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Scott Porter · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario a little BITZ.
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  Speaker 2: It's up Mario Lopez joining me right now on Zoom.
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  Speaker 1: Actress Scott Porter, How you doing, Scott?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing fantastic. Mario. Good to see you again. Man,
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  Speaker 2: nice to see too. Where are we talking to you
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  Speaker 2: from today? We're talking about my petremato. Man.
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  Speaker 3: The world has changed there, you know, instead of a studio,
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  Speaker 3: just chill it in my room.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's the best good for you is home la yes, sir,
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  Speaker 2: studio city. Okay, oh, very close. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the third season of your Netflix show Virginy and
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  Speaker 1: Georgia's back. For people who may not be familiar with
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  Speaker 1: the show, what's the uh, what's the cliff notes version
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  Speaker 1: of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean wild ride Over the first two seasons,
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  Speaker 3: Georgia is a force of nature. The story follows her
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  Speaker 3: and her family and my character, Paul Randolph, the mayor
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  Speaker 3: of Wellsbury recently, you know, was engaged to her and
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  Speaker 3: on her wedding night. At the end of season two,
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  Speaker 3: she was arrested for the secrets that she's kept from
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  Speaker 3: pretty much everybody. So season three Explorer, the full fallout
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  Speaker 3: of all of that. Season three is all about what
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  Speaker 3: I say is a reckoning for pretty much every character
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  Speaker 3: on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh a little chaos fun. Yes, do you all get
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  Speaker 1: to shoot down here in la or where do you
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  Speaker 1: shoot it? We shoot in Toronto, Canada.
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  Speaker 2: In Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's rare these days when you get to stay
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  Speaker 1: in town. But that's a nice city at least. The
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  Speaker 1: show seems to touch on a lot of heavy topics
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  Speaker 1: as well, right, especially in the mental health realm.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, you know, self harm, anxiety. There are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of different issues that our characters face, just
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of issues that people face in the
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  Speaker 3: real world. And our show's creator, Sarah Lampert says that
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  Speaker 3: just you know, silence is violence when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: all of these things. When people are meant to feel
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  Speaker 3: shame or feel like they're alone or they're isolated, that's
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  Speaker 3: where the most harm can happen. So we want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about these things, make them more public, give people
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  Speaker 3: an ability or a platform or a show to talk
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  Speaker 3: about that allows them to speak about their own experiences,
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  Speaker 3: and try to get them the support. And we try
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  Speaker 3: to take all these things very seriously. At the end
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  Speaker 3: of every single one of our credit sequences, there's always
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  Speaker 3: phone numbers and hotlines and websites that you go to
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  Speaker 3: to find help that you need if you are dealing
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  Speaker 3: with one of these issues. So I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people across this country, you know, for a very
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  Speaker 3: long time and over all over the world, really are
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  Speaker 3: kind of told like, oh, if you're fighting an issue
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  Speaker 3: like this, if you're battling something like that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a certain amount of shame or people will look
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  Speaker 3: down on you.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not the case anymore. There are so many
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  Speaker 2: of us.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I went to a charity event for
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  Speaker 3: the National Alliance of Mental Illness and their whole slogan
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  Speaker 3: is Stronger Together. And so just like the town of
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  Speaker 3: Wellsburg and Ginny and Georgia where these people are battling things,
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  Speaker 3: we are a very tight knit group and we believe
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  Speaker 3: everybody out there stronger together.
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  Speaker 2: So talk about it. Watch the show. If you are.
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  Speaker 3: Feeling something along those lines, make sure you reach out
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  Speaker 3: to somebody and you talk to somebody about it. So
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  Speaker 3: that's what we try and do with the show. And
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  Speaker 3: I think our creator and our writers are very they're
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  Speaker 3: very careful with all of it, and we try to
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  Speaker 3: be as responsible as possible with that storytelling.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's empowering, relatable, very helpful. That's very cool. You of
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  Speaker 1: course start in the NBC hit Friday Night Lights back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, and I know a reboot is on
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  Speaker 1: the way for Peacock.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty quick. It wasn't gone.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that for that long for a REBOOTCU
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  Speaker 1: is normally like decades go by. It seems like, could
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  Speaker 1: we possibly see your character in an episode?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know anything about it?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, just like technology nowadays, things move at
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  Speaker 3: the speed much faster than they used to. I think
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  Speaker 3: the reboots are coming even quicker.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: But we did sign off, you know, in twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 3: so it's been a dozen years since we've had Friday
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  Speaker 3: Night Lights.
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  Speaker 2: It just feels like it's more constant because of streaming.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That says leaving the town of Dylan as Jason Street
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  Speaker 3: was I feel like such a triumph for that character.
