April 16, 2019 • 10 mins
Actor Alex Landi stops by to talk season finale of 'Grey's Anatomy' and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
With Marial little bit. It's Morial Lopez. Let's welcome to
the show. From Gray's Anatomy over on ABC. Actor Alex Landy,
how are you man? Good? Good, doing well? Nice to
be here. Thank you for having me. You're coming in.
The wig is looking tight? Look at that nice looking
good right now? I love your dynamic. You're you're half
Korean half Italian? Yes? Nice? Who's who with the mom
(00:23):
is Korean? The dad has yellow fever, He's he's Italian.
Grew up with I mean, seriously, I've never met anyone
that the Asian is the dad. I mean, I've never
met it that way. It's always that's funny, You're funny.
So but yeah, pizza and cream food, by the way,
(00:44):
a great cuisine right there. You can't go wrong with that. Um.
Growing up, which which culture did you identify with more?
Definitely uh, Asian. I had a bunch of Asian friends
middle school. Then going to high school, I started dabbling
sports a lot. That's when all my wife friends started
coming in. So uh, for the most part, I've you know,
I'm studying Korean, learning the language, eating the Korean food
(01:05):
definitely influence. My kids are half Italian. For the Mexican
and Italian. Oh, let's go, let's go right, alright, So,
and coincidentally, my son uh is named Nico and you
and you play Dr Nico Kim of course on the show.
So I'm already a big fan right from the get
right there. So for those who may not be familiar,
to tell us about Dr Nico Kim. Dr Nico Kim,
(01:28):
he's the first male surgeon of Asian descent. More importantly,
he's actually the first openly gay male surgeon on the show.
A lot of first breaking barriers. Yeah, yeah, definitely blessed,
very grateful for that. Um. But yeah, The Gray's Anatomy
is obviously known for the diversity stretching boundaries and glad
to be a part of it for sure. So we
are close to the end of season fifteen. What's going
(01:49):
on with the show and what's Dr Nico up to? Yeah,
Dr Nico, He's I was on a little hiatus for
the past couple of weeks, but I'm going to be
back this week up until the in finale. I think
episode twenty one is this week. But yeah, there's gonna
be a lot of exciting stuff, uh, particularly episode twenty
three is gonna be very interesting. I can't give anything
(02:11):
more than that, but uh, fans are gonna definitely want
to tune in. Okay, that's gonna be a good What
about the finale? Can you give us a little tease?
The finale is going to be crazy, crazy action. I
can't say obviously what happens, but we're in the middle
of filming it right now. Um uh yeah, it's gonna
be some exciting stuff. Will you be back if the
(02:32):
show goes for another season? I hope so, I hope,
So we'll see Unless you die, I'm serious. Like, it's
funny because on the grades on Google, they qualify who's
still on the show by status, and it's like a
live or dead like that's how they qualify who's on
the show. It's not even so many people get killed off. No,
of course, it's a game of Thrones. If you die,
which I guess, well, now, I was gonna say, you
(02:54):
could resurrect, but then that's a whole another show, exactly,
another type of show. Um. I heard Ellen Pompeo say
that if there is a sixteenth season, which I can't
believe that's the case. Sixteen seasons unbelievable. It'll be it'll
be the last. Have you heard that. I've read some
things online about that. I don't know how much of
it is actually true. I don't. We haven't talked to
anything about the ending of the show on set. I mean,
(03:16):
it's already sad to think about. But you know, I
just came in. I'm hoping this thing goes for Yeah, exactly,
I don't. I don't want this thing to end anytime soon.
I'm loving it right now. Good for you, though, to
be part of that team. That's awesome. And again, I
can't you know, they just broke the record for the
longest running medical drama like a few weeks ago. But
it's weird for me because I just came on. I
can't say anything. Everyone's posting like, oh, congrats, but you know,
(03:38):
I'm just kind of I had nothing to do with it.
I'm just like here, I just got in. I can't
take any credit. Obviously. It's a blessing though, right there. Uh.
