and
Speaker 5: I left it at home. And then I get this
Speaker 5: call later from Hartley saying like we needed you, We
Speaker 5: needed to call you in for a cover set, and
Speaker 5: I was like, I wasn't gone that sorry. I mean
Speaker 5: I I thought I had the day off, and he's like,
Speaker 5: you got to keep your phone on you. They sent
Speaker 5: a PA out to the beach to look for me.
Speaker 9: Oh, for God's sake, did they find you?
Speaker 4: No, go scour the beaches.
Speaker 5: I think it was the other Scott pa and he
Speaker 5: was looking for me and he never found me because
Speaker 5: I was way up at the North end or something.
Speaker 4: Oh God, I love it. It was Scott Hardwick.
Speaker 6: My favorite thing about Austin is every time I would
Speaker 6: go out to La we'd go and like I'd be
Speaker 6: like pregnant with Gus or Nick would come out and
Speaker 6: visit me and we'd meet up at a diner or something,
Speaker 6: and Austin would show.
Speaker 4: Up on like a vespa or like a truck.
Speaker 6: But he always had like a surfboard and a like
Speaker 6: a spear with him.
Speaker 4: What are you doing? He's like, well, I just tell
Speaker 4: myself how to spearfish.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: I'm a water boy, all right, guy.
Speaker 5: They're not wrong wrong. I love the water. I love
Speaker 5: the water.
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't you come from like like championship water people?
Speaker 5: My mom was a nineteen time national champion, and my
Speaker 5: dad was a great song skier and boat driver, and
Speaker 5: we competed since we were little, me and my sister.
Speaker 10: And Wow, rock stars on the water, you guys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you have to force it out of him. Otherwise
Speaker 6: he's like, oh, no, water feels nice. He's like, when
Speaker 6: you find out they're coming from Royalty, you guys are
Speaker 6: like from Atlantis.
Speaker 5: That's lovely.
Speaker 9: Well, did you audition for Avatar? The second one?
Speaker 5: I wish I was like practicing holding my breath and
Speaker 5: I remember like calling my James Cameron know that I
Speaker 5: can hold my breath for three minutes.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I could have done that.
Speaker 4: Someone should tell him how.
Speaker 9: Do we get that memo out?
Speaker 5: Actually, James Cameron came to the set of The Walking
Speaker 5: Dead and I freaked out because he his son. I
Speaker 5: guess his ex wife was a produce Galen Herd as
Speaker 5: a producer on them, and they have a child or
Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know the whole situation with
Speaker 5: the kid. The kid loved The Walking Dead, so the
Speaker 5: kid came. James Cameron came, and I remember seeing and
Speaker 5: like standing outside of you know, getting into an suv
Speaker 5: to leave and I went over there, and I think
Speaker 5: I just said hello or something. What I wanted to
Speaker 5: say was, I can hold my breath for twelve minutes.
Speaker 4: I wish you would have like The Little Boy and
Speaker 4: Dre MacGuire. You know how there is a pow head.
Speaker 5: I could do it.
Speaker 4: I could do it. I'm listen. That skill is going
Speaker 4: to pay off at some point.
Speaker 9: Yes, it will.
Speaker 6: You know, we're putting the word out there right now. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that you can hold your breath forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 8: Is it giant water tank still in Wilmington? Remember when
Speaker 8: they built that for Was it for Iron Man or
Speaker 8: for surface Maybe?
Speaker 5: Well he did it for that Dune the Rock Johnson movie.
Speaker 5: It was It was like supposed to be in Hawaii. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: Do we have one last question?
Speaker 6: We got one last question too, so we'll just really
Speaker 6: bring it home.
Speaker 8: Okay, what about life lessons? Tell us any life lessons
Speaker 8: you learned while you're filming one trio?
Speaker 5: Well, there is a quote that's very long, but I
Speaker 5: often shorten it when I sign things for fans, and
Speaker 5: its happiness is a mood, not a destination. It's a
Speaker 5: little cheesy, but I love it because it helped me
Speaker 5: and it helped me go, look, you can't always be happy,
Speaker 5: and you know there's gonna things are gonna happen that
Speaker 5: are sad and hard and they're going to break you.
Speaker 5: And knowing that helps, and knowing then and then when
Speaker 5: you are happy and things are great, you enjoy it
Speaker 5: that much more. And I don't know that's that's the
Speaker 5: one thing that always sticks out.
Speaker 9: And I really like h good, good words, thank you.
Speaker 5: We love it, Lourie. I forgot about the line about
Speaker 5: the printer, and I love it. It's so it's so
Speaker 5: it's cheesy, but it's great. It's like these forces you'd
Speaker 5: open it up and see what's wrong.
Speaker 4: I loved that moment, the paper jam.
Speaker 9: That was it.
Speaker 4: Julian's and wise man.
Speaker 6: He's so similar to Lucas, but he's got more of
Speaker 6: a sense of humor than Lucas. And so it's interesting
Speaker 6: how Brooke and Peyton are both drawn to this like
Speaker 6: very bright, well read, articulate boy, you know, like it's
Speaker 6: uh yeah, I get it. Listen, Austin. My favorite memory
Speaker 6: of you on One Tree Hill is you and I
Speaker 6: driving out to the beach and passing the party bus
Speaker 6: full of bridesmaids and a bride and you mooning them
Speaker 6: and them being so excited about that, and so forever
Speaker 6: when I see party buses, it's you, buddy.
Speaker 5: I thought mooning was just like the funniest thing ever
Speaker 5: when I was in junior high, in high school. Your twenties,
Speaker 5: a lot of mooning in Texas, and I'm actually I
Speaker 5: can't believe that I was still mooning. You did it,
Speaker 5: your hill. Yeah, thank you, brilliance.
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