February 12, 2024 • 29 mins
It turns out (as you might expect) that one episode of Austin wasn’t nearly enough! So he’s back and this time he’s answering tons of fan questions! Find out why there was so much confusion (even for him) surrounding his character, why he’s not a fan of the moments that fans love most and what he still gets shamed about, even today!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First of all, you don't know me. We all about
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Hello, friends and fam We had so much fun having
our very own Austin Nichols join us to talk about
episode six, so nine, we're gonna make you come back
all the time. But we have so many fan questions
for you that we thought it might be great to
just do a fan Q and a follow up.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Everybody likes Austin, everybody loves and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know, apparently we didn't answer enough of y'all's questions
about his time on the show because we were too
busy reminiscing.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
So busy, Gabin, We're gonna get to.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It for you this week.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Are you nervous?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Him?
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Ask him the hardest question? First, go what's the hardest No? Okay, well,
let's hear. Did you know your character was going to
become a permanent. Was this a series regular thing that
you signed on for? Was it just recurring you were
only going to be there for a short arc?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
It was recurring. It was ten episodes, and then I
don't even think they dangled possibility of series regular like
they do sometimes. I think it was just said, it's
ten episodes and that's all. I know.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
That's a big order though, because if you show up
in six oh eight, that takes us through six eighteen. Yeah,
that's a that's a big order for a new character.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah, And I was like, you guys said too. I was,
you know, once we got through like the first three
episodes and we got to Julian and Brooke, Julian and
Brooke was so heavy that I was doing the workload
of series regulars. I remember like, wow, this like this
got really busy, really fast.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, yeah, what I signed up for.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Hold on a second.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I mean, well, the rest of us are at the beach.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
I wonder if they knew that contract negotiations were going
to be coming up at the end of season six
and we're starting to think about like if they were
going to need new new people. I mean, that would
make sense that they wanted to give you a good,
good runway to build up to that if possible.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Good question. I don't know, maybe I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Know me there, I mean I do.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I remember us being told exactly that. It was like, hey,
there's no guarantee in The highest paid people on the
show at this point were me and Chad, and so
it was like, hey, we can bring in people that
they'll love every bit as much of you and as
you and they did, you know. And so that was
actually something that I would talk to younger actors about
(02:51):
after I left One Tree Hill. They'd get like a
pilot or they'd get like a TV show picked up,
and I even like really big shows, and I'd be like, guys,
everybody is replaceable. Every single person here, the showrunner, the writers,
the directors, the actors. Every single person is replaceable. And
(03:11):
that's a good lesson to learn when you're a young actor.
You know it really you know, also changes the tone.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Something nobody tells us as young actors is you know,
when the cast renegotiates, and also producers, writers, EPs and
salaries go up, what happens to production and the case
of shooting could go to seven days of shooting for
an episode, and things can get short change, and nobody
(03:38):
ever teaches you that the thing is, oh, get as
much money as you can. And I'm constantly like so
turned off by our world and the greed of our world.
And it's like, I think we're fine, and let's make
the best show that we can.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
That's always been like mind boggling to me that no
one talks about that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Budgets, you're learning stuff kids.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
All right, Well, now I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna ask
an upper question. Let's ask let's ask something fun. Uh, Hey,
how'd you feel about leaving the kids in the car
in that storyline?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That that was fun?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I get so much flak for this.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Do you still I mean, people really really.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Feel like, hey, man, loved your character, but god, when
you left the kids in the car? Oh, I still
get I still get shame, shame on the streets. Yeah,
but you know, I think they You know, Julian was
for a long time was you know, after the intro
(04:44):
where we were scared of him his intentions and then
he but then we started to like him and he
became safer. Julian for a long time was very like
I don't want to say perfect, but he was like
a really supportive except for the Alex thing. He was
like really, I think he was pretty good as a
as a partner and supportive and great, and at a
(05:06):
certain point, I think the writers thought, this guy needs
to fall apart and some dude, something has to happen. Yeah,
that was their that was their answer. But I do
remember loving one part of it. It was when I
got drunk afterwards after I locked the kid in the car.
I got drunk afterwards and I picked a fight in
a bar and I had somebody was just beaten on
(05:28):
my face and I was just laughing, and I just
thought that was so fun.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, because you were looking to get hurt.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
How long was the kid in the car?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I mean I had to go to an ATM, talk
to Dan and get a bottle of booze. Oh maybe someone, Yeah,
I don't know, fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I don't like somebody.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Somebody had to break the glass and get the kid out.
Speaker 9 (05:51):
It had to have been longer, right enough to.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I'm just trying to act like it wasn't because you're
still traumatic.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, you're still embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Was probably very long time.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, that's sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, super super scary.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I had a lot going on. It was a lot,
a lot on my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, but you touched on something that relates to this
next question, because Julian came in in one way and
then there was there was a lot of change for
you and and some of that I think was you know,
him getting to shift into a good guy and a
good partner, and some of it was like very weird
(06:30):
behind the scenes, strange energy. What man can't have five
I'll never get over it. So sorry they did that
to you. But there's a fan question that asks which
of the two personas that they made you portray would
you have preferred to stick with, Which is interesting because
it really does mean that I think a lot of
our viewers see the big shift. So was it like
(06:54):
bad boy, dangerous guy, or was it you know, husband
and father? What did you like doing better.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Husband and father? Julian without a doubt, And I'll tell
you why. I've spent so many years playing the sort
of you know, sometimes villainous sometimes dark guy, and it's
so fun and I hope I never stop doing it.
