Nathan Kress | Full Circle Freddie

I see how my path and the decisions that I

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Nathan Kress: made and that my parents helped me to make,

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Nathan Kress: especially in my young life, all of it's

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Nathan Kress: contributed to this and I'm so thrilled

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Nathan Kress: with it, you know.

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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: Well, hello there.

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Marc Preston: Welcome back to the show Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: I'm Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: If this is your first time here, welcome.

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Marc Preston: Thanks so much for taking part of your day

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Marc Preston: to check in and check out the show And, of

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Marc Preston: course, if you've been here before, thank

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Marc Preston: you so much for coming back by.

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Marc Preston: I certainly appreciate it.

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Marc Preston: Today we are chatting with a gentleman

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Marc Preston: named Nathan Kress.

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Marc Preston: Now, for many people, they know him most

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Marc Preston: notably as Freddy on the Nickelodeon show I

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Marc Preston: Carly.

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Marc Preston: He is a really intriguing guy.

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Marc Preston: It's really interesting to sit down and

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Marc Preston: chat with someone who grew up as a child

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Marc Preston: actor and now, at 30 years old, he's doing

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Marc Preston: other roles, but yet he's coming back to do

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Marc Preston: I Carly again.

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Marc Preston: The reboot is currently on Paramount Plus.

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Marc Preston: You can check it out right there, of course.

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Marc Preston: A very nice chat.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed the opportunity to spend

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Marc Preston: time with Nathan, as always.

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Marc Preston: Today is Nathan Kress Day, right here on

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft.

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Marc Preston: So have you been doing the day?

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Marc Preston: You're in the LA area, correct?

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Nathan Kress: Yes, i am.

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Nathan Kress: Yeah, we just finished, jerry and I, one of

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Nathan Kress: my castmates, we just finished a satellite

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Nathan Kress: media tour So we were doing, you know,

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Nathan Kress: starting on the East Coast morning local

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Nathan Kress: news shows and then working our way to the

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Nathan Kress: West Coast.

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Nathan Kress: So we've been up pretty early So I'm, but

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Nathan Kress: I'm, i'm very warmed up for interviews.

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Nathan Kress: So this this time's out, perfectly, i've

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Nathan Kress: gotten all my willies out and I've said my

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Nathan Kress: stupid answers already, i think.

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Marc Preston: I greatly admire folks that could stay as

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Marc Preston: fresh for the last interview as they did

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Marc Preston: for the first.

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Marc Preston: So you know that's wonderful.

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Nathan Kress: It's a lot easier when I'm doing it with

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Nathan Kress: Jerry, though, too, because I think we, at

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Nathan Kress: this point, we've just known each other for

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Nathan Kress: so long that we just we know how to work

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Nathan Kress: off of like oh, jerry is about to start

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Nathan Kress: doing a bit.

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Nathan Kress: here is how I'm going to lean into that,

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Nathan Kress: you know.

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Nathan Kress: so I think we we make a pretty good team

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Nathan Kress: when it comes to this, this press stuff,

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Nathan Kress: after years of practice.

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Marc Preston: Obviously I'm a little young for I car.

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Marc Preston: No, I was kidding, I'm a little old for I

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Marc Preston: car.

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Nathan Kress: Quite the demographic.

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Nathan Kress: You're one of those real fresh Gen Zers I

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Nathan Kress: can tell I'll go with that.

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Marc Preston: But my, my kids were a little on the young

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Marc Preston: side to the dial in And they knew they

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Marc Preston: didn't watch it as much because they, i

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Marc Preston: think, were just like kids a couple of

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Marc Preston: years older would be watching it, and so

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Marc Preston: it's funny.

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Marc Preston: I was talking to a friend of mine's

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Marc Preston: daughter last night.

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Marc Preston: Her name is Kayla, i have to give her a

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Marc Preston: producer credit because I stopped speaking

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Marc Preston: with you.

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Marc Preston: She's like, oh my God, i loved him on, i

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Marc Preston: carly, and the funny thing is she was she

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Marc Preston: was only, i think, eight years old And it

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Marc Preston: was funny.

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Marc Preston: I said, well, what was it at eight that you

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Marc Preston: She said that's the way I viewed, or I

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Marc Preston: thought, teenage life would be.

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Marc Preston: It was sort of like her window to teenage

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Marc Preston: life as an eight year old.

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Marc Preston: You know So.

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Marc Preston: But she has a much, much love for you and

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Marc Preston: is all kinds of giddy, so she's looking

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Marc Preston: forward to hearing this episode.

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Marc Preston: I spoke with somebody the other day who was

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Marc Preston: pretty well known back in the 80s.

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Marc Preston: Now they're doing something, so she was

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Marc Preston: known as, like, a teen actor, but here she

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Marc Preston: is in her 50s.

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Marc Preston: I've always been curious about that

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Marc Preston: transition.

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Marc Preston: What, when is that line of demarcation

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Marc Preston: where you're not known as a kid actor

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Marc Preston: anymore, and you're you know, or is that a

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Marc Preston: kind of a sliding line, depending on the

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Marc Preston: project, or when did you become cognizant

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Marc Preston: of that?

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Nathan Kress: Yeah, it probably, like you said, is a

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Nathan Kress: sliding scale And it probably depends on

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Nathan Kress: the projects that you take on.

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Nathan Kress: I feel like if you linger in kid worlds,

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Nathan Kress: you know, especially past, whatever the

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Nathan Kress: initial show was, that made you, you know,

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Nathan Kress: that set you off and was your platform, i

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Nathan Kress: could see how you could feel a little bit

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Nathan Kress: cornered into that Marcet for a little bit

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Nathan Kress: longer.

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Nathan Kress: But it's it's just probably the first time

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Nathan Kress: you have a project where you say a bad word.

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Nathan Kress: You know, or you're in you know, a more

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Nathan Kress: adult situation, i guess.

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Nathan Kress: Or you know you transition from the

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Nathan Kress: Nickelodeon to the MTV.

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Nathan Kress: You know, right, right.

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Nathan Kress: But for me it's always hard because I have

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Nathan Kress: such a baby face.

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Nathan Kress: It's really been tough for me to play my

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Nathan Kress: own age.

