“Pete Shanahan” actor David DeLuise joins Dial the Gate to discuss his time on Stargate SG-1, working one-on-one with Amanda Tapping and take fan questions LIVE.

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Timecodes
0:00 – Opening Credits
0:46 – Welcome and Episode Outline
02:33 – Guest introduction
07:43 – David DeLuise’s Mom
09:11 – Growing Up under the DeLuise Roof
15:49 – Stargate Makes You Stop and Think
18:45 – Stargate Feature Film
21:58 – Peter’s Start on Stargate
25:01 – Fandom
29:15 – Pete Shanahan
36:01 – Chimera and the Positive Effect on David Directly
39:28 – Carter, Jack and Pete
45:29 – Stargate Documentary
46:50 – Other than seaQuest, did the whole family ever appear together?
49:28 – Directing
56:09 – Favorite Pizza, and Dom’s Pizzas
59:36 – Growing Up with Comedians
1:01:13 – Working in Vancouver
1:04:55 – David’s Wife did Voice-Over for Stargate Universe
1:06:37 – Pete Shanahan in Atlantis
1:07:19 – Living in Berlin
1:09:06 – Paving Your Own Way as an Actor
1:12:22 – Coming Back for SG4
1:13:02 – Joining a Stargate Role-Playing Game
1:13:55 – Thank you, David!
1:14:42 – Post-Interview Housekeeping
1:18:37 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read:
Welcome everyone to episode 49. Forty-nine! My name is David Read. You’re watching Dial the Gate. Thanks so much for your time. I hope you’re having a great Super Bowl Sunday. Who are you rooting for? I don’t know who I’m rooting for. I just remembered actually, David DeLuise just reminded me that the Super Bowl is today. So, hey, there you go! Hope you’re having a great weekend, folks. We have a great guest coming up: David DeLuise, Pete Shanahan, Stargate SG-1. Before we get started I would invite you to like, share, and subscribe [to] our channel. We have announced a new Discord channel. The link is above so be sure to copy it exactly. A lot of fans come together each week in YouTube to chat and now the discussion doesn’t have to end when the show is over. If you like Stargate and you want to see more content like this on YouTube it would mean a great deal if you click the “like” button. It makes a difference with YouTube’s algorithm and will definitely help the show grow its audience. Please also consider sharing this video with a Stargate friend. And if you want to get notified about future episodes, click the “subscribe” icon. Giving the bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops and you’ll get my notifications of any last-minute guest changes. This is key if you plan on watching live. And expect clips from this livestream to appear on Gateworld.net and the Dial the Gate channel in the next few weeks. For this episode we have David DeLuise standing by. If you are in our livestream right now at YouTube.com/DialTheGate you will be able to submit questions to David via the moderators. The moderators will get them over to me. I appreciate you taking part. Without further ado, Mr. David DeLuise.

David DeLuise:
Where?!

David Read:
Right there!

David DeLuise:
Ahh! There he is. Hello everyone!

David Read:
Hello sir! How you doing?

David DeLuise:
I’m good. I am up at my family cabin house and it is, I would take the thing, the iPad, and show you…

David Read:
Oh my god, we would have to re…

David DeLuise:
It’s, everybody, it’s completely propped up so that I am camera eye level. I can prop up my phone and stuff to do auditions and things, but the iPad has not been properly propped before. Normally it’s like this. You see me like this. Hello! So I’m doing well. I was just in Mexico with my wife, who is now back in Berlin. We’re working on getting her a green card and that takes time. Other than that, everything is pretty good in my life. I’m pretty happy.

David Read:
Are you alone out…

David DeLuise:
Other than the [pandemic] happening.

David Read:
Yes, this is true. Are you alone at the cabin or are any other of the clan there with you?

David DeLuise:
No, just me. My daughter was up here. She lives closer to L.A. [Los Angeles], about an hour and 45 minutes out. It’s just me and, interestingly enough, this place called Pine Mountain, and my dad, more than 40 years ago, bought the house next door and this lot and then built this house. This is the house that Dom built. I have all the furniture that, my breakfast table with my dad when I was growing up, this is his desk that he had when he had just moved out. I have my mom’s desk upstairs. I have a bunch of stuff from my life and also from my life growing up. This is my happy place. And, I have my wand. Because I’m a wizard. I do Cameos. You know Cameo, right?

David Read:
Yes. Where you can go and talk to your fans.

David DeLuise:
Yes, and I do sometimes I make a spell. I do a spell. And sometimes the wand rings. Hello? I told you to never call at this wand. I’m so sorry. I’ll be right with you. Yes, call me on the other wand. OK, bye. I have schtick. I have schtick and I have things to do. Things are happening.

David Read:
That’s legit, man. Good for you. I wouldn’t, that never was in doubt that you, even in through all this nightmare that we’re going through right now, you would find your place. With a wand, no less.

David DeLuise:
Don’t we all have to find our place? We’re going to go cuckoo crazy if we don’t adjust and adapt.

David Read:
Yeah, find some kind of creative outlet, find some way of getting around the current communication barriers and creating new ones. That’s what I love about Zoom. All the actors have been forced to get on it. All the behind-the-scenes people as well, to continue to work. I have to largely thank this situation that we’re in for giving birth to this show.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, and David, did you know about Zoom prior to [the] pandemic?

David Read:
Yes. I was aware of it but I never, I mean I didn’t have it. Yeah.

David DeLuise:
I was not aware of it. I was not aware of it. I was aware of the FaceTimes [sic],

David Read:
And Skype.

David DeLuise:
And the WhatsApps. And the Skypes.

David Read:
Skypes.

David DeLuise:
Why go to Skype if you can just FaceTime someone, you know what I mean?

David Read:
At that point, yeah…

David DeLuise:
The Zoom seems to be a better, there isn’t a four, five second delay. Sometimes I talk to my wife, who’s in Berlin, nine hours away. We’ll be talking, and you talk over each other because there like a, we do a test, “and one, two, three snap” [snaps fingers] and there’s a four second delay.

David Read:
Eww.

David DeLuise:
We use it like walkie-talkies. We talk, we talk, we talk, over.

David Read:
Over. Geez! FaceTime is Apple only and my parents, I’m not getting them anywhere near an Apple product because they don’t know how to figure it out. We use WhatsApp there. Zoom is just great for business. I just love it. Here’s your Zoom promotion, folks. Join Zoom.

David DeLuise:
That’s right. I have yet to generate a Zoom link. I can click on it, and I can unmute myself, and I can see people. I have actually taught, I teach an acting class for kids, and while I was in, I taught a class from here, and I also taught a class from Mexico. About 30 kids. Break it down in the morning for 15 and the afternoon for the other 15. It’s nice, I get, I mean it’s not easy to teach over Zoom. It’s nice that I’m able to still work and connect.

David Read:
That’s exactly right. We all need that connection, especially so. I was sure sorry to hear about the loss of your mom. My condolences, man.

David DeLuise:
Aw, David, thank you for saying that. She had Alzheimer’s for 11 years. And if anybody…

David Read:
Ohh.

David DeLuise:
…has dealt with Alzheimer’s. It’s tough, it’s tricky. And I was with her every step of the way. It was very gradual which is no fun. Sometimes people would be like “Oh your mom has Alzheimer’s? My dad was just diagnosed. Give me a heads up. What is there to know about it?”

David Read:
Aw, man.

