June 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Actor Dermot Mulroney talks new movie 'Killing Mary Sue, 'Chicago Fire' and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real fun with Mario Littpez Sobri Morril Lopez joining me
right now on Zoo, actor Dermer mulroney.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's going on, German, Marian I'm doing great. Thank you
so much, so nice to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Know.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We see each other about every six years whever we
needed or not.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's right. I always look forward to it, either having
you on my show on Access or hear my friend. Congrats.
You got a new movie out called Killing Mary Sue.
Looks like a wild one. You play a corrupt senator,
right who needs a step daughter murdered.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, because she's sort of scandal ridden and she's getting
in the way of my re election campaign.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Can't have that.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, and also I figured the sympathy vote, so just
you know, kill the step daughter. And you got to
see this movie. It's Mayhem. It comes on really strong
and it never stops. So a great comedy. A cast
pulls off this excellent young filmmaker James K. Sunshine put
(00:59):
this whole, this whole picture together, a really unique, really
unique movie.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's thrilled to be a part of.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I love the premise, definitely going to check it out.
Congrats on that.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm excited about I just thought this weekend, it's just
everybody will win for it. It's kind of a swing
for the Fences kind of movie. Is that for everybody?
Maybe not, but I bet it's for everybody under thirty eight?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There you go, There you go. I'm not earner thirty eight,
but I'd like to check it out.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So that's why I'm giving you a pass in case
you don't like being thirty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah. Right, that's it, thirty nine. That's that's the pivotal
point right there. Also, love me some Westerns, and I
know you starting a few of them, and you got
a new one coming out later this year called Long Shadows.
What's this one about?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, it's amazing, amazing classic Western like vintage period piece
American tale. William Shockley with his producers, cooked it up,
wrote it and directed. He's a well known actor and
did an incredible job playing Mais in the lead part.
And I play old the gun slinger type with a
twist and really incredible casting a bigutiful classic movies. So
(02:04):
that's that's out there. That's out there. Sin I just
I'll even drop it in since you brought it up.
I just have shaved up half my beard so it
looked kind of cool when I came on your show
over the weekend. I've acted just the two nights on
my son's short film that's a Western called Three Dead Boys.
So look for that on the Western Film Festival Shorts
(02:26):
Circuit sometime soon. Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I love that, Like I said, I really do. It's
probably my favorite genre. And that's awesome. You got to
you get to work with your son. I've got to
work with mine a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So that's my.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Son, Clyde Mulrodney. So we'll tell you about that when
it comes out.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And is he directing or acting along with you?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, he wrote it and he forms one of the roles.
Just three guys desk broad Us in the desert. Really
cool experence of.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Course, to work with family, tiny crew, all in the
same Airbnb type of shoot. That harkens back to the
early days, his early days in mine, not so early days. Overlapped.
It's really really remarked. Thanks for letting me touch on that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Absolutely, when you're ready to go, come back and talk.
We'll talk to you Anderson. That'll be awesome. And you're
also in Chicago Fire on NBC season thirteen. Wow, just
wrapped up with some drama for your character right there.
What can fans expect in the upcoming season?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, I know nothing about the story as always, which
is an incredible thing I think. Anyhow, it's kind of
new for me where you really just don't know the
week by week what's going to happen then to you
next you become so associated with your own character. Yeah,
the whole series length of time, So I don't know
(03:38):
what happens. I can say officially now that I am
back for season fourteen, So that's wonderful news. I think
at about episode eighteen or nineteen, they could have gone
any way with a cheap pascal. I could have been
asked out, it sent up the river, whatever it was.
So I made it through the season with some terrible
loss and had the honor of portraying a family member,
(04:02):
you know, in deep grief, sudden loss, and not just again.
The difference for me is I might have played that
in a movie, but then it's over here. It's the
kind of loss that plays and never goes away. And
you see my character very complex process of trying to
trying to go through the early days of loss and
get back to work and kind of fail and fall
down and have that firehouse.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, he pick them up.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's an amazing storyline. Season thirteen. Season fourteen, we start
shooting about three weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh, that's awesome in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I generally go back and forth, but I love being
there and was there for all sorts of outdoor action scenes.
