1 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: Hi. My name is Avine Joy Randolph, and I'm an actress. 2 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: Hi everybody, how's it going. I am so glad to 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 2: have you here. You are off the beat with me, 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 2: your host, Brian Baumgartner. I'm so excited for my guest today, 5 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 2: both for you and for me, because we get to 6 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 2: learn today about drum roll please, Davine Joy Randolph. Davine, 7 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 2: she is a phenomenal actor and truly a legend being 8 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,279 Speaker 2: made here right before our eyes. You know her, of 9 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: course from the Holdovers Only Murders in the Building. Dolomite 10 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: is my name. Empire, people of Earth, this is us 11 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 2: and much much more. We all need to be paying 12 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 2: attention because she has done, is doing, and will certainly 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: continue to do great, great things. In fact, I believe 14 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 2: she is on her way to the coveted title egot. 15 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 2: You know what that is, Emmy Grammy Oscar Tony. Hear 16 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 2: me out. She's already got the Oscar for the Holdovers 17 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 2: that's in the bag at this moment. She is an 18 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 2: Emmy nominee for her Outstanding Guest Actress performance in Only 19 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 2: Murders in the Building. So we're gonna know about the 20 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 2: e here very shortly. She almost got a t a 21 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 2: tony back in twenty twelve when she was nominated for 22 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 2: her very first Broadway performance in Ghost the Musical, So 23 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 2: next time she's she'll probably win. And then this is 24 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 2: the clincher. She is a trained opera singer and a 25 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: musical theater major, so she could very very easily down 26 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: a track of music and steal the deal with that Grammy. 27 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: I'm telling you this is gonna happen. So, ladies and 28 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 2: gentlemen of Off the Beat, for your consideration, here is 29 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 2: Davine Joy Randolph, Bubble and Squeak. I love it. 30 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: Bubble and Squeak, gonna Bubble and Squeaker cook get every 31 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: mole lift over from the night before. 32 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: What's up, Davine, Hey, how's it going? 33 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: How are you? 34 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you doing? 35 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. I'm so happy to be here. 36 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy that you're here as well. It's been 37 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,960 Speaker 2: a hell of a year for you. 38 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: Thank you. 39 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: I mean yeah, you feel good. 40 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: You feel good, and I'm trying to catch up on 41 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: my rest. So I've been having a good summer. 42 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 2: It's been good resting the summer. Where do you go 43 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: to rest? 44 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: I'm never home, So sometimes it's just being home, to 45 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: be honest with you, because I'm always traveling every which away. Yeah, 46 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: but I'm trying to think of LA spots that feel 47 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: good for rest. Have you ever been to Tarranna and 48 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: Palos Verna? 49 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you're very fancy, very fancy. 50 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. Sometimes I remember when I used to book the 51 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: big ones for me that I was like, oh my god, 52 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 1: I booked it, or like write that weekend that you 53 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: got to wait to find out if you got the job. Yes, 54 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: I would take myself there and to like woo song, 55 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: try not to think about it too much, treat yourself between. So, yeah, 56 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: I love Tearraning. That's my little get a. I like 57 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: it because it's it's a way, but it's not like 58 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: it's not a full committing of going to like oh 59 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:11,240 Speaker 1: High or Springs right drive forty five minutes. 60 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,000 Speaker 2: Yes there, but depending on where you live, it feels 61 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 2: like another world. Yeah, sure, which is what I love. Yes. Yeah, well, 62 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: full disclosure, I moved out of LA, so I've been 63 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 2: a place like that all the time. 64 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: Now, what are you in California state? Still? 65 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 2: I am still in the state of California. 66 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: Isn't California. Amazing. Yes, there's so many areas. It's beast. 67 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: I'm a fan of California. I'm into it. 68 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and I know your East coast East coast based. 69 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: How long have you officially been a Californian? I guess 70 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 2: that's how you'd say it. 71 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: Oh, that's tricky, right, when you come here for work. 72 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: That's tricky to right. That doesn't spot of when I would. 73 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 2: Say forty years. 74 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, forty years been in years. I first came 75 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 1: here for a pilot in twenty fifteen, I think. Okay, 76 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: But honestly, I've never I've only done two projects in LA. 77 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: So that may give you a bit of an idea 78 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: of just how much I am never in Los Angeles. Yeah, 79 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,280 Speaker 1: I've only in the ten years that I've been doing this. 80 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: I did a movie with Eddie Murphy, and then I 81 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: did a TV show last summer, The Idol, that filmed 82 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: in LA. That's it here. That's why I say like 83 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: coming back here feels like a vacation. 84 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: I get it. You know, I worked for a long 85 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 2: time there, but yeah, a lot most things are gone now, 86 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 2: that's for sure. But I do want to talk about 87 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 2: your time growing up. I know that you grew up 88 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 2: in Philly, in or around Philly as a kid, and 89 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: I read you went to Interlock In. Now how old 90 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,039 Speaker 2: were you when you started that? 91 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 1: That was my junior year of high school, the summer 92 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: of my junior year of high school. 93 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm wondering if our stories are exactly 94 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 2: the same. So was that transformative for you? 95 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: Absolutely? But everyone says that went there everyone, but you know, 96 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: it was so great. It really what I loved most 97 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: about it. It fortified my love and like reverence and 98 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 1: commitment and devotion to being an artist. Yes, like right, 99 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 1: like that was I think that was the greatest. It 100 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 1: gave me so many gifts, but I think that would 101 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: be the greatest gift. That place gave me that sense 102 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,800 Speaker 1: of like the reverence or how lucky and blessed and 103 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: special we are to be artists and like refect it 104 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: and be disciplined and do the work, and oh my god, 105 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: I love that place. 106 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 2: See what I would say to you is exactly the same. 107 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 2: I didn't go to Interlock and so it was Northwestern 108 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 2: Institute of the Arts. I think that's what it was 109 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 2: called at Northwestern University. I was a cherub. You were 110 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 2: a cherub, which is weird. That's like a chubby baby, 111 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: I think, but that's what it was like, the Cherub program. 112 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 2: And so for me how I always describe because I 113 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 2: started out in the theater and we'll talk about that too, 114 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 2: but I think prior to that, it was a hobby, right, 115 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 2: It was an activity. It was something that I did, 116 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 2: and I had fairly good instincts, and I was loud 117 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: and could like command a presence. But it was that 118 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 2: time there where I was like, oh, this is like 119 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: oh I get oh like creating a character and oh 120 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: like this is the hard work that you put in 121 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 2: and voice and movement and all those things. So was 122 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: that it for you too? Was it like, oh, I 123 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 2: want to do this but you were music maybe right? 