WHITE COLLAR Webcast
Matt Bomer (Neal Caffrey) Tim DeKay (Peter Burke)
Transcribed by: Afiawri Hosted by: Photoash Thank you to Elrhiarhodan for helping Thank you to ioio10 for providing a clip for the ending.
Tim: [Yawns.]
Matt: Great.
Tim: With… [inaudible.]
Matt: Damn, I don't think I could do that. I did tell the giant or what's his name now? That I did the promo with?
Tim: Big Show.
Matt: Big Show, that I wanted to have a cage match with him. He's like “we can wrestle, but cage match, you don't want that.” He's like “I wouldn't put that in- put my body through that again.”
Tim: Imagine-
Matt: My God, his hand-
Tim: You saying- you saying we can have a cage match, cut-
Matt: His hand weighs more than I do.
Tim: Cut to- cut to him-
Matt: His hand is this big.
Tim: Cut to him holding you up and just kind of slamming you back and it'll be like-
Matt: AHHH! AHHH! Seriously like a rag doll. Like a rag doll.
Someone: Ready to go? Let's knock this fucker out.
Tim: Yeah!
Matt: Let's do it. Let's do.
Someone: So, let me know when you guys are ready, I’ll just come back and put you on.
Someone else: Thirty seconds to go.
Tim: An hour's a long time.
Matt: It's a long ti- we're going to be talking for a long time.
Someone: Well, I guess you have to cut, because I just [inaudible] start talking. While you’re going [inaudible].
Matt: Can I get up and go pee if I have to?
Someone: If you need to, you should go now.
Matt: Or should I just hold it? I'll just go in this. Very conspicuously under the table.
Tim: But they can’t in ten seconds.
Someone: Seven... six… five… four… three… two…
Matt: ...it's pretty standard stuff here...
Tim: Pretty good question.
Matt: FBI agent... What would you do, if-? What's your favorite... thing?
Tim: Matt, have you always been this hot?
Matt: What do you like here?
Tim: Matt, will you be my husband?
Matt: Okay...
Tim: Matt, will you marry my daughter?
Matt: Oh, here's a good one. Here's a good one.
Tim: What?
Matt: Um, how big is your gun?
Tim: Well, that's pretty personal. [inaudible.]
Matt: I can vouch for it. I don't like guns, but I can vouch for it, it's pretty big.
Tim: Yeah, it's, well, you know thanks to props and-
Matt: There are some smoke and mirrors involved, that's-
Tim: There are, you tip the lighting guys well, lots of-
Matt: Are we-?
Tim: We're on.
Matt: Is that- is that on? Oh, okay.
Tim: We're on. Welcome.
Matt: Hello. Welcome to the White Collar webcast.
Tim: Thanks for coming.
Matt: Thanks for being here, we are here to answer a few of your questions about the show. My name's Matt Bomer.
Tim: I'm-
Matt: I play Neal Caffrey.
Tim: Yes, he does, he plays Neal Caffrey, I'm Tim DeKay and I play Peter Burke.
Matt: And, uh, we're really thankful that you guys tuned in to the first season, the finale of which airs next week, Tuesday night at ten PM. And we're glad you're here today. So we're gonna get straight to your questions, interview style.
Tim: Very good.
Matt: I'm gonna ask Tim-
Tim: And then I'll ask you.
Matt: Yes.
Tim: That's the way we roll.
Matt: That's how we do.
Tim: Okay. I'm ready, buddy.
Matt: You gonna go first?
Tim: Yeah, let me ask you first.
Matt: Okay.
Tim: All right. Uh, Kristin G. from St. Mary’s, Ohio says-
Matt: Hello, Kristin.
Tim: She's a good egg. 'It takes a special bond to make an excellent on screen team. What do you think makes Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey the smoothest team on television?'
Matt: We're not smooth.
Tim: I don't-
Matt: We’re not smooth.
Tim: We're not smooth.
Matt: Are we smooth?
Tim: I, well- Some-
Matt: Sometimes.
Tim: You're pretty smooth.
Matt: No. We're jagg[ed]- we’re- [Hand motion.]
Tim: We're rough around the edges a bit.
Matt: Yeah, yeah. No, um.
Tim: Which kind of makes us smooth.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: Yeah. What makes us the smoothest-?
Matt: I don't... I think I can say for myself it's the fact that I really like the guy I get to work with, that helps a lot and-
Tim: Me too.
Matt: -he's an amazing actor and pretty much anything I throw at you, you say yes to.
Tim: Yes, I do.
Matt: Which helps.
Tim: Yes.
Matt: He's dug me out of a lot of... holes.
Tim: Well, likewise. Likewise. We save each other.
Matt: And, um, I think we just try to have fun, right? Isn't that what we-
Tim: No.
Matt: No, we don't. We never laugh.
Tim: No.
Matt: We don't.
Tim: That's a stupid answer.
Matt: Yeah, that's bad, that’s bad, I'm sorry, let's go to yours. Tim, this is from Luminosity.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: In Chandler, Arizona. Hello, Luminosity. 'As an ex-cop-'
Tim: Yep, yep.
Matt: Luminosity, the ex-cop. 'I am often critical of the portrayal of law enforcement officers. You do a great job of making Peter professional, yet human.' I agree with that.
Tim: Oh, thanks.
Matt: 'How did you prepare for your role as an FBI agent?'
Tim: Uh, well, uh, Luminosity?
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: Luminosity, I got to, uh, kind of tool around with an ex-FBI agent. And he kind of showed me the ropes and told me what it was like. But I also think that combining the whole professional FBI attitude with a strong sense of- [crashing noises] humanity is the fact that we've got a crew banging around back stage.
Matt: Don't mind somebody just fell about twelve feet, it's fine.
Tim: I'm sure he's fine.
Matt: He's fine, he's fine.
Tim: Uh...
Matt: Go ahead, this is- this is more important. This is more important.
Tim: This is much more important. Oh, you can hear cries of pain.
Matt: Yep, that's all right. Ignore it.
Tim: We're rolling. Uh, more importantly, um, I don't know, it's the writing! They write, you know, fortunately you get to go to this guy's home. You know, Peter Burke's home. And not often do you get that on a-
Matt: That's true.
Tim: from a, uh-
Matt: You get to see a lot of the personal life as well.
Tim: You get to see… you haven't seen Peter bathe yet.
Matt: Well you got to save- I mean that's magic right there, you got to save some of that kind of magic for subsequent seasons.
Tim: That's not magic. Yes, yes. Uh, but maybe- maybe we'll start with bathing Satchmo.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: And then kind of work our way,
Matt: I like that.
Tim: 'Cause suds is sexy.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: Yes. All right, Matt, uh, Adrian C. from Vancouver, Canada! Go Canadians, eh?
Matt: Vancouver! We love Vancouver.
Tim: Yeah, we were just there.
Matt: We were.
Tim: Uh.
Matt: Good folks. Vancouverites.
Tim: I'm not going to ask this question. Uh, what- nope.
Matt: No, you're not going to ask it?
Tim: No, I'm not gonna ‘cause it sounds like I wanna- here, I swear to you, Adrian said this.
Matt: I'll give you a boldfaced compliment right to your face, I'm not scared.
Tim: 'What was your first impression of Tim?' His fly was open for one.
Matt: Once I got over the smell-
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: -it was really easy going from there on out, it was all down hill. No, my first impression of Tim. We- he came in and we did a chemistry read together and we had an absolute blast.
Tim: We had a hoot.
Matt: And we improved a lot together and it was just- I could tell he was a really good actor who listened and- and- and- and brought a lot of work to the character and- and- what I brought to my character, I felt like complemented what he brought to his character-
Tim: Much more. Much more. And I was nervous when the first time we read.
Matt: You were nervous?
Tim: Oh, I was nervous, because, well, you came- we had actually met in the waiting room.
Matt: Mmm-hmm.
Tim: And you had said something about Tell Me You Love Me. And I thought ooooh man, this guy- And you didn't- did you have your script with you?
Matt: No. No.
Tim: You didn't. So Matt was off book, so he didn't have the script. And I had the script which, you know- he- he had a huge leg up, but, uh, he was very welcoming and, um, I knew right away we kind of had something there. I did.
