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Peace World, and welcome to a special episode of Foundation Radio.
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My name is Adam Bernard. Thank you so much for
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joining me again today. Twenty twenty five has been one
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of the most creatively successful years of my life. It
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has been absolutely wonderful. I've done so many incredible things
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with both screen Rent and the Sportster. But sometimes things
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fall through the cracks, and I have a lot of
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these full conversations from the year that just didn't go anywhere.
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date with everything I have coming up. But for now
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here enjoy this wonderful conversation that I had in twenty
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twenty five. My name is Adam Bernard. I'm with ScreenRant.
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I'm here with Dean Norris from Law and Order Organized Crime.
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How are you, sir?
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I'm great?
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Thank you you just congratulations on joining as a new
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cast member series regular. Tell me about the experience of
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working on a property like Law and Order.
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Yeah, it's been fantastic. You know, Chris Maloney and I
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have some history. We did a little India about ten
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years ago when we've just hit it off, and we've
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really been kind of hoping to do something together ever since.
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You know, it's been ten years. So when they called
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and said, hey, you're playing Chris Maloney's brother, I.
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Was like, ah, for sure.
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So it's been great and he's made it the transition
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you know into Obviously it's a show that's been around,
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but having him there and having that kind of friendship
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has really made it a nice, welcoming and comforting place
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to be.
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Now season five, I know you're on Peacock down, so
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it's a little bit Edgier. Now I've heard some cuss words,
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which is you know, it's great. I think it complements
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the product pretty well. Do you feel like you've had
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more creative freedom, more creative license with the season because
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you've been on Peacock.
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I think so. I think, you know, the streaming element
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allowed us to to kind of you know, open up,
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like you said, Edgier, it's kind of cinematic in a
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more in more of a cinematic way. I think it's
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allowed us to explore relationships and kind of arcs that
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continue throughout the whole season, as opposed to like your
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normal procedural which kind of has to come back to
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the beginning because it starts again this you know, you
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really find out a lot about Elliott and his back
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his backstory and his life, and you know, I think
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it's fun with the fun it's a very disfict functional family,
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but it's I think it's it's fun as an actor
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to get to play those those dramatic scenes with Elan
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Burston and good Lord and Chris.
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So it's gonna be one of my next questions working
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with Ellen Burnston she's just an iconic actress. What's that
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experience been like for you?
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It's just been It's extraordinary. I mean to work with
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Ellen is she is so present and to watch her
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and to learn from her as she as an actor
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has been great and just so into the scene. I mean,
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this scene can go anyway it wants to go, and
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she'll be right there with you.
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You know.
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I just cherish every every every day I go to work,
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I get to work with her. I'm a happy guy.
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That's awesome.
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Now we know last season you got to do a
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little bit of I guess detective work breaking into Joe's winery. Yeah,
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I noticed a little bit of shades of Hank there,
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which I'm sure was exciting for you. Did you Was
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it fun to dabble back in that world a little
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bit channeling Hank a little bit in that in that moment, Yeah,
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it was.
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If we do a little more on this in this
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season as well, It's it's kind of fun to get
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to you know, it was interesting to get on on
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a line order show and not play a cop, you know,
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well right, yeah, so it's nice to see a little
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of that with Randal kind of kind of yeah, reaching
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out a bit, you know.
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Now, I know you mentioned the dynamic between you and
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Elliott on the show, Chris Maloney. It seems like it's fractured,
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but it seems like things are starting to get a
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little bit better now because of the issues that are
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happening with your mom. We also have some outstanding business
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with Joe Junior. How is that relationship. What can we
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expect from that dynamic between Elliott and Randall going forward
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this season?
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Yeah, it does, It does get more. He does get
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more interesting and complicated, but also stronger.
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In our bonds.
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You know, at Randall hadn't been there for eighteen years,
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and and and Elliott was under the you know, thought
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he had the wrong idea of why he's been gone
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for all these years because his mom, you know, total
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of that. So I think it allows us to now
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rebond as brothers because now that the secrets are out
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and now got to kind of deal with each other.
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But they're both kind of strong characters and so they're
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you know, they're not easy together to kind of piece together.
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goes along, for sure, you start to see a more
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a stronger, deeper bomb between the two.
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Now, I know the show is a lot deals with
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a lot of family issues as well. But I know
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that you're a father of five. I'm a father of four,
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so I know that a lot of times guys like
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us don't get a lot of time to sleep, let
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alone do much of anything. What's your best advice as
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a father?
