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One on One: Robert Michael Lee · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I Am all In.
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  Speaker 2: I Am all In with Scott Patterson, an iHeartRadio podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
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  Speaker 1: eleven productions. iHeart Radio, iHeart Media, iHeart podcasts. One on
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  Speaker 1: one interview. Anyway, we're joined by Suzanne French and we
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  Speaker 1: have the ubiquitous and talented and probably a cast favorite.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, Robert Lee is here. He is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the the characters in the show. You see
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  Speaker 1: him every single episode, all over every episode. He wears
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  Speaker 1: many hats on that show. I wouldn't even call him
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  Speaker 1: an extra. I would call him an extension of the
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  Speaker 1: cast because he fills so many roles every single day.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you a little bit about him. He's a
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  Speaker 1: background performer for Gilmore Girls, and he's seen as one
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  Speaker 1: of the townspeople. Then he became a waiter at Luke's Diner.
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  Speaker 1: And you recognize Robert. You see him in every episode.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll be right back after Robert's interview after these words. Robert,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the program. It's great to have you on,
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  Speaker 1: and how are you, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to see you, Nice to see you, Scott. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: That was very kind of you.
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  Speaker 1: There are no small roles on Gilmore Girls, and you
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  Speaker 1: are the You are the most recognized extra. How did
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  Speaker 1: you start doing? And I don't even want to refer
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  Speaker 1: to it as background work because you were so prominent
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  Speaker 1: in every episode, But I guess, I guess technically, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you're a background How did you get started that?
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  Speaker 4: Back in the day, I was a or I still am,
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  Speaker 4: an IT consultant. I specialized in the Apple computers. And
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  Speaker 4: back in the two thousands we were brand new with computers.
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  Speaker 4: The ads, the directors and producers were very kind of
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  Speaker 4: using computers, but they were still a little scared of them. Man.
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  Speaker 4: I was a consultant and helped out a lot of
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  Speaker 4: production and helped out a lot of ads, and they
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  Speaker 4: had me close by making me background on a show.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. You get the good grades, you got
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  Speaker 1: the big brain. They're gonna need you.
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  Speaker 5: And then when something goes wrong with the computer, you're
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  Speaker 5: right there to fix it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: How many times did I call you because you used
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  Speaker 1: to live right down the street from me when I
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  Speaker 1: lived in la And how many times did I call you, Robert,
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  Speaker 1: call me, please help me with my laptop, help me
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  Speaker 1: with my deskto and you'd come over and solve the problem.
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  Speaker 1: Pete Kids.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely No.
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  Speaker 4: One of the big things that was great is that
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  Speaker 4: on set show in which we had the Tarantino Quentin
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  Speaker 4: Tarantino party where everybody was dressed up as one of
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  Speaker 4: his movie characters. The wardrow department and the makeup department
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  Speaker 4: we're having trouble getting screenshots from the movies because that
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  Speaker 4: wasn't allowed on computers in those days. So I was
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  Speaker 4: pulled aside and I was able to hack it, which
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  Speaker 4: was part of my job, and I was able to
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  Speaker 4: get the wardrobe and make up all the pictures of
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  Speaker 4: the different characters that they wanted to put into that party.
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  Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Look at that the fringe benefits. Yeah. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you wore so many hats on that show. You were
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  Speaker 1: more valuable than I was.
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  Speaker 5: I was watching an episode recently. That was the episode
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  Speaker 5: where Lorelei and Max had their wetting their like their
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  Speaker 5: bridal shower in the town square, and you were in
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  Speaker 5: the background dancing with Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Patty.
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  Speaker 5: So that probably wasn't part of your job description as
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  Speaker 5: it consultant.
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  Speaker 3: I would guess that's right.
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  Speaker 4: That was a lot of fun I got to I
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  Speaker 4: started off mainly in the first two seasons as a townsperson.
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  Speaker 4: In season three and especially season four, they transitioned me
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  Speaker 4: into being a busboy in the diner.
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  Speaker 1: And so take us through a typical day. You show up,
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  Speaker 1: what time you know, you get there before everybody else does.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us about your interactions and what your typical
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  Speaker 1: day was like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I usually wanted to get on set about an
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  Speaker 4: hour early, and I would would.
