Latest / I Am All In with Scott Patterson / Chad Michael Murray Christmas
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I am all in, kiss you, I am all in
- 0:17Speaker 1: with Scott Patterson and I heart radio podcast. Hey everybody,
- 0:22Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, we are really excited to talk with this
- 0:26Speaker 1: very special guest. Uh. He's a massive guest and I
- 0:30Speaker 1: think you're all going to be very pleased. Um. We
- 0:34Speaker 1: are going to be talking with Chad Michael Murray who
- 0:38Speaker 1: portrayed Tristan so beautifully. Uh. And as my under staying,
- 0:42Speaker 1: this is the last time we're gonna see him in
- 0:43Speaker 1: this episode, so uh that we're gonna drop after we
- 0:46Speaker 1: dropped this episode. It's gonna be a runaway little boy.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I think was his last episode unfortunately. Um. And we're
- 0:55Speaker 1: gonna get to know Chad a little better and talk
- 0:58Speaker 1: about a little behind the scenes stuff and his characterization,
- 1:01Speaker 1: his impressions. To go more girls. Let's just bring him in.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Can't wait. Buddy the man? How are you doing? Pal?
- 1:08Speaker 1: And I'm living a dream man. You look good, you
- 1:12Speaker 1: look better. I miss your face more. Have you have
- 1:18Speaker 1: you been doing? An old Spice said that you just
- 1:20Speaker 1: came back from You look very manly. You look very
- 1:24Speaker 1: old spicy. Well, you know, I appreciate it. We did
- 1:29Speaker 1: we we did have November. Um, no, no, No, it's
- 1:32Speaker 1: a it's a combination of things. Actually had surgery about
- 1:38Speaker 1: a month ago. Yeah, I did kind of turn it down,
- 1:41Speaker 1: turn everything off, and I had my I tore the
- 1:44Speaker 1: labor off my and my hip off the bone. Now,
- 1:49Speaker 1: how did you do that interval sprints? Oh? God, oh man,
- 1:54Speaker 1: you know I almost did that same thing lifting weights. Yeah,
- 1:58Speaker 1: I know how. I mean, I didn't quite have to
- 2:00Speaker 1: have surgery, but I know what that feels like. God
- 2:02Speaker 1: darn it. So I made it. I made a promise
- 2:05Speaker 1: to myself. I'm not said I'm not shaving until I
- 2:07Speaker 1: can run again. It works, man, it works, It's working huge.
- 2:11Speaker 1: You're looking very you know, spicy. Well, it's the season.
- 2:16Speaker 1: So tomorrow, believe it or not, this entire thing, all
- 2:18Speaker 1: of this will be white story. What. Yeah, I'm taking
- 2:22Speaker 1: the kids out and uh, we're gonna, you know, show
- 2:25Speaker 1: them about giving back. And so I'm I'm Santa Jr.
- 2:28Speaker 1: I'm not old enough to be Santa just yet, Santa Jr.
- 2:32Speaker 1: And you know, I had the great privilege of working
- 2:35Speaker 1: with Sarah, your wife. She played my daughter. I adore hers.
- 2:41Speaker 1: She played my daughter in the event two thousand and
- 2:43Speaker 1: ten at NBC, that big Events series that The UH
- 2:48Speaker 1: went a year and then I didn't get renewed, but
- 2:51Speaker 1: I got to work for Sarah and I'm so glad
- 2:53Speaker 1: you guys are together and you have two children, and
- 2:57Speaker 1: isn't that wonderful? That's just wonderful. I'm so blessed beyond man.
- 3:02Speaker 1: She is, She's my rock. We do everything together, so
- 3:05Speaker 1: wherever wherever work is, we go as a pack. The
- 3:08Speaker 1: whole family goat right. And another thing, I wasn't aware
- 3:12Speaker 1: of this, but my producers informed me that you had
- 3:16Speaker 1: some very complimentary things to say about me. So I
- 3:20Speaker 1: want to thank you for that that that is very nice.
- 3:25Speaker 1: I compliment a lot of people all the time. I
- 3:27Speaker 1: don't hear it so much about me, so it was
- 3:29Speaker 1: really it's really nice to you here. You know, everybody
- 3:34Speaker 1: I talked, everybody I talked things to say about you.
- 3:40Speaker 1: You come in. You are luke man. You give love
- 3:43Speaker 1: in a way and you're also able to receive it.
- 3:47Speaker 1: But you're so humble and so kind. Like you felt
- 3:49Speaker 1: like that really really cool uncle when Jared and I
- 3:52Speaker 1: were there season one. For me, I was there season one,
- 3:56Speaker 1: you felt like that really cool uncle. And then we
- 3:58Speaker 1: did another project later on down the road and again
- 4:02Speaker 1: you were just awesome. And every time I've ever crossed
- 4:04Speaker 1: paths with you, man, You're just nothing but hug smiles
- 4:06Speaker 1: and love and it just it goes a long way.
- 4:08Speaker 1: But thank you, man. I really appreciate that. I had
- 4:12Speaker 1: a wonderful time and you were you were you were
- 4:14Speaker 1: great guys, and I was just happy to be there. Um,
- 4:19Speaker 1: And you know, Jared was very uh, Jared had a
- 4:22Speaker 1: lot of questions. I remember, young eighteen year old Jared
- 4:25Speaker 1: had a lot of questions. And I did I remember
- 4:29Speaker 1: taking I don't know that I took you under my
- 4:32Speaker 1: wings so much, but I kind of did. Um. But
- 4:35Speaker 1: Jared had a lot of questions and he was just
- 4:39Speaker 1: so wide eyed. And I were you a little older
- 4:41Speaker 1: than him when you came understan You were a couple
- 4:44Speaker 1: of years older, right, a couple of years older. He
- 4:46Speaker 1: came in Gilmore at seventeen. Remember he was right star
- 4:50Speaker 1: in school, straight out of high school Choice Awards, straight
- 4:54Speaker 1: into a show with boom, first audition, boom. It was
- 4:58Speaker 1: like Alexis, remember Alexis up, well, she came out in
- 5:02Speaker 1: y U. She was like what a freshman year? Yeah,
- 5:05Speaker 1: oh my goodness. Alright, for me. I'd already, you know,
- 5:10Speaker 1: kind of I've done a couple of gigs here and there,
- 5:13Speaker 1: and I had screen tested for a couple of things,
- 5:15Speaker 1: so I kind of knew a little bit, but I learned.