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Wow?
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Just to love your kids unconditionally. Let's really I don't Yeah,
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And everyone's different. Every kid is different, and the only
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thing you can do is support them and love them
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and give them the strength to face this crazy world.
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Yeah.
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Now, one final question. I heard you're going to be
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in Las Vegas this week. I will be there as
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well for WrestleMania forty one. Yes, I want to know
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who do you have? Cody Rhodes retaining the w W
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Underspeeda Championship or a heel John Cena.
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I like the heel man. I always like the heel
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John Cena. Babulan's go.
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I'll be there so you can't see Dean alright, Dean Norris,
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thank you so much for your time, sir, I really
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appreciate it.
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Thank you, sir.
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Welcome to a special conversation with screen Ran. My name
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is Adam Bernard, thank you so much for joining me today.
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My guest plays Detective Bobby Reyes on Law and Order
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Organized Crime now and it's fifth season and streaming on Peacock.
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Rick Gonzalez, thank you so much for your time, sir,
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Thank you for having me appreciate it and officially your
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third season on Organized Crime. And Reyes has had some
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pretty major moments through the series and also lots of growth.
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What would you what would you say is the most
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impactful moment of growth for Reyes in the past three seasons.
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That's a really good question. I think when he lost
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his foster brothers was a big moment for him. Having
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to confront his past at that time was a big deal, Uh,
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you know, traumatic for him, and and I think having
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closure on on that on the past was important for
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him to move forward.
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I think also him losing his you know, his marriage
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is pretty up there for him, and uh, but yeah,
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I mean I think, you know, in terms of growth
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and what he had to deal with, I think dealing
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with the foster brothers and confronting his foster dad, you know,
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the person who took care of him was monumental in
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his life.
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Now, Rayes is an undercover master and he still hasn't
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been foiled yet. I know there was a close call
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this season, but luckily that had that cover hasn't been
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blown yet. In terms of the character itself, what do
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you think makes Ray is so good at his job,
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especially with being undercover.
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Yeah, I mean I think maybe the trauma he's been through.
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I think.
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What I loved about the character is the idea that
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he's been through so much, so much pain, is so
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much trauma, so much you know, struggle, that it allowed
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him to sort of feel sort of like a daredevil,
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like like someone just like willing to go to the limits,
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you know, uh, even as a father, which is insane,
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like even as a father and a husband, but like
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there's this like disregard to just go so hard for
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the case. Uh, and doing undercover work is really dangerous.
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this idea of like him having to just lose himself
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in that in that world that I don't know, it
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just for me, it just felt like, wow, like this
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guy is really you know, uh just in in in
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in in a really dark space and allows himself to
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just lose himself there and and maybe just for us
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for a little bit, Like it allows him to alleviate
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all that trauma and all that pain, you know, he
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can escape it off for a second, you know, and
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the work allows him to not really think about himself
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and what he's going through and allows him to just
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be singular in going after information and sort of connecting
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with people, because you have to be when you're undercover.
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You can't think of anything else but getting that information.
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So yeah, I think that in a way, maybe it
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saves his life sometimes, you know, because he's not so
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you know, the depression doesn't really sink in.
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That's a really profound answer. As someone who's experienced my
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own trauma in life, that's very profound. So that makes
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me appreciate your character work on the show so much more,
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Like going back and watching it now, you're already great,
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But that is what's just perfect, sir. I know you've
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spoken about working with Chris Maloney, You've spoken highly about
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working with him, and past interviews. In this season, it
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seems like you two have been partnered up pretty closely.
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Has that made you too closer behind the scenes?
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You know, I've always admired Chris and respected him, you know,
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I do love when I get to work with him
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in scenes and stuff. You know, it allows me to
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see his process. Chris is a trained actor study with
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Sanford Sanford Meisner, and you know, he's just a really
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good actor at listening, and I just I just you know,
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for me, it's I'm always willing to learn and to grow,
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and I definitely treat the show as like an acting
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class and I'm just there just ready to just throw
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myself in there. And just so working with him is
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sort of like always coming to class and ready to
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just you know, like all right, what are we doing today?
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You know. And he's very much a captain.
