February 9, 2023 • 26 mins
Before he made us swoon in Something Borrowed, Colin Egglesfield appeared on Gilmore Girls. It was Spring Break 2004, he smiled at Rory and she smiled back. Colin played Sean, the hunky cutie Rory meets at the Sea Sprite Motel. Scott and Colin reminisce about Colin's Gilmore Girls moment. Although brief, WAY TOO BRIEF, he reveals how he got the part and worked that very same day. Plus, will we ever get that sequel to Something Borrowed?!??!?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am all In. Let's kiss you, I Am all
in with Scott Patterson and I Heart Radio podcast. Hey
(00:21):
Everybody's Scott Patterson. I Am all In Podcast one on
one interview. We have a very special cast. Colin eggles Field.
He was uh in one of his only appearances in
season four, episode seventeen, Girls in Bikini's Boys Doing the Twist. Uh.
(00:41):
He played Sean Um And a little bit about Colin.
He's an actor, is known for his roles in All
My Children, Melrose Place, Where's Olian Aisles? And The Client List,
Chicago Fireplus, starring alongside Kate Hudson and Jennifer Goodwin, and
Something Borrow Doesn't There's a sequel something about a sequel
(01:02):
to that that you can tell some were supposed to
the book has a sequel to it, but we never
actually got to filming that second. Oh man, Yeah, it's
I know, right, you get to work with Kate Hudson again. Well,
once it's good enough maybe right. Um, all right, let's
jump into it. You you played shown in spring Break
(01:24):
episodes He's four episode seventeen. How did you get the role?
The audition for it for so yes, I did um
and that one was the first time that I actually
had to. My agent called me off the morning of
and I was like ten o'clock in the morning, got
an email, um, and then a phone call saying, hey,
uh gil More girls, they're doing this audition down in
(01:47):
Marina del Rey and if you book the role, you're
gonna be working today. So, I mean, I don't know
how this business works sometimes where it's like all right,
you know, it's like we're My dad was an obstetrician,
like he would have to get called in the middle
of the night. But you know, with Hollywood, it's very
similar in the sense that like you just got to
be on call. And uh So I went down there
(02:10):
and there was probably like fifteen other guys that were
at this motel um and one by one they had
us go in audition, and then it was that magical
moment where the casting director comes out and says, all right,
everyone can leave except for Colin. I was like, right,
got this role, and then she says, Okay, we just
(02:30):
need you to wait here. We're waiting for one other
actor to come by audition, Like crap. So I'm sitting
there literally for like an hour, and then finally this
kid walks in and it was actually this guy from
my acting class, and um, I was brand new to
acting and he was like the more experienced actor in
my our acting class. He was the guy that like
(02:52):
everyone looked up to for advice and stuff. And I
was like, oh, he's wanting you know. So I was like, oh, then,
you know, obviously I'm not gonna get this. And shure enough,
he went in an audition and then she came out
and said, all right, call him he can you come
back in here and audition again. And so I went
back into the audition and then she came back out
and she was like, all right, to the other guy,
(03:13):
you can you can take off Colin to go to wardrobe.
So you're working that day? Yeah, wow, how exciting. So
so what was that like you tell us about you know,
you get the wardrobe. Did you go to Brendan mabn
and she fitted you with the wardrobe and then you
went to set? Tell us about what that was like? Yeah,
(03:34):
just you know, it was a pretty quick wardrobe fitting.
I think I had like two or three outfits and uh,
you know, my character plays a spring breaker, and um,
the girls come and they see they check into a
hotel the world of the motel rooms, and I walked
by with my friends and I kind of like take
(03:56):
a glance, and I'm kind of like smiling and flirting.
And then, um, we see each other again at the
pool and I'm just trying to like play Mr. Cool
and so yeah, I think I had like three different
or two different wardrobe changes. Um. And then you know
a lot of acting is just sitting around waiting, So
just kind of sat around waiting for a while and
(04:17):
then uh, and then just got to it. Um. So
we shot one day there and then we shot another
day at the nightclub scene where the girls. Um, I
think Paris sees two girls making out, so no, no, no,
no, no no, Paris makes out with Rory. Yes, well you
see you see Paris kiss Rory and then you go
(04:39):
up to Rory finally, Yes, but it was I don't
know where Paris got the idea, but she was like
she kisses Rory to try to like spice things up
because they're like on spring break and right there they
feel like they're boring. And of course Rory is like
gob smacked. She's like what are you doing? And I
see this and I'm like, oh, these girls are like
(05:00):
into this kicky stuff. So I walk over to Rory
and she's like, oh hey, and I'm like, hey, how
you doing? Maybe your friend wants to come to She
was like you gross and she like hence hence the
one episode on a family friendly show. Um, but hey,
(05:22):
at least you got to play right, Uh And what
a great credit the head of on the resume. Did
it help your career and all? Getting a Gilmore Girls
because Gilmore Girls is sort of a stamp of approval
the way Seinfeld was absolutely absolutely Yeah, having a credit
like that on my resume definitely, Uh makes casting directors
and directors and producers, you know, taking more seriously and
(05:44):
you're not just uh, you know, a newbie and that
you've actually you know, proven that you've gone through the
audition process and you know, because it's it's definitely not easy,
like I just described. You know, there's a lot of
competition when it comes to acting. You know, sometimes there's
some luck involved, but a lot of the times it
does come down to uh, you know, just um proving
(06:08):
to the casting that you know that they usually want
to see you like four or five six times, the
trust you enough to you know, see what you're capable
of doing, you'll actually pull the trigger to to cast.
