One on One: Yanic Truesdale, Matt Czuchry, and John Cabrera

other than John Cabrera and Yannick Truesdale. Gentlemen, Hello, how are you? Hello? Mr Patterson, how are you? He came in from came in from Canada, but two days ago was in Greece. I'm all over the place, my usual. Are you having the usual airline trauma that we all Well, you had a worse one than mine, I believe. Yeah, they're they're they're not great experiences, but the seats are cushy. Yeah. I want to see the video of last night you

and I almost had to call security. I want to see that you sold my seat out from under me when I was in the air You I think I went. I went right up to the line where it was like security. Yeah, yeah, that was something. John. How are you doing. I'm good, I'm good. So how how was your traveling? You came in from California? No, I came in from the surface of the Sun also known as Las Vegas. I'm living in Vegas now, Vegas, baby, Okay, Vegas. I'm living in the same city as Sebastian. Yeah. Is

he out there? Yeah? Have you seen? You know? But I moved just just like right when he was doing a concert downtown and I I wanted to see it, but it was just too crazy with the movies. But he's still rocking. That's voice. Oh yeah, he's the voice. He'll never never. I did a night out with with Sebastian on the Sunset Strip. We went to the Rainbow and back. Yeah, I remember that. I mean we used to go. He and I used to go to the Sunset Strip all the time after shows. God, it was

just fantastic. Do you have you ever seen him with fans? Yes, he's incredible because we went to the but he's he's just amazing. Every single fan that he meets, he gives them the likes like the special you are the greatest thing treatment And I remember I said, when like like after like five or six fans just trying to get from one block to another. I was like, man, you are amazing with fans, and He's like, I love them there. I mean, I wouldn't be here with them, right, I

wouldn't be here. Well, um he um. He had a really funny quote. Uh. The next day, I don't think it was the next day, but the next Monday, he's sitting in the makeup trailer and so I was telling everybody before he got it. We did this magical night and the fans and it was craziness and they were lining up to get his autograph and just to take a picture with him in this and we're just sitting there having having a cocktail at the Rainbow Room and then we're going to the Rosy to see a show,

that kind of thing. And he said, he said, I don't know how I got here, you know, me and Gilmore girls, it's so wrong, it's so wrong. It's right screaming, and it's so true. It's so true. So anyway, what have you been up to, sir? Well? Since I spoke with you, when did we speak last? Year. I can't remember. I have no memory. I mean when you came on the show. Yeah, yeah, it's when I first started. Yeah, I think you were the you are the first. You

are made in voyage. But yeah, uh, well I ended up going to Australia after I spoke with you, which was a life changing experience, fell in love with the country, shooting a Netflix series that came out God's Favorite Idiot with Melissa did Melissa Brilliant show? Yes, my Friends and we had a grand time. And then I came back and shot season two of my Canadian show Li mecuh right after that, and uh and yeah, and then I shot a couple of movies with the miss Tony Braxton

of all people. Yeah, in Toronto. We became friends. She's lovely. Yeah. So it's been a busy, busy stretch. Yeah. And you just came in from Greece where you Yeah, I just came in from vacation. Yes. I must have been a Greek man in another life. I love it there. Yeah. Yeah, well, yeah, that's that's there. I was a Mikinos. I was telling them this funny quote to the Greeks, which they didn't do. You know that quote Greeks invented sex and Italians shared

it with women. It was I was coming through customs uh to get here uh in Halifax, and there was I think there was. He was a Greek gentleman and he was he was working in the snack bar and that was the only thing that was open because it was it was like one flight to Philadelphia, right and that that was it. That was the international section of the airport. And he said, you know, he was chatting

everybody up. He was a good natured fellow, obviously pretty educated guy, and he was just like up, up, up, and he you know, it came to my turn, and I was like, I wonder what kind of chatter I'm gonna get from this guy. And he goes, well, you know, no, no, no no, no, And then he said, he said, you know, better to better to be alive than dead, and what don't you think? And I'm like, you know, it's better to be six ft above ground than six ft under and I said, I just I don't know. I just said, uh,

I don't know if I'm qualified. I don't know what it's like to be dead, so I can't answer that. And he goes, he goes, you got me there speaking of Greeks, John, what are you working on now? Uh yeah, that was an interesting segue. I was gonna actually say. My sister was just yeah, my sister was in Greece probably the same time you were. And um, I don't think so. She her my my brother in law. He's Greek, I mean full Greek, and uh yeah, they were visiting family.

