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Interview with Mark Consuelos of "I Hate My Teenage Daughter" on FOX 2/27/12
Final Transcript
FBC PUBLICITY: I Hate My Teenage Daughter
February 27, 2012/11:30 a.m. PST
SPEAKERS
Michael Roach
Mark Consuelos
PRESENTATION
Moderator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to
the I Hate My Teenage Daughter Conference Call. At this time all
participants are in a listen only mode. Shortly we will conduct a
question and answer session. Please limit your questions to one question
and one follow up. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded.
I’d now like to turn the conference over to our host, Mr. Michael Roach.
Please go ahead.
M. Roach Good morning everyone, and thank you for participating in the
conference call today with Mark Consuelos on behalf of his appearances
on two episodes of I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Tuesday March 6th and
Tuesday March 13th; both air at 8:30/7:30 Central on Fox. And as a
reminder, I Hate My Teenage Daughter returns to the schedule Tuesday,
March 6th as well. I just wanted to thank Mark for taking time out today
to do this call and we’re ready to begin when you guys are.
M. Consuelos Great.
Moderator Alright, then we’ll start out with Jamie Ruby of NoReruns.net.
Please go ahead.
One moment please. All right Ms. Ruby your line’s open.
J. Ruby Hi, thanks for taking the call.
M. Consuelos Thank you.
J. Ruby So how did you get the part on this show?
M. Consuelos A really good way. They offered me the role, that's
probably the easiest way I can get the job.
J. Ruby Okay, can you kind of talk about that a little more?
M. Consuelos No, they called me and asked me if I was interested in
doing the show, they told me the role, I thought it was really funny, I
play a Spanish teacher. I guess Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran are
going to go back to school, like a community college, and one of the
courses they take is Spanish. I just thought it was funny because I
really don't speak Spanish and to play a Spanish teacher it kind of
tickled me a little bit.
J. Ruby I guess that would make it hard. As a follow-up; besides that,
what did you find the most challenging?
M. Consuelos I wouldn't say I found anything too challenging, I was just
really happy to be working on sitcoms again. You know, I did Hope &
Faith a few years ago when it was on with Kelly and had such a great
time doing it and had really only done one hour’s before that, but I
kind of really liked the multi-cam half-hour life. You know you go in
there for a few hours the first day, a couple of hours the second day,
and then on show night it’s a live audience, which I really enjoyed.
J. Ruby Okay great, thanks so much.
Moderator And next we move to TVGrapevine with the line of Sammi Turano.
Please go ahead.
S. Turano Hi, how are you?
M. Consuelos Good, thank you.
S. Turano Good, I’m glad. My first question for you is, you’ve done soap
operas, you've done hosting, and now you're doing sitcoms again. Is that
the medium that you prefer and why do you prefer that medium?
M. Consuelos I'm glad to be getting back and just doing the acting. For
a while I did some hosting, like you said, and that was a lot of fun,
but I think I find it more natural just to be going back and doing the
acting. And I Hate My Teenage Daughter was extremely funny. Katie
Finneran and Jaime Pressly are hysterical and I was psyched to do the
job.
S. Turano Okay, and the second question for you is; how you feel about
the soap opera worlds decreasing? I know you got your start on soap
operas?
M. Consuelos Yes, it's kind of sad. I started out on All My Children and
you never thought about that show going off the air and that just went
off this past year and it’s sad. I think that there are so many great
actors that get their start; they work really, really hard. And to now I
think we're down to like three or four soaps total in all the networks.
It’s kind of sad for me.
S. Turano Okay, well thank you so much.
Moderator And next will go to Starry Constellation Magazine and the line
of Jamie Steinberg. Please go ahead.
J. Steinberg Hi, it’s a pleasure to speak with you.
M. Consuelos Hey, thank you very much.
J. Steinberg I was wondering when you started working with Jamie and
Kate, did you find there was a bit of instant chemistry between you all?
M. Consuelos Well I would like to think so, but definitely between them.
They are; they play best friends and the comradery on set and on stage,
and even with the whole cast was just evident as soon as you got there.
But the one thing I love about, you know to act a sitcom life is that
you're laughing all day. That's usually a good sign that the show is
good. So that was pretty evident from the start.
