WEBVTT - Getting More Better - The Melissa Fumero Interview Part 2 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:06.680 Welcome back to do some Amingos podcast. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.400 This is Freddy Rodriguez and I'm Wilmer Valderama and we 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:10.280 are here. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.560 With the incomparable Melissa Famero and I am I'm so 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:20.120 interested in hearing about your directing about Mobeta, your your 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:21.040 great podcast. 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:22.960 But let's let's dive into it. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.360 The nucleus of that show was when we were on Brooklyn. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.280 We were always in each other's dressing rooms, like during 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:36.360 lunch or breaks, and we would just be talking like forever, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:40.599 and most of our conversations were like I'm struggling with 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.879 this and like giving each other advice or like what 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.559 are you how are you handling this? 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:46.400 Or like what are you doing lately? It's making you 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.880 feel good? And so like the podcast kind of came 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:50.239 from that. 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:52.559 It's like it's like a like a spin off of 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.600 our dressing room. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:56.440 You were already experienced. 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.760 It was already like part of our dynamic. It was 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.960 already part of search. Friendship is like and you know, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.520 and even like now like you know, I mean, we 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.080 see each other quite often, so we don't talk on 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:10.640 the phone all the time, but when we do talk 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.640 on the phone, it's a two or three hour conversation, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.520 like it's one of those friendships, you know, we can 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:17.319 just talk forever. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.120 So, yeah, it's when I when I hung out with 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:22.040 you guys in Austin. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.199 This is before I even heard your podcast. 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:25.960 Oh yeah, I haven't even come out yet. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.200 Turn to women and going like, these two need their 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:29.000 own show. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:29.759 Man, and. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.360 That's why. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.679 That's why they're here. Buddy. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.000 I know, but but it didn't like I knew that 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.279 witnessing it firsthand, Yeah I was. I was like, Wow, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.960 these two the chemistry is like nothing I've seen before. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.800 You know, I would love to see that like on screen, 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.040 on screen. Yeah, I know. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.760 We're always talking about it. Yeah, I'm always trying to 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:57.520 cook up something. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:02.400 What's like that that you know, like you know, like 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.440 a like a like a duo. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.640 Yeah, yeah, I have. It's weird. 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.920 I have some ideas for us, but I'm like, we 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:16.440 have to be older, like like I got this great idea, 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:17.959 but it's for like when we're in our like late 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.680 fifties or you. 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.160 Know, so we're just gonna like sit on. Yeah, but 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.440 so done. 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.760 So a little bit more about more better, because more 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:30.160 Better has been a very wonderful success story for iHeart 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.280 and you know, by the way, More Better is available 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.440 anywhere you get your podcast. It's also part of the 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.640 Michael Tuda Podcast Network family. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:40.840 But but one of. 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.160 The things that was very fascinating is that voices like you, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.880 voices that speak to all communities and all cultures, you 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.079 haven't had really the kind of the space to really 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.400 kind of explore, you know, the many boxes you check 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.400 for not just humanity but as strong family women. You 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.520 both are amazing moms, and you're incredible uh professionals. You're 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.400 also an amazing director and you're directing someone really amazing stuff, 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:06.560 which I want to talk a little bit more about 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:10.280 your directing stuff. But you know, how would you describe 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.600 to our listeners More Better? What do you think that 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.400 people come to more Better for? 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.520 Yeah, so on more and Better. 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.519 We tackle a different topic every episode. Some of them 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:25.000 are kind of deep and heartfelt, and some of them 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:33.200 are like what wine goes best with Cheetos? Really run 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:40.160 the gammet, you know, and yeah, and we halfway through 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.600 this first season. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:45.760 You shouldn't talking, like you should stop talking. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:46.640 I just stop talking. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.000 That's the show. Check us out, get your podcast Wine 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:51.520 and Cheetos. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.160 We literally did do that, and yeah, and it's really 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.720 fun and it's and it's you know, like I said, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.400 it's an extension of us. Both of us have always 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.280 I think one of the things that's always connected us 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:08.240 is Stephanie and I are people that are always kind 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:13.200 of working on ourselves, you know, just like I think 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.080 we both sort of see life and this job as like, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.360 you know, there's a there's a progression, like you're always growing, 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.760 you're always learning, like you're never just settled right like 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:25.200 otherwise we'd be freaking. 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.680 Buddhist monks, like you know, like never have it all 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:28.280 figured out. 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:34.520 And so yeah, just exploring that in in in tackling 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.080 like one topic big or small each episode, and we 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:44.280 started getting suggestions from our audience, which was like the best, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.880 most unexpected kind of turn for the show because we 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:53.120 got the best questions and stories and it was such 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.360 a beautiful way to connect with the people that were 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.960 listening to the show. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.000 And also it just like really gave. 0:04:59.880 --> 0:05:01.960 Us ideas, like because we might have went out of 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.120 ideas a lot of episodes. 