-Welcome back, Andrew. How are you?
-I'm good. How are you? -I'm very good.
It is very nice to see you.
You've been a frequent guest on our show.
-Yep.
-So it's a little surreal talking to you virtually.
-I think this is my seventh time.
I got to say, Seth, I was telling your producers
the other day, you and your whole staff
are just nailing this. -Oh, thank you, buddy.
-And it's such a -- it's such a great comfort
to watch your show and to see what you're doing.
And I just -- You know, I've always been a fan,
but particularly in the past few months.
You guys are just doing such a fantastic job.
-That's so kind of you to say.
And I can tell you that it is --
I feel such comfort being able to do it.
So thank you for watching.
So this -- You're airing the final four episodes, correct?
Because you guys -- You did finish in time,
but then COVID interrupted post-production.
-Exactly. So we have four episodes left.
So that next episode will air this Sunday.
Yeah, we had it all filmed, but then, you know,
there's a lot of work that needs to be done
in post with editing and ADR and things like that.
So we had to take a little pause,
and now we're kicking back up again.
And we're starting off with -- I think it's one of my favorite
episodes of the season because it's a Halloween episode.
-Yeah. -Which was my favorite as a kid,
like, watching those episodes
where everybody gets dressed up in crazy costumes.
And I sort of strong-armed our creators into letting me
dress up as George Michael from the "Faith" video.
-And it's era-appropriate to the show.
-Yes, no. Totally appropriate, within --
Yes, I think it's very appropriate.
But I just wanted professionals
to make me look like George Michael.
-Yeah. -Sort of --
-You -- By the way, we have some photos,
and they did a very good job.
But you were close.
Like, you can't just make anyone look like George Michael.
You did a lot of work here. -Well, thank you.
-Yeah. -Yeah, no, I was --
I was very excited, but everybody else sort of had,
like -- They were giving other options and things.
And I was like, "That's the only one I want.
I want to look like George Michael in the 'Faith' video,
cause I always have wanted to look like that."
-I love that video a great deal.
I don't know at that time if I knew George Michael was gay.
Was he out then? Or probably not.
-No. I don't think he came out
until like probably ten years later or so.
-Gotcha. -Like, in my little child heart,
I knew that there was a kinship there.
-Yeah. Whereas I just thought,
"That is the coolest guy I've ever seen."
-Cool guy. Cool guy.
-I mean, he -- And, by the way, I was right.
He is the coolest guy I'd ever seen.
I just wasn't getting --
I was missing a good deal of it I think at the time.
-I think, but you weren't alone.
I think a lot of people were missing that, so...
-And did you -- When you were wearing the outfit,
was it exactly as rewarding as you wanted it to feel?
-Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I spent a lot of time just, like, looking at myself
in the mirror being like...
-[ Laughs ] Your character --
And I know you to be a good guy.
And I feel like, on the whole, you've played nice people.
Your character is a very bad person now.
-Yeah, yeah. The first season was sort of --
He was sort of naive and kind of, you know,
figuring out his place on Wall Street.
And then the second season he's really just gone off the rails.
I mean, he's -- I would read these scripts and be like,
"you want me to do what?"
So it was really fun to get to do
because it was so different from the first season.
And we had -- Yeah, there was a lot to cover this season.
And I got -- You know, I have both a wife and a boyfriend.
-Yeah. -So that's always very exciting.
And my boyfriend this season
is played by my actual boyfriend, Tuc Watkins,
so that was also a real treat.
We met doing "Boys in the Band" on Broadway
and then had filmed the movie of "Boys in the Band" for Netflix.
And then we got to work together on "Black Monday."
So it's very nice. It's very nice working --
-So, tell me, 'cause I would imagine sex scenes are very hard
when it's someone you're not a couple with in real life.
-Yeah. -But are they actually easier
when it's someone you're a couple with in real life,
or is it still so not --
Since it's so public, I guess?
-Well, you know, having done both now,
I would say that the anxiety is just a little --
It's a new kind of anxiety. Because I've done --
Like, on "Girls," like, I had to do a handful
of sex scenes and a few with Corey Stoll, who's so fantastic,
but we didn't really know each other,
so that was very awkward to sort of figure out, like,
"What are you comfortable with
and is this okay and how do I touch you?"
So, with Tuc, it was very easy
to sort of block it and get into it.
But then when it came time to actually filming it,
all of a sudden I had this realization
that I was surrounded by the crew,
who have now become friends of mine,
and I thought, "I wonder if they're thinking,
'So that's what it looks like.
That's what they do at home.
That's how they touch each other.'"
So then I got sort of, like,
weirdly self-conscious in a different way.
But all that said, it was much easier to do it
With, you know, somebody that...
-Right. -Yeah.