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Once We Were Spacemen

Once We Were Rookies with Melissa O'Neil | Episode 9

Once We Were Spacemen

Nathan Fillion & Alan Tudyk

Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Melissa O'Neil walked into her audition for The Rookie with an unconventional warm-up strategy. Before starting the scene, she... squatted. As in, she dropped down and did squats. Right there in the audition room. Nathan has been impressed ever since. In this delightful episode, Melissa and Nathan dive into Canadian accents, the timeless art of fart noises, the technicalities of acting, and the joy of working together for eight seasons of The Rookie. Follow Once We Were Spacemen wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to extended episodes a whole week early by joining our Patreon. Once We Were Spacemen is a Collision33 production.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know how sometimes you have to layer in a bunch of history between you and another person?

0:04.6

You have to show that time has lapsed and significant things have happened in that time.

0:11.1

There are ways, there are shorthands physically, verbally that we have with people that only come from time spent.

0:18.7

And if you don't get that time with that person, we need to manufacture

0:22.0

these things. And those are the details that I get super nerdy about and try to get creative around.

0:28.7

And that's my homework.

0:33.7

Once we were spacemen.

0:40.3

I tend to play weird people, usually aliens and robots and things that don't have romance.

0:47.3

I once didn't get a job where they were looking for a Nathan Philean type.

0:54.5

Once we were Spaceman. Once we were spacemen.

0:56.7

Once we were spacemen.

0:59.6

Alan Tudic.

1:01.3

Nathan Philean, you know, when I see you, I think that you and I once were spacemen in space above Earth and then beyond.

1:12.8

Near the stars, near the galaxies.

1:15.1

There goes a shooting star.

1:16.6

There goes a comet.

1:18.1

There goes an asteroid.

1:21.2

And there you are, sir.

1:23.0

A shooting star right here on Earth.

1:26.1

Nathan Philly.

1:26.6

How are you, buddy?

1:27.6

I'm doing very well. Alan, this is an episode we did where Melissa O'Neill, the lovely Melissa O'Neill was our guest. But you, where were you for this one? I don't know. I think I've been busy. As I've said, and I'm one of the past ones, I'm a scrapper. I'm a scrapper. I'm a... But you know what that ends up being?

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