124 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,200 Speaker 1: Yeah. I was a major and I was coming from 125 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: the city. To be really honest, I hadn't been I 126 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: went to prep schools like in the suburbs and stuff 127 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: like that, but I had never been around that much 128 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 1: like greenery and nature. So I actually got sick that 129 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 1: I had like really bad sinuses and allergies issues and 130 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: I ended up losing my voice. So it was even 131 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: more deeper and like meta and introspective. And all because 132 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: I literally couldn't talk, so I'm literally like with my 133 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: thoughts all day in this beautiful manager. It was it 134 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: was deep. Yeah, that reverence of the arts, being of 135 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,319 Speaker 1: the arts and just how special it is, and like 136 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: I would sit in on the musical theater classes or 137 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: watch the plays with the theater kids, and I remember 138 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: being like I kind of liked that too a little bit, 139 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: but I remember just being like, Wow, I feel so 140 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: lucky and we are so cool. It was like, I 141 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: don't know, I guess it's like in our world, right, 142 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: it'd be like band camp being cool, Like, wow, it's 143 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,560 Speaker 1: so cool to be artists. Everyone that goes there is. 144 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, you go to Temple and you're studying classical vocals. 145 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 2: That's singing, right, and an opera. Now, at one point 146 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 2: you switched to musical theater. Now what happens there? What's 147 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 2: the what's the process behind that decision. 148 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: To musical theater? Well, I graduated from Yale at that point, and. 149 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 2: So this was after you went to Yale for acting 150 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 2: for yeah no, but before that, so where do you 151 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 2: change from like singing and an opera? 152 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah? So no, I mean, well, of a 153 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: lack of better word. I got kicked out because I 154 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: think it was because when I don't. 155 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 2: Thank you for your honesty, I appreciate that. 156 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: So no, I think I found that this was a 157 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: thing that occurs when institutions don't truly have a musical 158 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: theater department. So that time, Temple did not have a 159 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: musical theater department, but their theater department would do musicals 160 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: from time to time, like maybe like one a year 161 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: or whatever, so I guess what was happening, which was 162 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: actually not the case for me. A lot of times 163 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: singers and actors would flee, I guess, be changing their 164 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: major and being indecisive and going from one to the other. 165 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: So they all each department had their feelings about that, 166 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:33,960 Speaker 1: and was not the case for me. At that point. 167 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:36,719 Speaker 1: I was fully committed due to interlock in, which introduced 168 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: me to classical arts. Right like, I'm all in now, 169 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm an opera singer. This is what 170 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: we're doing. I'm about to travel the world. This is great, 171 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: And so we were preparing for Aida and the opera 172 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: and I just remember feeling like disconnected or like it 173 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: just feeling very like an old, antiquated thing you know, 174 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: I was like, well, my parents and family or friends 175 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 1: are coming see this. I wanted to be something, but 176 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: they can connect to It's like Shakespeare right, like you can. 177 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 1: I want them to know what's going on. And the 178 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:09,480 Speaker 1: only way that they're gonna know and be able to 179 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: follow this and not just be like snoozefest opera is 180 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 1: if I do my job right of like understanding what 181 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: I'm saying so that that can convey. And so I 182 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: ended up working with one of the acting teachers basically 183 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: as like a coach, to work with me on the 184 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 1: scenes that I was singing so that it could be conveyed. 185 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: And so then the music department found out. I mean 186 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to keep it a secret, but they 187 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: found out, and so they kicked me out. And so 188 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: it was my mom who was like, you need to 189 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: go across the street to the theater department because a 190 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: logically most of your credits can transfer and be you're 191 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: gonna graduate on time, so you just need to get 192 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:54,840 Speaker 1: that diploma and we'll figure it out after there. And 193 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: so that is literally like literally crying, kicking, and screaming 194 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,920 Speaker 1: going to the theater department. It was never something that I 195 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: wanted to do. I thought the theater kids were weird, 196 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 1: and then yeah, and so then it just so happened 197 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: that they had a musical. I think it was Into 198 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 1: the Woods, so like I got that experience, and then 199 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: the musical later happened just because post graduating, they were like, oh, 200 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: it'll be a great job that you can do. Is 201 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: like your hustle job essentially a swing right like the 202 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: understudies understudy. That's how they pitched it to me. But 203 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: then when I auditioned to this day, I don't know 204 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: if that was actually what it was because I was 205 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: nannying at the time. Loved my job, I had great kids. 206 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: It was dream job. 207 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,160 Speaker 2: Are you talking about ghost? Is that what you're doing? 208 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: So it ghost? Yeah, so it ghost. That was a 209 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: fluke they were saying it. I was nannying, and they 210 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: didn't really love that I was nannying, even though I 211 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 1: was an afternoon nanny, so you had me from you know, 212 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: the morning to like one thirty to audition and stuff 213 00:12:58,040 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: like that. But they didn't. My team at the TI 214 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 1: in love that I had that job, and they wanted 215 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: me just like you know, be broke and be a 216 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: full artist available all day for them. They didn't like 217 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 1: those time restraints, and so they were like, oh, yeah, 218 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 1: this will just be like a hustle, like your side 219 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: hustle job, while we find you the job. To this day, 220 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 1: I still don't know if that was exactly the case, 221 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 1: but I auditioned and ended up getting one of the 222 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 1: leads of it and doing it, but then doing it 223 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: first on the West End because the lady who was 224 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: doing it there had got hurt, and so instead of 225 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: them going for another one of their understudies in London, 226 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: they decided, well, let's just get it started early, and 227 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 1: so I went and did it on the West End 228 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: for several months, and then I came and did it. 229 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 2: I'm Broadwick Tony nomination for your first Pray and. 230 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: I was sick voice. That was another time when I 231 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: lost my voice. I was so I had like forty 232 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: percent of my I could not believe that nomination because 233 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: I literally had forty percent vocal production and I was 234 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: literally performing on less than half of these, so that 235 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: blew me away. 236 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I'm always performing at less than half 237 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 2: of a voice when I'm singing, so I know the feelings. 238 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 2: Oh my god, very well. 239 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: Get it? 240 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: But but to back up half a second, you end 241 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,200 Speaker 2: up at Yale School of Drama, and at that point 242 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: are you committed full on to a life in the theater. 