How much were you told about the character Gabe? Did you know it was going to be, like, a long arc?

“No. I didn’t know much. I, I it’s like a pretty foggy memory because I think… I felt like such a raffle winner where it’s like you can be on your favorite show… It created like such a rush of anxiety that like I’ve never experienced anything like that before or since. Like…to be, like, completely inexperienced as a TV actor and to be thrust into a show…it was really overwhelming.

And I remember…right before I started filming, I remember there was like some moment. This is a really crazy, compromising moment. I was at Walmart. First of all, I didn’t know how to drive because I’ve been living in New York, so I had to like as an adult man, go to Pennsylvania and have my father, like re-teach me to drive because I was like, I’m going to be in L.A. You have to teach me to drive…And then I remember when we started shooting, driving terrified me so much that I would show up on set and my jaw would be so clenched that I had a hard time saying words. So I would take CD’s, Frank Sinatra CD’s, and I would put them in the car and force myself to sing along with old blue eyes so that my jaw would stay open so that I wouldn’t show up with like, like rigor mortis face.”

💼 GABE SUSAN LEWIS.