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Speaker 3: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and YouTube. An LAPD officer
Speaker 3: joins a secret task force to investigate a suspicious murder,
Speaker 3: but uncovers a sinister plot that requires a team to
Speaker 3: unite and save millions like right here in La Merrick
Speaker 3: MacArthur can be seen right now in the hit new
Speaker 3: Prime video series Countdown as Da Grayson Vowwell, but you
Speaker 3: may also know him from the CW series All American
Speaker 3: from Netflix's Unstable opposite Rob Low. Countdown's first three episodes
Speaker 3: are now available, with episode four dropping tomorrow. Is my
Speaker 3: pleasure to welcome Merrick MacArthur to the show right now, sir.
Speaker 2: How you doing this evening? Great? Great? Really have pleasure
Speaker 2: to be here, Monk.
Speaker 3: I have to tell you because whenever I run into
Speaker 3: someone from Detroit, there's this almost like this secret handshake
Speaker 3: where they ask, like, what high school did you go to? Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not from Detroit, but my mother's family's from Detroit
Speaker 3: and she went to cast Tech. She's watching right now
Speaker 3: on YouTube. Great, So what why high school did you
Speaker 3: go to?
Speaker 2: Detroit? I went to cast Tech?
Speaker 3: Oh, of one of the best science schools in America.
Speaker 2: Yes, and now a prominent football school. Is that right?
Speaker 2: I did not know that. Yeah, oh yeah, they're producing
Speaker 2: them in cast Tech.
Speaker 3: I got to ask, though, because given you your math
Speaker 3: and science inclination, you came from a household of not one,
Speaker 3: but two Detroit police officers.
Speaker 2: What was that like growing up? So? What strict? They
Speaker 2: were already strict, but then making them cops? It was
Speaker 2: just they ain't set a lot of great values to me,
Speaker 2: being honest, good, hardworking police officers in town. So they
Speaker 2: were known. They graduated the same night at the police
Speaker 2: Academy and at the time they got in amongst a
Speaker 2: wave of new black police officers in Detroit after the
Speaker 2: riots had happened, you know, maybe a decade before that.
Speaker 2: They came in and they were part of this new
Speaker 2: wave of let's really have the police represent more of
Speaker 2: the community. And yeah, they they they applied at the
Speaker 2: same time and they graduated the academy of I think
Speaker 2: they were the first married couple to ever graduate the
Speaker 2: academy together. Aren't there rules against that? They never worked
Speaker 2: in the same precinct Okay, yeah, they never They never
Speaker 2: worked together in it, and they were they were always separate, separate,
Speaker 2: you know, separate groups SEFN precincts all the time.
Speaker 3: What type of wisdom, what type of advice were they
Speaker 3: imparting to you? Do you have any siblings?
Speaker 2: I do, Yeah, I have three sisters, and they're all younger.
Speaker 2: I'm the oldest. My father was a very strong, you know, masculine,
Speaker 2: blue collar type of guy, so he always instilled those
Speaker 2: masculine you know protective instincts in me about my family,
Speaker 2: it's particularly my sisters. And what about your mother? Given
Speaker 2: have sisters, three sisters. I think my mother was stronger
Speaker 2: will than my father.
Speaker 3: So who was the who was who wielded the hand
Speaker 3: of discipline?
Speaker 2: As all they both were, they were both a very
Speaker 2: well coordinated disciplinary parent group. They had it together. They
Speaker 2: had together.
Speaker 3: I set that up because you went to CAST Tech
Speaker 3: and you go on to college I believe it was
Speaker 3: the University of Michigan. Yes, and then you go to
Speaker 3: work as an engineer and you're working on space satellites
Speaker 3: as an electrical design engineer after you graduated college.
Speaker 2: Did I get all that right? That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for how the hell does you don't see
Speaker 3: the logical progressions? It is scientifically sensible way through the
Speaker 3: scientific method.
Speaker 2: It's obvious. Next step is to be a struggling actor
Speaker 2: for three or four years after the age of thirty.
Speaker 2: After the after the age of thirty, after it, I
Speaker 2: didn't know anything. So I studied engineering and electronics in
Speaker 2: high school at CASTS and at cast it also had
Speaker 2: a really strong creative arts program, dance, acting. All this
Speaker 2: stuff was there, so I kind of got into the
Speaker 2: theater stuff when I was at CAST and I loved it.
