Speaker 1: I am all in again.
Speaker 2: I am all in again with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio Podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all in Podcast one
Speaker 1: eleven productions, iHeartRadio Media, iHeart Podcast and with our special guest,
Speaker 1: Colin Egglesfield. He's someone you might recognize from All My Children,
Speaker 1: melrose Place, a little film called Something balld in a
Speaker 1: guest role in Gilmore Girls Season four. Welcome Colin. How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Pal?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Scott. Good to see you.
Speaker 1: Good, good good. Emily and Laurel I and Peyton? What
Speaker 1: are we think in here? Emily invites Laurel I to
Speaker 1: an auction for her society, Matrons League and Antiques. Shell
Speaker 1: wants to go. There's an auction, there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: things happening. John Hamm shows up. It's total in Sanity's
Speaker 1: drinking wine. I didn't know John Hamm was a wine
Speaker 1: drinker that that early in his career. So she meets
Speaker 1: Peyton at Emily's event. Should she have been more cautious
Speaker 1: about pursuing this turkey? He turns out to be a
Speaker 1: real dud? Was this a careless oversight? Colin? In your estimation? Please?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Come on, it's John Ham, dude, Like, why would you
Speaker 3: How could you say no to John Ham?
Speaker 1: It was a huge day. No, you just say they.
Speaker 3: Madmen and Don Draper. So it's cool to see him
Speaker 3: in early version of him before he got his big break.
Speaker 3: But no, man, how could you say no to to
Speaker 3: to charming Peyton slash John Ham?
Speaker 1: I was named Peyton? What Peyton Sheridan Peyton Shell? Peyton
Speaker 1: wasn't I can't remember something Peyton Sherwood yeacked at anyway, Uh.
Speaker 3: I don't believe her though, I from how he met
Speaker 3: her at the bar. I mean he's got his jet,
Speaker 3: invited her to David Bowie. I mean, I I have
Speaker 3: a sneaking suspicion that he wasn't the drip that she
Speaker 3: made him sound out to be.
Speaker 1: I think you think he tanked it on purpose because
Speaker 1: he didn't want to see her again.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe it was because she talked so fast.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's sacrilegious, really to say something like that.
Speaker 1: You better be careful, man. I know, no, but you
Speaker 1: know it's a it's a it's a possibility. But I
Speaker 1: think I think by the way she look they just
Speaker 1: they didn't connect. I kind of believed her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean she she has so much charisma. She
Speaker 3: is more of a I mean, how can you not
Speaker 3: fall in love with Loralai? Obviously she's got she's charming,
Speaker 3: she's beautiful, she's she's witty, she's cute, endearing, and I
Speaker 3: could see where Peyton probably being a little more of
Speaker 3: a upper crust kind of a stiff where it wouldn't
Speaker 3: necessarily work out. But here's the thing, you know, there's
Speaker 3: the physical attraction. So obviously they look good together. And
Speaker 3: I think this is what happens in relationships, where you
Speaker 3: physically fall for someone and you kind of overlook some
Speaker 3: of the things that maybe are red flags in the beginning,
Speaker 3: but because you're so attracted to them, you overlook them,
Speaker 3: and then before you know it, you're in a relationship
Speaker 3: physically and not speaking from experience or anything, and you're like,
Speaker 3: you wake up one day and you're like, maybe I
Speaker 3: really don't know this person as well as I thought
Speaker 3: I did. Even though they are beautiful and I'm attracted
Speaker 3: to them, some of the things that are coming out
Speaker 3: of their mouth are not so attractive.
Speaker 1: You know what. She was just too smart for him.
Speaker 1: He couldn't care. Probably all right, So Laura I cantinues
Speaker 1: to fight for her independence from Emily and Richard's world.
Speaker 1: Do you think this reassures why she separates herself from
Speaker 1: their community?
Speaker 3: You know it was. The episode raised a really good point,
Speaker 3: and I really liked the way that Loralai brought up that, look, mom, dad,
Speaker 3: it's nothing that I'm doing intentionally to hurt you guys.
Speaker 3: I'm just I went on a date, Like why are
Speaker 3: you putting all of your baggage onto me? And I
Speaker 3: think that's a very common thing where parents have maybe
Speaker 3: certain expectations about what we do and what they think.
Speaker 1: We should be doing.
