The Assembly (CA) Season 1 Episode 4

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00:00Enjoy.

00:01Hi, everyone.

00:02Hi, Alan.

00:03Hi.

00:04Thank you for coming all the way from Newfoundland.

00:06Oh, thank you.

00:09Hi.

00:10What type of dog do you have?

00:12I have a King Charles Cavalier.

00:14I thought it would be fitting if this dog was Labrador.

00:16It's like Newfoundland and Labrador.

00:17I know.

00:18We're a Newfoundland dog, the big ones.

00:20Oh.

00:21But I don't.

00:22I have two tiny little ones.

00:23Oh, okay.

00:24That's nice.

00:25Do you speak any other languages?

00:26I barely speak this one.

00:28English, Jimmy.

00:29Yeah.

00:30How about you?

00:31Newfoundlandese, I guess.

00:32Newfoundlandese.

00:33You probably speak a bit of that.

00:34I do.

00:35Yeah?

00:36I do.

00:37Yeah.

00:38I have a question.

00:39Did you work with Russell Crowe?

00:41I did.

00:42Oh.

00:43Oh, my God.

00:44Yeah.

00:45Wait.

00:46Are you friends with him or not?

00:47I am.

00:48Do you guys know who Alan Doyle is?

00:50Yeah.

00:51Great Big C.

00:52They went out one night and Alan invited me to join them because I lived in Toronto at

00:57the time.

00:58And we've been friends ever since.

01:01That was 2003.

01:03And then when I, Republic of Doyle, the second that we got a green light for the show, Russell

01:08was like, I'll come do it.

01:10It's cool.

01:11Yeah.

01:12I know there's a new show out now, Saint Pierre.

01:13Yep.

01:14You're in that one too, I remember.

01:16That's my show too, yeah.

01:17I was researching that on the internet.

01:19Oh, okay.

01:20Was it good things or?

01:21Oh, good things.

01:22Okay.

01:23Okay.

01:24Everybody is here.

01:25So, TJ, do you get to open the show for us?

01:38Of course.

01:40Okay.

01:41Welcome to the assembly.

01:42I collect autistic and neurodivergent viewers.

01:46We are very delighted to have you join us today.

01:48The rules are no sharp jets out of balance, no questions off the table, and all might happen.

01:55Kim, please tell us your name kindly.

01:58My name is Alan Hocko.

02:01Good name.

02:02Thanks.

02:06Our first question is from Nick.

02:09Hello there.

02:16Yeah.

02:17Now, my question is, I'm an actor myself, actually.

02:20Are you?

02:21And, yes, there was one particular role I had in a music video which was extremely ridiculous and degrading.

02:27I had to wear a cheap and really awful costume, and I had to force a plastic smile through the whole thing.

02:34My question is, what was the worst role you've ever taken?

02:41I'm sorry you went through that.

02:43When I was starting out as a young actor, I worked at a modeling agency where I had to be a stripper at a hairdresser's convention.

02:56It wasn't full, but it still was bad enough.

03:06And once I was fired...

03:09That's not good.

03:11...from being a background performer on a Resident Evil movie in Toronto,

03:17I was really resentful that I was a background performer and I wasn't in the show.

03:24I broke one of the rules.

03:26I was playing a zombie in a...

03:28It's hilarious.

03:29...and I wore, like, a hoodie because it was cold.

03:32Wardrobe was all zombie wardrobe, and then I had this new hoodie on, and then someone saw it.

03:36And they got mad, and then I spoke back to them and I got fired.

03:40Mm-hmm.

03:41Oh!

03:42Oh, man.

03:43Yeah, you wanted to be the center of the stage, huh?

03:45I wanted a role, you know?

03:47I wanted to do the job that I get to do now.

03:50The background community is so valuable, but I didn't know that then.

03:54I was so... mad at the world.

03:58Yeah.

03:59Yeah.

04:00Good question, Nick.

04:01Yeah, thanks.

04:02Corinne, you're next.