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  Speaker 1: Be about five am, six am.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know if it was that or it depends,
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  Speaker 4: because they would only start they started only using me
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  Speaker 4: in the diner, So sometimes the diner would be in
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  Speaker 4: the beginning of the day. Sometimes the diner would be
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  Speaker 4: a later or middle part of the day because they
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  Speaker 4: didn't want to jump cut to me walking in the
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  Speaker 4: street and jump back in the diner and then all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden you see a background teleporting between two scenes.
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  Speaker 4: And I would get there about an hour early, get
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  Speaker 4: the sides, which were the words for the particular scene
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  Speaker 4: of the day, and I would read this script, memorize it,
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  Speaker 4: get to know it very well because it was real
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  Speaker 4: important for me to match my crosses behind Scott Laura
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  Speaker 4: Lai by Bett Mss Patty Kirk and not jump in
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  Speaker 4: the shots from one scene to another where it wasn't
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  Speaker 4: that I was walking from one part to another. So
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  Speaker 4: it was very important to make sure I didn't screw
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  Speaker 4: up the shots that.
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  Speaker 1: Were Oh yeah, I mean, you know, the focus required,
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  Speaker 1: the concentration required all day, and those were complicated scenes
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  Speaker 1: in that diner. You know, sometimes there would be like
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  Speaker 1: an an eight pager or a ten pager and it
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  Speaker 1: was busy diner and you were giving me plates and
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  Speaker 1: I was running over to deliver and then say lines
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  Speaker 1: and come back, and it all had to be choreographed
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  Speaker 1: and perfectly timed. And your job was as demanding as
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  Speaker 1: anybody else's because you had to know you had your
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  Speaker 1: own choreography that had to be timed perfectly so it
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  Speaker 1: would match take to take to take, so the editors
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  Speaker 1: could actually use this stuff because if because if you
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  Speaker 1: don't cross at a certain time on a certain line,
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  Speaker 1: they're not going to be able to use the take.
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  Speaker 1: So an incredible amount of effort and concentration, and that
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  Speaker 1: it took for you to do your job.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you, that's kind of you, see so, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean, really nothing pales in comparison to the work
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  Speaker 4: that you did on set. I mean, you guys got
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  Speaker 4: scripts late, your your the pages that you guys had
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  Speaker 4: to memorize that the last minute was incredible, and I
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  Speaker 4: always marveled at the skill and your acting ability on set.
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  Speaker 1: I just I.
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  Speaker 4: Always shake my head every time I on set, going
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  Speaker 4: whan he just he just did like five pages, you know,
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  Speaker 4: with almost no preparation. I mean, it was easier for
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  Speaker 4: me to listen to it than you know, I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: for you to act it.
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  Speaker 1: Well. You know, the thing is is we didn't mind
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  Speaker 1: so much because we knew the writing was so good,
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  Speaker 1: so it was always you know, they were delivering. It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like waiting for something, anticipating something that you
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  Speaker 1: know is going to be better than what you had before.
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  Speaker 1: And what you had before was great, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: the fascinating part was how are they going to make
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  Speaker 1: this better? And then you get this, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: last minute sometimes and that was a little stressful, but
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  Speaker 1: you know you could you could pull it off because
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  Speaker 1: the writing was so great and they made it better
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  Speaker 1: and they made It's just kind of magical process over there,
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  Speaker 1: and and and nobody really minded so much. I know
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  Speaker 1: on the show I'm doing now, there's been some freakouts
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  Speaker 1: on set because script stuff comes and rewrites come in
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  Speaker 1: at the last minute, and you know, there was a
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  Speaker 1: big incident up there, but that I heard about, But
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  Speaker 1: I never saw that on Gilmour because it was like, oh, yes, okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna lay some some really great stuff on us, now,
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  Speaker 1: like how could they make this better? And they always
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  Speaker 1: did and it was It was marvelous. It was marvelous.