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.880 It's a lot of episodes on a podcast. I was like, 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.400 how many episodes are doing Yeah. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.440 But I was like, that's the standard in which it 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.880 is and yeah, and it's so it's been really fun 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.360 and I'm excited to bring season two. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:17.839 Yeah. 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:19.920 So how many seasons were Brooklyn n nine? 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.039 We did eight seasons? 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.240 Eight seasons. Yeah. 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:23.680 How many episodes of the season. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:29.880 First five seasons were twenty three episodes? 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:30.480 Wow? 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.400 Six was I think eighteen? 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:34.400 Yeah? 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.240 Seven was thirteen and eight was ten? Okay, I think yeah. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:41.920 I mean that's when people were really cranking episodes. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:42.120 You know. 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:46.320 It's like, oh, yeah, I was seven months out of 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.880 the year, and yeah, it was. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.560 It was a lot. It was the first season. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.039 I was that's what you do, right, we do twenty two, 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.000 twenty two, we are doing twenty now, okay, but when 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.640 I got there, we were doing twenty four. Yeah, and 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.599 bro by episode twenty, I'm You're like, yeah, you're literally 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:06.000 beat up. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:06.920 Oh my god. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.360 And when you walk into like table reads and the 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.559 writers just they look rough. 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.480 Especially in nineteen it's. 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.280 Usually like after Christmas, New Year's right January, you just like. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:21.080 An episode eight. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.520 I think about it like a hour about your health. 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:26.960 Like the one hour dramas. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.880 That one hour dramas are crazy because you're really putting 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.320 out an hour of television. Well, you're putting forty two minutes, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.640 which is double the comedies, which is comedies twenty two minutes. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.520 But it is still amount of pages and work that 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.000 you've got to come up with, you know, and you 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:43.320 need to do this many. 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.359 Crimes in one year. That's really good, you know. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:51.159 But also I went into into your directing career because 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:57.360 you've been able to successfully direct multiple prime time shows, and. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:57.960 That's something that guy. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.719 I haven't directed prime I directed other stuff, you know, 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.279 but I look forward today that I get to, you know, 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.000 kind of produce and direct at the same time. I 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.800 know you're a director as well and producer. When did 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:09.880 you get the bug to direct? 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:16.480 I think I always secretly had it, but it all 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:17.560 sort of came about. 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:24.200 I did this one job that long story short. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:30.000 The director was all over the place and I like 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.400 had a heart out because of childcare, and he almost 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.760 blew the heart out, and it was frustrating because I 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.880 was like, well, if you and so. On the ride home, 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:41.480 I was called my manager and I was like, if 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:42.760 he had done this, if he had done that, if 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.200 he had done this, if he hadn't taken so long 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.160 to make this decision, if he had shot it from this, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.240 you know, we would have made the day. And my 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:50.280 manager goes. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.160 I think you should direct, and I was like, what 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.000 this all with this conversation is about. I'm really mad. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.920 So he set up the low stakes. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.080 There was like a little web series that he had 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:07.160 some friends doing or that he knew of. It was 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.520 called Front Seat Chronicles and every episode takes place in 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.960 the front seat of a car and it's a different scene, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.560 and so he put me in touch with them. They 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.600 were like, yeah, we'd love for you to come direct one, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.800 and they had a writer that wrote this great scene. 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.040 They let me cast my two friends because that was like, 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.840 I need to direct some people that are going to 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:26.760 like love me and. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:32.040 Support me doing this, and they did and. 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.760 It was just like a It was kind of like 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.080 for me to dip my toe in and be like 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:40.280 would I enjoy this and would I know how to 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.640 do it? And then that thing that happens when you 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.120 spend so many hours on a television set you have 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.120 no idea the wealth of knowledge that you know that's. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:50.800 Already in your brain. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.319 And I was like, Oh, I know how to do this, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.680 and I'm enjoying doing this and I'm not getting flustered 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.080 by any of it, and I know what I want 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.760 my shots to be. I know how this is going 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:06.720 to come together. So then season six, Stephanie, Joe, and 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.560 I and actually I have to give Joe and Stephanie 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.679 credit because we had talked about putting our names in 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.240 to direct episodes on the show, but then we got 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.080 canceled and rescued by NBC and I chickened out because 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:19.920 I was like, I don't want to ruffle the girl 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.600 boss's feathers, like, and Joe and Sevanie were like, oh no, 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:25.400 we put our names in. You should put your names in, 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.960 like you should? You should, you know, pitch yourself to direct, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.280 and I was like, oh okay, And I would never 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.679 have done it if they hadn't given me that push. 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:36.720 So I did, and they gave all three of us 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.760 an episode that season and it was great and it 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.360 was so fun and it was so fun to do 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.920 their episodes. It was so fun to do mine. I 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.840 got really lucky with mine where I was like in 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.880 the c storyline, so I only like worked like one day. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.840 Yes, yes, how was it directing yourself? 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:55.960 Did you I hated it? 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:57.120 Did you go back and watch? 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.560 Never want to do it again? Never going to do 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:01.920 it again. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.520 I hated the feeling. I think some people can just 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.959 split their brain that way. I felt like I couldn't. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:15.200 I felt like I wasn't one hundred percent present in 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:16.880 the scene the way I normally were. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.960 You watch and then you were like, ah. 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.920 No, I wasn't watching playback because there's no time to 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.040 really do that, especially on a comedy set, and you're 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.000 like moving. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.319 Yeah, first thing they needed to Yeah, Well, I. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.280 Got really lucky. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.400 The writer of that episode was Phil Augusta Jackson, who 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.439 created went on to create Grand Crew, who actually really 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.680 helped my directing career kind of move forward. And he 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:44.320 had already directed an episode of Brooklyn and I uh 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:47.440 because at one point I told him like, I think 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.320 you're extraordinarily talented and if you ever need me to 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.400 act in anything, I will be there. And he was like, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.160 I got this short film that I'm going to do 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.280 my first time directing, Like, will you beat it? And 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.680 I was like yes, And so I was in his 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.599 first short film, and so we had already collapsed. So 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.440 this was a third time we collaborated together. And I 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.439 just turned to Phil and I said, Phil, these are 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.720 the shots. This is what I'm going for like direct 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.920 these scenes because I'm gonna lose my goddamn mind right now, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.320 and I hate this so much. I want to just 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.440 act in the scene. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.520 Well, because you felt like you were two in your 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.240 head when you were acting in the scene, Like. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.439 Well, yeah, I couldn't figure out how to mentally like 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.040 be in the scene the way I would be as 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.120 an actor and also have part of my brain thinking 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.360 of what adjustment I mean, I can adjust myself, but 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.320 what adjustments do I want my scene partner to make? 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.199 What is the camera doing? Do you know what I mean? 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.520 Like, and then like checking off all the things like, oh, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.679 I hope they pulsed in at this part or did it? 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.840 Like I just couldn't do all that math in my 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:52.559 head while I was performing, and I I kind of could, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.320 but I didn't like the feeling of it. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:55.480 I felt like I was. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:12:00.280 Doing each job at like sixty percent. I get what 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.520 you're bat and I didn't like that feeling. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:02.920 Myself to do. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.160 And I think some people can just do that. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.640 I think I've watched America Ferra direct and scene she's in, 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.320 and she does it bleavy, beautifully and flawlessly, Like I 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.960 think some people just have that brain, and I. 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.520 Don't, so I won't ever be doing that again. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.760 I mean, and someone explained it to me, as you know, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.360 once you put your once you set up your cameras 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:38.960 and you know how you're going to cover your scene. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.560 Once you're in the scene, you take the hat off 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.280 and just make sure the scene works as a perform as. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.840 An actor, and then once the scene is done, then 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:49.280 you go back. 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.840 I also didn't love the feeling of like being an 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.520 actor in a scene with another actor and being like, hey, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.640 so you know in that part, you know what I mean, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:58.800 like noting an. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.839 Actor while you're also the actor in the scene. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:07.319 With them, because normally, like you would never you know, and. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.600 It just especially an actor who's like, you're you're a 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:12.359 fellow series regularly. 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:14.800 Right right, That's yeah, it's weird, you know. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.960 And yeah, so I didn't. It was fine when I 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.559 wasn't in the scene and I was approaching my my castmates, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.880 like as a director, and they all were like very 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:33.679 beautifully like supportive, even Andre, like but not even Andre. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:38.880 Andrea was beautifully gracious to everyone. Actually I probably was 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.080 like I thought Andy would give not a hard time, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.040 but I thought he would like tease me throughout the 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.240 whole thing, and he did. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:45.200 He took it seriously. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.440 He took it very seriously. He was very professional, which 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:48.360 like a little part of me. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.000 Was that's what you want to but I was like, come. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.240 On, I'm not gonna rasp me at all. 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.600 But no, he was like very everybody was like very 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.000 sweet and professional. And the cool thing about that experience, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.800 which you know, you never really get again because it's impossible, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:10.640 it was so nice to direct actors knowing exactly how 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:14.959 they like to hear notes exactly, like what their langua 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.480 or unique little languages are. And I think that was 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.200 also like important to remember when I went to other shows. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.120 Was like trying to figure out part of that on 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.840 day one, right, or like trying to mind that from 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.520 a showrunner or you know, someone who's directed on the 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:33.000 show A bunch, Like, so would you. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.240 Ask ahead of time before you start on another show? 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.600 Would you always? Yeah? 