04:04So, back in 2022, I spent about 15 minutes filling out its mission form on Impulse because I was bored, not expecting to hear anything back from it, and I eventually ended up alone on a stage in front of 5,000 people on national television trying to make them laugh.

04:29Yeah, so my question is, what small random impulse or moment had the biggest unexpected impact on your life?

04:39Yeah, oh, great question.

04:41First of all, congrats.

04:43That's one of my greatest fears.

04:45If someone's got that question, that's, what's my greatest fear?

04:48That's one of them.

04:50Stand up.

04:52Scares me.

04:53Well, I am incredibly brave.

04:59So, an impulse moment that I'm glad I took.

05:04I was auditioning for a play at Soul Pepper in Toronto, which is a really well-established classical theatre company.

05:14To get in that company was like a big deal, and I was blowing my audition.

05:18I was just not doing great.

05:23And I was leaving at the end of my audition, and you could feel everybody was looking at me like I was a disappointment to them.

05:29And on my way out the door, I stopped and went back and asked them to let me do it all over again.

05:33And it was an impulse moment that I'm glad I, it probably changed the trajectory of my career because I got in the company that year.

05:40So, once I was in that company, the industry looked at me in a different way, and then everything changed for me.

05:46That's awesome.

05:53What is that?

05:54It means clap.

05:55ASL.

05:56That's how deaf people clap.

05:58Okay.

05:59Liam is next.

06:01Hi.

06:02Hi.

06:03The character of Jake Doyle has become as iconic as any other fictional detective.

06:10Holmes, Poirot, Columbo.

06:14My question was, were there any, like, performances in detective fiction that you drew on when developing Doyle, or did you just go your own way with it?

06:24I was extremely influenced by a lot of people as an actor.

06:31The goal for me is to be as much of me in the part that I'm playing as possible.

06:38But I'm not cool.

06:40Jake Doyle is cool.

06:41I am not.

06:46Like Jake Doyle in Republic of Doyle, we really went into a deep dive on all of that stuff.

06:52Jim Rockford, Big Time, Sonny Crockett, Miami Vice, Remington Steele.

06:57Yeah.

06:58A lot of the 70s, a lot of the British stuff we drew heavily on.

07:02I love detective fiction.

07:03I love that stuff, too.

07:04Me, too.

07:05Yeah, I love it.

07:06It's so good.

07:07Yeah, I love, love, love it.

07:08Mm-hmm.

07:09Yeah.

07:12Luca, you are next.

07:14Okay.

07:17So, um, hello there.

07:19Here's a question.

07:20I'm not sure if you'd answer this very well, but have you ever been rejected by somebody

07:26that you love?

07:29Oh, yeah.

07:30You have?

07:31Oh, yeah.

07:32Was it because they thought you weren't, um, the good looking or something?

07:36Probably.

07:37Probably.

07:40Or something.

07:43You know what's funny about my career as an actor is you are rejected constantly.

07:50Ninety percent of the job is not getting the part.

07:54It's extremely challenging to face those odds.

07:58And the way I deal with it is the same way I dealt with it back in my youth when I was

08:04rejected by a girl that I loved or thought I loved, is what are you going to do about

08:09it?

08:10You just got to keep moving on.

08:11Yep.

08:12That's the mindset that I have.

08:13That's good.

08:14What else is there?

08:15You can't be what someone else wants you to be ever.

08:18You can only be you.

08:20You can be a better you and you can work on being a better you as much as you possibly

08:24can.

08:25But you can't be something else for someone.

08:28Yeah.

08:29You can't force yourself into a space that doesn't work for you.

08:34Understood.

08:36Great.

08:37Thank you, Luca.

08:39Nicole, you're next.

08:41My question for you is how old were you for your first kiss?

08:53My first kiss was pretty early.

08:57You know what?

08:58My first kiss, I think I was five.

09:02That is pretty early.

09:05And it might have been four.

09:08It wasn't like a big kiss or anything, but she was a little bit older than me.