David DeLuise:
And a year later their father had passed. And I’m like “I’m so sorry.” My mom, toward the end, was in a state that she was existing rather than living. So it was very confusing. But thank you for your condolences. I have had so many people reach out. My mom was so beloved by so many people, and there was a beautiful article that was in there, we got Mel Brooks to do a little thing. We have a friend, Glenn Taranto, who is a family friend, who helped in the past seven or eight years, helped take care of my mom. He is the one who really wrote this obituary that was so amazing. It’s nice to have people that are nice in your life.

David Read:
It’s nice to have people who you can always count on and who care.

David DeLuise:
Yeah.

David Read:
They don’t come around that often.

David DeLuise:
It’s true. Hold on to them, everyone.

David Read:
Absolutely, man. I interviewed you for Dialing Home, Christopher [Judge] and I both did. In season two, which…

David DeLuise:
In that house, up in the Hills.

David Read:
Right, in the Hollywood Hills. MGM has not published it. I’m still hoping that they will. But I was like, I’m not going to wait around for them to do it. I’m going to have David on my show. So here we are. Thank you so much for coming back. You’ve always been good to me.

David DeLuise:
Of course.

David Read:
What was it like growing up in that house?

David DeLuise:
Loud.

David Read:
Not necessarily that house, but that group of people. Was loud?

David DeLuise:
It was loud. I had Michael and Peter, were, you know…

David Read:
You’re the baby.

David DeLuise:
Sat on me at times. I was the baby and I was innocent until proven guilty. Innocent. There was, it was loud, it was wonderful, it was very creative. Our dinners were like acting classes. Let’s do improv? Who can make me cry the fastest. It was always something entertaining. I’m not a singer, I don’t do the singing. But there was singing, and laughter, and fun. And the people that would come over were really famous people who just were my parents’ friends. My uncle, my godfather is Mel Brooks and my godmother was Anne Bancroft. We had Carl Reiner and Norman Lear and Dick Van Dyke and Carol Burnett and Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone. These are just naming a few people. Some of those we didn’t know as well as others. But, oh, Gene Wilder was very, and Gilda Radner, just sweet as pie. They were wonderful, nice people. But also extremely talented, and hopefully some of that can rub off on you. Whatever. My brother Peter, who I’m sure everyone knows, is writer, director, producer of the Stargates, and very in to Stargate. So I’ll just give you a little background. For whatever reason, my parents would go out of town and leave Peter in charge. And he was only 17, 18 years old. Why would you do that? He would wake us up at one in the morning, he would wake you up and beat you with pillows. And you’d be like “What is going on?” You would try to turn on the light and the light was out. You’re like “What?” And he would literally look at you and go “Run.” And then he would chase you with a BB gun.

David Read:
Whoa!

David DeLuise:
Chase you with a BB gun. He would hunt you. He had cut the power at the electric box so you couldn’t see. Then he would just hunt you down. There was one time where I had a hand gun BB gun where you had to pump it. I don’t know if you remember that.

David Read:
Yeah, the air guns.

David DeLuise:
But I mean, look. You would only pump it twice, you know what I mean? So it didn’t hurt as bad. It still hurt. We didn’t have paint guns back then.

David Read:
Yeah, paintball guns.

David DeLuise:
There was one time I was hiding and he shot me right in the area next to, an inch away. Not cool. I pumped my gun a million times and I chased him, and I went to go shoot him and I shot this glass fixture in the hallway. Thick glass. There was just a little BB gun hole. So we just moved it so they couldn’t see it. And then a month later my dad was walking down the hall and it just shattered and he found a little BB. “Where did this come from?”

David Read:
Uh oh!

David DeLuise:
But Peter would, you know, he was five years older than me and he sat on me for the better part of my childhood.

David Read:
And Michael?

David DeLuise:
In truth, it was fun. I enjoyed growing up. We also made movies. We made home movies. Everybody has a studio in their hands now. But back then, my dad got us a video camera. It was like, “what?” One of those hold on your shoulders, goes to a VCR [videocassette recorder] side. People don’t know what a VCR is. But it was a thing like this, there was battery charger and then it would go to a VCR thing. You had these huge things you had to carry with you if you weren’t plugged in at the house and you wanted to go on location. You had to truck the battery. You had three hours to go out and make a movie, which was so much fun. That was some of my best childhood memories. Where my brother Michael, who was in Wormhole X-Treme, if anybody remembers.

David Read:
He sure was!

David DeLuise:
Which I was not in, but I love that episode so much. I think it’s so funny. We just enjoyed making home movies and stuff like that. Michael would tell us what to do a lot of the time. He would be: “You go over there and do this.” And I’d be like, “OK. I’m in the movie.” Do people watch Wormhole X-Treme…

David Read:
Oh yeah.

David DeLuise:
…as a side? I mean, it’s a stand-alone, right? It’s its own, kind of. It’s almost like its own little movie thing, based on the idea of the guy kind of remembering things and making a TV show.

David Read:
Right, exactly. ‘Cause he’s on medication now, so all of his memories are gone. In terms of, hey, there was 300 and almost 60 episodes of Stargate, and Wormhole X-Treme is regularly cited in the top 10, 15.

David DeLuise:
Ah, got it.

David Read:
It was a big deal. And that’s not just because it was the 100th episode. It’s because it was taking full advantage of, for the first time, pointing fun at, poking fun at itself.

David DeLuise:
Right.

David Read:
Which is what Stargate did very well, particularly SG-1. I would think that a large part of that contributing factor is Peter. The man is just a genius.

David DeLuise:
[Inaudible] Pete wanted to make jokes. There just so much one can furrow a brow and be serious and go “Let’s get ‘em” or whatever it is.

David Read:
“It’s what I do”.

David DeLuise:
He did like to bring levity to it, for sure.

David Read:
That’s exactly right. The great thing about Stargate is that it does have those moments. Even though it does do a fair good job of poking fun at itself, that is an essential ingredient, it does have those moments where it makes you stop and think and go “huh.” Like your sister-in-law, Anne Marie, she was in The Other Side, which is one of the best shows that Brad [Wright] ever wrote. It’s a story about white supremacy. But it’s not even about that. It is about that, but it’s not what it is on the surface. I think that’s what so brilliant about science fiction, is how subversive it can be.

David DeLuise:
Yeah.

David Read:
I think that Stargate had all of that in spades.

David DeLuise:
One hundred percent. Listen, when I was working with Amanda [Tapping], there was very complex things going on. And when I came in and started working on the show, Richard Dean Anderson had said “I will work for a month of time.” Thirty days, right? And what they did was, they would bring him in for one week and then they would do four episodes of his coverage in that week. I just had to have one episode in my brain and I was like “Oh my god, there’s a lot happening. I’m trying to focus on what’s happening.” And Amanda, Monday Tuesday, would do episode three, Wednesday episode six, Thursday Friday episode 10. How do you, how are you keeping that in your brain?

David Read:
It’s the job.

David DeLuise:
Kudos to Amanda Tapping.

David Read:
My gosh! What a force of nature she was then and is now. She’s one of the biggest directors in Canada.

David DeLuise:
Yeah!

David Read:
I’ve been trying to book her for months and every time they’re like “OK, we’re going to have to look in to next month, we can’t right now. Next month.” It’s like “you go, girl. That’s terrific!” You can’t feel bad for her. Or for yourself. You’re doing what you’ve always wanted to do. She’s a great director.