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.400 Act yeah, Like is there anything you can tell me 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.960 about how actors like to hear notes or like you know, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.080 you know, because some people, you know, there's actors that 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.200 like like really actory kind of note, you know, like 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.920 intention and verbs and da da da, And then there's 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.600 some actors that are just like faster, like you can 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.440 you know what I mean, like higher stake, like you know, 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.080 like short things, you know, like so I try to 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.240 find that out as much as I can before. 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.560 What about you as an actress? How do you like 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.560 to be addressed? How do I? 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:16.160 How do I like to be addressed? Yes, queen miss? 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.160 How do I like to hear? Notes? 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.960 I definitely like the theater kid and me appreciates like 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:32.320 a beautiful, well thought out note that like has depth 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.400 or intention in it. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:36.640 What about season six? New director? 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:39.560 Give it to me quick? 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.760 What is it? Oh? 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.600 Yeah, but they're definitely there. Definitely is I do, especially 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.360 when you worked in comedy right with somebody's like so 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.840 just like more energy and like the stakes higher, and 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.560 you're like faster, you want it faster? 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.240 Just say faster, Just say. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.080 Faster to tie it up a little bit. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.480 Yeah, just taint it up. Yeah, that's it. You can 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:04.400 say that, you know. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:05.480 Yeah? What about you? 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:05.800 What do you? 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:06.120 What do you? 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:07.280 What do you? Yeah? 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.360 Well, so it's two things like drama and comedy. 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.840 For me, had two are phones that I love so much, right, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.440 And I would say that as as when I was 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.360 wearing my comedy hat I had. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:20.960 You know, I was very. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.280 When I was playing Fez on seventy show. I had 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.960 this director named David Trainer, who they directed one hundred 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.480 and ninety nine episodes wow, the exception of the pilot 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:36.280 and David Trainer. You know, I had created this accent, right, 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.200 but I also created this vibe which was like such 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.040 an ambiguous in his saying, yet like you can get 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.000 away a character. So so like, no matter how I 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.200 did it, it was like a choice that people are like. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.840 You're gonna do it like that. Yeah, you're gonna do it. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.880 So but because I was still committed, they're like, he's 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:53.480 gonna do it like that. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:54.840 He's gonna do it like that. So they kind of 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.880 would let me cook by myself sometimes. But he was 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.280 like the Wilmer whisperer because sometimes my accent will get 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.000 a little too strong and really hard to understand, and 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.840 so he will come into the scene and he'll be like, well, 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.720 just like a little mover of the fingers. And he 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.159 didn't want to tell me in front of everybody that 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.760 like that, like it's hard to understand you. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.919 Yeah, he didn't want to say that. Yeah, So he 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.000 was just like, I don't see it a little. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.439 More and then okay, we're gonna go again, and just 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.960 like an so he will steer the boat. 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.000 Yeah, and I love which is so much of what 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.240 it is, especially in comedy. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.480 Yes, so in comedy and you know, but I also 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.320 like a showrunner running in and be like, here's five lines. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.080 We're gonna this is the new joke. I love that, 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.040 Like I'm just okay, it's a sport. To me. 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.399 It's like, Okay, that one wasn't as funny. This is 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.160 I'm gonna nail this right now. Okay, there are two 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.920 hundred and thirty people are waiting to laugh. Okay, cool ready, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.480 okay said, and you know, so I'm very good with 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:55.320 attention in that. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.200 In drama. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:06.159 Season eight Fancis, it's a little bit of like, you know, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.280 there's so much to shoot in a drama and a 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:09.920 crime investigation show. 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.199 I don't like. I don't know what it is. 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.399 But I don't like when when a director says like, 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:18.600 you know it will be funny. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.080 Oh yeah, don't say you know it would be funny 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:24.720 the funny guy. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:29.280 Yeah, do you get all like. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.640 No, no, I make them feel like I listened. Yea, 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.760 mm hmm, Okay, let's try that. I like to try that. 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.480 Yeah, oh cool, cool, Yeah, we'll run it again, you know. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.040 But I learned so much a lot of the directors 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.040 that come in, and this is like basically a big 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.960 tribute to all the directors that come into well machines, 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.119 like the machines that are like just cranking out episodes. 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:58.280 Like I would say, like, you know, sometimes they have 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:01.080 the thankless job of inherent it in a DP that 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.960 knows how to just shoot the show by itself, right, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:05.680 and then a director's coming to kind of. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.119 Steer the pace and steer the whatever, you know. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.200 But there are those directors who really want to collaborate 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:13.119 with the actor, and I think that's always super welcoming, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.800 really exciting. But you know, at NCIAS is an interesting 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:20.760 thing because the actors have you know, double Bachelor degrees 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.240 on their characters. Yeah, they've done seven hundred episodes as 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:25.959 this character. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.560 No one's going to know it more than yes, you know, so. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:31.000 They kind of it was a little bit, but you know, 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:36.320