WEBVTT - Jesse Metcalfe 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.639 Hello, gorgeous, welcome to the Give Them La La Podcast. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:19.800 We had an intro and there was some technical difficulties 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.720 and once we sent them over to our producer, the 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:28.640 file was like nowhere to be heard. So here's the alternative. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:33.000 I'm literally sitting in Ocean's nursery giving you guys this intro. 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.400 We have Jesse Metcalf on the podcast today, and I 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:42.000 cannot be the only person that was obsessed with Desperate Housewives. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.720 I'm sure a lot of you guys were also obsessed, 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.560 and you can also stream it now, so I'm sure 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.880 that a lot of you, like myself, are going back 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:56.160 and rewatching. It was like every Sunday night was Desperate 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.160 Housewives and then Gray's Anatomy. It was just like what 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:01.320 you did on Sunday. So we have him on the 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.480 podcast today. We're going to pick his brain. I have 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:08.000 a few questions for him, and we're going to skip 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:13.160 vander Talk today because I slacked. I did not watch 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:18.960 last night's episode. But hopefully next week we can recap 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.280 two episodes in one I think that that would be 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:26.280 a lot of fun, and I also really want to 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.160 answer your guys' question, so please remember to call in 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.600 call into the podcast. That number is eight six six 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.840 La La Pod again, eight six six La La Pod. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:42.839 I always love hearing from you guys, answering whatever questions 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.800 you have, and it just makes me feel like we're 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.320 in a more intimate setting. The whole reason I started 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.320 this podcast was so that we all could feel this 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.000 like connection and bond and we could get closer to 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.160 each other. So please reach out to me. And without 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.040 further ado, we're going to cut to a quick break 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.000 and we will be right back with the heart throb 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:14.000 Jesse Metcalf. We are back with our epic guest, mister Metcalf. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.400 Okay, Jesse, that production I am. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:21.679 Well, we give Before before you came on, we gave 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.600 you a very very warm welcome about your career and 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.360 how great of a human you are in front of us. 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:31.160 Wow, so you lied, Thank you. I have to all 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:32.640 about appearances in Hollywood. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.679 The number one question I have is do you ever 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:37.880 talk to Eva Longoria? 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:38.840 Well? 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.560 I run into Eva from time to time. We follow 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:45.320 each other on social media, but we don't really talk. Okay, 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.440 you know she's uh, you know, it's mom life over 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.480 there with Eva right now, and she seems like she's 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.799 an amazing mom, and I mean, I'm so impressed and 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:59.239 proud of all the things she's done civically, socially, politically. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.880 You know, they say actors shouldn't shouldn't, you know, get 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.919 involved with politics, and I tend to believe that what 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.240 I'm saying, but you know, I think she's done some 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.040 amazing things. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.320 I agree. I think politicians should be just that, not 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.679 reality TV stars, not actresses. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:20.839 Politicians suck. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:22.200 Yeah, So. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.679 Okay, whatever they want to do, who cares. I don't 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.040 listen to a thing. They say, Well, Jesse, do your 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.880 own thing, so let me. I'm just I'm just a 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:32.720 pawn in the game. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:37.000 You too are, Yeah, So let's just back up the 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.320 tape a little bit here. Just tell us like early 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.360 days of your career, like how you got into you know, 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.880 acting and then the big break and okay, because I've 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.320 we've worked with you both Lalla and I in movies 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.839 and different projects, but just kind of tell fans far 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:50.440 back you want me to go, and just how you 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:52.040 got into acting, how it started, and then how you 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.440 got here in your first big break. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:55.480 Okay, well, I was trying to figure out what I 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.440 wanted to do with my life. As a senior in 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.600 high school, and I really didn't have a whole lot 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:04.400 of direction, but I loved movies. My father took me 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.320 to a lot of movies growing up when I was 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.560 very young, a lot of inappropriate movies I shouldn't have 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.160 gone to, like, you know, Basic Instinct when I was 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.480 like seven years old. Mom wasn't too happy about that one. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.560 Wow, that's a tough one of. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:20.800 Them, exactly. But I had a passion for movies. I 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.440 think I just loved the escapism of it, and you know, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.680 just getting into another world and into the characters, into 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.400 the stories. And so I thought, Hey, maybe I could 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.440 go to NYU Film School. That shouldn't be too hard 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:37.960 to get into. Wow wow yeah with no with nothing 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.040 yeah nothing really good looks on my application other than 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:45.040 my good looks and an essay about The Basketball Diaries, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:46.400 which was one of my favorite movie. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.840 Phenomenal movie that Lala, do you know who is that? No, 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:51.839 I've never seen you were zero years old when that 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:52.560 movie became. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.159 Marky Mark was in it and that was where that 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.760 was when he transitioned from Marky Mark to Mark Wahlberg 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.040 and Leo. Oh this guy can act. Leo obviously crushed it, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.760 crushed it. It was amazing, great movie. Now it's a 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:08.120 movie about a New York poet who did a lot 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:09.080 of drugs addiction. 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.400 Yeah, and you know, a side note and then we'll 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:15.480 come back. But Eric Weinstein, who was he, who's his assistant, 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:18.560 who now is his partner, met Mark on that movie 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.320 as his coach for drug coaching, like you know, oh yeah, 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.040 for just you know, because he had been a heroin 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.720 you know, former addict. So that's what. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.560 Yeah, I would assume you were a pretty big fan 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:29.400 of that movie as well. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:30.960 Yeah, that movie was phenomenal. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:34.120 It really, it really was. So anyway, I managed to 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.839 get into NYU by the skin of my teeth, not 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.440 into Tish. I got into a new program. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.040 Not into the theater program. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.040 Into the theater program or the film program. The Gallatin 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.640 School for people that didn't know what they wanted to 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:49.400 do with their lives. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.880 Yeah, they have a program for people that don't know apparently, 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.360 and it was called the Gallatin School. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.440 So I did a half a year, two semesters in 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.240 the gallat In School, or I guess a semester. I 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.920 did a semester in the gallas In School. I had 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.479 good grades and I was able to transfer into TISH, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:15.080 having already been accepted into NYU Film and Television, not 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.680 you know, not not a not a conservatory, not the 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.200 acting not an acting program. I absolutely loved it. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.320 I mean it was to send any sort of like 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:24.680 audition tape to get in. 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.480 You're supposed to send any you know, films you've done, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.799 short films you've created, which I had none. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.440 I mean, I should be grateful that you got into 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.000 any program at all. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:38.520 Yeah, with your effort. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.680 I mean, if you're telling me that you just submitted 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:42.640 an essay. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.920 On how thirteen eighty on my SAT? What? Yeah, you're 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.200 a lot of pot in high school and apparently I 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:51.320 had brain cells despair. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.000 Go figure, Wait a second, you had a thirteen eighty 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.480 out of fifteen fifth that'sixteen. You're smart as fun. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.600 I wouldn't know. I never took an SAT. I don't 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:00.840 even know what good score would be. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.719 Yeah, they don't even do SATs anymore. They do the acts, and. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:05.080 I don't even know what the good score on that 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:05.480 would be. 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:13.200 Immediately, the good news is you did Okay, I will say. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.760 I did a movie with you. What was the name 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:15.200 of it? Again? 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.880 I forgot me too, something hard kill. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.480 Hard kill. And I've never seen a script like yours. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.400 There was so much dialogue that you had written as 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.280 far as your character break down, and you're the reason 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.080 I started doing that actually, like going into that much depth. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:31.880 Can you let me. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.120 Look at yours? And I was like, what is this? 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.520 You know, like I had little notes, but yours was 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:41.920 like what your character for breakfast that morning? And wanted 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:43.240 I'll do that as well. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:51.200 Awesome, like a lot of backstory. Yeah, Jenny's pretty Jesse's 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.200 pretty method. I mean I've been on sets with Jesse. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:54.160 He's pretty focused. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.320 Now, it can't be too method because then people don't 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:56.800 want to work with it. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.720 So then after, where are you from? Originally? 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.560 I grew up in Connecticut, Connecticut? 