00:00Hi A.D. Come on in. Oh, welcome to Warner Brothers.
00:12I don't remember the very first time I came onto this lot, but it was exciting. Honestly,
00:34any lot I came onto to audition for something. It was really exciting. With friends, we spent
00:41the whole 10 years here. Well, I think we shot the pilot at the ranch, which is another location.
00:46But then our first season, once we got picked up, we were on stage five, which was a great small
00:52soundstage and right next to where ER was shooting. So we'd hang out with them a lot. You know, the show
01:00worked its first season and we moved to a bigger soundstage so we could have a 400 person audience.
01:06I think. Is that possible? Maybe only 200. I'm not good with numbers. That was stage 24 and that's
01:13where we were for 10 years. So for this third and final season of the comeback, Warner Brothers allowed
01:30us to shoot on two soundstages and one of them was stage 24, which is where Friends shot. So I got to
01:39finish Friends after 10 years and the comeback. Wasn't expecting to get emotional, sir. But yeah.
01:51So I guess this is it. This is harder than I thought it would be. It's going to be okay.
02:01After a point, we didn't leave the soundstage even for lunch because there were tours and things. It
02:07was just easier to stay on the stage. Coming back to write because Michael's office is here at Warner
02:14Brothers. He took me on like a little walking tour. He knows everything about it here. And it's the first
02:20time I've seen this lot, to be honest. There's a place where it's offices now, but they were apartments
02:27for actors. They would fly out from New York and they lived here while they were shooting. I mean,
02:34that's a lot of control over an actor. If they're late, you know exactly where to find them. You just
02:39walk over and drag them out of bed, I guess. But that was still really cool. All the Rose Gardens
02:44around here are so beautiful. And also the back lots, which I'm told I've worked on. I siloed
02:51everything I don't really remember. Come on! Let's go running! Let's go!
02:58It's been so long! Oh, so long. I can't believe you're still doing this.
03:03Ah, I know. But I quit smoking. Good for you!
03:07All right, so let's hop in a cart and see if there's anything exciting on this lot. There has to be, right?
03:13The fire department, my son had a lot of fun playing on the fire trucks. We're coming up on
03:35stage 24. The plaque that says friends wasn't there. That's after we left. But we shot
03:43this and the comeback. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to my trailer on the studio lot. Come on in.
03:48Wouldn't it be great if the plaque that lists all the TV shows added the comeback to it?
03:55There's a set. My phone's ringing. Oh, the cemetery's calling. Oh, we did our table reads
04:00for the comeback in that movie theater. So we shot the fountain thing, the opening credits,
04:06I think after we shot a show and it was late and we were tired. They said it would just be real quick.
04:13We're just going to grab some stuff. It was like three hours later and then we're wet and trying to
04:19look happy and dancing and frolicking. And yeah, that was tough. But Matthew was so funny because
04:26they'd say, all right, we just need to do one more. And he'd say, oh, are we doing one more again?
04:32We're just doing one more. Okay. Can't remember a time I wasn't wet. Can't remember a time I wasn't
04:36cold. What are we in a fountain? Are we dancing in a fountain? And so when you see us laughing,
04:41it's because Matthew had just said one of those things.
04:47This is like where Ghost Whisperer was, right? And Gilmore Girls, I hear.
04:52I think we shot on this porch. Yeah, we did. And you go inside and it is like a house.
04:59See, look, you just have to furnish it. I mean, sure, it's fake wood floors or whatever, but
05:06look, it's a house. This was apparently Phoebe's dad's house.
05:10This was Phoebe's dad's house? Did we go inside it or just stayed outside? Anyone who saw the show?
05:23Watch out. You're going backward. Now I feel like Valerie Cherish. Careful.
05:27Every one of these structures is built out. You can shoot everything here. Everybody wants to shoot
05:35here. Look, we're in LA. Look at the weather. It's November. Okay. And it's the most gorgeous blue sky
05:43and it's not too hot and it's not cold. It's perfect here.
05:48It's hard for me to tell whether Warner Brothers is just special to me or if it's special to the whole
05:59city or industry. And I think it is. Everything changes ownership all the time and then you don't
06:05know what's going to happen. And I think most people really, really hope whatever happens next is that
06:12this studio lot is preserved as is. It works. I mean, we just shot here. Whoever buys it,
06:18you don't need to change anything. It works. It works great. It really does. So congratulations
06:24whoever's next. Please don't change a thing. Please, please don't remove Jack Warner's roses.
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