So before you Gilmore, you've done a few TV episodes.
When your first gig, you've done Law and Order, s V.
(06:28):
You you did SWAT. Were you familiar with Gilmore Girls
before you joined the show? Were how did you discover
the show? It was just you know, it's, um, just
just popular show. I mean, you know back then when
the ratings were like, you know massive, there was only
(06:53):
what maybe six networks or seven networks instead of like
the two thousand networks that they're UM. So, I you know,
I'd always heard that it was, you know, a really
popular show. I never actually watched an episode, but I
always thought Alexis was cute and uh I was like yeah,
(07:14):
and you know, you see her in like the Red
Carpet and magazines and stuff, So I mean I knew
who she was and I was like, yeah, this this
would be cool. What did you think of her? Would you?
Did you like working with her? Oh? Yeah she was
so everyone was so sweet, so cool, so down to
um and uh yeah it was it was great to
(07:34):
work with her. Then, um, I saw her, Um, one
of my favorite shows is Madman. So when I saw
her on that. Um, I was like, good on. Yeah.
It was like and she doesn't age. I mean, it's crazy,
like she still looks the same. Yeah. Um so. Uh.
(07:54):
The band The Shins performed at that club in that scene.
Were you excited to see him on stage during the filming? Yeah?
Yeah yeah. And The Ships were actually one of my
favorite bands at the time. Um. I had first discovered
them in New York City before moving out to l A.
So that was an extra special treat to to be
(08:15):
able to see them. Dude, let me ask you this.
Do you do you get recognized from that episode? Um?
I have? I have, yes, Um, maybe once or twice. Uh.
You know, it's it's usually some I don't know, something,
just a random person like an airport or something, and
(08:38):
they'll come up and be like you wait you are
you an actor? I'm like yeah. Normally it's from All
my Children or something borrowed because those are some of
the bigger projects I've done. And I there was this
one person, um, and I was like, she was like,
you know, are you an actor? Was like, yeah, I
was on All My Children. She's like no. I was like,
what else have you been on? And this is then
(08:59):
where it gets in of this like rabbit hole of
uh did something borrowed? No? No, that client, No, that
wasn't it. Give the whole resume to somebody. That wasn't it.
And then five minutes later she comes back that's me
gilbar Girls And I was like, oh, yes, that was
(09:20):
twenty something years ago. Y. Yeah, you're very patient just
to go through the entire list. That's it. Yeah, because
that's like if you if you say like, hey, listen,
I'm not gonna play this game, they're like, oh yeah,
we'ready a callin niggles Field. He's such But they don't
know who you are anyway. They didn't know who you were.
Well they recognized you, but they didn't know why. And
(09:41):
you know, knew me from something. Wow. Um. So you
went on to start in several movies, uh, and TV
series mel Melrose Places, Client List, Razolian Isles um, and
you filmed Something Barroed, which kind of a big head right.
(10:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, So I mean, I know, we we
talked about a little bit in the beginning, but what
happened to the sequel? So there there's a sequel to
the there's it's a book series, something Borrowed, something Blue,
and in the end of Something Borrowed, they actually show
the preview for Something Blue, so left everyone thinking, all right, well,
(10:25):
this is going to happen. And it was right around
the time when romantic comedies at the box office we're
just kind of like curtailing and the traditional romantic comedy,
something like How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
or Pretty Woman, Something Borrowed. Um, what happened was two
weeks after Something Borrowed came out, Um, it was the
(10:52):
movie with Kristen Wig, Bridesmaids came and that movie, like
almost overnight kind of redefined what the romantic comedy was.
And so our movie kind of, I mean it did,
it did good, but Bride'smaids just exploded and within after
(11:15):
coming out after Something Borrowed, all the attention was on
bride'smaid So then the romantic comedy started to just kind
of it started to go a little more subversive and
a little more black comedy, kind of more realistic, more
of the non traditional boy needs girl and are they
(11:35):
going to get together? Um, it was kind of more
of the I don't know INDI version of romantic comedies.
And then couple that with the explosion of Netflix, where
everyone started to get these gigantic TVs in their homes
and so people stopped going to the movie theater as much.
(11:57):
The largest demographic of movie goers is actually seventeen year
old boys. So that's why all of these tent pole
superhero movies do so well theaters, like Marvel and you know,
Superman and all this stuff, spider Man and the romantic
comedy as we know it has really kind of shifted
(12:21):
more over to like Hallmark and g a C. Where
there the traditional you know, boy meets girl kind of model. UM.
