WEBVTT - Fangirling with Adam Scott 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:01.800 Okay, guys, here are my dates for the High and 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:02.400 Mighty Tour. 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.960 In August you can find me in Calgary, that's Canada. 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.840 And September I will be in Santa Barbara, San Diego, 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:19.639 New York City, Philly, and New Haven, Connecticut. October is Atlanta, Baltimore, Saginaw, Michigan, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Boise, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.200 Idaho and Spokane. And then in November I'll be in 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.520 San Francisco. I'm coming to Salt Lake City, Austin, Houston, 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.000 Dallas Babies, I'll be there. And then in December I 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.519 am closing out my tour in Denver and Vancouver. So 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.560 get your tickets at Chelseahandler dot com for the High 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:37.360 and Mighty Tour. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.640 Hi Catherine, Hi, Chelsea. Not just in New York City. 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:42.080 I was. 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.639 It was a WorldWind to Catherine, it was a family whirlwind. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.599 I have two nieces, new nieces. Yes, they saw you 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.240 with Armable and I met them for the first time. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.120 My brother has been married for a few years, but 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:56.480 I never met them and because they were living elsewhere. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.120 And so they're sort of immigration nightmares situation, right, So 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:00.720 that done, Yes, it is. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:01.640 It's amazing. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.320 So that's great and they were lovely and so sweet. Yes, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.480 it's so nice to see my brother married with children. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.360 It's so sweet. He found his he found the lid 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:12.200 to his podcaster. 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:13.400 Isn't that sweet? 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:13.800 I know. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.959 I remember we did a minnesode with him, or we 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.000 did an episode with him way back in the day, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:19.800 and I think he had just started dating. 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.479 Her maybe or it was early day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.080 They told me some funny stories. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.760 And my sister lives right by them, so she's really 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:30.880 helping out and that's really cute, and I like, yeah, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.000 it's it's just one big happy family. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.640 Oh over at the Handler Household, did you. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.600 See, speaking of New York City, did you see this 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.880 thing that mom Donnie did to like help people meet 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:41.479 their love? 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:42.640 No, what did he do? 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.160 So someone posted like, you know, Mom Donnie's doing all 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.120 this cool stuff like oh, mom Donny, help with this 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.360 and this and this, and this guy posted like I'm 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:50.920 supposed to be having a date with the love of 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:54.560 my life here at this library DA in Brooklyn. And 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.720 so Mom Donnie not only responded to it, he like 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.520 reposted it and he's like scheduled little cute events. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:02.520 That's really cute. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.720 He must have picked that up from my matchmaking online. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:09.200 Oh he's always copying me, mom. Donnie's doing good things 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:09.960 in New York City. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.480 It's actually really exciting. 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.640 Yes, I did the Pivot podcast with Kars Swisher this 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.520 week that I think airs tomorrow, and she does this 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.280 thing at the end called predictions, and I predicted that Abdul. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.799 Al say Yeah, will win Michigan. That's my prediction. That's 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.920 my political prediction. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.440 And my also political prediction is that Mitch McConnell is dead. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.080 And I like the news that we got about. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.640 I don't know how this will be received, but it 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.800 really gives a shit. Brad Bitt is back on the 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.799 sauce I love. I mean, honestly, if you quit drinking 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.800 to get your family back and they don't come back, 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.120 then why are you quitting drinks and they remove your 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.760 Seven years is the period of time that we've spoken 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.600 about at length that has time to a new phase. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.320 And if I get one more thing on my fucking 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.960 algorithm about this fucking lunar eclipse and this what the 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:00.960 next twelve years of hell are going to be like? 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:05.040 And PISCESI, my algorithm is like you're walking into a 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.200 fire pit of hell, it's actually saying you're walking away 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:08.480 from it. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.760 But it's just so annoying all day long, I'm. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.960 Like, I, I can't hear anything more about these eclipses. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.640 No, No, it's just too much. I can't hear about 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.880 bad news and bad things coming like. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.320 Just shifting and all these tarot card readers. How did 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.240 these even start coming up on my algorithm? 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.720 I it's a witch job. It's Nominika because she's all 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:29.520 about it, you know? 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.040 Yeah? 