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  Speaker 4: So I always thought of my job as trying to
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  Speaker 4: make the diner space that you could work in, that
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  Speaker 4: you could concentrate on your work and try to help
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  Speaker 4: out as much I can be there at the right second,
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  Speaker 4: get that plate to you, get that people out of
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  Speaker 4: the way, get those bins out of the way. I
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  Speaker 4: just really wanted to because I just recognized them out
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  Speaker 4: of work you guys were doing there, and it was marvelous.
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  Speaker 3: It was really great.
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  Speaker 1: I miss that. I really miss being in that diner,
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  Speaker 1: and I missed doing that kind of work with all
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  Speaker 1: of those physical activities that you had to do and
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  Speaker 1: all the props that you had to I really miss
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. It was so I don't know, I just
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  Speaker 1: it really just got my juices flown. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: whole competitive my whole competitive side would kick in, like
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  Speaker 1: you'd really have to challenge yourself. And I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: felt the same way when a big scene was coming up,
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  Speaker 1: all knowing, all the task that you had to complete
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  Speaker 1: in any given scene was just as much as what
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  Speaker 1: I had to do or anybody else in the scene
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  Speaker 1: had to do, right, I mean, you had a million
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  Speaker 1: things you had to accomplish.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it was it was hard work, but it was fun.
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  Speaker 4: It was fun to be part of the process, right,
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  Speaker 4: And it's grateful to be part of the process and
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  Speaker 4: to be part of the scene in such.
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  Speaker 1: A way, right, And it's fun nailing stuff right, I
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  Speaker 1: mean when you're almost right. I mean it's like when
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  Speaker 1: you almost get it and it's like, oh yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: director comes out and said, listen, could you you know
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  Speaker 1: on this line, you know, lay a little back on
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  Speaker 1: right right or whatever, you know, or you met you
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  Speaker 1: were a little late to the table and the line
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  Speaker 1: was a little awkward. Yeah, you know, let's just do
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  Speaker 1: another take, you know, but you're almost there, you're getting it,
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  Speaker 1: you're almost getting it, and it's like ninety percent there,
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  Speaker 1: and then the magical take comes and it's finished and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, wow, we hit it out of the park man.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had it in our sites and it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's just it's so cool. That's that is. You know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether I think I like the rehearsal process.
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  Speaker 1: I used to think I like the rehearsal process, like
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  Speaker 1: creating the dance, you know, because it is a dance.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean the actual shooting of it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it was frustrating, you know, because of all the
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  Speaker 1: technical glitches. And you know, you do a good take
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  Speaker 1: or something and you've experienced that, You've you've gone through
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  Speaker 1: a ten page scene and it took forever to do
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  Speaker 1: it and all this movement and there's Sally and Liz
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  Speaker 1: and Lauren and uh you know, Milo or whoever, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's like doing their thing and it's all coming together
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  Speaker 1: in a master shot and uh sorry, but you know
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  Speaker 1: there's we we you know, we tried to check the gate,
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  Speaker 1: but the gate's not good, right, we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 1: reload the camera. Do it again. That was the perfect one.
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  Speaker 1: No no, but then you go do it again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do it gun and again and again. I got I
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  Speaker 1: missed that. I just that was such an intensive environment.
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  Speaker 1: It was such an intense environment. It was so much fun,
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  Speaker 1: such a pressure cooker.
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  Speaker 4: In a great sense of accomplishment when we got the
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  Speaker 4: scenes done.
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  Speaker 1: Right, wasn't it though? Wasn't it? Yeah? Didn't you? Didn't
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  Speaker 1: you feel like a stud when you were walking out
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  Speaker 1: of the the soundstage and going to lunch and there
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  Speaker 1: you were we just nailed a ten pager and feeling
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  Speaker 1: pretty good about ourselves, right, I mean we're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's go eat man.
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  Speaker 5: You know, is there a secret to background acting? Because
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  Speaker 5: sometimes as we're watching the show, some of the background actors,
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  Speaker 5: they're almost to the point of being distracting. So how
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  Speaker 5: do you how do you straddle that line between staying
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  Speaker 5: in the background but also kind of moving things forward
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  Speaker 5: like you were talking about, you know, making the diner
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  Speaker 5: a functional space? Like what is how do you? How
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  Speaker 5: do you walk that line?
