some excited to be a guest for you guys didn't he get he's got some haven't and
uh... and he doesn't know about some of them
instead of eleven in real life
but that will get at the same uh... and he was also in ten days i hate about you
and uh... brian unger
i was on a daily show and also um...
on n_p_r_ among many other things
so but now they're part of a play called he asked for packets of the month of
theater here in los angeles and
uh... is uh... got one last week and i believe there's a few sunday here and
you could find tickets of yes for dot com
wanted answered
first a lot and i think you drink for having us uh... alright
uh... enteral well let's start with the first question the jury verdict a
fabulous
we we knew each other before we ask that the show
and uh...
i can say that we
weekend dates
we we definitely uh... have a lot of times with the group friends
and sort of lessons she did get unfaithful sprite
gazette westside afghanistan pipe disrupted do now is a good time to
dispute that stuff out fair fair enough answer because the way he answered it
had a satellite yet state you know we we work together
uh... services for professional his speeches continues to be
units are infested staff on enough in their player playing as someone who's
not sure
without straightened
that we had i'd
the sisters coming as a surprise to us we
we were told this would be a revival of any
and um...
then when we were planning
well i was doing they were mostly
but he's just orphan number twenty one
and it wasn't until we got on stage in andrew asked me to
which is the place for religion is a diesel is a list of things are
well any too little and different complexions and so
were committed to it because interpret it states that is a slice of life
story strongly with um about
uh... few characters and and i think it is a h_i_v_ positive
and there's another character that's h_i_v_-positive i'm sorry i'm done with
the on anything but i just think that we should probably get a little bit of the
story out there
you know the real he asked for a few other political opinion trip around him
which would be the pain
problem uh...
i think they were both the predators in the play and and and and army on the
only one imba play who doesn't have the same them all the characters in do
in all of them are
intuitive uh... lines one another to kit what everybody wants
you know intimacy and love them to the following
that one special person
and so the themes are very universal and they're not
just
birthday but uh... we do feel like we were correct
yeah
albright ambassador because
you know bad
their is static assumption out there that day
dictate the community
maybe has hard time
finding love because if somebody gets in his infinite sex instead
is that part of the play is that something as you know
that is tackled and this is it and you think it's true
on can't speak for the gay community
and i can speak for a specific legal in west hollywood but that seems to me for
the uh...
playing do addressed this
and that people are always lying to one another
essentially to get laid
on the link dot xsell capabilities are ideas are old guys wanting to one
another
mainly through
uh... chat rooms and through the internet portraying themselves as people
they aren't
in order to
do cute basically hookup and in this case uh... when you added i did
potentially deadly disease into that team you can be comfortably
he becomes fatal
now i know you guys are actors and
deserted they straighten up late personal answers there every day in the
play that's actually you know one-liners we've left it all outside and we don't
think any of us is addressed baton it's interesting i mean
world basically day on stage but none of us is really parked
that that it just seemed to really i don't know how much is really you can
apply
weeks replacement
weeks and no one asked what i had by the way as worried about how you actually
get her nap alone
i think that we've treated you know it's it's a professional situation and i
think we're or artists were kinda entering into this with our intentions
and
to be honest when i read it or initially it was just so well-written
that you can really feel like it was you know
necessarily characters and as actors as what we do we jump into different worlds
that being for something
i'm straight and so it was a challenge it was a uh...
i anytime i get scared said that's great that's something that i shouldn't have
to get myself should get into
independent proof so
were when you have a great time and i think we just sort of development out
there and i do get to squeeze your ass nightly
and uh...
