The The the Hello everyone and welcome to the Tobolowski files a series of stories about life, love and the entertainment industry as told by character actor Stephen Tobolaski.

My name is David Chen and joining me today he's the man who played James Bloom in the TNT original series The Closer Stephen T.

Stephen how you doing today?

I am very fine. Thank you.

Yeah, James Bloom. Yeah, thank you uh... yeah James bloom the uh... we were a lawyer but what

was really exciting about that

was uh... we got to shoot up in the uh...by Hills, is that what they call it?

Right next to her, to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion.

Uh-huh.

So we shot at the mansion right next door to the Playboy Mansion and to buy any of these

houses must cost in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course in this market, know maybe not but it was we shot all over the

the mansion and I noticed that if you were upstairs in bed watching law and order and I timed it let's say you wanted to come

downstairs to the kitchen and get a beer it would take you 20 minutes to come down from your bedroom to get a beer and go back up

state. You would have to TiVo the show if you wanted to eat snacks during it because

you would miss the show getting

snacks. That is pretty insane sir. But of course then you probably had they had a pet

cat and they told us to keep the door shut of the mansion because they didn't want the cat to escape.

But the point is the mansion was so huge, you would never find the cat in the mansion anyway.

I mean, the cat could be at one end of the mansion it would take like you know you'd have to get on a moped

to find it. You need like a location tracker or something. Yes you'd need the chip you need the chip and the cat.

Well, in any case, Stephen, you know, we were talking last week and we closed off last week's show about autograph

nationals, I think, is that what it's called?ograph nationals and what this show is is they they

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