Matt: It was just fun. I- he- I could tell he was a fun, gracious, um... good guy to work with.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Tim has this amazing um... Midwestern sensibility to him. It's like... it made me believe that you could empathize with somebody like Neal. Which not everybody could, some people would just throw him right back in prison.
Tim: Really?
Matt: I think so.
Tim: You know, funny I never thought about that.
Matt: Yeah, that's one of the things I liked right away. Um...
Tim: Oh, I though that-
Matt: Enough compliments for you, okay?
Tim: I know. No, no, but I'm saying really, because the second we read, I thought, oh, this guy. I thought, in the script, I think Peter likes this guy, and then when we read I realized, oh, no, he cares about him. Because in the scene- there was this bar scene? Where we-?
Matt: Yes. Yeah yeah yeah.
Tim: Where I'm telling you, I hate to tell you this, buddy but she doesn't-
Matt: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Tim: She wants to break up with you. We were talking about Kate. It was a bar scene at first. Where, uh, where that became a walk and talk outside.
Matt: Yeah, it did. It did.
Tim: Little inside scoop.
Matt: Little inside scoop for ya.
Tim: All right, read on!
Matt: Your turn. This is for both of us, it's from Ann Marie U. New York, New York, baby!
Tim: Nice, Ann Marie.
Matt: What's up, New York City? My favorite place on Earth! If you could pick the ultimate guest star, who would it be?
Tim: Ooo.
Matt: And who would you want them to play? Want to go first?
Tim: Uh. I can't think of anybody. Uh, maybe, I keep going to this. Uh. You know Mark Harmon, I just saw him, it would be kind of fun if he were like Peter's-
Matt: You want to do an NCIS crossover.
Tim: Oh, I would. I did play Senator... Kiley. On NCIS.
Matt: Let's bring it back, let's bring it back. It's about time to bring that back.
Tim: What about you, who would you want? Oh, you got a list of people that you would love.
Matt: I have a list of people, yeah. I- I- actually just talked to Parker Posey who I really, really liked and she was really fun and funny and I think she could play-
Tim: Name dropper.
Matt: Ow- mmm got it. My back. Did I just drop that?
Tim: That's a good name to drop. That's a good name to drop.
Matt: Ow. Ffff.
Tim: You all right?
Matt: It's okay, I'm going to PT it. It's going to be okay. But no, she was really fun and funny and I thought she could be really fun, you know, sexy, funny bad girl.
Tim: Yeah. Yeah.
Matt: Who else... Saffron Burrows from-
Tim: Holy cow.
Matt: -from Law and Order CI is maybe the most gorgeous person I've ever seen in my life.
Tim: You know this person as well?
Matt: She was at that party last week. She was the one who was seven feet tall-
Tim: I didn't meet her.
Matt: -and beautiful.
Tim: You- you- that was- you guys were in the beautiful people section. I was in there spilling trays.
Matt: Oh. Oh, yes you were.
Tim: I actually did that at a party. I was talking to somebody and a pers- a per[son]- a server walked by and I did this and the whole tray of tuna tartar went down on the floor.
Matt: Tim. Tim, you're ruining the illusion that you're perfect.
Tim: No. There was never an illusion for that. Except for my gun.
Matt: That's right.
Tim: Moving on.
Matt: Except for that gun. Um, wait, hold on, I'm trying to think who else, wait, this is a good chance to get this out there to people so they'll want to come do the show.
Tim: Carl Ellison Riley. No.
Matt: Okay, yeah, uh-huh, yeah, that's always good. Who else?
Tim: James Lipton.
Matt: James Lipton would be amazing, actually.
Tim: Yes. Um.
Matt: Actors, if you're out there, and you think you'd be a fun guest spot, hit us up.
Tim: And then I can also think of people that I went to school with that would be great.
Matt: Yeah, that'd be good. Yeah, I can do that too. All right, moving onwards. 'Is it-'
Tim: My turn!
Matt: Is it your turn?
Tim: Yes.
Matt: Oh, that's right. Sorry.
Tim: Ah Lisa or Less-a. L-E-H-S-A V. from San Antonio, Texas.
Matt: San Antonio!
Tim: Writes in-
Matt: Love San Antonio.
Tim: -and says, Matty. But she probably didn't say Matty, she probably just said Matt. I call him Matty.
Matt: It's all right.
Tim: 'Will we hear more of your singing and maybe even some dancing like you did as Bryce Larkin in Chuck? I think Neal would probably be a very good dancer.' I think he would too. Because Matty can sing his buttocks off.
Matt: Only when I'm drunk.
Tim: No, you can.
Matt: No, I don't drink.
Tim: Will we hear more singing? We actually will.
Matt: Uh, I hope so. Yeah, that could be fun.
Tim: Do you want to? Do you know?
Matt: Oh, are you talking about on the show or outside the show?
Tim: Uh. On the show.
Matt: Outside the show you definitely will, but on the show, maybe yeah.
Tim: I know something. 'Cause I talked to Jeff Eastin.
Matt: What? Tell me. Oh, tell me, please.
Tim: Um, Jeff Eastin said there will be an episode where you and Diahann sing.
Matt: YES!
Tim: Yeah, yeah.
Matt: Awesome.
Tim: Yeah, there will, um...
Matt: You can't NOT do that.
Tim: No, I know.
Matt: I mean if I get the chance to sing with Diana Carroll. That’s be amazing. That’d be incredible.
Tim: There will be a dinner part- there will be a dinner party at June's and you two will sing.
Matt: That'd be amazing. Yeah, that'd be fun.
Tim: That'd be awesome.
Matt: I hope I get the chance to, that'd be really fun.
Tim: There's a great-
Matt: Dancing-wise, I'm not the wor- I'm not the world's best dancer. When we did on that Chuck, they had to have a chorographer come in a couple weeks early-
Tim: Really? You can dance.
Matt: -to work on those moves with me, so...
Tim: There's a great gag reel that's out there that we had to... Matt had to record... in one of the episodes where he kind of gets loopy and he singing on the gurney.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: Uh, what was the name of the song?
Matt: “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.”
Tim: “Love Is a Many Splendored Things”. Uh, we had to record it. And while we were recording it audibly, they also recorded it visually.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: And he didn't know that and he kind of had the- the...
Matt: I was doing a drunken sway 'cause I was trying to be in the moment.
Tim: Yeah, but, you know what, here's thing…
Matt: There was an entire crew of people watching me, so I had my clo- I had my eyes closed too.
Tim: You did. It was great. It was great.
Matt: Which was how they got the camera on me without me knowing.
Tim: Even though it was supposed to be drunken, it wasn't.
Matt: So I ended up looking like... It was the Rainman version of “Love Is a Spl- Many Splendored Thing.”
Tim: It was great. Which one would never think works, but that does. The Rainman Version of “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.” I don’t know why they cut it from the movie.
Matt: Yeah, well, just put me on stage behind a curtain and I'll just do everything in that style.
Tim: Yeeeah, he's the man behind the curtain. But he can sing like there's no tomorrow.
Matt: Well, hopefully- that'd be fun. And hopefully- We sing together a lot.
Tim: Little bit.
Matt: So hopefully we'll do a duet. Maybe we'll do a duet someday.
Tim: Maybe. May- [Hums.]
Matt: Ha! [Hums.] This is for both of us.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: It's from Alicia G. in Los Angeles, California!
Tim: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Matt: What's up, L.A.? 'What was the one moment, as you started filming, that you realized you were part of something extraordinary?'
Tim: Ooo, wow.
Matt: Are we part of something extraordinary?
Tim: Um. I didn't know we were. Um. I don't know. That's a...
Matt: I'll tell you-
Tim: No.
Matt: When I realized it was going to be a lot of fun.
Tim: Yeah?
Matt: Was that day... that- it was one of the first days we shot when I came down the stairs in the pilot and I'm doing the hat trick.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: And we were kind of riffing with each other.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: And imp- improving and doing that.
Tim: Yeah. That was our first day.
Matt: And we sort of just fell into this rhythm that was really fun and- and- um-
Tim: Yep.
Matt: And I realized what you were bringing to the table was going to be really fun to play with with what I was bringing to the table. And for me that's when- I didn't think, oh, wow this is going to be something- how did she describe it? ‘Extraordinary.' I just thought it was going to be fun.
Tim: Fun, yeah. I think so too. Uh... I don't think- I don't think… it's tough as an artist or an actor to think we've got something extraordinary here because that's-
Matt: You're really shooting yourself in the foot there.
