transcript:Under the Bleachers with John Riggi
Hi I'm John Riggi and welcome to Under the Bleachers and I am bald. Today, our special guest is none other - none other really - than Dean Winters. Dean thanks for coming.
What really burns you up?
JR: So, Dean what really burns you up?
How he got started
JR: How long have you been an actor?
Comedy or Drama?
JR: What would you rather do? Would you rather do comedy or drama?
Name three things
JR: Alright, name three things.
Farewell
JR: Alright so we'll see you next time on Under the Bleachers.
Dean Winters: Hi. Thank you very much. (points off screen with a nod)Thank you.
John Riggi: We're here in the porno waiting room.
DW: (laughs) Yeah.
JR: Waiting for our turns.
DW: (laughs)
JR: I'm excited because I have a whole plan about what I'm going to start with and then the finish. I've really thought about it alot and I've practiced.
DW: I'm nervous. I really haven't done anything like this since my "Oz" audition.
JR: Oh really?
DW: Yeah.
JR: Okay, just relax, it's okay. Here's the thing about it. At first it's kind of eewwugh, but it's okay. You relax and move into it.
DW: (laughs) Alec Baldwin.
JR: Yeah?
DW: Yeah. He's tough.
JR:Yeah. He's a super-duper toughie hunh?
DW: Yeah, and then there's, well, there's Tracey Morgan. And, then there's the girl, what's the girl who runs the show? Tina?
JR: Yeah, Tina. Tina Flay. No, Fey. Flay's the one who does the restaurants. Tina Fey. Tina Fey
DW: Right. Those are the three that really burn me up.
JR: Is there anything about the show that you enjoy?
DW: Not really actually. No. No. No.
JR: It's rough hours.
DW: It's rough hours. I take the subway to work. It's nothing I really... but the craft service is good.
DW: I started acting when I was 29 so fourteen years.
JR: Formal training or did you just start doing?
DW: No, formal training. I worked with a guy downtown named William Esper for two years. And then I got a job working, I helped found a theater company. But, I was, I was too green to really work on the stage so I sold tickets and built sets for two years.
Then I started doing some plays and then I, the whole time I was a bartender so I worked in 17 bars and clubs in NYC over 9 years. I worked everywhere. If you didn't see me on TV then I served you a drink. And during that time I was doing all the requisite NYPD Blues and stuff like that.
And then Tom Fontana came into a bar one night when I was working. And my brother, he played my brother on "Oz", he and I were bartending and Tom Fontana came in and we all became friends and started working together.
DW: You know what? I'm having, I'm seriously having one of the best times of my life on this show. You know like last year was a treat and I didn't ever think I would be cast on a show like this because everyone was so used to seeing me rape and pillage. So after, so if there was a part like this to be had, I think I would rather do this for a while.
JR: Yeah?
DW: Yeah. I been doing the other thing for like 12 years you know. It's gets a little tiresome.
JR: Yeah.
DW: And, the set is light. It's fun. I don't know. I'm having a really good time.
JR: Well. You know what. We don't actually have to...
DW: Actually (talks over J.R.), I don't mean to cut you off but, I can't mention the network, but I actually got offered a sit-com yesterday off of the work that I did on this. And I read the script and I passed on it. Because this show is so genius and so good, it would have been like a giant step backwards.
JR: Uh, and I want to tell you in total serious and we won't put this in, but in the writer's room, you're like the favorite guy to write for.
DW: Why don't you put that in? (laughs and gestures to people off-camera)
JR: I guess we can (laughs). Can we put that in?
DW: The one good part of the interview. (laughs) I'm just kidding.
JR: We really are, we really are always talking about what can we do with, when can we bring in Dennis again and when's Dennis going to come back.
DW: I would do anything for this show. I would come back anytime at any price. I just love this show, it's one of my favorites ever.
DW: Okay. (laughs) Name three things? What, just name three things?
JR: Name three things.
DW: Name three things. Uh, microphone, phone, Eric.
JR: Beautiful
DW: (claps his hands, cocks his head towards camera, points to JR and whispers) He's bald.
JR: Thanks man I appreciate it.
(Music starts, Dean gets up picks up his cell phone(?) off of the couch, and they exit.)