- 5:18Speaker 1: I you know, I really sharpened my teeth a lot
- 5:19Speaker 1: on that show. And that show is so very different
- 5:21Speaker 1: than any other show that have been on even still
- 5:23Speaker 1: to this day, because of how quick everything is and
- 5:26Speaker 1: how there's no time for beats. There's no pauses, so
- 5:29Speaker 1: you really have to rehearse at home to make sure
- 5:31Speaker 1: that you're able to fill in those moments with the
- 5:34Speaker 1: emotion that should have actually existed, even though you don't
- 5:36Speaker 1: have time to play it out right. Yeah, made everybody
- 5:39Speaker 1: felt like playing in the NFL. It's like the young
- 5:42Speaker 1: quarterbacks out of college ago. This is too fast. It
- 5:44Speaker 1: takes a couple of years, right, the thing that you
- 5:47Speaker 1: can plead a pass without getting intercepted. But anyway, let's
- 5:53Speaker 1: get into uh, your history with the show. Um, and
- 5:58Speaker 1: I'm gonna need my spell X here we go, boom there. Jeez,
- 6:03Speaker 1: you look even better now that I can see you.
- 6:04Speaker 1: Oh my god. Uh, this is called red standard. How
- 6:13Speaker 1: old your boy boys? Six? Oh? Man? I have a
- 6:16Speaker 1: seven year old. I have a seven year old boy,
- 6:18Speaker 1: and it's just such a one I do. He's it's
- 6:21Speaker 1: such a wonderful age. Oh my god, such a He's
- 6:26Speaker 1: not a sports kid, No, No, he's more of a
- 6:29Speaker 1: robotics math kid. He uh, he likes building stuff. He's
- 6:33Speaker 1: obsessed with robotics. I have him in robotics camp and
- 6:37Speaker 1: he's just kind of I don't know, it's like, I mean,
- 6:40Speaker 1: he can do sports and I've taught him baseball and
- 6:43Speaker 1: basketball all the stuff, and he's got a great arm,
- 6:45Speaker 1: he's got all all the stuff, but he just doesn't
- 6:48Speaker 1: want to do it so much, you know, And I'm
- 6:50Speaker 1: not going to force him. I just you know, he's
- 6:52Speaker 1: a great artist. He just one student of the month
- 6:54Speaker 1: at is elementary school. And you know, I'm just kind
- 6:57Speaker 1: of letting him follow his sort of talents and his
- 7:01Speaker 1: passions and supporting that. So that's what you do. That's
- 7:05Speaker 1: what you do, Scott. I love you just nursed her,
- 7:09Speaker 1: you n I love it. Well, my point the same thing, hybrid.
- 7:13Speaker 1: He loved building and he loves He's so good at
- 7:16Speaker 1: school it's blows my mind. He's got a photographic memory
- 7:19Speaker 1: and so forget forget anything that you try to cover
- 7:23Speaker 1: up because he remembers what sports is, the where he's
- 7:26Speaker 1: going now. Um, And he's just big. He's big, man.
- 7:30Speaker 1: He's like, well, you're big. And Sarah's tall. She's five ten,
- 7:34Speaker 1: isn't she five nine? Five tens? She's tall. Her dad's
- 7:38Speaker 1: a giant. I'm the runt of the litter in my family.
- 7:40Speaker 1: My brothers my like, my dad's six to. My brothers
- 7:43Speaker 1: are six five, six four or six three dad six
- 7:45Speaker 1: to mothers five eleven. But you're six to you're sick
- 7:48Speaker 1: good six. I'm six one. I'm six one. I'm six one.
- 7:52Speaker 1: My wife's tall. But Sarah's father, he's got that like
- 7:55Speaker 1: his myke cabs are the size of his wrists and
- 7:58Speaker 1: that's what our son has. And I can't even pick
- 8:01Speaker 1: him up anymore. He's only six. Come on, he's a beast.
- 8:06Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's so great. I love being a dad.
- 8:10Speaker 1: Oh my god, congratulate your boy. I got your boy
- 8:13Speaker 1: went when when we're out there in the world, we
- 8:15Speaker 1: gotta make sure we link up, get the kids together. Absolutely, man, Um,
- 8:20Speaker 1: what do you remember about the role of Tristan on
- 8:22Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls? Do you remember about that we we just
- 8:25Speaker 1: we you know, we we did an episode and we
- 8:28Speaker 1: were so uh. I mean, I just love your character.
- 8:32Speaker 1: I love that guy. I love Tristan, I really feel him.
- 8:35Speaker 1: And that's such a tragic last line when you're going
- 8:39Speaker 1: off to military school, when you say so long Mary.
- 8:42Speaker 1: I mean, it was so filled with meaning and it's
- 8:45Speaker 1: almost like you saying that you love her, and I
- 8:49Speaker 1: just I can't say that to you now, but I
- 8:52Speaker 1: want you to know that. But anyway, what do you
- 8:54Speaker 1: what do you remember about that role? I always remember
- 9:00Speaker 1: when I originally made notes, because I like to make
- 9:03Speaker 1: notes on every script that I read, no matter what.