Tim: That's just setting yourself up for- yeah, you are. But I- I think... you know what was extraordinary to me was when you and I were- we did the car scene where he helps me out with, uh, Peter's anniversary.
Matt: The one where we almost died?
Tim: That's a car scene- there are many ways to shoot a car scene.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: You can shoot it with a truck pulling you or you can- and there are- there are cameras set up like this-
Matt: That's nice when you have the time and money to do that.
Tim: Or you can drive yourself. When there- when they light the hood of the car and they set up the camera on one side and they got to turn around and put the camera on the other side so you drive around many times to shoot both sides. So we were doing this where there's lights in front of us on the hood. And, uh, it happened to be raining.
Matt: Oh, it was pouring.
Tim: And it happened to be at night.
Matt: It happened to be pouring and it happened to be at night and your vision happened to be completely obscured. I actually owe my life to him-
Tim: We-
Matt: Because had a lesser driver been at the wheel, I might not have been here today.
Tim: I was so scared because you- it's raining but a light is shinning on you so you're a bit blinded to begin with.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: And so you have the windshield wipers on, but then you get a-
Matt: And there's a camera in your face.
Tim: -and there's a camera in your face and the director is slunched in the backseat.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: So that she doesn't- the camera doesn't see her.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: And the sound guy is there as well. And you're doing the scene and the sound guy says, 'Um. I keep hearing the windshield wipers. Is there any way you can turn them off?' And you think, No, I can't. Or else.
Matt: No, no, 'cause we'll die.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: If I do that, actually.
Tim: And there's- and this is New York City. We're in New York City and it's at night. That was kind of extraordinary.
Matt: That was, yeah. That was extraordinary in a- in the- the- the- in a very specific way.
Tim: Just stay down here.
Matt: Yep. You- you like it down there?
Tim: You don't mind, do ya?
Matt: I like it that down there. It looks relaxed, looks comfortable. Cozy. It's cozy.
Tim: “Your character, Neal” says Maggie C. from Marlton, New Jersey, “is really into history” slash... back slash “historical artifacts.” Ah, this is a great question. “What is your favorite time period?”
Matt: That is a great question. That was- Maggie was her name?
Tim: Yep.
Matt: Maggie, thank you for that question, that's a very good question.
Tim: Maggie.
Matt: Um, my favorite time period I think would have to be the Twenties in terms of the United States. Um. I'm a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby-
Tim: Oh yeah.
Matt: And Tender is the Night and stuff like that.
Tim: The Round Table.
Matt: And I think it was a really fun, interesting time in American history. Um, where- it was right before the Depression.
Tim: Right.
Matt: Before things really....
Tim: It was like where anything goes.
Matt: Hit the fan and anything goes.
Tim: Like music.
Matt: It was a really cool- Yeah. Yeah. It was just a really cool, fun time, so in terms of American history, I'd probably say that time.
Tim: The Twenties.
Matt: Twenties.
Tim: Awesome. You'd've- You'd've made a great Gatsby. A great Great Gatsby. You would've.
Matt: People, producers, take note.
Tim: Yeah. Producers.
Matt: That'd be an amazing role. But yeah, that'd be fun.
Tim: Yeah. And I can be the writer in the- in the uh- in the house. In the guest room.
Matt: Yes.
Tim: The Sam Waterston role.
Matt: We're always thinking.
Tim: Yep. Move forward.
Matt: We’re always thinking.
Tim: Move forward.
Matt: Um... Tim.
Tim: Yes?
Matt: This is from Kelly C. in Salem, Oregon.
Tim: Oh.
Matt: “What are your favorite places and things to do in New York?”
Tim: Uh. Central Park. No question, Central Park. Um. I love to go to any- the restaurants are great, great pizza places. I love walking. I don't want to go on a- if I take- if I have to take the subway, I will. But I just love walking around. We were just- where were we, in the lower East side? No.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: Meat Packing District.
Matt: Oh, meat packing, yeah.
Tim: When we were in New York just uh a week ago. That's pretty cool too. They took the elevated train track.
Matt: Yes, the High Line.
Tim: And made it a park. The High Line. It was very cool.
Matt: Beautiful. Very good use of that. It's recreational, it's fun, it's beautiful.
Tim: It's nice. Uh, Matty. Along with that theme, Kerri M. from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania said, “What is your favorite shooting location?”
Matt: Mmmm.
Tim: Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.
Matt: That's a good question. I have a lot of those. What was her name?
Tim: Kerri.
Matt: Kerri, thank you. I- I have a lot of those, actually. Well there were those really kind of iconic places that we got to shoot. Where if you ever lived in New York for any period of time the really iconic spots like Columbus Circle, that was- I couldn't believe we were getting to shoot in Columbus Circle.
Tim: Yeah, that was pretty cool.
Matt: Um. Times Square.
Tim: Yep.
Matt: Um. And some of my favorites spots were kind of the spots you don't get to see even as a New Yorker were these amazing, expensive brownstones with million dollar chandeliers that hung down six floors. Like the one last night. That was in the episode last night, in Front Man.
Tim: That- that one was a five hundred thousand dollar chandelier.
Matt: It was five hundred thousand dollars?
Tim: Five hundred thousand dollars.
Matt: Got half a million dollar chandeliers. And places like that. The sort of upper crust, white collar-y spaces and then-
Tim: And we went that one, uh, place that had- they sent us a memo saying please don't touch anything, this is like- this- this has more art than expensive museums.
Matt: Yes.
Tim: And, uh, you walk in and it probably had sixteen Dutch Master paintings throughout the room.
Matt: Mmm. That's right. And that great house on Long Island Sound we got to shoot on.
Tim: Oh, that was amazing!
Matt: Right on the tip of Long Island Sound, we were skeet shooting.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: That was beautiful. And also right by, um, where the Towers were. In the Financial District.
Tim: Oh. Yeah.
Matt: In that building.
Tim: Yeah, when you looked down like this.
Matt: In that same episode that was really fun.
Tim: Yeah. Wow.
Matt: Beautiful and as a New Yorker- former New Yorker, it was just a really… good place to be.
Tim: Uh. Uh. Cal-ayh. K-A-L-E-I-G-H G. from-
Matt: Wait, don't I ask you one now?
Tim: I think you do.
Matt: Sorry. Tim.
Tim: Yes?
Matt: This is from Maggie C. She is- she is from Marlton, New Jersey.
Tim: WAI- Maggie asked as another question, too!
Matt: Maggie's all over this, today.
Tim: Way to go, Mags.
Matt: Damn right, Mags. “How was it like-” I think she means, What “was it like working on Seinfeld-”
Tim: Yes.
Matt: “-and playing Birzarro Jerry.”
Tim: Yes. Yes. Kaleigh G. from Dublin, Oh- oh, that should be more than just a yes answer. It was amazing, working on Seinfeld. Uh, I did the episode before and then about halfway through, Jerry asked me to do the next one. And I had just recently accepted another guest star on a show that I don't even think it aired. Company One Twenty-three. And I- when he handed me the script and I read it, I said, “Jerry, I just took another job.” And, uh, Jerry said, “Well, who do I call? What do we do?” And so, uh-
Matt: Wow.
Tim: -the UPMs got together and- That was an intense week.
Matt: Whoo!
Tim: I was directing uh “Fool for Love” at this theater-
Matt: Wow.
Tim: And doing- and I got to-
Matt: You were directing Shepherd and playing Bizarro Jerry at the same time?
Tim: Yep. Yeah. And guest starring on this other show.
Matt: You were busy.
Tim: Yep.
Matt: Wow.
Tim: But here's the actor's life. The next month, nothing. Nothing, nada.
Matt: You had to come down from all that, you had to soak it all in.
Tim: I did. I did. I had to come down. Kaleigh G. Dublin, Ohio, wants to know-
Matt: Dublin, Ohio...
Tim: “Do you own... Do you own...”
Matt: “Do you do your own s-”
Tim: I can't read. Me no read-ie.
Matt: It's okay.
Tim: Those are big words.
Matt: “Do you do your own stunts?” I know, own, that's- it's a tricky one.
Tim: Ow- owwn.
Matt: Own.
Tim: You'd think it would be owwn. Because it shou- there's no e! At the end of the n-
Matt: It's true.
