Actor Garret Dillahunt from "Deadwood" and Prime Video's "Sprung" joins us on Story & Craft.
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Actor Garret Dillahunt from “Deadwood” and Prime Video’s “Sprung” joins us on Story & Craft.
Garret is a stage actor with Broadway credits whose films include “No Country for Old Men,” “12 Years a Slave,” “Ambulance,” “Where the Crawdads Sing” and “Blonde.” His TV work includes “Raising Hope,” “Deadwood,” “Justified,” “The Mindy Project” and “Fear the Walking Dead.” We talk about “Sprung,” the first show he has also executive produced, and how shows are released today.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Garret Dillahunt joins Story & Craft
TV Show Episode Release Strategy
Transitioning From Journalism to Acting
Exploring the Versatility of Voice Acting
Balancing Stage and Screen Work
Acting Career and Changing Industry Trends
The Influence of YouTube on Storytelling
Aspirations and Evolving Roles in Acting
Seven Questions
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Full Transcript
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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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Garret Dillahunt: You're going to do another one because they
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Garret Dillahunt: really would like to eat, you know.
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Garret Dillahunt: So it's.
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Garret Dillahunt: It's a real problem.
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know why it's a problem.
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Garret Dillahunt: I think they're operating on a business
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Garret Dillahunt: model from network days when we would do 22
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Garret Dillahunt: to 24 episodes a season and have very
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Garret Dillahunt: limited downtime and real concerns about us,
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Garret Dillahunt: our faces being on other things.
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Garret Dillahunt: But now you know it's.
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Garret Dillahunt: It's a whole new ball game and it's time
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Garret Dillahunt: for them to wake up.
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Garret Dillahunt: But that's the bad part.
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Garret Dillahunt: The good part is the freedom and the
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Garret Dillahunt: creativity, absolutely.
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Marc Preston: You know, I didn't even think about that,
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Marc Preston: because you are looking at only eight,
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Marc Preston: roughly eight to 10 episodes, pretty much
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Marc Preston: on average, and most, most shows are coming
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Marc Preston: out.
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Marc Preston: They got two to three.
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Marc Preston: I mean, if you hit three seasons you're in
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Garret Dillahunt: Well, it's pretty far from Seattle.
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Marc Preston: So was it pretty well received when you
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Garret Dillahunt: Well received by my family.
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Garret Dillahunt: They were certainly surprised.
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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: I mean, I'm not sure, I mean, I'm not sure,
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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: I just didn't know it, you know, uh, but I
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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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Marc Preston: Uh, as far as do you like to live in the
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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 don't know how you feel about it, but I I
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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: 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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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: 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 don't think anyone knows what they're
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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 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 know it was back when you still took a
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Garret Dillahunt: You know that you develop and you print
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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: I didn't really know what I wanted to do, I
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Garret Dillahunt: But that's, that was what you were supposed
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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: Now, you did, I did notice you did go to
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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: I mean, they're.
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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: just I just got a taste of this, so I need
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Garret Dillahunt: So I auditioned for programs but I
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Garret Dillahunt: And a lot of people that never trained that
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Garret Dillahunt: I'll tell you that I loved it Three years.
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Garret Dillahunt: You know agents come see your shows.
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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
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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,
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Marc Preston: your of course doing stage, but did you
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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
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Garret Dillahunt: making a living.
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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
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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,
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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.
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Garret Dillahunt: But yeah, I always thought I would be on
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Garret Dillahunt: film, you know, but it was still a time
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Garret Dillahunt: where you did it.
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Garret Dillahunt: Did you have a little more pressure to
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Garret Dillahunt: choose what you wanted to be?
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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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Balancing Stage and Screen Work
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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
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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
566
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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Garret Dillahunt: Sometimes it's good to be unavailable,
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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
610
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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.
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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.
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Marc Preston: The actor friends.
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Marc Preston: I've got that they may go months in between
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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
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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,
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Marc Preston: when we're not working, when we wrap a show
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Marc Preston: we're out of work didn't really register
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Marc Preston: later.
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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.
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Marc Preston: So if you are working and doing, you're
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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.
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Marc Preston: I'm very curious about one thing, the do
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Marc Preston: you enjoy working with people again?
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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
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Garret Dillahunt: prime example that we started off the half
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Garret Dillahunt: hour with.
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Garret Dillahunt: But I think it's the best way to work.
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Garret Dillahunt: You know it's why we all went back to
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Garret Dillahunt: Deadwood.
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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
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Garret Dillahunt: with my old friends.
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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?
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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.
681
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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
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Garret Dillahunt: and the Nelms Brothers directed that.
689
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Garret Dillahunt: That was a ton of fun redneck on redneck
690
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Garret Dillahunt: kind of crime going on.
