One 'Outer Range' Star Breaks Down An ‘Uncomfortable’ Direction Josh Brolin Gave Him, And Why It Worked

Interview with Noah Reid

Transcript

00:00With Josh directing that episode, was there a note or a direction he guys gave you that like

00:03really stuck out and kind of stuck with you as you were crafting your performance for that episode?

00:08I don't know if it's in the cut. I haven't seen it. But he had me

00:12stand in one place and just say, Billy, over, over. Do you remember that?

00:17Oh, yeah. He had you screaming, man.

00:21So it was really uncomfortable. Every part of me wanted to move from that spot.

00:27But then I thought, well, the character's got to be so uncomfortable right now and not know

00:36what to do and feel misplaced and feel like he wants to run but can't and wants to turn back

00:42time but can't. So, you know, I felt like it might actually fit. And that's where you go,

00:50well, I guess I just got to trust Josh here and he's got great taste.

00:55So Josh is a spectacular actor. And so he understands the way that actors think.

01:02And he understands the way that sometimes we want things to be and where there's tension in,

01:11you know, the way that we want it to go and the way that it needs to go.

01:14And also, he was able to extend us a lot of trust, I think, through the filming of that sequence,

01:21where he knew from being on the inside of that, that you kind of need to have the gloves off and

01:30just, you know, be able to kind of go to town and trust in your other actor and just really kind of

01:37like, you know, take it to each other. I remember in the first season, Sean and Josh and I had

01:42dinner and he was telling us about an experience that he had on Broadway and with another actor.

01:48He was just like, they were just like, no reserves, no holds barred, just kind of

01:54going at it. And I feel like that's what Sean and I got to do in that sequence.

01:59So a very fun, liberating experience.