We're all watching this show online, it's being put together, you know, on the fly,
it's being put together with variable money, no excuses, and it looks like a million bucks.
I mean, it literally looks like a million dollar television show. But there are cracks.
What I'm saying is, what I'm giving to you is, you know, you guys are doing everything the best that you possibly can,
you're trying, everybody's coming together to make it look like more than it is at every single moment in time.
Is there ever a point that you get, too, when you're like, that's good enough?
There are certain things that we accepted going into this, where there's going to be some threads that are fully tied.
And we constantly struggle with that. What's the appropriate thing to be like,
oh, this is enough, we can't fix this, this problem will take us another three days to fix,
or another couple thousand dollars to go back and reshoot what's enough.
And at some point, you've just got to say, people understand what we're going for.
And if you watch it five times and you didn't notice that problem, then most people aren't going to see it.
I think one of the reasons that you actually notice stuff like that is because a lot, so much of the production is in place,
they're really noticing those little details that are imperfect, not all the little tiny flaws,
it's because so much of it is in place that people are all sort of flake around the edges, you know, you wouldn't even see that stuff.
I also want to add just, you know, things like the rug and the socks perhaps you do inside the set today, that's enough.
But in my experience with these guys, what they've never ever said, that's good enough, but it's a story teller.
And that carries through no matter what, you know, whatever needs to be done, they'll make that clear,
and carry that through for us, the actors, and the audience as well.
No one should change that.
One thing, there's a lot of things that I look at since I was there and saw how it was happening,
but I'm just amazed by that. Hopefully you can't tell me, for instance, I don't think I'm revealing any secrets.
The scene where Yuri's in the hospital, that is actually two scenes, Alice had to go back to Russia because of these issues.
So we very quickly just shot inside of those scenes, and then we didn't shoot the other angles until a month later.
At least two.
Yeah, so we had one side of the conversation, two months later the other side of the conversation,
and watching it tonight, I couldn't tell. It looked like we were all in the same room.
I mean, the scenes were always intended to be a certain amount of episodes,
but we only had enough money to do a certain amount of time.
So we shot pilot, then we did the next three simultaneously,
and then between the fourth one and the next two, the last two, we had to fundraise and shoot them.
But in the downside to what we've been doing, we were saying, thank you very much for the show,
most like a million bucks did, but the thing that we can't help is that it takes us a long time to make them,
which is kind of unfortunate because the show is very serialized, it's designed to be lost one after the other,
and not have to wait for it. I mean, we talk all the time, and certainly we're not really making the show right now,
we're making the show for the people who discovered that they want some of that, that they didn't just want some of it.
I think learning what an amazing audience at 10-6 is for an independent reader material like this has been,
it's been amazing to learn it and to see my suspicions confirm that there is a hunger for this type of content
that's independently made to that school.
I think I've learned a lot about, this is the first time I've done any project on camera that's been this extensive,
with multiple episodes and a character that has a whole story arc, and I guess what I've learned is
allowing the shape of it to be formed by the other actors and the director and all the people involved in the production.
I'm very proud of how it all turned out, but it's certainly not what I imagined when I first read the script,
so allowing that influence in and allowing the character to just develop based on what's going on around it.
To be cast as a pilot is just like, well, pilot is pilot, and to be asked to come back and do it again,
and to continually challenge myself, just the confidence in that that I have the ability as an actor to do that
and to learn from the character and apply that to my life is the thing that I learned from the character.
To be honest, he's gonna shoot me. I didn't learn anything.
But what I did re-learn, though, is that once you get involved with a good project,
with really good people, not just talented people, but just decent human beings,
how much you're willing to put in yourself to make it all fly.
As an actor, this is the first time I had an opportunity to play a character multiple times,
you know, in a return kind of a manner.
And so, for me, it was a joy to learn how to look not only at one script as its own entity,
but as just a next chapter and a continuing story,
how to take the character forward and really allowing yourself to grow as the character grew.
And it was that no job was above anybody. I mean, I got the coffee, I steamed the wardrobe.
I was this close to doing makeup one day.
The biggest thing I've learned is if you're willing to put your faith in your friends and your family,
they'll carry you along the long way.