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  Speaker 3: He broke a cycle in that town for himself, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he suffered a catastrophic energy injury and everybody told him
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  Speaker 3: he would never amount to much after that happened to him,
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  Speaker 3: and he ends up becoming a sports agent, having a family,
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  Speaker 3: having a child, doing all these things that people told
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  Speaker 3: him he would never do. So I was so happy
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  Speaker 3: with the triumph of Jason Street at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the show that being said, yes, I would jump at
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  Speaker 3: the chance to work with that creative team again. There's
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  Speaker 3: so much trust between all of those people. But only
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  Speaker 3: if it serves the story. Only if Jason coming back
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  Speaker 3: actually does something for them. They're going to be going
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  Speaker 3: to a new town in Texas, exploring a new set
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  Speaker 3: of circumstances. And you know, I'm not sure if Street
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  Speaker 3: fits in there at all, but if he does, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: of course I would come back. I mean Texas forever, baby,
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  Speaker 3: That's that's what we do.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Hey, As an agent, man, you can always
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  Speaker 1: pack your bags and move.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I got to recruit some of these
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  Speaker 3: Texas football players that gott to catch him before they
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  Speaker 3: go to college.
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  Speaker 2: Nil money.
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  Speaker 1: There's that whole storyline, which wasn't the case twelve years ago.
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  Speaker 1: You're also a singer, big and doc Cappella. That's cool.
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  Speaker 2: You got a new.
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  Speaker 1: Song on the way with your old a cappella group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, you know, I broke into the business.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I mean my very first performing you know gig
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  Speaker 3: was in a barbershop quartet with some of my friends
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  Speaker 3: from Lake Hawa High School in Orlando, Florida. We added
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  Speaker 3: a fifth member became an a cappella group, much like
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  Speaker 3: Pentatonics or those groups that you may know out there.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, this group they're called voice Play.
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  Speaker 3: They play second on the sing off the season after
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  Speaker 3: Pentatonics won, and they still, you know, make a living
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  Speaker 3: creating music with their voices. And I look back and
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  Speaker 3: I go, man, I'm kind of envious of you guys.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was with them for a number of years.
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  Speaker 3: We stayed friends this whole time, and every now and
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  Speaker 3: then I get to go back and record a number
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  Speaker 3: with them. This time I went back and recorded Until
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  Speaker 3: I Found You with them, an acapella cover of this
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  Speaker 3: wonderful song that Georgia actually walks down the aisle at
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  Speaker 3: Paul and George's wedding.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's cool, and we did it.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of like a bittersweet kind of send off,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for what could be Paul and Georgia's final voyage.
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  Speaker 3: And that music video you can find on YouTube at
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  Speaker 3: the Voice Play on their channel, and it comes out
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  Speaker 3: on June sixth, the day after Ginny and Georgia premieres.
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  Speaker 1: Nice, nice, like the way I weaved in there. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: is it true you're a good beat boxer?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, I mean that's how I started in the
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  Speaker 3: in the in the business. But I got to say, like,
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  Speaker 3: just like I said, with technology, with show reboots, with everything,
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  Speaker 3: the world moves so fast. The beat boxers that are
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  Speaker 3: out there competing and making a living doing it now
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  Speaker 3: are so far beyond.
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  Speaker 1: There's people that are making a career out of beatboxing.
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  Speaker 2: Go check out Wing Dopamine. That's all ring to check
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  Speaker 2: out DoD just based on the name. But what I was,
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  Speaker 2: I was a vocal percussionist. So I was the entire
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  Speaker 2: drum section for our group. Can you give me like
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  Speaker 2: five seconds?
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  Speaker 1: Can you give me like five or six seconds of it?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, you know, just stuff like that. But but the
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  Speaker 3: thing is, these guys can make so many more sounds.
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  Speaker 3: And I could do like electric guitar with my voice
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  Speaker 3: and Loren's was my voice.
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  Speaker 2: I went to New York.
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  Speaker 3: My very first show in New York off Broadway was
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  Speaker 3: called Toxic Audio, and our tagline was exploring the boundaries
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  Speaker 3: of the human voice, and everything that we did was acapella.
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  Speaker 2: It was very much like Stomp, but just with the
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  Speaker 2: human voice, and it won a bunch of awards.
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  Speaker 3: I performed at the Drama Desk Awards right after Hugh
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  Speaker 3: Jackman when he was doing Boy from Oz.
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  Speaker 2: So the thing for me is like.
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  Speaker 3: Acappella music actually led me to this career of acting
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  Speaker 3: because out of that show, I booked a little musical
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  Speaker 3: called Althar Boys, and that first pilot season was Friday
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  Speaker 3: Night Lights beat Boxing. To be me playing football in
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  Speaker 3: Texas in the span of a year. It happens just
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome, man, that's a true Hollywods. Very good for you, brother,
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  Speaker 1: that's awesome. Well, congratulations on everything and listen. Be sure
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  Speaker 1: to check out Scott in season three of Ginny and Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: which is streaming right now on Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: Scott, thanks for checking in, man, hey man, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: having me. Good to see you again. Brother. Next time
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  Speaker 2: we'll get together in person. Huh, you got it? Look
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  Speaker 2: forward to right daycart later
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  Speaker 3: On with Mario Lopez