Garret Dillahunt | Getting Sprung

A surprising decision.

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Garret Dillahunt: I was going to be a journalist.

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Garret Dillahunt: I have a journalism degree, I was a big

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Garret Dillahunt: shot on the high school newspaper and I

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Garret Dillahunt: thought this is for me.

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Garret Dillahunt: Man, I can type 70 words a minute.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Alright, welcome back.

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Marc Preston: Thank you very much for popping back over

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Marc Preston: to Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston and today Garrett

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Marc Preston: Dillahunt.

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Marc Preston: He's one of the most recognizable people on

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Marc Preston: film and TV.

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Marc Preston: I mean he's just he's been around for a

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Marc Preston: while Broadway films like no Country for

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Marc Preston: Old Men, twelve Years Slave.

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Marc Preston: Recently he's been an ambulance.

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Marc Preston: Also, tv I mean he's been everywhere as

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Marc Preston: well Raising Hope, deadwood Justified the

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Marc Preston: Mindy Project, fear of the Walking Dead,

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Marc Preston: and right now he has a brand new TV show.

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Marc Preston: It's actually his TV show.

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Marc Preston: It's his very first time executive

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Marc Preston: producing.

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Marc Preston: It's called Sprung.

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Marc Preston: It's on the Free V Streaming platform,

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Marc Preston: which I believe used to be IMDbTV.

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Marc Preston: Check it out.

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Marc Preston: It's really funny.

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Marc Preston: I think you'll enjoy it.

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Marc Preston: All right, let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: It is Garrett Dillahunt Day right now on

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Marc Preston: StoryAndCraft.

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Marc Preston: So how are you doing today, my friend?

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Garret Dillahunt: I'm good, I'm happy to be here, thanks for

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Garret Dillahunt: having me.

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Marc Preston: No, no, the pleasure is all mine, most

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Marc Preston: certainly.

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Marc Preston: Where are you joining me from today?

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Garret Dillahunt: I'm in.

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Marc Preston: Los Angeles.

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Marc Preston: Is that home base for you right now?

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, my wife and I we sort of split time

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Garret Dillahunt: between New York and LA.

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Garret Dillahunt: She's born and raised in New Yorker, so we

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Garret Dillahunt: just kept our place there.

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Garret Dillahunt: But most of the time I'm certainly here,

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Garret Dillahunt: that's for sure.

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Marc Preston: It was so funny because I was looking over

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Marc Preston: your just resume.

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Marc Preston: I thought I knew a lot of what you'd done,

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Marc Preston: but I'm thinking, wow, there's never a time

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Marc Preston: you're not working.

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Marc Preston: You've worked on a number of series and a

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Marc Preston: good stretch on a number of series.

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Marc Preston: I was going.

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Marc Preston: I need to go back in take a look at some of

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Marc Preston: the stuff you've done, because I am one of

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Marc Preston: the few people I have.

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Marc Preston: I have not seen Deadwood yet.

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Marc Preston: That's one of the shows I've wanted to

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Marc Preston: watch for so long.

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Marc Preston: It's just life gets in the way.

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Marc Preston: Plus, we've got three kids and now

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Marc Preston: teenagers, so what we're watching on TV is

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Marc Preston: sort of predicated upon their age.

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Marc Preston: By the way, I did check out Sprung the

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Marc Preston: other night.

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Marc Preston: I love the premise of that show and I was

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Marc Preston: wondering, um, your executive producer on

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Marc Preston: it as well, correct?

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Garret Dillahunt: Correct yeah.

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Marc Preston: I'm kind of curious your thought process.

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Marc Preston: Was there a script out there or were you

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Marc Preston: just kind of going this sounds like a fun

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Marc Preston: idea.

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Marc Preston: What was, uh?

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Marc Preston: How did it come together?

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Garret Dillahunt: Well it was.

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Garret Dillahunt: It was more about, uh, you know, lockdown

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Garret Dillahunt: had just gone into effect, you know it had

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Garret Dillahunt: been a little while since I'd had a job.

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Garret Dillahunt: I really had a ball on.

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Garret Dillahunt: I was trying to think the last time I did

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Garret Dillahunt: and I was like, well, I guess it was

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Garret Dillahunt: working with Greg on on raising hope, you

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Garret Dillahunt: know Greg Garcia.

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Garret Dillahunt: So I called him, called him during the

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Garret Dillahunt: downtime and I said, you know, I'm not

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Garret Dillahunt: getting any younger and I don't know why

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Garret Dillahunt: I've never done anything myself, but we

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Garret Dillahunt: should do something because I need to have

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Garret Dillahunt: a good time and I think everybody would

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Garret Dillahunt: like to have a good time.

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Garret Dillahunt: I chose him because he's a comedy guy and

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Garret Dillahunt: uh, and I like doing comedies.

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Garret Dillahunt: And uh, what do you want to do?

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Garret Dillahunt: And I didn't know, but I knew the kind of

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Garret Dillahunt: guy I wanted to be, and so I had a whole

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Garret Dillahunt: list of stuff.

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Garret Dillahunt: I was saying, maybe something like this,

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Garret Dillahunt: you know, maybe kind of a bad ass gone to

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Garret Dillahunt: seed a little bit, maybe this, maybe that,

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Garret Dillahunt: what do you think?

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Garret Dillahunt: He percolated on that and came back with

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Garret Dillahunt: these four scripts, you know, uh, kind of

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Garret Dillahunt: loosely based on what happened, like you

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Garret Dillahunt: re-referenced.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, they let out a bunch of inmates

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Garret Dillahunt: early because of COVID, you know trying to

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Garret Dillahunt: like you know low level security and and so

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Garret Dillahunt: we, we kind of dovetail that in with the

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Garret Dillahunt: guy who'd been in jail for 26 years for

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Garret Dillahunt: selling weed and nothing else, and uh, and

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Garret Dillahunt: we kind of went from there.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's not really just to put anybody's fears

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Garret Dillahunt: to rest or dash anyone's hopes.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's not a show about COVID.

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Garret Dillahunt: In a lot of ways it's uh kind of is the

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Garret Dillahunt: catalyst for starting this off.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know Martha Plimpton, who I just adore

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Garret Dillahunt: her.

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Marc Preston: I mean I've watched her.

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Marc Preston: I guess it's a, I guess I was a kid and she

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Marc Preston: was doing some of the teen movies or

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Marc Preston: whatever.

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Marc Preston: But she has one of my favorite lines in the

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Marc Preston: first episode where she says uh.

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Marc Preston: Where they say, should you uh in relation

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Marc Preston: to COVID, should you wear a mask?

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Marc Preston: You know, obviously getting out of jail,

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Marc Preston: you don't know what the story is.

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Marc Preston: And she says depends on what channel you

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Marc Preston: watch.

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Announcer: But as I was like okay, now, now we're off.

