September 9, 2025 • 49 mins
This week, Tommy is joined by actor Hunter Doohan who you know and love from his role as Tyler, aka the Hyde, in Wednesday on Netflix. The series is one of Netflix’s biggest hits of all time and for good reason. Season 2, Part 2 is out right now and Hunter is taking us on a journey with his brilliantly intense, multi-layered and creepy performance. Hunter also has a powerful film coming out on October 17th called The Wilderness. In The Wilderness, a group of troubled teenage boys are kidnapped from their homes and taken deep into the unforgiving Utah desert, where they are forced into a brutal and secretive Wilderness Therapy program. And right now he is filming the highly anticipated Evil Dead Burn. Today (in this spoiler-filled conversation), Hunter opens up about what it felt like to finally return back to playing Tyler, what some of the wildest things have been that he’s gotten to sink his teeth into in this role, if he thinks Tyler is in love with Wednesday, what transforming into the Hyde on set is really like, his favorite moments this season with Jenna and the rest of the cast, where he wants Tyler’s story to go in Season 3, if he reads the fan theories and Reddit threads, the personal reasons why he wanted to do a film like The Wilderness, why he felt nervous to do it, what filming the new Evil Dead Burn has been like, how he would love to be a part of Overcompensating Season 2, how Jonathan Bailey is a big inspiration to him, why he sometimes is hesitant to share his personal life, why he cautions people to not believe everything that you see online, and so much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me,
Tommy di Dario. We are not too far off from
spooky season. So my guest today is giving me everything
and more than I need to get into the spirit.
The very talented Hunter Doohan joins my show who you
most likely know in love from his very creepy and
(00:21):
intense performance as the Hide in the series Wednesday. He
is so brilliant in this, but that's no surprise because
he is brilliant in everything that he does, and Wednesday
is one of Netflix's biggest hits of all time and
for good reason. Season two, Part two is out right now,
and man Hunter is taking us on a journey. He
also has a very powerful film coming out in October
(00:42):
called The Wilderness, and right now he is filming the
highly anticipated movie Evil Deadburn. So even though my man
is busy in book, I was lucky enough to catch
him on an off day all the way from New Zealand.
And listen up because this episode is full of Wednesday spoilers,
So fair warning. As you begin to listen, you're gonna
hear some boilers coming up. All right, let's see if
(01:02):
today we can get Hunter to say something that he
has never said before. Hunter, Mom, Man, it is so
good to see you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I know you're across the world. I'm here in New York,
you're in New Zealand. But you know what, we made
it happen. And I always love hanging out with you.
We always have a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, same, Thanks for making you this crazy time difference work.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh my god, I'm psyched. You're doing good. Your your
travels are good.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling here in Auckland at the moment.
I've been here a little over a month and still
about two left to go.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
That's wild. How do you how do you adjust to that? Like, oh,
I got to go make a home you know, across
the world.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Is that weird? Does it feel like a home where
you are?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It feels weird. He is kind of the same thing
all the time with when you do travel for work.
I didn't get to bring my cat this time because
New Zealand has strict rules about the wildlife, so that
has been different. But you know, it's like, compared to
(02:19):
other jobs have done, this is not that long of
a stint really, and the people here are really lovely
and my Dad's whole side of the family is Australian,
so I'm really excited. I think some of them are
going to come over. I'm gonna get to pop over
there for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh that's nice. I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is there besides your cat, which you kind of bring,
is there one thing you have to always kind of
set up to make you feel like.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Home, Like, is it candles? Is it sage?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't know. I did go get some candles as
soon as I got here, and not like any sort
of like things like that that I can think of
that I had to bring. I don't know. I was
just I was really excited to get down here. I
may not feel like home, but it's like an exciting adventure,
(03:07):
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, it keeps life fun, it keeps life fresh. So
I'm all about it. I'm also all about Wednesday. We
have to just dive right in because mom.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Man, yes, I'm sorry, I'll stop talking about being homesick.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, no, I just like, oh, what a season it's been.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean we had part two, Part one obviously Part
two is out now, So for everybody listening, we're gonna
be talking spoilers.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So if you're not.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Caught up spoiler warning now.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yes, so either finish it and then come back, or
hopefully finish it by now. I have a feeling a
lot of people already have binged the entire part two.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
First of all, Man, you kept us waiting for almost
three years. I mean you didn't, but the show kept
us waiting almost. Yeah, you're like, please, don't have the
fans come for me. Did it feel that long for you?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes? Yeah, because it was I think a little over
two full years just between us wrapping season one and
even starting season two. Yeah, that was that was crazy
and not what any of us wanted. It was just
you know, we switched filming locations, our whole industry shut
(04:18):
down for a while with the writers and actors strikes,
so you know, season two hadn't been written and the
strike happened, so we just got pushed so far and
then Yeah, there was just a lot of factors that
made it like that. But you know, they have an
out season three, and I can say everyone is going
full steam ahead and it will not be three years
(04:41):
in between seasons.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, fair enough. Are you going back to film season
three this year?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's the plan? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, cool. Cool, So you don't anticipate another three year stretch.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh no, no, I promise good.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Good to know is that weird to like play a
character and then have such a big break and then
have to go step into his shoes again, Like does
it take you a minute to figure him out?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Or it's kind of like, no, I know who he is.
It's I go right back into it a little bit
of I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It was my first time returning to a character. You know,
it was easy, like when I was in scenes with
people I'd been in with, like from season one. I
feel like we did kind of me like Jenna and
I kind of just slipped right back into that dynamic.
And that's, you know, honestly, so just I'm just thankful
(05:31):
to her. She's so good. It's easy to kind of
drop in. But I think for me personally, it was
kind of nice that Tyler had such a switch in
between the two seasons. You know, we only got like
a glimpse of this Tyler at the end of season one,
and then he's been locked away for months and you know,
(05:54):
gotten even darker, So it was kind of it was
a whole new layer of him, even just in part
one and then you know, we've seen the second part
obviously several more kind of layers to him.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, we we were waiting for that transformation. So it's
so satisfying as the audience to now see you in
this totally different place for this whole season and that high.
He goes through some wild moments through part two and
part one, but for you, what's been one of the wildest.
You've got to really sink your teeth into.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Getting to kill Christina Ricci is pretty fun.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's pretty iconic, iconic.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, and a nice you know, iconic just for me
and as Hunter, just because I love her, but also
like on the character side, I think it's really cool
to get to see you know, kind of a not
that Tyler's an angel, but you know he's a victim
of hers, and to get to like get revenge I
(06:53):
think is really important. I like the way they handled that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Do you still have this moment when you're with Christina
Riachi're like, oh my god, I'm with her?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh yeah, because you know, I only got to really
work with her for one day this on season two
because we only got her for a little bit in
the season. But just I mean, so fun she's iconic,
and it wasn't for her performance as Wednesday in the movies.
I don't think people now would be as attached to
(07:21):
that character. And I think that she's a huge part
of why this show exists, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And I love your we'll say complex relationship with Wednesday
throughout the course of this series. It's layered, it's complex.
Do you think that the Hide is in love with Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The Hide, I don't think so. I think Tyler there's
definitely some deep, deep feelings for Wednesday still. You know,
I just like to think the highe is kind of
like the layer over Tyler that he's you know, his
(08:04):
humanity kind of pokes through times even in Hide form.
You know, Wednesday's kind of the only one that gets
through to him a little bit. You see that, and like,
you know, he slashes right through Laurel Gates and episode
four and then stops in front of Wednesday. He does
like toss hero ount the window. But in episode five,
(08:26):
you know it is written and they made it happen
on screen as well, that he's like facing Enid and
the rest of the night Shades and then Wednesday says
she's lying about her feelings, and even in hide form,
he turns to face her, you know, m M.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Even in episode eight too, with you know, him bearing
her alive, you see that moment across his face.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Definitely, And you know, because I think he's been He
was under Laurel's control, then he thought he was gonna free,
but he's losing his mind, dying, and then he's been
under his mom and uncle's control for part two and
he obviously wants to save his mom and he has
to obey what they say. But I think that moment
(09:12):
is so real for him when he thinks, oh no,
I've actually done it. Wednesday is going to die and
so just to you know, have that little moment of
regret or his humanity trying to come through was something
(09:33):
I talked a lot about with Anna Miles and with
Tim on the day, and yeah, I was really happy
with that. You know, trying to find these little moments
is really difficult us. You know, they were really thoughtful
about it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
There's there's so much to be said for the complexity
of this character that you bring to life so brilliantly.
