Congratulations on season three.
I love the show so much, how does it feel to be returning back to these characters?
Thanks. Yeah, it was good.
Rupert, how was it for you?
It's you, I know.
Yeah, it's a very different feeling to come back to, you know, kind of sober
and the wine doesn't.
I used to love holding wine that was such a good prop for me,
so I don't feel quite disarmed by that.
But I was. Yeah, no, it's fun... Coming back.
But I think it's three months after the last season
and the baby is back.
Everything's kind of seemingly.
Good, and we're all kind of a functional family again.
Obviously, that doesn't
doesn't last very long.
Functional with air quotes, right? Right.
Yeah, functioning. And yeah,
I was really excited to see you guys were paired up
because you guys have my favorite dynamic on the show because you're awesome
to each other, but you're actually like a great double act together as well.
How did you develop that relationship?
You sort of naturally occurring.
I mean, that's actually funny about season three.
We didn't get so much of that. We kept going to the writers room.
So is there any chance that the scene with Rupert, you know,
it's just that, you know, when the family takes over and does that thing.
But yeah, I mean, it is difficult and we are really, really
crappy to each other this season.
So it's hard to be part of this is awful.
I want to do this. I I want to play that.
We should run together,
you know, in a funny spinoff,
live in a flat like Chandler and Joey,
which I would watch that so much.
Yeah, to be friends.
But in quotation marks. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, too.
Scenes, always.
My favorite is just always sort of fun.
Yeah, it's it's actually hard to get through sometimes.
Like we get the giggles.
Sometimes Rupert would just look at me like, Oh, no, I can't look at him in the scene.
So I have to play some dramatic like staring at you blow.
Or, you know, like, I'm you deliberately try to make me laugh.
So I go there.
Yeah,
I really, really love this season because it's a great exploration of trauma
and grief, particularly you Rupert because Julian has to face his own grief.
Now he's sober. And that's right. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, he's
kind of now he's kind of got a clear head.
I think he can kind of face...
confront his role in the
yeah, the led to the tragedy because he does have a
he carries a lot of guilt, and I think that's been something that he's struggled
with and it's kind of the reason why he's had such a.
Kind of problem is drinking and everything else, so yeah, no,
he does, yeah, he really kind of faces it head on and it's
he has a lot of kind of very low moments
in the season.
And it's so well done, and with Sean, Toby,
I feel like he's putting his grief into doing some useful stuff,
but I feel like he's holding it back his own like trauma and things,
and that's like one episode where you can see it start to fray a little bit.
Yeah, I think our whole whole reasoning was that
the it's a family of people who never really face
their their trauma and their, you know, the reality of anything.
So this season, it's very much showing is like, so we're good, right?
There's a baby and my wife talks, so we're good.
All right.
I don't drink just water pretending things are OK.
And that is it. You know, that is the show,
and it's difficult.
Sometimes sometimes you start to give a real dramatic reading and they're like,
Well, yeah, but you're not actually dealing with your with.
All right. Yeah.
No. So, yeah, robot Sean.
So yeah, it's that it's there.
And I think there's that.
The thing that really worked for us in the writing between between us, too,
is there's that sensitivity and we kind of always had that escape.
So we could always sort of go,
Oh yeah, we're pretending everything's good
and then we can go and escape and go down and drink and be like,
It's just crazy what's going on?
But now that's kind of being taken from us because Sean's pulling back and going,
well, she must be real.
This must be. But there's no other explanation.
You know, he's like becoming,
you know, Mulder in The X-Files, you know, he's like, This is real.
There's aliens that live in emotions, you know?
So, yeah,
I think the other show we could do.
Yeah.
Well, thank you so much for talking with me today.
That's why it's time for like that.
I can't wait for everyone to see the show,
and season three is phenomenal.
So thank you. Have a nice day.