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Garret Dillahunt: I just finished the season of Hightown.
692
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Garret Dillahunt: In fact I'm wearing the shirt.
693
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Garret Dillahunt: That was fun.
694
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Garret Dillahunt: We just literally just got home from North
695
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Garret Dillahunt: Carolina for that Another movie for HBO I
696
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Garret Dillahunt: did.
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Garret Dillahunt: They'll be announcing soon and a couple
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Garret Dillahunt: more coming.
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Marc Preston: Yeah, I saw you did the when the Crod Hads
700
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Marc Preston: Sing.
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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, that was in New Orleans and that's
702
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Garret Dillahunt: still in theaters, I believe, if people
703
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Garret Dillahunt: want to see that.
704
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Marc Preston: I chatted with Logan McCray a little while
705
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Marc Preston: back about that.
706
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Marc Preston: I'm actually in New Orleans and waiting for
707
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Marc Preston: my youngest graduate high school.
708
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Marc Preston: Then it's either back to Texas or
709
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Marc Preston: California still debating.
710
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Marc Preston: But but but that was where did you spend
711
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Marc Preston: time when you were in New Orleans, did you?
712
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Marc Preston: Did you have enough days shooting where you
713
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Marc Preston: can kind of get out and mill about and go
714
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Marc Preston: get something to eat?
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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, I like New Orleans.
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Garret Dillahunt: I was, I got a thing for like artists and
717
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Garret Dillahunt: paintings and I always find some great art
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Garret Dillahunt: when I'm in New Orleans.
719
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm not a big drinker so a lot of the
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Garret Dillahunt: culture there is lost on me.
721
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Garret Dillahunt: But and it was so hot when we were filming
722
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Garret Dillahunt: there that but I didn't get out a ton, to
723
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Garret Dillahunt: be honest.
724
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Garret Dillahunt: They got me in pretty quick out of two
725
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Garret Dillahunt: weeks to shoot and we shot a lot delayed
726
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Garret Dillahunt: for weather, a lot and then I got out of
727
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Garret Dillahunt: there.
728
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Garret Dillahunt: But I've worked in New Orleans a ton, so
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm familiar with the town and really dig
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Garret Dillahunt: it.
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Marc Preston: Do you like shooting on location or do you
732
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Marc Preston: like to more more often than not?
733
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Marc Preston: Do you like to be in a state shooting
734
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Marc Preston: around LA?
735
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Garret Dillahunt: I guess it depends on what the location is.
736
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Marc Preston: Yeah.
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Garret Dillahunt: A lot of my movies are sort of you know,
738
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Garret Dillahunt: and you'll be staying.
739
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Garret Dillahunt: And in this you know truck stop in New
740
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Garret Dillahunt: Jersey there's a Sonic to eat at.
741
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Garret Dillahunt: I want my friends shooting like I got a job
742
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Garret Dillahunt: in the Canary Islands.
743
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm like what Shut up?
744
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm about to do one in Morocco, though, and
745
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm looking forward to that.
746
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Marc Preston: That would be awesome.
747
,771 --> 00:23:57,414
Garret Dillahunt: In about a week.
748
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Garret Dillahunt: So, yeah, I'm excited Never been.
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Marc Preston: Now we talked yeah, you do have a week or
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Marc Preston: two or, like you said, you do have those
751
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Marc Preston: little hammocks of time between projects.
752
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Marc Preston: What are you liking to do when you're not?
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Marc Preston: You know, having to memorize lines and
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Marc Preston: beyond set.
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Garret Dillahunt: Yeah, buddy, you hit it right there.
756
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Garret Dillahunt: When I'm home, I'm a terrible husband.
757
,551 --> 00:24:16,498
Garret Dillahunt: I just we just lay around, we just.
758
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Garret Dillahunt: It's like this is recovering time.
759
Acting Career and Changing Industry Trends
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Garret Dillahunt: You know you don't realize how many hours
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Garret Dillahunt: you spend on your feet.
761
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Garret Dillahunt: You know how many time, how much time you
762
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Garret Dillahunt: spend in uncomfortable shoes that aren't
763
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Garret Dillahunt: yours.
764
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Garret Dillahunt: You know on set or falling down.
765
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Garret Dillahunt: It's weird, you get hurt.
766
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Garret Dillahunt: Fake fighting.
767
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Garret Dillahunt: You know.
768
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Marc Preston: I found that it's the waiting that seems to
769
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Marc Preston: get to me.
770
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Marc Preston: I got to find things to do while I'm
771
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Marc Preston: waiting, you know, and then they rush you
772
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Marc Preston: somewhere.
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Marc Preston: You do something for a minute and you're
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Marc Preston: done.
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Garret Dillahunt: That's right.