And it's it's a shame because I stn't think there's
there's definitely an audience for the kinds of romantic comedies
that you know, people we grew up watching. UM. And
(12:43):
not to say that you know, the new type of
romantic comedy is is not um, you know, not viable,
because obviously it is. It just definitely UM that they
were afraid with a huge budget like you kid Hudson
and John Krasinski's and like the salaries. I mean, it
(13:04):
almost became a question of, well, are we going to
make our money back because the amount of box office
scorers now is just not what it used to be
So now you have a series called Coffee with Colin
on Facebook or or is it YouTube? Tell us about that,
(13:26):
It's it's both. So I do a live talk show
on Monday nights where I interviewed my actor friends and
and influencers athletes essentially the platform. The whole theme of
the show is what what challenges have you faced in
life to overcome to be able to manifest your dreams
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and create success in life. A lot of people look at,
you know, actors or athletes or whatever and think like, oh, well,
you know I could never do that, or there's no way,
like you know, that's Hollywood or you know, all that's
for other people, and uh, for full you know, for
a full hour, we delve into you know, why did
(14:11):
you want to become an actor or an athlete? Or
how did you write this book? Um? What were the
challenges you face? What would you tell your younger self?
What advice would you give to anyone who's pursuing a
career now in acting or whatever? Um? You know, because
on talk shows there's really not a whole lot of
time to really delve into this kind of stuff. On
talk shows, it's like five or ten minutes they you know,
(14:34):
people give a little sound bites, but I'm a coffee
with Colin. I try to show a side of people
that the general public maybe never knew about, or when
they watched the show, they're like you know what, wow, Like, Um,
they're just like me. And you know, I always wanted
to be an actor, and I always like, it's good
(14:55):
nice to hear that. You know that success of actors
or whatever have the same doubts and the same fears
and the same insecurities as everyone else. But this is
how we overcame all of that to get to where
we're at. Um. Interesting alright, Uh, coffee with Colin, Facebook, YouTube,
checking out everybody. You know. You you have a pretty
(15:17):
interesting background before acting, you were in the fashion world.
You were, um, a very successful model. Uh, tell us
about a little bit about that journey. How did you
get discovered and what was that experience? Like, Yeah, I
was I was going to school at the University of Iowa.
(15:37):
I was a senior um and I was coming home
from my waitering job one night in the middle of
winter and I heard on the radio, come to the
Model Search of America the Davenport Holiday And next Tuesday
night you can travel the world, and I was like,
why not? So I went to model agent. Scouts said, uh,
(16:00):
we're doing this this model convention UM in Chicago, like
for you to come, and so I went to it,
got hooked up with an agent in Chicago and started
he started setting me on some of these auditions, and
then they randomly got selected for this Ralph Lauren campaign
and then Versace and you got a Ralph Lauren campaign. Yeah.
(16:23):
And as as as somebody who just coming into the business, Yeah,
I was twenty three years old years old and you're
shooting with Bruce Webber. There you go, because he shot
he shot those campaigns, right, yeah, and what year was that?
This was nineties six, all right, so he was all
through the eighties too, so he was well established at
that point. Is as like the one of one of
(16:46):
the photographers. Yeah, Bruce Webber and I go down to
Florida to shoot this thing and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Like I didn't know who was I didn't like. I
was just saying I would stand here playing the beach
and like ball. Sure, And then he hired me two
weeks later for this Versace campaign and good lord, Yeah,
(17:07):
I got to go to the Versaccy Mansion for Bruce
Webber's birthday party and met Donna Tella and like supermodels.
And then they sent me to Milan, Italy and started
doing runaway shows for Versacey Armani and uh I wrote
a book four years ago and I write all about this,
just kind of like crazy journeys and stuff. And then
(17:30):
I lived in Milan for three months, and then I
moved to New York City and started doing the Calvin
Clan underwear box. So I was working with and pretty regularly.
And uh then every six months Milan, London, Paris for
the fashion shows. Lived in Tokyo for like seven weeks
modeling stuff. And while I was in New York, my
(17:54):
agents started sending me on some commercial auditions for like
you know, no acting required, just basically you're driving a car,
or like Gillette. And I started booking some of these
commercials and my agency, have you ever thought about doing
TV or film? And I was like, God, now, I've
always been nervous in front of the camera. And it's like,
why don't you take an acting class see if you
(18:14):
like it, because you seem to have a knack for
booking these commercials. And I jumped into this acting class
and who just in New York. In New York, My, Yeah,
my first teacher, her name was Jackie Segal, and it
was just a private acting class in the East Village. Uh.
Studied there for a little bit, and then I studied
(18:35):
UM at the Bank Street Theater UM and then also
with Sheila Gray and Sam Batson UM and yeah, I
just I fell in love with it. And then I
was across the street for the World Trade Center. I
(18:56):
had done two acting roles, one Law and Order episode
SV and then uh, an episode of the show called
the Street Right to get into bed with Jenny Garth
in my underwear, and uh, you know, two small acting
credits to my name. And then those planes hit the
World Trade Center that morning. I I was living across
(19:18):
street from the Trade centers. I went to my window
because I could hear the syrens and the ambulances, and
I literally looked up and saw the flames and people
jumping out of the towers and it was horrendous. And
I took my video camera and I started video videoing everything.
