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Broadway: Braham in The Philanthropist opposite Matthew Broderick, Iachimo in Cymbeline directed by Mark Lamos, Jason in Deborah Warner’s Tony nominated Medea (also London’s West End and BAM). New York includes: Four Benches by Ethan Coen, Parlour Song by Jez Butterworth. London includes: Silva Vaccaro in the RNT’s Baby Doll (Best Actor at the Barclays Theatre Awards), the title role in Coriolanus at Shakespeare’s Globe, productions at the Royal National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Co. Regional: Doubt at Pasadena Playhouse. UK TV includes: Ricky Gervais’ Emmy-winning “Extras;” the BAFTA winning programs “A Dance to the Music of Time” and Peter Kosminsky’s “The Government Inspector; the title role in “Mosley;” Dennis Potter’s “Old Lizard;” and Eddie Izzard’s “Cows.” US TV includes: ABC’s “Six Degrees” and “Empire,” NBC’s “Inconceivable,” Showtime’s “Out of the Ashes.” Films include: First Knight, True Blue, Honest, The One and Only, and Miramax’s Brideshead Revisited

Duration:: 22m
Broadcast on:: 12 Nov 2009
Audio Format:: other

Good day, guys! It's Daniel Goddard from Young and the Restless, and this is my Australian Accent. It's Buzzworthy Radio, and it is a fantastic place to be. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to a new edition of Buzzworthy Radio on this Thursday, November 12, 2009. I'm your host of L.J. Lee, coming to you live right now on blog.com. It is 9 a.m. each of the standard times. It's because time we're going to be joined by Jonathan B.A.2 is going to be making a guest appearance on NBC's Law and Order, which is supposed to air this Friday. He's also a Broadway actor. We're going to be talking about that as well, and he's going to be joining us in about 10 minutes. We're going to be talking with him, so stay tuned for that. Also, at 10 a.m. each of the standard times, 7 a.m., this is the time we're going to be joined by Alison Brie from Community. She's coming back to the show, folks, for another visit that we want to vote with her again. I'm looking forward to that, so that's going to be fun. I love talking to Alison Brie. It's just absolutely phenomenal to speak with someone like her, and so I'm not exactly what's going on. So, yeah, we're going to be catching up, basically, when last she was here, so absolutely look up for that. Now, for those of you that did not attend the private show, only people that can attend are those that get the invites through the show in your inboxes, but yesterday we did a chance segment with Brian Pillow, who played Lucas Roberts on days of our lives, which is now posted on the website. So, if you go to buzzworthyradio.net and just click on the link where there's Brian to go to chat with BWR, it'll take you to the page where it has the download link where you can hear the interview in full as well as an article, some interesting quotes into bits that were given by Brian on yesterday's tape segment, so you'll be able to hear that. So, we'll also be re-airing that segment this morning with after Alison Brie's interview, so if you want to hear it, then you'll also be able to hear it then as well. So, it'll be on two different. It'll also be on the website radio, so it'll be on both. I'm not sure if I'll do it as a standalone one or of its own, but it's probably going to be re-airing on Alison Brie's show. So, since it is already on the website, we'll just re-air the segment on Alison Brie's show, so people will get another chance to hear it, not just through the website, but also through here at bauxhardradio.com. So, stay tuned for that. It's Alison will be on ten for ten minutes, so about ten ten will re-air the twenty minute segment. So, absolutely listen for that. So, it's going to be a lot of fun. I enjoyed it. And, you know, Brian is as crazy as ever. Love the guy. Always a pleasure for him to stop by. So, absolutely look out for that as well. So, again, I just want to just basically say, though, about what we did talk about. It's just amazing what is and can be said by some of the actors and actresses in regards to storyline and their character traits and personality, what is written for them. You know, it just seems like shocking. I guess that's the right word. I guess I'm trying to find the right word. I want to say for it. But I guess it's very, very shocking to see and hear that actors feel the same way about it. Like, we do. If we don't like, if we don't like the character or whatnot. It's just very weird to know that some of the stuff that we think that the actors think too. I mean, it's been revealed on the show several times, but it's still interesting. It's still interesting to hear that. And for being personally, I'm always shocked and amazed to know that that is actually in their mind as well, besides ours. So, it is wonderful to know that. And what Brian had to say in regards to it was very, in a very, very classy way, but yet he felt the same way as most of the fans do in regards to Lucas and his character. For me personally, I think that they need to flesh out his character more so to a point where he's not, he has a doormat. He's always in a doormat. And he needs to be more independent than dependent on Kate's mom or Sandy or any other woman in her life. There's just, there's no reason for that. There are lots of ways to flesh out his character and the show just doesn't seem to be doing that, which is what I don't understand, which is what I also don't like. They need to flesh him out. And like I said, there was a quote, there was a quote that specifically said that the men in their lives were devolved. And sure enough, they were. I mean, they pretty much were. And it really hasn't seemed like a bounce back from that. It's really a shame. But maybe, maybe at one point, it will actually feel like they actually have