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Hollywood is Dead
Hollywood is Dead
3 // An Actor's Passion and Pursuit
Ever sat around a campfire amazed by tales of dreams pursued and challenges conquered? That’s the journey we embark on this episode. Picture a young kid putting on Christmas plays with his brother, eyes sparkling with passion, morphing into an actor stepping onto the stage for the first time for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. From then on, it's all about chasing the dream, traversing the road to LA with merely a suitcase of dreams and a head full of dedication.
Unearth the magic hidden in scripts, the allure of roles, and the adrenaline rush of performing. Hear about the time I had the audience in stitches during the musical Spamalot, and how comedy in theater continues to be my favorite. There’s more than just reminiscing though - we delve into the nitty-gritty of acting and filmmaking, the highs, the lows, and the in-betweens. Get ready to hear about a recent film project that makes my heart swell with pride and my aspirations for the future.
Dive headfirst into the world of acting and filmmaking with us. Step into my shoes and walk down the memory lane, from my humble beginnings to the city of stars. Glimpse into the future, where new merch, projects, and more await. Don't forget to connect with me on Instagram and check out the Hollywood is Dead YouTube page for a video of this episode. Let's roll!
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Tyler:Almost the end of the week and I mean you've probably been through the ringer, you've probably been through it. Like, how did we get here? How was another week gone? How was that possible? It's pretty wild. I have closing weekend of the Rocky Horror show and it's been an incredible ride. It's been incredible. This year has been amazing. So we did four weeks of the show and the last three. So week one didn't sell out, but I mean we filled up the auditorium and the last three weekends, including this weekend, are like almost past capacity. I mean that's exciting. As a performer, that's my jam. I like Mielike to perform me to a full house and I get to do that again tonight. It's going to be awesome. Um, yeah, this episode is going to be kind of interesting and I'm going to do this on, you know, not a regular basis, but until I get this podcast really up and rolling. This is kind of to keep me on a schedule, to keep me going and keep me doing this thing, keep me loose, and that's what I'm going to be doing today is I asked my really good friend, chat GPT, to ask me some questions.
Tyler:You know that it was curious. It was just like what are you, why are you how? And so I'm going to answer some of those questions. Um, I'm excited about that. It's kind of cool that we have this kind of technology available to us. It's such a great brainstorming tool, chat GPT, you know. You know, I think it certainly serves a purpose and it's going to have a huge impact on our ability to make fun stuff. And, um, if you can hear that that is a jet flying over my house, um, they've been training and yesterday we had like 10. Like F-35s, like Super Hornets and stuff flying over my house Because we're right on the descent into the airport and uh, yeah, so that was kind of cool. Um, so it might get a little loud here in a second Um, but I think, uh, chat GPT is a really great opportunity for filmmakers to to build a brainstorm ideas.
Tyler:You know it's difficult to find people to to brainstorm with and schedules. You know, like, just it's difficult to find people available. It's difficult to find people to kind of mesh with your ideas, and this thing just allows you to ask whatever questions and just be able to figure it out and get through the hard part of kind of. You know it can really help you break through some, some blocks as well. So I think it's a really cool tool and I'm gonna use it in this podcast. So, boom, that's what we're doing.
Tyler:Um, yeah, thank you guys for listening. By the way, uh, it's been really great to hear some feedback and if you do have feedback, please, I mean I'm, I'm just literally, uh, you know, hit me up on on Instagram. Um, official Hollywood is dead and you can DM me. Uh, instagram is a great spot and Ty Lachemi is my other Instagram. That's more of my personal one. But, yeah, I mean, hit me up. I wanna hear from you guys. Uh, a decent handful size of you guys listening to to these episodes and I just really appreciate it. It's, it's nice, it's really nice, and I am recording this episode, uh, on video. So Check out the the old YouTube page, which is Hollywood is Dead podcast, and this video will be up on there. So, alright, let's jump in, let's see. Let's see what chatGPT has for me.
Tyler:Um, and I, I didn't vet any of these questions. I punched in little Q and it popped out 30 questions for me and I read a couple of them, but I don't remember what they are. So here we go. Alright, question number one your background and how you first became interested in acting and film production. Um, um, when I Was A young child, I I used to Put on, I would direct plays With my brother and we would, we would do a play For my parents For Christmas, and so we would have, you know, we would just put together something and no script or anything like that.
