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Mitchell Laurance

American film actor

Jun 16, 2026

4:50
Sure.
4:51
He says, asshole, go play pool.
4:58
I walked to the back and there were two tables.
5:00
One, I looked over and there was this little gnarly looking guy, really wiry hair, weird.
5:06
And I'm going, okay.
5:07
And then I turned to the other table and at the other table on the other side of the table facing me was this lightning bolt of a woman.
5:18
That's the only way I can put it.

8 MINS LATER

13:45
That's really
9:52
So tell us a little bit about that.
9:54
Yeah, it's pretty interesting.
9:57
I'm trying to think about now it's 15 years ago as a golfer and somebody who'd been playing already for 30 years or so, I got into hickory golf and I was very frustrated playing the game.
10:13
I was always chasing a lower handicap and longer drives.
10:19
And I had a bad attitude.
10:21
I was frustrated a lot.
10:24
And I was playing in an event at Pinehurst.
13:26
really,
0:16
That was literally what happened.
0:18
That's great.
0:18
Brilliant.
0:19
And for some reason, at that point, and this changed different times over the years of doing it, but at that point, they were doing all the commentary in post-production.
0:30
They would shoot the event, and the commentators would do the commentary in post-production.
0:37
The only thing that was required was to do a live opening to kind of set the scene and a closing scene.

13 MINS LATER

13:30
All
13:31
right, I'll give you the quick rundown.
0:23
How did she change your life? What happened? What was the course?
0:27
How did she change my life? Not in any ways at all, unless you consider the word everything.
0:39
I think that would pretty much cover it.
0:41
That covers it.
0:42
Literally, there isn't any way that it didn't change my life.
0:47
What it first started after we met and spent a year, had that incredible cosmic meeting of getting together up in Seattle.
1:01
And by the time we actually had decided to make a move, I was not, other than knowing more about her life and what she did and who she was.

6 MINS LATER

7:03
You're
9:46
What aspect of the craft did you enjoy the most?
9:55
It's an interesting question because there's so many different parts to it that people who aren't acting don't really know.
10:02
I think one of the main things, well, the top of the list would be the people that you work with.
10:09
And that can be either other actors or directors or that's the top of the list.
10:15
And the good ones and the ones that, and again, I absolutely... can't believe that as a kid from Long Island that I got to work with some of the people I worked with.
10:29
Never in a million years would that have ever entered my space.
10:34
And when I say that, that goes from just people that nobody really would know other than the people that were on some of the shows I did that didn't become very famous, but who I loved working with, to the people that, like I said, the cast of Not Necessarily the News, that whole gang, the production team, and other shows too along the way.

18 MINS LATER

28:39
Thank you for that.
8:37
it
8:37
wasn't easy to do.
8:38
It really wasn't.
8:39
And she just handed it to me.
8:40
She said, get your card and then you're good.
8:43
So I did that.
8:44
And then little by little started to kind of do some other parts.

10 MINS LATER

18:36
He did, didn't he?
7:02
And I was over here as well, so I can completely understand.
7:07
And I had been out of the house.
7:09
I left at 18 to go to college.
7:10
And really, pretty much after that, I spent a little bit of time at home after, but pretty much was never home again.
7:17
And it was always about what I was doing.
7:19
So he was a big Ev, we used to call him.
7:24
He was a great guy.

8 MINS LATER

15:29
Tell her all about 1968.

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