WEBVTT - One on One: Jordan Belfi 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.279 I Am all in. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:08.760 You. 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.160 I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.239 All Right, Everybody, Scott Patterson one on one interview, I 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.920 Am All In Podcast, iHeartRadio one eleven Productions. We are 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.400 going to be talking to a Jordan Belfie, who played 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:34.919 the role of Jordan Chase for one episode in two 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.480 thousand and five. His only appearance was in season five, 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.240 episode eight, The Party's Over. His character was Jordan. He 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.479 was sent to talk to Rory at the party by Emily, 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.920 who told him that they were made for each other. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.880 Logan and erupts them and thanks Jordan for keeping his 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.320 girl quote unquote busy. All right, A little bit about Jordan. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.400 He was born in Los Angeles, California. He's an actor 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.120 and producer known for Entourage two thousand and four, All 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.120 American twenty eighteen, Grades Anatomy two thousand and five. He 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:09.360 has been married to Rochelle de Maria since October twenty seven, 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:13.360 twenty eighteen. He has a young son. And we're going 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.400 to get to know Jordan a little better. And why 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.360 don't you bring him on in? Hey Jordan, Hi, Hey, 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.240 all right, let's do it. Man. How'd you get into acting. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.639 How did I get into acting? Well, I started actually 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.440 when I was a kid. I was obsessed with cinema. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.000 I was always shooting movies and wrangling all the kids 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.520 from the neighborhood. So I was always obsessed with movies 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:39.319 and with acting. I started doing commercials actually, you know, 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.040 when I was a kid. But I went away to 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.960 film school back east. I grew up in southern Calfin 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.200 in LA, just outside of the you know, in the 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.240 suburbs outside of LA. Went to New England to school 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.720 to Wesleyan University. Was a film major. There was directing 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:54.800 shows and performing in shows. But I was a film major. 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:59.080 And then when I came back, I really started my career. 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:01.720 I directed a your thesis film while in school that 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.200 got seen when I got back to LA, passed around, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.800 got me picked up by the agents and managers I 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.200 had at the time, and then I started my career wonderful. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.200 I am. DP page says that you were a camera 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.680 production assistant on the movie Wild Wild West. Is that true? 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.240 It's totally true. I was still in college at the time. I, 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.960 like I said, I was a film major, So I 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:28.200 was hustling and getting in and around anything that I could, 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.360 And I got on that movie as a in the 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:36.040 camera department, and I was a teenager and I was 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.440 taken in by the camera crew. It was a famous 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.440 director of photography named Michael Ballhaus fellows and tons of 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:48.280 Scorsese movies, story DP. I worked in his department. The 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.640 camera operator on that movie became like a mentor to me, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.240 not only just a friend, but a mentor, and he 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.960 ended up shooting that that senior thesis film of mine 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.480 my senior year of college. And so I built this 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.280 amazing community of a film makers and friends who were 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.880 serious professionals and became mentors and it helped me generate 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.040 a start to my career. But yes, it's totally true. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.920 And will Smith was very kind to me at the 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:16.360 at the time I was. Again, I can't say that 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.079 he did, but it. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:19.440 Was, it was. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.240 It was a really formative point for me in terms 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.000 of being around it was. It was the biggest of 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:29.800 the big in terms of studio movies, and I was 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.200 a teenager and I was right next to camera the 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.760 whole time, and I took in all of it and 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:40.080 it really affected me, affected what I wanted to do, 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:41.680 but also the way in which I was going to 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.640 go about doing it. I absorbed everything I could from, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.120 you know, the guys that were doing it at the 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.840 highest levels, and so I was really lucky and really 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.560 fortunate to be in that position and then to uh 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:53.440 to take it all in. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:59.960 Yeah, I mean watching a guy like Ballhause jeez, yeah, yeah, deep, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.720 He's always got me very excited. If you knew that 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.240 it was a top guy and you're going to be 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.840 working with a top guy, then everybody just kind of 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.760 sat back and let him light and let him do 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:11.240 his thing. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.240 And although I will say, I don't want to talk 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.120 out of school, because again I was I was just 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:21.200 a camera assistant on that. But a guy named Barry 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.880 Soenfeld was directing that who famously, you know, made Men 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:29.440 in Black, you know, with and movies I loved, like 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:34.080 Get Shorty and things like that. But he I could 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.160 even tell, and again I don't want to talk out 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.200 of school, but I could even tell at that point 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:43.080 that he and his style and Michael Bauhaus's style didn't 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:48.760 really mesh. Oh no, And unfortunately, I think it's sort 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.279 of like resulted in a movie that really wasn't what 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:57.040 it could have been. But in terms of the people 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:58.760 and the experience for me personally. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.880 But I mean, but Unfeld picked him or did the 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.120 studio just say you're working with Balhausen. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.080 I can't. I don't know enough to be able to 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:07.599 say say. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.560 They must have sat down. I mean they spend all 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.680 of that time in pre production together, you know, mapping 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.679 out shots and locations they were together. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.560 Yeah, But you know, as with anything in any kind 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.920 of collaborative art form, sometimes you know, it isn't until 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.160 you're in the thick of it that you know you 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.479 either you either line up or you don't. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:32.400 I know what happened. I Will Smith started just unloading 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.240 on both of them, right, he was just slapping people 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:35.280 all over the place. Right. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.279 It isn't true, but funny, funny thought nonetheless. But yeah, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.680 I mean that's why I think, even in my own career, 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.640 in my own life, when you find people that you 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.839 work with that you just that spark happens. It's a 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.080 sort of difficult thing to describe to people outside of it. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.720 But there's an electricity, there's a sort of ineffable, you know, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:00.680 ethereal connection that can happen that becomes a electric and 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.120 profound And when you find that in somebody that you're 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.680 working with, you want to work with that person over 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.640 and over again. It's why you see you know, you 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.800 know DiCaprio and Scorsese or any of these teams, or 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.280 the movie after movie after movie. You just want to 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.000 keep working. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.599 With those I found that several times. But it was 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:23.440 always with the craft service food I found. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.960 But equally equally is important. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:31.880 Amazing. What do you remember about your role on Gilmore Girls? 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.560 Yeah, so when you guys reached out about this, it 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.000 was it was going a minute. 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.040 Did you even remember being on this ship? 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.159 Oh? No, I know. I will say, I'm not going 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.520 to pretend that I don't remember. You know, you try 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.359 to think that, oh, I'm way past that, you know. No, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:53.040 I remember everything and everything I've ever done, and I 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.760 remember almost everybody I've I've ever worked with. That's the 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.760 way my mind works, and that's the way my heart works. 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.839 But uh, what what do I remember about it? I remember, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.640 I remember auditioning for it. I remember in the room 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.480 it was a very specific thing that they said, uh 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.920 that we talked fast on this show, and that's just 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.640 the way we do it. I remember even in the 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.440 audition them telling it. It was just sort of a thing. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.280 I think they said to any actor, any performance coming through, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.720 this is our this is the world, this is how 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.200 we we operate. And it was very clear from moment 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.040 one that that's how they operated. The other things I remember, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:32.680 I don't know how much detail you want, but. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.960 I want it all, man, give it to everything. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:41.120 Oh god, man. I remember that that they were very 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:46.200 into for characters like like you know that came through 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.520 for an episode like mine. They were very into using 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.000 your own name the name of the character. There was 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.480 something about that that I think that they thought that 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.640 gave us sort of some extra little authenticity, something little 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:00.400 icing on the cake. 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:01.960 Well, they didn't have to clear it. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.680 That might be a practical legal reason that I'm not 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.560 aware of, but I'm going with the artistic side. But 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.360 you might be right. I'm trying to give the creators 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:14.800 and the and and the writers. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.120 That is what I do. I ruin it. I ruin it. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.480 I just I just I'm. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.120 Sure all the magic and mystery. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.400 I just keep my mouth shut. I'd be I'd be 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:23.960 a lot better off now. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.960 Scott, It's cool. I actually I believe I believe it. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.600 I believe that characters like that they. 