has made at all in we'll get to make it up because i don't do that
typist
eyes one
palavalasa jettisoning don't don't yes
uh... grandmother dissident doodle you know for
known what their needs consecutive nights in rehearsals
uh... through through places like world a bunch of guys who are offi no matter
who it is your off toward me
assuming an internet
you know posterior touching doing things in the east
see you have to kind of rise above all what's happening in truth in the battle
description
the craft and i hate to sound cliche but it really does come down to that
high court of the third rail
uh... acted is so hard to know
make the wisecrack when andrews bunga dude against a card or a for instance
and that is not what you do get to see that you really clinton
that story we've got to have people in the spring and summer hundred a at a
place called he asked for by the way you get tickets if yes what i feel like i
should defend at last on this day
the place does really well
the productions done really well and and the whole story is actually quite
amazing and people really do believe that fear quite and like white affected
online or habitat a few jokes with at all but i think that uh... there's a
really important you know story here about people being lost being desperate
trying to find love in the city like l_a_
and uh... missus it so well put together and and it's also home areas reduced in
one of the funniest groups on it
i think i'm uh... her
my university me lives like this the most friendship
delirious thing i've ever read
is the writer there all the time he had a guided us through
what it's supposed to be life insurance and i don't think i've never been in a
place i don't know that neither an annex of this and this is our photo of the
others are still more season and we are interested in place for dinner and i've
never known play impair patterson playwright
retailers with their rituals
and uh... i wanted to strangle him about you a couple of the needed to ask you
what did you mean when you wrote this and how should this be played in here if
you say
however you want to play it
agenda exist within the site
you can't wait to see the next time you guys talking to each other but i i i i i
i i one of the throttle and because of course he has an idea of how it should
be pointed you read the voices in his head
but he
team really wanted to stay out of our our way in terms of how we interpreted
i think that i actually i had to push it about it is i think that he did
and put the stand up for this framework together but
as actors we come in with you know we see different things and i think we've
actually opened up
his mind too
different faces that he did not even at nettuno reserve these words on the top
of page but we're told the story
and we're bringing you know we're bringing our stories judas is well ahead
of the message or a question about that before you go back to the place
you know i i was wondering movies i havent really been involved in any
movie-making hillary away
how much of it uh... of it
movie in general if or t_v_ show like you were involved in some of heaven
is to actors and how much is the script are useful so close to it
religiously
or do actors often go off the streets of the great question actually a thus
consequences
still likes and have never very specific and you change the word had to go
through the line all the way out
and brenda henson the creator of the show
we have to prove something
independent films and
mention something right now in a sometimes you can kind of
the the writing is intended to be sort of
and you can kind of adding
you know admitted do those kinds of things but then a play i mean work
supposed it literally get every word and in a play like this is a lot of sort of
words and and and it's written in a way that's you know
onecare says one thing it does is back and forth that actually
you know uh... uh... the most complicated kind of
uh... material to work with but
we've you know anymore onstage whatever happens happens you know and we without
those experiences as well you know i was water about this in a place to people
forget my sometimes adult
and a lot of how do you react to source for dotnet line do you dislike pretend
they set up
you know uh... i salad is having a number of things that we have that we
had a moment ideally line that i think i've forgotten the whole run it just
happened
for deliverance
andrew forgot possesses the most critical
wind alzheimer's is saying anything about it but but would you do is
you you you look into the eyes of the actor across from you when you get a
sense of
terror coming from and and and
and and you you can see where they've trainers
mentally jumped the tracks and
you want to reach out and say i can help you through this but you can't because
everyone is watching you civilian
you wait
then there's a policy
in the audience this is a dramatic effect front correct as you had a you
have there basically you have a moment of prayer
where you just hope that your fellow catholics
number of the line or you just don't forward
and move the scene four
you just get ahead
the audience has no idea that you dropped three or four pages while for
three weeks i mean realize that the other night
the unfortunate experiences
of coming down and servicing its debt
and at the beer in my hand unfair
market your bottle
had to recover and got through it so you just feel the pressure you know you have
to do is just like right now we have to finish this shot right we can i can just
get up and
go did will somehow
spot but dick morris walked off while so it's possible so now humorless mean he
it is very nervous and so now match my mom's ok out my mom believes that if
you're a really good actor and you place on the american recently that you are
not first
so like she believes that larry hagman is for the most people men and allot
database on j_r_ ewing from back into that
so do you get a lot of people thinking all or andrews
got to be here
uh... i've never really had never
felt that that that's ever been of some of the initial amin buying
in the world like atlanta and i i really comfortable with myself
i don't really
feel that it's sort of like no one comes up to half of the plane things like
uh... well you know it is such good jobs you know what you do you think that
plays so it's simple
deviant sort of the emotional so
the the characters' emotional stately
there are lots of chocolate has more to do with the story and the and it's not
about sexuality it's about a month motion or an emotional trigger right and
the play by the way three asked for it is that the market leaders
it's very persistent signing answered and then maybe it was a broadway will
see
uh... early also andrew uh...
