The candy was great.
Yeah, candy in the dressing room too
because it's getting close to Halloween.
Are you a Halloween person?
Do you guys throw a house party?
Not so much, not so much.
Me either, but we do watch horror movies.
Do you like horror movies?
No, we don't, I made a horror movie and that--
(laughter)
And that was it?
And that was good. No, but we lived in the hills
in Hollywood and we don't get any foot traffic
so we've had to go out and drive on Halloween
to go take kids places for years, and that's kind of,
in LA especially, is a bit of a nightmare.
That's what my mom used to do!
Well we live up in the woods, up in the country.
My mom would help us get dressed up,
and she'd have to drive us to where we could
trick or treat cause we lived in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, one year we were re-modeling our house
and we moved down to the flats and in a very popular area
near, on Melrose and Larchmont,
and the neighbor said we get a lot of foot traffic
and we went,
"Really? There's a lot of foot traffic,"
and he said,
"Yeah you should buy extra candy."
Eight hundred pieces of candy later,
and it rained and there was a path in the front yard
of mud and people just, they didn't use the sidewalk,
they just came straight to the door, grabbed, and went out.
Hundreds of people came, they just, and they came,
and they'd bust in from everywhere, it was insane.
(audience laughter)
So now turn every light off and.
Yeah, oh yeah, we're gone.
We're like, there's no pumpkin with the cut out, you know.
Oh no, there's nothing.
No.
Also, it ended when like four years ago,
we'd go to the pumpkin patch and, in fact,
my oldest son texted me yesterday and said,
"Where's that pumpkin patch we used to go to with
"the bunny rabbits?"
And I started telling him where it is, but about four
years ago I got up, I went, we got pumpkins for everybody.
I carved five pumpkins.
Oh my god.
That was it.
And you're scooping out, cause nobody likes
to scoop the stuff out.
I have scooped pumpkins, my friend.
Yeah.
And toasted the seeds.
Yeah, me too.
Many a times.
Yes, yes.
It's a pain in the.
I just go down and get the one you plug in.
It lights up and that's it, that's it.
Yep.
So I heard, our producer told me, that your last two
just moved out, you're an empty nester.
Yeah.
My mom converted my room, like, that day.
Really?
Are you guys gonna do anything with the kids' rooms?
Or are you sad empty nesters?
That explains.
I'm sad for you cause I-
Yeah, it explains a lot.
Yeah, yeah and you heard the workers coming in
as you were leaving the front door right?
"Yeah, why are the painters here?
"Oh, don't worry about that, honey."
Well what are your plans?
You're empty nesters now.
No, I we're gonna, we've had the house so full of people
the last few years that we're kind of just happy
to be by ourselves.
My wife is like, the ultimate empty nester
because I'm in New Orleans most of the time.
There she is.
Aww, I was gonna say they put up a picture.
Awww.
She, uh, I think that was at her birthday party last year.
Aww.
Her 60th birthday party, uh, that we threw.
It was pretty great.
(laughter)
What about you--
Oh, like I shouldn't have said the number?
Is that like, he's in trouble now?
Ohhhh boy, yeah, yeah.
Well you work with your wife as well, of course,
as your love interest.
So we were joking backstage, I wonder what, like,
the worst day in the office is like.
No, actually I love working with her,
we worked together a bunch before.
She makes me a better actor because she works more intensely
and more deeply than I tend to work.
And so, when she shows up, and we also have a lot more
time together, which you don't--
So she raises your bar.
Yeah, she's like, okay well what do you think about that?
And why are you making that choice and those kinda things.
Which, once you get past that, and you know that there's no,
she's not somebody that's trying to, you know,
sabotage my work or anything, she's just--
Certainly not.
She wants to like, how can we make the scene better
and you have time to work with.
Cause you never rehearse on television.
You don't really, you just make with the marks down
and you, yeah. And you have very long days.
And you have long days.
So you don't have a lot of time to explore stuff
so when we're flying on a plane together or something
like that, we can talk about the scene.
You can have a conversation.
Yeah, and then all of a sudden, you know--
Oh, you make it sound like the best job in the world.
Well, it is, it is.
When you're working with your wife it's pretty fantastic.
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