Speaker 3: But I honestly I thought it was I mean, I
Speaker 3: could see both ways. I think it was unfair that
Speaker 3: they put that kind of onus on Lauraai when she
Speaker 3: was just trying to go on a date. But I
Speaker 3: could also see in certain circles where there's a protocol,
Speaker 3: like her father said. And what I did like about
Speaker 3: what her father said was your mother drinks gets her
Speaker 3: tea first, and she's used to getting her tea first.
Speaker 3: And I don't understand her world. You may not understand
Speaker 3: her world, but because she's my wife, I am damn
Speaker 3: well going to make sure that my wife gets her
Speaker 3: tea first, And I think that is what maybe is
Speaker 3: missing in a lot of relationships.
Speaker 1: Do you think Laura Lean was being selfish by not
Speaker 1: considering Emily in the first place.
Speaker 3: I think her parents should have have talked to her
Speaker 3: at dinner when she first asks for the phone number.
Speaker 3: I think her mom should have said, by the way,
Speaker 3: if you do go out with him, please keep this
Speaker 3: in mind that his mom is in my social circle,
Speaker 3: and so please, whatever you do, just be polite and
Speaker 3: know that if if anything go sideways or whatever, this
Speaker 3: may have a detrimental effect. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But wouldn't Laura I already assume that because Peyton was
Speaker 1: on we know.
Speaker 3: What happens when you assume.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's a tight little circle there with
Speaker 1: the people that she invited, those are all our friends.
Speaker 3: Did your parents ever place expectations on you that you
Speaker 3: thought were unrealistic.
Speaker 1: Not only every day twenty four to seven? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And did they communicate them clearly to you or were
Speaker 3: they just assumed?
Speaker 1: Oh? No, they were very specific about what they expected
Speaker 1: in terms of grades and behavior and social behavior and
Speaker 1: even you know, behavior at the dinner table. Sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah mm hmm, yeah, yep. And you have kids, right,
Speaker 1: uh huh, I I have a son I do.
Speaker 3: And do you feel that you guys have open communication
Speaker 3: and where you can clearly oh god? Yet absolutely yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're you know, kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to teach him, yeah, and then they
Speaker 1: and he's teaching us, I think more than we're teaching him.
Speaker 3: But I think some parents only teach when they get
Speaker 3: angry at their kids after they've already done something wrong.
Speaker 3: And it's like, well, I'm a kid. I didn't know
Speaker 3: or I kind of like, yeah, you know, don't yell
Speaker 3: at me, teach me, like right exactly.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, so yeah, so she she made
Speaker 1: a simple decision. She didn't happen. Why waste time, not
Speaker 1: going to force it. We're done the just causes the
Speaker 1: usual loo kerfuffle over at the Emily's house. All right,
Speaker 1: now we have Dwaite. What'd you think of this guy
Speaker 1: asking her to you know, the water lawn and water
Speaker 1: the African geraniums whatever they were called, go inside the house.
Speaker 1: Spent thirty minutes a day doing this for this guy.
Speaker 1: Didn't even what do you think of this guy's a
Speaker 1: little too much of an imposition, would you have done it? Oh?
Speaker 3: Man? I felt for her because I guess I feel
Speaker 3: like I've been in that situation where you reluctantly say
Speaker 3: yes to something and then they just keep asking for more.
Speaker 3: And a certain point when it came to the going
Speaker 3: inside the house to water the plans or when he
Speaker 3: then asked, I need you to water the lawn three
Speaker 3: times a day instead of ten by myself on my own,
Speaker 3: I probably would have said, you know, listen, dude, this
Speaker 3: is a little ridiculous. But you know, Rory being as
Speaker 3: sweet as he is, that's why it's great to have.
Speaker 3: That's why it started people around you who are like,
Speaker 3: you know what, let's just do this.
Speaker 1: Just think of the lie ability inside his house though,
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't sign away, he didn't sign a
Speaker 1: waiver again well nowadays, yeah, you know, right, exactly right,
Speaker 1: something happens to somebody inside the house and it's trouble
Speaker 1: but good stuff. And I think you know the setup
Speaker 1: for that was just to get just to get soaked,
Speaker 1: run into h Jess and have Jess come in and
Speaker 1: have that scene.
