Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners. You can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello, and welcome back to My Mom's Basement. It is Robbie Fox, and I am here with Frank Grillo, currently starring in Peacemaker and soon to be starring once again in Tulsa King's Season 3. Yeah, what's up, brother? September 21st. Yep. Thanks for coming in. How are you? I'm good, man.

I'm good.

You like being back in New York? in Tulsa King's season three premieres this Sunday, September 21st.

Yep.

Thanks for coming in. How are you? I'm good, man. I'm good. You like being back in New York? I'm loving being back in New York, and I'm loving your studio here. Thank you. I appreciate it very much. Do you have any, like, must-hit spots when you come back to New York, restaurants, or anything like that? You know, I don't really anymore. It's New York's changed a lot. And I stayed down at the Bowery Hotel, which I probably shouldn't say. But it's my home away from home. Yeah. And so that's kind of my spot. You know what I mean? So anywhere around that area and the Bowery is where I go. Cool. And obviously Tulsa King coming up.

Yeah.

I know you were friends with Stallone before you were co-stars with him in this show. He called you for the role. Yeah. Was there any fear or anxiety, like the night before you're first seen with him? Like, what if we don't have on-screen chemistry? Do you think like that? Yeah. You know, that's a great. No one's ever asked me that question, but it's exactly that.

You know, I had known Sly.

I'd been up to his house a few times.

We watched fights and football games together

with a bunch of the dudes and like arnold and you know the dudes you know um and and the night

it was actually the night before you know i was super prepared and and uh really loved the character and stuff, but I said to

myself, what if this doesn't work? Like, what if there's two kind of machismo guys and it just

kind of cancels each other out? Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And it was exactly the opposite from

the minute he walked on set i it was

in soon as i saw him and he walked up to me and we started to discuss what we were doing and we

kind of work in a similar way it was it was gone and uh i think from the time when we started

you could feel and and you know guys have it too like two guys two guys together, like a man and a woman. There's a chemistry, there's a flow, and we had it right from the beginning, and I love doing scenes with him. Are you generally the type of actor that, like, maybe early on in your career, did you get really nervous to go on set? Like, I know Minority Report was pretty early on in your career, like,

being on a Spielberg set, where you like, oh my God? Or is it just like business as usual? Maybe two nervous because they cut me out of the whole movie. But, um, um, um, you know, the only time I was nervous when I was really young and I was on a soap opera, because there was a lot words and it was melodrama. A lot of it didn't make sense.

It's hard to connect to anything. But after I learned that, I was never really, I'm never

nervous. I'm always prepared. And I tell my kids this, preparation beats talent every day of the

week, right? I said, you could be very talented and not prepared. It doesn't work out for you. Yeah. So I work really hard to be as prepared as anybody else on set. And that's kind of what gets me through the day. And that's what makes me not nervous. Yeah. There's always a little bit of anxiety, and you should have that, I think, when you perform or when you're an athlete.

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