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Sean Hayes

lines on the record: 116
first: 2018-10-22
most recent: 2018-10-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“are so much lower yeah they get lower and lower every year for every single show on television Except for events like Super Bowl and all those things.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, because we had long, long conversations about what this would look like. And before we were like, let's do it. Because now we have proof of concept. Now we knew people wanted it to come back. So before we decide to, let's really sit down and talk about what this looks like, what these characters would be. And so great. And they're very self-aware enough to write the character self-aware. So ageism, all of those things were written because we have to write what the audience thinks.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so we thought we had something to say about that. And we have something to say about these people. These characters living in a time that everybody else is living in. So that's what's cool about the show. These characters”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we talked about it, and we're like, yeah, it seems like now is the time. And by then, we'd have that conversation after our current president got quote-unquote elected.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we're like, wait, what? And so that's how it happened. And then the network call was like, would you guys want to do this? And we actually had a dinner at my house, just the four of us.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To come back? We did an election video in 2016 to lend our voices in the best way we knew how, which was through this show. Instead of tweeting or standing on a soapbox or whatever. So Max Muschnik, one of the creators of Portland Grace, came up with this idea, we haven't seen each other in 11 years or whatever 10 years. Does everybody want to do this selection video if we write it? And we're like, yeah, of course, that'd be great. So the crew, us, writers, everybody got together for free. Nobody got paid. We did it in secret. NBC didn't even know. Went to this stage that was below another stage. And we did it. We called it hot food. So as the code name. That's a long, long story why that we shot hot food, released it, and millions and millions and millions of people watched it.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think forever they will. You've heard this a million times. Your TV is actually going to be a monitor. It is a monitoring. Yeah, it is now.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I kind of agree and I don't know the full plan so I can't comment on it fully but ultimately people will want to sit down and watch our program or half hour program.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That are very expensive, but it's for the on-the-go person on the phone and the right, whatever, if you're on the subway, you can watch TVS or whatever.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, but I'm just saying you constantly have to think forward and think about it. Tom started a production company so long ago before other actors started them. And so I just thought that was so cool. And so in keeping with trying to stay on top of it.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So So we have in our company, we have employees that are heads of reality, digital, film, TV, comedy, TV drama. So everybody has different rights. So we are working on all those things every day. And so now podcasts, we want to get into podcasts, which we spoke about before this thing happens.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I'm Hayes and Todd Milliner. And we went to college in Illinois State University in the middle of the cornfield, and all you would see are those mills.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Leave what? Right? So that's the thing. It's like these guys are just the new networks That's Everything's exactly the same Everything they make deals with people. People are going to these streaming companies because they can do their creative freedom. The deals are better. There's more ownership. You can swear. You can tell real stories. Network is a dinosaur business because they have to rely on the affiliates still and advertising and that they are limiting because you have to watch what you say and do.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like nobody knows, but that's why I'll always be employed because there will be. Yeah, there will be, but the problem is ownership. So the networks now is becoming a dinosaur business. But I think the streaming companies have figured it out, but everybody wants to, we're all held hostage now because unless you're not a writer producer who's created the show As a non writing producer like myself, and there's many of us. There's no ownership. So you have to make better deals if you can with the success that you've built.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm trying to do YouTube originators. I always ask people where is this going because nobody knows, right? Right. So, where is this going with 500,000 new shows every year?”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And now you're breaking that off. And I started telling them everything why that wouldn't work. And like, huh, got it. Thanks, John. But now they're doing it right. They're stockpiling and they're going to launch huge. That's exactly how, but they have billions of dollars to do that.