David DeLuise:
I haven’t worked with her in the directing capacity but I’ve heard that she’s amazing. She’s a wonderful person and decisive and knows what’s up and knows the show, obviously, inside and out. But her, the new endeavours that’s she directing, I think one of them, didn’t she partially create? One of the newer shows.

David Read:
I wouldn’t be surprised.

David DeLuise:
She’s talented. Very talented.

David Read:
She has so many irons in the fire right now. There’s, I think, another Sanctuary. Something about Sanctuary. A reboot or something like that in development again. I’m not sure what’s going on with that. At some point we’ll have her on and ask. So, you heard about Stargate through Peter, I’m guessing? Let me back up. Did you see the feature film? Did you see it in the theater in the 90s?

David DeLuise:
Yeah, I did see the film. French Stewart was in it, who I worked with for seven years on 3rd Rock From the Sun.

David Read:
That’s right.

David DeLuise:
I don’t know how many years ago but I did a rewatch and you see the whole crew in, what’s his name, who’s the actor who…

David Read:
John Lithgow?

David DeLuise:
No, in Stargate, in the movie…

David Read:
Oh! You’re talking, Kurt Russell had his glasses on, and then you had James Spader…

David DeLuise:
James Spader! In James Spader’s so many thing you see, you pause it and you see the entire crew. Which is so weird.

David Read:
They digitally remove that now.

David DeLuise:
Oh they have?

David Read:
No, they can now, these days. At some point…

David DeLuise:
I have a special effects friend who lives in Canada and I, his name is James. I think he worked on Stargate and stuff. Different shows with Peter and Anne Marie. He worked on these shows that I did, these movies called Pup Star for little kids. But he just recently sent me a documentary on all of Stargate. It talked about the beginning, like that movie, also there was a lawsuit, there was a person who wrote something called Egypt Wars or, there was the word Egypt in it. And won. And won a settlement. I believe that a judge said that his material was close enough that they had to pay him.

David Read:
Oh, no! A fine.

David DeLuise:
And you’ve never hear this?

David Read:
James Tichenor. No. No, I’ve not heard this. James Tichenor I think is who you’re referring to.

David DeLuise:
And then they also talked about the movie. They made 70 million [dollars] domestically and then foreign made 120 million [dollars].

David Read:
It exploded.

David DeLuise:
Even though it got a 49 from the critics but a 70 from the fans. It was interesting, and was very successful. And then those guys went off to do…

David Read:
Independence Day.

David DeLuise:
…other movies. Yeah, but then were going to comeback to Stargate…

David Read:
Correct.

David DeLuise:
But then [Studio]Canal bought it and started doing the series. So those guys were like “we’re out. We’re going.” And made Independence Day and may other big movies like that. But it was so interesting to hear the back story. If you haven’t seen this documentary, which I was shocked about…

David Read:
Please send it to me.

David DeLuise:
I will send to you.

David Read:
You were, “what there’s a Stargate documentary out?” Absolutely. The Egypt and aliens thing, I’m not surprised at that part of it at all because that was heavily borrowed for that feature film. You came in, in a prominent guest starring role in season seven. Peter had been involved, I think since season two of SG-1 if I’m not mistaken.

David DeLuise:
He was involved on season two and when it was still on Showtime? I didn’t know that.

David Read:
Yup. He has cameos going on as far back as season two of the show.

David DeLuise:
Interesting. I know, I know this for a fact: Peter was up there, Canal did 21 Jump Street. Peter came back to America, it wasn’t very [inaudible]. All of his connections were in Vancouver. By the way, 21 Jump Street and Wiseguys, there were three shows that started in shooting in Canada. It was the beginning of, I mean obviously Canadian television was happening. But it was one of the tax incentive was huge. I think it was like 25 or 30% even.

David Read:
It was a big deal.

David DeLuise:
You could really get bang for your buck up there.

David Read:
Right!

David DeLuise:
Peter had all these connections, directed several of the 21 Jump Streets, and then went back to do other directing things up there through Canal. A director on Stargate was slated and then, I don’t know, got sick. Something happened and they were like “we’re in a pinch.” And they went with Peter. And I’ll never forget it, he went “they liked my stuff, I was done early, and I had 52 set ups of camera stuff.” You know what I mean? So you got a lot of coverage, which is important for the editor to be able to cut stuff together. He then, because that one director was sick or whatever happened, he then became…

David Read:
Changed everything. I can’t…

David DeLuise:
…part of the show.

David Read:
I can not imagine what Stargate, SG-1 in particular, would have become without Peter DeLuise.

David DeLuise:
I don’t know either, David.

David Read:
I mean, without the Jaffa. He was so important to that show, and I would give a digit to get him on, David. I almost swear.

David DeLuise:
He’s done a lot of this. Peter and myself and Michael went to Germany, and to France. We did conventions together, a long time ago. He did a lot, you know, of that kind of stuff. After a certain point you want to move on, and…

David Read:
I don’t blame him.

David DeLuise:
…go on to the next thing. Although, pretty much all the Stargate fans are very happy to continue Stargating.

David Read:
That’s exactly right! I’m very thankful for it. It is a show that, as Brad Wright and many other people have put, is ever green. And every new generation interprets it in their own sphere. And I think that’s one of the benefits of this series is that you can gain new… I grew up on [Star Trek] The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine. Watching them as a kid, is one thing. But then you watch them as an adult and it goes back to that subversive nature of science fiction. Wow, there’s so much more here, on another go around, that I didn’t even notice. That’s one of the nice things about discovering a lot of these shows as kids is you get to reinterpret as an adult and you find so much more there that you went even aware of before. Or maybe it’s just in your own mind and you’re just reinterpreting it in a different way.

David DeLuise:
You could read a book when you’re 15 and read a book when you’re 30 and it’s totally different.

David Read:
That’s exactly right.

David DeLuise:
You’re a different person. I was big on Next Generation as well. You didn’t watch any of the originals prior to that?

David Read:
Absolutely I did. I just really cut my teeth on NextGen. I definitely grew up with the original as well.

David DeLuise:
Because my dad, we had a, I’m going to say the word VCR, or the acronym VCR again. “Wait, what is that thing?”

David Read:
“What is a videocassette recorder?”

David DeLuise:
Roger. We had, because it was Desilu Productions that produced it. With Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

David Read:
Yeah, Lucille Ball.

David DeLuise:
My dad got a copy of all three, there were only three seasons, all three seasons’ gag reels.

David Read:
Noo!

David DeLuise:
I don’t know if you’ve seen this, but it’s online now. It’s up there. It is so funny to have Leonard Nimoy go, as Spock, “don’t worry baby, I screwed up this morning too.” And you’re like, “what?!”

David Read:
Oh my god.

David DeLuise:
There’s so many people walking in to doors and stuff. Because they had [inaudible] timing.

David Read:
Yeah, exactly right.

David DeLuise:
I encourage everybody, if you like Stargate, uh, if you like Star Wars…

David Read:
One more.

David DeLuise:
If you like Star Trek, check that out. Go in there. My daughter has the call letters tattooed on her side.

David Read:
Oh, NCC-1701?

David DeLuise:
Yes, which was [Gene] Roddenberry’s original street address, like across the street or something like that?

David Read:
I didn’t know that.

David DeLuise:
Peter told me that. Peter is such a science geek.

David Read:
That is a great little trivia.

David DeLuise:
It’s something, it’s something that, it was the address of the house across the street. [inaudible] I think.

David Read:
I’ve got it, I’ve got one of them right here.