And then the second plane hit and that's when I knew, like,
(19:40):
all right, something's not right. So I ran outside and um,
this tower fell down. I was running down the street
and it was two weeks before I could get back
into my apartment. And when I did, it looked like
a bomb had blown up. My windows were blown in
and there's all this debris everywhere, and I had ten
minutes to grab whenever I could, put it to a
suitcase and get out of there. And that's when I
(20:03):
decided to know what I'm gonna go to. I think
I'm gonna go to Hollywood to pursue this dream, you know,
this close to meeting my maker. And that was one
of the things that I write about in my book
about you know, I think we take life for granted,
and I think we let a lot of the our
own self doubts stop us from going after what we
(20:26):
really want to. And you know, I loved acting, but
the idea of going out to Hollywood to be a
professional actor, that was just kind of like, it didn't
seem real. I was like, I mean Leonardo DiCaprio and
Ben Affleck and Matt Dame like I would love that,
but and Tom Cruise, I was like, I can never
do that. But after that day on nine eleven, I
(20:49):
was like, you know what if I was stuck up
at those in those towers, and you know, God or
someone said, hey, Colin from giving you a second chance
of life, what are you gonna do with it? And
just crystal clear, I was like, I want to act,
I want to go do this, and uh so I
went up to Hollywood and counted the pavement for three
(21:11):
years and it was in that three year period that
I booked Stale Moore Girls Before All My Children, which
probably back to New York. What's the name of that book.
It's called Agile Artists Like Lessons from Hollywood and Beyond.
What a story? What a story? Um, all right, we're
gonna shift gears here and thank you for sharing that.
(21:33):
That is uh yeah wow. Um. You know, that's one
of those life changing moments, obviously for a lot of
people around the world, and especially for the families directly
affected by it. But you know, you were there, You
were at ground zero practically, and you you could have
lost your life had you not gotten out of there.
Sure have you ever got a life altering moment like that? Well?
(21:57):
Uh yeah, uh huh A couple of them actually, Actually
the day that happened, that's you know, September eleventh, is
my birthday. So that altered my life, and that, you know,
should gives me an opportunity to show respect to the
fallen and the lives that were lost. I no longer
(22:18):
celebrate my birthday on the eleventh. Um, it's not a
time of celebration. But yeah, so that changed. But yes,
I've had I've had a several actually life changing Um
so I know I know what you mean, man, You
know it changes your perspective on everything, and you go,
you know what. And I've I've been in your shoes
where it was like, Okay, um now I'm gonna do
(22:41):
what I'm you know, if I had ten years to live,
what am I gonna do? You know? If I had
really matters? Right right? Yeah, all right, We're gonna play
a game called Rapid Fire, okay uh, and I'm gonna
(23:04):
ask you questions and you just you just answer his
fast account. Okay if you wouldn't mind, all right, you
don't have to, but that's what we do, all right, Rabber.
How many coups of coffee do you have in a day?
Are you Team Logan, Team Jesser, Team Dean? I don't
know who's your favorite character on Gilmore Girls? What would
(23:26):
you what would you order at Luke's Diner a turkey
club sandwich? What would you rather go on a road
trip with Taylor or Michelle Taylor? Why? I don't know.
I like the name, finish the lyric and where you lead,
I will follow dot dot dot to the ends of
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the earth and make you the happiest woman in the world. Wow,
that's pretty good. We better call Carol King and say
we gotta we got a hot line coming in. We
got a line coming in hot here, Carol. Now it's
anywhere that you lead me to. But we like your
line as well. Jackson's Vegetables or Suki's baked Goods. Would
(24:10):
you rather listen to Drella's Harp or The Troubadour's cover songs,
Cover Songs, Children prep or Stars Hollow? Hi? There you go, Colin.
It has been a pleasure. Thank you for sharing your
story a little bit with us. Um And uh, you know,
(24:32):
one thing I will note is that when you came
on screen the first time, and I watched this this morning, Um,
I said to myself, boy, he looks you know, he's
got the same kind of spark as Milo vent Amelia.
I mean, you really sort of reminded me him because
I saw you in a profile and then when you
(24:52):
started speaking, you sounded exactly like him. So I I,
you know, I'm gonna check with Warner others to see
if Milo. I'll text Milo to see if he was
voicing over your voice. I thought, maybe there's something weird
with this guy's voice. And they had Milo on the
set that day and they can your voice over his voice.