Speaker 3: And I loved how he turned the sprinkler back on
Speaker 3: after he heard that. Who was the other kid that
Speaker 3: was going to come home and help Dean.
Speaker 1: Dean the boyfriend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and uh, I guess yeah, I thought that
Speaker 3: was Milo. Then Amilia and I had to go watch
Speaker 3: the credits or at the beginning rewatch it to make
Speaker 3: to see if it really was him. But yeah, it's
Speaker 3: really cool to see actors get their start on Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 3: I mean, Gilmore Girls was one of the first major
Speaker 3: shows that I ever was on and just blessed to
Speaker 3: have been a part of it. And was that the
Speaker 3: fan event that you and I saw each other again?
Speaker 3: Was that like two months ago in New Milford, which
Speaker 3: is great. So just very honored and blessed to be
Speaker 3: a part of the Gilmore Girls community. I will say though,
Speaker 3: I was curious to see if John Ham appeared in
Speaker 3: the next episode because she agreed to go on the
Speaker 3: next date with him. So I was thinking that, Okay,
Speaker 3: well let's see the David Bowie concert and then it
Speaker 3: was nothing like John hamm and Peyton was. It was
Speaker 3: just an afterthought, like what was he even brought up?
Speaker 1: Peyton Sanders Peyton s Yeah, yeah, they can't go to
Speaker 1: a Boie concert thing. Imagine the royalty payment that I
Speaker 1: have to make for Franny Bowie song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was just like it was very I
Speaker 3: was very curious, why just all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't tease me with Bowie and then and then
Speaker 1: right exactly. I didn't like that at all because I
Speaker 1: knew there wasn't going to be another I knew there
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be a Bowie. So you don't tease
Speaker 1: a Bowie concert and then deny people of Boi concert
Speaker 1: that that in itself, I believe that's actionable and I'm
Speaker 1: consulting my attorney anyway. You know, you think Dwight fits in.
Speaker 1: He's a quirky kind of guy, right, he kind of
Speaker 1: fits right in there. And uh, you know, Bett liberally
Speaker 1: like giving him loreleized cell number. Thanks a lot. But
Speaker 1: you know that's that's the charm of the show, right
Speaker 1: m hm. You know who stole the whole episode for
Speaker 1: me was that giant fish at the end when when
Speaker 1: it was just like listening to his ex wife's abusive
Speaker 1: message and ran out of there, and then the camera
Speaker 1: pans to the aquarium and you just see that giant
Speaker 1: well I don't know what kind of fish it was,
Speaker 1: but it was just like staring at us, you know, like, geez.
Speaker 3: What I like the I like the cuckoo person like
Speaker 3: that was like eight o'clock at the awayssince.
Speaker 1: I've never seen a fish steal a scene that was
Speaker 1: a scene stealing fish actually rewounded a couple of times
Speaker 1: and cracked up just what I did with my mornings.
Speaker 1: This is what it's come to. But I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: if it's going to come to something, it's a good
Speaker 1: thing to have this show to make you laugh.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I liked your scene in the beginning when you were
Speaker 3: complaining about the lactating lady at the table.
Speaker 1: You know, that was odd. That is so. And here's
Speaker 1: people ask me this question all the time, you know,
Speaker 1: are you like Luke in this circumstance. No, not even close.
Speaker 1: And I have actually intervened in public in situations where
Speaker 1: somebody is giving a woman who's breastfeeding her child a
Speaker 1: hard time about it, and I I'm I've stepped in
Speaker 1: and say, yo, back off, stop it, stop stressing her out,
Speaker 1: and stop stressing her baby out. Just walk. You know,
Speaker 1: it really really pisses me off when people, you know,
Speaker 1: get all offended, and it's.
Speaker 3: Like, I agree, that just makes refer to your your performance.
Speaker 1: I thought you were No, no, I know, but but
Speaker 1: I'm answering the fan question, like, are you like, look
Speaker 1: in this situation, it was uncomfortable to watch that. That's
Speaker 1: the character, that's how he feels. Fine, but I don't
Speaker 1: feel that way in any way, shape or form. You know,
Speaker 1: you got to feed your kid. You gotta feed your kid.
Speaker 1: I mean it's the most you know, natural, natural, natural
Speaker 1: thing you could do, is feed your child. I mean,
Speaker 1: how dare anybody try to interrupt that?