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Nathan Kress: Hold on, are you now?

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Nathan Kress: by the way, i'm 30.

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Marc Preston: I just 30.

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Marc Preston: Man give me some of your genetic material

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Marc Preston: man.

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Marc Preston: I'm thinking.

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Marc Preston: I'm thinking of what I looked like when I

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Marc Preston: was 30, you know to be fair, this is the

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Marc Preston: team of professionals.

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Nathan Kress: What you, what you don't see, is what

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Nathan Kress: happens when my five year old and my two

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Nathan Kress: year old occur on this face, and how

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Nathan Kress: everything starts to sag and wear out and

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Nathan Kress: get puffy and, you know, exhausted.

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Nathan Kress: So you know, i got I got a lot of people

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Nathan Kress: backing me up and they were there at four

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Nathan Kress: o'clock this morning before that media tour.

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Nathan Kress: I can guarantee that.

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Nathan Kress: But but yeah, i think for me it has been a

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Nathan Kress: particular challenge, just because I'm only

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Nathan Kress: maybe just starting to grow into my own

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Nathan Kress: face, if I have some facial hair And so I.

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Nathan Kress: a lot of the roles that I covet in the

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Nathan Kress: adult world are.

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Nathan Kress: I'm only just now starting to approach the

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Nathan Kress: threshold of being able to pull them off

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Nathan Kress: and have the audience believe it, and that

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Nathan Kress: was kind of nice.

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Nathan Kress: you know, with this new Icarly, as an adult

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Nathan Kress: show we're supposed to be just about our

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Nathan Kress: ages, like late twenties, early thirties.

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Nathan Kress: So you know, whether or not the world is

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Nathan Kress: willing to accept it, i have a television

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Nathan Kress: show that's telling people that I can play

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Nathan Kress: a role this age.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, Well, it's funny.

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Marc Preston: You, you were in the movie Into the Storm

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Marc Preston: and just coincidentally, I spoke with Matt

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Marc Preston: Walsh last week, No kidding, And the name

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Marc Preston: of the movie escaped me.

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Marc Preston: I said you're in that tournée, the movie

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Marc Preston: the tournée.

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Marc Preston: he said yeah.

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Marc Preston: he said yeah, it's one of the top three

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Marc Preston: tornado movies.

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Marc Preston: You know he's being funny, but uh, I did

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Marc Preston: see that with my kids, I think last year,

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Marc Preston: sometime, Really.

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Marc Preston: But as far as your kids, kind of going back

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Marc Preston: to that real quick, you said you got a five

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Marc Preston: and a two year old.

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Nathan Kress: Yes, So yeah, Rosie and Evie, they're

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Nathan Kress: awesome, And actually my wife I met on into

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Nathan Kress: the storm, Oh, really.

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Nathan Kress: She was yeah, she was on the stunt team And

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Nathan Kress: we met in the last few weeks of production

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Nathan Kress: And if you look really, really close in the

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Nathan Kress: climax of it, where we're down in that

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Nathan Kress: storm drain and the big tornado is coming

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Nathan Kress: and going like right over us, we were

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Nathan Kress: positioned together by the director So we

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Nathan Kress: spent three weeks in a whole soaking wet

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Nathan Kress: with 100 mile an hour winds blowing past us

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Nathan Kress: just an absolute misery, and you know

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Nathan Kress: that's a bonding experience.

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Marc Preston: I was about to say that's, that's something

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Marc Preston: that kind of forges a bond that you can't

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Marc Preston: really get in any other way.

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Marc Preston: You know.

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Nathan Kress: Yeah, yeah, there was a group of probably

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Nathan Kress: 20 of us, a mix of actors and stunt people,

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Nathan Kress: and you know we all got pretty close after

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Nathan Kress: a shared traumatic experience like that.

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Nathan Kress: But I didn't at the time nothing really

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Nathan Kress: because I was.

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Nathan Kress: I was dating somebody else at the time, so

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Nathan Kress: she was just a co-worker who you know I got

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Nathan Kress: along with, but she got along with

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Nathan Kress: everybody else too, and so we we met on

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Nathan Kress: that.

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Nathan Kress: But we didn't really reconnect and become

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Nathan Kress: good friends until two years later, after

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Nathan Kress: because we should we film that in Michigan.

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Nathan Kress: She moved out to LA shortly after that

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Nathan Kress: movie was done and was working in the stunt

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Nathan Kress: world.

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Marc Preston: Is she still doing that now?

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Nathan Kress: No, after we got married and had kids we

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Nathan Kress: kind of thought maybe stunts is not the

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Nathan Kress: best field.

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Nathan Kress: You know it's hard to be a mom with like a

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Nathan Kress: broken neck, you know.

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Nathan Kress: And you know she didn't really do anything

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Nathan Kress: too intense, but even the stuff that she

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Nathan Kress: Yeah, my side of the family is basically

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Nathan Kress: We're definitely not on an island, that's

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Nathan Kress: I, carly As a kid on the original or now.

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Nathan Kress: Yes, it is.

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Nathan Kress: It juggling the desire to want to disengage

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Nathan Kress: But I will say the massive ups.

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Nathan Kress: And how many episodes did y'all shoot?

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Nathan Kress: We did 13 in the first season and then,

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Marc Preston: Really.

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Nathan Kress: little bit faster than maybe we would have

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Nathan Kress: wanted to.

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Nathan Kress: You really hit your groove at around

476

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Nathan Kress: episode nine or ten and it stinks that.

477

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Nathan Kress: That's now right when the season ends.

478

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Nathan Kress: So it's a little bit of a bummer.

479

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Nathan Kress: But fortunately we had the benefit of an

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Nathan Kress: entire show's worth of lore and character

481

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Nathan Kress: development to build off of something, and

482

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Nathan Kress: it already existed, so we didn't have to

483

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Nathan Kress: start completely fresh.

484

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Nathan Kress: So we had something going for us where we

485

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Nathan Kress: could hit the ground running, maybe more

486

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Nathan Kress: than a brand new show with totally new IP.

487

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Marc Preston: Well, that brings up the question of here

488

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Marc Preston: you are doing a show with folks you have

489

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Marc Preston: acted with before.

