Sean Hayes

Yeah.

How did X-Files come about?

I know you're sick of talking about it, I'm sure.

And forgive us, forgive us.

We're just fans.

Jason read the books.

Yeah, are you excited when you get it because of that?

Can I just stop for Tracy?

Can I just say, so the testing process, you don't know, Jason just alluded to, and David knows, we all know.

It used to be, I don't know if it still is the way, but what would happen is you'd go in for a show, whether it's X-Files or Will & Grace or whatever it is,

and you get the audition and you go through and then they get a call back and you read for producers then what they do is they sort of take for any given role they might have three or four people who they decide that they're going to as they call it bring to the network yeah and that means that they're they're they're kind of they're they're select pick three or four people for each each role and before you go and do this final audition usually like in a in a

conference room or something in an office building, the most uninspiring place you can imagine, before you do that, for a day or two before, your agents and the show negotiate your contract, a five-year contract, and you sign it before you go in for the final audition.

In the lobby.

Right before you walk in.

So they got you.

So you're broke, and then your agent goes, like, here's your contract.

We've agreed you're going to get $25,000 an episode for the next five years.

Yeah, and you're like, oh, my God, I'm so broke, and I'm going to get $25,000 an episode for the next five years, and you're doing the math, and you're like, and then I'm going to buy it, I'm going to buy a new car.

And if you weren't nervous before, you're petrified now.

And you sign it, and then you go... Once you sign it, they take the signed, executed contract.