You have good energy.

Thanks.

And we're going to channel that into a game.

Oh gosh.

Called Hail yeah or Hail no. So I'm just going to throw out a couple things and you just give me a Hail yeah or a Hail no. This is going to be awesome. Hey guys, it's Audry in the Young Hollywood Studio, joined by a man who is an expert in rocking eyeliner.

Yes.

This is a true fact.

This is this is true. Thank you.

Yeah, look at this. I don't do it myself.

You don't? No.

You should tell people that you do.

I do it myself.

You're from New York, originally. I feel like people who are born and bred in New York are like just automatically cool. Is that is that how you thought of yourself just on your

Thank you. No, I was like a really weird kid, kind of like a weird artsy weirdo and but that that's, you know, you can be that in New York, which I guess is cool by New York standards. My parents were, you know, artsy themselves, so I was lucky to to have that.

And you grew up doing theater.

Yeah. Yeah.

Do you do you miss that at all? That kind of live aspect.

I do. I miss it a lot. Um, there's nothing like performing live and really getting to work the material for months on end. There's it's just a completely different process. I do my homework before I arrive on set and I think theater really helped prepare me for that.

Will you be doing more?

Uh, hopefully. Yeah. Knock on floorwood.

We were talking earlier. You actually took your first adult vacation.

Thank you. Yes.

What was that like?

I could finally afford it. It was great. I I took the road to Hana in Maui and I drove the twisty roads and had had a real like solo adventure and it was really beautiful.

Do you like driving? Like do you like long drives like that for yourself? Cuz it for some people

I like adventures, I guess. Okay. So, yeah. I also had like a three-day meditation and time to really just like be

Oh. Silent. Three-day meditation. Yeah. Yeah. Like what kind of meditation do you practice?

I don't know. Just, you know, just shutting it out. Just shutting it out, you know. Just that that kind.

How has it helped you in

Um yeah, it really it really balances me and focuses me, especially at yeah, especially at work, you know.

When did you start doing this? Um, I'm fascinated. I've tried doing meditation really.

Yeah, I guess two years ago. Yeah, you start with like five minutes, you know, in the morning. Wake up.

That's hard.

It is. It is. Super hard.

Do you do it every day?

Yeah. The first thing you when you wake up. I mean, I'm not, you know, a total monk about it.

I got to say Elliot on The Magicians, your character, has the best wardrobe by far.

Magui Jodosky is our brilliant costume designer and she constructs all of the looks for Fillory down from, you know, the the servant in the castle to to Queen Margo, everyone. But she also has a really open dialogue with me about what Elliot's wearing and what each outfit kind of symbolizes for him and we've kind of like tracked his emotional life with each wardrobe item.

Do the eyeliner change with the emotions as well?

It does. Oh, really? You probably would never know. But

Well, now I will pay more attention.

There are special occasion eyeliners.

I mean, I got to say, he does he's a very sharply dressed man. How fun is it for you to play him? Because he's such a fan favorite now.

It's so fun. He's one of the most fascinating and complex characters I've ever played. And when I read I started reading the books, I was auditioning for Penny, actually, and I found Elliot and I thought, oh man, I really hope I get. It's so fun.

So it worked out?

Yeah, he's just he's layered and complex and

How would you describe, I mean, some people call him like kind of like Oscar Wilde-esque, like

I think he has a bit of Oscar Wilde, a bit of maybe David Bowie, if I'm being like

Okay.

You know, I would I would love that. And some of the outfits Magui designed this season are a little reminiscent of Prince. Not that I would necessarily compare him to Prince.

It's a it's an edgy show.

Yeah.

It is super edgy. You guys drop a lot of F bombs.

We do.

And you I I take it that with a little dip in the

Yeah.

Yes, I was going to say is that disappointing for you that when you watch the episode in its final form and you're like, man, I gave it my all with that F bomb and then

Yeah, sometimes you don't get the like the reading of of the F that you really spent, you know, your week practicing.

This show also has a bunch of rapid fans.

Oh yeah. Oh my god. They send you artwork.

Do you get fan fiction?

I get fan fiction. Oh, really? Okay, so what kind of I feel like Elliot is like

Please. I don't think I can talk about it. I don't think like legally There's also fan art that like is getting a little graphic sometimes and

Okay.

Yeah, they like to get in.

What do you do with that? Cuz you don't post it.

What do I do? I I um I laugh. There's this one person Ze picked. You can look it up. Z_p.

Super fans. Super fan. Super fan.

New art all the time. Love you if you're watching. Thank you for all of your care and time and hard hard work.

On the show, you guys have a great chemistry, you and your castmates. I hope you guys really like each other. Do you actually like each other?

Sometimes. No, no, yeah, we do. Um yeah, we're we're lucky that way. We have a we have an incredible crew as well. Yeah, and the cast like we really do get along. We have a good family vibe. We all have different story lines for the most part, so

Right.

There isn't a whole lot of time that we have to spend together, but when we do, it's good.

The show's based on a a book trilogy, which you said that you were reading. So, did you kind of like spoil it for yourself? Or do you think it's been a different enough experience?

I think that the show at this point has really created its own path. It definitely comes back to to elements of the books that are essential to to the story. It's its own thing. I think that it's it's definitely earned that at this point. Lev Grossman, the author himself is um, you know, he's given all of us his blessing and that that means more than anything.

How often do you get asked if you know magic?

Do I know magic? Do I know magic in real life?

I wonder if like fans come up to you and are just like, so, show me a magic trick.

Someone just asked me if I if I knew card tricks, but I don't at all, really. And that's not the kind of magic that

No.

we do on the show for the most part. You know, I believe in in certain things that we can't see.

You believe in magic.

I believe in the power of attraction and the law of attraction and, you know,

For sure.

energy. I believe in energy.

We have good energy. You have good energy.

Thanks.

And we're going to channel that into a game.

Oh gosh.

Called Hail yeah or Hail no. Okay. I think it's pretty self-explanatory. So I'm just going to throw out a couple things and you just give me a Hail yeah or a Hail no. This is going to be awesome. Okay. All right. Selfies. Hail yeah or Hail no?

Hail no.

Why?

I don't I hate them. I I don't hate anyone for posting their own selfies. In fact, I'm really impressed. Summer Bishil, who plays my, you know, other half. Beautiful. She is the master at selfies. I I I feel like a hack.

It takes a couple tries to get like a good selfie.

Yeah, maybe. I guess it's just I don't know. I'd rather like post a photo that someone else took or post a photo of a like pond.

Speaking of Instagram, stalking your ex on Instagram. Hail yeah or Hail no?

Uh, Hail. I'm like a Hail yeah. Hail sometimes. So yeah. Hail like on the fence.

Hail yeah. No, that's a yeah.

Hail maybe. Hail maybe. Yeah, there's like a healthy way to do. Actually, there's not a healthy way to do.

No, there isn't. There really isn't. Watching yourself on TV.

Uh, hail no. No.

I've read that you're actually not really into it.

It makes me a little queasy. And sometimes it's fine. And I don't throw up. Oh, dear. It's not you know, it's like a weird thing. It's also it's like how do you have that, you know, distance from you versus the character you're playing. But I think sometimes like total objectivity is um is impossible. So Hail Hail Hail no. Hail no. Sometimes it's okay. Hail no.

Um, last one, believing in magic.

Hail yes. Hail yeah. Yeah. I believe in magic.

We need some. We do. So, we might as well. This interview was magical. Hey, is that it? Oh man. This is so fun. Can I Can I just

Oh, yes, please, please. You can have both of them. I'm I'm feeling generous today. Thank you.

Okay.