490

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Marc Preston: Was there a shorthand, was there an ease?

491

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Marc Preston: Could you ease back into it?

492

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Marc Preston: Or was everybody's life in your 2023?

493

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Marc Preston: Was their life so different?

494

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Marc Preston: Was it kind of like meeting them for the

495

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Marc Preston: first time again or working with them for

496

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Marc Preston: the first time again, in a way?

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Nathan Kress: I was a little nervous about that at the

498

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Nathan Kress: beginning.

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Nathan Kress: I wasn't sure if it would be like riding a

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Nathan Kress: bike or if it was going to be very awkward

501

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Nathan Kress: and clunky.

502

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Nathan Kress: Then it was.

503

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Nathan Kress: You know what is the expectation?

504

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Nathan Kress: Is the network going to be disappointed in

505

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Nathan Kress: us if it's not the same kind of snappy

506

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Nathan Kress: chemistry and magic that there was before,

507

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Nathan Kress: but luckily I mean other than the kind of

508

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Nathan Kress: understandable freshman jitters of figuring

509

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Nathan Kress: out, you know, are we taking our characters

510

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Nathan Kress: in the right direction?

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Nathan Kress: I think the nerves were more on the

512

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Nathan Kress: individual of you know.

513

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Nathan Kress: Are we doing the right thing?

514

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Nathan Kress: Are we doing our characters justice?

515

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Nathan Kress: Is it enough like how it used to be, but is

516

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Nathan Kress: it also new enough at the same time?

517

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Nathan Kress: finding that balance, that was the part

518

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Nathan Kress: that was more nerve-wracking.

519

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Nathan Kress: But once we all got in the same room by the

520

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Nathan Kress: end of the first day, it was just.

521

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Nathan Kress: It just felt exactly like how it felt.

522

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Nathan Kress: It was like putting on a cozy blanket.

523

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Nathan Kress: You know It's a safe place for me, honestly,

524

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Nathan Kress: it's just a place with people that I know

525

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Nathan Kress: and love, who we all care so much about the

526

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Nathan Kress: show and are so collaborative in the

527

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Nathan Kress: process.

528

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Nathan Kress: Miranda is an executive producer and holds

529

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Nathan Kress: a ton of creative control, but she doesn't

530

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Nathan Kress: hold that over anyone.

531

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Nathan Kress: It's very much a team effort and we have a

532

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Nathan Kress: lot of conversations about the best ways

533

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Nathan Kress: forward And everybody's opinion is welcome.

534

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Nathan Kress: Our writers are so, so collaborative and

535

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Nathan Kress: welcoming to that And we're so thankful for

536

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Nathan Kress: that, because a lot of shows are not that

537

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Nathan Kress: way, you know.

538

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Nathan Kress: But I think they have some trust in us

539

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Nathan Kress: being the voices of those characters for so

540

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Nathan Kress: long and knowing what Well, that's the

541

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Nathan Kress: beauty of TV, you know.

542

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Marc Preston: Especially with series, You're rotating

543

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Marc Preston: directors regularly.

544

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Marc Preston: You really take ownership of the character

545

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Marc Preston: after a while.

546

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Nathan Kress: Right, and it's all new director And

547

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Nathan Kress: basically the only people who came over,

548

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Nathan Kress: even on the creative side, were Miranda,

549

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Nathan Kress: Jerry and I, The showrunner, the writers,

550

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Nathan Kress: everybody is brand new.

551

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Nathan Kress: So that is where I think they relied on us

552

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Nathan Kress: a little bit and trusted us to sort of

553

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Nathan Kress: steer the ship, at least for ourselves

554

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Nathan Kress: individually and then together as a whole,

555

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Nathan Kress: when we would put our heads together and

556

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Nathan Kress: collaborate on.

557

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Nathan Kress: You know, does this feel like I, Carly, or

558

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Nathan Kress: not, you know?

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Nathan Kress: So we're again, just I'm so, so grateful

560

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Nathan Kress: for our writing team just being willing to

561

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Nathan Kress: have that conversation.

562

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Nathan Kress: You know, Because we're in a very unique

563

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Nathan Kress: spot where no other show has really done

564

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Nathan Kress: this, where it's an honest to goodness,

565

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Nathan Kress: kids show that transition to an adult show

566

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Nathan Kress: with a lot of the same characters and not

567

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Nathan Kress: just oh, we're rebooting it and they're old

568

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Nathan Kress: now, but it's about the kids, It's the next

569

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Nathan Kress: generation, you know.

570

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Nathan Kress: That, I feel like, is the traditional model,

571

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Nathan Kress: But we just kept going.

572

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Nathan Kress: So there's different needs.

573

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Nathan Kress: I think, creatively in a show like that,

574

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Nathan Kress: Being able to help out and kind of be at

575

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Nathan Kress: the forefront has been just so, so great

576

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Nathan Kress: and fulfilling to be able to be involved in

577

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Nathan Kress: bringing this to the fans.

578

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Marc Preston: Now, which streamer is this going to be on?

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Nathan Kress: This is on Paramount Plus, which also has

580

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Nathan Kress: all of the episodes of the old show as well

581

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Nathan Kress: 2007,.

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Marc Preston: Right?

583

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Marc Preston: Was that the original air Doing this?

584

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Marc Preston: is it?

585

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Marc Preston: do you have this kind of sensation where

586

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Marc Preston: you want to bounce back into something new,

587

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Marc Preston: something adult, something you know, or

588

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Marc Preston: more adult, let's say, or are you kind of

589

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Marc Preston: enjoying this moment and kind of want to

590

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Marc Preston: stick with it?

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Marc Preston: You mentioned creatively?

592

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Marc Preston: is this something where you want to be

593

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Marc Preston: doing this for a while, or are you kind of

594

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Marc Preston: want to put something different in the mix?

595

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Nathan Kress: It's so hard to say because, again, I love

596

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Nathan Kress: this show so much and I love that we're

597

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Nathan Kress: able to keep these characters going And I

598

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Nathan Kress: think there's a lot of story left,

599

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Nathan Kress: especially with how things are going to

600

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Nathan Kress: change for the characters in the third

601

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Nathan Kress: season, For the fact that it's something

602

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Nathan Kress: that people loved as kids and I would like

603

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Nathan Kress: nine times out of ten.

