WEBVTT - One on One: Matt Czuchry 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:17.000 I am all in. Oh, I will kiss you. I 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.720 am all in with Scott Patterson and I Hurt radio podcast. Okay, 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.960 thank you, I got the dead bumps. This thing won't lock. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.319 This thing won't lock a matter. Good thing is I 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.120 don't want to come in. Okay, good, good. So Truesdale 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.680 is trying to break it. Just just Matt, Matt Suer, Hello, Scott, 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.360 so great to have you. Tru Stale is trying to crash. 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.800 You know, thank you. I just gave him. I'll tell you, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.159 I'll give you. I'll give you a little backstory. I said, listen. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.560 Zuker has got a line around the building. He's said 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.319 we can do ten minutes. Come on, let's do one 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:56.160 on one and he goes, no, I already did your show. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.160 I don't want to be on it again, just like 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.240 going on a talk show five times. Said yeah, people 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:04.480 go on talk shows five times. Sure. They want to 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:05.960 keep their name out there, they want to keep their 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.400 projects out there. So that's why we were bickering when 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.160 you wanted it. We were bickering, yeah, and then you 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.039 walked up. But I didn't need him anymore that right, No, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.479 I wanted to Hey, we um, I wanted to chat 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.080 again and and um and talk with you again. So 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.839 I'm happy we're doing it solo now. So so here's 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.559 here's the situation. Kang Um, Matt came in for one 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:32.360 day to this, to this convention. What'd you come in 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.679 from Atlanta? Yeah? Yeah, So you're working on Stop right, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.039 you're doing your resident and it's it's you're in every 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.319 scene probably in it's wall to wall. You must be exhausted. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.160 So you come in for the convention for one day. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.160 You've got tons of people here want your autograph and 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.080 taking selfies and I mean it's just like your line 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:57.160 was huge. So um, and Matt has so graciously given 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.560 us a time at the end of his day. Uh. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:02.400 And I know you must be exhausted. I know you 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.640 have dinner plans, we do two. And I really really 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.680 appreciate this because you're giving us the time and we're 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.160 not going to take up a lot of your time. 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.360 I want to get into like thank you for saying that, 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.919 and thank you. I really do appreciate it because I'm 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.280 I'm dragging myself. I'm so tired. It's like, you know, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.400 the traveling and the whole thing, and it's just like 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.320 but I want to dig in to who you are, 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.480 why you're so good at what you do? Why do 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.359 you think? Why do you think people respond to you 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.160 the way that they do, Because it's very very very positive. 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.480 You must know this at this point. You know they 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.280 talk about you know, it's beyond looks and all that stuff. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.880 It's it's it's this depth of talent. So tell me 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:48.560 how was this something you always had where you studied 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.360 your love of the craft. Talk about that a little bit. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.880 But thank you for saying that, Um that that means 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.840 a lot to me. You know, I whatever I do, 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.200 I try to give every thing to it, and um, 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.280 whether it be here today with the questions that everybody 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.160 has had, or whether it be my work on any show. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.280 It it really is something where I'm trying to constantly learn, 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:16.280 trying to constantly get better, trying to um study the 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.680 craft and keep on working and just keep on working. 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.080 I think it's about putting in that time and trying 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.280 to tap into these characters, UM, into their thoughts, into 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:30.440 their motions, into their experiences, and and really digging into 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.240 that in on a constant basis. The more that you 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.720 invest in it, then the more I think you can 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.680 get an authenticity to the character, and I hope that, um, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.880 what fans connect to is to the authenticity that hopefully 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.160 I'm trying to bring to the characters. What are some 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.640 of your favorite movies. What are some of the things 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.520 that left indelible impressions on you? What were the performances, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.200 Who are the actors who do you love? You know, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.880 those authentic performances and those raw and deep performances like 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.360 Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of my favorites. Uh. Ryan 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.520 Gosling is is one of my favorites. So I you know, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:14.800 I'm I'm more about those those kind of performances where 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.760 I feel like you're actually that person and that character 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.600 is going through an experience and I can connect to that, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.600 and and I tried to do that in my own work. Um, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.480 some of the TV shows I love, uh like Luther, Um, 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.760 The Dark Knight is actually one of my all time 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.200 favorite movies. Heath Ledger and The Joker and that, and 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.799 you look at that in a way where that performance, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:43.560 uh is so raw and incredible, and he was following 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.160 in people's footsteps and I think in a lot of 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.159 ways he he gave his life to that performance, you know, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.640 And it's just an incredible thing for an actor to 0:04:54.800 --> 0:05:00.400 go so deep and so into the character u um. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.560 And then you see that I think on screen with 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.000 who he was as the Joker, and it's just it's 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.200 this this beautiful and painful thing to watch him do 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:14.840 that as an actor, because it's so just again that 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:21.279 word authentic, raw, unique, powerful, honest, truthful, and he had 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.560 to go to some lengths to get to that place. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.080 And that when that movie came out, it made me 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.119 so sad in the in the idea that he didn't 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.719 get a chance to feel all that success. And I 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.440 met him one time, um when yeah, I met him 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.080 one time, and he made an impression on me that 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:43.600 one time when I met him as a person, um, 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.400 and that performance has made an impression on me. And 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:51.040 and uh so I try to find a way to 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.760 be raw and authentic and honest in in the work 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.360 that I'm that I'm doing. So do you feel that 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.320 you have That was gonna be my next question. Do 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.560 you feel that you begin given the upper tunity to 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.440 show the world what you're capable of doing, how deep 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.240 you can go. I think I think each of the 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.440 characters that I've played have been at the right time 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.360 for me personally in professionally in terms of you know, 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:19.120 Amy and Dan um Palladino with Gilmore Girls. They they 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.279 took a shot on me. You know, I hadn't done 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.880 that much, and so personally and professionally, that was really 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:27.440 my first big job. And like we talked about earlier, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.800 you know, hitting a mark and finding your light like 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.280 I didn't. I didn't know many of those things at 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.760 that period of time, and so that was the right 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.000 character for me personally and professionally at that time. Then 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.800 The Good Wife, when I did that show, UM, the 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.400 first couple of days, I realized, I don't know how 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.599 long this show is gonna go, but I know that 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:54.320 I'm surrounded by all these great actors, and UM, I 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.120 need to learn every single second that I have from 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.000 each of these actors. UM. In season two two, actually 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.480 season two, in season three, I watched virtually all the dailies. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.479 They gave me access to the dailies, and uh, my 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.880 friend Archie Pinjabi was on the show. She recommended that, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.000 and production was so kind to allow me to watch 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.240 the dailies, and so I would comb through the dailies 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:23.240 and my own performance, other actors performances and see what 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.520 was working in certain takes and what was not. So 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.360 to your original question, just trying to work as much 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.040 as I can on the craft in different ways, to 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.880 learn different things, whether it be watching um TV and film, 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.840 or whether it be breaking down the dailies, or whether 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:44.000 it be seeing that Archie Panjabi on The Good Wife 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.480 what she did with the subtext. We were kind of 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.960 each other's acting coaches actually on that job, and she 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:54.720 could take these, uh, the lines, the words I think 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.800 my character is thinking this. I'm like, okay, you can 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.000 play that whatever, it's not gonna show up in the show, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.680 and it show it up and I was like, oh 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.640 my gosh, like that just blew my mind. And then 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:08.440 Josh Charles was great with the rehearsal process and how 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.240 he would break down the rehearsal process. So I tried 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.840 to take things from each of the actors that I 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.440 learned to try to, like kind of Frankenstein the whole 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.080 thing for myself in a lot of ways. And then 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:25.280 I feel, more to your question, UM with with Conrad Hawkins, 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.120 it's there, It's there's so much material there and we've 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.160 been doing it for six seasons, that this is a 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.000 fully realized character in terms of the journey he's taken. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:42.200 And I wouldn't have been able to do this job. Um, 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.319 back when I was doing Gilmore Girls, I just I 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.240 couldn't handle it. I didn't have the the knowledge and 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.720 the understanding to do it. So to answer your question, 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.720 I feel like personally and professionally is lined up for 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.959 me in terms of the right characters and the right 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:00.320 projects at the right time. And just to kind of conly, 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.480 just keep trying to learn what do you think about next? 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.319 I know the Resident is in six Okay, so this 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.240 is a nice long run. How long do you think 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.000 it can go? How long do you want it to 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:18.480 go and do? What's what's beyond? What are you thinking? 