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Marc Preston: You know this is this is a uh a fun show,

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Marc Preston: and I saw, did I see that you had, uh, you

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Marc Preston: have Fred Grandy uh showing up in a couple

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Marc Preston: episodes.

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Marc Preston: That's right that is.

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Garret Dillahunt: That is a thrill that is.

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Marc Preston: that is a throwback.

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Garret Dillahunt: Yes, it was also uh, I don't know it was.

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Garret Dillahunt: It was very validating the people that

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Garret Dillahunt: wanted to be on the show.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know what I mean.

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Garret Dillahunt: Like you think you've got something, you

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Garret Dillahunt: think it's cool, but you're like, ah, you

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Garret Dillahunt: know, you know, no one's going to want to

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Garret Dillahunt: be a part of Garrett's little show.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know who's Garrett, you know.

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Garret Dillahunt: And then you know to have Kate and Fred

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Garret Dillahunt: Grandy and you know Chris Bauer does five

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Garret Dillahunt: or six episodes.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, he's, he's fantastic.

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Garret Dillahunt: We got so many great people willing to be a

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Garret Dillahunt: part of it.

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Garret Dillahunt: It just really validated everything from me.

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Marc Preston: It's kind of like they're coming out to

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Marc Preston: play with you.

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Garret Dillahunt: Absolutely yeah.

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Garret Dillahunt: And, and I'll tell you something, we shot,

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Garret Dillahunt: we shot 10 episodes.

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Garret Dillahunt: We shot in Pittsburgh and we shot all 10 at

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Garret Dillahunt: once, kind of like a like a five and a half

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Garret Dillahunt: hour movie basically, which I don't

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Garret Dillahunt: recommend, but we did it and it was a way,

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Garret Dillahunt: you know, like we could shoot all of

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Garret Dillahunt: Chris's episodes in a week.

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Garret Dillahunt: We could shoot all of Kate's, you know we.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know what I mean.

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Garret Dillahunt: We didn't hold them up for long and they

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Garret Dillahunt: got a nice little tidy paycheck, you know,

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Garret Dillahunt: because they get paid per episode and then

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Garret Dillahunt: they can go back to the.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know what they're doing.

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Garret Dillahunt: They're both real busy.

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Marc Preston: And so each episode's roughly just about

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Marc Preston: about a half hour roughly 35, 37 minutes.

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, it's a little longer.

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Garret Dillahunt: There are commercials, but they're limited,

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Garret Dillahunt: so it's it's longer than, say, a network,

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Garret Dillahunt: you know, half hour format.

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Marc Preston: You've been doing television for so long,

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Marc Preston: Do you like this format to kind of new?

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Marc Preston: Well, it's not that new anymore, but the

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Marc Preston: whole idea of streaming and the different

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Marc Preston: streaming providers and you kind of have a

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Marc Preston: little bit different palette to paint on.

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Marc Preston: Do you kind of like that?

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Marc Preston: Yeah?

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Garret Dillahunt: Well, there's good and bad about it.

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Garret Dillahunt: I guess you could say that about everything.

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Garret Dillahunt: But you know, the good is the freedom

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Garret Dillahunt: you're talking about.

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Garret Dillahunt: We have a little more time to tell the

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Garret Dillahunt: story.

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Garret Dillahunt: The bad is it's so long between seasons,

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Garret Dillahunt: you know, and it's you know it's a.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's actually a big bone of contention

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Garret Dillahunt: right now, I'm sure with the contract

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Garret Dillahunt: negotiations come up, actors have been been

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Garret Dillahunt: trying for years to let you know, let us

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Garret Dillahunt: work on other things in the downtime.

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Garret Dillahunt: You're holding us more than a year

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Garret Dillahunt: sometimes and you know I'm fortunate I can

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Garret Dillahunt: piece something together usually, you know,

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Garret Dillahunt: but a lot of our, you know, sort of below

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Garret Dillahunt: the line folks are having a real hard time

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Garret Dillahunt: finding ways to stay alive while we wait

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Garret Dillahunt: for some streamer to decide you're going to

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Garret Dillahunt: have a season two or not.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's been a year since we shot.

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Marc Preston: But yeah, I did want to go.

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Marc Preston: Um, you grew up in Washington, correct?

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Garret Dillahunt: East Washington, not Seattle.

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Garret Dillahunt: My father was a trucker in the trucking

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Marc Preston: So was it pretty well received when you

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Marc Preston: Or was that even your initial objective

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Garret Dillahunt: Well received by my family.

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Marc Preston: Oh, well received.

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Marc Preston: Like we use your family, like what you can

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, yeah, they were surprised.

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Garret Dillahunt: It was a weird, uh, a surprising decision.

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Garret Dillahunt: I was going to be a journalist, to have a

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Garret Dillahunt: Um, I was a big shot on the high school

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Garret Dillahunt: newspaper and I thought this is your name

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Garret Dillahunt: and I can type 70 words a minute and you

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Garret Dillahunt: But uh, before I went to school there was a

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Garret Dillahunt: It was a horror, horrible idea in my mind

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Garret Dillahunt: And here I am still doing it.

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Garret Dillahunt: Well, isn't that kind of a common thread

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Marc Preston: It's a common thread with a lot of actors.

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Marc Preston: It's a great irony that they're inherently

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Marc Preston: Do you think that has something to do with

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Garret Dillahunt: Maybe, and I mean, you seem to have the

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Marc Preston: Oh god, no, I started, uh, I started in

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Marc Preston: And I realized years later, as I started

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Marc Preston: I just didn't know it, you know, uh, but I

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Garret Dillahunt: Um, it's voice, man.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's a hell of a voice.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's not surprising, thank you.

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Marc Preston: Um, but one of the things that fascinates

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Marc Preston: Is there any one thing that you typically

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't.

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Garret Dillahunt: I think my preference is change.

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Garret Dillahunt: I think I think if I just did one thing,

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know how you feel about it, but I I

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Garret Dillahunt: the last thing I did as possible.

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Garret Dillahunt: Sometimes there's no choice, you know, but

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Garret Dillahunt: I think it was a real problem early in my

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Garret Dillahunt: people tried to pigeonhole you very much

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Garret Dillahunt: and you're supposed to just do this one

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Garret Dillahunt: Hopefully, the pigeonhole for me is he can

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Marc Preston: As time goes on, are you looking to maybe

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Marc Preston: You know, based on this experience with uh

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Marc Preston: more of your own stuff?

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, I sure hope so, I I.

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Garret Dillahunt: If I could give advice to anyone listening,

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Garret Dillahunt: it would be don't wait.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know why I waited so long.

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Garret Dillahunt: I kept waiting for permission or the right

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Garret Dillahunt: I thought I don't know enough.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know what I'm doing yet.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't think anyone knows what they're

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Garret Dillahunt: They just do it and then they know.

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Garret Dillahunt: I, I, I'd hope to do more.

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Garret Dillahunt: This was, this was great.

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Garret Dillahunt: This was great fun.

