Oliver Stark Calls Relationship With Connie Britton On '9-1-1' "Refreshing" | In Studio - video Dailymotion

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"I think it’s refreshing to see on television because it’s not explored enough but it’s a relationship that happens in real life," Stark told THR.

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00:00I'm Oliver Trevina in studio with The Hollywood Reporter, joined by this man, Oliver Stark.

00:09Hello.

00:09How are you?

00:10I'm doing well.

00:11Yeah?

00:11Thank you for having me.

00:12This is great.

00:13Oliver and Oliver, British and British.

00:14It's going to be so easy.

00:15There's no novelty.

00:16A minute ago, I did think, oh, what was his name?

00:18Genuinely enough.

00:19Oh, you did.

00:19Because I just remember introducing and hearing an Oliver, and now I'm like, oh yeah, because

00:22it was another Oliver.

00:23Yeah.

00:24I just, it slipped.

00:24Sadly, I think the viewers will probably need subtitles on this once we get going.

00:28Yeah, very much.

00:29But we'll see how it goes.

00:30Because we were just talking before, and it started speeding up very quickly.

00:33So, we'll slow it down.

00:34We'll take it easy.

00:35And speed it up 9-1-1.

00:369-1-1.

00:379-1-1.

00:38Straight in.

00:39It's everything.

00:41It's obviously a genre.

00:42You know, emergency services have been done before, but it's just out there in a way that

00:47I've never seen.

00:48Yeah, I think the fact that it kind of covers dispatchers, police, and firefighters, yeah,

00:54it kind of changes things up.

00:55Because, you know, we've got the fire shows, we've got the cop shows.

00:57It's also just nice to have that dispatcher on, because, you know, they're really the

01:01first responders.

01:02Right, right.

01:02They're the people on the end of the phone.

01:04They're the people who are very highly trained and coaching people through it before anyone

01:07actually gets there.

01:08So, I think it's really nice to include that.

01:10Right.

01:10I think that's what makes it so unique as a show.

01:12Right.

01:13And they go all out there.

01:14Like, when you're watching it, you're like, I mean, the stunts, the chaos, I should say.

01:20It's all there.

01:20And it's not done by halves.

01:22It's like, if it's in the show, it's like, we're going to do it.

01:25We had a moment the other day where we had to take this guy down from the top of a truck

01:30on a ladder, like, carrying him on a backboard.

01:33Okay.

01:33And one of the first ADs, it was his first day on the job, and he said, why don't we

01:36just lower him in from two feet?

01:38And the character said, that's not how we do it on this show.

01:40Right.

01:40Not on that show.

01:41It's like, we do it.

01:41We make it happen.

01:43And it's because the crew is like, they're so talented.

01:46Right.

01:46And they make it safe and they make it real.

01:48Right.

01:49On that note, do you do all your own stunts?

01:51Are you kind of active?

01:51There's like 80, 90% of them, like genuinely, and we try and keep it, you know, like the

01:56stunt people that we have make it very safe for us.

01:59Right.

01:59And then, you know, the more that we are able to do, the more it sells to an audience.

02:04Right.

02:04So, for example, there's like a roller coaster climbing section in the second episode.

02:08I climbed a roller coaster.

02:09I climbed a roller coaster track to like 85 feet in the air.

02:11How long have you always wanted to?

02:13It was amazing.

02:14Honestly, they were like, you don't have to do it.

02:16I was like, no, no, I'm doing it.

02:18Right.

02:18I'm going up there.

02:19So, it was so much fun.

02:20And it's just getting to do things that you've never been able to do before, you know?

02:23Yeah, you strike me as someone that will always push to do it.

02:25Oh, absolutely.

02:26Yeah.

02:26They didn't let me do one thing, which was like rappelling down a building from the 15th

02:31floor.

02:32Smart choice.

02:33And this was in the second episode.

02:34And they were like, just in case.

02:36They were like, if it was episode eight or nine.

02:38Finale, you're in.

02:38We'd let you do it.

02:39Yeah.

02:39Because if you fall, then, you know, we'll just write that in.

02:41But that was the one thing they said, actually.

02:44And I think that's a smart choice.

02:45Right.

02:46Because I think ego can get in the way sometimes when you demand to do your own stuff.