All Weather started in July one hundred. Can't say it
was one hundred. It was ninety eight that day in
Chicago's heat city heat and at the you know the
depths of February. Of course, it was zero degree outside
(04:52):
at night. But you catch that show, even a frame
of that show sometime, Maria, and you see that breath.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Coming out of all I can see it in the air,
and there's fat flames back lived behind us and water guy.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's incredible crew that puts that together every week.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So we're lucky to get back and do it some
more soon.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I did a project out there just outside of Chicago,
in Chicago and Long Grove, some towns, and we had
a lot of the crew that works from your show.
As a matter of fact, they were great. I just
came get over how cold it was still in April.
It was snowing in April. It's ridiculous. That's how we
do exactly, and this is cool. I know you're in
a band as well with your brother called Jack Rabbit.
What kind of music you guys play?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, we played music so our whole eyes, of course,
but had really a great time in a couple of
bands over the years and feel like we've come home
to where we belong. We're doing country and western, straight
up old school he original songs, but definitely within old
timey twang brother harmony over every note in every song.
You can find the four songs that we have finished
(05:53):
out there on the platforms Jackrabbit, Jackrabbit dot band dot
la on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You'll find us if you look for me.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Great old time and the best part, of course is
spending time with family. I have three other siblings, but wow,
and I just always it's so funny. I'm talking, I
got a pick.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We played all.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You know, we're really a musical life partners and this
is the result of that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Three other guys, great country band.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We play a little a couple of country festivals this
summer out there Colorado and Wyoming, and then come back
to Chicago. Fire to continue so good for you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We'll see what happens. We'll just have to make sure
people hear great music.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's awesome, that's the best. I love working with your son.
Your brother does not get better than that. And listen, everyone,
please be sure to check out Germany in the new
film Killing Mary Sue, which is out now, and be
on the lookout for all those other projects that he's
got cooking in his music as well. Dermott, thanks for
checking in.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Man, oh man, Mario you're the best. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You're gonna love Killing Mary Sue. Yeah, I know you've
got so much to do, but give yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
When I was reading, I was like, oh damn, that
sounds pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Check it out. Great to see you again, you too.
Many appreciated you're seeing
Speaker 1 (07:02):
With Mario Lopez.
Real fun with Mario Littpez Sobri Morril Lopez joining me
right now on Zoo, actor Dermer mulroney.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What's going on, German, Marian I'm doing great. Thank you
so much, so nice to see you.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Know.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We see each other about every six years whever we
needed or not.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
That's right. I always look forward to it, either having
you on my show on Access or hear my friend. Congrats.
You got a new movie out called Killing Mary Sue.
Looks like a wild one. You play a corrupt senator,
right who needs a step daughter murdered.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, because she's sort of scandal ridden and she's getting
in the way of my re election campaign.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Can't have that.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, and also I figured the sympathy vote, so just
you know, kill the step daughter. And you got to
see this movie. It's Mayhem. It comes on really strong
and it never stops. So a great comedy. A cast
pulls off this excellent young filmmaker James K. Sunshine put
(00:59):
this whole, this whole picture together, a really unique, really
unique movie.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's thrilled to be a part of.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I love the premise, definitely going to check it out.
Congrats on that.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I'm excited about I just thought this weekend, it's just
everybody will win for it. It's kind of a swing
for the Fences kind of movie. Is that for everybody?
Maybe not, but I bet it's for everybody under thirty eight?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There you go, There you go. I'm not earner thirty eight,
but I'd like to check it out.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
So that's why I'm giving you a pass in case
you don't like being thirty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yeah. Right, that's it, thirty nine. That's that's the pivotal
point right there. Also, love me some Westerns, and I
know you starting a few of them, and you got
a new one coming out later this year called Long Shadows.
What's this one about?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, it's amazing, amazing classic Western like vintage period piece
American tale. William Shockley with his producers, cooked it up,
wrote it and directed. He's a well known actor and
did an incredible job playing Mais in the lead part.
And I play old the gun slinger type with a
twist and really incredible casting a bigutiful classic movies. So
(02:04):
that's that's out there. That's out there. Sin I just
I'll even drop it in since you brought it up.
I just have shaved up half my beard so it
looked kind of cool when I came on your show
over the weekend. I've acted just the two nights on
my son's short film that's a Western called Three Dead Boys.