But one of the things I take away from it,
I have no idea if this is right or wrong,
but I feel how you play him makes me feel
like your character really wants to a belong and be
figure out who the hell he is. It's like this
(10:10):
massive identity crisis, and through all the relationships in the
show and all the things your character goes through, I
get the impression it's kind of like where do I belong?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Do I belong? Who am I?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Is that kind of one of the layers that you
play around with when you bring him to life.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, absolutely, Like I don't think he's ever felt he
belonged anywhere, and then he finds out, you know, his
mom died because she's a hide and he's one, so
he feels this connection. And then even being an outcast,
the other outcast don't accept them, and that's kind of
something that he blames his mother's death on. Even when
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his mom is back, you know, she's he's waited his
whole life, wished for this, and then she's not even
giving him the kind of love and affect he was expecting.
You know, she becomes his master. She can be kind
of warm with him at moments, but then cold and
demanding while really giving that affection to Isaac slurp, and
(11:13):
I think there's like a real jealousy there, And yeah,
that's I mean that's I'm really happy you picked up
on that. I feel like I'm expanding out it too long,
but yeah, that's that's a huge, huge part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Do you bring part of your life and things you've
gone through throughout your life to a role like that?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, I mean that's how I just kind of work
as an actor in general, is connecting you know, kind
of like an a lot of as if it's a
kind of easy way to put it, you know, thinking
through before you get there on the day, and then
as my kind of emotional prep for scenes like yeah,
(11:54):
stuff that would that would really affect me in that
way that the same like level the characters at even
if it's you know, not a direct correlation, because if
he did that, he would have a really hard time,
you know, connecting to monsters.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's that's a very valid point, especially when your scenes
like where you kill your own mom. I mean that's
kind of intense to have to connect to.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Was that like?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know that was obviously when he's like in human form,
he's just going after trying to stop Isaac and then
his mom transforms and they have this you know, epic battle,
and you know, once the Hide is in control, it's
just like raged kind of takes over and colors everything
(12:48):
and it's you know, it wasn't in an intentional thing
killing her, and then you know, we see him at
the end of the season. He's just standing at his parents' grave.
He's kind of lost everything you ever had to fight for,
and then now he knows he's gonna die again because
he was I'm a master. I think he's just kind
(13:08):
of totally hopeless until Capri Billy Piper's character shows up
there at the end, and he kind of has nothing
left to lose, and I think that's why he's even
willing to entertain her offer at all.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Man the whole second season, you you, you go through it,
you go through it, and I love I love the
moments where you just like animal out and we get
those screams and the crazy eyes and the facial expressions
when you're in a room doing that, are you ever
like I feel so ridiculous And when you see it
and you're like, oh that came out cool, Like do
(13:46):
you just feel crazy when you're doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah. Yeah, when we did the first transformation of the season,
I was like talking to Tim like, oh, I want
to do this, and then he's like and as he's
like leaving TheRoom, he's like, yeah, we'll do this, and
then Hunter do your kind of interpretive dance or whatever,
and yeah, it's one of those moments that we always
just end up laughing because I have to do the
(14:10):
transformation for like so much longer than you see me
on screen so they can cut into it with you know,
a raising special effects team. But yeah, it's it. It
looks ridiculous without those amazing artists coming in to save me.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I really hope there's some behind the scenes videos or
somebody snapping come on, we need that released.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I know. Once I posted like one of our stunt
performers from season one on like the stilts in the
motion capture suit as the hide, and I was like, oh,
this will be cool, like behind the scenes. I think
I put it on TikTok and everyone was like, oh
my god, this is so awkward.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's it's definitely a my hat is tipped to what
you do because it isn't natural, but you make it
look so natural and real, which is the magic of
what you know, the entire cast does with the show.
I feel very upset for you though, that you didn't
get to meet Lady Gaga.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
How is that allowed?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And no, I kinda stop talking about this. No, I
actually I wasn't in town when she was there doing
her part in episode six. You know she was there
really briefly. We're lucky to get her at all. Yeah,
But then I go on podcast before and jokingly call
(15:44):
it a hate crime, and I've seen that headline be
run so many times. And then I was just in
Sydney doing an event for the Part two coming out,
and you know when they're announcing Dwindlan Christie's return and
me and Alan Miles Riders were laughing about it. So
they luckily didn't read one of those headlines and think
(16:06):
I was being serious.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But I also would feel the same way, by the way,
and I feel, yeah, yeah, now she needs to invite
you to her concert to make it all right. I'm
just saying, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I got to see her at Coachella. That was so fun.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh my god, her set looked unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, I'm in New Zealand. Now. So I missed her
coming to La, but I'm hoping, you know, to catch
her in Europe if we're back shooting in time or something.
That'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That'd be really fun. Is she coming back in any
sort of way next season or you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Don't know, Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, you never know.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We'll see maybe a new pop star will make an appearance. Yeah, yeah,
I've got a listen. Yeah, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm sure you do. Hunter.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You've had so many great moments with Jenna Artega with
Wednesday throughout the course of this season. For you, what's
been one of the most fun were you two? Just
like totally had a blast doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I really liked doing just that. There's a few sequences
in episode five where I got to be with Jenna
and everyone, I mean, Jenna laughing me into chains. And
episode two was really demoralizing and fun. This season, we
all got to just hang out offset a lot, and
(17:39):
that was really fun. We were all living pretty close
to each other in Dublin, and so they're constantly kind
of walking to pubs as people do in Dublin, constantly
hanging out each other's apartments. Yeah, I love her. I
love that whole group of people, even though I'm Monstree
and I'm intact organizing them.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It's it's very clear you guys are a very tight
knit group, which is so cool, and and there are
so many scenes that I imagine doing it with your
friend must be just so epic, like you burying her alive,
like do you do you like cut it just break.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Into laughter, like she's like, what are you doing? And
then you just go back to.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
See the character was hilarious because she was on this
wire being like slowly lowered down into and like it's
slow at first as Isaac's talking around, then they just
like slammer down. Yeah, hilarious. That's so that was a
tough one to keep bye contact and not left.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh that's the best though, that's the best. There's got
to be a blooper reel somewhere.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah. I don't think they've released anything for a part
two blooper or as part of season two bloopers. I
hope they do. There's got to be some good ones
in there.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, I imagine.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And at the end of the season we see kind
of everybody going off in their own way, in their
own direction, which sets up a very interesting season three.
Where do you think it's all going or where would
you be interested in it all going?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I don't know yet. I think for me, I still
want to see the real Tyler get to kind of
gain more control, you know. I think he's done a
lot of things to try to fix his issues. Necessarily
not necessarily heal from anything, you know, because he thinks
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in part one, killing his master is going to set
him free, and then he doesn't know that he's not
going to be able to survive without one, and you know,
he's literally like the way he was written in the
script and we talked about it was like he's losing
touch with reality. And then he's under his mother's control,
(19:50):
and you know, he's a kid that lost his mom
at a young age and he has like a chance
to save her, so he's kind of doing anything he
can to do that. And then, yeah, I think we
still haven't gotten to explore Tyler in control while having
(20:11):
high abilities.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Do you think there's a world where Tyler and Wednesday
could be best friends or even love interests?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Again, I think that Tyler still deeply feels for her.
It would obviously I think need to be like a
slow burn. If anything, I think he has a lot
to make up for her. But you know, this end
(20:43):
of the season it was fun because part two, I
think his focus, you know, the hide is full of
rage and he knows the only way to get her
attention is through you know, Enid in episode five. But
then I think for Tyler, whole focus shifts to saving
his mom and Wednesday and her friends honestly just keep
(21:04):
getting in the way of that. They totally like if
they we just had been able to save mom in
episode six, it would have solved a lot of problems.
But yeah, it was it was just it was fun
to get to explore the you know, even though he's
being told what to do and to hide part of him,
he's still obviously he doesn't want her to die. And
(21:27):
then she has the chance to kill him, and you
know she sets him free, and you know it's a
moment of she kind of needs his help as well.
So yeah, it's just I think there's a it's fun.
There's a lot of fun dynamics to explore there. Yeah,
so there there might be a world where that could happen.
You never know, be sealed on that one.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Okay, moving on, moving on, moving on, moving on. I
just feel really like proud of you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Man. I remember when we got caught in Brooklyn. Yeah,
a couple of years ago. Now, I guess maybe did
season one just come out?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I'm trying to remember as well. I feel like it
it must have just come out. Yeah, I think, yeah,
I think. I think I was there with my husband's
family for Christmas, because his whole family's in New York.
