One on One: Floyd VanBuskirk

Published Apr 13, 2023, 4:00 AM

It happens in Gilmore Girls World from time time.  An actor appears on the show as one character and then reappears, in later episodes, as another!
 
Floyd Van Buskirk made his Gilmore Girls debut in season 1, episode 5 as Jed, and then again in season 5, episode 2, “A Messenger, Nothing More,” as Henry, who is apart of the Renaissance Fair.

I Am all In. I Am all in with Scott Patterson, an I Heeart Radio podcast, Hey Everybody's Scott Patterson aim all and Podcast one eleven productions, iHeart Radio one on one interview. We've got a very special guest, Floyd Floyd. Help us with your last name? Here? Van Abuse Kurt Vans behind a van Gotcha, gotchas you. First appeared in season one, episode five, Cinnamons Wake, and he plays Jets Stars Hall residue of frequents. Luke's Daniel also tends to wake at the Beets and Moore's house for the cats. Cinnamon Uh. Jeed is dressed in overalls in My and Mike Michelle and characteristically rude fashion refers to him as heehaw Man. I remember that his last appearance season five ups to a messenger nothing more, which is why he is here. He plays Henry at the Renaissance Fair, who shares some gossip with Luke Floyd. Welcome to the show, heys, thank you for coming on, and I am just lost this. There we go. Um, it's easy to get here, Yeah it is. You know. You just have to go to that zoom thing, push the button, they beam you right up to the ship. It's it's it's amazing, isn't it. So you play two characters in the series. Yeah, Jed in season one and then again Henry in season five. How did you initially get the role? Did you audition or did they just offer it? Yeah? No, I I auditioned and then they offered it. That's the best of both worlds. They didn't know who I was. Actually not the auditioning part. It's better if you just get the offer, right, Yeah, it is, it is. It's nice when those come in. It's all right. But they gotta sweatch you out, don't they. They just gotta see the jump through. Were there any discussions with you about coming back to play a different or did they just so they just brought you it was in another audition or was it or was it they just booked you for it? They just as I recall, think they might have just booked me for it, right good, Although I mean it's it was a long time ago. So yeah, I remember being surprised that I was that I was, that I was called back right um, because Jed was kind of like he was such a you know, it was a little part. Was it was a it was a great day. I really enjoyed. What do you remember about being on set? Um? I remember hanging out waiting waiting um to uh to shoot, and and sitting outside, and I remember hanging out with a bunch of the actors, but mostly I remember Liz Liz tourists and and and Sally Struther's just talking about talking about gigs that they've done and and and the business and stuff like that. And I was just like just listening and listening to stories and gossip and stuff and just really im mentally entertained by by Sally has that effect on people, you know, Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was really really she was really, she was surprising. She was surprising. She's a superb human being. And yeah, just a bright light and great talent RT, great rock on tour, great storyteller, keeps it. She's such a professional because she keeps everybody happy. And I'm light and uplifted, and she knows that people get exhausted on set, and when she comes around, she just gives everybody energy. It was it was Yeah, it was like being in a kind of a cerebral hot tub. It was just very bubbly and and yeah, and I remember I remember that more of the more than anything else, was just hanging hanging around with with with Sally and um And and Sally and Liz were really we're really like going back and forth, going back and forth. But yeah, the two of them together was forgot. It was a house on fire. It was really entertaining. Oh yeah, one of your lines in season five, the episode We Just Broke Down was quite a tongue twister. Do you remember it? A Bail Bill, Hey Bai, I remember. I don't know why it was so why I had you know, do you remember, Hey Bail, I can't see it now, Hey Bail Bill, the guy that toats the hay Bales. Hey Bail Bill, the guy that toats the hay bales. You know you know, Hey Bill Bill, the guy that Billy. Yeah, for some reason, it's like, I go, come on, boyd, you've got you've got this one one one nice line. And it was, man, why is that so hard? Of course? You you're you're sitting in my little cubic old trailer kind of a thing and it going over to go that's easy. Just think about what you're saying. It's hay Bales and Bill, and then but it comes out, heyb all the baby. Yeah, so it's impossible to say, you know, hey