243 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 1: No, No, it was just for me. It was just 244 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: like because timeline wise, right, it was only a year 245 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: that I began to branch into acting in my undergrad 246 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 1: and so I just knew. It was the dean of 247 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: the school that was like, you're good, I'm going to 248 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: apply you to these graduate acting programs. I didn't even 249 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 1: know about this stuff, so he applied me. I did 250 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: the interviews and the you know, auditions and whatnot, and 251 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 1: for me, it was just like I knew because it 252 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: was this major change of now no longer in my 253 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: mind never singing again that I was like, whoa, I 254 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: have to figure out what my life is because when 255 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 1: I was ready to be on this one track, it 256 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: quickly changed. And so that then was where I think 257 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,560 Speaker 1: while in graduate school, I was figuring it out and like, Okay, 258 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: is this the life I want? Do we like? This? 259 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: Is this something that we're into? But again, I think 260 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: I did feel a bit of comfort or familiarity in 261 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: regards to like again, the devotion, the reverence, the pedigree, 262 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: the studying, the classical training as it were, that was 263 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: something that I was like, Oh, I can geek out 264 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: over this a little bit. And then too, I just 265 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 1: love people and how people take and work, and so 266 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: I really enjoyed like certain classes of like text analysis 267 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: and stuff like that of really getting into the like 268 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: I love getting into the psychology of my care. That's 269 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: really where I get a lot of mileage. And so yeah, 270 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: I think like while I was going through school in 271 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 1: those three years, I was kind of like not warming 272 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: up to it, but like it was a whole new world. Yeah, 273 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: so I was like, Okay, let's see what this is about. 274 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 2: Ghost. So did you say you did that seven months 275 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 2: on the West End? 276 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: No? I think at the end of it all it 277 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: was maybe like four or five months it were. Yeah, 278 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: I think it was like four or five months. 279 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then on in New York. So how long total? 280 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 1: So total, I think it would have been about a 281 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: year and a half. Oh, my year and a half. Yeah, Now, 282 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 1: how was. 283 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 2: That for you? So you're out of school, you haven't 284 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 2: worked on a character for an extended period of time. 285 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: I had graduated in June. I booked it in August 286 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: or no, November. It was it's November because it was Thanksgiving, 287 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: so I was I remember I booked it and I 288 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: was like, can I be home for Thanksgiving? Because it 289 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: was like my first job, you know what I mean, 290 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: Like I'm not used to like working on holidays, And 291 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: I was like, can I please be with my family. 292 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 2: I've got Eagles tickets back in Philly. I need to 293 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 2: get back home. 294 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And so literally the day after Thanksgiving they 295 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 1: put me on a plane and then literally within days 296 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: I had to get off book And sorry to those people, 297 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 1: but in paid performances was my rehearsals? 298 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 2: Crazy? 299 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: I hope they discounted those people, because that's crazy. 300 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 2: Did you did you enjoy it? I loved it the 301 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 2: whole time. 302 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,719 Speaker 1: I loved it. The West End was my favorite. I 303 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: love it. The way that they treat theater artists is 304 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: how they treat movie stars. Yeah, and I think it's 305 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: almost interchangeable too, because right like, you can go and 306 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: see it play and you're like, yo, is that Hella Mirrin? 307 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: Like British movie stars who will happily or Olivia Coleman 308 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 1: happily pop into a play. So for them, there's no 309 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:14,960 Speaker 1: real delineation how it is for us right for them, 310 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: it's your artists, you all one big things. I had 311 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: never that was my first experience of really being treated 312 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: so well in that way that I was like, oh, 313 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: I never want to leave and Broadway it was just 314 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: it was harder, and so it was a more aggressive schedule. 315 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 1: And then there's the summer schedule. In the holiday schedule, 316 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: you're already doing eight shows a week, and so now 317 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 1: it's like twelve shows a week, so it's just like 318 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: a burnerout. And then on top of it, you're being 319 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 1: six So it felt more of like survival and maintenance 320 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 1: and just like get through the show. Let's get through 321 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:55,320 Speaker 1: this show, and let's see what tomorrow brings. So it 322 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,560 Speaker 1: was intense. It was really really intense. I think it's 323 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: the hardest thing I've ever done. Musicals, even more so 324 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: than a play. That is a real even I've done 325 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: movie musicals now and it's not even at the same voltage, 326 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:11,320 Speaker 1: I guess is the. 327 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 2: Right word, because of the stamina it takes. 328 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: The Yeah, it's constantly moving, there's no breaks. Once the 329 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:21,719 Speaker 1: curtain goes up, it's on for the next two and 330 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 1: a half to three hours, depending on your musical musicals 331 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: are long? 332 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 2: Yeah? When you were done, yeah, were you like? I 333 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 2: want to work in film and television. 334 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: So what was funny was we got maybe three weeks 335 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: notice that the show was closing, and I remember saying 336 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 1: to my team at the time, I was like, I 337 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 1: think that I want to dry out this pilot season thing. 338 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: I remember, I didn't know anything about it, right, and 339 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: I was like, and I would like to do a 340 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: play and a TV show before I leave New York. 341 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: I was like, I want to be able check everything 342 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 1: off the list, and I want to try that pilot thing. 343 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: And they were like okay. And I remember I had 344 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: five auditions in one week and I ended up booking 345 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 1: a TV show I think it was a Good Wife. 346 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: And I booked Robin Williams's last movie. And I originated 347 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: a new role in a new play at the Atlantic 348 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 1: Theater Company, and that literally took me up to at 349 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: that time January, which right before when pilot season was 350 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:35,680 Speaker 1: more formal timing in that regard. Then the play ended 351 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 1: literally January second. I ended up booking, well, not booking, 352 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: but getting auditioning or final call back or whatever you 353 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,919 Speaker 1: want to call it for a pilot that brought me 354 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: out here. It ends up not going through, and then 355 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: I stayed for a little bit and then it went 356 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,280 Speaker 1: off on the races for me. 357 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: I got to ask you about working with Robin on 358 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: The Angriest Man, one of his last films. So I 359 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: had the opportunity to work with him a few times 360 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 2: and loved every bit of it. Tell me about your 361 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 2: experience working with him on that, and. 362 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: It was perfect. It was perfect. It happened at the 363 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: perfect time in my life, and I hope that it 364 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: was equally enjoyable for him at that time in his life. 365 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,200 Speaker 1: I had just well, yeah, you know, I've I had 366 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: just graduated, I hadn't even been a year out. That 367 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: was still in the summer. I remember it was hot. 368 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: But anyways, I remember I could not believe how much 369 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 1: time he gave me and how much he talked to me. 370 00:21:58,640 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: And in some cases the other actors would joke and 371 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: be like, you're talking to her more than you talk 372 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 1: to us. And I was the youngest person on the set, 373 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 1: and I remember we just had the most amazing conversations 374 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: in which I remember he told me, he was like, 375 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 1: you know, you can do this whole TV and film thing. 376 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,359 Speaker 1: I think you should do it. You're gifted, blah blah blah. 377 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 1: And I remember him distinctly saying to me like, think 378 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: about San Francisco though, like I remember, he was like 379 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: it was like it was not He was like, I 380 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 1: don't know, He's like, you gotta hear a good person. 