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:30.320 Are you? 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:30.760 Also? 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.560 By the way, if you haven't listened to what You're 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.320 the Problem with Yaminika, that's our latest That's our latest offering. 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:40.160 Here at the Dear Chelsea Network, we have a new 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.880 podcast called You're the Problem with You Dominika, So please 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.400 support her and listen and download and subscribe. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.840 And she's so funny and she's so fun she is. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.440 And it's such a fun podcast. I've actually really enjoying it, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.560 even though I have to listen to it. It's it's 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:53.760 your job, it's. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.440 Tang Okay, screw Charlow. Yes, okay. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.720 We are introducing a very special guy. You know him 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.680 from Severance Parks and rec Party Down and more. And 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.560 his new movie is The whisper Man, which is out 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.560 on Netflix now, which is fucking awesome and has my 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.320 other boyfriend in it, Robert de Niro. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.760 Please welcome Adam Scott. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.680 We good to go, Brad, because I'm ready to rumble 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:19.400 and Adam's ready to rumble. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.719 Is this uh appropriate spot for it? Is this appropriate? 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.920 It's not appropriate? Actually, we need you to take your 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:26.479 hands off of them. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.760 All right, Okay, we live in a very sense we're 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:30.800 living during a very sensitive We're actually we're living in 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.239 a very desensitized time. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.760 We went from very sensitive to desensitized. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.080 Right, everything, Sure is it? Sure? 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.039 Is your hair as usual? Looks magnificent? Do Are you 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:41.720 happy with it? 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.040 I'm fine with it. I just was as long as 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:44.800 you're fine. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.719 I just had the pleasure of watching him get his 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:51.720 hair quaffed in my kitchen, so I liked that. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:53.080 And our situation. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.200 It's just impressive to see ahead of hair like this. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:56.719 I know you talk about your hair a lot. If 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:57.680 people ask you about your. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.200 Hair a lot, ask me about my hair. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.920 Do you get some conscious about it? 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.960 You know? I'm just grateful at this age that I 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:07.560 have hair. So I'm fine with it. Because if I'm 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:09.360 talking about my hair, I don't have to talk about 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:10.680 something else. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.440 Like the fact that you look so much like Tom Cruise. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:15.359 That's right. 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:16.960 How does that make you feel that. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:17.919 I look like Tom Cruise? 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:19.159 Do you think? 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:19.920 Do you think? 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:20.599 Do you think? 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.960 Do you think? Do you I'm sorry I started the 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:24.800 sentence first. 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:26.799 I think I started this interview. 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.080 I look like Tom Cruise? Yes you do? 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:31.640 Yes? 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:32.640 Interesting? 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:33.440 And do you? 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.880 I mean, it's a huge compliment. First of all, I 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.919 understand why people have said it, But people used to 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.200 say it all the time, like a long time ago, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.560 and then it sort of stopped. So I wonder if 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.640 there's an era of Tom Cruise where we kind of 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.120 like matched up for a couple of years and that 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.400 I don't know. I don't know culturally why it happened 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.600 at a particular time, but I would take it as 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:00.600 a huge compliment. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:03.719 Yeah, do you think that you and Tom Cruise have 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.000 similar running styles? 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.719 Well? I would hope so, because he's like the best 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.440 cinematic runner of all time. 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.840 Yeah. Is that what he's known for his run? He's 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:17.080 known for his stunts, right, which include running. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.240 Yes, But he's also known for like if you seem 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.640 born on the fourth of July, I remember that movie. Yeah, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:24.960 Like he's known for his performances as well. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:26.719 Well, yeah, right, right, right, of course, he's known for 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.000 his actor. He's a good he's a good actor. The 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.800 thing about a plethora of thing. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.520 The thing about his running is that I don't think 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:39.839 I've ever dedicated as much of myself to anything as 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.280 he does to running. Like his running is like top notch, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.360 like no one's ever. Don't you think if you his 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.880 running in Mission Impossible movies, he is putting absolutely everything 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.240 he has into those those runs. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:57.599 Well he must he probably do you run on the 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.600 side in real life? No, you only run in severance. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.720 That's right, because that's pretty much the only time I've 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.760 seen you run. Oh, in your new movie The whisper Man. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.120 You run also, Yes, that's but that's different because. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.400 In severance it's really like, it's very it's always in 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:12.240 the same space. 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.600 You're always in a hallway, right, And. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.920 It's a lot of it Like we it's you know, 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.480 we spend a lot of time shooting those sequences. So 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.960 it's and I don't like train for it or whatever, 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.840 which I probably should. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.720 Yeah, And I feel like Tom Cruise is training. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.120 He's probably got a running coach and a running style 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.160 coach to run so he doesn't look like an asshole 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:33.680 and you don't look like an assole when you run. 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.040 It sounds like you were kind of saying. 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.080 I thought it was going to sound like that as well, 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.640 which is why I followed it up with you saying 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.640 that you're not bad at. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.360 Running, didn't look like an asshole. Well, I think that 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.920 like his running. If he did the running that I do, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.200 he could do it and then work a full day 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.040 after no problem, whereas I'm like depleted and the like 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.600 bananas and gatorade after I do it right right. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.240 Well, first of all, I want to congratulate you on 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:03.400 your body of work, Adam. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:03.880 Thanks. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.840 You have a huge it's a really impressive body of work, 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.920 and you have a new movie, The whisper Man, which 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.440 has also I want to talk about all the people 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.280 that you've been working with lately, because it's a pretty 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.440 impressive roster. Thanks on severance, you get to work with 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.040 Turturo and these are people I'm talking about only the 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.920 people that have been legends for a long time, never 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:27.800 mind all of the other people. We get to see 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.000 you interact with, John Jachur, Christopher Walkins, in there, Patricia Arcata, 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:34.559 all legendary people. And in this movie you get to 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.480 work with de Niro, And I know you've been around 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.960 the block and you've worked with lots of cool people. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.679 What is it like being on a regular set? And 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.080 that is, you know, where you're the main character of 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.720 a show and these people are supporting that. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.679 You know, it's not something I get used to, and 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.880 I think that I think it's different. Like my kids 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.680 have grown up now in Los Angeles and grown up 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.880 around show business. So to them, I don't know how 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.240 big of a deal something like that is kind of 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.840 growing up adjacent to and all their front some of 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:14.600 their friends' parents are in show business stuff. For me, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.040 I grew up in northern California in a small town 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.280 where I mean it may as well have been in 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.840 Milwaukee or something like. It was so so disconnected from 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:30.240 show business that like, I kept my ambition to be 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.839 an actor a secret till I was like seventeen years 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.040 old because it was so embarrassing that I wanted to 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.040 you know, like it sounds sounded ridiculous, but it's all 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.080 I thought about. All I cared about, or like movies 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.520 and movie stars and television and stuff. So someone like 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.760 Robert de Niro and getting to be in this movie 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:56.520 with him was so crazy because he's so fundamental to 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.760 the reasons that I wanted to do this in the 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.720 first place. So I guess the incredibly long answer to 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:09.200 your simple question is it's still kind of blowing my 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.320 mind and to Turo and Patricia and Christopher Walking. It's 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.760 still wild to me and I'm not I don't think 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:19.520 I'll ever get used to it. 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.760 But don't you think at this point in your career 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.800 you're more prepared for it than ever, like if it 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.240 had happened earlier in your career. Do you think, first 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.120 of all, I don't want you to get pigeonholed because 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.960 you're playing widow. In Severance, you're a widow, and in 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.800 The Whispering Man, you're a widow. So we have to 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.359 make sure that this doesn't become. 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.240 A Recurrenon stops here, it stops stop, it stops here, Chelsea. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:41.839 That's right. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.200 So you play a widow in both of these movies, 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.800 and this movie with De Niro's it's a fucking awesome thriller. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:51.679 You move back to the town where your wife is from, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.920 and De Niro is playing your father. Yeah, and there 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.040 are a lot I think there's a lot of For 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.760 me as a viewer, there are a lot of similarities 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.520 in your ability. I guess it's your emotional availability that 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.959 I'm impressed by as an watching you, because you are 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.719 really like, I know, the opening scene, which is very 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.840 hard to get out of your mind from Severance, you know, 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.200 when you're sitting in that car and you're hysterically crying, 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.280 and then you walk in and you see something shift, 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.280 and that is also like, you know, I was just 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.840 telling him how you feel when you watch it, Like 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:27.560 as soon as you go up in that elevator, there's 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.679 something that shifts from the viewer. So what you're doing 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.440 is super compelling to even have that impact. And obviously 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.240 the direction and everything involved in that really like lends 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.480 itself to transporting you to a different place. And I 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.960 was telling you it took me a while to get 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.120 into Severance because it is such a different frequency that 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:47.880 you're in. 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:48.920 When you watch that show. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.280 So I'm very curious to see, like to hear about 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:57.679 how you handle that like emotional kind of changing your 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.840 presence in the scene because of what you're playing, the 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.600 character you're playing like how does one tap into that, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:05.800 Like how do you do that? 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.360 Like going from one to the other eyes. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.160 Like there's a different look in your eye, and there's 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:13.520 a different way that you're walking. Yeah slightly. Is that 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:14.840 all intentional? 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.480 Yeah, I mean it was. It was. It took a 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.280 lot of kind of trial and error, because you know, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:25.120 when we were starting, the scripts were great and it 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.960 was this whole different world and everything, but then you're 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.960 there and we're kind of starting from scratch, and Ben 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.640 was really kind of guiding us to find this world 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.080 and find the particular tone of this world. And it 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:40.200 was a lot of like experimenting and trying different stuff 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.480 to see what would work. And when it came to 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.120 my character, when we were kind of zeroing in on 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.000 it was important because it's not like two characters. It 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.400 sort of is, but it is the same person. It's 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.200 just two different sections of the same person. So it 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.160 had to feel like the same guy, but just like 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:06.280 different versions. So for me, the biggest difference ended up 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.520 being just like life experience. And so you go down 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.319 in the elevator and it was almost like just scooping 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.600 out life experience because one of them is forty some 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.000 one years old and the other ones like for all 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.440 intents and purposes, like two and a half years old, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.840 you have a certain your you know, the seventh procedure 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.000 leaves you with certain abilities and awareness about certain things. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.400 But understand that you're thirsty or that you have to 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:33.760 go get a. 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.800 T yeah you know how to like, yeah, get yourself 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.760 food or satiate or whatever. But they've never experienced sleep, 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.520 they've never experienced you know, the sky or whatever. So 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.480 there's a bunch of and your life experience is scooped out. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.040 So it was kind of like a math problem and 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.360 going from one to the other, and the elevator ended 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.640 up being like you said, like there's something just behind 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.920 the eyes that shifts because it's just a completely different 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.880 life experience, a completely different kind of realm of awareness. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.480 And I sort of just to try and always trying 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.120 to kind of, you know, you try and make something personal, 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.800 and so kind of a starting point for me was 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.280 when we were starting out, I was just like, Okay, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:25.000 maybe the inny is everything I like about myself, Like 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:32.320 sometimes I can be charming or personable or optimistic, like 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.640 if I'm in the right situation, and I kind of 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.240 can reflect back on how I behaved. I can sometimes 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.920 feel that way, and then the audi could be everything 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.800 I have disdain for about myself, a bad posture, kind 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.760 of a pessimist, anti social, you know, all those things 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:57.520 that you are constantly pushing up against, and that character, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.000 that side of the character has sort of indul himself 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:06.520 in all of the things that have kind of kept 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.320 him from moving on from this horrible period. