00:00Romeo International, Odyssey.
00:02We're going to have some fun.
00:03It's good to see you, man.
00:03Season one, awesome.
00:04Season two, there's this dance that you're doing that Sugar is doing.
00:09There's the individual on how he sees humanity.
00:11There's humanity, how the world is built around him.
00:15When you create the character, how did you want people to see him dance between these colliding worlds?
00:22Thanks for the question, man.
00:23I don't know.
00:25I mean, I don't, you know, I never really approach anything from how I'd like the audience to see it.
00:29It's more of just inside out kind of job.
00:31And you just read the script and you think about what you're doing.
00:34You think about the character and its backstory and the history and all that stuff and just run with it.
00:37I do feel that he's kind of, he does flip between these worlds of violence and tenderness and doubt and
00:44certainty.
00:45And he's kind of, you know, he's from a very distant place.
00:49So he's kind of bobbing on a sea of unbelonging, you know?
00:53So he doesn't know where, even less is he certain of where he belongs this season
00:58because all of his fellow people have gone back home to their planet.
01:02And he is, as far as he's concerned, he's the only one of his kind left behind on planet Earth.
01:07So I think that's why he's kind of reaching out more to people.
01:10He's in a state of vulnerability where he's open to romance, perhaps, which he shouldn't be, of course.
01:15And we explore the friendship that he has with Shea Wiggum's character, Tom Flyberg.
01:19But yeah, you just roam with it, man.
01:22You just read those scripts and roam with it.
01:24He's not breaking.
01:25I'm noticing how he's bending every episode to, I am alone.
01:31Like, what are my choices in this world?
01:34Yeah.
01:34Either to stay this way or, if not become human, have human empathy?
01:38Yeah, for sure.
01:39And a human experience.
01:41I mean, I don't think it's something, and we don't know because we've never made those shows,
01:44but I don't think the romance that he has in this season and the feelings of romantic love that he
01:50has,
01:51I don't think it's something that he's ever contended with.
01:53I think it's very much the first time for him.
01:56And I think, like it can be for a lot of us, it's confusing to him.
02:00Even the words aren't quite there in the way he wishes they were.
02:03There's an awkwardness around it, which is quite sweet.
02:06But he's quite a sweet character as well, you know?
02:08I mean, he's able to take care of himself.
02:10He's got an ability around violence.
02:13He's pretty confident in his own quiet way around men, whoever they may be, big, small arm.
02:20But with this woman, he's kind of, yeah, there's an awkwardness that was interesting to explore.
02:25And he's just, you know, he doesn't know when he's going to see those he loves again.
02:29He's very much, as I said, he's very much on his own, you know?
02:31I think one of my favorite scenes, you're sitting across from the cop at the coffee shop.
02:36You're offering the choices.
02:38Yeah.
02:39I'm offering...
02:40He's trying to, as you said, he's trying to do the right thing.
02:42Right.
02:42And I'm looking at it as real world activity.
02:45I'm offering you better options.
02:48Yeah.
02:48And your choice as a human is to still take this road.
02:51Yeah, it should be.
02:52Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:53I mean, that's Sugar encountering a pathology that he hasn't encountered before in that specific moment.
03:00And, you know, this inability for this cop to, yeah, he gives him an option.
03:06And the math is really simple to Sugar.
03:08It's really, really simple.
03:09Great job.
03:10Thanks, man.
03:11I'm loving it.
03:12My theory for season three, I think he's going to break.
03:14But I'll wait till season three.
03:17Cool.
03:17Because we haven't written it yet.
03:19I'm taking notes.
03:19Thanks, Romeo.
03:21All right.
03:21Have a good one, man.
03:22You too, brother.
03:22All the best.
03:22All right.
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