You sounded and looked very very similar to Milo. Um,
(25:15):
so it looks like Amy. Sharon Peladino has a type, right, Okay, anyway, anyway,
so thanks for playing with us. Uh, it was great
meeting you and talking to a little bit. And thank
you for Sharon your story. Uh, and good luck with everything. Okay,
my pleasure, you too, all right, call him take care now,
(25:35):
all right, take care of alright. Yeah, hey everybody, and
(26:08):
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I am all In. Let's kiss you, I Am all
in with Scott Patterson and I Heart Radio podcast. Hey
(00:21):
Everybody's Scott Patterson. I Am all In Podcast one on
one interview. We have a very special cast. Colin eggles Field.
He was uh in one of his only appearances in
season four, episode seventeen, Girls in Bikini's Boys Doing the Twist. Uh.
(00:41):
He played Sean Um And a little bit about Colin.
He's an actor, is known for his roles in All
My Children, Melrose Place, Where's Olian Aisles? And The Client List,
Chicago Fireplus, starring alongside Kate Hudson and Jennifer Goodwin, and
Something Borrow Doesn't There's a sequel something about a sequel
(01:02):
to that that you can tell some were supposed to
the book has a sequel to it, but we never
actually got to filming that second. Oh man, Yeah, it's
I know, right, you get to work with Kate Hudson again. Well,
once it's good enough maybe right. Um, all right, let's
jump into it. You you played shown in spring Break
(01:24):
episodes He's four episode seventeen. How did you get the role?
The audition for it for so yes, I did um
and that one was the first time that I actually
had to. My agent called me off the morning of
and I was like ten o'clock in the morning, got
an email, um, and then a phone call saying, hey,
uh gil More girls, they're doing this audition down in
(01:47):
Marina del Rey and if you book the role, you're
gonna be working today. So, I mean, I don't know
how this business works sometimes where it's like all right,
you know, it's like we're My dad was an obstetrician,
like he would have to get called in the middle
of the night. But you know, with Hollywood, it's very
similar in the sense that like you just got to
be on call. And uh So I went down there
(02:10):
and there was probably like fifteen other guys that were
at this motel um and one by one they had
us go in audition, and then it was that magical
moment where the casting director comes out and says, all right,
everyone can leave except for Colin. I was like, right,
got this role, and then she says, Okay, we just
(02:30):
need you to wait here. We're waiting for one other
actor to come by audition, Like crap. So I'm sitting
there literally for like an hour, and then finally this
kid walks in and it was actually this guy from
my acting class, and um, I was brand new to
acting and he was like the more experienced actor in
my our acting class. He was the guy that like
(02:52):
everyone looked up to for advice and stuff. And I
was like, oh, he's wanting you know. So I was like, oh, then,
you know, obviously I'm not gonna get this. And shure enough,
he went in an audition and then she came out
and said, all right, call him he can you come
back in here and audition again. And so I went
back into the audition and then she came back out
and she was like, all right, to the other guy,
(03:13):
you can you can take off Colin to go to wardrobe.
So you're working that day? Yeah, wow, how exciting. So
so what was that like you tell us about you know,
you get the wardrobe. Did you go to Brendan mabn
and she fitted you with the wardrobe and then you
went to set? Tell us about what that was like? Yeah,
(03:34):
just you know, it was a pretty quick wardrobe fitting.
I think I had like two or three outfits and uh,
you know, my character plays a spring breaker, and um,
the girls come and they see they check into a
hotel the world of the motel rooms, and I walked
by with my friends and I kind of like take
(03:56):
a glance, and I'm kind of like smiling and flirting.
And then, um, we see each other again at the
pool and I'm just trying to like play Mr. Cool
and so yeah, I think I had like three different
or two different wardrobe changes. Um. And then you know
a lot of acting is just sitting around waiting, So
just kind of sat around waiting for a while and
(04:17):
then uh, and then just got to it. Um. So
we shot one day there and then we shot another
day at the nightclub scene where the girls. Um, I
think Paris sees two girls making out, so no, no, no,
no, no no, Paris makes out with Rory. Yes, well you
see you see Paris kiss Rory and then you go
(04:39):
up to Rory finally, Yes, but it was I don't
know where Paris got the idea, but she was like
she kisses Rory to try to like spice things up
because they're like on spring break and right there they
feel like they're boring. And of course Rory is like
gob smacked. She's like what are you doing? And I
see this and I'm like, oh, these girls are like
(05:00):
into this kicky stuff. So I walk over to Rory
and she's like, oh hey, and I'm like, hey, how
you doing? Maybe your friend wants to come to She
was like you gross and she like hence hence the
one episode on a family friendly show. Um, but hey,
(05:22):
at least you got to play right, Uh And what
a great credit the head of on the resume. Did
it help your career and all? Getting a Gilmore Girls
because Gilmore Girls is sort of a stamp of approval
the way Seinfeld was absolutely absolutely Yeah, having a credit
like that on my resume definitely, Uh makes casting directors
and directors and producers, you know, taking more seriously and
(05:44):
you're not just uh, you know, a newbie and that
you've actually you know, proven that you've gone through the
audition process and you know, because it's it's definitely not easy,
like I just described. You know, there's a lot of
competition when it comes to acting. You know, sometimes there's
some luck involved, but a lot of the times it
does come down to uh, you know, just um proving
(06:08):
to the casting that you know that they usually want
to see you like four or five six times, the
trust you enough to you know, see what you're capable
of doing, you'll actually pull the trigger to to cast.