Speaker 2: I loved it, but I also knew that I had
Speaker 2: a strong propensity from math, and I just you know,
Speaker 2: and you know, my parents, my family. It's like, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, Detroit, you get a job. You know, you
Speaker 2: have a steady job. There was no risk involved in
Speaker 2: a thinking about a job, so acting was out. I
Speaker 2: thought it was fine, blah gah. But later, like after
Speaker 2: I became an engineer and being so regimented with everything,
Speaker 2: I just felt like I'd never want to go through
Speaker 2: life and wonder what if But you were an engineer
Speaker 2: in California? Right? Yes, where were you working? If you're
Speaker 2: allowed to tell us? The original was a company called
Speaker 2: Space Electronics, and then it went to a company called
Speaker 2: Maxwell Technologies, and we designed computer systems for South Lights.
Speaker 2: I feel inadequate. So I was a design engineer for
Speaker 2: this building computer systems that were specifically designed to survive
Speaker 2: the space environment.
Speaker 3: I say all that to say, and I want to
Speaker 3: hear about your background. Of course I've read up on it,
Speaker 3: but I wanted other people to hear it because you
Speaker 3: seem like you would come from this very regimented, segmented,
Speaker 3: directed background, which doesn't allow for the realm of creativity
Speaker 3: and free expression to grow. Yes, you might have taken
Speaker 3: some acting in theater in high school, but what was
Speaker 3: it always pulling at you along the way, like, look,
Speaker 3: I have this.
Speaker 2: Itch I just need to scratch. It was because the
Speaker 2: first inkling I had was in elementary school. Actually went
Speaker 2: to a place called Quarters Elementary which is no longer there,
Speaker 2: and one class, the teacher had all of us come
Speaker 2: up one by one and do what I now know
Speaker 2: to be an improv Skit just individual come up and
Speaker 2: just say anything. And I was petrified because I was
Speaker 2: always shy and a bookworming kid. And I get up
Speaker 2: there and it just something happened. It just clicked. The
Speaker 2: class is going nuts laughing at whatever I was doing.
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, putting. I was on a
Speaker 2: phone call with someone's something I just made up on
Speaker 2: the spot, and that gave me the knowledge that, hey,
Speaker 2: I have something else. It's not just the books for me.
Speaker 2: There's something else there. And so when I got the cast,
Speaker 2: it continued on and I knew I had this love
Speaker 2: for it, but I didn't pursue it because the risk factor,
Speaker 2: And you know, when you grew up in Detroit, you're
Speaker 2: being a black manatory you don't there's the risk factor.
Speaker 2: You need to have something that's going to be more
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 3: Well I understand that, and maybe that was the function
Speaker 3: of my mother and her Detroit roots, because the whole idea.
Speaker 3: I went to Georgetown University and then I wanted to
Speaker 3: work in the in the music industry, and they're like,
Speaker 3: what the what you trying to do?
Speaker 2: What? Yeah, the uncertainty of entertainment.
Speaker 3: But when you came to California, was it ever in
Speaker 3: the back of your mind that I'm in quote unquote La.
Speaker 3: Why do I just maybe send up some smoke signals
Speaker 3: and see what type of response I get?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of happened a little bit because I
Speaker 2: was in San Diego, which isn't the big LA market,
Speaker 2: but they were filming some TV shows in San Diego
Speaker 2: at the time, and I was like, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: you know, see you know, and I got a big response.
Speaker 2: I got an agent right away. I met a couple actors.
Speaker 2: They are like, yeah, Mick, you could you could really
Speaker 2: study and improve and grow in this. And so I started,
Speaker 2: you know, dipping, going further and further into the pool,
Speaker 2: so to speak, and then I got an Asian la
Speaker 2: and you know, you know, it doesn't happen that easily,
Speaker 2: you know that, right, I That's not usually how it
Speaker 2: got I heard, you know, it told me to say
Speaker 2: that was it was easy. I mean, maybe it's maybe
Speaker 2: me finding out and realizing this is something that I
Speaker 2: could really do that I felt like I really had
Speaker 2: a shot at might have been sort of easy for
Speaker 2: me to figure out about myself. But I think the
Speaker 2: row was hard, you know, from from the beginning for
Speaker 2: me because I, you know, you you learning. I didn't
Speaker 2: know anything about the business at all at all. I knew,
Speaker 2: were you taking acting classes? I hadn't started that yet.