Tyler:It was just kind of On the fly, right, and we would be like come back in 30 minutes and we'll have the set built and we'll have and it's basically a blanket fort and you know something that the stage is, the bed is the stage, and we would have chairs for my parents and they would sit and watch us put on this little play, um. And so I don't know if I was interested in acting at that point as like a profession or anything or like a pursuit. It was kind of just fun. And you know, I think I was always kind of enamored with television and movies and stuff like that. But I would do the same thing.
Tyler:I remember my grandparents lived in Daly City in San Francisco, in the Bay Area, and on Thanksgiving this is this must be like 95., so I was probably about 11, and Ace Ventura I'd come out in like 94, and so I was going through this whole ace Ventura phase where I would just be like, oh righty, then do you know Zidolfan and I would Just kind of be in this thing. But I was, I played a butler that was doing an impression of Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura. So I yeah, that was, it was entertaining, I'm sure. I'm sure it was very entertaining, but I was definitely seeking some attention there. So you know, it's like that was kind of the I was it. Still, I was just having fun, I wasn't. I wasn't like, oh, I'm gonna grow up to be an actor, I was just having fun, I just wanted to. That's, that's just what I was doing and so All through high school, my, my high school didn't have a drama department, didn't have anything like that.
Tyler:So All through high school I was just kind of goofing around like that with my buddies. We would film, you know, our own take on the Matrix. We did like Matrix bullet time and I wish to God that I could find the VHS. I had to edit real-to-real, you know, like VHS player, vhs player and time it and Edit that way it was. It was very tedious and it was. It was super fun, but we did.
Tyler:I remember one time I had to do a book report and I was really bad at Focusing on writing. Still, I'm not great. If I have a hard deadline I can get stuff done really fast and it's really good. But at this time I asked my teacher if I could do a video report instead and this was of grapes of wrath and so I took, I took rage against the machine song Maggie's Farm and I Made that into a grapes of wrath book report when each of my buddies and I played characters from the book and we did a report on each character. So that was cool. So I mean, you know again, not not ever like, oh yeah, I'm gonna move to LA after high school.
Tyler:It wasn't until I was 17 years old that I got a role in In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and I got to play Prince Robert. That I was like, oh, this is interesting, like actually being on a stage in front of people, it freaked me out and Singing I'd never sang before in front of anybody by myself. You know, I think I was in a choir and and then I grew up going to church and stuff so I'd sing in church and Snow White was kind of that first one. And then right after that I got cast as Conrad birdie and bye-bye birdie and at that moment I was like huh, I Kind of really like this. And at that during bye-bye birdie, I was, I was eight, 18 and but I didn't move to LA. I didn't make up my mind like I'm gonna do this until I was 21, where I moved to LA.
Tyler:Two weeks after I spent a single day in LA when I was. I went down to just kind of check it out. They had this like it's like a talent scout sort of, but they would basically link you with acting coaches and get your headshots done. So I flew down in the morning, got my headshots done, went to these different acting classes and flew back that same night. And During that flight, or when I got, I'm sorry, when I got picked up at the airport by my mom, she was like so how was it? I was like it was, it was really, it was really something. And she was like you should go for it, you should move. And so two weeks after she picked me up from the airport, I moved to LA.
Tyler:I Barely knew. I knew one guy that I'd met up here in Northern California and they filmed this kind of horror film on my family's ranch that we had at the time and and Barely knew him. So I hit him up on text message and Was like hey, man, I'm moving down south, can I crash on your couch? And or what? Do you know any place that I could stay? And he was like sure, man, you can come down, stay with us. So Went down there and and crashed on his couch. I Was freaked out. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I didn't know. I Didn't know at all how to pursue acting. I didn't know how to do any of this stuff and it was a. It was really interesting because I'd never lived outside of my hometown by myself. You know much less and so I crashed on this dude's couch, got into an acting class with Bernard Hiller Really great, fantastic. You know, time Got to meet some people Christian and Alicia and they found out that I was paying like $800 a month to crash on this dude's couch.
