Question: Wow. You look fabulous. That’s why I thought you were kidding. Did you have to make a lot of changes because of it in your lifestyle?

Grammer: Oh, no, not a ton, no. Watch your diet a little bit, take some pills. I think things are going to be fine.

Question: Kelsey we talked to your daughter last week at the TCAs. Given you’re a republican, I asked her about the election…

Grammer: How does she feel about it?

Question: She indicated she would be supporting Obama. I was wondering how you feel about that.

Grammer: That’s fine. I always thought she would be. She still needs to work in this town (laughs). She’s just starting out you know. She’s a very smart kid.

Question: Do you talk politics? Do you debate with her? Go back and forth?

Grammer: No. I don’t think it’s important to battle out political conversations among people, especially who are kind of, you know my daughter has her opinions. And it’s fine, she’s entitled to it. I’m proud of her that she’s a young person with an opinion. I know as things do change, they do change.

Question: Did you all have political conversations in the context of this movie?

Grammer: No. We’re too afraid to. We still like each other.

Question: Dennis, you usually play a villain. This character is more of a good guy. Which one is it harder for you to play?

Hopper: Yeah. Acting is, we do what’s on the page, basically. That’s really it. I don’t think about one part differently from another, really. I just try to play what’s there.

Question: But it has to be more fun playing a sonofabitch than it does playing a good guy.

Hopper: Yeah.

Lane: Well, I’m afraid that’s all we have time for.

Question: Nathan, you didn’t get to let it rip the way you sometimes do. Did you have to pull back a lot for this particular part?

Lane: Well, I don’t need medication of any kind.

Grammer: There are several handlers specifically assigned to him.

Lane: As Dennis was saying, we do what’s on the page.

Hopper: And some of the pages get lost.

Lane: Some of the pages get lost.

Hopper: Then more and more pages get lost.

Lane: And we –

Hopper: And we end up with what we did on the screen.

Lane: Ah, no, it was…

Hopper: Yes! (laughs)

Lane: I don’t how to answer that because that was the character. He wasn’t out of control. If a character gets out of control, then you get out of control. I didn’t have to pull anything back. I don’t have voices in my head telling me I should kill somebody. It was a lovely part and what I thought was a terrific ensemble.

Hopper: You don’t get those voices?

Lane: I’d love to. Why don’t we do Blue Velvet II and I’ll play Son of Frank?

Grammer: The next-door neighbor, right?

Hopper: The next-door neighbor!

Lane: Or the gay next-door neighbor.

Hopper: The bear!

Lane: You dropped your oxygen tank. Can I help you? No, it was nice to be part of an ensemble and to work with such great actors.

Question: Kelsey, as a producer and someone who works in front of the camera, what are your feelings about an impending strike?

Grammer: Oh gosh, I wasn’t real happy about the last one. I hope it did us some good, the writers certainly. I am an actor first and foremost, so that’s where my allegiance remains, but I do think people ought to work. When I first started out I was a member of course of Actor’s Equity and I kept wondering why we did equity waivers. I kept thinking, ‘What’s the point of that?’ It means you’re not going to make any money. ‘I didn’t become an actor to make no money.’ I thought, ‘Why does my union represent me in a way that says we’re quite happy to make no money?’ I thought it was a very strange way to go about it. I think it’s very hard to unionize art. I just have a real, I really question the ability to really do it responsibly. I think it may be great to organize and have pension funds and that sort of stuff, and that seems to be the primary function of SAG, certainly. But I think every artist gets paid what he can get. That is up to you.

Question: Do you folks have any upcoming projects we can expect you in aside from the aforementioned Blue Velvet II?

Hopper: I’ve got a really good one coming up called Elegy with Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. It will be out next week.

Grammer: Next week? Cool. We both did a thing called American Carol, too, recently. That’s coming out later.

Lane: I have my aluminum siding business and that’s going like a house afire. It’s just great. What do I have?

Grammer: The Adams Family.

Lane: Well yes, but that’s a long way away. No, this is the one movie I have coming out right now.

Question: What about Broadway?

Lane: What about Broadway. Yes, I’m involved with a new musical based on The Adams Family. It’s about a year or so away.

Question: Can we get your opinion on your characters’ flip-flopping? On when candidates change their mind so quickly?

Grammer: I think it’s maybe a symptom of the political process in our country that you just say what people want to hear. And there are so many different people now, you say so may different things in order to try to enlist their support and get their vote. The film is just a reduction of that problem, that disease, I guess. You’re willing to toss your ideology for the sake of a single vote, and that’s probably why we all get so confused and a little bit exhausted with the election cycles we’re in these days. But I think in the end that moment in the voting booth is still a sacred moment and one that should be treated as such.

Hopper: I agree with Kelsey.

Grammer: Thank you, Dennis.

Hopper: I mean it. This is a magnification of our voting process and our political system. So we have the republican on one side, the democrat on the other, and one person in the whole country. And now these two political entities are going to try to decide what this one person wants. And they’re going to change their vote and they’re going to do it because they want to be president, and so it’s magnification of problems in our society. The way our political system goes and the way it works. And I agree that that moment when you go into the polling booth, that is a sacred moment, that is your moment, and every vote does count. That’s the way our system works, thank God.