00:15Signor Presidente, io sto bene.
00:19Sveglia ragazzi!
00:31Let's start from your work on Yorick.
00:35What were your inspirations and references for this role?
00:39Did you know the comic book before being cast and was it a reference too?
00:43I was familiar with the comic book before being cast, but I hadn't read it.
00:48So I knew the title, I knew its existence and its influence,
00:54but I hadn't read it until I got cast and then obviously read it.
00:59And the comic was a huge, obviously a huge inspiration and a huge point of reference.
01:07But I think when you're adapting source material, there's a, it's there to serve the adaptation.
01:15You know, you kind of have to go, cool.
01:17So the TV show, this is our, this is our mission.
01:21And when you're adapting from one medium to another, there are things that really read that there,
01:27it's exactly that.
01:28It's an adaptation.
01:28It's a conversation.
01:29You're changing medium.
01:31You're, it's there in service of.
01:32So I really took that.
01:34And I think one thing, you know, I mean, the, the, the graphic novel is so rich.
01:37It's so funny.
01:38It's so original.
01:40Um, and I think as far as Yorick is concerned as a character, I think one of the big things
01:45that I wanted to, I wanted to maybe not change, but lean into in the adaptation was,
01:53I wanted Yorick to be less self-aware in, in the TV show.
01:58And, um, and that was really fun.
02:00I found as I started leaning into that, I started having a lot, a lot of fun bringing it to
02:05life
02:05in a, in a three-dimensional on-screen world.
02:08Um, and then, I mean, as far as inspirations go, I watched, you know, movies that I would
02:14watch.
02:14Um, I watched the movie.
02:19It's interesting because episode to episode, things kind of change, but I think in preparation
02:23to it, we had a lot of time to, we had a hiatus between shooting the pilot and shooting
02:28the second episode.
02:29And in the second episode, I pretty much, I'm like alone for most of my scenes.
02:33And so I watched, I watched the movie moon with Sam Rockwell, the Duncan Jones movie.
02:37I'd watch that.
02:38I watched the road with Viggo Mortensen, like stuff like that to try and get a sense of,
02:43of, you know, when you see actors really live in those circumstances, I mean, there's a
02:50depth to it.
02:51That's very inspiring to see in those performances.
02:53And so we would watch stuff like that, but also like just weird, uh, uh, I don't know,
03:00weird inspirations, like, you know, listen to a lot of weird Al.
03:05Um, I'm a big Chris Farley fan.
03:07So Eli Clark and I would talk about Chris Farley a lot, like just stuff like that stuff that
03:11gets the imagination flowing and the juices flowing.
03:14And was it difficult to empathize, to connect with the, someone with the last man?
03:21Uh, was it, was, uh, what was the biggest challenge of this role?
03:25You know, it's interesting.
03:26I think in, what was the biggest challenge?
03:30You know, I think one of the challenges was, you know, I think when you're telling a story
03:36that obviously you're familiar with, there comes a time where you have to, you have to
03:40unknow it.
03:41You have to step back from it.
03:43And, you know, if someone is going to go play Romeo and Romeo and Juliet, once it's time
03:52to show up to work, the guy's not right.
03:54He's just a guy.
03:55He's a guy who made a girl, you know, York's just a guy.
03:58Like he's not, he doesn't know where the story goes.
04:00One of the things that that's really at the fore of our interpretation is that, um, you
04:07know, in this world, this post event world, York's, he's not the last man.
04:12He's the last cisgender man.
04:13And so what makes him, what sets him apart is not his maleness as much as it is the fact
04:19that he's a scientific anomaly.
04:21He's an outlier.
04:22He's a unique scientific specimen.
04:26So for him, that's a real burden.
04:29And so I think for York, there's a lot, it was interesting exploring the world of survivor's
04:34guilt, because I think that's a real thing that would play a part.
04:37I think that's something that in this new world of the show, everybody will be dealing
04:41with to one degree or another.
04:43And so there was a kind of, you know, there's a reality that we wanted to ground ourselves
04:47in and approaching this, because I think when you're adapting comic material from a comic
04:52book or a graphic novel, you can go, all right, we're going to, we're going to go really
04:57heightened, or you can kind of try and really bring it into the real world.
05:01And I think for this one, we wanted to, you know, what would happen?
05:05What would actually happen if this occurred?
05:07And, and so I think grappling with some of the darker elements of things that, that would
05:12have, that would be at play, were this to take place, was something we were all kind
05:17of contending with in our imaginations.
05:19Can you tell something about the Ampersand, the monkey?
05:23Was it all CGI or did you have a real monkey on set sometimes?
05:27It was, it was all CGI.
05:28That's a good question.
05:29I remember being really disappointed when I found out it was going to be CGI, because
05:32I wanted to have a real monkey.
05:34And then I remember speaking to Eli and she was like, Ben, like all of your scenes are
05:39going to be with Ampersand.
05:41Do you have any idea how difficult it's going to be if we have an actual, like every scene
05:46is going to be like, all it's going to be about is like, did the monkey hit the mark?
05:50Okay, good.
05:50We've got like, it's so, there's so much that goes into working with an animal.
05:54And so as soon as I spoke to the, to the VFX team, who's phenomenal on this show, I was
06:02so excited and so inspired and it was fun.
06:05Like it's, you know, it's, it's an adjustment.
06:07I was able to speak with, you know, a few animal trainers to just get a sense of like,
06:13how much do they weigh?
06:14What do they do?
06:14How do you, you know, doing research about the animal so you can endow it?
06:19And, you know, creating, creating a character and a persona for Ampersand so that there's
06:23a real relationship there.
06:25You know, it's fun.
06:26I think once you kind of do all that prep work, you then have to just let it go and
06:29not
06:29take yourself in serious and just go like, it's just, you just play pretend, like make
06:32believe, you know?
06:33And so that was very, that was fun.
06:36No, we'll be together.
06:37GM is not having a choice.
06:39We'll be on.
06:45This game we're free, it's fun.
06:52We'll be right back.
06:53OK, we'll be right back.
06:57Grazie a tutti.
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