Bill Bill, you know he hey Bill, say Hey Bell Bill? Yeah, Hey do know Hey Bell Bill? The guy that teams Hey bail Bill, the guy that toads the hay bales. You know that guy, That guy know, Hey bail Bill, the guy that tells me something some sort of some sort of a guffuffle at the grog booth. Was it the grog Booth? I just even remember the grock booth. It was some sort of thing in the grock Booth. And then he built himself a fort out of hay bales hiding in it. Than it was some sort of some sort of you know, some juicy town gossip about hey Bail Bill. Did you watch the episode before he came on? Oh? Did I? Did I watch that episode before before I came on? Yes? No, okay, I mean I watched it several times before and I put it on my reel and all that kind of jazz. So oh sure, But I just because I remember that line, because I had such a hard time with it, right, Sure, those are the ones. Remember, I still sided in my mind, going I'll get it right. You know, It's only like you know, a dozen or so years ago, but it's like it still kind of haunts me a little bit. We had a nice little scene together. Yeah, it was. It was nice. Was that the hay bill bill? That was the hay bail bill that they bail bill? Well, you got nailed, otherwise they wouldn't have moved on. Yeah, crossing crossing paths, right, I think I was hauling beverages or something. I was hauling something. It was. It was some sort of a we were It was like a kind of a ren faish kind of a field to it. I think I was even kind of in kind of rent fair, kind of garb sure Renaissance for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah that's what it was. Yeah, I remember that and uh yeah. So You've had a lot of roles in some pretty iconic shows. Do you have a favorite role that you've done, a favorite role that I've done? Um, well, I had a I had. I had a role in in Las in Vegas. I actually did again. I did like two roles, two different characters in another show called Las Vegas. And I had a scene with with James Kahn where I was kind of easy used car salesman. Tell me about your experience with James Kahn. Uh. It was it was really, it was really really cool. I mean he was like I was kind of awestruck. I mean, you get to work with people and who are who you've seen for years, you know, like Sally and Liz and but this this scene with with with James and I. Usually I tend to just keep my distance from people because, you know, especially you know, celebrity type people, because I don't want to bother anybody. I don't get anybody's girl. But so I just sort of like waiting my trailer and wait to one called and then and then try to be as plaist as possible. But he was just he was just very cool and so relaxed and really really easy and um but I remember kind of like a couple of times just kind of like pinching myself, going, wow, that's that's sunny. She's right there, he's right there. But I'm being all of your ivy leagues soup yeah, yeah, yeah, And and it was awesome and it's and it's odd. Later on I ended up I was in I've been an an improv company for years and years and years, and I one of his sons, Alex, I was in our is in our group was one of our young improvisers and so um James came to see uh one of our shows, one of our improv shows. I was a group called impro Theater and we do long form improvised plays and we were doing a show at the Gary Marshall and Alex was Alex was I think he was doing tech for us. I think he was doing lights or sound or both, and and and and James came to see the show and he took us all out for We all went out for beer next door and he bought us burger and a beer and and was just telling us stories. But again, it's like the coolest it's it's cool working with these people. But the coolest part is like when the cameras aren't are off and they're just like hanging out and talking and they get you get to hear stories. I remember him just it was just some of the stories that that would tell that he would tell. It was like, can I tell like Brando stories? Yeah, a little bit, you know about on that setting, but he's done so much stuff that it was like it's almost like I can't even and it's all just and it's all just like things that go by in passing that are. So you were also the voice of the wildly popular game World of Warcraft. You do a voice? Now, do you do comic cons because you're positive? No, I haven't, but you know, the World of Wark Draft would fit right into the yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Well my wife, my wife Elisa, I play. I do the voice of Lord Terrian, uh Terrian for Driant, and my wife does the voice of Ronda Okay, which is a huge She's her characters is huge. So you two have never been invited to do a con um. I don't know that we've ever liked, like looked to going into it. She still