You get five minutes. I’ll do a one morning. Okay. Can you just say I went to Julia real quick? [Laughter]

This is where I keep my diploma.

Alan, I got to ask you a question.

Yes. You’ve done a lot of science fiction. Yes. A lot of cool, cool characters. What does science fiction mean to you and all the cool stuff you’ve done in that genre, that ecosphere?

Science fiction allows for a certain theatricality. Um, that and a and a… yeah, sort of like a breath of emotional… Oh boy, it’s the end of the day. It’s all good. Yeah. Use the force. Exactly.

It allows for really high drama and very funny extreme moments, you know, high stakes, which makes for such great humor. I started in theater and, you know, even doing motion capture for K2SO or Gary the robot and Superman. That was a great character. It’s a practical effects robot, to the voice you had.

Well, it was, and it wasn’t. They used it for some things, but not for all things. Um, yeah, because it couldn’t walk and it couldn’t do certain things, but it’s a full body performance. In film and television, you don’t think about full body performance so much, as much in the close-up, and you know, it’s two-shot and all of that.

But sci-fi in Resident Alien… there’s so much physical comedy within it because he was an alien. So he just got to be mental. When he fell in love, he’d fall down. When he got faint, full on his knees go out.

Yeah. Or he cut off his leg at one point. There’s just so much. I’m… Olivia from Six Degrees, a geek, but we were really… Yes, we’ve talked to you several times and met with you on several occasions. Love Jos big… but yes, Six Degrees. Six Degrees are great.

Anyway, so my question to you is, now that you have completed the project and you can look back at it on a long lens, right? What are you taking away in that long lens for you? You talked about in the panel, you take the moments of joy, but is there like a lesson you think you learned from…

Eric… sorry, it’s late in the day.

No, I think, you know, love full out. He definitely does that. Harry was a child… he was a child… he’s older than everyone, but he… he didn’t study the human race before he came to the planet because he wasn’t planning on stopping. He’s starting out at zero and learning everything as he goes.

That kind of open mind, open expression, embrace of how he’s feeling… it’s very clownlike, very childlike, and it has rubbed off on me. Whenever you do characters, anytime I do a role, something rubs off, and I’ll start to talk like them. I’ll use words that they use; you just start to incorporate them in your own life.

Since we’ve been doing this for so long, I’m… a lot bigger. I do that now. For my wife, it’s a bit difficult in public places for people that are introverted or have things that they can’t express.

Your character… you said “childlike.” Is there something you could give them to guide them? Any little nugget of inspirational wisdom? Because you’re also an actor and stuff too, but I mean, just from your character, that specific one from Resident Alien.

Can I ask a question?

We’re about to wrap up.

Yeah, go ahead.

If you were going to be fooled by going into a jail cell by pizza, what type of pizza would it be?

Oh, there we go. Uh, it would be… I’m going to upset some people… Hawaiian dessert. And I love dessert. So there you go.

Real quickly, specifically, they talk about potentially doing a movie down the line. I know you’re a very busy man with a lot of projects. Would you come back if they were making a movie?

Oh, hell yeah. And I’ve… mentioned a couple of times today, I like the idea of Resident Alien versus Predator. Crossing IPs there. But let’s do it. I’d love to do it.

And my party thing is… Yes. Thank you. Um, I like that sometimes. What is this? Oh, on your show sometime… futuristic golf. That’s cards from the 47th century and beyond. Wow.

I like to talk to you more about other stuff. Cool. Yeah. Anytime.

It’s been a great… it’s been a great run. And you know, I don’t have… there’s no key to how to live. I don’t know how to… I mean, I have my own little idiosyncratic ways of experiencing the world.

Me too. Yeah. I just find trying to overcome the insecurity of talking to others… it’s always the fear and anxiety leading up to it. I can’t think of a time when I was like… what was I thinking?

Well, maybe when I was young talking to girls, but now, a little older, that was a different thing because I wanted something from them.

If I don’t want anything from somebody and I could just go have a conversation with them, I always come out better just connecting with other people. That’s what we’re supposed to be doing. I think we’re all part of the same thing.

So, suffered a lot… anxiety more.

That’s… thank you for sharing. Thank you. Appreciate it. Cheers. Thanks a lot.