WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.040 --> 00:00:09.359 This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast More what You Hear 2 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.279 weekday afternoons on the Drive. Fun new show on the CW. It's called 3 00:00:13.359 --> 00:00:20.079 Sullivan's Crossing and it's stars as Sully Sullivan. Scott Patterson. You remember him 4 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:25.120 from as being Luke Danes in the hit series Gilmore Girls, and he's joining 5 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:29.359 us now. Welcome Scott Patterson. Hi Lee, thanks for having me. 6 00:00:29.399 --> 00:00:34.359 How you doing just great? I saw the premiere last week of Sullivan's Crossing. 7 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:39.119 The scenery of this television show is outstanding. Is it all shot in 8 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.960 Nova Scotia? Yeah? Well yeah, shot in and around Halifax. We're 9 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.479 hoping that it gets nominated for best Scenery. If there's even a category that 10 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.640 should create one, this would win hands down every year. Well, the 11 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:56.000 cinematographers know what they're doing that they get a lot of great shots and you 12 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:00.799 really get the feel for the place. Oh yeah, I mean I get 13 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.799 the same kind of shots with my iPhone. It's not difficult to get great 14 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:10.239 shots. You just stick it up in the air and rotate it and you've 15 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:15.599 got yourself beautiful scenery. It's really a gorgeous place. Sullivan's Crossing is the 16 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.040 name of the show. On the CW Wednesdays at seven, Scott Patterson is 17 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:23.959 with us. You play Sally Sullivan, the father of Maggie Sullivan. She 18 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:32.159 is a star neuro sergeant who seemingly has it all but mm yeah, the 19 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:37.519 world blows up. She comes back home. We've been estranged for fifteen years. 20 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:40.959 She wants to put her life back together. She wants to put maybe 21 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.400 we want to put our relationship back together. We both got our issues. 22 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:49.480 She meets Chad Michael Murray and as you know, if you ever meet Chad 23 00:01:49.519 --> 00:01:53.400 Michael Murray, you get a little bit distracted. Yes, yes, so 24 00:01:53.560 --> 00:02:00.280 really it's a show about coming home and healing and you know, dealing with 25 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:06.680 your personal demons and your relationship issues. But it's done in this beautiful place 26 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:13.719 called Sullivan's Crossing, which is a compound campsite campground that has been in my 27 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.439 family since the late eighteen hundreds, and it's by a beautiful lake with a 28 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.639 nice doc and the whole deal. Sully is an interesting character, is the 29 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:27.560 unofficial mayor of Sullivan's Crossing and everybody knows him. He's a little bit of 30 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:34.560 a legend there. But he's gone through some difficult times and the show. 31 00:02:34.759 --> 00:02:39.759 I think people should watch it because it's so universally themed. People will recognize 32 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:45.280 themselves in these characters and want to take the ride along with them. Deeply 33 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:50.319 emotional. It's really a challenging role. It's the best work I've ever done 34 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:54.319 in my life in front of a camera. I'm challenged every day, and 35 00:02:54.439 --> 00:02:59.560 we've got some great actors here to bounce things off of. In Roma, 36 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:04.800 Ross created a wonderful community of crew and cast, and we're just we're just 37 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.319 having a really good time up here, and we're doing some some deep work 38 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:12.039 too. So bringing a box of tissues and maybe not a box, but 39 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.879 maybe a really extra large tissue so you could share it with the whole family 40 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.840 might get a little messy. Though. It's a little like Northern Exposure, 41 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:25.120 maybe without the quirkiness factor, but some of the characters are a bit quirky. 42 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:30.159 I don't know. I think I would compare it too. Maybe it 43 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:34.479 has a sort of a vis is us vibe where you know we're going into 44 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:42.280 we're going into you know, these emotional places, these real raw emotional places, 45 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:45.879 and not sort of backing off them or being ashamed of them because you 46 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.039 know it's just too raw. Yeah, it's an it's it's an experience for 47 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:53.039 people. It's a very popular show in Canada. First season has already run 48 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.879 up here, so people are very very moved by this show. And they 49 00:03:55.879 --> 00:04:00.919 come up to me every time I go the grocery store out I'm out. 50 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.360 You know, people are just coming up and saying, Wow, what a 51 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:05.120 show this is, and you know, they love to take this right, 52 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.360 they can't wait for the next episode, and you know, there's always a 53 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:14.360 great cliffhanger. So yeah, thank god for the Canadians. By the way, 54 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:16.800 during this writer's strike and actors strike, no offense against the writers and 55 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.240 the actors, but the Canadians have been able to provide us with some content 56 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:27.839 down here in the States, right right, sure, So yeah, that's 57 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:32.120 fortunate. Yes for American viewers of course. Yes. Talking about Sullivan's crossing 58 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.319 and Scott Patterson is the star. He plays Sully Sullivan, the father of 59 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:43.399 Maggie Sullivan played by Morgan Conan. And in the first episode, I was 60 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:47.680 taken. I was a little surprised when she comes back to try to rebuild 61 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.439 her life. She has offered one of the cabins, one of the better 62 00:04:51.519 --> 00:04:57.000 cabins, and immediately the character turns it down. She wants her old room, 63 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.480 and she goes into her room and you can see her walking around with 64 00:05:00.519 --> 00:05:03.519 all this emotion. I wouldn't do that if I were if I worked in 65 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:08.040 that situation, but she is. She seems to be trying to face something. 