But to be to have the audience trust you is
(07:25):
such a gift, and it's so it's so rare for
me and it's it's such a I can't even tell
you how fulfilling that is for an audience to trust
you with the story. They look at you and they
go sit down on the couch and they go, I'm
good for for the next forty four minutes with this group,
I'm good and I'm in good hands. And and that
(07:47):
is rare and special and I would choose that any day.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
So nice.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Who's your comfort actor? Like when you sit down, you're.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Like, forty four minutes with this one done.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I have a lot. I have a lot. I mean
Tom Hanks is someone that I think everybody feels safe with,
you know, And he's whether it's a drama or comedy
or whatever, he cares so deeply about the final product
and about taking care of everyone on his set. And
he's from what I hear, just you know, the best
version of the whole deal. You know, that's the kind
(08:23):
of that's the kind of actor I look up to
and want to be.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Just Austin at home watching Polar Express.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Really say, Austin, what was your favorite storyline for Julian?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
My favorite storyline was probably when he locked in on
turning the story into a show at the very end,
because that was like him coming full circle and saying, look,
you know, I'm a movie guy, which is which was
my own life, and that was mind by the writers,
(08:59):
and it was when I was okay with because I
started in movies and then it it evolved to doing
a lot more television and then happened with television, you know.
And so I'm so thrilled that that happened to me.
And you know, it was kind of fun for me to,
as Julian, kind of go discover that and go, Okay,
where I am here now with these these people. I
(09:21):
want to make a show about this world.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I liked the meta of it all.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
See, I wasn't around for any of that stuff. And
so the idea what was the show called.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I don't know if it ever happens the Ravens.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
So do you.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I don't know if it ever had do you remember? No,
I just mean the idea of the concept. I don't
know if it ever. It's so weird.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
But when I just went home to my high school,
it felt like we had mined so much of Parkview
High School for Tree Hill because we have a clean
teens and state championship and all that kind of stuff,
and so it felt kind of like that where it's
like there's a TV show that's too close for comfort
with this reality.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And it's cool, know.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I like that Julian was able to give this second,
second go round to all the Tree Hill kids.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We couldn't have done it with Autri.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
This is to address what Sophia said about the high five.
And also there was a the things that I hated
the most in the moment were also some of the
things that the fans always remember, and it's, Yeah, my
relationship with this career is so weird because the things
that I've often liked were we're not hits, and the
(10:30):
things that were hits I didn't like as much, and
that's always been confusing. Like we had this, you know,
the Julian high five, and then like I brought joy,
I brought you flowers once like peonies is how you
say it, and P and E's yeah, I brought flowers once,
and Julian had this whole thing where he like, he
was like talking about flowers and it was so dumb.
(10:53):
And there was butterfly catching, like I was catching butterflies
in the outfield at a baseball game. Stupids that I
think that what they were doing was trying to take
Julian from you know, the dangerous Julian to oh, well
he's silly and you know, he can't go camping with
the boys and he's like not one of the guys
and all that stuff. And at the time I hate it,
(11:14):
Like I still kind of hate it, to be honest. Yeah,
so weird the way some of those things are memorable,
and that's what people latch onto and like that's always
been such a contradiction to me.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
They like it or they're just trolling you. Well, they
might just be, but they remember it because you.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Came in so masculine and all of that sounds rather emasculating.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Who'd you piss off?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Well, also, that's exactly probably what it was. It was
a little bit stay in your lane, stay in your lane,
we stay in your box. Like Tim Okay, I did
write a letter once, you did, and it was you know,
me being a young ambitious actor who you know, wanted more.
And I remember writing a letter once. You know, it
wasn't mean, it wasn't rue, but it was passionately expressing,
(12:03):
you know that I wanted something more or more interesting,
and that might have you know, rubbed people the wrong way.
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Egos, so many egos.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
So creatively thinking put on your little writer's hat, what
would you craft for Julian? What do you wish he
had been able to do on you know, on Tree Hill.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Well, that's a great question. He was he was a
he was born in the business. He was a child
of movies in like La and sort of like you know,
we've all been around people like this who grew up
in it, and he ended up producing movies. I don't know,
you know, we did do, we did do. I don't
know how many episodes it was where we were actually
making the movie, mm hmm. And those things don't often
(12:56):
work on film, on television and film. But I wish
there could have been something that in a different way
or something like it where you could actually see his
purpose and maybe we just didn't execute it as well
as I'd hoped or whatever. But to me, those are
(13:17):
the kinds of things that you know, get my juices
falling is like I love to see a person's purpose
and I've see them chasing it. Like I love a
movie where a protagonist is like running a lot and
moving and torn between different places. And choosing and like, Okay,
I got to get over there, and I got to
get there fast. Yeah. That's the sort of stuff that
I think drives a movie so well and drives television.