- 9:06Speaker 1: And I just remember that I wanted him to be
- 9:09Speaker 1: the guy that you didn't know if you should be
- 9:16Speaker 1: close to him, but boil boy, did you want to be?
- 9:20Speaker 1: And so I always wanted to keep everybody at arms distance,
- 9:23Speaker 1: and so everything was a deflection, right, and everything that
- 9:27Speaker 1: he did, which is a very you know, it's a
- 9:31Speaker 1: typical stereotype that we see in in the world, right.
- 9:33Speaker 1: We see this type of personality that is so damaged
- 9:36Speaker 1: due to childhood trauma, you know, interestance cases, parenting, that
- 9:42Speaker 1: you belittle others to make yourself feel good. Even though
- 9:45Speaker 1: it's not doing any good and it's this vicious cycle
- 9:47Speaker 1: of a downward spiral. Even though he's honest and true.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Emotions were that he found her intriguing, he thought she
- 9:53Speaker 1: was smart, intelligent, beautiful, and that he did love her. Um,
- 9:56Speaker 1: he just didn't know how to voice his feelings because
- 9:58Speaker 1: he wasn't raised in the family that it's such h
- 10:02Speaker 1: that's what I remember about me. He's the guy that
- 10:03Speaker 1: you want to be near, but I'm not sure I
- 10:05Speaker 1: shouldn't right right, Well, Uh, mission accomplished there because that
- 10:10Speaker 1: I feel that tension when I'm watching the character to
- 10:13Speaker 1: push the poll. I'm attracted to him but repelled at
- 10:15Speaker 1: the same time. And it's it's it's a very interesting
- 10:19Speaker 1: and very difficult to pull off. It's a testament to
- 10:21Speaker 1: your skills because that's really it's skills in front of
- 10:24Speaker 1: a camera. Uh. When it comes down to it's fun
- 10:27Speaker 1: Amy Amy, Amy crushed it. What can we say right right?
- 10:31Speaker 1: When they serve up that kind of dialogue and those
- 10:34Speaker 1: kinds of situations. You know, I'm not saying that it's
- 10:38Speaker 1: easy to pull off, but it is just easier. You
- 10:41Speaker 1: know that it's easy when it's when it's served up
- 10:44Speaker 1: for you on a silver platter. It's easier to make
- 10:47Speaker 1: a meal out of it, and you have a piece
- 10:49Speaker 1: meal and you're going, Okay, Now, I got some work
- 10:51Speaker 1: to do to assemble a B C D. And as
- 10:54Speaker 1: I've gotten older, I mean it's been twenty two years
- 10:56Speaker 1: now since I've been working in the industry, and uh,
- 11:00Speaker 1: it gets easier as you get older. That's why I
- 11:04Speaker 1: chose the career, because I knew the longer I was
- 11:07Speaker 1: in it, the better I would get, the easier it
- 11:09Speaker 1: would become, and therefore more fascinating to be involved in.
- 11:15Speaker 1: Um what do you remember about that your first day
- 11:18Speaker 1: on set? I'm sure it was nerves and tension. I
- 11:23Speaker 1: don't wait, Scott when it comes to memories, oh did.
- 11:28Speaker 1: I always felt when I was younger that like, we
- 11:30Speaker 1: only have were like a computer, right, and you get
- 11:32Speaker 1: the one terabyte system, you gotta upgrade two terabyte system.
- 11:36Speaker 1: I feel like I was like somewhere around like the
- 11:39Speaker 1: you know, thirty two gig iPhone. New information comes in
- 11:43Speaker 1: and I blame I blame concussions to be completely too many.
- 11:53Speaker 1: I played football for eleven years a boarding and I had,
- 11:57Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of brothers and we beat the
- 11:59Speaker 1: living snot out of each other. Growing up, My long
- 12:02Speaker 1: term memory is kind of shot. How many brothers did
- 12:05Speaker 1: you do you have? Uh? Uh, let's see, don't you remember?
- 12:10Speaker 1: I'm working on it. So I have three natural and
- 12:14Speaker 1: then I have a half another half brother. Then I
- 12:17Speaker 1: have a step brother. Oh my god, I had three
- 12:19Speaker 1: step brothers. Yeah, wow, yeah, I know what that's like. Yeah,
- 12:24Speaker 1: a lot of fights. Yeah, alright, So let's I have
- 12:33Speaker 1: a list of fan questions here, I'll go down. Let's
- 12:36Speaker 1: see which one. Let's I'll try to cherry pick a
- 12:38Speaker 1: couple of try to make a little easier. Do you
- 12:42Speaker 1: think Tristan had true feelings for Rory? Yeah? Not even questions,
- 12:48Speaker 1: not even question too. Um, what was it like working
- 12:53Speaker 1: with her? Alexis someone Alexis she's uh man, she's like
- 13:03Speaker 1: the ndon. You got to pull the layers back on.
- 13:06Speaker 1: She can close off to everybody, and she's so well
- 13:09Speaker 1: at walling everybody off right, and you peel the layers
- 13:13Speaker 1: to get to the heart with her, and so, you know,
- 13:19Speaker 1: it just depends on the type of personality you are
- 13:21Speaker 1: and who you are and how trusting you are, and
- 13:23Speaker 1: you better darn well be a trusting, good human being
- 13:26Speaker 1: in order to appeal those layers back. And that's kind
- 13:28Speaker 1: of that's what I noticed, And that was you know, gosh,
- 13:32Speaker 1: it was twenty years still, so it was a long
- 13:34Speaker 1: time ago, but that back then, that's what I that's
- 13:37Speaker 1: what I recall. That is perceptive. That's very perceptive. I felt.
- 13:41Speaker 1: I feel exactly the same way. Not that I would
- 13:43Speaker 1: have verbalized it with such eloquence as you just did,
- 13:46Speaker 1: but man, I agree, I agree with you. I don't know.
