The The The Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolaski files a series of stories about life

love and the entertainment industry as told by character actor Stephen Tobolowski.

My name is David Chen. I'm the managing editor of slashfilm.com and the host of the slash filmcast.

And joining me today as always is the man who played

assistant state attorney Don Halfman in CSI Miami for five episodes Stephen

Tobolaski how are you doing today sir?

I'm doing are you sure it was five, wasn't it six?

Uh, well, according to IMDb, it's five episodes, but uh...

Yeah, see, it's a trick question. I think it was six, but the truth of the matter was,

that was so nutty because they wanted to bring me in as

kind of a regular recurring role but the our listeners may not know how difficult it

is to do a courtroom scene why would it be difficult to do a courtroom

scene, David?

I have no idea.

Because you have to shoot from every different angle imaginable and every time you move

the camera you have to completely change the lights you have to shoot at the

table the defendant and the prosecutor you have to shoot back of the judge you have to

shoot the witness stand you have to shoot back of the judge you have to shoot the

witness stand you have to shoot the jury every time and and you know who really

had a brilliant way of doing this was David Milch when he did murder one he had the jury box on roller skates.

Wow.

So he rolled the jury box around to where the lights were so he didn't have to change the lighting.

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