Speaker 2: I didn't start until you had an agent before you
Speaker 2: started acting classes. I did not. Well, it was kind
Speaker 2: of at the same time, okay, yeah, it was kind
Speaker 2: oft the same time. I was. I had a friend
Speaker 2: that was an actor and they knew some agents, and
Speaker 2: like the first acting class I did, they did a
Speaker 2: showcase and the agent games, yes, I definitely want to
Speaker 2: sign Merek for my agency. So that was kind of
Speaker 2: the first showcase. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it doesn't
Speaker 2: happen like that. Well, I feel like in a pool
Speaker 2: as small as San Diego maybe, but yeah, I get that,
Speaker 2: that's okay. I hadn't thought of that before.
Speaker 3: But then outside of looking in you know, I know
Speaker 3: you're not an overnight sensation, but there's some things which
Speaker 3: happened starting later in the game, in your thirties, it's
Speaker 3: easier for people to pass you over.
Speaker 2: Again, I didn't know about the business well and to
Speaker 2: know that would be a major factor. And looking back,
Speaker 2: people are like, wow, you started when because aidents stop
Speaker 2: signing people at twenty five. Oh yeah, so I and
Speaker 2: I guess maybe that sort of helping with that. I
Speaker 2: didn't know that I was supposed to not make it
Speaker 2: after I started thirty, but I did. I felt like
Speaker 2: I wanted to go forward to something I truly love,
Speaker 2: and that's what really kept me moving throughout this whole journey.
Speaker 3: My guest right now in studio is Merk MacArthur. He
Speaker 3: is playing da Grayson Valwell on the new Prime video
Speaker 3: series Countdown.
Speaker 2: Three episodes are available right now. Episode four drops tomorrow.
Speaker 3: More with Merrick MacArthur in Just a Moment It's later
Speaker 3: with mo Kelly k if I Am six forty Live
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 2: K IF I Am six forty. This is Later with
Speaker 2: Mo Kelly.
Speaker 3: We're live on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3: I'm right now in the middle of conversation with actor
Speaker 3: Merreck MacArthur. We're talking about the new Prime video series Countdown,
Speaker 3: and he stars as Da Grayson Vowwell. If three episodes
Speaker 3: are already available, you need to go check it out.
Speaker 3: It's really good, full of action and adventure from all
Speaker 3: around the world. It's a lot of intrigue. You don't
Speaker 3: know who to trust, you don't know who to believe,
Speaker 3: you don't know who's a good guy or a bad guy.
Speaker 3: And Marck MacArthur, I'm still trying to figure you out.
Speaker 2: I'm the DA of Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Oh so being the DA of Los Angeles means you're
Speaker 3: a good guy. Let's not talk about real life.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, hit a second, it's a fun show man.
Speaker 3: I got to ask, though, did the law enforcement aspect
Speaker 3: of your family in any way influence your character?
Speaker 2: Sure? Sure, but also the political of their politicians in
Speaker 2: Detroit when I was growing up, and I'll talk about
Speaker 2: Coleman Young. Hey, you know what Home and y'all alone?
Speaker 2: That was the man the years years, Yes, yes, years.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I kind of model a bit off of
Speaker 2: off of that. But I think in general my career,
Speaker 2: I feel like, I'm not sure how, but I play
Speaker 2: detective cop a lot. And I was with I was
Speaker 2: on Curby Enthusiasm. I was talking to JB. Smooth, who
Speaker 2: hangs out in Neutral all the time, and we're talking
Speaker 2: and I was like, so, what are you think of
Speaker 2: my pulling off? Is? Oh, man, you look like a cop?
Speaker 2: You know JB's talk. I was like, freeze, all man,
Speaker 2: you definitely like a cop. So, uh yeah, I just
Speaker 2: it's something that just comes across from me. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if it's my parents or just I don't know. Well,
Speaker 2: let me take a quote from you to better explain that.
Speaker 2: You said.
Speaker 3: Acting isn't all pretending you're someone else. Acting is finding
Speaker 3: the parts of the character that are are authentically you.
Speaker 3: Acting isn't lying, it's telling the truth, Oh, Kelly, doing
Speaker 3: the research.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, that's why I asked the question.