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Marc Preston: Just taking a step back real quick in terms

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Marc Preston: Well, the first question I want to ask is

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Marc Preston: did you do anything with journalism?

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Marc Preston: Did you write for a paper, do TV or radio

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Garret Dillahunt: I didn't.

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Garret Dillahunt: I worked for a local newspaper in my

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Garret Dillahunt: You know we did everything.

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Garret Dillahunt: You're your own photographer for the future

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Garret Dillahunt: stories.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know it was back when you still took a

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Garret Dillahunt: A giant photo met a giant negative of each

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Garret Dillahunt: page.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know that you develop and you print

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Garret Dillahunt: yourself a negative.

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Garret Dillahunt: So I'm dating myself, but that's it.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, I really just declared myself a

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Garret Dillahunt: journalism major because that had been the

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Garret Dillahunt: original plan.

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Garret Dillahunt: I didn't really know what I wanted to do, I

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Garret Dillahunt: just knew I was lost and drifting a bit.

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Garret Dillahunt: I probably should have just waited, not

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Garret Dillahunt: gone to college.

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Garret Dillahunt: But that's, that was what you were supposed

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Garret Dillahunt: to do back then.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's really fun.

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Marc Preston: I've got two in college right now and I

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Marc Preston: kind of look at the arc of working and

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Marc Preston: entertainment my whole career and then

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Marc Preston: looking at the people go to college and the

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Marc Preston: amount of money it costs and at HEP and it

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Marc Preston: seemed to be that we went through this

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Marc Preston: routine you definitely go to the four year

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Marc Preston: school.

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Marc Preston: You come out, you get your you know

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Marc Preston: business card, you know and you're great at

484

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Marc Preston: role now it just seems like the rules are

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Marc Preston: changing a little bit, especially for folks

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Marc Preston: that are creative.

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Marc Preston: Now, you did, I did notice you did go to

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Marc Preston: NYU to do the acting thing.

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Marc Preston: I'm curious for folks to go to NYU or Yale.

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Marc Preston: You know they're really in a great program.

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Marc Preston: Do you still feel that it's a lot of on the

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Marc Preston: job training or do you do you feel like

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Marc Preston: that those programs are invaluable?

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Marc Preston: I mean, they're.

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Marc Preston: You know what is your thoughts.

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Marc Preston: Education to real world, you know for an

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Marc Preston: actor.

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Garret Dillahunt: Well, I think it depends on the actor.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, for me, someone that was

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Garret Dillahunt: literally just started, you know, and I

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Garret Dillahunt: bopped around Seattle for a year trying to

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Garret Dillahunt: do theater and stuff and I just thought,

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Garret Dillahunt: okay, I don't know what I'm doing yet, I

504

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Garret Dillahunt: just I just got a taste of this, so I need

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Garret Dillahunt: some training.

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Garret Dillahunt: So I auditioned for programs but I

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Garret Dillahunt: certainly saw a lot of people there that

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Garret Dillahunt: either didn't need or didn't respond well

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Garret Dillahunt: to the training.

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Garret Dillahunt: So why go into that debt?

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Garret Dillahunt: And a lot of people that never trained that

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Garret Dillahunt: just do fantastic.

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Garret Dillahunt: I think.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know that you need to go to a

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Garret Dillahunt: conservatory, you know, but it was good for

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Garret Dillahunt: me.

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Garret Dillahunt: I'll tell you that I loved it Three years.

518

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Garret Dillahunt: You know agents come see your shows.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know how to tell kids to get it,

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Garret Dillahunt: how to get an agent now, for example.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know it's a whole nother.

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Marc Preston: So it's so weird.

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Marc Preston: I think that and I've spoken with some

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Marc Preston: young actors who have tremendous social

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Marc Preston: media followings and they talk about the

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Marc Preston: casting and you look at someone who has a

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Marc Preston: lot of training and they're really good at

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Marc Preston: what they do, but they don't have hundreds

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Marc Preston: of thousands of people that can, for a

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Marc Preston: smaller film can actually make a difference,

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Marc Preston: and and the agents also want to see that

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Marc Preston: you have more work under your belt.

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Marc Preston: So it's kind of like what came first

534

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Marc Preston: chicken or the egg kind of a thing Now the

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Marc Preston: yeah, I don't know.

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Marc Preston: Now did you, when you kind of set out your,

537

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Marc Preston: your of course doing stage, but did you

538

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Marc Preston: have an aspiration to be on camera, or is

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Marc Preston: that just sort of the way things went?

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, I'd always loved film.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know there wasn't a theater community,

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Garret Dillahunt: so to speak of, in my small hometown.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know I didn't know about theater as

544

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Garret Dillahunt: making a living.

545

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Garret Dillahunt: I didn't.

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Garret Dillahunt: I had a girlfriend who worked at the local

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Garret Dillahunt: movie theater and we could sign in to

548

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Garret Dillahunt: movies and watch movies anytime we wanted.

549

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Garret Dillahunt: So I saw a ton of movies.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know if that's why I loved them,

551

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Garret Dillahunt: but I at the time never had any idea I was

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Garret Dillahunt: going to be an actor.

553

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Garret Dillahunt: But yeah, I always thought I would be on

554

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Garret Dillahunt: film, you know, but it was still a time

555

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Garret Dillahunt: where you did it.

556

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Garret Dillahunt: Did you have a little more pressure to

557

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Garret Dillahunt: choose what you wanted to be?

558

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Garret Dillahunt: You couldn't do them all, but I just

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Garret Dillahunt: thought it would be a natural progression.

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Garret Dillahunt: And I did stage exclusively for about 10

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Garret Dillahunt: years out of school and then finally

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Garret Dillahunt: started working in film and TV and was like,

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Garret Dillahunt: oh, this is how to pay my student loan down

564

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Garret Dillahunt: Theater's not gonna do it.

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Marc Preston: Do you still like to kind of jump back in

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Marc Preston: and do some stage work?

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Garret Dillahunt: It's been a I don't know five or six years

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Garret Dillahunt: since I've done a play.

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Garret Dillahunt: I got nothing against plays, that's for

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Garret Dillahunt: sure.

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Garret Dillahunt: I mean it was very good, good to me.

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Garret Dillahunt: I feel like I've been very fortunate in the

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Garret Dillahunt: film and TV work I've done that.

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Garret Dillahunt: I've had some very complex characters to

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Garret Dillahunt: play.

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Garret Dillahunt: I feel very much challenged as an actor and

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know how many plays I've done 100,

578

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Garret Dillahunt: maybe more, I don't know Broadway and off

579

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Garret Dillahunt: and around the country and I don't know the.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, I think some of my most

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Garret Dillahunt: challenging experiences as an actor have

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Garret Dillahunt: been on film and TV.

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Garret Dillahunt: So I'm fortunate and I'm not particularly

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Garret Dillahunt: missing it when I'm not doing it, but I

585

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Garret Dillahunt: always want to.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, I always want to do all of it.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know.