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.960 Okay, so you go to college in New York and 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.080 then when do you make your big move to Hollywood? 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.600 Okay? Well, while I was in college, I was doing 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.760 some male modeling. Oh you're a master male modeling? 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:16.680 Wow? Yeah? 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.800 Yeah, you know a little seventeen magazine. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.400 I think we ran into each other in some. 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.560 And I thought, hey, well you know, maybe I can 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:31.200 do some commercials, right, So they got me a theatrical agent. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.080 I went on a UPS commercial audition where I dressed 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.000 up like a UPS delivery man, but I wasn't playing 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.160 a UPS delivery man when I got there. I was 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.679 just playing someone who received a package, so that totally 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.840 didn't work. And then they sent me out on an 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:51.800 open casting call for the infamous daytime television show Passions, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:53.319 which I booked. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:53.880 Wow. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.480 So after my junior year in college, did three years 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:01.240 you know, ninety something thousand dollars at that time, and 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.119 I didn't even graduate. I dropped out, came to Los Angeles, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:05.319 and I've been acting ever since. 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.920 Wow. That's a great story. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:12.360 So then when did when did my most favorite show 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.280 ever that I grew up watching and I thought you 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.240 were the hottest thing ever. I think I was in 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:20.160 the seventh grade. Oh wow, Desperate Housewives came out? 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.200 Okay, Well I did five years on Passions on daytime. Okay, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.280 great training ground. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.480 How many episodes this season would you do? Is it 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.800 like like fifty six? Is it like every day? 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:31.440 Like? So five episodes a week? 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.320 Oh my god, that's that's like fides. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:37.040 So it was great training for memorying line memorizing lines, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.400 but you you would pick up a lot of bad habits. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.160 You know, because you had to memorize so quickly that 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.760 it wouldn't lend itself to you know, developing your craft, right, 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.120 I don't think. But once I ultimately decided to make 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.760 the jump and see if I could get something better, 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.360 get on the prime time. You know, there was a 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.360 lot of a lot of naysayers. A lot of people 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.280 I worked with were like, what are you going to do? 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:01.040 And I was like, you know, honestly, I don't care 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.280 if I'm pumping gas next week. I need to do 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.360 something different than this. So you left the show, yeah, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.400 and it just kind of run its course. And then 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:09.680 I went through the pass. 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:10.559 Is like a soap opera? 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.959 Yes, okay, yeah, yeah it is? 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:15.839 And you were just over it, I. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.520 Mean, long run. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:23.840 I had aspirations I did. I did a whole pilot season, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.760 my very first full pilot season. It was coming towards 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.800 the end of pilot season and I hadn't gotten anything, 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.640 you know, so I was pretty stressed. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.640 I was you know, where were you living at this point? 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.599 Do you have one of those stories where it's like 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:37.600 you lived in a shithole, you were on someone's house. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.160 No, no, no, this point, I actually owned my first property. 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.240 I owned a condo in West Hollywood. It was like 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.000 it was like Melrose Place in there. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:46.280 You know. 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.440 It was like it faced into the pool and everyone's apartments, 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.360 you know, were around the pool. There were some unsavory 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.439 characters that lived there. H So, you know, that was 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.160 a good time. It was a good period in my life. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.920 And I I had two test deals on the table 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.199 by the end of this pilot season. One was for 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.960 Veronica Mars and one was for this unknown show that 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.319 really not many people knew anything much about called Desperate Housewives. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:17.840 And the Desperate Housewives deal was on the table, and 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.920 the Veronica Mars thing was like still in negotiation. So 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.120 I went for the Desperate Housewives and I ended up 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.640 booking it. And it was actually a recast. You know, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.920 there was another actor playing the gardener, but they didn't 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.000 like him opposite Eva. They didn't think that they had chemistry, 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.920 and they recast it after they shot the pilot. Wow, 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:47.120 how many we had some we had good chemistry. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.680 And played a high school student. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.240 Right, Oh my god, Yes, where did you guys film 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.040 we filmed that universal? 