gotten their back home, but at this point, it just doesn't seem like we've had any of the male characters on the show. And that's pretty much how I look at it. I'm not saying that the women should be the victims or play the victims. Nothing like that. No, they should have their own set of having a back go as well and setting up for themselves. I'm not celebrating that in any way, shape or form. That's not what I wanted to put out there. Why am saying it? It just shouldn't be just the women that should be coming to the men's defense. Why does it just have to be checked and it can't be been on here? I just don't understand that. I think it's absolutely at the night that it is going that route. And I don't know. It really does seem like they haven't gotten their all-tech in full. But we are, I believe we're joined by our guest for this morning. This is Jonathan Cage, I believe. Good boy. Hey, Lee. Hi. Can you hear me? How are you feeling? Good. I'm really doing well. How are you doing? I'm doing very well. Thanks so much for putting on over here this morning. Pleasure. Does anyone ever told you how much like John Krasinski you sound? Do you know who I mean? I don't think anybody's in Jim in the office. Jim on the author. I'm a huge fan of his, too. I've never heard that. Wow. Are you from Massachusetts? I'm from Jersey, actually. Are you from Jersey? Well, honestly, when you first came up, because I joined as a friend of us, and I got you sounded so like him, particularly after a glass of scotch. Oh. I mean, there's a good way. There's the opposite though. I'm standing like John Krasinski with a glass of coolade and not scotch. Right. I didn't mean the scotch because it sounds like a deepened mellow, a deeper and mellower anyway. Yeah, the coolade is deepened mellow, but scotch is like more deep and more mellow. Yeah. That's how I look at it right now. That's so cool, but I never heard that. That's so awesome. Thanks, man. Well, you should cool people up and pretend to be him. Well, maybe he cools people up and pretends to be you. I don't know. I could either way that way. I think it's a good thing. I think it is too. I think it is too. Thanks. I like that. I'm going to go into work now and go like, you know, I just got a call on John Krasinski on the phone tonight. That's awesome. So you're making a guest appearance along, or you actually did this episode already, and it's supposed to air tomorrow of long border. Who exactly are you playing in this episode? I'm playing a guy called Marcus Wall, who's an attorney, and he used to work in the DA's office where the regular attorneys from Law and Order Carter and Rubarosa work. Indeed, he had some steamy history with Rubarosa. But now let's just say he's gone to the dark side, and he's more dangerous than your average attorney might appear to be. Even though your average attorney can be pretty dangerous, but this guy is not to be messed with. Definitely. Basically, I guess we can say he's like a lawyer that doesn't follow the book. He's like a lawyer that doesn't follow the book. That's a pretty good way of putting it. He might attack you with the book, but he's definitely not conventional. That's right. I like that. I like those conflicted characters that we're going to enjoy seeing. You could play something like that, but that's going to be interesting. Listen, it's definitely more fun to play. I played both good characters, characters who behave well, and I played plenty of characters who certainly don't behave well, and I've got to tell you, it's a lot more fun to play the ones who don't behave well. There's just so much you call it to them and fun to be had with them. They're always great. Now, you also, in Broadway, you were in the philanthropist opposite Matthew Broderick, and what was that like working with that guy? He's one of my favorite actors and working on it, and I must have been fun. Yeah, he's fantastic. It was a tricky piece. It's a play about the late 60s, about this particular world of academia in England, so he was playing this very buttoned up character with an English accent, and I thought he was wonderful, and I love working with him. He's incredibly funny. Incredibly funny about himself, and incredibly funny about anything and that made it a lot easier to be around. We shared the floor, our dressing rooms were opposite each other, so we enjoyed each other's company and would often reflect on the show after it had finished, and he was always amazing. Oh, huge fan. Oh, my God. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It's a iconic film for anybody growing up in it. He's like I did. It was a benchmark. The weird thing about Matthew is he's sort of still Ferris Bueller. His face seems to have stayed entirely the same. It's just got this weird sort of luminous sweetness. The rest of mankind, aging rapidly, I get annoyed about it. It feels like he'd have the decency to take his portrait out of the attic and just grow older like everybody else, but he doesn't seem to be. He's also kind of wicked and subversive in the same way that Ferris was. He's up for a jape, a high supply jinx. He's a great guy. He's like the dick clark of that kind of setting. He doesn't curl all they look like. Right. I know. It's really infuriating. I don't know what's going to happen. They didn't happen suddenly. In sort of 20 years' time, they'll suddenly become 140 or something, really, really rapidly. I'd like that, but at the moment, he's infuriating me, fresh-faced still. He's actually doing a new play right now, which I've just been seen in New York, a Kenny Lonegan play with starring Messenger. He's a wonderful New York writer who kind of is Lonegan. He's fantastic in it, absolutely fantastic. It's a great play. But he doesn't need any plugging, Matthew Broderick. He's going to be fine. No, he doesn't need any plugging. I