J. Steinberg What were some of your most memorable moments from being on
I Hate My Teenage Daughter? It’s got to have a little flubbing
sometimes.
M. Consuelos Yes, there was this one time. I guess I'm teaching the
class how to say burrito as I’m spelling it; you know, B U R R I T T O,
or however you spell it, and I spelled it incorrectly and it was a take
and people were just cracking up. I like what, what's wrong? And you
spelled burrito wrong. It was just hysterical, it was very embarrassing.
J. Steinberg Now you’re a part of the Social Media Network, Twitter; why
is that such an important place for you to connect with fans?
M. Consuelos Listen, I don't know if it's an important place for me to
connect with fans, I just find it interesting and fun. I think the one
thing that's great about it that's pretty instant and you get feedback
and you can give information and get information pretty quickly. I think
that's probably the best thing about it.
J. Steinberg Great, thank you so much.
M. Consuelos Yes, thank you.
Moderator And next we’ll move to the line of Diane Morasco of Morasco
Media. Please go ahead.
D. Morasco Good afternoon Mark. Thank you so much for taking this call.
I want to know what do you think were the three key elements that you
brought to the role of Alex?
M. Consuelos Three key elements. Well, he was very tan, that's for sure.
I hope he was funny and I hope he had chemistry with Jaime Pressly
because they go on a date in the second episode, which is really fun. So
there's tan, funny, and hopefully I had some chemistry.
D. Morasco Okay, and my next one really quick, what experience did you
take away from the role that you haven't ever had before?
M. Consuelos Oh, great question. Every job is new. You know you take
something new away from it. I think the one thing I took away from it is
that I really enjoyed the medium in doing the sitcom, the multi-cam live
audience situation. It's a lot of fun; I mean to get that instant
feedback from the fans, from the people watching the show, the audience
watching the show, is pretty exciting.
D. Morasco Thank you so much and I just want to say I'm tan too, so have
a good day.
M. Consuelos Right on.
Moderator And next from the TV MegaSite, Suzanne Lanoue. Please go
ahead.
S. Lanoue Hi, thank you for speaking with us today. I'm a longtime fan
of All My Children, so you'll always be Mateo to me. I was wondering,
you said that it was great to get back into doing sitcoms. What prompted
this, where you decided to go back to audition, or what happened?
M. Consuelos Well, you know I’ve always been limiting the shows that I
can do to kind of New York. Because my family’s in New York and the kids
and just our life’s there and it's kind of hard to commit to a whole
season or a regular role on a sitcom, on a one-hour that's shoots in LA.
And this was just a couple of episode arc, which made it that more
appealing. I’m like, I can go out there for a few weeks, do the show,
and then I’m done. That was kind of the appealing part to it.
S. Lanoue And will you be doing other things, have you been doing more
auditioning, will we see you in some other things, do you have anything
coming up?
M. Consuelos I am pounding the pavement, so I hope to have more stuff
imminently to talk about.
S. Lanoue Alright, thank you very much.
Moderator We’ll go to the line of Jamie Ruby again with NoReruns.net.
J. Ruby Hi again. So what would be your ultimate dream role?
M. Consuelos Oh my gosh. It would be something that, I guess it would be
on the show Breaking Bad mixed with Mad Men and The Walking Dead,
something like that. And it would be shot in New York City and I only
had to work a few days a week. I think that would probably be the dream
role.
J. Ruby Well, that sound like fun.
M. Consuelos That’s not too demanding, right?
J. Ruby No. What’s something that your fans would be surprised to know
about you do you think?
M. Consuelos Well as it pertains to this role, I play a Spanish teacher,
I don't speak Spanish; I speak Italian, that’s my first language. We
recently went to Spain and I thought, because they say Italian and
Spanish are so similar, I could not communicate at all, it was really
hard. I had really bad Italian, which I don't think I get, but the two
languages aren't that easy to communicate. I made do, I made it back
from Spain to the United States. So I guess I survived. But I guess that
would be the thing; I don't speak Spanish.
J. Ruby Okay, thanks so much.
Moderator Then next from the line of Gabby Winkel with Soap Opera
Weekly. Please go ahead.