- 13:50Speaker 1: I probably had a book I was reading off it
- 13:52Speaker 1: was a cheat chee uh um. What would you have
- 13:58Speaker 1: liked to see them explore more on the relationship or
- 14:03Speaker 1: would you have liked to explore that relationship with them more?
- 14:06Speaker 1: Because I think that's one of the things that I mean,
- 14:10Speaker 1: it left me wanting so much more. When you exited
- 14:13Speaker 1: that series, you were no longer there, so that relationship,
- 14:16Speaker 1: to me, had the moment it was so fraught with potential. Yeah,
- 14:20Speaker 1: and well they built that, they built it, and um,
- 14:23Speaker 1: you know, I will take responsibilities on me um that
- 14:29Speaker 1: you know, I don't think the true depth of that
- 14:31Speaker 1: relationship evercame at fruition. It's on me, um. I don't know.
- 14:36Speaker 1: There was an episode in season two where Tristan goes
- 14:38Speaker 1: off to military school in North Carolina, i e. Being
- 14:42Speaker 1: Dawson's Creek, i e. Being One Tree Hill where we
- 14:45Speaker 1: shot in North Carolina. That was military school, my friend.
- 14:50Speaker 1: So for me, it was, um, it was about just
- 14:54Speaker 1: wanting as an actor, you know this, trying on different clothes,
- 15:00Speaker 1: different costumes, different walks, different talks, different fields, getting up
- 15:04Speaker 1: in the morning and having a fresh shirt. It's different, right,
- 15:10Speaker 1: And sitting in the same character for too long can
- 15:12Speaker 1: get stagnant, and we always forget how blessed we are
- 15:16Speaker 1: when we're in those moments, right, because creatively you can
- 15:19Speaker 1: get stifled. Not that the character was stifling, They did
- 15:22Speaker 1: a great job. But I was so young that I
- 15:25Speaker 1: needed to find out who Chat is? Who is Chat
- 15:28Speaker 1: as an actor? Where can I go? What can I do?
- 15:31Speaker 1: And you know it led to me discovering so much
- 15:35Speaker 1: about myself that I genuinely wouldn't be the man I
- 15:37Speaker 1: was today. Without making that decision, you know, I could
- 15:40Speaker 1: have stayed there and spent six seasons on. So they
- 15:44Speaker 1: offered you a full deal. Yeah, but yeah, we we
- 15:50Speaker 1: had we had the discussion and for me, it was
- 15:53Speaker 1: I had at the time, I had a deal with
- 15:56Speaker 1: Warner Brooks. So I had gone let's say I moved
- 15:59Speaker 1: out to in September and by January it felt like
- 16:04Speaker 1: old Hollywood. I had a development deal with Warren Brothers.
- 16:07Speaker 1: I screen tested for a pilot called Day One, and uh,
- 16:12Speaker 1: I didn't get it. It went to Paul. Paul was
- 16:16Speaker 1: a Luski, which is I forgot his real name or
- 16:20Speaker 1: his new name. His name Paul Vampire Diaries, Paul Paul
- 16:27Speaker 1: right right, right, right, right right, and he we we
- 16:29Speaker 1: tested opposite. He got the pilot, and they gave me
- 16:33Speaker 1: a development deal and said, all right, you're in house now,
- 16:36Speaker 1: so you know when things would come through. They'd SENTI
- 16:39Speaker 1: scripts I audition and Gilmore Gross was the first thing
- 16:42Speaker 1: that came on this late. And so when the opportunity
- 16:44Speaker 1: came through to stay on Gilmore and really see I
- 16:47Speaker 1: just wanted to know more about me, and I said,
- 16:49Speaker 1: you know, I'd love the opportunity to continue to look
- 16:52Speaker 1: and find out what that thing is that is me.
- 16:55Speaker 1: And one free Hill came around and there was the
- 16:58Speaker 1: choice between Lucas and Nathan, and I remember that decision
- 17:02Speaker 1: I had to make, and Nathan had a lot of
- 17:04Speaker 1: trysting qualities in them on the Onetrey Hill. On Onetree Hill,
- 17:08Speaker 1: Lucas was a moral compass and I hadn't played that
- 17:10Speaker 1: yet at that point in my career. I was always
- 17:12Speaker 1: playing the backway, whether it was Dawson's Creek, Gilmore Girls,
- 17:17Speaker 1: whatever it was. And so I chose a more compass
- 17:20Speaker 1: and I wanted to go a different round discover more
- 17:21Speaker 1: about myself. And that's that's that's the truth, Scott. I
- 17:25Speaker 1: laid it out for you and you're like sitting in
- 17:28Speaker 1: the barber's chair. I just unveiled my step. Um. For
- 17:32Speaker 1: those of you listening who do not know what a
- 17:35Speaker 1: holding deal or a development deal, was it a holding
- 17:37Speaker 1: deal A classic holding deal, right class golden deal? Yeah.
- 17:40Speaker 1: So what that is is the studio will and they're
- 17:43Speaker 1: very rare um. They think very highly of people if
- 17:47Speaker 1: they give them a holding deal or a development deal
- 17:51Speaker 1: is uh. And they're all different types of development deals
- 17:53Speaker 1: with like major movie stars and they're far more complex.
- 17:55Speaker 1: But a holding deal, UH with one of brothers for
- 18:00Speaker 1: TV is they will pay you X amount of money
- 18:03Speaker 1: over a certain period of time to stay in their stable.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Um and they have the right of first refusal. You know.
- 18:11Speaker 1: I think you can do other things, you just have
- 18:13Speaker 1: to get permission, but not in that time frame. Uh yeah.