My sister just had a baby. Um, it's coming. I think we might have might have another guest. Un thanks for coming in. We have just been joined by Mr He just came in. Not good to see you. You're looking well. Thank you, Thank you guys for having me having me on here. We gotta get close. I have no problem with that. Man. This is cool. This is very cool. It's great to see you guys. So, so how you been what you've been busy? Huh yeah, good good?

You know, um doing a show right now called The Resident right right now for a little bit right six seasons we were talking about, thank you, thank you, and uh, of course it's been fun to relive Gilmore girls as I was coming to do this and think about all those memories together. So now it's good to see you guys in person. Tell us about how you got the job, the audition process, you know, the whole beginning of it. You know, I I auditioned for Logan either it was

at least once, uh, for a previous character. I think it was Marty. Actually I auditioned for that character. I believe so, and then it may have been another character too. So I think I auditioned twice before Logan. And you know, I had seen the show, and so I had that advantage coming into that first issue where if you didn't know the show, of course, that the pace of it the way the way it is, and you're you're not

gonna call that pace. I don't know when you auditioned for it, but the pace of the show was not as fast when we first started the show. Do you remember season one? We were talking normal and I don't know what happened. Amy had too many coffees, and I think that it was that the scripts were getting longer. Realized that we might not be able to get this into minutes less Dan Dan fill the syringe again. But

your character was introduced with season season five. Yeah, I was introduced in season three, and I remember my agent said, Hey, just so you know, when you go into the audition, it's the Gilmore speed. I was like, I don't know exactly what that means. But by season three they were already Yeah. But season one definitely, if you watched season one, we we don't talk fast. I talk normal, right, I didn't.

That's that's I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah, I came in in the in the fast, just like the only notes we'd get from directors are we really like what you're doing and you go faster? Yeah? Yeah, I don't feel like, man, I don't. I don't feel like Logan spoke particularly fast. Maybe, but that's the reason, Glad, you know, that's the reason that character is so memorable because you did do your own rhythm and you did your own rhythm. But I mean you were a little faster fast, but

you did your own rhythm and kept it cool. Right. You didn't get caught up in in Lauren and Alexis because that's hard to stay. I wouldn't have fit now i'm reflecting on your character. Wouldn't have fit him talking super fast like we we did. I feel like you you had a more normal but I feel like talking You did a scene at the beach with Greg Henry and he came in and he was very upset and

you guys had a fight. Yes, yes, yes, And that scene is one of the best scenes I've ever seen in the show, just to the pace going back and forth, but the smoothness that you gave it, and it didn't feel like you were sort of acting and being fast about it than you just had a very natural float. But that scene was wow. Oh that's very wow. I mean that was first of all, I feel like I was I was talking pretty fast, guys, but I just

thought you were speaking really slow right now. But thank you for saying that, because that was my intention coming in, is is you know the challenge with that dialogue. I mean, it's so beautifully written, as we all know Amy Dan and and shout out to them, and just every word matters, and it it should matter for a reason because the

writing is so good. At the same time, when I saw the show, with it being so fast, you can see how you can just get caught up and if you're at two in the morning and everybody saying, hey, go faster. I was trying to come in and still have my character thoughts while speaking Frost and I didn't achieve that. Of course, all the time. But that was my goal. And our friend George Bell would come up and say, hey, this that you know script. Yeah, our dialogue coach, so he would come up and say that.

But so I wanted to honor that that pace. You have to honor that tone. You want to say every word right because they the writing is so beautiful. But at the same time, I wanted to try and convey the thoughts of the character. So that's a really nice compliment. But this is when I discovered how good you were.