776
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Garret Dillahunt: It is hard to keep things working while
777
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Garret Dillahunt: you're not on camera.
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Marc Preston: Actually, Now you mentioned before, to kind
779
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Marc Preston: of touch on something.
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Marc Preston: You said that things do.
781
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Marc Preston: Things have changed.
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Marc Preston: You know, with the streamers it's the
783
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Marc Preston: paradigm shifting a little bit.
784
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Marc Preston: Do you, going forward, prefer to be on a
785
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Marc Preston: show or you're doing like a big season,
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Marc Preston: good, big, traditional, big four network
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Marc Preston: kind of series, or do you like the idea of
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Marc Preston: the streaming thing where you've got eight
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Marc Preston: to ten episodes and there you can go work
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Marc Preston: on something else?
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Marc Preston: Which one do you prefer?
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Garret Dillahunt: I mean, again, it just depends on the job.
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Garret Dillahunt: You know I'm all about the story and if
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Garret Dillahunt: it's good I would love that security of a
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Garret Dillahunt: network show.
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Garret Dillahunt: They're becoming few and far between.
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know what the future of network is,
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Garret Dillahunt: you know, but I know, I know the streaming
799
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Garret Dillahunt: platform and the strategy has to change.
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Garret Dillahunt: You know it's a.
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Garret Dillahunt: You're hearing a lot of stories about all
802
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Garret Dillahunt: of them being in some kind of trouble and
803
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Garret Dillahunt: they're all trying different mergers.
804
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Garret Dillahunt: They're all trying.
805
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Garret Dillahunt: You know it's still a fairly young
806
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Garret Dillahunt: technology in a way.
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm hoping they're ironing the kinks out.
808
The Influence of YouTube on Storytelling
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Garret Dillahunt: I just want to tell a good story.
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Garret Dillahunt: I really don't care where it is, you know,
810
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Garret Dillahunt: I really don't.
811
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Garret Dillahunt: Maybe I should, do you?
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Garret Dillahunt: I mean, do you know it's funny?
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Marc Preston: I don't, but I'm looking where it like in
814
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Marc Preston: my kids.
815
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Marc Preston: They're completely fine looking at their
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Marc Preston: telephone.
817
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Marc Preston: You know, like watching something.
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Marc Preston: I was like no, I like mine stuff on a
819
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Marc Preston: screen, I like you know something to get
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Marc Preston: into.
821
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Marc Preston: But I think it's being driven by strange
822
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Marc Preston: people, younger than us.
823
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Marc Preston: It seems like you know, but the my nephew's
824
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Marc Preston: YouTube, you know oh yeah, before before a
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Marc Preston: television show, I'll pick YouTube yeah.
826
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Marc Preston: Yeah, my, I'm watching, I'm kind of getting
827
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Marc Preston: into the, my son's getting me into the uh,
828
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Marc Preston: especially with Disney, the Marvel universe.
829
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Marc Preston: And after we watch a show there's a guy on
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Marc Preston: YouTube.
831
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Marc Preston: It does a summary of the show to kind of
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Marc Preston: explain all the bits and pieces and all
833
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Marc Preston: little Easter eggs and all that stuff.
834
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Marc Preston: So they look at all he looks at almost like
835
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Marc Preston: a companion thing.
836
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Marc Preston: Watch the show and go to YouTube, watch the
837
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Marc Preston: summary.
838
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Marc Preston: You know something to that effect.
839
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Marc Preston: Now, now you've worked on uh um, with uh
840
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Marc Preston: fear of the walking dead, have you done
841
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Marc Preston: with that universe?
842
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Marc Preston: Have you done any of the cons, like the
843
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Marc Preston: comic cons or whatever that those folks
844
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Marc Preston: seem to show up at?
845
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Garret Dillahunt: I was able to do a few before the lockdown
846
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Garret Dillahunt: with, as, as with most things, I seem to
847
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Garret Dillahunt: get in on the tail end of the tail end of
848
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Garret Dillahunt: the magical part.
849
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Garret Dillahunt: You know and you heard all these stories
850
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Garret Dillahunt: about people going to cons and what fun
851
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Garret Dillahunt: they have and how lucrative they are and
852
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Garret Dillahunt: meeting the fans is glorious, and then I
853
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Garret Dillahunt: kind of get in just as that sort of feels
854
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Garret Dillahunt: like it's starting to peter out or go
855
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Garret Dillahunt: through changes and then cope, it shuts the
856
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Garret Dillahunt: whole thing down anyway.
857
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Marc Preston: Where does the walking dead um?
858
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Marc Preston: The uh fear of the walking dead.
859
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Marc Preston: Did y'all shoot in Atlanta as well?
860
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Garret Dillahunt: No, no one knows anything about my show
861
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Garret Dillahunt: that I was on.