Is it true you wanted to be a professional tennis player? Yeah,
it was. I played all the way up until college,
and then I just started realizing the physical debilitation that
goes into all professional sports, and I was like, I
(04:00):
can't do this for the rest of my life. You know.
I sprained my ankle once then I went through you know,
the rehab to get back, and I was like, this
is not you know, the risk. It's scary. If you
injure yourself as an athlete, that's your whole income, everything
going on. I just the risk is too much. Growing
up Idol, I went to University of Delaware, played tennis there,
(04:21):
and you know, I was I was debating on going
down to Florida and doing the whole tennis academy thing
and doing going Yeah, but I switched to entertainment. I
don't know what happened. How did that transition happen? Yeah,
I I I was into theater. My parents took me
to Broadway growing up, so it was all that seed
was always in the back of my head. But um,
(04:41):
it wasn't until I was, you know, nineteen, that I
really started to think about it and I just made
the huge shift I put through through in the towel
and my parents surprisingly, you know, my mom being Asians,
she's like, oh, you're not gonna be a doctor, Lloyd.
She didn't give me any of that. You're kind of
a doctor doctor is like the next big thing. Yeah,
all right, all right, the next big thing. So but yeah,
(05:02):
my parents were super supportive. They didn't that that's good
to hear and from. Originally I was born in New
York City, so right you were you were you raised
right in Manhattan? Yeah? I was born in Manhattan. Uh
funny because I got casts out in New York. I
did a self tape and they asked me, like, when
as soon as you can come back for the callback?
We can wait till Monday. Was a Thursday afternoon, and
I was like, I'm taking the first red eye possible.
(05:24):
I packed my bag in an hour. I didn't want
them to have any time to find anyone else for
the role. I was there the next morning at like
ten am, met with everyone and I actually booked it
that same afternoon with a backpack, and I have time
to go back home and get my clothes. Look good
for you, man, look at that ambitious? Do do you
uh still consider yourself a New York or by hard?
Do you miss New York? Do you love New York?
Or do you are you? Have you uh accepted l
(05:48):
A as your home yet you like it? I haven't
accepted it yet I still want to go back to
New York for sure. I haven't been back since October,
so it's definitely been like over half a year. So
someone about in New York that I just missed. Man, Well,
when you're when you're young like yourself and making money
and you're single, and are you saying you're saying no
(06:09):
better place? When you start getting older like myself and
you start having kids and the stroller situation in the
city and these winters, you're like, yo, New York, peace out,
and then I'm all about l a after that. But
is your family still over there? Yeah, they're They're all
East Coast. My dad's in town right now actually, so
he's he likes just hopping over. He's happy to have
a place here now, so you can just hop over
(06:31):
whenever he wants. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And you
also just booked a role on Insatiable over on Netflix.
Congrats about that, thank you. Um, we're so it's so
preliminated right now that I do not know as many
details as I would want. Um, I don't have the
script yet. I just know that, Uh. I'm just a
new addition for season two, heading to Atlanta. Tomorrow actually
(06:56):
to start. So tomorrow is my season wrap on Gray's
and then I'm heading taking a red eye straight to
Atlanta and start shooting. So I couldn't have asked for
any better situation. Very grateful for good luck, man, Thank
you good luck with that. And then you got a dog, right, yeah,
I just how's how's that going to work? With the
travel and all that. I'm taking her with me. She
(07:16):
just got spade. So she's wearing that little cone overhead
and kind of dog. She's pure bred huahba. She's the
tiny and honestly, that was the last type of dog
I was trying to get. Yeah, I was. I was like,
I was like I wanted a husky, you know, a
massive German shepherd, something that's you know, And I saw
that thing. I was like, that's all she wrote and
(07:37):
that was it. Um. But yeah, she's in a cone
I surgery. I can't leave her at home alone, so
I get what's her name? Her name is Ninja, the
most threatening name for the most non menacing dogeble. She's
like four pounds tiny, yeah, ninjat right, yeah, yeah, all right,
I want to put you on spot. Quick questions, quick answer, Yeah,
that's good. It's a song you can't get out of
(07:58):
your head right now, Sicko Mode by try of Scott Drake.