381 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,960 Speaker 1: You have a good heart. I don't know about la. 382 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: He was like, think about San frian and he was like, 383 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: I love it there and it's so peaceful for me. 384 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:40,159 Speaker 1: But we just we had a ball. That man is 385 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 1: a wonder And I don't know about you, but I 386 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: could almost feel his brain thinking when he was silent, 387 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: I could like I could almost like a sneeze about 388 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:57,679 Speaker 1: to happen. Does that make sense? 389 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:59,440 Speaker 2: It does make sense that I. 390 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: Could feel like he's about to say something and I 391 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 1: don't even have to look at him. And I remember 392 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,119 Speaker 1: describing it before to a friend like how the like 393 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: New York Penin station. I don't know if other train 394 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: stations have this, but that ticker thing, that's how it 395 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: felt to me being near him, of like his brain, 396 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 1: like I could feel like there was a buzz within 397 00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: him that I could tell. I was like, it really 398 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 1: feels like his brain and his thoughts truly moved at 399 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: that rate, and it almost was like, for the lack 400 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,160 Speaker 1: of a better word, Torett, you know what I mean, 401 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: like it just all came out. But it was so so, 402 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: so amazing, And then you just didn't have these quiet, 403 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: super intimate moments with him, and You're like, what the 404 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,880 Speaker 1: only other person that I've ever met, first of all, 405 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: no one liked that, but of someone who can be 406 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: larger than life, and then very very quiet and intimate 407 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 1: was Eddie, but still nothing like that. That man was 408 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:08,359 Speaker 1: so giving and so kind and I couldn't believe it. 409 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,359 Speaker 1: He paid for my sad card because that was my 410 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: first Oh wow, So in order for me to have 411 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: done the movie, you know, I was gonna have to 412 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: pay broke. I mean, well, I had the Broadway show, 413 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: but I wasn't making that much money where I would 414 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: have to basically pay in order to get in the movie. 415 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 1: And I was just like, it was an amazing, amazing experience. 416 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah. When I worked with him, he was a 417 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,720 Speaker 2: person and I worked with a lot of kind, very kind, 418 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 2: generous people before a sense, but there was a way 419 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:51,880 Speaker 2: that he interacted on the set with the crew yep, 420 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 2: that I attempt to do a bad impersonation of on 421 00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:01,200 Speaker 2: every set that I worked with. And there was an 422 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 2: energy from him that was like, this is such a 423 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 2: cliche phrase, but like what we're doing is and this 424 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,359 Speaker 2: is not rocket science, Like let's have a good time, 425 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,679 Speaker 2: let's enjoy each other. And the phrase that I always 426 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,639 Speaker 2: say to people is it takes just as much energy 427 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 2: to be nice as it does to be an asshole. 428 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 2: And he always chose nice. And there was a it 429 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 2: was very clear just in people's faces of the crew 430 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 2: that it was like we were going to have a 431 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,760 Speaker 2: good day, but we're just going to have a good 432 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 2: day today. And I attempt to do the same thing. 433 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,399 Speaker 2: Sometimes I do it a little snark here, I'll be honest, 434 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 2: that's just but snarkier in like a play snarky way. 435 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 2: He was just always That's what I know. I learned 436 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 2: that from him. That was the gift that he gave me. 437 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:53,199 Speaker 2: He did not pay for my sad card, but he 438 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 2: gave me. He gave me that you worked with my pal, 439 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 2: Oscar Nunez. In fact, you've worked with a lot of 440 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,159 Speaker 2: my old pals, which is starting to hurt my feelings. 441 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,479 Speaker 2: We have are you okay after working with him? Are 442 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 2: you Are you all right? Are you scarred in any way? 443 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: Are you fine? 444 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,600 Speaker 1: I've since healed. I have definitely. 445 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well you worked on People of Earth? What else 446 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 2: did you work on with them? 447 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 1: Lost City? And we were like low key each other's 448 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: love interests a bit. 449 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 2: In Lost City. 450 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, he plays like this rogue crazy man that's like 451 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: he flies exotic animals all over the world. And I'm like, 452 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: on this track to find my client. I play like 453 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: a publicist. Look is this author? And so I'm on 454 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,080 Speaker 1: this journey because she's gotten kidnapped. And along the way 455 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: I meet him and he's like, you can get on 456 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: my rigged plane. So I'm sitting there with animals and 457 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: stuff and he's like, I'm in love. It's the whole thing. Yeah, 458 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: I was gonna do it twice. Wow, he's brain. He's 459 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: another one the things that he comes up. I'm like, 460 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: where did this even come from? 461 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what of all of the people that 462 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 2: I worked with on the office, Because you get you know, 463 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 2: you get the question like who is your favorite or 464 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 2: who was and it's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna answer 465 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 2: that question. But I do answer this off camera. He's 466 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 2: the funniest is he makes me laugh. He makes me 467 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 2: laugh harder than anybody else. 468 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually find that it's more it's the people 469 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 1: off camera that can sell it the most. For him, 470 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: it's like he'll be quiet and then he'll be like no, no, no, no, 471 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:42,919 Speaker 1: it'll just literally just roll out of his mouth and 472 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:43,480 Speaker 1: you're like. 473 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 2: What, where did that? I know, I know he's insane. 474 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 2: He's like he has a. 475 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: Whole story, he's in a whole world, and you think 476 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: you're in the same scene with him, and then he'll 477 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 1: say something and you're like, I gotta catch up with you. Yeah, 478 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: I don't know where you're at. I'm going to get there, 479 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: give me two seconds. He's a genius. Yeah, I've never wow. 480 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: There's never anytime the camera's rolling or let's try another option. 481 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: He never repeats anything. It's always something new, and it's 482 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: you're just like, whoa where is this coming from? 483 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 2: Speaking of people who are pretty damn good at improvising. 484 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:32,000 Speaker 2: I have heard that you have said the role and 485 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 2: movie that catapulted you. I don't even know if you 486 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 2: use that word, but that's how I'm interpreting it. Dolomite 487 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: is my name with Eddie Murphy. Why did that film 488 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,080 Speaker 2: feel so special to you? 489 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: For a couple of reasons. I think that was my 490 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: first Well, that was for sure my first big movie. 491 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: In regards to the cast, it was my first. Yeah, 492 00:28:57,960 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: I think that was my first. Like if we want 493 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: to call like a studio movie, okay, first, well, it 494 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 1: wasn't my first movie with a big star, because I 495 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: did do it with Robin. But like with the Robert Williams. 