862
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Garret Dillahunt: It's interesting, I was we, we shot.
863
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Garret Dillahunt: I think they started in LA, then they shot
864
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Garret Dillahunt: in Mexico.
865
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Garret Dillahunt: Uh, when I was on it we were in Austin,
866
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Garret Dillahunt: texas.
867
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Garret Dillahunt: Um, now I'm not on it and I hear they're
868
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Garret Dillahunt: finishing up in Savannah, georgia.
869
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Garret Dillahunt: It's here, all Well.
870
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Marc Preston: I enjoyed.
871
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Marc Preston: I watched, I think, the first season of
872
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Marc Preston: that.
873
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Marc Preston: I caught it.
874
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Marc Preston: I was watching with my daughter and then um,
875
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Marc Preston: going back to sprung, though.
876
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Marc Preston: How many total episodes do you have of that?
877
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Garret Dillahunt: We shot one season, 10 episodes, 10
878
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Garret Dillahunt: episodes.
879
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Marc Preston: Okay, Is that the first series free fee is
880
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Marc Preston: kind of saying, you know, uh, their their
881
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Marc Preston: first one out of the gate, I think.
882
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Garret Dillahunt: I think it's one of their first.
883
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Garret Dillahunt: It's one of their first originals.
884
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Marc Preston: Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah.
885
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Garret Dillahunt: Um Bosch is on that network now, but I know
886
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Garret Dillahunt: it didn't originate there, and I think they
887
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Garret Dillahunt: have some other stuff that's coming out
888
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Garret Dillahunt: about the same time as us.
889
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know which one was first or not,
890
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Garret Dillahunt: but we're we're among the first, that's for
891
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Garret Dillahunt: sure.
892
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Garret Dillahunt: They were great to work for.
893
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Marc Preston: Do you have any?
894
Aspirations and Evolving Roles in Acting
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Marc Preston: Aspirationally, as you look kind of down
895
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Marc Preston: the line?
896
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Marc Preston: Do you have anything like I would really
897
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Marc Preston: like to do this kind of thing, work with
898
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Marc Preston: this director, this actor or this kind of a
899
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Marc Preston: genre?
900
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Marc Preston: Is there something out there you have not
901
,334 --> 00:28:54,416
Marc Preston: done yet that's on the list?
902
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Garret Dillahunt: You know I should be more specific about
903
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Garret Dillahunt: those things.
904
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Garret Dillahunt: I've always been a big reader and I have a
905
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Garret Dillahunt: lot of authors stuff.
906
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm always like this would be amazing.
907
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Garret Dillahunt: And I'm actually working with a favorite
908
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Garret Dillahunt: author of mine that I kind of met online
909
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Garret Dillahunt: during COVID as well, and he had a
910
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Garret Dillahunt: manuscript that's unpublished and we're
911
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Garret Dillahunt: working on adapting that and that's
912
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Garret Dillahunt: something I've never done that I would like
913
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Garret Dillahunt: to do.
914
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Garret Dillahunt: I've never brought a book I love to the
915
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Garret Dillahunt: screen.
916
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Garret Dillahunt: We got to hurry because I'll be long in the
917
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Garret Dillahunt: tooth for this character in a few years, so
918
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Garret Dillahunt: we got to hurry.
919
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Garret Dillahunt: But I need to get more specific about that.
920
,605 --> 00:29:39,069
Garret Dillahunt: I think people do well that are very
921
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Garret Dillahunt: specific about what they want and need, and
922
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Garret Dillahunt: I've just never been able to put my finger
923
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Garret Dillahunt: on it.
924
,665 --> 00:29:47,313
Garret Dillahunt: Often something will come along that's
925
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Garret Dillahunt: better than I thought of.
926
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Marc Preston: It's funny.
927
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Marc Preston: You mentioned the thing about kind of like
928
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Marc Preston: age and kind of where you are and what
929
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Marc Preston: you're doing 30 years ago to now.
930
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Marc Preston: It's kind of interesting.
931
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Marc Preston: Have you noticed that from when your career
932
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Marc Preston: kind of the inception, when you're really
933
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Marc Preston: getting rolling to what you're doing now,
934
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Marc Preston: do you kind of feel the difference in the
935
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Marc Preston: kind of roles that you're being asked to do
936
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Marc Preston: or that you're being approached on?
937
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Garret Dillahunt: Well, certainly the age difference in the
938
,268 --> 00:30:12,073
Garret Dillahunt: roles is noticeable.
939
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Garret Dillahunt: Or I'll think like oh, I'm going to play
940
,026 --> 00:30:16,376
Garret Dillahunt: this guy and you're like, oh, you want me
941
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Garret Dillahunt: to play that guy's dad.