she still works an awful lot. She's actually went to do a job right now. She does a lot of uh she's not only on camera work, but a lot of voiceover and a lot of looping stuff like that. And I've got into that a little bit, but she does a lot of that. And she's off working on a new show right now. Burbank, she just left to do that. She started on the time we start. She's just now starting work. Um. Bobby two thousand and six, was this the Ameilio Estevez Um the film that he about Bobby Kennedy. Yes, oh okay, what role did you play in that? I was doing several different voices on that. I don't even remember what they were. I think voices on Bobby, voices on Bobby. So I was. I was doing a d R on that too, I was doing oh so you were? Okay. So I get credits for a lot of stuff that is that are looping jobs, because a lot of times they don't give you, they don't give you any screen credit at all for loop mum, but occasionally they do so. Um on that one I got. I got credit on IMDb for doing for doing a background voices and possibly um, you know radio uh like the voice of possibly a radio or TV announcer or something that might be in the background. M hmmm. And you did This is Us? You did an episode of This Is You? You appeared on that. Yeah, I played did you did you? Did you work with Milo's boss there you go in season one? Um? And he was it was this. It was the episode about ended up buying because this it was this this mess of a house. He was working construction and I was his boss and he had just found out that they were going to have that they were going to have was it triplets because they yeah, they just found out that they were going to have multiple So he was asking me for rais and I was basically declined give him. What was So what was your experience like working with myle I've heard he's a giant pain. He was? He was? He was really sweet. No, such a such a horrible person, No, he was. He was really he was really kind and generous and really humble. It still is, I guess, a really sweet guy, unless he's turned horrible or something. He's as I recall, he was. He was really really nice. You know who was really great was when I worked on when I worked on Gilmour Girls. Um, I mean that was very enjoyable all the way around, but it was it was I think it was when I was working on Sinnamon's Wake in season one and I met Melissa McCarthy and she was I I fell in love with her immediately. She's like, um, so humble and so um appreciative. And I think this was really because it's really kind of like Gilmore Girls is really where she kind of like launched is all sure, I mean that's kind of where she where she kind of people sort of isn't it amazing to you, because it's amazing to me that it took another series for her to get before she really started getting noticed. Yeah you know, I mean she did all of this spectacular work in Gilmore Girls, and that didn't give her a film career. Yeah, that like that wasn't enough, right, it wasn't in years of just hitting it out of the park. Yeah, you know, nobody else can do like the comedy Chops's She's amazing. I would I would watch I would watch her do laundry, right, so would I. I would watch her du laundry. And her husband Ben, they just seemed like, this is like this, I would like to go on a camping trip with those guys. Let's just go on a road trip with him. They're just like But when when I met her on Gilmore Girls, she just like she came right up to me and she said, this is so great, this is so great. I feel so lucky, I feel so blessed to be here. And she was so humble and gracious and and and excited. It was. She was absolutely delightful. And I remember that a dear friend of mine had had auditioned for the same role as Suki had also auditioned for Suki and um and so, and I really wanted her to get it, and she didn't get it, and Melissa got it. And then it's like I came away after that going, Okay, well, if Tracy didn't get it, I'm glad she did because I just thought that she was just just such a delightful person. And you know Melissa didn't, you know that was Melissa didn't get the original role. The original role went to Alex Borstein. Oh really in the pilot. Alex Borstein appears in the pilot as Drella, the harpist in the Dragon Flow or the Dragonfly in or not the Dragonflight. It was the the other one. What do they call it? The cheez There you go, the original inn right, the independence in Yeah, right, So that was and then uh, Alex was on and Living Color and they wouldn't let her out of her contract to do the series, so they had to recast the role and they took obviously it wasn't a harpist anymore. It became the chef. Yeah. Yeah. And then and then Melissa McCarthy got her opportunity in there. She wasn't amazing how much talent there is out there