Tim: -so that's not a long e.
Matt: It's not.
Tim: Short o. “Do you owwn your st- do you do-”
Matt: Let's go back.
Tim: No, let's try it again.
Matt: Let's try it again. Can we cut?
Tim and Matt: Can we cut? No, we're-
Tim: going live.
Matt: Okay. Um.
Tim: Matt, Kaleigh G. from Dublin, Ohio says, “Do you do your own stunts?”
Matt: Excellent elocution.
Tim: Thank you.
Matt: Um... yes-ish. Whatever they let me do, I do. I mean they- we haven't done that many stunts.
Tim: You- no, you did- you can- you did the- when that guy jumped from the… thing onto the bakery thing.
Matt: I did like the last six feet of the fall and then I swung and then I ran down the street-
Tim: That was huge!
Matt: -into that car.
Tim: That was huge!
Matt: That was fun.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: That was really fun. I do do whatever they let me do, but they wouldn't let me jump all the way out the window.
Tim: Well, you shouldn't. That was a far jump.
Matt: It was a big jump. So. But other than that, I think I've done pretty much whatever you've seen. I'm not sure if there's been anything...
Tim: Not really. It's not very a stunt wide [inaudible] show.
Matt: But um... On Chuck, I did all my own stuff too, that they let me do too. Which was really fun. 'Cause that was kung fu fights and-
Tim: Oh really? Oh, cool.
Matt: Jumping out of buildings. Parkour. Stuff like that.
Tim: PARKOUR!
Matt: Parkour!
Tim: Parkour!
Matt: Parkour!
Tim: Parkour! Can we do some parkour now?
Matt: Let's do it.
Tim: Let's do it.
Matt: I'm about to balance off that poster up to the ceiling and down here… again.
Tim: Do it!
Matt: Land right in-frame like this.
Tim: Oh, I could… Too bad we didn't have the room to parkour. ‘Cause I…
Matt: Oh well.
Tim: Damn. I love parkour.
Matt: Save it for the outtakes, Tim, save it for the outtakes.
Tim: I've done- I made it to the regionals in parkour.
Matt: You did?
Tim: I don't want to brag. Let’s not do that.
Matt: Don't, no. Yeah. It's not- you have good technique.
Tim: My buddy and I and two other people.
Matt: Um, this is for both of us.
Tim: Yeah?
Matt: And it's from Jenna V. in Athens, Georgia! Geowgia. Georgia. Georrrgia. “What is your favorite an-” this is for both of us, “What is your favorite and least favorite part about your job?”
Tim: Favorite part about my job, in all seriousness, working with him.
Matt: Oh. I would say the same thing, truthfully.
Tim: Least favorite-
Matt: And getting paid to do what we love to do is nice.
Tim: Yep, yep, yep. Least favorite: working with him. No. I just said that.
Matt: No. You mixed it up.
Tim: Yeah, I did.
Matt: Yeah, it's okay. It’s out of order right there.
Tim: Least favorite, what is my least favorite?
Matt: What is the least favorite?
Tim: I know what it is.
Matt: What?
Tim: Wishing that we had more takes and more time to get-
Matt: YES. Wishing we had more time.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: Because we move quickly.
Matt: We go very fast on White Collar.
Tim: Way too fast.
Matt: Sometimes you feel selfish asking for that third take.
Tim: But you shouldn't.
Matt: But you shouldn't. Shouldn’t. But yeah, I guess time. Time.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Time, yeah.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: All right. Liz Z. from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No, that's kind of the same thing. I'm sorry-
Matt: Okay.
Tim: -Liz, I think your question was answered.
Matt: Sorry, Liz.
Tim: Uh. Oh, look at this. I asked this already.
Matt: No, you did it when we were- yeah. Yeah.
Tim: When we were- okay. Kristen K. from- get this- from Panagang, Malaysia.
Matt: Wow!
Tim: Yep.
Matt: Awesome!
Tim: “What is the hardest scene you had to memorize from the show this season?”
Matt: Uh, Kristen. Hello. In Malaysia. That's amazing, first of all. Ummm. The hardest scene would be in the wine bottle episode.
Tim: Uh-huh.
Matt: Um. Uh, where we did a scene where they gave me the dialogue maybe five minutes before and I had to do this monologue about my days with Keller and Monte Carlo and running the backgammon tables and all these other complexities. Simpler times and things like that.
Tim: Yeah. Yeah. But you did it. You did it.
Matt: I pulled it out after a while.
Tim: Right.
Matt: But it was hard.
Tim: But then didn't you have- didn’t you-
Matt: That was the one time I looked to Tim like please throw me a life raft. And pull me off the screen.
Tim: I didn’t have- it was one time you want to give like a cue card or something like that but we couldn't.
Matt: I wanted to be like-
Tim: Did you- do you have-
Matt: Back in Monte Carlo... Oh, is this a birthday card? From… E? From El?
Tim: No, wait, didn’t you- in the pilot, did you have a, uh, did you have a monologue with June or something like that? In the- in the-
Matt: Oh, no, that's, yeah- We can't go there.
Tim: You didn't. Okay.
Matt: Uh, yeah. No, I-
Tim: [inaudible]
Matt: AHAHAHA.
Tim: Oh.
Matt: Back when I- yeah, go ahead. I'm going to ask you one now. From Clint B. in Brooklyn, New York, baby!
Tim: Clint!
Matt: What's up Brooklyn? I used to live in Prospect Heights.
Tim: I didn't.
Matt: “Can you-” oh, this is for both of us, “Can you walk us through your audition process? Where were you when you found out you were cast?”
Tim: I think we did walk through the- no, you didn't! Walk us through yours.
Matt: I actually had to work really hard- gun show!
Tim: Ow!
Matt: Um, I actually had to work really hard to get this part. I actually had to test for it twice.
Tim: What?
Matt: They were thinking that it was going to be British and older, and- and so I-
Tim: You're kidding.
Matt: -I really had to go in there and say, I can do this, I can do it, I can do it. Which I like. Um...
Tim: British and older?
Matt: They were thinking, yeah. Maybe they were thinking Remington Steele, I don't know.
Tim: Oh, right, right.
Matt: But um. Or James Bond.
Tim: Yep. Or James Bond.
Matt: Umm.
Tim: Remington Steele would make me, uh...
Matt: You like Remmy? Like Rel Rem? Good ol' Rem.
Tim: What's her name?
Matt: Mickey Barlow.
Tim: Remy-
Matt: Oh, yeah. I can't think of her name right now. Um. But yeah, so it was- it was a long process but it was really fun and amazing and really rewarding in the end. And um- and then I got to where I found this gu-
Tim: Where were you when you found out?
Matt: I found out on my way to the Ojai Theater Playwrights’ Festival.
Tim: Oh really?
Matt: I was driving up and- and I got an e-mail from Jeff Eastin. Um.
Tim: Nice.
Matt: And I was really, really happy and really excited.
Tim: Nice.
Matt: And all the above.
Tim: Very good.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: I don't know when I found out. I don't know. Because it didn't really mean that much to me, so-
Matt: Yeah. Well he was like 'hmmm....'
Tim: I really wanted this other show more.
Matt: That's- yeah.
Tim: Ummm.
Matt: Oh. I know that feeling.
Tim: Yeah, this is weird. 'Cause we're trying to push the show and I'm talking about how I really wanted that other one.
Matt: Which show? Oh, Whi-
Tim: Yeah, White Collar.
Matt: Oh, that's right. Okay.
Tim: Sorry, everybody.
Matt: Sorry, guys.
Tim: Pretty downer there.
Matt: That's all right, peaks and valleys. That's just the way life is.
Tim: Rayhan K. from South Burlington, Vermont says, “How long did it take to master the classic hat trick you do?” ‘Cause it is a classic.
Matt: Uh, Rayhan, it took me a while. It was something that Jeff kind of came up with and we talked about and he said, “I want you to do some kind of trick with a fedora,” so I found it online, actually. And I didn't end up doing the one he had in mind. I did my own thing.
Tim: He was very specific about that.
Matt: His was like this twisty thing and mine was like flip it up the arm and onto the head. But, um, it took a while and- and the tough thing was every hat is different and has different you know-
Tim: Every hat is different.