(13:39):
I would have liked to have seen a little bit
more purpose.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I mean, I for we've all produced things at this
point where there's TV shows or indie movies or whatever,
and Julian is such a cool cucumber.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
With the producing, My experience with it is just like
you're on fire. I have to do this, I have
to do this, and Julian is so chill.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I would have loved to see you just.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
In the trenches. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Maybe that's it, maybe putting out fires and yeah, solve
the problems, because that's what it is, right, it's solving
problems constantly.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
So okay, while we're imagining things about Julian, who would
Julian have hung out with if he had gone to
Tree Hill High?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
If he had gone to Tree Hill High?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, Like, if you went to high school with all
of us, who do you think he would have been
chilling with? Would we have even known you, would you
been like completely with a different group, or would you
have hung out with any of these characters.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Well, I know, you know, he would have He would
have had a crush on Brooke, of course, and I
think because of the the sort of the audio visual component,
maybe he would have been friends with Mouth and gotten
to work.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Getting into that world at school would have been cool.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, av club.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Club, that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Hmmm, Okay, well this could be a fun one. Where
do you think Brooke and Julian would be?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Now, oh oh that's so hard.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I mean, I know so much of Brook's journey was about,
you know, I think finding she had so many heartbreaks
and finding the right person. So you know, my gut
is to say that they would have lived happily ever
after because the show ended and blah blah blah. But
that's not terribly interesting.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
As a writer, I start going, well, like, how can
we How could this be more interesting? And I don't,
I don't. I don't really know if I have the answer,
you know, Like I think I think the a great
version of this be if there's still a very very
strong love between them. But maybe they didn't take a
traditional route, and you know, their careers have pulled them
(16:10):
in different places. Probably they are in the muck sometimes
and they are dealing with real stuff and how hard
it is to you know, go here for do your
career for a while and this one's home with the
kids and then switch. Yeah, and you know how challenging
and beautiful that all is. Like, really get into you
know what that what that means?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I love that because I feel like the easy answer
is to say, oh, yeah, you want these people to
be happy, and then you're like, well, these people exist
in a television show, and television shows don't exist without drama,
so you have to find like something for them to
be working on. Right, They're just happy, We're bored exactly.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Okay, great, we have someone that wants to hear your
side of the ghost story.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
That's somebody else.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Your time.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We share.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, because she's already told that story here.
I did.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
We were It was dark in the middle of the night. Weird.
It was dark and I sensed or saw a shape, shadow, silhouette.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It was the noise first.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Oh, oh, I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh, two different realities.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Now that you say it, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, no, because I remember it because I thought you
were I didn't know what you were doing, and I.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Like hit, I was like, what are you doing? What
is that?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So I woke you up thinking you were doing something,
and then realized you were.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Asleep right And then I remember looking and seeing this
silhouette shape shadow whatever it is, rushed towards us. Oh,
and we both went ape shit, and I think I
or she grabbed the lamp to turn the light on
and there.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
Was Oh my gosh, was it a dark shadow?
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Was it a light?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
What was it? I thought it was a smaller person,
like a child, I don't know, child or woman.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It started like this, like it started round like all.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
When it came at us.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Got tall, but yeah, never got taller than like a
three year old.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
So that's actually really common folklore in Appalachia. Really. Yeah.
My daddy used to tell me stories about the shadow
people when I was a kid, and they He would
tell me about being in the woods and they'd roll
around your feet like a bunch of bowling balls, and
then right as they got to you, they would unfurl.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Into like a big human shape. Really is that what happened?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I don't remember it ever being that small, but it
was also we couldn't I don't know that we could
see the floor. I remember imitating.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Because I remember.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Realizing that the sound like wasn't coming from where you
were or like the door that was on the other
side of you, realizing it was coming from the window
that looked over the alley, like in that general vicinity,
and like starting to move toward it to be like
what is it. I thought like an animal was going
(19:19):
to come through the wall, like that building was so old.
I was like, some feral squirrel is going to like
what is right to happen? And then there was just
this burst and it was bright white, and then it
came at us both.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And got tall.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
We both ran backwards like against the wall, screaming.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I just remember something was rushing at us and it
felt like it was going to get us.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, And I felt so much better about the fact
that I was screaming so loud because you were screaming
so loud, and I was like, okay, so I did
did you scream?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It was obviously we both experienced something.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
We were screaming.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
It was I going, what'd you what happened?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, yeah, Because if you looked at me and been
like what is going on?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Like are you nuts. I would have felt nuts, but
you were terrified and I was terrified, and for some
reason that gave me some comfort.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Was this in an apartment?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
It was aloft, one of those old buildings downtown.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Which one of you was, I mean whose apartment was?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
You guys both lived there.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
We sublcted it from some friends.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
From Alex and Stephanie. Did you just keep living there?
Or were you like, we got it?
Speaker 9 (20:29):
This is no good.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
There's where were we going to go?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Well to another haunted apartment. Everything there is hot.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Everything in Wilmington was haunted.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
It was like, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Okay, all right, Well give us something funny. What's the
funniest memory you have from from set? If you have
any days when you guys were just besides Brooke and but.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I have to and it's it's it's harmless. My favorite
story is when Joe Manganila was sitting waiting for his
van looking into the call sheet for the next day
and Chad God bless him, walks up to him and goes,
you know, how to read one of those? He was
(21:29):
being helpful Austin there, I'll just leave that there. That's
a good one.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, well, look it's great. It's a great story, it's helpful.
It is also adorable. But what did Joe say? Was
he nice about it?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
He didn't tell me, but I don't know what he said.
