So things have changed a lot in Season 3 as far how the … ensemble is managed, do you miss working with any particular people?
I miss working with family I guess. You know I think that added some really nice stuff for me to play because it’s so much more personal. I guess my best friend is Dick and then there’s Veronica and there’s not really anybody else. Dick is not the character that can understand, it’s not like Veronica where there’s like an empathy quality that I think you can get some kind of satisfaction or feeling and stuff like that and so I think it’s just Veronica. I guess my wish for something like that would be like a freaking cool aunt or something like that and then you know somebody who’s not out to hurt him in any way or whatever and can kind of like rehabilitate him.
So how are things looking for a season four at this point?
Pretty good, I know that our rating kind of dropped off, I guess nobody has a crystal ball so I thought three weeks ago that we were pretty safe but then we kind of started dropping off a little bit so I really appreciate you guys taking time to do this because I think it’s interviews and getting some visibility for the show because we’re really happy to do it and I know that the fans like it and we want to give it everything we have to make it good so we’re willing to go there we just need your guys’s help with what you’re doing and that’s very much appreciated.
What other TV shows do you watch?
Oh boy, um, let’s see, I’m a Family Guy fan I guess. I was a Deadwood Season 1 fan, I just haven’t watched the 2nd Season but Season 1 was unbelievable to me. I think that was some of the best acting on TV in that, except for Veronica Mars.
What’s my favorite movie?
What’s my favorite movie? Oh my gosh. I would say, I like, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest very much. I like, ah, Jerry Maguire very much. I like Crash very much. I think probably Crash though is like my favorite movie. It changed my life that movie. You see that movie and it starts out with all this racism and goes through to the end and that final shot man when, it’s like you come through all this and then these two people get in a car accident and he pulls back the camera to reveal and then they start doing the same thing all over again after all that stuff happened, I learned from that man. I didn’t even know that I had something to learn.
If you could go back and play any role in history, any film any tv show, what would it be?
Uh, I don’t know, Streetcar? I don’t know, something like that. That’d be fun. I would have loved to grow up in that age, you know the golden age of New York when you’re struggling as an actor I just think that that would have been a fun. My teacher kind of grew up in that age and he’s like, it was always acting, food, and rent. It was that order of paying your bills you know. And I thought that that would have been so fun. It’s just like sleep over at a friend’s house or be on the streets and watch movies and study people and go to class, I think that would have been very exciting for me. I would have very, very much liked that and hopefully ah I’ll be broke in the future and able to accomplish something like that.
Any projects outside of Veronica Mars that you want to plug?
There’s a couple good movies that are kind of set to start shooting that I look forward to maybe having an opportunity to work in, I’m excited about this Pacific movie, The Pacific, it’s a mini-series, like another Spielberg and Hanks mini-series, and I think that that would be a fantastic thing to shoot, go do boot camp and stuff like that, I really like that kind of stuff.
I think we’re out of time, is there anything else you want to say to those Veronica Mars fans out there?
It’s hard for me to communicate the love to the fans, that’s why I love seeing them in person. But it’s so cool that people are invested like we are, you know what I mean, it’s like you give a lot, and it’s cool to see that people you know have very strong feelings toward what you do and I appreciate that and I love to hear about it, good or bad I’m always happy to hear from the fans. Love you, peace.
Jon Lachonis - BuddyTV Features Writer
(Special thanks to Izzy from spoilerfix.com for the question prep)