Tyler:That was two feet too short for me I'm six two, and this couch was probably four feet long and it it was a bed, it like folded out into a bed, but it was like sleeping. You know those things that you put tortillas in when you're building a taco. You know like those hard, like they kind of do like a wave, so you can put the tortilla in and it keeps it and you Put your meat and cheese and lettuce and and guacamole and hot sauce on it. The bed basically looked like that when it was laid out flat, and so I just kept it as a couch and I just put my feet up on the armrest on one side, my head on the other armrest on the other side, and that's how I slept for like three or four months. And so Christian and Alicia, brother and sister, were like dude, we live in Santa Monica, you could come down, crash on our couch, our our futon we have a futon in the living room, as long as you don't mind. You know we're up kind of early and we're we go to bed late and I was like whatever. So I crashed on their futon and I was, I was DOF. I was DOF dude on futon for like eight months and then they they very politely told me that I needed to to move out Because I had two jobs at the time making really good money, and I could, I could afford my own apartment. And so after eight months of DOF I Do it on futon I moved out into my own apartment with a buddy of mine and that's when. So that that's kind of the catalyst for the acting side right.
Tyler:The film production side came a few years after I'd moved down and I'd gone to Not as many auditions as I hope, as I would have hoped, and a lot of that was fear-based. A lot of it was I was making pretty decent money and I think this happens to a lot of people when they move to LA. You move to be an actor and you know a good handful of people get, you know, degrees from universities that they they've paid a lot of money into. I never went to college or anything like that for acting and I didn't have any student debt or anything like that. So I think a lot of what happens with a lot of people is they'll move to LA and then life takes over. You know, when can I pursue art? When I have to pay my Really expensive rent? I I need to pay my really expensive bar tab, and how am I going? How am I supposed to Go in the middle of a day drive Four miles takes an hour and a half to drive four miles to go to this audition where I walk into the room and Lo and behold, there's 25 other guys in there, sick, they're all six to.
Tyler:They all have better bodies than me, they, they, we all have dark hair, blue eyes and We've all got the same lines and we've all the got the same insecurities. And then we will walk into the same room and we all get the blank, the same blank stare from the casting director and we all have to put on this thing. That just feels very uncomfortable, feels very not natural. It just felt Not fun and I didn't like auditioning and it was mostly born from Some insecurities about myself that I didn't like auditioning. Now, dude, once the sag thing gets over, I feel I'm gonna crush auditioning. I'm yeah, I'm gonna crush auditioning. I'm just a different person, even in the last year and a half and we'll get into that later the so I didn't want to audition. I didn't want to go to a casting director's office and audition.
Tyler:So I decided I luck would have it that at that time that the opportunity came that I met my current business partner, michael Ryan, and we've been friends now for 15 years and working together for 15 years and just being very picky about what we do and and learning as we go and and and uh. When I met up with him which is a whole fun story which I'm going to have to have him on and we can talk about that That'll be like a whole episode of the first day I ever met Michael. So I decided you know, if I produce my own projects, I don't have to go and audition, I can just put myself in. And so I did that. But then producing was really stressful and very time consuming and I didn't know what I was doing. You know, I didn't go to school for any of this stuff and it just felt kind of overwhelming. So I kind of focused on the producing side, when a project would come along, and then I stopped putting myself in stuff. I would do stage, I would do theater which I still do to this day and the video film side kind of got kind of pushed to the side a little bit, which is sad, and I mean, that's how the producing side came along, and over the years we've just been able to get a handful of projects done, and the one that we're working on, the one that we are currently in post-production on right now, is by far our largest and the most exciting.
Tyler:So which I think Chad GPT asks me about in a few questions here. So, okay, so that's how I got into acting. That's how I first became interested in acting and film production. Okay. So question number two I'm going to mark this so that we can put little chapters in the show notes. Question two what inspired you to pursue a career in both acting and film production? Okay, we already talked about that. That's the necessity of acting got me into film production, and my love of entertaining my family is what got me into the acting, and then my mom's encouragement to move, which is really really fucking awesome, if you ask me, I just had so much support in my life, especially from her. It's just been really incredible. So thank you, mom, all right. Question number three as an actor, what type of roles or genres do you find most fulfilling to work on? Now, this is sad because I haven't worked in a whole ton of different genres. Oh, because I mean I'm also thinking like, oh, this is just for film, right? No.
Tyler:So, as an actor, what type of roles or genres do you find most fulfilling to work on In film? Definitely the action side, I think, is really rad. I kind of did a drama, kind of suspense drama, as my first feature film way back in the day, which was super fun because you know, everything is very intimate with the camera, it's just right there and that was a really cool experience. But I like action. I like that. Yeah, it's super, super fun. I'm still, you know, my CV for film acting is not where I want it, if I'm being completely honest. So I want, I just I want to do more. So I'm really excited to get this sag after a strike settled and so that we can, we can get back to work, because I just have a lot of goals. I feel a fire inside of me and it's burning real bright. Now for theater.