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Garret Dillahunt: I hope I'll have that option.

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Marc Preston: You're kind of always working, you know,

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Marc Preston: does it seem like you have big lulls of

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Marc Preston: time?

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Marc Preston: Do you do when you're kind of carving out

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Marc Preston: what you're doing?

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Marc Preston: Do you like to build in vacation time for

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Marc Preston: you?

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Marc Preston: You know family, or do you?

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Marc Preston: Like to keep kind of, keep that kind of not

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Marc Preston: a heck of a pace, but working a lot.

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Garret Dillahunt: You've touched on a problem that I'm trying

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Garret Dillahunt: to solve and have yet to do, which is that

601

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Garret Dillahunt: very thing.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know that it's always good to be

603

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Garret Dillahunt: working all the time, that's for sure.

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Garret Dillahunt: Both you know business wise and personal.

605

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Garret Dillahunt: Sometimes it's good to be unavailable,

606

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Garret Dillahunt: sometimes it's you know, there's this air

607

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Garret Dillahunt: of something about you that leads to a

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Garret Dillahunt: larger contract when you finally get landed.

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Garret Dillahunt: But I just, I just don't know why I'm going

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Garret Dillahunt: to sit around and not do what I love to do,

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Garret Dillahunt: you know.

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Garret Dillahunt: So I have a hard time not not staying busy.

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Garret Dillahunt: I have fun, and I guess it does seem that

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Garret Dillahunt: way and there's always two or three weeks

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Garret Dillahunt: at least between projects.

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, usually, more obviously that

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Garret Dillahunt: sounds.

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Garret Dillahunt: I mean, what other profession gets two or

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Garret Dillahunt: three weeks off regularly throughout the

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Garret Dillahunt: year?

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Garret Dillahunt: I mean I feel like my dad.

622

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Garret Dillahunt: You know what I mean.

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Garret Dillahunt: It's like that's a lot, guys.

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Garret Dillahunt: So funny you say that.

625

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Marc Preston: The actor friends.

626

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Marc Preston: I've got that they may go months in between

627

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Marc Preston: gigs.

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Marc Preston: It's so funny how different it is I

629

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Marc Preston: remember years ago when I worked with ABC

630

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Marc Preston: Radio interview John Favreau and I remember

631

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Marc Preston: he said to me he said you know when we're,

632

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Marc Preston: when we're not working, when we wrap a show

633

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Marc Preston: we're out of work didn't really register

634

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Marc Preston: later.

635

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Marc Preston: I was like you know what?

636

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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's right, you know.

637

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Marc Preston: So if you are working and doing, you're

638

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Marc Preston: doing, that's a definitely blessed.

639

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Marc Preston: What a great opportunity.

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Marc Preston: And I noticed that you do show up with a

641

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Marc Preston: lot of kind of talking about the work

642

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Marc Preston: you've done.

643

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Marc Preston: I'm very curious about one thing, the do

644

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Marc Preston: you enjoy working with people again?

645

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Marc Preston: If you have a great experience with them,

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Marc Preston: do you seek out opportunities to work with

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Marc Preston: them again?

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Marc Preston: Like Timothy Olafan, I know worked with

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Marc Preston: them a couple of times.

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, absolutely.

651

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Garret Dillahunt: I mean Greg Garcia and Sprung being the

652

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Garret Dillahunt: prime example that we started off the half

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Garret Dillahunt: hour with.

654

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Garret Dillahunt: But I think it's the best way to work.

655

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Garret Dillahunt: You know it's why we all went back to

656

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Garret Dillahunt: Deadwood.

657

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Garret Dillahunt: You know it's why I played a basically you

658

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Garret Dillahunt: know, a one line guy in the movie of

659

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Garret Dillahunt: Deadwood, because I just wanted to be there

660

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Garret Dillahunt: with my old friends.

661

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Garret Dillahunt: You know, after you know 15 years of the

662

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Garret Dillahunt: thing being gone, we all just wanted to say

663

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Garret Dillahunt: goodbye to David and I don't know.

664

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Garret Dillahunt: Things go so fast.

665

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Garret Dillahunt: You have kids, so you probably see time fly

666

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Garret Dillahunt: even faster than I do, but it just flies,

667

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Garret Dillahunt: doesn't it?

668

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Garret Dillahunt: And I don't know why I wouldn't want to

669

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Garret Dillahunt: work with people I love, you know, all the

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Garret Dillahunt: time.

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Marc Preston: It's just so much better Do you have

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Marc Preston: anything as far as any projects there that

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Marc Preston: are going to be coming out.

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Marc Preston: I see something the long I'm sorry, the

675

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Marc Preston: long home that hasn't been released yet,

676

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Marc Preston: has it?

677

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Marc Preston: That's going to be coming out a little bit

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Marc Preston: later.

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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, I don't.

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Garret Dillahunt: I wish I could take that off my thing.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't think it's ever coming out.

682

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Garret Dillahunt: We shot that years ago.

683

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Garret Dillahunt: That was the movie that James Franco got in

684

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Garret Dillahunt: such trouble on.

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Marc Preston: Oh, okay before his.

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Garret Dillahunt: I don't think that's ever coming out.

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Garret Dillahunt: Red Red Hand I just shot with Orlando Bloom

688

00:21:59,156 --> 00:22:00,801

Garret Dillahunt: and the Nelms Brothers directed that.

689

00:22:01,382 --> 00:22:03,529

Garret Dillahunt: That was a ton of fun redneck on redneck

690

00:22:03,549 --> 00:22:04,872

Garret Dillahunt: kind of crime going on.

691

00:22:06,755 --> 00:22:08,759

Garret Dillahunt: I just finished the season of Hightown.

692

00:22:08,779 --> 00:22:11,083

Garret Dillahunt: In fact I'm wearing the shirt.

693

00:22:11,604 --> 00:22:12,265

Garret Dillahunt: That was fun.

694

00:22:13,587 --> 00:22:14,970

Garret Dillahunt: We just literally just got home from North

695

00:22:15,496 --> 00:22:18,896

Garret Dillahunt: Carolina for that Another movie for HBO I

696

00:22:18,957 --> 00:22:19,177

Garret Dillahunt: did.

697

00:22:19,197 --> 00:22:22,798

Garret Dillahunt: They'll be announcing soon and a couple

698

00:22:22,818 --> 00:22:23,240

Garret Dillahunt: more coming.

699

00:22:24,093 --> 00:22:25,718

Marc Preston: Yeah, I saw you did the when the Crod Hads

700

00:22:25,779 --> 00:22:26,039

Marc Preston: Sing.

701

00:22:26,291 --> 00:22:28,613

Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, that was in New Orleans and that's

702

00:22:28,633 --> 00:22:30,999

Garret Dillahunt: still in theaters, I believe, if people

703

00:22:31,020 --> 00:22:31,681

Garret Dillahunt: want to see that.