Speaker 3: You know, are you pulling from somewhere where obviously you
Speaker 3: are pulling from somewhere which is informing da Grayson Falwell.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I think like you said, it's something that's
Speaker 2: truthful within you, and so I look at the circumstances
Speaker 2: where we are in this story. But I'm also working
Speaker 2: with the actual person, which in a lot of cases
Speaker 2: in the series is Eric Daine, who you know, he's
Speaker 2: just this steely FBI chief and he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: give anything of what he's thinking at all. And so
Speaker 2: that was like something I took as a personal chance
Speaker 2: because I'm trying to get in with him, you know,
Speaker 2: and that was a thing. And Eric himself is a
Speaker 2: legend on TV, yes, and I'm brand new that he's writing.
Speaker 2: Don't know me from Adam, And so when I'm up
Speaker 2: there acting in the first time, at least the first
Speaker 2: scenes we did, it was really that it was that
Speaker 2: feeling of I want this. I want Eric to know
Speaker 2: that I'm good, that I'm with him, and that was
Speaker 2: something I was honest within me that I put into
Speaker 2: the performance. Let's talk about countdown.
Speaker 3: We played some of the trailer at the beginning of
Speaker 3: our conversation, and we know that there is an undercover
Speaker 3: agent who was killed in broad daylight. I'm just telling
Speaker 3: you a little bit of the first episode. And then
Speaker 3: there is this task force which is brought together, this
Speaker 3: interdepartmental task force. You got some FBI people, you have
Speaker 3: an LAPD contingent who've all been brought together to figure
Speaker 3: out what happened. And then in trying to figure out
Speaker 3: what happened, there a whole nother story unfurls. Yes, take
Speaker 3: it from there, as far as we don't want to
Speaker 3: give everything away.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, there there just seems to be a lot
Speaker 2: more going on than initially suspected by the team. But
Speaker 2: it turns out that you know, Ery Dane might have known.
Speaker 2: We're not sure if you knew he might have known.
Speaker 2: We're not sure about that. But yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 2: more going on. It affects a lot more important people.
Speaker 2: And uh yeah, we're we're on the ride. I mean
Speaker 2: that first episode, you're on the right.
Speaker 3: To ride on the right and they don't tell like
Speaker 3: it starts off in a prison, but you I don't
Speaker 3: know what's going on, and you're they drop hints. It's like, oh,
Speaker 3: this person is not who they're presenting themselves to us.
Speaker 3: And I think that's a recurring theme. Eric Dane is
Speaker 3: someone who fills up the screen. He's he's eminently watchable.
Speaker 3: You see him in a thousand things, and every time
Speaker 3: you see him, you're just focused in on him. He commands,
Speaker 3: he has that screen presence. But I'm not so sure
Speaker 3: about him his character in this.
Speaker 2: That he's on the up and up. Not only three episodes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, yeah, good points, good observations there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I trust no one. Yeah, he's got that.
Speaker 2: It's got the element when you really aren't sure. What
Speaker 2: aren't sure? I mean, yeah, there's there's certain characters that
Speaker 2: turn out to be not on the side of good,
Speaker 2: and this show takes you through finding out who these
Speaker 2: people are and aren't, and you're gonna have your suspicions
Speaker 2: and that's just part of this ride that the show
Speaker 2: takes you on. Obviously, Jensen Ackles is an actor I enjoy.
Speaker 3: I saw him more recently as Soldier Boy in The Boys,
Speaker 3: and it's like you recognize him. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember him from the Boys. And he has a
Speaker 3: lot of ry, dry humor. You know, he says all
Speaker 3: the inappropriate things and it makes it fun. I say
Speaker 3: that to say how much improv is going on?
Speaker 2: Oh, A fair amount, Okay, I mean I didn't shoot
Speaker 2: really any scenes with but I talked to him and
Speaker 2: seeing what he's saying about the show. Fair amount and
Speaker 2: it's funny too. About the show is when I finally
Speaker 2: was able to tell people I'm on this show. Usually
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, getting the congratulations on that show. This time,
Speaker 2: everybody's like, Jensen Ackles.
Speaker 1: That was it.
Speaker 2: It was like Jensen Ackles exclamating boy x mex boy
Speaker 2: question mark. That was the response. He is the star
Speaker 2: of the show and he carries it very well. He
Speaker 2: leads this crew, this cast, and he's he's just a
Speaker 2: great guy all around. I met him on Steff for
Speaker 2: the first time and he couldn't be more generous.
Speaker 3: What is what are some of the fun parts of
Speaker 3: doing a series like this that people like me and
Speaker 3: everyone else who's never done a TV show would want
Speaker 3: to know the.