David DeLuise:
I loved watching The Next Generation too. I worked with Wil Wheaton on a movie and I saw him recently. Super nice guy. Remember, he asked off the show and he asked back on the show. Which was very interesting to me.

David Read:
Oh, you mean, leaving in season four and then returning?

David DeLuise:
Yeah. Love that you know it’s season four. Yes. I just thought it was crazy.

David Read:
Final Mission, man. It’s one of the greatest episodes of the show.

David DeLuise:
Oh really? Interesting.

David Read:
I think so. That’s why it was called Final Mission. That was his exit episode. And then they had him back I think at least once a year for the rest of the series. But he wanted out. He wanted to explore other options.

David DeLuise:
Which his understandable.

David Read:
You can’t blame him. It’s a pivotal point in your life, you know.

David DeLuise:
Listen. When you get in to these huge franchise things, it’s like a band that has a song that people love. And then you keep singing that same song over and over and over again. You want to sing a different song every once in awhile.

David Read:
That’s exactly right. I understand it completely. Tell us about getting the role of Pete.

David DeLuise:
I was in Burbank with a friend of mine, John Putch, and Peter called me and he was like “uh”. This is how I talk [inaudible] brother Peter. He talks like this. This is my imitation of Peter. And his imitation of me is this: “ha ha ha ha ha”. He makes me a crazy person. So he said “so, uh, there is this part coming up, and he’s a grown up in the show. He’s a grown up.” Peter Green? Is that his name? Green? Who’s the producer?

David Read:
Peter Woeste?

David DeLuise:
No. Green. There’s got to be a Green.

David Read:
Peter Green?

David DeLuise:
No, not Peter Green.

David Read:
Peter Green? A producer named Peter? Besides your brother?

David DeLuise:
Yeah. Maybe not Peter. There was a producer.

David Read:
OK.

David DeLuise:
I have to look. There must be a hundred thousand producers.

David Read:
There were quite a few. You had John Lenic.

David DeLuise:
Stargate.

David Read:
Stargate. This will be a while.

David DeLuise:
No, wait, hold on. I’m dying here.

David Read:
Stargate SG-1 producer. Stand by, everybody.

David DeLuise:
How many, wait. How many producers do you think are listed? This could be a trivia question.

David Read:
I would think, over the course of ten years, 20, 25.

David DeLuise:
Higher. One more guess.

David Read:
Thirty-six.

David DeLuise:
Wow. Thirty-eight.

David Read:
There’s another connection to that: that’s how long the wormhole can stay open.

David DeLuise:
But also Robert Cooper is a co-executive producer, executive producer.

David Read:
Right, exactly.

David DeLuise:
Ah, Michael Greenburg. I told you there was a Green.

David Read:
Oh, Michael! Absolutely! Rick’s business partner through Gekko Film Corp.

David DeLuise:
So, Michael said to Peter “what about your brother?” And Peter said “I don’t know. I’ll go call him. We’ll see.” So he called me and he said “would you, like, Michael said your name.” And I said “Well, why didn’t you say my name? Why didn’t you put my name in the frickin’ hat?” Little brother, complain. We all have nepotism in our family. They did, Michael and Peter did seaQuest…

David Read:
Loved it.

David DeLuise:
…and I did an episode with my dad.

David Read:
Yup.

David DeLuise:
We go back and forth. When I was doing 3rd Rock, all of them came and did an episode. So that happens. I threw Peter under the bus a little bit. But! So they say you’re going to be Amanda Tapping’s old boyfriend come back. I was like, OK. Will Waring directed the first episode that I did.

David Read:
Chimera.

David DeLuise:
But Peter came to me and he goes “do you know you have to act like a grown up.” And I was like, “I have two kids, a mortgage. I am a grown up, Peter.” He just sees me as his little brother.

David Read:
You’re stepping in to his playpen.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, I know. But yes. [inaudible] in the best possible way. I will give you a shiny other DeLuise on set.

David Read:
He’s giving you crap.

David DeLuise:
He really wanted me to be a grown up. I went and Idid it, and I had some very grown up scenes with Amanda, in bed talking about things. And her not 100% giving me all the information about her job. Not until, and I did the show, and everybody was so nice and great, and I get to shoot guns, and do stuff, and kiss her.

David Read:
Kiss her.

David DeLuise:
I have a great story about making out with Amanda, which I say sometimes in my Cameos. I do Cameos on the app, and I do things for fans, and I tell this story about making out with Amanda Tapping. But my wife will hear. I’ll tell the story in a second and then I’ll give you her reaction.

David Read:
OK.

David DeLuise:
It just was so much fun. I had such a great time. I will just be very open with you guys. That was a very hard time for me personally, because that’s when I was getting out of not being married anymore. So while this situation was happening where I was starting to be a part of Stargate, I was finding my own footing in my own life. I got, when you’re an actor you get free clothes. You get to keep the clothes.

David Read:
The cowboy boots story.

David DeLuise:
Pete Shanahan was given boots.

David Read:
That’s right.

David DeLuise:
He wore these boots and I still have those boots. I’ve resoled them. I don’t even know, you probably know how long ago that was. What was that?

David Read:
Season seven was 2003.

David DeLuise:
So, wow, it was a long time ago.

David Read:
It was a long time ago, man.

David DeLuise:
You want to do the math and tell me how long ago that was?

David Read:
So that’s 18 years. But I love this story because I remember you…

David DeLuise:
Whoa, my back hurts! Ohhh!

David Read:
I remember you telling me about the boots, and how they make you a little taller, and stand your back up straight.

David DeLuise:
Not only a little taller, but when you put on boots, and I think that this happens a little bit with the women and high heels or something, I don’t know. I just felt manly. I felt like a got my mojo back. [Phone rings].

David Read:
Mojo back. Hello, phone.

David DeLuise:
Will you hold on one second?

David Read:
Yeah!

David DeLuise:
[Inaudible] I have an answering machine David, and I have to, let me see. Hey, hi! I’m doing this interview thing. I’ll call you after. [Inaudible]. Sorry, the reason I did that is because I have an old… I’m back everybody. I have an old-school answering machine at this house. I have, it’s something called a [adds emphasis] land line. It’s not through the air. And I love it because, remember when we were, a long time ago, we used to leave the house and then come back, we’d be like, hours, like hours later, someone called me.

David Read:
“I have to check my messages.”

David DeLuise:
I had to listen to what they say. It’s so fun! I didn’t know. I did that. The experience of working with Amanda was amazing. I’ll just tell the kiss…

David Read:
Before you jump to that, one of the things I remember you talking about with me and Christopher was that Chimera, this episode, came at a time, like you were saying with your marriage, came at a time in your life when you said “I was starting to get David back.”

David DeLuise:
Yeah.

David Read:
It really strengthened you at that time and I thought that was such a good story.

David DeLuise:
Yeah. It was very empowering, even though I complain that Peter didn’t pick me for Pete Shanahan, I really appreciated the fact that I got to work on that show. It made a big difference in my life to be a part of this wonderful thing. There was a beat where Amanda and I go out and we go dancing at this old retirement thing.

David Read:
Church basement.

