Chris Perfetti tells THR on the Emmys red carpet what it was like to return to the set of 'Abbott Elementary' following the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
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00:00 What has it been like being back on set of Abbott Elementary since the strike ended and getting back to work?
00:05 I don't think I was really prepared for the relief that the floodgates opened and the strikes I feel like only delayed that
00:13 and sort of compounded how excited we all were to get back and obviously it felt like we had achieved something really great
00:20 and so it was a bit of a bigger celebration that I was prepared for and you know we're in our third season now
00:26 and I feel like these people are my family and I love my job so much and so it was an incredible feeling.
00:33 I'm very happy to be back.
00:35 What can we expect from your character in season 3? What can you tease?
00:39 Is Quinta anywhere around? No I don't really have anything too dramatic to tease about Jacob.
00:48 I'm so excited about where this season is going. I feel like from the jump Quinta has really turned the show on its head
00:55 and she's really going to introduce something that I think is going to keep people guessing
00:59 and there's a lot of amazing characters who you will meet in the very early episodes of this season
01:06 and I think it's going to be fun to sort of explore Jacob getting what he wants.
01:11 I don't think we would have a show if we made these characters the 180 opposite of what they are
01:20 but I think we're going to kind of, you know who they are and hopefully you have some relationship to that
01:26 and so now we're going to sort of like challenge that and see how much we can get away with.
01:30 So Jacob's going to win a little bit more this year.
01:33 We're excited to see it and maybe a win tonight. How would that feel?
01:37 I would love that.
01:39 Do you know if you won an Emmy tonight where you would put it?
01:43 Well my SAG award is currently being used as a doorstop and I have another door in my house so
01:51 No, that one's shiny. I feel like that one's got to go high up somewhere where it won't get dusty.
01:57 I don't know. Haven't thought about it.
02:00 There are always so many amazing guest stars on Abbott.
02:03 What's another nominated show tonight that you would love to guest star on if you could?
02:08 Oh man, I have to say it's been such an unbelievable joy to watch all of my New York Theatre brethren
02:18 passing through Only Murders in the Building.
02:21 I'm like who are they going to put in it next? It's so great.
02:25 I mean there's such a wealth of great actors in New York City and that are right for that show
02:32 and so that would be kind of like, that would be unbelievable.
02:40 That would be sort of too good to be true but I love that show and I love everybody who's on it.
02:45 And the Emmys are celebrating 75 years of TV history tonight.
02:49 For you when you were growing up, what's a show that made you love television?
02:53 You know, it was really like only in my adolescence that I started to watch,
03:01 and I guess all of us started to watch series in the way that we do,
03:04 but you know I grew up on all of the sitcoms that we all grew up on
03:08 but I watched a lot of stand-up comedy.
03:10 I was like if the TV was on that's what I was watching.
03:13 I was trying to, it wasn't conscious but I was just really drawn to that,
03:18 to their timing and to their vulnerability and so I watched a lot of stand-up as a kid.
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