Tyler:I'm a funny guy and that's not, I'm not trying to, it's, you know, there in life I think that there there's a necessity for a healthy, healthy amount of ego. I don't have this ego where I think I'm better than anybody, but I do have just enough self-awareness to know that I'm, I'm, I'm funny, I have, I have timing, I have. You know it's, it's my favorite thing to make people laugh, and so I am just very I am, I am proud. I'm not prideful, but I'm proud that I, I have this ability as an actor to be funny on stage and that is by far my favorite genre comedy, theater comedy, musical comedies, super fun.
Tyler:I was brave Sir Robin in Spamalot and I had the time of my life for real, um, even though on closing night I forgot my lines during my solo song and during a segment, and there's a, there's a break, like right after I forgot my my lines, there's a break and I walk back to this little play piano and there's a piano like a run, you know, like that is pre-recorded. I don't have to do anything, I just have to mimic that I'm doing this right. So I sit down at the piano and I take my gloves off in a real dramatic fashion and I sit down and I fill my hands up like a real concert pianist and I say let me see if I can remember, remember this part, and the whole audience lost their shit because it was so tense and so awkward, because it was really obvious that I'd forgotten. Yeah, and on closing night, like I know my lines, just for whatever reason. Um, something, something just threw me off and, uh, I had PTSD from that moment for about a year and a half.
Tyler:It was it was frightening. If you've ever been up on stage in front of a few hundred people and uh experienced that, you know exactly what I'm talking about, because it is not fun. It was, it was brutal, um, but uh, yeah, musical comedies love, love, love, love, love. Um, acting in a video film, action drama comedy, for sure, okay, we are moving right along. Thing number four as a film producer, what do you look for in a script or project that makes you want to get involved? Um, hmm, this, this is not in like. I'm trying to think here. It's not like in a particular order, but I think the first thing, if cause we get so many emails? Because so many emails? Read my script, read my script. Uh, you know, award winning, uh, short film director. I wrote this uh and read my script.
Tyler:It's a feature film could get made for, you know, uh, three, four million dollars. The number one thing that I look for is is there financing attached? Do you have actors attached? That's, that's literally it. You know cause, then the other determining factor is is the script good? Um, I don't necessarily care if it's a drama or comedy or action or sci-fi. Um, you know, that's not necessarily important to me. It needs to be good, it needs to be compelling. Uh, and that is subjective. So, to me, a good script takes me on a journey. It's unpredictable.
Tyler:Um, I read, I read a script, uh, recently. That is, uh, it's a horror comedy and it's one of the most grotesque, hilarious scripts I've ever read. And, uh, I, when I read a script like that and there's, there's a handful that I'm thinking of literally right now um, that, when I read them, what I'm looking for is that is that reaction where I'm like I want to see this movie. That is, that is the number one thing when I read the script and I say to myself my God, I want to see this film. Um, because I can tell, like, if it's, if it's executed right, then boom, bob's your uncle. Like it's just, it's going to be awesome to me. So you know, that's, that's really the, the, the big determining factor from for myself, uh, and, but beyond that, it's like you know, do you have money attached? Because that's the hardest part, right, that's what we're all. That's the thing that's preventing every single one of us from doing the project that we want to do.
Tyler:So, yeah, it's the hardest part by far. Doing the film is structural. You know, if you have a strong foundation then chances are you're gonna, you're gonna get through and make them make the movie, no matter what. But you can't even get started without money. So, yeah, that's, that's where that's at. So do I want to watch this movie? That's what I look for in a script. All right, here we go.
Tyler:Question number five Can you share recent success or achievement in your acting career that you're particularly proud of? Yeah, two, two, two things. Number two is I get to check off a little bucket list item of acting on a stage that I grew up going to called the Cascade Theater and they would do these Christmas shows every year and my family and I would go watch them. My wife and I now go and watch them and they're just good, wholesome, good family time, you know. And the theater is this Art Deco 1930s Art Deco beautifully restored theater that reopened in 2003. And I've had a lot of friends on that stage and I've I'd never got the opportunity. I was supposed to be in the wedding singer where I was going to be playing Guglia. Is it Brad Guglia or something like that the douchebag fiance, boyfriend guy. It was a musical and it got shut down because of COVID. So right before everything shut down they had to cancel the show, so I missed out on being able to be in that show. So then this year I was asked to come and audition for role of Jack Frost, which I get to play, like this game show host, which is really cool and it's, you know, the play is written by a friend of mine and directed by a friend of mine, so I've made so many new friends now because of this play and it's just, it's a big deal for me to be able to be on that stage. So super cool.
