00:00When I'm on set, I look up all the words. So I knew them when I was filming them,
00:05but I guess I just, I don't remember them now.
00:08My name is Tramiel Tillman, and I'm going to read some very verbose words for variety.
00:17Word number one, monosyllabically.
00:24Monosyllabically. That's a good word. If I had to guess monosyllabically,
00:29monosyllabically means one word with one syllable. Did I get that right? Let's see.
00:36Monosyllabically means of a person using brief words to signify reluctance to engage in conversation.
00:46That's not what I thought. It's also not what I said. So there it is. Monosyllabically.
00:51To put that monosyllabically. I mean, it's pretty iconic, right?
00:58The way Milchick said it, monosyllabically. It was really fun. I really was leaning into how
01:06Milchick felt about his vocabulary being monitored. And Drummond was really driving hard on this man.
01:16And so it was an opportunity to give it right back to him. Since you don't understand the big words,
01:23let me put it to you in smaller words. That's what it felt like to me. When I first was introduced to
01:30Milchick, I didn't know who he was. Years later, I still don't know who this man is. But what was
01:35always fun was the ability for us to play and explore. As we developed the story and the characters
01:43got to fan out more, I got to learn so much more about this guy. So it was an ongoing process. Okay.
01:55Colloquy. Colloquy. Did I say that right? Colloquy. Colloquy. There's colloquially, right?
02:05A colloquialism, right? That's a word that stands for another word or a phrase that stands for
02:14something, a colloquialism. But what does colloquy mean? Let's see. A conversation.
02:23That's not what I said. Okay. Colloquy. Okay. I think he's a beast at Wordle. He is a beast.
02:31He's probably one of those top earners and he gets the words in like seconds. Man doesn't play
02:38around. For me, it was just playing honestly, really leaning into the role that this man had
02:44at this particular point in his career. You know, he was the boss and it's his job to run the severed
02:51floor. And how he got that position still remains a mystery. You know, some people believe that he may
02:59have sabotaged Cobel. But what's so fun is watching this man rise to leadership and using his kindness
03:09reforms to get the best results. And we see that every step of the way he fails. And it's so much
03:17fun to watch that play out. I cannot ad-lib while playing Milchik because it's written so beautifully.
03:25So I wouldn't want to ad-lib anyway, but there's a specific language that this man has and that
03:30cadence as well, which is very different from my own cadence. So to tap into that is really challenging.
03:37And I have to make sure that I have the language down to a science because there's no wiggle room
03:45at all. Remonstration. Remonstration. I remember this word was right before Milchik used
04:00monosyllabically because he was getting grilled by Drummond and did not meet the standards of what he was
04:09asked to do. And he thanked Drummond for his remonstration. If I remember it, it's like guidance or
04:19instruction. Let's see if I can get this. Hold on. A forcefully reproachful protest.
04:30Could be kind of close, maybe.
04:32When I'm on set, I look up all the words. So I knew them when I was filming them, but I guess I
04:46just, I don't remember them now. We do several takes because it's important for us to find the
04:56story in that. And Dari, who plays Drummond, is such a generous and wonderful actor. He's so scary,
05:03but such a sweetheart. Just a big old teddy bear. And I really enjoyed working with him.
05:09Okay. Next one. All right. Folly. You must eradicate from your essence childish folly. Folly.
05:19Folly. Folly is like, is play, right? It's kind of like foolishness. It's, it's silliness.
05:29Let's see. Lack of good sense. Foolishness. I got that one right. I got that one right. Yes. Folly.
05:36Lack of good sense. Foolishness. That was, that was a good scene. You must eradicate from your essence
05:44childish folly. There are a couple lines that people enjoy. Devour feculence is a big one. One
05:53of my favorite lines that I don't really get much feedback from is from the Ortbo. And I don't know
06:00if it just got lost in the sauce, but I think it's such a great line. The line is directed towards
06:05Dylan and Milchick says, marshmallows are for team players, Dylan. They don't just hand them out.
06:11I was like, I think that's such a great line. It's so good. You must grow up, grow up, grow up.
06:23That moment was really heartbreaking because it was the removal of Milchick's essence from himself.
06:34It was the chipping away to mold himself into the corporate structure that they wanted him to be.
06:41And it was particularly painful or sad to, to tell that story in that moment because anyone who has
06:49had to shape or shift themselves in order to fit in would totally understand that moment. We filmed
06:56that sequence in one take. It was really incredible. Uta, our director, really led the charge to make sure
07:03that we got the magic of that scene. It was really quite beautiful. I tell people that he started in chaos.
07:11Day one, they were missing a refiner. Day one, they had Heli come on board. So everything had to go according to plan.
07:21So they were high stakes from the very beginning. And if you really do a timeline, this all happened
07:27within weeks of each other. That's a lot. It can break anybody.
07:32I'm going to spell this one. G-R-A-K-A-P-P-A-N. This is, this is a fun word because this particular
07:46word was mispronounced by Milchick. He pronounced it, which is wrong. The correct pronunciation is
07:58G-R-A-K-A-P-A-P-A-N. And that means gray coat. And it speaks to the Swedish king who had that nickname,
08:07gray coat. Have you ever heard the story of the G-R-A-K-A-P-A-P-A-N?
08:11How do you come up from G-R-A-K-A-P-A-P-A-N to G-R-A-K-A-P-A-P-A-N? This is a man who is very verbose,
08:18but he's not perfect by any means. And his back is up against the wall because the refiners are coming back
08:23from this calamitous Ortbo and they want to know what happened and we lost a refiner. So he's having to
08:31really kind of improv a little bit. And I, I really appreciate the fact that the creative team was willing
08:41to take the risk and play with this pronunciation a little bit. I know we got a little backlash for that,
08:48but you know, I hope that I have not offended the people of Sweden or anybody else who loves
08:53the Swedish language by, uh, mispronouncing this word on purpose, um, throughout the, the show.
09:03Feculence. That's a good word. Feculence is waste. Can I say it that way? Waste. Dirt, sediment,
09:14or waste matter. Use it in a sentence. Devour feculence.
09:23It's a good scene. Devour feculence. I've had a friend of mine who had reached out to me
09:32when that episode aired and said that this is a new phrase that he will be saying daily. And I
09:39appreciate that. I have seen signage at rallies with devour feculence on it. Um, so it has, uh,
09:49made an impact, uh, across the world. So that's really, really cool.
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