Shawn Ryan

Thank you, Mae.

It's an honor to be here.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Thank you for the lovely intro, firstly.

You bet.

No, there was talk of that early on, and I just thought that that wouldn't give me an opportunity to deliver it from the...

from the deepest reaches of myself, you know?

And I knew that it would, to the reader, that it would feel counterfeit, you know?

I think your theory is more than just a theory.

I think you've tapped into some very solid truths about what motivated me or at least what drove me like it did because for so long I was Martin Sheen's son

And then you add to that, and, you know, Emilio Estevez's brother, and it just, it got to the point where, and then, you know, growing up on dad's sets and then going out with Emilio and

And his crew of newly famed actors that he was making all his movies with and just seeing the type of energy and the type of access and the type of fun and mischief that they all had such limitless access to that I just... I wanted a taste of it so badly.

And it was...

It felt so close, yet at the same time, it was light years out of reach, you know?

Yeah, no, I got a little bit of a warm-up.

I'd done a couple films that nobody really cared about.

I was just trying to get a SAG card, just trying to be a consistently employed actor and just kind of go from one job to the next and hopefully leave some good work behind.

And...

And then just, you know, I guess stuff happens when it's supposed to or at times how it's supposed to.