So before you Gilmore, you've done a few TV episodes.
When your first gig, you've done Law and Order, s V.
(06:28):
You you did SWAT. Were you familiar with Gilmore Girls
before you joined the show? Were how did you discover
the show? It was just you know, it's, um, just
just popular show. I mean, you know back then when
the ratings were like, you know massive, there was only
(06:53):
what maybe six networks or seven networks instead of like
the two thousand networks that they're UM. So, I you know,
I'd always heard that it was, you know, a really
popular show. I never actually watched an episode, but I
always thought Alexis was cute and uh I was like yeah,
(07:14):
and you know, you see her in like the Red
Carpet and magazines and stuff, So I mean I knew
who she was and I was like, yeah, this this
would be cool. What did you think of her? Would you?
Did you like working with her? Oh? Yeah she was
so everyone was so sweet, so cool, so down to
um and uh yeah it was it was great to
(07:34):
work with her. Then, um, I saw her, Um, one
of my favorite shows is Madman. So when I saw
her on that. Um, I was like, good on. Yeah.
It was like and she doesn't age. I mean, it's crazy,
like she still looks the same. Yeah. Um so. Uh.
(07:54):
The band The Shins performed at that club in that scene.
Were you excited to see him on stage during the filming? Yeah?
Yeah yeah. And The Ships were actually one of my
favorite bands at the time. Um. I had first discovered
them in New York City before moving out to l A.
So that was an extra special treat to to be
(08:15):
able to see them. Dude, let me ask you this.
Do you do you get recognized from that episode? Um?
I have? I have, yes, Um, maybe once or twice. Uh.
You know, it's it's usually some I don't know, something,
just a random person like an airport or something, and
(08:38):
they'll come up and be like you wait you are
you an actor? I'm like yeah. Normally it's from All
my Children or something borrowed because those are some of
the bigger projects I've done. And I there was this
one person, um, and I was like, she was like,
you know, are you an actor? Was like, yeah, I
was on All My Children. She's like no. I was like,
what else have you been on? And this is then
(08:59):
where it gets in of this like rabbit hole of
uh did something borrowed? No? No, that client, No, that
wasn't it. Give the whole resume to somebody. That wasn't it.
And then five minutes later she comes back that's me
gilbar Girls And I was like, oh, yes, that was
(09:20):
twenty something years ago. Y. Yeah, you're very patient just
to go through the entire list. That's it. Yeah, because
that's like if you if you say like, hey, listen,
I'm not gonna play this game, they're like, oh yeah,
we'ready a callin niggles Field. He's such But they don't
know who you are anyway. They didn't know who you were.
Well they recognized you, but they didn't know why. And
(09:41):
you know, knew me from something. Wow. Um. So you
went on to start in several movies, uh, and TV
series mel Melrose Places, Client List, Razolian Isles um, and
you filmed Something Barroed, which kind of a big head right.
(10:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, So I mean, I know, we we
talked about a little bit in the beginning, but what
happened to the sequel? So there there's a sequel to
the there's it's a book series, something Borrowed, something Blue,
and in the end of Something Borrowed, they actually show
the preview for Something Blue, so left everyone thinking, all right, well,
(10:25):
this is going to happen. And it was right around
the time when romantic comedies at the box office we're
just kind of like curtailing and the traditional romantic comedy,
something like How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
or Pretty Woman, Something Borrowed. Um, what happened was two
weeks after Something Borrowed came out, Um, it was the
(10:52):
movie with Kristen Wig, Bridesmaids came and that movie, like
almost overnight kind of redefined what the romantic comedy was.
And so our movie kind of, I mean it did,
it did good, but Bride'smaids just exploded and within after
(11:15):
coming out after Something Borrowed, all the attention was on
bride'smaid So then the romantic comedy started to just kind
of it started to go a little more subversive and
a little more black comedy, kind of more realistic, more
of the non traditional boy needs girl and are they
(11:35):
going to get together? Um, it was kind of more
of the I don't know INDI version of romantic comedies.
And then couple that with the explosion of Netflix, where
everyone started to get these gigantic TVs in their homes
and so people stopped going to the movie theater as much.
(11:57):
The largest demographic of movie goers is actually seventeen year
old boys. So that's why all of these tent pole
superhero movies do so well theaters, like Marvel and you know,
Superman and all this stuff, spider Man and the romantic
comedy as we know it has really kind of shifted
(12:21):
more over to like Hallmark and g a C. Where
there the traditional you know, boy meets girl kind of model. UM.
