Alan Ruck and Mireille Enos share what they learned from the SAG-AFTRA strike, bittersweet feelings about the impending end of the award season, what earned them their SAG card and more at the SAG Awards.
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00:00 Does today's ceremony have a renewed sense of energy, do you feel like, given last year's SAG After Strike as compared to last year's SAG Awards?
00:07 We actually weren't at last year's awards, we were here two years ago, so I can't compare it to last year because I don't know.
00:14 But I think everybody's thrilled to be here. Our union did its job and everything worked out. It was hard, but it worked out well.
00:23 For both of you, what would you say is the biggest lesson that you learned from the SAG After Strike and how has it impacted you?
00:29 Just stand up for what you believe in. If something's wrong, you need to say something about it. That's all.
00:38 People will always be willing to take more, so once there's that line, you just have to hold firm.
00:47 It's been such an amazing awards season for a succession, but here we are at the end of the season.
00:52 Does it feel sort of bittersweet in a way, getting together with the cast, what could be the last time in a while?
00:58 Absolutely. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody and at least we get to do it again, one last time. We're lucky.
01:06 Since we are at the SAG Awards, what role got you your SAG card?
01:10 I did one scene in Sex and the City in which I was asked how my breakfast was and I got to say, "It's very good."
01:21 And that got me my SAG card.
01:23 Nice. I think it was a movie with Sean Penn called Bad Boys and I got shot. I got shot and killed in that movie.
01:33 Do you remember the first time somebody asked you what your job was and you replied that you're an actor?
01:38 Like the first time you really claimed ownership of, "Oh, this is my job to be an actor."
01:43 I don't remember. It's been a long time.
01:45 Yeah, it's been a long time.
01:48 For both of you, what's something you'd love to do, a role you'd love to take on that you haven't gotten to do yet?
01:53 I mean, on stage I've gotten to do big period dramas, but I'd love to make a big old period movie.
02:02 Costumes and language and yeah, that would be wonderful.
02:07 I'd like to do something like Motel Hell.
02:10 He's always wanting to do Slasher or Scary Movie.
02:13 Yeah, I want to be either the guy that gets eaten or the one who does the eating.
02:18 And if you could play a historical figure or any real person in a movie, is there one person you can think of that you'd love to play?
02:26 I don't know.
02:27 No. Franklin Roosevelt.
02:30 I don't know.
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