496 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 2: Movie, I'm Gonna Oscar, you said that by the way, 497 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 2: Oscar you said that too. 498 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 1: Get at that point. But so it was that and 499 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: getting to work with someone of that stature, but that 500 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: it was a bigger size role and I had more 501 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,920 Speaker 1: to be responsible for. I think also too, there was 502 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: something just very special about it. It was very pared 503 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: for and loved on. And at that time I believe 504 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: it had only been a year or two. I could 505 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: be wrong. Eddie's brother had passed and that was a 506 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 1: passion project they had had, and that I believe. Actually 507 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: Eddie wanted his brother to play the lead, and Eddie, 508 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: I think was gonna end up playing Wesley Snyder's character. 509 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: I could be wrong. So there was a lot of 510 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: like care and around it. We had phenomenal writers on it. 511 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: It was really taken care of very well, and Eddie 512 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,520 Speaker 1: was very kind to me as well. And even when 513 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 1: we then did began press, he made it a point 514 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: that he was like, whatever press I do, I want 515 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,160 Speaker 1: her to do too, So what could have potentially you 516 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: know how that stuff goes, Especially when it's ensemble cast. 517 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes it's like number one and number two in the 518 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: call sheet, and those are the people that go out 519 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: and do the press. Because he did that, which interestingly enough, 520 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: was good practice for me for last year, because he 521 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: took me on this like tour with him and just 522 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: that whole experience, it was like great media training for 523 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: me and all those things. I never had that before. 524 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: I was always you know, oh I'm in this TV show, 525 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,719 Speaker 1: or I did this independent movie, you know, and then 526 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 1: the movie got on or it came out. I never 527 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:03,160 Speaker 1: had like a post life press life experience before. So 528 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: I think in many ways it kind of endoctored me 529 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: into this industry by having that experience, even just for myself. 530 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 2: That's awesome. Yeah, that makes a ton of sense. And 531 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,760 Speaker 2: you did get award buzz around the role. You were 532 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 2: nominated for an NAACP Image Award. I can imagine that 533 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 2: feels like a great gift for him. 534 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I couldn't even believe it the whole thing. Netflix 535 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: was very kind and they helped me find the publicist 536 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: that I have now, Like I felt ushered in. Does 537 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: that make sense? Like everything. I was very gentle and 538 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 1: it was the best way that I would hope any 539 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: other young actress could experience of getting ushered into the 540 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,920 Speaker 1: business in a really lovely way. And I just was 541 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:59,560 Speaker 1: quickly exposed, you know, to this world and what it 542 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: could be, especially because I would do always press with him, 543 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: so then being around him and all those super fans 544 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: and everything that he has to deal with, it was 545 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: like really eye opening that I was like, oh wow, 546 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,880 Speaker 1: it could for some people. It looks like this. 547 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 2: Also, Yeah, you know, he is obviously well one of 548 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 2: the best comedians to ever do it. 549 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:21,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. 550 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,800 Speaker 2: Another buddy of mine was in that film, Craig Robinson. Yes, 551 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 2: on a stand up stage, there are not many funnier 552 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 2: than him. If you've ever had the opportunity to see him, 553 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 2: he is unbelievable. Yeah. You go on to work on 554 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,600 Speaker 2: Jordan Peele's The Last Og with some other comedians Tracy Morgan, 555 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 2: Tiffany Cedric the entertainer. Here's my question. Yeah, right, you 556 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 2: and I have a similar path. We came from drama 557 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,960 Speaker 2: then eventually made our way into doing some sitcoms and 558 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 2: comedic acting roles. Yeah, do you consider yourself a comedian? 559 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: No? And oh what's interesting when I when we did 560 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: we did showcase, we did like a showcase when we 561 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: graduated from Yale, and I remember thinking like, I didn't 562 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: even think LA was an option, And it was ironic 563 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: because I got more interest in LA and in TV 564 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: than I did in New York, which I was like, 565 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 1: what the heck, Like I did three year, what does 566 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,760 Speaker 1: this even mean? But I always get asked that question, 567 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: and if I auditioned for someone for the first time, 568 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: it's always like, oh, you're a comedian or oh are 569 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: you one of the U TV kids or what you 570 00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: know I like, And. 571 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 2: I'm like, now not, yeah, see, I'm the same. I'm 572 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 2: an actor and sometimes maybe even more often than others now, 573 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 2: I do comedic roles, but I'm not a comedian. I 574 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,840 Speaker 2: don't view myself in that way. And also I love 575 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 2: that you said that no. 576 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 1: Because also to like, if you haven't gathered already I'm 577 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 1: big on like technique and training and so even like 578 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 1: with a writing like, yeah, I could write something, but 579 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: I would never call myself a writer, do you know 580 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: what I mean? So I kind of see it in 581 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: the same vein like the skill set and what is 582 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,680 Speaker 1: required and then writing their jokes and touring it on 583 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,279 Speaker 1: the road and all. I don't do that. So I 584 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,760 Speaker 1: would feel disingenuous almost to be like, yeah, I'm a comedian, 585 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 1: Like what I don't what are you? 586 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 2: Yeah? Exactly, I'm not doing that. I know. It goes 587 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 2: both ways, right On the one hand, it's like there 588 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 2: is a connotation of like, oh, you're just naturally funny. 589 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,759 Speaker 2: There's not the there's not a work there, right, And 590 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 2: on the other hand, I'm like, yeah, I don't want 591 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 2: to do what they do. I have no desire going 592 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,600 Speaker 2: to around the laugh factories, Like I can't do that. 593 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,759 Speaker 1: Yeah. 594 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,399 Speaker 2: Do you do you still sing? 595 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,160 Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah I do? 596 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,760 Speaker 2: Do you want to do more musical theater at some point? 597 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: Is tough? Yeah? I think I. 598 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,439 Speaker 2: Did the ho a week thing too, by the way, 599 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,040 Speaker 2: not singing so much. But it's no, it's no joke, right, 600 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 2: it is no joke. 601 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: I always say never say never, But I do think 602 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,120 Speaker 1: it would have to be something that I am so 603 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:24,240 Speaker 1: passionate about and so in love with to give of 604 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: my time and my energy to that, because also it's 605 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,480 Speaker 1: longer runs. How only is it more performances? Is actually 606 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 1: when you look at it. I remember when I first 607 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: started working in TV and film, I was like, wait 608 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: a minute, we're done. Okay, it's done. We don't have 609 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: to work on the weekends. What do you mean? Floored me? 610 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 1: And it's like triple sometimes ten times the amount of money. 611 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 1: So I was like, wait what. But I do think 612 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,160 Speaker 1: an all seriousness, theater is a very beautiful and a 613 00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: sacred art form. So I do think that will I'm 614 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,480 Speaker 1: I will never turn my back on theater at all. 615 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 1: And I do think and I'm grateful that I have 616 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,600 Speaker 1: that in my toolbox. And I just think it's you know, 617 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 1: something that I really love, or you know, something that's 618 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,360 Speaker 1: a limited run or a director I've always wanted to 619 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,400 Speaker 1: work with, or a role I've always wanted to portray. 