604

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Nathan Kress: The reaction for people who have actually

605

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Nathan Kress: seen the new show is that they feel that

606

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Nathan Kress: we've done it justice.

607

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Nathan Kress: It's the same enough but different enough

608

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Nathan Kress: to keep them engaged.

609

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Nathan Kress: We want to keep that going and keep telling

610

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Nathan Kress: that story for essentially as long as we're

611

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Nathan Kress: welcome, you know, and as long as people

612

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Nathan Kress: keep liking it.

613

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Nathan Kress: So I could see doing this for a long time

614

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Nathan Kress: and then, selfishly, like I said before,

615

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Nathan Kress: it's the best schedule ever if you want to

616

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Nathan Kress: have a family.

617

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Nathan Kress: So while the kids are young, I can have

618

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Nathan Kress: consistent hours and I'm not in Vancouver

619

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Nathan Kress: doing night shoots in spandex, you know, as

620

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Nathan Kress: a superhero, And that would be so cool in

621

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Nathan Kress: its own way.

622

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Nathan Kress: But in the real life Nathan Kress phase

623

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Nathan Kress: that I'm in right now with young kids, this

624

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Nathan Kress: is the best balance for a work life

625

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Nathan Kress: engagement.

626

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Marc Preston: Icarly was originally a Nickelodeon show,

627

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Marc Preston: correct?

628

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Nathan Kress: Yes.

629

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Nathan Kress: OK, And technically they're still involved

630

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Nathan Kress: at the studio level.

631

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Nathan Kress: So the executives and stuff that we're

632

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Nathan Kress: working with are people that I've known for

633

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Nathan Kress: years and years, including just being a

634

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Nathan Kress: director on other Nickelodeon shows after

635

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Nathan Kress: Icarly ended, where those are people that I

636

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Nathan Kress: interacted with frequently.

637

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Marc Preston: What creatively do you want to if you're

638

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Marc Preston: looking five years down the road?

639

00:23:01,655 --> 00:23:02,980

Marc Preston: what kind of things would you like to be

640

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Marc Preston: doing if it's different than this?

641

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Marc Preston: What kind of film are you more directing,

642

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Marc Preston: or maybe writing?

643

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Nathan Kress: Right.

644

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Nathan Kress: So first off, yeah, on the directing side,

645

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Nathan Kress: i've been directing since 2014.

646

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Nathan Kress: So I've done about 20 episodes of TV,

647

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Nathan Kress: including several episodes of the new

648

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Nathan Kress: Icarly.

649

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Nathan Kress: So I definitely want to keep doing that.

650

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Nathan Kress: I love directing Multicam, growing up on it.

651

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Nathan Kress: It's really difficult to learn how to do.

652

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Nathan Kress: You kind of have to just be around it and

653

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Nathan Kress: have experience with it to know how.

654

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Nathan Kress: There's no class, there's no film school

655

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Nathan Kress: you can go to.

656

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Nathan Kress: for Multicam, is that easier or more

657

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Nathan Kress: difficult?

658

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Nathan Kress: for you?

659

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Nathan Kress: It's a lot more difficult Because with

660

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Nathan Kress: Singlecam you just know I'm going to get my

661

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Nathan Kress: wides, my tights, my mediums and maybe a

662

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Nathan Kress: couple crosses.

663

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Nathan Kress: With Multicam, it's a dialect, it's like a

664

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Nathan Kress: language, and you're not totally by

665

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Nathan Kress: yourself.

666

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Nathan Kress: You're working with an associate director,

667

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Nathan Kress: a camera coordinator, who will sit down

668

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Nathan Kress: with you and say OK, so a B camera is going

669

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Nathan Kress: to have a single here, but after this actor

670

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Nathan Kress: says this line, it's going to pan over here

671

00:24:06,818 --> 00:24:10,122

Nathan Kress: and get this two shot, while X goes to that

672

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Nathan Kress: character because they're going to cross

673

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Nathan Kress: over here.

674

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Nathan Kress: So Multicam has this hybrid of television

675

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Nathan Kress: and theater where you're staging it on a

676

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Nathan Kress: set with a proscenium where you only have

677

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Nathan Kress: three walls and then the audience is the

678

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Nathan Kress: fourth wall, like a theater set.

679

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Marc Preston: Yeah, it sounds like have a visual ballet a

680

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Marc Preston: little bit.

681

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Marc Preston: Yes absolutely.

682

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Nathan Kress: It's very, very intricate Because the

683

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Nathan Kress: audience if you're one person with one pair

684

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Nathan Kress: of eyes, you can see the whole stage at one

685

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Nathan Kress: time.

686

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Nathan Kress: You're able to watch whatever you want to

687

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Nathan Kress: watch, but you basically have four

688

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Nathan Kress: perspectives that you can take at any given

689

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Nathan Kress: time.

690

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Nathan Kress: But if you have a scene with nine people in

691

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Nathan Kress: it, you can't just put them all together.

692

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Nathan Kress: They're going to be all on different sides

693

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Nathan Kress: of the room.

694

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Nathan Kress: So there is a lot of math that has to be

695

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Nathan Kress: done And it's a really tough skill to learn.

696

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Nathan Kress: And those guys those camera coordinators

697

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Nathan Kress: and associate directors they've been camera

698

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Nathan Kress: operators since the 90s on home improvement

699

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Nathan Kress: And they're the audience switchers for a

700

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Nathan Kress: live audience show.

701

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Nathan Kress: So they've been doing live edits And they

702

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Nathan Kress: know the language, they know what needs to

703

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Nathan Kress: happen when.

704

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Nathan Kress: So there's various ways into the field.

705

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Nathan Kress: There are pretty few pure actors who

706

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Nathan Kress: transition into Multicam directing, but

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Nathan Kress: there are several And I've really really

708

00:25:28,958 --> 00:25:32,499

Nathan Kress: enjoyed learning from them Because we share

709

00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:34,980

Nathan Kress: similar perspectives as the actors director,

710

00:25:35,895 --> 00:25:37,280

Nathan Kress: so I definitely wanted to do that.

