00:00I think all of us feel a sense of guardianship
00:02over our character's truth.
00:04You know, that's our job.
00:06But then when it's done, it doesn't belong to us anymore.
00:08You give it away.
00:10It's a liberating moment.
00:19Dexter, it means so much to me.
00:21I'd love to know, what was your I'm an adult show?
00:24The first show that you connected with and realized, like,
00:26oh, wait, I get these sensibilities now.
00:29Mine was, it's going to age me, Beretta.
00:33Beautiful.
00:34Jack?
00:35I'm going to say Lost.
00:36Beautiful.
00:37I wasn't a grown-up when I watched it,
00:39but it made me feel grown-up things.
00:41The Incredible Hulk, I think.
00:43Yes, I love that.
00:44A walkabout.
00:46The Outer Limits.
00:49Powerful choices.
00:50David?
00:50I was, like, a little kid watching 30-something,
00:56and I had no idea about what it felt like to be in your 30s
01:00because I was probably eight or nine,
01:02but I would just watch it and watch these adults
01:04having, like, conversations about stuff that was,
01:08I couldn't grasp, but it was fascinating to me.
01:10So I guess I started to feel like a grown-up then.
01:12I love that.
01:13My first show that I loved was My So-Called Life,
01:18which is the same creators, right?
01:20As, yeah, My So-Called Life was my favorite show.
01:22I love that connection.
01:23That's beautiful.
01:24Now, this show has a dark passenger concept
01:26that has evolved through its incarnations
01:29and through its experiences,
01:30and I feel like there's an inner monologue
01:31we all carry and all experience,
01:33and I wonder if discovering and exploring the show,
01:35especially those who have been in it so long,
01:37has that changed your own inner voice,
01:39your own inner monologue,
01:40and your own experience of a dark passenger.
01:42I've had one since I was a little kid,
01:44and I have gotten to this place in my grown-up life
01:47where I find having conversations with him
01:50is much better than trying to ignore him.
01:53So I try to, like, kind of the way that, you know,
01:57you've got Harry talking to Dexter.
02:01I feel like the parent that I kind of wished
02:04I could have had talking to me as a kid,
02:06I talk to myself inside that way sometimes
02:08when I feel like the dark passenger's starting to take over,
02:11and I help him relax and calm down
02:13and know that it's all going to be okay.
02:15Yeah, I think, you know, personifying your,
02:19whatever you want to call it, dark passenger in this case
02:22is potentially a healthy thing to do
02:25as opposed to being suffused with it, you know.
02:28Sit at the head of the table,
02:30let him have a seat, let him have his say,
02:33but remain at the head.
02:34That's the idea, I guess.
02:36Free therapy.
02:37Yeah, it does feel therapeutic.
02:39Well, when you're as old as me,
02:41they seem to be much more integrated
02:45and less oppositional than when I was much younger.
02:50I've assimilated it to become more of my whole being.
02:55Wow, that's an odd question for me
02:57because when I was younger,
02:59that thought was choosing the safe choice.
03:03And as I've gotten older,
03:06it's, well, what's the safe choice?
03:08I'm going to do the opposite.
03:10Yeah.
03:11And I've just developed that as I got older.
03:14I guess I have to go.
03:15I'm still figuring out what to do with my little rascal.
03:18I think you named him as well.
03:22I love that.
03:24I think, you know, when I was younger,
03:26run from it.
03:28And now as I'm older, embracing it more.
03:30And I love what Michael said
03:32and I love what David said.
03:34David actually gave me that exact advice
03:36earlier today as well.
03:37So, yeah.
03:38Beautiful.
03:39A little bit of both.
03:39There's a protectiveness also of these characters
03:41that have become so iconic.
03:42And I love that we're getting a prequel,
03:44very comic book-like,
03:45and also continuing the story on.
03:46Is there a protectiveness of these characters
03:48or is it beautiful as artists
03:50that have developed these characters
03:51and being artists that get to let it go
03:53and have the freedom to watch other people
03:55have that take?
03:56I mean, I think while you're making it,
03:57it belongs to you and as much as it ever does.
04:00And, you know, I think all of us feel
04:02a sense of guardianship over our character's truth.
04:05You know, that's our job.
04:07But then when it's done,
04:08it doesn't belong to us anymore.
04:09You give it away.
04:11It's a liberating moment.
04:13And inversely, I'm sure you've been asked a lot
04:15about joining this cast
04:16that's already like a well-formed family.
04:18But I've been wondering,
04:19when you were a fan of the show,
04:21watching it before you joined the cast,
04:22had you already had machinations
04:24of how you get killed?
04:25No, I never even crossed my mind.
04:27But I may be in the face.
04:29I feel like that question implies
04:30that my character dies.
04:32Fair.
04:32I think the better question would be,
04:35have I had, you know,
04:38fantasies and machinations in my mind
04:40plotting the way that my character
04:41gets to kill people on the show?
04:44No spoilers, though.
04:47Jack?
04:48I agree with what Michael said.
04:50I mean, this wasn't a show that I watched.
04:52I wasn't allowed to watch it as a kid.
04:54Yeah.
04:55And I sort of became aware of the universe
04:59and the family that I was joining
05:01as I joined it.
05:02And then afterward,
05:04because that was when I went and watched.
05:07Yeah.
05:07And in terms of the guardianship of the character,
05:10I think that feels very real,
05:12like when you're in it.
05:13Because it's,
05:14you're giving yourself to that character
05:16and to that story.
05:17And it is kind of absorbs everything
05:19that you're doing.
05:20And then, yeah, after you're done,
05:21it belongs to the audience.
05:23I love that.
05:24And I love what this world has become.
05:26And I love what you guys have built.
05:27And I really appreciate it
05:28continuing on in this way.
05:29And it's a really beautiful show.
05:30And thank you.
05:31Oh, thank you.
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