00:00We just kept doing our thing, man.
00:01We didn't try and please everyone.
00:03We just kept doing our thing,
00:05and I think people are going to like the result.
00:07Good to see you guys.
00:07Nice to see you too.
00:08How do you guys feel knowing that you'll almost certainly
00:12never play characters this unhinged and crazy again?
00:16Mmm.
00:17Almost certainly never.
00:18Yeah.
00:19I would say never.
00:21You know what?
00:22This has honestly been one of the...
00:24This is one of the greatest jobs that I've had in my career.
00:28For lots of different reasons,
00:30but in terms of the character specifically,
00:32like there's not many characters that...
00:35This character can go anywhere, literally anywhere.
00:38Like when I read the scripts,
00:41it's just great reading scripts
00:43where you want to add to the material,
00:45not try and course-correct anything.
00:47It's just creative addition.
00:49Yeah.
00:50And we're lucky enough to have a collaborator in Eric
00:53that is just second to none.
00:55So I can't speak for anyone else,
00:57but I tell you what,
00:59it's going to be...
01:00It's going to be hard to find another job and character like this.
01:03Yeah, I know last time I spoke to you, Jessie,
01:05you were literally like,
01:06this is the reason why I became an actor.
01:08Like to do a job like this.
01:10So how do you bid farewell?
01:12It's such a big part of your life.
01:14A huge part of my life.
01:15Yeah.
01:15Yeah, a huge part of my life.
01:16A long, long period of time.
01:19I was actually talking to someone about this the other day,
01:21is I had my daughter right before we started this show.
01:24When I first met you.
01:25So she doesn't know a world without her dad being hate-trained.
01:30Like, yeah, since you've been born, I've been hate-trained.
01:32I first met you at the super suit fittings.
01:34Yeah, and she was like one at the time.
01:37A little nugget at the time.
01:39A little nugget.
01:39Yeah, a little nugget.
01:40Yeah, a little nugget.
01:40Like the show sort of lives, you know,
01:43in contingent to her growth.
01:47Yeah.
01:47Yeah, that must be crazy.
01:48It is crazy.
01:49It is crazy to see how much she's grown
01:51and to know that she's only known the boys in A-Train.
01:55And I've developed so much with this character.
01:59And I've grown so close to this character.
02:02And this experience, this environment has been so fulfilling.
02:07It's going to be hard to find any other job that lives up to it,
02:11to be honest with you, yeah.
02:12Also, your daughter is going to be fearless if she's been around these guys.
02:17Oh, right.
02:18She said she still hasn't seen the show, though,
02:20so she doesn't know yet.
02:22She's going to see it eventually and go,
02:24this is what you've been doing?
02:25Like, yeah.
02:26You're actually making an assumption about his parenting,
02:28that he's a good dad, she has not seen the show.
02:31She has no idea.
02:32But she's been around on set.
02:34Anthony, have you seen her?
02:36Believe it or not, Anthony doesn't behave
02:38like Homelander around children.
02:40Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:40Actually like kids.
02:42Yeah.
02:43I assume you can't even have imagined, though,
02:45that it would draw so many parallels, this show,
02:48between real life and...
02:50Yeah, it's one of those things that, you know,
02:53I mean, I've always tried to steer my character
02:56and my piece of the puzzle of making this show.
03:00I've always just kept it in world, personally,
03:03because, you know, I build a character from the inside out,
03:06not the outside in, so really that's over to the writers.
03:10What they, where they want to take the show is not up,
03:13it's not up to me, I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut
03:15and, like, do the best I can with what they provide.
03:18And I think, you know, it's been pretty incredible
03:23to have a character like this that people have responded to
03:28and be in a show that's had such a...
03:31got some purchase on pop culture.
03:33I'm curious to know how you both feel about
03:37how things end for your character.
03:39Mm-hmm.
03:40Is it how you imagined it would be?
03:42Are you happy with it?
03:43Like, how do you feel?
03:44Uh, it is not how I imagined it would be.
03:47I imagined that, you know, it's not,
03:50it's not how I imagined it would be,
03:51but it's better than I expected.
03:54Because I didn't expect to have an isolated moment
03:58where I get to face the monster, you know,
04:02that, that has, it's true.
04:06You know, I, I didn't expect to have that.
04:08I thought that, like, you know, maybe there'd be other characters
04:10around or whatever, or that it'd be quicker or something.
04:13But the fact that we had this breathable moment together
04:18with, you know, the, the opposition
04:21to who A-Train had always wanted to be,
04:24I just felt like that was more fulfilling
04:27than any ending that I could have wrote.
04:29And the fact that he had a conscious decision
04:32to save a person rather than...
04:35You won.
04:36Yeah, he wins.
04:37You actually won.
04:37He gets, he gets his win.
04:39Yeah.
04:39He really does.
04:40It's interesting because you, because in a very short space of time,
04:44you do get a redemption arc.
04:45Yeah.
04:46Because you lead the monster,
04:49away from the others.
04:51You save the others.
04:52Save the others.
04:52And then you go out with dignity.
04:53Yeah.
04:54And you hold your head high and you drop a truth bomb
04:57that, that cut, that hurts me.
04:59Mm-hmm.
04:59You win.
05:00Mm-hmm.
05:01It's not about, and that's one of the things
05:02that I've always loved about the characters.
05:04Like, my character is the strongest on the show
05:06and the weakest.
05:06Mm-hmm.
05:07And your character ends up, actually,
05:10with the most incredibly powerful action
05:13and then moment in the end.
05:15It's beautiful.
05:16It's great.
05:16In terms of like, you know, I mean,
05:20it's, it's, it's bizarre because, you know,
05:22I read that and I was like,
05:23what the fuck?
05:24No!
05:24Yeah.
05:25Jason!
05:26No!
05:27Jason!
05:28But, um, but I tell you what, man,
05:31you know, there is a,
05:33Yeah.
05:34Dramatically, for, for, for the rest,
05:36it sets up the season.
05:37And we don't, I don't know how things end for you,
05:39and I'm not spoiling it here,
05:40but just a quick yes or no,
05:41are you happy with how things end for you?
05:43I, I, I think fans will be happy with,
05:47with the lane.
05:49We just kept doing our thing, man.
05:50We didn't try and please everyone.
05:52We, we just kept doing our thing,
05:54and I think people are going to like the result.
05:56I'm sure they will.
05:57How can you not?
05:57We love the boys so much.
05:59Thank you so much.
06:00Thank you, Donnie.
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