- 18:16Speaker 1: And I think I was allowed to do like three
- 18:17Speaker 1: guest episodes. Um, and if another pilot came up, they
- 18:23Speaker 1: had to be aware of it and they could say
- 18:27Speaker 1: you can't do it, you know, like BBS offered me
- 18:29Speaker 1: a show. Then I'm owned by one of brothers. I
- 18:32Speaker 1: was one of brothers. Basically awesome. I mean, what a
- 18:35Speaker 1: We're a great compliment like to me, Warner Brothers is
- 18:38Speaker 1: always the the epitome of like, that's where I want
- 18:41Speaker 1: to be. I remember growing up and seeing the Warner
- 18:44Speaker 1: Brothers logo, you know, and watching Looney Tunes and all
- 18:47Speaker 1: those different shows and just seeing that. I remember the
- 18:50Speaker 1: first time I walked on they can Walk Close a lot,
- 18:52Speaker 1: I had felt like not so much that I made it,
- 18:56Speaker 1: but it was a little bit of disbelief coming on.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Like I'm on the Warner Brothers lot where so many
- 19:03Speaker 1: iconic films, much was shot, So many stories could be
- 19:07Speaker 1: told if these walls could talk, and remember we shot
- 19:11Speaker 1: we filmed next to Friends are Set, so like so
- 19:15Speaker 1: many things happened there, and I was so just blown
- 19:19Speaker 1: away by one of those and still grateful to this
- 19:21Speaker 1: day for the opportunity to come in and to make
- 19:23Speaker 1: television and those plaques on the side of the sound
- 19:27Speaker 1: stages where we shot. You know, we had a couple
- 19:29Speaker 1: of different sound stages we use, but the one of them,
- 19:31Speaker 1: the main one, was like, that's where they shot street
- 19:33Speaker 1: car named Desire for God's Sake, and it's like, you're
- 19:35Speaker 1: in there where Brando used to act, and it's like,
- 19:39Speaker 1: you're kidding me, So yeah, it's it's it's quite something. Um,
- 19:43Speaker 1: it's quite something. Uh it uh, all right, So the friction.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Let's talk about the friction. There was friction with your
- 19:51Speaker 1: character with almost every other character. What were your experiences
- 19:55Speaker 1: like with Paris lizoh Wheel What were those like? Because
- 20:03Speaker 1: we talked about Paris on the show a lot, So
- 20:06Speaker 1: what was your experience like her? Gosh, she was such
- 20:12Speaker 1: a she had she was such an actress. I remember
- 20:16Speaker 1: always feeling slightly intimidated by her. I don't know that's true.
- 20:21Speaker 1: I don't know why, but at the time, I definitely
- 20:23Speaker 1: remember just feeling intimidated by her. I don't know if
- 20:26Speaker 1: it was because I don't necessarily know, but she kind
- 20:28Speaker 1: of seemed like she came from a theater and trained background.
- 20:32Speaker 1: It was a total character that she was putting on.
- 20:33Speaker 1: It wasn't her playing any like random version of herself, right,
- 20:37Speaker 1: So she was really delving in to get there, and
- 20:41Speaker 1: it was intimidating and her words always landed. And as
- 20:46Speaker 1: an actor, especially when you're just starting off and something
- 20:51Speaker 1: hits you, you feel it. And so I remember just
- 20:55Speaker 1: always feeling it when she sent the message. That's what
- 20:59Speaker 1: I remember most. And she was great. Everyone was great
- 21:02Speaker 1: on the girls were all everyone was so kind, And
- 21:06Speaker 1: you know, I always felt like a fish out of
- 21:08Speaker 1: water because I come in, I do one episode and
- 21:10Speaker 1: then be gone for three. And then I come in
- 21:12Speaker 1: and I do two episodes and I'll be gone for
- 21:14Speaker 1: one and everyone else was kind of there the majority
- 21:17Speaker 1: of the time season one, So it always felt like
- 21:21Speaker 1: I just had to walk on. Then I used to
- 21:24Speaker 1: make sure that I didn't step on any toad, you
- 21:26Speaker 1: know what I mean. Um, here's a question from a
- 21:29Speaker 1: fantas from Sarah and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Um, and this is
- 21:34Speaker 1: a question I get a lot, you know how similar?
- 21:37Speaker 1: What are the similarities between Luke and myself? What what
- 21:40Speaker 1: are the similarities between you and Tristan any I mean
- 21:48Speaker 1: when we delve delve earlier, we delved into the the
- 21:51Speaker 1: psychosis of Tristan and how he likes to keep people
- 21:54Speaker 1: at arms distance. And I would say that that's very
- 21:58Speaker 1: true with me, especially more today. A um that is
- 22:01Speaker 1: really built. Um, I built a layer of kind of
- 22:05Speaker 1: scar to shortop scar to shortop of scar tissue where
- 22:09Speaker 1: letting people in is much harder today. UM, I don't
- 22:16Speaker 1: behave in the irrational sense that Tristan did, and that
- 22:20Speaker 1: that's his youth, right and and some people never grow
- 22:23Speaker 1: out of that. Some people do the work to get
- 22:24Speaker 1: away from that, and UM, you know, I think that
- 22:27Speaker 1: was part of my growing up, right. There was always
- 22:30Speaker 1: a part of me that I think I would want
- 22:32Speaker 1: to lash out at things that I was either envious
- 22:35Speaker 1: u or jealous of, or whatever it may have been.
- 22:37Speaker 1: I would think that there was definitely parts of me
- 22:39Speaker 1: interesting as Tristan in me. But if I was to
- 22:43Speaker 1: sit back and say, today, just keeping people at arms
- 22:46Speaker 1: distance and not necessarily letting people in until you can
- 22:49Speaker 1: really uncover like Alexis, and you peel that onion back
- 22:52Speaker 1: and you go, now I know who you are. You
- 22:55Speaker 1: know because Sarah always says this, and I love I
- 22:57Speaker 1: love this about Sarah. You know, we took our time
- 23:01Speaker 1: doing the whole courting thing because she's like, look, a
- 23:04Speaker 1: leopard always shows spots. Eventually, you know you can. You can.