Tyler:Number one on the on, a recent success or achievement in my acting career is I got to share screen with and this kind of coincides with success or achievement in film producing as well because I'm acting in a movie that I am producing called the Dresden Son, and I get to share a screen with Christina Ricci. I get to share a screen with Linus Roach. I get to share the screen with Steven Og and I get to share the screen with Samantha Wynn, and that's something that that if you would have told me 10, 15 years ago that I'd be able to say is a huge surprise to me, so proud of that. That took a lot of that took that took a lot of my life to get to this point. So it's, that's a huge accomplishment. It's something that I, you know, this last year and a half has been really difficult mentally, and so it's something that I don't normally think of as being, like this really cool thing that I did, and so being able to actually think of it that way is kind of nice for a change. So, you know, I'm very, very happy with that and I can't wait to see this movie. That's that's, again, that's the thing that gets me excited about it. It's such a cool film I'm telling you it's. It's Dresden Son is going to be really cool, um, okay, so moving right along again, um, so, yeah, that was going to be question number six.
Tyler:Can you highlight a recent film project you've produced that you're excited about? Yeah, the Dresden Son. It's our second feature film and we were able to get Christina Ricci in it, mina Suvari, linus Roach and if, if you've listened to the previous iteration of this podcast, you'll kind of know that, uh, I have a tremendous amount of respect for a production company called Spectravision and um, they made a movie that, uh, I think is, or they produced a movie that I think is a, a massive, um accomplishment called Mandy with Nicholas Cage. If you haven't seen it, go now. This is the great, a great time to watch it. It's just the perfect mood and um, nicholas Cage is really astounding in this movie.
Tyler:Uh, pano's Cosmados is the director and writer and uh, he really created something that I think is going to live forever in the annals of film, uh, the library. And so Linus Roach plays the, the antagonist in the movie, a, uh, charles Manson type cult leader, um, who was a failed musician, and uh. And so I mean we, we got these guys in the movie and they did amazing, they did unbelievable work. You know, such a blessing to be able to, to get these guys in this film. It's really something else. So, uh, yeah, I'm very, very, very, very, very excited about that movie. All right.
Tyler:Question number seven what are your primary career goals and aspirations in both fields? Hmm, my primary career goals and aspirations in acting Uh, by the way, in my primary career goals, явhip lik, are to do more, so audition more, seek out opportunities more and set myself up for the future where I don't have regrets about not trying hard enough, something that I'm really actively trying to work through, which is, you know, I don't feel that I'm doing enough and, yeah, it's just that's my thing. I just want to do more, do more acting, put myself out there, be more vulnerable and have a body of work that I'm proud of. But not I don't want to judge, you know, obviously it's like if I don't like the project, whatever and I'm still doing it, then it's like, well, why am I doing it? But at the same time I don't want to judge something. You know, if I was in a Hallmark movie, I'm not gonna. My wife would love that. Are you kidding me? She would love to see me in a Hallmark movie and so I'm not gonna judge that, I'm gonna do it. But I mean, man, I would love to be love to have the opportunity to be in something like Mandy, or be in something that really pushes the boundaries. You know, that adds to the artistic integrity of film. That's, that would be like my all time aspiration is just to add to film history. That's, yeah, that would kind of be my big thing. Right On the production side, man, I don't know.
Tyler:I film producing is a very particular skill set and unless you have a really good team it's really really hard and stressful. And this last project really took me through the ringer, not during production, I handled production fine, it was after the production. You know that posts set blues sort of thing, and that was really hard. And thank God that I don't know it just learned so many lessons, you know, number one lesson is if you, if you quit, then it's over. Obviously, If you don't quit, then there's, there's no way you're not gonna not going to complete the project, and so that was a really crazy thing, and you know it's.