942
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Marc Preston: Oh, of course.
943
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Garret Dillahunt: Of course I'm the dad.
944
,785 --> 00:30:21,767
Garret Dillahunt: I didn't, I thought I was.
945
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Garret Dillahunt: I still haven't quite made the switch yet
946
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Garret Dillahunt: that I'm not capable, as I am in the eyes
947
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Garret Dillahunt: of a lot of filmmakers now.
948
,450 --> 00:30:35,695
Garret Dillahunt: But I'm also enjoying that change in my
949
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Garret Dillahunt: real life.
950
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Garret Dillahunt: You know what I mean.
951
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Garret Dillahunt: I'm really liking my 50s, I really am, and
952
,730 --> 00:30:44,496
Garret Dillahunt: I don't know I'm not, I don't feel down
953
,536 --> 00:30:45,158
Garret Dillahunt: about anything.
954
,465 --> 00:30:47,730
Garret Dillahunt: You know I'm enjoying the change.
955
,770 --> 00:30:49,374
Garret Dillahunt: But yeah, I'm getting offered a lot more.
956
,554 --> 00:30:52,026
Garret Dillahunt: You know bosses, commanders.
957
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Garret Dillahunt: You know high town.
958
,309 --> 00:30:54,391
Garret Dillahunt: I play a Southie.
959
,273 --> 00:30:58,179
Garret Dillahunt: You know mob boss and I'm usually like you
960
,225 --> 00:31:00,551
Garret Dillahunt: know, lead henchman to that guy.
961
,711 --> 00:31:03,037
Garret Dillahunt: You know, now I'm like, oh, I'm the boss,
962
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Garret Dillahunt: oh, I guess I need to embrace that.
963
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Marc Preston: It's funny we talk about the age thing and
964
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Marc Preston: just my frame of reference for Martha
965
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Marc Preston: Plimpton was much younger now, being the
966
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Marc Preston: mother of an adult, I was like no, no, no,
967
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Marc Preston: she's clearly not old enough to do that.
968
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Marc Preston: I was like I just kind of had a hard time
969
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Marc Preston: getting my head around it and was like, oh,
970
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Marc Preston: I must be getting older now.
971
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Marc Preston: But I really enjoyed it.
972
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Marc Preston: I love the premise of it.
973
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Marc Preston: I think it's it's just kind of it's just
974
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Marc Preston: fun.
975
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Marc Preston: Sometimes you just want something just kind
976
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Marc Preston: of fun to watch.
977
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Garret Dillahunt: Exactly, that was a good motivator.
978
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Marc Preston: One of the things I love doing is I have my
979
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Marc Preston: seven questions.
980
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Marc Preston: I ask this is kind of, as we wrap up here,
981
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Marc Preston: just kind of a get to know you, just a
982
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Marc Preston: little fun.
983
Seven Questions
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Marc Preston: One of the things I always love to know is
984
,251 --> 00:31:39,821
Marc Preston: what is your favorite comfort food?
985
,424 --> 00:31:41,367
Marc Preston: You know that thing that you know,
986
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Marc Preston: especially when you're on a set or
987
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Marc Preston: something and you're like god, I just want
988
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Marc Preston: some of this and make me happy.
989
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know how I stumbled on this dish.
990
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Garret Dillahunt: I think it was a time I was starving actor
991
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Garret Dillahunt: in New York, living in my 150 square foot
992
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Garret Dillahunt: apartment.
993
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Garret Dillahunt: I had no money for dinner and I just went
994
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Garret Dillahunt: to the cupboard and I and to this day I
995
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Garret Dillahunt: love this dish.
996
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Garret Dillahunt: I just made it about 57 times during a high
997
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Garret Dillahunt: town.
998
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Garret Dillahunt: But I have like a macaroni and cheese box
999
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Garret Dillahunt: you know, I've graduated just sort of a
Speaker:1000
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Garret Dillahunt: healthier mac and cheese.
Speaker:1001
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Garret Dillahunt: I had a can of beans, a can of beans, a can
Speaker:1002
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Garret Dillahunt: of tuna and a big handful of spinach.
Speaker:1003
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Garret Dillahunt: Make it all up cheesy goodness, and then a
Speaker:1004
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Garret Dillahunt: bunch of red pepper chili flakes.
Speaker:1005
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know, I love it.
Speaker:1006
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Marc Preston: You know, isn't that the, the, the with all
Speaker:1007
,129 --> 00:32:34,914
Marc Preston: great cuisines is like what do you have
Speaker:1008
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Marc Preston: available and not a lot of money, and it
Speaker:1009
,069 --> 00:32:38,874
Marc Preston: always turns into something really good,
Speaker:1010
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Marc Preston: you know.
Speaker:1011
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Garret Dillahunt: And I eat the entire pot.