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You know, he cares about writing in tone and how
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we're going to block these scenes, and you know, so
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I just kind of like allow him to like, you know,
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push things forward and I just kind of watch and
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then you know, so it becomes a dance at the
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end of the day. But yeah, I mean I think
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you know what was nice is like this past this
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episode that's about the air we felt, you know, as characters,
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we felt a little connected more.
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got to.
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to get our hands dirty together, you know, And and
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I like that because I think that's what Rayes is there.
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I just you know, you know, I think I feel
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as though we do trust each other.
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the season after a pretty wild and intense beginning for
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season five. Now, ray Is and Jet obviously have a
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history together. Do you think that's going to impact ray
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as his character arc through this season, transitioning to not
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only working without her, but also potentially her not in
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his life.
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dealt with a lot of loss in his life, and
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this is just, you know, another straw to add to
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the pile.
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net to him, you know, this situationship that they had,
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and now that he doesn't have that comfortability, that safety
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net with her, there's more loss, you know. So I
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just think, like, you know, I see ray As as
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someone who's gonna always like push down these emotions and
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these things that he should be dealing with.
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But he doesn't, you know.
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better cop in some ways, because he does rise to
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the occasion a lot. So it'd be interesting to see
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if we could see how he handles that stuff, you know,
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at home, or what does that mean for him, you know, emotionally.
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you know. I think you know, those emotions are always there.
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Jason Patrick has just appeared for the first time on
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episode six as Detective Tim McKenna. What was it like
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working with Jason Patrick and how do you think his
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appearance has changed.
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The dynamic of the show.
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working with him was awesome. I think he's a fantastic actor.
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I was always a huge fan of his work, and
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from the moment he showed up on set, he changed
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the energy of the scenes. The intensity of Tim McKenna
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and what he means as a friend to Stabler and
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to this case. Was immediately that we felt that impact,
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came together and we allowed him the space to create
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this energy. And yeah, and I just had a great
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time working with him. And and I will say that
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this won't be the last time that we see McKenna
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and Reyes sort of confront each other.
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So yes, it can be. It's gonna be great.
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Now, I'll hold this question until tomorrow's episode is out,
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but we're introduced to a pretty new dangerous villain in
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this episode and in this world is l Diablo. Uh
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can we expect this character through the rest of the season,
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seeing as there's potentially some unfinished business between him and McKenna.
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we sort of wrap that up. But to go back
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to your last question, I forgot it was this, Yeah,
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Tim McKenna sort of is indicative of the energy of
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our show for this season, you know, this episode, you know,
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sort of like encapsulates like the energy of our move
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to Pete Cock and like us moving that in that
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direction and sort of even getting more darker and more
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edgier in our tone.
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So yeah, well, don't forget. Season five is out now.
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Episodes drop every Thursday on Peacock exclusively exclusively Law and
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Order Organized Crime. Rickenzalez, thank you so much for your time, sir,
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an absolute pleasure.
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I appreciate it. Thank you.
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Welcome to a special conversation on screen.
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Ram.
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My name is Adam Barnard and my guest is Oscar
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nominated actress from films like The Color of Money, Scarface
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and The Abyss, and she's currently portraying Isabella Spizzano on
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Law and Order Organized Crime. Mary Elizabeth mast Antonio. Thank
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you so much for your time. How are you today?
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I'm very well, very very well.
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Good good.
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Let's dive right in you play. You portray Isabella Spizano,
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woman that's come to America to start a new life
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after she's assisted Detective Stabler in Italy? What initially drew
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you to that character?
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And I didn't have a lot of time to decide
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about doing this. It was just a nice compact job
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with wonderful people, people I've worked with before or have
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worked for before.
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And.
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It all sort of made sense. It's just one of
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those things I think, Oh, I can't question this. If
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I question this, there's just no point. So I just
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said all right and packed my bags and you know
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everything else. So that's that's the beauty of it all.
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Now, you've had some pretty intense scenes so far this season,
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with Chris Maloney navigating some heavy material with the Kimora.
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What has that been like working with Chris through those
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scenes in that process?
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He's great. Chris is always funny. Sometimes I think, are
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you listening? You're with listening and watching the scene at
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the same time, because he's always measuring and then and
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he's indefagotable. I mean, he's just always there, you know,
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ready to go, deeply committed to this arm of this
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franchise and giving it really everything. So and he's a
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lovely guy to be around. You know, he's not attitudinally,
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he's just there. He's ready to go and shows up
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on time, thank God, and all that.
