00:00Hi, my name is Valentina Riede, and let's start.
00:10So, you were both in TV shows about superheroes, now you are in a legal drama.
00:18So, in your opinion, is it better to try to save the world with superpowers or with the law?
00:26Well, to be clear, my character on that show was trying to destroy the world with superpowers.
00:31Fanarchist.
00:35But, look, I think, I mean, I'll speak for myself.
00:39I think that the stories that are being told on this show, on All Rise, as fun as it is
00:46to kind of be operating in this fantasy world,
00:49these are the stories that need to be heard today.
00:51And I feel very lucky and honored to be part of a show that's really confronting all these different,
00:59this whole range of different, really important issues in every episode.
01:03So, I think I feel very lucky to be doing this show.
01:08Agreed.
01:09I mean, I think we both enjoyed our time on the Marvel television shows and all that that allowed for
01:17us to imagine and do.
01:19I mean, I had a bionic arm for goodness.
01:21I would love to tease that with my gavel and just, like, bring the table.
01:27Like Thor.
01:28Right.
01:29Yeah.
01:30But this show, it is really great because we get to explore the superheroes that exist in all of us.
01:36You know, the ways that we reach beyond what we think we're capable of in order to really inspire real
01:44change.
01:44And I think those are the things that inspire people when they watch TV.
01:49And really, all the Marvel shows are in the first place is, like, an attempt to inspire people to do
01:55the things that we can do in real life.
01:58You know?
01:58Yeah.
02:01All Arise starts with something that couldn't be more actual because we see police officers that call other people low
02:13life
02:14and detectives that do a lousy job.
02:18So how important it is to speak about these things in a TV show that many people can see?
02:26You know, what I think is interesting that I've been examining is the way that we consume TV and the
02:33way that we look at law enforcement as a result of that.
02:36You know, you look at Perry Mason and those shows that started out our understanding of the law.
02:43And it was these inept cops that didn't know what they were doing.
02:46So they needed someone like Perry Mason or Matlock or Columbo to come in and solve the crime.
02:52And now we have this 20-plus year span of TV where cops are automatically assumed to be doing the
03:02right thing, to know what they're doing, to be capable, to have all of the evidence.
03:06And the people who go to jail are the bad guys.
03:09And that gets into our social consciousness.
03:13We think, oh, well, if they went to jail, they must be guilty.
03:16If they got arrested, they must have done something wrong.
03:18And yet, every day, we either hear of people who are falsely convicted or falsely accused, or we see people
03:25who are arrested and sometimes killed improperly by police who are meant to protect.
03:31And so I think that our show, taking that stance from the very beginning of showing that these are human
03:36beings like we all are, they make mistakes as we all do.
03:40And it is our responsibility as a community, a global community, to be aware of those mistakes, to try to
03:47rectify them or right them, and to call them out when we see them.
03:50And not just expect us to do it in the courtroom or in the police department, but do it in
03:56the stories that we tell.
03:56And also, I think that, you know, as sexy as it is on TV to see guys with guns chasing
04:05and shooting and all this stuff, I mean, the real meat, for better or worse, of the way that justice
04:13is handled in our country is in the courtrooms.
04:17And it's the way that we administer justice that's not the fun part that's, you know, the quote-unquote fun
04:25part to watch, you know, where it's chases and violence and all this stuff.
04:30It's the nitty-gritty stuff where we actually try to implement and stand by ideals, the way that we practice
04:39our laws that we've, you know, implemented in our constitution.
04:43Like, these are, like, big ideas of how we work within the system that we've, you know, been trying to
04:47operate successfully for a few hundred years now.
04:50And it might not be as, like, you know, blood-pumping in some ways, but damn, if it ain't important,
04:56you know.
04:57Yeah.
05:00On her first day as judge, Lola says that she wants to be present in the moment.
05:07So how important it is to be present in the moment every day, trying to be at least?
05:14You know, I think that during this time at home, it's easy to get distracted and to forget that there
05:24are so many things that we can be thankful for.
05:26And I certainly felt present every moment that I was at work, recognizing, one, that we were telling important stories,
05:36two, that I was working with an amazing cast.
05:39I have a phenomenal actor who's playing my best friend in Wilson and just a tremendous host of people who
05:47make up our primary actors and all of our guest actors.
05:50And that's not something that comes along all the time.
05:54And so, you know, I've been able to work with a lot of people and sometimes people who are not
06:00present, who aren't thankful, don't appreciate where they are.
06:04And, you know, I think right now, especially when everyone is at home, you wish to be back around those
06:10people and to have those experiences over again.
06:13And so I think that it's so important.
06:16It keeps you grounded.
06:16It keeps you thankful.
06:17It probably gives you a longer life.
06:22How does it feel to be a roller coaster and how does it feel to be next to a roller
06:28coaster for both of you?
06:31Oh, no.
06:33Lola's on that ride with Lola.
06:36Lola and Mark are both in that roller coaster.
06:39Yeah, yeah.
06:39Or slash, like, if you go to a theme park, we're both just two different roller coasters.
06:44Exactly.
06:45Ah.
06:46And I think it was really great that you learn about these two people in the course of the show
06:53is how similar they are.
06:55How, you know, when they started out in the DA's office, it wasn't just Lola as the rogue DA and
07:02Mark is just towing the line.
07:04Like, you get to see Mark's roller coaster through the course of the season as well.
07:09And so you get to find out why these people are the friends that they are.
07:13And it's a really great story to give to the audience over the course of these 21 episodes.
07:19And I think it, but, and then I also think it's really cool that, I mean, it's challenging for Mark
07:25too, but he is, as, you know, as a best friend, as a, as a close ally,
07:30he gets to see Lola on this journey that is both kind of, you know, inspiring to him as a
07:38friend, intimidating because the power, you know,
07:40the kind of the job power structure between them has shifted a little bit, exciting for him.
07:46I mean, this is a huge, obviously a huge opportunity for his friend.
07:51And, and so in a way he get, you know, there's, there's a lot of complicated things that come into
07:56play with the relationship, but, but he gets to, you know,
07:59in the way that when we watch our friends go through things and especially some like, you know, big life
08:05-changing event,
08:07Mark gets to be there for his friend through the ups and downs of that.
08:10And, and I think that's, that's a really cool, that's a really cool and interesting experience for him.
08:16And, and of course, I think, you know, hopefully for Lola's character,
08:19I think it's really important that she has Mark by her side through some of that stuff.
08:23For both of them, they are each other's best counsel, you know, and, and the shoulder to lean on and
08:28all that stuff.
08:28So as they are on their individual roller coasters,
08:32they need to step off the roller coaster periodically and just hold each other.
08:36It's fun to be a roller coaster.
08:37It's fun to be a roller coaster.
08:39Yeah, yeah.
08:41Okay, guys.
08:41Thank you so much.
08:43Thank you very much.
08:44Bye.
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