David DeLuise:
And we go back. No, you know what? That is that. But there was another moment where my character is bringing her to the house, and I’m just lost in her eyes. Listen, when you do comedy, you embellish. You throw stuff out there, right? But when you’re doing dramatic stuff, usually you stay right on point with what’s happening. I had this moment where I’m looking in her eyes and I’m supposed to leave and I, we have this chemistry moment and I just said “have I left yet?” And it stayed in! It was funny. But it was that genuine moment as an actor where I wasn’t thinking about anything other than being in the moment with her, which was so nice. The story is when we went to the dance thing and we came home, Will again was directing this episode and when we go inside we’re supposed to make out. Now when you’re making out as an actor, you go like this, you go: “I have popped a mint, just so you know, and I didn’t have any tuna sandwiches at lunch. Would you like me to go right? Do you want to go left?” You want to, you want to, you know, be respectful of the other person. She just said “have at it. Let’s go for it.” And I was like, “alright.”

David Read:
Amanda Tapping!

David DeLuise:
I kissed her, kind of threw her, not threw her, but I put her up against the wall. I did her neck with lovin’ and stuff. We made out. It was hot, right? It was good. Obviously when you’re shooting something, you need to do coverage and different things.

David Read:
Right.

David DeLuise:
[Inaudible] Will came up and said “we got that, in one take. We’re good, we can move on. How do you guys feel?” And Amanda Tapping said “oh yeah, no, we’re doing that again.” That was my favorite part. I tell that story when I’m doing the Cameos and she goes “again!” So now when I’m kissing my wife, we’ll be done kissing and she’ll go “again!” So funny. Come on. It makes me feel good. And that was sweet.

David Read:
It’s a good show, you know? I mean, she was with, [adds emphasis] with, her heart was set aside for Jack. That was established pretty early on. There’s a layer of sexual tension that runs throughout the show with them. But sooner or later…

David DeLuise:
Which was genius of the creators to have that be something that is, you know, we call it the Sam and Diane thing on Cheers. Are they ever going to be together?

David Read:
Right.

David DeLuise:
It was very clever of them.

David Read:
While he’s her superior officer that’s not possible. There was that component. But at some point, if the show keeps on going, you’ve gotta give the woman something other to do than just talking science technobabble the entire time. Her personal life almost became a joke. And then you came in and helped show that besides her relationship with Janet, and Cassandra, there could be more to her personal life as well.

David DeLuise:
And also giving her the awareness that at some point you have to make that decision.

David Read:
Right.

David DeLuise:
You know what I mean? I did not know this, by the way. The whole shipper, not shipper, thing [inaudible]…

David Read:
Oh my god! What a wasps’ nest you were walking in to.

David DeLuise:
Someone walks by “we’re so happy you’re here. Just be careful because there are some shippers here that really don’t like Stalker Pete.” And I’m like “who’s Stalker Pete? Who is this person?”

David Read:
Here we go.

David DeLuise:
I was like “what?!” I really had to justify myself. If you’re in a relationship and someone is not telling you the truth and you have a funny feeling, you’re going to check them out. I’m a cop. So why wouldn’t you go after them to see. So I was labeled a stalker.

David Read:
That’s what everyone does now today anyway, with Google. We all do that now. But 18 years ago…

David DeLuise:
Which was my version of Google, and I got lambasted for it. But I have had several be like “I’m a shipper, but I loved you and I think you’re so wonderful and sweet. “Yeah. Thank you.” But I didn’t know. I was really taken aback.

David Read:
Pete didn’t warn you at all? Peter didn’t warn you at all, that that was, you know.

David DeLuise:
No, no.

David Read:
Because if anyone had their pulse, him, Joe Mallozzi, they were watching. They knew what a huge fan base Jack and Sam had.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, yeah, I understand that. But here’s the thing. And this is what I would say to some of the fans: nothing has happened for many years. And as a human being there are certain things that need to happen in your life.

David Read:
Eventually.

David DeLuise:
Don’t you care about Sam? Don’t you want her to have a little fun?

David Read:
Apparently not. I loved it though. I loved the, I mean, at the end of the day would I have wanted her to be with Pete? I don’t know. I kind of let the characters do what they want to do.

David DeLuise:
No, they had to be together, David. They had to be together, that’s the bottom line. And then…

David Read:
You have to give her something. Someone to be with. Something to do.

David DeLuise:
Didn’t it end with all of them at a cabin…

David Read:
Fishing.

David DeLuise:
…fishing.

David Read:
That chapter of SG-1 definitely.

David DeLuise:
They were together, but it didn’t fully answer the question whether they were together or not. Or did it?

David Read:
There was a deleted scene in Atlantis, in an episode, Trio, where one of the characters, they’re on a mission, one of the characters asks something. I forget what the line was. Not “are you seeing someone” or something, but “I am seeing someone and he’s in Washington D.C.” And at that point O’Neill was at the Pentagon. It is, from all the people who were involved in the show, as far as they’re concerned, they’re together. And as far as Amanda is concerned, they’re together. At this point.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, and Pete Shanahan is just still crying in the corner.

David Read:
I doubt it. No. He’s back in Denver. He saved some girl’s life.

David DeLuise:
But now that scene you’re talking about was in Stargate Atlantis, right? But when…

David Read:
Yeah. She did a season of the show. She was a regular for a year.

David DeLuise:
Got it. But when SG-1 closed, finished, they tried to leave it ambiguous.

David Read:
Right. Because Rick was gone after season eight, it went on seasons nine and ten. In season nine, Malcolm Barrett, one of the FBI, pseudo-FBI, not an FBI agent, but it’s basically that, said “how’s Pete?” And she’s like “well, you know, we’re not really together anymore.” But she basically communicated that she was not available. We have to just acknowledge and accept the fact that she’s, romantically she’s set.

David DeLuise:
She’s OK. Got it.

David Read:
She’s OK. And so is Pete, you know.

David DeLuise:
Yeah.

David Read:
Would it have been, what happened in Threads, it pulls your heart out. That scene of you taking the for sale sign. It’s a weighty scene. But at the same time, if she hadn’t done that, and you get in to a relationship with her, you get married, you get kids, you get this house with a dog. And ten years later, oh man, what a disaster.

David DeLuise:
Also there a big lie in there.

David Read:
That’s the point. She has to be honest with herself and with him.

David DeLuise:
Which couldn’t really happen, but she could with Richard.

David Read:
Yeah. Absolutely. I have some fan questions for you.

David DeLuise:
Yes! I’m ready for the questions from the fans.

David Read:
Everyone wants to know, what’s the name of the Stargate documentary you were discussing earlier.

David DeLuise:
Oh!

David Read:
Do we know its name? I don’t know its name. I’ve never heard of it.

David DeLuise:
I have to go to, um…

David Read:
Was it on YouTube?

David DeLuise:
Everybody calm down, just for one second. Stargate the, I’m dyslexic so stand by. Definitive history of the… aw, shit. I’m going to copy and paste it and send it to you.

David Read:
Send it to me. Oh! The definitive history of the franchise. This is on YouTube. It’s a fan-made one.

David DeLuise:
OK. So you’ve seen this. You’re aware of it.

David Read:
I have not seen it. I am aware of it though. I’ll go and watch it because I didn’t know that about the lawsuit. So if that’s in there, then god knows what else is in there. That’ll be worth seeing.

David DeLuise:
Who knows. But it was very interesting to me and it wasn’t like I was doing research to talk to you. It was more my friend just knows that I’m part of the show, so sent that to me. It was very interesting.

David Read:
Very cool. Alright. Sommer says [they’ve] recently been rewatching SeaQuest, oh, thank you for the link. Just got it. Recently been watching SeaQuest and just started the episode that has you, your brother, and your father. Is there any other show that you all appear together on screen at once? I think you answered that.