- 23:09Speaker 1: You can fake it for only so long before you're
- 23:12Speaker 1: going to start to show who you really are. And
- 23:14Speaker 1: I love that patient approach instead of jumping into things.
- 23:19Speaker 1: So that's where i'd say, underneath the surface, that's where
- 23:25Speaker 1: Tristan and I agree. Not to mention we both have
- 23:27Speaker 1: the same hair. You both do have great hair, that's
- 23:32Speaker 1: for sure, the same. I didn't say great. I will
- 23:36Speaker 1: look at me. I think I have good hair, but
- 23:38Speaker 1: compared to you, I mean, look at those locks, like
- 23:41Speaker 1: it was beautiful. Yeah, a little curler any more. And
- 23:45Speaker 1: I don't even have a columb anymore. Who am I folding?
- 23:48Speaker 1: You know? I use a cut just I don't. I've
- 23:54Speaker 1: never used to colmb on my hair, calmb on my beard.
- 24:01Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, he's a call on my shoulder hair.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Uh can we talk anyway? Yeah? Do you think that?
- 24:14Speaker 1: And here's this is from Margaret from Orlando, Florida. In
- 24:20Speaker 1: your opinion, was Tristan rude or was he just misunderstood? Well,
- 24:28Speaker 1: it was it was rude. There's there's no question about
- 24:33Speaker 1: whether he was rude or not. Whether you misunderstood or not,
- 24:36Speaker 1: you still have there's an action to a reaction, right,
- 24:40Speaker 1: or there's a reaction to someone else's action. Just because
- 24:43Speaker 1: he may or may not have act in a certain
- 24:45Speaker 1: way doesn't mean it wasn't rude, even if he was misunderstood.
- 24:50Speaker 1: So I think it's a combination of both. Was Tristan
- 24:52Speaker 1: misunderstood and if you were to sit down with Tristan
- 24:56Speaker 1: in like a scenario where he felt comfortable, I think
- 24:59Speaker 1: you'd find now all sorts of things that nobody knew
- 25:01Speaker 1: about him. You know, I guarantee his father and his
- 25:04Speaker 1: mother were not in his life. I guarantee he was
- 25:06Speaker 1: a rogue soldier that was moving down and every day
- 25:09Speaker 1: he was told, how how lucky are you? I worked
- 25:12Speaker 1: for everything I had? Look at you, You get it
- 25:14Speaker 1: all gifted to you. You better show up, you better shine,
- 25:17Speaker 1: you're you're you're you're a nasan the whole. No one
- 25:19Speaker 1: gets all this stuff handed to him. I guarantee he
- 25:21Speaker 1: lived that existence growing up. And if you knew someone
- 25:25Speaker 1: in that position, then you can sympathize with them and say, Okay,
- 25:29Speaker 1: he doesn't just have a silver spoon or the golden
- 25:32Speaker 1: spoon up his you know what. He he's human and
- 25:37Speaker 1: he was dealt these cards. But he also doesn't have
- 25:41Speaker 1: real true love in his life. Now, if you ask
- 25:44Speaker 1: me money, I love. It is a no brainer. Every time,
- 25:49Speaker 1: it's love. Every time I tell people time and time again,
- 25:54Speaker 1: you know, whether it's birthday's Christmas is whatever it may be.
- 25:58Speaker 1: Um or if I see like a big family and
- 26:00Speaker 1: they like make an effort to come to convention and
- 26:03Speaker 1: they drag someone over and you know they're crying, and
- 26:05Speaker 1: I go, you know, this is fantastic, this opportunity that
- 26:09Speaker 1: we're having. But you know, the greatest gift that you
- 26:11Speaker 1: just received, there's no one that you would have loved.
- 26:14Speaker 1: You was so loved. There's the greatest gift you can
- 26:16Speaker 1: ever receive. Take it and run and carry that with
- 26:20Speaker 1: you day and day and know that you would love.
- 26:22Speaker 1: And I don't think Tristan had as much of that
- 26:25Speaker 1: as we would have hoped for him. And that's why
- 26:27Speaker 1: he lashed out, you know, out of insecurity, out of
- 26:31Speaker 1: hope and hoping that he wasn't going to get shut
- 26:33Speaker 1: down again. So much is expected of Hi when he
- 26:35Speaker 1: fails being the son of a man who resents you
- 26:40Speaker 1: because he had to work so hard to give you everything,
- 26:43Speaker 1: and then he resents you for it. That's the tragedy.
- 26:47Speaker 1: It's an American tragedy. And uh, it's off three. It's
- 26:51Speaker 1: it's often repeated throughout the generations, and it's really unfortunate,
- 26:56Speaker 1: um um, and very very well put. And you know,
- 27:00Speaker 1: I felt that that's what draws me to that character.
- 27:03Speaker 1: He does need love, and that's all of his actions
- 27:06Speaker 1: are reflective of that. And it's very compelling to watch.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Even in the scene with Dean, when you're being such
- 27:13Speaker 1: a jerk and so antagonistic with Dean, you're doing it
- 27:16Speaker 1: in such a way where you know, it's just very
- 27:21Speaker 1: It's not that it's noncommittal. It's not that you're not
- 27:24Speaker 1: that Tristan isn't committing to those actions. It's that, I
- 27:29Speaker 1: don't know, he's almost for me. It's almost like he
- 27:33Speaker 1: would rather be there's some space there with he would
- 27:37Speaker 1: rather be friends with Dean, or maybe there's a little
- 27:40Speaker 1: feels like a show, right, he's putting on a show.