711

00:25:38,355 --> 00:25:40,196

Nathan Kress: I'm producing on the show now too, which

712

00:25:40,216 --> 00:25:42,738

Nathan Kress: has given me a really good look at the nuts

713

00:25:42,778 --> 00:25:46,716

Nathan Kress: and bolts of how a production is done, and

714

00:25:46,797 --> 00:25:48,235

Nathan Kress: being involved in that has been awesome And

715

00:25:48,296 --> 00:25:50,237

Nathan Kress: that's something that I would want to do on

716

00:25:50,318 --> 00:25:51,803

Nathan Kress: any show that I act on.

717

00:25:52,575 --> 00:25:54,476

Nathan Kress: But as far as the acting stuff goes, i

718

00:25:54,756 --> 00:25:56,922

Nathan Kress: honestly would love to take a completely

719

00:25:57,643 --> 00:25:58,706

Nathan Kress: different approach.

720

00:25:59,737 --> 00:26:00,560

Nathan Kress: I love comedy.

721

00:26:01,015 --> 00:26:01,940

Nathan Kress: I love Multicam.

722

00:26:02,938 --> 00:26:05,396

Nathan Kress: If you could tell me right now you could be

723

00:26:05,517 --> 00:26:07,323

Nathan Kress: on a Multicam show for the rest of your

724

00:26:07,363 --> 00:26:09,296

Nathan Kress: life And everyone would just love it And it

725

00:26:09,336 --> 00:26:11,457

Nathan Kress: would be a rating smash And no one would

726

00:26:11,477 --> 00:26:12,501

Nathan Kress: ever get tired of it.

727

00:26:13,755 --> 00:26:14,840

Nathan Kress: I wouldn't get tired of it either.

728

00:26:14,955 --> 00:26:16,320

Nathan Kress: I would do it for the rest of my life.

729

00:26:17,075 --> 00:26:20,144

Nathan Kress: But at the same time and this is also where

730

00:26:20,164 --> 00:26:22,080

Nathan Kress: Multicam is nice you get big, long hiatuses

731

00:26:22,201 --> 00:26:23,479

Nathan Kress: usually And that's where you can go off and

732

00:26:23,519 --> 00:26:24,121

Nathan Kress: do other stuff.

733

00:26:24,555 --> 00:26:27,063

Nathan Kress: So if I could do anything other than this,

734

00:26:28,175 --> 00:26:30,463

Nathan Kress: it would be completely the other direction.

735

00:26:30,675 --> 00:26:35,747

Nathan Kress: Like gritty military drama, the Hurt Locker

736

00:26:36,575 --> 00:26:40,725

Nathan Kress: Saving Private Ryan, a cockmoot training

737

00:26:40,786 --> 00:26:44,483

Nathan Kress: day, anything in the police military vein.

738

00:26:46,135 --> 00:26:47,320

Nathan Kress: That's just been one of my interests since

739

00:26:47,380 --> 00:26:49,618

Nathan Kress: I was a really, really young kid and

740

00:26:49,699 --> 00:26:52,907

Nathan Kress: portraying that has always been something

741

00:26:52,955 --> 00:26:55,595

Nathan Kress: that I've been really interested in And

742

00:26:55,996 --> 00:27:01,579

Nathan Kress: there's always just so much story there And,

743

00:27:01,739 --> 00:27:05,895

Nathan Kress: again, tough with the face that I've had, i

744

00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:08,621

Nathan Kress: would be pretty much relegated to the

745

00:27:09,283 --> 00:27:11,808

Nathan Kress: private storming D-Day.

746

00:27:12,396 --> 00:27:15,164

Nathan Kress: Who gets brought down in the first five

747

00:27:15,204 --> 00:27:16,026

Nathan Kress: seconds of the movie.

748

00:27:16,537 --> 00:27:18,442

Nathan Kress: That was kind of where I feel like I've

749

00:27:18,482 --> 00:27:19,445

Nathan Kress: been sort of locked.

750

00:27:19,695 --> 00:27:22,187

Nathan Kress: But I'm hoping that as I've gotten older

751

00:27:22,970 --> 00:27:23,995

Nathan Kress: and I see, it.

752

00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:24,818

Marc Preston: You can start trek.

753

00:27:24,838 --> 00:27:26,558

Marc Preston: you'd be in the red shirt, Was that the one

754

00:27:26,578 --> 00:27:27,421

Marc Preston: that always get killed?

755

00:27:28,075 --> 00:27:29,681

Nathan Kress: Yeah, the really young ensign.

756

00:27:30,215 --> 00:27:32,022

Nathan Kress: Yeah, his first day on the Enterprise.

757

00:27:32,255 --> 00:27:33,541

Nathan Kress: Yeah, that would have been me.

758

00:27:33,655 --> 00:27:37,239

Nathan Kress: So I'm hoping getting into my 30s, that I

759

00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:39,796

Nathan Kress: can broaden out and get into more the

760

00:27:40,077 --> 00:27:44,707

Nathan Kress: action adventure, espionage, intrigue,

761

00:27:44,887 --> 00:27:47,981

Nathan Kress: combat, all that fun stuff would just be

762

00:27:48,202 --> 00:27:49,125

Nathan Kress: really, really cool.

763

00:27:49,835 --> 00:27:50,880

Marc Preston: Yeah, stuff blowing up.

764

00:27:51,578 --> 00:27:53,184

Nathan Kress: And that to me would be, fun.

765

00:27:53,295 --> 00:27:54,981

Marc Preston: I think when you're a kid that stuff sounds

766

00:27:55,041 --> 00:27:56,799

Marc Preston: fantastic, to be honest, something like

767

00:27:56,839 --> 00:27:56,980

Marc Preston: that.

768

00:27:57,475 --> 00:27:58,860

Marc Preston: But that even begs the question to hit

769

00:27:59,141 --> 00:28:01,679

Marc Preston: Rewind, even back when you were filming

770

00:28:01,939 --> 00:28:03,263

Marc Preston: Icarly, the original version.

771

00:28:04,438 --> 00:28:05,287

Marc Preston: What were you into?

772

00:28:05,327 --> 00:28:07,073

Marc Preston: What were you watching, what was inspiring

773

00:28:07,094 --> 00:28:07,155

Marc Preston: you?