I think that's why we were there and in the city,
and I came in to do a few press things
and we met up.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, like it just came out.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I remember talking to you about it and and I
knew it would be huge, and I know you hope
that it would be huge, but you never know how
it goes, right, and it just blew up to be
this amazing thing that people really, really really love and
it shoots to number one instantly every time, and season
two has been delivering, and you got season three, I
believe before Season two even came out, right, So it's
(22:50):
just yeah, crazy, yeah, Like, it's so cool to see
you being a part of something that people crave and
love and want more of. And I imagine, you know,
I know it's hard as humans to pat ourselves on
the back, But I imagine a part of you does feel
pretty proud to have achieved this kind of victory, let's say,
in a business that's really tough.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, I feel insanely proud to be a part of
this show. I mean, you know, I've been acting out
and I'll just thinking for stuff in LA since you know,
twenty twelve, So very aware of just how rare it
is to get on something, let alone, something has this
(23:35):
kind of reach. You know, I'm trying to like enjoy
every moment of it because you know, something like this,
I feel like most people don't get to experience it once,
and I'm very aware of probably we'll never have something,
you know, that has this kind of reach ever again.
So I think it's it's been a really fun journey.
(23:57):
I'm just really yeah, aware of that, and I'm grateful
to be doing it.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Do you read the the fan comments and the Reddit
threads and the theories like do you ever catch yourself
kind of spinning in that cycle or you try to
try to tune out for your sanity.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
A little bit of that and then But I have
seen some theories those are fun. Some people, some people
are like, make me think there's a leak, and then
some people, Oh, I can talk about this now because
Part twoso, you know, when Wednesday saves my mom an
(24:35):
episode end at part four, we don't know who she
is yet. There was so many rumors online like if
it was an Ophelia or Tyler's mom, and then this
rumor started that it was both, and that Wednesday and
I were cousins, and I was like, you guys, we
kissed already. Please don't spread this.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, let's let's not have that one
resurface again. We don't we don't need that rumor out there.
But that is that is funny. I have to say,
that's amazing. I would love to see you because you know,
Tim Burns such a genius and you're working so closely
with him. I'm just putting it out there that I
will love to see you in another Beetlejuice movie.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
My good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well there was, you know, thirty years in between the
first two, so I don't know. That's you know, totally
up to Tim if he feels the urge to go
back to that world. I loved that movie though, the
I mean obviously the original, but I thought they really
captured the oddness of the original in that sequel. That
(25:41):
was I thought, really really fun.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh my god, me too. It was very true to
the original world that they created. And I imagine, I mean,
how much fun would it be to do a movie
like that?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So fun?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, he's he's a genius. Well, I mean that would
be down the line, because you're a little busy right now.
You do have a movie coming out out of your own,
The Wilderness, Congratulations, that's coming out Octobers at seventeenth, seventeenth. Yeah,
exactly October seventeenth. So this is a very different type
of role for you.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, it's kind of switch lanes here from talking about
love interests and monsters. Yeah, it's a really special story
our writer and director Spencer King. It's based off his
experiences being sent to like a wilderness therapy program as
a teenager. Yeah. And you know, for people who don't know,
(26:38):
is like this goal takes place in like the troubled
teen industry, which is kind of this like private network
of a bunch of different types of facilities and the
wilderness programs like the one it explored in our movie,
or you know, boot camps, therapeutic boarding schools, conversion therapy,
all of those kind of follow under this teach label. Yeah,
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it is a multi billion dollar industry, and I don't
think there's enough out there about it. So I was
just really honored to be brought on to help. You know,
a story that Spencer had written based on, you know,
like inspired by it, but he went.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Through what surprised you about the work you were able
to do in a role.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Like this, you know, I never you know, I didn't
go to one of these camps. I do have a
close friend that did. But my kind of initial way
into ed my character was Spencer and I connected because
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we find out the reason he's kind of struggling is
he's lost his father. And Spencer lost his at a
young age. I lost my dad at a young age.
So that was kind of my like emotional way in.
And yeah, I feel like I've not really gotten to
explore it and something like this since that I went
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through that, and so yeah, I was kind of a
little nervous to do it too.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well, that's how you know it's right, right, Yeah, because
you push yourself outside of what makes maybe feel safe
or comfortable, And yeah, I mean, doing a project where
you have to revisit some of those feelings, which I
imagine were very traumatic for you, is freaky.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
It just is.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, it was freaky. And then you know there's enough
to separate the two obviously that just like my relation
to my dad is not the same at all to
Ed and his. But yeah, I just think that, like
very That's what made me interested in like wanting to
do the movie is that the way it explored grief
was really touching. And yeah, just connected with Spenser so much.
(28:58):
I just wanted to be a part of it. And
to come on to play ahead and then to get
to produce something was really gratifying.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, I know, excuse me, producer, that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah it was. It was really fun and I love acting,
but you know, I've all I've been trying to work
at doing stuff on the other side of the camera
for a while, you know, write a lot, and to
get to be a producer and just get to have
more of a hand or say and this whole storytelling
(29:36):
from the beginning to the end, Yeah, it was really fun.
I loved that side of it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, everybody has to see you in this movie. It's,
like I said, a very different type of role for
you visually. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I mean, yeah, Utah for five weeks and you know,
our cinematographer Sean Mutan was incredible, really beautiful film.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's awesome that right after people are gonna seeing you
on Wednesday, they can then see this totally different character
in a different world, grounded more in were reality, I
guess because monsters aren't real, I don't think so, it's
it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
What's that you're questioning that? Well, I mean, I don't
want anyone to come from me, but maybe maybe just
a little what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Although I've met some people that I would call monsters
in my life, so that's a different story. But that's
for the After Hour show. It's a really really, really
cool movie. So it's why it's released in limited theaters
on the seventeenth, right.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, so you know this is a true, true independent movie.
So I we are so grateful to have a theatrical
release that is rare. You know, won't be everywhere, but
you know it'll be in select cities and you know
we'll put the link somewhere when that's available. Yeah, I'm
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excited about that. To just have it, this little movie
we worked on make it to theaters is really exciting.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh, that's amazing. It's it's gonna be awesome. And I
know everyone's really psyched for that. They're also psyched for
what you're working on right now, which is why you
are not in studio with me, and you were in
New Zealand you were filming Evil Dead burn right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yes, yeah, I'm you know, we've been shooting for like
a month, two more to go, so so fun. Yeah,
another kind of departure straight up horror. It's been really fun.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Is it been?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Do you get freaked out when you work on projects
like this, because I mean it's a that franchise is.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
No joke, Yeah, no joke. It had a lot of
jokes and the original ones, which I love, Like, I mean,
Evil Dead two it's just a classic and so campy
and and then you know the Army of Darkness, you know,
even goes further. But yeah, ever since kind of like
Vedi Alvarez did the twenty thirteen one, it's been truly horrifying.
(32:23):
And yeah, our a lot of our effects and makeup
has been a lot of practical stuff but it's it's
so fun. On the day, you know, we're all getting
at each other. It's like, oh, look at that's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh man, I bet I can't wait for that.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Would you say we're going to be pretty scared watching
this based off of your filming?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I hope so. Our director, Sebastian Benicek is a fringe
filmmaker who his first film is called vermin Or Invested
in English. But that movie really freaked me out. So
I think we're Evil Dead fans can trust that he
(33:08):
is gonna really bring it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
M Oh my god, that's excited.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I gotta say, I'm pretty surprised in this day and
age we live in that there's really been no spoilers.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
It's been pretty locked down. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I don't think anything is kind of leaked out online
about it, which is nice. So I'm gonna try to
not spoil it here and now.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
So you're not gonna tell me how it ends.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Oh all right, I won't get that out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Here's people to die.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, No, you don't say, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
That's the first Evil Dead movie where no one dies.
It's just a kind of a nice family film.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Okay, all right, Well, I think you just maybe told
everyone not to come based off that description, So let's
not do that.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've got to stop talking just utter
bullshit on podcasts that get taken out of continents.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
No, that's that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well that's another project that you should be so proud of.
You're doing so much, man like is there and you
do a lot of different things, But is there a
type of role that you haven't gotten to play yet
where you're like, oh, man, one day, I want to
I want to I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
This Fall and Evil that is super different. It's you know,
I can it's much probably, but it's it's different for me.
I think Ed in the Wilderness was also different than
you know, obviously like Wednesday or Muse and Daredevil. But yeah,
(34:48):
I think I need to play a character who isn't
suffering so much or making other people suffer. It would
it would be nice to do something kind of lighthearted next, maybe.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Like a good rom com.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, just a calm.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Something with a laugh. Yeah, yeah, I could, I could totally.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, something about me walking into a casting office.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
They're like murderer, he gives dark energy.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah. I hope that for you too though. That would
be really cool to see. I would, and it would
be cool to see you play.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Also, like there's so much great content, you know, for
the community, like you know, over Compensating was amazing and
oh my god love how why where is the season
two announcement?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Like come on, I know I need doing that. I
binge that so fast?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Brilliant is amazing, brilliant, brilliant. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, I've seen him out about and definitely was like,
so are you gonna call me? Uh? For season two?