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:51.680 Oh wow? 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.440 Yeah, so it was really cool. We had a whole block, 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.520 a whole neighborhood, like like set on the lot, whole 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.520 set ont It was very very cool. It's very cool. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.520 Did you get to see all the tram and the visitor. 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.720 Yeah, the trams would always gone by and wave. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.000 They were just so happy to be on with STI 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.120 Lane exactly. 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:10.240 Is that what it's called? 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.760 Oh yeah, I know a lot of plastic flowers and 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:15.320 you know, I mean. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:16.920 Yes, it was like Stepford Wives. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.240 Yeah and then so yeah, I was totally surprised at 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.520 the success of that show. I didn't I didn't anticipate 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.080 that at all at all. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.599 No, I mean, how could you you like took a 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.760 leap of faith by leaving that show? Passions right? 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:32.439 That still long? 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.000 No, when did it end after you? 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:35.719 It has? 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.520 It has, it's gone. It went for quite a few 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.560 years after I left. But it has a cult following, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.560 does it. I mean people were huge fans of that show. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.320 I got a supernatural storyline. It was out there. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.760 So it wasn't like Days of Our Lives where people 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.440 were being possessed by devils. 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:57.280 No, it was actually my my girlfriend was possessed on 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:02.280 the show, and I went to Hell to save her. Yeah, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.400 And I was like I was battling demons. 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.760 Hell yeah, Jesse, I would love to see that conversation 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.920 between you and the director having these deep moments. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.319 What is it like meeting with a director on a soap? 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:18.960 I mean, I know what it's like meeting with a 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:24.079 director on a film. If you're shooting five days a week. 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:28.240 And there's not a lot of talk about performance. It's 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.160 like if you if you get the words out of 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.840 your mouth and they're intelligible, then they're moving on. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:34.640 Wow. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.080 Because you do so much material each day, there's not 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.960 a yeah, there's episode a day right around full episode. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:42.640 It's crazy. 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.760 How hour long episode. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.640 I can't even imagine. That's nuts, dude. 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.640 I think I can't memorize that. Like, how much dialogue 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.520 do you think you had to memorize daily? 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.320 Thirty pages? Twenty to thirty pages? If you were a 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.520 main character and had, you know, a big. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:02.800 Storyline, you must have been fried by the. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.200 End of Fried. But I had a young brain. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:06.840 Hello were you when you were doing this? 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.520 My twenties? My early twenties? 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:09.080 Early? 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.040 Okay? But I have a question. 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.600 You're a sharp then, yeah, exactly. You get a lot 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:17.839 dollars and get older. I need my Ginko Beloba. Probably 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.880 don't know what that is. It was the thing. It 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.040 was a thing that always advertised on the price is right, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:23.800 and it's supposed to, like, you know, help your brain, 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:29.880 supposed to help your memory. Your older listeners, which I'm 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.160 sure you have a few, Well, I will understand. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.440 That some that are in their fifties. Yeah, sure, perfect 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.040 sold are your forty something? 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:38.360 Let's not go there. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.080 I think people should wear their age with pride. 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.040 I do wear mine with pride. On forty two years young, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.360 about to turn forty three in December. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.040 Good for you had a good head of hair on you. 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.760 Thank you, You're welcome. You're like, is she about that? 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.760 There's nothing money can't buy? 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.840 Oh my gosh. We're going to cut to a short 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:05.480 and we will be right back with Jesse Metcalf. All right, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.280 we are back with Jesse Metcalf, and we're talking about 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:15.360 all things Jesse Metcalf, from his great hair to his career. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.160 I found out you did two movies with randall back 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.960 to back. I had no idea. What are they called. 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:27.600 They're called Fortress, Fortress, Fortress, b dubs Bruce Willis Bruce 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.320 ye exactly. They're really fun movies though they're like the 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.360 Indiana Jones kind of type movies. They're a little little 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.280 little tongue in cheek and they have a little bit 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.200 of everything. You know. They have a little comedy, they 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.000 have a little romance, and they have a lot of action. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.720 They're pretty cool, you know, they're kind they're kind of 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.880 they're kind of different. And apparently from both of our 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.760 directors of one and two, I'm hearing that they came 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:50.240 out quite well good. 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:54.000 Yeah, well, I know the one that most of the 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.560 movies that Randall's made with Bruce Willis have always topped 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:03.120 in either Netflix or on demand pretty high. Yeah, so 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:04.760 is Fortress out yet? 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.080 Not yet? I think the first one's coming out in December? 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:07.640 Am I right? 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.280 Oh? Around Christmas time? Christmas? 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.200 Really a Christmas Bruce Willis movie. You know how people 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.000 like to say that Diehards a Christmas movie? You ever 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:17.440 heard that? 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:18.120 No? 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.440 Yeah, Like, what's your favorite Christmas movie? Die Hard? Die Hard? 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.280 Why? Because it came out around Christmas time? 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.560 Because the story takes place during Christmas. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.680 I'm going to be honest, never seen it. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.280 Yeah, it's a classic. 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.760 There's a lot of classics that I haven't seen. Apparently 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.600 the other one, what is it? Basketball? Diaries that we 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.640 just spoke about. Yes, all right, I did get who 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.480 plays your love interest in Fortress? Or is does? 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.560 Is it someone that I had a love interest? Kelly? 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.480 Yeah, yeah, Kelly was great. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.360 Yeah, an old friend of Randall's and she's amazing in 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:49.760 the movie. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:53.320 Oh yeah, very nice. Where did you shoot this? These movies? 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:54.280 Puerto Rico? 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.960 It's becoming a very popular place to shoot. 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.879 It is it is. It is so busy now that 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.040 I can't even get movies in there, Like we were 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.720 just shot in Alabama because we can't, like, we can't 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.639 get movies into Puerto Rico. So my next movie in 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.160 Porto Rico is not until March because it's it's too busy. Wow. Yeah, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.600 we started that. We started that that. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.600 Hole, which I'm sure is great for the economy. 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.640 Oh they're so busy. I mean it's but it's great 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.159 for the whole. Yes, it's great for everything. But I 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:26.679 love Puerto rican I mean it's a great place to 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.880 make movies. It's just you know, there's only so many 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.560 crew there, so whoever gets in, you know, kind of 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:32.640 they can only handle so much. 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.879 But do you think as they start filming more movies 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:38.840 there that they'll more people will move there as far 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.800 as production goes, so that they're. 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.680 I mean, I don't know about that, because. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.600 Every time I've filmed a movie there, it's kind of 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:46.280 a shit show. 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:52.080 Well, you know, I actually, I actually was impressed by 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.080 the Puerto Rican Cruise. I thought I thought they were 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:54.640 really good. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:56.600 Yeah, I agree that they. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.800 Weren't hard workers. They're incredibly like everyone that work is 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.040 hard working, just on most movies. 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:05.480 That I not necessarily a lot of experience, but I'm right. 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.360 And I'm a virgo, so I like things to be 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.720 very timely and organized. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.919 Yes, yeah, that's I like that as well. You know, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.240 as an actor that's been in the industry for twenty 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:15.960 two years. 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.879 I'll say on behalf of recall say that the crews 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.800 are very experienced. They're limited though there's only so many 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.520 of them, so once our movie starts, if you come 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:26.600 in after the fact, you kind of have to bring 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.920 a lot of people in. So just because there's not enough. 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:33.600 It was less about the crew and more about maybe 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.800 the director or other people. 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.920 Hold on, oh that was we don't drop the tea, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:40.639 but I think she spilled the tea or he dropped 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.080 it or something. Director you felt you didn't have the 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.720 connection with Yeah, movie. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:48.800 That can happen. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.879 Yeah, now you tell me we're working on pages you 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:57.000 know why through Z And then you come in and 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.280 you're like, no, no, I told you A and be 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.600 today and it's like you're fucking moron. 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.840 Okay, okay, and movie. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.199 Jesse, would you like to share your uh stories with 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.320 about some of your directors? 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.240