Right Beside You, 3min., USA

Writer/Star: Lisa Maciel

The night before her cousin’s wedding—to her ex—Isabel hides away, desperate to escape. But Liam, her fiercely loyal best friend, follows her, and something shifts. Their laughter fades. A glance lingers. A touch lasts too long. Unspoken truths press between them—until reality slams back in.

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[on being cast as Bobby ‘Bacala’ Baccalieri in ‘The Sopranos’] I had been working as an entertainment director at the Riviera in Las Vegas. When I got the script, I remember reading it going, Wait a minute. I mean, Tony’s calling me a ‘a calzone with legs’, and ‘Consider the salads, you fat fuck’. And I’m not much bigger than him. So at first I thought, Maybe they cast the wrong guy. And then they had me come in a day or two early and they fitted me for a fat suit. And for the first two seasons I was in a fat suit. And then I guess, in Season Four, David [Chase] thought I was fat enough on my own, so he let me get rid of it. If it’s time for your character to go, it’s time for your character to go – you know what I mean? That’s it. It doesn’t matter who you are. [David Chase] made that statement when he killed off Big Pussy. This was a major character that just got killed. I mean, this wasn’t ‘Friends’. This was a real worry. You know, we would talk. ‘Did you hear anything?’ You’re asking the writers. Nobody’s telling you nothing. Each time the script arrived, you go to the front, you go to the back, looking. Personally, I think the better they killed you, the better it was. Like Joey Pants went out with the head [in a fistfight]. Michael had a good one [by suffocation]. Mine was fantastic [shot looking at train sets]. But i think if they let you go with a whimper it was a bad joke, instead of, you know, ‘Hey, we’re going to give you a good fucking send-off’.

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[on Friday Night Lights (2004)]: I grew up on a farm, and Lucas in the jungles of Alabama, so I think we adapted very well. It’s just a lot that these guys are holding on their shoulders at such a young age. There’s a lot they’re dealing with, the town pressure or support, their home life, all of that causes a sense of internal insecurities. These guys are realizing how crazy it is that they’re going through all this at such a young age. I’ve been told I’m too good looking for certain roles, but that’s okay, it just motivates me to go deeper. Everything to me in life is like the second scratch. I’ve always had a longstanding dream, ever since I was a kid, where I was running on a big lake of ice and I kept running and kept running, just about to where I was trying to get to, and I fell through the ice, and then I couldn’t find the hole where I fell through to get back out again. It was always like this certain thing where I could only get so far before everything collapses. So I guess it’s a bit of living in fear. But I don’t try to put it that way, because I feel that is going to pull everything you fear toward you. It’s about acknowledging the fear for about five percent, and then ninety-five percent goes into shrugging it all off.

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• My father gave me some pretty bad advice – keep it honest, which I did. People ask, why am I so honest with the press? I don’t have an answer. I suppose I’m honest everywhere else. Why should it stop here? Most of my shit sounds like lies. But all my stories are true, and that’s the problem. They call me the last honest man in Hollywood. But I care what people think, we all do.
• It’s hard to be specific about what parts I may have lost. But ultimately, it’s what I’m known for.
• Public speaking is a tremendous fear of mine. The Tonight Show (1962), David Letterman. I would always do a few shots or take an anti-whatever, some prescription relaxation deal and go out there and just kind of just flow with it.
• I don’t know. I want to go home at the end of the day and feel like I left a certain part of myself behind. You watch a Pacino performance, a DeNiro performance, you sit back in wonder and watch what they did. I’m curious as to what it would take for me to get to that place.

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If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn’t shoo them away – well, that’s the height of romance.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you’ve been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

[on being pregnant] You are like a swollen whale and never looked worse in your life. And somebody goes, ‘You’re glowing.’ They don’t have the courage to tell you how bad you look.

You’ve got to take who you are and love who you are and do the best you can with what you’ve got. It goes for the figure, and it goes for everything else.

I have no advice because his wife is Lebanese like me and I know his mother-in-law and his sister-in-law and I know those kids cannot be in better hands. [On George Clooney’s becoming a father.]