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Chris Perfetti tells THR on the Emmys red carpet what it was like to return to the set of 'Abbott Elementary' following the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

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00:00What has it been like being back on set of Abbott Elementary since the strike ended and getting back to work?

00:05I don't think I was really prepared for the relief that kind of the floodgates opened and the strikes I feel like only delayed that

00:13and sort of compounded how excited we all were to get back and obviously it felt like we had achieved something really great

00:20and so it was a bit of a bigger celebration that I was prepared for and you know we're in our third season now

00:26and I feel like these people are my family and I love my job so much and so it was it was an incredible feeling I'm very happy to be back

00:34What can we expect from your character in season three? What can you tease?

00:40Um, is Quinta anywhere around? No, I don't really have anything like too dramatic to tease about Jacob

00:47I'm so excited about where this season is going I feel like from the jump Quinta has really turned the show on its head

00:55and she's really going to introduce something that I think is going to keep people guessing

00:59and there's a lot of amazing characters who you will meet in the very early episodes of this season

01:05and I think it's going to be fun to sort of explore like Jacob getting what he wants, you know

01:11I don't think we would have a show if we made these characters, you know, the 180 opposite of what they are

01:20but I think we're going to kind of, you know who they are and hopefully you have some relationship to that

01:26and so now we're going to sort of like challenge that and see how much we can get away with

01:30so Jacob's going to win a little bit more this year

01:32We're excited to see it and maybe a win tonight, how would that feel?

01:37I would love that

01:38Do you know if you won an Emmy tonight where you would put it?

01:41Well, my SAG award is currently being used as a doorstop

01:47and I have another door in my house

01:50So, no, that one's shiny

01:53I feel like that one's got to go high up somewhere where it won't get dusty

01:57I don't know, haven't thought about it

01:59There are always so many amazing guest stars on Abbott

02:03What's another nominated show tonight that you would love to guest star on if you could?

02:08Oh man, I have to say it's been such an unbelievable joy to watch

02:14all of my New York theater brethren passing through Only Murders in the Building

02:20I'm like, who are they going to put in it next?

02:24It's so great

02:25I mean, there's such a wealth of great actors in New York City

02:30and that are right for that show

02:32and so that would be kind of like

02:36that would be unbelievable

02:39that would be sort of too good to be true

02:41but I love that show and I love everybody who's on it

02:44And the Emmys are celebrating 75 years of TV history tonight

02:48For you, when you were growing up

02:50what's a show that made you love television?

02:52You know, I didn't

02:55It was really like only in my adolescence that I started to watch

03:01and I guess all of us started to watch series in the way that we do

03:03but, you know, I grew up on all of the sitcoms that we all grew up on

03:08but I watched a lot of stand-up comedy

03:09I was like, if the TV was on, that's what I was watching

03:12I was trying to

03:13It wasn't conscious

03:16but I was just really drawn to that

03:18to their timing and to their vulnerability

03:20and so, I watched a lot of stand-up as a kid

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