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Interview · June 2013 · Toronto

Harland Williams, Julia Voth, Randall Edwards, Jay Malone

Actors Harland Williams, Julia Voth, Randall Edwards and Jay Malone from the TV show The Package Deal chat with Matt Schichter in Toronto.

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Episode #531 · Harland Williams, Julia Voth, Randall Edwards, Jay MaloneJune 2013 · 00:05:38

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0:00Hey, we're the cast of package deal And we're the cast of package deal We should try that again Hey, hey, we're the cast of package deal And you're watching M&M Now, it's about three overly close brothers And the beautiful lady that comes between us And these two are an item And they're trying to get their relationship up and running

0:48And they can't seem to escape us to Or the kind of the nosy, overbearing brothers Who seem to get involved in all their activities From dating to activities in the bedroom To you name it, we're there And like the underwear fight Yeah, it was fun on set That was a lot of fun I was so sad I couldn't join it And I wanted to I know I wanted to throw underwear in someone's face Did I let you off camera? No, well, actually at the very end on the tag I got to blast me in his face That was cool I got a little You'd be shocked how much it actually hurts Oh, really? When you're lying Maybe I should explain it for people who haven't seen it yet Essentially, it's like a homemade potato gun Compressed air, you taper your underwear up into a ball

1:36Stuff it in and then you shoot it I hit him in the brain stem You can't even hear the brain stem Yeah, ripple The brain stem is very accurate The brain stem is very accurate My right eye has a stop to it Yeah, it's amazing But yeah, it was a great episode, great fun to do It's funny when you get scenes like that You forget you're working You know when you have to actually stop Well, I didn't, I'm kidding I'm professional I knew I, yes, yes, but yeah, it's great I mean, that's every day is fun, laughs And beating the crap out of each other That's job ever It must be nice to have a live audience I mean, you guys are used to playing in front of live audience I don't know about your career Not at all Right, so how has that changed as a performer? How does that change your acting? Does it? Yeah, it does That was the part that I was the most worried about

2:24I've never done anything Well, I didn't do theater When I was modeling, I hated runway It was just like, I wasn't comfortable And then I'm like, okay, now I'm on a sitcom How am I going to do this? But it's just When you hear the audience laugh And when they're behind you 100% And they're so into what you're doing It just, you can't help but be on your A-game All the time And it makes things funnier And it makes you, you know, just search for the jokes more And it's just, it's fun You get to play and making them happy It makes you happy On the opposite of the spectrum What's it like Coming from the stand up world Playing to a live audience on set? Is it different? Yeah, it's a little bit different Stand up-wise, you're usually talking directly To the audience And they're your words And so it was a little bit different for me It took a couple episodes to adjust to, you know, they're just there

3:10You know what I mean? And then you're doing multiple takes So you're doing multiple takes of the same scene And it's very difficult in my brain to say The same line that they've already heard a few times You never said the same line of the scene It's true I wish you were that professional It's actually a fair assessment of my performance Well, it sounds like you guys were kind of creative Kind of created the Brothers atmosphere offset Oh, yeah, it was like, it was literally First day we were, they have to do They have to do a medical insurance thing to get To shoot, right, in case of beam falls on his head And kills him It's very specific I'd never cut a rope And I remember I was the first one And I'd never cut him out And these guys were all in the waiting room

3:56And we had met in LA at the test But this is the first time that we'd all kind of been together Knowing we got the part And it starts with us in the waiting room Harlan filling out the show and he said What's the show called again? What's my character's name? Yeah, Patrick, who am I playing again? Sheldon, all right, perfect And it was like literally that moment And it's been just roses It's been magic, it's been magic, it's been magic You've never again? You've got a couple of lines in your harlot I wrote down, where did a salmon or turds with fins? Oh wow, wow, wow It sounds like that might have been written for you Yeah, that was kind of in my rider I failed, but yeah, salmon with fins line I'm walking, I'm going over a great cater of your lines to you

4:42What's that? It sounds like the writers cater their lines to you Maybe, yeah, you know what I didn't think of that But that's one of the reasons I really dig my park They do have some kooky creative lines for me to do And my character's kind of abrasive And so, yeah, I dig it I'm rambling now and I like using up people's time I'm just putting on it What are they meat liaison? A meat liaison? Oh my god, have you ever done the 69? A few times, man, you asked me Oh, can I all know, don't ask me I'll stop right there if I have to, I'm a s-n I think that's a good place to show off Let's get out of here

5:27Thanks guys, you're awesome Thank you, thank you

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