Scott. How you doing? I'm good.
How are you guys doing?
Well, thank you. Fantastic.
Congratulations on the show.
Thank you.
I was gripped throughout.
I don't usually binge watch these things, but I honestly like a good
a good Dennis Lehane book.
I couldn't put it down.
He's I mean I wanted to ask you about working on the in one of Dennis's worlds.
I mean, he's created some
amazing stories and characters and they're so rich and so, so amazing.
What was it like for you guys as actors
to step into one of his worlds great dream, really?
I mean, this is what you dream of as an actor, to be able to work on scripts
that are written like novels or like great scores.
And his scripts do kind of sing like scores, in my opinion.
It has.
They have their cadences that are crescendos.
You know, there are moments of pause.
He's truly a
master at story sculpting, and it's just the most
thrilling experience to be able to dove in because it's like a gold mine.
You really don't have to to work so hard in order to deliver.
You just have to commit to what he's written.
You know, we talked about like the silences.
I mean, he's there's some lovely moments where, you know,
I feel like just every so much is said these days. And
and he uses some silences beautifully in this in this show.
And I felt like has great respect for the subject matter.
I mean, obviously,
there are real people whose lives were crushed by the events of this guy.
And, you know, it is a hell of a story.
And I think it's told with great respect
and great power.
I just want to ask you really about Paul Walter Hauser.
I just spoke to him.
And I mean, he's a he's a he's a force of nature.
That that guy is, you know, for kind of comedic roles.
And he kind of stepped out a little bit into quite a dark role.
What was your what was your take on his performance?
Because watching it in the series, I mean, he's just absolutely extraordinary
and kind of disappear.
The Paul that we know from, say, Cruella, kind of disappears.
I think that's true.
I think he is a completely has created
a completely different character.
I didn't know anything about, you know, the real Larry Hall.
He researched it well.
I think he brings something to life on screen, which is all you could hope
for in something like this.
And the and
it really is the driving engine in some ways of this story.
If you don't have that guy, you have a big hole in this. But
I think there's great
strangely, there is humanity behind the horror that you're watching.
And he did a fantastic job.
Yeah, that's
a testament to Dennis's writing and to Paul's work, obviously, because.
Yeah, he's done, you know, he did Cruella and then he did Richard Jewell.
And so he's done these kinds of.
Yeah, and honestly the entire cast
I mean, they know how to do comedy and drama and this is sort
of what it requires to be a true, like good actor, excellent actor.
But I think what Paul did here was, was kind of on another level
because it's really hard, even if you're a skilled actor,
to step into something so dark
and kind of demented.
And he was able
to for whatever reason, because Paul as a person
could not be more different from his character. Right.
He's light hearted, he's warm, he's generous, he's loving, he's kind.
And he was able to
just throw himself into this imaginative space
so fully and step out of it in a very healthy way,
which is something I really admire about him.
Absolutely.
Guys, I wish I had more time, but I don't.
Thanks so much for your time and good luck with the show. How it goes.
Thank you. Thank you so much. Bye.