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Apple's doing it right though, because Apple had two shows a year or two ago. And they asked me to host Carpool Karaoke. And I was like, why Why would I host that? Because James Corden does it brilliantly”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's so many outlets, which is also bad for viewerships and making money because you have split now this pie of viewership in a billion ways, which is good and bad. There's good and bad to that. If you find your niche like you have, you can make a living and do pretty good living. We have a deal at Universal Studios, so now we have our edicted to provide content mainly for them. For the studio, not necessarily the network, but for the studio what they're looking for. And so, but I don't know. So day to day we try.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, there's a million things we could talk about about that. But, you know, you have to, I'm going to say something that sounds like a joke, but it's not. You have to find a hole and fill it, right? So you have to find out, you have to figure out what's not out there and provide that. that entertainment. But now producing, there's different kinds of producers, right? We're both creative and packaging. So we act like our own little mini studio. So we will find a writer and a director and an actor and the idea. and that IP and try to package and put it together, which is a lot of work. But we run over drive. So we do that with many with 20 things at one time. And so... I think now the good news for us is people need content more than ever”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I do indeed. I was just recently, I was telling people I've been doing some research on some of the e-commerce companies. Stitch fix is one of them. And so stitch fix is where they send you stuff and you send it back. Do you know about these stuff?”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“History of comedy on CNN right now, and a bunch of stuff. And we just shot our first movie called Lazy Susan starring me where I play a woman.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so, and the judges were Trudy Styler, John Favreau, and Craig Zayden, who was a good friend of mine who just passed away. Anyway, so those were our first two shows. And then we didn't work for seven years, and then we've done tons. We produced Grimm, Hot in Cleveland.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then the other one was called underexposed. We gave a very vague script to three filmmakers to go off and you have 24 hours to make a short film based on hello, hello, how are you? Oh my God, what's that? It's coming this way. And they had to interpret what that was.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then built into this gigantic studio. But we ended up doing it. NBC decided not to, we're like, that's a cute show. We're not putting that on the air, one that won.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but yeah, so I decided to do something about that and started producing with my friend that I went to college with Todd Milliner, who was a genius. And we had two shows that we started out with called one was Situation Comedy. Because that was just the start of people not figuring out multi-cam sitcoms. Why aren't people watching them anymore? And so we had a kind of project green light show. Do you remember Project Greenlight? Yeah. But for TV. So we had submissions of people sending in a half hour multi-cam sitcoms, and we were going to read them all, weed them down, pick two or three, shoot them and have America vote on which one they wanted to see go to series, which ended up being way ahead of its time because that's what Amazon started doing.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We would be. At least it would listen to us. Yeah. But yeah, Dog would bring us together at least So, but isn't that interesting while we don't have to go on now?”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. So then I was like, where am I going to go? What am I going to do? And then Tom Hanks is a friend. And I saw what he was doing with Playtone. I was like, well, there's a perfect example. And I would say, I want to wear a bracelet says WWTHD. What would Tom Hanks do? Right. Right. And so...”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's it. A lot of actors are like, that's fine. And a lot of actors enjoy just acting, and that's great. My brain works a little bit like yours, where it's just like I need.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I try as hard as I can to be self-aware. Sometimes I fail miserably on a daily basis. But when I try to be self-aware, I try to see what was in front of me and knowing history, what happens with sitcom characters that have impact like mine had. And so you go, well, I need a place to go when I get up in the morning. How am I going to fix this? What's the solution?”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“and different owners. So, of course, it's like who's our parent, like who's watching this for us, you know, who's watching out for us. And so I think No, for sure. Okay. I think there's a little bit of that syndrome going on where the new guy was like, I want my hands on hitch shows. And this was maybe, I don't know, it might not be true, but I think maybe part of it was”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. Mutual, if it's like maybe we hit our, maybe we've exhausted it and the network was like, yeah, because the ratings aren't weren't as cute. I mean, they were pretty big still. Anybody would kill for those now. But, you know, also it's that syndrome of in the time that Will and Grace, I think this is most of it, in the time that Will and Grace was on the air, NBC had gone through maybe six presidents. Right. In eight years.