WEBVTT - Danny Pintauro Meets World 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.360 So I'm gonna take a page out of the book 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.239 of one mister writers drawn, which means it is a 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:27.360 page having, of course, to do with words. 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:28.200 Yes. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:29.160 Great. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.080 Oh he's so excited. I've never I can feel writer's 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.160 energy through this. Look he's he's looks forward, he's restructuring 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.159 himself in his seat. He looks like he looks like 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:41.680 when I look like when I'm about ready to eat 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:42.120 a donut. 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.680 You do a little donut little donut shake, like you're 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:52.360 coming down off of meth. Okay, so we all know antonyms, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:01:00.720 and we know synonyms, but you know contray Oh no, okay. 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.120 So a contronym are words that have opposite or nearly 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.600 opposite meanings depending on context. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:09.320 Oh okay. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.720 So, for instance, here's a list of some of them. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:18.960 Like cleave can mean split apart or cling together tightly. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.520 Right, you cleave to something or you cleave something. Oh yeah, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:23.119 that's so. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.560 These are contronyms, which is, the word itself can literally 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.000 mean the opposite of itself. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:30.959 Depending on how it's used. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.000 And this is some of these also arrive over time. 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.959 Arise over time because like nonplus now means the opposite 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.240 of what it was originally intended to mean right and 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:44.120 like yeah because of the misusage, so people just say, yeah, 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:44.680 give me some more. 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:45.559 So here's something. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:45.840 So. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:51.200 Sanction can mean to allow or to penalize, Yeah, right 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.000 right yeah. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.360 Dust to add particles or to take it or to remove, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:06.440 the weather can wear away or endure. Yeah, resign, to quit, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:08.120 or to commit to. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.519 Wow, I've resigned. I'sgsigned to. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.679 This is my life. Yeah, that's so good. 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:20.000 My fast can be moving quickly or firmly secured right 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:26.279 right fast. Oversight is a careless error or supervision. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.040 Yes, these are so fun. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:31.520 Screen this is the last one I have. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:37.560 Unfortunately, screen is to show like a film or too obscure. 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.560 Wow, that's so cool. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.680 Antonym synonym, contronyms. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.160 And he asked me the other day, He's like, what's 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.640 I thought? He asked me what's a synonym for cemon cinnamon? 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.040 And I was like, spice. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:58.240 I don't know. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.840 I was trying to think, you like, not synamon synonym. 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.320 So he was saying, what's the and I was like, Jesus, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.320 now my brain just melts it, dude, I don't know. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.000 Like I said, alternate, you know, I was trying to 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.320 come up with synonyms for synonym. But then I was like, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.480 I thought he was just being clever about the. 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.200 Simon what it would be a synonym for synonym. I 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.440 couldn't imagine that. That is so funny, Tim. I saw 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:24.720 that and I was like, oh, writer, we have to 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.880 have a I was going to love this. What a 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.000 word that literally means? 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.640 I mean, the idea of the English language that flammable 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.960 and inflammable mean the same thing. 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.160 Is insane to me. How does anyone learn our language? 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.480 I know, absurd when you. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.160 Think of English, it's absurd to think of one little 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.440 thing and it actually means you're gonna die. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.240 Wait what Adler just recently was like reading something and 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.280 he goes, hey, why is too spelled wrong? And I 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:54.880 said what do you mean? And he said it says 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.400 t oo And I was like, oh, that is two 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.040 as in also and he goes, oh, so that other 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.720 two is just t o And I was like, well, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:03.720 unless you're talking about the. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.600 Number two, Like. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.800 Oh god, I'm like, I'm sorry, you're really learning to 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.960 read and we're picking some of the hardest ones. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:16.440 Sorry, that's just crazy. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:17.800 It is, it really is. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:22.760 I mean, all these little changes can it's yeah, it's yeah. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.800 We Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm Righter. 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:25.960 Strong, and I'm Will Fordell. 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:38.800 What a lot of. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.800 People don't know about the podcast is that very early 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.000 in the process we made a pact with each other 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.159 that while recording, we would never censor ourselves in the moment, 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.960 knowing that we would deal with whatever we wanted to 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.000 cut in the edit. That way, we wouldn't find ourselves 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.040 holding back or fearful of where a comment could take us. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.880 We would just let the process guide each episode, and hilariously, 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.200 in the end, minus some totally insane tangents, we mostly 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:07.520 find ourselves keeping everything in. And that's because since day 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.080 one we've tried our hardest to let honesty lead the 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.960 way we'd lean into the good and the bad that 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.680 came with what is hands down the strangest job a 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.839 kid could have, and that's why we appreciate this week's 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:22.640 guest and his recent journey to inform and destigmatize the 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.040 real journey of an actor. At just seven years old, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.800 he made his Hollywood debut as an original Paul Ryan 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.599 on the legendary soap opera As the World Turns, a 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.560 role played by a total of nine actors over thirty years, 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.120 but his first big break was in the nineteen eighty 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.000 three Stephen King horror movie Kujoe, when he played Tad, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.880 the young son who convinces his family to adopt the 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.880 once friendly and easygoing Saint Bernard, who becomes rabid when 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.120 bit by a cave bat. But we all know him 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.960 best as Jonathan Bauer on the Emmy and Golden Globe 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:59.760 winning sitcom Who's the Boss, alongside Tony Danza, Alissa Milano, 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.279 and Judith Light who played his mother for eight seasons, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:07.440 one hundred and ninety six episodes, and endless years of syndication. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.119 Yet no matter how iconic a show is or how 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.680 recognizable a cast becomes, once the spotlight dims, not everything 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.080 is promised to fall into place. The calls slowed down, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.480 and he'd try to focus on stage acting, a trade 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.440 he learned at Stanford when he took time off in 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.039 the nineties to focus on his education. But when the 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.880 on screen worked completely dried up, he'd pivot to jobs 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:33.120 like tupperware sales rep, restaurant manager, or vet technician to 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.159 pay the bills. But in twenty twenty two, the itch 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.880 came back and he'd return to Hollywood to start over 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.520 in the industry he excelled in as a child, and 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.320 after courageously conquering the demons he accumulated during the struggle, 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.960 he finds himself back in the hustle now as an 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.760 adult and exhibiting the same type of honesty we hope 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.040 to bring to podmeats World every week, whether it's posting 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.520 pictures of himself as an Amazon Flex driver or sharing 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.680 the quote unquote residuals that come from a year old 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.080 TV show, He's been open and vulnerable for all to see. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.800 And so this week we are happy to welcome to 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:12.720 podmeats World a brother in honesty, Danny Pintaro. Huh Hello, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:17.120 We Hey, Danny, Danny, thank you so much for joining us. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.960 I don't think any of us have met before, but 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.440 it's still so strange to feel like we have because 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.600 we all have this very, you know, rare commonality of 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:27.920 shared history of child actorhood. 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:28.720 Yeah. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.480 I think part of it is that we're a little 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.320 bit off in terms of the timeline, and I had 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.800 already pretty much sort of left the business quote unquote 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.840 by the time y'all were working. So that's probably the 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:41.680 biggest reason that we haven't connected for sure. 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.440 Yeah, you weren't always in Hollywood as a kid. You 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.320 were born in New Jersey and your parents had jobs 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.239 far from the business. Yes, do you remember their reaction 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.800 when you started showing an interest in acting. 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.800 Well, it's actually the opposite. I didn't show an interest 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.280 in acting. The story is officially that my mom was 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.200 a hairdresser. She worked in New Jersey. We're about an 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.440 hour outside of Manhattan. And it's just you all know 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.600 the feeling like if you live in the valley here 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.720 in LA and you have a cute kid, everybody says, oh, 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.680 you've got to get him into the business, right. So 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.440 she had some pictures of me on her mirror and 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.720 everybody was like, he's so cute, He's so cute. So finally, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.760 to shut them up, she sent one Polari picture to 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.280 a talent agency in New York and they called her 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.280 three days later with a modeling job for me. Wow, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:38.360 and and and and I mean literally it never stopped. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.400 I literally everything I auditioned for. I got every every commercial, 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.080 every modeling job. I was on a soap opera starting 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.080 at the age of two. I did that for four years. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.520 Okay, so I'm sorry the picture the polaroid that she said, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.280 how old were you in the polaroid? 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.640 I was too. Yeah, it was. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.000 Yeah, so crazy. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.520 Yeah, it definitely wasn't something I was like, Mom, let's 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.920 do this. It was oh, crap, we have to do this. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.800 And it was always very She was always really good 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.560 about saying, look, if you don't feel like doing it, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.080 if you don't want to do this anymore, it's totally fine. 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.680 And I was always game because you know, I was 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.280 really young, which man, I got lots of toys and 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.000 presents and food whenever I did a good job or 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.040 had a good audition. The attention that you're getting as 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.320 a child, especially that young. But honestly, for me, the 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.880 thing I always say is it really feels like the 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:36.400 universe was at play. There's there's It's one thing to 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.760 be a cute kid to do some commercials. It's another 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:41.320 thing to be a three, four, five six year old 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:42.800 doing a soap opera. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:43.680 Yeah. 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:48.240 He played Paul Ryan, right, originally Paul Stenback. 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.200 I was Paul stend Back and then at some point 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.600 he became Paul Ryan. Okay, but yeah, so like you 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.200 can't teach a three year old how to there's this 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.760 one scene that I remember, it was a uh we 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.280 were locked in the closet of my mother's house. Barbara 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.160 Barbara Ryan was her character, Colleen Zank the actress is amazing, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.360 and they set the set on fire, like set it 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.520 on fire. I mean how they did it, I still 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.080 don't know, but I was so fascinated. Anyway, She and 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.680 I go screaming and crying through the living room that 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.959 is on fire, you know, and I was like, cool, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.000 are we gonna do it again? You know, how do 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.080 you teach You can't teach a four year old to 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.040 be capable of having that sort of insight, right, So 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.880 especially with Kujo, Like I mean, people, everyone thinks that 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:44.040 I am permanently scarred for life with dogs. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.680 Right, and that movie was pretty scaring. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.360 I'm sorry, yeah, so much. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.240 Man. It still lives up to this day, which is 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.120 the thing I really love about it. But you know, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.480 everyone thinks I'm scarred, and I think it's a it's 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:01.160 a testament to my ability or my performs that they 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.280 think that I'm scarred for life because it's just so real. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:09.400 And even on set every day every take, D Wallace 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.520 would say, you know, this isn't real we're okay. Are 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.320 you okay? Do you need anything? And I swear to 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.560 you my answer would always be I'm good. Are they 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:18.320 moving the camera? 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:18.520 Like? 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.840 What are we doing next? At the age of six, like, 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.719 how do you There's more going on to it, right, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.120 I just I don't know how to explain it. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:32.280 Do you have memories from being on the as the 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.880 world turns set? Or do you even like, I mean, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.120 when do you have your first what's your first memories? 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.520 Ask the same question. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.520 It's so hard to I mean a lot of my 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:44.520 memories are pictures from the time right because we create 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.640 those in post right. 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:50.280 Column. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.280 The memories that I have that are really strong are 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.360 the fire like things that just really stand out for Kujo. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.240 The one of the few things I remember is they 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.719 cut the the pinto in half so they could get 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:08.040 the camera into the engine area with the thing, So 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:12.040 I just have this vivid image of this like car 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.800 that's cut up and the one scene there's a scene 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.880 where the camera spins around in the ceiling of the 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.640 car and I remember that. But it's mostly visuals of 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.079 like see the scenic stuff. I I guess a fascination 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:28.480 for the sets, but yeah, memory is hard. Right. I 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.960 think we all have memory things, yes, actors, especially the younger. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.640 The younger you started, the worse your current memory issues are. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.520 Like what you focus on like as a kid is 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.560 so different, because, like you were saying, the craft service 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:44.679 was such a big deal to me. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.720 Like my mom never let me have sugary stuff. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.719 So when you got to a craft service and its 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.839 red vines, I was like, they just leave these out 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.440 for we don't pay for this, And it was like, yet, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.520 that's that's the least important part of a set when 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.120 you're a kid, And it's like it's so funny because 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:04.520 you know, I'm an eleven year old now, and like 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.680 he cares about food wherever we go, like that's what 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.480 they remember. It's like, oh, we got ice cream. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.400 I was so precocious that I loved King crab legs 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:14.079 and escargo. 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:16.000 Oh my gosh, I. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.680 Don't get me. Sorry what I meant though, on the 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.240 memory thing, I'm actually curious to see if any of 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.199 you have this. I have this theory, this working theory. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:30.680 My current long term memory is horrible, and I've always 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.880 felt that because I was so young when my brain 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.960 was developing and I was focused on short term memory. 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:41.280 Things like memorizing lines. I'm wondering if my actual sort 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.200 of long term memory area of the brain is a 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.040 little underdeveloped, because my husband will tell you I cannot 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.319 remember last week to save my life, maybe through Alzheimer's. 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.280 But I don't know. Do y'all feel that that's like 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:56.200 a possibility. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.360 I mean, I do feel like it's a muscle, like 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.400 memory is a muscle that you work. And I just 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.800 know that, like memorizing, because I've been acting for years 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.000 and when I try and memorize now, it's difficult, whereas 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.680 when we're on boy Me's World, not a problem. No, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.400 And I feel like it's something that when you start 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.120 doing it, because my wife is still acting and she'll 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.240 go through like a year of not working, but then 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.199 she'll be working, be hard, and then the next time 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:18.800 it's easy again. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.400 You know, it's like you just have to work on it. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.480 So I don't know. Yeah, I definitely think it's a 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.400 but I don't know if I notice a difference between 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.520 long term and short term. It's just whether I'm working 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:27.520 on either one or not. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.520 Well, you're lucky. I yeah, maybe it's just genetics. 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.520 I don't have great long term memory either, But have 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.320 you tried anything like keeping a journal and then and 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.480 then going back and reading things and then seeing if 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.640 you can actually like, yes, I do remember that conversation 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:44.080 I had. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.640 Wouldn't that be nice if I could actually keep myself 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.080 in check to actually do that every day? Saying that 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.920 for years and I still haven't done it. So I'm screwed. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.480 I don't know how I'm gonna I mean, if you're 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.960 forgetting to write in your memory journal, that's probably not 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:00.920 the best comment. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.200 Yeah, I mean, let's start there. I can't even remember 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:04.600 to do that. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.000 But no, it's true. I mean we did. We did 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.000 a live show in New York. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.360 Then Rider and I had to do just a small 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.920 scene together and it was what ten lines each maybe 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.680 something like that, and we had to go. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.280 Over it like twenty five times. Where's back in the day? 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.760 You and I would literally do it once and the 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:21.400 rest of the week. 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.800 Yes, I read it with my wife, I ran it 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.960 with Rider. I ran it was just like, let's I 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:27.480 need to need I had to work at it. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.920 Yeah, it's so funny. Okay, So your dad he worked 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.840 on a lumber yard, right, yeah, okay, so he worked 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.840 in a lumber store and your mom was a hairdresser who, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.360 on a lark decides to send your picture in And 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:45.840 you now are consistently booking jobs. You've already now been 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.080 on a bunch of commercials, modeling jobs, You've done a 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.280 for years, You've done a soap opera, You've done a 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:57.280 massive movie like Kujoe. Are your parents freaking out? How 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.960 do they just all of a sudden now is there 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.080 full time job on set with you? How are they 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.960 responding to this sort of immediate career you have. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.680 So the thing about it is that the money wasn't 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.600 particularly great until that point. It was useful and it 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:16.120 was important, but Dad still worked, so it was mom 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.040 who was taking me to New York every day or 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.960 whenever I needed to go. And at that point Kujo 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.200 was a big deal, But it's more of a hindsight 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.040 big deal than it was then. They weren't actually sure 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.400 how successful it would be, horror the whole thing. It 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.640 just didn't feel like we had a blockbuster on our hands. Yeah, 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.600 So I don't think they came out of the movie thinking, Wow, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.360 this is going to be it. We're done, We're set. 