704

00:22:32,131 --> 00:22:33,837

Marc Preston: I chatted with Logan McCray a little while

705

00:22:33,897 --> 00:22:34,520

Marc Preston: back about that.

706

00:22:34,590 --> 00:22:39,918

Marc Preston: I'm actually in New Orleans and waiting for

707

00:22:39,938 --> 00:22:41,080

Marc Preston: my youngest graduate high school.

708

00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:42,322

Marc Preston: Then it's either back to Texas or

709

00:22:42,362 --> 00:22:43,524

Marc Preston: California still debating.

710

00:22:43,610 --> 00:22:47,320

Marc Preston: But but but that was where did you spend

711

00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:48,771

Marc Preston: time when you were in New Orleans, did you?

712

00:22:49,774 --> 00:22:51,018

Marc Preston: Did you have enough days shooting where you

713

00:22:51,038 --> 00:22:52,843

Marc Preston: can kind of get out and mill about and go

714

00:22:52,863 --> 00:22:53,324

Marc Preston: get something to eat?

715

00:22:54,052 --> 00:22:55,679

Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, I like New Orleans.

716

00:22:55,810 --> 00:22:59,137

Garret Dillahunt: I was, I got a thing for like artists and

717

00:22:59,197 --> 00:23:01,602

Garret Dillahunt: paintings and I always find some great art

718

00:23:01,902 --> 00:23:02,704

Garret Dillahunt: when I'm in New Orleans.

719

00:23:02,910 --> 00:23:04,896

Garret Dillahunt: I'm not a big drinker so a lot of the

720

00:23:04,936 --> 00:23:06,401

Garret Dillahunt: culture there is lost on me.

721

00:23:08,131 --> 00:23:10,658

Garret Dillahunt: But and it was so hot when we were filming

722

00:23:10,698 --> 00:23:14,118

Garret Dillahunt: there that but I didn't get out a ton, to

723

00:23:14,158 --> 00:23:14,600

Garret Dillahunt: be honest.

724

00:23:15,430 --> 00:23:17,938

Garret Dillahunt: They got me in pretty quick out of two

725

00:23:17,978 --> 00:23:20,957

Garret Dillahunt: weeks to shoot and we shot a lot delayed

726

00:23:20,977 --> 00:23:23,368

Garret Dillahunt: for weather, a lot and then I got out of

727

00:23:23,389 --> 00:23:23,490

Garret Dillahunt: there.

728

00:23:23,550 --> 00:23:25,291

Garret Dillahunt: But I've worked in New Orleans a ton, so

729

00:23:25,953 --> 00:23:27,619

Garret Dillahunt: I'm familiar with the town and really dig

730

00:23:27,679 --> 00:23:27,739

Garret Dillahunt: it.

731

00:23:27,930 --> 00:23:29,354

Marc Preston: Do you like shooting on location or do you

732

00:23:29,395 --> 00:23:31,481

Marc Preston: like to more more often than not?

733

00:23:31,490 --> 00:23:33,457

Marc Preston: Do you like to be in a state shooting

734

00:23:33,477 --> 00:23:34,059

Marc Preston: around LA?

735

00:23:34,270 --> 00:23:35,876

Garret Dillahunt: I guess it depends on what the location is.

736

00:23:36,057 --> 00:23:36,458

Marc Preston: Yeah.

737

00:23:38,611 --> 00:23:40,204

Garret Dillahunt: A lot of my movies are sort of you know,

738

00:23:40,244 --> 00:23:40,910

Garret Dillahunt: and you'll be staying.

739

00:23:40,990 --> 00:23:43,597

Garret Dillahunt: And in this you know truck stop in New

740

00:23:43,637 --> 00:23:45,602

Garret Dillahunt: Jersey there's a Sonic to eat at.

741

00:23:46,550 --> 00:23:49,197

Garret Dillahunt: I want my friends shooting like I got a job

742

00:23:49,237 --> 00:23:50,360

Garret Dillahunt: in the Canary Islands.

743

00:23:50,420 --> 00:23:51,873

Garret Dillahunt: I'm like what Shut up?

744

00:23:52,630 --> 00:23:54,640

Garret Dillahunt: I'm about to do one in Morocco, though, and

745

00:23:54,661 --> 00:23:55,424

Garret Dillahunt: I'm looking forward to that.

746

00:23:55,444 --> 00:23:56,389

Marc Preston: That would be awesome.

747

00:23:56,771 --> 00:23:57,414

Garret Dillahunt: In about a week.

748

00:23:58,090 --> 00:23:59,656

Garret Dillahunt: So, yeah, I'm excited Never been.

749

00:23:59,817 --> 00:24:01,295

Marc Preston: Now we talked yeah, you do have a week or

750

00:24:01,335 --> 00:24:02,598

Marc Preston: two or, like you said, you do have those

751

00:24:02,618 --> 00:24:04,350

Marc Preston: little hammocks of time between projects.

752

00:24:04,430 --> 00:24:05,654

Marc Preston: What are you liking to do when you're not?

753

00:24:06,496 --> 00:24:07,820

Marc Preston: You know, having to memorize lines and

754

00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:08,381

Marc Preston: beyond set.

755

00:24:08,992 --> 00:24:11,219

Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, buddy, you hit it right there.

756

00:24:11,239 --> 00:24:13,450

Garret Dillahunt: When I'm home, I'm a terrible husband.

757

00:24:13,551 --> 00:24:16,498

Garret Dillahunt: I just we just lay around, we just.

758

00:24:16,579 --> 00:24:17,990

Garret Dillahunt: It's like this is recovering time.

759

00:24:18,913 --> 00:24:21,123

Garret Dillahunt: You know you don't realize how many hours

760

00:24:21,143 --> 00:24:22,469

Garret Dillahunt: you spend on your feet.

761

00:24:23,492 --> 00:24:25,236

Garret Dillahunt: You know how many time, how much time you

762

00:24:25,276 --> 00:24:27,382

Garret Dillahunt: spend in uncomfortable shoes that aren't

763

00:24:27,422 --> 00:24:27,743

Garret Dillahunt: yours.

764

00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:30,948

Garret Dillahunt: You know on set or falling down.

765

00:24:30,968 --> 00:24:32,375

Garret Dillahunt: It's weird, you get hurt.

766

00:24:32,415 --> 00:24:33,058

Garret Dillahunt: Fake fighting.

767

00:24:33,258 --> 00:24:33,540

Garret Dillahunt: You know.

768

00:24:34,735 --> 00:24:36,448

Marc Preston: I found that it's the waiting that seems to

769

00:24:36,468 --> 00:24:36,670

Marc Preston: get to me.

770

00:24:37,253 --> 00:24:38,761

Marc Preston: I got to find things to do while I'm

771

00:24:38,781 --> 00:24:40,470

Marc Preston: waiting, you know, and then they rush you

772

00:24:41,112 --> 00:24:41,393

Marc Preston: somewhere.