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.640 Anyway, I heard you on Amy Poehler's podcast Could Hang, 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.200 where you were talking about the beginning stage, like just 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:18.960 all of the different things that you've worked on, all 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.120 the big hits you've had, and you were talking about 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:23.640 losing out that role to Michael C. 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.040 Hall in Six Feet Under. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.480 It was between him and Michael Sea Hall, which I 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:33.040 thought was a fascinating story, great tidbit, and then watching 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.520 Michael C. Hall have all that success with six Feet Under. Yeah, 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.120 and you guys were talking about one of the times 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.920 you got really close to something big and that you 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.440 didn't make that and that you couldn't imagine ever being 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:43.680 in that after seeing Michael C. 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:44.360 Hall in it. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.480 And I would say the same thing to you about severance, 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.440 like no one could play that role but you And 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:53.320 what you're saying about this lends itself to supporting all 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:56.320 of that, because this is it's like I wouldn't even 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.480 imagine reading that script and understanding what was happening. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.720 didn't you have to have a lot of conversations about 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:02.440 it or did you not? 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.840 Well, when I first heard the idea, it was way 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.720 before there was even a script around. Ben just kind 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.640 of told me the idea about like you go to 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.040 work and you don't know who you are in the 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.800 outside world. You only know what's there, and then when 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.480 you leave work, you have no idea what you did 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.360 at work. And I just thought that was such a 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:23.120 cool idea. So I couldn't get that. It sounded like 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.680 like a really good Twilight Zone episode or something, you know. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.080 But yes, as we kind of dove in and got 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.680 more and more detail about not only the circumstances of 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:38.160 the procedure, but the company and the lore and all 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.560 of that stuff, Yes, it was constant questions. And Dan Erickson, 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.800 who created the show, was around and he could sort 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.080 of explain things, and he has an answer for everything, 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.680 and it's kind of thought everything through. So yeah, it 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.200 was a lot of it's dense. It's a lot of 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:57.760 information and everything that you see and hear on that 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:01.200 show is there for a reason and has a lot 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.320 has a story behind it. Yeah. 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.080 Yeah, I mean it's pretty fascinating. 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.080 It really makes you think, It really makes you focus, 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.640 and it really makes you think. We were saying that 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:14.200 these are one of the shows that you have to watch, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.080 and your phone really has to be away. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.440 You can't be diddling. You can't be. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.640 Doling yourself, and you can't be duling your phone. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.760 Okay, so now let's shift to the whisperer man. So 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:32.679 this is a great story, And like, I love the 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:36.160 idea of being a single dad, not because your wife died, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.520 but I love the I just like watching male characters. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.560 I think it's really nice to see a single father, 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.520 you know, someone who's like, it's their entire onus is 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.480 to provide for this kid and take care of them emotionally, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.080 which your character really does, which I imagine you're a 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.760 lot like in real life. I mean, everyone has always 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.439 amazing things to say about you. I know you a 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.119 little bit, and you are definitely one of the good guys. 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.880 That's the reputation you very very nice of you saying. 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.080 So you and your family should be proud of yourself, 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.000 thank you. But when you're dealing with that kind of 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.280 level of emotion, which you do in severance as well, 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.280 but especially in the Whisperman, and you're dealing with that, like, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.800 what are you tapping into? 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.760 I mean, the thing I thought was interesting about the 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.280 script and kind of James Ashcroft, who directed it's something 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.280 he was really interested in too, is that this is 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:30.040 a single dad who's kind of struggling. He wasn't the one, 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.800 His wife was really the one who did the lion's 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:37.800 share of parenting, and now here he is and he's 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.880 trying his best to connect with his son and provide 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:47.000 for his son, and he is he's having a hard time. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.760 I mean, he's doing it, but it is a struggle. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:56.200 And in the midst of trying to do this right 0:18:56.280 --> 0:19:00.920 and figure out how to do this, his son disappears. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.000 So I thought that was interesting that it wasn't like 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:11.639 some idyllic version of single parenthood. And then that you've 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:13.840