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So I was gonna say, that's probably a good thing, right,
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I would imagine that's probably very difficult if they don't.
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She Isabella seems like somewhat of a tortured soul that
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seems like there's always something that's kind of simmering under
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the surface with her. From a character perspective, what do
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you want viewers of the show to really know about Isabella.
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That?
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Well, it's an interesting question. The only choice I suppose
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she's ever made was to approach Stabler because everything else
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in her life has been a dictet from her brothers
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from her family, from her father. She had to marry
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a person she did not want to marry. She so
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she's had no choice in her life. She's probably under educated.
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She probably has many talents that she'll never know she
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had because she had no opportunities. She wasn't raised in
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that way.
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To be you know.
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So the first decision she actually makes is to come
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clean with the Stabler, say, all right, what do you want?
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Get me out of here, Just get me out of here,
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because I want to save these children. They've got to
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have something more going on in their lives. Now.
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The show is on Peacock on season five, and I
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feel like there's a lot more leeway for heavier dialogue
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and obviously subject material. Do you feel like you've been
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able to tell a richer story with Isabella and the
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Spizanos because the show doesn't have the same kind of
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network restrictions.
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Perhaps we're also because of the nature, because it's not
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a procedural, and like you said, we've got three episodes
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to do, so it is more interesting. There's just more
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story there. There's a home life, and there's this life,
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and there's a you know, it's not just the office.
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And then the scene of the crime and then back
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to the courtroom or whatever. So yeah, and and I
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don't I'm not really aware at them what the the
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changes were because it's on Peacock. I'm not really aware
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of I don't do quite enough television to know what
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the limitations are. But you get more sense that there's
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there's people that have some leisure time, or people that
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spend time at home, or the people they're just the
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characters are more flushed out, you know, they're they're just
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richer in that way.
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Now, it was I'm sorry because often.
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That these are just a relationship to the crime or
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the relationship that there's no relationships. It's just the cop
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the crime to this, that, the lawyer to that, and
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this is completely different. These are i would say, not
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burginy friendships. But the nature of say, the way Isabella
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trusts Stabler, it's not you know, it's not just a
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what do I want to say something that happens the
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scene of a crime, and that it's nurtured a because
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he needs it and she needs it because they have
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to get to know what's going on in order to
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protect everybody. So it's yeah, that's that's.
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A great answer.
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No. I think that's what I enjoy so much about
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the program and especially the season so far, is it
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does feel like a long term story arc as opposed
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to just that cut and dry, we're in and out
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Law and Order kind of dialogue. So I think it
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does allow for, you know, a more in depth story,
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but I think it does draw the viewer in a
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lot more, especially because it feels a lot more cinematic
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in that aspect as well.
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So good.
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I haven't seen it, it's very good, and I know
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Episode four just was released this past week and it
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ended on a pretty wild note with Eli Stabler shooting
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Pietro in the brewery.
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I imagine it's going to blow the lid off of
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the season in a major way. What were your thoughts
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when you were reading the script and saw that wrinkle
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in the story, Because a big thread through this entire
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show is family, and so now that these two families
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are basically potentially going to be in a blood feud,
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what were your thoughts on that?
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Well, I have to I'm always have two minds about it.
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I don't actually want to participate it in anymore. So
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I was a little surprised, say, when there were some
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rewrites and suddenly I'm holding a knife.
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That's like hmmm, um.
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Uh, but I know these things go. You know, it's
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like when they a million years ago in Scarface was
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it was operatic and is that what you think? But
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actually this stuff does happen.
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H stuff happens.
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You know, it might not happen in your backyard or
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in your neighborhood, but this stuff happens. So so you
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just have to give a creative license as well, Adam
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or you know, I'm not writing the story. It's not
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my story. But I had a little bit of trouble
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with it because A I am Italian and it's like,
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oh no to the Italians again, oh this why are
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we never We're never the president. We always have to
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be that other person. You know that can be tricky,
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but uh, it was just you know, it's just their story.
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So you're they going to do it or you're not.
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What's been the most rewarding experience of this role so
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far for you in this season?
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I suppose getting to know not that I know, and
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we're not we're not blood blood buddies now, but you know,
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you have to know Chris, it was it was a
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it was a good experience. It was. It was. It's
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a well oiled machine. So it all worked really well.