Matt: -ratio of weight.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: And proportion and so balancing it is specific to that particular hat and I didn't get that hat until the night before, so needless to say-
Tim: Oh, you didn't? Oh, that sucks.
Matt: -I stayed up a long time that night. The day before. I stayed up a long time, that night, working on that trick. So thank you.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: For recognizing that and…
Tim: That's nice.
Matt: I can still do it from time to time, but it fall- I mean, yeah, it falls where it… lands… yeah.
Tim: That’s very difficult. That's the way it was when they gave me my gun. And I stayed up all night working with my gun.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: To make sure... that...
Matt: Yeah, I remember that.
Tim: I can handle it well.
Matt: I remember you telling me that and me being like, “Tim, we don't need to talk about that.”
Tim: Wasn't appropriate, was it?
Matt: It wasn't really appropriate.
Tim: Just met the crew and-
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: -it was the first day of shooting.
Matt: It was weird, but, um, we-
Tim: But I was- played an FBI agent so I thought it was important to talk about-
Matt: Yep.
Tim: -my holster.
Matt: Denise W. in Hanover, Pennsylvania. “You've commented in the past-” this is for you.
Tim: Oh, okay.
Matt: “You've commented in past interviews that you might've become an architect if you'd not have become an actor. I was wondering if you do any carpentry or any type of woodworking.”
Tim: Really? That's a good question. I do a little carp- you know that's- that's on my bucket list. Is to do- is to do fine carpentry. Like craft-
Matt: Like woodworking!
Tim: Making a cabinet with nails, uh, mortice and tenon. Tongue in groove, that kind of thing.
Matt: Oh, tongue in groove, man, that's crazy. That takes crazy skills.
Tim: I don't- I'm pretty handy around the house, but not carpentry. My dad is pretty good. Uh.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: Yeah, but that's- that's- you've tapped into a life long dream of mine...
Matt: When they make it the Bucket List 2-
Tim: ...Denise.
Matt: -starring Tim and- and-
Tim: The Bucket List 2.
Matt: -Morgan Fairchild. Be on the lookout for the carpentry aspect.
Tim: Tim and Morgan Fairchild. Lisa K. from Kingston, Pennsylvania, “What would you like to see in season 2 in terms of character development, background, or plot lines?” This is an excellent question because I can shed a little light. I-
Matt: Please, no you know what, you- he always knows more than I do. So I want him to go first so then I'll be able to [inaudible.]
Tim: I- this is- this a question for- I- I got off the phone with Jeff Eastin and Jeff said, uh, “In season two, you guys will sing. You and Diahann will be singing.”
Matt: Okay, okay.
Tim: We did say that.
Matt: All right.
Tim: We, um, we delve more into the music box. Uhhh and-
Matt: More into the music box!
Tim: Yes, we uh.
Matt: Right.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: More music box.
Tim: Yes. And the parallel-
Matt: People respond to the music box from on the street, that's the word on the street.
Tim: Yeah, the wor- but it's true thought, it's amazing. There's like a parallel uh, uh, anthology going on with the music box with your story with the music box and mine.
Matt: Ooo.
Tim: Yeah, we both… and not either one of us tell each other.
Matt: Me likey!
Tim: And just kind of went- I got street there for a second.
Matt: You did and I liked it. I liked it. What! Pff. They don't know. Pff.
Tim: But there's a episode which I think you'll like. We- we have a flashback episode on the time that I first arrested you.
Matt: Oh-hoho. Snap. I like that. I like that.
Tim: Yeah, yeah, isn't that good?
Matt: I like that. Um, what do I... I would like- well, it's hard for me to answer this because so much comes to fruition in the finale. If you see it next week. Like a lot of different story lines really come to a head and get… solved and- uh, not solved, but, uh, set us up really nicely for the second season, but I can't really talk about them 'cause they're kind of cliffhanger type stuff that-
Tim: Right, right.
Matt: But I hope my character progresses in the direction that we leave him… in... at the end of the season. Did that make any sense at all? Was the linear at all? I'm not really sure.
Tim: So do you want- do you want season two to start maybe the day after?
Matt: No! No, I want it to be later, but I want it to be related to what happens. Like, I want that to kind of be the driving force of the season for-
Tim: It will be.
Matt: -for me.
Tim: That’s [inaudible.]
Matt: Yeah, that's what I want it to be.
Tim: It will be.
Matt: Is like figuring out how this happened, why, and how to-
Tim: It is. It is. That's your- that's your-
Matt: -get back.
Tim: and then the other- the music box's my- they both really- yeah, it does.
Matt: Okay.
Tim: It does.
Matt: Sweet.
Tim: It does. And I think the donkey stays throughout.
Matt: He does.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: The donkey.
Tim: I think so.
Matt: Oh, good, he was amazing to work with.
Tim: He was brilliant.
Matt: He was- I mean, he got a little cranky at like hour twelve-
Tim: And I would too-
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: -if I kept having to do that same take-
Matt: That's true.
Tim: -over and over again in the cold.
Matt: Yep, it was cold.
Tim: Would not, I mean they finally got the [inaudible.]
Matt: Donkey's aren't- yeah.
Tim: At about…
Matt: And donkeys aren't cold weather animals either.
Tim: No, they’re not. They're not.
Matt: They're desert animals.
Tim: They're burros.
Matt: They're burrrros.
Tim: Burrrros.
Matt: Burrrrrros. Um.
Tim: Oh, we just gave away the donkey.
Matt: Well, I- you went there and I had to go with you, so...
Tim: Don't tell anybody.
Matt: Tim.
Tim: What?
Matt: Kate L. from Alabama wants to know-
Tim: Yeah, Kate?
Matt: “Do you enjoy-” Kate.
Tim: Oh! What.
Matt: “Do you enjoy being the good guy FBI agent? Or would you rather be the white collar thief?”
Tim: Awh! I- I love being the good guy FBI agent. Because he gets to kind of go to the other side. He gets to hang out with the white collar thief.
Matt: Mmm-hmm.
Tim: So I'm very happy with that.
Matt: Mmm-hmm.
Tim: Um. Would I like to- well, here's my- I have a couple of dream episodes. One is-
Matt: Tell me about your dreams.
Tim: Uhm. It's Neal and Peter getting stuck in an elevator.
Matt: THAT’D BE AWESOME!
Tim: The whole episode, just-
Matt: THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! Two hander!
Tim: -just- just talking. And it’d be like the-
Matt: It'd be like “Waiting For Godot.”
Tim: -waiting- right. With no cuts, it’s a one-er.
Matt: No cuts, just a one-er. Live!
Tim: And- yeah, live.
Matt: Live. Live. Live.
Tim: Ooo. Live. Let's do it!
Matt: Let's do it, people!
Tim: Let's do it!
Matt: TAKE NOTE!
Tim: RIGHT NOW! Uh and my second uh... I'm lost, I forgot what my question was.
Matt: Sorry. Sorry.
Tim: ... “enjoy being an FBI agent or would you-”
Matt: “Do you enjoy being the good guy or would you rather be...”
Tim: Oh. Yeah, yeah.
Matt: “…the white collar thief.”
Tim: But I- why- how- it ties into something. Um...
Matt: You're saying your dream episodes.
Tim: Oh, that!
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: And- thank you- and somehow, uh, Neal having to be Peter. Like-
Matt: Ooo.
Tim: Like Neal having to impersonate Peter and Peter having to impersonate Neal. Like he-
Matt: Oh, that'd be fun!
Tim: Oh, wouldn’t it?
Matt: We got to just razz each other by being each other.
Tim: Yeah, yeah.
Matt: To each other's face.
Tim: Yeah, I have to go to a party and wear the hat-
Matt: Would rule.
Tim: -and be-
Matt: Dude you better get on the writing staff of this show.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Somebody let this man up into the writers' room.
Tim: Somebody let me up! Sam M. says...
Matt: What up, Sam?
Tim, singing: “Maaatt. You look quite dapper when you play Neal Caffrey. Do you get to keep any of the clothes you wear on set?”
Matt: Uh... thank you, Sam. I- we have a lot of help from an amazing costume designer.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Um.
Tim: But you wear those clothes well buddy, you do. You do.
Matt: After they're tailored and…
Tim, laughing: I know.
Matt: …everything else, yes. Ummm... they, uh, yeah, I guess I don't get to keep them, but I do get to borrow some.
