TS: Yeah. Michael Mann who created it, we wanted to somehow make interesting and entertaining the actual, real work that a detective does. Because in most crime dramas you�ve seen before, they�re mainly station house dramas. And one of the things that�s unique about our show, and I think is the best show on television. We�re the most critically acclaimed show, I shouldn�t really say that, but um, no one�s really watching us � I wish they would! The critics like it. � [To] make it interesting, we shoot outside. That�s where crime is solved. Crime solved in the street. And spending hundreds of hours with the LAPD, with detectives and cops and whatnot, I started to actually be able to look at these crime scenes, and � the crime scene tells you what to say. The crime scene tells you how to act. You know what I mean? It tells me what�s going on. I don�t tell it what�s going on.
RS: You said you shoot a lot of it outside.
TS: It�s all outside.
RS: Does that make it difficult that you�re not in the studio at all, that � what challenges are presented because you�re outside?
TS: I prefer it outside. And because you�re out there, you know, there�s just things that happen out there that could never happen in a studio. Things that we can make come alive. Like Los Angeles City, which by and large hasn�t been put on film. Largely Beverly Hills and Hollywood and Jack and Shack and Coby. That�s a small part of LA, but it�s a cool part, but it�s small. So you�re in these real areas, with the real people, and the real background, and the real thing. It just makes it more visceral, more right there for you. For me as an actor, it�s better to be there than to be � like this is a soundstage right here �
RS: Right.
TS: -- for me to start behaving as if, you know, I was in Saving Private Ryan, which was a movie I did, and start behaving like I�m on the beach at Normandy.
RS: Right. Right.
TS: It would be very difficult.
RS: Yeah. Hey, we have another clip from the show. We want to take a look at it. And this one �
TS: Am I kissing a girl here?
RS: Yeah, yeah �
TS: Is this the kissing?
RS: Oh, it�s not that one.
TS: Oh. (laughs)
RS: Oh, we have another one. Let�s take a look at this one.
(Clip shown where Cole and Vietnamese connection are at the nightclub, beginning �sunglasses surveillance� scene from �Life is Dust.�)
