Rob Delaney
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57 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Rob Delaney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Well, this was being really lovingly crafted by everybody there. Yeah. Everybody wanted it to be the absolute best that it could possibly be.
So before and after takes, I'm talking to Shannon and Liz, director and writer-producer respectively. And then during takes, I'm opposite Michelle Williams.
I'm really grateful Michelle and I hit it off. You know, we hadn't met before this. And so we got together and talked about the story and talked about ways to express it. And so we had a really good rapport. And a slice of the pizza... of her incredible talent is the generosity and the openness and the desire for you to do well too.
I mean, I'll say we've both dealt with real life stuff that is pretty heavy duty. and we were both able to be very sensitive to each other about that. So I guess we kind of maybe developed a color palette together that we're, you know, like if she would mix a blue, I'd be like, oh, I know that color. And if I mixed a red, she'd be like, whew, haven't seen that in a while.
I do feel very grateful that Michelle and I were kind of able to hit the ground running. And then, you know, she has the career that she does and the reputation that she does because she does have an oceanic talent. And so I just try to be as emotionally naked and present as possible. Oh.
Like, I want to work with very, very good actors because it makes it easier for me to just listen, to just truly be there. So Michelle Williams makes that very, very easy.
Oh gosh.
It's weird because some years into my career, I'm now trying to just like strip away, strip away. It's like, wait, don't you go to acting school to learn how to do an accent and put on a funny nose? And now I'm more about like get rid of all of that, everything that you can so that people can be watching real questions dance across my eyes or real hunger or curiosity or...
you know, confusion into anger because you want to be watching people discover stuff in real time. Yeah. I would never go into a scene like a bull in a china shop and here's how it's going to go.
I mean, also coming from a comedy background and from writing with a partner and stuff, like you really want to be vulnerable and open so that you can be doing the stuff in real time and learning things and letting the audience see you learn things. Or be foiled or be whatever, you know.
So everything you've just said is 100% true. And by the end of it, it's such a beautiful thing that they have. And it's such a testament to... Liz and Kim that they could weave it in a way that all that craziness leads to such beautiful places. Yeah. And that it feels earned and organic and you believe it, you know?
Or in real life?
I mean, in childhood, it happened. My kids will hit me with like a football and that's not on purpose, I think, but not, no, I've never asked somebody to do it. And I don't personally, it's not on my list of, you know, secret desires. Yeah.
I mean, I guess if you think about, like, if I'm thinking about my own life, sexual adventures, you know, you can like wear a lot of hats in a courtship. And then as you begin to get intimate, you know, when there can be like, you know, like, oh, you try this approach. Oh, didn't land the way I wanted to. Oh, I'll try this. You know what I mean? So even within like, say, a successful situation,
sexual experience there can be aspects of frustration of overreach of embarrassment so this was just more like take stuff and just dial it up
Oh, it was really very difficult. And in fact, I had a little hiatus after shooting a bunch of stuff. And then I knew I had to go back into the hospital for my final scenes with Molly. And during that hiatus, I was really upset because I was like, I'm going to watch my friend Michelle die.
who I've been getting to know and work with and have a really wonderful time, I'm gonna watch her apply her formidable skills to a facsimile of dying again and again and again up close. And that's going to be really hard. And we know it's not real, but still you're using parts of yourself that are very real.
And if it's going to be any good, then you have to be willing to run the gamut of emotions, including getting hurt, you know. So it was really, there were aspects of it that were deeply unpleasant and required some detoxification from afterwards, for sure.
Swim, rest, run, smell my children's heads. Stuff like that I find very helpful. And talk about it. Be like, this is hard.
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