Speaker 2: Fun parts about? You mean, actually, this work, but.
Speaker 3: At the same time, you probably have some fun in
Speaker 3: doing it. Is it something that you have a freedom
Speaker 3: to make that part your own on some level or
Speaker 3: is it something.
Speaker 2: Else you do you do? I mean, Derek hass is
Speaker 2: a showrunner, and he's from you know, the Chicago Mad
Speaker 2: Chicago Pago Fire. Maybe that's why I liked this because
Speaker 2: I love all the Chicago series. Yeah, so he from
Speaker 2: the start gave me a lot of freedom to kind
Speaker 2: of make it my own. Very few notes, if anything,
Speaker 2: it was like, you know, blocking notes or you know,
Speaker 2: don't wear the jacket here or something, but the acting notes. No,
Speaker 2: it was he's he gives you a lot of freedom
Speaker 2: to that fun. A lot of the guys did. A
Speaker 2: lot of the guys did a lot of stuff. A
Speaker 2: fair amount was not scripted. Scripted, but yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 2: I changed up a few things too, and they were fine.
Speaker 2: I added some things, they were fine, Okay, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's it's one of the experiences as an actor
Speaker 2: where you love because you can truly create and creating
Speaker 2: your own thing and bringing your true self into something
Speaker 2: and it still it still tells the story the right way.
Speaker 2: My guest in studio right now is actor Merick MacArthur.
Speaker 3: We're talking about Countdown, the hit series, which is available
Speaker 3: right now on Prime Video. Three episodes have dropped. Episode
Speaker 3: number four drops is at midnight. I know it's tomorrow,
Speaker 3: it's midnight. It's midnight, so I'll have something to watch
Speaker 3: as soon as I get home tonight and before I forget.
Speaker 3: I know, people are know more about you now than
Speaker 3: before when we started. But how can they get in
Speaker 3: touch with you? How can they reach out with you?
Speaker 3: How can they go on this journey with you?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm on social media. I'm on Instagram at the
Speaker 2: real Marck MacArthur and so on Instagram on Facebook also.
Speaker 2: I mean that's kind of you know, family, close friends,
Speaker 2: but I'm certainly you know, put things out there as well,
Speaker 2: and Blue Sky as well.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, we'll have more in just a moment.
Speaker 3: Kaf I Am six forty It's Later with mo Kelly.
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Speaker 1: You're listening to Later with Mo Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 3: Kf I AM six forty It's Later with mo Kelly
Speaker 3: Live on YouTube, Instagram and the iHeartRadio app. At my
Speaker 3: guest and studio is Marck MacArthur. We've been talking about
Speaker 3: the new Prime video show. It's really good. Countdown and
Speaker 3: three episodes have been released. Episode four. We've been going
Speaker 3: back and forth and so like midnight is about nine pm,
Speaker 3: which is midnight on the East Coast.
Speaker 2: But it'll be available by tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Yes, so watch the first three episodes if you have
Speaker 3: it already, and then you'll be ready for episode four.
Speaker 2: But your backstory is just fascinating to me.
Speaker 3: Not only did you arrive at this point later in life,
Speaker 3: not only do you have some common roots with me?
Speaker 2: What is this this I'll say this. I don't want
Speaker 2: to call it an obsession, but this fascination with kung fu?
Speaker 2: Oh really, so you should know this. And Detroit growing
Speaker 2: up when I was a little shoot, my cousins and
Speaker 2: I we would take the bus to the Fox Theater
Speaker 2: which is downtown Detroit. You have to tell me. And
Speaker 2: they had like a yeah, yes, I had three pictures.
Speaker 2: But you could be there all day. You bought you
Speaker 2: paid a dollar, you could be there all day watching
Speaker 2: comft movies if you wanted to. And so they had
Speaker 2: like the Shaw Brothers movies and uh, you know you Uh,
Speaker 2: it's been a thing. And I think maybe since I
Speaker 2: was a little kid, because at the time, when I
Speaker 2: was a little kid, my dad took me to see uh.
Speaker 2: I think it was Game of Death and Game of
Speaker 2: it had been released all three, Yeah, but I think
Speaker 2: it had been released already. But it was a thing
Speaker 2: where every year they would re show, like Game of
Speaker 2: Death or whatever, the End of the Dragon in the
Speaker 2: theater in Detroit, and there would be a line around
Speaker 2: the block every year. Every year. Everyone it was like
Speaker 2: a thing to do to go see the Bruce Lee movie.