think you like plugged him enough. That's right. That's right. I have. How did you first start getting into acting? Was it something that you wanted to get into or was it something that found you? It's really something that found me. I have no relatives in the business. I grew up in a tiny town in the south coast of England. The idea of living a life of Max has seemed like being an astronaut. It was just so far away. You couldn't even consider that. I guess I was bitten by a bug when I was about three. We have these Christmas shows in the UK called Pantamines, which is a huge tradition. There's a lot of kids, audience participation. I remember being brought up on the stage as a bunch of kids, one of my first memories. When all the kids left again, having been given a bag of candy or something, I refused to go. I just sat down on the stage, put my head in my hands, and lay down, looking out at the audience. The show went on around me. I just remember staring at the audience and clearly upstaging everybody else. He was trying to carry on acting. I think I just spoke from then on. That was the place where I should be as everybody looked at me. It was a little embarrassing to admit, but that's pretty much where it started. Just a lot of people looking at me. You have to, and everybody's going to look at me. Exactly. The line between actor and exhibitionist is pretty narrow. I just carried on doing it after that. I was in stage plays at school and all throughout college. I realized it was the craft or the trade that I had learned. People grew up being apprenticed to something, and I felt like that was my apprenticeship. That was what I knew how to do. I spent a lot of time in my life in darkened rooms, practicing it. Exactly. I don't know if you can answer this. It might be a little tough for you, but what did you see yourself doing? If you are an actor, what did you see yourself doing? I always thought I'd be a sports journalist. I sort of thought, what a great life that would be. I'm an enormous sports fan. I thought the idea of traveling around the world, watching the sports that you love, and trying to describe them, put them into words for people who couldn't see them. I always thought that was so cool. I'm sure I would get extremely old after a while. I still have a hankering to do a little bit of that, just to go and write some stuff about some of the great sportsmen and women that I admire and just try to capture what that passion is. Can I say, though, that when I became a fan of yours, and this is weird, and I never watched this show before, because my friends actually are fans of this show, not where they are fans of this show, and they got me into it. When you did your guest appearance on Chox, that was amazing. I'm glad you liked it. Thank you. I had a great time doing that show. My God, that was fun. I got to play this English by this sort of James Bond character, basically. I got to roll over cars and empty both clips of my handguns into a hazmatow, which exploded and blew up this Chinook helicopter with the bad guys in. And then I got to make out with evil, Mr. Hoski, who plays the girl. And it just felt like this is what I got into acting for. All this stuff. The gun with the girls, basically. I think if people are honest about it, that's really why anybody wants to act. You know, if you're a man. The guns and the guns and the girls. It's all just running around playing cowboys and Indians or doctors and nurses. You know, that's really what every young boy wants to do. Yeah, I think so. If any of you are listening right now, and you want to get into acting, that's pretty much your premise. That's what you get to look forward to. Yeah, that's it. If it goes well, you could get to play cowboys and Indians and doctors and nurses. You can get into the dressing up box. Absolutely, absolutely. So it's hopefully with this character on lawn order that's appearing tomorrow. Hopefully we might see you again on lawn order. Maybe at the same time. You know, I don't know. He doesn't end well for Marcus. So I don't know, but there was talk. I'm sure it was just joking, but of busting me out of whatever incarceration. I end up in and having me return sort of Hannibal Lecter-like, but we'll see. I mean, I had a blast doing it, so I'd be thrilled to do it again. Absolutely, absolutely. If not bad, then you can always go back as Colin on lawn order critical intent. There you go, exactly. That was playing my wife, Phil, my real wife who is an actress called Julianne Nicholson. She was one of the detectives on criminal intent for three years. She was Christmas partner, and then she was Jeff Goldman's partner. And then the show, she got pregnant in real life by me. Oh, yeah. And so they decided to write it into the show. I don't know. And they said, right. So I played her, Phil, say, on the show, who is, of course, mentor impregnated her on the show as in real life. So it was like a superhero. It was like a hall of mirrors, what was going on there, except Colin didn't end well either. He turned out he was a tax evader or something, pulling some huge financial scam. So that was where he and I differed, but that was very cool doing stuff with my wife, who I met acting together. And I love acting with her. She's amazing. Wonderful. Wonderful. Jonathan Kay to make his appearance. You'll see his appearance along, or tomorrow night at 8 cam Eastern on NBC. Catch four episodes at hula.com@mdc.com. Thank you so much, man, for stopping by this morning. Good to see you. Take care. Take care now. See ya. Awesome guy, like talking to him. The John Krasinski reference there. I don't know what to say, but that except that is an awesome compliment. Can't go any further than that. That was great, everybody. Check it out. Check it out tomorrow. 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