I don't know. I know it's a little on the
older side, but it came out in the summer last year.
But yeah, no, no, it's still a good jam movie.
You've seen the most movie. I've seen the most pulp
fiction really yeah, probably going on like six times. Yeah, definitely.
(08:18):
Very first job, very first job. I was a tennis instructor.
That was my first job at a community center back
in New York. Um. Yeah, that that was grueling. That
was like six hours in the debt of heat in
the summer, sweating it out, and yeah, that was it
was fun. So they have any uh, the celebrity tennis
tournament is killing it. I would love to do that.
(08:40):
I think that would be so fun. Better yeah, better,
favorite medical term, favorite medical term? Um uh, wow, this
is not good. This is not good. I don't even know.
I'm trying to think of one of the typical ones.
They put a pronunciation keim my trailer every time before
we go on, just to make sure I get the um.
(09:03):
I don't know, I don't even remember that. Trying to
remember there was just one long one. I'm trying to
remember and I can't remember it. Yeah, I'm gonna have
to take a pass on that. Okay, put a pause
right there. Favorite tennis player I have to say Roger
Federi's just a class act. But I like, Um, I
like Nick Curios. I know he has a lot of
hate because he's just a temper throws temperate changes all
(09:24):
the time. But tennis needs that. They need that edge,
and you know, it's nice to have the classy guys
a lot. Oh I felt. Yeah, I followed it a lot.
But I like guys that speak their mind. They're honest.
I know a lot of people don't like it, but
I like Roger Federer's classy, but I like that edge
and that fire. Like John McEnroe, he's going to at
it back in the day. Yeah, superpower. I would say
(09:45):
flying or invisibility. Um, probably flying if I had one. Yeah,
you can go back and forth. I don't have to
do anything, go to Atlanta. Yeah, just peace out. Yeah
you know, yeah exactly. You can check out grays anatomy
Thursday nights on ABC. Follow him on Instagram at alex
Landy seven. Thanks for stopping by Man. Thank you, Mary,
(10:06):
appreciate it. On with Mario Lopez
With Marial little bit. It's Morial Lopez. Let's welcome to
the show. From Gray's Anatomy over on ABC. Actor Alex Landy,
how are you man? Good? Good, doing well? Nice to
be here. Thank you for having me. You're coming in.
The wig is looking tight? Look at that nice looking
good right now? I love your dynamic. You're you're half
Korean half Italian? Yes? Nice? Who's who with the mom
(00:23):
is Korean? The dad has yellow fever, He's he's Italian.
Grew up with I mean, seriously, I've never met anyone
that the Asian is the dad. I mean, I've never
met it that way. It's always that's funny, You're funny.
So but yeah, pizza and cream food, by the way,
(00:44):
a great cuisine right there. You can't go wrong with that. Um.
Growing up, which which culture did you identify with more?
Definitely uh, Asian. I had a bunch of Asian friends
middle school. Then going to high school, I started dabbling
sports a lot. That's when all my wife friends started
coming in. So uh, for the most part, I've you know,
I'm studying Korean, learning the language, eating the Korean food
(01:05):
definitely influence. My kids are half Italian. For the Mexican
and Italian. Oh, let's go, let's go right, alright, So,
and coincidentally, my son uh is named Nico and you
and you play Dr Nico Kim of course on the show.
So I'm already a big fan right from the get
right there. So for those who may not be familiar,
to tell us about Dr Nico Kim. Dr Nico Kim,
(01:28):
he's the first male surgeon of Asian descent. More importantly,
he's actually the first openly gay male surgeon on the show.
A lot of first breaking barriers. Yeah, yeah, definitely blessed,
very grateful for that. Um. But yeah, The Gray's Anatomy
is obviously known for the diversity stretching boundaries and glad
to be a part of it for sure. So we
are close to the end of season fifteen. What's going
(01:49):
on with the show and what's Dr Nico up to? Yeah,
Dr Nico, He's I was on a little hiatus for
the past couple of weeks, but I'm going to be
back this week up until the in finale. I think
episode twenty one is this week. But yeah, there's gonna
be a lot of exciting stuff, uh, particularly episode twenty
three is gonna be very interesting. I can't give anything
(02:11):
more than that, but uh, fans are gonna definitely want
to tune in. Okay, that's gonna be a good What
about the finale? Can you give us a little tease?