Tim: You do?
Matt: Like, if I- I'll borrow them 'cause I kind of usually wear jeans and t-shirts and stuff like that. Or this is kind of- [looks at wrinkled shirt] on the dressier side for me.
Tim: That’s you. Yeah.
Matt: So, um.
Tim: For functions and stuff
Matt: Yeah, so for functions and stuff like that. Or events, I'll borrow them. And I've learned a lot, I think, from- from- getting to dress up nice as Neal.
Tim: Getting to dress up. I’ve gotten more into clothes.
Matt: I think also, it's so important for the character because when you're kind of maneuvering through the upper echelons of society, there's a certain uniform that gets you admittance and-
Tim: Yep, yep.
Matt: Um, so it helps with the character and how he holds himself, how he walks, how he moves, all that stuff.
Tim: Yep. Yeah, you're quite right. Um.
Matt: Okay, Tim.
Tim: Yes?
Matt: This is from Cady with a C in Florida. “If push came to shove”
Tim: Yeah? Yeah.
Matt: “-which is more important to Peter: his job? Or Elizabeth?”
Tim: Oh, no question, Elizabeth. No question.
Matt: I like that.
Tim: Family first, job second. Even though your job is working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. You gotta- you gotta- family first. Yep. No question.
Matt: I like that, he's got his priorities straight.
Tim: Yeah. And think I that-
Matt: What he likes.
Tim: Yeah. Roger T. from Houston, Texas where you are from!
Matt: Oh, come on. Houston!
Tim: Let's give a holler to Houston.
Matt: What's up, Houston?
Tim: “Christmas Idol.”
Matt: Oh, great. Him.
Tim: “Please explain.”
Matt: Yeeeeah. Ummm.
Tim: Has everybody seen it?
Matt: No, don't. You don’t need to go there.
Tim: Go to YouTube and just uh… Just put in-
Matt: Some friends of mine-
Tim: -Christmas Idol, just put in that. It's funny.
Matt: Some friends of mine were doing uh- uh- a YouTube video a few years ago about- uh, it was sort of a spoof on American Idol where it was Christmas Idol with, um, the Ghost of Christmas Past, Jesus, and Santa Claus as the panel, as Simon... you know whatever their names are on American Idol. And um... I play a very disturbed young man.
Tim: Simon Cowell. It's hilarious. Go to it. You have turtleneck on? Is that a dickie?
Matt: Who decides to audition with O Holy Night. I don't remember. It was one of those things they asked me the day before and I…. I went to Kmart and found the worst possible outfit that I could.
Tim: You had a great holiday shirt.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: That was red and celebratory.
Matt: Yep. Yep.
Tim: It was just short of, uh-
Matt: He was ready to make it to the second round.
Tim: -it was just short of a reindeer sweater.
Matt: He was ready to make it to round two.
Tim: But you had on earmuffs.
Matt: Yep. Which, well, you had to hear.
Tim: Which you wonder, what's going on with- why do-
Matt: He had to hear the pitch and make sure it was right with all the noise outside-
Tim [singing]: “Some- some- Some say loooove.”
Matt: Yeah, you got to go-
Tim and Matt, singing: “It is a river.”
Matt: See, I did that 'cause I could hold my-
Tim: That- that mmm leaves...
Matt: Mmm.
Tim [still singing]: You want to go higher? Your soul to bleeed. Stay up there?
Matt: You can stay up there if you want to or go back down if you wanna bring the bass. Um, oh, Denton, Texas too, wow, Nicole T. This is for both of us.
Tim: Okay.
Matt: “Are there any pranks on set?” We get asked this so much.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: And- and I wish- we're going to have start pranking people too.
Tim: We short sheet each other.
Matt: 'And if so-'
Tim: I switch files in the office, it's hard to- no, here’s-
Matt: '-which were your favorites? Either to pull on someone or have done on you?'
Tim: We didn't prank any-
Matt: We didn't have time!
Tim: We were working! We’re were do-
Matt: We were trying to get three takes!
Tim: Right, we were just trying to- Did I say everything, did I say mortgage enough, did we get-
Matt: Yeah, yeah.
Tim: No, we didn't have time.
Matt: We had- we had a crew member, Richie, who's awesome, who- who would put Swedish Fish, like if I opened a safe in the scene, I would open it and there'd be a bunch of Swedish Fish in there.
Tim: Right. The candy Swedish Fish, not real fish.
Matt: But I guess that was really... but we used to- we'd sing a lot. And we had that great song about Statue of Liberty that helps makes it… to…
Tim: Did we? What did we sing?
Matt, singing: “Statue of Liberty.”
Tim: “Statue-”
Matt: “Standing a like a beacon in the night.”
Tim: “She's a beacon, she's a beacon.”
Matt: Anyway. It's, uh... it was a lot better live. Well, I guess that was live.
Tim: What now? What now?
Matt: 'Kay, maybe it wasn't that great.
Tim: We need scripts... um. But it wasn't Richi- it was Richie and Russell Fine, our DPs.
Matt: Yes, and Russell as well. They were the pranksters. But we're going to have- we're going to do crazy pranks in season two. And we're going to tell you all about it.
Tim: It's nutty! I’m gonna- I’m gonna-
Matt: It's going- I mean, it’s going to get dangerous. Mine are going to involve wire work. Like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Tim: I’m gonna- Whoa. You mean like electrics- electrical work?
Matt: That's all I’m saying; that’s all I can tell you. That’s-
Tim: Shocking?
Matt: That's all I can tell you.
Tim: Mine's going to involve...
Matt: Kung fu?
Tim: Yep. And farm animals.
Matt, quietly: Let's move onto the next question.
Tim: Tessy C. from New York. “If you guys could choose one thing your characters own and have it in real life, what would it be?” Your apartment. That’s my answer. And I'm sticking to it. Final answer.
Matt: God. So easy. GPS tracking anklet.
Tim: Who wouldn’t want that?
Matt: Who wouldn't want everybody to know where they are at all times?
Tim: Would you wear it on your left or your right? Oh, there's one-
Matt: Left. Left
Tim: They should know that. Give them the-
Matt: Left.
Tim: -the nickname for your… tracking anklet.
Matt: Candy. Candy is her name.
Tim: Candy.
Matt: Because I'm with her twelve to fifteen hours every day.
Tim: Who wouldn't want Candy?
Matt: We're tight!
Tim: Candy!
Matt: We’re tight!
Tim: Candy!
Matt: Um, what's the one thing I could have? I guess his wardrobe.
Tim: Yeah, yeah.
Matt: And also a two hundred IQ would be pretty nice too.
Tim: One eighty you should be happy with, buddy.
Matt: No, I am, but that's big- twenty IQ points is a big difference, you know?
Tim: I know, that twenty just kind of makes you realize that the one eighty to two hundred is like the difference between check and checkmate.
Matt: Yeah, that's right. That's exactly right.
Tim: All right, one eighty is fine.
Matt: Bobby Fischer.
Tim: Bobby.
Matt: Yeah, what about you?
Tim: Your apartment.
Matt: Oh-ho that'd be nice too.
Tim: Your apartment, your whole apartment.
Matt: That'd be nice, too, yeah.
Tim: That is the ultimate poet's garret. Amazing apartment.
Matt: Yeah, that is. Did you just say poet's garret?
Tim: I did.
Matt: You're awesome. That you said poet's garret.
Tim: Thank you. Awesome, dude. “What type-” no, I'm not going to ask that, “You're being-” yeah, we are being recognized.
Matt: It is a poet's garret, though.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Oh, it's my turn.
Tim: Takes us- yes...
Matt: You have the one eighty IQ with poet's garret. Tim, this is from Shay T. in Tallahassee, Florida.
Tim: Mmm-hmm.
Matt: “You have such great chemistry on screen with Matt. Did you two know each other or work together before doing White Collar?”
Tim: No. No, we didn't know each other at all, hadn’t- no. We were almost going to do a do production of Pippin back in eighty...
Matt: That's right. He was going to play the Ben Vereen part.
Tim: Right. That which- that's still on- that's another thing on my bucket list.
Matt: Well, there you go.
Tim: To play-
Matt: It’s on mine too.
Tim: -a lot of Ben Vereen roles. Someday.
Matt: It’ll happen. It’ll happen.