He just said yeah. But also, I remember the first
time I saw a call sheet. It was confusing.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
They're intimidating.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yeah, but by the time you showed up on our show,
he'd already been on our show for like a year.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
So for you to with us pretty funny. Yeah, it's
pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
This is incredible.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Listen, we were all kids.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
We want from us.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I was real and stupid.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, who cares. What's your favorite place in Wilmington besides
the Bestrow.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
The ocean, Mason Burrough Island. I love going to Mason
Burrow and the things that happened when the tide changes
in the inner coastal and little little sand bars appear
in beaches and people gap.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
So cool, it's so special.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Did you do a lot of a lot of traveling,
just jumping in the car and go and exploring when
you were there on your days off, like to other
cities other states?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Really? I mean, I guess maybe Charleston wants Baldhead Island
a little bit, but not not as much as I think. Honestly,
it was, you know, because we were all work in
a lot. If I had more time off of maybe
I would have, but no, not as much as I
would have hoped. Like I never went to Kate Patteris,
I never went to the Outer Banks, and I wish
(23:09):
I would have done that.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Rules.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
It was always a little tricky though, because we even
if you had a day off, you were always at
risk of getting called in.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
So you couldn't well, you're always a cover set, right, because.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
That's right, So you couldn't really leave.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That was it.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Because if you asked permission, he would say no. But
if you didn't ask permission and they happened to need you,
you couldn't be like, I'm in Atlanta, sorry.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Have you guys?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
This was pre iPhone. We could just dome me up
and be like who. I never answered my phone.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
My first couple episodes. I was out at the beach
and I went surfing and I left, I didn't bring
my I don't bring my phone to the beach, and
I left it at home. And then I get this
call later from Hartley saying like we needed you, We
needed to call you in for a cover set, and
I was like, I wasn't gone that sorry. I mean
I I thought I had the day off, and he's like,
you got to keep your phone on you. They sent
(24:03):
a PA out to the beach to look for me.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Oh, for God's sake, did they find you?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, go scour the beaches.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I think it was the other Scott pa and he
was looking for me and he never found me because
I was way up at the North end or something.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh God, I love it. It was Scott Hardwick.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
My favorite thing about Austin is every time I would
go out to La we'd go and like I'd be
like pregnant with Gus or Nick would come out and
visit me and we'd meet up at a diner or something,
and Austin would show.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Up on like a vespa or like a truck.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
But he always had like a surfboard and a like
a spear with him.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What are you doing? He's like, well, I just tell
myself how to spearfish.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I'm a water boy, all right, guy.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
They're not wrong wrong. I love the water. I love
the water.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, don't you come from like like championship water people?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
My mom was a nineteen time national champion, and my
dad was a great song skier and boat driver, and
we competed since we were little, me and my sister.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
And Wow, rock stars on the water, you guys.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah, you have to force it out of him. Otherwise
he's like, oh, no, water feels nice. He's like, when
you find out they're coming from Royalty, you guys are
like from Atlantis.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
That's lovely.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Well, did you audition for Avatar? The second one?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I wish I was like practicing holding my breath and
I remember like calling my James Cameron know that I
can hold my breath for three minutes.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yeah, I could have done that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Someone should tell him how.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Do we get that memo out?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Actually, James Cameron came to the set of The Walking
Dead and I freaked out because he his son. I
guess his ex wife was a produce Galen Herd as
a producer on them, and they have a child or
I don't know. I don't know the whole situation with
the kid. The kid loved The Walking Dead, so the
kid came. James Cameron came, and I remember seeing and
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like standing outside of you know, getting into an suv
to leave and I went over there, and I think
I just said hello or something. What I wanted to
say was, I can hold my breath for twelve minutes.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I wish you would have like The Little Boy and
Dre MacGuire. You know how there is a pow head.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I could do it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I could do it. I'm listen. That skill is going
to pay off at some point.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Yes, it will.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
You know, we're putting the word out there right now. Yeah,
that you can hold your breath forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Is it giant water tank still in Wilmington? Remember when
they built that for Was it for Iron Man or
for surface Maybe?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Well he did it for that Dune the Rock Johnson movie.
It was It was like supposed to be in Hawaii. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Do we have one last question?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
We got one last question too, so we'll just really
bring it home.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Okay, what about life lessons? Tell us any life lessons
you learned while you're filming one trio?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Well, there is a quote that's very long, but I
often shorten it when I sign things for fans, and
its happiness is a mood, not a destination. It's a
little cheesy, but I love it because it helped me
and it helped me go, look, you can't always be happy,
and you know there's gonna things are gonna happen that
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are sad and hard and they're going to break you.
And knowing that helps, and knowing then and then when
you are happy and things are great, you enjoy it
that much more. And I don't know that's that's the
one thing that always sticks out.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
And I really like h good, good words, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
We love it, Lourie. I forgot about the line about
the printer, and I love it. It's so it's so
it's cheesy, but it's great. It's like these forces you'd
open it up and see what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I loved that moment, the paper jam.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Julian's and wise man.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
He's so similar to Lucas, but he's got more of
a sense of humor than Lucas. And so it's interesting
how Brooke and Peyton are both drawn to this like
very bright, well read, articulate boy, you know, like it's
uh yeah, I get it. Listen, Austin. My favorite memory
of you on One Tree Hill is you and I
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driving out to the beach and passing the party bus
full of bridesmaids and a bride and you mooning them
and them being so excited about that, and so forever
when I see party buses, it's you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I thought mooning was just like the funniest thing ever
when I was in junior high, in high school. Your twenties,
a lot of mooning in Texas, and I'm actually I
can't believe that I was still mooning. You did it,
your hill. Yeah, thank you, brilliance.
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Hello, friends and fam We had so much fun having
our very own Austin Nichols join us to talk about
episode six, so nine, we're gonna make you come back
all the time. But we have so many fan questions
for you that we thought it might be great to
just do a fan Q and a follow up.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Everybody likes Austin, everybody loves and.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
You know, apparently we didn't answer enough of y'all's questions
about his time on the show because we were too
busy reminiscing.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
So busy, Gabin, We're gonna get to.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
It for you this week.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Are you nervous?