773

00:24:41,433 --> 00:24:42,497

Marc Preston: You do something for a minute and you're

774

00:24:42,517 --> 00:24:42,718

Marc Preston: done.

775

00:24:43,139 --> 00:24:43,561

Garret Dillahunt: That's right.

776

00:24:45,535 --> 00:24:47,084

Garret Dillahunt: It is hard to keep things working while

777

00:24:47,104 --> 00:24:47,667

Garret Dillahunt: you're not on camera.

778

00:24:47,688 --> 00:24:50,600

Marc Preston: Actually, Now you mentioned before, to kind

779

00:24:50,621 --> 00:24:51,244

Marc Preston: of touch on something.

780

00:24:51,264 --> 00:24:52,369

Marc Preston: You said that things do.

781

00:24:52,389 --> 00:24:53,595

Marc Preston: Things have changed.

782

00:24:53,675 --> 00:24:55,444

Marc Preston: You know, with the streamers it's the

783

00:24:55,826 --> 00:24:56,610

Marc Preston: paradigm shifting a little bit.

784

00:24:57,693 --> 00:25:00,062

Marc Preston: Do you, going forward, prefer to be on a

785

00:25:00,102 --> 00:25:01,910

Marc Preston: show or you're doing like a big season,

786

00:25:01,930 --> 00:25:04,988

Marc Preston: good, big, traditional, big four network

787

00:25:05,008 --> 00:25:07,235

Marc Preston: kind of series, or do you like the idea of

788

00:25:07,256 --> 00:25:08,599

Marc Preston: the streaming thing where you've got eight

789

00:25:08,619 --> 00:25:10,935

Marc Preston: to ten episodes and there you can go work

790

00:25:10,995 --> 00:25:11,597

Marc Preston: on something else?

791

00:25:11,657 --> 00:25:12,440

Marc Preston: Which one do you prefer?

792

00:25:13,070 --> 00:25:14,978

Garret Dillahunt: I mean, again, it just depends on the job.

793

00:25:15,170 --> 00:25:17,295

Garret Dillahunt: You know I'm all about the story and if

794

00:25:17,776 --> 00:25:20,322

Garret Dillahunt: it's good I would love that security of a

795

00:25:20,342 --> 00:25:20,903

Garret Dillahunt: network show.

796

00:25:20,990 --> 00:25:22,557

Garret Dillahunt: They're becoming few and far between.

797

00:25:22,650 --> 00:25:24,315

Garret Dillahunt: I don't know what the future of network is,

798

00:25:24,736 --> 00:25:28,912

Garret Dillahunt: you know, but I know, I know the streaming

799

00:25:28,952 --> 00:25:31,580

Garret Dillahunt: platform and the strategy has to change.

800

00:25:32,594 --> 00:25:33,216

Garret Dillahunt: You know it's a.

801

00:25:33,980 --> 00:25:35,647

Garret Dillahunt: You're hearing a lot of stories about all

802

00:25:35,668 --> 00:25:37,341

Garret Dillahunt: of them being in some kind of trouble and

803

00:25:37,362 --> 00:25:38,170

Garret Dillahunt: they're all trying different mergers.

804

00:25:38,791 --> 00:25:39,352

Garret Dillahunt: They're all trying.

805

00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:42,358

Garret Dillahunt: You know it's still a fairly young

806

00:25:44,742 --> 00:25:46,725

Garret Dillahunt: technology in a way.

807

00:25:47,673 --> 00:25:49,300

Garret Dillahunt: I'm hoping they're ironing the kinks out.

808

00:25:51,373 --> 00:25:52,539

Garret Dillahunt: I just want to tell a good story.

809

00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,259

Garret Dillahunt: I really don't care where it is, you know,

810

00:25:55,279 --> 00:25:55,581

Garret Dillahunt: I really don't.

811

00:25:55,622 --> 00:25:57,856

Garret Dillahunt: Maybe I should, do you?

812

00:25:57,917 --> 00:25:59,529

Garret Dillahunt: I mean, do you know it's funny?

813

00:25:59,549 --> 00:26:01,518

Marc Preston: I don't, but I'm looking where it like in

814

00:26:01,538 --> 00:26:02,060

Marc Preston: my kids.

815

00:26:02,181 --> 00:26:04,370

Marc Preston: They're completely fine looking at their

816

00:26:04,410 --> 00:26:04,952

Marc Preston: telephone.

817

00:26:05,073 --> 00:26:06,157

Marc Preston: You know, like watching something.

818

00:26:06,170 --> 00:26:07,596

Marc Preston: I was like no, I like mine stuff on a

819

00:26:07,656 --> 00:26:10,518

Marc Preston: screen, I like you know something to get

820

00:26:10,578 --> 00:26:10,879

Marc Preston: into.

821

00:26:11,510 --> 00:26:14,499

Marc Preston: But I think it's being driven by strange

822

00:26:14,519 --> 00:26:15,301

Marc Preston: people, younger than us.

823

00:26:15,390 --> 00:26:19,739

Marc Preston: It seems like you know, but the my nephew's

824

00:26:19,879 --> 00:26:23,973

Marc Preston: YouTube, you know oh yeah, before before a

825

00:26:23,993 --> 00:26:25,999

Marc Preston: television show, I'll pick YouTube yeah.

826

00:26:26,019 --> 00:26:27,514

Marc Preston: Yeah, my, I'm watching, I'm kind of getting

827

00:26:27,554 --> 00:26:29,527

Marc Preston: into the, my son's getting me into the uh,

828

00:26:29,567 --> 00:26:31,557

Marc Preston: especially with Disney, the Marvel universe.

829

00:26:32,873 --> 00:26:34,538

Marc Preston: And after we watch a show there's a guy on

830

00:26:34,598 --> 00:26:35,019

Marc Preston: YouTube.

831

00:26:35,039 --> 00:26:36,571

Marc Preston: It does a summary of the show to kind of

832

00:26:36,612 --> 00:26:38,279

Marc Preston: explain all the bits and pieces and all

833

00:26:38,419 --> 00:26:39,825

Marc Preston: little Easter eggs and all that stuff.

834

00:26:39,930 --> 00:26:42,205

Marc Preston: So they look at all he looks at almost like

835

00:26:42,245 --> 00:26:42,950

Marc Preston: a companion thing.

836

00:26:43,090 --> 00:26:44,837

Marc Preston: Watch the show and go to YouTube, watch the

837

00:26:44,877 --> 00:26:45,218

Marc Preston: summary.

838

00:26:45,450 --> 00:26:46,696

Marc Preston: You know something to that effect.

839

00:26:47,310 --> 00:26:51,340

Marc Preston: Now, now you've worked on uh um, with uh

840

00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:54,573

Marc Preston: fear of the walking dead, have you done

841

00:26:54,934 --> 00:26:56,259

Marc Preston: with that universe?