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  Speaker 4: It's It's one of the things that I like to
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  Speaker 4: tell and that's what some of theTimes the ads would
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  Speaker 4: ask me to help people in the diner, is that
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  Speaker 4: do things with intention and if you're intending to sit
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  Speaker 4: there and eat, sit there and eat, and then you
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  Speaker 4: don't you you actually do what you intend to do
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  Speaker 4: and it's less distracting, just like walking across the camera,
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  Speaker 4: have a destination in mind and then you walk with
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  Speaker 4: purpose rather than just kind of wandering way.
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  Speaker 1: Basic basic acting, Basic acting tips.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no one know where you're.
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  Speaker 1: Coming from, and know where you're going. And if you're hungry, eat,
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  Speaker 1: if you're tired, sleep, That's all you need to know
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  Speaker 1: about acting. That's it. Yep, and listen. Those are the things.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, and I'll help Susan. I'll tell you Robert
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  Speaker 1: it's a really strong actor too. That's why he knows
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  Speaker 1: what to do. That's why he knows what to give
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  Speaker 1: because all of that stuff he talked about, like the walking,
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  Speaker 1: and when people don't have those instincts, you can really
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  Speaker 1: they stick out like a sore thumb in the scene, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes where it's so obvious right away, and
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  Speaker 1: to rehearsal, the director replaces them like could you you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe go hang outside for a little bit, and they
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  Speaker 1: get somebody else, because yeah, can it can? It can
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  Speaker 1: draw everybody's eye to that person that's not concentrating, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's the problem. When you got you got ten people
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  Speaker 1: in the scene, everybody's focused and concentrating, there's somebody in
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  Speaker 1: the scene that isn't concentrating. That's where the attention goes,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what kills the scene. So yeah, you know Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Roberts got the skills, man.
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  Speaker 2: Yea.
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  Speaker 1: We got a list of questions here. Let's get to
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them. Was there ever a time that
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  Speaker 1: you questioned, well, if somebody so many as a waiter,
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  Speaker 1: then it might confuse the audience if you did another
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  Speaker 1: background role.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean because if I was, especially later when
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  Speaker 4: I was always the buzzboy, I on purposely stayed deep
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  Speaker 4: because that's just bad acting to show up somewhere where
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  Speaker 4: you're not supposed to be. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: you know, there were places that they, you know, were
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  Speaker 4: allowed to put me, like in the town meetings, and
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  Speaker 4: you just sat there and it was okay to see
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  Speaker 4: you there. So but if there was any something that
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  Speaker 4: I felt a little sketchy about, I'd bury myself a
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  Speaker 4: little bit further from the camera, so I wouldn't cause
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  Speaker 4: a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But but it would makes sense to see it
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  Speaker 1: outside walking around or in doses. If you're in the background,
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  Speaker 1: you live in the town, you work in the town
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  Speaker 1: you work. It looks why wouldn't you be seen, you know, But.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know the editing.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't I wouldn't get script, so I didn't know
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  Speaker 4: if that scene might be in or cut with something
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  Speaker 4: in the diner, bad bad.
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  Speaker 5: Bad but the tables and be out on the sidewalk
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  Speaker 5: walking past the restaurant at the same.
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  Speaker 1: Time, right. But they but they would know that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they they would get a general idea that you can't
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  Speaker 1: be in in a in a scene that's occurring in
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  Speaker 1: real time right before right after a diner scene, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know, but sometimes they just didn't film
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  Speaker 4: it in chronological orders, so they did, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I never did? Yeah, yeah, right exactly. You get recognized
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  Speaker 1: a lot for the show fans.
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  Speaker 3: I do. I just yeah, they do?
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  Speaker 1: They do? They do?
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  Speaker 4: They come up and say A mother came up to
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  Speaker 4: me at my dad my Catechism school just about three
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago, saying I'm sorry, but do I know you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know our girls. Oh that's my favorite show
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  Speaker 3: and I thought you were so Yeah. I do get recognized.
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  Speaker 1: Do they ask for autographs and selfies?
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  Speaker 3: Not so much, but sometimes they do absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, Yeah, there you go. Well you
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  Speaker 1: got You've got plenty of principal roles on your IMDb page.
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  Speaker 1: Gray's Anatomy Good Trouble as Alice's dad tell us about
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  Speaker 1: that experience.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a great experience being Alice's dad. It's a
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  Speaker 4: really nice representation of the Asian culture and how parents
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  Speaker 4: might deal with a daughter that was afraid of coming
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  Speaker 4: out to their parents. It was very nice to play
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  Speaker 4: that role, and in that role came around the time
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  Speaker 4: when a lot of people were people getting attacked just
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  Speaker 4: because they were Asian, and the show responded with an
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  Speaker 4: actual episode just on celebrating Chinese New Year, and they
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  Speaker 4: gave me this.
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  Speaker 3: Long modelnologue.
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  Speaker 4: Showing and telling the story of some Chinese folk tales.
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  Speaker 4: So that experience was great to be able to represent.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of representing, how did you feel about how Laine
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  Speaker 1: and missus Kim were represented in this show.
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  Speaker 4: It was a nice contrast between that mother and dollary
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  Speaker 4: relationship between them and Lauralize and Rory's relationship. And it's
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  Speaker 4: true you have some dragon mothers out there. They were
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  Speaker 4: real and they were very concerned about their children's upbringing
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  Speaker 4: and how they were going to get on in society,
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  Speaker 4: in a society they didn't quite understand sometimes, so it
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  Speaker 4: was done with good taste, and I toward a celebration
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  Speaker 4: of life and the relationship of a parent and child.
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  Speaker 1: MM tell us about that.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, I just can't. I mean, Gilmore Girls was such
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  Speaker 4: a great story and all the characters that they brought in.
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  Speaker 4: You know how friends are your family too, and those
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  Speaker 4: relationships that you have where it takes a village to
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  Speaker 4: raise a child, both Rory and Kim, and I loved
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  Speaker 4: being on that show and loved telling that story and
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  Speaker 4: was really proud to be part of that in that
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  Speaker 4: Gilmore Girls story of just how all these how this
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  Speaker 4: community can all come together and and have a great
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  Speaker 4: life and celebrate life and all the festivals that they did.
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  Speaker 5: It was great, well, and there was Sorry Scott, I
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: was just gonna say, you might have even been more
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: of a part of it than you realized at the time.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you knew. There was a fan
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: theory at the time that you were actually mister Kim,
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: because we never saw him during the original run of
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: the show, and so there's a fan theory that you
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: were secretly mister Kim, which I mean that could have
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: been like a spinoff or something. I don't know, But
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: what are your what are your thoughts on that? Did
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: you like, were you aware of that or what did
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: you think about that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I did hear that on the internet and I was,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: you know, I was kind of hoping that that would
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: be a little earworm that would.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Crawl into it here and you know.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Up my role in the show. It would have been
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: a lot of fun to do. Yeah, And I think
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: at least by the later seasons I would have been
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: up to the task. It would have been great to do.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Wait, if they gave you a line, didn't they give
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you a line or two in an alley as a
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: FedEx guy or a postman or something like that. Didn't
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you get a line here and there?
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: I got?