The finale is going to be crazy, crazy action. I
can't say obviously what happens, but we're in the middle
of filming it right now. Um uh yeah, it's gonna
be some exciting stuff. Will you be back if the
(02:32):
show goes for another season? I hope so, I hope,
So we'll see Unless you die, I'm serious. Like, it's
funny because on the grades on Google, they qualify who's
still on the show by status, and it's like a
live or dead like that's how they qualify who's on
the show. It's not even so many people get killed off. No,
of course, it's a game of Thrones. If you die,
which I guess, well, now, I was gonna say, you
(02:54):
could resurrect, but then that's a whole another show, exactly,
another type of show. Um. I heard Ellen Pompeo say
that if there is a sixteenth season, which I can't
believe that's the case. Sixteen seasons unbelievable. It'll be it'll
be the last. Have you heard that. I've read some
things online about that. I don't know how much of
it is actually true. I don't. We haven't talked to
anything about the ending of the show on set. I mean,
(03:16):
it's already sad to think about. But you know, I
just came in. I'm hoping this thing goes for Yeah, exactly,
I don't. I don't want this thing to end anytime soon.
I'm loving it right now. Good for you, though, to
be part of that team. That's awesome. And again, I
can't you know, they just broke the record for the
longest running medical drama like a few weeks ago. But
it's weird for me because I just came on. I
can't say anything. Everyone's posting like, oh, congrats, but you know,
(03:38):
I'm just kind of I had nothing to do with it.
I'm just like here, I just got in. I can't
take any credit. Obviously. It's a blessing though, right there. Uh.
Is it true you wanted to be a professional tennis player? Yeah,
it was. I played all the way up until college,
and then I just started realizing the physical debilitation that
goes into all professional sports, and I was like, I
(04:00):
can't do this for the rest of my life. You know.
I sprained my ankle once then I went through you know,
the rehab to get back, and I was like, this
is not you know, the risk. It's scary. If you
injure yourself as an athlete, that's your whole income, everything
going on. I just the risk is too much. Growing
up Idol, I went to University of Delaware, played tennis there,
(04:21):
and you know, I was I was debating on going
down to Florida and doing the whole tennis academy thing
and doing going Yeah, but I switched to entertainment. I
don't know what happened. How did that transition happen? Yeah,
I I I was into theater. My parents took me
to Broadway growing up, so it was all that seed
was always in the back of my head. But um,
(04:41):
it wasn't until I was, you know, nineteen, that I
really started to think about it and I just made
the huge shift I put through through in the towel
and my parents surprisingly, you know, my mom being Asians,
she's like, oh, you're not gonna be a doctor, Lloyd.
She didn't give me any of that. You're kind of
a doctor doctor is like the next big thing. Yeah,
all right, all right, the next big thing. So but yeah,
(05:02):
my parents were super supportive. They didn't that that's good
to hear and from. Originally I was born in New
York City, so right you were you were you raised
right in Manhattan? Yeah? I was born in Manhattan. Uh
funny because I got casts out in New York. I
did a self tape and they asked me, like, when
as soon as you can come back for the callback?
We can wait till Monday. Was a Thursday afternoon, and
I was like, I'm taking the first red eye possible.
(05:24):
I packed my bag in an hour. I didn't want
them to have any time to find anyone else for
the role. I was there the next morning at like
ten am, met with everyone and I actually booked it
that same afternoon with a backpack, and I have time
to go back home and get my clothes. Look good
for you, man, look at that ambitious? Do do you
uh still consider yourself a New York or by hard?
Do you miss New York? Do you love New York?