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Him?
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Ask him the hardest question? First, go what's the hardest No? Okay, well,
let's hear. Did you know your character was going to
become a permanent. Was this a series regular thing that
you signed on for? Was it just recurring you were
only going to be there for a short arc?
Speaker 5 (01:17):
It was recurring. It was ten episodes, and then I
don't even think they dangled possibility of series regular like
they do sometimes. I think it was just said, it's
ten episodes and that's all. I know.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
That's a big order though, because if you show up
in six oh eight, that takes us through six eighteen. Yeah,
that's a that's a big order for a new character.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah, And I was like, you guys said too. I was,
you know, once we got through like the first three
episodes and we got to Julian and Brooke, Julian and
Brooke was so heavy that I was doing the workload
of series regulars. I remember like, wow, this like this
got really busy, really fast.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, yeah, what I signed up for.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Hold on a second.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
I mean, well, the rest of us are at the beach.
Speaker 8 (02:07):
I wonder if they knew that contract negotiations were going
to be coming up at the end of season six
and we're starting to think about like if they were
going to need new new people. I mean, that would
make sense that they wanted to give you a good,
good runway to build up to that if possible.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Good question. I don't know, maybe I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Know me there, I mean I do.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
I remember us being told exactly that. It was like, hey,
there's no guarantee in The highest paid people on the
show at this point were me and Chad, and so
it was like, hey, we can bring in people that
they'll love every bit as much of you and as
you and they did, you know. And so that was
actually something that I would talk to younger actors about
(02:51):
after I left One Tree Hill. They'd get like a
pilot or they'd get like a TV show picked up,
and I even like really big shows, and I'd be like, guys,
everybody is replaceable. Every single person here, the showrunner, the writers,
the directors, the actors. Every single person is replaceable. And
(03:11):
that's a good lesson to learn when you're a young actor.
You know it really you know, also changes the tone.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Something nobody tells us as young actors is you know,
when the cast renegotiates, and also producers, writers, EPs and
salaries go up, what happens to production and the case
of shooting could go to seven days of shooting for
an episode, and things can get short change, and nobody
(03:38):
ever teaches you that the thing is, oh, get as
much money as you can. And I'm constantly like so
turned off by our world and the greed of our world.
And it's like, I think we're fine, and let's make
the best show that we can.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
That's always been like mind boggling to me that no
one talks about that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Budgets, you're learning stuff kids.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
All right, Well, now I'm gonna ask. I'm gonna ask
an upper question. Let's ask let's ask something fun. Uh, Hey,
how'd you feel about leaving the kids in the car
in that storyline?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
That that was fun?
Speaker 5 (04:18):
I get so much flak for this.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Do you still I mean, people really really.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Feel like, hey, man, loved your character, but god, when
you left the kids in the car? Oh, I still
get I still get shame, shame on the streets. Yeah,
but you know, I think they You know, Julian was
for a long time was you know, after the intro
(04:44):
where we were scared of him his intentions and then
he but then we started to like him and he
became safer. Julian for a long time was very like
I don't want to say perfect, but he was like
a really supportive except for the Alex thing. He was
like really, I think he was pretty good as a
as a partner and supportive and great, and at a
(05:06):
certain point, I think the writers thought, this guy needs
to fall apart and some dude, something has to happen. Yeah,
that was their that was their answer. But I do
remember loving one part of it. It was when I
got drunk afterwards after I locked the kid in the car.
I got drunk afterwards and I picked a fight in
a bar and I had somebody was just beaten on
(05:28):
my face and I was just laughing, and I just
thought that was so fun.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Yeah, because you were looking to get hurt.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
How long was the kid in the car?
Speaker 5 (05:37):
I mean I had to go to an ATM, talk
to Dan and get a bottle of booze. Oh maybe someone, Yeah,
I don't know, fifteen twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I don't like somebody.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Somebody had to break the glass and get the kid out.
Speaker 9 (05:51):
It had to have been longer, right enough to.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I'm just trying to act like it wasn't because you're
still traumatic.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yeah, you're still embarrassed.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Was probably very long time.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, that's sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, super super scary.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I had a lot going on. It was a lot,
a lot on my mind.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, but you touched on something that relates to this
next question, because Julian came in in one way and
then there was there was a lot of change for
you and and some of that I think was you know,
him getting to shift into a good guy and a
good partner, and some of it was like very weird
(06:30):
behind the scenes, strange energy. What man can't have five
I'll never get over it. So sorry they did that
to you. But there's a fan question that asks which
of the two personas that they made you portray would
you have preferred to stick with, Which is interesting because
it really does mean that I think a lot of
our viewers see the big shift. So was it like
(06:54):
bad boy, dangerous guy, or was it you know, husband
and father? What did you like doing better.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Husband and father? Julian without a doubt, And I'll tell
you why. I've spent so many years playing the sort
of you know, sometimes villainous sometimes dark guy, and it's
so fun and I hope I never stop doing it.