So look for that on the Western Film Festival Shorts
(02:26):
Circuit sometime soon. Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I love that, Like I said, I really do. It's
probably my favorite genre. And that's awesome. You got to
you get to work with your son. I've got to
work with mine a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So that's my.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Son, Clyde Mulrodney. So we'll tell you about that when
it comes out.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
And is he directing or acting along with you?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, he wrote it and he forms one of the roles.
Just three guys desk broad Us in the desert. Really
cool experence of.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Course, to work with family, tiny crew, all in the
same Airbnb type of shoot. That harkens back to the
early days, his early days in mine, not so early days. Overlapped.
It's really really remarked. Thanks for letting me touch on that.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Absolutely, when you're ready to go, come back and talk.
We'll talk to you Anderson. That'll be awesome. And you're
also in Chicago Fire on NBC season thirteen. Wow, just
wrapped up with some drama for your character right there.
What can fans expect in the upcoming season?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Well, I know nothing about the story as always, which
is an incredible thing I think. Anyhow, it's kind of
new for me where you really just don't know the
week by week what's going to happen then to you
next you become so associated with your own character. Yeah,
the whole series length of time, So I don't know
(03:38):
what happens. I can say officially now that I am
back for season fourteen, So that's wonderful news. I think
at about episode eighteen or nineteen, they could have gone
any way with a cheap pascal. I could have been
asked out, it sent up the river, whatever it was.
So I made it through the season with some terrible
loss and had the honor of portraying a family member,
(04:02):
you know, in deep grief, sudden loss, and not just again.
The difference for me is I might have played that
in a movie, but then it's over here. It's the
kind of loss that plays and never goes away. And
you see my character very complex process of trying to
trying to go through the early days of loss and
get back to work and kind of fail and fall
down and have that firehouse.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, he pick them up.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
It's an amazing storyline. Season thirteen. Season fourteen, we start
shooting about three weeks.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Oh, that's awesome in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I generally go back and forth, but I love being
there and was there for all sorts of outdoor action scenes.
All Weather started in July one hundred. Can't say it
was one hundred. It was ninety eight that day in
Chicago's heat city heat and at the you know the
depths of February. Of course, it was zero degree outside
(04:52):
at night. But you catch that show, even a frame
of that show sometime, Maria, and you see that breath.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Coming out of all I can see it in the air,
and there's fat flames back lived behind us and water guy.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
It's incredible crew that puts that together every week.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
So we're lucky to get back and do it some
more soon.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I did a project out there just outside of Chicago,
in Chicago and Long Grove, some towns, and we had
a lot of the crew that works from your show.
As a matter of fact, they were great. I just
came get over how cold it was still in April.
It was snowing in April. It's ridiculous. That's how we
do exactly, and this is cool. I know you're in
a band as well with your brother called Jack Rabbit.
What kind of music you guys play?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well, we played music so our whole eyes, of course,
but had really a great time in a couple of
bands over the years and feel like we've come home
to where we belong. We're doing country and western, straight
up old school he original songs, but definitely within old
timey twang brother harmony over every note in every song.
You can find the four songs that we have finished
(05:53):
out there on the platforms Jackrabbit, Jackrabbit dot band dot
la on Instagram.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
You'll find us if you look for me.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Great old time and the best part, of course is
spending time with family. I have three other siblings, but wow,
and I just always it's so funny. I'm talking, I
got a pick.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We played all.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You know, we're really a musical life partners and this
is the result of that.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Three other guys, great country band.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
We play a little a couple of country festivals this
summer out there Colorado and Wyoming, and then come back
to Chicago. Fire to continue so good for you.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We'll see what happens. We'll just have to make sure
people hear great music.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's awesome, that's the best. I love working with your son.
Your brother does not get better than that. And listen, everyone,
please be sure to check out Germany in the new
film Killing Mary Sue, which is out now, and be
on the lookout for all those other projects that he's
got cooking in his music as well. Dermott, thanks for
checking in.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Man, oh man, Mario you're the best. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You're gonna love Killing Mary Sue. Yeah, I know you've
got so much to do, but give yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
When I was reading, I was like, oh damn, that
sounds pretty crazy.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Check it out. Great to see you again, you too.
Many appreciated you're seeing
Speaker 1 (07:02):
With Mario Lopez.
Host
Mario Lopez
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