00:04I'm Oliver Trevina in studio with The Hollywood Reporter joined by the handsome and talented
00:08Jonathan Tucker. See how I started that out? I figured I'd start strong and then we can bounce
00:14off each other. That's great. The equally talented and handsome on my life. Thank you. We could wrap
00:18this up now but I feel they need more info and there's a lot going on in your world. Apart
00:22from
00:22being handsome and talented there's a lot going on. You know I'd say like life there's lots of
00:28ups and downs. Particularly in this business. I've been very lucky to be working the past
00:34few years. I've got Westworld coming up in April. It's definitely up now. We try to keep it
00:40right in the middle. Consistent. I've learned to separate employment from work in terms
00:45of my vocabulary and verbiage. You're always working. Whether you're employed or not is
00:51up to the gods and other people. That's given me a lot of sanity over the past few years.
00:55Because I've known this a long time. You have. I've known this a long time since I was 11
00:58years old and I am 35 now. I'm very lucky. I feel really good where I am. I'm happy to
01:07not be in my 20s. I'm feeling very good about who I am and what I know about myself.
01:12Right. I love that. Some good advice there. Some good advice to take from that. But yes,
01:16talking about Westworld, coming into season two, you're going to be joining the cast.
01:20Got the horses. Oh, there you go. I like that. Working the theme. You know. Coming in for
01:24the second. It's important. It's important to dress. I love it. For the cast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:28Yeah. This is the second season. I was a huge fan of the first season. Okay. I had worked with
01:33Jonah Nolan before. He and his wife, Lisa, who showrun Westworld. They're just, they are exceptional
01:42people and tremendous talents behind the camera as well. So my big, my hope, my secret hope was
01:52that I was going to get to be in Sweetwater because the show is bifurcated between the tech world,
01:57of course, and the park. Right. And of course, as you see in the first season, that starts to blend.
02:04Right. But I just wanted to make sure I at least have a scene or two in the park because
02:09that's
02:09the great fantasy. Right. Well, then that's where you get to do it all. And I did get to see
02:13the park
02:13and it is all it cracks up to be. Amazing. I love that. So saying that because obviously
02:19you were a fan obviously before this happened. So then going into the show, you mentioned you know
02:24them, but is it more like, is it just a walk in the park or is it more fear because
02:29you know the
02:29show and it's got such success in the cast? It's funny because I've come into a number of shows
02:34now that I've been a fan of, Parenthood, Justified, and a few other gigs that aren't coming to mind
02:44right away. But you feel this tremendous amount of responsibility because you know people are taking
02:50time out of their schedules. They've got real lives. People are you know paying their bills and they
02:57come home and you have to honor their time. And if you're a fan of the show, you want to
03:01honor the show
03:02too because you know the weight of that. With Westworld, it's such a big show and it's so grand
03:10in its scope. The quality of the actors and the storytelling is supported by its budget and the
03:20great HBO fire squad behind it. So you're always trying to do the best work that you can. I think
03:26you kind of get to acknowledge the scope of it. The great thing about Westworld is that there's so
03:32much practical about the show. So that town is, you know, you're walking by and you see a watch,
03:38man. You can put it on. It's going to be the right time. The fruit is ripe and ready to
03:43eat
03:44literally. You know, that's sitting there in the baskets. So if you're going to pull out a bar
03:48or a bottle. Bite it on a wooden apple, I wouldn't recommend it on set. But you know, a lot
03:52of these
03:52shows don't have the budgets to support those sort of things. You're not going to have an entire town
03:55that all of the props are going to be practical. So it was a playground both as an actor and
04:01as a
04:01person. Amazing. And you mentioned the cast, obviously a huge cast. You know, it's amazing
04:05the people on that show. Was there anyone in particular that you were excited about bumping
04:10into on set? Anyone that first came to mind? Well, Ed Harris has been a role model for me as
04:15an actor for my entire career. I didn't know that he would also become a role model to me personally
04:23too. The way that gentleman handles himself on set is exemplary. And we were in it physically.
04:32There were some cold nights, some wet mornings, and he was a beacon. Well, not just Westworld.
04:41We have to touch base on City on a Hill as well. A Showtime pilot on the other side of
04:46the cable spectrum. There you go. Not that we want to compete against each other, but you
04:50are jumping. Sure. Well, the Showtime pilot, which is produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
04:57and written by an extraordinary young guy named Chuck McLean, who's also from Boston, where
05:02I hail from as well. This is true. The People's Republic of Charlestown, 02129. Big shout out.
05:09Yes. So I get to play a guy from my neighborhood from the decade in which I grew up in
05:14the 90s.
05:14And that was, again, a privilege, but also a great deal of responsibility because I think
05:19one of the hard things people that I didn't appreciate was coming home spiritually and
05:26physically is not actually easy. You think it's like, oh, yeah, just play yourself. But oftentimes
05:32putting on a little bit of a character gives a bit of comfortability that you don't have
05:38when you have to go home and kind of reflect the true people or neighborhood or people that
05:43you are and you know. Right. Right. Right. Yeah, go ahead.
05:46No, I will say, though, that's something that you see because you look at the resume and your
05:51previous roles and you are, I mean, there's no, you just jump in one to the other chameleon.