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You know, you don't come away with their good crew,
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great crew, actually great crew, really good. And then you
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see all the new you know, if you haven't been
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around it in a while, all the new technologies is
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they go, there's a camera up there. Oh my god,
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this camera's everywhere. You know, it's like being at a
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golf an event is something you know, so you know,
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it's it's good. It's good.
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It was a side question just because you mentioned it.
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You did play Gina in Scarface. It's the iconic movie
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with al Pacino. It's still however, many years later, this
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this iconic film that people really latch onto. What do
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you think it is about that movie that people have
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clung to for so many years.
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I have no idea. I really don't. I really don't.
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I and any one of them has seen it far more.
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I've seen it a few times, but I really don't
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know what it is. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve it.
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But and you know, on a really humid day, if
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my hair is getting bigger and bigger, someone will still
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do this. And I think, oh my god, at least
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it still looks like myself. But oh my god, really
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you know.
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I appreciate your time.
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Thank you so much.
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Law and Order Organized Crime is out now. Season five
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Pleasure, Thank you, thank you.
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twenty five. My name is Adam Bernard. I'm with ScreenRant.
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I'm here with Dean Norris from Law and Order Organized Crime.
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How are you, sir?
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I'm great?
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Thank you you just congratulations on joining as a new
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cast member series regular. Tell me about the experience of
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working on a property like Law and Order.
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Yeah, it's been fantastic. You know, Chris Maloney and I
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have some history. We did a little India about ten
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years ago when we've just hit it off, and we've
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really been kind of hoping to do something together ever since.
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You know, it's been ten years. So when they called
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and said, hey, you're playing Chris Maloney's brother, I.
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Was like, ah, for sure.
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you know into Obviously it's a show that's been around,
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has really made it a nice, welcoming and comforting place
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to be.
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Now season five, I know you're on Peacock down, so
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it's a little bit Edgier. Now I've heard some cuss words,
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which is you know, it's great. I think it complements
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the product pretty well. Do you feel like you've had
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more creative freedom, more creative license with the season because
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you've been on Peacock.
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allowed us to to kind of you know, open up,
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like you said, Edgier, it's kind of cinematic in a
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more in more of a cinematic way. I think it's
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allowed us to explore relationships and kind of arcs that
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continue throughout the whole season, as opposed to like your
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normal procedural which kind of has to come back to
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the beginning because it starts again this you know, you
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really find out a lot about Elliott and his back
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his backstory and his life, and you know, I think
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it's fun with the fun it's a very disfict functional family,
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but it's I think it's it's fun as an actor
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to get to play those those dramatic scenes with Elan
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has been great and just so into the scene. I mean,
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this scene can go anyway it wants to go, and
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she'll be right there with you.
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I just cherish every every every day I go to work,
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I get to work with her. I'm a happy guy.
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That's awesome.
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little bit of I guess detective work breaking into Joe's winery. Yeah,
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I noticed a little bit of shades of Hank there,
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which I'm sure was exciting for you. Did you Was
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bit channeling Hank a little bit in that in that moment, Yeah,
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to you know, it was interesting to get on on
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a line order show and not play a cop, you know,
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Elliott on the show, Chris Maloney. It seems like it's fractured,
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little bit better now because of the issues that are
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happening with your mom. We also have some outstanding business
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with Joe Junior. How is that relationship. What can we
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this season?
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more interesting and complicated, but also stronger.
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In our bonds.
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he had the wrong idea of why he's been gone
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for all these years because his mom, you know, total
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of that. So I think it allows us to now
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rebond as brothers because now that the secrets are out
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and now got to kind of deal with each other.
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you know, they're not easy together to kind of piece together.
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a stronger, deeper bomb between the two.
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a lot of family issues as well. But I know
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that you're a father of five. I'm a father of four,
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us don't get a lot of time to sleep, let
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alone do much of anything. What's your best advice as
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a father?
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Wow?
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Just to love your kids unconditionally. Let's really I don't Yeah,
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thing you can do is support them and love them
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and give them the strength to face this crazy world.
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in Las Vegas this week. I will be there as
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well for WrestleMania forty one. Yes, I want to know
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who do you have? Cody Rhodes retaining the w W
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Underspeeda Championship or a heel John Cena.
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I like the heel man. I always like the heel
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John Cena. Babulan's go.
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I'll be there so you can't see Dean alright, Dean Norris,
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thank you so much for your time, sir, I really
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appreciate it.
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Thank you, sir.
