00:00We were just chatting with your friend, Brian Darcy James.
00:02How exciting was it to, you know, have that interaction and be able to see your friends tonight?
00:09That is the best part about this night.
00:11I used to, this is shameless name dropping, but the most fun for me for the past like three times that I've done this
00:17is this is the only time I'd run into my friend Sam Jackson.
00:20And we did a movie together like 18 years ago.
00:22But he said to me a couple years ago, he goes,
00:24you know, the only time I ever see you is the Tonys.
00:26So he's sort of my representative, although I don't, I didn't see him here tonight.
00:30But there are plenty of other friends that I, that I, you know, we never get to see.
00:33And when you're doing theater, you're on that schedule.
00:34So you really never get to see anybody.
00:36But obviously somebody, seeing somebody like Brian, who's been nominated, I don't know, four or five times.
00:41He's got to be, he's won a ton.
00:43It's just one of the best guys on Broadway too.
00:45I forever, forever known him for 25 years.
00:50That's what makes it special.
00:52These are, you got lifelong friends here that, that, that we've known.
00:55And you come up together and now we find ourselves in our fifties still being here.
01:00It's exciting.
01:01And you're obviously such a Broadway veteran.
01:04Is there any play or revival that you would be itching to do next?
01:09Yeah, there's a lot.
01:09I'm trying to find a bunch.
01:12Yeah.
01:12I don't know if I want to do a play.
01:13I really want to do an original musical.
01:16So I'm looking at that, looking at a few of those.
01:18I workshopped one of those for a long time.
01:20It's going to run in London.
01:21Maybe it'll come here and maybe we can talk about that.
01:24Um, that's on the back burner.
01:26But then there's other stuff that I'm trying to, you know, yes.
01:30The answer is yes.
01:32Looking forward to that.
01:33And finally, I, I wanted to ask, I know you, uh, made your directorial debut with Insidious.
01:38What was that experience like?
01:39And what did you learn as a director that you've taken with you as an actor now moving forward?
01:44Sure.
01:44Well, there's an understanding of just the process, especially making a film.
01:48But I actually think, and I'm, I've been in a producing, I'm producing a show that hopefully
01:52will be on Broadway next year, a musical adaptation of The Lost Boys.
01:55And I think being on the other side as a director, a producer, and understanding just how it all
02:00works and how it just takes an absolute village.
02:03I mean, luckily I was never one of those actors that was very me, me, me.
02:06I'm the most important person in the room, like some actors are.
02:10Uh, so that was never my thing anyway, but certainly it gives you an understanding of
02:14the process.
02:14And certainly in film where you can shoot your stuff out in one day and then the director's
02:18living with it for another year, trying to make it work.
02:21Ha ha ha ha.
02:25Ha ha ha.
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