05:55Like it's you've kind of mastered that. I feel it's very nice you say. But you have, you know,
06:00there's certain actors that get portrayed as one. Yes. I love people. I like the blessing of being an
06:06actor is that like the whole world opens up to you. You are invited into the lives and the stories
06:14and the worlds of so many diverse places and people and experiences and events and times.
06:20And if you're, if you take on that invitation with a sense of purpose and mission and vulnerability,
06:27man, the whole, whole thing just opens up and everybody has something to offer. Everybody
06:32has a story to tell. And getting to be a part of that conversation professionally has been the
06:39privilege of my life. Incredible. Incredible. And how was it working with, you know, we have to
06:44talk about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Were they very hands on? Well, they were more the gods in
06:48the sky. Okay. Got it. That's what I was wondering. Okay. They are busy men. You know,
06:53they're busy. Yeah, they're both very busy. But, you know, if the show ends up moving forward,
06:59because it is just a pilot at this point, I'm expecting both of them. I think it's got a
07:04good chance. It's got a power team behind it. You'd like to think it's got a good chance.
07:07You know, you never know, man. You never know. I've gotten to see extraordinarily talented
07:13people not be able to produce the sort of stuff that you think they will. And then people
07:18who come out of nowhere that just hit grand slams with the bases loaded in the bottom
07:23of the ninth at the World Series. So it's like, you just don't know, man.
07:26You never know. You never know. Well, we do know that Westworld season two will be April
07:3022nd, I think. April 22nd. Yes. Well, that's also one of the great
07:33things about coming into a show that's already going. Right.
07:34Because you know the quality of the storytelling. Right.
07:38You know the characters. Right.
07:39And that's been one of the things I've so enjoyed about working in television in the past
07:44few years is it takes out so much of the risk. Right.
07:47I mean, that's why the pilot system still works. That's why we still make television
07:50pilots to see if they end up going because there's so much magic that needs to be found.
07:57Right. Right.
07:57And when you go make a film, you know, there's all those different elements. Right.
08:04You don't know if they're going to come together or not. Right. There you go. There you go.
08:07One word to describe, because you can't tell us too much about season two, obviously,
08:11Major Craddock and your character. One word to describe season two for you.
08:17For me? Oh, boy. Because, you know, the fun thing about Westworld is I'm going to be as much
08:21of a fan as you guys are because those scripts do not come into me fully loaded. I get my
08:28parts and the rest of it is blacked out, which is fun. Right.
08:32But for my story of it, I would say, boy, my story is really one about a misguided dignity,
08:41I think, hearkening back to a period in time in American history that is both shameful but
08:47also filled with a sense of honor for this character in particular.
08:52Major Craddock.
08:53There he is.
08:54That's right. There he is.
08:55The head of the New Southern Cross.
08:55He's coming out a little bit now. I can tell. I can tell. We're going to do a quick five
08:59questions.
09:00I'm terrible at five questions.
09:02THR top five. They're not. You'll be good with these. You'll be good with these.
09:04That was superlatives.
09:05You'll be good with these. I know you will.
09:07I'd like to talk my way out of a box.
09:09Movie you loved as a kid that you wish you were in.
09:12What's the prison movie with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins? It's called Shawshank Redemption.
09:16There you go. That's a good one. That's a good one.
09:20The first moment that comes to mind when I say career highlight. One moment.
09:24Doesn't have to be it. Just one moment.
09:26Just one moment. Well, sure. There's Ed Harris dragging me in the middle of the night
09:30with rain pouring down by the hook of my mouth.
09:34That's a strong moment. That's a strong moment.
09:36It is awards season. Favorite movie of 2017?
09:40I gotta say, man, Get Out was really, I thought that was pretty fantastic.
09:44It was amazing. Shocking, funny, had it all.
09:48What would be the soundtrack song to your career in Hollywood?
09:54Boy, I don't know, man. It would be the most mixed up Spotify list they've ever put together.
09:59Okay.
10:03I'm coming to my own now 25 years after I first started working.
10:07Wow.
10:07In Point of Fact, City on the Hill from the Showtime show, the last project I did in Boston was
10:12in 1992.
10:13And it has taken me now exactly 25 years to come home.
10:17So I mean that in all the ways in which we define home.
10:21I like that. Maybe a song, Come Home, Coming Home. I think there's a song out there.
10:24There is. It's a great song by Nick Jonas on the Ferdinand hit, which is out in theaters right now.
10:30We got it. That's a great plug.
10:32Nick, I'm plugging the song. The other song on that album, by the way, is called Watch Me,
10:35which I have a songwriting credit for. So I'm plugging my own tunes as well.
10:39Gotta be honest, wasn't expecting that.
10:41Bam!
10:41There you go. We will wrap this up with, before you got into the Hollywood world,
10:45who was your Hollywood crush before any of this started?
10:48Oh, boy. Well, Peggy Bundy was very high up on that list.
10:53And whenever I get to meet Kurt Sutter, I'm going to tell him,
10:56boy, your wife was my number one hit for quite some time.
10:59Miss Siegel, lovely to see you.
11:01That would be a great moment. Check this guy out in Westworld Season 2.
11:05Brilliant.
11:11You may be happy to see you.
11:11Owen
11:11Tell
11:11Hy
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