09:15And I had a bit of a crush.

09:17Oh, wow.

09:18By how much?

09:19Two years older than me.

09:21Two years older than you?

09:23Yeah.

09:24Wow, man.

09:25I thought I was seven years older than you.

09:27No, it wasn't that old.

09:28No, no, no, no.

09:29That would have been weird.

09:31Have you ever kissed a boy?

09:33Never kissed a boy.

09:35Oh!

09:36Oh, man.

09:38I've never even kissed a boy in acting.

09:43Like, I've never played a gay character.

09:46Wow.

09:47Interesting.

09:48Or a character who's curious or any of that.

09:51Oh, okay.

09:52Thanks for answering.

09:55Next is Daniel.

09:56My question is, what piece of Newfoundland slang do you wish would pick up and spread throughout

10:10the country?

10:11Do you want me to teach you one?

10:12Sure.

10:13Yeah.

10:14Yeah.

10:15Teach me.

10:16Okay.

10:17So what are you at?

10:19What are you at?

10:20Yeah.

10:21It's not, where are you at, which people everywhere say, where are you at?

10:26Yeah.

10:27In Newfoundland, we say, where are you to?

10:30Oh.

10:31Where are you to means, where are you?

10:33Oh.

10:34So stay where you're to, till it comes where you're at.

10:37But it can also be, stay where you're at, till it comes where you're to.

10:40Which also means, stay where you're to, till it comes where you're at.

10:44To say, what are you at, is what are you doing?

10:50And your answer doesn't have to be specific.

10:53Your answer can just be nothing.

10:55Even if you're performing surgery, you would say, nothing.

10:57What are you at?

11:04Well, thank you.

11:06Connie, you are next.

11:11Thanks.

11:12Hi, Alan.

11:13Hi.

11:14What are you at?

11:16This is it.

11:17Um.

11:18Did I say it right?

11:19You said it perfect.

11:20Awesome.

11:21Okay.

11:22What was a belief that you had in your twenties that you don't believe today?

11:29I used to believe that Newfoundland should be its own country.

11:32Oh, no way.

11:34Why, man?

11:35Like, passionately.

11:36Crazy.

11:38I was just really passionate as a Newfoundlander.

11:40I loved the culture, place, the history.

11:43I was really, really into it.

11:44And Newfoundland joined Canada in a strange way and we were all obsessed with it.

11:48Right.

11:49And I got over that because I went to Bosnia in 2004 or something.

11:55So it was like very shortly after the war.

11:58And I saw firsthand what nationalism can do.

12:02Right.

12:03And I love Newfoundland and Labrador.

12:05I love the place.

12:07But life has changed.

12:09Like, Newfoundland has so many people from other parts of the world that live there.

12:13Right.

12:14Closing it off into its concept of what a national identity is or something.

12:18It's like racist.

12:20It's archaic.

12:21It's crazy.

12:22Your whole perspective, it kind of just flipped on a dime.

12:25Well, you go to a place where they experience bloodshed and war.

12:30Yeah.

12:31If there's an us and there's a them.

12:32If you were an alien to look down at us, you'd be like, but what's the difference?

12:36Exactly.

12:37I got over that real quick.

12:39Yeah.

12:40All right.

12:41Thank you so much.

12:42Next is Austin.

12:44Okay.

12:45So let's get straight to it.

12:47What is the dumbest thing you have ever done that like just haunts you?

12:52Probably, I have to think, I have to think.

12:56What is the honest answer to the dumbest thing I've ever done in my life?

13:01What is the dumbest thing you have ever done that like just haunts you?

13:14I know the answer.

13:16I knew it would come to me.

13:17I started smoking when I was a kid.

13:20I was 13 years old.

13:26You know, my parents weren't smokers.

13:30No one encouraged me to do it, but it's just something I did.

13:34And it's haunted me my whole life.

13:36I don't smoke now.

13:37Good for you.

13:39Yeah.

13:40But I've struggled with it my whole life.