02:49Right, right.

02:50And if you get hurt and the whole crew's out of a job for six months, like, it's not worth

02:54it.

02:54That's harsh.

02:54So, yeah.

02:55It was the right decision.

02:56Yeah.

02:56Now, Bucks, he's a bit of a bad boy.

02:59You know?

02:59Likes to play by his own rules a bit.

03:01And ladies' man as well.

03:02At the start.

03:03Yeah.

03:04I mean, he's still a ladies' man.

03:05Well, sure.

03:06Fair enough.

03:07Fair enough.

03:07Yeah, yeah, yeah.

03:07Let's call it as he is.

03:09Okay.

03:10He hasn't changed that much.

03:12But he's learning to reign it in, I think, and he's maturing, which is nice to me that

03:17we did start to see that progression.

03:19Right.

03:19I think it could have got old very fast if he was still just kind of, you know, running

03:24around town.

03:24You say that with a grin, like, there's Oliver crossed over there as well, I'm just saying.

03:29No, I'm a nice family man.

03:32Okay, perfect.

03:33But back in the day, I'm sure.

03:34Back in the day, going back to Hendon?

03:35Hendon.

03:36Hendon, yeah.

03:37Hendon, there you go.

03:37There you go, there you go.

03:38So, we mentioned the finale.

03:40I mean, what can we expect?

03:42Lots of bangs, I'm sure.

03:44Well, yeah.

03:45It's going to be a big kind of high-octane episode, but also it really wraps up everybody's

03:50story, which is nice.

03:52It kind of puts an exclamation mark and a full stop or a period on, you know, everybody's

03:59little story and everybody's little arc.

04:01So, it really does feel like an ending.

04:03So, then, when we move forward into the second season, it's a whole new beginning.

04:07Right, right, right.

04:07So, everything is wrapped up.

04:09Questions are answered in a very nice, sweet way.

04:12Absolutely, yeah.

04:13Because that's lovely, what you two have going on.

04:15I love it.

04:15It's great.

04:16I'm a big, big fan of that relationship.

04:18Yeah, yeah.

04:19When it first started, I didn't know where it was going to go.

04:21We don't get that information.

04:22And I'm so happy that it turned into what it did.

04:25Amazing.

04:26And it's nice that people have responded to it.

04:27Yeah, you guys, yeah.

04:28Yeah, it's nice.

04:29It's not what you see every day in shows.

04:31It's not what you'd expect.

04:32And that's what's nice about it.

04:33Absolutely.

04:34I think it's refreshing to see it on television because it's not explored enough.

04:38But it's a relationship that happens in real life.

04:41And it's a very common relationship.

04:42We just don't see it on TV.

04:43Right.

04:44So, yeah, no, I think the fact that we've gone down that route.

04:46And it's not felt forced.

04:48I don't feel like I'm really honoured and to play opposite Connie Britton.

04:52As you know.

04:53She's amazing.

04:54She's beyond talented.

04:56Amazing and beautiful.

04:57Yeah, she's everything about it.

04:58She's wonderful.

04:59Yeah, that's amazing.

05:00Getting to play that love interest.

05:01I mean, I'm sure you didn't expect it a couple of years ago.

05:04I did not.

05:04A couple of years ago, I was just worried about where my next job was coming from.

05:08Yeah.

05:08Let alone being on a show with Connie Britton, Angela Bassett, Peter Krausser.

05:12So, no, this is like a dream.

05:13How was it going into this show?

05:15Because, you know, you mentioned that cast.

05:16It's so powerful.

05:18For me, when we first started, I spent like the first two weeks just like deer in headlights,

05:23I think, just like, you know, this is a big deal.

05:26Right.

05:26And then there was a really nice moment when that kind of went away and I just settled

05:30into it because they're all so lovely.

05:32Right.

05:32Like genuinely, genuinely good people.

05:35So that made that transition a lot easier for me and it's all been so welcoming that

05:39it hasn't felt like a big deal.

05:41Right.

05:41Even though it is, like it hasn't felt like that, which is, I think, the best way that

05:45it can go.

05:45Right.

05:47Loads of shows kind of have that crossover or, you know, shows nowadays have some amazing

05:51guest stars.

05:52If you could have anyone come in on 9-1-1 for an episode in season two, what would you

05:57like?

05:59I would like Evan Peters to come and do an episode.

06:03Okay.

06:03Because he does so much of Ryan's stuff.

06:05Okay.

06:05I just saw Evan, haven't I, actually?

06:06Oh, really?

06:07Okay.

06:07I don't know him.

06:08He's amazing.

06:08He's great.

06:09But I think he's an incredibly talented actor and because he does so many of Ryan's

06:12shows, I think it would be really nice to see him come and do it.

06:15Exactly.

06:15It's a possible one to come and do a little guest spot or whatever.

06:18I mean, he's very busy, I'm sure.

06:20Right.

06:21But if he gets a date, he wants to come and do a scene.

06:22But that's a very likely one.

06:23Who's one if you could have anyone?

06:24Okay.

06:26If I could have, okay, I would have, this is an impossible one.

06:29This is not going to happen.

06:30You never know that.

06:31I don't think he's guesting on TV anymore.

06:32You said yourself, you didn't know that you'd be with Connie Britton.

06:34Fair enough.

06:34I would love Michael Shannon to come in.

06:38Just because I would be there in awe.

06:40Right.

06:40Just kind of standing back and, yeah.

06:44He could just walk in and just save the day.

06:46A little bit, yeah.

06:47He could play my dad.

06:48He could play your dad.

06:49Or your brother, maybe.

06:52Probably my dad.

06:53I mean, I was trying to be nice to Michael.

06:55Sorry, Michael.

06:56I mean, I was trying to get him on the show.

06:58If he's watching now, he's like, I'm not covering the show.

07:00Yeah, no, no.

07:02Come play my brother, Michael, please.

07:03Okay, amazing.

07:04We're going to do THR's top five.

07:06Five easy questions.

07:07Okay, I hope they are easy.

07:09They are.

07:09I promise.

07:10TV show you watched as a kid that you wish you were in.

07:13Hustle, which is a British show.

07:15Do you remember that?

07:15I don't.

07:16I don't, actually.

07:16Okay, it was a show.

07:17How long ago was this?

07:1910, 15 years ago?

07:20I might have been over here.

07:21Might have missed it.

07:22Oh, all right.

07:22Okay, it's about this kind of crew of grifters, con men.

07:27But it was just so, it was like Ocean's Eleven put on television.

07:30Oh.

07:30And they were all very sleek and cool.

07:33I'm going to have to watch this.

07:33Yeah, no, it was great.

07:35Okay.

07:35It went for a number of seasons, like four or five seasons.

07:38I loved it.

07:38All right, I'm watching that.

07:39Hustle.

07:40Hustle.

07:41One word to describe your journey as an actor so far.

07:49Struggle.

07:51That's an honest one.

07:52Yeah.

07:52Yeah, there you go.

07:53Favorite movie soundtrack?

07:56Drive.

07:57Drive.

07:58It's a good one.

07:59I would have guessed Lion King.

08:00That's number two on the list.

08:01Number six.

08:02Yeah, yeah.

08:02One actor.

08:03If you said top two, then drive Lion King.

08:05I would have got it.

08:05You do love Lion King, don't you?

08:06Everybody loves Lion King.

08:07Everyone loves Lion King.

08:08I mean, that's, yeah.

08:09One actor who inspires you?

08:10I really like the way that Brad Pitt has gone into producing, so I would say that to take

08:19his career from acting into producing really cool independent movies, I would say Brad Pitt

08:23on for that reason.

08:24Okay, that's a good one.

08:26Strong one.

08:27We're in a new age of people binge-watching.

08:29Last show you binge-watched?

08:32Oh, it's been a while because when we're shooting, I find it really hard to watch anything else.

08:36I think Ozark on Netflix, the Jason Bateman season, which was like so unexpected every episode,

08:41so yeah, I think Ozark.

08:42You had to keep watching it.

08:43Yeah.

08:44And there were just moments in there.

08:45I was like, what?

08:46Like I had no idea that was coming, so yeah, probably Ozark.

08:50That's a good one.

08:50We wrap up on that.

08:51Oliver Stark.

08:52All right.

08:52Thank you for having me.

08:539-1-1.

08:53Watch him.

08:55Just a genius.

08:56See you there.

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