Speaker:1012
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Garret Dillahunt: I eat the entire pot every time.
Speaker:1013
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Marc Preston: Then, what does your wife think of it
Speaker:1014
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Marc Preston: though?
Speaker:1015
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Garret Dillahunt: It's disgusting.
Speaker:1016
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Garret Dillahunt: I never make it at home.
Speaker:1017
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Marc Preston: It sounds like something that theoretically
Speaker:1018
,729 --> 00:32:54,492
Marc Preston: you can make in a trailer.
Speaker:1019
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Marc Preston: You know, it's pretty quick, you know.
Speaker:1020
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Garret Dillahunt: Oh yeah, you just need to see me to boil
Speaker:1021
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Garret Dillahunt: water.
Speaker:1022
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Marc Preston: I mean, I can't lie.
Speaker:1023
,445 --> 00:33:02,210
Marc Preston: My kids and I are always like looking for
Speaker:1024
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Marc Preston: some random thing to try out.
Speaker:1025
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Marc Preston: So I love when somebody gives me actually
Speaker:1026
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Marc Preston: this is a recipe, I'm like, okay, I'm going
Speaker:1027
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Marc Preston: to go try it.
Speaker:1028
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Marc Preston: You know, quickly Gives you insight.
Speaker:1029
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Marc Preston: Now, if you're going to sit down, let's say,
Speaker:1030
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Marc Preston: grab a cup of coffee with three people so
Speaker:1031
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Marc Preston: it's four of y'all for a few hours sitting
Speaker:1032
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Marc Preston: down talking the story, who would those
Speaker:1033
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Marc Preston: three people be?
Speaker:1034
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Marc Preston: That you think would just living or not?
Speaker:1035
,923 --> 00:33:23,947
Marc Preston: That you think would make for great
Speaker:1036
,967 --> 00:33:24,550
Marc Preston: conversation?
Speaker:1037
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Garret Dillahunt: Jesus, cormac McCarthy is one.
Speaker:1038
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Garret Dillahunt: They're all authors that I'm.
Speaker:1039
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Garret Dillahunt: Always I get real girly around writers.
Speaker:1040
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't really care about actors so much,
Speaker:1041
,710 --> 00:33:39,352
Garret Dillahunt: but writers.
Speaker:1042
,205 --> 00:33:44,031
Garret Dillahunt: But I think Cormac McCarthy would be there.
Speaker:1043
,125 --> 00:33:49,031
Garret Dillahunt: David Milch I think that would be a cool
Speaker:1044
,251 --> 00:33:52,251
Garret Dillahunt: combo and I was always shy around him.
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Garret Dillahunt: I never had.
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Garret Dillahunt: I always had trouble talking to him when I
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Garret Dillahunt: regret that.
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Garret Dillahunt: And then Sam Shepard oh yeah, indeed yeah.
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Marc Preston: You know I never read nearly as much as I
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Marc Preston: think I should have and I know and enjoy it.
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Marc Preston: And whenever I do pick up a book I'm
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Marc Preston: notorious for, like you know, people lay
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Marc Preston: down at night and they go, start reading a
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Marc Preston: book I always fall right, it puts me to
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Marc Preston: So I've been diving in the audio book
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Marc Preston: things just kind of, you know, cover that
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Marc Preston: ground.
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Marc Preston: But if you were to go back and hit rewind
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Marc Preston: when you were young, who was your first,
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Marc Preston: very first celebrity crush?
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Marc Preston: Some of those solid gold dancers Now if you
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Marc Preston: were, you and your wife are going to be
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Marc Preston: going to a really beautiful island.
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Marc Preston: You know you'll be there for a full year,
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Marc Preston: no streaming, no, nothing.
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Marc Preston: You're going to enjoy your time there, but
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Marc Preston: you can't watch anything except for a DVD
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Marc Preston: that you bring of a movie, and a CD, an
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Marc Preston: album, you know what I'll even for you,
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Marc Preston: I'll even say a book.
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Marc Preston: What would you want to bring with you to
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Marc Preston: the island that you could just go over and
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Marc Preston: over and really enjoy the full year?
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Garret Dillahunt: I think the movie would be Badlands,
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Garret Dillahunt: terrence Malick.
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Garret Dillahunt: I can watch that thing a thousand times.
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Garret Dillahunt: I could watch a thousand more.
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Garret Dillahunt: An album, some violin music.
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Garret Dillahunt: I love violin or fiddle.
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Garret Dillahunt: It's like a voice to me.
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't need words.
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Garret Dillahunt: If I had to pick, it would be something on
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Garret Dillahunt: a violin and a book, maybe Sutry, by Conrad
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Garret Dillahunt: McCarthy.
