00:00You're no stranger to playing a real person. As an actor, what excites you about playing a real person?
00:05Oh, you kind of get a cheat code.
00:08It's like you got all this material with photos and literature and video and audio,
00:13and it kind of is a great indicator of how to play the character oftentimes.
00:18When you don't have that, to me, it's harder.
00:21It's like I don't have the IP of the person's psychology.
00:24I have to dig a little bit deeper or in some ways create stuff that isn't there.
00:31And you and Jeremy work really closely in this movie, lots of intimate scenes.
00:35What was it like working with him and hearing him sing as Bruce?
00:38It was great.
00:39Amy and I, my wife Amy and I, we had met Jeremy a number of times on the press circuit for like
00:45I was doing Blackbird while he was doing The Bear, season two or whatever,
00:48and we're just mutual fans, and we always got giddy running into him in the cast of The Bears.
00:53So kind.
00:54Yeah, he's sweet.
00:55He makes time for everybody, and we just, he's someone I always wanted to work with,
01:00so it was cool to be in close confines and to have those scenes together.
01:03But we kept it really small and really simple, you know.
01:09It was really me just trying to feel him out and try to meet the needs of him in the scene,
01:15kind of like the character I play in Mike Batlin.
01:17It's like he serves at the pleasure of Bruce Springsteen.
01:20So I serve at the pleasure of The Bear, Jeremy Allen White.
01:25For you, what's it been like seeing him have just this amazing trajectory over these past few years?
01:30Yeah, it's been really beautiful.
01:32We've been busy.
01:32We've been having children.
01:33So I think that helps ground you.
01:34We've had three children in five years, and it keeps us humble and working hard.
01:40But it's really beautiful just to see his work ethic and how hard he works
01:45and what a good present father and husband he is at home, too.
01:48So that matters to us.
01:51And it's like, oh, yeah, Daddy's on TV.
01:53We put on Cruella, and our son was like, Daddy, Daddy.
01:56And, like, he put two and two together.
01:58That's so funny.
01:59So that's been fun.
02:00I love when they make the little connection of, like, that's Dad's voice coming on the TV.
02:03It's funny.
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