842

00:26:56,330 --> 00:26:58,235

Marc Preston: Have you done any of the cons, like the

843

00:26:58,275 --> 00:26:59,860

Marc Preston: comic cons or whatever that those folks

844

00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:00,622

Marc Preston: seem to show up at?

845

00:27:01,571 --> 00:27:04,117

Garret Dillahunt: I was able to do a few before the lockdown

846

00:27:04,699 --> 00:27:06,691

Garret Dillahunt: with, as, as with most things, I seem to

847

00:27:06,731 --> 00:27:10,300

Garret Dillahunt: get in on the tail end of the tail end of

848

00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:11,162

Garret Dillahunt: the magical part.

849

00:27:11,250 --> 00:27:12,534

Garret Dillahunt: You know and you heard all these stories

850

00:27:12,594 --> 00:27:15,111

Garret Dillahunt: about people going to cons and what fun

851

00:27:15,131 --> 00:27:17,016

Garret Dillahunt: they have and how lucrative they are and

852

00:27:17,056 --> 00:27:19,633

Garret Dillahunt: meeting the fans is glorious, and then I

853

00:27:19,653 --> 00:27:21,619

Garret Dillahunt: kind of get in just as that sort of feels

854

00:27:21,639 --> 00:27:23,360

Garret Dillahunt: like it's starting to peter out or go

855

00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,972

Garret Dillahunt: through changes and then cope, it shuts the

856

00:27:24,992 --> 00:27:26,037

Garret Dillahunt: whole thing down anyway.

857

00:27:26,472 --> 00:27:27,859

Marc Preston: Where does the walking dead um?

858

00:27:29,004 --> 00:27:30,130

Marc Preston: The uh fear of the walking dead.

859

00:27:30,230 --> 00:27:31,596

Marc Preston: Did y'all shoot in Atlanta as well?

860

00:27:32,270 --> 00:27:36,119

Garret Dillahunt: No, no one knows anything about my show

861

00:27:36,159 --> 00:27:37,482

Garret Dillahunt: that I was on.

862

00:27:37,522 --> 00:27:39,993

Garret Dillahunt: It's interesting, I was we, we shot.

863

00:27:40,234 --> 00:27:42,340

Garret Dillahunt: I think they started in LA, then they shot

864

00:27:42,380 --> 00:27:43,062

Garret Dillahunt: in Mexico.

865

00:27:44,291 --> 00:27:46,037

Garret Dillahunt: Uh, when I was on it we were in Austin,

866

00:27:46,077 --> 00:27:46,479

Garret Dillahunt: texas.

867

00:27:47,631 --> 00:27:50,416

Garret Dillahunt: Um, now I'm not on it and I hear they're

868

00:27:50,456 --> 00:27:52,780

Garret Dillahunt: finishing up in Savannah, georgia.

869

00:27:54,703 --> 00:27:55,430

Garret Dillahunt: It's here, all Well.

870

00:27:55,791 --> 00:27:56,192

Marc Preston: I enjoyed.

871

00:27:56,273 --> 00:27:58,659

Marc Preston: I watched, I think, the first season of

872

00:27:58,699 --> 00:27:58,920

Marc Preston: that.

873

00:27:59,140 --> 00:27:59,542

Marc Preston: I caught it.

874

00:27:59,650 --> 00:28:01,315

Marc Preston: I was watching with my daughter and then um,

875

00:28:01,837 --> 00:28:03,040

Marc Preston: going back to sprung, though.

876

00:28:03,670 --> 00:28:05,457

Marc Preston: How many total episodes do you have of that?

877

00:28:05,670 --> 00:28:07,481

Garret Dillahunt: We shot one season, 10 episodes, 10

878

00:28:07,501 --> 00:28:07,944

Garret Dillahunt: episodes.

879

00:28:08,447 --> 00:28:11,037

Marc Preston: Okay, Is that the first series free fee is

880

00:28:11,077 --> 00:28:12,510

Marc Preston: kind of saying, you know, uh, their their

881

00:28:12,551 --> 00:28:14,578

Marc Preston: first one out of the gate, I think.

882

00:28:14,730 --> 00:28:15,693

Garret Dillahunt: I think it's one of their first.

883

00:28:16,416 --> 00:28:17,580

Garret Dillahunt: It's one of their first originals.

884

00:28:17,620 --> 00:28:18,483

Marc Preston: Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah.

885

00:28:19,250 --> 00:28:22,219

Garret Dillahunt: Um Bosch is on that network now, but I know

886

00:28:22,259 --> 00:28:23,992

Garret Dillahunt: it didn't originate there, and I think they

887

00:28:24,012 --> 00:28:25,577

Garret Dillahunt: have some other stuff that's coming out

888

00:28:25,717 --> 00:28:26,901

Garret Dillahunt: about the same time as us.

889

00:28:26,990 --> 00:28:28,915

Garret Dillahunt: I don't know which one was first or not,

890

00:28:28,995 --> 00:28:31,521

Garret Dillahunt: but we're we're among the first, that's for

891

00:28:31,561 --> 00:28:31,802

Garret Dillahunt: sure.

892

00:28:32,531 --> 00:28:33,414

Garret Dillahunt: They were great to work for.

893

00:28:40,613 --> 00:28:41,375

Marc Preston: Do you have any?

894

00:28:42,118 --> 00:28:43,823

Marc Preston: Aspirationally, as you look kind of down

895

00:28:43,843 --> 00:28:44,084

Marc Preston: the line?

896

00:28:44,104 --> 00:28:45,730

Marc Preston: Do you have anything like I would really

897

00:28:45,770 --> 00:28:47,838

Marc Preston: like to do this kind of thing, work with

898

00:28:47,939 --> 00:28:50,267

Marc Preston: this director, this actor or this kind of a

899

00:28:51,129 --> 00:28:51,590

Marc Preston: genre?

900

00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:53,234

Marc Preston: Is there something out there you have not

901

00:28:53,334 --> 00:28:54,416

Marc Preston: done yet that's on the list?

902

00:28:55,165 --> 00:28:56,449

Garret Dillahunt: You know I should be more specific about

903

00:28:56,490 --> 00:28:57,071

Garret Dillahunt: those things.

904

00:28:58,386 --> 00:29:02,697

Garret Dillahunt: I've always been a big reader and I have a

905

00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,063

Garret Dillahunt: lot of authors stuff.

906

00:29:05,103 --> 00:29:06,727

Garret Dillahunt: I'm always like this would be amazing.

907

00:29:06,767 --> 00:29:11,477

Garret Dillahunt: And I'm actually working with a favorite

908

00:29:11,538 --> 00:29:14,248

Garret Dillahunt: author of mine that I kind of met online

909

00:29:14,308 --> 00:29:17,354

Garret Dillahunt: during COVID as well, and he had a

910

00:29:17,414 --> 00:29:19,118

Garret Dillahunt: manuscript that's unpublished and we're

911

00:29:19,445 --> 00:29:21,410

Garret Dillahunt: working on adapting that and that's

912

00:29:21,450 --> 00:29:22,934

Garret Dillahunt: something I've never done that I would like

913

00:29:22,974 --> 00:29:23,215

Garret Dillahunt: to do.