that's not even working. Yeah, it's not a question of like, oh nobody see people always say I can't imagine anybody else in that role. Nobody else could have played that. Yeah, there's lots of people that could have played There are and and and in many different interesting ways that no one's ever thought of and would be maybe even better than what you saw, you know. So I don't I don't buy into there's tons of great actors, tons of that. There just aren't enough parts, you know. That's the thing that well, one thing that is one thing that it's nice is that although it's confusing, there's so much content now, right, there's so much content there are there are a lot of there are a lot of opportunities, but of course there's there's never enough, no matter how much more there is, it seems like there's there's never quite enough for all the all the talent that there is, um so much. Yeah, I think outside of the big agencies, it's really hard to get into one of these shows, right, you know how the packaging world is and yeah, yeah, how much pressure there is on these producers that are represented by that agency. I mean they you know, the actors the producers, the writers, below the line talent is all represented by the same agency and they make those deals and everybody else in the business is locked out of any of those shows. And there's so many of them. There's like five shows going right, Yeah, And it's all those film people that that came over and they migrated into the television space. Yeah, you see all this great television and so it's so fractionalized at this point, you know. And it's like that's the thing, so much, so much of the there's so much more really terrific content on television now, Like a lot of a lot of the film actors have thought, I want to do that, right, I want to I want to do that that looks that looks great, that looks challenging, And I mean, who can blame them? You know? Yeah, just because there's more content doesn't mean it's easy to get a job anymore. Right, It's actually harder. Yeah, you know, it's harder. All right. So it's that time again, Floyd, as you well know, where you are going to be forced against your will to play rapid fire? Are you ready? I'm gonna what I'm gonna What are you being forced to do? What? Do I push you make the stop. I'm gonna ask you questions and you're gonna give me answers. I'm just very right, exactly exactly, exactly. H how many cups of coffee do you have in a day? Three? Are your Team Logan, Team jes or Team Dean? I'm gonna you don't know what that means? Okay, uh yeah, your Team Logan. By the way, I'm gonna go to um. I just our executive producer wants you to say that, who's your favorite Gilmore Girl's character? Rapid Fire Floyd, rapid Fire. I gotta I gotta go, Suki, thank you? What would you order it? Luke Steiner, Patty? Would you rather go on a road trip with Taylor or Michelle? Michelle? Finish the lyric and where you lead? I will follow dot dot dot where you lead, anywhere you go close anywhere that you tell me too. Sorry, Judges, hang on, Nat, We're not going to give you the thanks. Sorry you were Yeah, um Jackson's vegetables or Suki's baked goods. I think we know the answer to this. I'm all the way you very much. Would you would you rather listen to Drella's harp? Or the Troubadours cover songs. Uh Chilton, Prepper stars Hollow Hi. Hi, there you go, Floyd. Keep on keeping on, brother, and keep nailing those jobs, and try to get involved in the convention game, because boy, there's a lot, there's a lot of need for there's voice actors do very well on that circuit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. We've we have several friends that that do a lot of voice over work. Yeah, and they do conventions a lot. Of course since since the lockdown, it's like it's, you know, but they're they're up and going again. But they're up, They're up and going. Now. I'm a little I'm a little slow out of the gate. I'm still very shy so about like not going anywhere without a mask. But um, it's I'm starting to feel like, Okay, I think I think we're okay. I think time things warm up, if they ever finally do really warm up here, I think it's think it's gonna be okay. Man. That was yeah, look into that. You're gonna you're gonna yeah. Okay, all right, Floyd, thank you so much for your time, good luck with everything, and you too, all the best, buddy. Okay, you too. Man, All right, take care dot hey everybody, and don't forget Follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com. Oh you Gilmore fans. If you're looking for the best cup of coffee in the world, go to my website from my company scott ep dot com, s C O. T. T YP dot com, scottip dot com Grade one Specialty Coffee

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