Was when I was amazed at how how good Greg nailed that scene, because because you know, you know, actors have to decide and they kind of instinctively know, oh this is Greg scene like this is Greg, you know, this is fireworks and man he you know, and when somebody's driving that like that with that writing, your job is so hard because man, if you just miss a little time and you can throw them off in the whole scene on rabbles. But man, you were just right

in there. Your cues were perfect, perfect, perfect. That's when I realized how good you were. That's very kind of you. I mean, really how much to do? That's the for me, that's the toughest thing to do is not to screw up Lauren, you know, when she's on her when she's in her in her state, right, And that's the hardest

thing to do. And I think that for all of us we can speak to the challenge of that pace, but also um how unique that made the show and uh, that combination of the challenge is an actor to try and make that come alive was very difficult for us. But at the same time, that's why we're we're here still talking about the show. That's why we had that reunion in That's why we had the reboot, because generations

have now watched the show. I mean, it's amazing in terms of the mother daughter connection, which is the fundamental aspect of the show. But how many mothers and daughters to this day are watching it And that's a credit I'd like to think too. Obviously, again, Amy and Dan and then all the actors who are able to create uh, like you said, each everybody, every character has their own own voice. Apparently I was the one who talked really slow.

I was the slow voice. You you were the guy that never looked broke character, who stayed in character because to hang with Greg henry Man, you gotta be good to hang with that, and you were dressed in the pocket just riding that out and doing your job. You have a job to do, right, and it's like thank you, wow, wow, wow, thank you, So kudos to you for that. That's when I that's when I sat forward and said, Jesus, that guy's good because I've been in that situation. It's like

I choked a few times. It's like, oh, boy, man, that's your job. You got to stay in there and feed and feed and feed. It's not easy. Matt, Gotta ask you burning question here. Who do you think the baby daddies? Yeah, you know, my answer is always the same on that of just I feel like if Amy and Dan want to say that, then they should be the ones. But and and maybe I'm on darts coming in John and maybe they they'll change their minds. So I've always um, I'm I'm putting my money on Mike Tyson.

I I just I think it's the best piece of stunt casting there is. And I wanted to be Mike Tyson because I want to work with Mike Tyson's maybe a little bit, now, why not I think you're on something. I think it's not can you support me on? Thank you? Um so, so tell us a little bit no, so, so get into the hole like when you got the job in your first day, at your first impressions of the of of being at Warner Brothers, and like what it was all happening. Yes, I mentioned at least auditioned once.

I think it was twice for two different characters, and uh, thankfully you know Amy and and Dan saw something in that there that uh, and then I had a third audition for for Logan. So that was a unique journey in of itself to audition twice for that show and then have a third opportunity didn't come back that that's yeah, that's how I remember why it's so special to me.

Is really my first kind of um big job, and it was either the second or third, I want to say third and um and then also that was the first job where after that was able to support myself as an actor. So very again, so grateful to Amy and Dan in a lot of ways of them taking a chance on me. Really I didn't have many credits and um, and so that's that's really really special to me.

And then to be a part of a show like we've talked about UM that was so unique, so interesting, so well written, and then UM for it too, as we mentioned, be on Netflix and to have to be able to do a reboot and have generations after generations

love it. I mean, that's what we all do, is we're trying to do as actors, is to try and make something that um impacts the audience and to be on something that really resonates with with people and makes a difference in their lives, whether it be just they're folding laundry, whether watching the show, or they connect to the relationship that you had with Laurel or whatever it may be. That's what we're trying to do. So we

were able to do that with the show. UM. When I first came on there, in terms of that question, I was very nervous. You know, I was a new actor and I didn't know what it meant to really hit my mark and find my light and uh I remember the DP kind of just you know, take from my shoulders and say you feel that light there, you feel this mark here, and don't be an alexis is life. So those some of some of those basic fundamentals were

what I was experiencing there. And then like we talked about the pace of the show being so unique, So that were some of the highlights for me in terms of that job. Just taking a quick pull, how many of y'all and I'm included in this have I thought they've done a brilliant take, but sorry, I can't use it. You were standing, you were out of your light, you were off your mark, you're out of focus. We have to go again. I'm guilmar I don't think I've had that.