And it's it's a shame because I stn't think there's
there's definitely an audience for the kinds of romantic comedies
that you know, people we grew up watching. UM. And
(12:43):
not to say that you know, the new type of
romantic comedy is is not um, you know, not viable,
because obviously it is. It just definitely UM that they
were afraid with a huge budget like you kid Hudson
and John Krasinski's and like the salaries. I mean, it
(13:04):
almost became a question of, well, are we going to
make our money back because the amount of box office
scorers now is just not what it used to be
So now you have a series called Coffee with Colin
on Facebook or or is it YouTube? Tell us about that,
(13:26):
It's it's both. So I do a live talk show
on Monday nights where I interviewed my actor friends and
and influencers athletes essentially the platform. The whole theme of
the show is what what challenges have you faced in
life to overcome to be able to manifest your dreams
(13:50):
and create success in life. A lot of people look at,
you know, actors or athletes or whatever and think like, oh, well,
you know I could never do that, or there's no way,
like you know, that's Hollywood or you know, all that's
for other people, and uh, for full you know, for
a full hour, we delve into you know, why did
(14:11):
you want to become an actor or an athlete? Or
how did you write this book? Um? What were the
challenges you face? What would you tell your younger self?
What advice would you give to anyone who's pursuing a
career now in acting or whatever? Um? You know, because
on talk shows there's really not a whole lot of
time to really delve into this kind of stuff. On
talk shows, it's like five or ten minutes they you know,
(14:34):
people give a little sound bites, but I'm a coffee
with Colin. I try to show a side of people
that the general public maybe never knew about, or when
they watched the show, they're like you know what, wow, Like, Um,
they're just like me. And you know, I always wanted
to be an actor, and I always like, it's good
(14:55):
nice to hear that. You know that success of actors
or whatever have the same doubts and the same fears
and the same insecurities as everyone else. But this is
how we overcame all of that to get to where
we're at. Um. Interesting alright, Uh, coffee with Colin, Facebook, YouTube,
checking out everybody. You know. You you have a pretty
(15:17):
interesting background before acting, you were in the fashion world.
You were, um, a very successful model. Uh, tell us
about a little bit about that journey. How did you
get discovered and what was that experience? Like, Yeah, I
was I was going to school at the University of Iowa.
(15:37):
I was a senior um and I was coming home
from my waitering job one night in the middle of
winter and I heard on the radio, come to the
Model Search of America the Davenport Holiday And next Tuesday
night you can travel the world, and I was like,
why not? So I went to model agent. Scouts said, uh,
(16:00):
we're doing this this model convention UM in Chicago, like
for you to come, and so I went to it,
got hooked up with an agent in Chicago and started
he started setting me on some of these auditions, and
then they randomly got selected for this Ralph Lauren campaign
and then Versace and you got a Ralph Lauren campaign. Yeah.
(16:23):
And as as as somebody who just coming into the business, Yeah,
I was twenty three years old years old and you're
shooting with Bruce Webber. There you go, because he shot
he shot those campaigns, right, yeah, and what year was that?
This was nineties six, all right, so he was all
through the eighties too, so he was well established at
that point. Is as like the one of one of
(16:46):
the photographers. Yeah, Bruce Webber and I go down to
Florida to shoot this thing and I'm like, oh, yeah,
Like I didn't know who was I didn't like. I
was just saying I would stand here playing the beach
and like ball. Sure, And then he hired me two
weeks later for this Versace campaign and good lord, Yeah,
(17:07):
I got to go to the Versaccy Mansion for Bruce
Webber's birthday party and met Donna Tella and like supermodels.
And then they sent me to Milan, Italy and started
doing runaway shows for Versacey Armani and uh I wrote
a book four years ago and I write all about this,
just kind of like crazy journeys and stuff. And then
(17:30):
I lived in Milan for three months, and then I
moved to New York City and started doing the Calvin
Clan underwear box. So I was working with and pretty regularly.
And uh then every six months Milan, London, Paris for
the fashion shows. Lived in Tokyo for like seven weeks
modeling stuff. And while I was in New York, my
(17:54):
agents started sending me on some commercial auditions for like
you know, no acting required, just basically you're driving a car,
or like Gillette. And I started booking some of these
commercials and my agency, have you ever thought about doing
TV or film? And I was like, God, now, I've
always been nervous in front of the camera. And it's like,
why don't you take an acting class see if you
(18:14):
like it, because you seem to have a knack for
booking these commercials. And I jumped into this acting class
and who just in New York. In New York, My, Yeah,
my first teacher, her name was Jackie Segal, and it
was just a private acting class in the East Village. Uh.
Studied there for a little bit, and then I studied
(18:35):
UM at the Bank Street Theater UM and then also
with Sheila Gray and Sam Batson UM and yeah, I
just I fell in love with it. And then I
was across the street for the World Trade Center. I
(18:56):
had done two acting roles, one Law and Order episode
SV and then uh, an episode of the show called
the Street Right to get into bed with Jenny Garth
in my underwear, and uh, you know, two small acting
credits to my name. And then those planes hit the
World Trade Center that morning. I I was living across
(19:18):
street from the Trade centers. I went to my window
because I could hear the syrens and the ambulances, and
I literally looked up and saw the flames and people
jumping out of the towers and it was horrendous. And
I took my video camera and I started video videoing everything.