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  Speaker 4: I was able credited. I only got credited for one
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: line on the last episode in the last season. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: was handing something to you as we were getting ready
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: for the party, saying like where did you want this
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all you got.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, and then I think.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: There was in the fourth season they threw me a
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: bone and they allowed me to a.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: D R myself, oh, which.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Is which means I don't get credit. But I was
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: able to say, hey, looke coffee and you might you know.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: It was one of those weird things where they had
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: me hold out this coffee cup to you and you
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: poured copy of coffee in it, and they just said
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: to themselves, well, he really should have asked for cof right.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: So they pulled me in and they called me and said, hey,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: we need you to ad R yourself. You know, were
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: you up for that? And I said, oh my god great.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: So that was a nice little It.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Was an off camera, off camera line. You didn't have
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to marry.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I went into the studio.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I went into the studio and they had the
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: tape and the big old microphone and I, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: hey Lou coffee, Hey Lou coffee, Hey Lou coffee. Yeah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Since Gilmore Girls, I've been in a lot of ad
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: R rooms, I've never been in one that nice. Oh wow,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that was very special. Those those looping stages were very
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: very fancy. Yeah, very very special, because I you know,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I've been in some real dark holes man. So I
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: have to say, if there were an Emmy Awards for it,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: background you'd be winning every year. You had a lot
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of work to do, and you did a tremendous job.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And and the thing you really personally speaking, I know
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: out the other cast feel this way. We knew we
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: had We knew we could trust you to be focused
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and and do the job, because that's all you can
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: ask for from you know. And and and that's why
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: it was such a joy to work on that show.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Because I knew Lauren wasn't going to drop the ball.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I knew, I knew Suki was a Melissa or Yannik
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: or anybody, they were not going to drop the ball.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You could trust them and you could do your thing.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And and and when I saw you, when I would
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: see you in the diner, would give me great comfort
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: because you took your job very seriously. You were also
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: very pleasant to be around. You were a funny guy,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: a loose, loose guy, but when it came time to work,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: it's like, okay, you know, you put your game face
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: on and executed every single take and hard working good guy.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Robert Lee, Ladies and gentlemen, one of the unsung heroes
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of Gilmore Girls. I'm so glad you came on. How's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the family doing everybody's doing great.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Everyone's great. Thank you, Scott. It's so kind of you.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, You're not getting out of here until
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: you do rapid fire. Oh oh oh yeah, you got
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: rapid fire, buddy. How do you like your coffee? Oh?
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: H black?
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Are your team Logan Team Jess or Team Dean Team Jess?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Who is your favorite at Gilmore girls couple? Luke and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Lorelei are Emily and Richard?
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Emily and Richard shocking?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Controversial, I'm shocking. What would you order it? Luke Steiner?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Oh? The Monte Christo?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna since you're such an Emily and Richard fan,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and why wouldn't you be? What would you what be
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: your preferred meal if you were at a Friday night dinner?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Oh? Wow, probably roast thief?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Who would you rather hang out with? Paris
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: or Lane Lane that was like a still slam dunk
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Lane Harvard? Or Yale? Or drop out and live in
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: the poolhouse? Uh?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Yale?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Why? Yale? Oh?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Just the history behind it? That's a great school.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Would you rather attend a da R event with Emily
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: or a town meeting with Taylor?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Oh that's hard?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Oh? Come on, you know the answer to that.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: A town meeting with Taylor. Really, he's entertaining. He comes
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: up with the wackiest things.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but you're in there all day and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: all night sweating.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Buddy.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Have you have you been in a town meeting scene?
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, do you remember?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: You remember?
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: I listen if I'm playing rapid Fire. I'm at a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: da ar meeting with with Emily even though I'm a dude.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You know, I put a freaking dress on, try to
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: act like a daughter. Just stick it out of a
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: town hall meeting? Uh, gilmore, girl's character that you would
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: want as a roommate.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: I would say, miss Patty.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, Miss Patty?
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Miss Patty. She's she's easy.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Going, she teaches dance, she has great attitude.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, uh something and you know Sally Struthers would come
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: over a lot and hang out.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: They sing song something in your life. You are all
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: in on?
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Oh my children, my two boys.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed? How old are they now?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: They are nine and eleven?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all they're growing fast. Nicky's going to be ten
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: in June. Oh man, Yeah, isn't it amazing?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I want to ride? Well, sounds great? You sound great?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You look great, You are great. You are the Robert Lee,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the finest extra in Hollywood history. My friend, thanks for
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: coming on and give us your your thoughts and sharing
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: your experiences. And I think you're gonna have to come
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: back because I think we just scratched the surface here.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Really be honest with you, you're gonna work. We're going
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to book you again. So be well, my friend. All
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the best of the family and appreciate your time. Buddy.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Scott, Thank you, all right, take.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Care, all right, dot hey everybody, and don't forget follow
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• 28:36
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