774

00:28:07,215 --> 00:28:08,259

Marc Preston: What were you looking at going?

775

00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:09,584

Marc Preston: that's my group.

776

00:28:09,675 --> 00:28:10,921

Marc Preston: That's where I want to see myself.

777

00:28:11,436 --> 00:28:12,840

Marc Preston: What kind of movies and shows.

778

00:28:14,875 --> 00:28:15,939

Nathan Kress: Well, kind of a mix.

779

00:28:18,375 --> 00:28:21,545

Nathan Kress: So I had a very small run of acting from

780

00:28:21,565 --> 00:28:23,300

Nathan Kress: like three to six years old and then lost

781

00:28:23,340 --> 00:28:24,504

Nathan Kress: interest and decided to quit.

782

00:28:24,575 --> 00:28:27,276

Nathan Kress: But when I got back into it at around 11, i

783

00:28:27,517 --> 00:28:29,865

Nathan Kress: homeschooled from sixth to 12th grade.

784

00:28:30,095 --> 00:28:31,220

Nathan Kress: So starting in sixth and all the way

785

00:28:31,260 --> 00:28:32,638

Nathan Kress: through my high school career, when I was

786

00:28:32,738 --> 00:28:35,038

Nathan Kress: on set doing Icarly And when I was

787

00:28:35,078 --> 00:28:36,623

Nathan Kress: homeschooling and when I was actually at

788

00:28:36,684 --> 00:28:39,443

Nathan Kress: home I would try to finish my school by

789

00:28:39,603 --> 00:28:42,883

Nathan Kress: noon so I could take lunch and watch I Love

790

00:28:42,903 --> 00:28:45,040

Nathan Kress: Lucy on Daytime TV.

791

00:28:46,275 --> 00:28:49,139

Nathan Kress: I grew up on that show, i love it, still

792

00:28:49,179 --> 00:28:52,013

Nathan Kress: love it, and I think that was the first

793

00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:54,521

Nathan Kress: show where my love of multi-cam really kind

794

00:28:54,581 --> 00:28:55,744

Nathan Kress: of took off.

795

00:28:57,676 --> 00:29:02,477

Nathan Kress: As I got older it was a lot of like JAG

796

00:29:03,579 --> 00:29:06,285

Nathan Kress: NCIS stuff that I was.

797

00:29:06,385 --> 00:29:09,902

Nathan Kress: Probably I was not the demographic for it,

798

00:29:09,995 --> 00:29:13,183

Nathan Kress: but I just loved crime, procedurals, law

799

00:29:13,203 --> 00:29:13,603

Nathan Kress: and order.

800

00:29:15,675 --> 00:29:18,905

Nathan Kress: But then on the comedy side, how I met your

801

00:29:18,925 --> 00:29:20,975

Nathan Kress: mother, that was one of my favorite shows.

802

00:29:21,055 --> 00:29:23,818

Nathan Kress: That was my go to the gym And while I'm on

803

00:29:23,858 --> 00:29:26,255

Nathan Kress: the elliptical I was plowing through how I

804

00:29:26,275 --> 00:29:26,757

Nathan Kress: met your mother.

805

00:29:28,235 --> 00:29:30,248

Nathan Kress: But then, like all the way on, doctor Who,

806

00:29:30,691 --> 00:29:33,882

Nathan Kress: loved just like quirky sci-fi and the

807

00:29:33,962 --> 00:29:35,246

Nathan Kress: Britishness of it all.

808

00:29:35,656 --> 00:29:36,841

Nathan Kress: I was all over the place.

809

00:29:37,215 --> 00:29:40,396

Nathan Kress: There was no one specific vein, and I think

810

00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,256

Nathan Kress: that's why there's really not much that I

811

00:29:44,276 --> 00:29:48,044

Nathan Kress: would say no to as far as like oh, i don't

812

00:29:48,125 --> 00:29:52,720

Nathan Kress: do sci-fi, i don't do action, i don't do

813

00:29:53,181 --> 00:29:57,281

Nathan Kress: really human drama, i don't do whatever.

814

00:29:58,416 --> 00:30:00,322

Nathan Kress: I'm up for it all as long as it's a great

815

00:30:00,422 --> 00:30:04,535

Nathan Kress: story And really just like I just want to

816

00:30:04,575 --> 00:30:08,545

Nathan Kress: be a part of something that's eternal in

817

00:30:08,986 --> 00:30:09,868

Nathan Kress: the entertainment world.

818

00:30:10,055 --> 00:30:11,935

Marc Preston: Again, going back to the inception, leigh

819

00:30:11,955 --> 00:30:12,638

Marc Preston: Mead got going.

820

00:30:12,758 --> 00:30:14,925

Marc Preston: Was this something that was what you wanted

821

00:30:14,945 --> 00:30:15,185

Marc Preston: to do?

822

00:30:15,516 --> 00:30:17,593

Marc Preston: Or did somebody see and say this kid ought

823

00:30:17,613 --> 00:30:20,218

Marc Preston: to, let's get him in for an audition, let's

824

00:30:20,399 --> 00:30:20,579

Marc Preston: see what.

825

00:30:20,619 --> 00:30:20,960

Marc Preston: How did?

826

00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:23,216

Marc Preston: what was the genesis when you kicked off

827

00:30:23,256 --> 00:30:24,561

Marc Preston: your acting career?

828

00:30:24,815 --> 00:30:26,378

Nathan Kress: Yeah, it was basically that When I was

829

00:30:26,439 --> 00:30:28,051

Nathan Kress: three, i had no understanding of what

830

00:30:28,172 --> 00:30:28,495

Nathan Kress: acting was.

831

00:30:31,966 --> 00:30:34,614

Nathan Kress: I just watched Mr Rogers and Barney and

832

00:30:34,634 --> 00:30:37,413

Nathan Kress: Veggie Tales and memorized what I was

833

00:30:37,433 --> 00:30:41,792

Nathan Kress: hearing And I would perform it back for my

834

00:30:41,852 --> 00:30:43,248

Nathan Kress: family on camera with a microphone.