620 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,839 Speaker 1: It's actually in my mind less of a Broadway thing. Ironically, 621 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,080 Speaker 1: if it's like, oh I could work the Geffen or 622 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 1: what you know, I mean whatever kind of like a house, 623 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: a theater that's well respected with a great director. It's 624 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 1: not even for me of like, oh I need to 625 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: go back on Broadway and be in the machine of 626 00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,760 Speaker 1: that necessarily, But if I did go back into that machine, 627 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 1: it would definitely have to be worth it, because it's 628 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,839 Speaker 1: a big commitment, and if you're not from New York, 629 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 1: you're basically paying them to let you go do a play. 630 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,359 Speaker 2: Yeah. I have a friend who has a number, and 631 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,880 Speaker 2: that's how expensive it was for her to do a play. 632 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really sick. It's a whole another beast. And 633 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: the only reason why I left New York because I 634 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: love New York was that even when I was auditioning 635 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 1: for New York movies or New York TV shows that 636 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: take places in New York, the whole cruise from New York, 637 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,839 Speaker 1: I was realizing, oh, wait, the decisions are still being 638 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,879 Speaker 1: made in LA And so originally it was just like, oh, 639 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 1: let me go to like the mecca where it happens. 640 00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,560 Speaker 1: I'll book something and then I'll come back. But then 641 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,400 Speaker 1: it just started moving and I was like, Oh, I 642 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 1: got some beer. 643 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,560 Speaker 2: I gotta ask you about the holdovers. You blew me 644 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:01,120 Speaker 2: and everybody else away with your performance that thank you 645 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:05,920 Speaker 2: and the Oscar. The film was up for so many 646 00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 2: different awards. You got to work with an amazing cast, 647 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:17,200 Speaker 2: an amazing director, and artistic mind. I'm going to try 648 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,640 Speaker 2: to ask you some questions that hopefully you haven't answered 649 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:27,200 Speaker 2: a thousand times. Were you surprised by the attention that 650 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 2: the movie ended up getting or did you feel that 651 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 2: you had something special with the film? 652 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,439 Speaker 1: I would say yes and no. So walking into it right, 653 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: like when your agent calls you and you're like, hey, 654 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: so there's an Alexander Payne movie. You're like, oh, okay, So, 655 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,960 Speaker 1: like there's a possible, there's a flight chance, this is 656 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 1: gonna be good, right, you know what I mean. There's 657 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: gonna at least get eyes on it, which was at 658 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:55,400 Speaker 1: that point a big deal for me because I was 659 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: working and I was working consistently, but I had yet 660 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: to be a part of it is like a critically 661 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: acclaimed thing or a phenom like yours. I remember even 662 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,719 Speaker 1: with People of Earth. I remember Greg was like, you know, 663 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 1: well it took like what was it? Three was it 664 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,720 Speaker 1: for you guys? Three seasons before? Like really like yeah too? 665 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,319 Speaker 1: And so I remember my brain right, I'm just being honest. Actually, actor, 666 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,080 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, it's a guy from the 667 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:26,560 Speaker 1: office people have about to blow up, but huge and 668 00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,520 Speaker 1: so to a certain degree, yeah, right, Like if we're 669 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: really honest, you when you know you are working with 670 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 1: a director that has a certain track record and it's 671 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:42,280 Speaker 1: so beloved and for many obvious reasons because of his gift, 672 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,440 Speaker 1: When you know that your co star is Paul Giamatti, 673 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,640 Speaker 1: you're like this did I think like, oh, yeah, it's 674 00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 1: gonna get an Oscar No. But at least that I 675 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,000 Speaker 1: was like, this could be something critically acclaimed because also 676 00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,839 Speaker 1: at that point I realized the difference between a hit 677 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 1: something that's critically acclaimed, Like there's there's sometimes a different 678 00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: uned a difference. There's like the commercial value of something, 679 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,719 Speaker 1: and then there's like, well the critics loved it, and 680 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:16,759 Speaker 1: so I thought, for sure, this will probably maybe intrigue 681 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:21,719 Speaker 1: from a critical point of view, But the life that 682 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:27,200 Speaker 1: it took on I never could have imagined. Also, timeline wise, 683 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,680 Speaker 1: we were in the middle of a strike and literally 684 00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,960 Speaker 1: the strike and the only reason I know this is 685 00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:37,440 Speaker 1: because of the premier day. The strike ended November eighth, 686 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,759 Speaker 1: and the movie came out November tenth, so I will 687 00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:47,000 Speaker 1: never forget. I was here in La going through my 688 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 1: closes and clothes, like you know, you're a bored actor, 689 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,760 Speaker 1: so you're like, go through my closset. Let me actually 690 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,319 Speaker 1: claim and organize my house. Got nothing else to do. 691 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: And I remember getting a call saying the strike was over. 692 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,640 Speaker 1: Literally thirty minutes later, my phone was ringing off the 693 00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:10,040 Speaker 1: hook and it did not stop until March whatever the 694 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:15,720 Speaker 1: day is after the Oscars. So it literally was a whirlwind. 695 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,640 Speaker 1: And I did not foresee that that was going to 696 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,680 Speaker 1: have such traction because before you know, it was like 697 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: we remember they were like, Oh, we're just so lucky 698 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,520 Speaker 1: that we have such an amazing director speaking on our 699 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,720 Speaker 1: behalf right, because at this point we would have already 700 00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,000 Speaker 1: missed Tell your Ride and Tiff. He was doing those 701 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,480 Speaker 1: by himself, and he was so guind He would send 702 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,440 Speaker 1: us text messages and be like they really liked it, 703 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,600 Speaker 1: and we'd be like, aha, everything went over. Well, they 704 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,480 Speaker 1: really enjoyed your part in this part, and so we 705 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,840 Speaker 1: were so removed. But unbeknownst I guess it was like 706 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,680 Speaker 1: slowly picking up steam. In the moment that the strike 707 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: was over, it was full speed of hint. 708 00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:02,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, were you and meately attracted to the role of 709 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,600 Speaker 2: Mary or she grow on you? 710 00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,759 Speaker 1: She grew on me because of how which I thought 711 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:13,040 Speaker 1: was really smart, how Alexander positioned or propositioned her to me. 712 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,480 Speaker 1: It wasn't a big cell. It was very He was 713 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,520 Speaker 1: very casual of like, there's this role. I think you'd 714 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,480 Speaker 1: be grateful it. I saw you in Dola Mine and 715 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:27,399 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, I saw things that I feel 716 00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 1: as though you could bring this role to life. Give 717 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,759 Speaker 1: it a read. I remember it was over. It was 718 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,759 Speaker 1: right before Thanksgiving weekend and he was like, and I'll 719 00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:40,520 Speaker 1: give you a call on Tuesday, and I was like, okay. 720 00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:44,200 Speaker 1: So it was real casual and nice and easy, and 721 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,840 Speaker 1: there was some parts that was like intentionally left open, 722 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,839 Speaker 1: and he expressed of like the writer, and I want 723 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,680 Speaker 1: to figure this out with you and how we see 724 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:57,279 Speaker 1: her coming to life and what she say this? Would 725 00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 1: she not say that? What would this look like? So 726 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,120 Speaker 1: it was this nice and easy approach. But then we 727 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 1: shot in January, so it went really fast. So it 728 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 1: was like the moment I said yes, I got cigarettes 729 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,359 Speaker 1: delivered to me and I'm working over dialect and we're 730 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,560 Speaker 1: going over tech stuff. And what are we wearing. So 731 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,080 Speaker 1: once I said yes, it moved very quickly leading up 732 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,919 Speaker 1: to when we began filming because we filmed right after 733 00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 1: New Year's Day. 734 00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 2: Right, it's like you're looking at my notes here because 735 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,520 Speaker 2: you kind of touched on this a little bit. But 736 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,640 