Speaker 3: You know, I mean just go to Europe and you
Speaker 3: see it all over the place.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't get why people
Speaker 1: are so. I don't get it. Yeah, providing nourishment to
Speaker 1: a baby angers people. Okay, yeah, that's weird.
Speaker 3: I'm offended. That's well, that's my own people say, oh
Speaker 3: that I'm offended.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's your problem. Okay. So now laurel I
Speaker 1: and Roy are back for Friday night dinner after the
Speaker 1: Peyton debacle. Emily is predictably cold with laurel I now
Speaker 1: because all her hopes are dashed of maybe traveling in
Speaker 1: Peyton's private jets to Maui as a as an extended family.
Speaker 1: For some birthdays or weddings, who knows. Laura Lai actually
Speaker 1: apologizes and she explains that she had a bad time,
Speaker 1: but she's willing to go to the Bowie concert. What
Speaker 1: do you think about that? You think she should have
Speaker 1: stood her ground or.
Speaker 3: I think she did the right thing. Yeah again, I
Speaker 3: think her parents should have.
Speaker 1: Prefaced take one for the team before.
Speaker 3: Even going on the date. Listen, Yeah, this is maybe
Speaker 3: not a normal situation. Just please be aware of like
Speaker 3: what happens with the dates so that h this was
Speaker 3: avoided from the get go. But I did think it
Speaker 3: was sweet. And I think this is what happens in
Speaker 3: relationships where people dig into whether they think they are
Speaker 3: right and they will not acquiesce and they'll just dig
Speaker 3: their heels in. And this is where I think it
Speaker 3: can cause major riffs in relationships and families. Whereas I
Speaker 3: think Loralai shared with us a very important lesson that
Speaker 3: if you really care about the people and your family,
Speaker 3: that sometimes you may have to choose between being right
Speaker 3: and doing something that is loving for the people that
Speaker 3: you care about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well said taking one for the team, Right, She
Speaker 1: took one for the team. Good for her, she did,
Speaker 1: and she had a great last line, very funny line
Speaker 1: she takes. She says, Yeah, what was her last line
Speaker 1: to tell are to borrow a sweater for the concert?
Speaker 1: Borrow Rory's sweater for the concert because she liked Rory's
Speaker 1: blue sweater and she should wear blue more often, you know,
Speaker 1: in the first time they come in.
Speaker 3: What was the last she said? I think it was
Speaker 3: a David Bowie lyric at the very end when she
Speaker 3: grabs round, control the major town, control the major top.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Colin, let's talk about you a little bit. You're
Speaker 1: in the season four episode seventeen Girls in bikinis, boys
Speaker 1: doing the Twist, and we had you on a few
Speaker 1: years ago. Talk about it. Yeah, And you've had a
Speaker 1: lot of roles in TV shows. Is this one of
Speaker 1: your fondest memories of being on set for a day? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I was new to Hollywood.
Speaker 3: I think I was maybe twenty seven or twenty eight
Speaker 3: years old, and my agent called me up that morning
Speaker 3: and said, Hey, I'm sending you an audition for Gilmore Girls.
Speaker 3: It's down in I think it was like Manhattan Beach
Speaker 3: or Redondo, And he said, the audition is this morning,
Speaker 3: and if you get the role, you're working today.
Speaker 1: No, I quickly printed a lunch. Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh yeah, thanks a lot for
Speaker 3: the heads up. But that's how TV and film works.
Speaker 3: It works very quickly, and as you know, and so
Speaker 3: I printed out the sides and I jumped in, you know, shower,
Speaker 3: jumped in my car and driving down from West Hollywood
Speaker 3: to to I think it was Redondo, you know, looking
Speaker 3: trying to memorize my lines while I'm like making sure
Speaker 3: I'm not running through red lights. And finally got down
Speaker 3: there and I walked into where they had rented this
Speaker 3: little motel right on the beach, and so they brought
Speaker 3: us up to where the casting was and there was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, it must have been like fifteen or
Speaker 3: twenty other guys. So we're all sitting there waiting, and
Speaker 3: one by one they brought us in and audition came
Speaker 3: back out. And then it was one of those moments
Speaker 3: where I mean it was it was magical because the
Speaker 3: casting director comes out and she says, okay, everyone can
Speaker 3: leave except for Colin. I was like, all right, amazing.
Speaker 1: This is cool.