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.199 What do you want to do beyond that? Yeah, I 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.240 mean it's with its season six now and coming up 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.319 on that hundred episodes, if we it could be closer 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.439 to the end than it is the beginning, because now 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:36.040 you're getting to that symbolic number there in a hundred episodes. Um, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.480 So of course I'm not quite sure how long it 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:42.560 will go. And for me, I I you know, kind 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.559 of is those questions you asked me I'm fully invested 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.080 in those characters and in the time in those characters, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.600 so my head is really consumed by this guy's thoughts 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.400 in the show and trying to do the best that 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.600 I can. I'm thinking in my head right now about 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.920 certain scenes I'm gonna go back and work on this week. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.960 So to say it's it's it's tricky to think about 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.560 the next thing. And as I mentioned before, I try 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.400 tolign things up personally and professionally where I'm at with 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.240 that next job. So it's hard to clear my head 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.440 in this moment beyond Conrad Hawkins, beyond the resident, to 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.240 know what that next thing is going to be, right, 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.839 that lines up, whatever it may be. I'd like to 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:30.160 think that the choices I've made there's some sort of 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.400 universal theme that I think can connect to people. You know, 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.360 we've talked about Gilmore Girls of course a lot today, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.320 but those universal themes of the mother and the daughter, 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.320 and I mentioned with um Logan in terms of him, 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.720 I felt he was pushing Rory to think outside the box, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.760 to um live her best life, to push herself. I 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.360 felt like that was a theme that that people can 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:59.080 connect to universally. With Conrad on the resident of the 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.440 questions of life and death with the health care system. 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.079 These are universal themes that I think will make an 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.480 impact on audiences. So I try to look for those 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.239 those themes that I feel are gonna be a connection 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.080 that I can make. And that's really the again talking 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:20.120 about the personal and professional lining up. You know, when 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.320 I got the pilot for the Residents and read that, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:27.600 you know, I had a close friend in ten who 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.840 passed away and I was there with him on his 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:35.280 last day. Um My mom was a nurse. Um a 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.760 close friend of mine. Her mother had passed away in 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.200 and I got the pilot in twenty seventeen, and so 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.560 I was in that headspace of of experiencing those heavy 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.400 losses that I thought that, Okay, this is something that 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.600 I can bring in authentic voice too, because I've actually 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:56.400 experienced some of these losses and these questions of of 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.360 life and death are universal to people. So uh, that's 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.079 why personally and profession at that time, the resident was 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:07.480 the right choice in So talk to me a little 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.480 bit about the kinds of meetings. Are you getting the 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.679 kinds of meetings that you want? An independent film and 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:21.280 feature film is the feature side? Um? Um, uh calling out? 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:25.280 Are they offering opportunities? Are you meeting directors? Are what's 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.199 going on over there? Because I personally want to see 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:32.960 you in some really classy, gritty indie projects because you 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.840 have such you know, I don't know you that well. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:39.000 I spent some time with you and we did some 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.080 work together. I didn't think we did some really good 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:46.040 work together. I watched you do phenomenal work with with 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.680 with with Greg, with with with your dad in the 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.360 show Mr Huntsberger. I mean it was just extraordinary work. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.880 As I mentioned before, absolutely the highest level work that 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.760 you can do, and you did it thin ease. I watched. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.120 I don't want to beat a dead horse, you're but 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:04.600 I watched that scene twenty times and marveled at the skill. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:10.720 Just was like, man, I never realized. So I want 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.920 people to discover you and what you're capable of doing. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.280 And I think independent film is a good because you have. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.280 And now that I'm getting to know spending a little 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.920 time with you and really talking to you and see 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:26.320 how you interact with people, UM, I've gained such a 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.600 new respect for you. Thank you, and I just you're 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.360 such a solid grounded guy. You treat everybody with respect. 