But to be to have the audience trust you is
(07:25):
such a gift, and it's so it's so rare for
me and it's it's such a I can't even tell
you how fulfilling that is for an audience to trust
you with the story. They look at you and they
go sit down on the couch and they go, I'm
good for for the next forty four minutes with this group,
I'm good and I'm in good hands. And and that
(07:47):
is rare and special and I would choose that any day.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
So nice.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Who's your comfort actor? Like when you sit down, you're.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Like, forty four minutes with this one done.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I have a lot. I have a lot. I mean
Tom Hanks is someone that I think everybody feels safe with,
you know, And he's whether it's a drama or comedy
or whatever, he cares so deeply about the final product
and about taking care of everyone on his set. And
he's from what I hear, just you know, the best
version of the whole deal. You know, that's the kind
(08:23):
of that's the kind of actor I look up to
and want to be.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I like it.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Just Austin at home watching Polar Express.
Speaker 8 (08:33):
Really say, Austin, what was your favorite storyline for Julian?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
My favorite storyline was probably when he locked in on
turning the story into a show at the very end,
because that was like him coming full circle and saying, look,
you know, I'm a movie guy, which is which was
my own life, and that was mind by the writers,
(08:59):
and it was when I was okay with because I
started in movies and then it it evolved to doing
a lot more television and then happened with television, you know.
And so I'm so thrilled that that happened to me.
And you know, it was kind of fun for me to,
as Julian, kind of go discover that and go, Okay,
where I am here now with these these people. I
(09:21):
want to make a show about this world.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
I liked the meta of it all.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
See, I wasn't around for any of that stuff. And
so the idea what was the show called.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I don't know if it ever happens the Ravens.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
So do you.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
I don't know if it ever had do you remember? No,
I just mean the idea of the concept. I don't
know if it ever. It's so weird.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
But when I just went home to my high school,
it felt like we had mined so much of Parkview
High School for Tree Hill because we have a clean
teens and state championship and all that kind of stuff,
and so it felt kind of like that where it's
like there's a TV show that's too close for comfort
with this reality.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
And it's cool, know.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
I like that Julian was able to give this second,
second go round to all the Tree Hill kids.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
We couldn't have done it with Autri.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
This is to address what Sophia said about the high five.
And also there was a the things that I hated
the most in the moment were also some of the
things that the fans always remember, and it's, Yeah, my
relationship with this career is so weird because the things
that I've often liked were we're not hits, and the
(10:30):
things that were hits I didn't like as much, and
that's always been confusing. Like we had this, you know,
the Julian high five, and then like I brought joy,
I brought you flowers once like peonies is how you
say it, and P and E's yeah, I brought flowers once,
and Julian had this whole thing where he like, he
was like talking about flowers and it was so dumb.
(10:53):
And there was butterfly catching, like I was catching butterflies
in the outfield at a baseball game. Stupids that I
think that what they were doing was trying to take
Julian from you know, the dangerous Julian to oh, well
he's silly and you know, he can't go camping with
the boys and he's like not one of the guys
and all that stuff. And at the time I hate it,
(11:14):
Like I still kind of hate it, to be honest. Yeah,
so weird the way some of those things are memorable,
and that's what people latch onto and like that's always
been such a contradiction to me.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
They like it or they're just trolling you. Well, they
might just be, but they remember it because you.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Came in so masculine and all of that sounds rather emasculating.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Who'd you piss off?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Well, also, that's exactly probably what it was. It was
a little bit stay in your lane, stay in your lane,
we stay in your box. Like Tim Okay, I did
write a letter once, you did, and it was you know,
me being a young ambitious actor who you know, wanted more.
And I remember writing a letter once. You know, it
wasn't mean, it wasn't rue, but it was passionately expressing,
(12:03):
you know that I wanted something more or more interesting,
and that might have you know, rubbed people the wrong way.
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Egos, so many egos.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
So creatively thinking put on your little writer's hat, what
would you craft for Julian? What do you wish he
had been able to do on you know, on Tree Hill.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Well, that's a great question. He was he was a
he was born in the business. He was a child
of movies in like La and sort of like you know,
we've all been around people like this who grew up
in it, and he ended up producing movies. I don't know,
you know, we did do, we did do. I don't
know how many episodes it was where we were actually
making the movie, mm hmm. And those things don't often
(12:56):
work on film, on television and film. But I wish
there could have been something that in a different way
or something like it where you could actually see his
purpose and maybe we just didn't execute it as well
as I'd hoped or whatever. But to me, those are
(13:17):
the kinds of things that you know, get my juices
falling is like I love to see a person's purpose
and I've see them chasing it. Like I love a
movie where a protagonist is like running a lot and
moving and torn between different places. And choosing and like, Okay,
I got to get over there, and I got to
get there fast. Yeah. That's the sort of stuff that
I think drives a movie so well and drives television.
(13:39):
I would have liked to have seen a little bit
more purpose.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
I mean, I for we've all produced things at this
point where there's TV shows or indie movies or whatever,
and Julian is such a cool cucumber.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
With the producing, My experience with it is just like
you're on fire. I have to do this, I have
to do this, and Julian is so chill.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
I would have loved to see you just.
Speaker 6 (14:03):
In the trenches. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Maybe that's it, maybe putting out fires and yeah, solve
the problems, because that's what it is, right, it's solving
problems constantly.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (14:15):
So okay, while we're imagining things about Julian, who would
Julian have hung out with if he had gone to
Tree Hill High?