Speaker 2: I'm interested in your perspective. So, right before all this 737 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:43,040 Speaker 2: holdover buzz happened, you were in a show called The Idol. 738 00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:43,799 Speaker 1: Yeah. 739 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,600 Speaker 2: I had a lot of great people involved, Sam Levinson, Yes, 740 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:52,320 Speaker 2: the Weekend. The critics were not kind, right, The Idol. 741 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:57,239 Speaker 2: It's currently at nineteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which I 742 00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:58,920 Speaker 2: don't know if you know this or not. That's not 743 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:04,680 Speaker 2: great now? Was it strange or is it strange or 744 00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:09,160 Speaker 2: somewhat confusing that at the same moment in time you've 745 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:15,040 Speaker 2: got two projects going, one that everyone is loving and 746 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,880 Speaker 2: the other. Although the La Times was very nice to 747 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,439 Speaker 2: you in an article I read today, well. 748 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:24,360 Speaker 1: That don't have to say that was an interesting thing, Okay, 749 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,960 Speaker 1: interesting experience, right, Like I gave my best right and 750 00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,879 Speaker 1: I at the same time had a really great relationship 751 00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,600 Speaker 1: with Sam and we were able to He gave me 752 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,680 Speaker 1: a lot of creative leeway that we really collaborated on 753 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:48,400 Speaker 1: my characters. So who Destiny became I actually felt great about, okay, 754 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 1: I felt as though what I contributed was contributed was decent, 755 00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:58,920 Speaker 1: and what was an interesting experience for me was though 756 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,960 Speaker 1: for a lot like scandalous salacious reasons, they didn't enjoy it. 757 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,319 Speaker 1: I had an interesting experience because they were like, but 758 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,800 Speaker 1: Destiny blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. 759 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,680 Speaker 2: Right, so that's fair. 760 00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:18,239 Speaker 1: Yeah, So for me, it's something that I would definitely 761 00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,680 Speaker 1: not hide or try to make disappear because I actually 762 00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:27,520 Speaker 1: am really stand by and am really down for the 763 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,600 Speaker 1: work that I created, and also too, to be honest, 764 00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:34,239 Speaker 1: like it was nice to do something different. I always 765 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:42,520 Speaker 1: want to continue to reinvent myself or keep people guessing. 766 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,560 Speaker 1: And it may change, I don't know why, might get 767 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,399 Speaker 1: older and be like I might be okay with this, 768 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: But for me right now, I love the idea that 769 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,520 Speaker 1: people can't really pigeonhole me just yet or be like, oh, yeah, 770 00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:57,000 Speaker 1: she's that type. I feel like even with a comedy, 771 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:02,239 Speaker 1: like I do different types of things intentionally and I 772 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,160 Speaker 1: think now too, yes, there's more opportunity, but I think 773 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,080 Speaker 1: it also requires me to have more discernment of what 774 00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,040 Speaker 1: roles I choose. I'm really specific and strategic about it. 775 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,360 Speaker 1: So in a way, I guess you could say it 776 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:19,200 Speaker 1: was like the best in a not so great situation 777 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,080 Speaker 1: that I could have had. I think for sure, out 778 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,759 Speaker 1: of all the other characters, I got lucky in that 779 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:29,080 Speaker 1: regard that if they did say something nice, it was 780 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,399 Speaker 1: usually my character. And I will say that everyone worked 781 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,920 Speaker 1: really hard and sometimes people just. 782 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,160 Speaker 2: Don't like it, you know what I mean. 783 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,080 Speaker 1: But I cannot not give credit where credit is due 784 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,200 Speaker 1: to everyone involved. They were committed to it, and this 785 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,800 Speaker 1: is what the story they wanted to tell, and yeah, 786 00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:47,719 Speaker 1: it just didn't hit. 787 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:50,439 Speaker 2: I'm not even talking about one being good or bad 788 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 2: or the other. I more mean psychologically for you. I mean, 789 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:57,319 Speaker 2: it's the whole, Like is all press good press? Right? 790 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:01,560 Speaker 2: Like I mean, you're you're having people like loving this 791 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,239 Speaker 2: one thing that you're doing and not so much a 792 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:08,080 Speaker 2: fan to be kind of this other thing, and you're 793 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,840 Speaker 2: getting it all at sort of the same moment. That's 794 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:12,680 Speaker 2: more what I'm saying. 795 00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,759 Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right because I remember because during well so, 796 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,640 Speaker 3: I was in a way pseudo doing press for it 797 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:23,040 Speaker 3: as well, and because it wasn't going so great. 798 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:26,560 Speaker 1: Halfway through, I was the only one that was doing press. 799 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,719 Speaker 1: No one else was doing press. Idle, no one did 800 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,440 Speaker 1: the press unbeknowns because people, you know, they just made 801 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,840 Speaker 1: a decision of oh, it's for whatever reason it's not 802 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,120 Speaker 1: being received. Well, I don't want to give more time 803 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,080 Speaker 1: to that. But you're right because that was during the strike. 804 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:44,279 Speaker 1: I remember because it was a whole lot of phoners. 805 00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:49,560 Speaker 1: So at that time it was too soon actually timeline wise, Okay, 806 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,879 Speaker 1: I did not know yet that holdovers was becoming a thing, 807 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:59,120 Speaker 1: so I would say, but yes, one definitely went one 808 00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:05,479 Speaker 1: way and that then ended and then it then picked 809 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,080 Speaker 1: up for the other. But yeah, in no way, I 810 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,120 Speaker 1: guess it is to a certain degree. Like I said, 811 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,480 Speaker 1: it was the best in a not so great situation, 812 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:16,040 Speaker 1: right in regards of like all press, yeah can be 813 00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,720 Speaker 1: good press. That I to be clear, I got lucky 814 00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,560 Speaker 1: because if they did say something nice, it was about 815 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,200 Speaker 1: my characters. So even though it wasn't so great, right, 816 00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,200 Speaker 1: I was able to make the best of that moment 817 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,120 Speaker 1: and then boom boom the next thing. 818 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:35,320 Speaker 2: Then being holders, you have another milestone this year, your 819 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:41,840 Speaker 2: first Emmy nomination Outstanding guest Actress on Only Murders in 820 00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:46,360 Speaker 2: the Building Season four, coming out? Did you audition for 821 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:46,800 Speaker 2: this show? 822 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,839 Speaker 1: I got a This is also why I think Dolamite 823 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,840 Speaker 1: was the thing, because that like catapulted me or what 824 00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,960 Speaker 1: or at least open doors because Eddie's who he is 825 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,880 Speaker 1: and because we countered on one another in our scenes. 826 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,239 Speaker 1: There were several jobs last og was one of them 827 00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:11,080 Speaker 1: where you know, Tracy called and was like, I'm thinking 828 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:15,759 Speaker 1: about potentially offering to her this role. What do you 829 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,320 Speaker 1: think to Eddie? Eddie vouched for me. Then Steve Martin 830 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,600 Speaker 1: was like, I really love dolo mine and it made 831 00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:23,479 Speaker 1: me think that you would be great for this. And 832 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,359 Speaker 1: so Dolomine is a gift that keeps on giving. For sure, 833 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,640 Speaker 1: that's awesome, But yeah, no, I didn't. It was during 834 00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,760 Speaker 1: the pandemic Jonathan Hoffman when Steve Martin began crafting this character, 835 00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,759 Speaker 1: and I remember thinking like, there's no way there were 836 00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:40,680 Speaker 1: going to be This is like peak pandemic where I 837 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,759 Speaker 1: was like, no way, right, this one's not going to 838 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:44,680 Speaker 1: get over the fence. 839 00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:48,160 Speaker 2: And they did have a great time doing it. 840 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,600 Speaker 1: Oh, it's fantastic. One of my favorite jobs to do. 841 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,719 Speaker 1: These guys are amazing. I mean I've never been on 842 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,799 Speaker 1: anything before. I mean, you guys did how many seven? Eight? 843 00:49:57,840 --> 00:49:59,160 Speaker 1: How many seasons did you guys have? 844 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,879 Speaker 2: Well, ten years, nine seasons? 