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Welcome to a special conversation with screen Ran. My name
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is Adam Bernard, thank you so much for joining me today.
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My guest plays Detective Bobby Reyes on Law and Order
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Organized Crime now and it's fifth season and streaming on Peacock.
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Rick Gonzalez, thank you so much for your time, sir,
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Thank you for having me appreciate it and officially your
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third season on Organized Crime. And Reyes has had some
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pretty major moments through the series and also lots of growth.
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What would you what would you say is the most
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impactful moment of growth for Reyes in the past three seasons.
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That's a really good question. I think when he lost
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his foster brothers was a big moment for him. Having
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to confront his past at that time was a big deal, Uh,
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you know, traumatic for him, and and I think having
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closure on on that on the past was important for
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him to move forward.
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and what he had to deal with, I think dealing
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with the foster brothers and confronting his foster dad, you know,
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the person who took care of him was monumental in
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his life.
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Now, Rayes is an undercover master and he still hasn't
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been foiled yet. I know there was a close call
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this season, but luckily that had that cover hasn't been
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blown yet. In terms of the character itself, what do
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you think makes Ray is so good at his job,
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especially with being undercover.
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Yeah, I mean I think maybe the trauma he's been through.
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What I loved about the character is the idea that
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he's been through so much, so much pain, is so
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much trauma, so much you know, struggle, that it allowed
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him to sort of feel sort of like a daredevil,
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like like someone just like willing to go to the limits,
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you know, uh, even as a father, which is insane,
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like even as a father and a husband, but like
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there's this like disregard to just go so hard for
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the case. Uh, and doing undercover work is really dangerous.
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this idea of like him having to just lose himself
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in that in that world that I don't know, it
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just for me, it just felt like, wow, like this
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guy is really you know, uh just in in in
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in in a really dark space and allows himself to
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just lose himself there and and maybe just for us
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for a little bit, Like it allows him to alleviate
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all that trauma and all that pain, you know, he
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can escape it off for a second, you know, and
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the work allows him to not really think about himself
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and what he's going through and allows him to just
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be singular in going after information and sort of connecting
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with people, because you have to be when you're undercover.
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You can't think of anything else but getting that information.
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So yeah, I think that in a way, maybe it
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saves his life sometimes, you know, because he's not so
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you know, the depression doesn't really sink in.
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That's a really profound answer. As someone who's experienced my
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own trauma in life, that's very profound. So that makes
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me appreciate your character work on the show so much more,
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Like going back and watching it now, you're already great,
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But that is what's just perfect, sir. I know you've
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spoken about working with Chris Maloney, You've spoken highly about
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working with him, and past interviews. In this season, it
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seems like you two have been partnered up pretty closely.
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in scenes and stuff. You know, it allows me to
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see his process. Chris is a trained actor study with
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Sanford Sanford Meisner, and you know, he's just a really
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good actor at listening, and I just I just you know,
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for me, it's I'm always willing to learn and to grow,
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and I definitely treat the show as like an acting
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class and I'm just there just ready to just throw
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myself in there. And just so working with him is
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sort of like always coming to class and ready to
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just you know, like all right, what are we doing today?
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we're going to block these scenes, and you know, so
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I just kind of like allow him to like, you know,
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push things forward and I just kind of watch and
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then you know, so it becomes a dance at the
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end of the day. But yeah, I mean I think
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you know what was nice is like this past this
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episode that's about the air we felt, you know, as characters,
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we felt a little connected more.
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got to.
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to get our hands dirty together, you know, And and
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I just you know, you know, I think I feel
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as though we do trust each other.
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the season after a pretty wild and intense beginning for
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season five. Now, ray Is and Jet obviously have a
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history together. Do you think that's going to impact ray
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as his character arc through this season, transitioning to not
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only working without her, but also potentially her not in
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his life.
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dealt with a lot of loss in his life, and
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this is just, you know, another straw to add to
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the pile.
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net to him, you know, this situationship that they had,
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and now that he doesn't have that comfortability, that safety
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net with her, there's more loss, you know. So I
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just think, like, you know, I see ray As as
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someone who's gonna always like push down these emotions and
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these things that he should be dealing with.
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But he doesn't, you know.
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better cop in some ways, because he does rise to
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the occasion a lot. So it'd be interesting to see
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if we could see how he handles that stuff, you know,
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at home, or what does that mean for him, you know, emotionally.
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you know. I think you know, those emotions are always there.