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, but just because the word normal, I've always felt normal. But people use that word, right? So that whole thing. But to use your word normalized, do I think Willing Grace normalize? No, I just think, just like the Jeffersons in Good Times, and by the way, the Cosby Show, present problem excluded at the time, the Bill Cosby Show, that was like people were floored that a black man could be a doctor and a black woman could be a lawyer. That was amazing. And to black people, it was like, yeah, that happens. Yeah, yeah. And so I think the same thing with Will and Grace was people were just like floored that like two gay men could be friends but not have a relationship and actually be a best friend to it all of it and that I think is what people are constantly striving to create in Hollywood are relationships you've never seen before because that is a great percolation for”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, people use that word, and I know why I use that word, but to me, it rubs me the wrong way. Tell me why. I'm going to tell you if you just give me a chance. Normalize is, I know, right? What you do?”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there was a joke that the character of Karen played by Meghan Malali brilliantly on the show when Bush was in office after Clinton. It's funny, like it's in and it's not. And it's like, how is it either?”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So without that, you know, we all was passing the baton. And then you have modern family with a kid. And so, you know, hopefully I'm not saying we did it, but hopefully we helped, and they'll help somebody else.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“People didn't know that? People didn't know because you know they're testing like that guy's funny, all that girl's funny, and this is. But they're like, wait, that dude's gay.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Picked up a show about a gay guy. And even in the pilot after tested stupid people had no idea Will was gay, even though he said Many things that”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so by the time we're done this mic pack, we'll burn a hole through to my intestines because it's touching my skin. No, so that had come out. And so Warren said, do that, and that's kind of why it happened, but it still blows my mind that NBC.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Amazing. It was a script of three couples and one of the couples was the gay guy and the straight girl. And Warren said, why don't you screw the other couples? Why don't you do this is the most interesting thing. And my best friend's wedding had just come out with Julia Roberts.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thanks for the confidence, but no. I was, I don't remember, it was like I saw the body down in the river. Oh, right, okay.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Star on the show. I've never done a TV show either. Just in commercials and maybe a guest spot on one of those crime reenactment shows.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that train had left and they found the brilliant Eric McCormick to play well. And by the time I came back, they said, would you read for it, quote, the other guy? And I said, sure, and that's how it happened”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so because of that, I was sitting at a theater at Sundance Film Festival starring in this movie, this NBC exec is sitting in the audience. I haven't even seen the movie yet. He taps me on his shoulder. He's like, you're a Sean Hayes, you're in this movie. And I said, yeah. He goes, we're casting this sitcom Will and Grace. Would you come in and read for Will? And I was like, well, not right now because I'm about to watch the movie. But maybe when it's done and blah, blah, blah. So I didn't have the money to change my ticket to fly back early to see because I wanted experienced Sundance because it was like another week or two left.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then that same, I was at Sundance, the Sundance Film Festival. With a starring role, and as Billy and Billy's Hollywood screen kiss while those two commercials were air”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he's a straight guy who's fun, you know. I always say if I didn't act, if you didn't say Jack was gay and willing grace, he would just be the cookie next-door neighbor. Right.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Doritos and Bud Light. And the bud light spot I was shopping with my wife, and there was a clothes rounder. And all these guys are inside the clothes rounder, like barbecuing and watching the game. And I was like, this is awesome, that one. And then the famous Doritas.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Add a little bit of ammo because I had a demo reel with some commercials. So I got a commercial legend right away. Right. Because I was a bigger fish and a smaller pond in Chicago. So just kind of keep that going”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, right. And she's on Veep now. And actually, Katrina Lank, who just won the Tony this year, used a pheasant run. There's a lot of people from Pheasant Run that are working.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know. So then I decided I'm just going to do it. I'm going to do it when I'm 24 years old if I don't look back. I'm young enough if it doesn't work out and come back to this job, right? And so Anna Klumsky, who's on Veep, was in Fiddler on the roof that hasn't run dinner theater. Okay. At the same time, she was also an annie right after my girl. Remember that movie, My Girl with Annie Council? So then she did that and came because she lived in Chicago. And I've been friends with her since she was nine years old. Anyway, so she was in...”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so did that. And then the actors and the friends of mine started booking stuff. So I was like, anyway, so I started doing that. I did the training program in Second City for a couple years, but I never performed on stage. So that happened. I'm catching you up.”
2018-10-22 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Will & Grace' co-star Sean Hayes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT