00:00...episodes and stories, which I hope that the audience resonates with.
00:10Welcome home, pops.
00:13Mila's Away came up with a plan that's going to make our family the toast of Chatsworth.
00:19A drill.
00:20Hi, nice to meet you too.
00:23Government cheese is a surreal mix between comedy and drama.
00:27How much important is the dramatic part in a comedy, especially these days?
00:33Well, I think all comedy is born out of the reality of a situation.
00:39That's what makes genius comedy.
00:42And I don't think that any of us as artists and actors approached this work and said,
00:49oh, this is the part where it's supposed to be funny or we need to find.
00:53It's the reality of what was written on the page and what Paul Hunter and Ayesha Carr, our show creators,
01:01put along with all of our amazing writers.
01:03It was the world they created that was, you know, we are talking about a man who was released from
01:09prison and is trying to clear a debt before he is killed.
01:13And yet the things that happened with that are insanely funny.
01:21I think that, you know, all things when it comes to artistry is that push and pull.
01:27And even in the most dramatic of projects, you are able to find the comedy.
01:31And so I think we were able to to find those moments of both equally in the same scenes, in
01:39the same episodes and stories,
01:41which I hope that the audience resonates with.
01:45Yeah, maybe it's the 60s, maybe it's the home environment, but the dynamics between the characters reminded me a situation
01:54comedy with a life to the audience like The Chambers.
01:57How did you approach that aspect of the story, that family dynamics situation?
02:05Well, for me, I mean, the thing that I really loved about getting to play Hampton Chambers and being part
02:13of the Chambers family is that they're all completely unique.
02:20But I have a family of four kids and my wife, there's six of us, and I could completely relate
02:27to that.
02:28My kids are all completely unique.
02:30I think we are all sort of weird and quirky in our own way.
02:34But when you're in your home, and you have the culture of your family, you don't think you're weird.
02:40It's not until someone else is looking in.
02:42Like when I go to a restaurant with my family, and I can see people listening into our conversations, I
02:48go, we're a really weird family.
02:51And I think it's the same thing with the Chambers family.
02:54It's only because of the show, like you say, if it's a situation comedy, it becomes funny when people are
03:01observing it.
03:02But for them, this is absolutely their reality.
03:06It is completely normal.
03:08They're not trying to be funny.
03:09They are just living their lives.
03:11And situation comedy is the comedic nature of the situation.
03:15And so that's what we try to do with the show, is not try to be funny, but hopefully you
03:22can observe how hilarious the circumstances are that they are living in real life.
03:28How funny real life is at the end of the day.
03:32Exactly.
03:34In a way, all your characters are non-conformists because they defy the status quo each in its own way,
03:42don't you think?
03:43Do you agree?
03:44Yes.
03:45I would say I have not necessarily seen portrayed in anything a woman in the late 1960s who has a
03:57boyfriend while she's still married and her children know about it and they completely have a relationship with this person.
04:04And I think that even when it comes to Astoria's drive to become an interior designer, I don't think she
04:12has that model that she looked to.
04:15I think she decided she wanted to be what she didn't see.
04:18And she's going after her heart's desire, despite perhaps what circumstances might tell her as a mother, as a working
04:27mother with children and with a husband who's not present.
04:30And I think with Hampton, his desire to come out of prison and become an inventor in today's time, we
04:39would think you can barely make it out of the prison system and get a job, let alone create one
04:47for yourself.
04:48And so I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
04:55And it's something that I believe is refreshing to see set during this time period.
05:01Then consider me dangerous.
05:18And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:22And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:24And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:24And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:24And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:25And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:26And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:26And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:27And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:28And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:28And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:29And I think that we are all stepping out of what is the norm.
05:29Grazie a tutti.
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