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Garret Dillahunt: I think it's his best book.
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Marc Preston: Now, from beginning of the day when you
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Marc Preston: take your head off the pillow till night
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Marc Preston: when you put your head back on it.
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Marc Preston: Definition or the component parts of a
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Marc Preston: perfect day for you.
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Garret Dillahunt: Gosh, these kinds of questions are the
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Garret Dillahunt: hardest for me.
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Garret Dillahunt: I mean all of them.
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Garret Dillahunt: Favorites, really different.
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Garret Dillahunt: This fact, like my favorite thing, changes
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Garret Dillahunt: every day.
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Garret Dillahunt: Well, I want to have slept.
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Garret Dillahunt: Well, I'd like a body of water and some
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Garret Dillahunt: reading material and maybe some gummies,
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Garret Dillahunt: and you know, I really I don't know.
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Garret Dillahunt: I think maybe you know what tread and water
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Garret Dillahunt: Off the coast in the grill, jamaica very.
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Marc Preston: I was just down there, actually, montego
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Marc Preston: Bay, a few weeks ago.
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Marc Preston: Oh and yeah, I.
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Garret Dillahunt: I.
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Marc Preston: Well, we actually didn't go in.
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Marc Preston: My kids and I was a cruise stop.
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Marc Preston: We just, we just, you know, drove around
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Marc Preston: and check things out and get in the way,
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Marc Preston: went to Grand Cayman after that, yeah, but
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Marc Preston: it was nuts.
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Marc Preston: We got in the water, but yeah, I'm very
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Marc Preston: much the same.
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Marc Preston: I'm.
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Marc Preston: I just I could see we're having a book in
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Marc Preston: that situation be really good.
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Marc Preston: You know, if you're on a raft and just kind
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Marc Preston: of reading away.
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Marc Preston: Now, if you weren't doing what you're doing
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Marc Preston: right now and what your career you know,
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Marc Preston: the acting and all the things you've done
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Marc Preston: creatively what do you think you would have
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Marc Preston: been doing or what would you like to do if
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Marc Preston: this wasn't part of your life?
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Marc Preston: I?
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Garret Dillahunt: mean, I guess it seems obvious to say
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Garret Dillahunt: writing, but I always have imagined a.
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Garret Dillahunt: I've always got a charge out of helping
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Garret Dillahunt: senior citizens out, the seniors in my life
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Garret Dillahunt: that were important to me, or Not even
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Garret Dillahunt: necessarily family, to give them some sort
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Garret Dillahunt: of dignity in their last years.
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Garret Dillahunt: You know I really mourn the loss of the
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Garret Dillahunt: elderly as a source of information and
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Garret Dillahunt: inspiration and answers, you know.
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Marc Preston: I love that I do I heard.
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Marc Preston: I heard a quote the other day that speaks
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Marc Preston: to that is that every time someone passes
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Marc Preston: away, a library Disappears or something.
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Marc Preston: It's something, that idea, this whole body
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Marc Preston: of knowledge and all the things that could
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Marc Preston: have created.
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Marc Preston: Leave you know.
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Marc Preston: And so funny you mentioned that.
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Marc Preston: Is I the idea that another culture,
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Marc Preston: especially Asian cultures, have a much
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Marc Preston: different Connection to in relationship
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Marc Preston: with the elderly, as opposed to the?
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Garret Dillahunt: US wave.
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Marc Preston: So yeah, I love that.
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Garret Dillahunt: Well it's, it's a job back, isn't it?
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Garret Dillahunt: Of technology.
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Garret Dillahunt: You know, there's Google now to ask advice.
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Garret Dillahunt: There's YouTube videos, you know, and I
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Garret Dillahunt: think also the political climate really
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Garret Dillahunt: polarizes people's views of the elderly and
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Garret Dillahunt: I don't know Something.
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Garret Dillahunt: Something with them is what I do.
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Marc Preston: Very good, very good.
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Marc Preston: Last question If you were to jump in that
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Marc Preston: DeLorean and travel back, you're 16 years
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Marc Preston: old and you've got a piece of advice that
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Marc Preston: either it's gonna get you on a what you
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Marc Preston: think is a better track, or maybe you enjoy
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Marc Preston: that moment a little bit more.
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Marc Preston: What's a piece of advice you'd give
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Marc Preston: yourself if you had a couple minutes with
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Marc Preston: 16 year old you?
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Garret Dillahunt: I'd say don't wait.
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Garret Dillahunt: I'd say you deserve it.
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Garret Dillahunt: And there is no ladder.
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Garret Dillahunt: That's what I like, you know.
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Marc Preston: I've heard the don't wait thing often.
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Marc Preston: That is one of the most often things people
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Marc Preston: say.
