“Send Help” Star Dylan O’Brien

“The Pitt” Star Katherine Lanasa

Air Date: Monday, February 2^nd    

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Dylan O’Brien on Working With Rachael McAdams in New Film “Send Help"

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Drew: Talk about rom com royalty, Rachael McAdams.

Dylan: Yeah can we geek for a sec.

Drew: What is like working with Rachael McAdams?

Dylan: Rachael is just, she’s so someone who immediately makes you feel safe, makes you feel supported. Anything that you throw at her, or you know you can kinda just push any part of her and she’s so the work that she does, her prep is so in her bones.

Drew: It was the first time I’ve ever seen Rachael McAdams look as dowdy as she did in the first quarter of the movie, like I didn’t think that was possible like that hotness is gonna creep through there.

Dylan: Well that was my first, when I read the script I was like ok I love this but how am I supposed to believe as an audience member that Rachael McAdams is the frumpy like office girl that no ones like or wants to talk to. This is really funny because I’m like in love with her so how are we gonna, it was a conversation like what are we gonna do to achieve that and it’s funny it’s actually mostly done just through her performance. She’s someone I’ve always admired as an actor. I remember being young and just watching Rachael being like this person is good…little 13-year-old me.

 

Dylan is Surprised By His Third Grade Teacher Who Was Instrumental In His Decision to Become An Actor 

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Drew: So Mr. Campbell takes his 3rd grade students, has them write a letter, and when they're seniors, he sends them to him, them.

Dylan: Weah, he sends it to all of them. He still does this project and I shared this with him. I shared this with him in my 20s at one point where I was like, by the way, you know, your letter meant so much to me. Like I, that kind of meant a lot to me in my life. It gave me sort of the go-ahead to, to dive headfirst into something that I wasn't super sure about, And yeah, that's like a story.

Drew: That’s amazing. Mr. Campbell, where are you? Mr. Campbell, may I ask, like, OK, first of all, why do you do that exercise, may I ask? And what do you think it helps teach your students?

Mr. Campbell: I started my 3rd year of teaching. A parent gave me the idea, and, now I've given back like 18 years of letters. I've been, probably taught like over 600 kids at this point, but. It's really cool is that the kids will come back and they'll take the time to let me know what they're up to and with social media the way it is between LinkedIn and Facebook, you always, I can see now where the kids end up and see the kind of lives they lead.

Drew: So statistically, do, how many of them would you say end up in where they thought they would end up in 3rd grade?

Mr. Campbell: I actually don't read the letters, so I don't have any clue. n they're finished writing the letters, they tape them shut.

Drew: I mean when when you got this letter, it, it was monumental for you. It was like a sign from the universe, if you will, of a, you know, of a green light.

Dylan: Yeah, it is so wild. It's also just so cool we haven't seen each other in.

Drew: I was gonna say, hasn't it been like 20 years since you guys have seen each other?

 

Katherine Lanasa on How Filming “The Pitt” Feels Different and Working with an Ensemble Cast

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Drew: How do you balance being in an ensemble and being so gracious with everyone else in the room, how do you act amongst all these people, but then also be so outstanding and at the same time.

Katherine: I don't know about that, but, it was, it was a really great vibe, you know, from the jump. I feel like everybody just really worked really well together and everyone was really generous with each other. It's just our crew, everybody wears scrubs in case they’re seen and also the set is just one big continuous operating, I mean, emergency department, so we all just stand around and decide what we're gonna do, and then we just do it and then we kind of stand around and wait for the next shot and then we just do that shot. So it's just very connected, very alive, very like trying to figure out how to make things work with each other.

 

Katherine on “The Pitt” Season 2 & Noah Wyle’s Character Arc

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Drew: His character rides a triumph. Did they ever say our lead character the doctor’s gonna ride a motorcycle and is it because he’s so everything could take you down so screw it I’m gonna live my life.

Katherine: That’s what season two’s about. Season two that’s a big journey what is he doing going on this motorcycle trip and that’s kind of what I’m asking during this season. Dana’s asking the same thing . What’s up with you and this bike?

