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For my fellow actors,

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as you become an onscreen family,

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sometimes if we're lucky,

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you become a behind the
scenes family as well.

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Is that happening with y'all?

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- No.

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[group laughs]

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- They don't get along. It's really...

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- [Ian] We actually hate each other.

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- There was weird tension
amongst all of you,

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that's why I asked.

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- I mean, you know, just to
state the obvious, you know,

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this past year has been
really challenging,

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I think is the word people are using now.

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And it was challenging for us.

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You know, we were one
of the first productions

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to start up once the pandemic started.

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And so there was anxiety,
believe it or not,

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because we didn't know
how it was going to work,

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and if it was going to work.

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But what we did know,
and what we relied on,

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and what we used to get
through it, was each other.

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And, you know, we were a
close cast before this,

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but I think given the
circumstances in the last year

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and working through it,

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we're even closer today than we were then.

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And I know that, you know,

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the three of us were alone up there.

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We were the three, three
of the main characters

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who are actors who were living
alone and then going to work.

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And so it was really important
for us to help each other

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and support each other through that,

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because being isolated for that long

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can be really difficult.

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So all of that to say that, yes,

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it's been a gift to be able to
go to work with these people,

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and to do this work, and say these words

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with people I genuinely love.

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And I, and who I know love me back.

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- I can super relate to that.

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I know how great that feels.
[crowd applauds]

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Blu or Ian, did you have anything to add?

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- I think Wilson's an amazing mentor

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and I really am so grateful

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that we've been able to grow closer

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over this past season.

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Yeah. There were some times
when I reached out to him

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for support and help and
he's been there for me

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through a lot of tough times.

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And with Blu, like we have this friendship

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that I really cherish

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and I think it's a friendship for life,

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and we just, we get
each other, we connect.

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The very first time I met Blu, we were...

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[giggles] Yes!

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We were wearing, I swear,
the same, exact outfit,

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like to a T. [audience laughs]

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We were both wearing one
dangly earring, one stud,

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black hoodie, black pants, black boots,

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and I was like...
- [Wil Wheaton] A uniform!

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- We're going to be friends.

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- [Wil Wheaton] A uniform, yeah.

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- We're gonna be friends.

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Like a uniform, yeah. [crowd laughs]

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- That's amazing.

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- They're...Ian is, I've said many times

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and I'm going to keep saying
it as long as I'm working here,

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but I wouldn't have been able
to do this without Ian at all.

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And these two, you and Anthony,

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I have on speed dial as like
for real parents that I call

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for parent related things.

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And I'm sorry if that's annoying, [laughs]

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but I do it anyway.
- Well,

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you're not competing with our actual kids,

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because we don't have them. So we're good.

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[crowd laughs]

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Nobody's jealous. Everybody
gets what they need.