Speaker 3: And then she comes up and says, hey, Colin, thanks
Speaker 3: so much for your audition. You know you were great.
Speaker 3: But we have one more actor that's on his way
Speaker 3: over here, so if you wouldn't mind just sticking around.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, I'm sitting there waiting, And it
Speaker 3: must have been like fifteen or twenty minutes, and finally
Speaker 3: this guy walks in. And I had been studying with
Speaker 3: this acting coach named Chris Fields. And in Chris Field's
Speaker 3: acting class, there was this guy named Dan and he
Speaker 3: was like this more experienced, really good looking guy, super confident,
Speaker 3: like everyone wanted to be like Dan in acting class.
Speaker 3: And so when Dan then Dan walks in and I'm
Speaker 3: just like, oh, I mean, I might as well leave
Speaker 3: right now. Here's Dan. He's gonna smoke this audition and
Speaker 3: I might as well just like head back to West Hollywood.
Speaker 3: So he's like, hey, man, what's going on. I'm like, hey, Dan,
Speaker 3: good to see you. So he goes in audition, comes
Speaker 3: back out, and you know, he's got a smile on
Speaker 3: his face when he comes back out and sits down,
Speaker 3: and then she comes back out and says, all right, Dan,
Speaker 3: thanks so much, Colin, you can go to wardrobe. And
Speaker 3: I was like, holy crap, man, like so it was
Speaker 3: it was pretty special and just to be on that,
Speaker 3: you know, obviously a hit show. So early on in
Speaker 3: my career, I'd come from soap opera, but that was
Speaker 3: my first I had done Law and Order SVU. I
Speaker 3: played a mail escort. But other than other than that,
Speaker 3: not so much on my resume.
Speaker 1: And how did Dan end up doing? How's he been doing?
Speaker 1: Did he did he book some stuff?
Speaker 3: You know? I I think I saw him in an
Speaker 3: episode of something else, but I have I've lost touch
Speaker 3: with him. But uh yeah, I'm not I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's I'm sure he's doing all right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's a that's a great story. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: had there, that was stressful for you?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean, how was your audition for Gilmore Girls?
Speaker 1: Though? Pretty easy, breezy. You know, it was just to
Speaker 1: be a guest star in the pilot. And I just
Speaker 1: went in and did a scene. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was supposed to prep two scenes, but there was a
Speaker 1: type all on the sides that said duke on the
Speaker 1: other scene. So I didn't prep it and they told
Speaker 1: me to prep it outside five minutes, came back and
Speaker 1: did it. Left. I wasn't. I felt a good vibe
Speaker 1: in the room, right, you know, you know, you feel
Speaker 1: the vibe or not right. Usually it's like pretty awkward
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, and it's like, you know, it's not right. Yep.
Speaker 1: But this one felt really right. The part felt really right. Whatever.
Speaker 1: But I hadn't invested everything in it. I had three
Speaker 1: auditions that day. I was running around town. I was
Speaker 1: on the west side. I had to get back to
Speaker 1: I was teaching an acting class. So I had to
Speaker 1: get back and I do the second audition, i'd do
Speaker 1: the third audition. I had to drive all the way
Speaker 1: across town and bumper to bumper traffic. I was going
Speaker 1: to be late, so I I, you know, I didn't
Speaker 1: really you know, I was just like I went in
Speaker 1: there and I was a little impatient with him. I
Speaker 1: was cool with him, but I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go. I gotta do this. I gotta get out
Speaker 1: of here.
Speaker 3: And so that was the audition that did they bring
Speaker 3: you back to tests?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it was just that was the only
Speaker 1: audition I got on the back door. And then you know,
Speaker 1: worked out on set when we shot the pilot, and
Speaker 1: then they offered two episodes, and they offered four episodes,
Speaker 1: and we just you know, held firm and said just
Speaker 1: give us a deal. And they gave us a deal,
Speaker 1: so awesome. Bought a bing, bought a boom, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one of those things. One of those things.
Speaker 3: Do you miss the the in person auditions and doing that?
