How's it going, man?
Yeah. Good. So I'm really enjoying the show.
So I just spoke with David West Read, who's absolutely lovely as expected.
I'm just wondering cause obviously Schitt's Creek
was such a wonderful show, too.
Did you guys see that?
And does that help signing on to a project when you know those behind everybody?
What's another one of other great shows?
Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
A lot of times, though, for me, I tried to just remove all of that away
and just look at the script and just take the script for what it was.
So for me, the script alone just got me so excited.
And I think David just such an amazing job.
So that got me excited.
And then all those extra added bonuses
just makes it more like, Oh, please give me the call. You know?
Yeah.
And you want someone you want someone that has been in the
in the trenches a little bit
when you kind of go into something that might run for a good while,
like it's great working with, you know, indie movie directors and all of that,
but you want somebody who's actually made television
to make television, otherwise it can get real hard in my experience.
So I wasn't even a huge Schitt's Creek guy, but I loved that
when I had seen it.
I really enjoyed it and I thought that the jokes were really strong in us.
And I thought when I'd read the way I read the book
before I read the script, and I thought, Oh, well, that makes sense.
Together, his mind and the way that he can bring a lightness of touch
to a big conceptual like this, I thought was really smart.
Yeah.
And he's got such a brilliant mind, but he's also such a good human.
And I think to be the top of the chain and like the captain of the ship,
all of that feeds down and it's a great, great experience.
He's amazing.
Obviously, when the show starts, it's your character's
40th birthday, but I turn 40, I'm 34 now... but
I think when I turned 30 I didn't really feel like anything.
I didn't feel that kind of significant milestone feeling I was turning 40.
Does that make you quite reflective?
And it did for me anyway.
And I don't I don't know if it's
because I think
I've been thinking about this lately a little bit, because the show is a bit
of a fucking identity crisis of a show and a mid-life crisis of the show.
I'm definitely around the middle of my life.
Fingers crossed.
But I think around turning 40 was also like, I'm done having kids.
Probably I'm kind of settled down.
You know what The job.
I think when you're still in your thirties
and you're still like going and going and going, but
I was like, Oh shit, well, this is it.
Where am I?
Like, I'm on the other side of the world.
This is a bit weird.
And all of these kind of things do kind of dawn on you.
And we had a murder mystery for my 40th.
Mm hmm.
And it seems kind of like the whole things
felt so dramatic suddenly where I was like, That's it.
You're 30.
The fun's over! a killer. It's murder.
We don't know why.
Because it's a list. It's like the T-shirt shirt.
A shell? Yes.
Makes me laugh, but also makes me feel very.
Exactly right. That's exactly right.
So good luck with that chase,
because obviously, like a lot of it is about this, not the kind of notion
of our kind of open potential.
And so I just wondered, do you guys sort of think about your own
potential is and think, you know, like I've done
all right, we we're all quite so critical,
which is nothing wrong. We're being so critical,
but it's sometimes quite good to be self-congratulatory.
I've got that word out.
What do you think?
I yeah, I feel like watching the show.
You can't help but ask those questions. Right?
But I feel very blessed and very fortunate
to feel like the potential, the path I've chosen is right for me.
I'm very happy with what I do, even with all the hard
work, the long hours, the uncertainty.
That's part of the mystery.
It's like pulling out something out of the Apple Jacks box or,
you know, it's just kind of figuring out what brings you joy and purpose.
And I think I've been very fortunate, blessed to know at such a young age,
because that kind of was mine at such a young age, knowing, okay,
this is what I want to do.
Now I know the steps to kind of get there.
So for me, it's been been a good experience.
Yeah, I don't know, potentially,
like I don't know if I've ever thought about it.
Like, I don't know if it's and we were talking about this a bit earlier.
I think there's a difference in Europe and in America between things like that,
the idea of goals and potential,
and we just don't fucking do them really at home, do we?
So it is it's I don't know why necessarily.
I don't think one way is better than the other.
I think there is something aspirational about the American model
that I just can't really buy into because I'm too much of a cynic.
But I do think that there is something useful for for them in that.
But no, I've never told what my potential would be.
I don't know if
I don't know if I would find it useful.
I wouldn't I don't know what the fucking parameters are
that you need to have a go at The Big Door Prize I think...
I mean, that's what you need to be first.
Why? Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for your time.