Pitch definitely pitched myself. I would love to play just
a queer character in general, or to anything for that show.
I would. I would play frat bro.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
That would be fun to see. That would be really
fun to see. Yeah, no, the show is amazing and
oh my god, if you were in season two that
would be epic. But that isn't that isn't a fun
point that you know, you're you're an alka man and
not that doesn't define you, but like you would want
to play that kind of role?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, I mean, well I have auditioned. I just haven't
give the book one.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You've tried out for just for different you know LGBT
projects out there, Yes, really any any of that that
I would know.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Oh my god. I can't stand when people list the
roles they didn't get and then it's just never that
never comes out right. But yeah, maybe off camera, I'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right, fair enough, that's funny. That's so funny. All right,
so maybe we'll see that happening down the line. I
think I saw that you somewhere were actually saying somebody
like Jonathan Bailey is an inspiration in this business.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, huge, He's so talented, and I think just when
it comes to this topic, he speaks so eloquently about it,
and just there was some like long form interview if
maybe I forget where it was, but just that he
(37:48):
kind of let go of the limitations that he felt
from the outside world about it. And yeah, I mean
I think his career is amazing. Played queer characters, straight characters,
giant franchises, the you know, big romantic interest you know,
(38:09):
now Jurassic Park, you know, like, yeah, so when it
comes to how he discusses this, I'm just really inspired.
And then I'm just a huge fan of his work too.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Have you had the opportunity to connect with him and
like tell him that, oh no, I've.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Never never met him, but yeah, hopefully someday.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I love when you can look up to someone in
the business who's truly doing great things. And I've talked
him a bunch and I did a whole hour long
conversation with him at the ninety second Street while here
in New York, and we, you know, keep in touch
a few times a year, and he's like, genuinely one
of the kindest, nicest people.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
That's I love to hear that.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah, yeah, he's he's good people.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Yeah, it seems like you can tell that just all
his interviews and press stuff I've seen. Yeah, he seems
like a really genuine guy.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, have like a strict no asshole policy.
And I'm like, thank god you're cool, because I would
not be able to do anything with.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
You, so I respect that for sure.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Hunter, is there a franchise out there that you just
love and like it would be a pinch me moment
to be a part.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Of big kind of franchise right now?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, or like a series, like anything kind of that
exists or a world that exists out there in a
project that you're like, Ah, that would be so cool.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Uh, I really love Separence. I loved Game of Thrones.
The House of the Dragon has been really fun as well,
so something like that would be really different and cool.
I don't know. Yeah, it's like kind of always comes
down to the script for me. Yeah, it's just so funny,
(39:56):
like you can never predict or kind of plan this
these next things. I feel like I loved Evil Dead
and never really even saw myself in that world, and
then I got this audition. I knew who Sebastian was
before I got it, and then seeing how good this
(40:21):
script was is what made me want to do it
and make trust in him as a filmmaker.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's so cool that, like one of your kind of
dream you know, areas to be involved in, is happening
right now as we speak.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
And of course, as you mentioned earlier, over compensating season two,
call you come on, He's right, what the fuck I'm
I'm gonna slide into this dam and be like, you
better make this fucking happen.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
After this two me like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
There might be things that come out there about me
doing your show. Ignore it.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
All right. We came up with the storyline.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's ready to go, Oh my god, Yes, I not
that he needs hell, but I do have some great
options played stuff things I've gone through in my life
that are really too funny to even believe. But anyway,
God Hunter, I just love catching up with you. And
as we wrap up, the name of the show is
called I've never said this before, and I love having
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people come on and say something that they don't always
get a chance to say in a two minute carpet,
you know, or a four minute junket where it's all
the same things being thrown your way. So is there
anything today that you can think of that you've never
said before in an interview that you want to share?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, because the name of the show is thinking about it,
I'm not sure, but how to say it, I guess,
but you kind of touched on it earlier asking about
getting to like the comments and stuff. I don't. I
think I've kind of been struggling with how much of
myself I want to out there. There's because I gotta say,
(42:02):
like the Wednesday fans, every interaction I've had with them
in real life has been so great, and online it's
mostly positive too, But then it's not the like fans
of the show. There's been like some there's honestly been
these like weird AI videos on like TikTok that have
like spread rumors about like me and Jenna and Emma's
(42:24):
and other cast members like personal lives are just so
not true and obviously this fake AI voice and then
but this stuff coulds spread around and people believe it,
and so I don't know, sometimes it makes me want
to like protect myself more and not share anything for
my personal life. And sometimes I want to like comment
(42:47):
on these stupid AI videos and say, truly, people aren't
believing this shit. I mean, if I don't want to
have fuel to the fire. I don't know, I feel
like I'm not really making a cohesive point here. I
feel like I just this kind of topic to me
is like, oh, I kind of avoid talking about this
(43:10):
and just kind of wanted to lightly touch on that.
I don't know, everyone be a little nicer and not
just believe some rumor that is literally an AI voice
speaking on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Right right, Well, I think what you're basically saying is
you struggle with how much to share and how much
not to share, you know, based off how crazy the
Internet can sometimes be and how quickly rumors can start
and how quickly fake things can be said and interpreted
as factual or real. And I imagine that does put
you in a weird position.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, I mean I got to go to Sydney for
that event for part two, but like I couldn't go
to the London premire, so I was here shooting and
I even posted it. I was like, oh, I wish
I could be there, And there's like rumors that, like
I saw a wonder word, Jenna didn't allow me to go,
which is so not true. There was a rumor that
(44:11):
my husband didn't let me go because he was jealous
of Jenna, and I was like, you guys, can we
be so being for real right now? It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
So according to the Internet, you and Jenna had an affair,
your husband caught on when it let you go, and
then she got mad and banned you from going.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
It all makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's I know, Well, that's I think it's
a really good thing to bring up, because you know,
like you said, the community of Wednesday fans are awesome
and they've been great, but there are people randoms online
who you know, like to jump on something because it's
a popular show or the actors being talked about, and
(44:53):
like you said, they make up these crazy things and
y'all are people. Like at the end of the day,
things hurt and can have real life repercussions if someone believes.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Something you know and like, it's not cool. So so
it's a.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Good message to put out to just like in general,
for everyone to be kinder and live in the reality
of it all and not kind of spread gossip or
rumors or anything like that, because we do want you
to feel comfortable to open up to a certain extent
and share more of you and not just the characters
you play, because there's so much more to you than that,
(45:32):
you know. So I hope that I hope that even
though that happens and hopefully won't continue to happen, I
hope that you still feel comfortable sharing a certain amount
of you with you know, your community in the world
and not letting that kind of put you in a
box with the lock on it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah, I hope so too, because yeah, I think that's
vulnerability is important as an actor. But yeah, kinda do
you have to protect yourself? I guess sometimes I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Would you like to would you like to clarify one
final time that your marriage is great and you and
Jenna are nothing more than friends.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yes. Yeah. My husband, for the record, did not tell
me not to go to the Wednesday premiere because he's
jealous of Jenna and I grow up. I love her
to death, so stupid I like something like I even say,
(46:42):
it's so ridiculous because I think most people see through it.
But then we get these like crazy messages, or he
gets these crazy messages, and it's just so insane.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
Oh my god, I know, I know, it's always something. Well.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
I appreciate you coming on, and I do think today
you shared you know a lot, and you shared what
you should feel comfortable sharing, and you don't know more
than that to anyone, And it's all about levels of comfort.
And I think it's really cool that you can straddle
a line, in my opinion, of being a great artist
and doing work that people love and talking and celebrating
(47:18):
the work, but also sharing glimpses into yourself and telling
me that with the wilderness, you know you could relate
because you've lost your dad and that was something emotional
for you and a little freaky, but you did it
and it added to the character. And those are things
that we wouldn't know just watching a project. So for
what it's worth, I think you straddled the line really well.