G. Winkel Hi Mark.
M. Consuelos Gabby, how are you?
G. Winkel I’m good, how are you?
M. Consuelos Great, thank you.
G. Winkel Good to talk to you. We were a big fan of Dirty Soap. Do you
have any other producing projects lined up?
M. Consuelos Yes. We have a show with CMT; I'm not sure we can actually
talk about it; we're in production right now. I'm not sure if we can; I
probably can, I just don't want to get in trouble, but we're shooting
right now, it’s a great show that we're really psyched about, and yes,
and were doing six episodes of that. And I hope you’ll talk about that
soon.
G. Winkel Okay. And since the title is how dealing with a teenage
daughter of this sitcom, how are you dealing with a teenage son in real
life?
M. Consuelos Oh my gosh. I mean obviously, I think what I love about the
title is that obviously it’s in jest and nobody hates their kids. But
there are moments in the day in your relationship with your kids that
you're like aw, I can't believe they did that or I can't believe I’m—,
they’re a high emotional moment. But with our son it's great; it's an
adventure. You know you think that as the older they get you're going to
be out of the woods with just issues and problems, but you're never out
of the woods; you're always kind of like in the position of you watching
them breathe and make sure they continue to breathe when they’re newborn
babies and it just changes just a little bit when they’re 14.
G. Winkel Okay, thank you.
Moderator Next from PopCultureMadness.com, Kristyn Clarke. Please go
ahead.
K. Clarke Hi Mark, thank you so much for talking to us.
M. Consuelos You’re welcome.
K. Clarke So I’m curious, how is the chemistry on set for you? Are there
any fun behind-the-scene stories you could share from your time on set
on I Hate My Teenage Daughter?
M. Consuelos The chemistry was great. No, I got along really, really
well with Jaime and Katie and the rest of the cast and they seemed to
have it down pretty well. I think there’s like maybe the seventh or
eighth episode that I was in and they just had a really good thing going
and it was just a good place to work.
K. Clarke That’s great. I’m curious, you know you’ve had plenty of work
in TV and films. Do you think that there’s a formula for good comedic
TV?
M. Consuelos Yes, it’s got to be funny. Good and funny. I’ve read a lot
stuff that’s not funny and that’s what I love about this feature
episode, they’re really funny and the two actresses are obviously super
talented and work magic with these lines. And the writers are awesome on
these shows. The table reads, we were just hysterically laughing, and
that’s usually a good sign when the table read; it goes very, very well.
As the week goes on, when the audience comes to watch it, they’re really
going to enjoy it.
K. Clarke Great. Thank you so much.
Moderator Next on the line of Alice Chapman Newgen of the Times Courier.
Please go ahead.
A. Newgen Hi Mark. It’s such a pleasure talking to you today.
M. Consuelos Thank you.
A. Newgen My question is; when did you realize that you wanted to be an
actor? Was there someone that inspired you or did you just always know
you wanted to be an actor?
M. Consuelos I guess as a little kid you fall in love with and going to
the movies or being lost for those couple of hours when you’re in the
movie theater and watching those stories unfold and that whole
experience. I guess that’s the first thing that kind of motivated me or
inspired me as to be able to tell those stories, or as an actor, it just
seemed like a great thing to do and I think also I became an actor maybe
out of desperation. I didn’t know what else I could do. I know I didn’t
want to wear a suit every day. That’s funny, some of the jobs I’ve had
as an actor I’ve like played an FBI agent where I had to wear a suit
every day anyway. So it was a passion of mine early on, and I kind of
dabbled in a lot of things growing up. I really didn't pick what I
wanted to do until late in college, but it's worked out well.
A. Newgen Well is there any particular role that best suits your
personality that you have acted in over the years?
M. Consuelos The roles that best suit my personalities are the ones they
offer me. If I don’t have to audition for it that’s the ones that best
suit my personality.
A. Newgen Okay, well thank you so much.
Moderator And we’ll go back to the line of Diane Morasco from Morasco
Media. Please go ahead. Diane, your line is open.
D. Morasco Thank you so much. Hi Mark. I was just wondering, who are you
comedic icons?
