00:00Well, you know, there's a point there where I do a speech at the end and I got emotional during the speech and the director is like, well, I don't think you can do that. You're Cal Thresher. Well, isn't that more the reason why I should? Because he is completely misunderstood. And I don't want anyone thinking that Cal Thresher is one way when he might be a completely different way.
00:20But Cal Thresher is a manifestation of who Neil McDonough is and pulling up things that, you know, I'm a pretty good person. I'm a good guy. You know, it's that I've had a career of playing villains is just bonkers to me. So, you know, did I pull up in season three a lot more Neil McDonough than I did in season two with Cal Thresher? Yeah, for sure. For sure. It's I'll fight for what is right. I'll fight for my family and, you know, till the bitter end. And that's who I am.
00:48And Cal Thresher is fighting for Oklahoma to the bitter end. And then in the end, when things finally come to, I can't tell you what happens, but you see the true colors of Cal Thresher really come up for a little bit and say, wow, Cal's one of us. And I really like that about Cal Thresher this year.
01:04We're guys, we're going to butt heads. That's what Rams do, right? You know, it's, you know, there's a thing, Shelby, when I show up to a set that I don't have fear because I'm a method actor. Well, fear, I'm not me. I'm pulling up thoughts of my life.
01:18To manifest into a character. But I'm certainly not Neil McDonough. And I don't, you know, I don't talk very much when I'm on set. I'm always kind of, you know, I say that, you know, when they call action, my pot is boiling on the front of the stove.
01:32But between takes, I can put it in the back where it's still simmering, but it's still there. And Ray taught me years ago, you've got to figure out how to turn this off because you're going to drive me nuts.
01:41And you're probably going to drive yourself crazy because you're doing psychotherapy without a psychotherapist.
01:46I'm like, yeah, you're probably right. So I figured out how to do that switch, which most people don't.
01:51So I'm cordial on set, but you can see I'm just kind of like that glossy eyed cordial because I'm always in my character and thinking thoughts and thinking about my personal past and dredging up all kinds of stuff that most people probably wouldn't want to dredge up.
02:03But it makes for truthfulness in my characters. So when I get to set against someone like Stallone, who is the same kind of way, it just makes for fantastic drama.
02:14And it's just like I said, we're two rams butting horns. And it's what's better than that. And I had a ball this last season on Tulsa King.
02:22It's more off. It's not so much that we're on screen so much. It's we're talking about each other so much.
02:28So it's it's it makes for great drama. It's it's always just kind of what the heck is going to happen with these guys?
02:35Where are they going to go? What is he going to become the governor? If he comes governor, what happens when he becomes governor?
02:39What happens to his his kind of friend, Dwight Manfredi, that he kind of likes, but he kind of wants to also take down at the same time.
02:47So without giving stuff away, it just makes for a really fantastic, fun filled season for the viewers.
02:52And I'm so excited. And then you add Kevin Pollack to the situation. You add Robert Patrick to the situation.
02:57You add all these new great, phenomenal actors to the situation.
03:01It just makes for just a terrific what I think is the best show on television.
03:04And I get to be part of it. How blessed am I?
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