Speaker 1: I do, Yeah, I do, I really really do. I
Speaker 1: just I just did an audition that I you know,
Speaker 1: you put on tape. Now. Yeah, so the first time,
Speaker 1: and I've been doing this for a couple of years,
Speaker 1: right that this has been happening for for you know,
Speaker 1: five six, seven years now that you're you're doing it
Speaker 1: on your cell phone. And but this last one was
Speaker 1: for a Sydney Sweeney film and so I, you know,
Speaker 1: I set up the camera and I, you know, I
Speaker 1: put the wardrobe on, I did the whole thing. But
Speaker 1: you know, you can do good work. It doesn't really matter, right,
Speaker 1: They just need to see the work. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: And in a lot of ways, it's it's far more
Speaker 1: convenient you get you don't A big chunk of your
Speaker 1: day isn't taken. And uh, you know, driving and parking
Speaker 1: and sitting because it's always a long walk from the
Speaker 1: parking lot. It's one hundred degrees.
Speaker 3: You have to park at Warner Brothers Lot seven and then.
Speaker 1: Crush right, take a taxi down bar Ham.
Speaker 3: And then walk through you know, giant studios to get
Speaker 3: to the one little casting office.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you pass like five movie stars and fourteen
Speaker 1: TV stars and you feel smaller. And by the time
Speaker 1: you get there, yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3: And a gladiator and a dwarf, and.
Speaker 5: You just it's it's, I don't know, yeah, like running
Speaker 5: the gauntlet, right, yeah, it's like, well, then you get there,
Speaker 5: you're sweaty, you don't feel too good, and.
Speaker 3: You see seven other guys from hit TV shows and
Speaker 3: you're like, I'm never gonna get right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you know, I learned how to be you know,
Speaker 1: if if you're a little bit obnoxious in the room
Speaker 1: and you throw them off their game, you know you
Speaker 1: can get the edge, you know. Guess you're kind of
Speaker 1: loud and sort of happy. Yeah, you take one innocent victim,
Speaker 1: you said, I said, what's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: How you you know, you just start chattering and everybody
Speaker 1: just looks, you know, they give you.
Speaker 3: Reach and grab potato chips out of there.
Speaker 1: Right, you gotta have audition room game. Yeah right, it's
Speaker 1: a thing. It is a thing. It is a thing, man,
Speaker 1: that's a it's a whole war.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm getting this role, and I'm gonna jack
Speaker 1: you up to get this.
Speaker 3: Role, or at least I'm gonna make you remember me.
Speaker 1: How many how many times have you been sitting there
Speaker 1: nervously waiting, waiting, waiting, and then some boisterous idiot walks
Speaker 1: in right and he throws you off your gain? You
Speaker 1: don't want to Oh, hey man, good to see you.
Speaker 4: Bro.
Speaker 3: Well you're looking wow, man, you look so handsome. And
Speaker 3: what have you been dude, you've been working out?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 3: I'm like, shut the f up.
Speaker 1: Just go over there. But he's in your head now,
Speaker 1: and so that works that I was, that's intentional, my.
Speaker 3: Head down, looking at my sides, pretending I was like
Speaker 3: studying them so and I wouldn't even look at whoever
Speaker 3: would walk in the room until I would walk out.
Speaker 3: And then cause, yeah, some guys just like to chit chat,
Speaker 3: and I think they literally do that to try to
Speaker 3: throw you off your game.
Speaker 1: Oh there's no question. Yeah, no, it's it's you gotta
Speaker 1: have game. But no, no, no, I didn't do that on
Speaker 1: that one on the on the Gilmore audition, it was
Speaker 1: just you know, I didn't wait very long. They saw
Speaker 1: me right away. That's good. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty quick.
Speaker 1: It's not like they were waiting for me or anything.
Speaker 1: But it was like I signed in and then I
Speaker 1: sat down for like seems like a minute, and they said,
Speaker 1: all right, they're writing and I went in, Yeah, no
Speaker 1: big deal, mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wish they were all like that, right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I started producing my own projects so they don't have
Speaker 3: to do that process because it's just so annoying having
Speaker 3: to audition and wait until you get chosen. So I
Speaker 3: just produced a film in Chicago a couple of months ago,
Speaker 3: and it's fun being on the other side getting to
Speaker 3: choose the other actors, and it's just amazing just watching
Speaker 3: when actor submit, you can definitely tell the actors that
Speaker 3: have done the work and have prepared and the other
Speaker 3: ones that are just kind of like trying to figure
Speaker 3: out the like have you read this? Did you even
Speaker 3: look at this before you turn the camera on. It's
Speaker 3: it's incredible, like how unprepared some actors are.