(47:38):
And I just you know, I love you, man. I'm
so psyched for you. I'm psyched that part two is out,
hopefully everybody's watching it. Hopefully everybody will watch The Wilderness
coming out and about a month. So we're going to
keep rocking and rolling, and I hope you come back
to New York soon and we can hang.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Yeah, it's so good to see you, and it's so
fun to talk about all this stuff with you. Yeah,
I'll let you know next time back in New York.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Noh me, no, let me know.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
We'll rock and roll, my man, and try to keep
saying between playing a hide and now running around in
some horror world and a little worried about you, we're.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Having a good time.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Don't worry, good, good, good, All right, my man, we
will talk soon. I've never said this before. Is hosted
by Me Tommy Dedario. This podcast is executive produced by
Andrew Publici at iHeartRadio and by Me Tommy, with editing
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(48:40):
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de Dario
Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me,
Tommy di Dario. We are not too far off from
spooky season. So my guest today is giving me everything
and more than I need to get into the spirit.
The very talented Hunter Doohan joins my show who you
most likely know in love from his very creepy and
(00:21):
intense performance as the Hide in the series Wednesday. He
is so brilliant in this, but that's no surprise because
he is brilliant in everything that he does, and Wednesday
is one of Netflix's biggest hits of all time and
for good reason. Season two, Part two is out right now,
and man Hunter is taking us on a journey. He
also has a very powerful film coming out in October
(00:42):
called The Wilderness, and right now he is filming the
highly anticipated movie Evil Deadburn. So even though my man
is busy in book, I was lucky enough to catch
him on an off day all the way from New Zealand.
And listen up because this episode is full of Wednesday spoilers,
So fair warning. As you begin to listen, you're gonna
hear some boilers coming up. All right, let's see if
(01:02):
today we can get Hunter to say something that he
has never said before. Hunter, Mom, Man, it is so
good to see you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's good to see you too.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
I know you're across the world. I'm here in New York,
you're in New Zealand. But you know what, we made
it happen. And I always love hanging out with you.
We always have a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, same, Thanks for making you this crazy time difference work.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh my god, I'm psyched. You're doing good. Your your
travels are good.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling here in Auckland at the moment.
I've been here a little over a month and still
about two left to go.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
That's wild. How do you how do you adjust to that? Like, oh,
I got to go make a home you know, across
the world.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Is that weird? Does it feel like a home where
you are?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It feels weird. He is kind of the same thing
all the time with when you do travel for work.
I didn't get to bring my cat this time because
New Zealand has strict rules about the wildlife, so that
has been different. But you know, it's like, compared to
(02:19):
other jobs have done, this is not that long of
a stint really, and the people here are really lovely
and my Dad's whole side of the family is Australian,
so I'm really excited. I think some of them are
going to come over. I'm gonna get to pop over
there for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh that's nice. I love that.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is there besides your cat, which you kind of bring,
is there one thing you have to always kind of
set up to make you feel like.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Home, Like, is it candles? Is it sage?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I don't know. I did go get some candles as
soon as I got here, and not like any sort
of like things like that that I can think of
that I had to bring. I don't know. I was
just I was really excited to get down here. I
may not feel like home, but it's like an exciting adventure,
(03:07):
you know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, it keeps life fun, it keeps life fresh. So
I'm all about it. I'm also all about Wednesday. We
have to just dive right in because mom.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Man, yes, I'm sorry, I'll stop talking about being homesick.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
No, no, I just like, oh, what a season it's been.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I mean we had part two, Part one obviously Part
two is out now, So for everybody listening, we're gonna
be talking spoilers.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
So if you're not.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Caught up spoiler warning now.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yes, so either finish it and then come back, or
hopefully finish it by now. I have a feeling a
lot of people already have binged the entire part two.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
First of all, Man, you kept us waiting for almost
three years. I mean you didn't, but the show kept
us waiting almost. Yeah, you're like, please, don't have the
fans come for me. Did it feel that long for you?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes? Yeah, because it was I think a little over
two full years just between us wrapping season one and
even starting season two. Yeah, that was that was crazy
and not what any of us wanted. It was just
you know, we switched filming locations, our whole industry shut
(04:18):
down for a while with the writers and actors strikes,
so you know, season two hadn't been written and the
strike happened, so we just got pushed so far and
then Yeah, there was just a lot of factors that
made it like that. But you know, they have an
out season three, and I can say everyone is going
full steam ahead and it will not be three years
(04:41):
in between seasons.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, fair enough. Are you going back to film season
three this year?
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's the plan? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, cool. Cool, So you don't anticipate another three year stretch.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh no, no, I promise good.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Good to know is that weird to like play a
character and then have such a big break and then
have to go step into his shoes again, Like does
it take you a minute to figure him out?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Or it's kind of like, no, I know who he is.
It's I go right back into it a little bit
of I guess.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It was my first time returning to a character. You know,
it was easy, like when I was in scenes with
people I'd been in with, like from season one. I
feel like we did kind of me like Jenna and
I kind of just slipped right back into that dynamic.
And that's, you know, honestly, so just I'm just thankful
(05:31):
to her. She's so good. It's easy to kind of
drop in. But I think for me personally, it was
kind of nice that Tyler had such a switch in
between the two seasons. You know, we only got like
a glimpse of this Tyler at the end of season one,
and then he's been locked away for months and you know,
(05:54):
gotten even darker, So it was kind of it was
a whole new layer of him, even just in part
one and then you know, we've seen the second part
obviously several more kind of layers to him.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, we we were waiting for that transformation. So it's
so satisfying as the audience to now see you in
this totally different place for this whole season and that high.
He goes through some wild moments through part two and
part one, but for you, what's been one of the wildest.
You've got to really sink your teeth into.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Getting to kill Christina Ricci is pretty fun.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's pretty iconic, iconic.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, and a nice you know, iconic just for me
and as Hunter, just because I love her, but also
like on the character side, I think it's really cool
to get to see you know, kind of a not
that Tyler's an angel, but you know he's a victim
of hers, and to get to like get revenge I
(06:53):
think is really important. I like the way they handled that.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Do you still have this moment when you're with Christina
Riachi're like, oh my god, I'm with her?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh yeah, because you know, I only got to really
work with her for one day this on season two
because we only got her for a little bit in
the season. But just I mean, so fun she's iconic,
and it wasn't for her performance as Wednesday in the movies.
I don't think people now would be as attached to
(07:21):
that character. And I think that she's a huge part
of why this show exists, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And I love your we'll say complex relationship with Wednesday
throughout the course of this series. It's layered, it's complex.
Do you think that the Hide is in love with Wednesday?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The Hide, I don't think so. I think Tyler there's
definitely some deep, deep feelings for Wednesday still. You know,
I just like to think the highe is kind of
like the layer over Tyler that he's you know, his
(08:04):
humanity kind of pokes through times even in Hide form.
You know, Wednesday's kind of the only one that gets
through to him a little bit. You see that, and like,
you know, he slashes right through Laurel Gates and episode
four and then stops in front of Wednesday. He does
like toss hero ount the window. But in episode five,
(08:26):
you know it is written and they made it happen
on screen as well, that he's like facing Enid and
the rest of the night Shades and then Wednesday says
she's lying about her feelings, and even in hide form,
he turns to face her, you know, m M.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Even in episode eight too, with you know, him bearing
her alive, you see that moment across his face.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Definitely, And you know, because I think he's been He
was under Laurel's control, then he thought he was gonna free,
but he's losing his mind, dying, and then he's been
under his mom and uncle's control for part two and
he obviously wants to save his mom and he has
to obey what they say. But I think that moment
(09:12):
is so real for him when he thinks, oh no,
I've actually done it. Wednesday is going to die and
so just to you know, have that little moment of
regret or his humanity trying to come through was something
(09:33):
I talked a lot about with Anna Miles and with
Tim on the day, and yeah, I was really happy
with that. You know, trying to find these little moments
is really difficult us. You know, they were really thoughtful
about it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
There's there's so much to be said for the complexity
of this character that you bring to life so brilliantly.
But one of the things I take away from it,
I have no idea if this is right or wrong,
but I feel how you play him makes me feel
like your character really wants to a belong and be
figure out who the hell he is. It's like this
(10:10):
massive identity crisis, and through all the relationships in the
show and all the things your character goes through, I
get the impression it's kind of like where do I belong?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Do I belong? Who am I?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Is that kind of one of the layers that you
play around with when you bring him to life.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Yeah, absolutely, Like I don't think he's ever felt he
belonged anywhere, and then he finds out, you know, his
mom died because she's a hide and he's one, so
he feels this connection. And then even being an outcast,
the other outcast don't accept them, and that's kind of
something that he blames his mother's death on. Even when
(10:50):
his mom is back, you know, she's he's waited his
whole life, wished for this, and then she's not even
giving him the kind of love and affect he was expecting.