Tim: But that- everyone has that on their bucket list.
Matt: They do, but you know what-
Tim: Who wouldn't… want to play Ben Vereen roles?
Matt: I see it. I see it.
Tim: Before they… pass. Um... “What is-” Uh, I'm not going to ask that. “Which cast-” Oh! Ooo! Daniel H. from Birmingham, Alabama!
Matt: It's for both of us?
Tim: Yeah. “Which-” I'm going to do me a baaad accent right now.
Matt: Alabama.
Tim, in a bad accent: Alabama. “Which cast member would be the best con artist?” You would be, by far.
Matt: What are you talking about?
Tim: You would be.
Matt: That's totally Willie Garson.
Tim: Oh, shit, shit.
Matt: You just cursed!
Tim: Oh! Oh, sorry! I'm sorry! Oh no, I did, didn't I?
Matt: That never happened. He said shoot.
Tim: Shoot. Oh, shoot.
Matt: He said shoot. No.
Tim: I can't believe it. I did.
Matt: Oh, please. These people have heard it before.
Tim: No, but I can't believe the other thing.
Matt: That's- yes, yes, no. I would say Willie.
Tim: I- Willie. Willie.
Matt: Or maybe. I have my moments, I guess.
Tim: You would be. That's how much I was in the moment.
Matt: You were in the moment. You were there.
Tim: I didn’t- I was there.
Matt: You were there.
Tim: Thinking that's the truth. And, oh, man.
Matt: You know how much I love him? I love him so much that I just got embarrassed.
Tim: Hahaha!
Matt: That's how much I love Tim DeKay. Um...
Tim: I- that was-
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: You got embarrassed 'cause we had- let's tell 'em. Let's tell 'em.
Matt: We had plans we were going to say Willie.
Tim: NO DON’T NO NO DON'T! Our producer's like don’t, don’t. Don't tell them! So we're not going to tell you that we did read this and we were going to say- well, I'm not going to tell you that.
Matt: No, don't tell them that.
Tim: Oh.
Matt: Um, this one's from Rachael D. in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Tim: Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm.
Matt: It's for both of us. “What is your favorite episode? And why?” That's my James Lipton question right there.
Tim: Oh. What is your favorite episode and why? I have to say it would be, uh, it's an Old Gilligan’s Island episode. Uh, the one where Mr. and Mrs. Howell where he ta-
Matt: No, they're talking about White Collar.
Tim: Oh. All right. Uh…
Matt: I liked Front Man. I liked the one last night. I love the pilot- I mean, the pilot will always be the most special to me 'cause it's when everything kind of came together and was so much fun.
Tim: I think the pilot was good. Yeah.
Matt: And we so much time to work on it and so many takes and it was just really, really fun and we're establishing these relationships.
Tim: The pilot-
Matt: That to me- but in terms of these season, I really liked Front Man, which was this week's episode.
Tim: Front Man was good.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: I liked The Portrait.
Matt: I liked The Portrait too.
Tim: I liked The Portrait.
Matt: Yeah, I liked The Portrait too.
Tim: Um. But I can't say they are my favorite because there are moments in each of these. Ama- Amani- oh- we- how much time do we have left?
Someone: Fifteen minutes.
Tim: Fifteen minutes.
Matt: Sweet.
Tim: Amanie S. from Mountaindale, New York says-
Matt: Mountaindale.
Tim: “Do you think of Neal as a criminal?”
Matt: Mmmmmm... I think the lines are a little bit more liquid for him. I think when you play a character, you have to be their defense attorney and um… so no. I don't think of him as a criminal. I think of him as a social engineer.
Tim: Nice.
Matt: Who capitalizes on the weakness of others when necessary and really it's only white collar crimes, it's really only people who could afford to lose a little bit here and there anyway.
Tim: You're like... Neal is like... half… does half of what Robin Hood does.
Matt: Yeah, he just keeps it instead of-
Tim: He steals from the rich-
Matt: He doesn't give it to the poor.
Tim: No, that's it, he stops there.
Matt and Tim: He steals from the rich. Yeah.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: He's working on that.
Tim: He’s trying to-
Matt: He’s working on that.
Tim: Right.
Matt: But I think, you know, he is starting to see um... the rewards of- of- of- of working with the FBI and seeing how he can help save people's lives and help people out a lot, but he's not about to leave over the moral spectrum-
Tim: No.
Matt: completely any time soon.
Tim: But it was- the writing was very good in that last episode where Peter says to Neal you know you can continue to- you can wear an orange jumpsuit and pine away for the girl who got away or you can- what- do something… that matters in your life. Or something to that effect.
Matt: Yeah, something that matters.
Tim: Something that… Or make a difference.
Matt: Again, favorite episode.
Tim: Wow, that's-
Matt: Beside the pilot.
Tim: Yeah. Yeah. All right.
Matt: This one's for you. Or it's for both of us, I'm sorry. It's from Abdalis A. in Marietta, Georgia. “What do you like most about your characters?”
Tim: I like... I like that Peter has a sense of humor. I do. I like that Peter... sometimes Peter knows when he's... I think partly Peter knows sometimes when he’s- people are getting a kick out of him for a reason that he didn't consciously put forth and I like that. And I like- I like that Peter's kind of witty at times.
Matt: Yeah, I like that.
Tim: There. There. There.
Mat: I like that.
Tim: You?
Matt: I like that Neal sort of a duality about him that he's not just a perfect hyper-intelligent smooth con artist that he also has this real Achilles’ heel when it comes to his romantic life and he makes really sloppy decisions and um, messes up and- and operates in really uncharacteristic ways when it comes to looking for Kate and love and all that.
Tim: Nice.
Matt: Um... this one's... did I just ask that one? I did. It’s your turn.
Tim: Um, Josh J. from Oviedo, Florida says, “Neal, as a con man, incorporates many slights into his daily life. Cups and balls. Backpalming. Etcetera.
Matt: [Laughs.]
Tim: Does he have...?”
Matt: What? Does he have what? I will back palm you if you don't give me the ans- the question. I will cup and ball you.
Tim: Just- just. Don't cup and ball me. Back- back- just don't.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: Does he have any interest in magic?
Matt: Uh, I think, you know, it's really, um, slight of hand is sort of inherent in the social engineering trade, so whatever he has to learn... I think he's accumulated a lot of things on the way-
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: -that have helped him with that, like, um, cupping and balling and uh- uh- what’s back...
Tim: Back palming.
Matt: Back palming, which is when like the card trick in the Pai Gow episode-
Tim: Right. Right.
Matt: -where I make it disappear. Um.
Tim: What is cupping and balling? That’s- that’s-
Matt: Cupping and ball is when you- is when you- is when you have the three cups with the ball underneath one of them and you're trying to figure out- remember when I did the parallel of the case that one time?
Tim: Oh right.
Matt: For you and Elizabeth. I was, you know, doing that.
Tim: Yes.
Matt: So I think it's stuff he's picked up over the time. I think he's sort of earned his Renaissance man and slash jack of all trades because of stuff like that and anything he can garner along the way he sort of holds onto.
Tim: Do you-
Matt: And magic is one of those things.
Tim: Yeah. Do you have any interest in magic? You, Matt?
Matt: Sure. Sure.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: Yeah. Have you ever been in the Magic Castle?
Matt: I haven't, I want to go that, though! Seriously, I want to see that, it's amazing.
Tim: You know you have to be invited to that.
Matt: You have to be invited?
Tim: You can’t you can’t- just go in and pay-
Matt: How do they-
Tim: How do they make money? How do they-?
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: I don't know, but you have to be-
Matt: You're invited and then you pay to go or-?
Tim: There's this- there's this pla- uh- huge building- castle in L.A. that's called the Magic Castle.
Matt: We want an invite! If you're... associated and you're watching.
Tim: Yeah and if you’re- if you are a, uh, magician and you get in somehow- do you know about this? I'm asking one of our producers. Uh-
Matt: Do you have to be a magician to get invited?
Someone: No.
Tim: No.
Matt: Okay.
Tim: You just have to love magic. Um.
Matt: Well, we love magic so hopefully we’ll get invited.
Tim: And there are different- and there are different rooms in this place and you go in and you see different kinds of- you know, slight of hand and uh, I don't know. Well, other things. And you can have dinner there too.
Matt: Awesome. Let's do it.