 

Katherine on Work Life Balance with Children and Taking Turns with Her Husband

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Drew: Can I ask you a question parent to parent mother to mother. How did you find the whole work, life balance, because it’s just something we figure out and we do but if someone was watching me, I’m watching me and it doesn’t seem like I have the capacity to do it all.

Katherine: It’s really tricky. I think it’s funny to be a woman that really has a strong drive to be a mother and also is incredibly ambitious with their work and I think I’ve always been both those things and I wanna work I don’t wanna not work. It’s a lot.

Drew: When did you tell yourself that’s who I am that’s who I need to be, it’ll make me a better person and therefore a better mother.

Katherine: I was a worker first. I was a professional ballet dancer I was dancing and in companies and traveling around the world from like 17, 18on.

Drew: So you mean we should acknowledge we had a past before our children were born.

Katherine: Some of that’s coming up right now just because there’s so much extra demanded of me because ‘The Pitt’ is so successful and it’s like giving myself space to just really take this moment for myself and I’m not around as much but thank god my husband is. He’s staying home right now.  We’re taking turns.

 

Katherine on Her First Date with Her Husband

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Drew: What was your first date like, may I ask?

Katherine: He said, ‘oh, I wanna invite you to, Saint Patrick's Day at my bar.’ He used to own a bar. So I go to the bar and my, I remember my friend said, ‘Do you have on like the right like undergarments or whatever?’ Like, do you have on like matching underwear? I was like, No, honey, like that's not for me. You know what I mean? So we end up talking all night and then we decide to go back to his house because it's around the corner from the bar and it's really loud and he's like you know, I really like you, so like, nothing's gonna happen tonight. I said I already know that nothing's gonna happen tonight like get over yourself, you know, smash cut to he didn't, like put any sheets on his bed because he didn't want anything to happen. We end up like nothing serious happened, but we end up like making out all night like on top of his bed with no sheets and it's like.

Drew: Did he ever see the, the underwear that we're not supposed to inspire?

Katherine: Well, maybe be some of it.

Drew: I love you by the way.

 

Katherine on How She Met Her Husband Grant Show

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Drew: I’m so glad you have that in a partner. And you deserve nothing less.

Katherine: Yes, Grant Show.

Drew: Your husband is Grant Show?

Katherine: Yes, you didn’t know that?

Drew: No. He’s hot.

Katherine: Yeah he’s really hot.

Drew: How did you guys meet?

Katherine: We met on ‘Big Love.’ Do you remember ‘Big Love?’…he came on to basically replace me so I fire her for being a polygamist and he sees her he walks by and says ‘Well you look about as sad as sad can be.’  And then they start a relationship and I’m off the show but we met in that hallway. I would go on and I then I come off and he would go on and he would just talk and he said he was a real hound dog but something in him told him to leave me alone and the truth is my son’s dad had just died and I wasn't interested in guys and, and so we met again six months later and we kinda, you know. It just kind of started. It just kind of started like that. In fact, we met again in Canada and I gave him my work phone number instead of my real phone number.

Drew: Why did you do that?

Katherine: I didn't do it on purpose. And so a while, and then I thought I could tell he liked me. I still wasn't ready to date, and I was like, oh, he'll find me, he likes me.

Drew: So he actually followed through.

Katherine: Well, what happened was he sent me an email and he said, I found this email in my junk email box. We used to email. In Canada they would give you a work phone because it was so expensive to use your own phone at that time, like 10, even 15 years ago, you couldn't use your own phone. There was no plans for this. And so we would email like we're going bowling tonight and we would pick up our emails at the hotel. And so he found some email about bowling and he goes, ‘My email doesn't like you.’ I found this in your junk, my junk email box. So I sent him a text and I said, ‘Well, how does your text feel about me?’ And he's like, ‘Who is this?’ I said, ‘It's Katherine.’ He said, ‘New number.’ So he had been texting me and he thought I was playing hard to get. So it worked out well.