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.920 It's not cool. I gotta stop rowing and stuff. Man, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:38.080 No it is. It's an amazing detail. It's fraught with 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.360 artistic integrity. You used your own name. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.280 I didn't use my own name. They changed the name 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:51.920 of the character. What a twist, I mean for all 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.719 of it. Man, the character this I couldn't tell you. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.720 I don't remember what the character was named. Prior to me, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.679 it was something Chase, but they changed it. I showed up, 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.240 I got the script, and all of a sudden it 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.200 was Jordan Chase and some of the other things I remember. 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:15.320 I remember very distinctly waiting probably twelve hours to shoot. 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.440 It was one of those things where I remember sitting 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:22.160 in the trailer whatever schedule. The schedules like that happen 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:22.400 all the. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.560 Time, and you probably got the call from the you know, saying, hey, 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.040 you know, we're just about to get to your scene. 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.240 You need to come back now correctly. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:31.600 Then you're there all day. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.439 The reason I remember that, Scott is because I know 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.920 I'm from LA but my entire childhood and life I've 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.720 been a Boston Red Sox fan. This was two thousand 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.560 and four. This was October of two thousand and four. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.280 I remember it very specifically, this. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:49.800 Is when they is this the first time they won 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.000 it in a long time? Right? 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.120 This was the year that the one and while we 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:59.880 were shooting Gilmore Girls, the alcs between famously between the 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.080 Red Sox and the Yankees where they were down three 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.320 games to zero and then came back in one fourth 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.000 straight in this miracle thing to beat the Yankees in 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.840 order to go the World Series. And the reason I 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:13.400 mentioned that is because I remember during those twelve hours 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.040 that I was waiting at the end of the night, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.040 I sat in my trailer and I watched the Red 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.880 Sox lose one of those three games to the Yankees, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:26.600 and it burned in my mind. And then when they 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.199 finally called, I went and shot that's that's stuff and 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:29.959 Gilmore Girls. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.640 So you're borrowing from your own life and bringing it 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:34.760 into the work. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.160 Borrowing something interesting. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.920 From Jordan with the loss, the baseball loss. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.800 It's true because in that scene I am I am 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:45.839 totally rejected. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.880 I do lose because I remember watching the episode and 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.000 I remember seeing you, and I said, this guy is 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.760 rising above some serious pain. Now I know what it is. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:01.520 I could tell the sarcasms a little thing, A dare 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:07.679 you diminish that role. No. I And again, I don't 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.280 know if this is interesting to you or your your audience, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.959 your listeners. But the other reason I remember that time 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.040 so specifically is because that two thousand and four, as 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.520 long ago as that was, it seems like a lifetime ago. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.160 It was actually a very transfer. Well, it was kind 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:28.280 of an inflection point in my career because that was 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.600 also the same year that I started on Entourage. Ah, 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.400 and that changed my career. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.400 Oh sure, So what was the part like on Entourage? 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:38.600 What did you do on Entourage? 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.720 I played this character named Adam Davies. I was an agent. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:45.960 I started out as Johnny Drama Kevin Dillon's character, his agent, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:50.000 and then I grew to become a nemesis to Ari 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:54.080 Gold and Jerem Pimmon's character. And so I did it 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.520 for six years. But that year, the first was the 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.720 first episode that I did, And it was supposed to 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:04.720 only be one episode originally, but it just it became 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.680 something that grew. Deug Gallon, the creator kept writing me 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.400 in and it just became this this character on the show. 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.440 But that was the same time I was doing this 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.400 this Gilmore Girls, and so it's burned into my memory 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.360 for that reason as well, was that it was one 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.600 of those as an actor, you remember those moments in 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:24.679 your career. There are these like points along that that 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.079 graph that you're like, that's when that happened and that changed. 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:29.440 It was that. 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:39.360 So what do you remember about filming with with Matt 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.240 Zukri and Alexis Bledel. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.360 You know what's funny is that I just worked. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.800 With Matt no on The Resident The Residence. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.840 I just and we talked about it and it's it 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.320 was it's one of these things about this this business, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.880 and it's a beautiful thing actually that you know, in effect, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.600 it's a very very small business. It's a small world, 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.000 but it's an infinitely smaller business. And you know the 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:07.160 fact that you could circle back with somebody and reunite 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.760 and work again, you know, seventeen eighteen years later or 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:15.160 whatever it is, is remarkable and it's you know, it's 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.719 it's super fun. I mean I didn't I got to 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.480 be honest, I didn't get to necessarily know them super well, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.080 you know, from coming in and doing an episode. But 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.440 everyone was cool. I mean it was fun. And you know, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.440 for anyone that's listening that doesn't know what we're referring to. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.760 What I remember is that it's basically this party, and 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:36.600 I'm hitting on Rory. Is it? It's work. I've been asked 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.760 to go up by you know that she's you know, 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.760 maybe available, or at least that's what I've been told, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:42.280 and I go hit on her. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.400 And as as a young man would, as. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.079 A young upstanding man would. 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.920 I don't invited to the party for that very purpose. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.280 So so Matt, you know, in the scene, Matt slides 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.680 in and save her from from me. As I write, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:01.520 so we're big. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.840 We're big Matt fans here at the podcast. We adore, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.240 we adore Maddie. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:08.360 He's a nice guy. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.280 Oh, he's a terrific, terrific guy. 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.440 Yeah, and I will. And you know, I think a 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.520 lot of times because I've you know, I've guested and 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.560 recurred on many, many, many many shows, and you're in 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.920 an interesting position when you're coming in to do an 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:28.800 episode or two or three, or do an arc on 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:32.680 a show like that, because you're essentially a guest in 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:38.320 someone else's house. And in a way I've been told, 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.640 you know, I don't think about it this way, but 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:44.240 in a lot of ways, it's actually a more difficult 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:45.600 position to be in. 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.800 I agree, I do it. I agree with that you have. 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.600 To just sort of drop in to an already established. 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.080 World, especially that show. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:15:00.200 Especially that show, but an already established universe that has 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.080 its own rules, its own tone, it's its own rhythms. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.000 You weren't allowed to look at anybody, right, those signs 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.200 were up, don't You're. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.120 Not allowed to look at Mad or you know, or 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.480 Alexus in the eye. I mean, those things color it. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:16.240 But but you have to drop in and operate in 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:19.000 this way that like it's seamless with with a world 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.760 that's already established that you have no ramp up to 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.680 ease into, and so you've got to drop in and 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.240 be there. Yeah, in a way like doing a role 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.160 like that on Gilmore Girls. I mean it's, uh, you 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.800 just got to kind of you've got to execute. You 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.280 got to drop in and be there. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.200 Did you rehearse? Did you rehearse your scene? A ton 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.360 of times? That way? 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.600 Oh? Personally or personally with or with with the Mad 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:44.520 and a Lexus? 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.200 No, I mean your like the Night Course, I mean, of. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.160 Course, I mean you you know, you do all your 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.280 own work, and a lot of that, particularly because I'm 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.600 probably not telling you anything you don't already know, or 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.360 most of your audience doesn't already know. But the speed 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.920 of television there is zero rehearsal and so. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.480 Really well known. Well for that, I guess that kind 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.480 of a scene they didn't they didn't they didn't rehearse 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:09.280 the scene. 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.160 Not just not just that kind of scene, any scene. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.040 I mean you And what by I mean zero rehearsal. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.320 You might do it a take or a rehearsal take 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.240 or to just to sort of you know, stage it 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.720 for for you know, the director and the crew and 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.240 they see you know your position and stuff. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:26.600 Yeah, well they have to do it for camera to 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.480 get focused focused us. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.520 You run it. You run it once or twice for 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.280 those reasons, sort of practical reason and sometimes you know, 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.920 for you to find it for a second. But you 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.640 don't have time to work it and make discoveries. And 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.040 really you're expected and and as you should be, you know, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.560 to to be ready to go and turn it on 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.480 and execute, and television and and a lot of movies, 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.000 you don't have time for that. You you got to 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.960 be a pro and show up. And so even more 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:55.760 so with a scene like this, like we're not going 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.760 to rehearse, rehearse, it's like you're gonna be brought in, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.920 You're going to drop in, You're do it once for 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.240 camera and for Marx, and then you're gonna shoot. Yeah, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.400 particularly when they're running as far behind as they were 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.880 that night, right exactly. 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.159 Yeah, You poor guys have to pay the price every 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.840 time with those big setups, in those big party scenes 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:16.560 they take forever. 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.280 It's a small it's a small price to pay for 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:19.800 that price. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:27.760 Yeah. So when you're out in the in the real 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:34.680 world outside of the Hollywood bubble, are you recognized for 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:40.600 the Gilmore girl role? Are you recognized for the Entourage role? 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.119 What do you recognize for? 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.480 There are a handful, you know. Again I say this humbly, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:51.600 and you know, out of complete uh gratitude for people, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.840 you know, having appreciation for your work. It's not too 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.640 or anything like that. But yes, there are. There are 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.320 a handful of roles that I've had the wildly good 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:07.640 fortune to play. The people love that. People watch over 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.720 and over again and recognize me for when I'm out 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.439 and about. Probably, you know, the the biggest one is 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:19.120 Entourage because it has that show, you know, although it's 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:20.760 been off the air for a number of years now. 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.320 The fandom around that show and the way it was 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:28.480 a kind of again it started in two thousand and four. 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.160 HBO was the prestige game in town. It was no streaming. 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:38.480 HBO Sunday Nights was sacrocick. It was the prestigious night 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.520 of television. In fact, remember the whole thing HBO. It's 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:42.879 not TV, you know, it's HBO. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:43.280 Right. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.800 It was that era of like just you know, Sopranos 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.119 was still on, but you know, Sex and the City 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.280 and then Entourage came. It was like zeitgeist stuff. 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:55.800 Right, they're using swear words. 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:59.560 Wow. Yeah, But I can't tell you how many people 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.480 love come up to me quote my own lines back 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.159 at me, want to talk about it, or tell me 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.080 about how they moved to La because of that show, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.320 or they wanted to get into the entertainment business because 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.840 of what they saw on Enturage or whatever it was. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.600 It was a lot of people's window kind of lyriistic 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:25.680 jokes on Yeah, it is really true. But you know 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.240 it's also interesting, Scott, is that when you look enough, 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:33.800 time passes because La itself was sort of almost another 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.720 character within the show, because it was all about Los 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.480 Angeles and it was all shot on location in and 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:41.879 around Los Angeles. What's amazing is when you look at 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.080 the show, now, how much of a kind of time 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.880 capsule for Los Angeles the show because unfortunately, how La 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.720 What La is sort of what's happened in La in 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:54.920 the past handful of years and you look back on 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.399 entraage and you see it glaringly. But anyway, to finished 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.919 answer your question, Entourage and I start in, you know, 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.240 in a Hallmark you know rom com, a kind of 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.280 you know holiday Hallmark movie. Oh really, for whatever reason, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.480 I you know, I start in this movie. People, it's 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.680 one of the most popular Hallmark movies. 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:16.159 Of all time, no kidding? Who is who is your 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:17.560 co star? Who is the female? 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:22.160 A woman named Katrina Law? Okay, Katrina is now on NCIS, 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:28.040 but they they play it every single holiday season for 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:33.720 ten years. It is remarkable. And what's what's special about that? 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.159 And I'm not diminishing that genre at all, because it's 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:40.560 is that it because it airs every year, and it's 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:44.119 part of it's become a part of people's holiday traditions. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:46.640 You're in their homes. You're not just in their homes, 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.200 but you're in their homes during the period that they're 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.199 most kind of with their family in that kind of 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:57.600 cozy place. So for for my movie, for that movie 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.720 to be a part of people's tradition and their family 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:03.720 time in that way, it's a really special People love 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.800 it and you know you can't help, but just you know, 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.639 be grateful for being able to be a part of that, 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:11.160 you know, be a part of people's lives in that way. 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:12.760