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Beyond the OC (Welcome to the OC)

The Outsider with Tate Donovan

Beyond the OC (Welcome to the OC)

Melinda Clarke

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Rachel and Melinda discuss "The Outsider" (S1 Ep5) with guest Tate Donovan, who played Jimmy Cooper on The OC. Tate shares the best line he ever heard from an actress (hint: that actress is one of the hosts), his own memories from Camp Gallagher, and why he wants Rachel and Melinda to try directing. The Outsider Synopsis: Ryan accompanies Seth to a party in a rough neighborhood. Ryan again must save him after Seth invites the same people to a party in Newport. Luke is shot. Broke Jimmy has a hard choice. Kirsten and Julie go on a spa trip with the newpsies.

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0:00.0

Here we are. Here we are. Welcome to the OC bitches. Hey, welcome to the OC bitches, Rachel. I'm super, super, super excited today. I am so excited today. I can't keep it in my pants. Well,

0:29.0

well, I know someone else is new. I know someone else who can't keep it in his pants. Oh, no, that's me. So what do we have with us today? Well, we're here today with one of my favorite people, our favorite people. This Libra is the youngest of six in an Irish Catholic family. You know, his New York City marathon time is 32849. He's a truth. That's being he's an award-winning veteran of stage film and

0:59.0

TV. He's also a director. His resume is endless, but notable credits include space camp, love potion number nine, something called Friends and an episode of Magnum PI. But the most important role he's done to date is the voice of Hercules. Oh, yeah. And he's Jimmy Cooper voted the worst dad on TV ever. I give you the Uber funny and fantastic.

1:27.0

Kate Buckley, Donovan. Yeah, what a great intro. Yeah, I actually have to add a few things. Well, maybe not a few, but a couple. Okay, first Joshua, obviously, friends all time. But take Memphis, Bell. Okay. So I'm like researching the other day. So I'm like, okay, what's

1:50.2

stayed up to now and looking it up. I was obsessed with that movie. I had to have been like 10 years old and had the biggest crush on you, which just dawned on me the other day. And I'm researching. Yes, I was 10 super inappropriate. I was like, oh, my God, like how that movie even was, you know, portrayed in front of me. I don't know how I even saw it. But I watched it multiple times. Like a lot. It was on rotation. And I had the biggest crush on you. And I just learned this the other day.

2:20.2

So how can we never told me that when we were working all those years together? I guess that would have been inappropriate too. So I mean, it's all inappropriate. I was legal. Let's try. I would have been better than it's actually best now, but not when I was 10. But you were an official 80s heartthrob. Oh, 100%. I don't, I don't think so. Listen, we interviewed Josh. And he was definitely. He definitely mentioned space camp in love push number nine.

2:48.9

Love push number nine. Also a favorite of mine. Let's just talk about that. Those movies were like like one of the great examples of the 80s tanks. Like they were the.

3:01.9

They made the least amount of money of like any movie. It's all due to cable that people saw it. You know, like nobody saw either of those movies in the theater. So.

3:11.9

Well, they live very fully in my heart. So I don't want to. I do want to say you have a very impressive resume. Damages. Good night. Good luck. Argo. And my recent faith that I saw you in was rocket man. But I really need to hear about Magnum PI.

3:29.9

Oh, it's a horrible story about Magnum. It's terrible. Yeah. It makes me look like such an asshole. It's terrible.

3:40.9

Oh, okay. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. So I did. I was a junior in college. And I got cast in Magnum PI. And I saw I went to Hawaii.

3:54.9

I was fantastic. I was so psyched. You know, I got a class and went to Hawaii and had a great time. Love, you know, Tom Seller was like the greatest guy. He's so friendly and like he was a huge star then.

4:08.9

And I got to drive a Ferrari. And you know, it was fantastic. Tick swims every day after work. So they call.

4:18.9

So I get this movie after that. I get this movie called Space Camp, which you guys talked about. And at the time, it was going to be this huge movie.

4:27.9

It was like, you know, it was just going to be like the next Star Wars. I mean, everyone was just telling us about how Space Camp was going to be like the biggest film in the world.

4:37.9

And Tom Seller, well, Magnum PI said, hey, we want to have a reunion show. So we're bringing back all our favorite characters. And could you come and, you know, do do the episode, you know, take a couple of days and a big deal.

4:53.9

And I was like, no, man, I'm a film actor. I like her now. And so they kept calling the producers kept saying, oh, you know, it's just going to we'll make it really quick. And there's no big deal.

5:04.9

Tom really wants you. And I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm doing film them. And so then I get a phone call out of the blue. And it's Tom Seller himself calls me.

5:17.9

And he goes, hey, take congratulations. I hear you're doing some big films now. I'm so proud of you. You know, you're such a great actor. You're such a great.

5:27.9

He's just nicest, most wonderful guy. And he goes, you know, we're just going to have a lot of fun. It's just we're bringing back all these characters. And it's going to be really fun. And just come out for a couple of days to Hawaii. It would be great.

5:39.9

And I was like, I'm sorry. I can't do. Can you believe that?

5:45.9

I turned down. I was like, oh, when I look back on that, I'm just like, such an asshole.

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