Oh no, no, didn't happen, Gilmore Girls. That happened. But but worse would be would be a line that I tongue twisted or flubbed that I'm that that they then moved on like they were and then I'm like, oh no, please tell me that this is not going to be the one that they use. And sure enough, it must have been perfect for every other every other person in the scene because that we can't use your best take because they were really good at that. So tell us

a little bit. What was it like working with Alexis. Yeah, she you know, as you know, she's she's very private and she's um very you know, in terms of coming into that. The reason I loved the character we're just talking about the character of it um was. I felt Logan was somebody who could push her uh to try and you know, challenge herself, to push her to uh live a different life in terms of outside the box

a little bit. So that's what I loved about the character of Logan in terms of the positive side, was just trying to inspire her to to push her outside the box. That's what I loved about the Rory Logan relationship. And then in terms of Alexis, you know she was she just had so much on her shoulders from a very young age and so much attention on that show.

We talked about a show again that has been so popular for so long, and and she had so much of that burden and so and she was very private and kept to herself, and so mostly I was just trying to in any way I could protect that and honor that on set in a lot of ways, whether it be outside when we were ever together, outside uh of work or at work, of just trying to respect her her privacy and really not bother her too much because I feel like she was just in the spotlight

so much and had so much attention. I felt noticed that very early on that she was so private and and um and wanted time to herself whenever she could have it, so that I felt was my job was to kind of felt an instinct to protect her in that way. Yeah, she Uh, I don't think she realized what she was getting into, and well, no one knew what the show was going to go. But I mean she was a call to show. She was eighteen years old. She was sixteen years old when she started the show.

I believe I'm right she was sixteen. She was sixteen unless she was she was an n y U, which did she graduate high school early? I would have to google that information, but I'm pretty sure she was sixteen. I mean, no, now, yeah, I think I think eighteen yeah nine, she was nineteen. Oh my god, I'm completely wrong. Okay. And the reboot, I mean, I don't know about you

guys had a blast with that. It was kind of the case of just coming you get to go back to college in a way, and you didn't know you're gonna ever go back to college, and uh, that was just a blast. I mean, I don't know, we may not have I don't know if I even saw you guys on the reboot. When we were shooting. I don't think so stories, but it was uh, you know as a blast. I love that, right, So tell us what are your favorite moments of filming the show episode wise?

Of course? Uh, you know the first episode I was on Written in the Stars. I think that was episode three of season five, just a special one because it was the first one. Um you jump, I jump Jack is uh in that season as well, that fifth season, that's the first episode where I feel we had the

whole life and Death Brigade aspect. And for me, the Life and Death Brigade aspect captured the best parts of who Logan was and the best parts of who was for Rory in terms of just again that that out of the box thinking, that adventure seeking, of pushing things to the limit, and I feel like for Logan that was a place where he could escape exactly the pieces that you were talking about that you didn't love about the character, in terms of whether it be the entitlement

or he was always eston to work for his father or whatever. I mean, Master and Commander. That's that's in the first episode this guy. Yeah, and of course I love that piece of them too for me, but I can see as an audience member. Um, you know that was the duality moment, no question, It's a really really cool moment, really cool, cool character. I haven't seen it all right, sorry, sorry, you just recently watched the show. I haven't seen the show in twenty years, so it's

for me. It's so vague. So did you get a lot of offers from film and TV to play a character like that? I did get a little bit. I think of that that kind of an entitled aspect character to play. I mean, to play that your whole career. That's that puts you in some pretty good movies. I mean, and I love that character logan, you know, and I loved all those aspects of them, the duality of that and everything. So I loved that character. But you know, of course, as as actors, you're trying to marry the

business and the artistic side of it. So there was certainly at the beginning certain um jobs that felt very close to that character that UM I turned out. Can you describe one name one um? Interesting enough? There was a pilot the stories. Yeah, I love like what I didn't get and what I turned on. There was a pilot I can't remember the name of it. Didn't end up going. But um, interestingly enough, the producer of that pilot was also the producer who produced The Good Wife,