- 27:43Speaker 1: He's totally putting on a show. None, None of this
- 27:47Speaker 1: is all real. He's putting on a show and he's
- 27:49Speaker 1: peacocking right as they would say. He's peacocking and hoping
- 27:52Speaker 1: that that win's out. Why, it's probably what he was
- 27:54Speaker 1: trained by his father time and time again. You know,
- 27:57Speaker 1: someone walks in an office and his dad goes to fired,
- 28:00Speaker 1: get out of here, you're done? Oh really? Okay? Well,
- 28:03Speaker 1: you know, and he's seen that type of behavior, and
- 28:06Speaker 1: when you see that type of behavior, you will acted out.
- 28:10Speaker 1: And that again, it gets carried down from genitor generation
- 28:13Speaker 1: to generation, and you have to get to a point
- 28:16Speaker 1: where Tristan needed to get to a point where the
- 28:18Speaker 1: buck stops here. I'm not going to allow this to continue.
- 28:22Speaker 1: And I believe that if we would have gone further
- 28:26Speaker 1: with Tristan, if that path would have been the chosen path,
- 28:29Speaker 1: I believe that we would have found that he had
- 28:32Speaker 1: a heart of gold and that he was just damaged.
- 28:35Speaker 1: And I think that we would have we would have
- 28:37Speaker 1: found that he loves and he loves big, and he's hurt,
- 28:41Speaker 1: you know, and he would have he would have had
- 28:42Speaker 1: to clean on to someone, and I wonder who got
- 28:44Speaker 1: someone would have been. I feel like someone would have
- 28:47Speaker 1: probably become a mother figure in his life who knows who,
- 28:50Speaker 1: and would have nurtured him. You know what I saw
- 28:54Speaker 1: you doing as an actor, I saw you doing it,
- 28:56Speaker 1: and I appreciate it so much because it really let
- 28:58Speaker 1: me know about out how Tristan really needs that love.
- 29:03Speaker 1: As you would take little pauses every once in a
- 29:06Speaker 1: while and you'd look at her and I thought, Wow,
- 29:10Speaker 1: it's that. I mean, this guy is that good an
- 29:13Speaker 1: actor where that's all it takes. And then we know,
- 29:17Speaker 1: we know, we see that moment into his whole past
- 29:20Speaker 1: and his whole present about how he's treated at home
- 29:24Speaker 1: and how conflicted he is, and how much he needs
- 29:27Speaker 1: her because in his what he thinks is somewhat of
- 29:31Speaker 1: a commitment to being this jerk, he's out a little
- 29:34Speaker 1: bit out of control of it. There are those moments
- 29:37Speaker 1: where you take that pause and you look at her
- 29:39Speaker 1: and you're so wanting her and you're so near her,
- 29:42Speaker 1: and it's just beautiful. It's beautiful to many moments of vulnerability. Man,
- 29:46Speaker 1: there's pure vulnerability there. And I do remember reading with
- 29:50Speaker 1: Amy back in the audition and she said what she
- 29:57Speaker 1: liked was that I do a but also the vulnerability
- 30:02Speaker 1: she needed to see that vulnerability, and I think that's
- 30:05Speaker 1: ultimately what what I wanted for me, and that's what
- 30:10Speaker 1: where the marriage came from between Chad and Tristan, was
- 30:13Speaker 1: the vulnerability to bring it to his purpose. He's he's
- 30:16Speaker 1: you know, it's uh, he's right now, one of my
- 30:19Speaker 1: favorite characters. Um, And I don't think I'm going to
- 30:22Speaker 1: see him again, am I? You're gone? Yeah? No, you
- 30:26Speaker 1: know how many episodes did you? You just you did
- 30:28Speaker 1: more than this? Is it? You? That's it. I'm not
- 30:34Speaker 1: gonna see anymore. I'm gonna watch these episodes that you're
- 30:36Speaker 1: not going to show up. I don't know. You know,
- 30:40Speaker 1: it's funny, you guys when you guys, it sounds like
- 30:43Speaker 1: a personal problem. Maybe you can go back and watch
- 30:47Speaker 1: the reruns. I don't think so the uh you know
- 30:53Speaker 1: they sell him on DVD. You can go back and
- 30:54Speaker 1: watch them and be right there. Sounds like a problem,
- 31:00Speaker 1: you know, the the reunion. They did the union and
- 31:06Speaker 1: I think the day that they had the day that
- 31:08Speaker 1: they picked the shoot the Tristan scene, my wife and
- 31:11Speaker 1: I were having a baby, yeah, and we had it
- 31:14Speaker 1: scheduled and we couldn't reschedule because it was induced labor.
- 31:18Speaker 1: They also came together also last second and boom we're
- 31:22Speaker 1: having it was like, sorry, so I heard that life
- 31:25Speaker 1: got it's a little more for me. Yeah, Hey, let's
- 31:30Speaker 1: talk about your projects. I know you got a couple.
- 31:31Speaker 1: You got a toying with the Holidays, Angel Falls Christmas,
- 31:36Speaker 1: and you got a Bruce Willis film and you're right
- 31:38Speaker 1: on the poster with Bruce Willis called Fortress. Tell us
- 31:40Speaker 1: a little bit about about these projects coming up. Man,
- 31:42Speaker 1: that's exciting. Uh, you know, just blessed to continue to
- 31:47Speaker 1: work and continue to um to delve into play with
- 31:51Speaker 1: the instrument. Man. You know, you get up in the
- 31:53Speaker 1: morning and you try and like I said, you're trying
- 31:55Speaker 1: a new outfit and a new character and it just
- 31:57Speaker 1: feels so good. Uh. Fortress was a riot. You know,
- 32:01Speaker 1: he's a South Jersey boy. He grew up down the
- 32:03Speaker 1: street from me without tell me what it was like.