You know, she becomes his master. She can be kind
of warm with him at moments, but then cold and
demanding while really giving that affection to Isaac slurp, and
(11:13):
I think there's like a real jealousy there, And yeah,
that's I mean that's I'm really happy you picked up
on that. I feel like I'm expanding out it too long,
but yeah, that's that's a huge, huge part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Do you bring part of your life and things you've
gone through throughout your life to a role like that?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, I mean that's how I just kind of work
as an actor in general, is connecting you know, kind
of like an a lot of as if it's a
kind of easy way to put it, you know, thinking
through before you get there on the day, and then
as my kind of emotional prep for scenes like yeah,
(11:54):
stuff that would that would really affect me in that
way that the same like level the characters at even
if it's you know, not a direct correlation, because if
he did that, he would have a really hard time,
you know, connecting to monsters.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
That's that's a very valid point, especially when your scenes
like where you kill your own mom. I mean that's
kind of intense to have to connect to.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, yeah, what.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Was that like?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You know that was obviously when he's like in human form,
he's just going after trying to stop Isaac and then
his mom transforms and they have this you know, epic battle,
and you know, once the Hide is in control, it's
just like raged kind of takes over and colors everything
(12:48):
and it's you know, it wasn't in an intentional thing
killing her, and then you know, we see him at
the end of the season. He's just standing at his parents' grave.
He's kind of lost everything you ever had to fight for,
and then now he knows he's gonna die again because
he was I'm a master. I think he's just kind
(13:08):
of totally hopeless until Capri Billy Piper's character shows up
there at the end, and he kind of has nothing
left to lose, and I think that's why he's even
willing to entertain her offer at all.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Man the whole second season, you you, you go through it,
you go through it, and I love I love the
moments where you just like animal out and we get
those screams and the crazy eyes and the facial expressions
when you're in a room doing that, are you ever
like I feel so ridiculous And when you see it
and you're like, oh that came out cool, Like do
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you just feel crazy when you're doing it.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah. Yeah, when we did the first transformation of the season,
I was like talking to Tim like, oh, I want
to do this, and then he's like and as he's
like leaving TheRoom, he's like, yeah, we'll do this, and
then Hunter do your kind of interpretive dance or whatever,
and yeah, it's one of those moments that we always
just end up laughing because I have to do the
(14:10):
transformation for like so much longer than you see me
on screen so they can cut into it with you know,
a raising special effects team. But yeah, it's it. It
looks ridiculous without those amazing artists coming in to save me.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I really hope there's some behind the scenes videos or
somebody snapping come on, we need that released.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I know. Once I posted like one of our stunt
performers from season one on like the stilts in the
motion capture suit as the hide, and I was like, oh,
this will be cool, like behind the scenes. I think
I put it on TikTok and everyone was like, oh
my god, this is so awkward.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
It's it's definitely a my hat is tipped to what
you do because it isn't natural, but you make it
look so natural and real, which is the magic of
what you know, the entire cast does with the show.
I feel very upset for you though, that you didn't
get to meet Lady Gaga.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
How is that allowed?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
And no, I kinda stop talking about this. No, I
actually I wasn't in town when she was there doing
her part in episode six. You know she was there
really briefly. We're lucky to get her at all. Yeah,
But then I go on podcast before and jokingly call
(15:44):
it a hate crime, and I've seen that headline be
run so many times. And then I was just in
Sydney doing an event for the Part two coming out,
and you know when they're announcing Dwindlan Christie's return and
me and Alan Miles Riders were laughing about it. So
they luckily didn't read one of those headlines and think
(16:06):
I was being serious.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But I also would feel the same way, by the way,
and I feel, yeah, yeah, now she needs to invite
you to her concert to make it all right. I'm
just saying, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I got to see her at Coachella. That was so fun.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh my god, her set looked unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, I'm in New Zealand. Now. So I missed her
coming to La, but I'm hoping, you know, to catch
her in Europe if we're back shooting in time or something.
That'd be fun.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
That'd be really fun. Is she coming back in any
sort of way next season or you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Don't know, Oh, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, you never know.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
We'll see maybe a new pop star will make an appearance. Yeah, yeah,
I've got a listen. Yeah, I'm sure you do.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm sure you do. Hunter.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You've had so many great moments with Jenna Artega with
Wednesday throughout the course of this season. For you, what's
been one of the most fun were you two? Just
like totally had a blast doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I really liked doing just that. There's a few sequences
in episode five where I got to be with Jenna
and everyone, I mean, Jenna laughing me into chains. And
episode two was really demoralizing and fun. This season, we
all got to just hang out offset a lot, and
(17:39):
that was really fun. We were all living pretty close
to each other in Dublin, and so they're constantly kind
of walking to pubs as people do in Dublin, constantly
hanging out each other's apartments. Yeah, I love her. I
love that whole group of people, even though I'm Monstree
and I'm intact organizing them.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
It's it's very clear you guys are a very tight
knit group, which is so cool, and and there are
so many scenes that I imagine doing it with your
friend must be just so epic, like you burying her alive,
like do you do you like cut it just break.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Into laughter, like she's like, what are you doing? And
then you just go back to.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
See the character was hilarious because she was on this
wire being like slowly lowered down into and like it's
slow at first as Isaac's talking around, then they just
like slammer down. Yeah, hilarious. That's so that was a
tough one to keep bye contact and not left.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Oh that's the best though, that's the best. There's got
to be a blooper reel somewhere.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah. I don't think they've released anything for a part
two blooper or as part of season two bloopers. I
hope they do. There's got to be some good ones
in there.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, I imagine.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And at the end of the season we see kind
of everybody going off in their own way, in their
own direction, which sets up a very interesting season three.
Where do you think it's all going or where would
you be interested in it all going?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I don't know yet. I think for me, I still
want to see the real Tyler get to kind of
gain more control, you know. I think he's done a
lot of things to try to fix his issues. Necessarily
not necessarily heal from anything, you know, because he thinks
(19:29):
in part one, killing his master is going to set
him free, and then he doesn't know that he's not
going to be able to survive without one, and you know,
he's literally like the way he was written in the
script and we talked about it was like he's losing
touch with reality. And then he's under his mother's control,
(19:50):
and you know, he's a kid that lost his mom
at a young age and he has like a chance
to save her, so he's kind of doing anything he
can to do that. And then, yeah, I think we
still haven't gotten to explore Tyler in control while having
(20:11):
high abilities.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Do you think there's a world where Tyler and Wednesday
could be best friends or even love interests?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Again, I think that Tyler still deeply feels for her.
It would obviously I think need to be like a
slow burn. If anything, I think he has a lot
to make up for her. But you know, this end
(20:43):
of the season it was fun because part two, I
think his focus, you know, the hide is full of
rage and he knows the only way to get her
attention is through you know, Enid in episode five. But
then I think for Tyler, whole focus shifts to saving
his mom and Wednesday and her friends honestly just keep
(21:04):
getting in the way of that. They totally like if
they we just had been able to save mom in
episode six, it would have solved a lot of problems.
But yeah, it was it was just it was fun
to get to explore the you know, even though he's
being told what to do and to hide part of him,
he's still obviously he doesn't want her to die. And
(21:27):
then she has the chance to kill him, and you
know she sets him free, and you know it's a
moment of she kind of needs his help as well.
So yeah, it's just I think there's a it's fun.
There's a lot of fun dynamics to explore there. Yeah,
so there there might be a world where that could happen.
You never know, be sealed on that one.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Okay, moving on, moving on, moving on, moving on. I
just feel really like proud of you.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Man. I remember when we got caught in Brooklyn. Yeah,
a couple of years ago. Now, I guess maybe did
season one just come out?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I'm trying to remember as well. I feel like it
it must have just come out. Yeah, I think, yeah,
I think. I think I was there with my husband's
family for Christmas, because his whole family's in New York.
I think that's why we were there and in the city,
and I came in to do a few press things
and we met up.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Yeah, like it just came out.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I remember talking to you about it and and I
knew it would be huge, and I know you hope
that it would be huge, but you never know how
it goes, right, and it just blew up to be
this amazing thing that people really, really really love and
it shoots to number one instantly every time, and season
two has been delivering, and you got season three, I
believe before Season two even came out, right, So it's
(22:50):
just yeah, crazy, yeah, Like, it's so cool to see
you being a part of something that people crave and
love and want more of. And I imagine, you know,
I know it's hard as humans to pat ourselves on
the back, But I imagine a part of you does feel
pretty proud to have achieved this kind of victory, let's say,
in a business that's really tough.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Yeah, I feel insanely proud to be a part of
this show. I mean, you know, I've been acting out
and I'll just thinking for stuff in LA since you know,
twenty twelve, So very aware of just how rare it
is to get on something, let alone, something has this
(23:35):
kind of reach. You know, I'm trying to like enjoy
every moment of it because you know, something like this,
I feel like most people don't get to experience it once,
and I'm very aware of probably we'll never have something,
you know, that has this kind of reach ever again.