Speaker 2: So from then I was hooked. So when I got
Speaker 2: to be a little bit older and my cousin, I'd
Speaker 2: go to the Fox Theater and watch comfu movies. That
Speaker 2: was it. It was like it was interesting and it
Speaker 2: looked cool, and uh, it was like fighting, so cool fighting.
Speaker 2: So I always wanted to study kung fu since I
Speaker 2: was a little kid, but there were no kung fu
Speaker 2: schools in Detroit when I was growing out. But you
Speaker 2: eventually found your with When I eventually found I moved
Speaker 2: to San Diego and there's a couple of kung fu
Speaker 2: schools down there, one in particular that I went to,
Speaker 2: and uh it was It's Shaolin Green Dragon kung Fu.
Speaker 2: And I started studying again as an old man, but
Speaker 2: over you know, in my twenty somethings that you know.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful thing, and I I want to live
Speaker 3: my life in a way that when all of a
Speaker 3: sudden done, I want to be able to say that
Speaker 3: I don't have any what ifs, I wonder what if
Speaker 3: or I wish I would have. I can say I've
Speaker 3: done it, may not have even liked it, but I
Speaker 3: can say that I've done it, I've experienced it, I've
Speaker 3: pushed myself to it.
Speaker 2: And martial arts has always been one of those things
Speaker 2: for me. Yeah. Yeah, it's uh, you know, there's a
Speaker 2: beauty to it, elegance, it's entertaining, but it's also it's
Speaker 2: a it's a it's a life along to me as
Speaker 2: well as I learned as I studied it. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I was. It's been a favorite life.
Speaker 2: So that means we need to get a role for
Speaker 2: you in which you're a detective or fight white, you
Speaker 2: know the show we get on the Phone. Yes, okay, so.
Speaker 3: That's that's a part of your wish list. As far
Speaker 3: as what possibly you would want to do in the future,
Speaker 3: I would I would love to star in a major
Speaker 3: production in a Marshall in some sense. Yeah, that I would.
Speaker 2: I think for me my demeanor, it would be a
Speaker 2: surprise that I knew come from. If you one of
Speaker 2: those guys, Oh shoot, this dude knows come.
Speaker 3: Well, can't you like just go up to the director
Speaker 3: and say, hey, you know, is there any way that
Speaker 3: you could just write in like a little choreography, kung
Speaker 3: fu choreography where maybe Eric Dane comes here and he
Speaker 3: tries to make a move with me and I kick
Speaker 3: him in his face or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see how that was. Let me see.
Speaker 2: I mean Eric's Eric's are pretty savvy, dude. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: I wouldn't doubt he has the moves already, but it
Speaker 2: wasn't in the vein of the show for me to
Speaker 2: do that. You've got you know, people like Uli and Yante,
Speaker 2: those guys, and and and Jessica Camancho and uh, well
Speaker 2: they can get down. Oh yeah, yeah, I agree. I
Speaker 2: mean they they they know how to do it. So
Speaker 2: but my character, I'm more of a I'm a I'm
Speaker 2: a politician.
Speaker 1: I use my my.
Speaker 2: Words, my your wills of persuasion. Yeah, before we get
Speaker 2: out of here, we close out this conversation.
Speaker 3: I know you can't give away where the totality of
Speaker 3: the countdown storyline goes.
Speaker 2: Has there been any discussion of renewal. At this point,
Speaker 2: there's been discussed. It's been discussed as to whether or
Speaker 2: not there will be a season two. Absolutely, I'm sure
Speaker 2: that Eric is down and and Derek Coss is down,
Speaker 2: so and everyone else is down. I'm sure to do
Speaker 2: the season two.
Speaker 3: I know it could be hard, though, because you put
Speaker 3: all the work into this season, and I know this
Speaker 3: is more just emblematic of the landscape of streaming or
Speaker 3: even broadcast television where tomorrow's not promised in a creative sense.
Speaker 3: And you know, I know when I watch a series,
Speaker 3: I get emotionally attached to not only the characters, but
Speaker 3: also the show, the storyline. You talk about the Chicago shows,
Speaker 3: I'm emostally attached to all of them. But I've also
Speaker 3: been lucky enough like all the other fans to know
Speaker 3: that there's another season.