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.280 So it wasn't until the pilot for Who's the boss. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.160 That felt real and that felt important. And then there 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.000 was this waiting period back in New Jersey, waiting to 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.720 see if the pilot got picked up. And when it did, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.400 my mom and I flew out to California. We stayed 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:57.960 at those apartments. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.040 Near the Woods the ok. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:01.040 We all lived there. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.800 Everybody's lived at the Oak Woods. And then Dad quit 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.080 his job, packed up the house, sold the house, moved 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.480 the house, moved everything. So he he came a few 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.000 months later. Yeah, because it was. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.920 I have to ask just Kujo wise. Did you did 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.320 you meet Stephen King No. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.880 I spoke to him on the phone. Apparently I don't 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.400 remember the call, but he was kind of a mess 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.400 at the time, if you know. According to his sort 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.040 of life history and his writing, he was. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:35.520 Yeah, he says he doesn't remember writing Kujo. Really, he's 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.240 a pretty good novel. I have no recollection. 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:45.119 That's hilarious. Do you remember your audition for Who's the Boss? 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.919 I don't, specifically, but the story has been told to 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.880 me and it is ingrained in my brain and will 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.000 never leave my brain because it's a great story and 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.960 I've told her a thousand times. But I don't actually 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.000 remember the audition. I think that's the actor thing in me. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.800 I think one of the reasons I don't have a 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.880 lot of great memories on said is because I'm inside 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.200 the character, and you know, you wake up ten minutes 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:06.720 later and you did a whole scene and you're like, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.120 I don't remember any of that. So I think that's 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.720 part of the reason. But the story is so funny 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.560 and it is literally why I got the job. So 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:23.199 I was six and couldn't read right, I'm six, So 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.119 my mom would read the scripts to me and she 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.399 would have me memorize the line before mine, so I 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.160 knew when I went to speak and then my line. 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:34.000 Of course, and Tony Danza Judith Light had been there 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.000 all day auditioning kids for the show, and they were 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:40.879 paraphrasing by that point in the day. So we start 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:45.520 the scene and I literally stop and I go, I'm sorry, 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.000 can you please say the lines as written in the 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.200 script because that's how I memorized them? 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:52.880 Oh my, And. 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.720 They were like, that's him, that's it. Literally, we're done. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.480 Oh that is so cute. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:02.400 The showup coaches, I. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.560 Mean, you're like, sorry, we're not gonna be able to 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:05.200 continue this. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:11.199 Until professionals can profession I literally did another interview recently 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.800 and they showed me a clip of the first day 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.040 of filming. We did interviews for Entertainment tonight on the 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.639 first day and I six year old was literally sitting 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.399 there like this and I'm like, yeah, you know, this 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.399 is not hard. We're good. I mean, I was like 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:30.120 the old man energy of just being like, yeah, I'm good, 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.480 We're gonna have a great time, but this isn't hard. 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:40.080 Like I just. 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:42.920 When Tony Danza gets bit by a rabid bat, we'll talk, okay. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:48.160 The god the show may have been built around Tony Danza, 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.960 but the show was really about a family ensemble. What 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.480 was the dynamic of the cast Like it was awesome and. 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.440 I know you all know what that feels like, right, 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:03.560 I mean, it transcends the page for sure. And I 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:08.399 think Tony had this really specific idea that one of 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.600 the ways to keep the show being successful was to 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.679 bring the audience in every time we did a live taping. 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:18.159 And I mean he was literally standing in front of 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.280 the audience talking to them while people were changing, while 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:23.879 stuff was moving around. He kept them engaged. He was 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.919 telling stories, he was doing jokes, he was tap dancing, 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:33.439 went to our little tap dance thing, and that transcended 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:37.719 into our performances because we also understood that the more 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.919 we loved each other and had we're having fun, the 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.880 more the audience would love the moment. And it just 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.359 felt like it was this circle of like energy moving around, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.280 and I mean every moment of it was just magical. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.640 There's there's and then you know, so it transcends. You've 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.480