David DeLuise:
I think there might have been. I mean, we all did an episode of 21 Jump Street. Not together.

David Read:
OK.

David DeLuise:
3rd Rock From the Sun. We did an episode where John Lithgow was sleeping with my mom and I didn’t know it. My dad, who was in the mafia, came to tell John Lithgow to watch his back. Michael and Peter were in it too.

David Read:
That’s too funny!

David DeLuise:
[Inaudible] 3rd Rock From the Sun. Basically, I was a very glorified extra in the SeaQuest episode. I was running a night club and my dad was, interestingly enough, again it was, this was a long time ago. My daughter, who, my oldest daughter who is now 27, was a baby.

David Read:
Yup. In Daggers.

David DeLuise:
She was a little baby.

David Read:
She was a baby Dagger.

David DeLuise:
[Inaudible] brought her to Florida. But my dad, we were at a nightclub and he was in a booth.

David Read:
Because he was a smoker.

David DeLuise:
So he could keep smoking. Yeah. We had that at airports. That was when you could smoke, as a human being. This was like [adds emphasis] the future, where you’re not allowed to smoke but in certain areas.

David Read:
That was prescient, wasn’t it.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, right? There’s got to be something else. We did a movie that Michael directed and produced, Peter wrote and starred in called Between the Sheets. And I was in it, my mom was in it, my dad was in it too. We were all in that film together.

David Read:
Between the Sheets. I’ll check it out.

David DeLuise:
There must have been something else that we were all in together that I can’t remember right now.

David Read:
That’s cool, man. Those are the moments that you really cherish. You have, your whole family has been involved in this industry for so long. And those little beats where you get together…

David DeLuise:
Right. My favorite…

David Read:
Get to get together all at once.

David DeLuise:
Which is so much fun. But when my dad was doing Stargate, did Urgo, my favorite part of that is when he [snaps fingers] goes like this and then he turns in to Peter. [Inaudible].

David Read:
“Can you resist [adds emphasis] this?”

David DeLuise:
Good times.

David Read:
Absolutely. Teresa: have you directed, or at any point do you want to?

David DeLuise:
Hi Teresa. Yes, I, when I was doing the show, Wizards of Waverly Place on Disney channel with Selena Gomez, I directed seven episodes of that. I did the show with the intention of directing that. I’ve done many, many episodes of multi-camera sitcom television. I knew a lot about what it is. Really the bottom line is you put on a play and you stage the actors open so you can cover them with four cameras. And if you have ten people in a scene it’s a little tough but you do different passes, different coverage and stuff. The answer is yes, I directed seven episodes of that. And I did Lab Rats, couple other Disney shows, and some Nickelodeon shows. One of them being Camp Rock, or something Rock. And I did the Scott Baio show See Dad Run. I really loved it and it was super exciting. Some of the hardest work I’ve ever done.

David Read:
Oh yeah.

David DeLuise:
Because you’ve got to know every single thing. The one thing about directing is you have to be decisive. There’s this guy Bob Berlinger who directed many, many episodes of television. He did almost all the episodes of 3rd Rock From the Sun. He was a go-to guy. I asked him, I said “what is the number one thing about directing” at lunch and right at that moment someone came up with a prop thing and said “do you want this blue or green.” He goes “blue” and then they walked away. He goes “I don’t know what he was even talking about but we can always change it back to green if we want.” Make a decision, you know.

David Read:
Yeah.

David DeLuise:
After that, I did about 13 episodes of sitcoms and then I directed a couple of pilots for friends. One was very much like the, how you shoot The Office. Other than that, I did a short. I directed a short with some friends. I had a couple more meetings and it just kind of fizzled out. Look, I had 13 episodes under my belt. Most of the other directors in that arena had more than 300 plus shows.

David Read:
Wow!

David DeLuise:
Now, sitcoms went away. Everything became single-camera half an hour like Modern Family. Right? So it was rare that you would get a sitcom, talking when Wizards started, which was, I don’t know how long ago. Let’s go with… well Selena [Gomez] is 27 and she was 14. Selena started when she was 14 and that’s when Disney channel were almost the only people at that time doing sitcoms. Doing that kind of format. So you had directors that were dying to direct and had experience beyond experience. Like this guy Mark Cendrowski who had done numerous television shows, numerous amounts of television shows. So I’ve directed, it’s a lot of work, I really did enjoy it, and I would be open to maybe directing an independent film or something, or a short or something. But you have to really love the project because it takes over your world for a year. I produced, directed, and acted in a, um, audio play. I hate to say podcast because it was an actual play. It was called Grandma For President and it’s on Audible.

David Read:
OK. I love Audible.

David DeLuise:
If you have an Audible account, go and check it out. We’ve got Mel Brooks do a part. And it’s really sweet, about this kid who writes a paper about who would he vote for: Ernie Blanders or Ronald Crump. He’s like, why not Grandma? And she becomes a viable candidate. It’s really cute and sweet. It’s for kids but a lot of the reviews are “I really enjoyed listening to this with my kids.” I was able to produce it with my wife. It took a year and a half, two years to do 10 episodes and get through everything. Audible getting back to us took months. It was just so weird, but fun, when I was directing. I enjoyed the directing.

David Read:
Grandma For President.

David DeLuise:
Yes. Grandma For President on Audible.

David Read:
Fantastic. Ernie Blanders.

David DeLuise:
And that was Mel. That was Mel played [inaudible]

David Read:
That’s terrific!

David DeLuise:
I played the dad in it.

David Read:
There is something about audio dramas, going all the way back to The Shadow. There’s something very fireside about that, that I just love.

David DeLuise:
One hundred percent. And also [inaudible]…

David Read:
I drive a lot and I’m always listening.

David DeLuise:
It’s very German to do audio plays. I’m [inaudible] audio play. In Germany they’ve been doing it for decades and decades and decades. They do that, you know? We’re just now starting to get in to it more of a mainstream kind of thing. Like Rami Malek did one. It’s where you hear all the sound effects and everything, they put you in a room, it’s just you don’t see anything. That’s the only difference.

David Read:
Fully produced. Stargate has audio plays.

David DeLuise:
Oh really?

David Read:
Big Finish Productions put a number of them out. They are excellent. The casts, they bring in one of the cast to do one and they do all the voices and everything else. Full sound effects and a score, and they’re brilliant. I completely recommend them. I’ll give them to you if you want them.

David DeLuise:
Yeah!

David Read:
Oh! No one heard that. No one heard that. Go buy them David. Go buy them.

David DeLuise:
OK!

David Read:
Anyway. Very cool. Chronoss wants to know, David what is your favorite type of pizza. Everyone wants to know.

David DeLuise:
Thin, sliced, big, I will go with your classic pepperoni, sausage. I could also do, what’s your basic thing, with the cheese and tomatoes and the basil?

David Read:
Oh, it’s um, ah hell, what is that called?

David DeLuise:
I’m embarrassed as an Italian.

David Read:
There’s a word for it. Pizza something.

David DeLuise:
I want to say [inaudible]. We’ll figure it out.

David Read:
What were your dad’s pizzas like? I can only… Margherita pizza.

David DeLuise:
Margherita, yes. I like a good Margherita because you know what you’re getting.

David Read:
That’s exactly right.

David DeLuise:
My dad was a great cook and he would…

David Read:
I can’t imagine why, with all of his books that he, I mean come on! Man oh man.

David DeLuise:
He had these cookbooks called Eat This…It’ll Make You Feel Better!