835

00:30:43,918 --> 00:30:46,188

Nathan Kress: And I didn't realize what that was, i just

836

00:30:46,208 --> 00:30:46,695

Nathan Kress: knew I liked it.

837

00:30:49,142 --> 00:30:50,065

Nathan Kress: And my parents.

838

00:30:50,466 --> 00:30:53,294

Nathan Kress: I'm so forever grateful for how they

839

00:30:53,314 --> 00:30:55,568

Nathan Kress: approached this whole thing, because they

840

00:30:55,790 --> 00:30:56,474

Nathan Kress: never, ever forced me.

841

00:30:57,818 --> 00:31:00,666

Nathan Kress: In fact they dragged their heels most of

842

00:31:00,706 --> 00:31:06,812

Nathan Kress: the time because they knew the common

843

00:31:06,852 --> 00:31:07,875

Nathan Kress: trajectory for child actors.

844

00:31:09,785 --> 00:31:11,153

Nathan Kress: They knew that the industry can chew you up

845

00:31:11,173 --> 00:31:13,083

Nathan Kress: and spit you out and that you can have a

846

00:31:13,305 --> 00:31:16,362

Nathan Kress: real mess on your hands if you don't handle

847

00:31:16,382 --> 00:31:18,475

Nathan Kress: it very gingerly and carefully.

848

00:31:18,475 --> 00:31:22,021

Nathan Kress: So they didn't really want me doing it, but

849

00:31:22,061 --> 00:31:23,793

Nathan Kress: I think enough of their friends and people

850

00:31:23,813 --> 00:31:27,188

Nathan Kress: who just saw me doing my thing, just being

851

00:31:27,228 --> 00:31:28,835

Nathan Kress: a giant ham and talking all the time.

852

00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,133

Nathan Kress: And my mom swears my first word was

853

00:31:32,153 --> 00:31:32,415

Nathan Kress: construction.

854

00:31:33,141 --> 00:31:34,534

Nathan Kress: At nine months old I don't see how that's

855

00:31:34,554 --> 00:31:36,382

Nathan Kress: true She swears by it.

856

00:31:38,045 --> 00:31:41,582

Nathan Kress: I was just a chatterbox And all of their

857

00:31:41,623 --> 00:31:43,644

Nathan Kress: friends were like you know, you should

858

00:31:43,684 --> 00:31:46,971

Nathan Kress: probably at least give this a try and see

859

00:31:47,011 --> 00:31:47,435

Nathan Kress: if it works out.

860

00:31:48,220 --> 00:31:50,113

Nathan Kress: If he does some stuff as a kid, there's

861

00:31:50,153 --> 00:31:52,835

Nathan Kress: college money, just see.

862

00:31:53,599 --> 00:31:55,470

Nathan Kress: And so they took me to a cattle call and

863

00:31:55,630 --> 00:31:58,840

Nathan Kress: add in the newspaper at a park And a

864

00:31:58,940 --> 00:32:01,611

Nathan Kress: bazillion kids showed up and I sat in an

865

00:32:01,691 --> 00:32:03,906

Nathan Kress: agent's lap and sang him a song And they

866

00:32:03,926 --> 00:32:04,430

Nathan Kress: could just tell.

867

00:32:04,490 --> 00:32:05,015

Nathan Kress: I just had no fear.

868

00:32:05,777 --> 00:32:07,902

Nathan Kress: You know, i was just social and was willing

869

00:32:07,962 --> 00:32:12,046

Nathan Kress: to do whatever And I wasn't going to clam

870

00:32:12,107 --> 00:32:14,524

Nathan Kress: up and be really shy and, you know, just be

871

00:32:14,544 --> 00:32:15,835

Nathan Kress: kind of outward facing at all times.

872

00:32:16,577 --> 00:32:19,548

Nathan Kress: So I got an agent out of that, started

873

00:32:19,728 --> 00:32:21,635

Nathan Kress: auditioning for various stuff.

874

00:32:22,157 --> 00:32:23,518

Nathan Kress: Didn't really do a ton, it's just kind of

875

00:32:23,558 --> 00:32:26,196

Nathan Kress: print work and some voiceover stuff, which

876

00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:28,163

Nathan Kress: was very bizarre to do at four years old.

877

00:32:28,255 --> 00:32:30,996

Nathan Kress: I didn't understand it at all, but it was

878

00:32:31,016 --> 00:32:32,883

Nathan Kress: interesting because I got close on some

879

00:32:32,943 --> 00:32:33,204

Nathan Kress: stuff.

880

00:32:33,335 --> 00:32:36,264

Nathan Kress: I know that it was between me and Johnny

881

00:32:36,304 --> 00:32:37,577

Nathan Kress: Lipnicki for Jerry McGuire.

882

00:32:38,895 --> 00:32:41,224

Nathan Kress: We were like taking turns, you know, in the

883

00:32:41,264 --> 00:32:41,424

Nathan Kress: room.

884

00:32:41,556 --> 00:32:42,621

Nathan Kress: I don't remember any of it.

885

00:32:42,675 --> 00:32:44,442

Nathan Kress: This is just what my parents told me.

886

00:32:44,975 --> 00:32:47,243

Nathan Kress: But it was funny because the reason why I

887

00:32:47,323 --> 00:32:48,842

Nathan Kress: loved it so much was because I didn't

888

00:32:48,963 --> 00:32:50,515

Nathan Kress: understand the audition process.

889

00:32:50,636 --> 00:32:51,949

Nathan Kress: I thought the audition was the job.

890

00:32:52,391 --> 00:32:53,634

Marc Preston: You know in a very real sense.

891

00:32:53,674 --> 00:32:55,279

Marc Preston: You know I coach voiceover and I tell my

892

00:32:55,319 --> 00:32:57,575

Marc Preston: students the audition is the job.

893

00:32:57,830 --> 00:32:59,296

Marc Preston: If you get the job, that's just gravy.

894

00:32:59,470 --> 00:33:00,715

Marc Preston: You know you got to look at the audition as

895

00:33:00,735 --> 00:33:03,958

Marc Preston: the job, so you know that's that for a kid.

896

00:33:03,998 --> 00:33:07,508

Marc Preston: That's not knowing everything probably

897

00:33:07,829 --> 00:33:09,715

Marc Preston: helps you to not be so nervous, you know.