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.440 You have this depth of talent and now I and 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.840 but there is a sadness there, you know, and I 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.360 have that too. I feel it too. I've had a 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.280 lot of loss since two thousand and eight and and 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:51.120 it and it changes a person. And I want to 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.640 see that. And you'll put those in the performance. And 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.960 you are putting and you can't help but put those 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.480 in the performance. So our our independent film to Rector's 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.360 producers reaching out, are you getting these meetings because if 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:05.680 you're not, you should be well, thank you and thank 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:09.160 you for those words. I mean that that one it's 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.520 it's just beautiful to hear that. But also that does 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.839 it will be something that um truly will push me 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.560 and inspire me to keep to keep going. You know, 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.320 in terms of being an actor, we all support each 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.840 other in that way so that when you're going through 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.920 a tough time or on set, you know, I'm gonna 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.480 think of this moment with you, or or when I'm 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.480 done with the resident, I'm gonna think of this moment 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.360 with you in the words that you said, because we 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.760 all need that that confidence in that push like I'll 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.320 you know, I'll take pictures of when I'm on hiatus 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.280 with my god daughter, for example, and I'll just look 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.560 at it and our video or she'll send me a 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.360 voice message. You know, we all need those uplifting things. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:49.960 So thank you so much for saying that. That's that, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:58.640 That's very kind of you to say. And yeah, I 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.560 want to see more Matt Sucre and classy independence. I 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.920 want to see in feature films. I mean, what a package, right, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.720 I mean you want to comment on this from like, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.760 I don't want to put you on the spot or 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.680 embarrass you. I'm not trying to know. No, I don't 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:18.200 feel thank you, but Tara from your perspective. I want 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:22.240 to get Tara's perspective because I want to hear what 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.760 you and your friends uh talk about when you mentioned 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.000 in Matt Sucre, because Amy, like Amy's just over the 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.880 moon about you, She's crazy about you. Please give her 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:39.720 my life. We have we have here we well, first off, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.560 thank you for doing this my pleasure. I have been 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:44.880 a Gilmore Girls fan from the very beginning and watch 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.240 with my mom growing up. So this is like working 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:52.160 with you guys is just very surreal. Um, it really is. 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.280 It really is, like I I never thought like however 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.080 old I was when when the show came out that 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.800 I'd be sitting across from you talking to you. Um, 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.760 I will say, though I I started. Yeah, the female perspective, 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.760 I think you bring something that you're just so likable. 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:09.680 Like you know, there's some characters even I watched The 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.600 Resident as well, and I've I've binged it through the pandemic, 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:15.160 and there are times where we kind of or even 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.680 as logan like we want to hate you, but we 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.200 can't do you know what I mean? And I think 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.400 that just you as a character and talking to you 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.400 like you know earlier, I just camp to you and 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.280 I will say you are one of the kindest people 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.720 I've I've met today, um, and and things like that. 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:33.080 I think, um, people remember that, like I'm gonna leave 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.880 and say, like, you know, you're one of the kindest 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:37.680 people I've met, those little moments. But I will say, 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.840 as a female perspective, Um, if we go back to 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.040 Gilmore Girls, there was that moment where you really pushed Rory, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.600 and I think Rory needed that in her life. And 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.560 I think that people, um, like myself look at that 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.360 as like, oh I wish I had like a logan 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:54.800 to my life. I wish I had a boyfriend, like 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.200 like logan, Um. Yeah, so I think is that what 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.600 you wanted? Sky? Is that what you want to That's 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:05.359 I mean, perfectly said, right, perfectly said. Because these these 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.760 these much beloved characters, the the Laurelai and the Rory. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.359 I mean, I don't know if there are two more 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.359 iconic characters. And and I mean they're up there in 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.800 the top ten of television history mother daughter or you know, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:22.960 maybe in the top five. But to be it, but 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.280 to be a part, to facilitate into aid and to 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:29.840 help and to try to guide. I am looking forward 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.640 to seeing these episodes. I'm not we're not there yet. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:37.080 We're almost we're almost rapping season three, but you're coming 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.160 in in five and it's like that's gonna be another one. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.080 That's gonna be another six months, So I gotta wait 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.480 six months. I love I love your podcast, man, I 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.520 love how you do that. That's just that's so it 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.640 is great. Thank you. We're having fun. We're having fun 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.400 and people are gonna be very excited that that you're 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.840 on UM. Talk a little bit more about what formed 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.480 um your desire to get into the business and to 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.600 to become an actor. Because I know you went to 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:11.560 college around here. Uh, in College of Charles, Charleston. You 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:17.080 you played tennis. I did so a naturally competitive person. Um, 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.240 So tell us a little bit about how the acting 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.600 button hit you. I didn't grow up around it. It 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.879 was one of those things where I thought that was 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:31.720 not something that I could do that other people did that. Um, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.159 you know, it's it's it's it's I didn't know it 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.440 was a job. I I any of that. Um. But 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.200 what I always did is I created characters a lot 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:47.760 of times. And and my my brothers and my sister, Um, 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:51.040 they all inspired me to keep pushing to make these 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.640 characters when I was at home. But again, never thought 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.720 about acting at all. A major in history and political science. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.280 I was planning on being a lawyer. My sister when 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.240 I was a sophomore in college, had no plans to 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:07.320 act at all. And we're walking on the beach here 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.440 and not too far from here in Charleston, and she says, 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.840 you're going to be an actor. And I'm like, what 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:14.639 are you talking about? And she's like, you're going to 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.159 be an actor. I just I just know it. And 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.280 this was then years after I was a working actor. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.200 I asked her. I came back and I said, why 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:24.919 did you think I was going to be an actor? 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.760 And she said, because when you created those characters, you 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:31.600 made me believe that you were that character. And then 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.840 she said, more importantly, you believe that you were that character. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.800 So uh, and I hadn't asked that was like five 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.280 or six, you mean was probably around Gilmour Girls time, 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:46.359 So um, I think you know. I I loved telling stories. 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.320 I loved for example, as a kid, I loved, uh 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.520 The Incredible Hulk a TV show, and after that, after 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.680 I watched an episode, I would go and smash things 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.399 up and punch pillowcases. My mom would uh die my 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.920 underwear purple before there was under rus. So I would 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.360 really watch that and be affected by it and then 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.040 want to become those those characters. And then when I 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.919 was thinking about it as a career, I felt like, Okay, well, 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:15.160 if I do have an opportunity to do it, then 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:18.920 maybe I can impact other people. And you know this, 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.480 this convention is a perfect example of We've experienced so 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.800 many people who have been so impacted by the work 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.280 that we've done, and that is the ultimate thing, is 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:33.600 to to make an impact on individuals that I may 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.480 never meet. Of course, here we've met some, but there's 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:38.920 gonna be some people I never meet, and you and 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.320 I have had an impact on them. So that's kind 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:46.080 of the impetus for why I became an actor was 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.120 creating those characters. I had the support of my family 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.560 to go and try it, and the feeling like I 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:57.800 had it was purposeful for me to make an impact 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.280 on others like other shows had made and care Richer's 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.680 had made on me. Tell us about can you tell 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:08.040 me one character that what's the most memorable character you 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.640 created when you were getting a little older that your 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.920 sister may be referring to that just was so memorable 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:21.040 for her. Man Um. You know, my brother and I 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.400 we were on a bunk beds together and we would 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.160 always say at the end of each night, we'd say, 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.080 tell me a story you want to hear, and that 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:29.560 was our thing. You want to hear the one about 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:31.240 the motorcycle game, you want to hear the one about 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:32.600 the gun. You want to hear one about this, And 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.680 we would do that. But oftentimes I went to um Um. 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:38.560 I went to church a lot when I was a kid, 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.560 and so I would usually come home after church and 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.119 give a whole another sermon, so in the living room, 0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:50.600 and I would, you know, I would, But and I 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:54.800 wanted everything as much as it could possibly be believable 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.840 from what we just saw, in terms of little pieces 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.920 of head, in terms of the cloth, in terms of 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:07.840 um my mannerisms, in terms of what I was, what 0:22:07.840 --> 0:22:10.680 what I was wearing in the wardrobe, even at that 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.359 young age. And I'm very much like that now again 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:17.240 going back to your original a question of just trying 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:21.520 to capture everything in order to make it as authentic 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:23.880 as possible. So the one that jumps to my head 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.479 is I would would come home after church and I 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:31.280 would basically do my own my own ceremony, and and 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.120 uh and and and be a priest, there be a pastor. 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:40.320 So that that's the one that I remember. Yeah, interesting, listen, Uh, 0:22:40.440 --> 0:22:43.960 you've given us enough time. If there if there's anything 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:46.280 you want to talk about that we haven't mentioned, or 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:48.280