Tyler:It's acting, and film producing is the equivalent of being an employee or being an employer, and so being an employer, you take your work home with you every single day, and that can be, that can be really hard. I'm not totally against it. It's just you know when, when you're just acting, you can do your, your, your day or your week or your month, and go home and then in six months to two years, your movies out or your project, whatever it is, and you get to enjoy the spoils of that. And I mean, to me that's way more appealing. But I have, you know, archetype pictures has some really fun projects that we, that we would like to get made, and no one else is going to make them for us, and so of course I'm going to produce those with Michael, and so, out of necessity, that's, that's, that's where the, the producing side goes. So you know, my aspirations are to to. You know, if something really speaks to me, then of course and I would love to produce something that changes or it adds to film history as well. So you know, I want to do more acting, I don't care what it is, and I would like to produce a handful of films, films that I'm really excited about, because usually when I when it's when I read a script and it's I want to see this movie, then that's what's going to drive me to make, to get that producer hat back on and put the pieces together. So yeah, I don't know if that answered the question, but it is what it is, all right.
Tyler:Question eight how do you balance your roles as an actor and film producer effectively? Have good people around you? It's not like I was a line producer or a production manager or anything like that, like most of my producing work was done before we went to film and of course there's every single day. There was something else for the others, you know whatever was going on on set, but I would just be producing in my character's makeup and wardrobe, so and hair, so it didn't change anything. I balanced it just the way I thought anybody would actually. Yeah, okay, moving right along. Question number nine who are some of your favorite actors or filmmakers that have influenced your work, jim Carrey, chris Farley. Those are two that I would say, not even just my work, but just my personality. It's interesting, see I the types of film, the type of actor that I would like to be, and obviously there's only one, and everybody would say something like this.
Tyler:But you know, Daniel Day Lewis was really the last of the Mojiggans, the feeling that I got when watching that movie and watching him perform. He was just so cool, you know, and I mean I don't know if that influences my work, I don't know, I don't know. I'm going to have to come back to that. I don't have. I mean, I have favorite actors. Well, you know, it's like people that maybe, yeah, like I would kind of aspire to be like professionally, and this is not personally and this is definitely not personally. I don't want to be like these people in real life but professionally.
Tyler:You know, I was a huge, huge Braveheart fan and I just loved Mel Gibson in Braveheart. I loved everything about it. The whole film was gorgeous. I loved Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, like that sort of oh man Western like that. You know those, just those landscapes, it was just gorgeous, really, really, really, really fantastic all the way around. I mean, those films just make you feel good about being, you know, pursuing, acting or anything like that, like the possibilities that you can make something like that and act in it.
Tyler:That's one of the things that really kind of got me excited. Someone who's influenced me kind of with this idea of kind of hope and that it's not too late. You know I'm 39, is George Clooney. You know, kind of is that epitome of don't quit because you might make it a little bit later on. Or you know, there's a handful of actors out there that got started really kind of late on. I think even Morgan Freeman didn't. He start fairly late in his life being a really successful film actor. You know, I don't know if that influences my work, but at least it tells me not to quit, not to give up. The amount of times that I've thought of just quitting and getting my heavy equipment operators license so that I can run a tractor all day long, it's a lot. I've thought about it a lot. Not so much right now. I'm really excited about where. I'm at right now.
Tyler:But yeah, you know, I don't think I have a style, I don't know that I've, I don't know that I have a body of work, that is, I don't know that I have a body of work enough right yet, especially in film, that I could say that there's a direct where you can see it. If I'm like, yeah, jim Carrey, oh God, yeah, no, he's. You can definitely tell he was influenced by Jim Carrey.
Tyler:No you can't like there's I don't, I don't have, I don't have that. Yet you know, those types of things I want to work for. These are having a body of work that I would be so proud of and that I've been able to really develop my own voice and style. I think that's that'd be really cool. Okay, didn't answer that question. Moving right along, In what ways do your experiences as an actor inform your decisions as a film producer?
Tyler:And vice versa? Again, I don't, I don't, I don't have that kind of body of work. In what ways do your experiences as an actor inform your decisions as a film producer? I mean, I'm not going to produce a film that I wouldn't want to act in, put it that way. So, but I will act in a film that I wouldn't produce. How about that? So they're not directly correlated. But if I'm producing a film, you better believe I'm going to put myself in it one way or another. So done that in both, both movies that I've produced.
Tyler:Question 11. Can you share a memorable behind the scenes moment from a film production you've been involved in? Holy sh. Yeah, oh, here's a fun one. Here's a fun one. This is, this is this is kind of funny. Actually, During our first film called interpreters little horror sci-fi we were filming outside of a grocery store in Bella Vista, California, which is way up north.