Speaker 1: But I understand, you know, auditioning is an acting, it's
Speaker 1: just a it's a show. You just put on your
Speaker 1: gun slinger. You're a gunslinger and you go in and
Speaker 1: you flip the psychology and you take the room. And
Speaker 1: that's that's what you have to learn how to do
Speaker 1: shots on right, because it's not about act I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like and if you're the if you have a process,
Speaker 1: if you have any kind of process in place, right,
Speaker 1: don't want to make choices right away, and you really can't,
Speaker 1: and you and auditioning forces you to make choices. And
Speaker 1: that's why I was bad at it for for a
Speaker 1: long time until I figured out, you know what, let
Speaker 1: them see your process. Don't give them something complet lee,
Speaker 1: but let them see that you have a process, you know,
Speaker 1: and that you have an idea here.
Speaker 3: So what would that look like for you?
Speaker 1: Going with my first impressions, like trusting my instincts, my
Speaker 1: initial instincts when I read the script and then you
Speaker 1: get a feeling, you get a vibe, and then something
Speaker 1: happens when you just sort of read the dialogue you know, flatly,
Speaker 1: and then you go oh, and then choices are kind
Speaker 1: of made for you instinctually. And I go with that.
Speaker 3: So how would you show them that process when you
Speaker 3: walked in.
Speaker 1: The room, turn around, you tell them I just want
Speaker 1: to take a minute. Okay, yeah, then you turn around,
Speaker 1: turn your back on him. You count to about thirty seriously, seriously,
Speaker 1: and then you turn around and you go all right,
Speaker 1: I'm ready because now you have their attention.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I would do that, just not that long.
Speaker 1: But that's oh yeah, thirty second.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's that's ballard.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't work though, like, okay, come on, it's like,
Speaker 1: do you mind we have a lot of twenty.
Speaker 3: Other actors out there. Come on, and you turn around
Speaker 3: to be not to.
Speaker 1: Be anything, to get their minds off of the fact
Speaker 1: that they have multiple offers out to big names. Yeah,
Speaker 1: whose agents are giving them headaches, and now they have
Speaker 1: to deal with you, a total unknown right when you
Speaker 1: were unknown, and it's like they're not interested. You got
Speaker 1: to get there. How do you get their attention? You
Speaker 1: got it? That's the game. It's like, how do you
Speaker 1: get their attention? How do you get them to focus
Speaker 1: on you and stop thinking about you know, mister Superstar
Speaker 1: rejected their first two offers.
Speaker 3: I would do things like I auditioned for I remember
Speaker 3: Tarzan was being made at WB and I in the
Speaker 3: middle of one of the scenes, I just did a
Speaker 3: cartwheel and like landed to like to start the scene,
Speaker 3: like I was like, landing as Tarzan. That's great from
Speaker 3: a rock and then and you can tell like they
Speaker 3: all start smiling.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you had to do something.
Speaker 1: I remember, get that energy going.
Speaker 3: I brought a six pack of coronas to uh the
Speaker 3: head of casting at Warner Brothers.
Speaker 1: Who is it, Marian Dherty and for film or TV
Speaker 1: for a film. I don't know if Marion was still there, not.
Speaker 3: Sure if she's still there, but things like that because
Speaker 3: I I auditioned for I think it was Badman, like
Speaker 3: years later and she was like, she was like, thanks
Speaker 3: for those six packs for the coronas. And I was like,
Speaker 3: you I go, you remembered.
Speaker 1: She was like A don't huh. That's good, right, you
Speaker 1: gotta do something different, right, that's brilliant. All right, So
Speaker 1: we're kind of out of time. You got to come back, Colin.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, nice child. Put it up with you, buddy,
Speaker 1: and luck with everything, and please thank you do come
Speaker 1: back because this is these shorter segments about forty minutes.
Speaker 1: It's not enough time.
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Speaker 1: Where the Wind Blows Colin Egglesfield and you have your
Speaker 1: own podcast, Beyond Impact Podcast That's Right, which helps professionals
Speaker 1: with public speaking. Colin, thank you for your time. Thanks Scott,
Speaker 1: it's great to see it. We will see you again
Speaker 1: in the not too distant future. Be well, my friend.
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