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Patrick Wilson tells THR his favorite part of the Tony Awards is getting to reconnect with Samuel L. Jackson each year. Plus, he shares how directing the recent 'Insidious' movie has helped him become a better actor and producer.

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00:00We were just chatting with your friend Brian Darcy James, how exciting was it to, you know,

00:06have that interaction and be able to see your friends tonight?

00:09That is the best part about this night.

00:11I used to, this is shameless name dropping, but the most fun for me for the past like

00:16three times that I've done this is, this is the only time I'd run into my friend Sam Jackson

00:20and we did a movie together like 18 years ago, but he said to me a couple years ago,

00:24he goes, you know the only time I ever see you is the Tonys, so he's sort of my representative,

00:28although I don't, I didn't see him here tonight, but there are plenty of other friends that

00:31I, that I, you know, we never get to see and when you're doing theater, you're on that

00:34schedule so you really never get to see anybody, but obviously somebody, seeing somebody like

00:38Brian who's been nominated, I don't know, four or five times, he's got to be, he's won

00:42a ton, just one of the best guys on Broadway too, I, I, forever, forever, known him for

00:4825 years, that's what makes it special.

00:52These are, you got lifelong friends here that, that, that we've known and you come up together

00:56and now we find ourselves in our 50s, still being here, it's exciting.

01:01And you're obviously such a Broadway veteran, is there any play or revival that you would

01:07be itching to do next?

01:08Yeah, there's a lot, I'm trying to find a bunch, yeah, I don't know if I want to do

01:13a play, I really want to do an original musical, so I'm looking at that, looking at a few of

01:18those, I workshopped one of those for a long time, it's going to run in London, maybe it'll

01:21come here and maybe we can talk about that, that's on the back burner, but then there's

01:27other stuff that I'm trying to, you know, yes, the answer is yes.

01:32Looking forward to that and finally I, I wanted to ask, I know you made your directorial debut

01:36with Insidious, what was that experience like and what did you learn as a director that

01:42you've taken with you as an actor now moving forward?

01:44Sure, well there's an understanding of just the process, especially making a film, but

01:48I actually think, and I've been in producing, I'm producing a show that hopefully will be

01:52on Broadway next year, a musical adaptation of The Lost Boys, and I think being on the

01:57other side as a director, producer, and understanding just how it all works and how it just takes

02:02an absolute village, I mean, luckily I was never one of those actors that was very me,

02:06me, me, I'm the most important person in the room, like some actors are, so that was never

02:11my thing anyway, but certainly it gives you an understanding of the process, and certainly

02:15in film where you can shoot your stuff out in one day and then the director's living

02:18with it for another year, trying to make it work.

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