Speaker 5 (14:23):
If he had gone to Tree Hill High?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, Like, if you went to high school with all
of us, who do you think he would have been
chilling with? Would we have even known you, would you
been like completely with a different group, or would you
have hung out with any of these characters.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Well, I know, you know, he would have He would
have had a crush on Brooke, of course, and I
think because of the the sort of the audio visual component,
maybe he would have been friends with Mouth and gotten
to work.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Getting into that world at school would have been cool.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, av club.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Club, that's right.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Hmmm, Okay, well this could be a fun one. Where
do you think Brooke and Julian would be?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Now, oh oh that's so hard.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
I mean, I know so much of Brook's journey was about,
you know, I think finding she had so many heartbreaks
and finding the right person. So you know, my gut
is to say that they would have lived happily ever
after because the show ended and blah blah blah. But
that's not terribly interesting.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
As a writer, I start going, well, like, how can
we How could this be more interesting? And I don't,
I don't. I don't really know if I have the answer,
you know, Like I think I think the a great
version of this be if there's still a very very
strong love between them. But maybe they didn't take a
traditional route, and you know, their careers have pulled them
(16:10):
in different places. Probably they are in the muck sometimes
and they are dealing with real stuff and how hard
it is to you know, go here for do your
career for a while and this one's home with the
kids and then switch. Yeah, and you know how challenging
and beautiful that all is. Like, really get into you
know what that what that means?
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I love that because I feel like the easy answer
is to say, oh, yeah, you want these people to
be happy, and then you're like, well, these people exist
in a television show, and television shows don't exist without drama,
so you have to find like something for them to
be working on. Right, They're just happy, We're bored exactly.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Okay, great, we have someone that wants to hear your
side of the ghost story.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
That's somebody else.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
Yeah, this is.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Your time.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
We share.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
Yeah, oh yeah, because she's already told that story here.
I did.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
We were It was dark in the middle of the night. Weird.
It was dark and I sensed or saw a shape, shadow, silhouette.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
It was the noise first.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Oh, oh, I don't remember that.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh, two different realities.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Now that you say it, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Well, no, because I remember it because I thought you
were I didn't know what you were doing, and I.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Like hit, I was like, what are you doing? What
is that?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So I woke you up thinking you were doing something,
and then realized you were.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Asleep right And then I remember looking and seeing this
silhouette shape shadow whatever it is, rushed towards us. Oh,
and we both went ape shit, and I think I
or she grabbed the lamp to turn the light on
and there.
Speaker 10 (17:58):
Was Oh my gosh, was it a dark shadow?
Speaker 9 (18:04):
Was it a light?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
What was it? I thought it was a smaller person,
like a child, I don't know, child or woman.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
It started like this, like it started round like all.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
When it came at us.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Got tall, but yeah, never got taller than like a
three year old.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
So that's actually really common folklore in Appalachia. Really. Yeah.
My daddy used to tell me stories about the shadow
people when I was a kid, and they He would
tell me about being in the woods and they'd roll
around your feet like a bunch of bowling balls, and
then right as they got to you, they would unfurl.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Into like a big human shape. Really is that what happened?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
I don't remember it ever being that small, but it
was also we couldn't I don't know that we could
see the floor. I remember imitating.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Because I remember.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Realizing that the sound like wasn't coming from where you
were or like the door that was on the other
side of you, realizing it was coming from the window
that looked over the alley, like in that general vicinity,
and like starting to move toward it to be like
what is it. I thought like an animal was going
(19:19):
to come through the wall, like that building was so old.
I was like, some feral squirrel is going to like
what is right to happen? And then there was just
this burst and it was bright white, and then it
came at us both.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
And got tall.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
We both ran backwards like against the wall, screaming.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
I just remember something was rushing at us and it
felt like it was going to get us.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, And I felt so much better about the fact
that I was screaming so loud because you were screaming
so loud, and I was like, okay, so I did
did you scream?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
It was obviously we both experienced something.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
We were screaming.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
It was I going, what'd you what happened?
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:00):
Yeah, yeah, Because if you looked at me and been
like what is going on?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Like are you nuts. I would have felt nuts, but
you were terrified and I was terrified, and for some
reason that gave me some comfort.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Was this in an apartment?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
It was aloft, one of those old buildings downtown.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Which one of you was, I mean whose apartment was?
Speaker 10 (20:22):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (20:22):
You guys both lived there.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
We sublcted it from some friends.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
From Alex and Stephanie. Did you just keep living there?
Or were you like, we got it?
Speaker 9 (20:29):
This is no good.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
There's where were we going to go?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Well to another haunted apartment. Everything there is hot.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Everything in Wilmington was haunted.
Speaker 10 (20:39):
It was like, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
Okay, all right, Well give us something funny. What's the
funniest memory you have from from set? If you have
any days when you guys were just besides Brooke and but.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
I have to and it's it's it's harmless. My favorite
story is when Joe Manganila was sitting waiting for his
van looking into the call sheet for the next day
and Chad God bless him, walks up to him and goes,
you know, how to read one of those? He was
(21:29):
being helpful Austin there, I'll just leave that there. That's
a good one.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, well, look it's great. It's a great story, it's helpful.
It is also adorable. But what did Joe say? Was
he nice about it?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
He didn't tell me, but I don't know what he said.
He just said yeah. But also, I remember the first
time I saw a call sheet. It was confusing.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
They're intimidating.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Yeah, but by the time you showed up on our show,
he'd already been on our show for like a year.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
So for you to with us pretty funny. Yeah, it's
pretty funny.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
This is incredible.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Listen, we were all kids.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
We want from us.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I was real and stupid.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Yeah, who cares. What's your favorite place in Wilmington besides
the Bestrow.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
The ocean, Mason Burrough Island. I love going to Mason
Burrow and the things that happened when the tide changes
in the inner coastal and little little sand bars appear
in beaches and people gap.
