It is the most rewarding commitment and sometimes the most frustrating. AE: Do you guys ad-lib or improv during scenes or for the most part do you guys stick to the script? There is a little bit for sure. There are moments where expressions come out or you have to feel a response, an utterance, a grunt, a sound, a laugh when those things come out. In the sitcom format there is an incredible importance played out on the words. Writers spend fifteen minutes haggling over the order. There are phrases that I now know.
Like a dolphin slip is when you take the first half of the sentence and you flip it with the back half of the sentence. So the specific order of words and the words that we choose is kind of important.
We try to respect that. Every scene there is something where I want to add or something that I want to take away. The writers are incredibly amenable to that. It is a real team effort. Our writers are the final gatekeepers of what we say. We often weigh in on that. I am saving that for our webisodes which will hopefully be something funny that will shoot soon.
AE: What popped into your mind when you found out that you were going to be a father for the first time? MF: Oh my God. There is no way to prepare for that moment when you become a father. There is no way to know. Suddenly you are on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I remember those days so fondly when they were babies of putting them in my backpack and hiking up Runyon Canyon and diapers and no sleep. I have lived my life without really thinking too much about the future.
Trying to stay in the present moment. With a certain amount of confidence whatever comes up I am going to be able to handle it. That is kind of how everyday fatherhood has been for the past eleven years. I have three kids. Lila is eleven. Frisco is nine. Addy is about to turn eight. You talk about improv on our show. AE: Our founder, Tommy Riles here at Life of Dad started up the website when his first daughter was born with a congenital heart defect.
His daughter is doing great. You and your wife experienced the same thing as one of your children has a CHD. You do a lot to volunteer work at different hospitals to give back. What did you take away from that experience? MF: Man, Art it is the hardest thing that can ever happen to a mother or father is to watch their child suffering. I was in the middle of shooting Season 2 of Royal Pains. It was a random day in L.
I come out onto Burbank Boulevard as my wife calls me. They thought it was reflux. There were times that I said as a father which is interesting for Life of Dad I think I said it is okay honey relax. It is just the reflux. We have been through an endocrinologist. We have been to a gastroenterologist. My wife was very rigorous. She had an appointment with a cardiologist that afternoon. As hard as this is to admit she asked me if she should go. If you want to and it works in your day.
It is really far out in the Valley. She said that she would go. Addy needs open heart surgery. There is one guy that can do it. Vaughn Starnes. He saved his life. When I think about that and I am quibbling over a joke in a scene I just remember that. Feuerstein, who grew up in New York, entered Princeton thinking he would study international relations but found acting. The son of an attorney and teacher of teachers, he auditioned for a play and got caught up in theater.
As his career progressed, he describes his parents as shepping nachas deriving pleasure from watching him perform. In the pilot, I have a date, and my father shoves a piece of melon down her throat. The couple has three children, and the youngest, now 7, needed heart surgery. With this new series, Feuerstein gets a little stressed splitting his time on roles beyond the character he is portraying.
He thinks about how lucky he is to reduce tension. He wrote and directed rap videos that promoted the show, and he directed episodes. While so many actors do a series and then fall out of the limelight, Feuerstein, 46, maneuvers ways to keep appearing in the spotlight.
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