Tim: So the next time you are in L.A., go to the Magic Castle. Dial 1- 800-555-MAGIC. I just like pitched the Magic Castle. [Inadudible.]
Matt: Great. They owe us, big time. I think we both deserve an invite from that, right?
Tim: I think so too.
Matt: Tim.
Tim: Yes.
Matt: This is from… Getiara [spelling questionable] A. in Espanola. Spain.
Tim: Sí.
Matt: “Do you think Peter sees Neal as a wayward son figure?”
Tim and Matt, singing: “Carry on, my wayward son. There'll be peace when you are done. Lay your weary head to rest.”
Tim: “Don't you cry no more.”
Matt: “Don't you cry!”
Tim: Yow! Do I see Neal as a... yeah, I do. I do. I see him- I see Peter- Neal as father-son sometimes. I see them as an old married couple. I see them as older brother-younger brother.
Matt: Mmm-hmm.
Tim: And then I also see them as professional equals. Even though they're on- come from opposite sides of the law, I see them as equals. They- they have a language that they- that only the two of them can speak to- uh- together. Somebody else wouldn't understand it, I don't think. There is well- they can- they- are- the more we see them-
Matt: Short hand.
Tim: -the more they start to see where the other one is about to speak I think.
Matt: Yeah. Yeah.
Tim: That's pretty cool.
Matt, very quietly: It's his question.
Tim: Mmm. What's that? What?
Matt: No, I-
Tim: I saw you, I saw you talking to the camera-
Matt: He went to me and I said, no, that was his question.
Tim: Oh. 'Are you as educated-' Amanda B.- do you want me to ask this?
Matt: Um. Sure. Yeah.
Tim: 'Are you as educated in art as your character, Neal Caffrey is?'
Matt: No. Is the… short answer. Um. I have some education-
Tim: Yeah, pretty-
Matt: -but Neal's education is pretty extensive, it would definitely exceed mine, but I'm working on it. I definitely try to get to galleries and stuff like that in my spare time to-
Tim: And that's the great thing-
Matt: -stay interested in what's going on
Tim: -and not to sound too cliché, but that's what's great about being an actor.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: I mean, you get to-
Matt: You become a- you're like Neal, you sort of pick things up along the way-
Tim: Yep. Yep. You get to-
Matt: Art appreciation is something I had before, but definitely heightened with uh- this role.
Tim: Yeah, now you know much more about it.
Matt: Um. Awww. This is from Ad… oh wait. She already got a question, Adrian C. in Vancouver.
Tim: She did?
Matt: Um, didn't she? Was the other Vancouver one?
Tim: I asked you one.
Matt: Okay. This is for Tim. It's from Barbara R. in Taylor, Michigan. Sorry, Adrian.
Tim: Hey, Barbara.
Matt: Um, “What were your first thoughts about your character?”
Tim: My first thoughts... I don't know. I don't know what my first thoughts were... my immediate res- I just responded to the material right away. I thought it's a great, great script. I don't know. I- that's a good question because I've had other characters that I've played where I immediately thought this about this character. And that didn't come for a while. My first thought about this show and this script was how interesting and quite personal and human the relationship between these two guys was- were. About that relationship and that- um, I found it very interesting. Very interesting. Just seeing these two guys who- the conversation they have when he finds he him in the empty apartment where Kate was. And they just have a talk before everybody shows up. I thought that was so cool. They didn't, you know-
Matt: Yeah, that was cool.
Tim: You don't… see that. They're just having a conversation.
Matt: Yep.
Tim: That's very interesting. You don't see that too often. So that was my first thought.
Matt: It's good.
Tim: Thank you. Hold on. Oh! Jennifer K. from Garden Grove, California asks, “Neal references his clothing style as being vintage Rat Pack. Which, if any, of the original Rat Packers do you think your character identifies with and why?”
Matt: Mmm. Good question.
Tim: Yeah, it is.
Matt: Good question, Jennifer. I think maybe different ones at different times, but I think he probably sees himself as Frank in general.
Tim: Yeah.
Matt: He probably sees himself as the leader of his own little Rat Pack. But, um, I think he also- Diahann Carroll gave me this amazing box set of Dean Martin recordings when we first started the pilot shoot.
Tim: Did she really?
Matt: And I play- and I still play it sometimes every morning during the pilot. Every morning in my trailer before work, I would play a Dean Martin song. So, when I think of the Rat Pack swagger and style and relaxed sort of confidence, it's always Dean's voice that's in my head. But I'm actually starting to get more into Frank now.
Tim: Really?
Matt: So yeah. I like them all.
Tim: They're both cool.
Matt: Laura E. in Cleveland, Ohio wants to ask us “If you guys could pick one person-” This is a good question, Laura. “-musician, actor, performer, etcetera, past or present to have dinner with, who would it be? And why?” If you say Gandhi... Just kidding, that would be totally legit.
Tim: Who would it be?
Matt: But he's not really a performer.
Tim: Does it have to be- Laura, does it have to be-
Matt: She can’t hear you.
Tim: It sounds like it has to be-
Matt: She can't talk back.
Tim: Oh, she can't?
Matt: No, she can't talk back.
Tim: Why not? Oh, I'm sorry. Is it only Laura or can- nobody can hear us?
Matt: I don't think anybody can-
Tim: They can hear us, we can't hear them.
Matt: Yea- yeah.
Tim: I've been hearing people.
Matt: Did you take… the medicine today? Did you take it?
Tim: I took the purple one, but not the-
Matt: Not the green one, okay. It's okay. Musician, actor or performer, past or present, you could have dinner with.
Tim: It would be a famous person, wouldn't it?
Matt: Yeah. It doesn't have to be.
Tim: Well, because then you'd want to say my grandfather or something.
Matt: You could say Woody Guthrie who's not famous, but cool. I don’t know.
Tim: Oh, I see.
Matt: I don't want to give you any ideas.
Tim: I'd have to say Woody Guthrie. Something about... that would be cool. No, who would it be? I'd say Shakespeare, but then I don't know if that's...
Matt: Oh, that's good!
Tim: Yeah, I guess so.
Matt: Go with that impulse.
Tim: I think, honestly… I don’t- FDR would be a good one too.
Matt: Mmmm, that's good.
Tim: But he's not a musician-
Matt: No, but let's face it, politicians are performers. Did I say that? I was totally kidding.
Tim: Um. Um. Charlie Chaplin.
Matt: Oh! Good, man.
Tim: Yeah. You?
Matt: I would say Paul Newman.
Tim: Oooo!
Matt: I'd say Paul Newman.
Tim: Oh, that's fantastic for you.
Matt: 'Cause he um… he was so committed to all his parts and he, you know, he was, you know, a really handsome guy and he played rugged characters well and he could do anything and he also gave back so much. You know, I think he understood-
Tim: Paul Newman-
Matt: -as a public figure- those camps he did-
Tim: You two could have a- a good conve- oh, that’s perfect for you.
Matt: Yeah.
Tim: So.
Matt: Oh, guys, our time’s up!
Tim: Our time is up, but, um---
Matt: There’s so many left.
Tim: I know, we… how much…?
Someone: We’re good, we’re good.
Tim: Where are we. We’re here? We’re here, we’re here!
Matt: We’re here, okay! We asked what fans what want to be called.
Tim: We received over thirteen hundred submissions on facebook.
Matt: White Collar fans will now be known as…
Tim and Matt: COLLARS.
Tim: There you go.
Matt: All right.
Tim: Right. Our producer is saying plug finale. The finale will be next Tuesday-
Matt: Tuesday, ten PM eastern-
Tim: Ten o’clock-
Matt: Nine central!
Tim: Yes! And watch it and let us know-
Matt: We’re really excited about it-
Tim: It’s a fantastic episode! It’s huge.
Matt: So many exciting storylines are coming to a head!
Tim: Mm-hmm.
Matt: Questions are answered.
Tim: And more questions come up.
Matt: And next season sets up strongly!
Tim: Yes. Where- wait ‘til you see the donkey!
Matt: He’s amazing! He’s like the Brando of donkeys, the Brando of burros.
Tim: But seriously watch it, it was a great epis-
Matt: Thank you for a great year!
Tim: Thank you so much!
Matt: Thank you for watching.
Tim: Thank you.
Matt: We love you.
Tim: Thank you, guys.