uh... that sidebar that question is what he does that help your career these days
and because back in the day
you know anything related
dennis was you know curricular now it is a lot of three actors one appointed
characters
does that help
it's a great question because i see a theme throughout the play uh... means
that it's about l_a_'s about actors about how it affects frankly stations
deals with this exact subject um... for me and you know as an actor as a as a
creative you know being i'm looking at things from for the value of what i'm
going to be able to you know
came from a creatively and that's what we're we're doing worse you know sort of
exercising our
acting muscles and its it's a totally different to push for it and i've never
had before so
to tell the whole story for two hours is
is an incredible feet especially when you're dealing with things that are just
so much more than when you deal with on a day-to-day basis right cookbook
but slaughterhouses actor but when they look at your resume you can get help for
her i don't see how it doesn't help i mean
seems like if you want a professional actors
somebody who's able to do something like a play would be uh...
would be considered it happened in the morning to put in a very seriously do
you guys don't become movie stars not the ones who are out of the closet and
that's just the way it works right you can if you can
in the community of things you can
sort of
have sex with whomever you want but i think we wind up on the cover of people
magazine saying i'm gay
then it becomes
a bigger issue unit shorted becomes a public issue
and the way down to the rest of the country into two places like where i
grew up in ohio it's still a very unconventional controversial lifestyle
and you can expect people to go i did
it's cool you notice that she's not the way the right over the place taxes if
you select i mean
how do you think he's because
you know you hear rumors if you live in a live it
everyplace
eighty percent of actors as yet
breathtaking but yet you always see like two or three that are openly gay
your heart
and in this
you know kansian filled the world where everything is recorded
had anything to secret long
we're not into users dot
when when someone's outside my hotel room looking to people reporting and
make sure that i have someone from his funeral is well
i've asked that that's a good will
i don't know i mean
at the collector briefing and we were the source they did
at the fed their used more for a full or around these trips have been subjects
them to be the easiest i think that
it's a discreet thrown it's one based on your
mutual respect indiscretion
ends because that is there's a code
about respecting people's privacy because it is a very small community and
your ability to work is based on those relationships
that they're healthy
either people trust you
that you protect your friends i think so uh...
and it's still not cool
all four the press to go around
you know outing people that's just not call you know it's a cool way to reach
in unto themselves you know so
personal impress had any boundaries of coolness left behind
in hollywood
points in hollywood the president made certainly by pushing product and there
their they're putting press releases on t_v_ in there
much like if the press
and there's no no no question about that but i think but i'm in a very similar
industries and in the hollywood and
with marketing
uh... are are very very similar in that there is an internal code of conduct
and outside of those businesses outside of politics outside a hollywood there's
a separate code of conduct where
appearances and perceptions are very very keen important
and when you break the internal code like going to a bathroom in minnesota
minneapolis injected for install and try to hook up with it did
you've broken the code
you know that you will be punished and in hollywood you know you're punished
for
for something similar certificates if you know
i directed the visible
discrete our don knapp and i thought it last question
employed
wrap it up is uh...
uh... pavarotti
they ever bother you andrew
or is it like this story
uh... arm whether i think one night with jessica though yet that uh... did you
see that the uh... i don't know i have a valid develop operatives and you told me
you know
what will happen if rick
and we walked out above the bar
and someone took a picture
whose identity and with guy this with friends or whatever that was me
but he said
you told me that used to shake their hands and talked also they can't take a
picture sometimes it
hisses before they doesn't
one-time situation just man up we have not voted out of their way
negatives you and i think that's way work on
that's why we don't want you know i think you know obviously didn't t_n_t_
situations
it's become disheveled it's it's it's obnoxious way around at the same time
obviously it's worth
as part of this whole
so it is more than a few analytical and we've done it outside the town
so that i don't have to be
go to those trustworthy uses in adolescent generalize that remember but
entirely right there the plays golf he asked for it uh... it's if you wanna get
tickets for thursday through sunday
uh... this weekend uh... itself he asked for dot com
so the masa theater and brian unger interviewed thanks so much for your some
interest and thank you so much around