- 32:05Speaker 1: Working with was fantastic. Bruce is great. Bruce and I, um,
- 32:10Speaker 1: we get along really well. Uh. And you know there'd
- 32:13Speaker 1: be times where he'd take me aside and we'd have
- 32:16Speaker 1: like just a little personal chance, and he wouldn't He
- 32:21Speaker 1: just didn't do that a lot. You know. He kind
- 32:23Speaker 1: of would do his thing and then that's it. But
- 32:26Speaker 1: I felt it was incredibly gratifying knowing that I got
- 32:30Speaker 1: to have those private moments with him, right and and
- 32:34Speaker 1: have those conversations. You know, we talked about you know,
- 32:38Speaker 1: he's good old you know, Armageddon and die Hard and
- 32:42Speaker 1: you know, just stories from behind the scenes and you know,
- 32:45Speaker 1: the whole at living sequence with um, you know, gippy
- 32:49Speaker 1: kaa mother, and we talked about just so many different
- 32:54Speaker 1: things down to you know, just human living with the
- 32:59Speaker 1: certain ricks are and UM and I borrow from everyone
- 33:04Speaker 1: that I work with, director, producer's crew. I try to
- 33:08Speaker 1: just take the best of everybody. He gave me some
- 33:10Speaker 1: things that really meant a lot to me, and and
- 33:15Speaker 1: so yeah, it was great. The characters that I play
- 33:19Speaker 1: in this film is absolutely insane, and I think you're
- 33:23Speaker 1: gonna love it. So that's gonna be in theaters December
- 33:27Speaker 1: and correct correct and Angel Falls is Christmas. Angel Falls
- 33:33Speaker 1: Christmas is now on IMDbTV, im BBTV streaming. Wa'ts it now?
- 33:39Speaker 1: I love that film, very very very different, complete polar
- 33:41Speaker 1: opposite playing an angel and and his job in in
- 33:47Speaker 1: this life is to be basically a relationship counselor okay,
- 33:54Speaker 1: but it's a fallen Angels scenario, you know, falling for
- 33:57Speaker 1: the girl who's not supposed to what do you do?
- 33:59Speaker 1: So it's City of Angels meets It's Wonderful Life and
- 34:02Speaker 1: all those great movies all kind of piled at one
- 34:04Speaker 1: another character piece. And then Toying What the Holidays comes
- 34:07Speaker 1: up this Saturday on Lifetime December eighteenth on Lifetime, Toying
- 34:12Speaker 1: with the Holidays, check it out. And then Thursday after
- 34:17Speaker 1: your board, Um, I'm playing I played Ted Bundy and
- 34:21Speaker 1: uh oh yeah, I saw that very different film and
- 34:24Speaker 1: that comes out of Hulu on Thursday. So what's going on? Man?
- 34:28Speaker 1: You're just like, are you ever home? No, You're just
- 34:33Speaker 1: you're just filming all the time we have been. Look,
- 34:36Speaker 1: I made a decision that I was like, you know what,
- 34:39Speaker 1: Look and instead of saying no to everything I'm not,
- 34:41Speaker 1: start saying yes and open my mind and learn and
- 34:45Speaker 1: create relationships and just trying different avenue. And what I
- 34:49Speaker 1: found is I've made so many new friends, i found
- 34:51Speaker 1: so many new relationships, and I've been able to try
- 34:54Speaker 1: out so many different things as an actor. Right, some
- 34:57Speaker 1: have been awesome, some failed miserably and that's fine. It's
- 35:01Speaker 1: completely fine with me. But I'm learning more about myself,
- 35:05Speaker 1: which is awesome. And my kids and I we live
- 35:07Speaker 1: on the road. Son's been on overs, that's sick. And um,
- 35:13Speaker 1: you know this year we were gone all year until
- 35:16Speaker 1: I have my surgery a month ago. Now we're we
- 35:19Speaker 1: put a pain in it. I want time out and
- 35:22Speaker 1: we we We picked back up January eighth, heading to
- 35:25Speaker 1: shoot a Western So like, at you go, man, Good
- 35:28Speaker 1: for you, Good for you. Alright, he'll up, gotta go.
- 35:32Speaker 1: I know you're busy. You gotta get you, gotta get
- 35:34Speaker 1: out of here. We've taken up far too much of
- 35:36Speaker 1: your Time's all good at you. Gotta love you, buddy. Yeah,
- 35:39Speaker 1: I love you too. Man. It's so great catching up.
- 35:41Speaker 1: And uh yeah, I'll get your I'll get your info
- 35:44Speaker 1: from from Amy and Gang and we'll connect man and
- 35:48Speaker 1: get our kids together. By the way, are you west side?
- 35:52Speaker 1: East side? Where are you? We? We are actually closer
- 35:55Speaker 1: to the beach now. I sold my place. I got
- 35:58Speaker 1: out of l a proper. Well. Yeah, I've been there
- 36:02Speaker 1: a long time, you know, I've been there eighteen years,
- 36:05Speaker 1: nineteen years in that house. So it was time. It
- 36:07Speaker 1: was time so we're You know, my wife likes the
- 36:10Speaker 1: the ocean, she likes the beach, and uh, I think
- 36:14Speaker 1: my wife, we're probably in the same neighborhood that money.
- 36:16Speaker 1: We could be. We'll talk down the road, yes we will.
- 36:21Speaker 1: All right. Such a pleasure, man, great catching up and
- 36:24Speaker 1: good luck with everything. Best is Sarah? Okay, tell her
- 36:27Speaker 1: I said, hold on all right, will I will see
- 36:29Speaker 1: my left everybody? God left you all right? You too? Man? Cheers,
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