Speaker 2: There are plenty of seasons.
Speaker 3: And do you here's the question, do you, as an
Speaker 3: actor get emotionally attached to the characters or is it
Speaker 3: are they disposable to you? It's like, oh, it's just
Speaker 3: a job, move on to the next world.
Speaker 2: Oh no, No, I'm attached to the characters, yeah, because
Speaker 2: when they're part of me, like really that's how acting works.
Speaker 2: That you're giving. You're putting yourself into this, so you
Speaker 2: can't really let it go. And if something that's been
Speaker 2: moving you throughout the performance, whether it's on screen or
Speaker 2: on stage, you take it with you. There's plays I've done, yeah,
Speaker 2: decade ago, that I still take with me. So you,
Speaker 2: I mean, you could probably try to push it aside,
Speaker 2: you know, but there are things you're going to take
Speaker 2: with you, and that's one of the beautiful things about
Speaker 2: being an actor. That's one of the things that she
Speaker 2: will take with you.
Speaker 3: But I want you to leave something here because I
Speaker 3: know someone is listening right now who's either at the
Speaker 3: beginning of his or her career or maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit later in their life, and thought about this as
Speaker 3: a career as you did.
Speaker 2: What would you recommend to him, her, they, them, whoever.
Speaker 2: I think I always say to remember that this is
Speaker 2: a journey and don't expect to come in, you know,
Speaker 2: making a big splash where you're like the next Will
Speaker 2: Smith all of a sudden. I think you gotta love
Speaker 2: acting first. If this is what you want to do,
Speaker 2: love that first, Know you love that first, and then
Speaker 2: know that you're going to have to persevere to have,
Speaker 2: you know, any kind of commercial success with it. But
Speaker 2: as long as you have that love the acting, you'll
Speaker 2: have the you'll have the motivation to keep going because
Speaker 2: you're going to need that. You're gonna need that. And
Speaker 2: also know the business. Acting schools are fantastic, fantastic, fantastic,
Speaker 2: but very if you teach you the business and the
Speaker 2: business is something different, it is something different, and you
Speaker 2: got to know that going in. You want to know
Speaker 2: that as soon as you can, rather because that will
Speaker 2: help you knowing how the business works.
Speaker 3: Do you have one more question? Do you still have
Speaker 3: pinch me moments? I can say this, even though I've
Speaker 3: done this for many, many years. I get a kick
Speaker 3: out of oh that's me on the radio, or if
Speaker 3: I hear a commercial I've done, or if I see
Speaker 3: something which may be replayed from a political commentary I've done.
Speaker 3: I still have these pinch me moments, whereas like I'm
Speaker 3: living the dream and I'm self aware that I'm in
Speaker 3: the middle of living the dream.
Speaker 2: Do you have those moments? Oh? Absolutely, I think the
Speaker 2: first time I saw myself on the big screen pinched me.
Speaker 2: And even recently when my publicistm manager, my wife and
Speaker 2: I went to the premiere and they just flashed me
Speaker 2: on the screen. I was like, Oh, that's me, and
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things, you know, and that's part
Speaker 2: of the love of it, you know.
Speaker 3: Maric MacArthur, I could speak to you all night, but
Speaker 3: I know you got other stuff to do, and I
Speaker 3: know that you have other work to do. Probably go
Speaker 3: home so you can watch yourself an episode.
Speaker 2: Four which I am in, which I am in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been a pleasure. Well, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: having me. It's been, you know, so nice to be
Speaker 2: invited out here to talk to you. And I know
Speaker 2: you've had great guests on here before, and I'm happy
Speaker 2: to be included in that history with your show. Whenever
Speaker 2: you want to come back, if you have something that
Speaker 2: you're working on, you are, Oh I do here, I do. Okay.
Speaker 3: That means we don't have to make it happen, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: we could do that. Yeah, he is Mark MacArthur. I
Speaker 3: have a pleasure speaking with him. The show is obviously countdown.
Speaker 3: It's available right now on Prime Video. Three episodes are available.
Speaker 3: Episode four is coming up. Let's say it just in
Speaker 3: a few hours, you know.
Speaker 2: Bye. Bye tomorrow. It'll be there for you. Yes, midnight
Speaker 2: on the West coast. We're confirmed. Yes, we're sure. We're
Speaker 2: pretty sure. Oh okay, all right, good good see you, Sue,
Speaker 2: my friend, Thank you so much.
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