Speaker 10 (22:39):
So cool, it's so special.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
Did you do a lot of a lot of traveling,
just jumping in the car and go and exploring when
you were there on your days off, like to other
cities other states?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
Really? I mean, I guess maybe Charleston wants Baldhead Island
a little bit, but not not as much as I think. Honestly,
it was, you know, because we were all work in
a lot. If I had more time off of maybe
I would have, but no, not as much as I
would have hoped. Like I never went to Kate Patteris,
I never went to the Outer Banks, and I wish
(23:09):
I would have done that.
Speaker 9 (23:10):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Rules.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
It was always a little tricky though, because we even
if you had a day off, you were always at
risk of getting called in.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
So you couldn't well, you're always a cover set, right, because.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
That's right, So you couldn't really leave.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
That was it.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Because if you asked permission, he would say no. But
if you didn't ask permission and they happened to need you,
you couldn't be like, I'm in Atlanta, sorry.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Have you guys?
Speaker 6 (23:34):
This was pre iPhone. We could just dome me up
and be like who. I never answered my phone.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
My first couple episodes. I was out at the beach
and I went surfing and I left, I didn't bring
my I don't bring my phone to the beach, and
I left it at home. And then I get this
call later from Hartley saying like we needed you, We
needed to call you in for a cover set, and
I was like, I wasn't gone that sorry. I mean
I I thought I had the day off, and he's like,
you got to keep your phone on you. They sent
(24:03):
a PA out to the beach to look for me.
Speaker 9 (24:05):
Oh, for God's sake, did they find you?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
No, go scour the beaches.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I think it was the other Scott pa and he
was looking for me and he never found me because
I was way up at the North end or something.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Oh God, I love it. It was Scott Hardwick.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
My favorite thing about Austin is every time I would
go out to La we'd go and like I'd be
like pregnant with Gus or Nick would come out and
visit me and we'd meet up at a diner or something,
and Austin would show.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Up on like a vespa or like a truck.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
But he always had like a surfboard and a like
a spear with him.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What are you doing? He's like, well, I just tell
myself how to spearfish.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
You know.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
I'm a water boy, all right, guy.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
They're not wrong wrong. I love the water. I love
the water.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Yeah, don't you come from like like championship water people?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
My mom was a nineteen time national champion, and my
dad was a great song skier and boat driver, and
we competed since we were little, me and my sister.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
And Wow, rock stars on the water, you guys.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yeah, you have to force it out of him. Otherwise
he's like, oh, no, water feels nice. He's like, when
you find out they're coming from Royalty, you guys are
like from Atlantis.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
That's lovely.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Well, did you audition for Avatar? The second one?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I wish I was like practicing holding my breath and
I remember like calling my James Cameron know that I
can hold my breath for three minutes.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
Yeah, I could have done that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Someone should tell him how.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Do we get that memo out?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Actually, James Cameron came to the set of The Walking
Dead and I freaked out because he his son. I
guess his ex wife was a produce Galen Herd as
a producer on them, and they have a child or
I don't know. I don't know the whole situation with
the kid. The kid loved The Walking Dead, so the
kid came. James Cameron came, and I remember seeing and
(26:00):
like standing outside of you know, getting into an suv
to leave and I went over there, and I think
I just said hello or something. What I wanted to
say was, I can hold my breath for twelve minutes.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
I wish you would have like The Little Boy and
Dre MacGuire. You know how there is a pow head.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I could do it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I could do it. I'm listen. That skill is going
to pay off at some point.
Speaker 9 (26:27):
Yes, it will.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
You know, we're putting the word out there right now. Yeah,
that you can hold your breath forever and ever and ever.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Is it giant water tank still in Wilmington? Remember when
they built that for Was it for Iron Man or
for surface Maybe?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Well he did it for that Dune the Rock Johnson movie.
It was It was like supposed to be in Hawaii. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Do we have one last question?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
We got one last question too, so we'll just really
bring it home.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Okay, what about life lessons? Tell us any life lessons
you learned while you're filming one trio?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Well, there is a quote that's very long, but I
often shorten it when I sign things for fans, and
its happiness is a mood, not a destination. It's a
little cheesy, but I love it because it helped me
and it helped me go, look, you can't always be happy,
and you know there's gonna things are gonna happen that
(27:22):
are sad and hard and they're going to break you.
And knowing that helps, and knowing then and then when
you are happy and things are great, you enjoy it
that much more. And I don't know that's that's the
one thing that always sticks out.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
And I really like h good, good words, thank you.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
We love it, Lourie. I forgot about the line about
the printer, and I love it. It's so it's so
it's cheesy, but it's great. It's like these forces you'd
open it up and see what's wrong.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
I loved that moment, the paper jam.
Speaker 9 (27:56):
That was it.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Julian's and wise man.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
He's so similar to Lucas, but he's got more of
a sense of humor than Lucas. And so it's interesting
how Brooke and Peyton are both drawn to this like
very bright, well read, articulate boy, you know, like it's
uh yeah, I get it. Listen, Austin. My favorite memory
of you on One Tree Hill is you and I
(28:20):
driving out to the beach and passing the party bus
full of bridesmaids and a bride and you mooning them
and them being so excited about that, and so forever
when I see party buses, it's you, buddy.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
I thought mooning was just like the funniest thing ever
when I was in junior high, in high school. Your twenties,
a lot of mooning in Texas, and I'm actually I
can't believe that I was still mooning. You did it,
your hill. Yeah, thank you, brilliance.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
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