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Jason Patrick has just appeared for the first time on
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episode six as Detective Tim McKenna. What was it like
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working with Jason Patrick and how do you think his
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appearance has changed.
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The dynamic of the show.
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working with him was awesome. I think he's a fantastic actor.
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I was always a huge fan of his work, and
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from the moment he showed up on set, he changed
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the energy of the scenes. The intensity of Tim McKenna
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and what he means as a friend to Stabler and
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to this case. Was immediately that we felt that impact,
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came together and we allowed him the space to create
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this energy. And yeah, and I just had a great
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time working with him. And and I will say that
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this won't be the last time that we see McKenna
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and Reyes sort of confront each other.
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So yes, it can be. It's gonna be great.
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Now, I'll hold this question until tomorrow's episode is out,
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but we're introduced to a pretty new dangerous villain in
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this episode and in this world is l Diablo. Uh
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can we expect this character through the rest of the season,
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seeing as there's potentially some unfinished business between him and McKenna.
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we sort of wrap that up. But to go back
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to your last question, I forgot it was this, Yeah,
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Tim McKenna sort of is indicative of the energy of
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our show for this season, you know, this episode, you know,
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sort of like encapsulates like the energy of our move
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to Pete Cock and like us moving that in that
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direction and sort of even getting more darker and more
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edgier in our tone.
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So yeah, well, don't forget. Season five is out now.
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Episodes drop every Thursday on Peacock exclusively exclusively Law and
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Order Organized Crime. Rickenzalez, thank you so much for your time, sir,
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an absolute pleasure.
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I appreciate it. Thank you.
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Welcome to a special conversation on screen.
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Ram.
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My name is Adam Barnard and my guest is Oscar
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nominated actress from films like The Color of Money, Scarface
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and The Abyss, and she's currently portraying Isabella Spizzano on
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Law and Order Organized Crime. Mary Elizabeth mast Antonio. Thank
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you so much for your time. How are you today?
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I'm very well, very very well.
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Good good.
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Let's dive right in you play. You portray Isabella Spizano,
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woman that's come to America to start a new life
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after she's assisted Detective Stabler in Italy? What initially drew
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you to that character?
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And I didn't have a lot of time to decide
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about doing this. It was just a nice compact job
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with wonderful people, people I've worked with before or have
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worked for before.
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And.
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It all sort of made sense. It's just one of
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those things I think, Oh, I can't question this. If
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I question this, there's just no point. So I just
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said all right and packed my bags and you know
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everything else. So that's that's the beauty of it all.
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Now, you've had some pretty intense scenes so far this season,
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with Chris Maloney navigating some heavy material with the Kimora.
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What has that been like working with Chris through those
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scenes in that process?
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He's great. Chris is always funny. Sometimes I think, are
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you listening? You're with listening and watching the scene at
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the same time, because he's always measuring and then and
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he's indefagotable. I mean, he's just always there, you know,
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ready to go, deeply committed to this arm of this
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franchise and giving it really everything. So and he's a
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lovely guy to be around. You know, he's not attitudinally,
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he's just there. He's ready to go and shows up
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on time, thank God, and all that.
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So I was gonna say, that's probably a good thing, right,
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I would imagine that's probably very difficult if they don't.
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She Isabella seems like somewhat of a tortured soul that
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seems like there's always something that's kind of simmering under
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the surface with her. From a character perspective, what do
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you want viewers of the show to really know about Isabella.
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That?
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Well, it's an interesting question. The only choice I suppose
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she's ever made was to approach Stabler because everything else
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in her life has been a dictet from her brothers
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from her family, from her father. She had to marry
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a person she did not want to marry. She so
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she's had no choice in her life. She's probably under educated.
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She probably has many talents that she'll never know she
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had because she had no opportunities. She wasn't raised in
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that way.
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To be you know.
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So the first decision she actually makes is to come
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clean with the Stabler, say, all right, what do you want?
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Get me out of here, Just get me out of here,
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because I want to save these children. They've got to
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have something more going on in their lives. Now.
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The show is on Peacock on season five, and I
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feel like there's a lot more leeway for heavier dialogue
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and obviously subject material. Do you feel like you've been
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able to tell a richer story with Isabella and the
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Spizanos because the show doesn't have the same kind of
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network restrictions.