So I think it's it's been a really fun journey.
(23:57):
I'm just really yeah, aware of that, and I'm grateful
to be doing it.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Do you read the the fan comments and the Reddit
threads and the theories like do you ever catch yourself
kind of spinning in that cycle or you try to
try to tune out for your sanity.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
A little bit of that and then But I have
seen some theories those are fun. Some people, some people
are like, make me think there's a leak, and then
some people, Oh, I can talk about this now because
Part twoso, you know, when Wednesday saves my mom an
(24:35):
episode end at part four, we don't know who she
is yet. There was so many rumors online like if
it was an Ophelia or Tyler's mom, and then this
rumor started that it was both, and that Wednesday and
I were cousins, and I was like, you guys, we
kissed already. Please don't spread this.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Yeah, that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, oh god, yeah, let's let's not have that one
resurface again. We don't we don't need that rumor out there.
But that is that is funny. I have to say,
that's amazing. I would love to see you because you know,
Tim Burns such a genius and you're working so closely
with him. I'm just putting it out there that I
will love to see you in another Beetlejuice movie.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
My good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well there was, you know, thirty years in between the
first two, so I don't know. That's you know, totally
up to Tim if he feels the urge to go
back to that world. I loved that movie though, the
I mean obviously the original, but I thought they really
captured the oddness of the original in that sequel. That
(25:41):
was I thought, really really fun.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh my god, me too. It was very true to
the original world that they created. And I imagine, I mean,
how much fun would it be to do a movie
like that?
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So fun?
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, he's he's a genius. Well, I mean that would
be down the line, because you're a little busy right now.
You do have a movie coming out out of your own,
The Wilderness, Congratulations, that's coming out Octobers at seventeenth, seventeenth. Yeah,
exactly October seventeenth. So this is a very different type
of role for you.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah, it's kind of switch lanes here from talking about
love interests and monsters. Yeah, it's a really special story
our writer and director Spencer King. It's based off his
experiences being sent to like a wilderness therapy program as
a teenager. Yeah. And you know, for people who don't know,
(26:38):
is like this goal takes place in like the troubled
teen industry, which is kind of this like private network
of a bunch of different types of facilities and the
wilderness programs like the one it explored in our movie,
or you know, boot camps, therapeutic boarding schools, conversion therapy,
all of those kind of follow under this teach label. Yeah,
(27:02):
it is a multi billion dollar industry, and I don't
think there's enough out there about it. So I was
just really honored to be brought on to help. You know,
a story that Spencer had written based on, you know,
like inspired by it, but he went.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Through what surprised you about the work you were able
to do in a role.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Like this, you know, I never you know, I didn't
go to one of these camps. I do have a
close friend that did. But my kind of initial way
into ed my character was Spencer and I connected because
(27:48):
we find out the reason he's kind of struggling is
he's lost his father. And Spencer lost his at a
young age. I lost my dad at a young age.
So that was kind of my like emotional way in.
And yeah, I feel like I've not really gotten to
explore it and something like this since that I went
(28:10):
through that, and so yeah, I was kind of a
little nervous to do it too.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Well, that's how you know it's right, right, Yeah, because
you push yourself outside of what makes maybe feel safe
or comfortable, And yeah, I mean, doing a project where
you have to revisit some of those feelings, which I
imagine were very traumatic for you, is freaky.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
It just is.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, it was freaky. And then you know there's enough
to separate the two obviously that just like my relation
to my dad is not the same at all to
Ed and his. But yeah, I just think that, like
very That's what made me interested in like wanting to
do the movie is that the way it explored grief
was really touching. And yeah, just connected with Spenser so much.
(28:58):
I just wanted to be a part of it. And
to come on to play ahead and then to get
to produce something was really gratifying.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, yeah, I know, excuse me, producer, that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah it was. It was really fun and I love acting,
but you know, I've all I've been trying to work
at doing stuff on the other side of the camera
for a while, you know, write a lot, and to
get to be a producer and just get to have
more of a hand or say and this whole storytelling
(29:36):
from the beginning to the end, Yeah, it was really fun.
I loved that side of it.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, everybody has to see you in this movie. It's,
like I said, a very different type of role for
you visually. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I mean, yeah, Utah for five weeks and you know,
our cinematographer Sean Mutan was incredible, really beautiful film.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
It's awesome that right after people are gonna seeing you
on Wednesday, they can then see this totally different character
in a different world, grounded more in were reality, I
guess because monsters aren't real, I don't think so, it's
it's really cool.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
What's that you're questioning that? Well, I mean, I don't
want anyone to come from me, but maybe maybe just
a little what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Although I've met some people that I would call monsters
in my life, so that's a different story. But that's
for the After Hour show. It's a really really, really
cool movie. So it's why it's released in limited theaters
on the seventeenth, right.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, so you know this is a true, true independent movie.
So I we are so grateful to have a theatrical
release that is rare. You know, won't be everywhere, but
you know it'll be in select cities and you know
we'll put the link somewhere when that's available. Yeah, I'm
(31:10):
excited about that. To just have it, this little movie
we worked on make it to theaters is really exciting.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh, that's amazing. It's it's gonna be awesome. And I
know everyone's really psyched for that. They're also psyched for
what you're working on right now, which is why you
are not in studio with me, and you were in
New Zealand you were filming Evil Dead burn right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yes, yeah, I'm you know, we've been shooting for like
a month, two more to go, so so fun. Yeah,
another kind of departure straight up horror. It's been really fun.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Is it been?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Do you get freaked out when you work on projects
like this, because I mean it's a that franchise is.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
No joke, Yeah, no joke. It had a lot of
jokes and the original ones, which I love, Like, I mean,
Evil Dead two it's just a classic and so campy
and and then you know the Army of Darkness, you know,
even goes further. But yeah, ever since kind of like
Vedi Alvarez did the twenty thirteen one, it's been truly horrifying.
(32:23):
And yeah, our a lot of our effects and makeup
has been a lot of practical stuff but it's it's
so fun. On the day, you know, we're all getting
at each other. It's like, oh, look at that's disgusting.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Oh man, I bet I can't wait for that.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Would you say we're going to be pretty scared watching
this based off of your filming?
Speaker 2 (32:48):
I hope so. Our director, Sebastian Benicek is a fringe
filmmaker who his first film is called vermin Or Invested
in English. But that movie really freaked me out. So
I think we're Evil Dead fans can trust that he
(33:08):
is gonna really bring it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
M Oh my god, that's excited.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
I gotta say, I'm pretty surprised in this day and
age we live in that there's really been no spoilers.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
It's been pretty locked down. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I don't think anything is kind of leaked out online
about it, which is nice. So I'm gonna try to
not spoil it here and now.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
So you're not gonna tell me how it ends.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
Oh all right, I won't get that out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Here's people to die.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Yeah, No, you don't say, yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
That's the first Evil Dead movie where no one dies.
It's just a kind of a nice family film.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Okay, all right, Well, I think you just maybe told
everyone not to come based off that description, So let's
not do that.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I've got to stop talking just utter
bullshit on podcasts that get taken out of continents.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
No, that's that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well that's another project that you should be so proud of.
You're doing so much, man like is there and you
do a lot of different things, But is there a
type of role that you haven't gotten to play yet
where you're like, oh, man, one day, I want to
I want to I want to do that.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
This Fall and Evil that is super different. It's you know,
I can it's much probably, but it's it's different for me.
I think Ed in the Wilderness was also different than
you know, obviously like Wednesday or Muse and Daredevil. But yeah,
(34:48):
I think I need to play a character who isn't
suffering so much or making other people suffer. It would
it would be nice to do something kind of lighthearted next, maybe.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Like a good rom com.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, just a calm.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Something with a laugh. Yeah, yeah, I could, I could totally.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, something about me walking into a casting office.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
They're like murderer, he gives dark energy.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah. I hope that for you too though. That would
be really cool to see. I would, and it would
be cool to see you play.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Also, like there's so much great content, you know, for
the community, like you know, over Compensating was amazing and
oh my god love how why where is the season
two announcement?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Like come on, I know I need doing that. I
binge that so fast?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Brilliant is amazing, brilliant, brilliant. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, I've seen him out about and definitely was like,
so are you gonna call me? Uh? For season two?
Pitch definitely pitched myself. I would love to play just
a queer character in general, or to anything for that show.
