Mo Gilligan: Beginning, Middle & End
Oct 14, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 12 segments
Eric Shango had given up on acting. His agent convinced him to do one more audition. Seventy-two hours later, the phone rang. The Trigger Point actor joins Mo Gilligan on Beginning, Middle & End to…
Eric ShangoGuest
Mo GilliganHost
In my world of comedy, it's the feeling of like, oh, I'm going to do this tour, and this tour is going to be successful.
Whereas I don't know what that's like with... acting because i've only seen a small percentage of it but you could make and record the best thing ever but if the studio hasn't promoted it well nobody sees it right if that makes sense but then it can get mass explosion but then when you see the final cut you're like right like why you don't cut this you cut that because i guess comedy is different because you're in control of okay, I want that bit there, I want that bit there, I want that to look like that.
Whereas I've heard of the stories of an actor going to a premiere, you know, with their loved ones and then being like, what, what do you mean you cut all my parts? And I'm not being told.
So that feeling of flight, what is that, what's that pre-feeling like for no one that has ever felt that? I think it's usually predicated on the
people involved, the size of the production, the story, probably the financial aspect or financial package, where you're shooting as well.
But the privilege is simply connected to the fact that we're doing what we love.
Yes, of course, the pay pack is cool and... have it's almost like we get paid twice with attention when the show comes out and then when we were doing whatever it is that we were doing it's a great way to put it actually but again i don't want to over highlight the things that we wrestle with in that but i think that we know that that part of silence might come back around the corner where the phone doesn't ring as much Because we might shoot something in 2024, but it don't come out till 2025.
Because they don't start promoting it until they're ready to release their show.
Do you know what it is, bro? What I realised when I left drama school, though I went straight into something, was I had to...
So I had to find the base level of routine, which was something I found during that 2020, 2021 period before obviously I got the show.
In my world of comedy, it's the feeling of like, oh, I'm going to do this tour, and this tour is going to be successful.
Whereas I don't know what that's like with... acting because i've only seen a small percentage of it but you could make and record the best thing ever but if the studio hasn't promoted it well nobody sees it right if that makes sense but then it can get mass explosion but then when you see the final cut you're like right like why you don't cut this you cut that because i guess comedy is different because you're in control of okay, I want that bit there, I want that bit there, I want that to look like that.
Whereas I've heard of the stories of an actor going to a premiere, you know, with their loved ones and then being like, what, what do you mean you cut all my parts? And I'm not being told.
So that feeling of flight, what is that, what's that pre-feeling like for no one that has ever felt that? I think it's usually predicated on the
people involved, the size of the production, the story, probably the financial aspect or financial package, where you're shooting as well.
But the privilege is simply connected to the fact that we're doing what we love.
Yes, of course, the pay pack is cool and... have it's almost like we get paid twice with attention when the show comes out and then when we were doing whatever it is that we were doing it's a great way to put it actually but again i don't want to over highlight the things that we wrestle with in that but i think that we know that that part of silence might come back around the corner where the phone doesn't ring as much Because we might shoot something in 2024, but it don't come out till 2025.
Because they don't start promoting it until they're ready to release their show.
Do you know what it is, bro? What I realised when I left drama school, though I went straight into something, was I had to...
So I had to find the base level of routine, which was something I found during that 2020, 2021 period before obviously I got the show.
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