898

00:33:10,016 --> 00:33:10,418

Nathan Kress: Exactly.

899

00:33:11,110 --> 00:33:12,474

Nathan Kress: My parents did a good job of making sure

900

00:33:12,494 --> 00:33:14,138

Nathan Kress: that I didn't know how the sausage got made,

901

00:33:14,759 --> 00:33:16,632

Nathan Kress: because I don't think.

902

00:33:16,732 --> 00:33:18,897

Nathan Kress: And they were right because as soon as the

903

00:33:18,958 --> 00:33:21,612

Nathan Kress: reason why I got out of acting at that age

904

00:33:21,652 --> 00:33:23,658

Nathan Kress: was because I went to a voiceover audition

905

00:33:23,678 --> 00:33:27,991

Nathan Kress: to do ADR for the Dudley Do-Right movie,

906

00:33:28,472 --> 00:33:32,001

Nathan Kress: brendan Fraser, and it was a flashback

907

00:33:32,382 --> 00:33:35,390

Nathan Kress: where it was his younger self talking and

908

00:33:35,470 --> 00:33:38,235

Nathan Kress: he used very intricate words, had a very

909

00:33:38,295 --> 00:33:40,660

Nathan Kress: elaborate vocabulary and spoke very fast

910

00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:42,323

Nathan Kress: and I couldn't do it, i couldn't match it.

911

00:33:43,150 --> 00:33:45,114

Nathan Kress: And so in that audition, for the first time

912

00:33:45,175 --> 00:33:47,760

Nathan Kress: ever, they did live cuts and said these

913

00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,130

Nathan Kress: people can go, these people can stay, and

914

00:33:50,190 --> 00:33:50,672

Nathan Kress: it clicked.

915

00:33:50,713 --> 00:33:54,796

Nathan Kress: In that moment I have been rejected and I

916

00:33:54,876 --> 00:33:58,450

Nathan Kress: didn't do as good as other kids did And for

917

00:33:58,491 --> 00:34:00,777

Nathan Kress: that reason I've been sent home and I

918

00:34:00,938 --> 00:34:02,831

Nathan Kress: walked out of the parking lot I remember

919

00:34:02,872 --> 00:34:05,418

Nathan Kress: this part so clearly just saying I'm not

920

00:34:05,558 --> 00:34:08,554

Nathan Kress: having fun anymore, i don't want to do this

921

00:34:08,614 --> 00:34:08,935

Nathan Kress: anymore.

922

00:34:09,370 --> 00:34:11,292

Nathan Kress: And it wasn't just that, i was also just

923

00:34:11,372 --> 00:34:13,378

Nathan Kress: missing out on being a kid and playing

924

00:34:13,418 --> 00:34:15,392

Nathan Kress: T-ball and going to school and hanging out

925

00:34:15,412 --> 00:34:16,014

Nathan Kress: with my brothers.

926

00:34:16,630 --> 00:34:18,138

Nathan Kress: But that was just the icing on the cake.

927

00:34:18,158 --> 00:34:20,048

Nathan Kress: That, finally, was the last straw that sent

928

00:34:20,089 --> 00:34:21,854

Nathan Kress: me over was oh wait a minute.

929

00:34:22,435 --> 00:34:25,772

Nathan Kress: Part of this is rejection, because I don't

930

00:34:25,812 --> 00:34:27,417

Nathan Kress: like that at six years old.

931

00:34:28,630 --> 00:34:31,242

Nathan Kress: So that kind of shattered the illusion for

932

00:34:31,282 --> 00:34:33,130

Nathan Kress: me a little bit, where I finally understood

933

00:34:33,270 --> 00:34:35,658

Nathan Kress: what an audition was, that it was not the

934

00:34:35,698 --> 00:34:36,019

Nathan Kress: job.

935

00:34:36,270 --> 00:34:39,339

Nathan Kress: So that got me out of it and I didn't want

936

00:34:39,359 --> 00:34:42,428

Nathan Kress: to get back in until I was 11 and had

937

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Nathan Kress: auditioned for school plays, had to face

938

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Nathan Kress: that rejection, got roles fair and square,

939

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Nathan Kress: rather than someone just handing it to me

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Nathan Kress: and being willing to accept the fact that

941

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Nathan Kress: most of this industry is just being told no

942

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Nathan Kress: over and over and over again and beating

943

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Nathan Kress: your head against that wall and waiting for

944

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Nathan Kress: someone to say yes, which sounds insane,

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Nathan Kress: that we do that voluntarily, but you have

946

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Nathan Kress: to because you love it so much.

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Marc Preston: But going back to your folks, what kind of

948

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Marc Preston: work did they do?

949

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Marc Preston: What kind of work do they do?

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Nathan Kress: So my mom, luckily, was able to stay home

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Nathan Kress: with us, but my dad was a police officer.

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Nathan Kress: So, yeah, that's probably where a lot of

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Nathan Kress: that the sense of duty and service and

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Nathan Kress: sacrifice came from.

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Nathan Kress: Because he was just, he did a little bit of

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Nathan Kress: everything at his department and was a

957

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Nathan Kress: massively commended officer who never got a

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Nathan Kress: single civilian complaint in his entire 35

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Nathan Kress: year career.

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Marc Preston: Wow, 35 years, so you retired from being a

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Marc Preston: policeman.

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Nathan Kress: Yes, so he retired.

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Nathan Kress: He still volunteers because he just can't

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Nathan Kress: quit.

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Nathan Kress: He loved flying, that was always his

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Nathan Kress: favorite assignment, so he works at the

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Nathan Kress: heliport.

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Nathan Kress: Oh, very cool.

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Nathan Kress: So he does air operation stuff and he loves

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Nathan Kress: it.

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Nathan Kress: He'll probably stop eventually because now

972

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Nathan Kress: he's got grandparent duties and stuff so

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Nathan Kress: that's going to be keeping him busier and

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Nathan Kress: busier.

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Nathan Kress: But yeah, so that was my life, that I grew

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Nathan Kress: up watching that, and I don't know how we

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Nathan Kress: would have done it if my mom was working,

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Nathan Kress: because I was a full time job for her,

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