845 00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,839 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so. 846 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:08,080 Speaker 2: You but I think you'd have to do like thirty 847 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:11,840 Speaker 2: seasons because we did two hundred and something episodes. 848 00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:16,680 Speaker 1: Yes, so real. Yeah, I've never This is for me, 849 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,760 Speaker 1: the longest time I've been on I feel like your Guys' 850 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,160 Speaker 1: show was like the last of the era of like 851 00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,880 Speaker 1: i mean, first of all, it was hugely successful. I 852 00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,560 Speaker 1: don't feel like shows go past. I feel like six 853 00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:32,960 Speaker 1: is the hurdle that they want to get across to 854 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,400 Speaker 1: go to syndication, and then they just crap out. 855 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:35,879 Speaker 2: Yeah. 856 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,200 Speaker 1: So this is the longest that I've ever done of 857 00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,440 Speaker 1: a show. But it's so fantastic. These guys are legends 858 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,439 Speaker 1: and they have such a child like zeel. I think 859 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,200 Speaker 1: that's the key when I think about it, of like 860 00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,160 Speaker 1: legendary the people that I've worked with, and I'm sure 861 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:56,640 Speaker 1: you can corroborate this, but it's like it's as if 862 00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:03,960 Speaker 1: it's their first gig, right, that this sense of like play, yes, yeah, exactly, 863 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:10,320 Speaker 1: these guys, they have endless energy. Helena and I are like, okay, 864 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,480 Speaker 1: I think we got it, and they're like, no, what 865 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:14,759 Speaker 1: is it this way? And there's something fun about it too, 866 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:17,680 Speaker 1: because it feels a little wad village. Yeah, it's like 867 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:23,160 Speaker 1: physical comedy. It's just so much fun to see them 868 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:28,359 Speaker 1: having a blast. It's also an amazing shooting schedule, which 869 00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,640 Speaker 1: is essentially nine to five or ten to six. I've 870 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,200 Speaker 1: never been on a show like that before. 871 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:39,520 Speaker 2: And when you get legends that time for dinner. Yeah, yeah, 872 00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:42,880 Speaker 2: what are you talking about? Although you've got to shoot 873 00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:46,440 Speaker 2: nights some right, but when we. 874 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:50,600 Speaker 1: Do, it's usually towards the end. For whatever reason. They 875 00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:52,920 Speaker 1: usually save it for the end, and it's like in 876 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,359 Speaker 1: one week and we just knock it out and then 877 00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:56,040 Speaker 1: it's done. 878 00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:01,520 Speaker 2: You're a very very very fun person. But I mean no, 879 00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,800 Speaker 2: and that's not a butt. You're a very funny person. 880 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,600 Speaker 2: And in this you play the straight person. Straight man. 881 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,960 Speaker 2: The phrase is straight man. That's what do we call 882 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,400 Speaker 2: it now? Right? 883 00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,959 Speaker 1: I haven't heard it call it anything else. I don't 884 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,040 Speaker 1: know of a new phrase for that, you. 885 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,359 Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying? Like, you play the straight man 886 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:28,000 Speaker 2: to these two unbelievably, and as you mentioned physically gifted comedians. 887 00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:29,759 Speaker 2: Is that tough for you? 888 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,920 Speaker 1: It's actually it's nice. I like doing both. I like 889 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,120 Speaker 1: when I'm playing those kind of roles and I like 890 00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:38,799 Speaker 1: when I'm the one that's the silly one. 891 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:39,600 Speaker 2: It's nice. 892 00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,719 Speaker 1: I enjoy both. To me, it's kind of saying of 893 00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,600 Speaker 1: like comedy and drama. I like using all of those 894 00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:52,120 Speaker 1: different skill sets. And I like what I like about 895 00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:58,919 Speaker 1: when you're playing a straight man. It's finding the nuances, 896 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:03,920 Speaker 1: oftentimes instill ill and minimalism and how impactful that can be, 897 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,839 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yes, that's what ends up. 898 00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,040 Speaker 1: I'm always looking for what's the game, what's the right 899 00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,720 Speaker 1: And for me a lot of times it's how little 900 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:15,520 Speaker 1: can I move? 901 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:17,000 Speaker 2: I love that. 902 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:23,480 Speaker 1: How simple can I be to make pack the biggest punch. Yeah, yeah, 903 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,399 Speaker 1: it's nice. It's fun that way. 904 00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,839 Speaker 2: Very smart. Good for you, very smart. Thank you. Oh. 905 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,279 Speaker 2: By the way, there's there's some other newcomer on the 906 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,080 Speaker 2: show too, right, Meryl. What's her name? 907 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, so she came in season three. 908 00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:38,680 Speaker 2: Was a joke. 909 00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:46,680 Speaker 1: We have had lots of really great people come in 910 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:48,000 Speaker 1: and it's. 911 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:53,160 Speaker 2: Become like Amy Ryan, Yeah, I saw her. Paul Rudd. 912 00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:57,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, so when they were like streep. I was like, Okay, 913 00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:01,360 Speaker 1: cut it out, guys, this is not funny. And I 914 00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:05,600 Speaker 1: literally was at a precedent for a holdover. It's like 915 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:10,319 Speaker 1: an early President for holdovers. And because that season was 916 00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,800 Speaker 1: like a musical within the TV show, the composers was like, 917 00:54:13,840 --> 00:54:16,120 Speaker 1: oh my god, we can't wait for this year. We 918 00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:18,040 Speaker 1: can't wait to work with you. It's such a dream. 919 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:21,000 Speaker 1: I cannot believe I'm writing a strong a song for MARYL. Street. 920 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:21,960 Speaker 2: And I was like what. 921 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,040 Speaker 1: And I immediately called John Hoffman and I was like, 922 00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,400 Speaker 1: figure it out. You didn't tell me, and I figured 923 00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,239 Speaker 1: it out, and you better figure out a way to 924 00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:32,040 Speaker 1: get me in there. 925 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:36,560 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, good, what can you tell us about 926 00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:42,600 Speaker 2: season four? So Steve dies right right. 927 00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:47,200 Speaker 1: So they're very secretive, though I will say if it 928 00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,080 Speaker 1: wasn't I'm a Marvel movie or something. But I will 929 00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:55,520 Speaker 1: say so the last season was a play within a 930 00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,799 Speaker 1: TV show, and this season will be another form of 931 00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:00,920 Speaker 1: media that's in this season. 932 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,080 Speaker 2: That's what they've allowed you to say. 933 00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't know what people I don't know 934 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:15,480 Speaker 1: what things they said, and movie or filmy Martin and 935 00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,920 Speaker 1: Martin Short's characters right for this season. 936 00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,840 Speaker 2: Yep, all right, it's really helpful. All the outlets are 937 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:27,000 Speaker 2: going to pick up that kid bit. Everyone that's gonna 938 00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,719 Speaker 2: they're gonna be all they're gonna be rushing to press 939 00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:34,400 Speaker 2: with that. Uh, Davin, thank you so much. Good luck 940 00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:38,359 Speaker 2: at them as I'll be watching for sure, and good 941 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,680 Speaker 2: luck with the season. And I mean, really, honest to God, 942 00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:47,320 Speaker 2: with everything that you do, you're so unbelievably fun to watch. 943 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,000 Speaker 2: And my conversation today, well, you're a good person too, 944 00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,440 Speaker 2: and you're super smart and thoughtful about your choices and 945 00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:56,960 Speaker 2: I respect the hell out of that. 946 00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,879 Speaker 1: And you Thank you so much, Brian, I really appreciate that. 947 00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:16,960 Speaker 2: Best of luck, all right, thank you, Davine. So great 948 00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,120 Speaker 2: to have you. Thank you so much for taking the time. 949 00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:24,400 Speaker 2: I know it has been a busy, busy ride for you. 950 00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,200 Speaker 2: Good luck at the Emmys next month. You've got my vote, 951 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,600 Speaker 2: and then just do yourself a favorite. Take a break, 952 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:35,879 Speaker 2: all right, listeners, go and watch her Emmy nominated performance 953 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,640 Speaker 2: in Only Murders in the Building, and go hit that 954 00:56:39,719 --> 00:56:42,520 Speaker 2: subscribe button and make sure you come back here for 955 00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:48,840 Speaker 2: our next episode. We've got another award winner coming up next, 956 00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:59,960 Speaker 2: So come back next week. 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