66 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:14.360 Well. You know, one of the most impactful scenes that I think 67 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:18.199 we filmed early on was, you know, this flashback sequence from when she 68 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:23.959 was a little girl and I held her hand and we had a paint can 69 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:29.680 and we painted a big tree on her wall and that remained and I kept 70 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:32.839 that and when she comes back into the room after all these years, she 71 00:05:32.959 --> 00:05:36.879 sees that tree and it moves her. So it's you know, roma Roth 72 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:46.000 has all these emotional landmines laid throughout the house and through the script for all 73 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:50.959 of these for Maggie to sort of deal with, and it's just wonderful to 74 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:57.199 watch, wonderful to watch people going through these struggles positions. Everybody has issues 75 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.759 with their families, right, Everybody has a strangements, everybody has issues. 76 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:05.839 So this show, if you sit down and watch it, you'll recognize yourself 77 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:10.319 in this show. I think that's one of the most that's kind of a 78 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:14.480 glue for an audiences and one of the most enjoyable parts and one of the 79 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:18.279 most interesting compelling parts about watching TV is that you feel like you're participating in 80 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:21.439 the drama. You're not just sitting back watching something that you can't really relate 81 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:25.959 to but still entertaining and it's fun. But this is something that people can 82 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:30.879 really hook into because it's kind of like watching their own lives. And I 83 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:33.519 think it's interesting for an audience to sit there and see, are these people 84 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:38.519 going to resolve this in the way that I did, or are they going 85 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:40.480 to do it a different way, a better way, or are they not 86 00:06:40.519 --> 00:06:45.160 going to resolve it? Or or maybe they can give me something that tip 87 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:50.319 a line of dialogue of feeling, a gesture an action that maybe I can 88 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:56.879 jump start healing my relationship with people in my family and my community. So 89 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.040 in that way, I think it's almost a public service to be honest with 90 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:06.639 you, and it's quite entertaining and there's some last I wouldn't say it's a 91 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:12.040 jokey joke show like the other show I was on, but it is. 92 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:17.519 It's a real emotional rollercoaster for sure, and Scott Patterson plays in Sullivan's crossing. 93 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:21.600 There were little hints dropped about the mother character. I don't want to 94 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.000 give it away because I know that's one of those rabbit holes we're going to 95 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:31.160 be going down as the series progresses Wednesday nights on the c w mm hmm, 96 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:42.279 I'm sorry the mother character. Yes, whose mother? It is? 97 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:53.240 Maggie's mother? Oh? Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What was 98 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.800 a question? I always just talking about some of the You mentioned some of 99 00:07:57.839 --> 00:08:01.759 the emotional land mines, and I wish thinking that that must be one, 100 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:05.000 because there was reference to have you seen your mother? Yes, but we 101 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.160 don't know who the mother is and we don't see where she is. And 102 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.720 I know we're going to find out more. Not yet, no, no, 103 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.879 not yet, but you will. You will a wonderful actress named Lauren 104 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:20.199 Boyd, and she's terrific and they just you know, they have a whole 105 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.879 new life in Boston. You know, she left me in Nova Scotia. 106 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:30.000 She took Maggie when she was a small child, and she you know, 107 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:35.559 started her life over again in Boston and married a very very prominent neurosurgeon, 108 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:43.120 which is why Maggie became a neurosurgeon under his guidance, and so she's got 109 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:46.600 a whole different life. She's got a brand new life, really interesting character, 110 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.240 terrific actress, really entertaining, one of my favorite parts of the show. 111 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.440 So yeah, so there's that. So there's a lot to deal with 112 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:01.320 there, and I can't really give much away. No, no, no, 113 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:09.600 I don't want that. Her character is very complex and and you'll just 114 00:09:09.960 --> 00:09:13.440 have to see. Yeah, it's very interesting, you'll want to see it. 115 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.519 It's Sullivan's Crossing Wednesday nights at seven on the CW. It's star Scott 116 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:20.840 Patterson. And we thank you for joining us and for bringing the show are 117 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:26.679 we. Thanks so much, thaank keV. Thanks for listening to Later with 118 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:31.480 Lee Matthews, the Lee Matthews Podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive 119 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:37.320 Live weekday afternoons from five to seven. And iHeartMedia presentation.