I would. I would play frat bro.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
That would be fun to see. That would be really
fun to see. Yeah, no, the show is amazing and
oh my god, if you were in season two that
would be epic. But that isn't that isn't a fun
point that you know, you're you're an alka man and
not that doesn't define you, but like you would want
to play that kind of role?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, I mean, well I have auditioned. I just haven't
give the book one.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You've tried out for just for different you know LGBT
projects out there, Yes, really any any of that that
I would know.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Oh my god. I can't stand when people list the
roles they didn't get and then it's just never that
never comes out right. But yeah, maybe off camera, I'll
tell you.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
All right, fair enough, that's funny. That's so funny. All right,
so maybe we'll see that happening down the line. I
think I saw that you somewhere were actually saying somebody
like Jonathan Bailey is an inspiration in this business.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, huge, He's so talented, and I think just when
it comes to this topic, he speaks so eloquently about it,
and just there was some like long form interview if
maybe I forget where it was, but just that he
(37:48):
kind of let go of the limitations that he felt
from the outside world about it. And yeah, I mean
I think his career is amazing. Played queer characters, straight characters,
giant franchises, the you know, big romantic interest you know,
(38:09):
now Jurassic Park, you know, like, yeah, so when it
comes to how he discusses this, I'm just really inspired.
And then I'm just a huge fan of his work too.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
Have you had the opportunity to connect with him and
like tell him that, oh no, I've.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Never never met him, but yeah, hopefully someday.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I love when you can look up to someone in
the business who's truly doing great things. And I've talked
him a bunch and I did a whole hour long
conversation with him at the ninety second Street while here
in New York, and we, you know, keep in touch
a few times a year, and he's like, genuinely one
of the kindest, nicest people.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
That's I love to hear that.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah, yeah, he's he's good people.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Yeah, it seems like you can tell that just all
his interviews and press stuff I've seen. Yeah, he seems
like a really genuine guy.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, have like a strict no asshole policy.
And I'm like, thank god you're cool, because I would
not be able to do anything with.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
You, so I respect that for sure.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Hunter, is there a franchise out there that you just
love and like it would be a pinch me moment
to be a part.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Of big kind of franchise right now?
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, or like a series, like anything kind of that
exists or a world that exists out there in a
project that you're like, Ah, that would be so cool.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Uh, I really love Separence. I loved Game of Thrones.
The House of the Dragon has been really fun as well,
so something like that would be really different and cool.
I don't know. Yeah, it's like kind of always comes
down to the script for me. Yeah, it's just so funny,
(39:56):
like you can never predict or kind of plan this
these next things. I feel like I loved Evil Dead
and never really even saw myself in that world, and
then I got this audition. I knew who Sebastian was
before I got it, and then seeing how good this
(40:21):
script was is what made me want to do it
and make trust in him as a filmmaker.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's so cool that, like one of your kind of
dream you know, areas to be involved in, is happening
right now as we speak.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
And of course, as you mentioned earlier, over compensating season two,
call you come on, He's right, what the fuck I'm
I'm gonna slide into this dam and be like, you
better make this fucking happen.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
After this two me like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
There might be things that come out there about me
doing your show. Ignore it.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
All right. We came up with the storyline.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
It's ready to go, Oh my god, Yes, I not
that he needs hell, but I do have some great
options played stuff things I've gone through in my life
that are really too funny to even believe. But anyway,
God Hunter, I just love catching up with you. And
as we wrap up, the name of the show is
called I've never said this before, and I love having
(41:19):
people come on and say something that they don't always
get a chance to say in a two minute carpet,
you know, or a four minute junket where it's all
the same things being thrown your way. So is there
anything today that you can think of that you've never
said before in an interview that you want to share?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Yeah, because the name of the show is thinking about it,
I'm not sure, but how to say it, I guess,
but you kind of touched on it earlier asking about
getting to like the comments and stuff. I don't. I
think I've kind of been struggling with how much of
myself I want to out there. There's because I gotta say,
(42:02):
like the Wednesday fans, every interaction I've had with them
in real life has been so great, and online it's
mostly positive too, But then it's not the like fans
of the show. There's been like some there's honestly been
these like weird AI videos on like TikTok that have
like spread rumors about like me and Jenna and Emma's
(42:24):
and other cast members like personal lives are just so
not true and obviously this fake AI voice and then
but this stuff coulds spread around and people believe it,
and so I don't know, sometimes it makes me want
to like protect myself more and not share anything for
my personal life. And sometimes I want to like comment
(42:47):
on these stupid AI videos and say, truly, people aren't
believing this shit. I mean, if I don't want to
have fuel to the fire. I don't know, I feel
like I'm not really making a cohesive point here. I
feel like I just this kind of topic to me
is like, oh, I kind of avoid talking about this
(43:10):
and just kind of wanted to lightly touch on that.
I don't know, everyone be a little nicer and not
just believe some rumor that is literally an AI voice
speaking on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Right right, Well, I think what you're basically saying is
you struggle with how much to share and how much
not to share, you know, based off how crazy the
Internet can sometimes be and how quickly rumors can start
and how quickly fake things can be said and interpreted
as factual or real. And I imagine that does put
you in a weird position.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Yeah, I mean I got to go to Sydney for
that event for part two, but like I couldn't go
to the London premire, so I was here shooting and
I even posted it. I was like, oh, I wish
I could be there, And there's like rumors that, like
I saw a wonder word, Jenna didn't allow me to go,
which is so not true. There was a rumor that
(44:11):
my husband didn't let me go because he was jealous
of Jenna, and I was like, you guys, can we
be so being for real right now? It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
So according to the Internet, you and Jenna had an affair,
your husband caught on when it let you go, and
then she got mad and banned you from going.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
It all makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's I know, Well, that's I think it's
a really good thing to bring up, because you know,
like you said, the community of Wednesday fans are awesome
and they've been great, but there are people randoms online
who you know, like to jump on something because it's
a popular show or the actors being talked about, and
(44:53):
like you said, they make up these crazy things and
y'all are people. Like at the end of the day,
things hurt and can have real life repercussions if someone believes.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Something you know and like, it's not cool. So so
it's a.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
Good message to put out to just like in general,
for everyone to be kinder and live in the reality
of it all and not kind of spread gossip or
rumors or anything like that, because we do want you
to feel comfortable to open up to a certain extent
and share more of you and not just the characters
you play, because there's so much more to you than that,
(45:32):
you know. So I hope that I hope that even
though that happens and hopefully won't continue to happen, I
hope that you still feel comfortable sharing a certain amount
of you with you know, your community in the world
and not letting that kind of put you in a
box with the lock on it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah, I hope so too, because yeah, I think that's
vulnerability is important as an actor. But yeah, kinda do
you have to protect yourself? I guess sometimes I don't know.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Would you like to would you like to clarify one
final time that your marriage is great and you and
Jenna are nothing more than friends.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yes. Yeah. My husband, for the record, did not tell
me not to go to the Wednesday premiere because he's
jealous of Jenna and I grow up. I love her
to death, so stupid I like something like I even say,
(46:42):
it's so ridiculous because I think most people see through it.
But then we get these like crazy messages, or he
gets these crazy messages, and it's just so insane.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
Oh my god, I know, I know, it's always something. Well.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
I appreciate you coming on, and I do think today
you shared you know a lot, and you shared what
you should feel comfortable sharing, and you don't know more
than that to anyone, And it's all about levels of comfort.
And I think it's really cool that you can straddle
a line, in my opinion, of being a great artist
and doing work that people love and talking and celebrating
(47:18):
the work, but also sharing glimpses into yourself and telling
me that with the wilderness, you know you could relate
because you've lost your dad and that was something emotional
for you and a little freaky, but you did it
and it added to the character. And those are things
that we wouldn't know just watching a project. So for
what it's worth, I think you straddled the line really well.
(47:38):
And I just you know, I love you, man. I'm
so psyched for you. I'm psyched that part two is out,
hopefully everybody's watching it. Hopefully everybody will watch The Wilderness
coming out and about a month. So we're going to
keep rocking and rolling, and I hope you come back
to New York soon and we can hang.
Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
Yeah, it's so good to see you, and it's so
fun to talk about all this stuff with you. Yeah,
I'll let you know next time back in New York.
Speaker 3 (48:05):
Noh me, no, let me know.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
We'll rock and roll, my man, and try to keep
saying between playing a hide and now running around in
some horror world and a little worried about you, we're.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
Having a good time.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Don't worry, good, good, good, All right, my man, we
will talk soon. I've never said this before. Is hosted
by Me Tommy Dedario. This podcast is executive produced by
Andrew Publici at iHeartRadio and by Me Tommy, with editing
by Joshua Colaudney I've never said this before is part
(48:40):
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