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Perhaps we're also because of the nature, because it's not
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a procedural, and like you said, we've got three episodes
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to do, so it is more interesting. There's just more
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story there. There's a home life, and there's this life,
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and there's a you know, it's not just the office.
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And then the scene of the crime and then back
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to the courtroom or whatever. So yeah, and and I
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don't I'm not really aware at them what the the
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changes were because it's on Peacock. I'm not really aware
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of I don't do quite enough television to know what
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the limitations are. But you get more sense that there's
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there's people that have some leisure time, or people that
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spend time at home, or the people they're just the
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characters are more flushed out, you know, they're they're just
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richer in that way.
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Now, it was I'm sorry because often.
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That these are just a relationship to the crime or
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the relationship that there's no relationships. It's just the cop
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the crime to this, that, the lawyer to that, and
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this is completely different. These are i would say, not
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burginy friendships. But the nature of say, the way Isabella
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trusts Stabler, it's not you know, it's not just a
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what do I want to say something that happens the
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scene of a crime, and that it's nurtured a because
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he needs it and she needs it because they have
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to get to know what's going on in order to
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protect everybody. So it's yeah, that's that's.
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A great answer.
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No. I think that's what I enjoy so much about
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the program and especially the season so far, is it
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does feel like a long term story arc as opposed
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to just that cut and dry, we're in and out
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Law and Order kind of dialogue. So I think it
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does allow for, you know, a more in depth story,
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but I think it does draw the viewer in a
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lot more, especially because it feels a lot more cinematic
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in that aspect as well.
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So good.
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I haven't seen it, it's very good, and I know
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Episode four just was released this past week and it
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ended on a pretty wild note with Eli Stabler shooting
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Pietro in the brewery.
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I imagine it's going to blow the lid off of
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the season in a major way. What were your thoughts
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when you were reading the script and saw that wrinkle
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in the story, Because a big thread through this entire
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show is family, and so now that these two families
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are basically potentially going to be in a blood feud,
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what were your thoughts on that?
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Well, I have to I'm always have two minds about it.
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I don't actually want to participate it in anymore. So
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I was a little surprised, say, when there were some
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rewrites and suddenly I'm holding a knife.
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That's like hmmm, um.
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Uh, but I know these things go. You know, it's
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like when they a million years ago in Scarface was
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it was operatic and is that what you think? But
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actually this stuff does happen.
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H stuff happens.
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You know, it might not happen in your backyard or
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in your neighborhood, but this stuff happens. So so you
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just have to give a creative license as well, Adam
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or you know, I'm not writing the story. It's not
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my story. But I had a little bit of trouble
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with it because A I am Italian and it's like,
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oh no to the Italians again, oh this why are
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we never We're never the president. We always have to
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be that other person. You know that can be tricky,
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but uh, it was just you know, it's just their story.
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So you're they going to do it or you're not.
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What's been the most rewarding experience of this role so
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far for you in this season?
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I suppose getting to know not that I know, and
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we're not we're not blood blood buddies now, but you know,
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you have to know Chris, it was it was a
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it was a good experience. It was. It was. It's
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a well oiled machine. So it all worked really well.
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You know, you don't come away with their good crew,
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great crew, actually great crew, really good. And then you
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see all the new you know, if you haven't been
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around it in a while, all the new technologies is
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they go, there's a camera up there. Oh my god,
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this camera's everywhere. You know, it's like being at a
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golf an event is something you know, so you know,
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it's it's good. It's good.
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Now.
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It was a side question just because you mentioned it.
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You did play Gina in Scarface. It's the iconic movie
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with al Pacino. It's still however, many years later, this
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this iconic film that people really latch onto. What do
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you think it is about that movie that people have
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clung to for so many years.
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I have no idea. I really don't. I really don't.
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I and any one of them has seen it far more.
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I've seen it a few times, but I really don't
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know what it is. I'm not saying it doesn't deserve it.
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But and you know, on a really humid day, if
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my hair is getting bigger and bigger, someone will still
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do this. And I think, oh my god, at least
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it still looks like myself. But oh my god, really
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you know.
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Us well, listen.
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I appreciate your time.
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Thank you so much.
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Law and Order Organized Crime is out now. Season five
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is currently streaming on Peacock, and new episodes are released
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every Thursday. Mary, Elizabeth Master Antonio, thank you so much
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for your time. I really appreciate it.
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Pleasure, Thank you, thank you.
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This episode of Foundation Radio is hosted, recorded, and produced
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