'Nocturne'; Gino at the Movies

So I look at this series and the caliber of people you have in it. What are your thoughts as they each join onto this project? I mean, it was an embarrassment of riches. You start with Zazie Beetz, who's already amazing. Like, right off the jump, you have somebody in the show that's great. Now, everything is going to be elevated around that. Then you get Liev Schreiber, who, you know, it speaks for itself, right? He's also incredibly choosy. So you're getting someone who's an amazing actor, really authentic, full of gravitas. And then two weeks later. We get Stephen Graham. Now, he had made, I think we had seen Adolescence, but it hadn't had, you know, it had been released, but it hadn't been swept up into the awards season yet. So Tim Van Patten, who did the pilot, knew Stephen very well from Boardwalk Empire. Doesn't mean that it was a fait accompli by any means. I think Stephen really liked the material. But once that triangle was completely formed, you know, once we had those three pieces, you really feel the pressure, you know, that it's kind of up to us to screw up at that point Because you have. You have like a world, and this is everyone else, Bill Camp, Horna, Rory, I could go down the line of every actor in the show. Everybody is great. You know what I mean? Everybody is amazingly talented and really everyone brought their A game. Well, I'm going to say you brought your A game because you did not mess up. You have this great talent and it is one of those compelling series that you have to keep watching. Yeah. Thank you. That's the goal. The first rule is to entertain. You know what I mean? Like the job is to get people to lean forward and put down anything that might distract them and, you know, enjoy the program that we took the time to make. So it makes me glad to hear it. Eric Walter has been locked in the basement of a Riverside psychiatric hospital under six feet of concrete. The people are disappearing again, just like before. Liev does something in his career, like I know him from something and I said, I will always think of him as that. And then he comes along with this and completely evolves and changes again. Yeah, it's the first if I'm correct, it's the first time he's been the lead of a show, you know, since he did Ray Donovan, which is, you know, iconic, you know. But he's not doing that here. You know what I mean? Like, it's a different, it's, you know, he's older, number one. But he's got so much gravitas as an actor. He's so authentic as an actor. I'm going to turn it over to Dr. When he locks in to do something, and, you know, like everybody else here, he's offered a lot. You know what I mean? So when he makes a decision to do something, he really locks in. And a lot of what you're seeing on that screen with him is him leaning forward, you know, and him saying. This is the look and feel, I think, for my character. And this is, you know, this is the level of comfort I have. And I'll give you a small example. There's a scene in episode two where he's interviewing a kid in a hospital bed. The kid's 14 years old. Now, he has a former detective in the show, so he's allowed to wear his sidearm. And he's always wearing the ball cap. But when he does the interview, if you notice, he puts his hat, he puts his ball cap over his sidearm. Now, why would he do that? Because he's interviewing a 14-year-old kid. And he doesn't want to scare the kid by seeing his gun. No one told him to do that. No, nobody, no, the director didn't know. It just happened because he locks in so hard and he's so authentic to who he is. He just realized, oh, if I was a. If I was a cop trying to question this young man, I wouldn't want to frighten him. And I'm not going to take it off and make a whole thing out of it. Like, I'm not going to take my gun belt off. He just hung his hat right on it and it just made it go away. Love that. Thank you for sharing that story. So I think in athletics, a lot of times in my life, and Stephen Graham is Michael Jordan at his prime. I don't think there is anybody who is as strong as he is today as an actor. As a showrunner, can you watch those moments and just say, I'm the luckiest showrunner in Hollywood? I mean, you hit it right on the head. I mean, he is an amazing person, number one, right? Like, when the camera flips off, he's charming, he's personable, he comes to set singing in the morning. He's a very grateful human being, right? Like, that's kind of how he operates at base level. And then when he locks in... It is terrifying. And for a chunk of time, you know, when that camera is rolling. You're seeing a very different person, and I think he did an amazing job of, because he's working through glass, he's working through concrete, like he doesn't have, he's not, he doesn't have the luxury, you know what I mean, of kind of the physicality you would normally, he has to do it all with this, you know, that's really all he has, and every actor on this show that spent time with him, I think came away from it slightly improved. It's only a matter of time, got your attention. Sure does. It looks intense there. So Nocturne, if you're interested in watching, is streaming now on Apple TV. There he goes. All right, still ahead on Real Milwaukee, an unforgettable raptor experience is happening at Schlitz Autobahn Nature Center. It'll be this weekend. We've got the details and the birds right here after the break.