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Marc Preston: But that's wonderful and I certainly
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Marc Preston: appreciate it Again, appreciate your time
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Marc Preston: and I, like I said sprung, I love it
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Marc Preston: whenever I'm speaking with somebody and the
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Marc Preston: project comes up Like I really want to
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Marc Preston: check this out because, like I said, it's
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Marc Preston: light, it's fun, it's just kind of you just
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Marc Preston: kind of enjoy the ride.
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Garret Dillahunt: It's wonderful.
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Garret Dillahunt: Greg's favorite movie is Raising Arizona,
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Garret Dillahunt: and there's a lot of Easter eggs in sprung
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Garret Dillahunt: to Raising Arizona.
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Garret Dillahunt: I think it's a similar sensibility, so
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Garret Dillahunt: thank you so much for letting me promote
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Garret Dillahunt: this.
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Marc Preston: Oh, it's my pleasure and sincerely I have
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Marc Preston: enjoyed your work for years and years.
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Marc Preston: My son, when he was a little younger, love
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Marc Preston: watching Terminator, the Sarah Connor
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Marc Preston: Chronicles, I think.
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Marc Preston: So best of luck and look forward to
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Marc Preston: hopefully catching up down the line.
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Garret Dillahunt: Thank you so much.
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Garret Dillahunt: You're the best.
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Marc Preston: Well, there you go.
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Marc Preston: Garrett De La Hunt, a very talented guy, to
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Marc Preston: say the least.
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Marc Preston: New TV show again sprung on the Free V
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Marc Preston: streaming platform.
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Marc Preston: I believe it used to be IMDb TV.
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Marc Preston: Once again it is called sprung, the website.
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Marc Preston: Don't forget storyandcraftpod.com.
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Marc Preston: You can also follow the show on any one of
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Marc Preston: Alright, there you go.
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Marc Preston: That's it for today.
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Marc Preston: I'm gonna run out and grab a bite to eat.
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Marc Preston: I'm hungry, alright, so take care of
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Marc Preston: yourself.
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Marc Preston: If you would Always happy to have you here
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Marc Preston: Next week, another great episode.
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Garret Dillahunt
Actor | Producer
Garret Dillahunt recently segued from one zombie project to another in AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” where he was a series regular to Zack Snyder’s Netflix movie “Army of the Dead” which was also released theatrically. He next will star and will executive produce (along with Greg Garcia) the comedy series, “Sprung” for FreeVee/Sony. The series about two formerly incarcerated cellmates who get out of prison early during the pandemic reunites him with “Raising Hope” costar Martha Plimpton. Garret also costars in the feature film “Where the Crawdads Sing” (July 22) based on the acclaimed novel and most recently, costarred in Michael Bay’s adventure film “Ambulance.” He will recur on season three of Starz’s acclaimed drama series “Hightown” where he will portray a charismatic gangster from South Boston that tries to take over the Cape.
He previously starred in FOX’s half hour comedy series “Raising Hope.” During the show’s four season run he stayed busy working continuously during his hiatuses on feature films such as“12 Years a Slave,” which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, “Wheelman” and theocratically acclaimed “Winter’s Bone,” which earned him and the rest of the cast Best Ensemble at the Gotham Awards.
Other credits include, “Any Day Now” opposite Alan Cumming and directed by Travis Fine which won Best Feature at 2012’s Out Film Festival and the independent feature “Amigo”, with Chris Cooper and directed by John Sayles He also appeared in “Looper,” the intriguing sci fi action adventure with Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Bruce Willis, additionally he starred in and received a Genie nomination as the title character, “Oliver Sherman”, in Ryan Redford’s directorial debut opposite Molly Parker and Donald Logue. He also starred opposite Viola Davis in “Widows.”
His additional film credits include “The Road,” with Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron; Wes Craven’s “The Last House on the Left”; “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”; and the Coen Brothers Oscar-winning drama “No Country for Old Men,” opposite Tommy Lee Jones. Dillahunt earned a SAG award for Best Ensemble for the latter. The multi-faceted actor is probably best known for his work on the critically acclaimed HBO series “Deadwood,” in which he portrayed two entirely different characters: the assassin “Jack McCall” and the complex and deadly “Francis Wolcott.” After recognizing his protean talent in his first incarnation, executive producer/writer David Milch created a second character for him. Additional television credits include “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “John From Cincinnati,” “The Book of Daniel,” “ER,” “The 4400,” “Damages,” “Life,” “Lie to Me,” “Law &Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Criminal Minds,” “Burn Notice,” “White Collar”, “Alphas” and “Memphis Beat”.
He boasts an outstanding theatrical resume and has performed extensively on and off Broadway and at such respected theater companies as Steppenwolf, ACT San Francisco, the Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Dillahunt resides in Los Angeles and New York.