Tyler:We're three and a half hours north of San Francisco, so two and a half hours north of Sacramento, way up here. So we were filming at this little gas station supermarket it's called Mighty Fine Foods, Mighty Fine, Super small town stuff. And so we're filming. We have a my Ford F-150 has decals on the side of it and makes it look like a sheriff's truck. It's got. It's got the the red and blues on the top, a light bar for police car, and we have it wired up and it's, you know, it's got lights and everything, so it can light up, it can do all that stuff, and we would cover it when driving around town, because you're not allowed to display police lights like that unless you're actually a police vehicle. So, and then we had our actor who looked like a sheriff, had the gun belt on all this stuff.
Tyler:You can kind of see where this is going, Maybe a little run in with the real law. And so it's about two in the morning and all of a sudden this team, a SWAT team, a literal SWAT team, comes in and they didn't come straight over to us, Like we were just there and it seems like they were definitely staging. You know they were staging for something. They were getting ready. We have a lot of drugs up here. We have a lot of. You know, at the time weed was not legal. We had a lot of grows up here. We have a lot of meth, we have a lot of heroin. Now we have a lot of fentanyl.
Tyler:It's just you know, sad, but at that time, yeah. So who knows what these guys are prepping for, right? But I mean they're literally over there in their little corner of this parking lot and there's got to be 30 vehicles. You know they had the, they had these, yeah, vans and all sorts of stuff. And so I mean these guys are prepping for war and so, and we're just over there filming and one of the patrol vehicles comes over to us and they're like the hell, you guys doing, we're like we're filming, and they're like is he a real cop? No, he's an actor. Is that a real gun? No, it's a blank. It only shoots blanks and it's not loaded.
Tyler:And the cop just kind of looked at us like we were really bizarre and it was. We didn't. We had filming, we had permits, and you know he looked at those and he was like all right, you guys have fun. And he just you could tell they were not impressed. We were cosplaying them and it was. It was. It was a little bit embarrassing but also a little bit terrifying, because we're like what the fuck is going on? Like where are these guys? Over here right now.
Tyler:And then they eventually went off and did their sting or bust or whatever it was. So, yeah, that was. That was kind of interesting, gosh, what else I mean? There's stories of not having bathrooms. There's stories of getting accosted by teenagers with real guns on an abandoned on an abandoned mountaintop like mansion foundation, where these kids would come up and drink and do drugs and shoot guns. And we were filming a music video. We packed up and left immediately because we're like we're not, this is no. There's stories about oh man, there's so many stories. Yeah, there's some good ones, there's some really good ones. Nothing like to try. There's nothing tragic or illegal or anything like that. But, oh God, if you're in this industry long enough, you'll. You end up getting some pretty, you get some doozies, you know.
Tyler:Yeah, at a table read I got to sit next to Chris Farley's brother, kevin Kevin Farley for a table read for a TV show that we were kind of in talks to produce, and then we ended up seeing him after we got done filming a different music video. We ended up seeing Kevin at a bar on sunset. It was like a rap party for this music video, and so we went over, michael and I went over and said what's up, kevin? He's like hey guys, what's up, how you doing? You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What are you guys up to? And then I look over and he's sitting with David Spade. I'm like I didn't see you there, david. You know how you doing. Oh, good man, what? Yeah it was. It was crazy. It was literally. It was like the ghost of Tommy Boy was right there. It's this as close as I'll ever get to meeting two of my idols together, kevin Farley and David Spade Farley and Spade together at a bar just having a drink chilling. So that was. That was really amazing. All right, we're running out of time here, folks. This is actually really fun.
Tyler:I didn't think I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know if this was going to be a drudge to get through, but this has actually been a lot of fun one, and I want to do more. So I'm going to wrap up this episode and maybe what I'll do is I'm going to record the rest of this stuff and this will just kind of be a continuation for the next episode. This is great. I like this.
Tyler:If you have any questions for me, please feel free to ask Again. Hit me up on on Instagram. That's probably the best spot to connect with me. Also, you know all the episodes are uploaded there and like a little post with a link whatever. There's a link tree in the Instagram bio, so check that out. Working on some merch Hollywood is dead merch and that's going to go to help support this channel and really excited about that. And, yeah, I'll keep you guys filled in on all my fun little things that I'm doing right now Super stoked. It's been a great, great year. It's been a really fun year and I'm just looking forward to to more. So, all right, guys, get out there, make some art and I will catch you on the flip side.
