This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear weekday afternoons on the Drive. Fun new show on the CW. It's called Sullivan's Crossing and it's stars as Sully Sullivan. Scott Patterson. You remember him from as being Luke Danes in the hit series Gilmore Girls, and he's joining us now. Welcome Scott Patterson. Hi Lee, thanks for having me. How you doing just great? I saw the premiere last week of Sullivan's Crossing.
The scenery of this television show is outstanding. Is it all shot in Nova Scotia? Yeah? Well yeah, shot in and around Halifax. We're hoping that it gets nominated for best Scenery. If there's even a category that should create one, this would win hands down every year. Well, the cinematographers know what they're doing that they get a lot of great shots and you really get the feel for the place. Oh yeah, I mean I get the same kind of shots with my iPhone. It's not difficult to get great
shots. You just stick it up in the air and rotate it and you've got yourself beautiful scenery. It's really a gorgeous place. Sullivan's Crossing is the name of the show. On the CW Wednesdays at seven, Scott Patterson is with us. You play Sally Sullivan, the father of Maggie Sullivan. She is a star neuro sergeant who seemingly has it all but mm yeah, the world blows up. She comes back home. We've been estranged for fifteen years. She wants to put her life back together. She wants to put maybe
we want to put our relationship back together. We both got our issues. She meets Chad Michael Murray and as you know, if you ever meet Chad Michael Murray, you get a little bit distracted. Yes, yes, so really it's a show about coming home and healing and you know, dealing with
your personal demons and your relationship issues. But it's done in this beautiful place called Sullivan's Crossing, which is a compound campsite campground that has been in my family since the late eighteen hundreds, and it's by a beautiful lake with a nice doc and the whole deal. Sully is an interesting character, is the unofficial mayor of Sullivan's Crossing and everybody knows him. He's a little bit of a legend there. But he's gone through some difficult times and the show.
I think people should watch it because it's so universally themed. People will recognize themselves in these characters and want to take the ride along with them. Deeply emotional. It's really a challenging role. It's the best work I've ever done in my life in front of a camera. I'm challenged every day, and
we've got some great actors here to bounce things off of. In Roma, Ross created a wonderful community of crew and cast, and we're just we're just having a really good time up here, and we're doing some some deep work too. So bringing a box of tissues and maybe not a box, but maybe a really extra large tissue so you could share it with the whole family
might get a little messy. Though. It's a little like Northern Exposure, maybe without the quirkiness factor, but some of the characters are a bit quirky. I don't know. I think I would compare it too. Maybe it has a sort of a vis is us vibe where you know we're going into we're going into you know, these emotional places, these real raw emotional places, and not sort of backing off them or being ashamed of them because you know it's just too raw. Yeah, it's an it's it's an experience for
people. It's a very popular show in Canada. First season has already run up here, so people are very very moved by this show. And they come up to me every time I go the grocery store out I'm out. You know, people are just coming up and saying, Wow, what a show this is, and you know, they love to take this right, they can't wait for the next episode, and you know, there's always a
great cliffhanger. So yeah, thank god for the Canadians. By the way, during this writer's strike and actors strike, no offense against the writers and the actors, but the Canadians have been able to provide us with some content down here in the States, right right, sure, So yeah, that's fortunate. Yes for American viewers of course. Yes. Talking about Sullivan's crossing
and Scott Patterson is the star. He plays Sully Sullivan, the father of Maggie Sullivan played by Morgan Conan. And in the first episode, I was taken. I was a little surprised when she comes back to try to rebuild her life. She has offered one of the cabins, one of the better cabins, and immediately the character turns it down. She wants her old room, and she goes into her room and you can see her walking around with
all this emotion. I wouldn't do that if I were if I worked in that situation, but she is. She seems to be trying to face something. Well. You know, one of the most impactful scenes that I think we filmed early on was, you know, this flashback sequence from when she was a little girl and I held her hand and we had a paint can and we painted a big tree on her wall and that remained and I kept that and when she comes back into the room after all these years, she
sees that tree and it moves her. So it's you know, roma Roth has all these emotional landmines laid throughout the house and through the script for all of these for Maggie to sort of deal with, and it's just wonderful to watch, wonderful to watch people going through these struggles positions. Everybody has issues with their families, right, Everybody has a strangements, everybody has issues. So this show, if you sit down and watch it, you'll recognize yourself
in this show. I think that's one of the most that's kind of a glue for an audiences and one of the most enjoyable parts and one of the most interesting compelling parts about watching TV is that you feel like you're participating in the drama. You're not just sitting back watching something that you can't really relate to but still entertaining and it's fun. But this is something that people can
really hook into because it's kind of like watching their own lives. And I think it's interesting for an audience to sit there and see, are these people going to resolve this in the way that I did, or are they going to do it a different way, a better way, or are they not going to resolve it? Or or maybe they can give me something that tip a line of dialogue of feeling, a gesture an action that maybe I can
jump start healing my relationship with people in my family and my community. So in that way, I think it's almost a public service to be honest with you, and it's quite entertaining and there's some last I wouldn't say it's a jokey joke show like the other show I was on, but it is. It's a real emotional rollercoaster for sure, and Scott Patterson plays in Sullivan's crossing.
There were little hints dropped about the mother character. I don't want to give it away because I know that's one of those rabbit holes we're going to be going down as the series progresses Wednesday nights on the c w mm hmm, I'm sorry the mother character. Yes, whose mother? It is? Maggie's mother? Oh? Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What was a question? I always just talking about some of the You mentioned some of the emotional land mines, and I wish thinking that that must be one,
because there was reference to have you seen your mother? Yes, but we don't know who the mother is and we don't see where she is. And I know we're going to find out more. Not yet, no, no, not yet, but you will. You will a wonderful actress named Lauren Boyd, and she's terrific and they just you know, they have a whole new life in Boston. You know, she left me in Nova Scotia.
She took Maggie when she was a small child, and she you know, started her life over again in Boston and married a very very prominent neurosurgeon, which is why Maggie became a neurosurgeon under his guidance, and so she's got a whole different life. She's got a brand new life, really interesting character, terrific actress, really entertaining, one of my favorite parts of the show. So yeah, so there's that. So there's a lot to deal with there, and I can't really give much away. No, no, no,
I don't want that. Her character is very complex and and you'll just have to see. Yeah, it's very interesting, you'll want to see it. It's Sullivan's Crossing Wednesday nights at seven on the CW. It's star Scott Patterson. And we thank you for joining us and for bringing the show are we. Thanks so much, thaank keV. Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive
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