What got you through that and what kept you going?

I think having my best friend and partner.

So Michelle and I started working together right after Stealth.

She was running Rob Cohen's company, so she produced that movie and they hired me for that movie.

And we started watching movies together.

We were in Australia for like six months together.

It was a really kind of masculine action movie, kind of very dude forward.

Have you had, like, some very great chats as a family about navigating this world, this crazy world that you find yourself in?

Mm

...

when you're, when you're looking at a scene partner and the camera's here, you know, connecting with them and not looking all around and looking down, and like, when you connect, the camera is y- pulled in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah

... you know, ho- hoping that this might change or whatever, and having great conversations with great creative teams and people that I trust too, and go, "Okay, I will put my faith that we will work together and collaborate and, you know, get this to the point that it needs to be." I don't think I've ever signed on to anything that I haven't at least read one draft of.

Yeah.

That was like film and TV, a, a intensive program.

I had the most incredible cast and crew.

It was such a supportive, cool environment, just a bunch of kids, like all the sib- all, all the wonderful actors playing my siblings and the parents, and I learned h- I mean, the stuff I remember so vividly is o- our amazing, um, uh, camera operator who taught me how to stand up and sit down on a chair, you know? 'Cause I would go like...

Yeah, go ahead, yeah.

Anyway, okay, so the accordion windows slide open, and then you have this pretty view, and you can work out with the windows wide open.

Cool.

I, I put the alarm on last night, went to bed, woke up, and started, you know, pulling shades up, and the shades in the gym kind of went, kind of was, the, it looked like they were getting sucked into the corner of the window and started to go up, and had a big crinkle in them.

I agreed to allow Maceo to spend Saturday and Sunday night with Olivier and there were no marks on his body or neck."

And we say as mama bears, I would do anything for my kids.

But does she consider him her third child?

He is not one of the kids.

He's on a different, elevated level.

The kids are the kids, and he's something else, something altogether special and different than that.

Tell us.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Of, I'm so excited about this piece of material.

I just love this book and I love this author, Keith Rawson.

It's this, uh, very kind of grounded period vampire, um, story that we're hoping to make into a television show.

Well done.

Speaking of control rooms, though, so the first day of hosting, every time I would say the word ghost or mention the spirits, the control room would lose-

Let's go, John! Yeah.

He's so nice, by the way, and he's so sweet to my kids, and every time they would come to set, my six-year-old would be like, where is he, Mom? And he'd literally be like, right here, but he's right here.

But where is he? Like, he just, his brain, his brain just malfunctioned.

Yeah.

I couldn't understand.

you

remember your audition? Yeah, I do.

It was an old school kind of situation where you did one with the casting director and then you did another one and then it ended up being you know, a test situation with a bunch of people, a bunch of executives behind a table.

So how did you do that? It

was so good.

Thank you.

I mean, I think a lot of that got established with Craig Gillespie, who directed our pilot episode.

And honestly, he constantly asked me to just keep it really, really contained.

And every time I would kind of fight against that a little bit, I think trying to think about, you know, sort of like a regular audience member, a normal person, a mom, somebody watching this, you know, would I be able to connect with them? Would they be able to follow this character's experience if I was so contained? But he was right.

He wanted that containment at the very beginning.