914

00:29:23,945 --> 00:29:26,432

Garret Dillahunt: I've never brought a book I love to the

915

00:29:26,472 --> 00:29:26,833

Garret Dillahunt: screen.

916

00:29:27,745 --> 00:29:30,792

Garret Dillahunt: We got to hurry because I'll be long in the

917

00:29:30,812 --> 00:29:33,038

Garret Dillahunt: tooth for this character in a few years, so

918

00:29:33,225 --> 00:29:33,807

Garret Dillahunt: we got to hurry.

919

00:29:34,428 --> 00:29:37,557

Garret Dillahunt: But I need to get more specific about that.

920

00:29:37,605 --> 00:29:39,069

Garret Dillahunt: I think people do well that are very

921

00:29:39,109 --> 00:29:40,915

Garret Dillahunt: specific about what they want and need, and

922

00:29:40,935 --> 00:29:42,569

Garret Dillahunt: I've just never been able to put my finger

923

00:29:42,709 --> 00:29:42,850

Garret Dillahunt: on it.

924

00:29:44,665 --> 00:29:47,313

Garret Dillahunt: Often something will come along that's

925

00:29:47,353 --> 00:29:48,275

Garret Dillahunt: better than I thought of.

926

00:29:49,026 --> 00:29:49,347

Marc Preston: It's funny.

927

00:29:49,367 --> 00:29:50,671

Marc Preston: You mentioned the thing about kind of like

928

00:29:50,791 --> 00:29:53,066

Marc Preston: age and kind of where you are and what

929

00:29:53,086 --> 00:29:54,492

Marc Preston: you're doing 30 years ago to now.

930

00:29:55,848 --> 00:29:56,670

Marc Preston: It's kind of interesting.

931

00:29:56,710 --> 00:29:59,476

Marc Preston: Have you noticed that from when your career

932

00:29:59,576 --> 00:30:00,868

Marc Preston: kind of the inception, when you're really

933

00:30:00,888 --> 00:30:02,779

Marc Preston: getting rolling to what you're doing now,

934

00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:04,086

Marc Preston: do you kind of feel the difference in the

935

00:30:04,126 --> 00:30:06,271

Marc Preston: kind of roles that you're being asked to do

936

00:30:06,391 --> 00:30:07,775

Marc Preston: or that you're being approached on?

937

00:30:08,985 --> 00:30:10,208

Garret Dillahunt: Well, certainly the age difference in the

938

00:30:10,268 --> 00:30:12,073

Garret Dillahunt: roles is noticeable.

939

00:30:12,213 --> 00:30:14,006

Garret Dillahunt: Or I'll think like oh, I'm going to play

940

00:30:14,026 --> 00:30:16,376

Garret Dillahunt: this guy and you're like, oh, you want me

941

00:30:16,396 --> 00:30:17,420

Garret Dillahunt: to play that guy's dad.

942

00:30:18,203 --> 00:30:18,665

Marc Preston: Oh, of course.

943

00:30:19,609 --> 00:30:20,372

Garret Dillahunt: Of course I'm the dad.

944

00:30:20,785 --> 00:30:21,767

Garret Dillahunt: I didn't, I thought I was.

945

00:30:22,488 --> 00:30:24,151

Garret Dillahunt: I still haven't quite made the switch yet

946

00:30:24,211 --> 00:30:30,027

Garret Dillahunt: that I'm not capable, as I am in the eyes

947

00:30:30,087 --> 00:30:32,370

Garret Dillahunt: of a lot of filmmakers now.

948

00:30:32,450 --> 00:30:35,695

Garret Dillahunt: But I'm also enjoying that change in my

949

00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:36,196

Garret Dillahunt: real life.

950

00:30:36,456 --> 00:30:36,977

Garret Dillahunt: You know what I mean.

951

00:30:37,017 --> 00:30:40,286

Garret Dillahunt: I'm really liking my 50s, I really am, and

952

00:30:41,730 --> 00:30:44,496

Garret Dillahunt: I don't know I'm not, I don't feel down

953

00:30:44,536 --> 00:30:45,158

Garret Dillahunt: about anything.

954

00:30:45,465 --> 00:30:47,730

Garret Dillahunt: You know I'm enjoying the change.

955

00:30:47,770 --> 00:30:49,374

Garret Dillahunt: But yeah, I'm getting offered a lot more.

956

00:30:49,554 --> 00:30:52,026

Garret Dillahunt: You know bosses, commanders.

957

00:30:52,447 --> 00:30:53,269

Garret Dillahunt: You know high town.

958

00:30:53,309 --> 00:30:54,391

Garret Dillahunt: I play a Southie.

959

00:30:55,273 --> 00:30:58,179

Garret Dillahunt: You know mob boss and I'm usually like you

960

00:30:58,225 --> 00:31:00,551

Garret Dillahunt: know, lead henchman to that guy.

961

00:31:00,711 --> 00:31:03,037

Garret Dillahunt: You know, now I'm like, oh, I'm the boss,

962

00:31:03,505 --> 00:31:05,733

Garret Dillahunt: oh, I guess I need to embrace that.

963

00:31:05,985 --> 00:31:07,669

Marc Preston: It's funny we talk about the age thing and

964

00:31:07,890 --> 00:31:09,935

Marc Preston: just my frame of reference for Martha

965

00:31:09,975 --> 00:31:12,609

Marc Preston: Plimpton was much younger now, being the

966

00:31:12,689 --> 00:31:15,295

Marc Preston: mother of an adult, I was like no, no, no,

967

00:31:15,315 --> 00:31:16,578

Marc Preston: she's clearly not old enough to do that.

968

00:31:16,945 --> 00:31:18,029

Marc Preston: I was like I just kind of had a hard time

969

00:31:18,049 --> 00:31:19,614

Marc Preston: getting my head around it and was like, oh,

970

00:31:19,654 --> 00:31:20,789

Marc Preston: I must be getting older now.

971

00:31:21,451 --> 00:31:22,575

Marc Preston: But I really enjoyed it.

972

00:31:22,645 --> 00:31:23,751

Marc Preston: I love the premise of it.

973

00:31:23,865 --> 00:31:25,411

Marc Preston: I think it's it's just kind of it's just

974

00:31:25,471 --> 00:31:25,652

Marc Preston: fun.

975

00:31:26,165 --> 00:31:27,190

Marc Preston: Sometimes you just want something just kind

976

00:31:27,210 --> 00:31:27,934

Marc Preston: of fun to watch.

977

00:31:28,135 --> 00:31:30,269

Garret Dillahunt: Exactly, that was a good motivator.

978

00:31:30,665 --> 00:31:32,095

Marc Preston: One of the things I love doing is I have my

979