Congratulations on the show. Thank you.
Maybe, Jessica, throw this question to you first.
I mean, it must be a very easy decision to say yes to this show.
But what what drew you into this world?
Because there's so much is going on.
It's so, so funny, so thoughtful, kind of celebrating the culture and the eighties.
I mean, it's an easy decision to try and say yes to, isn't it? Yes.
All the things you said.
And it started with a really wonderful script.
It was so well-written.
And these characters jumped, jumped off the page.
And the character of Diane
the first time I read it and I read her,
I heard these voices of women that I have known throughout my career.
And she is based on those women who are very dear to me.
And that was the first thing.
And you really in the script got caught into the world and then.
You know, our writers and producers and directors and Richard Shepherd
created this giant pink world for us who directed the pilot
and really set this, you know , pink and neon stage.
And we were bubbled there for three months.
So it really felt like we were living in 1984.
I mean, every week that set is where we lived.
And when when they weren't shooting in the pool,
we may be swimming in the pool and we ate in the restaurants. And
so it was really we just immersed ourselves into 1984.
Yeah. And Chord Tell me about. Tell me about Chad.
What drew you to him?
Because I've only seen the first episodes I've only seen. Oh, OK.
So the thing I kind of like that. I kind of like that.
I get to discover it where the audience is.
Tell me about him. What drew you to to him?
I mean, I just I kind of I just really
love the the how the
how that character is written and how I was like, oh,
you know, I know what I can do with this to make it like.
Not as much and entitled kind of a.
Like a dick, but but to kind of make him unaware and
to make him more ignorant and not knowing what he's saying is offensive.
And I think that I think that that's a recipe for.
I think everybody everybody is probably that way.
That's that's young,
and I even doesn't know, you know, he's been living in Mexico for
three or four years and doesn't know a word of Spanish.
And I think there's a lot of comedy that can come out of that that.
That isn't malicious?
And I just I just had I when I read it, it
kind of jumped off the page and I immediately went into this like
character of like what that would be like.
And it was just really fun to play around with.
Yeah. One of the things I loved Jessica with your character was you
get to do the kind of cheesy 80s welcome videos and all that kind of.
Yes, that kind of thing, which I used to say a lot when I was a kid.
So I just wanted to
be kind of the discipline or the kind of part of your acting class
or whatever to to try and make sure that you get that as as real as possible.
Well, I think, you know, the discipline it's funny, as in most of my work, you're
constantly pulling away from those things,
you know, and making everything very real.
And when it got to the videos, I was able to just.
Let loose and do whatever came, however silly,
and really have fun with the the video part of that, it's
one of my favorite things that I did because it was just so, so out there.
So cheesy, but so much fun. Yeah.
And Chord I wanted to ask you, I mean, stepping into the 80s, forgive me
if this is incorrect, that you weren't born in the 80s like like I was 89, 89.
So it just it's just you're in, but you're not.
He remembers it well.
But stepping back into the 80s, how much fun is that?
Because it's a world that you've only ever seen, I guess, in TV.
And this hotel kind of brings it so much to life. Yeah.
I mean, some of my favorite movies are in the 80s,
you know, but I've always
I've loved like Back to the Future Pretty in Pink Breakfast Club.
I mean, all these they had they had this flair to them that I feel like.
You don't really get in modern day or like
or even the 90s, it was just everything was.
Almost like cartoonish in a weird way, and I feel like that's
such a fun character to play and to be able to like.
I mean, when you see the sets around you and the clothes and their hair
and you're there every day, it's like you really feel
you really kind of get that feeling and it feels like you
kind of jump into a time machine, which is really cool. And it to me,
it just really creates an escape and a different world.
Yeah, it's ironic that you mention
pretty in pink, given the color of your lovely hotel. Yeah, I think
that's likely. All right, guys, thank you so much for your time.
Absolute pleasure talking to you and good luck with the show.
Thank you. Thanks, guys. Take care.