which I ended up doing right after that. So um, that was a job that that pilot didn't end up going, but that was a character was very similar to to Logan. And that's just one example of that, right right, Okay, Uh, they need you. I'm gonna see you later. You all later, We'll see you around. Thank you guys. Yeah. One thing that Matt made me think of the when we were talking about the pace of the show, the fact that

we all had to speak so fast. It made the actors be very specific about their intentions and who they were, because you didn't have time. If you weren't specific, your work was not going to come through. And so that is kind of like the hidden gift of talking fast. I think, you know what. I think it worked for a lot of scenes. Other scenes I wish for sure because on the thing I'm doing now, I'm finding you know,

you slow it down and you'll find all these great beats. Um, talk a little bit unique about you, know you have and you are ultra specific as an actor, and we're enjoying you so much. On every episode lately that we've been podcasting about, and some of the episodes I'm not crazy about, you know, I and I go into it. I'm pretty pretty honest about it um as to why, and I sort of, you know, break it down a little bit, we all break it down. But the saving grace for the last I don't know, four or five,

what do you think? Yeah about like the last four or five? You just have these one lines that we we all were just you were our favorite line in every episode. Yeah, well, the lines, it's all Amy and Dan and the writing. The writing for Michelle was very very specific. His voice was very specific, and so for me, I grew up watching comedies and sitcoms and I literally grew up watching Golden Girls with my grandmother. And yeah, that's how I learned English basically, because I didn't speak

English before. And the characters were so specific, and you laugh every time because you knew it was coming, and it came, and then you felt rewarded and then you laugh. And Michelle isn't a bit in that vein. You kind of know what he's thinking, and then when he says it out loud, you're like, right, right, right, But so you know to me what you did with Michelle. I mean, it's like what Peter Sellers did with Clouseau. I mean it's so ultra specific and so memorable and so overwhelmingly funny.

Where did you get this guy? I don't know. It's just his I I understood the first time my audition and I read the script and the lines for him. I understood his sarcasm and his dryness and being French Canadian,

which is not like being a French from Paris. But I certainly have uh have met many and I have many in my life, and this sense of having an opinion on everything, and they love to argue, and they love to share their opinion in the sense that they always feel their opinion is the most valid and prove me wrong, prove me otherwise if you haven't that, and they love that debate. And so I understand that kind

of thinking. And so he comes from that place where he feels that he needs to educate people Americans because they're not educated, and so it comes almost from a good place, a place of wanting to share and elevate them. And so it's not means spirited, it means it's done in a way to help and elevate and educate. Its beautiful yea. Um, so so what are you drawing from? And it's and I mean, is there is there another

actor who gave a performance? Now, it's just memories, inner emotional memories of my imagination of of what it is to be French. What's your favorite line that you delivered on Gilmorgural? Do you remember so many? But I remember the last couple episodes. What was cracking us up so much? I mean the line with the elderly woman. I like, I like when lines are really inappropriate, something about furniture. Yeah, she wanted to She said, excuse me, sir, where can

I find the best antiques? And Michelle responded at your househead guest, Yeah, it's so inappropriate and it's so funny to me. Um, yeah that was a great line. Yeah. Wait, yeah, you're killings because we vote at the end of the podcast. Now who who stole the who stole the shows? Uh? You're you're you're saving the show like the Clunker episodes,

which is like kind of all over the place. Yeah. Um, you know the lack of utilization of Richard and Emily participation of you know, celebrating Rory's admission into Yarvard, Harvard, Yale, Yarvard, you know Harvard, Harvard, Yale and Princeton Um. You know you always come through. Well, thank you, sir. We thought we we when the puppy thing, right, the puppies and you fell in love with the puppies, Yes, we we

were wanting. We loved it, but we wanted more hard edge. Yeah, Michelle, Yeah, that when the when one of my puppies die, that was season seven or something. I pitched that idea because I said he should lose a puppy, he should be devastated, it should be like because I wanted to have more moments for him where you saw a bit of his vulnerability. So we're so we're we're really enjoying. Well, thank you what you're doing. And um, all right, gentlemen, all right,

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