And then the second plane hit and that's when I knew, like,
(19:40):
all right, something's not right. So I ran outside and um,
this tower fell down. I was running down the street
and it was two weeks before I could get back
into my apartment. And when I did, it looked like
a bomb had blown up. My windows were blown in
and there's all this debris everywhere, and I had ten
minutes to grab whenever I could, put it to a
suitcase and get out of there. And that's when I
(20:03):
decided to know what I'm gonna go to. I think
I'm gonna go to Hollywood to pursue this dream, you know,
this close to meeting my maker. And that was one
of the things that I write about in my book
about you know, I think we take life for granted,
and I think we let a lot of the our
own self doubts stop us from going after what we
(20:26):
really want to. And you know, I loved acting, but
the idea of going out to Hollywood to be a
professional actor, that was just kind of like, it didn't
seem real. I was like, I mean Leonardo DiCaprio and
Ben Affleck and Matt Dame like I would love that,
but and Tom Cruise, I was like, I can never
do that. But after that day on nine eleven, I
(20:49):
was like, you know what if I was stuck up
at those in those towers, and you know, God or
someone said, hey, Colin from giving you a second chance
of life, what are you gonna do with it? And
just crystal clear, I was like, I want to act,
I want to go do this, and uh so I
went up to Hollywood and counted the pavement for three
(21:11):
years and it was in that three year period that
I booked Stale Moore Girls Before All My Children, which
probably back to New York. What's the name of that book.
It's called Agile Artists Like Lessons from Hollywood and Beyond.
What a story? What a story? Um, all right, we're
gonna shift gears here and thank you for sharing that.
(21:33):
That is uh yeah wow. Um. You know, that's one
of those life changing moments, obviously for a lot of
people around the world, and especially for the families directly
affected by it. But you know, you were there, You
were at ground zero practically, and you you could have
lost your life had you not gotten out of there.
Sure have you ever got a life altering moment like that? Well?
(21:57):
Uh yeah, uh huh A couple of them actually, Actually
the day that happened, that's you know, September eleventh, is
my birthday. So that altered my life, and that, you know,
should gives me an opportunity to show respect to the
fallen and the lives that were lost. I no longer
(22:18):
celebrate my birthday on the eleventh. Um, it's not a
time of celebration. But yeah, so that changed. But yes,
I've had I've had a several actually life changing Um
so I know I know what you mean, man, You
know it changes your perspective on everything, and you go,
you know what. And I've I've been in your shoes
where it was like, Okay, um now I'm gonna do
(22:41):
what I'm you know, if I had ten years to live,
what am I gonna do? You know? If I had
really matters? Right right? Yeah, all right, We're gonna play
a game called Rapid Fire, okay uh, and I'm gonna
(23:04):
ask you questions and you just you just answer his
fast account. Okay if you wouldn't mind, all right, you
don't have to, but that's what we do, all right, Rabber.
How many coups of coffee do you have in a day?
Are you Team Logan, Team Jesser, Team Dean? I don't
know who's your favorite character on Gilmore Girls? What would
(23:26):
you what would you order at Luke's Diner a turkey
club sandwich? What would you rather go on a road
trip with Taylor or Michelle Taylor? Why? I don't know.
I like the name, finish the lyric and where you lead,
I will follow dot dot dot to the ends of
(23:49):
the earth and make you the happiest woman in the world. Wow,
that's pretty good. We better call Carol King and say
we gotta we got a hot line coming in. We
got a line coming in hot here, Carol. Now it's
anywhere that you lead me to. But we like your
line as well. Jackson's Vegetables or Suki's baked Goods. Would
(24:10):
you rather listen to Drella's Harp or The Troubadour's cover songs,
Cover Songs, Children prep or Stars Hollow? Hi? There you go, Colin.
It has been a pleasure. Thank you for sharing your
story a little bit with us. Um And uh, you know,
(24:32):
one thing I will note is that when you came
on screen the first time, and I watched this this morning, Um,
I said to myself, boy, he looks you know, he's
got the same kind of spark as Milo vent Amelia.
I mean, you really sort of reminded me him because
I saw you in a profile and then when you
(24:52):
started speaking, you sounded exactly like him. So I I,
you know, I'm gonna check with Warner others to see
if Milo. I'll text Milo to see if he was
voicing over your voice. I thought, maybe there's something weird
with this guy's voice. And they had Milo on the
set that day and they can your voice over his voice.
You sounded and looked very very similar to Milo. Um,
(25:15):
so it looks like Amy. Sharon Peladino has a type, right, Okay, anyway, anyway,
so thanks for playing with us. Uh, it was great
meeting you and talking to a little bit. And thank
you for Sharon your story. Uh, and good luck with everything. Okay,
my pleasure, you too, all right, call him take care now,
(25:35):
all right, take care of alright. Yeah, hey everybody, and
(26:08):
don't forget follow us on Instagram at I Am all
In podcast and email us at Gilmore at I heart
radio dot com. Oh you gil More fans. If you're
looking for the best cup of coffee in the world,
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