Actors Ted Danson and Stephanie Beatriz star in the new Netflix comedy, "Man on the Inside," which is based on the Oscar-nominated documentary " The Mole Agent." The series follows Danson playing a retired man who gets a new lease on life when he becomes a mole trying to solve a mysterious theft in the Pacific View Retirement Residence in San Francisco.
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00:00I do remember this. I remember the first time I did a scene with you. Stephanie.
00:12It was, or at least this is, we had little run-ins, but the scene when my character is
00:21thinking, oh dear God, I'm falling apart, and it was kind of an emotional scene that
00:28you couldn't be really truly emotional, it was like many layers. And I thought, how am
00:33I going to play this? And then I went, oh, look at Stephanie. And you, you're one of
00:39those actors that make everyone around you better. And if I just stopped thinking about
00:44myself and looked at you and reacted to what you were giving me, it was astounding. I thought
00:49the scene was really good, but you're an amazing actress.
00:52That's very kind of you.
00:53True, though.
00:54I remember walking into the table read, and you were so friendly and kind to everybody,
00:59and you were dressed really, you had your little tie on and stuff, and I was like, oh,
01:04he dressed for the read. And I had dressed for the read, too, and I was like, I like
01:09this, this is going to be fun. I just had a good feeling right away.
01:16I can't remember specifically the first, but I do remember the first, what they came to
01:22be known as Halloween Heist, which was like all of us around Halloween time solving a
01:27mystery. It was our favorite episodes to film. It was the worst, because we were there like
01:3116 hours every day, because they were so calm, and everybody was in it. But it was also the
01:36best, because we all got to be together.
01:38I guess the first mystery I solved was in Body Heat, when I realized my best friend
01:45played by Bill Hurt actually had committed the murder.
01:52I think we're both crossing our fingers that someday we will make it. And I think as an
01:56actor, you don't, I think when we're in our rocking chairs looking back, maybe I could
02:02answer that question. Right now, I'm forever hopeful that I will do something where I go,
02:08oh, yes.
02:09You did it.
02:10I did it.
02:11I acted it.
02:12Even looking back at work, and work that I'm proud of, I still think like, okay, so how
02:16did I, what did I learn? How can I get better next time? What can I bring that's more honest
02:20and truthful next time, next time, next time? It constantly feels like a, I hope I get a
02:25next time to do it, because I don't think that I'm, I don't think I'll ever feel like,
02:31all right, acting, nailed it, yeah.