Welcome to the OC my bitches. Welcome to the OC bitches. I'm Alinda Clark. Oh, you keep doing that and I hate saying my name.

That's Rachel Bilsen. Scrum time. Scrum. Scrum. Scrum. Okay, so we today we are on season two episode five the snowshi, which is so cute. I love that name. And well, we have a really special guest. He's very special.

Oh, my gosh, you guys, you know what our guest today is the talented and charming Michael Cassidy. He portrayed one of the most likable and successful characters in season two described as a perfect ideal mate for summer. I wrote that. Yeah.

The wasp version of Seth Zach Stevens stole our hearts in all the right places. After the OC Michael went on to success on shows like small bills, men at work, resident alien, and the films Batman versus Superman, Don of Justice zoom and army of the dead. Now a husband and father of three welcome Michael. Thank you. Welcome Michael. Thank you. Thank you. In the studio with us at the Cohen backyard. Yeah. Yes. Beautiful. We are beautiful back here. So how

happy to see you. First of all, I get we saw each other at the OC musical show that was put on seven years ago. Two years ago. Two thousand fifteen. Okay. Yeah. What's today? It was a weird scene here. That that musical. It was a weird scene. It was a weird scene. I was glad not to be you guys actually. I feel like I'm just as an aside. Okay. Oh, well, you mean the fans. I got kind of fans. But the presentation of characters.

It was that you played so memorably and well presented by other people. I was just like, man, I hope Zach doesn't come out on that stage.

I'm a recent played Julie Cooper. Oh, she did. Yeah. Awesome. See this brain thing. I had just had my kids. She was like, maybe one, maybe not. Yeah. We talked. That was the only way talked about. I was like, we can't hear that. Yeah. And then you're pulled up and then my car pulled that. That's all you talked about. Just ballet.

I talked in the parking garage. I got chased. So that was the last time we saw each other. Yeah. And before that, it was obviously whenever season two, I guess, wrapped because you were in the second season of the show.

I myself worked with you as shit ton. Yeah. Yeah. And only fun memories. I have to say. Oh, well, you would lie in this circumstance. You would lie. I tend to lie always, especially when it comes to you. I'm just saying or a lie. I'm just saying, this would be a good situation for you to lie about working with me.

I'm sitting right here. No, I am a liar. Oh, you are. Yeah. So you have that right. No, I have to say though, I loved working with you. I feel like we always had fun. We did. We were always laughing. That's my memory. Yeah.

Like I have a few memories of hysterically laughing. Yeah. I'm totally not being able to get the shot. Yeah. I think I just I just off the top of my head. There's a Vespa. Oh, yeah. That's the biggest one for one of the biggest ones. Yeah. No spoilers.

That's the best thing with real. Just parking in the Vespa. Yeah. You pull up out of Vespa. The Italy. I've been in Italy with my girlfriend, episode, Francesca. You guys can have me back. I'm going to be back here in two days because that episode was fire. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

I was like, oh, my God. And I couldn't do it. I mean, let's be clear. The issue. It's memorable because I could not do all my memories of this show right or wrong are deep failure.

Like deep profound failure. Really? I'm getting hot. Okay. So let's then then I want to deep go into deep diving. This because

let's get into the deep of you because I love deep. One of the best things about this is researching people that we worked with and I get to kind of deep dive on your background.

And I was really fascinating. I have to admit I did not know about the new actor's workshop. Yeah. improv and Stanislavski and Mike Nichols. Quite a combo. Yeah, super hardcore school. Yeah. And it doesn't exist anymore. So tell us about that. How you became an actor. Oh, wow. Well, you went there? Yeah.

Are you sure? I feel like I'm in Rachel's movie right now. Like me and I are in a movie where Rachel gets reminded of her life and the people that she knew. No, it's it's your life. Oh, man. So I what's your name? I just my Michael Cassidy. I play a guy you worked with for a year.

Very intimately. So I got into acting. I did school theater. I was fortunate to do school theater. And I found love with it. And I did my first couple of professional theater jobs still in Portland in high school. And then that's all I wanted to do ever since the moment I did it.

And so I audition and got into this. I didn't want to go to college. And so I got into this two-year school that was amazing. It was like the easiest way to put it is like it was an acting conservatory. It was 40 hours a week, 30, 40 hours a week. Mike Nichols was a founder. And he taught once a week. And at the time he was making the angels in America, many series. So he would come to set and talk about Tony Kushner and Meryl Streep and Al Pacino. And then it was also half improv.

So I found out that I was funny in that school. And I found out that I thought of myself as sort of a serious actor. And by the time I left, I sort of felt like the part that I just was able to incorporate so many other parts of me in conceptualizing myself as an actor at that school.

And by the way, I was 18. Most of the people were getting their masters, so they were older than me. And I put up very little work. I was not really able to be a student there. Like I just had to be silent and take it in.

And of course.

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