M. Consuelos Oh man. Icons; I love Desi and Lucy. I love The
Honeymooners, shows like that; All in the Family. It's funny when I
first got the job, All My Children, when I went on the audition I
misheard my agent; I’m like wait, All in the Family, they’re bringing
that show back? I was so excited, and they’re like no, no, no; All My
Children. I’m like, oh, okay, which wasn't so funny. But shows like that
growing up I really enjoyed watching.
D. Morasco Okay. Now if you were to sit down and break bread with
someone that's alive or dead, comedic role, who would it be?
M. Consuelos Of like my favorite comedians, alive or dead? Maybe like
Richard Pryor. I was a huge Richard Pryor fan growing up. And you know
it’s like your guilty pleasure as a kid getting ahold of those little
cassette tapes and listening to those, like the language are so bad and
he was just so funny. And then when you actually saw his shows, like
when I got cable I’m old enough to know like when we got cable on our
street and we were able to watch his live show on HBO or Showtime or
wherever it was on and watch him perform; that would have to be Richard
Pryor.
D. Morasco Okay. Did you play a lot of pranks in school?
M. Consuelos Did I play pranks in school?
D. Morasco Yes.
M. Consuelos No, I wouldn’t say that.
D. Morasco Would you ever do a drama or would you prefer to stay with
the sitcom? What do you feel most comfortable—?
M. Consuelos You know, I've always done a lot of dramas, but the sitcoms
to me I like because, like I said earlier, you end up laughing all day
and that's a great life. And then hours, the whole hours your schedule
on is to come or just, they’re really civilized, you know, they're not
these 12 hour days. So I'm probably leaning towards, if I had my choice
I'd love to do a sitcom.
D. Morasco Okay, my last question is, what makes you laugh, really
laugh, like nothing else?
M. Consuelos I’ve got to say the thing that makes me laugh the most is
when we are disciplining our kids. Like trying to be stern with them and
they look at me at the dinner table, I’m like, I’m … you can do this and
you should have turned in your homework or I’m trying to be really,
really serious and my kids look at me and it's kind of like they start
cracking up. And my wife and I are just trying to be, and she looks at
me and she's going to break, and I’m not going to break, because if I
start breaking then we’re going to laugh and then the point is lost on
them. So that really makes me laugh; when I have to like be the serious
parent.
D. Morasco Thank you so much and my best to Kelly, Mark.
Moderator And there are no further questions in the queue.
M. Roach Well great. Well thank you everybody for taking time out today
to talk to Mark about I Hate My Teenage Daughter, which has its Spring
premier Tuesday, March 6th, 8:30/7:30 central. And thank you again,
Mark, for doing this today.
M. Consuelos You got it. Thank you guys.
Moderator And ladies and gentlemen, this conference will be available
for replay after 1:00 p.m. Pacific time today through March 5th at
midnight.
MARK CONSUELOS GUEST STAR ON “I HATE MY TEENAGE
DAUGHTER”
ANNIE and NIKKI GO BACK TO LA ESCUELA ON AN ALL-NEW “I
HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER” TUESDAY, MARCH 6, ON FOX
MARK CONSUELOS GUEST-STARS
When Sophie tells Annie that she does not care about getting good
grades, Annie decides to set an example by taking night classes at the
local community college. Nikki joins her in a Spanish class and is
surprisingly fluent as she frequently watches telenovelas. Meanwhile,
the dads are in charge of getting the girls to finish an important
school project in the all-new “Teenage Escuela” episode of I HATE MY
TEENAGE DAUGHTER airing Tuesday, March 6 (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
ANNIE STARTS DATING AGAIN ON AN ALL-NEW “I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER”
TUESDAY, MARCH 13, ON FOX
MARK CONSUELOS GUEST-STARS
Annie steps outside of her comfort zone when she accepts a dinner date
with her former Spanish instructor, Alex (guest star Mark Consuelos).
Meanwhile, an envious Jack runs a background check on Alex and discovers
that he is hiding a secret that Jack and Nikki decide Annie needs to
know about as soon as possible in the all-new “Teenage Date Night”
episode of I HATE MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER airing Tuesday, March 13
(8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
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