David Read:
My mother owned them.

David DeLuise:
Yeah? There you go. They were good. There’s one sauce recipe that’s called Everything But the Kitchen Sink. You literally just, it’s basically a stew almost, that the next day is really good to eat. He just would cook all the time. My dad was also a non-waster. Grew up during the Depression.

David Read:
That’s right.

David DeLuise:
The pizza I had was whatever was available or left over. He would just, he was very inventive in the kitchen. I would say my dad’s probably, my dad’s favorite pizza was one that was hot and ready to eat.

David Read:
And don’t leave a crumb!

David DeLuise:
We were not, I mean…

David Read:
Could you leave the table with a meal unfinished? Or did you have to finish the plate.

David DeLuise:
No. There was no real, being done when you were full. You had to eat what was on your plate. That was the rule, growing up. Which I followed. When you went to my dad’s house, as soon as you stepped in the door, no matter what time it was, “Do you want a sandwich?” And I would be like “Dad, I just ate. I just ate.” And he would go [in disappointed tone] “OK.”

David Read:
Food…

David DeLuise:
And then you’d sit there and talk for hours, or talk about your day, and have some coffee. You’d be there for hours. And he would have already made sandwiches. You take a bite of the sandwich and he would go “I knew you were hungry!”

David Read:
In my house, food meant “I love you.” Saying no to food, ooh!

David DeLuise:
It’s how you care, especially in Italian and Jewish, you know. In those… if you refuse, there’s something wrong.

David Read:
I agree.

David DeLuise:
You eat what you can. I’ll be quicker with answering the questions. Sorry.

David Read:
No, you’re fine. How much time do you have. Are you good?

David DeLuise:
No, I’m good. I just have to make sure to call my wife and say goodnight to her in Germany.

David Read:
Got it! Absolutely. JohnFourtyTwo: what was it like growing up with so many comedians?

David DeLuise:
It was great! It was really fun. I liked trying to make them laugh. Mel Brooks came over one time to go to dinner with my parents and I was just a little kid, and he said “whoever can fart the fastest wins a dollar.” He goes “one, two…”. And I pffft. I got a dollar. Mel Brooks and gas. Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner were at the house one time and I made them laugh. Making the people laugh that were some of the funniest people in the world, in the business, felt good.

David Read:
I can imagine.

David DeLuise:
Getting their insight. Mel was very influential, and Charles Nelson Reilly, I don’t know if a lot of people know who Charles Nelson Reilly [was], but he was so funny. We had another family friend named Joe Sicari. And Ruth Buzzi. All these people just really were, it was about making the other people laugh, all the time. It was not a competition, but it was a competition. Mel wouldn’t leave the house until he thought he said the funniest thing of the night. Then he was like, “alright, I’m [inaudible].” So it was fun. I was very lucky to be surrounded with these amazing genius people in the business.

David Read:
DR Essex: what was it like working in Vancouver.

David DeLuise:
It was great. I didn’t really realize the idea, I’m from L.A., so I had no idea that it could rain that long for that much time. And that really just kind of affects you. Everybody stayed at The Sutton. The Sutton was Hollywood’s elite…

David Read:
It’s a beautiful hotel.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, but you’d go to the bar and you would see all these super famous people in the bar. You’re like “wow, these are famous people. This is so interesting.” So it was like being in a VIP room but you were just in the hotel bar. I enjoyed that, and of all the places that I’ve been, I’ve worked probably the most on Vancouver over the years. I’ve loved it up there. I really enjoy it and I think everybody’s nice to a fault. If you step on someone’s foot they go “sorry.”

David Read:
Right. You know. Where it’s like New York or L.A., don’t even make eye contact.

David DeLuise:
And also there’s a place right around the corner from the hotel where there was a Starbucks on one corner, catty-corner there was another Starbucks, and then on that corner was a coffee shop! These Canadians love their coffee. I actually shot these four Pup Star movies in Victoria, which I really love that town. The food is so amazing. Everybody was so nice. The crews in Canada are, not to say people in America are not professional, but the crews in Canada really are professional and take their jobs very, very seriously. They want to be there, you know what I mean? Some the people that I’ve worked with in America are just like, “I don’t want to do this.” I loved working in Vancouver. And that’s where my brother lives now. He lives in Vancouver with his wife and his son. He’s a landed immigrant, is what he is.

David Read:
It’s a great city. I go back every chance that I get. One of these days when Covid’s over, we’re all going to have to meet up there for Gatecon.

David DeLuise:
Is Covid [going to] be over, or are we going to kind of adjust to it. Question mark.

David Read:
That’s what I mean. When the Covid situation is put in its place, where everyone can do whatever. Forever’s a long time. People are like “this is never going to end.” Well, it will, we’ll adjust. But we have to figure it out. Everything alright?

David DeLuise:
David, I’m going to do this. I’m going to film you saying hello to Julia, OK?

David Read:
OK.

David DeLuise:
Julia? This is David. David, this is Julia.

David Read:
Hello!

David DeLuise:
This is technology at its finest. She just said to me: “are you still doing your thing?” So you tell her how much…

David Read:
Ahh, I’m sorry, man.

David DeLuise:
No, no! How much, ten minutes? How’s that.

David Read:
Ten minutes.

David DeLuise:
OK.

David Read:
OK, ready?

David DeLuise:
Alright.

David Read:
I’ll tell her.

David DeLuise:
[To Julia] Love you.

David Read:
Oh.

David DeLuise:
You go ahead.

David Read:
OK. You ready?

David DeLuise:
Yeah.

David Read:
Hi Julia! My name is David. Thank you so much for letting me borrow David for a few more minutes. I’ll have him back to you soon, I promise. Hope everything is going good in Germany. Be well.

David DeLuise:
OK. Perfect. Amazing. That was so sweet. David, I liked you before but now I really like you.

David Read:
Thank you. Bernd Backhaus wants to know: did you know that she did voice acting for the German voice for SGU?

David DeLuise:
Oh, that she did SGU? Because you know that’s what Julia does. She’s a voice actress.

David Read:
Right.

David DeLuise:
And director and writes stuff.

David Read:
She voiced for Ginn in Stargate Universe.

David DeLuise:
Julia did?!

David Read:
Mmm hmm.

David DeLuise:
Come on!

David Read:
So Bernd, he was, David was today years old when he found out that Julia did the German voice for Ginn.

David DeLuise:
OK wait.

David Read:
I’m assuming that Bernd has done his homework.

David DeLuise:
[To Julia] OK, so listen, somebody just said that you did a voice in Stargate…

David Read:
Universe.

David DeLuise:
In the second season…

David Read:
The second season of Universe for Ginn.

David DeLuise:
Of Universe, of…

David Read:
For Ginn. Ginn was the character’s name.

David DeLuise:
For Ginn. For Ginn. It’s amazing. I can’t believe that, what’s his name?

David Read:
Bernd. B-E-R-N-D.

David DeLuise:
Bernd. Bernd knew that. Isn’t that amazing? Amazing. OK, [inaudible]. Does anyone do text messages like that? It’s so much easier, just do a little voice thing.

David Read:
I, it’s both hands on the wheel in Arizona so I’m always texting by voice.

David DeLuise:
I like it.

David Read:
And just pray that it doesn’t change any words around at the worst spots.

David DeLuise:
Yeah, no, I do the talk text, but this is actually the voice thing. You do…

David Read:
Oh, you’re actually sending a voice message. OK. No, I don’t do it.