13:41It's like an addiction you can't control.

13:44And I wish I'd never taken that first puff because you get addicted very quickly.

13:49Did you stop shortly after?

13:51No, I smoked all through high school until I got to theater school.

13:56You could smoke inside the building in Quebec at that time.

14:00It was...

14:01No way.

14:02Yeah, it was really...

14:03Different times?

14:04Different times, yeah.

14:06But challenging to quit when it was all around you, and I did.

14:10And I have fallen off the wagon a number of times and picked it up, but I've always stopped.

14:15And I hope this time is my last time.

14:18That's my honest, stupidest thing I ever did.

14:21Yeah.

14:22All right.

14:23Thank you, Austin.

14:24Great question.

14:25Karen, you are next.

14:27Oh, hi.

14:29When I feel anxious, my touch go up, and I dare rush to speed.

14:40I'm so sorry.

14:42Can I come closer?

14:44When I feel nervous, my touch go up, and I dare rush to speed.

14:51How do you manage your anxious?

14:56How do I manage my, like, anxiety?

14:59Yeah.

15:01I get very nervous in public speaking.

15:12I meditate.

15:13I try to meditate.

15:15I try to remember that everybody that I'm speaking to wants me to do well.

15:22I just try to breathe, focus on my breath.

15:27It's hard.

15:29Is it?

15:30Yeah, it's hard.

15:31Amazing.

15:32Thanks, Karen.

15:34Alexis is next.

15:38Hi.

15:39Hi.

15:40So, as a child, with a religious upbringing, I understand, like, that your mom was a nun

15:46who later became a teacher.

15:47And I want to know, like, if you ever felt pressured to kind of follow a very specific

15:53moral or religious kind of path as you were growing up.

15:57I don't know if I'd say pressured, but we were raised in a really staunch Catholic household.

16:08And I'm a very curious person.

16:11I constantly ask the question, why?

16:15It's never enough for me to be, well, this is the answer.

16:19You have to do that.

16:20This is what you're told.

16:22Even as a child, I just didn't subscribe to that.

16:25But I was the youngest.

16:27I'm the youngest of four.

16:28Yep.

16:29I'd say my oldest sibling, Michelle, might have felt more of that pressure.

16:33But as time went on, my parents were very busy.

16:38They just chilled out.

16:40You know?

16:41So being out partying or drinking or whatever in high school, which I did tons of.

16:47But they kind of gave me a wide berth to make my own choices and be responsible.

16:53Yeah.

16:54And there was a number of dumb things that I did during that time.

16:57I had this one trick that I used to do when I was a teenager,

17:01is I used to call home from the party I was at, because I was, my room was in the basement.

17:05So I would call from the party and my mother would answer the phone and I would say,

17:11I got it, mom.

17:12And then she would be like, okay.

17:14And hang up thinking that I was home and I've answered the phone.

17:17Yeah.

17:22But I've confessed that to her a number of times.

17:24Yeah.

17:25Thanks, Alexis.

17:27Julia, you are next.

17:29Hey, Alan.

17:30Hi.

17:31When I was younger, me and my friend used to fight quite a bit.

17:42And one time she pulled the chair and I fell over.

17:45And then I sharpened my pencil and I put it under her bum.

17:48Ooh.

17:49That was yellow.

17:50Oh, that was bad.

17:53She still jokes that she has lead in her bum.

17:55And so I was just wondering, did you ever fight with your siblings or friends?

18:02Yeah.

18:03I grew up in a tough town that had a lot of physical fights.

18:07Like I used to have to get, I used to have to get in fights a lot and I didn't like it.

18:12So it was never really something I liked to do.

18:15And my problem is that when I lose my temper, it's, I can lose my temper, but it doesn't last long.

18:22So I got in a fight once with a guy in my school.

18:27A bunch of guys were picking on me and I got really mad.

18:30And I said we were going to fight each other at three o'clock.

18:33And that was at 10.

18:35And by three, I wasn't, I forgot what we were mad at.

