I think that by now, in the very beginning when I first joined the show, General Landry was like a new kid in school.
BEAU BRIDGESWe come in. We don’t know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they’re gone and it’s kind of melancholy.
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Sometimes that can be unfortunate because the work call is pretty intense and the preparation for it.
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We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother’s instigation. So I owe him for that.
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As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I’ve been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
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Sometimes it’s hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won’t happen, but there’s excitement at the network, so they’ll stay with the show.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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What they always do with these shows is they always leave them open-ended.
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If your focus is there, then the actual doing of the job will be fun and enjoyable. But if you’re so involved in trying to be interesting and a character and everything when you’re not working, it can get in the way and people get goofed up.
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But when I’m done with the job I can take it off pretty easy, it’s like a suit of clothes, put on something else.
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None of the people are what you think when you first meet them, who you think they are, and they turn out to be maybe something a little different.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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