David DeLuise:
Yeah. I do a lot of, if I’m talk texting, I say “hello, exclamation point. How are you, question mark.” I do all the things.

David Read:
You have to, absolutely, otherwise it looks like nothing.

David DeLuise:
But Bernd, thank you for telling me that. That’s really interesting. That’s excellent trivia.

David Read:
That’s great! Was there ever… William Arends: was there ever a proposed episode where Pete came to Stargate Atlantis?

David DeLuise:
No.

David Read:
I don’t believe so.

David DeLuise:
I never got asked to come on Atlantis at all. I enjoyed that show and I’ve hung out with a lot of those…

David Read:
The people.

David DeLuise:
…actors, during the conventions and stuff, and they’re all so nice. Rainbow [Sun Francks] was on there.

David Read:
Rainbow! Ah man, what a great guy.

David DeLuise:
I’m such a fan of his. He’s such a really interesting, super cool guy. I like him a lot.

David Read:
He’s a great human being.

David DeLuise:
Yes.

David Read:
Romainthblt: how to you like Berlin? Any hangouts?

David DeLuise:
I love Berlin. Mostly my wife’s apartment, especially with Covid. The Italian restaurant around the corner that is so good. She lives in Charlottenburg, and I love Berlin. We got married there.

David Read:
Oh really?

David DeLuise:
Which is super cool. We got married in something called the Standesamdt. It’s a building where you get married and you deal with death certificates, and that’s it. That’s what they do there. David, you get married in that building. They have a room, and you don’t even meet the person, and they’re like “come on in.” You can have a party.

David Read:
It’s a justice of the peace.

David DeLuise:
Yeah. But that’s how they do it. There was a lot of paperwork that had to be done. I love, Germans are very efficient.

David Read:
Oh yeah!

David DeLuise:
I like that. You know what I mean.

David Read:
Like clockwork. You don’t be late for your trains in Germany. In Italy they’ll take off 45 minutes late, but in Germany, nooo.

David DeLuise:
Exactly. There’s a lot of, and also their system, you have to really choose to be homeless there. We were driving around in L.A. and there was a homeless family and Julia was like “who, why isn’t someone helping them?” And I’m like “well…”. A cop drove by, nobody cares. Nobody cares in America.

David Read:
Yeah. Some people don’t want help. A lot do, but some people don’t.

David DeLuise:
A lot of people care. But you know what I’m saying.

David Read:
It’s different.

David DeLuise:
To talk about Germany, I love Germany. There’s so many wonderful places to go, and that I’ve enjoyed. I’ve been going there for six years. I love it. Sehr gut [very good]. If anybody speaks German, they know that that’s really good.

David Read:
Michelle Palmer: David, was it hard to pave your own way as an actor without always being compared to your dad?

David DeLuise:
It was good and bad, because you’d walk in to a room and people would be like: oh my god, you’re Dom’s son! You’re so funny already!” And then there were people who were like: “uh huh. Go ahead, be funny. Let’s see.” So it was both ways. We got in to see free movies, but then we had to not have a full uninterrupted dinner because my dad was dealing with a fan or something. There were positives and negatives to all of that. Me and my brothers all said to my dad “we want to be in the business.” My dad was a big advocate of saying “you can only have a childhood once. You can always get in to this business. So why not…”. Look, we did plays, we made home movies, we did all that stuff.

David Read:
Right.

David DeLuise:
Really, and I did a TV movie with my dad where I was ten or eleven. That kind of stuff. If it was with my dad, I was doing it. But if it was not, it was with school or that kind of thing. Not until I was able to drive a car and take myself to my own auditions, was I then allowed. Then I did a Pepsi commercial, and a Levis commercial. When I got my first job as an actor on my own accord, it felt great. I was a drug addict in a TV movie called Seeds of Tragedy. And they’re like “do you drive a stick?” And I was like “of course.” I had no idea how to drive a stick. All I had to do was pull up, be like “hey, whatcha [inaudible].” I was buying crack cocaine or something. I was dressed as a yoghurt, an ice cream guy. It was weird. They just pushed me, by the way. I put it in neutral and they pushed me in to the shot.

David Read:
Oh my god.

David DeLuise:
I don’t know. I just, I would say its a positive and a negative. It was helpful and also I had to then prove myself.

David Read:
Two more questions.

David DeLuise:
Let me just say one more thing. I never had a career. I had a baby when I was 21 years old. So it was not about picking and choosing jobs. It was about I need a job to support my family. I got lucky when I booked 3rd Rock From the Sun and that turned in to a recurring for seven years. That was awesome. But I never chose a job. I just was like, I need to work and earn money and support my family. It was very long time later someone was like “so your career…”. And I was like “I don’t have a career. I just have the jobs that I’ve done.”

David Read:
Well, I mean, grains of sand do make a heap.

David DeLuise:
Say that again? Grains of sand make…

David Read:
Make a heap.

David DeLuise:
Ah. I’ve had a heap, I’ve had a couple of heaps.

David Read:
Raj [Luthra] wanted to know if you had a chance to come back to Stargate in this fourth series that Brad is working on, hopefully will get off the ground, would you do it?

David DeLuise:
Of course! I would love to. I didn’t know that, that that’s happening. Is that…?

David Read:
Well, five chevrons out of seven chevrons are locked right now. So that’s the phrase that’s been going around: five chevrons locked. We are getting there. It’s not guaranteed but we are all praying.

David DeLuise:
Well that’s interesting. That would be great. That would be great. So the answer is yes. Got one more question [inaudible] I’ll answer quickly.

David Read:
Just one more. Just one and then we’re done. Claire[burr]. My group does Stargate tabletop roleplaying games. There’s a roleplaying game coming out called the Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game and we get together every few months on the show, we’ve only done it once but there’s going to be another one coming up for WonderCon I believe. Would you be interested in joining us for an online roleplaying game session?

David DeLuise:
Can I get more information on that, Claire?

David Read:
That’s fair.

David DeLuise:
I could [inaudible].

David Read:
I’ll send you a link to the one that we did. You get an act, you get a character, we learn together how to play the game in real time. It’s all verbal. You get, there’s a map that shows where the characters are, there’s someone who takes part in the, it’s Dungeons and Dragons.

David DeLuise:
I played a lot of D&D growing up. We’ll talk more after this.

David Read:
OK. Sweet.

David DeLuise:
I’ll give you my answer when I get more information. How’s that?

David Read:
Alright. My friend, this has been wonderful, having you. I’ve been waiting for the right time and it’s like, you know what, I think it’s time to bring David on. I don’t know if that other interview is ever going to surface. So let’s go ahead and do it. It really means a lot to me to have you here.

David DeLuise:
Of course. Thank you for having me David, and a shout out to everybody. Hope you stay safe, stay healthy, and stay happy.

David Read:
I will give you a ring in a little bit. I’m going to go ahead and cut you loose now. But I’ll call you in a little bit here, just to wrap things up with you, OK?

David DeLuise:
Alright, sounds good. Bye everybody!

David Read:
Thanks [inaudible]. Thank you so much.

David DeLuise:
Here, I’m going to make myself go away with my wand. You ready? Abra-ca-do, abra-ca-dam, abra-ca-goodbye!

David Read:
David DeLuise, everyone.

David DeLuise:
Bye everybody. Of course, my friend. I’ll talk to you soon.

David Read:
[inaudible]

David DeLuise:
Yeah:

David Read:
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