18:38Wasn't mad anymore.

18:39He beat me up pretty good.

18:42Oh.

18:43Oh, I'm sorry.

18:44Well, thank you.

18:45I try not to do a lot of fighting on purpose.

18:51Alex, you are next.

18:58Hello.

18:59I'm Alex.

19:00Nice to meet you.

19:01Nice to meet you.

19:02My question for you today is what is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:06What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:07What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:12Um.

19:13What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:14What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:15What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:16Um.

19:17What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:21What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:22What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:26What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:27What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:31What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:32What is the hardest thing you've forgiven yourself for?

19:38Um.

19:39I don't know.

19:50It's probably stuff around my father.

19:57Yeah, I get that one.

20:01It's hard with dads.

20:04Um, since he's passed, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the positives.

20:11Because when he was alive, we had a lot of conflict.

20:14He had so many great qualities.

20:17Yeah.

20:17He was a great father in so many ways.

20:21Most of the time he had, um, demons, you know, we all do.

20:26No one is, no one has ever, ever one thing.

20:30We made amends and everything.

20:32So I feel okay about that.

20:34And the, at the end of the day, he was insanely supportive of, of, of me going into this really ludicrous career, particularly from the place that he came from and where I came from.

20:48It didn't feel like a feasible thing to do.

20:50And really, it really isn't.

20:52It's a strange and very complicated career.

20:55And he wasn't, he never questioned it.

20:59Yeah.

20:59If you'd like to end there, that's okay.

21:09Yeah.

21:09Just for my mom's sake, I think.

21:11Yeah, that's fair.

21:12Again, for, he's not, he wasn't like a super bad guy or anything.

21:15We just had a complicated thing.

21:19Yeah.

21:20No, relationships with parents are very difficult.

21:22They can be challenging.

21:23Yeah.

21:24Thank you for your answer.

21:25Thanks for your question.

21:27Of course.

21:27Thanks.

21:31Devin, you're next.

21:36Hey, Ellen.

21:38Hi.

21:39My question is, do you move to, when you move to America, pay for, for, would you pay for more money?

21:52I think you're asking if I would move to America to make more money?

21:58Yep.

21:59Okay.

22:00Yes, I would definitely make more money if I were doing what I do now in America.

22:07But I never wanted to live anywhere else.

22:11I like living in Canada.

22:14I lived in Toronto.

22:16I lived in Montreal.

22:18I love living in Newfoundland.

22:21I love Newfoundland.

22:22But I didn't want to live anywhere else.

22:25I wanted to stay here and, and tell our stories in Canada.

22:30I've been very lucky to get to do that.

22:33Great.

22:33Thank you, Devin.

22:38Alex, would you like to close the show for us?

22:40Yes.

22:44So, first off, I want to just say thank you for coming today and being vulnerable with us.

22:48It's not easy to do this.

22:50So, on that note, how was the experience for you?

22:55It was hard, but it was also lovely.

22:59Thank you for your compassion.

23:01You asked me your question.

23:03You were very compassionate about bringing me out of where I was going.

23:06So, thank you.

23:07Of course.

23:07And thank you to everybody.

23:09This was, I'm from the theater.

23:13I love the truth and kind of bringing a real experience to life, which is what you guys

23:18do so effectively.

23:20And I'm honored to be here.

23:21So, thank you.

23:22Yeah.

23:22Thank you for coming today.

23:23We appreciate it.

23:24Yes.

23:26Thanks.

23:28Nice passing to you.

23:32I made a new friend today.

23:34Yes, me too.

23:35Where are we going?

23:39Where are we going for the photo?

23:40We're going to have a photo shoot.

23:41Amazing.

23:42Are you Star Trek or Star Wars?

23:44Both.

23:44I like both.

23:45I like both, too.

23:47Yeah.

23:47Good job.

23:48Good job.

23:55Smiles.

23:56Yeah.

23:56There we go.

23:58There we go.

23:59Loving it.

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