-It's so great to you.
I am the biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest fan,
but I want to get to know more about you so everyone knows.
And again, I don't want to give away any spoilers,
but you were so great on "Ozark"
that I hope you won every award
that was known to man to give to an actor.
You deserve it. You were great.
-Wow, thank you. -That was phenomenal.
-Thank you.
-And I'm reading up about you.
And I go, wait, you got your start on "Guiding Light"?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-What? -[ Laughs ]
I started on "Guiding Light" out of college, you know?
And so, I went to theater school
and I'm learning my theater acting...
-Sure. -My big -- my outdoor acting,
I now call it. -Yeah.
-And then you go on television.
I had never been in front of the camera before.
So it was like, what are you supposed to do?
You know, and people say, like, you do less or you do nothing.
-Because you're used to projecting your voice on stage.
-Yeah, your kind of -- your voice and your body.
-Theater. -And all -- you know, yeah.
-So now you're on camera, yeah.
-So now I'm on camera, and I'm like,
I'm not going to do anything, you know.
[ Laughter ]
-I'm not going to do anything.
-I'm literally not going to do anything.
And I was like, "Oh, I'm cool.
Like, I bet -- I bet I look cool
and I bet this is, like, good camera acting."
And because the soap, you know, like, they --
they air it a month after.
So you're filming an episode a day,
and they're airing it a month later.
And that just happens around the clock.
-It's work. They go for it on soap operas.
-Yeah. -It's like, you do like 50 pages
a day or something. -50 pages a day.
You do an hour a day.
So then a month later, I'm like,
"Now let me see what my camera acting,
you know, let's see how this worked out."
-Hello, let's James Dean.
Let's see what happens if James Dean enters the room.
-Well, James Dean looked like he had a pole up his butt.
[ Laughter ]
I did. -It was -- it was terrible?
-It was so bad. It looked like I was scared to move.
I was like... -"Hi."
[ Laughs ] -Oh, really. So, it's awful.
And you saw it, and you go, "Oh, no, this is rough."
-It was horrible. -Did your friends and family
say, "Oh, no, dude, Tom, you got to figure this out."
-No, I -- I was my own harshest critic.
-You knew it. -I knew it.
-You knew it. -But it was great, because then
you kind of learn -- learn as you go.
-You just learn to change it.
And then, you ended up winning two Emmys for it.
-Yeah. -Dude, yeah.
So you learned how to do it. [ Cheers and applause ]
You figured it out.
You know, it's teacher appreciation week,
and I know that you wanted to give a shout out
to a certain teacher of yours.
The stage is yours. The floor is yours.
You can go to camera two or camera one.
-Yeah, well, when I was 14-years-old in high school,
I had a teacher named Steve Kasakoff, and, I guess --
I guess he really changed my life.
You know, he was a man that introduced me to acting
and gave me my first exposure to the whole thing.
And he did it with love and passion,
and he taught me discipline.
And I'm going to get emotional.
He gave me a work ethic.
And I wouldn't be here or have the life I have
right now without him,
and I'm so grateful for that,
and I'm so grateful for all the people
and the teachers and the adults who take time to show
an interest in kids and kind of turn their lights on.
And -- yeah, happy -- happy teacher week.
-Teacher appreciation. Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-[ Laughs ] -Thank you for doing that.
Thank you for saying that. Love that.
Where would we be without our teachers?
We're lucky enough to have teachers.
I mean, he's got to be proud of your work on "Ozark."
I got to be honest, you play Ben, you know,
Laura Linney's brother, you know, on the show.
And I'm watching, you know, and again, no spoilers,
I'm not quite to the end.
So I don't know anything,
but I do know that what I saw was just amazing.
And it was just -- it was just --
I was scared of you, then I loved you.
I rooted for you.
I mean, I didn't love you, but I rooted for you.
-Right, right. [ Laughter ]
-And then -- then you got romantic, so I go,
"Oh, this guy's a romantic." -Yeah.
-I'm rooting for you guys. I'm always rooting for love.
And then -- then I didn't know
what was going to happen with you,
and you made me so nervous, and I haven't seen
acting like that in a long time.
It was just phenomenal what you did.
Did you know when you were doing it?
Like, "Oh, this -- I'm hitting it out of the park here."
-Oh, no. No. -Really?
-Yeah. -Wow.
-Yeah, you don't -- you don't know.
Like, when it -- when it's kind of really good,
you kind of don't know really what's happening
and you forget a little bit and you're not really sure.
But, thankfully I'm surrounded by, you know,
Laura Linney and Jason Bateman.
And it's like -- -Oh, yeah.
"Are we okay?" "Yeah, we're good."
-We're good. -We're just --
-I mean, yeah, they're all -- they're all great actors.
The whole cast is amazing. -Amazing.
-Everyone scores, obviously.
But I just saw you, and I was like,
"This guy is just..."
Not even a home run.
Just knocked the cover off the ball, buddy.
It was amazing. -Dude, that means so much to me.
-Really, you're great.
And now I want to talk about "Outer Range."
Okay, this is on Prime Video.
Here, this is -- set this up, because this is a great --
this is a great plot.
-Yeah. So, I mean, it's a lot of things.
So, you kind of have this -- it's a modern day
Western family drama, mystery
with a metaphysical element and crazy neighbors.
[ Laughter ]
-If you can't relate to that, then I mean that's -- exactly.
[ Laughter ]
No, but it's -- so it's basically -- yeah,
you're on horseback a lot.
You're herding cattle.
There's -- your wife goes missing.
-She's missing, yeah.
When the show starts, she's been missing for nine months.
And my character, Perry Abbott, the son of Royal Abbott,
who is played by Josh Brolin, is sort of --
sort of broken, sort of -- kind of lost.
His wife's missing,
and he doesn't know why or what happened.
And they don't know if she's alive or dead,
and he's sort of in that limbo when we meet him.
-Yeah. I want to show everyone a clip.
Here is Tom Pelphrey and Josh Brolin in "Outer Range."
Take a look at this.
-She said that Rebecca's not gone.
♪♪
That nothing's ever really gone.
♪♪
That there's a plan.
♪♪
-What do you mean?
[ Chuckles ]
♪♪
And saved you.
-No, this isn't that.
-It brought you here.
-Perry.
♪♪
-Dad.
-Son, listen to me.
-She's right.
-Oh, Tom Pelphrey, everyone. [ Cheers and applause ]
Season one of "Outer Range" is available now on Prime Video.