Or do you are you? Have you uh accepted l
(05:48):
A as your home yet you like it? I haven't
accepted it yet I still want to go back to
New York for sure. I haven't been back since October,
so it's definitely been like over half a year. So
someone about in New York that I just missed. Man, Well,
when you're when you're young like yourself and making money
and you're single, and are you saying you're saying no
(06:09):
better place? When you start getting older like myself and
you start having kids and the stroller situation in the
city and these winters, you're like, yo, New York, peace out,
and then I'm all about l a after that. But
is your family still over there? Yeah, they're They're all
East Coast. My dad's in town right now actually, so
he's he likes just hopping over. He's happy to have
a place here now, so you can just hop over
(06:31):
whenever he wants. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. And you
also just booked a role on Insatiable over on Netflix.
Congrats about that, thank you. Um, we're so it's so
preliminated right now that I do not know as many
details as I would want. Um, I don't have the
script yet. I just know that, Uh. I'm just a
new addition for season two, heading to Atlanta. Tomorrow actually
(06:56):
to start. So tomorrow is my season wrap on Gray's
and then I'm heading taking a red eye straight to
Atlanta and start shooting. So I couldn't have asked for
any better situation. Very grateful for good luck, man, Thank
you good luck with that. And then you got a dog, right, yeah,
I just how's how's that going to work? With the
travel and all that. I'm taking her with me. She
(07:16):
just got spade. So she's wearing that little cone overhead
and kind of dog. She's pure bred huahba. She's the
tiny and honestly, that was the last type of dog
I was trying to get. Yeah, I was. I was like,
I was like I wanted a husky, you know, a
massive German shepherd, something that's you know, And I saw
that thing. I was like, that's all she wrote and
(07:37):
that was it. Um. But yeah, she's in a cone
I surgery. I can't leave her at home alone, so
I get what's her name? Her name is Ninja, the
most threatening name for the most non menacing dogeble. She's
like four pounds tiny, yeah, ninjat right, yeah, yeah, all right,
I want to put you on spot. Quick questions, quick answer, Yeah,
that's good. It's a song you can't get out of
(07:58):
your head right now, Sicko Mode by try of Scott Drake.
I don't know. I know it's a little on the
older side, but it came out in the summer last year.
But yeah, no, no, it's still a good jam movie.
You've seen the most movie. I've seen the most pulp
fiction really yeah, probably going on like six times. Yeah, definitely.
(08:18):
Very first job, very first job. I was a tennis instructor.
That was my first job at a community center back
in New York. Um. Yeah, that that was grueling. That
was like six hours in the debt of heat in
the summer, sweating it out, and yeah, that was it
was fun. So they have any uh, the celebrity tennis
tournament is killing it. I would love to do that.
(08:40):
I think that would be so fun. Better yeah, better,
favorite medical term, favorite medical term? Um uh, wow, this
is not good. This is not good. I don't even know.
I'm trying to think of one of the typical ones.
They put a pronunciation keim my trailer every time before
we go on, just to make sure I get the um.
(09:03):
I don't know, I don't even remember that. Trying to
remember there was just one long one. I'm trying to
remember and I can't remember it. Yeah, I'm gonna have
to take a pass on that. Okay, put a pause
right there. Favorite tennis player I have to say Roger
Federi's just a class act. But I like, Um, I
like Nick Curios. I know he has a lot of
hate because he's just a temper throws temperate changes all
(09:24):
the time. But tennis needs that. They need that edge,
and you know, it's nice to have the classy guys
a lot. Oh I felt. Yeah, I followed it a lot.
But I like guys that speak their mind. They're honest.
I know a lot of people don't like it, but
I like Roger Federer's classy, but I like that edge
and that fire. Like John McEnroe, he's going to at
it back in the day. Yeah, superpower. I would say
(09:45):
flying or invisibility. Um, probably flying if I had one. Yeah,
you can go back and forth. I don't have to
do anything, go to Atlanta. Yeah, just peace out. Yeah
you know, yeah exactly. You can check out grays anatomy
Thursday nights on ABC. Follow him on Instagram at alex
Landy seven. Thanks for stopping by Man. Thank you, Mary,
(10:06):
appreciate it. On with Mario Lopez
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