00:00So first I'm going to start off with, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Jeremiah Dunmire
00:03might be the most terrifying threat that Dwight has faced going forward.
00:09Oh yeah.
00:10Robert Patrick is playing the role which, who you've worked with before, that history with you guys,
00:14did that make it easier or harder for you to go head to head with some of those dramatic scenes?
00:18It makes it easier because we know each other and so we can speak in shorthand
00:25and Robert is one of these actors which I love. He doesn't always walk around angry, in the mood,
00:32kind of winding himself up. He goes right into it. He's that good and that to me is the earmark of a
00:38good actor where he can turn it on and off without always walking around hyperventilating. So by the
00:44time you get to the scene you're exhausted. But yeah, he was fantastic. It is fantastic.
00:50Yeah.
00:50You're right. He is terrifying. Where do you see what's coming up?
00:54Well, I saw the first six, so I was like so scared. I was like, oh my god, this guy's so crazy. But I
00:59loved it. And I imagine for playing Dwight, a character you've played for a few years now,
01:05I would love to hear this experience of how you've lived with a character like this for so long
01:10versus like a movie role that you get to do for a couple months and then go away from it.
01:15Oh, yes. There is no comparison, at least in the way I perform. We'll do a movie. It's a 40-day shoot.
01:22It used to be sometimes a 100-day shoot. But somehow it just didn't have the intensity
01:27or the frantic, frenetic pace of working in streaming. I used to think, oh, these TV actors
01:35have it easy. No. No. Because there is no time to rest. You're constantly flipping the script.
01:41You're trying to memorize your lines. You get there, oh, we changed everything.
01:46It's hellacious. It really is. But films prepare me because I think there's a different kind of acting.
01:54There's film acting and then there's TV acting, which is much more concise, faster.
02:00So a lot of times you don't really get to emote the way you would in a feature film.
02:06But because of streaming and some of these shows are getting so dramatic, you're seeing better acting on stream.
02:13Yeah. And, you know, you said in a recent interview that you love playing Dwight
02:17because he's a more human side of what you imagine a gangster would be.
02:20Right, right.
02:21Is there another type of character that you've always wanted to play
02:23and you hope to still get the opportunity to play?
02:26You know, but a lot of that requires a great physicality.
02:30And having had three neck fusion and seven back operations, I'm not about to go rolling around.
02:36So, yes, there would have been some great adventure stories.
02:39I just, I like adventure. I like escapism.
02:44I'd love to do a good horror movie.
02:47But, you know, a classy one like Exorcist or something.
02:50Oh, that'd be great.
02:51But, no, I'm definitely not doing a Shakespeare, so I've been pretty lucky to do pretty much what I've wanted to do.
03:00Well, you're three neck fusions. You're still throwing punches at this show, so.
03:03Yeah, a little bit.
03:04A lot of it this season.
03:05Oh, a lot of it?
03:06I think this season you got a lot of it.
03:08Oh, well, yes.
03:10I also want to talk about the Samuel L. Jackson of it all briefly.
03:13How much convincing was it on your end to bring him into this franchise?
03:17Oh, actually, he was, he was the aggressor.
03:22He wanted to, he wanted to do it so badly, so he went to the producer.
03:25Producer came to me, he goes, what do you think?
03:27I go, wow.
03:28That's a major coup.
03:30That's, because Sam walks onto the set with complete confidence.
03:35He knows he's got it.
03:36He knows he's a man.
03:37He's a certain swagger.
03:39And I feel like, here it comes, high noon, which could be a gunfight between us two.
03:43So he brings out the best.
03:45It's, actors love to be challenged.
03:48At first, there may be a little intimidation, but once you get cooking,
03:51like once after the first punch is thrown, now you're in it.
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